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John Alnethecote, 22nd June, 1415.
Geoffry Veale, 16th September, 1422.
John Yuyll, 24th March, 1432-3.
John Bele, 22nd July, 1463.
William Dobyn, 4th March, 1465-6.
John Frygam, 23rd February, 1473-4.
William Denys.

Robert Tedbury, 18th June, 1518.

Nicholas Maynewayryng, 13th February, 1532-3.
John More, 23rd December, 1538.

John Broke, 24th August, 1554.

Peter Lyte, 30th September, 1580.
Nicholas Marston.

Robert Ball, 20th September, 1624. (Said to have worked for his maintenance at the limestone quarries, in the parish, during the great rebellion.)

William Raynolds, 17th June, 1674.
John Campion, 19th May, 1682.
James Salter, 4th September, 1688.
James Salter, 2nd March, 1718.

John Feaver, 9th July, 1767.

Edward A. Kitson, 1st March, 1799.

George M. Coleridge, 16th July, 1827.

William Maskell, 24th July, 1847.

James Ford, 15th July, 1850.

Alexander Watson, 18th September, 1851.
Henry J. Newland, 12th October, 1855.

Reginald Henry Barnes, 11th September, 1860."

ALFRED T. LEE.

SUMMER OF 1724. The following extract occurs among the admissions to Gray's Inn, to which, by the kind courtesy of Mr. Boswood, the steward, I have been allowed access. The date of 1723 has been altered in pencil to 1724. I should be glad to know if the summer of either of those years was remarkable for fine weather :

"26 October, 1723, Memdum. This day was brought up to the Bench table in Gray's Inn Hall both Strawberrys and Rasberrys, a handsome plate of each, fresh and good as they were any time in either May or July before, and at a very reasonable price; and the same day they were cryed about the streets."

Heralds' College, E.C.

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GEORGE E. ADAMS.

TO TERRIFY.-It has been suggested that peculiarities of dialect, now so rapidly disappearing, should be noted. I therefore give the readers of "N. & Q." the following:

One morning last week I descended to the drawing room early, hoping to find on the table something I had carelessly left on it the evening before. My search was in vain. The article sought for was neither on the table nor under it. I called the housemaid, and explained my object. "Then if you please it's lost," was her conclusion, "for I terrified the cloth out of the window." I commended her, and gave up my point. The use of the verb to terrify, in the sense of to shake, is surely uncommon. It is well known as the origin of Terrier, i. e. a dog that destroys by vigorous shaking!

The girl is a native of Warwickshire.

Sic. the month of June being omitted.

C. F.

THE MAYPOLE IN THE STRAND.-In Cunningham's Handbook of London, it is noted that the Maypole, "being grown old and decayed, was, anno 1717, obtained by Sir Isaac Newton, Knt., of the parish," and, next year, carried to Wanstead park for the raising of a telescope. This is on the authority of Strype, b. iv. pp. 104, 106, 112. Of course one would imagine that the Maypole had been put up some fifty years previously at the least. I have, however, lately found that it was only put up four years previously, namely, on July 1st, 1713, a few days before the Thanksgiving Day for the Peace with France, which I think was held on July 7. My authority is the British Mercury. After four years the pole must still have been as good as new, which is perhaps confirmed by the use to which it was put by Newton, a new one being for that purpose better than one 66 W. P. grown old and decayed."

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"THE BOOK OF DAYS:" BUNYAN'S Meeting HOUSE. In the Book of Days, vol. ii. p. 288, there is a paper on John Bunyan, in which are introduced some statements and an engraving which appear to call for a little explanation. The statements are, 1st, that "in Zoar Street, Gravel Lane, there is an old dissenting meeting-house, now used as a carpenter's shop, which tradition affirms to have been used by John Bunyan for worship" and, 2nd, that "from respect for the name of the illustrious Nonconformist, we have had a view taken of the interior of the chapel in its present state." The engraving (placed above the second statement) is a woodcut entitled "Bunyan's Meeting House, Zoar Street, Southwark." This cut, published in 1863, as a view of the building taken for the work in which it appears, bears so close a resemblance to an engraving_in Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, entitled "An Interior View of John Bunyan's Meeting House, Zoar Street, Gravel Lane, Southwark, in its present state," and "published December 1, 1822," that it has been copied from it; for not only are as to lead to something beyond a strong suspicion accessories-the materials, tools, &c., and their the features of the building the same, but all the disposition about the shop, the solitary workman at a bench, everything indeed, save the figure of identical. For the sake of topographers, and a dog, which is omitted in the Book of Days-are indeed of all, whether antiquaries or not, who consider it essential that engravings should accurately pourtray the places they purport to reprefact that this building, used as a workshop, has sent, I would ask whether it can possibly be the remained completely unchanged for a period of forty-one years?

W. H. HUSK.

Queries.

SIR INGRAM HOPTON.

I found the original letter, of which the following is a copy, amongst some old papers which belonged to a Mrs. Smithies, who kept a public house in one of the Water Lanes in York. It is not dated, but from a note of charges indorsed, I conjecture it was written in 1643:

"Martin,

"I must confes my boyes sicknes doth much truble me, soe as I cannot doe the beusines I am ingaged in without much truble being I cannot be satisfied tell the news of his recovery. desire dayly to heare of him, and without he be in daneger, keepe it from my wife, for I know she hath sorrow sufficient: besides I desire to know wheather my Coosen Faux goe to his house in the forrest Parck or noe, and if he doe I desire my wife will remove thither whith hir children, hoping the are may be verry healthfull for them besides the safetie of the place. could wish you with me, but by noe meanes stir not tell such times as my boy be perfectly recovered; and for any sesment the Trators can lay upon me, let them plunder or use theyr owne wayes to get it, for I rather they left me not worth sixpens that way then they should have a penny given them. For what I have formerly writ for I desire may be sent with as much speede as you can to Pontifract, if they cannot come with James Browne to Shefeld. Theare is a note captin Portington hath concerning armes; if he leave it you have a specyall care of following that beusiness, and as you get them send them according to the directyon of the note or the advise of those that are named in it. When you come to me I would have you leave what mony you have, and the purse of mine that is in Mr. Smithies hand with some you dare trust, if my wife before that be not come to the forrest house, for I heare my coosen is removing and will contribuit any thing to have them theare. I have sealed the bond, and desire the counter bond may be sealed to you for my use.

"Thus in hast I rest "IN. HOPTON.

"My blessing to Raphe and Roger, and spare noe cost to doe him good."

In Weir's Sketches of Horncastle there is an account of the battle of Winceby in Lincolnshire, on the 11th October, 1643, in which Sir

Ingram was slain in attempting to take prisoner Cromwell, then but a Colonel in the Parliamentarian Army. It is stated that by Cromwell's

order his remains were interred in Horncastle Church, and that there is a monument with an inscription to his memory painted on a lozengeshaped canvas on the south side of the chancel, and on it his arms are also painted.

More than this I have not been able to collect respecting Sir Ingram Hopton, but I should like to know where he lived, and if his family is still represented. I should like also to be informed whether the lozenge-shaped canvas still remains to keep alive the memory of this devoted loyalist. G. E. LORD BARKWOOD. In the "Relation of the Imprisonment of John Bunyan," published in Bunyan's Works, is the following passage, forming

part of a conversation that passed between Bunyan's wife and the judges of assize:

"My Lord," said she, "I was a while since at London to see if I could get my husband's liberty, and there I spoke with my Lord Barkwood, one of the House of Lords, to whom I delivered a petition, who took it of me, and presented to some of the rest of the House of Lords for my husband's releasement."

Who was Lord Barkwood? I have consulted Dr. Stebbing's edition of Bunyan's Works published in 1861. In the Memoir prefixed to the first volume, I find a passage that runs as follows:

"Provided with a form of a petition to the House of Lords, and a recommendation to Lord Barkwood, she set forth on her journey to London. The benevolent nobleman, upon whose influence she had so much confided, listened patiently to her sad tale, and promised his best exertions in her behalf. Taking the petition, he consulted with several peers as to the surest mode of giving it effect. The judges alone have power in such a matter,' was the only answer he could obtain."

In this passage the writer of the Memoir speaks of the "benevolent nobleman," as if he knew something about him. I therefore repeat my quesMELETES.

tion-Who was Lord Barkwood?

THE VENERABLE BEDE. In the public library at Norwich is a small volume, in which are bound together three works, viz.:

1. "Commentaria D. Venerabilis Bedæ in quinque libros Moysis, jam primo in lucem edita. Veneunt Antverpiæ in intersigni Rubri Castelli." [On the last page is]"Explicit Expositio in librum Deuteronomii æditum a Venerabili Beda. Antverpiæ apud Guilielmum Montanum, Anno Domini MDXLII, mense Aprili."

2. "Joannis Trittenhemii Abbatis Spanhemensis liber octo quæstionum quas illi dissoluendas proposuit Maximilianus Cæsar. Coloniæ, impensis Melchioris Nouesiani.

Anno MDXXXIIII.”

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It is the standard measure of ten pounds in the time of Vespasian, and is, I believe, the only "Congius Romanus" known. An engraving of it is given in Pyramidographia, by John Greaves, London, 1646, where the notice of it is in these words,

"ICON CONGII VESPATIANI IN PALATIO FARNESIANO ROME." My query is, when was the Farnese collection dispersed, and if there be any known copies of this congius? If so, how many, and in what material?

Greaves, in his second part, p. 92, says:

"At my being in Italy there was found amongst the ruins at Rome a semicongius of brasse, of the same figure with this of Vespasian's, the sides much consumed by rust. This I also measured, and found it to be the half of Vespasian's congius."

What follows beats the greatest beer-drinker at any German kneipe:·

"From this measure of congius we may rightly apprehend how vast that draught was of Novellus Torquatus, who drank three of these congii at once: from whence he

was called Novellus Tricongius."

I want to know where this semicongius is. If in any public or private museum in Italy or elsewhere. Also I should like to know the etymology of congius. JOHN DAVIDSON.

ARMS, WANTED FAMILY FOR. To what family do the following arms belong, "Azure, a chevron ingrayled between three eagles displayed"? I believe the Gilberts of London, temp. Henry VII.

JUXTA TURRIM.

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It is said in Rogers's Table Talk, that when sitting
one day at the piano singing an extempore song,
Moore happened to look into the room, when
Hook instantly introduced a long parenthesis.
Two lines only of this are given in Rogers :-

:

"And here's Mr. Moore
Peeping in at the door."
Can any reader furnish me with the remainder?
T. BOOTH.

HUISH.-There are in the West of England many places of the name of Huish. I should be either of them, whether it is by, above, or on high thankful to be told by any reader who might know ground above, a stream of water? W. BARNES. Came Rectory, Dorset.

JONES.
- Thomas Lloyd, the first Governor of
Pennsylvania, married Mary, daughter of Gilbert
Jones of Welshpool, Montgomeryshire. To which
of the Welsh families of Jones did this Gilbert

belong? In Burke's Commoners, under “Lloyd
of Dolobran," Thomas Lloyd is said to have mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Colonel Roger Jones of
Welshpool, Governor of Dublin, temp. James II.,
who defeated the Marquis of Ormond, &c. This
is an error. Mrs. Lloyd's father was certainly
Gilbert; and I believe the name of the Colonel
Jones who defeated Ormond, to have been neither
Gilbert nor Roger, but Michael.
ST. T.

LEGACY DUTY. — A lady died in 1797, and left Query, the relationship between the testatrix and a legacy on which two per cent. duty was paid. duty as two per cent., nothing between one and legatee? I believe there is now no such rate of three. R. W. DIXON. TIONS. DOCTOR MAC HALE ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECAbout seven years ago Dr. Mac Hale, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, gave evidence before a committee of the House of Commons as to the duty of priests or bishops of votes of the members of their flocks at parliamentthat church interfering by way of advice with the ary elections. In the wilderness of Blue Books I bave not succeeded in discovering a report of this evidence. Where is it to be found? GRIME.

POMEROY FAMILY. - I much desire to interest your genealogical correspondents in the subjoined inquiry. Who was the father of Thomas Pomeroy, gentleman, of Trethynyk, St. Earney, Cornwall, who, in 1598, there married Mary Geffrey, widow? Arms, a lion ramp. gu., within a bordure dexter paw an apple or. A long and unsuccessful engr. sa. Crest, a lion sejant gu., holding in the search for this object has been professionally made, which may somewhat excuse its introduction to "N. & Q." " Philosophia stemma non inspicit," life we cannot disregard it. Not to intrude unmay serve for a maxim, but in the business of necessarily on your columns a question of mere

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PREBEND RECTORY OF LAMBISTER. - In the reign of William III. or Queen Anne, Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David's, was deprived of his bishopric. As Dean of the College of Christ at Brecon, he possessed himself of and carried away all the muniments and ancient deeds pertaining to the college at Brecon. I am searching for the original deed of appropriation of the Prebend Rectory of Lambister, in Radnorshire, but hitherto in vain. The Record Office, Rolls Buildings, and the British Museum have been carefully searched. It is not in either place. Can any suggest the locus in quo ?

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Somerville, but the editor says in a note, that this must be a mistake; and, indeed, intimates throughout, that the work is by no means trustworthy. Where may an authentic lineage of the Somervilles be found? ST. T.

PRINCE SCHWARTZENBURG'S EPIGRAM ON BAYONETS. It would be a kindness if any of your readers would furnish me with it in English:

"You can do anything with bayonets, except sit on them." T. BOOTH.

RICHARD SMITH, titular bishop of Chalcedon, was born in Lincolnshire, A.D. 1566, and died in Paris A.D. 1655 (Wood's Athena Oxon., sub. nom.). I am anxious to know what was his native place, and where I shall find any notice of his ancestors and family connections? What arms did he bear? GRIME.

TYDIDES. - I have an etching which represents a Greek warrior. His dress is classical, except that he wears a bishop's mitre instead of a helmet, and his shield is blazoned with the sun and moon

I quote from memory, but believe my version at the top, and seven stars below. On a table is to be substantially correct.

Amblesides.

А. Н. Н.

"What is the blooming tincture of the skin

To peace of mind and harmony within," &c.
SIGMA.

EPIGRAM ON LORD JOHN RUSSELL.-In what year did Lord John Russell (Earl Russell) lose his seat for Devonshirę, or was defeated in a contested election for that county, which defeat, as he said, was caused by the influence of the clergy, and gave rise to an epigram, commencing —

"Thou ridden! that shall never be By prophet or by priest?" &c. &c. Who was the author, and what is the conclusion of this epigram? T. B. ROMAN USES.-Would F. C. H. or any of your correspondents answer the following queries:

1. Does a bare-footed religious put on shoes

when the celebrant at the mass?

2. Is the cope ever used by the officiating priest at mass in small churches?

3. When, and by whom, was the Litany of Intercession for England written? On what authority do similar compositions rest, and are they ever publicly recited?

4. What religious order is distinguished by having blue instead of white linen collars?

L. J.

SOMERVILLE. Sir Robert Logan, Laird of Restalrig, is said to have married Geilles, second daughter of Thomas Lord Somerville, who, in my copy of the Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. i. 169, is said to have been the son of Sir John

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a head in a clerical wig and hat, with a pair of bands. By the side of it are a plate, knife, and fork. Below is inscribed "6" Tydides." There is no name of artist or publisher, and nothing in the print enables me to guess its date; but with it is with one figure, the overthrown Colossus, naked, one, like in style and paper, lettered "Rhodes," except a jack-boot on the right leg, and bearing in

the face an unmistakeable likeness to Lord Bute. This suggests the date of about a century ago; the drawing of both is very good. I shall be glad to be told the meaning of "Tydides."

F. H.

QUEEN VICTORIA. Can any of your Sussex readers inform me whether the late Duchess of Kent and her daughter, then Princess Victoria, resided for a season at Bognor? F. B.

WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS.-Amongst the paintings at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, is –

"A Prospect of Dover Castle, with the Town, Harbour, and Country adjacent, and the Procession of the Lord Warden on his Return to the Castle after having taken the Seriment or Oath of Office at a Court of Shipway,

held upon Bradenstone Hill for that purpose. By

Wootton."

My Query is, Who is the Lord Warden whose procession is thus depicted? Lord Palmerston is the present Lord Warden; and to commemorate his holding the office, an admirer of the premier has given a portrait of the noble Lord to the corporation of Dover. ALFRED JOHN DUNKIN.

Dartford.

Queries with Answers.

ORIGEN AND BRITAIN. -De Courson, in his Histoire des Peuples Bretons, vol. i. p. 59, says:— "Origène attribuait à la foi des prêtres Bretons en l'unité d'un Dieu tout puissant, les rapides progrès du christianisme dans l'île de Bretagne."

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The reference is "Orig. Comment. in Ezech." What are the words of Origen to which De Courson alludes? H. C. C. [The words of Origen are, "Quando enim terra Britanniæ ante adventum Christi in unius dei consensit religionem?" (Orig. in Ezek. hom. iv. fol. 139, Par. 1519.) This is the passage alluded to by Bishop Stillingfleet (Origines Britan. cap. ii.) "Besides the testimony of Tertullian concerning the British churches," he says, have another of Origen not long after, who saith, "When did Britain before the coming of Christ consent in the worship of one God?' Which implies that the Britons were then known to be Christians; and, by being so, were brought off from the former idolatry But I wonder what should make two such learned antiquaries as Mr. Camden and Bishop Godwin so far to mistake the sense of Origen, to understand him as if he had said, that Britain, by the help of the Druids, always consented in the belief of one God, whereas it is very plain, that Origen speaks of it as a great alteration that was made in the religion of the Britons after the coming of Christ. And Origen doth not only speak of the belief, but of the worship of one God, which it is certain from Cæsar that the Druids did never instruct the people in." Thus far Stillingfleet with respect to his version of the passage in Origen. Nevertheless, it has been maintained by some eminent historical antiquaries, that the account given by Cæsar of the Druidism of Gaul is not a fair picture of the primitive Druidic religion of Britain, which they contend is not without some oriental features; that while the Druidic priests worshipped in groves and under the oak like Abraham, they did really believe in the existence of one Supreme Being. See Dr. Parsons's Remains of Japheth, ch. iv.; The Patriarchal and Druidical Religions Compared, by the Rev. Wm. Cooke, M.A. Lond. 4to, 1755; and The Patriarchal Religion of Britain, by the Rev. D. James, 8vo, 1836.]

VENNER OF BOSENDEN.- Perhaps some of your correspondents could give me some information regarding the family of Venner, who were latterly seated at an estate near Canterbury called Bosenden, and state whether their descent can be traced from that "one Venner, who, according to Burnet, attempted to excite a rising in London on religious grounds, in the reign of Charles I. The crest of the family is, I believe, an eagle displayed or, winged arg.

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[Hasted, in his History of Kent (fol. ed. iii. 574), says of the manor of Bosendenne, that it "became the estate of the Kingsfords, from whom it passed in marriage to Venner, in which it continued till Kingsford Venner of Chelsea, in the year 1786, alienated it to George Gipps, Esq. of Canterbury."

In Berry's Genealogies of Kent, p. 370, the pedigree given of the family of Venour or Venner commences about the reign of Elizabeth, John Venour being then described as of Fields, in the county of Sussex; and is not carried further down than 1619, when John the son of George, and Edward the son of Sir Edward, are stated to have died.

This Sir Edward Venner is called' in that pedigree a Judge of the King's Bench, evidently meaning Sir Edward Fenner, who was a judge of that court from 1590 till 1612; and who is described by Mr. Foss in his Judges of England, vi. 152, as the son of John Fenner, of Crawley in Surrey, evidently a different family, See Dallaway's Topog. of the Rape of Chichester, i. 16.

We will not venture to account for this variation in the name, which is made still more puzzling by the error on the judge's monument at Hayes, in Middlesex, where Jenner is substituted for Fenner.

We know not whether the "one Venner" of Burnet belongs to either of the families.]

THE PALE.-Where can I find the best account of the history of the English Pale in Ireland, the counties it from time to time contained, the period when it was first established, and the circumstances under which it was finally abolished? A. T. L.

[A valuable notice of the English Pale will be found in Gerard Boate's Ireland's Natural History, ed. 1657, p. 7, and reprinted in A Collection of Tracts and Treatises on Ireland, 1860, vol. i. p. 17; see also pp. 446 and 691 of the latter work. The territory called "the Pale" comprehended the county of Louth, in the province of Ulster, and the counties of Dublin, Meath, and Kildare, in the province of Leinster. Prior to the rebellion of 1641, the people of the Pale had always prided themselves on their loyalty to the crown of England; but being abandoned at this time by the executive of Dublin, and without the necessary means of defence, they were forced to confederate with the rebels, not only to save their property, but also their lives. - Memoirs of Bishop Bedell, ed. 1862, p. 162. In Cox's Hibernia Anglicana, and in the Tracts of Sir John Davis, who was attorney-general to James I. in Ireland, accounts are given of various great Councils, or Parliaments, convened in Ireland at an early period by the different Lords Lieutenants and Deputies, and held in the various towns of the English Pale, or such places as were in possession of the English, as Dublin, Drogheda, Trim, Kildare, Naas, Castledermot, Carlow, Kilkenny, Cashel, Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford. These parliaments, it appears, were confined to Meath, Leinster, and Munster, as the English authority was not sufficiently established in Ulster and Connaught. The best account of the Pale Masters, 4to, 1846, pp. 318, 550; see also The Ulster we have met with is in The Annals of Ireland by the Four Journal of Archæology, passim.]

"ROBIN ADAIR."- Who is the author of the SIGMA. fine old song, called “Robin Adair ?” Glasgow.

[Towards the close of last century the beautiful Irish air, Eileen a Roon" (Ellen, the secret treasure of my heart), was introduced to the British public as a Scotch melody under the name of Robin Adair. The grounds for this assumption appear in the correspondence between Robert Burns and his publisher Thomson. Thomson, writing to Burns in August, 1793, says: "I shall be glad to see you give Robin Adair a Scottish dress. Peter [Pindar] is furnishing him with an English suit for a change, and you are well matched together. Robin's air is excellent, though he certainly has an out-of-the-way measure as ever poor Parnassian wight was plagued with." Burns asserted that it was Scotch, and was not aware that Robin Adair was an Irishman. He was ancestor of Viscount Molesworth; lived at Hollypark, in the county of Wicklow; and early in the last century was a member of the Irish parliament.]

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