EDITED BY THE
REV. BEAVER H. BLACKER, M.A
" Vires acquirit &undo."
" It is not without pleasure, and perchance it may not be without
use, that we rescue some quaint old document from the dust of ages ;
and that we arrest the floating memories of men and things, as they
pass down the stream of time toward the ocean of oblivion"
VOL. II.
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1884.
[Entered at Stationers' Hall]
2 1970
OF i
"
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v.
JOHN WHITE,
Typographical Music and General Printer,
23, George Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire*
PREFACE.
Three years having elapsed since the completion of Vol. I., a
second volume is now brought to a close ; and a very cursory
examination of its pages will suffice to let the reader see that it
contains a large amount of useful and interesting details relative to
the civil and ecclesiastical history of Gloucestershire. In fact, if
he only glances at the table of contents, he may at once find what
a mass of information has been gathered for him 'from almost
innumerable sources.
As in the former volume, the mottoes which appeared on the
covers of the several quarterly parts have been reprinted for more
convenient reference.
A carefully compiled index is appended, which will be no small
assistance to the reader. The compilation of it, from the contents of
the work, has proved somewhat onerous, and it cannot be pronounced
immaculate ; but, while (with very few exceptions) a book without
an index is "an inexcusable imposition," the readers of Gloucester-
shire Notes and Queries will, it is hoped, be satisfied with what has
been done to help them.
Sundry improvements, which, when effected, will speak for
themselves, are contemplated in the third volume.
The number of subscribers is large, and the publication circulates
very widely, both at home and abroad ; but let it not be forgotten,
that from death and other causes changes must take place from
time to time, and that additions to the list are therefore highly
desirable, if not absolutely necessary, for the success of the
undertaking. The additions during the last three years have been
numerous and satisfactory.
To all the many kind friends who have furnished notes or queries,
hearty thanks are tendered ; and a hope is entertained that they
will continue to send valuable contributions, and that others may
j v> PREFACE.
be induced to follow the good example. Variety of matter, it is
almost needless to say, is much to be desired ; and the words of
Ovid are certainly worth remembering
"Multorum manibus grande levatur onus."
BEAVER H. BLACKER.
26, Meridian Place,
Clifton, Bristol,
October 1st, 1884.
CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA.
P. 7, line 31, strike out Baron Mowbray, Segrave, and Braose. See p. 95.
,, 13, ,, 14 from bottom, for "Survey" read Survey of the Cathedral-
Church of Worcester (1736 J , p. 162.
,, 15, ,, 7 from bottom, for Somes year read Some years,
,, 51, ,, 1 6 from bottom, for correct version of the anecdote of " Bishop
Frampton and Lord Wharton r " see p. 68.
,,103, ,, 6, for Larkstoke read Larkestoke.
,, 121, ,, 12 from bottom, for Georgius read Georgivs ///.
123".;- 21, " Bradon " is on the stone, but it should be Bindon.
124, ,, 12, for house read time.
,, 13 1, ,, 20, for inscription read imprint.
167, ,, 18, for died read was buried.
,, 229, 30, for 1682 read 1662 ; and to the list of baronetcies in same page
add Howe, of Compton, 1660-1814.
,, 230, 4, for 1680 read 1688.
,,271, ,, 22, for Eh read Eli ; and the same in the next two lines,
339> J 8, strike out Elrington.
469, n from bottom, strike out The Hon. See p. 555.
5 8 3> if 7 from bottom, for 1003 read 1083.
600, 10, strike out the inverted commas.
630, 4, far sewger read seivy* 9 "* and the same in the next two lines.
The following extract from Fuller's Worthies of England
(1662), p. 297, would form a good foot-note : " William
Siveyer was born at Shinkley in this bishoprick [Durham],
where his father was a siveyer or sive-maker ; and I commend
his humility in retaining his father's trade for his surname, to-
mind him of his mean extraction."
634, ,, 28, add Facie Tenus to the inscription.
MOTTOES.
" It has always been more or less the case that living generations
thrust aside for their own convenience, or to commemorate their more
immediate relatives and friends and their own personal importance,
the mouldering relics of their predecessors. They are thus continually
assisting the encroachments of time and decay ; whilst historians, on
the other hand, the Weevers, the Dingleys, the Le Neves, the
Biglands, and their followers are doing their utmost to rescue, at
least in part, by representation or description, the perishing memorials
of our ancestors, and to prove that paper records may be more
permanent than those of brass or stone" ANON.
" The past and present here unite
Beneath time's flowing tide.
Like foot prints, hidden by a brook,
But seen on either side.
" This memory brightens o'er the past,
As when the sun, concealed
Behind some cloud that near us hangs,
Shines on a distant field." LONGFELLOW.
" Condemn not tfjis our "Diligence for needless curiositg, fait
knotri tfjat eijerg nteer^stone, tljat stanoetf) for a landmark, tljougfi
ut substance hut a f)arti flint, or plain pibfole, is a precious=stone in
fcirtue, and is corfoiall against dangerous controversies foetfoeen
parts an* parts/' FULLER.
" One single matter of fact, faithfully and honestly delivered, is
worth a thousand comments, conjectures, and flourishes ."
BP. GIBSON.
" A hope has crossed me in the course
Of this self-pleasing exercise, that ye
My zeal to his would liken, who, possessed
Of some rare gems, or pictures finely wrought,
Unlocks his cabinets, and draws them forth,
One after one, soliciting regards
To this and this." WORDSWORTH.
" Now, generous reader, let me intreate thy furtherance thusfarre,
that, in thy neighbouring churches, if thou shalte finde any ancient
funeral inscriptions, or antique obliterated monuments, thou wouldst
be pleased to copie out the one, and to take so much relation of the
Vi. MOTTOES.
other as tradition can deliver ; as also to take the inscriptions and
epitaphs upon tombes and gravestones, which are of those [or later]
times : and withall to take order that such thy collections, notes, and
observations, may come safely to my hands : and I shall rest ever
obliged to acknowledge thy paines and curtesie." WEEVER.
tfjee all fcintis cf gram, fofyeat, ano foarleg, anfc foeans,
ano lentiles, ano fitcjfjes, ano make fcreab of tljis tneslin."
BP. HALL.
"pfofo far=fortfj fco got: like tfjeir articles?
31 like tfjem all, ano oo allofo tfjem foell."
SHAKESPEARE.
" J/?/ thoughts are with the dead ; with them
I live in long past years ;
Their virtues love ; their faults condemn ;
Partake their hopes and fears ;
And from their lessons seek and find
Instruction with a humble mind." SOUTHEY
" An obsolete custom, or some forgotten circumstance, opportunely
adverted to, will sometimes restore its true perspicuity and credit to
a very intricate passage" ;g p
" I have not the least doubt that the finest poem in the English
language, Milton's ' II Penseroso] was composed in the long-
resounding aisle of a mouldering cloister, or ivy\l abbey. Yet,
after all, do you know that I would rather sleep in the southern
corner of a little country churchyard than in the Tomb of the
Capulets. I should like, however, that my dust should mingle with
kindred dust. The good old expression, ' family burying ground,'
has something pleasing in it, at least to me.'" EDMUND BURKE.
" Movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum,
quos diligimus, aid admiramur, adsunt vestigia" CICERO.
" Forsan et hcec olim meminissejuvabit." YIRGILIUS.
a Let it be remembered that this work is intended to be, not a
mere temporary vehicle of amusement, but a permanent storehouse of
authentic information, to which reference may hereafter be confi-
dently made." ANON.
s0 gfjall telle a tale after a man,
tnoste refjerse, as neisfje as efcer jje can,
inorti, if it be in his cfjarjje,
speite ije neber so ruoelg ano so large ;
elles {je moste tellen ^is tale untretoe,
feinen tfjinges, or finoen inortjes nefoe,"
CHAUCER.
MOTTOES. Vll.
" Nor rude nor barren are the Minding ways
Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers"
WARTON.
" Histories of Counties, if properly written, become works of
entertainment, importance, and universality. They may be made
the vehicles of much general intelligence, and of such as is interesting
to every reader of a liberal curiosity. What is local is often
national. . . . Care will sometimes betray to the appearance of
negligence ; since he who is searching for rare and remote things, is
likely to neglect those which are obvious and familiar ; while what
is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always
present."
" Reliquioe Troja ex ardente receptor."
"Hcec studia adolescentiam alunt, seneclutem delectant ; secundas
res ornant, adversis perfugium prcebent ; delectant domi, non
impediunt foris ; pernoctant nobiscum ; peregrinantur, rusticantur."
CICERO.
" If it add nothing to your well-instructed knowledge, it may
bring somewhat to your well-disposed remembrance" QUARLES.
" Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti"* HENAULT.
* This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first
time as an epigraph to President Renault's Abrvgd Chronologique ; and in the preface to the
third edition of his work, Henault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this
couplet by Pope
" Content, if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view,
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew,"
CONTENTS.
NO.
CCCCLVIII.
CCCCLIX.
CCCCLX.
CCCCLXI.
CCCCLXII.
CCCCLXIII.
CCCCLXIV.
CCCCLXV.
CCCCLXVI.
CCCCLXVII.
CCCCLXVIII.
CCCCLXIX.
CCCCLXX.
CCCCLXXI.
CCCCLXXII.
CCCCLXXIII.
CCCCLXXIV.
CCCCLXXV.
CCCCLXXVI.
CCCCLXXVII.
CCCCLXXVIII.
CCCCLXXIX.
CCCCLXXX.
CCCCLKXXI.
CCCCLXXXII.
CCCCLXXXIII.
CCCCLXXXIV.
CCCCLXXXV.
CCCCLXXXVI.
CCCCLXXXVII.
CCCCLXXXVIII.
CCCCLXXXIX.
ccccxc.
CCCCXCI.
CCCCXCII.
CCCCXCIII.
CCCCXCIV.
ccccxcv.
CCCCXCVI.
CCCCXCVII.
CCCCXCVIII.
CCCCXCIX.
D.
DI.
DII.
Dili.
DIV.
PAGE.
Six alleged Centenarians . , . . . . i
The Price of Bread Eighty Years ago in Bristol 2
The Derivation of " Severn" .. 3
Robert Frampton, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester 3
Marriages in Hampnett, 1737-54 .. .. 6
S trange Epitaph in Moreton-in-Marsh Churchyard 6
Mr. Samuel Curtis, Surgeon. . .. .. 6
George, first Earl of Berkeley . . . , 7
The Tumulus at Uley . . . . . . 10
Petitions of Gloucestershire Clergy, 1660 .. II
Gloucestershire Knights of the Royal Oak, 1660 12
Consecrations of Churches in the Fourteenth
Century .. .. .. .. 12
Rudder's " Gloucestershire " . . 14
The Lawrence Family, of Bourton-on-the- Water 15
The Slaughter Family . . . . . . 1 7
Longevity in Cirencester . . . . 17
1 ' The Gloucester Idiot " .. .. .. 18
Clement Kelke : his Monumental Inscription 18
The Hooper Family . . . . 19
Notes of the Wills of two Wotton-under-Edge
Worthies . . . . . . . . 19
The Knights of the Royal Oak, 1660. . . . 20
Baptist Registers in Somerset House . . 20
" Gloucester ": its correct spelling ? .. ..21
Strange Disposal of Property . . . . 22
Extracts from the Accounts of the Churchwardens
of Tetbury Parish . . . . . . 22
Robert Huntington, D.D., Bishop of Raphoe 24
The old Font of Deerhurst Church . . . . 25
The old Font in Frampton -on- Severn Church 26
Extracts from the Accounts of the Churchwardens
of Broad Blunsden Parish . . . . 26
The Hodges Family .. .. .. 27
The Tyndale Memorial . . . . . . 27
Bequests of Dr. Filkin and Thomas Millard, Esq.,
1871-2 .. .. .. .. 30
Extract from the MSS. of Dr. Ducarel : Ciren-
cester . . . - . . . . . . 30
Henbury Parish Church . . . . . . 31
A Muffled Peal on Innocents' Day . . . . 3 1
John Bullingham, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol . . . . . . . . 32
The Destruction of Monuments and Gravestones 33
Richard Gibbs, a Forest of Dean Geologist 34
Henry Sampson, 1465 . . . . 34
The Lyne Family, of Little Compton . . 34
Sufferings of Quakers in Gloucestershire, 1660. . 37
The Kimber Family of Gloucestershire . . 38
Two noble-minded Women . . . . . . 38
The Parish of Uley, 1571 .. .. 39
The old Organ of Uley Church . . . . 39
" Penny- yard Penny " . . . . . . 39
The Rev. John Lovel, Rector of Portishead . . 40
NO.
DV.
DVI.
DVII.
I) VIII.
DIX.
DX.
DXI.
DXII.
DXIII.
DXIV,
DXV.
DXVI.
DXVII.
DXVIII.
DXIX.
DXX.
DXXI.
DXXII.
DXXIII.
DXXIV.
DXXV.
DXX VI.
DXXVII.
DXXVIII.
DXXIX.
DXXX.
DXXXI.
DXXXIL
DXXXIII.
DXXXIV.
DXXXV.
DXXXVI.
D XXXVII.
DXXXVIII.
DXXXIX.
DXL.
DXLI.
DXLII.
DXLIII.
DXLIV.
DXLV.
DXL VI.
DXLVII.
DXLVIII.
DXLIX.
DL.
DLL
DLII.
DLIII.
DLIV.
DLV.
DLVI.
DLVII.
DLVIII.
DLIX.
CONTENTS.
PAGE,
The Codrington Family. . .. .. 40
Destruction of Barrows .. .. ..41
The Tortworth Chestnut .. .. 41
Oldbury and Didmarton . . . . . . 44
Mention of " Plague Years " in Parish Registers 44
Whales in the Severn . . ... . . 45
Large Mound near Charfield .. .. 45
Stow-on-the-Wold Market Cross . . 45
The Earldom of Berkeley . . . . 47
Bourton-on-the-Water . . . . . . 48
Arms and Crest of King Family. . . . 49
The Healthiness of Saintbury . . "49
The Town and Manor of Cheltenham . . 49
Bishop Frampton and Lord Wharton . . . . 5 1
Increase of Population in Gloucestershire . . 53
The St. Stephen's Ringers, Bristol . . 53
The Burial of Hearts . . . . . . 53
Gloucestershire Farmers and High Prices of
Corn, 1795 .. .. .. .-54
The Fowlers of Gloucestershire (continued) 55
Tewkesbury Abbey and the Pew Svstem . . 57
Oakley Park, Cirencester, in 1733 .. 59
Gloucestershire Proverbs . . . . 59
Rodborough Tabernacle : Monumental Inscrip-
tions, etc. . . . . . . . . 60
Mrs. Lawrence, a Centenarian ? . . . . 62
Edward Colston, 1636-1721 .. .. 63
The Slaughter. Family .. .. ..64
Bristol and Gloucester, Cities and Counties 68
Bishop Frampton and Lord Wharton. . . . 68
The Derivation of " Tetbury " .. .. 71
The Plague at Tredington, 1 6 10- 1 1 .. -.71
Tupman's Bequest . . . . . . 73
The Caiy Family, of Virginia, U.S.A. .. 73
Further Particulars of Arlingham Parish . . 74
Archdeacon Giles Lawrence, LL.D. . . 77
Letter from William Warburton, D.D., Bishop
of Gloucester
The Manor of Shipton Moyne
78
The Woodward Family : Monumental Inscriptions 79
Steep Street, Bristol . . . . . . 80
The Rudder Family . . . . , . 80
Bell-ringing in Former Days. . . . . . 82
" Collections by Henry Powle " . . . . 83
Bishop Frampton, Bishop John Talbot, and Mrs.
Bovey, of Flaxley Abbey . . . . . . 84
The Plague at Tredington, 1610-11 . . 88
Slymbridge Rectory . . . . . . 89
The Lyne Family, of Gloucestershire . . 89
Names of Gloucestershire Gentry in 1657 .. 91
Bisley and Longtree Hundreds : Duties upon
Houses, Windows, and Lights, 1774 .. 92
Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia,
1642-77 .- .. ..93
Roman Coins found near Cirencester, 1759 94
Sir Robert Yeamans, Bart., of Redland . . 94
The Boothall, Newent . . . . . . 95
George, first Earl of Berkeley . . . . 95
The Tyndale Memorial . . . . . . 96
96
97
The Rev. Staunton Degge, of Almondsbury
Canynge's House, Bristol .. ..
NO.
DLX.
DLXI.
DLXII.
DLXIII.
DLXIV.
DLXV.
DLXVI.
DLXVII.
DLXVIII.
DLXIX.
DLXX.
DLXXI.
DLXXII.
DLXXIII.
DLXXIV.
DLXXV.
DLXXVI.
DLXXVII.
DLXXVIII.
DLXXIX.
DLXXX.
DLXXXI.
DLXXXII.
DLXXXIII.
DLXXXIV.
DLXXXV.
DLXXXVL
DLXXXVII.
DLXXXVIII.
DLXXXIX.
DXC.
DXCI.
DXCII.
DXCIII.
DXCIV.
DXCV.
DXCVI.
DXCVII.
DXCVIII.
DXCIX.
DC.
DCI.
DCII.
DCIII.
DCIV.
DCV.
DCVI.
DCVII.
DCVIII.
DCIX.
DCX.
CONTENTS. XI.
PAGE.
A Dursley Farmer of the Seventeenth Century 97
John Woodward, M. A., Prebendary of Gloucester,
1558 .. .. .. .. ..98
Moreton-in-the-Marsh and King Charles I. 98
Thomas Hele . . . . . . . . 98
Burials in Woollen . . . . . . . . 99
Home, the Newent Martyr . . . . 100
Gloucestershire Recusants, 1715 .. .. 101
Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Arle Court . . 103
The Earl of Beaconsfield and Gloucestershire . . 104
Gloucestershire Engravings in the " Gentleman's
Magazine," 1731-1818 .. .. 105
The Forest of Dean ... . . . . 106
Robert Southey . . . . . . 106
Stinchcombe Parish Church. . . . . . 107
Female Churchwardens . . . . . . 109
Robert Huntington, D.D., Bishop of Raphoe. . no
The old Font of Deerhurst Church . . no
Dr. Thomas Dover, of Bristol . . ..in
The Parish of Cam, 1571 .. .. 113
The Accounts of the Churchwardens of Hampnett
Parish, 1607-19 .. .. .. 113
Bristol and Gloucester Cathedrals .. . . 116
Old Painting at Gloucester, 1732. , . . 117
Atkyns's " Gloucestershire " " .. ..117
" Church of England Magazine : " Gloucestershire
Churches
The Stroud Clergy, 1841
Land Tax Assessments and Poll Books . .
Gloucestershire Tokens
Three Inscriptions in Henbury Churchyard
Index to Monumental Inscriptions, Filton
Old Clock at the Chetham College, Manchester
Assize of Bread, etc., Northleach
"Always too late ! "
Petitions from the House of Lords' MSS., 1640-1 126
Thomas Longden, Mayor of Gloucester, 1695 .. 127
The Rev. Charles Neale, Rector of Harescombe,
1741-69
Murder of Richard Ruddle, 1 743
Captain Woodes Rogers
Forfeiture of Goods for Polygamy
Mrs. Catherine Bovey and the Festival of the
Three Choirs
Civil War, 1645 : Extracts from the Council
Minute Book at Gloucester
The Rev. Sir Henry Bate-Dudley, Bart.
Philip Jones, Minister of Cirencester, 1588
R. Hanchet, of Cirencester, 1787
John Allibond, D.D.
Extracts from the Accounts of the Churchwardens
of Deerhurst Parish
Charles Dickens and Cheltenham
Index to Monumental Inscriptions : St. George's,
Brandon Hill, Bristol . . . . . . 137
William Rogers, Esq., of Dowdeswell, 1630 .. 138
The Duchy of Lancaster and old Privileges
Dr. Richard Parsons' MSS. . .
The Lawrence Family : two Monumental Inscrip-
tions
John Dorlin Sandland
119
1 20
120
120
123
I2 4
124
125
125
127
128
128
129
130
133
135
136
136
137
138
139
140
141
CONTENTS.
NO. PAGE.
DCXI. The Derivation of " Gloucester " . . . . 141
DCXII. Stage Coach Travelling in 1696 .. ..142
DCXIII. The Price of Meat Eighty Years ago . . 142
DCXIV. Alderman John Jones, of Gloucester . . . . 143
DCXV. The Recovery of Clifton Parish Register, 1538-
1681 .. .. .. .. 145
DCXVI. On the Distribution of Place-Names .. .. 145
DCXVII. A Bishop with a War Medal . . . . 149
DCXVIII. Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt .. 150
DCXIX. " Collections by Henry Powle " (continued) 154
DCXX. Subsidy Roll for Elmore Parish, 1327 .. 15 ^
DCXXI. Gloucestershire Churches .. .. 156
DCXXII. An old Church-Notice .. .. .. 157
DCXXIII. The AVinston Monument in Long Burton Church,
Dorset .. .. .. .. 157
DCXXIV. Burn's References to Gloucestershire Parish
Registers .. .. .. .. 159
DCXXV. Gloucestershire Beacons ., .. 162
DCXXVI. The Rectors of Uley .. .. ..162
DCXXVII. Duntsborne Abbas Barrows .. .. 169
DCXXVIII. The Healthiness of Dyrham .. .. ..169
DCXXIX. Lysons' " Gloucestershire Antiquities " .. 169
DCXXX. The Luttrell Family .. .. ..170
DCXXXI. Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Arle Court . . 1 70
DCXXXII. The Farley Family . .. .. ..170
DCXXXIIL John Lycett, L.R.C.P.E., etc. .. .. 171
DCXXXIV. The Fowlers of Gloucestershire (continued) .. 172
DCXXXV. The Rev. 'Robert Kening, M.A., Vicar of
Marshiield, 1666-81 .. .. .. 175
DCXXXVI. New Year's Day at Stanway House, 1793 . . 177
DCXXXVII. Death of Milton's Grand-nephew .. 177
DCXXXVIII. Two Letters on the Death of Mrs. Bovey, of
Flaxley Abbey , , . . . . ..178
DCXXXIX. The Partridge Family : Monumental Inscriptions 180
DCXL. Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (con-
tinued) .. .. .. . . .. 181
DCXLI. The Rev. Herbert Haines, M.A. . . . . 186
DCXLII. Compositions to avoid Knighthood, I and 2 Mary 187
DCXLIII. The Millard Family .. .. .. 188
DCXLIV. Large Mound near Charfield .. .. 188
DCXLV. Names with an " Alias " .. .. ..189
DCXLVL " Penny-yard Penny " .. .. .. 189
DCXLVII. The Collett Family .. .. ..190
DCXL VIII. Nichols' "Herald and Genealogist" .. 191
DCXLIX. Joseph Swetnam, of Bristol. . .. ..192
DCL. Roger Edgeworth, Prebendary of Bristol, 1544 193
DCLI. The Rev. Staunton Degge, of Almondsbury . . 193
DCLII. The Rev. Edward Hawkins, M.A., Vicar of
Bisley, 1782-1806 .. .. .. 193
DCLIII. An American's " Impressions of England " .. 194
DCLIV. The Blind Boy of Gloucester and Dr. Williams 195
DCLV. Escheat of a Fortune .. .. . . 199
DCLVL The Registers of Turkdean Parish . . 199
DCLVII. Eleanor Bennett, nee Fust . . . . . . 200
DCLVIII. The Hooper Family . . . . , . 201
DCLIX. " Gaarge Ridler's Oven " .. .. ..201
DCLX. March 2nd and May 1 2th .. .. 201
DCLXI. The Trotman Family . . . . . . 201
DCLXII. Howard's "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica" 212
DCLXIII. The Duchy of Lancaster and old Privileges ..213
NO.
DCLXIV.
DCLXV.
DCLXVI.
DCLXVII.
DCLXVIII.
DCLXIX.
DCLXX.
DCLXXI.
DCLXXII.
DCLXXIII.
DCLXXIV.
DCLXXV.
DCLXXVI.
DCLXXVII.
DCLXXVIII.
DCLXXIX.
DCLXXX.
DCLXXXI.
DCLXXXII.
DCLXXXIII.
DCLXXXIV.
DCLXXXV.
DCLXXX VI.
DCLXXXVII.
DCLXXXVIII.
DCLXXXIX.
DCXC.
DCXCI.
DCXCIL
DCXCIII.
DCXCIV.
DCXCV.
DCXCVI.
DCXCVII.
DCXCVIII.
DCXCIX.
DCC.
DCCI.
DCCII.
DCCIII.
DCCIV.
DCCV.
DCCVI.
DCCVII.
DCCVIII.
DCCIX.
DCCX.
DCCXI.
DCCXII.
DCCXIII.
DCCXIV.
DCCXV.
DCCXVI.
CONTENTS. Xlll.
PAGE.
Parliamentary Survey of Church Livings, 1649-
50: Co. Gloucester .. .. .. 214
Traditions about Churchdown Church . . 222
Sir Richard Hart, Knt., of Bristol .. 222
Grant of the Hotwell, Clifton, to the Corporation
of Bristol, 1 661 .. .. .. .. 223
Tetbury Memoranda . . . . . . 224
The Canynges Family . . . . . . 224
Broadsides relative to Sir Thomas Overbury 225
Monumental Inscriptions in Turkdean Parish
Church.. .. .. .. ..226
Gloucestershire Baronetcies, Extinct or Dormant 229
" Mothering Sunday " .. .. .. 230
Dingley's " History from Marble" .. 230
May Day . . . . . . . . . . 234
Berkeley Hundred in 1571 .. .. 235
Memoranda in Cirencester Parish Registers . . 235
Gloucester Cathedral . . , . . . 237
A Discovery at Temple Church, Bristol . . 239
An Analysis of the Bristol Waters, 1723 . . 239
Nichols' "Collectanea Topographica et Gene-
alogica" .. .. .. .. 240
Ancient Gloucestershire Seals . . . . 242
A Proclamation of King Charles I., Aug. 10,
1643 .. .. .. .. -.244
The Date in the Tower of Painswick Church 245
The Pinnacles of the Cathedral Tower, Gloucester 245
Servants at the Holy Communion in the Seven-
teenth Centuiy . . . . . . . . 248
St. Whites, Forest of Dean . . . . 249
"Dockum," or " Dockem," Cheltenham .. 250
A Quaint Inscription found at Tewkesbury 250
Arms of Brayne Family, of Gloucestershire . . 250
" The Natural Rarities of Gloucestershire " 250
The Stumpe Family and Malmesbury Abbey . . 254
" The Topographer " . . . . 255
MS. Account of Churches near Stroud . . 255
Salmon in the Severn . . . . . . 256
Sydney International Exhibition, 1879 2 5
Extracts from the Turkdean Parish Registers 257
The Dedication of Kingscote Church. . . . 259
The Dedication of Turkdean Church . . 259
The Burial of Richard Hull, Esq., 1772 . . 259
A Gypsy's Burial, 1657 . . . . . . 260
The Greening Family . . . . . . 260
Edward Strong, the Builder of St. Paul's
Cathedral . . . . . . . . 262
Popular Customs of Gloucestershire . . . . 265
A Plague of Ear- wigs . . . . . . 268
Parochial Libraries .. .. .. ^, 268
Jenner, of Cainsford . . , . . . 268
The Gloucester True Blue Club . . . . 269
Subsidy Roll for Haresfield, 1327 . . 270
Eli Dupree : Monumental Inscription. . . . 271
Two Extracts from theCranbrook Parish Register,
Kent .. .. .. .. 271
A Cheltenham Catacomb for Sale . . . . 272
Paul Bush, Bishop of Bristol .. .. 272
Nash Court and The Steps, Cam . . . . 272
Some Gloucestershire Marriages, 1755-59 .. 272
"John Sanders, his Book, 1712 " .. ..273
xiv.
NO.
DCCXVII.
DCCXVIIL
DCCXIX.
DCCXX.
DCCXXI.
DCCXXII.
DCCXXIII,
DCCXXIV.
DCCXXV.
DCCXXVI.
DCCXXVII.
DCCXXVIII.
DCCXXIX.
DCCXXX.
DCCXXXI.
DCCXXXII.
DCCXXXIII.
DCCXXXIV.
DCCXXXV.
DCCXXX VI.
DCCXXXVIL
DCCXXXVIII.
DCCXXXIX.
DCCXL.
DCCXLI.
DCCXLII.
DCCXLIII.
DCCXLIV.
DCCXLV.
DCCXLVI.
DCCXL VII.
DCCXLVIII.
DCCXLIX.
DCCL.
DCCLI.
DCCLII.
DCCLIII.
DCCLIV.
DCCLV.
DCCLVI.
DCCLVII.
DCCLVIII.
DCCLIX.
DCCLX.
DCCLXI.
DCCLXII.
DCCLXIII.
DCCLXIV.
DCCLXV.
DCCLXVI.
DCCLXVII.
DCCLXVIII.
DCCLXIX.
DCCLXX.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Christmas Steps, Bristol . . , . 278
A Curious Device . . . . . . . . 279
A Gloucestershire Woman .. .. 279.
Alderman Pearce, of Randwick, Australia . . 280
The Chapel of Berkeley Castle . . . . 283-
Frocester Chapel . . . . . . . . 283
Robert Dinvviddie, Esq., Governor of Virginia 284
The Daunt Family . . . . . . . 286
The Rectors of Harescombe and Pitchcombe 288
Gloucestershire Bequests to Hertfordshire Parishes 290
Arms and Crest of King Family. . . . 291
Broadsides relative to Sir Thomas Overbury . . 291
Oldbury-on-Severn Church Font .. .. 29!:
The Staples Family, of Yate Court . . . . 292-
An old Quack Advertisement . . . . 292
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S. . . . , 293
Interesting Discovery of MS. at Cheltenham 294
The Test Act . , . . . . . . 295
The Nunnery of Annestowe . . . . 295
Monumental Inscriptions from Jamaica and
Barbados . . . . . . . . 295
Thornbury Borough .. .. .. 299.
" Archaeologia," 1770-1881 .. .. .. 299
Abstract of the Will of Richard Hart, last Prior
of Lanthony . . . . . . 305
James Lackington . . . . . . . . 305
Beikeley Legends . . . . . . 306
An old Powe,r of Attorney . . . . . . 307
308
in Longhope and
MichellDean " .. ..
On the Origin of Finnimore and its allied Sur-
The Order and Method for Presentments, Sept.
30, 1674 ..
Extracts from "Read's Weekly Journal," 1729-32
Some alleged Centenarians
The Severn Bore . . . . . . , .
Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., Governor of Virginia
Teddington Hands
The Fowlers of Gloucestershire (continued)
John Sprint, M.A., Vicar of Thornbury
" Gloucestershire Gleanings "
Bell-ringing in Former Days. . .. .,
Death of an Old Bristolian, Dr. Thwaites . .
Church Plate
Remarkable Rescue from a Coal-pit, 1735. .
The Families of Field and Delafeld
The Wickham Family
John Hannibal Sheppard, A.M.
Hour-glasses in Churches
A Preservative against Hydrophobia
Gloucestershire Baronetcies
Two Letters from Hannah More to Geo. Miller,
D.D. ..
Strange Epitaph on Martha Collins
Frocester Chapel
The Trotman Family
Captain Francis Windebank and "his unruly
Company"
Families of Carter and Nettleton Balme . .
Robert Raikes' Will
309
317
320
321
323
324
324
326
329
330
330
33i
332
334
335
336
336
336
337
337
340
340
346
347
347
CONTENTS. XV,
NO. PAGE.
DCCLXXI. Abbot Berkeley, of Flaxley . . . . 347
DCCLXXI I. Dean Tucker and Bishop Butler, of Bristol .. 348
DCCLXXIIL Female Parish Clerks . . . . . . 348
DCCLXXIV. Andrew Charlton, Mayor of Bristol, 1634 .. 348
DCCLXXV. A List of Gloucestershire Wills . . . . 348
DCCLXXVI. Will of John Nyblett, of Brokethroppe, 1543. . 350
DCCLXXVII. Derivation of "Frenchay," near Bristol .. 350
DCCLXXVIIL The Parish of Blockley ' .. .. ..351
DCCLXXIX. The Seventh-day Baptists . . . . 354
DCCLXXX. The Singers' Pew in Rodborough Church, 1748 354
DCCLXXXI. Blakeney :" my native village ".. .. 356
DCCLXXXII. John Parkhurst, D.D., and Bishop's Cleeve . . 357
DCCLXXXIII. A Long- Service Veteran ,. .. 359
DCCLXXXIV. Tenures of Land and Customs of Manors . . 360
DCCLXXXV. The Colston Family .. .. .. 365
DCCLXXXVI. A List of Gloucestershire Knights, 1323-4 . . 367
DCCLXXXVII. The Wynter Family, of Dyrham . . . . 367
DCCLXXXVIIL The Feribys of Kippax, etc. .. ..371
DCCLXXXIX. Gloucester Cathedral : " Notes and Sketches for
Visitors " . . . . . . 372
DCCXC. Thomas Rudge, B.D., Archdeacon of Gloucester 372
DCCXCI. Stoball, an obsolete Game . . . . 373
DCCXCII. " The Natural Rarities of Gloucestershire " (con-
cluded) , . . . . . . . . . 373
DCCXCIII. The Library of the Kalendaries, Bristol . . 377
DCCXCIV. "Dockum," or "Dockem," Cheltenham .. 378
DCCXCV. Oldbury-on- Severn Church Font.. .. 378
DCCXCVI. Strange Epitaphs in Moreton-in-Marsh Church-
yard .. .. .. .. ..378
DCCXC VII. Colonel Henry Brett .. .. .. 379
DCCXCVIII. Queen Elizabeth's Progress in Gloucestershire in
1592 .. .. .. .. .-379
DCCXCIX. Thomas Graile, Rector of Lassington . . 380
DCCC. The Crispe Family, of Marshfield ., ..381
DCCCI. Edward Fowler, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester 382
DCCCII. An old Deed relative to Brockworth . . . . 384
DCCCIII. The Family of Field or Feld . . . . 385
DCCCIV. George Ballard's Bequest to the Bodleian Library 385
DCCCV. Particulars of an old Court Roll of Cirencester 386
DCCCVI. Dean Marshall's Bequest to the Bodleian Library 387
DCCCVII. "Chronicon Abbat. Cirencest. MS.".. ..388
DCCCVIII. John Pincke, of Gloucester . . . . 388
DCCCIX. Anthony Ely, of King Stanley . . . . 388
DCCCX. Will of Sir William Tracy . . . . 388
DCCCXI. Warren Hastings and Cheltenham . . . . 389
DCCCXII. Stow-on-the-Wold Tokens . . . . 389
DCCCXIII. Mr. Jonathan Hulls, of Campden . . . . 390
DCCCXIV. Dean Tucker and Bishop Butler, of Bristol 390
DCCCXV. Richard Funiey, M. A., Archdeacon of Surrey, etc. 390
DCCCXVI. Taswell Monument at Wotton-under-Edge . . 391
DCCCXVII. Mr. John Collett, of Bourton-on-the- Water 391
DCCCXVIII. Robberies of the Bristol Mail, 1738-9 ..391
DCCCXIX. Index to Monumental Inscriptions, Shirehampton 392
DCCCXX. Extracts from the Registers of St. John's,
Gloucester . . . . . . . . 393
DCCCXXI. Clark Monument in St. Matthew's, Friday Street,
London . . . . . . . . 398
DCCCXXII. Dr. Dodd and the Gypsies . . . . . . 399
DCCCXXIII. The Rectors of Uley (continued) . . . . 399
DCCCXXIV. Some Briefs and Church Collections, 1717-42 .. 402
CONTENTS.
NO.
DCCCXXV.
DCCCXXVI.
DCCCXXVII.
DCCCXXVIII.
DCCCXXIX.
DCCCXXX.
DCCCXXXI.
DCCCXXXII.
DCCCXXXIII.
DCCCXXXIV.
DCCCXXXV.
DCCCXXXVI.
DCCCXXXVII.
DCCCXXXVIII.
DCCCXXXIX.
DCCCXL.
DCCCXLI.
DCCCXLII.
DCCCXLIII.
DCCCXLIV.
DCCCXLV.
DCCCXLVI.
DCCCXLVII.
DCCCXLVIIL
DCCCXLIX.
DCCCL.
DCCCLI.
DCCCLII.
DCCCLIII.
DCCCLIV.
DCCCLV.
DCCCLVI.
DCCCLVII.
DCCCLVIII.
DCCCLIX.
DCCCLX.
DCCCLXI.
DCCCLXII.
DCCCLXIII.
DCCCLXIV.
DCCCLXV.
DCCCLXVI.
DCCCLXVII.
DCCCLX VIII.
DCCCLXIX.
DCCCLXX.
DCCCLXXI.
DCCCLXXII.
DCCCLXXIII.
DCCCLXXIV.
DCCCLXXV.
DCCCLXXVI.
PAGE.
Gloucestershire
" The Church Rambler
Churches . . . . . . . . 402
Will of John Wytloff, of Lodyswill, 1404 . . 403
The Fowlers of Gloucestershire (continued) 405
A Relic of Joanna Southcott . . . . 409
The Portrait of Joseph White, D.D. . . 410
The Dowdeswell Family .. .. .. 410
Hope- Well, Help-on-High, and Sion-Built, Fox 412
The Falch, or Felch, Family . . . . 415
The Daunt Family, of Olepen . . . . 416
Curious Bequests and Charities .. . . 417
The Flight of Charles II. from Worcester in
1651 .. .. .. .. 425
Thomas Westfield, D.D., Bishop of Bristol,
1641-4 .. .. .. .. .. 426
Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham, M.P. . . 426
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R. A. .. .. 427
Wheat-sowing at Farmington . . . . 427
Thomas William Cattell, Esq. . . . . 427
The Trolman Family (continued) . . . . 429
" Scotchquar " Hill, Harescombe .. .. 429
" Gyantlike Bones found neere Gloucester," circ.
1634 .. .. .. .. 431
Extracts from Parish Registers, No. I. : Doding-
ton and Doynton . . . , . . 433
Lines by John Dorney, of Gloucester . . 436
The Collett Family.. .. .. .. 437
John Eyles, of Uley . . . . . . 437
Thomas Pury, Senior and Junior . . . . 438
John Gooch and William Hamonds . . 438
Names with an " Alias " . . . . . . 439
Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., Governor of Virginia 441
The Rev. Charles Jasper Selwyn, M.A. . . 441
Henry Kingscote, a Gloucestershire Worthy 442
The Will of John Camber, 1496 . . . . 444
Index to Monumental Inscriptions : Fishponds 446
The Preservation of Ancient Buildings . . 447
Edward H. Baily, R.A., F.R.S. . . . . 447
Judgements on Sabbath Breakers, 1634 and 1635 448
Further Extracts from the Turkdean Parish
Registers . . . . . . . . 449
Gloucester and the Custom of " Borough English" 452
Grant of the Benefice of Sevenhampton by
Henry VIII., 1545 ..
Bishop Ellicott on the Origin of Sunday Schools
457
459
460
462
463
Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., Governor of Virginia
George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S.
"Nomina Villarum," 9 Edw. II.
Remarkable Use of Excommunication in the
Thirteenth Century
Curious Legal Blunders
Lord Northwick's Collection of Pictures
The Hon. Charles Howe
Advertisements regarding the Small Pox, 1756-58 471
Strange Epitaphs . . . . . . 474
Longevity in Gloucestershire . . . . . .
The Honourable Lady Mary Farmor
Bisley Churchwarden's Account, 1630
St. Thomas' Church, Bristol
Henry Sacheverell, D.D., and the Corporation of
Gloucester . . . . . . . . 483
463
467
468
469
477
480
482
483
CONTENTS.
NO.
DCCCLXXVII.
DCCCLXXVIII.
DCCCLXXIX.
DCCCLXXX.
DCCCLXXXI.
DCCCLXXXII.
DCCCLXXXIII.
DCCCLXXXIV.
DCCCLXXXV.
DCCCLXXXVI.
DCCCLXXXVII.
DCCCLXXXVIII.
DCCCLXXXIX.
DCCCXC.
DCCCXCI.
DCCCXCII.
DCCCXCIII.
DCCCXC1V.
DCCCXCV.
DCCCXCVI.
DCCCXCVII.
DCCCXCVIII.
DCCCXC1X.
DCCCC.
DCCCCI.
DCCCCII.
DCCCCIII.
DCCCCIV.
DCCCCV.
DCCCCVI.
DCCCCVII.
DCCCCVIII.
DCCCCIX.
DCCCCX.
DCCCCXI.
DCCCCXII.
DCCCCXIII.
DCCCCXIV.
DCCCCXV.
DCCCCXVI.
DCCCCXVIL
DCCCCXVIII.
DCCCCXIX.
DCCCCXX.
DCCCCXXI.
DCCCCXXII.
DCCCCXXIII.
DCCCCXXIV.
DCCCCXXV.
DCCCCXX VI.
DCCCCXXVII.
PACK.
484
The Rev. Samuel Wilson Warneford, D.C.L. . .
Heanie and Byrne's "Antiquities of Great
Britain : " Gloucestershire . . . . 488
The Wesley Family in Bristol . . . . 488
Index to Monumental Inscriptons : Redland
Green Chapel, Bristol . . . . 489
Churches dedicated to St. Leonard . . . , 491
" Bristol Medal : the VI. of July " . . 491
Chimney Sweepers' Signboards in Chipping
Campden . . . . . . . . 492
A Triple Qualification . . . . . . 492
Witts' "Archaeological Hand-book and Map of
Gloucestershire" .. .. .. 492
Notes on Lydney and its Dependencies . . 493
The Rev. John Selwyn, LL.B. .. .. 505
Sale of a chamber in Tewkesbury Abbey Church 506
Ernest Giles, the Australian Explorer . . 506
The Sheppard Family . . . . . . 508
"Scotchquar" Hill, Harescombe .. 511
" Shotover " Hill .. .. .. ..511
Help-on-High Fox .. .. .. 511
The Rev. Thomas Shellard, M.A., Rector of
Uley .. .. .. .. .. 512
Taswell Monument at Wotton-under-Edge 512
Some alleged Centenarians .. .. . . 513
The Rev. Samuel Lysons. M.A., F.S.A. .. 514
The Custom of presenting White Gloves .. 516
William Grevel, of Campden .. .. 517
The Hospitallers or Knights of St. John of
Jerusalem .. .. .. . . 517
Bristol twenty-five years ago .. .. 521
"Notes on some Old Churches in Gloucestershire" 522
Richard Capel, a Gloucestershire Worthy.. 522
The Gloucester Blue Book, 1881 . . . . 525
Bristol Farthings of the Seventeenth Century 525
Licence to eat Flesh in Lent . . . . . . 526
Where did Edward II. Die ? " . . . . 527
The Rev. Joseph Whately, LL.D., and Richard
Whately, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin . . 528
The Monumental Inscriptions in Bristol Cathedral 530
The Dowdeswell Family . . . . . . 530
Gloucestershire Weather, 1792 .. .. 532
The WiU of John Arnolde, Rector of St.
Michael's, Gloucester, 1450 . . . . 532
The Lysons Family . . . . . . 533
Joseph Baylee, D.D., Vicar of Shepscombe . . 535
Extracts from Parish Registers, No. II. :
Dyrham .. .. .. .. 536
Bristol in the year 1761 .. .. .. 542
The Office of Bailiff . . , . . . 544
Tewkesbury and the Storm of November 26,
1703 .. .. "545
All Saints' Church, Gloucester . . . . 546
" The Church-Goer" and its reputed Author . . 547
The Matthews Family, of Tewkesbury . . 547
Tewkesbury Charities . . . . . . 548
Doctors Grivell and Lane, of Gloucester . . 548
The Farley Family.. .. .. .. 548
Robert Blagden Hale, Esq., of Alderley . , 549
List of Marriages in Hampnett, 1737-1754 .1 550
"The Hon." Charles Howe ., ,. 555
CONTENTS.
NO.
DCCCCXXVIII.
DCCCCXXIX.
DCCCCXXX.
DCCCCXXXI.
DCCCCXXXII.
DCCCCXXXIII.
DCCCCXXXIV.
DCCCCXXXV.
DCCCCXXXVL
DCCCCXXXVII.
Dccccxxxvnr.
DCCCCXXXIX.
DCCCCXL.
DCCCCXLL
DCCCCXLII.
DCCCCXLIII.
DCCCCXLIV.
DCCCCXLV.
DCCCCXL VI.
DCCCCXLVII.
DCCCCXLVIII.
DCCCCXLIX.
DCCCCL.
DCCCCLI.
DCCCCLIL
DCCCCLIII.
DCCCCLIV.
DCCCCLV.
DCCCCLVI.
DCCCCLVII.
DCCCCLVIII.
DCCCCLIX.
DCCCCLX.
DCCCCLXI.
DCCCCLXII.
DCCCCLXIII.
DCCCCLXIV.
DCCCCLXV.
DCCCCLXVI.
DCCCCLXVII.
DCCCCLXVIII.
DCCCCLXIX.
DCCCCLXX.
DCCCCLXXI.
DCCCCLXXII.
DCCCCLXXIII.
DCCCCLXXIV.
DCCCCLXXV.
DCCCCLXXVI.
DCCCCLXXVII.
DCCCCLXXVIII.
DCCCCLXXIX.
DCCCCLXXX.
DCCCCLXXXI.
DCCCCLXXXU.
PAGE.
. 557
557
. 558
The Rev. Humphrey Fox, of Tevvkesbury
" Shotover " Hill, Oxon
The Willets, or Willett, Family
The first M. P. for Bristol .. .. 561
"Delineations of Gloucestershire," 1824 .. 561
The Honourable Lady Mary Farmor . . 563
Washington Monumental Inscriptions at Garsdon 563
John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester . . . . 565
The Pollard Family, of Bristol and Gloucester-
shire .. .. .. .. 565
Portrait of Bishop John Talbot Wanted . . 565
Sir George Charnock, Knt., and Family . . 566
Three Field-Names, their Derivations ? . . 566
Historical Chairs . . . . . . 566
Boddington Manor House, near Cheltenham . . 566
The Hancock Family, of Twining . . 567
Christmas Customs . . . . . . . . 568
" Roping the Wedding " . . . . 569
Sir Edward Morgan, Bart., of Llantarnam Abbey 569
John Hannibal Sheppard, A.M. . . . . 5^9
The Sheppard Family .. .. . . 570
Coleridge's "Bristol Lectures," 1813-14 .. 570
Pitchcombe, alias Pychenecoumbe, A.D. 1322.. 571
The Will of John Redcle, of Pychyncumbe,
1537 -.573
"Ordnance Survey Observatory, Gloucester 573
The Life and Death of Sir William Keyt, Bart. 574
Frances Ockold, of Upton St. Leonards, and
Nicholas Tooker, of Bristol .. .. 577
List of Marriages in Hampnett, 173 7-1754 (con-
cluded) .. .. .. .. 579
Shoemaking on the Cotswold Hills . . . . 583
Provincialisms of the Vale of Gloucester . . 585
William Sandys, Esq., and the Avon.. .. 590
Extracts from Parish Registers, No. II : Dyrham
(continued) . . . . . . . . 59 2
Sir Abraham Elton's House in Bristol . . 598
Thomas Chatterton . . . . . . 599
Wolves in Gloucestershire . . . . . . 600
The Newnham State Sword . . . . 600
Incumbents of Wickwar, 1290-1479 .. 600
Subsidy Roll for Pitchcombe, 1522-3 .. 601
The Rebuilding of Pitchcombe Church, A.D.
1819 .. .. .. .. ..602
John Whytloff, Parson of Lodeswell . . 602
Strange Epitaph in Berkeley Churchyard . . 602
Epitaph on Scipio Africanus at Henbury , . 603
The South Porch of Gloucester Cathedral . . 603
The Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, G.C.B. 603
The Farley Family . . , . . . . . 605
A Letter from an Autograph Hunter . . 605
"Itinerary" of Richard of Cirencester ,. 606
Inscriptions in Cheltenham Parish Churchyard 607
Bray Family, of Barrington . . . . . . 611
John Cossins, Esq., of Redland, Bristol .. 611
The Player Family.. .. .. ..611
The Tyndale Memorial Statue, 1884 . . 612
A Strange Apparition . . . . . . 613
"Dewdrop Inn," Cheltenham ,. .. 614
A Gloster Man " and his Brief . . . . 614
The Stiff Family . .. .. 614
CONTENTS.
NO.
DCCCCLXXXIII.
DCCCCLXXXIV.
DCCCCLXXXV.
DCCCCLXXXVI.
DCCCCLXXXVII.
DCCCCLXXXVIII.
DCCCCLXXXIX.
DCCCCXC.
DCCCCXCI.
DCCCCXCII.
DCCCCXCIII.
DCCCCXCIV.
3DCCCCXCV.
DCCCCXCVI.
DCCCCXCVII.
DCCCCXCVIII.
DCCCCXCIX.
M.
MI.
Mil.
Mill.
The Population of Bristol in 1752
Relics of Municipal State in Gloucester . .
Epitaph on John Taylor, " the Water Poet " ,
"Frying-pan Fair," Frampton-on-Severn ..
Clifford Family
The Lodge, Tevvkesbury , .
" The Cunnegar," a Field-Name
Historical Chairs
Smyth's MSS. : " Book of Array, 1608 "
Pouldon and Whitmore Families
Alexander Hosea, of Wickwar
The Will of the Rev. Richard Capel, M.A.
Bristol Farthings of the Seventeenth Century .
Extracts from Parish Registers, No. III.
Hardwicke . .
PAGE.
. 622
622
. 624
62$
. 625
626
. 626
626
. 627
634
635
6 3 8
642
644
'Monthly Chronicle," 1728-9
Squire of the Seventeenth
646
647
Bishop Frampton and the Rev. Benjamin
Billingsley
Extracts from the
Thomas Lloyd, ;
Century . . . . . . . . 651
Whitefield's Visit to Gloucestershire in 1739 655
Mr. Thomas Burnham, of Northampton . . 656
The Easterlings .. .. .. 657
Washington Monumental Inscriptions at Garsdon 659
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
CCCCLYIII. SlX ALLEGED CENTENARIANS. 1 wish to submit
the following six cases of alleged centenarianism, with the view of
having each one of them, if it be practicable, satisfactorily tested :
(1) "There is a remarkable instance of longevity in the person
of Thomas Bright, who was a native of this parish [Longhope, near
Gloucester], and died here in the year 1708, one hundred and
twenty-four years old, as appears by the inscription for him, on his
grave-stone." (Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 533.) This is a copy
of the inscription referred to : " Here resteth the Body of Thomas
Bright, who departed this Life October 28 th , An 1708, Aetatis
suae 124.
" His Patience was by long Affliction try'd ;
In stedfast Faith and Hope he liv'd and dy'd."
(2) "At Bristol, aged 104, Mrs. M. Williams, relict of Mr.
Joseph Williams." Gloucester Journal, Nov. 18, 1832.
(3) "Among the aged persons interred here [in the Stroud
Cemetery], is Susan Dancey Face, widow of William Face. She
was born at Stroud, Nov. 5th, 1763. Her maiden name was
Morgan. She was a poor, but respected, member of the society of
Wesleyans in Acre-street. She died Deer. 22nd, 1863, aged 100
years and 47 days, and was buried Deer. 26th, 1863." Fisher's
Stroud, p. 334.
(4) "REMARKABLE CASE OP LONGEVITY. The town of War-
minster [in Wiltshire] has long had the credit of being one of the
most healthy places in England, and it has during the present week
furnished another remarkable case of longevity, Mrs. Elizabeth
Whitmarsh, a widow, expiring on Monday, in the 102nd year of
her age. The deceased was a native of Stroud, in Gloucestershire,
and prior to the introduction of the railway used to act as letter-
carrier for the Post Office authorities. For the last seven and
twenty years she resided in Warminster, and during the whole of
her life enjoyed good health." Stroud News, Nov. 14, 1879.
(5) "Nov. 6, at 7, Freemantle Place, Kingsdown, Mrs. Sarah
Way, aged 104 years and 10 months." Bristol Times and Mirror,
Nov. 8, 1880.
(6) "A correspondent states that on the 10th inst. an old man,
named Thomas Young, died in the village of Tibberton [near
Gloucester], at the age of 104 years. The deceased was born at
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2 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Birley, in this county, but had for many years lived at Tibberton,
where he kept a small shop. He was thoroughly intelligent to the
time of his death." Gloucester Journal, Jan. 29, 1881.
As a caution to those who may be credulous with regard to some
alleged cases of very remarkable longevity, let me quote a passage
from Warner's Tour through the Northern Counties of England
(1802), vol. i., p. 11 : "On passing through Brislington, two miles
from Bristol, we could not help smiling at an instance of modern
credulity which an inscription on an ancient stone in the church-
yard hands down to posterity. About thirty years ago, the active
churchwardens of Brislington, in clearing the churchyard and its
accompaniments, discovered on an old tomb the notification of a
remarkable instance of longevity : c 1542. Thomas Newman, aged
153.' With due regard to the preservation of so curious a fact,
they had the tomb repaired and brushed up, and the following in-
scription added to the original one : ' This stone was new faced in
the year 1771, to perpetuate the great age of the deceased.' It was
not till their official authority to repair and beautify, pull down and
remove, had ceased, that they understood the figure 1 had been
prefixed by a wicked wit ; and themselves duped by this false
addition, which gave an antediluvian age to an honest man who
died before he had reached his grand climacteric !" I have myself,
within the last few years, seen a similar prefix to the age of a
deceased member of a respectable and well-known family, on a tomb-
stone in the churchyard of St. Peter's, Drogheda.
ANTIQUABIUS.
CCCCLIX. THE PRICE OF BREAD EIGHTY YEARS AGO IN
BRISTOL. A friend has kindly shown us (Bristol Times and
Mirror, March 22, 1881) the following relic and evidence of the
old days of dear bread and civic superintendence of bakers, from
which it will be seen the " staff of life" was then sold at nearly
three times the price now paid for it :
The PEICE of BREAD,
Set the 7 th of FEBRUARY, 1801,
FOR THE
CITY OF BRISTOL,
To take Place on MONDAY, the 9 th of February, and to be in
Force for the said CITY of BRISTOL, for the Space of seven Days.
Ib. oz. dr. s. d.
ThePeckLoaf 17 6 is 6 4
Half Peck Loaf 811 3 2
Quartern Loaf 4 5 8 1 7
Half Quartern Loaf 2 212 9J
Two-penny Loaf 7 5
Penny Loaf 3 11
WM. GIBBONS, Mayor.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 3
N.B. If Bread of inferior Kind to the Standard now fixed be
offered for Sale, or Bread composed of other Mixture than
that of the Flour of Wheat, the Letter H must be marked
upon the inferior, and the Letter M on the Mixed, and the
Same must be sold at inferior Prices.
Printed by A. BRYAN, Corn-street, Bristol.
CCCCLX. THE DERIVATION OF " SEVERN." Three communi-
cations upon this subject appeared in Notes and Queries (3 rd S. x.
248, 325, 383) ; and relating to a matter of much local interest,
they are inserted here :
(1) With respect to a query about Saverne and Savernake (3 rd S. x.
90), it occurs to me to ask, what is the etymology of the word Severn,
the name of one of our largest rivers 1 It happens to be altogether
unmentioned in Taylor's Words and Places. The Saxon name,
tScefern, is, as I guess, only another form of the old Celtic name,
whatever that may have been ; as is also the Latin Sabrina. Probably
/Saverne might prove to be due to the same Celtic root, and the -ake
is merely a Saxon suffix, meaning oak, in allusion to the oak-trees
which are, I am told, still found in that neighbourhood. Walter
W. Skeat.
(2) May not this be derived from the ancient British (and modern
Welsh) name of the river Hafren (Havren in English orthography)!
James Bladon.
(3) Your two correspondents, Messrs. Skeat and Bladon, are
undoubtedly right in their conjectures about the derivation of this
name ; it is a corruption of the Welsh Hafren (Havren), the first
part of which, Haf, = summer. The river, for a distance of ten miles,
between Llanidloes and its source, is still called Hafren, and the vale
through which it flows is called Glyn-hafren (Glen of the Severn),
and seats situated on its banks are known as Glan-hafren (banks of
the Severn). The erroneous notion that the river was called after
the legendary Sabra, or Sabrina, "virgin daughter of Locrine,"
may, to a great extent, be laid to Milton's charge, in the line
" Severn swift, guilty of a maiden's death,"
coupled with the exquisite verse in which he has clothed the old
legend of Geoffrey of Monmouth in his masque of Comus. Another
singular mistake respecting this river, often to be met with in
modern geographies, is, according to their assertion, that it rises
in a small lake, whereas its source is a spring. H.
CCCCLXI. EGBERT FRAMPTON, D.D., BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.
(See No. XCV.) In Notes and Queries (3 rd S. xi. 278) these in-
quiries were made : "A. Wood, in his Athena} Oxonienses, states
that Frampton on his return from the East became domestic
chaplain to Eobert, Earl of Ailesbury, and soon after marrying with
a grave woman of that family, went a second time to Aleppo. Can
anyone inform me who Mrs. Frampton was, when she died, and
whether there was any issue of this marriage ] It is said in the
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Life of Ken^ by a Layman, p. 483, that Ken, writing to Bishop
Lloyd, describes a visit he paid to Frampton at Averting in 1703.
Is not this a mistake 1 Surely Bull was rector of Avening at that
period, and Frampton was residing in the vicarage of Standish,
whither he retired on being forced to quit the palace at Gloucester,
and where he died and was buried a few years afterwards."
The editor of Notes and Queries replied : "In the year 1667
Dr. Frampton married Mrs. Mary Caning, who lies buried in the
Lady chapel of Gloucester Cathedral. The following inscription is
on her tomb: 'M.S. Foeminse inter optimas numerandae dominse
Marias Frampton, quae vitam sanctk actam suavissima in X to morte
consummavit Oct. 11, 1680.' (Fosbrooke's Gloucester, 1819, pp. 95,
134.) It appears that Bishop Frampton had a daughter, of whose
affectionate duties in adversity Ken speaks in one of his letters ;
' and who,' says Bowles, ' that reads it will not remember Scott's
most affecting and beautiful picture 1
' Oh, if there be a human tear
From passion's dross refined and clear,
A tear so limpid and so meek
It would not stain an angel's cheek,
'Tis that which pious fathers shed
Upon a duteous daughter's head.'
Bowles's Life of Bishop Ken, ii. 193.
The letter, from which an extract only is given in the first edition
of the Life of Ken, by a Layman, p. 483, is printed in extenso in
the second edition of that work, p. 732. From this letter it
appears that Ken on his way to Standish paid Dr. Bull a friendly
visit at Avening. He says, ' Dr. Bull being in my way I called
upon him, which he took the more kindly, because he thought that
we had as much abandoned him, as he seems to have abandoned us,
and the respect I paid him I perceived surprised him, and the
rather because he never has taken any notice of our deprived
brethren : but he has reason to value his old friends, for his new have
little regarded him.' This letter is also printed' in Bishop Ken's
Prose Works, edited by J. T. Kound, 1838, p. 60."
To the foregoing a short extract from The Life of Robert
Frampton, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester, pp. 109, 110, is appended :
" But to account, as before said, for his marriage, it was at this
time that he marryed Mrs. Mary Caning,* who had for twelve years
retain'd her love to him as he had done for her, as some tender
letters that passed between them, which I have seen, do witness.
This gentlewoman from her education was as well accomplish'd as
most of the best quality, and from the frequent solicitation she was
* Of this lady the author of the Life had written thus, p. 22 : " But here it must be
observed that in that family [the Earl of Elgin's] as an honorary attendant upon the Countess
of Oxford lived one Mrs. Mary Canning, descended of an ancient and gentile but at that time
reduced family, and this gentlewomans misfortunes were the straiter from the aversion she
and her mother' upon sound principle show'd to the Church of Rome, of which comunion the
more fortunate part of her family were. Between this person and Mr. Frampton there was a
mutual affection," etc.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 5
troubled with to embrace the Church of Rome, knew so well the
strength of their arguments that the subtillest Jesuit could not
cheat her with a fallacy, and to defend herself she was constrain'd
to read and advise how to defend her own perswasion, and by that
means she understood the grounds of religion as thro'ly as most.
And as few could talk better of it than she, so yet fewer there are
that so conscientiously reduced their knowledge to practice, and
was thereby a yokefellow worthy such a husband, that to save his
conscience void of offence suffer'd a deprivation of all his prefer-
ments. This worthy woman left this life for a better in the year
1680, and lies buried in the chapel dedicated to our blessed Lady
in the cathedral church of Gloster, under a black marble upon
which her husband as a token of his affection caused an epitaph to
be inscrib'd, as shall be found at the end of these papers."
With reference to Standish, which has been mentioned in
No. XCV., the following extract from pp. 129, 130, of the same
volume is likewise worthy of note : " His livings [in Dorsetshire]
he held 'till the year 1683, and then at the desire of that good man
Archbishop Sandcroft, to whom he was much endeared, he quited
them both, having laid out much mony in the repair of his houses,
and came to reside in his own diocess wholly. And that he might
have some place of retirement, the rectory of Avening being void
by the death of Mr. Hall [November 9, 1683], and in the presenta^
tion of his old friend, Philip Shepherd, of Hampton, Esqr., at his
request he charg'd his comendam with that, as in exchange for those
in Dorsetshire, and came and resided there. And finding there a
ruineous house, when he left that to the proper patron, as he the
next year did, taking the vicarage of Standish, tho' of much less
value p. an., which became void by the death of Mr. Edwin Pit,
and is in the patronage of the bishops of Gloster, he left Avening
and what he had received there to build a new house, which was
done by his successor Dr. Bull, who was not so kind to his patron
as Dr. Erampton was ; for when raised to the see of Saint Davids,
he left it to the disposal of the crown. That which recomended
Standish with its three chapels to the good bishop was that it lay
but five miles from Gloster. There he found a mine to worke
upon, both in the house and parish, for he that dilapidated all his
ecclesiastical buildings, which were many, had suffer'd the parish to
decay and all decency to be banish'd the church, which Mr. Pit in
the seven years he enjoy'd it at much expence and great labour
among the people could not perfect. The good bishop pursued his
good design, and at about four hundred pounds' expence left there
a good house and pretty garden, which was his retirement in the
time of his administration, and his residence when the church was
deprived of him rather then he of his church ; and had the satis-
faction in a great measure to reclaim an head strong people into a
most regular congregation."
Who was the author of the Life from which these passages have
6 GLOUCESTERSHIKE NOTES AND QUERIES.
been taken ? It was written, as appears from internal evidence,
during the reign of George I., and not by the bishop's curate or
domestic chaplain. It is " not less clear that it was written with a
design of immediate publication, for not once only or twice, but
many times, the writer suppresses the mention of names or facts
which may prejudice persons then living. But circumstances must
have occurred to interfere with this design, for he has failed to
give in his appendix a large number of documents which in his
text he promises to give at the end of the memoir." Are these
documents to be found elsewhere 1 EDITOR.
CCCCLXIL MARRIAGES IN HAMPNETT, 1737-54. The extra-
ordinary number of marriages which took place in Hampnett from
the year 1737 to 1754, inclusive (the Marriage Act, commonly
called Lord Hardwicke's Act, 26 Geo.IL, c. 33, having been passed
in 1753), is worthy of notice. Hampnett is, and always has been,
a very small place ; and yet, during the eighteen years referred to,
no less than three hundred and forty-six marriages of persons from
all parts of Gloucestershire and the neighbouring counties were
celebrated there, and are recorded in the parish register. I shall be
glad to have an explanation. The Eev. Simon Hughes [as stated in
No. CCLXL] was rector of the parish, 1733-71 ; he was also
surrogate ; but this does not, I think, sufficiently account for what
I mention. Hampnett is not very retired, the church being visible
from Northleach, and only a mile distant. The persons married
were from all parts of the country ; and it is possible that by the
publication of the names a missing link might in some cases bo
supplied. It should likewise be remarked, that from 1755 to 1812
not more than fifty-three marriages took place, the only one of any
note being the following : " John Morris, of Prinknash Park,
Gloster, and Kuth Winter, of Hampnett."
Hampnett Kectory, Northleach. WILLIAM WIGGIN, M.A.
CCCCLXIII. STRANGE EPITAPH IN MORETON-IN-MARSH
CHURCHYARD. Can it be the case that, as I have lately read in
Curiosities of Bristol and its Neighbourhood (1854), p. 52, the
following epitaph is, or ever was, in the above-named churchyard ?
" Here lie the bones of Richard Lawton,
Whose death, alas, was strangely brought on :
Trying one day his corns to mow off,
The razor slipped and cut his toe off;
His toe, or rather what it grew to,
An inflammation quickly flew to,
Which took, alas, to mortifying,
And was the cause of Richard's dying."
If the foregoing be not " a story," what, I shall be glad to know,
was the date of poor Richard's death ? J. G.
CCCCLXIV. MR. SAMUEL CURTIS, SURGEON. I send you a
rather strange inscription on a stone in the churchyard of Stow-on-
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the- Wold, in memory of Mr. Samuel Curtis, surgeon, " vir sine f uco
laudabilis," who died in 1700 :
" By heaven dissected, when the unseen wound,
Search' d by my Maker's probe, was mortal found ;
Death's menstruum the melted element,
Within this urn lies my experiment,
After a ferment in the grave to rise
An Elixir vitee into Paradise :
Or else, as metals when transmuted prove,
May be sublimed into a lamp above."
It may interest some of your readers to know that (as the Eev.
John Hippisley, who was rector of Stow, has recorded in a note on
his copy of this inscription) " Mr. Eaikes, the original printer of the
Gloucester Journal, married his (Mr. Curtis') daughter." The
memorial stone is in good condition.
R. W. HIPPISLEY, M.A.,
Rector of Stow-on-the-Wold.
Of the mother of Robert Raikes, "journalist and philanthropist,"
little more is known than that (as stated on the monument erected
in St. Mary de Crypt Church, Gloucester, to the memory of her
husband and herself) she was the daughter of the Rev. Richard
Drew, was twenty-five years younger than her husband, and having
been "his most excellent wife," survived him for more than twenty
years. Epitaphs are not always in accordance with the truth ; but
the exemplary after-life of her children tends to prove that what is
here said of her is a right description of her character. Mr. Curtis's
daughter must have been the elder Robert Raikes's wife by a pre-
vious marriage. EDITOE.
CCCCLXV. GEORGE, FIRST EARL OF BERKELEY. George,
fourteenth Baron Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, succeeded his father
August 10, 1658, and was created, September 11, 1679, Baron
Mowbray, Segrave, and Braose, Viscount Dursley, and Earl of
Berkeley. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John
Massingberd, Esq., treasurer of the East India Company, and died
October 14, 1698, aged seventy-one years, when he was succeeded
by his elder son. He was buried at Cranford, Middlesex, where a
moDument, of which Collins (in his Peerage, vol. iii., p. 465) has
given the inscription, was erected to his memory.
Lord Berkeley, as mentioned in Horace Walpole's Royal and
Noble Authors (edited, with additions, by Park, London, 1806),
vol. iii., p. 355, distinquished his piety by bestowing on Sion
College, London, for the use of the city clergy, a valuable library
collected by Sir Robert Coke, and by a religious work, entitled
Historical Applications and Occasional Meditations upon Several
Subjects: Written by a Person of Honour, London, 1666, 18mo.
" This uncommon little book p referring to the second edition,
1670] came out of the library of John Vaughan, Earl of Carberry,
8 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
who had written in the title-page the name of the author. It was
purchased by Mr. "Whiston, to whom I am obliged for it, and who
was assured by one of the family, that it was certainly Lord
Berkeley's ; of which the piece itself contains some slight collateral
proofs. The dedication, signed Constans, is addressed to the Lady
Harmonia [probably Mary, Countess of Warwick, daughter of
Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork], in whose name the author writes an
epistle to himself, which concludes the book, and in which she is
made to call him, 'My Lord.'* A copy of verses by Waller
(printed, I think, in none of his works) is prefixed, calls the
author's a noble pen, and says, ' he drew his well-known pedigree
from kings.' Eobert Fitzharding, the direct ancestor of the Earl
of Berkeley, was of the royal house of Denmark."
Mr. Park has added to the foregoing particulars, that Lord
Berkeley also published A Speech to the Levant Company, at their
Annual Election, 9 Feb., 1680, in one sheet, 4to. ; and that Lord
Orford (Walpole) was mistaken, as Dr. Lort and Mr. Reed both
observed, in supposing that " Waller's copy of verses was printed
in none of his works." It occurs in the edition by Fenton, who
gives this information : " The book to which this poem is prefixed
was written by George, Lord Berkeley, created Earl of Berkeley by
King Charles the Second. He was a person of strict virtue and
piety; and of such an undistinguishing affability to men of all
ranks and parties, that I have been told Mr. Wycherley strained
[his] character into that of ' Lord Plausible ' in the Plain Dealer
1678]. The founder of this noble family is said to have been a
younger son to one of the Danish kings who attended the Duke of
Normandy, and settled in England after the Conquest."
The first edition of the Historical Applications, etc., as Mr.
George W. Napier, of Alderley Edge, has lately remarked in Notes
and Queries (6 th S. ii. 359), " is of extreme rarity, and is a small
18mo., and came out in 1666. The second edition, in small
8vo., came out in 1670, the third ['with additions'] in 1680, and
the fourth in 1698. The book was privately reprinted in 1838, by
the late Rev. W. Dansey, Rector of Donhead St. Andrew [Wilts],
well known as the author of Horoe Decanicoe Rurales" In a
communication to the writer, Mr. Napier has since referred to this
entry in the sale-catalogue of the library of the late Rev. Dr. Bliss :
" Accompanying this first edition [of Lord Berkeley's work, 1666]
* To this publication Richard Flecknoe (Epigrams and Enigmatical Characters, 1670)
appears to allude in lines addressed " To the Lord George Berkeley " :
" Since, as by clear experience we see,
Vertue is onely true nobility ;
There's none gives greater proof of it than you,
(My Lord) that your nobility is true :
And that't may so continue, you provide,
By adding to't, true piety beside.
For piety is but vertue dyed in grain,
Can ne'er change colour, nor take spot or stain.
Such courtiers Heav'n desires, and such kings shou'd
Desire too, if they'd have them great and good :
Happy the whilst (my Lord) are such as you,
Fit both for th* heavenly court, and earthly too."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 9
is one in the French language, printed in London in 1667. It is
uniformly bound in red morocco, and like the former, was a pre-
sentation copy. Respecting it Dr. Bliss has written a long note
dated 1836, at the time when he purchased it"; and he (Mr.
Napier) has added, that the former was purchased, and most
probably the latter, for the British Museum. This "charming
little book, valuable for its merit as well as its rarity," serves to
confirm the account of his lordship's amiable character which has
been given by Mr. Fenton ; and, though much enriched by selected
passages from other writers, has many valuable sentiments inter-
mingled by the noble moralist. The following instances may be
adduced :
" A title to honour and. honourable actions is to be preferred
before a title of honour unaccompanied with just and noble deeds.
For though it be a happiness and a blessing to be descended of a
vertuous and ancient family, yet if they who are thus descended,
shall degenerate from the worth of their ancestors, their faults are
aggravated by not following so good and great examples ; and they
are generally more despised then the vulgar and ignoble vitious
persons. [For (as Boetius says) if there be any good in nobility,
I judge it to be only, or chiefly this, that it seems there is a
necessity imposed upon those that are nobly born, not to degenerate
from the vertue of their ancestors.] Lords and nobles, who stand
on the higher ground for doing good, should endeavour to excel
others more in generous and just actions, then they do in high and
honourable dignities. The examples of such men will have great
influence upon the places and countries where they live. It was
well and truly said by the late lord chancellor [Clarendon] in his
speech to the lords, in the presence of the king, lords, and
commons ; ' I hope you (my lords) will for the king's sake, as well
as your own, shew great and good examples to your country-men.
Your examples will be very prevalent with them, and by your
actions they will judge of the actions of his Majesty, whom they
suppose you imitate, having so near an access to his person.'"
" Neither the ambitious nor covetous man can ever be satisfied ;
for their thirsty desires after honour and wealth increase by their
obtaining what at present they so greedily covet ; like one in a
burning fever, the giving him drink does but increase in him a
desire still to have more, and his thirst is but little quenched. He
that will not religiously frame his mind to content himself in what-
ever station God has placed him, will scarcely be satisfied and easie
in any condition : for if we cannot proportion our fortunes to our
minds, we should our minds to our fortunes ; rendring thanks to
God Almighty, who has done such great things for us ; and then
we are happy as to this world. To make our felicity here the more
conspicuous, we ought to compare our temporal state to those
beneath us, our inferiors, and not to our superiors."
For notices of Lord Berkeley, see Wood's Athen. Ozon., by Bliss,
10 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
vol. iv., p. 626 ; Pearson's Minor Theological Works, by Churton,
vol. ii., p. 112; Secretan's Life of Nelson, p. 183; and Bailey's
Life of Fuller, p. 615. "Waller's lines addressed to "A Friend of
the Author, a Person of Honour, who lately writ a religious book,
entitled Historical Applications," etc., are as follows :
"Bold is the man that dares ingage
For piety in such an age.
Who can presume to find a guard
From scorn, when Heav'n's so little spar'd ?
Divines are pardon'd, they defend
Altars on which their lives depend :
But the prophane impatient are,
When nobler pens make this their care.
For why should these let in a beam
Of divine light to trouble them,
And call in doubt their pleasing thought,
That none believes what we are taught ]
High birth and fortune warrant give,
That such men write what they believe :
And feeling first what they indite,
New credit give to ancient light.
Amongst these few, our Author brings
His well-known pedigree from kings.
This book, the image of his mind,
Will make his name not hard to find.
I wish the throng of Great and Good
Made it less eas'ly understood." EDITOR.
CCCCLXVL THE TUMULUS AT ULEY. (See No. CCCXXYI)
In Our Ancient Monuments and the Land around them, by Mr.
Charles Philip Kains-Jackson, (London, 1880), p. 20, there are
these particulars of the tumulus of Uley : The believers in
Professor Fergusson's theory concerning the late erection of many
of the so-called Druidical monuments, are at least strangely favoured
by the coincidence which places the scene of King Arthur's chief
struggles with the Saxons precisely in those counties and in that
part of Britain where a specially large proportion of dolmens and
tumuli are to be found. From the White Horse Hill, in Western
Berkshire, to Arthur's Quoit, Glamorgan, in direction east to west,
and southwards from Langbourn to Stonehenge, may be drawn on
the map two sides of a square that will take in no less than thirteen
of the twenty-eight monuments scheduled for the whole of England
and Wales. The situation of Uley may roughly be described as
midway between Arthur's Quoit and Wayland Smith's Forge. It
forms, in fact, the point of geographical, if not of historical,
connection between the monuments of Southern Wales and the
monuments of South- Western England.
The tumulus or chambered grave of Uley, in the Berkeley
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hundred, in Gloucestershire, contains, as regards the interior, four
chambers. Its internal shape may be described as an elongated
heart or an oblong indented at one of the long ends. The tumulus
'was first opened by a Mr. Baker in 1821, and it was subsequently
examined with great care by Dr. Thurman. The latter explorer
found numerous bodies in the chambers. They were not in the
position of men laid to rest with due sepulchral care, but the bodies
were lying in much disorder. They had probably been disturbed
by earlier, perhaps larcenous, investigators. In the chambers with
the bodies were found a vessel resembling a Roman lachrymatory,
some broken pieces of pottery, and some fragments of flint imple-
ments, perhaps arrow-heads. Outside the burial chambers were
found two axes, one of flint, the other of slaty stone. Near tjie
summit of the mound, exactly over the easternmost chamber, there
had been another interment, and beside the skeleton were found
three brass coins of the sons of Constantine the Great.
Dr. Thurman regards the flint arrow-heads and the stone axes as
witnessing to a long pre-historic past; and having made up his
mind to that fact, he decides that the Eoman coins and lachrymatory
were introduced on a secondary interment. Professor Eergusson
challenges this theory, and asks what evidence there is to show
when flints ceased to be used in the "West of England 1 The query
seems to us an important one. The implements and weapons of
two different periods may exist for a long time side by side, and
the lower classes carry primitive weapons for centuries after their
leaders have provided themselves with more elaborate instruments
of warfare. Down to 1814 a section of the Russian forces carried
targets, another section bows and arrows, another section wore
chain-mail. Our own Life Guards wear breast-plates and steel
helmets. On none of these accounts would a future age be justified
in assuming that the nineteenth century was a period of armoured
warriors and close fighting, either in England or in Russia. Besides
this, secondary interment seems opposed to reasonable expectations.
The more civilised race generally endeavours to dissociate itself
from the original and ruder people. ANTIQUARIUS.
CCCCLXYII. PETITIONS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLERGY, 1660.
In the appendix to the Seventh Report of the Royal Com-
mission on Historical Manuscripts (1879), pp. 104-8, mention is
made of a large number of petitions which were presented in
pursuance of two orders of the House of Lords, one of the 22nd of
June, for securing the tithes and other profits of sequestered
livings in the hands of the churchwardens, or overseers of the poor, of
the several parishes until the titles of the sequestered clergy and of
the present possessors should be determined ; the other of the 23rd
of June, giving the clerk of the parliaments power to insert in the
foregoing general order the names of those who should bring in
petitions to have the benefit thereof. Certificates of the truth of
12 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the petitioners' statements are in many cases annexed to the
petitions, or written upon them. The following are those which
have reference to Gloucestershire :
Name of Petitioner. Name of Parish.
Bowen, Jenkin, D.D., Welford.
Dabson, Bartholomew, Hasillton [Hazleton].
Estcourt, George, Badgeworth.
Grace, Benedict, Holy Rood Ampney, al Ampney
Crucis.
Harvey, John, Iron Acton.
Hughes, William, Newland.
Ingram, James, D.D., Cowley.
Maydwell, Peter, Weston-sub-Edge.
Powell, Walter, Standish.
Sandys, George, Willersey.
Temple, Thomas, D.L., Bourton-on- the- Water.
Warmsley, Thomas, D.D., Hampton Kade p] and Rodborough.
CLERICUS.
CCCCLXVIII. GLOUCESTERSHIRE KNIGHTS OF THE ROYAL
OAK, 1660. The following gentlemen of this county were chosen
by King Charles II. to be Knights of the Royal Oak :
Value of their
Estates per ann.
John Delabere, Esq r 1000
Benedict Hall, Esq r , of High Meadow 4000
William Jones, Esq r 800
Sir Humphrey Hooke, Bar fc 1500
Duncombe Colchester, Esq r 800
Richard Stevens, Esq r 800
John Smythe, Esq r 1000
Thomas Morgan, Esq r 800
William Cooke, Esq r 1000
Sir Humphrey Hanmon, Kn fc 1000
Thomas Masters, Esq r 1000
John Browneinge, Esq r 1000
Thomas Lloyd, Esq r 800
This order of knighthood was projected by Charles II. in the
year 1660, as a means of rewarding the loyalty of his followers ;
but it was afterwards abandoned from the apprehension that it
might perpetuate dissentions that were better consigned to oblivion.
Knights were selected from all the counties of England and
Wales, the number from each being in proportion to the population.
The above list is from a MS. of Peter Le Neve, Norroy Herald,
printed in the Commoners of England by Burke.
London. FRANK PROTHEROE.
CCCCLXIX. CONSECRATIONS OF CHURCHES IN THE FOUR-
TEENTH CENTURY. There appears to have been great irregularity in
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the early times regarding the consecration of churches. At the
council held in St. Paul's, A.D. 1237, under Otto, " legate a latere,"
in order to " strengthen and reform the state of the Church in
England," this seems to have occupied a prominent place ; and the
decree states that so many churches, and even cathedrals, built of
old, not having then " been consecrated with the oil of sanctification,"
it is enjoined, to put a stop to this negligence, that all cathedral,
conventual, and parochial churches, which have been built and
completed, shall, within the space of two years, be consecrated
otherwise they shall be interdicted from the performance of mass,
unless a reasonable excuse can be alleged. And accordingly, another
decree enjoins the bishops to travel through their dioseses at season-
able times, reforming and correcting abuses, consecrating churches,
and sowing the word of life in the field of the Lord ; and the better to
fulfil these duties, they are to cause the profession which they made
at their consecration, to be read to them twice a year, and through
the greater part of Lent. A partial obedience appears to have been
rendered to these injunctions, but great neglect continued in various
parts of the kingdom.
Eighty years or so after this council we may place the great era
of church consecrations in this county and Worcestershire. The
brief episcopate of Walter de Maydenstone [1313-17] was thus
distinguished : he was a canon of St. Paul's, sent to Rome by the
king to prevent the confirmation of the election of Thomas Cobham
as archbishop of Canterbury ; and in this he succeeded, the king's
nominee, William Reynolds (or Reynaud), bishop of Worcester,
chancellor and treasurer, being appointed archbishop.
The see of Worcester being thus vacated by the translation of
Reynolds, Walter de Maydenstone was nominated his successor by
the Pope, and was consecrated by him in October, 1313 : the bull
bearing date 1st Oct. On the 12th Eeb. in the following year he
arrived at Dover, bringing with him the archbishop's pall. On the
5th Kal : March, we find him at his own palace in the Strand,
about to set out for a brief visit to his diocese, returning in May.
During the summer of 1315, as Thomas's Survey states, he
visited all the religious houses throughout his diocese, and conse-
crated many churches and abundance of altars. In June : the
churches of Woolwardington and Wroxhall, and the great altars
of Kydermynstre, Hadesore, Kynewarton, Bidford, Preston, and
Elizithstone. In July : the church of Beggeworth and great altar,
chapel of Waddon and great altar, church of Harescom.be,* church
of Elsmore, great altar of Herdwick, church of Frethorne, and
church and great altar of Frampton. Also the churches of Arreley,
Dudminster, and Tettebury ; chapels of Siston and Badminton ;
and great altars of Heyhampstede (Hempsted), St. Leonard's, Bristol,
Frampton Cotel, and Abbotstone. In September and October : the
churches of Merston Sicca, Tredington, Shipton, Musarden, and
* " Item. Tertio Non: Julii anno supradicto [1315] dedicavit ecclesiam de Harescombe."
14 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Chirinton; and the great altars of Clyde Pry or, Weston Sub-edge,
Hynyngton, Beckford, Overbury, Saperton, Bisley, and Minchin-
hampton. He conferred holy orders at Cirencester, probably on the
Feast of Trinity, 1314, on 463 persons, viz., 150 acolytes, 140
sub-deacons, 133 deacons, and 85 priests. Also at Worcester, on
St. Thomas's Day, on 310 persons. He was summoned to York by
the king after the battle of Bannockburn. He published the
sentence of excommunication against the archbishop of York at
Lanthony Priory, Gloucester, for " bearing his cross in the province
of Canterbury," at the command of the archbishop. It is said
that he died abroad on the 28th March, 1317.
The circumstances connected with his brief episcopate suggest an
energetic and active life, and great diligence in the performance of
duties, sacred and secular; whilst the dedication of so many
neighbouring churches is a special reason for our interest in his
career.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud. J - MBLLAND HALL, M.A.
CCCCLXX. RUDDER'S " GLOUCESTERSHIRE." (Replies to No.
CCCXXX.) An advertisement in the Gloucester Journal, March
11, 1782, furnishes at least a part of the information desired:
"Rudder's New History of Gloucestershire. With fourteen
whole-sheet, and three half-sheet elegant Engravings.
"The Subscribers to this work are respectfully informed, that
the eight additional whole-sheet views, not finished at the first
publication of it, will be delivered by the Editor, at Cirencester, to
those who have not yet received them ; also some additional pages
of letter-press, containing late discoveries, which compleat the work.
The copies sent to London are disposed of, but there remain a few
for sale in the hands of the Editor. For a character of the work,
see all the Reviews. In the Monthly Review for July, 1780, is the
following passage : ' We shall finish our account by observing, that
the Editor of this volume appears to us to have been very industrious
in preparing it for the public eye, and we esteem it a work in its
kind which justly merits notice and approbation.'
" KB. All the Plates separate for framing, Price One Guinea."
From what I have given, your correspondent may, I think, feel
satisfied that his copy of this trust-worthy publication is complete.
C.T.D.
A complete list of the engravings in this county history is given
by Upcott (English Topography, vol. i., pp. 251-3), who mentions
one that " Antiquarius" does not, viz., "View of Fairford Church."
As your correspondent's copy of Rudder is " an unusally good one,"
doubtless it contains the Fairford engraving, which is inserted in
the letterpress of p. 444.
With the remarks of " Antiquarius " in his first paragraph I
heartily concur. The authors of the stately tomes we see in some
great county houses are worthy of far more honour than they are
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 15
likely to receive from an exacting posterity. These men have been
the pioneers of our local history ; their works the mines from which
many succeeding reviewers, lecturers, and writers of " papers " have
taken their solid blocks of evidence and fact. To disparage the
literary labours of these county worthies, who have stored up for
us so much precious local information that would otherwise have
been lost, is very like "base ingratitude." WM. GEORGE.
A list of the plates in Rudder's work is given in Lowndes'
Bibliographer's Manual (1834), taken apparently from Upcott
(1818). Rudder, at p. 649, writes thus of Sherborne House :
" This seat will very shortly undergo considerable alterations. The
late Mr. Dutton new built the coach-houses and stables, which
form a noble square, but he was prevented by death from doing
anything further. The present proprietor has obliged the editor
and the public with a beautiful plate of this seat, as it will appear
when the design is compleated." This announcement has led some
persons to doubt the completeness of the number of plates in their
copies of this valuable History ; but in the postscript to his preface,
p. xii., he has inserted this information : " Nor is it unworthy of
notice, that, including the map of the county, there are 14. whole-
sheet prints, and three on half-sheets, such as few county Histories
can boast, to embellish the work. [He does not include (as Upcott
and Lowndes have done) the print of Eairford Church, which is
inserted in the letterpress, p. 444.] The plate of Sherbourn House,
indeed, as mentioned p. 649, is not engraven, nor to be expected.
The proprietor of that seat was pleased to order a drawing of it,
but disliking the draught, relinquished his original design of giving
a plate." H.
A transcript of the collation of the volume, as furnished by
Lowndes, will be useful : Title and dedication, 2 leaves ; preface,
with addenda and corrigenda [dated Dec. 1, 1778], 6 pages ;
postscript to preface, dated April 3, 1783 [issued three or four
years after the publication of the work, and consequently not in
every copy], 2 pages ; preliminary matters, 18 pages ; historical
part, 855 pages [less by the preceding 18] ; appendix, 52 pages.
The 'volume contains 18 plates, including a map, viz., at pp. 19 [the
map], 262, 265, 270, 284, 342, 355, 356, 385, 414, 425, 444
[Fairford Church], 524, 574, 621, 638, 716, and 797.
EDITOE.
CCCCLXXI. THE LAWRENCE FAMILY, OF BOUKTON-ON-THE-
WATER. Somes year ago I saw an advertisement in one of the
London newspapers respecting the above ; and having collected notes,
etc., of Lawrences of the county of Gloucester, I supplied the
advertiser with all the information I possessed, and received from
him the following reply : " 'X.Y.Z.' thanks the Vicar of Tong much
for his friendly letter. The father of Edward Lawrence, bom 1667,
was Samuel Lawrence, bap. 1639, at Bpurton ; and his father was
16 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Thomas Lawrence. The baptismal register of Edward Lawrence is
at Bourton-on-the- Water ; but the leaves have been cut out and
mutilated from 1663 to 1683, inclusive. The last of the Lawrences
left there is transcribed thus : ' Kichard Lawrence child was born
9 Feb., 1662.' < X.Y.Z.' is advertising in the hope that those who
cut out the missing leaves (supposed about ten years ago) may, either
for conscience-sake, or for the sake of a reward, or from perceiving
that they gain nothing themselves thro' having deprived the right-
ful family of their inheritance, come forward, and give up the
parchment leaves. Yale." After receiving this communication I
asked an able expert (and contributor to your pages) to examine the
Bourton registers ; and his reply was : " The registers at Bourton
have been sadly tampered with as well as mutilated : such as remain
have suffered from erasures and alterations" Having since heard
that one of this family died in America, and left an estate, and that
his heir is trying to prove his claim ; and hoping that this may
catch the eye of " X.Y.Z." or some of his friends, and that he or they
may yet defeat the above-mentioned very dishonest and sinister act,
I supply a few additional particulars which I have gathered re-
specting the family.
Fines, Record Office, 1657-1726.
Burghton (1669), East. 20 Car. II., Glouc. Inter Edr. Aishym
and Andr. Lawrence in Bourton.
Bourton (1694), East r 6 Will m and Mary, Glouc. Inter Jas. Tombs
et al. and Andrew Lawrence et al. in Bourton.
Wills at Gloucester Probate Court.
Lawrences of Bourton super aquam, viz. :
Gulielmus Lawrence .. 1671
George Laurence 1682
Thomas Lawrence 1718
Marriages.
1730. Samuel Lawrence, of Bourton on the Water, and Mary,
dau. of Clerk, of Ebrington, co. Glost., were married at
Ebrington, May 1, 1730.
(Lower Swell Eegister.)
1734. Oct. 31. Giles Lawrence, of Lower Slaughter, and Eliz.
Brown, of Upper Slaughter, were married.
1762. George Lawrence, of Bourton sup. aq m , married at
Bretforton, co. Worcester, Sarah Sheppard, of Bretforton.
Monumental Inscriptions.
(Bourton Churchyard.)
" In memory of Giles Lawrence, who departed this life Eeb. 25,
1769, aged 59. In memory of Mary, the wife of Giles Lawrence,
who died 29 Aug st , 1749, aged 41."
" In memory of Samuel Lawrence and Mary, his wife : he died
20 Sept r , 1819, aged 50; she died 1 June, 1796." [Some poetry
follows.]
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 17
" Sacred to the memory of William Lawrence, son of Sam 1 and
Mary Lawrence, who died May 17 th , 1835, aged 34 y rs . Samuel
Lawrence, who died 1 Aug 8t , 1832, in York Town, Upper Cannada,
aged 42 years."
List of Inhabitants.
April 21, 1755. In a "List of the Inhabytance [sic] of Lower
Slaughter " Giles Larrance appears.
Extract from Deed.
Thomas Lawrence, of Bourton-on- Water, eldest son of Sam 1
Lawrence, of same place, (lately deceased,) and Mary, his wife, by
deed, in 1800, with Sarah, his wife, granted to W. Cook, of
Aylworth, the messuage wherein Mary Lawrence, widow, and
Samuel Lawrence, father of Thomas, formerly lived.
KlCHARD GWYNNE LAWRENCE.
Middleton Hall, Llanarthney.
CCCCLXXII. THE SLAUGHTER FAMILY. I have read with
great interest some of the Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, and
have ordered to be sent to you some of my Parish Histories, in one
of which is a tentative genealogy of the Slaughters of Virginia.
The parish in which I live is called Slaughter Parish (for me).
There are two parishes in Gloucestershire, as you are aware, called
Upper and Lower Slaughter ; they are small ; but like everything
else in good old England, they have a history ; and I am very de-
sirous of procuring some account of them for our parish here. In
one of them lived the Slaughters of Slaughter Hall, amongst whom
the name Chamberlayne [Chambers] was found ; and I wish very
much to have a genealogy of the family. If you will kindly aid
me in this inquiry, or, if that be too much to ask, will point me to
some sources of intelligence to which I might have access, you will
confer a favour, which I shall be happy to reciprocate in any way
in my power. I should like to learn whether anything is known
of the date of the migration of members of the family to America.
One of them, John Slaughter, was here as early as 1622, and lost
his life in the famous massacre by the Indians of that date. Francis
Slaughter, of another branch, is known to have been in Virginia in
1652; and in his will he left to a friend a copy of Hooker's
Ecclesiastical Polity, to which, as well as to his rapier, he attached
great value.
PHILIP SLAUGHTER, D.D.,
Historiographer of the Diocese of Virginia, U.S.A.
CCCCLXXIII. LONGEVITY IN CIRENCESTER. The Morning
Herald of Monday, Dec. 18, 1780, says : " We have been favoured
with the following remarkable instance of longevity in a family by
a correspondent on whose veracity we can firmly rely. The ages of
three brothers and three sisters now living at Cirencester, in
Gloucestershire :
VOL. II. B
18 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
M. C. was born in 1695, aged 85
W. C. 1698, 82
J. C. 1701, 79
A. C. 1704, 76
S. C. 1707, 73
J. C. 1713, 67
462
A parallel case of three brothers and three sisters appeared some
time ago in a newspaper, whose ages then made in all 398. The
balance in favour of the present aged family is 64."
Cirencester. C. H. SAVORY.
CCCCLXXIV. " THE GLOUCESTER IDIOT." This inquiry
appeared in Notes and Queries (3 rd S. i. 389) : In the celebrated
Third Letter to Archdeacon Singleton, the witty ecclesiastic
[Sydney Smith] says, " To read, however, his lordship [the then
bishop of Gloucester] a lesson of good manners, I had prepared for
him a chastisement which would have echoed from the Seagrave
who banqueteth in the Castle, to the idiot who spitteth over the
bridge at Gloucester, but the following appeal struck my eye, and
stopped .my pen," &c. It has often been asked what circumstance
this paragraph could point at ; and now both parties are gone where
all controversies cease, it would be interesting to collect any
information that would elucidate this popular writer. When at
Gloucester I enquired as to the " idiot," but could learn nothing on
the subject. Can any of your correspondents afford us information
as to this curious passage 1
From p. 437 of the same volume the following reply is copied :
" The idiot who . spitteth over the bridge at Gloucester," I take to
have been precisely as much the creature of the witty Canon's
imagination as the extract from the Dutch Chronicle in Letter One.
EDITOR.
CCCCLXXV. CLEMENT KELKE : HIS MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION.
I lately copied the enclosed for your Notes and Queries, from
Bray Church, Berks, on the banks of the Thames, thinking it might
be worth placing on record. It is copied verbatim et literatim, the
lines ending as on the paper. J OHN p EARWAKER.
(On the south wall of south aisle of church.)
Here vnder this marbell Stone lyeth
buryed the body of Clement Kelke, Gent :
who had to wyfe Elyzabeth daughter to
Alderman Becher, he was borne at
Brystow and was a Cytycen of London
a marchant ventver & fre of the Haber-
dashers, he being of the age of LXX yeares
deceased the xxiiij of Septembe A Dni 1593.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 19
CCCCLXXVL THE HOOPER FAMILY. Is there any extant
pedigree of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester,
whose martyrdom was in 1554, or of George Hooper, Bishop of
Bath and Wells, who died in 1727? And are any of their
descendants living ? I shall be glad to receive information.
GENEALOGIST.
CCCCLXXVII. NOTES OF THE WILLS OP TWO WOTTON-UNDER-
EDGE WORTHIES.
1508. Jan. 3. Robert Elyce " of Wottun sub egge." To be
buried in the church of the blessed Mary of Bassett. To the
Cathedral church of Worcester ijs. To the parish church of Wottun
aforesaid vjs. viijd To each light in that church iiijd. To the
image of the blessed Mary of Bassett " meam corona' deaurat' par
p'cular' cum gaudijs argent' et meu' optimu' an'ullum aureu'."
To Sir William Dalawar, testator's confessor, his best sword, &c.
To Thomas Bower certain goods. The residue to testator's wife
Alice, who is to be executrix. Walter Harpsam to be overseer.
Witnessed by William Coldwell, notary public, Robert Plommer,
Richard Squall, John Harper, and many others. Proved at Lambeth,
22 May, 1509, and registered "Bennett."
1508. Sept. 5. Sir Robert Looge, parson of the parish church
of " Wotton vnder egge." My body to be buried " in the Chauncell
at the North ende of the high ault' of the church of Wotton
aforesaid." To every light in that church xijdJ. To the "moder
church" of Worcester xld. To Richard Madyson five marks sterling.
To Robert Hopkyns " my godson ", a cow. To Robert Bilay a cow.
To John Falser an ox. Residue of goods to William Coldwell and
John Harper, the executors. Thomas Harmer to be overseer of the
will. Witnessed by Robert Plomer, " Mayre of Wotton aforsaid ",
Wat' Taylor, Richard Mylward, Richard Squall, Richard Browne,
with "many other." Proved 7 Nov., 1508, and registered "Bennett."
" Squall," which appears in both wills, may .have been an alias
of "Squele."
According to the registers of the bishops of Worcester, Robert
Logge, chaplain, was admitted to the rectory of Wotton-under-Edge
8 July, 1473, on the presentation of Sir William Berkeley, Knt.,
John Harneham, the previous rector, having resigned on a yearly
pension, the assignment of which involved the appointment of an
inquisition, the following parties lending their assistance : Nicholas
Bay, rector of Horton, Thomas Styward, rector of Rokhampton,
John Broke, rector of Dursley, Thomas Heddeley, vicar of Almys-
bury, Richard Sherman, rector of Alderley, John Walkynton, rector
of Boxwell, John Whittey, rector of Sobbury parva, David Hunt,
rector of Nymesfeld, Walter Stratton, parish chaplain of Wotton,
Richard West, chaplain, and master of the scholars of Wotton,
James Wolworth and William Bowton, of the same place, Walter
Skey, of Nybley, Richard Thorp, of Berkeley, Robert Bassett, of
20 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Uley, John Davys and Eobert Eycardes, of Dursley, John Lepyatt,
of Lasshebergh, John Hunt, of Nybley, and Thomas Eorster, of
Hawkisbury.
In 1508, Nov. 28, William Kente, chaplain, was admitted to the
perpetual vicarage of Wotton sub Egge, vacant by the death of
Robert Loege, last rector; patrons the abbot and convent of
Tewkesbury. William Kent died soon afterwards, and was
succeeded in the vicarage by William Fryth, master of arts, 11
May, 1509.
The registers make mention of the school at Wotton ; stating
that in 1423, Aug. 21, an exchange took place between William
Hogyn, chaplain of the perpetual chantry of the house of scholars
at Wotton sub egge, and Thomas Joye, rector of Bromham, in the
diocese of Sarum ; and that John Paradys was instituted to the said
perpetual chantry, otherwise called the house of scholars, 2 June,
1427, vacant by the resignation of Thomas Joye, last chaplain
there ; Sir John Berkley, Knt., being true patron of the same.
The following occur in a subsidy roll dated 1513, and preserved
in the Worcester registry : William Smyth, Robert Coldewall,
Robert Horle, and Thomas Elston, all chaplains at Wotton, and
each of them taxed vjs. viij<i.
THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore.
CCCCLXXVIIL THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROYAL OAK, 1660.
(See No. CCCCLXYIII.) References to a few sources of information
respecting this proposed order of knighthood may prove acceptable
to your readers, and with this in view I send them. Pepys (vol. ii.,
p. 104), under the year 1667, mentions "Sir Robert Carr, M.P.,
Knight and Baronet of Sleaford, and one of the proposed knights
of the Royal Oak." The list of the 687 who were selected for the
honour the stout soldiers of Edge Hill, Newbury, and Marston
Moor was printed in The English Baronetage, ed. 1741, vol. v.,
p. 363, from a MS. of Peter Le Neve, Norroy, then in the
collection of Joseph Ames. It has been reprinted, with Dugdale's
Ancient Usage of Arms, and other heraldic tracts, by T. C. Banks,
Esq., 1812 ; and in Burke's Patrician, vol. iii., p. 448. Sir Harris
Nicholas's History of Knighthood, introd., vol. i., p. xlix., may also
be consulted. G, A. W.
"CCCCLXXIX. BAPTIST REGISTERS IN SOMERSET HOUSE.
There is an article in Good Words, November, 1866, entitled
" Curious Old Registers in Somerset House," by Edward Whitaker ;
and the writer of it leads us to infer he had himself learned
every incident he mentions directly from the books, using
such phrases as " an entry we have found ", and " on looking
through the calendar of volumes we
find." A list of Baptist Churches founded during the seven-
teenth century, with the place where each congregation assembled,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 21
and the date of its foundation, is given, p. 770 ; and under the
head of Gloucestershire, those of Bourton-on-the-Waterf (1650)
and Cirencester (1651) appear. "The list," as the writer has
observed, " is necessarily incomplete ; for we are able to include in
it those churches only whose existence is evidenced by the volumes
before us ; while a few of those again are absent from our catalogue,
for the reason that there is some doubt as to the date of their
foundation." He goes on to say that the list is a proof of theineffi-
cacy of the Uniformity and Conventicle Acts.
It is stated, p. 774, that one of the oldest registers containing
matter of interest or suggestiveness is from the chapel in Coxwell-
street, Cirencester. The congregation first assembled there in 1651,
and was subsisting when its registers were transferred to London in
1837. The record dates from the year of foundation; but until
the beginning of the present century it was very imperfectly kept.
On the first page of the volume there are the names of five persons,
" whom," as stated at the foot of the list, " the church hath agreed
to cast out." Then come the names of five others, followed by this
intimation : " These persons the church hath agreed to admonish
further in order for their recovery." As the writer remarks, it would
have been interesting to learn what amount of inconsistency of
conduct was deemed incompatible with a continuance in church-
membership by the Baptists of those days ; but we are not told
what the delinquencies of the ten persons had been. If, however,
we may form an opinion on the subject from notices in the same
volume which relate to nearly a century later, many of those delin-
quencies were probably open and unmistakeable breaches of social
morality. The members " cut off " from the church at this later
period were persons who had been guilty of the gravest vices, which
vices are carefully specified ; and the delinquents in these cases were
manifestly dealt with in a commendable spirit of patience before
their final excommunication. The writer then discusses the
regulations of Baptist churches in general.
As mentioned in p. 775, there are ten volumes from the Pithay
and Broadmead churches, Bristol. The former of these churches
was built about the year 1653, and has been absorbed into Fry's
Chocolate and Cocoa Works, Union-street ; and the story of the
latter has been published by the Hansard Knollys Society under
the title of Broadmead Records a book to which the writer of
the article here quoted, acknowledges himself indebted for facts
given in his historical introduction.
3, All Saints' Koad, Clifton. THOMAS KOACH, M.A.
CCCCLXXX. " GLOUCESTER ": ITS CORBECT SPELLING? (See
No. CCLXXVIII.) Counsel, in his History of Gloucester, p. 3,
quotes Kudge as follows : There are almost as many opinions
+ For a full account of it, see Brooks' Pictures of the Past : the History of the Baptist Church,
Bourton-on-the-Water, London, 1861.
22 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
about the orthography as the etymology of this city. The fashion
of writing " Glocester " has prevailed but a few years, but whether
this or " Gloucester " be most agreeable to ancient usage, will appear
from the following observations. In the Saxon Chronicle it is
variously written, Glewan-cester, Gleaw-ceastre, Glew-ceastre, and
Gloice-ceastre. On the seal of the Constable Milo, Gloecestria.
Walter de Frowcester, in the 14th century, uniformly writes
Gloucestria and Gloucestriensis in the records of the Abbey. In
Dorney's Diurnal Account and Corbett's History of the Seige, both
published during the usurpation, the same appellation is always
used. In Domesday-book, all the charters, and public instruments
to the present time, it is the same. The weekly journal, which
began to be published in 1722, was styled The Gloucester Journal,
and it was not till several years after that the editor altered the
mode of spelling. An almost infinite number of testimonies might
be adduced to the same purpose, if it were necessary ; but as the
subject is interesting perhaps only in the estimation of an anti-
quary, it may be deemed tedious to lengthen the investigation.
B.C.
On many of the old mile-stones throughout the county
" Glocester " may still be read. C. T. D.
It may be well to note that the Exposition of the Catechism of
the Church of England (London, 1663, 4to.) was published as the
work of William, Lord Bishop of "Gloucester," and that the
prelate so signed the preface, while in an edition which
appeared in 1671, " Glocester " has been substituted. In the latter
part of the year 1880, the Times gave up its favourite spelling of
the name (referred to in the former Note), and now conforms to the
general usage. EDITOB.
CCCCLXXXI. STEANGE DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY. "Tho 8
Hooke was the owner of the ground about Ffurnace ; he sould
most of his meanes after this maner. He had by his wife, Elinor,
nineteen children : at their christnings ther was great providance,
which to maintain, a peece of land was sold. So att the 19 christ-
nings nineteen peices of land was gon. He lived at the Kings-
Head Tavern ; and, it is said, lived better affter his land was gon,
than he did when he had it." (Nourse MSS.) The foregoing is,
I think, worthy of note, and not very easily matched.
ANTIQUARIUS.
CCCCLXXXII. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCH-
WARDENS OF TETBURY PARISH. These accounts date from the year
1589 ; and I submit a few extracts under three headings, with
some explanatory observations. A. H. P.
(Pews.)
In 1615, 1616, and 1628 leave was given to certain persons to
erect seats in specified parts of the church. And in 1628 and 1637
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several were allowed to occupy particular seats. Down to 1637
there are no other entries respecting seats. This seems to have been
the commencement of the pew system.
1659. "for makeing the Clerkes seate . 16 . 0."
What follows is interesting as showing how, in the good old
times, the poor people in the " little decayed old seats " had to
make way for the "convenience" of "persons of considerable
estates " :
" Whereas Two little decayed old Seats (wherein poor people
have formerly sate) adjoyning Northerly to or near to the ffont
Pillar in the Parish Church of Tetbury were lately repaired and
reduced into one large seat at the only Costs and charges of John
Thomas Junr. and Robert Clarke, persons of considerable Estates
in this parish, We therefore the Churchwardens of Tetbury afore-
said whose names are here Subscribed do for our parts consent and
also desire that the said John Thomas and Robert Clarke may from
henceforth have hold and enjoy the said seat for their more con-
venient attendance upon the Solemnities of our Church therein.
" Jo : Bliss, Yicar.
"E. Teakle ) /n. i. ^
" James Walkley j Churchwardens.
" This is admitted in order to a Confirmation under y e seale of
office by Midsomer next,
"Rich: Parsons,
" Chan r Glocest.
"Tetbury, 10 th May, 1697."
(Church goods.)
The following lists, etc., are either not quoted, or are misquoted,
in Lee's History of Tetbury :
1591. "In prims a sylu [silver] Cup, being [ ] cup with a
cov[er] one Table [cloth] iij napkynes on Suplys [ ] one Brasse
pott and sixe [ ]."
1592. " Imprimis on serples on silver cupp with a cover
" It one table cloathe w th iij napkyns
" It one Brasse pott twooe broches
" It vj Bookes w th certeyne leade."
Lee copies this list of 1592 ; but instead of "twooe broches " he
writes "and wood bucket." "Brochia," according to Bailey's
Dictionary, is a large can or pitcher.
1593. " Itm deliverid more [besides some money] a syliver coop
and cover a Brasse poott a serplesse a table cloathe iij napkins a
byble twooe communion bookes a parapfras arassmus a regester
booke an homelie a broache and certeyne Leadd."
The word " broache " is quite plain in this case.
The brass pot is mentioned only for three or four years ; and in
1617 a pewter flagon is added. In 1606 the napkins were " geven
away." In 1656 " one Bason for Baptizing Infants " was included
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in the list ; in the year following it is called " one pewter bason."
In 1622 and afterwards " towne Crookes with chaynes fastened
upon ponies " appear.
(Miscellaneous items.)
These have not been mentioned by Mr. Lee :
1607. A bond entered into for satisfying the sum of 49s. 3d.
" chaulenged to be due unto the Kinge."
1651. "John Denning for wages (^2) and castle money to
glor. [Gloucester], \ 12s. 4d."
1655. "to the High Constable for 9 Sessions and towards the
reparacons of Chepstowe bridge, ^14 16s. 8d."
1672. " ffor a journey for certificates for the chimneys,
00 . 02 . 00."
It seems that prior to 1685 there were four celebrations of the
Holy Communion in the year ; one at Christmas, and three at
Easter. In 1685 there appears to have been seven; in 1696, eight;
and in 1698, nine.
There are several entries of small sums paid to travellers. In
1698, 11s. 5d. was paid "to Souldiers & other travellers," and
3s. to Margaret Underbill " for enteraining 6 seamen." " Given
to a Captaine of the Kings November y e 2 nd , 1662, 00 . 01 . 00."
In 1625, 1629, 1640, 1655, and 1704, and in a few other years,
there are lists of persons fined for tippling, drunkenness, swearing,
etc. ; and also of those amongst whom the fines (or " mulct money")
were distributed. Half of the fine was frequently given to one of
the same name as the person fined, probably the culprit's wife or
father.
1703. Amongst the entries of expenses incurred for repairing
the church and spire after the Great Wind is the following :
"Paid John Graham for Beer to mix with and strengthen the
Tarrass [cement], 1.4.6." An extract from Gwilt's Encyclopaedia
(1871), p. 536, may help to explain this : " A tract on old Charing
Cross mentions that it was ' so cemented with mortar made of
purest lime, callis sand, white of eggs, and the strongest wortj that
it defied all hammers and hatchets whatsoever."
There seems to have been great difficulty as far back as the
seventeenth century in collecting the church rates in Tetbury.
See memorandum under 1701, which recites that "many of the
present and former inhabitants and paymasters .... have
oftentimes neglected and refused to pay " their rates. One example
will suffice : " 1694. Spent in making 3 journeys to the Earl
of Berks before he would pay me, 0.5.0."
CCCCLXXXIII. EGBERT HUNTINGTON, D.D., BISHOP OP
EAPHOE. (See No. VIII.) It has been stated in Chalmers's General
Biographical Dictionary, vol. xviii., page 337, that " Robert
Huntington, a learned English divine, was bom at Deorhyrst
[Deerhurst], in Gloucestershire, where his father was minister, in
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1636." Can you tell me on what authority this statement with
regard to the place of his birth is made ? Others have followed
Chalmers in making it ; but the bishop's name does not appear in
the parish register of baptisms, and Eudder and Bigland do not
refer to his birth. I shall be glad to receive a reply.
Deerhurst Vicarage, Tewkesbury. Gr. B.
CCCCLXXXIY. THE OLD FONT OP DEERHURST CHURCH. As
mentioned in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association
(1846), vol. L, p. 65, Mr. '"Wright read a note from Mr. W. H.
Gomonde, of Cheltenham, with a drawing of the old font of
Deerhurst Church, which, according to Mr. Gomonde, "was kept
in a farm-yard for many years : perhaps in the time of the Reforma-
tion or in that of Cromwell it was ejected from the church. I am
afraid it will be seen no more, as I hear it has been sold for the sum
of <6, and carried away I know not where."
With reference to this communication, Mr. J. 0. Westwood
wrote as follows, p. 250 : At p. 65, the old font of Deerhurst
Church is figured, with the observation that " the ornamentation is
uncommon, and apparently of an early character." It appears to
me that this font is pre-eminently entitled to the attention of the
Archaeological Association, and it is greatly to be desired that the
influence of that body may be exerted to rescue it from the oblivion.
or destruction which appears to await it, as this font, from the
style of its ornamental carving, appears to me to be far more ancient
than any other font hitherto represented. The peculiar ornament
of the body of the font, that of spiral lines running off and
conjoining with other similar lines, forming an endless pattern,
is especially Irish, and is found in the finest of the most ancient
illuminated Irish copies of the Gospels, and in those which were
executed in England, under the influence of the Irish missionaries.
Thus it is found in all the illuminated pages of the Gospels of St.
Chad and Mac Eegol, and in the Gospels of Lindisfarne, or Durham
book, (Bill. Cotton. Nero, D. iv.) ; but I do not recollect having
seen it in manuscripts known to be more recent than the ninth
century. It also occurs on the ancient Irish stone carved crosses.
As therefore, in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts more recent than the
ninth century, we find no traces of this style of ornament, I think
we are justified in regarding this font as the one existing at
Deerhurst in the time of the Venerable Bede himself. The
ornaments round the base and rim of the font are, however, of a
totally different style, and I should conceive them to be after-work
of the eleventh century. Such flowing arabesques as they are
represented to be, are never found drawn in manuscripts which
have the spiral pattern.
In the same volume of the Journal, pp. 9-19, there is a paper on
Deerhurst Church by Daniel H. Haigh, Esq.
J. G.
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CCCCLXXXV. THE OLD FONT IN FRAMPTON - ON - SEVERN
CHURCH. As mentioned in the Journal of the British Archaeolo-
gical Association (1847), vol. ii., p. 184, Mr. J. W. Hugall, of
Cheltenham, forwarded drawings of a curious leaden font of the
twelfth century in the church of Frampton-on-Severn. "This
lead font " [of which an engraving was given], Mr. Hugall observes,
" stands against the north-west pillar in the church, and is in
tolerable preservation, but covered with coats of blue and yellow
paint. The bowl is half an inch in thickness, and two feet three
inches in diameter, by one foot three inches in depth. There have
been staples to fasten the cover, which have been removed, and
consequently the sides are a little broken.- It has a water-drain.
The ornaments consist of a band of foliage at the top and bottom,
and the arcade w T hich surrounds the bowl contains alternately a
figure and a scroll. There are two figures and two scrolls only
employed, which are repeated alternately. The whole work is in
low relief. It may be noticed that in neither of the figures is
there any appearance of a right arm." Mr. Hugall, having stated
that there was a wish, to have this curious font cleaned of its
covering of paint, requested the opinion of the council as to the
best method of doing so without injury to the lead. Mr. C. Koach
Smith recommended for the purpose . a pound of quick lime and
half a pound of caustic potash, mixed together in a gallon of boiling
water ; to let them stand two hours, and then decant the liquor,
and apply it to the painted object as circumstances might suggest.
J.G.
CCCCLXXXYI. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF THE
CHURCHWARDENS OF BROAD BLUNSDEN PARISH. The following
extracts from the accounts of the churchwardens of Broad
Blunsden, Wilts (but in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol),
refer to Gloucestershire.
Under the head of Collections this appears
" To Blaisdon, May 3 day, 17020. 2. 8."
This collection was rather above the average. In one made for
Chester Cathedral, January 20, 1701-2, the amount was only Is. 9d.
In another volume, under the head of Briefs ordered to be
registered, is this entry
" Collected towards y e repairing of St. Mary Redcliffe Church in
Bristol, 2s. 6d."
There is no date ; but the entries on the preceding page are dated
1706, and the handwriting appears to be identical with that in
which the baptisms for 1707-1710 have been recorded in the same
book. On the same page mention is made of collections for these
objects : " y e relief of Edinburgh in Scotland," " y e relief of y e
sufferers by fire in y e Strand, London," " towards y e Belief of ye
distressed Palatines," and "y e Protestant Church at Mottau in
Eoad, Clifton. T EOACH ' M ' A '
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CCCCLXXXVIL-THEHoDGEsFAMiLY.--(SeeNo.CCCCXLVII).
Thomas Hodges, A.M. 1641-1672, was vicar of Kensington, and
was promoted in 1661 to the deanery of Hereford. Faulkner
asserts in his History and Antiquities of Kensington, that, " he was
distantly related to the Earl of Holland (Eich), or to his countess."
Kensington Church was chosen by many of Cromwell's adherents
for their marriages, and I find from the register that his (Hodges')
second wife was a niece of Blagrave the regicide. Was he brother
to " M r Hodges," whose " very loveinge friend " was the Protector?
Gloucestershire is, I think, in this way connected with St. Mary
Abbots Kensington, and also with the parish of Sonning, Berks.
Can you, by answering my query, assist me in throwing light on
the history of this (Kensington) parish 1 " Old M r Eich, a verie
old man, now blind, 1572," was steward of the manor of Sonning.
Henry Eich, first Earl of Holland, (? nephew or grand-nephew of
the " verie old man ") married Isabel, daughter and heiress of Sir
Walter Cope, of Kensington. Sir Thomas Eich, Bart., born at
Gloucester, founded the blue-coat hospital in that city, bought the
manor of Sonning, founded a school there, and at Eeading, died at
Sonning, October 15, 1667, aged 66, and was buried in the parish
church. ] j
London, W.
CCCCLXXXVIIL THE TYNDALE MEMOBIAL.- William Tyndale
(see No. CCCCII.) was born about 1484, as is believed, in the
village of North Nibley, in this county ; his family having removed
from Northumberland during the wars between the Houses of York
and Lancaster. After passing some time at Oxford, he went to
Cambridge, probably with the view of profiting by the Greek
lectures of Erasmus, as there was no regular Greek lectureship in
the former university before 1517. About 1522, he was living as
tutor in the family of Sir John Walsh, at Little Sodbury : he was
compelled to leave that neighbourhood by the persecutions that
arose against him ; and on his departure he told one of his most
violent opponents, that if God spared his life, ere many years he
would cause a boy that drove the plough to know more of the
Scriptures than he did. Finding that he had no hope of printing
and publishing his translation in England, he went to Hamburgh,
bidding a final welfare to his native land. From Hamburgh he
proceeded to Cologne, where in secret he pursued his work. Being
discovered by his foes, he fled from thence, and ascending the
Ehine, carried the result of his labours to Worms. The date and
place of publication of the first edition of his version of the New
Testament is doubtful ; but it is certain that in 1526 the book was
circulated and read in this country, to the enlightenment of many,
and the alarm and indignation of others. After residing for some
time at Antwerp, attempts were made to persuade him to return to
England. Vaughan, the English ambassador, failed to lure him
into the lion's den ; but he was betrayed into the hands of the
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
government of the Netherlands ; and through the intrigues of two
abandoned Englishmen having been convicted on a charge of heresy,
he was strangled and burned at Vilvorden, near Brussels, October
6, 1536.
A memorial to Tyndale* was first suggested about the year 1850,
somewhat more than three centuries after his martyrdom, by Mr.
Anderson, the author of Annals of the English Bible; and the
project was revived in 1861, by a few gentlemen living near
Mbley, who considered that no more suitable place for such a
monument could be found than the knoll which overlooks the
village in which he was born. The ground belongs jointly to the
freeholders of North Mbley and Lord Fitzhardinge, and by mutual
assent a portion of it was made over to the trustees of the memorial
fund. The foundation-stone was laid on the 29th of May, 1863,
by the Hon. Colonel Berkeley ; and the work having been earnestly
carried on from that time, through many vicissitudes, to completion,
the memorial was formally inaugurated by the Earl of Ducie, on
Tuesday, November 6, 1866.
The memorial is a cenotaph, con-
sisting of a square tower, 26 feet
6 inches square at the base, rising to
22 feet, and above that diminishing
by two feet. Its height is 1 1 1 feet,
exclusive of the terminal, which is a
small but elegant gilded cross. The
entrance is on the east side, and
within is a staircase ascending to a
gallery. The cardinals are (?) adorned
with sculptures, the first representing
Tyndale's leaving Little Sodbury ;
the second, his conference with John
Frith ; the third, his betrayal at
Antwerp by Phillips ; and the fourth,
his martyrdom. The tower is termi-
nated with a machiolated cornice,
sustaining a pyramidal roof, vaulted
within. It is constructed of stone
from Hampton quarry, near Stroud.
Mr. S. S. Teulon, of Craig's-court,
London, was the architect, and Mr.
Whitfield, the builder. The total
cost amounted to <1,550.
One of the speakers who addressed the large assemblage, was the
Rev. J. P. Hewlett, deputed by the British and Foreign Bible
Society ; and in the course of his remarks he said " We cannot
fail to be struck with the remarkable way in which God has been
* See an 8vo pamphlet, which is here quoted, entitled William Tyndale, the Bible Martyr
and Ms Memorial, Gloucester : John Bellows, 1866, pp. 22.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 29
pleased to distinguish this county of Gloucester, no less than four
eminent translators of His Holy Book having been more or less
closely connected with it. Within the walls of yonder castle, John
Trevisa, a native of Cornwall, chaplain to the fourth Earl of
' Berkeley, made the first translation in what may be called modern
times. Part of it may still be seen, painted by order of his patron
on the walls of the old chapel. Twenty years after the death of
Trevisa, was born John Wy cliff, the Morning Star of the Reforma-
tion, who, although a native of Yorkshire, was also connected with
this county as having held for some years the prebend of Aust, [in
the neighbouring collegiate church of Westbury-on-Trym.] His
work, though later, was nobler than Trevisa's, for his translation
was made that it might be published. And published it was but
how ? Every copy had to be laboriously written by hand, for, four
hundred years ago, there was no printing-press in existence, (this,
again, we cannot realise without the greatest difficulty,) and each
New Testament cost a sum equal to ^50 of our money ; and now,
thank God for translators, for the art of printing, and for the
British and Foreign Bible Society, it may be bought for two-pence.
Then rose up that great and good man, to whose name and memory
you have reared (better late than never !) this monument. To him,
a Gloucestershire man, belongs the high honour of having given to
the people of England the first printed portion of the Holy Scrip-
tures in their own language. Let us add that Myles Smith, one of
the most learned of King James' translators, and the author of the
dedication at the beginning of our Bibles, was for some years
[1612-24] bishop of this diocese. Thus has God been pleased to
distinguish this our county in regard to His own Word. May we
prove ourselves not insensible to the greatness of the honour, not
ungrateful for it !"
Another speaker, the Rev. Canon Eden, said " We have wished
to impress immortality upon the soil whereon his [Tyndale's] feet
once trod ; and this is the reason why a material and visible tribute
such as that now before our eyes was determined on. The question
has been asked, ' Why set up a pillar to his memory, or anything
of that kind 1 Why not endow a scholarship at the university, or
appoint an annual gift of Bibles for the plough-boys of the county,
to be called the Tyndale-Grant 1 or, something which should be a
living benefit, of real and lasting utility?' This is plausible ; but
what was wanted was an object which should be seen by the eyes
of all who should ever hereafter dwell in his native village beneath
us, and in the surrounding vale of all who shall traverse the
railway-line which this hill commands in their journey from the
highest north to the Land's End ; a memorial for the million, who,
as they look up, shall ask, ' What is that I see there on the height ? '
and .shall be told, * It is the pillar that Gloucestershire set up, to do
everlasting honour to the memory of the man who lived to give us
the Bible in English, and died in that service. Just below that
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hill lie was born ; and after a little more than three centuries they
said they were resolved he should live again, and his name, God
permitting, never die from the midst of them.' The suggestion of
this undertaking we unite in ascribing to Him * from whom all good
counsels do proceed ; ' as, most certainly, we owe its accomplish-
ment to the spirit, the energy, and zeal, of those who have composed
the committee, and filled the office of its honorary secretaries, one
of whom, you know, [the Rev. A. G. Cornwall, M.A.,] has from
the outset bestowed time, and thought, and pains, to an incalculable
amount, on the work, of which we, and all who have laboured for
it, have the happiness today of witnessing the consummation ".
One verse, in conclusion, from the lines composed for the day,
by the rector of the neighbouring parish of Charfield, and appended
to the pamphlet which has been freely quoted
" May yonder cross that leans against the sky,
And glitters 'iieath the sun's departing rays,
Revive our glorious martyr's memory,
And, though too 4 late, sound forth his country's praise !
Let ' Glo'ster plough-boys ' wake the grateful song,
And Glo'ster's Dukes and Earls the joyous strains prolong !"
EDITOR.
CCCCLXXXIX. BEQUESTS OF DR. FILKIN AND THOMAS
MILLARD, ESQ., 1871-2.
Dr. Filkin, formerly of Tetbury, but late of Richmond, who was
ninety-four years of age, has bequeathed his MSS. of " Richmond
and the Neighbourhood " to the British Museum, to be handed over
to that institution by Sir David Dundas, M.P., in whose possession,
he states, they are ; and to Sir David he leaves the letters received
by him from Dr. Edward Jenner. The Antiquary (Nov. 18, 1871),
vol. L, p. 182.
The late Thomas Millard, Esq., of Ivy Bower, Gloucester, has
left 8,000 to the President and Fellows of Trinity College,
Oxford, and to the South Kensington Museum all his old coins and
medals. Ib. (Feb. 24, 1872), vol. ii., p. 46. J. G.
CCCCXC. EXTRACT FROM THE MSS. OF DR. ANDREW COLTEB
DUCAREL : CIRENCESTER. The following is taken from the Gentle-
man's Magazine (September, 1815), vol. Ixxxv., part ii., p. 203 :
March 19, 1749. Saw Cirencester Church : the tower has 12 bells
(and chimes), and is 44 yards in height. In the church are the five
following chapels, viz., St. Mary's, St. Catherine's, Trinity, Jesus,
and St. John's. The chapels of St. Mary and St. John have each
a stone roof, finely ornamented, and several modern monuments.
In Trinity . chapel are several very ancient monuments. The
windows, once finely painted, are broke in too many places. The
altar, without rails, is paved with black and white marble ; near it
axe several pews, where the Sacrament is (by custom) administered.
Here is a stone pulpit and two fonts ; an old one of stone, standing
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 31
upon a pillar, and a new one of marble, erected by the contribution
of several gentlewomen of that town, which is constantly used.
The present parson [Mr. Harrison, father to Mr. Thomas Harrison,
afterwards (1760) knight, and chamberlain of the city of London],
aged 94, baptizes and marries, but does not perform any other part
of divine service. Here is one charity-school for 20 boys, who are
clothed in yellow, and are taught to make stockings ; and another
for 20 boys and 20 girls, who are put out apprentices. A legacy of
80/. was here left by an old taylor, to be lent to four young trades-
men for two years without interest, to set them up, upon giving
good and sufficient security to repay the same. The town has a
good market, and is supported by the woollen manufacture.
C. T. D.
The tailor referred to was Philip Marner, whose brass is in
Cirencester Church, and of whom mention has been made in No.
CLX., p. US. G _ A w
CCCCXCI. HENBURY PARISH CHURCH. On Monday, April
22, 1878, this church was re-opened after complete restoration, at a
cost of .5,500. The structure is one of especial interest to
archaeologists, the long rows of Norman columns in the nave,
surmounted by Early English arches, presenting a fine appearance.
Under the supervision of Mr. Street, K.A., the work was carefully
carried out. The south and part of the east walls of the chancel
have been rebuilt, all the old work being faithfully reproduced, and
the Early English windows replaced. The east window, which
takes the place of a small seventeenth-century one, and is new, is
filled with stained glass by Mr. D. Bell, of London. The east
window of the south chapel of the chancel is of Munich glass, and
the two south windows are by Messrs. Clayton and Bell. The
pulpit and reredos have been produced from Mr. Street's designs by
Mr. Earpe, of Lambeth, and the church re-seated with open oak
benches of modern form. The contractors were Messrs. Wall and
Hook, of Brimscombe, Stroud. ^ jj
CCCCXCII. A MUFFLED PEAL ON INNOCENTS' DAY. A corres-
pondent wrote in Notes and Queries (1 st S. xi. 8) : " On
Innocents' Day, hearing the bells of 'Maisemore Church, in this
neighbourhood [Gloucester], ringing a muffled peal, I inquired the
reason, and was told by a parishioner that they always ring a muffled
peal here on Innocents' Day. Is this peculiar to Maisemore ? " I may
reply in the negative ; for it is the custom at Churchdown,
Gloucestershire, and Pattingham, Staffordshire, to ring a muffled
peal on that day ; and the same custom existed at Norton, near
Evesham, Worcestershire. (" N. & Q.", 1 st S. xii. 342 ; 2 nd S. vii.
306.) At Minety St. Leonard's, Wilts, the church bells ring a
half-muffled peal on the evening of the day ; and it was the custom
a few years ago to do the same at Wick-Bissington, Gloucestershire.
32 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Half the clapper of each bell was muffled, so that every other chime
had the effect of an echo. (2 nd S. vii. 245, 407.) J. G.
At Woodchester a muffled peal is rung on this day (Kalendar of
the English Church, 1866, p. 194). M. C. B.
CCCCXCIIL JOHN BULLINGHAM, D.D., BISHOP OP GLOUCESTER
AND BRISTOL. The following letter, taken from the State Papers
(Dom., Eliz., vol. cxxv., No. 74 ; Cal. p. 600), and relating to two
of the historic worthies of the County Palatine of Lancaster, has
been published for the first time in the Palatine Note-book (Nov.,
1881), vol. i., p. 197, in an article headed "Dean Nowell and Dr.
Wm. Whitaker " ; and as it relates likewise to Bishop Bullingham,
it is (with the sanction of Mr. John E. Bailey, and along with some
of his accompanying remarks) transferred to these pages. Only the
signature is in autograph. The writer was the well-known dean of
St. Paul's ; and he and William Whitaker, in whose interest the
letter was written, stood in the relation of uncle and nephew. It
is as follows :
" My dutie to yo r goode Lordshipp humbly remembred, whereas
it is reported that Doctor Bullingham p'son of wythingdon in the
countie of Glocester, is to be preferred to the Byshopprike of
Chestre, might it please yo r L. to be a goode meane that M r
William Whytaker, of Trinitie College in Cambridge, might have
the said benefice graunted vnto hym, both for that he is well learned
in the toungues, havinge translated the Englishe service, and three
Catichismes into the greeke tonge, and my L. Byshoppe of Sarr.
his booke againste D. hardinge into lattine, and specially for that
he is a verie goode preacher : in w ch respecte my L. Byshoppe of
Worcester [Dr. Whitgift] ordinarie patro of the said benefice would
moste gladly bestowe it vppon hym were it not her ma ties preroga-
tive, the incumbent beinge preferred to a Bishoppricke : yo r
honorable lordeshippe shall by this benefite bynde the said M r
Whitaker, and all his frends, and me especially amongeste the reste
verie much vnto you : and as I truste, in p'vidinge the p'ishoners
ther of a goode pastor and ther neighbours adioyninge of a goode
preacher, shall doe a deede acceptable to all mightie Godde whoe
haue yo r goode L. allwaies in his moste blessed kepinge. / the
xxviij th of Septemb r 1578 : / beynge somwhat evell at ease, I was
copelled to vse my frends hande
" Yo r good Lordshyppe at com'andment
" ALEXANDER NOWELL.
" [Addressed] Too the right honorable and my verie goode Lorde,
the L. highe Thresauror of England [Burghley].
" [Superscribed] 28 Sep. 1578. The Deane of Poules to my 1.
M r Whitaker."
The application was of none effect, for Bullingham, who never
acquired.any reputation as a man of learning or ability, was not at
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once removed. He was, however, a great pluralist and filled many
dignities, being a prebendary of London in 1565, of Lincoln in
1568, of Worcester in 1570, and of Hereford in 1582 ; and at the
time when he received the two bishoprics of Bristol and Gloucester
in 1581, he was archdeacon of Huntingdon, to which he had been
appointed in 1567.
As an appendix to the foregoing remarks of Mr. Bailey, it may
be noted that Dr. Bullingham (wrongly styled " Bullingbrook " by
Sir Eobert Atkyns, and " Bullington " by Pryce) was rector of
Boxwell, and of Withington (1571-81), both in the diocese of
Gloucester ; and that he was elected to his bishopric on the 15th of
August, confirmed on the 1st of September, and consecrated on the
3rd, in the year 1581, by the archbishop of Canterbury, assisted
by the bishops of London and Rochester, in the chapel of Croydon.
He was instituted to the vicarage of Painswick, in the same
diocese, April 21, 1585, and held it in commendam with his
bishopric until 1593 ; as he held the bishopric of Bristol from the
time of his consecration until 1589, when Richard Fletcher, D.D.,
was consecrated thereto (Jan. 3) ; and that bishopric being taken
from him, the rectory of Kilmington, alias Culmington, in the
deanery of Gary, and diocese of Wells, was conferred on him, in
July, 1596. He died at Kensington, May 20, 1598, and was
buried in his cathedral, without any memorial. EDITOE.
CCCCXCIV. THE DESTRUCTION OF MONUMENTS AND GRAVE-
STONES. (See Nos. CXXVII. and CLXIX.) The following
suggestion, which was made some years ago in Notes and Queries
(3 rd S. xi. 515), is too good not to be repeated even at the eleventh
hour : This is a subject that has frequently been referred to in
" N". & Q.", and is one that daily troubles the peace of mind of
antiquaries and genealogists. I revert to it now to make a
suggestion. In this age of church restoration it is impossible, and
perhaps undesirable, to stop the removal of unsightly monuments
and mural tablets, or the covering of chancel gravestones with
encaustic tiles. To write against this is as useless as throwing a
hat against the wind ; but it ought to be possible to mitigate, if not
to remedy the abuse. Why should not a short Act of Parliament
be passed requiring incumbents and churchwardens of churches
about to undergo repair, to have a plan made by a competent
architect, showing the position of each gravestone, tablet, and
monument within the church, and a careful copy of the inscriptions
written in a book and deposited with the parish registers, to be
inspected at any time? The expense would be small, and the
benefit very great. In Sheffield parish a portion of the graveyard
was recently given up to widen a narrow and busy street. The
inscriptions on the displaced gravestones were copied and placed in
the parish records, where they will probably be found long after
inscriptions on the other stones in the yard have perished.
ANTIQUARIUS.
VOL. n. c
34 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
CCCCXCY. RICHARD GIBBS, A FOREST OP DEAN GEOLOGIST.
In the Gloucestershire Chronicle, May 9, 1878, the following
paragraph was quoted from the Athenaeum : Within the last few
weeks there died, in his own cottage in the Forest of Dean,
Richard Gibbs, so long the well-known fossil collector of the
Geological Survey. In the early days of the Survey, when the
great geological horizons had to be discovered not merely to be
subdivided as at present Gibbs was the daily companion of
De La Beche, Edward Forbes, Jukes, Salter, Murchison, Ramsay, and
Aveline, of whom the last two alone survive. Many were the
reminiscences of those old days with which Gibbs enlivened weary
fossil-laden tramps in his later days ; tales of Forbes's fun, of
1 'grand finds," of Sir Roderick's military style of letter-writing,
and what not. Many also are the stories still told of the untiring
industry, unerring eye for specimens, and geological instinct of the
old Welsh miner, who, in his rough way, was for years facile
princeps among the fossil collectors of Britain. Gibbs had some
time back retired from the public service on a well-earned pension,
and had rather fallen out of the ken of men, but a few words are
due to his memory. j Q
CCCCXC VI. HENRY SAMPSON, 1465. Any particulars of the
parentage of Henry Sampson, who was dean of the college of
Westbury-upon-Trym in the year 1465, and the date of his death,
and the place of his burial, will much oblige. GENEALOGIST.
CCCCXCYIL THE LYNE FAMILY, OP LITTLE COMPTON. The
following particulars have been taken from the parish registers of
Little Compton, and from transcripts of them and other registers in
the Diocesan Registry, Gloucester :
Henri Line de Todenham and Kate Lea were married (? where)
1709 (Marriage Licence Files, Diocesan Registry), and had issue,
i. Ana, filia Henrici Line, bap. Dec. 1, 1709, m. Cowley.
ii. Catherine, bap. 1711, m. Beasley; and 2ndly, Smith.
iii. John, b. 1712, d. April 24, 1747, aged 35 years.
iv. Mary, bap. at Little Compton Feb. 12, 1715, m. Hyeat,
v. William, bap. Oct. 19, 1718, m. Sarah Hay ward, 1744.
vi. Elizabeth, lap. March 12, 1720.
vii. Henry, lap. April 7, 1723.
viii. Thomas, bap. June 19, 1725, m. Jeane Mansell, 1749.
ix. Sarah, lap. March 10, 1727, bur. June 23, 1728.
x. Robert, lap. Nov. 29, 1730, m. Ann Davis, 1768.
xi. Hannah, lap. Feb. 21, 1732, m. Robert Durham, 1768.
Henry Lyne, yeoman, bur. Sept. 26, 1743, aged 65 \ and
Catherine, his wife, March 4, 1759, aged 71.
William Lyne and Elizabeth Edgington, both of Little Compton,
were married March 23, 1772, and had issue,
i. Robert, lap. May 2, 1773.
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ii. Sarah, lap. July 1, 1774.
iii. Mary, lap. Dec. 24, 1775.
iv. Ann, lap. Jan. 11, 1778.
v. Thomas, lap. Feb. 21, 1779.
vi. Elizabeth, lap. Feb. 5, 1782.
vii. Jane, lap. Jan. 25, 1784.
Eobert Durham, of Lyneham, Oxon, and Hannah Lyne were
married by licence, at Little Compton, Nov. 3, 1768, and had a son,
Eobert Line, lap. there Nov. 5, 1769, m. Ann Slatter at Barton-
on-the-Heath, 1792.
Hannah Durham bur. at Little Compton April 12, 1806 ; and
Eobert Durham, of Lyneham, Jan. 11, 1812.
John Lyne and Elizabeth North (cote ?), both of Little Compton,
were married Nov. 8, 1772, and had issue,
i. Mary, bap. Oct. 17, 1773. .
ii. Charlotte, bap. Feb. 25, 1776.
iii. William, bap. May 24, 1778.
iv. John, bap. July 23, 1780.
v. Sarah, bap. June 30, 1782.
vi. Elizabeth, bap. Nov. 14, 1784.
vii. Jane, bap. Nov. 25, 1787.
viii. Ann, bap. May 23, 1790.
ix. Hannah, bap. Dec. 30, 1792.
John Lyne, bur. at Bourton-on-the-Hill.
William Lyne and Sarah Hayward were married Dec. 26, 1744,
and had issue,
i. Mary, bap. July 21, 1745.
ii. WiUiam, bap. April 19, 1747.
iii. Thomas, bap. May 4, 1759.
iv. John, bap. Jan. 14, 1749.
Mary, wife of Solomon Lyne, yeoman, bur. April 13, 1762
(? 1761).
John Lyne, an infant, bur. July 12, 1782.
William Lyne, middle aged, bur. April 6, 1787.
Thomas Lyne, middle aged, bur. Sept. 16, 1788.
Elizabeth Lyne, an old woman, bur. May 1, 1789.
William Lyne, an old man, bur. Jan. 9, 1791.
Sarah Lyne, bur. March 23, 1798.
Elizabeth Lyne, bur. July 1, 1809.
Mary Lyne," aged 46 years, bur. April 28, 1831.
Eobert Lyne, aged 62 years, bur. Nov. 15, 1833.
Mary Lyne, aged 84 years, bur. Sept. 26, 1856.
Solomon Lyne and Mary had issue,
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i. Ann, lap. Oct. 11, bur. Oct. 19, 1754.
ii. Elizabeth, bap. Jan. 16, 1756.
iii. Solomon, bap. July 4, 1758.
iv. John, bap. Feb. 9, 1761,
Thomas Lyne and Ann Brown were married after banns, at
Little Compton, Nov. 24, 1783, and had issue,
i. Mary, bap. Aug. 8, 1784.
ii. Sarah, bap. May 28, 1786.
Robert Lyne (probably son of William Lyne, who m. Elizabeth
Edginton in 1772) and Mary Rogers were married after banns, at
Little Compton, July 28, 1802, and had issue,
i. Hannah, bap. Aug. 4, 1805.
ii. William, bap. Jan. 31, 1808.
iii. Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 2, 1812.
iv. Thomas, bap. Jan. 14, 1816.
John Lyne, of Little 'Compton (2nd son of Thomas Lyne, senr.,
of Syde), and Betty Curtis, of Colesbourn, were married by licence,
at Little Compton, July 1, 1775, and had issue,
i. Ann, b. April 14, bap. May 12, 1776.
ii. Thomas, bap. Nov. 16, 1777.
iii. Mary Curtis, bap. June 12, 1779.
iv. John, bap. Nov. 21, 1780.
v. William,* bap. March 29, 1782.
vi. Sarah, bap. Jan. 1, 1784.
vii. Robert, bap. Jan. 11, 1786.
viii. Henry, bap. July 15, 1787.
ix. Joseph, bap. May 17, 1789.
x. Jane, bap. July 24, 1791.
(The following were baptized at Elkstone, John Lyne having
removed from Little Compton to Combend Farm, in the
parish of Elkstone).
xi. Elizabeth, lap. June 25, 1793.
xii. John Giles, bap. Oct. 26, 1794.
xiii. Kesiah, bap. Aug. 10, 1796.
xiv. Susanah, b. and bap. May 23, 1798.
Henry Lyne (7th child and 3rd son of Henry Lyne, of Little
Compton, who d. in 1743) and Ann had issue,
* This WUliam Lyne, 6. at Little Compton, March 15, 1782, m. Sarah Bishop (6. 1785)
and with his family settled in Van Dieman's Land (now Tasmania) in 1826. "From the
bydney papers we learn that Mr. W. J. Lyne and Mr. L. Levin were elected members of the
Assembly for the Hume district, by substantial majorities. Mr. Lyne is a native of this
colony, being son of Mr. John Lyne, of Cranbrook, the newly-elected representative of
Glamorgan in the Tasmanian Assembly. The member for the Hunter is a gentleman who is
*? upon as likely to make his mark in the New South Wales Legislature." (Hobart Town
Mercury, Dec. 11, 1880.) The abovenamed Mr. John Lyne representative of Glamorgan, is
grandson of John Lyne, of Little Compton, and subsequently of Combend, Elkstone, and son
of the founder of the family in Tasmania. Mr. Wm. John Lyne married Martha Coates,
daughter of Edward Carr Shaw, Esq.. of Dublin, and cousin of the Eight Hon. Sir Frederick
fchaw, Bart., Recorder of that city.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 37
i. John, bap. Oct. 25, 1753.
ii. Thomas, bap. April 6, 1755.
iii. Molly, bap. Nov. 4, 1757.
(These three children were baptized at Little Compton ; but
Henry Lyne having removed to Farmcote, Lower Guiting,
near Winchcombe, the following baptisms and burials are
from the register of Farmcote.)
iv. Jenny, bap. July 19, 1761.
v. Henry, bap. Feb. 10, 1765.
Thomas Lyne, bur. at Farmcote Chapel, March 14, 1797.
Henry Lyne, bur. June 15, 1799.
Ann Lyne, bur. Oct. 20, 1812.
(From transcript of the registers of "Winchcombe.)
John Lyne and Ann Weyman were married after banns, July 26,
1784.
William Lyne, bur. March 16, 1785.
(From the register of Hailes.)
John Lyne, of Farmcote, and Frances Eussell were married
1781.
John Lyne, of Broadway, bur. 1794.
Thomas Lyne and Jeane Mansell were married at Little
Compton, Nov. 12, 1749.
Robert Lyne and Ann Davis, by licence, April 20, 1768.
William Mace and Mary Lyne, May 6, 1765.
John Brian, bachelor, and Ann Lyne, widow, after banns, Dec. 2,
1790.
John Tombs and Ann Lyne, by licence, Oct. 4, 1798.
Samuel Eobertson and Jane Lyne, July 23, 1811.
EOBT. EDWIN LYNE, M.E.I.A.
Eoyal Dublin Society.
CCCCXCYIII. SUFFERINGS OF QUAKERS IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE,
1660. In A Declaration of some of the Sufferings of the People of
God called QuaJcers (folio, 1660), p. 7, we have these particulars:
" On the 8th day of the third month, 1660, Friends being peace-
ably met together (in Mase-moor) to wait upon the Lord, there
came one John Coney of that place, with a sword in his hand, and
violently thrust open the door, and came into the room, and said
* be gone,' and struck one Nicholas Wasfield several blows with his
sword in his scabbard, after which he drew his sword, and thrust
violently at the said Nicholas Wasfield, and gave him many sore
blows on the shoulders with his naked sword, and being asked by
whose orders he did this, he said, c by the Mayor's orders.'
" On the 16th day of the 3rd month at Nailsworth, there came
a wicked man (that is a great professor, with others with him, with
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their swords drawn and their pistols cocked, and lighted matches in
their hands) into the meeting, and laid hands on one Friend, and
had him before the Mayor of Glocester, who said to the Marshall
he should take him away, and set a strong guard of muskateers to
look to him, and this he did upon suspition that he was a Jesuit."
WM. GEORGE.
CCCCXCIX. THE KIMBER FAMILY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Is
anything known of a Gloucestershire family of this name ? Burke,
in his General Armory, gives for Kimber as follows : Arms AT.
three Cornish choughs sa. leaks and legs gu. ; on a chief of the
second as many mullets of the first. Crest A bull's head affrontee.
Motto Frangas, nonflectes. Are these the armorial bearings of
the Kimbers of Gloucestershire 1 if not, to what branch of the
family do they belong ? GENEALOGIST.
D. Two NOBLE-MINDED WOMEN. Side by side in Bristol
Cathedral two monuments have been erected, bearing respectively
these inscriptions :
(1) "Sacred to the memory of Mary Carpenter, foremost among
the founders of Keformatory and Industrial Schools in this city and
realm. Neither the claims of private duty nor the tastes of a
cultured mind could withdraw her compassionate eye from the
uncared-for children of the streets. Loving them while yet un-
lovely, she so formed them to the fair and good as to inspire others
with her faith and hope, and thus led the way to a national system
of moral rescue and preventive discipline. Taking also to heart the
grievous lot of Oriental women, in the last decade of her life she
four times went to India, and awakened an active interest in their
education and training for serious duties. No human ill escaped
her pity, or cast down her trust : with true self-sacrifice she followed
in the train of Christ, to seek and to save that which was lost, and
to bring it home to the Father in heaven. Desiring to extend her
work of piety and love, many who honoured her have instituted
in her name some homes for the houseless young, and now complete
their tribute of affection by erecting this memorial. Born at Exeter
April 3, 1807. Died at Bristol June 15, 1877."
[An interesting volume, entitled Voices of the Spirit and Spirit
Pictures, with a memoir of Miss Carpenter, has been printed " for
private circulation only," Bristol, 1877.]
(2) "In memory of Catherine Winkworth, who, in her Lyra
Germanica, rendering into English verse the treasures of German
sacred poetry, opened a new source of light, consolation, and
strength in many thousand homes. Her works reveal a clear and
harmonious intellect, a gift of true poetic insight and expression,
and the firm Christian faith, which was the mainspring of a life
rich in tender and affectionate ministration, and fruitful in various
fields of active service. Her loss is mourned by all who shared her
labours, and by the many friends whom death has bereft of her
GLOUCESTERSHIKE NOTES AND QUERIES. 39
rare sympathy, her wise counsel, her bright companionship, and her
unfailing help in every time of need. To commemorate her worth,
and to perpetuate her efforts for the better education of women, a
scholarship bearing her name has been founded in University
College, Bristol, by friends who now dedicate this tablet to her
memory. Born in London September 13th, 1827. Died at
Monnetier in Savoy, July 1st, 1878.
' The child hath now its father seen,
And feels what kindling love may be,
And knoweth what those words may mean,
Himself the Father loveth thee.'
Lyra Germanica."
EDITOR
DL THE PARISH OF ULEY, 1571. The Lay Subsidy Koll 13
Elizabeth, in the Public Kecord Office (|-|-|-), gives the following
persons taxed in the parish of Uley in 1571 :
Will m Bassett in landes x li xiij 5 iiij d
Thomas Dorney in landes vj K viij 5
Gylles Cleyfield in landes I s iij 5 iiij d
Gylles Dauncey in landes 1* iij 5 iiij^
Henry Tyndall in landes xx s xvj^
Thorn's payne in landes xx 5 xvj d
Thom's pegler in landes xxx* ij* 2
Wyll m mynor in landes xxx* ij^
Wyll m harper in goodes iirp iiij 5
John purslowe in landes xxx s ij 5
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DII. THE OLD ORGAN OP ULEY CHURCH. (Reply to No.
CCCCV.) This old organ was once described to me by an old
inhabitant of Uley as being small, " with things all along the top
like soldiers' bagganets " for ornament. In the churchwardens'
book for the years 1811-13 occurs an entry of .6 18s., paid to
Mr. Madeley for tuning and repairing the organ. In 1826 a
resolution was come to by the vestry, that the organist should be
paid by voluntary subscriptions, and was signed by " M. W.
Wilkinson, Eector," who has appended the following note to his
signature : " Although Mr. Wilkinson signs the above order as
chairman, he decidedly disapproves of the measure." These items
may relate to the ancient organ alluded to by Fosbroke.
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DHL "PENNY-YARD PENNY." I enclose a curious extract,
which seems worth enquiry, if the questions asked have not been
already answered. I have a special interest in Penyard, owing to
the connection of that place for many years with Flaxley Abbey ;
and I am not aware that any connected account of Penyard Castle
has yet been published. It would seem from the extract that there
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must have been at one time a mint there ; and it will be interesting
to ascertain how the device came to be adopted in heraldry, and
why it was appropriated by the Spence family.
"Penny-yard penny, so termed from the place where it was first
coined, which was in the castle of Penny-yard, near the market-
town of Eoss, situated upon the river Wye, in the county of
Hereford."
This extract is taken from p. 175 of Clark's Introduction to
Heraldry, twelfth edition. At plate 12, No. 16, of the work an
impression is given of the coin known as Penny-yard penny ; and
the arms of the family of Spence are quoted as follows : Azure,
three penny-yard-pence proper. Can any of your correspondents
explain the curious allusions in the passage above quoted 1 Penny-
yard is, I suppose, synonymous with Penyard or Penyard Eegis,
well known to have been the site of a royal castle near Ross.
What is the coin alluded to as " Penny-yard penny " 1 When was
it struck, and under what circumstances 1 How came the device of
a " Penny-yard penny " to be adopted as a device of heraldry 1
Why has this device been specially appropriated by the Spence
family?
Ahmedabad, Bombay. A.W.C.B.
DIV. THE REV. JOHN LOVEL, RECTOR OF PORTISHEAD. In the
parish church of Portishead, Somerset, there is a mural slab with
this inscription :
"Johannes Lovel, hujus parochiae rector quadraginta octo annorum,
obijt decimo nono die Martij, anno salutis 1748, setatis suse 79.
Maria Lovel, uxor Johannis Lovel, hujus parochise rectoris, ex
antiqua et honesta familia Brentorum in agro Somersetensi oriunda,
filia reverendi viri Humphredi Brent, olim de Bedminster cum
ecclesiis annexis dignissimi vicarii, et Franciscse uxoris, ex familia
Hawkinsiorum, in urbe Bristolliensi diu et bene nota, haud minorem
stirpi retulit quam suscepit gratiam. Deo, marito, parentibus, et
amicis debita dum vixit officia persolvens, coronam virtutis accepit
Imo die Januarij, anno salutis 1720, setatis 47. In gratam piamque
memoriam parentum et dilectissimse conjugis, mcestissimus maritus
hunc lapidem locari voluit."
As mention is made of the Hawkins family, which was long and
well known in Bristol, the insertion of this epitaph in Gloucester-
shire Notes and Queries may lead to a better acquaintance with the
circumstance of the connection with the Lovells, who were well
known in Gloucestershire, the late highly esteemed clerk of th e
peace having been one of the number. Q
DV. THE CODRINGTON FAMILY. The following extract from
the parish register of Westdown [or West Hill], North Devon, may
perhaps prove useful :
" 1653. Robert Isaac, the son of Francis Isaac, Gent., and Ann
Codrington, the dau. of John Codrington, of Didmarton, in the
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 41
County of Gloucester, Esq re , had their banns published, Oct. 8 and
two following Lords days, and were marry ed 27 day of the same
month." P. D. VIGORS, Colonel.
Burgage, Leighlinbridge.
As mentioned by Sir Bernard Burke, who, however, makes no
allusion to this marriage, Simon Codrington m. Agnes, dau. and
heiress of Eichard Seacole, of Didmarton, and was succeeded by his
son, Robert Codrington, of Didmarton, who m. Anne Stubbs, and
had two sons, the elder of whom was the above-named John, high-
sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1638, who m. Frances, dau. of Sir
William Guise, Knt., of Elmore, and was ancestor of the
Codringtons of Wroughton, Wilts.
In the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1640, p. 5, there is
mention of a letter, dated April 2, from John Codrington,
of Didmarton, late sheriff of Gloucester, to Edward Nicholas.*
" By a letter of the Lords, of the 21 st February, I was commanded
to pay in the arrears of ship-money for my year of office by the
end of the first week of this next term. Hugh Williams, one of
the high constables of Slaughter Hundred, who had received 42Z.,
was sent for by order of the Board, and as yet I know not his
performance. I am altogether unacquainted with the performance
of the city of Gloucester, the borough of Tewkesbury, and
Chipping Campden, although I often pressed them to the due per-
formance of this service. I have, with my best endeavours,
laboured to get the money in, but cannot prevail, so must desire
your special favour in acquainting the Lords with my endeavours."
[Endorsed : " Eeceived 21 st April ". Seal with crest and arms.]
EDITOR.
DYI. DESTRUCTION OF BARROWS. "We [The Antiquary, Sept.,
1881, vol. iv., p. 129] are informed that two round barrows in the
parish of Duntsborne Abbas, which are marked on the Ordnance
map, and are described as two of the finest in the county, are now
in process of demolition for road repairs. Mr. Witts, at a meeting
of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, suggested that measures
should be taken to protect them, and stated that they are on land
the property of Earl Bathurst. Surely Sir William Guise, the
President of the Club, will use his influence for the preservation of
these barrows?" It is desirable to draw attention as much as
possible to the matter. ANTIQUARIUS.
DVIL THE TORTWORTH CHESTNUT. (See No. CCXXXII.)
The following extract from the Gentleman's Magazine (1766), vol.
xxxvi., p. 321 (being a letter from Mr. P. Collinson), describes
this celebrated tree as it was almost one hundred and twenty years
ago : The extraordinary size and antiquity of the chesnut-tree at
Tortsworth, in Gloucestershire, now the seat of the Lord Ducie,
* Clerk of the Council and Secretary to the Admiralty.
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42 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
mentioned in your faithful register, vol. xxxii. [1762], p. 54, excited
my curiosity to see it, and I have been some years trying to procure
a drawing of it from its noble owner, but without success. I have
at last happily met with an ingenious young man, John Player, of
Stoke, who, at my request, has attempted to give a sketch of it
[therewith sent], as well as the nature of its situation between three
walls would admit ; and I hope the following particular account of
it will prove acceptable to the admirers of trees. This old chesnut
has a very singular situation, for it stands in the angles of three
gardens, the walls having been built up to it, or against it, which
undoubtedly has been a great check to its growth, and occasion of
decay. These walls stand to the cardinal points of the compass in
form of the letter T inverted, the tree being in the angles of head,
as expressed by the dotted circle [in the Magazine]. In the garden
to the N.E. the side measures 18 feet ; to the W. it measures 18 feet ;
to S.E. it measures 14 feet. Five feet from the ground it measures
50 feet round. Three feet from the ground it measures 52 feet
round. The body is about ten feet to the fork. Then it divides
into two great limbs, about 8 feet long each, but on the N.E. side
there appears to have been several large limbs cut off many years
ago. This dismembering seems to have contributed much to the
decay on that side ; on the N."W. it is still sound. The largest
part of the tree is living, and very fruitful, having on it a great
quantity of nuts, seemingly like the true Spanish kind. As the
nuts fall, their growth is encouraged by the weeds that are under
it. Many young trees are come up, and surround the old one.
The solid contents of this venerable tree, according to the customary
manner of measuring timber, is 1965 feet, but its true geometrical
contents are much more. As this stately tree in the reign of
K. Stephen was so remarkable for its magnitude as then to be
called, by way of eminence, the great chesnut of Tamworth, now
Torts worth, as may be seen on record, lib. iii., cap. 7, 18, of
Mr.. Evelyn's Sylva, 4th edit., p. 232, and his 5th edit., p. 203;
and as it had then long fixed the boundary of the manor, it probably
took its beginning in the reign of King Egbert, anno 800. Erom
thence down to the first year of King Stephen, anno 1135, is 335
years. And if it is allowed to pay any regard to an old tradition
of the three periods given to the oak and chesnut, viz., three
hundred years growing; three hundred years standing; three hundred
years decaying it countenances my conjecture, that this venerable
chesnut is not much less than a thousand years old. From King
Stephen, anno 1135, to this present year 1766, is 631 years ; which
being added to the 335 years preceding King Stephen's time, makes
its certain age 966 years, and a very great age it is. Q j" p
Miss Mary Roberts, in her Ruins and Old Trees> associated with
Memorable Events in English History (London, n.d.), pp. 61-67,
has a chapter (with illustration) on " the Chesnut of Tortworth " ;
to which she has prefixed these lines
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When Eva, the gentle one, came,
Aad sat down in my ample shade ;
And with her was that noble Thane,
The lov'd one of the Saxon maid ;
I call'd to the rustling breeze,
That my boughs might their homage pay ;
While the joyous birds sang from the trees,
And the soaring lark warbled his lay.
The Gardeners' Chronicle, Oct. 9, 1880, contains the concluding
portion of a paper by Mr. T. Baines on Tortworth Court, with a good
wood-engraving of the chesnut as it is at the present day ; and the
following particulars therefrom will be found a suitable addition to
the extract from the Gentleman's Magazine : Any account of
Tortworth without mention of its world- wide renowned chesnut-tree
would be an omission of one of the most notable representatives of old
trees in the country. It stands at a short distance to the eastward
outside the park, in near proximity to the church, not far from
where stood the old mansion existent before the present building
was erected. It is a grand old monument of the remote past, still
hale and full of life and vigour. Here is an account and description
of it from what Loudon says in his Arboretum [London, 1838],
vol. in., pp. 1988 and 1999 n : " The old chesnut-tree at Tortworth
may, indeed, possibly have been one of those planted by the Eomans
. . . . Lord Ducie, the proprietor of the estate on which it
stands, had a portrait taken of it, from which an etching was made
in 1772 ; and under it is the following inscription : ' The east view
of the ancient chesnut-tree at Tortworth, in the county of Gloucester,
which measures 19 yards in circumference, and is mentioned by Sir
Robert Atkyns, in his History of that county, as a famous tree in
King John's time ; and by Mr. Evelyn, in his Sylva, to have, been
so remarkable for its magnitude in the reign of King Stephen (1135),
as then to be called the Great Chesnut of Tortworth, from which it
may reasonably be presumed to have been standing before the
Conquest (1066).' (Mart. Mill.) At the time this etching was
made, it appears that the tree was barely included within the garden
wall, which bore hard upon it but this wall has since been removed,
and a top-dressing of fresh soil applied to the roots, which seems to
have invigorated the tree. The native soil in which it grows is a
soft clay, somewhat loamy ; and the situation is on the north-west
side of a hill. Sir Robert Atkyns is of opinion that it was
originally several trees, and Marshall thinks that it is two trees grown
together. In 1791, Mr. Lysons found it 44 ft. 4 in. round in the
thickest part ; which is considerably less than the dimensions given
by Sir Robert Atkyns, who makes it 19 yards (57 ft.) ; or by Bradley,
who makes it 51 ft. at 6 ft. above the ground. An engraving of
this tree by Strutt will be found in his Sylva Britannica, of which
our fig. 1924 in p. 1988, is a copy, reduced to the scale of 1 in.
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to 12 ft. Its present measurement, at 5 ft. from the ground,
Mr. Strutt observes, writing in 1820, is 52 ft. ; which shows an
increase of 2 ft. since 1766, when, at the same height, it measured
only 50 ft. 'The body is 10 ft. in height to the fork, where it
divides into three limbs; one of which at the period already mentioned,
measured 28 ft. 6 in. in girt at the distance of 50 ft. from the main
trunk. The solid contents of the tree, according to the customary
method of measuring timber, are 1965 ft. ; but its true geometrical
contents must be much more. Young trees have been raised from
the nuts which it bore about 3 years ago.' (Sylv. Brit, p. 85.)
Lord Ducie informs us, in a letter dated 1836, ' that the tree is still
much in the same state as it was when drawn by Mr. Strutt ; ' and
the Eev. W. T. Bree, who saw it in the September of that year,
characterises it as 'a fine and most interesting relic. I wish,' he
continues, ' that Strutt had given us a figure of the whole tree,
instead of the lower part only; for, though the perfect head
is but a modicum, or perhaps no part at all, of the original head,
it yet makes a beautifuj object altogether '." When I saw it, it was
full of bloom, and although the huge limbs composing the head do
not all produce shoots of equal strength, or foliage alike deep in
colour, there is nothing, so far as I could make out, to support the
suggestion that it might possibly be composed of two or more trees
grown together. There are now two younger growths that have
sprung from the collar on a level with the ground. They grow out
quite clear of the main stem ; the larger of these girths 9 feet ; the
other is much smaller. Near it stands a portion of the old building,
clad in a mantle of ivy. How many centuries this remnant of masonry
is younger than the tree none can tell. And to all appearance a
good many generations yet may come and go before any can say
which of the two has braved time the longest.
G. A. W.
DYIII. OLDBURY AND DIDMARTON. Whilst lately examining
some charters of the Ernies of Ernie, an old Sussex family, I noted
one dated 23 November, 1423, which relates, amongst other property,
to Oldbury and Didmerton, in this county ; the former place being,
I presume, Oldbury-on-the-Hill. By this deed it appears that
William Ernie, of Ernie, Gent., had bound himself to Ralph
Thorpe, of Boscombe, Wilts, Esq., in the sum of 100 marks, that
his son and heir, John Ernie, would, if required, on coming of age,
ratify the possession which Ralph then had in various properties.
One of them was the manor of Oldbury and Dudmerton, which
had been granted by f eoffment to Ralph and his wife Alice, and
their heirs, by Henry Chancy and John Benger, jun.
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
BIX. MENTION OF " PLAGUE YEARS " IN PARISH REGISTERS.
Are there many records of "plague years" in the registers of
parishes throughout Gloucestershire? Particulars of entries with
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reference especially (but not exclusively) to the years 1603, 1625,
and 1666, will much oblige. ^ j
DX. WHALES IN THE SEVERN. In Lectures on Religion
(London, 1826), p. 268, by the late Eev. John Burder, of Stroud,
these words occur : " It is said that in the Mediterranean Sea,
where' this [Jonah's being swallowed by the fish] took place, whales
are never found. But supposing no whale ever was seen there at
any other time, this would be no reason why, in this one instance,
a whale should not have been there .... Never perhaps
but once did a whale advance far up the river Severn ; yet we know
that a few years since such a fish was actually seen as high up that
river as Frampton-on-Severn." This may be suggestive to some of
your correspondents. j Q^
DXI. LARGE MOUND NEAR CHARFIELD. Is anything known
as to a large mound or hillock in the middle of a field near
Charfield, about a quarter of a mile from the station, on the right
hand side of the main road to Wotton-under-Edge 1 Is it natural or
artificial? It is, I believe, called Aldbury (or Earlbury) hill, and
the field, Aldbury (or Earlbury) field ; but no one seems to know
whether it is a natural elevation or not.
Wotton-under-Edge. INQUIRER.
DXII. STOW-ON-THE-WOLD MARKET CROSS. (See No. GUI.)
As a supplement to what has appeared respecting the restored cross
at Stow-on-the-Wold, it may be well to quote a few lines from
Pooley's Notes on the Old Crosses of Gloucestershire (London, 1868),
pp. 69, 70, descriptive of its previous condition : " The ancient
cross in the Market-place is supposed to have been erected by the
Chesters, a wealthy and important family in Stow, the founders of
a chantry, and no doubt the builders of the noble tower of the
church. The three steps measure respectively 7ft., 4ft. 6 Jin., and
3ft. Sin. square. The socket is octagonal in its upper bed, with
broaches at the angles ; the shaft is an octagonal monolith, 7ft. in
height, and squared at its base by broaches. Instead of any
attempt being made to restore this fine monument of the fifteenth
century, the utilitarian sense of the inhabitants have [sic] voted it a
good pillar for a street lamp, and have placed one on the top
accordingly, the structure having a groove chiselled in it to admit
the pipe." Mr. Pooley has supplied a good illustration of this
uncommon kind of lamp-post ANTIQUARIUS.
The following " History of the old Cross and Description of its
Restoration, A.D. 1878 " (the original of which, written on parch-
ment, and framed and glazed, is in Stow Town Hall), will be a
good sequel to what has been given on the subject :
The old cross is supposed to have been erected in the fifteenth
century by Robert Chester, who also instigated and contributed
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largely to the building of the tower of the church, and obtained a
license to found the Holy Trinity Guild, and to erect a chantry, to
which latter purpose he probably appropriated the north transept
of the parish church, otherwise called the Donington aisle.
The roof of the nave of the church is supported on twelve well-
carved stone corbels, principally representing human heads, which
are supposed to be portraits of the leading people of the town, viz.,
the rector, the chaplain of the Trinity Guild, the benefactors of
Stow, and their wives. Amongst them is one which is supposed
to be a representation of the aforesaid Eobert Chester.
In Pooley's Ancient Crosses of Gloucestershire there is an accurate
drawing of the cross as it existed before restoration. The remains
consisted of the base, about 7 feet square and 2 feet high, two
steps, square socket broached into an octagon and monolithic stop-
chamfered shaft about 7 feet high. The base and steps had become
much dilapidated owing to the running up and down of children.
The late lord of the manor, Joseph Chamberlayne Chamberlayne,
Esquire, on the 29th March, 1871, generously gave the sum of two
thousand pounds, to secure a supply of pure water to the town ;
and it was to commemorate that and other of his benevolent deeds,
that a sum of money was subscribed by the inhabitants of Stow,
wherewith to erect some fitting memorial of him, and which
eventually resolved itself into a scheme for the restoration of the
old cross.
The form of the top of the shaft, and the fact of it not being
quite square, led to the supposition that the original head-stone
must have been somewhat like those at Ashelworth and Ampney
Crucis which have consequently been taken as a guide or pre-
cedent. The carvings in the head-stones of these crosses are more
or less of an historical character.
The restored head-stone is gabled at two ends, and coped with
a moulded and cusped niche at each side which (with the
exception of that on the south side, which is occupied by a rood,)
are filled with carvings representing incidents of local interest.
That on the north side represents Kobert de Jumieges, abbot of
Evesham, and lord of the manor of Stow, receiving a charter from
William Rufus to constitute Stow a market-town : the accessories,
such as the throne, shield with arms of Eufus, &c., are in accord-
ance with the period of his reign. The niche on the west side
contains a figure representing Robert Chester, with a model of the
church tower in one hand, and the old cross and Chester's arms, on
shield, in the background. The head and head-dress are copied
from the corbel in the church before referred to. The east niche
contains a portrait of Joseph Chamberlayne Chamberlayne, Esquire,
to whose memory the cross is restored ; with the manor-house and
shield, with his arms, in the background. The head-stone is sur-
mounted by a floriated cross, the entire structure being 19ft. Gin.
high. A substantial wrought-iron railing has been fixed on the
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restored base, to prevent a repetition of the mischief which caused
previous damage. A cast bronze plate, with raised and polished
Gothic letters describing the object for which the cross was
restored, is let into the socket on the south side.
The stone used in the restoration came from Farmington, with
the exception of that for carved head-stone, which is from Sireford.
The restoration was carried out under the direction of Messrs.
Medland and Son, architects, Gloucester.
EDITOR.
DXIII. THE EARLDOM OP BERKELEY. By the death of the
Hon. George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley, known
generally as " Grantley Berkeley," February 23, 1881, the succession
to the ancient earldom of Berkeley, and to the still more ancient
barony attached to it, is removed one step further off, but a step
extending possibly over a very wide chasm. It may not be known
to some that the earldom of Berkeley is extant, and is vested in
Thomas Moreton Fitzhardinge Berkeley, the eldest legitimate son of
Frederick Augustus, fifth earl, who died August 8, 1810. This
gentleman, however, does not choose to assume the title, nor to
prove his right to it before the House of Lords, preferring out of
filial respect to believe the assertion of his father, the late earl, that
he was married in March, 1785, a ceremony of which the House of
Lords declined to admit the proof, and which decision rendered his
(Moreton Berkeley's) four elder brothers illegitimate. The earl's
second marriage, however, to the same lady, in May, 1796, was
established by full proof, and consequently Moreton and his
younger brothers, Grantley and Craven, and their issue, were legally
installed in immediate succession to the title. Thus, as late as
1825, there were seven young heirs male in the near line qualified
to claim the honour. Now there is only one, save the real earl,
who is already in his eighty-sixth year, and has never married.
Grantley had two sons who grew up to manhood, but they died
unmarried ; Craven married twice, but died sine prole. The
succession has now reverted to a grandson of the younger and only
brother of the late earl. This was Admiral Sir George Cranfield
Berkeley, G.C.B., of the British Navy, but some time Lord High
Admiral of Portugal. He left one son, General Sir George Henry
Frederick Berkeley, K.C.B., who left no less than three sons, one only
of whom, however, married in 1860, survives, and he at present has no
issue. Should the succession fail, as seems more than probable, in
these two instances, then the earldom of Berkeley and the viscounty of
Dursley become extinct, having being created in 1679 in the person
of George, fourteenth Baron Berkeley. The barony, however, can
still find a representative ; but, for it, it has to leap back from
Frederick seventeenth baron, and fifth earl to the descendants of
James, sixth baron, all other heirs male born in the interim, from
about the year 1400 to the present time, having died out. This
heir presumptive to the barony is Robert Berkeley, Esq., of
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Spetchley Park, Worcestershire, who is descended from Thomas,
fourth son of James, sixth baron, by Isabel, daughter and co-heir
of Thomas Mowbray, first Duke of Norfolk, through whom the
Berkeleys derive their claim to be amongst the co-heirs of the ancient
barony of Segrave. Mr. Robert Berkeley, March 4, 1851, married
Lady Mary Catherine Browne, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of
Kenmare. He happens to have six sons, so there seems little
likelihood of the barony becoming extinct. It is somewhat curious
that the Hon. G. C. Grantley Eitzhardinge Berkeley, and Mr.
Eobert Berkeley, of Spetchley, father of the gentleman who may
now be looked upon as heir presumptive to the barony, married
sisters, the daughters of Paul Benfield, Esq., M.P., of Grosvenor-
square. The large possessions originally attached to the title were,
with the castle, at the absolute disposal of Frederick, fifth earl, and
were bequeathed by him to his eldest son, and are now enjoyed by
that son's nephew, Lord Eitzhardinge ; but it was understood that
the Stratton property in London, including Berkeley-square,
Stratton-street, and many houses in that vicinity, was indissolubly
united to the title, and that at the death of Mr. Moreton Berkeley,
who has of course declined to interfere with regard to them, they
would become the subject of litigation. GENEALOGIST.
DXIV.BOURTON-ON-THE- WATER. (See No. CCCCXXXVII.)
A correspondent of Notes and Queries (3 rd S. x. 238) has written
of this locality in these words : Your correspondent, Mr. Eerrey,
speaking of Bourton-on-the- Water, says, " Artists might find much
to occupy their pencil in this part of Gloucestershire." This, in a
certain sense, may be true, as all the vale of Bourton is more or
less lovely ; but the principal features constituting its beauty in
1810 are, alas ! gone for ever : on the one hand, the ancient manor-
house surrounded by a grove of stately trees, on the other the
picturesque Gothic rectory, equally embosomed in shrubberies, both
have vanished. The last occupant of the former, a widow, having
no children, had adopted her niece, had her educated and brought
up as the future heiress ; but upon that niece's marriage, quarrelling
with her parents about the marriage settlements, caused a change
in her determination. Lawyers were accordingly set to work, and
after a search of three or four years, they succeeded in tracing a
very remote connection with a surgeon in Birmingham, about as
nearly connected with the family as we all are with Adam, who
subsequently came into possession of it, and as had been foretold
by a relation of his own, doubting the validity of his claim,
immediately broke up the estate, and disposed of it in small lots
to farmers, and even cotters. The mansion-house came into the
possession of the village apothecary, who completed the degradation
of the venerable building by affixing over the principal windows
of the front a board on which was inscribed " Bourton
Dispensary." As for the latter, its ruin had already been
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completed. The rectory had been sold to the son of a cheese-
monger in Cirencester, who, on coming into possession, had in like
manner cut down all the shrubberies, pulled down the picturesque
old building, and in its place had erected a large tasteless three-
storied house. I think most of your readers will agree that, after
such changes, the Bourton of to-day [1866] cannot equal in beauty
that of 1810. Q t T. D.
DXV. ARMS AND CREST OF KING FAMILY. Nos. IX. and LI.,
relative to James King, Esq., of Cheltenham, and others of the
name, having arrested my attention, I am led to trouble you with
an enquiry. The following arms and crest are recorded in Robson's
British Herald, and Burke's Armory, as being those of " King, of
Wilts"; viz., Arms Sa., on a chevron, engrailed, arg., three
escallops of the field: Crest A talbot's head, couped, sa., collared,
or. Will any reader kindly inform me what family of King used
these arms 1 and where they resided ?
Watlington, Norfolk. W - L - KlNG -
DXVL THE HEALTHINESS OF SAINTBURY. (See No. XXXIX.)
In the Bristol Times and Mirror, January 7, 1881, this short
paragraph appeared : " A HEALTHY PARISH. In the parish of
Saintbury, about seven miles from Evesham, there was not a single
death during the year 1880. The last death was that of a
labourer, aged 74, and occurred in March, 1879. The population
of the parish is 130." Naunton was, as already mentioned, and
may still be, a very healthy parish ; but the case of Saintbury is, I
think, more striking. j j>
DXYII. THE TOWN AND MANOR OF CHELTENHAM. The
following literal extract from Prynne's MSS. with reference to
Cheltenham is worthy of notice, and I send it for insertion in your
pages. The Mr. Williams, who is mentioned below as " the present
Incumbent," was the Eev. Luke Williams, B.D., ; he was appointed
in 1692, the Eev. Henry Mease, M.A., succeeding to the incumbency
in 1709. The Rev. Robert Rogers, M.A., whose name likewise
appears, " ended his labours on New Year's Eve 1701," and was
buried in the parish church [see No. CCXLIY., p. 230].
Cirencester. C. H. SAVORY.
Cheltenham al s Chilteham, al s Chiltham is a Towne scituate on
the North side of a small purling silver streame or Rivulet called
Chilt, from which Rivulet the Saxons gave it the Name of Chiltham
the word Ham with them being the same as the Word Towne is
amongst us. It is the frontier of the Easterne side of one of the
most fertile vallyes in the World, and an ancient market Towne a
good League from y e Gloucestrian Nilus or severne, the cotswold
standing about it North East, East, & south East in a semicircle or
Like a halfe Moone. Its soile is Sandy and very naturall for
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carretts, cabbages & Turnips, insomuch that the whole neighbour-
hood for sundry miles round it is annually furnished with these
three from this Towne ; which is but one street continued with
buildings on each side for a full mile in Length ; it has but one
Church but that large and built of goodly Stone, of which
Williams Master of Arts in the university of Oxon is the present
Incumbent, this Incumbent has not the Tythes of the Parish
which are betterworth than 200 f ann. but he has only an
Exhibition of 40 ^ ann. allowed him by the Lord Capell who is
the Impropriator. The Church was dedicated to the virgin Mary
and has one or more Chauntries belonging to it. The buildings are
not extraordinary, in it are 2 publiq structures* one for butter &
cheese and another for a corne Market over which is a handsome
large Eoome for the service of the Lord of the Mannor for the
keeping of his Courts. Anciently within this Towne was a Priory
which now is the house let by the Lord Capell to the person who
farmes his Tythes. f There is in the Towne, a free Grammar school
now under the Management of M r Robert Rogers a master of Arts
of the said university a good man and an Excellent scholar, as also
an Almeshouse, both built of handsome free stone in the 7 th year
of Queen Elizabeths Reigne by Rich d Pates of Minsterworth in
this County Esq r , and both by him well endowed.
Albeit Cheltenham is not a Corporation yet is a very ancient
abounding with sundry Priviledges. This Cheltenham is a Mannor
& a hundred and the Mannor extends throughout the whole
Hundred within which are the Townes of Cheltenham, Charlton-
Kings, Ham, Leckhampton, Westhale, Naunton, Sandf ord, Alveston,
Arle & Swindon, all which are holders of the Mannor by rents and
services, & suite to the Court of Cheltenham, within which Towne
of Cheltenham are 3 Subordinate or Inferior Mannors, viz. comptons
Mannor, the Mannor of Powers Court, and the Mannor of Cambray.
This Hundred heretofore was called mscamp hundred and belonged
to the Abbot of mscamp in Normandy who had this Mannor
amongst others of King Henry 3 d J in exchange for the Mannors of
Navenby, Staynings, Winchelsea, and Rye which that King had of
him. Afterwards this Mannor belonged to W m Earl of Salisbury,
and 7 th H 3 ||
Within this Mannor are sundry franchises and Libertys which are
very rarely found in any other Mannor within the Realme, viz. to
make Justices of Assize, Justices of Corum & of Peace, Custos
Rotulorum, Sherriffs high & Low, Steward high & low, Bailiffe high
& low, Bayliife of the Burrough Escheator & Coroner within the
Hundred and Liberty, and that no manner of out Officers shall
* Taken down by Act of Parliament in 1786 on paving the Town.
t The yearly Value of the Impropriation since the parts sold Mr. D. is abt 400, rather
better. J. D [utton].
J Began his Reigne Ao Dom : 1216.
|| Archivis Turris London : ao 2H3. claus Rot.
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have to do within the franchise & Liberty but by a Special Com-
mission from the Lord of the Manner & Hundred.
The Customes of the Burrough are these (viz.) that if any
Burgagor dyes & his heire claime not that the Bailiffe shall seize
the same Burgage for the Lords profitte untill the heire shall be
admitted Ten* and pay his Releife after the Custome whether it
be a whole or halfe Burgage.
If the heir make sale of a Burgage before he be in possession
& be admitted ten fc openly in the Court the sale is voyd.
That no Burgesse can make sale of a Burgage but in personne of
the BaillifFe of the Burrough after the Custome, for as often as
it is bought and sold so many times so many Herryots, & so many
Beliefs the Bailiffe ought to present.
Also no Burgesse being in possession shall make any manner of
guifte of any Burgage by Testam* but that the said Burgesse after
the custome shall make delivery unto the Bailiffe of the Burrough
to the Behoofe of the person named in presence of the Burgesse
with the Bailiffe.
If a Burgesse being a man dy in the Possession within the Towne
or Towneship he shall pay but lid. to the Parson for a Mortuary, if
a Woman she shall pay but IQd. for such Mortuary and so making
no delivery unto the Bailiffe of the Burrough the eldest Son or the
next eldest of Kin After the Custome shall be heir to the same.
Also if any man marry with a Burgesses wife if she be in posses-
sion with her Husband, if she give her 2 d Husband possession, it
shall deferre the possession the first husbands heirs to the 2 d
Husbands heirs, if he make no guift nor sale out of his Possession to
the Bailiffe of the Burrough then the Heirs or next of kin to enter
to his use and profitte doing his duty to the Lord.
Also the Bailiffe of the Burrough shall inquire if any Burgage
be wrong holden, the same shall be seised to the Lords profitte as
Escheat Lands till the r* heir be knowne & found by the Homage.
DXYIII. BISHOP FRAMPTON AND LORD WHARTON. The follow-
ing characteristic anecdote, taken from The Life of Robert
Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, pp. 165-69, and given word for
word, is too good not to be reprinted in these pages : As the
meanest were his [Bishop Frampton's] care, so the greatest
offender was not above his reach ; as appear'd in the case of the
Lord Wharton (that patriot) and his brother and some more
gentlemen, who in a drunken fit early in the morning broke open
the doors of a church in his diocess and conlitted many horrible
acts there, of which their servants were ashamed, and rectify'd what
their masters had done, which shall have no name. But when they
had rung the bells backward, or confusedly, they cut the ropes to
pieces, tare good part of the Bible out, pull down or defaced the
pulpit and some other ornaments and goods of the church, they
were forced out to comitt disorders in the villages, as they did, 'till
forc'd to take sanctuary in the gentleman's house from whence they
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came. This outrage (not to call it by a name it better deserves)
coming to the bishop's ear, he demanded and had of the rector of
the place an account of what was in his knowledge. But the poor
man, being but in ordinary circumstances and near a great
neighbour, did not exasperate or inflame the reckoning. However
upon fame, that letter and witness of the fact, the bishop obliged
the churchwardens to present, and then sent to the Lord Wharton
and the rest to appear before him or competent judge, and receive
such punishm nt , as to law and justice should appertain. But their
quality was look'd upon their best defence, and, tho' for their
contumacy exprest by overt act they might have been excoinu-
nicated, yet, as poor men had had the favour of a milder
application first, so his lordship endeavour'd to reclaim them too.
But when that fail'd, the good bishop let the Lord Wharton know,
that tho' he himself were the son of a farmer and he of a peer, yet
his quality should not protect him since there was a greater man
in England than he, whose aid he would begg, and, if he stood out
much longer, this kingdome should be too hot to hold him, and
that he could go into no other without the curse of God and his
church, shewing him the terror of it. His lordship finding the
bishop so undaunted, and fearing the displeasure of one whom he
afterwards insulted and despised, thought it the best of his play
to comply, and sent one Mr. Carey to the bishop, then at Fontmell
in Dorsetshire by the way of visit and business in the country, to
propose his submission. The bishop had not lived sixteen years
among Jews and Turks but was acquainted with tricks, and frankly
told Mr. Carey that he supposed that was the whole of his business
there, and that he would make the Lord Wharton comply, and that
he should shortly be in his diocess where, if his lordship and the
rest of the offenders would meet him as penitents, he would treat them
as such and as his office obliged them. But if they kept on in
their refractory abusive temper, he would not consider them as
gentlemen, but as prophaners of God's house and despisers of his
ordinance, and treat them as such. Mr. Carey undertook for their
behaviour, and upon the bishop's return he met them at a place he
appointed them to attend, where he found them off their speed, and
receiving a reprimand, to make such wretches (if it was possible)
sensible of their crime, he proposed their penance or an handsom
comutation. They submitted to either, and only suggested that the
latter would more conduce to charits or some publick work of piety.
The good bishop never inexorable agreed with them on their own
proposal, and set each man according to his quality a sum, but still
reserved reparation to the church damnify'd, which was in a private
way after done, but by whom none knows,- a handsom new Bible
being sent thither with a small sum of mony. But for the comuta-
tion every man laid down his mony, which the bishop divided, and
gave the one half to the churchwardens of Stow on the Wold to
repair their ruined church, restoring the other half to them from
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 53
whom he had it. And to do the Lord Wharton justice, he was so
affected with the civil treatment he found that he desired the whole
might go to that pious use, and frankly gave it to the churchwardens,
and was I think f ollow'd by the rest ; which with the benefaction
of the bishop and some of his friends hath made that church
from a mine a noble structure. And if such great offenders were
forc'd to comply, chose of lesser quality may be supposed to bend.
In a word the laity were never more strictly govern'd nor more
gently handled. Q. ^ ^y
DXIX. INCEEASE OF POPULATION IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. It
may be of interest to know that the rate of increase per cent, in
the county of Gloucester during the several periods from 1801 to
1871 has been as under :
1801 to 1811 14,
1811 1821 18,
1821 183115,
1831 1841 11,
1841 1851 6,
1851 1861 6,
1861 1871 10,
being an average ncrease in each decade of 1 1 '30 per cent. (Parl.
Accts. $ Papers, ivol. Ixxi., pt. 2, p. 20).
Bicknor Court, Coleford. JOHN MACLEAN.
DXX. THE ST. STEPHEN'S EINGERS, BRISTOL. The memorable
occasion on which they received their quaint charter was (as stated
in the Antiquary, January, 1872, vol. ii., p. 12) on August 14,
1574, when Queen Elizabeth, having previously received "a fair
needle-work purse, wrought with silver and gold, with 100/.,"
entered the city in state, the mayor and his brethren riding nigh
before her Majesty, bareheaded, in scarlet, "upon their good steeds,
with their footcloths, and pages by their side." Upon that occasion
for a whole week during which time she " lay " or lodged in Sir
J. Young's house (Colston's School afterwards), on St. Augustine's
back there were great doings and brave shows on land and on
river, when the tuneful Brotherhood of St. Stephen's Eingers kept
up such a perpetual chime in honour of the sovereign, that she
recognized their merits by royal letters, under which the Society has
rung and eaten and drunk annually ever since. Amongst the
numerous incidents of that ever-memorable visit was her Majesty's
attendance at the Cathedral on Sunday, "where was a speech to be
read and a hymn to be sung. The speech was left out by an
occasion unlooked for, but the hymn was sung by a very fine boy."
The speech left out has since then been delivered in a thousand
forms. BRISTOLIENSIS.
DXXL THE BURIAL OF HEARTS. (See No. CCCXCII.) The
following cutting from the Gloucester Journal, July 8, 1755, is
curious, and deserves to be noted :
54 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" A few days ago, a man of Chipping-Campden, Gloucestershire,
in digging a grave, discovered a piece of lead in form of a box,
upon opening which he found a man's heart as fresh as if but lately
deposited, tho' it is thought by some to have been interred at least
300 years."
There may perhaps be some reference in a subsequent issue of the
newspaper to this unusual find, or it may be noticed in the parish
register.
C. T. D.
DXXII. GLOUCESTEESHIRE FARMERS AND HIGH PRICES OF CORN,
1795. The appended copy of an old broadside, issued by tenants
on the Badminton estate, will be read with interest :
Badminton, October 3 rd , 1795.
We, whose names are hereunder written, tenants to his Grace the
Duke of Beaufort, in the parishes of Great Badminton, Little
Badminton, Hawkesbury, Didmarton, Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Old
Sodbury, Tormarton, and Acton Turville, in the county of
Gloucester ; Littleton Drew, Sherston, and Sopworth, in the county
of Wilts ; lamenting the unexpected rise on wheat at this time,
and wishing, by every means in our power, to prevent the continu-
ance of it, have, for this purpose, agreed not to sell our wheat at an
higher price than nine shillings per bushel (which, according to our
old and customary measure, is nine gallons and upwards) between
the 10 th day of October, 1795, and the 1 st day of November, 1796 ;
and that we will not sell to any jobbers or dealers in corn, but will
sell to such millers and bakers only as will promise to distribute to
the public in general the flour and bread of the same at a reason-
able profit; and that we will sell it in small . quantities to any
person in the neighbourhood ; and should the market price be lower,
we will readily agree to lower the price accordingly ; and that we
will have our wheat threshed at the usual times in the year, so that
the whole year's produce may be sold (if wanted) by the said
1 st day of November, 1796 ; and to prevent a scarcity, we recommend
a mixture of barley with the wheat, which we will sell to our
labourers and the poor at a moderate price for that purpose
William Shipp Osborne,
Stiles Rich,
William Holbrow,
William White,
Daniel Holbrow,
Richard Willson,
Henry Stinchcomb,
Edward Winter,
Samuel Francomb, jun.,
James Hatherell,
John Beard,
William Arnold,
Samuel Francomb,
Nicholas Bennet,
Joseph Bennet,
John Lovelock,
James Hatherell, jun.,
Mary Brown,
John Cambridge,
David Chapman,
William Witchell,
Samuel Witchell,
Joseph & William Comely,
Samuel Chappel,
John Coates,
John Chapman.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 55
Thomas Chandler, of Boxwell, tenant to the Rev. W m Huntley,
joins in the above agreement.
Cirencester : Printed by S. Rudder. A. H.
DXXIII. THE FOWLERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
(Continued from No. CCOCXLL)
William Fowler, son and heir of Richard Fowler, of Stonehouse,
was born about 1521 ; and we may perhaps infer that he was a
man of prudence from the fact that he deferred his marriage until
the comparatively late age of about thirty-five, and that two years
afterward he was able to acquire the manor of Stonehouse from
William Sandford, Gent. His prosperity is also indicated in his
will (No. 10), which seems so interesting that I shall give it in
full. He was buried at Stonehouse Jan. 15, 1598 ; and his inquisi-
tion post-mortem is No. 7. He married Alice Stevens (probably a
Stevens of Standish), who died before him, and was doubtless the
Alice Fowler who was buried at Stonehouse Feb. 2, 1595, and by
her had issue,
i. Richard, bur. at Stonehouse July 10, 1585.
ii. Daniel, of whom hereafter.
iii. Henry, bap. at Stonehouse Nov. 6, 1569, and doubtless the
Henry Fowler, who in Dec., 1587, matriculated at Oxford
from Queen's College, aged 17, as "generosi filius" of co.
Glouc., and who in Nov., 1591, took his B.A. degree. From
his will (No. 11), and from the registers of Stonehouse,
it appears that he mar. Mary (J Wood), and by her had three
sons and seven daughters
1. Joseph, bap. 1597, bur. 1612.
2. Benjamin, bap. 1599, bur. 1625.
3. Richard, bap. 1607, probably died young.
4. Ann, mar. 1st, Havyland, and had a daughter Mary,
and probably a son Samuel; and 2ndly, (? John)
Clutterbook, and had probably a son William.
5. Sara, mar. pertiaps John Jessor, jun.
6. Mary, bap. 1604, bur. 1605.
7. Abigail, mar. perhaps John Jessor, jun.
8. Hester, bap. 1608, bur. 1617.
9. Alice, mar. Robert Smith, clerk.
10. Mary, bap. and bur. 1612.
Henry Fowler, it will be noticed, was living at Deorhurst at
the time of making his will, and owned lands at Cirencester,
Pagenhill, and Stonehouse, besides his mills at Stonehouse.
He died about March, 1629-30, leaving no descendants in the
male line.
iv. Dorothy, bap. Aug. 5, 1558, and living in Dec., 1597. Doubt-
less she was the Dorothy Fowler, who mar. at Stonehouse, Oct.
13, 1584, Thomas Mayle.
v. Ann. Query whether the Agnes Fowler, who mar. at Stone-
house July 11, 1583, William Osborne.
56 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
vi. Mary. Query whether in error for
vii. Margery, dead before Dec., 1597. Query whether she was
William Fowler's eldest or second daughter, in which case she
might he the Margery Fowler, who mar. at Stonehouse June
10, 1576, Richard Clotterboke. In any case she was wife of
one of that name, to whom she bore a son William, whose
will (No. 12) was proved in 1627.
viii. Alice, bap. Jan. 23, 1564-5, mar. at Stonehouse Oct. 3, 1685,
Robert Ball, who was in Dec., 1597, a "minister of the word
of God."
ix. Joan, bap. Dec. 7, 1572, living in Dec., 1597.
(10) Will of William Fowler, of Stonehouse, 1597. "The
24 th December, 1597, I, William Fowler, of the parishe of Stone-
house, in the county of Gloucester, gentleman, doe make my last
will and testament in manner and forme following. Firste, I
commend my soule to my most mercifull God and father, assuringe
myself of eternal lyffe through the sufferings and obedience of
Chrieste Jesus my saviour. Item I give and bequeathe unto the
poore of the parishes neere adjoyninge three poundes, to be dis-
tributed by the discretion of mine executor. Item I give and
bequeathe all the armor which is in the howse wherein my sonne
Henry dwelleth, to my sonne Daniell and my said sonne Henry, to
be equally divided between them. Item I give and bequeathe unto
my said sonne Henry all my goodes and Cattells nowe being and
remayninge at or within the said howse wherein my said sonne
Henry dwelleth. Item I give and bequeathe unto my fower
daughters, Dorothy, Anne, Alice, and Joane, fifty e poundes, parcell
of the debt which my said sonne Henry oweth me, to be equally
divided between them ; the residue of the said debt I forgeave and
release unto my said sonne Henry. Item I will that all legacies
not yet satisfied, given in or by the laste will and testament of
Margery Fowler, my late mother, or in or by the laste will and
testament of my late brother in lawe William Stevens, gentleman,
shalbe answeared and payed. Item I give and bequeathe to
William Clutterbooke, sonne of my late daughter Margery, fower
poundes. All the residue of my goodes, chattells, and debtes, not
geven nor bequeathed, I geve and bequeathe unto my said sonne
Daniell, whom I make executor of this my laste will and testament.
And overseers of the same I make and appoynte my cosen Richard
Stevens, Esqueir, and my sonne in lawe Robert Ball, minister of
the word of God. In witness whereof I have sett my hande the
daye and yeare firste above written, in the presence of the
personnes undernamed, viz. Richard Stevens, Robert Ball, Daniell
Fowler, Judith Fowler, Johan Partridge.
" William Fowler."
(11) Will of Henry, son of William Fowler, of Stonehouse,
proved March 23, 1629-30, and indexed at Somerset House as the
will of Mr. Henry Fowler, of Gloucestershire (Scroope, 23). He
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 57
begins by calling himself Henry Fowler, of Deorhurst, gent., and
dates his will October 6, 1629. Leaves his lands and goods in
Cirencester to William, son of John Clotterbooke, and his heirs,
remainder to my heirs. My woods in Pagenhill to Samuel
Havyland and his heirs, also my books. A house in Stonehouse,
occupied by Samuel Holliday, to Samuel Havyland, to maintain
him till fifteen. To my daughters, Sarah, Abigail, and Alice, my
howse, mills, and lands in Stonehouse. My brother in law, Richard
Wood, Esq., owes me X700. I owe to John Jessor, sen r , William
Wyncle, John Jessor, jun r , and George Wyncle, sums which are
to be paid out of the above .700, and the remainder is to go to my
son in law, Robert Smith, and Alice, his wife. ,100 to Mary
Havyland, daughter of Anna Clutterbooke, my daughter, at her
marriage, or at the age of twenty-one. Robert Smith, clerk, and
John Jessor, jun r , my sons in law, executors ; and I entreat my
brothers in law, Richard Esey, John Workman, clerk, and Stephen
Fowler, gent., to be overseers. Witnesses, Daniel Fowler, Anne
Smith, and Stephen Fowler.
(12) Will of William Clutterbuck, of Eastington, yeoman,
proved 1627. "Judith, Hester, Elizabeth, and Jane, four of the
daughters of my loving and kind unkle, M r Daniel Fowler."
WILLIAM F. CARTER.
(To ~be continued.)
DXXIV. TEWKESBURY ABBEY AND THE PEW SYSTEM. The
following extracts. are from an old record, entitled "A Seat Book
for the Parish Church of Tewkesbury, in the Diocess of Gloucester,
wherein is numerically placed the several seats in the said Church
and the several Persons that have right to sittings, or kneelings, in
the said seats, 1728 : "
TEWKESBURY, ) ORDERS ABOUT SITTINGS IN CHURCH,
in Com. Glou r , 1595. ] October 22 Qd , 1595.
It was declared in the Chamber by common consent, as the antient
custom of the Town, that no Taker of any Seats or Rome in the
Church shall have property to challenge the same after one yeare
ended from the time of his or her departure out of the Towne.
Item. That uppon decease of any wife in the Towne, it shall
be in the Churchwardens by consent of the Bailiffes (if need so
requires) to place any other woman in the same Rome fitt for that
place, there to keep such rome uppon a quarterly Rent to the Church
untill y e husband of the deceased woman shall marry againe, and
then she to take such place, and in meane tyme no husband to
challenge the place.
Item. That none be placed in any of the M rs sixe seates, nor
in the mydle rowe above the Clarckes pewe, nor within iiij seates
of the pulpitt below, and so upward on both sides in the body of
the Church, without consent of the Bailiffes, &c.
VOL. II.
58 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
11 May 1737. This Book was bought to enter the seats or sittings
which before the date above was held by lives and after the above
Date was to be taken by the year, which is to be seen by an order
of Parish on Tuesday the fifth of April 1737.
In the Blue Gallery.
1711. M r Tho s Hale, Constant his wife, Thomas and Sacheverell
his sons, the whole seat with a room behind for servant; gave
1 11s. Od. Note. Sacheverell has forfieted by non-residence.
1730. M r Willen Hay ward and Mary his wife and Mary his
daughter and one other child whichever he shall nominate, provided
he has one or more. The whole seat, with y e passage entering into
it for a servant before the pillar opposite the Pulpit, late M r Hale's,
gave for the whole seat 5 10s. Od. N.B. M r Hay ward nominate
his son William for y e other child.
In the 1 st Row.
25 Mar. 1746. M r Peter Cocks, Apothecary, 4 sittings called
the Clock case near the Organ : Stairs and Rail to be put up by the
said M r Cocks and paid 4s.
30 Oct. 1 746. M r Peter Cocks being gone to live out of town
M r Jn Wilson has taken the whole seat and paid 4s.
In the 5 th Row.
21 July 1743. M r Thomas Kemble, Esq re , to sittings for his or
his wife's sarvants by the year and paid Is. entrance, and resived a
sitting in the first Row Number three. The money for the other
sitting of M r Kemble's sarvant doth not becum dew tel the 11 th of
April 1744.
In the Pulpit Gallery.
25 Mar. 1750. It is agreed this 29 May by us the Churchwardens
whose names are hereunto annexed, that M r Rich d Terrett is
empowered to build a seat in the Pulpit Gallery, extending from
Stock's Seat in the West along the front of M r Edw d Nichols his
seat, to the entrance of the passage into the pulpit, during his own
life, his wife's, his son John and his daughter Mary, or the survivor
of them, the whole seat paying annually Is. in consideration of his
being at the expense of erecting the same. Remembering that the
same shall be totally removed whenever the church shall be new
seated, and at same time p d for entrance Is.
E. POPHAM \ n-, ^ j
HENRY WESTOM } Churchwardens.
The reference to the bailiffs in the first-quoted entry may be due to
the fact that the church was purchased by the town from King
Henry VIII. , and the grant was made to "the BaylifFes, Burgesses,
and Commonality of the Borough and Town of Tewkesbury."
There is a well-known series of guide books published about the
beginning of this century under the editorship of George Alexander
Cooke the " Murray " of his day. In the volume on Gloucester-
shire occurs this quaint entry referring to Tewkesbury Abbey:
"The pewing of this church was till lately extremely irregular;
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 59
but, by the munificence and public-spirited exertions of the inhabit-
ants, and the representatives of the borough, that defect has been
wholly removed, and the part appropriated to divine worship fitted
up in an elegant stile, at the same time perfectly according with
the architecture of the building, and the purpose for which it was
designed." What shall we say to this 1" " Elegant stile." "Perfectly
according with the architecture of the building." Enough to make
Fitz-Hamon turn in his grave ! ANTIQUARIUS.
DXXV. OAKLEY PARK, CIRENCESTER, IN 1733. A letter from
Mrs. Pendarves to Dean Swift, written from Gloucester, and dated
October 24, 1733 (vol. xix., p. 48, of Swift's Works, edited by
Nichols, and vol. xviii., p. 170, of Sir Walter Scott's subsequent
edition of the same), contains these remarks with reference to Lord
Bathurst and his Cirencester residence : A few days before I had
your last letter, my sister and I made a visit to my Lord and Lady
Bathurst at Cirencester. Oakley Wood adjoins to his Park ; the
grand avenue that goes from his House through his Park and
Wood is five miles long ; the whole contains five thousand acres.
We staid there a day and a half ; the wood is extremely improved
since you saw it ; and when the whole design is executed, it will be
one of the finest places in England. My Lord Bathurst talked
with great delight of the pleasure you once gave him by surprising
him in his wood, and shewed me the house where you lodged. It
has been rebuilt ; for the day you left it, it fell to the ground ;
conscious of the honour it had received by entertaining so illustrious
a guest, it burst with pride. My Lord Bathurst has greatly
improved the Woodhouse, which you may remember but a cottage,
not a bit better than an Irish cabin. It is now a venerable castle,
and has been taken by an antiquarian for one of King Arthur's,
" with thicket overgrown grotesque and wild." I endeavoured to
sketch it out for you ; but I have not skill enough to do it justice.
My Lord Bathurst was in great spirits ; and though surrounded by
candidates and voters against next Parliament, made himself agree-
able in spite of their clamour; we did not forget to talk of
Naboth's vineyard [which belonged to Swift] and Delville [Dr.
Delany's villa, about a mile from Dublin]. jj
DXXVL GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVERBS. The following are
given in Grose's Provincial Glossary, etc. (2nd ed., London, 1790),
under the head of Gloucestershire :
(1) As sure as God's in Gloucestershire. A saying originating
from the number and riches of the religious houses in this county ;
said to be double in number and value to those founded in any
other in England.
(2) You are a man of Durseley. Used to one who has broken
his promise, and probably alluded to an ancient and notorious breach
of faith, by some inhabitants of that town, the particulars of which
are now forgotten.
60 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
(3) It's as long coming as Gotswould barley. This is applied to
such things as are slow, but sure. The corn in this cold country,
on the Woulds, exposed to the winds, bleak and shelterless, is very
backward at the first, but afterwards overtakes the forwardest in
the county, if not in the barn, in the bushel, both for quantity and
goodness thereof.
(4) A Cotswould lion. That is, a sheep ; Cotswould being famous
for its sheep-walks or pastures.
(5) He looks (or seems} as if lie had lived on Tewksbury mustard.
Said of any peevish or snappish person, or one having a cross,
fierce, or ill-natured countenance. Tewksbury is a market-town in
this county, famous for its mustard, which is extremely hot, biting,
and poignant, and therefore, by this proverb, supposed to communi-
cate those qualities to persons fed with it.
(6) As thick as Teivksbury mustard. Said of one remarkably
stupid. See Shakesp. Hen. IV.
(7) The Trades have always the wind in their faces. A super-
stitious legend. Sir William Tracy was one of the four knights
who killed that turbulent prelate Thomas Becket ; for the punish-
ment of which offence it miraculously happened that, whenever any
of the Tracy family travelled, either by land or by water, the wind
always blew in their faces. This, Fuller justly observes, was, in
hot weather, a blessing instead of a curse, exempting the females
of that family from the expence and trouble of buying and using
a fan.
To the foregoing many might be added. In fact, in Smyth's
Berkeley Manuscripts, which are shortly to be printed for the
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, there is " a very
remarkable collection of Old Gloucestershire Proverbs and Folk
Lore -" G.A.W.
DXXYII. EODBOROUGH TABERNACLE : MONUMENTAL INSCRIP-
TIONS, ETC. In his Recollections of Stroud (1871), pp. 118-20,
Mr. Fisher has recorded several particulars of this chapel in
connection with the Kev. George Whitefield, who was mainly
instrumental (with "Thomas Adams, gentleman, of Kodborough,
preacher of the gospel,") in raising the religious society, whose
successors still assemble there for public worship. Within the
chapel (to which a graveyard is attached) there are eight monu-
mental inscriptions ; and a literal transcript, made in 1880, may be
useful :
(1) "This humble monument is designed to perpetuate the
memory of M r Thomas Adams, by whose labours the congregation
assembling in this place was first raised and gradually increased,
and who concluded his disinterested and successful service but a
few weeks prior to the 10 th of August, 1770, when he cheerfully
exchanged his days of labor for eternal rest, aged 52. Elizabeth,
his first beloved and affectionate wife, preceded him to that rest
Dec r 26 th , 1765. Hannah, his second and deservedly beloved wife,
followed April the 4 th , 1800, aged 59."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 61
(2) " Sacred to the memory of Samuel Marling, of "Woodchester,
who died December 3 rd , 1777, set. 29. And of Hester, wife of M r
John Figgins, of London, relict of the above Samuel Marling,
who died May 12 th , 1801, set. 49. William Marling, Clothier, of
Dudbridge House, only son of the above Samuel Marling, died
October 16 th , 1859, aged 83 years. And of Sarah, his wife, who
died August 7 th , 1856, aged 83 years."
(3) " In memory of JSTathaniel S. Marling, Esq r , J.P., of Stone-
house Court, in this county, born April 2 nd , 1797, died January
24 th , 1861."
(4) " In a vault near this monument lie the remains of the
Eev d Robert Heath, who, after doing and suffering the will of God
with apostolic zeal and Christian fortitude, resigned his soul to its
Creator July the 18 th , 1800, set. 59. Also in the. same vault are
deposited the remains of Benjamin, his son, who gave sweet
evidence of his dying in the Lord July the 29 th , 1797, setat. 15."
(5) " This monument is design'd to perpetuate the memory of
M r Edward Dicks and Elizabeth, his wife. She died Dec r 28 th ,
1815, aged 82. He died Feb? 6 th , 1832, aged 87. Both members
of this church for upwards of 50 years, they adorned their Chris-
tian profession as sincere humble followers of the Lamb of God.
They rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."
(6) "In memory of the Rev d Orlando Augustus Jeary, Minister
of the Gospel in this place from the year 1802 until 1812, when on
account of severe indisposition which he had for some time endured,
and from which there seemed no prospect of recovery, he felt himself
obliged to resign his charge. He died at Tilehurst, in Berkshire,
December 13 th , 1817, aged 38, and was buried in St. Giles's
Churchyard, Reading. The theme of his ministry, and the
foundation of his hope in death, may be seen in the following line,
from which at his request the funeral discourse was delivered : ' Not
according to our works.' 2 Tim. i. 9. M rs Sarah Jeary, wife of
the above, died at Reading, Feb. 4 th , 1806. M rs Elizabeth Jeary,
M r Jeary's second wife, died at Reading, March 4 th , 1822,
aged 35."
(7) "In the adjoining yard lie the remains of Hester, wife of
Henry Hodges, of this parish, who departed this life December
18 th , 1831, aged 58 years. The above-named Henry Hodges died
September 19 th , 1838, aged 64 years. Also of Rebecca Hodges,
his sister, who died March 25 th , 1874, aged 91 years."
(8) " This tablet is erected in memory of Anne, the beloved
wife of the Rev d Eliezer Jones, Minister of this church, who died
June 10th, 1867, aetat. 31. Also of their two children : Mary
Jane, died Feb 1 ^ 4 th , 1835, aged 2 years; Louisa Anne, died April
17 th , 1837, aged 3 years."
Lines on the back of an arm-chair, known as " Whitfield's Chair,"
in Rodborough Tabernacle, by the Rev. John Rees :
62 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" If love of souls should e'er be wanting here,
Remember me, for I am Whitfield's Chair ;
I bore his weight, am witness to his fears,
His earnest pray'rs, his interesting tears.
This holy man was fill'd with love divine ;
Art thou the same ? Sit down, & call me thine."
In one of the rooms of this building there is an oil painting,
with this inscription : " This portrait of the Reverend James
Roome, late missionary at Berbice, was presented by him to the
Rodborough Tabernacle Sunday School in pleasant and grateful
remembrance of having been himself in early life a scholar in that
institution."
In September, 1866, several "Centenary Services" were held in
celebration of the original erection of the Tabernacle in 1766 ; and
details of them, with a brief history of the place, are recorded in
A Memorial of Nonconformity (London, 1866), a 12mo publication.
J. G.
DXXVIII. MRS. LAWRENCE, A CENTENARIAN? The case of
this lady having been briefly mentioned in No. CCLXXXIX., it
may be satisfactory to quote what Mr. Thorns has written respecting
her in his Human Longevity ', pp. 266-8 :
The author of the article on " Longevity and Centenarianism," in
the Quarterly Review, to which I have already referred, was good
enough to forward to Notes and Queries, of March 1, 1868, the
following interesting case : " By the courtesy of Major-General
Lawrence, of Sydney Place, Bath, I am enabled to offer you a well-
attested case of centenarianism. General Lawrence's mother, Mrs.
Martha Lawrence, daughter of John Cripps, Esq., of Upton House,
Tetbury, was bom on August 9, 1758, in Bow Lane, Cheapside, and
christened at St. Mary's Aldermary. She died on the morning of
February 17, 1862, and was buried in the graveyard of Ham
Common, Surrey, in a grave beyond the church, to the east. On
the tombstone are inscribed the dates of her birth and death. Thus
she must have attained the great age of one hundred and three years,
six months, and seven days, when she died without a struggle, in full
possession of her faculties. General Lawrence informs me that, on
a fly-leaf of an old family Bible in his possession, is the following
entry : ' John Lawrence and Martha Cripps were married on the
12 th Nov r , 1783, at Streatham.'" This case is so exceptional as
to call for undoubted proof of the identity of the child born
[baptized] on August 15, 1758, with the aged lady who died
February 17, 1862. The only entries in the baptismal register of
St. Mary's Aldermary, are :
1758. Aug. 15. Martha, daughter of John and Frances Cripps.
1762. July 29. Frances, daughter of do.
1764. Jan. 1. Margaret Anne, daughter of do.
I am bound to add there is no evidence of the burial of the child
Martha, baptized in 1758. On the possibility of the register of the
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marriage containing evidence of Martha Cripps's age at that time, I
ventured to trouble the Eev. J. K. Nichols, the rector of Streatham,
with an inquiry, in reply to which he obligingly sent me a copy of
the register. In this her age is not mentioned, but she is described
as being of the parish of Clapham. I am indebted to the courtesy
of her son, General Lawrence, for the information that she had four
sisters, younger than herself, viz., Frances, Margaret, Mary, and
Sophia, Frances and Margaret were baptized at St. Mary's,
Aldermary. It is probable that Mary and Sophia were born after
their parents' removal to Clapham. When I add that the entry in
the family Bible is repeated in a book called The Mystery of the Soul,
there is, I believe, all the evidence that exists that Mrs. Lawrence
attained the exceptional age of 103 years, 6 months, and 7 days, in
full possession of her faculties. A lady who died nearly 80 years
after her marriage must, at all events, have been nearly a centenarian.
EDITOR.
DXXIX. EDWARD COLSTON, 1636-1721. The records of phi-
lanthropy afford no brighter example than Edward Colston, whose
name sheds a lustre upon the annals of Bristol a community that
claims him as one of its noblest sons. The anniversary of his birth
(November 13), styled " Colston's Day," is one of the most honoured
celebrations of Bristol; and it is not merely of local, but of
national importance, for eminent men, representing the great political
parties in the state, on that day render tribute to the memory of the
philanthropist who so well deserves a remembrance in the history
of the city.
Edward Colston, a native of Bristol, was born in 1636. He
came of a line of Bristol traders that class which has carried
the name of the British merchant to every quarter of the world.
Very little is known of his history, but he is supposed to have gone
to Spain early in life. But be this as it may, by the time he reached
the age of forty, he had, through his business tact and persevering
energy, attained a high position as a merchant trading with the East
Indies. Those were the days which preceded the incorporation of
the East India Company ; and Mr. Colston is said to have owned as
many as forty ships. He was not a merchant of Bristol, but of
London, and most of his ventures were made from the latter port.
Always of a very charitable disposition, and ever dispensing his
benevolence according to his means, Colston was accustomed, when
in the full tide of prosperity, and "fortune shining upon him," to
distribute thousands of pounds to worthy objects. Nor were his
benefactions altogether or exclusively of a public character, for his
private gifts in many parts of the kingdom were numerous and
frequent ; indeed, these are said to have even exceeded his public
benefactions. On one occasion he sent .3,000 through a secret
channel, to relieve and discharge the debtors in one of the London
prisons. And during a season of great scarcity he sent to the
London committee the munificent sum of .20,000, with only these
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words, " To relieve the wants of the poor in the metropolis" This
was sent in a cover without any signature. During his lifetime he
spent upwards of .70,000 in relieving the wants of others ; and
at his death he left .100,000 amongst his relatives and dependents.
Not forgetting the place of his birth, amongst other noble deeds he
instituted, in 1708, the magnificent school of St. Augustine. The
building alone cost .11,000, and he endowed it with between
1,700 and 1,800 a-year for ever. In this school one hundred
boys are educated; and by his will Mr. Colston left 10 for
apprenticing each boy, and for twelve years after his death 10 as
an assistance in commencing business.
A remarkable instance of the generosity of his disposition may
be given, and it seems to illustrate the guiding spirit of his long
and useful life. One of his ships, trading to the East Indies, had
been given up for lost ; but after a long detention at sea through
stress of weather, she arrived in England with a valuable cargo.
When this intelligence was brought to him, he replied that, as the
vessel had been given up for lost he would abandon all claims upon
vessel and cargo. Accordingly he directed both to be sold, and the
proceeds applied to the relief of the needy and afflicted.
Colston died in 1721. He had lived in the reigns of six English
sovereigns, or, if we include the protectorate of Cromwell, seven.
Born in the eleventh year of the reign of Charles L, he lived to
see the dethronement and violent death of that unfortunate
monarch ; the troubled time of the interregnum ; the reigns of
Charles II, James II., William III., and Anne ; and seven years
of the reign of George I. !
He led a single life ; and when his friends would sometimes
advise him to marry, his reply was " That every helpless widow
was his wife, and distressed orphans were his children." He died
at Mortlake, Surrey, at the advanced age of eighty-five, leaving
behind him a name for munificence which requires not the statue
in the parish church of All Saints, Bristol, to commemorate it.
The reputation of his noble acts will live in the hearts of his fellow-
citizens from one generation to another, as that of a man who used
the wealth with which he had been blessed, in relieving the wants
and mitigating the afflictions of his less-favoured fellow-creatures.
BRISTOLIENSIS.
DXXX.-THE SLAUGHTER FAMILY. -(Eeplies to No. CCCCLXXII.)
In the hope of aiding the Rev. Dr. Slaughter, of Virginia, U.S.A.,
in his genealogical inquiries, sundry particulars of the family (some
of which will most probably be new to him, and likewise to others
interested in such matters) are submitted in answer to his recent
communication.
In Notes and Queries (4 th S. v. 33) the Eev. C. J. Robinson
inserted an inquiry relative to the arms of Slaughter of Cheyney
Court, in the parish of Bishop's Frome, Herefordshire, asking
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likewise how and when this family became extinct ; and in the
same volume, pp. 152, 153, a very full reply appeared. It concludes
as follows : " The Slaughters were long settled at Upper Slaughter,
in Gloucestershire. Atkyns says, in 1711 'The manor has been
long in the family of the Slaughters, who have resided in this
place above three hundred years.' The last Slaughter mentioned
by Eudder died in 1740. Then the manor of Slaughter was sold."
To the same number of Notes and Queries Mr. Maurice Lenihan,
M.E.I. A., of Limerick, supplied this information : " The arms of
Slaughter (co. Gloucester) are cut on a tombstone in the church of
St. Mary, Clonmel. They are on a floriated shield, and when next
I have an opportunity of seeing Clonmel, I may have time to take
a rubbing of them. The tombstone contains the following
inscription, which may interest your correspondent Mr. C. J.
Eobinson and your readers generally : ' Here lieth the body of
John Slaughter, borne in Gloucestershire, who died the first of
August, 1687. Here also lies the body of Cornet John Batty,
grandson to the above-named Slaughter, who dyed the 17 th of
January, 1711, son of Tho 8 and Elizabeth Batty, of Clonmell. Also
the body of Elizabeth, the wife of Tho 8 Batty, who dyed 20 th of
May, 1714. Also the body of Cornet Thomas Batty, of Clonmell,
who departed this life at Killoughter, the 7 th of February, 1722,
and in the 62 nd year of his age. Here lies the body of Lieu* W m
Kennet, as also the body of Elizabeth Kenneth, who died Sep r 7 th ,
1736.' It is not unlikely that the member of the Slaughter family
above-named came to Ireland during the Cromwellian wars, and
settled in Clonmel, where we find his grandson, Cornet John Batty,
* son to Tho 3 and Elizabeth Batty, of Clonmell,' interred in the
same tomb, in January, 1711. A Captain and Lieut-Col. Thomas
Slaughter held that rank on Feb. 22, 1779, in the Coldstream Foot
Guards."
Mr. J. S. Udall at the same time replied : " I find that
Edmondson (1780 edit., vol. ii.) [and also Burke in General Armory]
gives as the arms of Slaughter of Herefordshire, Argent, a saltier
azure. Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle's head arg. wings
expanded sable. And for the arms of Slaughter of Gloucestershire,
same as above, the difference being in the crest, which is, Out of a
ducal coronet or, an eagle's head between two wings expanded azure :
beaked of the first. Burke likewise gives for Slaughter of Worcester-
shire the same arms, but a different crest A falcon with wings
expanded."
There are further communications in the same volume, from the
late Sir Thomas E. Winnington, Bart., and others, to which we
refer the reader ; particularly one from " D.E." [Eev. David Eoyce],
p. 320, of which this is the opening paragraph : " Slaughter, from
which the family derives its name, is the next village to mine. In
tracing its history, I found the pedigree enclosed [Egerton MS.,
No. 996, fo. 46; Visitation of Derby, 1611; Harl MS. 1537},
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bearing on your most interesting article. The east window in
Slaughter church some 200 years ago contained Ar. a salt. az.
impaling ar. 3 bars gu. Whose coat is the latter 1 These arms
are still over the porch of the fine Elizabethan mansion of this
family in Slaughter. Any information connecting this ancient
family with the Turley branch (Gloucestershire), or with the Sutton
branch (Lincolnshire), will be very acceptable."
In the succeeding volume, pp. 9, 98, there are communications
respecting the " arms of Slaughter " from Mr. Charles S. Greaves
and Mr. Charles Mason ; the latter adding in a postscript : "lean
fully support what your correspondent, Mr. C. S. Greaves, says,
that Slater is another way of spelling Slaughter. While looking over
some old parish books at Stepney I observe that a Captain Gilbert
Slaughter was elected a vestryman for Ratcliff on Jan. 27, 1762, and
that wherever his name is subsequently written in those books it is
spelt in the same manner, but wherever his original signature occurs
he signs himself Slater. I do not know what his arms may have
been, so am unable tq connect him with the family of Slaughter
mentioned by your various correspondents." GENEALOGIST.
Rudder, in his Gloucestershire (1779), p. 666, states that the
chancel of the parish church of Upper Slaughter " being repaired
about the year 1775, three antient brass plates, with inscriptions,
were taken down from the wall, which I copied exactly thus " :
" Here lyeth bvryed the Body of lohn Slavghter of Over
Slavghter in the Covntye of Glove. Esqvire who departed this Lyfe
in the yeare of ovr Lord God one thowsand. fyve Hundred
fovrscoore and three. Memento Mori."
" Here lyeth bvried the Body of Elianor Slavghter the Wife of
lohn Slavghter aforesaid and the eldest davghter vnto William
Baghott of Presbvry in the Covnty of Glove. Esqvire which sayde
Elianor departed this Lyfe the ninth of lanvarie in the yeare of
ovr Lord God one Thowsand five hvndred fovrscore and seaventene.
Hodye mihi : Cras tibi."
" Here lyeth bvried the body of Paris Slavghter sonne and heire
vnto lohn Slavghter Esqvire who died the xxviii th of Febrvary in
the yeare of ovr Lord 1597 and in the 55 yeare of his age."
Upon a stone in the chancel is this memorial, likewise recorded
by Rudder, to whom we are indebted for the two which follow it :
"Edmond Slaughter of Upper Slaughter Gen fc y e 5 son of
Chambers Slaughter Esq. desired to bee buried Ynder this Stone,
July the 29 day, aged 71 Years. Anno Dom. 1698."
Upon a table of white marble the following is inscribed :
" In Memoriam Viri optimi Plurimisq ; Nominibus Deside-
ratissimi Chambers Slaughter de Braceleigh in Agro Vigorniensi
Armigeri, Obijt Ian : 13 An ^Etatis sua3 66 to , Dom 1 1718. Hoc
Monumentum Susanna filia Rich di Hill De Bachcombe in Agro
Hereford : Armigeri, & Relicta ejusdem Chambers Slaughter amoris
Ergo P."
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And a plain white marble bears this inscription :
"Sacred to the Memories of Sarah, Daughter of Obediah
Sedgwick, Merchant, and Wife to Chambers Slaughter, Esq. She
was born Octo. 29, 1675, died Sept. 16, 1736.
" Endow'd with all the virtues Mortals know,
The knowledge of them, and the practice too ;
Propitious Heaven indulged her Life to see
Generall esteem attend her piety.
Then grown too perfect for this low abode,
Death gave the stroke, and wing'd her to her God.
"And of William Slaughter, Esq., her only son. He was born
March 20, 1710, died March 23, 1740.
" If Fame in what she says sincere can be,
(When in the same her hundred tongues agree)
More fond, more dutifull, or more sincere
JSTo Friend, no Son, no Brother will appear :
In Manners skill'd, in Books well read, of truth
A Lover, strict in Morals, tho' a Youth.
Adieu, dear Friend, and sacred be the stone
Which speaks the truth can be deny'd by none."
In the newspapers of the year 1731 the following announcement
of marriage may be found: "October 23, William Wentworth,
Esq., nephew to the Earl of Strafford, Captain-Lieutenant in the
King's own Eoyal Eegiment of Dragoons, and Gentleman-Usher,
Quarterly- Waiter to his Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales,
married to M rs Susannah Slaughter, daughter to John Slaughter,
late of Upper-Slaughter, in the County of Gloucester, Esq., deceas'd."
In his Gloucestershire, p. 345 (2nd ed.), Sir Robert Atkyns
writes : " The manor [of Upper Slaughter] has been long in the
family of the Slaughters, who have resided in this place above
three hundred years. Chamberlain [Chambers] Slaughter, Esq.,
was lord of this manor in the year 1608 ; and Slaughter,
Esq., son of Edward [Edmond] Slaughter, is [1711] the present
lord of the manor of Upper Slaughter, and has a good house and
estate in this place. . . . Mr. Slaughter is patron [of the
rectory]. . . . There is an inscription in the chancel for Parry
[Paris] Slaughter, son of John Slaughter, Esq.; he died 1595
[1597]. Another for Edward [Edmond] Slaughter, Esq., who died
1698."
In addition to the above from Atkyns, who too often stands in
need of correction, the following particulars may be quoted from
" the laborious and painstaking " Eudder, p. 666 : " The ancient
family of the Slaughters were lords of the manor for many
generations, and took their name from the parish, in which they
resided upwards of three hundred years. John Slaughter, Esq., of
Over Slaughter, died in the year 1583, and Paris Slaughter, his
son and heir, died in the year 1597. Chambers Slaughter, Esq.,
was lord of this manor in the year 1608. Another Chambers
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Slaughter died in the year 1718, and William Slaughter, Esq., son
of a third Chambers Slaughter, was lord of this manor, and died in
the year 1740. From this family the manor and advowson passed,
by purchase, to Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Sir William
Dodwell, of Sevenhampton, Knight, afterwards married to the late
Thomas Tracy, of Saudi well, in this county, Esq., deceased, and
she is [1779] the present lady of the manor." EDITOR.
DXXXI. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER, CITIES AND COUNTIES.
(See No. LYI.) Mr. J. P. Briscoe has this paragraph in Old
Nottinghamshire (1881), p. 96, under the head of "Nottingham a
Town and County : " There are [in England] only thirteen cities
and six towns which are thus distinguished. These, with one
exception (London), all formerly belonged to other counties, and
were separated from them by royal charter. London was a county
by prescription at the Norman conquest. The other places were
separated from parent counties, and invested with independent
jurisdiction, by charters from the following monarchs. The cities
and counties are : Bristol, by a charter of 47 Edward III., which is
the earliest instance ; York, by Eichard II. ; Lincoln and Norwich,
by Henry IV. ; Coventry, by Henry VI. ; Canterbury, by Edward
IV. ; Gloucester, by Piichard II. ; Chester, by Henry VII. ; Exeter,
by Henry VIII. ; Lichfield, by Mary ; Carmarthen and Worcester,
by James I. The towns and counties are : Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
by Henry IV. ; Hull, Nottingham, and Southampton, by Henry
VI. j Haverfordwest, by Edward IV. ; and Poole, by Elizabeth.
J. B.
DXXXII. BISHOP FRAMPTON AND LORD WHARTON. (See
No. DXVIII.) I thank you for the recent Stroud Journal containing
the anecdote of Bishop Frampton with reference to the Wharton
family on account of their disgraceful conduct in a church in his
diocese, in 1682. You may like to know (if you do not already)
of the correspondence which took place between this honest bishop
and Sancroft, then archbishop of Canterbury, and which has been
printed by the Rev. David Royce, M.A., vicar of Lower Swell, in
his History and Antiquities of Stow (Stow-on-the-Wold, 1861), pp.
34-6 ; so I send you an exact copy of what Frampton wrote, from
which it appears that it was not Lord Wharton, but his sons and
others, who were guilty of the sacrilegious acts recorded. The first
letter runs thus :
" May it please your Grace,
" There hath happened in my Diocese a very great scandall, given
by my Lord Wharton's son and others, who, in a fitt of drunken-
nesse, entered the church of Barington in the night, rent the church
bible, cut the bell ropes, &c.
" Since which tyme, and very lately, I have received a letter from
the said offender, M r Wharton, full of tender expressions, repre-
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senting his shame and sorrow for the fact, begging pardon, and
submitting himself to what I shall enjoy ne.
" My purpose is to summon him to appeare at the same place
where he gave the scandall, and there, in the same church, to atone
for what he hath done, and for a part of the penance, I intend to
enjoyne him to lay downe fifty pounds for the repair of Stow church,
which, by my persuasion, is undertaken, though with disadvantage
enough to the parishioners, myselfe, and others. I have written to
my Lord Bishop of London about it alsoe, and doe most humbly
pray your Grace and his Lordship to give me your opinion, whether
this proceeding of mine be prudent, practicable, and sufficient.
Your Grace knows that though I am an old man, I am but young
in these affairs, and may misstep if I have not good directions. I
had certainly come to London to bewayle this great scandall, and to
have implored his Majesties assistance for redresse, if I had not bin
prevented by the letter aforesayde, and an assurance from M r Gary,
of Woodstock, (who brought it to me,) that M r Wharton is a true
penitent, ready to submit to what in reason shall be enjoyned."
" I know his father's temper, but, by the letter and by the
testimony of M r Gary and others, I understand the son to be a
man of very considerable parts, as well as estate. Therefore, soe
to be handled that we may not make a downright enemy of him,
nor soe to be indulged as to shame our discipline, and our religion
itselfe exposed to dishonour, which I will rather dye than endure.
" I beseech you give me some directions, and assist me by your
prayers. With all respect, I kisse your Grace's hand.
" Your Grace's most affectionate and most
" obedient son and servant,
" Eobert Gloucester.
"Fontmill, in Dorsetshire, near Shaftesbury, Aug. 24, 1682."
A second letter was written in October of the same year, as
follows :
" May it please your Grace,
" Having prayed your Grace's directions about the scandall at
Barington, I am obliged alsoe to give your Grace an account of
what hath bin done about it. The two brothers, sons to Lord
Wharton, are true penitents, as I hope, and will hereafter, if their
promises hold good, be better men.
" By reason of the distance of their abode from mine, and their
living out of my Diocese, I was driven to treat with them first by
way of letter. In mine, I aggravated their offence, not only from
the horrid guilt, but the folly of the fact, and' the little consistency
of it with their birth, parts, and relations, much lesse with their
religion. In theirs (for they both have owned them to be written
with a joynt consent), they declare their shame and sorrow for it,
begging pardon, resolving to live better, and submitting themselves
entirely to my award.
" I required a second letter in confirmation of the first, and a
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promise to meet me where I appointed them, to own, viva voce,
before good witnesses, what they had written. The place I first pitched
on was Barington, where they gave the scandall, but doubting that
by meeting their old company there they might harden one another
and turn all to ridicule, I changed Barington for Stowe.
" Thither they came, at the day appointed, each of them confessing,
lamenting, and asking pardon, first in private, afterwards in publicke,
before three of the clergy and three of the lay. By way of
commutation for their penance, they layd downe fifty guineas, ten
of which I returned to them, and fourty I gave, in their presence,
towards the repairs of Stow church, which of a decrepit and
unserviceable one, as it was last spring, and had bin for many years,
is now one of the fairest in the whole Diocese.
"They assured me that it was neither atheism, popery, nor
fanaticism, that led them to it, but mere drunkennesse, of which
they sayd they are ashamed, and promised, by God's grace, to avoyd
it for the future. With many wholesome admonitions, I dismist
them, assuring them that hereafter I would remind them of their
promises.
" Your Grace's most humble son and servant,
" Robert Gloucester.
"Gloucester, October 21, 1682."
The following extract from a third letter relates to the same
matter :
11 May it please your Grace,
" Having, according to my promise, made a diligent enquiry after
the disorders of Barington, I find the same account that I have given
your Grace already, viz., that the bells were rung backwards, the
ropes cutt, the bible torn, the cover of the font and the deske of
the pulpit broaken. All which are to be repaired at the cost of the
offenders, to which they submitted when they met me, and part is
done already, nor is it their fault that the rest is not yet done also.
Humbly begging your blessing, I rest,
" Your Grace's obedient son and servant,
"Bobert Gloucester.
" I pray your Grace to accept of a Lamprey Pye, which will be
delivered about the end of the week."
The foregoing letters (a portion of the last one, necessarily too
gross for the general reader, having been omitted,) were published
by Mr. Royce from the originals in the Bodleian Library ; and as
his History has long been out of print, and is scarce, they may very
fitly be reproduced. As he has remarked, p. 37, " the church was,
no doubt, put in serviceable repair, but the windows in the clerestory
were then stripped of their tracery. However, a new foundation was
underset, with great art, to support the weighty tower. The
parishioners and divers others contributed, and Mr. Wharton's
drunken frolic (by the wisdom of the bishop) was made subservient
to the public good."
Stow-on-the-Wold. R. W. HIPPISLEY, M.A.
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DXXXIIL THE DERIVATION OF " TETBURY." It is desired to
draw attention to this point, which has been thus referred to in
Notes and Queries (3 rd S. i. 487), but without receiving a reply :
In the Archaeological Journal of the Institute of Great Britain, No.
72, there is a paper upon the names of places in Gloucestershire.
It is to be lamented that it is much too brief in compass, though
well treated in its limited extent. I have been desirous to ascertain
the etymology of Tetbury, a considerable town in that county, which
seems enveloped in obscurity. The Rev. Alfred Lee, in his History
of the place, thinks it is derived from Teddbury, which would
signify "a fortress in an open plain." In the midland counties,
and especially in Warwickshire, Ted and Tet seem to have been
used indifferently, ex. gr., as Ted for Edward, and Tet for Elizabeth,
or more affectionately, Tetty of which last Dr. Johnson always
availed himself when speaking of his wife ; and with regard to
Tetbury during the seventeenth and long in the eighteenth century,
it seems to have been more frequently written and pronounced
Tedbury. Of the local tokens circulated in the neighbourhood
shortly after the Restoration (temp. Charles II.), four are stamped
as being used at Tedbury. Still, as I think the origin of the name
is problematical, I wish to submit it as a query to your readers for
elucidation.
J. G
DXXXIV. THE PLAGUE AT TREDINGTON, 1610-11. In
looking through the registers of this parish a few days ago I was
much struck by the excessive mortality, arising from pestilence, which
occurred in the autumn of 1610 and spring of 1611. I do not
know what was the exact population of the parish at that time ;
but inasmuch as in the year 1801 it was only 121, and at present
about 150, we may, I think, fairly conclude that it did not exceed 80.
Whatever the number of inhabitants may have been, during the ten
years previous to 1610 the total number of burials in the parish was 1 1
only, while in the period between 5th September and 2nd December
there were 24, whereof 22 died of the pestilence, viz.,
The 5 th of September was buried Christiana, the daughter of
Samuel Clemences. pestilence
The 11 th of September was buried Samuel Clemences. pestilence
The 11 th of September was buried Nathaniell Maye, y e son of
Thomas Maye.
The 18 th of Sepember was buried Elinor, y e wife of Will m Joynes.
pestilence
The 23 d of September was buried Christopher, sonn of Robert
Rutter. pesti
The first of October was buried Thomas Wemans, y e servant of
Thomas Surman. pesti
The 25 [September ?] was buried Christine, daughter of Richard
Cooke. pesti
The 4 th of October was buried Charles Bick, the elder, pesti
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The 4 th of October was buried Prudence, the daughter of Will m
Joynes. pesti
The seventh of October was buried Jeane, daughter of Will m La.
pesti
The 7 th of October was buried Edward Bick. pesti
The 7 th of October was buried Marie Cowles, servant to Thomas
Surman. pesti
The 9 th of October was buried Eichard Cox, servant to Thomas
Surman. pesti
The 20 th day of October was buried Edward Powell of Tewxbury.
pesti
The 20 th day of October was buried John Addis, servant to
Thomas Surman. pesti
The 23 rd day of October was buried Joane, the daughter of
Richard Cooke. pesti
The 28 th day of October was buried John Cleeky of Tewxbury,
he died at Christopher tombes at fiddington. pesti
The 5 thL of November was buried Will m Joynes. pesti
The seventh of November was buried Emmett, the wife of
Thomas Bick. pesti
The 8 th of November was buried Margaret, the wife of Eichard
Cooke. pesti
The 15 th of November was buried Eichard, the sonn of Eobert
Eutter. pesti
The 21 st of November was buried Paris, the sonn of Eobert
Eutter. pesti
The 23 rd of November was buried Eobert, sonn of Charles Bick.
pesti
William Eichards, sonne of William Eichards, was buried the
second day of December.
Anno Do ni 1611.
The 18 th day of Aprelle was buried James Cornall, son of
William Cornall, of pestilence
The 5 th day of May was buried Gylles Cornwall, sonne of William
Cornwall, and of the plague, allso
The same day was buried Edward Cornwall, son of William
Cornwall, pesti
John Surman, sonne of Thomas Surman, was buried the 28 th
day of October.
It would hence appear that in April, 1611, the plague broke out
again, and three persons of the family of Cornwall were buried
within eighteen days.
In the following ten years 20 persons were buried, which was
double the proportion of the preceding ten years. In 1610 more
than one fourth of the population was cut off in eighty days.
I do not know that there was any general visitation of the plague
in England in 1610, nor do I know to what extent the frightful
epidemic which visited Tredington extended ; but it appears from
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the registers of the adjoining parish of Deerhurst that the burials
there in 1610 and 1611 were only of the normal number. It
would be interesting to learn whether the other parishes contiguous
to Tredington escaped the visitation.
Bicknor Court, Coleford. JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A.
DXXXV. TUPMAN'S BEQUEST. " There lived in Syston,
Leicestershire, nearly a hundred years ago, an old sportsman of the
name of Jeremiah Tupman, who left the greater part of his large
fortune to the minister at Berkeley, to be laid out in breeding
woodcocks. He stated that having on one occasion caught a young
male woodcock, which he carefully reared, he procured a mate for
it, and they bred abundantly on his estate, so that he had been
induced to alter his will and leave his property to a clerical sport-
ing friend on the above conditions ; but if the minister failed to
carry them out the land was to revert to the Tupman family." The
foregoing is an extract from a recent newspaper. Is there any
truth in the story? Is Berkeley in Gloucestershire the parish
referred to ? THOMAS EOACH, M. A.
3, All Saints' Eoad, Clifton.
DXXXVL THE GARY FAMILY, OF VIRGINIA, U.S.A. The
Eev. Philip Slaughter, D.D., Eector of Emmanuel Church,
Culpeper Co., Va., and author of A History of Bristol Parish (2nd
ed., Richmond, 1879) and other able and interesting works, has
published A Sketch of the Life of Randolph Fairfax (3rd ed.,
1878) ; and we quote the concluding paragraph :
The direct ancestor of the Carys of Virginia was William Gary,
one of the merchant princes of Bristol [England], who became
mayor of that city in 1546, temp. Henry VIII. His grandson
William was also mayor in 1611. The first Virginia ancestor,
Colonel Myles Gary, grandson of the last mayor, came from Bristol
soon after its surrender to the Eoundheads in 1645. He soon
became prominent in the colony, was a member of the House of
Burgesses (1659) from Warwick, Escheator General, CoUector of
Customs for James Eiver, and a member of the King's Council under
Sir William Berkeley. In 1665 he superintended under royal
orders the building of a fort on the present site of Fortress Monroe ;
and here he lost his life repelling an attack of the Dutch navy
(1667). Of his four sons, the male Gary descendants of the elder,
Thomas, if any, are unknown. Those of Henry, the 2d son,
became extinct with his grandson, Col. Archibald Gary, of Ampthill
(Old Iron). Wilson Miles Gary, of Baltimore, represents the family
of Colonel Miles Gary, the 3d son, who was Surveyor-General of
Virginia, Burgess for Warwick (1692-1699), one of the revisers of
the Code of 1705, and Eoyal Collector of Customs for York Eiver.
He married a great heiress, Mary, daughter of Col. Wm. Wilson ;
hence the name Wilson, which the eldest son has borne for six
generations. Of his two sons, Miles, the younger, died unmarried.
VOL. n. F
74 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Of his two daughters, Mary married Joseph Selden ; hence nearly
all the Seldens of Virginia, except those of Norfolk. Anne married
Col. Whiting, of Gloucester. Col. Wilson Gary, of Ceeleys and
Richneck (the former estate on James River near Hampton, the
latter in Warwick), the eldest son, was educated at William and
Mary College, Virginia, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He
was a gentleman of literary culture, presiding magistrate and county-
lieutenant of Elizabeth City. Wilson Miles Gary, of Baltimore,
has a remnant of his fine library, He died, aged seventy, before
the Ee volution. Besides an only son he left four daughters : 1.
Sarah, wife of George Wm. Fairfax. She it was who inspired
Washington with such an ardent passion. 2. Mary, wife of Edward
Ambler, of Jamestown ; hence all the Virginia Amblers, one of
whom was the wife of Chief Justice Marshall. 3. Anne, who
married Robert Carter Nicholas, the treasurer, and was the mother
of four distinguished sons. 4. Elizabeth, married Bryan, younger
brother of George Wm. Fairfax. She is the ancestress of all
the Fairfaxes of this family in Virginia. The only son, Col.
Wilson Miles Gary, of Ceeleys, Richneck, Hampton, Williamsburg,
and Carysbrook, Fluvanna, to which latter place he moved about
1812, and where he died in 1817, at the age of eighty-four, was a
man of great wealth, and prominent in the Legislature and Church
assemblies of his time. There is an amusing anecdote of him in
Bishop Meade's " Old Churches," vol. i., p. 50. By his wife Sarah,
daughter of the Hon. John Blair, and sister of Judge Blair (U.S.
Supreme Court), he left an only son and three daughters, viz.,
Mrs. Thomas Nelson, Jr., Mrs. Wm. Peachy, and Mrs. Ferdinand
Fairfax, all distinguished for their great beauty. The son, Wilson,
who died long before his father in 1793, aged thirty-three, married
Jean, daughter of Dabney Carr, and niece of Thomas Jefferson.
Of this marriage there were two sons and one daughter (Mrs.
Newsum). The sons were Wilson Jefferson Gary and Col. Miles
Gary, whose family is now represented by his only two grandsons,
Hunsdon Gary, of Memphis, Tenn., and Wilson Miles Gary, of
Eichmond. Wilson Jefferson Gary, the eldest son, married Virginia,
daughter of Thomas Mann Eandolph, of Tuckahoe, whose children
were the late Wilson Miles Gary, of Baltimore, and Mary Eandolph
Gary, who married Dr. Orlando Fairfax, whose son, Randolph
Fairfax, is the subject of this memoir. BRISTOLIENSIS.
DXXXVII. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF ARLINGHAM PARISH.
(See No. CCLXV.) The following additional extracts from the
parish register are noteworthy :
" Another floud 1483, primo Regis Rich. 3 fcii , as in a manuscript
appears."
"18 th Julie, 1602, a baptism by M r Hancock, when I preacht
at Pauls Crosse. Per me Hen : Childe."
" 1604, Jany 11 th , were baptized Susanna & Elizabeth, the twin
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 75
daughters of Richard Clifford, Gen*, apud inhumationem matris
harum."
"1612, Sept. 12, Alice, the daughter of Robert Fryer, of Slow,
baptized, when I was arrested by Steven Poole in the church
presently after sermon, at Tho 8 Drivers sute for 44s., when as like-
wise I was assaulted by the said Driver and Poole to be arrested in
the church yarde presently after the Sacrament of Baptisme in the
middle of Divine Service, & in the audience & face of the whole
congregation. 1612. Per me Hen: Childe."
On the bells there are these inscriptions :
1. " Peace & Good Neighbourhood."
2. " Abra. Kudhall, Bellfounder, 1717."
3. "Prosperity to this Parish. A.R. 1717."
4. Peace & Good Neighbourhood. A.B. 1717."
5. "John Carter & Richard Fryer, Churchwardens, 1717."
6. " Come when I call ) A -p -, 71 *
To serve God all. } A>R 1717 '
Monuments in the church are respectively inscribed as follows :
"Near this place lie the remains of Henrietta Margaretta
Dorothea Mill, elder D r of Sir Richard Mill, Bar*, of Mattisfort,
Hants, by Dorothea, second D r of Richard Warren, Esq re , of the
Redcliffe, Somerset, who died 28 July, 1779, aged 15 years.
" Ye, whose parental arms have early lost
Your heart's whole treasure, fond affection's boast,
Check not the rising, sympathetic tear,
But drop in silent woe the tribute here.
If native beauty, ease and sweetness join'd,
If sense with diffidence, the chastest mind,
Could bless a sorrowing mother's happier years,
Just Heaven, forgive her unremitting tears."
" In memory of Ann Maria Estcourt, relict of Edmund Estcourt,
Esq re , of Shipton Moyne, in the County of Wilts [sic], and one of
the last descendants of the ancient family of Yate of Arlingham ;
she died on the 19 th day of Sept., 1783, aged 74.
" Wearied with misfortunes, and a complication of disorders
which she sustained with that patience, the effect of true religion,
she sunk full of honour, piety, and virtue.
" So lives an aged oak on some bold shore,
Where tempests rage, and jarring billows roar ;
Tho' shaken, stands the frequent thunder's force,
And bears, tho' scath'd, the lightning's vivid course.
Firmly he rears his branches to the sky,
While most around at different periods die,
Till his deep roots, sap'd by impetuous tides,
Feel no support surround their naked sides :
Their honour'd weight unable to sustain,
He sinks lamented on the desert plain."
76 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" This memorial is inscribed to Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund
and Elizabeth Vimpany, who was unfortunately drowned in the
river Severn March 26 th > 1786, aged 18 years.
" Stay, pause awhile, and view this silent tomb,
Though silent, eloquent, though dead, shall speak,
Speak to the heart of man. Ah ! early doom
She could not shun, yet virtuous, mild, and meek.
Launch'd on the bosom of Sabrina's wave,
A little bark the hapless maiden bore ;
The rough winds howl, the billows widely rave,
The little bark was sunk, and seen no more.
E'en now, perhaps, while pausing on this ground,
Death's ling'ring, deep-ton'd, solemn sighing bell
Gives to the passing gale its hollow sound,
And calls another to her silent cell.
let the serious sacred walk be thine,
Let this sad tale sink deep within thy breast ;
Then will thy kindred spirit ever shine
With vivid lustre in the world of rest.
" Mary Beedle, aged 21, fell a victim by the same awful
catastrophe, and here lies interred."
Eor many other inscriptions in the church and churchyard, see
Bigland's first volume, pp. 67-70.
The following ministers have held the incumbency of this
parish :
1562. William Downe, bur. Mar. 8, 1599.
[According to Atkyns, who has been followed by Bigland,
Robert Downs, was appointed in 1570, and William
Downs in 1573.]
1599. Henry Childe, bur. June 1, 1633.
1633. John Giles.
1681. William Clutterbuck, M.A.
1689. Richard Butler, M.A.
[Inscription on a flatstone in the church, recorded by
Bigland : " Hie jacet Richardus Butler, Artium Magis-
ter, necnon hujus Ecclesise Vicarius, qui obiit vicessimo
septimo die Julii, anno setatis 75, Salutis 1732".
His wife and daughter were likewise interred in the
same place.]
1732. William Toye, B.A.
[According to Bigland, John Webb, M.A., was appointed
in this year, and William Toye not until 1736. Bigland,
however, has given this inscription on a flatstone :
" Sarah, wife of the Reverend William Toye, Yicar of
this parish, died Dec. 15, 1709, aged 59." Here there
is apparently a mistake in the date.]
1770. William Davies, M.A.
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1775. Thomas Welles,* B.A.
1780. p Charles] Jasper Selwyn.
1783. Thomas Hodges, M.A.
[Inscription recorded by Bigland, as "on a handsome
flat pyramidical marble monument against the north
wall " of the chancel : " In a vault near this marble
are deposited the remains of the Eev. Thomas Hodges,
A.M., late Vicar of this parish. With him ended the
male line of an ancient and respectable family, of
Slowwe, in this place. He died Feb. 3, 1784, aged 29."]
1784. Thomas Hickes, M.A.
1789. Thomas Jackson, M.A., B.D.
1813. John Sayer, M.A.
1836. John Lloyd Crawley, M.A., also Eector of Heyford and
Holdenby, Northamptonshire.
1848. Thomas Holmes Eavenhill, M.A., the present Vicar.
Atkyns states that " the inhabitants of Arlingham have a right
to send two persons (taking their turn with other parishes) to an
hospital at Warwick, founded by Eobert Dudley, Earl of Leicester,
of the Berkeley family, 13 Eliz., who founded the hospital for
twelve poor men hurt in the wars ; and, if no such, then Eiiingham
to have the benefit." Bigland supplies the names of the parishes :
" Warwick, Kenelworth, and Stratford, in the county of Warwick,
and Wotton-under-Edge and Arlingham, in this county " ; adding
that the vacancies are to be supplied by equal turns, and the
recommendation to be signed by the minister and churchwardens of
each parish. THOMAS HOLMES EAVENHILL, M.A.
Arlingham Vicarage, Stonehouse.
DXXXVIII. ARCHDEACON GILES LAWRENCE, LL.D. I shall
be glad to ascertain some particulars of a Gloucestershire man and
his descent, Giles Lawrence (Wood's Athen. Oxon.\ "of All Souls,
and Greek Professor of the University, LL.D. Feb. 12, 1578. He
was a Gloucestershire man born, was admitted scholar of Ch : Ch :
with his individual friend John Jewell in 1539, and in 1542 was
elected prob. fellow of All Souls. On the 18 Sept., 1564, he became
archdeacon of Wilts, on deprivation of one John Lawrence (whether
his father or uncle I know not), being then in great esteem . . .
he was living 1584. In 1571 he preached the funeral sermon of
John Jewell, prelate", etc. Wood also mentions a Dr. Giles
Lawrence, of Cowley, Oxon, who had two daughters, Elizabeth and
Martha. The latter married Eobert Pinkney, a Wiltsman.
I have not met with a Giles Lawrence in any of the printed
descents of Gloucestershire Lawrences ; but I have a note of some
wills at Gloucester :
* In the churchyard of Prestbury, near Cheltenham, there is this inscription (with others
relative to members of the same family) : " Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Thos. Welles
(Doctor of Divinity, Rector of Badgworth, & Vicar of this parish), who departed this life
Novr. 7th, 1821, in the 71st year of his age."
78 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1616. Giles or Guy L. of Croomhall.
1689. Egidius L. of Yanworth
1703. Egid. L. of Lower Slaughter.
1711. Egidius L. of Yanworth.
Samuel Lawrence, of Thornbury, who married a daughter of
Pullen, was buried there, and his will was proved in London
in 1676. He had two sons, Thomas and Gyles, and four daughters,
Elizabeth (who married Kic. Driver), Mary, Sarah, and Hannah ;
but I can make no more, either way, of this descent.
Middleton Hall, Llanarthney. E. GWYNNE LAWRENCE.
DXXXIX. LETTER FROM WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D., BISHOP
OF GLOUCESTER. The following " inedited letter," believed to have
been addressed to Thomas Newton, D.D., Bishop of Bristol (it has
no superscription), appeared in the first number of Willis's Current
Notes (December, 1857) :
"Prior Park, Feb. 20, 1768.
" My dear Lord,
" I am much obliged to you for your last kind letter of the 13 th .
I think you so right as to the scanty sum, that it shall be 500?.
instead of 400/., which I shall take care shall bring 4 per cent.
The course proposed is to be three or four sermons a year for four
years ; and the course to be printed.
" You are very likely to have a very mad Episcopal seat this
spring, but I suppose, the rage of it will be over before you will
venture down. If you give us, this Session, a new bill against
bribery and corruption, it will vastly increase the contested
Elections. For every penal act has some little attention paid to it,
for the first three or four months. The inhabitants of Bath expect
a large harvest this next Spring Season, when full stomachs and
empty pockets will bring hither the gentry of England, who cannot
afford to pass the summer at their own seats, nor pass it any where
without the Waters.
" My dear Lord,
" Ever most affectionately and faithfully yours,
"W. GLOUCESTER."
To what, I shall be glad to know, is the reference with regard to
the 5001 The letter would appear to have been previously
unpublished ; and I am not aware that it has since been noticed in
anyway. j G
DXL. THE MANOR OF SHIPTON MOTNE. It has been stated in
No. CCCCXLVIL, in an extract from a letter of the late Eev. Dr.
Parry Hodges, of Lyme Eegis, that " Mr. Estcourt made the claim
which belonged to the possession of the manor of Shipton Moyne,
of serving at the coronation-banquet of William IV." Was the
claim allowed 1 and where may I ascertain particulars 1 I shall be
glad to know. ANTIQUARIUS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 79
DXLI. THE WOODWARD FAMILY : MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.
In the north aisle of Bristol Cathedral there are two tablets, on
which we find inscriptions relative to members of this family : the
material on which the records appear, is stone ; but the perishable
nature of such monuments being allowed, the particulars, with the
view to their more effectual preservation, are here transferred to
paper. It has been said of the latter material "monumentum sere
perennius."
(1) "Near this place lye interred the remains of Elizabeth, wife
of the Reverend Josiah Tucker, D.D., Dean of Gloucester, and
relict of Francis Woodward, of Grimsbury, in the County of
Gloucester, Esq r . To perpetuate, as far as a perishable monument
will permit, the memory of this excellent woman ; to record her
virtuous application of singular talents (which else were void of
value, as of merit), her exemplary conduct as a Christian, her
matchless tenderness and prudence as a mother, this marble is
erected, as a small tribute of filial piety, by Francis Woodward,
M.B., and Kichard (Woodward), Lord Bishop of Cloyne. In the
ground adjoining at her own request is deposited the body of Mary,
wife of the above-mentioned Francis Woodward, that she might
not be severed in the grave from one to whom in life she was
cordially united by ties more strict than those of blood, by con-
genial principles, by kindred virtues. Francis Woodward, M.B.,
departed this life the 12 th of Oct r , 1785, aged 64. Eichard
Woodward, D.D., departed this life the 12 th of May, 1794, aged
67. Susanna Woodward (late Blake) departed this life the 11 th of
May, 1795, aged 63, and lies in the same tomb with her beloved
husband in the Cathedral of Cloyne."
(2) "'Thy will be done.' Sacred to the memory of John
Francis Woodward, Captain in His Majesty's 51 st Light Infantry,
born 22 nd Nov r , 1799, died at Lausanne in Switzerland, 24 th Sept r ,
1828, aged 28 years. Also of Francis Blake Woodward, M.A., of
Ball: Coll: Oxon:, born 8 th March, 1805, died at Clifton 4 th
Dec r , 1829, aged 24 years. His remains lie interred in this
Cathedral. Also of Charles Woodward, student of the sixth form
at Eton College, born 8 th July, 1807, died at Eton 25 th March,
1825, aged 17 years. The beloved sons of the Rev. Richard
Woodward, D.D., (Prebendary of Glanworth, in the Cathedral of
Cloyne, and formerly of the County of Gloucester), and Elizabeth,
late Bathoe, his wife. In their lives they were ' lovely and of good
report/ and in the hour of death their hope was in the cross of
Christ. This tablet is erected by their sisters, Lucy and Caroline,
the last memorial of their love. ' Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother
shall rise again.' John xi. 23."
What follows, has been kindly communicated by the Rev. Thomas
W. Carson, M. A., of Dublin, from the Rev. Dr. Brady's Clerical and
Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross (Dublin, 1864), vol.
in., pp. 125, 217, 218.
80 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
In the north transept of Cloyne Cathedral, where Bishop
Woodward was buried, there is a monument with this inscription :
" Sacred to the memory of Richard Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne,
aged 67. 1794. Whose superior talents, enlightened by extensive
learning, and invigorated by an active intercourse with the world,
were devoted to the discharge of his duty as a Citizen, Parochial
Minister, and Prelate, with the most earnest zeal, soundest discretion,
and truest liberality. He planned, and was the principal institutor
of the House of Industry in Dublin, in 1773. He was an eloquent
and distinguished advocate in the House of Peers for the repeal of
the Roman Catholic Penal Statutes in 1782 ; and the author of 'The
Present State of the Church of Ireland,' published in 1787; and
is hence justly to be denominated the Father of the Poor the
Friend of Toleration and the Support and Ornament of the
Protestant Established Religion. In pious gratitude for the unin-
terrupted happiness which she owed to his amiable domestic
character, this monument is erected by his afflicted widow, Susanna
Woodward. 1795." *
Richard Woodward, D.D., eldest son of the bishop, was ordained
deacon, 1st August, 1790, at Cloyne, and priest, 15th July, 1792,
at Clifton, Bristol, by his father. He was prebendary of Lackeen,
and vicar of Clonfert, 1792-98, and vicar of Ballyclogh and Castle-
magner, 1793-98 ; rector and vicar of Agabulloge, and prebendary
of Inniscarra, 1798-99 ; and prebendary of Glanworth, 1799-1828.
He died at Nice, llth December, 1828, and was buried at Cloyne,
8th January, 1829. There is a tablet to his memory in Cloyne
Cathedral. EDITOR.
DXLII. STEEP STREET, BRISTOL. In the Antiquary (July 29,
1871), vol. i., p. 85, it is stated that an old historical scene was then
in course of removal, to make room for the new street from St.
Augustine's Back to Perry Road Steep Street, in which the Ship Inn
was situated. It was in the Ship though not in the same house
that the terrific hand-to-hand struggle occurred between Prince
Rupert's cavaliers and some Parliamentarians, who were not aware
of the surrender by Fiennes. The property belonged to the feoffees
of St. Michael's parish, Bristol. j Q
DXLIII. THE RUDDER FAMILY. Samuel Rudder, the historian,
was born, as he himself tells, at Stout's Hill, in the parish of Uley.
In the introduction to his Gloucestershire he incidentally mentions
that his patronymic was Rutter, but had been altered by his family
to Rudder a spelling, which, he remarks, he had "foolishly
followed." It should be added that the name is pronounced Ruther
by those old inhabitants of the village who still retain any
traditional knowledge of the family. This spelling is followed by
the registers in several instances.
The Rutters of Uley were persons in a humble condition of life.
Whether they were an offshoot of a branch of the well-known
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Cheshire family of this name which was settled in Gloucestershire,
it is perhaps impossible now to decide. The Uley registers un-
fortunately do not begin before 1668, so that it cannot be readily
ascertained whether any of the name were resident at Uley before
that date. But there are several entries in the registers, from which
the following pedigree has been compiled.
John Ruther, weaver, married 26 Dec., 1681, Sarah Robins, who
was buried 6 May, 1696. Only three of their children are named
in the register
Isabella, baptized as Ruther, 13 July, 1682.
Elizabeth, baptized as Ruther, 10 Sept., 1684.
Daniel, baptized as Rutter, 22 Dec., 1695, and buried under that
name, 22 January, 1714-5.
Although their baptisms do not appear in the registers, we may
presume that John and Thomas next named were sons of John and
Sarah Rutter.
John Rutter, broadweaver, who was buried 13 April, 1729. His
wife's name was Hester, and they had two children : Joseph,
baptized 15 May, 1706 ; and Charles, 10 Sept., 1712.
Thomas Rutter, who had a wife named Hester, and a son Abraham,
baptized 29 January, 1728-9.
Roger Rutter, alias Rudder, was the eldest son of John Rutter.
[See No. CCL] The date of his birth, according to the inscription
on his tombstone, was about 1687, but there is no record of his
baptism. He married, for his first wife, Lydia, daughter of
John Hillier, of Cam ; and according to tradition, he lived in a
cottage at Whitecourt, opposite the south side of the Independent
Chapel. They were, it is said, " poor folks," and began life without
furniture, or rather, we may presume, with only furniture of a
primitive type, as tradition has it that a stone on each side of the
hearth served as seats for Rutter and his wife. But he was best
known as a vegetarian, for it is told of him that he had " never
eaten flesh, fish, nor f owle, during the course of his long life " a fact
confirmed by the inscription on his tombstone, and which the
occupation he is stated to have followed, renders the more remarkable.
His diet is said to have been "dump," of which there were three
kinds: "hard dump," "plain dump," and "apple dump"; thus
enabling the Uley vegetarian to vary his diet in some small degree.
Probably also he did not eschew the " cabbage kettle " ; and we
may be certain that "pap", sweetened with a little treacle as an
occasional luxury, formed his supper, as it did that of the labouring
class in Gloucestershire until the present century, when it was
superseded by tea, now almost a necessity in every cottage. By
his wife Lydia, he had a son,
Samuel Rudder, the historian of Gloucestershire, who was
baptized at Uley as Samuel Rutter, 5 Dec., 1726, tho' the tablet to
his memory at Cirencester gives for the date of his birth the 24th of
December, which is clearly an error. He was a well-known printer
82 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
in Cirencester, and was buried there in 1801. The tablet to his
memory has been placed in the Bathurst chapel in the parish church.
From it we learn that his wife Mary was born at Cranham in 1721,
and was buried at Cirencester in 1800 ; and also the names of their
children.
No mention of Roger Rutter's second wife, nor of any other child
than Samuel, the historian, is found in the Uley registers, though
his own burial is recorded therein : " Roger Rudder, 30 August,
1771, buried." His grave is on the south side of Uley Church,
and is covered with a flatstone, on which there is a brass-plate with
this inscription: " Underneath lie the remains of Roger Rutter,
alias Rudder, eldest son of John Rutter, of Uley, who was buried
August 30, 1771, aged 84 years, having never eaten Flesh, Fish,
nor Fowle, during the course of his long life. By Lydia, his first
wife, daughter of John Hillier, of Cam, he had issue a son, Samuel
Rudder, born at Uley, Dec. 24, 1726, who died March 15, 1801,
and lies buried at Cirencester, in this county, leaving three sons
and two daughters, Samuel, Mary. Elizabeth, Richard, and William.
This plate is inscribed to the memory of their grandfather by
Samuel and William Rudder, of Birmingham."
As mentioned in the foregoing inscription, Samuel Rudder was
buried at Cirencester. His memorial tablet is thus inscribed : " In
memory of Samuel Rudder, of this town, Printer, and of Mary, his
wife. He was born at Uley, in this county, Dec. 24, 1726, and
died Mar. 15, 1801 ; a man of the strictest honor and most inflexible
integrity. His 'History of Gloucestershire' will establish his
character as a writer. She was born at Cranham, in this county,
Dec. 13, 1724, and died Dec. 29, 1800 : a tender mother of eight
children, she lived esteemed and respected, and died lamented most
by those who knew her best. Their remains lie interred in the
same grave under a flat stone, on the north side of the adjoining
churchyard, near those of three of their children : Richard, who
died May 4, 1758, aged 3 months; Lydia, Sept. 20, 1771, aged
6 years; Sarah, June 3, 1774, aged 18 years. This tablet was
erected by their surviving issue, Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Richard,
and William." w p w PHILLIMOEE, B.C.L.
DXLIV. BELL-RINGING IN FORMER DAYS. As Fosbrooke has
observed in his History of Gloucestershire (1807), vol. ii., p. 524,
" Hentzer (Travels, p. 64) notes, that in the reign of Elizabeth the
English, when they had got a glass in their heads, ran to some belfry ;
and that ringing was an amusement of gentlemen, about the
beginning of the 18th century, has been already noted." Can this
have led the Rev. John Talbot, in 1724, to write what has been quoted
in No. CCCXXXIU "I don't mean a Ring of Bells in a Steeple,
for idle fellows to make a vain jangling, but one good bell in the
Church, that the people may know when to come together to worship
God." The passage referred to by Fosbrooke is in his second volume,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 83
p. 221 : " William Pauncefoot, of this place [Carswalls], in 1705,
studied the planets, and the art of ringing changes on bells. He
used to say, that had they in Adam's time begun to ring changes on
15 bells, they would not have been rung out in his day." And he
adds in a foot-note, " In MSS. bourse are long accounts of the
Newent bells." G A "W
DXLV. " COLLECTIONS BY HENRY POWLE." (See No. CCCC.)
The following is a further extract, word for word, from the Lansdowne
MS. volume, entitled as above :
Instructions to the L d L* & deputy L ts of Gloucss : 1586.
After our Eight hearty Commendacons vnto yo r good Lo d pp
whereas it hath pleased her Majesty in respect of y r Lo d pps quality
& calling as also for the assured good opinion she hath conceived of
yo r dutifull afection and Loyalty toward her highnesse to Chousee
and authorizee yo r Lord pp to supply the place of her lyuetenant in
that County, And whereas her Majesty hath appointed th e number
of 2000 to be enrowlled and reduced vnder Captaines w'thin that
County it is theirefore thought convenient that your Lo d pp should
make choyce of the principall gen* 1 men of the Countrye there
knowne to bee well affected in Religion to haue leading of the
footmen appointing each of the said gen* men some number of men
as to theire places and qualities shall appertaine, Wherin it shall bee
needfull and necessary to haue care that the said number Consedering
they are to bee used for the gard of her Majesties person may as near
as may bee consist of such houshoulders as for their p'sonage shall bee
found serviceable & of living & behaviour able to haue y e charge
of y e training of y e shott wee also thinke convenient for the better
training of the said bands yo u should make ohoyce of some skilfull
man to supply the place of Muster Master and in case yo u shall find
the inhabitants of the said sheire either unwilling or unable to
beare the charges of the training of the whole bands then wee do
thinke it convenient that where there are appointed in every band
Consisting of 100 men 40 shott 20 armed Pikes the rest furnished
with bowes and Bills according to the aptnesse of those that shall
bee enrowlled for the said weapons that the said shott amounting to
the number of 400 in the whole according to this p'portion may be
trained. And to the end there may be some vniforme order
observed through out the Realme in the matter of training the said
bands to bee performed w th as little Charge to the Country as may
bee wee haue thought meet to send yo r Lo dp herew th a Coppye of
the orders observed in the maritime Countries to the end such as
yo r Lo pp shall appoint to bee Muster m r in that County may like-
wise follow the like ord 8 in the forme of theire training. JSTow for
the trayning of the horsmen we thinke it meet yo r Lo pp should
follow there in such order and directions as wee send yo u herew th
and are sett downe for the rest of the Liueten* 8 placed in the
maritime Countris whereunto wee doe alsoe referre yo r Lo pp for all
84 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
other matters as for pyoners Cariages for the severall bands for
victuals as alsoe for the erecting and keeping the beacons And soe
wee bid yo r Lo pp Right hartyly farwell from Richmond the xvijth
of November 1586.
Burgley* Yo r assured Louing freinds.
Bromely** Buckhurst***
Orders to be observed by the Lo es Liuetenants.
First to take order for the publishing of the Commission 68 to give
directions for y e mustering and Exercising in Martiall feates such as
were or shall bee trained and reduced to bands.
Second. To cause a generall viewe to be taken of the able men
w th in theire severall Charges & to see how many of them may bee
armed w th such armor as is presently to bee had in the severall
countryes w th in their said Charges.
To take vew of the horsemen and to appoint Captaines over them
allotting to every Captaine or Coronell 50 horses w th their severall
Cornetts and soe bee Cladd w th Cassoks of one Coller.
To make choyce of certaine number of pioners.
To appoint certaine chariages for victualls and other necessary
things for every one of the said bands all soe Cariages for the
pioners.
To take order that there bee 300 or 400 shott sett vpon ordinary
naggs on horseback.
To move the Justices of the peace that every Justice of the
Quorum may yeeld to finds two petroners on horseback & the other
Justices that are not of the Cuorum one petroner and ordinary
geelding to attend vpon the Liutenant to bee Cladd with Cassokes
of one Coller at the charges of the said Justices and to be lead by
some such Captaine as by the said Lieutenant shall be thought meet.
To see the Beacon erected & well kepte.
That especiall care bee had to disarm all Papists & other sus-
pected p'sons.
It shall bee alsoe necessary that an oath bee alsoe ministered as
well to y e trained soldiers as to the Captaines.
That such as be ffarmers and owners bee enroulled as neare as
may bee in the traine bands.
To see that prylidge Townes may alwayes have porcon 8 of Powder
in store which shall bee delliured them at the Queens pric e .
A. B. S.
DXLVI. BISHOP FRAMPTON, BISHOP JOHN TALBOT, AND MRS.
BOVEY, OF FLAXLEY ABBEY. These will be recognised as the names
of three well-known Gloucestershire worthies. Of the two former
very interesting accounts have already been published at pp. 183,
273, 326, and 394 of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries; but it
seems hitherto to have escaped notice that there existed a most
intimate and interesting connection between the three personages
* Lord Keeper. ** Lord Chancellor, ob. April 10, 1587. ** Comr. of Great Seal, Nov. 2, 1591.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 85
above-mentioned, which, I think, well deserves to be made known
now that attention is being directed to the circumstances under
which the early Church in America was founded.
Kobert Frampton, Eishop of Gloucester, was deprived of his
benefice on 1st February, 1690, and retired, as is well known, to
the living of Standish, which, by the tacit connivance of Dr. Henry
Compton, Bishop of London, he was allowed to hold until his
death in 1708. The question has been asked by a contributor in
No. CCCXC., how Frampton could legally have held this living
after being deprived of his bishopric ? The correct explanation,
or, at all events, a plausible one, seems to be supplied by the
extracts quoted from the Life of Robert Frampton by the Eev. T.
Simpson Evans. Eishop Frampton was not, it would seem, a legal
incumbent at all ; but his tenure of the living, or at least of the
vicar's house, was connived at by the authorities out of sympathy
for his position, and because he had, at much private expense,
repaired and partially rebuilt the house. It is stated at p. 130 of
the Life above referred to, that Eishop Frampton had spent about
400 on the house and garden.
In his retirement at Standish Frampton must have been a near
neighbour of Talbot, who was appointed to the living of Fretherne,
on the presentation of William Eayly, Esq., in 1695, in succession
to the Eev. Henry Higford. And it is noticed in Frampton's Life
that after his deprivation he had numerous invitations from local
magnates to take up his quarters with them. Captain Wake, of
Shapwick, in Dorsetshire, Sir John Fettyplace, Lady Coventry, the
Duchess of Devonshire, and the Princess of Denmark, are all
noticed for their kindness and attention to the deprived bishop. To
these names may be added two others of special interest to
Gloucestershire, viz., William Eovey, Esq., of Flaxley Abbey, and
his wife, the well-known Mrs. Catherine Eovey. There is a strong
tradition in this family, which is now represented by Sir Thomas
Hyde Crawley-Boevey, Bart., that the deprived bishop was offered
a home and shelter at Flaxley Abbey ; and his portrait, a counter-
part of which hangs in the Bishop's Palace at Gloucester, is
preserved with great interest by the family.
On the death of William Bovey in 1692 a legacy was left by
him to the bishop, whom he terms "my honoured friend"; and
there can be no doubt whatever that the sympathies of the Bovey
family were very strongly enlisted on behalf of Bishop Frampton
and the ejected clergy. Mrs. Bovey evinced throughout her life
the most active sympathy towards these sufferers for conscience'
sake. The learned Dr. George Hickes, another eminent Conjuror,
was a very intimate friend ; and many of the deprived clergy found
in her a most active and charming benefactress. Besides the
picture of Eishop Frampton already referred to, there are at
Flaxley Abbey a considerable number of portraits of dignified
looking clergymen, who are supposed by the family to have been
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Nonjuring friends of Mrs. Bovey. The names unfortunately have
been lost, but it is possible that some of the pictures may yet be
identified with the assistance of other enquirers in the same field.
The valuable work recently published in America by the Rev.
George Morgan Hills, D.D., Rector of St. Mary's Church,
Burlington, New Jersey, and entitled History of the Church in
Burlington, shows that John Talbot was about the year 1698 des-
patched as a missionary by the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel to Burlington, where he founded a church, and laboured
most devotedly until his death in 1727. Two of the principal
supporters of his mission were Bishop Frampton and Mrs. Bovey.
The latter presented to St. Mary's Church in 1708 an "embossed
Silver Chalice and Patten," which were still in use in 1876. See
foot-note at p. 328 of Notes and Queries, containing an extract from
p. 133 of the History by Dr. Hills.
Bishop Frampton died at Standish in 1708, and by will left
money for the support of Talbot's mission. This money was
entrusted by Bishop Compton to Mrs. Bovey for investment ; and
Dr. Hill's work shows that the legacy was invested, at the instance
of Talbot, in the purchase of a house and ground for the minister,
forming a permanent endowment of St. Mary's Church.
The question has been asked by a correspondent in No.
CCCXXXIL, why Mr. Talbot, who was "not himself a Nonjuror,"
" deserted his cure [of Fretherne] in so remarkable a manner 1 "
There can, it seems, be little doubt from the papers published by
Dr. Hills, that Talbot was at heart a Nonjuror. He was constantly
charged with belonging to that party ; he was in the most intimate
relations with Bishop Frampton and the leaders of the party ; he
was supported by Mrs. Bovey and other sympathizers ; and finally
he received episcopal consecration at the hands of two Conjuring
divines. It seems under these circumstances no improbable
suggestion that Talbot's missionary enterprise was mainly due to
the Nonjuring schism; and Bishop Frampton, who had been himself
an ardent and devoted missionary, in all probability inspired and
directed the undertaking.
Mrs. Bovey was not the only Gloucestershire lady who was
interested in Talbot's missionary enterprise. He found another
earnest supporter in Mrs. Dorothy Bayly, daughter of William
Bayly, Esq., lord of the manor of Fretherne, who has been already
noticed as the patron of the living, to which he appointed Talbot
in 1695. An extract from the will of this lady is printed at p. 327
of Notes and Queries ; and it shows that she took a keen interest
in Talbot's work, and was anxious to mark her interest in some
permanent shape. She is said to have been an intimate friend and
associate of Mrs. Bovey ; and her portrait is preserved at Flaxley
Abbey.
The facts related, scanty though they are, appear to be of special
interest to Gloucestershire enquirers. The foundation of the
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Church in America under the circumstances which have been
described, shows that the work was in its conception distinctly a
Gloucestershire work ; and directly traceable it would seem to the
memorable schism caused by the Revolution. Whatever may be
thought of the Nonjurors as a party, no one will probably dispute
their integrity and noble spirit of self-sacrifice ; and Gloucestershire
has every reason to be proud of the upright and sturdy Robert
Frampton, and of John Talbot, the missionary and first bishop of
North America.
But who, it may be asked, was Mrs. Bovey ? As to her family,
she was the daughter of John Riches, whose father, a naturalised
Dutchman from Amsterdam, settled in London, and married an
English lady named Catherine Butler. John Riches, the son,
married Anne Davall, sister of Sir Thomas Davall, M.P. for
Harwich, knighted in 1682. By this marriage there were two
daughters, Catherine and Anne Riches. The elder of these was
married at a very early age to William Bovey, of Flaxley Abbey,
who died, as before mentioned, in 1692, set. 35. The Gloucester-
shire family of Bovey, otherwise written Boeve or Boevey, are of
Dutch extraction, and are believed to have migrated from Holland
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, circ. 1575, to avoid the persecution
with which the Protestants were afflicted at the hands of the Duke
of Alva. Two members of this family purchased Flaxley Abbey
in 1647 from William Kingston, whose family had been in
possession from the time of the Dissolution, when the Cistercian
monastery and estates of Flaxley were conferred on Sir William
Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London, and one of the chief
favourites of King Henry VIII. On the death of Mrs. Bovey in
1726, the estates passed by will to Thomas Crawley, who assumed
the additional name and arms of Bovey, the spelling of the name
being at the same time altered to the original Dutch form of Boeve
or Boevey, which is still retained. From this Thomas Crawley-
Boevey the family of the present baronet is directly descended.
Mrs. Bovey was a lady of very remarkable character and attain-
ments. She has been immortalised in the pages of the Spectator,
in which she is described by Steele as the attractive and " perverse
widow," beloved of Sir Roger de Coverley. With both Steele and
Addison she appears to have been on very friendly terms. The
former dedicated to her the second volume of his Lady's Library,
and appears to have entertained the most sincere and unaffected
admiration for her piety and accomplishments. To Addison she
was of course well known by Steele's humorous contributions, half
tender, half pathetic, in the Spectator; and there is a family
tradition, which, however, requires confirmation, that Addison used
to visit Flaxley Abbey in his journeys to and from Bilton Grange,
near Rugby. Her intimacy with Bishop Frampton and the learned
Dr. Hickes has already been alluded to. She was throughout her
life a most liberal supporter of the parochial clergy. Her charities
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and assistance to the deprived Nonjurors, and especially to the
poorer and more humble ministers, have been noticed by her
biographers. She was mainly instrumental in establishing in
Gloucestershire a branch of the admirable charity for the relief of
the widows and orphans of the clergy. She endowed the living of
Flaxley ; and left money for the building of a new church, and the
founding of an excellent charity for the assistance of the poor of
the parish. She was one of the earliest promoters of Sunday school
teaching in England, long before Raikes and Stock converted into
a regular system what she habitually practised in her own model
village. She laid the foundation of the annual Musical Festival
of the Three Choirs. Her connection with these festivals is a fact
by no means generally known even in her own county, and for
which I am indebted to Mr. Thomas Kerslake, of Bristol. I have
ascertained that the fact rests on evidence of the most unimpeachable
character; and the subject being one of considerable local interest,
I propose to notice it fully in a separate paper. Besides the various
local charities above mentioned she liberally endowed several charities
in London, and left money for the establishment of a college in
Bermuda. In fact, the whole record of her life, with the exception
of the romantic episode alluded to in the Spectator, would seem to
be made up of a recital of her various good deeds. With reference
to the alleged courtship of Mrs. Bovey by Sir Roger de Coverley,
who is usually identified with the fourth Sir John Pakington, of
West wood Hall, in Worcestershire, it may be mentioned that a
counterpart of the same tradition is preserved in the Pakington
family, now represented by Lord Hampton. I have not been able to
ascertain the grounds upon which the tradition in question rests, but
its substantial truth seems to be strongly supported by the fact, that
the same tradition exists, and has been handed down, in the two
families concerned. Two portraits of Mrs. Bovey are preserved at
Flaxley Abbey. She was buried at Flaxley, and monuments have
been erected to her memory both there and in Westminster Abbey.
The inscriptions are printed at pp. 340-2 of Notes and Queries.
Ahmedabad, Bombay. A. W. C. B.
DXLVII. THE PLAGUE AT TREDINGTON, 1610-11. (See No.
DXXXIV.) Through the courtesy of the Rev. J. F. Green, Vicar
of Tredington, I have ascertained that in the years 1610 and 1611
there was no increase in the number of burials at Tewkesbury, the
adjoining parish to Tredington on the west. At Ashchurch, the
next parish on the east, the burials during the seven years from 1605
to 1611 inclusive were 43, or an average of 6'10 annually. In the
three years 1612, 1613, and 1614, they amounted to 42, or an
average of 14, showing the mortality to have been more than twice
as great. In the next year the burials were only eight. It would
appear from this that the epidemic passed away towards the east.
Bicknor Court, ColeforcL JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 89
DXL VIII. SLYMBRIDGE EECTORY. (See Nos. CCCLXXI. and
CCCCXXIX.) In the Eighth Report on Historical Manuscripts
(1881), Appendix, p. 262, it is stated that in the collection belonging
to St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, there is an interesting series
of thirty-one deeds and papers relating to the advowson of Slymbridge
(1484-1520), but which throw no light on the origin of the curious
custom of having a service sung on the top of the great tower of the
college at 5 o'clock on the morning of May-Day, for which service
101. are annually paid by the rector of Slymbridge. The tradition
has always been that the service was originally in commemoration of
Henry VII. ; but while among these deeds there is found one (not
dated or sealed, and therefore not completed, but prepared for
execution apparently in 1501,) by which the college covenant, in
return for the royal license for the gift to them of the advowsons of
Findon, in Sussex, and of Slymbridge, to offer solemn prayers
yearly on 3 or 4 October for the king and his queen Elizabeth,
during his life, and to keep an obit after his death, there is nothing
to connect the tower with this commemoration. The annual
payment of a third part of the tithes to the college (and the 10Z.
now customarily paid is a little more than a third of the profits of
the living according to the ancient valuation,) is enjoined in
a decree of Silvester Giglis, Bishop of Worcester, in 1501,
which sets forth the objects of the foundation of the college,
viz., the study of theology, canon and civil law, and philosophy,
and the maintenance of divine service in the manner of a cathedral
church, and of a free grammar school for boys and others. The
advowsons of Findon and Slymbridge were originally granted by
William Berkeley, Earl of Nottingham, in exchange for a grant by
Bp. Wayneflete of a capital messuage in South wark, enclosed with
moats, which was Sir John Fastolf s, a high house with garners, a
bakehouse, and a wharf : this grant is dated 20 Nov., 1484. It was
also covenanted that the earl and his wife Joan should share in the
daily prayers of the college, and have an obit after their death, and
that prayers should be offered for the souls of Thomas, Lord
Berkeley, great-grandfather of James, late Lord Berkeley, and of the
said Lord James and Isabella, his wife. The gift was afterwards
disputed by Maurice, Lord Berkeley, the earl's brother, but the case
being referred to arbitration, it was decided against him in 1505,
the college paying to him 40Z. and to his son Maurice 40s., and
agreeing to celebrate an obit for him. ANTIQUARIUS.
DXLIX. THE LTNE FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. (See IsTo.
CCCCXCVII.) The following is a list of wills made by members
of this family, from the calendars of Probate Registry, Gloucester,
and General Register Office, Somerset House :
1585. Feb. 4. Rob tus Lyne, of the parish of Oldbury.
1603. Rich. Lyne, of Chipping Camden.
1610. Rad us Lyne, of Staunton.
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1743. Henry Lyne, of Little Compton. Will proved by Catherine
Line, relict and sole executrix.
1759. Catherine Line, of Little Compton. Proved by Robert Lyne,
of Batsford, son and sole executor.
1773. William Line, of Bitton. Proved by Amy and Mary Line,
daughters and joint executrixes.
Mary Line, of Oldland, parish of Bitton. Proved by
commission, by Amy Lawrence (Line), sole executrix.
1794. Ann Lyne, of Cirencester, spinster. Proved in London,
April 24, 1794, by her brother, Robert Lyne, of Port Farm,
Cirencester, and William Jenner.
1799. Henry Lyne, of Winchcombe. Proved by John Lyne, son
and one of the executors. Testator was 7th child and 3rd
son of Henry Lyne, of Little Compton (see under 1743).
1811. Robert Lyne, of Batsford, gent. Proved in London, March
27, 1811, by William Davis, of Chastleton Hill, Oxon, and
Robert Lyne,, of Shoswell, Gloucestershire, nephews and
executors, sworn by commission to administer. Testator was
9th child and 5th son of Henry Lyne, of Little Compton
(1743).
1812. Feb. 15. Thomas Lyne, of Syde, gent. Will and codicil
proved by Thomas Lyne, eldest son and sole executor.
Transmitted to Doctors' Commons. Testator was 8th child
and 4th son of Henry Lyne, of Little Compton (1743).
1815. John Lyne, of Elkstone. Proved by Betty Lyne, relict and
executrix. Testator was 2nd son of Thomas Lyne, sen., of
Syde (1812).
Robert Lyne, late of Shanswell, parish of Rendcomb.
Administration granted to Rachael Lyne, widow and relict,
administratrix. Sworn at 7,500. Testator was 5th child
and 4th son of Thomas Lyne, sen., of Syde (1812).
1827. Sept. 28. Betty Lyne, of Elkstone, widow of John Lyne,
of Elkstone. Proved by Peter Matthews, of Duntsboum
Abbots, husband of Susanah (youngest child), sole executor.
1846. Elizabeth Lyne, of Cirencester, spinster. Administration
granted to Ann Bliss, spinster, natural and lawful niece,
and daughter of sister of deceased, Mary Taylor, sister and
next of kin, having renounced.
1871. Joseph Lyne, of Mitchel Dean. Francis Lyne, of Guils-
borough, Northamptonshire, brother and executor. Testator
was 5th child and 4th son of Joseph Lyne, sen., of East
Haddon, Northamptonshire.
1873. Dec. 17. Robert Lyne, gent., of Theddingworth, Leicester-
shire. Administration granted to Robert Edwin Lyne, of
the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, son and administrator
Testator was 2nd son of Joseph Lyne, sen., of East Haddon,
and grandson of Thomas Lyne, sen., of Syde (1812).
1875. Robert Lyne, of St. Mark-street, Gloucester. Administra-
tion granted to Jane Lyne, lawful widow and relict.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 91
1877. William Lyne, gent., of Oddington, Stow-on-the-Wold.
Testator was son of Robert Lyne, of Shanswell (1815).
George Lyne, of Cheltenham. Proved by Ann Lyne,
relict and sole administratrix.
1881. Frederick Augustus Lyne, of 54, High-street, Eccleston-
square, London. Proved in London by Francis Lyne, of
Guilsborough, brother and sole executor. Testator was 9th
child and 7th son of Joseph Lyne, sen., of East Haddon,
and grandson of Thomas Lyne, sen., of Syde (1812).
Royal Dublin Society. ROBT. EDWIN LYNE, M.R.I. A.
DL. NAMES OF GLOUCESTEESHIRE GENTRY IN 1657. In this year
an Act of Parliament was passed for " an Assessment upon England,
at the rate of 60,000 by the moneth, for three moneths, from the
25 th day of March, 1657, to the 24 th day of June then next
ensuing." Each county was assessed in a certain sum per month ;
and in each a body of Commissioners was appointed, who had to
superintend the collection. The names of the several Commissioners
for the county of Gloucester, and for the city of Gloucester, are as
given below ; and being those, no doubt, of strong supporters of the
Commonwealth, they will probably have an interest for many of
your readers. It is probable that the list contains some misprints
and mis-spellings, which, however, will be easily corrected by those
who are conversant with the chief Gloucestershire family-names, &c.
J. P. EARWAKER, F.S.A.
GLOCESTER.
For the County of Glocester, John Lord Lambert, General ; John
Disbrow, Henry Lord Herbert, Major Gen. Edward Whalley,
Nathaniel Stephens, Thomas Hodges, John Stephens, Thomas Pury
the elder, George Berckley, John Codrington, Samuel Codrington,
George Raymond, John How the elder, John Key t, William Bourcher,
Thomas Wall, Robert Jenkinson, John Dorney, Sylvanus Wood,
Stephen Fowler, Thomas Estcourt, William Cook, William Leigh,
Baynham Throckmorton, Christopher Guyse, Robert Atkin, Esq.,
William Shepherd, and Evan Seys, Sergeants at Law; William
Stafford, Richard Aylworth, Will. Selwyn, John Gearing, John
Wade, John Goslet, John Bernard, Thomas Overbury, William
Neast, Thomas Pury the younger, John Croft, Robert Holms, William
Banister, John Goodwyn, Thomas Wells, William Brown, John
Barch, Thomas Surman, Andrew Solace, William Webley, Thomas
Beard, Edward Fust, John Wickham, Charls Bridges, William Cope,
Mark Gryme, Hen : Wear, Esq., the Bayliffs of Tewksbury for the
time being ; Thomas Aleway, Giles Hancocks, John Clifford, John
Rogers, Edward King, John Bonner, Gentlemen ; Walter Rawleigh,
James Hawkings, Tho. James, Gabriel Beck, Esqs. ; William
Aylberton, William Rowls, Gent., John Barrow, William Jones,
Esqs., Brammage, Gent., Jo. Fowk, Henry Hall, Esqs.,
Samuel Creswick, William Hopton, James Bay ley, Gent., Sir Richard
Ashfield, Baronet, William Cook, Esq.
92 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
GLOCESTER CITY.
For the City and the County of the City of Glocester, the Mayor
of the said City for the time being; William Lenthal, Esq., Master
of the Rolls and Recorder of the said City^ ; William Singleton,
William Caple, Thomas Pury, Aldermen ; Will. Shepherd and Evan
Seys, Sergeants at Law, Thomas Hodges, Christopher Guise, William
Coke, Silvanus Wood, William Selwyn, Walter Rawleigh, Esqs. ;
Dennis Wise, Luke bourse, Lawrence Singleton, Jasper Clutterbuck,
John Haddocks, Henry Cugley, James Stephens, Anthony Edwards,
Edmund Collet, Aldermen; Edward Nourse, Thomas Pury the
younger, John Dorney, Esqs. ; Robert Tedder, Tobias Jordan,
Robert Pane, Gent.
DLL BlSLEY AND LONGTREE HUNDREDS : DUTIES UPON HOUSES,
WINDOWS, AND LIGHTS, 1774. The following document, relating to
these hundreds as they were more than a century ago, and giving
the names of some of -the inhabitants of each parish, is interesting,
and is now for the first time printed. Under each of the parishes
appear the names, first of the Assessors, and then of the Collectors,
with the amount charged for collection. The sum total was
1,064 7s. 6d. j^
Gloucestershire ) A Duplicate of the Sums of money charged
To Wit. j upon the several Parishes and Tythings in the
Hundreds of Eisley and Longtree, in the said County, by an Act
for repealing the several Duties upon Houses, Windows, and Lights,
and for granting to his Majesty other Duties upon Houses,
Windows, and Lights for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy Eour, all Appeals being first heard and Determined by
us whose Hands and Seals are hereunto subscribed and set, being
the acting Commissioners for the said Hundreds.
Bisley Hundred.
Bisley William Baker, Thomas Drake: Thomas
Blanch, Jun r , William Damsel 80 17 1J
Edgworth Richard Longford : William Randell ... 8 310
Miserden Peter Herbert, John Burroughs : the same 20 15 8
Painswick Edward White, Edward Whitehead,
Edward Parker : Thomas Bishop, Thomas Harris 142 24
Sapperton Ralph Whitehart, Thomas Pope : William
Yarnton, William Whiting 11 3 6
Stroud Benjamin Grazebrook, William Wathen,
Edward English, Robert Holmes : Edward
English, Samuel Lawrence ... 218 5 6|
Winstone William Abell : John Haviland the young-
est, Edw d Haviland 470
485 15
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 93
Longtree Hundred.
Avening Thomas Lock, Eichard Middlemore : the
same ... ... ... ... ... ... 40 5 8
Charlton Richard Harris, John Howell : the same 119 4
Cherington Robert Collins, John ffreeman : the same 9 15 8
Horsley John Gilrnan, "William Smith : John Gilman,
Thomas Rickets ... 65 9
Minchinhampton Richard Smith : John Heaven ... 126 16 10
Rodborough Parish John Hodges : the same ... 61 13 6
Rodborough Tything Walter Brockenbrow : John
Wells 29 12 2
Rodmarton William George, Richard Kilmister : the
same 14 10 8
Shipton Moyne Thomas Boulton, Richard Hillier :
Joseph Browning, Henry Davis... ... ... 22 3 10
Tetbury Samuel Large, Thomas Hancock : Matthew
Paul Bamford, Thomas Barrow 126 4 10
Upton Doughton fy Elmtree William Walker,
Richard Bolton : the same 12 4 6
Weston Birt fy Lasbrow John Townsend, William
Tugwell : James Comely, Thomas Robins ... 11 7 6
WoodchesterJobn King : John King, Walter Hill 56 9
578 12 6
T. Gryffin, (Seal)
H. Wyatt, (Seal)
Jos. Wathen. (Seal)
DLII. SIB WILLIAM BERKELEY, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, 1642-77.
In the Richmond Standard (Virginia, U.S.A.), August 6,
1881, this query appeared: "Did Sir William Berkeley, the
colonial Governor of Virginia, leave any descendants'? and if so,
did the well-known representatives of the name at Farmville, Va.,
derive from him ?"
Mr. Robert A. Brock, whose literary labours are most persevering
and successful, as all readers of the Richmond Standard are aware,
inserted the following reply : " Governor Berkeley left no issue.
Henry Berkeley, a contemporary and probably of the same family,
received a grant of 2,400 acres of land in 1650. He, it is believed,
was the ancestor of the present worthy representatives of the name,
whose ancestors more nearly were for a long time seated at Barn
Elms, Middlesex County. The name appears very early in the
annals of the colony. Mr. John Berkeley and his son Maurice
were sent thither in 1621 as superintendents in charge of twenty
experienced workmen for the ill-fated Falling Creek Iron Works,
which were destroyed and its operatives massacred by the Indians
March 22, 1622."
94 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Sir "William, who would seem to have been very unpopular in
his government, returned to England in 1677. As Bancroft has
mentioned in his History of the United States (12mo ed.), vol. i.,
p. 521, "guns were fired, and bonfires kindled at his departure.
Public opinion in England censured his conduct with equal severity ;
and Lord Berkeley used to say, that the unfavourable report of the
commissioners in Virginia caused the death of his brother. It took
place soon after Sir William's arrival in England, before he had had
an opportunity of waiting on the king." He was fourth son of Sir
Maurice Berkeley, and a younger brother of Sir Charles Berkeley,
who, on the decease of his second son, Charles, Earl of Falmouth,
succeeded to that nobleman's Irish honours, and became Baron
Berkeley of Rathdown, and Viscount Fitzhardinge, in the peerage
of Ireland.
In a communication to Notes and Queries (6 th S. v. 66), Jan. 28,
1882, headed "Old Laws, &c., of Virginia," this passage occurs :
"1666. Sir Wm. Berkeley, the Governor, says, in answer to
questions put to him by the Lords Commissioners of Foreign Plan-
tations, * I thank God there are no free schools or printing presses,
and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years.'"
EDITOR.
DLIII. ROMAN COINS FOUND NEAR CIRENCESTER, 1759. In
the Gloucester Journal, March 6, 1759, this paragraph occurs :
" A few days ago a man driving a waggon over Sheepscomb Eield,
near Cirencester, perceived one of the hinder wheels to sink very deeply
in the ground, and on examining the place found that the wheel had
broken a large stone urn, in which was a great quantity of old
Roman copper coin ; and upon digging further, two more urns were
discovered near the same spot full of coin of the same metal. The
word GALLIENUS appears in legible characters upon several of the
pieces."
Rudder (p. 641), under the head of Saperton, has a paragraph,
as follows: "In the month of February, 1759, there was a large
quantity of Roman coins found near a place called Lark's Bush, in
the hamlet of Frampton, by a waggon casually passing over and
breaking the urns that contained them. They had suffered by rust
as little as could be expected from lying so long under ground, for
they are supposed to have been placed there by the Romans. They
were soon dispersed into many hands, but no person, I believe,
collected a more compleat series of them than Mr. James Dallaway,
who has favoured me with the following particulars." Then comes
a very full descriptive list of the coins, both silver and brass.
Notwithstanding the differences in the two paragraphs, it is
probable that the reference in both is to one and the same find of
Roman coins. Q ^ j) <
DLIV. SIR ROBERT YEAMANS, BART., OF REDLAND. Robert
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 95
Yeamans, Esq., of Eedland, near Bristol, was the younger son of
Alderman Robert Yeamans (who was put to death at Bristol, May
30, 1643), and like that ill-fated gentleman, an unflinching
supporter of the royal cause; and he was created a baronet,
December 31, 1666. He married Abigail, daughter of Sir Edward
Stafford, Knt., of Bradfield, Berks, but died without issue, 1686-7,
when the title became extinct. His elder brother John, in consider-
ation of the loyalty and death of their father, had likewise received
the honour of a baronetcy, January 12, 1664-5, and settled in
Barbados. On the death of the Rev. Sir Robert Yeamans, 6th
baronet, February 19, 1788, this title in like manner expired.
Captain J. H. Lawrence- Archer, in his Monumental Inscriptions of
the British West Indies (London, 1875), pp. 260, 261, gives one,
from Jamaica, in memory of six of the name.
In the parish church of Westbury-upon-Trym (Redland being
part of the parish) there is an old alms-dish, which bears this
inscription : " Dame Abigail Yeamans, Relict of S r Robert
Yeamans, late of Redland, K* Bar*, gave this Silver Basin to y e
Parish Church of "Westbury upon Trim for Collecting y 6 Charity
money at y e Comunion there, Oct r 7, 1716. R Y A " EDITOR.
DLY. THE BOOTHALL, NEWENT. There is, or was a few years
since, a house in this town called the Boothall, which Leland says
was originally known as the New Inn, and had been built when a
communication was first opened by this road to Wales. I shall be
glad to know whether this house is standing, and also something
of its history. j R
DLVI. GEORGE, FIRST EARL OF BERKELEY. (Reply to No.
CCCCLXV.) It is there stated that this nobleman was created,
September 11, 1679, Baron Mowbray, Segrave, and Braose, Viscount
Dursley, and Earl of Berkeley ; but the creation of that year was
of the two latter titles only, the baronies being family dignities of
much older date. Those of Mowbray and Segrave came into the
Berkeley family by the marriage of James, eleventh Lord Berkeley
(1417-63), with Isabel, elder daughter of Thomas, fifth Lord
Mowbray, and first Duke of Norfolk, and great-granddaughter of
John, Lord Segrave. The barony of Braose also came through the
Mowbrays by the same marriage, John, second Lord Mowbray,
having married Aliva, daughter and co-heir of William, Lord Braose,
of Gower, who died in 1322.
The Historical Applications is an admirable little book, which
well deserves reprinting. I am fortunate in possessing a copy of
the edition of 1670, the "imprimatur" of which, containing the
date of publication, Aug. 19, 1670, shews a curious misprint, the
figure 6 being inverted, and the year appearing as " 1970." The
title-page, however, bears the correct date thus, MDCLXX.
Berkeley. J. H. C.
96 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DLVII. THE TYNDALE MEMORIAL.
(Keply to No. CCCCLXXXYIIL)
At the time of the erection of the Tyndale monument on
Mbley Knoll, all the evidence that was then at hand pointed
to Hunt's Court, in that parish, as the martyr's birth-place ; and the
fact that Thomas Tyndale held that estate at the probable period
of the martyr's birth, by reason of his marriage with the heiress,
Alice Hunt, seemed nearly conclusive, especially as the Tyndales
did not appear as owners of land anywhere else in the neighbourhood.
The researches of Mr. B. "W. Greenfield have, however, completely
disproved this theory.* Alice Tyndale, in her widowhood, entailed
the Hunt's Court estate, in 1541, on her five sons in succession,
Eichard, Henry, William, Thomas, and John : this William was
alive and resident in Mbley in 1543, while the translator of the
Bible had suffered his violent death at Yilvorde in 1536. But, as
Mr. Greenfield has shewn, there were two families of Tyndales,
living and holding land as tenant-farmers in the adjoining parish of
Stinchcombe, as early as 1478 ; both known also by the name of
Huchyns, as an alias, by which name William Tyndale, the martyr,
was frequently called during the early part of his life. No proof
of the martyr's family or place of birth is at present known. In a
letter written by Stokesley, Bishop of London (1530-39), who was
previously rector of the neighbouring parish of Slimbridge, he is
stated to be a brother of Edward Tyndale, who was then woodward
and receiver-general, under the Crown, of the Berkeley Castle estates,
and resided at Hurst, in the parish of Slimbridge. Edward Tyndale's
parentage is, however, as unknown as William's ; but he was
certainly a near relative of the Stinchcombe and Hunt's Court
families, for several of whom he acted as executor or trustee. It
seems most probable that William and Edward Tyndale were brothers
of Eichard Tyndale, of Melksham Court, Stinchcombe, and uncles
of Thomas Tyndale, who married Alice Hunt. j u.C.
DLVIII. THE EEV. STAUNTON DEGGE, OF ALMONDSBUEY.
Among the marriage licences filed at the Bishop's Court, Chester,
for the year 1747, is the following, which may have an interest for
some of your readers :
" 1747. 17 Dec. Stainton Degge, clerk, of Almondbury, co.
Gloucester, and M rs Eelicia Hanmer, of Bettisfield, in the parish' of
Hanmer, co. Elint, spinster ; the marriage to take place at Hanmer."
J. P. EARWAKEE, F.S.A.
Staunton Degge, who graduated A.B. at Cambridge in 1725
(Graduati Cantabrigienses, p. 136), has been mentioned by Eudder
in his Gloucestershire, pp. 223, 495, 588. As therein stated, John
Bridges Baker Dowell, Esq., of Almondsbury, " died unmarried in
the year 1743 [? March 31, 1744, as in copy of inscription], and
* See " The Tyndales in Gloucestershire," in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester-
shire Archaeological Society, vol. ii.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 97
was buried in Almondsbury church, where there is a very handsome
monument, and a memorial for him, and for several of his family,
which is inserted at the end of this account. Mr. Dowell
bequeathed his whole estate to the Reverend Mr. Degge, who had
travelled with him as a tutor ; and Mr. Degge dying in the year
1766, this manor [Over], with several other large estates in the
county, devolved to his sister Mrs. [Dorothy] Wilmot, the present
proprietor [1779]. The manor-house is large and handsome, with
a park adjoining, in which are the traces of a large round camp,
still visible." Sir Jarrit Smyth, Bart., sold the manor of Aust, in
the parish of Henbury, to " the Reverend Staunton Degge, late of
Over, and Mrs. Wilmot is the present lady of this manor." Mr.
Rayner sold Tockington, in the parish of Olveston, to the same
purchaser, who was succeeded in the possession of this manor
likewise by his sister. EDITOR.
DLIX. CANYNGE'S HOUSE, BRISTOL. The extensive premises in
Redcliff-street, belonging to Messrs. Jefferies and Sons, booksellers
and stationers, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night, October 9,
1881. In addition to the destruction of a large amount of valuable
property a serious archaBological loss has been sustained, the well-
known Canynge apartments, so long objects of antiquarian interest,
having been involved in the ruin. These apartments were the only
remnant of the great house in which the second William Canynge,
popularly, but erroneously, called the founder of Redcliff church,
which Chatteron described as the "pride of Bristowe and the
Western lande," once lived. Of the hall and oratory of the ancient
mansion, though sundry alterations had been made to fit them for
the purposes of Messrs. Jefferies' business, sufficient remained to
bear testimony to their former grandeur. The carved timber roof
was well-nigh perfect, and the carved corbels were in a good state
of preservation. Behind this hall was a printing office, in which
tradition alleges that Canynge feasted King Edward IV. j and in
another portion of the building was a room fitted up in the style of
architecture prevailing in the latter part of the seventeenth century.
There was in this apartment, which was known as Canynge's parlour,
a highly-ornamental Renaissance fire-place, and richly-carved furni-
ture. The roof of the ancient hall is partially destroyed, and the
Canynge parlour greatly injured. In A Guide to St. Mary Redcliff
Church, etc. (4th ed., Bristol, 1858), pp. 52-60, "some account of
Canynge's House " has been preserved. j Q.
DLX. A DURSLEY FARMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
The following title of a seventeenth-century tract deposited in
the Gough collection in the Bodleian Library, sufficiently explains
itself : " The Wonderful Recompence of Faith ; or Strange News
from Dursley in Gloucestershire ; being a True and Perfect Relation
How a Godly Farmer Having his Barn full of Corn burnt down
98 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
and having borne his Loss with an Extraordinary Patience it hath
pleased Almighty God by a Miraculous Providence to reward him
(this Harvest) with a Crop of Wheat having generally Fifteen good
full Ears to every Stalk." There is no clue given as to who the
farmer was. W> p. ^ PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DLXI. JOHN WOODWARD, M.A., PREBENDARY OF GLOUCESTER,
1558. He was presented to a prebend in Gloucester Cathedral,
September 2, 1558, and installed on the 10th of the same month.
In 1561, it was returned that he did not reside, but that he lived with
Sir John Petre at his house in London. He probably resigned in
1571. Is anything further known of him 1 And was he a relative
of the John Woodward who was sheriff of Gloucester in 1557 and
1562, and mayor in 1566 1 GENEALOGIST.
DLXII. MORETON-IN-THE-MARSH AND KING CHARLES I. In
Notes and Queries (3 rd S. iv. 514) one may read these particulars,
to which it is desirable to draw attention : Last night (Dec. 1 2,
1863) I slept in a room at the " White Hart Hotel," in Moreton-in-
the-Marsh, Gloucestershire ; and this morning I therein read upon
a card, yellow with age, and torn around the edges, but which has
since been carefully mounted, and is now preserved by glass and a
gilt frame, the following lines and memorandum :
" When friends were few, and dangers near,
King Charles found rest and safety here.
KING CHARLES IST
Slept at this Inn on his way
to Evesham, Tuesday, July 2,
1644."
The ink is faded by time, and the handwriting is in that hard style
so fashionable in years gone by. Upon inquiry in the hotel, I found
that the bed-room bore the name of King Charles I.'s room, and
was still the best bed-room in the hotel. I have also noticed, in a
walk through Moreton this morning, painted upon a board in front
of the toll-house, a table of tolls, to be levied under a charter
granted to this town by King Charles I. in the thirteenth year of
his reign. The town has undergone but little alteration since King
Charles saw it. The majority of the houses have stone mullions to
their windows, and some of the spandrils above the doorways are
very interesting. The toll-house, now a public-house, is a very
curious specimen of architecture. The town-bell hangs in the gable,
above a species of tower. From the appearance of the door, which
is closely studded with iron nails, the lower portion was probably
used for a lock-up, or cage. This tower is fifteenth-century work.
Alfred John Dunkin, Dartford. j 33
BLXIII. THOMAS HELE. Of what parish in Gloucestershire
was Thomas Hele, of whom there is a notice in Chalmers's
Biographical Dictionary 1 He appears to have been a clever man,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 99
of unsettled habits ; and chiefly remarkable for having been almost
the only Englishman who is known to have written in the French
language dramatic pieces that met with immediate success on the
stage at Paris. He was born in Gloucestershire about 1740, and
died at Paris in December, 1780. A recent correspondent of a
French newspaper, giving some account of him, by the name of
" D'Hele," says " He was very well informed, and had an excellent
dramatic faculty. He succeeded at once. That did not prevent our
poor Englishman from being familiar with poverty. ' I have seen
him/ says Gre"ty, ' half naked.' He did not, however, inspire pity.
His noble countenance and tranquillity of manner seemed to say,
' I am a man : what more do I want ! ' Poor fellow, he sadly
wanted a pair of breeches. One day he challenged to a duel one of
his creditors who had dunned him rather impertinently for a debt.
D'Hele, having dexterously struck his adversary's sword out of his
hand, had him at his mercy ; but dismissed him with this speech :
* If I were not your debtor, I would kill you. If we had any
witnesses, I would wound you. We are by ourselves I will pardon
you.'" Chalmers suggests that his name might have been Hale, or
Dale - JOHN E. JACKSON, M.A.
Leigh-Delamere Rectory, Chippenham.
DLXIY. BURIALS IN WOOLLEN. I have read in No. CCIL,
p. 187, that "in 1679, an Act (30 Chas. II., c. 4) was passed,
intituled ' An Act for burying in Woollen,' " etc. And in the
Painswick parish register, under the head of "Burialls, 1678," I
have met with the following entry :
" John Eodway, mason, July 29.
"The other burialls this yeare after the 1 of August are in
another booke, apointed to be kept for buryinge in woollen. Mar.
1678."
How may " this yeare [1678] " be reconciled with " 1679 " 1
C. T. D.
An answer to the foregoing is appended :
The "Act for burying in Woollen" was passed in the parlia-
mentary session that commenced in May, 30 Chas. II. , which was
in 1678, and not " 1679," as stated in the note to which " C. T. D."
refers, and by Burn in his History of Parish Registers (2nd ed.),
p. 29. The act, which was to "be publiquely read upon the first
Sunday after the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, every yeare for seaven
years next following, presently after Divine Service," was to be in
operation "from and after the 1 st of August, 1678," after which
date " no corps of any person " was " to be buried in any stuffe or
thing other than what is made of sheeps wool only." Penalty for
infringement, ,5. Register "to be supplied at the charge of the
parish." (Statutes at Large, 30 Ch. II., c. 3.) The churchwardens
of Painswick appear to have promptly carried out the last provision
100 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
of the act; and the correct date, "1678," now given, removes the
discrepancy, and is in accordance with the date of the memorandum
in the register. \\T M . GEORGE.
DLXY. HOENE, THE NEWENT MARTYR. (See No. XLI.) The
late Mr. John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., edited for the Camden
Society Narratives of the Days of the Reformation (London, 1859);
and in pp. 69, 70, we have some particulars of the martyrdom of
Edward Home at Newent in 1558, from MS. Harl. 425, fol. 121.
The following paper, Mr. Nichols remarks, was written in
correction of a statement which thus appears in Foxe's first edition,
1563, fol. 1546 :
"JhonHorne. And a woman. Martyrs. September 25. (1556.)
" No we not long after the death of the said youngman at
Bristow, in the same manner wer ii. mo godly martirs consumed
by fire at Wutton underhedge in Glocestershier, whose names are
above specified, which died very gloriously in a constant fayth, to
the terror of the wicked', and comforte of the godly. So graciously
dyd the Lorde worke in them, that death unto them was lyfe, and
lyfe with a blotted conscience was death."
If the corrections now given, as Mr. Nichols further remarked,
proceeded from sound information, Foxe was wrong not only in the
Christian name of Home, but in the year of his death ; which
appears to have been 1558 instead of 1556. The 25th September,
1558, would have been rather less than "eight weeks" before
Queen Mary's death, on the 17th of November. Who Mr. John
Deighton, the writer, was we do not know ; but Strype (Eccles.
Memorials, iii. 463) supposes him to have been " a worthy minister
in those parts."
The paper is as follows :
" WHERAS in the last edition of mr. Fox his famous works caled
the booke of Martyrs, as likewise in all the former editions,
there is mention made of one John Home and a woman that
suffered martyrdome for the testimony of their faith at Wotton-
under-Edge in Gloucestershire, let it be knowne that the matter is
mistaken through the default of those that made the certificate for
mr. Eox out of the registers of Gloucester or "Worcester ; for it
cannot be proved that any such person or woman suffered at
Wotton aforesaide. But it is true that one Edward Home suffered
martyrdome at Newente in the said diocesse, and was burnt there
in a place caled the Court Orchard nere the churchyard ; and his
wife was condemned with him, but she recanted and refused to
suffer with him. I have bine at the place and spake with one or ij
of the same parish that did se him there burnt, and do testifie that
at his death he sunge the 146. psalme, untill that his lipps were
burnt away, and then they sawe his tonge move untill he fell downe
in the fier. They of the parish do say they knowe the ij persons
that made the fier to burne him, and they weare ij glovers or fell-
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 101
mongers, whose names I have in my note-booke. He was executed
about viij weekes before queene Mary died.
" The sonne of this martyr is now livinge in the same parish, and
caled Christopher Home, an honest poore man, beinge about 78 or
79 yeres, and borne in queene Maries tyme, about a quarter of
a yere before his father suffered. His mother, that promised to
suffer with hir husband and recanted after she was condemned, was
after married to one Whocke of the parish of Teynton, within a
myle or 2 of Newent, where her first husband was borne ; et hoc
ex relatione ejusdem Ghristopheri Home,
" By me JOHN DEIGHTON.
" I wish for the reverence I beare to the memory of Mr. Fox,
whose person and place of dwelling I knew, and the honor and love
I beare to his works, that this sinale error, which is none of his,
weare amended." EDITOR.
DLXYI. GLOUCESTERSHIRE EECUSANTS, 1715. The following
list has been transcribed from an octavo of 151 pages, entitled The
Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and others, who refus'd
to take the Oaths to his late Majesty King George, etc. (London,
1745). Along with the names of the recusants, the book furnishes
" their Titles, Additions, and places of Abode ; the Parishes and
Townships where their Lands lay ; the Names of the then Tenants,
or Occupiers thereof ; and the Annual Value of them, as estimated
by themselves " ; which particulars were " transmitted to the late
Commissioners for the Forfeited Estates of England and Wales,
after the unnatural rebellion in the North, in the year 1715." The
whole, " now published with a generous view to promote and serve
the true Protestant Interest of these Kingdoms," is "from an original
manuscript of a gentleman [Mr. Cosin], who was the Principal Clerk
to the Accomptant General's Office, belonging to the said Com-
missioners." The contents are alphabetically arranged under the
several counties ; and it is to be noted, that " the Estates which
appear to have been registered, but not valued, belong to such as
neglected their duty, in complying with the legal orders of the
Government at that time." The following names appear under the
head of Gloucestershire, pp. 32-4 :
s. d.
Roland Eartlet, and Anne, his Wife, of Hilland, in
Com' Wigorn', Esq 220
Elizabeth Conquest, \
Margaret Brent, I m 19 10
Mary .Brent, and (
Frances Brent, )
Edward Sheldon, of Beoly, in Com' Wigorn', Esq. 1 8J
Richard Bartlett, of Plumpton-Castle, in Com' York,
Gent. 2 13 4
102 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Mary Cassey, of St. Martin's in the Fields, Spinster :
Estate at Deerhurst, in possession of William
Finster^a/. 44 10
Francis Caning, of Fox-Coat, in Com' Warwick,
Gent 50
Anne Bartlett, predict' 50
Margaret Greenwood, of Brisenorton, in Com' Oxon,
Widow 80
Eobert Needham, Jun., of St. Maughans, in Com'
Monmouth, Gent. 600
John Latham, of Hatheropp, Yeoman ... ... 20
Richard Latham, of ditto, Yeoman ... ... ... 600
Richard Bloore, of ditto, Yeoman ... ... ... 1100
Mary Surman, Widow : Estate at Eastlack-Turvill 2 15
Giles Harding, of Cirencester, Taylor ... ... 11
Thomas Eycott, of Woodmancott, Yeoman...
John Eycott, of ditto, Yeoman
John Wright, of Kelvedon, in Com' Essex, Gent. 51 19 9
Anne Simonds, of St. Giles's 28 00
John Jernegan, of Painswick. in Com' Gloucester,
Esq ' 314 1 4f
Sir Francis Jernegan, Bart., of Cossey, in Com'
Norfolk 30
Joseph Wakeman, of St. Giles 42 5
Sarah Trinder : Estate at Fyefield, in possession of
Francis Cripps 26
Henry Wall, of Stourton, in Com' Wilts, Gent. ... 47 5
Matthias Harris, of Brockweare, Mason ... ... 476
Elizabeth Harris, of ditto, Widow
Samuel Haynes, of Lydney...
John Vaughan, of Hunsome, in Com' Hereford, Esq. 41 14 8
John Vaughan, of Courtfield, in Com' Monmouth,
Esq 171 1 4
Mary Bubb, of Lydney, in Com' Gloucester, Widow 24
Charles Trinder, of Burton on the Water, Esq. ... 32 9
Anthony Kemp, of Slindon, in Com' Sussex, Esq... 215 17 5
Anne Hinde, of Breckford , 34
Thomas Nevill, of Lydney, Esq., and Dame Frances
Wintour, his Wife ... 116014 8
James Fermor, of Tusmore, in Com' Oxon, Esq. ... 80 19 4
Richard Fermor, of ditto, Esq 200
Charles Eyston, of East-hendred, in Berks, Esq. ... 197 12 4
Benedict Wakeman, of Beckford, Esq. ... " ... 397 13 4
Henry Wakeman, of ditto, Gent 40
John Paston, of Horton, Esq., and Anne, his Wife 728 6 2
Henry, Earl of Stafford 34814 OJ
Sir John Webb, of Great Canford, in Com' Dorset,
Bart. 784 9 2
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 103
William Reeves, of Pauntley, Yeoman ... ... 25
Jane Hynson, of Coopers-Hill, Widow 100
Sir Thos. Manby, of South-Weald, in Com' Essex, Knt.
John Talbott, of Longford, in Com' Salop, Esq. ... 65
Charles Greenwood, of Brisenorton, in Com' Oxon, Esq. 72 5
Dame Anne Lytcott, of Larkstoke, Widow . . . 457
Mary Smith, of Coopers-Hill, Widow 50
John Moore, of Kirtlington, in Com' Nottingham, Esq. 284 12 7
Benedict Hall, of High-Meadow, Esq 62712 6
Anne Stafford, Wife of Henry Stafford, Esq. ... 140
7673 9 OJ
As stated in the preface, the contents which had been collected
by authority in the year 1715, were " published at this time [1745],
with no other view, but to assist the Magistrates, and other officers,
who shall happen to be intrusted with the execution of such orders
of Government, as either have already been, or may hereafter be
issued, for suppressing the growth, and unhappy effects, of the
present rebellious insurrection in the North ; which, its hoped, will
caution the Possessors of such estates, at this juncture, carefully to
keep within the bounds of their known duty to our gracious
sovereign King George, and his rightful government over them," etc.
Watlington, Norfolk. W. L. KING.
DLXVII SIR ELEETWOOD DORMER, OF ARLE COURT. This
communication was inserted in the Richmond Standard (Virginia,
U.S.A.), June 12, 1880 : "Sir Fleetwood Dormer. In the north
transept of the parish church of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire,
England, there is an old mural monument to the memory of
Catharine, Lady Dormer, with the following Latin inscription, as
given literally in Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church
of Cheltenham (privately printed, London, 1877), p. 8 :
1 Hie juxta sita est
Catharina,
Eleetwoodi Dormer, Equitis Aurati, sponsa,
Johannis Lygon, de Arle-Court, Armigeri,
ex Elizabetha uxore filia,
utriusq. parentis hseres unica,
cujus familia in Agro Wigorniensi
per trecentos et amplius annos
floruit, et adhuc f eeliciter floret.
A tanto licet genere oriunda, nobiliq. nupta,
stirpem tamen et conjugem,
utrosq. antea illustres,
morum sanctitate illustriores reddidit.
Maritum, si non patrem, hseredem scripsit.
Hsec ilium moriens amplo patrimonio,
ille hanc amissam hoc monumento decoravit
104 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Decessit Febru. 3,
. n
Ajmo
Domini 1678.
Johannes Lygon supradictus obijt 1644.
Filius unicus Bicardi Lygon, de
Maddersfield, Arm., ex secundis
nuptijs cum Margareta, filia Joh :
Talbott, Militis, ex stripe Comitum Salo-
-pise, affinis etiam fuit Baronibus
de Berkly Castro, alijsq. proceribus,
et per uxores suas hseredibus,
quorum insignia superne
depinguntur.'
[Arms Azure ten billets 4, 3, 2, 1 or, on a chief of the second
a demi-lion rampant issuant sable Dormer, impaling argent two
lions passant guardant in pale gules LygonJ]
In Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, No. CCXLIY., in
' Extracts from the Cheltenham Parish Kegisters,' Lady Dormer's
burial is entered as having been on the 5th of May, 1678 ; and I
have therein appended these particulars : Daughter of John
Lygon, Esq., of Arle Court, Cheltenham, and wife of Sir Eleetwood
Dormer, of Arle Court, who emigrated to Virginia. But he may
perhaps have returned ; for in one of the registers there is this
entry: 'Dyed y e 27 th (August, 1696,) Sir Fleetwood Dormer, KV
He was the third son of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Lee Grange
and Purston, whose grandson was created a baronet in 1661. See
Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (London, 1844), p. 162.
Is anything further known of Sir Fleetwood Dormer and his
family 1 and did he remain until his death in Virginia 1 I shall
feel very much obliged for any information. (Rev.) Beaver H.
Blacker, M.A."
Mr. E. A. Brock, of Eichmond, kindly appended this information
as to the name afforded by the Virginia Land Registry Office, in the
hope that it might prove suggestive : We find the following grants
of Eecord : William Dormer, 400 acres in " James Citty " county
on the north side of James river and east side of the Chickahominy,
bounded by the lands of Eichard Newes, Squire Diggs, and " Mr.
Eolfe's Indian ffield;" and to the same 200 acres in Harrop parish,
near the lands of Edward Besse, William Davis, and Captain
Humphrey Higginson ; both of date June 6, 1656, Book No. 3. p.
381.
The inquiry is reprinted in the hope of eliciting further informa-
tion - EDITOE.
DLXVIII. THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD AND GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE. This eminent statesman was at one time intimately con-
nected with the county by ties of property in the immediate
neighbourhood of Gloucester, his lordship, then Mr. Disraeli, having
-acquired the property in question Taynton Court Farm and Pound
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 105
Farm, Taynton, in all 336 acres through his marriage with Mrs.
Wyndham Lewis in 1839. It had belonged to Colonel Viney, of
Sandhurst, near Gloucester, and he mortgaged it to Mr. Wyndham
Lewis, who married Miss Evans, daughter of Captain Evans, R.N.,
and niece of Colonel Yiney, and became the possessor. On the 21st
August, 1862, the estate, with the manor of Little Taynton, was
sold by auction to W. Laslett, Esq., M.P., for 13,200. To the
day of his death Lord Beaconsfield held the lease of Cathedral
House, Gloucester, which he re-leased to the dean and chapter, whose
tenant is the Rev. Henry M. J. Bowles. The signature " B. Disraeli"
was attached to a requisition signed by nearly 4,000 owners and
occupiers of land in Gloucestershire, asking the high sheriff (Wm.
P. Price, Esq.) to " convene a county meeting to take into consider-
ation the present depressed state of the agricultural interest, and the
best means to be adopted for the relief thereof." The meeting was
held on the 9th June, 1849. j G
DLXIX. GLOUCESTERSHIRE ENGRAVINGS IN THE " GENTLEMAN'S
MAGAZINE," 1731-1818. The following particulars, taken from A
Complete List of the Plates and Wood-cuts in the Gentleman's
Magazine, 1731-1818 (London, 1821), will prove useful for refer-
ence :
Bristol Cathedral, Church, and Part of the City, View of, Ixi.
1081.
Church of St. Mary Redcliff, View of, Ixii. 9.
Sculpture there, Ixxxiii. ii. 545.
Cathedral, Motto in, 1. 166.
, Calcot, Great Barn, View of, and Inscription, Ixv. 385.
Cheltenham Church, distant View of, Ixviii. 653.
Inscription on a Stone near, xlix. 441.
Cirencester Church, Inscription for Thomas Master, and other
Monumental Devices, &c., there, Ixxvi. 212.
Clifton, View of, Ixi. 801.
Cook's Folly, a castellated building near Bristol, View of, Ixxxiv.
i. 121.
Dean (Forest of), Chapel and School there, View of, Ixxxiv. i.
545.
.Durdham Down, View from, Ixxxv. 1. 489.
Fairford Church, Brass Plate for John Tame and his Wife in, Ixi.
345.
King's Stanley Church, View of, Ixxiv. 709.
JSTorthleach Church, Brass Plate in, Ixxvi. 212.
Oddington, Spearheads, &c., found there, Ivii. 292.
Prinknash Manor House, Stone Bust of a man [King Henry VIII. ]
there, Ixiv. 980.
Redland Chapel, View of, Ixxxv. i. 105.
Severn, Entrances to the Tunnel connecting the Thames and the,
Ivi. 926 ; Ix. 389.
VOL. II. H
106 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Stapleton Prison, View of, Ixxxiv. i. 441.
Stoke Gifford, old Elm Tree at, xxxvi. 504.
Sudeley Castle, View of, Ixix. 553.
Tewkesbury, ancient building near, View of, Ixxxviii. i. 489.
Torts worth, great Chestnut Tree at, xxxvi. 321.
The illustrations here enumerated are not first-class works of art-;
but they will be found more or less interesting. It is to be observed,
that beginning with vol. Ixxx. (for the year 1810), the volumes of
the magazine are divided into parts, which are distinguished by the
figures i. and ii. EDITOR.
DLXX. THE FOEEST OF DEAN. As mentioned in the Antiquary,
(Dec. 13, 1873), vol. iv., p. 290, the Forest of Dean was originally
of much greater dimensions than it is now. A perambulation of
the time of Edward I. shows that the whole of the peninsula
formed by the Severn and Wye, as far north-east as Newent, and
north to Ross, was comprised in this celebrated forest. Anciently
the miners played a most important part in some of the sieges, both
as archers and miners. They were at sieges in the years 1310,
1311, 1315, 1317, 1319, and 1355, including those at Berwick-on-
Tweed, Northallerton, and ISTewcastle-upon-Tyne. These hardy
foresters were the sappers and miners of that period. In the olden
time the whole of the ironworks were "forgeae errantes," or move-
able forges, and consumed an enormous quantity of the best timber
in the forest ; there were seventy-two forges in the reign of Edward
I, and at the two at Flaxley more than two oaks were burnt
weekly. In giving evidence before the miners' jury, relating to the
mine laws, the witnesses wore their caps to show that they were free
miners, and instead of taking the oath in the usual way, touched
the Gospels with a stick of holly, the same stick being retained
for a long time, as it was considered consecrated to the purpose.
[See No. CCCCXXIII] In Newland Church a helmet on a
fifteenth-century brass has for its crest a miner equipped for his
work, viz., with a cap, a candlestick in his teeth, and a small
mattock in his right hand ; on his back is a wooden mine-hod, sus-
pended by a shoulder strap ; and he has a thick flannel jacket, and
short leathern breeches tied with thongs below the knee.
ANTIQUARIUS.
DLXXI. ROBERT SOUTHEY. Born at Bristol on the 12th of
August, 1774, he proceeded from Westminster School to Oxford,
entering Balliol College in 1792. Like Coleridge, whom he at this
time met, he was a Republican and a Unitarian. These opinions
he afterwards abjured. Shortly after Southey's marriage, Cottle,*
* Joseph Cottle died in 1853, aged 84. These lines concerning him are in Lord Byron's
English Sards and Scotch Reviewers .
" Boeotian Cottle, rich Bristowa's boast,
Imports old stories from the Cambrian coast,
And sends his goods to market all alive 1
Lines forty thousand, cantos twenty-five."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 107
the Bristol bookseller, purchased his epic poem, "Joan of Arc,"
for fifty guineas. After visiting Lisbon, the young poet entered at
Gray's Inn, but did not long continue his legal studies. In 1801
appeared " Thalaba the Destroyer," a brilliant Eastern poem, which
brought him considerable poetic reputation, if little pecuniary profit.
In 1804 he went to reside near Keswick, having for his companion
Coleridge, while Wordsworth dwelt only fourteen miles away.
These distinguished writers were subsequently described as " The
Lake School." In 1813 Southey was made Poet Laureate, and in
1821 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him. In 1835 Sir
Robert Peel granted him a pension of .300 per annum. Southey,
who was twice married his second wife being Caroline Bowles,*
the writer of several beautiful lyrics died at Greta on the 21st of
March, 1843. His popularity as a poet was doubtless injured by
his choice of topics, all his principal works "Madoc," "The Curse
of Kehama," Roderick, the Last of the Goths," &c. being concerned
with foreign subjects, and having no great attraction for lovers of
English poetry. There is, however, in them much writing of a
sustained and even sublime character. His minor poems enjoy
more favour ; and amongst his ballads none are more popular than
"Lord William," "Mary, the Maid of the Inn," "The Battle of
Blenheim," and "The Old Woman of Berkeley." Southey will
also long be remembered for his prose writings, which include
memoirs of Nelson, Wesley, Cowper, and others, a " History of the
Peninsular War," " Lives of the British Admirals," &c. His prose
style is admirable, exhibiting an ease and a swing which have rarely
been surpassed. BRISTOLIENSIS.
DLXXII. STINCHCOMBE PABISH CHURCH, f In carrying out,
in accordance with the plans of Mr. J. L. Pearson (subsequently en-
gaged in the restoration of Lincoln Cathedral), the enlargement of this
church, which consisted of a narrow nave and chancel, distant
about two miles from Dursley, it was necessary to pull down the
whole of it with the exception of the tower and north porch. This
was done in the year 1854. There were indications of Decorated
work, and perhaps some a little older, sufficient to determine the
style for the new work. The portions pulled down were very
dilapidated and ill-built. The tower and the porch, both of the
Perpendicular period, are good and of regular masonry. In pulling
down the walls of the nave, the remains of a partly solid stone
screen, of Perpendicular date, were found built into the side walls
at the place of the chancel arch (for no arch existed), and in the
* An 8vo volume, forming one of the Dublin University Press Series, has been published
(London, 1881), entitled The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles, etc., edited,
with an introduction, by Edward Dowden, LL.D., Professor of English Literature in the
University of Dublin ; and containing a portrait of Caroline Bowles, photographed from a
crayon drawing by herself.
t For the particulars here given, we are much indebted to an article by " J. L. P." in the
Church guilder, 1868, p. 111. A woodcut illustration of the exterior of the building as restored
accompanies the article.
108 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
north wall of the nave, beside this screen, were found the remains
of a rood staircase, but of a much earlier date. The remains of the
screen were sufficient to determine its exact character. It has been
restored, or rather copied, and divides the vestry from the end of
the south aisle.
The present church consists of nave and south aisle, each having
a distinct and pointed roof, the old north porch, west tower, and
chancel, which has an aisle of one bay on the south side, forming a
continuation of the aisle of the nave. In this the organ has been
placed, and the space behind the organ is used as a vestry. The
church is built up the slope of a steep hill, and in consequence of
this it was necessary to raise the floor at intervals by nearly a dozen
steps, in proceeding from the west door in the tower. In the old
church this was rendered less necessary by making the floor of the
nave slope up considerably, but the effect was unpleasing. The
building now accommodates about 300 worshippers. The seats are
all open, and are mada of oak ; so also are the chancel stalls. The
roofs are open, plastered between the rafters to receive paint ; the
walls also have been prepared for decorations. The east window,
of five lights, is filled with painted glass by "Wailes, and also the
other windows in the chancel. There are two in the south aisle by
Clayton and Bell. The floor of the chancel is paved with tiles ;
the patterns being reproductions, by Minton, of a series found in
the old church, evidently made in that part of the country, as the
same patterns are to be seen at Bristol, Gloucester, and elsewhere in
the neighbourhood. The old tower needed little repair. It carries
a spire of fair proportions, and looks very picturesque among the
surrounding trees. The porch has had a parvise over it. An arch was
opened out from it into the nave, and it was some years since
converted into a pew, or sort of family-box, for which a faculty was
obtained.
The great difficulty in the rebuilding of this church on the old
site arose from the accumulation of burials about and close up to
the walls, and many might have been deterred from entering upon
the work ; it was, however, carried out to the perfect satisfaction of
all concerned. The greatest care was taken by selected workmen,
under the immediate superintendence of the vicar, in the removal
to new graves, or in the lowering, of the numberless remains that
came in the way of the new walls, and in the lowering and levelling
of the churchyard, and no unpleasant feeling was created. Attention
has been thus drawn to the matter, because it is one that has
continually to be dealt with in the restoration and enlargement of
churches, but seldom to such an extent as in this instance. Where it
is undertaken with the same feelings, and in the same careful and
solemn manner, little or no difficulty will in all likelihood be
experienced.
In Church Bells (Sept. 13, 1879), vol. ix., p. 481, there is a
portrait, with a biographical sketch, of the present vicar, Sir George
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 109"
Prevost, Bart, who for several years (1865-81) held likewise the
archdeaconry of Gloucester; and in the following number of the
same publication, p. 493, there is an engraving of the exterior of
the church, as it now is, with some additional details, from which
we make a selection.
When Sir George Prevost became the incumbent in 1834, the
nave and chancel which had been built somewhat rudely in the
Decorated period, were greatly dilapidated; the east window was
closed, and the tracery very much broken ; and a rude wooden beam,
of modern insertion, held together the north and south walls of the
chancel. The porch has a groined roof, over which was a chamber
or parvise, which is found in almost all the churches in the
immediate neighbourhood. It is not known what purpose this
chamber was originally intended to serve by the monks of Gloucester,
who, no doubt, built it ; but there is a distinct tradition in the
parish that at no very distant date, probably about a century ago,
an old woman, whose name is preserved on record as Margaret Povey,
was put to live there by the parish officers. A few years before the
present vicar's appointment a gentleman resident in the parish got
possession of it by a faculty (as already referred to), had it opened
into the nave, and used it as a pew; but it is not now so
appropriated. The new church was consecrated by Bishop Monk
on the 26th of July, 1855, when Bishop Wilberforce preached in
the morning, and the Eev. John Keble in the afternoon. The whole
outlay exceeded 2,000, this amount having been contributed
chiefly by the Eev. Isaac "Williams, then residing in the parish, and
by his friends. Mr. Williams died at Stinchcombe, May 1, 1865,
and was buried in the churchyard ; and two windows have been
erected to his memory in the chancel. There are several other
painted windows, most of them memorials. The church is dedi-
cated in the name of St. Cyr, of whom little is known, but who is
said to have been a child martyr. The population of the parish is
not much above 300 ; but, as the church is near the confines of two
other parishes, Berkeley and Cam, the attendance is comparatively
large. The situation is particularly beautiful, on the edge of the
Cotswolds, overlooking the rich vale of the Severn, and sufficiently
elevated to be a conspicuous object on this side of the river, and
clearly discernible beyond it. j Q
DLXXIII. FEMALE CHURCHWARDENS. (See No. CXCL) In
an old register belonging to the parish of Doynton I find the
following :
"Easter Monday, April 20, 1772, Hannah Butler was chosen
Churchwarden by the Rector [Thomas Coker, M. A.], and served the
office for Mr. Weare's estate." Then follows "Mem. Hannah
Butler was nominated by the Vestry as above mentioned, to serve
the office of Churchwarden for Mr. Weare's estate, but was refused
at the Visitation at Sodbury to be admitted. Whereupon Mr.
110 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Francis Evans took it voluntarily upon himself to serve it in her
stead, and was accordingly sworn into the office."
It would be interesting to know the name of the polite arch-
deacon or other official who refused to admit a female to the office,
and the grounds of the refusal. There can be little doubt that in
these days some ladies would be quite as efficient, and not so officious,
as some male churchwardens. A G H
Doynton Rectory, Bath.
In 1880 the office was served by a lady, Mrs. Sevier, in the
parish of Maisemore. Q. B A. W.
DLXXIV. ROBERT HUNTINGTON, D.D., BISHOP OF RAPHOE.
(See No. CCCCLXXXIIL) With reference to Bishop Huntington,
I am able now to show that his probable birthplace was Deerhurst,
although there is no record of his baptism in the parish register.
He is always said to have been born in 1636. His father, (like
himself,) a Robert Hfintington, was curate of Deerhurst for some
years. The entries in the register are in his handwriting from the
middle of 1633 to that of 1635. In that interval a son was born
to him, and baptized, but not his distinguished son, Robert. Then
comes a handwriting altogether different. At the same time he
must still have been the minister of the parish, for I find his
signature to a deed dated 1638-9. Subsequently he is found as
vicar of the adjoining parish of Leigh, from 16 48 to 1661. A
stone built into the wall of the chancel at Leigh records his death,
and also that of his wife, with this eulogy of the worthy couple :
" Knowing, useful, peacable, plain was he,
Truly a neighbour, mother, wife was she ;
And if there's a heaven as we proffesse,
Their unseen glory words cannot expresse."*
The following noticeable entry is in the Deerhurst register of
burials, in Huntington's handwriting :
"1634-5. Jan. 29. Joane, the daughter of Thomas Greeninge,
nive et frigore enecta, die illo Martis memorando, et in agris rejecta."
Deerhurst Vicarage, Tewkesbury. G. B.
DLXXY. THE OLD FONT OF DEERHURST CHURCH. (Reply to
No. CCCCLXXXIV.) Those who may have read the notice
respecting the very ancient font of Deerhurst Church will be
pleased to learn that it is in good keeping. Its history is a singular
one. It must have been shortly before the date of Mr. W. H.
Gomonde's letter (1846), to which reference is made in the notice,
that the font was purchased from the farmer, on whose premises it
had stood for an unknown number of years, by Bishop (then Dean)
Wilberforce, and was given by him to Longdon Church, Worcester-
shire. There it remained for a period of nearly thirty years. It
then chanced that a lady (Miss Strickland, of Apperley Court,)
* These lines have been recorded by Dinglcy, in his History from Marble, p. xx.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Ill
discovered what seemed to be the stem of the font in a garden close
to the Severn, distant about one mile from Deerhurst Church. The
same lady generously presented Longdon with a new font, recovered
the ancient one, and placed it once more in Deerhurst Church upon
its old "footing." The stem bears traces of the same remarkable
ornamentation which characterises the bowl; but the weather,
during the ages of exposure to it, has very much obliterated the
design. Whether or not this font be of the very great antiquity
assigned to it by Mr. Westwood and others (A.D. 700), must, I
presume, be left as a matter of uncertainty. What, however, scarcely
seems to admit of doubt is, that the greater portion of the existing
church of Deerhurst dates from before the Conquest.
I may add that in the tower of the church a curious old jointed
bier exists, which is thus inscribed :
"REPENT. 0. MAN. WHILE. THERE, is. BREATH.
THERE'S. NO. REPENTANCE. AFTER. DEATH."
Probably its date is about the year 1700 ; for it has on it the names
of the churchwardens who were then in office.
Deerhurst Vicarage, Tewkesbury. G. B.
DLXXVL DR. THOMAS DOVER, OF BRISTOL. (See No.
CCCCXXYIL) In Mchols' Literary Anecdotes, vol. i., p. 135,
the following letter from the Rev. Thomas Mangey, LL.D., to
Dr. Waller, dated March 4, 1720, has been printed from the
original :
" Dear Doctor, I am glad of this opportunity of kissing your
hand, and telling you something in your profession which is the
whole talk of the town. The small-pox for these two months hath
raged here more universally and fatally than for some years last
past ; which hath occasioned some reflections upon the most
eminent physicians, especially Dr. Mead and Dr. Friend, who have
affected some singularity in their practice upon that distemper.
But one Dr. Dover, a man unknown in the faculty, and who hath
been a sea-captain for many years, hath contributed very greatly to
the diminution of their reputation. He was accidentally called in
very lately to one Mrs. Corbot, who had been given over by
Dr. Mead, who said she would die in a few hours. This new
Doctor -affirmed she was murdered by the Physicians, ordered the
blisters (being six in number) to be taken off, sends for an operator,
and with some difficulty persuades him to take as much blood as he
could, which amounted to sixteen ounces. He then takes her out
of bed, and orders her clean linen ; after that gives her a large
draught of sherry, orange, and water, which operated so well, that
in two hours time she shewed the signs of recovery, and is now in
a very hopeful way. He hath observed the same method with like
success with several persons of quality this week, and is as yet in
very great vogue. He pretends to have learned the method of cure
112 GLOUCESTEESHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
in the West Indies, where no one is known to die of the small-pox ;
and only saith that a greater quantity of blood is to be taken away
here, upon account of more luxurious living. He declaims against
his brethren of the faculty with public and great vehemence ; and
particularly against purging and blistering in the distemper, which
he affirms to be the death of thousands. It is probable you have
received a more particular account from some more able hand ; but
I promise myself you will excuse this well-meant impertinence from
one who hath a respect for the faculty upon your account, and is,
with a very sincere esteem, dear Doctor,
" Your faithful humble servant,
" THO. MANGEY.
" Lord Bishop of London's,
Westminster, March 4, 1720."
In 1732 "Thomas Dover, M.B.", published in London an 8vo
volume, entitled The Ancient Physician's Legacy to his Country,
" being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice,"
and " designed for the use of all private families." The book is
dedicated to John Tracy, Esq., of Stanway, Gloucestershire. In the
opening paragraph he says, " I have spent the greatest part of my
life without the least thought of becoming an author ; and if it
should be asked, What makes me now appear in print : I answer,
That I have acquired in physick, by my long study and practice,
what I conceive may be for the common benefit of mankind ; and
therefore I publish my observations." And his concluding words,
(p. 156) are characteristic of the man : " N.B. Having taken notice
of some errors in the practice of other physicians, I shall frankly
acknowledge one in my own : I have hitherto been too zealous in
recommending one particular apothecary but am resolved, for the
future, to let all my patients make use of any apothecary they like
best which, I think, is but doing justice to the gentlemen of that
profession."
Many passages might be made from the volume ; but let one, as
found in p. 114, suffice for the present : " Miss Corbet [the lady
mentioned in the letter above] had as high a confluent small pox as
ever I saw, .... and the worst symptoms attending her. Dr.
Mead, and another physician [Dr. Friend], left her, saying, She
could not live six hours. I was called to her ; I desired she might
instantly be blooded. The Eight Honourable the Lady Hotham, her
mother, sent for a surgeon, who refused to do it, telling my Lady,
that Dr. Mead said, that if she was blooded she would die instantly.
I told the Lady, that colours were all the same to the blind ; I had
a black man that blooded very well, and sent for him, who performed
the operation : she lost a vast quantity of blood. Miss Corbet
declared afterwards, that upon bleeding she found her spirits revived,
and, as it were, a new life coming on ; and so it pleased God she
recoverecl " BRISTOLIENSIS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 113
DLXXVIL THE PARISH OF CAM, 1571. The Lay Subsidy of
13 Elizabeth, 1571, now in the Public Kecord Office (-JH), gives
the following list of persons assessed at that date in the parish of
Cam :
John Davyes in landes 1* iij 5 iiij^
James Mody in landes xxx* ij*
Joane harding in landes iij" iiij 5
Thorn's harding in landes iij" iiij 5
George harding in landes 1* iij 5 iiij d
Thorn's More in landes 1* iij 5 iiij' 1
Willm hickes in goodes iiij" iiij
Edith partrige in goodes v" v s
Willm parker in goodes vj" vj 5
Will'm Selnian in goodes v" v*
John Trotman the elder in goodes xj" xj*
Morris Trotman in goodes iiij" iiij 5
John bendal in goodes iiij" iiij*
John Sommers in goodes v" v 5
Willym phillymore in goodes iiij" iiij*
John Trotman junior in goodes x" x*
John Woodward thelder in goodes viij" viij 5
Ric' Woodeward in goodes vj" vj 5
John Essington in goodes iiij" iiij*
John Woodward in landes xxx s ij*
Margaret Selman in goodes iiij" iiij*
Ric' Daungerfield in goodes iij" iij*
Kic' payne in goodes iij" iij*
Humphrey ally in goodes iij" iij*
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DLXXVIII. THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCHWARDENS OF
HAMPNETT PARISH, 1607-19.
"1607 W m Byshopp ) Churchwardens who receaved of y e
Rich. Sowtherne J olde Churchwardens xvij* iij d and laide
out xvij 5 v^
1608 Thomas ByokneU) churchwardens
Thomas Rose j
1609 Tho. Bycknell) Churchwardens who receaved of y e
W m Byshopp j p'ishioners at xiiij^ y e yarde land ij 1 iij 5
ix. d & laide out for the Churche xlviij 5 i d so y e pishioners
rested in theire debt this day at accompt Aprill y e xv th
1610 4 5 W
M r Henry Atkinson Esquier p'mised towards the making
of the peals iij 5 iiij d
1610 Thomas Rose | Churchwardens & Sydesmen & Weyes-
Rich. Sowtherne ) men chosen Aprill 17 tk 1610 who
y elded their accompt March 31 st 1611 as followeth
They receaved of the P'ishioners that yeare ij* iij 5 viij^ and
114 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
layd forth ij z vij ij so that the Church resteth in their debt
irp vj<* & M r Tho ByckneU & William Byshopp's debt for y e
yeare 1609 iiij* iiij d where note that Ed Byshop oweth yet
at vj d y e yard land for the repayre of y e Church iiij* vj d
1611 Thomas Bycknell } Churchwardens & Sydesmen & Weys-
Walt r Hall J men chosen March 31 16ij. They
receaved at vj<* y e yarde land xiiij* iij d laide out xxiiij*
vj d so that the Church resteth in their debt x s iij d viz
ij* iij d to Walt r Hall & the rest to Tho Bycknell
And Edward Bisshoppe yet oweth for his ix yarde land
iiij 5 vj d There is owing to R. Sowtherne which was
forgotten xiij d
1612 Thomas Rose ) Churchwardens sydesmen & waysemen
Edward Byshopp j for this yeare They receaved nothing
of the P'yshioners only j d a piece of every comunicant
for bread & wyne for w h there is no accompt to yelde but
to set one to y e - other
They layde out for themselves & the pyshioners xvij*
iiij d
1613 Thomas Bycknell ) Church wardens Sydesmen & Wayse-
and Walter Hall j men for this yeare 1613 Fyrst they
bought a newe Byble ij M x 5 all w h & no more they collected
for that purpose only at xvj d y e yard land Secondly they
laide out for themselves & the rest of the pyshioners
xxvij 5 iiij d Thirdly of the collection of xxv* at viij d the
yard land they have collected iiij* vj d of J Miller iij* iiij d &
Christofer Rose viij d
* * Before any other collection be made this last collection
must of right be gathered and every one is to pay but
those two
[Note the charge for a Bible under this date, as touching
the question whether the new version was ordered by
authority to be used in parish churches.]
1614 Tho Rose & Edward Byshop churchwardens sydesmen &
waysemen for the yeare 1614 Tho Rose receaved 17* 6 d
and layd out for this yeare 17* l d and therefore oweth to
the Church v d Edward Byshop receaved 17 5 6 and laide
out 12* 2<* & therefore oweth to the Church v* iiij d
1615 Tho Bicknell & Walter Hall Churchwardens Sydesmen
and Waysemen for the yeare 1615 They laid out in theire
yeare 21* 2 d and receaved nothinge of the pyshioners
. . . . 21* 2<* W m Byshop paide the next year viz
1616
1616 William Byshop & Thomas Rose chosen Churchwardens
Sydesmen & Waysemen for the year 1616 W m Byshop
receaved V xv s S d and paide 2* 3 4 9 d of w h 21* 2 d was the
former Churchwardens Therefore the Church resteth in
his debt 8* l d Thomas Rose receaved ix* & laid out
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 115
vij* xj d and therefore resteth in the Churche his debt xiij d
1617 Thomas Bicknell & Edward Byshopp chosen Church-
wardens Sydesmen & Waysmen for the y eare 1617 Thomas
Bycknell receaved nothinge but hath layde out for the
Church & pyshioners xiiij* viij d Edward Bishop receaved
nothing but hath layd out v s viij d but he was indebted to
the Church 1614 v* iiij d and therefore the Church oweth
him iiij d
1618 Thomas Rose & Thomas Lanchbury chosen churchwardens
sydesmen & waysmen for this year 1618 Tho Eose
receaved 4 s 2 d & laide out 5* 6 d so is indebted by the
Church 8<* Tho Lanch : receaved 13 s 3 d & laide out 12* 5<*
so is indebted to the Church I0 d
Note for the said collection Tho 8 Bicknell oweth the
Church lQ d & W m Bishop the 3*
1619 Thomas Bicknell & Walt r Hall chosen churchwardens
Sydesmen & waysmen for this yeare April 4 th "
It will be seen above (under the year 1613) that a rate of xvjd
the yard land produced ijl. xs. It is probable therefore that the
yard land in this part of Gloucestershire contained about 35 acres.
The acreage of Hampnett by the tithe-map is 1353a. 2r. 20p.,
exclusive of glebe ; but remeasurement of several fields has proved
this tithe-map measurement to be too high. In all probability the
acreage of Hampnett does not much exceed 1330 acres. In this
case the yard land would comprise about 35 acres. Thirty eight
times thirty five acres amounts to 1330 acres ; and thirty eight times
sixteen pence would produce 2 10s. 8d.
Copy of the Churchwardens' account for the year 1610 on a
loose sheet of paper, much injured, and therefore in part undecypher-
able, in the early vellum register of Hampnett :
" H tt ^^ e accom P^ e f Thomas Rose & Richard [Sowtherne]
ifiin 6 Churchwardens for the yeare 1610 immedi [atelyl vp
March 31 th 1611
Receaved : Inp'mis receaved of the pyshioners to buy Bysho[p
Jewell's] works aft r rate of viij d the yard lande Item
receaved of the pyshioners towards the of the
Church visitacon expence maymed soupdiers]
castle money & other thinges in the charge of the
Ch[urch wardens] aft r the rate of vj d the yarde land
xxxiiij Beside iiij 5 vj d that Edward Byshop is yet to
[pay] Item receaved of the communicants at Ea[ster]
Layd out Inp'mis at the visitation at Cycist r Item maymed
souldiers xiij d /ij 5 ij d /ij* ij d /ij...Item layde out at the
Court at Glouc r uppon T [Thursday?]* Octb r xxv th
being called thither upp[on] c r tayne Church seats in
decay & Item slating of the Church to Thomas
Powle Item glazing of the Church windowes & wo
* As far as I can make out, the 25th October, 1610, was a Thursday.
116 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Item a rope for the saunce bell Item the
mending of the bell whelle Item whitleather
Item W m Lewis the hanginge of the Clapps [clappers]
Item the receavinge of ij bills of p'sentment
Item bread and wyne by Thomas Rose Item by shop
Jewels works Item nayles for the bell wheele
So the Church resteth in their debt iij s vi d and .... & W m
By shops debt for the yeare 1609
M d [memorandum] of the somes aforesaid laide out Richard
Sowtherne for his pte laide .... viz at the visitacoii ij*
maymed souldiers ij d nayles j d Bread & .... and hath
receaved of the comunicants xiiij d and so owinge . . . ."
It is unfortunate that in this account the part of the paper on
which the sums paid were figured, has been rubbed off in the
course of years ; but in the account in the vellum register for 1610,
of which the above is simply a detailed statement, the Church-
wardens received 2 3s. 8d.,and laid out 2 7s. 2d. The same entry
shows that Wm. Bishop owed 4s. 6d., at 6d. the yard land; therefore
his farm consisted of about .315 acres (the yard land at Hampnett
apparently comprising 35 acres). Bishop Jewel's Works appear to
have been purchased for<l 5s. Ocl. ; for the Churchwardens receivedfor
that purpose at the rate of 8d. the yard land. (The Bible purchased
in 1613 for 2 10s. Od. was at 16d. the yard land.) Deducting the
sum of 1 5s. Od. from the Churchwardens' total expenditure of
2 7s. 2d., they appear to have laid out for all other purposes 1 2s. 2d.
Hampnett Rectory, ISTorthleach. WM. WIGGIN, M.A.
DLXXIX. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER CATHEDRALS. In the
Builder (Dec. 10, 1881), vol. xli., p. 738, there is a letter from a
correspondent, who, having lately completed a tour of all the English
and Welsh cathedrals, thinks it "an appropriate occasion for
gathering up into a paragraph or two some of those notes and queries
suggested by the present condition of these interesting fabrics."
What he writes of the two cathedrals with which we are more
intimately concerned, may prove suggestive.
Bristol. Closely linked with the remembrance of Bristol is a
strong feeling of commendation for the energy displayed in bringing
to a completion the building of an entire nave, probably the most
important work among our cathedrals which this generation has
witnessed. One would like to see the three towers finished, giving
a distinctive character to the exterior. There is a movement just
now on foot to bring the south-west tower up to the the level of its
fellow ; but what of the pinnacles and parapets of the tower at the
crossing ? where are they gone, and in what manner are they to be
replaced ? And what hope is there of the general exterior being
cleaned, which is so much needed 1 Is the considerable remaining
cloister to be restored and rebuilt as a quadrangle I
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 117
Gloucester. The organ surmounting the screen, and which is so
conspicuous looking down the nave, is an incongruous, if not ugly,
object here, with its three uprights with flattened heads. Something
of the lightness of design adopted for the case at Lincoln might be an
improvement. Others have suggested dividing the organ; but,
would this cathedral look well with an almost unbroken vista,
considering the contrast between nave and choir 1 J G
DLXXX. OLD PAINTING AT GLOUCESTER, 1732. In a letter
from Dr. Ducarel to Horace Walpole, dated May 20, 1762, and
published in Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, vol. iv., p. 705, what
follows may be found: "When I was at Gloucester, in 1732, I
there saw a large piece of painting, on board, representing the Day
of Judgment, newly found hid behind a wall, and about eight feet
square, in which our Saviour's wounds in particular seemed to be
extremely well represented. But when done, or by whom, I know
not ; and whether in oil colours I do not at present recollect." Any
further particulars of this old Gloucester painting will be acceptable.
ANTIQUAEIUS.
DLXXXI. ATKYNS'S " GLOUCESTERSHIRE. " (Reply to No.
CXX. ; see also No. CCCXXXVIII.) Some information respecting
the two editions of this old folio is desired ; and accordingly, with the
help of Upcott's English Topography, vol. i. pp. 246-9, the follow-
ing particulars have been compiled.
The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire. By Sir
Robert Atkyns. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Robert
Gosling, at the Mitre, near the Inner Temple Gate, in Fleet-street.
1712.
Title-page as above ; preface and advertisement, 7 pages ; author's
-epitaph, 1 page ; Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire, 859
pages; and index of the more considerable persons, and of the
hamlets contained in this book, 7 pages.
The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire. By Sir
Robert Atkyns, Knt. The Second Edition. Illustrated with seventy-
three Copper-plates, containing a Map of the County, a Plan and
Prospect of the City, a View of the Cathedral, sixty-one Seats, and
three hundred and twenty Coats of Arms, of the Nobility and
Gentry residing in the County at the time of the first publication.
London : Printed in the year MDCCXII. Reprinted by T.
Spilsbury, for W. Herbert, at No. 27, in Goulston-Square ; and Sold
by J. Millan, at Charing Cross ; T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate ;
Davis and Reymers, opposite Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn ; B. White,
in Fleet-Street ; Baker and Leigh, in York-Street, and T. Davies,
in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden ; J. Brotherton and H. Parker, in
Cornhill ; G. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street ; J. Buckland, Hawes,
and Co., Johnson and Payne, in Pater-Noster Row; T. Cadell,
Successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand ; and W. Otridge, behind the
New Church in the Strand. MDCCLXYIII.
118 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Title-page as above ; preface and advertisement, 6 pages ; author's
epitaph, and directions to the binder for placing the plates contained
in this work, 2 pages; Ancient and Present State of Glocester-
shire, 452 pages ; and index, 6 pages.
There are large-paper copies of the second edition.
In both editions there are plates, the first having one more than
the second; and all of them, except Nos. 1-10, are drawn and engraved
by I. Kip, and are likewise folded. The following is an accurate list,
the figures within brackets referring to the paging of the second
edition :
1. Portrait of the Author. Mr. V dr Gucht sc. To face the
title. Not in the second edition.
2-9. Eight plates, containing 320 coats of arms ; to follow the
preface in alphabetical order in both editions.
10. Map of Glocestershire, A.D. 1712. Folded, p. 1. in
both editions.
11. Plan of Glocester City. Tho 8 Brown, Esq., Alderman, p.
82 (44).
12. West Prospect of same. Sir John Powell, Judge of the
Queen's Bench, p. 82 (45, and dedicated to the Mayor and
Aldermen).
13. North Prospect of Glocester Cathedral. Knightley Chetwood,
D.D., Dean. p. 126 (65).
14. Wyck, the seat of Eichard Haines, Esq. p. 200 (103).
15. Aldeiiey, of Mrs. Hale, widow of Matthew Hale, Esq. p.
208 (107).
16. Knole, of Tho 8 Chester, Esq. p. 212 (110).
17. Over, of John Dowell, Esq. p. 214 (111).
18. Alveston, of Edward Hill, Esq. p. 216 (111).
19. Amney, of Robert Pleydell, Esq. p. 218 (113).
20. Shurdington, of Dulcibella Laurence, relict of Win. Laurence,
Esq. p. 240 (124).
21. Badminton, of the Duke of Beaufort, p. 242 (125).
22. Barrington, of Edmond Bray, Esq. p. 251 (131).
23. Battesford, of Richard Freeman, Esq. p. 256 (133).
24. Berkeley Castle, of the Earl of Berkeley, p. 260 (136).
25. Broadwell, of Danvers Hodges, Esq. p. 301 (157).
26. Cirencester, of Allen Bathurst, Esq. p. 344 (179).
27. The Abbey in Cirencester, of Thomas Master, Esq. p. 346
(180).
28. Southam, of Kinard de la Bere, Esq. p. 356 (185).
29. WiUiamstrip, of Henry Ireton, Esq. p. 364 (190).
30. Little Compton, of Sir Richard Howe, Bart. p. 366 (191).
31. Coberly, of Jonathan Castelman, Esq. p. 376 (197).
32. Didmarton, of Robert Codrington, Esq. p. 390 (204).
33. Sandywell, of Henry Brett, Esq. p. 400 (209).
34. Upper Dowdeswell, of Lionel Rich, Esq. p. 400 (209).
35. Dumbleton, of Sir Richard Cocks, Bart. p. 406 (213).
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 119
36. Dyrham, of William Blathwait, Esq. p. 414 (216).
37. Easington, of Nathaniel Stephens, Esq. p. 418 (218).
38. Fairford, of Samuel Barker, Esq. p. 431 (226).
39. Flaxley, of Mrs. Bovey. p. 436 (228).
40. Hampton, of Philip Shepard, Esq. p. 452 (237).
41. Hardwick Park Court, of William Trye, Esq. p. 456 (238).
42. Hatherop, of Sir John Webb, Bart. p. 464 (243).
43. Hales Abbey, of the Lord Tracy, p. 471 (247).
44. Henbury, of Simon Harcourt, Esq. p. 472 (248).
45. Henbury, of Mr. John Sampson, p. 474 (248).
46. Kingsweston, of Edward Southwell, Esq. p. 476 (249).
47. Hull, alias Hill, of Sir Edward Eust, Bart. p. 478 (251).
48. Kempsford, of the Lord Viscount Weymouth. p. 490 (257).
49. Leckhampton, of the Rev. Thomas Norwood, p. 530 (277).
50. Cleeve Hill, of William Player, Esq. p. 547 (286).
51. Miserden, of William Sandys, Esq. p. 560 (294).
52. Glower- Wall, of Francis Wyndham, Esq. p. 574 (301).
53. Nibley, of George Smyth, Esq. p. 578 (303).
54. Wotton, of Tho 8 Horton, Esq. p. 585 (307).
55. Eendcomb, of Sir John Guise, Bart. p. 618 (324).
56. Saperton, of Sir Robert Atkyns. p. 637 (335).
57. Sherborne, of Sir Ralph Dutton, Bart. p. 644 (339).
58. Shipton Moyne, of Mrs. Hodges, relict of Tho 8 Hodges, Esq.
p. 646 (340).
59. Shipton Moyne, of Walter Estcourt, Esq. p. 647 (340).
60. Syston, of Samuel Trotman, Esq. p. 654 (344).
61. Stanway, of John Tracy, Esq. p. 684 (360).
62. Stoke Gifford, of John Berkeley, Esq. p. 690 (360).
63. Maugersbury, of Edmond Chamberlain, Esq. p. 694 (365).
64. Lypiatt, of Thomas Stephens, Esq. p. 700 (368).
65. Swell, of Sir Robert Atkyns. p. 704 (371).
66. Chepstow Castle, belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, p.
775 (407).
67. Toddington, the seat of the Lord Tracy, p. 779 (409).
68. Tortworth, of Matthew Ducie Moreton, Esq. p. 784 (412).
69. Westbury Court, of Maynard Colchester, Esq. p. 799 (420).
70. Sneed Park, of Joseph Jackson, Esq. p. 804 (422).
71. Stoke Bishop, of Sir Thomas Cann. p. 804 (422).
72. Witcombe Park, of Sir Michael Hickes. p. 844 (444).
73. Bradley, of Thomas Dawes, Esq. p. 854 (449).
74. Sevenhampton, of Sir William Dodwell. p. 858 (451).
The foregoing list, while useful in a bibliographical point of view,
will serve also to show who were the principal inhabitants of the
county at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the great
changes which have taken place amongst the leading families within
less than two hundred years. EDITOR.
DLXXXII. " CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE " : GLOUCESTER-
SHIRE CHURCHES. Some readers may be glad to know that in this
120 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
good old periodical, from the year 1841 to 1870, inclusive, they
may find letterpress descriptions, with illustrations, more or less
satisfactory, of the following Gloucestershire churches :
Vol. xi., p. 425. Gloucester Cathedral.
xiii., p. 353. Bristol Cathedral.
xvii, p. 393. St. John's, Cirencester.
xx., p. 1. Tewkesbury Abbey Church.
xxii., p. 361. St. John's, Cirencester.
xxvii., p. 1. St. Stephen's, Bristol.
xlvii., p. 217. St. Peter's, Cheltenham.
Iviii., p. 145. St. Michael's, Gloucester.
Ixii., p. 73. Charlton Kings.
Ixiii., p. 289. Northleach.
Ixix., p. 289. Nailsworth Chapel.
In vol. xxiv., p. 1, there is a description, with an engraving of
the exterior, of St. Mary Eedcliffe Church, Bristol ; but this grand
building is a little beyond the confines of Gloucestershire, and
therefore has not been included in the foregoing list.
EDITOR
DLXXXIII. THE STROUD CLERGY, 1841. It is, I think,
worthy of note, that (as recorded in the Clergy List for 1841, the
first annual issue of that very useful publication) the Rev. Matthew
Blagden Hale, M. A., now Bishop of Brisbane, Australia, then held the
incumbency of Stroud, having been appointed thereto in 1839 ; and
that at the same time the Rev. Edward Harold Browne, M.A., now
Bishop of Winchester, held the chaplaincy of Trinity Church,
Stroud, to which he had been appointed in the previous year. I am
not aware that any other parish in the kingdom can boast of having
had contemporaneously in each of her two churches a clergyman
destined in due course to grace the bench of bishops. I shall be
glad to know whether a parallel case can be adduced.
CLERICUS.
DLXXXIV. LAND TAX ASSESSMENTS AND POLL BOOKS.
Gloucestershire Land Tax Assessments are in the office of the Clerk
of the Peace, at Gloucester, dating from the year 1775 ; and a Poll
Book, 1776 (the earliest I have yet seen for the county), is in the
British Museum. Can any reader inform me whether Land Tax
Assessments or Poll Books exist of earlier dates than those above
named, and, if so, where they are deposited ?
Royal Dublin Society. ROBT. EDWIN LYNE, M.R.I. A.
DLXXXV. GLOUCESTERSHIRETOKENS. (SeeNo.CCCXLVIII.)
The following list is reprinted (with some slight changes) from
Collectanea Glocestriensia, etc., pp. 252-6, with a view to additions
and corrections from those who may be able and disposed to make
them :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 121
Badminton.
1. [Obv.] A Beggar asking alms. " I was hungry, and ye gave
meat." [.Rev.] "To the illustrious Duke of Beau-
fort, the friend of mankind, and his worthy Tenants
who reduced the price of their wheat to 9s. per bushel.
A.D. 1796."* Between sprigs of laurel and oak, a
small portcullis at top. " Badminton Token." Bronze.
2. Same as No. 1. As No. 1. [Edge} "Badminton Token."
3. A Wheatsheaf. "Relief against monopoly." As No. 1.
4. A Scales. " 3J Ib. of Bread for 1st April, 1796. [1 " 6 Ib.
of Bread for Is. April, 1796."] God be praised." As No. 1.
5. A Scales. "The sale of Corn by weight proposed. 1796."
As No. 1.
6. A Head. "He feels for his people's wants, and relieves
them." As No. 1.
7. A Ship in full sail. " Corn imported by Government. 1796."
As No. 1.
8. A Plough and Harrows. "Success to the Cultivation of Waste
Lands." As No. 1.
Brimscombe Port.
1. A View of the entrance of the Tunnel. A Barge sailing.
"Thames and Severn Canal MDCCXCV." [Edge]
"Payable at Brimscombe Port."
2. The same. Gilt.
Bristol.
"Let Trade and Commerce nourish. Sept. 6, 1811. Issued
by W. Sheppard." " Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Gloucester-
shire, South Wales, and Bristol Token. 12 Pence."
Cheltenham.
1. Figure of Hygeia, holding the King's profile. " Georgio III.
Optimo Principi. 1789." The Building over the Well.
" Ob Salutem restauratam. S. Moreau, Arbit. Eleg.
Cheltenham, Excud. Cur. 1788." Silver.
2. "Georgius Dei Gratia." " Cheltenham. July 12, 1788."
Scolloped edges.
3. A View of Spa Walk and Church. "Value One Penny."
"A Pound Note for 240 Tokens given by John Bishop
and C. Cheltenham. 1811.
4. As No. 3. "Value One Shilling." "A Pound Note for 20
Tokens given by Will m Bastine. Cheltenham. 1811."
Clifton.
A Dragon." Clifton. 1735."
Gloucester.
1. N. View of Cathedral. "St. Peter's, Gloucester. Bt. 1204.
* See NO. DXXIL, p. 54, " Gloucestershire Farmers and High Prices of Corn, 1795."
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122 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Jacobs" A Cypher "T. G." between palm leaves.
"British Penny. 1797." [Edge] "I promise to pay
on demand One Penny."
2. N.E. View of Cathedral. "Gloucester Cathedral. First
built 1061." The arms of Gloucester. "City Token.
1797. P. Kempson fecit."
3. View of Church. " St. John's Church." As No. 2.
4. View of Church and Ancient Building. "St. Mary de
Crypt Church and School." As No. 2.
5. View of Church. " St. Mary de Lode Church." As No. 2.
6. Another different.
7. As No. 5. As No. 2. Silver Gilt.
8. N. View of Church. " St. Michael's Church." As No. 2.
9. View of Church. "St. Nicholas' Church." As No. 2.
10. An Ancient Cross. " The High Cross taken down in 1751."
As No. 2.
11. An Ancient Building. "White Friars/' Palm and laurel
branches crossed. As No. 2.
12. A Large Building. " The New County Gaol." Iron Chains.
As No. 2.
13. "St. Bartholomew's Hospital rebuilt 1789." As No. 2.
14. Distant View of City. " Success to the Trade and Commerce
of Gloucester. 1797." A Ship sailing. "Gloucester
and Berkeley Canal. Act obtained. 1793." [Edge]
" Payable at Gloucester." Brass.
15. The same. Bronze.
16. A Barge sailing. " Gloucester and Berkeley Canal commenced.
1793." "Eesumed under the auspices of the Duke of
Gloucester. 15. June. A.D. 1818. and completed. 26.
April 1827." White metal.
17. "Gloucester Token. One Shilling." "Payable at Jas.
Whalley's, Gloucester, and at No. 10. Charlotte St.,
Fitzroy Square, London."
18. "Gloucester Token. Two Shillings and Six-pence." City
Arms. "A Pound Note for eight Tokens given by J.
Whalley, Glocester, and at No. 10. Charlotte St., Fitzroy
Square, London."
19. View of Cathedral. "Gloucester County and City Token.
MDCCCXI." City Arms. " For XII. Pence ".
20. City Arms. " Gloucester City Token. One Shilling." " To
facilitate Trade. October 20. 1811. Payable on demand
by Saunders and Butt."
Newent.
A Griffin's Head on a shield supported by a Crab-tree.
" Industry leads to Honour." In a circular form, " Several
Thousands young, healthy, and fine Crab Apple and Pear
Stocks raised from the Kernel to be sold by J. Morse,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 123
Newent, Gloucestershire." [Edge] "Payable at Newent."
The remainder engrailed.
DLXXXVI. THREE INSCRIPTIONS IN HENBURY CHURCHYARD.
I lately visited the well-kept graveyard which surrounds the parish
church of Henbury, and copied the following inscriptions, which,
though not commemorating very notable individuals, may be deemed
worthy of insertion :
(1) "[Near this] place lieth the body of Joseph Wills, of Long
Ashton, in the County of Som sfc , Gardner, who departed this life
the 20 th day of August, A.D. 1720, aged 45 years.
" Pomona's treasures gone, her glory fled,
And Flora's beauty lost since thou art dead :
The trees, and plants, & flowers now fading stand,
Which us'd to nourish by thy skilful hand.
'Twas by thy skilful hand that they did bring
Treasures of Autumn, pleasure of the Spring.
Alas ! that neither flower, nor plant, nor tree,
Could thee reprive [sic], so oft reprived by thee."
(2) "Here lieth the body of Scipio Africanus, Negro Servant
to y e Right Honourable Charles William, Earl of Suffolk and
Bradon, who died y e 21 st December, 1720, aged 18 years.
" I who was born a Pagan and a Slave,
Now sweetly sleep a Christian in my grave.
What tho' my hue was dark, my Savior's sight
Shall change this darkness into radiant light.
Such grace to me my Lord on earth has giv'n,
To recommend me to my Lord in heaven,
Whose glorious second coming here I wait,
With Saints and Angels him to celebrate."
(3) "In remembrance of Sergeant Thomas Adams, C Battery
5th Royal Horse Artillery, who departed this life at Umballa, East
Indies, September 9 th , 1863, aged 26 years.
" Lines sent by Sergeant T. Adams, Umballa, India, to his parents
in England.
" Man's life is but a chequered scene,
A round of joy and sorrow ;
We view the past as what has been,
But who foresees the morrow ?
" What though on earth we meet no more,
And seas our homes may sever,
Still let us hope when life is o'er,
To meet in heaven for ever."
I have in my time seen and examined not a few churchyards,
large and small ; and I cannot remember one in which there are as
many inscriptions to the memory of " old and faithful servants " as
may be found at Henbury. This fact speaks well for the neighbour-
hood in former days. Where is the portrait of Scipio Africanus 1
VIATOR.
124 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DLXXXVII. INDEX TO MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, FILTON.
In the chancel of the church there are three mural inscriptions, of
which literal copies have been taken (1881) ; and the following
is an index to the names mentioned therein, with the date of death
and the age in each case :
1880. July 12. Kearsey, Gertrude Bertha O.E.A., 16
1835. Oct. 14. Poulden, Henriotta, 42
1845. Jan. 3. Poulden, Harriet, 70
1845. March 16. Poulden, Rear-Admiral Eichard, 81
Bigland, vol. i., pp. 580, 581, gives inscriptions on six flatstones
(three in the chancel and three in the south transept), but since his
house the church has been restored, and they are not now visible.
The names and dates were as follows :
1690. April 2. Blake, Grace, 70
1682. Dec. . Blake, John,
1637. Feb. 17. Hull, Abigail, 1
1714. Dec. . . Pidding, Jane, 13
1723. Sept. 21. Pidding, Jane, 49
1721. April 9. Pidding, Thomas, 3
1741. April 19. Wade, Elinor, 80
1716. May 7. Wade, John, Gent.,
The Rev. James Pidding, who was rector of the parish (1705-30),
and whose wife died, as stated here, in 1723, rebuilt the east end of
the parsonage at his own cost in 1716, having two years before
paved the chancel with brick. VIATOR
DLXXXVIII. OLD CLOCK AT THE CHETHAM COLLEGE,
MANCHESTER. From the Palatine Note-hook (March, 1882), vol. ii.,
p. 57, we reprint what follows :
The old one-fingered clock at the top of the staircase of the
Chetham Library has the following inscription on the pendulum :
" THIS CLOCK,
For nearly 200 years in the possession of the Family
of
MILLS OF MlSERDEN, IN THE C GLOUCESTER,
was presented to
CHETHAM'S LIBRARY
fcy
THOMAS W. FRESTON.
MDCCCLXIX."
Above this are the arms of the Mills family in coloured porcelain.
Barry of ten ar. and vert, over all six escutcheons gu., three, two,
and one. Motto : Hodie mihi, eras tibi. Miserden is in Bisley
hundred, six miles KE. of Stroud. There are references to the
Mills family of Hazel House, Miserden, in the Gloucestershire
histories [for index to monumental inscriptions, see Gloucestershire
Notes and Queries, No. CCCXIL] ; and the family is still resident
in the neighbourhood. One or two generations of them are
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 125
perpetuated in the following inscription in the aisle of Miserden
Church, which has been kindly copied by the Rev. B. H. Blacker,
M.A. : " M. S. | Gulielmi Mills | de Hasel house, | et Sarae, uxoris
ejus. | Ille, vir probus et | honestus, omnibus | carus, morte correptus |
fuit anno 1724, | aetatis 68. Ipsa, vidua plorans, mater pia et
benigna, | tandem efflavit animam | anno 1761, | aetatis 91. | Item
Elizas, uxoris | Gulielmi Mills | de Hasel house, Armigeri, J quae, ob
castitatem | & pietatem | eximie illustris, ex hac | vita in spem
melioris | discessit anno 1746, | aetatis 48. Item Gulielmi Mills |
de Hasel house, Armigeri. Obiit anno 1776, setatis 82." |
DLXXXIX. ASSIZE OF BREAD, &c., NORTHLEACH. The Rev.
David Royce sent the communication which is here reprinted, to
Notes and Queries (6 th S. v. 69), Jan. 28, 1882 :
" The following entry is made in the accounts of the borough of
Northleach :
* Norlach burro we, 1578. The corte hollden by M r baylifeand
the Rest of the borchissis the to & xx daye of octobar, 1578. A
faut mad bi nycholas bront of Stowe of the hollde [Stow on the
Wold] for bringing of bred to the marcat wyche bred lacket weyte,
in the peny wytt lofe weyded nomor but nyteene unsis.
' The to peny wytt lofe weying vi and xxx unsis.
* The peny wetten lofe weying vi & xx unsis.'
"What two classes of bread are these? From another entry the
weight of bread seems to vary with the price of corn. Charges for
' dowling the downes and warning the watch, 00 05. 00,' and, in the
return of the town armour, 'allman ryvatts' (see also Turner's
Records of Oxford), occur. Information on these particulars and
parallel instances will greatly oblige."
In the same volume, p. 216, Mr. F. C. Birkbeck Terry replied:
" The two classes of bread mentioned in your correspondent's note
are evidently white bread and wheaten bread. In Cowel's Interpreter
of Law Terms, sub ' Bread of Treat or Trite,' I find : l Panis Tritici,
Is one of those sorts of Bread mention'd in the Stat. of Assise of
Bread and Ale, 51 H. 3, Stat. 1, where you may read of Wastel
Bread, Cocket Bread, and Bread of Treat, which may answer to
three sorts now in use with us, call'd White, Wheaten, and Household
Bread.'
"' Allman ryvatts', according to Minsheu (1617), are 'a certaine
kinde of Armour, or Corslet for the body of a man, with the sleeues
or braces of maile, or plates of iron, for the defense of the armes, so
called because they be riuetted, or buckled after the old Alman
fashion. For riuer in French is to riuet or clench, as the turning
back the point of a naile, or such like ; and Alman is a German, or
High Dutchman.' Cf. also Halliwell's Dictionary and Cowel's
Interpreter of Law Terms."
DXC. " ALWAYS TOO LATE ! " The following extract from
Walpole's History of England (London, 1878), vol. i., p. 100, is
126 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
worthy of note : Macaulay tells us that at the close of the
seventeenth century Bristol was the second city in Great Britain.
There were at the least five cities more populous in 1815. The
Mersey and the Clyde were defeating the Severn and the Avon ;
and Liverpool and Glasgow were rapidly becoming the great ports
of the West. Yet Bristol had advantages which might have saved
it from its defeat. Gloucestershire and Wales were as rich in
mineral wealth as the neighbourhood of Manchester ; and the
estuary of the Severn was more accessible and less, dangerous than
the estuary of the Mersey. Less than 100 years ago "the small
quantity of Manchester woollens and cottons, manufactured for
exportation, was carried on horses' backs to Bewdley and Bridgnorth,
on the Severn, from whence " it was " floated down that river to
Bristol, then the chief seaport on the west coast." (Smiles' Brindley,
p. 240.) The energy of the Duke of Bridgewater, and the genius of
Brindley, diverted this trade into a new channel. "Liverpool," as
Telford wrote in 1799,," has taken firm root in the country by means
of the canals ; it is young, vigorous, and well situated. Bristol is
sinking in commercial importance ; its merchants are rich and
indolent, and in their projects they are always too late ! " (Telford
to Mr. Andrew Little, 1799, quoted in Smiles' Telford, p. 185.)
J. G.
DXCI. PETITIONS FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS' MSS., 1640-1.
The enclosed petitions, as in the Fourth Report of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, p. 49, are at your service, if
you think them suitable for insertion.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud. J. MELLAND HALL, M.A.
I.
1640-1, Feb. 9. Petition of Robert Cooke, of Painswick, in the
county of Gloucester, clothier, and William Hanman, mariner,
on behalf of themselves and others, in the county of Gloucester;
about April last, Sir Ralph Button and Wm. Trye, two of the
deputy-lieutenants for the county, issued warrants for pressing
soldiers, and for levying 1000/. upon their division of the county
for coat and conduct money ; Sir Ralph Dutton afterwards sent
out many warrants privately to press men for soldiers, and then
released them on payment of monies to himself and his servants ;
he and his servants received the coat and conduct money instead
of the duly appointed treasurers, so that no account could be
obtained; he caused Cooke and others to be attached, though
they had paid their assessment, and would not release them,
except on payment of heavy fees to the messengers; which
Cooke refusing, was called before the council board to answer ;
Hanman was committed for refusing to take press money, though
he had already been pressed by Sir Wm. Guise, for the King's
service in ships; pray for a commission to enquire into these
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 127
complaints, petitioners being but tradesmen, and the witnesses
many in number and far from London. L. J., iv. 156.
Annexed,
1. Articles against Sir Ealph Button.
II.
1640-1, Feb. 9. Petition of John Sedgwick, clerk, and the parish-
ioners of Bisley, in the county of Gloucester ; their former vicar,
Christopher Windle, being very old and infirm, agreed to resign,
on receiving an allowance, with consent of the Bishop of
Gloucester and the Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Keeper, whereupon
John Sedgwick was appointed his successor ; Windle shortly
after died ; but about three years ago Daniel Layford, on a false
charge of simony in the High Commission Court, obtained
Sedgwick's deprivation and his own institution to the living, and
many of the parishioners were put to great expense on the same
charge, paying 30A privately to Sir John Lambe, besides costs,
before they could clear themselves ; Layford is superstitious in
observance of ceremonies, but lax in performance of duties,
being frequently drunk, and now lying a prisoner for debt in the
King's Bench ; pray that they may have their former minister,
John Sedgwick, restored to them.
1640-1, Feb. 9. Draft order for Sedgwick to be restored, so long
as Layford continues a prisoner.
DXCII. THOMAS LONGDEN, MAYOR OF GLOUCESTER, 1695. He
is given by Fosbroke in his list of mayors of this city. Who was
he 1 He married a Miss Butt. What relation did she bear to Mary,
daughter of Eichard Butt, of Arlingham, Gloucestershire, who
married (1754) Vere, third Earl PouletU Eobert, son of Thomas
Longden, was proctor of the Court of Arches ; he married, Feb. 23,
1745, Lucy, daughter of Thomas Crawley, whose eldest grandson
became in 1789 Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 2nd bart., of Flaxley
Abbey. There was a Eobert Longden of Christ Church, Oxford,
who took his B.A. degree Nov. 15, 1694. Could he have been the
sou of Thomas 1 There is a deed in the possession of the family,
dated March 27, 1699, relative to the transference of property to
Thomas Longden and Eobert Longden, his son. This, amongst
others, is witnessed by Caple Longden, about whom I know nothing.
We have another link with Gloucestershire. Eoger, only surviving
son of Eobert Longden, married (1785) Elizabeth, dau. and coheiress
of George Chapman, Esq. Thomas Eaymond, son of Wm. Eaymond,
of Thornbury, married Mary, sister of Elizabeth Chapman, and
in 1796 assumed the name and arms of Symons on succeeding
Sir Eichard Symons (Peers), Bart., in the possession of the
Mynde, Herefordshire. I shall be very grateful for information.
Oakwood, Crawley, Sussex. H. ISHAM LONGDEN,
DXCIII. THE EEV. CHARLES NEALE, EECTOR OF HARESCOMBE,
1741-69. This inscription on a flatstone in the churchyard of
128 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Harescombe is now barely legible, and as a record of a faithful
pastor its preservation is desirable.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud. J. MELLAND HALL, M.A.
" Hie juxta cineres paternos
corpus suum sepeliri voluit
Carolus Neale, A.B.,
hujusce Parochiae Kector fidelis :
Vir
litteris sacris et humanis
e prima aetate innutritus,
in munere concionatorio
operosus et felix,
ad omnia officii Pastoralis munia
promptus semper et alacris :
Filius, Frater, Amicus inter prsestantissimos.
Erga omnes hominum ordines
egregie benevolus,
quas eximias dotes invicta celavit modestia.
--A. i A T A ( Salutis humanse 1769.
ObutH Jim: Anno ^ tatissiue5a
Multum dilectus, multum desideratus."
According to the Catalogue of Oxford Graduates (1851), p. 474,
Mr. Neale took his degree June 30, 1739.
DXCIV. MURDER OF RICHARD RUDDLE, 1743. In the church-
yard of Westbury-on-Trym there is a headstone with this inscription :
" To the memory of Richard Ruddle, who was Coachman to S r
Robert Cann (Bar*,) 21 years, and was Robb'd and Murder'd by
Burnet & Payne, Oct r 27 th , 1743, aged 52 years." Can you refer
me to any account of this outrage, and of the trial of the
murderers 1 VIATOR.
DXCV. CAPTAIN WOODES ROGERS. (See No. CCCCXXVII.)
Can any correspondent supply me with information concerning the
birth and parentage of this voyager, or further particulars than are
contained in the Note on Dr. Dover 1 It appears he was appointed
Governor of Providence Island, in the Bahamas, in 1717, where he
exterminated the pirates infesting those parts, and fitted out several
ships for carrying on a trade with the Spaniards in the Gulf of
Mexico. In the Sloane MSS., British Museum, there is a petition,
dated London, 29th Feb., 1727-8, signed by 28 of his friends, and
addressed by him to the King, in which he represents that he was
employed by the King's father (George I.) in driving the pirates
from the Bahamas, that he succeeded, and afterwards established a
settlement there, and defended it against the Spaniards ; that on the
King's accession he had represented his great losses and sufferings
in that service ; and he prays compensation, having nothing more
than the subsistence of a half-pay captain of foot. He continues,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 129
that the Bahamas were of great importance to the kingdom, and
prays that he may be restored to his former station of Governor and
Captain of the Independent Companies there, or if it should be the
King's pleasure to retain his successor, then to give him such a
consideration for his past sufferings and present half-pay as would
in some measure retrieve his losses, so that he might support his
family, who for above seven years had suffered very much by means
of his employment wholly for the British service. In the same MS.
is a letter from him to Sir Eichard Steele, at Bartram's Coffee House,
dated from Nassau, New Providence, 30th January, 1718-19, in
which, after some particulars relative to pirates, he gives a graphic
description of an adventure he had had with a lady on his arrival,
who, he says, " pretended to have a knowledge of yourself, Sir Win.
Scawen, Sir Ambrose Crawley, and Mr. Addison," adding, that if
his carpenters had not been otherwise employed, he should have been
glad to have made her "first lady of the stole." He further
complains of Capt. Whitney's conduct, of the Koss man-of-war,
and hopes that " Ker and Eoacb, whom I sent hence, have been
often witli you." It would appear from the account of his travels
published by him, that his brother, Lieut. John Eogers, was killed
on board. I am under the impression that he was a Gloucestershire
or Somerset man, though to what particular family of Eogers he
belonged I have hitherto been unable to ascertain. It will be
interesting to know whom he married, what children he had, and
whether any of his descendents are now living. He was born in
1670, and died in 1732.
Blaisdon House, Compton Bishop, EDWARD FEY WADE.
Somerset.
DXCYI. FORFEITURE OF GOODS FOR POLYGAMY. Mr. J. H.
Cooke, of Berkeley, has inserted what follows, in Notes and Queries
(6 th S. v. 88), Feb. 4, 1882 :
" In a book of Steward's Accounts of James, third Earl of Berkeley,
from June 24, 1711, to June 24, 1712, 1 find the following entry :
'Memorand. One Jackson was convicted at Gloucester for haveing
several Wives, for w ch his Horse, &c., were forfeited to my L d , w ch
my L d took into his own custody.' I do not find in Jacob's Law
Dictionary that bigamous offences were ever thus punished, nor is
there anything in the same authority under the head of ' Deodand/
which was payable only in cases of death by some kinds of accidents
or Ityfelo de se. In what way could the offender's 'horse, &c.,' be
thus forfeited to Lord Berkeley ? "
Two replies to the foregoing have aupeared in the same volume,
p. 198 :
(1) "The offender's horse in this case was probably forfeited to
Lord Berkeley by way of fine or heriot upon the conviction for felony.
In the same way the felon's land, if freehold, would have escheated
to the Crown, and if copyhold, to the lord of the manor. Polygamy
was made a felony by 1 Jac. I. c. iL"
130 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
(2) " I would suggest that Mr. J. H. Cooke should ascertain in
what manor the offender Jackson lived, and, having done so, endeavour
to find a customal of the manor. It is probable that this forfeiture
took place through some local custom."
DXCVIL MRS. CATHERINE BOVEY AND THE FESTIVAL OF THE
THREE CHOIRS. It has been asserted that Mrs. Catherine Bovey,
of Flaxley Abbey, was the founder of the Three Choir Festivals.
This fact is not mentioned in the Annals of the Three Choirs, as
published by the Eev. Daniel Lysons in 1815 ; but it is alluded to
in very brief terms in a note by Dr. E. F. Eimbault, which is pre-
fixed to the last edition of these Annals, continued to 1865 by
Mr. John Amott, organist of Gloucester Cathedral. The subject
seems to be one of sufficient interest and importance to warrant an
examination of the evidence, in order that a fair opinion may be
formed regarding the claim which has been raised on behalf of
Mrs. Bovey.
In November, 1859,,a note was inserted by Mr. Thomas Kerslake,
of Bristol, in his book-catalogue, regarding a special sermon bound
up in a volume of sermons advertised by him for sale. The sermon
was entitled in the catalogue " The use of Musick at Gloucester, by
Peter Senhouse, 1728 " ; and the note was to the following effect :
" This sermon is dedicated to Mrs. Pope, with an acknowledgement
of how much is owing in respect to the meeting of the Three Choirs,
to the wisdom and goodness of your late excellent friend, and our
kind and memorable patroness, Mrs. Bovey, who laid the foundation
of this good work, and during her life liberally contributed to the
support of it." "It appears," Mr. Kerslake says, "to have escaped
the knowledge of the Kev. D. Lysons that this munificent lady was
the actual founder of the meeting of the Three Choirs. Her name
does not occur in his history of that institution."
This note seems to have come to the knowledge of Dr. Bimbault,
who published the information under his own initials, with some
additional particulars, in a note added to the revised edition of the
Annals of the Three Choirs, published in 1865. Instead, however,
of calling Mrs. Bovey "the actual founder," Dr. Eimbault more
accurately styles her " one of the founders " of the meeting of the
Three Choirs. A note to the same effect was published by him in
Notes and Queries in 1872 (4 th S. ix. 136), but no further notice or
discussion of the subject appears to have taken place.
A copy of the sermon preached in Gloucester by the Eev.
Peter Senhouse has been diligently enquired for in Gloucester-
shire, but hitherto without success. The volume containing one,
advertised by Mr. Kerslake, fell into the possession of the Eev.
W. Poole, of Hentland; but another copy is preserved in the
British Museum, where an examination has satisfied me that the
statement first published by Mr. Kerslake is substantially correct,
and that Mrs. Bovey was the chief promoter in Gloucestershire of
the charitable scheme now associated with the meetings of the Three
Choirs.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 131
The recognition of Mrs. Bovey's services in connection with this
scheme by no means involves or implies any derogation from the
services of others whose names are mentioned by the Rev. D. Lysons.
There can be no doubt that the scheme in question originated with
Dr. Thomas Bisse, Chancellor of Hereford, and brother of Dr. Philip
Bisse, Bishop of that diocese. Chancellor Bisse preached the
anniversary sermon at the following meetings of the Three Choirs :
1720, 1724 (?), 1726, and 1729 ; and the proposal to make at these
meetings a collection for charitable purposes undoubtedly originated
with him. But Dr. Bisse was of course aided and assisted in his
good work by local benefactors, whose services are well deserving of
recognition. In Gloucestershire the scheme appears to have been
taken up with no little enthusiasm by Mrs. Bovey, whose services
have been very warmly acknowledged in the dedication prefixed to
the anniversary sermon preached in Gloucester Cathedral by the
Rev. Peter Senhouse, Vicar of Linton, Herefordshire, September 20,
1727, the year subsequent to her death.
This sermon, published at the request of the Society, was printed
in London in the year 1728. The title-page contains the following
inscription "Printed for John Palmer, Bookseller in Gloucester,
and sold by Charles Rivington, Bookseller, at the Bible and
Crown, in St. Paul's Church Yard, and by John Rudhall, Book-
seller, in Oxford, 1728, price 6d." The sermon consists of 30 pages
on the text, " Make me savoury meat such as I love, and bring it
to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die "
(Gen. xxvii. 4) ; and the following epistle dedicatory to Mrs. Mary
Pope, who for forty years was Mrs. Bovey's most intimate friend
and companion, is prefixed :
" Madam,
" We are told that as in natural productions it is no less the
planter's care to cherish the root than to secure .the fruit, so in
moral life to promote good works proper regard must be had not
only to their success in their intended effects, but to the main
springs and first movers of them also. The spirit of beneficence
in them must be distinguished with its due honours before men,
that thereby it may be strengthened in its influences, and may
increase in fruitfulness in proportion to our gratitude.
" This rule instructs me that I shall not acquit myself of my
whole duty to the Society who called me thus publicly to appear in
the service of the laudable intentions of their meeting, by recom-
mending in such manner as I could the good design of their annual
collection for the relief of the widows and orphans of poor clergymen,
without taking occasion to acknowledge with all due honour and
thankfulness how much is owing in this affair to the wisdom and
goodness of your late excellent friend, and our kind and memorable
patroness, Mrs. Bovey, who laid the foundation of this good work,
and during her life liberally contributed to the support of it, by
that reverend hand under whose conduct and application it has
already succeeded to the benefit and comfort of many.
132 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" I must confess that it is with no small pleasure I find myself
engaged in this duty, and cannot forbear wishing that I were capable
of contributing to the enlightening of the age we live in by a
picture at large of this most exemplary lady. That I could
represent in fitting words in what variety of shining effects we have
with profitable delight admired in her the mutual embellishments
of a graceful person and an accomplished mind, and both together
with superior lustre adorning a noble fortune. Or that I could but
propose to imitation in the same beautiful light which she gave it
that branch of her excellencies to which we are obliged for the
honour of our relation to her as our benefactress, her Christian
piety, and benevolence, and by describing in all the instructive
particulars of her religious conduct and all her ordinary and extra-
ordinary charities what she was, teach the world what in these great
respects they should be.
" But I must content myself with leave only to testify that she
manifested her great ^ value for holy things by the respectful
distinction with which she always treated those who ministered
about them. A grace which has acquired a singular title to the
estimation and applause, not of the Church only, but of all who
propose to receive benefit by their ministry, from the contrary too
common practice of wounding religion through the sides of its
ministers. And that the instance of her piety and bounty which
give me this agreeable opportunity of making grateful mention of
her name, as it shows that she continued her affectionate regard to
God's ministers even after their decease, so it must for ever render
her name dear to us after hers.
" The many noble charities of her last will are so many praise-
worthy demonstrations of the same pious generosity that shone
throughout her whole life, and do severally lay an indisputable claim
to the highest esteem of all those to whom well doing is a commend-
ation. Among which her settling a plentiful stipend upon the
minister of the parish where she lived, to support him in the
constant discharge of all the canonical offices of his holy function,
demands our more especial acknowledgement. And it is not the
least article of her praise that she implicitly bequeathed the whole
remainder of her great subsistence to pious uses by committing it
to the hands of her long and well-tried friend, Mrs. Pope.
"You have given the world a convincing evidence that you
inherit not only the fortune but the spirit of this great and good
woman, by building a beautiful church at the place of her burial,
to be as a lasting and most expressive monument of her and I
must have leave to add your own piety and goodness.
" I am sensible that I stand in need of your pardon for presuming
to speak thus imperfectly upon a subject so eminently deserving,
but I have hopes that even the deficiency of this attempt will have
its effect towards the end it aims at, by inciting some worthy
person of better ability to do justice to her character.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 133
"In the meantime I promise myself that you will have the
goodness to overlook my insufficiency as I have done in favour to
the over ruling zeal with which I have been carried to give this
public testimony of my sincere honour for the memory of the justly
renowned Mrs. Bovey, and of my being with greatest respect, Madam,
your most obedient humble servant, Peter Senhouse "
This dedication, taken literally, will serve clearly to establish the
fact that Mrs. Bovey was the founder and' chief promoter in
Gloucestershire of the charitable scheme connected with the meetings
of the Three Choirs. I say advisedly in Gloucestershire, because it
is known that the scheme had already been started, and was warmly
supported, in the neighbouring counties of Hereford and Worcester.
Of the Kev. Peter Senhouse, Vicar of Linton, the following notes
are given by Wm. H. Cooke, Esq., Q.C., in his Collections for
Herefordshire, under the head of Linton : "Mr. Senhouse was Vicar
Choral of Hereford from 1691 to 1705, and his musical qualifications
are said to have been of rare excellence. In conjunction with Dr.
Bisse, he took an active part in establishing the triennial Music
Meetings. In 1727, when he preached at Gloucester the sermon
above referred to, he was a Steward of the Meeting. He died in
1760, set. 90, and was buried at Linton, where a monument is
erected to his memory."
In conclusion it may be added that a complete collection of the
sermons preached at the annual meetings of the Three Choirs from
1720 to 1730, with the dedications, would be an interesting and
valuable supplement to the existing history. The collection of these
sermons in the British Museum is incomplete. The private collection
sold by Mr. Kerslake had been made by the Kev. Thomas Payne,
Vicar of Holm Lacy, but contained only a small number of those
known to have been published.
Ahmedabad, Bombay. A. W. C. B.
DXCVIII. CIVIL WAE, 1645: EXTEACTS FROM THE COUNCIL
MINUTE BOOK AT GLOUCESTER.
28 April \
21 Car : I. > At a Council House
1645 j Ordered Petition to Parliam* to be sent to the
Kecorder* of Glouc r , now Speaker of the House of
Commons praying for the continuance of Col 1 Massio
now Governor with us.
ISAug* ]
21 Car : I. > At a Council House
1645 j It is agreed that a Tierce of Sacke and a Butt of
strong Beer shall be forthwith sent for a Present to
His Excellency the Lord Levenf in the name of this
Corporation.
* Wm. Lenthall.
t Alexander Lesley, Earl of Leven, at this time visited Gloucester, to make arrangements
for the care of his sick and wounded.
134 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
It is also agreed that Ten barrels of strong Beere shal
be placed in the Governour's sellar for his use as a
Present from this City.
It is likewise agreed that M r Alderman Pury one of
the Burgesses of the Parliament for this City shall
have a peece of Plate bought for him and presented
to him in the name of the Mayor and Burgesses of
this City of the value of Tenn pounds or thereabouts.
All this to be at the charges of the Chamber of this City.
Bicknor Court, Coleford. JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A.
DXCIX. THE EEV. SIR HENRY BATE-DUDLEY, BART. (See
No. CCCXVII.) This "eccentric parson" was buried in the
churchyard of Cheltenham ; and in the parish register, as mentioned
in the JSTote referred to, this entry appears : " 1824. Feb. 6. Sir
Henry Bate Dudley, Bar*, Prebendary of Ely, &c., 79 y rs ." His name
having been thus introduced, you may be glad to have attention
directed to an article by Mr. Edward Walford, entitled " Biography
of an Eccentric Parson," in the Gentleman's Magazine, February,
1882, pp. 196-204. "Something more than half a century ago
February 1, 1824 there died at Cheltenham," as Mr. Walford has
written in his opening paragraph, "at the age of nearly eighty
years, an individual whose eccentricity consisted in the fact, not
that he was everything in turn and nothing long, but that he was,
and that he did, everything continually, and that what he did he did
well. It is more difficult, indeed, to say what he did not do than
what he did. He was tutor, litterateur, play-writer, topographer,
farmer, agriculturist, land-drainer, magistrate [for seven counties in
England and four in Ireland], sportsman, pugilist, diner-out,
clergyman, baronet, and canon of a cathedral ; he was also an orator,
and the founder of two London newspapers [the Morning Post and
the Morning Herald] ; and, finally, he had in him something of the
soldier. So that, although he is now forgotten, even in that county
of Essex to which he was really a great benefactor, Sir Henry Bate-
Dudley must be pronounced one of the most extraordinary men
whom the last or the present century has produced." Sundry
particulars of him may likewise be found in Burke's Extinct and
Dormant Baronetcies (2nd ed., London, 1844), p. 175. M C B
DC. PHILIP JONES, MINISTER OF CIRENCESTER, 1588. The
following inquiry was inserted by " Abhba " in Notes and Queries
(6 th S. v. 25), Jan. 14, 1882, and is here reprinted, in the hope of
eliciting the desired information :
I have a copy of a scarce little black-letter volume, entitled
Certaine Sermons preached of late at Ciceter, in the Countie of
Glocester, vpon a portion of the first Chapter of the Epistle of
lames, &c., by " Philip lones, Preacher of the word of God in the
same Towne," and " imprinted at London [at the three Cranes in
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 135
the Vintree] by T. D. [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Butter, 1588."
The sermons were " penned at the earnest requests of diuers well
affected Inhabitantes of the place ; and [are] now published as well
for the vse of others, as for the further profit of that particular
congregation." Jones was author likewise of Certaine Brieefe and
speciall Instructions for Gentlemen, Merchants, Students, Soldiers,
Marriners, fyc., employed in Services dbrode, or anie way occasioned
to conuerse in the Kingdomes and Governmentes of Forren Princes,
London, 1589, 4to. Can you give me any particulars of him and
his writings, or refer me to any sources of information 1 I am
anxious, for a particular purpose, to know more about him. I have
never met with the latter of these publications, and therefore can
say nothing respecting it. But the former, of which I possess a
copy [from the library of the late Mr. Lysons], is dedicated to " the
right Reuerencl Father in God, lohn [Bullingham], now Bishoppe of
Glocester, and Commendatarie of Bristow," to whom "Philip
Ipnes wisheth the increase of all good graces fit for the discharge,
and answering of so great a calling in this life and in the next, the
fruition of those ioyes, which are euerlasting in Christ lesus."
The " Epistle Dedicatorie " is rather lengthy, and one extract
must suffice : " Being pressed with the importunities of many good
brethren, who being present at the preaching, haue made report of
the fruit & benefit they therby reaped, & therefore would take no
answere, but the graunt of a publike vse of the same, for their
further comfort, and the profit of others, I coulde not in conscience
or curtesie, denie so reasonable a request proceeding from such
Christian & comendable minds. And ha^mg at the last, for their
contentment in this one part (though leauing them discontented,
for the rest,) yeelded to the multitude of reasons, wherewith they
vrged me, I haue taken this course, and made this choise in the
publishing to vse your Keuerend name, and patronage for the same.
Wherunto besides sundrie effectuall motiues inducing me, (which
for some respects I here suppresse) one is of good consequece, meete
in this place to bee introduced, and specified : and that is, an earnest
desire wherewith I haue for a season trauailed, to haue you thorowly
acquaynted with the state, and trueth of certaine actions of mine,
which by reason of the practises of suche aduersaries, as luda and
Beniamin sometimes had, in a matter not muche different in nature
though somewhat in circumstance, are so farre from beeing enter-
tayned with lawfull fauour, as that they are prosecuted with
extreeme displeasure vnder you, yea and by you (as of late in your
heate and passions openly appeared) to the great incouragement of
the common enemie, and no little discomfort of manie that professe
sincerely and discreetely."
I cannot find mention of the author in any work on Cirencester.
EDITOR.
DCI. R. HANCHET, OF CIRENCBSTER. Can you oblige me with
any information respecting the above-named, who was author of a
136 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
small octavo volume, pp. xii. 192 1 The book is entitled Poems on
moral and religious Subjects ; interspersed with Remarks on several
Passages of Scripture : the whole designed for promoting the cause
of Virtue and Religion ; and was printed in Cirencester, " for the
Author, by S. Rudder, and sold by T. Stevens. MDCCLXXXVIL"
The profits arising from the sale were to be disposed of for the
benefit of the Sunday Schools at Cirencester. The author writes
in a plain style, and in his preface, "with great humility and
diffidence, bespeaks thy favourable reception of this little piece, not
because it is highly polish'd and ornamented, for in that respect he
is sensible it is very defective. But as plain furniture may be
substantial and useful, and plain food is most nutritive to the
constitution, so some of his thoughts, drest in language not highly
embellish'd with rhetorical figures, may nevertheless yield comfort
to the well-disposed ; for truth, like genuine beauty, is amiable in
any garb, and has little need of assistance from art to decorate and
adorn her." The subseription-list contains the names of several of
the leading inhabitants of the neighbourhood. BIBLIOGRAPHER
DCII. JOHN ALLIBOND, D.D. It is stated in Chalmers's
Biographical Dictionary, vol. ii., p. 16, that John Allibond,
D.D., of Magdalen College, Oxford, was "rector of Bradwell [or
Broadwell] in Gloucestershire, where he died in 1658." I cannot
find his name in the lists of incumbents of the parish given by
Atkyns and Bigland ; nor is he mentioned by Eudder. In what
year was he appointed to the benefice ? A long and interesting
letter from him to Dr. Peter Heylin respecting the Gloucestershire
elections of 1640 has appeared in No. CCCCIV. G A W
DCIII. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOUNTS OP THE CHURCHWARDENS
OF DEERHURST PARISH. The churchwardens' books of account date
from the year 1607 ; and there are certain matters of interest in them.
Almost the first entry records a collection made in 1611 for
"Gressyans that the Turke took pryssners."
Under the year 1661, there is the record of a collection made in
consequence of great damage done to the town of Watchet, in
Somersetshire, the harbour being decayed by the violence of the
sea, and the whole town in danger of being undermined. Damage,
3,000.
In the same year there is mention of a private loss, reminding us
of events much nearer our own day, viz., that of "James Mel veil,
Esq., late of Clanough, in Co. Downe in Eealme of Ireland, whose
houses were burnt downe, his stocke plundered from him by the
Rebells, to the value of 4000, his lands to the value of 300
taken from him, his wife and children driven to beg or starve."
The benevolence of Deerhurst appears to have been drawn upon
very largely immediately after the restoration of the Merry Monarch j
and we can only hope that the pecuniary fruits of his Majesty's
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 137
briefs did not find their way into his private pocket, as did
subsequently a very large sum collected for the restoration of
St. Paul's. Within the months of June and July, 1661, the
"King's pattents" on behalf of losses, public or private, reached
the churchwardens of Deerhurst on no less than nine occasions, and
met with a response on the part of the inhabitants. Q ^
Deerhurst Vicarage, Tewkesbury.
DCIY. CHARLES DICKENS AND CHELTENHAM. Two references
to Cheltenham occur in The Letters of Charles Dickens (London,
1880), edited by his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter. In a
letter to Mons. Regnier, dated November 16, 1859, he writes (vol. ii.,
p. 106) : " Macready, we are all happy to hear from himself, is going
to leave the dreary tomb in which he lives, at Sherborne [Dorsetshire],
and to remove to Cheltenham, a large and handsome place, about
four or five hours' journey from London, where his poor girls will at
least see and hear some life." And in a letter to Mr. Macready, dated
January 2, 1860, he writes (p. 109) : " It happened that I read at
Cheltenham a couple of months ago, and I have rarely seen a
place that so attracted my fancy. I had never seen it before. Also
I believe the character of its people to have greatly changed for the
better. All sorts of long-visaged prophets had told me that they
were dull, stolid, slow, and I don't know what more that is disagree-
able. I found them exactly the reverse in all respects ; and I saw
an amount of beauty there well that is not to be more specifically
mentioned to you young fellows."
It is noteworthy with reference to Mr. Macready, as the author
of the History of Cheltenham (1863), p. 358, has observed, that
"our local press has recorded the first appearance of this great
man on the [London] stage. The editor of the Cheltenham
Chronicle, of Sept. 26, 181 6, "introduces the following notice in his
account of dramatic news : 'At Covent Garden, last week, Mr.
Macready came out as Orestes in the Distressed Mother. His voice
and person are well adapted to the stage. He was highly applauded
by a crowded audience ; and we are much deceived if he does not
ultimately bear away the palm from most of his contempo-
raries.' The prophecy has been fulfilled. Macready has won the
laurels of fame, and has retired, honoured and respected, to that
town whose local press forty-five years ago predicted his future
success in life. Long may he continue his abode among us, and,
like the inimitable Siddons, derive invigorating strength and support
in his later years from the salubrious air of Cheltenham." There he
resided for several years, occupying himself chiefly with schemes for
the education of the poorer classes ; and there he died, in Wellington
Square, on Sunday, April 27, 1873, having a few weeks before
attained the good old age of 80 years. CHELTONIENSIS.
DCY. INDEX TO MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS : ST. GEORGE'S,
BRANDON HILL, BRISTOL, In the church there are seven mural
VOL. II. K
138 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
inscriptions, of which literal copies have been taken (1881); and
the following is an index to the names mentioned therein, with the
date of death and the age in each case :
1843. Dec. 28. Bedford, Eev d Richard Gordon, M.A.,
Incumbent, 75
1847. Aug. 11. Bedford, Sarah, 79
1864. Oct. 18. Cockin, Mary,
1828. Jan. 13. Daly, Edward Lyons, 12
1844. Feb. 5. Davies, David, M.D., 84
1853. April 21. Davies, Lieu* David Gam, R.K, 58
1842. Aug. 1. Davies, Naomi,
1828. Dec. 23. Davies, Major Thomas Dolman Lloyd, 37
1832. Aug. 20. Lan, Catharine, 39
1825. July 31. Meredith, John Charles, Esq r , 37
1828. May 9. Weare, Ann, 67
1836. Dec. 24. Weare, William, Esq r , 83
1855. May 31. Williams, Ann, 49
VIATOR.
DC VI. WILLIAM ROGERS, ESQ., OF DOWDESWELL, 1630. A
curious receipt, of which the following is a literal copy, has been
kindly lent for insertion by R. R. Coxwell-Rogers, Esq., D.L., the
present proprietor of Dowdeswell Court, Cheltenham.
"Duodecimo die Octobris Anno Regni Caroli nunc Regis Anglias
&c. sexto 1630.
" Receaued the day and yeare above written by me SiA
John Tracy knight Collector of the fines due to his Ma tie I
in the county of Glouc 6 for not taking the order of 1
knighthood of Willm Rogers th' elder of Dowdeswell in >x u
the said county gent : the sume of ten pownds of lawfull j
money of England for his suit in that behalfe made w th I
his Ma ties Comissioners of the said county I say rec d J
"J. Tracy."
The document is thus endorsed : "Acquit 6 for his fine for not
taking the order of knighthood at the Coronacon Anno sexto Caroli
&c. 1630." The coronation, be it remembered, had taken place in
February, 1626, though not as king of Scotland until 1633. Is there
any similar form of receipt from Gloucestershire forthcoming ?
EDITOR.
DCVII. THE DUCHY OP LANCASTER AND OLD PRIVILEGES.
A meeting of the landowners in the Duchy of Lancaster was held at
Gloucester, January 28, 1882. Many parts of Gloucestershire are
" in the Duchy," and under a very ancient charter the tenant-farmers
have a right to sell their cattle and horses in all markets without
paying toll, and they have also other privileges. It seems that
at Hereford a new cattle-market has been provided, and as it is con-
tended there that under an Act of Parliament all exceptions are
abolished, one of the Duchy men has been compelled to pay toll.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 139
The object of the meeting was to consider what should be done to
re-assert the right of the Duchy men. It appears that there were
some doubtful points in question, and therefore no action will be
taken upon it ; but it was resolved that one of the claimants should
attend the market, and, if toll was demanded, that he should pay it
under protest, and the question be raised in a court of law. Similar
cases have been decided in favour of the Duchy men, and it seems
that the question would now be whether a local Act has abolished
the ancient right. The holders under the Duchy have funds, part of
which at least was paid by the city of Gloucester for the extinction
of some privileges. j Q.
DCYIIL DR. RICHARD PARSONS' MSS.* Sir William Y. Guise,
Bart, in his address delivered at the first annual meeting of the
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (Transactions, vol.
i., p. 46), observed that "among other less extensive collectors may
be named Dr. Parsons, chancellor of the diocese, 1677-1711, the
precursor of Atkyns as a collector of county notes, and himself
probably a disciple of [Sir Matthew] Hale." The following
communications respecting Dr. Parsons' MSS. are taken from Nichols'
Literary Anecdotes, voL ix., pp. 625. 425-7. Q j D.
" Doctors Commons, April 8, 1765.
"My Lord, I beg your Lordship's acceptance of the inclosed
List of the Chancellors of your Diocese, which I hope is correct.
Dr. Parsons, Chancellor thereof from 1677 to June 12, 1711, is
known to have drawn up a curious manuscript Account of the Diocese
of Gloucester, and of the Antiquities of that County. When I had
lately the honour of waiting upon your Lordship, I told you that I
had heard Dr. Parsons had left this MS. to Succession, and thought
it might possibly be found in the Registry at Gloucester. I since find
that I was misinformed, and that his MS. Collections fell, after his
death, first, into the hands of the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Colley, M.A.,
Chaplain of Christ Church in Oxford, and afterwards got into the
Library of the late famous Antiquary Peter Le Neve, esq., whose
noble Library of Manuscripts was sold by auction many years ago.
I shall therefore give your Lordship no farther trouble on this subject,
but will enquire of my friend Mr. Martin, f of Palgrave in Suffolk
(executor of Peter Le Neve), who bought these Collections ; and if I
have the good fortune to trace into whose hands they now are, will
not fail to acquaint your Lordship therewith. I have the honour to
remain, with great respect, my Lord, &c., &c., ^ Q Ducarel,
"Ld. Bp. of Gloucester [Dr. Warburton]."
* These collections, as an Oxford correspondent has lately observed in Notes and Queries
(6th S. v. 394), came into the Bodleian Library in 1759 with the rest of the Rawlinson MSS.
They are marked " MS. Rawl. B. 323," and are fully described in Mr. Macray's catalogue of
the MSS. Ed.
t This was "honest Tom Martin, of PalgraTe by Diss,"
140 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
II.
"Doctors Commons, July 6, 1765.
" Dr. Ducarel desires Mr. Martin would, by Letter, inform him,
* to whom the Collections made by Dr. Parsons for the Ecclesiastical
History of the Diocese of Gloucester, which belonged to Peter Le
Neve, were sold ; ' having promised an answer on that head to Dr.
Warburton, the present Bishop of Gloucester, and hopes shortly to
hear by Letter from Mr. Martin."
III.
"Doctors Commons, Aug. 24, 1765.
" My Good Friend, I wrote to you some time since a long and
a friendly Letter, of which you have not thought proper to take the
least notice. As I have always been ready to do you any service in
my power, of which you have always seemed sensible, I cannot help
acquainting you that I take your silence much amiss. The question
I asked you was this ' Who was it bought, at Peter Le Neve's
auction, Dr. Parson s's* Ecclesiastical Collections for the History of
the Diocese of Gloucester?' Pray send me an answer to that
question as soon as you can ; and you will oblige, Sir, your humble
servant, " And. Coltee Ducarel."
IV.
"Palgrave, Aug. 26, 1765.
" Good Doctor, Pray bridle your passion ; it may possibly be of
dangerous consequence to your health. Irasci crede profanum, is
one of the first rules laid down in the good old book called * Regimen
Sanitatis Salernitanum,' inscribed to one of our antient Kings of
England. But to the matter in hand. In perusing the late Mr.
Le Neve's Catalogue of MSS., p. 92, No. 335, I find, 'Gloucester-
shire described, and Epitaphs in Churches, &c., collected by Chancellor
Parsons ; a Parochial Visitation.' It sold for 3Z. 16s., but to whom
I cannot say, unless it was to Dr. Rawlinson, for his name is put
down either to that or the following number, but to which I cannot
tell. Old Mr. Wilcox in the Strand was our Auctioneer. If his
son has his marked book by him, that may probably give a better
light. I had one Burrough, a Check to the Auctioneer, whose book
Mr. West had many years since from me ; and I presume it is not
easily to be found in his superabundant Collections ; and, if it
should, I question whether the Auctioneer, or my Check, took any
further notice than to mark down the prices. The other remarks
were what I took pleasure in, to set down to whom any book of
value was sold. So as to this point I can go no further
"T. Martin."
DCIX. THE LAWRENCE FAMILY: TWO MONUMENTAL INSCRIP-
TIONS. The former portions of these inscriptions are given in the
continuation of Bigland's Gloucestershire, under the parish of
Sevenhampton, as having been " once in the church, but now gone " :
they still exist, however, in their original places on the floor of the
GLOUCESTEKSHIKE NOTES AND QUERIES. 141
chancel (north side, near the hagioscope), but are concealed by pews.
The latter portions in English, it is believed, have not yet been
P rinted - J. MELLAND HALL, M.A.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud.
I.
"Hie Capulo condition sepelitur | Corpus pueri peramabilis,
summaeque | Spei, Johannis Lawrence, filii natu | tertij Roberti
Lawrence, Generosi, | qui Mortem subiit xiii die Augusti, annoque
Salv : MDCLVIIL, aetat : iiii-v. |
" Here lies interred a more pretious gem
Than any prince doth weare in's diadem,
Soiled by the hand of death in's tender age
Ere he had acted five yeeres on the stage ;
But he's not lost : when time shall cease to bee,
And Earth and Heaven we shall new moulded see,
This Lawrell branch shall bud and blossom then,
And flourish in the Paridise of Heaven.
And when the Heavenly Jeweller shall take
Into his hands, and up his Jewells make,
He shall repolish this, and cause't to bee
Sett in the ring of his Eternity."
II.
"P.M.S. | Particularly to Roger, y e fifth son | of Robert Lawrence
of this Parish, Gent:, | whose rare perfections were only shewn | for
8 years and then put up, (the 7 th of May, 1668) in hope of a
glorious | resurrection. |
" Harke, passenger, to celebrate a day,
Nature did hand her finest lump of clay,
And made this Flower-pot : Heav'n lik't y e peeces,
And dres't it with the bloomes of Paradise,
T'adorn her place. But fearing to procure
Wherewith to match such costly furniture,
Dash't it against the rock of Destinie,
To save her credit : here the peeces lie,
To tell thee, Vessells whether faire or foule
Are as soon broken, if they're made of mould."
DCX. JOHN DORLIN SANDLAND. This query is reprinted from
the Palatine Note-look (Sept., 1881), vol. i., p. 164, in the hope of
eliciting a reply: Can you give me any information concerning
this author, who, in 1845, published a small volume, entitled The
Wanderer, and other Poems, which he dedicated to the late Charles
Dickens ? Although the volume was printed and published at
Liverpool, the preface is dated from Blakeney, Gloucestershire.
Liverpool. J. C. M.
DCXI. THE DERIVATION OF "GLOUCESTER." Its Roman
synonym Glevi Castrum clearly points to Glevum as the Latin form
142 GLOUCESTERSHIEE NOTES AND QUEEIES,
of an antecedent British, as well as of the subsequent Anglo-Saxon,
word. And so the shrewd old Camden in his Britannia (MDCVIL)
says: "I suspect that, as Gleaucester of the Saxons came from
Glevum, so Glevum answerably from Caer Glowi of the Britons,
Glow with them meaning fair and splended, so that Caer Glow is
the same as fair city \ even as the Greeks had their Callipolis, and
the Angles their Fairford, and their Brihtstowe." It is satisfactory
to find, from Richards' English and Welsh Dictionary, that in the
Old British language to this day glo and gloyw mean bright, and gloen
glowworm ; and, from Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon and English
Dictionary, that in Anglo-Saxon glowan and glewan mean to glow
as a fire, and gleo glee or mirth. The late Dean Milman, accordingly,
styles the hero of one of his poems " Lord of the Bright City,"
designating Gloucester by that title.
Nor is it less worthy than it is pleasant to remark, that each of
our cathedral cities bears a name of the same significance, for Briht,
the first syllable of tha Anglo-Saxon Brihtstowe = Bristou (Domes-
day) Bristol, means (as Bosworth tells us) bright. I am aware
that Bosworth himself chooses (gratuitously, as I conceive) to derive
the name of Bristol from Bricg, Brig, Bridge. JoHN J AMES> M.A.
Highfield, Lydney-on-Severn.
In a paper by Mr. Henry Bradley, in the Gentleman's Magazine
(June, 1881), vol. ccl., pp. 712-24, entitled "The Names of the
English Counties," these brief remarks occur with reference to
Gloucestershire : The Roman name of Gloucester was Glevum.
Our ancestors retained this name in form of Gleawan-ceaster, of
which the modern Gloucester is a corruption. The Romans, as we
know, were in the habit of calling their new towns by the simple
names of the rivers on which they stood (for instance, Deva, Isca,
Derventio), and it seems likely that the word Gloyw, clear or bright,
may have been the British name, either of the portion of the Severn
near Gloucester, or of some small tributary stream.
DCXII. STAGE COACH TRAVELLING IN 1696. The London
Gazette, "from Monday, Aug. 17, to Thursday, Aug. 20," 1696, con-
tains this advertisement, which may be quoted in illustration of the
slow travelling of former days : " Cirencester Stage Coach goeth out
every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from the Bell-Savage Inn
upon Ludgate Hill, to the King's head Inn, Cirencester, in Gloucester-
shire, or any part of that road, in Two days, and returns from thence
on the same days from London."
G. A. W.
DCXIII. THE PRICE OF MEAT EIGHTY YEARS AGO. The
price of bread in Bristol eighty years ago having been given in No.
CCCCLIX., a statement of the price of meat about the same date
may be acceptable ; and therefore I send a copy of a butcher's bill
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 143
(of which I have the original), which was found under the flooring
of an old house in this town :
"M r Webb.
Bo* of E. Slatter, Cirencester.
s. d.
200
18 4
9 OJ
9 11
233
16
1799.
July 3.
96 Ibs. of
Mutton, 5d.
Aug. 25
63 Ibs. of
Beef, 3J
Oct. 4.
31 Ibs.
Do. 3J
,, 11.
34 Ibs.
Do. 3
1801.
April 2.
173 Ibs.
Do. 3
21.
64 Ibs.
Do. 3
6 16 7"
The meat was no doubt supplied for the inmates of Powell's
Schools. C. H. SAVOEY.
Cirencester.
DCXIV. ALDERMAN JOHN JONES, OF GLOUCESTER. (See No.
CCCLL) The following extract from a lecture on the Parliamentary
representatives of Gloucester, delivered by John Joseph Powell,
Esq., Q.C., in that city in 1863, will prove interesting: The next
member on my list will be recognised as an old acquaintance by all
who are familiar with our Cathedral. It is that of the quaint old
gentleman who sits there in a scarlet gown, stiff frill, and with his
pens and ink-bottle beside him, and bundles of wills and other
documents illustrative of his office as registrar to the bishop of the
diocese. I mean, of course, John Jones, alderman, thrice mayor of
this city, burgess of the Parliament at the time of the gunpowder
treason, and registrar to eight succeeding bishops of the diocese.
This gentleman, I am able to state on the authority of one of his
descendants now living amongst us,* was of a very ancient family.
On his father's side he was a descendant of the old Fitzgeralds,
Earls of Desmond, but why or when the family changed that name
for the more euphonious one of Jones, I have not been able to
discover. This, however, I learn, that his grandfather married the
sole daughter and heiress of Tudor, the third brother of Owen
Glendower, which Tudor was killed in battle, fighting against
Henry V. at a place which is to me an unpronounceable name, but
which I am told signifies " the meadow by the mill." If surprise
be felt that a descendant of the fighting Fitzgeralds and Glendowers
should be content to fill the peaceful office now so worthily filled
by our friend Mr. Holt, it should be borne in mind that in those
* Mr. John Jones, for many years of Gloucester, and latterly of London, who died at
Leicester in January, 1881. On his father's side, he was descended from the Jones family of
Brockworth, near Gloucester, and on his mother's, from the Taylor family of Stratford-on-
Avon ; and he was " a man of the most versatile talents and wide and varied knowledge a
good linguist, artist, naturalist, geologist, archaeologist, and an encyclopaedia of local and county
history." An obituary notice, comprising many details of his life and labours, appeared in the
Gloucestershire Chronicle, January 15, 1881. Ed.
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days men wielded both the sword and the pen, and that it has been
proved beyond doubt that Glendower himself, " the irregular and
wild Glendower," as Shakespeare terms him, was a barrister of the
Middle Temple. But to return to Mr. Jones himself ; he was sheriff
of the city in 1587 and 1592, mayor in 1597, and elected member
for the city, with Nicholas Overbury, the recorder in the first
Parliament of James I., in 1603. This Parliament, having
providentially escaped the gunpowder plot, sat for the long period
of seven years, and did many things worthy of remembrance ; but
at last, having granted the King large supplies, they ventured to
address him respecting certain grievances, whereat the Scotch
Solomon was so surprised that he prorogued them, and though he
convened them twice afterwards, it was only to lecture them about
the plot, and the gratitude they owed to God and himself for their
preservation. The result was they passed an Act for solemnizing
the 5th of November for ever, and another empowering the King
to levy <20 a week on Papists absenting themselves from church.
They also offered great rewards for the discovery of Popish priests,
and prohibited the children of Papists from being sent beyond
the seas. Then, having attempted to put down Popery, they tried
to support Protestantism, by fining every Protestant a shilling who
did not go to church on Sunday; and more reasonably, every player
10 who used the name of God profanely. They also passed the
wholesome law, still in operation, for inflicting the penalty of five
shillings or the stocks for getting drunk. I need scarcely say that
in each session, or nearly so, they had to grant a subsidy. But in
addition to this hard work, and the fear of being blown up by the
Papists on the one hand, and by the King on the other, they were
equally in danger of the plague,* for at that period 68,596 persons
died in London of the plague in two years ; and yet even this
dreadful state of things was not without its compensation, for had
they remained in Gloucester they would have been in equal danger
of being drowned, it being on record, that in the year 1607 there
was so great an inundation of the Severn that " the water rose
above the tops of the houses." I wish the record had stated where
the houses were, and what was the height of them. There were
also other valuable compensations, if your venerable members had
known the value of them, for in 1603 the King granted his royal
license to one " William Shakespeare " and others to act tragedies
and comedies at their usual place, the Globe Theatre, or elsewhere,
so that if they did not prefer attending long puritan harangues,
which I think it probable they did, Messrs. Jones and Overbury
might have taken a boat at Westminster, when the House rose about
noon, and landing on the Surrey side, near Old London Bridge,
have witnessed in the afternoon, what thousands since would have
given an eye to see, or an ear to hear, Shakespeare performing one
* The plague was almost as bad in Gloucester ; and Alderman John Taylor was fined 100
for keeping a servant in his house who had been seized by it.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 145
of his own plays. After this Parliament, Mr. Jones returned to
Gloucester and devoted himself to official and municipal duties.
He was re-elected mayor in 1618, and again in 1625; and it is
recorded by Atkyns that when Charles I. issued \vrits for levying
ship-money, some dispute having arisen whether the county or the
city was liable to contribute to the sum levied on the county in
general, Mr. Jones, the mayor, though not independent and enlight-
ened enough to resist the payment altogether, consented to
contribute a twelfth part on condition that the payment so made
should not be taken as a precedent for any subsequent period. He
died in 1630, having first erected the monument, which still remains
in the Cathedral, and respecting which you all know the familiar
story, that when it was finished he came to see it, complained that
they had painted his face a little too red, took a turn or two in the
Cathedral while they altered it, then expressed himself satisfied,
and, giving the workmen some money for drink, and taking home
thejstatuary to pay him for his work, went to bed, this being on the
Saturday, and died on the following Monday.
DCXV. THE KECOVERY OF CLIFTON PARISH KEGISTER, 1538-
1681. On the outside of this old register there is a label, which
bears this inscription : " Eegister of Clifton Church, Glouc., from
1538, restored to the Parish in 1828 by J. Skelton, of Oxford,
F.S.A." And inside there is a memorandum, as follows : " This
attested copy of the Kegister of Clifton Church, Gloucestershire
[made in 1616 to that date], was purchased about five years since by
Joseph Skelton, of Oxford, amongst a parcel of old books & papers
relative to Oxfordshire, under the mistaken idea that it belonged to
the Church of Clifton, Oxon. It was only lately discovered, upon
a close examination, that it belonged to the Parish of Clifton, n r
Bristol, to which this valuable record is with the greatest pleasure
restored by Joseph Skelton, 7 April, 1828."
Many registers having, in some way or other, strayed from their
proper quarters, the foregoing is given as a good example to be
followed. EDITOR.
DCXVI. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLACE-NAMES. In 1880 a
paper, entitled " On the Distribution of English Place-Names," was
presented to the Philological Society by my friend, Mr. Walter R.
Browne, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. For some time
I have been anxious that he should investigate more fully the place-
names of Gloucestershire, but he has been prevented by other duties
from doing so ; and I have therefore obtained his leave to make
what use I like of his investigations, while classifying the Glouces-
tershire names on a larger scale than that which he has used for
those of all England. For any remarks in this paper I am solely
responsible, but they are not to be taken as more than suggestions
to elicit inquiry on the subject.
146 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The interest of an examination of the names of places depends
upon the indications given by them of the distribution of the
various races that have civilized the country. For this purpose
Mr. Browne has made a list of about 10,500 names, and arranged
them in counties according to their terminations, the total number
of endings classified being about 60. There are also a large number
of miscellaneous names having other endings. Of those classified
about 40 are believed to be Anglo-Saxon or Old English, five of
British, and about eleven of Norse origin ; the remainder are
considered to be more or less doubtful, being possibly derived
sometimes from one language, and sometimes from another. In my
own list I have arranged the names of about 530 places in Glouces-
tershire in the same manner. Kather more than 40 of the endings
classified by Mr. Browne are found in this county, besides a
proportionate number of those classed as miscellaneous.
Ton. The first place in the list is given to the three well-known
Anglo-Saxon endings, ton, ham, and ing. Of these ton is far the
commonest termination, the number of instances given (including 1 1
hamptons and 41 ingtons) amounting to 152, or more than a quarter
of the whole number examined. The ending no doubt signifies
' the single croft, homestead, or farm, inclosed by a rude fortification,'
and forming the settlement of the Anglo-Saxon franklin.
Ham. It has been held that two words are combined under
this suffix : (1) ham, 'an enclosure/ that which hems in, and (2) ham,
1 home,' like hame in the Lowlands. The first sense is very doubtful,
though it would explain such cases as the Ham at Gloucester, a flat
island between two branches of the Severn. With either meaning,
the endings ' hampton ' and ' hampstead ' are difficult to account for,
both appearing almost tautological.
Ing. Mr. Kemble holds that this termination signifies * descent,'
and that names ending in ing point out the original seat of the clan,
while those in which it is followed by ton or ham, mark the colonies
sent out from the parent settlement. On the other hand, all the
inghams and ingtons do not correspond to an original seat ending in
ing, which they should do on this supposition. In fact, the frequent
use of ing as a termination seems to belong to some particular branch
of the Anglo-Saxon family, as it is common only in North Norfolk,
Essex, Kent, and Sussex, where ham, field, and stead are also
common. The list for Gloucestershire contains but 17 hams,
one including ingham (Arlingham), and six ings.
Ley. Next to ton this is the commonest suffix in Gloucestershire,
the number of instances amounting to 35. Dr. Murray considers
the word to mean ' ground left lying uncultivated ' ; a sense in which
it is still used in Scotland, 'let it lie lea for a year or two.' On the
other hand, Professor Skeat derives leah from leohan, 'to shine,'
meaning 'a clearing into which light is admitted.' He holds lucus
to be exactly the same word ; while the Low German equivalent is
loo, as in Waterloo.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 147
Ford is found as a suffix in 16 cases, about five times as often as
bridge, a striking proof of the scarcity of bridges at the time when
place-names were fixed.
Borough or Burgh, Barrow, and Bury or Pury, have been
separated from each other, as their respective meanings seem to be
doubtful. A distinction has been drawn between beorh (whence
bury), ' a hill,' and burh (whence borough), ' a town/ though Professor
Skeat derives bury from byrig, the dative of burh. It seems
possible that when the names were separated, bury signified an earth-
work or camp, while borough meant a more regularly fortified town.
Bury is much more common in the south and west than borough
and barrow ; the number in Gloucestershire, for example, being as
22 compared with 3 and 2, while earthen camps are also common in
the south and west. It would be interesting to ascertain whether
each one of these 22 places is the site of an old camp.
Low or Loe. This termination is derived from the Anglo-Saxon
hlaew, l a hill.' There are only three instances in Gloucestershire,
and it is nowhere common except in the Scottish Lowlands, under
the form law.
Bourne. This ending, meaning 'a stream, 'is found in six cases in
the county. A winterbourne is the name still given in Wiltshire to
a stream that is dry in summer. The ending burn is also common
in the Scottish Lowlands.
Land. This is said to be a corruption of len or loen (German
lehn), 'land held in fee or farmed out.' Buckland apparently is the
Old English Bockland, 'land held by book or written deed.' There
are only four cases of this ending.
Got, Cote, or Coates is a fairly common termination, being found
in thirteen cases. According to Isaac Taylor, cote means 'mud
cottage'; and the common Caldicote is the same as the equally
common Cold Harbour, both meaning a shelter by the way side
used by travellers.
Field is also common, occurring sixteen times. In Gloucestershire
the word is now used solely for arable land, a pasture-field being
called ' a ground.'
Worth is one of our commonest suffixes in this county. I have
noted nineteen instances of it. One authority says * worth means
farm or castle,' but I do not know how far this is to be depended
on.
Chester or Cester is far less common than I should have expected.
So many Eoman camps have become important towns, that the name
has become familiar to us. But there are only four instances in
Gloucestershire, and but 50 altogether in England.
Hurst. This word for 'wood' is found in four cases, being
unknown in nearly all the adjacent counties.
Stock, Stoke, or Stow, meaning 'a stockaded place,' is found in
a few cases only in Gloucestershire, though common in Somerset-
shire.
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Ey, Ea. Names with this termination are believed to be Old
English, from ea, * water,' or ig, l island ' meaning either the marsh
round an island, or the island in a marsh. Somersetshire, as a fen
district, has many such names, and there are 12 in Gloucestershire.
Of the other common Anglo-Saxon terminations, there are a few
instances in Gloucestershire of stone, hall or hull, ridge, hill, more
or moor, stead, and over ; but none of mouth ( Avonmouth being
probably modern), hay or gay, side (unless Syde is to be reckoned),
grave, head, mere, cliff, try or tree, wade, wath or with, hithe,
ith or eth.
We come now to the second group of endings, namely, those
which are British in their origin. These, however, cannot be taken
to indicate names given by the Britons in all cases, but rather as
showing that the words now forming the endings were taken up into
the Old English speech, and then used in forming place-names.
This is shown by the following facts : 1. It is the endings which
are generic, as combe, 'a valley,' pol, 'a pool'; but the genius of the
Keltic languages is to place such words at the beginning, not at the
end, of a place-name, as is shown by the words beginning with Cwm
in Wales, and Pol in Cornwall. 2. Many of these terminations are
combined with distinctly English prefixes, as in Harescombe and
Sheepscombe. 3. The endings themselves are sometimes still
found in English dialects, as combe, ' a hollow in the hill ', dene, f a
deep narrow valley,' and down, 'a grassy hill.'
The ending don or down is found in ten instances in Gloucester-
shire. In Keltic it means properly * a hill-fort ' (dun in Ireland and
Scotland), but here seems to have been used simply for ' a hill.'
Combe is common, as it is also in Dorset, Devon, and Somerset.
It still means ' a hollow or cleft ' in the hill ; and it would be desirable
to ascertain whether this description would apply to all the 14
combes in Gloucestershire.
Dene, Den, or Dine is supposed to be from the Keltic den, 'a small
valley.' The Forest of Dean still preserves the name, and there are
about 9 or 10 places with this ending.
Pool and Port, the two other Keltic endings, are hardly found at
all in Gloucesterehire. There is an interesting group of Keltic
names in close proximity in the angle between the Avon and the
Severn. These are Brintry (Bryntre), Penpole (Penpwll), Pen Park
(Pen Pare), Hallen (Halen salt), and Trym (vigorous). All these
names are almost identical with well-known Keltic words. The first
three are places on the limestone ridge running northwards from the
Avon, while Hallen is at its foot, where the salt marshes of the
Severn would formerly have ended. The Trym is a small stream
which passes by the hamlet of Combe, and falls into the Avon.
Somewhat north of this is Aust, which is supposed to have derived
its name from the Propraetor Ostorius, who commanded in Britain,
and used to ferry his legions over here ; and above this again we
come to Oldbury Church, built on the site of a camp, while in the
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 149
parish of Oldbury we find another British termination in Shepher-
dine.
In Mr. Browne's paper the next class of endings are those derived
from the Norse, but in Gloucestershire these are conspicuous by their
absence. I have found no trace of these endings, fleet, toft, holm
(except the islands of Steep and Flat Holm), how or hoe, dale, kirk,
by, gate, thwaite, and beck. The only commonly called Norse
termination to be found in Gloucestershire is thorp or throp, of
which there are five instances ; and the fact that this ending is
found in Gloucestershire and also in several other counties from
which the commonest Norse ending by is entirely absent, leads us to
doubt whether the word is not Anglo-Saxon as much as Norse.
The following endings are considered doubtful.
Wick, which Isaac Taylor considers a Norse ending, meaning ' a
station for ships,' and thence 'a small creek '. The ending is, however,
more common in Anglo-Saxon than in Norse counties, and seems to
be usually English. In Beowulf vie is used simply for ' an abode/
and as a place-name it seems to indicate ' an outlying habitation '
detached from the main ton. Jeifries, in Wild Life in a Southern
County, says that in his district there is a Wick farm near almost
every village. Taylor mentions that thirty farm houses in the salt
marshes of Essex end in wick ; and such names as Cerney Wick
and Rissington Wick seem to confirm the idea that it denotes an
outlying habitation. There are about 1 1 other villages with this
ending in Gloucestershire. Well may sometimes be a corruption of
the Norse mile, but in the six or seven cases in Gloucestershire it
appears certainly to mean ' a spring,' as Clearwell and Broadwell.
The other terminations which seem to have some regular meaning
are hope, age, ern or erne, or or er, ett, ock or oak, way, brook,
church, lode or lade, and grove. The endings in the miscellaneous
column amount to about 80, a few being names of saints, and many
of them apparently quite irregular.
In conclusion I must repeat that these observations are merely
suggestions in order to elicit inquiry on the subject.
3, All Saints' Eoad, Clifton. THOMAS ROACH, M.A.
DCXVII. A BISHOP WITH A WAR MEDAL. An Afghan war
medal has been conferred upon the Right Rev. Thomas Valpy
French, D.D., Bishop of Lahore. This, it is understood, is the first
instance on record in which a bishop of the Established Church has
been made the recipient of a war medal. Bishop French, during
the recent campaign in Afghanistan, behaved with conspicuous
gallantry, and with an entire disregard to personal risk. On a
memorable occasion, although strongly urged not to undertake the
journey, he proceeded from Peshawur to Basaule, and safely passed
t^- ^gh several bands of natives, then strongly incensed against the
British. The effect of his presence at Basaule was gratefully
appreciated by the troops there. On several other critical occasions
150 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
during the campaign, he, at no little risk, ministered to the spiritual
needs of the Peshawur field force. He was at one time curate of
Clifton, Bristol, under the late Rev. Canon Hensman, and he subse-
quently (1865-69) held the incumbency of St. Paul's, Cheltenham.
As a memorial of his work in the former parish, he published a
volume of sermons, entitled "Remember how thou hast Heard":
Selections from Pulpit Addresses at Clifton, Bristol, London, 1862.
J. G.
DCXVIII. NORBORNE BERKELEY, BARON DE BOTETOURT. The
following communication appeared in the Richmond Standard
(Virginia, U.S.A.), February 19, 1881: "forborne Berkeley,
Baron de Botetourt. In the parish church of Stoke Gilford,
Gloucestershire, England, there is a very long monumental inscrip-
tion* to the memory of the above-mentioned distinguished nobleman,
part of which runs as follows : ' In 1768 | the government of Virginia
was committed to his care. During his residence in that colony, |
he was seized with a fever, | which on the 15 th of October, in 1770, in
the 53 d year of his age, | put a period to his life. | His body
was deposited in the college of William and Mary, | in the town of
Williamsbourg. How much the Virginians ow'd | to his paternal and
well-conducted government they have gratefully testified | by
unanimously voting | in their Council and Assembly | a magnificent
statue to his memory. | Thus were his public virtues acknowledged. '|
I shall feel very much obliged by your informing me if there is any
engraving of this statue (and if so, by whom), and whether there is
any inscription connected with it. If there be any inscription,
please favour me with a literal transcript. Where has the statue
been erected ^ Is there any other memorial of him, such as a
monumental inscription, in Virginia 1 and is there any biographical
record published in separate form or otherwise 1 I shall be thankful
to your readers for any particulars they may be able to supply.
(Rev.) Beaver H. Blacker, M.A., Stroud, Gloucestershire, England."
To the foregoing Mr. Robert A. Brock, of Richmond, appended
several interesting particulars, which we gladly reprint :
" We are not definitely informed as to the present condition of the
statue. Howe (Historical Collections of Virginia, ed. 1856, p. 326,)
gives the following account of it :
"'In a beautiful square, fronting the college [of William and Mary],
stands the statue of Lord Botetourt, one of the colonial governors.
It is much mutilated, though still presenting a specimen of elegant
sculpture. He appears in the court dress of that day, with a short
sword at his side. It was erected in 1774, at the expense of the
colony, and removed in 1797 from the old capitol to its present
position. Its pedestal bears the following inscription :
" ' The | Right Honourable | Norborne Berkeley, | Baron de Botetourt, |
* This may be found at full length in Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 700 ; and the inscription
to the memory of his father in the preceding page of the same volume.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 151
his Majesty's] late Lieutenant, and | Governor-General of the | Colony
and Dominion | of Virginia. | [Right side :] Deeply impressed with the
warmest sense | of gratitude for his Excellency the Eight Honb le Lord
Botetourt's prudent | and wise administration, and that the | remem-
brance of those many public and | social virtues, which so eminently |
adorn'd his illustrious character, might | be transmitted to latest
posterity, | the General Assembly of Virginia | on the XX day of July,
Ann. Dom. MDCCLXXL, | resolved with one united voice to erect |
this statue to his Lordship's memory. | Let wisdom and justice
preside in any country, | the people must and will be happy, j [Left
side :] America, behold your friend, | who, leaving his native country, |
declin'd those additional honours which were there in store for him,
that he might heal your wounds, and restore tranquillity and
happiness to this | extensive continent. With what zeal and anxiety
he pursued these glorious | objects, Virginia thus bears her | grateful
testimony.'
*' Weld, in his Travels in America, 1798, says : ' The statue of
Lord Botetourt was defaced, and the head and arm knocked off
during the war (Eevolutionary), when party rage was at its highest
pitch, and everything pertaining to royalty obnoxious.' *
" * Lord Botetourt gave a sum of money, the interest of which
was sufficient to purchase annually two gold medals one to be
given to the best classical scholar, the other to the best scholar in
philosophy. This medal was annually awarded until the
Eevolution. The first competitors for the episcopate of Virginia,
the Eev. James Madison and the Eev. Samuel Shield, both received
this medal; the former in 1772, the latter in 1773. This medal
was also conferred on Mr. Nathaniel Burwell in 1772 ; Mr. David
Stewart, of King George, 1773 ; on Mr. Joseph Eggleston, of
Amelia [major during the Eevolution], 1774 ; and the same year on
Mr. Walker Maury, of Williamsburg ; and in 1775, on Mr. John
White, of King William, and Mr. Thomas Evans, of the Eastern
Shore of Virginia.' (History of the College of William and Mary,
1874, p. 42).
" Howe also gives, in an extract from the Virginia Gazette, an
account of the joyous and impressive reception of Lord Botetourt
by the colonists, together with an ode, recited and sung with an
accompaniment of music on the occasion (pp. 326-7). We know of
no other monumental memorial now extant in Virginia than the
statue mentioned, nor of any biographical record of Lord Botetourt
in separate book-form.
* It may be well to give in full what Mr. Isaac Weld, of Dublin, has written upon the subject
in his Travels through the States of North America, etc., 1795-7 (London, 1799, 4to.), p. 95 :
"In the hall of the capitol stands a maimed statue of Lord Botetourt, one of the regal
governors of Virginia, erected at the public expence, in memory of his lordship's equitable
and popular administration. During the war, when party rage was at its highest pitch, and
every thing pertaining to royalty obnoxious, the head and one arm of the statue were knocked
off ; it now remains quite exposed, and is more and more defaced every day. Whether the
motto, ' Resurgo regefavente', inscribed under the coat of arms, did or did not help to bring
upon it its present fate, I cannot pretend to say ; as it is, it certainly remains a monument
of the extinction of monarchical power in America." -Ed.
152 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" On the evening of the 22d of February, 1876, there was held
in this city, at the Richmond Theatre, a ball in commemoration of
the vice-regal court of Williamsburg as it appeared during the
government of Lord Botetourt. The participants, in most instances
the lineal descendants of distinguished men and courtly dames who
formed the society of the colonial capital Williamsburg, reproduced
the attire of that day in all of its original resplendence and impressive
concomitants. Many were the treasured memorials, transmitted
heirlooms jewels, swords, fans, rich brocades and satins, and costly
laces which were drawn forth for the occasion. The stage of the
Theatre was fitted up for the brilliant tableaux, the body of the
building being filled to overflowing with spectators. This memorable
event was the accomplishment of a number of patriotic ladies who
desired to celebrate appropriately the birthday of Washington, and
at the same time to earn money with which to improve the condition
of the Virginia room at Mount Yerrion.
" An account of the brilliant spectacle appeared in the Richmond
Dispatch of the following day. To it we contributed some notice
of the career of Lord Botetourt, from which we extract as follows :
" The accession of Lord Botetourt to the vice-regal government
of Virginia occurred at a period rife with discontent among the
colonists and pregnant with swiftly approaching and momentous
events. Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, son of John
Symes Berkeley, was born in 1718 ; was colonel of the North
Gloucestershire militia in 1761 ; represented that shire in Parlia-
ment ; and in 1764 was raised to the peerage. { Having ruined
himself by gambling,' says the relentless Junius, ' he became a
cringing, bowing, fawning, sword-bearing courtier.' It would
appear from the subsequent career of this best-beloved and most
honored of our colonial viceroys that the character so pitilessly
drawn by the stern censor was hardly merited. He received the
appointment of Governor (succeeding Sir Jeffrey Amherst) in July,
1768, though he did not arrive in the colony until October
following. A contemporary presents a foil to the venomously
drawn picture as quoted by us. He says of Lord Botetourt :
" * If from birth and education he had not been a courtier, his
dependence on the Crown for the revival of an extinguished title
must have generated habits to conciliate and please. He came
Mther not only with the grace of polished life, but also with the
predilections of the people, who were proud in being no longer
governed by a deputy. His predecessors, Fauquier, Dinwiddie,
Gooch, Spotswood, Nicholson, and Drysdale, had been the vehicles
of sinecures to some principals who never cast an eye or thought
on Virginia. Through Botetourt the colony was assured by the
King that as a mark of honor to it the evidence p residence] of the
chief Governor there should never be dispensed with in future.
Always accessible on business, adhering without a single deviation
to the resolution of sleeping every night in the metropolis, affable
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to the humblest visitor in social circles, easy himself, and contri-
buting to the ease of others, he was sincerely and universally
beloved. In his public functions, his purity and punctuality
confirmed the attachment which his qualities as a gentleman had
begun. By his patronage he inspired the youth of William and
Mary with ardour and emulation, and by his daily example in the
observance of religion he acquired a kind of sacred ascendency
over the public mind.' (MS. History of Virginia, by Edmund
Randolph, in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society).
" Solicitous to serve the Virginians, Botetourt pledged his life
and fortune to extend the boundary of the colony on the west to
the Tennessee river on the parallel of 36J.
" On the llth of May, 1769, when the Assembly was convened,
the Governor, attended by a numerous retinue of guards, rode from
the palace to the capitol in a luxurious state-coach drawn by six
milk-white horses a present from George III. and the insignia of
royalty was displayed with unusual pomp. On that day and the
one following he entertained fifty-two guests at dinner. The
Assembly, however, on the 16th instant following, venturing upon
the assertion of certain colonial prerogatives by the passage of
resolutions against parliamentary taxation and the sending of
accused persons to England for trial, was dissolved by him. But
this exercise of arbitrary power was speedily condoned by an action
of cordial conciliation. Botetourt, having received from the Earl of
Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Colonies, assurance that it
was not the intention of the Ministry to propose any further taxes,
and that they intended to advocate a repeal of those already
complained of, called the Assembly together, and communicated these
assurances, pledging himself to every exertion in his power toward
the redressing of the grievances of the colonists and the promotion
of every measure tending to their advancement and prosperity,
which led to an interchange of cordial greeting between the colonial
legislative bodies and the Governor, and the inauguration of that
warm sentiment of esteem and affection already so graphically
portrayed. But the generous-minded Botetourt, soon finding that
the promises held out to him by the Ministry were utterly faithless,
and indignant at the deception practised upon him, demanded his
recall.
"Shortly after this, on October 15, 1770, he fell a victim to an
attack of bilious fever. He appears to have met death with the
calm fortitude of the philosopher and the confiding trust of the
Christian. The pure-minded and deeply-pious Eobert Carter
Nicholas, the treasurer of the colony, with whom he was on terms
of the strictest friendship, having during one of his visits to the
Governor observed that he thought that the latter would be very
unwilling to die, ' because,' as he said, ' you are so social in your
nature, and so much beloved, and you have so many good things
about you, that you must be loth to leave them,' his lordship made
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at the time no reply ; but a short time after, being on his death-bed,
he sent in haste for Colonel Nicholas, who lived near the palace,
and who instantly repaired thither to receive the last sight of his
dying friend. On entering his chamber he asked his commands.
' Nothing,' replied his lordship, ' but to let you see that I resign
these good things which you formerly spoke of with as much
composure as I enjoyed them ' ; after which he grasped his hand
with warmth, and instantly expired."
(To be continued.)
DCXIX. " COLLECTIONS BY HENRY POWLE." (See No. DXLY.)
Another literal extract from the Lansdowne MS. volume, entitled
as above :
A provission of powder match and Bulletts provided & putt in
readiness w th in y e divissions of the 7 H H Whitston & Bisley
an 1588.
I d
Powder 1500 at 12 the pound 75 00 00
Match 2200 at 6 the pound 30 00 00
Bulletts 2500 weight at 10s the hundred 07 10 00
Sume 112 10s
The names of all the Captaines and their severall charges
Berkley divission
S r William Throckmorton 300 foote
Sir John Poincts 300 foote
George Huntley armi r 150 foote
fforrest divission
W m Winter Esq r 200 foote
Joseph Baineham Esq r ... ... ... ... 200 foote
7 Hundred divission
S 1 Henry Poole 300 foote
S r Anthony Hungerford ... ... ... ... 300 foote
Henry Evinston Esq r 200 foote
Kifsgate divission
S r John Tracy 300 foote
John Eeade Esq r 200 foote
Thomas Chassey Esq r 150 foote
Edward Ayleworth Esq r ... ... ... ... 150 foote
Citty of Glouc r
William Guise Esq r 300 foote
The names of the Captaines of the horse and their charges
Berkly divission
S r Tho : Escourt 50 horse
7 H. H. divission
Henry Bridges Esq r ... ... ... ... ... 50 horse
Kifsgate divission
Nicholas Tracy Esq r ... ... ... ... ... 50 horse
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 155
fforest and Citty of Glouc r
S r William Cooke 50 horse
The perticuler rates of armes both of horse & foote
Light Horse Armour Gompleate
Light horse armor viz brest back gorgett and Cask with I s d
a beaver before the face and a long elbow gauntlett ... 113 4
A long ffrench Pistoll with case and sheathe ... ... 1
Light horsemans Staffe 028
Sword girdle and hangiers ... ... ... ... 8
3 03 04
Lance Armor Gompleate
Launce Arm r viz Brest Back Gorgett headpeece Poldrons
& Vambraies long Custes and gauntlett ... ... 2 13 4
Pistoll furnished ut supra 1 00
Launce Staffe 060
Sword & Girdle 080
4 07 4
Corslett Compleate
Corslett viz Brest Back gorgett and headpiece lined &
furnished 22
Pikes armed with steeled heads ... ... ... ... 03
Swordes with Turkic Blades basket hilts and w h girdle
and Hangier 080
1 03 00
Muskett Compleate
Muskett of the Best proved 01600
Rest mould and bullett bagg ... ... ... ... 2 4
Bandeleares of double plait ... ... ... ... 2 8
Murrion lined and fringed ... ... ... ... 2 8
Sword girdle and hangiers ... ... ... ... 8
1 09 8
United Service Club. A. B. S.
DCXX. SUBSIDY ROLL FOR ELMORE PARISH, 1327. Enclosed
is a copy of the subsidy roll for Elmore, 1 Edw. III., which I
extracted many years ago from the original in the possession of the
late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., and now, I presume, in the library
at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham. I had some copies printed at
the time for circulation amongst my relatives and others interested
in the parish.
Elmore Court, Gloucester. WILLIAM V. GUISE.
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VICESIMAE DNO. EEGI A LAICIS IX COM.
GLOVCEST. CONCESSE PRATER DE BYRG. ET
ANTIQVIS DNCIS. DNI. EEGIS FACT. PER WILLM.
TRACY ET ROBTM. DE ASTOKE ANNO R.R.E. TERCII
POST CONQVESTVM PRIMO (A.D. M.CCC.XXYII)
HUNDR. DE DVDDESTOIM,
ELEMOR.
De Johne de Gyse vii s iiii d
Beatric. de Gyse vi s ix d ob q
Johe atte Polle xv d q
Willo. Phelipp vi d
Rico, le Broke xxii d
Johne Jannes vi d*
Willo. le Reue xvii d
Matill. Dauwe ix d
Willo. le Broke vii d q
Johe Loke vi d
Adam Garleke xvi d
Agnet. Jip xviii d
Willmo. Caam xii d ob
Rico. Garleke xi d
Felic. Vmfray ix d q
Adam Vmfray xi d ob q
Walto. Nichol xi d ob
Willmo. le Coke ix d
Adam le Holdare xiii d q
Rico. Rauel vi d
Adam Bolloke vi d
Henr. de Pelle xvi d q
Willmo. Prat vi d
Willmo. Hatholf ix d
Margar. atte Welle xii d
Willo. atte Broke ix d
Robto. Halyday viii d
Matill. Arnewy x d
Willo. Godrich xii d q
Rico. Godrich xiii d ob
De Willmo. le Broke vi d
Walto. Eolfe ix d
Walto. de Shirne ix d
Robto. Dabitot xii d ob
Robto. atte Welle ix d
Willo. Bulloke vi d
Johe Chynoun vi d
Adam Inthehale vi d
Rico, atte Polle ix d
Henr. atte Polle ix d
Walto. le Deye ix d
Walto. le Graunger ix d ob
Adam Michel viii d
Johne le Shirreue vii d q
Henr. le Brok viii d
ADHUC ELEMOR.
Johne le Hope vi d
Robto. de la Berwe vi s iiii d q
Willmo. Dake vi d
Johe Wattes vi d
Nicho. Dake vi d
Johan la Swones vi d
Thin. Cronnok vi d
Regin. atte Hulle ix d ob
Alic. de Holteleye xiiii d ob q
Johe de Holteleye xi d q
Willo. de Holteleye ix d ob
prob. Snia. Ixiii s. iii d.
DCXXI. GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHURCHES. The following commu-
nication appeared under this heading in Notes and Queries (2 nd S.
vii. 216): "Would any of your correspondents give me any
information respecting churches of especial note in the diocese of
Gloster, architecturally, historically, or otherwise ? or as possessing
particularly interesting monuments, brasses, screens, fonts, &c. ? I
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 157
am induced to seek this information, intending during the summer
to visit all in my power in that diocese, and to photograph all those
possessing any especial interest. Through the kind assistance of
Archdeacon Thorp, Sir J. Glynne, and others, I have already been
enabled to make out an exceedingly interesting list, aided also by
Bigland's work on the Gloucestershire churches ; but any other
memoranda, including the titles of old manor-houses, of which
many are scattered through the county, or old and picturesque
parsonages, would greatly oblige me. J. W. G. Gutch."
Communications, to be addressed to 10, Upper Victoria Place,
Clifton, were at the same time invited, but with what result I know
not. Only one reply appears in Notes and Queries, viz., on Cubberley
Church, p. 304 of same volume. Any information as to what Mr.
Gutch was able to effect in the matter will be gladly received.
ANTIQUARIUS.
DCXXIL AN OLD CHURCH-OTICE. I was lately at Hawkes-
bury, and copied the following (which has no date) from an old notice-
board in the north-west porch of the parish church : " It is desired
that all Persons that come to this Church would be careful to leave
their dogs at home, and that the Women would not walk in with
their Pattens on."
Doynton Rectory. A. G. H.
DCXXIII. THE WINSTON MONUMENT IN LONG BURTON CHURCH,
DORSET. In the chancel-aisle of the parish church of Long Burton,
near Sherborne, Dorset, are recumbent figures of Sir Henry Winston
and Dionise, his wife, and Thomas Winston, his father, together
with the following inscriptions :
(First tablet.)
"M.S. Monvm ts dedicated to the Memories | of Tho : Winston,
of Standish, in the Covntie of Glocester, Esquier, descen ded of
many avncient and noble How ses, both British and English. |
And of | S r Hen : Winston, his Sonne, Livtenant of the | Bril (S r
Tho : Cecil beinge then Governovr), | who dyed in Febr : an Dni
1609, setatis suse 47. And lastly of | The Lady Dionise, his wife,
(the daughter of | S r George Bond, of London, Knight,) who | dyed
in March, an Dm 1609, aetatis suae 44." |
(Second tablet.)
"Eleanor, | one of their Daughters, now wyfe of Leweston
Fitz-Iames, of, Leweston, | Esquire, (beinge denyed to repayre and |
erect these Remembrances of her Parents in the Chvrch of
Standish, | where they lie bvried,) hath transferred them thence,
and placed them | here, where part of their poste|ritie is now, by
themercifvll pro|vidence of the Almightie, planted. | P.E." |
The monument is ornamented with three large and four small
shields, viz.,
158 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
i. Party per pale gules and azure, a lion rampant argent, charged
with a crescent for difference, against a tree eradicated vert, the head
or and vert, the tree on the dexter side. Winston. Impaling, argent,
on a chevron sable three bezants. Bond. There are crests over
each coat, viz., A garb or, on each side a lion rampant, each respect-
ing other, the dexter argent, the sinister azure. Winston ; and A
lion sejant rampant argent.
ii. The Winston quarterings, viz.
1. Winston.
2. Or, a lion rampant sable.
3. Sable, a lion rampant argent.
4. Per pale azure and sable, three fleurs-de-lis or.
5. Sable, three castles argent, in honour point a plate.
6. Barry of ten, azure and argent.
7. Or, three escutcheons barry of six or and gules.
8. Gules, five fusils in bend, or.
9. Argent, a chief azure.
10. Barry of ten argent and azure, six escutcheons sable, 3, 2,
and 1, each charged with a lion rampant of the first.
Cecil.
11. Gules, a chevron between three satyr's (?) heads caboshed
or, a mullet for difference.
12. Argent, three heads erased sable.
13. Sable, seme of plates, two flanches argent.
14. Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules,
iii. Bond.
iv. Bond.
v. Gules, on a cross or between four unicorn's heads erased of
the second five torteaux.
vi. Sable, a chevron between three boy's heads couped at the
shoulders argent, crined or, entwined at the neck with as
many snakes azure, a crescent for difference. VaugJian.
vii. Argent, a cross engrailed gules, in dexter chief a lozenge of
the last.
I shall be much obliged to any one who will explain the circumstance
alluded to in the second tablet, and assign to their proper families
the unnamed coats of arms mentioned above.
Long Burton Vicarage. CHARLES H. MAYO, M.A.
The following reply has been received from Archdeacon Sheringham,
Vicar of Standish :
I find the entry of burial (and there is also a slab in chancel) of
" Thomas Winston e, the son of Henry Winstone, Armiger, died 2 d
July, 1582"; and there is now on the south wall of the nave,
formerly on the north wall of the chancel, a monument of some
member of the Winstone family, but nameless and dateless. This
is all I can find. My old register of Elizabeth and onwards is very
defective, and I can find no entries for 1608-9. Query whether they
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 159
have ever been tampered with. There is evidently some hidden
cause here for the banning of the Winstone name.
Standish Vicarage. J. W. SHERINGHAM, M.A.,
Archdeacon of Gloucester
Atkyns, writing in or before 1711 (in which year he died),
under the head of Standish, refers to a Winstone monument, p. 357,
(2nd ed., 1768) : "There is an handsome monument in stone for
Sir Henry Winstone, lord of this manor, who died in 1608 [1608-9]".
And Rudder (1779) has likewise done so, p. 682 : "There is an
old monument for Sir Henry Winstone, but the inscription and arms
are covered with whitewash." But they probably refer to the one
mentioned above by Archdeacon Sheringham, and certainly not to
that which is in Long Burton Church. According to the inscription
on the second tablet, the transfer was made by Eleanor Fitzjames
during the lifetime of her husband. The latter, as Mr. Mayo has
since remarked, was buried at Long Burton, 16 April, 1638; and
the former, who survived him, died between 17 July and 29 August,
1650, the dates respectively of the making and the proving of her
will. Sir Robert Atkyns and Rudder wrote long after the transfer
had taken place. EDITOR.
DCXXIV. BURN'S REFERENCES TO GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH
REGISTERS. In Burn's History of Parish Registers, etc. (2nd ed.,
London, 1862), the following particulars are given of, or from,
Gloucestershire registers ; and they are here arranged alphabetically
under their proper headings, with the page of the above-named
volume in which each one may be found :
Badminton Magna.
P. 173. The register contains a very full account of laying the
corner-stone of the new church, and its final erection and conse-
cration, in 1785, signed by the nobility and gentry, who assisted, or
were present, on that occasion.
Barrington Parva.
P. 173. "The Proclamation of King James 2 d ordering thanks-
giving for his Victory over the Rebels, which were headed by James
Scott, formerly Duke of Monmouth, and Ford, once Lord Grey,
together with the Service appointed for that day, were used and
performed in the Church of this Parish on the 26 th of July, 1685.
" Thomas Lambe, Vicar."
"Mem: that on Oct : 6, 1695, I payd my Butcher 5' 5*, my
Baker 1* 10 5 , my Brewer 1* 10 s , all in gold, taking in change 9*.
"0 Rare Parson Tom."
Buckland.
P. 174. The register contains an aceount of the plague which
raged in the parish in 1606, by which the rector, John Maltbee, lost
six children in one month.
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Cherington.
P. 135. " (1642), Tho. Jelf dyed in prison in Oxon, being taken
at the Siege and Winning of Cirencester."
Cirencester.
P. 161. In the register under date 1655, is the following:
" That the reason wherefore here wanteth several years and some
several months for weddings, at this time the Rump Parliament set
forth an Act that all Banns should be published 3 several market
days at the High Cross, and after such publishing the parties to be
married by a Justice of the Peace, so that there was but little to be
done in the Churches, the said Parliament also consisting of
Anabaptists and Independents"
P. 135." 1688, November the 12 th , Bulstrode Whitelock, Esq.,
died at the King's Head when my Lord Lovelace was taken prisoner."
See Macaulay's History, vol. ii., p. 499 ; and Burn's History of
Henley-on-Thames, 1861, p. 280.
Dursley.
P. 40. The first register, beginning in 1556, having been des-
troyed, the earliest entry now is in 1640.
Elmore.
P. 70. The register begins in 1560 ; but at the end of the first
book is a part thus intituled : " Of Baptisme, Weddinges, and
Burialls happening at Elmore, out of the Worshipfull House of
Guyse, sythens the 6 th day of December, 1556."
Frampton Gotterell.
P. 40. No entries whatever made from 1639 to 1653.
Frampton-upon- Severn.
p. 173. In the register there is a long detail of damage done by
a storm, February 18, 1662, which, in the space of four hours,
destroyed twelve barns and a dwelling house, and rooted up 357
trees, chiefly in orchards. This account is subscribed, " John
Barnsdale, Vicar."
Frocester.
P. 171. "Hoc anno 1574 die Laurentii Martyris, serenissima
Regina mea Elizabetha hoc meum oppidatum accesit et invisit in
eoq; in aedibus Georgii Huntleii Armigeri Comiter, benigneq et
suma cum humanitate tractantis pernoctavit indeq : Barkleyum
Castellum concessit.
"Tho. Tullio Vicario de Frocester."
Lassington.
P. 52. The earliest register, commencing in 1661, has this entry:
" The old Register Bookes belonging to the Parish of Lassington
were embezzled and lost in the late times of confusion, criminell
divisions, and unhappy warrs." Population Returns, 1831.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 161
Lechlade.
P. 206. In the author's (Mr. Burn's) copy of Mr. [not "Sir"]
Ralph Bigland's Observations on Parish Registers is this memoran-
dum, in the handwriting of the Eev. James Dallaway : " A late
Vicar of Lechlade, in a fit of intoxication or despair, threw two
Register Books of that Parish into the fire."
Rodmarton.
P. 67. " Hanc Librum Jobus Yate Rector Ecclesiae de
Rodmerton in Comit. Glouc : fieri fecit sumptibus Parochia3
impensis in eum mille. tercent. quadragint. quatuor quadrantibus
Feb : 3 1630 stylo novo i.e. Januar 24 Anglicano Veteri.
" If you will have this Book last, bee sure to aire it att the fier or
in the Sunne three or fonre times a yeare els it will grow dankish
and rott, therefore look to it. It will not bee amisse when you
finde it dankish to wipe over the leaves with a dry wollen cloath.
This Place is very much subject to dankishness, therefore I say
looke to it."
Mr. Burn has added this foot-note : "The situation of Eodmarton
is high and dry, on a calcareous soil ; the ' dankishness ' complained
of arose solely from the exuding nature of the building stone,
which, after a little time, is fatal to any books or papers which may
come in contact with the walls."
P. 184. "1636 Hoc anno in agris in loco Hocberry vocato
dum sulcos aratro ducunt discoperta sunt . . . tessallata
pavimenta, tegulse quibus ferrei clavi infixi subrutse, nurnmi quoque
serei Antonini & Valentiniani imp : In colse mini
dixerunt se sereos & argenteos nummos ssepius ibidem reperisse
nesciente quid rei essent a patribus autem audiisse Rodmerton ab
illo loco .... translatam olim, ubi nunc est positam esse
apparet autem stationem aliquam Romanorum ibidem aliquando
fuisse."
This site has been explored, and the particulars published in
Ly sons' Reliquice Britannico-Romance.
P. 174. There is this entry, made in 1649 : " In the Windowe
by the doore of the South Isle adjoyning to the Chancel, was a
little picture in the glasse, of one praying in the habit of a minister
cum baculo pastorali and underwritten, ' Richardus Exall ' which
was broken by Children, perhaps he was att the charge of that
window. There is also upon the West side of Cotes Towre in
stone, ' Orate pro animabus Ricardi Wiat & Ricardi de Rodmerton ',
it may bee it was this Richard which did joyne with the person of
Cotes to build that towre."
Slaughter, Upper.
P. 41. The third page of the register begins thus : "here we
want fower yeares in Qweene Mary."
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Tewkeslmry.
P. 70. The register has this "title" :
" Lo heare thou maiest with mortall eie beholde
Thy name recorded by a mortall righte,
But if thou canste looke but spiritualie
Unto that God which gives such heaunly sighte
Thou maiest beholde w th comfort to thy soule
Thy name recorded in the Heaunly Roule ;
And therefore praie the Register of heauen
To write thy name within the Booke of Life
And also praie thy sinns maie be forgiuen
And that thou maiest flee all sinn and strife
That when thy mortall bodie shall have ende
Thy soule maie to the Imortal Lord assende."
ANTIQUARIUS.
DCXXY. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BEACONS. (See No. CCCC.) There
is in my collection of old papers the following document, which
may perhaps help to throw some light on the subject of Beacons :
" To the High Constable of the Hundred of Bisley, and to every
of them greeting.
" According to the directions we have received from his ma ties
privi Councell these are to will and Comaund yo u that upon the
receipt hereof yo u cause yo r said Beacon to be repayred and furnished
w th wood and other things that shall be there unto needefull, and
yo u are to see that a contynuall watch be kept at the said Beacon
whereof faile yo u not at yo r p'ill. Dated at Standish the viii th day
of June Anno D ni 1635.
" Ralphe Dutton,
" W. Trye."
William Hancox, of Denway, in the parish of Bisley, was at that
time high constable of the above-named hundred.
Chalford, Stroud. R. W. W. K HANCOX.
Fosbrooke, in his Gloucestershire, vol. i., p. 362, under the head
of Saperton, writes thus : " A beacon is also retained in memory ;
these were pots of combustibles upon the top of a pole, ascended by
another jagged and oblique, by way of ladder ; and the illumination
of them was a signal for all men capable of bearing arms, to put them-
selves in a posture of defence : at the rebellion in the north, upon the
dissolution of abbies, temp. H. VIII. , they were lit up, and perhaps
there are later instances. [Certainly there are.] A Parliament roll
of 6, 7, 8 H. VI. says, * a towre to bee upon daylight a redy bekyn,
wheryn shall be light geving by night,' and orders it to be kept by
a hermit." j Q.
DCXXVI. THE RECTORS OF ULEY. Until the episcopal registers
of the induction of clergymen now at Worcester and Gloucester
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shall have been searched, Gloucestershire antiquaries must content
themselves for accounts of the parochial clergy with the meagre
lists given by Atkyns, and with the names subsequent to his time
which are included in the parish registers. It is worth noting here
that the episcopal registers at Worcester, of which diocese
Gloucestershire anciently formed part, begin as early as 1268; only
three sees possessing older records viz., York, 1214; Lincoln, 1217;
and Exeter, 1257. The institutions of the Wiltshire clergy have
been printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps ; and we must look forward
to the time when the same will be done for Gloucestershire.
Atkyns' list of Uley rectors includes only four names. Of these
the first, Thomas Manwaring, has no date attached ; and the third,
as he states, was Sir Herbert Crofts, Bart., rector in 1667, and
afterwards Bishop of Hereford. The rector of Uley, however, was
Dr. Herbert Croft, whose son, Herbert, was created a baronet in his
father's lifetime; and the date also is clearly an error for 1637.
Moreover, Atkyns gives no account of the long interval which
must have elapsed between the resignation of Dr. Croft and the
induction of Mr. Heart. No information is at present available
respecting James Dalton, the second on the list.
Herbert Croft, the most eminent of the rectors, was a man of
mark in his day, and took an active part in all the troubled changes
of the 17th century. Born in 1603, a few months after the
death of Elizabeth had placed the Stuart dynasty on the throne, he
died in 1691, scarcely eighteen months after its fall. He was the
third son of Sir Herbert Croft, of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, of a
family said to be one of the very few which can trace their owner-
ship of the land to an earlier period than the Conquest. His father
towards the end of his life became a Roman Catholic, and about
1619 joined a society of English Benedictine monks at Douay, in
Flanders. His old age was employed in attempting to convert his
family to the Roman faith, and controversial pamphlets on this
subject between them are mentioned by Anthony a Wood. Herbert
Croft, the son, received his " grammar learning " at Hereford, and in
1616 was sent to Oxford, where he stayed only a short time, being sent
for by his father to Douay, who placed him with the English Jesuits
at St. Omer. Urged by his father, and persuaded by John Eloyde,
the youth became a Roman Catholic, and even appears, though
contrary to his father's advice, to have joined the Society of Jesus.
With them he went through courses of logic and philosophy. His
father's death occurred in 1622, when he was about to return from
England, whither he had been sent on business relating to the family
estate. The next few years he spent abroad in travel and in the
study of theology. " He was in many ways accomplished, whether
you took him as a gentleman or as a scholar." Returning to England,
he became reconciled to the English Church, through the persuasion
of Bishop Morton, of Durham, and again went to Oxford, entering
his name at Christ Church. There in 1635 he supplicated that his
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ten years' study of divinity abroad might be allowed to free him
from the necessity of residence, and that he might proceed to the
degree of B.D., although not yet M.A., on performing the exercises
required by the statutes. The University was persuaded to relax
its rule ; and after going through the disputations " accurately and
learnedly," he became B.D. in 1636. "He became about that
time minister of a church'in Gloucestershire, and rector of Harding,
in Oxfordshire." Probably he was not long rector of Uley, for in
1639 he was chaplain in the expedition against the Scotch, and
in the same year was appointed a prebendary of Salisbury. He
was also chaplain to Charles L, "who was so well satisfied with his
integrity and loyalty, that he afterwards entrusted him with his
secret commands to several of the great officers in his army, to the
hazard of his life." Promotion came rapidly upon him ; and the same
year that he was installed a prebendary of Salisbury, he obtained a
like appointment at Worcester, and in 1641 a canonry at Windsor.
Three years later he 'became Dean of Hereford. During the
Commonwealth he was of course deprived of his preferments, and
took refuge for part of the time with his friend Sir Eobert Berkeley,
of Cotheridge, " constrained to a narrow income," though this is
probably an exaggeration, for about this time by the death of his
elder brother, Sir William, he succeeded to the family estates in
Herefordshire. At the Eestoration he was replaced in his deanery,
and in 1661 was consecrated Bishop of Hereford, refusing, it is
said, still higher preferment. He became Dean of the Chapel
Royal in 1667 ; but he was too outspoken in the pulpit to please
the dissolute Court of Charles II., and after holding his office little
more than a year, he retired to the country. Burnet, in the
History of his Own Times, describes him as a "warm, devout man,
but of no discretion in his conduct; so he lost ground quickly.
He used much freedom with the king, but it was in the wrong
place, not in private, but in the pulpit." As a bishop, he was very
strict in his rules of admission to holy orders, by which he
" dissatisfied many more of the clergy than he obliged " ; and he
steadfastly set his face against non-residence and other abuses. In
1675 he wrote a book, the appearance of which was "like a comet."
This was The Naked Truth ; or, The True State of the Primitive
Church ; and Andrew Marvell styled the author "judicious, learned,
conscientious, and sincere, and a true son, if not a father, of the
Church of England." It called forth a considerable controversy ;
and amongst those who took part in it were Dr. Turner, Master of
St. John's, Cambridge, and Bishop Burnet. Besides other works
he wrote, in 1685, Some Animadversions on a Book, called The
Theory of the Earth, and in 1688, A Short Discourse concerning
his Majesties late Declaration in Churches. This latter came into
the hands of James II., who doubtless thought he did a clever
thing when he " commanded as much as concerned the reading of
the declaration, which was for the indulging of conscience, to be
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printed, but suppressed all he said against taking off the test and
penal laws." Bishop Croft was buried in Hereford Cathedral, in
1691. Upon his tombstone are the words "In vita conjunct!," and
over the adjoining grave of his friend Dean Benson, " In morte non
divisi."
During the Puritan period George Ven was " Minister of Uleigh ",
as we learn from a document printed at p. 330 of vol. i. of Gloucester-
shire Notes and Queries. As his name does not appear in Calamy's
Ejected Ministers, he may have conformed, or perhaps was dead
before the Act of Uniformity.
From the incumbency of George Ven the history of Uley rectory
is at present a blank until 1668, in which year we find in the parish
register the name of William Heart as rector, who appears to have
been then inducted into the living, and who continued to hold it for
the long period of forty-one years. From the register we learn that
he was a Master of Arts of Oxford, and had been a Fellow of Magdalen
College, in that University. The Catalogue of Oxford Graduates
does not begin earlier than the year 1660, and his name consequently
is not found in it : we can hardly indentify him with a William
Heart of Magdalen College, who took his B.A. degree in 1665, as
the latter never proceeded to that of M.A. As the present register
was commenced in a fresh book by Mr. Heart in the year he came
to Uley, we may infer that the parish records had previously
been neglected. Perhaps the cause of this may have been that the
former rectors were absentees. Bishop Croft was clearly non-resident,
and probably also the rectors who succeeded him, for Uley is a
Crown living, and may have been held by the incumbent with
other preferment. Heart, however, seems to have been resident,
for the names of two sons of " William Heart and Aggnes, his wife,"
are recorded in the register in the rector's handwriting. These were,
William AllifFe, baptized 16 January, 1670-1, and buried on the
19th of the same month, and John Alliffe, baptized 30 July, 1673.
We may note the use of a double Christian name, which was
unusual at this period. The Hearts appear to have been a Glouces-
tershire family, and resident in King's Stanley. John Heart, " an
inhabitury of King Stanly ", and probably identical with the above-
named John AllifFe Heart, had a son William, baptized at Uley,
3 March, 1701. His wife, Mary Heart, did not long survive; for
just below, under date 10 March, is the entry, "Mary, wife of the
afores d John Heart, buried", and in 1705 the King's Stanley register,
under date 18 October, records the marriage of John Hart and
Elizabeth Fowler. The same register contains also these entries :
" Elizabeth, daughter of John Hart, bapt. 2 Aug., 1706 ;" " Sarah,
daughter of John Hart, bapt. 16 Jan?, 1707-8"; and "John, son
of John Heart, gen*, bapt. 27 Jan?, 1709-10." A few years later,
27 December, 1714, Elizabeth Heart, widow (doubtless the Elizabeth
Fowler just mentioned), was buried at Uley. The register was well
kept by William Heart, who wrote clearly and legibly ; and he con-
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tinued to make entries until shortly before his death, though his
handwriting had become very unsteady during the last nine or ten
years of his life, and other writings began to appear. A certain
carefulness is shown in the entries made by him. For instance, in
1697 we find, "Borne [16 February] a child of John Kobbins,
Broadweaver, and of Martha, his wife, and on y e 17 th of February
buried, but neither y e buriall nor baptism notified to mee, W m Heart,
Rector." And in 1698, "A male child of Henry Hurcombe, day-
labourer, and of Joane, his wife, buried contrary to y e maner and
rites of y e church of England." Again, in 1701, "A daughter of
John Giles, a Dissenting Preacher, borne March 23." At length
comes the following entry : " William Hart, Rector of this Parish,
was buried June the fourth daj% 1709."
Heart's successor was John Jackson, who was appointed in 1709,
in which year he wrote thus in his register : "This part of the
Register was begun by me, John Jackson, Rector of Uley,
December y e 4 th , 1709." On October 17th in the succeeding year
he married Mrs. Mary Basset, and thereby became allied with the
principal family of the place, now long since extinct, and of whom
only a vague tradition remains, while even the site of their manor-
house, Basset's Court, is a matter of question. There are no further
particulars of him on record. Probably he was non-resident during
the latter part of his incumbency ; for in 1714, we find mention in
the register of "Tho s Gwynn, Jun r , Curate de Uly." The
Catalogue of Oxford Graduates gives the name of Thomas Gwynn,
B.A., Gloucester Hall (now Worcester College), 16 June, 1713.
Rice Williams succeeded Jackson in 1719 ; but no particulars of
him are given in the register. His handwriting appears until 1723,
when we find the name of Thomas Twisell, who may have been
one of a family formerly resident in the neighbourhood of Stroud.
He is probably identical with Thomas Twissell, of Wadham College,
Oxford, who took his B.A. degree 16 June, 1715. Later on, in
1733 and 1737, the name of "John Hogis, Curet," occurs; and
Mary, daughter of "M r John & Elizabeth Hoges," was baptized 31
May, 1735, and Allingtun, their son, 16 September, 1736.
In July, 1748, Thomas Gregory, M.A., who had signed as curate
in 1739, succeeded Rice Williams in the rectory. Traditionally he
is said to have been of a Hampshire family. A Thomas Gregory
graduated B.A. at Christ Church, Oxford, 1 March, 1737, and another
of the same name at Trinity College on October 15 of the same year ;
but neither appears to have proceeded to the M.A., degree. Two
more of the same name graduated M.A., one in 1747, and the
other in 1751, at Queen's College, Cambridge; but as Mr. Gregory
styled himself M.A. in 1739, the place of his education must for the
present remain doubtful. He was twice married. The register
records an event, which is duly notified in the Gentleman's Magazine :
"Mary, wife of the Rev d M r Thomas Gregory, buried 13 March,
1744-5"; and also, "The Rev d M r Thomas Gregory, Rector of
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Uley, and M rs Susannah Thomas, of the same, married Nov. 1,
1748." The Magazine announced this marriage somewhat differ-
ently : "Kev. Mr. Gregory of Uly to Widow Thomas, 10,000" ;
but in any case, the rich widow evidently waited for the curate to
become the rector. [See No. CCXCIX.] They had five children
whose baptisms are recorded : Edward, 1 September, 1749 ; Mary,
20 November, 1751; Thomas, 3 January, 1754; Susannah, 2
February, 1758; and William, 2 May, 1759. Their second son,
Thomas, became an apothecary in Dursley ; and his shop, with the
signboard, " Gregory, Apothecary," stood on the site of the present
police-station. He is said to have been one of the last who wore a
" pigtail." His death occurred in 1837 ; and by will he left 50 to
the town of Dursley, and 80 to his native parish, to provide a dole
of bread on St. Stephen's day. His father's monument is in the
tower of Uley church, with this inscription : " Near this place lie
the remains of the Eev d Thomas Gregory, A.M., Eector of this
Parish 29 years. He departed this life June 30, 1778." His relict.
Mrs. Susannah Gregory, died 2 October, 1789.
Mr. Gregory was succeeded, in 1778, by his son, the Eev. John
Gregory, who held the benefice until his death in 1795. It may be
noted that in his day occurred two late instances of the maintenance
of early ecclesiastical discipline in the excommunication of Mr.
Edward Dorney, 26 April, 1778, and of Sarah Talboys, 3 April,
1785. The sentence on the latter was revoked by the curate, the
Eev. Ealph Lockey ; but Mr. Dorney died excommunicate, in 1795,
and was buried at midnight without any funeral service.* The
children of Mr. Gregory and Elizabeth, his wife, were : Jane Barnes,
bapt. 20 March, 1784; Mary Barnes, 15 July, 1789; and John
Barnes, afterwards a captain in the army. Miss J. B. Gregory died
as recently as 1872, having lived in a small cottage on Uley Green.
She was well known in the village, and was a survival of a past
generation, reminding one much of the old portraits hanging around
her parlour. On a brass plate under the north window of the chancel
there is this inscription : " To the glory of God, in memory of his
servant Jane Barnes Gregory, born March 5, 1784, died May, 1872.
Daughter of the Eev d John Gregory, died 1795, grandaughter [sic]
of the Eev d Thomas Gregory, died 1777, successively Eectors of this
Parish." Her brother, Captain Gregory, of whom many strange
stories are told, died in 1846. His grave is in Uley churchyard,
under an altar-tomb, and a small tablet in the church commemorates
him. The family residence was an old-fashioned gabled house in
Uley street, now occupied by Miss Eoberts ; and over the door there
was for many years a man-trap, to serve as a visible warning of the
fate in store for trespassers.
* See the Rev. J. H. Blunt's Dursley and its Neighbourhood (1877), p. 224. " It may be well
to add," writes Mr. Blunt, " that sentences of excommunication were not issued by the parochial
clergyman, who had to read them in church (according to the rubric after the Nicene Creed),
at his own will, but by formal process in the Bishop's or Archdeacon's Court, after ' presentation'
by the clergyman or churchwardens." Ed.
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The Eev. Thomas Esbury Partridge, of Merton College, Oxford
(B.A. 10 June, 1789 ; M.A. 7 July, 1792), succeeded Mr. Gregory
in 1777. He was a Gloucestershire man ; and the Esbury family,
from which he descended, was long settled at Hawkesbury. There
is little to record of his incumbency, during which non-conformity
in the parish was at the height of its prosperity.
In 1823 the Rev. Mario w Watts Wilkinson, son of a distinguished
preacher, the Rev. Watts Wilkinson, succeeded Mr. Partridge.
Watts Wilkinson, of Worcester College, Oxford, graduated in 1780 ;
and another of the same name, brother doubtless of the Rev. M. W.
Wilkinson, from the same college, B.A. 1818, and M.A. 1820.
The rector of Uley also was educated there, and graduated B.A. 21
June, 1810; M.A. 11 February, 1813; and B.D. 21 May, 1825.
To the day of his death he held also the benefice of Harescombe-
cum-Pitchcombe, to which he was presented, before the year
1826, by Mrs. Purnell, of Kingshill. He is said to have been the
best scholar in a local clerical society ; but the type of parochial
clergyman to which he belonged, is now almost, if not quite extinct.
During his incumbency, in 1858, the church was rebuilt; and
through his influence the old dedication was changed from St. Giles
to St. Matthew. By this he thought to abolish "Uley Feast,"
which was held annually on the 1st of September; but the hoped-
for result did not take place. For many years before his death he
was very feeble, and was in consequence obliged to have the
assistance of curates, who were, in succession, the Revs. C. N. Johnson,
T. Fetherston, J. D. Pratt, Peter Pearson Mason (1861-64), and
E. F. Green. Mr. Wilkinson resided in a large house on Uley
Green, now styled " The Mansion," and formerly occupied by the
great clothier, Mr. Edward Shepperd, who afterwards built The Ridge.
The Rectory, a cottage at the back of the church, long inhabited by
the parish clerk, was pulled down, and rebuilt on another site, by
the succeeding rector. Mr. Wilkinson died in 1867 ; and on his
tomb in the churchyard there is this inscription : " Sacred to the
memory of the Rev d Mario w Watts Wilkinson, B.D., 44 years
Rector of this Parish, who departed this life March 28 th , 1867, in
the 80 th year of his age. He was distinguished as a scholar, and for
the faithful discharge of his public ministry."
In 1867, the present rector, the Rev. Charles Chapman Browne,
of University College, Oxford (B.A., 1863; M.A. 1866), and a
member of a family well known in Uley, succeeded Mr. Wilkinson.
In 1872, on the death of the Rev. A. G. Cornwall, who was rector of
Beverstone, Kingscote, Newington Bagpath, and Owlpen, the last
named parish, under an Order of Council passed as long before as 1840,
was separated from the others, and united to Uley ; and this arrange-
ment necessitated the assistance of a curate. The following clergy-
men have served at Uley since 1872 : the Revs. John Clare
Hudson (1872-75), George Eyre Massy (1876-77), ISTorcliffe Dalton
(1877-80), and Sidney Charles Saunders (1880).
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
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DCXXVII. DUNTSBORNE ABBAS BARROWS. (Reply to No.
DVI.) The two round barrows at Duntsborne Abbas, of which
mention is made in the Note referred to, have been examined by
Mr. G. B. Witts with very unexpected results, which, when completed,
will be communicated to the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society. WILLIAM V. GUISE.
DCXXVIIL THE HEALTHINESS OF DYRHAM. With reference
to what has been stated in No. DXVI. respecting Saintbury, I may
observe that in this parish of Dyrham there was not a death
between December 23, 1880, and March 23, 1882, i.e., for fifteen
months, the population being over 400.
Dyrham Rectory, Chippenham. W. T. BLATHWAYT, M.A.
DCXXIX. LYSONS' " GLOUCESTERSHIRE ANTIQUITIES." Mr.
Samuel Lysons was the author of a folio volume, dedicated to
Henry, second Earl Bathurst, and entitled Etchings of Views and
Antiquities in the County of Gloucester, hitherto imperfectly, or
never engraved ; it comprises a large number of plates, with a
letterpress description of each, and was published in London, in
1791- . This work does not bear the author's name. Subsequently
he published another folio, entitled A Collection of Gloucestershire
Antiquities, " by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S. & F.A.S." (London,
MDCCCIV.) ; comprising 110 plates, with a list of them, but
differing in many respects from the preceding volume. Mr. Lysons
makes no reference in the latter to the former.
The late Mr. George Ormerod, after giving a MS. analysis of
contents, has written in the copy which belonged to him : "Then
follow such portions of an earlier series of Gloucestershire Views
as appear to have been intended to form part of a prior publication,
and to have been suppressed. The work is not mentioned by
Upcott, or in the life of S. Lysons, in Gentleman's Magazine, vol.
89, part ii., p. 274. There may have been two reasons for with-
drawing the work. The subjects were not limited to Antiquities,
and most of the prints were executed in his first and very inferior
style. The collection, however, is of great interest ; it marks Mr.
L.'s progress in engraving, and contains many views not engraved
for the edition of 1803 [nor for that of 1804]." As further stated
in a note on this same copy (comprising 53 plates) in one of
Mr. Quaritch's book-catalogues, the work is not mentioned by
Lowndes, and " according to the descriptions there should be sixty-
four plates, but it is very probable the others were never engraved."
In the British Museum there is a copy, which Mr. Anderson, in
his Book of British Topography (London, 1881), has thus described:
" Gloucester, County of. Views and Antiquities in the County
of Gloucester hitherto imperfectly or never engraved. [With
descriptive letterpress. By S. Lysons.] London, 1791 [-9 8]. fol.
[Imperfect, wanting plates 79, 80, and 83 ; also the letterpress to
VOL. II. M
170 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
plates 65-85. The dates of the engravings range from 1792-98.]"
The above details have been given in the hope that some of your
readers will supply further information respecting the earlier of
these two volumes. C T D
DCXXX THE LUTTRELL FAMILY. (See No. CCCCXXXIY.)
The following particulars from a remote quarter may possibly be of
use to your correspondent. In St. David's burial-ground, Hobart,
Tasmania, there is a large tomb, which seems to have consisted
originally of the rectangular base, with a superstructure, also
rectangular, now placed upon it ; and on the sides are the names of
Luttrell, Atkins (of the Firville family, Co. Cork, Ireland), and
Haskell, with these inscriptions :
" Here lyeth interred the body of D r Edward Luttrell, M.D., late
principal Surgeon at this Settlement. Died 10 June, 1824, aged
67 years."
" To the memory of Martha, widow of the late D r Luttrell, who
departed this life 4 May, 1832, leaving 3 sons and 4 daughters to
lament her loss. Aged 67 years."
From the Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemaris Land Adver-
tiser, June 11, 1824:
"Died last evening, in his 68th year, at his residence in Bridge
Street, Dr. Luttrell, M.D., late Principal Surgeon of His Majesty's
Settlement of Van Dieman's Land, much lamented by his numerous
family and friends." JugTIN BROWNE.
Hobart, Tasmania.
DCXXXI. SIR FLEETWOOD DORMER, OF ARLE COURT. (Reply
to No. DLXYII.) In Lipscomb's History and Antiquities of the
County of Buckingham (London, 1847), vol. i., p. 415, there is a
pedigree of the Dormers, of Lee Grange, the following being the
particulars which have reference to Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Arle
Court, near Cheltenham :
Sir Fleetwood Dormer, Knt., of Shipton Lee and Lee Grange,
m. Mary, third daughter of Sir Euseby Isham, Knt., of Pytchley,
Northamptonshire (bap. 24 May, 1584, and widow of Edward
Reade, Esq., of Cottesbrook, in same county), and d. at Quainton
in Feb., 1638-9, .setat. 68, leaving a son,
Sir Fleetwood Dormer, Knt., of Arle Court, Gloucestershire, and
Virginia, North America, bap. at Quainton 21 May, 1616, d.s.p. 27
Aug., 1696, and bur. 16 Sept. at Quainton. H IgHAM L ONGDEN .
Oakwood, Crawley, Sussex.
DCXXXII. THE FARLEY FAMILY. In the Western Antiquary
(March 18, 1882), vol. i., p. 193, this communication (in reply to
Mr. J. Farley Butter, p. 184) has appeared : " The late Dr. Oliver,
many years ago, published a series of biographies of distinguished
Exonians in Trewman's Exeter Flying Post. The sketches are
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numbered consecutively, and No. 13 is that of 'The Farley Family.'
The family, as far as can be traced, came originally from Bosbury,
near Ledbury, in the county of Hereford. James, the son of
Thomas Farley, of Eosbury, was placed out an apprentice to Thomas
Chester, at Bristol, 16th August, 1559, took up his freedom there
in 1568, and was buried at St. John's, Bristol, in November, 1605.
When the family moved from Bristol to Exeter cannot be dis-
covered ; but Samuel Farley was established here (Exeter) as a
printer in the reign of King "William III. He lived 'over against' the
Guildhall, in the very premises lately occupied by Mr. Gilbert Dyer,
now a heap of ruins from the fire, and there he subsequently, viz.,
in May, 1723, started another paper called The Exeter Journal.
Within a short period he must have quitted for Bristol, for we find
Edward Farley (perhaps son of Samuel) afterwards conducting that
paper. As for Samuel Farley, he retired to Bristol, where
he commenced a newspaper. The first number that we have heard
of is dated the 22nd November, 1735. Felix Farley appears shortly
after to have been taken into partnership, for in the Journal dated
January 6, 1738, we learn it is described as printed at Bristol by
Samuel and Felix Farley, at the Shakespear's Head, Castle Green.
For more than a century this paper took the lead of the Bristol
journals."
"We," as Mr. John Taylor writes in his Book about Bristol^
1872, p. 284, "have before us a weekly number of the year 1799,
published at 6d., and find it to be precisely one half the size of one
of the present daily numbers at the price of one penny, so that the
old were relatively twelve times the price of the current numbers."
Prefixed to each issue of the Daily Bristol Times and Mirror
these words appear: "Felix Farley's Journal (Established 1714)
was Incorporated with the Bristol Times in April, 1853; and the
Bristol Times and Journal with the Bristol Mirror in January, 1865."
BRISTOLIENSIS.
DCXXXIIL JOHN LYCETT, L.E.C.P.E., ETC. Dr. Lycett, well
known in the scientific world for his unwearied researches and
numerous publications in various departments of geology and palae-
ontology, died at Scarborough, where he had resided for more than
twenty years, April 8, 1882. An obituary notice appeared in the
Scarborough Gazette of the 13th of the same month, and to it we
are mainly indebted for the following particulars.
He was born in 1804, in Worcester, where his father was engaged
in business as a glove-manufacturer ; and he was educated there
under Dr. Simpson. While young, he was sent to London, where
he was articled to Dr. Pettigrew, Court Physician. Subsequently
he removed to Kidderminster, and there married the eldest daughter
of Blankley Pirrins Willis, Esq. ; and some time after, he settled at
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, where he spent nearly twenty
years in the practice of his profession. It was during this period of
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his life that he began to devote much attention to the study of
geology and palaeontology, which he pursued with great enthusiasm.
Science is indebted to him for his careful researches into the geology
of the last-named district, and for his admirable treatise on the
subject, entitled The Cotteswold Hills: a Handbook to their Geology
and Palceontology (London, 1857). He was, during the same period,
an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, in
connection with which he published fourteen papers ; and it was
also while at Minchinhampton that he produced his critical history
and description of the "Mollusca of the Great Oolite," illustrated with
forty-five plates, and published in the Palseontographical Society's
volumes (iv., vii., and viii.) for the years 1850-54, in conjunction
with Professor Morris; with a supplement in vol. xv. (1861).
Dr. Lycett's publications were very favourably received when they
first appeared, and they are still standard text-books on their several
subjects. During that part of his life which was passed in Gloucester-
shire, by his industry and painstaking as a geologist, he formed
extensive collections of fossils and other remains; a considerable
part of which he disposed of on his removal to Scarborough.
A large portion was subsequently presented to the several museums
at Sydney and Melbourne, in Australia ; at Vienna,and at Cambridge.
Only a few years ago he sold a remarkably fine collection of Trigonise
to the Jermyn-street Museum ; and very recently he completed, at
the request of the Palseontographical Society, his principal work,
which is on " the British Fossil Trigonise," in vols. xxvi.,
xxv iii., xxix., xxxi., xxxiii., and xxxv. (1872-81). To the body of
the work there are two supplements, one of which has been printed,
while the other is yet in MS., but ready for the press. This work
is finely executed ; the greatest care has been taken with the text,
and the illustrations (forty-one in number) produced at the establish-
ment of Madame Veuve Lackerbouer, in Paris. It may be added,
as one of the latest incidents in Dr. Lycett's scientific career, that
in February of the present year (1882) he was awarded the Lyell
medal of the Geological Society of London, and part of the proceeds
of the Lyell fund, in recognition of his patient and long-continued
researches in Jurassic Palseontology, and of the services rendered
by him to science through his contributions to various periodicals.
CLERICUS.
DCXXXIV. THE FOWLERS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
(Continued from No. DXXIII.)
Before coming to Daniel Fowler, I will ask the reader to go
back with me for a moment or two to the generation next before
him. It will be remembered (see No. CCCCXLI.) that Daniel's
grandfather, Richard Fowler, had seven sons, of whom Giles was the
youngest. The following extract from the Close Rolls probably refers
to this Giles ; and as it seems to explain the particular mention made
of him in the will of his brother Richard (No. 5), showing that he
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was a landowner at, and therefore probably a whilome inhabitant
of, Cirencester, which was Kichard's place of residence; as moreover,
it shows where he eventually settled, and is the only trace of his
after-life that I have discovered, I have thought well to give it :
(13) Close Eolls, 4 Elizabeth, Pars 14. Giles Fowler, citizen and
cloth worker of London, mortgages his messuages, cottages, and lands
in Cirencester to William Fowler, of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire,
Gent., for eight score and fourteen pounds.
What became of Giles Fowler after this I cannot say. I have
not found that his will was proved either in the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury or the Consistory Court of London, and I have been
unable to make any search at Gloucester.
I now come to Daniel Fowler, son and heir of William Fowler,
of Stonehouse, who was baptized there November 29, 1566. He
inherited from his father the lordship of Stonehouse manor ; and
doubtless on the strength of his position as a landed proprietor,
March 13, 1606, he obtained through William Camden, Clarencieux
King-at-Arms, a grant of arms and crest. The arms Quarterly
az. and or, in the first a hawk's lure or, are very simple and in
unusually good taste ; and the crest An ostrich's head or, between
two wings arg., holding in the beak a horse-shoe az. Strictly speak-
ing, I suppose only the descendants of Daniel Fowler are and were
entitled to bear this coat ; but in old days the heralds were not
particular, and the same arms were apparently allowed by them to
Daniel's cousins of King's Stanley and Morralls. He married
Judith St. Loe (called Huntley in one pedigree), of whose family I
know nothing, nor is she mentioned in the Stonehouse registers : he
lived to a good old age ; and doubtless some interesting particulars
might be collected from subsidy rolls and other sources, showing
such matters as the value of his estate, and the part he took'in the
civil wars ; but for this I have had no time. I have not found his
will at Somerset House, but some local antiquary might discover it
at Gloucester ; and if he would send me an abstract, I think the
reader would be interested, while for my part I should be very
willing to pay the official fee. Daniel Fowler was buried at
Stonehouse September 22, 1647, having had by his wife the
following issue, all baptized there,
i. Stephen, his son and heir, bap. April 14, 1594, and the last
in the male line of the Fowlers of Stonehouse manor, though the
family long continued in the parish. He is, of course, the Stephen
Fowler mentioned in the two extracts from the Close Rolls given
below (Nos. 14 and 15) ; and he died, I presume, about 1671, as his
will was proved at Gloucester in that year. Here again I have to
appeal to local antiquaries for an abstract of the will, which would
doubtless be appreciated. For some reason unknown Bigland has
called him Daniel ; and there has been a doubt as to the exact
descent of the heiress who carried the manor to the Smyths, though
it seems clear enough. All the pedigrees assign to Stephen Fowler
174 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
as wife Ursula Browning, of Coaley, daughter of George Browning,
of that place. By her he had three daughters, "baptized at Stonehouse,
1. Mary, bap. March 30, 1626, and apparently sole
heiress, who married Thomas Smyth, of Nibley, to whom
she brought the manor of Stonehouse. They had a son
and heir, Thomas Smyth, whose daughter and heiress brought
the manor to the family of Ball.
2. Abigail, bap. August 26, 1628, who was perhaps
the Abigail Fowler, married at Stonehouse to Thomas
Wallas, September 29, 1645, unless that was her father's
first cousin Abigail, daughter of Henry mentioned above.
This is a point which Stephen Fowler's will would probably
decide.
3. Judith, bap. May 9, 1630.
ii. Nathaniel, of whom hereafter.
iii. Samuel, bap. March 29, 1598.
iv. John, bap. Nov. 23, 1600; bur. Sept. 28, 1641.
v. Daniel, bap. Feb. 1, 1604 (?) married at Stonehouse in June,
1629, Sarah Gibs, by whom he had the following children, baptized
at Stonehouse,
1. Judith, bap. May 9, 1630.
2. Daniel, bap. Dec. 7, 1631.
3. (a son), bap, Nov. 1, 1633. Query Stephen, for,
April 4, 1717, " Mr. Steven Fowler, upward of four score and
three," was buried at Stonehouse. He had been church-
warden there in 1686.
4. Joan, bap. Feb., 1635.
5. Sarah, bap. Dec. 1, 1638.
6. Thomas, bap. Sept. 9, 1641.
His wile probably did not recover after the birth of this child, for
the burial of Sarah, wife of Daniel Fowler, jun., is entered in the
Stonehouse register, March 9, 1642. Whether he married again I
cannot say ; but I have very little doubt that he was the Daniel
Fowler buried in 1664, as mentioned below (No. 16), and that the
other entries relate to Daniel, son of Ferdinando Fowler, baptized
at Stonehouse in August, 1620. There was a Daniel, son of Arthur
Fowler, baptized at King's Stanley in 1620, but his children were
likewise baptized at King's Stanley, where he lived.
vi. William, bap. Feb. 10, 1611, and living in 1674, as he is
mentioned in the will of his brother Nathaniel,
vii. Anna, bap. Feb. 28, 1595, married Richard Clutterbuck, of
Mill End, Eastington, and her will (No. 17) is dated 22 years after
his (No. 18). One of their daughters married William Clutterbuck.
viii. Judith, bap. Dec. 5, 1602.
ix. Hester, bap. Sept. 22, 1605.
Elizabeth, bap. Feb. 22, 1607.
Alice, bap. Nov. 25, 1610; bur. Dec. 12, 1614.
Jane, bap. Nov. 28, 1613 ; bur. April 7, 1629.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 175
I now give the two extracts from the Close Rolls mentioned
above ; and as they contain several names besides those of Fowler,
they may prove generally interesting :
(14) 7 Charles L, Pars 35, No. 16. William Harding, of Cam,
co. Glouc., Samuel Watt, citizen and merchant of London,
and Samuel Trotman, of the Middle Temple, London, Gent.,
grant to William Hopton, of Berkley, Gent., Stephen Fowler,
of Stonehouse, Gent., Thomas Morse, of the Middle Temple,
Gent., John Trotman, of Stinchcomb, clothier, and William
Orchard, of Nibley, Gent., lands and tenements in Cam, all
of which are now in the tenure of the said William Harding,
and were formerly in that of William Harding, the elder,
clothier.
(15) 1651, Pars 58, No. 30. The Earl of Arundel and others, in
consideration of the payment of monies and resignation of
their rights in the lately inclosed lands in Minchinhampton,
&c. The grantees were John Stephens (father of Thomas-
and Grace), of Over Lippiat, Esq., T. Penfold (son of
Elizabeth), of Minchinhampton, clothier, John Webb, and!
Charles Wood ; with reversion to Stephen Fowler, of Stone-
house, Esq., Jeremy Buck, of Minchinhampton, Esq., J.
Weeks, of Upton, in the parish of Tedbury, clothier, and'
Samuel Webb, of Stroud, clothier.
The following extracts from the Stonehouse registers may relate
to Daniel, son of Daniel, and therefore I give them ; but as I have
stated above, I have no doubt that all but one refer to Daniel, son
of Ferdinando :
(16) 1643, Dec. 31. Bap. Richard, son of Daniel Fowler.
1649, Feb. 18. Bap. Henry, son of same.
March 4. Bur. Henry, son of same.
1664, Aug. 16. Bur. Daniel Fowler.
Oct. 9. Bap. Mary, daughter of Daniel Fowler and
Joan, his wife.
1670, Dec. 29. Bur. Daniel Fowler.
(17) Will of Anna Clutterbuck, of Eastington, dated 1672.
Mentions Nathaniel and William Fowler, her brothers, and
William Clutterbuck, her son in law.
(18) Will of Richard Clutterbuck, of Mill End, Eastington,
clothier, dated 1650. Mentions Stephen and Nathaniel
Fowler, his brothers in law.
7, Waterloo Street, Birmingham. WM. F. CARTER,
(To be continued.)
DCXXXY. THE REV. ROBERT KENING, M.A., VICAR OP
MARSHFIELD, 1666-81. The Rev. Francis J. Poynton, M.A., Rector
of Kelston, Somerset, has given sundry particulars of this clergy-
man in his " Notes on the Rectors of Kelston ", first published in
Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, N.S., vol. ii., pp.
176 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
380, 381, and since reprinted, for private circulation, in Memoranda,
Historical and Genealogical, relating to the Parish of Kelston, part
i., pp. 10, 11 (London, 1878). Having been connected with the
two above-named parishes, Mr. Kening left bequests to both in
favour of religious education, and to help poor boys to learn some
useful trade ; and as the provisions of his will are somewhat
peculiar, such portions as pertain to his charitable bequests are
inserted here. There is a monument to his memory in Kelston
Church, the inscription on which is likewise given. His bene-
factions, it may be added, are still enjoyed by the poor of both
parishes, under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners.
Extracts from his will, which was proved by his son John, Nov.
18, 1709: "I give and bequeath unto John Harington, of Kelston,
Esq., and to the Rector of the parish of Kelston aforesaid for the
time being, the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds, in trust
for these charitable uses. That the yearly interest of one hundred
pounds be employed every year for the placing out a poor boy an
apprentice one year, & that the first, for the placing out a poor boy
of the parish of Kelston, if any one be first p fit] for it, and after
that for four following years the s d interest be employed each year
for the placing out a poor boy of the' parish of Marshfield, in the
county of Gloucester. And the fifth year again to be employed for
a poor boy at Kelston. Then again for four years for poor boys at
Marshfield, and so to continue in course. And if there be not a
poor boy fit at Kelston to be bound at the first year, then it shall
be employed the first four years at Marshfield, and the fifth at
Kelston. And I do hereby give a power to the s d Trustees, that if
they find that any one of the sons of my kinswoman Christian
Ward, \\dfe of Thomas Ward, of Twiverton [Twerton-on-Avon],
shall stand in need of assistance for their being placed out an
apprentice, they may employ the s d interest any year for the benefit
of such son of the s d Christian Ward, and it is my will that the
interest of the twenty pounds be employed every year for the
buying Bibles & M r Baxter's Call to the Unconverted to be disposed
of each sort at Kelston, and the rest to be disposed of to the poor
at Marshfield at the discretion of the Ch'wardens & Overseers of
the poor of the time being. But if at any time hereafter a charity
school shall be erected at Marshfield, it is my will that then the
interest of the twenty pounds aforesaid shall be wholly employed
for the benefit of the s d Charity School so long as the s d school shall
continue."
Inscription in Kelston Church : " Eobert Kening, M.A. Some-
time Vicar of Marshfield in the County of Glocester | and xxvii.
yeares Eector of this Church | Who, among other Charities, gave
one hundred and twenty pounds to the poor of this Parish | and
of Marshfield aforesaid, and | was buried in this Chancel the xvi.
Day | of August MDCCIX. in the Ixv. year of his age." |
To Mr. Poynton we are likewise indebted for the following
extracts from his register :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 177
1690. " Martha Kening [the Rector's wife] buried May 28 th ."
1702. "John Kening [his son] & Ann Springer were married
Aug st 24, 1702."
1709. " M r Robert Kening, Rector of this Church, was buried
y e 16 th August."
CLERICUS.
DCXXXVI. NEW YEAR'S DAY AT STANWAY HOUSE. 1793.
In the Gcntlemaris Magazine (March, 1793), vol. Ixiii., p. 263, this
foot-note is appended to an article, entitled " A SOLILOQUY, by a
supposed former Neighbour, accidentally passing the venerable
mansion of Stanway, once the residence of the Tracys, and now,
after a long inter-regnum of Night and Chaos, restored to more than
its ancient splendour and hospitality by the present possessors and
descendants " : At Stanway House, the residence of Lord Elcho,
the new year was ushered in in a style truly constitutional and
loyal. Evening prayers were read in the great Gothic hall, at 3
o'clock, by the clergyman of the parish ; and, at intervals, proper
psalms and hymns were sung, accompanied by the Hon. Miss
Charteris's, and Miss Hamiltons, in a masterly and scientific
manner : the whole concluded with God save the King, in which
the congregation, ladies and gentlemen of the neighbourhood, joined
with the truest spirit of loyalty, zeal, and sincere attachment to our
beloved and revered Sovereign. Lord Elcho then ordered strong
beer, wine, &c., to be served to those present, and the King's health
was cordially drunk. What added to the musical performance was,
the seven young ladies of the choir appeared in an elegant, white,
uniform dress; with a neat coeffure, ornamented with a berried
holly-sprig, and the like also in the bosom, in conformity to the
season. After a splendid and hospitable dinner, the fete was
concluded with a ball, where the ladies were distinguished no less "by
their grace and elegance in dancing than they had been admired
for their skill and knowledge of music. The concluding Hallelujah,
which would have been done credit to the genius of Handel or
Pergolese, was the unsophisticated composition of Miss Susan
Hamilton. j Q.
DCXXXVII. DEATH OF MILTON'S GRAND-NEPHEW. In reply
to Mr. C. J. Davies, who had given " London " and " March 27,"
on the authority of Slackwood's Magazine, vol. xxi., p. 775, Mr.
Edward Solly has written in Notes and Queries (6 tk S. v. 434),
June 3, 1882, as follows : The statement is probably incorrect both
as to locality and date. The death is thus recorded in the
Gentleman's Magazine, 1827 (xcvii. 379), under the head of deaths
in Gloucestershire: "Eeb. 27. At Bristol, aged 84, Mr. Tho.
Milton, the celebrated engraver. His grandfather was brother to
John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost." In the Annual Register
for 1827 a similar statement is to be found : "At Bristol, 27 Feb."
(Appendix to " Chronicle," p. 234). It is rather to be wondered at
178 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
that if the grandson of Sir Christopher Milton was a " celebrated "
engraver, the records of his life and works are so scanty. In
Euessli's Allgemeines Kiinstlerlexikon (1809, p. 877) he is mentioned
as a recent English engraver, who engraved, or superintended the
engraving of, Luigi Mayer's views in Egypt, consisting of forty-eight
plates published in 1802. Some further particulars of Mr. Thomas
Milton are desired.
In the next volume, p. 37, this further reply from Mr. Edward
H. Marshall appeared : " Thomas Milton, landscape engraver.
Was born about 1745. He practised his art in London, and for
several years in Dublin. He gained a great reputation. He
engraved for Views of Gentlemen's Seats, 1799; TJie Stafford
Collection of Pictures, Views of Castles in Ireland, 1787 ; and
Views in Egypt. His grandfather was brother to the author of
Paradise Lost. He was a governor of the Society of Engravers.
Died at Bristol, February 27, 1827, aged eighty-four." (Redgrave's
Dictionary of Artists of the English School, 1878.) Thomas
Milton is not mentioned in the account of the poet's family in
Cunningham's edition of Johnson's Lives.
DCXXXVIII. Two LETTERS ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BOVET, OF
ELAXLEY ABBEY. These letters from Mrs. Margaret Barrow* to
Mrs. Winstone,f which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine
(1792-3), vols. Ixii., p. 703, and Ixiii., p. 399, are worthy of repro-
duction :
I.
Dear Madam,
I must acknowledge the favour of your most kind letter,
though I labour under the greatest grief I ever yet knew so
sudden, so unexpected a change ! so great a loss to poor and rich,
and all that knew Mrs. Bovey ! Surely no one ever died so much
lamented ! For my own part, and my sister's, J our sorrows are too
strong to be expressed. You very justly imagine what we feel ; and
poor M rs Blount no less a sufferer. I live in terror of my sister's
sinking under this great trial. It has pleased God to enable her to
bear this mighty shock hitherto as most becomes a Christian and a
faithful friend. Business is some allay to grief; and this dear
deceased friend has left her a great deal to do, but in a most exact
method, as all her affairs were managed. Since you desire me, I
must give some account of that fatal illness that proved her death.
Wednesday morning, was as well at breakfast as usual : between
eleven and twelve o'clock was seized with a most violent colick ; we
sent to Gloucester for Grivell, as the nearest at hand ; that night
for Lane, but he not to be met with. The extremity of pain con-
tinued ; and, notwithstanding all means that could be used, nothing
* Daughter of William Hay ward, Esq., whose sister married Mrs. Barrow's brother.
+ Aunt of Sir Charles Barrow, Bart., M.P. for Gloucester, who was created a baronet
22nd January, 1784, with remainder to Thomas Crawley-Boevy, Esq., the husband of his
cousin, Anne Savage, who was heir of his uncle, Thomas Barrow, Esq., her grandfather.
% Mrs. Mary Pope, who left her fortune to her nephew, Sir Charles Barrow.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 179
would pass. She apprehended death approaching the first day, and
said what her illness was : we sent to Oxford and Hereford, but no
physician till it was too late. Friday morning she had a little ease,
which gave us great hopes ; but very soon the exquisite pain returned,
and never left her till death had performed its great office betwixt
eleven and twelve Saturday morning. She was sensible all along,
and expressed great satisfaction in being here, where, she said, she
always wished to die. And surely no one ever died more resigned !
without any delirium, or the least convulsion ; but some few hours,
insensible of pain, she seemed to sleep ; and so in peace resigned
her breath to the great God that gave her life. Oh ! may we all
endeavour to live and die like her, who seemed to have nothing else
to do when death approached. My tears will give me leave to add
no more. I will write you the next spring by Pearce, and remember
what you desire. I am, dear Madam, with due regard, your obliged
humble servant, MAR. BARROW.
My sister is your humble servant, and so is M rs Blount.
Business will oblige my sister to go to town soon, and I with her.
Farewell to Flaxley and all its comforts ! Feeding the hungry, and
cloathing the naked, was the highest pleasure of M rs Bovey's life ;
and she has greatly manifested her care for that at her death. She
left directions how she would be interred; which was performed
accordingly in a most private manner.
Flaxley, Jan. 29, 1726.
II.
Dear Madam,
Your kind concern for our late troubles and inexpressible
loss, I conclude, render my letters acceptable, dull as they are ; and
I also think, I promised you one by this opportunity. We daily
lament our departed friend, and hourly miss her, still more so that
my sister is hastening away as fast as she can to deliver up this
agreeable place to the Crawley family, who come into great plenty ;
so generous a predecessor sure never was an instance of like this.
After all she has done for the benefit of the estate and place, she
has given M r Crawley all the stock upon it, of every kind, within
and without, her fine mares, coaches, and all that's here, and five
hundred pounds in cash besides, plate and linen only excepted.
Eighteen hundred pounds is given to this church and poor ; charities
in other places more than I can remember ; and legacies too out of
number, of which M rs Blount has a large share. Her will was most
exactly written in her own hand, and signed in March last, in which
she has most kindly thought on me, by one hundred pounds legacy,
a favour I had no reason to expect after receiving so many in her
life-time : the loss of such a friend admits of no allay, only that
which ought to silence all our complaints, that it was God's will who
gave us such a blessing, and best knew when to recall it.
If the weather will permit, I go to Gloster this week, in order to
get ready to go with my sister to London : I shall be glad to hear
180 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
from you, by the post, at Gloster any day next week ; for, if possible,
we shall begin our journey the week after. I think I told you my
sister Pope was left executrix, which will oblige her to be at the
house in London for this year. I had pleased myself with the
thoughts of seeing you this spring at Bristol ; but Providence has
determined otherways for me. At present, God knows if we shall
ever meet again : this I am sure of, that my prayers and good wishes
will ever attend you, and to hear of your welfare will always give
me pleasure. I believe my sister will let me have Bett * to town
in a little time, but at present I shall leave her at Gloster. I long
to see her. Perhaps this may find you at Bath. I shall be glad to
hear M rs Selwyn is well, and how Lady Hewett likes the chaplain ;
I heard he was to be there. Sure, I think, 'tis impossible he should
get the ascendant over her judgement too. My repeated good wishes
to M r Winstone and yourself conclude, dear Madam, your most
faithful and affectionate friend, MAR. BARROW.
P.S. I had almost forgot to tell you of one great action of our
departed friend amongst her god-daughters. She has distinguished
my niece Bett by a two-hundred-pound legacy. Poor Miss Blount
is truly afflicted, and very justly reflects on the loss of such a friend.
I have sent a glass of sweetmeats, which my sister desires your
acceptance of ; and have put a small remains of dear M rs Bovey's
carving, which, I believe, you will value for her sake. The sweet-
bag is filled with what she had collected from her own garden, and,
I fancy, will please the smell. I believe you will put a glass over
this bunch of carving, for dust will spoil it ; it is some that was left
of her frame, and I have put it in this form as the best I could
think of.
DCXXXIX. THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY : MONUMENTAL INSCRIP-
TIONSi j n the parish church of Wormington there are the following
inscriptions on mural tablets in the chancel :
(1) " Here lyeth y e Body of lohn Partridge, | aged 63 years, |
and Parson here | 28 years, who de | parted this life 21 | day of
July, Anno Dom : 1690." |
(2) "Here lyeth also the Body of Mary | Partridge, his
beloued | wife, who departed | this life y e 3 day of February,
Anno | Dom. 1700, aged 56 years." |
(3) " Near this | place lieth the Body | of James Partridge,
Rector of this Church 40 years ; he was buried | the 11 th day of
July, | Anno Domini 1734, | aged 64 years. Also Elizabeth, | his
beloved wife, buried here | October y e 12, | 1750, | aged 80
years." |
(4) " Near this place lieth | the body of John Partridge, | (Rector
of this Church 41 years). | He was buried the | 27 th day of May, |
Anno Domini 1775, aged 76 years."
* Sister of Sir Charles Barrow, d. unm.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 181
In the parish registers these entries may be found :
1734. "The Rev d M r James Partridge, Rect 1 ', was buried y e
day of July, Anno Dom : 1734."
1775. " The Kev d M r John Partridge was buried May 27."
C. T. D.
According to Atkyns, in his Gloucestershire (2nd ed., 1768),
p. 447, a John Partridge was appointed to the rectory in 1575 ; a
second of the same name in 1623 ; a third in 1662, who died, as
stated above, in 1690 ; and a fourth (whose Christian name, however,
was James, as is proved by the inscription and the entry in the register)
in 1694. The above-named Mary Partridge appears, on the same
authority, as patron of the benefice in 1690 and 1694.
" There is an inscription in the chancel for John Dastoii, Esq.,
who died 1532 ; another for Anthony Daston, Esq., who died 1640 ;
another for Judge Daston, who died 1626. There is an inscription
in the same chancel for Mr. William Dobbins, who died 1680.
Another for Mr. John Newton, who died 1619. Another for Mr.
William Fell, who died 1690. Another inscription for John
Partridge, who had been forty-eight years rector of this church : he
died 1623. Another for John Partridge, who had been thirty-
nine years rector : he died 1661. Another for John Partridge, who
had been rector twenty-eight years : he died 1690." So wrote Sir
Eobert Atkyns in or before 1711, in which year he died. The last
inscription referred to by him has been given above. Are the others
extant, or have they, from one cause or another, shared the too common
fate of memorials of the dead ?
Five members of the Partridge family have been mentioned in
No. CCCXIL, and three in No. CCCCIII. Fosbrooke, it may be
added, gives in his Gloucestershire (1807), vol. i., p. 54, a short
pedigree of Partridge, of Wishanger. EDITOR.
DCXL. NORBORNE BERKELEY, BARON DE BOTETOURT.
(Continued from No. DCXVIII.)
" His death was deeply lamented by the colony, and the funeral
ceremonies incident upon his burial were conducted with great
state, the ostentation exhibited being unprecedented in the country.
A verification of the display, being copies of bills presented against
his estate (inclusive of those for the funeral expenditure), lies before
us. The originals, lately in our possession, have been returned to
their owner, Miss Sarah Nicholas Randolph, of * Edgehill,' Albemarle
county, the great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson.
-** The expenses aggregate about ,700 sterling, and the items are
stated with great minuteness. The remains appear to have been
enclosed in three several coffins one of lead, furnished by one
Joseph Kidd ; ' an inside coffin,' and one of black walnut, by one
Joshua Kendall. The ' inside coffin ' was lined ' with Persian fully
ornamented,' and the ' outside coffin,' covered with * crimson velvet,'
182 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
ornamented in the best manner. There were ' eight silver handles
and sixteen escutcheons for his lordship's coffin,' and ' one large
silver plate engraved, a lute-string shroud, mattress, pillow, and cap.'
The church was hung with black cloth, and it and the hearse were
ornamented with ' escutcheons.' * Sixteen books of silver leaf ' and
' one dozen books of Dutch metal ' also appear as charges. Staffs
were borne by and cloaks furnished the mourners. There were
* streamers for the horses,' and an extensive list of articles for the
costuming of the numerous attendants upon the obsequies. The
interment did not take place until the 20th of October, if it was
not later, as numerous items of the incidental expense were entered
on that date."
The American historian, Mr. Bancroft, in his History of the
United States (12mo ed.), vol. vii., p. 124, writes of the selection
of Lord Botetourt for the governorship in these terms : " For
Virginia, it was most properly resolved that the office of its governor
should no longer remain a sinecure, as it had been for three quarters
of a century ; and Amherst, who would not go out to reside there,
was in consequence displaced, and untimately indemnified. In
selecting a new governor, the choice fell on Lord Botetourt ; and it
was a wise one, not merely because he had great affability, and a
pleasing address, and was attentive to business, but because he was
ingenuous and frank, sure to write fearlessly and truly respecting
Virginia, and sure never to ask the Secretary to conceal his reports.
He was to be conducted to his government in a seventy-four, and to
take with him a splendid coach of state. He was to call a new
legislature, to closet its members, as well as those of the council ;
and to humour them in almost anything except the explicit denial
of the authority of Parliament. It would have been ill for
American independence, if a man like him had been sent to
Massachusetts."
Mr. Edward V. Valentine, of Eichmond, the eminent American
sculptor (whose "Andromache and Astyanax " possesses a world-wide
repute), in a letter dated April 19, 1881, has supplied this informa-
tion relative to the statue : "In a letter from John Norton (London,
10th March, 1772) this sentence occurs : 'I have fix d on an Artist
to execute the statue of L. Botetourt since Duke of Beaufort came
to Town, his name his Havard, & lives in Piccadilly, 'tis to be finish d
in 12 months compleatly with Iron Eails, packages, &c., & put
onb d Ship for 700. I shall send the Design to M r Nicholas
framed, & Cap. Robertson, also 4 Medallions done by Gossett, an
exceedingly good Likeness of L. Botetourt, w ch I have bought &
send as pres ts , one for M r Pres* Nelson, 1 for the Treasurer, 1 for
the Speaker, & 1 for yourself.' Again, in a letter likewise from
London, dated 31st March, 1772, from the same, I find the follow-
ing : ' I have put into the Captain's care 4 Medallions mentioned
in my last Letter, for the Speaker, Treasurer, M r Nelson, & yourself,
have also sent the Design by Havard for L. Bottetourt's statue to
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 183
the Treasurer, which Lord Besborough has promis'd me to see
executed properly.' And in another letter, dated 15th August,
1772, there is this sentence : * I am glad the Medallions pleas'd, I
thought they would be acceptable.' These letters are addressed to
'Dear Hatley' (John Hatley Norton)."
Mr. Charles W. Coleman, Junr., of Williamsburg, Virginia,
writing on the 28th July, 1881, has furnished several additional
particulars :
" Some months ago, through the columns of the Richmond
Standard, Mr. R. A. Erock desired information from me concerning
the statue of Lord Botetourt erected in this city. But I was not a
subscriber to the Standard at that time, and it was only through
chance that I obtained the number containing the request. Let
this in some measure excuse the tardiness of my reply, which I now
forward directly to you without the intervention of a third party.
Mr. Brock has already so fully replied to your queries that there is
very little left for me to say. There are, however, some small items
that I am able to add to his account, which I suspect may prove of
interest to you. The above-mentioned monument has undergone
many vicissitudes. During the Revolution, when all relating to
royalty was so obnoxious to the American mind, even the effigy of
one of Virginia's most beloved governors did not escape the spoiler, for
some irreverent hand inflicted capital punishment upon the statue
of his lordship. Fortunately the head was preserved, and though
much defaced, now occupies its proper position. Since then the
figure has been again decapitated this time by a student, who,
ambitious of displaying his strength, flung a cannon ball at the
monument, and sent the unfortunate head once more to the base of
the statue. For many years afterward the baron was left in peace.
But again, in 1861, came the blast of the war-trumpet, and the peer
was aroused from his repose. His position in the College grounds
became unsafe, so with great labour and much unavoidable injury
the ponderous effigy was removed to the grounds connected with
the Insane Asylum in this town, where even such sacrilegious hands
as those of the Federal army did not dare to penetrate. This
removal was indeed a fortunate one, for * William and Mary ', the
alma mater of our fathers, was reduced to ashes. . . Since the
late war the monument has been replaced in the College grounds.
" Mr. Brock has already furnished you with the inscriptions; but
I have recently made copies of them, in which I have preserved the
lines as they appear upon the monument. [As the copies agree, to
the letter, with what has been already given, they are not here
repeated.] The inscriptions occupy three sides of the base, which
is six feet high and handsomely carved ; and upon the fourth are
the figures of Minerva and Diana, holding boughs above a burning,
garlanded altar, upon which is the one word ' Concordia.' Below
the inscription on the front appear the armorial bearings of his lord-
ship, which, like the figures of Minerva and Diana, have been much
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mutilated. The present position of the statue is in the grounds of
William and Mary College, directly opposite the Capitol, its old
location, about a mile distant.
" There is now a question which I desire to propound. Where
was Lord Botetourt buried ? It is generally supposed that he was
interred in one of the vaults beneath the College chapel ; and this
theory to my mind is very plausible. To judge from the old
accounts, or bills, relating to the subject, the body was encased in
three coffins, one of which was leaden, and another covered with
crimson velvet. When the College was destroyed by fire in 1859,
the vaults were examined, and all the coffins bore plates with the
names of their occupants, except one which was almost entirely
decayed ; and about this rotting wood clung some remnants of a
dark cloth. This coffin occupied a portion of the vault of my
kinsman, Sir John Eandolph, and the bones lying with it were
declared to be those of a man. Are these the remains of Lord
Botetourt ? I think so. But where is the leaden coffin 1 Col.
Benj. S. Ewell, the present President of the College, suggested to
me a very probable solution of this question. He thinks the coffin
may have been converted into bullets during the Revolution by the
Americans, who would not disturb those of Peyton Randolph, the
President of the first Continental Congress, and his wife, who also
occupy vaults beneath the College chapel. As a stronger proof that
his lordship is interred in the place mentioned, I make an extract
from the MS. Journal of the Meetings of the College Faculty :
' April llth, 1771. This day was received from the honourable
President and the other gentlemen appointed to take care of Lord
Botetourt's effects, the following extract of a letter from his Grace
the Duke of Beaufort : ' I understand that his lordship expressed a
desire some time before he died, to be buried in Virginia, so that I
do not intend to remove the body to England, but hope the
President, &c., of the College will permit me to erect a monument
near the place where he was buried, as the only means I have of
expressing in some degree the sincere regard and affection I bore
towards him. And I natter myself it may not be disagreeable to
the Virginians to have this remembrance of a person whom they
held in so high estimation, and whose loss they so greatly lament.'
Which being read, the application therein contained received the
unanimous assent of the Society, who are glad of any opportunity
of showing their sincere regard to the memory of Lord Botetourt.'
This monument never was erected ; and therefore we are not
entirely certain where all that was mortal of our much loved
colonial governor was laid to rest, although I think the case is
evident.
" By this mail I forward to you a photograph of the statue,
which is much disfigured by the two women who stationed them-
selves after the manner of the lion and the unicorn in the British
arms. I also send a copy of the History of the College of William
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and Mary, feeling certain that it will prove of much interest to
you."
The Rev. David Eoyce, M.A., Vicar of Nether Swell, Stow-on-
the-Wold, has written : " In Charlbury Church, Oxon, about two
years ago, I found this inscription : ' Elizabeth Viscountess
Dowager of Hereford, Daughter and, at length, sole Heiress of
Walter Norborne, of Calne, in the County of Wilts, Esq r , by
Elizabeth*, his wife, [eldest] Daughter of S r Edmund Bacon, of
Redgrave Hall, in the County of Norfolk, Bar*. Married first,
May, 1690, to Edward Devereux, [eighth] Viscount Hereford [d.s.p.
Aug. 9, 1700], by whom she had no issue ; and afterwards to John
Berkeley, of Stoke, in the County of Gloucester, by whom she had
issue, Norborne Berkeley, Esq r , and Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of
Beaufort. She was bom March 26, 1678. Died Nov. 17, 1742, in
the 65 year of her age.'"
As already stated, Rudder (p. 699) has recorded the inscription
in the church of Stoke Gifford to the memory of Lord de
Botetourt's father : his mother is mentioned therein ; but the fore-
going contains additional particulars of her, and therefore has been
given.
In reply to an inquiry in Notes and Queries (6 th S. iii. 327), four
communications appeared in the same volume, pp. 353-4, 417,
455:
(1) About a year ago I saw a portrait (I think an engraving) of
this nobleman at the shop of Mr. White, a dealer in old books, &c.,
in Gloucester. Since writing the above I happened to take up an
old book lying on the table, and found it to be A Complete Collection
of the Genuine Papers, Letters, fyc., in the Case of John Wilkes,
Esq., Paris, 1767, and in it a letter from Wilkes, dated Oct. 5,
1762, by which it appears that Col. N. Berkeley was the second of
Earl Talbot in a duel between the earl and Wilkes in consequence
of some reflections on the earl in the North Briton. The duel took
place at Bagshot, two or three hours before the letter was written,
and it appears that after firing at each other with horse pistols,
without effect, the parties supped together very amicably. J. J.P.
(2) See Ripley and Dana's New American Cyclopaedia, s.v.
There is also some account of him in Anderson's History of the
Colonial Church, vol. iii., p. 148, ed. 1856. He died unmarried,
and the barony passed to his sister Elizabeth, who was married to
the fourth Duke of Beaufort. Anderson's marginal reference is tc
Campbell's Virginia, 140, and Collins's Peerage, i. 241, ix. 436.
Edward H. Marshall, M.A.
(3) Lord Botetourt was Constable of the Tower' in 1767. I have
his signature to a letter of Privy Seal for an order of a certain sum
of money to be paid to him. Emily Cole.
(4) At Troy House, a seat of the Duke of Beaufort's, there is a
* Frances, according to Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (1871), p. 58, a younger sister having
been named Elizabeth.
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186 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
picture of this nobleman when a boy. It represents him at full
length, leading by the hand his sister (afterwards Duchess of
Beaufort), a child a year or two his senior. Both children seem to
be under thirteen years of age, but they are dressed like adults in
the finest fashion of the day, and are moving forward, as if about
to begin a minuet. The faces are round and childlike, with large
dark eyes, but the dress and formal attitude of the little pair make
the picture a curious one. Hibernicus. EDITOR.
DCXLI. THE REV. HERBERT HAINES, M.A. In the Antiquary
(October 19, 1872), vol. ii., p. 256, a well-deserved tribute is paid
to the memory of this distinguished archaeologist : " We are sorry
to have to chronicle the death of this gentleman, whose name is
so familiar to archaeologists as the author of a capital work on
'Monumental Brasses' [2 vols., 8vo.]. This work, originally
published by the Oxford Architectural Society, was much augmented
in the subsequent edition, which appeared in 1861, and its usefulness to
those engaged in collecting brass-rubbings cannot be over-estimated."
The Gloucestershire Chronicle referred in these terms to the
mournful event : " A painful sensation has been caused throughout
the city by the death, after a very short illness, of the Rev. Herbert
Haines, second master of the Cathedral School. The words
' universally beloved and lamented' too often words of course
may be used of Mr. Haines with perfect truth and sincerity. His
loss will be deeply felt in many ways, but especially in the school,
with which he had been connected almost from childhood. He
entered it as a pupil at a very early age, and went directly from it
to Oxford. He returned as second master soon after he took his
degree, and he held the office from that time to the day of his death.
Most of the young men of the city of the middle and upper classes
have passed through his hands, and we are convinced there is not
one among them but will always retain the deepest affection and
respect for his memory. As chaplain of both the asylums (at
Wotton and Barnwood), his death will be deplored as well by the
inmates as by the officers of those institutions, to all of whom he
had greatly endeared himself by his kindly, gentle, and winning
demeanour. In Mr. Haines the city has lost its most learned
antiquary. His special subject was Monumental Brasses. His
Manual is the most complete and exhaustive treatise on this subject
that has yet been published, and it will probably remain so. His know-
ledge of church architecture was accurate and extensive. No one
more thoroughly understood the architectural details of our Cathedral,
and there is no better guide to it than that written by him.* We
have reason to know that he was on many occasions requested by
* This work, entitled A Guide to the Cathedral Church of Gloucester, and " embracing a
description of the Painted Windows, Ancient Paintings, Inscriptions, &c.," first appeared in
1867, in a thin 8vo. A second and much improved, but (specially as regards Latin quotations)
not immaculate edition has been published (Gloucester, 1880), " revised and corrected up to
the present time, and illustrated, by F. S. Waller, Architect, F.R.I.B.A."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 187
the Dean and Chapter to consult with Sir Gilbert Scott on doubtful
points connected with the cathedral restoration, and that Sir Gilbert
had great respect for, and was much influenced by, his opinion. His
life, in all its relations, was that of a good and faithful servant of
his Master quiet and unobtrusive ; and his death leaves a void
that will not be easily filled."
A brass plate, designed by Mr. Capel N. Tripp, and executed by
Messrs. Heaton, Butler, and Bayne, has been laid in the floor of
the north transept of Gloucester Cathedral : it consists of a full-
length figure of the deceased under a canopy, and bears this
inscription around it: "Herbertus Haines, A.M., Scholae hujus |
Cathedralis per XXIII. annos hypodidascalus, obiit A.D. XIY. Kal.
Oct. A.S. MDCCCLXXIL, annos XL VI. natus, cujus corpus in |
Ccemeterio juxta hanc Urbem sepultum | jacet. Hoc monumentum
pauci ex discipulis et amicis, beneficiorum ab illo acceptorum
memores, ponendum curaverunt." GLOCESTEIENSIS.
DCXLII. COMPOSITIONS TO AVOID KNIGHTHOOD, 1 AND 2
MARY. (See No. DCVI.) Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley has inserted in
Nichols' Herald and Genealogist, vol. v., pp. 18-24, a copy of a
paper found among the muniments of the Baroness North at
Wroxton, Oxfordshire, bearing date " 30 Martii 1603," and endorsed
" A note of composicon for knightes to Quene Marie for refusing
knighthood 1 et 2 of her reigne." As appears from the opening
paragraph, it was compiled from the records in the Exchequer
called The Pelles of Receipt, from the original parchment rolls on
which the sums were entered. It is to be regretted, however, that
in many instances the names are omitted, and the fines paid for
composition entered only in the lump, as " aliis per vicecomitem ",
i.e., "from others by the sheriff," who appears in the first instance
to have collected the fines.
The whole subject of Feudal and Obligatory Knighthood has been
treated at length in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries
by Francis Morgan Nichols, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., and printed in the
Archceologia, vol. xxxix., pp. 189-244. He remarks (as quoted by
Mr. Shirley) that "under Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, proclama-
tions were made before the several coronations (as had been usual on
former occasions of the kind) for gentlemen of 40Z. a-year to come in
and receive their knighthood. And there is evidence that in the two
former reigns some proceedings were taken to make a profit by the
defaulters. Among the State Papers of the first year of Edward VI.
(Calendar, p. 5) is a list of the names of such persons certified by
the sheriffs as have not compounded for their fines for knighthood ;
and among the papers cited by Mr. Noy, in his MS. notes upon the
legal proceedings in the matter of knighthood money, is a paper in
the Exchequer, dated the first year of Mary, being a schedule of the
tax of those who took not the order of knighthood according to the
proclamations" (Lansdowne MS. 253, p. 456.)
188 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
"Theise whose names hereafter follow did make theire p'ticular
payments into the receipt (quia non susceperunt ordinem milit.),and.
did take out theire owne dischardge " ; the following being the names
recorded under the head of " GLOUC." :
Joh'ne Trye, ar liii a iiii d
Xtof ero Baynam vi h
Eich'o Norwood, ar ... C 8
Thoma Baskerfeld ' ... iiij 11
Richo Tracy, et al. p. vie xx 11
These two appear under "CiviTAs BRISTOLL" : -
Thoma Launcedon, grocer liii 8 iiij d
Hugone Partriche , C 8
With reference to the fine of 10Z. paid by William Rogers, Esq.,
of Dowdeswell, in 1630, I may observe that one of the many printed
productions of the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, is entitled
Compositions, or Fines, of Wiltshire Gentlemen for not taking the
Order of Knighthood at the Coronation of King Charles I. : levied
in 1630, 1631, and 1632, two leaves folio, 1855.
GENEALOGIST.
DCXLIIL THE MILLARD FAMILY. In No. CCCCLXXXIX.
you mention a bequest of Thomas Millard, of Gloucester, to
Trinity College, Oxford. I should like to find out whether this
Thomas Millard was connected with Nathaniel Millard, likewise of
Gloucester, who married a sister of the well-known composer of
church music, William Hayes, Mus. Doc., Organist of Magdalen
College, Oxford, and Professor of Music in that University. Were
his arms the same as those borne by the descendants of Nathaniel
Millard, viz. Azure, four mascles or ? This Nathaniel lived in the
parish of St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester, and died there, I think, in
1 768. Whence he came, where he married, and his father's name, etc.,
I have not as yet been able to ascertain. One of his sons married
a daughter of the Rev. H. Salter, D.D., Master of the Charter
House, Prebendary of Gloucester, and of Norwich, etc. ; and one
of his daughters was wife of the Rev. Paul Whittingham, M.A.,
Chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford, and subsequently Minor
Canon of Norwich, etc. Any information respecting the family will
be acceptable. x w MILLARD, M.A.
The Rectory, Shimpling, Scole.
DCXLIV. LARGE MOUND NEAR CHARFIELD. (Reply to No.
DXI.) It is asked whether the large mound near Charfield is
natural or artificial. During the civil wars of the seventeenth
century the town of Wotton-under-Edge, which is about a mile and
a half from the mound, was garrisoned in the interest of King
Charles ; and there is a tradition that this mound is the burial-
place of soldiers slain in a skirmish between the Royalists and the
Parliamentarians in the vicinity, though the occurrence is not
mentioned by Clarendon. The name by which this tumulus is
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 189
locally known is " Hell'bury Hill." In the vicinity of Worcester
there is a hill of similar formation, but much more extensive both
in height and circumference, which bears the same name : it is
supposed to have been a Druidical sacrificial mound ; but whether
it is natural or artificial, has probably not yet been ascertained. Sir
Walter Scott, in his Ivanhoe, chap, i., describes a similar mound as
existing in the forest in which he lays the scene of his tale, and
considers it to have been used by the Druids for sacrificial purposes.
If I mistake not, the mound at Charfield was slightly excavated
many years ago under the direction or sanction of R. B. Hale, Esq.,
the proprietor of the estate, but nothing was discovered.
AN OLD WOTTONIAN.
DCXLV. NAMES WITH AN "ALIAS." Many in former days
adopted an alias, as, for example, in the case of " Smith alias
Heriz " : it was chiefly amongst the smaller gentry ; but why was
it done ? Was it from illegitimacy 1 (certainly it was sometimes on
that account ;) or was it more commonly from the mother being
of a more important family than the father ? In such cases, which
name had the preference the father's or the mother's ? Or was a
name sometimes assumed with an inheritance, or for certain other
reasons, as in modem days 1 CHELTONIENSIS.
DCXLVL " PENNY-YARD PENNY." (Reply to No. DHL) In
a review of the Rev.. Charles J. Robinson's History of the Castles of
Herefordshire and their Lords, in Mchols' Herald and Genealogist,
vol. vi., pp. 448-55, there are some remarks connected with the
castle of Penyard, which may perhaps be acceptable to your Indian
correspondent, and with this in view I send them.
Towards the close of the article the reviewer observes that "in
one more instance, when describing the castle of Penyard, our
author has adopted another of these apochryphal stories ' There
seems to have been a mint established at the castle in the sixteenth
century, and silver pennies of a particular coinage have occasionally
been found there. Guillim states that the family of Spence of
Hangwest, co. Ebor., bore for their arms, circa 1638, Azure, three
Penyard pence proper. We cannot find that the family was
connected with the place, and probably these bearings were assumed
solely on account of the punning allusion contained in them'
(p. 117). Mr. R. here entertains a wholesome doubt on the
armorial feature of the tale ; but should he not also have intimated
some incredulity regarding its numismatic aspects ? Is not the mint
a myth? and were not the silver pennies, if actually borne as
heraldic charges, ordinary English coins 1 Mr. Robinson had opened
his description of Penyard by stating that it means 'the hill
inclosure," and that it stands, in accordance with its name, high
upon the wooded hill-side above the village of Weston, near Ross.
Not a very suitable place for a mint ! This legend of the Penny-
190 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
yard Pence is one of those which runs through nearly the whole
series of the old armorial writers, both before and after Guillim,
but surely it is one of the most absurd of their many absurdities.
We find it thus handed down even in Berry's Encyclopedia
Heraldica, ' PENNY-YARD PENCE, a small piece of coin, called by
that name. See Plate xlv., fig. 22. This coin is stamped with a
cross moline between twelve balls, and is called penny-yard pence,
from the place where they were coined, which is supposed to have
been at Penny-Yard Castle, near Koss, in Herefordshire.' "
J. G.
DCXLVII. THE COLLETT FAMILY. The following extract from
Ivimey's History of the English Baptists (London, 1811-30), vol.
ii., p. 166, is not without interest, as, apart from the special
incident narrated, it bears testimony to the difficulties and persecu-
tions under which Gloucestershire Nonconformists then laboured :
"In Mr. Jessey's Lord's Loud Call to England the following
remarkable account is given of, two ministers, members of the
Baptist Church of Bourton-on-the- Water. 'At a meeting at
Brokington, in Gloucestershire, where many met, June 3, 1660,
B. Collet and B. Collings, gifted brethren, from Bourton-on-the-
Water, and divers others thence, and from Stow, and other places.
It was rumoured about that some of the county troop would then
come and seize upon them, and imprison some, and rout them all.
The clerk's daughter came with her mother, who had opposed and
reviled them, uttering hard speeches against them, and their meet-
ings and their ways ; and these two stood by in a corner. When
they came B. Collet was speaking upon Jude 14, 15, with much
affection, ' Behold, the Lord cometh,' &c. While he was speaking
from these words, the hand of the Lord of Hosts went out against
that daughter, as it appeared, for she gave a sudden great shriek,
and fell down dead before them all. Those that were about her
rubbed and chafed her for her restoring, but there was no appearance
of life at all. B. Collet was much affected with this hand of the
Lord, and looked pale, being of a very tender spirit. B. Collings
seeing it, was about to seek the Lord for raising her up again ; but
her mother, being much out of patience, hindered their prayers for
her, and she never recovered. As some were carrying her out
Mr. H. met them, who led that party of the troop ; and he came
in, and would have them away prisoners, and he charged them with
being the death of the maid, that they had killed her. B. Collings
answered to this effect, 'Nay, we have not killed her, but the Most High
hath done it, in whose hand is both your breath and ours.' After
he had pulled the speakers toward the door, and spoke more to
them, he and the soldiers left them.' The place where this
happened is about 10 miles from Bourton. It is said Mr. Collet
used to preach in Bury fields. He had a good estate called
Nethercott farm. His son was mayor of Coventry, and lies buried
with his father in Bourton Meeting."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 191
Further particulars of this Mr. Collet, and generally of the
Gloucestershire family bearing the name, will be acceptable. Was
the Rev. Joseph Collet, Baptist minister of Coat, Oxon, who was
born at Longborough, Gloucestershire, and died at Coat, Aug. 21,
1741, in his 57th year, descended from him? The notices of
persons of the name of Collett in Bigland, Rudder, &c., are known
to me. j c
Kensington, S.W.
DCXLVIII. NICHOLS' "HERALD AND GENEALOGIST." In this
standard publication (8 vols. 8vo., London, 1863-74) the student of
Gloucestershire archaeology may find the following articles, which
are more or less extended, and are likely to be useful ; and to them
his attention is hereby directed :
Vol. i.
P. 175. The Arms of the Nine Worthies and the Tomb of Robert
Duke of Normandy.
273. The Family of Canning.
Vol. ii.
64. Monument of Charles Steward, Esq., at Bradford, Wiltshire.
74. Henry Smith, the Surrey benefactor, and the Smiths of
Campden.
218. Mrs. Elizabeth Gear, 1837 : Monumental inscription,
Clifton.
Vol. iii.
161. The House of Somerset, and Edward Marquess of
Worcester.
173. Who was Arnulph de Hesding 1 ?
225. The Beaufort Progress through Wales, 1684.
281. The Co-heirs of Sir John Chandos, KG.
288. The first Duke of Beaufort.
,, 297. Katherine West, daughter of Richard Seaman, of Painswick.
410. Mee or Mey Pedigree.
478. Arms in Bagendon Church.
Vol. iv.
7. The Codrington Baronetcy.
93. Archbishop Tobias Mathew.
193. Some Account of the Manor of Button or Bitton, by the
Rev. H. T. Ellacombe.
244. James Campbell and the Earldom of Breadalbane.
287. Arms of Families of Hodges and Hodgetts.
289. The Heraldry -of Bristol Cathedral, by the Rev. John
Woodward.
311. Manor of Bitton (continued).
435. Barre's Court, or Hannam, and the Family of Newton.
526. Crest and Motto of Newton.
531. William Lawrence, of Withington, and his Descendants.
Vol. v.
18. Compositions to avoid Knighthood, 1 and 2 Mary.
192 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
P. 116. Sir John Berkeley, of Beverstone.
,,191. Family of Hanbury.
266. Pedigree of Sir James Campbell, Bart-, of Aberuchill.
354. Pedigree of Dene, of Dene.
Vol. vi.
223. The Family of Alye.
241. The Descendants of Arnulph de Hesding.
359. The Wilmot Co-heirs of Dudley.
Vol. vii.
51. General Richard Deane.
72. Sir George Nayler, Garter.
87. Notice of Coleman's Pedigree, etc., of the Family of Penn.
272. Chichester and Cirencester.
434. Woodward's Supplement to Bedford's " Blazon of Episco-
pacy." See also pp. 440, 443.
504. The Bright Family, of Bristol. See also pp. 509, 510.
546. The Descendants of the Deane Family.
Vol. viii.
349. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., and his Collection of
Manuscripts,
392. The Will of Dame Jane Lady Barre, 1484.
428. The Heraldry of Glass : Bristol and Gloucester Cathedrals,
etc.
439. Pedigree of Lady Newton.
446. MS. touching the Death of Sir Thomas Overbury.
GENEALOGIST.
DCXLIX, JOSEPH SWETNAM, OF BRISTOL. I have not been
able as yet to meet with a copy of Joseph Swetnam's book, entitled
The Schools of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence, &c.,
London, 1617, 4to., pp. 115. I am very desirous to see one, as I
am preparing a supplementary volume of notes and illustrations to
the whole series of my Occasional Issues (of which Dover's
Annalia Dubrensia forms one) ; and I should be glad to add some-
thing to my reprint of Swetnam the Woman-Hater (1620), in the
shape of extracts from his book (ut supra} and any biographical
memoranda. Surely Bristol men ought to know about him. He
taught his " fencing " in their city.
ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LL.D.
Brooklyn House, Blackburn.
There are references to him in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol.
Ixviii., pp. 558, 752 ; and in Wood's Athence Oxonienses (ed. Bliss),
vol. ii, p. 463, in a note on Thomas Goffe, or Gough, there is what
follows : " Taking to wife a mere Xantippe, the widow of his
predecessor, notwithstanding he had always before professed himself
an enemy to the female sex, and was esteemed by many another
Joseph Swetnam, he was so much overtop'd by her and her children
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which she had by her former husband, that his life being much
shortned thereby, [he] died at length in a manner heart-broken." In
Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual mention is made of some of
Swetnam's writings, but not of the book in question. EDITOR.
DCL. ROGER EDGEWORTH, PREBENDARY OF BRISTOL, 1544.
Mr. Thomas Kerslake, of Bristol, writes in reply in Notes and
Queries (6 th S. v. 334), that the derivation of doll may be more
than " guessed " from the sermons of Roger Edgeworth, one of the
first three prebendaries of Bristol Cathedral, elected 1544. His
Sermons were printed 1557, in a little stout quarto volume in black
letter, much like an early edition of Latimer's sermons, or King
Edward VI. 's first book of Homilies, and as popular and coloquial
as Latimer, but of the other party and much less common. He
deals with the popular outrages of the Reformation, and among
others that the images were taken from the churches and given to
children as a " pretty idol " or " doll." Edgeworth's Sermons
would be a capital subject for the reprinters of old texts.
DCLI. THE REV. STAUNTON DEGGE, OF ALMONDSBURY. (See
No. DLVIII.) A mural tablet in the church of Staunton, near
Newark-upon-Trent, gives some information which will interest
your readers. The Stauntons, " that beloved family ", were settled
there at a very early period, and numerous monuments and early
mailed effigies still commemorate them in the church. As stated
on the monument referred to, the male line of the family is extinct,
but it is represented by the Rev. Erancis Staunton, M.A., of
Staunton Hall, and Rector of the parish, who is descended from
one of the co-heirs of Harvey Staunton. The monument bears
this inscription :
" To the memory of Jane Degge, 10 years the second wife, and
41 years the widow of Simon Degge, of Derby, Esq r , who died
29 th March, 1757, aged 80 ; and of Harvey Degge, his 5 th son,
her 2 nd son, Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge, who died 22 n<i
May, 1733, aged 25, He was the grandson, she the youngest
of the four daughters and co-heirs of Harvey Stauntoa, Esq*, the
last of that beloved family, Lord of this mannour. They both lie
under the same gravestone in the isle opposite hereunto. This
memorial of the place of the sepulture of his mother & brother
was erected by Staunton Degge, Rector of this Church. Whoso-
ever shall be in power here, let their remains continue undisturbed
untill they rise at the resurrection of the just and triumphal procla-
mation, ' grave, where is thy victory V "
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DCLII. THE REV. EDWARD HAWKINS, M.A., VICAR OF BISLEY,.
1782-1806. Mr. Hawkins, born in 1753, was the youngest son of
Sir Ceesar Hawkins, Bart., and was presented in 1 782 by his father's
194 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
friend, Lord Thurlow, to the vicarage of Bisley. For particulars
of him and other members of the family, see the Rev. Francis J.
Poynton's "Notes on the Rectors of Kelston [Somerset]," first
published in Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, N.S.,
vol. ii., pp. 501, 525, 549, and since reprinted, for private circulation,
in Memoranda, Historical and Genealogical, relating to the Parish
of Kelston, part i., pp. 20-25 (London, 1878). In the south aisle
of Kelston Church there is a monument to his memory, with this
inscription : " In the family vault | in the adjoining churchyard |
are deposited the remains | of | the Rev d Edward Hawkins, M.A., |
Vicar of Bisley in Glostershire | & Rector of this Parish. He
was the youngest son of | Sir Csesar Hawkins, Bar*, | and died
Jan? 5, 1806, aged 53. | 'Leave thy fatherless children, I will
preserve them alive ; | and let thy widows trust in me.' | Jer. xlix.
ver. 11."
The widow's " pious faith 'has been fully answered, for of all
those sons who survived to man's estate, every one has prospered,
and attained to marked distinction in their several professions."
CLERICUS.
DCLIII. AN AMERICAN'S " IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND." The
following are interesting extracts from the Rev. A. Cleveland
Coxe's* Impressions of England ; or, Sketches of English Scenery and
Society (4th ed., New York, 1860), p. 151 : We were now in
Gloucestershire, and I shall never forget that it was in passing over
a hill near Stow-on-the-Wold that I first heard the nightingale.
"There," said V , "there is Philomela! not mourning, but
wooing ; 'tis her love-note " and I listened with a sense of enchant-
ment. Perhaps I was in the mood to be delighted, for certainly I
had never spent a day in such charming travel before, and I was
conscious of a pleasure, which I cannot describe, arising from the
realization of my dreams, in forecasting, through a long series of
years, such a journey through England.
In descending the Cotswold hills, I caught, here and there, some
enchanting views : little churches perched upon the brows of hillocks,
or half buried in the vales ; or farm-houses and cottages not less
beautifully situated ; or the seats of country squires and other gentry,
embosomed amid trees, or lifting their chimnies above a few lordly
elms. But the charm of all was yet reserved for me ; and just after
sunset, as we wound around a broad hillside, I came upon a scene
at which, it seemed to me, I might have gazed all my life without
weariness or satiety. " Stop stop ! my dear V , where are you
driving 1 " said I, beseeching him to rein up, and let me look for a
few minutes on as perfect a picture of English scenery as ever
Gainsborough portrayed, all spread before us, without a blemish ; its
* Dr. Coxe was consecrated assistant-bishop of Western New York in 1865, and soon after
became its bishop on the death of Bishop De Lancey. In Church Bells (Feb. 26, 1881), vol. xi. f
p. 197, there is a portrait of him, with a biographical sketch. Several of his writings have
been republished in England. Ed.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 195
lights and shadows just as an artist would have them, and yet vivid
with nature, beyond all that an artist could create. The time, re-
member, was evening, in one of its sweetest effects of sky and
atmosphere, cool and calm ; the lighter landscape deeply green ; the
shadows brown and dying into night ; the water shining here like
burnished steel, and there lying in shade, as darkly liquid as a dark
eye in female beauty. The view was a narrow dell, just below the
road, in which stood an old. manor-house, ivied to its chimney
tops, and encircled by a moat. Some of the most delicate blue was
floating thinly from its chimnies into the clear air, and just at hand
was peeping, from a dense growth of trees, the belfry of a very tiny
church, which seemed to be there only on purpose to complete the
picture. Cattle were grazing in the meads, and under a vast and
sombre yew tree sat a group of farm-servants shearing the largest
sheep of the flock, the wool flaking off upon the green grass like
driven snow. While we gazed on this living picture with mute
pleasure, the soft notes of a bird added sweet sounds to the enchant-
ment of sight, and I sat, as in a spell, without speaking a word.
My friend V himself, who had been laughing at me all day for
my enjoyment of what to him were common and unsuggestive objects,
fairly gave up at this point, and owned it was a sight to make one
in love with life. Even now I have lying before me a letter in which
he refers to this view of "the sheep-shearing," and concludes by the
pathetic announcement that the horse to which we were indebted for
that day's progress has since been sold to a coach proprietor, and now
runs leader from Evesham to Stratford. " Little thinks he," con-
tinues the letter, " as the lash of the cruel Jehu touches his flank,
of the classic ground he travels ; little recks he of Harry of Winches-
ter, Simon de Montfort, or our friend Rupert for Rupert had a
desperate struggle thereabouts or yet of Queen Bess, as he enters
Bedford, in Warwickshire [sic], or even of the immortal Will, as he
halts at Stratford."
So winding down our road amid firs and oaks, and enjoying new
beauties at every turn, we came through Charlton Kings into the
broad and teeming vale, adorned by modern Cheltenham. It is a
noble amphitheatre, to which the bold outline of the Cotswold hills
gives dignity, and which abounds with minor charms on every side.
I was soon lodged at my friend V 's, after due introduction to
his family, including a visit to the nursery, where some lovely
children were allowed to salute me with their innocent kisses, and
thus to make me sure of a welcome to their father's house.
C. T. D.
DCLIV. THE BLIND BOY OP GLOUCESTER AND DR. WILLIAMS.
The late Mr. John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., edited for the Camden
Society Narratives of the Days of the Reformation (London, 1859) ;
and in the " Reminiscences of John Loude, or Louthe, Archdeacon
of Nottingham," addressed to John Foxe in 1579, and taken from
196 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
MS. Harl. 425, fol. 134, we find these particulars, pp. 18-22 :
Now, mr. Foxe, thoglie your booke ys paste the prynte, yet I
wyll sett downe truly here (God ys wytnes) what I have creably
herd of some of the martyres more then yowr booke reportyth, in
the wych I beleeve I shall nether make lye, nor tell lye. The
aucthores therof ar so lawf ull, I myght saye authentycke. Of whom
I may say with the poett : Quorum pars magna fuere. I know
not whyther ye may be occasyoned to use any of these additionall
historyes wych I have sent yow, as a taste of many more I have
wrytten, a Martyrio Jo. Frythi. I pray yow encreace yowr booke,
for I hope it wyll be adbrydged [as was first done by Timothe
Bright, doctor of phisicke, London, 1589], and also enlarged, when
yow shalbe gon to Chryste.
Nam tuus hie genium fertur habere liber.
Oportet imperatorem stantem et militem Christi pugnantem
mori.
Cogita quae dico, inquit S tus Paulus.
The examynatyone of a blynde boy called the blynde boy of
Gloucester afore doctor Wylliams the judge. And of the
myserable ende of the same judge.
[This blind boy had already figured in Foxe's narrative of the
last days of Bishop Hooper. When the bishop was brought to
Gloucester on the 8th of February, 1555-6, the day before his
suffering at the stake : " The same day, in the after noone, a blinde
boy, after long intercession made to the guard, obtained licence to
be brought unto master Hooper's speech. The same boy not long
afore had suffered imprisonment at Gloucester for confessing the
truth. Master Hooper, after he had examined him of his faith,
and the cause of his imprisonment, beheld him stedfastly, and (the
water appearing in his eyes) said unto him : Ah, poore boy ! God
hath taken from thee thine outward sight, for what consideration
he best knoweth : but he hath given thee another sight much more
precious, for he hath indued thy soule with the eye of knowledge
and faith. God give thee grace continually to pray unto him that
thou lose not that sight, for then shouldest thou be blind both in
body and soule." (Folio ed. 1641, iii. 153.) Subsequently, at p.
702 of the same volume, we read that the blind boy's name was
Thomas Drowrie, and that he was finally burned at Gloucester,
about the fifth of May, 1556, together with Thomas Croker, a
bricklayer. Foxe has on that occasion introduced the conversation
given in the text, " Ex testimo. lo. Lond.," as our author's name is
there misprinted.]
Thys boy called blynde Tome was browght afore the sayd doctor
Wyllyams the chawncelor, and John Barkere alias Taylore the
register,* in the consistory by the south dore in the nether ende of
* "John Tayler, alias Barker, occurs soon after the foundation of the bishoprick. and
August the 31st, 1569." (Eudder's Gloucestershire, p. 170.) In 1552, the sum of forty marks
was settled to be paid yearly to John Tayler, alias Baker, (sic), gent., for keeping the register
of the Bishop of Gloucester. Strype's Memorials, ii. 357.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 197
the churche. The offycers in whose custody the boy remeyned, by
commandment of the chawncelor, presented the poore boy at the
barre before the judge. Then doctor Wyllyams examined hym
apon sondry articles magistral! and usuall emonge the tormentors at
that tyme, as ye may fynd folio (blank) in mr. Foxe. [ "such
usuall articles as are accustomed in such cases, and are sundry times
mentioned in this book." (Foxe, ubi supra.) ] And namely he
urged the article of Transubstantiatyone.
Wyllyams. Doest yow not beleeve that after the wordes of
consecratione of the preeste that ther remaynyth the veery body of
Chryste? Tome. No, that I doo not. Wyllyams. Then yow
arte an heretyke, and shalte be burnte. Who tawght thee thys
heresy 1 Tome. Yow, mr. Chawncelor, W. Where, I pray thee 1
Tome. When in yonder place (poynting with his hancle and lokyng
[Fox has printed " turning " ] as it were towerde the pulpy tt,
standynge apon the north syde of the churche). W. When dyd I
so teache thee? Tome. When yow preched there (namyng the
clay) a sermone to all men as well as to me, apon the sacrament.
Yow sayd the sacrament was to be receaved spiritually by fayth,
and not carnally and really as the papistes have hertofore tawght.
W. Then do as I have done, and yow shalt lyve as I do, and
escape burnynge. Tome. Thoghe yow can so easly dyspense with
yowr selfe, and rnocke with God, the world, and yowr conscyence,
I wyll not so doo. Wyllyams. Then God have mercy apon thee,
for I wyll reade thy condemnatory sentense. Tome. Godes wyll be
fulfylled !
Here the register stoode up and sayd to the chawncelor, Fye for
shame, man ! Wyll ye reade the sentense, and condemne yowr
selfe ? Away, away ! and substitute another to gyve sentense and
judgement. Wyllyams. Mr. registere, I wyll obbey the lawe, and
gyve sentense me selfe accordynge to inyn offyce. And so he redd
the sentense with an unhappy tounge, and more unhappy conscience.
Ex testimonio John Taylore alias Barker, Registrarij Glouc',
olim ex cenobio Oxon. quod vocatur Omnium Sanctorum.
The strawnge and hasty* dethe of the same doctor Wyllyams.
[John Williams, LL.D, had been first appointed chancellor of
Gloucester jointly with Kichard Brown, LL.B., 28 Nov., 1541.
" This Williams, in King Henry the Eighth's reign, appears very
zealous in the execution of the six articles. In the next reign, he
was a sudden convert to Protestantism ; and he began Queen Mary's
with depriving several clergymen of their livings for their marriage.
In 1555, he condemned Henry Hicks, a carpenter or joiner in this
city, to carry a faggot in Berkeley church, and in this cathedral.
. . . He was sometime incumbent of the Holy Trinity in
Gloucester, of Eockhampton, Beverstone, Painswick, Siddington
* The word "hasty" is altered into "fearful" by Foxe, who (ed. 1641, iii. 962) has appended
this anecdote to his series recounting " God's punishment upon persecutors, and contemners
of the Gospel." But he does not there give the authority of John Loude, nor of Loude's
informant, the dean of Gloucester.
198 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
St. Mary, Coin St. Dennis, and Welford, in this county ; and a
prebendary in Gloucester cathedral." (Rudder's Gloucestershire, p.
163.) After his death, the office was performed by Dr. Powel, the
vicar-general of the province of Canterbury, during the vacancy of
the see, after which, on the 4th of November, 1562, John Louthe,
LL.B., the writer of these "Reminiscences," was appointed.]
When God, of hys inestimable mercy havyng pytye of us, and
pardonyng owr synnes for hys sonnes sake Chryste Jhesus, hadd now
taken from us that blooddy prynces and sent us thys Jewell of joye
the queues majestie that now raygnyth (and long myght she
raygne !) over us, and that the commissyoners for restitutione of
religione were commynge towarde Gloucester, and the same day
doctor Wyllyams the chawncelor dyned with "W. Jenynges* the
deane of Gloucester, who with all his men were booted and ready
at one of the clocke to set forwarde towerd Chyppyng Norton,
abowte xv. myles from Gloucester, to meete the commissyoners,
wych wer at Chyppyng Norton, and sayd to hym, Chawncelor, are
not thy boots on 1 Chawnc. Whye should I putt them one 1 To
go with me (quoth the Deane) to meete these commissyoners. t
Chcavnc. I wyll nether meete them nor see them. Deane. Thow
muste needes see them, for now it ys paste twelfe, and they wylbe
here afore three of the clocke, and therfor, yf thow be wyse, onne
with thy bootes and lett us go togyther, and all shalbe well.
Chawnc. Go yowr wayes, mr, deane ; I wyll never see them.
As I seyd, W. Jenynges the deane satt forwarde with hys
company towarde the commissyoners ; and by and by commyth one
upon horsebacke to the deane, saying, " Mr. chawncelor lyethe at
the mercy of God, and ys speechlesse." At that worde the deane
with his company pry eked forwarde to the commissyoners and told
them the whole matter and communicacion betwene them two as
above and they sente one of theyr men, with the beste woordes
they cowlde devise, to comforte hym, with many promises. But to
be shorte, albeyt the commissyoners were nowe nearer Gloucester
then the deane and hys company thoght, makyng veary greate
haste, especyally after they hadd receaved these newes, yett dr.
Wyllyams, thoghe false of religione, yet trew of hys promyse, kepte
* William Jennings, B.D., chaplain to the king, became in 1541 the first dean of Gloucester,
having been previously a monk of St. Peter's, and prior of St. Oswald's, in that city. He
must have been very accommodating to the changes of the times, as he held the deanery until
his death in 1565, when his body was buried before the door of the choir. For his other pre-
ferments and epitaph, see Willis's Cathedrals, ii. 729, and Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 161.
Bishop Hooper's dedication of his "Annotations on the Thirteenth Chapter to the Romans"
( Works, printed for the Parker Society, ii. 95) commences "To my very loving and dear-
beloved fellow-labourers in the word of God, and brethren in Christ, William Jenins, dean of
the cathedral church in Gloucester, John Williams, doctor of the law and chancellor, and to
the rest of all the church appointed there," &c.
+ This commission for visiting the dioceses of Salisbury, Bristol, Exeter, Bath and Wells,
and Gloucester, was dated July 1W, 1559, and addressed to William, Earl of Pembroke, John
Jewel, S. Th. P., Henry Parry, licentiate in laws, and William Lovelace, lawyer. (Strype's
Annals, i. 167.) Sir John Cheyne was apparently substituted for the Earl of Pembroke, as
shown by one of their reports : see the life of Jewel prefixed to his Works printed for the
Parker Society, pp. xiv., XT.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 199
his ungracious covenante with the deane, for he was dedd er they
came to the cyty, and so never sawe them in dede.
Hoc mihi narravit dictus decanus Glouc. cum ego Jo : Loude
apud eum una cum multis aliis ceneremus.
Hys woman or howsekeper (for suche wold bee with owt wyves,
but not with owt women) told hur fryndes many tymes, that hur
master kylled hym selfe with eatyng of rew. Jo. A.ovSe. A lerned
man may hereby gathere that the doctore havyng an evyll
conscience, and no good opinione of the commissyoners' curtesy,
poysoned hymself, more Romano, but, as it semeth by conjecture,
recea vying suche a chearfull message by poste from the commis-
syoners, wold have recovered hym selfe by medicyne, to late taken ;
for nuttes, rew, and fygges, ys a good antidotary preservative
agaynst poysone, being taken in tyrne. Otherwyse, accordyng to
the verse,
sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas invaluere moras.
The Commissyoners were these* : mr. Jewell, mr. Alley, mr
Parray, mr. Lovelase, mr. Dalabare, &c. EDITOR
DCLV. ESCHEAT OP A FORTUNE. The following paragraph
(which has been deemed " worthy of a corner ", under the above
heading, in Notes and Queries) is from the Times, April 19, 1882 :
" A Commission of Escheat, summoned by the High Sheriff, sat
at Cheltenham yesterday, to inquire whether Mr. George Perton,
late of Prestbury Mansion, widower, was of legitimate birth. The
deceased was formerly a jeweller at Birmingham, but had lived in
Gloucestershire for several years, and died without issue at Prestbury
last autumn. He was worth 200,OOOL, only a small part of which
had been devised by will. The jury decided that the deceased was
illegitimate. By this decision a sum of 170,OOOZ. falls to the
Crown." As the gentleman who sent this paragraph for insertion
has observed, it is stated in Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (17th
edit. ) that a Court of Escheats was held before the Lord Mayor of
London in a similar case on July 16, 1771, and that such a court
had not been held in the City for one hundred and fifty years
" e ^ ore - CHELTONIENSIS.
DCLYI. THE REGISTERS OF TURKDEAN PARISH. As 'is usually
the case, some of our registers are " mixed ". The memorandum to
which you refer [taken from the Parish-Register Abstract, 1831],f
* John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury 1559. William Alley, bishop of Exeter 1560. Henry
Parry, afterwards an exile at Frankfort. (Zurich Letters, iii. 763.) William Lovelace,
sergeant-at-law 1567. Anthony Dalaber, of St. Alban's hall, Oxford, brother to the parson
of Stalbridge in Dorsetshire. He was the author of a long and very remarkable narrative
respecting the persecutions of those who entertained the new doctrines in Oxford, inserted by
Foxe in his Actes and Monuments (commencing at p. 421 of vol. v., Townsend and Cattley's
edition), respecting which see Maitland's Essays on Subjects connected with the Reformation in
England (1849), pp. 13 et seq., and Froude's History of England (1856), ii. pp. 45 et seq.
t The memorandum is as follows : " Turkdean V. Nos. i.-iii. Bap., 1572-1812 ; Bur., 1572-
1720, 1728-1812 ; Marr., 1572-1744. No. iv. Marr., 1754-1812. No Marr. register 1744-
1754." Ed.
200 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
was no doubt copied from one on a slip of paper in one of the
books, which appears to be in the handwriting of the Eev. George
Hornsby, who was vicar from 1807 to 1837. It is not, however,
very precise, nor, as I think, quite accurate ; and I have much
pleasure in sending you the best account that I can put together of
our registers. I have not as yet thoroughly examined their contents ;
but I may say that the more interesting entries have been printed
by you in "No. CCXCVIIL, having been contributed by my prede-
cessor, the Kev. F. Biscoe. I hope soon to furnish you with a list
of the vicars, etc.
Turkdean Kegisters.
Vol. i. Bap., (?) March, 1572 April 5, 1741 ; Bur., April 19,
1573 Feb. 18, 1692, March 17, 1696-7 May 10, 1720,
Nov. 2, 1727 Dec. 25, 1739 ; Marr., Oct. 14, 1572
May 18, 1740.
ii. Bap., Bur., Marr., April 5, 1741 Dec. 10, 1756; Bap.,
Feb. 18, 1757 Oct. 8, 1809; Bur., July 10, 1757
Dec. 7, 1809.
iii. Bap., Nov. 15, 1809 Dec. 6, 1812; Bur., April 8,
1810 Aug. 25, 1812.
iv. Bap., Jan. 26, 1813 present date.
v. Bur., June 20, 1813 present date.
vi. Marr., Nov. 28, 1754 Jan. 29, 1812.
vii. Marr., July 7, 1813 Oct. 26, 1837.
,, viii. Marr., Oct. 26, 1837 present date.
ix. Banns of Marr., 1824 present date.
I am doubtful as to there being any deficiency [as alleged in the
Abstract] in the register of marriages, 1744-54. From 1740 to 1754
only these entries occur: 1741, one; 1744, one; and 1752, one.
The number of marriages seems always to have been very small ;
and in pages where there is no appearance of an hiatus, there are
no entries for three, four, and even eight successive years. For
example, no marriages in 1586-8, 1635-40, 1646-52, 1724-31.
Turkdean Vicarage, Northleach. J - L - TUDOR, M.A.
DCLVII. ELEANOR BENNETT, nee FUST. The Kev. J. W.
Hardman, LL.D., of Cadbury House, near Yatton, Somersetshire,
possesses a good half-length portrait of the above-named lady, with
the following inscription in the upper left-hand corner : "Eleanor
Fust, bom 1633-4. Eleanor Fust, sister of S r John Fust, &
daughter of S r Edw d Fust, of Hill, in y e County of Gloucester,
Baronet, by his Lady Bridget, daughter of S r Tho 8 Denton, of
Hillersdown, in y e County of Bucks, Knight, Ancestor of S r Francis
Fust, of Hill, in y e same County, Baronet : y e said Eleanor maried
George Bennett, of y e Bath, in y e County of Somerset, Esq r .
Died 22 d of Jan r y, 1674-5, aged 41." It may be well to place these
particulars on record. G A W
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 201
In the will of Nicholas Trotman, dated 28 August, 1665, and
proved in the succeeding month, amongst sundry bequests, as
detailed below in No. DCLXL, p. 210, this one appears : " To Mrs.
Ellinor Fust, daughter of Sir Edward Fust, Bart., of Hill, 10,"
desiring her to buy a ring, and to wear it " as a testimony of my
thanks to her and that family for all their kindness to me." Mr.
Trotman, though a citizen of London, was a native of Wotton-
under-Edge. EDITOE.
DCLVIII. THE HOOPER FAMILY.
(Reply to No. CCCCLXXVI.)
GENEALOGIST can meet with one of the descendants of Bishop
Hooper by addressing himself to MAORI.
Exeter Hall, London, W.C.
DCLIX. "GAARGE EIDLER'S OVEN." "J. B." writes to the
Telegraph : " In your leading article you credit Berkshire with the
authorship of the song in which occur the lines :
' Droo all the world owld Gaarge would bwoast,
Commend me to merry owld England mwoast.'
Are you not wrong in attributing * Gaarge Eidler's Oven ' to the
Royal County ? We Gloucestershire folk assuredly think so ; and
I may point out that Mr. Thomas Hughes, in his * Scouring of the
White Horse/ speaks of the ditty as a ' famous old Gloucestershire
song,' and puts it into the mouth of a Gloucestershire farmer.
Moreover, the first two lines run thus :
' Thaay stwuns that built Gaarge Ridler's oven,
0, thaay cum vrom the Blakeney quar,'
and Blakeney is in Gloucestershire. Berkshire, so rich in story,
can afford to let the sister county keep her song."
I hope soon to write again to you upon this subject. Q. ^ ^.
DCLX. MARCH 2ND AND MAY 12TH. Can you tell me why
in some old parish registers, e.g., in those of Hampnett, the year is
made to commence on the 2nd of March? Thus, "The Seconde
daie of Marche, 1592"; and the same in 1593, 1594, 1595, and
following years.
Do you know why the 12th of May is a day much observed in
some counties, e.g., in Gloucestershire and Flintshire? Fairs held
then, rents often paid, etc. W M. WIGGIN, M.A.
Hampnett Rectory, Northleach.
DCLXL THE TROTMAN FAMILY. This well-known Gloucester-
shire surname is said to be Teutonic in its origin, and to signify the
trusty man or steward ; but whether this be so or not, must be left
for philologists to determine. It may, however, be noted that there
is a village in Germany named Trautmansdorf. The Trotmans, it
is asserted, claim for their ancestor the hospitable neatherd, in whose
cottage the incident of the burnt cakes occurred when King Alfred
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202 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
fled from the Danes. But it is scarcely worth while to enquire into
the authenticity of this tradition. At present the oldest reference
we have to the name occurs in the early part of the 13th century.
A certain Josceline of Wells was elected bishop of that diocese in
1 206, and was buried there in 1 242. Some writers call him Josceline
Trotman, and though Le Neve does not refer to him under this
surname, it is not unlikely that it may have been his patronymic,
just as William Patten, Bishop of Winchester, was best known as
William of Waynflete. According to Eosbrooke, who gives a brief
pedigree of Trotman of Siston, the family migrated from Shropshire,
though he also asserts that John Trotman held lands at Stancomb,
in the parish of Stinchcomb, as early as 1383. However that may
be, by the middle of the 16th century they were settled at Cam, in
Gloucestershire.
The will of Alice Tyndale, of Melksham Court, Stinchcomb,
which was proved 20 March, 1543, was witnessed by Thomas and
John Trotman, the former being also one of the overseers. In
the same year Thomas Tratman purchased Longfords, or Woodend
House, in Cam, from Richard Brayne, and in 1547 lands in Cam
and Wheatenhurst from Richard Brayne and Elizabeth Ascheby.
This Thomas Tratman died in 1559. In 1553 the will of a Thomas
Trotman was proved at Gloucester ; while in Michaelmas term, 1556,
another Thomas Trotman, probably son of the last-mentioned, was
party to a fine by which was perfected the purchase he had made
from John Berkeley, Esq., of one capital messuage, two orchards,
one garden, sixty-four acres of meadow, and thirty-seven acres of
pasture, and 106*. of rent in Came and Slymbridge, the purchase-
money being 130 marks. We also find that in 1546 Edward
Treteman was the purchaser of lands in Stone and Alkington.
Another Thomas Trotman married at Cam, in 1570, Agnes, or
Anne, Tyndal, of Stinchcomb. The two families were long and
intimately acquainted; and later on another alliance with the
Tyndales enabled the Trotmans to quarter their arms. In what
relation these Thomas Trotmans stood to each other is at present
uncertain. Probably there were several families of the name in
Cam and its neighbourhood about this time, for we find mention in
1582 of Thomas Trotman, of Dursley, and Thomas Trotman, of
Tort worth, besides Richard Trotman, the elder, and John Trotman
at Cam. That the family was now prosperous and wealthy is shown
not only by the numerous purchases of land made by them, but also
from the fact, that three of its members in 1588, John, William
(perhaps the bailiff of Dursley in 1580), and Richard contributed 25
each towards the defence of the country against the Spanish Armada;*
while a few years later they became a county family, for in 1616,
Edward Trotman, of Cam, received a grant of coat armour, and in
1623 entered his pedigree at the Herald's visitation of Gloucester-
shire. The account of the family in that document has formed the
* See No. CCCOXXXY., vol. i., pp. 440, 442.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 203
basis for these notes ; and whatever is taken from it is inclosed
within brackets.
[Thomas Trotman, who married Ann, daughter of William
Harding, of Cam,] bought Longfords, or Woodend House, as above
mentioned, and died in 1558 or 1559, leaving several children.
One of them was John Tratman, the elder, of Cam, clothier,
whose will, proved in 1592, mentions lands in Over Cam, Nether
Cam, and ITpthrup. It is remarkable that although he was
ancestor of the Nash Court and Steps branches, his children are not
mentioned in his will. His wife Katherine was residuary legatee,
and the overseers were Richard Trotman, of Cam, " my brother," and
Thomas Trotman, of Tortworth, " my brother in law."
[Richard Trotman, of Cam,] second son of Thomas Trotman, is
described on his son's tombstone in Cam churchyard, as of Pull Court,
Worcestershire, though for what reason is not clear, as Cam was
certainly his residence, and he described himself in his will as " of
Cam, yeoman." He succeeded to Longfords, and " built a faire house
thereon," possibly the ancient messuage now known as " The Steps "
in Lower Cam, and occupied as a farmhouse. It is supposed to have
taken its name from the steps at the entrance ; and it is a little
remarkable that nearly all the rooms in the house have either a step
up or a step down into them. On the roof is a vane a man on
horseback trotting which may be a pun upon the family name.
We take him to have been the Richard Trotman who was one
of the executors of Thomas Tyndale, of Eastwood, " gentilman,"
who died " at Master Pennes house in London ", 28 April, 1571, and
was buried in Fanchurch (Fenchurch), in that city, 7 May, and on the
31st of the same month re-interred, according to the direction in
his will, at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, where his tomb of
black marble, with inscription on brass, remains, although the
figures of himself and his wife have long since been removed.
He married [Katherine, daughter of Edward Tyndale,] Esq.,
[sister and co-heiress of Thomas Tyndale, of Eastwood, co.
Gloucester], His will, in which he is described as Richard
Trotman, the elder, of Cam, yeoman, was dated 8 October, 1592,
and proved in London, 27 April, 1593. By it he desired "to be
buried within Christian burial," and gave twenty shillings to the
poor of Cam. His bequests indicate that he was a yeoman of
considerable wealth, and the furniture specified in his will was such
as would befit the " faire house " he had built. He names the follow-
ing children : Edward (of whom presently) ; Griffith, who, as Griffin
Trotman, frequently occurs in the Fines, and his wife Catherine, with
their children, Richard, Ursula, and Sara ; Edith, wife of Thomas
Warne ; Lodwicke Trotman, " my son in law," and his wife Mary.
[Edward Trotman, of Cam, 1623],havingbeen of Eastwood in 1582,
married 20 June, 1575, [Anne, dau. of Richard Watts, of Stroode, co.
Gloucester,] by Mary, dau. of John Hall, of Woodchester, Gent.
She was born 28 April, 1557, "and of her godly life made
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a godly end the 4 th of Nov., 1625." He was probably the
Edward Tratman, who was the collector of the Lay Subsidy
in 1598. In 1616 he obtained a grant of arms from Sir William
Segar, Garter King of Arms; which document has been lately
published in Dr. Howard's Miscellanea, and is reprinted at the end
of this article. He entered his pedigree at the Herald's visitation
in 1623, and dying ten years later, was buried at Cam, where his
tomb exists. It is on the north side of the churchyard, and is one
of the few memorials we have in the open air of so early a date.
At one end of it are the arms of Trotman quartering Tyndale ; and
on the side, now only just visible, is the following quaintly-worded
epitaph :
"Here lyeth the body of M r Edward Trotman, the Elder,
late of Eastwood, son of M r Kichard Trotman, of Pool
Court, in Worcester Shire, by Katherine, his wife, daughter of
Edward Tyndale, Esquire. He was born the fifth
day of October, anno D ni 1545, and comfortably departed
this life the sixth of June, 1633."
Those of his children named in the Visitation of 1623 were
[1. Edward,* of the Outer f Temple, juris consultus, 1623,
who signed the pedigree in that year ; he m. Anne, dau. of Anthony
Stratford, of Temple Gyting, Esq.,] and had issue, [Edward, 12
years, and Anne, 14 years old, 1623.]
[2. Eichard, attorney-at-law, who, with his brother, signed the
pedigree, m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Lloyd, of Holyrood
Ampney, and had issue, Sibbell, 7 years; Edward, 6 years;
and Charles, 3 years old, 1623.] His widow m. Eichard
Selwyn, of Wheatenhurst, second son of Jasper Selwyn, of
Matson.
"3. Thomas.]
'4. Throgmorton.]
5. Samuel], ancestor of the Siston branch.
"Eichard and William deceased in 1623.]
1. Catherine, m. Eichard Haynes.]
'2. Joan, unm. 1623.]
3. Anne, m. Nicholas Harvey, Gent.]
Cecilia.]
Throgmorton, more properly Throckmorton, Trotman was an
eminent merchant in London. Maurice Trotman, of Cam, who may
have been his uncle, and was descended, through a marriage with the
Hardings, of Coaley, from Nicholas, son of Harding, witness
temp. Hen. II. to the marriage-deed between Eobert Eitz Harding
and Eoger de Berkeley, married Alice, sister of Sir William
* "It is worth mentioning that the Gloucestershire village [Cam] which is so honourably
associated with the great law names of Selwyn and Phillimore, was also the native place of
an industrious author of some note, Edward Trotman, who wrote an abridgement of Sir
Edward Coke's eleven volumes of Reports, and was buried in the Temple Church on May 29th,
1643." Blunt's Dursley, etc., p. 2Q1.
+ ? Inner Temple.
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Throckmorton, Bart., of Tortworth. This circumstance no doubt
provided Throgmorton Trotman with his distinctive Christian name.
From Maurice Trotman, we may observe, was descended the
great Dr. Jenner, his grandfather, Stephen Jenner, of Slimbridge,
having married Mary Davies, who was the granddaughter of
Edward IsTelme, of Cam, second son of Capt. jNelme, of Breadston,
by the marriage of the former with Trotman's daughter Alice.
Throgmorton Trotman's will, dated 30 October, 1663, was proved
the year following. By it he founded the noble charities in
London which still are known by his name, selecting the
Company of Merchant Adventurers and the Haberdashers' Company
to be the stewards of his bounty. He established an almshouse at
Cam, where he had been born, and lectureships at Dursley and
St. Giles', Cripplegate, the lectures to be given at what would now be
thought the early hour of six o'clock in the morning. He also gave
500 to nine trustees "for poor scholars at the University, to fit
them for the ministry." There are many bequests to friends and
relatives, amongst whom he names " my cousin " Edward Trotman,
his daughter in Virginia ; " my cousin " Edward Trotman, the
secondary, my brother's son; my sister in law An Sellwin; "my
old cousin " Sarah Pope, of Stinchcomb, widow ; Mr. John
Dogett, merchant in Bush Lane, to whom he bequeathed a book
called " Mercator's Atlas " j " my cousin " Joseph Dorney, son of
Thomas Dorney, of Uley, deceased ; Margaret, sister of " my
cousin " Thomas Trotman, hosier ; Mr. James Baber, my factor at
Hamberoe \ and my brother Samuel Trotman. The last, according to
Fosbrooke, was founder of the Siston branch. He also mentions
Eichard Trotman, of Cam, clothier, grandfather of Edward Trotman,
of the Steps at Cam.
To return to the eldest son, Edward Trotman, counsellor,
who was a reader in Court, and a bencher of the Inner Temple.
He was the author of a small epitome of Lord Chief Justice
Coke's Reports (London, 1640), and describes himself on the title-
page as " Edwardus Trotman, Armig', Interioris Templi socius, in
lege apprentices." The work seems to have been a very useful
handbook to the cases reported by the great lawyer ; but its value
for modern use is greatly decreased by the fact that it is written in
abbreviated law-French. He also wrote Un exact alphabetical
Table de toutes les principal matteires, maximes, et axiomes conteynus
en le Abridgment de le Seigneur Cokes Reportes per Edwardum
Trotman Ar.' (London, 1664). This must have been a posthumous
work, for, according to Mr. Blunt's Dursley, as already quoted, he
was buried in the Temple Church, London, 29 May, 1643. It is
said that he greatly lessened his patrimony by extravagance. His
son [Edward, 12 years old 1623] was perhaps the Edward Trotman,
of Cam, clothier, whose will was proved in 1663. This family
probably became extinct, as no reference is made to them in the
Visitation of 1683.
206 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The two branches which were settled at the Steps and Nash
Court, were descended from John Trotman, of Cam, brother of
Richard Trotman, who died in 1593. His children were
1. William.
2. Thomas.
3. Nicholas, m. Cecill, dau. of Giles Carter, of Swell.
4. Richard, m. Anne, dau, of Richard Hale, of Alderley.
Nicholas Trotman, the third son, was ancestor of the Nash Court
and Steps branches, the former of which descended from John,
eldest son of Nicholas. His younger son Edward is commemorated
on a tablet in the north aisle of Cam church.
This carries down the descent of the Steps branch four generations
further. The arms of the family Argent, a cross gules between four
roses of the last were refixed, but upside down, when the church
was restored some years ago. The inscription is as follows :
" In memory of
Edward Trotman, of the Steps in y 8
Parish, Gen* : and Margaret, his wife.
He was buried y e 10 th day of May,
1638, in y e church yard near this Isle,
and covered with a Tomb stone ;
and she was buried in this Isle the
22 d day of October, 1663.
Also in memory of Nicholas Trotman,
Gen* : (son of y e aforesaid Edward Trotman)
& Ann, his wife, whose Remains were in
y 8 Isle deposited. His January 22 d , 1707,
Hers July 2, 1705.
Also in memory of Charles, Edward, Esther, Ann,
& Eleanor Trotman, immediate Descendants
from the said Nicholas & Ann.
The Remains of
Charles ] /March 6 th , 1681,
Edward
Esther were 1U
Ann
Eleanor 1
1 April 6 th , 1726,
Dec br 24 th , 1723.
Margaret Deceas'd Feb? 8 th , 1746.
Robert Trotman, Gen* : Deceas'd
October the 20 th , 1759,
aged 73 years.
Also of Betty, his Relict, who died
Feb r y 13 th , 1797, aged 81 years."
Edward Trotman, who died in 1638, was aged 72. His wife
Margaret was a daughter of Robert Taylor, of Stroud. Ann, wife
of Nicholas Trotman, was a daughter of Nicholas Hickes, of
Charvil.
Edward Trotman, who died in 1726, was born in 1655, and
I
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 207
Eobert Trotman, we may presume from the dates, was his son.
Eudder gives the following under Cam, p. 319: "Mr. Edward
Trotman, and his sisters Elianor and Margaret, by their deed in
1727, gave 10?. a year for ever; Ql. whereof for six poor widows,
and the remaining 4?. to be distributed in bread to the poor." This
Edward, Eleanor, and Margaret were probably the same as those
recorded in the above inscription but the insertion of Edward's
name by Rudder in connection with the charity, is probably an error.
Margaret Trotman, by her will dated 8 April, 1745, after reciting
that she and her sister had charged their capital messuage in Cam
with 10Z. to provide a dame-school, ordered that the annuity should
be distributed instead amongst six poor widows and in loaves of
bread to the poor.
The Steps continued to be the residence of this branch until the
end of the last century, about which time it was alienated by Mr.
John Trotman, who died in 1808. His grandson Mr. John Trotman
(see Men of the Time, 6th ed., 1865) has rendered the name eminent
by his invention of the well-known " Trotman anchor." Another
member of this branch was Mr. Ebenezer Trotman, who in 1840,
in conjunction with Sir William Tite, rebuilt the Eoyal Exchange,
London, the main features of which were generally understood to be
due to Mr. Trotman's pencil.
The Knapp, more properly called Nasse or Nash Court, once
a residence of the Trotman family, is a small-sized mansion in
Lower Cam, apparently of the 17th century. There are no inscrip-
tions on any of the walls, but on one of the chimnies, all of
which are evidently of a much later period than the rest of the
building, is "D. E. 1720", the initials of Daniel Fowler. The
porch, with its ancient door still intact, is an interesting example of
the domestic architecture of the district ; and the house is remark-
able for a stream of water which flows continually through the dairy.
A ghost story is connected with the place ; for it is said that
underneath the steps of the cellar there is a ghost, which will rise as
soon as the grass grows ; and to prevent so undesirable an occurrence,
hot water was formerly poured over the steps. An indenture, dated
7 November, 1651, between John Trotman, of Longneye, and John
Trye, Esq., who had married Trotman's daughter, is still among the
title-deeds of the property. After having been mortgaged to William,
Lord Tracy, in 1687, the property was sold, in 1693, to Daniel
Fowler, of Stonehouse, by John Trotman, senr.. and Susanna, his
wife, and John Trotman, junr. A full pedigree of this branch,
tracing their descent from John Trotman, the elder, brother of
Edward Trotman, of the Steps, who died in 1638, is entered in the
Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1683, now in the College of Arms.
The fact that the Trotmans had forsaken the Knapp by the year
1711, is incidentally shown by Atkyns, who says, p. 161, "Mr.
Trotman and Mr. Fowler have good houses and estates " in Lower
Cam.
208 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The following members of the family occur as churchwardens of
Cam between the years 1598 and 1678 :
1600. Eichard Trotman.
1604. Edward Trotman.
1610. Mr. Edward Trotman,
of the Court.
1612. Mr. Edward Trotman.
1613. Mr. Richard Trotman.
1618. Mr. John Trotman.
1621. Mr. Maurice Trotman.
1622. Edward Trotman.
1623. Richard Trotman.
1625. Mr. Henry Trotman.
1635. John Trotman.
1644. Nicholas Trotman.
1651. Mr. John Trotman.
1655. Edward Trotman.
1659. Richard Trotman.
1669. Mr. Nicholas Trotman,
his living called Tayler's
or .... house.
1671. Mr. Nicholas Trotman,
for the house he liveth in.
1672. Richard Trotman, for
Dracott's Mill.
1674. Mr. John Trotman.
1639. Robert Trotman.
The Heralds in 1683-4 summoned, amongst others from this place,
Robert Trotman, Gent., and John Trotman, Gent. ; but the pedigrees
were signed by John Trotman, of Nasse Court, and Nicholas
Trotman, of the Steps.
The Siston branch before referred to, descended from Samuel
Trotman, of Bucknall, Oxfordshire, who was the fifth son of
Edward Trotman, of Cam, who died in 1633. A brief sketch only of
this branch need be given here, as the reader may refer to Eosbrooke's
Gloucestershire, vol. ii., where details will be found, and two views
of Siston house, "a good old seat " built in the time of Elizabeth
by the Dennys family. A fine engraving of " Syston, the seat of
Samuel Trotman, Esq.", with his arms, is given by Atkyns, 1712.
The arms of this gentleman are represented quartering those of
Tyndale, showing that the Siston branch descended from Richard
Trotman, of Pull Court, and Katherine Tyndale, the heiress before-
mentioned. Samuel Trotman, the fifth son, settled at Bucknall
in 1652, and was twice married, his second wife being a grand-
daughter of Mr. Speaker Lenthall. By her he had several children, of
whom Samuel succeeded his father, and married twice, but left no son
to inherit the estates, which, on his death in 1684, passed to his
brother, Lenthall Trotman, who married Mary Phillips, of
Ickfield, Bucks, and died about 1692, leaving issue,
1. Samuel, M.P. for Woodstock and Bath, who succeeded him,
died s. p. 1748, and was buried at Bucknall; of him Atkyns
writes, p. 344 : " Samuel Trotman, Esq., is the present lord of the
manor of Siston : he has a very large handsome house, and a great
estate in this and other places : his family has long resided in this
county."
2. Thomas, who succeeded his brother, died in 1 774, and was buried
at Bucknall, leaving by his wife, Elizabeth Haines, who was
buried at Siston, a son and successor, Samuel, who, though twice
married, died s. p. 1774, and was buried at Bucknall.
3. Edward, who died in 1774, and was buried at Shelowell, Oxford-
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND Ql [JERIES. 209
shire, leaving by his wife Mary, daughter of Tho mas Filmer, Esq.,
and co-heiress of Lawrence, fifth Viscount Saye a nd Sele, amongst
other issue, Fiennes Trotman, who succeeded hi s cousin, Samuel
Trotman, and died unmarried at Shelowell, 2 December, 1782,
"universally beloved and regretted," and was t succeeded by his
brother, Samuel Trotman, who married Mary Ne\v r sham, of Butler's
Marston, Warwickshire, and left, with other childrt an, three sons : of
these, Fiennes Trotman, M.P. for Northampton, was "lord of the
manor, and proprietor of large estates " in Oxfords] bdre, parcel of the
ancient Saye and Sele domains ; he married and left issue. His
son, Fiennes Trotman, who is described on his moi mment at Siston,
as of Siston Court, and of Churchill, Oxfordsh: ire, graduated at
Christ Church, Oxford, B.A., 1807, and M.A., 1 811. He was a
justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant, and di< >d in 1835, aged
50. The deaths of his three infant children I >y his first wife,
Henrietta Litchfield, are likewise recorded at Sist on. His second
wife was Elizabeth Anne Deane, of Winchester. { Siston Court is no
longer the seat of the Trotman family.
A few additional, but disconnected, notes may be added.
Eichard Tyndale, of Stinchcomb, yeoman, in 1561 granted to
John Trotman, junr., of Upthorpe (now Uptrup), Cam, clothier, and
Thomas Linke, apparently as trustees, his estate at Hunts Court,
Nibley. John Trotman, of Stinchcomb, Gent.. , was one of the
executors of the will of Thomas Tyndale, of Melksham, dated
1636; and William Trotman witnessed, in ? 1616, the will of
Kichard Tyndale, of Stinchcomb, yeoman.
Another branch of the Cam family settled at Breadston, in the
parish of Berkeley. Sir Thomas Wentwo' rth, Knight, Lord
Wentworth, 1 September, 1561, sold by bargain a and sale to John
Trotman, of Cam, senr., William Bourchier, , of Bradston, and
William Nelme, of Stinchcomb, the site of the manor of
Bradston and other messuages in Bradston, Ca m, and Stinchcomb.
Katherine Trotman, of Cam, widow, in he' r will, 1 602, names
Katherine, daughter of Thomas Trotman, tfne son of Nicholas
Trotman, of Breadston, deceased. An inquij jition post mortem of
John Trotman, son and heir of Maurice Trotman, is dated
16 Charles I., 1640-41, and relates to land in this place. Smyth
mentions other lands in Berkeley known r is "Trotman's lands,
late Curnock's, formerly Dosye's, now (1639) the inheritance of
Thomas Trotman, of Buckover, in the parish of Thornbury, and
of Thomas Pope, of Stancombe."
The will of William Trotman, of Bucko ve:r, yeoman, was proved
in 1656. He makes mention therein of Susan: nah, " my now wife " ;
Thomas Trotman, my eldest son ; Samuel Trot man, my son, whom he
appoints executor; ''William Trotman, Thomas his son"; William
Trotman, son of John Trotman; Philip Aram, my daughter Katherine's
husband ; Sarah Bissie, wife of John Bissio ; and " Elizabeth, my
daughter, which married without my consen't."
210 GLOUCE 3TERSHIEE NOTES AND QUERIES.
A John Tratmai i signed the Berkeley terrier in 1682 ; and both
Trotman and Trafe oian are frequently to be with on tombstones at
Berkeley. It shoi ild also be noted that one named Tratman appears
as a landowner at Breadston in the new Domesday-book, in which
are found about fr *venty of the name as small freeholders.
Several of tin 3 name were settled at "Wotton-under-Edge.
The will of Niche >las Trotman, citizen and fishmonger of London,
tells us that he w; as born in that town. It is dated 28 August,
1665 ; and he die d very shortly after, perhaps a victim to the great
plague of LondoD . then at its height, for the will was proved on the
28th of the fol lowing month. He desired to be buried at
St. Sepulchre's, ] Condon, where he was a parishioner. He made
numerous bequest s ; amongst which may be noted the following :
" To Mrs. Elizabe th Bendish, daughter of Sir Thomas Bendish, of
Bunstone, Essex, Bart., 100, to buy a ring with the posy, *A
remembrance of a real friend,' as a remembrance of my true love for
her, which I desii 'e her to accept and wear"; "to Mrs. EllinorFust,
daughter of Sir 1 Edward Fust, Bart., of Hill, 10," desiring her to
buy a ring, and tc > wear it "as a testimony of my thanks to her
and that family i 'or all their kindness to me"; "to the poor of
Wotton Subedge, where I was born, 10, to be given unto fifty
poor people on nej ct St. Thomas' day, my kindred, if fit objects to
receive my charii "y, to be preferred " ; and " unto my brother
stewards of the Gl oucestershire feast my proportion of the expenses
thereof, if they nu ike the said feast." The legacies first mentioned
explain themselves ; but the last is a subject for enquiry. Was
this " Gloucestersh. ire feast " an annual dinner held in London to
promote good feeling * amongst Gloucestershire men living there ? The
other principal legat ees were his brother John Trotman, of Wotton
Subedge, clothier ; hi 3 sister Mary Webb, widow, late wife of Nicholas
Webb, of Wotton, cl othier ; the children of his " brother " Kichard
Hyett, of Wotton, c 'Jothier ; the children of his sister Katherine
Hodges, alias Newar ck ; his sister Mary Freind, wife of Richard
Freind, of Dursley; his sister Elizabeth Marston; his godson
Nicholas Trotman, son of his brother William Trotman, of Nible [sic\,
clothier; and the children of his "brother" John Hyett, late of
Dursley.
It appears from Sir Thomas Phillipps' Wiltshire Collections that
Ajithony Trotman, of West Amesbury, was fined 10 for refusing
to be knighted at Charles the First's coronation.
The undernamed have graduated at the Universities :
Oxford, 1659-1850.
Nathaniel Trotman, Hart Hall, B.A., Oct. 20, 1701 ; M.A., June
16, 1704.
Edward Trotman, Tria., B.A., Feb. 9, 1710.
Samuel Trotman, Hertf., B.A., June 26, 1745 : M.A., May 26,
1748.
Fiennes Trotman, Ch. Ch., B.A., June 25, 1807 : M.A., June 13,
1811.
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Joseph Trotman, Wore., B.A., June 2, 1827 ; M.A., Nov. 12, 1829.
Cambridge, 1660-1872.
Fiennes Samuel Trotman, Sid., B.A., 1819.
John Warren Trotman, Sid., B.A., 1845.
The following grant of arms, which has been published
in Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (April, 1882),
vol. iv., p. 188, is here reprinted as a supplement to the foregoing
notes ;* and it is to be observed that the date ascribed to it by
various heraldic authorities, viz. 14 Elizabeth, is an error for
14 James I., 1616 :
To all and Singular Persons to whom theis presents shall come
S r Will'm Segar Garter Principall King of Armes sendeth his due
Comendacons and greeting Know yee that auncyently from the
begynninge y fc hath byn a Custome in all Countryes and Comon
Wealthes well gouerned that the bearing of certayne Markes on
Sheilds comonly called Armes haue byn and are the onely signes
and demonstracons eyther of prowess and valour atchyved in tymes
of warre or of good lyfe and civill conversacon in tymes of peace
diuersly distributed according to the qualities and deserts of the
person merry ting the same Among the which nomber Edward
Trotman of Cam in the county of Gloucester the sonne of Richard
Trotman of the same place, hath requested me the sayd Garter to
appoynt vnto him such a Coate-Armo r as he may lawfully beare,
without wrong doeing or p'judice to any person or persons whatso-
ever : which according to his sayd Requeste I haue accomplished
and graunted in manner and f ourme following vid'l't Argent a Crosse
gueles, between foure Roses of the same, the barbes vert, and
further for an Ornament vnto his sayd Coate of Armes a convenient
Creast or Cognisance fitt to be borne which is also On a healme
forth of a wreath of his Cullers a Garbe gold bound vp w th a Band
Argent and Azure betweene two Ostridge Fethers proper mantled
and doubled as in the Margent are depicted All which Armes and
Creast I the sayd Garter doe by theise presents ratyfie confirme
and graunt vnto the sayd Edward Trotman and to his heires for
ever and that it shall be Lawfull for hym and them to vse beare and
shewe forth the same in Signett Sheilds Ensigne Coat-Armo r or
otherwise at his and their Free liberty and pleasure without lett or
molestacon. In witness whereof I the sayd Garter haue therevnto
sett my hand and Seale of Office the seaven and twentith day of
November in the fouretenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne
Lord James by the grace of God King of Great Brittaine France
and Ireland Defendo 1 ' of the Fayth, etc.
Willm Segar, Garter Principall King of Armes.
* In the parish church of Clifton, Bristol, there is a mural tablet, with this inscription :
" Sacred to the memory of | Thomas Clark Trotman, Esqr., | of the Island of Barbadoes, | who
departed this life, | deeply regretted by his afflicted family, | May the 7th, 1826, aged 68
years, | and whose remains are interred | in a vault beneath this church. | This monument is
erected | by his afflicted widow, | as a tribute of tender affection. | Also of | Ann Trotman, |
widow of the above, | who departed this life Jany. 24th, 1874, | aged 98 years. | Her remains are
interred in the | same vault in the crypt with | those of her late husband." Ed.
212 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The limitation in this grant is worthy of notice, as it is made to
the "heirs" of Edward Trotman, and not merely to his descendants,
as is usually the case. Probably from this circumstance the
Trotmans of Nash Court and the Steps were able to have these
arms allowed them at the Herald's visitation in 1683, although
they were but distantly related to the original grantee. The grant
was enrolled and signed at the College of Arms some years before
the date of the last visitation by Samuel Trotman, Esq., barrister,
probably of Siston, and either son or grandson of Edward Trotman
the grantee. w p w p mLLIMOEE) BCL
DCLXII. HOWARD'S "MISCELLANEA GENEALOGICA ET HERAL-
DICA." The following articles, more or less connected with the history
of Gloucestershire, may be found in this monthly publication, N.S.,
vols. i.-iii., London, 1874-80 :
Vol. i.
P. 4. Will of William Penn, 1712.
34. Shaxspere or Shakespeere Family : Extracts from
Clifford Chambers register, 1560-1610.
Pedigree of Farren, of Tewkesbury.
61. Memoranda of the Family of Bray, of Barrington.
90. Casamajor Pedigree.
104. Casamajor Wills.
111. Seal and autograph of Robert Woodruffe, Esq., of
Alvington, 1603.
114. Memoranda of the Family of Fox, of Brislington,
Clifton, etc.
,, 263. Pedigree of Fox, of Brislington, etc., correcting some
of the Memoranda, pp. 114-18.
Brydges Family : Extracts from Cubberley registers,
1555-1656.
Vol. ii.
43. Seal and Autograph of William Norwood, Esq., of
Leckhampton, to an indenture, 14 Jas. I.
,, 44. Dimock Family, of Stonehouse : Memoranda from
Family Bible, 1729-73.
86. Extracts from Honey borne and other registers, 1673-
1779.
183. Wakeman Pedigree, from Visitation of Gloucestershire,
1583-1623.
222. Inscriptions in Charlton Kings Parish Church, etc.
See also pp. 300, 314, 321, 354.
317. Notes relating to the Families of Pickering, Bagge, etc.,
from Honeyborne and other registers.
373. Inscriptions in Cheltenham Parish Church. See also
pp. 385, 410, 440, 492, 559.
380. The Eev. Robert Kening, M.A., sometime Vicar of
Marshfield : Extracts from his will, inscription, etc.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 213
P. 501. The Eev. Edward Hawkins, M.A., Vicar of Bisley :
Inscription, etc. See also pp. 525, 549.
517. Barker Pedigree.
Vol. iii.
32. Extracts from Registers of Burials in the Parish of
Cheltenham. See also pp. 53, 70.
33. Inscriptions in remembrance of Bishop Searchfield and
Dean Chetwynd, in Bristol Cathedral.
59. Inscriptions of the Gibbes Family, of Bristol.
60. Mrs. Dyoness Long's Bequests to Church and Parish
of Marshfield.
61. Inscription of Mrs. Alice Facknaham [Fecknem] at
Kelston. See also p. 62.
88. Grant of Arms to William Henry Hyett, of Painswick,
1813.
92. Harington Inscriptions in Bitton Churchyard.
94. Memoranda relating to the Hyett Family.
119. George and Roger Harington, Aldermen of Bristol.
150. Inscriptions of the Smallcombe Family, of Bitton.
213. Particulars of the will of William Raymond, of Bristol,
1725.
215. Do. of James Lambe, and of Esther Lambe, of Fairford.
218. Harington Extracts from Bitton registers, 1702-67.
243. Memoranda on fly-leaf which belonged to the late Sir
Martin Crawley-Boevey, Bart., of Flaxley Abbey.
See also p. 266.
261. Pedigree of Arthur John Knapp, of Llanfoist House,
Clifton Down.
265. Memoranda of the Farr Family, of Bristol.
273. Pedigree of the Tomes Family, of Marston Sicca.
316. Notes and Registers of Chetwynd, of Bristol.
436. The Gostlett Family, of Marshfield. See also p. 454.
GENEALOGIST.
DCLXIII. THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER AND OLD PRIVILEGES.
(See No. DC VII.) I send you a copy I made many years ago
from the Chancery Pleadings of the Record Office of the Duchy of
Lancaster : it may interest your Gloucestershire friends ; but I do
not seem to have noted the result of the action, or whether Thomas
Cloterbucke had to disgorge the letters. Thomas Higgen died soon
after, in 1555, having married Elizabeth, daughter of George Birch,
of Birch. Anthony, his second son, became Dean of Ripon, and
died in 1624, leaving his books "to the church of Ripon for a
librarie". This library is now preserved in the Lady loft of Ripon
Cathedral. The document is as follows :
3 Edw. VI. Thomas Hyggins, inhabitant of Manchester,
Plaintiff;
Thomas Cloterbucke, Mayor of the City of Gloucester,
Deft.
214 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Thomas Higgins, inhabitant of Manchester, clothier, states that the
Dukes of Lancaster granted to the inhabitants of Manchester letters
patent exempting them from all tolls for stallage, &c., in all cities
of the realm of England. That when he and other merchants of
Manchester went to sell their clothes and other merchandize in the
City of Gloucester, they were made to pay toll ; whereupon they
complained to the Mayor, who stated that if they shewed their
letters patent, he would exempt them. Whereupon he Thomas
Higgen delivered the said letters unto the said Thomas Cloterbucke,
who unlawfully detained them ; by reason of which detention he
the said Thomas and others, the tenants and merchants of
Manchester, having been since compelled to pay toll, not only
in Gloster, bnt also in divers other cities and towns in the realm of
England. He therefore prays, &c.
Broadway Chambers, Westminster. GEORGE HIGGIN.
DCLXIY. PAELIAMENTARY SURVEY OF CHURCH LIVINGS, 1649-
50 : Co. GLOUCESTER. The Commissioners' Returns in connection
with this Survey, which was ordered by the Parliament, are
preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth Palace, and are
thus described in the catalogue of MSS. deposited there :
Surveys of the possessions of Bishops, Deans and Chapters, and
other benefices, were made in pursuance of various ordinances of
Parliament during the Commonwealth, by surveyors appointed for
the purpose, and acting on oath under instructions given to them,
as may be seen in Scobell's Acts and Ordinances, A.D. 1649, p. 19.
The original surveys were returned to a registrar appointed by the
ordinances, and duplicates or transcripts were transferred to the
trustees or commissioners nominated for the sale of the possessions,
who held their meetings in a house in Broad St., in the City, where
these documents remained until after the Restoration. On the
13th May, 1662, they were delivered to Juxon, Archbishop of
Canterbury, "who is desired to take care for the preservation
thereof, and to dispose of the same to the respective bishops, deans,
and chapters, who are therein concerned, if he shall think fit."
Some of them were afterwards sent by his Grace to the bishops,
deans, and chapters, to whom they belonged, so that the collection
in Lambeth Library is not complete : what remain are bound up in
twenty-one large folio volumes in alphabetical order, of the different
dioceses or counties to which they relate. A minute index to the
whole, in one folio volume, exhibits the name of every place
surveyed. Besides the above, there are separate surveys of the
possessions of the see of Canterbury in three volumes.
There is also a much abbreviated and inaccurate summary of
these returns in the British Museum, Lansdowne MSS., 459. This
is described as "A Register of all the Church Livings in the
Counties of Dorset, Derby, Gloucester, Wilts, &c., with an account
of their actual income, the names of the patrons and incumbents,
and the particular character of many of the latter," &c.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AN: D QUERIES. 215
As regards Wilts, this summary has
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, vol. xix
Canon Wm. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar
who states, p. 182, that "from the want of
of this date, the document, which is now p:
is valuable as supplying a missing link in t"
of our diocese" of Salisbury; but no re
fuller records or surveys and valuations pr<
Library.
Harescombe Eectory, Stroud. * 1
been printed in the
,, No. 56, by the Kev.
of Bradford-on-Avon,
any episcopal registers
tinted for the first time,
lie ecclesiastical history
ference is made to the
sserved in the Lambeth
/[ELLAND HALL, M.A.
County of Gloucest<
An Inquisition taken atte the Boot
Couritye of Glouc r , the eighteenth day of
our Lorde God one thousand Six hun<
William Sheppherd, Esquire, Silvanus "*
Hodges, Esquire, Thomas Escourte, Esquir<
& Andrew Solate, Esquire, by virtue of r
High Courte of Chancery unto them & ot
of divers Articles in the said Commission
unto by the oaths of John Lygon of Pa
Bishop of Amney Peter, gent., Paul Jeffe
gent., Thomas Remington of South Cern<
of Mintye, gent., George Browne of flair
Cranham, gent., William Symonds of
Nicholson of Quedgely, gent., Nichol
Subedge, gent., Henry Pegler of Bagpa
of Mbley, gent., John Champneyes
Rob* Wisse of Morton, gent., WiLliai
gent, Erancis Moiling of Horton, gent
the same, Robert Smith of Eycott,
Albeston, gent., Christopher Purnell of
Smith of Sherhampton, gent., Arthur
gent., William Osborne of Cold Aston,
Newland, Edward Clack of Newent,
Albrington, gent., William Hupton of 1
Westbury, gent., Thomas Ballard of Peb
of Odington, Thomas Surman of Tredi
Ashchurch, John Ellis of Cheltenham
Orchard, John Wells of Wellford, and
gent., all honest & lawfull men of the s
their oathes.
Harsfeild. Hundred of Wh
That in Harsfeild is a Vicaridgt
pounds per ann : That M r Ant]
Preacher, is the present Mini
thereof. It hath in it about 1
31.
ball in Glouc r , in the
' June, in the yeare of
Ired and ffiftie, before
iVood, Esquire, Thomas
3, John Dorney, Esquire,
i Commission out of the
ihers, directed to inquire
here-
yneswicke, gent., Henry
>ries of Dunsborne Rous,
jy, gent., Andrew Parker
ford, William Newarke of
Frampton, gent., Henry
.as Hoskins of Wootton
th, gent., Thomas Purnell
of Almondsburye, gent.,
a Brinckworth of Aston,
., Edward Eashe, gent., of
gent., John Dymerye of
Groueneads, gent., Maurice
1 Taylor of Mangotsfield,
gent., Richard Morgan of
, gent., Edward Rew of
luntley, Joseph Hoisted of
worth, gent., John Johnson
ngton, William Haynes of
, Richard Restall of Stoke
John Flushe of Apperley,
aid Countye who saye upon
Itstone.
> worth about Fiftye Seaven
aony Andrewes, a Constant
ster, and takes the Profitts
,30 familys, & wee consider
216
GLOTJCESTl 3RSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
that Cowlthrop.
be united to EQ
Longney.
That for Longnc
Thirty pounds
Constant Preach
Profitts thereof,
familys.
Frampton on Severn.
That for Frampt.
annum. That 1
the present mini
in it 105 familys
Quedgeley.
That Quedgeley 1
by the Impropria
a constant preach
hath in it about 4
Moreton Vallence.
That M r John S
Minister of Morei
of Ten pounds pe
& wee consider Pi
also Lodge House
parish, are fitt to bt
Standish.
That in Standish
80 per annum of
[minister], is the
Chappells belongin
Saule: That Hard
annum, and Kand\\
Saule worth about
ffoure score pounds
Hardwicke.
That for Hardwic
Holland, who receh
there. That in Ha
consider it fitt to be
Eandwick.
That for Eandwick
are in it about 100 f
entire Parish : That
to Fretherne.
, a hamlett of the parish of Standish, is fit to
irsfeild.
?y is a Yicaridge Presentative worth about
per annum. That M r John Trottman, a
ier, is the present Minister, & receives the
, & hath in it about three score & ten
HI is a Vicaridge presentative worth 40 per
I r John Barnsdale, a preaching minister, is
ster, & receives the profitts thereof, & hath
: or there about.
lath a Stipend of 12 per annum payable
,tor. the Minister is M r John Hurdman,
icr, who receives the Profitts thereof. It
tO familyes.
^uier, a constant preacher, is the present
bon Yallence, whoe onely hath a Stipend
r annum. It hath in it about 50 familys,
ittley being a Hamlett in Standish Parish,
and Oakey farme being part of Harsfeild
3 united to the parish of Moreton Vallence.
Is a Yicaridge presentative worth about
itself. M r Walter Powell, a preaching
present Minister there. It hath three
g to it viz. Hardwicke, Kandwicke, and
Iwicke is worth about fnftie pounds per
dck about twenty nobles per annum, and
twenty nobles per annum, besides the
belonging to Standish.
ke is a Constant Preacher, M r Thomas
res the present Profitts of the Yicaridge
xdwicke are about 60 familys, and wee
i an entire parish.
Is noe Minister at present, though there
'amilys, & wee consider it fitt to be an
wee consider Saule is fitt to be united
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 217
FretTierne.
That in Fretherne is a parsonage presentative worth about
thirtye pounds per annum, & that M r Richard Luffingham,
a preaching minister, is the present minister, & receives the
Profitts. It hath about eight & twenty familys, & wee
consider Saule is fitt to be united to it.
Frocester.
That in Frocester is a Vicaridge presentative worth about
40 per annum. That M r John Chappell is a preaching
Minister there, & receives the profitts. It hath about ffortie
familys in it.
In the Hundred of Bisley.
Bisley.
That for Bisley there is a Vicaridge presentative worth
aboute fiftie pounds per ann. That M r Richard Britten, a
constant preacher, is the present Viccar, and taketh the
profytts thereof. That it hath in it aboute three hundred
familyes, and as it is wee consider fitt to be one intire parish.
Strood [Stroud].
That Strood is a Markett Towne, and is claymed to be a
Chappell of ease to Bisley butt Two myles distant, the
Minister's name is Robert Pledwell, a constant Preacher, who
hath a Stipend of Tenn pounds fifteen shillings per ann, and
a donation of Twentye pounds p. ann during the terfne of
Sixteene years yett to come. It hath aboute Six hundred
familyes, and is fitt to be an intire Parish (as wee consider.)
Payneswicke.
That Payneswicke is a Markett Towne, & hath a Vicaridge
presentative worth aboute Eighty pounds per ann. That
M r George Dorwood, a constant preacher, is the present
Viccar, & taketh the profytts thereof that it hath in it
aboute two hundred familyes.
Kiftsgate Division : Hundred of Kiftsgate.
Wyncficomb.
Imprimis wee finde the Parishe of Wynchcomb to be a
Vicaridge Presentative worth about two & twenty pounds
per annum. There being at Present noe settled Minister.
There is belonging to it a Chappell of ease lying iieare untc
it. There are aboute 350 familys in it, it being a Market!
towne.
Staunton and Snoivshill.
We doe finde that the mayntenance belonging to the Churcl
of Staunton & the Chappell of Snowshill thereunto annexec
VOL. II. P
218 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
that Staunton is worth eight & ffortie pounds per
annum, & Snowshill ffortie pounds per annum, and that
there is a present Minister, & for both of them aboute three
score & fifteene familys.
Gyting Power.
Wee finde that Gyting Power is a Vicaridge presentative
worth aboute fiftye pounds per annum. There is one
Chappell annexed to it. William Gorton, the present
Viccar, receives the profitts thereof, & serves them both, he
is a preaching Minister. There are in it aboute
familys.
Bucldand.
Wee finde that Bucklaiid & Laverton is a Parsonage
Presentative, that M r Richard Davys is a preaching
Minister there, & receives the profitts thereof, being aboute
one hundred pounds per annum, & it consisteth of aboute
one & fiftye familys.
Aston Somervile.
Wee finde that Aston Somervile is a parsonage presentative
worthe aboute Seaventye five pounds per annum. M r W m
Woods is a preaching Minister there, & receives the profitts
thereof. It consisteth of aboute fourteen familys. That
there is Sixteen pounds now due to the Minister, butt it is
in strife between him & the patron.
Battsford.
Wee finde that Battsford is a parsonage presentative worth
one hundred & twentye pounds per annum that M r Thomas
Eyston is a preaching Minister there, & receives the profitts
thereof. It consisteth of about seaventeen familys.
Hawling.
Wee finde that the Parsonage of Hawling is presentative,
worth Fortye pounds per annum. Glement Barksdale is the
parson thereof, and a preaching Minister. It consisteth of
fifteene familys.
Dumbleton.
Wee finde that Dumbleton is a Parsonage presentative
worth one hundred & fortye pounds per annum. Thomas
Washbourne, Minister & Parson thereof, is a preaching
Minister. It consisteth of aboute fortye familys.
Todington.
Wee finde that Todington is a Vicaridge presentative worth
Thirtye pounds per annum. The minister thereof, Thomas
Roberts, hath the profitts thereof, & is a preaching
minister. It consisteth of Six and twentye familyes.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 219
Temple Gyting.
Wee finde that Temple Gyting is an Impropriation belonging
to the Colledge of Christ Church in Oxford, and is worth
one hundred three score & tenn pounds per annum.
Willoughby Dixon, the Minister thereof, hath for his
stipend Twentye pounds per annum. It consisteth of
aboute Twentye familys.
Ebrington.
"Wee finde that Ebrington is a Vicaridge presentative worthe
aboute Twelve pounds per annum. The Churchwardens
have not returned the Minister's name. It hath aboute
Three score & tenn familys in it.
MicTdeton.
Wee finde that Mickleton is a Vicaridge presentative worth
Fiftie pounds per annum. The Minister, M r Henry Hurst,
is an able preaching Minister, & hath the profitts thereof.
It consisteth of foure score & five familys.
Willersie.
Wee finde that Willersie is a Parsonage presentative worth
three score & tenn pounds per annum. Kichard Flavel is a
preaching minister there, & hath the profitts thereof. There
are fiftye familys. For the saide Parish the minister payeth
a fift part of the profitts to M r Sandys, who was ejected
out of the same, and the Tenths.
Didljrooke.
Wee finde that Didbrooke is a Vicaridge presentative worth
. . . < per annum. They have not returned the minister's
name, nor the number of familys.
Aston Sub Edge.
That Aston Subedge is a parsonage presentative worth
about Sixtye pounds per annum that M r John Sellers is
a preaching minister there, & receives the profitts thereof,
there are aboute twentye familyes in it.
Longborrow.
Wee finde that Longborrow is a Vicaridge worth Fortye
pounds per annum, & hath no settled Minister. It hath
aboute three score familyes in it, and wee thinke that
Seasoncott being neare adjoining thereunto, and butt one
house, may be united thereunto.
Pebworth.
Wee finde that Pebworth is a Vicaridge worth Seaventeen
pounds per annum, there being no Mynister there, and three
score & sixteen familys in it.
220 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
Over Swell.
Wee finde that Over Swell is a parsonage presentative worth
five & fortie pounds per annum. Augustine Jarrett is a
preaching minister there & Rector. It hath foure & twenty e
familys in it.
Cambden.
Wee finde that Cambden, a Markett Towne, is a Vicaridge pre^
sentative worth Fif tie pounds per annum. M r Bartholomew,
a preaching minister there, hath the profitts there. There
are aboute three hundred family es in it.
Quinton.
Wee finde that Quinton is a Vicaridge presentative worth
Three & thirtye pounds per annum. M r William Thorn-
borough, a preaching Minister, hath the profitts thereof.
There are in it aboute foure score f amilyes there, and besides
certayne tythes worth foure & fortie pounds per annum
which belonged formerly to M r Savage a delinquent . .
. . (and excepted in his composition) allowed to a
lecturer there as we are informed.
Saintburye.
Wee finde that Saintburye is a parsonage presentative worth
foure score & twelve pounds & tenn shillings per annum.
John Browne, a preaching Minister, is parson thereof. It
hath twentye familys in it.
Ghildswickam.
Wee finde that Childswickham and Moursett [Murcott] is a
Vicaridge presentative worth Twentye five pounds per annum.
Tymothy Wharton is Minister there, & hath the profitts
thereof. There are in it aboute three score & sixteen f amilyes.
Weston Subedge.
Wee finde that Weston Subedge is a parsonage presentative
worth aboute one hundred and four score pounds per annum.
M r Eichard Cooper, a preaching Minister, hath the profitts
thereof. There are fortie familyes in it.
Dorsington.
Wee finde that Dorsington is a parsonage worth one hundred
pounds per annum. Ferryman Rutter is a preaching minister
there. It consisteth of aboute two & twentye familyes.
Marston Sicca.
Wee finde that Marston Sicca is a Parsonage presentative
worth One hundred and fortie pounds per annum. M r
William Cooper, a preaching minister there, hath the profitts
thereof. There are in it eight and thirty familyes.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 221
Cow-honiborne.
Wee finde there is a disused Chappell and no means belonging
to it, and it is a Parish to Church Honyborne, in the County
of Worcester, and about fortie familyes in it.
Wormington.
Wee finde that Wormington is a parsonage worth aboute fif tie
pounds. M r John Partridge, the present incumbent, hath
(as wee are informed) under him an able preaching Minister.
There are about eighteen familyes in it.
Twyning.
Wee finde that Twyning is a Parsonage Impropriate belonging
to Christ Church in Oxon, worth aboute One hundred pounds
per annum. The Minister hath a Stipend of Twentye
pounds per annum. It consisteth of Three score familyes.
Oleeve Hundred.
Cleeve.
That in Cleeve Parish is a Parsonage worth aboute Five
hundred pounds per annum : it hath in it five Ty things, vizt.,
Cleeve, Stoke Orchard, Southam, Goutherton, and Woodman-
cote. That M r Tymothie Gate is the present Parson and
Minister, who supplyes the cure by one Thomas Wyncoll, a
preaching Minister, though a man excepted by the Committee
of the said Countye that M r Gate taketh the profitts
thereof. That these five Tythings have in them about Two
hundred familyes. That wee consider Cleeve, Southam,
Woodmancote, & Goutherton are fitt to be one entire parish.
That wee consider that Stoke Orchard and Tredington are
fitt to be united together.
Tewxburie Hundred.
Tewxburie.
That Tewxburye is a Markett Town. The Minister hath a
stipend of Tenn pounds per annum, and a donation of Three
pounds. M r William Burrows is a preaching minister there.
It consists of aboute one thousand familyes.
Forthampton.
There is neyther Parsonage nor Vicaridge, onely a stipend
of Sixteen Nobles per annum. They have at present noe
minister. There are in it aboute three score familyes.
AshchurcJi.
There is neyther Parsonage nor Vicaridge, onely a Stipend
of Tenn pounds per annum, and a donation of Five pounds
per annum. They have noe settled minister. It consists of
aboute three score & tenn familyes.
VOL. n. Q
222 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Kemerton.
That in Kemerton is a parsonage presentative worth One
hundred and fortie pounds per annum. M r John Hinxman
is a preaching minister there, and receives the profitts thereof.
It consists of six & fortie f amilyes.
(To be continued.)
DCLXV. TRADITIONS ABOUT CHURCHDOWN CHURCH. In the
Antiquary (September, 1881), vol. iv., p. 133, Mr. Theophilus Pitt,
A.K.C., has written : During a tour in Gloucestershire, from which
I have just returned, I paid a visit to the village of Churchdown,
about four miles from Gloucester on the east and six from
Cheltenham on the west. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew,
is built on the summit of Churchdown Hill, and the ascent to it is
steep and tortuous. It has a nave and north aisle, and on the
inside of the tower wall there is this inscription : " Thys Bel hows
was buyldede in the yere of our Lorde Gode 1601." On making
inquiries about the church, I was told the story, of which the
following account is from Eudder's Gloucestershire (1779), p. 339 :
" There is a silly tradition in this part of the country, that the
church was begun to be built on a more convenient and accessible
spot of ground, but that the materials used in the day, were
constantly taken away at night, and carried to the top of the
hill; which was considered as a supernatural intimation that
the church should be built there." There is another story,
which, like the one just given, is told by many people in
Gloucestershire. On the other side of Churchdown Hill, as one
walks from the railway station, there is a village called Hucklecote,
anciently TJkelcoed. It is said that during the service in Church-
down Church, when the people had replied with the usual " And
make Thy chosen people joyful," one of the people from Hucklecote
got up and said, "And what have the Hucklecote people done 1 ?"
Whether it was on this account or not that the Churchdown
villagers were called the " chosen " people, and Churchdown itself
called " Chosen," I do not profess to say ; but it is nevertheless a
fact, that many of the country folks round about do not know that
the village has any other name than "Chosen." The rivalry
between the two villages may possibly account for the removal of
the stones of the church during building. j Q.
My father, who forty years ago lived at the Zoon's Farm, Huccle-
cote, informs me that he knew the clerk who was generally credited with
thus distinguishing himself, and that his name was William Ursell.
Cheltenham. H. C. W.
DCLXVI. SIR KICHARD HART, KNT., OF BRISTOL. He was
alderman and merchant, and mayor in 1680-1 ; and with reference
to him this curious story, of which " we leave our readers to form
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their own judgment," has been quoted in Bristol : Past and Present,
vol. iii., p. 77 : "Sleeping at the new house of his brother-in-law,
Sir William Jones, King Charles the Second's attorney-general,
when in bed in the morning early, when the day was very cleare,
and his curtaines open at the bed's feet, he there saw his daughter
(whom he had left the day before wel at his house seventeen miles
distant from that place), leaning upon a cabbinett that stood in that
chamber, with her hand to her head, and looking earnestly upon
him as he lay in his bed. He was very much surprised at it, yet
continued his beholding, then a considerable space of time before
she disappeared ; and then in all haste hee arose, and called his man,
and sent him with all speed to his house, with his commande to
returne immediately with an account of his family, for that hee
had an apprehension that all was not well. The servant went and
returned the same day, and brought an account to his master that
all were well, except the young ladye who had been taken ill about
four o'clock that morning, the tyme of the apparition, but shee had
a doctor with her, and was pretty wel, and they hoped the worst
was past; but hee replied that hee should see her noe more,
and soe it fell out, for shee dyed that daye."
Mr. Nicholls has furnished sundry particulars of Sir Richard
Hart, which, being easy of access, need not be repeated. He was
burgess for Bristol in 1680-85-88-90 ; and he and Sir John Knight
were the last members who received " wages " for their services in
the National Assembly. He was elected to the Convention, and
voted against the Prince and Princess of Orange being made king
and queen. His career having been brought to a close on the 16th
of January, 1701, he was buried in St. Nicholas' Church, Bristol.
J. G.
DCLXVII. GRANT OF THE HOTWELL, CLIFTON, TO THE CORPORA-
TION OF BRISTOL, 1661. The following is a copy of an old
document lent by the Rev. H. T. Ellacornbe, M.A., Rector of
Clyst St. George, Devon. JoHN TAYLOR.
Museum and Library, Bristol.
The fifteenth day of July, 1661.
Wee, the proprietors of a certen Well of Water called the Hottwell,
neare unto a place called Rownam, in the parish of Clifton, and
County of Glou r , Doe hereby demise and grant unto the Maior,
Burgesses, & Coalty of the Citty of Bristoll, and their Successors,
the said Well of Water, as also a parcell of ground and rock,
conteining from full Sea marke Twenty foote in breadth along
betweene Rownam and the said Well, and the like breadth of
ground from full Sea marke for three score foote below the said
Well towards Hungroade, togeather with all proffitts and advantages
thereto belonging ; To hold all and singular the same pr'misses unto
the said Maior, Burgesses, and Coininalty, their Successors and
224 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Assignes, for and during the full time and terme of One Thousand
yeares, from henceforth next ensueing and fully to bee compleate
and ended, yeilding and paying therfore yearly during the said terme
the rent of Twenty shillings of lawf ull money of England, on the five
& twentieth day of March yearly ; And Wee doe agree, that on all
demands Wee will demise the same pr'misses unto the said Maior,
Burgesses, and Coalty, their Successors and Assignes, for the same
terme, by Lease in writing, in such manner and forme as Councell
learned in the law shall reasonably advise in that behalfe.
Jo : Whittington,
Will : Hodges.
DCLXVIII. TETBURY MEMORANDA. I send a few notes on
some subjects mentioned in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries,
which may perhaps be of use.
(1) Hour-glass in Churches. (See No. XVII.) The last purchase
of an hour-glass recorded in the accounts of the churchwardens of
Tetbury was in 1689.
(2) King Charles and the Oak. (See No. CCXXXIII.) After
the battle of Worcester King Charles passed through Tetbury, and
slept at Boxwell, as mentioned. At Tetbury, and at Leighterton,
which is the nearest village to Boxwell, there are inns called " The
Royal Oak." Are there other inns of this name on the road taken
by the king 1
(3) Bull-baiting in Tetbury. (See No. CCCLX.) "To all our
friends round Tetbury Bull-ring," is an old Tetbury toast. At
Horsley I was shown a large stone (which looked like the base of a
village cross) built into some steps outside an inn, and was told it
was the stone the bull-ring was fixed to.
(4) Tolling of Bells. (See No. CCCLXV.) A bell is tolled at
Tetbury Church after service. A "curfew" is tolled at 9 o'clock.
The bell is tolled for a few minutes, and then, after a short pause,
the day of the month is slowly tolled.
(5) Destruction of Barrows. (See No. DVI.) The site of a
destroyed barrow on Tetbury Common has been pointed out to me ;
and half of a long barrow, about three quarters of a mile north of
the town, was carted away two or three years ago, and spread over
the field. Many flint arrow-heads were found in it.
(6) Place-Names. (See No. DCXVI.) Place-names ending in
tree. For example, Elmestree (anciently Aylmondstree), a modern
house and an old farm near Tetbury. A H P
DCLXIX. THE CANYNGES FAMILY. I send you the following
communication which I have received within the last few days from
the Kev. Charles S. Taylor, M.A., Vicar of St. Thomas', Bristol.
JOHN TAYLOR.
Museum and Library, Bristol.
I have been employing my time during my holiday by going
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 225
carefully through the old deeds belonging 'to St. Thomas' Church,
and have found among the names of the witnesses to a deed dated
October 28, 1334, the name of John Canynges.
As far as I know, this John Canynges has hitherto escaped
notice; certainly Dallaway and Pryce were unaware of his
existence, though the latter says that the whole of the St. Thomas'
deeds passed under his observation. William Canynges is the first
member of the family whom they notice.
It seems highly probable that this John Canynges was connected
with the two famous William Canynges, for John was a family
name occurring in every generation that can be traced in the direct
line.
A John Canynges, mayor in 1393 and 1399, whose name appears
as witness in several of our deeds of that date, was son of the first
William Canynges, and father of the second.
This John Canynges had a son John, who died young.
The second William Canynges had a son John, who married a
wife Elizabeth, but who died before his father, leaving a daughter
Isabel, who likewise appears to have died young.
I should have said that the deed in which the name occurs, is
one in which John de Cheddre, son and heir of Eichard de Cheddre,
conveys to John Bernard a shop in Kedcliffe Street, and other
property. It is not an attractive deed to look at, but is not really
difficult, and there can be no doubt about John Canynges' signature.
It is interesting that the name of Richard Blanket appears among
the signatures.
I have sent this note to you because any fresh information about
the Canynges family is of general interest, and should be placed on
record'; and I thought that though you have passed the period of
the Canynges, you might find a corner for it in your book on the
history of Bristol.
I think it likely that the John Canynges living in 1334, was
father of the first William Canynges, who died in 1396.
DCLXX. BROADSIDES RELATIVE TO SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
In Lemon's Catalogue of the Printed Broadsides in the possession
of the Society of Antiquaries of London (London, 1866) the
following, which relate to Sir Thomas Overbury, are mentioned,
under the year 1615, pp. 44, 45 :
(1) The Portraiture of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knight, oetat. 32.
Renold Elstrack sculpsit. Compton Holland excudit. This is the
rare and beautiful portrait of Overbury represented in the act of
writing his own epitaph, and is the source from which all subsequent
likenesses of him have been taken. He was murdered in September,
1613; but the lines underneath the portrait show that it was not
engraved until after the trials for his poisoning had taken place,
which was nearly two years after his death.
(2) Sir Thomas Overlury or the Poysoned Knight's Complaint,
226 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Represent a tomb, on the top slab of which lies a skeleton ; and on
the side of the tomb are these verses :
" Within this house of Death a dead man lies,
Whose blood, like Abels, up for vengeance cryes ;
Time hath revealed what to trueth belongs,
And Justice sword is drawne to right my wrongs.
You poysoned mindes did me with poyson Kill,
Let true repentance purge you from that ill."
On either side of the tomb stand the figures of Time and Justice,
and underneath a short poem by Samuel Kowlands, alluding to the
tragic scenes lately perpetrated, and calling for justice upon the
murderers. Imprinted at London for John White.
(3) Mistris Turner's Farewell to all women. A large wood-cut
with two female figures ; one representing Mrs. Turner in deep
mourning; the other Lady Pride, lasciviously dressed out, and
between both these verses :
" Angell (turn'd Divell) Pride, by thee I fell,
When heere on earth I dwelt, too the pit of Hell :
Ye, spite of all thy Poysons, I am faire :
Now in God's eyes, Women by me Beware."
Then follow some verses descriptive of Mrs. Turner and Lady
Pride. Printed for John Trundle. The whole contained in a large
oval border of very rude ornamentation.
(4) Mistres Turner's Repentance, Who, about the poysoning of
that Ho : Knight Sir Thomas Overbury, Was executed the four-
teenth day of November last. A long poem descriptive of her
conduct at her execution, by T. B. Printed at London, for Henry
Grosson and John White, 1615.
I shall be glad to know of any other broadsides relative to
Overbury, and where to be seen. GLOCESTRIENSIS.
DCLXXI. MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN TURKDEAN PARISH
CHURCH. (See No. CCXCVIII.) The following inscriptions, with
the exception of the last one, which is mural, are on flatstones, and
the present position of each is indicated, several of them, it is said,
having been moved during the restoration of the building in 1859.
Nos. i., iv., vi., vii., and xiv., have been given, or referred to, with
extracts from the registers, in the previous Note, vol. i., p. 284 ;
but it is thought well to repeat them. All have been literally copied
(1882), line for line ; and they will prove rather interesting, referring
chiefly to the two families of Banaster and Coxwell,* the latter of
which, I am informed, is represented by E. R. Coxwell-Rogers, Esq.,
* " Two religious houses were seized of the greater part of the parish, and the remainder
was vested in lay proprietors, viz. Upper Turkdean belonged to Westbury college, near Bristol,
and after the dissolution of that house, was granted to sir Rafe Sadleir 35 H, 8. William
Bannister died seized of Turkedeane 2 Jac. 1., leaving Thomas his son and heir, as appears
by the escheator's inquisition, taken the same year. Thomas Bannister was seized of it in
1608, from whom it descended to Mr. serjeant Bannister, who enjoy'd it when sir Robert Atkyns
compiled his account of this parish : Since which time it passed out of that name, and
Edmund Waller ,esq.,is[1779]the present proprietor of it. Lower Turkdean belonged to the priory
of Lanthony, near Gloucester. Richard Poncy gave certain lands in Turchdene to the canons
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 227
D.L., of Dowdeswell Court, near Cheltenham. From these inscrip-
tions, and from the registers, a tolerably full pedigree of the Banaster
family may, I think, be constructed, from the year 1604 to 1720.
Of the Coxwells I find only two baptisms, and no marriages, though
there are twelve burials.
Chancel.
i.
(Within the altar rails, north side.)
" Here Lieth Interred the | Body of Dame | Elisabeth Nelthorpe,
| Wife of | the Hon ble S r | Moantague Nelthorpe, | Bar* |, Eldest
Daughter of Henry | Coxwell, Gen*. Buried Ap 11 | y e 14 th , 1718."
ii.
(Just below the sanctuary step, in a line from north to south, there
are four ; No. ii., which is small, reading the opposite way to the
others.)
"George lies, Clerk, Ob. May 21, 1731."
He was vicar of the parish from 1707 to his death in 1731.
iii.
" Here Lieth M r John Coxwell, | Second Son of Henry Coxwell. |
Buried March y e 17 th , 1696-7. | Also Henry, Eldest Son of Henry
Coxwell, Gen* 1 . Buried April y e 6 th , 1697."
iv.
" Here Lyeth the Body of [Mary], | the Eldest Daughter of
John Coxwell, of Nether Turkedeane, | Gen* : who Departed this
Life | the 19 th day of May, 1683."
Four lines of Latin verse follow. " Mary " must have been the
name that is wanting, as appears from the register.
v.
" Here Lieth M rs Leanna Coxwell, | Second Daughter of Henry |
Coxwell. Buried April y e 1 1 th , 1713."
vi.
(Down the centre of the chancel, in a line from east to west, there
are three.)
"Here Lieth the Body of Leanna, | Wife of Henry Coxwell,
Gen*, and | youngest Daughter of Paul Dod | well, Gen*, and the
Lady Kalleigh. | Buried Dec 1 ' ye 26, 1700. j Also Mary, Third
Daughter of j Henry and Leanna Coxwell, Gen*. | Buried Jan y y e
12 th , 1700."
regular of Lanthony, which were afterwards confirmed to them by the king's charter 1 Joh.,
and a writ of Quo warranto was brought against the prior to set forth his right to a court
leet and waifs in Turkdean, and his claim was allowed 15 E. 1. After the dissolution of that
priory, this estate was granted to Richard Andrews and Nicholas Temple, in trust, 35 H. 8.
John Walter, upon the death of his father, had livery of this manor granted to him 1 Eliz.
It came afterwards to Oliver lord St. John, who died seized thereof 24 Eliz., and John lord
St. John, his son, had livery of it the same year. It passed afterwards to Mr. Coxwell, who
enjoyed it about half a century since ; but it is now [1779] the property of sir John Nelthrop,
baronet." Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 778.
228 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Vll.
" Here Lyeth the Body of Robert, the | youngest Son of John
Coxwell, of | Nether Turkedeane, Gen fc , who | departed this Life the
19 th day of | February, 1683, in the 21 th yeare of his age."
Here follow twenty-six lines of Latin verse.
Vlll.
" Here Lyeth the Body of Anne, |
John | Coxwell, of Nether Turkdeane,
this life | the 11 th day of July, 1675."
Nave.
the youngest Daughter of
Gentleman, who departed
IX.
(In a continuous line down the centre, from the chancel steps to
the tower arch, there are six.)
" Here Lyeth the Body of William | Banastre, Gentl n , who
departed this | Life upon the 25 th day of June, An Domini 1685, |
Annoque -^Etatis suse 71. | On his left hand Lies Jane, | his Wife,
who departed this | Life June 10 th , 1707, | Aged 88."
x,
"Here Lyeth the Body of Jane, | the Daughter of William
Banastre, | Gentl n , who departed this Life | upon the 23 th day of
Aprill, | An Domini 1685, | Annoque ^Etatis suse 36."
XL
" Here Lyeth alsoe
Elizabeth, Wife
of John Coxwell,
who departed
this Life the 2 d
day of September,
An Domini 1693.
Here Lyeth the
body of John Cox-
well, of Nether
Turkdeane, Gen-
tleman, who depar
ted this life the 3
day of March,
1666."
xn.
" In a vault | Beneath this stone | are laid the bodies of | Henry
Coxwell, Esq r , | and Anne, his second Wife. A Generous |
Benefactress to this Parish. He died | August the 23 rd , 1731, Aged
75 Years, | and She died February, 1735, | Aged 71 Years."
xiii.
" Here lyeth the body | of John, the Son of John | Coxwell, of
Nether | Turkdeane, Gentleman, I who departed this life I the 26 th
day of May, 1675."
xiv.
"Here Lieth Buried the Body of | S r William Banastre, Kn*, |
Serjeant at Law, and | One of the Barons of the Exchequer | in
the Eeigne of her Late Majesty | Queen Anne, | who departed this
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life p] 17 th [day] of January, 1720, in the 69 th year of his
Age."*
This monument is in a bad state of preservation, several words
being scarcely legible.
xv.
(On the north wall of the nave, towards the east end.)
" Sacred to the Memory of, and erected by his Widow, in token
of her affection for, | the Eeverend George Hornsby, A.M., | late
Student of Christ Church, Oxford ; | for Thirty Years the truly
respected Vicar of | this Parish, with the Perpetual Curacy of
Aldsworth, | and the deeply lamented Parent of nine Surviving
Children. He died August 29 th , 1837 : Aged 57."
All the foregoing inscriptions can be confirmed by entries in the
registers except two, viz. (1) Elizabeth Coxwell (No. xi.), whose
burial was during the period for which there is a gap in the register,
1692-96; and (2) Henry Coxwell (No. xii.); which omission is
most probably due to the fact of his death having occurred during
a vacancy in the benefice. George lies, vicar, was buried May 25,
1731, and the next entry is dated March 23, 1731-2, in the hand-
writing of Henry Massey, who succeeded him.
Turkdean Vicarage, Northleach. J - L - TUDOR, M.A.
DCLXXII. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BARONETCIES, EXTINCT OR DOR-
MANT. The following list of baronetcies, with the years in which
they were respectively created, and in which they became extinct
or dormant, may prove interesting :
1. Bathurst, of Leachlade, 1643 . See No. CCCLXIII.
2. Compton, of Hartbury, 1686-1773.
3. Duddlestone, of Bristol, 169J- .
4. Button, of Sherborne, 1678-1743.
5. Fust, of Hill, 1682-1779.
6. Guise; of Elmore, 1661-1783.
7. Hicks, of Campden, 1620-1629.
8. Keyt, of Ebrington, 1660-1784.
9. Laroche, of Over, 1776-cm?.1805.
10. Lippincott, of Stoke Bishop, 1778-1829.
11. Newton, of Barrs Court, 1660-1743.
12. Paul, of Eodborough, 1762-1820.
13. Stephens, of St. Faith's, 1795-1809.
14. Throckmorton, of Tortworth, 1611-1682.
* What follows is from Foss' Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England (London,
1870), p. 62 : "BANISTER, William, was of a family which resided at Turk Dean, in the
county of Gloucester, in possession of a very considerable estate. He received his legal
education at the Middle Temple, and being honoured with the degree of the coif in 1706, was
then appointed one of the judges of South Wales ; from which position he was advanced, on
the recommendation of Lord Harcourt, to be a baron of the Exchequer, on June 8, 1713, when
he was knighted. He occupied this seat for little more than a year, being superseded on October
14, 1714, not three months after the accession of George I., having been reported by Lord
Cowper as ' a man not at all qualified i'or the place.' (Atkyns' Gloucestershire, 413 ; Lord,
Raymond, 1261, 1318.)" Ed.
230 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
15. Topp, of Tormarton, 1668 .
16. Tracy, of Stanway, 1611-1677.
17. Viner, of London, 1661 .
18. Viner, of London, 1666-1680.
19. Yeamans, of Bristol, 1664-1788.
20. Yeamans, of Redland, 1666-168f
Nos. 17 and 18 may not, strictly speaking, have been Gloucester"
shire baronetcies ; but the baronets were " descended of a Gloucester-
shire family." Additions or amendments to the foregoing list will
be acceptable. GENEALOGIST.
DCLXXIII. "MOTHERING SUNDAY." In Hone's Table Book,
vol. i, col. 625, there is this letter from Bristol, dated March 28,
1827 : " To the accounts in the Every-Day Book of the observance
of Mid Lent, or ' Mothering Sunday ', I would add, that the day is
scrupulously observed in this city and neighbourhood ; and, indeed,
I believe, generally in the western parts of England. The festival
is kept here much in the same way as the 6th of January is with
you : that day is passed over in silence with us. All who consider
themselves dutiful children, or who wish to be so considered by
others, on this day make presents to their mother, and hence derived
the name of 'Mothering Sunday.' The family all assemble; and,
if the day prove fine, proceed, after church, to the neighbouring
village to eat frumerty. The higher classes partake of it at their
own houses, and in the evening come the cake and wine. The
4 Mothering cakes ' are very highly ornamented, artists being
employed to paint them. This social meeting does not seem confined
to the middling or lower orders ; none, happily, deem themselves
too high to be good and amiable. The custom is of great antiquity ;
and long, long may it be prevalent amongst us."
The foregoing is, I think, worthy of admission into your pages.
G. A. W.
DCLXXIV. DINGLEY'S " HISTORY FROM MARBLE." The follow-
ing particulars (taken in order as they occur) from the descriptive
table of contents of Dingley's History from Marble (which was
compiled in the reign of Charles II. , and has been edited by the
late John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., for the Camden Society, London,
1867-8) will be acceptable to the student of Gloucestershire
archaeology :
Bristol
" From y e city of Bath to Bristol are ten miles, and y e conveni-
ency of a stage-coach each day, throughout the season of the Waters,
the passengers paying half a crown apiece." Busts of Belinus and
Brennus, the British kings, and arms of Belinus. (There were
statues of these heroic personages at St. John's Gate and Lawford's
Gate. See Seyer's Memoirs of Bristol, 1821, vol. i., p. 55. Those
which sit in state on the south front of the tower of St. John's
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 231
Church, and are probably coeval with that structure, circ. 1370, are
engraved on Seyer's title-page.) -Notices of the curious bronze
posts with flat basons at the Tolsey; also of the Hot "Well,
St. Vincent's Rocks, and the Bristol diamonds. Longevity in Bitton
Hannam parish in 1671. South view of St. Mary Kedcliff.
Monument and epitaph of Sir William Penn, 1670. (See engraving
of his funeral insignia, from Bloxam's privately-printed Fragmenta
Sepulchralia.} Monument of William Canynges. Effigy of John
Lavington. Pagan idol in a niche in the wall. (Not known to be
now in existence.)
Bristol Cathedral.
Cross-legged effigy of a Berkeley. (Engraved in Gough's Sepul-
chral Monuments, vol. i., pi. xiv.) Tombstone of Edith Bushe,
1553. Effigies of William Delafount (ob. 1480) and Alice, his
wife. Monument of Bishop Paul Bushe, 1558. Monument of
Abbot Naileherte. (See Herald and Genealogist, vol. iv., pp. 291,
303.) Epitaph of Sir Charles Vaughan, 1630. View of his
monument (recently removed.) Epitaph of Sir Henry Newton, of
Barscourt, 1599. Arms of Newton impaling Paston. Epitaph of
Sir John Newton, of Barscourt, 1661. (See Herald and Genealo-
gist, vol. iv., pp. 444, 445.)
Bristol.
View of St. Austin's Church. Couplet on scabbard of the City
Sword.
Leigh, near Gloucester.
Epitaph of Kobert Huntington, vicar, 1664.
Gloucester.
View of the South Gate, with the royal armorial insignia as
restored in 1671. (The shields on either side are those of the king's
brothers, James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester.
This gate was rebuilt in 1643, having fallen down soon after the
siege; it is described by Rudder, 1779, as " almost in tire," but was
pulled down soon after, with the East and North gates, under an
Improvement Act. (Fosbrooke's Gloucester, 1819, p. 130.) Acros-
tics on Papa and Mors, from Blount's Glossarium (4th ed.), p. 8.
South view of Gloucester Cathedral. Epitaphs in the churchyard
of Richard Wright and George Willerts. (See Fosbrooke's
Gloucester, p. 287.) Curiosities of the Cathedral. Epitaph of the
wife of John Cholmeley, Esq. View of the monument of Robert
Curthose, Earl of Gloucester, surrounded with the arms of the Nine
Worthies (as described in Herald and Genealogist, 1862, vol. i.,
p. 177, and engraved in Sandford's Genealogical History of England,
1677, p. 16, and Fosbrooke's Gloucester, p. 252.)
Berkeley.
Epitaphs of Mr. William Hopton and Mr. Timothy Bevin.
232 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Twining.
Translation of the epitaph of Baldwyn in the next page. Arms
of Baldwyn (two coats often repeated on the roof of the church).
Epitaph of Edwin Baldwyn, 1669. Inscription to R. S., 1678.
Coat painted in the glass of Mr. Charles Hancock's house.
Alderley.
Note on fossils found there.
Cirencester Church.
Achievement of nine quarterings of Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador
to the Great Turk. (Sir Thomas was M.P. for Cirencester in 1620 :
see his memoirs in the biographical dictionaries. His portrait is
engraved by Vertue, 1741, and in Ogborne's History of Essex, 1814,
p. 93.) Arms of Prelate, and of Dyxton. Epitaph of two Latin
lines, and translation. Description of figure of Richard Duke of
York in east window of north aisle.
Tewkesbury Abbey.
History of the Abbey, and its founders. Arms of John Lackland,
Earl of Gloucester, and of Aluiaric Earl of Gloucester. Arms of
Monthermer. South view of Tewkesbury Abbey Church. Arms
of Bulstrode impaling Dingley. Arms of Robert Earl of Gloucester.
Epitaph of Conan Richardson, and arms. Epitaph of John
Roberts, Gent., 1631, and arms. Epitaph of George Jeyne, 1669,
and arms. Tomb of Robert Eitz Hamon, the Founder. Chantry
chapel of the same, erected in 1397. (Engraved in Gough's
Monuments, vol. i., pi. ii) Epitaph of Anne, wife of Paris Slaughter,
Esq., and daughter of Daniel Pert, Esq., 1640; and arms of
Slaughter impaling Pert. (Bennett's History of Tewkesbury, 1830,
p. 364.) Epitaph of Priscilla, wife of Henry Tracy, of Southweek,
only daughter of Charles Eure, son of William Lord Eure,
1632. Arms of Eure. (Bennett's TewJcesbury, p. 365.) Monu-
ment of Hugh le Despenser and his wife, Elizabeth Montacute,
daughter of William Earl of Salisbury. (Engraved in Lysons'
Gloucestershire Antiquities, pi. Ixxii ; also in two plates, by S.
Wale, 1745, being then attributed to George Duke of Clarence :
see Gough's Monuments, vol. ii., p. 256.) Monument of Abbot
John (Cotes), ob. 1347. (The tomb is of marble : its framework,
above and below, if not the monument of another person, was
built to receive the original sarcophagus during the Perpendicular
period. It is far richer in ornament than Dingley has sketched it.
Engraved in Lysons' Antiquities, pi. Ixxi.) Inscriptions on the blue
gallery and the pulpit. Monument of Abbot Richard Cheltenham
(remarkable for its symbols relating to pilgrimage. Engraved in
Lysons' Antiquities, pi. Ivii. Instead of one shield in each spandril,
as drawn by Dingley, there are two ; and they are repeated on each
side of the tomb.) Monument attributed to Gilbert de Clare.
Interment of the heart of Isabella Countess of Cornwall, Gloucester,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 233
and Warwick, and Queen of the Komans. Chantry chapel of
Isabella le Despenser, Countess of Warwick. (Engraved in Gough's
Monuments, vol. ii., pi. xxxix.) Monument of Abbat Alan, ob.
1202. (The cross on its surface is totally unlike Dingley's drawing :
above it are the words, ALANVS ABBAS. The monument is en-
graved in Gough's Monuments, vol. i., pi. ix., and the coffin lid,
fig. 2. See also Lysons' account of the opening of this tomb, in
ArchcBologia, vol. xiv., p. 152, where the crosier then found is
engraved.) Shields of arms on the Countess Isabella's chapel : 1.
Clare ; 2. France and England (defaced) ; 3. Beauchamp and the
Earldom of Warwick quarterly ; 4. Clare and Despenser quarterly.
Description of the chantry chapel of Edward Lord le Despenser,
K.G., whose figure kneeling is placed on the roof. (Engraved in
Gough's Monuments, vol. i., pi. liii., and Carter's Ancient Sculpture
and Painting, pi. xxii. An inside view of this chapel is given in
Lysons' Antiquities, pi. Ixxxii ; the kneeling figures of Lord le
Despenser and his wife painted on the wall are engraved, and
also in the Gentleman's Magazine, Nov., 1849). Inscription :
ALTARE SANCTARUM viRGiNVM. Arms of Odo. Monument of Sir
Guy de Bryan, K.G., ob. 1390. (Engraved in Gough's Monuments,
vol. i., pi. liii. j the effigy in plates 96, 97, of Stothard's Monumental
Effigies of Great Britian, with a vignette of the monument. He was
buried at Tewkesbury because he had married Elizabeth Montacute,
the widow of Hugh Lord le Despenser, before mentioned. Dingley
here confuses the name of Bryan with that of " O'Brien, or Fitz
Brien, of the noble family of the Earls of Thomond." There is a
memoir of Sir Guy de Bryan, under the designation of Guy Lord
Bryan, for he was summoned to Parliament in 1350, in Beltz's
Memorials of the Order of the Garter, p. 179.) Escucheon on the
grave of Mr. Edward Alye,* of Tewkesbury, Gent., 1616. (He
was one of the bailiffs of the town in 1587, 1593, and 1600 ; and
father of Dingley's friend, Mr. Theophilus Alye, of Hereford : like
his son, he had been " a respecter of y e Monuments of the dead,"
which he proved by keeping Sir Guy de Bryan's chapel in repair at
his own charge.) Notice of the monument with an emaciated effigy
now assigned to Abbot Wakeman, the last abbot of Tewkesbury ;
attributed by Dingley to a man found dead in Tewkesbury Park.
(Engraved in Lysons' Antiquities, pi. xlv.) Windows in the
choir. (Dingley states that they had been " lately repaired by the
ingenuity, care, and contrivance of ," but unfortunately
omits the name. The figures, being a series of the Earls of
Gloucester, are still tolerably preserved ; one window, containing
four of the earls, is represented in its proper colours in Lysons'
Antiquities, pi. Ixvi. : the same four figures and four others are
delineated in Carter's Ancient Sculpture and Painting.) Vault of
* Mr. Nichols has stated in a postscript, p. 177, that as Alye " was living in 1623, Dingley
was mistaken in supposing that the brief inscription ' 1616. B. ALYE.' commemorated his
interment. It probably marked the grave of a child, and very likely that of Edward, his
second son by his first wife.
234 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
George of York, Duke of Clarence. Epitaph of the Rev. Robert
Eaton, 1667. Epitaph of the Rev. Edward Loosby. Gravestone
despoiled of its brasses, attributed to Prince Edward, son of King
Henry VI, killed at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471; but
probably that of an abbot. (See Gough's Monuments, vol. ii., p. 225.
This stone, having been removed by new paving, may now be
recognized, cut into two portions, at a doorway which leads from
the south transept to the adjoining meadow.) Ancient gravestone
of Leger de Park, probably the Park of Tewkesbury (misread Parr
by Gough, Monuments, vol. i., p. 196.) Epitaph of Eleanor, wife
of Theophilus Alye, Gent., daughter of Thomas Vaughan, of
Tewkesbury, Esq., 164.2. Arms of Alye impaling Vaughan.
Epitaph of Mary, daughter of James Thompson, rector of Thorn-
haugh, Northamptonshire, and Anne, daughter of Theophilus and
Eleanor Alye, 1677. Sketch of the communion table, or high
altar, of the Abbey Church. (This very large slab has been sawn into
two pieces, which now form the stone seats on either side of
the Abbey porch.) Shield of Odo. Epitaph and arms of Charles
Bridges, Esq., 1669. Epitaph of Thomas Poulton, written in verse
by Rogers Huit, 1604. Epitaph of Mr. Christopher Atkinson.
Inscriptions on the bells. Epitaphs of two masons, John Boulter,
1647, and Thomas Boulter, junr., 1675 ; with the arms of Boulter
and the Masons' Company. Monument attributed (erroneously) to
John Lord Wenlock. (Engraved in Gough's Monuments, vol. ii.,
pi. Ixxxvii., p. 222. The effigy is engraved in Stothard's Monu-
mental Effigies, plates, 73, 74. No name is there assigned to it,
for it was "not appropriated by Mr. Stothard." The editor, Mr.
Kempe, remarks, " The hands are raised in the attitude of prayer,
and the bare feet indicate, perhaps, a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The
details of the armour, mail and plate, are curious.") Epitaph of
William Miles, 1668. Extracts from the Churchwardens' Book of
Accompts. Arms of John Lord Coventry, high steward of Tewkes-
bury. Deed of William Fitz William, the black, of Languedune,
granting to John Lesquire, of Languedune, a piece of land in the
same vill, with a seal inscribed SIGILLVM WILLELMI LE HEIR. s. d.
Another seal inscribed s. WILLEL'I SEVERI. Seal of Richard Ode.
Seal of office of the borough of Tewkesbury, with shield of the
cross of Odo. Seal of Statute Merchant : SIGILLVM STATV. CAP. IN
TEWKSBVRIA. Seal of the Governors of the Revenues of the Free
School in Tewkesbury. Account of Tewkesbury, from a record in
the hands of Mr. Thomas Jeynes. Charter of Inspeximus, 11
Edw. III., reciting a charter of Gilbert Earl of Gloucester and
Hertford, 1314. Tewkesbury Deacon Foundation, 14 Jac. I.
Seal of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. (Engraved, with its
reverse, in Sandford's Genealogical History, p. 139.) Inscription
on the monument of Isabella Countess of Warwick. Inscription
on Robert Fitz Hamon's chapel. EDITOR.
DCLXXV. MAY DAY. Mr. Charles Henry Poole, in his
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 235
Customs, Superstitions, and Legends of the County of Somerset
(London, 1877), p. 11, reminds us that in ancient times it was
customary for persons of all ranks to go out a Maying. A friend,
the Eev. E. A. Taylor, writes to me (he says) as follows :
"On Clifton Downs, yearly, there is a meeting of those who
go a Maying." May is considered as the boundary-day that
divided the confines of winter and summer, allusively to which
there ,,. was instituted a sportful war between two parties : the
one in defence of the continuation of winter, the other for
briflgfhg in the summer. The youths were divided into troops,
the one in winter livery, the other in the gay habit of the spring.
The mock battle was always fought for booty. The spring was
sure to obtain the victory, which they celebrated by carrying
triumphantly green branches with May flowers, proclaiming and
singing the song of joy, of which the burden was in these or
equivalent terms : * We have brought the summer home.' Many
imagine that the institution of this festival originated from the
Koman Floralia, or the Celtic La Beltine ; others, among whom was
Olaus, conjecture, that it was derived from our Gothic ancestors,
who fought the Southern Swedes in a mock battle, the one
personifying the summer, the other the winter. This custom is
still maintained in the Isle of Man, where the Danes and
Norwegians had for a long time held sway. The customs of May,
as setting up the May-pole, dancing round it, trimming the house
with branches of trees for good luck, have lost their hold on our
people in this busy age, even in rustic Somerset.
1 No more the May-pole's verdant height around,
To valour's games th 'ambitious youths advance ;
N~o merry bells and labor's sprightly sound
Wake the loud carol and the sportive dance.'"
G. A. W.
DCLXXVI. BERKELEY HUNDRED IN 1571. The relative
importance of some of the villages in the hundred of Berkeley in
the 13th year of Elizabeth, 1571, is shown by a subsidy roll
preserved in the Public Record Office ; from which the following
list is taken, with the respective numbers of those who were assessed
to the subsidy :
Cam, 25 ; Slimbridge, 22 ; Berkeley borough, 10 ; Breadstone,
5 ; Hinton, 14 ; Ham and Stone, 26 ; Ham fallow, 10 ; Alkington,
15 ; Hill, 8 ; Dursley, 18 ; Beverston, 7 ; Nibley, 17 ; Woodman-
cote, 8 j Nympsfield, 7 ; and Newington, 14.
The original gives the name of each taxpayer, and the amounts
paid, and whether from lands or from goods.
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.C.L.
DCLXX VII. MEMORANDA IN CIRENCESTER PARISH REGISTERS.
In the register of marriages, under date April, 1655, this
memorandum [which has been quoted in No. DCXXIV.] occurs ;
236 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" Note that the reason wherefore here wanteth several years and
some several months for weddings, at this time the Hump Par-
liament set forth an Act that all Banns should be published 3 several
market days at the High Cross [which then stood in the Market
Place, but has been removed to Earl Bathurst's demesne], and after
such publishing the parties to be married by a Justice of the Peace,
so that there was but little to be done in the Churches, the said
Parliament all consisting of Anabaptists and Independents."
In the register of baptisms there is the following :
"Queen Ann laye in this Town 27 August, 1702, at the house
of Thomas Master, Esq r ."
Cirencester. C. H. SAVORY.
With reference to the first memorandum, it may be well to quote
part of the "pretended "Act passed Aug. 24, 1653: "That whosoever
should agree to be married within the Commonweath of England,
after the 29th Sept., 1653, should (21 days before such intended
marriage) deliver in writing unto the Eegister (therinafter appointed)
for the respective parish, where each party to be married lived, the
names, surnames, additions, and places of abode of the parties so to
be married, and of their parents, guardians, or overseers, all which
said Eegister should publish three Lord's Days then next following,
at the close of the morning exercise, in the public meeting-place,
commonly called the church or chapel, or (if the parties desired it)
in the market-place next to the said church or chapel, on three
market-days, in three several weeks next following, between the
hours of 1 1 and 2 ; which done, the Registrar should make a
certificate thereof, without which the persons thereinafter author-
ized, should not proceed in such marriage."
In Flecknoe's* Diarium (London, 1656) we have this jeu
d'esprit :
"ON THE JUSTICE OF PEACE'S MAKING MARRIAGES AND CRYING
THEM IN THE MARKET.
1.
Now just as twas in Saturns Reign,
The Golden Age is returned again,
And Astrea again from Heaven is come
"When all on Earth by Justice is done.
2.
Amongst the rest, we have cause to be glad
Now Marriages are in markets made ;
Since Justice we hope will take order there,
We may not be cousened no more in our ware.
6.
Besides, each thing would fall out right,
And that old Proverb be verefied by't,
* Dryden has immortalized this self -conceited author by giving his name to one of the severest
satires ever published, viz., " Mac Flecknoe,"
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 237
That Marriage and Hanging both together,
When Justice shall have disposing of either.
9.
Let Parson and Vicar then say what they will,
The Custome is good (God continue it still),
For Marriage being a now Trafique and Trade,
Pray where but in Markets should it be made ?
10.
Twas well ordain'd they should be no more
In Churches nor Chappels then as before,
Since for it in Scripture we have an example
How buyers and sellers were drov'n out o' th' Temple.
11.
Mean time God blesse the Parliament
In making this Act so honestly meant ;
Of these good marriages God blesse the breed,
And God blesse us all, for was never more need."
With reference to the second memorandum given above, it may
be observed, that it was a frequent custom to insert occurrences of
a memorable or historical nature, and those of local interest, such
as royal visits, etc. ; and the omission of such notices has been
severely, but very justly censured by sundry writers. Thus, in the
History of Naseby, 1 792, by the Eev. John Mastin, Vicar of the parish,
p. 116, the following passage may be found : "June 14, 1645, was
fought in this Field a decisive battle between the Royalists and the
Parliamentarians which determined the fate of these Kingdoms,
and in the sequel lost the King (Charles) his life. Very little
tradition of it is left in the village, nor does the Register of the
Parish make mention of it, an omission utterly inexcusable in a
resident clergyman." The hint should not be neglected.
EDITOR.
DCLXXVIII. GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. There is a rather
curious old folio broadside, with a rude engraving of the exterior of
the building in the upper left-hand corner, and entitled "An
Abstract of the most Material Things belonging to the Cathedral
of St. Peter, Gloucester." It has not a date, but was printed
apparently not long after the middle of the last century certainly
after the death of Bishop Benson, August 30, 1752, and of Anthony
Ellis, D.D., Bishop of St. David's, January 17, 1761; and the
following is a literal copy of one in the possession of Major C.
Hawkins Fisher, of The Castle, Stroud. GLOCESTRIENSIS.
Aldred, Bishop of Worcester, 1047, and afterwards Archbishop
of York, who crowned King William the Conqueror, built and
finished this Cathedral-church about the Year 1061.
VOL. II. R
238 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Abbot Horton in 1351 built the North Isle, and a great Hall in
which a Parliament was afterwards kept.
In 1381 Abbot Trocester [Froucester] began the Building of the -
neat and large Cloister ; and at the West End of the North Cloister
is a Washing-place, near the Kefectory, for the Conveniency of the
Monks before and after their Kepasts,
Abbot Seabrooke began the Building of the stately Tower, and
appointed Eobert Tull, a Monk of this Church, to take Care of the
finishing it, who afterwards was consecrated Bishop of St. David's
in 1450. This appears by two Verses writ in the Choir over the
Arch of the Tower,
Hoc quod digestum specularis opusque politum
Tullii hgec ex onere, Seabrooke Abbate jubente.
Abbot Hanly in 1457 laid the Foundation of the Virgin Mary's
Chapel.
Abbot Parker was the last Abbot, in whose Time the Abby was
resigned to King Henry VIII. by the Prior, and not by the Abbot.
Abbot Morewent in 1419 built the Frontispiece at the West
End from the Ground.
The whole Number of Abbots were Thirty-three.
Dimensions of the said Cathedral.
The Lady's Chapel in Length 30 Yards, in Breadth nine Yards,
in Height 22 Yards.
The Choir in Length 47 Yards, in Breadth 12 Yards and a Half,
in Height 28 Yards and one Foot.
The Body of the Church in Length 57 Yards nine Inches, in
Breadth 28 Yards one Foot, in Height 23 Yards and two Feet.
The Length of the Whole is 148 Yards and eight Inches.
Each Isle in the large Cloister (which contains four) is in Length
49 Yards, in Breadth four Yards one Foot, in Height five Yards
and a Half, and always kept locked up unless in the Time of
Service.
There is also a lesser Cloister, which is inhabited, and contains
four Isles, and a Passage for People to pass through.
There is a Place called the Whispering-place, and very remark-
able. It is a long Alley from one Side of the Choir to the other,
and built circular, and contains in Length 28 Yards. You may
hear from one Side to the other, if a Person speak ever so low.
The Church on the Outside in Height is 28 Yards and a Half.
The Tower from the Bottom to the Top of the Cross-Bars 300
Feet.
The great Bell in the Tower weighs GOOOlb. Weight, and has
eight Men to ring the same.
There is likewise a fine Peal of eight Bells, The Porch in
Length seven Yards, in Breadth six Yards, and in Height eight
Yards and Half.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 239
Monuments in this Cathedral.
The principal Monuments in this Cathedral are as follow, viz.
1. In the Choir lies Bishop Aldred, who died September the
llth, 1069.
2. In the Isle of the North Side of the Choir going to the Lady's
Chapel lie Abbot Parker; King Edward the Second, who was
murdered at Berkeley Castle; King Osrick, of Northumberland;
and Robert Curthoise, Duke of Normandy, and eldest Son to
William the Conqueror.
3. In the Lady's Chapel are the Monuments of Judge Powell ;
Mrs. Williams ; Mrs. Clent ; Bishop Nicholson ; Bishop Coulsborne
[Goldsborough] ; and Thomas Fitzwilliams, Esq.
4. On the South Side of the Choir lie Abbot Seabrooke;
Chancellor Baber; Sir Humphry Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who
died in 1367, and his Lady; Mr. Pates; John Gower; and Bishop
Benson.
5. In the Body Mr. Abraham Blackleach, and his Lady ; Mr.
Alderman Machen, and his Lady ; Mr. Hendy ; Mrs. Hinton ; Mr.
Wright; Mr. Alderman Jones; Mrs. Singleton; and Dr. Ellis,
Bishop of Saint David's.
DCLXXIX. A DISCOVERY AT TEMPLE CHURCH, BRISTOL. In
the Antiquary (August 24, 1872), vol. ii., p. 207, it is stated that
as the workmen engaged in the restoration of the interior of Temple
Church were removing a portion of the floor in the south aisle,
they suddenly came upon the entrance to a large brick vault, arched
over, and filled with water to within two feet of the arch.
Floating on the surface was an air-tight leaden coffin, the wooden
outer coffin of which had long since rotted away, and been left at
the bottom of the vault. A cursory examination revealed the fact
that there were three or four other coffins beneath the water, but
the one alluded to was the only one floating. This case affords a
simple explanation of occasional appearances in burial vaults, which
have given rise to superstitious ideas as to supposed causes at work
in moving the coffins. BRISTOLIENSIS.
DCLXXX. AN ANALYSIS OF THE BRISTOL WATERS, 1723.
I send you (writes a correspondent of the Bristol Times and
\ Mirror, April 20, 1881) the accompanying quaint analysis of the
( Bristol waters, by a physician who was of repute in Northumberland
in his day. BRISTOLIENSIS.
Experiments on Bristol Waters, read December 19 th , 1723.
Hon d S r , As the Bristoll waters are become of so general use,
| and as no one as far as I know has made conclusive experiments
upon them, I beleiv'd it might not be disagreeable to submit the
following trials to yo r candid judgm*. If they are judg d by you to
240 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
be of any use they are at the publicks service in what manner you
please to publish'em.
By dropping into them tincture of sulphur they turn milky,
therefore the dissolving menstruum is aqueous.
By pouring upon them oil of vitriol they grow hot.
By dropping into them spirit of nitre in which silver was
dissolv'd a milky grey subsides.
By dropping into them a solution of saccharum saturni they
grow milky.
From these three experiments I gather that as most common
water they contain sea salt. By their making the solution of
saccharum saturni white, and by their turning of a beautiful green
with syrup of violets, I conclude they contain an alcali.
N.B. Sea salt as well as alcalis precipitate vitriolicks, hence
sacch saturni is precipitated by either.
To know if this alcali were volatile I pour'd the waters upon a
solution of sublimate w* h they did not alter.
To know if this alcali were iixt I pour'd them on the same
solution strongly impregnated, w ch they did not alter either into a
red or yellow.
Therefore their alcali is a chalk.
I scrap'd galls into them, upon w ch they turn'd of a whitish
yellow, and this cloud by standing, precipitated. From whence I
conclude they are cuprio vitriolick, and as no vitriol is without an
acid, so any aci4 running upon a chalk makes an alum, therfor
water running over copper, chalk, and sea salt if impregnated with an
acidity will be vitriolick, aluminous, alcaline, and saline, therefore I
conclude they are aqueo, salino, alcalino, cretaceo, aluminoso,
cupreo, vitriolick, and their effects seem to confirm these experiments.
I am, Hon d S r ,
Yo r most oblig d humble serv*,
EDW D STROTHER.
Nov. 17 th , 1723.
For S r Hans Sloane, Bar*, near Bloomsberry-square.
DCLXXXI. NICHOLS' " COLLECTANEA TOPOGRAPHICA ET GENE-
ALOGICA." The following articles, more or less connected with the
history of Gloucestershire, may be found in this publication, 8 vols.
8vo., London, 1834-43 :
Vol. i.
P. 1. Account of the Sale of Bishops' Lands, 1647-51*
See also pp. 122, 284.
73. List of Monastic Cartularies at present existing, or
which are known to have existed since the dissolution
of religious houses. See also pp. 197, 208, 399 ; voL
ii, 102.
129. Pedigree of Giffard de Brimesfeild, from the Plea-rolls.
168. Burials in Llanthony Abbey, from Aske's Collections.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 241
P. 243. Descendants of Matthew Furneaux, from same.
318. Pedigree of Wm. Marquess of Berkeley, from Harl.
MSS. 1074.
320. Account of Lechlade Bridge.
Vol. ii.
16. List of Charters in the Winchcombe Chartularies, in
the possession of Lord Sherborne.
168. Abstract of Inquisitions post mortem, temp. Hen.
III.
247. Mandate from Henry II. regarding payment of rents
to the Abbat and Monks of Gloucester.
Vol. iii.
19. Valuation of Estates of the Bishopricks of England
and Wales, 1647, from Rawl. MSS. 240.
95. Account of the several branches of the Family of
Chamberlayne, from " The Chamberlaynes Pedigree,"
&c.
284. Bathurst Extracts from the registers of Iver, Bucks.
Vol. iv.
52. Alington Inscriptions on brass plates in Horseheath
Church, Cambridgeshire.
244. Release of the Prior and Fraternity of Kalendaries in
Bristol, of property there, to Glastonbury Abbey,
1466.
271. Inscription on flatstone in Burnham Church, Bucks,
from Cole's MSS.
Vol. v.
28. Hungerford Extracts from the registers of Bedwyn
Magna, Wilts. See also pp. 137, 359-62.
Vol. vi.
243. Burial of John Buckle, 1657, from the register of
Malmesbury, Wilts.
Vol. vii.
70. Abstracts of Hungerford Wills.
81. Memorials of the Stumpe Family, of Malmesbury.
279. Description of an ancient register of Aston-sub-Edge,
with Extracts.
Vol. viii.
137. Inscription of Richardson Harrison, Esq. (died at
Cheltenham, July 31, 1835) and family, in South
Warnborough Church, Hants.
159. Earldom of Gloucester (Clare).
389. Inscription of Richard Atkins, Esq., of Tuffley, in
Sherborne St. John Church, Hants.
GENEALOGIST.
242 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DCLXXXII. ANCIENT GLOUCESTERSHIRE SEALS. The late Mr.
Thomas Thorpe, of London, published, about the year 1836, A
Catalogue of upwards of fifteen hundred Impressions from Ancient
Seals, which had been collected by John Caley, Esq., F.S.A.,
Keeper of the Eecords in the Augmentation-Office, " with a view
to the illustration of early British history." The letters n.d., as
below, it may be well to mention, signify undated; s., sulphur;
and doc., docketed by Mr. Caley, who "formed, during many years'
ardent research, the present unique collection." The following items,
being Nos. 284-338 in the catalogue, and for the most part in
separate boxes, relate to Gloucestershire :
1. Seal of the Priory of St. Bartholomew, Cart, n.d., s., doc., 3s.
2. Seal of the Prior of St. Bartholomew's, Deed n.d., wax, fine,
doc., 3s.
3. Seal of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, Acknowledgment
of Supremacy, 1534, s., doc., 3s.
4. Seal of Bristol, fine, wax, 3s.
5. Seal of John Cobham, Abbot of Cirencester, wax, 2s.
6. Seal of John, Abbot of Cirencester, List. Pope Clement, s.,
doc., 2s. Qd.
7. Seal of the Abbot of Cirencester, temp. Hen. VIII., s., doc., 2s.
8. Seal of the Abbot of Cirencester, temp. Hen. VIII. , wax, 2s.
9. Seal of the Monastery of Cirencester, Acknowledgment of
Supremacy, s., doc., 3s.
10. Seal and Counter Seal of the Abbey of Flaxley, Cart. 10
Ediv. II., s., fine, doc., 3s.
11. Seal and Counter Seal of the Abbey of Flaxley, Will. Abbot,
s., fine, doc., 3s.
12. Common Seal of the Friar Minor Preachers, wax, very fine,
communicated by Mr. Bayley, of the Tower, doc., 3s.
13. Seal of the City of Gloucester, wax, communicated by Mr.
Rosser, very fine, 4s.
14. Seal of the Monastery of Hayles, from a matrix found in
Yorkshire, very fine, wax, doc., with description cut out of a
newspaper at the time it was found, 5s.
15. Seal of the Abbey of Hayles, wax, very fine, from a matrix
communicated by Mr. Carlisle, 3s. Qd.
16. Seal of the Priory of Horsley, Cart. J$ Edw. III., wax,
doc., 2s,
17. Seal of the Priory of Horsley, Deed 42 Edw. III., wax, doc.,
2s.
18. Seal of the Prior of Lanthony, Cart, n.d., Cent, xiii., s.,fine,
doc., 3s.
19. Seal of the Priory of Lanthony, temp. H. Abbatis, s., doc.,
2s. Qd.
20. Counter Seal of Lanthony Priory, s., doc., 2s. Qd.
21. Seal of the Priory of Lanthony, Acknowledgment of Supre-
macy, s., very fine, doc., 3s. Qd.
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22. Seal of the Priory of Lanthony, Surrender, s., doc., 2s. Qd.
23. Seal of the Hospital of Longbridge, in Berkley, s., communi-
cated by Mr. Bayley, 3s.
24. Seal of Ant., Abbot of St. Peter's, very early, from the Tower
by Mr. Bayley, s., 2s.
25. Counter Seal of Ant., Abbot of St. Peter's, from the Tower
by Mr. Bayley, s., doc., 3s.
26. Seal of Adam, Abbot of St. Peter's, 2 Edw. III., s., doc.,
2s. Qd.
27. Seal of John, Abbot of St. Peter's, 5 Edw. III., by Mr.
Bailey, s., 3s.
28. Seal of John, Abbot of St. Peter's, Cart. 1333, s., doc., 3s.
29. Counter Seal of John, Abbot of St. Peter's, Cart. 1333, s.,
doc., 3s.
30. Seal of the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter, Cart. 1338, s.,
doc., 2s. Qd.
31. Counter Seal of the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter, Cart.
1338, s., doc., 3s.
32. Seal of Adam, Abbot of St. Peter's, Cart. 1339, s., doc., 2s.
33. Seal of Thomas, Abbot of the Convent of St. Peter, Common
Seal, s., doc., 2s. Qd.
34. Seal of the Abbey of St. Peter, Cart. 1471, doc., 3s.
35. Seal of the Monastery of St. Peter, Deed 1471, wax, fine,
2s. Qd.
36. Seal and Counter Seal of the Monastery of St. Peter,
Acknowledgment of Supremacy, s., doc., 3s.
37. Seal of the Monastery of St. Peter, wax, fine, 3s.
38. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, Inst. temp. Edw. I., Royal
Scotch Pedigrees, s., doc., 3s.
39. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, from an Inst. attached to
Royal Scotch Pedigrees, temp. Edw. I., wax, doc., 2s. Qd.
40. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, n.d., wax, 2s. Qd.
41. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, Cart. Hen. VIII., s., doc.,
2s.
42. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, Acknowledgment of
Supremacy, s., doc., 2s.
43. Seal of the Abbey of Tewksbury, Cart. 29 Hen. VIII., s.,
doc., 2s.
44. Seal of the Abbot of Tewksbury, temp. Hen. VIII., Pope
Clemenfs Inst., s., doc., 3s.
45. Seal of Henry, Abbot of Tewksbury, and the Seal of the
Abbey, Deed 18 Hen. VIII., -wax, doc., fine, 4,9.
46. Seal of Henry, Abbot of Tewksbury, Cart. 18 Hen. VIII. ,
s., doc., 2s. Qd.
47. Seal of John, Abbot of Tewksbury, Deed 29 Hen. VIII., s.
doc., 2s.
48. Seal of the College of Westbury, fine, wax, doc., 2s. Qd.
49. Seal of the College of Wesibiuy, fine, s., doc., 2s. Qd.
244 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
50. Seal of the Priory of Winchcombe, wax, fine, 3s.
51. Seal of the Priory of Winchcombe, Acknowledgment of
Supremacy, s., doc., 3s.
52. Seal of Richard, Abbot of Winchcombe, fine, wax, 3s.
53. Seal of the Abbot of Winchcombe, temp. Hen. VIII. , Inst.
of Pope Clement, s., fine, doc., 3s.
54. Seal of Bradston Chantry, in Winterburn, wax, doc., 3s.
The foregoing list comprises a large number of Gloucestershire
seals ; but as others may be known to, or be in the possession of, some
who may examine it, additions, and likewise corrections (if
necessary), are invited. ANTIQUARIUS.
DCLXXXIII. A PROCLAMATION OF KING CHARLES I., AUGUST
10, 1643. The original manuscript of a proclamation issued by
King Charles I., while encamped at Pains wick, forbidding on pain
of death any molestation or robbery of the country people who
brought provisions to his army, has been in the possession of
William Nicks, Esq., J.P., of Gloucester, for more than thirty years.
It was discovered by a workman behind the wainscotting of an old
manor house near Tewkesbury. The ink is faded a little, and the
paper slightly worn away at the edges ; but in other respects the
document is in excellent preservation, and the writing perfectly
legible. It reads thus :
" Charles R. By the King. A Proclamation Comanding all the
Souldiers of his Majesties Army not to molest, robb, or spoyle any
people bringing victualls of any kinde to the Campe before Glocester
upon payn of death. Wee being enforced to sitt downe with our
Army before the Citty of Glocester now in Rebellion against us,
and to reduce the same to their due obedience, have for the use and
good of our Army Comanded that there should be dayly Marquetts
kept in our Campe, where our Souldiers may provide themselves of
all manner of Victualls for their releife, paying reasonably for the
same, which if it should be eyther taken away or the Marquett
people be robbed in any kinde, would occasion some want and
scarcity to the manifest prejudice of our service, Our will and
Command therefore is, and wee doe hereby signifie our pleasure,
that if any Souldier or other of our Army shall at any time during
our stay at or before our Citty of Glocester robb, spoyle, or take
away, from any person or persons coming to Marquett to our Campe,
any of their goods or victualls of what kinde or qualitie soever,
That upon Complaynt made, such Souldier shall be forthwith
apprehended and hanged without mercy, as justly deserving the
same. This our pleasure wee Comand instantly to be published at
the head of our Army, that so each person may know the Offence,
and avoyd the punishment for the same. Given at our Court at
Paynswick this Tenth of August, 1643. In the Nineteenth yeare
of our Raigne."
The date of this proclamation which has been pronounced by
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good judges to be in King Charles's handwriting, is that of the
eventful day when Toby Jordan and Sergeant Major Pudsey, on
behalf of the inhabitants of Gloucester, refused to surrender the city.
GLOCESTRIENSIS.
DCLXXXIV. THE DATE IN THE TOWER OF PAINSWICK CHURCH.
In Sir Thomas Phillipps' continuation of Bigland's Collections,
under the head of Painswick, we read as follows : " Inside of the
Spire, a little above the Bells, this date, 1332, cut into one of the
stones." Now, this is really the date 1632, 7 and 8 Charles I.,
altered by some wicked wag, who has moreover blackened his piece
of mischievous waggery, so that it may be more readily seen from
below. And this hoax is currently believed throughout the neigh-
bourhood. Woe to him who should dare upon the spot to
contradict this belief ! it is a question whether he would be allowed
to escape with a whole jacket out of this pleasant little town. Joists
and floors have been carried across at some period, probably at or
about the time when the first date was cut into the friable stone.
This noble tower appears to be of the 15th century, or about one
hundred years after the second date. Arabic numerals were not
known in England until the 14th century, and were not in vogue
until towards the close of it. The date 1632 is cut into the north
wall immediately opposite the one in question, and has so far
escaped the hand of the meddler.
Haresfield Court. J. D. T. NIBLETT.
DCLXXXV. THE PINNACLES OP THE CATHEDRAL TOWER,
GLOUCESTER.* In September, 1878, you published a letter from me,
having reference to the then condition of the pinnacles of the tower
of Gloucester Cathedral. In that letter I commenced by stating
that the subject is one naturally of the greatest interest to the
citizens of Gloucester, and, I might add, to the county and country
generally, and therefore I furnished you with certain facts relating
to the state of repair of these pinnacles and certain proposed
restorations.
Since that letter was written large and costly works have been
carried into effect ; and as the object of this second letter is to tell
of what has been done in the two years which have elapsed, and as
a proper understanding of this work can only be arrived at by a
repetition of much of what was said in letter No. 1, 1 am compelled
to draw largely from this said letter, which with your permission I
will do, and in as condensed a form as possible :
"The tower itself was erected in 1460-82, and from what I have
observed prior to and during the removal of the stonework of the
pinnacles, I have no hesitation in saying that considerable repairs
and partial reconstruction had been effected on many occasions since
* This article appeared as a letter in the Gloucestershire Chronicle, November 20, 1880, and
is here reprinted, with the approval of the writer, for more convenient reference.
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they were first built. In general outline three at least of them
remained as originally constructed, but the upper or pyramidal
portion of the fourth (that on the south-east angle) had, I have
every reason to believe, been rebuilt, the stonework having been
put together in a different manner from that of the other pinnacles,
and it was at least three feet six inches less in its full height, as
measured from the lead flat of the tower roof. I have some
recollection of a legend that the tower was struck by lightning
many years ago. Was this pinnacle then injured ?
" The small parapets of all the pinnacles had certainly been taken
down and reinstated, but it is impossible to say at what period of
time ; the main cornice also had to a great extent been renewed,
together with many other portions of the stonework, and Roman
cement had been used, chiefly for the last known repairs, in 1830.
Iron cramps and ties had also been inserted in all directions, and to
these may be attributed the chief part of the mischief which has
ended in the necessity for the reconstruction of the pinnacles.
" The exact dates when some of the more recent of these works
were done may be ascertained from the names and dates which have
been cut on the interior of the stones of the spiral portions of the
pinnacles, the earliest of which is on a stone belonging to that on
the south-west side of the tower, and is to the following effect :
'D. Spr. pointed y e Tower, 1772 ;' and on the corresponding stones
of the north-west pinnacle are cut the names of workmen who
repaired and pointed them in 1830, some of whom are now living.
Since 1830 the pinnacles have, I think, remained untouched, and
it was not until the system of lightning conductors was being
attached to the Cathedral, in 1873, that their dilapidated condition
became known, at which time orders were given that the worst of
the four, being that at the north-east angle of the tower, should be
restored.
"At subsequent examinations, made during the summer of this
year, it was found that the state of dilapidation of the remaining
three pinnacles was becoming so serious that unless steps were soon
taken to repair them very grievous results might be apprehended.
The iron cramps had rusted and caused the stonework to split ; the
wet getting in from time to time under the leadwork had, together
with the action of frost, caused the large flat covering stones to
break into small pieces ; the uprights carrying the spiral portions of
the pinnacles had fallen down (in one case six out of twelve) ; and
these most important parts were just in such condition that a gale
of wind might at any time have caused the downfall of all or any
one of these structures, the consequences of which to the nave,
choir, or transepts, according as the mass might have fallen, would
have been most serious.
" Instructions were at once given by the Chapter to do all that
was necessary to guard against possible accident and reinstate the
defective work, to effect which strong scaffoldings have been erected,
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reaching to the top of the tower in three stages one from the
ground to the roof of the choir aisle, another from thence to the
choir roof, and from thence through one of the windows of the
tower and through the tower itself on to the leads from which the
pinnacles commence. Owing to the very dilapidated condition of the
stonework it has been necessary to exercise the greatest possible
care in taking it down by tying the parts together during the
progress of removal, and it is not by any means an exaggeration of
facts to say, that at least one-half of that which was in the 15th
century taken to the top of the tower of the Cathedral as massive
stonework, has been brought down recently in boxes like the frost-
crumbled debris from an old quarry. Twenty-eight cartloads of
useless rubbish have been carted away from the precincts, the
remains of two only of these pinnacles."
Commencing from about the time when the above was written
(September, 1878), the whole of the costly works before alluded to
have been undertaken by the authorities to whom the care of the
fabric is consigned, and they have gone on slowly but steadily
"slowly" because of the late times of unprecedented financial
difficulty, in which the Chapter, like all other landholders, have
been involved ; and " steadily " and surely from their determination
not to let so important a matter rest, as delay to any great extent
would have increased the risk of further damage, and have added
much to the cost of the repairs.
I am pleased to have to report that the whole of the pinnacles
are now completely finished, with the exception of the capping
of the stairs in that at the north-east angle of the tower.
The parapets are finished on the north and south sides, and in
about a month's time that on the east side will also be completed.
The parapet on the west side of the tower was restored some
years ago with Bath stone, and I am sorry to say that this, like
most of the other work which has been reinstated with this stone,
is, though perfectly safe for many years to come, far from being in
a satisfactory condition.
In all cases where it has been possible to do so with perfect
safety and security, and where no doubt could be entertained as to
the condition of the stone, the old material has been re-used with-
out a new toolmark thereon ; but in all instances where the stone
has been in any respect doubtful, it has been discarded, and though
there has been the strongest disposition to put back as much of the
old work as possible, this sentiment has not been indulged in to the
possible future injury of the fabric.
The restoration which has been effected is undoubtedly as perfect
and sound as hands can make it. I have seen each of these
pinnacles day after day during the most important parts of
reconstruction, and know them to be perfectly reinstated and made
good in all respects. Where new stone is used it is from the best
and hardest beds of Hampton Common and Painswick, most
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carefully wrought and put together, and of far more durable quality
and much better selected and bedded than in the original work.
The ties and dowels are all of copper, lead, or slate, and no iron of
any kind has been introduced ; and taken as a whole, there is not
a sounder or better-constructed piece of work in the whole
Cathedral than that the completion of which is now being reported.
It is necessary to be thus particular in speaking of these facts
because of the importance of the work, and from a feeling that an
assurance of this kind is due to the public.
Had great skill or taste been required I must have observed a
discreet silence, but as careful supervision only has been necessary
I may venture to speak strongly and to the purpose. With only
ordinary care the upper stage of this tower is now secure and good
for the next 300 or 400 years.
The total cost of the four pinnacles, inclusive of what has been
done to the parapets, amounts to the sum of 3,600 a large sum
truly, but it must not be forgotten that each pinnacle is almost in
size equal to many village towers and spires, and much more costly
in its construction.
It is satisfactory to add that throughout this long and occasion-
ally perilous work not the slightest accident has occurred.
College Green, Gloucester. FEED. S. WALLER.
DCLXXXYI. SERVANTS AT THE HOLY COMMUNION IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. In Notes and Queries (3 rd S. i. 231) there
is this inquiry: In a MS. in the Gloucester Cathedral library,
entitled "Tithes and Offerings in Trinity Parish, 1618-1645," I
constantly find the following curious entry : " Servants which
received the Holy Communion at Trinity, 1630." Then follows a
long list of names, for instance, "Received of Ann Raspfield,
servant to William Baron, who hath viij s a year from her master,
1630, iiij d , and for her offering, due this Easter, 1630, ij d ." Why
is there a distinct list of "servants" receiving the Holy Communion?
Was it compulsory ? and were their offerings levied according to
their wages? Were 8s. the average wages in those days?
C. Y. Crawley.
In the same volume, p. 476, the following reply, headed
" Tithes of Servants and Women," appeared : I do not observe
that anyone has answered the query of the Rev. Charles Yonge
Crawley, which appeared in one of your numbers several weeks
since, respecting certain money payments made at the beginning of
the seventeenth century, by certain domestic servants who received
the holy communion at Trinity, to the minister of the church of
the " Holie Trinitie " in Gloucester, as a sort of tithe. On referring
to authorities on the subject of tithes, it will be found that
payments of this sort are predial, personal, and mixed. Personal
tithes being those which are paid from the industry of the
parishioners. These, says Jacob, Law Diet, under "Tithes," are
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"the tenth part of a man's clear gains in trade, &c., only paid
when due by custom, though but seldom in England, and are
payable where the party dwells, hears service," &c. The minister
of " Holie Trinitie," Gloucester, a church which was pulled down
at the Eestoration, having been but scantily, if at all, endowed
otherwise, was evidently supported by payment of personal tithes.
Mr. Crawley seems surprised at the small amount of wages paid to
domestic servants at that period, estimating them by the amount of
tithe paid. The profits and emoluments of that day may be
calculated by another entry in the same MS. from which your
correspondent quotes : " Kec d of William Sandie, lodging at
William Joaneses, a journeyman shoemaker, for his handes [which
I take to mean his handy work, industry] this year, 1625, ij d ." A
tithe pig in the same MS. is valued, in 1629, at xij d . This answer
will also apply to the query of your correspondent Meletes (3 rd S.
i. 311). The "Decima de Mulier" was doubtless a personal tithe
receivable when there was any titheable industry, which it appears
there was not in the case referred to by Meletes, as the women
appear to have been " franc " (free). It may not be uninteresting
to your readers to add to the " moneys for offerings, personall tythes,
and houses, due to Eich d Marwood, Vicar of the Holie Trinitie in
Gloucester," " Eec d of Edward Smithe, Phisition, lodging at John
Freames, for practice and his offerings this year, 1624." It is much
to be regretted that the amount is omitted, as it would afford an
interesting evidence of the value of a medical man's practice in
those days. Samuel Lysons, Hempsted Court, near Gloucester.
C. T. D.
DCLXXXVII. ST. WHITES, FOREST OF DEAN. In reply to
a query entitled " St. White and her Cheese," and referring to what
has been said of her in William Tyndale's Expositions and Notes
on sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures : together with the
Practice of Prelates (edited for the Parker Society by the Rev.
Henry Walter), Sir John Maclean has written in Notes and Queries
(6 th S. v. 332) : I also should be glad to know something of
St. White. There is a place in this district (Forest of Dean),
known as " St. Whites." It is now an old farmhouse, situated in
the parish of Flaxley, and formerly was parcel of the possessions
of the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary de Dene, or Flaxley.
Together with the other possessions of the abbey in this neighbour-
hood, upon the dissolution of that house it was granted to Sir
William Kingston. On March 3, 33 Elizabeth, it formed a
portion of certain of the abbey lands, of which a long lease was
granted by Anthony Kingston to William Brayne, of Little Dean,
in which lease it is described as "that Messuage or Tenement called
St. Whites, or Orlands Field, with the lands thereto belonging."
Under this lease, I believe, it is still held. I should add that
St. Whites lies at a distance of about ten miles, crow's flight, on
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the other side of the Severn from Stinchcombe, the supposed birth-
place of William Tyndale. Stinchcombe is in the Gloucestershire
cheese district. It has been suggested locally that perhaps the
name St. Whites arose from the white habit of the Cistercian
monks, but this is scarcely probable. Q ^ j)
DCLXXXVIIL " DOCKUM," OR "DOCKEM," CHELTENHAM.
The greater part of the ecclesiastical parish of St. Peter's,
Cheltenham, is locally known as "Dockum," or "Dockeni." I
have made many enquiries as to the origin of the name, but can
get no information. All that that historical person, " the oldest
inhabitant," can tell you is, that such has been the name his
district has borne ever since he has known it. The denizens of
St. Peter's certainly regard the title as opprobrious, and you may
occasionally hear the ready retort "Dockum's as good as any other
place." Can your readers throw light on the subject 1 ? I have a
suspicion that the name was originally obtained through the
frequency with which persons from the district in question used to
appear in the dock at the local police court. H C W
Cheltenham.
DCLXXXIX. A QUAINT INSCRIPTION FOUND AT TEWKESBURY.
As mentioned in Notes and Queries (5 th S. xii. 386), Nov. 15,
1879, the following inscription was lately found painted on an old
half-timbered house in Tewkesbury, hidden by more recent plaster-
ing. It is black-letter, painted in red : " Three thinges pleseth
Booeth god and man, Concorde Be twene brethren, Amytie betwene
nayghbowers, And A man and his wyfe that agreeth well to gether.
Power thinges hurt much the life of man, Tears, smoke, wynde,
and the woorst of all, to see his frends unluckye, and his fose
happye. These fivfe thinge are rare sene, A fayre yonge womane
with ought a lover, A yonge man with ought myerth, An ould
ueseror with ought money, Aney greater fayer with ought theffes, A
fare harne with ought musick." jj jyj-
DCXC. ARMS OF BRAYNE PAMILY, OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
Kent, in his Abridgement of Guillim, gives Azure, on a cross or, an
oaken slip vert, as the arms of Brayne of Gloucestershire. These
are not in Burke's General Armory ; and they differ much from the
arms borne by the Braynes of Great and Little Deane. Can any
reader tell me what Gloucestershire family of the name bore them,
and in what part of the county the family resided ?
GENEALOGIST.
DCXCI. "THE NATURAL RARITIES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE."
In Britannia Baconica (London, 1661), by Joshua Childrey, D.D.,
there is a chapter entitled as above, pp. 71-83 ; and as the book is
by no means a common one, and its contents are " usefull for all
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ingenious men of what profession or quality soever," the author's
remarks relative to Gloucestershire and its natural rarities will not
be out of place in these pages. But before giving the chapter in
question, it may be well to quote a portion of what he has thought
fit to place under the head of Somersetshire, pp. 35-39.
BRISTOLIENSIS.
At Bristol it flows a 11. or 12. ells in height every tide ; an
extraordinary proportion in comparison of most places on the
English shore. The cause I suppose is, the extreme wide and
direct mouth of Severn, lying open to the vast Atlantick Sea, where
the tide comes rolling in a-main, and being contracted as it comes
in higher into the river, and land-locked, and not being able to fall
back again (til it ebb without in the main) by reason of the
continual succession of water, must needs swel to that height in
the Severn, and by consequence very easily communicate part of
his burden to the Avon of Bristol.
Not far from Bristol is the famous rock called St. Vincents
Rocks, ragged, and hanging over the bank of the river of Avon,
where (saith Johnson) is a well of warm water, pleasing to the tast.
It flows out of the cleft of a great rock, & is overflowed every tide,
and left open to the air at the ebb ; for its spring breaks out at the
root of the rocks ; the water is much commended for ulcers and
calculous affections of the reins, being taken inwardly. It is also
often applied outwardly to cure old sores with very good success
(saith he) as I have heard those say that have tried. There is
moreover in this place a vein of iron in the bowels of the earth
(saith the same author) whence the water gets its vertue, and a
greater heat, which it loseth by running a great way before it can
get out. But by my authors leave, it cannot be conceived how a
vein of iron should make water so hot, since we see that iron mines
in other places work no such effect upon those waters that run
through them. I rather conceive there it is some other vein of metal,
or rather mineral there, that is the cause of the heat, and likely
the same mineral that causeth the heat of the Bath- Waters. Much
more I could say, but I am unwilling to inlarge too far upon
plausibilities. Note that this hot well is not above 13. miles from
Bath.
On the upper side of these craggy rocks of St. Vincent, are
digged out pellucid stones, sexangular (or six cornered) and quad-
rangular (or four cornered), which we call diamonds. Some will
have them to be chrystal, but (saith Mr. Johnson) I think they are
rather of the nature of fluores. For (saith he) I remember an
apothecary of Bristol told me, the lord of the place would not
have them taken out of the iron mine (which was the womb in
which they were formed) because the greater quantity of them make
the metal the more fluid, and apt to melt. And Agricola tells us, that
fluores are very like diamonds, but not so hard ? and that they are
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used in the melting and trying of metals, till they be throughly
tried ; for (saith he) they make the matter in the fire much more
fluid. And Kentmannus in his Catalogue of Fossils reckons
pellucid fluores sexangular, and like crystal. Of these St. Vincent
stones Cambden speaks thus : They are (saith he) so plentiful there,
that one may fill a bushel with them ; and they are all either four
cornered, or six cornered. And saith Speed, saving their hardness,
they are as good as the diamonds of India.
On another rock more western than St. Vincents Eock, there are
found diamonds enclosed in hollow and reddish flints after a
wonderful manner, and the earth itself is red there too
There is at Bristow a church, called the Temple, the tower
whereof shakes to and fro when the bells ring, so that it hath
divided itself from the rest of the building from the top to the
bottom the breadth of three fingers, and openeth and shutteth
whensoever the bell is rung.
The hilly part of this county (called Castwald) [sic] abounds
with fine wool, small sheep which are long-necked, and square of
bulk and bone, and hath a very pleasant air : the low parts of it
are exceeding fruitfull and rich in corns, so that (as Cambden saith)
it returns an hundred for one. The parts about Bristol afford great
store of coals that cake as New Castle coal doth, but yet differ from
it, as I have already said. The northern parts of it are as abundant
in fruit ; and the apple trees and pear trees that grow in every
hedge, are not graffed, but grow naturally, by reason the ground is
so inclined to bear fruit ; yet the fruit for beauty and tast far
exceeds all others, and will keep till a new supply come ; yea some
of them will not wither or rivell in a whole year. The part of
Gloucestershire beyond the river of Seavern (called the Forrest of
Dean) is stored with iron mines.
Speed tells us further, that this shire is very full of vineyards, which
thrive very happily, and bear very plesant grapes ; so that the
wines made of them are little inferiour to the French wines.
The river of Seavern is very swift, and there is a daily rage and
fury of its waters, raising up the sands and mire from the
bottome, winding and driving them upon heaps, & sometimes over-
flowing her banks. And the force of this rage is such, that it will
overturn a vessell, if it take it on the side.
Tewkesbury hath a name for excellent mustard.
About the quire in the Cathedrall Church of Gloucester in an
arch of it, there is a wall built in form of a semicircle full of
corners ; and if a man speak with a very low voice, at the one side,
or end of it, and another lay his ear to the other, being a good way
distant, he may very easily hear every syllable the other speaks.
This whispering place I have seen, and surveighed very carefully.
It is in the form that I have described here. [The author gives a
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 253
rude diagram.] A C D E F B is the passage of the voice, or
whispering place. At A and B are the two persons to stand that
whisper to each other. At D the middle of the passage is a door
and entrance into a chappel, with window cases on each side of the
door, if I remember right. The chappel is in the place I describe
it. And to my best remembrance there are one or two places
open upward in the roof of the passage. My opinion is, that the
chappel standing so in the middle, much conduceth to the con-
veighing of the sound so entirely, which is helped by the open,
places in the roof I speak of. For they seem to draw in the voice,
w ck else would not so wel enter into that narrow passage, but
reverberate back into that broad open place before the whispering
entry. And one thing which makes me think the chappel doth a
great part of the work, is, for that we see in viols, lutes, and other
musical instruments, there are holes cut into the belly of the
instrument, just under the playing or striking place, which we find
by experience do much augment the noise of the notes, and make
them more audible. But in this, and most other things, I say,
I give but my poor judgement, submitting it to the censure of the
learned.
At Stroud (commonly called Stroud- water) they dye scarlet ; the
water there (as they say) having a peculiar property to give the
right tincture, which other waters generally want. So much variety
there is in water, according to the several earths that they pass
through.
No snakes or adders to be found about Badminton ; I suppose
the cause to be the barrenness and coldness of the land thereabout ;
for snakes are bred out of rich, fat, and hot mould, or mud (whence
we find them commonly about ditches, and low, rich, shady grounds,
lurking under long grass), of which this countrey affords no great
plenty. Besides being an open countrey, it wants that shade and
shelter that they delight in.
In the fields about Badminton are found many times cylindrical
stones, long and round, like a mans finger. The inner part of
them is like flint, somewhat pellucid, and of a sad brown colour,
and it is enclosed round on the outside with a whitish putamin,
like flint too.
About Badminton also are several holes (called swallow-holes)
where the waters (after any great shower of rain, or in winter, when
their springs run) fall into the bowels of the earth, and are seen no
more, nor is it known whether ever they rise again. The most
remarkable of them are one or two, in the way between Badminton
and Acton Farfeild. All that I can say to them yet is, that in a
clayie and slatty countrey, if there be any inlets and passages into
the earth by reason of its discontinuity here and there, they are
likely enough to be kept open, because such kind of earth is not
apt to moulder with wet, and fall in, and so dam them up.
(To be continued.)
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254 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DCXCII. THE STUMPE FAMILY AND MALMESBURY ABBEY.
At the dissolution of Malmesbury Abbey one William Stumpe
purchased the buildings (31 Henry VIIL) for 1,500 2s. Ojd.
a very considerable sum in those days. He was the son of a
certain Thomas Stumpe, who showed great presence of mind in the
entertainment of no less a guest than a king, when suddenly
honoured with a visit. King Henry VIIL, hunting in Bradon
Forest, near Malmesbury, came with all his court-train to dine with
this clothier. But great housekeepers are as seldom surprised with
guests as vigilant captains with enemies. Stumpe commanded his
little army of workmen, which he fed daily in his house, to fast
one meal until night (which they might easily do without endanger-
ing their health), and with the same provision gave the king and
Ms court-train, though not very delicious and various, most
wholesome and plentiful refreshment.
" How the Stumpe who bought Malmesbury Abbey was related
to this Thomas Stumpe, whether son or father," says Thomas Fuller,
" is to me unknown. It will not be a sin for me to wish more
branches from such stumps, who by their bounty may preserve the
monuments of antiquity from destruction." Our quaint friend
John Aubrey sets the question of relationship at rest. Thomas
Stumpe, who entertained the king, " was the parish clarke of North
Nibley in Gloucestershire, and was a weaver, and at last grew up to
be a cloathier." Leland visited Malmesbury some years afterwards,
during the lifetime of Stumpe's son William. "The whole
lodgings of the Abbey be now belonging to one Stumpe, an
exceeding rich cloathiar, that bought them of the king. This
Stumpe was the chief causer and contributor to have the Abbey
church made a parocli church. At this present time every corner
of the vast houses of office that belonged to the Abbey be full of
lumbes [looms] to weave cloth in, and this Stumpe intended to
make a street or two for clothiers in the back vacant ground of the
Abbey that is within the town walls. There be made now every
year in the town a 3000 clothes."*
Happily for the good people of Malmesbury, William Stumpe
preserved to them their beautiful Abbey, but his taste for books
cannot have been great. It is sad to hear of their wholesale
destruction. John Aubrey tells us that " Anno 1633 I entered into
my grammar at the Latin Schoole at Yatton-Keynel, in the church,
where the curate, Mr. Hart, taught the eldest boyes Ovid, Virgil,
Cicero, &c. The fashion then was to save the forules of their
bookes with a false cover of parchment, sc. old manuscript, which
* It may be satisfactory to quote Leland exactly : " The hole logginges of thabbay be
now longging to one Stumpe, an exceding riche Clothiar that boute them of the King. This
Stumps Sunne hath maried Sir Edward Baynton's Doughter. This Stumpe was the chef
Causer and Contributor to have thabbay Chirch made a Paroch Chirch. At this present tyme
every Corner of the vaste Houses of Office that belongid to thabbay be fulle of lumbes to weve
Clooth yn, and this Stumpe entendith to make a stret or 2. for Clothier in the bak vacant
Ground of the Abbay that is withyn the Toune Waulles. There be made now every Yere in
the Toune ft 3000. Clothes." ED.
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I was too young to understand; but I was pleased with the
elegancy of the writing and the coloured initiall letters. I
remember the Rector here, Mr. Wm. Stump, great gr : son of Stump
the cloathier of Malmesbury, had severall manuscripts of the
Abbey. He was a proper man and a good fellow ; and when he
brewed a barell of speciall ale his use was to stop the bunghole,
under the clay, with a sheet of manuscript ; he sayd nothing did it
so well, which methought did grieve me then to see. Afterwards
I went to schoole to Mr. Latimer at Leigh-Delamere, the next
parish, where was the like use of covering of bookes. In my
grandfather's dayes the manuscripts flew about like butterflies. All
musick bookes, account bookes, copie bookes, &c., were covered
with old manuscripts, as we cover them now with blew paper or
marbled paper, and the glovers at Malmesbury made great havock
of them, and gloves were wrapt up no doubt in many good pieces
of antiquity. Before the late warres a world of rare manuscripts
perished hereabout ; for within a half-a-dozen miles of this place
was the Abbey of Malmesbury, where it may be presumed the
library was as well furnished with choice copies as most libraries of
England. Anno 1647 I went to Parson Stump out of curiosity, to
see his manuscripts, whereof I had seen some in my childhood ;
but by that time they were lost and disperst. His sons were
gunners and souldiers, and scoured their gunnes with them ; but he
shewed me severall old deedes granted by the Lords Abbotts, with
their seales annexed, which I suppose his sonn, Capt. Thos. Stump
of Malmesbury, hath still." G A W
DCXCIII. " THE TOPOGKAPHER." In the four vols. 8vo, which
appeared under this title (London, 1789-91), there are only these
three items connected with this county :
Vol. ii., p. 112. "Faireford Windows," poetically described by
E.C. From Misc. MSS. Poems Mus. Brit. Bib. Sloan. 1446.
Vol. iii., p. 256. "Berkeley Castle"; with an "inside view of
the principal court."
Vol. iv., p. 174. " Coberley Hall " ; with an "ancient view of
the court."
In 1819 Sir Thomas Phillipps proposed to resume the publication
of this periodical, which Sir S. Egerton Brydges and the Rev. Stebbing
Shaw (the Staffordshire historian) had commenced in April, 1789,
and continued until June, 1791 ; but he produced only one number,
entitled The Topographer, "Numb. 1. For March, 1821," pp. 60,
8vo. There had been, in 1792, an attempted continuation in 4to.,
entitled Topographical Miscellanies ; but it did not go far. See
Upcott's English Topography, vol. i., p. xxvii., and Lowndes'
Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn's ed.), p. 2698. GENEALOGIST.
DCXCIY. MS. ACCOUNT OF CHURCHES NEAR STROUD. In the
British Museum (Add. MSS., 24,610) interesting information
256 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
regarding churches in the neighbourhood of Stroud, written by a
gentleman in the beginning of this century, is preserved. I could
not transcribe the particulars ; but possibly some one of your many
correspondents may be able and disposed to do so. C T D
DCXCV. SALMON IN THE SEVERN. A correspondent writes to
the Gloucester Standard of May 6, 1882, to say that "there
appears to be an old tradition or an impression that salmon was
formerly so plentiful in Gloucester, that clauses were inserted in
old indentures certifying that apprentices were not to be compelled
to eat it for dinner more than three times a week. Some persons,"
adds the correspondent, " think that this impression is mythological."
I may state that while in conversation with the verger of Tewkes-
bury Abbey, in February last, he mentioned to me that in the
indentures of comparatively recent date, I think, of one of
his ancestors apprenticed in Tewkesbury, there was a clause to the
same effect as that stated by the correspondent of the Gloucester
Standard. jj Q -yy
DCXCYI. SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1879. "We
[Stroud Journal, June 11, 1881] extract from the official Blue Book
the following awards made to the woollen manufacturers of the
West of England :
W. Bliss & Son Chipping Norton First (special)
E. B. Cooper & Co. Wotton-under-Edge First
C. Hooper & Co. Stonehouse, Glos. First
J. Libby & Co. Stroud Second
Marling & Co. Stroud First (special)
S. Salter & Co. Trowbridge First
Stanton & Son Stroud Second
Strachan & Co. Stroud First
The distinction of a special award has been conferred upon two
only out of all the British exhibitors in this class, namely, Messrs.
Marling, for cloths, doeskins, beavers, etc. ; and Messrs. Bliss, for
tweeds; and we note with satisfaction that both belong to the
West of England."
In the next week's Journal this communication from Messrs.
John Libby and Co., of New Mills, Stroud, appeared: "We
think it due to the workpeople employed at these mills to point out
that the very same exhibits which were classed among the second
awards at Sydney received the very highest award at Melbourne.
At Sydney they were hung by an inexperienced person ; some of
them, we understand, were upside down. Had the samples been
fairly set before the judges we have no doubt the result at Sydney
would have been the same as at Melbourne, viz., ' the first order of
merit.' By inserting this explanation you will oblige."
G. A. W.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 257
DCXCVII. EXTRACTS FROM THE TURKDEAN PARISH REGIS-
TERS. (See No. DCLXXI.) Having sent the inscriptions in the
church, I now send some extracts from the registers, the spelling,
etc., being preserved as in the originals :
Banaster Family.
Baptisms.
1611. Ann Banaster, daughter of George Banaster, Gen*, was
baptised June y e 8 th , [anno] ut supra.
1612. Elizabeth Banaster, daughter of George Banaster, Gen*, was
baptised September y e vi th , ut supra.
1614. "William Banaster, sonn of George Banaster, Gen*, was
baptised July y e 30 th , ut supra.
1615. Abigaell Banaster, daughter of George Banaster, Gen*, was
baptised in februarie, ut supra.
1619. George Banaster, sonn of George Banaster, Gen*, was
baptised february y e first, ut supra.
1647. Elizabeth Banaster, daughter of M r William Banaster, was
borne June the fourth, baptised July the first, ut supra.
1648. Jane Banaster, daughter of M r William Banaster & Jane,
his wife, was baptised January 22 th , ut supra.
1650. Richard Banaster, Sonn of Will m Banaster, Gen*, and Jane,
his wife, was borne July 6 th , et baptised June the 21 th , ut
supra.
1652. William Banaster, Sonn of M r Will m Banaster, & Jane, his
wife, was borne March 21 th , & baptised the 27 th , ut supra.
1653. George, the sonn of M r Will m Banaster, & Jane, his wife,
was borne September 14 th , & baptised October the 14 th , ut
supra.
1661. Mary Banaster, daughter of M r W r illiam & M ris Jane
Banaster, was borne May 20 th , & baptised may 28 th , Anno
ut supra.
1666. Ann Banaster, daughter of W r illiam and Jane Banaster, Gen*,
was baptised September the 19, ut supra.
Marriages.
1665. The contract of matrimonie betwixt Henry Stratford, of
Hailing [Hawling], Gen*, and Elizabeth Banister, of this
parish, Gen*, was consumated ianuarie the first, Anno ut
supra.
1696. M r Baines and M ls Ann Bannastre were married August 3 rd ,
1696.
1710. John Hamilton, Esquire, & M rs Jane Bannastre were married
by Licence August y e 13 th , 1710.
Burials.
1604. William Banaster, Gen*, was buried October y e 10 th , ut supra.
1633. Thomas Banaster, Gen*, was buried May y e 20 th , ut supra.
1636, George Banaster, Gen*, was buried January 31 th , ut supra.
258 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1665. Kichard Banaster, Son of William Banaster, Gen*, was
Buried the 7 of April, ut supra.
1685, M rs Jane Bannaster was buryed upon the xxv th day of Aprill,
1685, in wollen onely according to Statute, whereof an
Affidavit was made by Johan Freeman before M r James
Michell, Rector of Notgrove, upon the xxx th day of the
same moneth, 1685.
M r William Bannaster was buryed on y e xxvii th day of June,
1685, in woollen onely according to statute, whereof an
Affidavit was made by Joan Freeman before M r James
Michel, Rector of Notgrove, upon the xxx th day of the
same moneth, 1685. Witnesses, John Bagsdale and
Sabree p] Collett.
1686. William Bannaster, the son of W m Bannastre and Elizabeth,
his wife, was buryed in woollen onely according to Statute,
upon the iiii th day of January, 1686, whereof an Affidavit
was made by Jane Marchant and Sara Mansell upon y e vii fch
day of the same before M r Philipps, of Northleach.
1688. Elizabeth Bannastre, the daughter of William Bannastre,
Esq r , and Elizabeth, his wife, was buryed upon the day
of , 1688, in woollen onely, whereof an Affidavit
was made before M r Geo. Vernori upon August y e 2 d , ut
supra.
1707. Jane Bannastre, wife of y e late William Bannastre, Gentle-
man, was buried in woollen y e 12 th clay of June, 1707,
aged 88.
1720. S r William Banastre, Knight, late Baron of y e Exchequer,
was Buried in woollen Jan. y e 19 th . Cert : y e 26 th .
Coxwell Family.
Baptisms.
1698. Leanna Coxwell, daughter of M r Henry Coxwell & Leanna,
his wife, was baptised December y e 6 th , 1698.
1700. Mary Coxwell, daughter of M r Henry Coxwell & Leana, his
wife, was christened July y e 24 th , 1700.
Burials.
1666. John Coxwell, Gen*, was buried the seventh of March, ut
supra.
1675. John Coxwell, Gen*, was buried mai the 28 th , ut supra.
M rs Anne Coxwell was buried July the 12 th , ut supra.
1683. M rs Mary Coxwell was buryed on the xxii th day of May,
1683, in linnen contrary to statute, whereof Rowland
Corbett was the Informer, and rec d 50 s of the forfeiture.
[For further particulars, see No. CCXCVIIL, vol. i., p. 284.]
1683-4. M r Robert Coxwell was buryed on the xxvii th day of
February, 1683 [1683-4], in linnen contrary to statute,
whereof Rowland Corbet was the Informer. [See No.
CCXCVIIL]
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 259
1696-7. John Coxwell was buried in woollen March 17 th , 1696-7.
1697. Henry Coxwell was buried in woollen Aprill 6 th , (97).
1700. M rs Leana Coxwell, wife of M r Henry Coxwell, Gen*, was
buryed in woollen only December y e 26 th , 1700.
1700-1. M rs Mary Coxwell, daughter of y e said M r Henry Coxwell,
was buryed in woollen only January y e 12 th , 1700-1701.
1713. M rs Leanna Coxwell, daughter of Henry Coxwell, Esq r , was
buried April y e 11 th . Cert: y e 17 th .
1718. Dame Elizabeth Nelthrop [nee Coxwell] was Buried in
Linnen contrary to Act of Parlim*, for w ch y e Penalty was
paid to y e poor of y e Parish y e 14 th Day of April.
1735. Anne Coxwell was buried in woollen Feb. 24 th .
Turkdean Vicarage, Nbrthleach. J. L. TUDOR, M.A.
DCXCVIII. THE DEDICATION OF KINGSCOTE CHURCH. A
question has lately arisen, in connection with the Ordnance Survey,
with regard to the patron saint of the church (or, more correctly
speaking, chapel) of Kingscote. The dedication is to St. John
the Evangelist, according to Atkyns' Gloucestershire, 1768,
Rudder's Gloucestershire, 1779, Bacon's Liber Regis, 1786, Carlisle's
Topographical Dictionary, 1808, and Moule's English Counties,
1837; while according to Bigland's Gloucestershire, 1791, Rudge's
Gloucestershire, 1802, Lewis' Topographical Dictionary, 1833, and
the Gloucestershire Post Office Directory, it is to St. John the
Baptist. The building would appear, from some private papers, to
have been dedicated to the latter ; but the officials of the Ordnance
Survey " have adopted the former, as the authorities appear to be
better." Some one of your readers may be able to solve the
question. A K c
DCXCIX. THE DEDICATION OF TURKDEAN CHURCH. I wish
to ascertain the dedication of this church. Two sources of
information give " All Saints"; viz. (1) Thesaurus Rerum
Ecclesiasticarum, 1742, by John Ecton, who was Receiver-General
of the Tenths for Queen Anne's Bounty ; and (2) the Gloucester-
shire Chronicle, November 5, 1859, in which there is an account of
the re-opening of the church after restoration on " the Eeast of
St. Michael" in that year. Is this sufficient authority? The
patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, appear,
to have no record of the dedication. Can any one assist me in
ascertaining what I want to know 1 J L TUDOR
Turkdean Vicarage, Northleach.
DCC. THE BURIAL OF RICHARD HULL, ESQ., 1772. Manning
and Bray, in their History of Surrey, and also Brayley, have
mentioned the burial of the above-named gentleman on Leith
Hill, near Dorking. In 1766 Richard Hull, a native of Bristol,
bencher of the Inner Temple, and ex-member of the Irish Parlia-
260 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
ment, resided at Leith Hill Place, at the foot of the hill, and in
that year, having obtained permission from Sir John Evelyn, of
Wotton, erected a tower on the summit of the hill, in which he
desired that he might be buried. He died at the age of eighty-
three, January 18, 1772, and his wish was carried out, a marble
slab inscribed with his epitaph being let into the ground-floor wall,
to record the event. There is a local tradition that Mr. Hull was
at least eccentric, and that he directed he should be buried in a
perpendicular position, head downwards, so that he might find
himself on his feet at the resurrection, when the world, he believed,
will be turned topsy-turvy. j Q
DCCL A GYPSY'S BURIAL, 1657. In the register of Malmes-
bury, Wilts, in the diocese of Gloucester and Eristol, this rather
curious entry may be found: "September, 1657. John Buckle,
reputed to be a Gypsie, deceased September 21, 1657, at John
Perins house upon the Fosse, in Shipton parish, in Gloucestershire,
and was buried in King Athelstones chappell, by King Athelstone
& the Ladye Marshall, within the Abbie Church at Malmsbury.
This burial was September 23 rd , 1657. Howbeit hee was taken up
againe (by the means of M r Thomas Ivye, esquier, who then lived
in the Abbie, & by the desyres & endeavours of others) out of the
said chappell, and was removed into the churchyarde, and there
was reburied neare the east side of the church porch, October 7 th ,
1657, in the p'sence of M r Tho s Ivye, of the Abbie, esq., M r
Pleadewell, of Mudgell, esquier, Rich d Whitmore, of Slaughter, in
the countie of Gloucester, & D r Qui, of Malmesbury, with very
many others." The foregoing has appeared in Nichols' Collectanea
TopograpTiica et Genealogica, vol. vi., p. 243. j Q.
DCCII. THE GREENING FAMILY. This letter, dated November
20, 1877, and published in the Gloucestershire Chronicle, is inserted
here for more convenient reference : In your paper two or three
weeks ago you copied from Notes and Queries [5 th S.viii. 327] a commu-
nication bearing the well-known initials " J. J.P.," in which interesting
information was given of a tomb in the churchyard at Bideford,
on which is inscribed " Underneath and near this stone are
deposited the mortal remains of several branches of the ancient
Greening family, late of Gloucester. They came to reside at
Bideford in the year 1666, a time of great persecution for conscience'
sake." And J.J.P. desires to know "of these Gloucester Greenings,
and why they migrated to Devonshire."
I have not been idle in leisure hours in poring over local histories,
and in a search amongst my not insignificant " Collectanea
Glocestriensia," in hopes of finding something immediately to the
point of J. J. P.'s inquiry. In the absence of positive data I am
thrown back upon conjecture. In spite of the tomb testimony, did
the Greening family referred to ever reside in Gloucester 1 I cannot
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find amongst civic records the name of Greening, nor in the records
of our Cathedral and churches a single epitaph on tomb, tablet, or
headstone, numerous as they are, which shows the name. But I
have found that a family of Greenings resided at Lechlade, in this
county, and litigated the manor and property thereunto belonging.
May not the Bideford Greenings have " migrated to Devonshire "
from Lechlade, in the county of Gloucester, and not from the city
of Gloucester ? Gloucester is a city and county in itself.
The manor of Lechlade in 1677 went to Anne, wife of John
Greening (her maiden name was Laurence). John Greening devised
his share to Nich. Hardinge, which was thrown into Chancery in
1698. Suit followed upon suit, instituted by Greening's descendants,
and not until the year 1774 was the sole right confirmed to
Sir Jacob Wheate.
J. J. P., being learned in the law, may probably be able to
pursue the inquiry in that direction, especially if he can find a
descendant of Joseph Pitt living, who seventy years ago held the
title-deeds of the property.
A directory of Lechlade, to which I now refer, dismisses the
history of the town in less than forty lines. I only learn therefrom
that the register of the church of St. Lawrence dates from the year
1686, and that George Mil ward, Esq., is lord of the manor, and
resides at the Manor House, which was built in the early part of
the sixteenth century.
Assuming that the Greening family resided in Gloucester, and
left this city for " conscience' sake," then in going to Bideford they
did but leap from the frying-pan into the fire. But let us leave
Gloucester and go to Bideford. I know the latter town, and have
a collection of lore about it from which I will endeavour briefly to
transcribe interesting matter.
Now at Bideford, about the year 1666, there was "great
persecution for conscience' sake." Nonconformity is said to have
taken very early root in that quarter. Some of its branches were
transferred to New England, which has also its Bideford. And
the Nonconformists at Bideford in New England became great
persecutors in their turn ; the poor Quakers, for instance, could not
live for them. King Charles the First had no greater enemies in
any part of his dominions than at Bideford, in Devon, which, like
Gloucester, declared for the Commonwealth, and made an idol of
Oliver Cromwell. In 1648 Mr. Giffard, an eminent Episcopalian,
was ejected from his rectory at Bideford. " The old gentleman
did not quietly give up his living, and therefore a party of horse
was ordered to force him out of it by violence ; which they did, and
used him cruelly, throwing dirt upon him, and some spitting at him
as he passed along the streets." Mr. Bartlett, a Koundhead preacher,
took possession, and good man although he was, he proved a bitter
weed.
At the Restoration in 1660, Bartlett and Giffard being in the
262 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
flesh, reprisals followed. " With what measure ye mete it shall be
meted to you again " had its fulfilment. Bartlett was deposed with
much contumely, and Giffard had his living again. Bartlett was
silenced for a time by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. He, with
his son, however, for some years held secret meetings in private
houses. The father was called "Boanerges", and the son
" Barnabas." " This healed where that had wounded." Under the
Conventicle Act Bartlett, the father, was committed to prison.
Later he preached his son's funeral sermon, and died himself in 1682.
The civil and ecclesiastical government of Bideford is said to have
exhibited a constant state of warfare. The pulpit was often made
a "drum ecclesiastic," and as soon as church service was over the
" brawlers" came to the front, and dire was the fray between the parson
and the town magnates. A Presbyterian apothecary " made as it were
a conscience of opposing the rector." Which side did the Greenings
take at Bideford ? If they sided against the Church, how is it that
they repose so peaceably in consecrated ground in the parish church-
yard, and what of the epitaph on the tombstone ? upon whom does
that reflect'? I leave all this to the judicial thoughtfulness of
J. J. P.
On one point I have been interested in my search by finding that
in the early history of Bideford it had affinity with that of
Gloucester.
Pichard de Grenvill, a nobleman of Bideford, held of the honour
of Glocestre 3 Knights fees and half of Glocestre, anno 13 of
Kinge John.
Bartholomew Grenvill held half a fee in Bideford, Littlewere,
and Brithelston, of Glocestre, anno 8 of Kinge Edwarde II.
Branches of this family intermarried with the Bohuns, Earls of
Hereford, whose arms are seen to this day over the gateway of
Lanthony Priory ruins on the road to Hernpsted, near this city.
Sir John Granville, who assisted so materially in the restoration
of King Charles II., was created by that monarch Earl of Bath.
Gloucester. HENRY JEFFS.
DCCIII. EDWARD STRONG, THE BUILDER OF ST. PAUL'S CATHE-
DRAL. The following paragraph is from the Herts Advertiser, July
17, 1880 ("Villages of West Herts, No. xxviii. Abbot's
Langley ") : " There was another man living at Abbot's Langley
in a later century than that in which the subsequent Pope [Nicholas
Breakspeare, Adrian IV.] lived there, whose career was both
distinguished and honourable. Edward Strong belonged to an
East Gloucestershire family. He bought the Hide Manor, in this
parish, and while residing there, was employed by the Government
in erecting several churches after the great fire of London. St.
Paul's Cathedral was among these; and Mr. Strong, like the
distinguished architect of the building and the bishop who had his
seat in London, lived to witness the beginning and ending of that
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magnificent pile. Many other important buildings he also erected ;
he died, at an advanced age, in 1723, and is buried at St. Peter's,
St. Albans. The compilers of his epitaph have not failed to leave
an enduring monument of the good man's worth. His marble is
an important feature in St. Peter's." The inscription thereon
(given in Mr. J. E. Cussans' History of Hertfordshire, 1881, pp.
299-301) is as follows :
"Near this Place are Deposited j the Eemains of | Edward
Strong, Citizen & Mason of London, | whose Masterly abilities
& Skill in his Profession | the many Publick Structures He was
employ'd in Eaising will most justly manifest to late Posterity. |
In erecting the Edifice of St. Paul, several years of his life were
Spent, | even from its Foundation to His Laying the last Stone ;
and herein (equally with its Ingenious Architect | S r Christopher
Wren, | and its truly pious Diocesan Bishop Compton) | he shared
the Felicity | of Seeing both the Beginning and Finishing | of that
Stupendous Fabrick. In Piety to his God, | in lustice, Fidelity,
Kindness, and Charity to his Neighbour, | in Temperance,
Humility, Contempt of the World, | and the due Government of
all his Appetites arid Passions, in Conjugal and Paternal
Affection, | in every Eelation, every Action, and Scene of Life, | he
was, what the Best Man, the Best Christian, | would desire to be,
at the Hour of Death. He died 8 th of February, MDCCXXIII,
In the 72 nd year of his Age.
years his most Beloved Wife,
Near Him lyeth Martha, | 49
a Wife in all Respects Worthy such
an Husband. | She Died y e 15** of lune, MDCCXXV, Aged 72
Years. | Their only Daughter, | Elizabeth New, of Newbarns [a
residence in St. Peter's parish], Widow; died 26 Oct r , 1747,
Aged 71 Years."
On the floor, at the west end, there are slabs, with these
inscriptions :
" Sacred to the Memory of Mary, the wife of Jn Strong, Esq r ,
of this Parish, youngest Son of Edw d & Martha Strong, who lie
Interr'd near this place. She was the only Daughter of M r Rob*
Herbert, of Edgworth, in the County of Midd x , by Mary, his wife.
Dyed Jan? the 22 d , 1741. In the 50 th year of her Age."
"John Strong, Esq r . Died y e 16 of January, 1737, ^Etat. 68."
"John New, of New Barns, Esq r . Nephew of the above In
Strong. Died Dec r y e 29, 1772, ^Etat. 68."
A slab, bearing an inscription to Edward and Martha Strong, as
on the east wall of the north aisle, thus continues :
"Thomas New, Obiit 18 July, 1736, ^tatis 28. Thomas
Strong, Esq r , Obiit 26 Decemb., 1736, ^Etatis 52. Elizabeth
New, Obiit 26 Octobris, 1747, ^Etatis 71."
Mr. Cussans has kindly furnished the particulars of the follow-
ing pedigree :
Timothy Strong, mason, 5. in Wiltshire, settled at Little
Barrington, Gloucestershire, and was quarry-owner there. He d.
1635 or 1636, leaving, with an only daughter Anne, an only son,
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Valentine, in business with his father at Little Barrington, and
also at Teynton, Oxon, m. 1631 or 1632, Anne, dau. of Edmund
Margetts, of Charlbury, Oxon. About 1640 he built a house for
Wm. Whitmore, Esq., at Slaughter, near Stow-on- the- Wold ; in
1651-3, one for John Button, Esq., at Sherborne ; and ten years
later one at Fairford for Andrew Barker, Esq. He d. at Fairford,
ISTov., 1662, and was buried there, having had issue,
1. Thomas, finished the house at Fairford left unfinished
by his father, and in 1675 commenced the rebuilding
of St. Paul's, under Wren; d. unm. 1681.
2. Edward, of whom presently.
3. Sarah,
4. Valentine,
5. Timothy, }- living in 1716.
6. John,
7. Lucy,
8. Ann, }
9. William, I
10. Lucy, C Jo
11. Elizabeth, )
Edward, citizen and mason of London, continued the building of
St. Paul's on his brother's death in 1681, and in 1705, with his
son Edward, commenced Blenheim. In 1714 he bought the manor
of Hyde, Abbot's Langley, Herts. He m. Martha , who d.
15 June, 1725, set. 72; and d. 8 Feb., 1723, set. 71, and was
buried at St. Peter's, St. Albans, leaving issue,
1. Edward, of whom presently.
2. Thomas, d. 26 Dec., 1736, and was buried at St. Peter's.
3. John, m. Mary, only dau. of Eobt. Herbert, of
Edgeworth, Middlesex, who d. 22 Jan., 1741, set. 49;
and d. 16 Jan., 1757, set. 68. Both were buried at
St. Peter's.
4. Elizabeth, m. to New, of New Barns, St.
Albans, d. 26 Oct., 1747, set. 71, and was buried at
St. Peter's.
Edward, of Greenwich, citizen and mason of London, rebuilt
many City churches, and in 1715 built the north front of the Earl
of Chandos' house at Canons, Middlesex; m. Mary Beauchamp,
who was dead in 1741. His will is dated 22 July, 1741, and was
proved 20 Oct. following ; and he left issue,
1. Susannah, m. to Sir John Strange.
2. Letitia, m. to Jas. Mundy.
3. Martha, m. 1st, to Cramer ; and 2ndly, to Sir Thos.
Parker, Knt., a judge of the Common Pleas.*
4. Lucy, m. to Thos. Phillips, of Eaton, Herefordshire.
H. C. W.
* A near relative of his namesake, Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, and for thirty
years Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. He died Dec. 29, 1784. For further
particulars of him, see Foss' Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, p. 501. ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 265
DCCIV. POPULAR CUSTOMS OP GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The Rev.
T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A., has published an interesting volume,
entitled British Popular Customs, Present and Past (London, 1876);
"illustrating the social and domestic manners of the people," and
"arranged according to the calendar of the year." "In presenting
the following pages to the public I do not," he writes in his preface,
" lay claim to any originality, my object simply having been to
collect together, into a readable and condensed form, from various
sources within my reach, accounts of Customs which, if not already
obsolete, are quickly becoming so." Those which he has inserted
relative to Gloucestershire, are transferred to these pages, with some
notes within brackets.
Jan. 5. In the parish of Pauntley, and the surrounding
neighbourhood, the servants of each farmer formerly assembled
together in one of the fields that had been sown with wheat. At
the end of twelve lands, they made twelve fires in a row with straw,
around one of which, much larger than the rest, they drank a
cheerful glass of cider to their master's health, and success to the
future harvest ; then, returning home, they feasted on cakes soaked
in cider, which they claimed as a reward for their past labours in
sowing the grain. Fosbrooke's Gloucestershire, 1807, vol. ii., p. 232.
[The reader will find that this "Twelfth-day Custom" has
already been referred to at some length in JSTo. XXVIII. ]
Feb. 5. In Smyth's MS. Lives of the Lords of Berkeley, in the
possession of the Earl of Berkeley [Lord Fitzhardinge] (p. 49), we
read that on the anniversary of the founder of St. Augustine's,
Bristol, i.e, Sir Eobert Fitzharding, on the 5th of February, " at that
monastery there shall be one hundred poore men refreshed in a dole
made unto them in this forme : Every man of them hath a
chanon's loaf of bread, called a myche (a kind of bread), and three
hearings therewith. There shall be doaled also amongst them two
bushells of peys." Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. i., p. 116.
May 1. In the village of Randwick, hard by the Stroud cloth-
mills, at the appointed daybreak, three cheeses were carried upon a
litter, festooned and garlanded with blossoms, down to the church-
yard, and rolled thrice mystically round the sacred building ; being
subsequently carried back in the same way upon the litter in
triumphal procession, to be cut up on the village-green and
distributed piecemeal among the bystanders. Household Words,
1859, vol. xix., p. 515.
In this county the children sing the following song as they dance
round the Maypole :
" Round the Maypole, trit-trit-trot !
See what a Maypole we have got ;
Fine and gay,
Trip away,
Happy is our new May-day."
Aunt Judy's Magazine, 1874, No. xcvii., p. 436.
266 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Mai/ 10. At St. Briavels, after divine service, formerly, pieces
of bread and cheese were distributed to the congregation at church.
To defray the expenses, every householder in the parish paid a
penny to the churchwardens, and this was said to be for the liberty
of cutting and taking the wood in Hudnalls. According to tradition,
the privilege was obtained of some Earl of Hereford, then lord of
the Forest of Dean, at the instance of his lady, upon the same hard
terms that Lady Godiva obtained the privileges for the citizens of
Coventry. Rudder's Gloucestershire, 1779, p. 307. See N. $ Q.,
2 ud S. x. 184.
A remnant of the old customs of Whitsuntide is retained at the
noble old church of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, which is annually
strewn with rushes in accordance with ancient practice. See
Edwards' Old English Customs and Charities, 1842, pp. 216, 217.
[This custom, which prevailed likewise at South Cerney, has
been fully noticed, under the head of " Juncare," in Nos. XXIX.
and CXIX.]
A custom existed at Wickham for the lord of the manor to give
a certain quantity of malt to brew ale to be given away at
Whitsuntide, and a certain quantity of flour to make cakes. Every
one who kept a cow sent curd ; others, plums, sugar, and flour. A
contribution of sixpence from each person was levied for furnishing
an entertainment, to which every poor person of the parish who
came was presented with a quart of ale, a cake, a piece of cheese,
and a cheese cake. Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 817.
May 14. The vicinity of Chipping Carnpden was the theatre of
the Coteswold Games, which, in the reign of James I. and his
unfortunate successor, were celebrated in this part of England.
They were instituted by a public-spirited attorney of Burton-on-the
Heath, in Warwickshire, named Robert Dover, and like the
Olympic games of the ancients, consisted of most kinds of manly
exercises. The victors were rewarded by prizes, distributed by the
institutor, who, arrayed in a discarded habit of James', superin-
tended the games in person for many years. The meetings were
annually held on Whitsun Thursday, and were frequently
attended by an immense number of people. Ben Jonson, Drayton,
and other poets of that age (Thomas Randolph, Thomas Heyivood,
Owen Eeltham, and Shackerly Marmyon) wrote verses on this
festivity, which, in 1636, were collected into one volume, and
published under the title of Annalia Dubrensia.* These diver-
sities (J) were at length terminated by the breaking out of the civil
wars, but were revived at the Restoration ; and the memory of
* There is an admirable reprint of this old and very scarce book, entitled Annalia \
Dubrensia \ or \ Celebration \ of \ Captain Robert Dover's \ Cotswold Games. It is " edited,
with Introduction and Notes and Illustrations, by the Eev. Alexander B. Grosart, LL.D.,
St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire " ; but (what is a matter of no little regret) there are
" fifty-two copies only. Printed for the Subscribers. 1877. 4." The volume consists of a
woodcut of the " Cotswold Games " ; blank leaf and title-page ; Subscribers' Names (50) ;
Introduction, pp. xxi. (having at commencement afac-simile of Dover's autograph, &c.) ; the
Annalia, pp. 72 ; and Notes and Illustrations, pp. 6. A more recent reprint by another
editor ia not to be commended ED.
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their founder is still preserved in the name Dover's Hill, applied to
an eminence of the Cotswold range, about a mile from the village
of Campden. Britton and Brayley's Beauties of England and
Wales, 1803, vol. v., p. 655. See Book of Days, vol. L, p. 712.
Sept. 29. The custom of hanging out bushes of ivy, boughs of
trees, or bunches of flowers at private houses as a sign that good
cheer may be had within, prevails in the city of Gloucester at the
fair held at Michaelmas, called Barton Fair from the locality.
N. $ Q., 1 st S. ix. 113.
Oct. 21. Richard Aldridge gave the interest of 200?., Three per
Cent. Consols, that the dividend should, for ever, be disposed of as
follows : II. Is. to the vicar of the parish of St. Nicholas [Bristol]
for performing morning service annually in the parish church on
the 21st of October, and preaching a sermon in commemoration of
the glorious victory obtained by Lord Nelson over the combined
fleets of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st of
October, 1805; 10s. Qd. equally between the clerk and sexton
for their attendance at such service and sermon. The residue of
the dividend to be applied to keeping a monument of his friend in
good condition, and the surplus after such repair to be given to the
poor on the 6th of December each year in coals and garments.
Edwards' Old English Customs and Charities, p. 170.
[As mentioned by Mr. Edwards, Mr. Aldridge gave, in 1814,
.100, Three per Cent. Consols, to Messrs. Scudamore and Holbrow
for the express purpose as follows : to pay one guinea to the
officiating minister of Stroud, in the county and diocese of Glou-
cester, for preaching a sermon commemorative of National Mercies on
the 21st day of October annually, being the day on which the victory
was obtained by Lord Nelson off Trafalgar over the French fleet in
the year 1805. Also to pay to the clerk of the parish of Stroud
5s., to the sexton 2s. Qd., and to the organist 5s., for their
respective attendance on such days, and not otherwise ; more-
over, to pay for a number of twopenny loaves, and to distribute
the same among as many of the children of the charity or free
schools held at Stroud Hill, White's Hill, and the Thrupp, as do
attend on the said 21st day of October, as far as the money in
hand will allow of, and should there be any surplus the same is to
be given away in rewards to the children of the Sunday school at
White's Hill, at the discretion of the officiating minister for the
time being.]
Dec. 24. It appears by a benefaction table in the church of
Ruardean, that " the Reverend M r Anthony Sterry, vicar of Lidney,
gave by deed, in the 40 th year of Queen Elizabeth, 5s. per annum,
payable out of an estate called the Glasp, in this parish, for
ringing a peal on Christmas Eve, about midnight for two hours, in
commemoration of the Nativity." Ib., p. 6.
Dec. 25. It was formerly the custom of the city of Gloucester
to present to the Sovereign at Christmas a lamprey-pie with a
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raised crust. The custom is of great antiquity, and as Henry I.,
of lamprey-loving celebrity, frequently held his Court during
Christmas at Gloucester, it may have originated in his time.
[The remainder of Mr. Dyer's remarks need not be quoted, as
they, with sundry other particulars, have already appeared in N"os.
LXX. and CCXXXIV., under the head of " Gloucester Lampreys."]
Dec. 28. At Woodchester a muffled peal is rung on this day.
Kalendar of the English Church, 1866, p. 194.
[This has been mentioned in No. CCCCXCIL]
Dec. 31. On New Year's Eve the wassailers go about carrying
with them a large bowl, dressed up with garlands and ribbons, and
repeat the following song :
"Wassail! wassail!" etc.
[The song, with the melody, has been given in No. LXXX.]
EDITOR.
DCCV. A PLAGUE OF EAR-WIGS. In the Gentleman 's Magazine
(1755), vol. xxv., p. 376, there is a paragraph, headed "Stroud",
and dated Tuesday, August 19, 1755, as follows : " In the parishes
adjacent there are such quantities of ear-wigs, that they destroy not
only the flowers and fruits, but the cabbages, be they ever so large.
The houses, especially the old wooden buildings (of which there are
many), are swarming. The cracks and crevices are surprisingly full,
so that they drop out in such multitudes that the floors are covered ;
the linen, of which they are very fond, is likewise full, as is the
furniture, and it is with caution they eat their provisions,
the cupboards, safes, &c., being plentifully stocked with them.
Let the curious account for this uncommon phenomenon." As yet
I know nothing more on the subject. GLOCESTRIENSIS.
DCCVI. PAEOCHIAL LIBRARIES. As mentioned by Bigland, vol.
ii., p. 240??, Thomas Eoley, Esq., who was patron of the vicarage of
Newent, and by whom John Caister, D.D., was appointed thereto
in 1727, "by will gave his library to the succeeding vicars." The
rector of Tortworth for the time being has in like manner the use
of a large and (apparently) valuable collection of books. Are cata-
logues of these libraries to be seen ? and are other collections of
the same kind to be met with in Gloucestershire ? If there are,
some particulars of them are desired, as rare and valuable works
oftentimes lie neglected and unknown. BIBLIOGRAPHER.
DCCVII. JENNER, OF CAINSFORD. In the Visitation of
Wiltshire, 1623, edited by Dr. Marshall, and lately published, the
following occurs :
"Jacobus Vaulx de = Editha filia Will'mi Jenner
Marston Maisay in de Cainsford in Com. Glouc.
Com. Wilts ux I."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 269
In Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 544, the above two are likewise
mentioned, the monumental inscription in the church of Meysey
Hampton, in memory of Dr. Vaulx and his wives [for which, see
also No. CLXXVIIL], heing given. Arms over the "bust of his
first wife, who died in 1617, Three cups, for Jenner.
I shall he glad of any further early references to the Jenner
family, and also to know where Cainsford is. I have a note of a
Robert Jenner, of Hernford, Gloucestershire, who died in 1657,
having a brother William, described as of Marston Meysey, and
also John, of Marston. Are Cainsford and Hernford identical 1
Sandgate. KICHAED JOHN FYNMORE.
DCCVIII. THE GLOUCESTER TRUE BLUE CLUB. The ninety-
first anniversary dinner of this club, as recorded in the Gloucester-
shire Chronicle, Feb. 5, 1881, was held the evening before at the
Bell Hotel, Gloucester, under the presidency of Richard Potter, Esq.
This annual gathering was instituted to celebrate a great party
victory, but the circumstances under which that victory was achieved
are not very generally known, and it may be well to repeat them.
At the end of 1788, or the beginning of 1789, there was a vacancy
in the representation of the city, and Mr. Henry Howard became
the Whig candidate. His address was issued on January 19, 1789,
and in it he expresses the high opinion he always had of the freedom
and independence of the freemen, and says he feels sure that his
ambition will be gratified, and that he will become by their generous
suffrages a supporter of that cause in which they were mutually
engaged. Who Mr. Howard was did not appear to be well known
to the citizens, and it was therefore publicly announced that he was
not a nephew of the Duke of Norfolk, but the owner of Thornbury
Castle. On the same day an address was published by Mr. John
Pitt, stating that he had been asked to become a candidate, and
that he felt it his duty to accept the invitation, adding, " I sent by
express a resignation of a lucrative office, which I have the
satisfaction to find accepted, so that I am now free of every tie but
that of my duty and obligation to this my native city." Mr. Pitt's
committee declared that the freemen were determined to show that
the city of Gloucester was not " part and parcel of the Norfolk
inheritance." The election was fixed to take place or rather to
commence on that day, the 19th January. The Journal of
Monday, January 26, contains no report of the election proceedings,
but gives the state of the poll up to the 24th Mr. Pitt, 709
votes ; Mr. Howard, 647 ; majority for Pitt, 62. Mr. Howard stated
in a second address that he had reason to expect from letters sent
him by his friends in different parts of the kingdom that his voters
would yet overbalance the majority then against him. The poll
was therefore kept open, and in the next Monday's Journal Mr.
Pitt's committee congratulated their fellow-citizens on the near
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270 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
prospect of success " in the glorious struggle for the maintenance of
the rights of the electors, and the support of their dearest privileges
against the combined efforts of rank and power." The state of the
poll this second week was announced to be Pitt, 797 ; Howard, 769.
A week later we read " On Wednesday last (4th Feb.) the long-
contested election of a representative for this city was terminated
by the expiration of the fifteen days appointed by Act of Parliament
for the return of the writ. At the casting up of the poll the
Sheriffs declared the numbers to be For Mr. Pitt, 837 ; for Mr.
Howard, 836. The Sheriffs having made a return in favour of Mr.
Pitt, on Thursday he was chaired through the streets of the city
amidst the acclamations of his friends, and on Saturday he set off
for London to take his seat in Parliament." In the following year,
1790, the True Blue Club was formed to celebrate this victory, and
the meetings have been held every year since, and always, when
possible, on the 4th of February.
Mr. Pitt seems to have been an intimate and valuable friend of
Eobert Eaikes. In the letters from the latter to the Eev. Mr.
Llewelyn, of Leominster, which were lately purchased by Mr. W.
Higgs, and which he has kindly placed at our use, we (Gloucester-
shire Chronicle) find that on October 23, 1791, Eaikes writes :
" Good Sir, I here send you a proof of the first sheet of your
valuable work. Mr. Pitt, the representative for this city, has given
me leave to have the proofs returned under cover to him. You
will be pleased, then, to inclose your letter to me, and then, in another
sheet of paper, direct it to John Pitt, Esq., M.P., Glocester. This
I shall receive free of postage, and will convey the proof to you in
franks." At that time the postage between Gloucester and Leominster
was Is. 4d. for a letter weighing an ounce, so that Mr. Pitt's
authority to frank Mr. Eaikes' ' correspondence must have been
of no little pecuniary advantage to the thrifty printer. The
next letter, dated November 16, 1791, and enclosing another proof,
is franked, " Free, J. Pitt." The following postcript is attached to
a letter dated Jan. 27, 1792 : " As my friend Mr. Pitt is going to
London to attend Parliament, please to direct your next letter to
Samuel Woodcock, Esq., Postmaster, Glocester ; " and on Dec. 15,
1794, in a letter with another proof, he says, " I shall not wait for
a frank, as Mr. Woodcock is not at present at home." It appears
from the use which Eaikes made of his friends (Mr. Pitt and Mr.
Woodcock) that, like the wife of another famous "citizen of
credit and renown," he had a frugal mind.
GLOCESTRIENSIS.
DCCIX. SUBSIDY KOLL FOR HARESFIELD, 1327. (See No.
DCXX.) I send you a copy of the subsidy roll for Haresfield,
1 Edw. III., 1327, for insertion in your pages.
Harescombe Eectory, Stroud. J. MELLAND HALL, M.A.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 271
Haresfield.
John de Bohun x 8 viij d
John Atte Brugge vij d
Walter Carpenter ij iij q
William Younge xviij ob q
Elianor, who was the
wife of Herbert
Fitz-John iij ix ob q
Walter atte forde xv ob
John Atte Hay ij iij ob q
Walter Dru xxj ob q
Henry Younge ix ob
Robert Cissorer xxij ob
Roger Jones ix ob
Eobert Cattelyn xiv
Nicholas Spakett xij
John Partrich xvj ob q
Felicia Pie xix ob q
Gilbert Pie xv
Kichard Shern xxj
S'ma xxxv 8 xj d ob' q
DCCX. EH DUPREE : MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION. On a tablet
in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral to the memory of Eh
Dupree and Cecilia, his wife, it is added that Eh Dupree, their son,
"was abused unto death at Hays in y e County of Middlesex,
May 24 th , 1741, aged 74, and was there buried." To what
circumstance does this statement refer 1 ? T _,
J. Or.
DCCXI. Two EXTRACTS FROM THE CRANBROOK PARISH REGIS-
TER, KENT. These extracts from the Cranbrook register of
marriages may some day be useful :
1666. November 13. M r Jonathan Pleydell, of Hawkhurst,
Clerk, son of M r Robert Pleydell, of Stroudwater, in Gloucester-
shire, Clerk, & M rs Alice Leigh, sole daughter living of John
Leigh, Gen fc , of Cranbrooke.
1688. February 5. George Hanger, of Dryfield, in the County
of Gloucester, Esq r , & M ris Anne Beale, of Glassenbury Place,
second Daughter and one of the heiresses of S r John Beale, late of
Farningham, dec d .*
ROBERT HOVENDEN.
* See No. CCCCXXII. Bigland gives the following inscription, as on a neat marble
monument in the chancel of Driffield Church : " Near this Place | lies the Body of Sir Oeorge
Hanger, Knight, | who departed this Life the 24th Day of Nov., 1731, | aged 80 Years. | Near
this Place | lieth the Body of Dame Ann Hanger, | Relict of Sir George Hanger, Knight. | She
was Daughter and Coheiress of | Sir John Beale, of Farningham, | in the County of Kent,
Bart., | and departed this Life the 13th. Day of November, | 1742, aged 73." Their third son,
Gabriel, was Lord Coleraine. ED.
272 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DCCXII. A CHELTENHAM CATACOMB FOR SALE. In the
Gloucester Journal, March 15, 1834, there is an advertisement. of
the sale by auction of Grovefield Mansion and other property, by
order of the assignees of James Pritchit; and Lot 3 is thus
described : " A Catacomb, in Trinity Church, Cheltenham, lately
belonging to the said Insolvent, and large enough to receive fifteen
coffins." CHELTONIENSIS.
DCCXIII. PAUL BUSH, BISHOP OF BRISTOL. Can any of the
many contributors to Gloucestershire Notes and Queries give me
information relative to ft\& family of Paul Bush, the first bishop of
Bristol, who, after his resignation of the bishopric, retired to
Winterbourne, of which parish he was rector, and died there in
1 5 5 8 1 CLIFTONIENSIS.
DCCXIV. NASH COURT AND THE STEPS, CAM. (See No.
DCLXI.) Some confusion appears to exist between Nash Court
and The Steps, which are not far from one another in Lower Cam.
The Steps now belongs to "W. T. Turner, Esq. ; but monuments to
members of that gentleman's family in the church and churchyard
of Cam describe them as "of Nash Court." Hence it is perhaps
that The Steps is sometimes called by that name. But this is
clearly an error. Mr. Turner's predecessors in the property, the
Trotmans, were ever known as " of The Steps," and are so described
on their monuments in the above-named church. How the mistake
has arisen it is difficult to say. In point of fact, Nash Court is the
small mansion now occupied as a farm-house, which is better known
as The Knapp. In the title-deeds of the property, which now
belongs to Mr. Pick, of North Nibley, through whose kindness I
have had an opportunity of examining them, it is always described as
Nash Court, or Nasse Court ; and there does not appear to have been
any connection between this place and The Steps, except that they
were once both residences of the Trotman family. The Trotmans
of Nash Court and those of The Steps were, however, practically
distinct families. The word " Knap " indicates a knoll or hill ;
and " Nash," or rather " Nasse," as it is written in the earlier deeds,
is probably identical with " ness," a promontory, a word which is
familiar in the name of Sharpness. The situation of The Knapp,
placed as it is on rising ground at a little distance from the village
of Lower Cam, with the evident intention of taking advantage of
the fine view from the front of the house, exactly accords with
what seems to be the meaning of its two names. On the other
hand, The Steps is situated on a lower level near the village, and its
position certainly does not agree with the suggested significance of
NaSh COUrt ' W. P. W. PmLLIMORE, B.C.L.
DCCXV. SOME GLOUCESTERSHIRE MARRIAGES, 1755-59. (See
No. CCXCIX.) These four announcements are worthy of note :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 273
1755. On Thursday last was mard. here at the parish church of
St. Mary de Load, the Eev. Mr. Meredith, of English Bicknor, to
Mrs. Fitch, of this city, a maiden lady, with a handsome fortune.
Gloucester Journal, Jan. 28, 1755.
1755. On Tuesday last Edward Chinn, of the Mote, in the
parish of Newent, in this county, Gent., was married at the parish
church of "Westbury to Miss Bridget Aylberton, of the last-
mentioned parish, a young lady of great beauty and merit, with a
fortune of .4,000. It is remarkable that this couple was married
by banns, or, as it is commonly called, was asked in Church. Ib. t
Aug. 5, 1755.
1758. On Sunday last was married at the Abbey-Church in
Bath, Matthew Sloper, Esq., of Tetbury, in this county, to Miss
Kyffin, a fortune of 12,000. 75., Dec. 19, 1758.
1759. On Monday last was married at Woodchester, in this
county, by the Revd. Mr. Hawker, Rector of that place, Thomas
Pettat, Esq., of King Stanley, to Miss Paul (daughter of Onesiphorus
Paul, Esq.), a very agreeable young lady, with a fortune of ,12,000.
[See No. CCXXII.] Ib., May 29, 1759. C> T> D>
DCCXVL "JOHN SANDERS, HIS BOOK, 1712." (See No.
DCLXI.) The following extracts are from a MS., preserved at
Siston Court for several generations, but now in the possession of
Colonel Hibbert, of Bucknell Manor, Oxfordshire, and entitled
"John Sanders, his Book, 1712 : the Account of my Travils with
my Mistress : " they are inserted here with the sanction of
the owner, and will be found a very good appendix to " The
Trotman Family." The "mistress" was Sarah, youngest daughter
of Samuel Trotman, Esq., of Siston Court, Gloucestershire, and
of Bucknell, (who died in 1684), and wife of the learned George
Hickes, D.D., Dean of Worcester, 1683-91. EDITOR.
Aug* ye 1. She went in y e Alsebury coach, and I on y e outside,
we din'd at y e Crown at Uxbridg, & went that night to S r Richard
Holford's* house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, whar we ware welcomely
receivd, but found my Lady in awef ul condision. we stayed thare
til y e 1 1 of August, then my M rs went with S r Rich d & Lady in
their coach, and I on y e outside for Avebury, we sat out on
Tuesday, & din'd that day at M r Bolding's, at y e Crown at Slow one
mile from Winsor, I saw- y e Castle as I past y e road. I lay that
night at y e Bare, at Reading, which is a large town, and four
Churches in it, it is a good place for trade, y e river of Thames come
to it, it is . . . miles from Slow.
Y e 12 we din'd at M r Phillips at y e Bare in Spinumlands, in
Nuberry parrish, whare was y e great fight in y e sivil wars, four
noble Dukes thare killed and caried into that very house whare I
dined, it is .... miles from Reading. As I first neare
* Sir Richard married Susannah, third daughter of the above Samuel Trotman.
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Nuberry I see y e feilds whare many brave Inglish men weare killed,
& much blood was spilt thare. We lay that night at M r
Shropshiers at y e Angel in Malbourrow, it is a pretty Town, and a
good market, 5 miles from Avebery. Thursday y e 13 about 10, we
came to S r Eich. Holford's .house in Avebery, it is a noble larg
antient seat, built with whit larg stone, it did belong to Lord Stoil,
y e late noble Lord Stoil* was born thare, and our Queen Anne
dined thare. Avebery is compased about with a wall ditch, which
was thrown up in wars they say 1000 years before Christ, thare is
two large stons as ye enter y e Town, which they call gates, thare is
many larg stons standing up as big as those at Stone edge. One
Sunday a coblar was mending of shoos under one of these great
etons, y e minute he rose y e ston fell down, and broke in pices on y e
very ground whare he sat, which made him see y e great providence
of God in preserueing him alive, and so deter him from braking y e
Sabbeth, for w h reason he never worked more on y e Sabbeth day.
Thare lies thick on y e downs many larg stons w h they call gray
wathers. About half a mile from Avebery is a round steepe green
hill, under it is said a King fell, being killed in a dredfull bloody
fight on those downs was buryed thare, and his men threwe up y e
ground on his grave so high as made this hill for a monument to
keep his memory.
Augt y e 22 Jac Kose rid before my M rs and I caried her
portemantow on Sir Eich : punch nag, we rid by Alcannons, that
is 5 miles from Avebery and through y e Yicese Green w h is one
mile from Alcannons, through Pottorn, it is one mile from y e Vicese
Tuft. At Pottorn Towns end we see a hare cross y e road before
my horse as we ware riding to y e 5 lanes, in y e next lane that
turned towards Worton we came to a great depe myer a crosse y e
lane, we had no way to ride by, so was forced to pass through it,
my M ra got safe through it by God's great mercy, though with
great dificulty to y e horse, and daineger to herself, I rid through
after, but my horse flundred so very much that his tackel broke,
and downe came y e portmantow, and I had a very daingous fall,
but God preserved me that I had no hurt, then we rid through
Worton, whare I met with a very sevil man w h put my tackle to
rites. Worton is 1 mile from Pottorn, next we rid through
Masson, it is one mile from Worton. Y e next town we rid
through was Coultson, one mile from Masson. then to Tinhead is
one mile, we came to Tinheags Court about 12, to M rs Wadman,f
whom I did hartily long to see, she rec'd us - cherfully, and with a
harty welcom. She has a goodly look tho undar a long confinement
to her chamber by y e goute.
Aug y e 31. M r Justis Wadman fecht my M M in his coach and
I on y e outside to his house in Imber. Sunday we went to Church
* John, second Lord Stawel, of Somerton.
+ Hannah, second daughter of the above Samuel Trotman, and wife of Robert Wadman,
Eq., of Imber, Wilts.
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thare, in y e which is two noble antient monuments lying cross
legged like Knights Templers, under each is a stone sepulchre with
y e bones of a body in each of them. We ware nobly entartained
by M r Justis Wadman, and on Munday returned in his coach to
Tinheads Court.
On Tusday y e 23 of September I waited on my M rs to Imber on
y e Down, and returned at night. On Friday I was at Edington
Church, whar I see M rs Hannah Wadman's Grave with this
inscription writ undar her cotte of arms on her grave stone.
hear lyeth y e body of M rs Hannah Wadman, y e daughter of
Robart Wadman of Imber, Esq r , by Hannah his wife, who was y e
daughter of Samuel Trotman of Bucnell in y e County of Oxon
Esq r , she had y e misfortuen to break one of y e panbones of her
knees, and to dislocate y e other, which caused her to undergo both
a long and a tedious confinement, and also to endure much pain and
misery ; wharfore when it should please God to release her, she
being full of hope and trust in his mercy desired that the verse
following might be engraved upon her Tombstone ; viz, thou shalt
make me to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones which thou
hast broaken may rejoyce. Psalm y e 51. ye 8 verse. She dyed on
y e 9 th day of December 1709 in y e 30 th year of her age.
On friday y e 26 of September we went from Tinhead with y e
Salsbyry Coach to Bath, whare Esquier Trotman's horses and man
met us and brought us y e same night to Siston Court, about
9 a clock. Esq r Trotman's house thare is a very large' hansom
stately great seat, fitt for a noble man to reside in. Queen Ann, y e
wife of King Jeames y e first was entertained and lodged thare, one
of y e Chambers is still called y e Queens Chamber. It is adorned
with a very large bowling green, pleasant walks, and butifull
gardens. Y e house is well furnished and adorned with a bundance
of pictures, sum of them very valuble, but that which plesed me
best was y e noble housekeeping, we ware so luckey on y e 26 of
September to come in in y e nick, as half a dozen gentilmen ware
earring supper into y e parlar, they ushard my M rs into y e parlar,
whare she found a great deal of good company and many kind
freinds and relations, thar was y e honourd y e Lady Drake,* y e
honourd and very rich Lady Readf with her two eldest daughters
who are fine Ladys and vast fortunes and heirss, and y e worshipfull
M r Dashwoodf who is thought will soone marry y e eldest M rs Read,
he is y e eldest son of Sir Robart Dashwood of Norbrook he has a
vast estate. Thare was like wise y e Lady Holford and Esq r
* Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Chief Baron Montagu, widow of Sir William Drake, of
Shardeloes, Bucks, and second wife of Samuel Trotman, of Siston, (eldest son of the above
Samuel Trotman), and consequently stepmother to the bride.
t Widow of Sir James Bead, Bart., of Brocket Hall, Herts.
t He did marry Dorothea, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir J. Bead, Bart. He died, in
his father's life-time, at Paris. 1728, and his son James succeeded as second baronet
in 1734.
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Trotrnan's daughter,* and Esquier Samuel Trotmanf of Bucknell,
and as soon as Esq r Trotman of Siston heard my Misstress was thar,
he came into y e paller, they ware all very glad to see my Misstress
among them and made her exstrordinary welcom. For my part I
was conducted by y e Servants into their hall, and I suped with
them, about 40 of us, our tables ware plentifull covered, and all y e
Servants ware very kind, and took a great deale of care of me, and
I lived in great plenty every day thare was a noble large ox killed,
beside muton and lam and pigs, and of all sorts of fowls both tame
and wilde, with these the slaughter-house and wet larder were
plentifully furnisshed, beside red dear and fat dow, and a bundance
of sort of fish from sea and freshwater, and of all these I had my
shear. On Sunday thare went 6 coach fulls of gentry to Church
out of this famely, besides 30 or mo Servants on foot. On y e 4th
of October M r Edwerd Trotman J came to Siston from Bucknell, on
Thursday y e 9 of y e same instant M* 8 Trotman of Bucnell came to
Siston.
On Thursday y e 16 of October 1712 I had the Honour to see
M rs Dorothea, y e only cheild of Esq r Trotman of Siston married to
Samuel Trotman Esq r , the eldest Son of Lenthall Trotman Esq r of
Bucnell, they ware married by Reverrend M r Jonathan Loveingham
rector of that Church. The 2 M rs Reads ware bride maids,
M r Dashwood, M r Edward Trotman were bride men. Esq r Trotman
the bride's father gave her in marridg, and y e bridegroom endowed
her with a very rich large gold purs full of gold of several guines.
thare ware 8 coach fulls of near relations went out of this family
to Church at y e weding, Lady Read Lady Holford and my
Mistress rod in y e first coach, they three being the bride's own
Aunts, in the next coach rod Esq 1 ' Trotman of Siston, Lady Drake
and M rs Trotman of bucknell, thay being parants to the bride-
growm and bride, in the next coach the Bride and her maids, in
the next the Bridegrowm and his men, the other 4 brought the
rest of y e company except the foot Servants, the Sollemnity at
Church being over, all returned in the same manner as they went.
As the Bride and Bridegrowm entered the hall door, 4 gentilmen
held a larg damesk cloth over the Bride and Bridegrowm's head
whilst there was a noble large cake broak over their heeds, a set of
musissiners being placed in a gallarri over the great stayers
welcomed the bride and bridegrowm home in the best manner they
could, and played up the dinner, which was very splended and great,
* The Bride, daughter and heiress of Samuel Trotman, of Siston Court, by his first wife
Dorothy, daughter of Robert Bring, Esq., of Isleworth.
+ The Bridegroom, eldest son and heir of Lenthall Trotman, of Bucknell, who died 1691,
by Mary, daughter of Thomas Philips, Esq., of Ickford, Bucks. Lenthall Trotman was
second son of the first named Samuel Trotman, and uncle to the bride.
. * Third son of Lenthall Trotman, of Bucknell. He married Mary, daughter and co-
neiress of Thomas Filmer, Esq., of Amwell Bury, Herts, by Susannah, sister and co-heiress
C Lawrence Fiennes, fifth Viscount Saye and Sele. His son, Fiennes Trotman, who died s.p.
in 1782, eventually inherited the properties of Siston Court and Bucknell, and was
succeeded by his nephew, Fiennes Trotman, father of the late Fiennes Trotman, Esq.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 277
so much to be partickularly named, thare was 24 dishes on the
Table at the first course besides y e pasty venision and roast beafe
on the side board, besides y e changes of fish in the plase of crawfish
soup, and red dear in the plase of rich soupe at the lower end.
The second course had the same number of dishes as the first,
containing great rarities all costly drest. The third course had
three large perimids of the finest and best sorts of dride swetmeats,
and besides them 16 large chainy dishes of wet swetmeats and
gellys and fruits and other things which made y e desart as noble as
y e dinner, which beeing ended the hall was soon filled with dancers
and the pallear with several sets of card players, al made up out of
our own famely, no naibours being thare that day, it being called a
priviate weding. Supper time being come the other devirtions ware
laide a side to go to that which was as good as the dinner and 2 rich
sackposets in noble large silver basans and a riche large bride cake
garnished on the top with fine dried sweetmeats stuck very thick on
it.
All the family ware presented with fafours from the bride, and I
had the honour to have one among the rest. We conclued the
evening with danceing and card plying, ringing of bells and
drinking helth and joy to the bride and bridegrowm. thus ended the
weding day.
On friday the 17. in the morning every chamber window ware
surranaded with musick to call us all up. Some of the naibouring
gentry came in to joyn in joy and feasting and danceing and carde
playing, which passed that day away. M rs Wadman likewise sent
a mesenger to congratulate the happy nuptuals, the musick playing
us all to sleep.
On Saturday the 18. the musick againe waking us, we got up
and spent the day in feasting and jollity, the poor labourars feasted
that day with us, which made up our numbar at dinner of 115.
besides 50 poore served at y e door, we ware mery and jovyal,
some at cards, others danceing, I made one of them, when quite
tierd with that we went to bed, all being surfited with the noys of
mvsick night and day, the musissions ware then Discharged.
On Sunday the 19 the forane man cook who had been hear to
assist Lady Drake's cook the three grand f estif al days returned home.
On the same day our useual numbour went to Church, that is 6
coachfulls of gentry besides a great number of Servants on foot*
M r Thomas Loveinghame preached a weding Sermon to us, his text
was in the 5 Chapter of proverbs and the 18 & 19 verses. Several
naibouring gentry came in to dine, two great tabells full in y &
Servants hall.
October the 20 on Monday the rich Lady Eead, her two rich
daughters and M r Dashwood went from Siston, they went in the
Honourd Lady Drake's coach and 6 horses, then in the Lady Bead's
mourning coach and her 4 horses with two of Lady Drake's aded
to them went the Lady Bead's waiting gentilwomen, they all went
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to Sir Eobart Dashwood's house in Norbrooke, and as they went up
Hinton hill, the Lady Bead's mourning coach being infirm, the perch
broke, the gentilwomen had been left in the dirt, but they sent to
Badmenton to the Duke of Buford for his calash, and so got well
to Siseter by 9 a clocke at night. Sir Allexsandr Comens dined
hear that day.
On Tuesday 21. many more contry gentry came in to diner, the
dromers came also, to sallute the bride and bridegrowm with their
sound.
DCCXVIL CHRISTMAS STEPS, BRISTOL. Mr. John Taylor has
stated in his Book about Bristol (1872), p. 205, that the almost
obliterated inscription over the sedilia or cavities, situated on the
chapel [of the Three Kings of Cologne] side of the first descent of
Christmas Steps, or Queen Street, was thus deciphered in 1855 :
"This Street was S . . . . pered Done and finished September 1669
the R. Worspfl. Thomas Steven Esqre then Mayor, Humphrey
Little, and Richard Hart Sheriffs, Knt and Barronet, Mayor Elect,
Charles Powell and Edw. Home Sheriffes Elect of this City.
By and at the cost of Jonathan Blackwell Esqre, Formerly Sherriffe of
this city, and afterwards alderman of the city of London : and by
ye said Sir Robt. Yeamans, when Mayor and alderman of this city
named Queen Streete." The semicircular niches beneath agree in
style and date with this inscription. The seats have recently been
restored ; and the inscription above the six " on the chapel side "
now reads thus: "A.D. | Rebuilt | 1881. | This Streete was
stoppered done | & Finished September, 1669. | The Right Worp fl
Thomas Stevens, | Esq r , Then Mayor, Hvmphry Little, | and
Richard Hart, Sheriffes. the Right Worp fl Robert Yeamans, Kn*
& Barronet, Mayor Elect, Charles Powell and Edward Home,
Sherriffes | Elect of this Citty. | By and at the Cost of Jonathan
Blackwell, Esq r , Formerly Sherriffe | of this Citty, and afterwards
Alderman of the Citty of London, | & by y e said Sir Robert Yeamans,
when Mayor and Alderman of this Citty, | named Qveene
Streete." j
This Sir Robert Yeamans (of whom mention has been made in
No. DLIY.) was committed to the Tower of London in 1670 on
the complaint of Sir John Knight, that he, as well as the mayor
and council of the city, was "fanatick." The falsity of the
accusation having been proved, the informer was forced to apologize
on his knees to the king, before whom the indictment had been
made. Yeamans returned on the 21st of February, and was
honourably brought into Bristol with 220 horse ; "but the said Sir
John Knight came to Lawford's Gate, and privately passed over the
water to his f own house in Temple Street."
In 1643, Colonel Lunsford was shot on Christmas Steps, which
were long afterwards known as Lunsford's Stairs (Steep Street,
which was close at hand, having proved a specially fatal pass) ; and
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 279
the earlier days of Chatterton's apprenticeship were spent in the
office of Lambert, his master, somewhere on the Steps, but the
house is now unidentified. G. A. W
DCCXYIII. A CURIOUS DEVICE. In Atkyns' Gloucestershire,
p. 259 (ed. 1768), under the head of Kingswood Abbey, there is
this statement: "There is carved, and still remaining over the
kitchen chimney of the abbey, a Tyger, an Hart, an Ostrich, a
Mermaid, an Ass, and a Swan ; the first letters of which creatures
spell Thomas, the name of the lord Berkeley, who was a
considerable benefactor and patron to that foundation." More than
a century and a half having elapsed since Sir Robert Atkyns wrote
what I have quoted, any further particulars will be acceptable.
ANTIQUAEIUS.
DCCXIX. A GLOUCESTERSHIRE WOMAN. A correspondent,
nearly four years ago, wrote thus to the Times : Lady Stradbroke,
in the Times of December 31 [1878], urging, necessarily enough,
her fellow-women to give more help to their poorer sisters, says
" Ready-made clothes are an immense boon to the poor ; the over-
worked mother has hardly time to mend and darn, and bake, and
wash, and nurse the baby, much less to make clothes for herself
and husband and children." I can give her an instance of this and
more being done. " The mother," who never thought about the
word " over-worked," was a Gloucestershire woman, whose life was
well known to my family and myself. She married at 18, her
husband being about the same age. His wages as an agricultural
labourer were never more than 15s. a week. She worked in the
fields from eight to six, earning lOd. a day. She brought up nine
children, made and mended all the clothes worn by them, her
husband, and herself, until her sons and daughters were old enough
to get their own. She was always up at five, washing-days at four.
"Went to bed between nine and ten. In harvest-time she would
get the children up at two, be off with them to any field within
walking distance, and begin gleaning as soon as it was light. On
Saturdays her field-work was over at one, after which she would
walk to Bristol, three miles, carrying often a basket of clothes for
a neighbouring laundress, buy her "marketing," as she called it,
and carry home, with the rest of her little parcels, two pecks of
flour. On Saturday evenings she baked, and would sometimes
make a pair of trousers or a smock-frock, besides washing and
ironing a few things that the children wanted for Sunday, and often
working till midnight. She was a very regular attendant at the
church services, which were a real pleasure to her. There were few
gifts in her days ; her only ones were, on the 30th of January in each
year, a loaf of bread and material for one shirt. Her children
began to work " almost as soon as they could toddle," as one of
them told me to-day. I may add that she was a strong, handsome,
280 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
cheerful woman to the last, and lived to a good old age. Her
children grew up respectable men and women, and her now
numerous grandchildren are, without exception, the same, some of
them in good positions, and all with a great capacity for work.
J. G.
DCCXX. ALDERMAN PEARCE, OF EANDWICK, AUSTRALIA.
Many years ago, Mr. Simeon H. Pearce, of Randwick, Gloucestershire,
emigrated to Australia, settled near Sydney, and founded a
prosperous village or township, which he named after his native
place. The Australian Randwick seems to be now a very rising
and nourishing quarter, as may be inferred from a well-printed
local journal, the Redfern and Suburban Times. From a number
dated February 19, 1881, I observe that the Bishop of Sydney,
who resides at Bishop's Court, Randwick, was to sail for England
on the 10th of March, accompanied by "an old and much respected
citizen, Mr. S. H. Pearce, J.P." A well deserved compliment is
paid to Mr. Pearce : " This gentleman is known as the founder of
the Randwick municipality, and his long association with the
borough, and the great interest he has at all times evinced for its
general advancement, together with his kind and genial disposition,
have elicited the intention of the aldermen and their friends to
tender Mr. Pearce a public banquet, and present him with an
illuminated address. The date is fixed for Monday, the 7th of
March." From other items relating to our Australian namesake, it
appears that a large structure, to answer the threefold purpose of
council chamber, public library, and public hall, is being erected,
and also that a rail for running tramcars from Randwick to Coogee
Bay, which seems to have been for some time in contemplation, is
now in active progress. The same number contains an account of
a municipal contest, which would probably have little interest here,
but which at all events shows that the trans-Pacific township
founded by the Randwick emigrant, is in a flourishing condition.
J.G.
To the foregoing may be appended a paragraph or two from an
article in the Gloucestershire Chronicle, May 7, 1881, headed "A
Distinguished Gloucestershire Emigrant": "The manners and
customs of some of the people locally known as ' the Runnickers,
Stockingers, and Whiteshill chaps ' that is, persons who live in
the villages of Randwick, Stockend, and Whiteshill, on the hills
between Haresfield, Stonehouse, and Stroud have often been a
source of scandal* to their neighbours, and their habits and
* Not so with Mr. John Randall, who died August 5, 1839, and whose remains lie in the
churchyard of North Bradley, near Trowbridge. The epitaph on his tombstone is given as a
specimen of churchyard literature unhappily not yet extinct :
" Here lies the remains of poor John Randall,
To all the world he was no Scandle ;
Here he lays beneath these Stones,
_. . it With the Blessing of God to rest his bones."
His father, John Randall, senr., it may be noted, died November 4, 1846, aged 102 years, and
was mined m the same grave. Though not stated, it is presumed that he likewise was " no
scandle. '
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domestic relations have formed the subject of rhymes which are
not exactly fit for eyes or ears polite. But, judging from Sydney
papers which we received this week, Randwick has produced at
least one man of whom any community might well be proud.*
About forty years ago a young man named Simeon H. Pearce left
Eandwick for New South Wales, and when he landed he was
friendless and almost penniless. He has, however, founded a town
which he has named Randwick, after his birthplace. This anti-
podean Randwick is close to the seashore, near Sydney, and is
styled the * Brighton ' of Australia. 'Mr. Alderman Pearce ' is now
on his voyage to re-visit England, if he has not already arrived, he
and Mrs. Pearce having been entertained on the 7th of March last
at a public banquet in new Randwick, and presented with an
illuminated address, expressing the warmest good wishes of their
friends and neighbours."
The chairman, Mr. John See, M.L.A., took the opportunity of
mentioning that Randwick was the first municipality incorporated
under the Act, the petition in favour of its incorporation having
been drawn up by Mr. Pearce in 1858 or 1859 ; that its boundaries
were fixed through his instrumentality, and that he might therefore
fairly be regarded the father of it ; that shortly after the incorpor-
ation of the borough, an election for councillors was held, when
Mr. Pearce was returned at the head of the poll, and that at the first
meeting of the councillors he was elected their chairman ; that
subsequently he drew up the by-laws of the municipality, and was
appointed by the corporation their honorary surveyor, which office
he held for many years ; that with the exception of three years, he
held the position of alderman continuously, and his fellow-aldermen
esteemed him so highly that they elected him mayor five times ;
and that he deserved the greatest credit for keeping the attractive-
ness of the place, very appropriately named after his birthplace,
continually before the public. Mr. H. Clarke, M.L.A., remarked,
that, as their chairman had said, Mr. Pearce was truly the father of
Randwick. Thirty years ago, when the country was nothing but
bush, he, with great foresight, selected the present position for a
township, and since then, besides assisting to promote the prosperity
of the place in general, he had been instrumental in the erection in
it of one of the grandest charitable institutions of the colony the-
Asylum for Destitute Children - } and to the support of this
institution he had devoted his energies and time for twenty years.
He was also instrumental in having a church of handsome propor-
tions erected on one of their most beautiful positions, and in every
stage of their progress, morally and socially, he had given a helping
hand ; he had been, too, a good colonist, and, although not connected
with political life, had always furthered what he conceived would
advance the interests of the colony. He (Mr. Clarke) trusted that
* The Rev. Joseph White, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Laudian Professor of
Arabic, in the University of Oxford, who was born about the year 1745, and died May 22, 1814,
without issue, was another Randwick worthy. See No. CCCLXXXV.
282 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
he would have a safe voyage to the old country, and a pleasant
sojourn in it, and that he would return renovated in health and
spirits to the land of his adoption. Mr. Pearce, " moved with
feelings of joy in the anticipation of meeting beloved friends in
England, and with sorrow at parting from true and well-known
friends in New South Wales," replied, that forty years had elapsed
since as a boy he decided to visit the shores of that great country.
No little opposition was raised against his coming by his family and
friends in old Eandwick in England ; but, although only in his
twenty-first year, he possessed or he thought he did that courage
and enterprise which were characteristics of the nation to which he
belonged, and he succeeded in overcoming opposition. Having
committed his case to the One who ruleth all things, he started in
August, 1841, for the colony, and reached it after a tedious voyage
of four and a half months. He arrived without a friend and with
only one pound in his pocket, and knew not where to go, or what
to do ; and although during his first experiences in the colony he
had many ups and downs, many lights and shadows to encounter,
he was never forsaken, and had always enjoyed the confidence of
those with whom he came in contact. During his course in the
colony he had held many commissions under the Great Seal, and
had been entrusted with several important matters in connection
with various Governments, and he might say with some feeling of
gratification, that although he had never courted any man's favour,
nor feared any man's frown, he had never received a rebuff. He
had done his duty, as far as he could, conscientiously to all parties.
Providence had dealt very liberally with him, had cheered him on
his course, and given him every blessing he could desire ; and above
all the blessings bestowed upon him was a good wife. He felt
deeply honoured at the committee having given her an opportunity
to be present, and in the mayor having decided to admit ladies to
the banquet. He was gratified to say that he, as mayor of the
borough, was the first in the colony to allow ladies to vote at
municipal elections.
" "We believe," adds the Gloucestershire Chronicle, " Mr. Aldermau
Pearce comes from a family who have for generations held the office
of parish clerk at Eandwick, and that, as a boy, he received much
kindness from the Rev. John Elliott, the venerable vicar, who has
held his office for the long period of sixty-two years, having been
instituted to the living in 1819. [See No. CCCLXXXV.] It
appears from a published narrative that Mr. Pearce was put to work
at a very early age, and that when he was 15 years old he was
apprenticed to a local seedsman. He had always attended Eandwick
Church Sunday School, but being destitute of any knowledge of
writing and arithmetic, except what he had acquired by writing
with chalk, charcoal, &c., he induced the master of the parish
school to open a night school for lads, and became himself the first
and oldest scholar. On his arrival in the colony he worked as a
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gardener, but was subsequently appointed Commissioner of Crown
Lands, and he has held several other Government offices. He
returned to England in 1857, and received a warm welcome in his
native village, and no doubt an equally hearty reception will now
be accorded to him." It has been so.
EDITOR.
DCCXXL THE CHAPEL OF BERKELEY CASTLE. Messrs.
Middleton & Son, of Cheltenham, have this year (1882) carried out
an important work in the Chapel of Berkeley Castle for Lord
Fitzhardinge. The roof of the chamber, which dates from the 15th
century, is very interesting, the beams and ribs forming the panelling
being carved with Scripture texts. The ends of the oak beams
supporting the roof had become decayed, and the condition of the
whole consequently dangerous. Some years ago the timbers would
have been taken down without much compunction, and there would
have been a great antiquarian loss. The architects sought to avoid
this, and succeeded very ingeniously. The lead was stripped off the
exterior, and then strong beams, strengthened with boiler plates,
were fixed above the roof, and the roof itself suspended therefrom
at the necessary points with wrought iron stirrups. The boarding,
&c., for the new lead covering now rests on this, and the parapet
prevents any trace of the new work being seen from below.
G. A. W.
DCCXXII. FROCESTER CHAPEL. The parish church of
Frocester, situated at some distance from the village, was allowed to
fall into decay, so much so that in the Ordnance Survey (1835) it
is marked as " St. Peter in Ruins." A small chapel-of-ease in the
village took its place, and is thus referred to by Bigland (1791),
with engravings of both buildings : " In the last century it was
thought expedient to build the chapel now frequented ; for which
purpose the site was given by Anne Baroness Dowager Brooke ;
where all parochial offices are now performed, except sepulture."
But some years ago the ancient parish church was restored, or rather
rebuilt ; and the chapel has been allowed to fall into disuse. Perhaps
it was the fact of the former having always continued to be the
burial-place for Frocester that caused the manifest inconvenience of
its position to be disregarded.
The chapel is a building of no small interest, as it appears, both
inside and outside, to have undergone little, if any, alteration since
it was erected in the beginning of the seventeenth century. We
have few examples of new churches of that period, and very few
indeed have come down to us without considerable changes. The
exterior is of unpretending character, and presents a barn-like
appearance, which may perhaps account for the little interest that
seems to be taken in it. But a visit made to it last summer
(1882) revealed the fact, that it possesses some highly interesting
284 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
ecclesiastical features. At present it is totally neglected, and
falling into decay, and bids fair to become as much a ruin as the
parish church was in times past. There is no footpath in the yard,
and at the time of my visit the doorway was overgrown with
nettles and brambles. The door itself was unfastened, and anyone
might enter without let or hindrance. The building, which is of
small size, consists of a well-proportioned nave and chancel, with a
bell-turret containing two bells, on the eastern gable of the nave.
The walls are built of rubble, and the roofs covered with the usual
stone tile of the district. The interior presents indeed a most
dreary spectacle, that cannot by any means be considered creditable
to the parish of Frocester. The windows are broken, and the
woodwork is falling to pieces. The place is dirty ; books are lying
about ; and on the communion-table there is an old prayer book,
which has probably been lying there ever since the last celebration
of the service. In a gallery at the west end there is one of those
barrel organs so common in small country churches about fifty
years ago ; it gave out a very dismal wheezing sound in response to
efforts to turn the handle. The pulpit stands on the north side of
the chancel arch. The font, carved like most seventeenth-century
fonts, is evidently co-eval with the building, and stands opposite
the entrance. The pews are of unpainted oak, of the old-fashioned
kind, with doors, but not excessively high. But the most
remarkable feature of the building is undoubtedly the roof, which,
in both the nave and chancel, is a fine piece of woodwork. It may
be described as a " cradle roof," panelled, with well-carved bosses
at the intersections of the beams. The wall-plate also is well-
carved; and altogether, the roof forms an example of good work
rarely found at so late a date as that assigned to the erection of this
chapel. There is only one monument in the building, to the
memory of a gentleman who was buried in the old churchyard.
Frocester Chapel is really worthy of a careful restoration ; not
such a restoration as refitting the interior according to the latest
nineteenth-century ideas of ecclesiastical art, but the putting the
present building and fittings into repair, and even retaining the
old-fashioned pews. Examples of church architecture of the
seventeenth century are not so numerous that we can afford to lose
even a single specimen. The reparation of this building would,
moreover, be undoubtedly a great convenience to the parishioners
of Frocester, as at present in bad weather attendance at their
parish church must be practically denied them.
W. P. W. PHILLIMOEE, B.C.L.
DCCXXIII. EGBERT DINWIDDIE, ESQ., GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
In one of the porches of the parish church of Clifton, Bristol,
there is a large-sized mural slab (which was transferred from the
old church to its present position), with this inscription, the arms
having disappeared : " In this church are deposited the remains
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 285
of | Eobert Dinwiddie, Esq r , formerly Governor of Virginia, | who
deceased July 27 th , 1770, in the 78 th year of his age. | The
annals of that country will testify with what judgement, activity,
and zeal he exerted himself in the publick cause, | when the
whole North American Continent was involved | in a French and
Indian war. His rectitude of conduct in his Government, | and
integrity in other publick employments, | add a lustre to his
character, which was revered while he lived, | and will be held in
estimation whilst his name survives. | His more private virtues,
and the amiable social qualities he possess'd, were the happiness
of his numerous friends and relations, many of whom shared his
bounty, | all lament his loss. | As his happy dispositions for
domestic life | were best known to his affectionate wife and
daughters, | they have erected this monument to the memory of
his conjugal and paternal love, which they will ever cherish and
revere | with that piety and tenderness he so greatly merited. |
" Farewell, blest shade ! no more with grief opprest,
Propitious angels guide thee to thy rest ! "
A copy of the foregoing inscription having been made (Sept. 15,
1882), and forwarded to Mr. R A. Brock, of Eichmond, Virginia,
U.S.A., Corresponding Secretary and Librarian of the Virginia
Historical Society, this reply, dated October 6, has been received :
"I am very much obliged for your kind letter and its most
welcome enclosure ; and for the relief which your offer seems to
promise, of an anxiety which has oppressed me, that I might not
in time be able to secure the data on which to base an adequate
biographical sketch of Governor Dinwiddie, as a proper introduction
to the 'Papers,' which I am preparing for the press under the
auspices of our Society. You will indeed confer a great favor
on me, if you can procure me information of the early life of
Gov. Dinwiddie, and of of his first residence in Virginia ; and can
place me in correspondence with his present representatives, so that an
application for a copy of his portrait, to accompany the forthcoming
volume, may be facilitated. To stimulate these offices with them,
I can assure them of a somewhat gratifying return; the 'Papers'
enabling me to clear the memory of the Gov. of the malignant
aspersions of his enemies, by whom he was charged with the
misapplication of 20,000, entrusted to him for the defence of the
colonies, and which charge has unfortunately been accredited by
the compilers of some biographical dictionaries. I think I can
abundantly vindicate his whole course, and establish a character of
untiring energy, unusual zeal, minute attention, and self-abnegation.
In personal service, he appears by his record to have been by far
the most active and zealous of our colonial governors. I had
information some time since from Dr. Dinwiddie Brazier Phillips,
late Surgeon of the U.S. Navy, and a descendant of the niece of
Gov. D., that in 1854 he met in London Genl. Gilbert Hamilton
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Dinwiddie, Commissary-General of the British Army; and that
having been invited to that gentleman's residence, he saw there the
portrait of Gov. Dinwiddie and various personal belongings. He
informed me that Gen. D. had since died, but that he left a son, a
lieutenant in the army. You will confer a great favor on both
myself and the Society at large, if you can succeed in securing what
is desired for the book. I should be glad to give some account of
the daughters of Gov. D., and, indeed, to make the sketch as full
and generally interesting as possible."
It is hoped that Mr. Brock's letter will be the means of eliciting
the information he desires ; and with this in view, it has been
printed. Bis dat qui cito dat. Meanwhile the following
particulars may possibly prove acceptable to him :
''Whitehall, July 20 [1751]. The king has been pleased to
constitute and appoint Rob. Dinwiddie, Esq., to be Lieut. Gov. of
his majesty's colony and dominion of Virginia in America, in room
of Sir Wm. Gooch, Bart." Gent. Mag. (1751), xxi. 333.
" Gov. Dinwiddie's Speech to the Assembly of Virginia. " -Ib.
(1755), xxv. 304.
" [Died] July 28 [1770]. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., late governor
of Virginia." Ib. (1770), xl. 393.
"[Married] Aug. 13 [1771]. Archibald Hamilton, Esq., of the
Isle of Man, to Miss Dinwiddie, daughter of the late Governor of
Virginia/' Ib. (1771), xli. 378.
The Rev. George Wilkins, M.A., Rector of St. Michael's, Bristol,
b. 1743, m. 1st, Mary, dau. of John Dinwiddie, Esq., by whom
(apparently) he had no issue. Burke's Landed Gentry (1849),
i., 329.
Mr. Dinwiddie, as recorded on his monument, was buried at
Clifton ; but whether he died there, and if so, whether he had been
more than a visitor (like many in those days) to the Hotwells, is
yet to be ascertained. Mr. Brock has very ably edited for the
Virginia Historical Society the first volume of The Official Letters
of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant- Governor of the Colony of
Virginia, 1710-1722 (Richmond, 1882) ; and, as mentioned above,
he has now The Records of the Administration of Lieut. -Governor
Robert Dinwiddie, 1752-1757, in active preparation. EDITOR.
DCCXXIV. THE DAUNT FAMILY. I send a query to which I
am anxious to have a reply. Erom Thomas Daunt, of Owlpen,
Gloucestershire, and of Gortigrenane, co. Cork, who died in 1670,
is descended the elder branch of the family, which can be traced
from the present time to Simon Daunt, of co. Gloucester, who was
living in 1380. From William Daunt, of Tracton Abbey, co. Cork,
who died in 1676, is descended the present holder of that property ;
but as you will see in the accompanying pedigree, there is a link
wanting to connect this William with the above-named Simon.
There was a James Daunt, high sheriff of co. Cork, who was living
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 287
in 1606 and 1642 : he was of Tracton; but we do not know from
whom he sprang, or who may be his descendants. If any of your
readers can supply the link to connect the younger branch of the
family with the elder, or will suggest any means by which I
may be likely to obtain the desired information, I shall be much
obliged. I do not see that the question can be clearly set before
the reader in any other way than by inserting what follows, in
addition to what I have written :
Simon Daunt, of co. Gloucester, living in 1380, m. ,
and had a son,
Nicholas, m. Alice, dau. of Jno. de Tracy, of Sudeley and
Toddington, co. Gloucester, ancestor of Lord Sudeley ; and had a
son,
Nicholas, living in 1446, m. Alice, dau. and heiress of Sir Walter
Jordan, Knt., of Camme, Dorset, and had, with Nicholas, another
son,
John, m. Anne, dau. of Robert Stawel, of Cotherston, Somerset,
ancestor of the Lords Stawel, of Somerton, and had, with younger
children, Thomas, Stephen, Mary, Maud, and Alice, a son,
John, m. Margaret, dau. and sole heiress of Robt. Owlpen, of
Owlpen, co. Gloucester; d. 1522, having had, with John, George,
Robert, William, Jane, and Alice, a son,
Christopher, lord of the manor of Owlpen, m. Anne, dau. of Giles
Bassett, of Yewley, co. Gloucester; d. 1542, having had, with
William, Giles, and Alice (wife of John Rogers), a son,
Thomas, of Owlpen, m. Alice, dau. of Wm. Throckmorton,
of Tortworth, co. Gloucester; d. 1573, having had issue, with three
daughters, four sons,
1. Henry, of Owlpen, m. Hussey, but d. without male
issue.
2. Thomas, of Owlpen, Tracton Abbey, and Gortigrenane (the
last of these having been purchased in 1595 from Sir
Warham St. Leger), m. Mary, dau. of Bryan Jones, of
Glamorganshire (M.P. for Baltimore, 1630), and had, with a
daughter, Margaret (wife of Barachia Baker, of Carrigro-
hane), a son,
Thomas, of Owlpen and Gortigrenane, m. Catherine, dau.
of John Clayton, of Cheshire (aunt of Col. Randolph
Clayton, and d. 1675); he d. 1670, leaving issue, as
already mentioned.
3. Giles.
4. William, m. Mary, dau. of Thos. Hutton, of Hutton, Yorkshire,
and had two sons,
1 . William, m. Mary, dau. of Isham Nowell.
2, Thomas, (?) of Kinsale, co. Cork, m. Susan, dau. of
Curie, and had issue.
James Daunt, of Tracton Abbey, as stated above, was high
sheriff of co. Cork, and was living in 1606 and 1642.
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William Daunt, of Tracton Abbey, m. Jane, dau. of John
D'Olbear, who d. 1680; he d. 1676, leaving issue.
The query is How was this William connected with the above-
named William, who married Mary No well 1
JOHN DAUNT.
Wheatley Hill, Trimdon Grange, Co. Durham.
DCCXXV. THE RECTORS OF HARESCOMBE AND PITCHCOMBE.
The following list of the Rectors, with the date of each appoint-
ment, and Patrons (so far as they have been ascertained), is,
it will be allowed, a great improvement on the details given by
Atkyns and Bigland, which are few and unsatisfactory :
DATES. RECTORS. PATRONS.
1320 John, " Persona ecclie
(ante) de Harsecombe."
(Pedes Finium, 13 Edw.
II.)
1324 Sir Roger de Cardoyl Prior and Convent
17 Edward II. of Lanthony, on
nomination of Sir
John le Rous.
1328 Sir Henry de Houton.
2 Edward III.
1362, Sir William Eremon Prior and Convent
35 Edward III. of Lanthony, on
nomination of .
1380 Sir John Lemynster.
3 Richard II.
1380 SirThos. Brokkebury Prior and Convent
3 Richard II. of Lanthony, on
nomination of Sir
Andrew Herle, lord
of Harescombe.
1404 Sir John Clerk Prior and Convent
5 Henry IV. of Lanthony, on
nomination of .
1409... Sir John Uppyngton Ditto.
10 Henry IV.
1420 Sir Bernewald Ditto.
6 Henry V.
1439 Sir James Cadde Prior and Convent
17 Henry VI. of Lanthony, on
nomination of Thos.
Mylle, lord of Hares-
combe.
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Sir John Ladde.
1512 Sir Win. Nicholson Prior and Convent
3 Henry VIII. of Lanthony, on
nomination of Ed-
ward Myll, lord of
Harescombe.
1548 William Okey (Hares-
2 Edward VI. combe). J. Dumbell
(Pitchcombe).
1550 John Hartland (Pitch-
4 Edward VI. combe) Edw. Mill, Arm.
1551 William Corbet (Hares-
5 Edward VI. combe) Ditto.
1569 E. Eawlyns Thos. Mill, Esq.
11 Elizabeth.
1577 Peter Hogge.
19 Elizabeth.
1596 John Eowles Thos. Mill, Esq.
38 Elizabeth.
1606 Peter Hogge Ditto.
3 James I.
1612 Thomas Lloyde Thos. Mill, Esq.,
9 James I. and Wm., his son.
1669 Eichard Horston.
Charles II.
1684 Thomas Stock Wm. Mill, Gent.
Charles II.
1696 Charles Stock, Jim Chas. Stock, Sen.,
7 Wm. & Mary. Clerk.
1708 Jonathan Blagge, B.A.
6 Anne.
1726 Thomas Eawlins Mary Blagge,
Widow.
1740 Eichard Bridges, B.A.
1741 Charles Neale, B.A.
1769 Eice Jones John Purnell, Esq.,
and Elizabeth Pur-
nell, Spinster.
1791 Charles Walliogton, M.A. Thos. Purnell Pur-
nell, Esq.
1804 William James, M.A AnnPurnell, Widow.
1825 Marlow W. Wilkinson, B.D.Mrs. Purnell.
1867 Wm. Melland, M.A Eev. Wm. Melland.
1868 Edward Lewis, M.A Ditto.
1879 John Melland Hall, M. A. Ditto.
Harescombe Eectory, Stroud. J. MELLAND HALL, M.A.
290 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The inscription over the grave of the Rev. Charles Neale in the
churchyard of Harescombe has been given in No. DXCIII.
In the chancel of Harescombe Church these inscriptions may be
seen :
"In | memory of | Charles Stock, | jun., Rector de Harscombe. |
He departed this life y e 2 d day | of February, in the year 170-|, |
aged near fifty-three years. | In memory of Mary, | the wife of
Charles Stock, jun r , | who departed this life July y e 6, I An Do ni
1709, aged 48. ]
"Here lies a woman
Free from pride & strife,
The best of mothers,
And a loveing wife."
"In memory | of the Rev end M r Jonathan Blagge, B.A., | Rector
of Harscombe and Pitchcombe eighteen years, | who departed
this life | Aug st 31, 1726, ^etatis suee 62."
In Pitchcombe Church there is a tablet thus inscribed:
" Sacred to the memory of | the Rev d William James, M. A., |
nearly twenty years | Rector of this parish, | & of Evenlode, | in
the County of Worcester, who died Dec r 11 th , 1824, | aged 58
years. Also of William, his eldest son, who died May 4 th , 1815, |
aged 13 years. | And of Anne, the wife of the Rev d W. James, |
who died at Evenlode, Feb ry 5 th , 1861. Likewise of Anne, wife
of RoV D'Oyly, Esq r , | daughter of the above, who died January,
1830, ! aged 28 years."
By Mr. James' "laudable and zealous exertions" the present
church of Pitchcombe was erected in 1819; and a copy of the
inscription to that effect has been given in No. LXXXIII.
For several particulars of the Rev. Marlow Watts Wilkinson,
B.D., who was likewise Rector of Uley, see No. DCXXYL, p. 168.
Richard Capel, "Minister and Physician," lived and died at
Pitchcombe, and was buried in the churchyard, where there is a
tomb with a characteristic inscription ; but he had not been the
incumbent of the parish. EDITOR.
DCCXXVI. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BEQUESTS TO HERTFORDSHIRE
PARISHES. (1) Dame Mary Cooper, widow, younger daughter and
coheir of Baptist Hicks, Viscount Campden, in 1632, granted by
deed to trustees the annual sum of .20, arising out of certain lands,
&c., in the county of Gloucester, one-half of which was to be given
to the poor of Watford, and the other half to the poor of King's
Langley. The two amounts of 10 are given at Christmas in
clothing. (2) Henry Smith, of London, by deed dated 20th
October, 1620, gave his estate at Longney, co. Gloucester, to
trustees, that they should distribute the profits thereof among the
poor of twenty-three parishes, of which King's Langley was one.
The amount which this parish now receives, is .10 3s. 6d. per
annum, which sum is distributed among the poor in clothing.
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There was once a royal palace at King's Langley. In a tomb in
the parish church were discovered, in 1877, the remains of Edmund
of Langley, who was born at the Palace, his second wife, Isabella
of Castile, and another lady. H C W
DCCXXVII. ARMS AND CREST OF KING FAMILY. (See No.
DXV.) I am much obliged for the insertion of my King inquiry,
but since sending it, I have ascertained at the Heralds' College that
the arms were originally granted to a Suffolk family of the name,
and that the chevron should be plain, not engrailed. The engrailed
chevron, however, is mentioned several times in Burke's Armory ;
and therefore the query may perhaps bring some information.
Watlington, Norfolk. W. L. KING.
DCCXXYIII. BROADSIDES RELATIVE TO SIR THOMAS OVER-
BURY. (Reply to No. DCLXX.) If your correspondent had examined
Mr. Lemon's Catalogue a little more closely, he might have found
mention of the following two (pp. 45, 46), in addition to the four
he has given :
(5) The picture of the unfortunate gentleman, Sir Germs Elvies,
Knight, late Leif tenant of his Majesties Tower of London. Sir
Jervis Elvies led to execution by two clergymen, November 20,
1615. Printed at London in the Black-Friers by Paul Boulenger,
1615.
(6) James Franldin, a Kentishman of Maidstone, his owne
Arraignment, Confession, Condemnation, and Judgment of Himself e t
whilst hee lay Prisoner in the Kings Bench for the Poisoning of Sir
Thomas Overbury. Hee was executed the 9 of December, 1615.
Imprinted at London for J. T.
" This," as Mr. Lemon has observed, " is the last of the series of
Broadsides relative to the dismal and disgusting tragedy of Sir
Thomas Overbury. The subject has recently received much elucida-
tion from the pen of Andrew Amos, Esq., [late Member of the
Supreme Council of India,] in his work called The Great Oyer
of Poisoning : the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the poisoning
of Sir Thomas Overbury, 8vo., London, 1846." A.H.
DCCXXIX. OLDBURY-ON-SEVERN CHURCH FONT. (See No.
CCLYIII.) The present Grecian font in Oldbury Church was
placed there long prior to thirty or forty years ago, and the Early
English one, which it no doubt superseded, was left out in the
churchyard, where it was sunk in the ground, and used as a cistern
for the water from the roof, until it was removed, by permission of
the late vicar, about twenty years ago, and placed in its present
position in the garden of Thornbury Castle. It is to be hoped that
when the church is restored this old font may be reinstated.
Thornbury. HENRY H. LLOYD.
292 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DCCXXX. THE STAPLES FAMILY, OF YATE COURT. In a
church near Yate Court (which, I understand, is now a farmhouse)
there is a tomb with an inscription on brass to the father of the
first Sir Thomas Staples, Bart., and his two wives. The date is
about 1600 or 1620. I was not aware until a few days ago that
this Sir Thomas had two sons, the elder of whom (Alexander, who
died before his father, and whose will is dated 26 May, 1665,) left
two daughters, one of whom (Elizabeth) is said to have inherited
the English estates. If in the course of your researches you come
upon any information respecting the descendants, if any, of that
lady, or what became of the property, I shall feel much obliged for
it. In Burke's Landed Gentry ' (1848), vol. iii., p. 297, under the
head of Staples-Browne, there is an account of the property, which
appears at one time to have been considerable.
Lissan, Co. Tyrone. N. A. STAPLES.
As mentioned by Rudder, p. 854, in his account of Yate, "one
of the lord Berkeleys built a handsome seat here, which was called
Yate Court. It was moated round, and Maurice lord Berkeley, the
fifth of that name, resided there some time. It was garrisoned
by the parliament's forces in the great civil war, who burnt it, and
it was never rebuilt afterwards." According to the same good
authority, "there is [1779] a large brass plate fixt upon a flat stone
[in the church], upon which are engraven the figures of a man
between his two wives, Avis and Elizabeth, with eleven children,
and under them this inscription :
' Corpus Alexandri Staples lapis iste tuetur :
Spiritus aetherea sede beatus erit.
Rursus supremum tuba cum taratantara clan get,
Spiritui junget mortua membra Deus.
Tercentum lustris octodenoque fluente,
Bernard!, a Christo, concidit ipse die.
Saxum hoc msesta suo ponebat Eliza marito,
Conjugij signum quod pietatis erit.
22 August!, 1590.'"
Someone may perhaps be able to supply the information desired
by Sir N. A. Staples. EDITOR.
DCCXXXI. AN OLD QUACK ADVERTISEMENT. That the
modern vendor of patent medicines has made little, or no advance
in the art of puffing, appears from the following quack advertisement
in Mercurius PuUicus, No. 47, Nov. 22, 1660 :
" A Compendious Declaration of the most admirable Virtues of
the Magnetical or Antimonical Cup, prepared and made by Mr.
John Evans, the only true Author thereof, formerly dwelling in
Fetter Lane, now rector of Littleton upon Severn [Gloucestershire],
who, being informed that divers persons that formerly had them
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 293
from him (having lost them in the late War) are desirous to furnish
themselves again, hath disposed a person of near relation, at Mr.
Enoch Wyatt's house in St. Martin's Lane in the Fields, from
whom all such as are desirous may be furnished with such as are by
by him Warranted to be perfect and good, being of his own
preparation, and not any where else in London to be had : Therefore
beware of Counterfeit Cups. Inquire at the Harrow.
"It emptieth the Stomach of all evil humours, the Liver of
Choler, the Spleen of Melancholy, the Head and Pectoral parts from
Kheums, Distillations, and tough flegme. It cureth Agues, Feavers,
Swimming in the Head, Madness and the Palsie It cureth
perfectly the Gout, the Stone, Sciatica and Lameness. It cureth
perfectly Dropsies, asswageth pains of the Bones, Nerves, and
destroyeth Wormes. It purifieth Blood, and restoreth Appetite
lost. It cureth the Green Sickness and all obstructions, restoreth
from Consumptions, and increaseth and preserveth Natural vigor.
It cleareth the Sight, consumeth the Web or Pearl, and dissolveth
Congealed Blood. It is found by daily experience to be
a most Soveraign remedy against Malignant Feavers. It is safe
and without danger, and never loseth or diminisheth its Virtues."
I shall be glad to have some particulars of this clerical doctor,
whose name, unless I am mistaken, has not been recorded by
Atkyns, Kudder, or Bigland. BRISTOLIENSIS.
DCCXXXIL Sm THOMAS PHILLIPPS, BART., F.E.S. (See
No. CIV.) As a supplement to what you have given in the Note
referred to, I send a paragraph or two from an interesting article,
headed "Sir Thomas Phillipps, F.R.S. and F.S. A., and his Collection
of Manuscripts," in Nichols' Herald and Genealogist, vol. viii., pp.
358-60 :
There was much, no doubt, in theory and intention that was
admirable about Sir Thomas Phillipps. He was not a mere
Collector, like so many who collect, whether books or pictures, or
other curiosities, merely for collecting's sake, to be wondered at for
their profusion or ostentation, or to accumulate a valuable property
for future profit to themselves or their representatives. He had a
great amount of plodding, though ill-directed industry, and
conceived large schemes for the advancement of the studies to
which he was attached, and the preservation of the materials from
which they derive their sustenance. He desired to diffuse infor-
mation as well as to preserve it, but he went strangely to work in
his means and operations. He was constantly endeavouring to
perpetuate historical records by the art of printing, for which
purpose he set up a private press at Middle Hill [probably in
the early part of 1821]; but everything was done after a self-
sufficient and incompetent fashion. Had he taken better advice,
employed better workmen, and proceeded more upon method and
system, he might have sensibly advanced those branches of
294 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
literature to which, his task was directed ; but he was ever inclined
to rely upon his own powers, to engage unqualified assistants, and
to be a niggard and ungenerous paymaster, and the result was
abundant error and perpetual incompleteness. He formed the bad
habit of abbreviating and contracting in his transcripts, in a
manner which his printers frequently misunderstood, but which, if
he ever took the trouble to correct, it was by furnishing tables of
Errata sometimes weeks or months after the sheets had been
printed off ! The Errata to his Wiltshire Visitation occupy four
pages folio, at the end of which "The Editor apologises for
numerous errors by stating that the Work was printed by a young
printer whilst the Editor was abroad, and could not revise the
press." And so it happened, from one cause or another, again and
again : the productions of Sir Thomas Phillipps' press may be
generally characterised as at once the most numerous and the most
inaccurate that have ever been the result of zeal without care or
discretion.
Few tasks have already occasioned, or will continue to occasion,
more trouble and embarrassment to the bibliographer, than that of
endeavouring to arrange a correct account of the multitudinous and
fragmentary productions, whether intended for public or private
distribution, of Sir Thomas Phillipps. They are, beyond precedent,
without titles, without paging, and without indexes, aKe<pa\a
and aT6\e<TTa. And yet it may be acknowledged that the
inquirer into all that Sir Thomas Phillipps has undertaken, and
left unfinished, will find much information in two very useful
works, Martin's Catalogue of Privately Printed Books, and
Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual. In the first edition of the
former work, 1834, eighteen pages are occupied with an account of
the productions of the Middle Hill Press down to the year 1833
inclusive, not titles merely, but with many interesting particulars
regarding them. In Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, edit. Bohn,
1861, there are, at pp. 1856-8, . enumerated thirty-eight of
Sir Thomas Phillipps' productions, but in the supplemental volume
of the same work, 1864, there is a much longer list of the Middle
Hill Press, including also what has been printed for him at other
presses. The articles here noticed exceed 120, besides a list of
sheet pedigrees ; it is followed by the titles of 44 more, added from
a list given in Notes and Queries, Nov. 13, 1858 [2 nd S. vi. 389-91] :
and, after all, there is this apologetic postscript, " The preceding is
as complete a list as we have found it possible to make," and that
notwithstanding the Baronet himself had contributed his aid. See
also in the Catalogue of the Library at Stourhead, 1840, 8vo., at p.
415, the contents of a volume of Miscellaneous Collections by Sir T.
Phillipps, consisting of 21 articles. BIBLIOGRAPHER.
DCCXXXIII. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF MS. AT CHELTENHAM.
The Paris correspondent of the Times, telegraphing on April 17th,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1882, says : " M. Jules Ferry, in closing yesterday the annual Con^
gress of Provincial Scientific and Literary Societies, mentioned the
discovery in a Cheltenham library by M. Carl Meyer of a manu-
script poem of the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th
century viz. 'The History of Guillaume le Marechal,' a soldier
and diplomatist of that period. This poem was deemed almost
equal to the ' Chanson de Koland.' " The present owner of the
Thirlestaine House Library, Cheltenham (the late Sir Thomas
Phillipps'), informs me that the manuscript in question was discovered
by M. Carl Meyer, when on a visit to England in the summer of
1881> H. C. W.
DCCXXXIV. THE TEST ACT. In the earliest register of
Haselton, Gloucestershire, there is an entry of the institution on 28
February, 1715, and induction on the 9th of the month following,
of the Kev. John Sedgwick to the rectory of the parish, in which
these words occur :
" and took the Test in the Parish Church of Fosset, in the County
of Huntington, from the Eev d M r Lord, minister of the said
Parish of Fosset, Edward Barker, churchwarden of the said Parish,
and George Lewin and William Buttrick, of the Parish of Long
Orton, in the aforesaid County of Huntington, being witnesses."
I suppose from this that Mr. Sedgwick received the Sacrament in
compliance with the terms of the Test Act of Charles II. ; but I
was not aware that the Act required this test of the clergy. Mr.
Sedgwick held the rectory of Haselton from 1715 to 1726.
Hampnett Kectory, Northleach. WILLIAM WIGGIN, M.A.
DCCXXXV. THE NUNNERY OF ANNESTOWE. At the Chepstow
meeting of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,
held in July, 1881, a seal was exhibited, bearing the legend " s.
ABBATISSE SCE MARIA DE [?] ANNE," Or " ANITE." In the Society's
Transactions, vol. vi., pp. 43-48, there is a descriptive catalogue of
the articles in the temporary museum ; and with reference to this
seal, the author has stated that he cannot identify the name as
representing any religious house for women. There is certainly no
name like it in the index to Dugdale's Monasticon. But in
Fosbrooke's History of Gloucester, p. 203 n, there is mention of a
bull among the charters in the British Museum (43. A. 36.),
" prohibiting the Archdeacon of Gloucester from troubling the Nuns
of Annestowe for the grievous procurations and archidiaconal
burdens he had imposed on the Church of Stanley." This seems
to indicate that the nunnery was near Gloucester. Can any of your
readers throw light on the subject ? H.B.
DCCXXXVI. MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS FROM JAMAICA AND
BARBADOS. Captain J. H. Lawrence- Archer has published a quarto
296 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
volume, entitled Monumental Inscriptions of the British West
Indies, etc. (London, 1875) ; and the following, relating to members
of Gloucestershire families, have been extracted therefrom :
The Cathedral, Jamaica.
"Here resteth y e body of Anthony Collyer, Esq., born in the
city of Glocester, one of his Mat ies Council for this Island, and
Col 1 of a Foot Reg mt in y e same : who departed this life on y e tenth
day of August, in y e yeare of our Lord God One Thousand Six
Hundred Seaventy and Seaven, and in the fortieth yeare of his
age.
Arms, A chev. between three bats volant proper; Crest, A
wyvern passant.
Anthony Collyer was one of the first Representatives of Jamaica,
being returned to the Assembly of January 20, 176f, as Member
for " Seven Plantations." He was probably called up to the
Council soon after, as we do not find his name in the returns of any
subsequent Assembly, and in 1671 Sir Thomas Lynch mentions
him as one whom he found a Member of the Council on his arrival
in the island. He was also " constituted and appointed " one of
the Council by Charles II., in his commission to the Governor, John,
Lord Vaughan (Earl of Carberry), dated April 3, 1674. He
bequeathed 1000 acres to Samuel Long. His widow, Elizabeth,
married Sir Francis Watson, Knt. 5 Major-General, Member of
Congress, and President of Council, who administered the govern-
ment from the death of the Duke of Albemarle in 1688, until the
arrival of the Earl of Inchiquin in 1690.
" To the memory of the R fc Hon ble William Selwyn, Esq r , of
Matson, in y e county of Gloucester, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot,
and Major-General of her Mat ies Forces, Governor of Gravesend
and Tilbury Fort, Capt n General and Commander in Chief of her
Mat ies Island of Jamaica and y e Terretories thereto belonging, and
Vice- Admiral of the same, who died y e 5 th April, 1702."
Arms, On a bend cotised, within a border engrailed, three
annulets.
Major-General Selwyn, with Colonel Beckford and the Earl of
Peterborough, administered the government of Jamaica. He was
buried at Matson.
Kingston Cathedral, Jamaica.
^'[Abstract] M r Nathaniel Milward, a native of the city of
Bristol, and late of this parish, Merchant. He was a truly honest
man, &c. Ob. June 6 th , 1775, set. 37. Erected by friends."
" Memoriae sacrum Caroli Lloyd, Armigeri, qui, e familia
Glocestriensi oriundus, et liberalibus humanioris vitas studiis in
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 297
Anglia probe excultus, hie maturus sedem fixit, ubi mercaturam
feliciter exercens, integerrimse vitse exemplar se prsestans, et omnium
quibuscum vel commercium vel consortium habuit, favorem sibi
concilians, in hac provincia Prsefectus ^Erarii cooptatus est : quo
munere summa cum probitate, summo omnium plausu perfunctus
est. Post facultates satis amplas honorifice acquisitas, quas (psene
totas) singulis suis nepotibus ex sequo legarat, languore correptus,
obiit Septembris 28, A.D. MDCCLL, et aetatis suae LX. Hoc
qualecunque affectus et desiderii testimonium P. P. Nathaniel
Lloyd, Armiger, non minus commercii quam fraternitatis vinculo
olim conjunctissimus, Johannes Lloyd, S.T.P., and Thomas Crawley
Boevey, Armiger. E nepolitius [nepotibus] et testamenti hseredibus."
Arms, Argent, a saltire gules.
Trevor, third son of Sir Evan Lloyd, Bart. (cr. 1647), a captain
in the army of Charles I., was ancestor of this family. Thomas,
second son of Thomas Crawley, merchant of London, assumed the
additional surname of Boevey, on inheriting the estate of Flaxley
Abbey, and succeeded to the baronetcy conferred on Sir Charles
Barrow, his wife's cousin. See No. DCXXXYIII.
" Here lyeth the body of M r Sam 11 Shawe, late of Bristoll, March*,
who departed this life Dec r the 3, 1716, aged 42 years."
Arms, A chev. ermine between three lozenges, each with four
ermine spots ; Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a bundle of seven
arrows, points down, three and three in saltire, arid one in pale.
Kingston Parish Churchyard, Jamaica.
" [Abstract] Henry Turton, of this place, Gentleman, ob. 16 Nov.,
1779, set. 42. He was a native of Olveston, Glocestershire, in
England. Also "William, his son, ob. 29 Aug*, 1781, set. 4. James,
his son, ob. 29 March, 1814, set. 35."
" [Abstract] Joseph Harris, son of John Harris, of Bristol,
arrived in Jamaica 17 May, and died June 9 th , 1798, set. 30."
" Edward, only son of William Yimpany p], of the parish
of St. James, in the city of Bristol, Gen*, by Mary, his wife, who
departed this life the 17 th day of August, 1736, set. 17 years. ...
nephew of Capt. Stokes dear his parents joy
bewailed flight light."
"Here lies the body of John Stiff, Esq., bom in Bristol, Union
Street, died 17 October, A.D. 1810, aged 20 years. Not lost, but
gone before."
" Here lyeth the body of Thomas Herring, of the city of Bristol,
who departed this life Nov. the 19 th , 1751, aged 27 years. Also y e
298 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
body of W m Anderson, Esq., who died Dec r 14, 1770, aged 43 years."
The family of Herring was connected with those of Beckford,
Ellis (Seaford), etc.
New West Ground) Kingston, Jamaica.
" Edward Bartholomew Thomas, Solicitor, a native of
Tewkesbury, England, who, after a residence of 20 years in this city,
[died] 13 January, 1846, aged 44 years."
St. Andrew's Parish Clmrcli, Jamaica.
" Charlotte Olivia, last surviving dau r of the late Capt. Chandler,
17 th Lancers, & Margaret, his wife, born in the city of Gloucester
3 d Aug fc , 1832, died at Port Royal 7 th April, 1860."
" Here lyeth the body of Musgrave Yeamans, Esq., late of this
parish, who departed this life July the 11 th , 1728, aged 36 years.
Here also lyeth the body of his mother, Mary Ellicott, who
departed this life June the 10 th , 1722. Also her daughter, Mary
Ellicott, who departed this life May the 25 th , 1708. Here also
lyeth the body of Mary Yeamans, daughter of Musgrave and
Angelina Yeamans, who departed this life July the 12 th , 1720, aged
4 years & 4 months. Here also lyes their son, John Yeamans, who
departed this life Sept r the 4 th , 1723, aged 2 years. Here also
lyeth the body of their daughter, Angelina Yeamans, who departed
this life June the 4 th , 1723, aged 5."
Yeamans, of Bristol. Created baronet 12 Jan., 166|-; extinct
19 Feb., 1778. John, the first baronet, m. in Barbados,
Limp, by whom he had a son, William, his heir. By his second
wife, Margaret, dau. of the Kev. John Eorster, he had a son,
Robert, father of (i.) Robert, m. Sarah, dau. of John Trent; (ii.) John,
m. Mary, dau. of (Judge) Alexr. Walker ; (iii.) Philip, m. Mary,
dau. of Joseph Gibbs all of Barbados.
Capt. Lawrence- Archer " has not identified these two families as
of common origin, but has no doubt of the connection."
St. James', Montego Bay, Jamaica.
" [Abstract] The Hon. John Perry, Esq., Member of Assembly,
and formerly of Bristol, ob. 1809, set. 58. Also Elizabeth and
Anne, his daughters, and Anne, his wife."
Falmouth CliurcTi and Churchyard, Jamaica.
" [Abstract] Near this place lie interred the remains of John, the
beloved son of Preston and Rebecca Edgar, of the city of Bristol,
England, who died May 16 th , 1805, aged 22."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 299
" Kosiusko Terrell, son of William and Mary Terrell, of the city
of Bristol, England, ob. 1821."
All Saints 1 Chapel, Barbados.
11 Here lieth the body of Giles Hall, late of this Island, Esq.,
born in y e parish of Whitminster, in the county of Glocester, who
departed this mortal life the 26 th day of January, Anno Dom. 1686,
aged. 84 yeares."
Giles Hall was a considerable proprietor, and, in 1679, held 195
acres in the parish where he died. Arms, Three talbot's heads
erased. There is another Hall tablet, nearly obliterated, and
apparently of older date.
11 Here lyeth interred y e body of the Hon. William Sandiford,
Esq., one of y e Judges of this Island, born in Bristoll, dyed ye 30 th
of December, 1668, aged 80 years. Also Captain Henry Sandiford,
his son, aged 33- years, dyed y e 7 th of Sept., 1685. Also Elizabeth
Sandiford, his widow, aged 82 years, dyed y e 29 th of March, 174 ."
GENEALOGIST.
DCCXXXVIL THORNBURY BOROUGH. (See NTo. CCCXIII.)
The following paragraph from the Bristol Mercury, Nov. 4, 1882,
should, I think, find a place in your pages :
" The annual court leet and view of frankpledge of Mr. Edward
Stafford Howard, M.P., Lord of the Manor, Borough, and Hundred
of Thornbury, was held at the Swan Hotel, Thornbury, on Tuesday
last, before Mr. H. T. M. C. Gwynn, the steward. After a dinner
the several juries were sworn, and proceeded to the despatch of
business. ISTo complaints of any kind of bridges or stiles being out
of order were made, and the following officers were then elected :
Officers of the Borough Mayor, serjeant-at-mace, constables and
ale-tasters, searchers and sealers of leather, carnals. Officers of the
Manor Ditchreeve of Morton, ditchreeve of Oldbury, hayward of
Kington, not elected ; hayward of Oldbury, hayward of Morton,
hayward of Falfield. Officers of the Hundred Constable of
Morton, constable of Kington, constable of Oldbury, constable of
Tytherington, constable of Rangeworthy, constable of Gaunt's
Earthcott, hayward of Tytherington, hayward of Rangeworthy.
The election of mayor was greeted with loud applause, and Mr.
Thurston thanked the court in a suitable speech. The evening was
spent in a convivial manner, and in accordance with ancient custom
the serjeant-at-mace and jury accompanied the mayor to his
residence." BRISTOLIENSIS.
DCCXXXVIII "ARCH.EOLOGIA." In the Archceologia, or Mis-
cellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, published by the Society
of Antiquaries of London, vols. i.-xlvi., London, 1770-1881, the
following articles have reference to Gloucestershire ;
300 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Vol. iv.
P. 132. Observations on a Coin of Robert, Earl of Gloucester.
By Josiah Colebrooke. 1775.
Vol. v.
207. Description of two Roman Camps in [Lydney Park]
Gloucestershire. By Hayman Rooke, Esq. 1777.
,, 232. Description of the Great Seal of Queen Catherine
Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII. ; with an
Account of her Funeral. By John Chas. Brooke,
Heralds' College. 1777.
Vol. vii.
,, 69. Illustration of an unpublished Seal of Richard, Duke
of Gloucester. By Jeremiah Milles, D.D., Dean of
Exeter. 1781.
,, 379. Account of some Antiquities found in Gloucestershire.
By the Rev. Thos. Mutlow. 1785.
405. Account of a brass Image of Roman workmanship
found at Cirencester. By the Rev. John Price,
Bodleian Library. 1767.
Vol. viii.
85. Mr. Richard Willis' Essay on the Ikineld-Street.
1785.
Vol. ix.
,, 1. Observations on the Time of the Death and Place of
Burial of Queen Katharine Parr. By Treadway
Nash, D.D. 1787.
10. Account of the Discovery of the Corpse of one of the
Abbots of Gloucester. By Mr, John Cooke,
Surgeon, of that City. 1787.
,, 319. Account of some Roman Antiquities discovered at
Comb-end Earm, near Cirencester. By Saml. Lysons,
Esq. 1789.
367. An Urn from Rodmarton, exhibited by same. 1787.
Vol. x.
i, 128. Description of the Church of Quenington. By same.
1790.
131. Account of Roman Antiquities discovered in Co.
Gloucester. By same. 1790.
Vol. xiv.
M 75. Copy of a Letter from King Charles II. to Colonel
Thomas Veel, and Blank Commissions to him to
raise Troops; with Observations, By Wm, Veel,
Esq. 1801.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 301
P. 119. Eemarks on the Military History of Bristol in the
Seventeenth Century ; with a Sketch of the Out-
works. By Edm. Tumor, Esq. 1801.
143. Observations on some of the Tombs in the Abbey
Church at Tewkesbury. By Saml. Lysons, Esq.
1801.
267. Copy of original Grant of Confraternity from the Prior
and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew,
Gloucester, to John de Thormerton, 1318. The
Grant exhibited by Saml. Lysons, Esq. 1799.
276. The Seal of Milo, Constable of Gloucester, exhibited
by the Bishop of Salisbury. 1800.
Vol. xv.
,, 405. Drawing of an ancient Painting on the wall of Trinity
Chapel, in Cirencester Church, with a Description;
presented by Saml. Lysons, Esq. 1803.
Vol. xvi.
346. Account of a curious carving in Ivory, belonging to
Richard Haynes, Esq. By Saml. Lysons, Esq.
1808.
361. Account of a Tumulus in the parish of Duntesbourne
Abbots. By the Rev. Anthony Freston, Rector of
Edgeworth. 1806.
,, 362. Account of a Barrow in the parish of Avening. By
the Rev. W. H. Thornbury. 1806.
[As recorded in this volume, the Rev. Nath.
Thornbury presented "an Impression from a
Private Plate in his possession, of three Ancient
Sepulchres, lately discovered in the parish of
Avening."]
Vol. xviii.
,, 112. Account of the Remains of several Roman Buildings
and other Roman Antiquities discovered in Co.
Gloucester. By Saml. Lysons, Esq. 1808 and
1813.
427. Account of " A Roll of the Expences of the House-
hold of the venerable Father in Christ Richard
[Swinfield], Bishop of Hereford," &c., 1289-90. By
Peter Prattinton, M.D., of Bewdley. 1814. [See
No. CCCXLIL " Bishop Swinfield's Visits to Prest-
bury, 1289."]
443. Account of an earthen Pipe dug up at Gloucester. By
Saml. Lysons, Esq. 1816.
Vol. xix.
105. Copy of a Letter to Sir Robt. Atkyns, Knight of the
VOL. II. X
302 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bath, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and
Speaker of the House of Lords, in the reign of King
William, from his brother, Sir Edw. Atkyns, who
was also Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Written from London during the Fire of 1666, to
his brother at Sapperton, his residence in Gloucester-
shire. Communicated by the Kev. Stephen Weston,
B.D. 1818.
P. 161. Account of a Chain of Ancient Fortresses, extending
through the South Western part of Gloucestershire.
By Thos. John Lloyd Baker, Esq. 1818.
178. Account of the Eemains of a Roman Villa discovered
in the parish of Great Witcombe. By Saml. Lysons,
Esq. 1818 and 1819.
Vol. xxi.
,, 11. Account of King Edward IV.'s Second Invasion of
England, in 1471, drawn up by one of his Followers ;
with the King's Letter to the Inhabitants of Bruges
upon his success : translated from a French MS. in
the Public Library at Ghent. Communicated by
Edw. Jerningham, Esq. 1820.
79. Observations on the first Common Seal used by the
Burgesses of Bristol, By the Rev. Jas. Dallaway.
1823.
554. Matrix of the Seal of Milo Fitz Walter, Constable
of England in the time of Henry I., exhibited by
Thos. Amyot, Esq. j with a Letter thereon. 1825.
Vol. xxii.
,, 437. Account of two Sepulchral Monuments discovered in
Bitton Churchyard, in 1826. By the Rev. H. T.
Ellacombe, Vicar of Bitton. 1828.
Vol. xxiii.
50. Transcript of an original MS., containing a Memorial
from George Constantyne to Lord Cromwell. Com-
municated by Thos. Amyot, Esq. 1830.
[Constantyne's defence against misrepresentations
concerning some verbal matters in which he had
been engaged with John Barlow, Dean of Westbury,
and Thos. Barlow, Prebendary of that collegiate
church.]
Vol. xxvi.
,, 255. Three inedited Saxon Charters, from the Cartulary
of Cirencester Abbey. Communicated by Sir
Thomas Phillipps, Bart. 1835.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 303
Vol. xxvii.
P. 211. Observations on three Eoman Sepulchral Inscriptions
found at Watermore, near Cirencester, in 1835 and
1836. By Dr. Conrad Leemans, First Conservator
of the Museum of Antiquities at Ley den. 1837.
Vol. xxviii.
420. Letters illustrative of the Gunpowder Treason. Com-
municated by John Bruce, Esq. 1840.
Vol. xxix.
5. Account of some Ancient Remains existing in the
District adjacent to the confluence of the Wye and
the Severn, in Cos. Gloucester and Monmouth. By
Geo. Ormerod, Esq., D.C.L. 1840.
80. Remarks upon Letters of Thos. Winter and Lord
Mounteagle, lately discovered by John Bruce, Esq.
By David Jardine, Esq. 1840.
96. Observations on the historical evidence respecting the
Implication of Lord Mounteagle as a Conspirator in
the Gunpowder Treason. By same. 1841.
,, 405. Silver Seal of Thomas de Prayers, of Dorsington, in
the possession of Evelyn P. Shirley, Esq. ; with
Observations. Exhibited by John Gough Nichols,
Esq. 1841.
Vol. xxx.
,, 113. Two Letters on certain Marks discoverable on the
Stones of various Buildings erected in the Middle
Ages. By Geo. Godwin, Esq. 1841 and 1843.
Vol. xxxi.
,, 267. Observations on Incised Sepulchral Slabs, with
Descriptions of two remarkable examples, repre-
senting Knights in the cross-legged attitude, which
exist at Aveiibury, Herefordshire, and at Bitton.
By Albert Way, Esq. 1845. ^
461. Notice of Roman Pavements found at or near
Cirencester. 1844.
513. Account of the Remains of Tetbury Priory. By
John Barnett, M.D. 1845.
Vol. xxxiv.
77. Notes on Saxon Sepulchral Remains, found at Fairford.
By Chas. Roach Smith, Esq. 1851.
Vol. xxxv.
279. Examination of the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe,
with a view to ascertain whether the claim usually
304 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
accorded to Simon de Burton, and the two William
Canynges, as the founders and re-constructors of that
edifice, is based upon fact. By Geo. Pryce, Esq.,
Bristol. 1853.
P. 409. Extracts from Accounts of the Churchwardens of
Minchinhampton, with Observations thereon. By
John Bruce, Esq. 1853.
Vol. xxxvi.
370. Observations on a Picture in Gloucester Cathedral, and
some other Eepresentations, of the Last Judgment.
By Geo. Scharf, Esq., Jun. 1855.
Vol. xli.
75. Message from King James I. to the Earl of Somerset,
in the case of Sir Thos. Overbury, sent on the 29th
December, 1615, through Sir Geo. More, Lieutenant
of .the Tower. Communicated from the MSS. at
Loseley by Jas. More Molyneux, Esq. 1866.
79. Review of the Evidence respecting the conduct of
King James I. in the case of Sir Thos. Overbury.
By Jas. Spedding, Esq. 1866.
Vol. xlii.
161. On Ancient British Barrows, especially those of Wilt-
shire and the adjoining Counties. (Part i. Long
Barrows.) By John Thurnam, M.D. 1867 and
1868.
Vol. xliii.
17. The true date of the English Discovery of the American
Continent under John and Sebastian Cabot. By
Kichard Henry Major, Esq. 1870.
285. On Ancient British Barrows, etc. (Part ii. Eound
Barrows.) By John Thurnam, M.D. 1868, 1869,
and 1870.
Vol. xliv.
428. The Camps on the River Avon at Clifton, with
Remarks on the Structure of Ancient Ramparts.
By the Rev. H. M. Scarth. 1872.
Vol. xlvi.
187. Description of the Paintings in the Church of Kempley.
By John Thos. Micklethwaite, Esq. 1877.
366. Remarks on an Admiralty Seal -of Richard, Duke of
Gloucester. By Chas. Spencer Perceval, Esq., LL.D.
' 2 * ANTIQUABIUS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 305
DCCXXXIX. ABSTRACT OP THE WILL OF RICHARD HART,
LAST PRIOR OP LANTHONY. The Gloucestershire antiquary will be
interested to see an abstract of Prior Hart's will, which I made
several years ago from the register in Doctors' Commons, before the
removal of the Wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury to
Somerset House. This will gives proofs in detail of the kindred
connection between the Theyers of Brockworth and the last Prior
of Lanthony. It is also confirmatory of Ant. a Wood's assertion
that Prior Hart's MSS. were the foundation of 800 ancient MSS.
collected by John Theyer, of Cowper's Hill, Brockworth, who died
in 1673, the descendant of Prior Hart's sister. These form part of
the King's Collection in the British Museum, having been sold
by Charles Theyer, grandson of the collector, to Charles II., and
deposited in the Royal Library at St. James' (Atlien. Oxon., ii. 380).
Southampton. BENJ. W. GREENFIELD.
Richard Hart, Priest of the parish of St. Nicholas, in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, Gloucester. Will dated 1 August, 1545,
and proved 19 Dec. To be buried in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
To my sister Annes and her two sons, Richard and Thomas Theare
(Theyer), four silver spoons and household effects, including 'two
coverlets of Dornyk ' (Dordrecht, or Dort in Holland ?), ' my great
brass pot that I brew in and my great coffer with a board nailed on
to it with all my hangings in the Hall at Brockworth with the
tables, trussils, and form in the same hall." To Richard Vaughan
my servant. To Richard Stevyns. To my mother Neale of London.
To William Coke. A Priest to perform a Dirige and Mass, and sing
for me, Richard Harte, and for Thomas Harte and Marian (probably
his parents). To Thomas Morgan, the heir of Hurst, I give all my
books of Latin, my bow and arrows. I give (legacies) to John
Morgan of Ocle to marry his daughters, and I make him sole executor,
and give him all Residue.
Schedule made 25 September, 37 H. VIII. (1545).
I Richard Hart, clerk, late Prior of Lanthony by Gloucester:
Whereas I have appointed my cousin John Morgan of Ogle, Co.
Glouc r my sole executor, I now appoint my brother in law Thomas
Theare of Brockworth the other executor and I give him 40s. I
give to my mother Isabel Neale 10.
Pynning, fol. 45 : A D ni 1543-5.
DCCXL. JAMES LACKINGTON. One of the most successful
booksellers of the last century was James Lackington, whose
extensive place of business, at the corner of Finsbury Square,
London, was styled somewhat grandiloquently " The Temple of the
Muses." On retiring from business he left his third cousin, George
Lackington, at the head of the firm, while he and his wife went to
live at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, in order to be in the neighbour-
hood of the Turtons, his wife's relatives. He bought two estates
306 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
at Alvestone, on one of which was a house, in which he lived in
good style for several years. Here he employed his time in visiting
the sick and poor, and sometimes in preaching. He built a small
chapel at Thornbury on his estate, where the Wesleyan ministers
regularly officiated. None will deny the successful bookseller the
right to the Latin motto with which he has adorned the frontispiece
to the first edition of his Memoirs and Confessions (London, 1791),
viz., " Sutor Ultra Crepidam Felidter Ausus." (From Lives of
Illustrious Shoemaker s,})j William Edward Winks, of Cardiff, 1882.)
H. C. W.
DCCXLI. BERKELEY LEGENDS. As the best reply to sundry
correspondents who have asked for particulars of the Witch and the
Toad of Berkeley, we give the following, for which we are indebted
to Mr. J. H. Cooke's History of Berkeley, pp. 42-4 :
Berkeley, as may have been expected, is especially rich in tales
of legendary lore, many of which have been preserved by Smyth
in the invaluable series of manuscript histories compiled by him
A.D. 1600 to 1639, to which we are so deeply indebted.* The
most remarkable of these stories is that of the witch of Berkeley,
which Southey has made the subject of a ballad poem. The
following is the version given by Smyth, taken from Trevisa's
translation of the Polychronicon of Keinulph of Chester : "About
that time a certain e woman in Berkeley accustomed to evil arts,
when as upon a certaine day shee kept a feast, a Chough which
shee used delicately to feede cackled more loud and distinctly than
shee was wont to doe, which when shee heard, the knife fell out of
her hand, her countenance waxed pale, and havinge fetched a deepe
groane, with a sigh said, ' now this day is the plowe come to my
last furrowe'; which beinge said, a messenger coming in, declared
to her the death of her sonne, and of all her family exposed to
present mine ; the woman presently laye downe and called to her
such of her other children as were monkes and a Nunne, who
cominge shee thus spake unto them : ' I a wicked follower of an evil
art and worse life vainly thought to have beene defended by your
praiers, now I desire to be eased by you of my torments, because
judgement is given against my soul, but perad venture you may keepe
my body if it bee fast sewed in a stag's skin ; make yee for mee a
a chest of stone, fast bound and cemented with iron and lead,
settinge the same upright, and also bound about with three iron
chaines ; use singers of Psalms for forty nights and pay for soe
many masses by dayes ; and if I shall soe lie for three nights, on
the fourth day bury my body in the ground.' But all was in vaine,
for in the two first nights which the psalmes were in soundinge, the
Divells havinge easily broken the doores, as lightly brake the two
utmost iron chaines ; and on the third night about cock-crowinge,
* See an article in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archceological Society
(1880-1881), vol. v., pp. 212-21, entitled " The Berkeley Manuscripts, and their Author John
Smyth," by James Herbert Cooke, F.S.A. ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 307
the place shakinge, one with a terrible countenance and of a mighty
tall stature, havinge broken open the cover of the chest commanded
the dead body to arise, who answeringe that shee could not by
reason of the bonds ; 'bee thou loosed', quoth hee, 'but to thy woe';
and presently all the barres being broken, hee draweth her out of
the Church, and setteth her upon a blacke horse, neighinge before
the doore, and soe went away with loud soundinge cries heard four
miles off."
The same story is told by William of Malmesbury, and also in an
old manuscript en titled "Chronicon de Abington," formerly belonging
to Sir Robert Cotton, and now in the British Museum. Tales like
this were often invented by the monks in mediaeval times, by way
of revenge upon deceased persons, and as a warning to survivors,
and the incidents were sometimes even acted by persons in disguise.
A similar story is related of the body of Charles Martel, king of
France.
The legend of the toad belongs to a much later age, and is thus
given by Smyth : " Out of which dungeon in the likenes of a
deepe broade well goinge steepely down in the midst of the
Dungeon Chamber in the said Keepe, was (as tradition tells,)
drawne forth a Toad, in the time of Kinge Henry the seventh, of
an incredible bignes, which, in the deepe dry dust in the bottom
thereof, had doubtlesse lived there divers hundreds of yeares;
whose portraiture in just demension, as it was then to me affirmed
by divers aged persons, I sawe, about 48 years agone, drawne in
colours upon the doore of the Great Hall, and of the utter side of
the stone porch leadinge into that hall; since, by pargettors or
pointers of that wall washed out or outworne with time ; which in
bredth was more then a foot, neere 16 inches, and in length more.
Of which monstrous and outgrowne beast the inhabitants of this
towne, and in the neighbour villages round about, fable many
strange and incredible wonders ; makinge the greatnes of this toad
more than would fill a peck, yea, I have heard some, who looked to
have beleife, say from the report of their Fathers and Grandfathers
that it would have filled a bushell or strike, and to have beene
many yeares fed with flesh and garbage from the butchers; but this
is all the trueth I knowe or dare beleive."
Of these and some similar stories Smyth remarks: "Everyman's
beleife is left to himselfe ; and I knowe what myselfe thinketh
thereof, and of the like ; but Hcec erat in toto notissima fabula
mundo ; bee it a lye or a trueth it is generally beleived."
EDITOR.
DCCXLIL AN OLD POWER OF ATTORNEY. Whilst recently
examining some Wiltshire charters, I found words written on the
slips of parchment to which the pendent seals belonging to one of
the documents had been attached. A careful examination showed
that these slips had been cut from an old power of attorney, and
sufficient remained to prove its import, though the words are
308 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
not quite legible ; and as it relates to Bristol, it may be worth pre-
serving in these pages. The contractions are extended, as follows :
"Nouerint universi per presentes me Willielmum Gary, Burgensem
ville Bristoll, confatuisse et in loco meo posuisse dilectos michi in
Christo Dauid Cawdcheke, Walterum Kerdyll, et
pro eisdem si necesse fuit
versus eosdem nomine meo tarn de parte
quam de toto inde .... ratum et gratum tutum quicquid
predicti Dauid, Walterus, et Bicardus attornati mei nomine meo veil
fecerint aut unius duxerit vel fecerit.
In cujus rei testimonium presentibus sigillum meuni apposui. Et
quia sigillum meum pluribus est incognitum "
For what purpose William Gary, burgess of Bristol, gave this
power of attorney to David Cawdcheke, Walter Kerdyll, and Richard
, we are of course unable to say. But the last clause, in
which he recites that his seal was generally unknown, is particularly
interesting, as it seems to indicate that some means must have been
employed to verify the seals of private persons, just as now
signatures to documents for use in foreign countries are usually
verified by a notary public. Possibly some Bristol antiquary, versed
in the municipal history of that city in the fourteenth century, may
be able to throw light upon the question. The date of the
document to which the slips of parchment are attached, is 1 July,
19 Richard II. ; and the handwriting of Gary's power of attorney
shows that it must have been executed shortly before that time.
W. P. W. PHILLIMOKE, M.A., B.C.L.
DCCXLIIL DECREE RESPECTING LANDS IN LONGHOPE AND
MICHELL DEAN. It appears by a copy of a decree made upon an
Inquisition taken at Cirencester, grounded upon a statute of the
39th year of Queen Elizabeth touching cleceipts and breaches of
trust relating to lands given to charitable uses, and executed on
22 September in the 41st year of her reign, by Sir John Hunyerford,
Sir Henry Winston, Knights, Robert Partridge, George Masters,
and Robert George, Esqrs., upon the oaths of a jury of 12 men,
namely,
Thomas Whiteing,
John Hoptkinns,
William Hooper,
Robert Seaman,
John Pratt,
> of Cyrencester,
Edward Park,
Thomas Smyth,
Edward Mannering,
Thomas Stephens, of Stratton,
Walter Lane, of Syddington,
John Ferreby, of Cyrencester,
Richard Brown, of Preston,
honest men of the County of Gloucester,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 309
that certeine lands and hereditaments, situate in Longhope and
Michell Dean, then or lately in possession of William a ffowle and
Roger a ffowle, of Longhope aforesaid, as ffeoffees by survivorship,
and in trust, of the value then of 20 marks a year, were to be
disposed of to the uses following, namely, towards the reparation of
the parish church of Longhope, setting forth of soldiers, the relief
of poor and impotent people, and orphans, within the said parish of
Longhope, and also of maimed soldiers and prisoners within the said
county ; which decree remains on the ffiles of the Court of Chancery
in the term of St. Michael, Anno 41 et 42 Elizabethse Reginae.
This decree gives power to re-enffeoffe twelve or more, substantiall
men of the said parish, and to renew them as oft as occasion requires.
These lands to be holden of the Lord of the Mannor (then the
Earle of Shrewsbury, now the Earle of Kent), at the yearly rent of
1611. and 6d.
Bicknor Court, Coleford. JOHN MACLEAN.
DCCXLIV. ON THE ORIGIN OF FINNIMORE AND ITS ALLIED
SURNAMES. The group of surnames, of which the principal ex-
amples existing at the present time are Finnimore, Phillimore,
Fynmore, Fillinore, and Filmer, is subject to numerous variations
in spelling, which have much obscured their real origin. Lower, in
his Patronymica Britannica, quoting Ferguson, derives Filmer and
Philimore " from an old German personal name (Filimer), signifying
* Fullfamous ' ; " and other writers have suggested derivations which
are still less probable.* There can be little doubt that these names
are derived from one common form, which is evidently of local
origin. It is in the surname Finnimore, or, as it was frequently
spelt in the middle ages, Fynamore, that we have probably the
original form of all these apparently dissimilar names.
One of these, that of Phillimore, in its present form is quite
modern ; in fact, no example of it so spelt has yet been discovered
before 1640, when it first occurs in the registers of Cam, in
Gloucestershire, in which district the Phillimores have been settled
ever since the commencement of the sixteenth century. Its identity
with Finnimore can be clearly proved. Throughout the Cam
registers the forms Phinimore and Phillimoref are used interchange-
ably until the year 1680, when Phinimore appears for the last time,
and Phillimore becomes the accepted spelling, although even at the
present day persons unacquainted with the name will often the first
time of hearing it write Finimore or Finamore. On the same page
of the Cam register we find in 1663 Danyell Phillimore, then
* The suggestion in English Surnames that Fynamouris connected with the French amour
may be passed over, although it is very likely that the Christian name Dulcia Fynamour
(temp. Edw. I.) mentioned in Mr. Bardsley's book may have been selected as suitable for a
surname ending in amour.
t It is difficult to explain the substitution of Ph for F. It can hardly be from any supposed
connection with the Christian name Philip, as the use of Ph was long anterior to the change
of Phinimore into Phillimore. Probably it is merely a literary fancy. Cf. Phillingham and
Fillingham, Philpot and Filpot, Phear and Fear, etc.
310 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
churchwarden, described also as Daniel Phinimore. In this
register the spelling of the name appears to have changed
with the different vicars of the parish. Daniel Phinnimore, of
the adjacent parish of Coaley, .and ancestor of the Phillimores
of Slimbridge, in his will, dated 1678, refers to his son
Daniel Phillimore, whilst his widow, Joan Phinnimore, in her will
in 1685, adheres to the older form throughout. This is perhaps
the latest instance of its use in Gloucestershire.
The Gloucester wills and Cam manorial records supply further
evidence. William Phinimore, of Cam, who under that name made
his will in 1590, and as William Fynimore attested the will of
John Tratman, of Cam, in 1577, is entered on the court roll of 1553
as William Fyllymore, while on the same roll his half-brother
Thomas appears as Finimore, the latter's son William, in his will
in 1558, describing himself and his father as Fyllymore. The
father of the two half-brothers, Thomas and William, was John
Fynamore, whose name frequently occurs as a tenant of the manor,
then in the hands of the Crown, from the year 1515 until his death
about 1532. The will of Harry Fylymore, of Wickwar, who
appointed as one of his overseers William Fyllymore, of Cam, dated
1546, and proved at Gloucester in 1562, is endorsed as the will
of "Henry Fynymore, late of Wickwar."
ISTo instance of the name has yet been traced in Gloucestershire
before the time of John Fynamore, of Cam. Very possibly he was
one of the Fynamores of Calne, for that town is within thirty miles
of Cam, and both places were engaged in the manufacture of cloth,
as Cam still is.
A similar change of n into I has taken place in other districts
besides Gloucestershire. At Nether Avon, Wiltshire, where there
is said to be still a clan of Phillimores in humble position, Phineas
Philamore alias Fennymore in 1731 was party to a conveyance,
which he, however, signed as Phillomoar ; while he is entered in the
parish register as Phillarnore, which was the spelling commonly
followed there in the seventeenth century. The will of Philip Philmore,
of North Stoke, Oxon, was proved by his widow in 1636, who then
styled herself and her late husband Phinmore alias Philmore ; but
his daughter in 1660 took out administration "de bonis non" to
her father as Philmer.
The same transformation which occurred in Gloucestershire more
than two hundred years ago has in the present century been repeated in
Bedfordshire, where a family of Phillimores is now living in humble
position, who fifty years ago were known as Finnimore, and whose
collateral relatives at the present day call themselves Fennemore.
The Filmers of East Sutton, Kent, also appear to derive their
name from Finnimore, or some similar form; for NicholPs
Baronetage, 1741, states on the authority of the then Sir Edmund
Filmer, that "this family formerly wrote their name Finmere,
Fylmere, Filmour, and Filmor, temp. Edward III, but of late
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 311
Filmer, and were seated at Otterinden in Kent, at a place called
Finmore". The statement that there is a place called Finmore at
Otterden is, however, an error, nor is there at present any evidence
to show that they were settled in Kent at so early a period as the
fourteenth century. But the mutability of the name is not so
clearly exemplified in this instance, as their name appears to have
become stereotyped from the family being recorded in the Heralds'
Visitations and other genealogical collections from the sixteenth
century on to the present time, and their earlier history is yet
unwritten. Still, it is worthy of note that in the lists of admissions
at Gray's Inn from 1598 to 1674 the Filmers of East Button are
generally entered as Fillmore ; and as we have seen, Philmore is the
same as Phinmore, which latter is but a shortened form of Finimore.
This identity is proved by the example of the Fynmores of
North Hinksey, near Oxford a family which is certainly descended
from William Finnemore, who was mayor of Reading in 1577 and
1585. He was probably an offshoot of the Fynamores of Whetham,
near Calne, in "Wiltshire, for both families use the same arms. To
show how unsettled the orthography of the name was, we may
mention that the tablets opposite one another in the chancel at
North Hinksey, erected in 1677 and 1687, and both commemorating
persons of position and education, have respectively Fynmore and
Finmore. Henry Filmer, churchwarden of Windsor, who was
burnt there about 1543 for heresy, is variously described in the
earlier editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs as Finmore and
Finnemore.
We have already said that Fynamore, the prototype, as we may
term it, of all this numerous group of surnames, is undoubtedly of
local origin. The Domesday villages of Finimer, near Shrewsbury,
and Fenemere, in Oxfordshire, have each supplied a surname to two
distinct families. And both places have gone through several
changes of spelling in a way similar to that of the surnames derived
from them, although, as might be expected, not in such marked
variety. The Shropshire Finimer became in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries Fennemer and Fennymore, and now appears
on the Ordnance map as Higher and Lower Fennymere. The
Oxfordshire Fenemere in 1299 occurs as Fynemere, in 1339 as
Fenemere, in 1431 as Fynemer, which by the year 1560 was
shortened into Fynmere, in 1692 was written Finmore, and is now
known as Finmere.* A pedigree of four descents of the family of
Fennemere, or Fennymare, which derived its name from the
Shropshire Fennymere, is given by Eyton in his history of that
county ; but he does not trace it later than 1272. The
name, however, existed in Shropshire at a much later date, for in
the Public Record Office there is an illegible deposition of the time
of James I., by one Sir Thomas Fennymore, relating to possessions
* It is said that Philpot Lane, London, was formerly known as Finimore Lane and Fyefoot
Lane.
312 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
in that county. In 1 6 17 Francis Fenymore and "his sons, George and
Thomas Fennimore, had a lease of a garden at Claremont Hill, Shrews-
bury, and towards the close of the seventeenth century there were some
Fenimores settled at Bridgnorth, of which place Thomas Fenimoore
was bailiff in 1660. In 1661 his name is given as Finymore, and in
1671 as Finimore, his wife in 1701 being buried as Fenimore. It
is at Shrewsbury, in the recent return of .landed owners, that the
solitary instance of Phennemere occurs.
The Fynamores of the Oxfordshire Finmere can be traced back
as early as the year 1208, when the Abbot of Bristol called Gilbert
de Finemere to warrant certain lands in Fiuemere. By the middle
of the thirteenth century they had removed into Wiltshire, for in
1258 Gilbert de Finemer appears as a juror for the hundred of
Calne ; and before its close they seem to have acquired Whetham
in that parish, and there they continued until, on the death
of Eoger Fynamore, of Whetham, who was buried in Fyune-
more's aisle at Calne in 1575, the estates passed to the Ernie
family, Michael Ernie having married Roger Fynamore's only
daughter. Whetham House is still one of the seats of his
descendant and representative, Col. Money-Kyrle, who has in his
possession very many early charters relating to these mediaeval
Fynamores.
The village of Fullmer, in Buckinghamshire, may be the source
of the somewhat uncommon surname Fullmer ; and the court rolls
of Cam in the early part of the sixteenth century also mention a
place or meadow in that parish called Fulmore, which, however, does
not seem to have given its name to any family ; and there is no
evidence to connect either of them with the Finnimore group.
Numerous as are the forms of spelling in which this family
of surnames occur, they may be all classified in a few distinct
divisions. The principal one depends on the termination of the
first syllable, according as it ends in n or ?, as Finnimore or Phillimore.
A second division arises from the suppression of the middle vowel,
converting the name into a dissyllable. Further, the last syllable
-more sometimes becomes -mer, as in Filmer, and sometimes
-mere and -mare. Then, the i of the first syllable becomes e, as
in Fenimore; but this alteration seems confined to the n class,
unless the surnames Belemore and Belmer belong to the group.
Lastly, the initial F in one small group becomes V, and in another
changes into P or B. In this way are derived Yenmore, Pilmore,
Billimore, etc.* By the change of F into Ph, and of i into y,
the doubling of n and ?, and other minor alterations, the number of
the varieties is greatly enlarged.
The following list of more than one hundred of this family of sur-
names serves not only to show their great variety, but to illustrate
the difficulties attending an enquiry into the early history of a
surname of so changeable a form. -The number attached to each
* C/. Furnell alias Purnell, Philbrick and Pilbrick, etc.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 313
name indicates the times of its occurrence in the Registers of Births
for 1877-81.
Fynnymore,
Fynymour,
Finemer,
Finemere,
Fynemere,
Phinemore,
Phinnemore,
Phinimore,
Phinnimore,
Phynimore,
Phynnimore.
Fenemore, 36
Fenimore, 2
Fenimoore,
Fennemore, 15
Fennimore,
Feriymore,
Fenneymore, 1
Fennymore, 5
Fennemer,
Fennemere,
Fennymare,
Phenimore,
Phennemere.
111.
Yenemore, 7
Venimore, 7
Yennemore, 1
Vennimore.
VI.
Fynmere,
Finmore, 3
Firinmore,
Fynmore, 2
Phinmore,
Phynnmore,
Finmoore,
Finnmoore,
Yenmore, 4
Binmore, 18
Benmore, 4
Pinmoore.
VII.
11. Vennemore, 1 Filmore, 8
Finamore, 6 Yennimore. Filmour,
Finamaur, Fillmore, 7
Finnamore, 12 iv. Fillmoore,
Finemor, Fillamore, Filmor,
Finemore, 10 Fillimore, Philmore, 10
Finnemore, 50 Filyemore, Phillmore, 2
Finneymore, 2 Fyllimore, Filmer, 105
Finnemor, Fylymore, Fillmer,
Finimore, 3 Philamore, Fylmer,
Finnimore, 31 Phillamore, Fylmere,
Finnymore, Philemore, 1 Philmer,
Fynamore, Phillemore, Felmer, 1
Fynamour, Philimore, 1
Fynamoure, Phillimore, 58 viii.
Finemour, Philemoor, Pilmore, 3
Fynemore, Phillemoor, Pillmore, 4
Fynnemore, Philimoor, Pilmoor, 7
Fynemor, Phillomoar, Pilmour, 1
Fynemour, Philomer. Pilmoore, 1
Fynymore, Pilmer, 8
Fynamore, v.
Fynamour, Pillimore, ix.
Fynamur, Billamore, Belmer, 1
Fynnamoore, Billimore, 3 Belmore, 1
Fynnamore, Belemore, 3 Bellmore, 1
Fynnemore, Bellamore, 2
Fynnimore,
Most of the names in this list are mediaeval forms which have been
long obsolete, and not a few of the rest are extremely rare, and probably
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becoming extinct, as the tendency seems to be for the lesser
varieties to approximate to or adopt the spelling used by the most
important family of the division to which they belong. Thus, all
the members of group vii. tend to use the spelling Filmer, and
those of group vi. the form Phillimore, which probably accounts
for the greater frequency of these names. Proof of the identity of
Venimore, Venmore, Belemore, Belmore, and Binmore, with Finimore
has yet to be adduced. However, Fenemore and Venemore both exist
in Oxfordshire. Of the former spelling, many instances occur in
the early Fynamer charters. But notwithstanding the great variety
shown in the preceding list, the aggregate number of individuals
bearing any of these names is very small.
A careful examination of the Eegistrar-General's quarterly indexes
of Births for the years 1877-81 has supplied some interesting
statistics about these names. The number of births in England and
Wales during these five years was 4,425,490, while the total number
belonging to this group, even including the doubtful instances
already mentioned, was only 447. Presuming that the same
proportion of births exists in this group as with other names, we
may estimate the number living in 1881 to be 2,623 out of a
population of 25,968,286. These figures give the following
estimate for the five most numerous of the names :
Filmer, births 1877-81, 105, number living 1881, 615.
Phillimore, 58, 340.*
Finnemore, 50, 293.
Fenemore ,, 36, 211.
Finnimore 31, 181.
On, the other hand there are probably not less than 356,915 living
Smiths. For one Phillimore there will be about 1,046 of that well-
known name. Yet some of the forms, it will be noticed, are still
rarer. The names Fynmore, Belmer, etc., are probably each
represented by less than a score of individuals, though perhaps a
five years' search is not sufficient to render this certain, for several
names, as Yennimore and Billamore, undoubtedly still exist, though
not in the indexes. Probably for each existence of these scarcer
names there might be mustered an army of Smiths, some eighteen
or twenty thousand strong. Of the instances of these names in the
indexes of Births, 371 have the initial F or Ph, 19 that of F, 24
have P, and 33 have B. In 241 cases the first vowel is e, and in 91
either i or y, whilst despite the general tendency to contraction,
256 instances have three syllables, as against 191 in which
the middle vowel is suppressed.
A few words may be added on the geographical distribution of
these names. The form Fenemore is now most common in Oxford-
* Considerably more than 100 of these are probably resident in Gloucestershire, or are of
Gloucestershire descent. There are 56 now living of the Kensington branch enumerated in
Fosters Baronetage. Sometimes a name is accidentally increased in number. In 18 the
Guardians at Kensington named a child Phillimore from its having been found in Phillimore
Gardens. This might some day cause trouble to genealogists, like Crabbe's Sir Richard
Monday, of Monday Place.
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shire, the county from which most of the names are probably
derived. In the neighbouring county of Berks, at East Hendred,
the name of Thomas Fynemore occurs in 1459 and 1582. Adam
Finnemore, one of the Poor Knights of Windsor, whose patent
in 1576 was made out to him as Fynmore, mentions in his will his
property in that parish. The Fynmores of North Hinksey and
Eeading have already been referred to, and also the Fynamores of
Calne, in Wiltshire, in both of which counties, as well as in
Hampshire, examples of Finimore, Phillimore, and Filmore are
still to be met with. In Devon we find Fillmore, Philmore,
Finimore, and Finmore. The will of Thomas Fillmore, or
Philmore, of Bishop Morchard, was proved in 1637 ; that of Alase
Fynnamore, of Halwell, in 1553, and that of Mary Finnimore, of
Halberton, in 1658, in which parish, according to the "new
Domesday," there is stilla landowner named Finnemore. TheFilmores
have been connected with Lympstone and Topsham ever since the
beginning of the last century, and indeed perhaps from an earlier
date. Finamore, or Finnamore, is now chiefly found in Cornwall.
In the seventeenth century a family of Finmores was spread
about from Huntingdonshire to Lincolnshire. Vincent Fynnemore,
of Upton, near Peterborough, in his will in 1638 named amongst
others Henry Finmnoore, but signed as Vincent Finnmore, while in
1639 it was proved by his wife, as Anne Finnimore. In 1657
Eobert Finimore, of Whittlesea, petitioned the Parliamentary
Commissioners against the sequestration of his estate for delinquency.
In his petition he refers to a grant in 1638 by Henry Finnemore, of
Yaxley, Hunts, and signs it as Robert Fy nimore. A similar petition in
1651 was presented by Henry Finnimore, of Yaxley, but then of
Bourne, Lincolnshire, who signed as Finnmore. The name is
also found once in Worcestershire. Katherine Fynnimore, of
Chadsley, in that county, in her will, 1658, names Elizabeth
Finnyrnore and Gilbert Finnimore. But in Gloucestershire the form
Phillimore has excluded almost every other spelling of the name.
Filmer, Phillmore, and sometimes Finemore are found in Kent. In
Shropshire the name now seems to be uncommon, although
Fennymere, the origin of one distinct family, is within its limits.
As might be imagined, the London Directory affords examples of
most of the more common modern forms, and isolated instances of
one or other of the names are to be found in several of the counties
near those already named. A few examples indeed are to be found
in some of the distant northern counties ; but this at a time when
railways have made people almost as nomandic as they were in the
pastoral state of society, means very little. Speaking generally, how-
ever, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Wilts appear to form a central district
from which most of the families bearingthesesurnam.es seem to radiate.
There are several families of Finnemor or Finnamore living in Ireland,
who possess a traditionary knowledge of an emigration from this coun-
try. The name Finamore occurs also in Italy. In 1750 there was a
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suit by Tommasso Finamore against N. Filizzola ; and it is interesting
to note that Luigi Finamore Pepe, the British vice-consul at
Minopoli, claims an English origin for his paternal family of
Finamore, which he states cannot be traced in Italy before the
eighteenth century. Dominico Filomarini was bishop of Trevico in
1720, and Marcello Filomarino bishop of Mileti a few years later.
In America Fynmore and Phillimore rarely, if ever, occur ; but
the name of the novelist Fenimore Cooper is familiar to every one ;
and the Fillmores, who are said to be descended from a Devon
family, and have the honour of numbering amongst them one of the
Presidents of the United States, are also well known there. It is
needless perhaps to add that isolated instances of one or other of
these surnames may be found in most parts of the world where
English people have settled.
W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L.
DCCXLV. THE ORDER AND METHOD FOR PRESENTMENTS,
SEPT. 30, 1674. The Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, M.A., has lately
inserted in Notes and Queries (6 th S. ii. 323), under the above
heading, an original paper "just found among my old Gloucester-
shire MSS.", which deserves to be put in record, "especially in
these days of free action, when everyone does what seemeth him
good." The document is as follows :
"The Churchwardens are to present upon oath all persons that
doe not repayre to their parrish Church every Sunday, and there
abide orderly and quietly during the whole tyme of Divine
Service and sermon, according to the lawes and Statutes in that case
made and provided, which said presentments they are to deliver unto
us fairly written at every petty Sessions, that the offenders may be
proceeded against according to Lawe. They are to take an accompt
of the severall Inhabitants of their parrish, of what age and sex they
are, And to make a return thereof unto us at the next Meeting,
upon Oath.
" They are to observe every Sunday who are not at Divine Service
as aforesayd. And you are every one of you to appear in person.
" The Constables are to enquire dayly, and especially after Sunsett
and on the Lord's Day, who continue tipling in any Alehouse, who
use any unlawful Games, who are disorderly, and who profane the
Lord's Day.
" You are to present the names of all who sell Ale either with or
without License in your severall Tythings, or keepe unlawfull Games
or disorders, or suffer persons to continue tipling in their houses,
contrary to Lawe, and in what place such persons dwell. You are
diligently to enquire of all other disorders and disorderly persons
and night walkers in your parish. You are to give an accompt what
warrants have come to" your hands, and how they have been
executed. You are every one of you to appear in person with a true
presentment of the premises distinctly written, upon your oaths.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 317
" You are also hereby to take notice that the next petty Sessions
will be held at the Signe of the Lamb, near Lawford's Gate, on
Thursday, the 15 th day of October next, at w h time you are to
appear by Nyne of the Clock in the forenoon."
The Gloucestershire magistrates still meet at Lawford's Gate,
Bristol, on Mondays and Thursdays. G A W
DCCXLVI. EXTRACTS FROM "READ'S WEEKLY JOURNAL,"
1729-32. I send you some extracts from a volume of Read's
Weekly Journal ; or, The British Gazetteer, which will, I think, be
found interesting. ^ j p
Tetbury.
Amusements.
1729. Gloucester, Sept. 15. On Monday, the 22nd instant, will
be play'd in the Town-Ham of this city, by eleven men of a side,
a game at cricket,* for upwards of twenty guineas.
1731. June 19. 'Tis said that on the first day of next month
a sum of money will be given to be run for on Painswick-Hill, by
persons who are to be ty'd up in bags as the contributors shall direct ;
and that as many as will may run, but no less than six to start.
1732. Feb. 26. They write from Painswick, that on Wednesday,
the 19th of Jan. last, there was rung there the whole peal of tripples,
being 5040 changes, which was perform'd in three hours 37 minutes;
but it having been falsely reported by some people that it was not
done, and thought by others to be a thing impossible for men to
stand so long : This is therefore to inform the publick, that at the
request of the gentlemen of the parish, the ringers have agreed to
ring it again, hoping as they [have] done it once, they may do it a
second time, barring accidents ; and in honour to our present Queen,
have fix'd upon the first of March next for the day of trial, it being
her Majesty's birthday. They begin at ten a clock.
Deaths.
1729. Nov. 1. Some days since died Richard Graves, of
Mickleton, in the county of Gloucester, Esq. ; an ingenious gentle-
man and good antiquary. [See No. CCXXXVL]
1729. Nov. 22. Last week Mr. Hawker, of Gloucestershire,
Clothier, coming to Town for a few days about some extraordinary
business, was taken ill at his lodgings at the Mitre-Tavern, in James-
street, by Covent-Garden, and died on Thursday, and last Sunday
night was interred at St. Paul's, Covent-Garden.
1729. Gloucester, Dec. 11. On Friday last Dr. [Robert] Bull
died of apoplexy, at his house at Churcham ; he was a prebendary
of our cathedral, and a gentleman much esteem'd.
* For early mention of this game, see Notes and Queries, 2nd S. ii. 410 ; iii. 39 ; vi. 133, 178,
217 ; x. 512 ; 3rd S. iv. 186 ; 4th S. xii. 48 ; 5th S. ii. 121 ; and Capt. Crawley's Cricket ; it*
Theory and Practice, 1866. In the Gloucester Journal, May 29, 1769, this piece of news
appears : " We hear from Cirencester that the young gentlemen of that place are introducing
the manly exercise of cricket into this county, where it has been hitherto unknown. "
excellent matches have been lately played there for considerable sums." ED.
TOL. II. T
318 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1731. April 17. By letters from Gloucestershire we hear that
on Wednesday was se'nnight Mr. Robert Vizard, a Clothier of Stroud,
in that county, was found dead near his own house; and 'tis
supposed, by his pockets being empty, he had been murdered.
Fires.
1729. Bristol, Sept. 12. The night before happen'd a terrible
fire in the town of Wootton-under-Edge, which consumed 16
thatch'd houses ; but we don't hear as yet what the damages are in
general.
1731. March 6. We hear that the seat of his Grace the Duke
of Beaufort at Badminton, in Gloucestershire, is entirely consumed by
fire, together with all the furniture ; and one servant perish'd in the
flames.
1731. Sept. 11. We hear from Stroud, that on the 4th inst.
the house of Mr. Joshua Harmer, commonly called "George Eidler's
Oven," was entirely destroyed by fire.
1732. Jan. 15. Letters from Gloucestershire give a very
melancholy account of a fire that happen'd on Monday, the 3rd inst.,
at Lackington [Leckhampton], near Down-Ampney, in that county,
which began about one o'clock in the afternoon, and consumed the
valuable library, and most part of the house, of the Eev. Mr. [Thomas]
Norwood, lord of the manor; a loss much lamented by all the
neighbourhood, by whom he is very much valued. The fire is said
to have been occasion'd by neglecting a chafin-dish of charcoal,
placed to dry a room new-wash'd.
Military News.
1732. March 18. We have an account from Bristol, that at a
court martial held there on Tuesday last, one George Boyde,
a soldier in the Right Hon. the Lord Cadogan's regiment, was try'd
for drinking the Pretender's health, found guilty, and sentenced to
receive a thousand lashes with a cat of nine-tails ; which punish-
ment he underwent the next day in Queens Square in that city ;
and was afterwards drumm'd out of the regiment.
Press-gangs.
1729. Bristol, April 19. The press still continues, taking all
the hands out of the vessels that come to the Road. The captains
of the outward-bound ships, to prevent their men from falling into
the hands of the press-gang, let the pilots proceed with their ships
as far as the Holmbs, while their men march by land down the
country, and are fetch'd off by the pilot's boats. The Cato's men,
bound for Guiney and the West-Indies, are all arm'd, and keep
together in one house, till such time as the ship sails, being resolv'd
to oppose the press-gang if they come in their way.
1729. Bristol, April 26. Upon complaint made above of the
inconveniencies that attended this city by impressing the men
out of the market boats from Wales, &c., and out of the
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outward-bound ships, orders came down last Saturday to Capt. Smith,
commander of the Enterprize man of war, not to molest any of
those vessels.
1729. Bristol, May 31. When the Martilla arriv'd in King-
Road, on Monday last, she was boarded by the Lively man of war's
boat, in order to impress her hands, when a smart skirmish happen'd
and several pistols were discharged ; some of the man of war's
crew were wounded, as were the Martilla's men, and the boatswain
received a mortal wound. Capt. Gethin had his head broke by the
Lively's lieutenant.
Robberies, fyc.
1729. Gloucester, Oct. 11, On Monday last Mr. Alderman
Carrill was chosen mayor of this city for the year ensuing ; and Mr.
JSTicholls, postmaster, and Mr. Bower, the sheriffs. And on
Wednesday last ended our sessions for the county, when Sarah
Hopkins and Anne Holmes were order'd to be transported for seven
years for stealing seventeen sheaves of wheat out of the ground of
Sir Robert Cann, Bart. John Whithers, Evan Evans, John Holmes,
and Mary Nelmes, were all ordered to be publickly whipt for
several felonies.
1729. Gloucester, Nov. 25. On Saturday, the 15th of this
instant, George Johnston, of Cheltenham, was assaulted and robb'd,
between Chedworth and Cowlesborne, in this county, by three
highwaymen ; they were all mounted on dark colour'd horses, and
one of them was a tall thin man, with black hair, and had on a dark-
colour'd close-bodied coat, who robb'd him of 231. in gold and
silver, besides several goods, viz. handkerchiefs, hollands, muslins,
cambricks, dowlasses, and a silver watch.
The Weavers.
1729. Bristol, Sept. 6. Monday and Tuesday last the weavers
rose in a great body without Lawford's Gate, and broke open and
rifled several places where looms were, and carried them away, with
chains and other effects, and burnt them in the open street ; they
got to such a head, that several companies of the regiment in
quarters here, were sent to repel 'em ; they had no orders to fire,
but only to prevent them from entring the warehouses, and pulling
down houses, which they attempted. The reasons they gave for it
was, that the masters had combin'd to lower 6d. in a piece of their
wages, but now all is quiet again.
1729. Bristol, Sept. 29. Here has been a great riot committed
by the weavers, who would force their masters to raise their wages.
They were going to pull down Mr. Fet chain's house on Castle-Ditch ;
but the soldiers were called to his assistance, in which fray one
sergeant and six weavers were killed, and several more wounded,
before the mob went off. Without the Gate they took away the
looms of the weavers, and all the peices they could find, and burnt
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them. The drums are now beating about to arms ; God knows the
consequence of it ; the mob is now in Temple-street, past 9 at
night.
DCCXLVII. SOME ALLEGED CENTENARIANS. (See No.
CCCCLVIII.) The following cases are submitted for investi-
gation:
(1) January 29, 1857. "At Park-terr., Upper Bristol-road
p Gloucester], aged 107, Ann Lewis, retaining to the last all her
faculties, with the exception of her sight, of which she had been
deprived for the last 14 years." Annual Register (1857), p. 380.
(2) April 2, 1858. "At her son's residence, Montague-st.,
Bristol, aged 100, Mrs. Anne Williams, relict of Mr. Isaac Williams,
of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire. The deceased was mother
of ten children, grandmother of sixty-four, great-grandmother of
two hundred and seventeen, and great-great-grandmother of eight."
Ib. (1858), p. 469.
(3) June 24, 1860. "At the Gloucester Union, aged 100, Ann
Wren, widow of Sergeant Wren, of the Grenadier Company of the
Gloucester Militia." Ib. (1860), p. 514.
(4) "Mrs. Godfrey, of Stroud p Gloucestershire], has died at
Egham, aged 104." Bristol Times and Mirror, Oct. 24, 1882.
(5) October 16, 1882. "At 21, Stanley-street, Easton, Maria
Harrison, relict of Peter Farley, in the 104th year of her age."
Ib., Oct. 27, 1882.
To these may be added some cases of longevity :
" A lady residing at Upton St. Leonards, visited her mother on
Friday, the 10th inst. The united ages of the mother and daughter
amounted to 164 years, the mother being 94 and the daughter 70.
The faculties of the elder lady are comparatively sound, and she
appears so hale and hearty that there is every prospect of her
becoming a centenarian. She can see to knit stockings, which
useful accomplishment she can perform in an excellent manner.
We believe that old Mr. Gibbs, of Upton St. Leonards, the ex-clerk
of Matson, is even older than the elder lady mentioned. [He
has since died.] As a parish clerk, Mr. Gibbs is perhaps the last
of his race. He does not exhibit any signs of decay or extreme
senility, for a few days ago he was observed carrying a bundle of
wood on his back with all the agility of a younger person than
a man who is on the threshold of a century." Gloucestershire
Chronicle, Oct. 18, 1879.
"There have lately died in the borough of Tewkesbury,
Gloucestershire, four persons whose united ages amounted to 344
years, or an average of 86 years each. Their names are as follows :
Ann Chandler, aged 91, died January 24 ; Richard Townley, aged
90, died January 15 ; William Knott, aged 87, died January 24 ;
and William King, aged 76, died January 23." Gloucester Journal
Feb. 12, 1881.
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DCCXLYIIL THE SEVERN BORE. On Wednesday evening,
Aug. 30, and Thursday morning, Aug. 31, 1882, according to
prediction, the two highest tides of the year took place, and the
phenomenon of the " Bore " was seen to advantage at a point on
the Severn called Stonebench, about three and a half miles below
Gloucester, by Quedgely, and was there witnessed on Thursday
morning by a large number of persons from the city and elsewhere,
in an imposing array of vehicles of all descriptions. As nearly as
possible at 10 a.m. the distant roar of the advancing wave was
heard, and almost immediately a foaming crest, dashing up the two
steep banks and fretting against the willow trees planted thereon,
rushed furiously by, and what had a few seconds before been a
smooth sullen stream placidly making its way towards the sea
between two deep banks, immediately became a rapid current
increased enormously in volume, racing up towards Gloucester, and
every minute visibly showing how fast its waters were rising. In
the centre of the stream the wave appeared to the eye little more
than a gentle undulation, as in fact it was, so much so that, without
incurring any risk, a party of ladies met it in a boat, which easily
rode over the incline, and then swiftly moved up the river with the
current. The height of the wave may have been four to five feet,
as was shewn against the banks. The tide ran up for an hour,
soon filling its appointed channel and then overflowing the high
road and adjacent meadows, as it had done the night before, which
was plainly indicated by a deposit of mud still lying fresh and
undried. The total rise appeared to be from ten to twelve feet. It
must be remembered that many exceptional causes may add to or
diminish the volume of water thus rolled back in the shape of a
" bore" by the tidal wave. Ocean currents, the wind, the amount of
river water, all exercise an important influence upon its height ; so
that with a combination of favourable circumstances, even with
a lower mean tide, there might be a higher " bore." All that scientific
prediction intended in naming the particular day for the highest
tide, was, that given the due combination of favourable circumstances
as above mentioned, such result would inevitably occur.
The " bore " is not a common phenomenon, and there are few
other rivers in the world where it is so marked a feature as on the
Severn. The river Parret at Bridgwater has one, but on a much
smaller scale. The Hooghly at Calcutta is another instance. On
the Severn it is no doubt due to the sudden contraction of the
stream after the flood of water poured from the sea into
the wide estuary which extends up to and beyond the Hock
Crib at Fretherne. ^ H.
In the Leisure Hour (1874), p. 384, we have the following
description by the late Mr. Frank Buckland :
" A most remarkable natural phenomenon was observed on the
morning of Friday, March 20. A gigantic tidal wave called the
' Bore ' made its expected appearance, accompanied by an unusually*
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high tide, in the Severn. Anxious to see if the salmon fisheries
would be affected by it, I, in company with Messrs. Cadle and
Bennett, of Westbury-on-Severn, members of the Board of Salmon
Conservators, and the Eev. the Yicar of the parish, waited the
arrival of the bore at Denny Eocks, five miles below Gloucester.
At 9.20 a.m. some boys perched high in a tree shouted out the
warning, ' Flood ! Flood ! ' and then to a minute of her time
up came the bore, sweeping with a magnificent curve round a bend
in the river. Hurrying towards us with fearful force and velocity,
rushed a dense wall of water, curling over with foam at its summit,
and extending right across from bank to bank, As the wave
approached nearer and nearer, the ' voice of many waters,' accom-
panied by a strange and sudden blast of cold wind, was truly awe-
inspiring. In an instant the bore swept past us with a mighty
rush and the whirl of a thousand Derby s passing the grand stand.
Two angry precipices of water, the escorts on either side of this
terrible wave, swept with terrific weight and power along the banks,
throwing high up into the air, and well above the pollard trees, a
sheet of water mixed with mud and sticks. We all cheered the
bore as she passed, so grandly were Nature's race-horses running
their course. In a few moments after the bore had passed, the
river, which had been rather low before, was ' full up ' from, bank
to bank, and having previously taken marks, I ascertained that the
sudden rise of the water was between eleven and twelve feet. An
old man told me that this was as good a head as he had seen for
forty years. The tide following the bore rose with great rapidity,
and flooded the fields and roads far and near. It was most inter-
esting to see a barge plunge up like a rearing horse to take the bore,
while some frightened ducks swam out into the river and topped
the wave in a most graceful manner. The bore is thus formed.
A great tidal wave coming in from the Atlantic is narrowed by the
funnel-shaped estuary of the Severn ; it is then pushed forward by
the weight of the ocean behind ; mixed sea and river waters then
assume the form of a wave, which, beginning below Newnham,
increases its height as the banks narrow, and ultimately subsides
above Gloucester. A bore also runs up the Solway and the
Humber, where it is called the 'eagre' or ' hygre.' I understand
from Mr. Miller, the lessee of the salmon fisheries at Chepstow,
that the bore first takes its wave-like shape at the narrowing of the
channel between Beachley, near Chepstow, and a point south to
Aust. At this point there is a ridge, or rather long slope of rocks,
over which there is a six feet fall, of a sloping shape, at spring
tides. There is another great slope in the sands between Gatcombe
and Awre, on the north bank of the river, and here again the bore
heightens itself, and the farther it goes up the river from this point,
the higher it becomes as the channel becomes narrower. On one
occasion only has Mr. Miller seen the bore run up the Wye ; the
wave was then from twelve to eighteen inches high only. Mr. Miller
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informs me that old Mr. Jones, of Chepstow, has told him over and
over again that the highest tide he ever knew in the Wye was from
forty-five to forty-seven feet. He has never known it to rise fifty feet."
Lady Hawkins, widow of Sir John Hawkins, the friend of
Dr. Johnson, had witnessed the bore of the Severn in 1819 ; and
compared with what Mr. Buckland has left on record, her account,
which is as follows, will be read with interest :
" I saw the astonishing sight from a meadow near Gloucester,
which, as being separated from the road by the river, though
imperceptibly to the traveller, is called the ' Isle of Alney ', and
was directed to look to my left hand, which was towards the city.
The river, as far as I could trace it in its windings all around us,
was, to those used to the Thames near London, very inconsiderable
in width. Presently our attention was called on by a prodigious
noise at a distance, and by seeing what appeared like white smoke,
which, coming on towards us with amazing rapidity in the track of
the river, proved to be foam thrown up into the air to a stupendous
height ; and now came on the tide which ploughed the centre of the
river, and was called * The Parting,' dividing it with inconceivable
force, the strong stream in vain attempting to oppose it, and, after
a momentary conflict, as if furious at finding itself overcome and
displaced, throwing itself to an incredible distance upon the meadows
on each side in waves mountains high ; then rolling on, as if
determined to revenge itself by driving us off the ground. All
this was the work of a few seconds ; it was peace and quietness
before us, and the water was running back into its channel ; but
then, to our right hand, the same scene was exhibiting ; we saw
the tide prancing in successive horsenecks as far as our eye could
reach, but with fury abated at every stroke/' EDITOE
DCCXLIX. ROBERT DINWIDDIE, ESQ., GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
(See No. DCCXXIII.) You have done me a most kindly office,
and I feel very grateful for it. You will be gratified to learn that
my inquiries have elicited a response from the widow of General
Dinwiddie, of London, with the promise of a photograph of the
portrait of Governor Dinwiddie, and of copies of documents illus-
trating his early life. These last, with what has been, and I hope
may be additionally gleaned by you, will afford, I doubt not, all
essential data for the biography desired. From a brief letter of
Gov. Dinwiddie, for which I am indebted to my friend, Dr. Benson
J. Lassing,it appears that he was in the colony of Virginia in 1744, as
Surveyor-General of the Royal Customs. He may have accompanied
Gov, Gooch to America, but must have preceded him to England,
as he came thence again, to succeed him in the government. From
familiar allusions in the letters of Dinwiddie it is intimated that he
resided for a time in the province of North Carolina. Of this I
have no confirmation. R A. BROCK
Corresponding Sec., Virginia Historical Society.
Richmond, Va., U.S.A.
324 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
DCCL. TEDDINGTON HANDS. This spot, which gives the
name to a public-house, is the site of a handing-post which points
in five directions, and on which are these particulars : " Wiuchcomb,
6 ; Cheltenham, 7J ; Tewkesbury, 4J ; Overbury, 2f ; Pershore,
9 ; Evesham, 8 J." The post is railed round, and bears this inscription,
on a small brass plate :
" Edmund Attwood of the Vine Tree
At The First time erected me
And freely he did this bestow
Strange travellers the way to shew
Six generations past and gone
Repaired by Charles Attwood of Teddington."
The first four lines are also painted below on the post itself,
with the following :
" Ten generations past & gone
Repaired by Alice Attwood
Of Teddington August 10 th 1876."
It is, I believe, the case that the finger-post was erected by Edmund
Attwood more than ten generations ago ; and that being so, it would
be interesting to ascertain the exact date of its erection. In 1876,
the last of his descendants (Alice Attwood, then more than 80 years
of age) repaired it. She has since died. The Vine Tree farm,
which had been so long in the family, was held by her till her
decease. It was evidently a point of honour with the Attwoods
to keep the post in repair. H C W
DCQLI. THE FOWLERS OP GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
(Continued from No. DGXXX1V.)
In my last contribution I mentioned the assistance it would be if
some one would kindly send abstracts of the wills of Daniel and
Stephen Fowler, of Stonehouse. The reader will now see that I
am able to give an abstract of Stephen Fowler's will, and also to
say definitely that no will of Daniel Fowler was proved at
Gloucester, and that he probably died intestate. For this information
we are indebted to T. W. Cattell, Esq., whose help and liberality
in supplying genealogical material for these notes I must once more
acknowledge. I also take this opportunity of saying how glad I
shall be if any of your readers will kindly send me notes of middle-
class Fowler families in Gloucestershire, especially of those still
remaining, as some of them must certainly be descended from the
Stonehouse Fowlers, and I might be able to supply the missing
links of the connection. I am indebted to Mr. Cattell for the
information that Anna, sister of Stephen Fowler, and wife of
Richard Clutterbuck, had a daughter married to WilliamClutterbuck,
who therefore was not her " step-son," but her son-in-law in the
modern sense of the word. I now give
(19) Will of Stephen Fowler, of Stonehouse, Gent., dated Dec.
13, 1671, and proved at Gloucester March 19, 1671-2. Mentions
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his daughter Smith, his son-in-law Thomas Smyth, his grandson
Thomas Smyth. His grandchildren, Ursula, John, and Elizabeth
Webbe. To the poor of Stonehouse, 40s. His grandson William
Wallas, executor, and to him the residue of all goods, catties, and
chattels, not bequeathed. His son-in-law Thomas Smyth, and his
brothers, Nathaniel and William Fowler, overseers. There were
not any witnesses. It is more than probable that Thomas Wallas
was the minister of Stonehouse of this name, who in 1648 subscribed
to The Gloucestershire Ministers Testimony, mentioned in the first
volume of this work, p. 331.
Stephen Fowler having died without issue male, the Stonehouse
Fowlers became represented in the male line by his brother,
Nathaniel Fowler, second son of Daniel, bap. at Stonehouse March
29, 1597. As the manor and estate of Stonehouse had gone tojiis
elder brother, Nathaniel became a clothier, and is so called in his
will. In 1660 he and John Harmer signed the registers as
churchwardens of Stonehouse. He married 1st, Ann, daughter of
William Warner, of Hartsfield, who was buried at Stonehouse
Sept. 21, 1629, and the inscription on her tomb (No. 20) is still,
I presume, to be seen : he married 2ndly, Dorothy , whose
surname was probably Angel, and who survived him for seven years,
and, as " Dorothy Fowler, widdow," was buried at Stonehouse Feb.
29, 1688. His will (No. 21) is given below. On Jan. 1, 1681,
he was buried at Stonehouse, as " Nathaniel Fowler Gentleman,"
having had issue,
i. William (by first wife), bap. at Stonehouse Feb. 26, 1626,
and probably the William Fowler bur. at Stonehouse, 1703. He
was living in 1674.
ii. Alice, bap. at Stonehouse Oct. 12, 1628, and bur. there
May 3, 1634.
iii. Catherine (first child by second wife), bap. Dec. 18, 1632,
bur. Jan. 16, 1637.
iv. Samuel, bap. Oct. 20, 1635, of whom hereafter.
v. Catherine, bap. Jan. 17, 1638; perhaps the Katherine
Fowler bur. at Stonehouse Jan. 30, 1676.
vi. Mary, bap. Mar. 23, 1640, and living 1674; perhaps tha
Mary Fowler bur. at Stonehouse July 25, 1704.
vii. Sarah, bap. Aug. 4, 1642, living 1674.
viii. Elizabeth, bap. Nov. 2, 1645, living 1674.
ix. John, bap. April 4, 1647, bur. Sept. 19, 1647.
x. Stephen, born possibly about 1637, probably not until 1640 ;
but in neither case can he have been the "M r Steven Fowler,
upwards of four score and three," bur. at Stonehouse in 1717.
Doubtless he was the Stephen Fowler mentioned in the adminis-
tration given below (No. 22), and therefore probably died in 1694.
xi. Nathaniel, called in his father's will " my youngest son,"
doubtless the Nathaniel Fowler bur. at King's Stanley Jan. 15,
1730, but described as of Stonehouse in the inscription given
below (No. 23).
326 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
I think it may be assumed that of Nathaniel's four sons who
lived to manhood, only Samuel left issue, though possibly his
eldest son William may have either brought up a family elsewhere,
or have been the father of Elizabeth, daughter of William and
Elizabeth Fowler, who was bap. at Stonehouse Feb. 18, 1666 ; and
even of Mary, daughter of William and Alis Fowler, who was
bap. at Stonehouse Dec. 17, 1682. It will be noticed that
Nathaniel Fowler in his will mentions no grandchildren.
I now give the following proofs of the pedigree just stated
(20) Inscription on a tomb in Stonehouse Churchyard : " Here
resteth the Body of | Anne, the wife of Nathaniel | Fowler, Clothier,
and one of the | Daughters of William Warner, | of Hartsfield,
Clothier, who deceased the 20 day of Sept r | Anno Dom. 1629. |
In Memory of Thomas Fowler | and of Mary, his Wife. | He
died the 7 th of December, 1670. | She died the 1 st January, 1670."
(21) Will of Nathaniel Fowler, of Stonehouse, Clothier, dated
1674. Mentions his wife Dorothy, his sons (in order of age),
William, Samuel, Stephen, Nathaniel, and daughters (in same order),
Katherine, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth. His brother William Fowler.
His brother-in-law William Angel. Proved 1681. Inventory,
603 2s.
(22) In P.C.C., June 26, 1694, administration of the goods
and effects of Stephen Fowler, late of Stonehouse, was granted to
Edward Stephens, the principal creditor.
(23) Inscription on a tomb in King's Stanley Churchyard :
"In Memory of Samuel Fowler, of Stonehouse, M.A., who died
Aug. 19, 1714, Aged 78 years. Also Hester, his Wife, died April
3 rd , 1714, Aged 79 years. And Stephen, his Son, died' Sept. the
22 nd , 1712, aged 18 Years. Also of Nathaniel Fowler, of
Stonehouse, who died Jan^ the 12, 1730, Aged 87. Also Mary,
the Daughter of Samuel Fowler, died July 15, 1754, Aged 58
Years. Also Nathaniel Fowler, Esq r , son of Samuel Fowler, M.A.,
who departed this Life 11 July, 1782, Aged 82 Years."
7, Waterloo Street, Birmingham. WM. F. CARTER.
(To be continued.)
DCCLJI. JOHN SPRINT, M.A., VICAR OF THORNBURY. Can
anyone give me particulars of the above-named 1 He was author
of a work, entitled Considerations touching the Points of Difference
between the Godly Ministers and People of the Church of England
and the Seduced Brethren of the Separation; and in 1618 he
published Cassander Anglicanus, advising conformity as a less
evil than deprivation. The Church Quarterly Review, April,
1882, says that Henry Ainsworth's Counterpoise was a reply to
Considerations, etc., and that in the latter work Sprint defended
" nonconformity or puritanism " against the Separatists.
H. C. W.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 327
In the first edition of Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual John
Sprint, Senr., and his son of the same name, have been confounded.
The former was " a person famed for an excellent preacher " ; and
of him Wood (Fasti Oxon., ed. Bliss, pt. 1, col. 197) has written:
" In Feb., 1577, he succeeded Giles Lawrence in the archdeaconry
of Wiltshire, who, I suppose, resign'd ; in 1580 he succeeded
George Carew in the deanery of Bristol (in which city, or near it,
he was born, being the son of John Sprint, an apothecary of the
same place), and in the beginning of Feb., 1583, he was made
treasurer of Salisbury. He died in the latter end (in Feb.) of 1589,
and was succeeded in the said deanery by Dr. Anth. Watson, the
same who was afterwards bishop of Chichester." He had been
admitted D.D. July 23, 1574 ; and he was the author of Oratio
gratvlatoria ad illvstrissimos Comiles Warwicensem et Leicestrensem,
Bristollice halrita, April. Anno 1587, Oxon., ex off. Jos. Barnesii,
12mo. There is a copy, perhaps unique, in the Bodleian Library.
His son, John Sprint, was appointed in 1610 to the vicarage of
Thornbury, which was then, as now, in the ' patronage of Christ
Church, Oxford. Wood (Athena} Oxon., vol. ii., col. 331) has
written thus of him : " John Sprint, son of Dr. Job. Sprint,
descended from those of his name living in the city of Bristol, was
born, as I conceive, there, or in Glocestershire near to it, elected
student of Ch. CL. in 1592, took the degrees in arts, and some time
after became vicar of Thornbury in the said county. Thence he
removed to London, was cried up by the citizens for a godly and
frequent preacher, and by them much followed, but was cut off [in
1623] in the prime of his years when great matters were expected
from him. He was a grave and pious divine, yet for the most part
disaffected to the ceremonies of the Church of England while he
continued at Thornbury. At length upon the gentle persuasions of
Mr. Sam. Burton, archdeacon of Gloc., he did not only conform,
but was a great instrument in persuading others to do the same, by
a book that he wrote and published, called Cassander Anglicanus,
which I shall anon mention."
His writings, enumerated by Wood (who, however, makes no
mention of the Considerations, &c., referred to above), are as
follows :
1. Propositions tending to prove the necessary Use of the Christian
Sabbath, or Lord's Day, &c., Lond., 1607, 4to. ; 1635, 12mo.
2. The Practice of that Sacred Day, framed after the Rules of
God's Word printed with the former.
3. The Summe of the Christian Religion, in forme of Question
and Answer, Lond., 1613, 8vo.
4. Cassander Anglicanus, shewing the Necessitie of Conformity
to the prescribed Ceremonies of the Church, &c., Lond., 1618, 4to.
Dedicated to Archdeacon Burton. There appeared anonymously
A brief and plain Answer ; and a Reply was published by
Sprint.
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5. The Christian's Sword and Buckler : or, a Letter sent to a
Man seven years grievously afflicted in Conscience, and fearfully
troubled in Mind, &c., Lond., 1638, 8vo.
" These ", says Wood, " are all the pieces I think that he hath
written, which are published, and therefore I shall only let the
reader know that he was buried within the precincts of the church
of St. Anne, situated in the place called the Blackfriars in London,
(of which he seems to have been the minister or lecturer) on the
seventh of May in sixteen hundred twenty and three. See more
of him in Hist. $ Antiq. Univ. Oxon., lib. i., p. 309 b." Bliss has
added to the foregoing : " Sprint, the son, was a violent Calvinist,
early in life, and was actually imprisoned by the vice-chancellor,
Dr. Howson of Christ Church, for preaching against the very
ceremonies and discipline of the Church of England, which he
afterwards strenuously supported by his writings. For this offence,
upon complaint to Queen Elizabeth, Sprint was ordered to make a
public apology, which he submitted to in the following words I
doe faithfully promise and protest, that I will hereafter in the whole
carriage of my selfe both in speech and behaviour, towards you Mr.
Vice-chancellour and the rest of the governors of the universitie,
demean myself in a more modest, temperate and dutifull sort,
desiring you all to accept of this my submission as proceeding from
him whoe doth now with greef acknowledge his former unadvised
courses." Bliss has likewise printed several lines from verses
prefixed to Thomas Storer's Life and Death of Wolsey, London,
1599, 4to., which were probably some of Sprint's earliest composition.
Stratford, in his Good and Great Men of Gloucestershire (1867),
p. 154, has remarked, that notwithstanding Sprint's very zealous
conformity, two of his sons, John and Samuel, of whom sundry
particulars are given, eventually became nonconformists.
EDITOR.
There are biographical memoranda of John Sprint, D.D., in
Lansd. MSS., Brit. Mus., vol. 982, no. 74, fol. 141. He was
prebendary of the 2nd stall in Winchester Cathedral, 4 Mar. 1572
to 1583; prebendary of Bitton, in Salisbury Cathedral, 10 Feb.
1573, in which year he was accused of a grievous crime at the
visitation of Bp. Edmund Gheast [of Sarum, 1571-77 ; therefore
Sprint was in his jurisdiction] : " objicitur crimen, juratur, negat,
dismissus eodem die;" archdeacon of Wilts, 10 Feb. 157J to
1590; dean of Bristol, 16 Feb. 158 to 1590 ; treasurer of Sarum,
3 Feb. 158J to 1590. He died in Feb. 15|.
The volume by his son, entitled Propositions tendinge to proove
the necessarie observation of the Lordes Daye, or Christian Sabboth,
was entered by Thomas and Jonas Man, 2 Feb. 160|. (Registers
of the Company of Stationers, iii. 338.) On 8 Oct., 1622, they
assigned over the book to John Grismand, " prouided alwaies that
soe often as John Grismand shall print or Cause to bee printed the
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said booke with addicons or otherwise he shall paie vnto the said
Jonah Man or his Assign es two shillings vpon a Reame vpon euerie
Impression according to the number of sheetes as the said booke at
this present conteyneth." Ih, iv. 82. JOHN E BAILEY
Stretford, Manchester.
DCCLIII. "GLOUCESTERSHIRE GLEANINGS." The following
items have appeared under the above heading in Mr. J. H. Fennell's
Antiquarian Chronicle (Nov. 1882), p. 90:
(1) LITTLE COMPTON. After the execution of King Charles the
First, Bishop Juxon retired to his own manor of Little Compton,
Gloucestershire, where, as Whitelock tells us in his Memorials,
" he much delighted in hunting (we suppose hare-hunting), and
kept a pack of good hounds, and had them so well ordered and
hunted, chiefly by his own skill and direction, that they exceeded
all other hounds in England for the pleasure and orderly hunting
of them." He also observes, Dr. Juxon was a person of great
parts, and had as much command of himself as of his hounds ;
and doubtless, like Chaucer's priest in the Canterbury Tales,
11 That Scripture text he blotted with his pen,
That said all hunters were ungodly men."
(2) CURIOUS EXPLOIT AT GLOUCESTER. On Tuesday, JSTov. 19,
1728, a young fellow, by the help of a rope, flew from the
College Tower to the ground in a quarter of a minute ; and
ascended again by the same rope, to the admiration of numerous
beholders. On the following Thursday he flew from Trinity
Tower in the same manner to the ground, blowing a trumpet
which he held in his right hand, and displaying a flag in his left,
as he descended ; and he beat a drum as he ascended again.
(3) EARLY SHAKESPEARIAN PERFORMANCES IN BRISTOL. At the
Theatre at Jacob's Well, Bristol, Friday, May 16, 1749, was
performed the tragedy of Hamlet) Prince of Denmark ; on June
30th, the tragedy of King Richard the Third ; on August 26th,
the comedy of As You Like It, for the benefit of Mrs. Barrington ;
on August 28th, Romeo and Juliet, as altered from Shakespeare,
for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Green.
(4) CIRENCESTER. In March, 1755, some burglars forcibly entered
the vestry room, and breaking open a strong stone chest, carried
off its contents, namely, .130 of the poor's money, ,1 6 of
sacrament money, and several bonds and mortgages belonging to
the town.
(5) A PROLIFIC FAMILY. There lives at this time at Kings wood,
near Hanham, a woman that had four daughters at two births,
one of which was delivered of eight children at four births,
another of six children at two births, and the last being twins,
had each two children at one birth, London Chronicle, Sept. 6,
1770.
330 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
(6) GLOUCESTERSHIRE DOCUMENTS. There were sold at Messrs.
Puttick's Auction Room, May 22, 1851, "The Ancient Court-
Rolls of the Manor of Oldland, of the time of Edward III.
Very curious and interesting manuscripts on vellum. Court-Rolls
of so early a period are very rare, and always contain valuable
antiquarian information." At the sale of Mr. Thomas Turner's
library, June 22, 1860, was sold (Lot 763), "The Minute Book
of the Association for the Defence of the County of Gloucester,
1792, &c., with very numerous signatures of the inhabitants of
the county. 4to." G A W
DCCLIY. BELL-RINGING IN FORMER DAYS. What is said in
No. DXLIV. reminds me of a remark which the late Dr. Davys,
tutor to Queen Victoria, and afterwards Bishop of Peterborough,
used to make, viz., that he could always tell the number of drunkards
in a village by the number of bell-ringers. One of the objects of
the Gloucestershire Society of Ringers is to disassociate the belfry
from the evil reputation which it had in past days.
H. C. W.
DCCLV. DEATH OF AN OLD BRISTOLIAN, DR. THWAITES. A
correspondent writes to us : " It seems but right that some notice
should be taken in the Times and Mirror of an Old Bristolian of
some scientific fame, whose death has lately occurred far away from,
his native place. The following is an extract from last Saturday's
Athenceum : * Letters from Ceylon announce the death, on the llth
ult., of Dr. Thwaites, formerly director of the Botanic Gardens at
Paradenyia. Previous to undertaking the charge of that establish-
ment, Thwaites was known in this country as a singularly expert
microscopist, and an acute observer. His work in this direction
was done at a period when the study of cryptogamic botany in this
country was all but dead, and only pursued by very few observers.
In consequence of this, many facts in the life-history of these
plants detected by him were passed over with scant attention, and
the credit of the discovery has thus in some cases been attributed
to French and German authors. On his appointment to Ceylon,
Dr. Thwaites abandoned to a great extent his researches in
cryptogamic botany, and devoted such leisure as the administrative
duties of his department permitted to the elaboration of the Ceylon
flora, for which his numerous collections, and specially his
enumeration of Ceylon plants, form an admirable preparation.
The success of cinchona culture in Ceylon is largely due to his
energy and discrimination. Dr. Thwaites was in his 72nd year/ "
Our correspondent adds : " The father of the late Dr. Thwaites
kept a shop in -Wine-street, and he himself was, I believe, one of
the boys at the Old Bristol College, Park-row. He was one of the
founders of the Bristol Microscopical Society, of which original
body but few survivors remain, and the papers which he read, and
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the demonstrations which he gave at the monthly meetings, had
always much that was new and interesting in them." Bristol
Times and Mirror, Oct. 21, 1882. EMSTOLIENSB.
DCCLVI. CHURCH PLATE. May I draw attention to an
important work that might be undertaken by archaeologists with
some leisure time 1 It is the making a complete inventory of all
the Church plate in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Few
are aware how much Church plate has lately been, and still is
being, destroyed or sold. Mr. Ussher, a well-known antiquary,
writing in the Guardian lately, stated that he knew of two
Elizabethan chalices for sale in London, besides a large amount of
other Church plate. One dealer told him that he had sold many
English chalices to Americans as mementoes of England ! Several
of your readers will, no doubt, remember seeing two large chalices,
of an early date, belonging to a church in York, that were lately
exposed for sale at a Bristol silversmith's ; and since then there has
been announced for sale in Bristol a Communion plate-chest,
described in the catalogue as unique, with the name " St. Olave's
Chycestere " and a date of the 16th century carved on -it. The
clergymen who sold the plate referred to, on the plea that it was
old or ugly, had of course not the slightest right to do so. It was
neither their property, nor that of their churchwardens ; they were
merely the custodians of it, and had no right to dispose of what
had been given for sacred purposes in days gone by* If an
inventory was made in every diocese, a check would be put upon
men who have proved themselves unworthy guardians of goods
committed to their charge. A list of the Church plate of the
diocese of Carlisle, arranged according to rural deaneries, has been
published ; and the Archaeological Societies of Kent and Derbyshire
are, I believe, about to draw up similar lists. The acknowledged
authority on Church plate, Mr. Cripps, is resident in our county,
and might, perhaps, be induced to place himself at the head of a
committee, with the view of having such a list for the diocese of
Gloucester and Bristol. THOMAS KOACH, M.A.
Clifton, Bristol.
With reference to the above very good suggestion Mr. Cripps has
kindly replied : "The work of cataloguing Old Church Plate, I
am glad to say, is progressing in several counties besides Kent and
Derbyshire. Enquiry into this interesting subject is in hand in
North Wales, Herefordshire, Norfolk, Cornwall, Yorkshire, and
the Isle of Man, conducted in all" cases by very competent persons ;
and I am in hopes of gradually arranging for the whole of the
country. I have already urged the attention of the Bristol and
Gloucestershire Archaeological Society to the matter." This is
satisfactory ; and we may confidently expect a very good result.
The publication referred to by Mr. Roach is entitled Old Church
332 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Plate of the Diocese of Carlisle (Cumberland and Westmoreland
Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Transactions), Thurnam,
Carlisle, 1882. EDITOR.
DCCLYII. REMARKABLE RESCUE FROM A COAL-PIT, 1735.
(See No. XLVII.) What follows is a copy of an old broadside
("London: Printed for Thomas Hemmings, 1762"), which has
been lent for insertion by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, M.A., Rector
of Clyst St. George, Devon. JoHN TAYLOR.
Museum and Library, Bristol.
A full and True Account of the wonderful Deliverance of three
Men and a Boy, who were ten Days and nineteen Hours in a
dark Cavern of the Earth, thirty-nine Fathom deep ; with the
Prayer they used, Manner of their Deliverance and Preservation
out of the PIT.
AMong the many various Accounts of Accidents happening to
Mankind, nothing has occur'd more particular for many
Years than the following Account from Bristol, of three Men and
a Boy, who were ten Days and nineteen Hours in a Cave of the
Earth, thirty-nine Fathom deep, and in great danger of being
drowned, or falling from the Height of the Mine, the very Coal
work being sixteen Fathom deep. The Persons whom we relate
this of, were Joseph Smith, aged upward of sixty-nine Years ;
Edward Peacock and Abraham his Son of Beeton \Bitton\, and
Thomas Hemmings of Mangotsfield, the only Person that is now
living, who lost his Sight by the Damp of the Earth.
On Friday the 6th Instant, as we were wedging our Coal in the old
Coal Mine, near two Mile Hill, in Kingswood, rented by Lease of
Thomas Chester, Esq. by Joseph Jefferies, Edward Wilmot, and
Thomas Nash, on a sudden a prodigious Torrent of Water burst
out of the Veins, and all of them were very nigh immediate Death, not
knowing where to escape for Want of their Lights, which were
extinguished by the Water, such were their Consternation, that go
which way they would, Danger was near them, of drowning or
breaking; their Necks. In this Distress they crawled sometimes on
their Hands and Knees from Place to Place, to avoid the Water,
and getting on a rising Ground, they continued there for some Time,
when proceeding further, they at length came to what is called the
Hatching, that is a Slant, from whence Coal had been dug, on
which the Boy had secured himself, who made such lamentable
Moan, that the three Men hearing, came together, by calling to one
another.
In the Way to the Hatching, Edward Peacock found a small Bit
of Beef, and a Crust of Bread, which they thought might weigh
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about four Ounces, which they equally divided. The Boy's
Situation being more secure they continued there to the Time of
their Relief, and made the Boy fetch Water in his Hat, which was
but little by the time he return'd. The Water sinking out of their
Reach, they were oblig'd to drink their own - , and chew
some Chigs, which Joseph Smith cut from a Coal Basket that he
had accidentally found ; the Basket being done, cou'd find no more,
and being all ready to perish, Joseph Smith chew'd a piece of his
Shoe, but that not answering his End, he took a Resolution to get
at the Water, and tumbled twice into it, and would have been
drown'd had not Edward Peacock sav'd him each Time ; so that
with the Heat of the Place they were in, and the Nauseousness of
their Bodies, and the Want of Water and Meat, for so long a Time,
it can be looked upon as nothing else but a surprizing Miracle that
they were left alive.
On Monday the 17th Instant, when they were taken out of the
Cell, the old Man, Joseph Smith, began to yield to Nature, and
grew delirious, and indeed the rest gave over all Hopes of Recovery,
and begun to decline through Weakness.
At the first bursting of the Vein, there were four other Boys in
the Mine, but being near the Top of the Work, and hearing the
Noise of the Water, they made the best Way to the Rope, and
cry'd to the People on the Surface to pull them up. Which was
not so speedy, but the Water was up to the last Boy's Heels, who,
as the Spectators were pulling up, took hold . of one of his
Companion's two Feet, and thus got up.
This Affair being noised about the neighbouring Villages, great
Numbers of People resorted .daily to the PIT, and divers Colliers
ventur'd down, at different Times, to relieve their unfortunate
Brethren, but perceiving a black Damp in the Work, which is
reckoned the most dangerous, as admitting of no lighted Candles,
they were obliged to return, 'till Providence order'd others to a
more successful Attempt, viz, Sampson Philips, Thomas Summers,
Moses Reynolds, and Thomas Smith, the Son of old Joseph Smith,
who by carrying down a Quantity of burning Coals, so draw'd the
Damp, that they got to their distressed Brethren, except John
Batson, who was missing from the Beginning, and supposed to be
drowned.
When they were first taken up into the Air, their sight entirely
failed them for some time, and they were all very weak ; but
after receiving some comfortable Refreshment, they all walked to their
respective Habitations, to the great Surprize of all the Spectators.
You have here the Account now given, which was taken from
Joseph Smith's Son, who was one of the Persons that went down,
the last time to their Relief, and heard it from their own Mouths
that they were three Days in a Trance ; and that a bright shining
Person appeared to them, assuring them that they should not
perish in that deplorable Place, but should return and declare this
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334 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
to the World, and give a timely Warning to others, to refrain
from the evil practice of Cursing and Swearing by the Name of
GOD, and by his precious Blood and Wounds, which shocks the
Heart of every good Christian that hears them. Moreover, dear
Brethren, remember how we get our Money like Horses and spend it
like Asses, at the same time our Wives and Children want their
Sustenance, which is proved to be a great Offence to GOD, and
Abuse to our Families, and at last a troubled Conscience to all that
practise it : I do exhort you in the Name of GOD to write these
lines in your Hearts, and to keep them in your Minds, and hope
that GOD will be as kind to you as he hath been to us, and set
you free from sudden Death, and all such Calamities ; and grant
that all others may take Warning by us, Joseph Smith, Edward
Peacock, and Abraham his Son, all of the Parish of Beeton \Bittdn\ 9
and Thomas Hemmings of Mangotsfield, the only Person now
living, who lost his Sight by the Damp of the Earth.
The PRAYEK they used in the PIT.
O Sweet JESUS, thou blessed Son of God! who hast suffered
thy precious Blood to be spilt for the Redemption of us poor
Mortals, look down on us in this dark Pit, and let thy ever seeing
Eye discern our Calamities. Altho^ 'our Oaths have been provoking,
yet thy Mercy is great. Let these our Sufferings be a Warning to
our Souls, that we may escape the Gates of Hell, and hereafter be
endued witli Sight for ever more. Amen.
DCCLVIII. THE FAMILIES OF FIELD AND DELAFELD. In
Notes and Queries (3 rd S. i. 427) this inquiry was made : Can
anyone give me information tending to prove that the family of
Field, anciently written Feld, are descended from the De la Felds 1
I may mention that the arms of the De la Felds of Audley, Co.
Hereford, are sable, three garbs argent, being the same as those of
the Fields except that the latter bear a chevron. Also, that in the
adjoining counties of Hereford and Gloucester, and in Hertfordshire,
where the Felds and Fields were mostly found in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, at an earlier date the De la Felds were numerous.
To name one case : I find that Thomas de la Felde was portionary of
Bromyard, Co. Hereford, A.D. 1311 ; and that in 1565, Eoger Field
was patron of Avenbury Church, which stands on the right side of
Bromyard Brook. Lastly, in Rudder's History of Gloucestershire it is
stated that the estates of Thomas Field of Parkenhall in that county,
who died in 1510, passed to John de la Field Phelps, Esq., of Dursley.
I have never met with the name Feld earlier than 1400, except
with the prefixes.
The following reply from the late Rev. Samuel Lysons was
inserted in the same volume, p. 477: There appear to have been
two families in England of the names of Atte Feld and De la
Feld or Felde. In the Rotuli Hundredorum, the names of both
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appear in the same page, 781, temp. Edward I. : " Linot atte Feld
Ric d ate Feld. Willus de la Feld Eog rus de la Felde."
Whether one- or both of these dropped the article, and assumed
simply the name of Feld or Field, it may be difficult to say, but
in the Inquisitiones post mortem we find, " Rich d Felde Parson of
S fc Michael's Cornhill, 1392; Joh'es Feld, 17 Edw. IV., 1478."
The families of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, adjoining
counties, were probably identical. Wm. de la Felde was summoned,
according to the Parliamentary writs, from Hereford, for military
service against the Scots, 1301. Eobert de la Felde was certified
one of the Lords of Hardwicke in Gloucestershire, 1316, which
estate continued in the family of Field for many generations, and
is still called Field Court, now [1862] the property of John
Curtis Hayward, Esq. The estate called Field Place at Paganhill,
otherwise Pakenhill, in the parish of Stroud (not Parkenhall),
according to Sir Robert Atkyns, had been for many generations in
the family of Field. Thomas Field ot). 1510, and was buried at
Stroud Church, where his monumental effigy existed in Atkyns's
time. It has since disappeared. Fosbrooke, Hist. Gloucestershire,
says : " The Fields were a family of repute long seated here.
Feld of Pagenhull, or of Strode, had issue, Thomas of
Paganhill, &c." This estate became the property of Phelps of
Dursley, descended from the nephew of the last Thomas Field, Esq.
My late friend John de la Field Phelps received his name from his
connection with the former possessors of the property. The arms
of the Fields of Paganhill, parish of Stroud, were, Or, a fesse
sable between an eagle displayed sable, and a stag's head sable.
Robert de la Felde died seised at the Held, in the parish of
Hardwicke, near Queddesley, of a capital messuage, 132 acres, &c.,
leaving Robert, son and heir. (Esc. 9 Ed. II., No. 16.) The
families of Hardwicke and Stroud were probably identical ; while
the Atte Feldes seem to have been of Surrey, Norfolk, Sussex, and
Wilts. Q t x. D.
Painswick.
DCCLIX. THE WICKHAM FAMILY. I shall be glad to have
some particulars of the history and position of the Wickham
family of Pucklechurch, Chipping Sodbury, and Old and New
Sodbury, at which places they appear to have lived from a very
early period. There is (or was) an inscription on a brass in the
church of Pucklechurch to the memory of John Wickham, Gent.,
who died 13 March, 1669, aged 48; and other inscriptions in
these parishes have been given by Bigland. A branch of the
family migrated into Somerset about 1660, and settled at Compton-
Bishop, where they occupied a good position, and are still repre-
sented. They bore for arms Argent, a chevron, sable, between
three roses. Should any reader possess a pedigree of these
Wickhams up to the period of their migration into Somerset,
336 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
perhaps he will communicate with me. I may say that my query
does not concern the Horsington and Frome branch of the family,
with whose pedigree I am sufficiently acquainted.
Blaisdon House, EDWARD F. WADE.
Compton-Bishop.
DCCLX. JOHN HANNIBAL SHEPPARD, A.M. By this day's
post I have sent you a "Sketch of the Life" of my friend,
Mr. Sheppard, which was drawn up by me, and printed soon after
his death in 1873. He was the author of the Life of Commodore
Tucker, the Defence of Masonry, and other publications, and was a
member of the New-England Historical Genealogical Society ; and
as it will be desirable at some future period to write his memoir
for our series of " Memorial Biographies," we wish to know what
we can of his ancestry in England.
John Hannibal Sheppard, A.M., lawyer and author, who died in
Boston, Mass., U.S.A., June 25, 1873, aged 84 years, was the son
of John Sheppard, of Cirencester, England, who emigrated to the
United States in 1791, and settled in Hallowell, Maine. The
father had a brother Thomas, who was living in Bath, England, in
1803. They were sons or grandsons of "John Sheppard, of
Colesbourne, Gloucestershire, who, May 4, 1740, owned the manor
of Colesbourne Llanthony, and married Rachel Powell, of Maudith
Park, Somerford, Wilts. He was the only son and heir of Philip
and Sarah Sheppard of the same parish. The estate of Colesbourne
was purchased in the 17th century by Samuel Sheppard, grand-
father of Philip (who, Mar. 16, 1696-7, styled himself junior), of
Thomas Higgs and Mary, his wife, and Sir Edward Brett."
I shall be glad to learn further particulars of this old Gloucester-
shire family. J OHN WARD j) EAN>
Society's House, 18, Somerset Street,
Boston, U.S.A.
DCCLXI. HOUR-GLASSES IN CHURCHES. (See No. XVII.)
Can anyone furnish a list of the Gloucestershire churches in which
the hour-glass bracket is still to be seen? There was one at
Bledington not very long since. jj Q ^y.
DCCLXIL A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST HYDROPHOBIA. The
following curious advertisement appeared in the Gloucester Journal,
August 26, 1793 :
" Dipping in the Salt Water.
" That infallible remedy for the bite of a mad dog performed by
Sarah King, of the Bell Inn, Frampton-on-Severn, (only half
a mile distant from the place of dipping,) with care, safety,
and skill.
" S. King begs leave to observe to the Public that she employs a
person to perform the operation, who has been bred to the practice
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 337
from his youth ; that her house is situated nearer the water by
miles than that of any other person who practices dipping ; and
that if the person bit arrives at her house two days before the full
and change of the moon and four days after, they may place the
most implicit confidence in a cure.
" Neat Wines, Spirituous liquors, and best provisions, by the
Public's most obedient Servant,
" S. KING.
" N.B. Frampton Green is situated on the Bristol road about 8
miles from Gloucester, turning off the road leading to Newnham
and Framilode Passages." j jj COOKE
Berkeley.
DCCLXIII. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BARONETCIES. Having given
in No. DCLXXII. a list of extinct or dormant Gloucestershire
baronetcies, it may be well to enumerate also those which are extant,
with the date of creation in each case, as follows :
1. Bazley, of Eyford Park, 1869.
2. Codrington, of Dodington, 1721.
3. Codrington, of Dodington, 1876.
4. Crawley-Boevey, of Highfield, 1784.
5. Davis, of Hollywood, 1845.
6. Elton, of Bristol, 1717.
7. Guise, of Elmore, 1783.
8. Hicks-Beach, of Beverston, 1619.
9. Jenkinson, of Hawkesbury, 1661.
10. Key, of Thornbury, 1831.
11. Marling, of Stanley Park, 1882.
12. Paul, of Rodborough, 1821.
13. Eicketts, of The Elms, 1827.
14. Rushout, of Sezincote, 1809.
15. Russell, of Charlton Park, 1832.
16. Van Notten-Pole, of Todenham House, 1791.
17. Wood, of Hatherley House, 1837. GENEALOGIST.
DCCLXIV. Two LETTERS FROM HANNAH MORE TO GEORGE
MILLER, D.D. The originals of the following letters are in the
possession of the Editor ; and as they are from the pen of a highly-
esteemed Gloucestershire worthy, they may fitly find a place in these
pages. Dr. Miller, " distinguished for his many services in theology
and literature," was for several years an active Fellow of Trinity
College, Dublin ; he resigned his fellowship for the rectory of
Derryvullen, in the diocese of Clogher, in 1804, and having
subsequently become Vicar-General of Armagh, died there in his
eighty-fourth year, October 6, 1848. The first and second volumes
of the first edition of his Philosophy of Modern History were
published in Dublin, in 1816, and the remaining six, in pairs, at
intervals of two or three years. A second edition appeared in
338 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
4 vols., 8vo., London: Duncan, 1832; and a third, likewise in
4 vols., much improved, and containing a memoir of the author,
London : Bohn, 1848-9. A list of Dr. Miller's writings has been
given in Notes and Queries, 4 th S. iii. 187. EDITOR.
LETTER I.
Barley wood, 5th August, 181G.
Eev. and Dear Sir,
I am not quite so unworthy of the honour you have done me,
and the pleasure you have given me, by presenting me w r ith your
valuable work, as I appear to be. My family in the last few
weeks has been visited by sickness and death, which I know you
will accept as a substantial apology.
I will confess that it is my custom when I receive the favour of
a book from its author, if I suspect that the performance be
mediocre, instead of looking into it, to hasten my acknowledgments
by the first post, and thus bring neither my veracity nor civility
into question. But I was brought into no such difficulty when I
was favoured with a work by Dr. Miller. From what I knew of
the character of the author, and what I had heard of the
Philosophy of Modern History from our accomplished friend,
Mr. [Alexander] Knox, I was prepared for such a performance as I
have found it to be, and therefore deferred the expression of my
gratitude till now, Avhen I can with truth add that of my
admiration.
It is indeed a great, I may say a magnificent, undertaking ; and
I may add that the execution appears to me to be equal with the
design. I have long wished to see a work of this nature, but could
not expect to see one conceived upon so grand a scale. There is no
doctrine which more requires (especially at this period) to be pressed
upon the minds of men than that of an omnipotent Providence,
who holds in His hand the whole chain of human events, without
trenching on human liberty ; and you have intimated that the
combinations you exhibit are neither fortuitous nor brought about
by any concert of human events, but by the great Superintendent
of all events. This you have developed in your opening lecture,
which is the master-key to your plan. My friend and neighbour,
Mr. Addington, is as much pleased as myself with this general
scheme. I pray that it may please God to grant you life and
health to complete so great and complicated a work. The winding
up of such a plan will demand the whole force of even your
abilities. I doubt not every part will be brought to bear upon
your one great object ; yet your conclusion will, I presume, draw
all the lines to meet in the central point, and exhibit a sort of map
of Providence. I trust, though I shall probably not live to see it,
that your "elevation" will correspond with and complete your
" basement-story."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES .AND QUERIES. 339
Your design is new. Of the many, who have written upon
modern history, I know of none who have taken your view of it.
History has been generally taken up as a chain without combination
or moral result. I hope your work will cause history to be read,
especially by young men, with a more expanded view. The mass of
reading which it displays shows that it must have been a business of
prodigious labour and research.
I am fully aware, Sir, that so feeble a testimony as mine can add
nothing to the credit of your volumes ; but I could not withhold
this expression of my esteem and respect. I have the honour to
remain, Dear Sir, your very obliged and faithful servant,
H. MORE.
P.S. Not knowing your exact address I have ventured to
commit this letter to the care of the Provost [of Trinity College,
Dublin, Thomas Elrington, D.D.], to which I was advised by the
Dean of Eaphoe [Richard Allott, D.D.], who lately favoured me
with a visit. ELEINGTON.
LETTER II.
Barley wood, 2nd Feb., 1820.
My Dear Sir,
I should have thanked you for your very obliging communica-
tion sooner, but a variety of painful causes have made me appear a
very remiss correspondent.
It was with pleasure, and I trust with advantage, that I perused
your two volumes on the Philosophy of History, which you had
the goodness to send me. And, as it is your great object to refer
all events of the world to Him who made it, to Him by whom
empires and nations rise and fall, I anticipate much gratification in
the continuation of the work, which the preface you have favoured
me with announces.
To reconcile the idea of a superintending Providence carrying on
a uniform plan of amelioration of our "species, without trenching
on human responsibility, is an important and useful work ; and to
illustrate this by actual events is a very satisfactory mode of
illustration. But, though satisfactory in the result, the undertaking
has its difficulties, and will be exposed to objections, as you have to
exhibit moral agents systematically executing a divine plan, of
which they are generally unconscious ; yet, as you propose to
elucidate a uniform system, " by combinations of agency subordinate
to this end, far exceeding in number and complication the utmost
imaginable possibility of chance," I see no solid grounds of objection
to your plan. Besides, according to my views of it, there is
nothing that militates against the general doctrine of divine
revelation, but, on the contrary, accords with it. I should therefore
have felt satisfied on this head, even if you had not so fully vindi-
340 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
cated your system as you have done in your new preface. This I
have read with great pleasure, as it recognizes the perfections of
God and the imperfections of man, and shows how all may work
for good, without confounding the distinction between right and
wrong in human actions.
It is indeed a most consoling reflection that "we are not
abandoned to the consequences of the errors and vices of our species,
but are subjected to a consistent plan of government devised by
divine wisdom ; " and it appears to me that you fairly justify your
plan of elucidating this, from the events of modern history. I am
but a superficial reader, and am not acquainted with any arguments
of importance against your system ; but, as demonstration is your
object, I look to the result with confidence, and trust that the
" Philosophy of History," like the " Philosophy of Nature," will
"apply to the consolation of men's minds, to their devotions, to
the excitement of gratitude, the support of patience, the keeping
alive and strengthening every motive for endeavouring to please
God."
You did me too much honour, Dear Sir, in submitting this great
subject to so weak a reasoner and so inadequate a judge ; but I
gratefully accept it as a flattering proof of the regard of so able a
writer and so respected a character. Cordially wishing you happi-
ness in your domestic relations, and prosperity in your public
services, I remain, with great esteem, my Dear Sir, your obliged
and faithful, H MoRK
The Eev. Dr. Miller, Armagh.
DCCLXV. STRANGE EPITAPH ON MARTHA COLLINS. This oft-
quoted epitaph has been correctly given in No. CYIL, vol. i., p. 85.
But a strange mistake is very commonly made regarding it ; and as
in the case of some other mistakes, though flatly contradicted, this
one is sure to reappear from time to time. In the hope (vain, as it
would seem) of consigning it to rest, a communication was inserted
in Notes and Queries (6 th S. ii. 134), August 14, 1880, as follows :
" The following epitaph, ' engraved on brass let into a large
flagstone in King Stanley churchyard, Gloucestershire,' and ' copied
15th July, 1846,' appeared in ' N. & Q.' in 1852 :
"'Ann Collins, died 11 Sept., 1804, setatis 49.
'Twas as she tript from cask to cask,
In at a bunghole quickly fell ;
Suffocation was her task,
She had no time to say farewell.'
Here is a strange mistake; and though twenty-eight years have
elapsed since its first appearance in p'rint, I wish, with your leave,
to correct it. A woman of forty-nine years of age to fall through
a bunghole, having * tript from cask to cask ' ! Who could give
credence to such a statement I The truth is, as I can testify from
a recent inspection of the gravestone, that Ann Collins's daughter
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 341
Martha, who died August 1, 1880, aged nine years, was the
unfortunate one who (worderful as it unquestionably was) fell in at
the bunghole, and 'had no time to say farewel.' Accuracy in
copying inscriptions is most essential. ABHBA."
Notwithstanding the above correction the mistake in question
still holds its ground. Writers are too apt to quote what others have
written, and to adopt their statements "second-hand," without
taking the trouble of examining for themselves ; and thus in an
article on "Churchyard Poetry" by Mr. F. Bayford Harrison, in
Macmillan's Magazine, Feb., 1883, p. 301, we find these words with
reference to Ann Collins : " A puzzling epitaph puzzling because
either the lady was very thin, or the bunghole unusually large is
the following from Stonehouse Churchyard, Gloucestershire." There
is likewise a mistake, as may be observed, respecting the churchyard.
May we hear no more of Ann Collins' performance ! G A W
DCCLXVL FROCESTER CHAPEL. (Reply to No. DCCXXII.)
In the current number of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries I see a
most interesting communication about my old parish (Frocester) and
its chapel. At the time referred to, I was vicar of the parish, but
probably was not at home. It may not have come to Mr. Phillimore's
knowledge how much, and how ineffectively, I had tried to restore
that dear old chapel. No one could have felt more deeply than 1
did what a blot on the fair village was the painful desecration of
God's house as seen in its ruins. I had gone so far in the matter,
that my next step would have involved me in a lawsuit with the
lord of the manor, who, I understand, claims the ground on which
the chapel stands, and hence, I assume, the chapel itself, evidence
of its consecration not forthcoming. That the villagers themselves
are not uninterested in its well-being is plainly shown by the fact
of my having a memorial in my possession, signed by all the house-
holders, with two or three notable exceptions, and praying me to
restore the building, so that it might again be used for divine worship.
But the whole matter has fallen into abeyance, though the feeling
about it is as strong as ever. r a MONTAGU POWELL, M.A. 'i
Grantham.
DCCLXYIL THE TROTMAN FAMILY. (See Nos. DCLXI. and
DCCXVI.) That family traditions and legendar} r lore are closely
allied, cannot be gainsaid. Yet, on the other hand, many well-
known historical incidents proclaim, and many ancient relics and
monuments record the fact, that the trusty hospitable hyrdsman,
surnamed " Trautman " (an old Saxon word signifying well-beloved
trusted man), became Bishop of Winchester. The family of this
venerable prelate have, through by-gone ages, borne the patronymic,
till modernised, or rather corrupted, into Tratman and Trotman. It
is due to Mr. Phillimore to tender him our testimony and gratitude
342 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
for his untiring and laborious research, resulting in the pages
submitted by him to the attentive perusal and unbiassed judgment
of careful readers. j "p.
I send you some corrections of, and additions to, what Mr.
Phillimore has written, with reference to the Siston branch :
P. 208, 1. 32. Samuel Trotman's second wife was niece, not
" granddaughter," of Mr. Speaker Lenthall. This Samuel, who was
the first of Siston, died in 1684 ; his son Samuel, M.P. for Bath, died
in 1719, and was succeeded by his nephew Samuel, son of Lenthall
Trotman, and M.P. for Woodstock, who died in 1748.
P. 208, 1. 44. Thomas Trotman died in 1751, not "in 1774."
P. 208, 1. 48. Edward Trotman died in 1743, not "in 1774."
For " Shelowell" (here and p. 209, 1. 4) read Shelswell.
P. 209, 1. 5. Fiennes Trotman, who died in 1782, (son of
Edward Trotman, of Shelswell, by Mary, daughter of Thomas
Eilmer, Esq., by Susannah, sister and co-heiress of Lawrence, fifth
Viscount Saye and Sele), was not succeeded "by his brother Samuel,"
who had died in 1773, but by his nephew Eiennes, M.P. for
Northampton. It is said that' on the death of his kinsman Richard,
sixth Viscount Saye and Sele, without issue, in 1781, Mr. Pitt
offered to revive the viscountcy, which had then expired, in
Mr. Trotman's favour, as grand-nephew and heir of Lawrence, fifth
Viscount. Eiennes Trotman also inherited from Richard, sixth
and last Viscount, a large part of the estate of and around Broughton
Castle, together with the advowson of the rectory. In 1781 there
existed two peerages of Saye and Sele, the viscountcy and the
barony, the latter having been just then called out of abeyance.-
The peers were cousins, being respectively the heir male and the heir
general of the original baron.
P. 209, 1. 12. For " Churchill" read Bucknell (not "Bucknall",
as before).
P. 209, 1. 18. On Mr. Trotman's death in 1835, the Siston
estate did not pass to the heir male, Fiennes Samuel Trotman, of
Dallington, but (the entail, which had existed for some generations,
having been cut off shortly before his death) to the testator's elder
daughter. Fiennes Trotman, M.P. for Northampton, who succeeded
to Siston and Bucknell in 1782, had an elder brother Samuel, who,
in consequence of his extravagance, was disinherited by his uncle,
and the estates were settled on the younger. This Samuel is said
to have lost at play the reversion to another estate belonging to his
uncle, namely Shelswell; and this was the cause of his disinheritance.
He died in poverty about 1804. The present representative of the
Trotmans of Siston is the Rev. Edward Fiennes Trotman, B.C.L.,
Vicar of Marshfield, Gloucestershire, and late Fellow of New
College, Oxford, as eldest son of Samuel Fiennes, only son of
Edward, brother of Fiennes, who succeeded his uncle Fiennes in
1782.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 343
P. 210. To the Oxford graduates may be added :
Edward Fiennes Trotman, New, B.C.L., 1853.
Walter Samuel Trotman, Exeter, B.A., 1855.
William C. Trotman, New, B.A., 1857.
Arthur Lawrence Trotman, St. M. H., B.A., 1869 ; M.A., 1874.
With reference to the early connection in Gloucestershire of the
Trotman and Tyndale families, which has been mentioned by
Mr. Phillimore, p. 202, it may be noted that the connection has
been renewed in the present century, and that the Rev. Edward
Fiennes Trotman, of Marshfield, consequently stands in the relation
of second cousin to William Earle Tyndale, Esq.,D.L.,of Holton Park,
Oxfordshire, who has recently assumed the name of Biscoe.
Wheatley Yicarage, Oxford. EDWARD ELTON, M.A.
The descent of the Trotmans is thus given by Smyth in his MS.
" Description of the Hundred of Berkeley," preserved amongst the
muniments in Berkeley Castle, under the head of Came, pp. 131-
41 :
Richard Trotman, tempore E. II. , was father of John, who had
two sons, (1) Walter, s.p. ; and (2) Robert, who was heir to his
brother. Robert ob. 5 H.Y., 1417, and left Elias, his son and heir.
Elias was father of John, who was father of Henry Trotman.
This Henry (who purchased lands in Cam of Henry Mabson) ob.
18 H. VIII., 1526. His son, Thomas Trotman, in 1 and 2 Philip
and Mary, purchased Nasse Court in Came of John Berkeley, of
Beverstone. He was father of (1) John, the elder; (2) Richard;
and (3) John, junior, who was of Upthrop in Cam, and ob. s.p.
John Trotman, the elder, of Nasse Court, alias The Knapp, was
father of Nicholas, and both father and son died within 20 hours
of each other in 19 Eliz., 1577. John, son and heir of Nicholas,
succeeded his grandfather in Nasse Court, and was living in 1639
[when Smyth wrote]. He also succeeded his great uncle John
Trotman, junior, in Upthrop, which estate he conveyed by deed, in
14 Jac. , 1616, to his son Henry.
Richard, 2d son of Thomas Trotman abovementioned, had from
his father Wood End, or Longford House, in Cam. He ob. 35
Eliz., 1592. By Katherine Tyndale, his wife, he was father of
Edward Trotman, senior, late of Estwood, who was father of
Edward Trotman of the Inner Temple, who was living in 1639 :
so far Smyth.
Regarding the identity of John Tratman, whose will, in 1592, is
cited in No. DCLXL, p. 203 : a mistake has been made in that
article in assuming that he was the John Tratman, the elder, who
was the ancestor of the Nash Court and Steps branches. On the
contrary, he was the third and youngest son of Thomas Trotman,
of Cam, in whose will in 1558 of which an abstract is given
below he is styled John Trotman, junior, to distinguish him from
the other John, the eldest of the three sons. By that will, his
344 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
father devised to him a leasehold tenement and lands thereto belonging
in Over Cam, and likewise his freehold lands and tenements in
Upthrop in Cam, with remainder to Catherine, his said son's wife,
and their heirs.
Smyth informs us that this John, junior, married Katherine,
daughter of William Trotman, of Wotton ; that he died s.p. ; and
that John Trotman, grandson of his elder brother, John, the elder,
of Nasse Court, was his great nephew and heir (" Description," &c.,
p. 141).
It was in consequence of the death of his elder brother, John
Trotman, the elder, of Nasse Court, in 1577, and his leaving a
grandson and heir, named John, that this John, the younger, of
Upthrop, became " John Tratman, the elder, of Cam," as styled in
his will in 1592, to distinguish himself from his great nephew at
]N"asse Court.
Smyth states that Edward Trotman, junior, (2d son of Nicholas
Trotman, of Nasse Court, who died in 1577) purchased the Steppes
in fee-farm of Henry, Lord Berkeley, on 1 July, 9 Jac., 1611
("Description," p. 139).
Inquisition on his death was taken by the King's Escheator for
the county, at Berkeley, on 26 July, 14 Car., 1638. The following
is an abstract of the finding of the jury : " Quod praedictus
Edwardus Trotman seisitua fuit de terris perquisites 20 die Junii
anno 12 Jacobi (1614) de Johanne Trotman, ejus frater, et de terris
perquisite 8 die Octobris anno 6 Jacobi (1608) de quodam Ricardo
Trotman. Et quod pryedictus Edwardus obiit apud Cam 9 die
Maii ultimo pneterito (1638). Et quod Margareta uxor ejus et
Nicholaus filius eorum eum supervixerunt. Et quod Ricardus
Trotman est consanguineus et hseres ejus proximus, vizt. filius et
hseres Willelmi Trotman defunctus qui fuit filius et litres pradicti
Edwardi. Et quod prsedictus Ricardus Trotman est setatis 27
annorum et amplius." (Esc. 14 Car. 129 Glouc r .) These particulars,
as to his wives, issue, and heir, are noted by Smyth, p. 139, who
finished his "Description" in the following year, 1639.
He was styled Edward Trotman, junior, to distinguish him from
Edward Trotman, the elder, of Longford House, Cam, his
first cousin once removed, who died 6 June, 1633.
The following abstracts of wills are taken from the original
Registers :
Thomas Trotman, of Cam, clothier. Will dated 8 September,
1558, proved at Gloucester, in the Bishop's Consistorial Court, 18
December, 1558. To Agnes (or Annes), my wife. John, my son
and heir : to his sons, Nicholas, Thomas, William, and Richard,
5 marks each on their attaining the age of 18 years. Richard, my
second son : to his children 5 marks each on their attaining 18
years of age. To John Trotman, the younger, my third son, all my
right of lease in a lease of a tenement with lands thereto belonging
in Over Came. My three sons, John Trotman, senior, Richard, and
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 345
John Trotman, junior, to be my executors and residuary legatees.
I give all my lands of inheritance in Came, which my father,
Henry Trotman, purchased of Henry Mabson, of Kington-in-
Thornbury, to John, my eldest son. I give all my lands, tenements,
&c., in Wheatenhurst and Longford House in Came to Agnes, my
wife, for life, remainder to my second son, Richard, and his heirs
for ever. To my said son Eichard and his heirs all my lands,
tenements, &c., in Bushley, Co. Worcester, which I purchased of
Thomas Cole, late of Dursley, and of Johane, his wife ; also to my
said son Richard, and his heirs, a close of four acres, called
Wickworthy, in Wicke, and Mattesford meadow, all in the .parish
of Berkeley, which I purchased of Thomas Fraunsome and Thomas
Warrante. I give and bequeath to my third son, John Trotman,
junior, my lands, tenements, &c., in IJpthrop in Came, purchased
by me of Sir John Butler and Hugh Partridge, Esq., with
remainder to my said son's wife, Catherine, and to their heirs. I
also give to the said John Trotman, junior, all lands and tenements
which I purchased of Florence Barston, lying in Nether-Came, and
part of which is parcel of the demesne of Nasse Court in Came
which I purchased of John Berkeley, of Beverstone, Esq. [Nasse
Court was settled on his eldest son, John Trotman, the elder.]
Witnesses John Paslow, John Trotman, Richard Trotman, John
Trotman, the younger, Thomas Tyndale, Edward Trotman, Richard
Houghton, Nicholas Trotman, Hugh Baker, Richard Pinner.
(Gloucester Registers, vol. ix.)
Agnes Trotman, of Came, late wife of Thomas Trotman, of
Came. Will dated 22 September, 1558, proved in the Consistorial
Court of the Bishop of Gloucester 10 December, 1558. To Henry
Mayle and John Curnocke, my servants. To my little boy, Thomas
Woodward. To my son John Trotman, the elder, his children 5
marks each. To my son Richard his children 5 marks each. To
Katherine, wife of John Trotman, the younger, (her son) 5
marks. The residue of my effects I give to my sons, John
Trotman, the elder, Richard Trotman, and John Trotman, the
younger, whom I appoint to be my executors. Witnesses John
Paslowe, Phillipps Poole, and Nicholas Trotman, with others.
(Gloucester Registers, vol. ix.)
Richard Tratman, the elder, of Cam. Will dated 8 October, 1592,
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 27 April, 1593.
Edward, my son and heir. Edith, my daughter, now wife of
Thomas Warne. Griffith, my son. Lodowick, my son, and his
wife, Mary. One Griffith Tratman, married to Catherine, has issue,
Ursula, Richard, and Sarah. Edward, my son and heir, has a
daughter Catherine. Overseers of my will George Conard,
Thomas Warne, John Tratman, and William Higgins and Thomas
Morse, my sons in law and friends. (Reg. Neville, 28.)
The will of his son, Griffith Trotman, of Cam, was proved at
Gloucester in 1598.
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The will of his son Lodowick Tratman, of Buckover, in Thornbury,
was proved at Gloucester in 1606. He gives legacies to John
Tratman, son of my brother John, and to William, brother of the
said John ; to John and Anne, children of my brother, Edward
Tratman, of Estwood ; and appoints Mary my wife to be executrix.
The following were proved at Gloucester :
Will of Edward Trotman, of Cam, 1638.
Maurice Trotman, of Berkeley, 1639.
Edward Trotman, of Cam, fuller, 1641 : mentions my
mother Agnes and grandfather Edward Trotman.
John Trotman, senior, of Cam, 1641.
,, Henry Trotman, of Cam, gentleman, 1661 ; dated 24
January, 1660-1 : names my wife Anne, my daughter
Elizabeth, my son John, and appoints my son Nicholas
Trotman to be executor. This was the Henry Trotman,
to whom his father, John Trotman, of Nasse Court,
conveyed, in 1616, the estate of Upthrop.
Southampton. BENJ. AY. GREENFIELD.
DCCLXVIII. CAPTAIN FRANCIS WINDEBANK AND " HIS UNRULY
COMPANY." The following, addressed from Cirencester by Francis
Windebank to his father, Sir Francis Windebank, Secretary of
State, and dated July 19, 1640, is extracted from the Calendar of
State Papers (Domestic), Charles I., 1640, p. 492 :
" Finding my men to be very ill-affected to this service, and
much slighting all their officers because the country had
laid an aspersion on all of us that we were Roman Catholics,
so that when I first received them divers of them swore
desperately they would soon despatch us if they found we
were Papists : but finding their humour, on their first day's
march, I desired them all to kneel down and to sing psalms,
and made one of my officers read prayers, which pleased
them not a little, and being very familiar with them at
first, giving them drink and stinking tobacco, of 6d. a lb., I
gained their love, so that they all swear they will never leave
me, and indeed I have not had one man run away yet in
this nine days march, but other captains of our regiment,
who marched a week before us, are so fearful of their
soldiers they dare not march with them. I have all my men
in so great obedience that all the country pray for me,
saying they never met with such civil soldiers." [Endorsed :
" Received (July) 24th."]
Secretary Windebank has added this postscript to a letter to
Edward, Yiscount Conway, dated the 25th of the same month :
"My son the captain has found a means to charm his unruly
company with singing of psalms and stinking tobacco."
Cirencester. E. C. SEWELL.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 347
DCCLXIX. FAMILIES OF CARTER AND NETTLETON BALME.
Having seen lately in Gloucester Cathedral a window in memory of
one of the Nettleton Balmes, I have thought that the following
abstract of a will may interest some of your readers ; and I shall
be very glad to have any information as to either the Carter or Baline
family.
Jeremiah Carter, of Birstall, Yorkshire, woolstapler. My wife
Martha to have an annuity of 26 or 20. My son John Carter.
My dau. , wife of Nettleton Balrne, and their children, John
C? Jeremiah) Nettleton Balme and William Nettleton Balme. My
right and title in one share and a half in Howden Clbugh
Skribbling or Carding Mill. My four cottages in Syke 'Lane in
Batley. My half of three cottages in Moor Lane, which I hold in
conjunction with Jeremiah Carter, of Pudsey. Dated May 4, 1797,
and proved in 1800. WM ; F CARTER.
7, Waterloo Street, Birmingham.
DCCLXX. EGBERT EAIKES' WILL. The following interesting
letter has been received by a correspondent in Gloucester from
Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., in reply to a communication requesting
information on Raikes' will : " Being in London to-day, I have
called at Somerset House and seen the official copy of the will of
Robert Raikes. It is dated 13 Sept., 1809, and by it he devises
all his property real and personal to his wife Anne Raikes, but in
case of her dying before him, he directs that his sons William and
Robert shall pay two bonds he holds of them for money advanced
to them, and that the whole of his property shall be equally divided
between his said two sons and his six daughters. The will is attested
by John Phillpott, jun,, Thomas Smith, and Philip Millard. To
this there is a short codicil by which he leaves to his wife his share
in the stock of the Stationers' Company for her life, and after her death
directs it to be equally divided like the rest of his estate. The will is
very short, nay, little longer than this note of it, and contains no
reference whatever to Sunday Schools. In fact, omitting legal
verbiage, I have stated the whole of the will and codicil. It was
proved the 28th June, 1811." Q X. D.
Painswick.
DCCLXXI. ABBOT BERKELEY, OF FLAXLEY. The name of one
more abbot of Flaxley has been restored to light after lying buried
for some centuries ; at least I do not find that Dugdale, Tanner, or
the Gloucestershire historians have previously disinterred it. In
the Bodleian Library (" MS. Bodl. 88 ") there is a mutilated" deed
of exchange of livings between " Berkeley, abbas de Flaxley,
rector ecclesiae parochialis de Rodmarton," and Nicholas Rewys,
" vicarius ecclesiae parochialis de Westbury," in May, 1476. The
deed is attested by John Rolues, public notary. No doubt the
348 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Public Records somewhere register the abbot's name, but until they
are printed a casual find is worth recording. j? ]yj
Oxford.
DCCLXXIL DEAN TUCKER AND BISHOP BUTLER, OF BRISTOL.
A correspondent has enquired in Notes and Queries (6 th S. vii. 88) :
In what part of the voluminous works of Dean Josiah Tucker is
to be found the account of Bishop Butler's conversation with him
at night in the palace-garden of Bristol on the possible insanity of
whole communities and public bodies as well as of individuals 1
Dean Hook quotes it in his Ecclesiastical Biography, vol. iii.,
p. 353, as an " anecdote related by Dean Tucker," but gives no exact
reference. Q. ^ ^
DCCLXXIIL FEMALE PARISH CLERKS. (See No. CCLXXXI.)
In ~$Q. DLXXIII. mention is made of women being appointed
churchwardens. In the register of burials in Totteridge, Hertford-
shire in which parish Bishop Wilberforce, Cardinal Manning, and
Bulwer Lytton lived the following entry occurs under date
March 2nd, 1802 : " Elizabeth King, widow, for forty-six years
clerk of this parish." Her age was 90, and the assertion is made
by one of the curates of Totteridge that " this old woman, as long
as she was able to attend, did constantly, and read on the prayer
days with great strength and pleasure to the hearers, though not in
the clerk's place, the desk being filled on the Sunday by her son-in-
law, Benjamin Whithall, who did his best." Do any of your
readers know of Gloucestershire or other instances in which women
have served the office, either with or without " great strength and
pleasure to the hearers 1 " H C W
DCCLXXIY. ANDREW CHARLTON, MAYOR OF BRISTOL, 1634.
Any information regarding the descendants of Andrew Charlton,
who was sheriff of Bristol in 1620, and mayor in 1634, would be
.gladly welcomed by me. c H MAY()J M A
Long Burton Yicarage,
Sherborne, Dorset.
DCCLXXV. A LIST OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILLS. InColeman's
Catalogue of 1000 Wills (London, Jan. 1st, 1883) the following
items may be found :
Baily Probate of will of Thomas Baily, of Winterborn,
Yeoman, dated 1726.
BuddingDo, of William Budding, of Millend, in the parish of
Eastington,-1735.
Burcombe Do. of John Burcombe, of Old Sodbury, Yeoman,
"important will," 1652.
Burcombe Do. of Daniel Burcombe, of Sodbury, "long will,"
1706.
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Davis Probate of will of Lucy Davis, of Bristol, Widow, 1832.
Essington Copy of will of John Essington, of Slimbridge, Esq.,
1738.
Fletcher Office copy of will of Jane Fletcher, of Cheltenham,
1828.
Gardiner Probate of will of William Gardiner, of Gloucester.
1827.
Greenaway Office copy of will of Giles Greenaway, of Gloucester,
Esq., 1814.
Hammond Probate of will of James Hammond, of Wollaston,
Yeoman, 1688.
Harrison Office copy of will of Elizabeth Harrison, then of
Stanley End, in the parish of King Stanley, 1867.
Humphreys Probate of will of John Humphreys, of Cheltenham,
1771.
Hunt Do. of John Hunt, of Oxenhale, Yeoman, " curious will,"
1809.
Iremonger Do. of Catherine Iremonger, of Winchcombe, 1768.
Kipping Original will of Dorcas Kipping, wife of Joseph
Kipping, of Bristol, "long and important will, duly executed, with seal
heraldic," 1717.
Lloyd Probate of will of Elizabeth Lloyd, of Stoke Bishop,
Widow, "curious items," 1728.
LocMer Copy of will of William Lockier, of Wooten-under-
edge, 1803.
Mason Do. of Mary Mason, of Tewkesbury, Widow, " curious
will," 1783.
Morgan Probate of will of William Morgan, of Bristol,
Gent., 1762.
Morse Do. of John Morse, of Minty, 1700.
Morse Do. of John Morse, of Ruerdean, 1730.
Morse Do. of Elizabeth Morse, of Kuardean, Widow, 1791.
Perch Do. of Thomas Perch, of Shoreham, " curious will,"
1651. (Left 5s. for bread for the poor at his funeral.)
Pipe Do. of Edward Pipe, of Cheltenham, 1852.
Scott Copy of will of James K. Scott, of Thirlstane House,
Cheltenham, 1831.
Solloway Probate of will of William Solloway, of Quinton, 1799.
Tamplin Do. of John Tarnplin, the elder, of Lydney, Gent.,
1866.
Taylor Do. of Mary Taylor, of Cirencester, 1768.
Wakefield Do. of Kichard Wakefield, of Winchcombe, Miller,
1679.
Wakeman Do. of Ann Wakeman, of Tewkesbury, Gentlewoman,
"important," 1781.
Webb Original will of James Webb, of Wootton Underedge
(" a Freeholder, but calls himself a Labourer "), 1821.
GENEALOGIST.
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DCCLXXVI. WILL OF JOHN NYBLETT, OF BROKETHROPPE,
1543. The following copy of the original in the Will Office,
Gloucester, is interesting :
" IHS. In the name of GOD, Amen. In the yere off our Lord
1543 and in the last day of the monyth off January, I, John
Nyblett, syk in my body and redy off mynd, make this as my last
wyll, first, I do yelTd and geve my soil to Allmythty God and body
to the earthe for to be byryde yn the churchyarde off Saint
Swithyn in Brookthrupp. I do geve the hy awtyr of Brokthrupp
iiij d . Item I do geve to the same awter a towell. I do geve to
the rode lyztt vj d . Item I do geve to Umffrey Byrey ij yows. I
do geve to Eychard Fynymor ij yows. Item I do geve to Alys
Bery the wyffe of Umfrey Bery xvj 8 viij d . Item I do geve unto
Margett Fynymore the wyffe of Eycliard Fynymore x 8 . Item I do
geve unto Margett Nyblett a hayffer. Item I do geve unto the
reparacyon of the hyway in brookethrupp iij s iij d . Item I do geve
to the churche off Harscum a bushell off Maltt and to the churche
off Waddon a bushell off Malt for to have my Knyll rong att bothe
the churches att the day off my departyng. Item I do geve all
the resydew off my goods unto Isabell Nyblett my Wyffe whom I
do make my hole executrix, and to this berithe record and witness
Syr John Eeynold my ghostly father, Edward Wathen and William
Gooddyen then beying there presentt," &c.
Endorsed,
" T. Johanis Nyblett de Brokethroppe
probatu, &c. 1.5.4.3.
primo marcij Summa Inventory xx u xj s vij d ."
On the side, " Testamentum
Johannis Nyblett."
Haresfield Court, Stonehouse. J. D. T. NIBLETT.
DCCLXXVIL DERIVATION OF "FRENCHAY," NEAR BRISTOL.
I do not know if anyone thinks the name of " Frenchay " has any
thing to do with the French. There was, in fact, an extensive
settlement of French refugees after the Eevocation of the Edict of
Nantes, who carried on their industries outside Lawford's Gate, not
being allowed to contribute towards the wealth of Bristol. (See Sir
Eobt. Atkyns, under "Easton.") Some, indeed, have thought it to
have been "Friends' Hay," as the place was long a favourite
retreat of wealthy Quakers. The unimproved condition of the
name "Frenchay," was, however, "Fromishaw," connected with
the name of the river Frome, which passes it, bent on its fell
purpose of drowning Bristol. There is in Gloucestershire a second
river Frome, more commonly called Stroud- Water ; but its real name
is attested by places on its banks. Like the two other Fromes (a
third is in Dorset), Stroud- Water has a Frampton ; besides which
it gives name to Framilode ; also probably to Frocester, and to
Fretherne, the horn or promontory at Frome mouth. (" Willelmus
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 351
de Frohorn," two knights' fees, under Hen. de Newmarch, time of
K. Hen. II, Liber Niger , Glouc.) In "Franchies," a tithing of
Stanley St. Leonard, there is, on this more northern Frome, a
repetition of a similar development, as into " Frenchay."
Bristol. THOMAS KERSLAKE.
DCCLXXVIII. THE PARISH OF BLOCKLEY. This picturesque
district, anciently called Blockelet or Blockel, forms a parish in the
county and diocese of Worcester ; but its position is one of isolation,
being completely surrounded by parishes in Gloucestershire and
Warwickshire. From Hearne's Antiquarian Discourses we learn
that the original division of counties, and particularly the arbitrary
detachment of certain parishes, is accounted for by their having
been parcels of some great seigniory belonging to baronies, bishoprics, '
or abbies. This explains the isolated position of Blockley, which
from time immemorial was a manorial appendage to the bishopric
of Worcester. It is bounded by Chipping Campden and Ebrington
in Gloucestershire ; by Stretton-upon-Fosse, in Warwickshire ; and
by Todenham, Lemington, Moreton-in-Marsh, Batsford, and Bourton-
on-the-Hill, in Gloucestershire. The following extract from the Rev.
Alfred J. Soden's History of Blocldey (privately printed, Coventry,
1875,) p. 24, is interesting :
" For some centuries Blockley was the only place of sepulture for
several other adjacent parishes.* Nash [in his History of
Worcestershire] mentions Bourton-on-the-Hill, Moreton-in-Marsh,
and Batsford as having formerly buried at Blockley ; from which
parishes, as well as Stretton-on-Fosse, the vicar of Blockley formerly
claimed mortuaries. A mortuary fee of ten shillings is still claim-
able by the vicar of Blockley from every parishioner who dies
possessed of property to the value of .40 and upwards. By a
bull of Pope Julius II., who died in 1512, the parishioners of
Moreton were permitted to bury in their own chapel 'propter
interposita montium juga prsecipue brumali tempore,' i.e., on account
of the intervening hills, which (in those days) would be very
difficult to travel over, especially in winter. The parishioners of
Bourton-on-the-Hill obtained permission to bury in their own
cemetery in 1542. The parishioners of Batsford began to do so in
1697."
Neither Atkyns nor Rudder notices the parish of Blockley, having
no doubt looked upon it as beyond their bounds ; but Bigland has
given a full account (vol. i., pp. 213-20), with an engraving of the
church, and also of the figures of Philip Warthim and William
Neele. "As it [Blockley] has been for some centuries the only
place for sepulture for several adjacent villages, it claims our notice,"
he writes, "in this 'Supplementary History of Gloucestershire.'"
* In an old tithe-book of the parish this memorandum appears, dated 1723 : " Mem. Mr.
Adams acqted [acquainted] me yt at digging to make a vault by Sir J. Rushout, two thousd.
skulls were found in yt pt. of ye ch. wch nobody living remembers to be laid there."
352 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
He has recorded a large number of monumental inscriptions ; but
only those directly connected with our county shall be noticed in
these pages. The reader is indebted for them to Mr. Soden's
volume.
At the back of the central compartment of the sedilia is a small
figure in brass (already referred to) of William Neele, vicar of the
parish in the reign of Henry VII. , represented in his priestly robes,
with a cope. This figure has been placed in its present position,
simply for the sake of preservation. Formerly it was on a blue
gravestone within the sacrarium, but when the floor was relaid about
forty years ago, the stone was removed to make room for rather
common-looking tiles. Fortunately the brass figure was preserved,
but only a portion of the inscription. On one side of tho border
of the stone were these words : " Jesus, amor meus, vita mea,
justorum Isetitia " ; on the other : " Ne elongeris a me, Deus meus."
Over the body : " Eenedictus Deus." Underneath (in abbreviated
Latin) : " Orate p' 'ma Magistri Willi' Neele quonda vicarii huj's
ecclie et rectoris ecclie de Burton sup' aqua qui obiit VIII die
Augusti A dni MDX, cuj's 'me p' picietur Deus. Amen." In a
list in the parish register there is this record : " Gulielmus Neele
collastus fuit 1488."
On the south wall of the chancel there is a tablet, erected by the
late Admiral Sir Edward Collier, K.C.B., with a long inscription,
of which the following is a portion : " Sacred to the memory of
Giles Collier, Clerk, A.M., Vicar of this parish, who died A.D.
1678, and Mary, his widow, who died A.D. 1695. Also of their
two sons, Stephen Collier, Clerk, A.M., Eector of Eodmarton,
County Glou r , who died A.D. 1722f; and Nathaniel Collier, Clerk,
A.M., of Duns Tew, Oxon, and Jevington, who died A.D. 1691."
On the north wall of the chancel there is a tablet to the memory
of the Rev. C. J. Selwyn. It was erected by Thomas Edwards
Freeman, Esq., the possessor of the Batsford estate ; and the inscription
is as follows : "To the Rev. Charles Jasper Selwyn, M. A., descended
from an ancient and respectable family in the County of Gloucester,
late Rector of Beverstone [1767-94], in the same county, and the
very exemplary Vicar of the Parish of Blockley [1761-94], in the
County of Worcester. He departed this life 10 th September, 1794,
in the 67 th year of his age, and 41 st of his ministry. He was
buried in the adjoining parish of Batsford 4 The memory of this
excellent man will be dear to the wise and good, so long as
f There is also a brass plate to his memory in Rodmarton Church, where he was buried,
with this inscription : " Hie jacet Stephanus Collier, A.M., nuper hujus Ecclesise Rector.
Obit decimo die mensis Augusti, Anno Domini 1722, annoque eetatis suae 79." He held the
rectory of Rodmarton from 1672.
t Batsford is only two miles from Blockley, but in Gloucestershire, on the northern slope
of the Cotswold. The following is the inscription over his grave : " Beneath this stone | are
deposited I the remains | of | the Reverend | Charles Jasper Selwyn, | 33 years Vicar of
Blockley, | in the County and Diocese of Worcester, | Rector of Beverstone and Kingscote, | in
the County of Gloucester, | and Prebendary of Sarum, | who died the 10th day of
Sept., 1794, | in the 67th year of his age." Close at hand lie the remains of his wife and three
daughters.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 353
Christian zeal in a Minister of the Church of England, unshaken
integrity in a well-informed Magistrate, and the exact observance of
every Christian, social, and relative duty exercised upon all occasions
with uncommon humility, are held in estimation und respect.
These words,so justly descriptive of the character they commemorate,
are inscribed on this tablet by a friend to truth and real merit, with
the hope, that the many virtues and the bright example of so
valuable a member of society may be long remembered by the
present generation, and may be transmitted to future ages for the
benefit of the latest posterity." He was curate of Blockley in
1753; and in the register this entry appears : "Carolus Jasper
Selwyn, A.M., institutus fuit Oct. 1761."
On a tablet in the nave : " Sacred to the memory of John
Wintle, Esq r , of Newnham, Gloucestershire, whose death was
awfully sudden at Bourton, in the same county, the 1 st March,
1832, aged 70 years. [Three texts of Scripture follow.] His only
surviving child, Caroline Wintle, erects this tablet as a tribute of
respect to the memory of her affectionate and beloved father, whose
remains are deposited in the vault of his brother-in-law, the Eev.
Wm. Boughton. In the same vault lie also the remains of the
above-named Caroline Wintle, who departed this life at her
residence, Cambray Place, Cheltenham, the 10 th day of December,
1843, aged 53 years."
Two or three extracts from the registers are appended, viz. :
1538. "John Witte of Batsford (in Blockley home) was buried
the 6 th of Januarie." This is the first recorded burial.
1646. " Edward Norman a Sumersettsheire man shott at Stowe
fight was bur d 30 Martii."
1656. " Publication of an intended marriage betweene Vallentine
Hickes of Batsford, in the county of Glou r on the one pt e , and Alice
Harris of Blockley in the county of Wor r on the other pt e , was
made in Evesham markett, the 6 th , the 17 th , and the 20 th of
October, 1656."
Under the will of George Townsend, Esq., dated Dec. 14, 1682,
Blockley shares with Campden, Cheltenham, Northleach, Winchcombe,
and Nether Guyting, an annual charge on certain lands and
tenements in Wormington, Winchcombe, and Nether Guyting, for
apprenticing poor boys. The annual sum now available is 20 ;
and as the fifth part is allotted to Blockley or Nether Guything, it
devolves on each to select a boy every alternate year. For
particulars of the charity, see Soden's Blockley, p. 83.
Elizabeth Sperry (widow of James Sperry, formerly of Blockley),
who died at Cheltenham, Feb. 18, 1873, and was buried at
Blockley, left this bequest : " To the clergyman and churchwardens
for the time being of the parish of Blockley, One Hundred pounds
upon trust to invest the same, and dispose of the annual income
thereof in keeping in repair the tomb and tombstone of my said
late husband in the churchyard and the tablet erected to his memory
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in the church. The remainder of such annual income to be given
away in blankets or warm clothing at Christmas annually, to such
of the poor as the said clergyman and churchwardens shall select."
ANTIQUARIUS.
DCCLXXIX. THE SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS. As one of the two
congregations which compose this little-known sect in Great Britain,
meets in Gloucestershire, it may be interesting to place on record
some facts concerning the body. Their name proclaims the cardinal
doctrines of their belief : in addition to being Anabaptists, they
keep Saturday, instead of Sunday, as the day of rest. It appears
that there were "Sabbath-keepers" in London as early as 1618;
the present London church was founded by Dr. Peter Chamberlain
about 1654, and at that time eleven congregations existed in different
parts of England. One at Wallingford was ministered to by Joseph
Stennett, a physician by profession, and author of the well-known
hymn, " Another six days' work is done." There are now only two
congregations in this country one meeting in Mill-yard, in the east
of the metropolis, a service of which has been described by Dr.
Maurice Davies in his Unorthodox London ; and the other at Natton,
in the parish of Ashchurch, Gloucestershire. There were, I am
informed, Seventh-day Baptists in or near Tewkesbury in 1640;
and the Natton congregation was in existence in 1660. Early names
connected therewith are those of John Purser, Benjamin Purser,
Thomas Hiller, Thomas Boston, and Philip Jones. The weekly
service is held in a chapel (which is under the roof, and used to be
part of a farm-house,) and has been conducted for many years past,
not by a Seventh-day Baptist minister, but by a " first-day preacher."
At the rear of the building there is a burial-ground, in which are to
be seen memorial stones to John Finch, who died in 1746 ; Walter
Purser, 1748 ; Samuel Purser, of Cowfield, 1758 ; and others. At
one time a comparatively large number of persons assembled here
for worship, some of them coming from as far as Upton-on-Severn ;
but the present congregation, even when " all-told," probably does
not exceed fifteen. Trustees hold land at Twyning for the benefit
of the local " cause." For ten or twelve years before 1881, when
it ceased to exist, there was a third congregation at Kinsham, two
miles distant from Ashchurch ; and for a year or so another
assembled at Belfast. There are two congregations in the Netherlands,
but the sect flourishes chiefly in the United States of America.
There the doctrine of the Sabbath is accepted by the Seventh-day
Adventists as well ; and these latter have two meetings in England,
one at Great Grimsby, and the other at Southampton. jj Q -yy,
DCCLXXX. THE SINGERS' PEW IN KODBOROUGH CHURCH, 1748.
The following is an entry in one of the parish registers of
Rodborough :
Jan? 22, 1748. Whereas many disputes did lately arise touching
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the rights to the singing seat in Rodborough Church, to the
disturbance of the congregation assembled there for divine worship,
Now to prevent all disputes and disturbances for the future, it is
hereby agreed by us, the Minister, Churchwardens, Singers, and
other principle [sic] Inhabitants of the said Parish, that the articles
underwritten shall from hence forth be the rules to be observed and
comply ed with by all such persons, who have, or shall have, any
right of sitting in the said Pew.
Art. 1. It is agreed that the persons whose names .are under-
written, and no others, have a right for sitting in the said Pew.
Art. 2 nd . That no person hath any right for sitting in the said
Pew who liveth not in the Parish of Rodborough.
Art. 3 rd . That the Singers have a right to fill up vacant seats ;
but if they neglect to do it more than one year after any vacancy
happens, that then such vacancy may be filled up by the Minister
and Churchwardens of the said Parish of Rodborough, or the
majority of them.
Art. 4 th . That no person shall sit there unless he understands
the rules of musick, and can (with a tolerable voice at least) sing
the psalm tunes.
Art. 5 th . All disputes between the Singers shall be settled by
the Minister and Churchwardens, or the majority of them, and
whoever shall refuse to conform to the same, shall forfeit his seat in
the said Pew.
Art. 6 th . Every person having a right to a seat there shall have
liberty to dispose and sell the same for the sum of five shillings,
which vacancy shall be filled up in manner as described by Art. 3 rd ;
and that the heir or executor of any person having a right in the
said Pew shall have the same liberty.
Art. 7 th . That five shillings, and no more nor less, shall be the
standing price for a seat in the said Pew.
Art. 8 th . That the said Pew shall be kept in repair by
the persons sitting there, and each person shall pay his share towards
the same, or forfeit his right to the said Pew.
Art. 9. That P P , of Stroud Parish, shall have
liberty to sit in the said Pew, and make use of his Bassoon ;
but that no instrument of musick, but a Bassoon, shall be used
there.
Rodborough, Jan y 22, 1748. Allowed and agreed to by
(Signed) Nath. Bond, Minister,
Dan 1 Chance, Churchwarden,
S. Haukes, \
Tho 8 Roberts,
Rich. Hawker, vPrincip/e Inhabitants.
W m Halliday, J
Sam 1 Tanner, )
[Then follow the signatures of 18 Singers.]
Watlington, Norfolk. W. L. KING.
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DCCLXXXI. BLAKENEY: "MY NATIVE VILLAGE." An extract
or two from the autobiographical sketch of the early life of the
Rev. William S. Wickenden,* " the Bard of the Forest " (prefixed
to the re-issue of his Poems and Tales, London, 1851) will be found,
I think, to interest the reader :
" My native village !" what a magic is there in these simple words !
where is there a heart which it does not thrill to its inmost depth ?
where is there a spirit which it does not fill with holy aspirations < \
Oh, loved village of my soul ! thy beauties rise as plainly before me
as they did long years ago, when I thought nothing on earth so
delightful as to bury myself in thy solitary, thy sylvan recesses.
The flowers around thee were more trancendently beautiful, thy
birds sang with a sweeter melody than elsewhere. I still see the
wild, secluded nook at the foot of the old hawthorn, where the
earliest violet peeped with its azure eye through the tangled ground-
ivy ; I still hear the murmurs of the crystal brook as it made sweet
music with the enamelled pebbles. Then I was in the hey-day of
boyhood ; the whole creation was to me wrapt in an atmosphere of
entrancing pleasure and boundless joy. I was as gay as the thought-
less butterfly flitting from flower to flower. Like the olive-vested
robin, I sang throughout the spring, the summer, the autumn, and
the winter. Death had not struck down a single friend ; sorrow
had not taught me the vanity of all temporal things. Now [1850]
I am sad, and far away from thee, my native village : my friends
are all gone all. I am solitary and truly alone. The memory of
former joys alone remains to me ; my heart is wrung with anguish,
my darkened eyes overflow with tears.
My native village was situated in a natural and beautiful amphi-
theatre, On the west and south-west arose two lovely hills, clothed
with the richest verdure, and interspersed with orchards and white-
washed cottages, even to the very summits. A deep ravine
separated those hills, through which trilled a pellucid streamlet.
After turning a cornmill, the stream flowed through the village,
overshadowed in its course by pear and apple trees, and after passing
under two bridges, in the true Doric style of architecture, it was
joined by another stream in the centre of the village. This second
stream had previously flowed round the shoulder of the western hill
above-mentioned. Both streams united, now rushed impetuously
forward, laved the foot of the main street, washed the walls of a
romantic Gothic cottage, overshadowed by a solitary willow, which
dipped its pendant boughs into the very waters, and was gradually
lost amid orchards and flower-gardens.
The main street formed an oblong square. The north side was
ornamented with a picturesque chapel, battlemented in the Gothic
style. The eastern side was adorned with gay gardens, profusely
* Born at Etloe, in the parish of A wre (comprising the chapelry of Blakeney, and the tithings
of Bledisloe, Etloe, and Hagloe), he became a minister of the Established Church. Weakly
health unfitting him for clerical duties, he gave himself for many years to literature, and
obtained fair fame. He died February 6, 1864, aged 69.
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decorated with flowers and evergreens. At the base rolled the
united brooklets. No traveller passed but what stopped to gaze on
this sylvan, this Arcadian spot, and to wish it might be his lot to
pass his tranquil days in such a secluded, such a sweet solitude.
And now, beloved village ! I am far away from thee, immured in
the smoke and fogs of the great City. I pine for thy tranquil
recesses in vain ; but in my dreams I oft revisit thee, and every
day of my existence memory stamps thy beloved image in fresher
colours on my heart.
In country villages there is generally set apart some favourite
spot of ground on which are celebrated the sports and pastimes of
the villagers. My native village was not without this graceful
appendage. It was a long, irregular piece of ground, overshadowed
with elm-trees, and washed, on one side, by a clear and rapid
brooklet. Here the morris-dancers used to assemble every evening,
for many weeks preceding Whitsuntide, to rehearse their several
parts in the approaching gala, and the shrill squeak of the violin
and the merry clash of bells echoed far and wide. All was rollick
and glee, mirth and jollity. There, too, was often to be seen the
Bard of the Forest ; yes, there, oh there ! with pleasure-speaking
eyes, was to be seen the now lonely bard. Then every odoriferous
breeze, and every summer cloud, and all sounds, whether of earth
or heaven, spoke music to his soul ; but now, what is he now ? Oh,
Time ! destroyer Time ! behold thy handywork ! He, then so
elastic, so joyous, is now sad, woe-begone, and alone ! alone ! The
young hearts who joined with him in the mazy reel of delight are
most of them cold and withered dust : and those who survive are in
far-distant climes : never more will they return, never more will
they bless his longing eyes ; and when those eyes are darkening in
the throes of death, strangers will close them : no friendly sigh will
greet his passing spirit, no tear drop on his lonely grave. He will
pass away unheeded, and, like a drop of water falling into the
boundless ocean, sink unnoticed and unknown into the unfathom-
able gulf of eternity. GLOCESTRIENSIS.
DCCLXXXIL JOHN PARKHURST, D.D., AND BISHOP'S CLEEVE.
In the fourth volume of The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of
Salisbury, published by the Parker Society, there are some letters
from him to the "most learned" John Parkhurst, D.D., then rector
of Bishop's Cleeve, near Cheltenham, and subsequently bishop of
Norwich. The original Latin of each letter is there given, with an
English translation.
One from Oxford, dated October 15 [1553], is as follows : " O
my Parkhurst, my Parkhurst, what may I think you are now doing ?
that you are dead, or alive ? that you are weeping, or in the Fleet
prison 1 Such certainly has ever been the composure of your mind,
that I doubt not you take all these things, whatever they may be,
in good part. But I never cease to pray for all things most
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prosperous for you. / have been, however, much annoyed at your \
Cleeve : for it alone [has brought] this trouble upon you. News
with us there is none ; we have more than enough of what is old.
We hear that judge Hales has been deprived. Pray write me word,
if it be not troublesome to you, what has been done as to Harley,
in what condition your own affairs are, what are your hopes, what
your fears. Salute Urian, Eobin, Hailing, and all of yours.
Farewell."
Another letter from Oxford, dated October 22 [? 1553], reads
thus : " What shall I now, Parkhurst, write to you? or rather, what
shall I not write? I have long been wishing to hear what you are doing,
what you have done, in what circumstances you are. Although
Cleeve has been taken from you, and all other things changed, yet I
hope and trust that mind of yours can be neither taken from you
nor changed. [The next sentence is too imperfect in the MS. to
encourage any attempt at translation.] Job, when he had lost
much more, and was cast down from a much higher position, still
retained his trust in God and pious temper. ' Though,' says he, ' he
slay me, yet will I trust in him.' But why should I say all this to
you, to whom it is enough to have Christ alone, who ought to be
instead of everything to us] Farewell, and reply either in
writing, or, if that be impossible, by a message. Salute Urian in
my name."
And again, in a letter written in 1554, he says : " Camfield told
me the day before yesterday that you were well, and that you were
expecting either myself or a letter from me by the very first
opportunity. This was not so agreeable to me, as it is vexing not
to know what or whither to write : for, as matters now are, I cannot
find out either where you are, or what you are doing. For a while
ago when I tried to find you at Cleeve, at your own house, you were
not at home ; and, as some tol 
