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PKEFACE.
Another volume having been brought to a happy conclusion, the
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ation as heretofore, he feels assured that Gloucestershire Notes and
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As a frontispiece to the present volume, a good steel engraving
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support.
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CORKIGENDA ET ADDENDA.
P. I, line 25, for rigorous read vigorous.
101, ,, 14, the reference is to St. George's, Kings-wood.
118, ,, 13 from bottom, for Mays read Mars ; and the same in the
next line.
,, 1 20, ,, 4, strike out High, the proper designation of this high county
functionary being Sheriff.
167, ,, 5, for John Hopkins read William Bird, who held the office of
mayor for the year commencing September 29, 1589.
,,231, ,, II, for History read Memoir.
256, ,, 9 from bottom, for 1639 read 1640; and in the last line for
1670. Feb. 16. read 1672-3, Feb. 10.
2 57> 7> f r 1634 read 1684 ; the same in the next line ; 1. 9, for 1634-
Sept. 4 read 1684. Dec. 4; 1. 12, for 1637 read 1638 ; and
1. 15, for 1 702 read 1 703.
285, 2 from bottom, insert an asterisk before Obv. ; and the same in
the next page, 1. 18.
2 99> 9 from bottom, for G.C.D. read G.T.D.
,,303, 28, for ^. T. Tuckett read ^. ^. Tuckett.
,, 382, ,, 12 from bottom, for Pickel read Pichel.
383* 7> for Picheve read Pichene ; and in the next line for Pincheve
read Pinchene.
401, ,, 13 from bottom, for Jf69S read 1665.
,,418, ,, ii from bottom, for Twhynyho read T-wynyho.
462, ,, 14 from bottom, for Cockread read Cockroad ; and 1. 7, for
y. . read J. Z.
,,516, 15, for little read ri/A*.
5 6 4> 13, strike out Q.C., which rank was not held so early as 1853
by Mr. Bovill.
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MOTTOES.
" I do not applaud Mr. Milne's Description of the Parish of
Melrose, as very intelligent or very correct, yet I wish that every
minister would do as much for the history of his own parish."
LORD HAILES.
" Efjere fce of tfjem tfjat rjafce left a name fcefjmto tfjem, tfjat tfjeir
praises migfjt foe reported." ECCLUS. xliv. 8.
11 1 for my part venerate the inventor of indexes; and I know
not to whom to yield the preference, either to Hippocrates, who was
the first great anatomiser of the human body, or to that unknown
labourer in literature who first laid open the nerves and arteries of
a boojc " ISAAC DISRAELI.
"It is' a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in
decay ; or to see a fair timber-tree sound and perfect ; how much
more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against
the waves and weathers of time." BACON.
" Bookes are a part of mans prerogative,
Informall inke they thoughts and voyces hold,
That we to them our solitude may give,
And make time-present travell that of old.
Our life, fame peeceth longer at the end,
And bookes it farther backward doe extend"
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
" Prima est Historian lex, ne quid falsi dicere audeat ; deinde, ne
quid verl non audeat ; ne qua suspicio gratice sit in scribendo, ne
qua simultatis." CICERO.
"'Tis opportune to look back upon old times, and contemplate our
forefathers. Great examples grow thin, and to be fetched from the
passed world." SlR THQMAS BRQWNE
" These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient,
and not those which ice account ancient ordine retrograde, by a
computation backward from ourselves." BACON
MOTTOES.
" We may correct, erroneous oft,
The clock of history, facts and events
Timing more punctual, unrecorded facts
Recovering, and mis-stated setting right"
COWPER.
" Mihi quidem nulli satis eruditi videntur quibus nostra ignota sunt. "
CICERO.
" Content, if hence th' unlearn 'd their wants may view,
The learn 1 d reflect on what before they knew." POPE
" Where would have been the history, the art, the philosophy of
the past ages, had there been no provident conservators, wise for all
generations, to transmit these precious relics to their descendants ? "
ALLIBONE.
" Give no more to every guest
Than he's able to digest ;
Give him always of the prime,
And but little at a time ;
Carve to all but just enough,
Let them neither starve nor stuff ;
And that you may have your due,
Let your neighbours carve for you."
SWIFT.
" A long line of ancestors is not to be contemned ; and yet there
is no little truth in the remark of a celebrated man, himself a
gentleman born, but with nothing of ' nobility, ,' that the difference
between a man toith a long line of noble ancestors and an upstart is,
that ' one knows for certain what the other conjectures as highly
probable, that several of his forefathers deserved hanging.'"
ABP. WHATELY.
me, anfc fce not inrotfje,
31 0peke notfygnrje but trotfje."
WM. ROY, 1526.
" They [local books'] may be made the vehicles of much general
information, and such as is interesting to every reader of a liberal
curiosity. What is local is often national." WHARTON.
" The mere archaeologist, the mere genealogist, the mere antiquary,
are not the parasites of historical study, as they are too often
regarded by men ivho find it easier to borrow than to estimate the
MOTTOES. Vii.
results of their researches ; they are working bees in the hive of
historic knowledge" p STUBBS.
" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested." BACON.
"Books cannot always please, however good ;
Minds are not ever craving for their food ."
CEABBE.
"If any apology for minuteness were necessary, it is furnished by
Mr. Pope ; who observes, in a letter to Sir Richard Steele, that ' no
errors are so trivial but they deserve to be mended:' a passage on
which Bishop Lowth observes, that, 'whatever may be thought of
the accuracy of the expression, the justness of the observation will be
acknowledged: " J OHN N ICHO LS.
" To make the past present, to bring the distant near, to place us
in the society of a great man or on the eminence which overlooks the
field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh
and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as
personified qualities in an allegory, to call up our ancestors before us
with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show
us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-
fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture
parts of the duty which properly belongs to the
historian." MACADLAY.
" Veterrima quceque, ut ea vina quce vetuslatem ferunt, esse debent
subvissima." CICERO.
" Sweet then to us was that romantic band,
The ancient legends of our native land."
KIRKE WHITE.
" Those who regret what our forerunners in antiquarian
pursuits have left undone in forbearing to perpetuate manners and
appearances, because they were familiar to themselves, may be the
rather disposed to pardon ivJiat is now done, in order to impart to
posterity many things which to us are present, and therefore uninter-
esting, but without the help of the pen or the pencil would to them
be irretrievably lost." WHITAKER.
" Old customs ! oh ! I love the sound,
However simple they may be :
Whatever with time hath sanction found,
7&' welcome, and is dear to me"
CliARS.
CONTENTS.
NO. PAGE.
1004. John of Marlborough, Walter of Pinchcomb, and St. Peter's
Abbey, Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . . . I
1005. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. IV : Horton . . . . 3
1006. Subsidy Roll for Bisley, 1600 5
1007. Briefs and Church Collections, 1702-3 6
1008. The Cluiterbuck Family, of Stanley St. Leonards . . . . 6
1009. Northleach Parish Church _ 9
1010. John, Lord Chedworth : Monumental Inscriptions .. .. II
ion. The Chatterton Family, of Bristol .. .. .. .. .. 12
1012. Robert Southey and Franking 13
1013. Cheltenham Theatre Royal. 1788 .. .. .. .. .. 14
1014. Patrick Cotter O'Brien, the Giant .. .. .. .. .. 16
1015. A Gloucester Ballad 16
1016. Colonel Seymour .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 17
1017. Hole Silver : Wake Silver .. .. .. .. .. .. 17
1018. Dighton Queries .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 18
1019. The Bishop of Gloucester and his Sugar-loaf . . . . . . 18
1020. " Back," as used in Bristol .. .. .. .. .. .. 18
1021. Strange Epitaph in Ashton-under-hill Church 20
1022. Gloucester " saved from the King's mines " .. .. .. 20
1023. Parliamentary Election for Gloucestershire, 1776 21
1024. Sir Jonathan Trelawnv, Bart., D.D., Bishop of Bristol . . . . 22
1025. Bristol, a " City of Charities " .. .. .. .. .. 24
1026. Episcopal Licences to Midwives .. .. .. .. .. 27
1027. " To burl," a provincialism .. .. .. .. .. .. 27
1028. Crocket's Hole .. .. : 28
1029. The Spire of the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe 28
1030. The Ryland Family . . . . 30
1031. The Porter Family, of Bristol : Monumental Inscriptions, etc. .. 30
1032. Shakespeare and Gloucestershire .. .. .. .. ,. 34
1033. Letter from William Penn to Sir Robert Southwell, 1677 . . 36
1034. Longden Family, of Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . 36
1035. Charles Gibbs, Parish Clerk of Matson, and his Predecessors . . 37
1036. Sir John Hone, of Stroud 41
1037. Death Rate in Marshfield Registration District .. .. .. 42
1038. Derivation of " Avon " .. ., .. . .. .. 42
1039. Remarkable Specimen of Shorthand Writing . . . . . . 42
1040. Married Gloucestershire Clergy, 1554 42
1041. Church Restoration .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 43
1042. Gloucestershire and the Storm of November 26, 1703 .. .. 44
1043. Girard de Eugina, Bailiff of Prestbury and Sevenhampton, 1290 49
1044. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. V. : Iron Acton . . . . 51
1045. The Leigh Family 55
1046. Sir Baptist Hickes, first Viscount Campden 57
1047. The Rev. Charles Penyston, A.M., Vicar of Sandhurst, 1687-8 58
1048. The Porter Family, of Bristol 59
1049. George Bull, D.D., and the Parish of Avening 61
1050. On Copies of Monumental Inscriptions .. .. .. .. 66
1051. The Twenty-eighth Regiment of Foot 66
1052. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. VI : Pucklechurch . . 67
1053. The Leigh Family 68
CONTENTS.
NO.
PAGE.
1054. Arlingham Church and its Breviary, A.D. 1470 . . . . . . 69
1055. A Gloucestershire Custom . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1056. Curious Entry in Baunton Parish Register, 1646. . .. .. 71
1057. The late Professor Buckman. . . . . . . . . . . . Ji
1058. Edward Colston and his Hospital . . . . . . . . . . 72
1059. Captain Peter Hogg, of Virginia 75
1060. Brodhurst, or Broadhurst, Family . . . . . . . . . 75
1061. Ichabod Walcott Chauncey . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
1062. Three Field-Names, their Derivations 76
1063. Alexander Hosea, of Wickwar .. .. .. .. .. 77
1064. Oliver Cromwell's Landed Estates . . . . . . . . . . 79
1065. Notes on the Parish of Wickwar 80
1066. The Window Tax in Gloucester, 1771 84
1067. The Healthiness of Hempstead . . . . . . . . . . 84
1068. Short Notes on the Parish of Cromhall 85
1069. Thomas James and John Hopkins, both of Bristol . . . . 85
1070. The Bromesberrow Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
1071. " Translator " as applied to Trade .. .. .. .. .. 86
1072. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. VII. : Quedgeley . . . . 87
1073. Improvements in North Cerney Church, 1883 .. .. .. 91
1074. Entries of Burial in the Register of Christ Church, Oxford . . 92
1075. Brockthrop Taxpayers, 1327-1584 .. .. .. .. .. 92
1076. The Berkeley Mitre 94
1077. The Organ in Wotton-under-Edge Church . . . . . . 95
1078. The Church of St. Philip and St. James, Leckhampton, Cheltenham 96
1079. Gloucestershire Parish Registers, 1538-1812 (continued).. .. 97
1080. Allotment of Pews in Hampnett Church, 1610 .. ,. .. 116
1 08 1. Captain Samuel Sturmy's Bequest .. .. .. .. 116
1082. Wheat Supply in 1796 117
1083. The Wine of Gloucestershire 118
1084. Jenner Family .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 118
1085. Isaac James, Bookseller, etc. .. .. .. .. ..119
1086. Ancient Vestments and Church Embroideries .. .. .. 119
1087. Minchinhampton Queries .. .. .. .. .. ..119
1088. William Dallaway, Esq., High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1776 120
1089. The Tower of Swindon Church, near Cheltenham . . . . 120
1090. Norwood Family, of Leckhampton .. .. .. .. .. 120
1091. Saintbury Cross .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 120
1092. Emyley, or Emlyn, Family .. .. .. .. .. ..121
1093. Transmission of Freemen's Rights at Bristol 121
1094. Ship-shape and Bristol fashion .. .. .. .. ..122
1095. Robert Raikes, of Northampton . . . . . . . . . . 122
1096. Sir William Hampton .. .. .. .. .. ..123
1097. Humphrey Smith, Esq. .. .. .. .. .. ..123
1098. Standfast's " Cordial Comforts " and its Author 123
1099. Hour-glasses in Churches .. ., .. .. .. ..125
noo. Henry Sampson, 1465 .. .. .. .. .. ..126
noi. Turnpike Tolls in 1847 .. .. .. .. .. .. 126
1102. The Moustache Movement .. .. .. .. .. .. 127
1103. An Inscription in the Churchyard of St. Mary RedclifFe .. 127
1104. The Population of Tetbury, 1737 127
1105. Commission regarding Treasure found in Campden, 17 Edw. III. 128
1106. William Vick's Bequest to Minchinhampton, 1754 .. .. 128
1107. State of the Diocese of Gloucester in 1564 . . . . . . 128
1108. The Study of Local History 129
1109. Contentions between the Citizens of Gloucester and the Monks
of St. Peter's Abbey 130
i no. Recent Discoveries near Pen Park .. .. .. .. .. 134
mi. Captain Henry Skillicome, of Cheltenham 135
x CONTENTS.
NO. PAGE '
1 1 12. Sudeley Castle in 1642 .. . . 136
1113. The Destruction of Olveston Church Spire 137
1 1 14! Some of the Clergy and the Revolution of 1688 140
1115.' George West, Incumbent of Wickwar, 1515 140
1116! A Censorship of the Press recommended by a Bristol Jury . . 140
1117! Prison Life in Gloucester a Century Ago 141
1 1 1 8. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. VII. : Quedgeley (continued) 141
1119. The Rev. Henry Fowler, Rector of Minchinhampton, 1643 . . 146
1120. Ellacombe's "Church Bells of Gloucestershire, "etc 148
1 121. Local Use of the word " Pure " 149
1 122. A Letter from Bishop Frampton to the Rev. John Kettlewell. . 149
1123. Freeman Inscriptions, Hempsted and Bushley .. .. .. 150
1124. Notes on the Parish of Wickwar (continued) 152
1125. George Ridler in a new Capacity .. .. .. . .. 157
1126. Rowland Hill and Dr. Jenner 157
1127. Two old Bristol Advertisements 157
1128. Bond of Inhabitants of Cirencester for Prosecution of Felons, 1774 I 5^
1129. The Paston Entries in the Horton Register .. .. .. 160
1130. Lyde, Foster, and Adams Inscriptions, Stanton Drew . . . . 161
1131. Octagonal Church Towers .. .. .. .. .. .. 163
1132. Poor Rates in the Seventeenth Century 164
1133. Strange Christian Name .. .. .. .. .. .. 164
1134. Old Marriage Announcements .. .. .. .. .. 164
II 35' Richard Ferris' Voyage from London to Bristol, 1590 .. .. 165
1136. Notes on the Freeman Family, of Bushley, 1620-1700 .. .. 168
1137. Gloucestershire Documents .. .. .. .. .. .. 170
1138. Leper Hospitals .. .. . .. .. .. .. 170
1139. " A Bristol Compliment " .. .. .. .. .. ..170
1140. William Jennings, BD., Dean of Gloucester, 1541-65 .. .. 171
1141. The Office of a Lay Dean .. .. .. .. .. .. 171
1142. Thomas Pyrke, of Little Dean .. .. .. .. .. 171
1143. A Brief for Thomas Sloper, of Hartpury, 1665 .. .. .. 171
1144. Baldwin de Hodnett, 1217 .. .. .. .. .. .. 172
1145. William Matthews and Mr. Dockett 172
1146. Clock Motto at Tetbury .. 172
1147. Curious Discovery of Pictures in Gloucester .. .. .. 172
1148. Robert Raikes, of Northampton .. .. .. .. ..173
1149. Cost of Living in 1643 .. .. .. . t .. .. 174
1150. Lines on Stow-on-the- Wold .. .. .. .. 175
1151. Harvest Weather in 1725 .. .. .. .. .. .. 175
1152. The Smyth P^amily, of Ashton Court 175
1153. Letter from Queen Elizabeth relative to Richd. Clutterbuck and
Wm. Guise 177
1154. The Emaciated Effigy of Abbot Wakeman 177
1155. The College School Library, Gloucester 178
1156. The Dedication of Ashleworth Church 178
1157. Clifton One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago 179
1158. A Bristol Worthy of the last Century 180
1159. Ancient Breech-loading Cannon 180
1160. Hawkesbury Parish Church 181
1161. Old Tapestry Maps 183
1162. Notes on the Parish of Wickwar (continued) 184
1163. Early Theatrical Performance at Gloucester .. .. .. 190
1164. James Bradley, D.D., and his "Astronomical Observations" .. 191
1165. Peculiar Names of Places in Churchdown Parish 191
1166. Miss Susanna Winkworth, of Clifton .. .. .. .,192
1167. Bigland's " Gloucestershire Collections :" List of Plates .. 193
1168. The Frere Family and Bitton .. .. .. .. .. 194
1169. The Cann Family .. .. 194
CONTENTS. XI.
NO. PAGE.
1170. The Newnham State Sword.. .. .. .. .. .. 195
1171. Christopher Cole, of Cheltenham .. .. .. .. .. 195
1172. The Theyer Family and MSS 195
1173. The Rod way Family, of Rodborough 196
1174. Wood's Copper Coinage, 1723 197
1175. Shakespeare and Gloucestershire 197
1176. A Gloucestershire Custom .. ., .. .. .. .. 197
1177. Dame Alice Hampton .. .. .. .. .. .. 198
1178. William Jennings, B.D., first Dean of Gloucester, 1541-65 .. 198
1179. Tytherington Parish Church .. .. .. .. .. .. 198
1180. Smyth Family: Extracts from Registers .. .. .. ..' 200
1181. Roger Bacon, the Philosopher .. .. .. .. .. 201
1182. Gloucester Cathedral and Welsh Ecclesiastical Patronage .. 203
1183. Temple Gui ting Church 204
1184. Notes on the Parish of Pitchcombe . . . . . . . . 205
1185. A Strange Anachronism .. .. .. .. .. .. 209
1186. Henry Bathurst, D.D., Bishop of Norwich .. .. .. 209
1187. " Paul Pry," a Cheltenham Weekly Periodical 210
1188. Robert Raikes, of Gloucester .. .. .. .. .. 210
1189. Curious Inscription in Daglingworth Church .. .. .. 21 1
1190. Index to Monumental Inscriptions : Cromhall .. .. .. 21 1
1191. Extracts from the Campden Register of Burials, 1645 . . . . 213
1192. Some Briefs and Collections in Croxall Church, Dio. Lichfield . . 213
1103. Longden Family, of Gloucester .. .. .. .. .. 214
1194. The Rev. Sir John Hobart Culme-Seymour, Bart., Canon of
Gloucester .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 216
1195. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. VII : Quedgeley (continued) 217
1196. Discovery of a Saxon House at Deerhurst .. .. .. .. 221
1197. Notes on Todenham Parish .. .. .. .. .. .. 222
1198. Edward Fowler, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester: his Monumental
Inscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
1199. Harward's Tewkesbury Chap-Books .. .. .. .. 226
1200. Gloucestershire Folk-Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
1201. The Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe, M.A., F.S. A. .. .. 230
1202. Thomas Parker, of Gloucester, Surgeon .. .. .. .. 231
1203. Venetian Glass in England .. .. .. .. .. .. 232
1204. " Hootings in Mickleton Wood " .. .. .. .. .. 232
1205. The Heane Family .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 232
1206. Thomas Test, or Teste, Chaplain of Wickwar . . . . . . 234
1207. Redwood Family .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 234
1208. Rent of Farms in 1736 234
1209. Bristol and the Slave Trade, 1016-35 2 35
1210. Bristol in 1777 235
121 1. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. VIII. : Syston .. .. 236
1212. Notes on the Parish of Pitchcombe (continued) .. .. .. 239
1213. The Monument of John Thornborough, Bishop of Bristol, 1603-16 243
1214. Longden Family, of Gloucester (continued) .. .. .. 244
1215. Extracts from the Accounts of the Churchwardens of Eastington,
1616-1756 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 246
1216. Piff 'sElm, Boddington .. .. .. .. .. .. 254
1217. The First Newspaper Article on Sunday Schools. . . . . . 255
1218. The Arms of the Deanery of Bristol .. .. .. .. 255
1219. Extracts from Parish Registers, No. IX. : Thornbury and Olveston 256
1220. The Water Bounds of Bristol .. .. .. .. .. 257
1221. Enlargement of Christ Church, Clifton .. .. .. .. 258
1222. Randolph and Isham Families, of Virginia .. .. .. 259
1223. The Rodway Family, of Rodborough .. .. .. .. 260
1224. A Gloucestershire Discovery of the Seventeenth Century .. 261
1225. Inscription over the door of Hernpsted Rectory .. .. .. 264
jjj CONTENTS.
NO. PAGE.
1226. Relton's " Sketches of Churches : " Gloucestershire . . . . 264
1227! Saxon Invasion of the Severn Valley 265
1228. Chipping Campden: Inventory of Church Goods, 1627.. .. 267
1229. Pitchcombe Register of Marriages, 1709-42 268
1230. The Parish Church of Eastington .. 271
1231. An old Poem on the Fairford Church Windows .. .. .. 273
1232. Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Arle Court .. .. .. .. 274
1233. A Marvel at Tockington, in Olveston Parish 275
1234. A Leak st pp ed b y a Fish 275
1235. Rimmer's " Crosses of England :" Gloucestershire .. .. 276
1236. Richard Cromwell's Visit to Bristol, 1658 276
1237. Poll Tax (Parish of Cranham), temp. Rich. II. .. . . . . 277
1238. The Will of Henry of Gloucester, A. D. 1332 278
1239. "Journal of the British Archaeological Association : " Gloucester-
shire Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
1240. Local Use of the word " Pure " .. .. .. .. .-. 282
1241. Wages in Gloucestershire in 1732 .. .. .. .. .. 283
1242. Some Gloucestershire Tokens of the Seventeenth Century . . 284
1243. Sundry old Gloucestershire Advertisements, 1731-33 .. .. 286
1244. " Archasological Journal of the Institute:" Gloucestershire
Papers 288
1245. Icomb Place : Terrier, 1726.. .. .. .. .. .. 292
1246. The Manor of Alveston . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
1247. The Tetbury Horse-Races, 1716-20 296
1248. The Blake Family 297
1249. Cox Family, of Gloucester .. .. .. .. .. . . 299
1250. An ancient Gloucestershire Custom . . . . . . . . . . 299
1251. "As Mad as a Hatter" 300
1252. Rights of the Duchy of Lancaster Tenants [ 300
1253. " Redcross " Street, why so called ? .. .. .. .. 300
1254. Thornbrough Family, of Gloucester, Worcester, and Wilts .' .' 301
1255. Sparrow Family, of Gloucestershire .. .. .. .. 301
1256. The Battle of Tevvkesbury and the Death of Edward Prince of
Wales, 1471 .. .. .. .. .. .. 301
1257. Discovery of a Saxon Chapel at Deerhurst . . . . \ . 303
1258. Some Genealogical Queries .. .. .. .. . . , , 307
1259. Extracts from Gloucestershire " Feet of Fines " . . 309
1260. Walford's " Gilds of Gloucestershire " .. .. '. . '.'.311
1261. The Barber Surgeons of Gloucester .. .. .. ..312
1262. An Icarus of the last Century .. .. 312
1263. The Berkeley Manuscripts .. .. .. .. 3^
1264. The Cowley, or Colley, Family .. .. *." .' ,\* 3^
1265. Two Early English Wills, 1420 and 1438 .. .. ." 317
1266. The Restoration of Buckland Church .. .. 318
1267. Poetical Entry in the Register of St. Nicholas', Bristol! !
1268. The Arms of the Seys Family
1269. James Naylor, the Quaker
1270. Some Genealogical Queries (continued)
1271. Extracts from Gloucestershire " Feet of Fines " (continued)
1272. Sundry old Gloucestershire Advertisements, 17
321
321
322
324
325
1273. The Last of the Gloucester Turnpikes"" ] ~' J ^
1274. List of Anglo-Saxon Charters, A.D. 680-824 331
1275. Some Briefs and Collections in Stanton St. John Church, Dio.
Oxford, 1664-1759 .. t< ' .,-.,
1276. Zouche's Poetical Description' of Bristol i6u ?ti
1277. "The Blood of Hayles"
1278. Epitaph on William Child, Doctor of Music
1279. Strange Treatment of the Poor ^
1280. Edward Jenner, M.D., and the Freedom of' London " "336
CONTENTS. Xlll.
NO. PAGE.
1281. Icomb Parish : List of Rectors .. .. .. .. .. 338
1282. Inquisition of the Manor of Pucldechurch, A.D. 1189 .. .. 339
1283. Awre Parish and " Sternhold and Hopkins " . . . . . . 341
1284. The Martyrdom of Bishop Hooper . . . . . . . . . . 341
1285. Berkeley Castle, circa A.D. 1 22 r 345
1286. Gloucestershire Inquisitiones-post-Mortem . . . . . . 346
1287. Thomas Lloyd, a Squire of the Seventeenth Century . . . . 348
1288. Gloucestershire Genealogy .. .. .. .. .. .. 350
1289. Major-General Richard Deane : his Parentage and Birthplace .. 351
1290. Sir Edward Fytton, Bart., of Gawsworth, ob. 1643 353
1291. " A Certificate Man " .. .. .. .. .. .. 354
1292. Gift of Bibles by John Gary, of Bristol . . . . . . . . 355
1293. A Gloucestershire Phenomenon .. .. .. .. .. 355
1294. Who was St. Aldate ? .. .. .. .. .. .. 356
1295. Cronebane Tokens of the last Century .. .. .. .. 356
1296. MS. Register of Kingswood Abbey .. .. .. .. 356
1297. A Tidal Phenomenon in 1764 .. .. .. .. .. 356
1298. Alderman Aldworth and Giles Elbridge, of Bristol .. .. 356
1299. George Berkeley, D.D., Lord Bishop of Cloyne .. .. .. 357
1300. The Parker Family, of Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . 358
1301. Redwood Family .. .. .. .. .. 358
1302. King's Weston House, near Bristol . . . . . . . . 359
1303. Turnpike Tolls in 1821 .. ., .. .. .. .. 360
1304. The Achievement of Sir William Vernon Guise, Bart. . . . . 361
1305. The Bristol Pillory, 1752 363
1306. Wright's " Wanderings : " Forest of Dean . . . . . . 363
1307. Notes on Vizard Family, of Dursley .. .. .. .. 363
1308. Two Errors in Fosbrooke's " Gloucester " corrected . . . . 364
1309. The Election of a Coroner in 1735 .. 364
1310. Edward Strong, the Builder of St. Paul's Cathedral .. .. 365
1311. A Tour in Gloucestershire, A.D. 1634 365
1312. The Forest of Dean in 1735 .. .. .. .. .. .. 372
1313. Cheltenham Waters Eighty Years Ago 373
1314. Alveston Court .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 374
1315. The old Colours of the Gloucestershire Regiment . . . . 374
1316. Timothy Nourse's Bequest to the Bodleian Library . . . . 375
1317. Extracts from Gloucestershire " Feet of Fines " (continued) .. 376
1318. The Corporation Maces of Chipping Campden and Winchcombe 378
1319. Henry Law, M. A., Dean of Gloucester .. ,. .. .. 381
1320. Notes on the Parish of Pitchcombe (continued) 382
1321. Tobacco Growing in Gloucestershire .. .. .. .. 387
1322. Selections from the Calendars of State Papers (Domestic) . . 389
1323. The Church Bells of Bristol, A.D. 1643 395
1324. The Sketch-Book of Colonel Booth, R.E., 1783 395
1325. "The Marvellous Boy" 396
1326. Lieut.-Colonel John D. H. Stewart, C.M.G 396
1327. Samuel Lucas, M.A., 1818-1868 396
1328. Richard Smalbroke, D.D., Rector of Withington, 1719 .. 398
1329. On Extracts from Gloucestershire " Feet of Fines " . . . . 399
1330. Anglo-Saxon Charter : Dowdeswell . . . . . . . . 400
1331. A " Daw "-stone, what is it ? .. .. .. .. .. 401
1332. Izod, or Izard, Family, of Gloucestershire .. .. .. .. 401
1333. The Rev. William Colbourn and " the Cobler of Gloucester " . . 401
1334. "Jimmy Wood," of Gloucester .. .. .. .. .. 401
1335. Randolph and Isham Families, of Virginia . . . . . . 402
1336. "A Certificate Man" ..403
1337. St. Aldate, Bishop of Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . 404
1338. Mayo Family, of Tetbury 405
1339. Siddington St. Mary: Will of Thomas Hollyday, A.D. 1545 .. 406
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Charlton Abbots : Will of Alice Mountaine, A.D. 1611 . . 407
The Church of St. Philip and St. James, Up-Hatherley . . . . 408
IU2. Francis Close, D.D., Dean of Carlisle 409
IU3 Extracts from Parish Registers, No. X. : Bushley and Thornbury 410
1344. The Sheriffs of Gloucestershire, 1779-1886 414
J 345- The Corporation Maces of Berkeley and Wotton-under-Edge .. 417
1346. Shipton Sollars Manor and Advowson 418
1347. Tewkesbury History .. .. 419
1348. Tewkesbury Rates and Taxes in 1826 . . . . . . . . 420
1349. Two remarkable Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
1350. A Turnspit Wheel at St. Briavel's Castle 421
1351. Extracts from Gloucestershire "Feet of Fines" (continued) .. 422
1352. Corn Measures in the last Century 424
1353. Inscriptions in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cheltenham 425
1354- Will of Thomas Vyner, D.D., Dean of Gloucester, 1673 43 2
1355. Ralph Wallis, " the Cobler of Gloucester " 433
1356. Jonathan Burre, M.A., 1691 435
1357. " Memoirs of Eminent Persons connected with Bristol " . . 435
1358. The Edye Family 435
1359. Charles Ridley, of Pucldechurch . . . . . . . . . . 435
1360. John Haynes and the Clothing Trade, 1707 436
1361. Raymond Family .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 436
1362. Capt. Crabbe, killed at the Siege of Bristol, where buried ? . . 436
1363. Parish Cows .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 436
1364. Huguenot and Flemish Settlers in Stroud Valley 437
1365. " A Journal of the Siege of Gloucester " .. .. .. .. 437
1366. Extracts from Records of St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, 1698-1703 439
1367. Dorney Family : Extracts from the Uley Registers . . . . 440
1368. Parliamentary Elections in Past Times . . . . . . . . 442
1369. The Hon. Randall Edward Sherbome Plunkett 444
1370. The Gloucestershire Society in London . . , . . . . . 445
1371. Restoration of Eastington Church .. .. .. .. .. 450
1372. Bishop Fowler, of Gloucester : Monumental Inscription .. 452
1373. John Foster, as he was to be seen at Bristol . . . . . . 453
1374. Strange Adventures in the Life of a Clergyman . . . . . . 455
1375. Dr. Grivell (Greville), of Gloucester: Extracts from Registers . . 459
1376. The Rev. William Colbourn and " the Cobler of Gloucester" . . 459
1377. The Gloucester Sheriffs' Account, 1714 .. .. .. .. 460
1378. "Views of Sezincot," by Martin and Lewis 461
1379. Parish Registers : a Good Warning . . . . . . . . 462
1380. Levying Black-mail in Gloucestershire .. .. .. .. 462
1381. Froucester: Ordination of Vicarage, A.D. 1225 462
1382. "A true Relation" of the Siege of Gloucester . . . . . . 464
1383. Selections from the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic (continued) 466
1384. The Honour of Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
1385. Some Gleanings in the British Museum . . . . . . . . 476
1386. A Gloucestershire " Lady Godiva" . . . . . . . . . . 477
1387. General Sir Joseph Thackwell, G.C.B., K.H 478
1388. The Graves Family, of Mickleton 480
1389. Restoration of Rodmarton Church .. .. .. ., ..481
1390. Robert Fitzroy, Consul of Gloucester, 1098-1147 .. .. 484
1391. The Gloucestershire Sheriff's Account, 1714 .. .. .. 489
1392. Thornbury Castle and Buckingham 491
1393. "Memorials of Samuel Bowly, 1802-1884" 494
1394. Dursley Parish : Extracts from Churchwardens' Accounts . . 497
1395. The apprehended Siege of Gloucester in 1651 499
1396. The Corporation of Gloucester and James II 501
1397. Will of the Rev. John Harvey, of Iron Acton, 1693; etc. . . 503
1398. Church Desecration : Wars of the Roses 505
CONTENTS. XV.
NO. PAGE.
1399. The Poor Laws a Century Ago .. .. .. .. .. 506
1400. Lines on the sign of " The Fish " on Broadway Hill . . . . 507
1401. Sevenhampton Parish: Churchwardens, 1616-1683; etc - 58
1402. The College School, Gloucester . . . . . . . . . . 509
1403. Deane Family, of Temple Guiting : Will of Edmund Deane . . 509
1404. Gloucestershire Summer Assizes, 1658 .. .. .. ..510
1405. Capital Punishments in Gloucester a Century Ago . . . . 511
1406. Burials in Woollen 511
1407. Capella de Froucestre, Sept. 30, 1282 513
1408. Letter from Sir Robert Atkyns to Mr. Lysons, 1691 . . . . 513
1409. The Beauties and Attractions of Clifton Endangered , . . . 513
1410. Notes on Haresfield from the Llanthony Priory Registers . . 515
1411. Two Gloucestershire Tragedies .. .. .. .. ..517
1412. The Saxon Chapel at Deerhurst 519
1413. Was Milton ever in Gloucestershire? .. .. . .. 520
1414. Inscriptions in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cheltenham (continued) .. 521
1415. John Moore, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, 1783-1805 .. 528
1416. Cloth Dyeing in the year 1718 529
1417. Robert Wright, D.D., Bishop of Bristol, 1623-1632 .. .. 530
1418. The Bishops Ironside, of Bristol . . . . * 530
1419. The Rev. Henry Fowler, Rector of Minchinhampton, 1643 . . 531
1420. Oldbury-on-Severn Church, its Patron Saint ? . . . . . . 532
1421. Hickes Family, of Berkeley .. .. .. .. .. .. 532
1422. The Merritt Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
1423. Smith, or Smythe, of Nibley . . . . . . . . . . 533
1424. The Rev. John Cooper, Rector of Wyfordby, 1703 .. .. 533
1425. Two Bristol Wills, A.D. 1500-1502 534
1426. Randolph and Isham Families, of Virginia . . . . . . 534
1427. Washington Family, of Garsdon . . . . . . . . . . 535
1428. Notes on Rockhampton Parish . . . . . . . . . . 536
1429. Jenner Family .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 543
1430. A Commercial Treaty between England and France, 1786 . . 543
1431. The Death of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham . . . . 544
1432. The " Gentleman Highwayman" of Frenchay .. .. .. 548
1433. The Parochial Status of the College Precincts, Gloucester . . 549
1434. Lysons' " Gloucestershire Antiquities" .. .. .. . . 551
1435. Memorial of the late Judge Sumner . . . . . . . 558
1436. Restoration of Northleach Church . .
1437. Some Diocesan Re-arrangements, 1887 . .
1438. Wotton-under-Edge : Cheyney Hospital . .
1439. " Smyth v. Smyth : " an Impostor Defeated
1440. Sir John Powell, of Gloucester, 1645-1713
1441. Bristol Parliamentary Elections
1442. " Shooting the Meadows " at Bitton
1443. Robert Fitzroy, Consul of Gloucester, 1098-1147 (continued)
559
562
5 62
5^3
5 66
568
5/o
1444. Sapperton Tunnel .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 577
1445. An Unparalleled Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
1446. The Trial and Acquittal of Mrs. Mary Reed, 1796 . . . . 57"
1447. Ceremonies of Proclamation, 1658 and 1660 . . . . . 57
1448. The'Rev. Canon Joseph Finch Fenn, B.D.
1449. Hill Church : Monumental Inscriptions, with Notes
1450. Fust Family : Extracts from Hill Registers, etc. . .
1451. The Vicars of Hill Parish, 1566-1887
.. 580
.. 582
.. 587
594
1452. Rkhard Smith, or Smyth . . . ". 596
X 453' Sir Alexander Brett 596
1454. The Quality Vault " at Clifton Church 597
I 455 Corporations owning Churches 597
1456. White's " New Century of Inventions " 597
1457. Smyth Family, of Nibley 598
601
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NO PAGE.
1458. The Rev. Robert Bolton, of Cheltenham 598
1459. The Celebration of the Jubilee, A.D. 1809
1460 Memorial of the late Bishop Anderson, of Clifton
1461. List of Anglo-Saxon Charters, A.D. 848-947 . .
1462. Restoration of Hempsted Church
1463. Inscriptions in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cheltenham (continued) . . 608
1464! " Letters relating to the Suppression of Monasteries " . . . . 615
1465. The Great Berkeley Poaching Affray, 1 8 16 616
1466. Robert Fitzroy, Consul of Gloucester, 1098-1147 (concluded) .. 618
1467. The Will of Thomas Myll, of Harescombe, A.D. 1509 .. . . 626
1468. The Rev. William Prichard, M.A., Vicar of Hill, 1706-43 . . 626
1469. The pretended Princess Caraboo . . . . . . . . . . 627
1470. A deferred Assize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
1471. " Poems " by the Right Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst. . . . 630
1472. Old Gloucestershire Proverbs 631
1473. A Minchinhampton Shopkeeper of the last Century . . . . 634
1474. An old Discovery in Gloucester Cathedral. . . . . . . . 634
1475. " Smyth -v. Smyth : " an Impostor Defeated . . . . . . 634
1476. "The Dictionary of National Biography" and the Berkeley Family 635
1477. Restoration of the Berkeley Registers . . . . . . . . 636
1478. A Scene in Clifton in 1734 637
1479. St. Nicholas' Church, Gloucester: Obit instituted by Anneys
ffrancombe, 6 Hen. VII 637
1480. An Unparalleled Escape 641
1481. John Clarke, of Gloucester, 1733 641
1482. Lieut. -General Urban Vigors, etc. . . . . . . . . . . 642
1483. John Davis, or Davies, of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. . 642
1484. The Charleton Family, of Bristol 643
1485. Christian Chamberlayne, of Oddington . . . . . . . . 643
1486. " Latimer's House ", West Kington . . . . . . . . 643
1487. A List of Bristol Maps suggested 644
1488. The Fust Family Portraits 644
1489. Lasborough Parish : a List of Rectors, etc. . . . . . . 645
1490. Gloucestershire without Armorial Bearings . . . . . . 647
1491. The Sheriff of Gloucester and the City Maces 648
1492. Architecture in Gloucestershire . . . . . . . . . . 648
1493. Lamprey Pies at Gloucester. . .. .. .. .. .. 650
1494. A Nephew of Hugo Grotius . . . . . . . . . . 650
1495. A Note on the Uley Parish Registers 651
1496. Inscriptions in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cheltenham (concluded) .. 651
1497. The Perrys : a Gloucestershire Tragedy 663
1498. Smyth Family, of Nibley 664
1499. Bristol and the Jubilee, A.D. 1809 664
1500. Sapperton Tunnel 667
1501. The Will of John Daston, of Dumbleton, 1530 668
1502. Randolph and Isham Families, of Virginia . . . . . . 669
1503. Bristol and its Tokens 670
1504. Middlemore Family, of Pauntley Court 671
1505. Brindley, Foley, and Jackson
1506. Two Queries respecting Bristol Localities
1507. The Long Stone at Minchinhampton
1508. The Birthplace of Sebastian Cabot ?
671
672
672
673
1509. The Trade of Bristol 673
1510. The old Poor Laws 673
1511. Sale of a Wife 675
1512. Gloucester and Galway in the Seventeenth Century .. .. 675
1513. Two old Gloucestershire Wills, A.D. 1595 677
1514. Tewkesbury from an Artist's point of View 678
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1004. JOHN OP MARLBORO UGH, WALTER OF PINCHCOMB, AND
ST. PETER'S ABBEY, GLOUCESTER. Reference is made by William H.
Hart, Esq., F.S.A., editor of Historia et Cartularium Monasterii
Sancti Petri Gloucestrice (Master of the Rolls' Series), in his intro-
duction, to ravages committed on the property of the abbey in the
troublous times of King Stephen ; with respect to which the
chronicler writes, " Never yet was. there more wretchedness in the
land : nor even did heathen men worse than they [the nobles of
both parties] did : for after a time they spared neither church nor
churchyard, but took all the goods that were therein, and then
burned the church and all together .... the bishops and
learned men cursed them continually, but the effect thereof was
nothing to them, for they were all accursed, and forsworn, and
abandoned." Two persons are named who committed great depre-
dations on the abbey's possessions John of Marlborough and
Walter of Pinchcomb concerning whom some of your corres-
pondents may be able to supply information. I find from the
Close Rolls, 9 Hen. III. (1225), that Sibella, daughter and heiress
of Ralph de Marleberg held certain lands at Upton St. Leonards of
the king by serjeanty ; but this was at a later period. As to
Walter of " Pinchcomb," this is the first time the name of the
place appears, so far as I am aware ; for it is not mentioned under
that designation in Domesday, being probably returned as a part of
the King's Barton. These persons appear to have been very
formidable foes of the abbey, and were the cause of rigorous and
forcible appeal to Jocelin, bishop of Salisbury, for vengeance,
from Gilbert Foliot, who was abbot of St. Peter's (1139-48), after-
wards (1148) bishop of Hereford, and later, while he held the
bishopric of London, the bitter antagonist of Becket.
The letter, of which a translation is given below, is, in what is
called " the turgid and affected style of the period," full of
Scriptural allusions and exhortations to smite the enemies of the
Lord and His Church, as did the saints of the old covenant. It is
printed in full " Gilberti Foliot Abbatis Gloucestrise Epistolse "
in Dr. Giles's Patres Ecclesice, Anglicance, vol. i., p. 26, probably
from the manuscript in the British Museum, King's Library, 8 A.
xxi., art. 15 (p. 208), or from another in the Bodleian.
VOL. III. A
2 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Of Jocelin, the successor of Bishop Koger, the great statesman
and architectural genius of the twelfth century who "built anew"
the church of Salisbury and " the great castles of Sherborne and
The Devizes," very little was known, although he held the see for
more than forty years ; but Canon Jones, F.S.A., in an interesting
article on " the Bishops of Old Sarum,"* shows that he belonged
to the family of De Bohun. (one of whom so gallantly defended
the castle of Trowbridge for the Empress Matilda against Stephen),
and was advanced by her to the see of Sarum. He died November
18, 1184 ; and in 1225 his remains were brought from Old Sarum
to the new cathedral, and reverently deposited in the Lady chapel.
Canon Jones considers that the large effigy of a bishop now placed
near the west entrance of the cathedral, on the south side of the
nave, clad in alb, dalmatic, chasuble, and stole, and wearing his
mitre, with the inscription down the centre of the chasuble, "A/er
ope?n, devenies in idem" " Give help [i.e., with your prayers, an
equivalent to Orate pro animd], you will come to the same," is the
effigy of Bishop Jocelin de Bohun. And the inscription, which is
in Latin hexameters, describes his character in a manner which
seems fully to justify the earnest appeal of the abbot and monks of
Gloucester for his powerful help against their oppressors, and for
their fitting punishment :
" Flent hodie Salesberie quia decidit ensis
Justitise, pater ecclesise Salesberiensis :
Dum viguit miseros aluit, fastusque potentum
Non timuit, sed clava fuit terrorque nocentum.
De Ducibus, de nobilibus primordia duxit
Principibus, propeque tibi qui gemma reluxit."
The foregoing may be thus translated : " They mourn to-day at
Salisbury because the sword of justice, the father of the church of
Salisbury, has fallen : while he lived he sustained the wretched,
and feared not the arrogance of the powerful, but was the scourge
[lit. club] and terror of the guilty. He traced his ancestry from
Dukes, from noble Princes, and near to thee [reader] is one who
shone in life as a precious gem."
The letter referred to above is as follows :
" To his father and lord Jfocelin], by the grace of GOD Bishop
of Salisbury, his own Gplbert], called Abbot of the Church of the
Blessed Peter at Gloucester, to obtain with joy and exultation the
fruits of righteousness [justice].
^ Beloved father, with a common lamentation we deplore our
trials in the ears of your holiness, humbly praying that your
admonition may restrain, or your discipline coerce, our wrong-doers.
" Johannes de Merleberge and Walter de Pinchcum do not cease
to trouble us, your humble friends, and to snatch away the solaces
of our pilgrimage with violent hand, and they do not blush to put
them to base uses. Hitherto we have patiently borne the burden
* Wiltshire Arcteological and Natural History Magazine, 1878, vol. XYU., p. 183.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. S
and heat of the day, in the hope that at length the madness of the
malignants may be fulfilled, or that the same by the salutary per-
suasion of some one may be turned into righteous paths.
"But, because according to the Book of Wisdom, whom God
shall have despised, man is not able to correct, we ask with con-
fidence these things which we hope for from you, that the pastoral
staff in your hand may humble those with whom your holy
admonition does not avail.
"Meanwhile let your holiness know that these two before-
mentioned men, in money and money value, have deprived us of
more than two hundred marks, and our possessions which were
near them they have almost reduced to nothing. We wish there-
fore that you may be strengthened by the Spirit of Him who said,
' Confidite, ego vici mundumj who shall make his enemies ' the
footstool of his feet : ' through whom we shall laugh and mock at
the destruction of the malignants, when that shall befal them
which they deserve.
" His sword you do not carry in vain, but in order that you may
strike the Philistines not only with a ploughshare [ox-goad] as
with the seed of Gad, but also with Ehud (Aoth) with the mouth
of the sword. Let not His sword grow blunt in your hand that
sword which, according to the Prophet, " is sharpened and furbished
that it may glitter."* In all respects a fitting opportunity for
courage now presents itself. Charity grows cold, offences chill.
The Church everywhere appeals to you as the avenger of crimes.
Therefore we pray thee, let that Word of God be drawn forth
which is quick and powerful, extending to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, so that in that great
banquet there may be glory to thee in the presence of them that
sit at meat, inasmuch as thou hast set thyself as a wall for the
house of Israel, and either manfully repelled its wrongs, or avenged
them. Farewell."
Perhaps some reader will be able to trace these depredators, and
their chastisement, if any. j MELLAND HALL, M.A.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud.
1005. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. IV. : HORTON.
Baptisms.
1658. Sept. Katherine, d. of Edward Stephens.
1659. June 23. Thomas, s. of Thomas Gwynne, Rector.
1660. Oct. 18. Rachel, d. of Edward and Mary Stephens.
Dec. 9. John, s. of Thomas Gwynne, Rector.
1699. May 21. Richard, s. of Thomas Gwynne, Junior. , .
1701. Aug. 15. Margaret, d. of Thomas Gwynn, Rector of
Ozleworth.
* EzeKelxxi., 10, 11.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1706. Mar. 29. William, s. of James Harris, Rector, and
Mary.
1710. Dec. 20. (Born) Edward, s. of John Paston, Esq r , and
Frances.
1728. Jan. 22. (Born) Anna Maria, d. of William Paston,
Esq r , and Mary. [She became the wife of
George (who died before his father), only
son of Sir Robert Throckmorton, Bart.,
of West-Underwood, Bucks, and was the
mother of three baronets.]
1773. June 24. John, s. of Nebuchadnezzar and Martha
Prout, aged 27.
1785. April 3. William, s. of John and Hannah Prout.
[Ancestors of William Prout, M.D.,F.R.S.,
author of Chemistry, Meteorology, etc.
(London, 1834), one of the "Bridgewater
Treatises."]
Marriages.
1672. May 28. Nathaniel Gwynne and Sarah Freeman.
1695. Sept. 19. Marmaduke Sealey, Rector of Little Sodbury,
and Mary Stokes.
1727. July 27. By Licence, Edward Barnes, of Gloucester,
and Ann Walker, of Horton.
1732. April 17. By Licence, "as I was informed," John
Chichester, Esq r , and Elizabeth Courtney.
1765. Jan. 21. William Gunning, of Marshfield, and Mary
Walker, of this Parish, by Licence.
1768. July 24. John King, Bachelor, Gent., and Rebecca
Pardoe, Spinster, of Horton, by Licence.
1776. June 3. Henry Jones, Gent., of Luckington, Wilts,
and M rs Sarah Collins, of Horton.
Burials.
1661. May 10. George Boswell, Minister of Little Sodbury.
1662. Jan. 25. Joseph, s. of William Paston, Esq r .
1665. July 23. Mary Boswell, Widow.
1673. Mar. 27. William Paston, Esq r [" ex antique & prseclaro
genere "].
Nov. 5. Theresa, d. of Mary Paston, Widow.
1677. June 7. William Paston, s. of William and Mary
Paston, Lord of the Manor of Horton, in
his nonage [" 14 annum agens "].
1679. Sept. 26. M rs Mary Paston [nee Lawson], Widow, late
of Bath.
1697. Dec. 6. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Gwynne, Rector
1702. April 19. The Carcase of Thomas Howell was put in a
stinking hole in his garden.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 5
1703. June 29. Thomas Gwynne, Kector for 47 years, died
aged 81.
1708. Sept. 28. James Cann [? Cam], Gent, [aged 68].
1710. Dec. 24. Edward, s. of John Paston, Esq r , and Frances.
1712. April 13. Frances [nee Tichborne], wife of John
Paston, Esq r .
1727. May 14. M rs Amy Courtney.
1730. Aug. 3. M 18 Ann Barnes [nee Walker], of Gloucester
[aged 30].
Dec. 1. James Harris, Eector for 27 years, aged 65.
Feb. 18. Hon ble M rs Ann Paston [nee Calvert], d. to
[Charles, 4th] Lord Baron Baltimore.
1732. Dec. 26. M rs Ann Paston.
1734. Oct. 28. Mary, widow of Rev d M r Harris.
1737. Oct. 17. (Died) John Paston, Esq r [aged 67].
1747. Oct. 31. Maria [nee Courtenay], "wife of William
Paston, Esq r .
1763. May 18. M rs Elizabeth Chichester [nee Courtney].
1767. Sept. 26. Thomas Barnes, Gent., from Bath.
1769. Jan. 14. William Paston, Esq r [aged 68].
[A long list is given of Excommunicate Persons, 1662 ; some on
June 18, 1663; some Feb. 4, 1665; and some Dec. 13, 1668.
" These were all pardoned by the King."]
1006. SUBSIDY ROLL FOR BLSLEY, 1600. The following copy
of a small subsidy roll for Bisley, for the year 1600, may prove
interesting :
Througharu Titheing.
Thomas Smarte . . . . 1 7 '
Edward Turner . . . . 1 3
Thomas Warnford . . . . 2 ob
John Clissold . . . . 2 ob
William ffreame . . . . i * ob
Walter Verinder . . . * i
Wid. Hunt i
Anthony ffreamo . . . ob
Thomas Waite for Througham . * ob
Thomas Taylor, or Tailo . . i
Thomas Smarte . . . . 5 ob
[ ] . . . 0- i-
Thomas Hunte for Lowmead . . ob
Thomas Smarte for Pimburis . . 0*3*
Tunly Titheing.
William Hancox . . , . ii ob
William ffreame or his ten . . 6 ob
William Harbord . -. I ^v ' . 0-2
Rob [ } B [ ] . . . ob
Wi [ .] - . . 2 ob
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
John Cox for [
William Witts .
John Jones .
Walter Hancox .
Richard Peyten .
Widdow Tailor .
John Hancox
George Smarte
M r Awdley for Siccarige
ob
' 2 ob
ob
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i
-2
' 2 ob
i
5
H.
1007. BRIEFS AND CHURCH COLLECTIONS, 1702-3.- I send you
a copy of an entry in the register book of Enham Knights, Hants,
which, as it mentions a Gloucestershire parish, may be admissible.
Is anything known about this " fire at Blaisdon "? and what was the
occasion of the "Chepstow Brief"? These are queries to which I
shall be very glad to have an answer. R jj CLUTTERBUCK.
Eiiham Knights Eectory, Andover.
026
August 1702.
Collected for the sufferers by fire at Haddenham in the )
County of Bucks two shillings sixpence - - /
Collected for the sufferers by fire at Blaisdon in the
County of Gloucester two shillings
Collected for the sufferers by fire at Rolleston in the
County of Stafford two shillings
Collected for the sufferers by fire in the Isle of Ely
three shillings sixpence
August 1703.
Collected for Chepstow Brief - -
Collected for Lutterworth - - - -
Collected for the Brief for S* Giles Church -
Collected for Tuxford Brief -
Collected for the Brief for Monks Kerby Church -
Collected for the Brief for Spittlefeilds -
Collected for Farringdon Brief - -
All these entered together
according to order
Jo : Feilder Cu r
Edward Douling Churchwarden.
1008. THE CLUTTERBUCK FAMILY, OF STANLEY ST. LEONARDS.
-~I send the following particulars taken from the registers of
Stanley St. Leonards : they refer to an old family long resident
there, and were sent to me some years ago by the Rev. David Jones.
who was then the vicar of the parish. JAMS
iottenham, near London, K.
1 9
1 6
14
2 3
1 3
1 6
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 7
Baptisms.
1577. Richard, s. of Thomas Clutterbooke.
1583. William, s. of Thomas Clotterboke.
1584. Feb. 6. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Clutterboke.
1586. Nov. 8. Katharine, d. of Barnabee Clutterbooke.
1590. July 9. , s. of Richard Clutterbooke.
1590-1. March 7. Thomas, s. of Richard Clutterbooke.
1591. May 23. Richard, s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1592. June 25. Ferdinando, s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
June. Ferdinando, s. of Thomas Clutterbooke.
p the same as the preceding one.]
July. Samuel, s. of Walter Clotterbooke.
1593. Oct. William, s. of Miles Clutterboke.
* Nov. Jane, d. of Richard Clotterbooke.
Nov. Richard, s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1593-4. Jan. John, s. of Barnabee Clotterbooke.
1595. March. John, s. of Walter Clotterbooke.
June. Elizabeth, d. of Richard Clotterbooke.
July. , s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1596. Feb. Thomas, s. of Miles Clotterbooke.
1597. Feb. Thomas, s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1598. Dec. 24. John, s. of Richard Clotterbooke.
1600. Hester, d. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1601. April. Thomas, s. of Richard Clotterbooke.
1602. May 20. Alice, d. of Walter Clotterbooke.
1604. May. Sarah, d. of John Clotterbooke.
1605. March. Richard, s. of Richard Clotterbooke.
Same day. Amity, s. of Walter Clotterbooke.
1607. March. Anne, d. of Walter Clotterbooke.
1608-9. Feb. Prisilla, d. of John Clutterbooke.
1610. Oct. 7. Margery, d. of Walter Clutterbooke.
1611. April 19. John, s. of John Clutterbooke.
1613. Aug. Samuel, s. of John Clutterbooke.
1616. Debora, d. of John Clutterboke.
1620. Nathaniel, s. of John Clotterbooke.
1629. June 28. Richard, s. of William Clutterbooke.
1630. Jan. 6. Alice, d. of William Clotterbooke, of Downton
[a hamlet in the parish].
1633. April 22. Samuel, s. of William Clotterboke, of Downton.
1638. Oct. 21. John, s. of Amity Clutterbooke.
1657. Jan. 15. William, s. of Samuel Clotterboke.
1660. Oct. 18. Thomas, s. of Samuel Clotterboke.
1662. Sept. 28. John, s. of Richard Clutterbooke.
1666. Nov. 6. Richard, s. of Richard Clutterboke.
1668. May. Daniel, s. of Samuel Clutterboke.
1674. Jan. 9. , s. of Samuel Clutterbooke.
1685. Jan. 9. Robert, s. of Stephen Clotterbook, by
Elizabeth, his wife, of the parish of Esenton
[? Eastington].
8 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1 695 July 4- Samuel, s. of William and Dinah Clutterbook.
1698. Last day of Nov. William, s. of William Clotterboke.
1701.' Jan. 29. Thomas, s. of William Clotterboke.
1726! Dec. 30. Thomas, s. of Thomas Clotterboke.
1728! July 28. Hannah, d. of Thomas Clutterbuck.
1729*. Nov. 16. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Clutterbuck.
1744.' May 16. Hannah, d. of Nathaniel Clutterbuck.
1748.' Dec. 28. Thomas, s. of Samuel Clutterbuck.
1752. March 26. Samuel, s. of Samuel Clutterbuck.
1755. Aug. 1. Sarah, d. of Samuel Clutterbuck.
1761. May 11. John, s. of Samuel and Ruth Clutterbuck.
Marriages.
1583. Nov. 4. Thomas Bryan and Margery Clotterbooke.
1591. Walter Clutterbooke and Elizabeth .
1608. Sept. 19. John Clutterbooke and Anne Sandford.
1613-4. Feb. Richard Smythe and Katharine Clutterbooke.
1618. Oct. 7. Walter Flower and Alice Clutterboke.
Nov. 2. Thomas Clutterbooke and Anne Partridge.
1640. Oct. 19. John Clutterbooke and Marian Smith.
1723. May 11. William Clutterbook and Anne Blanch.
1740. April 7. John Shreeve and Anne Clutterbuck.
1748. May 5. Samuel Clutterbuck and Katharine Wilkins.
Burials.
1572. Aug. Anne Clotterbooke, widow.
1579. Jan. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1582. Feb. Elizabeth Clotterbooke, d. of Thomas.
1587. May 15. Richard Clutterbooke.
1587-8. Feb. 7. Clutterbooke.
1590. April 6. Richard, s. of Richard Clutterbooke.
1590-1. Jan. Richard, s. of Thomas Clutterbooke.
1592. June 20. Agnes, wife of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1594. Nov. Richard, s. of Thomas Clotterbooke.
1607. Dec. 2. , wife of John Clotterbooke.
1610. May 31. Walter Clutterbooke.
1611. June 14. Elizabeth,, wife of Richard Clutterbooke.
1614. April. Barnabee Clutterbooke.
1616. Dec. Clutterbooke.
1619. July. John Clutterbooke, son^of Barnabee.
1627. Jan. 21. Elizabeth Clutterbooke.
1629. June 10. Richard Clutterbooke, of Downton.
1635. Jan. 19. Anne Clutterbooke.
1646. Sept. 16. Marian, wife of John Clutterboke.
1649. Feb. Anne, wife of John Clutterbooke.
1653. Feb. 16. John Clutterbooke.
1654. Aug. 14. Samuel Clutterbooke.
Dec. 18. Grisella, wife of John Clotterbooke.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 9
1658. Jan. 9. William Clutterbooke.
1669. Aug. 24. Richard Clutterbooke, of Downton.
1670. Oct. 28. John, s. of John Clutterbooke.
1672. June 7. Richard, s. of Samuel Clotterboke.
1677. June 29. (Died) John Clutterbooke, of Downton, Senior.
1679. May 14. Katharine Clotterbooke.
1683. Jan. 13. Mary, d. of Richard Clutterbooke.
1699. March 2. Thomas, s. of Samuel Clutterboke, of Downton.
1700. May 2. Deborah, wife of Samuel Clotterbook, of
Downton.
1704. April 19. Thomas, s. of William Clotterbook, of
Stonehouse.
1713. April 4. Dinah, wife of William Clotterboke.
May 4. Samuel Clotterbook.
1714. March 9. Samuel Clutterbook, Junior.
1725-6. Jan. 8. Thomas, s. of Thomas Clotterbook.
1727. Sept. 3. Anne, wife of William Clutterbuck.
1728. Aug. 7. Hannah, d. of Thomas Clutterbuck.
Oct. 27. William Clutterbuck.
1728-9. Jan. 8. William, s. of William Clutterbuck.
1729. Aug. 12. Mary Clutterbuck, widow.
1732. Sept. 16. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Clutterbuck.
1733. Aug. 2. Catherine Clutterbuck.
1741. Ma'rch 3. Mary Clutterbuck.
1747. June 11. Samuel Clutterbuck.
1753. June 10. Thomas Clutterbuck.
1754. Feb. 17. Samuel, s. of Samuel Clutterbuck.
1766. Jan. 5. Mary Clutterbuck.
Copy of inscriptions on a tombstone near the church-porch :
" Here resteth the body of Samuel Clotterbooke, clothier, who
deceased the 10 th day of Dec., Anno Dom. 1681, aged 80 years.
And waiteth for a joyfull Resurrection to Glory."
" Here resteth the body of Richard Clotterbooke, of Downton,
yeoman, who deceased the 8 th day of June, Anno Dom. 1629.
And waiteth for a joyful Resurrection to Glory."*
1009. NORTHLEACH PARISH CHURCH. In the Church Builder,
No. 19 (July, 1884), there is, "thanks to the kindness of
Mr. James Brooks, the architect," a well-executed illustration of
this grand structure, which bears testimony to the wealth, piety,
and zeal of the fifteenth-century inhabitants of the town ; it gives
a good S.E. view of the exterior, and shows the proposed restoration.
The present vicar of the parish, the Rev. Joseph W. Sharpe, M.A.,
has furnished the following details :
The porch is one of the finest in the kingdom, and has two bays.
Each lateral lofty wall is enriched with pointed arcading. The lofty
roof is richly groined, fretted, and studded with heads, one being
* For mention of about thirty of this name, who were buried in the adjoining parish of
Stanley Kings, and who are, or have been, commemorated by inscriptions in the church, see
ante, vol. i., pp. 171, 172. ED.
10 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
that of our Lord, with a cruciform nimbus. The outside front has
escaped the hands of the destroyer. In the upper of two large
central niches is the representation of the Blessed Trinity, partly
mutilated ; in the lower, St. Mary with the Holy Child standing
on her knee. Over the porch is a priest's chamber, in which is the
original mantelpiece, battlemented with elegant brackets on each
side, and a cupboard. Access to this room is from the stair by a
flat 'trefoiled arch, then through the doorway, the original door
remaining. The south aisle is lighted by fine large pointed windows,
of four lights, cinque-foliated, with tracery ^ subdivided into two
arched compartments, containing some choice pieces of stained
glass, one figure being that of St. Lawrence. The roof has well-
moulded principals, purlins, rafters, and carved bosses. At the east
end are the battered remains of a once elaborate reredos, with seven
niches below and four above; the colour on the backs of the niches
remains. A square aumbrey, with a stone shelf, still retains the
original hinges and half the door.
The south chapel, called BicknelPs chapel, opens into the chancel
by two plain arches and pier under one wide arch. This aisle is
said to have belonged " to Sir Ralph Button, but is repayred by
y e Parish."
The chancel has a fine lofty pointed five-light window, occupying
the entire width of the east end. It has been filled with modern
stained glass. The three seats in the sedilia are level. It is
cinquefoiled above with double cusped heads and well-moulded
shafts ; a double rose and lily foliage under the embattled cornice.
A north door opposite opens into a small chapel, having the original
stone altar in situ, beneath a square-headed three-light window.
Very singular are the pastoral staves, one high up on each wall of
the chancel.
The north chapel of two bays overlaps the chancel by two
arches, of two orders, resting on octagonal shafts with moulded
capitals. In two quatrefoils of the windows remain monograms of
St. Mary and of Jesus. The altar steps remain. The timbers and
bosses of the flat gabled roof retain their colour and gilding.
There are exquisite corbels of the founders. The rood-loft doors
are in the north wall. A processional door has a deep outer jamb
on which is a repetition of hollow chamfer and roll mouldings.
Here stands the font, which is octagonal, having on each cusped
face a bold head. The bowl rests on angels issuing forth, on a
shaft with small panels and buttresses, on a base of heads with
bent forelegs triple-clawed, in symbolical contrast with the angels.
In the roof are bosses, on one of which is carved a bear and
rugged staff, for Beauchamp.
The nave, beautified by John Fortey, is of five bays. The pillars
are lofty, and the arches flat. The clerestory is a succession of
large pointed windows subdivided by branching mullions. In the
ast gable is a broad elliptical window of nine lights. The parapets
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 11
outside are embattled with a diagonal pinnacle to each battlement.
On the eastern apex is an elegant little canopy, occupied by a figure
of St. John the Baptist.
The grand tower consists of four stages, with traces of prepara-
tions for a spire which was never erected. Inside, the lower
portion is really a lofty lantern lighted by a large double-arched
window. In the groined roof are heads of queen, abbot, king, and
other figures engaged in a "divine liturgy." This part of the
church will be very striking when all the unseemly lumber now
burying it shall be swept away. The west door, within and without,
is very fine.
The present altar-cloth is made up of magnificent copes preserved
until a few years since. The mensa of the high altar has been
found buried in the footpace. It measures 10 feet by 3 feet, and
8J inches thick.
It is to be hoped that, in Mr. Brooks' hands, the utmost care
will be taken in the execution of the work. It would be difficult
to improve upon the structure as it left the original architect's
hands, and the sole object should be to restore it so far as possible
to that state, avoiding all unnecessary removals or additions.
J. G.
The same illustration, with the foregoing particulars, is given in
Church Bells (Sept., 1884), vol. xiv., p. 939. The Incorporated Church
Building Society (of which the Church Builder is the recognized
organ) has made a grant towards the restoration fund, and the
estimated cost is ,3,600. EDITOR.
1010. JOHN, LORD CHEDWORTH : MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.
(See No. 389.) On a black tablet in the south aisle of St.
Matthew's Church, Ipswich, the following inscription appears :
"The Eight Hon, John (Howe), Lord Chedworth, | Baron of
Chedworth, in the County of Gloucester, was born August 22,
1754, died October 29, 1804. He succeeded his uncle Frederic-
Henry October 6, 1781, | and dying a bachelor the title became
extinct. | He was a nobleman of superior abilities, | well versed in
every branch of elegant and polite literature; an able, active, and
upright magistrate; | intimately acquainted with the laws and
constitution of his country ; a strenuous supporter of civil and
religious liberty; firmly attached to the principles established
at the revolution ; | and a sincere beleiver [sic] in the truths of
Christianity." As mentioned by the Rev. Francis Haslewood,
who has printed the foregoing in his Monumental Inscriptions
in the Parish of Saint Matthew, Ipswich (1884), p. 16, Davy
states that this monument was formerly on the south side of
the monument of Michael Thirkle. (" Suffolk Collections," Brit.
Mus., Add. MSS., 19,094, ii.) It was a portion of the monument
" in the churchyard," and therefore not then in the church. The
entry of burial in the register is as follows : " The Kight Hon.
12 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Tohn f Howe) Lord Chedworth, Baron of Chedworth, in the County
JCG^SlM^ f-m St. Helen's, aged 50 No v ,2. No
affidavit brought, of which notice was given, and the Penalty paid.
The reference is of course to the penalty of 5 incurred when the
deceased was not buried in woollen.
Mr. Haslewood has likewise recorded (pp. 272, 2/3) the following
inscription on the altar tomb in the churchyard, to the west of the
church: "Elizabeth, late Wife | of Michael Thirkle, Merck*, |
died Aug 8t 3 rd , 1731, aged 58. | Elizabeth, late Wife of Michael
Thirkle, Esq r , | died Feb* 2 d , 1759, aged 38. | Michael Thirkle,
Merch*, | died July 26 th , 1762, aged 80. | Michael Thirkle, Esq r , |
one of Portmen | and several times | Bailiff of this Corporation) I
died Nov r 14 th , 1766, aged 53. I Elizabeth, Widow of Michael
Thirkle, Merch*, | died EeV 25 tk , 1772, aged 84. | The Honour-
able Frances Howe, | died Feb^ 17 th , 1778, aged 55. | Olive
Thirkle, 2 nd Wife of | Michael Thirkle, Esq r , died Feby 23 d ,
1785, aged 61. | The Eight Honourable | John (Howe), Lord
Chedworth, | born August 22, 1754 : died Oct. 20, 1804."
EDITOR.
1011. THE CHATTERTON FAMILY, OP BRISTOL. I think the
subjoined extracts from the City of Bristol records, which I send
you for insertion in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, will be
interesting to the Gloucestershire men and others who have followed
the discussion of the poet Chatterton's birth and family associations
by Mr. Taylor, of the City Library, Bristol, on the one side, and
Mr. J. H. Ingram, of London, on the other. I suppose " ffree
mason " (as a trade designation) means a worker in freestone 1 and
if so, this points to a migration from Bath and the freestone districts
to Bristol, made by the Chattertons in the person of Thomas, father
of John, in the seventeenth century.
I am glad to take this opportunity of expressing my sincere
thanks to the present Mayor, and to the Clerk of the Town Council,
for the access they have given me to their records.
Kelston Rectory, Bath. FRANCIS J. POYNTON.
From the Burgess Eoll of the City of Bristol :
1 680. John Chatterton, ffree Mason, is admitted into y e Liberties
of this Citty for y* he was y e apprentice of his Father, Thomas
Chatterton, and hath taken the oath of allegiance, and paid fee 4/6.
1693. Sept. 27. Giles Mai pas, pinn-maker, is admitted, &c.,
for that he was apprentice to Thomas Bryan fee p d 4/6.
1698. Jany 24. John Chatterton, Merchant tayler apprentice-
ship to W m Davis.
1713 Aug. 7. William Chatterton, jun r , ffree Mason, admitted
to the Liberties, &c., as son of William Chatterton.
1729. April 14. John Chatterton, Weaver, is admitted, &c.
(apprenticeship qualification) to Richard Noble on oath of allegi,
ance and fee p d 4/6.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 13
1012. EGBERT SOUTHEY AND FRANKING. In Notes and
Queries (6 th S. x. 124) this communication from Mr. Edward
Walford appeared: "I have seen a letter written by Southey's
son-in-law, the Rev. J. "W. Warter, in which he says that ' nothing
could ever induce his father-in-law to frank a letter.' The same
gentleman enclosed to my friend the late Mr. Wm. Blott, of the
General Post Office, the following autograph lines, sent by Southey
in reply to a gentleman named Simpson, who had asked him for a
frank :
' Oh ! friend of the Autographs, look not so blank
At receiving my answer and getting no frank :
It is not, believe me, because I am willing
To fine you for asking the sum of one shilling ;
A day or two hence the newspapers will show
To all the king's subjects why I have done so ;
In guessing the reason meantime be amused,
And hold Robert Southey from franking excused ;
And be sure that you ever will find, son of Sim,
The frankest of men, though no franker, in him.'
It should be said in explanation that Southey was once returned to
Parliament for a pocket borough in his absence from England, and
that on returning home he lost no time in applying for the Chiltern
Hundreds."
To this communication Mr. Edward Solly very soon replied,
p. 192 : "These lines are interesting; but I think there is
a small error introduced by Mr. Walford's concluding words,
1 he lost no time in applying for the Chiltern Hundreds.'
At the general election in 1826, Southey being then abroad, Lord
Radnor nominated him for the borough of Downton, in Wiltshire.
This was what used to be called a pocket borough; it sent to
Parliament two representatives, and there were about twenty voters,
1 who were nominated for the day, by the proprietor, to return any
two names as they were ordered' (Oldfteld, v. 119). On June 10,
1826, Lord Radnor's deputy returned the names of T. G. B. Estcourt
and R. Southey. The former was also chosen for Oxford University,
and he elected to take that seat. Mr. Southey, on his return to
England, publicly declared that he had not the legal qualification,
and that therefore his return was void. Accordingly, when Parlia-
ment met in November, new writs were issued for Downton ; Lord
Radnor nominated two new candidates on December 16; and the,
London Gazette sets forth that B. Bouverie was elected in lieu of
Mr. Estcourt, and ' Alexander Pow^l, in the room of Robert
Southey, Esq., who has been chosen a burgess for the said borough
without the qualification of estate required by law.' Friends in
plenty were willing to subscribe and present to Southey the needful
qualification ; but he would not listen to this, and adhered, with
proud humility, to his first decision that he had not the necessary
qualification, and that consequently his election was wholly void.
14 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
With these views he could hardly exercise any of the privileges of
a member." M. C. B.
1013 CHELTENHAM THEATRE KOYAL, 1788. In August of
this year the performances at Cheltenham Theatre were patronized
in person by King George III. and family; and his Majesty was
so pleased with what he witnessed there, that he forthwith con-
stituted it a Theatre Royal by letters patent. In her Diary,
vol iv., p. 213, Madame D'Arblay, who was present as one of the
maids of honour, has thus described the first visit : " We talked
over his [Mr. Fairly's] usual theme plays and players and he
languished to go to the theatre and see Mrs. Jordan. Nor did he
languish in vain : his royal master, the Duke, imbibed his wishes,
and conveyed them to the King; and no sooner were they known
than an order was hastily sent to the play-house, to prepare a royal
box. The Queen was so gracious as to order Miss Planta and
myself to have the same entertainment. We went into a box near
the stage, which is always appropriated for Mr. Delabere, as chief
magistrate, whenever he chooses to make use of it. Very
vexltiously, however, my message arrived so late, that my dear
j^iss p and her aunt, &c., were out. Mr. Delabere and the
sweet little Ann Dewes* accompanied us to their box. The
delight of the people that their King and Queen should visit this
country theatre was the most disinterested I ever witnessed ; for
though they had not even a glance of their royal countenances,
they shouted, huzzaed, and clapped, for many minutes. The
managers had prepared the front boxes for their reception, and
therefore the galleries were over them. They made a very full and
respectable appearance in this village theatre. The King, Queen,
Duke of York, and three Princesses, were all accommodated with
front seats ; Lord Harcourt stood behind the King, Lady Harcourt
and Mr. Fairly behind the Queen ; Lord and Lady Courtown and
Lady Pembroke behind the Princesses ; and, at the back, Colonel
Gwynn and Mr. Bunbury ; Mr. Boulby and Lady Mary were also
in the back group." The last royal visit is thus recorded in the
Morning Post, Aug. 15 : " Cheltenham. The Theatre. Their
Majesties, for the last time, on Friday evening, honoured the
Theatre here with their presence. The house was, as it will never
be seen again, except on the same occasion. All the pit was laid
into the boxes, and the two first rows of the gallery ; the remaining
part of the gallery was at the pit prices. The King and Queen came
early. Amongst the audience were the following splendid list of
names : Earls Bathurst, Oxford, Harrington, Courtown; Lords Rivers,
Apsley, Maitland, Faulkland, Hamilton, Ducie ; Ladies Pembroke,
Harcourt, Courtown, Maitland. The upper boxes were crowded
with all the fashion that Gloucester, Worcester, and the county could
send. Amongst these were Doddington Hunt and John De la Bere,
Esqrs. Mrs. Wells, who had been sent for by order, appeared
For mention of the death of her mother, and of Mr. De la Bere, see ante, yol. i., pp. 296, 297 -
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 15
both in the play and farce, Julia in the * Midnight Hour/ and
Cowslip. The best applause was the express approbation of their
Majesties, signified through the means of the manager, Mr. Watson.
The playbills of the evening were printed upon satin. Mrs. Watson
attended their Majesties with tea, between the play and entertain-
ment."
It was upon this occasion that the address, which is here given,
was spoken by Mr. Charlton, and received with great applause.
" THEATRE ROYAL,
" CHELTENHAM.
" Their Majesties, the Princess Royal, the Princess Augusta, and
the Princess Elizabeth, having thrice honoured Mr. Watson, the
proprietor and manager, with their presence, and having signified
their royal intention of returning to Windsor and London 'till next
season, the following dutiful and loyal farewel Address was spoken
by Mr. Charlton (Mr. Watson being deprived of that honour by
illness), on Friday, the 15th August, 1788, before the above Great
Personages, and a very numerous train of nobility and gentry.
Written by Mr. Stuart, author of Gretna Green, &c. :
" When the majestic spirit of the law
Feels a relief from Chelt'nam's humble Spa :
When GEORGE, our Constitution's sacred shield,
Here aids his own, the sceptre long to wield ;
All hearts must worship this dear, hallow'd ground,
Health, at whose fount the KING OF FREEMEN found !
Long may this stream preserve Great Britain free,
By cheering HIM, who guards our liberty !
Here may his virt'ous Contort often dwell,
Th' ador'd Hygeia of our royal well !
And oh ! may these, high Windsor's charming graces,
In this low vale show oft their blooming faces I
Where the meek eye unfolds the modest mind
Tho' young examples to all womankind /
But we intrude our homage now is due
To sacred Majesty ! to you ! and you 1
[Bowing to their Majesties, then to the Princesses, and lastly
to the audience.]
Deigning to visit our small rustic scene,
Proves that YOU think no subject's calling mean !
Our humble Manager still hopes, each year,
Of duteous loyalty to shed the tear !
And thank again his ROYAL PATRONS here !
Long may your future joys excel the past,
And Chelt'nam, honour'd thus, for ages last ! "
CHELTONIENSIS.
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1014 PATRICK COTTER O'BRIEN, THE GIANT. Ireland has
Ion- been famous for producing giants. The most celebrated of
these was the well-known O'Brien, whom we first hear of as a great
raw youth crying in a public-house because unable to pay the bill,
bavin" been left penniless through a quarrel with his exhibitor. A
gentleman taking compassion on him, paid his debt, and advised
the youn" giant to set up on his own account. Acting on this
recommendation, O'Brien started a public house in Bristol, long
known by the sign of the Giant's Castle. A memorial tablet in
Trenchard Street Koman Catholic Chapel, in that city, records his
stature as having been eight feet three inches. He was very
anxious that his remains should not fall into the hands of the
anatomists, and gave directions for securing his grave against
desecration from body-snatchers. It has, however, been disputed
whether his bones rest in his grave, or form one of the curiosities
of the Hunterian Museum. He was obliged to take his consti-
tutional exercise under cover of darkness, to avoid being mobbed
by the curious, and like most big fellows, he proved himself a
simple and inoffensive man ; though once he inadvertently terrified
a watchman almost to death by lighting his pipe at a street lamp,
when the sudden appearance of such a strange apparition threw the
watchman into a fit. His colossal proportions on another occasion
saved him from being robbed, the highwayman who stopped his
carriage riding away in terror at the sight of O'Brien's huge face
thrust through the window to see what was the matter.
The tablet is in the vestibule of the building, and bears this
inscription : " Here lie | the remains of M r Patrick Cotter O'Brien,
a native of Kinsale, | in the Kingdom of Ireland. | He was a
man of gigantic stature, | exceeding 8 feet 3 inches in height, |
and proportionably large. His manners were amiable and un-
offending, | and the inflexible integrity of his conduct | through
life, | united to the calm resignation with which he awaited the
approach of death, | proved that his principles | .were strictly
virtuous. | He died at the Hotwells | on the 8 of September, 1816, |
in the 46 th year of his age. | Requiescat in pace." BRISTOLIENSIS.
1015. A GLOUCESTER BALLAD. The following is from an old
broadside, without any date :
Come, my very merry gentle people, only list a minute,
For tho' my song may not be long there's something comic in it ;
A stranger I, yet, by the bye, I've ventured in my ditty
To say a word at parting, just in praise of Glo'ster city.
The Romans they this city built, and many folks came down here,
Kings Richard, Henry, John, and Ned, did visit Glo'ster town here ;
King William dined each Christmas here, and Glo'ster folks it
To know the food he relished most was double Berkeley cheeses.
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The ladies, Heaven bless 'em all ! as sure as I've a nose on,
Iii former times had only thorns and skewers to stick their clothes on ;
No damsel then was worth a pin, whate'er it might have cost her,
Till gentle Johnny Tilsby came, and invented pins in Glo'ster.*
Your fine cathedral when I saw, tho' much I was delighted,
Yet in the whisp'ring gallery I got most sadly frighted ;
Some question there I asked myself, when not a soul was near me,
And suddenly an answer came, as if the walls could hear me.
The Severn, full of Salmon fine, enriches low and high land,
And then, for more variety, you've got a little island ;
Of which I've read a Taylor's Tale, a dozen verses long, sirs,
And may I go Old Harry, if it's not a clever song, sirs.
George Ridler's Oven, I've been told, contains some curious jokes,
sirs,
And very much of it is said by many Glo'ster folks, sirs ;
But ovens now are serious things, and from my soul I wish, sirs,
Your ovens here may ne'er want bread to fill the poor man's dish,
sirs.
Now if you will but all forgive this slight attempt at rhyme, sirs,
I'll promise, like the little boys, to mend another time, sirs ;
May health with every blessing join this company to foster,
Till, with your leave, some future time I come again to Glo'ster !
GLOUCESTRENSIS.
It has been stated that this ballad was composed by Charles
Dibdin, who, paying a visit to Gloucester, was pressed by some
friends to leave a memento behind him. Another copy, likewise
undated, bears the well-known imprint, "Kaikes, Southgate Street."
EDITOR.
1016. COLONEL SEYMOUR. In Walpole's Anecdotes of Painters
(4to, 1798), p. 390, there is mention of "Colonel Seymour, a
noted painter in the reign of Queen Anne." With reference to him
the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe writes thus in his History of the Parish
of Bitton (1881-3), p. 89 : "I have not succeeded in identifying
this man, but that he was one of the family [Seymour of Bitton]
may be assumed from several old portraits at the Rectory House,
and small portraits of King William and Queen Mary, and a clever
panoramic view of Bitton Church and its surroundings, and a large
picture of Bitton Church now in my possession." Can any reader
help to prove his identity ? Q. ^. ^
1017. HOLE SILVER : WAKE SILVER. Sir John Maclean wrote
as follows in Notes and Queries (6 th S. ix. 467), June 14, 1884 :
" Can any reader of * N. & Q.' assist me to the purport of these
terms ? They occur in the court rolls of the Seven Hundreds of
* See ante, vol. i., p. 322. ED.
TOL. III. B
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Cirencester, Co. Gloucester, viz, view of frankpledge for Crow-
thorne Hundred held November 11, 3 Elizabeth :
"'Duntesborne Abbottes.-The Tithingman, being there exacted
and being sworn, doth present that the rents certain at this view
called hole silver [are] two shillings, and of a fine of Wake three
C ' 'Preston. The Tithingman, being there exacted and being
sworn, doth present that there is nothing of rents certain, but a
fine called Waksilver due at this view three pence.'
" < Summary of Holesilver.Of certain monies paid without
divers vills called holesilver, namely, of Dunstborne Abbots, 2s. ;
Estington, 13s. 4=d. ; Coin Rogers, 6s. Sd. ; Coin St. Alwins, 5s.;
Lechturise, 6s.'"
Someone may be able to supply the required information.
G. A.W.
1O18. DIGHTON QUERIES. The following queries may perhaps
elicit the information desired :
1. I am anxious to obtain particulars of the genealogy of Isaac
Dighton, merchant, of Bristol, and of his connection (if any) with
Dighton Street in that city. Has any account of him appeared in
print 1 Some of your readers may be able to enlighten me.
2, Is anything known of the descendants of Thomas Hailing
and Susanna Dighton, both of Stroud, who were married at
Eastington, Feb. 11, 1717? CONWAY DIGHTON.
Maisemore Vicarage, Gloucester.
As mentioned in Arrowsmith's Dictionary of Bristol (1884),
p. 266, Dighton Street and other streets in the neighbourhood of
King Square were commenced in 1755. The street was so called
in compliment to the Dighton family, several of whom have been
buried in St. James' Churchyard. EDITOR.
1O19. THE BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND HIS SUGAR-LOAF.
In the accounts of the churchwardens of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate,
London, there is this entry :
"1609. Item for a sugar loafe waying vij lbs & x ounces at
xviij d the pound for my Lord Bishop of Gloucester ..... 11 s 4 d ."
Can you throw any light upon this curious note ? The bishop
at the time was Henry Parry, D.D., subsequently of Worcester.
King's College, London. THEOPHILUS PITT.
1020. "BACK," AS USED IN BRISTOL, What may be the
meaning and derivation of the term " Back," as applied to sundry
parts of Bristol, e.g., The Back, Welsh Back, Temple Back, St.
Augustine's Back, St. James' Back, and Kedcliffe Back 1 j. G>
In Barrett's History of Bristol (1789), p. 72, we may find an
explanation : " Before this [the Quay] was made, the usual place, as
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 19
Leland says, for landing goods out of the ships was at the Back
[back, or bek, a Saxon word for a river], where was the old Custom-
house, .... The Quay being compleated, and the marsh of Bristol
thereby effectually divided from that of St. Augustin, houses and
streets began to be built there ; Marsh-street terminated with a
chapel, dedicated to St. Clement, and a gate ; and Back-street with a
gate also, and a chapel near it, dedicated to St. John, and belonging
to St. Nicholas : the church of St. Stephen and its dependent
parish, and the buildings between the Back and the Quay, seem to
have taken their rise at this period, and were all inclosed with a
strong embattled wall, externa or secunda mcenia urbis, extending
from the Key to the Back, where King-street has since been built."
Eeferring to this quotation, which had appeared in Notes and
Queries (1 st S. ix. 517), Mr. S. W. Singer replied in vol. xii.,
p. 11 : "If Barrett's conjecture as to the origin of this word, as
locally applied at Bristol, is to be admitted, it would perhaps rather
be a ferry than a river, from which it originated. The following
extract from a curious little volume"* tends to show that this was
the case : ' Sur la Tamise est basty un pont de pierre oeuvre fort
rare et excellent. Ce pont a vingt arches faictes de pierre, de 60
pieds de haulteur et de 30 pieds de large, basties en facon de voulte.
Sur le pont de coste et d'autre y a maisons, chambres et greniers, en
sorte qu'il semble mieux estre une rue qu'un pont. Quant a la
fondation du dit pont, faict a noter qu' au commencement il n'y
avoit apparence de pont, mais c'estoit un bac, pour passer y repasser
les gens et les marchandises amene'es a Londres. Par ce bac le
passager s'enrichit merveilleusement, pour 1' occupation qu'il en fait
par longues annees. Apres son de"ces, il le laissa par legs testa-
mentaire a line sienne fille nomm^e Marie Andery [1. Overy]. Elle
s'estant saisie des biens de defuncts ses pere et mere, et apres aussi
avoir amasse tout plein de biens par le moyen du dit bac, fut
conseilMe de fonder une Religion de Nonnains, un peu au-dessus du
Choeur de 1'Eglise qui depuis fut appellee Saincte Marie Andery
(i.e. St. Mary Overies), aux fauxbourg de Soutwark lez Londres,
en laquelle elle fut enterree. A 1'entretenement de laquelle
Eglise, icelle Marie donna par testament ledict bac et les
profits provenants d'icelluy,' &c. (Sig. L. iiij.) It is evident
that Sac is here used for Ferry, but it strictly meant the vessel,
or rather movable bridge, by means of which carriages, horses, and
passengers were ferried over, as appears from that valuable old
dictionary of Nicot, the prototype of our worthy Cotgrave : * BAG,
ra. acut. est un grand bateau a passer charrettes, chevaux, et gens
de pied d'un bord de riviere h autre. PONTO, en Latin : Lequel
mot retenants en maint lieux, celuy qui passe 1'eau aux allans et
venans est appelle" Pontonier, qu' on dit en autres endroits Passagier,
* Diseours des plus Memorables faicts des Roys et grands Seigneurs d'Angleterre, &c. Plua
une Traicte dela Guide des Cnemins, les assiettes et Description des principales ViUes, Chateuaux
et Rivieres d'Angleterre, par Jean Bernard, 12, a Paris, 1579.
20 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
et Barquerol pour le mesme.' It is singular that Stow, in his
Survei/of London, has related the same account of the origin of
the Priory of St. Mary Overies, which he is said to have obtained
from Bartholomew Linsted, the last prior, but which Tanner says
' is not confirmed by any other authority in print or manuscript
that had occurred to him.' We have here, at least, an earlier
authority than Stow by twenty years. W T hether the tradition was
derived by Jean Bernard from the same source or not, does not
appear."
In Ricarfs Kalendar, edited by Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith for
the Camden Society (1872), p. 40, there is this entry under the
year 1449 : "This yere the Bakke of Bristowe was repayred, al
the egis of it and of the slyppes, with free stone ; " and also this
foot-note : " The Back is a river-side street extending along the
Avon southwards from Bristol Bridge. Back is a name of several
streets in Bristol, as Augustine's Back, Eedcliff Back, St. James'
Back (see under date 1484), and appears to mean the street at the
back of the water, not to be the word beck, as has been suggested,
which would be applied to the water itself, not to the street."
EDITOR.
1021. STRANGE EPITAPH IN ASHTON-UNDER-HILL CHURCH.
The inscription below is in the chancel of the parish church of
Ashton-under-hill, near the south door, and on the wall between
that door and the altar-rail. It is not connected with any other
epitaph or inscription. Can you, or any of your readers, give me
information respecting it ? You may depend upon the spelling and
punctuation. ' HEBBEBI Nw
Green Hill, Evesham.
" Reader what needes a panegyricks skill,
A limmers pensill or a poets quill,
They are but miserable comforters
When badd ones die that paint their sepulchers ;
And when the life in holines is spent
The naked names a marble monument :
To keepe from rotting piety and almes
Do farr excell the best ^Egiptian balmes ;
Then whosoere thou art this course is safe,
Live live thy selfe both toombe and epitaph.
" Amoris ergo posuit
"Aprils Anodom 1651"
1022. GLOUCESTER "SAVED FROM THE KING'S MINES." Mr. T.
, , . L>J ***o jjaooauc ; xiio tiaillUlUJ
and horses in a quiet night will be heard some miles off.' . . .
t all if one set a drum smooth upon the ground, and lay
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one's ear to the upper edge of it, ' &c. On which the copy in my
possession (ed. 1669) has the following marginal note in a contem-
porary hand : * Thus Gloucester was saved from the King's mines
by y e drum of a drunken drumer.' To what event does this refer,
and where shall I find an account of it 1 It evidently happened
during the civil wars, but Clarendon has no mention of it. " Let
me ask someone, even at the eleventh hour, to explain.
G. A. W.
1023. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1776.
I have a printed copy of the "Return of the Poll" for a
Gloucestershire election held as far back as 1776; and as its publi-
cation may at this time interest some of your readers, I give a
verbatim copy :
"Glocester,May 6, 1776.
At the Close of the Poll this Day the numbers stood thus :
In C. B.
Barton Regis and Henbury 43 26
Langley and Swineshead and Pucklechurch ... 40 12
Thornbury and Grumbaldsash ... ... ... 25 25
Longtree 51 34
Cirencester, Brightwell's Barrow, Crowthorne, and
Minety 34 27
Deerhurst, Tewkesbury, and Tibblestone... ... 24 55
Kiftsgate 8 34
Whitstone 44 31
Berkeley 17 19
Botloe, Dutchy of Lancaster, and Westminster ... 35 22
Dudstone and King's Barton ... ... ... 21 24
Slaughter and Bradley 10 48
Bisley 44 37
Cleeve, Cheltenham, and Rapsgate ... ... 19 35
St. Briavel's, Westbury, and Bledisloe 30 34
Total ... 445 463
Majority only 18 HUZZA ! "
I shall be glad to learn the names of the gentlemen designated
under the initials " C." and " B.", and their politics. A comparison
of the numbers polled from the different places is not devoid of
interest, as Bisley could muster more than either Cheltenham or
Cirencester, and was within five of heading the list, which distinction
was won by Longtree. ^
Stroud.
Our correspondent has furnished a return of only the first day's
polling. There is a 4to book of 104 pages, published by authority,
and entitled An Accurate Copy of the Poll, taken before Henry
Lippincott, Esq., High-Sheriff of the County of Glocester, at the
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Election of a Knight of the Shire for the said County, in the room
ft) "present Lord Clifford, etc. ; and from it one may glean full
The contest, which was stoutly carried on, began on
ay May 6 and ended on Friday May 17, 1776 ; and the
candidates, whose respective politics need not be specified were,
William Bromley Chester, Esq., and the Honourable George Berkeley.
The former received 2,920 votes, and the latter 2,873 ; therefore
Mr Chester was returned with a majority of 47 over his opponent.
As our correspondent has given an analysis of the first day s polling,
it may be satisfactory to the reader to know the state of the polling
from each hundred at the close of the contest :
C. B. TOTAL.
Barton Regis and Henbury 499 141 640
Langley, Swineshead, and Pucklechurch 248 45 293
Thornbury and Grumbaldsash 263 100 363
Longtree 231 149 380
Cirencester, Brightwell's Barrow, Crowthorne,
andMinety 199 122 321
Deerhurst, Te wkesbury, and Tibaldstone 256 151 407
Kiftsgate - 226 181 407
Whitstone 139 148 287
Berkeley 140 348 488
Botloe, Duchy of Lancaster, and Westminster 175 284 459
Dudstone and King's Barton 97 182 279
Slaughter and Bradley 134 203 337
Bisley Ill 165 276
Cleeve, Cheltenham, and Eapsgate 65 251 316
St. Briavel's, Westbury, and Bledisloe 137 403 540
Total 2,920 2,873 5,793
Longtree, as appears from the foregoing, was very far from
maintaining its position at the head of the list. EDITOR
1024. SIR JONATHAN TRELAWNY, BART., D.D., BISHOP OF
BRISTOL. What I send has appeared in the Gentleman 1 s Magazine
(Nov., 1827), vol. xcvii., pt. ii., p. 409, with this prefatory remark
by Mr. Davies Gilbert : " Since any trifle," indicative of public
sentiment at a time so interesting as that of the Revolution, cannot
fail of being thought worth recording by many of your readers, I
take the liberty of requesting that the following communication
may be inserted : "
" AND SHALL TRELAWNY DIE ?
"The strong sensation excited throughout England by that
decisive act of bigotry, tyranny, and imprudence, on the part of
King James the Second, by which he committed the Seven Bishops
to the Tower, was in no district more manifestly displayed than in
Cornwall, notwithstanding the part taken by that county in the
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Civil War. This was, probably, in a great degree occasioned by
sympathy with a most respected Cornish gentleman, then Bishop of
Bristol, as appears from the following song, which is said to have
resounded in every house, in every high-way, and in every street :
" A good sword and a trusty hand,
A merry heart and true ;
King James's men shall understand
"What Cornish men can do.
" And have they fix'd the where and when t
And shall TRELAWNY die ?
Then twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why !
" Out spake the Captain brave and bold,
A merry wight was he,
Though London Tower were Michael's hold,*
We'd set TRELAWNY free !
" We'll cross the Tamar, land to land,
The Severn is no stay ;
And side by side, and hand in hand,
And who shall bid us nay 1
" And when we come to London Wall,
A pleasant sight to view,
Come forth ! come forth ! ye cowards all,
Here are better men than you.
" TRELAWNY he's in keep and hold ;
TRELAWNY he may die !
But twenty thousand Cornish bold
Will know the reason why."
The Seven Bishops were, William Sancroft, Archbishop of
Canterbury ; William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph ; Thomas Kenn,
Bishop of Bath and Wells ; Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely ; John
Lake, Bishop of Chichester ; Thomas White, Bishop of Peter-
borough ; and Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Bristol, who, having
been consecrated for that see November 8, 1685, was translated to
Exeter in April, 1689, and thence to Winchester in 1707, and died
July 19, 1721. C.
This ballad, beyond all doubt, was written as late as the year
1825, and by the Rev. Robert S. Hawker, M.A., who then held
the vicarage of Morwenstow, Cornwall (see his Ecclesia, a volume
of poems, pp. 91-93) ; and the refrain, two lines only, is all that is
of ancient date ! It is some comfort, however (as the editor of Notes
and Queries acknowledges, 2 nd S. xi. 16), when one makes a
mistake, to do so in good company, viz., in that of Lord Macaulay (see
his History of England) ; the late Davies Gilbert, Esq., himself a
* St. Michael's Mount.
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Cornish man; and Sir Walter Scott as will be seen from the
following note by Mr. Hawker to his Song of the Western Men:
" With the exception of the chorus, contained in the two last lines,
the son" was written by me, as an imitation of the old English
Minstrelsy, and was inserted in a Plymouth paper in 1825. It
happened to fall into the hands of Davies Gilbert, Esq., who did
me the honour to reprint it at his private press at East Bourne,
under the impression that it was the original ballad. I have been
still more deeply gratified by an unconcious compliment from the
critical pen of Sir Walter Scott. In a note [an essay prefixed] to
the fourth volume of his collected Poems, p. 12, he thus writes of
the Song of the Western Men : ' In England the popular ballad
fell into contempt during the seventeenth century ; and although
in remote counties its inspiration was occasionally the source of a
few verses, it seems to have become almost entirely obsolete in the
Capital.'" Sir Walter has added in a foot-note : "A curious and
spirited specimen occurs in Cornwall, as late as the trial of the
Bishops before the Eevolution. The President of the Eoyal
Society of London [Mr. Davies Gilbert] has not disdained the
trouble of preserving it from oblivion."
As a copy of the late Mr. Hawker's Ecclesia cannot easily be
consulted, it may be well to mention that the ballad in question
has been reprinted in his Cornish Ballads and other Poems (Oxford
and London, 1869), pp. 1, 2 ; and that in a note, in which he
refers to the mistake made by Mr. Davies Gilbert, Sir Walter
Scott, and Lord Macaulay, he also states that his production " was
praised under the same persuasion by Mr. Dickens, who inserted
it at first as of genuine antiquity in his Household Words, but
who afterwards acknowledged its actual paternity in the same
publication." There are a few slight differences between the
authorized version and the one given above. Thus, 1. 4, for "men"
in the latter read "lads"; 1. 7, for "Then" read "Here's"; 1. 9,
for " the " read " their "; 1. 11, for " Though " read If "; 1. 12,
for "We'd" read "We'll"; 1. 15, for "And side by side " read
" With ' one and all '"; 1. 20, for " Here are better men than you "
read "Here's men as good as you"; and 1. 23, before "twenty"
insert "here's." EDITOR>
1025. BRISTOL, A "CiTY OF CHARITIES." Mrs. Anne Beale
has condensed into the following brief article in the Quiver (1882),
pp. 488-90, a history of Bristol from the charitable point of view ;
and though there is nothing very new therein, it will be
acceptable as showing how some of the points of interest in our
B history have struck a visitor. BRISTOLIENSIS.
Wandering over Clifton Downs, we find ourselves asking
why Bristol has been called a "City of Charities." We see that
,t deserved its ancient name of Caer Oder, or Town of the Gap,
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because the chasm through which the Avon finds a passage to the
sea lies beneath us. Besides, we have heard the legend of the
giants Vincent and Goram. These giants resolved to hollow a way
through the rocks for the river to meet the sea. Each chose a
different spot for his labours, some miles apart. As they had but
one pick between them, they were obliged to work by turns, and
to throw it from one to the other ; so while one toiled the other
rested. Goram was in the habit of reposing in a massive chair
hollowed out of the rock on the ravine he was cutting, and one day
it happened that the pick arrived unadvisedly ; struck him on the
head and killed him, so Vincent had the huge tool to himself. No
sooner was Goram dead, than the impertinent rivulet, Tryrn, forced
its way through the passage he had meant for the Avon, and danced
away beneath his big chair. But Vincent hacked on at his rocks
until he had the satisfaction of seeing the imprisoned Avon flow
majestically through them towards the ocean, and of hearing them
named after him, St. Vincent's rocks. We do not know why they
made a saint of him, unless it was for the utility of his work.
Be this as it may, Bristol was formerly "The Town of the
Gap;" why is it now a "City of Charities'?" General statistics
answer our question in part. They tell us that she possesses forty
religious societies, forty charity-schools, and forty general charities.
Forty is evidently the golden number of Bristol.
We have only to keep our eyes open to see, and our ears to hear
of these said charities, so we will make our own observations.
Turn where we will, there they are. We meet them wherever we
walk, for that unsectarian preacher the weather, being in his most
eloquent mood, draws them in flocks to his great open-air meetings
on the Downs .... Artistic patches of scarlet, flitting
amongst the rocks and brushwood, first attract us. These are
" The Red Maids ; " and Alderman Whitson must have had an eye
to the picturesque, when he willed that the hundred girls, fed,
clothed, and taught for ever by his bounty, should be thus clad.
As we wander on, we meet boys in various costumes. First,
the Bristol Blue-coat boy, with his long gown and cap, buckled
belt and buckled shoes, and the badge of the Dolphin on his breast.
They owe food, clothing, and education to the rich merchant
Colston; and their badge commemorates an incident in his life.
A dolphin was found in one of his great ships, stopping a leak that
would otherwise have sunk the vessel. Chatterton wore this
badge as Colston boy till he was fourteen, and reflecting on him,
we are transported for the moment to the beautiful church of
St. Mary Kedcliff, below, in Bristol City. We saw it but
yesterday, and must confess that one thought rose, with the
symmetrical arches, pierced to the remote chapels, spread through
nave, transept, aisles, and choir, melted into the "dim religious
light" of the glorious windows, hovered even about the chancel,
and finally softened into tears in the muniment-room. This
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thought was Chatterton. It was there "The marvellous boy"
dreamed, pondered, wrote, hoped, despaired. There was the
" Canynge's cofre " in which he affirmed his father found his
wonderful manuscripts; there were the monuments and antiquities
that fed his ardent imagination there the mysterious influence
that worked on his excitable nature
And outside the church stands his monument, a sadder satire
still. Dead, he yet lives in effigy, as a Colston schoolboy on a
stone pinnacle. Dead, he yet lives in story, a warning to aspiring
youth, a lesson to responsible man
But we must rein-in the memories and imaginations of the past,
and think of Clifton Downs, and the realities of the present.
Scarcely have the blue-coated Colston boys disappeared, before
they are succeeded by another and yet another charity. The
schools seem innumerable. There are more blue-coat boys, but
these are capless and badgeless ; and many-costumed girls,
maintained by the bounty of some bygone merchant prince.
There are children from asylums, hospitals, and orphanages ; and
every charity appears to be represented on the Downs.
But perhaps the most remarkable is that built on Ashley Downs,
at no great distance. Here Mr. Miiller planted his orphanage some
years ago, and it has grown into a small parish. He prayed, and
the Father of the fatherless heard and answered. One orphan was
first given into his keeping, and he has now thousands, supported
by that prayer which sceptics declare valueless
But Bristol has not been called a " City of Charities " from its
orphanages alone. Even on the Downs we see the aged, sick, and
infirm from multitudinous almshouses, hospitals, and asylums ; and
we hear much of missions, ancient and modern. As usual, the
ladies are identical with the charities. They visit the sick poor iu
Union and Home, superintend mothers' meetings, provident clubs,
teetotal halls, schools, uniformed and ragged, and aid generally to
purify the moral air of the city. We are glad to find that they,
have instituted a Preventive Mission with a view to supersede the
Penitentiary, thus offering a Home to prevent degradation, instead
of a Refuge when degraded. It is also pleasant to hear that, while
caring for their fellow-creatures, they are not unmindful of the
brute creation. Cab-drivers and donkey boys withhold whip and
stick at sight of these opposers of cruelty to animals ; and as a rule
donkeys look less oppressed than their brethren elsewhere, and
speak well for the ladies and the air and herbage of the Downs.
>gs and cats have also their female champions. Trays of food
may be seen at certain doors for the unfriended " strays : " and so
their doubtful lease of life is lengthened. But perhaps the most
valuable fruit of Bristol's preventive mission to animals is visible
on 3 Quay, m the large fountains and troughs of water prepared
for them against they are landed from the crowded vessels .
stol is certainly a hive of busy bees in which there are many
working queens and few drones.
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Pondering these things, we linger on the Downs till evening's
shadows fall, and the tide conies in. Hitherto we have only seen
the mud-bed of the Avon uncovered by its sheet of water; now
the river flows beneath St. Vincent's rocks, wide, full, majestic, and
the giant's good work becomes apparent. Many vessels that have
been awaiting the tide at the Avon's mouth now glide down its
breast, and one might wander far and not meet a fairer scene. The
soft twilight slowly deepens over the Downs, and the blended hues
of sunset are reflected by the river and welcomed by rocks, woods,
and greensward. In the distance the Suspension Bridge looks like
some aerial passage laid by fabulous hands from rock to rock
while the vessels glide beneath it like birds in the abysmal depth
and darkness. The red light of each steamer might be a fire-fly
perched on the crest of these trailing water-birds, and the steam-shriek
their night cry. One by one they swee.p under the chain-work so
immeasurably above them towards the great merchant city. Few
have the white wings of the argosies that formerly wafted gold to
the inhabitants; but none the less do they bear their freight of
wealth to the modern Phoenicians. As the tide rises and night
gathers, nothing but these red lights are visible on the river, and
they gleam like jewels on her swelling breast. They flit on and
on, and disappear in the obscurity as they near their Tyre. It seems
strange to stand so high above and watch them in their dense depth
below. Stranger still to reflect on past and present, time and
change, God's works and man's works, while the curtain of night
falls on this "City of Charities."
1026. EPISCOPAL LICENCES TO MID WIVES. In Notes and
Queries (1 st S. ii. 499) Mr. Thomas Kerslake, of Bristol, wrote
upon this subject, as follows : I have a manuscript volume which
belonged to Bishop Warburton, and apparently to other bishops of
Gloucester before him; containing, amongst other Pontificalia, in
writing of various ages, a number of forms of licences, among
which occurs " Licentia Obstetricis," whereby the bishop " eandem
A. B. ad exercendam Artem et Oflicium Obstetricis in et per totain
Diocesin Gloucestrensem praedictam admisit et Literas Testimonials
superinde fieri decrevit." There is no mention of charms or
incantations [which had been referred to by another correspondent,
p. 408,] in the licence, but the oath " de jure in hac parte requisite,"
is required to have been made. The form is of the same writing
as several others which bear dates from 1709 to 1719. Below [but
Mr. Kerslake has not given it] is a memorandum of the fees,
amounting to 17*. 6df. j Q.
1027. "To BURL," A PROVINCIALISM. Mr. Albert Way wrote
as follows in Notes and Queries (1 st S. iii. 204), March 15, 1851 :
In the report of the evidence regarding the death of Mrs. HaJJiway,
at Chipping Sodbury, supposed to have been poisoned by her
husband, the following dialectical expression occurs, which may
28 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated that he was invited
by Mr. Hathway to go with him into a beer-house in Frampton
Cotterell, and " have a tip," but he declined. " Mr. H. went in,
and called for a quart of beer, and then came out again, and I went
in. He told me ' to burl out the beer, as he was in a hurry ' ; and
I 'burled ; out a glass, and gave it to him." (Times, Feb. 28.) I
am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been
noticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell.
In the Cumberland dialect, a birler, or burler, is the master of the
revels, who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding,
and takes especial care that the drink be plentifully provided.
(Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, London, 1839.) Boucher
and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of the
verb to birle, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr. Dyce's
notes on Elynour Rummyng, v. 269. (Skelton's Works, vol. ii.,
p. 167.) It is a good old Anglo-Saxon word byrlian, propinare,
haurire. In the Wycliffite versions it occurs repeatedly, signifying
to give to drink. See the glossary to the valuable edition lately
completed by Sir F. Madden and Mr. Forshall. In the Promptorium
Parvulorum, vol. i., p. 51, we find "Bryllare of drynke, or
schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke, propino : Bryllynge of
drynke," &c. T
J. IjT.
1028. CROCKET'S HOLE. (See No. 41.) As reported in the
Gloucestershire Chronicle, July 12, 1884, the Malvern Naturalists'
Field Club paid a visit to May Hill, and also to Crocket's Hole,
not far from_ Newent, a cavity ten or twelve yards in extent,
where, according to tradition, some persons immured themselves
during the reign of Queen Mary to avoid the burning to which
recusants from the faith were liable. The entrance to the cavern
had become obscured, but the roof having recently fallen in, access
was obtained by a ladder, and some of the party descended to explore,
and found a few bones, but whether of men or animals could not
be determined with certainty. At a later stage in the day's
proceedings Mr. Piper, vice-president, read a paper giving an
account of the tradition respecting Crocket's Hole. What became
Crocket is unknown, but a man named Home, who was his
companion m the cave, having exposed himself, was seized, and
burnt at the stake in Newent. His wife, who professed similar
opinions to her husband, was also arrested, but objecting to be
burned she recanted, saved her life, married again, and forgot her
martyred husband. The bones found in the cavern, possibly
opS SGnt t0 an anatomical ex P e rt in London for his
G. A. W.
CHURCH OF ST. MART,
^ meeting of the Somersetshire
and Natural History Society, held at Shepton Mallet
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 29
in the last week of August, 1884, Mr. E. A. Freeman is reported
in the Bristol Times and Mirror and other newspapers of the 27th,
when moving a vote of thanks to Lord Carlingford, to have
expressed himself in these terms : " Things [small domestic
antiquities old houses and portions of houses] were still perishing
over the country, and sometimes a thing was finished that he could
not help thinking it would have been better to have left as it was.
The tower of St. Mary Kedclifife was left unfinished, and the man
who left it so knew its proportions better than those who finished
it." I was present, and can testify that Mr. Freeman appeared to
have no doubt whatever as to what he said with reference to
St. Mary Redcliffe ; but what is really the state of the case ? It
could not, I think, be more clearly laid before your readers than in
.the words of Archdeacon Norris, in his Account of the Church
of St. Mary Redcliffe (London, 1882), pp. 14-16 :
It has been questioned by some whether in old days the church
ever had a complete spire. On this point William Worcestre's
testimony seems to me conclusive. Twice over he mentions the
fact that the spire had lost 100 feet of its height in consequence of
a great storm. Here are his words : " The square tower of Radclyff
Church is 108 feet high The height of the spire, as
it stands this day, although cut down by the misfortune of a
storm and thunderbolt, is 200 feet, according to Norton's account,
the master mason." So in another place he mentions 300 feet as
the full height of the steeple, adding, "of which 100 feet were
thrown down by a thunderbolt." If we may accept the date as
given in several old MSS. one of which on a vellum roll in seven-
teenth-century handwriting, copied apparently from an older chronicle,
Mr. Taylor showed me in the Museum Library this storm occurred
at St. Paul's tide, 1446. Some accounts put it 1445. Now
Worcestre was thirty-one years of age at that time ; and having
spent his youth in Bristol must have been perfectly familiar with
the appearance of the spire both before and after the storm. Why,
therefore, we should refuse to accept the statement of so matter-of-
fact a person concerning an event which occurred in his own life-
time, in his own native city, I cannot conceive. Only one difficulty
occurs to me. The ancient north porch, with all its delicate work-
manship, is at the very foot of the tower, being built against it,
and shows no sign of any such injury. How the spire could fall
without crushing it is a difficulty. I can suggest two solutions
one that a very violent north wind made the spire fall over on its
south side, clear of the porch. Another, and more probable
solution, is that the lightning struck and rent the spire, and left it
so unsafe that it was judged best to take it down as far as the rent
extended. It seems to me clear that William Worcestre over-
estimates the height of the steeple when he states that its height,
when lowered, was 200 feet. As we remember it ten years ago its
total height was only 140 feet, i.e., 110 of tower and 30 of
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truncated spire. And though it is quite possible that the spire was
lowered a second time after Worcestre's time, yet the height he
gives, 200 feet (i.e., 90 feet of spire), is inconsistent with his other
statement that its diameter at the place of fracture was 16 feet. A
diameter of 16 feet in our spire means a height of 60 feet above
the leads i.e., 170 feet above the floor of the tower. And this I
take to have been the height when Worcestre or Norton measured
it. I conclude, therefore, that the spire was twice lowered : first,
after the storm of 1446 ; and then again at some later period,
perhaps after the terrible storm of 1545 or that of 1606.
BKISTOLIENSIS.
1030. THE RYLAND FAMILY. In a volume of 8vo pamphlets
(which from an inserted label would seem to have been "No. 105,
T. J. Rylands's Circulating Library, 23, Stokes' Croft," Bristol,
but which is now in my possession,) there is this old manuscript
memorandum :
"1. John Ryland lived once at Seasoncote [Sezincot], &
afterwards at Hinton on the Green, died Aug. 3, 1713.
2. Joseph Eyland lived at Ditchford, and died at Swell, near
Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucestershire.
3. John Ryland, A.M., lived at Warwick, afterwards many
years at Northampton, died at Enfield, near London, July 24, 1792.
4. John Ryland, born at Warwick, lived at Northampton from
1759 to 17 9-, then removed to Bristol.
5. John Tyler Ryland was born at Northampton Dec. 9, 1786,
& his dear Mother died about 6 weeks afterwards, who was
Elizabeth, the Daughter of Rob fc and __ Tyler."
A former owner of the volume (No. 5 in the above list) has
likewise written:-" John Tyler Ryland, 1796, Son of John
Ryand, Grandson of John Ryland, Great Grandson of Joseph
Kyland, Great Great Grandson of John Ryland."
The first of the pamphlets is a sermon, entitled The Certain
Ina ease of the Glory and Kingdom of Jesus (Bristol, 1794), by the
Sey. John Ryland, and preached at Chard, July 11, 1794, at the
annual meeting of the Baptist Association. The second is a sermon
n ^P 011 ' A ' M - (London ' 1792 )> entitled The gentle
mts from Earth to Heaven; which was "occasioned
6 - John
fcp A 6 ^- John Ryiand > seni r > A - M -> wh
age "and w J^ Wj* July 24 ' 1792 ' in the 69th ? of his
' " reafirSt ^ ^ fuDera1 ' afc Northamton on
cloisters of Bristol Cathedral, having
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 31
been transferred from its original position on the old west wall,
there is a marhle tablet with this inscription*:
"Sacred to the memory of | William Ogilvie Porter, Esq r ,
M.D., | Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and for nearly forty years an
eminent physician in this city : he was the author of ' Sir Edward
Sea ward's Narrative', | 'Medical Ethicks', &c., &c. | He died in
Portland Square [Bristol], on the 15 th August, 1850, | aged 76
years. |
" Of Colonel John Porter, who died | in the Isle of Man, in the
year 1810 [1811], aged 38 years. |
"Of Sir Robert Ker Porter, | Her Majesty's Minister at Venezuela :
author of 'Travels in Babylon, Persia', &c., &c. | He died at
St. Petersburg, 4 th May, 1842, aged 65 years. |
" Of Miss Jane Porter, authoress of 'Thaddeus of Warsaw,' ' The
Scottish Chiefs,' &c., &c. | She died in Portland Square, on the
24 th of May, 1850, | aged 74 years. |
" And of Miss Anna Maria Porter, authoress of ' Don
Sebastian/ Hungarian Brothers,' &c., &c. | She died at Montpellier,
in this city, on the 21 st June, 1832, | aged 52 years. |
"William Porter, Esq r , Surgeon in the Enniskillen Dragoons,
was the father of | this highly-gifted and most estimable family :
he died at Durham, in the year of Our Lord 1780 [Sept. 8, 1779].
Their mother, M rs Jane Porter [nee Blenkinsop] died at Esher, in
Surrey, | on the 18 th of June, 1831, aged 86 years. |
" This tablet is erected by their devoted friend, | M rs Col e [sic]
Booth, who died 23 rd Dec r , 1851."
In St. Paul's Churchyard, Bristol, there is a flatstone with this
inscription :
"Here lies the body of Charles Lempriere Porter, | who
departed this life 14 th February, 1831, | set. 31. | Here sleeps in
Christ Anna Maria Porter, late of Esher, in Surrey : | born Dec.,
1779, died June, 1832. She was blessed with high mental endow-
ments; her pen endited a good matter. She was still more
blessed ; | * she sat at the feet of Jesus.' May they from whom
thou art taken, blessed and beloved sister, | be so found of their
Lord. | Also Phoebe, aged 79, wife of D r Porter, | Portland Square,
who departed this | life the 20 th February, 1845. Also her
grandson, | John Augustus Marlin, | aged 18, who died on the 11 th
of | November in the same year. | Miss Jane Porter, a celebrated
writer, | died on the 24 th May, 1850, aged 74 years. | W. 0. Porter,
M.D., Surgeon in the Royal Navy, | died 15 fch August, 1850, aged
76 years. He practised as a physician in this city | for nearly forty
years, and wrote many | medical and other works."
A correspondent asked in Notes and Queries (l sfc S. viii. 364):
"Above the inscription on the tablet in Bristol Cathedral is a
medallion of a portcullis surrounded by the word AGINCOURT, and
*Mr. Pryce has given it, but \vith sundry inaccuracies, in his History of Bristol (1861),
pp. 115, 116.
32 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
surmounted by the date HI 5. What connexion is there between
Agincourt and the Porter family? Did not Sir K. K. Porter write
an account of Sir John Moore's campaign in the Peninsula? What
is the title of the book ? Who was Charles Lempriere Porter (who
died Feb. 14, 1831, aged thirty-one), mentioned on the Porter
tombstone in St. Paul's Churchyard at Bristol ? Who was Phoebe,
wife of Dr. Porter, who died February 20, 1845, aged seventy-
nine, and whose name also occurs on this stone ? Did this family
(which is now supposed to be extinct) claim descent from Endymion
Porter, the loyal and devoted adherent of King Charles the
Martyr?"*
The editor himself replied to two of the above queries :
" [1] It refers to Sir Robert Ker Porter's third great battle-piece,
AGINCOURT ; which memorable battle took place October 25, 1415.
Sir Robert presented it to the city of London, and it is still [1853]
in the possession of the corporation : it was hung up in the
Guildhall a few years since. [2] In 1808, Sir R. K. Porter
accompanied Sir John Moore's expedition to the Peninsula, and
attended the campaign throughout, up to the closing catastrophe of
the battle of Corunna. On his return to England he published
anonymously Letters from Portugal and Spain, written during the
March of the Troops under Sir John Moore, 1809, 8vo."
Another correspondent wrote in reply, p. 526 of same volume :
" 1. The reason of the word Agincourt being placed above the
inscription in Bristol Cathedral is, that the Porter family were
descendants of Sir William Porter who fought at Agincourt.
2. Charles Lempriere Porter was the son of Dr. Porter. 3. This
family was descended from Endymion Porter, of classic and loyal
memory."
A third wrote as follows, p. 576 : " Full particulars of the
existing branch of this ancient family can be afforded by the
Rev. Malcom Macdonald, of South End, Essex, chaplain to Lady
Tamar Sharpe, the aunt and guardian of the representatives of Sir
R. K. Porter."
Two inaccuracies of date in the inscription in the Cathedral, as
given above, were detected by " Dunelmensis," who sent the
following correction to Notes and Queries ( 3 rd S. v. 289) : " It
may be as well to notice two inaccuracies of date in the tablet on
the west wall of Bristol Cathedral [now in the cloisters] erected by
a 'devoted friend' in memory of the Porter family. Col. John
Porter is said to have died in the Isle of Man in the year 1810,
aged 38 years. It should have been 1811, as appears from a letter
Miss Jane Porter, now lying before me, dated Nov. 18, 1811,
in which she speaks of having lately been afflicted with the news
ol the death of her brother John, who was the merchant in the
ies. It would appear from the Gentleman's Magazine
o whom frequent meution ha3 been
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 33
that he died, poor fellow ! in Castle Rushen, an imprisoned debtor,
on the 19th of August, leaving a widow and child. (Query, What
became of them?,) The father of 'this highly-gifted and most
estimable family ' is said to have died at Durham in the year of
our Lord 1780. It should have been 1779. I add a copy of the
inscription on his tombstone in the churchyard of St. Oswald's in
Durham : * To the memory | of William Porter, | who was
Surgeon 23 years to the | Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons, |
and departed this life the 8 th of | September, 1779, in the 45 th
year of his age. | He was a tender husband, a kind father, | and
a faithful friend.'"
But the late Mr. George Pryce, of Bristol, very soon raised a
question of mistaken identity, p. 368 of same volume: "After
reading the account in the Gentleman's Magazine, referred to by
4 Dunelmensis,' I am inclined to believe he is in error as to
the identity of Colonel John Porter with the individual there
mentioned. If, therefore, he will kindly furnish corroborative
evidence of his statement, he will confer a benefit on the readers
of 1 N. & Q.' The person who died in Castle Rushen was named
John B. Porter, and there is not the slightest allusion to his
having been in the army ; while the name on the Bristol tablet is
Colonel John Porter, without any notice whatever of a second
Christian name. From the remarks of your correspondent, we are
to believe that the colonel was a merchant in the West Indies,
just previously to Nov. 18, 1811. If so, how came he to die in
Castle Rushen? where it appears that John B. Porter had been
confined an insolvent debtor for ' two years and a quarter ; and
when he died (says the Magazine), he was not possessed of a
single shilling, and his widow was obliged to sell her bed to get
him a coffin.' Surely the Porter family, who were in good
circumstances, would not have allowed their brother to die in such
abject poverty in a prison ! "
To this " Dunelmensis " replied, p. 529 : "Mr. Pryce seems to
doubt the identity of Col. John Porter, the eldest brother of the
Misses Porter, with the ' unfortunate officer,' J. B. Porter, whose
death in Castle Rushen prison is mentioned in the volume of the
Gentleman's Magazine to which I before referred. I was always
under the impression that John Porter, originally an officer in the
army, having afterwards gone out as a merchant to Antigua, there
fell a victim to its dangerous climate. The Bristol inscription,
however, asserts that he died in the Isle of Man, though, as I have
shown by an extract from one of Miss Porter's letters, the'date is
given incorrectly. I cannot help coming to the conclusion, that
the * merchant in the West Indies,' having probably been unfortunate
in business, must have returned home, and was the ' J. B. Porter '
noticed in Mr. Urban's pages. The second initial probably stood
for Blenkinsop, which was his mother's maiden name. Dr. Porter,
of Bristol, is described on his first wife's tombstone at Durham, as
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34 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
simply William Porter, M.D., though it appears he also had a
second name, viz., Ogilvie. Both John and William were early in
life withdrawn from their mother's charge, which may account for
the younger portion of the family not being aware perhaps of the
embarrassed state of John's affairs. In referring to his decease in
the above-named letter, Miss Porter goes on to say, * He was not
brought up with us like Robert, nevertheless we loved him as a
brother, and mourn him as such.'" BRISTOLIENSIS.
1032. SHAKESPEARE AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The following
article by Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore, whose name is well known to
the readers of these pages, has appeared in the Antiquary (July,
1881), vol. iv., pp. 10, 11 :
A passage from Shakespeare's play of King Henry IV., in which
Davy is made to say to Justice Shallow, " I beseech you, sir, to
countenance William Vizor, of Wincot, against Clement Perkes of
the hill," and which is quoted by Mr. Hales in his article, " With
Good Capon Lined," in the March number of the Antiquary,
deserves a note of explanation in this magazine, as the real signi-
ficance of the allusion to Vizor and Perkes, though pointed out in
one or two local books, seems to have escaped the attention of most
Shakespearian writers. Mr. G. E. French, indeed, has noticed the
reference to Perkes in his " Shakespereana Genealogica," but only
to infer from it that the poet was accustomed to take his local
colouring from the people and places he was familiar with in
Warwickshire. The fact, however, that the scene is fixed by the
poet in Gloucestershire, and the introduction of these two names
together, makes it almost certain that Shakespeare refers to Dursley
in that county. " Wincot," or rather " Woncot," as some readings
have it, is evidently a rude attempt to represent phonetically the
local pronunciation of Woodmancote, a hamlet or suburb of Dursley,
and " the hill " is yet the name by which Stinchcombe Hill on the
other side of the town is pre-eminently known in the neighbourhood.
Moreover, it is said that a family of Perkis was anciently possessed
of a messuage on Stinchcombe Hill, and it is certain that the
Vizars (or, as the name is now spelt, Vizard) have been a leading
Dursley family from Shakespeare's time 'to the present day.
Arthur Vizar, gent., whose tomb, dated 1620, still exists in Dursley
churchyard, was bailiff there in 1612, four years before the poet's
death. We can hardly doubt, therefore, that Shakespeare in this
passage does allude to the Dursley Vizards, and from the very
uncomplimentary way in which Justice Shallow speaks of William
Vizor, it may be inferred that the poet had some personal spite
against the Vizard of his time either Arthur Vizar, above
mentioned, or perhaps some relative named William.
In this instance people and places seem so clearly pointed at that
it does appear as if Shakespeare occasionally satirized individuals,
although this has been denied by some. Other evidence is not
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 35
wanting to show that he was acquainted with Gloucestershire. The
words of Northumberland in Richard II. are very appropriate, and
bespeak a personal knowledge of this part of the county :
" I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire ;
These high, wild hills, and rough, uneven ways
Draw out our miles, and make them wearisome."
And a little further on Northumberland questions Harry Hotspur :
" How far is it to Berkeley ? And what stir
Keeps good old York there with his men of war?"
And Percy replies :
" There stands the castle by yon tuft of trees."
All who are acquainted with the glorious view from the top of
Stinchcombe Hill will acknowledge that Shakespeare's allusion to
"the castle" is an accurate one, even at the present day.
A local tradition even claims that Shakespeare once lived at
Dursley, and " Shakespeare's Walk," near the town, is usually
cited to prove the assertion.
There are also indications which seem to suggest that Shakespeare
may have had kinsmen in Gloucestershire. Persons bearing the
name formerly lived in and about Dursley. Mr. Blunt, in his
Dursley and its Neighbourhood, notes the marriage of Thomas
Shakespeare, weaver, at Dursley, in 1678, and the subsequent
baptisms of his children ; that another Thomas had a " seat-place "
in the church allotted to him in 1739; that Betty Shakespeare
obtained " poors' money " in 1754; that James Shakespeare was
buried at Bisley in 1570; and that Edward, son of John and
Margery Shakespurre, was baptized at Beverston in 1619. Other
Shakespeares have been long settled at Newington Bagpath, not
far from Dursley, and claim a traditional kinship with their great
namesake.
All these places are within a few miles of Dursley. Moreover,
the Hathways, or Hathaways, were in like manner connected with
Gloucestershire. The name is frequently found throughout the
seventeenth century in the registers of Cam, the next village to
Dursley; and at Kingscote, not far from Newington Bagpath,
Thomas Hathway and John Hathway of Bulley were assessed " in
goods" to a lay subsidy in 1571. The name also occurs in the
Beverston registers, and is still to be met with in the neighbourhood.
All these facts justify the conclusion that at some time
Shakespeare visited Dursley, and became well acquainted with the
district. It is not unlikely that his mariiage, in 1582, with Anne
Hathaway, who was so much his senior, may have offended his
Stratford friends, and compelled him to take refuge with his and
his wife's kindred in Gloucestershire, some time between that date
and his removal to London. Perhaps, too, as both families were
near neighbours in Gloucestershire as well as in Warwickshire,
there may have been some early relationship between them which
afterwards brought about Shakespeare's alliance with the Hathaways.
36 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
But enough, however, has been said to show the use of local
knowledge to illustrate Shakespeare.
1033 LETTER FROM WILLIAM PENN TO SIR EGBERT SOUTHWELL,
1677.__Mr. Sholto V. Hare, of Knole Park, Almondsbury, wrote
thus to the editor of a Bristol newspaper, 7th August, 1 884 : In
looking over some valuable original autograph letters connected
with Bristol, I came across one from William Penn (the founder of
Pennsylvania), a copy of which I enclose in the actual spelling of
the original. I should feel greatly obliged if you or any of your
readers would say what was " the Bristoll Business." referred to, and
also who were " the party I spoak to " and " thy Earl."
My Worthy Friend, Lond : 19 th 4 m th 77.
The Bearer, as of right he ought, and as every body else
confesseth, tells me what a kind man thou art and with what
on usual sweetness and condescension it hath pleas'd thee to treat
him. this is to pray thy continuance of it, in moveing Secretary
Bertie on his behalfe, you great men can best prevail upon one
another. I was not onmindful of the Bristoll Business. The
party I spoak to tells me y* thy Earl will deceive thee and make
his markett upon the poor Gentleman, lett me have thy farther
thoughts in it, they shall be faithfully answear'd so far as his Pow r
reaches y* is.
thy Assured ould Friend,
W M PENN.
I expect a farther account from W.C.
(Addressed) For my worthy Friend
S r Bob* Southwell.
(Endorsed) 19 July 1677 (old style).
From M r W m Penn.
1034. LONGDEN FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER. In an old family
Bible (a Breeches Bible of 1599), once belonging to Anne, eldest
daughter of Richard Gwinnett, of Great Shurdingtoii (by his wife
Anne, third daughter of William Capell, alderman, and thrice
mayor of Gloucester), and wife of Thomas, eldest son of Eobert
Longden, of Gloucester, and which is now in the possession of the
Rev. Robert Knight Longden, rector of Brent Eleigh, Suffolk,
there are the following memoranda:
"Anne Gwinnett, 1672.
"Mem. I was borne the 15 th May, 1651. I was Married att
Shurdington the 15 th April], 1673. My first Child was borne the
second day of Aprill, 1674.
"My Sonne Robert was borne the 15 th day of March, 1674
[1674-75], about 5 o'Clock in the Morning, and was Baptised the
21 day of that Moneth.
"My Daughter Anne was borne one Wednesday, 13 th December,
1676 about 5 o'clocke in the after-noone, and was Baptised the
th day of that Moneth.
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" My Sonne Thomas was borne one Thursday, the 30 th May, 1678,
about one o'clocke, and was baptised y e same houre.
" My Sonne Caple was borne on Sunday, the 7th December,
1679, about 7 or 8 o'Clock in the morneing, and was Baptised the
14 th day of that Moneth.
"My Daughter Eliz was borne on Tuesday, the 5 th Nov., 1681,
betweene 8 or 9 o'Clocke in the afternoone, and was Baptised the
6 th day of that Moneth.
" My Second Sonne Thomas was borne on Wednesday, the 30 th
May, 1683, about 5 o'Clocke in the afternoone, and was Baptised
the 8 th Day of the next Moneth.
[On another page]
"Mem. My Son Joseph was borne on Thursday, the 13 th day
of Nov., 1684, about 5 o'Clocke in the Morneing, and was
Baptised the 23 rd day of that Moneth.
"My daughter Mary was Borne on Sunday, y e 10 th Jan y , 1685,
betweene 8 and 9 of the Clocke in y e After-Noone.
"My Tenth Child was borne 9 th Aprill, 1688.
"My Eleventh Child was borne 31 January, 1689."
In the Bible there is a book-plate with the arms and crest of
K. Longden. This is the earliest record that we have in the family.
H. ISHAM LONGDEN.
St. Michael and All Angels, Northampton.
1035. CHARLES GIBBS, PARISH CLERK OF MATSON, AND HIS
PREDECESSORS.
" Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ;
Along the cool, sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenour of their way."
Gray's Elegy.
On October 5, 1881, the worn-out frame of Charles Gibbs, clerk
of Matson, was laid to rest in the parish churchyard. There is not
much to tell of him that may not be told of any honest rustic who
has striven to do his duty, and has done it well, unless it be
concerning his great age. He was well-nigh a hundred years old.
The Upton register contains the following entry : " Baptized,
February 2, 1 783, Charles, son of Thomas and Martha Gibbs." He is
said to have, been born at Moorend, and certainly his mother, who was
left a widow in 1805, lived there within the remembrance of many
Upton parishioners. He was a carpenter by trade, and had the
reputation of being a good workman. The Eev, Henry Wintle,
rector of Matson from 1831 to 1851, gave him frequent employment :
and thus it probably was, that when the office of clerk became
vacant by the death of John Feild in 1835, Gibbs was appointed.
It is said that from that time until six or seven years ago the sturdy
fellow was absent on one Sunday only from his post in the church.
It mattered not what the weather was, Gibbs never failed (but on
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this one occasion, and then he was ill in bed) to call the parishioners
to public worship. I am afraid the new era which dawned on
Matson with the restoration of the parish church, was not altogether
to the old man's tastes. The quaint old pews that shut out all
except some privileged parishioners, were replaced by handsome
open benches, and the eloquence of Mr. Bathurst, then rector of
the parish, swelled the congregation from its average of five or six to
nearly one hundred. The time came, too, when Gibbs was unable
to wield a spade, and his occupation as sexton was gone. Still he
clung to the office of clerk, till nearly all the duties of the office
had disappeared. No longer were the responses listened to in silence
by a respectful audience. The worshippers learned to use the
power of vocal prayer and praise which God had given them, and
the old man's voice was only heard amongst the rest. One day his
familiar form was missing, and after a while, when the weather was
unpropitious, we ceased to wonder that he came not. At length he
came no more. He seems to have enjoyed many blessings in his
home life. He had an excellent wife, a scholar in her way. For a
long time, assisted by the late Mrs. Eodway, Mrs. Gibbs conducted
a dame's school at Upton, in a building which stood within the
churchyard gate on the south of the church. In 1845 a school-
master was appointed, and the school was worked according to the
modern ideas of education. Mrs. Rodway, with true humility,
remained at her post, and adapted herself as best she could to the
new rules, but Elizabeth Gibbs started a school of her own in the
house now occupied by Mr. Clapham. Many of the inhabitants
continued to send their children to her in preference to the new
teacher, and an old parishioner of Upton has told me that he well
remembered being taken by his mother, much against his will, to
Mrs. Gibbs' school, "but," he added, "I was only a little marchant
then." Elizabeth Gibbs died and was buried at Upton in April,
1855, aged 63. The old couple left behind them one son, Charles
Gibbs, and three daughters, all respectably married. Gibbs had a
proud spirit of his own, and if a neighbour wanted to do him a
service it had to be done very unobtrusively. He was partial to
his favourites, and as distant to those he did not like. Up to
within a few days of his death he took a deep interest in Matson,
and was always pleased to hear any news of its inhabitants. About
two years before he died he was removed by the parish authorities
to the workhouse, where he was treated with much kindness and
consideration, as he always assured his friends. From thence he
went to his son-in-law's house in Eyecroft-street, where he died on
the 30th September. Many of the old man's friends came to see
him laid in his last earthly home, and ere they left the churchyard
a fund was started for placing a headstone to his memory.
It may interest the reader to have some notes on Charles Gibbs'
predecessors as clerks of Matson, which the old man's death has
led me to collect from the parish registers and other sources.
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JOHN FEILD, clerk of Matson 1831-1835, belonged to a race of
village pedagogues, extirpated by the educational laws of recent
years. He lived in the old house in the centre of Sneedham's
Green, where his father and grandfather had lived before him ; and
-here it was that he kept a nourishing school. Mr. Charles Higgs,
an old parishioner, was one of his pupils, and has a kindly remem-
brance of his tutor. Charles Gibbs has often told me where John
Feild was buried in Matson churchyard just below the north-west
window of the church. JNo stone,
"With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd,
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh."
The clerk's son, Eichard Feild, was buried at Matson in 1839 ; but
his widow long survived him, became an inmate of the workhouse,
and, I fear, lies in an unknown pauper's grave. The Feilds, how-
ever, were yeomen in the eighteenth century, and gentry in the
seventeenth. Amongst the many noble altar-tombs with which
Upton St. Leonards churchyard abounds, will be found more than
one to the memory of his ancestors. As long ago as August 13,
1693, Thomas Feild and Edith Freeman were married by licence
in Matson Church, and there is a fine tomb fast falling to decay, at
Upton, which commemorates the death of Edith, wife of Thomas
Feild, of Gloucester, gentleman, and daughter of Rowland Freeman,
gentleman, who died November 4, 1698, aged 23 years. This
Rowland Freeman was an ancestor of the present clerk of Upton,
and died in 1715.
WILLIAM HARRIS died in January, 1832, aged 54, and lies
in Matson churchyard, with his wife Ann, who died in 1851, aged
74. There is a headstone to their memory. This worthy couple
lived at Sudgrove, in the south hamlets. The parish registers
contain the baptismal entries of several of their children, com-
mencing in 1806. They had a numerous progeny, and when in
1815 the curate of Maisemore came in haste to baptize their newly-
born twins, the clerk and his wife bade him call them " Patience"
and "Comfort." Though Harris was only a labourer, he was, I
believe, closely connected with a family that had lived for many
years at Matson, and had been by no means so lowly. They
were tenants of Robins's Farm during the time of the Selwyns,
and some of them occupied Matson House between the death
of Albinia Selwyn in 1737, and that of Colonel John Selwyn
in 1751. The Rev. Samson Harris,* M. A., vicar of Stonehouse,
and domestic chaplain to Albinia Selwyn, and his brother,
Alderman Benjamin Harris, George Selwyn's energetic ally, were,
I have been told, of the same family.
THOMAS MARDON died in May, 1821, at the age of 82. The only
entry in the Matson registers concerning him is that of the baptism
of Anne, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Marden. The Upton
For particulars of Mr. Harris, see ante, vol. i., p. 210. ED.
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re<nstera give the baptism of his son Thomas, and of his grandsons
Enoch and Thomas Mardon, who are still living in that parish.
His parents were Moses and Mary Mardon, both clerks of Upton !
Moses Mardon died in 1757 ; and his wife's signature, as witness
to several marriages, confirms the tradition that she succeeded to
her husband's office. Thomas Mardon's signature as witness to a
marriage first appears in 1768, and occurs frequently till 1805.
His grandson, Enoch Mardon, now living at the corner of Winny-
croft-lane, was born in 1800 ; and he remembers accompanying his
grandfather to Matson Church, and ringing the bell for the old
man. It is probable, therefore, that Mardon retained the clerkship
till his death in 1821. He was also clerk of Upton ; but there was
no difficulty about this, as there was only one service in each church,
morning and afternoon alternately.
JOHN WITCOMB died in February, 1761, at the age of 65. Some
years ago, when alterations were being made in the churchyard
pathway, the workmen came upon a headstone with the following
inscription :
" In memory of John Witcomb, late Clerk of this Parish, who
died Feby y e 19 th , 1761, Mt. 65. .Also Bridget, his wife. She
died May y e 18 th , 1759, Mt. 60.
" Old age and sickness brought us home
Unto the place where all must come ;
Both young and old, prepare to die,
To live with Christ eternally."
The fact that this stone was overturned many years ago to serve as
a paving stone accounts for its state of excellent preservation. In
1753 marriages were ordered to be entered in a separate book ; but
it does not appear that there were any at Matson from 1753 to
1758. In that year John Witcomb's name appears as witness.
The Witcombs have been resident in Upton and Matson for two
hundred and fifty years at least, and have always held a conspicuous
place amongst the yeomanry of the neighbourhood.
THOMAS JENYNGES died in March, 1713. The name of
" Jenynges " appears frequently in the old register, and often in
strange places. Thomas Jenynges immortalized his signature at
the foot of entries made a hundred years before his birth, and
practised some parts of the service, which, I suppose, were his
special favourites, on the covers and elsewhere. More than once
he writes " Doe nee maner of," and on one occasion his pen runs off
into a procession of capital D's. The baptism of his son and name
sake on the llth of June, 1688, appears from its frequent entry to
have been a matter of special interest to him. But he need not
have placed it on almost every occasion amongst the entries of the
16th century When I was engaged, some time ago, in transcribing
register, I felt almost a satisfaction in copying the record of
Thomas Jenynges' burial on the 8th of March, 1713 ; for then, I
felt sure, I had seen the last of his scribbles. His widow,
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Prudence Jenynges, was buried June 22, 1739. On the cover
of the register appears a subtraction sum in Thomas Jenynges'
handwriting : 1710
1682
28
It probably relates to his daughter Prudence, who was born in
1682 ; but as it is stated in the diocesan transcripts that there
were no burials, marriages, or baptisms at Matson in 1710, we
cannot tell what befel the young lady in that year.
GYLES TERRITT died in February, 1703. He was the son of
John Territt, and his baptism is recorded in the Upton register in
1620. As early as 1645 I find a record of the baptism of Sarah,
daughter of Gyles and Anne Territt. There are entries recording
baptisms of other children, in 1649, 1656, and 1659. In 1653
registrars were appointed in nearly every parish by Act of Parlia-
ment to register the births of children, and baptisms are rarely
recorded between this year and 16.60. It is pleasing to find that
Matson was an exception to the general rule, and that people went
on having their children baptized as before. Old Gyles Territt,
who probably saw King Charles at Matson, lived to hear of " Good
Queen Anne." In his early days as clerk the old rectory house,
which stood on the south side of the church, and all its belongings,
were granted by the Commissioners of Cromwell to John Cooke,
for an annual payment of .26. That house has long since dis-
appeared, and I question whether there was a resident rector from
1653 to 1876. There is an interesting note on the cover of the
register in Gyles Territt's handwriting, as follows : " The Chrise
mony that was gethered September y e 5 th day receved of Mast.
Sellwyn 00 1 6 ; receved of Widdow Witcom 00 00 l d and one
farding." This was probably Mr. William Selwyn, who succeeded
his father, as owner of Matson, in 1 643, and died in 1679. " Widdow
Witcom " was probably Isabella, who had been the wife of John
Witcomb. She married a second husband, William Eoadway, in
1678.
It is hoped that these hastily gathered notes may lead to some
interest being taken in our church officers of the past. Many
parishes are rich in churchwardens' accounts and clerks' notes.
Those belonging to Matson have perished, I fear, within the last
generation ; for Gibbs often spoke to me of a large oak chest which
stood in the church, and contained many parish books. When the
parochial history of this century is written, our destruction of monu-
mental inscriptions to make room for coloured tiles or ornamental
shrubs, and our carelessness about early parochial accounts, will
be remembered and recorded. WILLIAM BAZELEY.
Matson Rectory, Gloucester.
1036. SIR JOHN HONE, OF STBOUD. NATH. J. HONE has
made this inquiry in Notes and Queries (6 th S. x. 167) : I should
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be dad of information concerning, or reference to, Sir John Hone,
who, according to a MS. genealogy (dated 1729) in my possession,
was "knighted by King Henry y e 8* m the sixteenth year of his
reicm " and " for his extraordinary merit and valour seated in btroud
in Gloucestershire." The genealogy was drawn out by Charles
Lvue<mr who gives as his source of information the Annals of Sir
Thomas Hawley, "the principal Herald and King at Arms in the
aforesaid reign." G. A. W.
1037 DEATH KATE IN MARSHFIELD REGISTRATION DISTRICT.
A return of an extraordinary and unprecedented character has
been made to the Registrar-General for the quarter ended September
30th, 1884. During this period not a single death occurred in the
parishes of Wick and Abson, Dyrham and Hinton, Doynton, Cold
Ashton, and West Littleton, containing a population of 2,160. At
Marshfield, with a population of 1,560, there were five deaths th e
youngest aged 55 and the oldest 77 years. j Q.^
1038. DERIVATION OF "AvoN." As Mr. Gutch remarked in
Notes and Queries (1 st S. i. 285), among the many proofs of the
prevalence of Gaelic roots in existing names at both ends of the
island, it may be mentioned that there are ten rivers named Avon
in Britain, and that Avon is simply the Gaelic word for a river.
G. A. W.
1039. REMARKABLE SPECIMEN OF SHORTHAND WRITING.
The following brief extract from the Bristol Times and Mirror,
August 29, 1883, is, I think, worth preserving :
" 15,000 WORDS ON A POSTCARD ! The above feat has been
accomplished by Mr. Joseph Hunt, of the Bristol Shorthand
Institute, Cumberland-street. The writing is in miniature shorthand,
Pitman's system, and the reporting style, and consists of eleven
complete books and part of the twelfth taken from the Bible. The
words may be easily deciphered by the aid of a magnifier. The
writing was done with an ordinary pen and with the naked eye.
The matter on the postcard is equal to nearly ten columns of a
newspaper."
Is anyone able to adduce a more striking instance of dexterity
in penmanship ? If
1040. MARRIED GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLERGY, 1554. Some of
your readers may be interested in a list of the Gloucestershire
clergy who were deprived of their benefices, by reason of matrimony,
in the reign of Queen Mary. In the Parliament of 2 and 3 Edw. VI.,
a bill was brought forward in the autumn to enable the clergy to
marry. It passed through the Commons without much opposition,
but in " the Lords " it met with such delays that it did not receive
the royal assent till the spring of the next year. After the
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accession of Mary, the laws concerning religion passed in the last
reign were annulled, and the form of divine service, as used in the
last year of the reign of Henry VIII., was ordered to be re-
established ; the queen afterwards issuing injunctions to the bishops
to restore the ecclesiastical regulations to their former condition,
but dispensing with the oath of supremacy. The married clergy
who had availed themselves of their new liberty, were either to be
expelled from their benefices or separated from their wives. This
was a very arbitrary proceeding, for the Church of Rome pretended
to no higher authority than that of ancient custom, sanctioned by
the enactments of the Church, and it appears that the secular clergy
were under no special vow, that which existed in the ordination
service of other lands forming no part of what was used in our
Church. Bishop Hooper was sent to the Tower, Sept. 1, 1553,
examined and condemned at St. Mary Overy, Southwark, Jan. 28,
1555, and burnt in his own city of Gloucester on the 9th February
following. A few months previously many of his former clergy
had suffered loss and persecution for conscience sake.
LIST OF THE CLERGY DEPRIVED ON ACCOUNT OF MATRIMONY,
2 AND 3 MARY, APRIL, 1554 :
Eichard Brown, Prebendary of Gloucester, and Kector of
Rissingdon Magna.
Henry Willis, Prebendary of Gloucester, Rector of Uley, and
Vicar of Shirburn.
Henry Kyrke, Vicar of Harsfield.
William Newporte, Vicar of St. Owen's, Gloucester.
John Hartland, Rector of Pitchcomb.
Roger Williams, alias Tyler, Minor Canon.
Bernard Harris, Minor Canon.
Hughe Fysshepoole, Gospeller at the Cathedral.
Nicholas Oldesworth, Rector of St. Michael's, Gloucester.
John Henbury, Curate of St. Nicholas.
John Jonnes, Curate of St. Mary-de-Load.
John Horseham, Curate of Arlingham.
Tho. Myll, Curate of Randwick.
John Strange, \
Tho. Roberts, > Ministers.
Rich. Devyas, ) J M H
1041. CHURCH RESTORATION. The Rev. S. E. Bartleet, vicar
of Brockworth, near Gloucester, has written in the Times of
September llth, 1884, on the subject of church restoration to this
effect : There is no doubt that we have lost much by the zeal in
church restoration which has been displayed during the last half-
century. How can such loss be prevented in the future? It
seems to me there is a remedy which it would not be difficult to
apply. Before any restoration or important alteration can be made
in any church it is necessary to obtain a faculty. This can only
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be given by the bishop on the advice of his chancellor. The only
conditions generally required by the latter, when the application is,
as it usually is, unopposed, are that the accommodation for the
parishioners shall not be diminished, and that a certain proportion
of the cost of the work shall be guaranteed before the work is
commenced. But might not some security be taken against injury
and loss such as that which your article laments ? It cannot be
expected that one selected for his office mainly for his knowledge
of ecclesiastical law should be able to protect from injury features
in an interesting and historical building which the proposed restor-
ation would efface, but there are in every diocese people thoroughly
qualified to give the bishop advice on which he might act in this
matter. If he would nominate a small committee, which might
report to him before his authority is given to the restoration or
alteration of any church in his diocese, a great deal of harm might
be prevented. There is another way in which some control might
be exercised. In almost all cases where expenditure is proposed on
a parish church a grant is asked from a diocesan society, which
very properly demands that the plans of what is to be done should
be submitted to it. Might not a sub-committee, consisting of men
of some architectural and archseological knowledge, be asked to
report before the general committee makes a grant ? There is no
real difficulty in exercising this control if courtesy and tact are used.
I have been a member of such a committee in a northern diocese,
and I do not ever remember a difficulty with those engaged in the
work of church building or restoration. In almost every case
suggestions which were made were received with gratitude, and
readily adopted. There is no desire on the part of church restorers
to remove what is interesting from the building they are seeking to
improve, and my experience is that they are not indisposed to
accept counsel f rom those who have an active interest in their work,
when it is offered, as it always should be, in a friendly and
courteous way. I believe that if some such course as I have
mentioned were taken, almost all that is mischievous in what has
been called the " restoration craze " would be avoided, and that
wise and careful and conservative restoration would not be hindered.
1042. GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE STORM OF NOVEMBER 26,
1703. (See No. 918.) Mr. John E. Bailey having furnished an
extract relative to " Tewkesbury and the Storm of November 26,
1703," from Defoe's Storm, I send particulars of the devastation
caused by the same " dreadful tempest " in other parts of Gloucester-
shire. My quotations are from Bohn's edition of Defoe's Works
(London, 1879), vol. v. M C B
(Berkeley p. 311.)
The following account from Berkly and other places in Gloucester-
shire and Somersetshire, &c., are the sad effects of the prodigious
3 in the Severn. The wind blowing directly into the mouth of
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that channel we call the Severn Sea, forced the waters up in such
quantity, that it is allowed the flood was eight foot higher than
ever was known in the memory of man ; and at one place, near
Huntspill, it drove several vessels a long way upon the land ; from
whence, no succeeding tide rising to near that height, they can
never be gotten off : as will appear in the following letters :
Sir, This parish is a very large one in the county of Gloucester,
on one side whereof runneth the river Severn, which by reason of
the violence of the late storm beat down and tore to pieces the sea
wall (which is made of great stones, and sticks which they call
rouses, a yard and a half long, about the bigness of one's thigh,
rammed into the ground as firm as possible) in many places, and
levelled it almost with the ground, forcing vast quantities of earth
a great distance from the shore, and stones, many of which were
above a hundred weight : and hereby the Severn was let in above
a mile over one part of the parish, and did great damage to the
land ; it carried away one house which was by the seaside, and a
gentleman's stable, wherein was a horse, into the next ground, and
then the stable fell to pieces, and so the horse came out. There is
one thing more remarkable in this parish, and it is this : twenty
six sheets of lead, hanging all together, were blown off from the
middle isle of our church, and were carried over the north isle,
which is a very large one, without touching it; and into the
churchyard ten yards distance from the church ; and they were took
up all joined together as they were on the roof ; the plumber told
me that the sheets weighed each three hundred and a half, one
with another. This is what is most observable in our parish : but
I shall give you an account of one thing (which perhaps you may
have from other hands) that happened in another, called Kingscote,
a little village about three miles from Tedbury, and seven from us :
where William Kingscote, Esq., has many woods; among which
was one grove of very tall trees, being each near eighty foot high \
the which he greatly valued for the tallness and prospect of them,
and therefore resolved never to cut them down : but it so happened
that six hundred of them, within the compass of five acres, were
wholly blown down ; (and supposed to be much at the same time)
each tree tearing up the ground with its root ; so that the roots of
most of the trees, with the turf and earth about them, stood up at
least fifteen or sixteen foot high ; the lying down of which trees
is an amazing sight to all beholders. This account was given by
the gentleman himself, whom I know very well. I have no more
to add, but that I am your humble servant, wishing you good
success in your undertaking,
Jan. 24. HENRY HEAD, Vicar of Berkly.
The damage of the sea wall may amount to about five hundred
pounds.
(Slimbridge p. 313.)
Sir, The dreadful storm did this church but little damage,
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but our Louses were terribly shaken hereabouts, and the tide
drowned the greatest part of the sheep on our common ; as it
likewise did, besides many cows, between this place and Bristol j
on the opposite shore of Glamorganshire, (as I suppose you may
also know) it brake down part of Chepstow bridge, over the Wye.
In the midst of this churchyard grew a vast tree, thought to be the
most large and nourishing elm in the land, which was torn up by
the roots, some of which are really bigger than one's middle, and
several than a man's thigh; the compass of them curiously
interwoven with the earth, being from the surface (or turf) to the
basis, full an ell in depth, and eighteen foot and a half in the
diameter, and yet thrown up near perpendicular ; the trunk, together
with the loaden roots, is well judged to be thirteen ton at least,
and the limbs to make six loads of billets with faggots ; and, about
two years since, our minister observed that the circumambient
boughs dropt round above two hundred yards : he hath given it for
a singers' seat in our said church, with this inscription thereon :
"Nov. 27, A.D. 1703. Miserere," &c.
WILLIAM FRITH, Churchwarden.
Slimbridge near Severn, Dec. 28, 1703.
(Fairford p. 314.)
Honoured Sir, In obedience to your request I have here sent
you a particular account of the damages sustained in our parish by
the late violent storm ; and because that of our church is the most
material which I have to impart to you, I shall therefore begin
with it. It is the fineness of our church which magnifies our
present loss, for in the whole it is a large and noble structure,
composed within and without of ashler curiously wrought, and
consisting of a stately roof in the middle, and two isles running a
considerable length from one end of it to the other, makes a very
beautiful figure. It is also adorned with 28 admired and celebrated
windows, which, 'for the variety and fineness of the painted glass
that was in them, do justly attract the eyes of all curious travellers
to inspect and behold them ; nor is it more famous for its glass,
than newly renowned for the beauty of its seats and paving, both
being chiefly the noble gift of that pious and worthy gentleman
Andrew Barker, Esq., the late deceased lord of the manor. So
that all things considered, it does equal, at least, if not exceed, any
parochial church in England. Now that part of it which most of
all felt the fury of the winds, was, a large middle west window, in
dimension about 15 foot wide, and 25 foot high, it represents the
general judgment, and is so fine a piece of art, that 1500?. has formerly
been bidden for it, a price, though very tempting, yet were the
parishioners so just and honest to refuse it. The upper part of this
window, just above the place where our Saviour's picture is drawn
itting on a rainbow, and the earth his footstool, is entirely ruined,
and both sides are so shattered and torn, especially the left, that
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upon a general computation, a fourth part at least is blown down
and destroyed. The like fate has another west window on the left
side of the former, in dimension about 10 foot broad, and 15 foot
high, sustained ; the upper half of which is totally broke, excepting
one stone munnel. Now if these were but ordinary glass, we might
quickly compute what our repairs would cost, but we the more
lament our misfortune herein, because the paint of these two as of
all the other windows in our church, is stained through the body of
the glass ; so that if that be true which is generally said, that this
art is lost, then have we an irretrievable loss. There are other
damages about our church, which, though not so great as the former,
do yet as much testify how strong and boisterous the winds were,
for they unbedded 3 sheets of lead upon the uppermost roof, and
rolled them up like so much paper. Over the church porch, a large
pinnacle and two battlements were blown down upon the leads of
it, but resting there, and their fall being short, these will be repaired
with little cost.
This is all I have to say concerning our church : our houses
come next to be considered, and here I may tell you, that (thanks
be to God) the effects of the storm were not so great as they have
been in many other places ; several chimnies, and tiles, and slates,
were thrown down, but nobody killed or wounded. Some of the
poor, because their houses were thatched, were the greatest
sufferers ; but to be particular herein, would be very frivolous, as
well as vexatious. One instance of note ought not to be omitted ;
on Saturday, the 26th, being the day after the storm, about 2
o'clock in the afternoon, without any previous warning, a sudden
flash of lightning, with a short, but violent clap of thunder,
immediately following it like the discharge of ordnance, fell upon
a new and strong built house in the middle of our town, and at
the same time disjointed two chimnies, melted some of the lead of
an upper window, and struck the mistress of the house into a
swoon, but this, as appeared afterwards, proved the effect more of
fear, than of any real considerable hurt to be found about her. I
have nothing more to add, unless it be the fall of several trees and
ricks of hay amongst us, but these being so common everywhere,
and not very many in number here, I shall conclude this tedious
scribble, and subscribe myself,
Sir, your most obedient and humble servant,
EDW. SHIPTON, Vicar.
Fairford, Gloucest., Jan., 1704.
(Bristol p. 357.)
We have had various accounts from Bristol, but as they all
contain something of the same in general, only differently expressed,
the following, as the most positively asserted, and best expressed,
is recorded for the public information :
48 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Si r> Observing your desire, (lately signified in the Gazette] to
be further informed concerning the effects of the late dreadful tem-
pest, in order to make a collection thereof, I have presum'd to
present you with the following particulars concerning Bristol, and
the parts near adjacent, being an eye-witness of the same, or the
majority of it. On Saturday, the 27th of Nov. last, between the
hours of one and two in the morning, arose a most prodigious
storm of wind, which continued with very little intermission for
the space of six hours, in which time it very much shattered the
buildings, both public and private, by uncovering the houses,
throwing down the chimneys, breaking the glass windows, over-
throwing the pinnacles and battlements of the churches, and blowing
off the leads. The churches in particular felt the fury of the
storm. St. Stephen's tower had three pinnacles blown off, which
beat down the greatest part of the church. The cathedral is like-
wise very much defac'd, two of its windows, and several battle-
ments being blown away ; and, indeed, most churches in the city
felt its force more or less ; it also blew down abundance of great
trees in the Marsh, College-green, St. James's Church-yard, and
other places in the city. And in the country it blew down and
scattered abundance of hay and corn mows, besides almost levelling
many orchards and groves of stout trees. Eut the greatest damage
done to the city was the violent overflowing of the tide, occasioned
by the force of the wind, which flowed an extraordinary height,
and did abundance of damage to the merchants cellars. It broke
in with great fury over the marsh country, forcing down the banks
or sea-walls, drowning abundance of sheep and other cattle, washing
some houses clear away, and breaking down part of others, in
which many persons lost their lives. It likewise drove most of the
ships in Kingroad a considerable way upon the land, some being
much shatter'd, and one large vessel broke all in pieces, and near
all the men lost, besides several lost out of other vessels. To con-
clude, the damage sustain'd by this city alone in merchandise,
computed to an hundred thousand pounds, besides the great loss in
the country, of cattel, corn, &c., which has utterly ruined many
farmers, whose substance consisted in their stock of horse hay. So
having given you the most material circumstances, and fatal effects
of this great tempest in these parts, I conclude.
Your (unknown) friend and Servant,
DANIEL JAMBS.
(Gloucester p. 374.)
The damages in the city of Gloucester they compute at 12000Z.,
above 15000 sheep drowned in the levels on the side of the Severn,
and the sea walls will cost, as these accounts tell us, 5000Z. to
repair, all the country lies under water for 20 or 30 miles together
on both sides, and the tide rose three feet higher than the tops of
the banks,
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At Bristol, they tell us, the tide filled their cellars, spoiled
1000 hogsheads of sugar, 1500 hogsheads of tobacco, and the
damage they reckon at 100,000?. Above 80 people drowned in the
marshes and river, several whole families perishing together.
The harbour at Plymouth, the castle at Pendennis, the cathedral
at Gloucester, 'the great church at Berkely, the church of
St. Stephen's at Bristol ; the churches at Blandford, at Bridge water,
at Cambridge, and generally the churches all over England, have
had a great share of the damage.
In King Road, at Bristol, the damage by sea is also very great ;
the Canterbury Store ship was driven on shore, and twenty-five of
her men drowned, as by our account of the Navy will more
particularly appear*, the Richard and John, the George and the
Grace sunk, and the number of people lost is variously reported.
These accounts in the four last paragraphs being abtracted from
the public prints, and what other persons collect, I desire the
reader will observe, are not particularly vouched, but as they are
all true in substance, they are so far to be depended upon, and if
there is any mistake it relates to numbers and quantity only.
1043. GlRAED DE EUGINA, BAILIFF OF PRESTBURY AND SEVEN-
HAMPTON, 1290. We have an interesting account of thirteenth-
century life in the Household Roll of Bishop Swinfield, published
by the Camden Society : and the following notes from the appendix
and the bishop's register concerning Girard de Eugina seem
deserving of record in your pages, as illustrating the relations of
various classes during that period in this and the neighbouring
county of Hereford.
Girard de Eugina was bailiff of Prestbury (a manor of the
bishops of Hereford at the time of Domesday, then including
Sevenhampton, and containing xxx hides), as early as 1275, and
seems to have continued in that office till his death. He and
William de la Grene long held situations of trust in connection
with the see of Hereford, the latter being a receiver, keeper of
accounts, and transcriber of rent-rolls in Bishop Cantilupe's time.
Both of them were regularly left in charge by commissions in
writing : the latter, as auditor of revenue when Cantilupe left
England in 1280. In his register we read, "mandatum est Gerardo
Ballivo de Prestebury quod emat sibi foruram rationabilis pretii. ad
robam suarn." Much notice is also taken of Girard in the register
of Cantilupe's successor, Richard Swinfield.
In 1286 the bishop granted to him and his heirs for ever a
messuage and land in Prestebury, which had belonged to a neif, on
payment of such rent and service as had, of old. been customarily
due : this was afterwards transferred to his daughter Agnes. It
appears that he had other property there, which by a formal act of
* Canterbury, Storeship ; 8 guns ; 31 men ; Thomas Blake, Com. ; lost at Bristol.
Captain and twenty-five men drowned ; the ship recovered, and ordered to be sold. p. 382.
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50 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
renunciation, in the presence of witnesses, he made over to the
bishop, previously to his going abroad, m case his death should
occur during his absence, and this actually happened whilst he was
on a visit to his estate in France at the end of 1290. He left a
legacy to Gilbert de Swinfield, chancellor of Hereford, then in
Paris, and a sum of money to the cathedral church of Hereford "pro
salute animse suae."
In the documents given he is styled by the bishop " dilectus nobis
in X to Gyrardus de Ugina," and his property is described as that
which "sibi justis modis adquisivit et possidet in prsesenti in feodo
maneriorum nostrorum de Prestebury et Sevenhampton." (Keg.
Swinf. fol. 68. b.) We also find letters patent of protection from
the bishop, as to his property in general during his absence for the
space of one year : " in order that, by our license sought and obtained,
he may be able to visit the possessions which he has in parts beyond
the sea" dated at Sugwas xxiiij die Januarij, A.D. 1290,
* ordinationis nostrae octavo." Also, a declaration as to the disposal
of real estate held under the bishop, in case of his decease abroad :
" dictus Gyrardus in presentia domini Episcopi, presentibus etiam
tune dominis Willelmo de Morton et Johanne de Kemeseye,
presbyteris, voluit et concessit quod si contingat eum mori, ut idem
dominus Episcopus terras suas et tenementa quas habet in manerio
de Prestebury et Sevenhampton pro suo libito habeat et possideat,
ita ut inde pro animae suae salute aliquid eroget, seeundum suae
beneplacitum voluntatis, pro eo ut asseruit, quod mallet ipsura
dominum Episcopum ipsas terras et tenementa habere quam aliquem
suorum heredum, seu quemvis alium, et hoc ob legitimas rationes."
His death having taken place during his absence in France, we
have the depositions of witnesses as to the nuncupative will made
on his death bed. Memorandum, That on the 3rd day of the
month April, A.D. 1291, Thomas, the son of Emma of Prestebury,
late servant of Girard de Ugina, personally appeared before the lord
(Richard) by the grace of God Bishop of Hereford at his manor of
Colewell : and being sworn and examined, deposed on oath that
the same Girard his lord, on Tuesday next before the Feast of the
Annunciation of the LORD in the same year, when he had lain
sick for some time at his manor " de Cumbis," a ville in the diocese
of Paris, delivered to him a certain box ("pix idem") in which he
had placed certain documents ("literas cautionales vel obligatorias")
and enjoined him to carry the box containing the said documents
with speed to Master Gilbert de Swynefeud, chancellor of Hereford",
then dwelling in Paris, and to request him to obtain the payment of
the said bonds by the debtors, and that he should have the moiety
of the same, by the gift of the said Girard, causing the other half
to be paid for the good of his soul to the mother church of Hereford.
And the said Thomas returning on the morrow (after he had com-
pleted what had been enjoined) found his said lord to be deceased.
John de Wolvinhope, also servant of the same Girard, sworn and
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 51
examined, declared upon oath That he was present when his said
lord sent the aforesaid Thomas to Paris : agreeing with the said
Thomas concerning time and place, although he was not aware of
the nature of the business on hand. Asked concerning the cause
of his knowledge, said that he was in the chamber with the same,
and heard his lord command the said Thomas to hasten his return
to him ; because before he could return, he believed that he might
die.
Having been asked separately, in what condition the said Girard
was when he spoke and enjoined these things, they both said that
he was of sound mind, and was speaking sensibly and connectedly,
but despairing of his convalescence and recovery. And that the
aforesaid Girard died xxij day of March that is, (< XI Kal.
Aprilis," at the end of the year of the Lord 1290 (" A.D. M cc
nonagesimo finiente "). j MELLAND HALL, M.A.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud.
1044. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. V. : IRON AOTON.
Baptisms.
1574. Oct. 25. Ellen, d. of Giles Dymery.
1575. May 9. John, s. of same.
1576. Jan. 1. Elizabeth, d. of same.
1581. May 8. Ann, d. of Christopher Browne, Gent.
1582. Jan. 9. Elizabeth, d. of John Sidenham, Esq r .
1586. Eeb. 6. Frances, d. of John Poyntz, Esq r .
1588. Oct. 26. Robert, s. of Sir John Poyntz, K fc .
1590. June 14. Maria, d. of Anthony Swifte.
1591. July 15. Nicholas, s. of Sir John Poyntz.
1594. Mar. 20. Thomas, s. of Nicholas Veele, Gent.
1595. May 12. John, s. of M r Robert Hooper, Parson.
1602. Aug. 29. Ann, d. of Sir John Poyntz.
1604. Sept. 27. Maria, d. of same.
1609. Dec. 3. Elizabeth, d. of William Wealshe, Esq r .
1611. Sept. 8. Grisell, d. of same.
1614. Sept. 4. Frances, d. of William Browne, Gent.
1615. May 25. Elizabeth, d. of John Bence.
1617. Mar. 1. Elizabeth, d. of William Browne, Gent.
1618. July 6. Robert and John, sons of Robert Hooper, Gent.
1620. June 1. John, s. of William Browne, Gent.
Sept. 4. Ann, d. of Thomas Tindall, Gent.
1621. Oct. 21. Robert, s. of William Browne, Gent.
Nov. 27. Frances, d. of Thomas Tindall, Gent.
1623. May 8. Ann, d. of William Browne.
1625. July 3. Alee, d. of Rowland Wade.
Sept. 12. Frances, d. of Gabriel Seimour, Gent.
1629. Jan. 1. Robert, s. of Isaach Brumwich, Esq r .
1630. Mar. 3. Mary, d. of same.
52 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1634. Nov. 23. Mary, d. of John Dimery.
1638. Mar. 25. Frances, d. of M r Hicks, Clerk.
1640. May 23. John, s. of Sam 1 Crowther.
Feb. 2. Eobert, son of M r Will. Hicks.
1641. Dec. 14. Nathaniel, s. of M r Samuel Crowther.
1642. Mar. 11. Elizabeth, d. of John Dimery.
1643. July 24. John, s. of M r William Hickes, Clerk.
1646. Aug. 30. Marg* d. of John Dimery.
1653. April 6. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Codrington, of Acton.
1659. Feb. 19. Samuel, s. of same.
1674. Mar. 30. Mary, d. of M r John Crowther.
1680. Aug. 12. Hester, d. of Simon Sloper.
1682. Feb. 23. Simon, s. of same.
1685. Mar. 2. William, s. of same.
1699. May 30. William, s. of William Machin, Gent., and
Elizabeth.
1700. May 30. William and John, sons of same.
[Entries of other children of same.]
1704. Aug. 1. Sarah, d. of M r Thomas Shute, Rector, and
Sarah [nee Richmond].
1706. April 17. Alice, d. of same.
Feb. 11. Thomas, s. of M r Jonah Shute, of Bristol.
1707. Dec. 30. Susanna, d. of M r Thomas Shute, Rector.
1710-11. Feb. 18. Anne, d. of same.
1713. Aug. 1. Mary, d. of same.
Aug. 4. Daniel, s. of M r Giles and M Ann Ridley.
1715. Oct. 30. Richmond, s. of M r Thomas Shute and Sarah.
1749. June 2. Sarah, d. of Thomas Shute, D.D., and Joan,
his wife. She died May 4, 1750.
1751. Sept. 8. Bluett, s. of Bluett and Elizabeth [nee Neale]
Jones, Gent.
1753. Aug. 27. Susannah, d. of same, aged 6 weeks.
Marriages.
1577. Jan. 26 Francis Poyntz, Esq', and Anne Fooke.
99. June 12. John Winter and Ann Thomas.
>00. April 14. John Peny and Dorothie Poyntz.
? V> 29< Henr y Norfcon and Annes Stallard.
? eCt 29 ' Richard Senior and Margaret Ellis.
iT i 1 * 4 ' ? berfc Po ^ ntz > Es( l r > and Frances Gibbons.
'eb. 16. John Bence and Elizabeth, d. of M r Robert
T Hooper, Parson of Acton.
161ft nTJ obert H Per and Joan Skidmere.
1015. Oct. 5. Edmund Lewes, alias Boteler, and Marg*
1619 TW* * S 68 ' of Turvm Acton.
1625 IfeK ?i ^ thUr Trueman a * d Mary Webb.
1627 IW 97 ^r el Slater > Clerk > a ^ Sarah Crowther.
1^27. Dec. 27. Robert Poyntz, Esq', and Elizabeth Walsh.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 53
1628. Feb. 3. Isaack Bromwich, Esq r , and Anne Poyntz.
1632. Feb. 10. Thomas Gorges, Esq r , and Margaret, d. of
Sir John Poyntz, KB.
1636. May 12. John Walter, Esq r , and Mary, d. of Sir John
Poyntz, K*.
Feb. 6. William Hickes, Clerk, and Ann Sidenham.
1639. Sept. 23. Samuel Crowther and Mary Tnieman, of Yate.
1643. Mar. 21. M r Stephen Brice and Susannah Roberts.
1660. April 20. Ezekiel Wickham and Mary Tovey.
1667. Sept. 8. Robert Gale, of this Parish, and Martha
Tovey, of Alveston.
1672. April 16. Nicholas Slade and Elizabeth Dymery.
1700. May 16. John Webb, Gent., and Hannah Andrews.
1708. Jan. 20. M r James Scarlett, of Walton, Som*, and
M rs Sarah Hall, of Berkley.
1727. May 9. M r John Thornan and M rs Hester Wittow [?].
1750. Oct. 11. M r Bluett Jones [d. Jan. 25, 1767, aged 55]
and M rs Elizabeth Neale [d. Mar. 13, 1773,
aged 57].
1762. April 15. William Whittington, of Bristol, and Hannah
Richardson, of this Parish.
Burials.
1572. July 14. Oliver Hill.
1573. Nov. 13. Ellen, d. of Giles Dimery.
June 30. Poyntz, s. of Troilus Simmonds.
Nov. 29. John, s. of William Moreton.
1576. June 5. Margery, d. of Giles Dymery.
1579. July 9. Troilus Simmonds.
1584. May 29. Margaret, the servant of Nicholas Poyntz, K*.
1585. Feb. 25. Katherine, d. of William Veele, Gent, [de
Chillwood].
1591. Oct. 7. Mary, wife of John Sidenham, Esq r .
1593. May 16. Joane, d. of Nicholas Veele, Gent.
1594. Sept. 7. William, s. of same.
1595. April 14. William Yeele, Gent.
1596. July 4. Margaret Veele.
Nov. 5. Richard Neele, a servant of M rB Veele, sup-
posed to be murdered.
1597. Feb. 1. William Corbett.
1599. July 14. Nicholas Batten.
Sept. 2. Joane Batten, Widow.
Nov. 1. Lady Frances Poyntz.
1602. April 29. Mary, d. of Will m Veele, Gent.
Sept. 6. Richard Kelke, Gent.
1604. Mar. 13. Hugh Poyntz, Esq r [aged 25].
1607. May 11. Thomas Croome.
1609. Jan. 2. Marie, d. of Tho 8 Baynham.
54 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1611. April 14. Katherine, wife of same.
1613. Jan. 20. Henry Larance, buried in the Church.
1614. Dec. 21. Joane Bence.
Feb. 8. Old William, of Acton House.
1619. June 1. Ellen Larance, Widow.
1620. May 21. Nathaniel Crowther.
1621. Oct. 1. George Tyndall, Gent.
1622. July 10. Maude, wife of Robert Hooper, Parson.
1623. May 16. Anthony Larance.
1624. Nov. 14. Nicholas, s. of Nicholas Poyntz, of Tucking-
ton Park, Esq r .
May 9. John Crowther, Gent.
1628. June 15. Anthony Swift, Gent.
1630. Aug. 26. A poor man dying in an out-house of Robert
Poyntz, Esq r .
Oct. 27. Margaret Crowther, Widow.
1631. Jan. 12. In the night, Elizabeth, wife of Robert
Poyntz, Esq r .
1632. Last day of August. Oriane, d. of Thomas Tyndale, Esq r .
1633. Nov. 29. Sir John Poyntz, K fc .
1637. July 3. John, s. of Gabriel Seimour, Esq r .
Mar. 12. Lady Frances Poyntz.
1639. Jan. 3. Mary, d. of Isaac Bromwich, Esq r .
1640. Aug. 13. Mary, wife of Thomas Williams, Gent.
July 15. M r Robert Hooper, Rector.
Feb. 13. Robert, s. of M r William Hickes.
1641. Aug. 27. Grace, d. of M r William Browne, Gent.
1645. Nov. 5. M r George Falkner.
Nov. 17. M r Havilande.
1646. June 13. Robert, s. of M r George Harvie, Clerk.
1661. Aug. 7. M r Thomas Haule.
1662. July 31. M r William Webb.
1665. April 13. A servant to Sir Robert Poyntz.
Nov. 10. Sir Robert Poyntz, KB.
1667. May 3. I. Harvey, sometime servant to Sir Robert
Poyntz.
1670. Jan. 2. M r Thomas Ridley.
1674. April 15. Mary, d. of M r Samuel Crowther.
July 11. Margaret Dymery, Widow.
i2o o Uly 15< Mar ^' d ' of Mr John Crowther.
Ib78. Sept. 14. The Lady Cecilie Poynz [nee Smith] was
buried, but not according to the late Act
of Parliament only in woollen, and not
affidavid made for that purpose, whereof
affidavid was made according to the Act
Sept. 13, 1678, before Nicholas Yeel, one
irm n * T- c,. f H ' M - Justices of th e Peace.
80. Oct. 1 / . Sir John Poyntz, in Woollen.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 55
1686. Sept. 6. Ann Crowther.
Oct. 7. Frances, d. of John Harvie, Clerk [Rector].
1689. May 6. Sarah Sloper [wife of Simon Sloper, Gent.,
aged 29].
Mar. 12. M rs Frances Harvey, wife of John Harvey,
Clerk.
16934. Jan. 28. M r John Harvey, Rector [for 54 years].
1695. July 1. Thomas Lyster, Gent.
Mar. 16. Joane, d. of M r Hezekiah Webb.
1700. Aug. 26. Elizabeth Smyth, Gent.
1701-2. Jan. 19. M r John Mortimer, Rector [aged 38].
1713. Jan. 26. M r John Bampton (Junior).
1715. Aug. 2. Joan, wife of John Bampton, Yeoman.
1717. May 27. William Machin, Gent, [aged 43].
1728. Mar. 8. M rs Mary Godwin [Widow],
Mar. 10. Rev d M r [Thomas] Shute,late Rector [aged 52].
Mar. 11. M r John Ridley.
1729. May 27. M r Rich d Lamb, of Bristol [aged 40].
1733. Sept. 23. M r Nathaniel Ridley (Sen.).
1 745. May 8. Sarah Shute [nee Richmond], Widow [aged 74].
Dec. 4. Thomas Thornan pThorner], Gent., of Yate
[aged 66].
1750. July 15. Hester, widow of John Thornan, of Yate.
1045^ THE LEIGH FAMILY. The melancholy death of the
Hon. Gilbert H. Chandos Leigh, eldest son of Lord Leigh, and
M.P. for South Warwickshire, who was killed by a fall down a
precipice whilst hunting wild sheep in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.,
in the month of September last [1884], may render a few particulars
respecting the ancient family of Leigh not uninteresting to the
reader. The Leighs of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, and of Adlestrop,
Gloucestershire, come of the same stock as the Leighs of High
Leigh, Cheshire, where they were seated before the Norman
Conquest. Representatives of the family gallant knights of old -
fought at Cressy and at Agincourt ; but the direct founder of the
Leighs of Stoneleigh and Adlestrop was Sir Thomas Leigh, who
was sheriff of London in the reign of Queen Mary, and lord mayor
at the time of the accession of Queen Elizabeth. It is on record
that when, on the day of her coronation, the queen went by water
from the Tower to Westminster, Sir Thomas Leigh equipped his
barge in splendid style, furnishing it with musicians, who, to quote
the old chronicle of Holinshed, "plaied in most sweet and
heauenlie maner ;" and how at the coronation, after the champion's
challenge, "at the seruing up of the wafers, the lord maior of
London went to the cupboord, and filling a cup of gold with
ipocrasse, bare it to the queene : and kneeling before hir tooke the
assaie, and she receiuing it of him, and drinking of it, gaue the cup
with the couer unto the said lord maior for his fee, which cup and
56 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
couer weied sixteene ounces Troie weight."* When he died in 1571,
and was buried in Mercers' Chapel, the following quaint epitaph was
inscribed on his tomb :
" Sir Thomas Leigh, r bi civil life
All offices did beare,
Which in this City worshipful
Or honourable were.
Whom as God blessed with great wealth,
So losses did he feele ;
Yet never changed his constant minde,
Tho' fortune turn'd her Wheele.
Learning he lov'd, and helpt the poore,
To those that knew him deere ; -
For whom his lady and loving Wife
This tomb hath builded here."
Rowland, the eldest son of this great civic functionary, inherited
estates purchased by his father, in 1554, at Adlestrop and Long-
borough, Gloucestershire, and in the parish church of Longborough
(recently restored by the liberality of Edmund Temple Godman,
Esq., J.P., of Eanksfee,) there is a monument to two members of
the Leigh^family, which bears the following inscription :
" Memoriae Sacrum Gulielrni Leigh, Militis, nee non Elizabeths
Conjugis.
" Hie,
"Ex utroque stemmate, Leigh & Berkeley, nobili sanguine natus,
utramque familiam suis virtutibus ornavit. Oxonise juvenis per
biennium bonis literis non infeliciter operam dedit. ^Etate integra,
suscepto matrimonio, res privatas majorum more, pie ac liberaliter,
nee sine dispendio erogavit. Eirenarchse officio per plures annos
summa cum sequitate, non summo jure, functus, phthisi tandem
correptus, vitam hanc meliori cominutavit mense Novemb., Anno
Salutis 1631, ^Etatis 46.
" E quatuor filijs totidemque filiabus, hujusce connubij fructu?
harum trps, viz* Isabella, Elizabetha, et Anna, utrique parenti
supervixere. Binos illorum, nempe Gulielmum ac Georgium, pater
reliquit superstites ; mater tantum natu majorem.
" Ilia,
c Gulielmi Whorwood, Militis, Staffordiensis, filia, orbata viro, per
annos 34 or viduidate perpetua vitam protraxit vere religiosam.
jEdes suas^ proximis hospitium, egenis xenodochium, subditisque
Regis fidelibus (arduissimis temporibus) asylum semper prsebuit.
rLJ 1 ^? Vl ter ^ ting matter for in <l uir y whether this is the cup which Sir Thomas Leigh
ited to the Mercers Company, and which was among the articles of value exhibited in
enamel"- Kensington Mu seum in 1862. The following inscription surrounds rt in blue
" To elect the master of the Mercerie hither am I sent,
And by Sir Thomas Leigh for the same intent."
I
lS, 186? l0iCe Exampls of Art Workmanship, and also in the Illustrated London
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 57
Hoc monumentum non indecorum optimo marito, sibique ipsi vivens
posuit. Filii natu minoris liberis libera manu dotatis, matura
demum morte immortalitatem acquisivit 23 Martij, Anno X* 1 166|,
suseque 83."
Thomas, the second son of the lord mayor, was seated at
Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, and was created a baronet on the
institution of that order in 1611. He was the immediate progenitor
of the Barons Leigh of Stoneleigh, who, like the Lees of Dytchley,
kept up an almost romantic devotion to the fallen House of Stuart.*
It was on the failure of the Stoneleigh. line in 1806 that the Stone-
leigh estates passed to the Leighs of Adlestrop, as nearest of kin,
who by intermarriage with the ducal House of Chandos derive a
direct descent from Princess Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII.
The present Lord Leigh, who is the lineal representative -of both
branches of the family, has been lord lieutenant of Warwickshire
since 1856 ; and as few noblemen are more deservedly beloved and
respected, the heavy bereavement which he has lately sustained in
the death of his eldest son, has called, forth a profound manifestation
of sorrow and sympathy. ^ Q
1046. SIR BAPTIST HICKES, FIRST VISCOUNT CAMPDEN.
There are amongst the Lansdown MSS. in the British Museum
several original letters of Sir Baptist Hickes, afterwards first
Viscount Campden, some extracts from which may be thought worthy
of a place in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries. The said
Sir Baptist was a younger son of Eobert Hickes, silk mercer, who
kept a shop in Sloper's Lane End, at the White Bear, Cheapside.
He succeeded to his father's business, and " got a great estate," says
Stow, " by supplying the court with silks and rich mercery wares."
The same historian attributes the prosperity of Hickes to his ability
to give credit " after the corning in of King James with his bare
Scotch nobility " ; and it is evident that it was as a money-lender,
rather than as a shopkeeper, that he attained to wealth and rank.
The letters are addressed to his elder brother, Sir Michael Hickes,
who was secretary to Lord Burghley, and the lineal ancestor of the
present member for East Gloucestershire; and they are mainly
requests to him to use his influence for the repayment of loans to
the king and some members of the court. Sir Baptist, soon
after the year 1608, purchased the manor of Campden, in this
county, where he built a splendid mansion, which was destroyed in
the civil war, some ruins only remaining. He died October 18,
1629, leaving two daughters.
"I pray you," he writes Feb. 28, 1600, "recommend me heartily
to my sister, and I wish that my wife [Elizabeth, nee May] were as
well pleased in the country as she is, but it avails not to wish it."
* Lord Clarendon records in his History of the Rebellion that when the gates of Coventry
were closed against King Charles, his Majesty sought refuge at Stoneleigh, where he was
entertained with dutiful affection.
58 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Another letter rather contradicts Stow's idea of Sir Baptist's-
wealth coining through the "bare Scotch nobility:""! fynde
Scottyshe men are fayre speakers and slow performers. Being rydcJ
of them I will crosse them oute of my bookes."
There is a letter in which he asks his brother's help towards
obtaining repayment of 4,000 lent to the king; but it would
seem that the debt was much more : " The mayne debt due to me
from his Ma*? is up to the point of <L6,000, for the most part of
which I pay interest to uphold my credit ..... and last
as you knowe, I am shortly (by the grace of God) to marry both
my daughters, with whom I am to give good round portions in
marriadge."
One letter addressed to the wife of his brother, Sir Michael,* I am
tempted to transcribe at length :
" Syster Hickes, I did not know that the purple stryped stuffe
w th goulde had been retorned me againe, unlesse my brother hac
tould me hereof, and that you did not cutt it ..... for
marringe of the patterne : I pray you give me leave to tell you that no
patterne comes amysse to me to pleasure you : and theref ore by way
of saluting you I presume to send you this small token of my love-
to you, with many thanks for my kind usadge at Ronckolt, being
redy rather to indebt myselfe further unto you than by any sufficien
satisfaction to requyte yo r curtesy. If this meane present be
accepted of you in as great good will as I present it, it returnes to
me my full satisfaction. And so to avoid tediouse wry tinge or com
plementinge speaches I end and do defer not.
" Yo r very lovinge brother,
" Baptiste Hickes.
"ffrommy . . ..... in Cheapside this 24 June, 1608.
I do not know whether you will think that these extracts from the
letters of a very eminent Gloucestershire man are of sufficient
interest to make one of your notes. If you do, they are at your
service ' S. E. BARTLEET.
Brockworth Vicarage, Gloucester.
1047. THE EEV. CHARLES PENYSTON, A.M., VICAR OF
SANDHURST, 1687-8. The memoranda given below are from the
parish register of Sandhurst, near Gloucester :
" Memorandum. That the Vicarage of Sandhurst being void by
the death of M r Samuel Cordel], the late Incumbent, Charles
Penyston, A.M., received a presentation to the sayd Vicarage from
the Right Reverend father in God Jonathan [Trelawny], L d Bp of
.bristoll, and was inducted into the same December the eighteenth
by Joseph Hatch, of Kemmerton, Clerk, in y e year of our L d 1687."
h j s /f^S* ( im] > * Michael d - ^S-, 1612, set. 69,
Colson, of London, and Low Layton, Essex,
bur - " Feb - 1634 > le
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" 1688,
Charles Penyston, Vicar.
William Sparrow, ) ^ , ,
James Salcombe, } Churchwardens."
All the above appears to be in Mr. Penyston's handwriting, and
then follow the register-entries, which continue in the writing of
some other person during his (Mr. P's) and his successor's in-
cumbencies.
" Memorandii : Anno Dni 1689.
" That the Vicaradge of Sandhurst being void by the restoration
of M r Charles Penyston to his fellowship in Magd : Coll : Oxon :
M r Robert Niccolles, A.M., received a presentation to the said
Vicaradge from the Kight Reverend Father in God Gilbert [Ironside],
Id Bp of Bristol, and was inducted into the same November 6" 1
by Edward Fidkin, Vicar of Ashel worth."
This is entered, apparently in Mr. Niccolles' handwriting, at the
foot of the entries for 1690, i.e., a year after his induction. Mr.
Niccolles has not been included by Atkyns in the list of vicars.
Charles Penyston was one of twenty-five Fellows expelled on the
16th of November, 1687, from Magdalen College, Oxford, by the
commissioners of James II., for refusing to acknowledge as president
an unqualified person. After his expulsion he, with the other
Fellows, was declared to be incapacitated from receiving preferment,
December 10, 1687; nevertheless he was inducted into the vicarage
of Sandhurst eight days after the inhibition. He was restored to
his fellowship on the 25th of October, 1688. He had been elected
Demy, at the age of fourteen, in 1674, and matriculated February
18, 1674-5, as the son of Sir Thomas Penyston, or Penniston, of
Corn well, Co. Oxford, Bart. He graduated B.A., November 12,
1680; M.A., June 22, 1683; was elected Fellow in 1686; Bursar,
1694 and 1701 ; Vice-President, 1698; and died August 24, 1705,
while still holding his fellowship. J R B
1048. THE PORTER FAMILY, OF BRESTOL. (See No. 1031.)
The " Mrs Col e Booth," who erected the mural tablet in Bristol
Cathedral to the memory of the Porter family, was the widow of
Colonel Booth, of the Royal Engineers. " Col 6 " 011 the monument
was doubtless intended to be an abbreviation of "Colonel." I
always heard her spoken of as Mrs. Colonel Booth ; and her name is
so entered in the Bristol Directories for 1832-35. She was the
daughter of William Woods, of Bristol, and was married to Colonel
Booth at St. Paul's [Church, in that city, in January, 1806. At
her residence, Montpelier, Miss Anna Maria Porter, authoress of
The Hungarian Brothers, died in 1832.
In the Times of January 5th, 1880, Mr. John Pinchbeck asserted
that Mrs. Colonel Booth and Dr. Porter, of Bristol, were jointly
the "real authors" of Sir Edward Seaward' s Narrative, and not
Miss Jane Porter, to whom the Times critic, in his notice of a new
60 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
edition of that work, had attributed it. In doing this, the writer
in the Times claimed for Mrs. Booth what she never claimed for
herself. (See the first paragraph of her Porter memorial, ante, p. 31.)
" Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative . . . edited by Miss Jane
Porter," was first published in 1831, in three volumes, post 8vo;
and tlw Quarterly Review, in 1832, honoured it with an elaborate
notice; it was also reviewed in the Monthly and the Eclectic.
Several editions have been issued, two of which are still in print.
Ever since its first publication biographers and bibliographers have
persistently, but erroneously, attributed it to Miss Jane Porter, the
gifted authoress of The Scottish Chiefs, or to Sir Edward Seaward,
the fictitious hero of the story.*
Amongst some MSS. by the Porter family, now in the Penzance
Library, is the draft of a letter which Miss Jane Porter addressed
to her brother, Dr. William Ogilvie Porter, in which she declares
that he was the sole author. From the same source we learn that
300 was paid by Messrs. Longman and Rees for the copyright of
Seaward's Narrative, 100 of which the doctor gave his sister, who
negotiated the sale, and edited the work. In the year the book was
first published Miss Jane Porter presented a copy to the Earl of
Munster, and in the letter that accompanied her gift she informed
his lordship that she was its " editor only."
Dr. Porter's original MS. of Seaward's Narrative was copied by
Mrs. Colonel Booth, and her transcript sent to Messrs. Longman
and Rees for publication hence arose the erroneous impression that
this lady was in part author of the Defoe-like work in question.
The circumstances that induced Dr. Porter to write his remarkable
book, and his reason for publishing it anonymously, are fully
detailed in Notes and Queries, 6 th S. i. 99-100, 180-81.
Dr. Porter resided at 29, Portland Square, Bristol, for nearly
forty years. It was there that he wrote Seaward's Narrative. His
sister Jane lived with him. Both died there in 1851.
Dr. Porter's MS. of the Narrative, and also Miss Jane Porter's
letter to her brother, in which she declared him to be its sole author,
were formerly in the possession of Mr. W. H. Woods, of Bristol,
'
uU
B Blackburn in v ' '-Seaward, Sir Edward .... edited by Jane Porter."
s :-" T^e ySnl hooll e n y ^v ^ Hi ^ ? Ca ^gue Titles and on Index Entries, 1884,
to consult a catabgue wherl ^ SfJ* i ^2 Wlth Ws trade to learn ' who has the misfortune
without more ado ^ Tat L^ ^ ^ gUr ^ among the auth rs, naturally concludes
as the hero ***** ; whereas ^ * well known to old hands
the hero orpseud an nf **** ; whereas ^ * well known to old hands
cataloguer, givesTxamples o hth^S M , n ^ tive " Mr " B)ack burn, who is a veteran
he tltle f th in question might be entered in the
m ^ M to find it; but ta neither
W. Olf?] s itS ri |. ht i ul Place > and is entered thus '-" [ o ^
Miss Jane Porter La I vols J l st ^^^opf a ,^ a ^ s Na ^ ati ^ of his Shipwreck ____ edited by
his autograph inscripSn on P the tItl' P Si <?* f OV ^ e was the author>s own c Py. and h <*
Also that of his executor C ! G Hea?ef ws D ,o ct ^^rter, Portland Square, Bristol, 1842."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 61
who was one of the executors of Mrs. Colonel Booth, to whom
Dr. Porter had bequeathed his house in Portland Square. These
documents were burnt in a fire that occurred in Park Street, Bristol,
in February, 1860.
I possess Colonel Booth's private diary, in which he frequently
mentions his wife, but never in any way associated with literature.
The last entry in it was made in 1825, in w r hich year he resided at
5, Park Street. Can any of your readers inform me of the date of
his death ? WILLIAM GEORGE.
3, King's Parade, Clifton.
1049. GEORGE BULL, D.D., AND THE PARISH OF AVENING,
1685-1705. The paragraphs which follow relative to this well-
known divine and his connection with the parish of Avening, of
which he was rector for twenty years, are from The Life of
Dr. George Bull, late Lord Bishop of St David's, by Robert
Nelson, Esq., 2nd ed., London, 1714, pp. 348-477 :
It was in the year 1685, when Mr. Bull was presented to the
rectory of Avening in Glocestershire, a large parish, about eight
miles in compass, the income whereof is 200Z. a year. [He was
born at Wells, in the adjoining county of Somerset, March 25,
1634, and was therefore rather more than fifty years of age when
appointed to the charge of Avening on the resignation of Robert
Frampton, D.D., bishop of the diocese, who had held the parish
in commendam for a short time.] The patron of it is Philip
Sheppard, of Minching Hampton, Esq., a very worthy gentleman,
eminent for his probity, sobriety, and charity, and for his great use-
fulness in his country; for he not only administers justice with great
impartiality, but endeavoureth to reconcile all quarrels and dissentions
among his neighbours, before they break into a flame, and before his
neighbours lose their money and their temper in legal prosecutions,
in which commonly they both suffer. It happened, that when this
living became vacant, Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Bull, with some other
friends, were at Astrop-Wells in Northamptonshire, drinking those
mineral waters for the advantage of their health ; and they were
even together with some other gentlemen, when Mr. Sheppard
received the news of it. Upon which he acquainted the company,
that he had a very good living to dispose of, and reckoned up all
those qualifications he expected in the person, upon whom he should
bestow it ; which so exactly agreed to Mr. Bull's character, that
everyone present plainly perceived that Mr. Sheppard designed to
determine that preferment in Mr. Bull's favour. But he had too
much humility to make the application to himself, and therefore
took not the least notice of it. Some time after, Mr. Bull withdrew
with some of the company to walk in the garden, which opportunity
Mr. Sheppard took to declare, that he had on purpose given those
hints, that Mr. Bull might be encouraged to apply to him for it :
but finding his modesty was too great to make that step, he was
62 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
resolved to offer it to him, who had more merit to deserve it, than
assurance to ask for it ; which accordingly he did, as soon as
Mr. Bull returned into the room ; which he received with all those
acknowledgments, which were due for so good a living, to so
generous a patron.
And here it will not be improper to observe, that Mr. Bull had in
his natural temper a great modesty, and backwardness in stirring
for his secular interest; he endeavoured to deserve preferments,
rather than to solicite for them ; and his mind was so entirely taken
up in his studies, and in the discharge of his pastoral duties, that
he never found leisure to form schemes for his own advancement,
and much less time to prosecute those methods, which are too
frequently submitted to, in order to obtain it. He often thanked
God for this happy disposition that was placed in him, which he said
had guarded him from many attempts, very unbecoming his holy
function, and had secured to him great peace of mind, in the
possession of what he enjoyed in the Church, which he said, divine
Providence alone, and not his application, had procured for him.
This he looked upon as the true Christian primitive way of being
preferred, virtute ainbire non favitoribus ; and whenever he met
with this modest and conscientious temper, he encouraged the person
steadily to pursue his duty, and to depend upon God.
Upon his removing [from Siddington, near Cirencester] to
Avening,* one of his first cares was to rebuild the parsonage house,
part whereof had been burnt down, some time before he came
incumbent. This expence was very hard upon a person who was
never before-hand with the world; but being necessary for the
conveniency of his family, and the benefit of his successors, he
chearfully engaged in it. The people of his parish gave Mr. Bull,
for some time, great trouble and uneasiness ; there were many of
them very loose and dissolute, and many more disaffected to the
discipline and liturgy of the Church of England. This state and
condition of the parish did not discourage Mr. Bull from doing his
duty, tho' it occasioned him many difficulties in the discharge of it ;
and he suffered many indignities and reproaches, with admirable
patience and Christian fortitude, for not complying with those
irregular practices, which had too long prevail'd among them. But
by steadiness and resolution, in performing his holy function
wording to the rubrick, by his patient demeanour and prudent
image, by his readiness to do them all offices of kindness, and
particularly by his great charity to the poor, who in that place were
very numerous, he did in the end remove all those prejudices which
they had entertained against him, and reduced them to such a
temper, as rendered his labours effectual among them. In so much,
ney generally became constant in their attendance upon the
been appointed by the lord
* installed
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, 63
publick worship, and very decent in their behaviour at it; and
what was effected with the greatest difficulty, they brought their
children to be baptized at church ; for when all other arguments
failed, the assurance he gave them, that this was the practice of the
reformed Churches, perswaded them to comply without any farther
scruple. Indeed the people by degrees perceiving that he had no
design upon them but their own good, of which they frequently
experimented several instances, their aversion was changed into love
and kindness ; and though at his first coming among them, they
expressed a great deal of animosity and disrespect to his person and
family, yet many years before he left them, they seemed highly
sensible of their error, and gave many signal proofs of their hearty
good-will towards him and them ; and when he was promoted from
this parish to the bishoprick of St. David, no people could testifie
more concern and sorrow than the parishioners did upon this
occasion, for the loss of those advantages which they enjoyed by
his living among them. And I am credibly informed, that to this
day, they never name him without expressions of gratitude and
respect.
For some time before his coming to Avening, he had made use
of a curate to assist him in his parochial duties ; but that help
became now much more necessary, by reason of the largeness of
his parish, and the ill state of his health, which he had very much
impaired by his night studies, in which he had taken great delight
during the vigour of his age. Yet notwithstanding this assistance,
except he was prevented by sickness, he preached once every Lord's
day, and read the prayers frequently himself the other part of the
day, when his curate preached. He chose to divide after this
manner the publick administrations, that the people might not
entertain a mean opinion of his curates, as if they were not qualified
for the duties of the pulpit; and that they might have better
thoughts of our excellent liturgy, when they saw the parochial
minister officiate himself. He very frequently condemned the
wicked practice (as he called it) of those incumbents, who by their
pride, selfishness, or neglect, give countenance to those fatal mistakes
among the people. There was one use indeed he made of a curate,
which will appear surprizing, because I believe seldom or never
practised, and that was to admonish him of his faults ; the proposal
was from himself, that they might agree from that time to tell one
another freely, in love and privacy, what they observed amiss in
each other : it is certain, this might help to regulate the conduct of
his own life ; but it had this peculiar advantage, that it gave him a
handle to find fault without offence, with any thing that appeared
wrong in his curate ; for when the liberty was mutual, neither of
them could be blamed for the use of it. I relate this circumstance
with the more certainty, because I received the information of it
from the worthy clergyman himself who was then his curate, and
with whom this agreement was made.
64 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
He had not been long at Avening, before he was preferred to the
archdeaconry of Landaff ; for it appeareth by the register book of
the chapter of that church, that Mr. Bull was installed archdeacon
the 20th of June, 1686. This considerable post in the Church was
bestowed upon him by Archbishop Bancroft, whose option it was ;
and purely in consideration of the great and eminent services he
had done the Church of God, by his learned and judicious works,
as Dr. Bately, his Grace's chaplain, expressed it, in a letter writ to
Mr. Bull by the order of his lord. The manner of Mr. Bull's
receiving this honourable station in the Church, added very much
to his reputation, because it was conferred upon him by an archbishop,
who had a particular regard to the merit of those he advanced,
without any solicitation or application made by Mr. Bull
himself
I have already, in other parts of this Life, given so particular an
account of Dr.* Bull's method in governing his parish, and of his
manner in performing the duties of his holy function, that it is not
necessary to add any thing upon that subject, farther than what of
that nature appears to have been peculiar to his conduct at Avening.
Now the state and condition of that parish having been as I have
before related, one means he fixed upon in order to reform it, was
to have a sermon in his church every Thursday ; the design whereof
was, farther to instruct the people, who were very ignorant, in the
principles of the Christian religion ; a method which was not
unlikely to prevail upon them. For when they found him so
zealous as to do more than they thought he was obliged to, they
were ready to conclude that their welfare was the great motive
which influenced him ; and to make this more effectual, the children
were on the same day catechized by the curate, which still tended
to the instruction of those of riper years : and yet, to bring this
good design to a greater perfection, he always distributed on such
days five shillings among the poor, that they might be encouraged to
attend the church at such seasons. How long he continued this
practice it is not very certain, tho' there is no doubt but that he
pursued it for some time
One great contest he had with the disorderly people of Avening
related to the observation of a feast, which was attended the day
following with extravagant revels. It is true, that the piety of our
ancestors did set apart one day in every year, to commemorate the
dedication of the publick place of worship, and every church
almost had its anniversary; and good laws were enacted, that they
m l g ^- E* th solemnl y and orderly kept. These days thus
established, were called wakes from the Saxon word, which signifies
to watch. But the observation of them degenerating into luxury,
bey grew very grievous to all sober people, and the good reason of
r institution did not make amends for the obstinate abuse of
Conferred u P n M & Oxford, July 10, 1686, without the
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them. In order to rectifie these disorders, Dr. Bull appeared against
them in the pulpit, and exposed the folly and madness of them,
with a true Christian courage, for he did not fear to displease men,
when the honour of God and the good of souls were at stake. But
when neither his instructions nor his exhortations, both in publick
and private, could prevail upon the generality of them to observe
that regularity, which the laws of Christianity require from all its
professors, he procured an order of sessions to suppress it ; which
effectually put an end to it many years before he left the place ; but
it cost him much time and labour ; though it was usual with him,
never to give over any thing of that nature, till he had attained the
good end he at first proposed
In February, 170|-, Dr. Bull was made acquainted with her
Majesty's gracious intentions of conferring upon him the bishoprick
of St. David's, the news whereof he received with great surprize,
and with no less concern. And considering the great weight of
that high station in the Church, and how much work is requir'd to
a conscientious discharge of that administration ; and withal, the
ill state of health, under which he then laboured, and the evening
of life, to which he was now arrived, being in the 71st year of his
age, I do not wonder that he did at first decline engaging in that
important office. . . . But however difficult the employment
might prove to Dr. Bull, in the decline of his strength and vigour,
it certainly concerned the honour of the nation, not to suffer a
person to die in an obscure retirement, who upon the account of
his learned performances had shined with so much lustre in a
neighbouring nation, where he had received the united thanks of
her bishops, for the great service he had done to the cause of
Christianity. Accordingly he was consecrated bishop of St. David's,
in Lambeth Chapel, the 29th of April, 1705
His grave [at Brecknock] is covered with a plain stone, and the
short inscription upon it which follows, was framed and ordered by
his pious widow, who was so satisfied with it herself, that she
would not suffer it to be cast in any other form : " Here lieth the
Eight Reverend | Father in God, D r George Bull, | late Bishop of
this Diocese; | who was excellently learned, | pious, and chari-
table; | and who departed this life February the 17 th , 1709, aged
75." He left behind him but two of those eleven children with
which God had been pleased to bless him. His son Robert,* at
present [1714] rector of Tort worth, in Glocestershire, and prebendary
of the cathedral church in the same county, married Rachel, the
daughter of Edward Stephens, of Cherington, in the county of
Glocester, Esq., and of Mary, the daughter of Sir Matthew Hale,
late lord chief justice of the King's-Bench. His daughter Bridget,
since his death, married to Mr. Edward Adderley, son to the
aforesaid Mary by a former husband. GLOUCESTRENSIS.
* For mention of his death in December, 1729, see ante, vol. ii., p. 651. ED.
VOL. III. E
66 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1050. ON COPIES OF MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. (Reply
to No. 909.) I have only this day seen the communication relative
to the "Monumental Inscriptions in Bristol Cathedral," and at
once I seek to bring the Society [for Preserving the Memorials of
the Dead] under the notice of your correspondent. The very work
he mentions as so much required in Bristol is being done here in
Norwich ; and as the Society's income increases, other centres will
be opened, arrangements having been already made for Worcester.
A literal copy of each inscription is taken, with a plan of the
building indicating the respective sites ; and also the same in regard
to burial grounds. I shall be glad to give further information, and
hope to enlist a large amount of additional sympathy and support.
Any county or city providing 1 per week will justify the extension
of our work thereto. WILLIAM VINCENT, Secretary.
Belle Vue Rise, Norwich.
It will, no doubt, be satisfactory to the reader to have a brief
official statement of the important objects of the above-named
Society :
To preserve and protect memorials of the dead in parish churches
and churchyards,
1. By securing a record of sepulchral memorials, and of the sites
of monuments, destroyed or removed, where such can be identified.
2. By carefully watching works carried on in churches, especially
during the progress of "restoration" or rebuilding ; and by using
every legitimate means to prevent the desecration and painful
interference with the surface or limits of churchyards.
3. By promoting the repair of such memorials as the Society
may think necessary or desirable, and by the occasional grant of
funds for the purpose.
4. By seeking to obtain legislation in behalf of the objects the
Society has in view.
m 5. By promoting the publication of the more important and
historical memorials, and by encouraging the printing and publishing
of parochial registers. EDITOR.
1051. --THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT OF FOOT. Can any
reader oblige me with information respecting the county associations
of this famous regiment? It received the title of "North
Gloucester" in 1782, when county titles were first given to
regiments of the line, to encourage recruiting, which had become
very difficult owing to the unpopularity and ill-success of the war
with America. I find, on consulting the War Office records of the
regiment, that it had a depot, first at Cirencester, and afterwards at
loucester during 1782-3; but I can find no official record of
is or subsequent association with the county beyond the fact
that recruiting parties were occasionally sent thither in after-years.
r Charles (subsequently Earl) Grey was colonel of the regiment
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in 1 782, but had, I think, no Gloucestershire interest. Philip Bragg,
M.P. for Armagh, the regiment's best-known colonel (Sir Edward
Paget perhaps excepted), was, so far as I can make out, no relative
of the Gloucestershire Bragges. He would seem to have been an
Irishman : he was Master of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, and
died in Dublin, in 1759, leaving a few thousands to Lord George
Sackville. (Hist. MSS. Comm. Fourth Report, p. 299.) By the
way, he was not the Colonel Brag incidentally mentioned by Swift
in a letter to Stella in 1710, as he was still a captain in 1715.
(See Irish Mil. Entry Books.} H M C
Charlton, S.E.
1052. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. VL : PUOKLB-
CHURCH.
1594.
Feb. 9.
1596.
April 17.
Jan. 20.
1599.
1608.
Catherine,
Aug. 14.
1616.
Nov. 16.
1620.
June 8.
1640.
1641.
Sept. 27.
Feb. 2.
1643.
Oct. 1.
1644.
Feb. 6.
1666.
Feb. 19.
1667.
Mar. 17.
1668-9.
Jan. 10.
1688.
June 7.
Aug. 9.
1690.
1691.
April 11.
Dec. 3.
Henry, s. of John Dennys, Esq r .
William, s. of same.
Sicilie, d. of same.
d. of same.
Chashend ra p Cassandra], d. of Richard
Barkeley, Esq r .
John, son and heir of Henry Dennys, Esq r .
Henry, s. of Henry Dennis, Esq r .
Henry, son and heir of John Dennis, Esq r .
M rs Margaret Dennis, cL of same.
John Dennis, s. of same.
William Dennis, s. of same.
Mary Brune, d. of Charles Brune, Esq r .
John Brune, son and heir of same.
Mary, d. of M r John Meredith and Mary,
his wife.
Elizabeth,* d. of William Dennis, Esq r , and
M rs Dorothy [me Cotton].
Margaret, d. of M r Thomas Dutton and M re
Dorothy.
Mary, d. of Henry Dutton and M rs Dorothy.
Ann, d. of M r Henry and Dorothy Dutton.
1616. Eeb. 20. William Guise, Esq r [of Elmore], and Cicely
Dennis.
1665. Feb. 22. Charles Brune, Esq r , and Margaret, only d. of
John Dennis, Esq r .
1681. Feb. 27. M r William Wallington and M rs Sarah
Knowles.
1689. Oct. 10. M r Gabriel Watts and M rs Susannah Grubb.
1690. Feb. 4. M r Joseph Franklin and M rs Sarah Goode.
* Af terwarda wife of Sir Alexander Camming, Bart,, and bur. at Coulter, Aberdeenshire,
68 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Burials.
1599. June 3. Cicelie Dennis.
1602. Mar. 13. Anne Petite, Gent.
1609. Aug. 7. John Dennis, Esq r .*
1622. Jan. 4. Margaret [nee Speke], wife of Henry Dennys,
Esq r .
1652. July 5. William Dennis.
1660. May 3. John Dennis, Esq r , departed this life [aged 43].
1666. Feb. 16. M rs Margaret Bmne, wife of Charles Brune,
Esq r .
_ Mar. 19. John Wickham, Senior, Gent.
1676. Henry Dennis, Esq r , buried in the month of October.
1680. Feb. 16. William Llewellings, Esq r .
1681. May 12. M rs Ann Wickham.
1682. May 25. John Dennis, Esq r .
1687. July 5. John [born 1686], s. of William Dennis,
Esq r , and M rs Dorothy, his wife.
1690. Jan. 14. John Brewin, Esq r .
1053. THE LEIGH FAMILY. (See No. 1045.) It is related
in the family annals that William Leigh, the eldest son of Sir
William and Lady Leigh (whose monument is in Longborough
Church), made a somewhat romantic marriage with Joanna Pury,
of Gloucester, which was brought about in this manner. Mr.
Leigh, being high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1634, and, like all
the members of his family, a devoted royalist, took an active part
in enforcing the payment of that arbitrary and most unpopular tax,
Ship-money. From that time he became highly obnoxious to the
Puritans ; and on their accession to power, charges were brought
against him, which resulted in his estates being confiscated, and
his person secured in Gloucester Gaol. Mr. Pury, an alderman of
Gloucester, and a powerful adherent of Oliver Cromwell, had the
charge of many cavalier gentlemen in durance there. His beautiful
daughter, Joanna, sympathised with their sufferings, and having
become acquainted with Mr. Leigh, pity for the high-born, attractive
* Author of The Secrets of Angling, first published in 1613, and reprinted by Satchell and
Co., London, 1883. Witt regard to the authorship of this old and rare angling poem, " by
J[ohn] D[ennys], Esquire, 1613," there was for a long time considerable doubt. " Isaac
Walton attributed it to a certain John Davors, Esq., while Robert Howlett, in his Angler's
Sure Guide, assigned it to that 'great practitioner, master, and patron of angling,' Dr. Donne.
In the beginning of the century, however, all doubt as to the real name of the author was set
at rest by the discovery of the entry in the books of the Stationers' Company, which describes
3 book as having been written by John Dennys, Esq. This John Dennys, as Mr. Westwood
out, was probably the great-grandson of Sir Walter Dennys, of Pucklechurch, and not
8 ^^ holas ***<*** in his edition of Walton. Though the poem passed
1 l ? ecame so rare tbat Beloe said of it; that ' Perhaps there does not
E ?I UBh literatQ re a rarer book than this.' Indeed, Sir John Hawkins
<! n 1 VCT get a sight of the book - " was reprinted by Sir Egerton
e 0nd Tv7 0l ? me of the British Bibliographer, and a hundred copies were
lv B tr Tv ,
Wately struck off. Mr. Arber also reproduced the p^emin the first volume of his English
the X edition ^S? w P T *' "f v ke the last wnich we mentioned, is a literal transcript of
with ?the tart * 7 W d ^ done well > we think > refraining from aU interference
to the woridC d hf g vS n - W *i U able to *** this V"*** P em M ^^ ^st presented
119 )-ED beginning of the seventeenth century." (Notes and Queries, 6th S. via.
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cavalier soon ripened into love. In short, William Leigh and the
fair maid of Gloucester planned, and in process of time effected a
clandestine marriage. Alderman Pury was too sagacious a man to
remain long inexorable : he foresaw that the Commonwealth would
probably in turn be hurled from power, and he availed himself of
his friendship with the Protector to obtain the pardon of the
royalist husband, in consideration of the merits of his wife's family.
The estates of Mr. Leigh were restored to him, and he and his wife
Joanna, after this romantic beginning of their married life, lived
together to a good old age, in the enjoyment of much peaceful
felicity, and surrounded by a numerous offspring. It was this
William Leigh who, after his father's death in 1631, removed from
Longborough, leaving the manor house there in the occupation of
his widowed mother, and settled at Adlestrop, where he built " a
pleasant and spacious mansion on a well-wooded, picturesque site."
Little, however, of the original structure remains, Adlestrop House,
with its present handsome frontage, having been almost entirely
rebuilt in the last century, about the year 1759.
In the chancel of Adlestrop Church there are these inscriptions
upon flatstones ;
" Joanna Leigh, wife of Will m Leigh, Esq., deceased June 7 th ,
1689, aged 65 years and 4 months."
"William Leigh, Esq., deceased June 17 th , 1690, aged 86 years
and 2 months."
And the following entries are in the parish register of
Burialles : "
1689. " M rs Jone Leigh, the wife of William Leigh, Esq., was
buried the 10 th day of June, anno 1689."
1690. " William Leigh, Esq re , was buried the 21 st of June, 1690."
There are mural inscriptions in the church to the memory of
several members of the family; but for the last sixty years all burials
have been in the mausoleum at Stoneleigh. -^ Q
1054. ARLINGHAM CHURCH AND ITS BREVIARY, A.D. 1470.
The library of the dean and chapter of Salisbury contains "a
most magnificent MS. breviary ad usum Sarum," upon vellum,
which was bequeathed by the late Bishop Denison ; and on a blank
leaf there has been written a short service in the vernacular, set to
musical notation, and manifestly intended for public use. It is an
Aspersio, or sprinkling of holy water, a service said in procession
in the nave. It has an antiphon and the first verse of the Miserere
psalm, with the Gloria :
" Remember your promys made yn baptym.
And chrystys mercyfull bloudshedyng.
By the wyche most holy sprynklyng.
Of all youre syns youe_have fre perdun.
Have mercy uppon me oo god.
After thy grat mercy.
70 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Kemember, etc. [i.e., antiphon repeated.]
And accordyng to the multitude of the mercys.
Do awey my wyckydnes.
Kemember, etc.
Glory be to the father and to the sun and to the holy goost.
As hyt was yn the begynning so now and ever and yn the world
off worlds so be hytt.
By the wyche. [i.e., last half of antiphon.]"
Mr. Maskell (Monumenta Ritualia, vol. i., p. cciii.) says of this
doxology that it " is the earliest I remember to have seen in English
with the notation. The writing is later than the rest of the
volume, being about 1470."
The breviary appears to have belonged to the church of
Arlingham, in this county, aud contains in the kalendar this note
written cursively in the margin opposite August 2nd : " Obitus
Dni Walteri Longney olim Vicarii de Erlingham, qui mortem
passus est anno do. MCCCCCij quarto nonas Augusti. Is me
(librum) cum gradali Ecclesiae dedit ut annuatim celebretur suum
anniversarium perpetuo." In the illuminated border at the
commencement of vespers a bird is drawn holding a label in its
beak, with " Sir Walter Longney " written upon it. And, in the
fine border at the beginning of the sanctorale, on a label at the
bottom of the page, there is written " Orate pro animabus Walteri
Retteforte et Johanne uxoris ejus." It has been suggested that
Walter Eetteforte paid for the execution of the book, and presented
it to his godson, Sir Walter Longney, vicar of Arlingham, who
gave it to his church.
These particulars are taken from a paper in the Wiltshire
Archaeological Magazine, vol. xviii., pp. 62-70, by the Rev. H. T.
Kingdon, to which your readers are referred. As Foxe states that
Bishop Latimer is said to have given an autiphon, very similar to
this, to be used in his diocese of Worcester (of which the parish
of Arlingham then formed a part) at the sprinkling of holy water,
it is maintained by the writer that he had become acquainted with
this interesting specimen of a vernacular service, and that it
received his episcopal sanction. j MELLAND HALL<
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud.
1055. A GLOUCESTERSHIRE CUSTOM. It is said to be a custom
in this county, and it may be so in other counties, to place loose
straw before the door of any man who beats his wife. Is this a
general custom? and if so, what its origin and meaning?
G. A. W.
The custom noticed by your correspondent is certainly observed
in Worcestershire, and perhaps elsewhere. The loose straw, or
att, at the door of the wife-beater, is intended as an indication to
is neighbours that he has been threshing S E B
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1056. CURIOUS ENTRY IN BAUNTON PARISH REGISTER, 1646.
The following is a copy of a memorandum which I found
recently in the parish register of Baunton, and which you may
think deserving of a corner. J OHN MACLEAN.
Glasbury House, Clifton.
In this parish of Baunton, in the Clarkes house (one Richard
Lyfolly) vpon S 1 ' Mathias day 1646, about Eleven of the clock in
the forenoon there rose out of an old dry table bord of birch (on
w ch bord I Henry Topp Minister there now wright these words
Aug. 24, 1653, beinge S* Bartholomew's day) A WATER, reddish
of the colour of blood ; and so continued still risinge & runninge
alonge & downe the Table, all that afternoone & the night
f ollowinge till the next day, & about the hour when it first began,
and so ceased.
Testis oculati
1 Richard Lvfollv ") T 11- ji i
a Elizabeth Lyfolly { dwellm S m the Same house "
3 Alice Mateley widow ) thege Inhabitantg of e Parish .
4 Catherine lawney and ors J
That same day S* Mathias (I remember) I read prayers in the
Chaple but was not caled to be an Eye witness of this strange
sight, & was informed of it by the Eye witnesses aboues d the very
next Lords day when I came to officiat in the Chapell. Many of
the neighbours heard their reports as well as my selfe Henry Topp
who have it avered vnder their said hands & marks.
X X X X
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1057. THE LATE PROFESSOR BUCKMAN. On Sunday, Novem-
ber 23, 1884, the death of Professor Buckman took place at his
residence, Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset, after a brief illness.
The deceased was well known as an authority on agricultural
matters, and on archaeology, geology, botany, and zoology ; and the
following particulars of him (for which we are chiefly indebted to
Men of the Time, llth ed., 1884) will be acceptable to many
readers :
James Buckman, E.L.S., F.G.S., F.S.A., son of Mr. John
Buckman, born at Cheltenham in 1816, and educated at a private
school, was appointed curator and resident professor at the
Birmingham Philosophical Institution in 1846, and from 1848 to
1863 held the post of professor of geology and botany at the Royal
Agricultural College, Cirencester. At an early age he was articled
to a surgeon-apothecary in Cheltenham, and afterwards studied
chemistry, botany, and geology in London. He was for many
years hon. secretary and lecturer at the Cheltenham Philosophical
Institution, and he was presented with a handsome testimonial on
leaving for Birmingham in 1846. He subsequently received two
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valuable testimonials, one from the inhabitants of Cirencester and
his scientific friends, and the other from his pupils on resigning
his appointment at the Royal Agricultural College. Professor
Buckman was the author of (1) A Guide to Pittville, and
Analysis of the Saline Waters, etc., 1842; (2) Chart of the Cotteswold
Hills; (3) Our Triangle: Letters on the Geology, Botany, andArchce-
ology of the Neighbourhood of Cheltenham, 1842; (4) The Flora of
the Cottesivolds, 1844; (5) A Botanical Guide to the Environs of
Cheltenham, 1844; (6) The Geology of the Cotteswolds, 1845; (7)
The Ancient Straits of Malvern ; or, an Essay on the former
Marine Conditions which separated England and Wales ; (8)
Illustrations of the Remains of Roman Art in Cirencester (in
conjunction with C. H. Newmarch, Esq.), 1850 ; (9) History of
British Grasses, 1858; (10) Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation,
1863; and (11) Notes on the Roman Villa at Chedivorth, 1872.
He likewise contributed several papers to the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, and to the Geological Society;
many notes on geology, zoology, and botany, and prize essays, which
have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society ;
papers in the Bath and "West of England Society's Journal;
articles in Morton's " Cyclopaedia of Agriculture"; and nearly 300
articles in the "Agricultural Gazette" and other periodicals.
Mr. Buckman enriched Cirencester with a fine museum of Roman
antiquities, mostly collected by himself, and with a large collection
of fossils. The former are deposited in the Corinium Museum,
and the latter at the Royal Agricultural College. He conducted
his large farm at Bradford Abbas upon model principles, and with
such success that he received cups for his root-cultivation, and
many other prizes ; and for the last few years of his life he devoted
himself to the study and illustration of several of the more
important agricultural questions. GLOUCESTRENSIS.
1058. EDWAKD COLSTON AND HIS HOSPITAL. By the removal,
in 1861, of Colston's Hospital from St. Augustine's Back, Bristol,
to a more commodious house*, in the parish of Stapleton, provision
was at once made for twenty additional boys. To inaugurate, in a
solemn and befitting manner, the entrance of the boys into their
new residence, divine service was held in Stapleton Church on
Ihursday January 23, 1862 ; and immediately after the service the
tfishop of the diocese, attended by the parochial clergy of Stapleton,
accompanied by the Mayor of Bristol, the Master, Wardens,
Society of Merchant Venturers, Mr. Colston's Nominees, the
tfoys of the Hospital, and their friends, proceeded to the chapel of
tion, and there offered up prayers and thanksgiving to
for y^ 8 the residence of Dr. Monk, Bishop of
.
1856 n^i f Se ^ the present church of Stapleton was erected. Bp. Monk
o the building ' which was soon after his
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Almighty God. The sermon, preached by one of Mr. Colston's
Nominees on the occasion, was soon after printed by the Society of
Merchant Venturers as a record of this important event in the
history of the Hospital, and of the determination of the trustees,
under God's blessing, to continue to carry out the principles of the
pious founder.
The sermon, which was privately printed, is entitled Christian
Education the best for Time and Eternity : a Sermon, preached at
the Parish Church, Stapleton, on Thursday, January 23rd, 1862,
etc., by the Rev. George Neale Barrow, M.A., Hon. Canon of
Bristol, and Rector of West Kington, Wilts, and the following
particulars have been extracted from it :
Colston, himself a faithful and devoted member of the Church
of England, had been a prosperous man in life ; and it seems to
have been his earnest desire, in all his charitable institutions for
the poor, to testify both to those of his own generation, and to
those that in after-years should administer his charities, that he
looked upon all his benefactions as deodands gifts, that is, or
rather things that ought to be given to God out of the abundance
God had bestowed on the possessor, not for his sole use and benefit,
but to be used for the comfort and blessing of many. He had no
children of his own, to whom he might hand down those sacred
principles in which his soul delighted. He therefore adopted the
children of the poor, dear to Christ, and provided that they should
be gathered by the hundred, generation after generation, into his
Hospital, and be instructed as he in his heart believed was best
suited for their spiritual and temporal interests. There were in
Colston's times [1636-1721], as there are now, noble colleges and
schools, conducted on those principles which he approved, where
the higher and middle classes of society could procure for
their children the very best education; those schools and
colleges, in which have been formed the minds of those, who, for so
many generations, have been the chiefs in every department of
knowledge, and, under the guidance and blessing of Almighty God,
have supplied with wisdom and judgment, suited for all emergencies,
the legislative and administrative offices of the empire. But at
that time good schools for the education of the poor were hardly
to be found, and few had that accurate knowledge of the necessities
of the poor, which recognised that deficiency. We say therefore
that it is no insignificant proof of the discretion, with which the
great Philanthropist ordered his charity, that he anticipated by
more than a century the endeavours now so general to provide for
the instruction of the poor.
And first of all, Colston provided for his boys that above all
things they should be taught that knowledge, " which maketh wise
unto salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord." Nothing can be
more precise than his directions in this respect. Concerning the
master it is provided : that " the master should be a member of the
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Church of England, of sober life and conversation; one who
frequents the Holy Communion; one that hath good government
of himself and passions ; one of a meek temper and humble
behaviour, and of a good genius for teaching ; one that understands
well the grounds and principles of the Christian religion ; one that
shall make it his chief business to instruct the children in the
principles of the Christian religion as they are laid down in the
Church catechism ; one that shall be approved of by some of the
clergy of our city, before he is licensed by the bishop." Again,
daily reading of the Scriptures and daily prayers are prescribed ;
frequent catechisings are to test the religious knowledge imparted ;
the prayers are to be according to the constitution of the Church
of England. The boys are to be regularly taken to Church on
Sundays and holy days, and that they may take their part in the
Church's services, they are each to be supplied with a Common Prayer
book. Moreover, a clergyman is to be appointed as catechist to
superintend the religious teaching ; and when from time to time a
sufficient number of catechumens are prepared, they are to be taken
to the parish church to be examined before they are presented
to the bishop for confirmation. And while every care is taken to
encourage and promote piety and virtue, a constant supervision of
their conduct is enjoined, with a view to discourage the beginning
of vice, particularly lying, swearing, taking God's name in vain,
and the profanation of the Lord's day. Thus, as Moses exhorted
in the text [Dent. xi. 19], sound religion is to enter into the whole
course of instruction. From first to last, day by day, and week by
week, from their entrance into the school until they leave its
fostering care, the boys are to be regarded and trained, as all the
baptised should be regarded and trained, as " members of Christ,
and children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven."
Meanwhile let it not be supposed that their instruction in useful
knowledge is neglected. On the contrary, there are regulations
respecting the master's qualifications, and the subjects to be taught,
very precise, and, as experience has proved, most judicious. The
object of the founder was that all the boys, without exception,
should be daily deriving benefit from the discipline of the school ;
the very class from which they were to be selected, and especially
in Colston's times, rendered it unlikely that at seven or even at ten
years of age children should enter the school, having previously
acquired even the rudiments of education. As therefore all were
to learn, and none could advance without accurate knowledge of
the elements, elementary subjects are insisted on, and a period of
seven years is allotted, that not even the dullest may leave the
school without having made progress in the fundamental steps of
all useful knowledge. And thus, that very point in which it has
been confessed that the complicated machinery of the Government
systems has hitherto failed, to ensure that the whole school shall
have justice done it, and that the master's care shall not be diverted
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 75
from the majority who need elementary instruction, to the few
forward children, whose superficial attainments in higher subjects
may make a greater display in the examination, this point has
been provided for in Colston's settlements, by insisting that the
elements shall be taught and well taught. And the result has been
that while the clever boys in Colston's Hospital will bear comparison,
as recent examinations have proved, with boys educated in schools
of higher pretensions, the boys as a whole leave the institution not
only with principles of piety, loyalty, and integrity, but with such
an amount of useful knowledge as God has given to each the
capacity of learning, and fitted to do their duty faithfully and
efficiently in those stations of life in which His providence may
place them. BRISTOLIENSIS.
1059. CAPTAIN PETER HOGG, OF VIRGINIA. Among the
worthies who figure in the " Dinwiddie Papers " (kindly noticed
by you in No. 723 and elsewhere), is Captain Peter Hogg, the
commander of a company of Volunteers from Augusta County, Va.,
in the French and Indian war. He was a warm personal friend of
George Washington, a lawyer of eminence, served as deputy-
attorney-general of the colony (by commission from Lord
Dunmore), and became a man of wealth and influence. The name
is now rendered Hoge; and its representatives and numerous
connections, descendants of Captain Hogg, are among the best
esteemed socially of the people of Virginia. I have the authority
of the venerable president of our Historical Society, the Hon.
Alexander H. H. Stuart, for the tradition with which he has been
familiar from childhood, that " Captain Peter Hogg was a very
near relative of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd." I shall
deem myself greatly obliged for any information confirmatory of
this tradition. EGBERT A. BROCK, Corresponding Secretary,
Virginia Historical Society.
Richmond, Va., U.S.A.
It may possibly be of some use to our correspondent to know,
that " Peter Hogge, Clerk," was connected (? as incumbent) with
the parish of Quedgeley, Gloucestershire ; and that in the register
of baptisms these entries appear :
1597. " Daniel, son of Peter Hogge, Clerk, and Julian, his wife."
1605. "Anthony, son [of same]."
In the register of burials there is also the following :
1606. "May 20. Anthony, son of Peter Hogge, Clerke."
EDITOR.
1060. BRODHURST, OR BROADHURST, FAMILY. In the church-
.yard of Frampton-on-Severn there is, or was some years ago (as
Bigland has recorded), a tombstone bearing this inscription :
"William Hinton died Nov. 7, Anno Bom. 1684. William, his
76 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
son, died Feb. 13, 1682. Lydia Hinton died July 23, 1721, aged
77.' Lydia, their daughter, wife of the Kev. Mr. Broadhurst,
buried July H, 1722, aged 51, leaving two daughters, Lydia and
Elizabeth. Ann, daughter of William Hinton, died May 25, 1682."
I am anxious to discover who this " Rev. Mr. Broadhurst " was.
From 1714 to 1730 the minister of the old Meeting House of the
Independents in Birmingham was " the Reverend and learned Mr.
Edward Brodhurst," who was born in Derbyshire in 1691, and died
in 1730. His epitaph was written by Isaac Watts, D.D., and a
volume of his sermons was published at Birmingham in 1733. If
he was the husband of the lady buried at Frampton-on-Severn,.
there must have been a great disparity of age, since Mr. Brodhurst
was only 39 years old when he died in 1730, at which date Mrs,
Lydia Broadhurst must have been 59 ; but I mention the Rev.
Edward Brodhurst merely as a suggestion.
In the middle of the seventeenth century some Brodhursts were
living in the parish of Cherrington. Edward, son of John
Brodhurst, of Cherrington, matriculated at Oxford March 24,
1669-70. This John Brodhurst had a sister Mary residing at
Cherrington, wife of John Barnett. John and Mary were respec-
tively the third son and the elder daughter of William Brodhurst
of Lilleshall, Salop, gentleman, who died in 1658.
As my query is not of general interest, I shall feel obliged if any
reader who can give me information regarding either Mrs. Lydia
Broadhurst's husband, or the Brodhurst (or Broadhurst) family
generally, will kindly communicate with me direct.
Bedford Park, Chiswick. J - PENDEREL BRODHURST.
1061. ICHABOD WALCOTT CHAUNCEY. I am anxious to obtain
particulars respecting the above-named. He graduated at Yale
College, Conn., and came to Bristol in 1726, to live with his uncle,
Robert Chauncey, a physician there; and he died between 1730
and 1742. I wish to know the exact date and place. It is said
that the family possessed property at "Lambeth, near Bristol."
Can this locality be identified ? j s> ATTWOOD .
Exeter.
1062. THREE FIELD-NAMES, THEIR DERIVATIONS. (Reply to
No. 939 : see also No. 989.) When I read the note referred to, I
was reminded of a familiar address The Coneygarths, Buckden,
Huntingdon ; and it seemed to me that this was probably the word
from which "Cunnegar" had been corrupted. Having just now
taken up the Rev. A. Smythe Palmer's Folk-Etymology, I find the
-" CONNYNG ERTHE, an old perversion of the word cony
garth, an enclosure for rabbits, a rabbit warren, as if compounded
f conig cony, and erthe, earth." Richardson connects garth with
jfad, and writes :-" Girth, that which girdeth, girdle, girth, also
>n garth ; and applied to an inclosure about a house, church,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 77
barn, &c." I fancy that analagous to the word Coneygarth maybe
Foxearth, the name of a village in Essex, near Sudbury, on
the Suffolk border ; the Fox-garth, or enclosure for foxes.
Is not " Innegar " possibly the Inner-garth ?
Having nothing better to suggest for " The Shallums," I would
simply note schelm (Dutch and German) = a rogue, villain, infamous
person: and that Du Cange applies this word to animals :
" SCHELM, Cadaver, animal vivum quidem, sed pene macie
cadaverosum." Perhaps such a piece of pasture as your corres-
pondent describes would turn good cattle into schelms ; but I hope
some other reader may produce a more probable solution than this,
which is far from satisfying myself. Perhaps some former owner,
having spent fruitless time and labour on these " tussocky " fields,
may in his wrath have named them " the villains."
Wickham St. Paul's Rectory, Halstead. CECIL ^EEDES.
1063. ALEXANDER HOSEA, OP WICKWAR. (See No. 993.)
As supplementary to what has appeared, the following details,
derived from the same source, are inserted :
Some doubt existing in the minds of several of the trustees as to
the meaning of the word " poor " under the will and the decree of
the Court, the following case was submitted to counsel.
(Case.)
Alexander Hosea by his will gave certain premises and monies to
the mayor, &c., of Wick war towards the maintenance of a public
school there for such children only whose parent or parents were
poor, that they may be taught to read and write.
Under an order of the Court of Chancery made during the past
year [1835] the premises are now vested in the mayor and
corporation of the borough of Wickwar, and others, who are
constituted trustees of the school.
The Court directed that the school shall be subject to the visita-
tion, inspection, and monitory guidance of the said trustees, and
open to the reception and education of children whose parents are
poor, and live within the parish of Wickwar, and whose admission
shall be sanctioned by the said trustees.
The children not to exceed a certain number at any one time.
As the trustees are now about to admit children for the first time
under this order, the favour of your opinion is requested Whether
they should under the will and order of the Court confine the term
"poor" to labourers only, or whether they may consider it extending
to small shopkeepers or tradesmen in a small way of business, with
an actual income or profit not exceeding thirty or forty shillings
per week.
Also whether (the mayor and aldermen being trustees) children
of any member or members of the corporation being poor may be
admitted into the school, or whether the fact of the parents being
trustees would exclude them".
78 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
And in case you should be of opinion that the trustees may take
the more extended view, whether any rule or limit as to property
or income of the parents can be laid down, or whether each separate
and particular case standing on its own merits must be decided
entirely according to the discretion of the trustees.
(Opinion.)
I am of opinion that in the administration of this charity the
children of labourers and those more properly designated poor-
people should be preferred. That its benefits may then be extended
to the children of small shopkeepers and such like. And the
claimants from these classes failing to fill up the numbers limited by
the Master of the said Court, the children of any of the trustees who
may be unable to afford their children an education, may be
admitted ; but this must be done with great and extreme caution,
as being likely to lead to abuse. I think it should never be done
while there are other claimants. ^ ELDERTON,
Lincoln's Inn.
12th Deer., 1836.
At a meeting of the trustees* subsequently held it was resolved
unanimously,
That in conformity with Mr. Elderton's opinion, at any election
of boys or girls to be sent to the said schools, the children of
labouring poor shall always take precedence.
That at any such election, if there be not a sufficient number of
candidates (children of the labouring poor) to complete the number
limited by the order of the Court of Chancery (40 boys and 30
girls) to be sent to the said schools, the trustees shall proceed to
elect from the children of those persons living in the parish (for it
does not require the parents to belong to the parish, all residents in
the parish having an equal claim), not possessing two thousand
pounds in any kind of property, or whose annual income shall not
exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, or who may
derive a maintenance solely by the rental of not more than one
hundred acres of land, or unless a renter, renting more than 100
acres of land, shall sign a declaration that he does not derive an
income of more than one hundred and fifty pounds per annum
from such land for the maintenance and support of himself and
family, or from any source or sources whatsoever.
That a child of a trustee shall in no case be elected to be sent to
the schools to the exclusion of any other claimant.
The master of the school is allowed by the trustees to take
boarders, but not weekly or day scholars, other than those on the
foundation. The boarders are not to be educated separately from the
n, Endowed Schools Commissioners, and the
fck q th? r^r n rf T^P 1 b J the follo g trustees, viz. :-the lord of the manor of
SET JT^ \ 9k urcQwar <tens for the time being, and the mayor of the borongh,
) representative aldermen elected annually. The yearly income is about S300.-ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 79
boys on the foundation, but must be classed with them during
school-hours ; nor during those hours will the master be permitted to
make any distinction in his treatment of his boarders and the other
boys.
There is a small piece of ground at the west side of the town,
called the Buthay, which was many years since given for a play-
ground to the boys of the town. This ground has of late years
been very sadly encroached upon, and unless the corporation exert
themselves on the behalf of the poor boys, it will very soon be
entirely lost to them.
1064. OLIVER CROMWELL'S LANDED ESTATES. In Notes and
Queries (l et S. i. 277) a correspondent, writing from Belgravia under
the signature "V.," has stated that in Carlyle's Cromwell's Letters
and Speeches, vol. iv., p. 75 (3rd ed., 1850), there is a note
containing a list of the estates which the Protector owned at the
time of his death, there being, besides Newhall, specified as "in
Essex," five, viz., "Dalby, Broughton, Burleigh, Okham, and
Egleton," of which the editor has ascertained the localities ; and
six, viz.,
<{ Grower, valued at
s. d.
479 per an.
Chepstall ,,
549 7 3
Magore ,,
448
Sydenham ,,
3121 9 6
Woolaston ,,
664 16 6
Chaulton ,,
500 0,"
of
which "he knows nothing."
It would surely, he adds,
be a
proper, and, one might hope, an attainable object of inquiry, to
search out these unplaced estates of the great Protector, and give
them a local habitation in modern knowledge. This is precisely
one of the kind of queries which your publication seems best fitted
to aid ; and I therefore submit it, in the hope of some discoveries,
to your correspondents.
" Seleucus " replied, p. 339, to this effect : The seignory of
Gower is the peninsula which runs out between the bays of Swansea
and Carmarthen, Mr. Dillwyn's Contributions towards a
History of Swansea contains the following references to the Gower
property of Cromwell : " We are informed by the Minute-book of
the Common Hall" (at Swansea), "that on May 19, 1648, there
came to this towne the truly Honourable Oliver Cromwell, Esq. . .
. . . Lord of this towne, the Seignory of Gower, and Manor of
Killay, with the members thereof," &c. "On May 5, 1647,
Parliament settled the estates of the Marquis of Worcester, in
Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, on Cromwell; and, by a
subsequent order, the estate in Glamorganshire was added to this
grant. The conveyance from Parliament to Cromwell is made, not
only in the name of his Majesty, but has a portrait of Charles the
First at its head,"
80 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
To this " V." rejoined, p. 389 : I am much obliged to " Seleucus "
for his answer to this inquiry, as far as regards the seignory of
Gower. It also throws a strong light on the remaining names ; by
the aid of which, looking in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, I
have identified Magore with the parish of Magor (St. Mary's),
hundred of Caldecott, co. Monmouth ; and guess, that for Chepstall
we must read Chepstow, which is in the same hundred, and the
population of which we know was stout in the royal cause, as
tenants of the Marquis of Worcester would be. Then I guess
Woolaston may be Woolston, (hundred of Deerhurst), co. Gloucester;
and Chaulton, one of the Charltons in the same county, perhaps
Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham ; where again we read, that many
of the residents were slain in the civil war, fighting on the king's
side. This leaves only Sydenham without something like a
probable conjecture, at least : unless here, too, we may guess it was
miswritten for Siddiugton, near Cirencester. [See infra regarding
Woolaston and Tidenham.] The names, it is to be observed, are
only recorded by Noble ; whose inaccuracy as a transcriber has been
shown abundantly by Carlyle. The record to which he refers as
extant in the House of Commons papers, is not to be found, I am
told. Now, if it could be ascertained, either that the name in
question had been Cromwell's, or even that they were a part of the
Worcester estates, before the civil war, we should have the whole
list cleared, thanks to the aid so effectually given by " Seleucus's "
apposite explanations of one of its items.
But guesses are oftentimes unsatisfactory ; and in proof we quote
the following brief communication, p. 421 : There is Woolaston,
in Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now
to the Duke of Beaufort.
And still more to the point is the statement of the late Mr.
George Ormerod, of Sedbury Park, Chepstow, p. 458 : I have no
doubt as to /Sydenham being Tidenham; for this manor, the
property of the Marquis of Worcester, was possessed by Cromwell ;
and, among my title-deeds connected with this parish, I have court
rolls in Cromwell's name both for Tidenham itself and for Beachley,
a mesne manor within it. These manors, which were inherited
from the Herberts by the Somersets, were taken out of the former
Marches by the statute 27 Hen. YIIL, cap. 26, 13, and annexed,
together with Woolaston, similarly circumstanced, to the county of
Gloucester and to the hundred of Westbury : of which hundred,
in a legal sense, they still continue a part.
Two short notes from "Seleucus" appeared in the succeeding
volume, pp. 127, 141 ; but they refer to Magor, in Monmouthshire.
1065. NOTES ON THE PARISH OF WICKWAB. From a MS.
volume, compiled by the late Mr. John Eoberts, of Wickwar,
M.K.C.S.L. and L.S.A., and entitled " Wickwar, in the County of
Loucester, 1844," the following extracts have been made, by
permission of the present owner, Miss Roberts :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 81
The parish of Wickwar lies in the hundred of Grumbald's Ash,
three miles and seven furlongs south-west from Wotton-under-Edge,
two miles and six furlongs from Kingswood, four miles from
Chipping Sodbury, eighteen miles from Bath, fourteen miles from
Bristol, twenty-four miles from Gloucester, and one hundred and
eleven miles west from London, by the turnpike roads. It contains,
by estimation, 2,231 acres ; and within it is a neat little market-town,
consisting of one spacious street, pleasantly situated on the best
road from Bath to Gloucester, and watered by two small streams.
The surrounding scenery is highly picturesque, and the air pure and
salubrious. The clothing business was carried on at a very early
period to a considerable extent, but has been for many years past
altogether discontinued. Leland, in the time of Henry VIII., calls
the place " a pratye clothinge tounlet." The poor are now enployed
in agriculture. The name anciently was Wichen, from Wic, and
afterwards became Wickwar, from the family of La Warr, who for
several generations were lords of the manor. Many years since
this manor was purchased by Sir Robert Ducie, from whom it has
descended to its present possessor, the Earl of Ducie. There are
two courts, held at the same time and place, one for the borough,
and one for the tithing, or foreign, which have separate constables.
They are a court leet and court baron.
Wickwar has a weekly market and three fairs. The market is
held on Monday, and the fairs on the 6th April, the 2nd July, and
the first Monday in November. The market and the April and
July fairs were first granted in the reign of Edward I. The like
privileges were granted by Henry VIII., in the 24th year of his
reign, to Sir Thomas West, Lord La Warr ; and there is in the
possession of the corporation an Inspeximus and confirmation of
the last-mentioned grant, dated 4th July, 4 Charles I., of which
this is a copy : " Charles, by the grace of God, of England,
France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth,
To all to whom these present letters shall come, greeting. We
have inspected the enrolment of certain letters patent, bearing date
at Westminster the eleventh day of April, in the twenty-fourth
year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, late King of England,
made and granted to Sir Thomas West, Knight, Lord La Warr,
enrolled in the rolls of our Chancery, and there remaining on record,
in these words : 'The King to Archbishops, Bishops, &c., greeting.
Know ye that we have granted, and by this our present charter
confirmed, to our well-beloved and faithful Sir Thomas West,
Knight, Lord La Warr, that he, and his heirs for ever, may have
one market in every week, on Monday, at his manor of Warre
Wyks, in the county of Gloucester, and two fairs there every year,
that is to say, one on the first day of the Annunciation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, and the other on the Feast-day of the
Visitation of the said Blessed Virgin Mary, unless the said market
and fairs shall be to the injury of the neighbouring fairs and
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82 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
markets.' Wherefore we will, and firmly command, for us and our
heirs, that the aforesaid Thomas, and his heirs for ever, shall have
the aforesaid market and fairs at his manor aforesaid, with all
liberties and free customs to such like markets and fairs belonging,
unless the said market and fairs shall be to the injury of the
neighbouring markets and fairs, as aforesaid. These being witnesses,
and dated, &c. Witness the King at Westminster the eleventh
day of April. By the King himself, and of the date, &c. Now
we, at the request of John Sarney, Mayor of the Town of Warwick
[sic], have by these presents caused the tenor of the enrolments
of the letters patent aforesaid to be exemplified. In witness
whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent.
Witness ourself at Westminster the fourth day of July, in the
fourth year of our reign."
The following paragraph will be a suitable appendix to the
above : " We, whose names are underneath written, did give these
sums hereafter subscribed towards the renewing of this charter, as
followeth : John Sarney, mayor, 1 2s. ; John Tomes, alderman,
10s. ', Thomas Stocke, alderman, 4s. ; Richard Russell, alderman,
20s. 7d. ; Thomas Cam, 10s. ; Thomas By shop, 8s. ; Margret
Prout, widow, 6s. 8d. ; James Sumers, 6s. ; Alexander Dorney y e
younger, 5s. ; Robert Cole the elder, 5s ; Antony Walker, 2s. 6d. ;
William Turner, 2s. ; Henry Ford, Is. ; Robert Dorney, Is. ;
Edmund Chamnis, Is. ; John Curneck, Is. ; Alis Campier, widow,
Is; Thomas Hobes, 9d. ; Robert Ford, 8d. ; William Knowles, 6d. ;
John Worlock, 6d. ; Matthew Fygings, 6d. ; John Belcher, 6d.
[5.0. 2].
Tolls taken at the fairs on cattle sold, viz., Cows and calves, 2d.
each; Beasts, 2d. each; Pigs, Id. each; Sheep, Is. per score;
Standings, 2d. each.
The profits and tolls of the weekly market and the April and
July fairs belong to the mayor, but the November fair is toll-free.
This fair was first held, by permission of the mayor, in November,
1834.
Wickwar is a borough by prescription, with a mayor and twelve
aldermen.* The mayor is elected from them on the 29th day of
October annually ; and the aldermen from the inhabitants, being
freeholders. They have a common seal, and a silver mace, the gift
of Mr. William Giles in the year 1709 [?]. The mace, upon all
public occasions, is carried before the mayor by his sergeant, f
* See what is stated of this borough ante, vol. i., p. 303. ED.
Bla^'o^FriXv^ *,? 16 fift ^ time of Mr " H t enr y] p arker as mayor of this borough took
Sontffild Vin' evening the mayor gave a dinner to the corporation at his residence,
' ": ~ ' ' The health of the mayor was proposed by the rector, who
Referring to the Act passed during the last
, which f aving no
. T-
^tKO^Q 616 ^ 08 ^ 11 ^ PUrPOS6S ' WaS Cl6a 6Xempt fr m the
Town Hall i Act> On Su nday the rector and aldermen met the mayor at the
oflte beinl' D reld^] n L 1 ^ PrOCeSS1 ? to church < the ma y r > wearin g bis robe and chain of
Weitend TlousTTnfhp th* A serge& ^ carrying the silver mace, presented by William Giles, of
171
,
rat a " At the conclusion of the
Nov. 17 1883 _El? P y ' the bdto rang out a Jy us P^ 1 -" (Mroud Journal,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
83
The following is a list of the mayors as far as they can be traced
with any degree of certainty :
Oct. Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
1627 1629. John Sarney.
1774
1776. William Morley.
1683 1685. James Bayley.
1776
1778. Richard Barber.
1686 1688. Obadiah Ash.
1778
1779. Henry Harford.
1688 1689. Jonathan Ford.
1779
1781. William Hale.
1689 1690. Nebuchadnezzer
1781
1782. Richard Barber.
Prout.
1782
1784. Richard Lowe.
1690 1691. Henry Ford.
1784
1786. WilliamHockley.
1693. Henry Shipman.
1786
1787. John Pardoe.
1699 1700. John Somers.
1787
1789. James Lowe.
1702. Moses Ford.
1789
1791. William Morley.
1709 1712. William Giles.
1791
1792. Daniel Wilkins.
17U 1718. Obadiah Ash, jun.
1792
_ 1794. Prout.
1722 1723. Do.
1794
1795. James Lowe.
1723. Samuel Niblett.
1795
1797. James Morley.
1732 1733. Samuel Walker.
1797
1798. Thomas Daniell.
1733 1734. Moses Ford.
1798
1799. Wm. Wickham.
1734 _ 1735. John Andrews
1799
1800. Joseph Isaac.
1735 1737. JohnBick.
1800
1802. Arthur Hockley.
1737 1739. John Andrews.
1802
1803. Jas. Lowe, jun.
1739 1743. Benj. Hockley.
1803
1804. Thomas Shipway.
1743 _ 1745. Thomas Hale.
1804
1805. William Haynes.
1745 1747. Thomas Lowe.
1805
1806. William Park.
1747 1748. Nicholas Bick.
1806
1813. John Ford.
1748 _ 1749. Samuel Niblett.
1813
1814. Edmund Jones.
1749 1750. William Fox.
1814
1815. James Tanner.
1750 1751. Samuel Mblett.
1815
1817. Joseph Minett.
1751 _ 1752. Matthew Nichols.
1817
1818. Thos. Cullimore.
1752 1754. William Fox.
1818
1820. Joseph Franklin.
1754 1755. Samuel Niblett.
1820
1824. Joseph Minett.
1755 1756. Moses Ford.
1824
1827. William White.
1756 1757. Thomas Hale.
1827
1831. Joseph Plaister.
1757 1759. Thomas Lowe.
1831
1833. John Pullin.
1759 1760. Nicholas Bick.
1833
1836. Thomas Garlike.
1760 1761. Samuel Niblett.
1836
1837. Thomas Hopkins.
1761 1762. Henry Harford.
1837
1838. Thomas Arnold.
1762 1764. Thomas Watkins.
1838
1839. Joseph Isaac.
1764 1765. Henry Harford.
1839
1840. James Tanner.
1765 1767. Richard Barber.
1840
1841. Joseph Minett.
1767 1768. James Lowe.
1841
1842. Peter Oliff.
1768 1769. James Fowler.
1842
1743. John Isaac.
1769 1771. Daniel Wilkins.
1843
1844. Robert Franklin.
1771 1774. Richard Lowe.
1844
1845. William Plaister.
(To be continued.)
84 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1066. THE WINDOW TAX IN GLOUCESTER, 1 771. The following
is a copy 'of a parchment document in my possession :
" City of Gloucester to wit.
" A full, true, and particular duplicate of all and every sum and
sums of money assessed, charged, and to be collected within the
city aforesaid, for the service of the year One thousand, seven
hundred, and seventy-one, by virtue of the several acts of Parlia-
ment for laying a duty on houses and windows :
Parishes.
Colledge
St. John Baptist
St. Catharine
St. Mary de Crypt
St. Mary de Lode
St. Michael
St. Nicholas
The Holy Trinity
Collectors.
John Floy and Henry Williams
Thomas Marsh and William Peach
Daniel Spencer and John Lane
John Ashmeade and Thomas Pruen
Nathaniel Millard and Samuel
Perkins
James Kersey and William Jeffs
Arthur Cook and William Kendall
William Daniel and William Addis
Sums.
97 7 8
55 6 5
16 14 4
131 13 2
29 11 5
149 15 2
118 16 6
62 10 8
Total... 661 15 4
(Signed) L. Crump (seal)
John Webb (seal)."
The names may be interesting to those who study our local
history. John Ashmeade had habitation probably at Ashmeade
House, Eastgate-street, and may have grown the once famous fruit,
"Ashmeade Kernel." There was no more obnoxious tax than that
on windows, and many and ingenious were the expedients adopted
to evade it. The heavy inhabited house duty still remains. I
think it was Gillray, the caricaturist, who had a cartoon which
pourtrayed a cook in a kitchen lifting the cover of the salt-box,
when out pops the head of Pitt. "Bless me," exclaims the
affrighted domestic, you there ! " HENRY j Eim
Gloucester.
1067. THE HEALTHINESS OF HEMPSTEAD. In the Bristol Times
and Mirror, Oct. 15, 1884, this note appeared : " HEMPSTEAD.
This village [near Gloucester] has long been famous for its healthi-
ness. A selection has been made of seven villagers at the present
moment in fair health, one of whom is 91 years of age, two 80,
one 79, two 78, and one 74, the aggregate of their ages being 560
years, or an average, of 80 years each. The lady of 91 is hale and
hearty, and a few weeks ago was walking in the streets of
Gloucester on a visit to her friends. The parish is said to be rich
les, and the poor are well cared for, which probably will
somewhat account for the longevity of its inhabitants."
G. A. W.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 85
An extract from the same newspaper, January 13, 1885, may be
appended: " A HEALTHY VILLAGE. The rector of Fylton [near
'Bristol], the Eev. John Mackie, in his ISTew Year's address, called
the attention of his congregation to the circumstance that no death
had occurred in the parish, with a population of about 300, since
June, 1883, the deceased person on that occasion being upwards of
80 years of age." EDITOR.
1068. SHORT NOTES ON THE PARISH OF CROMHALL. Your
readers may be glad to have noted down for them a few points of
historical interest within the borders of this parish, which lies
between Charfield and Thornbury, on the road from Bristol to
Wotton-under-Edge. One point is the site of a Roman villa,
attested by tesselated pavement. Another is the site of a hermit's
cell, called Anchor (or Anchoret) Hill. While a third is the site
of a mediaeval monastery, or priory, or grange.
The first is near the lake within the Earl of Ducie's beautiful
park, which stretches from Tortworth Court nearly to the parish
church of Cromhall.
The second is situated in the same direction, just outside the
precincts of the park, and is stated by Atkyns and Rudder to have
been the abode of a hermit, whose counsel was sought by the
monks of Bangor (? now Llanwit, in Glamorganshire) before their
final interview with Augustine, of Canterbury, at whose invitation
they had crossed the Severn for conference with him on religious
matters.
The third object of interest mentioned is also situated outside
the Cromhall Church end of Tortworth Park, and below a farm-
house now known to the Ordnance surveyors as Abbot Side Farm.
The monastery, or priory, or grange, of which the substructions are
extensive, was clearly connected with the manor called Cromhall
Abbots, which is stated by Atkyns, in his Glocestershire (ed. 1768),
p. 196, to have belonged to the abbot of St. Austin's in Bristol,
having been given to that monastery by Robert Lord Berkeley, son
of Harding, 1148; "which abbey," he continues, "was seised
thereof, and had free-warren and court-leet therein, 13 and 15 Ed. I."
And he adds, that " after the dissolution of religious foundations
it was granted to the chapter of Bristol, 34 Hen. VIII., and now
continueth in that church." J OHN j AMEg>
Highfield, Lydney.
1069. THOMAS JAMES AND JOHN HOPKINS, BOTH OF BRISTOL.
Can you tell me anything of " Thomas James, of the Citty of
Bristol, merchant," and " John Hopkins, alderman of Bristol," who
were members of the Virginia Company of London in 16061609 ?
I am searching up material for a history of the Founding of
Virginia (16061619), the mother of English colonies, and for
biographies of the Founders. Is there anything in the records of
86 GLOUCESTEESHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Gloucestershire, or of Bristol, that you think would be of service
to me in the premises ? ALEXANDER BROWN.
Norwood P.O., Nelson County, Virginia, U.S.A.
J07Q. THE BROMESBERROW MUSEUM. I have an 8vo, entitled
A Catalogue of all the natural and artificial Curiosities in the
Museum of W. H. Yate, Esq., of Bromesberrow Place, near
Glocester, printed by Eobert Kaikes in 1801, and sold for 2s. 6d.
The museum had been formed by Dr. Greene, of Lichfield (whose
portrait is prefixed), "with many additions by the present
proprietor;" and in the dedication to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.,
President of the Koyal Society, and to the Earl of Leicester,
President of the Society of Antiquaries, it is described as " cele-
brated for its extent, enriched with variety, and collected with
taste and elegance." Not having any knowledge of it beyond
what may be gathered from the book, I shall be glad to be
informed as to its fate ; I mean, whether, like most collections of
the kind, it was subsequently dispersed by auction, and if so, when
and where ? or whether it has been preserved intact, and if so, in
whose possession it is, and where to be seen ? The following items,
which I have selected almost at random, may be taken as samples,
and will probably be deemed curious, tho' perhaps not particularly
useful :
1. Various articles of dress, caps, sashes, gloves, etc., worn by
several of our kings and queens.
2. A picture, which, being viewed from one corner of the room,
represents a clergyman in his canonicals ; from the opposite corner,
a Dutch fishmonger in his shop.
3. The portrait of Shakespear, painted on part of his mulberry
tree, by Mr. Williams.
4. Part of the tree against which the arrow glanced that killed
King "William Kufus.
5. A curious picture, which, by a secret movement, represents
at one time the King and at the other the Queen.
6. An impression in plaister of Shakespear.
7. Two ribs of King Richard II., taken by a Westminster
scholar from the tomb of that unfortunate monarch in Westminster
Abbey, in 1778.
8. A small portion of the dried flesh and skin of Catherine,
queen of Henry V.
9. A fragment of the coffin of Humphry, Duke of Gloucester,
from St. Albans.
10. A piece of the shroud of Edward the Confessor.
11. Hair of Queen Anne.
12. The inkstand used by Dr. Johnson while writing his
Dictionary, and presented by him to Dr. Greene. j Q.
1071." TRANSLATOR " AS APPLIED TO TRADE. In a Gloucester-
shire parish register I have met with the word " Translates " (with
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" poor " appended), as expressing the trade of a father whose child
was baptized in 1701. What may have been the man's occupation ]
0. T. D.
Shoemakers, who vamp old shoes which are afterwards sold as
new, are called " translators." The term is of frequent occurrence
in parish registers of former days. In Coles's Latin Dictionary
(5th ed., 1703), Littleton's Latin Dictionary (4th ed., 1715), and
Dyche and Pardon's English Dictionary (10th ed., 1759), it is
applied to a " cobler." See the Percy Anecdotes (Chandos Library),
p. 337, for an amusing anecdote on the word, in the case of a man
tried at the Old Bailey, in 1796, for stealing shoes. EDITOR.
1072. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. VII. :
QUEDGELET. This inscription appears : " Hoc in libro, ex veteri
libro cartaceo transcripta, nomina eorum, qui, regnante Serenissima
Domina nostra Elizabetha, aut baptismatis aqua abluti, aut
matrimonio copulati, aut ecclesiasticse sepulturse beneficio affecti
Bint, suo ordine inscribuntur, juxta constitutiones auctoritate Regia
nuper editas, anno Regni Reginas Elizabeth primo."
Baptisms.
1559. Jan. 3. Elizabeth, d. of John Woodward.
Feb. 3. Alis, d. of Thomas Huyshe.
1560. May 7. John, s. of Thomas Smith. Robert Smith
and John Prychill, Godfathers.
May 23. Richard Norton, s. of George Norton.
Richard Wyndow, John Woodward, God-
fathers.
Sept. 25. William Vaughan, s. of Xtopher Vaughan.
William Horneg, John Prychill, G. Fathers.
Oct. 8. Elizabeth, d. of Richard Turner. Thomas
Watkins, Mastres Try, Doryty Merymot,
G. Father and G. Mothers.
Nov. 15. Doritye, d. of John Woodward.
Dec. 8. John, s. of George Tomse.
Dec. 8. John, s. of William Meryte.
Mar. 21. John, s. of John Howe.
1561. May 10. Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Hughes.
Sept. 21. Richard, s. of Walter Harrys.
Sept. 29. Richard, s. of John Wyndowe.
- Nov. 26. Frances, d. of Thomas Watkins.
Jan? the last. Francis, s. of John Meryman.
1562. June 11. John, s. of George Norton.
July 12. Thomas, s. of John Jennings.
Sept. 7. Thomas, s. of Thomas Wyndowe.
Sept. 30. Johan, d. of John Woodward.
1563. April 23. James, s. of Xtopher Vaughan.
88 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1563. April 27. William, s. of John Wyndow.
Aug. 20. Alys, d. of Eobert Taylor.
Aug. 23. John, s. of Eobirt Byshope.
1564. May 17. Jane, d. of Kychard Turner.
June 25. John, s. of John Hunt.
July 25. Eobert, s. of Eichard Smith.
Aug. 10. Jane, d. of John Meryman.
Sept. 21. Alys, d. of Eobert Davys.
Dec. 6. Johan, d. of John Jennyns.
Feb. 27. Alice, d. of John Woodward and Jane, his
wife. Eichard Turner, or Tayler, God-
father; Alyce Byshope and Jane Davys,
Godmothers.
1665. June 1. Joyce Smith, s. of John Smith and Agnis
Loders, unmarried.
July 29. Alyce, d. of Eychard Smith and Elynor, his
wife. John Pychill, G. Father ; Alice
Cooke and Elizabeth Watkins, G. Mothers.
Sept. 27. Agnes, d. of Thomas' Wyndowe and Jane, his
wife. John Byshop, G. Father; Agnes
Harrys and Jane Wyndow, God Mothers.
Feb. 11. Elizabeth, d. of Eobert Byshop and Jone,
his wife.
1566. Jan. 9. Jone, d. of John Hunt and Jone, his wife.
Jan. 26. Thomasine Greminge, [d.] of Agues Greminge.
Thomas Pylme, G. Path. ; Hedy Evans
and Thomasine Flowre, G. Mothers.
Feb. 2. Jane, d. of John Woodward and Jane,
his wife.
Feb. 27. John Branyard, s. of Elizabeth Branyard.
John Grevestock and Thomas Davis, G.
Fs. ; Margt Hyett, G. M.
1567. Mar. 31. Eobart, s. of William Smart.
April 9. Edward, s. of Edward Stephens and Jone,
his wife.
July 14. Margaret, d. of John Genyngs and Alice,
his wife.
Aug. 1. John, s. of John- Wyndow and Katherine,
his wife.
Aug. 14. Jone, d. of Eobart Davis and Jone, his wife.
Sept. 20. John Walklye, s. of John Walkley and
Amias, his wife. John Jennings and
Eichard Mery, G. Fathers ; and Margaret
Barrowe, Gent., Godmother.
Dec. 10. John, s. of William Bayly and Edye, his
wife, buried same day.
Jan. 11. Edye Smith, d. of Eichard Smith and Elinor,
his wife.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 89
1568. Sept. 16. Thomas, s. of Eobert Byshop and Jone,
his wife.
Oct. 6. Edward, s. of John Wyndowe and Katryne,
his wife.
Jan. 6 Jone, d. of William Bay lie and Edye, his
wife.
Jan. 25. John, s. of John Myrinian and Dorithie,
his wife.
1569. Nov. 30. Koger, s. of Thomas Travas and Elizabeth,
his wife.
Jan. 11. Johane, d. of John Walkeley and Agnes,
his wife.
Mar. 4. Jone, d. of Eichard Smith and Elynor, his
wife.
1570. April 4. Edward, s. of Thomas and Elizab. Watkins.
July 4. Jone, d. of Edmund Prydy and Elizabeth,
his wife.
Sept. 8. Jone, d. of John Smith and Marg*, his wife.
Nov. 30. Eichard Byshop.
Dec. 30. Jone, d. of John Prychell and Marg 1 , his wife.
Jan. 21. Johane, d. of Thomas Trevis and Elizab.,
his wife.
1571. Jan. 27. Johan, d. of John Smith and Marg*, his wife.
1573. April 24. John, s. of Eichard Overton and Margaret,
his wife.
April 26. Mylicent, d. of Henry Huse and Johan,
his wife.
1575. Oct. 18. Elinor, d. of Henry Huckes and Johan,
his wife.
1579. July 3. Eobert Davis.
1586. May 14. Henry, s. of Anthony Nicolson.
1588. March, last day. Susanna Berrowe, d. of James
Berrowe.
1590. May 20. Edmund, s. of Arnold Allen.
Mar. 23. Gyles, s. of John Venn.
1591. July 29. Eichard Berrowe, s. of James Berrowe, Gent.
Aug. 29. William Keylocke.
1592. Feb. 3. Elizabeth Venn, d. of John Venn, of
Hempsteide.
1597. Feb. 12. Daniel, s. of Peter Hogge, Clerk, and Julian,
his wife.
1605. Aug. 22. Anthony, s. of same.
1608. April 10. William, s. of Edmund Berrow, Esq r .
Nov. 6. John, s. of John Clissould.
1610. Mar. 17. Edith, d. of John Clissold [churchwarden].
1615. Sept. 24. Thomas, s. of Thomas Test, of Hardwicke.
1621. Dec. 29. Edmund, s. of John Barnard, borne at Hard-
wicke, and bapt d here by leave of their
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1622.
June 27.
1623.
Nov. 2.
1629.
May 3.
Sept. 20.
1631.
Mar. 18.
1632.
Nov. 18.
1633.
Oct. 1.
Oct. 13.
1635.
April 17.
1637.
Mar. 22.
1638.
Oct. 24.
Jan. 15.
1639.
Feb. 27.
1641.
Dec. 5.
1642.
Oct. 25.
1644.
Mar. 29.
1651.
July 24.
1652.
Aug. 6.
1660.
Mar. 24.
1663.
Aug. 14.
1664.
Jan. 7.
1665.
May 29.
1668.
June 24.
Dec. 22.
1670.
Dec. 22.
-
Feb. 23.
1671.
April 12.
Jan. 31,
1672.
Oct. 22.
1673.
June 3.
Nov. 30.
Dec. 7.
1674.
Sept. 2.
Mar. 20.
1675.
Jan. 4.
Minister in regard of the fouleness of
the tyme, he dwelling in Wathens House.
Frances, d. of M r Robard Bysshop.
Elizabeth, d. of same.
Sara, d. of Anthony Kingston, Gent.
Edmund, s. of George Kenn, Esq r .
Mary, d. of Anthony Kingston, Gentleman.
Ann, d. of Thomas Teast.
Elizabeth, d. of John Berrow, Esq r .
William, s. of Thomas Teast.
George Kenn, s. of M r George Kenn, Esq r .
Sybil, d. of M r Anthony Kingston.
Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Clifford.
Ann, d. of M r George Kenn, Esq r .
John Kenn, s. of George Kenn, Esq r .
Anna, d. of William Venn.
Mary, d. of Anthony Kingston, Gent.
John, s. of William Venn.
William, s. of same.
Dorothy, d. of Thomas Weyman.
Susanna, d. of Daniel Goddard and Anne,
his wife.
Daniel, s. of same.
Mary, d. of John Makepeace, Minister.
Henry, s. of Daniel Goddard and Anne,
his wife. .
Mary, d. of same.
John, s. of John Makepeace.
Edmund, s. of John Makepeace and Mary,
his wife.
William, s. of M r William Hayward.
Margaret, d. of M r Thomas Barrow and
Marg*, his wife.
Lucy, d. of John Makepeace and Mary,
his wife.
Mary, d. of M r William Hayward and Elinor,
his wife.
Grace, d. of Daniel Goddard and Anne,
his wife.
Thomas, s. of M r William Hayward and
Elenor, his wife.
Edmund, s. of John Makepeace, Cler., and
Mary, his wife.
William, s. of M r Thomas Berrow and Marg*,
his wife.
Edmund, s. of John Makepeace, Minister,
and Mary.
Elizabeth, d. of M* William Hayward and
Elenor, his wife.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 91
1677. July 22. Samuel, s. of John Makepeace and Mary,
his wife.
Feb. 5. Ann, d. of M r William Hayward and Elenor,
his wife.
1678. Nov. 7. Nathaniel, s. of John Makepeace and Mary,
his wife.
1680. May 13. Susanna, d. of M r William Hey ward and
Elinor, his wife.
1681. May 5. Joseph, s. of John Makepeace.
July 21. Richard, s. of M r William Hayward and
Elinor, his wife.
1691. Sept. 10. Margaret, d. of John Makepeace and Anne,
his wife.
1698. Nov. 15. Richard, s. of Samuel Byard.
1699. Mar. 14. Mary, d. of same.
1703. Oct. 28. Albinia, d. of William Hayward.
1704. Feb. 2. William, s. of same.
1706. Aug. 2. Thomas, s. of same.
1708. April 22. John, s. of same.
1716. Nov. 22. William, s. of William James, Minister of
Elmore, and Curate of this Parish, and
Mary, his wife.*
1719. May 4. John, s. of William James, Minister of
Elmore, and Mary, his wife.
1723. April 6. Esther, d. of John Fewtrel and Sarah, his
wife.
1733. Nov. 2. Francis [sic], d. of Thomas Hayward, Esq r ,
and Mercia, his wife.
1736-7. Mar. 2. Thomas, s. of same.
1743. June 13. William, s. of same.
1757. Mar. 9. John, s. of John and Jane Wingate.
(To be continued.)
1073. IMPEOVEMENTS IN NORTH CERNEY CHURCH, 1883.
The following paragraph from the Gloucester Journal, May 26,
1883, mentions what, I think, is worthy of record in a permanent
and convenient form : Within the last few weeks some improve-
ments have been effected in this ancient and interesting parish
church. Its chief defect, architecturally, was the removal, about
1740, of two of the ancient windows on the south side, to make
way for two large square windows of three lights. One of these
windows is cut across by the west gallery, and so is not internally
much noticed; the effect of the other has been very favourably
modified by the removal to it of the stained glass, by O'Connor,
* An inscription in the nave of Elmore Church gives these particulars : " In memory of
the | Rev. Mr. William James, | late Minister of this Church | and Vicar of Longney, | who
died October 11, 1744, aged 59. | Also Mary, his wife, | daughter of John Gough, | late of
Stonehouse, in this county. | She died June 5, 1747, aged 54. | Also Anna, their daughter, | who,
in regard to the memory of her I dear parents, caused this I monument to be erected. | She died
Oct. 17, 1755, | aged 22 years." ED.
92 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND ^QUERIES.
which until lately filled the centre light of the east window of the
south chancel aisle of Cirencester parish church. A gift of beautiful
glass for the whole of that window by the Lawrence family, placed
the old ^lass at the disposal of the vicar and churchwardens ; this
opportunity Canon Medd has taken advantage of, and the three
subjects from the life of St. John the Baptist, placed horizontally,
are now seen, perhaps, to greater advantage than in their former
position, one above the other. The other improvement is in the
organ, which, though a good-toned instrument, by "Walker, was
only a barrel organ, with a very limited repertory of tunes, and so
needed, especially for chanting, to be supplemented by a harmonium.
It was removed from the west gallery to an advantageously placed
organ chamber, when the body of the church was restored about
five years ago. It has now been converted into a manual organ by
Mr. C. Martin, of Oxford, who has succeeded in supplying, at
moderate cost, a very sweet and sufficiently powerful instrument.
GLOUCESTRENSIS.
1074. ENTRIES OF BURIAL IN THE EEGISTER OF CHRIST CHURCH,
OXFORD. The following extracts from " The Register Booke of
Christ Church in Oxford of all that have been christened, maried,
and buried since the year of our Lord 1633," may interest the
reader :
1643. Oct. 2. " William Villers, Vise' Grandison, buried."
This was William, second Viscount Grandison, who died from the
effects of a wound received at the siege of Bristol, 26 July. By
his wife Mary, third dau. of Paul, Viscount Bayning, he was
father of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland.
1674. April 29. "Sebastian Smith, D.D., and Prebend."
Born at Bristol, educated at Westminster, canon of Wells, died set.
70. Monument erected to his memory by Dorothy, his widow,
9 Dec., 1674. She died 6 Dec., 1683, set. 70. M.L in Le Neve's
Hon. Anglj p. 103, no. 226.
1706. Feb. 27. "Will* Jane, S.T.D., Canon." Dean of
Gloucester, installed 6 June, 1685; chaplain to King William III.,
and prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation.
1719. Sept. 29. "The R fc Rev d George Smallridge, BP of
Bristol, Dean." Canon of Christ Church, dean of Carlisle, and
dean of Christ Church, which dignity he held in commendam with
the see of Bristol, to which he was appointed in April, 1714.
iU. May 30. "Joseph White, D.D., Reg. Prof, of Hebrew,
Canon." See ante, vol. ii., p. 410. '
. . BROCKTHROP TAXPAYERS, 1327-1584. The annexed
ists furnish us with the names of the principal residents in the
parish of Brockthrop at different periods of time ; viz., in the
reigns of Edward III., Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth ; the third
nng taken from the Gloucester corporation records.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud. J. MBLLAND HALL.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 93
I.
Subsidy Roll, 1 Edw. III. (1327).
Hundr : de Duddeston.
Brocthrop.
Johne Bonde ... ... ... ... xviij d
Rob* Colston viij d ob
Rob* Oswrede ... ... ... ... xvj d
Walter Meriet ix d
Ric. Meriet ... ... ... ... ... xiiij d ob
Bob* Danyels ix d q
Gilbert in the Felde ... viij d ob
Bob* Bysshop viij d q
Ric. Fox - vij d q
Henr. Joene ... ... ... ... ... xiiij d q
Will m in the Felde xij d q
Agnes Loke ... ... ... ... ... vj d ob
Thomas Bigge ... ... ... ... xiiij d q
Walter de Helbergh... ... ... ... xxiiij d q
Summa xiiij 8 xj d ob q
II
Subsidy Roll, 4 & 5 Philip and Mary (1557-8).
(Public Record Office : Glouc. ijf-)
This subsidy was required for the war with France, which Queen
Mary had declared, on the 7th of June, in support of her husband.
In the course of the war Calais was lost, which occasioned great
discontent throughout the kingdom.
Will. Payne, goods vj n ... ... xvj s
Elizabeth Mblett C 8 xiij 8 iiij d
Rob fc Richards C 8 xiij 8 iiij d
Tho 8 Richards C 8 xiij 8 iiij d
Robert a Wood xix 11 ... ... 1 s viij d
Edward Harres ix 11 ... ... xxiv 8
Will. Hallyng ix 11 xxiv 8
Sma vij li ... ... xiiij 8 viij d
III.
Subsidy Roll, 26 Elizabeth (1584),
RichardWood lij 8
Edward Harres ... ... ... ... xj 8 iiij d
Margery Hawlynge ... ... ... xj 8
Johan Berry ... ... ... ... viij s
Robert Winston ... ... ... ... v 8
John Loarde ... ... ... ... v 8 vj d
Agnes Niblett iiij 8
Robert Woman ... ... ... ... v 8 vj d
William Blisse v 8
George Morgan iiij 8
Simon Organ ... ... ... ... ij s vj d
Robert Pain ix 8
94 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1076. THE BERKELEY MITRE. The Rev. John Woodward,
of Moutrose, has written upon this subject in Notes and Queries
(6 th S. x. 55), July 19, 1884, as follows : In his interesting paper
on the Fitzhardings (6 th S. ii. 10), Mr. Ellis suggests that the mitre
may have been assumed as a crest by the Berkeleys to indicate
some family connexion with Maurice, bishop of London and
chancellor of England. I am inclined to attribute it rather to
their connexion with the great abbey of St. Augustine at Bristol,
of which they were the founders, benefactors, and protectors.
However unusual the mitre may be as a crest in England, those
who are familiar with the heraldry of Germany will remember that
there the mitre is thus used by not a few great families, princes,
and counts of the empire, etc. Without attempting to give
here an exhaustive list, I may mention the following : the
Princes of Furstenberg, the Counts of Graveneck, Montfort, Sultz,
Tubingen, Werdenberg, Feldkirch, and Asperg ; the Barons
of Honburg, Regensperg, Roteln, Stauffen, and Biirglen ; the
families of Diine, Ruckenstein, Frawenberg, Konigstein, etc.
Now, it will be found, certainly in most of these cases, perhaps
in all, that the mitre has been assumed to indicate a connexion
with bishoprics and abbeys, or with episcopal or abbatial lands.
This connexion was of more kinds than one. Sometimes it seems
to have denoted the possession of a temporal lordship held
under the abbey or see ; but more frequently it will be found that
the temporal lord was the avoue or advocatus of the religious insti-
tution, its protector, and often, like the vidames in France, the
leader of its vassals in time of war. Many early instances of the
use of a mitre crest will be found in the celebrated Wappenrolle
von Zurich, a MS. of the fourteenth century, published in
facsimile by the Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zurich in
1860. There, as the helms and crests are drawn in profile,
the mitre may not be at once recognized by the casual
observer, who does not already know what is intended, but there it
is, nevertheless. The following are examples : Taf. ii., Buchegg ;
Taf. v., Chienstein ; Taf. vi., Tetnang, Kur, Kilchberg, Walse,
Belmont, Gutingen; Taf. vii., Regensperg, Biirglen; Taf. viii.,
Blumenberg; Taf. xvi., Tor; Taf. xvii., Egbret. The Berkeley
mitre is now charged with the arms of the family. This does not
appear to have been the case originally. In my paper on " The
Heraldry of Bristol Cathedral" (printed in the Herald and
Genealogist, vol. iv., and also published separately), will be found
an engraving of the Berkeley arms as they appear carved on the
west poppy-head of the north row of stalls. There the mitre is
uncharged. In many of the instances which I have given above
the mitre is plain ; but in others (e.g., Sultz, Bochingen, Wyl,
Wider von Pfeffingen, Buchegg, Belmont, Gutingen, Regensperg,
and Egbret) the mitre is charged with the family arms, just as in
the present use of the Berkeley and Fitzhardinge families.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 95
Mr. James Herbert Cooke, of Berkeley, sent the following reply
to Mr. Woodward, p. 133 of same volume: The best authority
on the armorial bearing of the Berkeleys is Smyth, who, in his
Lives of the Berkeley s, which has just been printed for the members
of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, gives
descriptions of the seals of arms used by all the lords of Berkeley
down to his own time, A.D. 1613, with drawings of most of them.
The series is well worth studying, as it shows how armorial bearings
were at first gradually assumed, and how crests, supporters, and
mottoes were adopted and varied in successive generations of the
same family. It also illustrates the use of armorial seals. Your
correspondents appear to refer to the Fitzhardings and Berkeleys as
if they were two distinct families. No family has, however, used
the former as a distinctive name. Robert Fitzharding's son and
successor Maurice was at first styled Maurice Fitz-Robert, but after
the completion of Berkeley Castle and his taking up his residence
there, he was called Maurice de Berkeley, which name has ever
since been that of his descendants. Perhaps, however, it is intended
to distinguish between the descendants of Robert Fitzharding and
the older family of the Berkeleys of Dursley, Coberley, and
Kingswood, which became extinct in 1382. The arms of the
latter were Arg., a fess between three martlets sa. The mitre was
first used as a crest by the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle about the
middle of the fourteenth century, but was not at first charged with
the family arms. It was most probably adopted to indicate the
devotion to Holy Church for which the Berkeleys in the middle
ages were remarkable, as is shown by the long list of their bene-
factions to, and endowments of, religious and monastic foundations.
M. C. B.
1077. THE ORGAN IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE CHURCH. The
fine old organ in this parish church has, through the energy of the
vicar and churchwardens, been thoroughly renovated and restored.
For years past the instrument was in such a dilapidated condition
that it had become almost useless. It was built by Christopher
Schnider, in 1726, by order of King George I., to be presented to
the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the reason that induced
this act of munificence being that the parishioners had chosen the
king as he lived in the parish to be their churchwarden, and he
had accepted the office ; but in order to be relieved of it, he presented
the church with the noble instrument, the builder receiving 1500
guineas for his work. Schnider was the son-in-law of "Father
Smith" (Schmidt), whose name is familiar to all lovers of organ music.
The organ, when erected in the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
was publicly opened by Handel, who afterwards played the
voluntaries on Sundays. It was purchased for Wotton by Dr.
Tattersall, the vicar, in 1800. It was feared in making the
alterations in the instrument that the rich tones of the old pipes
96
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
would be sacrificed; and it was considered advisable to extend
the compass in both the swell and manuals of each organ, and also
to introduce some of the modern stops and extend the pedal organ
to the modern compass. The instrument has been lately re-erected
in the east end of the south aisle ; and the necessary alterations
for adapting it to its new position have been judiciously carried
out. The choir organ front that formed a screen to the organist
has been removed to the north side of the instrument, and forms a
second front, over the organist's head, while the original front stands
facing the congregation. The carved oak case has been retained,
and much time has been spent in careful repairs, while the front
pipes, all of which are speaking ones, have been tastefully decorated,
so that the whole forms a striking feature in the church. The old
pipes have been carefully repaired, and everything has been done
to retain the qualities of tone for which they have been so much
admired. In one or two instances a fresh pipe had to be introduced,
but the greatest pains have been displayed by the contractors in
matching the tones, so that the difference can scarcely be detected
even by the quickest ear. In addition the re-constructed instrument
has several new and pleasing stops. The work has been carried
out by the firm of Henry Jones and Sons, of Fulham-road, South
Kensington, and has been carefully tested by some of the leading
organists in London. There is probably no other church organ in
the country that has excited so much interest as this one, organists
and builders from all parts of the kingdom having journeyed to
Wotton to see it. On the panel in front is the original inscription :
" The gift of his most Sacred Majesty King George. 1726."
1078. THE CHURCH OF ST. PHILIP AND ST. JAMES, LECK-
HAMPTON, CHELTENHAM. The present church, which was conse-
crated on Thursday, April 13, 1882, takes the place of one erected
about forty years ago.* 4 It is upon the same site, and the various
works were carried out without interfering with the regular worship
of the congregation. The chancel and chancel aisles were completed
about eighteen months before the rest of the building, and were
used for worship in conjunction with a temporary iron nave while
the new nave was being erected over it. The whole of the buildings
have ^ been designed by, and carried out under the immediate
superintendence of, Messrs. Middleton and Son, architects, of
Westminster and Cheltenham. The style is Early English ; and
the material used is Cleeve Hill stone, with Bath stone dressings,
the interior walls and arches being lined with Bath stone, relieved
with Blue Forest and red Mansfield stone. The plan comprises
chancel, chancel aisles (north and south), nave, and nave aisles
(north and south), with porch ; also a massive tower at the south-
west angle, intended, with spire, to be 180 feet high. The chancel is
long by 23 feet wide, and the nave is 86 feet long by 29 feet
given
in the former Aiding, has been
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 97
wide ; making the total width, including the aisles, 59 feet. The
chancel is approached from the nave through a lofty arch, with rich
and bold mouldings, supported by marble shafts on each side. Similar
shafts, with moulded caps and richly-carved corbels, support the
roof-timbers of the chancel. There is a fine five-light window at
the east end, and on the north and south sides of the chancel the
windows contain stained glass, the one in memory of General
Shuldham, being the gift of Mrs. Shuldham, and the other the gift
of Miss Allen. The window in the west end is the gift of Mr.
Evans, and that in the north aisle of Miss Grey. The roof of the
chancel is formed of wood groining, and spaces are left round the
arches and on the side walls for mosaic. The chancel aisles are
separated from the chancel by richly-moulded arches. In the north
aisle the organ is placed, and behind are the vestries. The nave
presents an imposing effect from, its great height. The arches
between the nave and aisles are supported on Mansfield stone
pillars, with moulded caps and bases. The wall space between the
arches and clerestory windows is broken by a moulded string of
Mansfield stone, the whole producing a very good effect. Shafts
resting on moulded corbels support the roof, which is boarded and
formed into panels. This, with the chancel and aisle roofs, is
intended to be decorated with colour at some future time. The
west end is lighted by a circular window and two two-light
windows below it. Under these is a rich doorway. Between the
windows outside is a canopy containing a statue of St. Philip.
The aisles are lighted by two-light windows, and above the nave
arches are the clerestory windows, richly moulded, large, and of
beautiful design, giving to the whole church an appearance of space
and lightness. The roofs are high-pitched, and are covered with
Broseley tiles. Considerable attention has been paid to the
ventilation, the air being extracted at the roof and fresh air
admitted by pipes at the sides. The aisles are laid with tiles, in
which are gratings for the admission of heat from the hot-water
pipes. The floors for the seats are laid solid on concrete, in
" herring-bone " pattern, with blocks of wood about 8 by 2 J inches.
The church will accommodate 860 persons, and the cost has been
about 9,000 * CHELTONIENSIS.
1079. GLOUCESTERSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS, 1538-1812.
( 'Continued from vol. i. p. 187.)
The information given below is derived from the Parish Register
Abstract, which was " ordered, by the House of Commons, to be
printed, 2 April, 1833"; but for more convenient reference, the
parishes have been re-arranged alphabetically, and not left under
* With deep regret we record the death of Mr. John Middleton, which took place, after a
brief illness, at Adpar House, Newcastle Emlyn, South Wales (where he was professionally
engaged), February 13, 1885. He had resided in Cheltenham for about twenty-five years, and
was associated with much of the best work of a period of unusual architectural activity ;
and we hope to be able very soon to insert some details. ED.
VOL. III. G
98 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the respective hundreds in which they are located. This will be
found no slight improvement. The returns which were made, let
it be remembered, do not refer to a later date than 1812, in which
year, by Act 52 Geo. III. c. 146 (known as George Rose's Act), the
whole system of parish registers was altered. It is not main-
tained that the figures therein are in every instance strictly correct ;
but nevertheless, the list is a very useful one, and the best we have ;
and with a view to improve it, corrections and additions, which
will be turned to good account, are hereby invited. A few changes
have probably taken place since 1833, by the recovery or the loss
of some of the old registers. Those of our readers who have the
charge of registers, will be induced, we hope, not only to notify
(for insertion at another time) any errors or omissions they may
happen to detect, but also to furnish particulars, on the same plan,
of registers of more recent date. " Parish Register Books earlier
than the new Registers commencing with A.D. 1813 [according to
52 Geo. III., c. 146] remain at the following places :"
Abeiihall R. Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1596-1760, 1762-1812; Marr.,
1596-1753. Nos. vi. vii., Marr., 1754-1789, 1791-1812.
Acton-Turville P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1665-1729,
1732-1812.
Adlestrop P.<7. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1538-1812.
Alderley P. No. i., Bap., 1647-1664, 1672-1737, 1748-1749,
1752; Bur., 1647-1736; Marr., 1647-1654, 1658-1662, 1665-
1736. No. ii. ; Bap., 1752-1812; Bur., 1765-1812; Marr., 1752.
Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1753-1796, 1798-1812.
Alderton R. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1596-1812 ; Marr., 1596-1753.
No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Aldsworth P.a Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1683-1812; Marr., 1683-
1702, 1714-1745. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Almondsbury F. No. i, 1696-1717. Nos. ii. iii., 1718-1790.
No. iv., Bap., Bur., 1791-1812. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Alveston F. 1742-1812, very irregular until 1767.
Alvington P.C. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1688-1800; Marr., 1688-
1756. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1801-1812; Marr., 1757-1811.
Ampney-Cruds F No. i. (partly illegible), Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1566-1680. No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1681-1703. No. iii
(imperfect), Bap., Bur., Marr., 1704-1752. No. iv., Bap., Bur.,
Marr., 1753-1812.
Ampney-Down F Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1603-1812; Marr., 1603-
1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Ampney-St. Mary P.O. No. i, Bap., 1602-1768; Bur., 1605-
1768; Marr., 1602-1733, interrupted by No. ii., Bap., Bur.,
1764-1812; Marr., 1754-1807.
Ampney-St Peter P.a.-No. i. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1620-1732 (very
$; No ' il Ba P'> Eur -> 1743-1812. No. iii., Marr.,
181 2,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 99
Arlingham V. Nos. i-iii., Bap., 1539-1687; Bur., 1540-1684;
Marr., 1566-1687 (very irregular and imperfect). Nos. iv. v.,
Bap., Bur., 1688-1812 ; Marr., 1688-1753, interrupted by No. vi.,
Bap., Bur., 1787-1812. No. vii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Ashchurch P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1703-1812; Marr., 1703-
1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Ashelworth V.NoB. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1566-1812.
Ashton, Cold, .R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1734-1790 (imperfect). No.
ii., Bap., Bur., 1791-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Ashton-under-Hill P.O. No. i., Bap., 1596-1727; Bur., 1586-
1727 ; Marr., 1586-1726. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1727-1812 ; Marr.,
1727-1777. No. iii., Marr., 1779-1812.
Aston Blank F. No. i., Bap., 1727-1812. No. ii., Bur., 1724-
1812. No. iii., Marr., 1728-1811. The early registers are lost.
Aston-Somerville R. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1668-1812, inter-
rupted by No. ii., Banns, 1757-1812 ; Marr., 1759-1812.
Aston-sul-Edge R No. i., Bap., 1719-1764; Bur., 1720-1764;
Marr., 1720-1767. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1765-1812. No. iii.,
Marr., 1768-1812.
Aust O. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1709-1812. No. ii., Marr., 1757-1812.
Avening . Nos. i-iii., 1557-1571, 1576-1812. Nos. iv.-vii.,
Marr., 1754-1812.
Awre V. (with Blakeney O.) No. i., Bap., Bur., 1538-1812 ; Marr.,
1538-1753. Nos. ii. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Badgworth F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1559-1579, 1586-1723, 1746-
1752, 1755-1789; Marr., 1559-1579, 1586-1723, 1746-1752.
No. iii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Badminton, Great, V. (with Little Badminton O.) No. i., Bap.,
Bur., Marr., 1538-1713, interrupted by Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur.,
1700-1812; Marr., 1700-1 767. No. iv., Banns Marr., 1768-1812.
Bagendon R. No. i. (much decayed), Bap., Bur., Marr., 1630-
1739. No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1743-1812, interrupted by
No. iii., Marr., 1758-1808.
Barnsley R. Nos. i-iii., Bap., Bur., 1754-1812; Man., 1574-
1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Barnwood V. One book (which appears to have been several
distinct books bound together), Bap., 1651-1812, deficient 1732-
1733, 1741-1742; Bur., 1670-1812; Marr., 1652-1812, deficient
1699-1707.
Barrington, Great, F. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1547-1812; Marr.,
1547-1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Barrmgton, Little, F No. i., Bap., 1764-1812; Bur., 1761-1812.
No. ii. (loose leaves), Marr., 1806-1810. No other registers can
be found.
Batsford R.Nos. i ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1562-1812.
Baunton F No. i, Bap., Bur., Marr., 1625-1754. No, ii., Bap.,
Bur., 1754-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1755-1809. No Marr. after
that date.
100 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Bedford F-Nos. i. ii., Bap, Bur, 1549-1812; Marr, 1549-1766.
No iii Marr, 1768-1812.
BMey F-Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1676-1756; Marr 1676-1753.
NOB.; iii. iv. Bap, Bur, 1757-1810. Nos. y vi Marr, 1754-
1790 (these books are at the House of Lords). No. vii. Bap,
Bur, 1810-1812. No. viii, Marr, 1801-1812.
Reversion R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1565-1784 ; Marr, 1563-1753.
Nos. iii.-vi. Bap, Bur, 1785-1812; Marr, 1754-1812.
Bibury F Bap, Bur, Marr, 1551-1812.
Bicknor. English, . No. i. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1561-1744 (im-
perfect). Nos. ii. iii. Bap, Bur, 1751-1812 ; Marr, 1751-1753.
Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Bishop's Cleeve .R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, Marr, intermixed, 1563-
1812.
Bisley F. No. i. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1547-1627, 1633-1700. Nos.
ii.-iv. Bap, Bur, 1701-1812; Marr, 1701-1753. Nos. v. vi,
Marr, 1754-1812.
Bitton F Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1572-1674, 1678-1728,
interrupted by No. iii. Bap, Bur, 1721-1778 ; Marr, 1721-1753.
No. iv. Bap, Bur, 1779-1812. No. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Also registers for Oldland and Hanham : Nos. i.-iv. Bap, Bur,
Marr, 1586-1812.
Blaisdon R.Nos. i.-iii. Bap, 1635-1764, 1772-1812; Bur, 1635-
1765, 1772-1812; Marr, 1635-1754. Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1768-
1812.
Bledington F Nos. i. ii. Bap, 1708-1753, 1760-1812; Bur,
1700-1812. No. iii. Banns Marr, 1761-1812.
Boddington F Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1656-1783; Marr, 1656-
1753. No. iii. Bap, Bur, 1784-1812. Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1754-
1812.
Bourton-on-the-Hill R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1568-1812; Marr,
1568-1753. No. iii, Marr, 1754-1812.
Bourton-on-the-Water (with Clapton) R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur,
1654-1812; Marr, 1654-1753. Nos. iii. iv, Marr, 1754-1812.
Boxwell (with Leightertori) R.No$. i-iii. Bap, Bur, 1548-1812;
Marr, 1590-1753. No. iv, Marr, 1754-1810.
SI. Briavel's P.O. Nos. i.-iii. Bap, Bur, 1665-1812; Marr,
1665-1753. No. iv, Marr, 1754-1812.
Brimpsfield R Nos. i.-iii, promiscuous entries, 1588, 1590-1678,
1684-1709 ; these books are much dilapidated, and scarcely
legible. Nos. iv.-vi, 1710-1812.
BRISTOL CITY.
All Saints F Nos. i.-iii., Bap, 1653-1812; Bur, 1650-1812;
Marr, 1653-1812.
St. Augustine F No. i,Bap, Bur, Marr, 1577-1666, interrupted
by No. ii. Bap. Bur, Marr., 1653-1684. Nos. iii. -vii. Bap,
Bur, 1685-1812; Marr, 1685-1785. Nos. viii. ix, Marr., 1786-
1812.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 101
Cathedral Church. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1669-1679, 1681-
1696, 1711-1753, interrupted by No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1750-
1812.
Christ Church (with St. Ewin's) R. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1538-1720, interrupted by Nos. ii. iii., Bap., 1660-1764,1761-
1769; Bur., 1660-1664, 1678-1679, 1761-1769; Marr., 1661-
1754. No. iv., Bap., Bur., 1721-1812; Marr., 1721-1753. Nos.
v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812. For St. Ewiris: Nos. vii. viii., Bap.,
1538-1791 ; Bur., 1538-1775; Marr., 1539-1790, interrupted by
No. ix., Marr., 1757-1793; also No. x. (kept by the parish
clerk), Bap., Bur., Marr., 1738-1792.
Clifton P.C.No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1538-1680. No. ii., Bap.,
Bur., Marr., 1722-1812.*
St. George V. NOB. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1759-1812. Nos. iii. iv.,
Marr., 1756-1812.
Si. James P.C.Nos. i.-vi., Bap., Bur., 1559-1769 ; Marr., 1559-
1757. Nos. vii. viii., Bap., Bur., 1770-1812. Nos. ix.-xv.,
Marr., 1758-1812.
St. John-the-Baptist .R. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1558, 1567-1812.
St. Mary-le-Port R. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., 1560-1690, interrupted by
1678-1812; Bur., 1560-1812; Marr., 1560-1648, 1653-1753.
Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
St. Mary-Reddi/e P.C. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1559-1655,
transcribed to No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1559-1678. Nos. iii.
iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1679-1720, interrupted by Nos. v.-vii.,
Bap., Bur., 1716-1773; Marr., 1716-1753; also by Nos. viii.-x.,
Bap., Bur., 1757-1812. Nos. xi.-xiii., Marr., 1754-1812.
St. Michael R.Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1812.
St. Nicholas (with St. Leonard's) F. No. i., Bap., 1538-1666;
Bur., 1536-1564; Marr., 1538-1665, interrupted by No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1558-1598; Marr., 1558-1601, by No. iii., Bap.,
Bur., Marr., 1586-1607, by No. iv., Bap., 1594-1621, and by
No. v., Bur., 1594-1634; Marr., 1594-1646. No. vi., Bap.,
1621-1653, with entries 1683-1688. No. vii., Bur., 1634-1653.
No. viii., Bap., 1653-1682; Bur., 1653-1686; Marr., 1653-1688.
No. ix., Bap., 1683-1721 ; Bur., Marr., 1686-1721. Nos. x.-xii.,
Bap., Bur., Marr., 1722-1812. For St. Leonard's: Nos. xiii.
adv., Bap., 1689-1768; Bur., 1690-1768; Marr., 1699-1768, in
which year this parish was united to St. Nicholas'.
St. Paul P.C. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1795-1812; Bur., Marr., 1794-
1812.
St. Peter R.Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1812.
St. Philip (with St. Jacob) F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1576-
1644. Nos. iii. -vii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1811, interrupted
by No. viii., 1807-1812, by No. ix., Bur., 1763-1812, and by
Nos. x.-xii., Marr., 1754-1812.
* For mention of the recovery of the earlier of these registers, see ante, vol. ii., p. 145..
102 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
St Stephen . No. L, Bap., 1561-1663; Bur., Marr., 1559-1663.
No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1664-1721, defective 1701, and
interrupted by Nos. iii.-v., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1716-1812.
Temple V. Bap., 1559-1653, 1657-1812; Bur., 1559-1812 ; Marr.,
1558-1812.
St. Thomas P.O. NOB. i.-iii., Bap., 1552-1759; Bur., 1553-1759;
Marr., 1558-1753, interrupted by No. iv., Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1660-1707. No. v., 1735-1762. No. vi., Bap., Bur., 1760-1812.
Nos. vii. viii., Marr., 1754-1812.
St. Werburgh 72. No. i., Bap., 1559-1796, 1798, 1800-1812;
Bur., 1559-1565, 1567-1812; Marr., 1559-1581, 1584-1600,
1602-1642, 1644-1655, 1658-1659, 1664-1680, 1682-1717, 1719-
1753. No. ii., Marr., 1754-1759, 1761-1782, 1784, 1786, 1788-
1792, 1794, 1798-1799, 1801-1805, 1807-1808, 1810-1812.
" The practice of clandestine marriages in some of the Bristol
parishes, to an amount estimated at 500 in a year, does not appear
to have been discontinued since 1812."
Broadwell R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1697-1812; Marr., 1697-1754.
No. ii., Marr., 1755-1812.
BrocJcworth F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1559-1812; Marr., 1559-
1781. No. iii., Marr., 1782-1812.
Bromeslerrow .R. Nos. i. ii., 1558-1812, deficient 1651-1660.
Brockthorp F. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1730-1812. No. ii., Marr.,
1757-1812.
BucTdand (with Laverton) R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1539-1812;
Marr., 1539-1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Bulky P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1673-1676, 1682-1784. No.
ii., Bap., Bur., 1806-1812. The deficiencies are registered in the
parish church of Churcham.
Cam F. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1569-1707 (defective). Nos.
ii. iii., Bap., Bur., 1708-1812; Marr., 1708-1753. Nos. iv. V M
Marr., 1754-1812.
Carney, North, R. Bap., 1568-1633, 1654-1668, 1671-1812; Bur.,
1574-1579, 1604-1631, 1668-1812; Marr., 1620-1633, 1654-
1668, 1674-1681, 1686-1693, 1695-1812.
Cerney, South, F No. i., Bap., 1583-1638, 16434728; Bur.,
Marr., 1583-1728. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1731-1812. No. iii.,
Marr., 1754-1812. No other registers can be found.
Charfield, R. One book, 1587-1812.
Charlton Abbotts F One book, 1727-1812.
Charlton Kings P.(7. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1538-1700,
interrupted by No. iii., Bap., 1683-1691, 1695-1697, 1701-1754;
Bur., 1695-1697, 1701-1754; Marr., 1701-1753. Nos. iv.-vi.
Wi Marr>> 1786 - 1799 - N - vii - '
For further particulars of these registers see ante, vol. i., p. 31.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 103
Chedworth V. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1653-1812 ; Marr., 1653-
1688, 1692-1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Cheltenham P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1558-1630. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., Marr., 1631-1653. Nos. iii. iv., Bap., 1676-1745 ;
Bur., 1676-1768; Marr., 1676-1753. Nos. v.-ix., Bap., Bur.,
1745-1812. Nos. x.-xiii., Marr., 1754-1812.*
Cherrington 72. Nos. i ii., Bap., Bur., 1568-1812; Marr., 1568-
1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Child's-WicJcham F. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1560-1717, 1719-
1740. Nos. ii.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1741-1812 ; Marr., 1741-1783.
No. v., Marr., 1784-1812.
Chipping-Campden F. Nos. i.-vii., Bap., 1616-1812; Bur., 1616-
1716/1718-1812; Marr., 1616-1753. Nos. viii.-x., Marr., 1754-
1812.
Churcham F No. i., Bap., Bur., 1541-1812; Marr., 1541-1753
(defective). Nos. ii. iii. (for Churcham and Bulley), Marr.,
1754-1812.
Churchdown P.C. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1653-1654, 1656-1812;
Marr., 1653-1654, 1656-1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
CirencesterP.C.Nos. i-iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1560-1812; Marr.
defective in 1655 and a few subsequent years.
Clifford-Chambers R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1538-1812; Marr.,
1538-1738, 1741-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1808.
Coaley F Nos. i-iii , Bap., Bur., 1582-1811; Marr., 1582-1753.
Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Coates R. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1566-1812.
Colesborne R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1632-1794; Marr., 1632-
1753. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1795-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1754-
1812.
Coln-St. Aldwyn's F No. i, Bap., Bur., 1650-1727; Marr.,
1671-1727. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1775-1790; Marr., 1771-1776.
No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1791-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1777-1812.
Coln-St. Dennis R. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1561-1756. No. ii,
Bap., Bur., 1757-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1757-1812.
Coin-Rogers JR. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1761-1812. No. ii., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Compton-Aldale P.O. Nos. i-iii, Bap., Bur., Marr., 1720-1812.
Compton-Greenjield R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1724-1812; Marr.,
1724-1756. No. ii, Marr., 1757-1812.
Compton, Little, P.O. Nos. i-iii., Bap., Bur., 1588-1812 ; Marr.,
1588-1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Condicote R. Nos. i ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1806 (" so much obliter-
ated and defaced that it is impossible to give the correct date of
commencement"). No. iii, Bap., Bur., Marr., 1807-1812.
Corse F Nos. i ii, Bap., Bur., 1661-1812; Marr., 1661-1727.
No. iii, Marr., 1754-1812.
* For further particulars see ante, vol. i., p. 22.
104 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Cowlev No i. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1676-1768, interrupted by
No ii Bap., Bur., 1764-1812, and No. ill, Marr., 1754-1812.
CraLmK-Nos. L ii. Bap., Bur., 1666-1782; Mar,, 1666-1754.
No iii., Bap., Bur., 1783 ; Marr., 1755-1796. Nos. iv. v., Bap.,
Bur., 1784-1812. No. VL, Marr., 1798-1811.
Cromliall fl. Nos. i-iii., Bap., Bur, 1653-1812 ; Marr., 1653-
1753. No. iv., Marr, 1754-1812.
Cubberley, or Coberley, #. Nos. L-iiL, Bap, Bur, Marr, 1546-
1 81 9
Daqlingwortli R. Nos. i.-iv. Bap, Bur., 1561-1672, 1676-1812;
Marr, 1561-1672, 1676-1753. No. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Deerhurst P.O. Nos. i.-v. Bap, 1559-1661, interrupted by 1653-
1776; Bur, 1559-1650, 1653-1776; Marr, 1559-1635, 1653-
1755, 1760-1761. No. vi. Bap, Bur, 1777-1812. No. vii,
Marr, 1778-1812.
Didlrook (with Pinnock] F No. i, 1558-1704 (defective). Nos.
ii. iii, 1705-1812. No. iv. Banns Marr, 1765-1812.
Didmarton R.No. i, 1725-1782, interrupted by Nos. ii. iii,
1754-1812.
Dodington R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1575-1812 ; Marr, 1575-
1756. No. iii, Marr, 1757-1812.
Dorsington R. Bap, 1593-1641, 1660-1812; Bur, 1593-1812;
Marr, 1593-1812.
DowdeswellIl.--NoB.L-m., Bap, Bur, 1575-1812; Marr, 1575-
1726. No. iv, Marr, 1760-1812.
Doynton, or Deynton, R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1566-1753.
No. iii. Bap, Bur, 1754-1812. No. iv, Marr, 1754-1812.
Driffield F. Nos. i.ii. Bap, 1561-1810 ; Bur, 1561-1801 ; Marr,
1561-1753. No. iii, Marr, 1754-1812. No other registers
can be found.
DumUeton R. No. i. Bap, Bur, 1738-1809; Marr, 1738-1748.
No. ii. Bap, Bur, 1810-1812. No. iii, Marr, 1755-1812.
Du?itesbourne-Abbots R.No. i. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1683-1713.
No. ii. Bap, Bur, 1716-1779; Marr, 1716-1753. No. iii.
Bap, Bur, 1780-1812. No. iv, Marr, 1754-1812.
Duntesbourne-Rous R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1545-1812 ; Marr,
1545-1753. No. iii, Marr, 1754-1807.
Dursley R. Nos. i.-iv. Bap, Bur, 1639-1812; Marr, 1639-1799.
No. v, Marr, 1800-1812.
Dymock F Nos. i-iii., Bap, Bur, 1538-1555, 1557-1812; Marr,
1538-1555, 1557-1753. Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Dyrham and Hinton R. Nos. i.-iii. Bap, Bur, 1568-1812;
Marr, 1568-1753. Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Eastington R Nos. i.-v, 1558-1812.
Eastington C. Bap, Bur, Marr, entered in Northleach registers.
Eastleach-Martin #._ One book, 1538-1812.
Eastleach-TurmlleP.C.^., Bur, 1779-1812 ; Marr, 1760-1812.
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Ebrington V. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1653-1812; Man., 1653-
1753. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
Edgeworth 72. Nos. i.-v., Bap., 1640-1735, 1750-1812; Bur.,
1557-1743, 1775-1812; Marr., 1554-1745. No. vi., Marr.,
1754-1812. All these registers are defective.
Elberton V. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1762 (defective), 1763-1812.
Elkstone RNos. i.-iii., 1686-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1755-1812.
Elmore P.O. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., 1560-1761, 1769-1812 ; Bur.,
1560-1761, interrupted by 1678-1812 ; Marr., 1560-1753. No.
v., Marr., 1754-1812.*
Elmstone Hardwick V. See Uckington.
Fairford V. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1617-1678. Nos. ii. iii.,
Bap., Bur., 1679-1812; Marr., 1679-1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Farmcote C. Included in the registers of Lower Gutting.
Farminfjton R. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1613-1812.
Filton 'RNO. i., Bap., Bur., 1654-1812; Marr., 1654-1756.
No. ii., Marr., 1757-1812.
Flaxley P.O. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1648-1685, 1688-1812;
Marr., 1648-1685, 1688-1762. No. v., Marr., 1763-1812.
Forthampton P.O. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1678-1812; Marr.,
1678-1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Frampton-Cotterell RNo. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1561-1639, 1653-
1668. Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1669-1749. No. iv.,
Bap., Bur., 1759-1812. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812. The
registers for the deficient periods are lost.
Frampton-on-Severn V. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1625-1812; Marr.,
1625-1753. Nos. iv.-vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
Fretherne RNo. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1631-1724, interrupted
by No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1720-1795; Marr., 1720-1750. No. iii.,
Bap., Bur., 1796-1812. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1804, 1806-1811.
Frocester V. Bap., 1559-1665, 1682-1812; Bur., 1570-1664,
1682-1812; Marr., 1559-1665, 1682-1812.
GLOUCESTER CITY.
St. Aldate P.C.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1756-1812. Nos. iii. iv.,
Marr., 1756-1812.
Cathedral Church, No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1661-1717. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., Marr., 1717-1812.
St. Catherine P.O. Bap., 1687-1807, 1809-1812; Bur., Marr.,
1687-1812 (imperfect). Many deficiencies may be supplied by
the registers of neighbouring parishes.
St. John-the-Baptist R~Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1558-1642,
1648-1698, interrupted by No. iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1699.
Nos. iv. v., Bap., Bur., 1700-1812; Marr., 1700-1753. Nos.
vi. vii., Marr., 1754-1812.
St. Mary-de-Crypt R.No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1653-1690
(defective). Nos. ii.-v., Bap., 1694-1812; Bur., 1695-1812;
* See ante, vol. ii., p. 160.
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106 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Marr., 1697-1753. Nos. vi. vii., Marr., 1754-1812. The parish
of 8i Olave not having a church, the registry is included with
that of St. Mary-de-Crypt.
St Maru-de-Lode V. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., 1675-1693, 1695-1712,
1715-1812; Bur., 1675-1693, 1695-1712, 1716-1812; Marr.,
1675-1693, 1695-1711, 1716-1753. Nos. iv.-vi., Marr., 1754-
1812. For Holy Trinity: No. vii., Bap., 1557-1765; Bur.,
1557-1649; Marr., 1558-1649, 1690-1722 (irregularly scattered
throughout the book).
St. Margaret and St. Mary Magdalen Hospital G. One imperfect
register, 1790-1812.
St. Michael and St. Mari/-de-Grace R. Nos. i.-iv.. Bap., Bur.,
1563-1812; Marr., 1563-1753. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
St. Nicholas P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1558-1760 ; Marr., 1558-
1753. Nos. iii. iv., Bap., Bur., 1761-1812. Nos. v.-vii., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Holy Trinity P.O. See No. vii. St. Mary-de-Lode.
Gutting, Lower, V. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1560-1756; Marr., 1560-
1753 (imperfect). No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1757-1812. No. iii.,
Marr., 1754-1812.
Guiting, Temple, P.C.No. i., Bap., Bur., 1647-1774 ; Marr., 1647-
1753 (imperfect at the commencement). No. ii., Bap., Bur.,
1775-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Hails P.O. Included in the registers of Didlrook.
Hampnett and Stowell R. Nos. i-iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1590-1812.*
Hardwicke P.<7. Nos. i.-iv., 1566-1790. No. v., 1791-1812.
Harescombe #. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1741-1780; Marr., 1741-1755.
No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1781-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1756-1812.
Earesfield V. Bap., 1558-1812; Bur., 1560-1626, 1669-1734,
1738-1812; Marr., 1566-1619, 1684-1812.
Harnhill . Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1730-1811 ; Marr., 1730-1753.
No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Hartpury V. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1571-1812; Marr., 1571-
1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Haselton .#. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1597-1804; Marr., 1597-1749,
1750-1752. No. iii., Bap., 1805-1811 ; Bur., 1805-1812. No.
iv., Marr., 1755-1811.
Hasfield R. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., 1559-1812; Bur., 1559-1631, 1652-
1812; Marr., 1559-1753. No. v., Banns Marr., 1754-1812.
Hatherley Down V. No. i., Bap., 1563-1698; Bur., 1563-1674;
Man., 1563-1696. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1695-1760; Marr., 1695-
1753. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1761-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1754-
1812. No church at Up-Hatherley.
Hatherop #. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1670-1812; Bur., 1679-1727, 1729-
1812 ; Marr., 1680-1728 (several leaves cut out). No. iii., Marr.,
* For further particulars see ante, vol. i., p. 240.
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Hawltesbury V. (with Tresham C.) Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1603-
1812; Marr., 1603-1797. No. v., Marr., 1798-1812.
Hawling R.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1677-1812; Marr., 1677-1753.
Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Hempsted R.Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1558-1797; Marr., 1558-
1755. No. iv., Bap., Bur., 1797-1812. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1756-
1812.
Henbury V. Nos. i.-viii., Bap., 1538-1812 ; Bur., 1538-1668, 1678-
1812; Marr., 1538-1753. No. ix., Marr., 1754-1812.
BewdsfieldP.C.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1664-1812; Marr., 1664-
1753. No. iii., Marr., 1751-1812.
Hill, or Hall, P.O.Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1653-1812; Marr.,
1653-1764. No. iv., Banns Marr., 1765-1812.
Hinton-on-the-Green R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1735-1812. Nos. iii. iv.,
Bur., 1735-1812. No. v., Marr., 1755-1812.
Horfield P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1543-1729 ; Marr., 1543-1685,
interrupted by ]S~os. ii. iii., Bap.', Bur., 1712-1812; Marr., 1686-
1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812, interrupted by No. v., Marr.,
1789-1812.
Horsley V. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1587-1717 (imperfect).
Nos. iii. iv., Bap., Bur., 1718-1812; Marr., 1718-1753. Nos. v.
vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
Horton R.Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1567-1812.
Hunthy R.No. i., Bap., Bur., 1660-1669, 1679-1775; Marr.,
1660-1669, 1679-1753. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1776-1812. Nos.
iii. iv., Banns Marr., 1754-1812.
Iron-Acton R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1570-1699; Marr., 1570-1688,
1697-1699. Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur., 1700-1812; Marr., 1700-
1771. No. iv., Marr., 1778-1812.
Kemerton R.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1572-1781 ; Marr., 1572-1756.
No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1782-1812. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1757-1812.
Kemphy V. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1670-1812.
Kempsford V. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1686-1812.
Kingscote P.O.Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1651-1812.
Lassington R.No. i., Bap., Bur., 1661-1812; Marr., 1661-1747.
Nos. ii. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.*
Lea P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1706-1812; Marr., 1706-1755. No.
ii., Marr., 1756-1812.
Lecklade V. No. i., Bap., 1686-1709; Bur., 1686-1706 (several
leaves torn out). No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1737-1770; Marr., 1738-
1752. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1771-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1754-
1812.t
Leckhampton R.No. i., Bap., 1709-1790; Bur., 1682-1776;
Marr., 1719-1753. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1791-1812. No. iii.,
Marr., 1754-1812.
Leigh V. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1569-1812; Marr., 1569-1753.
No. iv., Marr., 1754-1807. No. v., Marr., 1809-1812.
* See ante, vol. ii., p. 160. t See ante, vol. ii., p. 161.
108 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Lemington P.O. No. i, 1685-1754. Nos. ii.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1755-
1812. No. v., Marr., 1757-1810.
LtttledeanP.C.No. i. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1684-1714. Nos. ii.
iii., Bap., Bur., 1715-1811; Marr., 1715-1754. No. iv., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Littleton-onrSewrn /?. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1701-1812 ; Marr., 1701-
1754. No. ii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Littleton, West, G. Entered at Tormanton until 1813.
Longboroufjh* (with Sezincote) V. Nos. i.-iv. Bap, 1676-1812;
Bur., 1677-1812; Marr., 1680-1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Longhope V. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1742-1762; Marr., 1742-1753.
No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1763-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Longney F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1660-1812; Marr., 1661-1745,
1747-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Lydney V. (with Aylburton C.) Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1678-1812;
Marr., 1648-1753. Nos. iii.-v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Maisemore P.C.No. i., Bap., Bur., 1600-1691, interrupted by
Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1676-1812 ; also by Nos. iv. v.,
Banns, 1754-1797 ; Marr., 1798-1812.
Mangotsfield P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1591-1811 ; Bur., 1591-1812;
Marr., 1591-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1811. The church
being under repair in 1812, Bap. and Marr. were in that year at
Winte-rbourne.
Marshfield F. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1562-1607. No. ii., Bap.,
Bur., Marr., 1645-1685. Nos. iii.-v., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1694-
1812.
Marston Sicca R. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., 1708-1811 ; Bur., 1680-1812;
Marr., 1680-1750. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Matson V. or R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1553-1812. No. ii., Marr.,
1757-1812. No account of Marr. prior to 1757 can be obtained.
Meysey-Hampton R. No. i. (including Marston), 1570-1720. No.
ii, 1721-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
MicJdeton F No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1534-1719, interrupted by
No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1568-1653 ; also by Nos. iii. iv., Bap., Bur.,
Marr., 1590-1720, and by No. v., Bap., Bur., 1718-1792 ; Marr.,
1721-1753. No. vi., Bap., Bur., 1793-1812. Nos. vii. viii.,
Marr., 1754-1812.
Minchinhampton R. Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1558-1718, 1720-1812;
Marr., 1558-1718, 1720-1753. Nos. vi.-viii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Minety F Nos. i.-vi., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1663-1812.
Mineterworth F Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1633-1812; Marr., 1633-
1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Miserden R. No. i. (fragment), Bap., Bur., Marr., 1695-1727. No.
ii., Bap., Bur., 1728-1812; Marr., 1728-1782. Nos. iii. iv.,
Marr, 1783-1812.
Mitcheldean R. Nos. i. ii., Bap, Bur., 1680-1713, 1718-1812;
Marr, 1680-1713, 1718-1753. Nos. iii. iv., Banns Marr, 1754-
lol 4.
*.Not " Loughborough," as in Parish Register Abstract, p. 113.
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Moreton-in-Marsh PC. Nos. i. ii. f Bap., Bur., 1643-1812 ; Marr.,
1672-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Moreton Valence P. (7. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1681-1768 (very
imperfect). No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1769-1812. Nos. iii. iv., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Nailsworth 0. This chapelry is in three parishes (Avening,
Horsley, and Minchmhampton), and has an imperfect baptismal
register.
Naunton R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1540-1812; Marr., 1540-
1761 (very defective 1560-1564, 1639-1660, 1743-1766). No. iii.,
Marr., 1762-1812.
Newent F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1673-1812; Marr., 1673-1753.
No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Newington-Bagpath R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1686-1812 ; Marr.,
1686-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Newland V. (with Bream C. and Coleford C.) Nos. i. ii., Bap.,
Bur., 1670-1784; Marr., 1670-1753 (decayed and imperfect),
interrupted by No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1783-1798. No. iv., Bap.,
Bur., 1799-1812. Nos. v.-viii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Newnham P.O. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1547-1812; Marr., 1547-
1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
North NiUey P. a Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1567-1812; Marr.,
1567-1785. No. vi., Marr., 1786-1812.
Northleach V. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1556-1729; Bur., 1556-1724;
Marr., 1556-1726. Nos. iii. iv., Bap., Bur., 1737-1812 ; Marr.,
1737-1753. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
Northidck C. One book, 1667-1812.
Norton P. C. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1686-1794; Marr., 1686-
1753. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1795-1812. Nos. iv. v., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Notgrove R No. i., Bap., Bur., 1660-1664, 1668-1812; Marr.,
1660-1664, 1668-1753. No. ii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Nymphsfield R. Bap., 1684-1812 ; Bur., 1678-1812 ; Marr., 1680-
1812.
Oddington RNo. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1549-1705 (imperfect).
No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1706-1812; Marr., 1706-1753. No. iii.,
Marr., 1754-1812.
OWmry-on-the-Hill R Nos. i.-iii., 1567-1746, 1748-1781, 1783-
1812.
Olveston V. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., 1560-1657, 1691-1710, 1723-1812;
Bur., 1560-1648, 1691-1710, 1723-1812; Marr., 1560-1647,
1691-1710, 1716-1717, 1741-1812. No other registers can be
found.
Owlpen P. G. Marr., 1755-1812. No other register.
Oxenhall V. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1665-1780, interrupted
by No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1770-1812 (defective until 1780). Nos.
iv. v., Marr., 1781-1812.
110 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Oxenton ftHo. i. Bur., 1678-1715. No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1679-1737. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1783-1812. No. iv., Marr.,
Ozllworth A-Nos. i. ii. Bap., Bur., 1698-1737, 1741-1812;
Marr 1698-1737, 1741-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Pawwick V. Bap., 1653-1754, 1764-1782, 1792-1812; Bur.,
1653-1677, 1706-1758, 1782-1812; Marr., 1653-1705, 1754-1812.
No other registers can be found.
PauntleyP.C.Xos. i. ii. Bap., Bur., 1538-1812; Marr., 1538-
1780. No Marr. register 1781-1812.
Pebworth F. Nos. i. ii. (very defective), Bap., Bur., 1595-1731 ;
Marr., 1595-1673, 1682-1728. No. iii., Bap. Bur., 1732-1792;
Marr., 1735-1753. No. iv., Bap., Bur., 1793-1812. Nos. v. vi.,
Marr., 1755-1812.
Pitchcombe R Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1743-1812.
Prestlury F. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1633-1812; Marr., 1633-1753.
Nos. ii. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Preston F No, i., Bap., 1677-1812; Bur., 1676-1812; Marr.,
1677-1753. No. ii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Preston #. One book, Bap., 1665-1811 ; Bur., 1690-1810; Marr.,
1691-1809.
Preston-on-Stour F No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1540-1641, inter-
rupted by No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1620-1794; Marr., 1620-1753.
No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1796-1812. No. iv., Banns Marr., 1754-
1811.
Pucklechurch F No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1590-1629. Nos. ii.-iv.,
Bap., Bur., 1634-1812; Marr., 1634-1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-
1812.
Quedgek}/ P.C. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1559-1751. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1753-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
QueniiHjtnn #. No. i. Bap., 1653-1751 ; Bur., 1653-1738 ; Marr.,
1657-1747, 1749-1751 (mutilated, and several leaves apparently
cut out). No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1752-1812; Marr., 1752-1765.
No. iii., Marr., 1768-1812.
Quinton F Nos. i.-vii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1547-1812.
Randwck P. C. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1662-1693. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., Marr., 1725-1761. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1762-1812 ;
Marr., 1762-1769. No. iv., Marr., 1770-1812. No register
1693-1725 can be found.
Rangeworthy G No. i., Bap., 1704-1723, 1734-1750; Bur.,
1704-1725, 1734-1750; Marr., 1704-1725, 1735-1750. No. ii.,
Bap., 1751-1800 ; Bur., 1752-1800 ; Marr., 1752-1753. No. iii.,
Bap., Bur., 1801-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1755-1812.
Rendcombe R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1566-1808; Bur., 1566-1812;
Marr., 1566-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
*****faG*, & No. i. Bap., Bur, 1538-1746 ; Marr, 1538-
1*' X S T.4 6 : Xo< il ' Ba P" Eur -> 1747-1812 ; Marr, 1747-
1753. Nos. iii. iv , Marr, 1754-1812.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. Ill
Rissington, Little, 72. Nos. i. ii., 1543-1812. No. iii., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Rissington, Wick, #. No. i., 1789-1804. No. ii., Bur., 1804-
1812. No. iii., Marr., 1755-1812. No other registers can be
found.
Rockhampton .R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1565-1732, 1736-1812 ;
Marr., 1565-1732, 1736-1751. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1756-1812.
No other registers can be found.
Rodborough C. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1692-1812.
Rodmarton R. Bap., Bur., Marr., 1605-1812.*
RuardeariP.C.Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1540-1812; Marr., 1540-
1753. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-1812.
Rudford .#. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1729-1812 (defective 1775-1784);
Marr., 1729-1753. No. ii., Marr., 1754-1789. No. iii., Marr.,
1790-1812.
Saintbury RNos. i. ii., Bap., 1651-1812; Bur., 1603-1811;
Marr., 1585-1746. No. iii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Salperton P.C. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1629-1759 (in bad
condition, and very defective). No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1773-
1812.
Sandhurst P.O. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1537-1812; Marr., 1537-
1754. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1755-1812.
Saperton R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1662-1812.
Saul P.O. Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1583-1687, 1690-1812. No. vi.,
Banns Marr., 1798-1812. Prior to 1798 Marr. supposed to have
been solemnized at Standish, the mother church.
Sevenhampton P.C.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1588-1812; Marr.,
1588-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Shenington R Bap., Bur., 1721-1812; Marr., 1726-1812.
Sherborne V. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1572-1812; Marr., 1572-
1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1792, 1794-1812.
Shipton-Moym R.Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1570-1812 ; Marr., 1587-
1753. No. iv., Banns Marr., 1754-1812.
Shipton-Sollars and Oliffe 7?. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1653-1812;
Marr., 1653-1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Shurdington P.O. No. i., 1561-1578, 1581-1699, 1703-1722.
No. ii., 1790-1812 (1723-1789 entered in Badgworth books).
No. iii., Marr., 1755-1810.
Siddington .R. For St. Mary's: Bap., 1608-1778; Bur., 1607-
1731, 1735-1778; Marr., 1606-1754, 1757-1778. ForM Peter's:
Bap., 1687-1812; Bur., 1689-1812; Marr., 1688-17.30, 1750-
1812. In 1778 the parishes were united.
Side R Bap., Bur., Marr., 1686-1812.
Siston R. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1576-1640 (defective). Nos.
ii. iii., Bap., Bur., 1641-1644, 1649-1812; Marr., 1641-1644,
1649-1751. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Slaughter, Lower, P.O. All registers anterior to 1813 are entered
with Bourton-on-the-Hill, the mother church.
* See ante, vol. ii., p. 161.
112 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Slaughter, Upper (including Eyford\ R. Nos. i. ii. Bap Bur.,
1530-1812 Marr, 1530-1753. No. iii, Marr, 1754-1812.?
Slimbridqe ^.-Nos. i. ii. Bap, 1635-1652, 1660-1685, 1701-1706;
Bur, 1635-1652, 1660-1701, 1709-1713, 1719-1720; Marr,
1635-1652, 1660-1685, 1708-1722. Nos. iii. iv. Bap, Bur,
1746-1812; Marr, 1746-1753. Nos. v.-vii, Banns Marr, 1754-
1812.
Snowhill P.C.No. i. Bap, Bur, 1732-1812; Marr, 1732-1775.
No. ii, Marr, 1777-1812.
Sodbury, Chipping, F Nos. i.-iii. Bap, Bar, Marr, 1661-1671,
1687-1695, 1715-1741. No. iv. Bap, Bur, 1748-1812 ; Marr,
1748-1753. No. v, Marr, 1754-1812 (defective).
Sodbury, Little, R. No. i. Bap, 1703-1812; Bur, 1703-1754;
Marr, 1703-1753. No. ii, Marr, 1754-1812. Bur. at Old
Sodbury since 1754.
Sodbury, Old, F No. i. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1695-1732 (defective).
No. ii. Bap., Bur, 1733-1812 ; Marr, 1733-1753. Nos. iii. iv,
Marr, 1754-1812.
Southrop F Nos. i. ii. Bap, 1680-1714, 1716-1748, 1753-1812;
Bur, 1656-1748, 1753-1812 ; Marr, 1656-1744. No. iii, Marr,
1754-1812. No other registers can be found.
Standisk F No. i. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1560-1635 (very imperfect).
Nos. ii. iii. Bap, Bur, 1650-1785 ; Marr, 1650-1753. No. iv.
Bap, Bur, 1786-1812. No. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Stanley Kings R. Nos. i.-iv. Bap, Bur, 1573-1812 ; Marr, 1573-
1753. Nos. v.-vii, Marr, 1754-1812.
Stanley St. Leonards P.O. Nos. i. ii. Bap, 1575-1770; Bur,
1571-1770; Marr, 1570-1753. No. iii. Bap, Bur, 1771-1812.
Nos. iv. v, Marr, 1755-1812.
Slanton R. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, Marr, 1572-1768. No. iii.
Bap, Bur, 1769-1812. No. iv, Marr, 1769-1812.
Stanwoy F No. i. Bap, 1573-1636, 1642-1723; Bur, 1573-
1636, 1656-1723; Marr, 1573-1636, 1654-1723. Nos. ii. iii.
Bap, Bur, 1724-1812 ; Marr, 1723-1753. No. iv, Marr, 1754-
1812.
Stapleton P.O. Nos. i. ii. Bap, Bur, 1720-1812; Marr, 1720-
1753. Nos. iii. iv, Marr, 1754-1812.
Staunton R.No. i, 1653-1694 (irregular and defective). Nos.
ii.-iv, 1695-1812. No. v, Marr, 1754-1812.
Staverton F No. i. (scarcely legible), 1542-1668. No. ii, 1679-
1793, interrupted by No. iii. Bap, Bur, 1783-1812. No. iv.,
Marr, 1757-1812.
Stinchcombe P.O. No. i, 1582-1812. No. ii, Marr, 1754-1812.
StoJce-Gi/ord F Nos. i.-iv. Bap, 1588-1612, 1625-1649, 1652-
1656, 1660-1667, 1700-1721, 1738-1812 ; Bur, 1557-1559,
1573-1612, 1623-1649, 1652-1656, 1660-1667, 1700-1721, 1738-
i*iL Marr '' 1556 ' 15 58, 1574-1586, 1590-1612, 1623-1649,
652-1656, 1660-1667, 1700-1721, 1738-1812.
* See ante, vol. ii., p. 161.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 113
Stone C. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1594-1793; Bur., 1594-1792; Man.,
1594-1653, 1657-1753, interrupted by No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1671-
1682, and a transcription of a lost register of Marr., 1654-1656.
No. iv., Bap., 1794-1812; Bur., 1793-1812. No. v., Marr.,
1755-1812.
Stomlwuse V. Nos. i. ii., 1558-1694 (very imperfect). Nos. iii.-v.,
1695-1812. Nos. vi. vii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Stow-on-the-Wold JR. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1558-1630,
1633-1655. No. iii., Bap., 1680-1707. No. iv., Bap., Marr.,
1707-1748. No. v., Bur., 1708-1748. No. vi., Bap., Bur.,
1749-1785 ; Marr., 1749-1753. No. vii., Bap., Bur., 1786-1812.
Nos. viii. ix., Marr., 1754-1812.
Stratton R.No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1600-1640 (imperfect 1610-
1619). Nos. ii.-iv., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1641-1812.
Stroud P.O. -Nos. i.-vi., Bap., Bur., 1624-1812 ; Marr., 1624-1753.
Nos. vii. viii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Sudeley R One book of Marr., 1705-1812; all Bap., Bur., and
Marr. also, entered in the registers of Winchcombe*
Sutton-under-Brails R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1715-1812 ; Marr.,
1718-1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Swell, Lower, V. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1678-1741 (imperfect).
No. ii., Bap., 1757-1812; Bur., 1742-1785, 1793-1812; Marr.,
1758-1761. No. iii., Marr., 1762-1812.
Swell, Upper, R.Nos. i-iii., Bap., 1543-1646, 1656-1750, 1782-
1812; Bur., 1543-1646, 1656-1812; Marr., 1543-1646, 1656-
1750. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1806, 1809-1812.
Swindon R.Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1606-1812; Marr., 1606-1755.
No. iii, Marr., 1756-1812.
Taynton R Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1538-1812 ; Marr., 1538-1676,
1678-1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Tetlury F Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1631-1777; Marr., 1631-1753.
Nos. iii. iv., Bap., Bur., 1778-1812. Nos. v. vi., Marr., 1754-
1812.
Tewkesbury V. Nos. i.-xvi., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1559-1812.
Thornbury V. (with Falfield G. and Oldbury-on-Severn 0.) Nos.
i. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1538-1644, 1650-1679. Nos. iii. iv.,
Bap., Bur., 1684-1767; Marr., 1684-1753. No. v., Bap., Bur.,
1768-1812. Nos. vi.-ix., Marr., 1754-1812. Also a few loose
sheets of early date.
Tibberton R.~ Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1661-1812; Bur., 1659-1812;
Marr., 1680-1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Tidenham F. Bap., 1708-1754, 1768-1780, 1790-1812; Bur.,
1708-1711, 1715-1754, 1768-1780, 1790-1812; Marr., 1708-
1812.
Tirley F. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1653-1662, 1664-1812; Marr.,
1653-1662, 1664-1744. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1774. No. v.,
Banns Marr., 1774-1812.
* For further particulars see ante, vol. i., p. 113.
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114 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Toddinf/ton (with Stanley-Pontlarge and Prescot) V. Nos. i.-iii.,
1666-1670, 1672-1812. No. iv., Banns Man., 1754-1812.
Todenham #. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1721-1812; Marr., 1721-1754.
No. ii., Marr., 1755-1812.
Tormarton P. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1679-1812 ; Marr., 1679-
1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812. These include the entries
for West-Littleton P. C.
Tortworth P. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1591-1785; Marr., 1591-
1786. No. iii., Bap., Bur., 1786-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1787-
1809.
Tredington PG No. i., Bap., 1551-1585, 1611-1612, 1615, 1618-
1636, 1708-1760; Bur., 1541-1714, 1719-1721, 1736-1758;
Marr., 1641-1654, 16734725, 1744-1749 (defective). No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1761-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
TurMean F. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., 1572-1812; Bur., 1572-1720,
1728-1812; Marr., 1572-1744. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.*
Twining F. Bap., 1648-1812; Bur., 1656-1812; Marr., 1698-
1812.
Tytherington F. Nos. i.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1662-1812; Marr., 1662-
1753. No. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Uckington C. No. i., 1564-1667, interrupted by No. ii., 1631-
1636. Nos. iii-v., 1680-1812. No. vi., Marr., 1761-1812.
Uley R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1723-1812; Marr., 1723-1753.
Nos. iii.-v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Upleadon P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1538-1812; Marr., 1538-
1756. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1756-1789, 1791-1812.
Upton St. Leonards P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1646-1690,
1701-1741. Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur., 1742-1812; Marr., 1742-
1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Walton-Cardiff P.O. One book, Bap., 1677-1811 ; Marr., 1697-
1812. There is no burial-ground.
Wapley (with Codringtori) F. Nos. i. ii., Bap., 1662-1812. Nos.
iii. iv., Bur., 1662-1812. No. v., Marr., 1662-1749. Nos. vi vii.,
Marr., 1755-1812.
Washbourne P. (7. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1567-1728. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1779-1812. No. iii., Marr., 1757-1803.
Welford R Nos. i.-iii., Bap., 1561-1572, 1576-1812; Bur., 1561-
1812; Marr., 1561-1753. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Westbury-on-Severn F No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1538-1664,
interrupted by Nos. ii. iii., Bap., Bur., 1659-1812; Marr., 1659-
1752. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
Westbury-on-Trym P.O. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1559-1812 ; Marr.,
1559-1753. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812. No. v. (for Shire-
hampton C.\ Bap., Bur., Marr., 1727-1812.
Westerleigh P.G Nos. i. ii. 5 Bap., Bur., 1693-1812; Marr., 1694-
1753. Nos. iii.-v., Marr., 1754-1812.
* For further particulars see ante, vol. ii., p. 199.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 115
Westcote R. No. i., Bap., 1630-1733; Bur., 1630-1739; Marr.,
1630-1732 (defective). No. ii, Bap., Bur., 1738-1812. No. iii.,
Banns Marr., 1758-1812.
Weston-Birt 72. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1611-1650. Nos. ii. iii.,
Bap., Bur., 1654-1812; Marr., 1654-1753. No. iv., Marr.,
1754-1812.
Weston-on-Avon (with Milcot) V. One book, Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1685-1812, deficient in 1694, 1709, 1712, 1714, 1720.
Weston-sub-Edge R. Nos. i.-iii., Bap., Bur., 1654-1812; Marr.,
1654-1753. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1754-1812.
WhaddonP.O.Nos.i.u.,R&p. t Bur., 1674-1812; Marr., 1674-
1753. No. iii, Marr., 1754-1812.
Whitminster, or Wheatenhurst, P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1538-1666 (scarcely legible). Nos. ii.-iv., Bap., Bur., 1685-1812 ;
Marr., 1685-1753. No. v., Marr., 1755-1803. No. vi., Marr.,
1805-1812.
Whittington R. Nos. i. ii., Bap., Bur., 1539-1812; Marr., 1539-
1753. No. iii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Wick (with Abson) P.O. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1687-1806,
interrupted by No. ii., Marr., 1756-1812.
Wickwar 72. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1689-1777 ; Marr., 1689-1753.
No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1778-1812. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Widford 72. Bap., 1751-1812; Bur., 1754-1812; Marr., 1770-
1803.
Willersey R. Nos. i.-iiL, Bap., 1721-1812; Bur., 1727-1812.
No. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
Winchcombe (with Gretton) V. No. i., 1515-1543. Nos. ii. iii.,
1539-1709. No. iv., Bur. only, 1678-1699. Nos. v. vi., 1709-
1812. Nos. viL-ix., Marr., 1754-1812.*
Windrash V. No. i. (very much mutilated), Bap., Bur., Marr.,
1586-1732. No. ii., Bap., Bur., 1753-1812. No. iii., Marr.,
1755-1812.
Winson C. No. i., 1540-1812 (imperfect). No. ii., Marr., 1797-
1811.
Winston R. Bap., 1577-1812; Bur., 1577-1705, 1739-1812;
Marr., 1577-1812.
Winterbourne R. Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1600-1689, 1697-1812;
Marr., 1600-1689, 1697-1794. No. vi., Marr., 1794-1812.
Witcom.be, Great, R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1749-1812. No. ii.,
Marr., 1754-1812. The old register lost.
Withington R. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1609-1620, 1632-1655, inter-
rupted by No. ii, 1653-1681. Nos. iii. iv., Bap., 1682-1792 ;
Bur., 1678-1812 ; Marr., 1755-1794.
Woodchester R. Bap., Bur., 1563-1812; Marr., 1563-1809.
Woolastone 72. No. i., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1696-1736. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1737-1796 ; Marr., 1738-1756. No. iii., Bap., Bur.,
1797-1812. Nos. iv. v., Marr., 1757-1812.
* For further particulars see ante, vol. i. t p. 113.
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Woolstone RNo. i. (much torn and very defective), Bap., Bur.,
Marr 1563-1733. No. ii., Bap., Bur., Marr., 1734-1753. No.
iii., Bap., Bur., 1783-1812. No. iv., Marr., 1754-1810.
Wormington #. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1719-1774; Marr., 1719-1753.
No. ii., Bap., 1776-1812; Bur., 1775-1812. No. iii., Marr.,
1755-1812.
Wotton-under-Edge F. Nos. i.-v., Bap., Bur., 1571-1812 ; Marr.,
1571-1753. Nos. vi.-ix., Marr., 1754-1812.
Tanworth 0. No. i., Bap., Bur., 1695-1812 ; Marr., 1695-1753.
No. ii., Marr., 1754-1812.
Tate . No. i, Bap., Bur., 1660-1782; Marr., 1661-1753. No. ii.,
Bap., Bur., 1783-1812. Nos. iii. iv., Marr., 1754-1812.
EDITOB.
1080. ALLOTMENT OF PEWS IN HAMPNETT CHURCH, 1610.
On the last leaf of the earliest of the parish registers of Hampnett
this entry appears :
" September 16 th , 1610. Memorandum that we Thomas Eose &
Richard Sowtherne churchwardens sworne of and for the p'yshe of
Hampnet considering that there are three seats or pues in the higher
or outmost rome of the Church of Hampnet aforesaid not fully
determined or agreed to what person or persons house or houses
they of right belonge uppon the sixteenth day of this instant
month of September 1610 doe appointe & ordaine (as much as in
us is) that Anne the wyfe of M r Maskall p'son of Hampnet afore-
said and hers and Alyce the wyfe of Thomas Bycknell the farmer
& hers both which otherwyse want convenient seate rome shall
have the two highest & outermost seats or pues of the said three,
and Jane the wyfe of Edward Byshop & hers shall have the thirds
untill it shall be fullie determined & agreed that the said three
seats or pues ought to be otherwyse disposed off.
" Thomas Rose X his mark.
" Richard Sowtherne X his mark."
WILLIAM WIGGIN, M.A.
Hampnett Rectory, Northleach.
1081. CAPTAIN SAMUEL STURMY'S BEQUEST. In Collinson's
Somersetshire (1791), vol. iii., p. 151, mention is made of an
upright tablet against the north wall of the nave of Easton-in-
Gordano Church, containing this memorial : " Captain Samuel
Sturmy, of this parish of St. George's, made and gave unto the
same two dials at the Pill, and two more upon the church porch ;
also in the same parish hee write his Mathematical Treatise in
folio, mtitled, The Mariners' or Artises Magazen. One of these
books he freely gave to this parish, upon the condition (viz.) that
the booke should be chained too, and locked in the deosk where
now he is left (always), and the key to remaine in the hands of
v^apt. Richard Morgan, esq., or his assignes (ever) untill any
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 117
ingenious persons of the same parish, or Lye, or Portbury's parish;
or any other which desires the use thereof, which shall not be
denied them freely, provided they first give unto Capt. Morgan, or
his assignes, good sufficient security as he or them shall think fit
for three pounds sterling, that shall be forfeited and lost, if any
that be so ingauged shall cut, teare out, or blurr any paper, sheet,
figuers, or diagram, that is in the said book. And that 31. is to
put such another in its place; but on the contrary, if Capt.
Morgan or his assignes doth receive the booke in as good condicion
of the party obleiged as when he received it^ then shall the party
be free of his obligation untill the next time he desier to use it,
then to give the same, and likewise all other persons for ever. For
an acknowledgment of kindness unto the author, the minister
doth promise to preach a sermon always on his birth-day, being the
5th of Nov. (he was borne at Gloucester, anno 1633), and the
same day the mariners or ringers to give him a peale of bells at
the same parish. Witness our hands the 1st day of May, Anno
1669. Non nobis solum nati sumus.
Minister, George Willinton.
^11 T ( William Robson,
Churchwardens, j Eichard Wasbro ^,,
"This scientifick credential," as Collinson adds, "is closed by
some English lines, and a short Latin peroration, now nearly
obliterated. On the top of the tablet is Sturrny's picture."
The bequest is mentioned likewise in the Gentleman's Magazine
(1793), vol. Ixiii., p. 320; and Lowndes refers to The Mariner's
Magazine, London, 1669, folio, "with portrait of Sturmy, set. 36,
1669, by A. H(ertocks)." The work was revised and corrected by
John Colson, and republished in London, 1684, fol. ; and the
" scientifick credential " has lately appeared, under the heading of
"A Mariner's Bequest," in Book-Lore, no. i., p. 14, but, with strange
typographical inaccuracies. Thus, for " the pillars " read (as above)
" the Pill," which is the name of a place in the neighbourhood ;
and for "trace out" read "teare out." "Non nobis tolum nati
fumus" should of course be "Non nobis solum nati sumus;" and
the name of the second churchwarden was "Wasbrow," not
" Wascrow." Strict accuracy in such matters is essential. In the
present instance the blunders have been copied from the Gentleman's
Magazine ; and we have here good proof of the danger of trusting
too much to second-hand information. j Q.
1082. WHEAT SUPPLY IN 1796. I send the following ex-
tracts from an old magazine : " The bakers lately had a public
meeting at Gloucester, and unanimously resolved, first, that they
could not purchase wheat on account of the exorbitant price
demanded ; and second, that wheat is withheld from the markets
in consequence of hadgers and jobbers in corn making it a common
practice to call on the farmers at home, arid who, being mere
118 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
speculators, offer and give prices that have a pernicious effect on the
fair market. " (Monthly Magazine and British Register, Feb. ,1796.)
"Mr. Farmer Williams, of Pike Corner, Gloucestershire, from
motives of benevolence, lately sold to the poor in his neighbour-
hood thirty sacks of wheat, at 8/- per bushel." Ib., March, 1796.
H. C. W.
1083. THE WINE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. In the Eighth
Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (1881), appendix,
part iii., p. 32, in the account of the Earl of Ashburnham's
collection, there is as follows : " Miscellanea Topographica. A
duodecimo of 77 written pages, containing extracts from different
authors on the antiquities of various counties of England, Ireland,
and Scotland. The collector of these quotations observes that
the vine was cultivated to a considerable extent in England in the
twelfth century, that the wine made at Gloucestershire was con-
sidered the best, and that there was anciently a vineyard in
Smithfield, another near Hatton Garden, whence the present Vine-
street, and a third in St. Giles'-in-the-Fields."
In fact, the vineyards of Gloucestershire were famous. William
of Malrnesbury, writing in the 12th century, says, "No county in
England has so many or so good vineyards as this, either for fertility
or sweetness of the grape." Vineyards in this county are mentioned
in Domesday, particularly in the valleys about Chalford and Stone-
house. " That we grow no wine now," says Camden, "is rather to
be imputed to the sloth of the inhabitants than the indisposition
of the climate." In 43 Eclw. III., Thomas, Lord Berkeley, had a
vineyard at Berkeley, which was very productive, and which he
tended with great care. GLOUCESTRENSIS.
1084. JENNER FAMILY. The following brief sketch drawn up
by James Dallaway, the elder (many of whose MSS., dated 1770,
are in my possession), may throw some light on this family :
" The elder Jenner came from Marstou, Co. Wilts, of a sturdy
race of yeomen, into which family Smith of Bowldown married.
He had two sons, who married sisters. John Jenner, of Mays
Hill, senr., born 1678, d. 20 March, 1750 (buried at Mays Hill),
married 1st, Eleanor, dan. of William Bradley, of Shireborn, Co.
Glo. (She was born 1679, and died 14 March, 1715.) He
re-married Martha - , d. 29 June, 1736: both, I think, are
buried at Meysey Hampton. Richard Jenner was of Barrington,
Co. Camb. (!), b. 1702, d. 6 Feb., 1744, and buried at Barrington.
He married Elizabeth Bradley, d. 9 March, 1773, buried at Hampton.
John and Eleanor (Bradley) Jenner had issue, John Jenner, James
(b. 24 June, 1710, d. 12 Feb., 1775), Frances (ux. Lyne),
homas (b. 1707, d. 12 July, 1740, of smallpox), Jane, William,
Humphrey, who also died of the same disease, and (as the
dates are not given) apparently young. Richard and Elizabeth
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(Bradley) Jenner had issue, William Jenner (who married E. Adis),
Richard, Mary, Elizabeth (ux. E. Shipway), Susanna (died of
smallpox, and buried at St. James', Bristol), and Ann (ux. 29 May,
1760, at Minchinhampton, Samuel Davis)."
The two Bradleys were sisters of the celebrated Rev. Dr. James
Bradley (1692-1762), astronomer royal, and their youngest sister,
Rebecca Bradley (b. 1700, m. 1720^ d. 1765), became the wife of
John Dallaway, of Brimscomb, the grandfather of the "pedantic
and satirical " Rev. James Dallaway, Earl Marshal's secretary, etc.,
the brother of my maternal grandmother.
William Jenner, of North Marston, Wilts, was a freeholder in
1637. The name of Jenner, of South Cerney, occurs in Phillipps'
Pedes Finium, 10 Will. III., Trin. Term (1699). Q g> B Q.
1085. ISAAC JAMES, BOOKSELLEE, ETC. This Isaac James,
" Bookseller, Tea-Dealer, Glover, and Undertaker, at the Circulating
Library, No. 10, Wine-Street, Bristol," must have been a character.
He took good care to sound his own praises, and issued a poetical
broadside, the first six lines of which run thus :
" Ladies and Gentlemen, Pray, stop,
And take a look at James's Shop,
In Wine-street plac'd, at Number Ten :
Those who come once will come again.
I've various articles to sell,
And some, no doubt, will suit you well."
He would appear to have combined in his own person several
branches of trade, and nevertheless to have had time for writing.
I possess a 12mo volume of which he was the author, entitled
Providence Displayed: or, The Remarkable Adventures of Alexander
Selkirk, etc., Bristol, 1800. BRISTOLIENSIS.
1086. ANCIENT VESTMENTS AND CHURCH EMBROIDERIES.
I am endeavouring to make out a list of all the ancient vestments
and other church embroideries at present to be found in the
churches of our county, with a view to printing a description of
them in the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire
Archaeological Society ; and I shall feel much obliged for any infor-
mation from your readers upon the subject.
MARY E. BAGNALL-OAKELEY.
Newland, Coleford.
1087. MINCHINHAMPTON QUERIES. I shall be glad if any
of your correspondents can throw light upon the following queries
relating to the parish of Minchinhampton :
1. Is there any account extant of the storm of 1602, by which
the spire of the church is said to have been blown down ?
2. Who was Sir John de la Mere who built the south transept,
and .where can any account of him be found ?
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3. What is the history of St. Chloe school, and what the
etymology of the name ? G. T. D.
Wood Chester, Stroud.
1088. WILLIAM DALLAWAY, ESQ.. HIGH SHERIFF OF GLOUCES-
TERSHIRE, 1766. On the altar tomb over the remains of the above-
named at Minchinhampton there was a large impaled brass shield
it was Dallaway impaling Hopton in 12 quarterings ; but it has
disappeared. Can any one tell me where it is 1 Some one probably
has it ; and he might feel disposed to restore it to its proper place.
VIATOR.
1089. THE TOWER OF SWINDON CHURCH, NEAR CHELTENHAM.
I have read in a local directory that Swindon Church has the
only octagonal tower in England. Whether that be so or not, it is
rarely one sees a tower of the kind. jj Q -yy
Our correspondent may be glad to know that the fine parish
church of South Petherton, Somerset, furnishes a good specimen of
an octagonal tower. EDITOR.
1090. NORWOOD FAMILY, OF LECKHAMPTON. Can you give
me a rough sketch of the Norwood family, of Leckhampton ? or
rather, of the descendants of Henry Norwood, who married
Elizabeth Rodney, relict of Payne Fisher and Edward Kirton ?
FREDERICK BROWN.
Fern Bank, Beckenham, Kent.
1091. SAINTBURY CROSS. Can you give me any information
regarding the old cross in the village of Saintbury ? H C W
In Pooley's Notes on the Old Crosses of Gloucestershire (1868),
p. 20, these particulars are found : " A village cross, thus finished
[as in the illustration there given] about twenty years ago, at
which time the dial and Maltese cross were added. Previously a
stone pineapple, painted, ornamented the top. The shaft is a
tapering octagon lift. 2in. in height, having broaches at the base;
the socket is octagonal, and has its upper edge canted, the face
being interrupted by small double guttse at the angles and on each
side. The four steps measure respectively 9ft. Tin., 7ft. 3in., and
3ft. 8m. square. This is supposed to have been the resting-place
for the funeral procession before it started up the hill to the church.
Lower features, about fifteenth century."
The reader who wishes for information regarding the old crosses
scattered throughout the county, is referred to the above-named
volume ; but, as Mr. Pooley has stated in his preface, except in the
high crosses, the preaching cross at Iron Acton, and the crosses of
slay, Aylburton, Lydney, and Clearwell, there is little in their
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 121
architecture to call for remark. The plan generally is so simple,
and the features so minute, that no room is left for display. In
twe instances, however namely, those of Didmarton and Westcote
figures have been introduced into the base with good effect.
EDITOR.
1092. EMYLEY, OR EMLYN, FAMILY. This family held the
manor of Helmedon, co. Northampton, temp. Elizabeth. Their head
married the dau. of the bishop of Bath and Wells (circa 1579?);
and subsequently a branch settled in Somerset. Of this western
branch I have seen two seals (at least over two hundred years old) ;
one a large oval, possibly an ecclesiastic's, as the family device (a
savage) is not placed on a shield (John de Emmele was a clerk of
St. Peter's, Stene, in 1349, and John Emley was a prebendary of
St. Mary's, Nassington, co. Northampton, in 1502 : see Bridge's
Northamptonshire, i. 199 ; ii. 469) ; the other an ordinary-sized
heraldic seal, the savage being placed on a shield. The blazon is as
follows : Argent, on a mount vert, a savage holding his club over
his sinister shoulder, his dexter arm akimbo, ppr.
(1) In the year 1648, June 19, John Emlyn bought several
parcels of land, part of the manor of Bath and Wells, co. Somerset,
paying .144 lls. 6d. Collectanea Topog. et GeneaL, vol. i., p. 122.
(2) June 29, 1663, died Sarah, wife of John Emley, arid was
buried at Badminton Church, co. Gloucester. Bigland's Gloucester-
shire, vol. i., p. 123.
(3) Maximilian Emyley, of Helmedon, Esq., had a son John,
who was baptized on the 17th of July, 1613, but of whom nothing
further is stated in the pedigree of the Helmedon family given in
Baker's Northamptonshire, p. 629.
At what time, and in what place, did this branch of the Emyleys
or Emlyns settle in the West of England ? Do paragraphs 1, 2,
and 3 refer to the same John ? If so, was he not the ancestor of
this western branch 1
The arms of the Helmedon family, as given by Burke, are : Sable
a savage with his club argent. Is the difference between this coat
and that in the seal attributable to the engraver's negligence, or to
an intentional purpose to distinguish the branch from the stock ?
P. S. P. CONNER.
126, South Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1093. TRANSMISSION OF EREEMEN'S EIGHTS AT BRISTOL.
The Times, Feb. 6, 1885, reviewing Letters of Jane Austen, edited,
with an introduction and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord
Brabourne (Eichard Bentley and Son, 1884), says: "In 1808,
Jane Austen writes as follows to Cassandra : * We have got the
second volume of Espriella's Letters, and I read it aloud by candle-
light. The man describes well, but is horribly anti-English; he
deserves to be the foreigner he assumes.' This book was one of
122 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Souther's early works, and it is quite as meritorious as others that
proceeded from his pen. When Jane Austen denounces it as anti-
English she may have had in mind the passages in which English
elections are described, and where it is told that at Bristol the
daughter of a freeman transmits the right to vote to her husband,
thatthe custom there was for a freeman's daughter to go through
the ceremony of marriage, and then, after leaving church, for the
pair to shake hands over a grave and repeat the words c death us
do part,' after which the nominal husband went off to vote, while
the freeman's daughter went to be married again, repeating the
operation during the days the poll was open, yet remaining a
maiden at its close."* Was this really the practice, and what are
the authorities on the subject? H. C. W.
1094. " SHIP-SHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION." Mr. Terry sent
the following communication under the above heading to Notes and-
Queries (6 th S. xi. 26) : This phrase, which is new to me, and
probably also to many of your readers, seems worth being intro-
duced to their notice. The special correspondent of the Daily
News, writing about the " great mass meeting at Bristol," on
Saturday, Oct. 18, 1S84, remarks, in the issue of that paper for
Oct. 20 : " There is a well-understood phrase in this part of the
West, * Ship-shape and Bristol fashion.' It signifies respectability,
steadiness, stolidity, and, some would perhaps say, a tendency to
the slowness that is based upon deliberation. The route, of little
less than three miles, was lined on either side by unbroken lines of
people Yet there was little shouting or cheering
en route I remarked on the absence of the
running roar of applause, which has been my experience of other
demonstrations in different parts of the country, but the gentleman
riding with me explained that this was their way ' Ship-shape
and Bristol fashion.' "
In the same volume, p. 118, the following reply appeared:
This phrase is used by Americans. It occurs in Dana's Two Tears
before the Mast, ch. xx. : " They said her decks were as white as
snow holystoned every morning, like a man-of-war's ; everything
on board ' ship-shape and Bristol fashion.' " J G
1095. ROBERT RAIKES, OF NORTHAMPTON. Robert Raikes
(father of the philanthropist) was one of the original proprietors of
the Northampton Mercury (estab. 1720), being both before and
after that year a patent medicine vendor in Northampton. What
is known of his connection with the above-named newspaper, which
was started two or three years before the Gloucester Journal ?
M. C. B.
This reminds one of an inscription which is said to be in the churchyard of Brigmerston,
" Thrice was she married :
Then she died Alas ! "
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 123
1096. SIR WILLIAM HAMPTON. This old Gloucestershire
worthy, who, as Atkyns mentions, became " eminent for his strict
justice in punishing strumpets and vagabonds," was a native of the
parish of Miuchinhampton, and became sheriff of London in 1462,
and mayor in 1472. I shall be glad to be referred to any sources
of information respecting him.
Members of the family were settled in Minchinhampton at an
early date. In 1314, 7 Edw. II., John de Hampton was sheriff of
Gloucestershire, and was continued in office for four years. As
mentioned by Bigland, there is a brass plate in the north cross aisle
of Minchinhampton Church with this inscription : " Of your
Charite pray for the Soules of John Hampton Gentleman Elyn his
Wife, and all their Children, speciallie for the Soule of Dame Alice
Hampton his Daughter whiche was right beneficiall to this Church
and Parish. Which John decessed in the Yere of o'r Lord
MCCCCCLYI, on whose Soules Jim have M'cy. Amen." j G
1097. HUMPHREY SMITH, ESQ. The undersigned will be glad
to be informed whether there was any connection between
Humphrey Smith, Esq., of Headington Hill and Kidlington,
Oxfordshire, who was high-sheriff for that county in 1704, and a
Gloucestershire family of the same name ; and if there was, any
particulars of the connection will oblige. G T D
Woodchester, Stroud.
1O98. STANDFAST'S "CORDIAL COMFORTS" AND ITS AUTHOR.
I have a copy of a small book entitled A Little Handful of Cordial
Comforts : scattered throughout several Answers to Sixteen Questions
and Objections following, "by Richard Standfast, M.A., Rector of
Christ-Church in Bristol, and Chaplain in Ordinary to King
Charles II." (6th ed., Bristol, 1764, 18mo, pp. 94). I shall be
glad to have particulars of Mr. Standfast, or to be told where to
find them. In what year was the above-named work first published?
It was reprinted in Bristol in 1764, " for Mr. Standfast Smith,
Apothecary, Great Grandson of the Author." Has any edition
since appeared 1 J G
In Christ Church, Bristol, on the north wall, and close to the
door of the vestry, there is an old brass (cleaned and re-erected in
1884), with this inscription :
" Neare this place lieth the body of M r Richard Standfast, |
Master of Arts, of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, and Chaplaine |
in Ordinary to King Charles the First, who for his loyalty | to y e
King and steadfastnesse in the Established Religion, suf fered four-
teene yeares sequestration. He returned to his | place in Bristol,
at the restauration of King Charles the | Second, was then made
Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Bristol, and for twenty
yeares and better (notwithstand | ing his blindriesse) performed the
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offices of the Church ex | actly, and discharged the office of an
able, orthodox, and diligent preacher. He was Rector of Christ
Church up | wards of 51 yeares, and dyed August | y e 24, in y e
78 th yeare of his age, and in y e yeare | of our Lord MDCLXXXIV. |
He shall live againe. These following verses were compos | ed
by himselfe to be put upon his monu ment, and were taken from
his owne | mouth two dayes before his death :
" lacob was at Bethel found,
And soe may we, though underground ;
With lacob there did God indent
To be w th him where 'ere he went,
And to bring him back againe.
Nor was that promise made in vaine :
Upon w ch words we rest in confidence
That he w ch found him there will fetch us hence ;
Nor without cause are we perswaded thus,
For where God spake w th him he spake with us."
Barrett, in his History of Bristol (1789), p. 469, has written thus :
" Amongst the memorials of the dead that deserve our notice is
a very singular little mural monument in the chancel [of Christ
Church]. It is inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Standfast, is a plain
white marble table, with an hour-glass in a kind of pediment on
the top, and a death's head below it." It is not so now (was it at
any time 1), but simply a brass plate, inscribed as above.
Standfast was sequestrated, as already mentioned, for his
adherence to the king in the civil war, and is said to have suffered
much for his loyalty ; but in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy his
troubles have not been recorded. At one time he escaped from his
pursuers at Thornbury by putting on a thatcher's dress, and
pretending to be busily engaged in mending the roof of a house.
His benefice was given to a tailor, named Evans, and he himself in
March, 1645-6, was imprisoned in Bristol Castle "for his dis-
affection to the Parliament of England and their proceedings, which
in his printing, praying, and preaching he had expressed. He was,
as Barrett states, " so noted and well-received a preacher in this
city [of Bristol] that he was appointed by the mayor and corpora-
tion (of which body some of his ancestors had been*) to preach
the public lectures at several churches, gift-sermons appointed by
benefactors to the city." During his sequestration he was so
beloved by the vestry of Christ Church, that they contributed to
his support by an annual payment, as appears from a letter in the
handwriting of Dean Towgood, in which he complains of his
parishioners of St. Nicholas not acting as generously to him as the
others had acted to Standfast.
On the wall in the north aisle of the neighbouring church of
St. Mary-le-Port there is a slab with this inscription, as recorded in
Pryces History of Bristol, (1861), p. 230 :
* Walter Standfast was sheriff in 1577, and mayor in 1591.
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" To the memory of Thomas Smith, Apothecary, | of this Parish,
son of Bernard Smith, Apothecary, twice Mayor of Taunton, in
the County of | Somerset, | and of Katherine, his wife, daughter of
Nicholas Standfast, Apothecary, and grand | daughter to Richard
Standfast, A.M., Chaplain | in Ordinary to His Most Sacred Majesty |
King Charles 1 st , who on account of | his inviolable loyalty to
the King, and firm | attachment to the Establish'd Church, was |
for 14 years depriv'd of the rectory of Christ Church in this city,
whereof he was Incumbent | upwards of 51 years. Eut on the
restoration of | the King restor'd to his benefice, and moreover
promoted to the dignity of a Prebendary of the Collegiate Church
of this city, wherein | notwithstanding a totall privation of his |
sight he continued to discharge the | respective duties of each
province as an able, diligent, and orthodox divine. Tho 8 Smith
departed this life 8 th Oct r , 1730. | Katherine, his wife, 15 th April,
1743."
Richard Standfast was author of A Little Handful of Cordial
Comforts, 4th ed., 1665 ; and of A Caveat against Seducers, 1664.
These were republished in 1684, with The Blind Maris Meditations,
and a Dialogue between a Blind-Man and Death, which had
appeared in 1665. He wrote likewise Queries concerning the
Receiving of the Sacrament, " printed for Charles Allen, Bookseller
in Bristol," 1680. I do not know the date of the first edition of
any of his works ; and I am not aware of any later than the 6th
(mentioned by your correspondent), Bristol, 1764.
In The Blind Marts Meditations there are several pieces of
poetry, of which these lines will serve as a specimen :
" Sin, sin,
With my life did begin,
And I have lived therein
All my daies heretofore !
Sins of heart, head, hand, and tongue,
Through my life all along,
Like a thread have they run,
Binding me to be undone ;
Many and great are they grown,
And if justice scan the score,
I must perish evermore." B. H. B.
1O99. HOUR-GLASSES IN CHURCHES. (Reply to No. 761.)
The bracket of the preacher's glass is still to be seen in the ancient
church of St. Giles, Maisemore, near Gloucester. It was carefully
preserved when the church was restored about twelve years ago.
I believe also that the bracket from the old church at Minsterworth
was transferred to the present church, which was consecrated some
twelve years ago ; but I am not quite certain, not having been in
the church for several years. J AS> H> BILLETT.
Chronicle Office, Gloucester.
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11OO. HENRY SAMPSON, 1465. (Reply to No. 496.) As
Mr. Cecil T. Davis has mentioned in his Monumental Brasses of
Worcestershire (1883), no. vii., Henry Sampson died 17 Nov.,
1482, and was buried in the church of Tredington, of which he
had been rector. There is a brass on the chancel floor 2ft. 9in. by
1ft. 8 Jin. ; and as was the custom of the clergy in pre-Eeformation
times, Sampson is represented wearing a tonsure and clean shaven.
He is vested in cassock, surplice, almuce, covering his shoulders
a fur tippet with ermine tails sewn round the lower edge ; he is
kneeling and turned to the right ; and there is a Latin inscription,
which may be rendered thus in English : " Here lies Master
Henry Sampson, formerly rector of this church, who died the 17th
November, A.D. 1482. To whose soul may God be merciful. Amen."
Mr. Davis acknowledges his obligations to the Rev. . Thomas P.
Wadley, rector of Naunton Beauchamp, for the following par-
ticulars : It is most probable that Henry Sampson, rector of
Tredington, is identical with Henry Sampson, dean of the collegiate
church of Westbury-on-Trym, though, unfortunately, he does not
speak for himself, having died intestate as it would appear. We
see him on his brass wearing the almuce of a canon. Now, on the
3rd June, 1469, Henry Sampson resigned the deanery of Westbury
in favour of William Canynges, or Canning, who was then no
longer an eminent merchant of Bristol, but a priest, and in possession
of a canonry in the collegiate church of Westbury, and the pre-
bend of Godrynghill, otherwise called Wodeford, Trekenhill, or
Bryn, in the same church; which preferment Canynges then
vacated and Sampson accepted. It seems that in those days the
deanery of Westbury might be held together with a parochial
benefice. Henry Sampson appears to have been much esteemed by
John Carpenter, bishop of Worcester. The bishop was installed
in the episcopal seat of his cathedral church on the 24th December,
1444, by Richard Ewen and Henry Sampson, Masters of Arts. In
1458, January 20th, Master Henry Sampson, Master in the Faculty
of Arts, was collated to the deanery of Westbury. At one time
Henry Sampson held a lease of the manor of Tredington under the
bishop of Worcester. B H B
11O1. TURNPIKE TOLLS IN 1847. The Bristol Journal of
November 13, 1847, has copied the following paragraph from a
contemporary, the Commercial Traveller:
" TURNPIKE TOLLS IN WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The tolls are
infamous in many parts of this county, the western part
more particularly. From Tetbury to Dursley, 9 miles, it is Is. 6d.
[for a trap and one horse] ; from Dursley to Minchinhampton, 10
miles,^ 2s., yet the Horsley hill, with its ruts and gutters across the
road, is very dangerous, and would disgrace a parish road ; from
Dursley to Stroud, 12 miles, 2s. 6d. The roads are in wretched
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order. The Minchinhampton. hill is in a shameful state. West
Gloucestershire may boast of having the highest tolls and worst
roads in England." j j^
1102. THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. In April, 1846, at a
time when moustaches were regarded in this country as infallible
evidence that their wearer was either a horse-soldier or a foreigner,
the Duke of Beaufort (father of the present duke) issued orders
that the hirsute ornament should be worn by all the members of
the Gloucestershire regiment of Yeomanry, In the Bristol Journal
of the 2nd May the following paragraph appeared :
" At the Chancellor's visitation on Saturday last were several
churchwardens whose moustachied faces caused several persons to
inquire the reason of jolly-looking farmers having such appendages.
The reply was, that they were members of the Gloucestershire
Yeomanry. As it will be desirable to have uniformity in this
embellishment for the review, those parties whom nature cannot
supply must have recourse to art, and we would advise all such to
be particular in procuring moustachios that will adhere ; as at the
Fancy Ball last week one or two soidisant foreigners had to seek
for such ornaments on the floor."
The subject appears to have caused some amusement ; for in the
same paper of the 16th May appeared at full length "The Lament
of the Beardless Yeoman, K.G.Y.C.," of which the following is the
opening stanza :
" The Duke's late orders thus began :
1 Ye troopers, fat and brave,
England expects that every man
This day will cease to shave.'" j j^
11O3. AN INSCRIPTION IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MART
REDCLIFFE. The following is on a flatstone in the churchyard, and
is, I think, rather curious : " Sacred to the memory of W m Hudson,
second son of James and Louisa Sherborne, and fourth Cousin to
the late Israel James Hudson, Esq r , of Bristol, who died June the
22 ud , 1836 [?],.aged 8 years and 4 months." VIATOR.
11O4. THE" POPULATION OF TETBURY, 1737. According to an
old MS. document in which the names of the householders, and
the number and religious profession of all in each house, are set
forth, the population of Tetbury in the year 1737, occupying 566
houses, was as follows :
Masters and mistresses. 970 ; children, 909 ; servants, 212 ;
lodgers, 125. Total, 2,216.
Members of the Church, 1,918; Presbyterians, 235; Baptists,
38 ; Quakers, 24 ; and one whose religion is not stated. Total,
2,216.
128 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
These figures, it may be well to note, do not tally with what the
late Mr. Lee (apparently with reference to the same return) has
given in his History of Tetbury (1857), p. 52. A H p
11 05. COMMISSION REGARDING TREASURE FOUND IN CAMPDEN,
17 EDW. III. Perhaps you may deem it of sufficient interest to
record as one of your notes, that the Patent Rolls, 17 Edw. III. (1st
patent A 2 tergo), describe a commission to John de Greete and
John de Chering worth to " make inquisition by jury of the county
of Gloucester as to what malefactors and disturbers of the peace
took and carried away no small treasure in Campden hidden under
the land, and belonging to the King by reason of his royal dignity,
and to whose hands it had come." The commission is dated 28
January, 17 Edw. III. I do not find recorded any result of the
said commission, or any description of the treasure. It may have
been a hoard hidden at the time of the Saxon invasion, as Roman
and British coins are not unfrequently found in the neighbourhood.
S."E: BARTLEET.
Brockworth Vicarage, Gloucester.
HO6. WILLIAM VICK'S BEQUEST TO MINOHINHAMPTON, 1754.
In this year William Vick, Gent., of Bristol [see ante, vol. ii.,
p. 417], bequeathed .300, the interest to be disposed of annually,
by the minister and churchwardens of Minchinhampton, on the
1 5th of November, for ever, as follows : for prayers and a sermon,
XI Is. Od. ; to the clerk, 5s.; to the sexton, 2s. 6d. ; to the ringers,
10s. ; 1 Is. Od. to be spent by the vestry at the Talbot, whilst a
public liouse ; and 5s. more to the clerk, for distributing the
remainder in bread at the houses of such persons as shall be deemed
proper objects of charity, preference being always given to the aged
and sober. This donation, as it is expressed in the will, is to com-
memorate our happy deliverer King William, and the security of
our civil and religious rights by the Revolution. Q. ^ ^r
11O7. STATE OF THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER IN 1564.
Amongst the manuscripts belonging to the Marquis of Salisbury,
and preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, there is a letter of
two pages from Richard Cheyney, B.D., Bishop of Gloucester, on
the state of his diocese; it is dated 20th November, 1564, and is
-addressed to the Privy Council. In the Calendar issued by the
Historical Manuscripts Commission (1883), pt. i., p. 311, there is
this summary of its contents : " Has taken into consideration the
state of his diocese with respect to the observance of the established
religion therein, as requested in their Lordships' letters of the 17th
ult., and thanks God that there are no justices nor men placed in
authority within his diocese who are ' eyther by themselves dis-
ordered or meynteyners of disordre in others.' Much unquietness
and discredit to Her Majesty's godly and honourable proceedings is,
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however, caused by some who have little or no regard for the
established order of ecclesiastical policy. * Ther is also a preacher,
a man of great zeale and competent learninge, whom many of the
country follow from place to place, and receave the communyon at
his hands far from theire owne parisshes.' Hears also by men of
good credit that he is 'too popular in his sayengs;' the redress
whereof he must leave to their Lordships' wisdom. These things,
however, he can ' rather lament than amend,' and their Lordships
will be better able to devise measures for the reform thereof than
he is to advise them. Trusts their Lordships will take in good part
his unskilfulness and want of experience in such matters."
GLOUCESTRENSIS.
1108. THE STUDY OP LOCAL HISTORY. It was well remarked
not long since in one of our Gloucester newspapers, that the manner
of studying English history has undergone a considerable change
within the last few years. The average schoolboy used to com-
mence his history at the Norman Conquest, and when he had
learned the dates of the accession and death of the successive
kings, the principal battles, and a few of the chief events of each
reign, he was considered proficient in the subject, and his history
book was either bequeathed to his younger brother or sold at some
second-hand bookshop. That he himself would ever venture to
open such a book in after-years was extremely improbable. Nor is
this to be wondered at when we remember that the practice of
writing each reign separately confined the author to the description
of a few events, principally battles, and excluded altogether the
gradual progress of the English people. The study of the period
previous to the Conquest was confined to a life of Alfred, including
always the story of the cakes, a false idea of the Heptarchy, the
incident of Canute and the waves, and the oath of Harold. That
this period had any real bearing on modern politics seemed absurd.
Few inhabitants of Gloucester could, until recently, have told
whether their city had belonged to the kingdom of Mercia or
Wessex ; and although possibly many might have read that
Athelstane died at Gloucester, they could not have told when he
lived, for what he was famous, or how he came to be at Gloucester
at the time of his death. A change, however, has come. The
modern schoolboy learns history in a more useful and .at the same
time more pleasant fashion. A continuous narrative has superseded
the disjointed division into reigns, an elaborate description of
battles has almost entirely given place to a minute survey of
the progress of our mercantile influence, while the effect of literature
upon the nation, once banished to a short supplementary chapter,
is now brought prominently forward. Proper weight, too, is now
given to the Saxon period. "Thanks to Mr. Freeman, and even
more to the late Mr. Green, the reading of this period has been
made as interesting as it formerly was dry. Nor is the study of
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history confined to books. Dean Stanley in Westminster
Abbey, and Canon Westcott at Peterborough, have succeeded in
interesting many in the historical facts with which these buildings
are associated. Our own city has also arisen to duty in this respect.
By the efforts of the Cathedral Society our citizens have an oppor-
tunity of becoming acquainted in a pleasant way with the history
which the Cathedral illustrates. History learned in this way
becomes not merely interesting but fascinating; and we would
point out to Gloucester teachers the favourable opportunities
presented to them by the above-named society of embracing such a
method. Possibly when the history of the Cathedral has been
made familiar, that society or some other will turn its attention to
the antiquity of St. Mary de Lode Church, the destruction of old
St. Catherine's, the incidents associated with our old Cross,
and other subjects illustrating the intimate connection of our city
with the history of the English nation. j Q.
1109. CONTENTIONS BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF GLOUCESTER
AND THE MONKS OF ST. PETER'S ABBEY. The muniments of
Gloucester Cathedral contain references to the early history of
the city which are full of interest, but which have been over-
looked by our historians. The events which I am about to relate
are recorded in the MS. Eegister of John Newton, who was abbot
of St. Peter's, 1510-1514. They may also be found in the intro-
duction to the third volume of the History and Chartulary of the
Monastery of St. Peter, Gloucester, published under the direction
of the Master of the Eolls.
On Monday in Whitsun-week in the 5th year of Henry VIII.,
that is to say, on May 16th, 1513, some burgesses of Gloucester,
armed with swords, bucklers, and other weapons, to the number of
thirty persons and above, proceeded to a certain ground of the
abbot, probably that part of Oxlease lying on the south of the Over
causeway, which was known as Prestham and Noonham, and with
force and riot drove out the abbot's cattle which were pasturing
there. On Wednesday, the 18th, sixty of the burgesses, amongst
whom were Robert Webb, John Whitingham, Lewys Barbour,
Robart Hyntone, William Wythur, William Edwardes, Harry
Whytingham, Richard Tumour, sadler, Thomas Mathew, tailor, and
Thomas Cornishe, entered the house of John Barbour, the abbot's
servant, by the windows as well as the doors, pulled down and
broke in pieces his barber's basins, and threw away his wax and
tapers. Robert Colier, another servant of the abbot, happened to
be in Barbour's shop, and, I suppose, expostulated with the
rioters, for they attacked him with swords, bucklers, bills, and
staves, and sorely wounded and evil entreated him, " contrary to
the king's peace." On Thursday, the 19th, the burgesses, with the
approval and assistance of the mayor, Thomas Taylowe, to the
number of one hundred and forty, proceeded with staves, knives,
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shovels, " spitils," and mattocks, to the abbot's pasture, outside the
Westgate, and there dug a trench eight feet wide, ten feet deep,
and a hundred perches long, "going furth in the morning and
comyng home at nyght with taburs and hornys blowing and piping,
and also sett barels of ale at the High Crosse, there drinking and
eting with grete shoutes and cryes in maner of tryumphe, and so
contynued till the Fryday nyght then next foloing." On the same
Thursday, about midnight, Robart Webb, Leonard Osburne, Thomas
Cornishe, Lewys Barbour, John Whytingham, Robart Hynton,
William Patrike, and John Yorke, with many others, armed with
"jackes, salettes, bowes and arowes, swordes, and bucklers in
maner of warr arraed," attacked Richard Frenshe, one of the abbot's
servants, " then being sworne in the kinge's wache." and so sorely
wounded him that his life was for a long time despaired of.
Such was the charge laid against the mayor and burgesses by the
abbot before the king and his council.
On June 9th following, the king, by a mandate signed at
Greenwich under his privy seal, reprimanded the mayor, aldermen,
and sheriffs of Gloucester for permitting these riots, and suffering
the rioters to go unpunished, and commanded them to try and
imprison the offenders. A certificate of the same was to be
forwarded to the Court of Chancery by the 20th of the month.
With regard to the controversy between the burgesses and the
abbot touching common rights, the king ordered that ancient
customs should be observed ; and that if any fresh difficulties
arose, the parties should appear in the Star Chamber at Westminster
before the chancellor of England.
This mandate was delivered to the mayor on the 17th of June.
On the following day, he and certain of the burgesses proceeded to
the abbot's pasture, drove away three horses belonging to the abbey
tenants of Maysmore, and impounded them for a day and a night.
On the 19th the mayor and certain burgesses went to the same
pasture, and drove away the sheep of the abbey tenants, impounding
them, and keeping them without food for thirty-one hours. On
the 21st the mayor and burgesses went to the same common pasture,
and impounded one of the abbot's oxen for two days and a night.
On July llth they drove out all the sheep they found there and
in an adjoining field. On the 14th they took possession of two
mare colts they found there, and marked them as strayers out of
the hundred of Dudstone. On the 16th certain of the burgesses
drove horses and cows into the abbot's pasture, adjoining St. Bar-
tholomew's hospital, called Archdeacon's-mede, which at the time
was standing full of cocks of hay, ready to be carried. Thereupon
the abbot's hayward drove them towards the Westgate, with a view
to turning them out on the common land beyond the bridge, but
John Dodde, a burgess, shut the gate against him and threatened
his life. Then the hayward drove the horses and cattle through
the town to the Barton bridge, which I suppose spanned the
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Twyver, with a view to driving them into the abbot's pasture, or
pynfold' called King's Barton, beyond the boundaries of the town ;
but Richard Metcalf, a burgess, stood on the bridge and forbad
their passage. And on the night following, the burgesses drove
into Archdeacon's-mede twenty horses and more, and kept them
there by force among the hay, the king's judges being present to
witness the act.
Notwithstanding this disregard of the king's mandate, the abbot
does not seem to have taken further proceedings at .law against the
mayor and burgesses. Probably he was aware that a suit in the
Star Chamber would ruin him as well as his opponents. It was
therefore arranged between him and the burgesses that Bichard,
abbot of Winchcomb, and Edmund, prior of Llanthony, should
act as arbitrators. Their award was given at Llanthony Priory
on the 27th of October, 1515, and was signed by the abbot, by
Thomas Taylowe, mayor, and by William Cole, John Coke,
William Hanshawe, John Hatton, Thomas Hertland, William
Goldsmith, and Ralph Sankey, aldermen, as binding for the future
on all parties. It referred to the claims of the burgesses of
common pasture in " Oxlesowe, oderwise Noonham, in Presham,
Pullemede, Comynham, Meanham, and Archedecons lesowe,"
belonging to St. Peter's Abbey, and ordered that the ditch, made
by the mayor and burgesses, should be filled in before the feast of
St. Andrew, November 30th. The burgesses were to enjoy all
their ancient rights of common pasture, and the abbot's kitchener
and other officers were under no circumstances to overcrowd the
meadows with beasts, to the injury or inconvenience of the burgesses.
I am afraid that disputes between the Benedictine monks, with
the powerful abbot at their head, and the burgesses of Gloucester,
were by no means uncommon occurrences. It was but natural that
there should be disputes where two rival and independent powers
existed in the same town. The monks, by a series of grants from
their sovereigns, and from the earls of Gloucester and Hereford, had
obtained rights within the jurisdiction of the mayor and aldermen
of Gloucester, that were unfair to the inhabitants.
As early as 1022, in the very year that Canute substituted
regular Benedictine monks for secular canons in the abbey of
St. Peter, there was a riot, in which the followers of Wolphin le Rue,
portreve of Gloucester and a powerful nobleman, attacked and
murdered seven of the new-comers. This murder was only atoned
for by the pilgrimage of Wolphin to Rome, and the grant of that
nobleman's manors of Churcham and Highnam to the abbey, for
the perpetual maintenance of seven monks.
In 1100-1112 Henry 1 made a grant to St. Peter's of the
royal manor of Maysmore, with all rights of wood, common, and
fisheries, for the good of the souls of his father and mother, his
brother William, himself, and his queen Matilda. In 1154 Roger,
Earl of Hereford, and his brother Walter, with the assent of their
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brother Henry, restored to Hammeline, abbot of St. Peter's, the
meadow called Nuneham, of which they had unjustly deprived the
monks, and also acknowledged their rights in the meadow called
Presthamme. The boundary of Nuneham is said to be a great
ditch, which Milo, their father, the great earl of Hereford, made.
Such a ditch appears in Speed's map, c. 1600, as dividing the
Castle mead from Oxlease. I do not know how the burgesses
obtained rights of common on the Over meadows; but I can
believe that they possessed them from the earliest times. I find,
however, in 1236 an attempt on the part of the monks to dispute
the right on their lands. In that year all the principal inhabitants
of Gloucester were summoned to show by what right they laid
claim to common pasturage on the land of the abbot in Maysmore,
as the abbot had no such common pasturage on the land belonging
to the burgesses.
About the year 1246 there were serious disputes between the
bailiffs of Gloucester and the monks, concerning the exemptions
from toll which the monks claimed under royal charter.
The bailiffs being naturally jealous that the cattle and goods of
the abbey should pass in and out through the gates, and be sold in
the markets free, levied a distress on the abbot and his men, and
proceedings were taken in a court of law. William de Sumery and
Thomas de Evesham, bailiffs of Gloucester, were summoned to
answer the abbot for having exacted toll from his men, namely, for
every horse bought or sold in the market twopence, for every ox
one penny, and for every quarter of corn one penny. The abbot
proffered in evidence royal charters of exemption from toll - } and
the bailiffs asserted that they were seized of the toll, as they held
the town of Gloucester as a royal grant. There appears to have
been no verdict.
This right of exemption from toll was claimed by the monks of
St. Peter's, Gloucester, in the towns of Bristol, Cardiff, and
Newport.
The attack on the abbot's barber in 1513 must have been
intended as a direct insult to the abbot himself. The barber of
those days was a person of great importance. John Barbour not
only shaved the chin of his lord, and told him all the gossip
of the town, but was his surgeon and medical adviser. In
addition to this it would seem he had the monopoly of selling the
wax images and tapers with which pious visitors to the shrines
within St. Peter's were wont to provide themselves before entering
the sacred precincts. The destruction of the wax and the tapers
reads like an earnest of the iconoclasm which some thirty years
later turned the Lady chapel, with its reredos of almost unequalled
beauty, into the scene of desolation that it now presents.
The cool disregard which the citizens showed for the royal
mandate leads one to think that they were very sanguine as to the
justice of their cause, that they had powerful friends at court, or
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that it was ever the nature of Gloucester men to disregard conse-
quences when the rights of the burgesses were at stake. Their
grandfathers had dared to close the gates against Edward I. when
prince, and against Queen Margaret at the head of a powerful army.
Their grandsons would not hesitate to shut them in the face of
Charles I, and to defend the city against his beleaguering forces.
It was well for Gloucester, perhaps, that Henry VIII. was still
a youth. Had they dared to disregard his mandate when Wolsey
or Cromwell was his minister, not all their inherent courage would
have saved the mayor's head from adorning the Westgate, and the
necks of his aldermen from feeling the hangman's rope.
Matson Bectory, Gloucester. WILLIAM BAZBLEY, M. A.
1110. EECENT DISCOVERIES NEAR PEN PARK. The following
paragraph from the Bristol Times and Mirror, May 5, 1883, is
worthy of preservation in a more convenient form : With reference
to the finding of a funnel-shaped cave, containing bones of animals,
and supposed to be connected with the famous Pen Park hole, we
learn that the first discovery of bones was made by one of the
workmen about a month ago, and since then they have from time
to time come across more bones of divers shapes and sizes, and
some of them so smooth and hard as to resemble ivory. The
quarry is a very old one, but the portion of it in which the
discovery was made had never been worked until about seven years
ago. The quarrymen will not penetrate the hole any further, and
therefore if the discovery is to be followed up, further exploration
must be the result of private enterprise. The discovery is certainly
a most interesting one, and it would seem that a wide field for
geological research is thus opened up. The following account of
Pen Park hole, which we take from Mathews' Bristol Guide (4th
ed., 1815), p. 224, will doubtless interest many of our readers :
" Pen Park hole, 5 miles north-west from Bristol, a tremendous
abyss, by some reported to be unfathomable, and by others to be about
300 feet deep : noticed by various authors, and in the Philosophical
Transactions. It is situated in the corner of a field, and inclosed
with a hedge to prevent accidents fatal to men and beasts. The
ground about the entrances into it is uneven, and so overgrown
with shrubs and bushes that those who go to see it should either
take a guide, or be extremely cautious in their motions and footing.
The principal hole is dangerous to approach, and terrible to behold;
a little below the entrance appears an impending rock, and all the
rest is frightful gloom. People throw stones into it, which are
heard for some time dashing against rocks, and at last plunging into
water. On the 17th of March, 1775, the Rev. Mr. [Thos.] Newnharn,
one of the [minor] canons of the cathedral of Bristol, with a gentleman
and two ladies, one of them his sister and the other the object of
his affection, went to explore the depth of this horrible . cavity.
Mr. N. lowered a line, and being near to the dark aperture, that he
might be safer, laid hold of a twig pertaining to the root of an
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ashen tree which grew over the mouth of it. But, his foot
slipping, the twig broke, and he was precipitated into this yawning,
black, and dreadful gulf in the sight of his astonished and almost
petrified friends. That morning he had officiated at Clifton church,
and read Psalm the 88th, in which are these words, so descriptive
of his catastrophe : 'Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place
of darkness, and in the deep.' After this shocking accident so
many people went from Bristol to see this hole that the place about
it was like a fair. Vehicles for descending were contrived, and
some went down daily to search for the body, which was found 39
days after, floating on the water." Q A. W.
1111. CAPTAIN HENRY SKILLICORNE, OF CHELTENHAM. In
the Manx Note Book, No. i. (January, 1885), pp. 21, 22, under
the head of "Manx Worthies," the following particulars of the
above-named have appeared : " Henry Skillicorne was born in the
parish of Lonan, in the year 1678. He went to sea when twenty
years old, and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. He commanded
several of the finest vessels sailing from Bristol, and, during a sea-
life of forty years, acquired considerable wealth. He gave .20 to
the fund for building the new church at Lonan, ' out of respect to
the place of his nativity.' (Feltham's Tour, p. 216.) John Allen,
the curate of the parish, writes to him in 1733 : 'I hope you will
pardon us for mentioning yo r name in the Act of Tynwald, as
being our great benefactor in so freely giving such a considerable
sum to this good and charitable work, w ch we thought fit to insert
to continue a lasting witness and record of yo r generous temper
and truly charitable and public spirit.' (Statute Law Book, ed.
1841, p. 215.) The total cost of building both the parish church
and the vicarage was only .124. Captain Skillicorne was an
intimate friend of Bishop Wilson's, as their correspondence shows.
He left the sea in 1738, and settled at Cheltenham, where,
'becoming proprietor of the spring and premises in right of his
wife [Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. William Mason, of Cheltenham],
he soon discovered its medicinal qualities, and ' brought this most
salutary water to just estimation and extensive use.' (Dugdale's
England and Wales Delineated.) He was, in fact, the founder of
Cheltenham as a watering-place. He was buried in the old church
there on the 18th of October, 1763. According to his curious
epitaph, which is long enough to occupy three pages of this
magazine, ' he was an excellent seaman, of tryed courage . . .
and could do business in seven languages He was of
great regularity, and so temperate as never to have been once
intoxicated. Keligious without hypocrisy, grave without austerity,
of a cheerful conversation without levity, a kind husband and
tender father, tall, erect, robust, and active. ... He lived
and dyed an honest man.' "*
* In the churchyard of Abbots-Leigh, near Bristol, we may find these lines :
" This stone can say what few stones can,
It covers the bones of an honest man."
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In Norman's History of Cheltenham, by Goding (1863), pp.
124-130, there is an article headed " The Skillicorne Family," which
furnishes some interesting particulars. It comprises a copy (but
not strictly accurate) of the long inscription in the parish church
to the memory of Captain Skillicorne. A literal transcript has
more recently appeared in Howard's Miscellanea Genealogica et
Heraldica, KS., vol. ii., p. 413, and in Monumental Inscriptions in
the Parish Church of Cheltenham (privately printed, London,
1877), pp. 16, 17. See also ante, vol. i., p. 255. CHELTONIENSIS.
1112. SUDELEY CASTLE IN 1642. The following details are from
Mercurius Rmticus ; or, The Countries Complaint (London, 1685),
pp. 67, 68: On the 28 of January, 1642, the Castle of Sudely,
upon composition, was delivered up to the rebels; there were
articles agreed on and sworn to, but as he spake truly, Children
were deceived with apples, and men with oaths ; the rebels as they
swear to articles for their advantage, so they break them as easily
for their advantage, and make perjury an easie uninterrupted
passage to theft and robbery, for these rebels brake as many articles
as they swore unto : they plunder not only the Castle, the seat and
house of the Lord Chandois, and Winchcombe, a neighbouring
village, to the utter undoing the poor inhabitants, but in defence of
the Protestant religion, and vindication of the honour of God, they
profane His house. There is in the Castle a goodly fair church,
here they dig up the graves, and disturb the ashes of the dead :
they break down the ancient monuments of the Chandoses, and
instead thereof, leave a prodigious monument of their sacrilegious
profaneness : for each part of the church they find a peculiar way
to profane it : the lower part of it they make their stable, the
chancel their slaughter-house. Unto the pulpit (which of all other
places in probability might have escaped their impiety) they fasten
pegs to hang the carcasses of the slaughtered sheep : the communion-
table, according to their own language, they make their dresser or
chopping-board to cut out their meat : into the vault, wherein lay
the bodies of the Chandoses, an ancient and honourable family,
they cast the guts and garbage ; mingling the loathsome intrals of
beasts with those bones and ashes which did there rest in hope
of a joyful resurrection. The nave or body of the church was all
covered with the dung and blood of beasts : and which was (if it be
possible) a degree beyond these profanations, in contempt of God
and His holy temple, they defile each part and corner both of
church and chancel with their own excrements ; and going away,
left nothing behind them in the church (besides walls and seats)
but a stinking memory, that part of the parliament army raised for
the defence of religion, had been there. Let that railing Eabshekah,
or jeering Sanballet, I mean the author of the ridiculous pamphlet,
intituled One Argument more against the Cavaliers, read this story,
and then tell me which are most guilty of prophanation of churches,
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the Cavaliers or the Round-heads ; which were most profaned,
either St. Mary Maudlins in Oxford, or the church at Sudely
Castle : and yet this dog sticks with Shimei to bark at his sovereign
and blaspheme his piety, as if the rebels brought from Cyrencester
had been quartered in this church by his approbation, who, to
expiate that guilt, gave an hundred and fifty pounds to adorn and
beautifie that church. The truth is, there was a fault in the com-
manders for lodging them in churches, who, if they had had their
due, had been hanged for rebellion, their carcasses exposed to the
fowls of the air, and the beasts of the field, that the ravens of the
valleys might have had their due portion, and never suffered them
to come so near the church, as to have the priviledge of Christian
burial in the churchyard. So, even so, let all the Kings enemies
perish, Lord, and let all the people say Amen. CLERICUS
1113. THE DESTRUCTION OF OLVESTON CHURCH SPIRE.
Rudder, in his Gloucestershire (1779), p. 588, writing of the
church of Olveston, states that " the spire which stood upon it
[the low pinnacled tower], was thrown down by lightning in the
year 1603 [1605];" but in Atkyns' folio (1712) no mention is
made of the occurrence, the writer merely telling us that " the
church had a low tower in the middle, with pinnacles." The
destruction of the spire had, however, been duly recorded, inasmuch
as there is an old black-letter tract, dated 1606, and entitled
Fearful News of Thunder and Lightening with terrible effects, which
Almighty God sent on a place called Olveston, in the county of
Gloucester, the 28th of November, 1605. Truly related by P.S.
The writer, it is said, was schoolmaster at Olveston at the time the
accident occurred, and the tract is believed to be excessively scarce.
The following particulars will, we doubt not, ber acceptable to
many :
" First therefore where a report is to be made of an action been,
the time and place are of no small moment for the evidence of the
matter. The time, therefore, was on a Thursday, being the 28th
day of November last, about a month after the aforesaid fearful
naming of the heavens and most horrid treason complotted and
defeated. The place was Olveston, in the county of Gloucester,
some eight miles from the famous citie of Bristol and two miles
from Aust, which is well known in regard of the often transpor-
tation and passage there over the river Severn. The morning of
the aforesaid day being lowering and sad did yet, a little after
eight, begin to smile and look somewhat cheerful to the east.
Before nine there came up a strong wind from the west, bringing
up a most dark mantle that overspread the whole heavens, as if the
sun upon some sudden fear retired again and lost itself under our
horizon, giving place to dark night to wrap all things in her black
mourning robe, so dark and black was it, that but for the note of
the time it was hard to judge whether it were day or night, yet
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after half an hour or so this black mass was again taken off, and
the heavens began to smooth and clear their countenance, the sun
sendin^ from the south his golden rays for an hour and a
half which the north disdaining with a most scornful sneer,
thinking itself wronged as the west did before, and terribly
menacing the south, notwithstanding the wind stood between them
with a most terrible and ugly visage. Neither was it satisfied with
threatening looks, but her fearful forces came on amain, admitting
yet between the sun a short pale made known by a goodly and
beautiful rainbow. The sight whereof did not a little comfort me,
notwithstanding the following face of the heavens, and otherwise
portend some fearful event, for beholding the world's ^ Sacrament.
I remembered not only that covenant of God, which it doth seal
unto, but His other covenant made with us in Christ, whereby He
hath' bound Himself, and that with an oath, to be our God, and we
(even as many of us as by faith apprehend the force and fruit of it)
to be His people, and that therefore through east and west, north
and south, heaven and earth should be humbled and tumbled
together; yet the anchor of our hope and happiness being cast
wilhin the vail and founded on Christ the immovable rock could
not fail, nor deceive, nor be deceived. With this or the like
meditation, I past from under the canopy of the open heavens
under the roof of the house, where after a very little while being
set at dinner, the terrible darkness that was in the north so
gathered on the south that it became very dark, considering the
time of the day and the clearer light that was but a little before.
But the thick clouds had indeed their burden, whereof they hasted
to be eased (for down falleth with a boisterous winde a very
plentiful haile with the abundance) for it was better than half a
foot thick on the ground everywhere. After the tempest, which
lasted a quarter of an hour, and the winde made a very terrible
rattle, which was accompanied with fearful flashes of lightening
and soon three or four claps of thunder louder than ordinary.
Whereof I took occasion to talk to the gentlewoman of the house
and her young plants which (being five sons with the son of a
friend) sat at table with us to this effect. That the atheists of the
world, and such as did not know, acknowledge, and fear God had
great cause to be terrified and to tremble at such terrors of His ;
but such as did truly fear God, they need not be appalled or
dismayed at it, considering they know it came from God their
gracious Father in Jesus Christ. She reply eth with a remembrance
of the day of judgment, that if this then how much more terrible
would be the day of the Lord unto such as did not know God in
Christ and in Him had a feeling of His fatherly love. In the
midst of our talk behold there flameth in a wonderful flash of
lightening, seconded with as horrible a report of extraordinary
thunder as I think any man living hath heard. It was not as the
manner is of thunder, a rattling and rumbling noise drawn in
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 139
length, but as if a thousand tun weight of it making a most
inexplicable and unspeakable thumps and bounce to them that are
under it. Such was the furious and fearful report of this terrible
clap of thunder, wherewith according to the infirmity of this
corrupt flesh I was touched, but not without assured hope in God.
The table being taken up and God for His mercies praised, I betook
me even upon 12 o'clock to my school, where finding scholars
amazed at what had passed, I put them in mind of what I had
spoken in the morning. But in the middle of my speech I heard
the bells knoll extraordinarily, and* sending out to inquire he
presently returned answer, ' The steeple is on fire.' So concluding
abruptly and passing forth of doors, I saw it was no false report of
a fained fire.
" For behold the force of God's terrible voice had shaken, rifted
and rent the tower of stone, whereon the spire of lead of great
height stood toward the west, from the rest of the battlement,
almost to the roof of the church. And as it appeared afterward
all the west end of the church was likewise stricken, which was so
much the more to be wondered at, at it being crushed in divers
places as a rotten apple; if it was only so done within and no
appearance of it without : and of three glass windows that stand
in that end, not one of them was hurt by it either in the glass or
lights. Albeit the walls were shaken both above and under them,
the stronger being hurt and the weaker escaping harmless. And
although this thundering voice of Almighty God did nowhere else
so terrible an effect as on and in the church, yet without the church
in the field and in houses near an extraordinary proof of His
power, not without His mercy, was sensibly felt by divers, whom
it cast hither and thither, and some down, but hurt neither man,
woman, or child, nor any living creature. As this was the effect of
the terrible thunder, so His fearful fire (the lightening I mean) had
fired the steeple about three quarters of a yard beneath the face of
the bar, whereon the weathercock perched, did within the space of
2 hours burn, consume, and throw down all the timber, lead, and
iron that were on the top of the steeple to the tower of stone, and
in other three hours did burn to the ground, melt, and cast down
with an irrisistible force all the soft timber, stocks, and wheels of
fine, very tunable, but often abused bells. The clock, which before
had lost us precious time, was likewise silenced. The chancel
through which the firebrands which fell from the steeple was fired
and defaced, as it was probable the church would have been, but
that the wind being from the west carried the fire to the chancel
and from the church, and but for men fearing that the rage of the
fire would burn the church (as it had done the steeple) ript up and
cast out almost all the seats, and uncovered the aisles of the church,
it had little harm. The minister's house, which stood so under the
mercy of the fire and the wind that a thousand flashes of fire
might be seen to light among his wood, on his hay and corn mows,
140 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
and whatever was about his house, and so gracious was God that
the fire itself did him not five pennyworth of harm."
An examination of the parish books of the period might throw
some light upon the matter. Mr. T. H. Baker has not referred to
it in his recent Records of the Seasons, etc. j ^
1114. SOME OF THE CLERGY AND THE EEVOLUTION OP 1688.
The following names are taken from Memoirs of the Life of
Mr. John Kettlewell, Vicar of Coles-Hill, in Warwickshire (London,
MDCCXVIIL), appendix, pp. xiii., xix., in which they appear
under this heading, " A List of several of the Clergy, and Others in
the Yniversities of Oxford and Cambridge, who were thought not
to Qualify themselves upon the Revolution" :
Bristol.
Mr. Elisha Sage.
Mr. Burgess.
Mr.- Edwards.
Mr. Flood, Vicar of Halstock.
Besides Mr. Hart, a Prebendary of Wells.
Gloucester.
Dr. Robert Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester.
Dr. Thomas Baily, Rector of Slimbridge, formerly Fellow of
St. Mary Magdalen's College in Oxford.
Mr. Humphrey Gervaise, of .
Mr. James Kirkham, Rector of Wickwan [Wickwar]. d.
Mr. William Robinson [? Robson], Vicar of Stonehouse.
Mr. Richard Saffyn, Vicar of Berkley.
Mr. Perkins, Curate of , Penitent* C T D
1115. GEORGE WEST, INCUMBENT OF WICKWAR, 1515. (See
No. 963.) I send you the following additional extract from the
diocesan registry at Worcester : 1515. Feb., or March, 18.
George West, clerk, instituted to the par. church of Wykwar,
vacant by the death of the last incumbent; presented by Sir Thomas
West, knt., lord de Lawarr. THOMAS P. WADLEY.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore.
1116. A CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS RECOMMENDED BY A BRISTOL
JURY. As mentioned by Mr. George Roberts, in his Social History
of the People of the Southern Counties of England in past
Centuries (London, 1856), p. 188, the grand jury of Bristol, in the
year 1681, recommended that no printed or written news or
pamphlet be suffered to be read in any coffee-house or tippling-
house in that city, except such as had been first shown to
Mr. Mayor or the alderman of the ward for the time being where
" A F rm for Admissi n f
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 141
such coffee-house was situate. Sundry coffee-houses had been
noticed, which were described in this strong language. They were
said to be commonly frequented, as well on Lord's days as other
days, by many schismatical and seditious sectaries and other dis-
loyal persons, where, for their encouragement in tippling, they were
usually entertained with false news, lying and scandalous libels
and pamphlets, tending to the reproach and dishonour of the estab-
lished religion and of his Majesty's government, and divers of his
great officers and ministers of state.
We learn from this recommendation, that restrictions upon the
liberty of the subject did not always emanate from kings and
ruling powers, but sometimes from the governed themselves. A
state must be prepared for liberty as well as for other developments
which civilization gives rise to in the course of time.
BRISTOLIENSIS.
1117. PRISON LIFE IN GLOUCESTER A CENTURY AGO. Berrow's
Worcester Journal of March 3, 1785, contains the following
paragraph under the head of " Gloucester:" " Our gaol at this time
exhibits a melancholy scene of wretchedness and profligacy beyond
the example of any former period. One hundred and twenty
unhappy creatures are there confined together, increasing, if
possible, their own natural depravity. Shirts have been distributed
to several who were naked, which were no sooner washed and hung
up to dry than they have been stolen. The prisoners are locked up
at night in a large apartment called the Main, with a chain run
through each man's link. During the night they steal from each
other shoes, buckles, bread, or anything which it is possible to
conceal. In the box of an old Welsh woman, confined for horse-
stealing, no less than seven or eight stolen shirts were discovered
on Monday last, which she had bought at a low price. There is
no separation for the sexes in the daytime. One of the women
sentenced to a long confinement would be destitute of every
necessary for her situation had not private beneficence placed a
fund, for the relief of occasional distress, in the hands of an
individual. In short, the inhabitants of this prison give a more
affecting picture of the miseries entailed on mankind by the
corruption of human nature than it is in the power of imagination
to paint. From the precautions lately adopted the gaol is free
from distemper." j Q
HIS. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH EEGISTERS, No. VII. :
QUEDGELEY.
(Continued from No. 1072.)
Marriages.
1559. Dec. 2. Thomas Smith and Maude Huntt.
1560. Nov. 21. John Window was wedded to Katryne Smartte.
Feb. 1. -Thomas Hyett and Margaret Baylie.
142 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1561. July 3. John Jennyns and Alys Barnes.
1562.' May 28. Rob fc Taylor and Johan Smith.
j u ]y 10. John Wycke and Johan Hunt.
Aug. 8. Thomas Wyndowe and Johan Abelle.
1563. May 27. Richard Smith and Elynor Paker.
1564. Jan. 19. John Wawkeley and Annes Merye.
1567. July 6. Robert Wyndowe and Jane Davys.
1568. June 17. John Whytt and Alyce Byshop.
July 16. Thomas Hiett and Margaret, his wife, on the
24 th of August p buried].
1569. Aug. 18. Thomas Treves and Elizabeth Bakar.
Oct. 16. John Wyndow and Francis [sic] Davis.
Nov. 6. Edmunde Pridy and Elizabeth Davis.
Nov. 7. Robert Hornedge and Johane Prychell.
Dec. 6. John Smith and Margery Stephens.
Jan. 21. John Prychell and Margaret Loker.
1570. July 6. John Genyns and Jone Yaughan.
Aug. 10. William Chew and Elizabeth Smith.
Oct. 8. M r John Nychols and M rs Elinore Barrow
were maryed.
1571. Jan. 14. Walter Watkins and Marg* Watkins.
1573. Nov. 16. Henry Partredge and Elizabeth Saunders.
1574. Oct. 26. Thomas Tannye and Mary Windowe.
1575. Jan. 21. Ansell Test and Joan Teynton.
Jan. 23. Robert Davis and Elizabeth Roberts.
1576. Feb. 6. Walter Byshop and Joan Watkins.
1577. Aug. 1. William Harris, of Slymbridge, and Anes
Wylkes.
1578. Nov. 17. Richard Freeman, of Estow, and Margaret
Wyndow, of Quedley.
Nov. 29. William Wick and Alse Botley.
1579. May 23. Arnold Allen and Joan Wick.
June 1. Thomas Warkeman and Alse Davis.
John Wrynch and Alse Jeffreis.
July 2. Walter Hawkins and Jane Leach.
Oct. 5. Philip Parnell (or Rannell) and Joan Myriman.
Dec. 21. Richard Windowe and Isabel Davis.
1581. July 17. Thomas Smith, of Quedsley, and Alice Hunt,
of Minsterworth.
Feb. 26. Thomas Viner, of Sarnie [Cerney], and Agnes
Harris, of Quedsley, Widow.
1582. July 9. John Nash, of Ellmore, and Katherine
Watkins.
i KO?" July 22 ' Tllom as Davies and Doritee Gripes.
1584. Nov. 23. Anthony Nicolsone and Elizabeth Hewes.
."" Jan - 25. Humphry Windyod and Alice Brian.
}2 Nov - 26. William Brocke and Johan Gilbert.
1587. Oct. 18. Thomas Birte and Anna Adams.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 143
1589. Mar. 2. Arnold Allen and Johan Stevens.
1590. Aug. 3. Ralph Appowell and Alice Wicke.
Feb. 8. John Thaier and Jane Watkins.
1591. June 26. Edward "Watkins and Johan Hunt.
July 15. John Hunt and Elizab. "Wyndowe.
Jan. 17. Joseph Parker and Margaret Smith.
1592. Oct. 30. Frances [sic] Merriman and Johan Gennings.
1593. July 2. Gyles Spenser and Alice Alridge.
July 29. Thomas Peynter and Elizabeth Bishop, alias
Tomkyns.
1594. June 27. Ry chard Wyndowe and Margerie Wilckings.
1595. June 16. Richard Norton and Anne Whitte.
Sept. 7. Xtopher Gennings and Ann Roune, of city of
Gloucester.
1597. July 23. John Hunt and Margaret Smith.
1598. July 17. Giles Thayere and Katherine Bushoppe.
July 20. Richard Jones, of City of Gloucester, and
Elizabeth Diswell, then of Queedisley.
Nov. 2. William Jaye and Margaret Tuckwell.
1599. June 9. Lewes Harries and Elizabeth Jeffe.
1600. June 9. Walter Gardener and Marg* Jenninges.
Oct. 9. Thomas Tainton, of Minchinhampton, and
Elizabeth Went, of this parish.
Feb. 1. Walter Blanch, of Esington [Eastington], and
Elizabeth Watkins, of this Parish.
1601. , J Richard Nurse and Joane Watkins.
last day. )
June 22. Arnolde Alen and Alice Smith.
Jan. 18. John Smith, the younger, and Margery Watts.
1602. April 17. Thomas White and Johane Brooke.
Dec. 4. Robert Croker and Selble p] Pridie.
1604. June 7. John Woodward, of S* Ewens, GL, and Jone
Jelffe.
1606. May 8. William Druett, of S fc Maries, GL, and Marg*
Holyday.
July 7. Walter Pace and Elizabeth Jennings.
July 26. Arnold Allen and Joane Yenne.
Jan ^ last 1 Jenken Jones and Dorothye Smith.
1607. Sept. 26. Samuel Goofe and Joan Nurse.
Dec. 3. John Clissold and Ann Simes.
Feb. 8. Alexander Paine and Joan Harris, d. of
William Harris and Kath : his wife.
1608. Feb. 9. Walter Cooke and Mary Smith.
1609. July 6. George Watkins and Anne Clissold.
Jan. 27. Thomas Jennings and Anne Rice.
1610. May 14. Giles Tawnie and Joan Davys.
June 18. Xtopher Window and Ellinor Nicholson.
144 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1610. July 25. Giles Bishop and Bridget Twining.
Aug. 6. John Barnard and Elizabeth Davis.
Sept. 1. Griffin Williams and Isbell Harrys.
Jan., last j George wittcombe and Ann Harrys.
1611. April 4. Richard To wnsend and Marg* Evans.
May 20. Anselni Test and Alice Wooles.
1612. Sept. 21. Richard Window, of Putlay, and Bridget
Bishop.
1613. Oct. 2. Eobard Tyler and Katherine Broucke.
Feb. 14. Jenken Jinkings, of Wootten, and Marg*
Wyndow, Widdowe.
1614. July 3. John Brothers and Alice Skiner, of Gl.
Nov. 14. Henry Nicholson and Alice Rice.
1615. Nov. 9. Rowland Davis and Elnore Smith.
1616. April 23. John Austen and Katherine Harris.
April 28. Humfrie Went and Alis Smith.
Jan. 17. William Perrey and Anne Payne.
1617. Aug. 23. William Blunte and Elizabeth Harris, widow.
Oct. 6. Thomas Manson and Elizabeth Merrit, widow.
Nov. 3. John Perrin and Alyce By shop.
Dec. 22. John Burford and Agnes Philpotes.
1618. June 1. John Twining and Joan Nurse.
Feb. 6. John Rice and Mary Ricketes.
1619. July 4. John Coules and Anna Walklye.
Dec. 14. Henry Shappalerouse and Frances Window.
Dec. 30. Henry Robins and Elizab. Tompkins.
1621. May 28. William Smith, Vicer [sic] of Came [1618-29],
and Miriam Sell.
May 29. Thomas Genninges and Alice Lowe.
Aug. 29. Edmonde Niblet and Judith Colstone.
1622. Oct. 14. Thomas Parsons and Alice Test.
Oct. 21. Thomas Philipes and Ann Marchant.
1623. July 19. Thomas Walter and Elizab. Dancer.
Aug. 2. John Hoskyns and Alice Hanman.
Oct. 23. Thomas Heath and Elizabeth Joanes.
1624. April 20. John Clissold and Ann Watkins.
1625. Sept. 25. William Bradford and Elizab. Freame.
Jan. 19. William, son of W m Wyndow, and Elizab.
Bennett.
1626. May 14. Edmund Cowells and Mary Cooke.
1627. July 19. Rowland Davies and Ann Harries.
Aug. 3. John Pace and Elizab. Ffrier.
Feb. 23. Thomas Mayoe and Elizabeth, d. of William
Wyman.
1628. April 14. Moses Gunn, of Fframpton, and Mary Ho wman.
629. Jan. 17. Thomas Wyndow and Jane Bradston.
May 5. Richard Window and Elizabeth Innells.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 145
1630. Feb. 16. Edmund Withington and Ann Moulton.
1632. Nov. 29. John Berrow, Esq re , and Mary Hastings.
1633. May 6. Henry Wyndow and Dorothy Crowes.
1634. April 14. John Verneham and Margaret Hobb.
June 9. Thomas Merry man and Jane Nash.
1635. Oct. 25. Anthony Lugge and Jane Venn.
1636. April 28. Giles Smart and Ann Harries.
Aug. 27. Henry Gostlett and Jane Moxeley.
Sept. 8. William Braune and Ann Hunt.
1637. Oct. 23. Lewes Harries and Elizab. Organ.
Jan. 21. Robert Moxley and Elizab. Morse.
1640. June 11. Edward Jackson and Elizabeth Moxley.
Oct. 20. William Venn and Ann Hall.
Feb. 4. William Venn and Ann Watkins.
Feb. 25. Thomas Wyman and Dorathy Symons.
Mar. 2. Richard Harries and Jane Alleyne.
1641. May 24. By Lecinse, Tho 8 More, of Barckley, and
Mary Webster, of Mangotsfield.
Aug. 16. John Smith and Bridget Window.
Dec. 26. John Allane and Jane Morgan.
1663. May 28. Joseph Bower, of Stonehouse, and Sibella
Kingston, of Quedgeley.
Nov. 2. John Chewe and Rebeckah Horwood, both of
the City of Gl.
1666. Feb. 25. John Rowles and Mary Morgan.
1693. Dec. 3. William Fisher and Mary Hay ward, of
Harescome.
1696. Sept. 9. Robert Molineux, of Wolverhampton, Staff:,
and Elizabeth ffounes, of the City of GL,
widow.
1700. Sept. 24. Allanus Clyffe et Elizabetha Hay ward.
1711. July 15. Thomas Barrow, of Hardwicke, and Anna
[(? Amie), dau. of William] Hayward, of
[Woolstrop,] Quedgeley.
Aug. 26. Cartwright Madocke, of Little S* Marys of the
Crypt, GL, and Hanna By water, of the same.
1723. June 8. Richard Millechamp, of Barrow, in Salop,
and Margaret Lane, of Elmore.
Sept. 26. Thomas Winstone, of Oldbury, in Par. of
Stapleton, in County of GL, and Albinia
Hayward, of Quedgley.
1724. Thomas Rogers, Paro'se S fci Gregorii, London, et Anna
Johnson, Paro'ae S u Martini in Campis,
nupti fuerunt in Capella Regia S ct f Jacobi,
Mali die quarto.
1733. July 6. Rowland Turner, of Callow, in Worcestersh.,
and Anne Laurence, of Hardwick, in the
Diocese of Gloucester.
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146 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1737. Dec. 22. The Kev d M r Thomas Savage, Vicar of
Standish [eldest son and heir of George
Savage, of Broadway, Worcestershire], and
Elenor Barrow, of the City of Gloster
[only dau. and heiress of Thomas and
Amie Barrow, of Field Court].
1738. April 2. Kichard Esquire and Agatha Roberts.
1753. Oct. 22. John Finch and Susannah Hiett.
(To be continued.)
1119. THE EEV. HENRY FOWLER, EECTOR OF MINCHINHAMPTON,
1643. The following details are from Mercurius Rusticus ; or,
The Countries Complaint* (London, 1685), pp. 180-184 : On
New-years day, 1643, seventeen soldiers, sent by Captain Jeremy
Buck, came to Mr. Henry Fowlers house, parson of Minchin-
Hampton, in the county of Gloucester; being entred the house,
they find Mr. Fowler sitting (as the season of the year required)
by the fire-side, presently they seize on him, and tell him, that he
is their prisoner : and though he instantly submitted unto them
without any the least resistance, yet to wreck their own malice, and
the malice of him that sent them, upon him, one of the rebels
takes him by the throat, and holds the point of his sword at his
breast, two more (on each side one) present their pistols at him,
another shakes his pole-axe over his head, others strike him with
their pole-axes ; threatned he is on every side with varieties of death.
All smite him with the tongue, they rail at him, objecting against
him as heinous crimes, first, that he read the common-prayers at
length, and that he had published the kings proclamation with a
loud voice : and then with renewed fury they assault him again :
they beat him with their pole-axes, and call him Mass-priest, rogue,
rascal, and tell him, Sirrah, you can furnish the King with a musket,
a corslet, and a light-horse, but thou old knave, thou canst not find
anything at all for the Parliament. And then to work they fall
again with their pole-axes, and beat and bruise him in most parts
of his body : so that being aged (no less than threescore and two
years old), and being not yet perfectly recovered of a former
lameness in one of his hips, though he were in a probable way
towards it, by this barbarous usage, being so cruelly beaten, and
tugged, and haled by them, he is made a very cripple, irrecoverably
lame, without all possibility of recovery of his limbs : all this
inhumanity was practised on Mr. Fowler in the presence of his
wife and children, the wife in the behalf of her husband, the
* This curious work, which has been already quoted in No. 1112, with reference to Sudeley
Castle, is by Bruno Ryves, D.D., who was chaplain to Charles I., and died July 13, 1677, aet.
81. First published in 1643, in numbers, of which an imperfect set is in the Bodleian Library.
Reprinted in 1646 and 1647, 12mo. ; and again in 1685, 8vo. " That edition of Merc. Rusticus
which came out in 1647, had more in it than that of 1646. However, Rich. Royston, the
seller being minded to make another edition, he followed only that which came out in
Sfe ^ * third editl which he made in 1685 > hath less i* it than tliat o 1647 -
Wood's Athence Oxonienses, by Bliss, iii. 1110.) ED
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 147
children in the behalf of their father, humbly entreating on their
knees, that they would have compassion on him, and not murther
a peaceable man in his own house. While some of these rebels
were executing this cruelty on his person, others go up into his
study, and chambers, and take away all that was of good value,
and portable. And having crippled the master of the family, and
rifled his house, like the true servants of that master whom they
serve, the devil, they leave him, but it was but for a season.
Now though the present sense of these sufferings could not be but
very great to an aged man, and one labouring under former
infirmities, especially to have his sufferings imbittered by the
reproachful railings of the rebels, and the mocks and mowes of
Captain Bucks friends and kindred, who stood by jeering, and clapt
their hands for joy, applauding the exact execution of Bucks
commands, given his soldiers concerning Mr. Fowler, yet the sad
effects which followed were evidence enough how cruel his usage
was. First, Mr. Fowler, presently upon the rebels departure, fell
into an extream bleeding, which continued, and could not be
stanched in six hours and more, by which great outlet of spirits his
strength was so much exhausted that he was not able to stand.
Secondly, the next day after his bleeding, what with the loss of so
much blood, and what with violence offered to his whole body, the
retentive faculty was so weakened that came from him
insensibly, and in this wretched condition he continued very near
a month. Lastly, by the many confusions and knocks which he
received on his head with their pole-axes he lost his hearing, which
he hath not perfectly recovered unto this day. And now after all
this barbarous usage remains there yet any thing else to be added
to his sufferings? was not their malice satisfied, and these outrages
(designed to be committed on him) compleated yet 1 'No, Captain
Buck knew that it would not be lawful always to commit murther,
and rob those that are quiet in the land, and therefore resolved to
make use of the present opportunity : he was not ignorant that the
wages of a faithful servant to the Eebellion was full licence to do
any thing that can satisfie lust, private revenge, or avarice: and
therefore in July last, Buck himself, not like a captain of soldiers,
but a ring-leader to a rout of rogues, came to Mr. Fowlers house at
Minching-Hampton, and most thievishly broke open the window of
his sons study, and so entered the house. In the study they
found rich treasure which they did not know, being indeed without
a metaphor Pearl before Swine, for young Mr. Fowler, a practitioner
it seems in physick, had in his study extract of pearl, aurum
potabile, confections of amber, a great quantity of compound
waters, a good proportion of pearl in boxes, a box full of Bezoar
stone, with many other things of admirable use, for the preservation
of the life of man, and of very great value, all which they took
and brake in pieces, and trampling them under foot, made them
utterly unuseful either for themselves or others. One of
148 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Mr. Fowlers daughters in a just indignation at so great waste of
things so precious, told Buck that he might be ashamed to spoil
things of that use and value. Buck (a rude untutored man as he
is) called her , and with his pole-axe gave her a blow on the
neck, and struck her down, and being risen again, again he strikes
her down with his pole-axe, nay, to pursue the glorious victory, he
strikes her down a third time, and had she been able to rise from
the floor, questionless, had struck her down a fourth time. The
compassionate mother Mrs. Fowler standing by, and seeing her
daughter thus barbarously used, to redeem her from this cruelty,
resolved to expose her own person to the fury of this mad beast,
and therefore interposing, asked Buck, whether he thought she
could endure to see her child murthered before her face : but as
soon as Mrs. Fowler came within his reach, without regard either
to her age, or sex, he caught her by the throat, knocked her down,
and being down, kicked her, and trampled on her with his feet.
At last having acted what cruelty he pleased (according to the
latitude of that tacite commission given every captain of the
Rebellion) on Mrs. Fowler and her daughter, he and his rabble
plundered the house, and so departed.
If the monstrousness of these barbarous and inhuman cruelties
committed on this reverend divine, his wife and daughter, and
reported in this relation, shall weaken the credit of the relation, and
render the truth of it suspected, let the world know, that here is
nothing set down in this account given unto the world, but what
was testified upon oath before the Right Honourable Sir Robert
Heath, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of
Kings Bench, on the 18 day of August, 1643. CLERICUS
1120. ELLACOMBE'S "CHURCH BELLS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE,"
ETC. As this work, "printed for the author," the Rev. H. T.
Ellacombe, M.A., F.S.A. (Exeter, 1881, 4to, pp. viii. 208, with
ten plates and many other illustrations), is not within the reach of
every reader, a brief summary of its contents may be found con-
venient :
1. Rings of Bells in Gloucestershire.
2. Founders: Master John of Gloucester, Hendlel, Henshaw,
Rudhalls, Purdues of Bristol, and Neale of Burford.
3. ^ Mediaeval Bells, bearing royal heads, ornamental crosses,
inscriptions, etc.
4. Verses in praise of Ringing from the belfry of St. Nicholas',
Gloucester.
5. Inscriptions, number, diameter, etc., of Bells in Gloucester-
shire and Bristol parishes.
6. New Bells in Gloucestershire.
7. Catalogue of Bells cast by the Rudhalls of Gloucester, 1684-
1830.
8. Origin and Pedigree of the Rudhall Family.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 149
9. Pedigree, with notes, of the Purdue Family.
10. Records relating to the Bells and Bell MetaT. in Gloucester-
shire and Bristol about 1550.
11. Ancient Society of Ringers of St. Stephen's, Bristol.
12. Modern Society of Ringers in the Diocese of Gloucester and
Bristol.
The supplement to the volume, pp. 101-208, comprises a large
amount of information, e.g., a "Budget of Miscellaneous Bell
Scraps " and " Bell Poetry ; " but, with the exception of three
matters, the will of Richard Atkyns, bellfounder, of Gloucester
(1529), a list of Gloucestershire bells cast by Henry Bagley, of
Chacombe, Northamptonshire, and "the rape of the Cherington
bell," we need not further specify its contents.
The ten plates, containing stamps and letters on old bells in
Gloucestershire, are particularly noteworthy. The other illustrations,
which are more than one hundred in number, are printed in the
letterpress. BIBLIOGRAPHER.
1121. LOCAL USE OF THE WORD "PURE." In Notes and Queries
(1 st S. viii. 125) there is a communication from " Oxoniensis," who
writes thus from Oakridge, near Stroud : In visiting an old blind
woman the other day, I was struck with what to me was a peculiar
use of the word pure. Having inquired after the dame's health,
and been assured that she was much better, I begged her not to
rise from the bed on which she was sitting, whereupon she said,
"Thank you, Sir, I feel quite pure this morning."
In same volume, p. 352, the late Rev. Francis John Scott, of
Tewkesbury, remarked that " in this part of the country the words
pert, pronounced 'peart,' and pure bear the same meaning, of well
in health and spirits."
In reply to " Oxoniensis " another has written, vol. ix., p. 527, as
follows : Your correspondent is evidently not a Gloucestershire
man. The word pure is commonly used in that county to express
being in good health. I remember an amusing instance, which
occurred many years ago. A gentleman, a friend of mine, who
resided in an establishment where young ladies were educated, was
met one day by an honest farmer ; who, after inquiring kindly for
his own health, said with equal good nature and simplicity, "I
hope, Zur, the ladies be all pure." j Q.
In the late Rev. E. W. Huntley's Glossary of the Cotswold
(Gloucestershire) Dialed (1868), p. 56, we have this explanation of
the word : " In good health, or with good success." EDITOR
1122. A LETTER FROM BISHOP FRAMPTON TO THE REV. JOHN
KETTLEWELL. The following characteristic letter from Robert
Frampton, D.D., Bishop of Gloucester, which has appeared in
Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Kettlewell, etc. (London,
1718), appendix, p. Ixvi., deserves to be reprinted :
150 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
My Keverend, Good, Worthy Brother,
It is high time for me to give you my hearty thanks for your
kind present ; and, if that be of any moment with you, to let you
know, how much I am affected with it.
So much affected with it, that I wish all our men of war, I mean
our disputants, would beat their swords and spears, as you do, into
plough-shares and pruning-hooks.
Endeavouring rather to make their readers turn their thoughts to
piety than controversy ; since the former, though ne're so necessary,
yea, the unum necessarium, is scarcely heard amidst the din and
clashings of pro's and con's.
Perhaps this thought of mine proceeds from mine own inability
to enter such lists ; of which I am conscious enough ; and, as I
hope, will be the more pardonable', because, though I am far from
censuring their brave performances; for who am I to take that
province on me ? yet in truth, as St. Paul speaks in the case of
languages not understood, I had rather speak five words to make my
perusers better, than ten thousand words to make them more learned.
Yea, so much the more, because I see our people so wedded to what
they have once assum'd, that nothing can remove them.
Nothing but God's own hand, and in his own due time : for
which we must wait with patience, till he turn our captivity like the
rivers in the south. Possessing our souls with patience in the mean
time, till he bring it to pass ; and by our well-doing and well-
suffering, with his blessing on both, make our innocence as clear as
the light.
I have often been in the pulpit in season, and out of season ;
and always bold and honest enough there, God be praised ; but
never in the printing-house yet; and believe I never shall be,
because I am convinced, that nothing of mine is worthy of the
publick view.
That is a task for such worthy and pious heroes as you are, whose
performances I love and admire, but dare not pretend to imitate.
God prosper them to his glory, and to the edification of the whole
Christian world. I have no more to add, but that I value your
labours exceedingly ; and that you are exceedingly mistaken, if you
think that any man whatsoever hath more esteem for you, than
Your loving Friend, Brother, and
Servant in Christ Jesus,
Ma Y 18, Eobert Frampton Glocest.
1694.
CLEEICUS.
1123. FKEEMAN INSCRIPTIONS, HEMPSTED AND BUSHLEY.
When a lad I often turned aside in my walks to look at the tomb
of the young cavalier who was shot during the siege of Gloucester,
and buried in the churchyard of Hempsted, near that city,
ubsequently it became much dilapidated and surrounded by other
tombs; but I hear that the present rector of Hempsted has caused
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 151
it to be repaired ; and as I have been favoured by him. with an
exact copy of the inscription, and by Mr. Henry Jeffs, of Gloucester,
with the inscription on a brass in Bushley Church in memory of a
younger brother of the cavalier, I send both of them to you that
they may be further preserved in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries.
(See as to the Freeman families, ante, vol. i., pp. 131, 165.)
The inscription on Freeman's tomb at Hempsted is as follows :
"Hie jacet Johannes Freeman, Centurio
Equestris, Filius Johannis Freeman De
Bushleij Comitatu Vigorn : Armigeri,
Castris Eegiis Obsidione Gleuensi
Sclopetarise Glandis Ictu Trajectus
Die Augusti 14
A ( Salutis 1643
Ann
That at Bushley to the memory of the brother is :
" Roberts Freeman Gent.
deceased Dec. 13, 1651.
Here Reader reade thine owne estate :
Though young, wise, pious, such thy fate-
Must shortly be,
For such was he.
Serue thou thy God, as he hath donne,
This Service makes a Servant Sonne
Heaven's Freeman be,
For such is he.
Aged 27."
Pemit me to add that the rector of Hempsted is exerting himself
to raise funds for the restoration of the very interesting old church
in the parish, and that any contribution for that purpose sent to
the Rev. B. S. Dawson, Rectory, Hempsted, near Gloucester, will
be much appreciated. J J P
[The foregoing note from Judge Powell having been submitted
to the Rev. B. S. Dawson, of Hempsted, and the Rev. E. R.
Dowdeswell, of Bushley, they have kindly supplied further par-
ticulars, which are here appended. ED.]
The Hempsted inscription is on both sides of the tomb, that on
the north side being the older, and doubtless the original. The
registers begin in the year 1558 ; but there is a gap for 1643, and
therefore no entry of John Freeman's burial.
As an appendix to the inscription, you may like to have the
circumstances under which he met his death ; and I think these
may be fixed with tolerable accuracy. In BiUiotheca Gloucestrensis
(1825), pp. 205-232, there is a reprint of an old tract by John
Dorney, Esq., entitled A Brief e and Exact Relation of the most
materiall and remarkeable passages that hapned in the late well-
formed (and as valiently defended) seige laid before the city of
152 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Glocester, London, 1643. The doings of each day are given in
the form of a diary, and under "Munday, August 14," which was
the day of Freeman's death, this appears : " We had some sus-
pition and kind of intelligence that they were drawing ordnance to
the Kingshome ; and that it lay in some grounds undiscovered
between the north gate and the Margarets ; wherupon a party of
ahout one hundred and fifty musketteers commanded by Captaine
Mallery sallied forth of the north port to surprize it, but not finding
any, retreated without losse, but killed four of the enemies, and
took two prisoners, and fired some of their quarters at the Margarets.
This day the enemy played with their ordnance from Gawdy Green,
and battered the town wall on the south-side of the Fryer's orchard,
but we quickly made up the breach with wool-sackes and canon
baskets. By this time they had drawne their trench in Gawdy Greene
neer the moat at Eignall stile, where they made a kind of mine to
drain the moat, which much sunk the water of the moat between
the south and east ports." This is the whole of the entry under
that day ; and as the journal professes to be an exhaustive account
of each day's events, I think it is pretty clear that Freeman was one of
the four who fell in the skirmish between the north port and the
Margarets. B. S. DAWSON.
Hempsted Rectory, Gloucester.
The entry of Roberts Freeman's burial in the Bushley register
is simply this : " Bur : Roberts freeman Gent : was buried the
20 th day of Decemb. 1651. freeman." His Christian name had been
the maiden surname of his mother, who was Mary, dau. of John
Roberts, of Fiddington, in the parish of Ashchurch, Gloucestershire.
The brass, now affixed to the west wall of the church, is plain and
square, with the arms of Freeman in the lefthand upper corner :
Three lozenges conjoined in fesse, with a martlet for difference on
the centre one; and the crest: A demi fox (? wolf) holding a
lozenge in his paws. In the right hand corner the arms of Roberts :
Per pale ar. and gu. (not coloured) a lion ramp, sa ; and the crest :
A stag's head erased. I should be pleased to supply a pedigree and
short account of the Bushley branch of the Freeman family.*
E. R. DOWDESWELL.
Bushley Parsonage, Tewkesbury.
1124. NOTES ON THE PARISH OF WICKWAR.
(Continued from No. 1065.)
The benefice is a rectory in the rural deanery of Hawkesbury,
valued in the King's Books at 18. There are "74 acres of glebe
land ; and the tithes have recently (1839) been commuted for the
gross sum of 446 14s. 3d., as will be seen by extracts from the
ithe commutation book and map prepared by Mr. Sturge, of
Bristol, and signed by the Tithe Commissioner. The Earl of Ducie
* See infra, No. 1136.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 153
is patron ; and the Rev. Thomas Roupell Everest, M.A., incumbent.
The extracts are as follows :
Whereas an agreement, and supplemental article thereon en-
dorsed, for the commutation of tithes in the parish of Wickwar, in
the county of Gloucester, were on the 21st day of April, in the
year 1838, confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners for England and
Wales, of which agreement and supplemental article, with the
schedule annexed to the agreement, the following are copies :
' Provisional articles of agreement for the commutation of the
tithes of the parish of Wickwar, in the county of Gloucester, in
pursuance of the Act for the commutation of tithes in England and
Wales, made and executed at a meeting duly called and holden at
the Town-Hall in the said parish, on the 29th day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1836, and adjourned from time to time, and
holden by adjournment at the same place on the 14th day of March,
in the year 1837, and since perfected, according to the provisions
of the said Act, by and between the several bodies politic and
persons owners of lands within the said parish, by whom, or by
whose agents duly authorized in that behalf, these presents are
executed, and the interest of which landowners in the lands of the
said parish is not less than two-thirds of the lands therein subject to
tithes, of the one part, and the Rev d Thomas Roupell Everest,
clerk, rector of the said parish, and owner of all the tithes, as well
great as small thereof, of the other part, It is by these presents
witnessed, that at the said meetings it hath been, and is mutually
agreed upon by and between all the said parties to these presents in
manner following, that is to say, That the annual sum of Four
hundred and forty-six pounds, fourteen shillings, and three pence,
by way of rent-charge (subject to variation as in the said Act
provided, and subject to the other provisions therein contained,)
shall be payable and be paid to the said Thomas Roupell Everest,
as rector of the said parish and owner of the tithes thereof, and to
his successors, instead of all the tithes, as well great as small, of
the lands of the said parish subject to tithes (including tithe of
glebe), the rent-charge in lieu of which it is hereby agreed shall be
fixed at the sum of Sixteen pounds, fourteen shillings, and three
pence, in respect of the rectorial or great tithes and vicarial or
small tithes of the glebe of the said parish, and which said sum of
Sixteen pounds, fourteen shillings, and three pence, it is hereby
agreed shall be apportioned exclusively upon the said glebe lands,
and instead of all moduses and composition, real and prescriptive,
and customary payments payable in respect of all the lands of the
said parish or the produce thereof, a summary description of which
lands is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed. In testimony
whereof the said parties to these presents, or their respective agents
thereunto duly authorized in their names and on their behalf, have
to these presents subscribed and set their respective hands and seals
on the Uth day of March, 1837.'
154 GLOUCESTEKSHIEE NOTES AND QUERIES.
'The whole parish of Wickwar contains by estimation 2,231
acres. The whole quantity of the -lands of the said parish which
are liable to the payment of any kind of tithes, is by estimation
2,231 acres. The whole quantity of the lands of the said parish
which is cultivated as arable land, is by estimation 479 acres,
subject to tithe. The whole quantity of the lands of the said
parish subject to tithes cultivated as meadow or pasture land,
including homestead, is by estimation 1,493 acres. The whole
quantity of the lands of the said parish subject to tithes now
cultivated as woodland, is by estimation 3 acres. The whole
quantity of waste lands within the said parish is by estimation
256 acres. There is not any modus or composition, real, prescriptive,
or customary payment, payable instead of any of the tithes of the
said parish. The glebe lands of the said parish which if not in the
hands of the owner or owners, would be subject to tithe, amount
to fourteen acres, two roods, and thirty-five perches, which glebe
lands belong to the said Kev d T. E, Everest as rector of the said
parish.'
[Supplemental Article.]
' It is hereby witnessed, and the parties to the within agreement
do hereby declare it to be their will and intention, That the lands
included in the said agreement shall be discharged from the
payment of tithes, and that the said rent-charge shall commence
from the 1st day of January next preceding the confirmation of
the appointment. In witness whereof the parties to these presents,
or their respective agents thereunto duly authorized in their names
and on their behalf, have to these presents subscribed and set their
respective hands and seals the 16th day of October, 1837.'
Now I, Young Sturge, of the city of Bristol, surveyor, having
been duly appointed valuer to apportion the total sum agreed to be
paid by way of rent-charge in lieu of tithes, amongst the several
lands of the said parish of Wickwar, do hereby apportion the rent-
charge as follows. ^ * #
Gross rent-charge payable to the tithe owner in lieu of tithes,
for the parish of Wickwar, in the county of Gloucester, Four
hundred and forty-six pounds, fourteen shillings, and three pence.
Value in imperial bushels, and decimal parts of an imperial
bushel, of wheat, barley, and oats, viz.
Wheat
Barley
Oats
Price per bushel.
Bushels and
decimal parts.
s. d.
7 . OJ
3 . Ill
2 . 9
424 -
752 -
1082 -
- 17804
- 35790
- 93939.
The following is a copy of a terrier in the Registry of the Lord
Bishop of Gloucester :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 155
A true Terrier* of all the Glebe Lands, Messuages, Tenements,
Tithes, and other rights, belonging to the Rectory & Parish Church
of Wick war, in the County & Diocese of Gloucester, & now in the
possession of the Eev d Thomas Cook, LL.B., Rector there, or his
Tenants, taken & made according to the evidences & knowledge of
the ancient Inhabitants this 29 th day of May, in the year of our
Lord 1807, and exhibited at the Visitation of the Right Rev d Father
in God George Isaac [Huntingford], Lord Bishop of Gloucester,
holden at Chipping Sodbury, in the Diocese & County of Gloucester,
the 3 rd day of June, in the year 1807.
Imprimis. One dwelling House, one Barn, 2 Cow-Houses, Pigsty,
one Coal House adjoining the same, one Dairy.
Item. One Orchard, a Garden in front of the Dwelling house, a
back Garden & Court the whole about one acre, more or less.
Item. One Orchard about f of an acre, behind the dwelling
house, bounded by Lands, South and East, belonging to the Right
Hon ble Lord Ducie, and on the West by the Turnpike-Road leading
to Wotton-under-Edge.
Item. One inclosed piece of Pasture in front of the Dwelling
House, called or known by the name of Lisburn, containing by
estimation 6 acres, more or less.
Item. One piece of Pasture, known by the name of Sainfoin
Ground, containing by estimation 5 acres, more or less, adjoining to
the road leading to West End in the said Parish.
Item. Two pieces of Pasture, called or known by the name of
the Orchard, bounded on all sides by Land belonging to the Right
Hon ble Lord Ducie, containing by estimation about 10 acres.
Item. Two pieces of Pasture, known by the name of Blakemoors,
containing by estimation 23 acres, more orless, with aLimekiln thereon.
Item. Two pieces of Arable, called Blakemoor, & Coppice Land,
adjoining to the said 23 acres of Pasture, containing by estimation
9 acres, more or less.
Item. One piece of Arable in a ground belonging to M rs King,
opposite the 7 acre piece, containing by estimation 20 perch, more
or less.
Item. To the said Rectory is due the Tithes of all things Tithable,
& there is no Custom of Tithing within the said Parish.
Item. 15s. per annum is due to the Rector for a Sermon to be
preached on Old Christmas day, which said sum was left by
Mary Edwards by Will, and is payable by her Executor, M r William
Hobbs, of West "End.
Item. 10s. for a Sermon to be preached on S* Matthias &
S* Matthew in each & every year, which said sums are paid out of
a House in the Town of Wickwar, belonging to M r Richard Barber.
* The reader who desires information regarding terriers, is recommended to consult a paper
by E. R. Rowe, Esq., Fellow of the Surveyors' Institution, entitled Glebe Terriers, 1882. This
pamphlet and the Archdeacon of Bristol's Charge, April, 1883 (in which he expresses his
regret that only one-third of the benefices in his archdeaconry appear to have terriers of their
property), formed the ground work of some remarks upon the subject in our " Notices of Recent
Publications," No. 2 (January, 1885). ED.
-156 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Item. In the Parish Church of Wickwar is a seat under the
Gallery, adjoining the Vestry, & near to one of the Pillars of the
said Church.
Item. The two front seats in the Chancel belong to the Rector.
Item. In the said parish is a Mortuary payable according to Act
of Parliament.
Item. One piece of Arable adjoining to a Farm called Churchwood,
in the parish of Cromhall, on the West, and the Turnpike road
leading to Tortworth & Wotton-under-Edge, on the East, containing
by estimation 7 acres, more or less.
In testimony of the truth of the above-mentioned particulars,
we, the Minister, Churchwardens, & Chief Inhabitants, have set
our Hands this 29 th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1807.
Thomas Cook, Rector.
James Pullin,
Phillip Ecot,
Cha 8 Austeroc (?),
John Townsend,
Ab m Philpot,
Edmund Jones,
Joseph Isaac,
W m Wickham,
Tho 8 Daniell,
John Minett,
W m Poole,
3 rd June, 1807.
Exhibited into the
Register Office,
Tho 8 Rudge, D : Reg r ,
KP.
Examined with
the Original
Terrier by me,
Tho 8 Gardner,
D : Reg r .
Church-
wardens.
^Inhabitants.
List and Measurement of the Glebe Lands from Sturge's Tithe
Commutation Map.
Parsons Orchard
Parsons Orchard .....
Parsons Orchard ......
Piece in the Down .....
The Seven Acres ......
Little Blakemoor .....
Great Blakemoor ......
Great Blakemoor .....
Part of Great Blakemoor ....
Great Blakemoor Coppice ....
The Coppice ......
The French Grass Ground ....
Lisburn
Rectory House, Garden, Lawn, and Out-
buildings .
Church Yard
Inclosure from the Common
(To le continued.)
Acres
A. E. P.
6
1
5
3
2
35
2
15
16
8
2
17
5
1
16
11
2
8
11
3
34
2
34
1
22
4
2
33
5
31
5
1
32
2
25
2
15
6
7
74
35
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 157
1125. GEORGE EIDLER IN A NEW CAPACITY. Under the
above title the Bristol Times of May 6, 1854, contains what
follows : " We have been favoured with the sight of an old
Oxford Journal of 1758, in which there is an advertisement from
George Kidler, of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, from which it appears
that a person of the same name as he who is annually celebrated in
song at the dinner of the Gloucestershire Society (possibly the
same man), was an 'innokulator.' The following is the advertise-
ment a literary curiosity in its way :
'February 11, 1758.
' I George Kidler, near Stroud, in the County of Gloster,
Broadweaver, at the desier of peepel hereabout, do give Nautis,
That I have Inockulated these too Seazons paste betweene 2 and
300 for the Smale Pox, and but too or three of them died A
Mainy peepel be a feard of the thing, but evaith it is No More
than Scrattin a bit of a haul in theier Yarm, A pushin in a peece
of Skraped rag dipt in Sum of the Pocky Matter of a Child under
the distemper That Every body in the Nashion may be sarved, I
Will God Willin Undertake to Inockillat them, with the pervizer
they will take too Purges before hand and loose a little blud away,
for half a Crown a head : And I will be bould to say Noo body
goes beyond me.
' KB. Poor Yolk at a Shilling a head, but all Must pay for the
Purgin.' " j L>
1126. ROWLAND HILL AND DR. JENNER. The venerated
minister of Surrey Chapel, the Rev. Rowland Hill, not only advocated
vaccination soon after its introduction by Dr. Jenner, but himself
vaccinated all who came to him. From the pulpit on Sunday
evenings, after the sermon, he used to say, " I am ready to vaccinate
to-morrow morning as many children as you choose ; and if you
wish them to escape that horrid disease, the small-pox, you will
bring them." Mr. J. Cordy JeafFreson, in his Book about Doctors,
p. 311, tells the following anecdote: " My Lord," said Rowland
Hill once to a nobleman, " allow me to present to your Lordship my
friend, Dr. Jenner, who has been the means of saving more lives
than any other man." "Ah!" observed Jenner, "would that I,
like you, could say souls." There was no cant in this. Jenner
was a simple, unaffected, and devout man. His last words were, " I do
not marvel that men are grateful to me, but I am surprised that
they do not feel gratitude to God for making me a medium of good."
J. G.
1127. Two OLD BRISTOL ADVERTISEMENTS. Farley's Bristol
Journal of July 9, 1737, contains the following advertisement,
curious as showing the prices of tea at that date, and that grocery
and hosiery sometimes went together :
158 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
" At the Hosiers shop, next door below the Gilders Inn in High
Street, Bristol, is to be sold, All Sorts of Tea very cheap ; viz.,
good Bohea cat 7s. 6d. ; fine Congoe at 8s. 6d. ; the best Hyson, 18s. ;
and all othor sorts in proportion. At the same shop is likewise
continued to be sold, all sorts of Hose, Wholesale or Eetale, at
very reasonable Rates, by Hannah James."
This also appears in the same paper :
" Mr. Okey's Malthouse at the upper-end of Stoke's Croft,
Bristol, being now occupied by John Scandrett : Any Person that
will favour him with their Orders may depend on good Malt and
kind Usage, By their humble Servant John Scandrett. For the
better Conveniency of those who live at a Distance, please to leave
their Orders at Mr. George Daubenye's, Sugar Baker, in Hallier's
Lane, or at Mr. Robert Robert Bridle's, Grocer on the Bridge."
According to the Bristol Times of September 15, 1855, which
copied the advertisements, the John Scandrett referred to was an
ancestor of the late John Scandrett Harford, Esq., of Blaize Castle,
while the George Daubeny, who took in orders for his friend, was
the father of the gentleman of the same name who afterwards
[1781-4] represented Bristol in the House of Commons. j ^
1128. BOND OF INHABITANTS OF CIRENCESTER FOR PROSECUTION
OF FELONS, 1774. The following is an interesting document in
connection with the history of Cirencester. ECS
To all to whom these Presents shall come. We, whose names are
hereunder written, and seals affixed, being of the Town of Ciren-
cester, in the County of Gloucester, Proprietors and Tenants of
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments in the said Town and
County, Send Greeting, Know Ye that we, being willing and
desirous to suppress all Murder, Robbery, Petty Larceny, or other
Felonious Act or Acts against the Persons, Lands, Tenements,
Goods, or Chattels of us, or any or either of us, in the Town and
County aforesaid, Have, and every and each of us Hath, mutually,
jointly, and severally agreed and consented, and by these Presents
Do, and every and each of us Doth, mutually, jointly, and severally
agree and consent to and with each other, to Prosecute all and every
person and persons, who shall or may, during the space of Seven
Years, to be computed from the date hereof, be guilty of any or
either of the crimes aforesaid against the Persons, Lands, Tene-
ments, Goods, or Chattels of us or any or either of us respectively
m i I n and Count y af oresaid. And also to be at equal costs
d charges in the Law for the commencing and carrying on all and
every Suit and Suits, Action or Actions, and all Prosecutions what-
soever, which shall or may be had, commenced, or prosecuted for or
by reason or means of the premises aforesaid during the continuance
3 said term. And also to be at equal costs and charges from
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 159
time to time during the aforesaid term in publishing proper Adver-
tisements in the Gloucester Journal, and any other Journal, for the
aforesaid purposes, as often as we may see occasion. And we do
hereby appoint Thomas Lediard, of Cirencester aforesaid, Agent to
this our Association. And for the true performance of this our
Agreement each of us doth bind himself unto the other of them in
the penal sum of Ten pounds firmly by these Presents. In witness
whereof we have hereunto severally set our hands and seals this
ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-four.
[Signed by Earl Bathurst and 162 inhabitants, whose surnames
are here arranged in alphabetical order.]
Tho 8 Allaway,
Tho 8 Arrowsmith,
Anth y Baldwin,
J. Bedwell,
John Benger,
Henry Bennett,
John Bishop,
Blandford,
Ja 8 Blourit,
Ja s Borton,
Sam 1 Bowly,
Edw d Brewer,
Geo. Brewer,
John Brewer,
Jos. Brewer,
John Brown,
Jos. Brown,
Han. Brunsdon,
John Burge,
Eliz: Butt,
Samuel Canter,
Solomon Canter,
Joseph Carpenter,
Tho 8 Carpenter,
Tho 8 Carter,
W m Cheadle,
Tho 8 Cherington,
W m Cherington,
Tho 8 Clinch,
Eliz: Clutterbuck,
John Coates,
Tho 8 Colin,
Cha 8 Cox,
Cha 8 Cox, j r ,
BATHURST,
Joseph Cox,
Jos h Cripps,
James Croome,
Robert Croome,
Robert Croome, j r ,
William Croome,
Joseph Dadge,
William Darker,
Tho : Dawson,
Nath 1 Deighton,
Law ce Edmonds,
Tho 8 Edon,
John Ellis,
W m Emerson,
Jonas Eycott,
Alb* Eyles,
Tho 8 Filkins,
Rich d Fletcher,
John Flux,
Tho 8 Flux,
Tho 8 Forder,
John Forster,
Anna Freeman,
Rich d Fryer,
Tho 8 Gale,
Rich d Gegg,
J. Gibbs,
Esther Gillam,
John Gillman,
Jos. Green,
Rob* Greenwood,
Ja 8 Haddock,
Bob* Hall,
W m Hall,
John Harding,
W m Hatchett,
Harry Hawkins,
John Haynes,
Cha 8 Heath,
Mary Hewer,
William Hewer,
Cha 8 Hiett,
James Hill,
John Hill,
Mary Hill,
Michael Hinton,
Geo. Holder,
Rob* Howse,
Tho 8 Howse,
Tho. Howse,
Tho 8 Jenkins,
S. Johnson,
W m Lawrence,
Tho 8 Lediard,
Nath 1 Mace,
Ja 8 Masters,
John Masters,
Dan 1 Masters,
Tho 8 Masters,
John Maysey,
Ja 8 Miles,
Joseph Milton,
Walter Naish,
William Newcomb,
Nath 1 Onion,
Jos. Osborne,
Jane Overbury,
H. Paget, sen r ,
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Samuel Paget,
James Pagett,
John Pagett,
Daniel Parry,
J. Parry,
Mary Parsloe,
Ja s Parsons,
Tho 8 Parsons,
Daniel Pike,
Ann Poin,
John Price,
John Pugh,
Giles Radway,
Tho 8 Radway,
Rich d Relph,
John Reynolds,
Eliz. Richardson,
Fra s Richardson,
Tho 8 Robbins,
John Roberts,
S. Rudder,
B. Sainesbury,
Henry Saunders,
Mary Saunders,
John Selby,
Jos. Selby,
Rich : Self,
Jos. Small,
Hester Smith,
Widow Sparrow,
John Stacy,
John Steele,
Tho 8 Stevens,
Tim. Stevens,
W m Stevens,
W m Stevens,
John Taylor,
Rich. Taylor,
Mary Telling,
J. Timbrell,
Dan 1 Towse,
Ann Turner,
Tho 8 Turner,
W m Turner,
Rob. Tyler,
W. Ursell,
Tho 8 Yaisey,
Tho 8 Vaisey, juii r ,
Ann Webb,
W m Webb,
John Westmacott,
John White,
Geo. Whiting,
Jon : Wilkins,
W m Wilkins,
Mary Willett,
Isaac Wood,
John Wood,
T. Wood,
S. Worthington.
1129. THE PASTON ENTRIES IN THE HORTON REGISTER. (See
No. 1005.) The following extracts from Reliquiae Hearnianoe,
vol. ii., p. 618 (1st ed., 1857) ; p. 275 (2nd ed., 1869), may help to
explain some of the entries in the Horton parish register, printed
at p. 4 supra :
"1726, Dec. 15. M r Calvert told me that he hath an uncle
called M r Paston, who is a very curious gentleman. He is a.
Roman Catholic. He lives at Pauntly in Gloucestershire. He
married M r Calvert's aunt, viz : the Lady Anne Calvert. She is
his 2 d wife. His estate (at least the greater part of it) is Abbey
lands, and thrives with him, as it is a general observation that
Abbey lands thrive in Roman Catholic hands, though not in others.
M r Charles Hyde is chaplain to him. M r Paston's son married
M rs [i.e., Miss] Courteney, a lady of great understanding and virtue.
They were married in 1725. Her brother (who is a Protestant)
hath many old valuable writings. M r Calvert then told me that
the great tithes of Kissling, near Richmond in Yorkshire, belonged
to the Priory of S* Agatha, i.e., Richmond juxta. The foresaid
young M r Paston [William Paston, Esq.] lives at Horton, near
Badminton in Gloucestershire. This Horton belonged to the
Church of Salisbury."
The late Dr. Bliss edited Reliquice Hearniance, and appended
this note to the foregoing :
" Hearne's remark on the prosperity attending the possession of
Abby-lands by Roman Catholic proprietors is rather unfortunate
in this instance. The Paston name, at once one of the most
ancient and respectable in England, is, I fancy, now extinct. The
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last of the family lived at Horton, and becoming involved, fell into
tlie hands of an attorney in the neighbourhood, to whom he
ultimately became so indebted, that dying, he paid his debt by
leaving the estate to this gentleman. There was, if I rightly
remember, a suit at law in consequence, which, at the time,
occasioned a great sensation in the County, and on the production
of the Will, which (having been proved in some Consistory Court in
the country, and erroneously sought for in the Prerogative Court in
London only) was supposed not to exist, the cause was immediately
decided in favour of the attorney."
In the church, among other monuments, is one to the above-
mentioned Mr. Paston, who married Miss Courteney. On it is the
shield of Paston arms, with those of Courteney in pretence. The
old House, now becoming dilapidated, in snugly sheltered under the
high ground on which stands the Somerset pillar. In a projecting
wing, touching the churchyard, is an upper room once used for
Roman Catholic services, the traces of which remain.
J. EDWARD JACKSON,
Leigh Delaniere Rectory, Chippenham. Hon. Canon of Bristol.
1130. LYDE, FOSTER, AND ADAMS INSCRIPTIONS, STANTON
DREW. In the Strachey chapel on the north side of Stanton Drew
Church, Somerset, about six miles south of Bristol, there are four
mural monuments, with these inscriptions respectively :
i.
" Near this monument lyeth y e body of | Cornelius Lyde, of
this parish, Esq r , who departed this life on the 25 th day | of July,
in y e year of our Lord 1717, | aged 77. He was a gentleman of
great piety | & integrity, and serv'd his country | honourably in y e
commission of y e peace | during y e whole reign of King William. |
Here also lyeth y e body of Mary, his wife, with whom he liv'd in
great love above 50 years : she dy'd on y e 8 th day | of June, 1715,
aged 73. She bred up eight sons & three daughters, | to whom
she was very indulgent, and | a bright pattern of virtue & piety."
ii.
" Near this place lyeth | the body of Anna Maria, the wife of
Lyonel Lyde, | of the city of Bristol, Esq r , who | died the 24 th of
Febr, 1729 [1729-30], aged | 30 years. Also the bodies of their
sons, | Beniamin & William."
iii.
" To the memory of | James Lyde, Esq r , who departed this life
on y e twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord 1731, | in
the 62 d year of his age. | He was the eldest son of Cornelius
Lyde, Esq r , | whose monument is erected in this isle. He was
bred to | merchandise in the city of Bristol, and follow'd that |
employment near 30 years, with great integrity, repu tation, and
success. On the death of his father he retir'd | to his estate in
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this parish, where he spent the remainder | of his days in that
tranquility of mind and general esteem, | which are the consequence
and reward of an upright conduct | flowing from a principle of
real piety and universal | benevolence. | He married Martha, one
of the daughters of | M r Michael Pope, of Bristol, Mercl^, | by
whom he had fourteen children, of whom six dy'd in | their
infancy, and are buried in the parish church of S* James, in that
city. As is also their eldest son,
day of Jan y , 1724, | aged 27. |
this isle were, |
Mary, wife of M r Tho 8 Prouis,
James,
Michael,
Sarah,
Esther,
Cornelius, who dy'd on the 29 th
Their children who lye buried in
1730,
Dec r 17 th ,
Dec r 25 th , 1736,
Oct r 13 th , 1734,
Jany 21 st , 1737,
Aug* 19 th , 1734,
to
26
26
21
21
17
Martha, his relict, erected this monument in y e year 1738. |
Rachel, another of their children, dy'd Nov r 30 th , 1738, | aged 21."
v.
" Here is interred the body of S r Michael Foster, } one of the
Judges of the Court of King's Bench, | Avho was born Decem : 16,
1689, | and died Nov : 7, 1763. | Dame Martha, his wife, the
eldest daughter of James Lyde, Esq r , | is also here interred : | she
died May 15, 1758, in the 57 year of her age."
Besides the above four inscriptions, which have been literally
copied (April, 1885), there are the two following, given as in
Collinson's History of Somerset (1791), vol. ii., p. 436 :
(In south aisle.)
" Near this place lie the remains of Elizabeth Lyde, relict of
James Lyde, Esq., jun., who erected this monument to the memory
of his father and mother."
(On north side of middle aisle.)
" In memory of Elizabeth Adams, the wife of John Adams, of
this parish, Esq., who departed this life Sept. 15, 1768, aged 68.
She Was daughter of John Lyde, of the parish of Chelwood, Esq.,
and grandaughter of Cornelius Lyde, Esq., whose remains lie
interred in this church. She was a person of great piety. Also
Lyde Adams, son of the said John and Elizabeth Adams ; and also
Lyde Adams and Sarah Adams, their grandchildren; all died in
their infancy."
For particulars of the above-named Sir Michael Foster, the reader
is referred to Dodson's Life of him (London, 1811), or to Foss'
Judges of England (1870), p. 278. Having been called to the bar,
he followed his profession, first in his native town of Marlborough,
and then at Bristol, to which city he removed after his marriage.
In August, 1735, he was appointed recorder of Bristol. While he
held that office several important questions came before him.
Amongst them was the right of the city of Bristol to try capital
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offences committed within its jurisdiction, and the legality of pressing
mariners for the public service. The former arose in 1741, in the
case of the atrocious murder of Sir Dinely Goodere, when his brother,
Captain Goodere, was tried and convicted, and the authority of the
city fully established. The latter was the case of Alexander
Broadfoot, indicted in 1743 for the murder of Cornelius Calahan,
who had been killed in an attempt to press the prisoner. On this
occasion the recorder delivered a long opinion in support of the
legality of impressment, but directed the jury to find Broadfoot
guilty of manslaughter only, because Calahan had acted without any
legal warrant. (State Trials, xvii. 1003; xviii. 1323.) On April 22,
1745, he was sworn in as a justice of the King's Bench, and was
knighted ; and for eighteen years he maintained the high judicial
character he had established for himself as recorder of Bristol.
The general impression regarding him may be gathered from a
passage in Churchill's Rosciad :
"Each judge was true and steady to his trust,
As Mansfield wise, and as old Foster just." EDITOR.
1131. OCTAGONAL CHURCH TOWERS. (Keplies to No. 1089.)
The tower of Coxwold Church, in Yorkshire, the parish formerly
held by Sterne, who resided at Shandy Hall while incumbent, is
octagonal. There is also an octagonal church tower near the railway
running from Maidenhead to Princes Risborough. I forget the name
of the parish. BBAUCHAMP WALKER, K.C.B., General.
In the Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and
Natural History Society (1853), vol. iv., pt. ii., pp. 1-17, there is
a paper by Mr. E. A. Freeman, headed " On the Architecture of
the Neighbourhood of Yeovil," in which he remarks that one of
the first things to strike the observer in the earlier churches of
Somerset, is the octagonal form not uncommonly given to the
towers ; and that the use of the octagonal tower stretches over a
long narrow line of country from about Taunton nearly to the
eastern boundary of the county. But Somersetshire, strictly
speaking, is not within our limits. The reader is therefore referred
for full particulars to the paper itself ; and we must not go beyond
the following extracts :
" These Somersetshire octagons have a very peculiar character,
and it may be worth while to compare them with those which
occur in another region, where the octagonal form is also frequent,
namely, Northamptonshire. Two marked differences strike at once :
the Somersetshire octagon is a sign of early work; that of
Northamptonshire is generally late ; the Somersetshire octagon is
the tower itself assuming the octagonal form ; the Northampton-
shire is an addition made to a square tower, which might exist
without it, or at most an altered shape given to its upper portion,
Stan wick is the only case which occurs to me of a tower at once of
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early date and octagonal from the base. The Somersetshire octagon
a^ain is, when most distinctive, central or lateral, while the
Northamptonshire octagon is invariably western, and often supports
a spire. ... I have said that in the Somersetshire octagons, it
is the tower itself which assumes the octagonal form, while in
Northamptonshire the octagon is only part of the tower, or even
distinctly an addition to it. This is true, although there is only
one Somersetshire octagon which I have seen, that at Barton
St. David's, which is octagonal from the ground, and that of course
only on the side away from the church. The central octagons of
North Curry and Stoke St. Gregory have indeed' no square base
appearing above the roof, and so may come under the same head ;
that at South Petherton I have not yet had the good luck to see.
But the lateral octagons of Somerton and Bishop's Hull, and the
western ones of Ilchester and Puddimore Milton, all rise from a
square base rising to about the height of the church, or nearly so.
Yet every one would call these octagonal towers : even at Somerton,
where the square base rises to a greater height than in the others,
it is the octagonal form which determines the character of the
tower. In short, in Somersetshire the square is a mere base to the
octagon, while in Northamptonshire the octagon is a mere finish to
the square."
Further remarks upon the subject may be found in the Society's
Proceedings (1872), vol. xviii., pt. i., p. 62. EDITOR.
1132. POOR KATES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. The
Bristol Times of September 20, 1856, contains the following :
" We have this week been favoured with the sight of an assessment
for the poor made for the borough of Chipping Sodbury on the 7th
July, 1685, wherein the parties assessed numbered 118, and the
gross amount collectable amounted to only 1 18s. lOd. The name
of the mayor, 'Thomas Tilly, Esq.', heads the list, and he is
charged with the payment of the ruinous sum of 2d. The highest
rating is but Is. 4d., and there are some as low as Id." It will be
seen that the average for each ratepayer is under 4d. j -^
1133. STRANGE CHRISTIAN NAME. Whilst searching the
Churchdown register of baptisms, I came across the following,
which is probably worth making a note of for your publication :
" Salathiel, son of Jacob Collerick and Mary his wife, baptized
y e 21 November, 1705."
I may add that in 6th of Eliz. a Colericke was curate of Church-
down, and that he held the cure of the parish for fifty years.
Churchdown Vicarage. F. S.
1134. OLD MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS. (See Nos. 230, 299,
and 715.) The editor of the Bristol Times, in his number dated
April 7th, 1860, has an article on this subject, from which the
following are extracts :
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" I take up a file of the Bristol newspaper of 1742. We are apt
to speak with contempt of the backwardness of the old broadsheets,
yet show me anything in modern journalism half so full and satis-
fying as their announcements of marriages. Here is one, under the
head of Bristol, January 8, 1742 :
'Last week, [Thomas] Masters, Esq., son of Thomas Masters,
Member of Parliament for Cirencester, was married, at the parish
church of Almondsbury, to Miss [Elizabeth Chester] Cann, sole
daughter and heiress of Sir William Cann, late of Brislington,
Bart., and niece of Thomas Chester, of Knowle, Esq., M.P. for the
county of Gloucester ; a young lady of fine sense, great sweetness
of temper, uncommon prudence, with a most agreeable person, and
a fortune of 20,000.'
The first announcement in the same interesting column in the
next week is as follows :
' On Tuesday, Mr. William Stephens, an eminent linen draper in
Christ Church parish, was married to Miss Bartlet, eldest daughter
of John Bartlet, Esq., late Mayor of this city ; a polite and
beautiful young lady, with a handsome fortune.'
The following, under the head of February 12, 1742, is a
specimen of mitigated praise, that, somehow or other, makes you
think the lady was plain, since the general allusion to a * pleasing
person' is rather pointedly left out :
' On Thursday last, Mr. George Beecher, the youngest son of John
Beecher, Esq., senior Alderman, and father of the city, was
married to Miss Williams, an agreeable young lady, with a hand-
some fortune.'
In some of the announcements a panegyric was not only
bestowed on the fair bride, but the editor contrived to compliment
the family also ; as, for instance, on March 10, 1742, we read as
follows :
'Thursday, Mr. Samuel Gardiner, Master of Colston's Hospital,
was married to Miss Peggy Love, daughter of Mr. John Love, an
eminent merchant of this city ; a very agreeable young lady, and
of a family remarkable for beauty and politeness.' " j ^
1135. EICHARD FERRIS' VOYAGE FROM LONDON TO BRISTOL,
1590. A curious tract, entitled The most dangerous and memorable
adventure of Richard Ferris, etc., was " published by the said
Eichard Ferris " (London, 1590); and has been reprinted,* in 1883,
in Arber's English Garner, vol. vi., pp. 153-166. Ferris was "one
of the five ordinary Messengers of Her Majesty's Chamber : who
departed from Tower Wharf, on Midsummer Day last past, with
Andrew Hill and William Thomas ; who undertook, in a small
* The late Mr. John Payne Collier reprinted the tract, in 1864, in his Illustrations of Early
English Popular Literature, vol. ii. The two 4to volumes of this work were privately
printed, and are by no means common, only fifty copies of each tract having been struck off for
166 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
wherry boat, to row, by sea, to the city of Bristow [Bristol] ; and
are now safely returned ;" and in the tract " is particularly expressed
their perils sustained in the said Voyage : and the great entertain-
ment they had at several places upon the coast of England, as they
went ; but especially at the said city of Bristow." A transcript of
the greater part of the dedication to Sir Thomas Heneage will not
be out of place: "The late dangerous attempt, rashly by me
Undertaken, to row in a small boat to the city of Bristow, along the
perilous rocks, breaches, races, shelves, quicksands, and very unlikely
places for passage with such small boats, along the coast of
England, is now, by the assistance of Almighty God, truly
performed : as appeareth by our several certificates ready to be
seen ; with our safe return, contrary to the expectation of sundry
persons. Which being truly and particularly discoursed, I have
presumed to dedicate unto your Honour ; wherein may plainly be
seen, how we adventured to pass the force of dangerous flaws and
rough seas, which we found in our voyage ; and proveth the
attempt the more strange in respect that I was never trained up on
the water. Not doubting but the same may be a just occasion to
prick forward others of my native countrymen, to practise an
ordinary passage through the like dangers, in such small wherry
boats ; especially when necessary occasion shall serve, the better to
daunt the enemies [the Spaniards] of this nation ; who in such
flaws and frets at sea, dare not hazard their galleys to go forth,
though they be of far greater force to brook the seas."
Starting from London, as already mentioned, on Midsummer-day
[June 24], Ferris and his two companions encountered many and
great dangers, of which he has recorded full particulars (the reader
being referred for them to the tract, as we have to treat here mainly
of what took place at Bristol), but reached Ilfracombe in safety on
Saturday night, the 1st of August. " Whereupon," he writes, ""for
that we were so near Bristow, I desired my company, that we might
put to sea that night ; which they were loth to do ; yet, at my
importunate suit, they granted thereto. But being at sea, the wind
arose very sore from the land ; which put us all in great fear :
whereby I myself was constrained to row four hours alone, on the
larboard side ; and my fellow rower was compelled to lade forth
water (so fast as it came into the boat) which beat upon me and
over me very sore, the wind then being East-and-by-South. Thus
was I constrained to labour for life, and yet had almost killed
myself through the heat I took, in that time : rowing, as is afore-
said, until we came to Mynette [Minehead]. This done, we went
from Mynette : and so, between the two homes* came to Bristow,
in one tide : and arrived at the back of Bristow, about six of the
clock at night."
*, n S. te f interr gation to this word, leading us thereby to
are unkn<wn to bim - For the meanin * of
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 167
Now comes the climax, and the happy reward for all they had
endured ; and we shall again allow Ferris to speak for himself and
his companions. " It was wonderful to see and hear what rejoicing
there was, on all sides, at our coming ! The Mayor of Bristow
[John Hopkins], with his brethren the Aldermen, came to the
water side, and welcomed us most lovingly ; and the people came
in great multitudes to see us ; insomuch as, by the consent of the
Magistrates, they took our boat from us, not suffering us once to
meddle with it, in that we were extremely weary : and carried our
said boat to the High Cross in the city. From thence it was
conveyed to the Town House, and there locked safe all night. And
on the next morning, the people gathered themselves together, and
had prepared trumpets, drums, fifes, and ensigns to go before the
boat ; which was carried upon men's shoulders round about the
city, with the Waits of the said city playing orderly, in honour of
our rare aud dangerous attempt achieved. Afterwards, we were
had to Master Mayor's, to the Aldermen's and Sheriffs' houses ;
where we were feasted most royally, and spared for no cost, all the
time that we remained there."
Having refreshed themselves after their tedious labours, they
bade farewell to their good friends in Bristol, and wisely returning
home by land, they reached London on Saturday, the 8th of the
month ; where, " to speak our truth without dissembling, our
entertainment at our coming was great and honourable ; especially
at the Court, and in the cities of London and Westminster."
Their boat was also brought back by land, the watermen and others
having " promised to grace the said boat with great melody and
sundry volleys of shot ; which is very shortly intended to be
performed."
Appended to the narrative is " A new Sonnet [of sixty-six lines,
by James Sargent] made upon the arrival and brave entertainment
of Eichard Ferris and his boat; who arrived at the city of Bristow,
the 3rd day of August, 1590." A portion of it will serve as a
specimen, and must suffice :
" Come, old and young ! behold and view !
A thing most rare is to be seen !
A silly wherry, it is most true !
Is come to town, with sail of green ;
With oars, colour of the same :
To happy Ferris' worthy fame !
" From London city, this wager, sure,
Was for to bring his wherry small,
On surging seas if life endure,
From port to port, hap what hap will !
To Bristow city of worthy name,
Where Ferris now hath spread his fame v
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" His boat not bulged, but at High Cross
Was seen the third of August, sure ;
Whereby the man hath had no loss,
But did each willing heart procure
For to be ready there in haste,
To see the boat that there was placed."
EEISTOLIENSIS.
113(3, NOTES ON THE FREEMAN FAMILY, OF BUSHLEY, 1620-
1700. (See No. 1123.) John Freeman and Mary, his wife, who
was a daughter of John Roberts,* of Fiddington, in the parish of
Ashchurch, gent., were living in Bushley, Worcestershire, in the
early part of the seventeenth century, on a freehold estate now
known as Yenley ; and five of their children, four daughters and
a son, were baptized there. He was descended from an old
Gloucestershire family, and was son of Thomas freeman, of
Oxenton, by Margaret, dau. of John Turberville, of Twyning.
His brother William succeeded their father at Oxenton ; his sister
Mary married William Stratford, of Upper Guyting ; and another
sister, Anne, married John Bugden, of Alington, Worcestershire.
It is not clear how the Freemans acquired property in Bushley ;
but Stratfords were already in the parish ; and John Freeman's
mother's home was at Twyning on the opposite side of the Severn.
He was no doubt a man of some means ; for he was one of those
who, holding land valued at 40 per annum, refused knighthood
at the coronation of Charles I. ; and during the civil war he joined
with Thomas Bush ell, of Bushley, in keeping a trooper and horse
for the king ; moreover, he gave to the same cause his son John
(probably his eldest), who rose to the rank of captain in the
royal army, and lost his life at the siege of Gloucester.
Mr. Freeman had issue, ,* :
i. John, described on his tomb in the churchyard of
Hempsted as a captain of horse (" centurio equestris "), and
stated to have been struck and killed by a musket ball during
the siege of Gloucester, August 14, 1643, in his twenty-third
year. It was after his death without issue (as appears from an
abstract of the title of his nephew Charles to the Bushley
estate) that his father "gave all his lands in Bushley to his
sonn Eoberts Freeman." He does not appear to have been
baptized at Bushley.
ii. Kemmett, who married Priscilla, dau. of Henry Tracy,
of South wick. She died May 27, 1670, and was buried in
the south transept of Tewkesbury Abbey, where there is a
tablet with this inscription : " Here also [her mother having
* 111 ^ 1 f Tewkesbui 7 Abbey there is a tablet with this inscription :-
was mortal of John Roberts, of Fiddington, Gent. Careful he was to
*< 6 Vh he mamtenance of mankind. He feared God, was faithful to his country,
aged 77 " P re common wealth : just to all men. Who left us Jan. 1631
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 169
been mentioned] lyeth buryed the body of Priscilla, the wife
of Kenimet Freeman, Gent., daughter of Henry Tracy, Esq.,
who dyed the 27 th day of May, Aho Domj 1670. Mary, the
daughter of Priscilla Freeman, and wife of John Ferryman,
Gent., who dyed the 15 of December, 1721." I do not know
the date of Kemmett Freeman's death ; but he had issue,
1. Charles, of whom presently.
2. Mary, wife of John Ferryman, as already mentioned,
iii. Koberts, of Bushley, baptized there in 1624, to whom
his father gave his lands in Bushley on the death of his
brother John at the siege of Gloucester. I do not know whom
he married; but as the Koberts arms are on his brass in
Bushley Church, though not impaled, it is possible that he
may have married a cousin. He died in 1651, leaving an only
son, John, known as of White Ladies zlston, who died s. p.,
his lands in Bushley passing to his cousin Charles, the son of
Kemmett, of whom presently.
iv. Maria, bapt. Oct. 8, 1620; died Oct. 12, 1622. The
following inscription was on the margin of the stone which
bore the brass of Roberts Freeman, but has disappeared : "Here
lieth Mary, the daughter of John Freeman, Gent., departed
this life the xii. October, 1622, aged 2 years." (Dr.
Prattinton's MSS.)
v. Margaret, bapt. June 25, 1626.
vi. Mary, bapt. May 16, 1630.
vii. Elianor, bapt. March 12, 1631-2 ; died unm. May 2,
1653. Her monument is in the north transept of Tewkesbury
Abbey, with this inscription :
" Elianor Freeman.
A Virgin-blossome, in her May
Of youth and vertues, turn'd to clay ;
Rich Earth ! accomplisht with those graces
That adorne Saints for heavenly places !
Let not Death boast his conquering power ;
Shee'le rise a Starre, that fell a Flower.
Deceased May the 2 nd , An. 1653, aged 21."
The above-named Charles Freeman, who succeeded his cousin y
and is described as " of Twyning " in deeds at Pull Court, sold the
lands in Bushley to Mr. James Glover, of that parish ; who in turn
sold them, in 1748, to William Dowdeswell, Esq., of Pull Court.
Charles Freeman and Hannah, his wife, had, in 1700, sold land in
Bushley direct to Mr. Dowdeswell.
Another branch of the family, taking its source from Bellinghani
Freeman, who acquired Gaines, in the county of Hereford, in
1683, settled there. In 1875, Freeman property in Tewkesbury,
Twyning, and Ashchurch was sold by Charles J. Sidebotham, Esq.,
and Mary Abigail, his wife, and several others, described as
descendants of a brother (John) of Thomas Harris Freeman, of
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Gaines I should like to know where Freeman of Gaines branches
off from the Freemans of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
Extracts from the Bushley registers.
1620. "Maria ffreeman baptizata fuit octavo die Octobris.
1622.' "Marie the daughter of M r John Ffreeman Gent and
Marie his wiff buried the 6 of October Anno Dm 1622. ffreeman."
1624. " Eoberts ffreeman the sonne of John ffreeman & Mari
his wife bapt. the 29 th day of March anno pdct. ffreeman."
1626. " Margaret the daughter of John ffreeman gent & Mari
his now wife bapt. the 25 June anno 1626. ffreeman."
1630. "Marye y e daughter of John ffreeman Gent by Mary e
his wife was baptized May y e 16, 1630. ffreeman."
1631. "Elinor the daughter of John ffreeman gent and Marie
his wife was baptized on the 12 th of March anno pd. ffreeman,"
1651. "Eoberts ffreeman Gent was buried the 20 th day of
Decemb. 1651. ffreeman." E. K. DOWDESWELL.
Bushley Parsonage, Tewkesbury.
1137. GLOUCESTERSHIRE DOCUMENTS. Under this heading the
following have been mentioned in No. 753 :
1. "Ancient Court-rolls of the Manor of Oldland, of the time
of Edward III.", sold by Messrs. Puttick, 1851.
2. "Minute Book of the Association for the Defence of the
County of Gloucester, 1792, &c.", sold at the sale of Mr. Thomas
Turner's library (of which it formed lot 763), 1860.
Can you oblige me with the names of the respective purchasers,
or tell where these documents, which I wish to see, are to be found?
J. G.
1138. LEPER HOSPITALS. I request the cooperation of your
readers in the following work. Archdeacon Wright, of Vancouver's
Island, is forming as complete a list as he can of the leper hospitals
which formerly existed in this country. Their number he considers
to have been from 500 to 1,000, of which he has at present about
150 on his list. I have undertaken to assist him so far as this
county is concerned, and shall be glad to receive any information
upon the subject. The only hospitals as yet tabulated for this
county are
Gloucester, St. Margaret's, before 1320.
Tewkesbury (neither name nor date).
THOMAS EOACH.
3, All Saints' Eoad, Clifton.
1139. " A BRISTOL COMPLIMENT." A present made of an
article that you do not care to keep yourself, is called " a Bristol
compliment." What may have been the origin of the phrase ?
G. A. W.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 17 1
1140. WILLIAM JENNINGS, B.D., DEAN OF GLOUCESTER,
.541-65. In Notes and Queries (6 th S. xi. 327) Mr. Sawyer, of
Brighton, has written as follows : In the lay subsidy for Sussex,
36 Henry VIII., the vicar of Brighton (then Brighthelmstone) is
stated to be dean of Gloucester; and on reference to Le Neve
(Fasti, i. 443) I find his name to have been William Jennings, and
that he died November 4, 1565. I should be glad of further
information about him.* He appears to have retained the vicarage
of Brighton until his death (see Suss. Arch. Coll., xxix. 203).
1141. THE OFFICE OF A LAY DEAN. Mr. Hubert Bower has
sent this communication to Notes and Queries (6 th S. xi. 329) :
Mr. Samuel Edwards, of Gotham Lodge, Bristol, one of the
partners in the Bristol Old Bank, high sheriff of the county of
Gloucester 1795, who died in 181.5, was lay dean of Westbury-on-
Trym. What is, or was, the office of a lay dean 1
1142. THOMAS PYRKE, OF LITTLE DEAN. Bigland, in his
Gloucestershire Collections, vol. i., p. 452, gives an inscription
(formerly in Little Dean Church, but at the time he wrote utterly
destroyed) to the memory of Thomas Pyrke, who died 9 April,
1702, aged 71. The arms on the monument are those of Pyrke,
impaling a cross and in the dexter chief a rose. I shall be glad to
know the family name of Deborah, his first wife [d. 9 Feb., 1662,
and buried at Abenhall], whose arms I suppose the impalement to
be. He married secondly, Mary Hopton, of Berkeley (mar. lie.
dated 23 April, 1663); and thirdly, at Deerhurst, 6 Dec., 1688,
Anne Lane. w c HEANE
The Lawn, Cinderford.
1143. A BRIEF FOR THOMAS SLOPER, OF HARTPURY, 1665.
In a long list of Briefs, taken from the old registers of Toddington,
and printed in Bedfordshire Notes and Queries, part viii. (April,
1885), this entry appears under the year 1665 :
"Aug. 27, Coll' for Tho : Sloper of Hartpuryin the County of
Gloucest r gentP - - 00 : 10 : 11."
Can anyone assign a satisfactory reason for the foregoing ? The
Slopers have held a good position in Gloucestershire. G A W
The following inscription from the churchyard of Hartpury has
been preserved by Bigland, vol. ii, p. 38 : " In memory of
Thomas Sloper, of this parish, Gent., whose surviving children,
by Joane, his only wife, are the | Rev. M r Charles Sloper,
Chancellor of Bristol [1695-1727]; | William Sloper, one of the
Attorneys | of the Common Pleas at Westminster; | Jane, the
wife of George Githens; | and Catherine Sloper. | Near to this
side lies the body of | the said Joane Sloper. He departed this
* See ante, vol.ii., p. 198. ED.
172 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
life 13 April, 1703. | She departed this life 2 Sept., 1676. Near
to this side lyes the body of Mary Sloper, | daughter of the sayd |
Thomas Sloper and Joane, his wife." EDITOR.
H44. BALDWIN DE HODNETT, 1217. In the late Rev.
E. W. Eyton's MS. History of Salop, which is preserved in the
William Salt Library, Stafford, this statement appears :
"3 Nov r , 1217. He (Baldwin de Hodnett) has returned to his
fealty, the Sheriff of Glo'ster to give him such seisin as he had
when he left King John's service."
Can any correspondent tell me to what property in Gloucester
the above refers ? jj\ p. H. H.
Cheltenham.
1145. WILLIAM MATTHEWS AND MR. DOCKETT. Can anyone
throw light on the following extract from an old letter ? " William
Matthews descended from Mr. Dockett, who preached in Bristol
Church till he was 101 years old." The said William Matthews
must have lived somewhere about the beginning of the last century.
Mention is also made of a tablet to this Mr. Dockett in Bristol
Church, which must have been there as late as the beginning of the
present century. By "Bristol Church" is apparently meant
St. Mary's Redcliffe. But I can find no mention elsewhere of either
Dockett or his tablet. Barrett gives as rector of St. Stephen's from
1480 to 1494, a William Boket; and of St. Mary's, from 1473 to
1508, a William Chock. These are the only names at all resembling
Dockett. DEN
Clifton.
1146. CLOCK MOTTO AT TETBURY. A correspondent made
this inquiry in Notes and Queries (1 st S. vi. 127), but received no
reply : "In the market-town of Tetbury, about forty [now seventy]
years ago, there was a very ancient market-house, in front of which
there was a clock with a curious and elaborately carved oaken dial
plate, with this motto : PR^STANT STERNA CADUCIS.' I shall be
much obliged to any reader of ' K & Q.' who can imform me in
what author I can find the sentence. I expected to have found it
in Prudentius, but have not succeeded." Having a special object in
view, I, too, shall be glad to receive a reply. j Q
1147. CURIOUS DISCOVERY OF PICTURES IN GLOUCESTER.
The Bristol Times of January 16th, 1864, has the following
paragraph, apparently copied from a Gloucester newspaper ; and it
would be interesting to learn what has become of the pictures
referred to :
The town-house of the Guises, at Gloucester, a mansion of about
Queen Anne's period, has of late been occupied as a school of art.
In making some alterations for this purpose the architect observed
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an unusual and, as it seemed to hiin, a needless projection of
panelling in a small sitting-room, always called "Pope's room."
He made up his mind to remove this projection, and in doing so
"brought to light a fine portrait of Pope. This led him to suspect
that the opposite side might also contain some treasure, and on
taking it down a painting was revealed, since said to be the
" Temptation " by Guido. j ^
1148. EGBERT RAIKES, OF NORTHAMPTON. (Reply to No-
1095.) M. C. B.'s inquiry as to the elder Raikes's connection with
the Northampton Mercury comes, as will be seen, at a peculiarly fitting
moment. The information I am able to send by way of reply has
been derived partly from the early files of the Mercury, other par-
ticulars from a pamphlet, entitled Robert Raikes and Northampton-
shire Sunday Schools, etc., by John Taylor, of Northampton, 1880.
Raikes was a printer at St. Ives, Hjints, in 1718, and published the
St. Ives Post Boy, several numbers of which are in the Bodleian Library,
the earliest, No. 2, bearing this title : " St. Ives Post Boy ; or, the
Loyal Packet. Being a collection of the most Material Occurrences,
Foreign and Domestick. Together with an Account of Trade.
Monday, June 23, 1718. To be Continued Weekly. St. Ives in
Huntingdonshire : Printed by R. Raikes." The St. Ives Mercury
was in existence in the year 1720, and is thus alluded to in the
introduction of the Northampton Mercury: "With what Care
and Exactness we shall quit ourselves of this undertaking has been
already premis'd to the St. Ives Mercury of the two preceding
weeks." The first copy of the Northampton Mercury was issued
on May 2, 1720, and contains none of those patent medicine
advertisements which after a few months are to be found con-
tinuously in the volumes. The title and imprint are as follows :
" Northampton Mercury ; or, Monday's Post. Being a collection of
the most Material Occurrences, Foreign and Domestick. Together
with an account of Trade. Northampton : Printed by R. Raikes
and W. Dicey, near All Saints' Church, where Advertisements and
Letters of Correspondents are taken in, and all manner of Books
printed." Here we have Robert Raikes and William Dicey in
business together at Northampton, and, for a time at least, the
printing office at St. Ives was kept going too ; but what became of
the St. Ives Mercury is not known. Probably it was soon dropped. At
the Northampton office were also issued very early several books
and pamphlets which bear the firm's name. On April 9th, 1722,
Raikes and Dicey issued the Gloucester Journal; and it would seem
that Mr. Raikes managed the business in the West, and Mr. Dicey
in the Midlands. Several " famous and notable cures " for various
diseases are brought under the notice of the readers of the Mercury
(most likely those of the Journal also, but the earlier volumes of
the latter paper I have not seen) ; and these are said to be " sold at
the printing office at Northampton, at Gloucester, and by men that
174 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
carry this news." The partnership between these early pioneers of
the English newspaper press would seem to have terminated in
1725 ; for on September 13th of that year, the Mercury bears the
imprint, "Northampton, printed by William Dicey and Robert
Raikes," while that for the following week, " Printed by William
Dicey " only ; but no mention is made in the paper of any change.
Whether there was a dissolution of the patent medicine partnership
as well is less clear, because the "certain remedies" were still to
be obtained at the two places. Mr. Dicey, at any rate, continued
to develope the trade ; present employes of the establishment
remember the medicines being sold in the Northampton office ; and
it is notable that the circulars setting forth the virtues of " Dicey's
original and the only genuine Dr. Bateman's pectoral drops," and
of "Dicey and Co.'s true Daffey's elixir," are still printed at the
Mercury press. The Mercury has undergone many enlargements in
its time, till it now consists each week of ten large pages, and has
always been one of the leading provincial newspapers, as it is
one of the oldest, in the United Kingdom. On February 9th,
1880, was started in conjunction with it the Northampton Mercury
Daily Reporter, which is still issued. The Mercury, printed unin-
terruptedly on the same premises, "over against All Saints' Church,"
for 165 years, has now (May 2, 1885) 8,580 weekly numbers, every-
one of which has borne the name of Dicey : and the fact is,
therefore, of more than ordinary interest, that the Mercury, as well
as its offshoot (on the literary staff of which journals I have been
engaged for some years), has just been sold by the family to an
entirely new proprietary. No. 1 of the Northampton Mercury was
published May 2, 1720 ; the last number bearing the old and
honoured name, was issued on the same day of the same month in
the present year, its imprint being as follows : " Printed
and Published, for Albert Venn Dicey, of Number 2, Brick
Court, Temple, London, E.C., by David Augustus Peachey, at the
'Mercury' and General Steam Printing Works, situate on the
Parade in the Parish of All Saints', Northampton, Saturday, May
2, 1885." It may be added that the death of Mr. Raikes is thus
recorded in the Mercury for September 19, 1757: "Early on
Wednesday Morning, the 7th instant, died, at Gloucester, after a
long and painful Illness, which he bore with true Christian Resig-
nation, Mr. Raikes, the Printer of the Gloucester Journal ; a Man,
who conscientiously discharged the several Offices of his Life with
Industry, Honesty, and Humanity. L." HENRY C WILKINS.
1149. COST OP LIVING IN 1643. The following letter,
addressed to the mayor of Wells by Sir Ralph (afterwards Lord)
Hopton, governor of Bristol for Charles L, is interesting as an
indication of the cost of living at the time it was written :
" Sir, I have directed Prince Maurice his regim* of foote to
quarter in your towne till farther order; wherfore praie cause the
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officers and souldiers thereof to bee settled in convenyent howses
there accordinge to theire qualities, and billetted under theire rates
hereunder. For which I will cause allowance to be made out of
the weeklie contribution of your hundred. I rest your verie
loving friende, KALPH HOPTON.
" The com'on souldiers at 2s. 6d. a peece p'r weeke. Ensignes
and other inferior officers at 3s. 6d. a peece p'r weeke. Super'r
officers at 6s. a peece per weeke. j j^
"Bristoll, 8th Oct., 1643."
1150. LINES ON STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. The following appear
under the heading of " The Little Lovers," in The Illustrated
Children's Birthday Book, edited, and in part written by F. E.
"Weatherly (London, W. Mack, 14, Paternoster Row) :
" 1 travelled one day thro' the rain and the cold,
Erom the gay streets of London to Stow-on-the-Wold,
And I sighed to myself, 'twill be dreary and cold,
A regular desert at Stow-on-the-Wold.
" But a sweet little couple I happened to meet,
Trudging on hand in hand, down the long village street,
And I own that it need not be dreary or cold
At the veriest desert like Stow-on-the-Wold."
H. C. W.
1151. HARVEST WEATHER IN 1725. "They write from
Gloucester, that the last Market Day, Wheat fell one Shilling per
Bushell, on account of the great Plenty, and the fine Harvest
Weather." Northampton Mercury, Sept. 20th, 1725. H C W.
The foregoing would seem to differ materially from what Mr.
Baker has given, under the year 1725, in his Records of the Seasons,
etc., p. 182, on the authority of Lowe's Natural Phenomena:
"Drought from middle of January to middle of April. It was
drier than ever known in this country. Cold and very wet from
middle of April till August 27. Great flood at Ketton, June 11
and 12. August 23. Twenty-four hours' heavy rain, causing a
flood in the meadows for four or five days ; garden stuff one month
later than usual ; scarcely any kidney beans, no caterpillars or flies,
fruits scarcely ripened, corn very dear, very warm spring till April."
The prices of wheat were 48s. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels, and 43s.
ld - P er V- EDITOR
1152. THE SMYTH FAMILY, OF ASHTON COURT. This family
settled in the immediate neighbourhood of Bristol in the middle of
the sixteenth century, in the person of John Smith, Esq., who
came from Aylburton, near Lydney, in Gloucestershire, where the
Smiths had been for several generations, having resided there as
176 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
far back as the time of Henry VI. This John Smith purchased,
in the year 1545, from Sir Thomas Arundel, the manor and
advowson of the chantry of Long Ashton. On taking possession,
he seated himself principally at his new purchase; previously,
however, he was a burgher of Bristol, evidently a man of large
means, and probably engaged in mercantile pursuits; for in 1532
he was sheriff of the city, and afterwards twice mayor namely, in
1547 and 1554. He resided, we believe, when in Bristol, in one of
the great houses in Small Street, and was on his death buried with
his wife in the north aisle of St. Werburgh's Church. Barrett,
p. 483, gives a description of his tomb, with an inscription in Latin
on a brass plate, which sets forth that the monument was raised to
their father and mother by the two sons, Hugh and Matthew.
From the engraving on the tomb, however, the deceased would
seem to have had more than two sons, for it represents a man at
his devotions with seven sons behind him, while opposite is a lady
with two daughters behind her. The first of the family to settle
here must, as we have surmised, have been a man of considerable
importance, as he was appointed commissioner by Henry VIII. in
1544 to take the surrender of the Hospital of St. John without
Redcliff-gate. He had a sister, who married Thomas Phelips, of
Montacute, in the county of Somerset, a mansion still well known
as one of the finest and oldest in the shire. Several of the Smiths
(Hughs, Thomases, and Johns) who succeeded, were members of
Parliament for the county, and one of them for the borough of
Bridgwater. Most of them were knighted, but the first who was
a baronet was Hugh Smith, who had the honour conferred upon
him in 1661. The title and estates seem to have descended to
heirs male until 1741, when on the death of the then Sir John
Smith, who left no issue, the manor, with the rest of the patri-
monial inheritance, descended to his surviving sisters, Ann,
Florence, and Arabella. Florence married Mr. Jarrit Smith, a
leading solicitor of Bristol, whose name occurs in connection with
the strange tragedy of Sir John Dineley Goodere, the unfortunate
baronet having dined with him just before he was seized by his
brother, .Captain Goodere. Arabella married Edward Gore, of
Flax Bourton; and the eldest sister, dying unmarried, left her
portion of the estate to her nephew, Edward Gore, of* Barrow
Court, whose son John sold to Jarrit (then Sir Jarrit) Smyth
(as he is styled in the patent) his third share in the several manors
and in the hundred of Hareclive and Bedminster. Sir Jarrit, in
whom the greater portion of the property, including Ashton Court,
again became united, died in January, 1783, at the age of ninety,
leaving (writes Collinson, the county historian) "issue by Florence, his
wife, two sons, Sir John Hugh Smyth, the present baronet [Collinson's
Somersetshire was published in 1791], and Thomas, of Stapleton,
Esq. On his father's death Sir John Hugh became possessed of
two-thirds of the manors, the other being vested in Edward Gore,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 177
of Kiddington, Esq." Sir John Hugh Smyth died in 1802,
and, leaving no issue, was succeeded in his title and estates by his
nephew Hugh, who was succeeded by his brother John, both sons of
Thomas Smyth. On his death in 1849, the latter was succeeded
by his sister, Mrs. Florence Upton, who thereupon took the name
of Smyth; and she, in 1852, by her grandson, the present baronet,
son of the late Thomas Upton, Esq., of Ingmire Hall, Yorkshire,
by his cousin Eliza, second daughter of Benjamin Way, Esq., of
Denham Place, Bucks. The title having become extinct on Sir
John Smyth's death, it was revived in 1859, in the person of the
present possessor of the estates, who had taken in 1852, by royal
licence, the name of Smyth. In the Latin inscription on the tomb
of the purchaser of Ashton Court in St. Werburgh's Church, Bristol,
as given by Barrett, the family name is spelt Smithe, and it was
formerly very often pronounced with the final e. BKISTOLIENSIS.
1153. LETTER FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH RELATIVE TO EICHD.
CLUTTERBUCK AND WM. GUISE. Amongst the State Papers in the
Record Office (Domestic Series, vol. cclxxv., no. 92) there is the
following letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Warden and Fellows
of All Souls' College, Oxford, relative to the above-named members
of two Gloucestershire families. R H CLUTTERBUCK.
Knights Enham Rectory, Andover.
Trustie and well beloved we greet you well Whereas humble
sute hath ben made unto us on the behalf of William Guise bachelor
of arts that we would be pleased in regard of his sufficiencie in
learning and to encourage him to contynue the course of his studie
to further him to the place of a fellowe in that your Colledge nowe
voide by the death of Richard Clutterbuck wee have thought good
hereby to require you to admitt and place him in the saide fellow-
shippe and to permit him quyetly to hold and enioy the same w th
all the rights hereunto belonging Notwithstanding anie Statute of
that House heretofore made to the Contrarie Your dutiful regard
to satisfie our desire herein and which we will take in thankful part.
(Endorsed)
13 October 1600
W m Guise for y e fellowship
of Rich d Clutterbuck deceased
in Alsoules Oxon.
1154. THE EMACIATED EFFIGY OF ABBOT WAKEMAN.
"M.Y.R.W." replied in Notes and Queries (1 st S. v. 427):
" Buriensis " has been furnished by several of your correspondents
with many examples of the representation of an emaciated corpse
in connexion with tombs, but no one has yet referred him to that
very remarkable instance at Tewkesbury. The tomb is usually
assigned, I believe, to Abbot Wakeman. If anything were needed to
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178 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
refute the absurd notion of the forty days' fast, I think the figure on
this tomb would supply the clue to the true conception of the artist - r
and show that it was intended, by such figures,, to remind the
passers-by of their own mortality by representing the hollow cheek
and sunken eyes, and emaciated form, of a corpse from which life
had only recently departed : for, in the figure on this tomb, the;
idea of mortality is carried still further, and the more humbling
and revolting thought of corruption and decay is suggested to the
mind by the representation of noxious reptiles and worms crawling
over the lifeless form, and revelling in their disgusting banquet.
J. G.
The tomb in question, as the late Mr. Blunt has mentioned in
his Tewkesbury Abbey (1875), p, 123, is generally considered the
cenotaph of Abbot Wakeman, the last of the abbots, who became,
in 1541, the first bishop of Gloucester. He was buried at
Forthington, a manor house of the abbey, which he had managed
to secure, with a very large pension, when all his monks were sent
into the world homeless, with pittances small enough for experienced
ascetics. But Bishop Godwin, who wrote near the time, says that
Wakeman built his intended monument on the north side of a little
chapel south-east from the altar, where no monument now exists,
and if so, this cannot be it. It is in some degree improbable also-
that one who took so much care to feather his nest well while living y
should represent his body as in such a condition when dead : and
altogether the tradition wants confimation. The style of the
monument is that of a century earlier than the time of Wakeman,
who was abbot from 1531 to 1539, and died in 1549. EDITOR.
1155. THE COLLEGE SCHOOL LIBRARY, GLOUCESTER. The late
Mr. Paul H. Fisher, author of Notes and Recollections of Stroud
(1871), wrote with reference to the above-named library in Notes
and Queries (1 st S. viii. 640) : When I was at the College School,
Gloucester, in 1794, there was a considerable library in a room
adjoining the upper school. I never knew the books used by the
boys, though the room was unlocked ; in fact, it was used by the
upper master as a place of chastisement ; for there was kept the
block (as it was called) on which the unfortunate culprits were
horsed and whipped. The library, no doubt, contained many
valuable and excellent works ; but the only book of which I know
the name as having been in it (and that only by a report in the
newspapers of the day), was Oldham's Poems, which, after a fire
which occurred in the schoolroom, was said to have been the only
book returned of the many which had been taken away.
G. A. W.
1156. THE DEDICATION OF ASHLEWORTH CHURCH. On the
occasion of the spring meeting of the Bristol and Gloucestershire
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Archaeological Society, of which a report is given in the Gloucester
Journal, May 23, 1885, reference was made to the dedication of the
church of Ashleworth in these words : " The patron saint of
Ashle worth is stated to be St. Andrew." This statement is
unquestionably correct. Five Ashleworth testators occur in the index
to wills at the Worcester Probate Office between the earliest date
and the time when Gloucestershire was severed from the diocese of
Worcester; viz., Richard Marsfeld, Thomas Cely, and Ellina Locke,
under the year 1538; and William Persse and John Cely, under
the following year. The will of one of these is missing. The
other four testators speak of their church as that of St. Andrew.
Here follow abstracts of three of the wills :
1538. No day or month mentioned. I Rye' Marsfeld, of the
parish of "aschelworthe." My soul to God, and our Lady, and " all
the holly co'pany yn heyve'," and body to be buried in the church-
yard "off sent androwe yn aschelworthe aforseyd." To the "mod r
church off wyst r " iiijd. Goods to sons Thomas and John, and
daughter Isabel. Wife Margery to have the residue, and to be
executrix. Witnessed by Sir John Cole (?), curate, William Du',
John Dekyns, William Pers. Proved at Gloucester, 14 Oct., 1538.
1538. Thomas Cely. To be buried "yn the churche yard off
sent androwe yn aschelworthe," Twenty pence to the church there,
and fourpence to the mother church of Worcester. Residue to wife
Margery and son Thomas, " to be departyd betwene them yn equall
portyons." These two to be executors. Sir John Knollys "vy care"
to be supervisor. Witnessed by Richard Alard, Richard Brodstoke,
Thomas Layn. "p'batu' apud Glouc' cora [torn.]
1539. William Persse. To be buried in the churchyard " off
sent androwe yn aschelworthe." Cattle to son Thomas. If wife
"anes" should marry again, the said Thomas is to have "my holl
tayke wythe the holl teyme off oxsen" ; but " yff sche mary not,"
she is to keep them as her own " duryng hur lyffe." She is to be
executrix, and have the residue, "to pey my dettes and mynyst* my
goodes to the pies' off god and welthe off my soil." Witnessed
by Sir John Knolls, vicar, Richard Long, Thomas Nest, John Cely.
Proved at Gloucester, 7 Nov., 1539.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore. THOMAS R WADLEY, M.A.
1157. CLIFTON ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO. A
correspondent of the Bristol Times, May 4, 1867, gives a few
extracts from the old vestry books of Clifton, which offer an
amusing comparison of what that parish was and is now after the
lapse of one hundred and fifty years. The following are extracts :
1730. May 8. Money paid for a hedgehog 3
June 21. do. for 6 do 1
1731. Jan. do. for a polecat 4
March do. for 2 hedgehogs 6
180 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Succeeding churchwardens simplified their accounts by lumping
these payments in one sum, thus :
1731. 2 foxes, 13 hedgehogs, and a kyte
1732. 2 do. and 10 do 5 4
1733. 35 hedgehogs for the whole year Oil 8
1734. 34 do. do. ..012 4
1735. 6 foxes and 15 hedgehogs 012
By this time the hedgehogs appear to have been exterminated.
1730. Oct. 13. Money paid J. C. Taylor for painting
the whipping post and stocks 4
Dec. Iron work for the stocks & whipping
post 1 4
In 1731 the bounds of the parish were perambulated, and the
following charges occur :
Paid a procession at Kownham passage House 1 6
Eods for four boys , 1 6
Cakes and ale at Tho 8 Parker's house 019 4J
A Dinner at Pallmer's 1 5 6
The parochial expenditure was economical, the annual outlay for
many years varying from ,15 to 25. j j,
1158. A BRISTOL WOETHY OF THE LAST CENTURY. In Pious
Remains of the Rev. James Moody, late Minister of the Gospel at
Warwick (London, 1809), p. 32, in a letter from him to his wife,
dated " Bristol, July 7 (1800?)," this paragraph occurs: "There
is a singular character at Bristol that is worthy public notice. A
woman, about forty-five or fifty years old, that never was married ;
has an impediment in her speech ; is hard of hearing, and is often
troubled with fits. She is a woman of the most exalted piety.
She has a fortune enough to live comfortably upon, but scarcely
allows herself the common necessaries of life. All her time is spent
for God and the good of souls. She rises early for secret communion ;
and then goes from house to house all the day, visiting the sick,
relieving their necessities, and administering comfort to their souls.
She is wonderfully blessed in her own soul ; even, at times, so as
to be overcome with the abundance of divine love. I assure you,
my dear, her conduct severely reproves me. I hope to be stirred up
to greater earnestness in my own soul, and in doing good to the souls
of others."
I shall be glad to know to whom the above has reference.
Mr. Moody, it appears, was in the habit for several years of paying
an annual visit to Bristol. CLERICUS.
1159. ANCIENT BREECH-LOADING CANNON. From the following
passage in Wilson's Naval History (1807), vol. ii., p. 116, it would
seem that^ breech-loading ordnance, instead of being a novel
invention, is nearly two hundred years old : " During one of the
wars with France, in the year 1708, some merchants at Bristol fitted
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 181
out two ships as privateers. They set sail on the 1st of August,
1708, and having passed the Straits of Magellan, they not only took
several ships in the South Seas, but also several towns on the coast,
and December 22nd, 1709, they met with the lesser of the two
Acapulco ships which sailed annually from the East Indies to Mexico.
She was 400 tons burden, with 20 guns and as many pattararas, a
piece of artillery made to open at the breech in order to be loaded
that way, instead of at the muzzle."
The privateers referred to were the celebrated "Duke" and
"Duchess," which made a voyage round the world before their
return, and brought home Alexander Selkirk, on whose adventures
Defoe is said to have founded his story of Robinson Crusoe.
J. L.
1160. HAWKESBURY PARISH CHURCH. The ancient church of
St. Mary, Hawkesbury, near Badminton, was re-opened April 9,
1885, after restoration. It is one of the most important ecclesiastical
monuments in the deanery of Hawkesbury, and is in every respect
a fine example of village church architecture. Unfortunately, all
that is known of its early history is that about the year 680 a
college was founded for secular canons by Oswald, nephew of King
Ethelred; that in 984, King Edgar, at the intercession of the bishop
of Worcester, introduced Benedictine monks; and that its impropria-
tion belonged to the abbey of Pershore, in Worcestershire, from the
time of William the Conqueror, or possibly earlier, until its
dissolution. The church consists of a chancel, nave, and south aisle,
at the east end of which is a chapel ; north and south porches, with
a parvise on each ; and a tower at the west end of the nave. In
the tower is a room furnished with a fireplace and chimney, as is
also the case in each parvise. The building, as it now stands, dates
from the Saxon period, ' and contains work of every period from
that time to the present. The only Saxon remains are the bases of
the shafts to the inner doorway of the north porch. To the Norman
period belong portions of walls and the inner doorway of the north
porch above the Saxon work. To the Early English, the greater
part of the chancel, and the stones of the chancel arch, which was
rebuilt and widened at a much later date : also the greater part of
the south aisle, the lower part of the tower arch, part of the north
porch, and other minor portions. To the Decorated period belong
the nave arcade, some portions of which, if not the whole, were
taken down and put up again when the chancel arch was rebuilt,
and the tower up to the roof-line of a former roof. Perpendicular
work is recognised in the oak roofs of nave and aisle, in the upper
portion of the nave walls, as well as in the south porch and parvise
and the greater portion of the north porch and parvise. To the
same period belong the stone pulpit (which is a very fine one),
the chapel, and the chancel window. This window appears to have
replaced a three-light Early English one, of which traces exist, and
182 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
at the same time the whole of the chancel walls were raised about
two feet. Of the same period are several windows in the nave and
aisle ; certain alterations in the lower stage of the tower and the
whole of the upper stage ; and the doorways to the rood loft, of
which the staircase has long since disappeared. To the time of the
Reformation may probably be ascribed the destruction of the roofs
of the chancel and chapel, supplemented by the usual demolition of
glass, screens, wall paintings, &c. From that time to the present
the roofs over the chancel and chapel, the high oak square pews, the
font, the gallery at the west end, and various coats of plaster and
whitewash, indicated the era of architectural degradation that so long
prevailed. Such is the history of the church to July, 1882, when,
the building urgently demanding repair, the work of restoration
was commenced, under the superintendence of Mr. "Win. Wood
Bethell, architect, of 7, Queen Anne's-gate, Westminster, by Mr.
Gyde, builder, of Pitchcombe, near Stroud. The principal works
which have been carried out are as follows : Removing the whole
of the plaster from the inside walls and roofs, except a few small
portions of the mediaeval painted work on the interior walls ; re-
moving the gallery ; putting a new oak roof on the nave, an exact
copy of the old one, and covering it with lead ; repairing the other
-roofs ; altering and re-arranging the old oak seats ; providing new
oak stalls, sedilia, and altar rail ; laying oak blocks under all the
seats ; re-laying the passages with the old paving stones and monu-
mental slabs (the mural monuments remaining untouched) ; repairing
all the mullions, traceries, and string courses, and re-glazing the
windows with Cathedral glass; repairing the handsome stone pulpit;
repairing the tower, and fixing a lightning conductor ; providing new
oak doors, a tower screen, wrought-iron chandeliers, etc. A heating
apparatus by Grundy has also been provided.
^ In carrying out the above works, among other interesting relics
discovered, may be noticed an Easter sepulchre, a double piscina,
a monumental slab, which once contained a very elaborate brass to
a bishop or other dignitary entitled to a mitre and crozier ; a stoup
in the north porch, rood loft doorways, and some fragments of
ancient glass and tiles ; also in digging out the foundation for the
heating chamber some foundations of a building belonging to a
period anterior to the Saxon were discovered. There is additional
work to be done to render the restoration complete, such as removing
the plaster from the exterior of the chancel, and repairing the
outside walls. The repair of the south porch should be at once
commenced, and the roofs of the chancel and chapel panelled.
These and a few other necessary repairs are urgently required for
the completion of a work of the highest interest to all admirers of
ancient ecclesiastical architecture.
The Bishop of the diocese was the preacher on the occasion, and
m the opening part of his sermon he thus expressed himself : I
may say with perfect truth and sincerity that I have looked forward
GLOUESTERSHmE NOTES AND QUERIES. 183
to this day ever since I came first, now long ago, into this church,
and have felt interested in the spacious and noble building. . . .
I may rightly conclude this introductory portion of my words by
sincerely praying that God's blessing may rest on all who have
taken part in the work, and on all within this ancient parish.
I have never yet known a parish church restored, but that I
have afterwards either observed or been told of a distinctly
revived feeling in the parish. The old parish church restored
seems to call out a glow and warmth in hearts that may
not have felt it before ; and it ever follows that some deepened
religious life marks, at any rate for a time, the future of the parish
and so it will be here.
1161. OLD TAPESTRY MAPS. The late Sir Thomas E.
Winnington sent the following communication to Notes and Queries
(4 th S. iii. 428) : " Among the Gough collections in the Bodleian
Library is a curious tapestry map of the Midland Counties, in a
somewhat fragmentary condition. [Gough bought it for a guinea.]
It is part of three great maps formerly at Mr. Sheldon's house,
Weston, in Warwickshire, supposed to be the earliest specimens of
that kind of work in England, which was introduced into the
country by Mr. Sheldon during the reign of Henry VIII. The
towns and villages in Worcestershire and Herefordshire are in
general correctly marked, and the forests and streams, as well as
some castellated mansions. The inscriptions on the corners of the
map are quaint, and I quote some of them that were sufficiently
perfect to decipher :
' On this side which the sun does warm with his declining beams,
Severn and Teme do run, two ancient streames ;
These make the neibors' pastures rich, and yele of fruit great store,
And do convey throout the shire commodoties many more.'
' Here hills do lift their heads aloft from whence sweet springs do
flow,
Whose moistur good do fertil make the valleys Couche below.
This Southly part which here below toward Gloucester fall,
Of corn and grass great plenty yields, and fruit exceedeth all.
A citie faire so called of old, whose beauty to this day
Right well commends the British name.
This shire whose soile of corn and grain great plenty yields
By labour's careful toile,
In threefold paths divided is.
On East doth Cotswold stand.
Most fertil hills for sheep and wool,
The like not in this land. 7
From Macray's Annals of the Bodleian, p. 112 [212rc], we learn the
remaining maps are in the Museum at York, given to that insti-
tution by Archbishop Vernon Harcourt. Perhaps some corres-
pondent in that district can inform me what parts of England are
delineated, and whether any quaint inscriptions remain."
184 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
This drew forth a reply from the curator of the antiquities in
the York Museum, p. 540 of the same volume : " In answer to
the inquiry of Sir T. E. Winnington, I copy the following passage
from the Descriptive Catalogue of the Museum of the Yorkshire
Philosophical Society : ' The three tapestry maps in the theatre
formerly lined the hall at Weston, in Warwickshire, the seat of
W. Sheldon, Esq., who first introduced tapestry weaving into
England, of which these maps, executed in 1579, are the first
specimen. They contain a section of the centre of the kingdom,
including Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire,
Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and part of Berkshire.
They were purchased [at Weston, for 30] by the Earl of Orford
(Horace Walpole), and given by him to the Earl of Harcourt. On
his death they came into the possession of Archbishop Harcourt,
by whom they were presented to the Yorkshire Philosophical
Society in the year 1827. (See Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,
vi. 326, note.)' Illustrations, viii. 686. Mr. Nichols (vi. 330, note)
erroneously states that these maps were presented by Earl Harcourt
to Mr. Gough. Whence the fragment came which Mr. Gough gave
to the University of Oxford, I do not know. Those in the York
Museum have no such quaint verses as those which Sir T. E.
Winnington quotes."
In the same volume, p. 606, there is a further reply, from " D.P.,"
of Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells : " After the notices of Sir
Thomas Winnington and ' K,' the curator of the antiquities in the
York Museum, I think I ought to give a few lines of information
which may lead to some further inquiry. I have been acquainted
with the tapestry maps at York for many years. In 1864 or 1865,
if not in both those years, I saw, in a curiosity shop in Davies
Street, not far from Berkeley Square, and on the left hand going
north out of that square, a small piece of tapestry map, which I
satisfied myself was a part of the Sheldon tapestry. If I recollect,
it showed the west side of Gloucestershire ; but I am sorry to say
I made no note of its contents. I asked the price ; it was 5Z., a
sum which I did not choose to give. I have heard no more of the
piece since." The date of this communication is June 26, 1869,
and nothing more appears to have been written upon the subject.
1162. NOTES ON THE PAKISH OP WICKWAE.
(Continued from No. 1124.)
The Rectors have been as follows, and the Patrons by whom
they were respectively presented :
Rectors. Patrons.
William Jones.
1570. Francis Yate, Queen Elizabeth.
1578. Michael Wharton, Do.
1587. Jasper Merrick, Do.
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Henry Bishop.
1615. Tobias Higgins,
Obadiah Higgins.
1668. Eliezar Marshall,
1678. Samuel Edwards,
1684. James Kirkham,
1692. John Biddle,
1734. John Fortune,
1777. John Chester,*
1802. Thomas Cook,
1830. Thomas Roupell Everest,
M.A.,
[1864. Kalph John Lyon, M.A.,
Sir Thomas West.
Sir William Ducie.
Do. (Lord Downe).
Matt. Ducie Moreton, Esq.
Do.
Do. (Lord Ducie, of Moreton.)
Thos. Reynolds, Lord Ducie.
Francis Reynolds, Lord Ducie.
Thos. Reynolds, Earl of Ducie.
Henry John, Earl of Ducie.]
The church is a spacious structure, having a lofty and handsome
tower at the west-end, containing six bells. The tower is 69 feet
to the top of the battlements, and the pinnacles 8 feet. The
church stands on an eminence at some distance from the town,
and is said to have been erected by one Woolworth, formerly an
eminent clothier of the place ; but this is doubtful. It is dedicated
to St. Mary.
There are several good monuments in the church, and on a flat-
stone is (1 was) the following memorial to Mr. John Purnell :
" Here lyeth | a rare example of much goodness, | M r John
Purnell, | late'of the Pool-House, in this parish, | who died August
the 16 th , 1726, | aged 46. He was | a zealous member of the
Church of England, a loving husband, a tender father, | a kind
relation, a generous friend, | always acceptable to the rich, | and
liberal to the poor. | Injury s between others he easily reconciled, |
his own as readily forgave. A blessed peacemaker, j He was
through the whole course of his life a sincere Christian, without
ostentation, | and a lover of all mankind, without desire of praise. |
Reader, | go thou and do likewise, | that thou mayest rest in
peace, j and rise in glory." This beautiful memorial to that rare
and excellent man was destroyed when the church was new paved
and repaired in 1830. Mr. Purnell left a son named John, baptized
17th September, 1706, who was warden of New College, Oxford,
1740-64.
William Russell, born at Wick war, M.A., of Lincoln College,
Oxford, was for some time schoolmaster at Chipping-Sodbury, and
afterwards of the College School, Gloucester. He wrote against
m * In St. Mary's, Cheltenham, a flatstone (now effectually concealed from view) bears this
inscription : " Elizabeth Chester, Jany. 7th, 1781. [Eev.l Jfohn] Chester, M.A., July 27th,
1801. [Bev.] Wm. Chester, M.A., July 2d, 1813." There is also a mural inscription in
memory of Sarah Chester, who died Jan. 21, 17C5, aged 75. See Monumental Inscriptions in
the Parish Church of Cheltenham, pp. 24, 30. ED.
186 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
John Biddle, a noted Socinian [the title of his book being
BlasphemoJdonian : the Holy Ghost Vindicated}. He died in 1659,
and was buried at St. Michael's, Gloucester.
Mr. William Giles, a native of Wickwar, served the office of
high-sheriff of the county of Gloucester in 1739. He died in
1750, and was buried at Wickwar, aged 80. It has been said that
he was a poor boy, the illicit offspring of one Sarah Moussell by a
poor Welshman named Giles, with whom she lived as a fellow-
servant. It was he who, in 1709, gave the corporation their silver
mace. He was mayor of the borough in 1709-12, and in the
management of the free-school made himself very notorious.
There is no register of baptisms, marriages, or burials of an
earlier date than 1689.* There appears to have been great want
of care of the parish books and records on the part of the parish
officers; even down to the present time (1844) such neglect is
greatly to be regretted, and is deserving of the utmost censure.
Sacramental plate, viz.
1. A siher chalice, with cover, and this inscription on the top :
"W.P., D.I., W.D."
2. A silver paten, with " Wickwarre Glostershire " inscribed.
3. A silver flagon, with this inscription : " Wickwarr. Ex dono
Johanis Biddle, Kect : 1730."
4. A silver plate gilt, with this inscription : " The Gift of
M rs Jane Purnell, Relict of John Purnell, Gent., late of the Pool-
House in this Parish. 1743. He that hath pity upon the Poor
lendeth unto the Lord."
The two churchwardens are chosen annually, one by the rector,
and the other by the rate-payers. The parish clerk is appointed by
the rector.
In 1829 and 1830 the church was new roofed at an expense of
upwards of 370 ; and at the same time it was new paved and
pewed at a further charge of rather more than ,250, by which new
arrangement of the pews a large number of additional sittings were
obtained, as will appear from this inscription on a tablet : " The
accommodation in this church was enlarged by a re-arrangement of
the pews, with other repairs, in the year 1830; by which means
seventy additional sittings were obtained ; and in consequence of a
grant from the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlargement,
Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, the whole of
that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for
* See ante, p. 115. ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 187
ever, in addition to 366 sittings formerly provided, 90 of which
are free.
Thomas R. Everest, Rector.
wSfitt ( 'I en,
2 nd March, 1831."
A Sunday school-room was built at the north side of the church-
yard in the year 1837, at the cost of nearly 200; the greater
part of which was paid by the then curate, the Rev. Thomas
Dowell [now vicar of Evancoyd, Radnorshire]. The ground was
given by the Earl of Ducie, and by deed dated 20th August, 1840,
was conveyed to the Rev. Thomas R. Everest and Thomas Garlike,
for the use of the rector and churchwardens for ever.
In the year 1695 the church bells were new cast at Gloucester,
and the frames and all the woodwork for the bells and ringing-loft
put up new, at the cost of 131 12s. 4d. In the same year barley
sold for 1 4s. Od., and malt for 1 6s. Od., per quarter. The
churchwardens paid for every fox killed 6d., and for every hedge-
hog 2d.
The population of the parish has been as follows :
In 1701, 220 houses, 1,000 inhabitants, whereof 36 were
freeholders, with 27 births and 24 burials; 1801, 157 houses, 764
inhabitants; 1821, 950 inhabitants; 1831, 202 houses, 971
inhabitants; 1841, 217 houses, 1,124 inhabitants.
In 1841 the railroad from Bristol to Gloucester was begun,
which caused an influx of persons. When the census was taken
on the 7th June, there were 1,124 residing in the parish (438 males
and 454 females), being 892 " Old Inhabitants," and 232 "Strangers
on the Railroad " ; making the total of 1,124.
In 1842 there were 63 freeholders, and 11 tenant voters ; making
in all 74 voters. Houses, 217.
The total number of persons engaged in constructing the tunnel
and the open cutting, &c., at Wick war, and in the immediate
neighbourhood, was 1,200.
The number of baptisms, marriages, and burials, on an average
for ten years :
1689-1698
1721-1730
1821-1830
1831-1840
Baptisms.
Marriages.
Burials.
26 6-10ths
23
20 8-10ths
22 5-10ths
4 l-10th
4
3 5-10ths
3 9-10ths
23 3-10ths
24
14 5-10ths
16 5-10ths
Total number of baptisms, marriages, and burials for ten years,
from 1831 to 1840 inclusive :
188 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Baptisms.
g
If
Burials.
Males. Females.
3
o
Males. Females.
3
o
H
H
1831
9 13
22
3
12 5
17
1832
10 17
27
6
8 3
11
1833
16 13
29
5
7 9
16
1834
14 11
25
3
16 16
32
1835
7 13
20
1
6 10
16
1836
5 10
15
2
5 4
9
1837
9 18
.27
6
13 12
25
1838
8 7
15
3
7 7
14
1839
17 10
27
6
5 8
13
1840
11 7
18
4
7 5
12
106 119
225
39
86 79
165
The
names
books :
1692.
1693.
1694.
1695.
1696.
1697.
1698.
1699.
1700.
1701.
1703.
following is a list of the Churchwardens, so far as their
have been ascertained, with a few extracts from the parish
Joseph Chambers, Thomas "Worrell.
Henry Shipman, Thomas Worrall.
William Manning, John Dening.
James Holoway, Thomas Worrall.
Thomas Stokes, Thomas Worrall.
John Andrews, William Worrall.
" Paid 3 s 6 d to the Ringers for Kinging for the return
of the King."
Matthew Crew, Thomas Eussell.
John Summers, William Gifford.
"N.B. Collected during our office from Persons not
going to Church or elsewhere to the Praise of God.
From Tho 8 Crew, 1 s , Eich d Crew, I s , Richard WishaU,
2 s , Rob* Denin, 3 s , Joseph Marlin, 3 s , Rob* Roach, 3 s .
Collected under a warrant 3 s from persons not going
to Church."
Tobias Russell, William Summers.
The relief to the poor in 1700 and two previous
years averaged about 100 per annum.
Thomas Stokes, George Fowler.
In 1701 there was very great sickness in the parish.
24 .burials in woollen.
Thomas Stokes, John Townsend.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
189
1704. Thomas Russell, John Purnell.
"The Eoof of the Tower new done." A new weather-
cock cost ! 8s. Od. Lime sold at 3d. per bushel.
1705. Matthew Chew, Nathaniel Wickham.
1706. Henry Purkett, William Prigg.
1707. John Townsend, John Prout.
1708. John Hickes, Thomas Perse.
"Paid D r Lockin 4." This appears to have been
the first payment to a medical man. Previously
women were employed. Very great sickness in this
and the following two years from small-pox.
1709. Thomas Eussell, William Heaven.
1710-11 William Giles, John Purnell.
"August 29 th , 1710. At a Vestry Meeting this day
held it was Resolved that a Clock and Chimes be put
tip in the Church Tower." Clock and chimes cost
28 4s. 6d. Two dial plates cost 6. 1 per
annum allowed for looking after the clock and
drawing it up.
1712. Matthew Crew, Timothy Townsend.
1713. Arthur Prout, William Alsop.
"Spent 14 Is. 5d. at the Proclamation of Peace with
France."
1714. John Bick, John Somers.
1715. John King, Christopher Andrews.
1716. Thomas Stokes, Matthew Crew.
1717. Daniel Osborne, Henry Shipman.
1718-19. Thomas Russell, Henry Pinkett.
1720. John Edwards, Nicholas Andrews.
1721-22. Samuel Niblett, Thomas Andrews.
1723. William Giles, Obadiah Ash.
1724-25. William Russell, James Bishop.
1726. John Somers, Henry Pincott.
1727-28. Christopher Andrews, Daniel Osborne.
1729-31. William Worrall, John Somers.
1732. John Hickes, John Andrews.
1733-34. William Russell, John Andrews.
"April 16 th , 1734. The Rectory of this Parish being
vacant by the Death of the Rev d Mr. Biddle, the late
Rector, John Andrews and William Russell, the
present Churchwardens, are empowered under the
Seals of the Chancellor of the Diocese of Gloucester
to collect & gather the Tithes, Profits, & Emoluments
belonging to the said Rectory, and to provide a
Minister during the Vacancy as they are directed."
1735-36. Christopher Andrews, Joseph Downs.
1737. William Somers, John Bick.
1738. William Hobbs, Benjamin Hockley.
190 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1739. John Somers, John Andrews.
" Paid for a Barrel of Ale gave at the Proclamation of
Warl 15s. Od."
1740. John Townsend, John Woodman.
1741. John Somers, Daniel Lapley.
1742. William Hobbs, Ambrose Hill.
1743-44. William Giles, Henry Harford.
" Gave 3 d for Fifty Tomtits."
1745-46. Samuel Walker, John Somers.
1747. Nathaniel Hickes, Benjamin Hockley.
[The Churchwardens' books from 1747 to 1826 are not
to be found.]
1813-14. Kobert Batten, Thomas Pullin.
1815. William Minett, Thomas Daniels.
1817. William Vick, Kichard Burnett.
1818. William Vick, John Minett.
1819. Thomas Stock.
1821. Thomas Stock, James Pullin.
1822. William Ecott, Thomas Pullin.
1824-25. Thomas Pullin, William Park.
1826-28. William Barber, William Park.
1829-34. William Barber, Thomas Arnold.
1835-38. George Hobbs, William Minett.
1839-40. Robert Bennett, John Minett.
1841-44. William Daw, Thomas Garlike.
1845-46. Thomas Arnold, Joseph Bennett.
1163. EARLY THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE AT GLOUCESTER.
The following account of an early theatrical performance at Gloucester
is taken from a small volume, entitled Mount Tabor ; or, Private
Exercises of a Penitent Sinner (London, 1639), by R. W. (R.
Willis), who states his age to have been then seventy-five, and who
was consequently born in the same year (1654) as Shakespeare.
The account has been extracted by Malone in his Rise and Progress
of the English Stage, and has also been cited, with the correction
of some inaccuracies, by John Payne Collier : In the city of
Gloucester the manner is (as I think it is in other like corporations)
that when players of interludes come to town they first attend the
mayor to imform him what nobleman's servants they are, and so to
get license for their public playing, and if the mayor like the
actors, or would show respect to their lord and master, he appoints
them to play their first play before himself and the aldermen and
common council of the city ; and that is called the mayor's play,
where every one that will comes in without money, the mayor giving
the players a reward as he thinks fit to show respect unto them. At
such a play my father took me with him, and made me stand
between his legs as he sat upon one of the benches, where he saw
and heard very well. The play was called "The Cradle of Securitey,"
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wherein was personated a king, or some great prince, with his
courfiers of several kinds, amongst which three ladies were in special
grace with him, and they, keeping him in delights and pleasures,
drew him from his graver counsellors, hearing of sermons and
listening to good counsel and admonitions, that in the end they got
him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage, where these three ladies,
joining in a sweet song, rocked him asleep, that he snorted again,
and in the meantime, closely conveyed under the clothes wherewith
he was covered, a vizard, like a swine's snout upon his face, with
three wire chains fastened thereunto, the other end whereof being
holden severally by those three ladies, who fell to singing again,
and then discovered his face, that the spectators might see how they
had transformed him, going on with their singing. Whilst all this
was acting there came forth of another door at the farthest end
of the stage two old men, the one in blue, with a sergeant-at-arma
his mace on his shoulder, the other in red, with a drawn sword in
his hand, and leaning with the other hand upon the other's shoulder;
and so they two went along in a soft pace round about by the skirt of
the stage, till at last they came to the cradle, when all the court was
in its greatest jollity, and then the foremost old man with his mace
struck a fearful blow upon the cradle, whereat all the courtiers, with
the three ladies and the vizard all vanished, and the desolate prince
started up barefaced, and finding himself thus sent for to judgment,
made a lamentable complaint of his miserable case, and so was
carried away by wicked spirits. The prince did personate in the
moral the wicked of the world ; the three ladies, pride, covetousness,
and luxury ; the two old men, the end of the world and the last
judgment. This sight took such impression on me, that when I
came towards man's estate it was as fresh in my memory as if I
had seen it newly acted.
1164. JAMES BRADLEY, D.D., AND HIS " ASTRONOMICAL
OBSERVATIONS." In Notes and Queries (2 nd S. ix. 377), under the
head of " Gleanings from the Records of the Treasury," there is a
full account of a suit instituted by the Attorney-General against
the representative of Dr. Bradley, the astronomer, for the recovery
of certain volumes of his " Observations : " it is interesting, as it
enters into details concerning his professional career at Greenwich ;
but it is too long for quotation. A note of where it is to be found,
may be useful.
1165. PECULIAR NAMES OF PLACES IN CHURCHDOWN PARISH.
" F. S." sent the following communication to Notes and Queries
(5 th S. i. 67), but without eliciting a reply : At Churchdown,
near Cheltenham, in the immediate neighbourhood of the ancient
camp (British or Roman, for the authorities are divided), there are
several places with peculiar names. These lie chiefly on the slopes
leading to the encampment, and invite an examination, which some
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of your readers may be not unwilling to afford ; some, indeed, may
recognize these names at once, or, at any rate, throw on them the
light of research. They are as follows : .
Katbrane. A hollow approach, or natural covert way.
Bloody Man's Acre.
Muzzle Well. The ancient well, near an excavated covert way.
Break Heart. A steep ascent.
Green Street A Koman road that runs round the southern side
of Churchdown Hill, and gives into the great Eoman way leading
from Gloucester to Cirencester (Corinium).
Soldiers' Walk. Tradition says that, at the siege of Gloucester,
there was a battery thrown up here, armed with guns in position to
command the city.
Now, these names, here spelt phonetically, as they are now
pronounced by the country people, may be safely referred to the
time of the Civil War, or later, with the exception of Katbrane,
Muzzle, and Green Street. Of these the last speaks for itself, and
it only remains to note for elucidation and discussion the remaining
words, Katbrane and Muzzle, on which I shall be glad to have any
information.
Whilst on the subject of names, I may mention as worth
recording some others, applied to places in the parish of Churchdown,
but not near the encampment or connected with it. They are the
Zoons, the Lynch, the Crump, and the Nymph ; Gospel Ash also,
which requires no comment.
1166. Miss SUSANNA WINKWOKTH, OF CLIFTON. This lady,
who died November 25, 1884, at her residence in Victoria Square,
Clifton, Bristol, was the eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Winkworth,
of Manchester. Her name is well known in the literary world by
her compilation and English version of Niebuhr's Life and Letters,
the Tlieologia Germanica, the History and Sermons of Dr. John
Tauter, with additional notices of his life and times, the continu-
ation of the Life of Luther, which had been commenced by
Archdeacon Hare, and Professor Max Miiller's German Love. She
was in early life the pupil of the Rev. W. Gaskell and the Rev.
Dr. Martineau, and subsequently became the friend of the Hares,
Maurice, Charles Kingsley, Canon Percival, and more especially of
Baron Bunsen. Seeing her remarkable power of apprehending and
rendering into forcible English the subtle workings of the German
theological mind, Bunsen entrusted to her the translation of his
Signs of the Times and his God in History. She was the elder
sister of Catherine Winkworth, the author of Lyra Germanica.*
Devoted from her earliest days to practical work amongst the poor,
and always aiming at methods which should help without pauper-
ising, she was one of the first in Bristol to grapple with the problem
we ante ^S^SOO * he inscription ^ Bristol Cathedral to toe memory of Catherine Winkworth,
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which has lately occupied so much public attention, the provision
of wholesome dwellings for the labouring classes in large cities. For
some years she rented houses and let them, out in tenements, and
afterwards formed the company which built the Jacob's Well
industrial dwellings in a populous part of Bristol. Working on
the lines which Miss Octavia Hill has made so familiar to the
British public, she continued the management of this property to
the time of her death. She was also a governor of the Red Maids'
School in Bristol, and a member of the council of the Cheltenham
Ladies' College. BRISTOLIENSIS.
1167. BIGLAND'S " GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLECTIONS " : LIST OP
PLATES. (See No. 132.) While I write, there is in the possession
of Mr. William George's Sons, of Park Street, Bristol, a very
curious collection of engravings, in a thick folio volume. Besides
eleven unpublished plates appertaining to Somersetshire, there are
no less than 143 proof impressions of Gloucestershire churches,
etc. : the collection belonged to the late Leonard L. Hartley, Esq.,
and was purchased at the recent sale of his library in London. A
note in these pages respecting them will not be out of place.
The volume contains 76 plates which were issued with the
Gloucestershire Collections in 1791-92; and 27 which were engraved
for the History of the City of Gloucester, afterwards published by
Fosbrooke (London, 1819). It also contains 42 which were
intended for the remaining portion of the Collections, but which, as
the work was discontinued in 1792, have never been published.
The list of these plates, as they are arranged in the volume, is
as follows :
1. Arms carved in the roof of Hard wick Church. 2. Newland
Church. 3. Newland Font. 4. Monument to Jenkin Wyrrall in
Newland Church. 5. Figures in the Churches of St. Briavel and
Newland. 6. ISTewland Village. 7. Newnham Church. 8. Old-
bury-upon-Severn Church. 9. Painswick Church. 10. Quedgley
Church. 11. Rodborough Church. 12. North-Leach Church.
13. Slinibridge Church. 14. Sodbury (Old) Church. 15. Southrop
Font. 16. Stonehouse Church. 17. Stow Church. 18. Standish
Church. 19. Stroud Church. 20. Swindon Church. 21. Stanley
Kings Church. 22. Stanley St. Leonards Church. 23. Tetbury
old Church. 24. Monument to Lord Broaes [Braose] in Tetbury
Church. 25. Tetbury new Church. 26. Distant view of Tetbury
Church. 27. Thornbury Church. 28. Thornbury Castle. 29.
Tewkesbury Church. 30. The Tomb of Robert Fitz Hamon,
Founder of Tewkesbury, in Tewkesbury Church. 31. The Tomb
of Lord Wenlock in same church. 32. Withington Church. 33.
Withington Parsonage. 34. Wotton-under-Edge Church. 35. Brass
of Lord and Lady Berkeley in Wotton Church. 36. Woodchester
Church. 37. Winchcombe Church. 38. Wick war Church. 39.
Wheatenhurst Church. 40. Westbury-upon-Trim Church. 41.
Skeletons in Westbury Church. 42. Yate Church. ABHBA.
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194 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1168. THE FEERE FAMILY AND BITTON. It may be interesting
to know 'that the late Right Hon. Sir Henry Edward Bartle Frere,
Bart., G.C.B. (bom at Brecon, March 29, 1815), spent the early years
of his life at Bitton, where lived also his father and mother, who
now lie buried in the churchyard, with others of the family. The
Freres resided in a house then called The Eectory, but now known
as The Grange. Edward Frere, Esq., in 1833, became the tenant :
he died in 1844, and his son William Edward purchased it, in 1857,
of the lessee, Sir Thomas F. Fremantle, Bart., who had purchased
the whole prebendal estate of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
(Ellacombe's History of Bitton, p. 90). Sir Bartle Frere died at
his residence, Wressil Lodge, Wimbledon, May 29, 1884, and was
buried, June 5, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, within a few
yards of Lord Nelson's monument. For an obituary notice, see
Annual Register, 1884, pt. ii., p. 136.
Near Bitton Church are six almshouses, with this inscription :
" In memory of | Edward and Mary Ann [nee Greene] Frere,
sometime of this parish, | these Almshouses were erected ] by their
grateful and affectionate children, | Anno Domini 1859."
In the nave of the church there is a three-light window, with
this inscription : " As a humble offering for the adorning of God's
House, this window was placed by the nephews and nieces of
Jane Ellenor Frere. While mourning the loss of her loving presence
and bright example on earth, they rejoice in the remembrance of the
fervent piety of one, who, after the manner of holy women of old,
1 sat at Jesus' feet ' (Luke x. 39), * ministered to the poor ' (Acts ix.
36), 'taught the saints of His flock' (2 Tim. iii. 15). She fell
asleep in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life
through our Lord Jesus Christ, April 6 th , 1872, in the 69 th year
of her age." G A w
1169. THE CANN FAMILY. A correspondent made this inquiry
some years ago through Notes and Queries (1 st S. vii. 330) : Can
any of your correspondents enlighten me as to the origin of this
family name ; and if of foreign extraction, as I suspect, in what
county of England they first settled ? There is a village in Dorset-
shire called Cann St. Rumbold. Possibly this may afford some
clue. Burke informs us that William Carm, Esq., was mayor of
Bristol in 1648, and that his son, Sir Robert Cann, also mayor, and
afterwards M.P. for that city, was knighted by Charles II. in 1662,
and created a baronet, September 13th in the same year. The title
became extinct in 1765, by the death of Sir Robert Cann, the
sixth baronet. The first baronet had several brothers, some of
whom most probably left issue, as I find a respectable family of
that name now [1853], and for many years past, located in Devon-
shire ; but I am not aware if they are descended from the same
stock.
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1170. THE NEWNHAM STATE SWORD. (See No. 962.) The
Bristol Times of June 3, 1865, contains the following: "A
Mr. James, in 1850, bought the manor of Newnham-on-Severn,
and, by so doing, obtained the custody of a sword of state presented
to the town by King John. Mr. James's executors have advertised
the manor for sale, together with the sword of state. The rector
and churchwardens of Newnham have applied to the Court of
Chancery to prevent this ' betrayal of the precious hilt from lust of
gold,' and Vice-Chancellor Wood has granted the application." Can
any reader state what has become of the ancient relic 1 j j^
1171. CHRISTOPHER COLE, OF CHELTENHAM. In Marshall's
Genealogist (July, 1879), vol. iii., p. 289, in an article on the family
of Cole, of Woodview, Co. Cork, mention is made of " Christopher
Cole, of Cheltenham, born 8 Dec., 1767, ob. s. p. s. 24 Aug., 1850,
buried at Cheltenham." Mr. Cole, as likewise stated, was president
of the " Cheltenham Knot of Friendly Brothers of the Order of
St. Patrick," by whom his portrait [now at Woodview] was
presented to him. Where may I ascertain further particulars of
him, and likewise of the branch of the order over which he
presided? j Q.
1172. THE THEYER FAMILY AND MSS. (See No. 399.)
" W.A.P." sent this communication to Notes and Queries (6 th S. xi.
487) : Having read a great deal in Wood's Athence Oxonienses and
Bigland's Gloucestershire about John Theyer, or Thayer, Gentleman,
of Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, Gloucestershire, and being much
interested in the matter, I shall be glad to learn if any representatives
or direct descendants of this John Theyer, who nourished in 1668,
are now living, and also if any further particulars may be gleaned
from any source other than those I have already mentioned. On
inquiring at the British Museum last year [1884] about the
manuscripts collected by John Theyer, and now supposed to be in
" The King's Library," strange to say, I could gain no information
from the officials respecting them.
In the succeeding volume, p. 31, the Rev. S. E. Bartleet, of
Brockworth, replied :
I do not know that there is very much to say about John Theyer
beyond what is recorded in Athence Oxonienses. Wood there
speaks of him as having inherited a number of the MSS. belonging
to the priory of Lanthony, Gloucester, from his grandfather, who
was brother-in-law to the last prior. No doubt this was so, as the
said prior, Richard Hart, by his will dated August 1, 1545,
bequeaths "to my sister Annes and her two sons, Eichard and
Thomas Theare, four silver spoons and household effects," including
" my great brass pot that I brew in, and my great copper 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." By a
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schedule made September 25, . 1545, Eichard Hart makes his
brother-in-law, Thomas Theare, one of his executors, and gives him
405.
I find by some old deeds, kindly lent me by Sir William Guise,
the record of a lease of certain lands to the aforesaid Thomas
Theyer for eighty years, in 1541. Among the same deeds is also
the settlement, by John Theyer, the elder, son of Thomas aforesaid,
of a messuage -and tenement called Cowpers, on his son John and
his wife Susanna, on the marriage of John with the said Susanna.
This is dated 1628, and marks, therefore, the date of the
antiquary's marriage and the name of his wife. John, the father,
died in 1631. Our parish registers are complete from 1559, and
contain a great many entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials of
various Theyers. The antiquary's marriage is not recorded in
them, nor, I think, the birth of any of his children. The baptism
of Charles, his grandson, son of John and Anna Theyer, to whom
Wood says he left his library, took place at Brockworth, July 8,
1650. The name given the child, the year after the execution of
the king, is an indication of the loyal feelings of the family.
There are still Theyers at Brockworth, the representative of the
family being a yeoman, farming his own land. He is almost certainly
akin to, but perhaps not descended from, the celebrated antiquary. It
may be interesting to note that the hall at Brockworth, from which
the " hangings " were taken which Prior Hart left to his sister, is
still standing. It was the Court of the priors of Lanthony, who
were lords of the manor of Brockworth. It was built by Richard
Hart, last prior ; and on one of the walls within the building is
painted E.H.P., standing for Eichard Hart, Prior, with the
pomegranate, the emblem of Katharine of Arragon. There is a
good illustration of the building in vol. vii. of the Transactions of
the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. The house
of John Theyer on Cooper's Hill also remains, in external
appearance, not, perhaps, much changed. It is used for stabling
and other farm offices.
The MSS. left by Theyer are described in Casley's Catalogue of
the King's Library in the British Museum.
I should like to ask if anyone can give me any information as to
the will of John Theyer, by which, according to Wood, he left his
MSS. to his grandson Charles. I have searched in vain the indexes
at Somerset House, Lambeth, and the Probate Court at Gloucester.
John Theyer was buried at Brockworth, August 28, 1673.
Tradition marks the spot as under the great yew tree in the church-
yard, but there is no stone or other memorial of him in the church
or churchyard.
1173. THE EODWAY FAMILY, OP EODBOROUGH. I am collecting
all available information respecting my family, the Eodways of
Eodborough, Co. Gloucester, and I take the liberty of asking your
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assistance. Two of my ancestors, Gyles and John Rodway, were
mayors of Gloucester about the end of the seventeenth century.
Mr. Alfred Scott Gatty (Eouge Dragon, Pursuivant) has favoured
me with a pedigree dating from the year 1569, in which I see that
members of the family have intermarried with the Kimber,
Sanders, Rogers (of Bristol), Wintle, Holder, Heven, and other
families. Our arms are : Arg. on a fess az., three roses or, between
three bugle-horns stringed sa. ; with crest : A roebuck trippant, ppr.
Aston Hall, near Birmingham. ALFRED J. RODWAY.
1174. WOOD'S COPPER COINAGE, 1723. In Notes and Queries
(6 th S. xii. 7) Mr. Edward Solly has written as follows : In the
patent granted by George I. to William Wood for coining copper
money for Ireland, which led to Swift's celebrated Drapier's Letters,
there was also power given to coin halfpence, pence, and twopences
for His Majesty's plantations in America. In the Freeholders 1
Journal for January 23, 1723, it is stated that he began the coinage
for Ireland on Monday, the 21st inst., "in a building erected for
that purpose in Phoenix Street, near the Seven Dials ; and that in
about a month's time he will commence to coin copper money for
America at Bristol ; which will be made of a beautiful compound
metal ; his Majesty's head and the inscription Georgius Rex being
on the one side ; on the reverse a rose, with this motto, Rosa
Americana utile dulci." The fate of the coinage for Ireland is well
known ; what was the fate of that intended for America ?
In the same volume, p. 117, this reply appears : Presumably the
patent for the American coinage was withdrawn simultaneously
with that for Ireland. The coins are scarce, in addition to which
Ruding quotes that " this money was rejected in a manner not so
decent as that of Ireland."
1175. SHAKESPEARE AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE. (Reply to No.
1032.) I am not prepared to accept Mr. Phillimore's theory. A
man named Clement Perkes was contemporary with Shakespeare,
and lived at Fladbury, Worcestershire, a part of which parish has
long been known as " Hill," and is still so called.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore. THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A.
1176. A GLOUCESTERSHIRE CUSTOM. (Reply to No. 1055.)
Your correspondent G. A. W. may be interested in learning that
the custom which he mentions prevails in Warwickshire. Mr. D'Arcy
Power has the following communication in the Folk-Lore Journal,
June, 1884, p. 187: "A few months ago, in a village not far
from Stratford-on-Avon, I noticed a quantity of chaff before a
house door; on my return home, I mentioned that I supposed
so-and-so was moving, when I was at once met with the reply,
* Because of the chaff at his door 1 Oh, no ; that is the way our
people show their feeling for wife-beaters.'"
198 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Mr. W. Henderson, in his Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties,
says, 'p. 32 (ed. 1879) : " Near Preston, in Yorkshire, popular
displeasure against a wife-beater is shown by scattering chaff or
straw in front of his door amid groans and cries of indignation."
Cardiff. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.
1177. DAME ALICE HAMPTON. (Reply to No. 1096.) A turret
clock in my possession strikes the hours and quarters on a bell on
which is the following inscription in old English capitals :
"DAME ALYS HAMPTON +
+ LH.S.
A MDXC."
There may be more on the bell, but this I cannot ascertain
unless it were moved from its present position. It is celebrated in
the neighbourhood for its sweet tone. I have no idea how it came
into the possession of my family. j^ ^ p
Minchinhampton.
1178. WILLIAM JENNINGS, B.D., FIRST DEAN OF GLOUCESTER,
1541-65. (Reply to No. 1140.) In Notes and Queries (6 th S. xi.
514) a correspondent has replied : William Jennings, who died
November 4, 1565, " was buried in the middle of the choir, opposite
the choristers' seat, and had a large stone laid over him, which was
removed in the year 1818 to the east cloister before the old chapter-
house door j at each corner of which stone his arms are engraved
on a brass plate, viz., 1. On a fess three roundels; 2. A bull's
head caboshed ; 3. On two bars six martlets ; 4. As the first. On
another plate is the following inscription :
' Hie Gulielme jaces Jeninges, quern sex quater annos
Edes decanum viderat ista suum.
Milleni, a Christo, quinginti bisque triceni
Et quinti, quarta luce Novembris obis.
Clarus avo fueras, clarus patre, clarus et ipse ;
Doctrina clarus, clarus et ingenio.
Non tarn pane tuo, quam Christi pane replesti
Christicolas, ergo vivis et astra tenes.' "
Whilst he was dean he was incumbent of St. John's in Gloucester
[1546-7], and of Swindon, Beverstone [1554], and Cromhall [1541-
65]. He was a monk of St. Peter's Abbey, the last prior of
St. Oswald's, and also the king's chaplain. See Rudder's Gloucester-
shire, p. 161 (Cirencester, 1779).
1179. TYTHERINGTON PARISH CHURCH. Mr. Thomas S. Pope,
of Bristol, architect, has furnished the following description of the
architectural features of this church, as observed during the recent
restoration :
The church of Tytherington appears to have been built during the
Norman period, which is now termed transition, that is to say,
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late in the twelfth century, and then most probably consisted of
two towers, nave, and chancel, and perhaps north aisle ; but the
only remains found of that period were the niche over the interior
doorway of the south porch, and the impost of the chancel arch,
which was fixed to a wall between the nave and the chancel. The
battering, or decrease, in the thickness of walls as they become
higher is generally a mark of Early English work, and this is well
shown in the staircase turret to the tower. At the beginning of
the thirteenth century, or Early English period, the north aisle
seems to have been added, as shown by the Early English and
remaining north-east end of the arcade in the north aisle, the only
one remaining of the old work, and from which the other arches
have been copied. An early lancet window was also discovered at
the west end of the south aisle upon the removal of the vestry, a
modern room, which was nearly tumbling down. The traceried
two-light window at the east end of the north aisle, probably very
nearly fourteenth century work, seems to have formed the pattern
for the other traceried windows in the aisles the others in the
aisles being evidently copies made in the fifteenth century from the
early window in the north aisle. The battering to the wall around
this north aisle window is very evident. The south porch was
nearly tumbling down at the time of the restoration, and has been
rebuilt. The porch appears to have been rebuilt at the time of
rebuilding the chancel, of which more hereafter. The Norman
niche over the interior door was discovered in situ during the
restoration, and most probably had contained a statue of the patron
saint, St. James ; and we also found the holy water stoup in the
eastern wall, apparently of fifteenth century date, judging from the
cusping. Somewhat similar stoups are to be seen at Iron Acton and
Rangeworthy churches. The old roof of the porch had no features
of interest, being merely plain rafters without ties. Small one-light
windows have been added to the sides. The chancel appears to
have been rebuilt, or nearly so, about a hundred years ago, the
eastern walls and north wall probably receiving the old east window
of Decorated date, but an Italian sill being placed to the mullions,
and rustic Italian quoins to the angles. An old elliptical arched
window was found in the north wall, which has been filled in with
tracery. The chancel roof was before the recent restoration formed
with Queen post trusses and a flat plaster ceiling. Pieces of charred
woodwork give the idea that the chancel had been burnt down at
some period, and the destruction of the arch between the chantry
chapel and chancel seems to favour this theory. The piscina
remaining in the south wall of the south aisle, and the opening
between the chancel and chapel, seem to show that this was formerly
a chantry chapel, most probably with the tomb of the founder in
the recess of the chancel wall, like the Codrington chapel in
Wapley church. In removing the walling of this arch the remains
of a tomb were found, now built in the eastern wall of the south
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aisle. During the recent work the ancient priest's door leading into
the chapel was discovered, and has been re-opened. The eastern
window of this chapel, a three-light one, is of the usual Somerset-
shire type, and different from the other windows in the church. It
was, I think, during the rebuilding of the chancel that the present
odd arrangement of the arcade to the south aisle was made, the old
fourteenth century piers being raised on rubble masonry, so as to
make them about level with the early arches in the north aisle, and
the moulded work all removed, most probably to carry out the
Italian idea of uniformity, so that the aisles should be about equal
in height, the southern aisle being formerly a low one. The font
is a comparatively modern one the date is uncertain. The seats
are copied from the ancient oak seats remaining in the church,
three in number, of which one has been preserved in the north
aisle. The roofs are the ancient ones discovered upon removing the
plastered ceilings, each rafter being trussed separately, and are
probably of the Early English period. The roof near the south
aisle had evidently been much altered. The old Jacobean altar
table has been repaired and restored to its use in the chancel ; it
formerly served as a table in the vestry. The old desk to which
the books were chained still remains in the chapel. The antiquity
of Tytherington is shown by the fine remains of a Roman or
British camp upon the hill above the quarry.
1180. SMYTH FAMILY : EXTKACTS FROM REGISTERS. (See No.
1152.) The following extracts may be of some interest in con-
nection with the name of Jarrit Smyth :
All Saints', Evesham.
Baptisms.
1650. Dec. 26. Anne, d. of Jarret Smith.
1653. July 17. William, s. of Jarret Smith.
1655. June 22. Jarrett, s. of Jarrett Smith.
1657. May 3. Marie, d. of Jarrett Smith.
1660. July 29. Jane, d. of Jarret Smyth.
1666. April 8. Elizabeth, d. of Jarret Smith.
1685. June 26. Ann, d. of M r Jarrett Smith.
1689. Oct. 29. Sara, d. of Jarrat Smyth, Apo.
1692. Nov. 30. Thomas, s. of Jarrit Smith.
1693. Oct. 5. Sarah and Mary, twins of Jarret Smyth,
Apoth.
695. Oct. 18. Sarah, d. of Jarrett Smyth, Apothec.
1696. Dec. 10. Elizabeth, d. of Jarret Smyth, Apothecary.
1699. April 14. Charles, s. of Jerrrett and Sarah Smyth.
1700. June 27. Jarrett, s. of Jarrett and Sarah Smith.
1702. Dec, 4. Frances, d. of Jarrett and Sarah Smith.
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Marriages.
1682. Jan. 8. M r Jarret Smith and M rs Sarah Feild.
1686. April 12. William Smith and Debora Fairfax.
Burials.
1675. Oct. 10. Anne, d. of M r Jarret Smith.
Oct. 31. Elizabeth, d. of the same.
Nov. 28. Anne, wife of the same.
1681. Aug. 12. M r Jarret Smith.
1685. June 28. Ann, d. of M r Jarret Smith.
1690. Jan. 27. Jarrat, s. of Jarrat Smyth.
1693. Oct. 28. Mary, d. of Jarrett Smyth, Apoth.
Oct. Sarah, d. of the same.
1695. Nov. 1. Sarah, d. of the same.
1700. Nov. 24. Jarrett, s. of the same.
1702. May 23. M r Jerrett Smith.
1709. Jan. 18. William, s. of M r Jarret Smith.
1712. Dec. 26. M r Jarrit Smith, Apothecary.
1713. Mar. 10. M rs Sarah Smith, widow.
St. Laurence's, Evesham.
Burials.
1705. April 21. Jarret, s. of Erancis Smith.
June 14. Francis Smith.
Salford, co. Warwick, near Evesham.
1714. Feb. 6. William, s. of Jarret Smith, was bapt.
1719. Feb. 7. Anne, d. of Jarret Smith, was bapt.
1726. July 12.' Benjamin and John, sons of Jarret Smyth,
were bapt. ; and bur. July 15.
Nov. 10. Jarret Smyth was bur.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore. THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A.
MSI. ROGER BACON, THE PHILOSOPHER. This great man was
born in 1214, and died in 1284. "It is true," as the late Mr.
Lysons has allowed in his Gloucestershire Achievements, p. 22, "that
most biographers assert that he was born near Ilchester [in Somer-
setshire], without saying in what village, but Camden and Atkyns
point out the spot as St. Mary's Mills, at Chalford, near Stroud,
where a room exists which is still called Friar Bacon's study. The
house having been occupied by my own grandfather, great-grand-
father, and great-great-grandfather, I can answer for the same tradition
as handed down to me to that extent. I cannot help thinking that
our historians had good grounds for their statements, and that Ilchester
has crept in from some mis-reading, in some manuscripts, for
Cirencester, from which place St. Mary's Mills are about eight miles
distant. No doubt there was a family of Bacon in Gloucestershire
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at that period. Philip Bacon was the bailiff of Henbury, in this
county, at the beginning of the reign of Edward L, 1274 (Rotuli
Hundredorum)"
In accordance with the above-named authorities, and following in
the steps of Mr. Lysons, Mr. Dorington, of Lypiatt Park, at the
industrial exhibition held at Horsley, April 17, 1884, took the
opportunity of referring to the old philosopher in these terms :
England owes a great part of her supremacy to inventors, who, from
time to time, rose from the ranks of the people, and to these
inventions we owe the great manufacturing supremacy we at present
enjoy. Looking back into the history of the past they had one
very remarkable man, who arose, not from Horsley, but out of a
valley not so very remote from Horsley, namely, the valley in a
place called Toadsmoor, where it is said that the great Eoger Bacon
was born, and that he afterwards lived at St. Mary's Mill. He was
perhaps the most remarkable man England ever produced, but
unfortunately he lived before his time, and was never appreciated
by the people of England as he ought to have been ; in fact, at the
time he lived he was regarded as a necromancer, and looked upon
as a very doubtful character. There are some very curious records
of what he taught and what he did. He was supposed to practise
the black art. It was rather a remarkable thing that one of the
Roman popes was the first person to take Bacon up. He wrote to
him that he should like to read his books, and it was only in
response to a mandate of the pope, taking off all orders to the
contrary, that Bacon wrote his three great books and sent them to
the pope. Where were they? They ought to be in this neighbour-
hood or somewhere in England, but they only existed, so far as he
knew, in their titles, unless they were in the library of the pope of
Eome. Bacon was supposed to have invented gunpowder ; he was
certainly acquainted with optics. Many strange stories were told
of him, some of which of course were not true. One was that an
English king was engaged in the siege of a town in Erance, and
hearing of Bacon's powers sent for him to burn the- town. There
was no doubt that story was founded upon the use of lenses as
burning glasses, Bacon having astonished the people by collecting
the rays of the sun with glass. There was another story which
credited Bacon with a most valuable invention if it could be put in
practice at the present time. Bacon had read in his old books how
greatly England had suffered from foreign invasion, the invasion of
the Danes and the Saxons, and perhaps of the Normans, so he
thought whether he could not surround England with a wall of brass,
endowed with such mysterious properties that an enemy could not
get over it. With this object he formed, with the help of a fellow-
workman, a great brass head, and was led to believe that
this head would somehow or other speak, and that when it spoke it
would tell him how the brass wall should be built, and how it would
protect England, He was also told that when this brass head spoke
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it would only speak once, and that unless he was prepared to receive
what the head spoke at the time, the head would be of no service
to him ; and so he watched three weeks, night and day, and then
was tired, and turned the head over to another, and then the head
spoke and said "Time is." The man thought that was a very
unimportant communication, and he would not wake Roger
Bacon ; and so time was, and time passed, and the head tumbled
down, and was smashed to pieces, and the great bronze wall for the
protection of England was never built. Of course this was
mentioned to show how wondrous stories might be fabricated, and
how a man whom his neighbours could not understand was
kept back. He (Mr. Dorington) hoped the inventors in this neigh-
bourhood would not be kept in the cold shade, and be unable to
develop their talents. Such an exhibition as the present one gave
them an opportunity.
1182. GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL AND WELSH ECCLESIASTICAL
PATRONAGE. A correspondent writes to the Western Mail: It has
often puzzled Welsh people to know how came it that the dean and
chapter of Gloucester Cathedral have the patronage of several livings
in Glamorganshire. During the last few days I have been engaged
at the Eecord Office and the British Museum in searching out the
history of the matter. In the abstract of Roll 33 Hen. VIII.,
relating to the monastic properties at the time of the dissolution
of the monasteries, Tewkesbury Abbey held the following Welsh
livings, the names of which I give in the modern spelling : Llantwit,
Llanblethian, Llantrisant, Penmark, Cwm Capel, St. Donatts et
Cardiff, Cardiff et Roth (Roath), and Llantewitte. (There is some
mystery in this name. The first of the kind in the list is
spelt Llantwill in the Latin copy. One of the two must mean
Llanilltyd Yawr, and the other Llanilltyd Vardre. But which of
the two churches is meant by Llantewitte 1 Llantwit, the modern
form of the name, is evidently derived from Llantewitte.) Llandough,
Llanishen et Llysfaen, Bonvilstone (?), St. Andrews, St. Pagans,
Coity, Wenvoe et Wingeston (spelt in the Latin copy Winfree),
and Newton Natton (Kottage?). In an old Latin manuscript found
at Tewkesbury Abbey it is stated "It is scarce credible how much
the monastery of Tewkesbury was improved and advanced by the
favour of Robert Fitz-Hamon ; the beauty of their buildings and
the hospitality of their monks did please the sight and affect the
hearts of all who came thither." In a charter granted by Henry I.,
dated Winchester, in the year 1106, I find the king confirming the
following grant made by Robert Pitz-Hamon to Tewkesbury
Abbey: "In Wales the parish church of St. Mary, in the town of
Cardiff, with one plough's tillage (carucate, that is, 100 acres of
land) ; the chapel in the castle of Cardiff, with one plough's tillage;
and the tithes of all the rents of the demesnes of the town of
Cardiff; the tithes of all the demesnes which Robert, the son of
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Fitz-Hamon, held in Wales ; the tithes of all the baron's holdings
of Fitz-Hamon throughout all Wales. All that branch of water of
Taflf which is near the church, from the issuing out of Taff till it
goes into Taff again, to make fishponds therewith, or any other
conveniencies for the church ; and the meadow on the other side of
the water near the church. The village called Llandoho, the land
given by Walter de Llandebethian, the tithes of the land which the
abbot of Gloucester hath in Llancarvan, the church of Llanhiltunit,
the land which Wakelyn gave, the water mill at Eaz (Rhath
Roath?), and the fisheries which Robert de Hay gave, the land
which Robert, the son of Nigel, gave the church of Newcastle."
In 33 Hen. VIII. Tewkesbury Abbey was dissolved, and its abbot
made the first bishop of Gloucester. The other religious persons
found in it were pensioned off. From that time to this the chapter
of Gloucester has held what Fitz-Hamon and Henry I. took away
from the Welsh people. It is stated that most of the estates thus
transferred belonged at one time to the great seat of learning which,
prior to the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, existed at Llantwit
Major. j a
1183. TEMPLE GUITING CHURCH. The parish church of the
picturesque village of Temple Guiting has been recently re-opened
(1885) after restoration. About the middle of the last century it
was altered and embellished in the usual style of the Georgian
period by the late Rev. Dr. Talbot, for many years incumbent of
the parish, and one of the founders of the Gloucester Infirmary.
Since that time but little repair appears to have been bestowed
upon the sacred edifice, with the exception of a thorough restoration
of the belfry about fifteen years ago, when the bells were re-cast
and re-hung at the expense of the parishioners generally, and a new
clock was presented by the late Miss Talbot, of Temple Guiting
House. For some years the remainder of the church urgently
needed repairs, and the state of the roof had become absolutely
dangerous. Plans were prepared during the lifetime of Miss Talbot,
but owing to her death, were not carried out until the present time.
The alterations and improvements in the chancel are most marked.
The north and south walls have been partly rebuilt, and the tracery
restored to the windows. A new roof has also been provided, and
the floor laid with encaustic tiles, and the old pews have been re-
placed by new choir stalls and a reading-desk. A new arch, which
is a fine specimen of workmanship, has been erected. In the nave
the old stucco ceiling, which was threatening to fall in, has been
restored. The old decayed lead on the roof has been replaced by
new. The tracery of one window in the transept, and of one in the
nave, has been restored. The comfort of the worshippers has not been
overlooked. In place of the old high-backed and enclosed pews, low
reclining seats with open ends have been provided. All the walls
have been scraped and pointed, and the old north doorway re-opened
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and a new porch added. Various interesting specimens of architecture
some underground and some in the walls have been disclosed.
Part of an old Saxon cross was discovered, and has been preserved
in the wall of the porch, as also the base, shaft, and capital which
formerly supported a Norman arch. Some Norman work has also
been found built in the chancel wall. The works have been satis-
factorily carried out by Messrs. Hookham and Son, of Stow-on-the-
Wold, according to the plans of Mr. J, E. K. Cutts, of London.
The cost of the restoration effected is .1,060, but to complete the
work thoroughly at least .500 more will be required.
1184. NOTES ON THE PARISH OF PITCHCOMBE. Pitchcombe
does not appear to be mentioned by name in Domesday: it has been
thought by some that it was then a part of Harescombe, with which
it has been ecclesiastically connected for many centuries, the two
rectories having been held together from a very early period. It
would seem that it was a part of the " Terra Eegis ; ' in the time of
the Norman usurper "Bertona Eegis" or King's Barton; and
hence it may be included in Domesday, " in Bertune," where King
Edward had nine hides, of which seven were in demesne. At a
later period also we find it asserted, " Pychenecumbe tenetur de
Eege," and it is included in a " memorandum " of those lands and
tenements of which the king shall have custody, and escheats,
if they occur. It forms part of the now united hundreds of
Duddeston and King's Barton, from the rest of which it is entirely
detached, being surrounded on the one side by the parishes of
Haresfield, Standish, and Eandwick, which are in the hundred of
Whitstone, and on the other, by Stroud and Painswick, which
belong to the hundred of Bisley. It is described in an old map,
A.D. 1624, now in the possession of the corporation of Gloucester,
(for which information I am indebted to the kindness of K,edgwin
H. Fryer, Esq., the late mayor,) as the "In-Shire" of "the Citty
and County of Gloucester."
The first occurrence of the name is, I think, in the letters of
Gilbert Foliot, abbot of Gloucester, 1139-48, (afterwards bishop of
Hereford, and of London, and the antagonist of Becket). He
addresses Joceline, bishop of Salisbury, complaining of certain men,
viz., John of Marlborough and Walter of Pinchcumb, who had
committed various depredations upon the possessions of the Abbey,
to the extent of more than two hundred marks, causing such injury
to the property near them that its value was greatly reduced, and
not blushing to expend the spoil in an evil manner. He implores
the bishop's help and the speedy punishment of the transgressors
by the sword, which he reminds him he did not carry in vain, but
in order that he might strike the wicked and the foes of the
Church.
In the series of " Pedes Einium " (" sive Finales Concordise in
Curia Domini Eegis ") in the Public Eecord Office, we find that in
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5 John (1204), Kobert Fitz Kalph quit claims twelve acres of land,
with their appurtenances, in " Pichencumbe," to Eobert Briton, for
which he had given to the said Kobert Fitz Ralph the sum of
fourteen pounds sterling, or, as it has been otherwise read, fourteen
pounds seven shillings, this portion of the document being much
faded and almost illegible, through its age, viz., six hundred and
eighty years.
In 8 Hen. III. (1224), the Close Rolls contain an order to the
sheriff of Gloucester to give seisin to Ralph de Vernai of three
virgates in " Pichelecumb," which "pertain to our manor of the
Berton, for his sustentation in our service, so long as it may please
us ; " also, if anything had been taken into the hands of the king,
it was to be forthwith restored. The king's writ is dated " ap' Glouc'
xx die Nov." By a similar writ, King John (anno 17, 1216) had
ordered the sheriff to permit Ralph de Vernay to have the adjoining
manor of " Rindewic," unless it were worth more than ten pounds
per annum. The Charter Rolls also mention Ralph de Yernay as
formerly holding " una caruc' et xxij solid' redd' " in Pitchcombe
" de dono Regis Johannis." He appears to have died soon after the
grant (or regrant) of King Henry, since the " custos of the honour
of Willingeford " is ordered to see that " Amabilia q' fuit uxor Rad'
de Vernay " have her lawful dower : and in a writ " ap' Abbendon
ix die Octob r ," the king commands Osbert Giffard to give up " blada,
res, catalla vasa et o'ia utesilia alia q' invenit i' t'ra Rad' de Vernay," to
the said Amabilia and the executors of his will.
In " Testa de Nevill," Osbert Giffard " tenet in Pichenecumbe iij
virg' terr' et dimid' de dono Domini Regis," worth 62 shillings, and
also the carucate and 22 s rent, formerly in the possession of Ralph
de Vernay. As Archdeacon Rudge has stated, " it appears by an
extract from the Pipe Office Rolls, that 'firma de Pinchcomb'
belonged to Osbert Giffard in the reign of Hen. III."
It is not easy to identify this Osbert, for there appear to have
been several of the name, a natural son of King John, and others ;
viz., Osbert Giffard de Norfolk and Osbert Giffard de Brimsfelde,
one of whom may have been " Osbert Giffard, his sister's son, whom
Thomas, the first lord Berkeley, gave up as one of his hostages,
when Berkeley Castle, which John had seized, was restored."
(Fosbrooke's Gloucestershire, i. 459.)
An " Osbert Giffard " was among the companions of D'Albiney,
who so gallantly held Rochester Castle against King John and his
horde of foreign mercenaries for seven weeks, but who at. last,
subdued by famine, threw themselves on the royal mercy: John
ordered them to be hanged without exception; but revoked the
order on the remonstrance of Sauvery de Mauleon, that the barons
would retaliate. The knights were consigned to the dungeons of
different castles ; and the prisoners of inferior rank were distributed
as presents among his retainers. Osbert Giffard and other knights
("captos in Castro Roffensi") are shown by the Close Rolls, 17
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John, to have been committed by the king to the care of Peter de
Mauley for safe custody ; the chronicler of Dunstaple saying of the
knights, "quos post multa tormenta per gravem redemptionem postea
relaxavit." Some, however, remained long in captivity, and in
6 Hen. III. (1221) we find an entry of receipt of money from
Peter de Mauley on account of the "redemption of prisoners,"
" de Osb to Giffard, 108."
The Inquisitions post Mortem, 31 Hen. III. (1247), make mention
of his wife Isabella, and of Alicia Murdic (probably her sister) :
they shew lands held in Somerset, Devon, Northamptonshire,
Oxfordshire, Dorset, and at " Pinchecumbe " and Acton in this
county, these latter being worth 106 s 8 d . At the end of the return
for the county of Somerset occurs another entry, viz., " Osbert
Giffard held a carucate of land and 28 s rent by scutage from the
king, the same carucate and rent being worth five marks, and paying
a rent of five shillings to the sheriff of Gloucester." In Somerset
and Dorset he held the manor of Foxcote of Maurice de Berklay,
and the ville of Theaumes of Elias Giffard; also the manor of
Winterborne Henton of Reginald Mohun at feefarm (xiiij 11 x 8 );
and Langeham, in the manor of Gillinghain, of the king, rendering
a pair of spurs, or iiij d , at the feast of St. Michael.
Osbert Giffard, his son, was found to be his heir, and it was said
that he was of the age of twelve years and a half (Somerset
Inquis.), or thirteen years "in quindena ante Fest. Scti Joh. Bapt.," as
in the Dorset Inquisition. He was also the heir of the above-named
Alicia Murdic, who held certain lands of Beatrice, her sister.
(Excerpta & Kot. Fin. i. 186.) Before he became of age, the king
(Henry III.) talliaged his demesnes, and the Fine Rolls (1252)
contain the king's writ concerning a respite for the Pitchcombe
lands: "It is commanded to the sheriff of Gloucester that he
defer the demand which he makes of xxv sol. of the talliage assessed
upon the land which belonged to Osbert Giffard in Pichenecuinb,
by reason of the talliage which the king has caused to be assessed
upon his demesnes throughout England because
the lands and heir of the said Osbert are in the hands of the king" :
"T. R. apud Clarend' xx die Nov."
In 37 Hen. III. (1252-3), a grant was made by the abbey of
Gloucester to Richard le Bret of Pitchcombe, which, as it bears the
title of " Pichenecumbe " in the Gloucester Chartulary (vol. ii.,
p. 86, no. dlxvii), may perhaps be understood to refer to lands
situated there, although another locality has been suggested. "This
is the agreement made between the lord John [de Felda] abbot and
the convent of St. Peter Gloucester, and Richard le Breth of
Pichenecumbe, viz., that the said abbot and convent have granted
and delivered, in the 37th year of the reign of King Henry, the
son of King John, to the same Richard of Pichenecumbe, and his
heirs or his assigns, custody of the land, with its appurtenances,
which Henry de Avenebury formerly held in the manor of Stanedys,
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'videlicet in Hersecumbe,' with the marriage of the infant and heir
of the said Henry, without disparagement : to have and to hold the
custody of the said land, so long as, by the custom of England, he
ought to be under guardianship, so that they cause neither waste,
nor destruction, nor deterioration in the appurtenances of the same,
housebote and heybote excepted. But if anything after the manner
of men should happen to the said heir, the abbot and convent have
granted to the said Richard and his heirs custody of the said lands
and their appurtenances, with the marriage of another existing heir :
saving to the same the service which pertains to the said land, viz.,
' esquieria,'* and suit of court at Gloucester and at Stanedys, with
their other free men. For this concession and surrender Richard
has given to the said abbot and convent fifty marks silver, and one
tierce (dolium) of wine. And the said Richard and his heirs shall
observe all these things under a penalty of forfeiting one hundred
shillings. In testimony whereof we have affixed our seals to this
writing."
The Hundred Rolls (4 Edw. I.) shew that Osbert Giffard, son
and heir of Osbert, was then living : the jurors say that he holds
Pichenecumbe, which the lord Henry the king gave to his father,
from the escheat of Ralph de Vernun, which pertains to the
" Berton " in Gloucester, but that he has not done service at the
court of the Berton for sixteen years passed. This land is referred
to in the Gloucester Chartulary, vol. iii., p. 67, in the "Extenta de
Berthona Regis," where we find, "De liberis tenentibus [juratores]
dicunt quod hssredes Osberti Giffarde tenent tres virgatas terrse de
antiqua tenura, reddendo inde quinque solidos, et debent sequi
curiam Berthonae, et dare tallagium quando dominus rex talliat
dominica sua per Angliam,"
In 31 Edw. I. (1303), an inquisition was made at Gloucester,
on Sunday, November 25, the feast of St. Katharine, before
Thomas de Gardinis, sheriff of Gloucester, in accordance with the
articles of a writ " Ad quod damnum," whether it would be to the
prejudice of the lord the king, if Walter le Bret were to give and
assign a carucate of land, with appurtenances, to " our beloved in
Christ, the abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester." The jurors (Wm. de
Clifford, William de Pydesmore, John de Colthrop, Wm. de
Beyville, Hen. de Wike, Rich. Leffy, Hen. le Fremon de Stanle
Regis, John le Waleys, Adam atte Mulle, John de la Haye, Hen.
Eurnagii, Rich, le Newernan,) say upon oath, that Walter le Bret
holds in the ville of Pichencoumbe a carucate of land of the abbot,
a messuage with garden, worth yearly xii d : in demesne, 80 acres
* The service which Eichard le Bret was to perform, viz., " esquieria " to which certain
Snes S sof TT we h r M UbJeCt ' Was this: WhSamonkwasdesVchedanyThereoTthe
throughout PnJSS r '* , 6 tenant was to find a squire th a proper horse to follow him
untU his rptnrn '/f tO Serve him from the time of his departure from the monastery
k cr^t 2 ** Ca , ITy Upon his own horse the ^rniture of the monk's bed, also a
readv to irforT^v 6 f t T 1 J aves > and h *lf * sextary of wine or beer : and they were to be
sSnfno-s wSpTn fc ?i r h 2f v y ^' as often as the y were summoned. If the horse died, ten
others Wed by the monaster y- This service was sometimes commuted for
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arable, each acre worth 4 d by the year, sum 26 s 8 d ; a certain
pasture in severalty, worth 12 d ; 8 acres wood, worth 3 d , sum 2 s .
Sum of the extent, 30 3 8 d . For these tenements the said Walter
renders 17 s 4 d by the year, and suit at the court of the said abbot
every three weeks ; and the lands and tenements are worth by the
year (in addition to the aforesaid service) 13 s 4 d . They say that
it is not to the prejudice of the lord the king if the said Walter
gives and assigns to the abbot and his successors the said lands and
tenements in Pychenecom.be.
(To be continued.)
1185. A STRANGE ANACHRONISM. In her Day spring : a Story
of the Time of William Tyndale (London, 1882), p. 102, Mrs.
Marshall has laid herself open to the charge of committing a strange
anachronism. She represents Tebita as saying, "There then, I'll be
as proud as a pea-hen to mark your letter, Father Tyndale. My
mark was set last month against the entry in the register that old
Christie Martin was shrouded in woollen " ; adding in a foot-note,
" To encourage the woollen manufacture of the West of England,
an order in council was issued that the dead should be buried in
woollen, under pain of a heavy fine if the order was neglected. In
the old parish register of Stinchcombe there are many entries
accredited by the mark of two witnesses that the body was buried
in woollen."
If not written in ignorance (which is scarcely to be supposed)
why should one have gone out of the way, in an " historical story,"
. to pass off on the unwary reader so strange a mis-statement ? As
mentioned ante, No. 564, the " Act for burying in Woollen " was
not passed until long after Tynda.le's death, viz.,*30 Chas. II., 1678.
ABHBA.
1186. HENRY BATHURST, D.D., BISHOP OF NORWICH. Some
years ago a friend wrote as follows : "I have heard it often asserted
that the late Dr. Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich [b. October 16, 1744,
d. April 5, 1837], was the youngest of forty-two children. Can
this be satisfactorily ascertained? I remember hearing it many years
since during the bishop's lifetime. Such a circumstance is not
beyond the bounds of possibility, if we are to believe the parish
register of Bermondsey; in which there is an entry of the marriage,
January 4, 1624-5, of James Harriott, Esq., one of the forty
children of his father." I shall be glad to have further information.
J. G.
The statement respecting Bishop Bathurst above given is not
correct, inasmuch as his father, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., of Lydney
Park, third son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, M.P., had only thirty-six
children. By his first wife, Finetta, daughter and co-heiress of
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210 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Henry Poole, Esq., of Kemble, Wilts, he had twenty-two, of whom
one daughter alone had issue, namely Anne, wife of Charles Bragge,
Esq., of Cleve Hill, Gloucestershire, who was mother of the Eight
Hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst, father of the late Charles Bathurst,
Esq., and of the late Kev. Wm. Hiley Bathurst, both of Lydney
Park. By his second wife, Katherine, daughter of the Kev.
Laurence Midleton, D.D., of Islip, Oxfordshire, youngest brother
of Alan, first Viscount Midleton, he had fourteen, of whom Bishop
Bathurst was third child and second son. See Memoirs and
Correspondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich, by
his daughter, Mrs. Thistlethwayte, London, 1853. EDITOR.
1187. "PAUL PRY," A CHELTENHAM WEEKLY PERIODICAL.
In Bennett's Tewkesbury Register and Magazine, 1830-49, vol. iL,
p. 7, the following instance of summary punishment has been
recorded :
FEB. [1840.] This town, as well as Gloucester, Cheltenham,
and the surrounding villages, had for many months been annoyed
with an infamous weekly penny publication, entitled Paul Pry ;
it was printed at Cheltenham, and like similar periodicals circulated
at that time in other parts of the kingdom, was regularly filled with
low scandal, scurrility, and base innuendoes and falsehoods the
humblest and most exalted, the profligate and the virtuous, being
alike the objects of its vulgar attacks. A number of this work,
issued on the 7th of February, contained some satirical and coarse
remarks on certain respectable individuals in this borough; and as
the local agent refused to give any information respecting the
author of the offensive articles, he was most severely horsewhipped
by the maligned parties. The enraged assailants afterwards
proceeded in a chaise to Cheltenham, and having gained admittance
to the office of the printer, two of them inflicted similar chastisement
upon the delinquent typographer, while two others kept guard at
the outer door, to prevent his neighbours from hastening to his
rescue. This summary proceeding at once put a stop to these penny
nuisances ; and as a proof that the townspeople approved of the
punishment which the printer and publisher of the Paul Pry
experienced, the costs of the prosecution for the assault were
defrayed by a subscription. ABHBA.
1188. ROBERT RAIKES, OP GLOUCESTER. This memorandum
respecting Robert Raikes, which was printed in the Antiquary
(Dec., 1876), a very short-lived publication edited by James H.
Fennell, may not be without some interest :
Copy of a MS. in the handwriting of, and signed by,
W. H. Black, F.S.A.
Yesterday I rode to Oxford with three persons of Gloucester,
one of whom, happening to mention the name of Raikes, led me to
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 211
inquire about that family, and I noted down the following
particulars :
The person who spoke is a tailor, (but his name I have forgotten),
and knew old Mr. Raikes well for many years, and made his clothes.
Mr. Raikes died suddenly [April 5, 1811] : my informant measured
him for a black silk waistcoat the day before he died, on which day
his brother was to have dined with him. When Mr. Raikes gave
up the proprietorship of his newspaper (the Gloucester Journal,
still published with his name), he had an annuity of .300 out of
it. He did not die rich, for he was too benevolent to keep much
money ; and this is and has been the general character of all the
family. His son is a clergyman in Norfolk, now very pious and
exemplary, though wild in his youth. I cannot learn his parents'
names, Mrs. Raikes had Mr. R.'s portrait (which was a most
correct likeness) framed, and fitted up better, a few years ago, for
which she paid thirty guineas. Now in his son's possession. My
informant carried Mr. Raikes to the grave, and stood Mute at the
door when his widow was buried. Mr. Raikes' will is believed to
have been proved at Gloucester. They are buried at [St. Mary de]
Crypt Church, Gloucester; and probably [were] married and
christened there (I cannot search registers there for these matters).
There is an old lady named Harness living at Gloucester who
possesses the family portraits, and can tell more about the family
than my informant can.
May 6, 1831.
1189. CURIOUS INSCRIPTION IN DAGLING WORTH CHURCH.
According to Bigland's Gloucestershire Collections (1791), vol. i.,
p. 442, the following inscription is in the above-named church : "The
Dissection and Distribution of | Giles Handcox, | who to Earth
bequeaths to Earth, to Heaven nis Soule, | to Friends his Love, to
the Poore a five Pound Dole ; | to remain for ever, and be
employed | for their best Advantage and Relief | in Daglingworth, |
April the 9 th , 1638." Whether it is there at present or not, I am
unable to say, not having had an opportunity of visiting the
church. j Q.
1190. INDEX TO MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS : CROMHALL.
In the church there are twelve mural inscriptions, of which literal
copies have been taken (1885); and the following is an index to
the names mentioned therein, with the date of death and the age
in each case :
1726. May 23. Andrews [nee Elliot], Elizabeth,
1733. Aug. 8. Andrews, John, 60
1812. Jan. 14. Bourke, Edmund Eearon, Esq r , 57
1800. July 30. Bourke, Mary, 37
1798. April 23. Chisholme, Agnes, 11
1812. Dec. 31. Chisholme, James, Esq r , 68
212 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1801. Dec. 31. Chisholme, Susanna, 59
[1761. June 11.] Codrington, Ann, [73]
[No date.] Codrington, John,
[1780. Jan. 4.1 Codrington, Rachel, [63]
[1 744. Mar. 3.] Codrington, Robert [Esq r ], [66]
[No date.] Codrington, William,
1819. Aug. 1. Codrington, John, 34
1821. N"ov. 25. Codrington, Mary, 46
1822. Mar. 12. Codrington, M rs Mary, 69
1788. Sept. 26. Codrington, William, 35
1802. April 30. Codrington, William, Jun r , 25
1819. Nov. 3. Codrington, William, 17
1842. Aug. 29. Dyer, Charles, 77
1807. June 23. Dyer [nee Webb], Elizabeth, 86
1827. Nov. 29. Dyer, Frances, -. 61
1815. May 15. Dyer, John, 65
1802. July 25. Dyer, Robert, . 40
1834. Nov. 2. Dyer, William, 68
1725. May 6. Elliot, William, 21
1741. Aug. 24. Hickes, John, 36
1749. Mar. 25. Hickes [nee Webb], Mary, 69
1783. May 25. Hickes, Mary, 76
1710. Sept. 12. Hickes, Nicholas, S.T.B., , 74
1726. Jan. 11. Hickes, Thomas,* 55
( Hickes, Mary,
[No dates.] < Hickes, Richard,
( Hickes, Thomas,
1863. Feb. 17. Morris [nee Hardwicke], Priscilla, 77
1830. May 12. Morris, William, Lieut. R.N., 40
1780. Oct. 7. Webb [nee Llewelin], Catharine, 61
1754. Dec. 3. Webb [nee Allen], Lucia, 64
1731. Sept. 25. Webb, ""Robert, 41
1762. Aug. 19. Webb, Robert, 44
1802. Nov. 12. Webb, Thomas, 77
Rudder (1779) does not give any of these inscriptions, and
Bigland (1791) only four; but the latter gives twenty-four on flat-
stones within the church, four of which, commemorative, of
clergymen, may be specified : Jonathan Pritchard, Rector of the
parish, March 25, 1679, aged 60; Alington Miles, M. A., Rector,
Feb. 14, 1734, aged 73 ; John Penn, M.A., Rector, March 10, 1774,
aged 66 ; and William Griffin, M.A., Minister of Stone, April 8,
1726, aged 33. Also two in the churchyard, recorded by same:
Henry Skey, M.A., Rector of Cranford, Middlesex, and Head
Master of Wickwar School, May 8, 1775, aged 52 ; and Thomas
Griffin, March 2, 1778.
* " Mr. Thomas Hicks dwelleth in this parish, near the chnrch, and is descended of an
ancient family. Sir Baptist Hicks lord viscount Campden, and Sir William Hicks of Beverston,
were branches of this family." ATKYNS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
213
In the churchyard there are some inscriptions of more recent
date, four of which it may be well to record :
To the memory of | the Eev d John "Woollcombe, M.A., who
died on | the 29 th day of November, 1838, | aged 72, | having been
28 years Rector | of the parish of | Cromhall.
Sacred to the memory of | William James Copleston, | who
died Feb?" 3 rd , 1874, aged 69 years, and was 35 years Eector of
this parish.
Here rests the body of Charlotte, wife of Frances Copleston,
Esq r , of the Hon. E.I.C. Service, and of Offwell, Devon. Died
29 Mar., 1849.
Here rest the bodies of Jane, widow of Charles Steer, M.A.,
Vicar of Axminster, Devon, who died May 26, 1852; and of her
niece, Hester Althea Blake, only sister of Elizabeth, wife of
W. J. Copleston, M.A., Rector of this parish, who died Oct. 21, 1852.
VIATOR.
1191. EXTRACTS FROM THE CAMPDEN REGISTER OF BURIALS,
1645. The register of burials in the parish of Campden contains
several entries (which may perhaps be of sufficient interest to find
a place in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries) of the burial of some
of the garrison of Campden House in the year 1645. The royalists
occupied the house, a noble mansion then recently built by Baptist,
first Viscount Campden, from Christmas, 1644, till May 9th in the
following year, when they burnt it on leaving to join the main army
of the king. The following are the entries which mark the occu-
pation of Campden House :
Walter Glouer y e kings souldier buried y e 18 of January 164-J.
William Bexter y e kings souldier buried y e 24 of January 164-f>
Thomas Bowles y e kings souldier buried y e 27 of february 164-f.
Richard Soler y e kings souldier buried y e 9 of March 164-|.
Thomas Sela y e kings souldier buried y e same day.
Captaine Thomas Hall buried y e 19 of Aprill 1645.
Robert Read y e kings souldier buried y e 3 of May 1645.
Brockworth Vicarage, Gloucester. s - E - BARTLEET.
1192. SOME BRIEFS AND COLLECTIONS IN CROXALL CHURCH,
Dio. LICHFIELD. The following, which refer to Gloucestershire
cases, may be of interest to your readers :
1707. March 21. The repairing of Dursley church, in the c
of Gloucester, 3/-.
1709. Sept. 11. Repairing of y e parish church of S fc Mary
Redcliffe in Bristol, 2/-.
1715. Sept. 25. Poor sufferers by fire at Dryneton, C Stafford,
and Slimbridge, Glosester, 1/2.
1717. Oct. 6. Rebuilding of the parish church of Oldbury
upon Severn, in y e c of Gloucester, 1/6.
214 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1717. March 6. Poor sufferers by fire at Putley, c of
Gloucester, and at Jay, in y e c of Salop, 2/3.
1719. Dec. 13. [Do. at] Cheltenham and Letchlad [Lech-
lade], Glocester, and Thorntonhough Bickley and Barnston, Chester,
2/1.
1721. June 6. Repairing and rebuilding Parish ch. of
Tewkesbury, c Gloster, 3/9.
1722. Aug. 5. [Poor sufferers by fire at] Addington, Randwith
[Randwick], and Alderton Stoney, and Gloster, 1/9.
1722. Aug. 19. [Do. at] Gratwood, Bilson, and Newent,
Stafford and Gloster, 1/10.
1723. Sept. 29. Poor sufferers by fire at Sherrington, C
Glosester, 2/6. Q ^ j)
1193. LONGDEN FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER. (See Nos. 450,
592, 1034.) In a family Bible, printed in 1637, and now in the
possession of the Rev. William George Longden, vicar of St. Mark's,
South Norwood, Surrey, are the following notes, which it would be
well, I think, to preserve in print :
Robert Longden and Lucy Crawley were married at Flaxley in
Gloucestershire, on Sunday, the 23 rd of Feb^, 1745.
Cornelia Longden, daughter of the above Rob* and Lucy, born
the 17 th Nov r , 1746, christ d 24 th Nov r , died 27 th Nov r in the same
year, buried in St. Paul's Churchyard.*
Robert Longden, son of the above Rob fc and Lucy Longden,
born the 8 fch JSTov : 1747, christ d 15 th of the same month : Thomas
Crawley Boevey, Esq., and the Rev. M r John Lloyd, Godfathers,
and M rs Cornelia Ley, Godmother : died in Oct r , 1748, b d in
S. Paul's Churchyard.
Roger Longden, son of the above Robert and Lucy Longden,
born 7 th Feb., 1748, (i.e., 174f), christ d 3 March foils, Roger
Altham, Esq., and the Rev. M r William Crawley, Godfathers, and
M rs Paul, of Stroud, Gloucester, Godmother.
Robert Longden, son of Robert and Lucy Longden, was born
27 August, 1750. M r Nath: Bishop and M r Jos as Farrer,
Godfathers, and M rs Crawley, Godmother. S d child died 31 Dec.,
1751, bur d in S. Paul's Churchyard.
Lucy Longden, daughter of the above Rob* and Lucy, born
y e , died y e , buried in S. Paul's Churchyard.
Roger Longden, son of the above Robert and Lucy Longden,
was married at S. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish St., London, 31 March,
1785, to Elizabeth Chapman, daughter of George Chapman, Esq.,
of the Strand, London.
John Rob* Longden, son of the above Roger and Elizabeth
Longden, born 3 January, 1786, christ d 2 Feb., 1786 : sponsors,
Rev. D r John Lloyd, Robert Longden, Esq., & M rs Mary Yorke.
* There were family vaults in S. Paul's Churchyard, and at S. Mary-le-Strand, London.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 215
Mary Longden, daughter of Roger and Elizabeth Longden,
born the 23 rd March, 1787, ab* 2 o'clock afternoon: christened the
15 th May, 1787 : sponsors, M rs Mary Lloyd, wife of the Rev. D r
Lloyd, and Miss Mary Chapman, and "Walter Chapman, Esq. The
abovenamed Mary Longden died the 31 March, 1788, and [was]
buried with her grandmother, M rs Sarah Chapman, in the Parish of
S. Mary-le-Strand, in the county of Middlesex.
Thomas Hayter Longden, son of the abovenamed Roger and
Elizabeth Longden, born 27 June, 1789, about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon : christen d 30 July. Sponsors, Sir Thomas Crawley
Boevey, Bart., Jonathan Hayter, Esq., and M rs Mary Lloyd.
Roger Longden, of Drs Commons, died at his house in
Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, C of Middlesex, July 27, 1818, and
was buried at S. Mary-le-Strand.
Elizabeth Longden, relict of the above, died in Charlotte St.,
3 Feb., 1819, and was also buried in S. Mary-le-Strand.
The above left issue, John Robert Longden & Thomas Hayter
Longden, both married and left issue as foils, viz. first,
John Robert Longden, of Doctors Commons, married at
S. Andrew's, Holborn, to Louisa Culley, of Pewsey, Wilts, and
has issue,
1. George Roger Longden, born August 12 th , 1810.
2. John Symons Longden, born April 13, 1812; drowned at
sea Oct r , 1838.
3. Elizabeth Amelia Louisa Longden, born Aug. 17, 1814.
4. Sophia Lavinia Longden, born Dec. 2 nd , 1815.
5. Mary Ann Longden, born November 5 th , 1817.
6. Edward Harcourt Longden, born March 28, 1820.
7. Ann Maria, daughter of the said John Robert & Louisa
Longden, bom Monday, July 9 th , 1821. Sponsors, Miss
Tuder [sic], M rs De Brett, and J. W. Fisher, Esq. Baptized
by the above names May 24 th , 1822, at Charlotte St.,
Fitzroy Square, Parish of St. Pancras, in the County of
Middlesex.
8. William Longden, son of the said John Robert and Louisa
Longden, born Sunday, July 28, 1822, in Charlotte St.,
Fitzroy Square, and baptized there on Thursday, the 22 nd
day of August following. Sponsors were M rs Tho 8
Longden, Capt n Debrett, and M r James Barlow.
9. Frederick Stafford Longden, son of the said John Robert
and Louisa Longden, born Sunday, Oct. 12, 1823, in
Upper Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, and baptized on
Tuesday, December 2 nd , 1823. Sponsors, M rs Stafford,
M r Jennings, and M r Read. The above child died in
Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, on Thursday evening, July
22 d , 1824, and was buried at S. Mary-le-Strand with
his grandfather and grandmother on the 27 th July.
216 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
William died in Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, aged two years,
Saturday, July 31, 1824, and was buried at S. Mary-le- Strand,
Wednesday, August 4 th , 1824.
John Eobert Longden, of Doctors Commons, died at his house,
JSTo. 37, Upper Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, County of Middlesex,
April 12, 1827, in the 42 nd year of his age, and was buried at
S. Mary-le-Strand, Thursday, 19th of April, 1827.
10. James Kobert, also son of the said (late) John Kobert and
Louisa Longden. Born Saturday, July 7 th , 1827, at
37, Upper Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, and baptized at
S. Pancras Church, in the County of Middlesex, Friday,
Nov. 2 nd , 1827. Sponsors, Lady Hyde Page, Major
Edward Lloyd Smythe, and Thomas Hayter Longden, Esq r .
(To be continued.)
1194. THE KEY. SIR JOHN HOBART CULME-SEYMOUR, BART.,
CANON OF GLOUCESTER. This venerable clergyman, who was the
eldest son of the first baronet, Admiral Sir Michael Seymour,
K.C.B., died September 17, 1880, in his eighty-first year, having
been for more than half a century a canon residentiary of
Gloucester and rector of Berkhampstead St. Mary, or Northchurch,
Herts. When Mr. Seymour (as he then was) was yet a young man
of twenty-seven years of age, he was appointed to the important,
difficult, and responsible post of domestic chaplain to George IV.
The manners and morals of the Court were at that time in a
deplorable condition, but Mr. Seymour's simple and faithful life,
and upright example, had a happy influence on the reigning
monarch, an influence which Mr. Seymour retained and exercised
until the death of the king in 1830. On the accession of William
IV., and subsequently of Queen Victoria, he was at once appointed
a chaplain in ordinary, and though he shrank from anything like
the life of a courtier, his sermons at the Chapel Koyal, St. James's,
were highly appreciated by more than one member of the Eoyal
Family, and by all who had the privilege of listening to them.
There was a singular charm in his preaching. Its dignified
simplicity could not but arrest the attention of the most listless
worshipper, as those who remember the months of his annual
residence in Gloucester can testify. His sermons were full of
original thought, supported with apt scriptural authorities, expressed
in plain and simple language, and delivered in that solemn and
impressive manner which at once commanded the reverent attention
of all who heard him. In a word, it was himself speaking, as
man to man, as brother to his brethren, the message he had been
commissioned to deliver. During his fifty years' incumbency as
rector of Northchurch, he served under six successive bishops, and
lived to see his benefice a part of three separate dioceses ; originally
in the diocese of Lincoln, it was after a time incorporated in that
of Rochester, and subsequently transferred to the jurisdiction of
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 217
St. Albans. As prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral, to which post
he was appointed in 1827, he was more than once called upon to
exercise his right of patronage over two important benefices
St. Margaret's and St. George's, in the city of Leicester. In the
selection of incumbents for these populous cures it will be with
pleasure remembered how utterly all private and personal consider-
ations of friendship were laid aside, and how his whole care
was devoted to the discovery of pious and zealous men, who
would devote themselves to the service of God and the good of
His Church in that city. But,, whilst many who stood by his grave
realised that in Sir John Seymour they had lost a pure-hearted and
chivalrous friend ; whilst the people of Gloucester felt that in him
the chapter (of which he became a member in 1829) had lost one
who was ever loyal to his chief, ever wise in counsel, ever kind and
courteous in speech, ever brave and firm in action ; the people of
Northchurch knew that they had lost a father; one who was in a
true and constant sense the pastor gregis, the shepherd, full of
sympathy, full of loving kindness for each individual member of
the flock, however young, however humble ; not driving his sheep
before him by stern unsympathetic rule, but leading and guiding
them onwards and upwards towards heaven and Christ by plain,
earnest, simple teaching, and by the conspicuous example of a
pious, simple-minded, generous Christian life.
On Friday, September 17, 1880, at Gloucester, Sir John Seymour
entered into his rest, and on the Wednesday after his remains were
laid in the churchyard adjoining the chapel-of-ease at Broadway.
This part of the parish of Northchurch, which is four miles distant
from the parish church, was in former years unprovided with any
accommodation for the public worship of the parishioners in its
vicinity. The little chapel, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and
opened on May 23rd, 1855, is a beautiful and lasting memorial of
Sir John Seymour's care for God's Church and His poor. The cost
of its erection was, with a small exception, borne by himself. Many
years agohe had expressed a wish to be laid to rest in the little
" God's acre " adjoining this church, and in the very spot which he
selected his last earthly home had been prepared. CLERICUS.
1195. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. VII. : QUEDGELEY.
(Continued from No. 1118.)
Burials.
1559. July 28. John, s. of Walter Harrys.
Jan. 6. William Hunt.
Jan. 17. Elizabeth Mell, widow.
Jan. 23. John Bay lie.
Mar. 17. Eichard Hawnam.
1560. Nov. 13. Ann, d. of Robert Smith.
218 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1560. Jan. 5. William, s. of Walter Harrys.
Mar. 6. Sir Kichard the Curate.
Mar. 24. Anne, d. of Robert Smith.
1561. July 6. William Merett,
_ July 17. Alys Curry er.
1562. June 11. John, s. of George Norton.
Oct. 16. John, s. of Kobert Taylor.
1563. April 25. Katerine Hunman.
July 14. Harrie, s. of John Byshop.
July 20. Edward, s. of John Kewe.
1564. Mar. 5. M r Eichard Barrowe, Esquyer.*
1565. Sept. 1. Robert, s. of Rychard Smyth.
Jan. 28. John Watkins, christened at home, was buriea.
Jan. 31. Roger Travys.
1566. April 17. Robart Home, servant to John Walkle.
April 26. Thomas Genyngs.
May 21. John Walkley, christened at home, buried.
June 15. Jane Turner,
July 20. Richard Wyndowe.
July 25. Roger Berow, Gent.
Aug. 6. Richard Davys, of Herford.
Sept. 2. Margaret, wife of Francis Collyns.
Jan. 11. William Smith.
Eeb. 4. John Poise.
1567. Aug. 4. Margaret Pylme.
1568. July 16. Thomas Hiett and Margaret, his wife, p buried}
on 24 th of August.
Jan. 4. Thomas Poull, Clerke.
Mar. 10. Margery Smith.
1569. June 12. Edward Stephens.
Jan. 22. Alice Crosse.
1570. Sept. 24> Jone Smith.
Sept. 27. Jane Meryman,
Nov. 2. John, s. of Robert Hordnage..
Jan. 1. Elizabeth Davis.
1571. April 27. Edmund Asten.
Aug. 21. Matthew Ilande.
Nov. 7. Thomas Saunders.
Mar. 23. Johan Threvys, wydow.
1572. Dec. 4. Anne, wife of George Clynton.
1573. April 12. Rob* Niblat.
1574. Sept. 2. John Hunt.
Dec. 5. Catherine Meysies child.
Mar. 16. Mary, d. of Edward Stephins.
1575. Jan. 26. Anne Smith, widow.
* " There is in the church an inscription, on a tomb of free-stone, in memory of Richard
h ^S h e died .1562 [? 1564]. A monument on the south aile for Richard Barrow,
who died 1651. Other inscriptions in the same aile for the family." ATKYNS
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 219
1577. July 6. Agnes Huckes.
Oct. 7. Elizabeth Trevis died in travayle.
Feb. 4. Thomas Allen.
1578. April 10. John Wick, husbandman.
Jan. 4. Andrew "Wyndowe.
Feb. 3. Joan, wife of Eichard Wyndow.
Feb. 12. Agnes Tondale.
1579. April 3. Frances Coulings.
April 5. John, s. of Henery Partridge.
1582. Mar. 9. George Benett, Clerke.
1583. Feb. 23. Doritia Corbot, d. of Arthur Corbet.
1584. Oct. 7. Elizabeth Berrowe [d. of Edmund Fox, Esq.,
of- Ludford], Gent.
1586. Oct. 27. Edward Test.
1587. Nov. 26. Thomas Smith, Clerk.
1588. Feb. 20. Agnes Wicke.
1590. Mar. 11. Jane Geff.
1602. July 27. Thomas Sanford.
1606. May 20. Anthony, s. of Peter Hogge, Clerke.
Aug. 22. Joan, wife of Anselm Teast.
Nov. 18. A d r still born of Edmund Berowe, Esq r .
1609, July 29. A pore girle, Elnor Davis, who died in the
Church porch.
1612. Nov. 14. John Harris, Clarke.
1618. Jan. 14. Kichard Smith, Clarke, of Sodbury.
1621. April 28. Anselm Test.
Aug. 31. Marg*, d. of M r Robard Bysshopp.
1622. June 27. Dorathye, d. of same.
1625. King James departed this lift [sic] the 27 March.
1626. May 12. William, son and heir of M r Edmund Berow.
1629. June 17. Joane, d. of Richard Cromhem.
1630. July 19. Elnore, the wief of Edmund Berow, Esq r .
1634. May 25. Henry Nicolls, Gentleman.
1637. May 3. Thomas Teast.
1638. Dec. 29. Elizabeth, d. of M r George Kenn, Esq r .
1641. Nov. 29. Edmund Berrow, Esq r .
1661. June 10. Edmund, s. of George Kenn, Esq r .
Mar. 14. M r Giles Robertes.
1666. Feb. 24. M r George Kenn.
1670. May 9. William Horton, Minister.
June 28. Sibella Cromblane, widow.
Dec. 22. Edmund, s. of John Makepeace.
1672. Dec. 2. Mary, d. of M r William Hayward.
1674. June 8. Edmund, s. of John Makepeace, Minister.
1679. Aug. 29. Mary, wife of M r John Makepeace, Rector.
1680. May 14. Susanna, d. of M r William Hey ward and
Elinor, his wife.
220 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1681. May 8. Joseph, s. of John Makepeace and Anne, his
wife.
Sept. 9. Kichard, s. of M r William Hayward and
Elinor, his wife.
1682. Dec. 27. Elizabeth Kenne, Widow.
1684. April 21. Eleanor [nee Rogers], the wife of M r William
Hey ward [aged 32].*
Aug. 7. Thomas Cowmedow.
1691. Dec. 21. Martha, the wife of M r Thomas Hodges.
1693. April 21. M rs Elizabeth Clissold.
1694. Mar. 6. M r Thomas Clissold.
1696. July 22. Gulielmus Hayward, Armiger [set. 49].
1700. Oct. 3. Gulielmus Lysons de Quedgeley sepultus.
1702. July 24. Thomas Hayward sepultus.
1703. Sept. 2. Elizabetha, filia Samuelis Makepeace, sepulta.
1705. Dec. 28. William, s. of William Hayward.
1708. April 3. William Hayward, Esq r .
1712. Sept. 7. M r John Makepeace, Rector ["per 50 annos,"
aged 79].
1717. Sept. 7, Domina Margaretta Barrow [nee Knight],
Vid : sepulta fuit [set. 73.]
1720. Mem : Richard Tompkins put up 2 Headstones in memory
of Mary, his wife, for which he compounded with me for
a roasting pigg. Witness my hand, Peter Lew. De Bous,
Rector.
1730. June 15. Anne [? Amie, nee Hayward], the wife of
Thomas Barrow, Esq r , of Field Court, in
the Parish of Hardwick [aged 52].
1736. April 19. Thomas Barrow, Esq r , of Hardwick [aged 58].
1740. Nov. 18. Thomas Barrow, s. of Rev d M r Thomas
Savage, Yicar of Standish, and Eleanor
[nee Barrow], his wife.
1741. Dec. 13. Thomas, s. of Thomas Hayward, Esq r , and
Mercia, his wife.
1742. April 30. Margaret Hayward, widow.
1744. Nov. 3. The Rev d M r Peter Lewis De Bous, Rector
[aged 60].
1757. Feb. 14. Leonard Ravenhill.
1759. Feb. 17. Martha, d. of the Rev d M r Tho 8 Savage and
Elianor, his wife.
1760. April 27. The Rev d M r Thomas Savage [aged 60].
1761. May 17. Bridget, wife of Rev d M r John Hayward.
1762. Feb. 7. Eleanor [nee Barrow], wife of Rev d M r
Thomas Savage.
Nov. 28. William Wait.
* ".There is a very handsome monument for Elianor, the wife of William Hayward, esq., she
died 1684 ; and for William Hayward, esq., who died 1696." ATKYNS.
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1766. Oct. 30. M rs Albinia Winstone [nee Hay ward], widow,
and relict of Thomas Winstone, Esq r , of
Oldbury, Gl.
1777. Feb. 12. Mercy, wife of Thomas Hay ward, Esq r .
1779. May 27. Elizabeth, wife of William Hay ward
Winstone, Esq r .
1781. Mar. 21. Thomas Hayward, Esq r .
1786. July 30. Frances, d. of the late Thomas Hayward.
1791. Feb. 25. TheRev d JohnHayward,Rectorof Withington.
1793. Dec. 6. George Savage, Esq r , of Middle Hill.
1803. Mar. 25. Charles Hayward, Esq r .
Nov. 15. Edward Jones, Esq r .
1818. Oct. 27. Will. Hayward Winstone, Esq r , aged 75.
1860. May 25. Albinia Frances Curtis Hayward, aged 86.
1873. May 15. John Curtis Hayward, aged 69.
1876. Aug. 3. Elizabeth Curtis Hayward, aged 63.
1196. DISCOVERY OF A SAXON HOUSE AT DEERHURST. The
Rev. George Butterworth, vicar of Deerhurst, has written (August,
1885) : Within the last week an interesting discovery has been
made here of the existence of a very ancient structure. It was
always known that a portion of a farmhouse called Abbot's Court,
belonging for centuries, first to the abbey, and subsequently to the
chapter of Westminster, was of considerable antiquity ; but there
was nothing on the surface to determine its age. Within the last
few days, however, it has been subjected to careful examination,
and features hidden for ages have been brought to light. The
original house was small, 30ft. long on the inside, with walls 2J
feet thick. Its four external walls are perfect. In one of the end
walls is inserted a large round-headed archway, having very solid
jambs and imposts. A smaller archway is found in the wall forming
the front of the house. Both these arches tend slightly to the
horseshoe form that is to say, the centre of the semi-circular head
is rather above the spring of the arch. The house must have always
had an upper story ; and in this there is now to be seen a round-
headed window, splayed both inside and outside. The reason for
assigning so very early a date to an existing dwelling-house is the
following : Its rude and very peculiar architecture follows closely
that of Deerhurst Church, which is within a stone's throw of it.
Now, there is good evidence to show that the church was built in
the year 1056. The late Mr. Parker entitled it "the oldest dated
church in England." Just about the time given above Edward the
Confessor gave the large Deerhurst manor, including the estate on
which Abbot's Court stands, to his new abbey of St. Peter's,
Westminster. Abbot's Court may have been erected at the actual
time of the donation. It is singular that close to this very ancient
house there should be standing another also of remarkable antiquity.
This is Deerhurst Priory, which was a religious house dating from
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the eighth century, and belonging to the abbey of St. Denis, near
Paris. A portion of its buildings still exists, and they show a
Norman column in the cellar of the inhabited house.
A paragraph from the Gloucestershire Chronicle, August 29, 1885,
may be appended to the above : Some further particulars respecting
the Saxon house recently discovered at Deerhurst have been
published. The honour of making the discovery belongs to
Mr. Thomas Collins, builder, Tewkesbury, who restored the Abbey.
A writer who has inspected the house says : We were surprised to
see so perfect a specimen of ancient architecture, and are pleased
to find that it is to be preserved by restoration under the able and
practical guidance of Mr. Collins. On the outside of the huge
chimney-stack is built in a large stone, or rather the half of one,
on which is an imperfect inscription in Lombardic letters, and
which we should imagine was removed at a much later period from
some other portion of the building. The oldest part of the house
must have been very handsome. On one side the upper part of the
face of the building projects boldly beyond the lower part ; then
comes a third portion in point of age, on the opposite side of the
original house. The second portion appears to be of the Tudor
period. We learn through Mr. Butterworth that Sir John Powell,
the upright judge in the days of James II. and William III., held
Abbot's Court as lessee, and it is supposed he also occupied it, as
his name is in an agreement for the repairs of the church (1691) at
a cost of some 2,000. GLOUCESTRENSIS.
1197. NOTES ON TODENHAM PARISH. (See Nos. 279, 280.)
This parish lies in the upper division of the hundred of West-
minster ; and its name is derived from Teodoen, a Norman family
which came with William the Conqueror, and ham. The church
of St. Peter of Westminster held Teodham in the reign of that king.
The manor of Todenham continued in the said abbey until its
dissolution. It was then granted to the bishop of Westminster,
34 Hen. VIII. ; but that bishopric being of short duration, the
manor was granted to Sir William Petre and Anne, his wife, . in
exchange for lands in Warwickshire, 36 Hen. VIII. It continued
in the Petre family from the time of the Reformation until it was
purchased by Sir Charles Pole, Bart., grandfather of the present
baronet, Sir Peter Van Notten-Pole, of Todenham House.
The benefice is a rectory, and in the deanery of Campden. The
patron for a long time was the bishop of London ; but the patronage
is now vested in the bishop of the diocese. The church has a
tower and spire at the west end, and is dedicated to St. Thomas &
Becket, archbishop of Canterbury.
Thomas Merkes, alias de Newmarket, alias Tomastre, monk of
Westminster, at the request of Kichard II., was thrust by the pope,
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A.D. 1397, into the see of Carlisle, to which he became an
extraordinary benefactor by procuring of the king the seigniory of
Horn Castle, in the county of Lincoln, consisting of thirteen lord-
ships, for himself and his successors for their maintenance and
habitation, when the Scots invaded his diocese, and drove him from
the palace of Kose Castle. Historians mention his bold speech in
behalf of his patron, the deposed king, for which he suffered
imprisonment. It is a mistake to suppose that he died broken-
hearted soon after his deprivation ; for he survived it ten years, and
had some preferment bestowed upon him the vicarage of Stur-
minster, Dorsetshire, and the rectory of Todenham. The former
was given him by the Crown, and the latter by the abbot and
convent of Westminster. He was buried at Todenham in 1409.
There is a tradition handed down by long succession, that a
bishop lies buried in the chancel of the church. When the
Kev. George Upton was buried there in 1779, an ancient leaden
coffin was discovered, but no one examined it.
The following is a list of the incumbents and patrons of the
benefice :
Clerks.
Thomas Furzen,
1404. Thomas Merkes,- deprived
bishop of Carlisle,
1409. Eobert Ely,
John Elika,
1570. Edward Arundel,
1593. William Fisher,
1617. Thomas Isles, D.D.,
William Briggs,
1639. John Wickens,
1682. Moore Fortune, M.A.,
1686. John Taylor, M.A.,
172f . John Jones,
1728. John Taylor, M.A.,
1767. George Upton, M.A.,
1779. William Aldington,
1812. Gilbert Malcolm, M.A.,
1855. ' Frederick Aston, M.A.,
1873. Henry Horsley, M.A.,
1882. Augustin Williams, M.A.,
Patrons.
Abbot and Convent of
Westminster,
do.
do.
Francis Thackerly, Esq.
Bp. of London,
do.
Bp. of London,
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Bp. of Gloucester and
Bristol.
do.
do.
Mr. Wickens, and the six incumbents who came after him, have
been buried in the chancel, and Mr. Malcolm, Mr. Aston, and
Mr. Horsley in the east end of the churchyard.
On an old brass over the vestry door on the north side is this
quaint inscription :
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" Stay Passenger this tvmb doth hovld
A coffin fvll of holy movld
If vertve have a grave lo heer
Religiovs care and love syncere
Wise goverment an zeale welled
A davntlesse covrage hvmble dread
Bovnty of hand and chere of face
Good natvre perfected by grace
An whitch gave lyfe to all the rest
A trve harte in a fravdlese brist
If these on earth were lately mist
Lo whear they ly in Movlton chist.
" Heere lyeth bodies of William
Molton of Toddenham Esq and
Millicent his wyfe davghter of
Gilse Spencer of Nvrthen of
Warwickshire Esq which Milli
cent dyed the 10 of Desember 1604
and William after long siknes
dyed the YI of Ian vary 1614 having
before his death maried 3 davghters
the only children then remayning
of twelve wherof the 1 was maryed
to Thomas Bavfoy Esq sonne
and heier to Ser Thomas Bavfoy
knight the 2 to Bichad Savadge
Esq the 3 to William Willovghby
of Normanton Esq."
The following entry in the register is worthy of note.:
"On June 7, 1768, about 2 oclk in the Morning, the top of the
Steple of this Church was knocked down by a very violent storm
of Thunder and Lightning, and the roof of the Church was much
damaged by the fall of the stones from the Steple. The thunder
and lightning continued violent most part of the day, nor did it
entirely cease the next day. The Steple was repaired, beautified,
and finished on June 28, 1769, without the use of any scaffold by
Thomas White and Bichard Wheeler, of Whitney, Oxon. But it
was so ill executed that it was taken down in April, 1772, and the
Parishioners again employed the said Kichard Wheeler to repair the
same (Thomas White being dead), and he did it without the use of
scaffold, and finished the top of the Steple on the 2 day of
June, 1772."
An ancient and time-honoured custom of beating the bounds of
the parish, which has been kept up regularly for generations, and is
known by the familiar name of "Todenham Processioning, "is annually
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observed on Rogation Monday.* In some counties the custom is
called " Circuiting." The bells ring out merrily, and the procession
starts soon after 10 o'clock, headed by the village band, and by four
men, each with a spade on his shoulder. These are the cross-
diggers ; and their business is, to dig out and define the old crosses
on the line of route, and to stick a small bush in the middle of
each cross. Then follow the rector and the squire of the parish,
and the farmers, well mounted for the journey. The rear is brought
up by the villagers and children. It was at one time the custom
for the young to have their heads bumped together, so that when
they grew up they might not forget the boundary line. Half the
circuit of the parish is made each year. There are several halts on
the way for refreshment, which is duly provided ; and a psalm is
sung at certain places. At a place called the " Poors' ground," the
100th Psalm is sung, and a collection made for the children, which
is equally divided amongst them. AUGUSTIN WILLIAMS.
Todenham Rectory.
1198. EDWARD FOWLER, D.D., BISHOP OP GLOUCESTER: HIS
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION. (See No. 801.) The following is the
inscription on a marble monument to the memory of Bishop Fowler
in the church of St. Mary, Hendon, Middlesex. The tablet is on
the north wall of the north transept, and is partially hidden by a
monstrous and useless gallery. THEOPHILCS PITT, F.C.S.
King's College, London, W.C.
To the | Pious Memory of | The R* Rev d Edward Fowler, D.D., |
late Lord Bishop of Gloucester ; | to which Station He was advanced
by | King William of glorious Memory in the year 1691, | for his
known steadiness to | the true interest of the Church of England, |
and of his Country in times of Danger. | He proved himself
worthy of that dignity by faithfull and diligent Discharge of his
Pastoral Office | till disabled by Age and bodily infirmities. | He
rested from his Labours, and was | in the 82 nd year of his Age
admitted to partake of his Reward. | He departed this life
August 26, 1714, | and was interr'd in the grave of his first wife |
within this Church, leaving behind Him | in the excellent Treatise
published by himself | lasting Monuments of his Learning, |
* It was the common usage, in former times, to select one of the days in Rogation week for
perambulating the bounds of parishes ; and in reference to this practice, Bishop G-ibson
has observed (Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Angllcani, vol. i., p. 213, ed. 1761) :" The perambu-
lating the circuits of parishes in Rogation week was a very ancient custom, and one of those
retained by the reformed church ; for by an injunction of Queen Elizabeth it is ordered, that
the people shall, once in the year, at the time accustomed, with the curate and the substantial
men of the parish, walk about the parishes, as they were accustomed, and, at their return to
the church, make their common prayers ; provided that the curate, in their said common
perambulations, used heretofore in the days of Rogations, at certain convenient places, shall
admonish the people to give thanks to G-od, in the beholding of God's benefits, for the increase
and abundance of his fruits upon the face of the earth, with the saying of the one hundred
and third psalm, Benedic, anima mea, &c. At which time also the said minister shall inculcate
these or suchlike sentences, ' Cursed be he which translateth the bounds and dolles of his
neighbour,' or such other order of prayers as shall be hereafter appointed. One of our church
homilies is also composed expressly for the occasion." ED.
VOL. III. Q
226 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Judgment, Piety, & Christian temper of Mind. | He was twice
married ; | First to Anne, Daughter of Arthur Bernardiston, | of
the inner Temple, Esq r , one of the Masters in Chancery. She
departed this life Dec r 19, 1696. He had by her three Sons, |
Nathanael, Edward, & Richard, & five Daughters, | Anne, Anne,
Susanna, Elizabeth, & Mary, | of whom Edward & Eichard, Susanna
& Mary, | surviv'd him. | His second wife (who likewise surviv'd
him) was Elizabeth, | Widow of the Eev d D 1 ' Hezekiah Burton, |
and Daughter of Ralph Trevor, | of London, Merchant.
This Monument was erected at the cost of Richard Fowler, LL.B., |
the youngest Son above mentioned ; who married Selena, Daughter
of John Pyke, of Downsey, in the Isle of Purbeck, Gent., by
whom he had one Daughter, Anne : Both | which dying many
years before him, were buried in this Church ; near his brother ; &
his Father's | youngest Sister, Susanna, the First Wife of Meshach
Smith, M.A., then Vicar of this Church. | The said Richard
Fowler dyed Nov 1 ' 9 th , 1716 ; And did by his Last Will direct his
Executors, (viz, his | Brother Edward, & his Sister Susanna) to
cause a Vault to be made ; which, for want of room in the Church,
was made in the Church- Yard, at the west corner of this wall :
wherein is deposited | His body; & into which are remov'd the
Remains of his Wife & Daughter, with those of his Father &
Mother; all resting there together, A.D. 1717, in hope of a Joyfull
Resurrection.
1199. HARWARD'S TEWKESBURY CHAP-BOOKS.* About forty
[now eighty] years ago, when " book-madness " was at its height (?),
Joseph Haslewood, Esq., who is introduced under the character of
" Bernardo " in Dibdin's Bibliomania, diligently employed himself
and others in forming a collection of the Penny Histories, Tragedies,
Garlands, Songs, &c., which were printed at Tewkesbury by Samuel
Harward, and published between the years 1760 and 1775. These
" book rarities," as they were termed, Mr. Haslewood caused to be
handsomely bound in two volumes, with the ludicrous alliterative
titles
HISTORIES, &c..."Tramper's Twattle, or Treasure and Tinsel from
the Tewkesbury Tank."
GARLANDS, &c..." Quaffing Quavers to Quip Queristors and Quiet
Quodlibetarians. "
At the dispersion of his library, which was sold in London, by
Evans, in 1833, these productions of the "Tewkesbury Tank"
were, after a severe competition, knocked down to Thomas Thorpe,
the eminent metropolitan bibliopolist, at a price far beyond their
intrinsic value. This event created a rage for these " chap-books,"
changes ' from Bennett ' s Tewkesbury Register and
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 227
or " patters ; " and as it was found impossible to procure a perfect
set, it has been thought well to preserve as complete a catalogue of
them as is attainable, for the benefit of the members of some future
"Koxburghe Club."
In the following list of Harward's publications, those marked
with an asterisk were not included in the celebrated tomes of
Mr. Haslewood; and this veteran bibliographer, with all his
acknowledged zeal and perseverance, having secured only about half
of them, it is almost hopeless to expect that a complete collection
will ever be obtained.
HISTORIES, TRAGEDIES, &c.
The Beautiful Shepherdess of Ar-
cadia
Bite upon Bite, or the Miser out-
witted by the Country Lass
The Blind Beggar of Bethnal
Green
The Bristol Bridegroom
The Virtuous Wife of Bristol
The Loyal Lovers, or Carmarthen
Tragedy
Chevy Chase
The Crafty Miller, or Mistaken
Bachelor
The Creation of the "World, a
carol
The Loyal Lovers of Exeter
The Faithless Captain
The French Convert
The Four Indian Kings
The Kentish Tragedy
Little Musgrove and the Lady
Barnet
The Honour of a London Ap-
prentice
Love in a Barn
The Low-Country Soldier turned
Burgo-Master
The Nobleman's Cruelty to his
Son
The Northamptonshire Tragedy
The Northern Lord
The Oxfordshire Tragedy
A choice Pennyworth of Wit
Sweet William of Plymouth
The Cruel Cooper of Ratcliff
Kobin Hood and Little John
The Woodstock Tragedy
The Unfortunate Concubine
The Seaman of Dover
The Squire of St. James's
The Suffolk Comedy
King Edward IV. and the Tanner
of Tamworth
The Turkey Factor
The Unfortunate Lovers
The Wandering Prince of Troy
The Wandering Shepherdess
The Wandering Young Gentle-
woman, or Catskin
The Yarmouth Tragedy
*The Children in the Wood
*Death and the Lady
*The Seven Champions of Chris-
tendom
*Poor Robin's Dream
*The Plymouth Tragedy
*Pretty Green-Coat Boy
*Squire Vernon's Fox Chase
^Famous Flower of Serving Men
*The Golden Bull
*Jane Shore
*The Oxford Eamble
*The Dorsetshire Miracle
*The Transported Felons
*Teague's Ramble
*The Spanish Lady's Love to an
English Captain
*Fair Maudlin
*The Leeds Tragedy
*Humours of Rag Fair
*The Gloucestershire Tragedy
*The Bloody Gardener
228 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
*The Berkshire Lady
*The Broken Contract
*Bloody Battle between a Tailor
and a Louse
*Death of Sir Andrew Barton
*New Mad Tom
*The Cobler's Wife's Discovery
*The Disobedient Son and Cruel
Husband
*The Somersetshire Tragedy
*The Welch Wedding
*The lamentable Ballad of the
Lady's Fall
GAELANDS, SONGS, &c.
The Shepherd's Garland
The Sportsman's Delight
A choice Collection of Songs
A choice Collection of New Songs,
30 numbers, of 8 pages each
A choice Collection of New
Scotch Songs
The Wood-Lark
The Goldfinch
The Sky-Lark
The Linnet, two parts
*The Northern Knight's Garland
*The Distressed Lady's Garland
*The Factor's Garland
*The Huntsman's Delight
*The Nightingale
*The Thrush
*The Wood-Lark
*The Mistaken Lady's Garland
*The Crafty Squire's Garland
^Songs of Robin Hood
^Anacreon's Feast
1200. GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOLK-LORE. "F.S.," writing from
Churchdown, sent what follows to Notes and Queries (5 th S. v.
364) : At the risk of very likely repeating what has been sent you
by others, I would note the following instances that obtain in this
part of the county, near Cheltenham :
1. That it is lucky to keep mince-meat from Christmas to Easter.
2. That if the first butterfly you see in the opening year is white,
you will eat white bread during the year, which is probably
tantamount to your having good luck ; but if the first is broivn, you
will eat brown bread that is, be unlucky.
3. It is the custom with old housewives here, when they bake
their bread, to prick a cross upon the dough with a fork, or the
loaves will not turn out well. This will soon be of the past, for
the baking at home, as well as the brewing, is practised less and
less, through wood becoming more and more scarce.
In the first volume of the same series, p. 204, a communication
from "F.S." to this effect had appeared :--
As the county comprises wold, vale, and forest, it is well to state
that the locality to which my notes refer is in the north-east corner
of the plain, between Gloucester and Cheltenham.
1. Pluck a few of the hairs from the dark cross on the back of
a donkey; sew them up in a black silk bag, which is to be hung
round an infant's neck when teething, and the child will be proof
against fits or convulsions, at least, for that turn.
The old crone who recommends this practice has, as usual, never
known a case of failure, during a long experience.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 229
2. For reduction of a wen, or " thick neck," in females, an orna-
mental necklace is sometimes made of hair taken from a horse's
tail some say that it must be taken from the tail of a grey stallion.
This must be plaited together, and forms, when fastened in front
with a neat gold snap, a rather attractive ornament amongst farmers'
daughters.
And another note from the same in the same volume, p. 324 :
The kind of sorcery known as the " evil eye " cannot be exclusively
claimed as a Gloucestershire superstition, for it is one most extensive
in its range ; yet a person may live for many years in a parish or
district without its presenting itself to his observation. In the
course of the year 1873 I was called upon officially to distribute a
parish dole amongst the poor householders of Churchdown, near
Cheltenham, who were assembled to receive it in the school-room.
This charity-money had to be given away in accordance with the
donor's will and testament, to which a by-law had been recently
added, that those claimants who possessed house and land of their
own were ineligible. In consequence of this ruling, two or three
of those present had to be " scratched " from the list of applicants.
I noticed, at the time, that one of the rejected, a tall stalwart man,
of grim and grisly feature, kept his eye, with a sort of malignant
expression, fixed intently upon me. To this I gave, at the moment,
little heed, being busily engaged ; and had I thought of it at all,
should have simply concluded that it was only an expression of
passing disappointment on my friend's Dart. The next day,
however, a poor woman inquired of my wife " how I was," and
told her that several of those present yesterday having noticed the
man's staring at me with an evil eye, very feelingly expressed a
hope that "nothing would happen to me." My inditing this
account shows, at any rate, that as yet it is not so bad a case as
that set forth in the old Scotch rhyme :
" There dwelt a weaver in Moffat toun
That said the minister would dee sune ;
The minister dee'd ; and the fouk o' the toun
They brant the weaver wi' the wudd o' the lume,
And ca'd it weel- wared on the warlock loon."
(K. Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1826,
p. 23.)
Another correspondent, " L.H.H.," soon after wrote, p. 383 :
Within the recollection of the present vicar of the parish of
Churcham, Gloucestershire, after public baptism, the then parish
monthly nurse invariably washed out the mouth of the recently
regenerated infant with the remaining sanctified water. She
assured the vicar it was a safeguard against toothache. In the
same parish it has always been the practice, when possible, to ring
a muffled peal on Innocents' Day.
230 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1201. THE KEY. HENRY THOMAS ELLACOMBE, M.A., F.S.A.*
This aged and respected clergyman, whose name has long been
closely associated with Gloucestershire, died at Clyst St. George
Kectory, Topsham, Devon, July 30, 1885, in his ninety-sixth year.
He was son of the Eev. William Ellacombe, who held the rectory
of Alphington, Devon, and was born in 1790 ; and having
graduated B.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1812, he devoted
himself, until 1816, to the study of engineering in Chatham Dock-
yard, under the celebrated Mr. Brunei. In 1816 he proceeded to
his M.A. degree, and in the same year was ordained a deacon for
the curacy of Cricklade, a Wiltshire parish, but in the diocese
of Gloucester. In 1817 he received priest's orders from Bishop
Eyder, of Gloucester, and entered on the curacy of Bitton, in the
same diocese. Of the parish of Bitton (which for a long time had
the bad repute of a very lawless neighbourhood) he was curate from
1817 to 1835, when he became the vicar; and this preferment he
held until 1850, when he was presented to the rectory of Clyst
St. George, being succeeded in the vicarage by his son, the Rev. Henry
!N". Ellacombe, the present incumbent.
Church restoration and extension were not so general fifty or
sixty years ago as they are now, yet Mr. Ellacombe, with indomit-
able energy, and in spite of many difficulties, restored the church
of Bitton in 1822, and built three other churches in the wide
district under his care. In 1843 his parishioners presented him
with a testimonial; and in doing so the churchwardens thus
summed up the work he had accomplished: (1) The large and
substantial church of Holy Trinity on Kingswood Hill. (2) The
increase of accommodation and other improvements in the mother
church of Bitton, and the building of the neat and commodious
school-house in that village. (3) The rebuilding, with enlargement,
of the ancient chapel of Oldland, and, subsequently, the erection
of a large school-house in its immediate vicinity. And (4) the
elegant and substantial works on Jefferies Hill, in the hamlet of
Hanham, consisting of a church, parsonage, and school-house. The
completion of the first of these undertakings led the way to the
building of a parsonage and school-house by the incumbent first
appointed to that church ; the result being, that there were thence-
forth eight services on Sundays in the parish where there had been
only two ; school accommodation, in connection with the church,
for 820 children, where there had been none; and additional
church-room for 2,285 worshippers, nearly all the seats being free.
These churches have since led to the formation of separate parishes.
As mentioned above, Mr. Ellacombe was presented in 1850 to
the rectory of Clyst St. George ; but his zeal for parochial improve-
D L For t?? 1 ? f the Particulars in this sketch we are indebted to Church Bells of August 7,
( 885, which is illustrated with a portrait of Mr. Ellacombe. See also the number for August
H. Vox many years he was the editor of the " Bell -ringing pages " of that periodical.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 231
ments did not terminate with his incumbency of Bitton. He
speedily rebuilt the nave of the church of Clyst St. George, and in
1860 erected a new school-house and master's residence.
Mr. Ellacombe's name is very widely known as the great authority
on Bells, respecting which he has written some valuable treatises.
He likewise invented, many years ago, an ingenious apparatus of
chiming hammers, which enables one man to chime all the bells in a
steeple. He was a learned antiquary, especially in ecclesiastical
affairs, and he was noted as a skilful florist and botanist. His chief
literary works are as follows: (1) History and Antiquities of
Clyst St. George. 1865; (2) History of the Manor of Bitton,
1867; (3) Bells of Devonshire, 1867; (4) Bells of the Church:
a Supplement to the " Church Bells of Devon" 1872 ; (5) Practical
Remarks on Belfries and Ringers, 4th ed., 1876; (6) Bells of
Exeter Cathedral, 1874; (7) Bells of Somersetshire, 1875; (8)
Bells of Gloucestershire, 1881 ; and (9) History of the Parish of
Bitton, including Kingswood Chase, two parts, 1881-83. These, it
may be noted, were privately printed.
Having reached the patriarchal age of ninety-five years, he
departed this life at Clyst St. George, July 30, 1885; and a few
days after his remains were deposited in the churchyard of Bitton.
In the chancel of the church of his old parish he had erected a
mural tablet, with the following inscription (the blanks to be filled
in due time after his decease) :
Henry Thomas Ellacombe, M.A., | sometime Vicar of this
parish, j and | Eector of Clyst S. George, Devon, | died ....
Anne, the wife of the above, | died at the Vicarage House | on
the tenth of March, | MDCCCXXV., aged XXXI.
Ann, his second wife, | died at the Vicarage House | on the
eighteenth of March, | MDCCCXXXL, | aged XXVIII.
Charlotte, his third wife, | died at Clyst S. George | on the
nineteenth of November, MDCCCLXXL, | aged LXXIII.
" These all died in faith." ABHBA.
1202. THOMAS PARKER, OF GLOUCESTER, SURGEON. I am
engaged in the collection of family muniments and memorials,
and much desire some information regarding the descent of Thomas
Parker, of Gloucester, surgeon, who died there in 1802, and was
buried in a vault at the cathedral. He married Maria Ann (who
died before 1802, and was buried in the same place), daughter of
Edward Thornbrough, Commander K.K, and sister of Vice- Admiral
Sir Edward Thornbrough, G.C.B., descendants of Bishop Thorn-
borough, of Bristol, 1603-16. The enclosed pedigree shows all I
know respecting him. I have, however, an older one, beginning
with Thomas Parker, of Notgrove, 1558, and ending with Edward
Parker, of Hasfield, who died in 1682, eetat. 8; but though I
232 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
understand that the Thomas Parker who died in 1802, was descended
from the Thomas Parker of 1558, there is a long gap which I
should like to fill in. Kindly insert this request for information.
EDWARD THORNBROUGH PARKER SHEWEN.
Antigonishe, Nova Scotia.
1203. VENETIAN GLASS IN ENGLAND. I am told that the
earliest imitation of Venetian glass in England was made at
Cheltenham about the year 1770. Is this correct 1 and if so, can
anyone tell me the name of the maker, or anything else about the
work ( { Was Gloucestershire at that time noted for its glass-works %
and were there many glass-works in the West of England generally 1
I should be glad if anyone could furnish me with information on
this subject, in which I am much interested. j> p
1204. "HoonNGS IN MICKLETON WOOD." Can any corres-
pondent give me information regarding the "traditional hootings
in Mickleton Wood " 1 Q R
1205. THE HEANE FAMILY. James Heane, who married
Elizabeth Walter, May 15, 1636, became a major-general in the
army of the Parliament, and held the offices of governor of
Weymouth and Jersey. (See Notes and Queries, 3 rd S. iv. 48, 115.)
His eldest son Thomas was of Tockington, in the parish of
Olveston, Gloucestershire, and had an only son James. His
daughter Martha married Ery. Further than this I have
been unable to trace his descendants. I shall be grateful for any
notes relative to persons of the name.
I have the following extracts from registers, which it may be
well to give :
Horfield.
1636. The 15 th day of May was married James Heane and
Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
Walter.
1637. Feb. 19. Thomas, s. of James and Elizabeth Heane, bap.
Olveston.
1638. Mar. 11. James, s. of James Heane and Elizabeth, his
wife, bap.
1641. Feb. 25. David, s. of James Heane, gent., and Elizabeth,
his wife, bap.
1643. April 5. David, s. of James Heane, of Tockington,
gent., and Elizabeth, his wife, bur.
1644. April 10. David, s. of James Heane, of Tockington,
gent., and Elizabeth, his wife, bap. Henry Hane,
Matthew Walter, gent., and Elizabeth Walter, wife of
Thomas Walter, of Horfield, gent., this Child's
Witnesses.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 233
1 644. May 24. Mary, d. of Henry Heane, minister, and Elizabeth,
his wife, bap.
1646. Sept. 20. Martha, d. of James Heane and Elizabeth, his
wife, bap.
Sept. 27. Elizabeth, d. of Henry Heane, Vicar, and
Elizabeth, his wife, bap.
1649. June 5. Hanna, d. of Henry Heane, clarke, bap.
1650. Mar. 18. Nathan, s. of Henry Heane, minister, bap.
Nov. 29. Mary, d. of John Walter, gent., bap. [Was
not this the Mary Walter, who married at Siston,
Dec. 8, 1674, Sir Edward Acton, Bart. ?]
1653. Oct. 4. Sarah, d. of Henry Heane, minister, bap.
1655. Jan. 17. James, s. of Henry Heane, Clearke, bap.
Mar. 23. Jonathan Jarwell, a neger borne at Geney in
Barbery, being betwixt 18 and 19 yeeres of age, bap.,
being Captain Hean's Servant.
The following is an extract from the Book of Affidavits for
Marriage Licenses, Diocesan Registry, Gloucester: 1679, 12 Nov.
John Smith, of Barkley, set. 38, with Sarah Walter, of Oldstone
[? Olveston], widow. To be marryed att Thornbury or y e Coll : of
Gloucester. WM c HEANE.
Cinderford.
To the foregoing may be appended two communications from
Notes and Queries (5 th S. xi. 269, 354) :
(1) In the church of Little Dean, Gloucestershire, is, or was,
this inscription," "Rowland Heane departed this life the 23 rd
October, 1610." In Bigland's Collections relating to Gloucestershire,
parish of Little Dean, he says (p. 451), "The chief manor was
vested in the family of Heane in 1610, of whom it was purchased
in 1676 by John Parker, Gent." On a flat stone in the cloisters
of the cathedral at Gloucester is the following, " Sacred to the
memory of Rowland Heane, who died Sep. 1 st , 1815, aged 67."
I should be glad to know what connexion there was between these
two : that they belonged to the same family I already know. In
Burke's Armory (edit. 1878) I find the following : " Heane
(Ruardeane, co. Gloucester ; arms from a brass plate taken out of
the church of the monastery of Abergavenny in memory of Sir
John atte Hene, Knight of Esmy, co. Surrey, died 1432), Per
fesse or and arg. a fesse sable, issuant therefrom a demi-lion ram-
pant gules." Also, was Major-General James Heane (see " K & Q.,"
3 rd S. iv. 115) in any way related to this family 1 ? H. Bower.
(2) The inscription in Little Deane Church to Rowland Heane
has not been in existence for at least the last fifty years. Major-
General James Heane was one of his grandchildren, and Rowland
Heane, who was buried in Gloucester Cathedral in 1815, was one
of his (Rowland's) descendants. William C. Heane. EDITOR.
VOL. III. R
234 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES,
1206. THOMAS TEST, OB TESTE, CHAPLAIN OF WICK WAR.
(See No.' 963.) Thomas Test, or Teste, was ordained a secular priest
at Worcester, 21 Sept., 1504, having obtained a title from the
priory of S* Bartholomew at Gloucester. He would appear to be
the same as the chaplain at Wickwar, whose name is somewhat
indistinctly written on the subsidy-roll of 1513 preserved in the
episcopal registers at Worcester. THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore.
1207. REDWOOD FAMILY. A detailed genealogical account of
the Redwood family, formerly of Bristol, who settled in America in
the last century, may be found in the first number of the Newport
Historical Magazine (July, 1880), issued by the Historical
Publishing Co., Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Abraham Redwood was born in Bristol in 1665 ; he commanded
a ship, and traded with the West Indies. He married Mehetable,
daughter of Jonas Langford, of Antigua. Having remained there
till 1712, he then settled at Salem, Mass,, and afterwards at
Newport, Rhode Island. He married 2ndly, in 1716, a widow,
Mrs. Patience Phillips, a native of Rhode Island, and daughter of
Joseph Howland. He died January 17, 1729, aged 64, having had
by his two marriages eleven children, of whom particulars are
recorded.
An inscription commemorative of others of the name who were
resident in Jamaica, is in Archer's Monumental Inscriptions of the
British West Indies (London, 1875), p. 66, as follows: "To the
memory of Stephen Richard Redwood, Esq re , who was born in
Spanish Town j on the l sfc of December, 1726, and died on the | 8 th
of December, 1781, and was, for many years, one of the |
Representatives in Assembly for S* Thomas in the Vale, | Also, to
the memory of his son, the Honourable Philip Redwood, Barrister-
at-Law, | who was a Representative for S* Catherine | upwards of
twenty-five years, was chosen Speaker of the Assembly in 1802, |
appointed Chief Justice of this Island in 1808, and died | on the
9 th of February, 1810, in London, in his 60 th year." p t j) y
1208. RENT OF FARMS IN 1736. The following advertise-
ments occur in a copy of the Gloucester Journal published in
March, 1736:
" To be Lett, for seven Years, or less if desir'd, an Estate at
South-Mead, in the Parish of Westbury on Trym, in the County
of Gloucester, 2 Miles from Bristol, and 8 from Sodbury, about
130 per Annum, Tythe free, and containing about 250 Acres of
Pasture and Arable Land, with a good Farm-House, and all Con-
veniences to it, having been lately improved, and capable of more
Improvement. Enquire of Mr. Thomas Knight, of South-Mead,
the Owner thereof ; or of Mr. Thomas Jacob. Merchant, in Trinity-
street, Bristol."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 235
" To be Lett, from Lady-Day next, a Farm of about the yearly
Value of 200, being about one Mile from Marshfield, 5 Miles from
Bath, and 9 from Bristol ; and consisting of a large and good Farm-
House, convenient Out-houses, and near 500 Acres of Inclosed
Ground, lying together and round the House; about one Third
Part of which Ground is Meadow and Pasture, the residue is
Arable. The Farm hath Plenty of Water in the driest of Times,
and will not rot Sheep in the worst of Times. Enquire of
Mr. Alsop, of West Littleton, near Marshfield." j j^
1209. BRISTOL AND THE SLAVE TRADE, 1016-35. The late
Mr. John Eichard Green has written in his Conquest of England
(1883), p. 443 : Whatever part the slave trade played in the
commerce of Chester, it was the main traffic of Bristol. The rise
of Bristol had been probably as recent as that of its rival port on
the western coast : a number of coins, indeed, which witness to the
presence of a mint here in Cnut's day, form the first historic
evidence of the existence of the town itself, though the presence of
a parish of St. Mildred [? Werburgh] within its bounds suggests an
earlier life in Mercian days. The trade with southern Ireland,
from which its importance sprang, originated at any rate with the
planting of Danish towns on the Irish coast, and the rise of Bristol
into commercial activity cannot have been earlier than that of
Dublin or Waterford. For a trade with Ireland the estuary of the
Severn was the natural entrepot, and the deep channel of the Avon
furnished a port at that point of the estuary from whence roads
led most easily into the heart of Britain. The town, however, was
still a small one in the days of the Confessor, nor was its general
traffic probably as yet of much consequence. But nowhere was
the slave trade so active. The Bristol burgher bought up men over
the whole face of England for export to Ireland, where the Danes,
as elsewhere, acted as factors for the slave markets of half
Europe. Youths and maidens were above all the object of their
search; and in the market of the town rows of both might be
seen chained and roped together for the mart It
was in vain that canon and law forbade that Christian guiltless
men should be sold out of the land, and above all to heathen
purchasers, or that this prohibition was repeated in the laws of
Cnut. It was easy indeed to evade such enactments. The man
who had been reduced to slavery by sentence of law, or the
children who inherited his taint of blood, could not be held as the
guiltless persons mentioned in it ; and no English law would be
made to apply to slaves either purchased or taken in war from the
neighbouring Welsh. BRISTOLIENSIS.
1210. BRISTOL IN 1777. The Bristol Times and Mirror of
June 2, 1877, gives a few amusing extracts from the file of its
236 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
predecessor, Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, for just one century
earlier. The following are specimens :
"May, 1777. Bon Ton Intelligence. "We are informed from
the Hotwells that it is there the prevailing 'ton for gentlemen to go
and drink the waters at the Pump-room with their night-caps on ;
and that this innovation of the head-dress somewhat alarms the
ladies, as they seem of late to have monopolised the capital enor-
mities to themselves."
About a fortnight later is the following entry, with the same
heading :
" We are informed that no considerable alteration in dress has
taken place since the 'Revolution of the Nightcap,' except the
seemingly extravagant appendage of an extraordinary watch; as
the gentlemen of the true ton wear one in each fob
We conceive that this fashion, contrary to most others, is held out
as an indisputable mark of prudence and economy, since in a
literal sense it cannot but render the wearer doubly watchful"
The use of two watches by the fashionable youth of the time
was ridiculed by contemporary caricaturists and farce-writers.
The following is probably a passing satire on a folly of the
fair sex :
" The season at the Hotwells is now truly brilliant, but no con-
siderable alteration in polite amusements has taken place, except
that the ladies and gentlemen have formed a resolution of going to
the balls undressed."
The press of that age was rarely devoid of reports of highway
robberies. In a number of Felix Farley we read that the
Birmingham diligence to the White Hart, Bristol, was stopped
between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, within 100 yards
of Stoke's Croft turnpike Gate, by two footpads, who robbed the
passengers of between 4 and 5 ; that the landlord of the White
Hart, being unable to find the mayor's officers (the only police
force), set off in a " whiskey " himself in pursuit of the thieves ;
that he was stopped by the same rogues "at the Cross Posts,
between the turnpike and Redland ; " and that the footpads having
fired a brace of blunderbusses without effect, his horse started off
at full speed, and he "thought it expedient to hasten home by
another road." " The same night, between nine and ten o'clock, as
Mr. and Mrs. Trevilian, of Clifton, were returning home in their
carriage from Queen square, they were attacked the upper end of
Park street by two footpads (judged to be the same fellows), who
robbed them of about four pounds in cash and a plain gold watch."
J. L.
1211. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS, No. VIII. : SYSTON.
Baptisms.
1583. June 27. Margaret Sen John [St. John], d. of Oliver
Senjohn, Esq r .
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 237
1587. Aug. 24. Cecilie, d. of Morrys Hill, Gent.
1598. Aug. 6. Isabell, d. of Arthur Kemisse [Kemys], Gent.
1599. Dec. 3. Arthur, s. of same.
1602. Aug. 5. Grace, d. of John Horsey, Gent.
1603. Oct. 30. Mary, d. of same.
1608. April 3. John, s. of Rafe Peacock, the younger, and
Katherine, his wife.
1610. Feb. 17. Heline, d. of same.
1613. Dec. 26. Anne, d. of same.
1626. July 14. Richard, s, of Henry Billingsley, Esq r [lord
of the manor], and Sarah, his wife.
1627. Oct. Robert, s. of same.
1628. Mar. 14. Matthew, s. of same.
1630. Mar. 15. John, s. of same.
1631. Feb. 23. Thomas, son of same.
1661. Feb. 13. Rosina, d. of M r Walter Chester.
1662. Dec. 9. Thomas, s. of Richard Gregson, Gent.
1663. Jan. 1. Ann, d. of John Symes.
1692. Feb. 23. Elizabeth, d. of M r John and Mary Meredith
p of The Lodge].
1696. June 4. Amy, d. of same.
1701-2. Mar. 19. Philippe, d. of same.
1702. Aug. 19. John, s. of John Holland, Esq r , and M rs
Dorothy, his wife. He was buried May 9,
1703.
Marriages.
1590. Aug. 27. Henry Weston, Gent., and Elizabeth Inyon.
1591. May 20. Edward Bosden, Gent., and Susan Pollington,
Widow,
1600. May 29. M r Ralph Peacock and Katherine Clement.
1629. June 2. John Peacocke and Ann Jeffry.
1637. Feb. William Peacocke and Katherine Tucker.
[A blank in the register for several years.]
1654. Consent of Matrimony published between Samuel Cuffe,
of Savernack Park, in Wootten Bibery, Wilts, Gent.,
and M rs Mabell Strange, of Siston, Widow.
1662. Dec. 2. Stephen Rosewell and Elizabeth Flower.
1665. June 4. Thomas Prewett and Ann Flower.
1667. Mar. 24. Thomas Prewett and Barbara Codrington.
1668. Aug. 11. Tho 8 Hall, Gent,, and Hester Tyler.
1673. May 19. Richard Tibbett and Ann Flower.
1674, Dec. 8. Sir Edward Acton, [3rd] Bart., and M rs Mary
Walter [" an heiress," d. of John Walter,
of Elberton].
1676. May 18. Edward Dover and Mary Flower.
May 23. M r Godfrey Vansteane and M rs Abigail
Braine.
238 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1676. M r Robert Wadman and M rs Hannah Trotman [d. of
Samuel Trotman, Esq., b. April 19, 1652].
1689. Aug. 29. Richard Holford, Esq.,* and M rs Susanna
Trotman [b. Jan. 17, 1655].
1693. May 4. Edward Parker, Vicar of Bitton [1691-1714],
and Mary Tyler, Widow.
1696. Nov. 4. M r Richard Griffin and M rs Sarah Wickham.
Burials.
1586. Feb. 15. James, s. of Anthony Dole, Gent,
1590. Oct. 2. Jane, wife of Edward Bosden, Gent.
Oct. 12. Elizabeth, wife of Anthony Weston, Gent.
1592. Feb. 23. Walter Bosden, Gent.
1605. Feb. 25. Dorithie \_nee Veale], wife of Arthur Player,
Gent.f
1609. Feb. 27. Ralph Peacock, the Elder.
1610. April 5. Arthur Player, Gent.
1612. LastofFeby. Thomas Grubham, borne near Bridgwater.
1613. Jan. 29. Elizabeth, wife of Walter Strange, Gent, pof
Mound's Court]. |
1621. Dec. 2. A daughter of Henry Billingsley, Esq r , and
Sarah, his wife.
1634. Feb. 20. Anne Peacocke.
Feb. 24. Matthew Billingsley, Gent.
1656. July 17. M Mary Strange.
1663. April 27. M r Robert Ducy.
May 8. Grace, wife of M r Richard Gregson.
Dec. 31. Ann, wife of John Symes.
Feb. 4. John, s. of Capt. John Gorden.
1666. Dec. 4. Ann, wife of Thomas Prewett, the d r of
Richard Flower, Rector of Syston.
1687. Richard Flower, A.M., Rector, succeeded by Jonathan
Luffingham.
1688. Dec. 20. M Ann Ducy, in the Chancel.
1692. Mar. 27. Buried in the Church, M Elizabeth Rosewell.
Nov. 5. Elizabeth, wife of M r Nathaniel Bull.
1694. Jan. 20. Margaret Prewett, Widow.
1704. April 16. M rs Joan Luffingham.
1724. Jan. 31. Jonathan Luffingham, Rector [16874724].
Sir Richard Holford, Knt., Master in Chancery, m. 1st, Sarah, dau. of John Crew, Esq.,
of Westonbirt ; 2ndly, Elizabeth, dau. of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Stayncr ; and Srdly (as
above), Susanna, dau. of Samuel Trotman, Esq.
+ Atkyns mentions an inscription in the church "for Dorothy, the wife of Mr. Arthur
Pleyer, and for two children," but he does not give ic. The inscription is in the chancel, as
stated by Bigland, and is as follows : " Hie jacet corpus Dorotheas Player, uxoris Arthuri
Player, filise Gulielmi Veale, quae obijt 24 die mensis Februarij, Ao. Dom. 1605."
t "The Stranges were an ancient family of this place; they resided at a farm called
Mound s Court, where queen Katherine, dowager of king Henry the Eighth, was entertained
for seven or eight days." ATKYNS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 239
1212. NOTES ON THE PARISH OF PITCHCOMBE.
( Continued from No. 1184.)
Another inquisition (which appears to refer to the same lands)
was taken at Gloucester on the Sunday next before the feast of
St. Valentine in the same year, 31 Edw. L, before the same
sheriff, Wm. de Gardinis, Kobert Mort de freyt, Robt. de Sudley,
and others, as to whether it could be permitted to Gilbert de
Massyngton to assign a messuage and carucate in Pichenecoumbe
to the abbot and convent : they say that it would not be to the
king's damage for him to do so ; that the messuage is held of the
abbot by a rent of 17 s 4 d , and suit at his court every three weeks ;
that there remain to the said Gilbert (besides this gift and assign-
ment) lands and tenements to do custom and service, and to meet
other charges which he has been accustomed to sustain, as in suits,
vigils, views of frankpledge, talliages, fines, redemptions, amercia-
ments, and whatsoever other charges had to be sustained ; and that
the same Gilbert may be put on assize and juries, as before he had
been put, and that the land shall not be aggrieved more than has
been usual. In the same year, as we learn from the " Originalia "
Rolls, "Abbas Sci Petri Gloucestr' finem fecit cum R ^ centum solid'
ty licencia ingrediendi laicum ten' in Pychenecombe."
Some of these lands, thus held by the monastery of St. Peter,
appear to have been annexed to- Standish, where the monks had
large possessions : if this be the case, it will account for that
detached portion of the parish of Standish which runs through the
village of Pitchcombe. The policy of the monastic bodies being
to- consolidate their property, this part of Pitchcombe was added to
their larger manor of Standish; but by the operation of the
|< Divided Parishes Acts," 1876-82, it has lately been restored, and
is now for civil purposes included in the parish of Pitchcombe.
Gilbert de Massynton, whose name occurs in the last-mentioned
inquisition, held lauds at Hardwick, viz., a messuage, carucate, and
six acres, which he bought of Hugh le Despencer, but he was
ousted by John le Boteler, of Lanultyt, who, with Beatrice, his
wife, held the manor of Park (Hardwick) of Matthew Fitzherbert
(Inq : ad quod, 15 Edw. II.). This John was steward to Hugh le
Despencer, and was guilty of various acts of violence, for which,
upon petition to Parliament, Gilbert was directed to sue at common
law. (Eot. Parl., ^dw. III. Fosbrooke's Gloucestershire, i., 296.)
In 15 Edw. II. (1322), after the king's success against the
patriotic barons in the battle of Boroughbridge, when Humphrey
de Bohun, earl of Hereford, was slain, the lands of the supporters
of the defeated party were taken into the king's hands, and
amongst them those of Walter de Wylton in Pychenecumbe. The
survey is to be found among the documents connected with the
" Contrariants " in the Public Record Office, and has been printed
in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, No. 949. It gives the names
240 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the rent payable, and the
various services required, viz., harvest work, the hoeing of the
lord's corn, &c. The lands do not appear to have been entirely
forfeited to the Crown, as in 17 Edw. II. (1324), that is, two
years subsequent to the inquisition, Eobert de Maundevill "de
Weston " paid a fine of five marks to the king for a license to
receive from Walter de Wylton and Isabella, his wife, certain lands
and tenements in " Pinchenecumbe."
Eobert de Maundevill died in 1349, holding lands in Devon,
Dorset, and this county, as regards which last we find the
following : " Inquisition taken before Simon Wasset, escheator of
the lord the king in the county of Gloucester, at Pinchincoumbe,
on Friday next after the feast of the Ascension, in the 22nd year
of the reign of King Edward the third after the conquest, by
virtue of a writ of the lord the king, on the oath of Nicholas
Pope, Eobt. de Minsterworth, Jno Ockholt, Jno Organ, Walt, le
Droys, Wm. Fokett, Jno Sigryth, Thos. le Webbe, Walt. Glede,
Eic. le Gole, Thos. le Chaloner, Walt, de Southam ; who say on
their oath that Eobert de Maundeville held on the day on which
he died the manor of Pinchincoumbe conjointly with Isabella, his
wife, of the gift and feoffment of Walter de Wylton to the afore-
said Eobert and Isabella, and their heirs ; that the said manor was
held in capite of the lord the king by 5 s *$ ann : for all services,
and that it was worth in all its issues, beyond reprisals, 40 s ; that
he also held two virgates of land, with appurtenances, of the lord
Eichard Talbot within Painswick, by the service of xiv d per ann:,
but worth x s per ann : and they say that the said Eobert died on
Wednesday, the 7 th May, and that John, his son, is the next heir,
and is of the age of 28 years and more."
Isabella de Maundevylle held the same lands in dower, and
dying 30 Edw. III. (1357), a writ was issued to Thomas de
Berkele, the king's escheator, to take the oath of fealty of John de
Maundevill, her son and heir (who had paid relief), " for the carucate
and twenty-two shillings rent in Pychenecombe held of the king in
capite, by the service of five shillings per annum." This Thomas
de Berkele founded a chantry in the church of Cubberly, which he
endowed with thirteen messuages, two tofts, thirty-four acres, and
two acres of wood. (Pat. Eoll, 19 Edw. III.)
John de Maundeville died 34 Edw. III. (1361), aged 40 years :
he was seised of five messuages, twenty-two acres, two virgates and
a half, and two acres of wood, in Painswick and " Egge," which he
held of Sir John de Bromwich by the service of xiiij d per annum,
Joan, wife of William de Bokeland, being his sister and heir.
Joan dying in the following year, 1362, the jurors (Hugh
atte Seynezard, John le Eous, John Thoedolf, Eobt. Passmore,
John Johnes, Walter King, Wm. Englis, Walt. Coke, Wm. Ellys,
Eoger Salecombe, John Gibbons, John Sprot) found that she held
a messuage and carucate at Pychenecumbe, worth by the year in all
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 241
issues xxiij 8 viij d : also the money rents xxij 8 , in capite of the king;
six acres at Harescombe of Giles de Avenebury, by the service of a
clove (" garyophylli ") per annum, of which land each acre was worth
xj d ; and arable land at Painswick and " Egge," of which the value
seems much less than in 1349, by reason probably of bad seasons.
The Pitchcombe lands were in the possession of Ealph de
Wolverton at his death, 44 Edw. III. (1371) : and in 5 Rich. II.
(1382) an inquisition "ad quod damnum" was taken at Gloucester
on the Tuesday next after the feast of St. Michael, before Hugh de
Byseley, the king's escheator. on the oath of Wm. Hockenall, Jno
Stonehouse, Wm. Dudbruge, Hen. Monk, Jno Hockenall, Wm.
ffelde, John Seymour, John Chapman, John Notylyn, John Wilkyns,
Laurence Gervays, Jno Wode, jurors : who said that it would not
tend to the hurt of the king as lord, for Walter de Perle, Hawisia
his wife, and John their son, to retain and have a carucate of land
and xxij 8 rents in Pychencombe, which they had purchased of
William de Gyldone, cousin and heir of Isabella, who was the wife
of Walter de Wylton who held in demesne in capite for self and
heirs, paying v 8 to the king by the hand of the sheriff. They
state that the land is worth x 8 per annum, and no more, because it
lies in common.
Walter de Perle had property in Dorset, and appears to have
been knight of the shire in the parliaments of 34 and 45 Edw. III.
(1360-1370) : the names of Eoger le Gyldone, and Henry le
Guldene, miles, also occur in the parliamentary lists for that county :
they were probably related to the Perle family.
Elizabeth, the only daughter and heiress of John Parle (or Perle),
of Dorset, married Richard Moure de Pykyzet (Pyksgate), who
died on the Thursday in Easter week, A.D. 1433 (11 Hen. VI).
He was seised of Kyngswode manor and other lands in Somerset ;
of Morthesthorn manor, South Perret, Loscombe, and Nytherbury,
in Dorset ; and of " Pychyncombe alias Pychecombe," in this
county of Gloucester, where he had seven messuages, one hundred
and eighty acres arable, eight acres of meadow, and ten of wood,
with the advowson of the church. He had, by indenture dated
20 May, 4 Hen. VI., conveyed all these lands, by name of a manor,
to Richard Hackis (or Hickis) for sixteen years, at the rent of five
pounds sterling per ann :, payable at Easter and Michaelmas. The
arable land was estimated to be worth iij d per acre ; the eight acres
of meadow, xij d per acre ; and the ten acres of wood, i d per acre.
Thomas Moure, son and heir of Elizabeth, daughter and heir of
John Parle, of Dorset, was found, by inquisition taken at Gloucester
on the Thursday after the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula (Aug. 1),
to be the next heir of Richard Moure, and of the age of twenty-
two years. The jurors were, Thos. Bron, Simon Cottesbroke,
Robt. Mychell, Robt. Pounsard, Thos. Godston, John Burnell,
John Deughton, John Brugge senior, Ric. Ivell, Robt. Coterugge,
John Brugge junior, and Walter Lye.
242 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The church is first mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas,.
A.D. 1291: "Wygorn' Spirit' In Decanat' Glouc.' Porcio
Prioris Lanthon' in Eccl ia de Harsecomb' et Pychenecomb' : v s in
pecun', Dec' vj d ." And in 1362, it begins to be named in the
institutions of the rectors of Harescombe.
The church consisted o-f nave, chancel, south porch, and western
tower, with "pack-saddle" roof and gables. These towers are
more common in Normandy than in this country, but examples are
not wanting in England: e.g. r Broekthrop, Maidford and Thorpe
Mandeville, ISTorthants, &c. M. de Caumont considers these belfries
to belong (as regards France) to a period as late as the fourteenth
century ; consequently, they are additions when found with earlier
work. The suggested date for the tower of Brockthrop Church in
the " Glossary " is " circa 1380," this later date being substituted
by the editor for "circa 1250," as in former editions.
The stone pulpit and font are given in Lysons's Gloucestershire
Antiquities, pits, vii., Ixii. One of the ancient bells remains : it
bears the inscription " Kofjannes foacafcitur," and is recorded in
Ellacombe/s Church Bells of Gloucestershire, p. 59.
The church, which was in a dilapidated condition, and did not
afford sufficient accommodation for the parishioners, was taken
down in 1819, and the present church erected on the same site :
this building was greatly improved in 1870 by the enlargement of
the chancel, a new roof, and the re-arrangement of the pews. .
The feast day is said to be the first Sunday after the third day
of September, and a fair was formerly held on the following
Monday ; but its last relics have passed away in the lifetime of the
present generation. It is, however, worthy of record, as it may
afford a clue to the dedication of the church, about which there is
some uncertainty.
The exact site of the ancient castle is unknown ; and as none of
the records here noticed mention it, its destruction may be supposed
to have taken place at a very early date : it was probably one of
the numerous strongholds raised in the time of Stephen, amounting
to no less than eleven hundred and fifteen. The chroniclers tell of
the tyrannous exactions of the seigneurs or castellans, and the
tortures they inflicted on the defenceless- cultivators. In the
following reign many of the castles were ordered to be demolished ;
viz., at a council held at Westminster, A.D. 1155, no less than one
hundred and forty.
The probable site is on the Eagged Castle farm, a little to the
KE.^ of the church. It is not unlikely that "Eagged Castle"
acquired the name from the ruinous condition into which it had
fallen, the designation occurring in other parishes in this county
and elsewhere ; and that the present ancient and interesting farm-
house, now occupied by Mr. H. Chamberlayne, was built out of the
old stones of the dilapidated stronghold. "Great Hale" and
"Little Hale" are names of adjoining fields, and afford some
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 243
evidence of such a castle or stronghold, if we rightly interpret a
passage in "Annal. Lond.," p. 90, A.D. 1281 "domos . . .
quae vocantur Hales, anglice Stockes." In the neighbouring parish
of Painswick we meet with " Castle Hale."
(To be continued.)
1213. THE MONUMENT OF JOHN THORNBOROUGH, BISHOP OP
BRISTOL, 1603-16. The Eev. Octavius Fox, of Worcester, wrote
as follows in Notes and Queries (1 st S. iii. 299) : Our local
antiquaries have long been puzzled by an inscription in the Lady
chapel of our cathedral. It stands on the monument of Bishop
Thornborough [of Worcester, 1616-41], and was prepared by himself
fourteen years before his decease in 1641, at the age of ninety-four.
He was addicted to alchymy, and published a book in 1621, entitled
AiOoOewpiKos, sive, Nihil aliquid, omnia, &c. In the course of
some recent studies in the Pythagorean philosophy, my attention
was accidentally engaged by this inscription ; and it at once struck
me that it was thence that the explanation was to be derived. The
epitaph is as follows : on one side,
" Denarius Philosophorurn, Dum Spiro, Spero "-
on the other,
" In Uno, 2. 3. 4 or 10. non Spirans Spera&o."
The two latter letters are now effaced. It is well known that the
Pythagoreans found all the modes of space in the relations of
numbers. The monad, or unit, was not only the point whence all
extension proceeds, but it further symbolised the First Principle,
the origin of all. The decad represented the line, as being bounded
by two points or monads. The triad stood for surface as length and
width. The tetrad for the perfect figure, the cube, length, depth,
and width. The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all
being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection : hence the
term decas, or denarius, was used summarily for the whole science
of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract De Denario Pytha-
gorico, which was published four years after the date of the
inscription, and when the philosophy was attracting much attention
among European scholars. To be as concise as possible then, I
presume that the old bishop intended that the tomb on which his
effigy lies was his access to that perfection of existence which
philosophers had designated by the decas, or denarius. During the
present life he was hoping for it, "Dum Spiro, Spero." On the
other side : " In Him, who is the source, the beginning, the middle,
and the end of all existence and perfection (in Uno, 2. 3. 4 or 10.
non Spirans Sperabo), though I breathe no more, yet shall I hope."
Such is probably the meaning of his pious conceit, and I offer it as
a solution of what has long served for a riddle to the visitors of
our cathedral. Beyond this, your readers and myself may be
equally indifferent to such cabalistical quaintness. But let us treat
it with charity, as the devout consummation of an aged alchymist.
244 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1214. LONGDEN FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER.
( Continued from ffo. 1193.)
George Roger Longden, son of John Robert and Louisa
Longden, was married at Hackney new Church,* in the county of
Middlesex, to Mary Catherine Lawson, daughter of M r James
Lawson, of Hackney Terrace, on the 12 th of Aug., 1835.
Elizabeth Amelia Louisa Longden, daughter of John Robert'and
Louisa Longden, was married at S. Pancras new Church, county of
Middlesex, to Henry Joseph Hamblin, of Walsall, Staffordshire, on
the 10 th of Jan r y, 1837, and has issue,
1. Louisa Jane, born November 19 th , 1838, was christened at
Walsall, in Staffordshire, in January, 1839.
2. Frederick Harcourt, born Oct. 16, 1842, was christened at
S. Pancras Ch. 10 th January, 1843.
The before-named George Roger Longden was re-married at
S. Stephen's, Marylebone, to Caroline Frances Gaine, elder daughter
of John Edward Gaine, Esq., and Elizabeth, his wife, on 29 th
August, 1867.
The above-named Caroline Frances died 11 th Jan r r, 1870, in her
57 th year.
Louisa Longden, widow of John Robert Longden, died at
Watford, June, 1875.
George Roger Longden and Mary Catherine have issue, as follows,
1. William George, born 28 June, 1836, christened at
S. Pancras Ch. 20 October, 1836.
2. John Spencer, bom 13 June, 1840, christened at S. Pancras
Ch. 12 August, 1840.
The above Mary Catherine departed this life on Thursday, the
5 th July, 1866, in her 54 th year.
George Roger Longden died at Putney on Feb. 4, 1879, in his
69 th year.
On the 26 th day of August, 1841, Sophie Lavinia, second
daughter of John Robert and Louisa Longden, was married at
S. Dunstan in the West to Richard Peacock Walker, Esq., of the
Stamp Office, Somerset House.
On Thursday, 24 Sept., 1846, Mary Anne, third daughter of
John Robert and Louisa Longden, was married at S. John's,
Holloway, by the Rev. T. Turner, of Lancaster, to Arthur Walker,
Esq., of King's Road, Gray's Inn.
The above-mentioned Arthur Walker died Dec. 31, 1875.
On Tuesday, the 18 Jan^, 1848, Ann Maria, fourth daughter of
J. R. and L. L., was married at S. Pancras Ch., by the Rev. C. T.
Durnford, M.A., to Alexander Haywood Richardson, Esq., of the
Provincial Bank of Ireland, Old Broad St., London. [Issue,]
' C " L ' Were married at South Hackne y Church, and not at
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 245
Henry Alexander, son of the above, born Sept. 30, 1848,
baptized [at] S. Matthew's, City Road, 19 Nov r following.
The above A. H. Richardson died at Sydney, IST.S.W., June 20,
1874.
On Tuesday, the 19 Sept, 1848, Edward Harcourt Longden,
third son of the late John Robert and Louisa Longden, was
married at Holywell Church, Oxford, by the Rev. G. C. Gordon, to
Sophia Elizabeth, eldest daughter of C. S. Waddell, Esq., of
Oxford : he died in India, leaving 7 children, 5 girls and 2 boys.
James Robert Longden, 4th surviving son of J. Rob fc and Louisa
Longden, married at S. Kitt's, W.I., 22 Sept., 1864, to Alice
Emily, daughter of James Samuel Berridge, Esq., and has issue,
Alice Emily, bora 30 August, 1865.
Thomas Hayter Longden married Lavinia Johnson, dau. of
Robert Johnson, Esq., of Finchley, in the county of Middlesex,
Sept. 21, 1813, at S. George's. Hanover Square, same county, and
has issue,
1. Lavinia Mary, bom June 27 th , 1814.
2. Emma, born June 21, 1815.
3. Robert Knight, born May 27, 1817.
4. Henry Errington, b. January 14, 1819.
5. Jane Catherine, b. Sept. 30, 1820.
6. Charles Scudamore, b. July 8, 1822.
7. Morrell Dorrington, born May 4 th , 1825.
William George Longden, Clerk, B.A. [1859, M.A. 1862], son
of George Roger and Mary Catherine Longden, and Fellow of
Queen's Coll., Cambridge, married at Warrington, in the county of
Lancaster, to Miriam Ada, only daughter of the Rev. William
Quekett, Clerk, and Harriet, his wife (deceased), on the 1 Sept.,
1860, and has issue, as follows,
1. Ada Marguerite, born 20 July, 1861. Baptized at Ken-
nington, in the county of Berks, near the city of Oxford, 011
the 18 th of August foils.
2. Henry William, bom 15 Sept., 1862. Baptized at
Kennington aforesaid on the 19 Oct. foils.
3. John Quekett, bora 27 July, 1864. Baptized 21 August,
1864, at S. Andrew's, Wells St., Oxford St., Marylebone.
Died at S. Columba's College, Rathfarnham FCo. Dublin],
4 March, 1867.
4. Aethel Louisa Mary, born 11 Sept., 1872. Baptized Oct.
31, 1872, at S. Paul's, Penge.
John Spencer Longden, son of George Roger and Mary C. L.,
married at S. Paul's, Putney, Surrey, to Ellen Elizabeth, surviving
daughter of the late Col. Leonard Cooper, H.E.I.C.S., and of
Elizabeth, his wife, on the 24 th July, 1867. [Issue,]
1. Edith Mary, daughter of the above, b. 25 May, 1868,
baptized at S. John, Putney, 30 June foils.
24G GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
2. Leonard George Lawson, son of the above, born 11 Sept.,
1869, baptized at S. John, Putney, 28 Oct. foil*.
The above-mentioned Leonard George Lawson died Sunday, 29 th
May, 1870, at Putney.
The foregoing entries are on different pages, and were evidently
made from time to time. Robert Longden, who married Lucy
Crawley, was grandson of Anne Gwinnett, from whose Bible I
have on a former occasion given some memoranda. See ante, p. 36.
H. ISHAM LONGDEN.
St. Michael and All Angels, Northampton.
1215. EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCHWARDENS
OF EASTINGTON, 1616-1756. Two account-books (one, 1616-1691;
the other, 1695-1756) have been submitted for examination; and
like most books of the kind, they have been found to contain
sundry curious particulars. The churchwardens, with one or two
exceptions, certainly do not deserve praise for their scholarship.
Many of their entries, however, are curious, and even valuable ;
and they are given as samples of what may be gleaned from similar
documents relating to other parishes.* The following payments
have been selected for the purpose : -
1616. To the maymed souldiers viij 8 viij d
the Gaole money viij 8 iiij d
1628. Layd out for crowes or devouering fowles iiij d
Collected for the Coinunion, equale and
nothing remaining.
1631. To a poore man that had losste by fire 1
To men that came out of Ireland 6
1633. Laid out for a newe flaggon 4 6
Laid out for the Gaile Delivery 3 8
1634. For a Booke of Canons 1
For Parchment 1
For a Note of Christenings, Weddings,
& Buryings 1 4
1635. Laid out for the book of Coman prayer ix 8
1638. For an ho ure glass 8
For a proclamation 4
For a prayer 1
a table for manages prohibited 2
> * " The churchwardens' accounts [for the parish of Slymbridge] are most remarkable for the
interminable war which they record against God's creatures up to the year 1836. In many
years the heads of nearly 3,000 sparrows at a halfpenny each are entered in due form. The
premium for a fox was one shilling, for a ' fitcher ' 4d., for a hedgehog 2d. ; and there is also
a yearly entry over and above for ' varmint,' amounting to about 8s., all of which was paid
out ot the Church-rates." Notes on the Church of Slymbridge, p. 31.
Acts of parliament were passed in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth for the
destruction of birds and wild animals; viz., "An Acte made and ordeyned to dystroy
Choughs Crowes, and Rokes," 24 Hen. VIII., c. 10; and "An Act for the p'servacon of
urayne, o raiz., c. 15.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 247
1639. ffor altering the desk 18 7
a table cloth 1 1 8
y e book ffor the pulpit 1
1640. a bottle 1 6
prayer bookes for y e faste 3 10
for distraction of vermine 6
1641. for an ower glas 8
To a man that brought the order for y e
thankesgiuing 4
To John Jocelyn for killing of wermiii 6
1644. layd out for a daies worke to the Tyler
for mendinge the tyle of y e church 1
1646. p d for a directory 1 6
1647. For bread & wine more then collected 4 8
1648. To a Briefe 2
1649. Laid out unto poore Irish 3 8
1650. Laid out to Daniell Wilkins for washinge
out the late Kinges armes, and Lime
to doe it i 8 iij d
Laid out to John Hill what hee paid to
stoppe an Inditement against our
p'ish x s x d
1656. Layd out at severall times for Brieffes 6 6
1657. Layd out for briefs 15 10
1658. Forbriefes 10 9
for y e Sacraments more y n was gathered 14 6
1660. Laid out for the Brief w ch was rede in
y e church yt spake of the great loss
by fire in Dorsett 3
To the sparrow catcher . 8
1661. ffor setting up of the kinges armes 2 10
Money given to a briefe 1
1662. For new Bookes 13 6
for a new Surplice 302
to y e paritor 1 6
for vermin 1 8
1663. To Daniell Wilkins for writinge y e names
of children to be catechised 1
Layd out for an hower glass 8
Layd out to y e Sparrow Catcher 2
1665. Paid out for A howre glass 8
1666. To the Paratur 2 8
" when I was cunstable " 50
1668. Laid out for a foxe taken 1
for putting in the transcript 1 6
1670. To above 60 pore semen and other pore
people having serti vicates from severall
Justisses of the yere and other persons
248 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
of quality for the just occasion of
thayr travell 8 8
1671. for hedghogs 4
ffor a pulpitt Cushion 100
ffor the comon prayer booke 11
paid to M r Stokes & William Parsly for
the Diall 9 8
for a naile 10
for the faste booke 1
1672. Laid out for hedghogs 8
Laid out to the parritar 1 10
Laid out for makeing the Beeare 14 6
1673. Layd out for seting up the wether cocke
and for fiting the barr 6
1674. Given to seamen & travelers 1 6
forHedgHoges 1 10
for a Booke of Homelys 10 6
for A pulpit cloth 19
for parchm ts & drawing the Terrior 5
1678. For kilinge of hedghogs and foules 2 4
1680. for the book of arttickolles 6
for the procklymashin for the fast 1 6
for draing the terier 2 6
1684. payd to semen and travelers 152
for a ffewnerall cloth 156
1685. for varments 4
1687. Gave away to maimed soulders & travilers 199
for verming 4 4
1689. What was given to Irish protestants in
the year 1689 484
Gathered for the breif of Bungay 6 4
The second Breife for Irish protestants in
in the year 1689 164
1690. Laid out for a bason for Crisnings 4
1691. forhedgogs 3 2
1692. for keeping a soldier and his wife and
child two nights and one day, and
carying to Wheatonhust by order of
theyr passe 2 6
1693. for the kings Armes 6 8
for expences for the kings Armes 1
Gave to severall Travelers at severell
times, and for hedghogs severall times 5
1694. Pd the clerk for tolling the bell the Queens
funerall 2
1695. To Travellers, Soldiers, & Seamen 8 11
96. Washing and mending the Linian twice 4
1697. ffor a wisk and Bisum 5
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 249
1697. The Hyor of a horse to three Visitations 3
ffor Hegogs and Fichers 111
1699. Paid to Abra m Eudhall thirty-three
pounds sixteen shillings : viz. for
casting y e Bell, the weight whereof
is 21 cwt 3 v and 20 lb 20
Addision of Mettle, 1 cwfc 3 v 12 lb ,
allowd for waste at 4 lb in the hundred,
2 <i r 24 lb . In all 2 cwt 2 i r 8 lb
at 5 s p. C wt 12 18
Brasses & Clapper 18
p d Nath 1 King ffor Carriage of y e Bell to
& ffrom Gloucester 1 10
p d Abra m Eudhalls man for setting up y e
Bell for 4 days work 11
p d the Smith for Iron Work 11 9
p d John Haynes for him & his mens
work about takeing down & putting
up y e bell 1 56
our own Expenses upon y e delivery of y e
old bell 7 4
spent vpon y e ffetching home y e new Bell
& on y e workmen 7 6
p d Joseph Miles for carriage of pooleys
& Setton 10
spent at Glo. vpon our dischargeing y e
account with Abra m Eudhall & men 6
spent all [ ] in Beare and victualls &
lodging first & last about y e Bell 128
A young Tree to prop up y e Gutter 2
p d for 18 hedghoggs & a ffitche 3 4
1700. A Tree of Timber of oake 140
1701. p d John Haynes for rayles for the pound 3 6
p d for a warrand of disturbence for Blake 1
p d the queen proclemation 1
1702. p d foraSalvar 2 6
p d for a procklimation 1
p d for Yerming 6
p d dame Hailing for scovring y e plate 1
1703. p d for Hedghogs & other vermints 9 7
p d for a mat for y e parson pew 3
p d for scouering the plate 2
p d for Eighting 1
1704. ffor Eiding the gutters 1
1705. p d for washing y e wether Cock 10 6
p d thomas Clutterbuck for a youth tree 2
p d for washing y e lenning, scouring of y e
plate 7
VOL. in. s
250 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1708. For a bering Cloth 1 18 6
For proclimashons and a praire 3
For a Comon prayre book 13
1711. p d Elennor Knowls ffor putting A collar
to the surplis and mending 3
ffor Uermines 117
p d Samuell Wont for mending y e Eegester
book 020
1712. p d W m Franklin for tiling y e Church &
for washing y e Church 600
p d for Uermins & burds 1 6 4J
p d for mendeng y e Kegister book 1 6
p d for a Carpet Cloth 17 6
1713. paid for birds and Verments 191
paid for a Coman prayr book 14
paid for a pewter gun 6
gave too a briff 1
1714. p d for Birds and Uarments 1 7 2J
p d ye Paritor for seuen prayer books 7
p d for mending y e Beare 1 6
1715. p d for mending y e puter Gunn 6
1718. p d for farments 105
1719. for a book & Table of Degres 15 6
P d y e man that Came a bout y e Armes 2
1720. for 7 days for my selfe [W m Hone, car-
penter or builder] at 1 s 4 d a day 9 4
for 5 days for thorn, at 1 s 2 d a day 5 10
1722. The Disburstm ts of Stephen Beard, one
of the Churchwardens, for the year
1722.
Impris. paid the first Visitation fees 096
p d the 2 d Visitation fees 036
The Expences at the same 026
p d for washing the Church Linnen 026
Gave w th a Letter of request 016
Gave to two poor seamen in Distress 010
pd wm Martin for a hedghogg 004
p d J. Andrews & T. Cowles for two
Fittches 008
p d to E d Stephens, jun r , for seven
Wood pickers 012
p d Jn Haynes for hoops and wood
pickers 016
p d Mary Bennett for 5 Hedghoggs 10
p d to Jn Beard for 5 Old Hedghoggs 018
Myself for 2 old hedghoggs & 7
young Ones 022
p d David Walter for one Hedghogg 004
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 251
p d Hen. Field and E d Ball for two
Hedghoggs 008
p d E d Lippiate for three Hedghoggs 008
p d Sar. Clark for 4 Hedghoggs 010
p d my Daughter for 3 Hedghoggs 006
p d my son for 3 Hedghoggs, & 5
Hoops, & 6 wood pickers 111
p d Tho. Hobbs for 9 Hedghoggs 018
p d Dan. Burnett for 3 Hedghoggs 010
p d Jn Burnett for 3 Hedghoggs 008
pd w m Hobbs & Jona. Clark for 10
Hedghoggs 018
p d Jn Norwood for 2 Hedghoggs 008
p d Tho. Cowley & Jn Daniels for 7
Hoops 007
pd wm Hyatt for Yermine 006
p d Jn Fennell & S. Ellen for two
Hedghoggs 008
p d Jn Miles for Hedghoggs & Hoops 026
p d for 2 Lod of Tyle & Hailing 240
p d the Old Churchwardens what he
was out of pockett 1 6 OJ
p d for Fetching Lofts & Nailes from
Frampton 006
p d for parchm*, making the rate, &
writing the acc ts 026
Totall 5 16 8J
The Eate amounts to 623
The Disburstm ts is 5 16 8J
In pockett 5 6|
1724. Payd for Woodpeckers 3 2
Payd for Hedghogs 4 4
Payd Three Letters of Eequest 3
Payd Another that Lost by fire Six
hundred p d 20
Payd for Hoops 5 7
Payd for 9 Kites 3
Payd for Joyes 2 2
Payd for Fitchers 3 4
Payd for a brief that was Lost 2 6
Payd for washing the two sheets after
Penance 8
Payd for Mending & washing the Sarpless 3 6
Payd for foxes 1
Payd for Scowering y e Plate 1
1725. P d forVermine 17 8
252 GLOUCESTEKSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1725. P d for birds 13 10
P d to Passengers 5
for my [George Cam's] Days work going
to sessions about Crafts Apprentice 1 6
for my days work amarring of Sarah
Allin ' 1 6
p d for washing y e Church linin twice in
the year 5
p d for 7 foxes 7
p d for birds and vermin 135
Gave to passengers 5 6
1726. for 3 letters of Kequest & 4 Seamen, &
severel others in distres 6 6
p d to travlers in distress 5 6
1 727. for a horsload of Cole to heat the Tower []]
Irons 1 9
for my own [Nath. Perkins'] dais work 1
Payd for Partchment to put in y e Book 1 6
1728. Gave to Passingers with Sartificates and
Letters of Kequest 6 6
for washing the Church Lunan 2 6
for mending the Serplas 1
p d for too prayerbooks for Saints days 2
Gave to a Sogernour 1
1729. P d for skowring y e platt 1
1731. for y e Surplice, 8 Ells Holond, at 5 s 6 d 240
thred, tape, buttons & makin 5
1733. for all sorts of uermants 316 9
for clening y e Chancel 2 times 2
for Heating y e water for y e Chu : 2
paid to sixty trauilers 12 6
1734. April 15. 'Tis resolv'd by the whole parish that no
Churchwarden shall henceforward be allow'd more
than 5 s each man to spend at a Visitation.
Witness our hands,
E d Stephens,
G. Clutterbuck,
Eich d King,
W m Budding.
1736. Paid M r Harris for a Velom Eegister
Book 140
1737. P d John Roules for y e Sun Dial 17
For 130 Days Worck at y Church, at
1 s 6 d a Day 9 14 6
1738. For the pulpit cloath and cooshing, and
puting up the same 611 3
Paid for 3 y d of black cloath, at 9 s y d 1116
1739. P d for Birds & Vermants in May 1 7J
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 253
1739. P d for Birds & Yermants in June 3 8f
- pa Do. in July 1 Hi
P d Do. in Oct r and Aug* 3 9
pa Do. in Nov r 4 If
P d Do. in Dec r 6 4
P d for Hedghogs, fitchers, & Birds in
Jan* & FeV 9 7
P d for a fox 1
_ Pa In March & April 2 7
1740. Pa for Hedghogs in all the year 19 4
P d for fitchers this year 6 8
pa for Hickwals 9 10
Pa for Kites this year 1 8
P d for Joys this year 4
P d for Hoops this year 6 2
Pa for Sparrows & Tomtits 12
Pa for foxes 2
Paid for wisales 1 2
Paid to Richard Wiles for mending y e
iron that caries y e spout 1
1742. p d for a hour glass 10
p d for fouls and varments 2 2 1
p d for five Gallons & half of Wine, at
9 s 4 d each Gallon 2 11 4
1743. Paid for 6 Gallons & a half of wine for
5 Sacraments, & bottles, at 10 8 p r
Gallon 3 10
P d for bread & Garage for 5 Sacraments 2 7
pa for A Church bible & Expences 326
P d for Cleaning the bason in the Yant 2
For my owne [Thomas Davis'] working
four days A laying Gravell & Stone 4 8
P d for Eatabls & bear & syder for all the
last workemen 1 17 6
1744. For an hour glass 10
pa for birds and other Yermine 4 19 10 \
1745. p d the Court for a proclamation for a fast,
1 s ; for an act of parlament concerning
Deseased Cattel, 1 s ; for a prayer of
thanksgiving for victory over the
Eebbels, 1 s 30
1746. p d for a Proclamation and Prayers for a
publick Thanksgiving day for victory
over the Kebbels 2
P d for a Lock for the Chest 9
P d for mending the Church Door 3
1747. p d for an act of parlement consering the
Catel 1
254 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1747. for going to pains wick to fech y e Corneor 1
pd for Birds and Verments 5
1748. Payd for Birds and Verment and fox 6 10
1750. Payd for Birds and Varments 5 8
1753. P d for the Marrage Act 1
Gave to poor Pasingers & Letters of
Request Lost by fier, &c. 127
P d for a Register Book for the Marage
Act 6
P d the Paisons [Rev. William Deighton's]*
Mayd for Scouring the Plate 1
1754. Gave a woman with four children 1
1755. Expense in sending forward a Great
bellyd Woman 2 8
Gave M r Deightons Mayd for Scouring
the Plate 1
P d for mending the Tankard 3
for finding and washing the Sheet after
Penance 1
P d for Hoops, Foxes, and fichers 269
1756. P d for a fox 10
P d for two Briefs 2
P d for a Prayer Book for the Church 15
Gave poor Soulders in distress 1 6
Explanatory notes on some of the foregoing entries have been
prepared, but are reserved for another time. Communications
relative to any of the entries are invited. ABHBA.
1216. PIFP'S ELM, BODDINGTON. The celebrated large and
lofty elm tree, called Piff s Elm, which stood on the edge of the
turnpike road, immediately in front of the Swan or Piff 's Elm Inn,
and nearly opposite to Boddington Manor House, about midway
between Tewkesbury and Cheltenham, was sold by auction, by
Messrs. Moore and Weaver, for the sum of 13, Dec. 20, 1844.
This noble tree, which had been for ages an object of admiration,
and in magnitude had no parallel in the same part of the kingdom,
was claimed by the dean and chapter of Westminster, as lords of
the manor of Elmstone Hard wick, and also by John Blagdon, Esq.,
as lord of the manor of Boddington it always having been
considered as a landmark between the two parishes ; and it was at
length settled that the proceeds of the sale should be equally
divided between the claimants. Time had shorn this remarkable tree
of many of its ponderous limbs, a few of its uppermost branches
were dead, and altogether it appeared to be fast hastening to
decay still it was magnificent in its ruins ; and its wealthy
* Bigland gives this inscription in the churchyard of the parish : " Hannah, wife of
William Deighton, Minister of this parish, and daughter of Thomas Tyndall, of Stinchcomb,
Gent., died Dec. 13, 1738, in the 73d year of her age. Also William Deighton, who was
Minister of this parish 53 years, died Feb. 19, 1760, in the 93d year of his age."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 255
proprietors ought to have suffered it to remain rooted in the earth,
as a memento of bygone days, and as an interesting ornament to
the surrounding country. Mr. William Crook, of Hasfield, was
the purchaser, and a fortunate speculation it proved. It produced
upwards of five hundred feet of perfectly sound and fine timber \
and had it not been despoiled by the storms of winter of a large
portion of its massive limbs, it was calculated that it would have
measured at least three hundred feet more. Planks from this
venerable tree were eagerly sought after by many of the neigh-
bouring gentry ; these were converted into tables for halls and
other articles of furniture ; and numerous snuff boxes were
manufactured from its branches by Mr. Crook, and disposed of as
presents among his friends and neighbours. CHELTONIENSIS.
1217. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
The Gloucester Journal for November 3rd, 4783, published a
short article on Sunday Schools, which was doubtless written by
the proprietor, Kobert Kaikes. As is well known, Mr. Eaikes had
opened a Sunday School in Gloucester in 1780; but the article
referred to, which may be worth preservation in a more accessible
form than the file of a newspaper, was the first in which the move-
ment was publicly mentioned. It is as follows :
Some of the clergy in different parts of this county, bent upon
attempting a reform among the children of the lower class, are
establishing Sunday Schools, for rendering the Lord's Day subser-
vient to the ends of instruction, which has hitherto been prostituted
to bad purposes. Farmers, and other inhabitants of the towns and
villages, complain that they receive more injury to their property
on the Sabbath than all the week besides. This in a great measure
proceeds from the lawless state of the younger class, who .are
allowed to run wild on that day, free from every restraint. To
remedy this evil, persons duly qualified are employed to instruct
those that cannot read ; and those that may have learnt to read are
taught the catechism, and conducted to church. By thus keeping
their minds engaged, the day passes profitably, and not disagreeably.
In those parishes where this plan has been adopted, we are assured
that the behaviour of the children is greatly civilized. The
barbarous ignorance in which they had before lived being in some
degree dispelled, they begin to give proofs that those persons are
mistaken who consider the lower orders of mankind incapable of
improvement, and therefore think an attempt to reclaim them
impracticable, or at least not worth the trouble. j ^
1218. THE ARMS OF THE DEANERY OF BRISTOL. In Notes
and Queries (5 th S. iii. 44) the [late] Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott
described the arms of the deanery in these words : " Bristol. Arg.,
a cross saltire, between three fleurs de lys, in chief a wool-comb
[Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 6331]." In the same volume, p. 94, the
256 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Kev. John Woodward, of Montrose, KB., replied : I do not
remember having examined this MS. [the one given by Mr. Walcott
as his authority], but I am quite sure that the bearing styled
"a wool-comb" is in reality a portcullis. The arms, with this
alteration, are sculptured upon the modern, and as many think
misplaced, screen which separates the transept from the part of the
church (I can scarcely call it " choir ") now used for divine service.
They also appear in the spandril above the north door leading into
the Elder Lady Chapel, impaled with the arms of the abbey, which
were identical with those of the present see of Bristol. (See my
paper on "The Heraldry of Bristol Cathedral," printed in the
Herald and Genealogist, and since published separately.) The
arms thus impaled I always understood to be those of Abbot
Somerset, who ruled the monastery from 1526-1530 (K & Q.,"
3 rd S. xi. 153). I do not think the one tincture which alone
appears in Mr. Walcott's blazon is correct; for before the
" restoration " the same arms were carved and painted on the doors
leading from the south aisle to the choir by the side of the throne ;
and these were thus blazoned : Az., a saltire arg., between a port-
cullis in chief and three fleurs-de-lis, or, in flanks and base. There
is about these arms so strong a Lancastrian, or Beaufort, savour,
that I conjectured Abbot Somerset might have been of illegitimate
Beaufort descent, but this I have not been able certainly to discover.
The arms of the deanery may have been derived from those of
Abbot Somerset. The impaled coat which I have described as
appearing above the doorway which leads from the College Green
into the Elder Lady Chapel, is a part of Abbot Somerset's own
work, and is, therefore, of a date anterior to the dissolution of the
monastery, and the foundation of the deanery.
1219. EXTRACTS FROM PARISH EEGISTERS, No. IX. : THORNBURY
AND OLVESTON. The following is the result of "a very hasty
dipping " into some of the registers of these two parishes :
THORNBURY.
Baptisms.
1613. April 6. Oriana Moore. M r Edward Tyndale, M ra
Bridgett Curteys, &c., witnesses.
1639. Sept. 24. M rs Dorothy Stafford.
1661. Sept. 23. John, s. of John Stafford, Esq r .
Marriages.
1559. June 18. Jacobus and Catherine, being Egiptians.
1564. July 27. William Alpibet and Alicia Search.
1571. May 17. Robert Lambard, Gent., and Joanna Poole.
1592. July 7. William Stumpe and Christian Harris.
1637. Sept. 8. Edward Thurston, Gent., and Katherine Tayer.
1670. Feb. 16. William Stafford, Esq r , and Ursula Moore.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 257
Burials.
1609. Sept. 4. Mary, Lady Stafford.
1614. Sept. 25. M rs Cicely Wigsteed.
1615. May 8. M r William Caple.
1616. June 22. John Laurence, Gent.
1634. April 16. M rs Elizabeth Raymond.
July 4. William Stafford, Esq r .
Aug. 8. Sir Richard Ashfield.
Sept. 4. Ursula Stafford.
Jan. 22. Ann Still.
1636. May 3. M rs Johan Laurence, dec d .
1637. Sept. 25. M rs Anne, wife to Capt n Stafford.
1658. Dec. 31. M r Richard Welles.
1688. Jan. 13. Anthony, s. of Anthony Kingscott.
1702. July 8. Richard Stafford, Gent.
OLVESTON.*
Baptisms.
1572. Aug. 4. Poyntz Parminter.
1589. Mar. 7. Maurice, s. of John Baber.
1605. Aug. 11. Matthew, s. of John Cutt, Gent., and
Elizabeth.
Marriages.
1587. Nov. 23. John Baber and Mary Tovye.
1604. July 18. William Fowler and Mary Baber.
1606. Oct. 6. Maurice Mallett and Frances Parminter.
1617. Dec. 31. John Fry, Gent., and Frances Mallett.
1628. Oct. 30. John Lowle, Gent., and Grace Walsh.
Burials.
1561. Dec. 6. Anthony, s. of Maurice Welsh, Gent, [lord
of the manor.]
1567. Mar. 2. Nicholas Welsh, Gent.
FREDERICK BROWN.
1220. THE WATER BOUNDS OP BRISTOL. July, 1829. The
city water bounds of Bristol not having been surveyed for nine
years, the members of the Corporation, with their officers, and the
masters and wardens of the Society of Merchants, and a large
party of friends, last week embarked in the Palmerston steam
packet, and proceeded down the river, for the purpose of inspecting
their jurisdiction, which extends to the Steep and Flat Holmes.
The company landed on the Flat Holme, and the members of the
Corporation then proceeded to the light house, where they inspected
their charters and a delineation of the boundaries. The mayor
expressed himself highly satisfied with the good order and state of
* See ante, No. 1205, for some extracts from the earliest baptismal register of this parish. ED.
258 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the light house. Before the company left the island, the usual
practice of lumping the colts took place against the rock. On
returning to the packet, the weather became so unfavourable that
it was with extreme difficulty the party reached the vessel. The
vessel was cheered the whole of the way from Pill to the Basin by
numerous spectators, who were saluted by salvoes from half a dozen
brass swivels. j jj p
1221. ENLARGEMENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, CLIFTON. After
alterations and additions, which have made it internally an exceed-
ingly handsome structure, and have falsified the fears of those who
apprehended from the process a deterioration of its external
lightness and symmetry, this church was re-opened on Thursday,
July 2, 1885, with special services befitting the occasion. The
sermon was preached by the bishop of the diocese. The internal
arrangements previously consisted of the nave, chancel, two
transepts, a gallery over the south transept, and an organ gallery
over the entrance porch, the whole giving space for about 960
worshippers. Extra accommodation for 340, the total being about
1300, has now been provided by the additions and improvements,
which had been suggested on more than one occasion, but only now
are brought to a satisfactory issue. The additions mainly consist
of two new aisles, of which that on the south side was finished
and opened with special services in February last, and that to the
north has just been completed; and they include a new organ
gallery over the north transept, leaving the porch gallery to be
appropriated for the accommodation of worshippers. Handsome
arcades in the Early English style, consisting of clustered pillars,
executed in Doulton and Forest of Dean stones, and richly-moulded
arches, separating the nave from the aisles, take the place of the
plainer walls which previously formed the boundaries of the nave,
and at the same time of the whole church. The roofing over the
aisles, which is of pitch pine, divided into panels with moulded
beams and curved ribs, is in keeping with the general improvements.
The old windows have been used in the construction of the new,
but they have had mouldings added to the inside where formerly
they were plain. The nave, having a broad, tile-paved central
passage, and two narrower ones just outside of the arcades, is now
furnished with a set of new pitch-pine seats, the old pews having
been transferred to the aisles and transepts as the best arrangement
under the circumstances, the desirable furnishing of the whole
church with new seats being unattainable without an extra expense
of 500, which the large outlay already incurred rendered it
necessary to forego. The whole of the south side windows have
been re-glazed; and a difficulty which is common to southern
aspects from excessive sunlight in summer, has been effectually
overcome by the cathedral glass used being lined with ground glass.
The old organ has been so thoroughly reconstructed by Walker, of
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 259
London, as to make it practically a new instrument, comprising the
most modern improvements. The entire work cost .5,500, which
amount has been raised in full, no debt remaining ; and those who
attended the opening services were unanimous in their approval of
the undertaking. One fortunate circumstance in connection with
it is that there has not been any fatality or mishap. The
design is that of Mr. W. Bassett Smith, architect, St. John Street,
Adelphi, London, and the contract has been carried out by Mr. James
Wilkins, Ashley Road, Bristol. CLIFTONIENSIS.
1222. RANDOLPH AND ISHAM FAMILIES, OF VIRGINIA. (See
No. 301.) Finding that this connection has been mentioned by an
American correspondent, may I ask through you for further infor-
mation ? I had known before that all the Randolphs of Virginia
were descended from William Randolph, who married Mary,
daughter of Henry and Catherine Isham, of Bermuda Hundred,
Va., said to have been formerly of Northamptonshire, England.
William Randolph, born in 1651 in Yorkshire, England, is also
said to have been of Warwickshire. Which is correct ? What is
the exact inscription on his tombstone 1 Is there any printed pedi-
gree of the Randolphs ? Henry and Catherine Isham are said to
have had an only son, Henry, who died without issue, leaving all
his property to his mother, and his sisters, Anne Isham and Mary
Randolph; will proved Feb., 1679. Can your correspondent give
an abstract of this will 1 When did Henry Isham, the elder, die ?
What was his age 1 And who was his wife ? Was he any relative
of the ancestors of the Ishams of the Northern States ? I take so
great an interest in the subject, that I should be glad to gain any
information regarding either family, and to be enabled to complete
my imperfect pedigree of the Randolphs.
HENRY ISHAM LONGDEN.
St. Michael and All Angels, Northampton.
Mr. Longden will, no doubt, be glad to be referred to the History
of Bristol Parish, Va., with Genealogies and Historical Illustrations,
by the Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D.. 2nd ed., Richmond, Va., 1879.
In this interesting volume, pp. 212-222, there is a genealogy of
the Randolph family, the author introducing it with these words :
" We would desire to present an extended deduction of this most
distinguished family, from its founder in Virginia (William, of
Turkey Island), to the present generation, but this the limit of our
book forbids. We must fain content ourselves with but a section
[commencing with William Randolph, of Yorkshire, England,
b. 1651 ; d. April 11, 1711] the data for which was principally
gathered by that most brilliant and paradoxical representative of
his race, John Randolph, of Roanoke." We may note that " Isham
Randolph " occurs more than once ; and that mention is made of
Brett Randolph, who m. in Gloucestershire, England (where he
260 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
lived and died), Mary Scott, of London, and had issue. Of this
Randolph genealogy Dr. Slaughter remarks, that it " exhibits some
curious results, as in the case of Dr. Robert C. Randolph, of Hay-
market, Clarke County, Ya. He is a lineal descendant, through his
father, of Isham, of ' Dungenness,' 3d son, and also of Richard, of
' Curies,' 4th son ; and though his mother, of Sir John, 5th son of
"Wm., of ' Turkey Island.' His wife is also a direct descendant of
Edward, the 7th son ; and their dau. Susan married Wm. Eston,
great-grandson of Thomas, of 'Tuckahoe,' 2d son of Wm., of
1 Turkey Island.' Thus their children unite the blood of the five
sons of the founder of the family, who left issue." Thirty-three
distinguished descendants of William Randolph are enumerated.
EDITOR.
1223. THE RODWAY FAMILY, OF RODBOROUGH. (Replies to
No. 1173.) As mentioned ante, No. 78, a flatstone inscription in
Rodborough Church in memory of Anna Rodway (d. Feb. 9, 1740)
and Samuel Rodway (d. March 9, 1742), like others which were in
the same building, has disappeared.
Though apparently not exactly of Rodborough, the following
inscription on a monument in the neighbouring church of Avening,
as recorded by Bigland (1791), vol. i., p. 95, may be acceptable :
"In memory of Rebecca, wife of Samuel Rodway, | who died
August the 8 th , 1738, | setatis 46. | Also of John, their son, | who
died August 5, 1737, | aged 24. In memory also | of the afore-
said Samuel Rodway, | who died August 1, 1757, | aged 64 years.
Also in memory of Charles, son | of the above Samuel and
Rebecca Rodway, who died I April 25, 1761, aged 41."
In Fisher's Notes and Recollections of Stroud (1871), p. 248,
mention is made of a small estate called Rodway (Roadway), in
the parish of Randwick, near Stroud. ABHBA
The will of John Rodwey, of North Cerney, is in the Probate
Office at Worcester. No date is given. He' says, " I. bequeth
my soole to almyghty gode & to the rn'cy of hys passyene. & my
body to be beryyde yn the church yarde of northe s'ney" To
servant Thomas Curteys "viij scheppe." .Wife Agnes and sons
Robert and Thomas to be executors. She to have " halfe of eu'y
thynge," and the two sons the other half of the goods. The will
to be "fulfyllyde to the plesur of gode & the welth of my soule."
Witnessed by William Tryndor, John Moyse the elder, John Grene,
John Viner, Richard Reddynge, Robert Rodway, Thomas Rodway,
John Rodway, William Pynchyn, " w* other." Proved at
Cirencester, 6 May, 1539.
The following appears to be the earliest Rodway will in the
Probate Office at Gloucester :
1557 (1556 ?). Feb. 14. John Rodway, of Cherington, in the
diocese of Gloucester. To be buried in the churchyard there. To
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my six children, " whether it be oxe chalff (sic) other cowe calff
eu'y of them a beste a pece of the yeres & age of iiij yeres old &
to vantage," also two sheep apiece, at the age of fourteen. John
Cole to have the house that " my vnkell " Thomas Rodway dwelleth
in, after the decease of Thomas and Margery his wife, for which
house " and bryge medow " the said John Cole must pay to John
Kodwaye, his heirs, executors, and assigns, viij 11 , of which sum " I.
confesse to have Receyuyd v 11 ;" the remaining iij u to go "to my
Sonne & heire," but to be in his mother's hands until he be xxj
years of age. John Cole to have his indentures sealed by my
executrix and " my sonne & heire." The money for Robert and
Thomas Carll is paid. To my daughter Alis " a pott & a panne."
Legacies to daughters Anne and Denys. "Wife Alis to be sole
executrix. Thomas Rodway "my vnkell" and Thomas Rodway
"my broy r " to be supervisors. Witnessed by Sir Peter Abraham,
John Lydiat, Richard Hacker, William Mu'den, "w th oy r mo."
Thomas Rodway, my brother, owes five nobles. Thomas Eenet,
xx 8 . Testator owes money to John Cobburley, to Robert
Starborow (?), to father-in-law, to the parson of Cherington, to
Richard Webbe of Hampton, to John Byddyll, to William Mu'den,
to Thomas Tottye, to John Goddy, to Simon Bircher. Will proved
17 Nov., 1557. THOMAS P. WADLEY, M.A.
Naunton Rectory, Pershore.
1224. A GLOUCESTERSHIRE DISCOVERY OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY. I shall be glad to know to what occurrence (and where
it was) reference is made in the following extract from a letter
(dated August 21, 1669, and addressed by Mr. Thomas Henshaw
to Sir Robert Paston, Bart., at Oxnead) which is in the collection
of Sir Henry Day Ingilby, Bart. (Sixth Report on Historical MSS. t
p. 367) :
"On Sunday I heard the Duke [of Monmouth], after he had
related to us the story of Candie, sent by Madame, his sister, that
a workman in a quarry of stone in Glostershire, not far from the
Severn, going to raise a great stone (he had loosened) on one end,
it sunk away downward from him, and had almost carried the
fellow along with it, leaving a great hole, which, they trying to
fathom, found it 60 fathom ere the plummet reached the bottom ;
the news of this being sent to the King, one here at London
undertook to go down and give an account of it. When he was
below he found great vast caverns and a great river 20 fathoms over
and eight deep into a lesser cavity where he judged there might be
some rake [track ?] of a mine ; he sent in a miner with a light who
was not got far, but he cried they were all made, for he had found
what they sought for ; but when he had gone a little farther he
come thundring back again ready to break his neck, saying he had
met with a spirit that so frighted him, he would not venture in
again for the world." C T D
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Sir Robert Southwell's paper in the second volume of the
abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions, 1682-3, will be
found, I think, the best reply :
There is a place in Gloucestershire called Pen-park, about three
miles from Bristol, and above three from the Severn, where some
miners for lead discovering a large hole in the earth, one Captain
Sturmy,* a warm inquisitive seaman, who has written a large folio
on navigation, would needs descend into it, and his narrative was
as follows :
"On the 2 d of July, 1669, I descended by ropes affixed at the
top of an old lead-ore pit, four fathoms almost perpendicular, and
from thence three fathoms more obliquely, between two great rocks,
where I found the mouth of this spacious place, from which a
miner and myself lowered ourselves by ropes, twenty-five fathoms
perpendicular, into a very large place, which resembled to us the
form of a horse-shoe ; for we stuck lighted candles all the way we
went, to discover what we could find remarkable. At length we
came to a river or great water, which I found to be twenty fathoms
broad, and eight deep. The miner would have persuaded me that
this river ebbed and flowed, for that some ten fathoms above the
place where we now were, we found the water had sometimes been ;
but I proved the contrary, by staying there from three hours flood
to two hours ebb, in which time we found no alteration of this
river. Besides its waters were fresh, sweet, and cool, and the
surface of this water as it is now at eight fathoms deep, lies lower
than the bottom of any part of the Severn sea near us, so that it
can have no communication with it, and consequently neither flux
nor reflux, but in winter and summer, as all stagnant lakes and
sloughs (which I take this to be) have. As we were walking by
this river, thirty-two fathoms under ground, we discovered a great
hollowness in a rock, some thirty feet above us, so that I got a
ladder down to us, and the miner went up the ladder to that place,
and walked into it about seventy paces, till he had just lost sight
of me, and from thence cheerfully called to me, and told me he had
found what he looked for, a rich mine ; but his joy was presently
changed into amazement, and he returned affrighted by the sight of
an evil spirit, which we cannot persuade him but he saw, and for
that reason he will go thither no more.
" Here are abundance of strange places, the flooring being a kind
of a white stone, enamelled with lead-ore, and the pendant rocks
were glazed with saltpetre, which distilled upon them from above,
and time had petrified.
" After some hours stay there we ascended without much hurt,
except scratching ourselves by climbing the steep rocks. But for
four days after my return I was troubled with a violent head-ach,
which I impute to my being in that vault."
* For " Captain Samuel Sturmey's Bequest," see ante, No. 1081.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 263
Captain Sturmy falling from his head-ach into a fever, and dying,
what from his death, and the opinion of an evil spirit, nobody was
willing to have any more to do with the said hole from that time
to this.
But Captain Collins, commander of the Merlin yacht, who is by
his Majesty appointed to take a survey of the coast of England,
coming to the Severn for that purpose, and visiting Sir Robert
Southwell, near Kingroad, Sir Robert told him how the story of
this hole had amused the country; and that the narrative had
formerly been sent to his Majesty and the Royal Society ; and that
there wanted only some courage to find out the bottom of it. The
captain resolved to adventure, and on the 18 th and 19 th of
September, 1682, he took several of his men, with ropes and
tackling fitting to descend, with lines to measure any length or
depth, also with candles, torches, and a speaking-trumpet. What
he found does much lessen the credit and terror of this hole, as will
appear by the figure he took thereof, and the description following :
" It is down the tunnel from the superficies to the opening of
the cavity below thirty-nine yards. Then the hole spreading into
an irregular oblong figure, is in the greatest length seventy-five
yards, and in the greatest breadth forty-one yards ; from the highest
part of the roof to the water was then nineteen yards j the water
was now in a pool, at the north end, being the deepest part, it was
in length twenty-seven yards, in breadth twelve, and only five
yards and a half deep ; two rocks appeared above the water all
covered with mud, but the water sweet and good ; there was a large
circle of mud round the pool, and far up towards the south end,
which showed that the water has at other times been six yards
higher than at present.
" The tunnel or passage down was somewhat oblique, very ragged
and rocky ; in some places it was two yards wide, and in some
three or four, but nothing observable therein, save here and there
some of that spar which usually attends the mines of lead-ore. In
the way, thirty yards down, there runs in, southward, a passage of
twenty-nine yards in lenth, parallel to the superficies above ; it was
two and three yards high, and commonly as broad, and alike rocky
as the tunnel, with some appearances of spar, but nothing else in
it except a few bats.
" The cavity below was in like manner rocky, and very irregular
the candles and torches burnt clear, so as to discover the whole
extent thereof ; nor was the air anything offensive. The three men
that went down the first day staid below two hours and a half.
The next day the captain went down with seven or eight men, who
staid below for an hour, and observed all things.
" The bottom of this hole, where the land-waters gather, is forty-
nine yards down from the superficies of the earth, and by good
calculation the same bottom is twenty yards above the highest
rising of the Severn, and lies into the land about three miles distant
from it."
264 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The curious reader is referred for anything further he may wish
to know about the place, to George Symes Catcott's Descriptive
Account of a Descent made into Penpark-Hole, in the Parish of
Westbury-upon-Trim, 1775, etc., Bristol, 1792. G. A. W.
. INSCRIPTION OVER THE DOOR OF HEMPSTED RECTORY.
In Notes and Queries (6 th S. xii. 263), in a communication headed
" Mottoes and Inscriptions on Houses and other Buildings," Miss
Busk has written : " Over the door of Hempsted Rectory,
Gloucestershire, is
* Whoe'er shall pass within this door,
Thank God for Viscount Scudamore.'
This is supposed by some to have been altered from ' Pray for the
soul of Scudamore ; ' others say that the present are the original
letters, and of the date of about 1660, when English people did
not pray for souls."
Allow me to say that the inscription in question is in no way
whatsoever connected with praying " for the soul of Scudamore."
Rudder is a very trustworthy authority, and in his Gloucestershire
(1779), p. 490, he gives a plain and satisfactory explanation. John,
Lord Scudamore, in the year 1662, settled on the minister of
Hempsted, which was formerly a chapelry attached to St. Owen's
in Gloucester, the vicarage house, garden, and orchard, the parsonage
close and barn, and a parcel of meadow ground in Hempsted-moor,
with his tithes, etc., in Hempsted, which he had purchased of
Henry Powle, Esq., of Williamstrip, in the same county, as appears
by a conveyance dated 17 January, 13 Chas. II. To the above he
added the churchyard of Lanthony, and all his tithes there. These
particulars were settled by an act of Parliament. He likewise built
the present rectory house, at an expense of 700, over the door of
which has been inscribed, in gilt letters,
" Whoe'er doth dwell within this door,
Thank God for Viscount Scudamore."
ABHBA.
1226. RELTON'S " SKETCHES OP CHURCHES : " GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
- Mr. H. E. Relton, of Tetbury, published by subscription a 4to
volume, entitled Sketches of Churches, with Short Descriptions,
London, 1843 ; and as several Gloucestershire churches have been
included, it may be well to give a list :
1. South view of exterior of Beckford Church, and Boxwell
Church Font, in frontispiece.
2. Porch door of Beckford Church.
3. Exterior of Beverstone Church, south side.
4. Porch door of Beverstone Church.
5. Exterior of Boxwell Church, south side.
6. Exterior of same, north east view.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 265
7. Exterior of Coates Church, south-east view.
8. Exterior of Horton Church, south-west view.
9. Interior of the Porch of Kemerton Church.
10. Exterior of Minchinhampton Church, south side of the
former Church.
11. Ozleworth Church, south-west view.
12. Interior of same, looking to the east.
13. Exterior of Shipton Moyne Church, south-east view.
14. Exterior of Stone Church, south side.
15. Exterior of Tort worth Church, south-east view.
There is a view of the exterior of Kemble Church from the south
east, with one of the porch, this church being in the diocese, but not
in Gloucestershire. All the sketches in the volume were " drawn on
the spot and on zinc" by Mr. Kelton. BIBLIOGRAPHER.
1227. SAXON INVASION OF THE SEVERN VALLEY. The late
Mr. J. K. Green, in his work entitled The Making of England
(1881), pp. 125-130, has some interesting passages on what he calls
the "Attack on Severn Valley" by the West Saxons, A.D. 577.
After showing that these invaders had reached from the south coast
to the verge of Mid-Britain, and spread themselves over " an area
which roughly corresponds to that of the shires of Oxford, Bedford,
and Bucks," he proceeds to describe the sudden wheel which they
then made to the west, in these terms :
Directly westward, indeed, they were still not as yet to press ;
for the woods of Dorsetshire baffled them, and those of the Erome
valley long proved a protection to the Britons of Somerset. Nor,
for reasons we are less able to discover, did they push up the oolitic
slopes from our Oxfordshire to the brow of the Cotswolds, where
the town of Corinium challenged their arms. It may have been
that the tangled streams, the woodlands, and the pass over the
Thames at Lechlade, which protected this district, were still held too
strongly by the forces of the city. But on their north-western
border, in the interval between these lines of attack, lay a third
line which was guarded by no such barriers, the line of the lower
Severn valley, and it was on this tract that the West-Sexe poured
from the Wiltshire downs in 577. The country was richer than any
they had as yet traversed. Nowhere do the remains of both private
and public buildings show greater wealth and refinement than at
Corinium, the chief town of the Cotswolds, which stood on the
site of our Cirencester, and which was surpassed in wealth and
importance among its fellow towns only by York, London, and
Colchester. Below the Cotswolds, in the valley of the Severn,
Glevum, the predecessor of our Gloucester, though smaller in size,
was equally important from its position at the head of the estuary,
and from its neighbourhood to the iron works of the Forest of Dean.
Less than these in extent, but conspicuous from the grandeur of its
public buildings, Bath was then, as in later times, the fashionable
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266 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
resort of the gouty provincial. Its hot springs were covered by a
colonnade which lasted down to almost recent times ; and its local
deity, Sul, may still have found worshippers in the lordly temple
whose fragments are found among its ruins. The territory of the
three towns shows their power, for it comprised the whole district
of the Cotswolds and the lower Severn, with a large part of what
is now northern Somersetshire. It stretched therefore from Mendip
on the south as far northwards as the forest which then covered
almost the whole of Worcestershire. This fertile district was
thickly set with the country houses and estates of the wealthier
provincials, On either side of a road that runs through the heart
of it, from Cirencester to Aust-passage over the Severn, as well as
along the roads which linked the three cities together, these mansions
stood thickly ; and that of Wpodchester is perhaps the largest and
most magnificent whose remains have as yet been found in Great
Britain. Two courts, round which ran the farm buildings and
domestic buildings of the house, covered an area five hundred feet
deep and three hundred broad. Every colonnade and passage had
its tesselated pavement ; marble statues stood out from the gaily
painted walls ; while pictures of Orpheus and Pan gleamed from
$mid the fanciful scrollwork and fretwork of its mosaic floors.
It was from houses such as these, and from the three cities to
which they clung, that the army gathered which met the West-
Saxons under Ceawlin as they pushed over the Cotswolds into the
valley of the Severn. But the old municipal independence seems
to have been passing away. The record of the battle in the
chronicle of the conquerors connects the three cities with three
kings; and from the Celtic names of these kings, Conmael,
Condidan or Kyndylan, and Farinmael, we may infer that the
Roman town party, whieh had once been strong enough to raise
Aurelius to the throne of Britain, was now driven to bow to the
supremacy of native chieftains. It was the forces of these kings
that met Ceawlin at Deorharn [our Dyrham], a village which lies
northward of Bath on a chain of hills overlooking the Severn
valley, and whose defeat threw open the country of the three towns
to the West-Saxon arms. Through the three years that followed
the invaders must have been spreading over the district which this
victory made their own. Westward, if Welsh legend is to be
trusted, their forays reached across the Severn as far as the Wye.
To the south they seem to have pushed across the Avon past the
site of the future Bristol, and over the limestone mass of Mendip,
whence they drove off in flight the lead-miners who have left their
cinder-heaps along its crest, till they were checked in their progress
by the marshes of Glastonbury. In the south-west they were
unable to dislodge the Britons from the forest of Braden, the wood-
land that filled the Frome valley ; and this wedge of unconquered
ground ran up for the next hundred years into the heart of their
territory. But in the rich tract along the lower Severn, which the
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 267
site of their victory overlooked, their settlements lay thick. Here,
in the present Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, the settlers bore
the name of the Hwiccas, a name which took a yet wider range
as from the valley of the Severn the invaders spread over the
upland of the Cotswolds to settle round the fallen Corinium, and
found homes along the southern skirts of the forest of Arden.
1228. CHIPPING CAMPDBN : INVENTORY OF CHURCH GOODS,
1627. In the churchwardens' accounts for the parish of Chipping
Campden there is entered each year an inventory of church goods.
The first entry of the kind is as follows :
" The Church Goods received at the hands of the old Church-
wardens by the new elected churchwardens for this next year to
come An dm 1627, Aprill 27.
Two gilt comunion bolles w th their covers.
One silver comunion bole with his cover.
Two pewter flagons.
Two great Bibles.
Three comunion books.
One new commo [prayer] book.
Two surplisses.
One crimson pulpet cloth.
Three lynnen Towells.
Six napkins.
Two lynnen table clothes.
Nyne silk cushons.
ffive silk board clothes.
Two chestes.
Two regester books.
The book of the cannons.
Two pewter plates.
Three books of prayers.
One houre glasse.
One great paper book for accounts.
Three and twenty pounds of belmettel].
(Signed) t
William Broadway,
William Hurleston,
William Hiron,
John Fletcher."
The " two gilt comunion bolles " were presented to the church by
Sir Baptist Hickes, afterwards [cr. May 5, 1628] Viscount Campden.
In the churchwardens' accounts for 1626 is the following item :
" P d for three couple of chickens w h we sent to S r Baptist
Hickes when he gave us the two boules 2 s 3 d ."
These are the chalices still in use at Campden Church.
The "one silver comunion bole with his cover," mentioned
second on the list of church goods, was disposed of when Sir
268 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Baptist Hickes' present arrived. There is an entry in the margin
opposite to it, " This was changed into a silver and gilt plate this
year 1627." g. E. BARTLEET.
Brockworth Vicarage, Gloucester.
1229. PITCHCOMBE EEGISTER OP MARRIAGES, 1709-42.
According to the Parish Register Abstract, which was " ordered, by
the House of Commons, to be printed, 2 April, 1833," the registers
of Pitchcombe (see ante, p. 110) date from the year 1743 : the infor-
mation furnished was correct as regards the books which were then
forthcoming ; but an earlier volume has been since discovered and
replaced in the parish chest.* From it the following list of
Marriages is taken. It is a complete list for the years given, but
some years are evidently omitted in the original : in fact, there is
no record whatever for 1730-1-2. The volume contains likewise
Baptisms and Burials from 1709 to 1743. j MELLAND HALL.
Harescombe Rectory, Stroud.
Marriages.
1709. Feb. 13. M r Nicholas Taylor and M rs Sarah Went, of
Stroud.
April 25. Richard Viner and Mary Jones.
1710. Mar. 5. William Shearman and Eliza Philips, of
Rodborough.
1711. June 12. Thomas Gardner and Mary Beard, of Peaken-
hill.
June 23. Joseph Hogg and Deborah White.
1712. April 21. William Jones, of Pitchcombe, and Mary
Browning, of Stroud.
June 1. Samuel Hogg, of Stroud, and Sarah Carpenter.
1713. Jan. 18. Samuel Lewis and Eliza Cook, of Pains wick.
* We are glad to take this opportunity of repeating our request that we may receive for
insertion particulars of the loss or the recovery of registers, as in the case above mentioned,
and any needful corrections and additions. The long list of registers printed in this volume,
pp. 98-116, was not submitted as one in all respects complete and correct, but as the best that
was available ; and this invitation to assist in improving it was prefixed : " It is not main-
tained that the figures therein are in every instance strictly correct ; but nevertheless, the list
is a very useful one, and the best we have ; and with a view to improve it, corrections and
additions, which will be turned to good account, are hereby invited. A few changes have
probably taken place since 1833, by the recovery or the loss of some of the old registers.
Those of our readers who have the charge of registers, will be induced, we hope, not only to
notify (for insertion at another time) any errors or omissions they may happen to detect, but
also to furnish particulars, on the same plan, of registers of more recent date," i.e., subse-
quent to the year 1812. The restoration of the earliest Clifton register in 1828 has been
mentioned in vol. ii., p. 145 ; and the good example set by Mr. Skelton, of Oxford, is one that
might probably be followed by others. The earliest Maisemore register, according to the
Parish Register Abstract, dates from 1600, and yet we have before us, from the books now at
Maisemore, a transcript of burials from 1538 to 1638, and (not yet completed) of marriages
from 1557. And to give only one more case, as stated in the Bristol and Gloucestershire
Archceological Society's Transactions, 1883-84, vol. ix., p. 79, with reference to St. Briavel's,
the earlier registers have been lost ; but Sir John Maclean found in the Bishop's Registry at
Gloucester transcripts dating back to 1618." The clergy can, with very little trouble to them-
selves, do much in the matter, and their contributions will be gladly received. We are aware
f what has been lately done by the committee "on the custody of Parish Registers, Church
g t E ernera of Property," appointed by the Gloucester and Bristol Diocesan
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 269
1713. Nov. 15. William Gardner and Martha Cook, by License.
Dec. 21. Thomas Clarke and Mary Smith, of Painswick,
by License.
1714. Mar. 30. Richard Taylor, of Stroud, and Emma Beard,
of Pitchcombe, by Banns.
Aug. 30. Henry Smith and Edith White, by Banns.
1715. May 19. John Gardner and Sarah Viner, by License.
Oct. 16. Leonard Carpenter, " sojourner at Pitch-
combe," and Elizabeth Taylor, of Stroud,
by Banns.
1716. Feb. 2. John Harris, of Moreton Valence, and Eliza-
beth King, of Painswick, by License.
Feb. 2. George Jones and Judith White, by Banns.
July 5. Matthew Stockwell, of Cirencester, and Jane
Clissold, of Pitchcombe, by Banns.
1717. June 2. Miles Huntley, of Harescombe, and Abigail
Chadwell, of y e Parish of Stroud, by
License.
1718. Jan. 6.. Daniel Jones, of Painswick, and Sarah
Packer, by License.
Oct. 4. Edward Jones and Mary Butt.
1719. Jan. 18. William Sparrow and Eliza Gaile.
Sept. 13. Daniel Gale, of Leonard Stanley, and Mary
Smith, of Pitchcombe.
1720. May 26. Richard Cooke, of Painswick, and M rs
Elizabeth Michell, of y e Farm, married by
License.
June 7. Jasper Clutterbuck, of Kings Stanley, and
Elizabeth Cole.
1721. Mar. 6. Eichard Watkins and Sarah White, both of
y e Parish of Standish, by License.
Aug. 13. Thomas Clissold, of Pitchcombe, and Mary
Pritchett, of Uske, in Monmouthshire, by
License.
1722. April 4. M r John Bond, of Stroud, and M rs Sarah
Packer, of Pitchcombe, by License.
1723. Feb. 16. Charles Chew, of Stroud Parish, and Eliza^
beth Budding were married at Harescombe,
by Banns.
June 24. Michael Chew and Elizabeth Hogg.
1726. Jan. 28. Giles Pitt, of Stroud, and Anne Jones, of
Pitchcombe, were married, after Banns, at
Harescombe.
1728. Nov. 11. Daniel Jones and Eliza Summers.
Dec. 9. William Knight and Hester Vick.
1729. Feb. 2. Henry Terrett and Eliza Jenner.
April 12. William Morgan and Mary Banks.
July 24. John Aldridge and Sarah Little.
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1729. Aug. 17. Samuel Beard and Sarah Peters.
1730. Jan. 1. Samuel Collier and Mary Gopner.
Jan. 6. Thomas Wilkins and Eliza Harris.
1733. April 9. Richard Frankus and Sarah Bruges.
May 15. Samuel Tanner and Ann Little.
June 18. William Butcher and Edith Bagster.
July 2. John Leech and Dorcas Harris.
Aug. 20. Thomas Hall and Ann Coall.
Nov. 6. Daniel Foarts and Mary Usell.
1734. Jan. 8. William Morgan and Sarah .
Mar. 14. Joseph Dowdell and Elizabeth Buckingham.
April 28. James Daniels and Elizabeth Laud.
June 9. John Terret and Ann Dyer.
1735. Jan. 1. Thomas Pitt and Sarah Budding.
Jan. 10. John Tyler and Sarah Bassett.
Feb. 19. John Partridge and Ann Moss.
Feb. 25. John Fryer and Ursula Merrett.
April 7. Thomas Woodley and Mary Gyde.
May 30. John Allen and Martha Bennett.
July 1. William Ockford and Elizabeth Yiner.
Sept. 30. Samuel Collier and Ann Higgs.
1736. Jan. 14. John Nichols and Hester Barter.
Feb. 3. John Birch and Deborah Jones.
Mar. 8. Henry Viner and Elizabeth Beard.
July 17. John Taylor and Elizabeth Hamlett.
Sept. 14. Edward Hogg and Joan Mill.
Oct. 24. Abraham Hayward and Deborah Gregory.
Nov. 13. Peter Hogg and Sarah Wood.
Dec. 13. Richard Beard and Mary West.
Dec. 23. John Dangerfield and Esther Budding.
1737. Jan. 7. John Osborne and Mary Branford.
Feb. 19. John Caudwell and Mary Mason.
Feb. 20. Solomon Estcourt and Mary Hogg.
Feb. 22. Thomas Rawlins and Mary King.
Mar. 4. John Barnett and Mary Hill.
July 21. Edward Gardner and Abigail Huntley.
July 28. John Bidell and Jane Sterry.
Sept. 10. Thomas Pay ton and Mary Hollyday.
Oct. 10. William Cooke and Ann Mason.
Dec. 18. Edward Mill and Hester Williams.
1738. Feb. 9. Francis Avilon and Elizabeth Abell.
Mar. 16. William Beard and Sarah Bennett.
May 9. Henry Spring and Elizabeth Harris.
May 25. John Parry and Jeavel Essex.
June 4. William Window and Ann Viner.
June 8. John Bagster and Elizabeth Budding.
Aug. 25. John Viner and Hannah Hogg.
Sept. 12. Charles Hill and Esther Usell. .
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 27 1'
1738. Nov. 27. William Watkins and Hannah Harmer.
Nov. 27. Samuel Summers and Jane Harmer.
1739. Jan. 18. Samuel Gardner and Ann Gardner.
Feb. 25. William Pitt and Mary Gardner.
July 29. Henry Dowell and Sarah Hogg.
Aug. 26. Morris G and Hester .
Oct. 7'. Kichard Fryer and Mary Beale.
1740. Oct. 6. William Rowles and Henrietta Hodges, both
of the Parish of Longney, married by
License.
Oct. 6. William Bates, of the Parish of Woodchester,'
and Mary Jeaks, of the Parish of Payns-
wick, married by Banns.
1741. Mar. 29. Stephen Scott and Magdalen Rider.
April 13. Samuel Cook and Hannah Ady.
Nov. 5. Daniel Packer and Sarah Palling.
1742. Feb. 5. Elias HoweH and Christian Jones.
Sept. 13. William Jones and Mary Budding.
Dec. 5. Thomas Watts, of the Parish of Brockthrop,
and Mary Harris, of the Parish of Hares-
combe, married.
1230. THE PARISH CHURCH OF EASTINGTON. A circular,
containing the following particulars, and dated March, 1885, has
been issued by the Church Restoration Committee :
The fine old church of Eastington, dedicated, according to Atkyns
and other historians of the county, to St. Michael, was built, as its
architecture shows, in the 14th century, the only relic of an earlier
period being the font, which is Norman. The church consists of
a nave and south aisle, with an embattled tower at the west end,
and is said to have been formerly much decorated. A handsome
oak ceiling, with ornamented rosettes at the intersection of the
ribs, still remains. In the tower is a priest's chamber, leading to
the supposition that the ministerial wants of the parish were at
one time supplied from some neighbouring monastery.
^Fosbrooke, in his History of the County of Gloucester (1807),
gives the following account of some of the interesting features of
this church : " The East window of the N.. isle of the church is
the finest specimen, within my knowledge, of the filligraine work
and mixture of things anomalous which marked the corrupted
gothic of H. VIII. The Stafford knot is on the spandrils of the
chancel door. There are also two fine prostrate sepulchral effigies
of the Stephens family, with their faces to the east, though some
time after the reformation. In the windows is or was a figure of
Benedict with his tub, which he miraculously filled with oil"
(i. 323). The niche in which the sanctus bell was suspended may
still be seen at the east end of the nave. In the spandrils of the
south door are the initials " S.B." for Stafford and Buckingham,
272 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
with a ducal coronet between them. The same letters, according
to Fosbrooke, frequently occurred in stained glass, and the arms of
the earls of Gloucester. There are two well preserved monumental
brasses in the church.
The manor of Eastington, Easington, Estinton, or Estenstead, as
variously written, was originally assigned to Winebald de Balon, or
Baladon, a Norman knight, who came to England with William the
Conqueror. By marriage it passed in 1319 to Hugh de Audley,
and about 50 years later by dower to Ealph, Lord Stafford, the
representative of which family was, in the reign of Henry VI.,
created Duke of Buckingham. The south aisle of the church is
stated to have been built by the unfortunate Edward Stafford, the
last Duke of Buckingham, who, in consequence of some provocation
offered to King Henry VIII., was attainted and beheaded. The
rights of the manor and patronage of the living afterwards passed
from the Staffords to the family of Stephens, who built in 1578 a
magnificent stone house near the church, which was taken down in
1778. Nathaniel Stephens, who owned the manor of Eastington
in the reign of Charles I., espoused the cause of the Protector,
Oliver Cromwell, and Eastington was, in the civil war, a garrison
of the Parliament soldiers. Marks are still shown on the tower of
the church, which tradition asserts to have been caused by the
bullets of the Roundheads. The political tendencies of the parish
at this period are indicated by the following extract from the
churchwardens' accounts :
" 1649. Laid out to Daniell Wilkins for Washinge out the
Late Kings Armes, and Lime to doe it ... i 8 iij d ."
While its return to royal allegiance is marked by the following :
" 1661. ffor setting up of the Kings Armes ... 2 10s. Od."
The church has undergone various alterations from time to time,
the last considerable restoration being in 1851. at the cost of the
late Charles Hooper, Esq., of Eastington, when the nave was
lengthened at its east end, and a new chancel arch built. Other
repairs have been from time to time carried out by the parishioners,
and by the patron and late rector, the Eev. Thomas Peters, who
restored the stone work of the windows, and gave the principal
stained glass windows in the church.
It is now (1885) proposed to remove the organ gallery, which at
present blocks up the west window ; to build a portion of the north
aisle to correspond with the south aisle ; to remove the present high
pews, pulpit, reading desk, &c., and to re-seat the church through-
out, placing the choir at the east end of the nave on a raised
platform, surrounded by a screen of open stone work, where there is
no doubt the chancel formerly extended. It is estimated that these
and other important improvements, such as the complete restoration
of decayed stonework, the repair and repanelling, where it has been
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 273
removed, of the ceiling, and the covering the whole area of the
church with concrete, will cost, including incidental expenses, about
1, 600. The resident landowners and parishioners have given
liberally to the work, but a considerable sum remains to be provided,
and it is hoped that other friends and neighbours will kindly help
in making this venerable church worthy of the historic and archi-
tectural interest which attaches to it. The committee appointed by
vestry to carry out the work of restoration, have adopted the report
and suggestions of Mr. Frederick S. Waller, architect, of Gloucester.
1231. AN OLD POEM ON THE FAIRFORD CHURCH WINDOWS. The
following is printed in the Topographer, vol. ii. (for 1790), p. 112,
from an old document in the British Museum (Misc. MSS. Poems,
Bib. Sloane, 1446). The poem is signed "R C. ;" but I am not
aware of any other indication of its authorship.* As the book
from which I copy is rare, and seldom to be met with, you may think
the lines worthy of a page in your Notes and Queries.
Brockworth Vicarage, Gloucester. S - E - BARTLEET.
FAIREFORD WINDOWS, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
I knowe no painte of poetry
Can mend such colour'd imag'ry
In sullen inke ; yet (Fayref ord) I
May rellish thy fair memory.
Such is the echoe's fainter sound,
Such is the light when the sun's drown'd ;
So did the fancy look upon
The work before it was begun.
Yet when those showes are out of sight,
My weaker colours may delight.
Those images doe faithfullie
Report true feature to the eie.
As you may think each picture was
Some visage in a looking glass ;
Not a glass window face, unless
Such as Cheapside hath, where a press
Of painted gallants looking out
Bedeck the casement rounde about.
But these have holy Phisnomy ;
Each paine instructs the laity
With silent eloquence ; for heere
Devotion leades the eie, not eare,
To note the catechisinge paint,
Whose easie phrase doth soe acquainte
Our sense with Gospell, that the Creede
* "The initials of 'R. C.' at the bottom of the Poem are probably [those of] Rich. Corbet,
Bp. of Norwich." (Topographer, vol. ii., p. 182.) As Anthony a Wood states in his Athence
Oxontemes, it ia ascribed in some MSS. to William Strode. ED.
274 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
In such an hand the weake may reade.
Such tipes e'en yett of vertue bee,
And Christ as in a glass we see,
When with a fishinge rod the Clarke
S* Peter's draught of fish doth rnarke,
Such is the scale, the eie, the finn,
You'd thinke they strive and leape within ;
But if the nett, which holdes them, brake,
Hee with his angle some would take.
But would you walke a turn in Paules,
Looke up, one little pane inrouls
A fairer temple. Flinge a stone,
The church is out at the windowe flowne..
Consider not, but aske your eies,
And ghosts at mid-day seem to rise ;
The saintes there seemeing to descend
Are past the glass and downwards bend.
Look there, the Devill all would cry,
Did they not see that Christ was by.
See where he suffers for thee ; see
His body taken from the tree I
Had ever death such life before f
The limber corps, be-sully'd o'er
With meagre paleness, does display
A middle state 'twixt flesh and clay.
His armes and leggs, his head and crowne, ,
Like a true lambskin dangle downe !
Whoe can forbeare, the grave being nigh,
To bringe fresh ointment in his eye ?
The wond'rous art hath equal! fate,
Unfixt and yett inviolate.
The puritans were sure deceav'd,
Whoe thought those shaddowes mov'd anotheav'd;
So held from stoninge Christ ; the winde
And boysterous tempests were so kinde,
As on his image not to prey,
Whome both the winde and seas obey.
At Momus wish bee not amaz'd,
For if each Christians heart were glaz'd
With such a windowe, then each brest
Might bee his owne Evangelist. R Q
1232. SIR FLEETWOOD DORMER, OP ARLE COURT. (See Nos...
244, 567, 631.) The following may be an interesting addition to
previous notes:
"Anne the daughter of S r Fleetwood Dormer, Knighte, bap
y e 5 of May 1608."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 275
" Margaret the daughter of S r Fleetwood Dormer, Kn*, baptized
the 5 of November 1609."
These extracts are from a MS. volume, of about the year 1700,
now at Lamport, which contains many particulars of the same kind
from parish registers no longer existing, and amongst others, from
those of Pytchley, Northamptonshire, once the seat of the senior
branch of the Ishams. The above-named Anne and Margaret
Dormer were sisters of Sir Fleetwood Dormer, of Arle Court.
H. ISHAM LONGDEN.
St. Michael and All Angels, Northampton.
1233. A MARVEL AT TOCKINGTON, IN OLVESTON PARISH.
Felix Farley's Bristol Journal for August 25, 1821, contains the
following paragraph :
The inhabitants of this city have this week been amused with
the exhibition and sale in our streets of a collection of snail shells,
which are reported to have fallen, or we should more accurately say
made their sudden appearance, in a field of about 3 acres, belonging
to a farmer at Tockington. ... Its name is Felix (sic)
Virgata, or zoned snail shell. . . . Common rumour says that
" the snails fell like a great shower, which continued upwards of
an hour, and that the earth's surface was covered nearly six acres,
three inches deep."
In the same paper for the 29th September following, is an extract
from a letter of a sailor to his father, " a respectable inhabitant of
this city." Writing from " off the Banks of Newfoundland " on
the 15th August, the writer says : " We have had dreadful weather.
Yesterday .... the rain fell in torrents, and as we thought
from the darkness, very large hailstones ; but upon the weather
clearing up, to our great astonishment, we found our little deck
choaked up with shell fish, something like perriwinkles." j j^
1234. A LEAK STOPPED BY A FISH. The well-known story
of a dolphin having saved one of the ships of Colston, the
philanthropist, by thrusting itself into a leak, lends some interest
to the following paragraph, which was published in the Bristol
Times and Mirror of November 22, 1879 :
A strange thing has happened to the Southella, of Hull, which
left Cardiff on the 5th inst. for Port Said, with a cargo of coal.
In Penarth roads it was found she was making water, and the
pumps were put to work. They did not gain on the water, and
the vessel returned to the East Dock on the 7th inst. There she
was surveyed, and a hole was discovered on her starboard side,
which had been caused by the anchor of another steamer striking
her while loading in the East Dock. The hole had no doubt been
stopped by an eel, which had been drawn in by suction. Eight
inches of the tail-part of the fish were discovered inside the boat,
and the head-part, measuring fourteen inches, was found on the
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outside when the vessel had been taken into Messrs. Gunn's dry-dock
to be discharged. The eel, which was two inches in diameter, had
probably prevented the vessel sinking at her loading berth.
J. L.
1235. RIMMER'S " CROSSES OF ENGLAND : " GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
In Rimmer's Ancient Stone Crosses of England (London, 1875),
with seventy-two illustrations on wood, these Gloucestershire
specimens have been represented, with letter-press descriptions :
1. Remains of Preaching-Cross at Iron- Acton.
2. Base of High Cross at Aylburton, near Lydney.
3. Hempsted Cross, near Gloucester.
4. Our Lady's Well, Hempsted.
6. Lydney Cross.
6. Cross in Bisley Churchyard.
7. Clearwell Cross, near Coleford.
8. Bristol Cross, now at Stourhead, Wilts.
9. Gloucester Cross, not extant.
10. Cirencester Cross, now in Earl Bathurst's demense.
11. Cross at Ampney Crucis, near Cirencester.
There are illustrations of two fine crosses at Cricklade, which is
in Wilts, but in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol one in
St. Sampson's churchyard, having been removed from the road
where it formerly stood ; and the other in St. Mary's churchyard.
There are likewise two illustrations of Malmesbury Market-Cross,
which, like those at Cricklade, is within the diocese, though
beyond the bounds of the county.
The plan of Rimmer's work being limited, the subject has been
treated in a popular manner ; while, for the sake of variety and
interest, antiquarian notes, historical memoranda, and scraps of
biography are freely blended with the text. " Much pains," as the
author states, " have been taken, and expense incurred, in the pro-
duction of the engravings, which, it is believed, will be found of a
high character, both architecturally and pictorially."
Pooley's Notes on the Old Crosses of Gloucestershire (London,
1868), embracing a more limited area, is a valuable publication.
BIBLIOGRAPHER.
1236. RICHARD CROMWELL'S VISIT TO BRISTOL IN 1658.
What follows is from the Mercurius Politicus, July 1 to 8, 1658 :
Bristol, July 3. On Thursday last, the most illustrious Lord, the
Lord Richard, (having received two or three invitations in the name
of this City,) set forward from Bath hither, attended by a numerous
train of gentry, and was met three miles from the town by the
Sheriffs [John Willoughby and Henry Appleton], accompanied with
at least 200 horse, whence, after their salutation and compliment in
the name of the City, they conducted his Lordship, with his Lady,
and the honourable Colonel William Cromwell, Mr, Dunche, &c.,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 277
into Bristol, waited on by near 400 horse; at whose entry the
artillery was fired from the Mersh and the ships that lay in the
road; and his Lordship, riding forward, was encountered by the
Lord Mayor [Arthur Farmer] and Aldermen, and was by them
waited on to a house, provided for his Lordship at Colonel
Aldworths in Broad-street, and there received with hearty demon-
strations of their affections to their Highnesses (whom they said they
had formerly the honor to see there), and particularly to his
Lordship. The next day his Lordship rod out, to be witness of
the beauty of the place, and was at his return entertained with a
noble dinner, at which it is observable that (although there were
exceeding plenty of wine, &c.) yet there was so much respect
had to their prudent orders and civil decorum, that that great
entertainment was void of that rudeness, excess, and noyse, into
which the liberty of feasts, in these our days, doe often betray the
guests.
The same evening his Lordship passing through another part of
the City, round the Town Mersh, was complimented with the
discharge of the great guns upon the place, and in his way forth
treated particularly by the Mayor with a Banquet, &c., and returned
safe to Bath. Throughout this whole entertainment there appeared
as clear a face of duty and good affection as ever was seen at any
time upon the like occasion ; yet it is no more than what is paid to
that noble Lord in every place, by such as have had the honour to
observe his great humanity, joyned with so great hopes, and the
noblest inclinations of a virtuous mind.
1237. POLL TAX (PARISH OP CRANHAM), TEMP. EICH. II.
Some fragments of the accounts of the collection in Gloucestershire
of the celebrated Poll Tax, which led to the insurrection of Wat
Tyler in the reign of Richard the Second, are preserved in the
Public Record Office. Former grants having proved insufficient to
cover current expenses, the chancellor asked for one hundred
and sixty thousand pounds to liquidate the debt of the nation,
which demand was pronounced outrageous and insupportable. The
Commons proposed to raise 100,000 by a capitation tax, of which
two thirds should be paid by the laity, and one third by the clergy,
but the latter would admit of no invasion of their rights : they
had always enjoyed the liberty of taxing themselves, and would
carefully preserve it. " Let others perform their own duty, and
they would perform theirs." In the end it was agreed to impose a
tax of three groats per head on every male and female of fifteen
years of age ; but for the relief of the poor it was provided that in
towns and cities the aggregate amount should be divided among the
inhabitants according to their ability, so that none should pay less
than one groat, or more than sixty groats for himself and his wife.
The clergy in Convocation granted a similar tax of 6s. 8d. from
all prelates, priests both regular and secular, and nuns, and of one
278 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
shilling from all deacons and inferior clerks. The two returns are
found among the Subsidy Rolls, and bear the numbers y^ 3 , ^|.
The latter is stated to consist of fourteen loose membranes, portions
of a roll of collection of a Poll Tax granted Richard II. Though
fragments, these returns contain lists of inhabitants of many
Gloucestershire parishes at that period, viz., Bibury, Ablington,
Charlton, Weston Birt, Brimpsfield, Rendcombe, Painswick, Bisley,
the hundreds of Crowthorne and Salmonesbury, &c., which those
interested in local history may be glad to have. The list for
Cranham is given as a specimen. j -^ jj
Crariham.
William atte Nassch and Juliana, his wife, cultivator 3 8
John Toly and Agnes, his wife ... ... ... 2 s 6 d
Philip Smyth, faber, and Agnes, his wife 2 s
Richard Braderugge, shepherd 2 s
Richard Wade, cultivator, and Agnes, his wife ... 2 s
William Saddelare, labourer, and Alice, his wife ... 1 s 6 d
Alice Haukin, day servant ... ... ... ... 1 2 d
Richard Thorns, cultivator, and Alice, his wife ... 2 s
William Wade, do. and Alice, his wife ... 2 s
Richard Stockwell, labourer ... ... ... ... 12 d
William Jobpe, cultivator, and Isabella, his wife ... 2 s
John Peers and Matilda, his wife, brewers ... ... 2 s
John Taillour, tailor, and Clarice, his wife ... ... 2 s
Richard atte Hulle, cultivator, and Matilda 2 s
Richard Raynald, do. and Agnes ... ... 2 s
John Wygmore, do. and Alice 2 e
Richard atte Crofte, do. and Agnes ... ... 2 s
Alice, servant to William atte Nassch ... ... 8 d
William Haukyn, day servant ... ... ... 12 d
John, servant of Philip Smyth ... ... ... 8 d
William Popar, servant of do. ... ... ... 8 d
Gilbert Braderugge, day servant ... ... ... 8 d
Thomas, servant of Rich. Raynald 8 d
Philip Thomes, labourer 8 d
Sum of Persons, 38 : Sum of Poll Tax, 38 s
1238. THE WILL OF HENRY OF GLOUCESTER, A.D. 1332.
The following is an English version of Henry of Gloucester's will,
which was written in Latin, and is in Weever's Antient Funeral
Monuments (3rd ed., London, 1767), p. 206: "In the Name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. I,
Henry of Gloucester, citizen and goldsmith of London, make my
will in this form. I leave my body to be buried at Saint Helens
in London, where the prioress and convent of the said house shall
choose. Item, I leave to Elizabeth, my daughter, a nun of the said
house of Saint Helen, six shillings. Item, I leave to the prioress
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES, 279
and convent of Saint Helen eleven marks of silver annually, to
find two chaplains to celebrate divine service in the same church of
Saint Helen, for my soul and the soul of Margaret, my late wife,
and for the souls of William my father, and Willelma my mother,
the daughter of Thomas de Basiugs, brother of William de Basings,
founder, &c. The residue I leave for the sustentation of my son
John. And if the said John my son should die without issue, let
it remain wholly to Johanna my daughter, and the heirs of her
body lawfully begotten. Item, I leave to Elizabeth my daughter
two ' schopas aheneas.' Item, I leave to Johanna Adynet my
niece five shillings. Given and executed at London on Thursday
next after the feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in the year of
the Lord 1332, the sixth year of the reign of King Edward
the Third."
This will was proved "xv Kal. January'," A.D. 1332, 6 Edw. III.
The church above mentioned is stated by Weever to have been
" the church to the nunnery, founded first by William Basing,
dean of St. Paul's (who lieth here buried), about the year 1212,
and afterwards by another William Basing (one of the sheriffs of
London, in the second year of Edward II.) augmented both in
building and revenue. For which he is also holden to be a founder.
This religious house was. dedicated to the honor of St. Helen, and
replenished with black nuns. There was a partition between the
nuns' church and the parish church, but now the whole church
belongeth to the parish. It was surrendered .November 25, 30
Hen. VIII., being valued at 314?. 2s. 6d. of yearly revenues."
J.M. H.
. 1239. ".JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH ARCILEOLOGICAL. ASSOCI-
ATION : " GLOUCESTERSHIRE PAPERS. The following papers in the
Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vols. i.-xl.,
London, 1845-84*, have reference to Gloucestershire :
Vol. i., 1845.
P. 9. Deerhurst Church. By Daniel H. Haigh.
Vol. ii., 1846.
324. On a Eoman Villa discovered at Bisley. By Thomas
Baker.
. ,,369. Proceedings of the Congress held at Gloucester, 1846.
Vol. iv., 1848.
50. On Saxon Remains found in Gloucestershire. By
Thomas Wright, F.S.A.
* A General Index to vols. i.-xxx. has been prepared and published (London, 1875) under the
direction of the Council, by Walter de Gray Birch, F.R.S.L., Hon. Secretary.
An 8vo periodical, entitled Archaeological Journal, had been started in 1844. It was
"published for the Association" by Messrs. Parker, but only five numbers, dating from
March, 1844, to January, 1845, appeared. It gave way to the separate Journals of the
British Archaeological Association and the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland. The five volumes which Mr. Parker published, 1846-48, are not common to both
series, as many persons imagine, but belong to the Institute.
280 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Vol. vii., 1851.
P. 61. Kecent Eesearches at Cirencester, etc. By Chas. Koacli
Smith, F.S.A.
Vol. xv., 1859.
318. On the Kitchener's Koll of Tewkesbury Abbey, with
transcript of same. By Thomas Wakeman.
Vol. xvii., 1861.
189. On the Iters of Kichard of Cirencester. By George
Vere Irving.
Vol. xix., 1863.
100. On Antiquities found at Corinium. By Thomas
Wright, F.S.A.
Vol. xxiii., 1867.
168. Koman Coins found in the Forest of Dean. Also
p. 396.
Vol. xxiv., 1868.
1 29. On a Eoman Villa at Chedworth. By J. W. Grover, C.E.
Vol. xxv., 1869.
21. Inaugural Address at the Congress held at Cirencester,
1868. By Earl Bathurst.
26. The Norman Earls of Gloucester. By James Robinson
Planche", Somerset Herald.
39. Notes on the Norman Earls of Gloucester. By Sir P.
Stafford Carey and James Kobinson Planche.
42. On the Painted Glass Windows in Eairford Church.
By Henry F. Holt.
113. Cotswold and its Popular Customs. By T. F. Dillon
Croker.
120. Kichard of Cirencester and his Writings. By Edward
Levien, F.S.A.
149. Incidents at Cirencester during the Civil War. By
the Eev. George F. Townsend.
215. On the Eoman Villa at Chedworth. By the Eev.
Prebendary H. M. Scarth, F.S.A.
228. On Albert Durer as a Painter on Glass. By Henry
F. Holt.
91. Proceedings of the Cirencester Congress, 1868. Also
pp. 190, 283, 400.
Vol. xxvi., 1870.
149. The Earls of Gloucester and Hertford. By James
Eobinson Planche".
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 281
Vol. xxvii., 1871.
P. 100. Notes on New Theories respecting the Fairford Windows
and Early Wood Engraving. By James Robinson
Planche.
110. The Tames of Fairford. By Henry F. Holt.
,, 218. Episodes in the Careerof Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester,
and his first Duchess, and their Connexion with the
Abbey of St. Albans. By Geo. E. Wright, F.S.A.
,, 246. Legends and Memorials of the Wye. By T. F. Dillon
Croker.
,,416. The Bell-Foundry of Gloucester. By the Rev. William
C. Lukis, F.S'.A.
Vol. xxix., 1873.
371. On an Inscribed Stone of the Roman Period found at
Sea-Mills, near Bristol. By the Rev. John M'Caul,
LL.D.
Vol. xxxi., 1875.
19. Some Notes on St. Mary Redcliff Church, Bristol. By
George Godwin, F.R.S., F.S.A.
62. On the Early History of Bristol. By John Taylor,
Museum and Library, Bristol.
68. Cadbury Camp and similar Works near Bristol. By
J. W. Grover, C.E.
153. Saint Ewen, Bristol, and the Welsh Border, circ. A.D.
577-926. By Thomas Kerslake.
180. On the Municipal Seals and Armorial Ensigns of the
City of Bristol. By James Robinson Planche".
237. The Ancient Hospital of St. Mark, Bristol. By
T. Blashill.
259. Old Deeds of All Hallow Church, Bristol. By James
F. Nicholls, City Librarian.
275. The Church of Holy Cross, Temple, Bristol. By John
Taylor.
289. Original Documents relating to Bristol and the Neigh-
bourhood. By Walter de Gray Birch, F.R.S.L.,
Hon. Sec.
,, 310. Notes on the Regalia of the Corporation of the City
of Bristol. By James F. Nicholls.
339. The Bristol Mint and its Productions. By Henry W.
Henfrey.
372. St. Nicholas Crypt, Bristol. By John Taylor.
516. List of Persons and Places in the Early Documents
relating to Bristol.
117. Proceedings of the Bristol Congress, 1874. Also
pp. 233, 324, 460.
VOL. III. U
282 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Vol. xxxii., 1876.
P. 44. Tewkesbury Abbey Church. By T. Blashill.
' 145. On the Wiccii and their Territory. By Thomas
Morgan, F.S.A.
344. Gleanings from Church Eecords of Bristol. By John
Taylor.
355. On the Cistercian Abbey of Hayles. By E. P. Loftus
Brock, F.S.A., Hon. Sec.
440. The History of Buckland Church and Manor-House.
By John Robinson.
446. Winchcombe Abbey. By E. P. Loftus Brock, F.S.A.,
Hon. Sec.
,, 455. On some Original Deeds relating to William, Earl of
Gloucester, etc. By John Taylor.
Vol. xxxiv., 1878.
333. The Abbeys of Winchcombe, Hayles, Cirencester,
and Hales Owen. By the Rev. Mackenzie E. C.
Walcott, B.D., F.S.A.
Vol. xxxvii., 1881.
141. On the Thirteenth Iter of Antoninus, the missing
Station between Cirencester and Speen. By Gordon
M. Hills.
Vol. xxxviii., 1882.
65. The Ecclesiastical State of the Diocese of Worcester
during the Episcopate of John Carpenter, 1444-76,
illustrated by his Registers. By the Rev. Canon
A. H. Winnington-Ingram, M.A.
215. Roman Villa in Spoonley Wood, near Sudeley Castle.
By E. P. Loftus Brock, F.S.A., Hon. Sec.
BIBLIOGRAPHER.
1240. LOCAL USE OF THE WORD " PURE. "(See No. 1121.)
My recollection of the borders of the Forest of Dean, both on the
Wye and on the Severn side, carries me back sixty or seventy years.
At that time it was a very usual reply to a friend's greeting and
inquiry, "Thank God, I be pure and hearty to-day;" and as usual
a greeting, " Well, Thomas, you do look quite peart to-day," clearly
meaning pert. It was then, and still is, common to use the word
sprack in the same sense, viz. as sprightly.
It may interest your readers to know that in the West Riding of
.Yorkshire, forty and fifty years ago, a like figurative use of the
words pretty and clever prevailed. A cottager would say, for
example, to the rector's wife, " Why, maam, you look quite claver
and pratty to-day." Or, speaking of herself, and of a slip over the
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 283
door-step, she would say, " I had just made [closed] the door, and
was feeling as pratty and claver as ought, when suddenly down
I went." J OHN J AMES) M . A<
Highfield, Lydney.
1241. WAGES IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE IN 1732. At the Easter
quarter sessions for Gloucestershire, held at the Boothall, in
Gloucester, on the 18th April, 1732, the magistrates present, namely,
Thomas Cooke, Esq., Sir John Guise, Bart., Sir John Dutton, Bart.,
Nathaniel Lye, D.I)., Charles Hyett, Edmund Chamberlayne, John
Stevens, Henry Guise, Thomas Hayward, William Bell, Esquires,
and the Eev. Francis Welles, issued an order under their hands
and seals, in pursuance of the Acts then in force for assessing the
wages of labour, fixing the rates which were to be paid to servants
by employers throughout the county. The order, which is of
considerable length, was published in the Gloucester Journal of the
16th May, and copies were also fixed to the doors of every church
and chapel, and to the doors or pillars of every market-house within
the county. A few extracts, stripped of legal verbiage, will suffice
to give its leading features, and will also afford a glimpse into the
social condition of the labouring classes in the " good old days " of
George II. :
"We do hereby direct and order that no person or persons
within this county do presume to give or receive respectively any
greater rates than are hereby assessed. And . . . take notice
that every master that shall directly or indirectly give any greater
wages than herein assessed, is to suffer imprisonment by the space
of ten days, without bail, and forfeits the sum of five pounds. And
every workman, labourer, servant, &c., that shall take wages con-
trary to this assessment, is to suffer imprisonment by the space of
one and twenty days, without bail. And if any master shall put
away his servant, or any servant shall depart from his master
before the end of his term, without reasonable cause, or at the end
of his term without a quarter's warning, the master forfeits forty
shillings, and the servant may be committed to gaol till he finds
security to serve out his term, or be sent to the House of Correction,
and be punished as an idle, disorderly person. No hired servant
shall depart ab the end of his service out of one town or parish to
another, unless he have a certificate under the seal of the town, or of
the constable and two other honest householders of the parish
where he dwell'd last. Every servant departing without such certi-
ficate shall be incapable of being hired, but shall be imprisoned
until he procure the same, which if he cannot do within twenty-
one days, he is to be whipped and used as a vagabond. And every
person hiring such a servant shall forfeit five pounds. All artificers
and labourers hired by the day or week shall, between the middle
of the months of March and September, be at work at or before
five o'clock in the morning, and not depart until between seven and
284 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
sight o'clock at night, [two hours and a half being allowed for
breakfast, dinner, and 'drinking.'] Between the middle of
September and the middle of March they shall work from the
spring of the day in the morning until the night.
" The wages appointed to be taken.
Every head servant in husbandry, not exceeding per annum 500
Every second servant
Every driving boy under 14 years 100
Every head maid servant and cook 2 10
Every second maid servant ,, 200
Every mower in hay harvest, without drink, per day ... 1 2
with drink, ... 1
Every reaper in corn harvest, with diet, ...010
Every other day labourer, with drink, ... 8
with diet, ... 4
without diet or drink, ... 10
Every carpenter, wheelwright, and mason, without drink, ,,012
with drink, 1 0."
J. L.
1242. SOME GLOUCESTERSHIRE TOKENS OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY. (See No. 348.) In the Numismatic Chronicle (1884),
3rd series, vol. iv., pp. 281-342, there is an interesting list of
u Seventeenth Century Tokens in the British Museum, not described
in Boyue's work." It has been contributed by Messrs. C. E. Keary
and Warwick Wroth ; and the following particulars relative to
Gloucestershire tokens have been extracted from pp. 295-298, in
the hope that they may prove acceptable and useful to many of
your readers. " The asterisk (*) denotes that the token is quite
new to Boyne ; specimens without the asterisk are varieties of
Boyne." C. T. D.
Awre.
Obv. Kobert . Dover . of . the. K. E. D.
Rev. Vine . in . the . Pr . of . Avre. 1652. Jd.
Bourton-on-tlie- Water.
Obv. Edward . [L]amly . Baker. Bakers' Arms.
Rev. In . Bvrton . on . the . Water. His Half Peny. 1669. |d.
Bristol.
Obv. Bristoll . Farthing. 1591.
Rev. Ship issuing from castle. C. B. |d.
Square, lead 9 '5.*
* This rare leaden token, of which Messrs. Keary and Wroth have given an illustration, was
purchased in 1880 from Mr. Webster, the coin dealer, and bears every mark of genuineness.
" Though not of the seventeenth century, it is here inserted and reproduced on account of its
interest as the 1'orerunner of the town- pieces of that century. It is known that Elizabeth
granted a license to the. city of Bristol to issue farthing tokens in copper, and Ruding (Annals,
i. 348) conjectures that this took place soon after the year 1574, though the exact date is
unascertained. Possibly, however, the official issue of Bristol tokens did not take place till a
later period, for our specimen, which seems to be the pattern of a town-piece put forth by
authority, bears the date 1591. In May, 1594, an order was sent to the mayor and aldermen
of Bristol to call in all the private tokens which had been stamped and uttered by divers
persons within that city without any manner of authority (Ruding, Ann. ii. 213)." For a
note headed " Bristol Farthings of the Seventeenth Century," see ante, vol. ii. p. 642. ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 285
Olv. On shield, Arms of Bristol (ship issuing r. from castle).
Rev. C. B.
Square, ^E, '8.
Olv. A. . Bristoll . Farthing. C. B. 1660n.
Rev. The . Armes . of . Bristoll. Ship issuing 1. from castle. Jd
Obv. A . Bristoll . Farthing. C. B. 1662.
Rev. The . Armes . of . Bristoll. Same type as last. d.
Campden.
Olv. William . Yeate. Grocers' Arms.
Rev. In . Campde? Merced W. M. Y. id.
Cheltenham.
Olv. Edward . lohnson. Mercers' Arms.
Rev. In . Cheltenham. E. M. I. Jd.
Cirencester.
Olv. Edmvnd . Freeman . in. Grocers' Arms.
Rev. Cirencester. 1655. E. M. F. Jd.
Olv. Thomas . Perry. Three doves.
Rev. In . Cirencisiter. T. A. P. -Jd.
Gloucester.
Olv. Henry . Knowles. A flesh-pot.
Rev. Of . Glocester. H. K. Jd.
Olv. Nathaniell . Weeb. Brewers' Arms.
Rev. Of . Gloucter . Brover. K M. W. Jd.
Mitchel Dean.
Olv. Edward . Morse . of. Merchant's mark, as Boyne, 91.
Rev. Michell . Deane . Clothier. His Halfe Penny. Jd.
Moreton-in-the-Marsh.
Olv. Rowland . Freeman . MerceM Grocers' Arms.
Rev. Of . Movrton . in . Marsh. K. E. F. Jd.
Norlhleach.
Olv. Thomas . Page. A falcon.
Rev. Of . Norlege. T. M. P. Jd.
PainswicJc.
Obv. Giles . Smith . 1664. Grocers' Arms.
Rev. In . Paynsswicke. G. A. S. Jd.
Stow.
Obv. Hazel wood . Wells. Grocers' Arms.
Rev. Of . Stow. H. S. W. id.
286 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Tetbury.
Obv. This . Farthing . wil . be . ownd. in Tetbury.
Rev. Y e . Armes . of. that . Bvrrovg h . The Arms of Tetbury. ^d.
Obv. Antipas . Swinerton. A wool-pack.
Rev. Of . Tetbvry . Wollman. A. M. S. Jd.
Tewkesbury.
Obv. His . Halfe . Peny . 1662. William . Hall.
Rev. The . Towne . of . Tewksbvry. W. P. H. d.
Obv. Thomas . leanes. A castle.
Rev. In . Tewxsberry . 1669. His Halfe Peny. d.
Obv. Thomas . leynes . of. His Halfe Peny.
Rev. Tewkesbvry . 1669. A castle. Jd.
Obv. lohn Millington. Grocers' Arms.
Rev. Of . Twexbvrie. ^ d.
Winchcomb.
Obv. William . lones. Roll of cloth.
Rev. At . Wincombe . 1666. W. I. d.
Obv. Nicholas . Pearson. His Half Peny.
Rev. In . Winchcombe . 1670. 1ST. M. P. (octagonal). d.
1243. SUNDRY OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE ADVERTISEMENTS, 1731-
33. The following advertisements, published in the Gloucester
Journal, seem worthy of preservation, the dates appended being
those of the papers in which they respectively appear :
(1.) This is to give notice that at Lewis Fernandezes vault in
Catherine Wheel-lane, Gloucester, are sold all sorts of Portugal
and Spanish Wines, wholesale and retail, at the following prices,
viz., Mountain, Lisbon, and Sherry, at 5s. per gallon ; Eed Port at
5s. 9d. per gallon ; Canary 7s., and Tent 7s. 6d., per gallon. Note,
The aforesaid wines were imported in London, and are to be sold
by the hogshead and half -hogshead at a cheaper rate. Witness
my hand, LEWIS FERNANDEZES. June 1, 1731.
(2.) Whereas Charles Powel, a lusty, black Fellow, said to be
born in the town of Monmouth, ran away the 16th inst. from the
service of M r Viney, of the city of Gloucester, with a blue livery
lined with yellow, and wrought buttons, and a dark brown wig :
These are therefore to caution all gentlemen and others from hiring
him ; and whoever will secure the aforesaid Charles Powel, shall
be well rewarded by me, WILLIAM VINEY. Aug. 24, 1731.
(3.) Notice is hereby given, That the Gloucester Stage-Coach to
London leaves off Flying on Saturday next, the 9th of this inst.,
and goes to London in three days as usual, on Mondays and
Thursdays. JOHN HARRIS. Oct. 5, 1731. ,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 287
(4.) A Cock Match, Gloucestershire against Somersetshire, to be
fought at the Unicorn in Bath, near the North Gate. They weigh
on Monday, the 10th April next, and fight the three following days
for four guineas a battle, and forty guineas the odd battle. They
shew 35 cocks of a side. Note, There will be good entertainment
for gentlemen. March 28, 1732.
[A similar match between "the gentlemen of Bristol and the
gentlemen of Bath, to shew 41 cocks for four guineas a battle, and
sixty guineas the odd battle," had been advertised on the 9th
November, 1731.]
(5.) To be sold, Two sixth parts or shares of the "Water "Works
in the city of Gloucester. Enquire of M rs Elizabeth Palmer,
Bookseller in Gloucester, who continues her trade, and of whom
may be had books in all languages and faculties, and all sorts of
modern books ; where also books are neatly bound in all sorts of
binding, gilt and lettered on the back. April 18, 1732.
(6.) The following, though inserted amongst the news paragraphs,
smacks of an advertisement :
Bath, Jan. 20. Our comedians have received from M rs Mooring,
in London, dressmaker to the Court and the Theatres, (with which
they intend to open this season at M rs Hayes's) four suits of men's
rich cloaths, and three of women, left off by the Eoyal Family,
with a new sett of Eoman shapes, and a Falstaff's dress made by
her, so that they be justly said to have stock far superior to any in
England out of London, and for quantity to equal any of the
Houses. Jan. 23, 1733.
(7.) This is to give notice, That at Richard Taylor's in S fc John's
Lane, Gloucester, is sold Superfine Bohea and Green Tea, at eleven
shillings per pound, and by the ounce ninepence. N.B. At the
same place also is sold, at very reasonable rates, silk, worsted,
cotton, and thread Hose. Feb. 27, 1733.
(8.) Notice is hereby given, That the Exeter Stage-Coach sets out
from the Three Tuns in Bath to the Half Moon in Exeter every
Thursday, where it arrives on Saturday night, and returns from
thence every Monday. Perform'd (if God permit) by WILLIAM DUNT.
That the Stage-Coach from Gloucester to London began Flying
the 2 d day of April, and will continue to fly three times a week
during the summer. Perform'd (if God permit) by JOHN HARRIS,
mercer in Gloucester. April 10, 1733.
(9.) To be lett, A large and convenient House and Malthouse
under the same roof, well accustomed, and capable of making
2500 bushels in a year, situated in the town of Mitchel-Dean,
together with stables, barns, and outhouses, and a handsome garden,
all in good repair. There is also 4 acres of Orchard and about 30
acres of pasture near the said house ; to be lett together or in parts,
the whole being about <40 a year. Enquire of M r John Bayley,
attorney at law, Mitchel-Dean. April 24, 1733.
(10.) To be sold, A Dole in Meanham, changeable one year three
288 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
quarters of an acre, and another year an acre and a quarter. And
a little ground in Queen-Dick. Enquire of Thomas Price, Gold-
smith in Gloucester, for particulars. Sept. 4, 1733.
(11.) Whereas some Grapes have been stolen out of a Vineyard,
call'd the Sunns, in the parish of Churchdown, near Gloucester,
whoever will give intelligence, so as to amount to a legal conviction,
shall have a guinea reward of me, NATH. MATHEWS. Sept. 18, 1733.
(12.) Notice is hereby given that the Gloucester and Oxford
Stage-Coach begins on Monday, the 15 th inst., to go in three days,
twice a week, all the winter season, setting out every Monday and
Thursday at six o'clock in the morning. Performed (if God permit)
by JOHN HARRIS in Gloucester. Note, He sells Bath and Bristol
Waters. Oct. 9, 1733.
[The "flying" coach performed the journey from Gloucester to
London in two long summer days. As regards the last mentioned
performance it may be stated that the distance between Gloucester
and Oxford, by road, is only about 51 miles. No fares are given
in these old coaching advertisements. We learn incidentally,
however, from an announcement on the 23rd January, 1733, that
the charge from Bristol to Gloucester, by the coach which boasted
of performing the journey " in one day " during the summer months,
had been 8s. An opposition coach having started, by which the
fare was reduced to 6s., the old firm offered to carry passengers in
future for 5s.] j -^
1244. " ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE " :
GLOUCESTERSHIRE PAPERS. The following papers in the Archaeo-
logical Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland, vols. i.-xli. ; London, 1845-84,* have reference
to Gloucestershire :
Vol. L, 1845.
P. 36. On Bell-Turrets. By the Kev. John L. Petit.
Vol. ii., 1846.
42. Eoman Villa discovered at Bisley. By Thomas Baker.
Vol. in., 1846.
343. Remarkable Use of Excommunication in the Thirteenth
Century. By W. S. W. [See ante, vol. ii., p. 463.]
Vol. iv., 1847.
97. Architectural Notes in the Neighbourhood of Chelten-
ham. By the Rev. John L. Petit.
Vol. vi., 1849.
40. Architectural Notices relating chiefly to Ecclesiastical
Structures in the County of Gloucester. By the same.
* A General Index to vols. i.-xxv., edited by J. M. [Sir John Maclean, F.S.A.], has been
published under the direction of the Council London 1878.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 289
P. 321. Collections illustrative of Roman Occupation in Britain.
No. i. Corinium : Observations on Remains lately
discovered at Cirencester. By Charles Tucker.
Vol. ix., 1852.
,, 181. Bond by the Abbot and Convent of Winchcombe,
illustrative of the ancient usage of change of
Surname. By Aflbert] W[ay].
336. Notice of a remarkable Globular Object found at
Slymbridge. By the same.
Vol. xi., 1854.
315. Description of a Chambered Tumulus, near Uley. By
John Thurnam, M.D.
328. Description of the ancient Hill Fortress of Uley bury.
By Charles C. Babington.
Vol. xii., 1855.
,, 9. Notice of a Bronze Relique discovered at Leckhampton.
By Albert Way, M.A., F.S.A.
Vol. xiii., 1856.
215. On the Removal and Relaying of Roman Tesselated
Floors. By Professor Buckman, F.L.S., F.G.S.
Vol. xiv., 1857.
99. The Four Roman Ways. By Edwin Guest, D.C.L.
Vol. xvii., 1860.
189. Observations on Discoveries of Roman Remains in
Sedbury, within the Parish of Tidenham. By George
Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S.
197. On the probable Identity of the Chapelry of St.
Briavel's, recognised as Lidneia Parva in the twelfth
Century, with the Ledenei of the Saxon Hundred of
Ledenei, named in Domesday as the property of
William Fitz Baderon. By the same.
201. The Parliaments of Gloucester. By the Rev. Charles
Henry Hartshorne, M.A.
,, 227. The ancient Iron Trade of the Forest of Dean. By the
Rev. H. G. Nicholls, M.A.
297. On the Monument of King Edward II. in Gloucester
Cathedral, and Mediaeval Sculpture. By Richard
Westmacott, R.A., F.R.S.
290 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
P. 320. Report of Annual Meeting held at Gloucester, 1860.
Vol. xviii., 1861.
116. Account of the Bible published by Co verdale in 15 35, and
of a copy in the Cathedral Library at Gloucester.
By the Rev. James Lee Warner, M.A.
342. Traces of History and Ethnology in the Local Names in
Gloucestershire. By the Rev. John Earle, M.A.
Vol. xix., 1862.
50. Traces of History, etc., continued. By the same.
193. On the English Conquest of the Severn Valley. By
Edwin Guest, LL.D.
236. The Cathedral, Diocese, and Monasteries of Worcester
in the Eighth Century. By the Rev. William Stubbs,
M.A., Vicar of Navestock, Essex.
Vol. xx., 1863.
,, 1. The Life and Times of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester.
By the Very Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D.,
F.R.S., Dean of Chichester.
38. Bristol Cathedral. By Edward W. Godwin, F.S.A.
239. An Account of the Painted Glass in the East Window
of Gloucester Cathedral. Also p. 319.
Vol. xxiii., 1866.
,, 277. Notices of Roman Pigs of Lead found at Bristol, etc.
By Albert Way, M.A., F.S.A.
Vol. xxv., 1868.
119. On the Painted Glass in Fairford Church, and its Claim
to be considered the work of Albert Durer. By the
Rev. J. Fuller Russell, B.C.L., F.S.A.
137. Saxon Situla found at Fairford. By Professor James
Buckman, F.G.S., F.L.S:
192. Mediaeval Art and the Fairford Windows. By John
Green Waller.
Vol. xxix., 1872.
268. Gloucestershire Charters. By G. T. Cflark].
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 291
Vol. xxxi., 1874.
P. 41. On an Inscribed Stone found at Sea-Mills, two miles
below Bristol, in 1873. By the Rev. Prebendary
H. M. Scarth, F.S.A.
Vol. xxxiv., 1877.
270. The Mural Paintings at Kempley Church. By C. E.
Keyser, M.A.
Vol. xxxv., 1878.
313. The Land of Morgan, Part iii. : The Earls of Gloucester.
By G. T. Clark, F.S.A.
Vol. xxxvi., 1879,
117. The Land of Morgan, Part iv. : The Earls of Gloucester
and Hertford. By the same.
Vol. xxxvii., 1880.
320. Recent Roman Discoveries at Maryport, Beckfoot, and
Cirencester. By W. Thompson Watkin.
Vol. xxxix., 1882.
296. The Friar-Preachers, or Black Friars, of Gloucester.
By the Rev. C. F. R. Palmer.
Vol. xli., 1884.
374. List of Churches of Austin Canons which were purely
Conventual. By the Rev. John F. Hodgson, M.A.
Besides the volumes of the Arcliceological Journal, which have
appeared from year to year, nine volumes have been issued by the
Institute, 1845-53, relating more particularly to the history and
antiquities of Winchester, York, Norwich, Lincoln, Salisbury,
Oxford, Bristol, Newcastle, and Chichester, in which places Meetings
have been held. The contents of the "Bristol Volume," which
was published in 1853, by George Bell, 186, Fleet Street, London,
are as follows :
1. General Report of the Proceedings at the Bristol Meeting,
1851 ; with Professor Willis' Discourse on Wells Cathedral, Mr.
Godwin's Discourse on St. Mary Redcliffe, and Remarks on
Bristol Cathedral by the Rev. Eccles John Carter, M.A.
2. Catalogue of Antiquities exhibited in the Temporary Museum.
3. Memoir of the Municipal Antiquities of Bristol. By Thomas
Garrard, Chamberlain of Bristol.
4. On the Connection of Bristol with the Party of De Montfort.
By Samuel Lucas, M.A.
5. On some Public Transactions in Bristol in the reigns of
Henry VI. and Edward IV. By William Tyson, F.S.A.
292 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
6. The St. Nicholas of the Tower. By the same.
7. On British and Eoman Remains ; illustrating communi-
cations with Venta Silurum, Antient Passages of the Bristol
Channel, and Antonine's Iter XIV. By George Ormerod, D.C.L.,
F.R.S.
8. The Descent of the Earldom of Gloucester. By John Gough
Nichols, F.S.A.
9. Contributions to the History of Bristol, from Documents
preserved in the Chapter House, Westminster. By Joseph Burtt.
10. Observations on the Statue of the Dying Gladiator at Rome,
By James Yates, F.R.S.
11. Address on the Opening of the Architectural Section. By
J. H. Markland, D.C.L., F.R.S., S.A., President.
12. On the Desecrated and Destroyed Churches of Bristol. By
John Bindon.
13. Notes, Historical and Architectural, of the Priory of Domini-
cans, Bristol. By E. W. Godwin.
14. On the Painted Glass at Bristol, Wells, Gloucester, and
Exeter. By C. Winston.
15. Sepulchral Monuments of Bristol. By J. A. Clark.
16. Ancient Coffin-slab in St. Philip's Church, Bristol. By E,
W. Godwin.
17. Sherborne Minster, Dorsetshire. By the Rev. John L. Petit.
18. Sepulchral Monuments in Bristol and Wells Cathedrals, and
the Churches of Yatton and Bitton ; with Notices of the Tomb of
Judge Cradock and the Families of Newton and De Bitton. By
the Rev. Henry T. Ellacombe, F.S.A.
19. Notices of Decorative Pavement Tiles, especially those with
Heraldic Bearings, existing in Somersetshire Churches. By
Lewis Way.
20. An Account of the First Octavo Edition of Tyndale's " Newe
Testament." By the Rev. James Lee Warner, M.A.
BlBLIOGEAPHEE.
1245. ICOMB PLACE: TERRIER, 1726. (See No. 174.) The
following is a copy of the terrier to John George's map of Icomb
Place,* taken in the year 1726, before the estate was divided:
A. R. P. A. R. P.
Gawcomb Coppice 21 3 05
Court House and Garden 01 2 35
Farm House, Garden, and Close 00 2 22
Meadow 24 22
Lower Gawcomb 24 00
Wood Close 04 1 25
* The reader is referred to a very good paper on " Icomb Place," by the Rev. David Royce,
M.A., m the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1882-83), voL
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 293
A. R. P. A. R. P.
Calves Close 04 07
Dovehouse Close 02 3 11
Two Earn Closes 06 1 02
Deer Park 51 00
Smith's Meadow 11 2 24
George's Meadow 15 1 18
Middle Field 33 2 30
Long Meadow 20 3 00
Hog Meadow 24 2 26
Shepherd's Close 24 3 15
Rushey Ground ... 29 1 00
Parson's Meadow... 07 3 02
260 2 22
Grounds alternately arable and to be laid down
with cinfoil or grass seeds respectively
Mount Court Hill 35 03
Farther Court Hill 66 3 07
Hither Court Hill 49 2 00
Upper Gawcomb 17 3 15
New Tin dings 15 29
Ewe Park 32 2 24
Horse Pasture 19 1 08
Shear Hog Park 63 2 37
The Orchard 01 2 17
Cherry Orchard 00 2 08
Church Piece 11 07
Bushey Ground 37 22
Upper Dry Leason 17 13
Lower Dry Leason 10 24
Coppice Meadow 07 2 10
The Timber Grove 12 2 16
397 3 00
Total... 682 2 04
A. W.
1246. THE MANOR OP ALVESTON. In the Athenaeum, October
3, 1885, there is a review of the first part of Sir John Maclean's
Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz
(privately printed, Exeter, 1885); and the reviewer has given an
account of the manor of Alveston, to which our attention has been
called, and which is transferred to these pages for more convenient
reference. We agree with him in his opinion, that the work " shows
great industry and research, and that genealogists will welcome the
294 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
appearance of the promised continuation, which should bring down
the history of the Poyntz family to the period of its extinction at
the end of last century." EDITOR.
The manor of Alveston is of more than usual interest from
having belonged to King Harold, and from being the manor where
Fulk fitz Warine the hero of the chessboard story turned the
king's highway through his hall so that he might be able to press
his hospitality on all foreigners travelling in his neighbourhood.
Domesday, under " Gloucestershire " and " Terra Regis," states
that "in Langelei Hundred Earl Herald held Alwestan. There
were ten hides Kent twelve pounds [of silver] by weight."
Apparently the manor remained in the Crown till the time of King
Stephen, for the earliest extant Pipe Koll (31 Hen. I.) shows that
the sheriff of Gloucestershire accounts in that year for seventy-two
shillings profit from lucrative land taken into the park of Alwestan,
and for eight shillings the tithe of the same land ; whilst in the
next extant Pipe Roll (2 Hen. II.) the sheriff deducts ten pounds,
"for lands that have been granted to Fulk fitz Warine in Alveston,"
from the amount that he confesses himself indebted to the Treasury
as his farm of the county. This item in the sheriff's accounts is
thus entered on the Pipe Rolls: "In t[er]ris datis Et Eulconi
fil. Warini. x. li. bl. in Aloestan " A similar entry to this
appears in all the extant Pipe Rolls of Gloucestershire from that
date to 6 Edw. II., in which year the customary method of making
up the Gloucestershire Pipe was altered, and the Corpus Commitatus
(or the old farm of the county with the customary allowances of
the sheriffs) was recorded once for all in a small separate roll, to
which the Gloucestershire sheriffs thenceforth always referred at
the commencement of their annual accounts. In this roll the
Crown grant of the park and manor of "Alweston" to Fulk fitz
Warine is mentioned for the last time, in the same terms that it had
always been mentioned in the Pipe Rolls throughout the preceding
century and a half.
Though the method in which the Gloucestershire sheriff's made
out their accounts for the Exchequer seems to suggest that Alveston
remained in the undisturbed possession of the Fitz Warines from
the time of King Stephen, it is only natural to suppose that it was
escheated, along with the other possessions of the Fitz Warines,
when Fitz Warine was outlawed by King John. This view is
confirmed by the fact that the Close Roll of 16 John proves the
manor of Alweston to have been granted in that year to Theodore
the Teuton, to hold during the king's pleasure; and is further
confirmed by the fact that the Close Roll of 5 Hen. III. sets out a
brief from the king to the constable of Bristol, directing the latter
to surrender the custody of the king's park and manor of Aleweston
to Richard Hunter, letting him have full seisin thereof as he had
in the time of King John.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 295
There is no clear evidence as to when the Fitz Warines recovered
Alveston, but their principal possession, the castle of Whittington,
was restored to them in 7 Hen. III. ; and possibly they regained
possession of Alveston at the same time. At any rate, on the
15th of January, 1230, King Henry III. granted a charter of
confirmation to Fulk fitz Warine arid his heirs of the park of
Aleweston, &c., which he holds from the king, he and his heirs
paying to the king and his heirs for the same the same services that
he then rendered.
In 15 Edw. I., as appears from the Placita de Quo Warranto,
Constance de Tony was summoned for holding view of frankpledge
and waif in her manor of Alewestan, and she pleads that "she
holds the aforesaid view, &c in dower of the inheritance of
Fulk fitz Warine." In 3 Edw. II. a later Fulk fitz Warine obtained
the king's licence to grant his manor of Aleweston to Walter of
Gloucester, to hold the same in capite for the terra of the latter's
life. Walter of Gloucester was then escheator citra Trentam, and
had previously been sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for six years.
Atkyns, in his History of Gloucestershire, calls him a younger son
of Fulk fitz Warine, but though this statement is possibly correct,
we have failed to verify it from the records. Walter of Gloucester
died seised of the manor of Alveston in 4 Edw. II., and his son
Walter also died seised of two-thirds thereof in 16 Edw. II.,
the remaining third being held in dower by Margaret Waryn.
Sir Walter fitz Walter of Gloucester, the son and heir of the
last-named owner of Alveston, died seised thereof in 34 Edw. III.,
having previously obtained (in 14 Edw. III.) the king's licence to
hold in capite " the manor of Alweston with its appurtenants, which
Walter of Gloucester, the grandfather of the aforesaid Walter fitz
Walter of Gloucester, acquired in fee from Fulk fitz Warine with-
out the licence of the lord the king." A fine recorded in 16 Edw.
III. shows that Walter fitz Walter of Gloucester after his marriage
with Petronilla (Corbet) settled the manors of Alveston and
Erdecote and the hundred of Langele on himself and his wife for
their joint lives and the life of the survivor of them, with remainder
to their joint issue, and in default of such issue with remainder
to (his father-in-law) Peter Corbet of Syston (Siston in Gloucester-
shire) and his heirs.
Under this settlement Petronilla Corbet, Sir Walter's widow,
died seised of Alveston, Erdecote, and Langley, in December, 1362,
leaving Peter her son and heir ; her father, Sir Peter (who in a
deed of 8 Edw. III. is called Peter Corbet of Caus, lord of Siston),
having predeceased her in the previous month, leaving his grandson
John fitz William Corbet his heir. In September, 1370, John fitz
William Corbet died seised of two-thirds of Alveston, Erdecote,
and the hundred of Langley, held in capite (as well as of the manor
of Siston, held by knight's service from the bishop of Bath), leaving
his brother William his heir. Hence it appears that Peter of
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Gloucester must have predeceased his cousin without issue, and that
the manors he held in capite must have become vested in the heir
of Sir Peter Corbet by virtue of the remainder created by Sir
Walter fitz Walter of Gloucester. William fitz William Corbet
made proof of age in 1 Eichd. I., and died seised of Siston and
of two- thirds of Alveston, &c., in the following year, leaving his
sister Margaret, the wife of William Wyriot, his sole heir ; Alice,
the widow of Peter of Gloucester, being then seised (in dower) of
the remaining third of this property. In the same regnal year that
William Corbet died his sister Margaret and her husband William
Wyriot settled these manors on themselves and their joint heirs.
She can have had no surviving issue by her first husband in
6 Eichd. II., when she and her second husband, Gilbert Denys,
obtained the king's licence to settle the manors of Alveston and
Erdecote and the hundred of Langley on themselves and their joint
issue. Sir Gilbert Denys (possibly the son of the above-named
Gilbert) died seised of the same manors and hundred (as well as of
the manor of Siston) in 10 Hen. V., leaving Maurice his son and
heir. Maurice Denys made proof of age in 10 Hen. VI., and
afterwards married as his third wife Alice, daughter of Sir Nicholas
Poyntz of Iron Acton.
The manor of Alveston, the descent of which we have thus
followed for more than three centuries, remained in the possession
of the Dennis family until the reign of Queen Elizabeth. We
should not have given its early history in such detail had not
various other manors been suggested by different writers as the one
at which according to the anonymous chronicler Fulk fitz Warine
turned the highway through his hall.
1247. THE TETBURY HORSE-EACES, 1716-20. The following
original documents relative to horse-racing at Tetbury in the early
part of the last century will prove interesting to many :
Articles for a Plate of ten pounds value to be run* for at Tetbury,
in the County of Gloucester, the second day of August, 1716.
1. Every Horse to be enter'd by Joseph Webb of the White
Hart in Tetbury, & kept there seven days before they run.
2. Every horse that runs to have been kept within ten miles of
Tetbury three Months before, and that to be proved to the satis-
faction of the said Joseph Webb and the Subscribers there p'sent
before he shall be admitted to enter.
3. Every horse that runs to carry ten stone weight, bridle and
saddle included, and every horse that exceeds fourteen hands to
carry weight for inches.
4. Every horse that is enterred to pay half a Guinea for enterring.
5. The horse that wins two heats and saves his distance the
third, shall have the plate. But if three different horses win three
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different heats, the horse that wins the fourth heat shall have the
plate.
6. Every horse that starts to be sold for 15 Guineas if any of
the Subscribers insist upon it.
7. No Subscriber shall have any Benefit of throwing for a horse
that has not subscribed half a Guinea.
8. No horse, mare, or gelding to be excluded from running that
will submit to the aforesaid conditions.
9. The horses to start at half an hour after four in the afternoon,
and to leave the posts on the right hand, and to run twice the
Course every heat.
10. If any dispute shall arise concerning the running of any
horse, or any thing else relating to the premisses, it is to be deter-
mined by the majority of the Subscribers then & there p'sent.
Berkshire, 2 Guineas,
W. White, 1 Guinea,
M r Packer, 1 Guinea,
M r Poole, 1 Guinea,
M r Webb, Jun r , 10 s 9 d ,
Tho s Deacon, Jun r , 10 8 9 d .
ii.
Articles for a Plate of 20Z. value to be run for by Hunters upon
Tetbury Warren, in y e County of Gloucest r , on Monday, the 24 th
day of September next.
1. Every Hors to be enter'd by Nathaniell Thomas of y e Star in
Tetbury, & to be kept in y e town seaven days before they run.
2. Every Hors y* runs to carry twelve stone weight, bridle &
saddle included.
3. Every Hors y* is enter'd to pay one Guinea for ent'ring.
4. The Wining Hors to be sold for 50Z. if requir'd by a Subscriber.
5. No Hors, Mare, or Gelding to have any share in this Plate y fc
ever won y e value of 5?. in Plate or Money.
6. The Hors y* wins 2 Heats & saves his distance y e 3 d Heat,
shall have y e Plate. But if 3 different Horses wins 3 different
Heats, y c Hors y fc wins y e 4 th heat shall have y e Plate.
7. The Horses to start at 4 in y e afternoon, & to leave y e posts on
y e right Hand, & run twice round y e Course every heat.
8. If any dispute shall arise concerning y e runing of any Hors,
or any thing else relateing to y e premisses, it is to be determin'd by
y e majority of y e Subscribers then & there p'sent.
(To be continued.)
1248. THE BLAKE FAMILY. In St. Stephen's Church, Bristol,
there is a marble tablet with the following inscription : " Near this
place, in the same vault with his father and mother, William and
Kebecca Blake, lie the remains of Richard Blake, Esq re , who died
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August 6 th , 1829, aged 69." And above, on a small tablet, is an
inscription to his widow, Anne Augusta, described as the daughter
of the Very Eev. Charles Harward, of Hayne, Co. Devon, Dean of
Chichester, &c. She died Nov r 4th, 1847, aged 84. Arms Ar. a
chev. between 3 garbs sa. empaling gu. a cross crosslet or. Crest
On a cap of maintenance gu. turned up erm. a martlet sa.
In St. Werburgh's Church, Bristol, there was this inscription :
" To the memory of M r Eichard Blake, many years an inhabitant
of this parish, who died the 3 rd day of January, 1771, aged 70.
In the same vault where his remains are deposited, also are interred
Mary Blake, his mother, Samuel and Mary Greenway, whose only
daughter he married, and five of his children, who died in their
infancy. Likewise the remains of Mary, his wife, who died the
21 st October, 1781, aged 82."
In Chipping Sodbur}'- Church there are (or were) the following
inscriptions :
" To the memory of his father, Eichard Blake, late of this
town, and of his brothers Joseph and Samuel, whose remains are
interred near this place. This monument is erected by Eichard
Blake, of the city of Bristol."
" In memory of Eichard Blake, Sen r , who was buried April 19 th ,
A.D. 1724, aged 78."
" In memory of Joseph Blake, son of Eichard and Mary Blake,
of this borough, who deceased the 18 th day of May, A.D. 1715, in
the 23 rd year of his age."
" Thomas Coombe died Sept r 26 th , 1724, aged 42. Joanna Coombe,
his wife, died Feb? 27, 1748-9, aged 63. Joanna Blake, relict of
Eobert Blake, and daughter of Thomas and Joanna Coombe,
died April 20 th , 1790, aged 82."
From Aubrey's Collections for North Wilts I find that Eobert
Hungerford, of Studley, near Calne, by his will (1754) bequeathed
his parsonage of Avon (between Chippenham and Christian
Malford) to his nephew George, afterwards of Studley, for his life
in tail to Eobert Blake, of Sodbury, who had married one of
his nieces.
In St. John's Church, Glastonbury, there was an inscription to
Elizabeth, the wife of Francis Blake, 'of Clifton, Gent. ; she died
Jan. 1st, 1736, aged 50. This Francis Blake died at Glastonbury
in 1768, having been ten times mayor of that borough, from 1717
to 1768. He had a son William, who predeceased him, having
resided in the parish of Clifton.
I shall be glad to be supplied with any information relative to
any of these Blakes, and particularly as to the parentage of
Francis and Elizabeth Blake, and whether they were connected with
the Bristol and Gloucestershire family. Francis was, I know,
related to the Blakes of Spaxton, Somerset, and bore for arms, Ar.
a chev. between 3 garbs, sa. EDWARD FRY WADE.
Axbridge, Somerset.
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1249. Cox FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER. I shall be glad of any
information regarding a family of this name who lived at Gloucester
about the beginning of the sixteenth century. In a curious manu-
script history of the Cox family, in the possession of the present
Lieut. -Col. Kichard Snead Cox, of Broxwood Court, Herefordshire,
it is mentioned that John Cox, Esq. (living in the time of Henry VII,
and whose father was killed at the battle of Tewkesbury), had by
his second wife (daughter of Edward Harrowden, Esq.) a daughter
Helen, who became the wife of Thomas Cox, Esq., of the county
of Gloucester, and was the mother of Coxo Cox and six daughters.
Sir Richard Cox (grandson of the above-named John, and master
of the buckhounds to King James I.) married a daughter of
his cousin, Coxo Cox, a physician at Gloucester, and half-brother of
Cox, a woollen draper of the same place. Mention is also
made of Edward Cox, who succeeded his great-uncle in the business
of a clothier in Gloucestershire; he was very loyal to King Charles I.,
to whom he lent so large a sum of money that he impoverished
himself and his family. This Edward Cox is said to have left three
sons, Eichard, John, and Daniel.
As the name of Cox is very prevalent in the county, I am curious
to know whether any of the existing families of the name can trace
their descent from the above-named Coxes of Gloucester. I may
add that Sir Richard Cox (temp. Jas. I.) bore for his arms, Or. three
bars azure, in a canton argent, a lion's head erased, gules. His
direct representative is the above-named Lieut.-Col. R. S. Cox, of
Broxwood Court.
The following extracts from letters addressed by Gregory Martin,
a Roman Catholic divine, to Edmund Campion, S.J., may throw
some light on the Coxes of Gloucester:
(From Douay, Feb. 8, 1575.)
"Libros tuos quos Hollandus custodiebat, ipse curavit cum
meis nonnullis ad bibliothecam suam Glocestrensem apud Coxuin
sororium suum transferendos. Catalogus eorum apud me est, sed
ut ille ait, mala fide propter ignorantiam descriptus, neque omnes
tuos neque solos continens."
(From Rome, May 21, 1578.)
" Scripsit ad me nuper Hollandus noster, paulo ante ex Anglia
reversus, meos libros et tuos, quotquot hseresi aliqua erant infecti, a
se esse combustos, in domo sororii sui D. Coxi." Q Q p
Woodchester.
1250. AN ANCIENT GLOUCESTERSHIRE CUSTOM. The Standard
of January 6, 1879, in an article on Twelfth Day, says : " At
Pauntley, in Gloucestershire, and the surrounding neighbourhood,
the servants of each farmer formerly assembled together in one of
the fields that had been sown with grain. Twelve fires with straw
were then made in a row, around one of which, much larger than
the rest, the servants drank a cheerful glass of cider to their
300 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND ^QUERIES.
master's health and success to the future harvest. Afterwards, on
their return home, they feasted on cakes soaked in cider, which
they claimed as their reward for sowing the grain." Can any
reader state whether this custom is still observed ? j ^
A reference to No. 783 (vol. ii., p. 362) will show that this
" custom, savouring of the Scotch Bel-tein, prevails in Gloucester-
shire, particularly about Newent and the neighbouring parishes."
EDITOR.
1251. "As MAD AS A HATTER." Has this familiar saying any
reference to William Ashman, the hatter, of Horsley, Gloucester-
shire, who asserted that he had discovered the " perpetual motion ;"
that he possessed a self-acting machine of his own invention, which,
when once set going, would continue so till worn out, and that it
was applicable to the greatest objects and most useful purposes ?
Fosbrooke communicated this statement to Sir Joseph Banks, and
to the Gentleman's Magazine (1800), vol. Ixx., pt. ii., p. 1128.
J. H. F.
1252. EIGHTS OF THE DUGHY OF LANCASTER TENANTS. The
following appeared in the Bristol Times of February 4, 1882 :
" A meeting of landowners in the Duchy of Lancaster was held at
Gloucester on Saturday. 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 have also other privileges. It seems that at
Hereford a new cattle-market has been provided, and as it is
contended there that under an Act of Parliament all exceptions are
abolished, one of the Duchy men has been compelled to pay toll.
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, but 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."
It would be interesting to learn the result, which does not appear
to have been published in the above-named journal j ^
1253. " REDCROSS " STREET, WHY so CALLED ? In old cities,
or rather outside the walls which encompassed them, we sometimes
find a street known by the above name. We find one in London,
Liverpool, and Bristol. Consult a glossary, survey, or itinerary,
and the explanation given is that a cross once stood there; the
same applying to Whitecross Street. The habit of the Knights
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Templars was a long white mantle, to which was subsequently
added a red cross on the left shoulder. Spenser's Red Cross
knight
" on his breast a bloodie cross he bore,
The dear remembrance of his dying Lord."
But I cannot see how the name of these streets can be connected
with the Templars. The street in Bristol is at a considerable
distance from their old quarters, and separated by a river ; in
London the distance is greater. In the first Crusade the soldiers
all wore red crosses, but the French alone retained that colour,
although some zealous folk certainly carried their zeal to a high
pitch when they imprinted the holy mark on their skin with a red
hot iron. Is the word red only a corruption of rood ? Will some-
one kindly explain the origin of " Kedcross " as applied to streets 1
HENRY G. BUTTERWORTH.
1254. THORNBROUGH FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER, WORCESTER,
AND WILTS. Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough, G.C.B., living at
Gloucester in 1805, married 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edwin
Jeynes of that place. Sir Edward's sister Maria married, circa
1779, Thomas Parker, surgeon, also of Gloucester. He (Sir
Edward) was the only son, born at Plymouth Dock, 27 July, 1754,
of Commander Edward . Thornbrough, R.N. His only surviving
son, Admiral Edward Le Cras Thornbrough, married Emily Eaikes,
daughter of Daniel Garrett, and granddaughter of Robert Raikes,
the founder of Sunday Schools.
Sir Edward, whose branch is extinct in the male line, was
descended from John Thornborough, bishop of Bristol, and after-
wards of Worcester, and from Thornbrough, a courtier
temp. Queen Elizabeth, who was buried in Westminster Abbey,
with the inscription " Here lies an honest Courtier."
Particulars of descent from them, or extracts from parish
registers relating to Thornbrough, are requested. g f
Antigonishe, Nova Scotia.
1255. SPARROW FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A corres-
pondent has inquired in Watford's Antiquarian (December, 1885),
vol. viii., p. 295 : Can any reader give any information as to
what arms and crest were borne by the Sparrow family, living
about Avening and Stroud in Gloucestershire in 1617 to 1650?
Also, whether there are any members of that family living in
Gloucestershire now, and if so, what are their armorial bearings 1
1256. THE BATTLE OF TEWKESBURY AND THE DEATH OF
EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES, 1471. As bearing on the disputed
question of the circumstances of the death of Prince Edward at,
or after, the battle of Tewkesbury, the following extract from The
302 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Past on Letters (Arber's reprint, edited by James Gairdner), vol. iii.,
p. 8, may be of interest, as I do not remember to have met with a
reference to it in any description of the fight :
"A.D, 1471, 4 May.
The Battle of Tewkesbury.
[From MS. Phillipps 9735, No. 279.]
The following paper is in a contemporary handwriting, and
undoubtedly refers to the battle of Tewkesbury :
Ded in the Feld.
Edward that was called Prynce.
Lord John of Somerset.
Erie of Devenshire.
Lord Wenlok.
Sir William Vans.
Sir Edmond Hamden.
Sir John Seymour.
Sir William Bermoth.
Water Barrow.
Mr. William Henmar.
Mr. Feldyng.*
Hervy, recorder.!
Mr. Kerry, capteyn of Brystowe.
Sir Koberte Whetyngham.
Knoyll."
Then follows a list of eighteen names, headed "Thes be men
that were heveded " (beheaded) ; and then another list of forty-three
names, headed "Thes be the Knyghtes that the Kyng mad in
the Feld."
Holinshed, when compiling his Chronicles about a century later,
had before him various earlier, and even contemporary narratives of
the battle, such as the "Historie of the Arm vail of Edward IV. in
England and the finall Recouerye of his Kingdomes from Henry VI.,
A.D. 1471" (Camden Society's Publications, vol. i.).J This was
written by a servant of Edward IV., who states that he "presently
saw in effect a greate parte of his exploytes, and the resydewe
knewe by true relation of them that were present at every tyme ; "
by Holinshed it is occasionally copied almost word for word,
while a MS. in the Public Library of Ghent is stated to be an
abridgement of it. Now, the " Historie " states that " in the
wynnynge of the fielde such as abode hand-stroks were slayne incon-
* Sir William Fielding, according to Warkworth's Chronicle,
f These words, " Hervy, recorder," are written over " Herry, capteyn," as a correction ; but
the latter are not erased. Warkworth mentions Sir Nicholas Hervy.
$ This earliest and important work of the Camden Society, printed in 1838, was appropri-
ated in 1845 by the anonymous compiler of a book entitled The Chronicles of the White Rose of
York, without asking the consent of the editor, Mr. John Bruce, or the concurrence of the
Society. ED.
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tinent ; Edward, called Prince, was taken, fleinge to the towne wards,
and slayne in the fielde ; " and the Ghent MS. gives " Edward, called
Prince of Wales," amongst those killed in the battle. Holinshed,
as is well known, states that the prince, having been captured by
Sir Eichard Crofts, was handed over by him to the king on the
faith of the latter's proclamation that the captive's life should be
spared, and that the king " demanded of him how he durst pre-
sumptously enter into his realm with banner displayed. Where-^
unto the prince boldly answered, saying, ' To recover my father's
kingdom and heritage from his grandfather to him, and from him
after him to me lineally descended.' At which words King Edward
said nothing, but with his hand thrust him from him, or (as some
say) stroke him with his gauntlet, whom directly George duke of
Clarence, Eichard duke of Gloucester, Thomas Grey marquis Dorset,
and William lord Hastings, that stood by, cruelly murdered."
There is thus a direct conflict of testimony between at least one
contemporary authority whom Holinshed appears to have consulted,
and others, contemporary or not, whom he must have followed in
preference, whether on impartial grounds or regardless of the
probability that "the writers of the time of Henry VII. forgot
nothing which was calculated to blacken the character of Eichard
III., either as duke or king, or render the House of York odious."*
The well-informed writer just quoted adds, " We would gladly
adduce any evidence that Prince Edward was killed with his face
to the foe on the Gastons' field, but it is not forthcoming;" a
remark which first suggested to me the idea of the present com-
munication after two visits to the battle-field with his narrative as
my companion. F T TUCKETT.
Frenchay, Bristol.
1257. DISCOVERY OF A SAXON CHAPEL AT DEERHURST.
(See No. 1196.) Mr. J. Henry Middleton, E.S.A., of Cheltenham,
has sent the following communication to the Academy (September
26, 1885), from which it is transferred to these pages :
The Saxon building which has just been discovered at Deerhurst,
near Tewkesbury, is not a house, as has been reported, but a very
complete little chapel, with nave 25ft. 6in. by 16ft., and chancel
I4ft. by lift. The chancel arch is a fine example of the Saxon
style, with plain semicircular arch and well-moulded' impost. Part
ef the north door still exists, and one very perfect round-headed
window, with double splay and part of its original oak casement
built into its head ; its sill is 10ft. 6in. above the ground. The
plain walling of the chapel much resembles Eoman work, being
built of long, thin pieces of blue lias, with mortar joints from one
to two inches thick. This was all covered with stucco inside and
out, the quoins and other dressed stones being set with a projection
* See a very interesting and careful narrative, entitled Descriptive Particulars of the Battle
of Tewkesbury, etc., North, Tewkesbury, 1885.
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of about half a inch to receive the plastering. In the sixteenth
century a fine half-timbered house was built so as to enclose and
conceal the Saxon chapel ; and it was only the removal of some of
this later work last month that brought to view the Saxon masonry,
the presence of which had not been suspected. Perhaps the chief
feature of interest about this place is the existence of an inscribed
slab, which, with the missing part supplied, would probably read
thus :
[IN] HONG In honorem Sancti
[BE -_S P]ETRI Petri Apostoli hoc
[APLI ] HOC
[ALTA]_RE_; DE altare dedicatum
DICATV El est.
This chapel, with an adjoining house, is known to have been
granted to the abbey of Westminster by Edward the Confessor ;
and, in fact, it continued in their possession till quite recent years,
when it was taken over by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners,
together with the rest of the abbey estates. The form of the letters
on this slab resembles those of another inscription relating to the
building of the priory church of Deerhurst, which is now amonjj
the Arundel Marbles at Oxford. This latter inscription is dated
1056, which is probably about the same date as the one relating to
the altar of this chapel. An early canon required an inscription to
be set near every altar, recording to what saint it was consecrated ;
but, in later times, this rule fell into disuse, and the slab appears to
have been used for the head of an Early English window, the arch
of which was cut out of it, thus causing the destruction of the first
part of some of the lines. The completion of the missing part of the
inscription is due to Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite. I may mention that
I am preparing a paper on this chapel, with illustrative drawings,
which I hope to lay before the Society of Antiquaries next session.
In No. 1196 of your Notes and Queries you give currency to a
statement, which has the appearance of proceeding from me, to the
effect that in the year 1691 Deerhurst Church was repaired at the
cost of 2,000. This strange mistake, which I have had to correct
before in the local newspaper which first published it, was not of
my making. The real state of the case is, that the amount produced
by the assessment, to which reference is made in your notice, was
not 2,000, but a little over 5 !* The interest attaching to the
carefully prepared assessment-list is, that we have in it the names,
and the description of the holdings, of all the occupiers in the
parish in 1691, amounting to nearly 100. Sir John Powell, Knight,
heads the list with a few shillings, and it descends to such " rude
forefathers of our hamlet" as paid the sum of one penny each
towards the repair of their parish church.
* We have here an instance of the risk of placing too implicit a reliance upon newspaper
statements of the kind in question. ED.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 305
Since the first notice respecting the discovery at Deerhurst of
Saxon remains was penned by me, more light has been thrown upon
the actual nature of the ancient edifice.
There can be no doubt now that the building was formerly a
chapel. It consists of two portions, nave and chancel, divided by
a chancel-arch of very solid construction, the width between jamb
and jamb being 6ft. 6in.
It was probably a chapel attached to a manor house belonging to
Westminster Abbey.
The first conjecture, that the building was a portion of a dwelling-
house, and had an upper floor, must now be withdrawn. The
extreme exterior length of the chapel is 46ft. : the width of the nave
21ft.; the thickness of the walls being about 2^ft. : the height of
the walls is 17ft.
One important piece of evidence which led to an early abandon-
ment of the first premature conclusion about the nature of the
edifice was the following. Built into a portion of the adjoining
farm premises, an inscribed stone has been discovered, which was
evidently the dedication slab of an altar. Unfortunately, the stone
has had its centre cut away, and hopelessly destroyed ; enough,
however, remains of the inscription to prove its real nature and
purport. It appears to have run thus, the letters still preserved
being put by me in capitals :
in HONG
re sanctE TRI
nitatis HOC
altarE_I)E_
dicATV E.
Such dedication slabs are said to be extremely rare in England,
since the early canon of A.D. 816, directing them to be made
upon the erection of every altar, became before long a dead letter.
But now the discovery of a chapel of pre-Norman date, which
contained an altar dedicated to the Holy Trinity, leads us to some-
thing further. On extremely good evidence it is known that it was
close to the site of the chapel that in 1675 a stone was discovered
with an inscription recording the erection in the year 1056 of some
sacred building dedicated to the Holy Trinity. It was but natural
heretofore to refer conjecturally this well-known inscription to
Deerhurst Church, which is indisputably of very early date. But,
as matters now stand, the recently discovered chapel may well pub
forward a claim to it. It is Bishop Gibson, who, in his edition of
Camden's Britannia (1695), relates that Judge Powell dug up the
stone in an orchard adjoining his house his house being Abbot's
Court, of which the ancient chapel forms the Central portion.
What if the two inscribed stones, discovered apparently within a
few paces of each other, but, as to time of finding, a couple of
centuries apart, should be mutually related in the closest connexion ?
306 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
I must now give the inscription of the earlier discovered stone,
which is preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford
$> Odda Dux jussit hanc
regiam aulam construi atque
dedicari in honore S Trinitatis
pro aninia germani sui
Elfrici que de hoc loco asftpta.
Ealdredus vero Eps qui eandu
dedicavit ij Idibus Apl
xiiij aute annos regni
Eadwardi Eegis Angloru.
It will be noticed that " ecclesia " is not the word by which Earl
Odda's erection is described, but " regia aula." Much has been said
about this term. Authorities, such as Ducange, have abundant
instances at hand showing that both " aula " and " regia " were in
mediaeval Latin used, separately, for a church; but I do not happen
myself to be acquainted with a single instance where the words are
so employed in conjunction.
It has been suggested that it is possible that the word " regia "
qualifies, not the building, but the builder, and, in fact, glances at
the condition of Odda, who may be considered to have been a sub-
king in the days of his friend Edward the Confessor.
Not very much seems discoverable as to Odda, apart from the
character assigned him by the early chroniclers, and the time and
place of his death. " A lover of churches " was he, and a man of
nobility of mind. He died in 1056, at Deerhurst, it is stated in
the Saxon Chronicle, a few months only after the dedication of his
building, and was buried at Pershore. His brother Elfric, whose
memory was honoured by Odda's munificence, had also died at
Deerhurst three years earlier, and was buried at Pershore. It is like-
wise stated in the chronicle that Odda was earl of Devon, and had
jurisdiction as well over Somerset, Dorset, and part of Wales. But
what the origin was of his connexion with the Gloucestershire
portion of Mercia, I can nowhere discover.
We have these facts to deal with. Odda built at Deerhurst a
" regia aula " in 1056. In 1065 the Confessor signed a charter
conveying the manor of Deerhurst to Westminster, and the chapel
lately brought to light formed a portion of the abbot's house at
Deerhurst. Although the charter was not signed, nor the abbey
consecrated, before the end of the year 1065, it is known that
during the fifteen previous years King Edward had been engaged in
establishing his great foundation.
Leland mentions that the manor of Deerhurst belonged to
Pershore Abbey before it was given to Westminster ; but his
assertion seems to conflict with evidence afforded by the Confessor's
great Latin charter of 1065, taken in connexion with two undated
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Saxon charters of his (in which mention is made of both Deerhurst
and Pershore), and with the language of Domesday. These four
documents seem to show that Pershore Abbey never possessed the
manor. Out of these materials a little ingenuity may succeed
perhaps in constructing a consistent and satisfactory theory in
respect of our recent discovery.* GEO< BUTTERWORTH.
Deerhurst Vicarage, Tewkesbury.
1258. SOME GENEALOGICAL QUERIES. I have undertaken to
make, with a view to publication, some annotations upon " The
Book of Eastern Claims," a precious MS., containing the earliest
claims of our owners of estates who had been driven off by the
successive Indian wars of 1676 and 1690. My plan contemplates
giving the English origin and ancestry of all I can succeed in
tracing back and connecting ; and I have had very nattering success
in many instances. I wish to use the valuable medium of your
magazine for such immigrants as I find to have emigrated from
your neighbourhood j and as I take it that any information of your
off-shoots will be acceptable to some of your readers, if not to all,
I have embodied my queries in such concise form, and with such
condensed information, as will render them suitable for your pages,
and make them likely to attract the attention of antiquaries. I can
perhaps render you a reciprocal service by sending you in advance
sketches from my notes of the worthies for whom we may establish
an international abode. We may thus cement the stronger the
fraternal affection by shewing unsuspected relationships.
WILLIAM M. SARGENT, M.A.
34, Exchange Street,
Portland, Maine, U.S.A.
Sargent. Any information regarding persons of this name
desired ; particularly to have the relationships disclosed by the
following depositions made plainer from the records :
July 17, 1652. "Deposition of Deborah [called in another
place Rebecca], wife of Water [sic] Joy, aged about 27 years : that
Thomas Warren, who dyed with Prince Eupert, was cousin gerrnan
to W m Sargent, of Gloucester [Mass.], & that there is none nearer
of kin in this country, & I being a little related, do desire
W m Sargent may administer on the estate, and be accountable."
July 27, 1652. " Zebulon [called in another place John] Hill,
formerly living in Bristol in Old England, being here, testifieth
that Thomas Wathing, son to Edmund Wathin, is cousin to
W m Sargent, the said W m being his father's sister's son ; & that
Thomas Wathing went with Kobert Gray in Capt. Walserves."
Francis Robinson. He deposed, Sept. 7, 1670, that he was aged
52 years [therefore born in 1618], and was resident inSaco (Maine)
in 1631.
* An article, entitled "The Newly-discovered Saxon Church at Deerhurst," has appeared in
the Builder, November 21, 1885. ED.
308 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Since he was only 13 when he came over, and was afterwards
made executor of Thomas Williams' will, with whom he had lived,
he may have heen a nephew.
John, Roger, and Thomas Spencer. See under Hoolce, where
Robert Knight is stated to have married a daughter of John
Spencer.
Hooke. William Hooke, who had a brother Francis Hooke, of
Kittery (Maine), being one of the first patentees, 1645, was first of
York (Maine), where he married Elinor, widow of Capt. Walter
Norton, by whom, or by a former wife, he had a son William, who
was of age in 1660 ; later the father was of Salisbury (Mass). In
1649 he calls Humphrey Hooke, alderman of Bristol, "my father,"
and speaks of said father being in partnership with his brother
William Hooke and Eobert Knight (Suffolk Kegistry, i. 117).
Knight was afterwards here in New England, and married Ann,
widow of Capt. Thomas Cromwell, who must have been a daughter
of the above John Spencer.
Parker. John Parker and Mary, his wife, were early settlers on
the Kennebeck Eiver (Maine). Their children intermarried with
the Webbers.
Abraham Shurt, of Bristol. He deposed: "M r Gyles Elbridge
and M r Alderman [Robert] Aid worth, merchants, of Bristol, in
1626 sent over the deponent as their agent, and gave power to him
to buy Monhegan [Island], which then belonged to M r Abraham
Jennings, of Plymouth, and about 1629 there was sent over to him
by Aldworth & Elbridge a patent for 12,000 acres at Pemaquid," &c.
August 19, 1653, he calls himself of Charlestown (Mass.), and
agent to Nicholas Davison, of that place.
In 1679, a William Slu'rt was acting as recorder at Arrowsic
Island, near Pemaquid.
" Adam Shurt as an Attorney for his mother M rs Mary Shurt,
pit., M r Edward Smale, def., in an accon of debt for 18< starling"
(Court Records, March 6, 1647).
Very little is known of this worthy pioneer Maine settler : one
authority describes him as 80 years old in 1662; another gives his
death in 1680, and in another place in 1690.
Having just discovered the court record referred to above, I
trust it will prove a clue to the records in Bristol and vicinity. I
do not doubt the two abovenamed were his wife and son.
Brown. "Feb. 21, 1658. Robert Allen, of Sheepscott River
in New England [Maine], planter, came personally, &c., and deposed
that for 17 years last past he well knew John Brown, of New
Harbor in New England [the present town of Bristol, Maine],
mason, who often told me that he was the son of Richard Brown,
of Barton Regis in Gloucestershire in England, and that he married
Margaret, daughter of Francis Hay ward, of Bristol. Said Brown
was alive and in good health in New England last June."
The above is said to be taken from your city records. In what
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-connection was it used? Is anything more disclosed? Cannot
more be learned at Barton Regis ?
Brown had four children here, where he first appears on record
in 1625, in a grant from the Indians :
1. Margaret, ra. Alexander Gould.
2. Elizabeth, m. Richard Pearse (Pierce).
3. John, m. Elizabeth Parsons, and had issue John.
4. Emma, m. Nicholas Deming.
"Were any of these born in England ? The son seems to have
been born here in 1636.
Can the Robert Allen, who made the foregoing statement, be
placed in your vicinity? At about 1652 I find a John Allen, who
had married Mary Gent, buying land at Sheepscot River (Maine)
from the Indians.
(To be continued.)
1259. EXTRACTS FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE " FEET OP FINES."
The late Mr. T. W. Cattell,* of King Stanley, and myself, during
the latter years of his life, made a vast number of extracts at the
Public Record Office from the " Feet of Fines," chiefly relating to
the county of Gloucester. Our practice, as shewn in the subjoined
examples, was to put all the information in as brief a form as
possible, and usually in English, whether the original was in Latin
or not so that they are not exact transcripts which would have
been useless but notes of all the essential particulars. I send an
instalment of names mentioned, and shall be prepared to complete
the index in future numbers.
If any of your readers wish to have the facts stated with regard
to any of the names thus given, I shall be very pleased to send
them on application, as I am anxious that Mr. CattelTs untiring
labours, as embodied in his manuscripts, which are in my possession,
should be made as widely useful as possible.
Knights Enham Rectory, Andover. K. H. CLUTTERBUCK.
Gloucester: Trinity, 30 Hen. VIIL, 1538.
Between Richard ffowler, que r ,
& Sir George West & Elizabeth, his wife, one of the
daughters and heirs of Sir Robert Moreton, def ts .
Of four messuages, 100 acres of land, 24 acres of meadow, 40
toes of pasture, 40 acres of wood, and 20 shillings rent, with the
app 8 in Pagenhull, Ruscombe, Rendweyke, Pydesmore, Ebley, and
Stonehouse.
Granted to Richard and his heirs by George and Elizabeth, for
themselves and the heirs of the said Elizabeth.
Warranted against all men. 100
* For an obituary notice of Thomas William Cattell, Esq., see ante, vol. ii., p. 427. ED.
310
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Gloucester : Hilary, 2 & 3 Edw. VL, 1548.
Between John Sanford, que r ,
& Anthony Bourchier, Esq r , & Thomasine, his wife, def t5 .
Of the site of the late priory of Leonard Stanley, 20 messuages,
20 tofts, one water mill, one fulling mill, two dovecotes, 20 gardens,
20 orchards, 500 acres of land, 60 acres of meadow, 300 acres of
pasture, 60 acres of wood, 200 acres of furze and heath, and 20
shillings rent, with the app 8 in Leonard Stanley, Alkerton
al s Alkynton, Ebley, Wychester, Buckolde, ffrocetter, Cyowley,
Erlyngham al s Orlingham, Colley, Colthorpe al s Colthrope, Aston,
Berkeley, and of view of ffranc pledge, liberties, ffrancheses, and
free warren in Leonard Stanley. Also of the rectory of Leonard
Stanley, with the app 8 . Also of tythes of all manner of grain and
hay in Leonard Stanley, Erlyngham al s Orlingham, Kyngescote,
Beverston, and Yowley. Also of the advowson of the vicarage of
Leonard Stanley.
Granted by Anthony and Thomasine, for them and the heirs of the
said Thomasine, to the said John and his heirs for ever.
Warranted against Anthony and Thomasine and the heirs of the
said Anthony for ever. 360
List of Names mentioned.
Aburge,
Acourt,
Adams,
Addams,
Adey,
Adlam,
Adys,
Alcocke,
Alday,
Aldridge,
Aleyn,
Alflatt,
Allday,
Allen,
Allibone,
Andrew,
Andrewes,
Andrews,
Anesley,
Annys,
Apparry,
Apparrye,
Applegarth,
Ap Thomas,
Aram,
Archard,
Arrowsmith,
Arrundell,
Arundel,
Ascheby,
Ashby,
Ashton,
Ashworth,
Asshfyld,
Aston (Lord),
Atkins,
Atkyns,
Austen,
Avenan,
Awood,
Awoode,
Ayland,
Ayleway,
Ayres,
Ayshcombe.
Baber,
Bache,
Bailey,
Baker,
Balcrewe,
Baldwyn,
Ball,
Ballard,
Bancknett,
Band,
Bannynge,
Barfoote,
Barker,
Barlowe,
Barnard
Barnard al s Barnund,
Barrett,
Barry,
Bartlett,
Barton,
Bassingham,
Bateman,
Bates,
Bathe,
Bathurst,
Batt,
Bawcriffe,
Bawser,
Baylie,
Bayly,
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Bay n ham,
Bloodworth,
Broomhall,
Bayse,
Boardman,
Broughton,
Beale,
Bockett,
Browne,
Beard,
Boddenham,
Browning,
Beche,
Body,
Browninge,
Bechins,
Bollard,
Brownynge,
Beck,
Bolton,
Bryan,
Bedford al s Reeves,
Bond,
Brydgeman,
Belcher,
Bonde,
Bryers,
Bell,
Boucher,
Bubb,
Bendall,
Bourchier,
Bubbe,
Bennett,
Bourne,
Buck,
Bent,
Bovey,
Buckle,
Berewe,
Bower,
Buckley,
Bergavenny (Lord),
Bowie,
Bucknell,
Berkeley,
Bowlton,
Bufford,
Bernard,
Bowre,
Burge,
Berrowe,
Bowreman,
Burges,
Besbech,
Boyce,
Burnam,
Bethell,
Bradgate,
Burnand,
Biard,
Bradley,
Burnham,
Bicke,
Bradston,
Burroughs,
Bickerton,
Braniston,
Burstall,
Bigg,
Brathwaite,
Burton,
Biggestaffe,
Braunche,
Bush,
Biliinge,
Brereton,
Bushell,
Bilstone,
Brewer,
Buswell,
Birkehead,
Brewis,
Butler,
Birt,
Brewster,
Butt,
Bishop,
Bridge,
Butte,
Bishopp,
Bridger,
Butter,
Bishoppe,
Bridges,
Butterwicke,
Blackwell,
Bridgman,
Byck,
Blagden,
Brigeman,
Bycke,
Blanch,
Briggeman,
Bygge,
Blanchard,
Briggs,
Byham,
Blaunch,
Briscoe,
Byrd,
Blaunche,
Broade,
Bysse.
Bletsoe,
Brodway,
Bliss,
Bromless (Earl of
Blisse,
Exeter),
Blomer,
Bromwich,
(To be continued.)
1260. WALFORD'S " GILDS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE." It may be
well to note that some of the gilds of this county have been
wrongly placed under " Somersetshire " in one of the very inter-
esting articles on "The History of Gilds," written by the late
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lamented Mr. Cornelius Walford, and recently published in
Walford's Antiquarian, vol. viii., pp. 76-80. The [mistake was
brought under Mr. Walford's notice, and he promptly replied, not
many days* before his death, which was on the 28th of September,
1885: "I am bound to tell you frankly that the placing the
Bristol gilds under 'Somersetshire' is a pure piece of inadvertence.
I assume that in arranging my materials I followed the late
Mr. Toulmin Smith (but am not sure of this), and placed them in
this order ; and after I had passed ' Gloucestershire ' it became too
late to remedy the error. I must make some note of explanation
in the index or elsewhere when the volume is ready for publication,
the sheets being worked off as the articles appear. Xo apology is
due on your part for looking after the boundaries of your county."
The " Gilds of Gloucestershire " had duly appeared in alphabetical
order in the magazine, vol. iv., pp. 242-246. " The History of
Gilds " will probably be completed by Miss Louisa Toulmin Smith,
and re-published in an octavo volume ; and accuracy of statement
being essential, the foregoing correction will doubtless prove
acceptable. With this sole object in view, it has been placed on
record - ABHBA.
1261. THE BARBER-SURGEONS OF GLOUCESTER. The following
advertisement was published in the Gloucester Journal of December
17, 1734 :
Whereas several persons, near the city and in the county of
Gloucester, do, contrary to law, exercise and follow the trade,
occupation, or calling of a barber-surgeon, not having serv'd a
legal apprenticeship thereto, to the great prejudice of the Company
of Barber-Surgeons in the said city, and to others in the county
who have served legal apprenticeships : We, the Master, Wardens,
and Company of Barber-Surgeons in the said city, do, pursuant to
an unanimous vote of our said Company, at a Hall duly call'd and
held for that purpose, give this publick notice, that we have agreed,
in order to redress such grievances, to prosecute all persons who
shall, after the publication hereof, presume, illegally as abovesaid,
to exercise or follow the said trade ; and to prevent the same, are
ready for the future to assist and join in the prosecution of such
offenders, against whom any barber-surgeons shall give information.
Samuel Harris, Master,
Of the Company of Barber-Surgeons in the said city of Gloucester.
J. L.
1262. AN ICARUS OP THE LAST CENTURY. The Weekly
Miscellany for April 17, 1736, has this paragraph :
" Thomas Kidman, the famous Flyer, who has flown from several
of the highest precipices in England, and was the person that flew
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off Bromham steeple, in Wiltshire, when it fell down, flew, on
Monday last, from the highest of the Rocks near the Hotwell at
Bristol, with fireworks and pistols; after which he went up the
rope, and performed several surprising dexterities on it, in sight of
thousands of spectators, both from Somersetshire and Gloucester-
shire."
Hogarth has introduced this performer into his engraving of
" The Fair," in the act of flying from a steeple. j -^
1263. THE BERKELEY MANUSCRIPTS. Mr. Edmond Chester
Waters has contributed the following article to the Academy
(September 26, 1885) on the recently-issued third volume of
Smyth's Berkeley Manuscripts: a Description of the Hundred of
Berkeley and its Inhabitants, edited by Sir John Maclean, E.S.A.,
Gloucester, 1885 :
This third volume of the Berkeley MSS., which contains
Smyth's account of the several parishes in the hundred of
Berkeley, will probably be found more interesting by the generality
of readers than the Memoirs of the Lords of Berkeley Castle,
which formed the subject of his two preceding volumes. Gloucester-
shire is one of the few counties in England which can boast of
several historians, but none of them can be compared with Smyth,
so far as he goes ; for the fulness and accuracy of his parochial
history establish his superiority as a local historian over Sir Robert
Atkyns, and every other author who has written about the anti-
quities of Gloucestershire. At the same time, Smyth's labours
were confined to a single hundred, and he ceased to write in the
reign of James I. ; and a book with these drawbacks must be
reckoned among the materials of local history to be consulted only
for occasional reference. Such books will engage few readers
except professed antiquaries, although they abound with curious
information not to be found elsewhere ; and, therefore, as they cannot
be expected to command a sale proportionate to their merit, they
are precisely the class of books which are reproduced with advantage
at the cost of the local archaeological society. Few societies in
our time can claim credit for a better investment of their funds
than the Bristol and Gloucestershire has made in undertaking
the publication of Smyth's Berkeley MSS.
Among the information for which we should look in vain in a
modern county history of more pretension is the collection of local
proverbs and the peculiarities of the local dialect. This is the
more valuable because in Smyth's time every English county had
its own phrases and grammar, which made it easy to distinguish from
what part of England a man came as soon as he opened his mouth.
It seems that a native of Berkeley Hundred commonly inserted
the letter y between words ending and beginning with consonants;
so that if he was asked where he was born, he answered, " Where
shu'd y bee y bore, but at Berkeley hums, and there begis, each
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314 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
was y bore." The use of " each " for " I " was specially puzzling
to foreigners, as everyone was called who was not a hundredor.
The proverbs are, for the most part, commonplace enough, and the
most remarkable among them are too coarsely worded to be quoted
in the Academy.
The parishes are treated alphabetically, beginning with Alkington
and ending with Wortley ; and Smyth takes occasion in his account
of the first to discourse on husbandry in general, and to explain
the best method of preparing the soil for crops by marling and
manuring. He was an enthusiastic admirer of agriculture, which,
he says, " I accompt the best and most harmlesse of all bodily exer-
cises, despised of none save fooles ; ever by the wisest sort held the
most noble, as sustayninge the life of all men : which hath drawne
mee alonge " from the title of marie used in Alkington to digress.
We read, also, that before the civil wars of York and Lancaster
husbandry was conducted by villeins or bond-servants, who worked
under the oversight of the manor-reeve, and were bought and sold
by deeds of grant. The latest deed of manumission among the
Berkeley muniments bears date in the beginning of the reign of
Henry VII. ; and Smyth does not hesitate to justify villeinage, and
to express his conviction that it has never been legally abolished,
and might be revived with advantage : " I conceive, (which also
a learned writer hath lately published,) that the lawes concerninge
Villenage are still in force, of which the latest are the sharpest ;
But no we, saith hee, and that most truly in mine opinion, since
slaves were made free which were of great vse and service, there
are growne vp a rabble of Eogues, cutpurses, and the like mis-
cheivous men, slaves in nature though not in lawe ; And if any
thinke this kind of dominion not to bee lawfull, yet surely it is
naturall."
It is characteristic of Smyth's description of a parish that he
never forgets to tell us the name of the tutelary saint to whom the
church was dedicated, and the day on which the church feast was
kept. The old custom of keeping as a feast in each parish the day
of the tutelary saint still survived from Catholic times, and Smyth
had no sympathy with the Puritanical spirit which attempted to
suppress these sociable gatherings. He takes occasion to say in
describing the hills surrounding Cowley [or Coaley] " Where
to behold younge men and maids ascendinge and discendinge
and boies tumblinge downe, especially on Comunion daies in
the afternoones what times the resort is greatest, bringeth noe
small delight to many of the elder sort also delightinge therin."
His dislike to the new fashion of strict Sabbatical observance is
quaintly expressed in his account of Stinchcombe, where the second
Sunday after the feast of Pentecost was known as Blu-meade
Sunday. The name was derived from a meadow called Blu-meade,
"where the younger sort of both sexes accustomed in the afternoon
of that day to meete from the Townships adjoininge to dance,
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leape, wrastle, and disport themselves till eveninge ; of late yeares
by some severe and rigid Catoes exclaiminge against such recreations,
quite discontinued ... I joyne in opinion, and ^subscribe to the
kinge's declaration ; and like well, in this my decrepit age, to walke
in somer-time, on Sundaies after Eveninge Prayers, with my wife to
Hodleys Green betweene our two houses, and there to behold my
neighbours children and servants, with yours and mine owne, to
runne at Barley-breakes, dance in a ringe, and such like sports as
they like best ; A laudable recreation, which hath no oppugners
save wayward dispositions, and men of too sterne a judgment, as
though the text of Solomon were Apochriphall, That, There is a
time for all things."
Smyth's account of the Severn, and of the fish which is caught
in it, is one of the most entertaining chapters in the book.
Berkeley Hundred is traversed by this noble river for eighteen
miles, " not accomp tinge crookes, turnings, or meanders ; " and we
are assured that, to Smyth's own knowledge, fifty-three different
sorts of sea fish had been caught in the river. The fishing was
free to the hundredors, who might take for themselves whatever
fish they could catch, except those called royal and galeable fishes.
The royal fishes were the sturgeon, seal, and porpoise, which were
exclusively reserved to the Lord of Berkeley. Galeable fishes were
the salmon, shad, and lamprey, which were subject to the custom
of what was termed the gale. The fisherman set his own price
on the fish caught, and took them to the lord, who had the option
of taking the fish at half-price or refusing the fish and taking half
the value from the fisherman. The lord's dues were farmed usually
by a " galeor " in each manor ; but the tax was practically modified
by the local custom, that if the fisherman could get his fish to land
and put grass into its mouth before the galeor called to him, such
fish were freed from payment of gale. Severn salmon was always
famous, and it was a saying among epicures that salmon and venison
were never eaten together in perfection, "for the goodnes of the
Salmon goes out when the Bucke comes in ; And comes in when
the Bucke goes out." But the rarest and most precious of Severn
fish was the lamprey, which comes up the river about Christmas,
and remains there five months. This was, in the twelfth century,
the most prized of royal dainties ; and every schoolboy knows that
King Henry I. died from a surfeit of lampreys. King John and
his successor were equally fond of this fish, and a fine of forty
marks was imposed on the county of Gloucester in 1199 for the
king's pardon for default in supplying him with lampreys. The
demand for this delicacy encouraged speculators to forestall the
market; and the sheriff was commanded, in 1226, to proclaim that
no one would be allowed to buy lampreys taken in the Severn to
sell them again, lest the price should be raised by regrators. The
public records abound with entries showing that Henry III. and
his queen were inordinately fond of Severn lampreys. The sheriff
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of Gloucestershire received, year after year, royal writs to procure
them for the king's table, and to take care that they arrived in
good condition. He was directed, on March 4, 1237, to send by
his cook, baked, all the lampreys he could get while the king was
at Canterbury ; but when the court came nearer the Severn, he was to
send them unbaked, so long as they could arrive sweet to eat. The
same sheriff is directed (February 27, 1241) not to suffer anyone
else to buy lampreys during Lent, but to send all he could get to
the king wherever he might be. The supply in Lent, 1243, was
188 lampreys, which cost the king XI 2 7s. 3d. This, however,
was a low price compared with the next century, for Lord Berkeley
sent to King Henry III., in December, 1368, six lampreys, which
cost him 6 7s. 2d. They got cheaper as the season advanced, for
when the abbot of Glastonbury sent six lampreys in the following
April, the cost was only 1 11s. 6d.
It is clear from Smyth's remarks about the best part of the
salmon that he was a bit of an epicure and liked good living ; and
many readers will find it one of the redeeming features of this
book that we are constantly catching between the lines a pleasant
glimpse of the author himself. To those who care to study his
writings, he stands confessed a cheery old Tory, who was a lover
of ancient customs, and disliked changes of all kinds, who delighted
in good living and merrymaking, and (what is more rare) took
pleasure in his old age in seeing young people enjoy themselves in
their own way.
My notice of these three volumes would be incomplete without
some recognition of the skill and taste with which the printer
[John Bellows, of Gloucester] has accomplished his task. The
paper and type employed are singularly choice and appropriate, and
it is highly creditable to the English provincial press that it has
proved itself capable of producing work of a quality which could
not be excelled in any capital in Europe.
1264. THE COWLEY, OR COLLET, FAMILY. John Smyth, in
his Description of the Hundred of Berkeley, gives a short account
(p. 153) of the family of Cowley of Cowley. Before his day the
senior male line had ended in an heiress, but the name was not
extinct. In Mr. Wadley's valuable Bristol Wills, printed for the
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Bristol citizens
of the name are met with; and in Historic and Municipal
Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320 (London, 1870), there are
lists of early citizens of Dublin, in which the name occurs. If it be
asked what this has to do with the subject, the answer is found
in the first page of the volume : " Sciatis me dedisse, et concessisse,
et presenti carta confirmasse hominibus meis de Bristowa ciuitatem
meam de Duuelina ad inhabitandam " (Henry's Charter to Dublin,
A.D. 1171-2). This charter was renewed by King John. Just as
Bristol was the commercial centre to which cadets of west country
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arrnigerous families gravitated, so Dublin became the Nova Bristowa
to which they hived off. Amongst the vast number of west
country places which gave their names to families found in the
15th century at Bristol, I will only mention three contiguous
manors, Cowley, Dray cote, and Cam ; and these three names are
found (with many others) in the earliest and in the later lists of
Dublin citizens. It is a fair assumption, and one that will hardly
be disputed, that these citizens took their names from Cowley,
Draycote, and Cam, in Gloucestershire. I am, however, now
concerned only in the first name. I am in correspondence with a
Dublin genealogist, and hope to get a list of de Cowleys, or
Colleys, from the later lists of citizens. Perhaps some Bristol
genealogist will provide me with a list of 13th and 14th century
de Cowleys of Bristol, or at least inform me whether the name
occurs with any frequency before Maud Coveley in 1385 and
William Cowley in 1388?
In the year 1546-7 Kobert Cowley, or Colley, died in London,
his presence there having been caused by a summons from the king.
He was a citizen of Dublin; in 1515 he was first bailiff thereof;
afterwards he was employed by the celebrated Countess of Ossory ;
in 1528 he was Master of the Rolls in Ireland; and he must have
been a very old man at the time of his death, as Lord Cromwell,
in 1530, styles him "Old Colley," and his sons were then holding
high office in Ireland, and could not have been young men, as they
had sons of full age. That he was of English origin is proved by a
document left by Adam Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, dated
1587, in which he states that his eldest daughter had married
George Cowley, a gentleman of English parents. He was son of
Sir Henry Colley, and great-grandson of Kobert Colley. Master of
the Rolls.
The interest of the matter lies in this ; that old Robert Colley
was the ancestor of the dukes of Wellington, and of various other
titled and untitled branches of the family. Much difficulty has
been found in ascertaining the origin of their family. The late
Duke of Wellington favoured the idea that they were originally
Irish O'Colleys ; but this Adam Loftus' declaration disproves.
Some of the Peerages (giving no authority) state that the Cowleys
were originally from Rutlandshire. It may be possible, I think,
to connect them with the de Cowleys of Gloucestershire, and I
trust the subject will be investigated.
A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, F.S.A.ScoT.
The Parsonage, Alloa, N.B.
1265. Two EARLY ENGLISH WILLS, 1420 AND 1438. In
The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London,
edited from the original registers in Somerset House by Frederick
J. Furnival, and published for the Early English Text Society,
London, 1882, there are two Gloucestershire wills :
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1. John Bathe, of Bristol, 1420. "Ego, Idhannes Bathe,
burgensz's ville Bristoll/e, compos mentis, condo testamentum memrc
in hunc modum." A page of bequests, etc., in Latin follows, with
the appointment of John Bourghull and John Austyn of Bristol
as executors ; then the English will. Bequests of plate, etc. : a
silver beaker with a knob enameld blue ; a silver-studded girdle ;
silver spoons with acorn tops ; silver spice-dish ; wooden mazer with
a silver band, a print in the middle, and a griffin in it. Also, brass
pots and pans, gold rings, andirons, pewter vessels ; cushions and
hangings ; a chalice ; curtains ; shearings and wool. A mazer
bound with silver gilt, and a print of Jesus in the middle.
2. Kichard Dixton, Esq., of Siscetre (Cirencester), 1438. To
be buried at Cirencester. Bequests of vestments to Trinity Chapel
there, and its priests ; also to the convent of Usk, the friars of
Gloucester and Hereford, the abbots of Tewkesbury, Evesham,
Malmesbury, etc. Gifts of best horse, armour, covered silver cups,
gold chain and bracelet, money, blue cloth, furd gowns, silver arse-
girdle, household stuff, horses, clothing and bedding, etc. Executors :
Gyles of Brugge, squyer [Giles Brugge al. Bruges (i.e., Brydges), of
Coberley, now Cubberley, afterwards knighted], sir Water Bagge,
person of Brynke-worth [Brinkworth, near Malmesbury], Richard
Warneford and William Prelett of Siscetre. Proved October 21,
1438.
These two Early English wills of Gloucestershire men we hope
soon to reprint for the benefit of our readers. Meanwhile let us
bear in mind what our valued friend, the Rev. Thomas P. Wadley,
has written in the introduction to his Notes of the Wills in the Great
Orphan Book and Book of Wills at Bristol: "The wills have
been registered in Latin down to that of Elizabeth Ferre, which is
in English, and was made in February, 1487. There are only a few
in the former language between that date and 1503, the year in
which the will of Thomas Edwarde was made and proved ; English
being employed for all wills thereafter recorded in this volume."
ABHBA.
1266. THE RESTORATION OP BOCKLAND CHURCH. The old
church of Buckland, on the Cotswolds, having undergone a resto-
ration which extended over several years, and the work having at
length been finished, the event was celebrated in the latter part of
the year 1885, by a special service, in which the bishop of the
diocese took part. The church is one in which local archaeologists
are much interested. It was erected by the ecclesiastics of
St. Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, in the thirteenth century, and is a
fine building, having a chancel, nave, and aisles divided from it on
each side by three pointed arches, with an embattled tower of oolite
stone, from the angles of which issue grotesque figures of flying
demons as gurgoyles. In the east window, which has the date of
1585 outside, are three compartments of painted glass, of much
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 319
brilliancy of colouring and correctness of outline, representing the
Sacraments of Baptism, Matrimony, and Extreme Unction. The
timbers of the rich open roof have the white rose of Edward IV.
painted on the spandrels. A richly embroidered cope of 15th-
century work is used as the altar-cloth.
The building having become very dilapidated, its renovation was
commenced as long ago as 1877. Mr. F. S. Waller examined the
church about that time, and his report contained a sketch of its
growth and treatment since the Norman period, when it consisted
of a nave and chancel only, the aisles, tower, and porch being added
at subsequent periods. " It would be difficult," as he has stated,
" to convey to anyone who has not seen the building one
tithe of the interest which this singular church possesses an
interest arising not so much from its actual architectural beauty
(though of this it has much to boast), but chiefly from the fact that
it has had the peculiar good fortune to have been ' neglected ' for a
long series of years, and therefore has escaped mutilation by
'restoration.' The seats, with their beautifully carved-oak moulded
bench ends and panelling, with sills complete (but sadly decayed),
remain for the most part exactly as they were first erected ; the old
tile floor, much of which is as it was originally laid, a fine specimen
of encaustic work, but cracked and broken in hundreds of pieces ;
the roofs of the nave and aisles, with their massive moulded
beams decorated with tracery and enrichments ; here and there bits
of the ancient painted glass and remains of wall decoration all
give an air of romance to a church where the dust of ages seems
to linger and help to form an almost unbroken history from the
llth to the 17th century." The work recommended by Mr. Waller
was planned in the conservative spirit which characterises him, and
the result is a restoration to which the most fastidious can scarcely
take objection. One point the architect gave no advice upon,
namely, the removal of a curious western gallery, dating probably
from the beginning of the 17th century. This he left to be decided
by the parishioners, and they resolved that the structure should be
retained. The estimated cost of the restoration was 500 or 600,
but the outlay could not be accurately forecast, and as a matter of
fact, it has reached 1,000. The first section of the work, the
renovation of the roof, was carried out in 1880. The nave roof
was formerly painted, but from age and dirt the colours had
become indistinct, and it has been carefully cleaned and the colours
restored where necessary in a skilful manner by Mr. Joseph Keyte.
In the chancel a fine old oak timbered roof was discovered above
the lath and plaster ceiling. This has been cleaned and restored,
and adds much to the improved appearance of the church. This
work, with the restoration of the walls and panelling, was entrusted
to Messrs. R. and J. Keyte. The next step was the removal of
the pews, seven feet high, which formerly blocked the entrance to
the chancel, the " three-decker " pulpit, and reading-desk. Then
320 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
followed the restoration of the interior stonework and the renovation
of the ancient oak seats. The latter have been restored by
Mr. Thomas Collins, of Tewkesbury. They were much decayed,
but the carving has been carefully renewed. The floors under
them were excavated eight inches, laid with concrete and cement,
and furnished with wood block pavement. The plaster with which
the walls were covered being much decayed and broken, it was
removed altogether. The walls were then found to be in many
places in a bad state and had to be interbuilt. They are now
cleaned and pointed, and all the carved stonework has been care-
fully restored. This portion of the work was also executed by
Mr. Collins. All the floors have been treated in the manner
described, except that the aisles and chancel are laid with Godwin's
tiles, specially made from tracings and drawings taken from the old
tiles in the church. These tiles, which are an exceedingly effective
and interesting feature of the work, have been given by the rector
and Mrs. Norris as a thank-offering for the completion of the
restoration. The old tiles have been carefully relaid in the south
aisle, and serve as a permanent memento of the past history of the
church. In the belfry the floor has been entirely renewed with
timber given by Messrs. New, Prance, and Garrard, the present
lords of the manor, and the work was paid for by the ringers, who
subscribed to meet the cost. The tester-headed seats in the aisles
were very old, and in removing them to repair the walls they fell
to pieces. Handsome new oak benches have been constructed by
Messrs. J. and W. Grimmett, and the ancient inscription, bearing
the date of 1615, has been framed and placed over the western
bench. The gallery, which is handsomely panelled and supported
by oak pillars, has been restored by the parishioners at their own
cost. Two quatrefoil windows were found blocked up with
masonry in the western wall on each side of the tower, and these
have been restored and filled with stained glass. The font, of rich
design, has been cleansed from whitewash, and embellished with a
new carved oak lid. The east window referred to above has been
restored by Messrs. Morris and Co., Oxford-street. Mr. Morris,
who is an archaeologist, was staying in the neighbourhood some
years ago, and saw the window. Last year he wrote, through the
Secretary of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings,
offering to restore the window at cost-price. The offer was accepted,
and the window, which was falling to pieces, is now preserved.
The bells, clock, and chimes were very much out of order. The
second bell was broken and useless, the chimes had not played for
years, and the clock had stopped for a long period. Every working
man in the parish gave money towards the restoration of the bell
and the clock ; and the chimes are now in good working order,
having been restored by Mr. Harrison, of Wellesbourne. As to
the exterior, a drain seven feet deep has beerf carried all round the
church, the Gin. drain pipes being given by Messrs. New, Prance,
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and Garrard. At the very beginning the roofs had to be attended
to in order to save the fabric, the rain penetrating in all directions.
They were stripped, the timbers thoroughly repaired and renewed,
and recovered with best milled lead, 71bs. to the square foot, on the
nave, north and south aisles, and tower. In the churchyard a
memorial cross has been erected, fitted into the stone basement of
the ancient cross. The cross is carved out of one piece of stone
from Laverton quarry, given by Messrs. New, Prance, and Garrard.
It is fifteen inches square at the bottom and six inches at the top.
The design is a cross combined with a circle, symbolising
Christianity and Eternity. On the west side is a panel bearing the
inscription : "This Church was restored A.D. 1885. Philip N orris,
rector. Alfred Perrett, G. Hoddinott, Churchwardens." It is note-
worthy that a " market " used to be held on the steps of the old
cross for the sale of butter, eggs, poultry, &c. As a further
example of the cooperation of the parishioners it may be stated
that the hauling of the materials for the restoration was done by
friends in the place, and special mention must be made of Messrs.
Perrett, Hoddinott, and Cockerell, whose help in this respect
saved considerable expense.
1267. POETICAL ENTRY IN THE REGISTER OF ST. NICHOLAS',
BRISTOL. In Olde-Worlde Gleanings, December 20, 1885, the
following communication from " J. G. A." appeared :
" In searching the ancient registers of St. Nicholas' Church I
came the other day across the following lines. Thinking they
would suit the 0. W. G., I enclose a copy. It is not often that
doggrel rhymes live more than two centuries. They remind one
also of the historic poetical clerk who gave out in church 'a
psalm o' my own composition.'
' Birthes of Infantes, Anno Dom 1 : 1653.
' All w th in the p'ish of S fc Nicholas.
* Our Life is nothing but a winters Day
Some only breaks thair fast and go a way
Other Stay Dinner and are fully fed
The Deepest age but Sups and goes to bed
Thus Mans Life is ;
Richard Burgess, Clerk.' "
The editor of Gleanings has noted with reference to the foregoing,
that similar lines are found on a tombstone at Barnwell Church,
and also at Llangollen, in Wales. Two lines, however, as he
remarks, are added
" Long is his life, who lingers out the day,
Who goes the soonest has the least to pay."
G. A. W.
1268. THE ARMS OF THE SEYS FAMILY. If you can, will
you kindly tell me what are the quarterings on the shield of the
322 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
monument in the church of St. Nicholas, Gloucester, erected to
the memory of Margaret, wife of Evan Seys, of Boveston, in the
parish of Llant wit-Major, Glamorganshire 1 She was sole daughter
of Robert Bridges, of Gloucestershire, and died January 14, 1651.
When I saw the monument in 1848, there were on it a crest and
a shield of several quarterings ; but on revisiting the church two
years ago I could not find them. The building was then in a very
sad state from damp and want of proper attention. G W N
In Fosbrooke's Gloucester (1819), p. 363, these particulars
appear : " Arms in six quarterings ; 1. Azure [? Sable], a chevron
between three spears' heads 2. Gules, a chevron ; 3. quarterly
per fess Azure, 1 and 4 Argent, 2 and 3 a fret Or ; 4. Gules,
three Or; 5. a fess Gules between six . . .
. , three in chief, in base two and one ; 6. a chevron :
impaling Brydges." EDITOR.
1269. JAMES NAYLOR, THE QUAKER. A publication, entitled
A Briefe Account concerning James Naylor, the Quaker, etc,,
London, 1656, contains some particulars which may be worth
Having been released out of Excester Gaole,hee began immediately
to play his pranks at divers places in the West ; among the rest he
passed by Wells and Glastenbury, through which town he rode on
horseback, a man going bare before him, and others walking
a foot on each side of his stirrup, and others strewing their
garments in the way ; from thence he took his way toward Bristol,
and coming to a little village called Bedminster, about a mile from
Bristol, he rode through that place likewise, a young man bare-headed
leading his horse by the bridle, and another man before with his
hat on. There accompanied him two men, with each a woman
behind him on horseback ; which women alighted when they came
to the suburbs of Bristol, and footed it along on each side of Nailer's
horse, the man still bare-headed leading the horse; and as they
advanced along, they sung, and entred Bristol, singing Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord God of Israel, and then the women led the horse with
the reins in their hands, up to the High Cross of Bristol, and from
thence to the White Hart Inn in Broad Street. Then the
magistrates sending for Nailor and his companions, they came
singing all the way Hosanna, and Holy, Holy, Holy, &c. His name
that went bare-headed before him is Tirnothie Wedlock, a Devon-
shire man. The one woman is named Martha Simonds, wife of
Thomas Simonds, Stationer of London; the other Hannah Stranger,
wife of John Stranger of London, combmaker.
The magistrates having convented Nailor and the rest, divers
strange blasphemous letters and other papers were found about them,
wherein it appeared this deceiver had so far gained upon his
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 323
followers by his impostures, that they ascribed to him divine honors
and gave him in Scripture phrase the same titles which are
applicable to none but Christ himself.
On Wednesday morning, Dec. 17, 1656, at ten o'clock, James
Nailor was brought to the Bar of the House, where for those high
crimes whereof he had been found guilty, Mr. Speaker pronounced
upon him judgment as follows :
That James bailor be set on the pillory, with his head in the
pillory, in the new Pallace, Westminster, during the space of two
hours on Thursday next, and shall be whipped by the hangman
through the streets from Westminster to the Old Exchange, London ;
and there likewise be set upon the pillory with his head in the
pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven
and one, on Saturday next ; in each of the said places, wearing a
paper containing an inscription of his crimes : and that at the Old
Exchange his tongue shall be bored through with a hot iron, and
that he be there also stigmatised in the forehead with the letter E. ;
and that he be afterwards sent to Bristol, and conveyed into and
through the said city on a horse bare ridged, with his face back-
ward, and there also publickly whipped the next market day after
he comes thither. That from thence he be committed to Bridewell,
London, and there restrained from the society of all people, and
kept to hard labor, till he shall be released from Parliament ; and
during that time, be debarred from the use of pen, ink, and paper,
and shall have no relief but what he earns by his daily labor.
Eor the reader's further satisfaction, I refer him to a book touching
James jSTailor, written by Mr. Farmer, minister in Bristol, and sold
by Edward Thomas at his house in Green Arbour Yard, London.
The following extract from Mercurius Politicus for Jan. 15-22,
1657, will be a suitable appendix :
Erom Bristol, Saturday, January 17, 1657. This day the order
of Parliament was executed here upon James JNTailor in the following
manner. He rode in at Lawford's-gate upon a horse bare ridged,
with his face backward, from thence along Wine Street to the
Tolzey, thence down High Street over the Bridge, and out of
Rackly-gate ; there he alighted, and was brought into St. Thomas-
street, and after being stript he was made fast to a cart-horse ; and
was then taken to all the following places and there whipt, namely,
at the foot of the Bridge, at the end of the Bridge, at the middle
of High-street, at the Tolzey, and at the middle of Broad-street,
and then turning into Tailors-hall, he was released from the cart-
horse, and allowed to put on his cloaths, and carried thence to
Newgate by Tower-lane the back-way. There did ride before him
bare-headed, Michael Stamper, singing most part of the way, and
several other friends, men and women ; the men went bare-headed
by him, and Robert Rich (late merchant of London) rode by him
bare-headed and singing, till he came to Redcliffe gate, and there
324 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
the magistrates sent their officers, and brought him back on horse-
back to the Tolzey, all which way he rode, singing very loud, where
the magistrates were met.
1270. SOME GENEALOGICAL QUERIES.
( Continued from No. 1258.)
Pierce. John Pierce, who, in 1620 and 1621, procured the two
patents for the Plymouth colonists, though called therein " citizen
arid clothworker of London," I have reason to suppose originated
at or near Bristol. His son Kichard married the daughter of the
above-mentioned John Brown, settled here, and had eight children.
The elder Pierce, it is well known, made an attempt to come
over in the ship Paragon, but was driven back. After this the
Massachusetts historians ignore him, perhaps because of the bitter
feelings engendered by his exacting 500 from the Puritans for his
rights in the patent. It has been a disputed point whether he ever
came over and settled here, where his son Eichard afterwards had
a large trade. From some indications it would seem that he may
have done so. Any information will be very acceptable.
Cleeve. George Cleeve was joint-founder, with Kichard Tucker,
of the city of Portland, A.D. 1633; and had a wife Joan. Both
were over 80 years of age in 1666. Many efforts have been, and
are still being, made to discover his birthplace and parentage in
England.
I observe a station called Cleeve, 32 minutes (say 10 miles) north
of Gloucester, on the Midland railway. Please make inquiries
there for our old worthy.
I have found a reference to a Richard Cleeve, of the parish of
Clent, in 1590. Where is Clent ? Could it have been an error in
transcribing for Cleeve ? [The parish of Clent is near Stourbridge,
Worcestershire.]
John Winter. Agent here for the Trelawneys of Plymouth,
1630-1648, at Cape Elizabeth and Richmond Island (Maine, 5
miles south of Portland). All efforts to trace him as a native of
Plymouth have failed. He may have been from Bristol. He was a
sea-captain, and left a widow Sarah ; a son John, who, in 1644, had
just returned to England from the East Indies ; a daughter Mary,
who married 1st, Coulinge, and 2ndly, Hooper,
both in England; and a daughter Sarah, who married here the
Rev. Robert Jordan, of Worcester (matric. Balliol Coll., Oxford,
1632), and left many descendants.
James PMps. Was a gun-smith from Bristo 1 , settled on the
Kennebeck River (Maine), and had 23 children, one of whom was
the distinguished Sir William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts.
His widow, Mary, married 2ndly, John White. The town of
Phipsburg (Maine) was named in honor of the family. But few
of the names of the above children have been preserved to us,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 325
most of them perhaps having been born before emigration. Can
their names be found ? See my recent reply in Notes and Queries,
6 th S. xii. 198.
Taylor. Writing from Bristol, March 25, 1637, to Governor
Winthrop, Thomas Taylor says that he had sent over his son
Humphrey about a year before " with an invoice, which my good
friend, Mr. George Cleive [see above], will show you, he being
present [i.e., on a visit home]." We have early on Kennebeck
Eiver a John Taylor, who had a son Isaac, and a daughter Elizabeth,
wife of Thomas Gent. Also a George Taylor, of Black Point,
Scarborough (Maine), 1679. Were these Taylors related?
Elbridge. Thomas Elbridge, who came over, held courts at
Pemaquid (Bristol, Maine), and subsequently removed to Boston
(Maine), was younger son of Gyles Elbridge, who, in partnership
with Alderman Robert Aid worth, of Bristol, merchant, sent over
Abraham Shurt (see above), in 1626, to purchase Monhegan Island
of Mr. Jennings, of Plymouth. In 1629 they took a patent of
Pemaquid. Aldworth dying in 1634, this went by survivorship to
Elbridge, and by inheritance to his eldest son John, who by will,
Sept. 11, 1646, devised it to his brother Thomas. I could furnish
you with a detailed history of the transfers of this patent from
our records, and if you desire it for publication, will cheerfully do so.
WILLIAM M. SARGENT, M.A.
34, Exchange Street, Portland, Maine, U.S.A.
1271. EXTRACTS FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE "FEET OP FINES."*
List of Names mentioned.
(Continued from No. 1259.)
Gale, Cambridge, Caning,
Cambe, Camme, Canninge,
* " Fines were a very ancient class of conveyances by matter of record, consisting of fictitious
suits in the Court of Common Pleas, commenced and then compromised by leave of the Court.
They were called fines because they put an end not only to the pretended suit, but also to all
claims not made within a certain time. The foot of a fine was its conclusion, of which
indentures were made and delivered to the parties, reciting the whole proceedings at length.
Fines were abolished by 3 & 4 Will. IV., c. 74. See Steph. ' Com.,' 9th ed., vol. i., pp. 562 sq. ;
2 'Bl. Com.,' 348 sq., ; 'Co. Litt.,' 121a, n. (1) ; Williams's 'Heal Property,' 12th ed., pp. 48
sq. ; 2 ' Roll. Abr.' 13, &c." ( Wm. W. Marshall, M.A., B. C.L.) " The foot of a fine is the fifth
or last part of it, containing all the matter, the day, year, place, and names of the justices
by whom it was levied." (E. Cobham Brewer. J For other replies as to the meaning of the
term see Notes and Queries (7th S. i. 13), Jan. 2, 1886. In a subsequent number, p. 91, a,
correspondent writes : " I am surprised that none of your contributors has cited the late
Mr. A. J. Horwood's explanation of this term, from his preface to The Year Books 21 & 22
Edward I. (R. S.), p. x. : ' In a former volume it was suggested that the clerks who framed
the inrolments in Latin, from proceedings conducted in law- French, were obliged to forge
Latin words At p. 221, 1. 4, le pe~e of a fine is vouched. In our law books
the document is usually referred to as the foot of the fine. Now in the law -French reports
and tracts it is written la p6e or la ps, most usually the latter, which has the same sound as
paix (Lat. pax or concordia). In the tract called ' Modus levandi fines,' usually called the
statute 18 Edw. 1. stat. 4, the direction is that when the fine was proclaimed in the Common
Pleas, the justice shall say Griez lapses (i.e., proclaim the peace, or concord) ; and the counter
(serjeant) is to read the concord, saying, La pees est ycele, &c., setting out the terms of the
agreement between the parties. What is called the foot of the fine is the final concord or
peace thus proclaimed in court, beginning, Hoec estfinalis concordia, of which a form may be
seen at the end of the second volume of Blackstone's Commentaries? This seems to dispose
of the question." ED.
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Capel,
Close,
Cridland,
Capell,
Cloterboke,
Cripps,
Careles,
Clutterbucke,
Crispe,
Caricke,
Clyfford,
Crofts (Lord),
Caroles,
Clynton,
Crofts,
Carpender,
Clyssal,
Cromwell,
Carpenter,
Clyston,
Crooke,
Carr,
Coates,
Crosse,
Carter,
Codrington,
Crowther,
Casteel,
Codryngham,
Crumpe,
Castleman,
Colborne,
Cmmwell,
Catchmayd,
Cole,
Cruse,
Catle,
Coles,
Cugly,
Cattail,
Colles,
Cullimore,
Cattel,
Collett,
Cullin,
Cattell,
Collins,
Curnock,
Cattle,
Collyer,
Curnocke,
Cave,
Colwell,
Curtis,
Cawdwell,
Compton,
Curtys,
Chadwell,
Conquest,
Cusse.
Chamber,
Cook,
Daa al s Daye,
Chamberlayne,
Cooke,
Damory al s Damorie,
Chamberline al s
Cooper,
Dangerfield,
Giles,
Coper,
Daniell,
Chambers,
Copper mines (Gov^
Danvers,
Champion,
of),
Daunsey,
Champnes,
Copson,
Daunsie,
Chance,
Cordell,
Daunsye,
Chandler,
Cornish,
Daunt,
Chandos,
Cornocke,
Davies,
Chapman,
Cornwall,
Davis,
Chellingworth,
Cornwell,
Davyes,
Chesters,
Cosham,
Davys,
Childe,
Cotnesse,
Dawe,
Chudleigh,
Cottle,
Day,
Chum,
Cotton,
Daye,
Chume,
Cowles,
Deane,
Churches,
Cowley,
Deighton,
Clarke,
Cowlishe,
Denny s,
Cleaver,
Cox,
De Eeme al s Freme,
Clements,
Coxe,
Dike,
Clerke (Bart.),
Coxwell,
Dillington,
Clerke,
Craddocke,
Dimery,
Cleveland (Earl of),
Crane,
Dingley,
Cleyfeild,
Craven (Earl),
Diriat,
Clifford,
Crawley,
Dockett,
Clissold,
Creese,
Dodington,
Clive,
Crewe,
Donnynge,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
327
Dorney,
Feilde,
Gardyner,
Dove,
Feilder,
Gare,
Dowdeswell,
Eennell al s Mcholls,
Garfield,
Dowle,
Ferrers,
Garnans,
Draughton,
Eerrinder,
Garner,
Drewett,
Ferris,
Gamons,
Driver,
Fettiplace,
Garrard,
Drye,
Fettyplace,
Garratt,
Ducie,
Field,
Garrett,
Duckett,
Fillimore,
Gastrel,
Ducy,
Finch,
Gearinge,
Ducye,
Fisher,
Gent,
Dudbridge,
Fishpoole,
George,
Duglas,
Fitzherbert,
Gibbes,
Dunckley,
Flamell,
Gibbins,
Dungerfield,
Fletcher,
Gibbs,
Dunninge,
Flower,
Gifforde,
Dunnynge,
Flude,
Gilbert,
Dutton,
Ford,
Gilby,
Dyer.
Forde,
Gill,
Eagles,
Fords,
Gillman,
Echill,
Fossan,
Gilman,
Edgerley,
Foster,
Gleede,
Edwards,
Fotherby,
Gobby,
Edwardes,
Fowler,
Goddard,
Egbourn al s Egby,
Fox,
Godsalve,
Egells,
Foxwell,
Goode,
Egvy,
Francis,
Goodwin^
Elame,
Francklin,
Gough,
Elkinton,
Frape,
Granger,
Elliott,
Freame,
Gravenor,
Ellond,
Freeman,
Grayle,
Ely,
Freme,
Greene,
Elye,
Freme al s de Reme,
Greening,
Essington,
Erigg,
Greeninge,
Estcourte,
Frigge,
Greenwood,
Esyngton,
Fryar,
Gregory,
Etheridge,
Fust,
Grevill,
Ettericke,
Fyeld,
Grey,
Evans,
Fynemore,
Griffin,
Everard,
Fynniore.
Grigg,
Everet al s Everod,
Gabb,
Gryffin,
Evington,
Gabbe,
Gryme,
Eyre,
Gagg,
Guilbert,
Evreman.
Gagge,
Guyes,
Facet,
Gale,
Guyse,
Eane,
Gardner,
Gwynett,
Earr,
Gardiner,
Gybbes,
328
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Gybbins,
Gyde,
Gythens.
Habertt,
Halbbyns,
Halford,
Hale,
Hall,
Hallaway,
Halyday,
Hamonde,
Hampson,
Hampton,
Hancock,
Hancoks,
Hancox,
Handman,
Hanley,
Hannys,
Harberd,
Harbert,
Harbord,
Harding,
Hardinge,
Hardynge,
Hare,
Harewell,
Harmar,
Harmer,
Harrell,
Harris,
Harrison,
Harrys,
Hart,
Harte,
Harvey,
Hassell,
Hatheway,
Hathwaye,
Haven,
Haviland,
Ha ward,
Hawker,
Hawkins,
Hawley,
Hawtrey,
Hay,
Haynes,
Hayward,
Heane,
Heath,
Heaven,
Heeley,
Hellier,
Henson,
Herbert,
Heskins,
Heskyns,
Hevyn,
Heycocke,
Heynes,
Heywood,
Hickes,
Hickman,
Hicks,
Hide,
Higges,
Higginson,
Higgs,
Hill,
Hiller,
Hillerson,
Hillier,
Hinton,
Hixe,
Hixe al s Hickes,
Hobbes,
Hobbs,
Hobson,
Hodges,
(To be continued.)
Holborow,
Holbrow,
Holbrowe,
Holder,
Holeday,
Holland,
Foiled,
Hollister,
Holloway,
Hone,
Hope,
Hooper,
Hopton,
Horde,
Horston,
Horton,
Horwood,
Hoskins,
Hotchkins,
Houbelon,
Howell,
Hubberd,
Hudson,
Hulings,
Hulins,
Hulley,
Humfreys,
Hunbier,
Hune,
Hungerford,
Hunt,
Hunt al s Ashmeade,
Huntley,
Huntley al s Symonds,
Hurne,
Hutton,
Hyde,
Hyett,
Hyll,
Hynson.
1272. SUNDRY OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE ADVERTISEMENTS, 1735-
40. (See No. 1243.) I send another batch of old advertisements
culled from the Gloucester Journal at the dates appended to
each :
(1.) SALT WATER. Edward Davis, of the Swan Inn in
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 329
Whitminster, continueth (with, great success) to Dip both Man and
Beast in the Salt Water of the River Severn. N.B. Whereas it
was advertised in the Gloucester Journal of the 6th May inst. that
the Hock Crib is the only place for Dipping with safety : This is
to satisfy the World that the same is false ; and that I, the said
Edward Davis, follow Dipping (and perform it myself) but a very
little way below the Hock Crib ;* And as the water runs by my
place of dipping to the Hock, if there be any difference in the
water, mine must of course be the best, it being somewhat nearer
the sea. And what gives me the greatest encouragement, proceeds
from the letters I have received from divers persons that were
disorder'd three or four days before they came to me ; which may
be proved by the following letter from John Earns, of Samburne,
near Alcester in Warwickshire ; whose sister, Mary Heath, received
the infection only from the breath of a brother who dy'd mad
(being Dipt by au unskilful hand), and by the advice of some of
her friends took medicines prescribed for her, which proving
ineffectual, she was prevail'd upon to come to me to be Dipt.
[Mr. Earns certifies that his sister " is recover'd perfectly well
through your means and God's assistance."] Likewise another
letter to the same effect from Cha. Tims, of Comebrook near
Warwick, only he was bit by a mad dog on the inside of his lip for
above five weeks before he came. EDWABD DAVIS. May 27, 1735.
[In the Journal of the 17th June following is an advertisement
stating that Thomas Ady, of the Hock Crib, is also a Dipper of man
and beast, that "his house is the most convenient," that he has "an
incomparable nostrum, or cordial water, given him by an eminent
physician, which is of wonderful service to compose the patient
after dipping," and that he " has not only cured persons of riper
years, but infants, who have been bit in the nose and mouth, and
those who have been left off by doctors, and almost raving mad."]
(2.) Whereas the Famous Purging Mineral Water at Cheltenham
has not been for some years last past so much resorted to as formerly,
from at report that the inhabitants of the said town were exorbitant
in their demands, and no convenience to be had reasonably : By an
unanimous meeting, consent and agreement of the gentlemen,
tradesmen, and innholders of the said town, This is to certify that
all gentlemen, ladies, and others, may meet with a kind reception,
and good usage, with convenient lodgings, &c., and ordinaries kept,
if encouraged, at reasonable rates. Note, 'Tis a pleasant town,
situate on a fine sand, and in a fine air ; and many persons of
quality and distinction have been there, and receiv'd great benefit.
* " Gloucester, Jan. 5 [1740]. We hear that the great bulwark called the Hock Crib, built
by the Right Hon. the Earl of Berkeley, in order to enforce the river Severn into its former
channel by Arr's Point, is now compleatly finish'd under the care and direction of
Mr. Strahan ; and it's said his Lordship intends to build another, four miles below the
former, by which he will undoubtedly gain a large Tract of Land, contiguous with what is
now call'd his New Grounds, inferior to none in England for the richness of its soil."
Gloucester Journal, Jan. 8, 1740.
VOL. III. Z
330 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
The season holds all the summer. There is a good bowling-green
and billiard-tables for the gentlemen's diversion. June 10, 1735.
(3.) To be Sold, The Manner of Upleadon, 5 miles from the city
of Gloucester, and 2 from Newent, consisting of two good Farms,
an Iron-Forge, with some Tenements, all in good repair, with the
Tythes of the parish ; is well tenanted, and in lease upon a yearly
rent ; being well wooded, watered, and planted with fruit-trees ;
with 30 acres of Coppice Woods ; containing in the whole above
500 acres of good Land at the yearly rent of 288, exclusive of
Timber and Coppices, and is capable of great improvement. Par-
ticulars may be had of Mr. Jones, Attorney at Law in Gloucester,
or of Mr. Warburton in Hartpury. December 9, 1735.
(4.) This is to give Notice to all Shopkeepers and others, that are
dealers in Choice Scotch Snuff, That they may be supplied with the
same at 15d. per pound, in any Quantity not less than 14 Pounds,
by John Hillhouse, on the Key, Bristol, who has it made in the
best manner by the Noted Daniel Macpherson, Snuff-Maker, from
Edinburgh. N.B. He also sells the finest Rappee-Snuff, but not
less than a pound. March 11, 1740.
[The following is not inserted as an advertisement, but is given
as evidence that the proprietor of the Journal could blow his own
trumpet pretty loudly when an opportunity arose.]
(5.) Gloucester, Dec. 28 [1734]. We have an account from
Malmesbury that the person who stole the cloth advertis'd in our
last, was apprehended there, and committed to Salisbury gaol. By
which our readers may perceive that a timely application is
necessary, as well for the recovery of goods lost, as for detecting
the offenders ; to which this Paper has greatly contributed, not
only in the above, but in several other cases of the like nature, by
being dispers'd (and that in great numbers) in no less than Twelve
Counties ; on which account it may be justly esteemed the best
Country News Paper now extant. j j^
1273. THE LAST OF THE GLOUCESTER TURNPIKES. The
Gloucester Journal of Nov. 1, 1879, records these particulars:
At twelve o'clock last night the turnpike gates at Over and
Maisemore were taken from their hinges, and the Over and
Maisemore Turnpike Trust ceased to exist. The event is of some
importance in local history, because with the abolition of the Over
and Maisemore gates the last of the turnpikes around Gloucester
have disappeared. The trust was constituted in the year 1812.
Previous to that there had been trusts for the repair of the roads
from Gloucester in the direction of Hereford, statutory powers for
which date back as far as 1726. Down to the year 1874 the Over
trust was distinct from the Maisemore trust. In that year the
whole question of turnpike trusts was considered by a committee
of the House of Commons, and on their recommendation the two
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 331
trusts were included in the trusts of which a continuance was
sanctioned by the Turnpike Continuance Act of 1874, upon the
condition that in future the two trusts were combined. The Act
allowed the continuance of the united trust until the 1st of
November, 1878, when it should have expired with many other
trusts in different parts of the country, but the trustees made an
application for the continuance of the trust. The application was
based on the grounds that the roads comprised in the trust were of
an exceptional character; that owing to roads from several parts
converging at Over, where the lowest bridge over the Severn is
situated, the traffic was far more than the average traffic of a
turnpike road ; that for the parishes through which the roads of
the trust ran to have to make good this additional wear and tear
was very unfair .; and that the trust was not one of the ordinary
trusts, such as were abolished by the Act for the Abolition of
Turnpikes. The result of the application was that the trust was
continued, but only for another year. The letting of the tolls was
generally an easy matter, but when they were offered at the usual
time last year there was no response. Subsequently, however, they
were let for the twelve months to Mr. Williams for .1,965, being
5 less than the amount for which they were let in the previous year.
GLOUCESTEENSIS,
1274. LIST OF ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS, A.D. 680-824.
The undermentioned charters have reference to Gloucestershire, and
are to be found in vol. i. of Cartularium Saxonicum : a Collection
of Charters relating to Anglo-Saxon History, A.D. 4^0-839, by
Walter de Gray Birch, F.S.A., London, 1885 :
No. 59. Grant by yEthelred, king of the Mercians, to
Aldhelm, abbot of Malmesbury, Wilts, of land
near Tetbury. A.D. 680, for 681.
59A. Boundaries of the land granted in No. 59. (Brit.
Mus. Add. MS. 15,667, f. 33.)
60. Charter of King ^Ethelred, or Ethelred, founding
the monastery of St. Peter, Gloucester. A.D.
671, for .681,
117. Grant by Ailric, son of King Oshere, of land at
Childeswicwon, or Child's Wickham, to Ethom, or
Evesham, Monastery, Worcestershire. A.D. 706.
118, Grant by Walter, the priest, of land at Swelle, or
Swell, to Cronochomme, or Evesham, Monastery,
Worcestershire. A.D. 706.
156. Settlement by Nothelm, archbishop of Canterbury,
and the bishops in a synod, of title of land for a
monastery at Withington, on the river Tillath,
originally granted by ^thelbald, king of the
Mercians, to two nuns, Dunne and Bucge; and
by Dunne to the abbess Hrotuuari, her
332 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
daughter. With reversion to the see of Worcester.
A.D. 736 x 737. (See Nos. 217, 299.)
No. 163. Grant by ^Ethelbald, king of the South Angles, to
Bishop Wilfrid, of land at Baeccesore (Paxford ?).
A.D. 716x743.
164. Grant by ^Ethilbald, king of the South Angles, to
Worcester Cathedral, of lands in Wuduceastir, or
Woodchester. A.D. 716 x 743.
165. Grant by ^Ethelbald, king of the Mercians, to
Osred of the Huiccas, of lands at Eastune and
Natangraf, or Cold-Aston and Notgrove. A.D.
716 x 743. Boundaries dated A.D. 743.
166. Grant for two lives by Uuilfrith, bishop of Worcester,
to the Earl Leppa and his daughter Beage, of land
(at Beagan byrig) on the Cunuglae, Bibury on the
Colne, with reversion to the Cathedral. A.D.
721x743.
217. Grant by Milred, bishop of Worcester, to the abbess
^Ethelburga, of land at Wudiandun, or Withington.
A.D. 774. (See Nos. 156, 299.)
226. Grant by Offa, king of the Angles, to Worcester
Monastery, of land at Ductun, or Doughton, and
Esig. A.D. 775 x 778.
230. Grant by Offa, king of the Mercians, to his thegn
Duddonus, of land in Salmonnes-burg, or Sal-
monsbury, on the Windrush, near Bourton-on-
the-Water. A.D. 779.
240. Grant by Offa, king of the Mercians, of land at
Icancumb, or Iccomb, to Worcester Cathedral, in
exchange for land at Sapia, or Sapey-Pritchard,
Worcestershire. 26 Dec., A.D. 781.
246. Grant by Offa, king of the Mercians, and Aldred,
subregulus of the Huiccii, to the monastery at
Clife, or Give, of land at Timbingctun. A.D.
769x785.
274. Grant by King Offa to the thegn ^Ethelmund, of
land at Westbury. A.D. 793 x 796.
283. Reversionary grant by Headda, abbot, to Worcester
Monastery, of land at Dogodes well, or Dowdes-
well, and other places in the county. A.D.
781 x 798.
299. Boundaries of Widiandune, or Withington. About
A.D. 800. (See Nos. 156, 217.)
309. Record of an agreement between Deneberht, bishop
of Worcester, and Wlf heard, bishop of Hereford,
settling the monasteries of Cheltenham and
Beckford upon Deneberht, who conveys the pastus
there to Aethilheard, archbishop of Canterbury,
for his life, etc. Thursday, 12 Oct., A.D. 803.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 333
No. 338. Foundation charter of Wincelcumbe, or Winchcombe,
Abbey. 11 Nov., A.D. 811.
349. Grant by Kenulf, king of the Mercians, to Deneberht,
bishop of Worcester, of land at Dunhamstyde
(Hempstead ?), near Gloucester. 26 Dec., A.D.
814.
350. Eemission by Coenuulf, king of the Mercians, to
Deneberht, bishop of Worcester, of the mainten-
ance of twelve men due for that city, in exchange
for the site of the monastery of Bituinaeum, or
Twining, and other land on the west of the
Severn. 26 Dec., A.D. 814.
351. Grant by Kenulf, king of the Mercians, to Deneberht,
bishop of Worcester, of land at Stour, or Stour-
port, Worcestershire, in exchange for land at
Gythinge, or Guyting. A.D. 814.
364. Grant by King Ceuuulf to Wilfled, of land at
Aldantune, or Aldington, Worcestershire, with
reservation of a rent to the monastery at Winchel-
combe, or Winchcombe. A.D. 811 x819.
379. Settlement of the dispute between Heaberht, bishop
of Worcester, and the family at Berkeley, con-
cerning the monastery at Westbuhr, or Westbury.
30 Oct., A.D. 824. BIBLIOGRAPHER.
1275. SOME BRIEFS AND COLLECTIONS IN STANTON ST. JOHN
CHURCH, Dio. OXFORD, 1664-1759. The following, extracted from
a " List of Briefs collected in the Church of iStanton St. John,
Oxfordshire, from 1658 to 1759," which has appeared in vol. x. of
the Reliquary, may be of interest :
1664. Coll for Sydney [sic] in Gloucest 028
1665. Coll for Tho. Sloper of Hartbury in Gloucest.
shire 026
1676. Sept. 17. Coll d for Newent in Gloucester
Shire 036
A Dn 1 1702.
Aug. 30. [For fire at] Blaisdon in Gloucester ... 053
A.D. 1707.
Dec r 14. Eepairing y e Church of Dursley in
Gloucestersh ... ... ... ... 033
A.D. 1709.
Aug. 21. [Collected] for S* Mary Eeddyf [sic]
Church in Bristol 030
1717. June 23. On Oldbury Com Glocest r ... 01 5
1719. Nov. 29. On Cheltenham Com. Glocest r 02 02
1728. May 26. On St. John Baptist Chh. Com.
Glouc _... 00 01 04
1731. Oct. 10. On Tetbury Church, Com
Gloucester ... 00 01 06
334 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
1732. May 7. Calcot, Com. Gloucest . . . ... 00 02 Olf
21. Wotton under Edge, Com.
Gloucest 00 02 01
1733. Aug. 12. Mitchel Dean, Com Gloucester 00 01 08
1749. May 21. Berkeley Church, in Com
Gloucester 00 00 06
1754. Dossington Chh. Com. Glouc. Churchwardens
1756. Donington Church, Com. Gloucester ... 00 09
1759. Werberg Church, City of Bristol Q -j>. D.
1276. ZOUCHE'S POETICAL DESCRIPTION OF BRISTOL, 1613.
In The Dove: or Passages of Cosmography, by Eichard Zovche,
"Ciuillian, of New Colledge in Oxford" (London, 1613), these
lines relative to Bristol may be found :
" Bristow, the Marchants Magazin, enclos'd
With Eocky Hils, by Auons streame imbrac't,
Faire by industrious workemanship compos'd
As by great Matures wisedome firmely plac't,
Viewing her verdant Marsh, may well disdaine
Eomes sometimes-glory, Mars his Champian plaine."
The comparison of the Marsh (now known as Queen's- square) at
Bristol with the famous Campus Martius at Eome, from which the
Champs de Mars at Paris has its name, is to be observed by the
reader.
There is a modern edition of Zouche's Dove (Oxford, 1839),
"reprinted from the original edition of 1613 ; with a memoir and
notes, collected and arranged by Eichard Walker, B.D., a descendant,
Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford," pp. xliii. 82, 8vo. " Our
author's first work," as the editor has remarked, "published in
1613, is the Poem which I have been induced to reprint, both
from its merit and its great rarity. The work is a succinct poetical
account of the three quarters of the old Continent, after the
method of the Periegesis of Dionysius. The general harmony of
versification displayed in this juvenile poem is conspicuous, con-
sidering the time in which the author lived : the variety of historical
allusions, and the ingenious descriptions interspersed, lend to the
poem a considerable interest; and I indulge a hope, that its
republication may not be unacceptable to the curious reader, as
supplying a small link in the chain of our earlier English poetry."
ABHBA.
1277. "THE BLOOD OF HAYLES." (See No. 176.) The
following note, and the accompanying transcript, appeared in the
Gloucester Journal, March 10, 1883, and deserve, I think, to be
reprinted. j Q.
I ask the editor of the Gloucester Journal to print at the foot of
any communication on " relics " with which he may be favoured
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 335
this week, the following letter from Stephen Sagar, the last abbot
of Hayles, written after the removal of the phial containing the
" Blood," and bearing date three months and eleven days before
the surrender of the abbey to Thomas Cromwell, secretary of state
to King Henry VIII. I regret that I am obliged to put one word
in brackets, as I could not decipher it in the MS. (Tanner MS. 105,
fol. 546.) when I copied it the day before yesterday, in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford. J OHN BELLOWS.
Third Month, 8th, 1883.
Pleaseth it your Honor after my most humble Duty with
imortall Thankes for your inestimable goodness towards me ever at
my need, to be advertised where it is, so that the case where that
famed relict called the Blood was and doth stand as yet in the place
there still as it was, in manner and fashion of a shrine, so that I
am afraid lest it should minister occasion to any weak Person
looking thereupon to abuse is week conscience throu it. And
therefore I do beseech you to be so good a Lord unto me as to give
me License that I may put it down every stick and stone, so as no
maner of Token or remembrance of THAT FORGED RELICK
shall remaine there dureing the time that it shall please God, our
Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty, and your good Lordship that
this poor house may stand. And as touching the vallue of the
silver and gold that is therein I think it is not worth xl< scant
[30 . . . ] by estimation, wherein you may give credit to this
bearer, and by the same to let me know your pleasure in the
premisses, beseeching you most humbly to continue my good Lord
as you have ever been, and to accept this poor token which I do
send you at this time, a strange piece of Gold. And this the
blessed Lord of Heaven long preserve your life and health to his
pleasure. Amen. At Halles y e xx September.
Yo r most bounden Beadsman,
STEPHEN Abbot.
To my most especiall good Lord,
my Lord Privy Seale.
1278. EPITAPH ON WILLIAM CHILD, DOCTOR IN Music. In
St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, the following may be seen :
" Here lies the body of William Child, Doctor in Music, and
one of the organists of the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, and of His
Majesty's free Chapel at Windsor. He was born in Bristol, and
died here on the 23 rd of March, 169, in the 91 st year of his age.
He paved the body of the choir.
" Go, happy soul, and in the seats above
Sing endless hymns of thy great Maker's love !
How fit in heavenly songs to bear thy part,
Before well-practic'd in the Sacred Art !
33 G GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Whilst hearing us, sometimes the choire divine
Will sure descend, and in our consort [sic] join,
So much the music, thou to us hast given,
Has made our earth to represent their heaven."
Many particulars of Child are to be found in Hawkins's History
of Music, vol. iv., pp. 415, 416. He was, as above stated, a native
of Bristol, and was educated in music under Elway Bevin,*
organist of Bristol Cathedral. His memory is celebrated for an
act of liberality that was hardly to be expected from one in his
position. It seems that he was so ill paid for his services at
Windsor, that a long arrear of salary had accumulated. After
many fruitless applications to the dean and chapter, he told them
that if they would pay him the sum that was due, he would pave
their chapel for them. They paid him his money, and he kept his
promise, neither they nor the knights companions of the most
noble order of the garter interposing to prevent it, or signifying
the slightest inclination to have a share in the work.
BRISTOLIENSIS.
1279. STRANGE TREATMENT OF THE POOR. The following
extraordinary advertisement appeared in the Bristol Journal for
August 30, 1823 :
. " WINTERBOURNE PARISH. To be let by Tender. The Poor of
the above Parish, to farm for one year from Michaelmas next.
Any persons willing to contract for the same are requested to apply
for particulars to the Churchwardens or Overseers, who will receive
tenders at the Workhouse on Monday, the 8th September."
This advertisement evoked a sneer from a correspondent of the
Journal, who, in a subsequent issue, drew attention to the " tender "
treatment of the unfortunate. His remarks were, however, left
unanswered. j -^
1280. EDWARD JENNER, M.D., AND* THE FREEDOM OF
LONDON. In London's Roll of Fame, 1757-1884 (London, 1884),
p. 100, this entry appears :
"At a Court of Common Council, llth August, 1803, it was
Eesolved unanimously :
" ' That the Freedom of this City be presented to Doctor Jenner
in a Gold Box of the value of One Hundred Guineas, as a token
of their sense of his skill and perseverance in bringing into general
use the Inoculation of the Cow Pock.'"
And the Gentleman's Magazine (1805), vol. Ixxv., pt. ii., pp.
673, 674, contains the following announcement, which has been
reprinted in the Roll of Fame :
"Thursday, July 3 [1805]. Dr. Jenner this day attended at
* " Elway Bevin, a disciple of Tallis, a gentleman extraordinary of the royal chapel in 1605,
and organist of the cathedral church of Bristol," was also a writer on music of great
eminence, as well as a composer.
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Guildhall to receive the freedom of the City in a gold box of 100
guineas value, pursuant to a resolution of the Court of Common
Council. The chamberlain [Richard Clark, Esq.], having adminis-
tered the oath of a freeman, took the Doctor by the right hand
and addressed him to the following effect : ' Dr. Jenner, I give
you joy, and, in obedience to the resolution of the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled, present you with the freedom of this City, in a
gold box, as a token of their sense of your skill and perseverance in
the discovery of, and bringing into general use, the Inoculation of the
Cow Pock. It has frequently fallen to my lot to convey the thanks
of this great Corporation to men who have distinguished themselves
by their prowess in arms, and who have gained immortal honour by
victories obtained over the foes of their king and country. But
you, Sir, have obtained a victory over the deadliest enemy of the
human race; a monster, which levelled in one undistinguished
ruin the aged, the young, the rich, the poor ; whose rage could not
be resisted by the strong, nor opposed by the weak, and whose
unfeeling malice could neither be soothed [sued] by innocence, nor
disarmed by beauty. May you, Sir, long live to enjoy the
inexpressible pleasure of seeing those multitudes whom you have
preserved from the grave performing the various charities in this
sublunary state ; and afterwards meet them in those happy regions
where the physician's skill is useless, and there receive the reward
allotted for those who, in humble imitation of their benevolent
Redeemer, devote their lives to the happiness of their fellow-
creatures ! ' To which the Doctor answered : ' Sir, The distin-
guished honour conferred upon me by the City of London demands
my grateful acknowledgments. No. words, perhaps, could adequately
convey my feelings. I can only say, that reflecting on the cause
which has made me the object of your attention, I cannot but
consider this as one of the happiest moments of my life. The
pleasure I feel, Sir, is greatly increased by the consideration that the
testimony you have just pronounced, in the name of the great and
important body you represent, in favour of Vaccination, may tend
to counteract those attempts which have recently been made to
retard its progress attempts which, I will boldly assert, entirely
originate either in ignorance or prejudice. The merits of the
Yaccine practice are now so well established, and so generally
acknowledged, that, I am well assured, no efforts of the ill-judging
or misguided few who still continue to oppose it, whatever present
mischief they may occasion, will ultimately prevent its universal
adoption. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the multiplicity of
evidence that has been laid before the publick from every part of
the civilized word, to prove both the efficacy of the Cow Pox in
preventing the dreadful malady, the effects of which you, Sir,
have so well depicted, and its own inherent mildness. From many
of the large cities, particularly from Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, as
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well as from many populous districts on the Continent, I have
lately received information, announcing that the ravages of the Small
Pox are no longer felt, and that it is at present scarcely known
but by name. There indeed Vaccination has not had to contend
with the various prejudices which, I am sorry to observe, still in
some degree check its extension here. I firmly trust, however,
through the blessing of Divine Providence, to find, before I sink
into the tomb, that this, which you so justly term the deadliest
enemy of the human race, has been every where completely
subdued. I have only to add my best wishes for the lasting
prosperity of this opulent and enlightened City; and to return you,
Sir, my sincere thanks for the obliging manner in which you have
been pleased to communicate the resolutions of the Common
Council.' "
It is rather strange that this honour should not have been
specially mentioned in Dr. Baron's Life of Edward Jenner, M.D.,
London, 1838; but so it is, if I am not mistaken. "Jenner," as
we may read in that work, vol. ii., p. 33, "continued to receive
from many public bodies marks of distinction, all which he valued
most highly, not only because they were grateful to his own heart,
but because they materially contributed by the sanction attached to
them to extend the practice which he had the happiness to discover.
In this spirit he obtained the intelligence of a degree conferred on
him by the Hawardian University of Cambridge, in Massachusetts.
The diploma was transmitted by his friend Dr. Waterhouse, and it
arrived in England during the spring of 1805. The Corporation of
Dublin, about the same time, unanimously voted him the freedom
of that city. In announcing this to Dr. Jenner, the officers of
that respectable civic body transmitted a charge of somewhat about
five pounds for his admission fees. This mode of making him
open his purse strings for a gratuitous honour used often to excite
a good-natured smile on his countenance when he adverted to the
transaction." ABHBA.
1281. ICOMB PARISH : LIST OF RECTORS. (See No. 174.) The
patronage of this benefice formerly belonged to the priory of
"Worcester, but more recently to the dean and chapter of that
diocese, in which body it continues to be vested. The following
list of Eectors may be acceptable :
A.D.
1240. W. de Scordiche.
Nicholas de Chilbauton, d.
1285.
1285. Ralph de Wittheley.
1286. Richard de Mitharn, or
Michem.
1322. Thomas de Wyke.
1338. William de Aldebure.
A.D.
1351. John de Iccombe.
1398. Richard Besseford.
1400. John Webbe.
1402. William Ybote.
1403. Edmund Knyght.
1433. Edmund Jannys.
1443. William Povey.
1445. Roland Banes.
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A.D.
1451. William Hoper, LL.D.
1453. William Stevyns.
1454. William Strangeford.
1458. Thomas Hawkyns, M.A.
1459. Thomas Hawkys.
1459. Thomas Middilton.
1460. Kichard Gardener.
1465. John Preston.
1479. Thomas Mannyng.
1483. Kichard Browne.
William Wye.
1558. Andrew Dalowe.
1573. John Langworth.
1574. Antony Spurret.
A.D.
1616. Ralph Willet,* M.A.
1662. Thomas Owen, M.A.
1718. Dennys Payne.
1724. Thomas Miles, M.A.
1733. Thomas Jenner, D.D.
1768. Thomas Pixell, M.A.
1792. John Howard.
1856. Samuel Meyrick Higgins.
1864. Augustin Williams, pro-
moted to the rectory of
Todenham, 1882.
1882. George Robinson Kewley,
M.A., present rector.
A. W.
1282. INQUISITION OP THE MANOR OF PUCKLECHURCH, A.l).
1189. The Rev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A., has edited for the
Roxburghe Club, with a preface and glossarial notes, An Inquisition
of the Manors of Glastonbury Abbey, of the year M.C.LXXXIX.,
London, 1882, 4to. The original MS. is in the possession of the
Marquis of Bath, and is a small 4 to of 142 pages, each page
containing exactly the same quantity of matter as in the printed
copy. Surveys very similar to this one, in both substance and
form, have been published within the last few years ; more particu-
larly The Domesday of St. Paul's of A.D. 1222, and The Register
of Worcester Priory of A.D. 1240, both ably edited, for the
Camden Society, by the late Archdeacon Hale. This survey is
therefore not novel in its kind ; but, as Canon Jackson has
remarked, the claim which it has to be preserved by means of the
press is, not only that it is by several years older than the two just
mentioned, but that, with the single exception of the brief
summary of manors in the Exchequer Domesday, it is the oldest
known record of the possessions of the monastery of Glastonbury.
It retains the original parchment cover, distinguished on the out-
side by a very large letter A. The ink, though almost 700 years old, is,
on the whole, well preserved ; and, the writing being square and
so distinct as to leave scarcely a word about which there can be any
doubt, it has been thought not unsafe, and certainly much more for
the convenience of the reader, to substitute full for contracted
syllables. This " Liber Henrici de Soliaco " (so called because the
work of Henricus de Soliaco, who was abbot of Glastonbury, 1189-
1192) does not appear to have been known to Bishop Tanner; at
least, there is no reference to it by name in the schedule of
Glastonbury documents printed in the Notitia Monastica of that
* " In the chancel within the rails, on a plain free stone on the floor : ' Bad. Willet, in
artibus magister, & rector hujus ecclesi 40 annos, obiit Septembria 18, 1666.' "Nash'*
Worcttrthirt (1781-2), vol. ii. p. 2.
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learned prelate. It was, however, more than a hundred years ago
seen and examined by Canon Arnold, of Wells, who died in 1779.
From this and other Glastonbury documents to which he had
access, he compiled a volume of Notes and Extracts, which was
lent to Hutchins, the historian of Dorsetshire, in whose work (vol.
ii., p. 352, ed. 1774 ; vol. iii., p. 692, new ed.), among the MiSS.
seen by Arnold, this is named "An Ancient Custumary and
Feodary of Glaston. made in the time of Henry de Soliaco marked
A." It is not a complete account of the Glastonbury estates in
1189, inasmuch as some which the monks certainly possessed in
that year are not named at all ; while others, such as Mells,
Doulting, and Marksbury, are mentioned in the first part among
the lands held by homage and fealty, but the inquisitions of them
by the jury are wanting. A few leaves are unfortunately lost, at
pp. 32, 40, 94, and 142, and the account of Deverell (Longbridge)
has disappeared altogether. The contents relate solely to the
temporalities of the abbey in 1189. There is scarcely any allusion
to its ecclesiastical patronage, rectories, vicarages, etc., nor is there
any information regarding the discipline or employment of the
monks, or the religious services, or the previous history of the abbey
itself.
The inquisition of Pucklechurch is comprised in pp. 95-102.
After p. 94, four leaves (or eight pages) are missing in the original
MS., whereby the account of Wrington is imperfect, and the
particulars of one or two other estates are probably lost ; and after
the break, at p. 95, the title, or heading, of the manor then under
description is wanting ; but from the evidence of certain local
names, it is, without doubt, PUCKLECHURCH, in Gloucestershire.
For example, referring to p. 5, we find Richard de Holebroc doing
fealty for lands in Holbroc ; and in the margin, Holbroc is named
as being in Pucklechurch. At p. 100, 1. 16, Richard de Holebroc
occurs again. There is a hamlet of the name of Holbrook in
Pucklechurch. There are also the following coincidences in name :
Haldelande, p. 96, 1. 6 (now Oldland); Chestelling-true, p. 97, 1. 13
(now Chestles) ; Doddemore, p. 98, 1. 1 ; Nubelee, p. 99 (now
Nibley) ; Warland, p. 100 ; Abbodestone, p. 101 (now Abson) ;
and Wica, p. 101 (now Wick) all being local names which still
exist within, or close to, the parish of Pucklechurch.
One is almost tempted to transfer to these pages the inquisition
of Pucklechurch as printed by Canon Jackson; but it would
require more space than can be given at present, and to the volume
we must refer the reader. It may be well, however, to mention
here, in conclusion, that this Inquisition of the Manors of Glaston-
bury Abbey may be divided into three parts :
I. The names of landowners under the abbey holding by homage
and fealty : the lands, quantities, and services.
II. The officers and servants of the monastery itself, their rights
and perquisites : the lands set apart for their maintenance, the
pensions, corrodies, etc.
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III. The inquisition of the several manors : the demesne,
customary tenants, and the various tenures and services.
And that in making this inquiry the mode of proceeding was as
follows : A jury of the principal tenants in each manor was
named, who were required to give a " veredictum," or true return,
in answer to certain " capitula," or articles, submitted to them, viz.
1 . How much each person holds.
2. Every kind of service rendered by each.
3. Who holds freely ; how much ; by what service, what warrant,
and by whom granted,
4. Whether during or since the time of Bishop Henry (of Blois)
any land had been made free which used to be burdened with
labour-service. By what warrant and how far it is free.
5. What demesne land is in hand or let out to tenants freely or
in villenage ; and whether it is better for the lord that it should
remain as it is, or be recalled. ABHBA.
1283. AWRE PARISH AND "STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS."
In an account of the re-opening of ths church of this parish after
extensive and thorough repairs (the cost of which had been defrayed
chiefly through the liberality of Henry Crawshay, Esq., of
Oaklands Park, who gave .2,200 towards the purpose), it is stated
that this venerable building dates from the reign of Henry II., and
that in the parish register, in use from the time of Henry VIII.,
A.D. 1538, until the year 1812, is an entry in these words : " Let
it be remembered, for the honour of this parish, that from it first
sounded out the Psalms of David in English metre, by Thomas
Sternhold and John Hopkins ; the former lived in an estate near
Blakeuey, called the Hay-field ; and the latter in an estate in the
Tything of Awre, called the Wood-end. And in the house of the
said John Hopkins there is now to be seen the arms of the Tudor
family, being painted upon the wall of it ; and on both sides is
written, in Saxon characters, the former part of the thirteenth
chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Komans, which was done at
that time, 'in perpetuam rei, sive operis, memoriarn."' j Q..
1284. THE MARTYRDOM OF BISHOP HOOPER (See No. 23.)
The Very Eev. Henry Montagu Butler, D.D., Dean of Gloucester,
preached in Gloucester Cathedral on Sunday, February 14, 1886,
on the martyrdom of Bishop Hooper. His text was Acts vii., 59,
60, relative to the martyrdom of Stephen ; and the following are
the portions of his sermon which are suitable for insertion in these
pages :
Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
saints, and never surely dearer than when, like Stephen, like Paul,
like Polycarp, like Alban, like Boniface, like our own Hooper, like
Coleridge Patteson within our memory, like Hannington even
within the last few weeks, they give up their lives when they might
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have saved them, because they count nothing so precious as simple
devotion to Him. There is, I suppose, no title of earth so dear to
the heart of our countrymen as the title of " martyr." It is, if we
think, saint and hero in one. It joins together in loveliest union
holiness and courage. It shows the weak things of the world
conquering the mighty. Best of all, the presence or the memory
of a martyr assures us, by an irresistible Christian instinct, of the
real presence of the Son of God. It is not the martyr alone, but
also the witnesses of his martyrdom, who see heaven open and
Jesus sitting at the right hand of God. These thoughts have been
suggested partly by the recent murder of the good missionary
bishop which seems no longer to be matter of doubt, and partly by
the return in the course of last week of that melancholy but
glorious day when, just 331 years ago, our own citizens heard from
the lips of a martyr, in his prolonged death agony, these words, the
very words of Stephen, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." And
when he had said this he too, like Stephen, "fell asleep." It may not
be without its use to remind you, my friends, however briefly and
imperfectly, of the character of this holy man, the one man to
whom Gloucester has raised a public monument. We would
neither idolise nor disparage him. We would, if it might be,
learn of him. We would humbly seek to follow him as he faith-
fully followed Christ.
John Hooper was not one of the greatest men of the heroic period
of the Eeformation, but he was one of the purest. He was not a
great theologian, nor a great ecclesiastical statesman ; but as a
Christian he was most holy, as a student of Scripture he hungered
and thirsted after truth, as a missionary longing for the evangel-
isation of the mass of his countrymen he was most loving and
laborious, as a bishop he was a true father in God. He was born
in our neighbouring Somersetshire. After his early Oxford days,
to which we shall presently revert, he became a monk, first at a
Cistercian monastery in his native county, secondly at the Black
Friars in this city, at the memorable time when the monasteries
were dissolved. He was here, not as a Keformer, but as a monk,
when our old grey Abbey became a Cathedral, and when the last of
a long line of abbots, a loyal adherent of Henry's much-injured
wife, Catherine of Arragon, gave place to the first bishop. Thus
we have a triple hold on Hooper. He was ours as a young monk-
student, little dreaming what great things he should suffer for the
new creed. He was ours some forty years later as a bishop. He
was ours four years later still as a martyr. It is worth observing
that the prominent actors in life generally owe far more than the
world imagines to the great scholars and the great thinkers.
Hooper went to Oxford in his 19th year. There he met the greatest
scholar of the age, the famous Erasmus ; a man not indeed of the
heroic mould he himself repeatedly said that he was not made to
be a martyr but a genuine lover of learning, aud above all of the
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knowledge of the Scriptures. He it was who first published in
printed form, just two years after Hooper went to Oxford, the New
Testament in the original Greek, together with a Latin translation,
and handed to the future champions of the Keformation the
weapons with which they were to pull down long entrenched
strongholds of error. There, too, it seems almost certain that
Hooper met the illustrious William Tyndale, the translator a few
years after of the New Testament into English the author, that
is, of the version of which all later translations, including the
latest of all, presided over by our own Bishop, are but reverent
revisions, not ambitious rivals. It stirs us even now to read that
at the Oxford of those days, so pregnant with the coming life of
the Church, "several of the younger members of the University
gathered round Tyndale and read with him the Greek and Latin
Gospels of Erasmus." Those were indeed memorable "Bible
Classes ! " He who conducted them, Tyndale himself, and one, we
cannot doubt, of his most eager pupils, John Hooper, were destined
in God's providence to pay for those happy student hours by being,
the one strangled, the other burnt, for the holy faith then planted
and watered. But we must not linger over Hooper's early life.
He incurred the suspicion of Gardiner, the powerful bishop of
Winchester. When Henry, at Gardiner's instigation, promulgated
the famous " Six Articles " known at the time and since as " the
Bloody Act," or " the Whip with six strings " Hooper escaped to
Germany in disguise. The ten years or so spent there and in
Switzerland were in great measure the seedtime of his life. At
Zurich he came into the hands of a strong man. He made the
acquaintance of Bullinger, the pupil and successor of the famous
Zwingli, the father of one section of Swiss Protestantism.
Bullinger's influence seems to have had more power over him than
that of any other man. It gave him that particular place among
the men of the Reformation by which he has since been known.
He was not the most enlightened of them, nor the most large-
minded ; but more than almost any he was the declared enemy of
every outward form and symbol which could in any way recall the
customs, and through the customs the errors, of the Roman
faith. Then it doubtless was that he conceived that horror of
episcopal vestments which so long delayed, and almost prevented,
his own consecration. He came back to England soon after the
accession of the young and pious Edward the Sixth, and was
almost, immediately named Bishop of Gloucester. After the settle-
ment of the vestment difficulty, on which it is not worth while to
.linger, he was consecrated, and settled down to his duties here.
The picture of this period of his life, short as it was, covering not
more than two years, is full of Christian beauty. His zeal in
stirring up and instructing his clergy ; his minute enquiries into
the religious life of his people throughout the diocese ; his mar-
vellous activity in preaching, sometimes four times a-day an activity,
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I suppose, rarely equalled except by our yet greater Gloucester
preacher, George Whitefield, who often, it is said, preached forty
hours in one week, and sometimes sixty; again, his untiring energy
in travelling about his diocese, " leaving neither plans untaken, nor
ways unsought, how to train up the flock of Christ in the true
way of salvation ;" lastly, his munificent hospitality to the poor
and the destitute at his own house all this is told in any of the
histories of his life, notably in that touching history from which all
others are derived, Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs. But we must
hasten on to the clearly-foreseen close. The death of Edward VI.
and the accession of Mary in a moment changed Hooper's position.
It was soon evident that his prophetic farewell to Bullinger at
Zurich, uttered some four years before, was shortly to be fulfilled.
" I will write to you," he said, " from time to time ; but the last
news of all I shall not be able to write, for there, where I shall
take most pains, I shall be burnt to ashes." He was deprived of
his bishopric. He was thrown into prison in London. He remained
there a year and-a-half. During part of the time at least he was,
to quote his own words, "used extremely ill." The arrangements
of the prison were, as in the case of John Huss 150 years before,
of the foulest and filthiest kind. " I had," says Hooper, " nothing
appointed to me for my bed but a little pad of straw and a rotten
covering, the chamber being vile and stinking, until by God's
means good people sent me bedding to lie on. On one side of the
prison is the sink and filth of the house, and on the other the town
ditch, so that the stench of the house hath infected me with sundry
diseases." I quote such noisome details because it is well that we
should remember what martyrdom once meant. We think generally
of just the final scene, when there was much to stir and nerve a
brave spirit. We do not think enough of the long weary
months, the foul accompaniments, the brutalities of the gaoler, the
failing health, the " hope " or even the despair " deferred," the
harassing examination before cruel and crafty enemies, the lone-
liness, the wakefulness, aye save to the stoutest and most faithful
hearts, such as Hooper's the apparent desertion by God ! Can we
wonder that in this case, when at last the long farce of justice was
over, when Bonner had visited the condemned man in Newgate
and formally degraded him from his priestly office, and when the
keeper of the prison had given him a hint that he would be sent
to Gloucester to suffer death, he should, as we read, have " rejoiced
thereat very much, lifting up his eyes and hands to heaven, and
praising God that He saw it good to send him among the people
over whom he was pastor, there to confirm with his death the truth
which he had before taught them, not doubting that the Lord
would give him strength to perform the same to His glory 1 " In
this undoubting hope he was, as we know, not disappointed. In
all that followed during the few early days of that memorable
February " the Lord stood by His servant and strengthened him."
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On Tuesday, the 6th, about break of day, " he leaped cheerfully
on horseback, and so took his journey joyfully to Gloucester." On
the Thursday he arrived here about five o'clock in the afternoon.
And then we read of much time spent in prayer, and of the most
touching interview with Sir Anthony Kingston, one of the com-
missioners appointed to superintend the execution, whom the good
bishop had in earlier years rescued from evil ways. " Well, my
lord," said this unwilling minister of justice, after trying in vain to
induce him to recant, " then there is no remedy, and I will take
my leave. I thank God that ever I knew you, for God appointed
you to call me, being a lost child. I was both an adulterer and a
fornicator, and God, by your good instruction, brought me to the
forsaking of the same." "They parted, the tears on both their
faces." In the evening the mayor and aldermen came, with the
sheriffs, to shake hands with him. "It was a sign," he said, "of
their goodwill, and a proof that they had not forgotten the lessons
which he used to teach them." He made one request. He begged
the sheriffs that there might be "a quick fire, to make an end
shortly ; and for himself he would be as obedient as they could
wish."
We will not dwell on the last sad scene. It is doubtless well
known to many here. When a soul is at the gates of heaven we
care not to read of human malice, and coarsely obtruded temptation,
and green moist fagots, and needlessly prolonged torture. What
we care rather to think of is the firm faith, the simple courage, the
forgiving temper, and the last articulate words, the true words for
every deathbed, whether in the chamber or at the stake, the words
of the first martyr, the words of Hampden in the agony of his
wound, the words doubtless of many a sufferer in our hospitals in
this city, the words it may well be of you, brethren, and of me, at
our last hour, and God grant the prayer may then be fulfilled,
" Lord Jesus, receive my spirit ! "
1285. BERKELEY CASTLE, CIRCA A.D. 1221. The following
letter (translated) from Royal and other Historical Letters illustrative
of the reign of Henry III., vol. i., p. 178 (Master of the Bolls'
Series), has a local interest: additional particulars are given in
Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley s, vol. i., pp. 107-8. j ^ jj.
To his dearest friend the lord Hubert de Burgh, justiciary of
England, his devoted William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, sends
greeting, with sincere affection.
We have caused it to be made known to your goodheartedness,
in which from our frequent experience we have full confidence,
that Thomas de Berkelay, brother and heir of Eobert de Berkelay,
has taken our niece in marriage ; and inasmuch as for some time
past he has been bound and confederate with us, so that in nowise
could he leave us, nor be separated from our plans, we make
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supplication to you as a most attached friend, that, by reason of our
love and service, you would not permit that the said Thomas be
any longer kept from his rights and inheritance by the Earl of
Salisbury, who occupies his castle and inheritance of Berkelay,
contrary to right, and the custom of the realm and the law of the
land. And, if it pleases you, remember how, in your presence, the
same Earl of Salisbury said and affirmed that he would in nowise
cause injury to any for the disturbance of the kingdom, and that
he would the more regard us, and the tranquillity of the Lord the
King and the realm. Eut since he has manifestly broken this
agreement, we pray you diligently and earnestly, that, if it pleases
you, you will give diligence to amend this, and do not suffer the
said Thomas, who has been so bound to us that we neither can, nor
wish to, be without him, to be so injuriously harassed and troubled
concerning his inheritance by the said Earl of Salisbury ; so acting
that we, who are always your own, may be held to be dearer and
more devoted to you and yours all our days. Farewell.
Indorsed. To the lord Justiciary of England, on behalf of the
lord Thomas de Berkelay.
1286. GLOUCESTERSHIRE INQUISITIONES-POST-MORTEM. The
value of such documents is fully known to the genealogist. It
may, however, be well to mention that until the abolition of certain
of the feudal tenures in the time of the Commonwealth inquiries,
or inquests, were held before a jury by the escheator of each
county on the death of every tenant in chief, to enable the
Exchequer to collect the Crown dues. The returns of the jury give
the following particulars : 1, The name, and frequently the
residence, and position in life of the tenant ; 2, The lands of which
he died seized ; 3, The rents and services by which they were held ;
4, The date of his death ; and 5, The name and age of his next heir.
Frequently also family settlements and wills are set out in detail.
These inquisitions were forwarded to the Court of Chancery. They
are now preserved in the Public Eecord Office, and are almost
complete from 1219 to 1644. In consequence of certain abuses which
arose, the Court of Wards and Liveries was established in the reign
of Henry VIII., and to it were forwarded transcripts of the inqui-
sitions until its abolition in 1644. Having recently searched the
index to the inquisitions, I have noted all those of Gloucestershire
under the initials A, B, and C; and this list will, I think, be
useful to many who may not have access to the Record Office. It
is much to be desired that a way may be found to print abstracts
of all those relating to this county, just as the Eecord Society
has done for Lancashire and Cheshire. A series of Gloucestershire
records, if not printed in extenso, but with useless verbiage clipped
off, would doubtless be much appreciated by those local antiquaries
and others who have neither time nor opportunity to examine the
originals for themselves. A good start has been made by
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 347
Mr. Wadley in his valuable Notes of Bristol Wills, lately issued
under the auspices of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archseo-
logical Society. Such records as inquisitiones-post-mortem, marriage
licences, parish registers, wills, subsidy rolls, and manorial rolls, at
once occur to us as amongst the documents which ought without
any delay to be rendered more available than they are at present.
If any Gloucestershire antiquary feels interested in this suggestion,
I shall be glad to hear from him, with the view of taking steps
towards printing a series of some of the records which I have
mentioned. w p w PHILLIMORE) MA>> B C L
124, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.
The list referred to above is as follows :
37 Hen. VIII. Thomas Abyngton
. John Arnold
3-4 Edw. VI. William Aylberton
5-6
1-3 Mary
5-6 Eliz.
9-11
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Jas. I. and-
Chas. I.
Thomas Atkyns
Eichard Androwes
Anthony Aylworth
Richard Aylworth
Maurice Ap Howell
Anthony Alborough
Eichard Aylworth
'Eichard Atkins
John Aylworthe
Eichard Atkinson
Giles Addams al s
Denfield
Eichard Andrewes
John Atkins
^Lawrence Allway
35 Hen. VIII. Matthew Bucke
,, Giles Bassett
2 Edw. VI. John Bridgeman
3-4 Walter Byrtt
Sic Wm. Barkeley
John Butler
5-7 Eliz. Walter Blisse
6 John Bocher al s Eobins
Edward Barrow
Eobert Brayne
Thomas Burcombe
Geo. Bonde
Wm. Bridgeman
Eichard Bartlett
Thomas Bridgeman
11-12
12-14
17-18
18-20
20-24
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43-44 John Browne
Thomas Bampton
Jas. I. Humphrey Bridges
Sir Eich. Barkeley
John Bishop
Thomas Brayne
James Berrow
I Humphrey Bridges
4 ,, Thomas Beale
6 ,, Henry Barkeley
7 William Broade
,, ,, Thomas Ballarde
,, Wm. Bothe al s Jackson
William Banuster
Wm. Butler
,, ,, John Barker
Thomas Bravell
9 Thomas Beale
,, ,, Charles Bicke
10 Samuel Broade
,, ,, Eowlande Baughe
,, Tho. Barston al s Eundle
Sir Tho. Barkeley
,, ,, Thomas Baynham
II ,, Eobert Bloxam
,, Arthur Barker
,, Henry, Lord Berkeley
Jos. Baynham
,, ,, William Blomer
12 Wm. Burrows
13 Sir Hugh Browne
16 William Brache
17 John Bownes
Thomas Byrd
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William Baldwin
John Bond
Henry Browne
George Bennett
John Baugh
Thomas Brayne
Eichard Bridges
William Baldwin
Eobert Bathurste
William Bouchier
Eobert Batherst
Sir Henry Blomer
Anthony Bartlett
William Bence
Samuel Blunt
I. Thomas Baylie
John Bridges
Eichard Bennett
William Bridges
William Baughe
Thomas Burnell
Edward Bromwich
Thomas Banaster
John Bennett
Thomas Bush
John Blomer
John Browne
John Barker
37 Hen. VIII. James Clifford
1 Edw. VI. Eobert Gassy
2 Thomas Chambre
Thomas Culpeper
1-3 Eliz. James Chester
11-12 John Crocker
20-24 Giles Colley, or Cowley
26-29 William
37 William Compton
44 Thomas Cripps
49 ,, Gregory Canninge
1-2 Jas. I. Thomas Cowley
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Arthur Carnbe
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Wm. Clotterbooke
Elizabeth Clutterbuck
Wm. Chester
Thomas Cole
Eichard Canynge
Eichard Carpenter
William Clement
Henry Champneys
Frances Came
Eich. Codrington
William Coton
James Clifford
John Cowper
William Chad well
Eichard Coleman
James Cartwright
Thomas Cowley
William Compton
John Carpenter
John Cox well
Mary Calye
George, Lord Chandos
William Cleveley
Eich. Clutterbuck
Samuel Coxwell
Wm. Clotterbuck
Ealph Coton
Geo. Cowles
John Carter
John Croker
Edward Canning
Simon Codrington
Margaret Cook
Edmund Carpenter
Thomas Cowper
Walter Compton
Tobias Chapman
Thomas Gassy
William Crew
Tobias Chapman
William Catchmay
Eabian Clutterbuck
Eichard Cooper
Henry Cooper
1287. THOMAS LLOYD, A SQUIRE OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY. (See No. 999. ) In my former paper I gave a biographical
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 349
notice of Thomas Lloyd, who owned a great estate in the parish
of Wheatenhurst, otherwise Whitminster, who, towards the close
of his life, was located in Gloucester, and became one of its
benefactors, and who, on Dec. 22, 1668, was buried with great pomp,
our citizens of the time, not of mushroom growth, going. into general
and sincere mourning; and I quoted at length from a learned
oration delivered at his funeral obsequies by his intimate associate,
Thomas Woolnough, rector of St. Michael's. And I showed that
Thomas Woolnough was a divine held in high estimation by the
famous Sir Mathew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England, himself
a Gloucestershire worthy, and intimately connected with our county.
I took exception to the declaration of Sir Robert Atkyns in his
History of Glostershire (1712), repeated in a subsequent edition of
his work, who, under the head of Wheatenhurst, has averred that
" Thomas Lloyd died without issue 1658, whereby George Lloyd,
his brother and heir, became seised of the manor." I stated that
the date 1658 mentioned by Atkyns was incorrect; that he had
mistaken Thomas Lloyd, the father, for Thomas Lloyd, the son,
and that the year 1668 was the correct date of the decease of the
veritable Thomas Lloyd, the younger, whom George Lloyd, the
brother, succeeded in the estate. A remarkable verification of my
correction of Atkyns, and of other local historians who have
followed in his wake, has come into my possession this very day
[Feb. 23, 1886] in the form of a parchment document, which I have
succeeded in having unearthed from London archives, and which I
shall have pleasure in showing to any archaeologist who may feel
interested in the matter.
The parchment writing is over two hundred and twenty years
old, being dated March 18, 1665, and bears the autograph of
Thomas Lloyd, then in the flesh, whom Atkyns had caused to be
entombed seven years earlier ; it also has the signature of George
Lloyd, the brother and heir of Thomas Lloyd. This parchment
deed conveys to Richard Fryer, of Overton, in the parish of
Arlingham, "wood and woodland" then known as The Lloyde' s
Grove. The deed may be interesting to archaeologists from other
names embodied therein. It purports to have been executed " in
the sixteenthe yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles
the Second." There is record of Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas
Lloyde, of Thomas Yate, and Richard Butt, owners of land; of
William Daniel], yeoman, of Overton, and John Hill, yeoman, of
Fretherne, which two yeomen were appointed to be " the true and
lawful attorneyes " to act for the said Thomas Lloyde and George
Lloyde. There are also the names of Edward Haynes, Richard
Carter, John King, and Jonathan Luffingham, with the mark
appended of Henry Hay ward. The signatures of Thomas Lloyde
and George Lloyde will be interesting to those who regard hand-
writing as an index to character. That of Thomas Lloyd is
indicative of the man of sentiment; that of George Lloyd of a
350 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
man who valued the siller for money sake. The mark of Henry
Hay ward is not a cross now in general use with those who cannot
write their names, but consists of two perpendicular lines, with a
horizontal line half-way up and of course half-way down, which
may be, or may not be, of hieroglyphical importance, but why not a
cross 1
The old family of Yate appears to have died out, but the families
of Butt and Carter remain. Hodges Carter, of Gloucester, gave to
the parish of Arlingham for ever the interest on the sum of two
hundred pounds for the deserving poor who had never sought
parish relief. The Hills and the Kings have migrated, and the
Daniells have disappeared. The Luffinghams are gone no one
knows whither, unless the family of that name in the metropolis
can claim to be of kin. HENRY JEFFS.
Gloucester.
1288. GLOUCESTERSHIRE GENEALOGY. In the preface to The
Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1623, edited for the
Harleian Society by Sir John Maclean, F.S.A., and W. C. Heaiie,
M.E.C.S. (London, 1885), those who desire further information on
Gloucestershire Genealogy are referred to the following authorities :
HERALDS' VISITATIONS.
.................. Caius Coll., Camb., MS. 553, Art. 6.
1530 Benolte Original Coll. of Arms, MS. H. 20.
1569 Cooke ...... MSS. D. 12 ; G. 9, f.74.
1583 -- ...... Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 1041, f. 18.
With ) 1 KAO
- ,,.,. } - - 1543.
additions )
- ...... Coll. of Arms, Vincent MS. 115.
1623 Cainden byChit ty^ J Brit> ^ ^ Mg< 1Q41> f> ^
, - 1543.
additions )
- ...... Coll. of Arms, MS. C. 1 7.
HERALDIC COLLECTIONS.
Pedigrees of many ancient Gloucestershire Families. Brit. Mus.,
Harl. MS. 2121, f. 72.
Pedigrees and Arms of Gloucestershire Families. ' Brit. Mus.,
Harl. MSS. 1191, 6174, 6185.
Pedigrees of Gloucestershire Families. Coll. of Arms, Philipot
MSS. 16 L., 37 L., 14 P., 15 P.
Pedigrees copied from the Visitations of Worcestershire, Hereford-
shire, and Gloucestershire, taken 1569. Ashm. Lib. 831.
Arms, with some Descents, from the Visitation of 1569. Brit.
Mus., Harl. MS. 2230, f. 92.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 351
Pedigrees from the Visitation of 1569. Brit. Mus., Harl. MS.
615, f. 173.
Arms and Pedigrees from the Visitation of 1583. Brit. Mus..
Harl. MS. 1041, f. 18.
Pedigrees of Gloucestershire Families to 1619. Caius Coll., Carnb
MS. 553, f. 184.
Arms and Pedigrees of Gloucestershire Families, circa 1634
Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 6139.
Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Gloucestershire. Brit. Mus.,
Harl. MS. 1042, f. 79.
Arms of Gloucestershire Families. Queen's Coll., Oxf., MS. xcviii.
Arms borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of
Gloucester. Gloucester, 1786, 4to.
Collections for Gloucestershire by the Rev. S. Lysons. Brit. Mus.,
Add. MS. 9458. GENEALOGIST.
1289. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD DEANE: HIS PARENTAGE AND
BIRTHPLACE. An Svo of more than 700 pages, entitled The Life
of Richard Deane, Major- General and General-at-Sea in the service
of the Commonwealth, and one of the Commissioners of the High
Court of Justice appointed for the Trial of King Charles the First,
was published in London in 1870. It was written by the Rev.
John Bathurst Deane, M.A., F.S.A., Rector of St. Martin-Outwich,
London ; and it is a highly interesting record of " a brave man,
who, whatever may have been his faults as a disloyal subject, was
in the adoption of his cause 'an honest man,' and in the prosecution
of it a bold and unflinching one ; who, actuated by a strong, even
if mistaken, sense of religion, evinced the earnestness of his con-
victions and the sincerity of his patriotism by laying down his life
for his country when he might easily, and even justifiably, have
avoided the danger on the plea of the public service." My object
at present is to draw attention to his parentage and the place of
his nativity ; and with this in view, I cannot, I think, do better
than send a few paragraphs upon the subject from pp. 47-50 of
Mr. Deane's volume. GLOUCESTRENSIS.
The persistence of the tradition of the " Ipswich hoy," in which
Richard Deane was said to have served his first apprenticeship to
the sea, seemed to me so remarkable, that I could not rest satisfied
until I had consulted someone well versed in the history and
records of that town, for a corroboration or refutation of the story.
Such a person appeared in the late Mr. Fitch, who kindly sent me
the following reply [dated Ipswich, October 26, 1846] to my
inquiries : " Some years ago I took great pains to ascertain what
connection Richard Deane had with this town, and I could not find
his name in any of the corporation books or accounts. If he was
born here, his name would be in the register ; and if he lived here,
it would have been in the accounts." Mr. Fitch concluded from
352 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
these omissions that " Richard Deane, the Regicide," was neither
born, nor apprenticed, nor resident at Ipswich a conclusion which
I was afterwards enahled to confirm, by the accidental discovery of
a manuscript epitaph in the British Museum [Add. MSS. -4022],
which directed me to the county and place of his birth. The
commencement of the epitaph was as follows :
"Siste, Viator.
Suspice Ricardi Deane quod reliquum est.
Oritur ubi Isis in agro Glocestriensi, Cotswolli montibus,
Moritur ubi Tamesis in Freto Britannico,
Quo in fonte natus, eodem in fluvio
Denatus est."
Following this clue, I examined the registers of above forty
parishes of the Cotswold district, and was rewarded by the dis-
covery of the required baptismal register in the parish church of
Guyting Poher, or Lower Guyting, near Winchcombe :
"1610. Anno Dm 1610
y e viii daie of Julie was baptized
Richard Deene y e sonne of
Edward Deene."
The name of Richard Deane's mother is not mentioned in the
register, but I found it afterwards in a pedigree, hereafter set forth,
to be Anne Wass [or Wase]. She was the second wife of Edward
Deane, and Richard was their eldest child.
It will be remarked that the name in the above extract from the
register is spelt with two ee, instead of ea ; which in a name less
susceptible of variation might impugn the identity of the person
who in every other record is Richard Deane. But when we find
in this very register book the same name spelt nine different ways,
the objection vanishes. For we find Deane, Deene, Deine, Dean,
A'Deane, Adeane, aDayne, Adeyne, and Adeine, all designating
members of the same family ! The very father of Richard is
indifferently called (Edward) Deine, Adayne, Adeane, and Deane /
So that, as far as the mere spelling is to be regarded, there is no
difficulty in the identification of Richard Deane and Richard Deene.
As this was the only Richard Deene to be found in the forty
registers searched, and as one of the sources of the Isis is in the
adjoining parish of Temple Guyting, and the rivulet "Windrush,
which it supplies, flows through Guyting Poher, there seemed to be
no doubt that in Guyting Poher I had discovered the birthplace of
"Richard Deane, the Regicide." But it may be said that the
Windrush does not rise in Guyting Poher, and the expression
" Oritur ubi Isis" may be only figurative. By a singular coincidence
I am enabled to prove that this poetical expression is literally true.
For the family of Deane, although always baptised and buried in
Guyting Poher, were actually resident at Farmcot, in the parish of
Temple Guyting, in which the source of the Windrush, or Isis, is
to be found. They lived at the Woodhouse, in the hamlet of
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 353
Farmcot, wliich being only half a mile from Guyting Poher church,
and above a mile and a half from Temple Guyting, was the cause
of their adopting the former as their family church. " Oritur ubi
Isis " is therefore strictly accurate.
But there is one desideratum in the epitaph, and that a very
important one. No mention is made of the age of Eichard Deane
at the time of his death, and therefore no just inference can be
drawn from it as to the date of his birth. These two Eichards may,
after all, be different persons ! By another curious and singular
coincidence I am enabled to remove this doubt also, by reference
to another document in the library of the British Museum, viz., a
woodcut engraving of the funeral car of Admiral Eichard Deane.
This engraving (of which there is a duplicate in the Bodleian) [and
of which Mr. Deane has supplied a copy, p. 679] is at the head of
an elegy, printed on the occasion of the public funeral of " The
General-at-Sea," in June, 1653, and bears the date " setatis suse 42,"
which expresses, with sufficient funereal accuracy, the age of the
Eichard Deane who was baptised at Guyting Poher, July 8, 1610,
and who had passed his forty-second, but had not completed his
forty-third, year on the 2nd of June, 1653, the day on which he
fell. There remains therefore no reasonable doubt of the identity,
and the story of the " hoyman-born " child "of Ipswich" is
reduced to the penultimate point of evanescence.
1290. SIR EDWARD FYTTON, BART., OF GAWSWORTH, OB. 1643.
There is mention of an interesting matter relative to Bristol in
Earwaker's admirable East Cheshire : Past and Present (London,
1877-80), vol. ii., p. 583, and I shall be glad to see the particulars
in your pages.
In Gaws worth Church there is an altar tomb, surmounted by the
effigies of a knight in armour and his first wife, with their little
daughter kneeling at their head. The monument, of which
Mr. Earwaker has furnished an illustration, was adorned with a
canopy, which was taken down in the year 1855. There is a long
Latin inscription, setting forth the good qualities of the old family
of the Eyttons, and the unswerving loyalty of the last of their line;
and it is a good specimen of the epitaphs of the time. " Ibi
[Bristollise] fidum cor, cerebrum, et mollia viscera in B. Petri
Templo fragili vrna conduntur." The fact, thus attested, of the
burial of the heart, etc., of Sir Edward Fytton in a fragile urn in
St. Peter's Church, Bristol, is, I think, noteworthy. The inscription
in Gawsworth Church, translated into English, is as follows :
"Among most illustrious ancestors, himself the greatest, Sir
Edward Fytton, of Gawsworth, Baronet, is here laid, who at the
same time ended the most ancient race of Fyttons and completed
it, the last and the first, so the Fates decreed. Of a truth, in order
that he might add the finishing touch to the ancient splendour of
his line, he united in himself the virtues and renown of all,
dignity, strength, comeliness of body, brilliancy, fidelity, and
354 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
uprightness of mind. This (position) came to him naturally,,
because he was brought up in the lap of peace, but when involved
in the furies of war, no one thundered forth more loudly, nor dealt
more nobly in warlike matters, in which he had had no experience..
By Charles (most blessed martyr) he was appointed a commander,
and he remained faithful to him in his troubles and dangers, and
brought him welcome assistance with no mean forces, first at Edge-
hill, where on a bloody day, as commander of the royal artillery,
he shattered the rebel squadrons with his artillery fire, afterwards,
at JBanbury, Brainford, Reading, and in many other places, never
without praise and renown, together with his own Cheshire men,
he behaved most bravely; at length at Bristol, the city being taken,
aixd he victorious, alas, he fell ! He married two wives, both most
excellent women ; the first, Jane, daughter of Sir John Trevor, of
90. Denbigh, Knt._, by whom lie had one little daughter, prematurely
snatched away. The other, but second to none, was Felicia, the
daughter of Ralph Sneyd, of co. Stafford, Esq., whom he left the
more sad, because childless. He died at Bristol in August, in
which month he was also born, in the year 1643, in the 43rd
[really 40th] year of his age. There his faithful heart, his brain,
and soft entrails are buried in a fragile urn in the church of
St. Peter. The rest of his body was first buried at Oxford on
account of warlike disturbances, and thence at length, after an
interval of twenty years, unbroken, unharmed, it was brought here.
He rests, as he wished, in the bosom of his own most loved
Gawsworth, owing to the pious care of the Right Hon. Charles
Gerard, Lord [Gerard, of] Brandon [Earl of Macclesfield, 1679],
his sister's son, whom he appointed his heir. Let posterity honour
him."
This instance of heart-burial is, I think, remarkable, but it does
not seem to have attracted the notice of any Bristol historian. The
rector of St. Peter's, the Rev. Wm. Tyndale Hollins, has very
kindly searched the parish records for mention of the fact, but
unsuccessfully, the registers dating only from the year 1653. Burke,
it may be well to add, has stated in his Extinct and Dormant
Baronetcies, that after the death of Sir Edward, who was the second
and last baronet, a violent dispute arose between the above-named
Lord Brandon and Alexander Fytton, Esq., for the inheritance of
the estates ; and that a very curious tract was published in 1663,
giving a narrative of the proceedings. ABHBA
1291. "A CERTIFICATE MAN." I send you an extract from
the baptismal register of Slymbridge :
" Samuel, the son of James Daw, a Certificate Man of Frampton,
was Baptized Feb. 19 fch , 17."
What may be the meaning of a " Certificate Man 1 " An answer
will oblige. CHABLES HENRY RIDDING.
Slymbridge Rectory.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 355
1292. GIFT OF BIBLES BY JOHN GARY, OF BRISTOL. In a
" List of Books given to Bath Abbey Church in beginning of 17th
Century " this item appears :
" Mr. John Gary, of the cittie of Bristol, draper, gave three
Bibles to this church ; (viz.) a French Bible, an Italian Bible, and
a Spanish Bible, with the chaynes and deske belonging to them."
I shall be glad to know any particulars of this worthy tradesman,
and whether his gifts are forthcoming. G A W
1293. A GLOUCESTER PHENOMENON. I quote what follows
from Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum (ed. 1677), p. 39: "There is a
Church at Glocester, (and as I have heard, the like is in some other
places,) where if you speak against the Wall softly, another shall
hear your Voice better a good way off, than near hand. Inquire
more particularly of the frame of that place. I suppose there is
some Vault, or Hollow, or Isle, behind the Wall, and some passage
to it, towards the further end of that Wall against which you
speak : So as the Voice of him that speaketh slideth along the
Wall, and then entreth at some passage, and communicateth with
the Air of the Hollow j for it is preserved somewhat by the plain
Wall ; but that is too weak to give a Sound audible, till it hath
communicated with the back Air." To what church does the
author allude 1 Is this phenomenon still to be noticed 1 Has the
word Isle above the same extension as our Aisle ? Gruter seems to
have thought so, as he translates the word ambulacrum (ed. Elz.
1661, p. 99). Bacon's description would lead one to suppose that
he intended a hollow passage constructed in the thickness of the
wall, terminating in an insula or isle a space in which sound
would be insulated. Johnson attributed the spelling aisle to
Addison, and questioned its correctness, " since it seems deducible
only from either aile, a wing, or allee t a path, and is therefore to be
written aile." When Halliwell gives " ISLAND. The aisle of a
church, called in medieval Latin insula !", is he really in earnest?
Du Cange (ed. 1738) throws no light. Q EOIL D EEDES .
Wickham St. Paul's Eectory, Halstead.
The church referred to is, no doubt, Gloucester Cathedral, in
which, as is well known, " a gallery of communication is also most
artfully managed above, which connects the upper side aisles of the
choir, passing between the great East window and the Western
window of the chapel without touching either. This passage, which
is a narrow stone gallery, 75 feet long, about 3 feet broad, and 8
feet high within, is commonly known "by the name of the
Whispering Gallery, and has the property of transmitting sound
along its wall to a very extraordinary degree. The lowest whisper,
if the mouth be applied close to the wall, the lightest scratch of a
pin on the stone, is distinctly heard from one end of the gallery to
the other." (Society of Antiquaries, quoted in Fosbrooke's
356 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Gloucester, 1819, p. 120.) The celebrated Ear of Dionysius, and!
the numerous contrivances of ancient oracles : of which the former
is, according to Denon, an ancient fiction, are proofs of the
antiquity of these deceptions ; easily explained, as Eudge observes,
upon acoustic principles. EDITOR.
1294. WHO WAS ST. ALDATE? Can anyone give me par-
ticulars of the above-named saint ? In Gloucester there is a church
known as St. Aldate's. j Q.
1295. CEONEBANE TOKENS OF THE LAST CENTURY. Mr. Wm.
H. Patterson, M.K.I A., of Belfast, has sent a reply regarding the
above-named half -penny tokens to Notes and Queries, 7 th S. i. 135,
concluding with these words : " Cronebane, in [the county of]
"Wicklow, is well known for its copper-mines, and I presume these
* Cronbanes ' were made, or were supposed to be made, of copper
from these mines. It is worthy of note how frequently the word
'Bristol' occurs on these tokens [e.g., on the edge, 'Payable at
London Birmingham or Bristol;' and, 'Payable in London
Liverpool or Bristol '] ; this suggests that they may have been struck
there. If it could be shown that Bristol merchants received the
production of the Cronebane mines it would give a colour to this
supposition." Someone may be able to explain. j Q.
1296. MS. EEGISTER OP KINGSWOOD ABBEY. In Notes and
Queries, 7 th S. i. 169, Mr. Edward Peacock inquires: It appears
from the Monasticon, vol. v., p. 425, that in the year "1651 a
register of Kingswood Abbey was in the possession of John
Smith, Esq., of Nibley, in the county of Gloucester." Where is
this manuscript now 1 AH
1297. A TIDAL PHENOMENON IN 1764. In the Gentleman's
Magazine (1764), vol. xxxiv., p. 95, this strange fact has been
recorded: "Sunday, 12 [February, 1764]. The tide in the river
Severn which always comes up with a great head and an amazing
rapidity and noise, came half an hour before its usual time : this
greatly astonished the people who observed it ; but their surprise
was heightened when they perceived a second tide coming up, with
equal force, within half an hour of the first. It is surmised by
many that a violent concussion of the earth, in some distant region,
is the cause of this preternatural effect. At Bristol the tide
flowed an hour and three quarters before its time ; ceased to flow
and flowed again." Can anyone explain this phenomenon ?
A. H.
1298. ALDERMAN ALDWORTH AND GILES ELBRIDGE, OP BRISTOL.
Two centuries and a half ago the firm whose name heads this
communication, was familiar to the good people of Bristol ; indeed,
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its name was a synonym for enterprise and integrity to young and
old. Aldworth, the senior member, was mayor of Bristol in 1609,
and his firm had extensive interests in America early in the
seventeenth century. A short time ago the correspondence of
Robert Trelawny, of the firm of Trelawny and Goodyear, of
Plymouth who, about the same time as Aldworth and Elbridge,
were also engaged in business with America, and whose senior
member, by a remarkable coincidence, was mayor of Plymouth
was brought to light after lying for two hundred and fifty years
in obscurity, and has been recently published by the Maine
Historical Society of the United States, which society has a fund
for the publication of documents relating to the early history of
the State of Maine, where Aldworth and Elbridge's enterprises
were conducted. This work it performs for the benefit of historical
students, and not for pecuniafy gain. As the correspondence,
entitled The Trelawny Papers, has proved of great interest to those
concerned in early colonial history, it has been suggested that the
papers of Alderman Aldworth, of Bristol, might prove of equal
interest if they could be found. Can any of your readers throw
light upon them, or give some account of this early firm?
Aldworth, who died in November, 1634, resided in the picturesque
and many-gabled mansion now known as St. Peter's Hospital.
The editor of the The Trelawny Papers, Mr. Jas. Phinney Baxter,
is at present in England, gathering memorials of those who were
engaged in the early colonisation of New England, with a view to
their publication by the Maine Historical Society. As Bristol was
largely represented in that important enterprise, possibly some may
possess unpublished letters or other documents relating to the early
colonial trade of Bristol with New England, which, if brought to
light, would prove of great value to students interested in colonial
history. Mr. Baxter's London address is, 89, Belvedere Road,
Upper Norwood, S.E. BRISTOLIBNSIS.
1299. GEOEGE BERKELEY, D.D., LORD BISHOP OP CLOYNE.
A correspondent has inquired in Notes and Queries (6 th S. xii. 495) :
" It is, I apprehend, pretty certain that Bishop Berkeley, the
metaphysician, was a scion of the great house of Berkeley of
Berkeley Castle. I have been told that he used the arms of the
Lords Berkeley on his seal, and they are carved upon his monument
in Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford. I have, however, never seen
evidence which proves the philosopher to have been sprung from
that great house. Some of your Irish readers may possess absolute
proof of this ; if so, it would be doing myself and others a great
service if they would communicate it to ' N. & Q.'" ]\ c. B.
In a sketch of Bishop Berkeley, in vol. iv. of the new Dictionary
of National Biography, by Mr. Leslie Stephen, the editor, little, if
any, light is thrown upon the question. " His father, William
358 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
Berkeley, had some indefinite kinship to Lord Berkeley of Stratton,
lord-lieutenant from 1670 to 1672. It is said that he went to
Ireland in Lord Berkeley's suite, and that he or his father obtained
a collectorship at Belfast in reward for loyalty to Charles I. The
name of Berkeley's mother is unknown. She is said to have been
great-aunt to the famous General Wolfe. Berkeley [though bom at
Killerin, near Thomastown, in the county of Kilkenny] always
considered himself an Englishman, and regarded the native Irish as
foreigners." EDITOR.
1300. THE PARKER FAMILY, OF GLOUCESTER. (See No.
1202.) Through the kindness of Mr. Washbourn I have received
the following extracts, relating to the Parker family, from the
Register of Scholars of the Cathedral School, Gloucester :
P. 6 Edvardus Parker 1686
Johannis Parker de Hasfield in comitatu Glocestrise ffil: Ap. 16.
,,11 Thomas Parker 1689
Jan. 15. Thomse Parker de Civitat : Glocestrise fil :
,,36 Thomas annor: 16 et Joannes annor : 15 1704
Tho : Parker de Longdon in agro Vigorn : Filius (sic). Feb. 5
50 Gulielmus Parker annor : 14 1710
D. Caroli Parker de Longdon in agro Vigorn : Fil : Jan. 17.
,,60 Johannes Parker annor : 14 J 1718
Dom : Thomse Parker de Hasfield filius.
,,74 Gualterus Parker annor: 13 Jun. 18 1722
Dom : Virgilii Parker de Bishopston filius.
93 Henricus Parker annor: 12| Carolus II. Sep. 6. 1725
Dom : Edvardi Parker de Hasfield fillii (sic).
,,135 Thomas Parker annor: 9 June 8 1761
Rev di Thomse Parker de Civ : Glo : filius.
139 Johannes Parker annor : 8J March 26 1764
Dominse Mariae Parker de Hasfield in comitatu Glo : filius.
,,144 Gulielmus Parker annor : 10 May 4 1767
Domini Thomae Parker sutoris de Civitate Glocest : filius.
NOTE. The only other Parkers are three sons of the Rev.
Thomas Parker, Vicar of Churcham, who is buried at Barnwood,
near Gloucester. EDWARD THORNBROUGH PARKER SHBWEN.
Antigonishe, Nova Scotia.
1301. REDWOOD FAMILY. (See No. 1207). This reference to
Stephen Richard Redwood, of Jamaica, occurs in a Family Bible
in my possession
" "William, the son of William and Elizabeth Fynmore, was bom
in Saint Jago de la Vega, in the Island of Jamaica, on Wednesday,
the 22 Dd day of February, between the hours of nine and ten in
the forenoon, and in the Year of Our Lord 1758, and was baptized
on the 29 th day of March following. His sponsors were the Hon.
Samuel Whitehorne and Stephen Richard Redwood, Esq r , and
Anne, his wife, own sister to Eliz. Fynmore."
GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES. 359
I believe the maiden name of Mrs. Redwood and of Mrs. Fynmore
to have been Reah.
I have a bill of the charges for the passage home to England, in
1765, of Miss Redwood, Master Fynmore, and a black woman
Bethsheba.
Wm. F. the younger, writing to his father in 1775, remarks :
" Suppose Redwood will be called to the Bar this Term, if so, tell
him I'll get a Motion or two for him." This probably refers to his
cousin Philip, afterwards Chief Justice of Jamaica.
Sandgate, Kent. R. J. FYNMORE.
1302. KING'S WESTON HOUSE, NEAR BRISTOL. In Olde-
Worlde Gleanings, No. 83, there is a letter from Sir John Vanbrugh,
with reference to the erection of the mansion of King's Weston for
Edward Southwell, Esq., who was son of Sir Robert Southwell,
Secretary of State to William III. Yanbrugh was a celebrated
architect, and designed, for example, Castle Howard for the Carlisle
family, and Blenheim for the Duke of Marlborough. It was on
him that the sarcastic epitaph was written, in allusion to his
ponderous style of building
" Lie heavy on him, earth, for he
Lay'd many a heavy load on thee."
His letter is as follows :
" Castle Howard, Oct. 23 rd , 1713.
" Sir, I acquainted you some time since I had read with much
pleasure the letter you enclosed to me which you had received from
M rs Henley. I am since obliged with yours from King's Weston
of the 13 th inst., being much pleased with the house being quite
covered in so good season, for, if the weather is with you as in the
North, your walls must have dryed almost as fast as they went up,
and there being no great rain to soak them whilst they were open,
the house will be dry a year the sooner for it. In my last I told
you I wished you would not go up with the chimneys till I was
with you on the spot, to make tryall of the heights with boards.
I am glad to find you now of the same oppinion, though you had
not yet received my letter ; for I would fain have that part rightly
hit off. I likewise think you in the right to clear off the scaffolds,
tho' there be more difficulty in getting up the stones for the
chimneys.
"As to the objections you mention, I can only say, I cannot
think as you do, tho' it may be I am wrong. As to the Door being
too little, if an Alteration be necessary, I can show you how to do
it but of these particulars, 'tis better to talk than to write. I
hope, however, at last I shall see you as well pleased as the Lord
[Charles, 3rd Earl of Carlisle] of this place is ; who has now
within this week had a fair tryall of his dwelling, in what he most
apprehended which was cold. For tho' we have now had as bitter
360 GLOUCESTERSHIRE NOTES AND QUERIES.
storms as rain and wind can well compose, every corner in the
house is an oven, and in corridors of 200 ft. long there is not air
enough in motion to stir the flame of a candle. I hope to find the
same comfort in your chatteau, when the North- West blows his
hardest ; so pray don't think you shall stand in need of a few poor
trees to screen you. The post will be gone if I say anything now,
than that I am most heartily your humble servant,
" J. Vanbrugh.
" To Edward Southwell, Esq r ,
" King's Weston, n r Bristol."
In No. 85 of the Gleanings there is this communication from
Mr. Sholto Vere Hare : " I am much interested in the letter of
Sir John Vanbrugh about King's Weston House, .... the
original letter has been for years in my possession amongst my
MSS. of that period. It is in the well-known handwriting of
Vanbrugh, and is sealed with his coat-of-arms, and bears the post-
mark. I enclose a letter from the first Duke of Beaufort respecting
King's Weston House, written in 1685."
The letter is as follows :
" Bristoll, July 5 th , 85.
" Sir, I was so long last night out in visiting the three pretty
young ladys at King's Weston that I had not time at my reserve to
give you an account that they were well, and that all things else
there are in very good order, and the best Sherry pipe and red
meade Cyder that ever I dranke. I like extremely also the situation
of y r house, it is, I thinke, very good one, and has one of the
pleasantest prospects both for sea and land that I have seene.
Y r friends are the more beholding to you when you can for their
sakes be content when from it, and then in w ch obligation must be
cons d by
" Y r affectionate humble servant,
" Beaufort.
" I humbly thanke you for y r letters and y r kindnesses to
Charles."
(Addressed) " For Sir Kobert Southwell, att his house
in the Spring Garden, London.
" Beaufort."
(Endorsed) " Bristoll, 5 th July, 1685.
"From the Duke of Beaufort."
ABHBA.
1303. TURNPIKE TOLLS IN 1821. The Bristol Journal of
Sept. 22, 1821, states that in passing from a village near Trow-
bridge, Wilts, to Catherine-place, Bristol, a distance of twenty-six
miles, a traveller had to pass no less than sixteen turnpike-gates, at
eleven of which he must pay toll. j j,
The foregoing serves to remind one of Lord Byron's lines :
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" What a delightful thing's a turnpike road !
So smooth, so level, such a mode of shaving
The earth, as scarce the eagle in the broad
Air can accomplish, with its wide wings waving ;
Had such been cut in Phaeton's time, the God
Had told his son to satisfy his craving
With the York mail ; but onward as we roll,
* Surgit amari aliquid ' the toll ! " EDITOR.
13O4. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SIR WILLIAM YERNON GUISE,
BART. The bookplate (of which there are two sizes) of Sir Francis
Fust, Bart., of Hill Court, Gloucestershire, has long been deemed a
curiosity, from the unusally large number of quarterings displayed ;
but it does not equal in that respect the achievement of Sir
William Yernon Guise, Bart., of Elmore Court, which has been
lately given as the frontispiece to The Visitation of the County of
Gloucester, taken in the year 1623, edited for the Harleian Society
by Sir John Maclean, F.S.A., and W. C. Heane, M.R.C.S., London,
1885. The quarterings are upon record in the College of Arms
as allowed to the family :
1. Gules, seven lozenges vair, three, three, and one, upon a
canton or a mullet pierced sable, GUISE. 2. Sable 
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