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Arms of Borough of Northampton 

A Whittlebury Curate 

Lease of a Farm in Northampton 
Fields, 1752 

Lord Burghley's " Certaine Pre- 
cepts " 

Great Fire at Thrapston, 1718 

Northamptonshire Justices of the 
Peace, 1650 

Gemot at Northampton, 1605 

The Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 
1794 

Parish Registers of Old 

Some Inscriptions at Whittlebury 

The Bedlam Society at Burghley 

Ostorius in Northamptonshire 

Owners of Fotheringhay 

George Ayliffe Poole, M.A. 

Dugdale's Transcript of Inscrip- 
tions in Peterborough Cathedral 

Bennet Family of Beachampton, 
Bucks ; and of Handley Park, 
Towcester 

An Emperor of Great Britain 

Will of Thomas Knottisford, 
Vicar of Weekley, 1546 

Conventual Pensioners 

Green Family of Boughton 

Great Billing Church struck by 
Lightning, 1759 

Churchwardens* Accounts of 
Byfield, 1635-7 

Monumental Inscriptions in Pe- , 
terborough Cathedral. I. 

Fuller all over 

Northamptonshire Briefs 

Fleetwood and Harvey Families 

Monumental Inscriptions from 
other Counties 

Petition to the Patron of the 
Living of Higham Ferrers, 
1725-6 

"Qean as a Pink:'* a North- 
amptonshire Saying 

Civil War, 1644 

Sheep Bill of Sir John Spencer, 
1580 

Value of Farm Produce and 
Labour, 1688-90 



33 Earls Barton Beeds 

34 Waits and Players 

35 Churchwardens* Accounts of 

Woodford Halse, 1609-10, 
1641-2 

36 Contributions to the Defence of 

the Country, 1588 

37 Green Family of Boughton 

38 Lord Griffin, of Weston Favell^ 

1690 

39 A Cathedral Audit Dinner, 1708 

40 Churchwardens* Accounts of By - 

field 

41 Ostorius in Northamptonshire 

42 Northamptonshire Badgers, or 

Higlers 

43 Local Dialect 

44 BennettFamily of Handley Park, 

Towcester 

45 Bead Family of Newbottle 

46 Osborne Family of Kelmarsh 

47 Church Goods at WoUaston, 

1783 

48 Price of Grocery supplied to 

Althorp, 1604-5 

49 Presentments, 1578 

50 Old Houses in Northampton, I. 

51 Lord Overstone 

52 An Emperor of Great Britain 

53 Round Dryden's Birthplace 

54 Celebrated Northamptonshire 

Booksellers, I. 
65 "Puxley Law'* 

56 Letters of Request for a Fire at 

Kettering, 1744 

57 Battle of Northampton, 1460 

58 John de Hampstead, Clerk, 1301 

59 Sheppard Family of Towcester 

60 Cartularies of Monasteries in 

Northamptonshire 

61 George Ayliffe Poole, M.A. 

62 Rebels of Northamptonshire 

63 Sponne*s Charity Dinner, 1484 

64 Local Dialect 

65 Heart Burial at Woodford 

66 Bennett Family of Handley Park, 

Towcester 

67 Electioneering at Peterborough, 

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Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



68 Fire at Weedon Beck, 1687 

69 An Emperor of Great Britain 

70 Metropolitical Visitation, 1636 

71 Sheep Bill, 1580 

72 The Fifth Duke of Buccleuch 

73 Monumental Inscriptions in Pe- 

terborough Cathedral. II. 

74 "CuiBonoP" 

76 Parish Registers of Slipton 

76 Green Family of Boughton 

77 Ostorius in Northamptonshire 

78 Northamptonshire Briefs 

79 B-eview of Miss Baker's Glossary 

80 The Sywell Ring 

81 Lace Makers at Ecton 

82 Wages in 1688 

83 Churchwardens' Accounts of By- 

field 

84 A Chest of Old Manuscripts 

85 Robert Tredwaie 

86 John Clare on "The Will o' 

Whisp " 

87 The Grandson of a Sieve-Maker 

88 Coin found si Towoester 

89 Address of the County of North- 

ampton to General Monk, 1659 

90 Robert Tredwaie 

91 The Drumming Well at Oundle 

92 Emyley of Helmdon 

93 Ostorius stillin Northamptonshire 

94 Conventual Pensioners 

95 Robbery at Peterborough Cathe- 

dral, 1784 

96 John Hoyland 

97 Northamptonshire Briefs 

98 Funeral of John Bridges 

99 Tom Wh^te, the Burghley Post- 

man 

100 Author wanted 

101 Saunderson Family of Little 

Addington 

102 Letter to Overseers of Earls 

Barton, 1883 

103 Fawsley 

104 Timber- Stealing Riots in Whit- 

tlebury and Salcey Forests, in 
1727-28. Coronation Poles 

105 Lazaret at Northampton 

106 Wellingborough Brief, 1738 

107 Timber-Stealing Riots in Whit- 

tlebury and Salcey Forests, in 
1727-28 

108 Headlands , 

109 Local Dialect 

110 Hue and Cry 

111 Carlyle at Naseby 

112 William Carey, D.D. 

113 The Last of the Saundersons 

114 Fire at Wellingborough, 1738 



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115 Higham Ferrers Taxation, 1629 

116 Tom White, the Burghley Post- 

man 

117 Floods in 1607 

118 County Members 

119 The Washingtbns 

120 Valentine's Day 

121 Election Squibs 

122 Hospital of S. John, Welling- 

borough 

123 Aldwinkle Deeds 

1 24 " The Northampton Miscellany * ' 

125 Monumental Int^criptions in Pe- 

terborough Cathedral. III. 
Queen Katherine's Tomb 

126 Monumental Inscriptions from 

other Counties 

127 Brudenel Family : A Query 

128 Presentments, 1587, &c. 

129 Four-field-course Farming 

130 Sir Paul Pyndar' 

131 Portraits of William and Mary 

at Northampton 

132 Folk-lore of the Hare 

133 Nicholas Keurick, of Earls Bar^ 

ton 

134 Outrages at Marston, 1729 
136 An Ancient Village Sport 

136 An Illegal Arrest, 42 Eliz. 

(1599-1600) 

137 "Cui Bono?^' 

138 Highway Robbery, 1682 

139 Ostorius still in Northampton- 

shire 

140 George John, Second Earl Spen- 

cer 

141 Andrew Fuller preaching in a 

Parish Churcli 

142 Churchwardens' Accounts at 

Peterborough 

143 Will of William Witsee, of 

Holcot, 1736 

144 Gt)ose-Fea8t at Astrop Wells 

145 Guild of our Lady at Welling- 

borough 

146 Funeral of Lady Jane Cecil, 1588 

147 Green Family of Boughton 

148 The First Marriage at a Non- 

conformist Chapel in North- 
ampton 

149 Northampton Rebuilt, 1686 

150 Book of Musters, 1545-6 

151 Hospital of S. David, Kings- 

thorpe 
162 Holdenby 
153 Harleston Races, 1722 
164 Chronicle of Northamptonshire 

155 Old Houses in Northampton, II. 

156 A Northamptonshire Saying 



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Wellingborough Seal 

CivU War, 1642 

The Washington Manor House 
at Sulgrave 

Saunderson Family of Little 
Addington 

Farthinghoe Constable's Ac- 
counts. 1700-1730 

Timber-Stealing Riots in Whit- 
tlebury and Salcey Forests, in 
1727-28 

Belationship of Jonathan Swift 
and John Dryden 

Customs of the Town of North- 
ampton 

Will of William HalUday, Curate 
of Eye, 1664 

"Hills and Hollows" 

Local Dialect 

Sheppard Family of Towcester 

The King's Evil 

Boughton Green Fair 

Great Flood at Wellingborough 

The Second Earlof Northampton 

Ancient Village Sports 

The Northamptonshire Journal 

Clergy deprived in Queen Mary's 
Keign 

Elmer Family of Northampton 

The Manor House at Sulgrave 

Holdenby 

Parson Digbie and Tobacco 

Incised Memorial Pillar found 
at Northampton 

Monumental Liscriptions from 
other Counties 

CiTU War, 1643 



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Cricket played for a Stake 
An Original Offence- 
Leonard Barker 
Vol. I. of the "Northampton 

Mercury" 
"Fairy Jip" 
Incised Memorial Pillar found 

at Northampton 
Lazar House at Stamford Baron 
Incised Stone at Northampton 
Ancient Village Sports 
The Theatre in S. Giles' Street, 

Northampton 
Public Whippings, 1763 
Washington and Itiham 
Funeral of Queen Catherine Parr 
"An Original Offence" 
Heavy Expenses of Office of 

High Sheriff 
Civil War, 1642 
Chimney Money 
King Richard the Third 
"Clem Vengeance," a Farm at 

Charwelton 
Gleaning 

House in S. Giles' Street 
Monumental Inscriptions in Pe- 
terborough Cathedral. IV. 

Old Scarlett 
A Good Dinner for Prisoners 
Green Family of Boughton 
Peterborough Volunteer Corps, 

1746 
Church Goods atScaldwell, 1681 
Bequest of Bishop White 
Rates for Carriage of Goods, 1 743 




List of Enoe\ayings 



View of Northampton, performed by lohn Speed, 1610. Froniupieci, 

^ Arms of the Borough of Northampton 1 

^ Old Houses in Northampton. I. — Maref air 67 

Plan of the Property of Sir Arthur Hazlerigge in Northampton, 1722 68 ^ 

V Arms of Lord Overstone •! 

Portrait of Thomas Payne ^6^ 

Arms of the 6th Duke of Buccleuch 81 "^^ 

The SyweU King and Inscription 90 *^ 

Anns of the Saunderson Family of Little Addington . . • 113 

"^ Bay Window of the Hall, Fawsley, and Window of Small Room over it 117— 

^ CJoats of Arms, on glass, of the Washingtons and Kitsons . 146 

^ Seal found at "Wellingborough 161 

^ Old Houses in Northampton. II.— Market Square . . 186^-^ 

"^ Plan of the Washington Manor House at Sulgrave . 191 -*< 

Buins of Boughton Church . 212 >^ 

^ Sketches by the late Mr. E. Pretty, of the Old Houses in Northampton, 

now destroyed, built with Materials brought from Holdenby House 217 ^ 

^ Incised Memorial PilUir at Northampton ...... 221 

^ Arms of Lawrence Washington 236 

>^ Portrait of Old Scarlett, the Peterborough Sexton . . . 249 ^ 



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Index I. 



Names of .Persons. 



Adams, 35, 95, 105, 241 
Addington, 96 
Agarde, 46 
Agutter, 142, 245 
Aislabie, 154 
Aitkin^ 138 
Albright, 154 
Aloocke, 106 
Alington, 98, 175 
Allcepp, 143 
Allectus, 64, 78 
Allen, 23, 26, 106 
Allin, 143 

Allington, 98, 174, 175 
Almayne, 178 
Alston, 241 
Althorp, vise, 95, 150 
A more, 207 
Andrewe, 241 
Andrews, 5, 149, 184,233 
Archibalde, 215 
Ardeley, 23 
Arnold, 138, 269 
Arundel, lord, 89 
ArundeU, 93, 241 
Arunger, 48 
Ashbye, 46 
Ashby, 260 
Ashmole, 157 
Aspeden, 106 
Assaby, 35 ' 
AsteU, 142 
Astle, 73 
Aston, 22, 23 
Atkins, 35, 106 
Atkynson, 215 
Atterbnme, 22 
AttweU, 39 
Attye, 115 
Aubery, 35 
Aubry, 35 
Ayleworthe, 24 



Backhouse, 156, 157 
BackweU, 25 
Bagley, 38 

Bagnall-Oakeley, 64, 78 
Bailey, 94 
BaiUent, 118, 122 
Baily, 133 
Baines, 182 
Baker, 23, 57, 58,64, 69, 

78, 87, 88, 89, 90, 103, 

104, 141, 146, 148, 167, 

169, 202 
Bale, 187 
Baldwyn, 46 
Balgaye, 179 
BaHol, 118, 122 
BaU, 80, 187, 188, 189, 

209 
BaUe, 23, 105, 187 
Barbar, 179 
Barfoote, 188, 189 
Baringe, 152 
Barker, 10, 46, 222, 225 
Barlow, 108 
Barnard, 23 
Barnard, lady, 95 
Bame, 106 
Bameiam, 142 
Barnes, 56, 215, 254 
Baron, 169 
Barree, 142 
Barrett, 27, 207 
Barricke, 143 
Barton, 216 
Bartram, 220 
Basely, 201 
Bates, 52 
Bath, marq., 81 
Bathnrst, 241 
Bats, 194 
Battersby, 178 
Batts, 27 



Battin, 58 
Bayley, 4 
BayUe, 142, 143 
Bayly, 177 
Baynes, 217 
Beacon, 242 
Beakon, 207 
Beamond, lord, 70 
Beasley, 37 
Beaumond, vise, 71 
Bedford, earl, 24, 175 
Bedic, 113, 115 
Beebie, 143 
Beechey, 166 
'Beechom, 254 
Bell, 38 
BeUasis, 114 
Belsey, 14 
Bennet, 18, 19 
Bennett, 23, 54, 76, 176 
Benson, 5, 101, 192 
Beris, 213 
Berkley, 5 
Berridge, 143 
Berrie, 143 
Bertie, 10 
Beston, 180 
Bette, 22 
Bevis, 254 
Beswick, 235 
Bexwell, 207 
Billing, 69 
Billings, 97 • 
Bingham, 29, 80, 83, 254 
Birde, 143 
Blackbume, 14, 254 
Blackwell, 220 
Blades, 254 
Blake, 144 
Blakiston, 114 
Bland, 180 
Blanquefort 217 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



Blenoowe, 163 

Bletso, 6, 48 

Blinoo, 39, 192, 193, 196, 

216 
Blofeilde, 143 
Blokekyn, 170 
Blount, 13 
Bloxam, 11 
Blunder, 128 
Blynckho, 180 
Bohun, 211 ' 
Boketon, 22, 47 
Booker, 207 
Booth, 184 
Bonney, 18 
Boese, 179 
BoBtock, 42 
Boteler, 144 
Bothway, 264 
Boughton, lady, 137 
Boughton, 179 
Boulter, 152 
Boulton, 95 
Bowdon, 71 
Bowker, 254 
Bowkley, 188 
Boyfield, 35 
Boyro, 216 
Brabon, 173 
Bradley, 87 
Bradshaw, 5 
Bradwell, 24 
Brandon, 106 
Braunston, 38 
Brawn, 141 
Bray, 218, 219 
Bretton, 184 
Bridges, 23,73,109,111, 

112, 120, 128, 241 
Brigge, 215 
Brokeden, 23 
Brook, 144 
Brooke, 45, 68 
Brooks, 5, 95 
Brookes, 63 
Brough, 198, 199 
Broughton, 143 
Brown, 5, 65, 169, 209, 

254, 258 
Browne, 23, 38, 143, 187 
Bruce, 86 
Brudenel, 157 
Bruer, 143 
Brudnell, 46, 158 
Bryan, 46 
Bryant, 67 

Bucdeugh, duke, 81, 82 
Buokby, 177, 178 
Buoke, 106 



Buckeley, 23 
Buckingham, duke, 70, 

72,73 
Bughley, 179 
BuU, 179 
Bullivante, 7, 231 
BuUock, 216 
Bunson, 143 
Burge, 142, 143 
Burgess, 82 
Burghley, lord, 4, 174 
Burleigh, lord, 98 
Bumhanr, 141 
Bursnell, 254 
Burton, 23, 106 
Buswell, 96 
Butcher, 84 
Butler, 46, 77, 105, 106, 

147, 165, 194 
Buttes, 24 
Bygnell, 180 
Byrohe, 180 
Bysedon, 106 
Bywater, 152 
Gable, 259 
Caley, 73 
Cambridge, 12 
Oamden, 222 
Campden, 223 
Campion, 225 
Caractaous, 50 
Carausius, 19, 20, 21, 63, 

64,78 
Carey, 139 
Carlyle, 138, 224 
Carrington, 38 
Cartar, 179, 180 
Carter, 126, 143 
Cartwright, 5, 150, 195 
Cast^u, 106 
Castleton, lord, 113, 114, 

115 
Catesby, 187, 188, 189, 

241 
Catharine, of Arragon, 

12, 156, 157, 250, 251 
Cave, 175, 241 
Cecil, 9, 10, 15, 54, 174, 

175, 176, 230, 
Ceoyll, 98 

Chamberleyne, 105, 106 
Chancie, 46 
Chandler, 260 
Chaplen, 207 
Chapman, 207 
Charles i., 122, 123, 139 
Charles n., 30, 122, 245 
Charleton, 105 
Charlewood, 3 , 



Chamocke, 46 
Chatham, 254 
Chatton, 105 
Chauncy, 178 
Chaunoey, 196 
Chaundeler, 106 
Chaunterell, 23 
Chauntrell, 22 
Chaytor, 114, 192 
Cherry, 155, 168 
Chester, 23 
Chesterfield, earl, 80 
Cheyne, 207 
Chiehely, 142 
Child, 154 
Chinner, 126 
Chipsey, 145 
Christian, 200 
Cicil, 176 
Cioill, 175 
Clare, 88, 89, 97, 98 
Clark, 5, 8, 10 
Clarke, 7, 24, 52, 80, 179, 

188,218,254 
Clavering, 252-258 
Claudius, 11 
Cleghom, 139 
Clay, 63 
Claypole, 176 
Claypool, 5 
dement, 24 
Clement, pope, 155 
Clerk, 144, 241 
Clewke, 179 
Cleypole, 46 
Cliford, 184 
Clifton, 25, 249 
Cnut, 6 
Clowes, 171 
aynton, 211 
Cobbes, 79 
Cockaine, 184 
Coke, 105, 176 
Coking, 105 
Cole, 90, 103, 219, 254 
Coles, 56 
Colles, 106 
CoUey, 23 
Collins, 218 
Colls, 254 
Colman, 24 
. Colt, 114, 192 
Colthurst, 93 
Compton, 36, 213 
Coney, 52 
Conner, 103 
Constantinus, 21 
Coo, 140 
Cook, 85, 195 



Index L — Names of Persons. 



XI. 



Cooke, 22, 64, 76^77, 

124, 136, 216 
Coope, 144 
Ck>oper, 143 
Cope, 144 
Coppyn, 178 
Corbie, 7 
Corby, 38 
Comiah, 233 
Cosm, 29 
Cottingham, 207 
Cottiflbrok, 180 
Cotton, 13, 16, lf6 
Courteen, 122 
Courteheiise, 118 
Courtney, 12 
Coyerdail, 237 
Cowley, 179 
Cowper, 160 
Cowrse, 180 
Cox, 31, 36 
Coxe, 143 
Coy, 260 

Craoherode, 67, 134 
Craggs, 164 
Craik, 202-204 
Crane, 220 
Crayen, 241 
Creake, 142 
Crecowe, 169 
Creswell, 241 
Crew, 36, 241 
Crick, 136 
Crike, 188 
Crispe, 46 
Crofts, 140 
CromweU, 6, 7, 119, 120, 

122, 139, 243 
Crook, 10 
CroBwell, 46 
Croyland, 230 
Cmnberland, 49 
Cmnen, 178 
Ciifihe, 216 
Costyn, 216 
Dacres, 34, 36, 79 
Dally, 161, 176 
Bamelaw, h% 
Danforde, 143 
Danke8,36 
Danson, 86 
Danyers, 46, 177| 186, 

241 
Barbie, 207 
Darby, 264, 266 
D'Aiiy, 226 
Damle, 21 
Dash, 69, 109 
Danldiia, 239 



Dayentre, 206 
Dayies, 96 
DaylB, 209, 230 
Dayy, 178 
Daye, 142 
Deacon, 29, 84, 209 
De la Bue, 264 
Dejeaaes, 184 
Denbigh, earl, 10 
Denby, 179 
Denet, 173 
Denney, 264 
Denn^, lord, 176 
Dennington, 216 
Denton, 234 
Denyson, 178 
Deyon, 120 
Deyon, duke, 10 
DeyonBhire, earl, 12, 18 
Bewberie, 142 
Dewlap, 67 
Dicey, 69, 168, 226 
Dickins, 66, 66, 264 
Dickson, 162 
Digbie, 220 
Diocletian, 20 
Dod, 80, 122 
Dodsley, 67 
Dolbye, 162 
Dolphin, 129 
Donkley, 116 
Dormer, 39 
Drage, 62 
Draper, 36 
Drayton, 47, 89 
Dredon, 46 
Dreyden, Dreydon, 5 
Drury, 174 
Dryden, 41, 46, 64, 80, 

122, 202, 208 
Dudley, 36, 46 
Dugdale, 18 
Dunce, 143 
Duncombe, 64, 76 
Duport, 30, 31 
Durham, earl, 114 
Bust, 177 
Button, 64 

Dutton-Colt, 114, 192. 
Dyke, 106 
Dyson, 264 
Eadward, 6 
Eady, 6 
Earth, 13 

Earwaker, 239, 241 
Eaton, 40, 94, 142, 148 
Eckes, 142 
Eckles, 36, 148 
Edie, 142 



Edmunda, 241 
Edward nz., 24 
Edward nr., 246 
Edward, prince, 71, 246 
Edward yi., 120 
Edwards, 198 
Edy, 138 
Eedy, 36 

Egerton, 192, 198, 196 
Eglinton, 114 
Egremond, lord, 70 
Ekings, HI 
Ekina, 177 
Ehmd, 141 
Eliot, 122 
Elizabeth, Q., 121 
Elizabeth, Q. oi Bohe- 
mia, 121 
Ellington, 264 
ElHa, 264 
Elmer, 216 

Ehnea, 6, 46, 176 

Elmsley, 67 
Elwea, 76 
Ely, 16 
Emlay, 103 
Emlyn, 103 
Emyley, 108, 202, 208 
Erich, 203 

Etough, 116, 116, 141 
Eyana, 187, 194 
Exeter, earl, 9, 10, 73, 78 
Fairfax, 223 
Farmer, 6 
Farrin, 219 
Fauoonbergj yisc., 114 
Fawaitt, 217, 219 
ffeaaante, 142 
Fermor, 121 
ffetche, 142 
Field, 209 
Finding, 166, 232 
Fisher, 96 
Fitzdieu, 172 
Fitz Roy, 128 
Fltzwilliam, 262-267 
FitzwiUiams, 6 
fflawne, 143 
Fleetwood, 38, 166, 241 
fflinte, 143 
ffolkes, 68 
Fordham, 260 
Forfitt, 199 
Foscott, 162 
Foster, 133 
ffouler, 22 
Fox, 216, 220 
Frannoee, 46 



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Nortluxmptonshire Notes and Queries, 



Freeman, 35, 46, 55, 142, 

143, 179 
fi&eer, 142 
Ffrench, 56 
French, 133 
Frewen, 196 
Fuller, 168 
ffomis, 182 
Fust, 165 
Gabatus, 23 
Gage, 79, 114, 115 
Gage, earl, 114 
Gainsborough, earl, 9, 

10,11 
Gann, 258 
Gamer, 143, 260 
Garratt, 260 
Garrett, 219 
Garton, 170 
Gascoigne, 142 
Gaudem, 40 
Gefferie, 143 
Gell, 220 
Gente, 142 
George iv., 81 
Gery, 41, 83 
Gibbes, 43, 44 
Gibbons, 254 
Gibbs, 254 
Gibs, 194 
Gibson, 153 
Gifford, 23 
GifPorde, 142 
Gilbert, 23, 105, 209 
Giles, 219 
Gill, 215 
Glasbrook, 34 
Glenne, 43 
Glynton, 24, 170 
Goad, 78 
Goldby, 180 
G^ldestone, 22 
Goodday, 142 
Goode, 52, 152 
Gk)odefrey, 23 
Goodman, 41, 141, 179 
Gore, 93, 241 
Gosling, 250 
Gotch, 64, 91^ 138, 161 
Gourlay, 219 
Grafton, 27 
Grafton, duke, 123, 199, 

201 
Granbury, 35 
Gray, 5, 176, 211, 223, 

243, 260 
Green, 5, 24, 47, 84, 85, 

154, 176, 252 
Greene, 24 



Gregory, 141 

Greenwood, 26, 27 

Grene, 47, 210 

Griffin, 10, 48, 106, 254 

Griffithe, 23 

Groue, 142 

Grove, 131 

Grubb, Grubbe, 152 

Gudechepe, 230 

Gudgeon, 35 

Guise, 236 

Gunthorpe, 260 

Gurnard, 179 

Gylles, 173 

Gynge, 170 

Haoke, 46 

Hacket, 84 

Hake, 46 

Halifax, lord, 13,61,95, 

126, 126, 134, 135, 144 
HaU, 170, 176, 189, 254 
HaUiday, 207 
Halstead, 47, 85 
Hampden, 122, 123 
Hampson, 19, 76 
Hanbury, 5, 95 
Hance, 35 
Hand, 35 

Hanmer, lady, 146 
Hantley, 105 . 
Harby, 5, 179, 239, 241 
Harding, 72 
Hardy, 260 
Hare, 215 
Hareby, 170 
Hartington, 176 
Harland, 254 
Harman, 36 
Harold, 6, 21 
Harrington, lord, 175 
Harris, 25, 43, 126 
Harp, 23 
Harryett, 179 
Harryson, 178 
Hart, 199 
Hartshome, 219 
Harvey, 33, 46, 80, 167 
Hascord, 10, 11 
Haselrig, 57, 58 
Haselrigg, 46 
Hasilwood, 22 
Haskins, 63 
Haslerig, 5 

Haslewood, 69, 137, 138 
Hastings, 121 
Hatcher, 10 
Hatton, 18, 72, 73, 176, 

182 
Haukins, 42 



Hawe, 24 
Hawkins, 38, 44 
Hawlat, 188 
Hawten, 179 
Hayley, 66 
Hays, 105 
Hayward, 158 
Hazelrigge, 58, 122 
Heath, 8 
Heckingpton, 174 
Henrietta, Maria, 27, 28 
Henry, i., 118 
Henry Tt., 70, 71 
Henry vra., 79, 119, 157, 

209, 236 
Hensman, 46 
Henson, 209 
Herbert, 38, 123, 124, 

126, 126, 197, 198, 199, 

201, 202, 203 
Heselrige, 177, 178 
Hetherington, 254 
Hetyng, 170 
Hewer, 14 
Heynes, 180 
Heyring, 180 
Hicklyn, 45 
Higgins, 112 
Higgs, 112 
Hill, 77, 184, 209 
Hille, 22 
Hilliar, 143 
HiUiarde, 175 
Hills, 143 
Hillyar, 201 
Hilton, 179 
Hilton, baron, 114 
Hinchcliffe, 55, 56, 95, 

251 
Hinde, 93 
Hobbs, 201 
Hobcrofte, 180 
Hodgkin, 142 
Hodson, 166 
Hokley, 180 
Holdam, 179 
HoUis, 188 
Holloway, 201 
Holma, 179 
Holman, 5, 177, 241 
Holmes, 184 
Hopkins, 143 
Hopkinson, 141 
Homcastle, 71 
Homer, 35 
Horsepoole, 235, 236 
Houghton, 179 
Howard, 46, 179, 203 
Howe, earl, 10 



Index L — Names of Persons, 



xni. 



Howell, 95 
Howes, 179 
Howland, 176 
Hewlett, 24 
Howse, 179 
Hoyland, 107, 108 
Hudson, 107 
Hughes, 46 
Hunt, 143 
Humble, 184 
Humfrey, 105 
Humphryes, 5 
Hunscott, 187 
Hunt, 245, 254 
Hutchinson, 84, 146 
Hutesbery, 180 
Hutton, 215 
Image, 254 
Ingram, 216 
Irvine, 141 
Isham, 32, 46, 58, 150, 

182, 217, 225, 233, 235 
IsUp, 211 
Ives, 167 
Jackson, 11, 16, 23, 67, 

142, 143, 149, 171 
James, 37, 40, 52, 179 
James i., 13, 14, 48, 101 
J' Anson, 241 
Jarvis, 154, 195 
Jeffcoat, 192 
Jeffery, 195 
Jenkinson, 46 
Jennings, 126 
Jennison, 241 
Jermyn, 5 
Jeston, 115 
Jobourus, 194 
Johnson, 9, 94, 165, 174, 

203, 209 
Jones, 23, 50, 61, 215, 

241 
Jonson, 89 
Katharine of Arragon, 

12, 155, 156, 250, 251 
Keble, 5 
Keck, 95 
Kegquicke, 106 
Kempston, 4 
Kendall, 177 
Kendelinsbe, 105 
Kendricke, 46 
Kenrick, 162 
Kent, duke, 196 
Ketering, 24 
Kett, 38 
Key, 248 
King, 184, 254 ' 
Kingston, 8 



Kingfstone, 8 
Kington, 46 
Kinsman, 46 
Kirby, 220 
Kirkham, 72 
Kirkland, 46 
Kirton, 46 
Kitson, 147 
Kneller, 10, 11 
Knight, 141, 226 
Knightley, 5, 117, 118, 

119, 120, 122, 239 
Knightly, 27, 241 
Knott, 157 
Knottisford, 216 
Knyghtley, 120 
Kydd, 63 
Kyng, 169 
Kysby, 170 
Lacy, 106 
Lamb, 35, 72, 142 
Lambe, 23, 46, 79, 80, 

143 
Lamberd, 178 
Lambert, 201 
Lambron, 84 
Lambton, 114 
Lancaster, earl, 118 
Land, 77 
Landy, 10 
Lane, 79, 126 
Lan^ham, 150, 151 
Langley, 12, 143, 179 
Langly, 143 
Langtre, 105 
Lapworthe, 180 
Larecombe, 23 
Latimer, lord, 176 
Lattymer, lord, 176 
Laud, 78 
Law, 219 
Lawe, 179 
Lawraunce, 180 
Lawrence, 146, 192 
Lawton, 132 
Laxton, 254 
Leafield, 10 
Lee, 216 
Leet, 4 
Leke, 180 
Len, 230 
Lenthall, 6 
Leonarde, 142 
Leverocke, 142 
Lewin, 154 
Lewine, 236 
Lewis, 79 
' Lewyn, 234-236 
Lexington^ lord, 10 



Lhoyd, 98 
Liddell, 114, 192 
Lighte, 147 
Lightfoot, 174, 187 
Lindon, 184 
Lindsay, 254, 256 
Lindsey, earl, 10 
Linford, 35 
Lingarde, 142 
Linne, 5, 143 
Linnekre, 142 
Linnell, 8 
Lisle, 5, 144 
Lloyd, 115 
Lole, 259 
London, 24 
Loudoun, earl, 114 
Loveday, 192 
Lovell, 69, 194 
Loving, 254 
Loyd, 61, 62 
Loyd-Lindsay, 61 
Lucas, 182, 194 
Lucy, 71 
Lumley, 113, 114 
Lyne, 189 
Lynn, 241 
Lynne, 24, 46 
MoCullooh, 63 
McKinneU, 231 
Mackworth, 9, 10 
Madocks, 95 
Maiowe, 42 
MaHm, 141 
Malory, 178 
Han, 170, 264 
Manchester, earl, 144, 

223 
Manchester, duke, 116 
Manley, 46, 182 
Manners, 114, 174, 176 
Manning, 264 
Manwell, 207 
Marche, 180 
Marche, earl, 70 
Margaret of Anjou, Q., 

70 
Margetts, 178 
Markham, 207 
Marriot, 188 
Marrison, 5 
Marryott, 142 
Marsey, 106 
Marshall, 143, 268 
Martyn, 45 
Mary, Q., 167 
Mary, Q. of Scots, 12, 

18, 15, 90, 250, 251 
Mary, Q., u., 161 



XIV. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 



Maryat, 179, 180 
Masoull, 35 
Mason, M2, 207. 
Masters, 179 
Mathewe, 142 
Matthew, 46 
Maunsell, 5, 7 
Mazimianos, 30 
May, 28 

Majdwell, 46, 69 
Mayel, 35 
Mayer, 178 
Mayle, 36, 143, 238 
Mayor, 179 
Meades, 189 
Meke, 106 
Menander, 99 
Merbury, 170 
Meroer, 46 
Mershe, 174 
Meus, 148 
Mewce, 148 
Michell, 22 
MUes, 143 
Mold, 68 
Mole, 180 
Monck, 100 
Money, 110, 111, 112 
Monk, 99 
Montacue, 24 
Montagu* 116, 144, 184, 

196 
MontagHy duke, 73 
Montague, 6, 22, 23 
Mony, 110, 112 
Moone, 46 
Moore, 116, 142, 178 
Mordannt, earl, 160 
More, 106 
Moreton, 24 
Morewood, 64 
Morgan, 93, 161 
Morganne, 22 
Morisonn, 176 
Morton, 102 
Motes, 110 
Mounson, 6 
Monntague, 6, 144 
Monntjoy, 13 
Mtinday, 217-220 
Munsal, 178 
Murden, 46 
Murray, 67, 216 
Muscoat, 39 
Muscott, 219 
Mustott, 216 
MycheU, 178 
Kapton, 22 
NatuxM, 24 



Naylor, 96, 101 
Neale, 46, 72, 184, 239, 

241 
Negus, 143 
Nele, 176 
Nelson, 96 
Nettlehame, 23 
Neve, 179 
Nerell, 10 
Nevill, 1, 9 
Neville, 12, 176, 246 
Newce, Nuae, 148, 236, 

236 
Newnham, 181 
Newport, 176 
Newport, earl, 13, 14 
Neyale, 180 
Nicholls, 201 
Nichols, 6, 14, 82 
Nicoll, 199, 200 
Nicolls, 144 
Noble, 36 
Noel, 10, 11, 223 
Norman, 264 
Norreys, 181 
Northampton, earl, 213 
Norton, 6, 180,239,241, 

254 
Norwich, 6. 69, 119 
Notting^ham, 106 
Nottingham, earl, 14, 

155 
Nottingham, 62, 97 
Nunneley, 69 
NyohoUs, 180 
Okeley, 72 
Olive, 254 
Olivier, 116 
Onley, 120 
Orderious, 118 
Orlebar, 72 
Orme, 254, 266 268 
OrtoD, 106,. 152 
Orwin, 173 
Osborne, 46, hb 
Ostorius, 11, 60, 85, 86, 

87, 104, 167 
Overstone, lord, 12, 14, 

15, 61, 62, 63 
Owseley, 6 

Oxford, earl, 118, 119 
Pack, 146 
Packer, 77 
Page, 35, 87, 90, 103, 

143, 167, 173 
Paine, 67 
Palache, 216 
Palmer, 10, 62, 68, 164, 

162, 269 



Panton, 28, 178 
Pargiter, 147, 149, 286, 

236 
Parker, 22, 77, 186, 186 
Parkhurst, 161 
Parr, lord, 181 
Parr, Catherine, Q., 236 
Parrot, 201 
PaiTS, 24, 67 
Pasley, 63 
Paull, 69 
Pawler, 126 
Paxton, 136, 136 
Payne, 65, 66, 67 
Peach, 184 
Peachey, 163 
Pearson, 3, 192 
Pease, 126 
Pecke, 106 
Peirson, 179 
Pelham, 266 
Pell, 62, 179 
Pemberton, 83, 142 
Pembroke, 12 
Penry, 121 
Penson, 236 
Pentlowe, 6 
Peroevill, 68 
Pergiter, 147 
Perkins, 54, 106, 166 
Perry, 35 

Peter, 35, 142, 216 
Phillipps, 72, 73 
Phillips, 63, 202, 264 
Pickering, 6, 203 
Pickeringe, 6 
Pierpoint, 73 
Pilton, 106 
Pinckard, 132 
Pindar, 160 
Pinder, 159, 160 
Pink, 144 
Pishworth, 218 
Pix, 254 
Plowman, 218 
Poarty, 260 
Pollard. 216 
Pomfret, 24 
Pomfret, earl, 132, 198, 

199, 200, 201 
Poneyn, 230 
Ponde, 216 
Poole, 16, 16, 78, 196 
Pooley, 82 
Portal, 219 
Pott, 96 
Potter, 96 
Poulton, 46 
FoweU, 98 



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Index I, — Names of Persons. 



XV. 



Powers, 84 
Pownall, 20 
Pratt, 46, 173 
Preist, 67 
Prentyee, 106 
Pretty, 186, 186 
Priohard, 106 
Prior, 106 
Prys, 216 
Ptdeston, 6 
PuBseU, 180 
Pyckering, 162 
Pym, 322 
Pynckard, 170 
Pyndar, 169, 160 
Queensbery, duke, 81 
Quincey, 162 
Quintin, 143 
Quynceye, 162 
Baikes, 163, 226 
Bamforth, 34 
Ramsey, 24 
HandaU, 7 
Ratdif, 36 
Ratton, 163 
Ravenswortb, lord, 11 4, 

192 
Rawlyns, 206 
Raynsford, 177, 178 
Read, 64 
Reade, 46 
Reanoldes, 142 
Remigins, 17 
Remolds, 180 
Rice, 171 

Richard m., 12, 246, 247 
Richards, 69, 143 
Richardson, 181 
Rider, 129 
Rigby, 199 
Right, 179 
Risselhame, 106 
Roberts, 69, 141, 260 
Robinson, 10, 46 
Robynson, 178 
Roe, 121 
Rogers, 223, 246 
Rooke, 207 
Roll, 6 

Ros, lord, 174 
Bosoommen, lord, 166 
Bowlatt, 36 
Bowsday, 170 
Bowles, 83 
Boxburgh, 139 
Budde, 142 
Bude, 143 
Budgdale, 46 
Bnpert, 36 



Bushworth, 72 
BusseU,24,34, 119, 176, 
Butland, duke, 414 
Rutland, earl, 174, 176 
Rycarde, 269 
Ryley, 33 
Ryly, 198. 200 
Sabie, 142 
Saby, 36 
Sackville, 84, 86 
Sackville, lord, 84 
St. George, 114 
St. John, 6, 24, 73, 160, 

266 
St. Liz,.12 
Salisbury, earl, 64, 98, 

121 
Saltenstall, 239, 241 
Samuel, 6 

Samuell, 187, 188, 189 
Samwell,46,03,161,184, 

187, 226, 241 
Sancho, 66 
Sanders, 36, 142, 199, 

200 
Sanderson, 113, 114, 140, 

141, 142, 143 
Sandys, lord, 114 
Sandys, 216 
Sargeaunt, 141 
Saunder, 230 
Saunders, 22, 46, 96, 264 
Saunderson, 113, 1 14, 

116, 116, 140, 141, 192 
Savadge, 143, 178 
Savage, 22 
Sayille, 14 
Sawyer, 241 
Saye & Sele, lord, 122, 

243 
Scambler, 67 
Scarborough, earl, 113, 

114 
Scarre, 230 
Scarrold, 126 
Scarlett, 249, 260 
Scarth, 63 
Schoveler, le, 71 
Sdeythe, 180 
Scott, 81, 236, 236 
Scriven, 80, 84 
Sculthorpe, 162, 169 
Seaton, 79, 201 
Sedgwick, 18 
Selbie, 143 
Seton, 116 
Sewell, 26, 26 
Seymour, 119, 120, 121, 

236 



Sharman, 264, 266 
Sheffield, 38, 39 
Sheldon, 106 
Shepheard, 72, 209 
Sheppard, 67, 72, 209 
Shepparde, 207 
Sherard, 10, 241 
Sherley, 46 
Sherrington, 126 
Shores, 106 
Shrewesbury, erle, 70 
Shugborow, 46 
Shuter, 88 
SUbey, 36 
Simons, 132 
Simpkinson, 146 
Simpson, 101, 104, 142, 

143, 166, 166, 174 
Sitselt, 98 
Skelton, 166 
Skenard, 118, 119 
Skinner, 26, 142 
Pkyrumt, 171 
Sleath, 38 
Slower, 223 
Small, 216 
Smarte, 143 
Smith, 26, 36, 62, 107, 

108,126, 176,222,264, 

260 
Smithe, 142, 143 
Smithson, 126 
Smyth, 34, 76, 169, 176, 

178, 179, 260 
Smythe, 23, 216 
Soam, 193, 194, 196 
Soden, 64 
Some, 193 
Somerset, duke, 70, 7l» 

120 
Somerville, 118 
Sonnington, 260 
Sotheby, 168 
South, 180 
Sparke, 66 
Sparrow, 69 
Speght, 160 
Spencer, 23, 86, 37, 66» 

119, 142, 172, 243 
Spencer, lord, 36, 168 
Sponne, 74 
Spring, 114 
Spynner, 22 
Squire, 34 
Squyer, 180 
Stacy, 179 
Stafford, 46, 96 
Stafford, baron, 211 
Staadiflh, 28, 29, 4» 



XVI. 



Nortftamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



Standisshe) 106 
Stanhope, lord, 80, 154 
Stanhope, 197 
Stanion, 35 
Stanyce, 105 
Staunton, 67 
Staveley, 114 
Steanes, 142 
Steevens, 88, 254, 255 
Stephens, 209 
Stepoll, 180 
Stevenson, 143 
Stewarde, 207 
Stiddolph, 241 
Stirrope, 105 
Stodart, 77 
Stodderd, 106 
Stokes, 230 
Stooks, 195 
Stratfoid, 211, 241 
Stratton, 35 
Streame, 142 
Strong, 252, 254, 255,257 
Stroud, 77 
Stukeley, 103 
Styleman, 157 
Sucker, 22, 105 
Sugburgrh, 192, 193 
Sulgrave, 146 
Surgant, 143 
Sutton, 84, 141 
Sweeting, 36, 158 
Swift, 202, 203, 204 
Swinfen, 219 
Sylbie, 143 
SyceU, 174 
Sydney, 175 
Svssell, 98 
Tabartho, 143 
Talbot, 70, 182 
Tanfield, 72, 178 
Tanner, 73 
Tarrant, 156 
Tate, 5, 241 
Taylor, 57, 65, 86, 156, 

176, 180 
Taylour, 179, 180 
Tercy, 254 
Thersbouse, 131 
Theyer, 72 
Thicknesse, 192, 196 
Thomas, 94, 95 
Thompson, 30, 31 
Thoresby, 211 
Thornton, 5 
Thorp, 209 
Thorpe, 24, 105 
Throgmorton, 23 
Thursbj, 177, 178 



Thynne, 81 
Tibbett, 116 
Tickencote, 230 
Tigh, 241 
Timperley, 66, 67 
Tiips, 192, 193 
Tinkerford, 49 
Tite, 99, 224 
Todd. 35 
Todde, 143, 207 
Tomkins, 182 
Tomkyns, 179 
Tomlin, 14, 41 
Tompson, 68 
Tomwoode, 23 
Tonson, 67 
Topping, 172 
Torkington, 176 
Torrens, 63 
Tosti, 5 
Totoliff, 105 
TowisR, 35 
Townes, 35 
Towsell, 179 
Toye, 180 

Tredwaie, 46, 96, 101 
Tredway, 96 
Trenton, 143 
Tresham, 45, 90 
Treshame, 23 
Trickey, 258 
Trist, 241 
Trigg, 260 
Trust, 46, 179 
Tryce, 29, 30, 31, 254, 

258 
Tryon, 9, 10 
Tuke, 142 
Turlande, 259 
Turner, 26 
Turwhyle, 24 
Twentiman, 207 
Tyley, 141 
Tymms, 57 
T^ons, 179 
Tyver, 207 
TJmpherie, 143 
Valence, 12 
Vauxe, 22 
Verdie, 112 
Vere, 47, 118 
Yerelst, 95 
Vemey, 10 
Verrio, 10, 11 
Wade, 215, 216 
Wadnoe, 143 
Wady, 25, 27 
Wagestaffe, 24 
Wagstaffe, 85 



Wake, 46, 178, 184, 224 
Wakelyn, 148 
Wakerley, 24 
Walcot, 139 
Walden, lord, 95 
Wales, 254 
Walford, 186 
Walgrave, 172 
Walkedale, 105 
Walker, 35, 63, 157 
Wallis, 52. 143 
Walpole, 67, 154, 260 
Walshe,23 
Walton, 215 
Wandloy, 260 
Warberton, 5 
Ward, 5. 52, 241 
Warde, 22, 105 
Warin, 118 
Waring, 82, 83 
Warke, 24 
Warner, 69, 125, 126, 

127, 134, 136 
Warren, 126 
Warriner, 254 
Warwick, earl, 5, 70 
Washburn, 241 
Washington, 146, 146 

147, 148, 149, 233, 234, 

236, 236 
Watson, 45, 169, 170, 

187 
Watts, 132, 179, 210 
Weale, 153 
Webb, 3, 133 
Webster, 23, 105 
Welby, 175 
Welch, 188, 199, 200 
Wellys, 180 
Wellesbone, 24 
Wenman, 181 
Wentworth, 35 
West, 44, 65, 126 
Wether, 23 
Weyneman, 110 
WhaUey, 109 
Wharton, 242 
Whatson, 188 
Wheatley, 38 
Wheatly. 126 
Whish, 152 
Whiston, 156 
White, 112, 143,164,176, 

188, 254, 259, 269 
Wnitgift, 121 
Whithorn, 184 
Whitlack, 5 
Whitticke, 142 
Whitmell, 194 



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xvn. 



Whitmill, 193, 196 
WLittington. 268 
Whitton, 210 
Whitwell, 254 
Whitworth, 39, 40, 126, 

127, 132-134, 198-200, 

202 
Whorton, 126 
Whytte, 266 
Wickes, 38 
Widdringtoii, 5 
Wiggin, 247 
Wightman, 28, 29 
Wilcocke, 106 
Wilcox, 216 
wade, 5, 80 
Wilkes, 203 
William i., 21 
William m., 56, 161 
Williams, 141. 144, 164 
Williamson, 216 
WiUis, 34, 123, 209 
Willmore, 26, 26, 27, 29 
Wilkins, 122, 141 
Wilkinson, 24, 83 
Willoughby de Brooke, 

10 
Wills, 179 
WiUughby, 177, 178 



Wilmer, 49, 184 

Wilson, 66, 215, 264, 260 

Wilynge, 216 

Winchester, marq., 24 

Winchester, lord, 73 

Winckles, 188, 189 

Windsor, 118 

Windsor, lord, 118 . 

Wingfeild, 46 

Wingfeld, 106, 176 

Wingfield, 73, 119 

Wingrave, 142 

Winkles, 132 

Winkyn de Worde, 67 

Winn, 133 

Winston, 77 

Wintworth, 66 

Wither, 123, 124, 126, 
126, 127, 132, 133, 134, 
135,136,197,198,199, 
200, 201, 202 

Witsee, 171 

Wittesley, 216 

Wolstenholme, 241 

Wood, 61, 111, 178 

Woodcock, 194 

Woode, 106 

Woodenell, 23 

Woodhull, 241 



Woodward, 36 
Woodwarde, 143 
Woolf, 196, 196 
Worcester, earl, 176 
Workman, 28 
Worlache, 173 
Worley, 167 
Wormleighton, 233 
Worseley, 46 
Wortley, 77, 168 
Wray, 114 
Wright, 45, 61, 69, 142, 

143, 171, 168 
Wykins, 179 
Wyldbore, 264, 256, 257, 

268 
Wyman, 35 
Wynckills, 179 
Wyngfield, 174 
Wyrley, 192 
Yardeley, 22 
Yate, 2, 131 
Yelverton, 6, 184 
York, 132 

York, duke, 141, 246 
Yorke, 179 
Young, 141 
Younger, 260 
Zoach, 24, 47 




I 



Index II 



Plages in Northamptonshire. 



Abing^n, 215 
Abfchorpe, 179, 197, 209 
Addington, Qreat, 106 
Addington, Little, 113-116, 140, 141, 

188 
Adstone, 80, 197, 239 
Alderton, 46, 144 
Aldrington, 165, 197 
Aldwinkle, 33, 152 
Althorp, 56, 168 
Arthingworth* 94 
Aflhby, Cold, 38 
Ashley, 96 
Ashton, 133, 197 
Astcote, 197 
Aston-le-Walls, 11, 46 
Astrop, 172 
Ayiiho, 179, 193 
Bainton, 11 

Bamack, 57, 106, 108, 207 
Barnwell, 115, 173 
Barton Seagrave, 109-111 
Benton, Great (?), 32 
Billing, Great, 25, 46, b^ 
Blakedey, 179, 197 
Blatherwyck, 96 
Blisworth, 32, 133, 216 
Boddington, 180 
Boughton, 24, 45, 47, 81, 82, 84, 106, 

176, 210-212, 215, 252 
Brackley, 65, 72, 133, 179, 194, 195, 

197, 260 
Bradden, 179, 197 
Brampton Chapel, 47, 219 
Brington, 145, 236 
Brixworth, 17, 46, 106, 235 
Broughton, 32, 46, 52 
Biickby, Long, 157 
Bulwick, 10, 216, 248 
Burghley, 9, 11, 98, 112, 143 



Burton Latimer, 52 

Byfield, 25, 49, 93, 180, 215 

Caldecot, 34 

Caldicott, 179, 210 

Canons Ashby, 46, 57, 72, 80, 144, 145, 

179 
Castor, 33, 175 
Catesby, 119, 145 
Chaoombe, 72, 179 
Charwelton, 149, 180, 192, 193, 195, 

247 
Chelveston, 34 
Chipping Warden, 180, 239 
Clapto% 45, 55, 160 
CHpston, 95, 96, 215, 216 
Cogenhoe, 11 
Cold Higham, 179 
CoUeyweston, 10 
Collingtree, 197 
Cosgrove, 197 
Cottesbrooke, 46 
CottQ^ End, 32, 87, 108, 128 
Conrteenhall, 133, 183, 197 
Cranford, 10 
Croughton, 179, 195 
Crowfield, 133 
Culworth, 46, 179, 222 
Dallington, 216 
Daventry, 11, 25, 36, 44, 50, 72, 86, 

87, 106, 123, 260 
Deeping Gate, 46, 106 
Delapre, 23 
Dene, 46, 230 
Denford, 216 
Denshanger, 197 
Desborough, 216 
Dingley, 48 
Doddington, 173 
Dodford, 192 
Dogsthoxpe, 169 



XX. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 



Draytoii) 47 

Duston, 216 

Earls Barton, 39, 40, 116, 162 

Eastcote, 197 

Easton-on-the-hill, 96, 108, 216 

Ecton, 90, 149 

Edgcote, 46, 180 

Evenley, 144, 180 

Everdon, 49 

Eydon, 46, 180, 215 

Eye, 207 

Falcott, 197 

Farndon, East, 42, 43, 94, 95, 180 

Farthinghoe, 106, 192, 193, 196 

Farthing^tone, 197 

Fawsley, 80, 117, 120, 122, 123, 146- 

148, 235, 239, 241 
Faxton, 144 

Finedon (Thingdon), 106, 216 
Fineshade, 13, 72 
Forthoe, 133 

Fotheringhay, 12-15, 61, 105, 246 
Gayton, 157, 179, 197 
Geddington, 46 
Glapthom, 214 
Glendon, 79 
Glinton, 57 

Grafton Kegis, 197, 209 
Greatworth, 45, 149, 215, 235, 236 
Greens Norton, 45, 106, 197, 200 
Gretton, 106 
Grimsoote, 197 
Guilsborough, 50 
Haddon, West, 50, 104, 108, 167 
Hardingston, 70, 87 
Hardwick, 173, 215 
Harleston, 32, 183, 215 
Harpole, 89 

Harringworth, 158, 159 
Harrowden, Great, 46, 138 
Hartwell, 133, 197 
Haselbeach, 38 
Heathencote^ 133, 197 
Hehndon, 103 180, 197 
Helpston, 97, 98, 158, 215 
Heyjford, Nether, 197 
Higham Ferrers, 34, 46, 52, 72, 79, 

106, 142, 260 
Hinton, 42, 43, 180 
Holcot, 32, 132, 171, 173 
Holdenby, 148, 181, 217 
Horton, 144 
Houghton, Ghreat, 52 
Houghton, Little, 11, 157 
Hulcote, 197, 200 
Irchester, 11, 86 
Irthlingborough, 106 
Isham, 94, 95 



IsHp, 115 

Kelmarsh, 55, 94, 95 

Kettering, 56, 67, 79, 137, 233, 260 

Kilsby, 188, 189 

Kingsthorpe, 154, 181 

Lamport, 32, 33, 46, 225, 233, 234 

Lilford, 45, 176. 216 

Loddington, 46 

Lowick, 17, 32, 47, 115 

Luffield, 72 

Maidford, 179, 197 

Maidwell, 46, 55 

Marholm, 106 

Marston, S. Lawrence, 163, 180 

Marston Trussell, 106 

Haxey, 157, 165, 214 

Middleton Cheney, 57, 180, 193 

Middleton Malsor, 197 

Morton Pinkney, 179, 197, 202, 203 

Moulton, 57, 113-116, 139-141 

Naseby, 138, 139, 224 

Nassington, 32 

Newbold, 96 

Newbottle, 46, 180 

Newton, 74, 215 

Northampton, 3, 5, 8, 11, 17, 22, 23, 
25, 26, 32, 33, 36, 38, 41, 44, 46, 50, 
51, 57, 60, 69-72, 74. 79, 80, 86, 91, . 
95, 105-108, 126-128, 132, 134, 135, 
145, 161, 162, 161, 167, 176, 177, 
183, 186-187, 194, 195, 199, 204, 205, 
211, 216-220, 223, 225-228, 230-233, 
238, 242, 244, 245, 248, 260 

Northborough, 46, 176 

Norton, 120, 215 

Oakley, Great, 45 

Oakley, Little, 216 

Old, 7, 223 

Oundle, 13, 32, 74, 78, 79, 102, 103, 
152, 158, 160, 244, 260 

Overstone, 61, 94 

Oxendon, 94, 95, 236 

Passenham, 147 

PattishaU, 179 

Paulersbury, 139, 198 

Peakirk, 28, 57 

Peterborough, 11, 17, 18, 22, 24, 28, 
34, 46, 4«, 62, 72, 73, 77, 78, 82, 83, 
86, 86, 107, 163, 166, 167, 159, 160, 
162, 169, 175, 207, 209, 216, 220, 
222, 224, 248-252, 257-260 

Piddington, 46 

PilBgate, 230 

Pipewell, 23, 72 

Pltsford, 45 

Plumpton, 179 

PottOTspury, 197, 198 

Preston Gapes, 122, 158 



Index IL — Places in Northamptonshire, 



XXI. 



Puxley, 68, 133 

Pytchlev, 74, 225 

Raunds, 62, 116, 163, 164, 232, 248 

Bmgstead, 225 

Roade, 57, 80, 96, 197 

Rockiiigham, 46, 260 

Rothwell, 6, 79, 164, 173, 260 

Rushden, 34, 161 

Rnshton, 46, 74, 173 

Salcey, 46, 123, 126, 131, 132, 197 

Sandyford, 70 

Scaldwell, 268 

Sewardsley, 106 

Shnttlehanger, 133, 197 

Sibbertoft, 173 

Silverstone, 179, 197 

Slapton, 133, 197 

Slipton, 84, 216 

Southwick, 46, 167 

Spratton, 62, 106 

Stamford Baron (S. Martin's), 10, 22, 

106, 174, 229 
Stanford, 175 
Stanwick, 62, 216, 216 
Staverton, 33, 248 
Stoke Bruem, 197 
Stoke Doyle, 248 
Sulby, 23, 72, 106 
Sulgrave, 146-149, 189, 197, 216, 236, 

236 
Sntton, 33 

Sutton, Kings, 172, 180 
Syresham, 180, 197 
SyweU, 46, 49, 90, 94 
Thenford, H^b 
Thomhangh, 96 
Thorpe Achurch, 116 
Thorpe Malsor, 7 

Thorpe Mandeville, 46, 179, 193, 196 
Thrapston, 4, 11, 33, 74, 108, 166, 215, 

260 
Tiffield, 179 
Tichmarsh, 46, 203 



Towoester, 18, 33, 64, 70, 72, 74, 76, 
87, 99, 108, 124, 127, 132, 178, 197, 
198, '200, 207, 209, 210, 224, 260 

Trafford, 49 

Twywell, 84, 173 

Ufford, 108 

Upton, 46, 174, 227 

Wadenhoe, 152 

Wakerley, 174 

Wansford, 33 

Waippenham, 80, 133, 197 

Wardon, West, 49 

Warkton, 82 

Warkworth, 180 

Watford, 94 

Weedon, 108, 164 

Weedon Beck, 11, 33, 44, 73, 77 

Weedon Lois, 179, 197 

Weekley, 21 

Weldon, 46, 260 

Welford, 16, 96 

Wellingborongh, 62, 106, 129, 141, 
161, 169, 172, 173, 187,212,216,260 

Weston-by- Weedon, 146, 147 

Weston-by-WeUand, 216 

Weston Favell, 48, 57, 167, 179, 197 

Whitfield, 46, 193, 197, 200 

Whittering, 218 

Whittlebury, 2, 8, 34, 123, 126, 131- 
133, 179, 197 

Wicken, 197, 216 

Wigsthorpe, 162 

Wilbaston, 216 

Wilby, 173 

Winwick, 15 

Wold, 7, 223 

WoUaston, bb, 66, 239 

Wood-Burcote, 133, 197 

Woodend, 197 

Woodford, 76, 173 

Woodford Halse, 41-43, 49, 180 

Worthorpe, 73 

Yardley Gobion, 62, 197 




J 






11 



Index III. 



Places not in Northamptonshire. 



Adel, Tk., 16 

Aginoonrt, 12 

Agmonde^am, Bnoks, 96 

Alwalton. Hnnts, 83 

Aylesbtuy, Bucks, 194 

Bagrinton, War., 17 

Badminton, Glos., 103 

Banbury, Ozon, 36, 193, 195, 196, 223, 

243 
Bamet, Midd., 100, 247 
Bamingham, Norf., 34 
Barrowden, Rutl, 108 
Baston, Lbio., 96 
Bath, Som., 141 
Beaohampton, Bucks, 18, 54 
Beautree, Lrel., 113 
Bedford, 71 
Bedic, Dur., 113 
Bicester, Oxon, 193, 195 
Birkin, Tk., 16 
Bittern, Hants, 64 
Blyth, Notts, 113 
Bolton Percy, Yk., 16 
Bosworth, Leic, 31, 175, 246, 247 
Boulogne, 21 
^oum, line, 144 
Bradenham, Bucks, 118 
Brampton, Leic, 94 
Bramshall, Staf., 32 
Brancepeth, Dur., 113, 114 
BrickhUl, Bucks, 244 
Bromley, Midd., 33 
Brooklyn, America, '216 
Broughton, Oxon, 122 
Buckden. Hunts, 96 
Buckingham, 41, 44, 136 
Buckland, Et., 235 
Budwith, Yk., 16 



Bulfitrode, Bucks, 19 
Bushey, Midd., 125 
Bythom, Hunts, 55 
Galverton, Bucks, 19, 54 
Cambridge, 16, 30, 31, 61, 78, 81, 160, 

175, 203, 222 
Canterbury, Kt., 204 
Careby, Rutl, 10 
Cheshunt, Herts, 79 
Chester, 75 
Chesterton, Oxon, 11 
Chichester, Sus., 2 
Chinkwell, War., 36 
Cholsey, Berks, 115 
Cirencester, Glos., 64 
aent, Wore., 32, 33 
dapcot, Bucks, 54 
Colchester, Ess., 64 
Colt, SuflP., 192 
CoUumstock, Dev., 258 
Coningfton, Hunts, 13 
Connecticut, 216 
Coombe, Kt., 113 
Coventry, War., 17, 69, 70 
Cowley, Oxon, 32 
Crowland, lino., 258 
Dalkeith, Scot., 81, 82 
Dane Court, Kt., 14 
Denton, Hunts, 13 
Derby, 213 
Dunstable, Beds, 112 
Durham, 29, 251 
Ecclefechan, 139 
EdgehiU, War., 86 
Edinburgh, 16, 81, 133 
Elmore, Glos., 236 
Elton, Hunts, 32, 33 
Ely, Camb., 31, 162 



XXIV. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 



Eton, Bucks, 61, 73 
Exeter, Dev., 60 
Exton, Rutl., 47 
Filey, Yk., 17 
Folkestone, Kt., 246 
Gkdnsborough, Idnc, 113 
Garsdon, Wilts, 236 
GlasGTOW, 82 

Goo&ch, Heref., 202, 203, 204 
Gretford, Line., 176 
Haddam, Herts, 235, 236 
Halstead, SuflP., 174 
Hamilton, Rntl., 28 
Hanslope, Bnoks, 126 
Haverfordwest, Pemb., 2 
Hedleyhope, Dor., 113, 114, 190 
Hedryngham, Ess., 119 
Highgate, Midd., 110, 112 
Hillmorton, War., 137 
Hinwick, 72 
Holbeach, Line., 167 
Holywell, Hunts, 34 
Homcastle, Lino.. 71 
Hprseheath, Camb., 176 
Horsemonden, Kt., 236 
Horwood, Great, Bucks, 222 
Hough -on-the-HU, Line, 96 
Huntingdon, 222 
Hythe, Kt., 61 
Jamaica, 19 

Kenilworth, War., 16, 176 
Ketton, Rutl, 96 
Keystone, Hunts, 33, 162 
KeythorpB, Leic, 176 
Kibworth Haroourt, Leic, 94 
Kidlington, Oxon, 216 
Kinver, Staf., 129 
Knightley, Staf., 117 
Knotting, Beds, 84 
Knowshop, Tk., 217 
Lambeth, Sur., 73 
Lanohester, Dur., 190 
Langton, Leic, 17 
Leamington, War., 86 
Leeds, Tk., 16, 16, 17 
Leicester, 17, 86, 139, 164, 243 
Le-wes, Sus., 87 
Lillingstone, Bucks, 133 
Lincoln, 17, 18, 30, 113 
Lubenham, Leic, 64 
LuflPenham, Rutl, 10, 32, 174 
Lyndon, Rutl, 10 
I^ytoote, Bucks., 209 
Maidstone, Kt., 234, 236, 236 
Manchester, Lane, 6 
Mapperley, Notts, 61 
Market Harborough, Leic, 94 
Methley, Yk., 16 



Middlebie, Scot., 139 

Midlothian, 82 

Minns, 112 « ^ ^o 

Monks Eleigh, Suff., 78 

Mountsford, Berks.,^ 116 

Newark, Notts, 222 

Newcastle, Northum., 116 

Newport PagneU, Bucks, 134 

Newton, Dev., 32, 33 

Normaiiton, Rutl., 10 

Nosely, Leic, 68 

Norwich, 34 

Oakham, Rutl., 17 

Offord Darcy, Hunts, 96 

Olney, Bucks, 244 

Ormsby, Norf., 32, 33 

Otteringden, Kt'., 234 

Oxford, 6, 13, 18, 28, 71, 72, 76, 81, 

101, 160, 193, 223 
Poftsea, Hants, 72 
Prestwould, Leic, 176 
Poddington, Beds, 72 
Ravensworth, Dur., 190 
Rawmeare, Sus., 28 
Richmond, Sur., 176 
Rotherham, Yk., 204 
Roxburghshire, 82 
RudlowG, U8 
Rugby, War., 70, 71, 138 
Sandbeck, Yk., 113 
Saxby, Line, 113 
Scarborough, Tk., 17 
Scotts HaU, Kt., 236, 236 
Scrayingham, Yk., 203 
Serampore, Lidia, 139 
Serlby, Notts, 113 
Sheffield, Yk., 87, 107 
Shelton, Beds, 146 
Shipston-on-Stour, Wore, 196 
Skelton, Yk., 16 
Skirlaugh, Yk., 17 
Snettifiham, Norf., 167 
Sonning, Berks, 226 
Southampton, Hants, 86 
Spalding, Line, 17 
Stainton, Market, Line, 167 
Stamford, Line, 10, 17, 78, 108, 176, 

222, 229, 230 
Stoke, Notts, 28, 29 
Stony Middleton, Derb., 164 
Stony Stratford, Bucks, 68, 126, 133, 

136, 199, 202 
Stoughton, Leic, 96 
Stowe, Bucks, 73 
Streatham, Sur., 3 
Stretford, Lane, 87 
Stretham, Oamb., 167 
StukQley, Great, Hunts, 176 



Index IIL — Places not in Northamptonshire, xxv. 



Tarporloy, Ches., 241 
Teigh, Rutl., 216 
Tempsford, Beds, 114 
Tewkesbury, Glos., 85, 246 
Thirsk, Yk., 16 
Thomhill, Yk., 54 
Tickencote, Rutl., 174, 176 
Tilbury, Ess., 144 
Tinwell, Rutl., 174 
Tuxford, Notts, 176 
Twyford, Leic, 11, 87 
Tyburn, Midd., 226 
Utkmton, Ches., 241 
Wakefield, Yk., 12, 246 
Warwick, 216 
Washingley, Hunts, 83 
Wensleydale, Yk., 17 
Westminster, 3, 28, 72, 82, 174, 176, 
203, 211 



Whichnour, 118 
Whitfield, Lane, 146, 147 
Whittlesey, Camb., 32 
Windsor, Berks, 260, 251 
Witham-on-the-Hill, Line, 9 
Witham, South, Lmc, 176 
Wobum, Beds, 111, 112 
Wolfaxe, 106 

Wolverhampton, Staf., 181, 161 
Woodhead, RuU., 176 
Woodstock, Oxon., 210 
Woodston, Hunts, 32, 33 
Wormleighton, War., 36, 37 
Wykeham, Line, 17 
Yelden, Beds, 19, 32, 87 
York, 16, 60, 203 



J 



Index IV 



Of Subjects. 



Address to general Monk, 99 

Arrest, illegal, 164 

Author wanted, 83, 112 

Badgers, or Higlers, 51 

Barker, Leonard, 225 

Bequest for rehearsing creed, &c., 259 

Booksellers, Paynft, 65 

Bosworth field, 246 

Boughton Green Fair, 210 

Bridges (John), his funeral, 109 

Brifcfs, 31, 87, 108, 129 

Buccleugh, 5th duke of, 81 

Burgliley, Bedlam society, 9 

Burghley postman, 112, 143 

Burghley, lord, his " Certain Pre- 
cepts," 4 

Carey, William, 139 

Carlyle, Thomas, 138, 124 

Carriage of goods in 1743, 260" 

Cartularies, 72 

Cecil, lady Jane, her funeral, 174 

Chimney money, 243 

Chronicle of Northants, 184 

Church Goods at Scaldwell, 258 ; 
Wollaston, bb 

Churchwardens' Accounts at Byfield, 
25, 49, 93; Peterborough, 169; 
Woodford Halee, 41 

avil war, 36, 187, 222, 242 

Clem Vengeance, 247 

Clergy, deprived by Q. Mary, 215 

Coins, 19, 63, 99 

Constable's Accounts at Farthinghoe, 
192 

Coronation poles, 123 

Cricket for a stake, 224 

Cui bono, 83, 166 

Deeds, Aldwinkle, 123 ; Earls Barton, 
39 



Defence of county, 45 

Dinners, audit, 49 ; charity, 75 ; 
prisoners, 251 

Drumming well at Oundle, 102 

Dryden and Swift, relations, 202 

Dryden's birthplace, 64 

Dugdale's transcripts, 18 

Electioneering at Peterborough, 77 

Election squibs, 150 

> mperor of Great Britain, 19, 63, 69 

Fairy Jip. 227 

Families of Northants : — Bennett, of 
Towcester, 18, 34, 76; Brudenel, 
of Maxey, 158 ; Elmer, of North- 
ampton, 216 ; Emyley, of Helmdon, 
103 ; Fleetwood, of Aldwinkle, 33 ; 
Green, of Boughton, 24, 47, 84, 176, 
252 ; Harvey, of Northampton, 33 ; 
Isham, of Lamport, 233 ; Osborne, 
of Kelmar^h, bb ; Read, of New- 
bottle, 54; Saunderson, of Little 
Addington, 113, 140, 160; Sheppard, 
of Towcester, 72, 209 ; Washington, 
of Sulgrave, 145, 189, 233 

Farm produce in 1688, value of, 38 

Fawsley, 103 

Fires :— Kettering, 69 ; Thrapston, 4 ; 
WeedonBeck, 77; Wellingborough, 
129, 141 (see also under Briefs) 

Floods, 144, 212 

Folklore of the hare, 161 

Fotheringhay, 12 

Four-field-course farming, 159 

Fuller all over, 31 

Fuller, Andrew, in a Church, 168 

Funerals : — Bridges, 109 ; lady Jane 
Cecil, 174 ; queen Catherine Parr, 
236 

Gleaning, ^03 



XXVlll. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 



GloBsary (Baker's), Eeview of, 88 

Griffin, lord, 48 

Grocery, in 1604, value of, 66 

Goose feast, 172 

Guild at WellingboroTigli, 172 

Hare, folklore of, 161 

Harleston races, 183 

Headlands, 136 

Heart Burial, 75 

Higham Ferrers taxation, 142 

Hills and Hollows, 207 

Holdenby, 182, 217 

Hoyland, John, 107 

Hue and Cry, 137 

Inscriptions, monumental : — Other 
counties, 34, 167, 222 ; Peterborough, 
18, 28, 82, 164, 249 ; Whittlebury, 8 

Justices, 6 

Kenrick, Nicholas, 162 

King's evil, 209 

Elingsthorpe, hospital, 181 

Labour, value of, 38, 91 

Lac^makers at Ecton, 96 

Lazar houses, 127, 229 

Lightning striking a church, 26 

Local dialect, 36, 63, 76, 80, 88, 136, 
137, 208 

Manuscripts, chest of, 94 

Members of parliament, 144 

Monasteries, 22, 72, 106 

Murders, 8, 71 

Musters, book of, 178 

Naseby, 138, 224 

Nonconformist -marriage, 148 

Northampton .-—arms, 1 ; battle, 69 ; 
chimney money, 246 ; customs, 204 ; 
gemot, 6; lazaret, 127; lease of 
farm, 3 ; Mercury, 226 ; incised 
stone, 230; memorial pillar, 221, 
228; miscellany, 163; old houses, 
67, 186, 218, 248; portraits of 
William and Mary, 161 ; rebuildinsr 
of, 177 ^ 

Northampton, 2nd earl of, 172 

Northamptonshire : — chronicle, 184 ; 
journal, 216 ; saying, 36, 166 ; 
yeomanry, 6 

Offenca, an original, 224, 238 

Ostorius, 11, 60, 86, 104, 167 

Outrages at Marston, 163 

Overseers, letter to, 116 

Overstone, lord, 61 

Parish registers, at Old (Wold), 7 ; 
ISlipton, 84 

Parr, queen Catherine, her funeral, 
236 



Parson Digbie and tobacco, 220 

Pensioners of convents, 22, 106 

Peterborough: — audit dinner, 49; 
church accounts, 169 ; cathedral 
inscriptions, 18, 28, 82, 164, 249; 
robbery at cathedral, 107 ; election- 
eering, 77 ; volunteers, 262 

Petition to patron of living, 34 

Pillar, incised, 221, 228 

Pindar, sir Paul, 169 

Poole, George AyUffe, M.A., 16, 73 

Presentments to bishop, 67, 168 

Prisoners, dinner for, 261 

Puxley law, 69 

Baces at Harleston, 183 

Rebels, 74 

Ring, the Sywell, 90 

Richard in., 247 

Robbery, at Abington, 167 ; at Peter- 
borough cathedi-al, 107 

Roman coins, 19, 63 

Romans in the county, 11, 19, 60, 63, 
69, 86, 104, 167 

Scarlett, old, 249 

Seal found at Wdlingborouffli* 161, 
187 

Sheep bill, 36, 80 

SherifBs' expenses, 239 

Sievemaker's grandson, 98 ' 

Spencer, 2n^ earl, 168 

Sports, village, 163, 214, 232 

Stuart, Mary, of Scots, 16, 90 

Sul^ave manor house, 189, 216 

Swift and Dryden, relations, 202 

Taxation at Higham Ferrers, 14^ 

Timber-stealing riots, 123, 131, 197 

Tobacco, 220 

Tredwaie, Robert, 96, 101 

Valentine's day, 149 

Visitation, metropolitan, 78 

Volunteer corps, 262 

Wages in 1688, 38, 91 

Waits and Players, 41 

Wellingborough : — fire, 129, 141 ; 
flood, 212 ; guild, 146 ; hospital, 
161, 167 , r -~» 

Whippings, 233 

White, bishop, his bequest, ^69 

White, Tom, postman, 112, 148 

Whittlebury :— curate, 2 ; insoriptioiiB, 
8; timber riots, 123, 181, 197 

WiU o' the wisp, 97 

Wills:— Halliday, 207; Knottisford, 
21; Witsee,17I 

Yeomanry, 6 




Mottoes. 



fe^> 



Pabt I.— JANUARY, 1884. 

Possum mnlta tibi vetemm preeoepta referre. 

ViEon., Oeorg. i. 176. 

Take proper care of your monnments, and you will not need to restore them. 
A few sheets of lead put in time upon the roof, a few dead leaves and sticks 
■wept in time out of a water-course, will save both roof and walls from ruin. 
Watch an old building- with an anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at 
ANT cost, from every influence of dilapidation. 

BusEur, Seven Lampt of Arehiteetwej chap. vi. 



Pabt H.—APRIL, 1884. 

I doe love these auncient ruynes — 
We never tread upon them but we set 
Our foote upon some reverend historie. 

Websteb, Duchess of Maljl, 

I have chosen commonly to set down Things in the very Words of the 
Records and Originals, and of the Authors themselves, rather thanin my own, 
without framing and dressing them into more Modem Language. Whereby 
the Sense is sure to remain entire as the Writers meant it. Whereas by affecting 
too curiously to change and model Words and Sentences, the Sense itself, I 
have observed, often to be marred and disguised. 

Stbtpe, Preface to Annate of the Reformation. 



Pabt III.— JULY, 1884. 

Will you mock at an ancient tradition P 

Shakspbbe, King Seniy V,, t. L 

Old customs ! Oh ! I love the sound. 

However simple they may be : 
Whatever with time hath sanction found, 

Is welcome, and is dear to me. 

Glabb, Deeemher, 



XXX. Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Pabt rV.— OCTOBER, 1884. 

' Do not I love a herald. 

Who is the pure preserver of deBcents, 

The keeper fair of all nobility, 

Without which all would run into confusion ? 

Ben Jonson, The Staple of Newty iii. i. 
Davy Wilson, commonly called Snu£^ Davy, from his inveterate addiction 
to black rappee, was the very prince of scouts for searching blind alleys, cellars, 
and stalls, for rare volumes. He had the scent of a slow-hound, sir, and the 
snap of a bull-dog. He would detect you an old black-letter ballad among 
the leaves of a law-paper, and find an editio princeps under the mask of a 
school Oorderius. 

SooTT, The Antiguar$ff vol. i. chap. ▼. 



Pabt v.— JANCJARY, 1886. 
Veterrima quseque, ut ea vina qu» vestutatem ferunlj, esse debent snavissima. 

CiGBBO, J)e Amieitiay zix. 
I am always pleased with Le Long's reply to the caustic question of Father 
Malebranche, when the latter asked him, " how he could be so foolish as to take 
such pains about settling the date of a book, or making himself master of 
trivial points of philosophy P"—** Truth is so delightful," replied Le Long, 
" even in the most trivial matters, that we must neglect nothing to discover 
her.'* DiBDiN, Bibliomania, part ii. 



Pabt VI.— APRIL, 1886. 

With joy all relics of the past I hail. 

TuBNBB, Sonnet on Old Jturalitiee. 
What, was in its life-time mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after 
being buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it is capable of yielding 
both light and heat. And so even the most worthless pieces of the literature 
of a remote period, contain in them both instruction and amusement. The 
historical student should consult such of these as time has spared. 

Abnold, Modem Sietory, Lecture i. 



Pabt Vn.— JULY, 1886. 

I think that it should be the aim 
Of families of andent name. 
Never, from fashion, to tninsfer 
Their long establish'd character; 
Nor e'er blot from th' historic eye, 
One page that tells their ancesby. 

Gokbb, Tour of Dr. Syntax, ii. 4. 
Every country has its traditions, which, either too minute or not sufficiently 
authentic to receive historical sanction, are handed down among the vulgar, 
and serve at once to instruct and amuse them. 

GoLDBXiTH, The Bee, no. 4. 



Mottoes. xxxi. 

Past VIII.— OCTOBER, 1886. 
Sweet then to ns was that romantic l)and, 
The ancient legends of our native land. 

TTrRir-Hi White, Childhood, part ii. 

Those who regret what our forerunners in antiquarian pursuits have 
l^eft' undone in forbearing to perpetuate manners and appearances, because 
they were familiar to themselves, may be the rather disposed to pardon 
what is now done, in order to impart to posterity many things which to us are 
present, and therefore uninteresting, but without the help of the pen or the 
pencil would to them be irretrievably lost. 

Whitakee, History of Leedi, p. 89. 




Errata. 



p. 24, line 26; for Bringfton read Boughton. 

P. 60, line 33 ; for Talkington read Torkington. 

P. 96, line 27 ; for Oxford read Orford. 

P. 115, line 20; /or (she died 1766 and was buried in 1780, leaving an 
only daughter, Martha) read (she died 1766) and was buried in 1780, 
leaving an only daughter, Martha. 

P. 216, line 31 ; deU the whole line ; no connection with the county. 



Contents 

1 Arms of the Borough of Northampton. 

2 A Whittlehnry Curate. 

3 Lease of a Farm in Northampton 

Pields, 1752. 

4 Lord Burghley's " Certaino Precepts." 

5 Great Fire at Thrapston, 1718. 

6 Northamptonshire Justices of the 

Peace, 1650. 

7 Gemot at Northampton, 1065. 

8 Northamptonshire Teomanry, 1794. 

9 Parish Begisters of Old. 
10. Some Inscriptions at Whittlebary. 

11 The Bedlam Society at Bnrghley. 

12 Ostorius in Northamptonshire. 

13 Owners of Fotheringhay. 

14 Oeorire Ayliffe Poole, M.A. (^ 

jjortljam^ton: 

TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS. 



15 Dagdale's Transcript of Inscriptions 
in Peterborongh Cathedral. 

16 Bonnet Family of Beachampton,Backs ; 
and Handley Park, Towcester. 

17 An Emperor of Great Britain , A.D. 287. 

18 Will of Thomas Knottisford, Vicar of 
WeeUey, 1546. 

19 Conventnal Pensioners. 

20 Green Family of Bonghton. 

21 Great Billing Church Struck by Light- 
ning, 1759. 

22 Churchwardens' Accounts of Byfield. 

23 Monumental Inscriptions in Peter-> 
borough Cathedral. — I. 

24 Fuller all over. 

25 Northamptonshire Briefb. 



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[pAl|T I. JANUARY, 1884. PRICE Is. 6d. 

Possum/ n^tta tibiveterum'fif^^epta referre, Q t" O J ^ /O ^^ 
I ••'"!>. 25 18BB } Virgil, Georg. i. 176. | 

Take proper care ofvoir monuments, and you Ml not need to restore them. 
j A few sheets of lead pu(^inltiffj^ j^^n,^^ ro^a few dead leaves and sticks 
\ swep$ in time out of a wateT^^&iadxsdLwil^^v e both roof and walls from ruin. 
: Watch an old building with an anxious care ; guard it as best you may, and at 
I ANY cost, from every influence of dilapidation. 
[' Rusk IN, Seven Lamps of Architecture, chap. vi. 

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Notes ^ Queries, 

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i The Antiquities, Family History, Traditions, Parochial 
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RMS OF THE Borough of Northampton. — In North- 

amptonshire Notes and Queries some observations on the 

arms of the Borough of Northampton will be in place. 

According to Burke's Armory the arms are : — *' Gules 

on a mount Vert a tower triple-towered supported by two 

lions rampant-guardant Or, in the port a port-cuUis.*' No motto is 

given, but all modern examples have the motto ^'Castello Fortior 

Concordia " — Concord is stronger than a castle. 

There are several varieties of -the coat. In all the representations 
the main tower appears to be circular. In some the upper tower 
rises from the next beneath, which is of larger diameter, and this 
again rises from the main tower in the same way, like the .tubes of a 
telescope, each portion being embattled and machicolated. Other 
examples have three small circular towers of equal height, rising from 
within the parapet of the main tower. Others have the central of 
the three turrets, larger than the outer ones. In some the lions are 
rampant, and in others rampant-guardant — that is with their faces 
turned to the spectator. William Belchier, who died in 1609, in a 
MS. now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, gives drawings of the 
arms in the windows of many churches in this county, and amongst 
them All Saints. In this church were several paintings of the borough 
arms. Both constructions of the triple tower appear, and one tower 
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2 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

has no small turrets on the main tower. All the lions appear to be 
rampant-guardant. In two of the representations of the arms in 
Belchier's MS. the tower appears to be lettered " a " (Argent). It is 
evident that no such construction as the first can ever have existed. 
The second construction is possible, but not probable. The most 
correct and picturesque construction would be to represent the three 
small turrets projecting from the embattled parapet, as was often 
the case. It is not improbable that the two lions which now support 
the tower once supported the shield^ in the manner usual with lion- 
supporters. 

It might be expected that we should learn something from the 
old borough seals. By the courtesy of the Town Clerk, I have seen 
the only seals of the borough arms existing amongst the very valuable 
series of deeds in his custody belonging to the Town. There are 
three examples — all alike. Two of the deeds are dated i6ai, and 
the third is of about the same date. The castle is here a sort of 
triumphal arch, with an embattled top, and what appear to be two 
cranes on each side. The arch has in it apparently double doors. It 
has no resemblance to the towers in the windows of All Saints. 
The matrix of this seal is not now existing. Both forms of the 
triple-towers are in use in the Town Clerk's office. Belchier's MS. 
shows that it was not at " The Reformation " that the great destruc- 
tion of glass took place, but in the Rebellion, and the subsequent 
Commonwealth. He gives one hundred and ninety-three coats of 
arms in the windows of A.11 Saints, in his time. 

The new flags of the borough have on the main tower a variety 
of the three turrets — that is, they are conjoined. The seal of the 
town of Haverfordwest has on a mount a castle triple-towered, on the 
central tower a man blowing a horn — on the others flags— the tower 
supported by two heraldic tigers. No colours given. The city of 
Chichester and some other corporations and several families bear a 
tower triple-towered. H. D. 

2. — A Whittlebury Curate. — ^I'he following memorandum 
is copied from the Whittlebury Parish Register, and seems worth 
recording amongst l^otes and Queries of the County: — "The 
Rev. John Yate became Curate of Whittlebury on the 4th October, 
1766, continued Curate 55 years of one parish and died without 
having ever obtained any preferment whatever. He was a Man of 
great integrity and simplicity of heart, and a most pious Christian. 
He did constant duty in the church till within about two years of his 
death, when his eye sight gradually failing, he at last became totally 
blind." J. H. Cooke, p.s.a. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 3 

3. — Lease of a Farm in Northampton Fields, i75». — Some 
interesting expressions and words, as well as noteworthy covenants, 
occur in a lease dated 2 j March, 1752, The indenture is made between 
Benjamin Charlewood of the parish of Saint Ann, Westminster, 
Esquire, and Thomas Pearsop of the Town of Northampton, 
Husbandman. The farm let is described as " All those several pieces 
and parcels of arable Land Meadow and pasture Ground lying and 
being dispersed in the open and common ffields of Northampton 
aforesaid containing by Estimation Three yard Land (be the same 
more or less) commonly called or known by the Name of Webb's 
i&rm And all that little Close of pasture or inclosed piece of Ground 
to the said Three yard land belonging and occupyed therewith lying 
and being within the Libertys of the said Town of Northampton in 

a place there called Saint Edmunds End Together with all and 

singular Lands Leys Hades Baulks Meadows pastures fleedings 
Commons and Common of Pasture Mounds Walls ffences Ways Ease- 
ments Waters Watercourses Profits Commoditys Emoluments and 
Appurtenances." There is a reservation to Benjamin Charlewood of 
"the Brick Kilnes" which were situated "near to a place called 
Walbank with all Buildings Sheds Layers Clayground pits and other 

Conveniencys And also ... all and all manner of Clay Mortar 

Sand Stone Pendal and all other Veins of Earth and Materials what- 
soever.** The access to the Kilns for the purposes of making bricks 
or tiles, and for storing or i^moving them, is also reserved. The 
lease was for fifteen years " If the open and common fiields of North- 
ampton aforesaid doe and shall so long continue open and uninclosed.** 
The rent was ^40 a year, to be paid in the Middle Temple Hall in 
London. The tenant was also to render and deliver '^ yearly and 
every year during the said hereby demised Term (so determinable as 
aforesaid) on New years day unto the said Benjamin Charlewood his 
Heirs or Assigns in the Middle Temple Hall aforesaid the further 
yearly Rent of One fat young Hen Turkey and One Couple of fat 
young fibwls commonly called pullets and a Chine of good Hogs 
fiflesh." For every acre of meadow land ploughed up a yearly rent of 
«^5 was to be paid. " All the Hay Straw and Stover yearly arising 
growing happening and renewing in from and out of all and singular 
the arable Lands and other the premisses hereby demised " were to be 
spent and consumed upon the same lands. The landlord undertook to 
pay "a certain Chief or Quit Rent of Three pounds issuing and payable 
yearly for or out of the same Premisses or some part thereof to the 
Master of the Hospital of Saint John the Baptist in the said Town 
of Northampton.*' The tenant was also, in consideration of his 

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procuring a responsible tenant for the Brick Kilns, to receive one 
fourth part of the clear profits made from the clay or other materials 
got from the soil of the farm. 

Some of the words quoted above are given in Baker's Glossary of 
Northamptonshire Words and Phrases,. A hade is '* A. small piece of 
green sward or grass at the head or end of arable land, upon which the 
plough turns ; the end of a furlong. By some considered as synony- 
mous with Balk. A word that has gradually fallen into disuse, since 
the enclosure of open fields." Pendle-stone is " the upper course in 
a stone-pit." Stover is ''the second mowing or growth of clover." 
A yard of land varied in difierent parts of the country from twenty to 
forty acres. Was there any fixed number of acres in the Northampton- 
shire yard ? £d. 

4. — Lord Burghlet's "Certaine Precepts." — In the 
Antiquarian and Topographical Library of the late Charles Bayley, 
Esq., of West Bromwich, sold by Sotbeby & Co. on the i8th July» 
1883, was a copy of a work by the first Lord Burghley, with the 
following title : — 

'* Certaine Precepts, or Directions, for the well ordering and carnage of a 
mans life : as also Odconomicall Displine for the gonemement of his 
house : with 'a Platforme to a good foundation therof , in the aduised 
choice of a wife : Left by a Father to his sonne at his death, who was 
sometimes of eminent Note and Place in this Kingdome. And 
Published from a more perfect Copy, then ordinary those pocket 
Manuscripts goe warranted by. With some other Precepts and 
Sentences of the same nature added: taken from a person of like 
place and quality. 
LovDov, Printed by T.O. and B.A. for Biob. Meighen, and Thorn. lonei, and are to be 
■old at 8. Clemens Churoh without Temple-Barre. 1616." 12mo. 

Is this the first edition, published anonymously } 

An edition was published in 1636, with portrait of Lord 
Burghley, engraved by T. Cecil. Also with view of Burghley House 
from the Gardens, engraved by J. Clark. Another edition was 
published in 1637. The Precepts are to be found in Peck*s Desiderata 
Curiosa, published 1779. J. T. 

5- — Great Fire at Thrapston, 17 18. — The following is from 
The Historical Register for 17 18. ''Dec. 9. A Fire happen'd at 
Thrapston near Northampton, which continued 12 Hours, and 
consum'd above 50 Dwelling Houses, besides Outhouses, and a great 
Quantity of Goods, to the Value of near 10,000 /." In the following 
year, 9 Jan., John Leet and James Kempston of Thrapston are 
named as recovering their full claims from the Sun Fire Office. 

M. M. D. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



6. — Northamptonshire Justices op the Peace, i6jo. — In 
The Names of the Ivstices of Peace, in England and Wales, As they 
stand in Commission in their several Counties this Michaelmas Terme 
(London, i6jo^ at pp. 40, 41, we find these names under 

«NOBTHAHFTON ShIBB." 



" Quorum, 
William Lenthall, Sp. 
Oliver Cromwell, L.G. 
John Bradshaw, L. Pr. 
B. Whitlock, J 
Rich. Keble, 1 1*. Com. of the 
John Lisle, ) 8'e*t>»l- 
Robert Earl of Warwick. 
Will. Vise. Monnson. 
Bdward L. Montague. 
William L. Fitz-williams. 
Thomas Lord Gray of Groby. 
Henry Roll, L.C.J, of the upper benoh^ 
Oliver St. John, L.O.J, of the Com. 

Pleas. 
John Wilde, Lord Chief Baron of the 

Excheq. 
Philip Jermyn, one pi the justices of 

the upper b^ch. 
Peter Warberton, one of the Justices 

of the common pleas. 
John Puleston,one of the just, of the 

Com. Pleas. 
John Ghreen, Sergeant at Law. 
Edw. Prideaux, Att. G. 
Geo. Mountague, Esq; 
Tho. Widdrington, Kt. 
John Dreyden, Bar. 
Christopher Yelverton, Kt. and 

Baronet 
John Norwich, Knight and Baronet. 
Edward Nichols, Bar. 



Gilbert Pickering, Bar. 
John Clark, Sarjeant at Law. 
John Parker, Sarjeant at Law. 
Richard Knightly, sen. 
Zouch Tate. 
Richard Owseley. 
Edward Hanbury. 
Richard Samuel. 
Edward Harby. 

John Claypool. 
q. John Cartwright. 
q, John Brown. 
q, Thomas Elmes. 
q. Philip Holman. 
q, Edward Farmer. 
q, John Maunsell. 
q, Nathan Humphryes. 
q. Thomas Brooks. 
q, John Norton, 
q. Richard Andrews. 
q. Charles Harrison. . 
William Ward. 
John Thornton. 
George Benson. 
Thomas Pentlowe. , 
George Linne, Esq ;. 
John Claypool, jun. 
John Haslerig. 
Erasmus Dreydon. 
Henry Berkley. 
Thomas Bletso.** 



In The Names of the Keepers of the Rolls, in England and Wales, 
Michaelmas, of the same year, we find one name only : — 

" Northampton 

John Breyden, Bar." p. 73. 

7. — Gemot at Northampton, a.d. 106^.— The following 
passages are quoted in Mr. James Parker's On the History of Oxford 
during the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (Oxford, 187 1), pp. 34, 35. 
The first is from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, MS. C, the second from 
MS. D of the same, both being in the Cottonian collection, the third 



6 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

is from the Chronicle of Florence of Worcester in the Library of 
Corpus Christi College, Oxford : — 

'*A.D. io6j. And then, very shortly after, there was a great 
* gemot* at Northampton; and so at Oxford, on the day of St. 
Simon and St. Jude. And earl Harold was there, and would work 
their reconciliation if he could, but be could not.*' 

" Then came Earl Harold to meet them, and they laid an errand 
on him to King Eadward, and also sent messengers with him, and 
prayed that they might have Morkere for their Earl. And the king 
granted it, and sent Harold again to them at Northampton on the 
Eve of S. Simon and S. Jude's mass 5 and he made known the 
same to them, and gave his hand thereto j and he there renewed 
Cnut*s law," 

'' Afterwards nearly all of his * followers ' (comitatus) assembled 
together at Northampton and met Harold Earl of the West Saxons, 
and the others whom the King, at Tosti's request, had sent to them in 
order to iiestore peace. Where first of all, and afterwards at Oxford, 
on the feast of the Apostles SS. Simon and Jude, they all unanimously 
opposed their assent, when Harold and several of the others tried to 
reconcile Earl Tosti to them,*' 

8> — Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 1794. — In the Stamford 
Mercury for 19 Sep. 17949 is an account of a meeting of Northants 
Yeomanry of the Kettering Division at Roth well for evolutions. 
Afterwards they attended the Theatre, where this song was introduced, 
''• and sung in full chorus, and with great glee, by the whole house :" — 

SONa. 
The Korthamptonahiie Yeomen, with high mettrd steeda, 
Shou'd ocoasioiL present, would display noble deeds. 
And boldly ohastise every foe to the oause 
Of our King, our Beligion, our Freedom, and LaWs. 

Ghobus. 
British Yeomen, valiant Yeomen, brave British Yeomen for ever, huzza ! 

Green ooats fac'd with black, and in each hat a feather. 
Their waistcoats are bu£^ and their breeches are leather ; 
With broad swords and pistols, and hearts without fear, 
Oreat Jove must be pleased when these Yeomen appear. 
Ghoedb. — ^British Yeomen, &c. 

Both Yeomen and horses are equally good. 
And if e'er they're opposed they will prove British blood ; 
With broadswords and pistols, they'll make their foes fly, 
Por true British yeomen wUl conquer or die. 
Chobxjb.— British Yeomen, &c. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 7 

If ever equality be imdergtood, 
It must be in Yeomen, who'ze equally good ; 
Their noble Gommanders all prompt to obey, 
And follow where Honor and Fame point the way. 
Ohobxtb. — British Yeomen, &o. 

If our base Bef ormers for once had their will, 
Chir laws they'd destroy, and our blood they would spill ; 
But, thanks be to Gk)d, Britons e'er will be free. 
While our laws are supported by brave Yeomanry. 

Oeobub. — British Yeomen, &c. 
See Liberty's flag o'er our Nation is spread. 
And Northamptonshire Yeomen, without fear or dread, 
Have like Britons oome forward, to humble all those 
Who are Englishmen bred, yet are Eaglishmen's foes. 

Chobxts. — ^British Yeomen, &c. 

Success to our Fleets and our Armies who roam, 
Likewise our brave Yeomen, who guard us at home ; 
May George long be King,«nd his Subjects be free, 
And Fame sound the praise of his brave Yeomanry. 
CHoBUS.^British Yeomen, &o. 

9« — Parish Reoisters of Old, or Wold, — The register of 
Baptisms and Marriages begins in IJ39, and then goes directly to 
I j6o. But the Burials begin i j 59 ; so no doubt the earlier date is 
an error. One or two entries are of interest : — 

1638 " At this tyme the plague was in the towne : of w* these 
dyed but it pleased Almightie god to turne from wrath to mercie so 
y* there did not one dye a long tyme After blesed be his name." 

1638. 24 Sep. '* Ann Randall a poor woman who did attend on 
y* infested was buryed." 

1653. 22 Sep, *' M*» : The 22* of September (anno predicto) this 
booke was taken away from mee, and by a {H-etended Act in Crom- 
well's usurpation delivered into the custody of Edward Corbie 
blacksmith^ and parish Clarke, who was constituted, and sworne the 
Register of the saide parish, accordinge to the saide Act, by John 
MaunseU of Thorpe Esq. then a Justice of Peace. 

" This I thought convenient to leave upon record, to the perpetuall 
infamie, and detestation of that horrid Vsurpation and that the neglect 
of Baptisms, Burialls, and Marriadges, and the omission of their recor- 
dinge might not in posteritie bee imputed unto mee John Bullyvante 
Rector de Old. 

" The same neglect there is, for this yeare 1653, in Marriages, and 
Burialls, as appeareth in this booke. Jo : Bullyvante Rector." 

Ed. 



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10. — Some Inscriptions at Whittlebury. —When a boy I 
amused myself by copying all the oldest inscriptions in the grave-yard 
of Whittlebury, and I find there are three which seem to deserve a 
permanent place in these pages^ namely 

No. I, because it is the oldest, and appears on two small stones near 
the belfry tower, cut in capitals. 

« BBABB . LYBTR . THB 
BODIB . OF BOBABD 

ZINaSTONB . WHO 

DEPABTED . THB . 2 

DAT . OF . DBOEIEBEB 

1646. " 



LTBTH Y» BODY OF 

BOBBBT KINQBT5 

OF 8HITLANOBB 
HBB WAS BYBIBD Y* 

2 OF DBConc: A° 
1646" 
Headstone with " R-K'" Foot Stone with ** R-K-'* 



in relief at back. out in at back. 

No. 2. near the Chancel. 

"In Memory of John Heath, he dy*d Dec^' y* 7*^ 1767 Aged 
27 years " 

(At back of the stone) 
" While Time doth Run from Sin Depart 
Let none [e'er] shun Death's Pieroing Dart. 
For Read & look and you will see 
A Wondrous Change was Wrought on me 
For While I lived in Joy and Mirth 
Grim Death came in and stop't my Breath 
For I was Single in the Morning light 
By Noon was Marri'd and was Dead at Night." 

No. 3. on the west side, is to the memory of my late wife's great- 
uncle who was shot in the discharge of his duty whilst collecting 
Rates and Taxes. 

" In Memory of Greorge Linnell, who was wilfully Murdered on 
the 23<* July, 1788, Aged 34 years. 

• If health and strength could sare 

From accident and death, 
He had heen safe and not so soon 

Have given up his hreath. 
Altho' hy cruel Man he fell 

And instantly did die 
We hope his soul with Christ doth dwell 

To all Eternity." 

Perhaps some one who has access to the Northamptonshire News- 
papers 6f 1788 will give the name of the person who shot G. Linnell, 
and any other interesting particulars which may appear in the account 
of his execution at Northampton. 

Wingfield Park, Derby. Henry T. Wakb. 



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11- — ^The Bedlam Society at Burohlet; — Peck, in his 
Desiderata Curiosa, 1779, vol. i., lib. vi., p. 233, gives the following 
Account of the Bedlam Society at Burghley ; and the same Account is 
repeated in History of Burghley, 1792, p. 22 : — 

"In going to see the house, strangers were formerly conducted 
first to a room below stairs, where then were the pictures of my lord 
& his friends, the nobility & gentry of the neighbourhood. This 
room was called Bedlam^ & the company Bedlamites 3 being a society 
founded by my lord's grandfather in an innocent frolic, & ever since, 
'till of late, kept up with much elegance & mirth. Every person, on 
his admission, used to send in his own picture ; & in the same piece 
was drawn the figure of the bird or beast, which for distinction & 
humor's sake, he fancied to be called after. On birth -days & other 
family-festivals they used to meet, & dine by themselves. At all which 
times, by the antient statutes of the order (which I have once seen) if 
any gentleman called any brother by any other name than that of the 
bird or beast in his picture, he was liable to a penalty (five shillings 
forfeit, which was given to one Mr. Clark, an antient decayed gentle- 
man, then secretary of the order). When any member died his 
picture was removed, the gilded frame taken off, & a black one put on 
it. After which it was hung up in a room called Dead Bedlam -, & 
then a new brother was named in the place of the deceased." 

The ancient Statutes of the Order referred to by Peck are not 
known to exist, but in a MS. History of Stamford, in possession of 
Mrs. Lucy Johnson, of Witham-on-the-Hill, co. Lincoln, the following 
order and proceedings of the Bedlam Society are given : — 

"Whereas the R* Honble John E. of Exeter lately deceased did in 
the year 1684 constitute a Society called the Honble Order of Little 
Bedlam at Burghley. And whereas no Chapter or Assembly of the 
Members had been held since his decease. These are to give notice 
that the R* Honble John (now) E. of Exeter intending to renew & 
continue the said Honble Society did upon the 18* day of May 1705 
call a Chapter to be held in Little Bedlam at Burghley by some Members 
of the Society who were near at hand and as Great Master of the Order 
did take upon himself the Title of Lyon, At which Chapter were 
elected and admitted into this Honble Society, The R* Honble Baptist 
E. of Gainsborough — Greyhound ; Sir Thomas Mackworth — Badger ; 
The Honble W» CccW— Panther ; The Honble Charles Cecil— BmZ/; 
Charles Tryon Esq. — Otter, — At which Chapter it was ordered 
amongst other things y' the former Rules should stand &: that y* 
Registrar shall give notice hereof to all such Members as were formerly 
& were now present at this Chapter to know whether they are pleased 

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to coDtinae in this Honble Order. You are desired to give notice to 
7* Registrar Daniel Clark at Barghley before the 15*^ day of May 
1706 otherwise y' picture will be taken down & the Great Master will 
proceed to a new Election to fill up y» place y' y* Society may be kept 
full & for this Order & List there is due to the Registrar a fee of 5s." 

Tkb Lm. 
The Bt Honble John E. of Exeter Great Mr • .. . . Lyon 

His Graoe Wm Duke of Devon b Leopard 

. The Bt Honble Earl of Denbigh e Tyger 

The Bt Honble E of Gkunsboroogh d Qroyhomd 

The Ld Lezingrton Lamb 

The Honble Ld Howe • Hare 

Anthony Palmer Etiq f Elephant 

The Honble John Noel ff Wild Hone 

George Crook Esq Wolf 

The Honble Charles Bertie la Stag 

Sir Thomas Barker i Sam 

The Honble James GriiBn k Wild Boar 

The Honble John Vemey 1 Pardue 

Henry Nerell Esq Fox 

Thomas Hatbher Esq m Bear 

Samnel Tryon Esq n Terrier 

Signior Anthonio Verrio Foreupine 

Sr Gk>dfrey Eneller . . Unieome 

Sir James Bobinson o Bttek 

Biohd Sherard Esq jfuU 

Timothy Landy Esq Antelope 

G^rge Leafleld Esq Guinea Fig 

— ^— Hasoord of Windsor P Coek 

The Honble William CeoU q Fanther 

Sir Thomas Maokworth r Badger 

The Honble Ch* CecU q Bull* 

Charles Tryon Esq * Otter 

KoTB.~That all peers are placed at y« first & then all others as they 
were admitted. 

Present at this Chapter, besides those now admitted : — 

The Bt Honble Great Mr Lgon 

The Honble Wild Boar 

The Honble.. Stag 

The Worshipful Wolf 

ft 6th Earl. b igt Duke, Uncle of 6th Earl of Exeter. 4th Earl, 

d 3rd Earl. • 4th Viscount. ' of St. Martin's, Stamford, g of Luffenham, son 
of 3rd Earl of Gkdnsborough. ^ son of 2nd Earl of lindsey. i of Lyndon. 
^ son of Lord Griifin of Braybrooke. l of Alezton, son of Srd Lord Willoughby 
de Brooke, m of Careby. ■ of CoUsyweston. o of Cranford. P Gregory 
Hasoord, Dean of Windsor d. 1708. q brother of the 6th Earl of Exeter, 

r of Kormanton. * of Bulwick. 

• Chas. Geea was M.F. for Stamford, and probably took the Title of *• Bull " on 
aooount of the Stamford Bull RnmiiBg. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. ii 

Four of the Portraits of Members named in the above List, 
namely those of Lord Grainsborough, Dr. Hascord, Sig. Verrio, and 
Sir G. Kneller, each bearing the figure of the beast or bird he was 
called after, are still at Burghley. 

The Portrait of the Hon. John Noel bearing the figure of a Wild 
Horse was sold in the Collection of J. L. Jackson, Esq., of Bainton 
House, in 1876. 

In the Rev. W. H. Charlton's Burghley, 1847, ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ 
seem to be any reference to this Society. J. T. 

12. — OsTORius IN NoRTHAMFTONSHiRB. — Ostorius Scapula was 
propraetor of Britain under Claudius, a.d. ji, and for the purpose "of 
keeping in check the incursions of the yet unsubdued tribes to the 
northward^ determined upon establishing a chain of posts or fortresses, 
which, according to the received text of Tacitus, were intended to 
connect the Severn with the Avon, but which the judgment of modem 
commentators (who have, with great appearance of reason, suspected 
an error in the wording of the passage) considers as having. extended 
from the first-named river to the Nen." The Iceni, in opposing these 
works, occupied a strong position which they fortified by a solid earth- 
work : but Ostorius drove them from their works and is represented 
as almost annihilating them. The Coritani,a tribe of the Iceni, seem 
to have been specially the object of the Roman attack. 

** If it is a matter of any moment to ascertain the actual theatre 
of those operations, in which our Coritanian fore-fathers were first 
taught to appreciate the power of the Roman sword, I may state that 
the celebrated forts of Ostorius have been satisfactorily traced by an 
eminent modern antiquary. Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in his Notes upon 
Giraldus Cambrensis, in a continuous line, running at first nearly at 
right angles with the ancient Watling-street, and afterwards parallel 
with the right bank of the Nen, by Chesterton, Aston-le- Walls, 
Weedon, Northampton, Coggenhoe, Irchester, Thrapstone, and Clif- 
ford's Hill, to the city of Peterborough, The same writer is inclined 
to regard the great British encampment at Borough Hill, near Daventry , 
the Roman Bennavenna, as the scene of the signal defeat of the 
Iceni by the cavalry and social cohorts, of Ostorius." 

The above quotations are from Mr. J. F. Hollings' Paper on 
Roman Leicester, read before the Leicester Literary and Philosophical 
Society, January 13, 185 1. Of the above places Chesterton only is 
not in Northamptonshire. Clifford's Hill is in the Parish of Little 
Houghton. Mr. Hollings feels inclined to dispute Sir R. C. Hoare's 
opinion as to the scene of the defeat of the Iceni, and to claim the 
distinction for Borough Hill, near Twyford, co. Leicester. £i>. 

B 2 



12 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

13. — Owners of Fotherinohay. — The recent death, on Nov. 
17th, 1883, in his 88th year, of one who was, perhaps, the wealthiest 
of Her Majesty's subjects — Baron Overstone, of Overstone and 
Fotheringhay, County of Northampton, — may remind us of his 
connection, more particularly with Fotheringhay, concerning which I 
would make a few notes. 

Before Fotheringhay became Lord Overstone's property, it had 
passed through a rapid succession of proprietors of various fan^ilies 5 
and in many generations it seemed to bring to its princely possessors 
a heritage of misery and Iploodshed. Balliol, York, Plantagenet, and 
Stuart alike found in Fotheringhay a troubled home, a gloomy prison, 
or the scene of violent death. From the days when it was built by 
Simon de St. Liz, it was tenanted by the luckless Balliols until it 
became the home of the virgin-widow, Mary of Valence, Countess of 
Pembroke — the '^ sad Chatillon '* of the poet Gray — whose husband 
was slain in a tournament on their bridal day. Edmund Langley, 
fifth son of Edward III., then rebuilt the Castle, and left it to his 
son, Edward, Duke of York, who was slain at Agincourt, and buried, 
according to his wish, in the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay. 
His brother, Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, was the next 
owner of Fotheringhay 5 and when he was beheaded it came to his 
son, Richard, Duke of York, who was slain in the battle of Wakefield 
Green, together with his second son. They were buried at Fothering- 
hay, where Richard's widow, " proud Cis *' passed the greater part of 
her thirty-six * years of widowhood, and where she had to mourn 
the murder of her grandsons, Edward the Fifth and his brother. 
Richard the Third was bom at Fotheringhay, where his infancy was 
'^tetchy and wayward,*' as represented by Shakspere. Henry VII. 
gave Fotheringhay to his wife, who was the sole representative of the 
house of York. Henry VIII. settled it in dower upon Catharine of 
Arragon, who repaired it at great cost 5 and when the King would 
have made it her prison-house, she emphatically declared that ''to 
Fotheringhay she would not go, unless bound with cart-ropes and 
carried thither.*' In the reign of Mary, Edward Courtney, Earl of 
Devonshire, was a state prisoner at Fotheringhay y and the reign of 
Elizabeth saw it the prison and the scene of execution of Mary, 
Queen of Scots. Thus its history would seem to have been written 
in letters of blood ^ and Queen Elizabeth — who visited Fotheringhay 
in ij73 — may, perhaps, have had its gruesome antecedents in her 

* Miss Agnes Strickland is in error in saying ** thirty years of sorrowful 
i7idowhood4" The Duchess's name is phonetically engraved " Sissily " on her 
monument in Foth^dnghay Church. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 13 

memory, when she selected Fotheringhay as the last prison of her 

whose " weeping captivity and shuddering fear" were, in Wordsworth's 

words, 

*•*• Stilled by the ensangniii'd Uook of Fotheringhay." 

Even Nichols, the historian of Leicestershire, would seem to 
countenance the popular story that no sooner had James the First 
ascended the throne, than he caused Fotheringhay Castle to be 
destroyed, in order to efface all traces of his mother's judicial murder. 
Mr. Henry Godwin, F.S.A., in Tke English Archceologisfs Handbook, 
(Parker, 1867) says of Fotheringhay, "Razed to the ground by 
James I.,*' (p. 200.) The anonymous poet of Antonas Banks, (i797) 
quoted by Archdeacon Bonney, had told how 

" Filial justice, -with vindictiye rage, 
Burst on Uty princely towers with whelming tide, 
Nor left one vestige to relate thy pride." 

This is very pretty as a story of filial love ; but the practical Monarch 
did nothing of the kind ; for, during the twenty-two years of his 
reign, he turned the scene of his mother's violent death to good 
account, by bestowing it on three of his courtiers — Lord Mountjoy, 
Earl of Devonshire, Sir Edward Blount, and Joseph Earth, Esq. 5 and 
subsequently, to Mountjoy, created Earl of Newport. Seven days 
after King James* death, viz. on April '3, 1625, a careful survey was 
made of the Castle, and it was found to be " a capital house," with 
its great dining-hall well garnished with pictures. Perhaps it was 
somewhere about the time of this survey that Fuller the historian — 
who would then be seventeen years of age, and was bom within ten 
miles of Fotheringhay — visited the Castle, and there saw, in one of 
its windows, a couplet from an old ballad, scratched with a diamond 
by the Queen of Scots : — 

'* From the top of all my trust 
Mishap hath laid me in the dust.*' 

But the end of the Castle had come. Mountjoy, Earl of Newport, 
did for it what James the First would seem to have never contemplated 
doing: he pulled it down, and variously disposed of the materials. 
Probably this was not later than the year 1628, as the banquetting-hall 
and other .portions of the Castle were taken by Sir Robert Bruce 
Cotton, of Denton, (who died May 6, 1631) to his new mansion, 
Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire. Other portions of the Castle 
were used for the Chapel at Fineshade, for the Talbot Inn, Oundle, 
and for buildings in the inmiediate neighbourhood. 

Mountjoy, Earl of Newport, died in the garrison at Oxford, Feb. 
12, 164J, and was succeeded by his only surviving son Henry, the 



14 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

last Earl of Newport, who died in 1679. K® never, however, enjoyed 
the estate, as it had been alienated by his father to Sir George Saville, 
of Thomhill, in the county of York, Bart., afterwards created Marquis 
of Halifax. His son and successor, William, the second Marquis, 
died without male issue in 1700 ; when the manor and lordship was 
sold by his father-in-law, Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, and the other 
trustees for the Marquis's three co-heiresses, to Hewer Edgeley 
Hewer, Esq. He died, without issue, Nov. 17, 1728; when the 
estate passed to the family of the Blackbumes. It then passed 
through several hands, until it was purchased by the Messrs. Belsey, 
the survivor of whom, Thomas Belsey, Esq., sold it to Robert Sacket 
Tomlin, Esq., of Dane Court, Kent, who sold it to Lord Overstone. 
The late Mr. John Gough Nichols told me that there was 
considerable delay in the completion of the purchase respecting its 
validity 5 and that an old inhabitant of Fotheringhay said to him, 
*' Fotheringhay has had many masters : but it's Crown land j and 
it'll go to the Crown again." 

It will have been noticed that many of the owners of Fotheringhay 
died without male issue : and this was the case of its last possessor. 
Lord Overstone, whose only child is a daughter — wife of Sir Robert 
James Loyd-Lindsay, K.C.B. I am not aware of the precise date of 
Lord Overstone's purchase of Fotheringhay 5 but it was some years 
previous to Nov., 1865, when an inhabitant of the dwindling town 
told me that its owner had only once visited the spot He said, " the 
property does not pass from father to son 5 and during the last half 
century it has been in possession of three families. In my early days 
Fotheringhay could boast of two respectable inns ; and a cattle and 
horse-fair of considerable importance was held here. Now, it has 
not a beer-shop or house of entertainment where a belated traveller 
or visitor can rest or refresh himself with a glass of home-brewed. 
Every farm and every house has changed its occupant more than once 
during my short sojourn. Trade also diminishes. Thirty years ago 
there were three or four families of stonemasons 5 they are now 
extinct, and there is no tailor, butcher, or shoemaker. Even the farm- 
labourers are, for the most part, a new race during the last fifty years. 
It would of course be superstition to imagine that the curse of James * 
still lingers on the spot. I should rather attribute its decay to the 
want of some resident family of distinction to watch over the welfare 
and to alleviate the wants of those who require assistance." 

* This onrse of James is one of the popular legends of Fotheringhay. It 
is said that he laid his curse upon the town, and would have it burnt *' stick 
and stone ;" and that it is in consequence of this curse, that so many alarming 
jftret have occurred in the town. — C. B. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 15 

But scanty remains of the old Castle of Fotheringhay had been 
left for the utilitarian purposes of its last proprietor. Yet, on the 
inner side of the sweeping hollow of the dried-up outer moat, 
(seventy-five feet across) on the New Inn side, there was a veritable 
relic of the old Castle wall, against the southern side of which, bams 
and farm-buildings had been erected. And, at the end of this wall, 
nearest to the New Inn, were three massive buttresses, in excellent 
preservation. I made a careful sketch of them in the year 1&J2 j 
and I subsequently contributed this sketch (together with one of the 
shapeless block of masonry, between the Castle-mound and the 
river) to the volume for 1861, of the Amateur Anastatic Drawing 
Society. That sketch depicts a scene of the past ; for Lord Overstone 
(about the year 1863 or 1864) destroyed the wall and three buttresses, 
in order to use up the materials and gain a little space for new farm- 
buildings. He also filled up the end portion of the moat and turned 
it into a garden. 

In connection with illustrations of Fotheringhay, I may say that 
my friend, the late Mr. Joseph Cecil, of Northampton — ^who, after 
years of labour, expense, and intelligent research, filled two enormous 
scrap-books with drawings, engravings, plans, portraits, &c., of every- 
thing that had the slightest connection with Mary Queen of Scots, 
from her birth to her death — ^never succeeded in obtaining any 
representation of Fotheringhay Castle prior to its demolition. Miss 
Agnes Strickland's " Mary Stuart Album ** also lacked such an 
illustration j and nothing of the kind exists in the Cottonian collection *• 
though Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, as we may remember, was proud to 
think himself "cousin** to Mary Queen of Scots. Every other 
prison of hers can be illustrated by contemporary views; but we 
encounter a total blank when we come to fatal Fotheringhay. The 
British Museum, the Bodleian, and other libraries and galleries, public 
and private, have been searched in vain, with the hope of meeting 
with some record, however rude and slight, of the ancient appearance 
of Fotheringhay Castle, which has had so many owners and such 
tragic connections. Cuthbert Beds. 

14. — Georoe Atliffb Poole, M.A. — This well-known 
Northamptonshire clergyman died on the 2jth September, 1883, in 
his 75th year. He had been scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 
and took his B.A. degree in 1831, and proceeded M.A. in 1838. In 
1832 he was ordained deacon, and priest in the following yean 
His first benefice was the perpetual curacy of S. James, Leeds, which 
he held from 1839 to 1843 : he was then appointed vicar of Welford, 
from which place he removed in 1876 to the rectory of Winwiok, 



i6 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

both in this county, and in the same year was appointed rural dean. 
The following list of his works, collated by Mr. John Taylor, from 
his Bihliotheca Northantonensis, will be of interest. 

List of Wobxs by the Rev. Q-. A. Poolb. 
The Christian (bourse, a Race : a Journey: a Warfare : Three Sermons, with Notes. 

Ixmdon,, 1834. 
The Use and Excellence of Church Music ; A Sermon, Preached at the Opening of an 

Organ, in the Parish Church of Kenilworth, May 25, 1834. Bristol, 

The Christian's Sunday Eyening. London, 1836. 

Sermons on Association, [with Notes.] Edinburgh^ 1836. 

Sermons on the Apostles' Creed; Preached in the Episcopal Chapel of St. John 

the Evangelist, Edinburgh. JSditUmrffh, 1837. 

An Exposure of an Attack upon the Tracts for the Times by the Bey. Miles 

Jackson, of Leeds. London, 1838. 

The Testimony of Saint Cyprian against Rome. An Essay towards Determining 

the J udgment of Saint Cyprian Touching Papal Supremacy. London, 1838. 

* [On the Admission of Lay Members to the Synods of the Church in Scotland. 1838.] 
The Church the Teacher of Her Children, and the Preaching of the Gospel to the 

Poor a Sign of Christ's Presence with His Church. 1839. 

Strictures on "An Address delivered on Occasion of Laying the First Stone of 

East Parade Chapel, Leeds, on Monday, Sept. 2, 1839, by the Bev. John 

Ely." Leeds, 1839. 

"t* An Appendix, to *' Strictures on an ' Address Delivered on Occasion of Laying the 
First Stone of East Parade Chapel, Leeds.'" With a Letter to Mr. John Ely. 

Leeds, 1840. 
The Life and Times of Saint Cyprian. Oxford, 1840. 

Sermon xxvni. On Persecution and a Persecuting Temper. 

Sermons by zxxix Living Divines of ike Church of Englatid, 1840. 
Two Lectures on the Structure & Decorations of Churches. 

The Christianas Miscellany, 1841. 

Burni Fireside Library, 1845. 

On the Present State of Parties in the Church of England. London, 1841. 

— Second Edition. London, 1842. 

History of the Church in America. 

The Christianas Miscellany, vol. ii., lAeds, 1842. 

The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture. Leeds, 1842. 

Twelve Practical Sermons on the Holy Communion. London, 1843. 

Churches of Yorkshire. Vol. I. Adel. Methley. Skelton. Bolton Percy. Thirsk. 

Birkin. Budwith. Leeds, 1844. 

A History of England from the First Invasion by the Bomans to the Accession of 

Queen Victoria. 2 vols. London, 1844-46. 

— — Second Edition London, 1856. 

Another Edition. London, 1868. 

Churches ; their Structure, Arrangement, and Decoration. London, 1845. 

Another Edition. London, 1846. 

An Historical and Descriptive Guide to York Cathedral and its Antiquities. York. 
Sermon xvi. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 

Sermons fw Sundays, Festivals and Fasts, First Series, 1845. 
Sermon zxin. The Parable of the Sower and his Seed. 

Sermons for Sundays, Festivals, and Fasts, Second Series, voL i., 1846. 
Sermon xon. The Word made flesh, our example of charity and humility. 

Sermons for Sundays, Festivals, and Fast^ Second Series, yoL iii, 1846. 

* This is quoted from Crookford's Clerical Directory, 

f This was written in answer to a publication entitled :— " We must Diftsent . . 

London, 1839." 
And in a second edition, published London, 1840, Mr. Ely added *' A Letter to 
Mr. Poole, in Rejoinder to * An Appendix ' to his Strictures." 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 17 

A History of Ecclesiaatical Architecture in England. Lomdtm, 1848. 

The Churches of Scarborongb, FUey, and the Neighbourhood. London^ 1848. 

Sir Kaoul de Broc and his Son Tristram. A Tale of the 12th Century. Londtm, 1849. 
Remarks on some of the Peculiarities of the Norfolk Churches. 

ReprinUdfnm the Northampton fferaidy 1849. 

Conrocation and its Uses. From the Northampton Herald, May 25, 1850. 

Papers on Architectural Subjects. London, 1851. 

Architectural, Historical, and Picturesque Illustrations of the Chapel of St. 

Augustine Skirlaugh, Yorkshire. Leeds, 1855. 

Sermon z. The Final Cause of the Beautiful, with Especial Reference to Church 

Music. Sermontjor Sundays, Festivals, and Fasts, Third Series, 1867. 

Diooesan Histories : Peterborough. London, [1881.] 

Papers read hrfore the ArckUectwral Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton, e(e. 

1846. The Connexion of Heraldry with Gothic Architecture. 

1848. Remarks upon Perpendicular Towers and Spires in the Diocese. 

1848. The History and Description of the Church of All Saints', Oakham, with its 

Dependencies. 
1848. Description of the Saxon Remains of Brixworth Church. 
1850. Remarks on Heraldry as an Architectural Decoration, suggested by a passage 

in Mr. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture. 
1850. On the Churches of Stamford. 
1850. On the Progressive Development of Geometrical Tracery ; and on the Claims 

of the Geometrical to be treated as a distinct Style. 
1850. Remarks on some of the peculiarities of the Norfolk Churches, especially 

those which result from the use of flint. 

1850. On the Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth. 

1851. On the Churches of Coventry. 

1851. On S. Sepulchre's Church, Northampton. 

1851. Yorkshire Ecclesiology, or Notes of an Excursion from Leeds into Wensley Dale 

1851. On the Churches of SS. Mary and Nicholas, Spalding, and Weston S. Mary, 

and Chapel of S. Nicholas, Wykeham. 

1852. On the Church of S. Sepulchre's, Northampton, with Especial Referenoe to 

the Restoration of the Round. 

1852. A Synchronological Table of the Bishops of the English Sees, from the Year 

1050 to the Year 1550. 

1853. On Cathedral Derangements. 

1853. On the Comparative Merits of the Vault, the Flat Ceiling, and the Open Roof. 

1854. On the Churches of Leicester. 

1854. On Baginton Church. 

1855. On the Abbey Church of Peterborough. 
1855. Photography and the Sketch-Book. 

1857. The Architectural History of Lincoln Minster. 

1857. On Colour in Building Materials. 

1859. On Picturesque Building. 

1860. A Plea for St. Sepulchre's Church. 

1861. The Stained Glass in Lowick Church, with Remarks on Glass Painting, old 

and new. 

1862. On Painted Glass, with especialref erence to the relative importance of White 

or Grisaille Glass. 

1865. Painted Glass in conneotion with Architecture. 

1866. The Langton Churches and Charities. 

1867. Athetics. 

1868. Symbolism. 

1869. Ways and Means. 
1871. Post Mortem. 
1873. Bells and Belfries. 
1877. The Tomb of Remigius. 

C 



1 8 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

15. — DuoDALE*s Transcrift op Inscriptions in Peter- 
borough Cathedral. — In the Preface to Gunton*s History of the 
Church of Peterhurgh we read that Gunton^ being a native of Peter- 
borough^ had copied the inscriptions in the Cathedral^ " as that learned 
Antiquary Sir William Dugdale hath also done : Who in the Year 
1 64 1, fearing what shortly followed^ was at the pains and charge to 
take the Draughts^ as well as the Inscriptions^ of the Monuments in 
sundry Cathedral Churches 'of this Realm (which soon after were 
demolished) and of this Church among the rest. By whose kindness 
they would have been communicated to the World, if the Undertaker 
had come to the knowledge of them, before he had received 
Subscriptions to his Proposals : which were not high enough, to bear 
the charge of them.'* According to Dugdale's autobiography, these 
transcripts were made at the instance of Sir Christopher Hatton, the 
drawings being apparently made by Mr. William Sedgwick, "a 
skilful arms-painter.*' In 1851 the inscriptions in Lincoln Cathedral 
were published from this MS., and its discovery is thus described in 
the introduction. *' This very interesting document, since the revival 
of an archaeological taste in our own time had been frequently sought 
for, but without success, in the library of the present Earl of 
Winchilsea, the representative of the Hattons ; until the Archdeacon 
of Lincoln (the Ven. H. K. Bonney, D.D., author of the History of 
Fotheringhay, &c.,) having permission to examine the family archives 
When engaged upon his Life of Bp. Jeremy Taylor, foimd it lying 
uppermost in a chest of documents, and thus accidentally restored it 
to the antiquarian world." 

Can any correspondent inform us if the inscriptions from Peter- 
borough are still to be found in this MS ? In the first report of the 
Historical Manuscripts Commission is an account of the examination 
of thirteen chests of papers belonging to the Hatton Collection, 
which had been sorted at the Public Record Office. Nearly twenty 
pages of the Blue Book are occupied with the inventory of these 
papers : but though there is much relating to Northamptonshire, and 
several papers in the handwriting "of Dugdale, the above transcript of 
inscriptions does not appear to be mentioned. M. M. D. 

16. — Bennbt Family op Beachampton, Bucks; and op 
Handlbt Park, Towcester. — In the pedigree of this family given 
in Baker's History of Northamptonshire, (ii. 342,) it is stated that 
Sir Simon Bennet, Bart., died s. p. on ao August, 1631, leaving by his 
will, the reversion of the Handley Park Estate, after the dpath of 
Dame Elizabeth his wife, to the Master and Fellows of University 
College, Oxford, for enlarging and completing the buildings and 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 19 

founding four new fellowships and four new scholarships. The 
pedigree then goes on to state that Simon Bennet, Esq., of Beach- 
ampton and Calverton, co. Bucks, the nephew and heir of Sir 
Simon, also died on 20 August, 163 1, and was buried on the day 
following. The coincidence of the uncle's and the nephew's deaths 
on the same day would be very remarkable, but it is immediately 
shewn to be a mistake by the following statement in the pedigree that 
Simon Ben net the nephew had two sons and five daughters, all born 
long after 163 1. In Lipscombe*s Bucks., the death of Simon Bennet 
the nephew is stated to have taken place on 6 August, 1682, which is 
probably the true date. Baker goes on to say that the Master and 
Fellows of University College were compelled to engage in a legal 
contest with the heir-at-law and representative of Sir Simon Bennet, 
in order to obtain possession of the estate. This heir and representa- 
tive could not have been Simon Bennet, as from some old letters and 
papers in my possession, it appears that Handley Park was, as late as 
1672, in the possession of Ambrose Bennet, Esq., of Bulstrode, 
Bucks, who got into difficulties in consequence of the unfavourable 
termination of some lawsuit with a College about that time, and went 
to Jamaica, where he died soon afterwards. His name does not 
appear in Baker's pedigree. Was he the elder brother of Simon 
Bennet? His wife was Rebecca, the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas 
Hampson, of Taplow; she died i May, 1695, and was buried at 
Taplow, as appears by her monument in the church there. 

James Herbert Cooke, f.s.a. 

17- — An Emperor op Great Britain — Or rather the 
Emperor 5 for only once in her history had England an Emperor all to 
herself. Any facts relating to our Emperor become, therefore, 
extremely interesting j especially as his history is wrapped in much 
obscurity. 

I had lately put into my hands a coin of Carausius — this unique 
Emperor of ours — found in the adjoining village of Yelden, and this 
has made me look up the few certain records we have of the reign 
of the remarkable man, to whom all men in these islands bowed 
their heads for seven years, towards the close of the 3rd century after 
Christ. 

The coin is a ''second brass" in very good preservation. His 
portrait shows an erect carriage, a piercing eye like that of an eagle, 
a firmly compressed lip ; and the massive bearded face of a man bom 
to command. 

The legend is imp : c : caravsivs p : p: avo. On the Revferse 
pax augo 5 in the field s : p : 3 in the exergue c : ' 

c 2 



20 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

From the Rev^ Canon Pownall, F.S.A., a well-known numis- 
matist^ I learn that it is still a matter of mere surmise^ what many of 
the letters mean found on Roman coins : e.g., s : p ; may mean 
SENATVS popuLus, or it may not. So also, the C in the exergue, 
occupies the place where the place of minting is generally stated : so C 
may mean a Roman British City beginning with that letter, or it may 
mean something else. 

The Canon does not profess to go in for such bold shots as a 
worthy alderman once made, when he interpreted s.f.ci.r. "small 
profits, quick returns." The C before caravsivs is thought to mean 
CAESAR, for his other (assumed) names were Marcus Aurelius 
Valerius. 

The PAX AVGG. (peace of the Augusti) means that the rivals in 
the Imperial purple had agreed, as school boys do, that after their 
quarrels it should be "pojr." 

A slight sketch of this remarkable man may be acceptable. 

He began by being a British Channel pilot. He had also 
distinguished himself as a soldier. 

When the Emperor Maximianus equipped a channel fleet to put 
down the incursions of the Northmen, who were always making 
raids upon the coasts of Gaul, Spain, and Britain, he gave the 
command to Carausius. 

Our hero was successful against these pirates, but it was rumoured 
that he let them make their raids first, and robbed them afterwards, 
for his own benefit -, for Carausius grew very rich. 

Thereupon the Emperor, after the manner of those times, gave 
secret orders for his death. Our bold Captain got wind of this, took 
possession of the channel fleet (the officers of which were devoted to 
him) and sailed for England. Here he got over the troops which 
happened to be stationed in Britain, and made himself so strong, 
both by sea and land, that the twin Emperors, Diocletian and 
Maximianus, finding they could do nothing with him, while he could 
do them immense damage, like wise men, sent him a message of 
PAX. And as he had assumed the purple, they agreed that he should 
wear it, and be No. 3 on the Imperial Throne. 

This was the fact that our Yelden coin celebrates, about a.d. 
287. 

Some of these coins have laetitia avog or hilaritas avooo. 
If Carausius was a man of humour, he must have pictured to himself, 
as he gave orders for these coins, the three loving imperial brothers in 
a row, grinning from ear to ear — especially Carausius. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 21 

Upon Constantius becoming Emperor, he made great and serious 
preparations for invading Britain and putting down "the Usurper," as 
the elected pet of England was called, (like the story of Harold and 
duke William some centuries later, pre-rehearsed.) Boulogne, which 
was held by Carausius, was taken after a long siege. At this crisis 
Carausius was murdered by his chief officer, Allectus, and the war 
was ended about 294, and Constantius walked over and re-took 
possession of Britain for Rome. The coins of Carausius are scarce -, 
I shall be glad therefore if your readers could tell us of other 
specimens of them, which may be in their possession 5 with their 
legends. Robert S. Baker. 

HargraTe. Hon. Sec. for Northants. for the Soc : of Ant : London. 

18. — Will op Thomas Knottisford, Vicar op Weeilley, 
1546. — " In the name of God Amen the xx*^ day of may In the yere 
of our Lord god m® cccccxlyj I thomas Knottisford preste and vicar 
of wekelye thankes be gyven unto god in good helthe and in good and 
perfitte remembrance but Dreding the uncertayne houre of dethe 
constitute & ordeyne and make this my testament conteyninge my 
Laste will in this maner and forme folowing first I gyve and bequethe 
my Soule unto allmyghtie god Desyring his mother our blessid Lady 
withe all the holye cumpany of beavyne to pray fof me and withe me 
item I gyve and bequethe to the reparacons of my mother Churche of 
peterborogh ij** Item I gyve to the reparacons of the bells of my 
parishe of our Ladye in wekelye vj** a surples withe sieves an alter- 
clothe halowed super altare a payre of portuas that Lyes in my 
Chambre Item I give and bequethe x* for a trentall to be said for 
my father my mother and my soule and all cristen Soules Item I 
give and bequethe to one Henrie that is John Darviles sonne of 
Weldonne by the La we x» or a heiforde Item I gyre and bequethe 
to my sister margaret Knottisforde my beste fether bede that I Lye on 
withe all things that Lyes on hit a red cowe iiij sylver spones ij payre 
of Shets a cup that is cbverid withe silver and one of my Longe 
gownes The Residewe of my goodes my Dettes and Legacies paid 
I give them to my brother Richard Knottisforde whom I order and 
make my sole executo' and John a norton of Stanyarde to be my 
superrisor to see this my will fulfilled and he for to have for his 
Labo' a sylver spone Item I do forgyve all them that owe unto me 
xij^ and under 

per me dominam Thomaw Knottiford vie' de Wikeley 
Probatwm fuit hoc pr^sens testamentwm xiij*> Augusti 
Anno domini predicto." 



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22 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

19. — Conventual Pensioners. — Among the Additional MSS. 
in the British Museum is one (No. 8102) containing an account of 
fees> corrodies, and pensions, paid out of the Exchequer and the 
Duchj of Lancaster to members of suppressed monasteries, chantry 
priests, and incumbents, in 2 &3 Phil, and Mary (1555-6). I believe 
it has never been printed, and that portion relative to Northampton- 
shire (fol. 41, 42) I now forward, as it will supplement the 
Monasticon Anglicanum. It is probable that some of the names of 
the pensioners may be found in local parish registers. 

Justin Simpson. 

The places and names are given precisely as in the MS., except 
that the contractions are written out, the letters omitted being supplied 
in italics. Of the nine pensioners of Peterborough monastery, all 
but one (Edward Wilkinson) occur among the monks who appended 
their signature to the deed of acknowledgment of the King's 
supremacy in 1534. 

Chacombe Monastery £ s. 

Annuity Gilbcrti fFouler . .40 

Stamford Monastery (Nunnery of S. Michael, in S. 
Martin's parish) 

Pension ^WLahethce Savage late prioress 
Northampton, Monastery Sanc/£ Andreae 
Annuities ffi-aunci^ci Morganne 

Edwarc/i Saunders 

Alicie Michell 

Roberti Chauntrell 

Thomae hasilwood 

Domini Vauxe 

£dwar(/i Montague mWitis 
Pensions Joha/znis Bette 

Willie/mi Warde . 

Willie/mi Sucker . 

Thomae Goldestone 

Ricardi Cooke 

Thomae Atterburie 
Sulbie late Monastery 

Annuities Joha/znis Yardeley. 

hugonis Aston 

WiWielmx Parker . 

EdwarcU Saunders. 
Pensions Thomae hille 

henrici Napton 

Willie/mi Spynner. 



£ 

4 

8 

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o 
2 

I 
I 
2 
8 
2 
2 
4 
4 
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16 
10 
o 
o 
6 
o 
o 

13 

o 
o 

13 



2 

I 

3 

I 
6 
6 
6 



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£ s. d. 


Willie/mi Bridges . 


600 


Robert! Buckeley . 


600 


Simonis Kington . 


600 


Milonis Wether . 


600 


Jobonnis Ardeley . 


600 


Roberti Burton 


600 


Late Monastery Sawc/i Jacobi near Northampton. 




Annuities Roberti Chaunterell 


I 6 8 


Ricardi Jones 


a 


Thomae Browne for a corrody 




granted to him . 


2 12 


Pensions Willie/mi Brokeden late abbot 


II 6 8 


Roberti lambe 


368 


Ricar(/i CoUey 


368 


Late Monastery of Pippewell 




Annuities hugonis Aston 


100 


Edwardi Griffithe . 


100 


Nico/ai Throgmorton 


200 


Georgij Gifibrd 


I 6 8 


WilHe/mi Jackson. 


100 


Roberti Gilbert . 


100 


'EAvardi Montague mili/is. 


200 


Thomae Allen 


600 


ThomoeBalle . . . 


568 


Johannis Larecombe 


600 


Johannis Bennett . 


5^8 


Thomae Gabatus . 


500 


Johannis Webster . 


I 6 8 


Thomae Chester . 


. 568 


Georgij Woodenell 


I 6 8 


Johannis Goodefrey 


568 


Late Monastery of Delaprey 




Annuities Johannis Spencer & Johannis Bak< 


sr 500 


Georgij GifFord 


300 


Georgij Treshame & Thoma 




Tomwoode alios harp. 


1 6 8 


Georgij Gifford 


I 12 


Wizabethae Netlehame 


100 


Emmae Smythe . 


I 13 4 


^Yxmlethae Walshe 


a 13 4 


Grace Smythe 


I 6 8 


Dorotheae Barnard 


100 



24 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Late Monastery of Peturborough ^ s. d. 

Fees flrauncwci Comit/'s Bedford/ (for 

counsel given) . . .500 

Annuities WilhW/wi Do^/ziniSt John (naarquij 

of Winchester) . 

Nicho/ai Clarke . 

Thomae Brad well . 

JohaTznis WagestafFe 

Thomoe Clement . 

Emmae Wakerley. 

Srauncijd Russell . 

Roberti Turwhjrte . 

JohaTznis Ayleworthe 

Thomae Buttes 

Edwar^ft Montacue nnilf^s 

Pensions Thomae Ketering alias howlett 

Johflwnis Pomfret alias Colman 

Humfrifii Natures . 

Edward Wilkinson 

Galfridi lynne alias Parys.'^ 

Ricarc^i Glynton alias hawe 

Johannis Moreton alias Warke 

Willie/mi Ramsey alias Thorpe 

Robert! london alias Wellesbone 

(To be continued.) 

20. — Green Family of Brington. — Can any reader of North- 

amptonshire Notes and Queries oblige me with information about 

the earlier portion of the pedigree of the Greens of this county? 

Halstead writing i68j, says that little is with certainty known of the 

origin of this family. He begins with the reign of Edward III. 

There are several pedigrees that appear conflicting. One by Baker 

begins with Alexander de Boketon, who recovered the advowson of 

Boughton 4 John. In the reign of Edw. III. the name de Boketon 

disappears, and its place is taken by Sir Henry Greene, Lord Chief 

Justice, son of Thomas de Boketon and a daughter of Ivo Zouch. 

Another pedigree in MSS. Harl. starts with Greene of Orpidell, 

(Affjpiddle,) co. Dorset, one generation more remote than Baker's. 

The husband of Ivo Zouch's daughter in this is said to be Thomas 

Greene : and other variations occur. 

I am also anxious to know the connexion between the Greens of 
this county and the ancient families of the same name in the adjoining 
counties of Leicester and Warwick. I believe it is only from private 
collections and family papers the clue can be found. 
Leamington, Southcote Road, Bournemouth. W. Green. 



is 

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21.— Great Billing Church struck by Lightning, 1759. — 
In OwerCs Weekly Chronicle, under date 16 Apr. 1759, is this account :— 
" On Wednesday last, soon after divine service, the steeple of Great 
Billing church, near this town [Northampton], was knockd down by 
a flash of lightning, and some of the stones whirl'd into the air with 
such astonishing force as to be carried to a considerable distance; one 
of a very large size ploughed up the ground in Mr. Backwell's garden 
like a cannon-ball, bounded from the place where it first fell with great 
violence, and was carried several hundred yards farther. Many of the 
pews in the church are shivered to pieces, and the sulphureous smell 
was so powerful, that scarcely anybody could bear to go near the 
church, which is so much shattered, that it is thought the whole fabric 
must be entirely rebuilt." 

22. — Churchwardens' Accounts of Byfield, 1635-7. — 
The accounts for these three years occupy nine small folio pages. 
Many entries are of considerable interest. A selection is here given. 
George Harris and William Wady were churchwardens for 1635 and 
1636, Richard Petivere, Jun. and George Harris for 1637. '^^® 
receipts for the three years amounted to a6^49 55. 6rf, 5^23 10s, 4^., 
and a^i3 lis, ^d, 'I he levies respectively were, in 1635 ^^^ ^^ 4*' 
each, in 1636 one of 45., and in 1637 one of 25. "the yard land." 

The receipts for the last year may be given in full : — sS s, d. 
" Itm made one levy of two shillings the yard land for 

Byfeild and Westrup w'^h cometh to . . . 11 4 o 
Rec of the same levy . . . . . . 10 16 o 

there wants 8 shillings of John Cliftons levy : 
there wants Trafford levy w^'h is the third parte of the parish 
Item levyed two pence a Comwiunicawt for bread & wine 

of w*'h wee Receved 294 

Receved of Bosworth for Daventry way and the Lea 

at flowers pitts 020 

Rec of Joseph Sewell for hinton w^y . . . 0210 

Rec of WilliaTw Sewell for the bowlling alley and 

twissell way 013" 

Among the expenses are these : — 
T635. 
" June 2 Imp" paid for the proses against S' William 

my horse & selfe 047 

Itm p** at Northton for ou'selves & horses when wee 

first entred S' William Willmore into the Court , 031 

Itm p** at Northton for ou' horses & our selues . . 028 

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26 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

£ s. d. 
p** to M' Allen oa' Procter for severall fees due to the 

Court as appeareth by a bill vnder his owne hand i i6 3 

July 2 p^ for An oath when S' WilliaTTi Willmore was 

called to take in Court . . . . . 006 

p* for the Timber in the Woodland . . . 727 

August 7 Itm the Charges of our selves & horses when 

the wittnesses went to take their Oathes . . o 15 9 

p** to the proctor for fees due to the Court as appeared 

by A bill vnder his hand 101 

Itm spent at Northton our selues & horses when wee 

went to have advise from our proctor in the suitt . 040 

Itm p* for mending the key of the steeple doore . 003 

Itm spent at Northton when ou' witnesses went to bee 
examined but could not lying there themselues & 
their horses A night . . . . . . 140 

Itm spent at Turners being Compelled to send for a 
Suragatt & the Regester to haue all ou' Witnesses 
examined at home 146 

p* to Greenwood for finishing his old bargaine of the 

vpper He 200 

p*^ to Joseph Sewell for keeping the Clock oyling the 
bells mending the ropes & new leathering the 
baldrigs ........ 068 

p^ to the Smith for mending y* Rod of the great bell 

wheel 003 

p^ to the Court for Deposissons & other ffees together 

w*^ our owne charge & ou' horses . . . 117 

Spent at the Court at Northton when the suitt was ^ 

removed 032 

p* for mending the barres of the Church windows & 

for brabs for both the lower Hies . . . 032 

p^ for a plate for the great bell wheele and mending the 

Clocke 006 

p* to him [Greenwood] for mending the forbell & 
making a place to lay the beame & mending the 
Church gate 024 

p* to the house of Correction & Maimed soylders . one 

p* to the Glayser for mending the Church windows . o 13 4 

p* to Skinner for halfe a yeare whipping the doggs . 020 

Itm p* for making the Septim the Table 5 weather 
windowes for the Tower 2 doores mending the 
leads & the poore mans box comprised all in one 
& sett to Greenwood at 3 1 1 o 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 27 



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3 








8 





II 


8 





II 


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2 


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6 


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6 



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For nayles for the septim ..... 

p** for An hower glasse ..... 

p** for bread & wine for Palme Sunday 

p** for bread wine & Carriage for Easter day 

for bread & wine the Sunday after £aster . 

p** to Joseph for keeping the Clocke and bells 

p** for nnending the Church yard Mounds . 

Itm spent at the Court at the time we had sentence 

against S' William 

1635. 
" Itm for tiles for the vestree .... 
Itm p** to Barrett for worke about the vestree and 

mending the windowes by poyinting . 

Itm p** for five bell ropes 

Itm for a pecke of ha ire 

for two bookes for the fFast .... 

for mending the Pavement of the Church . 

To Ringers to ring when the Queene cam by 

to Williaiw Wady & Greenwood for Remouing the pue 

and pulpitt & placing the seats . 
for whipping doggs out of Church 
for killing of viij vrchines . . . . 

1637. 
" Imp" p<* to Wady for making benches at seats ends in 

y^ Church o 

Given to a poor Minister w'h a passe .... o 

p* to the visiters when they cam to veiw the Church . o 

spjent at the Meeting when S' William & the towne 

should have agreed 

p* to Batts for whipping doggs o 

Itm to Grafton for killing two vrchines . , . o 

Itm for bread and wine at the two Commu^iions at 

Easter being 21 quarts and a pint. . . . i 5 11" 

The Holy Communion was celebrated six times in the year, viz., 
Palm Sunday, Easter Day, Low Sunday, Midsummer, Michaelmas, 
and Christmas. The amount of wine consumed (see the last extract) 
seems incredible. But the communicants' levy shews that there were 
in 1637 at least 296 Communicants. The only payments for 
destroying vermin are the two given above 5 the price of an urchin 
(hedgehog"^ was four pence. The payments for Maimed Soldiers 
were made four times a year. The accounts for each year were 
" tendered to the parishioners " and '* cast up before the minister & 
parishioners," as is testified by " Thomas Knightly Rector." 

D 2 



5 

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2 
3 
3 

6 

2 
2 



4 
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4 

7 
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28 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

These Queries arise out of the perusal of the foregoing accounts : 
(i) What was the occasion of the lawsuit between the parish 
and Sir William Willmore ? The cost to the parish in these three 
years in connection with the suit came to no less than ^32 or a^33- 

(2) Whatisa ''forbell?" 

(3) What are "brabs?" 

(4) What is a " septim ?'* Is it a chancel-screen ? or altar rails ? 
(j) On what occasion did Queen Henrietta Maria pass through 

Byfield? 

(6) Did *' the yard land " vary in acreage, or was there a fixed 
number of acres in the Northamptonshire yard ? Ed. 

23-~"M0NUMEMTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN PETERBOROUGH CaTHEDRAL. 

I. — These inscriptions remain in the north choir aisle: — i. On a 
tablet with arms, A spread eagle, impaling, A fess between 8 billets ; 
in Jacob's History of Peterborough Cathedral^ t8oo, this monument 
is said to be by Gibbons : — " Sacred to the Memory of Constance 
daughter of lohn May, of Rawmeare in Sussex Esq & of Constance his 
Wife one of y* Daughters and Coheires of Thomas Panton of West- 
minster K*: Baro*» and wife of lohn Workman Prebendarie of this 
Church, Who having by all Cristian Vertues & good qualities been 
an ornament to her Worthy familie, & an honour to all her Relations 
in her life. Resigned up her Soul to God with admirable patience at 
her death : She deceased in Childbed at London, and together with 
her infant son, she was according to her desire here interred : where 
she had frequently worshipped God in hopes of a joyfull Resurrection 
Sept. 30. A.D. i68x.*' 

2. On a white marble tablet, with arms, A spread eagle, impaling* 
On a bend 5 mullets: — " M. S. Rev**' lohannis Workman, a.m. Colleg. 
omn. Anim. apud Oxon olim Socij Ecclesiae hujus Cathedralis Proto- 
Canonici De Peakirk Rectoris et de Hamilton in Com: Rutland: 
Vicarij, Probitate morum Doctrina et Pietate insignis Qui ob* An : 
Dom. MDCLXxxv -^tat. xlv Hoc monumentum Anna Vxor Maerens 
Posuit." (Sacred to the memory of the Rev^ John Workman, m.a. 
formerly fellow of All Souls college, Oxford, canon of the first stall 
of this cathedral church, rector of Peakirk, and vicar of Hamilton, co. 
Rutland, a man of singular integrity, learning, and piety, who died 
A.D. i68j, aged 44.) 

3. On a dark marble tablet in light frame : — " Dorothea Conjux 
Charissima Francisci Standish, hujus Eccles : Praecent : Filia Gulielmi 
Wightman ' de Stoke, in Agro Nottinghamiensi Armig : Tertrinos 
enixa Liberos,e Quibus Septem (chara sui Pignora) Superstites In 
ips& Luce, S»° lohanni Baptistae, Sacr&, Mortalem, immortali, vitam 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 29 

commutavit. Multis Ilia bonis Flebilis occidit, Nulli flebilior — Quam 
Moestissimo Marito, Qui, tarn chari Capitis memoriae. Sacrum, Hoc, 
sui Amoris et Doloris, Mouumentum extare voluit, An® Domini 1689. 
-^tatis 47." (Dorothy, the very dear wife of Francis Standish, pre- 
centor of this church, daughter of William Wightman, of Stoke, co. 
Nottingham, esq., after bringing forth nine children, of whom seven, 
dear pledges of herself, survive, on the feast of S. John Baptist ex- 
changed this mortal life for an immortal. She died lamented by many 
good people, by none, more than by her most sorrowful husband, 
who has desired this to be erected, sacred to tl)e memory of so beloved 
a person, a monument of his love and sorrow, a.d. 1689, -A-ged 46.) 
The words in italics are from Horace's Ode to Virgil, i. 24, substi- 
tuting ilia for iUe, This tablet was originally in the south transept. 

4. Beneath the last, on a tablet with a blank shield : — Memoriae 
praestantissimae faeminae Franciscae Cosin Generosae et Pientissimae Con- 
jugis Dni lohannis Cosin ; S: Theologiae professoris et olim decani 
hujus Ecclesiae Cathedr postea episcopi dunelm Que obijt: %^: die 
mensis Martij in festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis : 1642 et 
hie substrato Marmore sepulta jacet.*' (To the memory of a most 
excellent woman Frances Cosin, the well-born and most dutiful wife 
of John Cosin, d.d., and formerly dean of this cathedral church, 
afterwards bishop of Durham, who died on the 25*** March, the feast 
of the annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1642, and here lies 
buried beneath this marble.) Bp. Cosin died in 1672, and in his will 
prescribed the above inscription, bequeathing ^^40 for the monument. 
This tablet was formerly near Deacon's monument in the new building^ 

5. Opposite the last, above the piscina, on an elaborate monu- 
ment with a weeping child, and this coat of arms. Ermine, on a 
chevron sable a lion rampant or, on a chief gules three mullets or 5 
crest, a phoenix issuing from flames or : '* Beneath, Under the marble 
stone at your feet, lieth interred the Body of Richard Tryce, Esq' 5 He 
was Steward of the Courts and Receiver of all the Rents and other 
Revenues of the Right Rev*, the Bishops of this Church ; Steward, 
Receiver General, and Register to the Rev*, the Dean and Chapter. 
Which Trusts having many years discharged with great Fidelity He 
died the 28th of July a.d. 1767. Mt 72. Appointing by his last 
Will, his Body to be Buried here near the Remains of Dove his late 
Wife^ and this Marble to be raised over them as their common 
Memorial." Below is *' E : Bingham Fecit." The erection of this 
monument, and the placing a black marble stone above the grave, cost 
sSi6o: and the total cost of the funeral amounted to 4^456 6s. lod., 
exclusive of mourning clothes, which came to mSj^o more. — A hatch- 
ment was also placed in the cathedral, and remained there for one 



30 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, . 

year. The fee to the Dean and Chapter was ^^22, in addition to ^ro 
for breaking the ground in the choir. Forty-six mourning rings were 
given away, at a cost of 3^58 8s. This monument was formerly in 
the choir, on the north side. Beneath the arms is the motto ** Tem- 
perantia te temperatrice,'* Temperance tempering thee; a good 
example of a punning motto, the last two syllables having reference 
to the surname. 

6. On a black marble stone in the floor is carved an impaled 
shield, having the arms of Tryce, as on the tablet, (except that there 
seem to be three lions rampant on the chevron,) impaling Sable a fess 
or between three bird's claws, and this inscription : — " Richard Tryce 
Esq"": who died the '28th of July 1767 Aged 72 ; And Dove his Wife 
who died the 17th of February 1737 Aged 42 5 To whose Memories 
the Monument on the Wall above is erected, here lie buried." It is 
worthy of note that the husband is here said to have been aged 72, but 
on the tablet to have been in the 72nd year of his age. The sculptor 
(Mr. Bingham) must have believed ** aetatis" to be Latin for "aged.*' 

7. This tablet, now on the north wall, was once opposite the 
bishop's throne in the choir. Arms, Per chevron embattled azure and 
sable, in chief a crescent argent and a mullet or, in base a lion ram- 
pant ; motto, AIMHN GEOS: — *' M. S. lacobus Duportus s. t. p. Hujus 
Ecclesiae Decanus, Lincoln iensis Canon icus, Vir in omni vitae tenore 
Clarissimus, Faelicibus auspicijs (Patre Praesule, Avo Episcopo) 
oriundus, Summus Ipse Theologus, Omne Hterarum genus penitus 
digessit, Multas linguas, etiam Doctioribus peregrinas, feicit suas Prae 
caeteras Graecam, cujus erat apud Cantabrigienses suos, Professor, Graec4 
Poesi, si non supra Homerum, saltern pari incedens gradu, Quem 
ut aiterum plan6 Homerum, quatuor vendicant Collegia, S** Jesu in 
quo Natus, SS** Trinitatis quo Educatus, St« Mariae Magdalenae cui 
praefuit, et hoc Nostrum quod corpus obtinet. Coll : ista ut ornavit, 
sic vivens moriensqwe amplis beneiicijs auxit, Praecipue Coll : Trin : 
cujus Bibliothecam augustam non moH6 liber4 manu sublimiorem 
reddidit, Sed suis insuper illustravit libris. Ut Academiae Decus, sic 
ecclesiae non minus, Liturgiam Anglicanam, Graecam faciendo, in 
omuem gentem transtulit. Sic Emeritus> Regi Carolo ii®. A Sacris 
fuit, Amplis dignitatibus, honoribus, opibus, affluxit. Quae omnia 
honest6 adeptus, pie et prudenter distribuit, His dotibus accessjt 
morum suavitas, probitas, omnis virtus. Saxo hoc non eget ut testetur 
quod vixit, Sed quod mori potuit. Obijt lulij 17 Anno-^tatis suae 73 
Domini 1679 Hoc Monumentum posuere Gul*: Thompson & 
Rob*" Trijce Nepotes." (Sacred to memory. James Duport, d.d., 
dean of this cathedral, canon of Lincoln, a man in all the tenor of his 
life most renowned 5 born under happy auspices (his father master of 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 31 

a college, his grandfather a bishop), himself a very great theologian, 
he thoroughly digested every kind of literature, he made his own 
m^ny languages, even some unfamiliar to the more learned, and 
especially the Greek language, of which he was professor at Cam- 
bridge ', in Greek poetry, if not above Homer, at least mardhing along 
with him in even step j four colleges claim him, like a second Homer, 
for their own — Jesus college where he was born. Trinity where he 
was educated, Magdalene of which he was master, and this our 
college which has his body 5 as he adorned these colleges, so living 
and dying he enriched them with ample benefactions, particularly 
Trinity college, whose noble library he not only with liberal hand 
made more loffcy, but further illustrated with his own books. An 
ornament to the church no less than to the university he carried the 
English liturgy to all nations by rendering it into Greek. Deserving 
so well he became one of the chaplains to King Charles II., and was 
enriched with ample dignities, honours, and wealth. Acquiring all 
these honourably he distributed them with piety and prudence : to 
these acquisitions were added urbanity of manners, learning, every 
virtue. He needs not this stone to testify that he lived, but that it 
was possible for him to die. He died 17th July, 1679, in his 73rd 
year. His nephews William Thompson and Robert Tryce have 
erected this monument.) Dean Duport's father was dr. John 
Duport, master of Jesus college, Cambridge, rector of Husband's 
Bosworth, CO. Leic , and canon of Ely j his mqther was Rachel, 
daughter of dr. Richard Cox, bp. of Ely. A memoir of him was 
published by dean Monk in Museum Criticum, No. viii. Ed. 

{'To be eontinued.J 

24. — Fuller all over. — The following, relating to a North- 
amptonshire worthy, is from Sprinklings from /Aganippe, Stamford, 
1838, p. 48 : — " Fuller all over. The Rev. Thomas Fuller was in his 
day a great punster, and also a man of most lively wit. He was ex- 
tremely corpulent ; and one day, as he was riding in company with a 
gentleman of his acquaintance, named Sparrowhawk, he could not 
resist the opportunity of passing a joke upon him. ' Pray what is 
the difference,* said Fuller, * between an owl and a sparrowhawk ? ' 
* Oh ' retorted the other sarcastically, * an owl is fuller in the head, 
fuller in the body, and fuller all over.' *' J. P. 

25. — Northamptonshire Briefs. — These collections, mostly 
by briefs, are for purposes connected with the county. Additions to 
this list would be of interest. The name of the parish in which the 
money was collected is given in each case. The extracts from the 



32 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

parish books of Clent, Cowley, Newton, and Ormsby, are taken from 
different communications to Notes and Queries: — Ed. 

Beaton, Great. 1684. 15 Nov. . . . ''for Great Beaton in North- 
amptonshire without a Brief S' J : J : [sir Justinian Isham] 
five pounds The rest three pounds fifteen shill*". 3* " (Lamport, 
CO. Northants.) What place is here meant ? 

Blisworth. 1737. ao Nov. Collected for "Blisworth Notting- 
hamshire,*' ^1247 required, is. Jd. This must be meant for the 
Northants Blisworth: there is no other place of the name. 
(Cowley, CO. Oxf.) 

Broughton. 1701. 14 Sep. " For a fire at Broughton in North- 
ampton Shire" 7^. 6d. (Elton, co. Hunts.) 1701. 19 Jan. 
"for a fire at B. in Northa'ptonsh." S^, o^d. (Clent, co. 
Wore.) 1703. Broughtow Briefe." 25. 2rf. (Yelden,co. Beds.) 

Cotton End. 1669. 23 Jan. . . "toward the releife of the distressed 
Inhabitants of Cotton end in Northamptonshire" gs. gd. 
(Whittlesey S. Andrew, co. Cambs.) 1670 ... "a Briefe in 
favor of persons sufiering great losse by a sad fire in Cotton-end 
in Harrington Parish ..." 45. 6d. (North Luflfenham, co. Rutl.) 

Harlston. i68j. 6 Feb ..." For Harlston in Northamptonshire 
upon a lett*" of Request " 2s, 6d, (Lamport.) 

Holcot. 1686. 20 Jan. . ."for Holcot in Northamptonshire six sh: 
pence without Brief.** (lb.) 

Lowick. 1685. ^^ J^° • • ''Por Lowick in Northamptonshire upon 
a lett' .of Request " 6s, od. (lb.) 

Nassington. 1700. Aug. " For a fire at Nassington by a letter of 
Request*' Js, iid. (Elton.) 

Northampton. 1675. '^ ^^^' "For Northampton besides lo^ 
sent in by Sir Tho. Pooley Nov. 17th last Collected more'* 10/. 
6s. iid.' (Elton.) 1676. "Coll. An'o 1676 for a fire in 
Northa'pton w''*' in less than y* space of 6 houres burnt to y* 
grou*d y* dwelling houses of above seven hu'dred families, &c., 
y* loss amounting to y* sum' of one hu'dred fifty two thousand & 
eight pou'ds and upwards" iZ. 135. 9id. (Clent.) 1693. 
" Geven to 2 men with A Leter of Request which Came from 
Nor ham ton which had ther houses burned by Lituing '* 6d. 
(Bramshall, co. Staff.) 

Oundle. 1666. 4 Jul. " Geven upon the fast day towards the 
relief of the poor visited people of Oundle 12 Strikes of wheat, 
40 Strikes of Barley, 19 Strikes of Mault, 48 Cheeses and i." 
(Elton.) 



FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! FURNITURE!!! 

greatcSaSance^sale 

HAVING 

Purchased the whole of Messrs. Crabtree's Stock, 

CONSIDERABLY UNDER COST PRICE, 

The same is now offered at an 

DRAWING. DINING. AND BED-ROOM 

FURN ITURE, 

Brass and Iron Bedsteads, &c., 

Must be Cleared out previous to Extensive Alterations. 
Observe the Address: — 

JEFFERY'S 

^0nb0n Jfurnisl^tng WLwct\im%t, 

33 & 35 GOLD STREET, 

nsroK/TiaiJLis^iPTOisr- 



Goods delivered FREE in our Vans to all parts. 



KID GLOVES. . HOSIERY. 

t 

/y PNITT B ROS., 

GENERAL DRAPERS, 
33, 36, 37, 39, THE DRAPEEY, 

NORTHAMPTON. 



MILLINERY. MANTLES. 

J 

-4, 

DRESSES. LINENS. 



4 DNITT BROS, 

GENERAL DRAPERS, 
33, 35, 37, 39, THE DBAPEBT, 

NORTHAMPTON. 

RIBBONS. LACE GOODS. 




PART H. APRIL, 1884. PRICE Is. 6d. 

^undent ruynes-^ 
we set 
i^ettd^istorie. 

Webster, Duchess of Maffi. 
I have chosen\ommonly to set down Things in the very ff'ords of the 
Records and Originah^^aiUf^p^f^ffAm^hernse/ves, rather than in my own, 
witlwut framing and dressfftg iktm ifltornore Modefn Language, ti^herehy the 
Sense is sure to remain entire as the fPriters meant it. tVhereas by affecting 
too curiously to change and model Words and Sentences^ the Sense itself, [have 
observed, often to he marred and disguised, 

StrtpI, Preface to Annals of the Reformation. 

Northamptonshire 

Notes ^ Queries, 

A QUARTERLY JOURNAL 

DEVOTED TO 

The Antiquities, Family Histot^y, Traditions, Parochial 
Records, Folk-lore, Quaint Customs, &c., of the County. 

SDttrH bi? 

JhE 1\eV. ^{. p. ^WEETINQ, */Vl ^., 
Vicar of Maxey, Market Deeping, 

Contents. 



39 Cathedral Audit Dinner, 1708. 

40 Cliarcliwardens* Accounts of Byfield. 

41 Ostorins in Vorthamptonshire. 

42 Northamptonshire Badgers or Higlers. 

43 Local Dialect. 

44 Bennett Family of Towcester. 

45 Kead Family of Vewhottle. 

46 Osborne Family of Eelmarsh. 

47 Church Goods at WoUaston, 1788. 

48 Grocery at Althorp, 1604—5. 

49 Presentments, 1578. 

50 Old Houses in Northampton.— I. 

51 Lord Overstoae. 

52 An Emperor ol Great Britain. 

53 Bound Dryden's Birth-place. 

Nbrtl^amtiton : 

TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS. 

1884, 



85 Northamptonshire Briefii. 

86 Fleetwood and Hanrey Families. 

87 Inscriptions from other Counties. 
28 Liyingof Higham Ferrers, 1725—6. 
20 '< Clean as a Pink." 

80 Civil War, 1644. 

81 Sheep Bill of Sir John Spencer, 1580. 

88 Farm Produce and Labour, 1688—90. 
88 Earls Barton Deeds. 

84 Waits and Players. 

85 Churchwardens' Accounts of Woodford 

Halse. 

86 Defence of the Country, 1588. 

87 Green Family of Boughton. 

88 Lord Griffin of Weston Favell.^ / 







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Staverton. 1684. 21 Sep . . . "for Staverton in Northflwiptonsh'." 
175. 6d, (Lamport.) 1685. 3 May. "For Staverton in 
Northamptonshire" 'js. \\d. (lb.) 1685. 22 Nov. .. "for 
a fire in y* town of Staverton in f cou'ty of Northhampton" 
35. 2\d. (Clent.) 

gutton. 1684. " Collected for John Ryley's Breif of Sutton in y* 
parish of Castor" loy. 6d. (Lamport.) 1684. 10. Feb. 
"Burning at Sutton in Caister in Northhampt." 2s. od. 
(Ormsby, S. Margaret, co. Norf.) 1684. ^* Feb. ..." in 
Castor w*^in Ryley, in y« County of North Hampton " 2s. od. 
(lb.) 1684. I Mar. "Por a fire at Sutton in Northaw/^ton- 
shire." 115. 5i<f. (Elton.) 

Thrapston. 1664. 14 Aug. " Ffor Thrapston Bridge" 35. Jd. 
(Elton.) 

Towcester. 1676. 4 Feb. "Coll. for a fire Towc. in j^ cou'ty of 
Northha'pton •• 3s. s^d. (Clent.) 1677. 5 Aug. ''Towcester, 
fire" IS. Jid. (Ormsby, S. Margaret.) 1707. 29 June 
"Burning of Towcester" ^d. (lb.) 1707. i June. 
"Towcester Breif" yid, (Woodston, co. Hunts.) 1707. 
" Collected for Towcester " is. 2d. (Newton, S. Petrock, co. 
Dev.) 

Wansford. 1660 ... "for the Towne of Wansford "35. id. 
(Keystone, co. Hunts.) 

Weedon Beck. 1679. 14 Sep ... " for a fire at Weedon Beck in 
y cou'ty of Northa'pt." 2s^ lod. (Clent.) 1688. *' Collected 
for Weedon Beck " no amount given. (Bromley, co. Midd.) 

Ed. 

26. — Fleetwood and Harvey Families. — Having been 
making collections for a complete history of the Fleetwood family for 
some time past, may I ask if any of your readers can send me any 
particulars of thej Fleetwoods of Northamptonshire ? One family was 
settled at Aldwinkle for several generations; and others occur in 
Northampton. Sir William Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, knt., was 
buried there 12 Feb., 1673-4, leaving a son Miles, who carried on the 
Aldwinkle line ; and another son Charles, who lived at Northampton. 
Sir William married for his second wife, Elizabeth Harvey, daughter 
of dame Christian Harvey, of Northampton, who died 1674 :• and 
she was the mother of Charles Fleetwood. Any particulars of this 
Harvey family, or the entry of the baptism of Charles Fleetwood, 
between 1635 and 1645, would be very acceptable. Are there any 
Fleetwood deeds known to be in existence ? 

Pensam, Abergele, N. Walei. J. P. Earwakbr, M.A., F.S.A. 



34 Northavtptonshire Notes and Queries. 

2n[n — Monumental Inscriptions from other Counties. — 
In Norwich Cathedral, on a slab on the floor of the apse : — ''In 
Memory of Lucy Smyth Relict of Joseph Smyth Esq Lieutenant of 
Whittlebury Forest, In the County of Northampton She died March 
9«^ 1800, Aged 72." 

In S. Michael at Pleas churchyard, Norwich, on a mural tablet 
on the east wall of the south porch : — •* In Memory of Matthew 
Squire Merchant of this City died July 9*** 1837 Aged 50 years 
Also Ellen daughter' of the above died Jan^ 2™* 1839 Aged 18. Also 
Johannah Rainforth Squire his Mother Widow of Lieut. John Squire 
R.N. of Peterboro died Feb^ 27*^ 1840. Aged 76.." 

In churchyard of S. Stephen, Norwich, at the west end against 
the wall of the church :— "Sacred to the Memory of Caroline third 
Daughter of the late Rev^ Benjamin Hutchinson B D Rector of Holy- 
well in the County of Huntingdon and of Rushden Northamptonshire 
and Prebendary of Lincoln who died 26*^ July 1836 Aged 59 years 
Also of Jane her Sister Relict of Thomas Russell Esq' youngest Son of 
William Russell formerly of Barningham Hall in this County Esq*. 
She died 26 January 1847 Aged 84 years Likewise of Harriet 
Hutchinson Sister of the above died 20^ November i8j6 Aged 80." 

I should be glad to know the maiden names of Mrs. Smyth, and 
of Mrs. Johannah Rainforth Squire. 

BeUe Vue Rise, Norwich. W. ViNCENT. 

28. — Petition to the Patron of the Living of Higham 
Ferrers, 1725-6. — "To Thomas Dacres Esq^ The Humble Petition 
of the Members and Inhabitants of the Burough & Corporation of 
Higbam Ferrers, and the Town of Chelson cum Caldecott, Sheweth 
That Whereas it did formerly Please you by an Act of your own 
Benevolence and Good-Will, to promise to Some of Us ; (especially 
those of us who serv'd you with our Vote and Interest in the late 
Election) that after the Decease of the late Reverend Mr. Willis, the 
Choice of a Vicar shou'd be left to us : And whereas by a Letter from 
you, dated from London the eight Instant, you have been pleas'd to. 
confirm the Said promise to us, under your own Hand : we whose 
Names are Underwritten, do hereby return you our hearty and 
unfeigned Thanks for so singular a Mark of Indulgence (an Instance, 
of its Kind,^ very rare and uncommon, and by us, unmerited at your 
Hands, and which will ever make your Name memorable to us and 
our Posterity.) The Bearer hereof the Reverend Mr. John Glasbrook, 
being a Neighbour and a Gentleman of Whose Abilities as a Clergy- 
man and as a Schoolmaster too, we are fully Satisfied, we therefore 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 35 



recommend him to your Favour, as one whom* we desire you wou'd 
please to Endow with our Vicarage : In Testimony whereof we have 
Subjoyn'^i* our Hands, this 12*^: Day of February 1725/6 This 
Granted your Petitioners shall (as in Duty bound) ever pray &c 



Robert Todd Senr • 
Robert Todd Junr f 
John Boyfield t 
Saml* Powers f 
Rich Wagstaffe • 
John:Mayel f 
JohnEckles * • 
Peter Sanders • • 
Tho« : Mascull • ♦ 
WiU: Sanders • ♦ 
John Af^RTT^i^ ♦ • 
John Hance 
T Dankes 
John Crew ♦ 
Dan Wyman Junior f 
Jno Eedy t 
James Smith 
Danl. Assaby his Mark 
Tho8. Lamb his Mark f 
Robt. Atkins his Mark 
Wm. Cox his Mark 
Robt. Granbnry his Mark 
Jno. Noble his Mark 
Tho : Homer his Mark 
Tho: Smith his Mark 
(Hdeon Perry his Mark f 
Tho Townes his Mark 
Hugh Ratolif 
Wm. Towiss his Mark 
Peter Aubry his Mark 



Matth. andgeon his Mark 

Jno Hand hki Mark 

Tho : Freeman his Mark 

Richd Townes his Mark 

Rich^ Stanion 

William Silbey 

Robert Peter 

Robrt Aubery 

Daniel Wyman Sen ♦ • 

William Harman 

Tho: Sanders * 

John Wyman ♦ 

William Eedy 

Richard Lamb his Mark 

Robt Walker f 

James Saby ♦ 

Samll Cook f 

Samuell Smith 

Saml Eedy 

Tho Woodward f 

Tho : Saby • 

John Rowlatt 

Tho : Adams his Mark 

Tho*. Linf ord his Mark * 

Tho Page 

Tho : Draper his Mark 

Jno. Draper his Mark 

Wilmore Mayle his Mark 

Wm. Stratton his Mark 



P : S. All mark'd thus • •^re Aldermen All marked thus * are 
Burgesses All thus t Mr. Wentworth's common Friends The Rest 
Mr. Dacres's own Tenants & Friends. 

The above-written is a genuine and faithfuU original signed 
before me 

Witness my Hand 

Tho: Dankes 
Feb. 19* 1725/6." 

This Petition, with the names of those who could not write, is 
entirely in the handwriting of the witness, Thomas Dankes. 

£d. 
* Paper torn in original doonment. 

B 2 



36 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

29. — ^** Clean as a Pink:'* a Northamptonshire Sating. — 
A year ago, I wrote a note in Notes and Queries relative to the 
proverbial expression " Clean as a Pink 5" and very various were the 
explanations that were adduced. I am now told by the Rev. W. D. 
Sweeting, that he had always understood this familiar simile to refer 
to the chaffinch, which, in North Northamptonshire, is commonly 
known as ''the pink." The chaffinch is a smart, spruce, " natty " 
little bird ; and the epithet *' clean *' would not be unsuitable to it. 
Mr. Sweeting asked his gardener, who had lived many years in the 
county, what he understood by the expression 5 and the ma6 at once 
replied "clean as a chaffinch." Cuthbert Bede. 

30. — Civil War, 1644.— The following is from Sir Gamaliel 
Dudley's letter to Prince Rupert, dated Newark, 4 Mar. 1644 (Camb. 
Univ. Lib. R. 10. 16) : — 

"On Sunday the 23* of February, we began our march from 
Banbury towards Daventry, where we had Intelligence of an uncertain 
number of Horse and Foot that attended thereabouts with designe to 
affi*ont Vs in our march, but Sir William Compton marching before Vs 
with his Horse, was onely looked on by them at a good distance, and 
after the encounter of a little skirmishing, they perceiving the rest of 
our Horse advancing towards them, wheeled off in great disorder, and 
Sir fFilliam Compton had the execution of them in their flight very 
neare Northampton Towne. Their particular losse in this defeat, I 
presume your Highnesse has already received account of at full from 
Banbury*' M. M. D. 

31. — Sheep Bill op Sir John Spencer, ij8o. — ^The John 
Spencer who signs the account here given was grandfather of 
the first lord Spencer of Wormleighton. In a debate in the house of 
lords, the earl of Arundel tried to annoy the first lord Spencer by 
reminding him that his ancestors kept sheep : lord Spencer replying 
'* when my ancestors (as you say) were keeping sheep, your ancestors 
were plotting treason." This account shews that his grandfather 
certainly kept a large number. Some expressions are worthy of note : 
'^toulde *' (as in "untold gold," ''tell the towers thereof") means, 
counted out: '' sherhoggs," '' sharghoggs," are sheep that have had 
one shearing : " theaves," according to Baker's Glossary, are female 
sheep of the second year : ''felles " are, I suppose, fleeces. 

What are "cullinge" ewes? are they of an inferior sort? It is 
to be noted that the reckoning is by the old English method of six 
score to the great himdred. Walnuts and faggots are still counted 
at six score to the hundred. The total will be found correct accord- 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 37 



ing to tliis Dotation. The actual number of sheep "told " is twenty- 
seven great hundred, four score and three 5 01,3323. The original 
paper is in the hands of Mr. J. N. Beasley. 

'' Robert Mote Shepe toulde at [ MS. torn] 

xxvi*^ : daye of [torn] A® 1580 
And the Sheppards Chardge 
then and ther delyuered him as 
hereaff ff oUowethe : viz : 

Imprfmis in greate Chinckwell of Sherhoggs w^ 

xxij CuUinge Ewes . . ... ij*. xxxviij. 

In Chinckwell meadowe of CuUinge Ewes and 

weathers ..... 1. 

In Langland feilde of Sherhoggs . . . ij". Iviij. 

In the Mill holme of CuUinge Ewes . . xxj. 

In Lucas feilde of store Ewes w*^. x. Rammes . ij*. v". xvij. 

In the mill feilde of Sherhoggs w*^. xx. CuUinge 

Ewes ...... iij*. xvij. 

In the wodde close of CuUinge Ewes . . Ix. 

In Brington feild of Sherhogs 

In the Slaughterhouse Close of CuUinge Ewes 

In the Slaughterhouse of felles 

In Wicken Parke of Sherhoggs w***. v. weathers 

In Nortofte feild of Weathers 

In Poultney feilde of Theaves 

Sz^m 



Rec 



V". 1]. 

xiiij. 

V. 

iiij**. V. 
iiij«. ij. 
ix''. V". xiiij. 
xxvij*. iiij". iij. 

John Spencer 



ffrom Wormlaighton of CuUinge Ewes the xxij* of 

Marche ..... 

ffrom Wormlaighton of CuUinge Ewes the xij*'* of 

Aprill ...... 

ffrom Wormlaighton of CuUinge Ewes the xij*** of 

Maye ...... 

bought ffrom Wormlaighton of Store weathers the 

xx**» of Maj'^e ..... 
bought Rec of Weath" from Wormlaighton the 

xxvj*^ of Maye. .... 

Rec from John James on straye fell 

1582 His delyueraunce 

To Wormlaighton of Sharghoggs the xxiiij*** of Maye vj 



xinj 



XX 



Ixxxij 
xxxiiij 



Ed. 



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38 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

32. — Value of Farm Produce and Labour, 1688-90. — 
These Extracts are from manuscript accomits of the real and personal 
estate of Randolph Wickes at Haselbeech and Cold Ashby. 

Receipts : — 

1689. 
17 Dec. '' . . of Richard Herbert for 51 Sheep 

1690. 
27 Mar. " . . of Anthony Bell and John Corby for 
a years rent of land the plow in Stone pitt 
Close due at Candlemas last 
14 Apr. '^ . . of Gabriel Sleatb for 2 Cows . 
. . of M'. Astell for 100 Shurehogs sold to him 
. . of him for loi Ews & 2 Rams . 
. . of him for 91 Sheep more 
. . of him for i foale 

Disbursements : — 
1688. 
I June '' p^ Richard Wheatley a levy for the poor 

of Haslebeech ..... 
20 Jime. " p*^ the Carpent' of Cold Ashby a days 

worke & halfe ..... 
p^ Thomas Kett 2 Days -worke at Ashby 
27 June ^^p^ Randolph Browne a laborer for 4 

Days walling at Haslebeech 
9 July *' p^ to a brief e read at Haslebeech . 
14 July "p^ for hearth money due at Ladyday 

1688 

8 Sep. "p* Stephen Braunston for the Gaole & 

Militia tax for the land in Elkington 
I Oct. " p^ M'. Bagley Rector of Haslebeech for 

Tyths due at Mich : last 
17 Nov. "p* Edward Hawkins for 6 days for his 

wife drawing Straw .... 
p^ the Gunsmith of Northampton for Scowring the 

Armo' & helping the Trustees to it . 
1689. 



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June. 
Bull 



^ p*^ Edward Carrington for drenching a 



p* Sam : Shuter for a breast plate & Croupp CoUer 
halter &: rings and Staples for the Saddle for the 
Trained horse ..... 



00 02 00 



00 10 00 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 39 

16 Nov. " p*. to M'. Henry Dormer for a grave- 
stone for the Testato' & cutting the inscripcon 006 00 oo*' 

I a Dec, '* Spent in going to London to make up 
the Accomits being out 13 Dayes my horse & 
own Expences ..... 003 05 00" 

12 Mar. "p**. to M'. Sergyant Blinco for his advice 

about the title of Spriggs land . . . 001 00 00" 

The above are all attested and signed, and the entire manuscript 
runs to six closely written folio sheets. I have only selected the most 
curious and interesting, to shew the value of stock on farms, and of 
labour at the period. London expenses and law advice seem to be 
very low in price. 

Colchester. C. GoLDlNG. 

33. — Earls Barton Deeds. — In the collection of Mr. Sheffield, 
of Earls Barton, are some interesting deeds relating to that parish. 
A brief description of these may be acceptable j one, that is of greater 
interest, being given at full. 

(i) 165J, 19 July. ''Deed Poll of Francis Muscoat the elder 
Robt Whitworth the elder & Geo Attwell the Elder Gents. ... the 
surviving Feoffees of all the Township lands either by the name of 
Townlands churcblands or Clock lands or otherwise granting a house 
in Earls Barton called the Church House Barn then used for House 
harbour for poor people for want of other dwelling and one piece of 
ground thereunto adjoining with a house lately erected thereupon 
called the Church house yard" and other parcels of land, to new 
trustees. Part "for repairing and upholding the Church of Earls 
Barton" and part '' called the Clock land for keeping & maintaining 
of a Clock dyall or Watch for the comfort of the Township of Earls 
Barton." 

With a Schedule particularly expressing the Town Land referred 
to in the above mentioned Deed. 

(2) 1660. "The rates of the grasse laid to the Cow pasture for 
the parish of Earls Barton made sett down & appoynted by Miles 
Whitworth and William Whitworth of the said towne yeomen & 
other the Inhabitants there." 

(3) 167 1. "A Schedule orTerrer of all the Medow ground . . . 
of euery Hide in pticulers & of euery mans Meadow in Acres Roods 
half roods and quarters.*' 

(4) 1757, 19 Apr. A levy for the relief of the poor at J^. in the 
pound. 

(5) '7^9* ^ similar levy. 



40 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



(6) 1793, aa Oct. A levy for the relief of the poor at 8c/. in the 
pound. 

(7) 1798. "A Schedule or Terrar of the Land in the Common 
and open Field of Earls Barton in the County of Northampton, 
belonging to the Parish of Earls Barton aforesaid containing by Esti- 
mation Nine Acres and two Roods 





A 


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Colts Mear 





I 





Butts Mear 





2 


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20 


Brimsell Mear . 


I 








Eastfield Mear . 


3 








Ansdell Mear . 


I 








Eight Manners Mear . 





3 





Shrubs Mear . 





I 





Bull Doles 


I 









At a Vestry held at the Parish Church of Earls Barton the 28 Day 
of May 1798 For the purpose of ascertaining what portion of Land 
in the Town Close of Earls Barton should belong to the Church and 
Clock thereof in Lieu of a Quarter of a Yard Land and Twelve 
Roods & a quarter of a Rood of Land in the Open Fields of Earls 
Barton aforesaid containing by Estimation 9* i' iop as mentioned 
in the Terrar which Land was given towards keeping in Repair the 
said Church and Church Clock as appears by a Deed deposited in the 
Church Chest of Earls Barton aforesaid 

And Also what portion of Land in the said Town Close should 
belong to the Parish of Earls Barton in Lieu of certain Pieces of Land 
in the Open Field of Earls Barton aforesaid containing by Estimation 
p» 2' qp as appears by the Schedule or Terrar thereof 

It was agreed at the said Vestry that 4* 3' op of Land in the Town 
Close of Earls Barton should belong to the Church & Church Clock 
therein in Lieu of the above mentioned 9* i' iqp and that the other 
4» 3' IIP should belong to the said Parish of Earls Barton in Lieu 
of the above mentioned 9* 2' qp 

W. Whitworth ) ^-u i. j 
Sami Eaton j Churchwardens 

Joseph Gaudem ) ^ ,, 

Japhett James jO^^^'^ers" 

(8) 1815, 31 Oct. A levy for the relief of the poor at 8<f. in the 
pound. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 41 

34. — Waits and Platers. — In Kelly's Notices illustrative of the 
Drama, (London^ 1865,) are these extracts from documents of the 
borough of Leicester : — 

" X550. Item p* to my lord marques pleyres of Northampton the 
XXX* day of November ij» viij* " (p. 193.) 

**i67i. Item paid Northampton Waites for playeing on Easter 
Munday & at Maday faire before the Companies 04 00 00 " (p. 269.) 

35. — Churchwardens* Accounts of Woodford Halsb« 
1609-10, 1641-2. — The following is a copy of two leaves of an 
account-book of the churchwardens of Woodford Halse. They were 
found loose in an old printed book bought by Mr. T. O. Gery of 
Daventry at Mr. Tomlin's sale at Byfield, and given by him to Sir 
H. Dryden in 1866, by whom in 1882 they were presented to the 
Woodford parish chest. They measure i foot by 8 inches. 

li. s. d. 
Imprimis payed for the earring of the Bell unto 

Buckingham ..... ix 

It. payed for alle when the Bell ware a melting 
It. payed for alle when the Bell ware a running 
It. payed for the Berriying of the Bellfounder 
It. payed for ale when the Bell ware a taking up out 

of the mold , . 
It. payed Bell money unto the Bellfounders men 
It. payed for a Band making that wee did take of 

the Bellfounder . . . 

It. payed for the casting of the Bell . 
It. payyed for mettill for the Bell 

It. payed for our charis in our diat in ling Bockingame 
It. payed for Bred and wine agenst Palme Sonday . 
It. payed for Bred and wine agenst Ester daye 
It. payed unto Gorg Goodman for Jarne worke about 

the Belles ..... 

It payed for Grese for the Belles 
It payed for washing the Surplis and the Commonion 

Kloth ...... 

It payed for making the quarter Bill and the puting 

of yt up . . . . . vj 

It payed for our dinners at this last visetacion . ij iij 

It payed for putting up of the regester . . xx 

It payed for writing these acontes ... vj 

Som totaU of our charges this y£re is xj xviij ij 





vnj 




vj 


xi 






vj 


"J 


iiij 


xlvij 


vj 
iiij 

"J 


xiij 




viij 




ix 


yj 



mj 



42 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



1609. Woodford recetes. 
It receved of woorfford at micfsomer for the Com- 

monyon . . . . 

It receved of woociford at Mickelmas Comonion 
It receved of woo(iford at Ester CommoDion 
It receved of HyntOTZ for rent for Woe dford 
It receved of fiamdon of rent for Woodford 
It receved of woodford a levell of xvj** a yeard land 

Som of this is xlvij' iiij^ 

1609 Hynton recetes. 
It receved of Hynton at misomer commonion 
It recei;^ of Hynton at mickellmas commonion 
It. receved of Hynton at Ester commonion 
It. receved of iFarndon rent for Hynton 
It. receved Hynton rent 

It. receved of a levell of xvj pence a yeard land 
Som of this is xlvj" vij* 

1609. ffarndon recetes. 
Imprimis receved of fiarndon at Mickelmas com- 
monion ..... 
It. receved of ffarndon at misomer commonion 
It. receved of ffarndon at Ester commonion 
It. recfeved of Hynton for rent for Farndon 
It. receved of ffarndon rent . 
It. receved of ffarndon a levell of xvj pence a yeard lond 
Som of this is xxx* iiij*^ 
Som totole of these recetes is vj^* iij' x* 

A levele made to the discarg of the dues due unto 

the Churchwardenes. 
Imprimis receved of woodford of a levell of xvj* a 

yeard land and of houses 
It. receved of Hyntow of a levell of xviij^ a yeard 

land and of houses 
It. receved of ffarndon of a levell of xiij pence a 
yeard land ..... 

Som totale of all recetes xj^ xiiij iiij^ 
Robert Maiowe of Woodford and John Bostock of 
Hinton Chjurchwardens in the yeere of o' Lord 
1 610 have not set downe their accompts. 
Witnes hereunto 

H. Haukins. Vicar 1610. 



li. s. 



d. 






XXllJ 

viij 
iiij 

vj 

xiiij 
xxxviij viij 



XIX 

xvij 
xix 

xiiij 



XXV| 



XIJ 

viij 
xij 

viij 
viij 



xiiij 

xlv yj 
xxi viij 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 43 

li. s. d. 

The receipts of Tho : Harris Churchw : for Woodford 

Anno: 1641. 
Imprimis : reced : for a Leavie after xvj* a yard land 

for 26 ya : la : & a balfe . ^ . . i 15 4 

reced : moore for the bousen after iiij** a house but the 

poorer sorte paled nothing . . . o ii o 

reced : moore for Hinton Churchland rente . . o i i ob 

reced moore for fFarndon Churchland rente . .016 

The receipts of Jo : Gibbes juni Churchw : for 

Hinton An;zo 1641. 
Imprimis reced for a Leavie after xij* a yard laud .148 
reced moore after iiij** ye bouse . . .064 

reced mOore for Hinton Churcbland rente . . o i i ob 

reced moore for fFarndon Churchland rente . .016 

The receipts of Jo : Gibbes seni Churchw : of 

fFarndon Anno 1641. 
Imprimis reced : for a Leavie after viij* a ya : land . o 13 4 
reced : moore after iiij** the bouse . . .040 

reced : moore for Hinton Church land rente .009 

reced : moore for fFarndon Church la : rente .020 

Th' accountes of John Gibbes senio' Church warden 

for fferndon. Anno : 1642 
Imprimis pd to Thoms Gibbes for one daies worke 

aboute y' belles . . . . .003 

pd for trussing y^ forbell & for other worke about y* 

bells . . . . . . o o vij 

pd : for ij Communions at Midsom'. besides pence .0 2 00b 
pd: for ij Communions at Micheltide beside^ 

pence . . . . . . o 2 i ob 

pd : for ij Communions at Cbristide besides pence .020 
pd : for ij Communions at Easter besides pence . 2 o 

pd : for ringing on y* vijth daie of Sepmb'. : on w^* 
daie there was a thankes giveing throwe out 
England & Scotland for y^happie peace concluded 
uppon betweene the said twoe ^ealmes .003 

pd : for a new houre-glasse for the Church . .00 iij ob 

p* for ringing on y* ^^ of Novemb : 1641 . .0 o iij ob 

p*: to W"* Glenne for new glasing the Church- 
windowes when y^ scaldelous Picktures were 
pulled Downe by Acte of parliam* . .0 j 6 vi 

F 2 



44 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

li. s. d. 

pd : to Tho : Gibbes for mending a Bell-wheele . o o i ob 
pd : for an Almanack for the Church . . o o i ob 

pd : for chargs at Daventree aboute y* Vtestacon . o i i ob 
pd : for new iron barres for y« steeple windows and 

for other worke done about the bells . .009 

p* for pchm* and for writeing our Register Boke in 

the Church booke & for ingrosing it in pchm* 

and for carrying of it to Northton . .009 

p* to Hen : West for whipping Doggs out of y* 

Church . . . . .008 

p^ : for new glasing the steeple window . .010 

p* : for washing y* surplice & y* Comunion cloath 

all the yeare . . . . .019 

p*: for keeping our Accountes all y* yeare, & for 

writing them faire . • . .009 

p*: for grease and for picking & lookeing to the 

Belles all the yeare . . . .003 

pd : for Certeficatte for non-comunicants . .001 

p** for chargs at Weedon visitacon . . .0 

These accounts give the name of a vicar Hierom Hawkins not 
mentioned in Baker*s History, but occurring in the Registers. In 
many parishes the list of incumbents is incomplete about the date of 
these accounts. One entry is mysterious, "Item payed for the 
berriying of the Bellfounder xi*." It is doubtful whether it means a 
payment at a real funeral or a fee under the nick-name of " berriying." 
** Our charis in our diat in ling Bockingame " evidently means " our 
charges for our diet whilst lying (or "living") at Buckingham." 
** Putting up of the register " must be " writing it out neatly." The 
use of the word " levell " for " leavie " is not uncommon, the 
derivation of the latter word being unknown to the churchwardens. 
It is noticeable that there were 2 communions at Midsomer Micheltide 
Christide and Easter. The order for the thanksgiving in 164 1 is 
recorded in Rushworth's Historical Collections. 

The order for pulling down of "scandalous pictures," &c. was 
made in Sep 1641.* 

The Act 3 & 4 Edward vi., cap. x., does not appear to include 
pictures on glass, but only such images as were worshipped; the 
injunctions of Edward vi. and Elizabeth include those on glass. 

The dog whipper was an official employed in most parishes. 

• In Part III. of **N. N. & Q.*' will be a note on this order. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 45 

Certificate for Don-communicants. This requires explanation^ 
vhich doubtless some of your readers can supply. 

What is " picking" ? Is it cleaning off the old grease ? 

llie custom of booking pence over 12 and shillings over 20 
continued till long after the date of these accounts and was often the 
cause of incorrect totals. In the accounts of 1609 the *'\ s d" are 
affixed to each sum and the sums are not arranged in columns as given 
here. In the later accounts the ''1 s d " are at the top of the page only. 

The churchwardens' year began at Easter, for the Midsummer 
communion is put first j and the thanksgiving of September, 164 1, is 
in the year 1642. There are no accounts from 161 o to 1641, from 
loss of intervening leaves. H. D. 

36. — Contributions to the Defence of the Country, a.d. 
1588. — In the British Museum (807. f. 2) is a printed copy of a 
manuscript written in the year 1588, entitled : — 

The Names of the Nobility, G-entry, and Others, who Contributed to the 
Defence of this Country at the Time of the Spanish Invasion, in 1588. 
With a Brief Account of their Spirited and Patriotic Conduct on that 
Occasion. 
LoirsoN : Printed for Leigh and Bothebj, York-Street, Covent-Garden. 1798. 4to. 

The names of residents in Northamptonshire, taken from this 
pamphlet, were communicated by Sir Henry Dryden to Tke North' 
ampton Herald on the loth of June, 1864. They are here reprinted, 
from the pamphlet^ together with the parish in which some of the 
contributors dwelt. These places are added partly from previous 
communications on the subject of queen Elizabeth's army by Sir 
Henry Dryden, and partly from Bridges' Northamptonshire. 

NOBTHAMFTON. £ 

Feb. £dward Watson (Rockingham) 17 die Fehruarii 25 

March. Thomas Tresham (Bushton) tecundo die Marcii 25 

Mariijn Wright (Eydon) tercio die Mareii 25 

Thomas Martjn quirUo die Marcii. 50 

Augustine Crispe (Boughton) eexto die Marcii 25 

fidmunde Elmes (Lilford) 1 die Marcii 50 

John Fraunoes 12 die Maixii 50 

William Hicklyn (Greens Norton) 14 die Marcii 25 

Thomas Moone li die Marcii 25 

William Samwell (X3pton) eodem 25 

Robert Pargitor (Gretworiih) eodm 25 

John Stafford 19 die Marcii 50 

George Lynne (Southwick) eodem 50 

Johan Shugborow (Pitsford) Vidiia eodem 25 

Bdward Dudley (Gopton) eodem 25 

Arthur Brooke (Great Oakeley) 7Q die Mareii 25 



46 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

£ 

Thobie Cbancie (Bdgcote) ^dieMareii 60 

Thomas Maydwell (Geddington) 23 die Marcii 25 

Owen Rudgdale 28 die Marcii 25 

William Trust (Maidwell) eodem 25 

Albon Butler (Aston) eodem 25 

William Hughes (Higham Ferrers) eodem 25 

ApriU, Thomas Kirton (Thorpe Mandeville) 9 die Aprilis 50 

Henrie Pratt (Weldon) UdieAprilie 25 

George Sherley 12 die AprUis . 50 

Anthonie Jenkinson (Sywell) 22 die AprUit 50 

John Brudnell (Deene) 26 die Aprilis 50 

Maye, John Isham (Lamport) secundo die Maii 25 

John Freeman (Great Billing) 7 die Maii 50 

Robert Osborne (Piddington) eodem 25 

Roger Charnocke (Great Harrowden) 26 die Maii 25 

Leonard Barker eodem 25 

William Saunders (Brixworth) eodeni 50 

John Murden eodem 25 

Edward Haselrigg (Alderton) eodem 25 

Gilbert Pickeringe (Tichmarsh) 30 die Maii 25 

William Baldwyn eodem 25 

John Wake (Salcey Forest) eodem 25 

Richard Worseley (Deeping Gate) eodem 25 

Robert Matthew (Whitfield) uUimo die Maii 25 

JwM* John Reade (Cottesbroke) primo die Junii 25 

Robert Manley eodem 25 

Ambrose Agarde (Broughton) eodem * 25 

William Lambe tercio die Junii 25 

Thomas Haoke eodem 50 

Erasmus Dredon (Canons Ashby) eodem 50 

William Kinsman (Lodington) quirvto die Junii 25 

John Eirkland eeptimo die Junii 25 

Robert Wingfeild (Upton) 9 die Junii 25 

John Howard eodem 25 

itomuel Danvers (Culworth) 11 die Junii 25 

Stephen Haryey 12 die Junii 25 

Thomas Croswell (Newbottle) \Z die Junii 25 

John Hensman (Northampton) eodem 25 

John Mercer (Northampton) eodem 25 

George Poulton 17 die Junii 25 

Frauncis A.shbye 18 die Junii 50 

John Bryan (Northampton) 27 die Junii 25 

William Margetts 26 die Junii 25 

John Neale 27 die Junii 50 

July, James Cleypole (Northborough) primo die JuUi 50 

Robert Tredwaie 12 die Julii 25 

James Eendricke 20 die Julii 25 

Augutt, Matthew Robinson 8 August 25 

Leonard Barker seems to have been half-brother to John Isham, 
of Lamport : Thomas Hake was M.P. for Peterborough at the time^ 
and may be the Thomas Hacke of the list. It must be understood 
that some of the names of places are only conjectural. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 47 

37. — Grebn Family of Bouohton (20). — It is unfortunate 
that the misprint "Green of Brington** appears in Part I. of the 
'^N. N. & Q.,'* as it may put genealogists off the scent. The best 
attempt at a pedigree of this family that I have seen is contained in 
Herald and Genealogist, vi. 2J9, to which I would refer your corres- 
pondent. It is there suggested that Yorkshire, and then Isham in this 
coimty, were the places from which the family sprang. Henry de 
Grene, sen., Henry de Grene, jim., of Isham, and Thomas de Grene, 
of Isham, are mentioned in 1341, when Sir Thomas de Boketon (or 
Boughton) granted to Henry de Grene, jun., Boughton and Brampton. 
This disposes of two errors of Halstead, viz., that the family took its 
name from the Green of Boughton, and that Henry de Grene was the 
son of Sir Thomas de Boketon. He may however have been his nephew 
or son in law. This Henry, jun., became lord chief justice, and died 
1369. Halstead says that his wife was Catherine de Drayton, but he 
certainly had a wife whose name was Amabila, and I rather doubt the 
existence of Catherine. The heraldry of the family is interesting, no 
less than four different coats have been borne by its members : viz. — (i) 
Three bucks trippant 5 (2) A cross engrailed (which was assumed from 
the Drayton family) 5 (3) sir Nicholas Grene of Exton bore Argent fretty 
sable, on a canton a mullet or, (which he seems to have taken from 
the Iwardby family) 5 and (4) Green of Middlesex bore A chevron 
between three bucks. Halstead mentions the heraldic glass in Lowick 
church as if it bore out his statement that sir Thomas Green married 
Lucy Zouch 5 but in fact the arms of Zouch appear on the dexter 
side of the shield and impale Green, and these are the arms of lord 
Zouch, who married a daughter of sir Henry Green the chief justice. 
The fact is that Halstead, except when he quotes original documents, 
is quite unreliable as an authority. Some of his mistakes will be 
found noticed in a paper on Lowick church by the writer, which is 
now being printed for the Associated Societies* Report. 

I will take this opportunity, as the families of Vere and Green 
were connected by marriage, of mentioning that at p. loi of the 
Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton the arms of Vere of 
Addington are given as if they were identical with De Vere. Vere of 
Addington, however, bore Argent a cross gules, and therefore the note 
is in error as to the arms given by Bridges not being connected with 
the founder of the chantry. 

I regret that I caimot give a more distinct answer to Mr. Green's 
questions. The early history of the Greens would be an interesting 
field for the investigation of a competent genealogist. 

Drayton House, Thrapston. S. G. Stopford Sackville. 



48 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

38. — Lord Griffin, of Weston Favell, a.d. 1690. — This 
gentleman was created a peer by king James II. just before his 
abdication. He was one of the eight temporal peers who refused to 
take the oaths to the new government. In 1690 he was detected in 
maintaining a correspondence with king James, and was, on the 8th 
of July, committed to the tower. But he was soon released upon 
bail, no evidence beyond letters being produced against him. In 
1692, when a proclamation was published for the bringing certain 
disaffected persons to justice, lord Griffin was among those who 
managed to elude the search. He had been outlawed for high treason, 
and was brought to the king's bench in 1703. In 1708 he engaged 
in the French project for invading Scotland, and a rule was made by 
the queen's bench for his execution. This was on the 15th of May, 
1708. But the queen, in consideration of his advanced age, reprieved 
him from time to time till his death in November, 17 10. The letter 
here given is believed never to have been published. It is written by 
the under-sheriff of Northamptonshire, and shews that his outlawry 
dates from the time of his treasonable correspondence with king James. 
" M'. Arunger Pray excuse this treble for A little of yo' advise, 
you knowe I am vnder sherriffe, & have reed A precpe out of Kings 
Remembrancers office being A Distring* ag* L^ Griffin to Account 
more then A hundred thousand pounds, pray yo' advise w* I am to 
doe herevppon, he has 2 good Lordshipps w** is well Stockt by his 
tennts etc. Quere whether I am to return issues of course or am to 
Seize the Lands & Cattle & Soe returne them Seized for y* Kinge or 
whether I may take Security of the Lord Griffin to appeare & doe w* 
y* Court shall require & lett all things alone & w* else I may doe to 
shew my selfe civell & be safe. In short if you please to send me an 
Account of w* is to be herevppon & with all spead direct to me at 
Cotton in Northtonsh by Thrapston Bagg you will greatly oblidge s' 
19'*: 7^': 90. Yo' humble Serv* Tho: Bletso" 

The name of this undersheriff, Thomas Bletso, occurs in the list 
given before (6) of *' Northamptonshire Justices of the Peace, i6jo." 

There is a reference to lord Griffin's death in Heame's Remains^ 
1857, '• 2^9' under date Monday, 13 Nov. 1710, which gives Friday 10 
Nov., as the precise day on which he died. *' On Friday morning 
last, about eight o'clock, died, in the Tower, the lord Griffin, of a 
great age. He had been confined for treason, as they now call 
sticking close to the oath of allegiance, and adhering firmly to the 
undoubted sovereign. On Wednesday morning, Nov. 15, the corps 
was deposited in the vault of the Tower, there to remain till it can be 
removed to Dingly in Northamptonshire, the seat of his ancestors." 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 49 

39.— A Cathedral Audit Dinner, 1708.— The following is 
copied from the original receipt : — 



1 708 Octo' y* 27 The Stewerds table 27 : 


Gentlemen 






ordnareys .... 




2 


14 


a bottle Canary 







3 


18 Bottles White and Red . 




X 


10 


8 sarvants dinners . 







8 


Drink and tobacco , 







6 10 


flSre in y« Chamber . 


in all . 





I 




5 


2 10 



to y* sarvants . 2 o 

Alow'd this bill by me 
R^ : Cumberland 
with two shillings to y« servants 
Jan : y« 22d : 1708 Received of Mr David Standish y« full contents 
of this bill by mee E* Tinkerford." 

Richard Cumberland was son of the bishop. He was appointed 
prebendary of the 6th stall in 1699, and archdeacon of Northampton 
in 1707. Ed. 

40. — Churchwardens* Accounts op Btfibld (22). — At 
the end of tiiese accounts in the last number of Northamptonshire 
Notes and Queries are some questions. On the chance of assisting 
in the solution of them^ I send the following : — 

(i) There is a district called WestWardon which is partly in the 
parish of Byfield^ and the district called Trafford is a detached portion 
of the same parish. It appears from Baker that Robert Wilmer of 
Everdon, in 1598-9, bought Trafford, and that sir William Wilmer, 
knight, of Sjrwell, bought West Wardon in 161 7, having not 
improbably inherited Trafford, for in 1720 William Wilmer of Sywell 
sold both these portions of land. It is probable that the suit between 
the parish of Byfield and sir William Wilmer had reference to the 
assessment of one or both of these districts. 

(2) *' Forbell " is fore-bell, or first-bell 5 the word occurs in the 
churchwardens' accounts of Woodford (35) and other places. 

(3) ''Brabs " are probable short nails to retain the lead-lights in 
the windows. The term is applied to the broken horse-shoe nails 
used in hurdle-making. It is probably originally the same word as 
''brads." 



5o Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

(4) " Septim." This word is not given in Parker*s Glossary of 
Architecture, or in any book which I have consulted. In Halliwell's 
Archaic Glossary is " Sept, a screen, Brit ton,** But it is not in the 
glossary of terms ih Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vol. v. It is 
more likely in 1635 ^^ mean chancel rails than screen. 

(5) This I cannot solve. 

(6) The yard land was certainly a variable quantity. There is no 
evidence that it was of constant size even in the same parish. 

H. D. 

41. — OsTORius IN Northamptonshire (12). — In the inter- 
esting note on the above in the last issue of *' N. N. & Q.," I looked 
anxiously for sonie allusion to the grave of that celebrated Roman 
soldier. 

I was always led to suppose in my childhood's days that he was 
buried near my native village of West Haddon -, and in proof of this 
my old schoolmaster, the Rev. Jonathan Jones, then the head master 
of Guilsborough Grammar School, one day, I remember, showed me a 
paragraph quoted from Bridges, in an old Northamptonshire directory, 
which, as I happen now to be in possession of, I append here : — 
** In West'Haddon field is an eminence called Ostor-HilL ...... 

From the name we conjecture, it is the tumulus of Publius Ostorius 
the celebrated Roman Pro-praetor under the Emperor Claudius, That 
he died in Britain is evident from Tacitus, worn out with cares, and 
the fatigues of war. Neither the exact place of his death or of his 
burial are recorded in history. But it is not easy to assign one more 
probable than this place, in the neighbourhood of the great military 
works at Daventre and Guilsborough, supposed to be of his erection. 
And the memory of it seems sufficiently preserved by the name itself, 
by its vicinity to these encampments, and the confused remains of an 
obscure tradition." 

In my youth I have often visited the spot, which is about half a 
mile from the village along the road to Northampton, at the back of 
the lodge house, on the farm known by the villagers as " Talkington." 
There are evidently traces of a Roman barrow, but whether or not it 
is the grave of the defeater of Caractacus appears so far to be a 
matter of conjecture. 

In the desire for upholding the traditions of West Haddon I 
shall be glad if any reader of" N. N. & Q.'* can give further informa- 
tion on the subject. I have often wondered why an exploration of 
the barrow has never been attempted, or hinted at, 

John T. Pagb. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 51 

42. — Northamptonshire Badgers, or Higlers. — The follow- 
ing extracts from manuscripts in the County Hal! may be interesting 
to your readers. The first quotation is from a book containing 
recognizances entered into by badgers or higlers -, it shows the way 
in which they were bound over not to forestall, &c. This would be 
about the year 1740. 

The second extract is from an older book, dated about 1694, in 
which the names of the men entitled to ply as jobbers, higlers or 
badgers are entered. There is no formal recognizance contained in 
the book, but no doubt they were bound in the same way as in the 
first mentioned book. 

First Extract, 
" Northamptonshire. To wit. At the general Quarter Sessions 
of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King held at North- 
ampton in and for the coimty'of Northampton the fifteenth 
day of Aprill in the thirteenth year of Reign of our 
Sovereign Lord King George the Second by tiie grace of 
Grod of Great Brittain etc and in the year of our Lord 1740 
the persons whose names are hereunder and within written 
came personally into open Court and acknowledged them- 
selves Indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in the several 
Sums unto their respective names annexed to be raised and 
Levyed on their severall and respective G^ods and Chattells 
Lands and Tenements To the Use of our Sovereign Lord the 
King his heirs and Successors Under the Condition hereunder 
written 
The Condition of the above written Recognizance is such That 
whereas all and every the Drovers Badgers Laders Kidders Carryers 
Buyers or Transporters of Com Grain Butter Cheese Hens Chickens 
Capons Eggs ffish and other dead victualls hereunder and within named 
are on the day of the date hereof admitted allowed and Lisensed in 
open Court to those Offices or Doings respectively for the space of one 
whole year according to the Statutes in that case made If therefore 
the said Drovers Badgers Laders Kidders Carryers Buyers or Trans- 
porters of Com, Grain, Butter, Cheese, Hens, Chickens, Capons, 
Eggs, ffish and other dead victualles shall not during the continuence 
of such Lisenses (forestall or regrate or doe anything contrary to the 
trae meaning of the Statutes made against fforestallers Regrators & 
Ingrossers or anything therein contained shall well and truly perform 
the condition of such Lisenses granted to them respectively at this 
Sessions as aforesaid Then this Recognizance to be void or else to be 

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52 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

and remaixi against every person failing herein and his respective 
Suretyes in full force power and vertue 

£ £ 

Badgers fjfc. their names k^c. Suretyes names tsfc. 

Thomas James of Yardley the said Mark Goode and the 

Gubbion Higler 40 said William Coney each lo 

Mark Goode of Great Hough- The said Thomas James and 

ton Higler 40 the said William Coney each 10 

Second Extract. 

[1694] 

"Mich: y W:&M. 

John Ward of Stanwick 7 t kk 

Simon Drage of Raunds ) J^^^®^ 

John Eady of Higham *) tt- 1 

Anne Bates of Spratton j Algiers 

John Clarke of Broughton 7 r^ 4^ i 

John Nottingham of Wellingborow ) ^atmealmen 

William Pell of Burton Latimer 7 u j 
Thomas Wallis of the same j iiadgers 

** A Badger signifies one that buys com or victuals in one place 
and carries them to another to sell and make profit by them.'* A 
kidder^ lader^ or jobber was of almost the same trade as a badger. 

''Forestalling signifies the buying or bargaining for any com cattle 
other merchandise, by the way, before it comes to any market or fair or 
to be sold 3 to the intent to sell the same again at a more high and 
dear price.** There were many statutes against this offence. ''By 
the Common Law the offender was to be grievously amerced for the 
first offence 5 for the second to be condemned to the pillory 5 for the 
third, to be imprisoned 5 and for the fourth to be compelled to abjure 
the vill [or parish]. And, at this day [1764], all offenders of this 
kind are liable to fine and imprisonment.*' 

Ingrossing was almost the same offence. 

" Regrator denotes him that buys and sells any wares or victuals in 
the same market or fair or within five miles thereof.** 

C. A. M. 

In illustration of the above an extract may be given from the 
Stamford Mercury, 14 Oct., 1796: — "At the late Peterborough 
sessions a cow jobber was fined for regrating, by buying beasts, and 
selling the same at Peterborough market on the same day.** £d. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 53 

43.-^LocAL Dialect. — I have heard the following words and 
expressions in the northern part of the countj, none of which are in 
the glossaries of Baker or Sternberg. £d. 

Acknowledge : to recompense. " He never acknowledged me with a 

penny." 
Bag : a small-sized haycock. 
Bag o* tricks : said of a small copyhold cottage^ " I wouldn't give 

£2^ for the whole bag o'tricks." 
Beast : bullocks^ used as a plural ; ten bullocks to be sold by auction 

would be described as '* Ten Beast.'* 
Best day : birthday. 
Blister-pox : chicken-pox. 
Bogie : a moveable iron grate, on three legs, used by builders to dry 

damp rooms. 
Bow-wow: a disturbance. ''I didn*t want to make a bow-wow 

about it." 
Cade : besides the noun I have heard this used as a verb, '' The cat is 

very fond of cading,*' coming to be petted. 
Cady : very tame, of animals. 
Catch-man : a man employed occasionally, for odd jobs, not od 

regular work. 
Chilled water : with the chill taken off. 
Chimney-breast : the beam over a large open fireplace. 
Clapper-gate : a gate for footpaths^ opening between two others that 

are fixed. 
Clink : I do not know the precise meaning of this verb, '' I had to 

clink off." It may be connected with the noun, defined ia 

Baker's Glossary as "The impress of horses feet on moist or 

wet land.'' 
Cock-handed : left-handed. 

Cross-hopping : out of humour. Baker has " cross-hoppled." 
Dick-cat : a tom-cat. 

Edging : grasping, covetous. '' He's a very edging man." 
Fell : to lower. " The draining has fell'd the pond four inches." 
Foil : to vex, distress. " He foils himself to dead." Also, of a very 

feeble old man who wanted to get up and was not strong enough 

to do so, but was sufiered to try that he might realise his 

weakness, *' Best to let him foil hisself." 
Fowl : used as a plural, as in Gen i. 26. 
Frost : the complaint of children usually called the thrush. 
Gleamy : fitful, uncertain, of the weather. 
Grews, Grewhounds : greyhounds. 

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54 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

AA» — Bbnnbtt Family ofHandlby Park,Towcester (i6). — 
In The Records of Buckinghamshire, vol. v» no. 3. pp. 120 — 140, Mr. 
Cooke will find a good deal about the Bennetts of Calverton^ co. 
Bucks., written by myself in an account of that parish, and at the end 
of it a full pedigree of the family commencing with John Bennett, 
presumably the father of Thomas, of Clapcot, co. Bucks., whose 
grandson sir I'homas, lord mayor of London^ 1603, was father to 
Ambrose, who died unmarried, and whose will was proved 28 Mar. 
1631 {St, yohn, 29) 5 also to sir Symon, who oh, s, p. and was buried 
in Beachampton church 22 Aug. 163 1 ; also to Richard, whose will 
was proved 7 May 1628 (^Barring ton, 44), and whose son Symon 
was baptized at S. Olave's Jewry 6 June 1624, died 20 Aug. 
1682, and was buried at Beachampton 3 also to John, whose will was 
proved 11 May 163 1 (5^ 5^0 An, 54), and who was father to John, 
Ambrose, and Mary. This last-named Ambrose is probably the one 
Mr. Cooke is in search of 5 though Symon, who died 1682, was 
certainly heir to his uncle sir Symon, as well as to his father Richard. 
This Symon married Grace, dau. and coh. of Gilbert Morewood, of 
London (Chester's Westminster jilbey Registers, p. 199) -, of his two 
sons and five daughters the youngest daughter only, Frances wife to 
James Cecil, 4th earl of Salisbury, left surviving issue ; she was 
born 20 Oct., baptized i Dec. 1670, at Calverton, and was buried 
15 July 17 13 at S. Giles'-in-the- Fields, London. 

Ambrose, son of John, was godson to Ambrose, elder brother of 
sir Symon, and by will received some property from hini. Ann, 
daughter of the lord mayor, married William Duncombe, of S. 
Lawrence, Jewry, (marriage license dated 17 Oct. 1594,) and had three 
daughters, (i) Mary, married, 25 May 1624, Ralph Dutton, of 
Standish, co. Glouc, (2) Ann, wife of Thomas Hampson, (3) 
Elizabeth, wife of William Brownlowe, juu. 

Possibly therefore Ambrose and his wife Rebecca may have been 
first cousins once removed. 

In all the wills the name is spelt as above, Bennett. 

Tho Crescent, Bedford. DuDLEY G. Cary Elwes. 

45. — Read Family op Nbwbottle. — Can any reader of 
" N. N. & Q." give information on the following points ? 

(i) Birth or baptism in 17 14 or 17 15 of Thomas Read of 
Newbottle, yeoman 5 he died and' was buried at Newbottle 6 July 
1786, aged 71. 

(2) Marriage of the same with Ann Perkins, of Lubenham 
Lodge, CO. Leic, about 1748. 

(3) Marriage of his eldest son John Read with Sarah Soden, 
who was from the neighbourhood of Newbottle, about 1769. L. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 55 

46. — Osborne Family of Kelmarsh. — Sir Robert Osborne of 
Kelmarsh, kt., who married in 1580 Margaret Freeman of Great 
Billing, had six brothers ; Edward ; Thomas, a doctor ; Mauriqe ; John j 
Ralph 5 and William, rector of Kelmarsh, Maidwell, and Thenford, 
buried (as I believe) at Thenford 2 Aug. 1659. Can any one give 
me information concerning these brothers, where they lived, married, 
died, &c., and their descendants ? 

John Osborne of Clapton, co. Northants., and of Bythorn, co. 
Hunts., who died 17 16, must have been descended from one of these 
brothers, for in family papers he is said to be descended from John of 
Kelmarsh, father of the above sir Robert. This same John of 
Clapton is also said to have gone with other Northants. gentry in 1688 
to meet William of Orange at Torbay. Where can a list of such 
gentry be found ? 

As I am collecting for a full pedigree of the Osborne family I 
should feel obliged for any references, copies of registers, &c. 

Shireoaks Vicarage, Notts. G. OsBORNE BrOWNE. 

47- — Church Goods at Wollaston, 1783. — ^The original, 
from which the following has been copied, is in the Bodleian library. 

" Particulars respecting the Church of Wollaston added to the 
Terrier exhibited at the Bp. of Peterboro*s Visitation, held at Kettering 
— 14th of July 1783. 

" There are also belonging to the church one communion table, 
with a covering for the same of purple cloth, & a cushion, besides 
one linen cloth with two napkins — a Quarto Common prayer-Book, & 
a Folio Book of Offices. One Flagon containing in measure about 
two Quarts. One chalice with a Cover, & one Paten all of them 
silver — The said covering of the commimion table 5 cushion, fiagon, 
chalice with its cover, & paten, were- the gift of Ambrose Dickins 
Esq' — one chest with three locks in the Vestry, one pulpit & reading 
desk, A pulpit cloth with hangings of crimson velvet, also narrow 
hangings of the same for the reading desk — A large Bible old print, 
one D**. of the last Translation, Two prayer Books & a small office 
Book — One Box containing the Registers. Two Brass candlesticks, 
one affixed to the pulpit & the other to the Reading Desk, & a large 
Brass Sconce all the gift of Ambrose Dickins Esq' A Bier — ^4 
Parchment Registers. One beginning in 1566 (the first leaf is torn 
out) and ending 1634 — the 2* beginning Baptisms i6ji & ending 
1687 — Marriages beginning 1657 & Burials 1653, both ending 1673 — 
the 3* beginning 1663, & ending 1 780-1. The 4*^ beginning 1780-1 
& continued to the present Time — there are besides, two parchment 



56 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Registers for marriages, the former beginning 17^4, & ending 177 1 
— the latter beginning .1772 & continued to the present Time. One 
Church clock 6 Bells with their Frames & Chimes. — ^A Font. 

" In testimony of the Justness the transcript, & Truth of y* above 
mentioned particulars w«*» respect the Church — we minister, & 
Churchwardens have set our hands — ^this a* Day of July : in y* year 
of our L* 1783. W. Wilson, Curate. 

" The Vicarage of Wollaston was endowed with Manse and Glebe. 
The Manse being in a ruinous State was by Virtue of a Faculty 
obtained from the Bishop of the Diocese entirely pulled down in the 
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty together with the Bam, 
stable, and other out Buildings there to belonging, and the ground 
whereon they stood, being bounded as appears from the Description 
on the other side, is let to Ambrose DickiDS Esq', at the annual Rent 
of nineteen Shillings. The Money arising from the sale of all old 
materials of the old Buildings was laid out. ^ repairs on the Vicarage 
House & Premises at Irchester. 

" Witness my Hand John Sparke Vicar. 

" There is also in the same Parish a Parochial Library for the only 
use of the Incumbent procured by the Hon^^ Tho : Wintworth Esq', 
in y* Year 17 11. Prime cost £21 11 o besides some books since 
added, of all which every Vicar within Six Months after his admission, 
is to give notice in a Catalogue to the Ordinary and enter into such 
security for y* preservation of the same as y* Ordinary shall think fit." 

JT. 

48- — Pricb of Grocery supplied to Althorp, 1604-5. — 
The following particulars are from three curious documents relating to 
commodities supplied to Althorp at the beginning ot the 17th 
century. Two of the bills are dated 3rd Sep., 1604, and are for 
groceries supplied by George Coles. In them these prices are found : — 
**Lycorish," Sd, a pound; Mustard, the same; "Reesons of the 
Sonne" (probably, grapes dried in the sun, raisins), 6 lbs. for 3^. ; Sugar 
" by the ffirkin," i2id, a pound ; Sugar by the barrel, i8d, a pound ; 
*' Pruns,*' 3rf. a pound ; " Synamon '* and Nutmegs is. a pound by 
taking a case at a time. The two bills amounting together to 
£g I2s. od. The third bill is dated 26th Nov., 1605, ''to the right 
Honourable the Lord Spencer,*' and is for 32 gallons of '' Sacke," at 
2s. 6d. a gallon, and for 21 gallons of " Muskedell,'* at ss. 4d. It is 
thus receipted : — " Received in full payment of this Bill per the hands 
of Mr. Stephen Ffrench the som of seven pounds ten shillings — I say 
Rec per me Henry Barnes for the use of my Master Mr. John 
Damelaw." J. W. 




I.— Marefair. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 57 

49- — Presentments, 1578. — I send a few curious extracts 
from the complaints made to the bishop of Peterborough in the jear 

1578- 

Barnack. " They have instructions but slack the homilies." 

Canons Asbby. '' They lack a font. And the curat is not in orders 

and is reported to be a morris dancer." 
Glinton. *' The Parson hath not redde the Queues Injunctions but 

one time this yere." 
Middleton Cheney. '* Harry Parrys als Taylor dyd saye that he had 

as lief here a Crowe in a tree crye, as the Parson or Minister to 

saye Service or preacbe in a Pulpitt." 
Moulton. ^'Joane Tymms is a scold & soweth discorde amongest 

neighbors." 
Peakirk. " Ihon Preist will not learne his tenne Comandements of 

the Parson, he did not receave at Easter." 
Roade. "In the Churcheyarde of Rode ther did & dothe stande a 

crosse undefaced unto w^h in time of poperie superstitious things 

have been don Complaynt was made at the last Visitation of th* 

Archdeacon M' Sheppard to his Official before the Church 

Wardens & not yet redressed." 
Weston Favell. " They have non to minister service to them." 

H. R. S. 

50- — Old Houses in Northampton. I. — ^Three ancient churches 
still adorn Northampton. The main part of the castle was destroyed 
long ago ; and the townspeople, eager to erase the last but interest- 
ing remains of feudal times, have lately levelled the castle hill, and 
destroyed the remaining portion of the Edwardian walls. Of ancient 
domestic buildings Northampton has not within memory contained 
many examples ) a few crypts remain, but only two remarkable houses : 
one in Marefair, and the other at the n.e. corner of the Market Square. 
A woodcut and some notice of the former must suffice for the pre- 
sent 5 the latter shall be noticed in some future number. 

The house in Marefair is on the s. side of the street, which is here 
nearly e. and w. It appears to have been built in the i6th century, 
and it is supposed, by some one of the Haselrig family j for they 
owned it in 1662, when on the demolition of the castle they bought 
the castle grounds. It continued in the possession of that family 
till about 1835, when it was bought by (Jeorge Baker, Esq., the 
historian of Northamptonshire, who with his sister Miss Baker, 
resided in it} and both of them died there. 
- " Before the house was purchased by Mr. Baker it had been occupied 
by the Rev. Mr. Stodart^ and on his leaving it, remained so long 



58 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



empty and shut up that it was rumoured the title was lost, and that it 
might be plundered with impunity. It was broken into accordingly, 
and grievously stripped of much of its wainscotting and ornamental 
work. At this time the frontage consisted of five bays, two of which 
were converted by Mr. Baker into distinct residences. The grounds 
then extended to the lane at the east end of St. Peter's Church ; and the 
site in former times must have been eminently pleasant and command- 
ing." * It is now owned and occupied by Mr. Mold. 

At present there is no evidence as to how or when this property 
came into the Haselrig family. Their chief seat was and is at 
Nosely in Leicestershire. A map is in existence, made in 1723, of 
the property of Sir Arthur Hazelrigge in Northampton 5 the part 
comprising the mansion, gardens, and adjoining houses is here given to 
half the size of the original. 



lUferencet. 

7 Manor house, gar- 

den, &o. 

8 Dog kennel 

9 Nursery 

10 Mr». Isham's house, 

&;c. . 

11 Mr. Battin's house, 

&;c. 

12 S. Peters church 

yard, &o. 




JL 



It will be seen that the garden of the mansion extended from S. 
Peter's church yard to the present Free-school lane. 

The house now has a street front of 51ft. 3 in., containing fourteen 
mullioned windows, and surmounted by three dormer gables, each 
corbelled out from the wall, and containing a three-light window. It 
formerly had, apparently, 46ft. 2 in. more of street frontage to the east, 
and presumably two more dormer gables. 

The interior of the house has been altered at various times, and 
especially when a part was cut off to form distinct residences. The 
windows are for the most part of three lights, and all the muUions are 
in section of the common form of four quadrants, with intervening 
fillets on the front and back. None have labels. 



* Tracts relating to the Connty of Northampton, Taylor, Second Series. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 59 

The present street entrance may not be the original main entrance. 
It is rectangular, with moulded jambs and head. In the map it will be 
seen that just to the east of the present house is a projection in the 
streets, which probably represented a porch to the original main 
entrance. The present kitchen has been taken out of what was 
originally the hall. The house has three stories, including attics. 
The staircase has well-worked tapering cork-screw balusters; and 
good hand-rail. None of the old fire-places remain. 

In one of the bed-rooms are three large and two smaller pieces of 
tapestry : — 

No. I. 12ft. pin. wide x 8ft. 4in. high, imperfect at the top and 
bottom. A royal personage in apparently Roman armour, crowned, 
sitting on a throne under a canopy ; behind him are three spearmen, 
hebneted 3 in front of him is a person with bare head, kneeling, and 
presenting a crown and two keys ; on the ground a treasure chest, a 
crown, fiagons, and a salver. Behind this person are several others 
bare headed, and partly nude, probably slaves 5 one bears a large 
flagon of metal, and a youth bears a sceptre. In the distance is a 
town with towers. 

This piece contains in all eleven persons. The story is so 
common of a prince submitting to a conqueror, and delivering his 
crown and the keys of his town, that it cannot be appropriated to any 
special individuals, unless collateral evidence can enlighten us. 

The work is of the class usually met with in old houses, with 
prevailing indigo tint. 

No. a is about ift. 6in. wide x 8ft. 4in. high, an imperfect piece, 
containing a youth with a table of commandments (?) and over him 
flowers and a cherub. - 

No. 3. 9ft. wide x 8ft. 4in. high, imperfect apparently on the 
four sides ; of the same class of work as No. i. A battle piece, 
cont^ning several men and horses. The main figure in front seems 
to have fallen, or descended, frona his horse, and is apparently 
attempting to kill a man who is on the ground. Behind are figures 
on horseback, with turbans and eastern scymetars ; one figure has a 
shield adorned with an eagle. The position of this scene in the room 
renders it obscure. 

No. 4. I oft. 7in. wide x 8ft. 4in. high, imperfect on four sides. 
This is a much finer texture, and more artistic work. In the front is 
a queen standing with two maids of honour, and two train bearers 
behind her in the entrance of a palace. In front of her is a man lying 
on a couch, extending his hand towards the queen, with a crown and 
sceptre on a stand by his side ; a youth is pushing aside a curtain, and 
apparently speaking to the queen; behind her are two men going 

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6o Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

SLWSLj, one with a staff and a letter, the other with staff only. 
Through an opening are seen in the distance men stoning a prostrate 
figure. This is supposed to represent the story of Ahab, Jezebel, and 
Naboth, related in i Kings, 21. There is the slight anachronism of 
the messenger going with the letter at the same time as the men are 
killing Naboth. 

No. 5. ift. 6in. wide x 8ft. 4in. high, imperfect. Of the same 
class as No. i. A male figure in a short tunic, walking. 

In one of the fire-places are Dutch tiles of blue and white enamel, 
containing scriptural scenes : — Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise j 
Cain and Abel 5 the Ark -, Moses on the mount ; Balaam and his ass ^ 
Jezebel 5 Elijah and the ravens 5 the Baptism of Christ 5 the Prodigal 
son ; Christ Tempted ; Christ in the Garden j Soldiers casting lots 5 &c. 
In another room are tiles of lilac and white enamel, with landscapes. 
There is no record or evidence that this house suffered in the fire 
of 1675. 

In the garden is a summer-house, in which are inserted fragments 
of carved stones, perhaps from S. Peter's and the castle j and in the 
wall of the dwelling-house is inserted a corbel, which probably came 
from S. Thomas's Hospital. 

" Castle Stone " house stands on the site of the dog-kennel, and 
a small portion of the walls of the kennel-yard still remains. 

This house is farther interesting as taking us back to the time 
when many county land-owners had "town-houses" in county towns, 
to which they resorted in winter; when centralization and ease of 
travel had not affected county society by abstracting the gentry from 
their estates for a considerable portion of the year 5 when a journey to 
London was a serious business, and blunderbusses and spades were 
amongst the luggage carried on private and public carriages ; when 
pillions conveyed ladies to distant friends, and sedan chairs danced them 
over cobble stones to evening parties. It is true that the time of year 
for the migration has changed 5 in the 16th and 17th centuries the 
families inhabited their county town houses for the most part in the 
winter, whereas now the London town house is inhabited in the 
opposite season, and shut up in winter. 

Some cities had many of these residences, notably York and 
Exeter. Even forty years ago some comparatively small towns in 
Scotland held several such winter quarters. *' Old English hospitality** 
of which we read so much, which had its unpolished as well as its 
polished side, is dead, with no hope of resurrection. 

The town houses of the gentry, and the state of the roads at the 
time of their use, were described lately by Mr. Eunson, in a lecture 
which was but briefly reported. H. D. 




Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 6i 

51. — Lord OvERSTONE.—In The Illustrated London News for 24. 
Nov. 1883 was the following notice of this Northamptonshire noble- 
man:— '* The Right Hon. Samuel Jones Loyd, Baron Overstone, of 

Overstone and Fotheringhay, county 
Northampton, J.P. and D.L., M.A. 
Camb., D.C.L. Oxford, the wealthiest 
perhaps, of her Majesty's subjects, 
died on the 17th inst., at his residence 
in Carlton-gardens, in his eighty- 
eighth year. He was born Sept. 25^ 
1796, the son of Mr. Lewis Loyd, 
by his wife, the only daughter of 
Mr. Jones, of Manchester, banker ; 
and received his education at Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, 
where he graduated in 18 18. He became subsequently the head of 
the great banking firm of Jones, Loyd, and Co., holding a foremost 
place amongst the financiers of his time, and being frequently consulted 
by Government as the leading financial authority. In politics a 
Liberal, he represented Hythe in Parliament from 18 19 to 18265 and 
unsuccessfully contested Manchester in 1832. In 1850, he was raised 
to the Peerage, but as he had no son the title expires with him. His 
Lordship married, in 1829, Harriet, third daughter of Mr. Ichabod 
Wright, of Mapperley Hall, Notts., and was left a widower in 1864, 
with one daughter, Harriet Sarah, born in 1837, t^® wife of Sir 
Robert James Lindsay, K.C.B., who has taken the prefix surname of 
Loyd. Lord Overstone was a Senator ot the University of London 
and a Commissioner of Exchequer Loans." 

In the obituary notice in The Times, 19 Nov., occur the following 
passages : — 

** The greatest living authority on all matters connected with trade 
and finance, the very nature of his special knowledge and gifts was 
such as could only be appreciated in limited though influential circles; 
and perhaps if Mr. Jones Loyd had not been one of the wealthiest of 
her Majesty's subjects, he might have been even less generally valued 
than he was. He would never accept office, although he was in 
intimate relations with the heads of the finance departments in 
successive Ministries, and especially with his friend Sir Charles Wood> 
now Lord Halifax. But none the less did the financial talent that 
amounted to genius, with his force of character and his strength of 
conviction, leave their mark on the most important of our monetary 
measures; and the peerage which was bestowed upon him three and 
tliirty years ago was felt to be the appropriate recognition of the 



62 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

energetic career which had lent lastre to his position as a leading 
capitalist. In many respects Lord Overstone was a representative 
man. He belonged to a class of capitalists which we might almost 
say is scarcely to be met with out of England. He was born to great 
wealth and an influential business connection. He largely increased 
both one and the other by means that were strictly honourable and 
professional, for such connections as his as inevitably extend them- 
selves under able management as the wealth of a man who gives 
himself little leisure for distractions tends to accumulate in arith- 
metical progression." 

The St. James's Gazette speaks of him as *'one of the wisest men 
that England has produced in this century." In the Manchester 
Guardian, 20 Nov., there was a very full obituary notice. He was 
chairman of the British Association for the Relief of the Irish Famine. 

The accompanying engraving of the coat of arms used by the late 
peer is taken from Burke's Peerage, and has been kindly supplied by 
the publishers of that work. 

The following list of his works, and of replies to them, has been 
collated by Mr. John Taylor, from his Bibliotheca Northantonensis : — 

Farther Beflections on the State of the Currency and the Action of the Bank of 
England. Londxm, 1837. 

Beflections Su^ested by a Perusal of Mr. J. Horsley Palmer's Pamphlet on the 
Causes and Consequences of the Pressure on the Money Mi^rket.s London^ 1837. 

Remarks on the Management of the Circulation ; and on the Condition and Conduct 
of the Bank of England and of the Country Issuers, during the Year 1839.* 

London, 1840. 

A Letter to J. B. Smith, Esq. President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.' 

London, 1840. 

Effects of the Administration of the Bank of England. A Second Letter to J. B. 
Smith, Esq., President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.' London, 1S40. 

Extracts from the Evidence of Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq., before the Select Com- 
mittee of the House of Commons, on Banks of Issue in 1840.' 

Important Letter from' Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. From the Times of Feb. 3rd, 1844, 
[On the Anti-Corn Law League]. March, 1844. 

Thoughts on the Separation of the Departments of the Bank of England.' London, 1844. 

The Petition of the Merchants, Bankers, and Traders of London, against the Bank 
Charter Act ; with Comments on each Clause. 2 Lom/on, 1847. 

Extracts from the Evidence of Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq^, before the Secret Com- 
mittee of the House of Lords, ou Commercial Distress in 1848.' 

Extracts from the Evidence of Samuel Jones Loyd, Bsq., before the Select Com- 
mittee of the House of Commons on Commercial Distress in 1848.' 

Report of the British Association for the Relief of the Extreme Distress in Ireland 

. and Scotland, with Correspondence of the Agents, Tables^ &c., and a List of 

Subscribers. [Signed by Lord Overstone as Chairman.] London^ 1849 

Report from the Select Committee on Decimal Coinage ; with the Proceedings of the 
Committee. 1853. 

Letters to the Editor of the Times on the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and on the 
State of the Currency in 1855—1856.' 

A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and other Publications, on Paper 
Currency and Banking, from the Originals of Hume, Wallace, Thornton, 
Ricardo, Blake, Huskisson, and others. With a Preface, Notes, and Index. ^ 

London, 1857. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 63 

A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and other Publications, on the 
National Debt and the Sinking; Fund, from the Originals of Harley, Gould, 
Pulteney, Walpole, Hume, Price, Hamilton, and others. With a Preface, Notes, 
and Index. 1 London, 1867. 

Questions Communicated by Lord Overstone to the Decimal Coinage Commissioners. 
Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 

London, 1857. 

The Evidence, given by Lord Overstone, before the Select Committee of the House 
of Commons of 1857, on Bank Acts, with Additions. London, 1858. 

A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Commerce, from the Originals 
of Evelyn, Defoe, Richardson, Tucker, Temple, and others. With a Preface, 
Notes, and Index.i LoncUm, 1859. 

A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Economical Tracts, from the Originals 
of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Townsend, Burke, 
Bell, and others. With a Preface, Notes, and Index, i London, 185l>. 

Speech delivered by Lord Overstone in the House of Lords, 15th March 1860, on the 
Address on the Treaty of Commerce with France ; with an Appendix. 

London, 1860. 

[Review.] Tracts and other Publications on Metallic and Paper Currency. By the 
Right Honourable Lord Overstone. Collected by J. R. M'Culloch, Esq. 1857. 
8vo. [Not published.] Edinlntrgh Review, rol, cvii., IS^, 

A Letter to the Hon. the Secret Committee of the House of Commons, upon Joint- 
Stock Banks. The Second Edition, with observations in reply to Col. Torrens, 
Mr. Jones Loyd, Mr. Horsley Palmer, and Mr. Samuel Clay. By Alfred. 
[By S. Kydd.] London, 1837. 

The Problem Solved : or, a Practicable Scheme of Decimal Coinage for the People 
With Answers to Lord Overstone's Questions. By the Rov. E. H. Haskins, M. A. 

London, 1858. 

Decimal Coinage. Answers to Lord Overstone's Questions. By lieut. -General Sir. 
Charles William Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. 1859 

Lord Overstone on Metallic and Paper Currency. An Article in Hunt's Merchant's 
Magazine, New York. By Hon. Amasa Walker, late Secretaiy of State of 
Massachusetts. 1859 

A Letter on the Bank of England Charter, and Lord Overstone's Theory of Currency. 
By Edmund Phillips. London, 1861. 

Lord Overstone on the Bank Act and the Currency. Correspondence between the 
Right Hon. Lord Overstone, and Henry Brookes, Esq. Secretary to the Bank 
Act and Currency Committee. Reprinted from the Special Supplements of the 
Money Market Rsview. * London, 1862. 

52. — An Emperor op Great Britain (17). — I read with 
much interest the paper with this heading in part I. of " N. N. & Q;" 
and as the writer asks for an account of other coins of the emperor 
Carausius, I send a note of a few of the most interesting I have met 
with. Though the coins of this emperor are comparatively rare, yet 
they have been found with a great number of different reverses 5 
many of them referring to events in his successful career, or struck 
in honour of the army which helped him to attain his dignity. His 
coins as a rule are not well struck 5 indeed some of the ** third brass " 
are so rude as to be almost barbarous in their execution, and they are 
a great contrast to the fine coinage which issued from the Roman 
mint at this period. 

With regard to the letter c which is in the exergue of some of 
these coins> there is some difference of opinion. Prebendary Scarth 

1 Edited hy J. B. McCallooh, and privately printed by Lord Overstone. 

2 Re-iuoed at London, 1868, 10 a volame entitled ** Tracts and other Pablioations on Metallic 

and Paper Currency." 



64 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

in his Roman Britain says the mint at Camolodunum (Colchester) 
was established by Carausius, and suppressed after the death of 
Allectas, and he considers that the coins marked with this letter were 
struck in this town. Akerman, in his Coins of the Romans relating 
to Britain, says that in all probability these coins were struck at 
Clausentum (Bittern, near Southampton), and Gloucestershire 
numismatists would like to prove that the mint was at Corinium 
(Cirencester). Some of the money of Carausius, and of Allectus, is 
marked in the exergue with m. l., which is generally read Moneta 
Londinensis (the money of London). 

The money coined by Carausius was gold, two sizes of silver, and 
•* third brass.*' The coin described by Mr. Baker is put down as 
'^ second brassy" if this is really its size, it must be of the utmost 
rarity, as I cannot find such a coin described in any book on the 
subject with which I am acquainted. 

The following are a few of the reverses of coins either in my own 
possession, or in collections I know : — 
I ADVBNTvs CARAVSii. The emperor on horseback, his right hand 

raised, holding a globe. In the exergue m l. 
a ABVNDANTiA . Avo. A womau emptying a cornucopia. 

3 CONCORDIA MiLiTVM. Two Hght hauds joined. 

4 FiDBS MILITVM. A womau holding two standards. 

5 iNviCTVs. The sun marching ; alluding no doubt to the emperor 

as unconquered as the sun. 

6 TEMPO RVM FELiciTAS. A womau holding a garland, and a 

cornucopia. 

7 FELICITAS AVO. A galley on the sea with rowers. This is 

probably a compliment to the fleet, which had so much assisted 
in the successful revolt of the emperor. 

Besides these there are several coins bearing the names of the 
different legions at this time in Britain, and with the figures of 
animals on the reverses. 

I cannot quite agree with Mr. Baker that Carausius was the only 

emperor of Britain ; for traitor and murderer as he was, Allectus held 

the sovereign power in this island from a.d. 293 to a.d. 296, and the 

number of his coins which have been discovered is very considerable. 

Newland, Coleford. Mary £. Baonall-Oakblet. 

53. — Round Dryden's Birthplace. — Readers should be 
referred to an interesting article on some Northamptonshire villages, 
with sketches, by Mr. J. A. Grotch, to be found in The Building News 
for aa Feb. 1884. H. R. S. 



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A well-manufactured and carefully-selected Stock in 
each Department. 

Gentlemen's Walking, Hunting, Shooting, and Fishing 
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54 Celebrated NorthamptonBliire Book- 

sellers.— I. Thomas Payne. 

55 **Ptixley Law." 

56 Letters of Bequest for a Fire at 

Kettering, 1774. 

67 Battle of Northampton, 1460. 

58 John de Hampstead, Clerk, 1301. 

59 Sheppard Family of Towcester. 
00 Cartnlaries of lionasteries. 

61 George Ayliffe Poole, H.A 

Q2 Behels of Northamptonshire. 

63 Sponne's Charity Dinner, 1484. 

64 Local Dialect. 

65 Heart Burial at Woodford. 

66 Bennett Family of Handley Park. 

67 Electioneering at Peterborough, 1722. 

68 Fire at Weedon Beck 

69 An Emperor of Great Britain. ^ 



70 Metropolitical Yisitstion, 1635. 

71 Sheep Bill, 1580. 

72 The Fifth Duke of Buccleuch. 

73 Monumental Inscriptions in Peter- 

borough CathedriQ. — II. 

74 ** Cui Bono ? " 

75 Parish Registers of Slipton. 

76 Green Family of Boughton. 

77 Ostorius in Northamptonshire. 

78 Northamptonshire Briefis. 

79 Beview of Hiss Baker's Glossary. 

80 The SyweU Bing. 

81 Lace Makers at Ecton. - 

82 Wages in 1688. 

83 Churchwardens' Accounts of Byfield. 

84 A Chest of Old Manuscripts. 

85 Bobert Tredwaie. 



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S4. — Cblbbrateo North amptonshirb Booksbllbrs. I. — 
Thomas Payne, an eminent bibliopolist of the very first reputation in 
the last century^ was son of Oliver and Martha Payne of firackley* 
and baptized there 26th May, ^1^9' 

The portrait given with the present part is from Dr. Dibdin*s 
Decameron, where is a bibliographical notice of him. The original 
was in the possession of his son. Dibdin i elates that ''daring the sale 
of West's Caxtons our old Thomas broke oat into a rage — declaring 
that many a Caiion which had long stuck in his shop at 3 guineas^ 
was then briogiog six times the sum ! '* After the Paynes left the 
Mews Gate they were succeeded by William Sancho the negro book- 
seller, whose father Ignatius was born in 1729, on board a ship in the 
-slave trade. 

Nichols in his Ldierary Anecdotes, 1S12, vol. vi. 439-441 ; and 
vol. ix. 666, says : — 

" Mr. T'homas Payne, for more than 40 years a bookseller of the 
highest reputation at the Mews-gate, was a native of Brackley 
in Northamptonshire -, and began his career in ' Round-court in 
the Strand, opposite York buildings j' where, after being some 
years an assistant to his elder brother, Olive* Payne (with whom 
the idea and practice of printing Catalogues is said to have 
originated), he commenced bookseller on his own account, and 
issued 'A Catalogue of curious Books in Divinity, History, 
Classicks, Medicine, Voyages, Natural History, &c Greek, Latin, 
French, Italian, and Spanish, in excellent condition, and mostly 
gilt and lettered,' dated Feb. 29, 1740, being almost the first of 
the Catalogists, except Daniel Brown, at the Black Swan without 
Temple Bar, and the short-lived Meers and Noorthouck. From 
this situation he removed to the Mews-gate, in 1750, when he 
married £lizabeth Taylor, and succeeded her brother in the shop and 
house, which he built, whence he issued an almost annual succession 
of Catalogues, beginning 17555 and, in the years 1760 and 1761, two 
Catalogues during the year -, a list of which may be seen in Gent, 
Mag. vol. Iziv, p. 901. This he continued to do till 1790 j when 
he resigned the business to his eldest son, who had for more than 
twenty years been his partner, and who opened anew literary channel, 
by a correspondence with Paris, whence he brought, in 1793, the 
library of the celebrated Chancellor, Lamoignon. This little shop, in 
the shape of an L, was the first that obtained the name of a Literary 
Coflfee-house in London, from the knot of Literati that resorted to it j 
and, since the display of new books on the counter has been adopted 
from the Oxford and Cambridge booksellers, other London shops 
* His brother's name was, like his father's, Oliyer. 

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66 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

have their followers. If a reasonable price, and a reasonable credit 
for his goods, be the criterion of integrity, Mr. Payne supported the 
character of an honest man to the last ; and, without the modern flash 
of wealth, which, ostentatiously exposed in a line shop, has involved 
so many traders of all descriptions in difficulties and ruin, he acquired 
that fortune which enabled him to bring up two sons and two 
daughters with credit, and to assist some relations who wanted his aid. 
Warm in his friendships as in his politicks, a convivial, cheerful 
companion, and unalterable in the cut and colour of his coat, he , 
uniformly pursued one great object,yair (fea/i??^, and will survive in the 
list of booksellers the most eminent for being adventurous and 
scientific, by the name of honest Tom Payne. The Author of ' The 
Pursuits of Literature,' who is an excellent appreciator of character, 
calls him 'that Tryphb emeritus^ Mr. Thomas Payne, one of the 
honestest men living, to whom, as a bookseller. Learning is under 
considerable obligations.' — He died Feb. 8,* 1799, in his 82d year; 
and was buried, on the 9th, at Finchley, near the remains of his wife 
and brother.— The present Thomas Payne of Pall Mall was the eldest, 
and is now the onlj surviving son ; and inherits every good quality of 
his Father." 

" Epitaph in memory of Mr. Thomas Payne, who died, at the age of 
82, Feb. 2 (not the 9th),* 1799 : 

** Around this Tomb, ye Friends of Learning, bend ! 

It holds your faithful, though your humble Friend: 

Here lies the Literary Merchant, Payne, 

The countless Volumes that he sold contain 

No name by liberal Commerce more carest 

For virtues that become her Votary's breast ; 

Of cheerful probity, and kindly plain, 

He felt no wish for disingenuous gain ; 

In manners frank, in manly spirit high. 

Alert good-nature sparkled in his eye ; 

Not leam'd, he yet had Learning's power to pleasOi 

Her social sweetness, her domestic ease : 

A Son, whom his example guides and cheers. 

Thus guards the hallow' d dust his heart reveres ; 

Love made him thas a due Memorial raise, 

And friendly Justice penn'd this genuine praise." f 

The celebrated old book-shop at the Mews Gate is said in 
Thomsbury s Haunted London to have been '^opened in 1750 by 
Mr. Thomas Payne, who kept it alive for forty years. It was the 
rendezvous of all noblemen and scholars who sought rare books. 
Booksellers' shops have always been the haunts of wits and poets. 

♦ These figures are correctly taken from the authorities, but cannot of course be 
reconciled. It will be observed there is also a discrepancy in the age given. 
Timperley gives the latter date. f Written by William Hayley. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 67 

Dodslej^ the ex-footman, gathered round him the wisest men of his age, 
as Tonson had also done before him ; while, as for John Murray's back 
parlour, it was in Byron's and Moore's days a very temple of the M uses." 

In The Pursuits of Literature, 1S12, 84, are the following lines:— 
^* Shall I new anecdotes from darkness draw. 
That Strawberry-Horace on the Hill ne'er saw. 
With wire-wove hot-press'd paper's glossy glare 
Blind all the wise, and make the stupid stare ? 
Or on imperial foolscap with vignettes 
Engrave, like Staunton, my Chinese Gazettes } 

Or must I, as a wit with learned air. 
Like Doctor Dewlap, to Tom Payne's "repair. 
Meet Cyrill Jackson and mild Cracherode, 
'Mid literary gods myself a god ? 
There make folks wonder at the extent of genius 
In the Greek Aldus, or the Dutch Frobenius, 
And then, to edify their learned souls, 
Quote plesaunt sayings from The Shippe of Poles. 
Hold ! cries Tom Payne, that margin let me measure. 
And rate the separate value of each treasure. 
Eager they gaze : * Well, sirs, the feat is done ; 
Cracherode's Poeta Principes have won;* 
In silent exultation down he sits, 
With well be-Chaucer'd Winkyn-Wordian wits. 
Or shall I thence by mock-appointment stop. 
And joke with Bryant at his Elmsley's shop ? 
And hear it whisper' d, while I aili wond'rous pliant, 
'Twas Doctor Dewlap spoke to Mister Bryant." 

In Beloe's Sexagenarian, i., 196; In Timperley's Encyclopcedia 
of Literary and Typographical Anecdote, 799; and in Notes and 
Queries, 2nd S. viii. 1223 5th S. vii. 47, 112, are interesting com- 
munications respecting Thomas Payne and his family. 

The British Museum and Bodleian Libraries possess copies of most 
of the Catalogues issued by Thomas Payne and his son. 

We ought not to omit mention of the fact that the father was the 
London agent for the sale of Bridges' History of Northamptonshire. 
This was issued in 1791, and "Sold by T. Payne, London 3 D. Prince 
and J. Cooke, Oxford 5 and Mr. Lacy, Northampton.** 

" M Not Tom Faine the democrat, whom we all execrate, and who is now, 
with or without a head, in France : I hope in the late fashion of that country 
(in 1794) ; — ^but one of the best and honestest men living, the very respectable 
Mr. Thomas Payne, Senior, to whom, as a bookseller, learning is under consider- 
able obligations. I mention this Trypho Emeritus with great latififaotion." 

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68 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



55- — ''PuxLET Law." — ''Memorandum. At Puxley Green 
near Stoney Stratford, But in Northampton Shire near Whetlewood 
Forrest, Here was an Ale-House kept by Jane Tompson, there Met 
a Company together and Drinking Healths One of the Company 
Refus'd to Drink off his Mugg, or Glass, One of the Company said 
that man was to be hanged that Refused to Drink off his Cupp, So 
they Agreed together that one was to be Judge, one to be Sherriff, 
and the others to be off the Jury and who ever Refused was to be 
tryed. And one Refused and the brought him in Gilty. After that 
they got a Cord and hanged up the Man that Refused to Drink, and 
the Woman came In and said they would Spoyle her Cord, and Cut 
the Cord and let him Down Else he had Dyed Afterwards they 
Appeard being Indited at the Assizes Y* Judge called one Brother 
Judge A Miller of Parsonham was, one of the Company, named 
Percevill therefore to this Day It's called Puxley Law if a man 
Refuseth to Drink off his Glass." — Miscellaneous Papers, Mus : Brit: 
Bibl : Harl., 7017, (30) fol. i j2. 

56. — Letters of Reouest for a Fire at Kettering, i744» — 
" To all Charitable and Well-disposed Persons, to 
whom these Presents shall come. 



"We, two of bis 
Majesty's Justi- 
ces of the Peace 
for the County of 
Northampton, do 
beliere the Con- 
tents to be true, 
and do recom- 
mend the poor 
Sufferers to all 
Charitable People. 

(Signed) 
Wh: Brooke 
W: ffolkes." 

"We, two of his 
Majesty's Justices 
of the Peace for 
the County of 
do belieye the 
Contents to be 
true, and do re- 
commend the poor 
Sufferers to all 
Charitable Per- 
sons within the 
.said County." 



" It is humbly represented, That on Thursday the 
Twenty-sixth Day of July, One Thousand, Seven 
Hundred, and Forty-Four, betwixt Four and 
Five of the Clock in the Afternoon, there 
happened a most dreadful Fire to break out in 
the Town of Kettering in the County of 
Northampton, which, in about the Space of four 
Hours, burnt down and utterly consumed no 
less than twenty-six Dwelling-Houses, besides 
Barns, Stables, Warehouses, and other Outhouses 
thereunto belonging. 

" And it is further humbly represented. That an 
Estimate hath been taken and made by several of 
the principal Inhabitants of Kettering aforesaid, not 
Sufferers by the said Fire, of the Loss sustained in 
the said Buildings only, which, upon a moderate 
Computation, amounts to the Sum of 434/. 
exclusive of all Insurances, and the Losses of such 
Persons who do not desire the Benefit of any 
Collection, and is, upon a very low Estimation, less 
by 500/. than what will rebuild the same. And 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 69 



the said poor Sufierers have also, upon their respec* 
tive Oaths, made an Estimate of their Losses, in 
Personal Effects, by the said Fire, by reducing them 
into Schedules of Particulars, which, upon a reason- 
able and just Calculation, amounts to the Sum of 
701/. 6s. ^d.i : So that, upon the whole, it appears, 
that the said poor Sufferers have lost by the said 
Fire, the Sum of 1135/. ^^« S^-i > by which sad 
Accident the greatest Part of them are reduced to 
the most deplorable Circumstances. 

''And it is further humbly represented. That these 
their most pressing Necessities have obliged the said 
poor Sufferers to apply for Relief, by Letters of 
Request ; humbly hoping that all Charitable Persons 
to whom these Presents shall come, will look upon 
them as fit Objects of their Compassion and Charity,, 
and chearfully and speedily contribute to their 
Relief and Assistance in this their great Distress. 

" And it is further humbly represented, That the 
said Sufferers have, by a proper Instrument in 
Writing, and by them duly executed, appointed 
William Haslewood, Gentleman ; Lewis May dwell. 
Draper; Francis Baker, Apothecary; Hugh Paull, 
Surgeon 5 Thomas Richards, Farmer 5 Thomas 
Billing, Carpenter 3 Joseph Roberts, Shoemaker; 
Joseph Lovell, Farmer; John Norwich, Baker; 
John Warner, Farmer 5 Joseph Wright, Serge- 
Maker; Joseph Sparrow, Butcher; and Joseph 
Nunneley, Farmer, Trustees; with a Discretionary 
Power to them, or any seven of them, to order the 
Distribution of the Charity collected, or to be col- 
lected, to and among the Sufferers aforesaid, to the 
Intent that the most Necessitous may be first re- 
lieved. Northampton : Printed by W. Dicey." 
The above is transcribed from the copy in Bridges* Northampton- 
shire presented to the British Museum by the late Mr. Dash of Kettering. 

57. — Battle op Northampton, 1460. — As the Midland 
train for Bedford leaves Northampton, we cross the river Nen, and 
immediately pass over the site of one of those great and bloody 
battle fields which distinguish the Wars of the Roses. In 1460 a 
Parliament was held at Coventry, the favourite city of King Henry 
the Sixth, at which Parliament the Duke of York and his confederates 
were attainted of high treason. In opposition to these measures the 



"We, whose Names 
are subsoribed. 
Trustees for the 
poor Sufferers, 
do know the Con- 
tents to be true, 
and do reco- 
mend them to 
all Charitable 
People. 
(Signed) 

Wm. Haslewood 

Lewis Maydwell 

Fr: Baker 

Hugh Paull 

Tho. Richarda 

Tho. Billing 

Jos Roberts 

Jos: Lovell. 

John Norwich 

John Warner 

Jos: Wright 

Jos: Sparrow 

Jof. Nunneley^' 



70 Northamptofishire Notes and Queries. 

Earls of Warwick and Marche^ with an armj^ proceeded from LoDdon 
to Towcester. The king having collected an army at Coventry, 
marched from thence to Northampton to meet the hostile forces. 
In this march the king, with at least a considerable portion of his 
forces, in all probability proceeded through Rugby, then on the direct 
road from Coventry to Northampton. At the latter place he was lodged 
at the Grey Friers, near the castle, on the west side of the town. Of this 
great battle, at which it is said 10,000 of the king's army were slain, 
I cannot do better than give that detailed account which appears in 
HalCi Chronicle, first published in 1548, within 90 years of the event. 

The Battle of Northampton, a. d. 1460. 
'' Writ in a language that has long gone by." 
"The kjmg not ignorawt of all these doynges, assembled a great 
army, (at Coventry) and accompanied with the duke of Somerset, 
which was lately come from Guysnes, and the duke of Buckjmgham, 
and diuers other great lordes of his parte and faccion came (from 
Coventry) to the towne of Northampton, where the Queue encouraged 
her frendes, and promised great rewardes to her helpers : for the kyng 
studied nothing but of peace, quyet, and solitarie life. When y« kinges 
host was assembled, and that the Queue perceyued that her power 
was able to matche with the force of her aduersaries, she caused her 
army to issue out of the tpwne, and to passe the ryuer of Nene, and 
there in the newe felde, betwene Harsyngton and Sandifford, the 
Capitaynes strongely emparked them selfes with high bankes and depe 
trenches. The erle of Marche beyng lusty, and in the floure of his 
coragious yought, lyenge betwene Towceter and Northampton, 
determined to set on the kynges army, without longer protractyng of 
tyme. And in the nighte season remoued his campe toward 
Northampton, and in marchyng forward set hys Men in good order of 
battayl, wherof the vawegard was conducted by the erle of Warwycke, 
which either by strenght or stealth maugre y« lord Beamond, which 
kept a strayt, goyng toward the Kynges campe, entered freshly, and 
began the battayle aboute vii of the clocke, the ix daye of lulij. After 
whome folowed the erle of Marche, with the banwer of his father. 
This fight contynued in doutfull iudgemente, till the houre of nyne, at 
which tyme the kynges army was profligat, and discomfited, and of 
the same slayn, and drouned in the ryuer, few lesse then x.M. 
(10,000) talle Englishmen?, & y« kyng hymself left alone disconsolate, 
was taken and apprehended, as a man borne, and predestinate to troble 
misery and calamitie. At this battayl were slayn, Humfrey duke of 
Buckyngham^ Ihon Talbot erle of Shrewesbury, a valeant person, and 
not degenerating from his noble parent : Thomas lord £gremond> 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 71 

Ihon viscont Beaumond, and syr William Lucy, which made great 
hast to come to parte of the fight, and at his first approche was striken 
in the hed with an axe. Diners other gewtilmen were slayn in this 
ciuile battail, whose names were not remembred nor published by 
any aucthor that I haue redde. Beside these dead persons, many 
were taken prisoners, because they left their horses, & discewded to 
fight on fote. The duke of Somerset and other, which narrowly 
escaped, fled with the Queue and prince Edward, into the Bishoprycke 
of Durhame .... The erles beyng victorious in this blody 
battayle, conueyed the Kyng that night again to the towne of 
NorUiampton, and the next day with great solempnitie and small 
comfort, they set forward the king, & by easy iorneys brought him 
to London the xvi. day of lulij, where he was fayntly receyued, & 
febly welcomed, and was lodged in the Bishops palace." Such was 
the fate in this battle of the Royal Foimder of Eton College. 

The above is taken from the '' Route of the Rugby School Rifle 
Volunteers from Rugby to Bedford, April 8th, 1876," by Mr. M. H. 
Bloxam. 

58. — John de Hampstead, Clerk, 1301. — In Notes and 
Queries, 6th S. ix. 42, is an account of an inquest held by the coroner 
at Oxford in 130 1 on the body of a Northamptonshire clerk named 
John de Hampstead. Can this person be identified ? The translation 
from the original document in the Bodleian is furnished by professor 
Rogers in these words: — "Dec. 9, John de Hampstead, in the 
county of Northampton, clerk, was found dead in a garden in Cat 
Street. William le Schoveler first found him dead and raised the hue. 
He was viewed the same day by John de Osney, coroner. He had a 
mortal wound on the breast to the heart, made by a knife, of two 
fingers broad. The jury is of the parishes of St. Mary the Virgin, 
St. Mildred, All Saints, and St. John. The jurors declare on oath 
that the said John about curfew time the day before left his chamber 

where he lived, at the north side of the great schools, 

. . . , and heard abusive language between Thomas of Homcastle 
and Nicholas de la March, clerks, who live in a chamber at the south 
side of the said schools, and the same John saw the said Nicholas de 
la March draw his knife to slay the said Thomas of Horncastle, and 
ran between them to prevent the said Nicholas from killing the said 
Thomas ; and the said Nicholas with the said knife struck the said 
John to the heart, so he straightway died. And the said Nicholas 
fled, and could not be attached because the deed happened at night 
and no hue was raised. Sureties taken for the man who found the 
body." 



*J2 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



59- — Shbppard Family op Towcester. — I should be thankful 
for information as to the birth and parentage of some members of 
this family who were born in the latter part of the 17th century. 
There was a family of three brothers and a sister : William Sheppard, 
a goldsmith in London, believed to have died in 1741 5 Mary, of 
whom nothing is known 5 Vincent, who died 17 17 5 and John, who 
died, as appears by a tablet at Towcester, 25 Dec. 17 13, aged j6. 
Grimsoote. C. Shepheard. 

60. — Cartularies of Monasteries in Northamptonshire^ 
taken from Index to Cartularies now or formerly existing, since the 
Dissolution of Monasteries, By T. P. (Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart.) 
JMiddle-hill press, i2mo, 1839. 

MoDasteries. In whose possession, 1838, or before. 

JBrackley Magd. Coll. Oxford. 

Canon's Ashby John Orlebar, of Hinwick, 1830 — 

oL Richd. Orlebar, of Puddington^ 
Bedf.— D. 
Herald's College. 
Augmentation Office. 
MS. Cott. Claud. D. xii. 
Duchy of Lancaster Office. 
John Rushworth, Lincoln's Inn. 

i6ji. D. 
Robt. Kirkham, 1640. — D. 
Duke of Buckingham, 1833— 

olim T. Astle. 
Dean & Chapter, Westm. 1640. D. 
Dean & Chapter, Westm. — olim 
. . . Okeley, i6^g-^ostea J. 
Batteley, 17 10. 



Chacombe 



Daventry 



Excerpta 
(Terrarium) 



Finched 
Highham Ferrers 

Luffield 



Northampton 
St. Andrews 



(in rotuh) 



St. James 



excerpta 



MS. Cott. Vesp. E. xvii.— o/jw 

Sir Chr. Hatton. 
MS. Reg. ii. B. ix. Brit. Mus.— 

olim John Theyer — T. 
Nichol. Neale, Bp. of Durham — ^T 
Sir John Lamb, 1641.— D. (?) 
. . . Harding, of Portsea, Hants. 

1820. 
MS. Cott. Tib. E. v. 
Robt. Tanfield, of Inner Temple 
MS. Coll. Arm. No. 218. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 73 



Monasteries. 
Peterborough 



transcript 
"Maldone'* 

''Mare" 



{RentaU) 

"The White Book'' 
"Liber Niger" 

transcript 
a vols. Do. 



transcript 
" Sacristae " 
Consuetudinarium 
2 vols. 



Pipewell 



In whose possession, 1838, or before. 
MS. Cott. Otho, A. xvii. (Burnt) 
John Bridges, of Lincoln's Inn. 
MS. Cott. Vesp. E. xxi.— o/im 

Sir Chr. Hatton ' 

~- Vesp. E. xxii. — olim 

Sir Chr. Hatton. 

Cleop. C. i. & ii. 

— -— Faust, B. iii. 

Nero, C. vii. 

Dean & Chapter, Peterborough, 

1640. — D. 
Sir Robt. Wingfield, 1636— T. 
Society of Antiquaries, No. 60. 

olim Earl of Exeter. 
Society of Antiquaries, No. 131. 
SirT.Phillipps, Bt. 1838. No. 78 
Society of Antiquaries, No. 38. — 

olim Earl of Exeter. 

No. 126. 

Duke of Montagu, 17 14 — T. 
Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth 

— T. 
Oliver St. John— D. 
Wm. Pierpoint — D. 
MS. Cott. Jul. A. i. 4to. 

■ Calig. A. xii. 4to. 

. ■" Calig. A. xiii. 4to. 

■ Otho, B. xiv. sm. fol. 



i 







Duke of Buckingham, Stowe; No. 






84. olim T. Astle & Jno. Caley. 




transcript 


Lord Winchelsea, 1838 (?)— Sir 
Chr. Hatton. 


Sulby 


Cartae 


Sir Chr. Hatton 1635— T. 


Wedon Bee 


"Cartae" 


Eton College. 


Wyrthorp 


Do. 


Earl of Exeter— T. 



The Cartularies in the above list marked ''T" are given on the 
authority of Tanner 5 those marked " D " on the authority of Dugdale. 

61- — George Ayliffe Poole, M.A. (14). — In Notes ttf Queries^ 
2nd S. i. 265, is the following title of a pamphlet not included in the 
previous list of his works : — 

The Anglo-Catholic Use of Two Lights upon the Altar, for the SignifioatioD, fro.. 
Stated and Defended. Lwidony 1840. 



74 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 



62- — Rebels of Northamptonshire. — In a MS. History of 
Thrapston by John Cole, is the following account of a rising in this 
county: — "Prisoners hanged and quartered. In 1607 the quarters of 
many insurrectionists were set up at Thrapston. On the 8th of June, 
1607, an insurrection of the common people took place in this county, 
and destroyed the hedges and other mounds of the enclosed fields 
in the parishes of Rushton & Pightesley & at Newton near Ged- 
dington, and not dispersing after the proclamation had been read, a 
skirmish ensued between the populace, the justices and gentlemen 
who met to oppose them. In the fray some were killed and wounded, 
and many were taken prisoners, who afterwards were hanged and 
quartered and their quarters set up at Northampton, Oundle, Thrap- 
ston, and other places." 

There is a curious reference to this rising in Thomas Randolph's 
Hey for Honesty, Down witk Knavery : London, 165 1. 

" Then you have lost, pay your nuts, she Las but one. 
An oVe-worne grinder 3 'tis a gentle beast, 
She has forgot to bite : Good innocent gums, 
They cannot hurt -, — No danger in her mouth. 
Till she eat Brawn, — Her charitable tongue. 
Like the old rebels of Northamptonshire, 
Cannot endure hedges of teeth should stand 
To make her mouth enclosure." 

M. M. D. 

63. — Sponne's Charitt Dinner, 1484. — The following extract 
from the Account book of Sponne's Charity at Towcester in the 24th 
year of Edward the Fourth (1484) shews how the purchasing power 
of money has declined since that time. It is not unlikely that the 
greater part of the Feoffees, or even the whole of them (fifteen in 
number), as well as the two chaplains of the Chauntry, were present 
at the dinner. The expenses on similar occasions in later years 
increased gradually, but yet slowly. 

s. d. 
Payd for a dynere aft)rr y« xij**» day when y* feoffs were at y . 

colage for bred & ale . . . . . xij 

Payd for eggs ... . . iij 

Payd for herynge and stokfysch . . . vj 

Payd for pykerell & Rocbis. .... xij 

Payd for W3me ...... vj 



Toweester. 



nj 11] 
J. L. Gallard. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Quentes. 75 

64. — Local Dialect (43). — I have heard the foUowiDg words 
and expressions in the northern part of the county, none of which 
are in the glossaries of Baker or Sternberg. £n. 

Haggerj-twiggles : earwigs. 
Hand-quick : without any delay. " He must sell at hand-quick," of 

perishable goods. 
Hand : ^* He came ii\to the town a tramp in hand/* looking out for 

work : said of a man who rose from a labourer to be a substantial 

farmer. 
Headland : an edging of grass to a ploughed field. 
Hoasty : hoarse, gruff, said of one with sore throat. 
Horse : *' best horse " meaning chief support, mainstay : John, now 

bankrupt, was once " master man of the place, but William is 

dead, and he was his best horse.** 
Jenny- wisp : the glow-worm. 
Kill : to injure, render useless. 
Kind : *' the hen didn*t sit kind on her eggs," never took to them 

kindly. 
King it : used by boys at a game to stop it for a short time. The 

glossaries give '* kings'* in the same meaning. 
Knap : to snap, break off sharply. So in Psalm xlvi. 9, " He breaketh 

the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder." 
Kockling : topheavy, of a cart. Sometimes pronounced " Kookling." 

Baker gives " Kicklish," and compares ** Goggle, Keggle, Kickle, 

Tickle, easily moved j all I believe, the same word," in Wilbraham's 

Cheshire Glossary, 

(To he continued,) 

I am informed by Mr. Thomas Shepheard, of Kingsley Lodge, 
Chester, that ** Bags o* tricks," mentioned in the former list of local 
words and phrases, is now a common expression in Cheshire. ' 

65. — Heart Burial at Woodford. — In the spring of the year 
1866 when the Church of S. Mary the Virgin at Woodford near 
Thrapston was under course of restoration, a human heart was discovered 
embedded in the soffit of a transitional arch on the north side of the 
nave. On removing a beam, which had been used to shore up this 
arch during alterations of the supporting column, the stone upon which 
it pressed was found to be broken. The fragments were removed, and 
in a recess behind them a dark object, which was thought by the 
workman to be a bird's nest, was roughly pulled out and fell to the 
ground. This proved to be a round box, apparently of bamboo or cane, 
containing a cloth of coarse material. The box in its fall was broken to 

K 2 



76 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

pieces, and only a few bits could be collected from the dust. Then 
rough hands were laid upon the cloth, which was opened no doubt in 
hope of some concealed treasure; from the workman's point of view, 
a vain hope ; for carefully wrapped up was found a human heart with its 
-valves in a perfect condition, but black from age, or perhaps through 
the process of embalming. On my arrival on the scene, I placed all 
the remains under glass, and afterwards carefully transferred them to 
a case to fit the recess. The remnants of the box were placed at the 
back, and the cloth with the heart resting upon it in front. The 
case was hermetically sealed, with a glass front through which the 
contents can at any time be seen. 

When first discovered, and up to the time of their insertion in the 
case, some portion of the heart as well as of the box fell into * 
dust, but I cannot perceive any change whatever during the 18 years 
that have since elapsed. 

It would be extremely interesting to know the history of this heart. 
It ^ems reasonable to suppose that we have earthly remains of some 
knight of the cross who died in a foreign land 5 that when his body 
was laid to rest in the soil of Palestine, pious friends conveyed his heart 
to the home and church of his childhood and youth. Unfortunately 
the parish records do not help us even to hazard a conjecture as to his 
personality. 
Woodford Beotory, Thrapston. CHRISTOPHER Smyth. 

66. — Bennett Family of Handley Park, Towcester 
(16, 44). — I am much obliged to Mr. D. G. Gary Elwes for his reply 
to my enquiry. I have not been able to refer to The Records of 
Buckinghamshire^ but from the information he gives, and what I 
already possessed, I have no doubt that Ambrose Bennett was the 
second son of John Bennett, a younger brother of Richard Bennett 
the father of Simon, and of sir Simon Bennett, baronet, who left 
Handley Park to University College. Mr. Elwes' surmise that 
Ambrose Bennett and his wife Rebecca were first cousins once 
removed, appears to be correct, as she was the daughter of his cousin 
Ann Duncombe, whose husband Thomas Hampson, knight and 
alderman of London, was created a baronet June 3, 1642. John 
Bennett the father of Ambrose is stated in Baker's pedigree to have 
died sine prole, but this appears to be an error. 

I am still at a loss to understand how Ambrose Bennett could have 
been in possession of Handley Park in 1671, which, from the papers 
in my possession, he certainly was. 

Jambs Herbert Cooke, f.s.a. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 77 

67- — Electioneering AT Peterborough, 1722.— The following 
amusing extract is from The Northampton Mercury of ^o Apr. 1722: — 
"Theophilus Hill, M.B. Minor Canon of the Cathedral Church of 
Peterborough, designing to publish his Discovery of a Ghost; it is 
thought proper, by way of Introduction to that elaborate Treatise, to 
make publick the following Letter, as a Specimen of the Wisdom and 
Orthodox Principle of that worthy Divine. The Original may be seen 
at the White Hart near the Market-stead at Peterborough. 
Mr. Stroud, 

With more Labour than the Thing deserved, I have found 
your Ghost to be a Sham, and it would be no more than a Piece 
of Justice to the World, to declare the Truth within an Hour to 
Mr. Cooke, and soon after to all the Town ; by this you will be 
prosecuted for Slander, and may be, for what I know, disgrac'd 
and undone. But now, by one good Action, you have the Offer 
from me, to make Amends for an ill one : If you will send me 
Word under your Hand, that you will give one Vote for Mr. 
Wortley, and the other (as you have promised) to Mr. Parker, I will 
keep your Council, and save you from all the Evil that might 
come upon you. And moreover, your Son shall have a King's 
Scholar's Place. Send me Word in three Lines you will vote for 
Mr. Wortley, and all is, and shall be for ever safe ; and you will 
particularly oblige one, who is more able to serve you, than you at 
present suppose. 

Yours as you use me, 

Theo. Hill. 
Send me an Answer in half an Hour, or you are undone." 

68. — Fire at Weedon Beck, 1687. — ^The following memor- 
andum relating to Weedon Beck is found in a small manuscript paper 
in the County Hall, Northampton : — 

'' Wee whose names are hereunder subscribed sufferes at the late 
fire att Weedon Becke in the County of Northampton Doe hereby 
desire that Richard Butler Esq". John Winston Esq'*, and Valentine 
Land gen. may be Trustees and Receivers for the Collecting distribu- 
ting and disposeing of all such monej'^ as shall be collected by vertue 
of his mat^ most gratious Letters patents for that purpose granted 
Witness** our hands this fourth day of Aprill in the ffourth yeare of 
his now mat*** Reigne King James the Second Anno Doni ]688<* 
Nathaniells Packer with the rest of the Sufferers.** 

C. A. M. 

In the article on ''Northamptonshire Briefs'* (25) will be found a 
reference to this fire, as well as to an earlier one in 1679. 



78 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

69.— An Ehferor op Great Britain (17, 52). — May I here 

make my acknowledgements to Mrs. Bagnall-Oakeley, and thank her 

much for her interesting remarks in the last part of " N. N. & Q.** 

on the coins of Carausius, and for correcting me as to his having been 

the only sole emperor of Britain. I am no numismatist, and confess 

I was not aware that the murderer Allectus had, hy an issue of coins 

in his short-lived reign, acquired the right to be called an emperor of 

Great Britain. ^ « « 

R. S. Baker. 

70. — Mbtropolitical Visitation, 1^3 j. — In the Record 
Office is preserved "An Abstract of the Metropolitical Visitation of 
the Most Reverend Father in God William, by God*s Providence Lord 
Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace, holden in the Year of our Lord 
God 1635." It is calendared "Dom. Car. I. Vol. ccxciii. No. 128." 

The following relates to the diocese of Peterborough : — 

" Peterborough, May 2. — In my way thither I was used with much 
extraordinary kindness at Cambridge ; although I laboured to con- 
ceal myself, I was met on the way by eome of the Doctors, visited 
by the Vice-Chancellor, and had an oration and a feast in Magdalen 
College. Before I came to Peterborough I was met by the Bishop and 
the prebendaries of the church, the Dean being absent upon just causes. 
The Bishop lodged me in his house, and gave me very great entertain- 
ment during the time of my abode there. The cathedral church is 
very fair and strong, except in some few places which are ordered to 
be repaired. There is no consistory for the Bishop, but order is given 
for one to be made shortly. The schoolmaster is very negligent by 
reason of his frequent preaching. He is admonished and promiseth 
amendment. The church hath no statutes, but is governed by orders 
of their own making. They are to send up answers to the articles, and 
a copy of their orders, to Lambeth before Midsummer day next. From 
this place I wrote to Dr. Goad concerning a monument in the chancel 
of Monks Illith [£leigh] in Suffolk, and since he hath certified me by 
letter that the information is quite mistaken. 

'* Stamford, May 4. — The church there is not well kept, but the 
minister and people very comformable. The ministers were generally 
in priests' cloaks, and they, with the laiety, were all the time of divine 
service uncovered, and still bowed at the pronouncing of the blessed 
name of Jesus. 

*' Oundle, May 6. — ^The church and churchyard there were v^ry much 
out of order, but the churchwardens have undertaken to amend every- 
thing as was prescribed. I have given a canonical admonition to the 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 79 

schoolmaster here, one Mr. Cobbes, for iDStructing his scholars out of 
a wrong catechism, and for expounding the ten commandments unto 
them out of the writings of a silenced minister. He refuseth to bow 
at the name of Jesus, and order is taken for his suspension in case he 
reform not before July. The ministers appearirg at this place were 
generally canonical for their habits, except only those of the peculiars, 
of which there was but one man in a priest's cloak. 

" Rowell, May 8. — In my journey thither I went to Brigstock where 
I gave order for the repair of the chancel, as your Grace had given me 
direction by letter. I found Mr. Lewis, the vicar there, reading prayers 
(it being Ascension Day) without a surplice, having but the day before 
at Oundle received a canonical admonition for the constant wearing of 
it, for which I have suspended him, with purpose that he shall so stand 
a long time. The schoolmaster of Kettering, one Mr. Seaton, (who 
was complained of unto me for a non-conformitan) doth protest that 
he is absolutely conformable and zealously given that way, and no man 
could be found that would accuse him in any particular. The College 
at Higham Ferrers was dissolved by King Henry viii., the land sold 
to the predecessors of Sir Thomas Dacres, who dwelleth at Chesson 
[Cheshunt] near Theobalds. The last Lord Archbishop recovered the 
patronage of the vicarage, and that is all that doth now belong unto 
the see of Canterbury. The building is almost quite demolished. The 
parish church of Glendon, within one mile of Rowell, is utterly decayed, 
and one Mr. Gage hath promised to bring me true information against 
one Mr. Lane, the lord of the manor and author of this ruin, which if 
he perform, I think the business will be fit for the High Commission 
Court. There is an hospital in Rowell which I visited, but the master, 
one Mr. Bowdon, knowing of my coming went ont of town before 
I came, so that 1 could not redress many things that were there amiss. 
I have taken a particular note of them, and have given authority to Sir 
John Lambe to proceed in the business, because he dwelleth in the 
same town, if he please to accept of it. There are twelve poor men, of 
which one hath been and is a recusant papist this twenty-six years. 
My opinion is that his place is void, but I gave order that nothing 
should be done against him until another hearing. 

"Northampton, May ii, 12. — At my first entrance the aldermen 
(the mayor being newly dead) came all unto me and brought me a 
present. 'I he next day, being Sunday, I observed, that in time of 
divine service many put on their hats at morning prayer, but in the 
afternoon (having marked what I did in the morning) they were all 
bare, and so continued Monday and Tuesday, when I visited. No man 
boweth at the pronouncing of the name of Jesus, and it is the greatest 



8o Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

matter thej stick upon. By reason of much importunity, and ad 
convincendam malitiam^ I have respited them until the beginning 
of August, having assured them that all oflfenders afterwards shall answer 
their contempts in the Court of High Commission, and I hope your 
Grace will be pleased to give leave. Mr. Ball, the chief minister of 
the town, was accused to have given the sacrament of the Eucharist to 
non-kneelants, but because he protested of his innocency, and offered 
to take his oath, and proved, by witnesses, that he had refused many in 
that kind, I was contented to let him escape with an admonition, and 
I have told him that if the town do not reform he (because his power 
is great amongst them) will and ought to suder in a very high degree. 
I have ordered divers things in the churches and churchyards there, and 
have caused a legal act to be made thereon. Harrington hath been 
visited; it belongeth to the other Lord Stanhope, not the Earl of 
Chesterfield. Canon's Ashby and Adsom [Adstone] have in them 
but one house a-piece, viz.. Sir John Dryden*s and Mr. Harvey's. There 
is neither churchwarden nor minister, though they be parochial 
churches ; the one of the ministers is going out of England because he 
will not conform, and the other is suspended for inconformity. Both 
the gentlemen, who are patrons, came to Northampton and, before many 
witnesses, made me a faithful promise to provide conformable ministers 
without delay, and likewise to send churchwardens to be sworn. They 
alleged many reasons why this latter could not be done upon the sudden, 
and at their earnest entreaty I have given them time for it. And Dr. 
Clarke hath faithfully promised me to look to this business very exactly. 
I make no doubt of a perfect reformation in these two places. The 
tomb at the upper end of Wappenham chancel is respited, because it is 
the tomb of the founder of a chantry there. Mr. Wilde, a com- 
missioner, who shortly is to receive tithe in Roade, hath promised me 
to order the tomb in the chancel there. These two towns are Sir John 
Lambe's peculiars. Mr. Dod, of Fawsley, appeared not ; he is 85 years 
of age, and faith was made that he was very sick.*' 

71. — Sheep Bill, 1580 (31). — "CuUinge Ewes" are those which 
from age or infirmity are not considered fit to remain in the breeding 
flock, and are culled out annually, and replaced by an equal number of 
" theaves.*' They are usually fed for the butcher. Both terms are now 
in common use. *' Felles " are not fleeces, but skins; hence naturally 
found in the slaughter house. The " one straye fell ** was probably that 
of a sheep which had died in the fields. The word ''fell " is I think 
not now in use, but we retain fellmonger. 
Castle AiOiby. ^* Cr. ScRiVEN. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 8i 

72.— The Fifth Duke of Buccleuch.— The late Duke of Buc- 
cleuch was a large landowner in Northamptonshire, and had a seat at 
Boughton House, near Kettering. Though not often at his seat, the 

villages near it where 
he had property, and 
their churches, and 
schools, have very 
abundant proof of the 
generous interest he 
always took in the 
well-being of his ten- 
antry. All memoirs 
that have appeared 
since his death speak 
of him in the very 
highest terms, even 
his political oppon- 
ents testifying to the 
general admiration felt 
for his life and career. 
Walter Francis 
Montagu Douglas 
Scott was bom 25 
Nov., 1806, and died 
16 April, 1884. He 
was the second son of his father, but became heir to the family honours 
on the death of his elder brother in 1808. He succeeded to the 
dukedom on his father's death in 18 19, and thus at the age of twelve 
became fifth Duke of Buccleuch and seventh Duke of Queensberry. 
Before he was sixteen years old he entertained King George IV. for a 
fortnight at Dalkeith. He married, in 1829, Lady Charlotte Ann 
Thynne, daughter of the Marquis of Bath. 

An account of his life would fill a volume. The public offices he 
held, the public works he undertook at his sole expense, the unwearied 
attention he bestowed upon matters connected with scientific agricul- 
ture, the spleiidid encouragement he gave to literature and art, the 
eminent services he rendered to his political party, all speak of a prince 
whose influence was immense, and who had recognised from the first 
the duties and responsibilities of his high position. 

Among many other honours enjoyed by the late Duke of Buccleuch, 
these may be noted. He was M.A. of S. John's College, Cambridge ; 
LL.D. of Cambridge and Edinburgh 5 D.C.L. of Oxford 5 Lord Lieu- 




83 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

tenant of Midlothian and of Roxburghshire ; Knight of the Thistle, 
which order he resigned on being made Knight of the Garter j 
Captain-Cjeneral of the Royal Company of Scottish Archers 5 President 
of the British Association, 1867 5 President of the Society of Anti- 
quaries of Scotland 3 Chancellor of the University of Glasgow ; a Gov- 
ernor of the Charterhouse J High Steward of Westminster j a Governor 
of the Royal Bank of Scotland 3 President of the Scottish Musical 
Society j and he took a leading part in many other Institutions and 
Societies, as president, or patron, or director. In 1842 he was made 
Lord Privy Seal, and in 1846 President of the Council. 

Of his predecessors in the dukedom, the first, second, and fourth 
Dukes have been buried at Warkton, co. Northants. The third Duke 
was buried in Dalkeith churchyard. His grandson, the late peer, left 
directions for his interment in a vault beneath the chapel in Dalkeith 
park, which had been erected by himself forty years before his death. 

A very interesting account of Boughton House, its contents and 
neighbourhood, by J. Tom Burgess, appeared in The Building News 
for April 25, 1884. 

The accompanying sketch of his coat of arms is by permission 
taken from Forster*s Peerage, published by Messrs. Nichols and Son. 

73. — Monumental Inscriptions in Peterborough Cathedral. 
II (23). — These inscriptions remain in the north choir aisle : — 8. On 
a plain white marble tablet with arms, Gules, on a chevron engrailed 
between three buck's heads caboshed argent as many bugle horns 
sable, impaling, Gules, three water-bougets argent (Roos) :— '^Siste 
Viator, Tua refert nosse Qui Vir non procul hinc jaceat, Reverendus 
Gulielmus Waring, In Spem beatae Resurrectionis Mortales exuvias 
deposuit. Vir amplissimo in Ecclesia Gradu dignus, Mediocrem 
omasse contentus. Veram Alijs ad Vitam aetemam commonstrans 
Viam Suo Ipsius Exemplo praeluxit, Non e Rostris solum Eloquens 
Justitiae Concionator. Scholae Grammaticali Praepositus Teneros 
Puerorum Animos Eruditione Et Virtute imbuere Satagebat ; Morum 
Suavitate Familiaribus Charus, Vitae Integritate et benefaciendi Studio 
omnibus. Si vis in Vita Hominum Amicitiam parare, Moriens in 
Domini Gaudium ingredi Abi et fac Similiter. Obiit a.d. 1726. ^tat. 
66** (Stay, passer-by, you ought to know what sort of man is lying not 
far from this spot. For the hope of a blessed resurrection the reverend 
William Waring has put off this mortal frame. A man worthy of the 
highest position in the church, content to have adorned a moderate 
one. Pointing out to others the true road to eternal life, he by his 
own example shone forth as a light. Not from the pulpit alone did 
fae speak forth as a preacher of justice. As head master of the 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 83 

grammar school he made it his business to fill the tender minds of 
boys with learning and virtue. To his intimates he was dear from 
the courtesy of his manners, and to all from the integrity of his life 
and his desire to do good. If thou wishest in life to secure the 
friendship of men, and in death to enter into the joy of the Lord, Go 
and do thou likewise. He died a.d. iT2>6, aged 6j.) A fragment only 
of the crest remains, a piece of an arm in armour. William Waring 
had also been precentor of the cathedral, vicar of Peterborough, 1707, 
and rector of Alwalton, co. Hunts, 1689, both of which livings he held 
till his death. At the foot of the tablet is ''E. Bingham, fecit." 

9. On a tablet of veined marble, with this coat of arms. Quarterly, 
I and 4, Gules, two bars or each charged with three mascles azure, on 
a canton of the second a leopard's head of the field, 2 and 3, Gules, 
two bars embattled, on a chief three bezants or j crest, a hind's head 
erased : — " M.S. Gulielmi Gery a.m. Per viginti et octo annos Hujus 
Ecclesiae Praebendarii : Qui, sine querela, sine injuria, Deo, sibi et 
amicis vixit. Obiit Augusti vicesimo sexto. a.d. 1787 ^tatis 79. 
Juxta quem Positae sunt reliquiae Susannae fidelissimae Uxoris. Connu- 
bialis felicitatis anni 47 Erant Testes. Vitaeque pure et integerrime 
actae, Placida et lenis est senectus. Obiit primo Decembris a.d. 1788 
^tatis 78." (Sacred to the memory of William Gery, m.a. for 28 
years prebendary of his church: who without complaint, without 
injury, lived to God, to himself, to his friends. He died 16 August 
1787, in his 79th year. Near him are deposited the remains of Susan 
his most faithful wife. Of their wedded happiness 47 years are the 
witnesses. Placid and easy is the old age of a life spent in purity and 
integrity. She died ist Dec. 1788 in her 78th year.) This tablet was 
formerly between the corner windows at the north-east of the new 
building, just above the spot where the bodies were buried. 

10. On a plain white marble tablet : — " Sacred to the memory of 
William Rowles gent, late of Washingley, who died Oct. 2, 1834, aged 
84 years. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Also of Mrs. 
Ann Wilkinson daughter of the above, and relict of the late Wilbore 
Rowles Wilkinson Surgeon who died June 8 : 1845 ^S®^ 7^ years." 

11. On a floor stone : — " Rebekah the relict of Roger Pemberton 
Esq died Dec 18 : 17 12. Aged 54 years." Ed. 

(To be eontinued.J 
74. — " Cui Bono ? " — Is it known who was the author of a 
tract announced in The Christian Rememhrancer for Jan. 182 1, in the 
following words ? *' Cui Bono ? The Address of a Clergyman to his 
Parishioners, on the late Tumultuary Rejoicings. By a Clergyman and 
Magistrate of the County of Northampton. 4^.'* H. R. S. 

L 2 



84 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

75. — Parish Registers of Slipton. — ^The register begins in 

1670 J all entries up to 1812 are in the same book. Robert Butcher 

signs *'Vicar** at first, but in 1680 and later he signs "Rector/* One 

or two entries are of interest : — 

1686. 18 Apr. " John Sutton y* Posthume of John Sutton and Eliza- 
beth his wife was baptized April y* 18*^.'* 

1705. 20 Aug. ''M'. Robt Butcher Vic', of Slipton and Reef, of 
Twywell in the County of Northampton was buried at Twywell.*' 

1707. 16 July. "M'. Samuel Deacon Vicar Bur.'* 

1737. 4 May. "Thomas Scriven A.M. and Vicar of this Parish Son 
of Tho. Scriven Rector and Schoolmaster of Knotting in y« County 
of Bedford Buried May y 4*." 

1746. 26 Nov. " Elizabeth Killingworth a good Old Maid Bur*." 

i 75 !• 31 ^ct. "Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Scriven Vic. of Slipton 
and Rector of Twywell was Buried in the Chancel near her said 
Husband (a Small partition of Brick lying betwixt them) Octob'. 
6*i75i'' 

1767. 20 Nov. "Samuel Hacket an Old Batchelor Died of a Cancer 
in his Mouth & was Buried." 

21 Dec. "Dorothy Lambron Widow of John Lambron 
Decern' 21 Rec* a Mortuary jo»" 

1740. "The Ash Trees were planted in the Hard Frost round the 
Church Yard at Slipton in y* year above written 1740.** 

On the cover is this: — "The Rev*. M' William Scriven vicar of 
Slipton Died December y« 8 1768 — His Son John Scriven was 
Ordained [Deacon, erasedl y* 17* of December 1768 — by y« Bishop 
of Oxford and Preached his first Serpi. at Slipton on Christ* 
Day." 

On the fly-leaf: — "The present Lord Sackville was Born August y« 
27*^: 1767 — became Duke of Dorset in the year 1815 the late 
Duke being Killed from a fall in Hunting." Ed. 

76. — Green Family of Boughton (20, 37). — The references 
and information that have been kindly afforded by Mr. S. G. Stopford 
Sackville are full of valuable suggestion in the Green of Boughton 
pedigree. There can be little doubt a great deal has been set down 
that needs verification, and in many cases correction, which may 
perhaps be supplied by records hidden away and unknown. In the 
course of general researches information that must lie scattered up 
and down in family records will present itself, and its collection in 
relation to this and other pedigrees would be of untold advantage, and 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 85 

it is to be hoped it may be the lot as well as the intention of 
"N. N. & Q;* to fulfil this end. 

It is to be feared Halstead had no full knowledge of the contents 
of the State papers in relation to his subject, and that he knew very 
little of the old English wills. With regard to the latter the Early 
English Text Society, by their good work in reproducing them, will 
add greatly to the power of the genealogist by supplying him with a 
ready instrument, and I hope that anything referring to the families of 
Northamptonshire may find a place in " N. N. & Q/' too. 

The notice Mr. S. G. Stopford Sackville has bestowed on the 

enquiry will be likely to stimulate the interest that may remain in the 

county concerning its old families, and revive the records of their 

ancient splendours ; and for the contents of his reply my thanks are due. 

Leamington, Bournemouth. W. Green. 

77. — OsTORius IN Northamptonshire {12, 41). — I am not 
surprised that this subject soon found its way into " N. N. & Q." 
Its readers will remember that the very first part contained a short 
article on this head from the pen of the Editor, consisting chiefly of 
quotations from a paper read at Leicester, by Mr. Rollings, in i8ji. 

Having for some years made this mid-England military boundary 
of the Romans u special and pet subject, I of course devoured that 
article with ravenous alacrity. 

I was disappointed, but I cannot say surprised, to find Mr. 
HoUings' remarks crowded with the usual inaccuracies and mistakes, 
and altogether unsatisfactory. 

The subject itself is of that nature that second-hand students of it 
are pretty certain to come to some grief or other. What people have 
formerly written about it is of very little value if the said people had 
little or no personal knowledge of the country lying between Peter- 
borough and Tewkesbury — for that, according to the best authorities 
on the subject, from Camden downwards, is the line this cordon of 
forts took across country. Maps are not enough, for they do not 
show the hills and vales sufficiently. To be able to form a rational 
judgment of the exact ground which this line of Ostorius covered, 
we must see the land with our own eyes, as Ostorius saw it, that is, 
by riding or driving over the whole length of it, bearing in mind the 
problem Ostorius had before him, i.e., "How and where to place 
across the water-shed, the links, that were securely to tie the Severn 
to the Nene, and make one chain of it ? " 

If we trust to books and maps, in working out this problem, we 
shall find ourselves led into egregious errors. 



86 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

I was first led to take up this question when the Archaeological 
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland visited Northampton in 1878. 
I was all that summer and autumn engaged in excavating, with a 
gang of labourers, in the Roman camp of Irchester-r— acknowledged 
hj Camden to have been one of the Ostorian forts. 

I read a paper to the Institute on that occasion, on " The Nene 
Valley a Roman frontier^ and the Origin of the Name ' Northampton,^ *'* 
In that paper, I followed Camden and our best antiquaries in main- 
taining that the Roman camps on the right bank of the Nene formed 
the eastern end of the chain of Ostorius 5 but I opposed Camden in 
his notion that the received text of Tacitus t (on which the whole 
thing rests) wants any mending. 

I maintained that the ancient text is correct as it stands, that 
Tacitus knew what he was writing about — that Antona was the then 
name of the Nene ; — and further that Northampton took its name 
from this river '' Anton^^ as Southampton from another river which 
still retains the name Anton. 

In order to appreciate the whole argument I must refer your 
readers to that paper ; the arguments of which found acceptance with 
many scholars of high repute : for instance, the Rev. Isaac Taylor, 
and Dr. Collingwood Bruce. From having lived all my life near the 
Nene, I knew the country well from Peterborough to Northampton ; 
but I did not profess at that time to carry the line beyond North- 
ampton. 

Since then, however, I have thoroughly explored the country 
further Westward, in company with an archaeological friend, Mr. 
Danson, of Grasmere. Making Northampton, Daventry, and 
Leamington our successive head-quarters, we investigated the country 
thoroughly across the water-shed as far as Edge-hill and the beginning 
of the Cotswolds, and satisfied ourselves so far. As to the remaining 
portion, from Eclge-hill to the Severn, we feel certain that Ostorius 
kept along the line of the Cotswolds, utilising British camps which 
previously existed, and still exist on all the most prominent points 
overlooking the vale of Warwickshire. 

But this western end of the chain we intend thoroughly to explore, 
and publish the whole results. 

By this personal inspection we accomplished another thing quite 
as important as knowing where Ostorius placed his line ; i.e., we 
satisfied ourselves as to where the line did not go, and could not go 

* Pablished m yoI. zzzv. of the Arehaologieal Journal. 

t Cinotosqne castris Antonam et Sabrinam fluvios oohibere parat. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 87 

if Ostorius had any sense in his head. In other words we felt 
satisfied be never descended into the vale of Warwickshire, nor went 
near the Avon — a point wherein map-students are pretty certain to err. 

Since that exploration, I have written a paper* bearing on the 
Nene valley end of the chain, viz. an argument to shew that the 
famous earth works at Yelden, Beds., are the '^ locus pugnce'* of 
Tacitus, where the Icenians were so terribly thrashed when they came 
to interrupt the work of Ostorius. And have also shown how 
untenable is the notion which places this fight at Daventry ; not to 
mention the still greater absurdity of Twyford, co. Leicester. 

I have the testimony of men of learning and judgment that the 
case made out for Yelden is a strong one, resting on sound and sober 
reasoning. 

Since writing that paper I have written another, and read it at the 
Meeting of the Archaeological Institute at Lewes last year (1883), 
rebutting a theory of Mr. Henry Bradley of SheflSeld, put forth in 
The Academy last year that the Severn and the Trent were the two 
rivers fortified by Ostorius! and suggesting a novel and alarming 
emendation of the text of poor ill-used Tacitus. I have shown the 
extreme absurdity of this suggestion, while at the same time giving 
Mr. Bradley credit for having discovered the Roman name of the 
Trent, as he appears to have done. 

I think your readers will now perceive that I have earned a 
certain right to be heard on the subject of Ostorius in Northampton- 
shire. 

In a future number I may revert to the question. 

Hargrave. Rob. S. Baker, 

Hon. Soo. for Northants. of. the Soo : of Ant : London. > 

In my note on the above of *' N. N. & Q.** (41), occurs the word 
"Talkington.** I find that it should be '* Torkington," the farm 
being so called from the fact that a person of that name once 
occupied it. 

London. JoHN T. Pagb. 

78. — Northamptonshire Briefs (25). — 

Cotton End. 1673. 29 May ... " for a Voyalant fire that hapned in 
the towne of Cottonend in the parrish of Hardreingston in our 
County of Northampton." 35. lod, (Stretford, co. Lane.) 

Towcester. 1677. 14 Oct ... "for a violent fire in the town of 
Towcester." 35. (Stretford, co. Lane) J. £. B. 

• Published in the volume for 1882 of the Associated Soeietiei Reports and 
Papers, 



88 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

79. — Review of Miss Baker's Glossary. — In the hope that it 
may prove of interest to the readers of " N. N. & Q.," I have ex- 
tracted from the Illustrated London News for 31 March, 1855, the 
following. It is a portion of a review of Miss Baker's Glossary of 
Northamptonshire Words and Phrases, London, 2 vols, 1854. 

" As illustrating and explaining obscure passages in our elder writers, 
the * Northamptonshire Glossary * will be found of infinite service. 
Miss Baker supplies more than one hint for the next edition of 
Shakspeare. The word * palm-tree * for example, occurring in 'As You 
Like It * has been a choke-pear to the commentators. * Look here,' 
says Rosalind ' what I found on a palm-tree.' * A palm-tree in the 
forest of Arden,' remarks Steevens, * is as much out of place as a 
lioness in the subsequent scene.' Collier tries to get rid of the 
difficulty by suggesting that Shakspeare may have written * plane-tree.* 
< Both the remark and the suggestion,' observes Miss Baker, ' might 
have been spared if those gentlemen had been aware that in the 
counties bordering on the Forest of Arden, the name of an Exotic tree 
is transferred to an indigenous one.* The Salix Caprea, or goat 
willow, is popularly known as the * palm ' in Northamptonshire, no 
doubt from having been used for the decoration of churches on Palm 
Sunday — its graceful yellow blossoms appearing at a time when few 
other trees have put forth a leaf, having won for it that distinction. 
Clare so calls it : — 

Ye leaning palms that seem to look 
Pleased o'er your image in the brook. 

That Shakspeare included the willow in his forest scenery is certain, 

from another passage in the same play : — 

West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom, 
The ratik of Osiers by the murmuring stream. 
Left on your right hand, brings you to the place. 

The customs and amusements of Northamptonshire which are 
frequently noticed in these volumes, were identical with those of the 
neighbouring county of Warwick, and, in like manner;, illustrate very 
clearly many passages in the great dramatist. 

'Nine men's morris,' and *the mazes in the wanton green,* 
mentioned by Titania in that exquisitely poetical speech in which the 
Fairy Queen describes the calamities which result from the dissensions 
between herself and Obtron, are Northamptonshire games: — 
The nine men's morris is filled up with mud, 
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, 
For laok of tread, are undistinguifihable. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 89 

The maze, or 'Shepherds* Hay/ 'Shepherds* Race,' 'Shepherds* 
Ring/ and ' Shepherds' Run/ at it is indiffereDtly called, is a gam.ey 
it seems, enjoyed on the Green at Boughton, celebrated for its fair, near 
Northampton, from time immemorial. * A greensward circle of con- 
siderable size (sajs Miss Baker) has been sunk about a foot below the 
surface of the Green as far back as memory can trace. A mazy path, 
rather more than a foot in widths is formed within by a trench, three 
or four inches wide, cut on each side of it ; and the trial of skill consists 
in running the maze from the outside to the small circle in the centre 
in a given time, without crossing the boundaries of the path/ 

Philology vindicates the gentility of many a word that has long 
laboured under the obloquy of being a mere vulgarism. The verb 
' learn ' in the sense of ' to teach ' is commonly so considered. Yet 
its use in the double sense of conveying and receiving knowledge is of 
Anglo-Saxon origin, and continued down to the classic days of Ben 
Jonson. Miss Baker has also accumulated instances from the 
Common Prayer Book, from Chaucer^ Drayton, and Shakspeare. 
Shakspeare, she observes, implies the identity of 'teach' and 'learn* 
by using them in the same sentence, apparently to vary the expression, 
* unless you could teack me to forget a banished father, you must not 
learn me to remember any extraordinary pleasure.' (' As You Like 
It,' Act I, Scene 2). Todd says, this sense is now perhaps obsolete . 
but Miss Baker states that it is still in common use in Northampton- 
shire, and quotes the following amusing epitaph on a village singing- 
master in the churchyard of the village of Harpole, near Northampton, 
dated 1729 : — 

^ He lamed Singing far and near. 

Full twenty years and more ; 
But fatal death hath stopped his breath, 

And he can lame no more. 

His Scholards all, that are behinde, 

Singing he did nnfold ; 
Exhorting all their God to minde 

Before they turn to molde. 

These instances are taken at random : the volumes abound in 
matter equally curious and illustrative. Miss Baker has pursued her 
task con amore^ and the result of her painstaking is a valuable and 
interesting addition to the library of the philological student. The 
volumes are abundantly illustrated with quotations, among which the 
rural couplets of poor John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant poet, 
very frequently occur. Miss Baker has been peculiarly fortunate in 
an authority so wholly unquestionable. The genius of that remarkable 



90 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

man pastured itself in places where innovation had not found its way 
and no modern writer so abounds in locaIisnas> with this additional 
advantage, that a mind so thoroughly poetical was sure to apply them 
so as to convey their strictest and intensest meaning. Many of the 
quotations, too^ appear to be from mss.; and we should infer that 
Miss Baker had had the privilege of a personal intercourse with the 
poet. She has also, we find, upon reference to her list of book 
authorities, had access to works of extreme rarity.*' 

Is the game of * Shepherd's Hay* known now in Northampton- 
shire ? I spent most of the first 20 years of my life in the county but 
never heard of it. 

I hope there is a copy of this Glossary in the library of the North- 
ampton Museum. It is far too valuable a book to be allowed to be 
lost sight of altogether. 

London. John T. Paob. 

80. — The St well Ring.— The gold ring of which a woodcut is 
given below was found at Sywell hall during the rebuilding not many 
years since, and it has been suggested that it was a gift from Mary 
queen of Scots to sir Thomas Tresham. But the inscription shows it 
to belong to an earlier period, the previous century at least. It may 
be a betrothal ring, and the word "souvereyn ** may apply to a queen 
not of the realm but of the heart. 




Tr6 loialment ma soavereyn. 
Most loyally my flovereign. 

81.— Lace Makers at Ecton.— "On St. Thomas's day at Ecton 
the host of Lace-makers with which the village is in a great measure 
filled partake of a holiday, when Cakes are made & tea-drinking 
ensues, and formerly the Mistress of the School of Lace-makers was 
turned out in a frolicksome manner while a couplet was repieated, 
demanding a week's holiday, or she sh* not be let in.*' From MS. 
diary by John Cole, 183a. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 91 

82. — Wages in 1688. — ^The following is an extract from a MS. 
record (apparently a contemporary copy of the original) of Quarter 
Sessions for this county in 1688. J. Alfred Gotch. 

The Particular Rates of wages of and for all manner of Artificers, 
Handycraft men^ Labourers, Workmen, Men and Maid Servants, as 
by the day with meat and drinke as without, as alsoe by the whole 
yeare; and by the great in Gross or Task limitted, rated and appointed, 
at the Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden by adjournment 
for the said County of Northampton at Northampton in the County 
aforesaid, on Wednesday next after the Close of Easter, being the five 
and Twentieth day of A prill in the fourth yeare of the Raigne of our 
Soveraigne Lord King James the second over England &c. Anno Dni 
1688. By all the Justices of the Peace then and there assembled, 
according to the Statutes made in the fifth yeare of the Raigne of 
Queen Elizabeth of fifamous memory, and in the first yeare of the 
Raigne of King James the first. The said Justices having conferred 
with the Grand Jury at the said Sessions, and some others of the 
most knowing, discreetest persons in the said County : And haveing 
had a due Cousideracon and respect to the Plenty and Scarcity of 
the time. And other Circumstances necessary to be considered And 
which said Justices, present at the appointing the said Rates of 
Wages, have hereunto subscribed their Names — 

£ s. d. 
Servants by the year, with meat and drinke. 
A Baylifie in Husbandry, takein charge thereof, 

for a years Wages not above. . . . 04 : 16 : 00 
A chiefe Hinde, the best Plowman, Carter and 

Shepard for the yeares Wages shall not take 

above 04 : 00 : 00 

A Common Servant in Husbandry or second Hynd 

Carter or Driver of Plow by the year not above 03 : 05 : 00 
An Apprentice in Husbandry only Meat Drinke 

and Cloaths. 
The best woman Servant, as a housekeeper, Cooke 

able to take care of the household, by the 

year not above 02 : 09 : 00 

A Dairy Maid or Wash Maid not above : . 02 : 04 : 00 
A young Maid above the age of fourteen yeares, and 

under eighteen shall not take by the year for 

her wages above 02 : 00 : 00 

Children under the age of fourteen yeares, shall not 

take for their yeares wages above . . 01 : 14 : 00 

M '2 



92 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

Artificers, Apprentices, and Labourers by tbe day not al)ove the 
following Rates for Wages : 

ffrom the Middle ff.'otn the Mi<1Jl0 

of March to the of Sfiptember to 
middle of the Middle of 

Sepcembr. March. 

o'S'2"! •S'S'S"? §fi'2'§r£«--? 

A firee Mason, a Master Carpenter, ad. d. d. d. 

Master Joyner, a Master Bricklayer 

and Plaisterer, having under each of 

them three Apprentices, or Journey- 
men, and haveing charge of building, 

by the day shall not have above . 17 J loj 14^ 8i 
Their Apprentices and Journeymen, above 

One and twenty years of Age, and 

under four and twenty by the day 

shall not have above . . . . 14} 8^ 12^ ji 
Their Servants and Apprentices above the 

age of fourteen yeares, and under 

twenty one pi 4i 7i ^i 

A Rough Mason, Bricklayer^ Carpenter, 

Jojmer, Carver, Milwright, Plowright, 

Tyler, Slater, Cartwright, Plumber, 

Glasier, Master Sawyer, Thacker, 

Gardner &o I4i 8i I2i ji 

Their Servants Journeymen and Appren- 
tices above the Age of Twenty one, 

and not above four and Twenty . 12} 6\ 9} 4 
Their Servants and apprentices above the 

Age of fourteen and not above One 

and Twenty . . . . . 9J 4^ 7i H 
Every other Common Labourer not afore 

named except in Harvest time • . 9} 4I *]\ 2J 
A Ditcher, a Hedger, and such works that 

are of hard labour and dirty . . 12^ 6^ 9I 4 
In Harvest Time 
A man Reaix-r . . . .17^- joj 

A mower of Grass, Pease or Corne by the 

day . I4i 8* 

A Pitcher or Driver of Cart . . .12^ 6\ 

A Woman Reaper i2\ 6\ 

A man haymaker by the day . . . 9! 4^ 
A Woman Haymaker , . . 7^ 3 



withoot 

mod 
Drink*. 


with 

M«at 

and 

Drinke. 


S. d. 


s. d. 


3 : 3 

'4* 
lai 

9* 


a : 4 
8i 

4* 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 93 

For works by great, or in gross, not above the Rates following viz*. 



ffor Reaping an acre of Wheat, at i6 foot and 
i the Pole 2* : 6** and binding upp the 
sheaves 9* 

fFor Mowing an Acre of Grass . . . • 

ffor mowing an Acre of Barley. 

fTor Mowing an Acre of Pease or Oates . 

fFor threshing a Quarter of Wheat and Winnow- 
ing of it- ^ • S 7 

ffor Threshmg a Quarter of Barley and Winnow- 
ing it I2i 6t 

ffor Threshing a Quart', of Pease and Oats and 

Winnowing of them .... g\ 6\ 

ffor mowing and Makeing an Acre of Grass, and 

makeing it fitt to carry . . . . a : 6 ^ ' S 

ffor Sawing 120 foot of Oake^ Ash or £lm 

board ^ ^ 4 ^^ 

ffor Sawing the like Quantity of Slitting worke 2:4 16 

ffor makeing an Acre in length, containing 22 
yards of New Dyke, out of the whole 
ground, being four foot wide at topp, three 
foot deepe, and one foot and an halfe wide 
at bottome, and double setting it with 
Quicke : 2* : and findeing the Quicks or 
Setts : I* : 2* and setting a Hedge upon it : 
io<^ : in all . . . . . . 4:0 

ffor Makeing 120 fiaggotts single bound, and 

cutting downe the Wood . . . . 1:2 

ffor makeing one Hundred of Lath, containing 

120 3 

ffor makeing the body of a Plow all new . . 12 J 6\ 

ffor Makeing a pair of Cartwheeles . . . 7:4 4 • i 

ffor makeing the body of a Cart . . . 3:0 i :io 

ffor setting on a ffelly 0:7 

f r : Morgan •> r Tho : Colthurst 
Tho : Samwell V } Hen : Hinde 
Ger: Gore ) (Fr: Arundell 
83.— Churchwardens' Accounts of Btfield (22, 40). — 

The original accounts described in "N. N. ^ Q." pt. i., 22, have 

been, through the editor, restored to the parish chest of Byfield. 



94 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

84. — A Chest of Old Manuscripts. — The following is a 
rough list of the principal contents of a chest of manuscripts, broad- 
sides, &c.. frona the old manor house of Kibworth Harcourt, co. 
Leic, as far as they relate to the county of Northampton. In a 
notice of the catalogue of the sale in The Whitehall Review, 6 March, 
1 884, attention was called to it in these terms : — 

" Notably, perhaps, may be mentioned the somewhat novel item of 
'A Chest of Old Manuscripts.' One is apt to associate a series of 
ghostly legends with a find like this ; but the contents of the ances- 
tral chest are more prosaic, though of greater interest than the records 
of ghost or goblin families." 

A portion of the collection is now in the Bodleian library. 

I. Manuscripts : — 
(i) Account book of the Hanbur}' estate, 1709-ao. 

(2) Two account books of clerical duty discharged and expenses 

incident, mostly relating to Isham> in handwriting of the Rev. 
Thomas Thomas. 

(3) A parcel of ecclesiastical documents : admissions to benefices ; 

sequestrations of livings ; terrier of lands, &c., at Isham -, bill 
for communion plate at Kibworth, 1825 ; &c. 

(4) Parcel of marriage licenses. East Farndon, Oxendon, Kelmarsb, 

Arthingworth 3 and transcript of registers at East Farndon for 
1813. 

(5) Parcel of wills, with some drafts of wills, and some destroyed 

ones (signatures cut out); Mary Bailey, of East Farndon; 
John Johnson^ of Great Oxendon ; Thomas Thomas, rector of 
Isham ; and nine different wills of Ann Eaton, of Kelmarsh, 
1783 to 1790. 

(6) Account book, i8ig, of expenses of Quicking the Fences of 

Leasehold and Copyhold joining Burton Brook. 

(7) Historical and Legal papers: containing among others, 

(a) Large sheet of tithe payments, &c., at Isham, 1778; 

{b) Field book of Overstone and Sywell estates; 

(c) Average of seven years' levies for poor in parishes near 
Kelmarsh, 17C8-1774. 

((f) Bonds for money lent, apprentice indentures, &c., for 
Kibworth, Kelmarsh, and other places ; 

(e) Copy of petition to house of lords in favour of a bill to 
amend the highways from Brampton bridge to Watford 
bridge; and the great post road, from Morton Pitt bill 
to Chaine bridge. Market ^arborough, 1721. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 95 

(8) Number of letters to the Rev. Thomas Thomas \ and copies of 

letters from him : 
(a) From bishop of Peterborough [John HinchclifF], Rev. Thos, 

Davies, Rev. Anthony Boulton, and others, relating to 

parishes of Isham, Road, Welford, and Clipston : 
(J)) From viscount Altborp ^ lady Barnard, of Kelmarsh ; George 

Anthony Legh Keck, of Stoughton Grange, co. Leic. ; 

Rev. John Madocks; Harman Verelst; lord Walden ; lord 

Halifax; mostly referring to elections, i8o6, &c. : 
(c) Two letters referring to the illness and death of a member of 

the Hanbury family : 
{£) Three letters, 1776 and 1793, about mortgage claims on the 

advowson of Isham, and copies of letters of application 

for preferlnent from Thomas Thomas : 
(e) From Rev. William Brooks, relating to living of £ast 

Farndon : 
(J) To and from members of the Howell family : 
{g) From Poyntz Adams (his nephew), 1810, 1811, relating to 

his expenses as medical student in Loudon, acknowledging 

receipt of money, &c. 
(A) Miscellaneous. 

(9) Folio volume of verses by the Rev. Thomas Thomas, on Nelson, 

to Mr. G. Hanbury, 1786, &c. 

(10) Verses on same subjects by the same, in loose sheets ; one ode 

addressed to Tho. Carter, high sheriflf; an ode to John 
Hanbury, Esq. on his Return from the Victories of Egypt. 

(11) Original MS. poll books prepared for Mr. William Hanbury, 

Kelmarsh Hall ; 
(a) Borough of Northampton, 1727 j 

{})) County of Northampton, 1730, three copies, with List of 
out town votes, and copy of the variations between the 
sherift's copy and Mr. Hanbury*s. 
(c) County of Northampton, 1 748. 
II. Broadsides, Printed Sheets, &c. : — 
(i) Acts of parliament for inclosing Clipston and Newbold, 1776; 
and for amending the highways from Brampton bridge to 
Watford bridge, &c. ; also reasons for this bill. 

(2) Sheet Almanack of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, &c., 1783 \ 

three copies of the Northampton Mercury, 1773, 1783, 1793; 
Reports of Northampton Infirmary, 1794, 18155 Particulars 
of sale of estate at Great and Little Oxeudon, 1792. 

(3) Election squibs, i8o5. 



g6 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

(4) Apjieal for aid towards losses by fire at Ashley, 1785. 

(5) Copy of the last will aud testament of sir George Buswell, hart., 

of Clipstou. 

(6) An inquiry into the reasons for and against inclosing open fields, 

by Stephen Addington. 177a. Ed. 

85- — Robert Tredwaie {^6). — I can identify one of the con- 
tributors to the Defence of the Country to whom no dwelling-place is 
assigned in the list given at the above reference 3 and add a few par- 
ticulars of his family. Justin Simpson. 

Robert Tredwaie was a son of Thomas of Agmondesham co. 
Bucks. He made his will 19 Oct. 1587 (proved P. C. C. 21 June 1594) 
in which he designates himself as of Thornehawe, co. Northampton, 
Gent, and desires to be buried in the chancel of the parish church. The 
family afterwards settled at Easton juxta Stamford, Ketton, co. Rutl., 
Hough on the Hill and Baston, co. Line. He names his wife 
Margaret (dau. of Guy Fisher, of Buckden, co. Hunts.) ; his sons 
John, Humphrey and Francis, aud daughter Dorothy 5 Walter, his 
brother Richard's eldest son ; his cousin Pott*s wife ; nominates 
brethren Mr. Richd. Tredwaie and Mr. Rich. Saunders overseers, and 
desires them to bestow his advowson of the parsonage of Eston (Easton 
juxta Stamford) '' upon a sufficient and learned preacher whenever it 
shall happen to fall or become void." Humphrey, testator's second son 
became rector of Offord Darcy, co. Hunt., and compounded for first- 
fruits 17 June, 1614, made his will 20 Mch., 1640-1 (proved 18 June 
1641 in P.C.C.), and in it he names his nieces Dorothy and Mary- 
Potter dans, of his sister (Dorothy) ; his sisters Tredway of Ketton and 
Baston, and cousins Richard and William Naylor of Oxford, Francis 
Tredway eldest son of his sister Tredway of Baston, Edmund her 
youngest son j and appoints Robert Tredway of Hough on the Hill, 
esq. and Humphrey Tredway (of Baston?) exors. Therector*s 
mother, Margaret, made her will 20 Nov., 1601, in which she desig- 
nates herself as of Easton by Stamford, co. Northampton, widow, 
names her sons John, Humphrey and Francis, and dau. Dorothy. 
The will was proved in P.C.C. 12 May 1610 by Dorothy Tredway 
alias Potter. A William Potter, probably the husband of Dorothy, 
subscribes his name as a witness to the signature of John Tredway 
of Easton, Gent, to his will made 11 May 1610 and proved 13 June 
following. The Walter Tredway named in the will of Robert of 
Thornehawe, according to the pedigree given in Blore's Rutland^ ?• '75» 
was the father of two daughters Lettice, a nun, and Elizabeth, who 
married William Stafford, of Blatherwyck^ co. Northampton, esq. 



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Feterrima quccque^ ut ea vina qucB vetustatem ferunt, es^e debent 
suavissima. / ./ ' ^ \ Cicero, De j^micitm, x'lx, 

I am always plJased\ i^tfi Li. %ong!^if^ly io the caustic question of Father 
Malehranche^ when ifus latter asked hint.'* hou/ he could be so foolish as to take 
such pains about settfingJtJi!^ljIf^i\tful&^^ or making himself master of 
trivial points of philosopnyT^^^=^' Truth is so delightful,^' replied Le Long, 
" even in the most trivial matters, that we must neglect nothing to discover 
her,** DiBDiN, Bibliomania, part ii. 

Northamptonshire 

Notes &" Queries J 

A QUARTERLY JOURNAL 

DEVOTED TO 

The Antiquities, Family History^ Traditions, Parochial 
Records, Folk-lore, Quaint Customs^ &c., of the County. 

3EBtte» 65 
JhE H^V. ^. p. ^WEETINQ, ^.^., . 
Vicar of Maxey, Market Deeping. 

Contents. 

106 WeUingboTOUgh Brief, 1738. 1 119 The Washiogrtons. 

107 Timber-stealing Riots in Whittlebnry 120 Valentine's Day. 

and Salcey Forests, in 1727-28. 131 Election Squibs. 

108 Headlands. 123 Hospital of S. John, Wellingborough. 

109 Local Dialect. I33 Aldw^kle Deeds. 

110 HueandCry. 124 ** The Northampton Miscellany," 1720 



111 Carlyle at Haseby. 

112 WiUiam Carey, D.D. 

113 The Last of the Sanndersons. 

114 Fire at Wellingborough, 1738. 
11^ Higham Ferrers Taxation, 1629 

116 Tom White, the Burghley Postman. 

117 Floods In 1607. 

118 County Members. f ' 

Nortl^ampton : 

TAYLOR & SON, "THE DRYDEN PRESS/' 9 COLLEGE STREET 



125 Monumental Inscriptions in Peter- 
borough Cathedral.— III. 

126 Monumental Ihscx%>tions flrom olher 
Counties. 

127 Brudenel Family : a ^uery. 

128 Presentments^ 158(f, lie. 

129 Four-field-course FaniiBg. 

130 Sir Paul Pyndar. 



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106. — Wbllinoborouoh Briep^ 1738. — ^The following copy of 
the brief issued after the disastrous fire in Wellingborough, on 28th 
July, 1738. in the collection of Mr. John Taylor, will be read with 
interest. It is transcribed from the paper sent to the parish of 
Kinver, co. Stafford, and is given exactly, together with the return of 
the amount collected in the parish. 

'' To all Charitable and Well-Disposed Persons, to 

whom these Presents shall come. 
" It is Humbly Represented, That on Friday, the 
aSth Day of July, 1738, about Two of the 
Clock in the Afternoon, there happened a most 
Dreadful Fire to break out in tiie Town of 
Wellingborough, in the County of Northamp- 
ton, which in about the Space of Six Hours 
Burnt down and utterly Consumed no less than 
Two Hundred and Five Dwelling-Houses, 
chiefly in the best and most Trading Parts of 
the Town, with all the Warehouses, Bams, 
Stables, and other Out-houses thereunto be- 
longing, to the Number of Eight Hundred and 
Six j as also all the Bams, Stables, and Out-houses 
belonging to Nineteen other Dwelling-Houses 
left standing, but miserably Shattered and 
Damaged by the Flames j together with large 
Quantities of Houshold Goods, and of the 
Stocks of Tradesmen and Victuallers, and all 
the Stores of Com, Malt, Hay, Wool, Bark, 
and Fewel, belonging to the Sufferers : The 
Calamity being so Sudden and Greneral, and the 
Flames Driven on with such Eury and Violence 
by a strong West Wind, that the Poor, Dis- 
tracted Inhabitants had Time to Save very little 
of their Effects, and narrowly Escaped with 
their Lives. 

" And it is further Humbly Represented, That 
an Estimate hath been taken by a Competent 
Number of Experienced Workmen of the Loss 
Sustained by the said Dreadful Fire in the Buildings 
only, which, upon a Moderate Computation, 
Amounts unto the Sum of Sixteen Thousand and 
Ninety Poimds, Thirteen Shillings : And the said 



Einver 
"We, two of His 
M«jo8t3r's Justi- 
ces of the Peace 
for the County 
of Stafford do 
believe the Con- 
tents to be true; 
and do recom- 
mend the poor 
Sufferers to all 
Charitable Pec 
pie within the 
said County. 

R. Bider. 
Josh. Dolphin. 



130 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Poor Sufferers have made an Estimate of their 
Losses in Personal Effects by the said Fire, by 
reducing them into Schedules of Particulars, which 
they are ready to certify upon Oath, and the said 
Damage in Goods and Stock, upon a Reasonable 
and Just Calculation, Amounts unto the Sum of 
Nine Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six 
Pounds, Twelve Shillings, and Ten Pence : So that 
upon the Whole it Appears, that the said Poor 
Sufferers have Lost by the said Fire the Sum of 
Twenty-Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty- 
Seven Pounds, Five Shillings and Ten Pence : Of 
which not above Two Thousand Pounds were 
Insured. And by this Sad Accident about One 
Hundred and Twenty Families, Most of whom 
were before Helpful to Others, are now utterly 
Ruined and Reduced to the utmost Extremity of 
Want, and must inevitably Sink under the Weight 
of their Misfortunes, unless Timely Relieved by 
the Charity of Well-Disposed Christians j and the 
Rest who are not utterly Ruined, are very much 
Impaired in their Fortimes. 

" And it is further Humbly Represented, That 
the Inhabitants of the said Town, before this 
Terrible Fire happened, were Burthened with a 
Numerous Poor, in the Support of whom they 
have Expended (as appears by the Accounts of the 
Parish Officers, taken at a Medium, of the last 
Seven Years) upwards of Five Hundred Pounds a 
Year; and now, by this Sad Accident, the Poor 
being Increas*d to more than Double the usual 
Number, and the Contributors towards their Main- 
tenance, being Inhabitants who have Escaped the 
Fire, are in no wise Able, by any Taxes or Contri- 
butions amongst Themselves, to Maintain their said 
Poor. 

''The Misery and Desolation of this Unfortunate 
Town is acknowledged by All who have seen the 
Dreadful Ruins, to be beyond Expression, and 
even Imagination. And these their most Pressing 
Necessities have Obliged them to Apply for Imme- 
diate Relief by Letters of Request in the said 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 131 

County of Northampton, and the Counties adjacent; 
Humbly Hoping, that their Neighbours in the said 
Counties will Look upon them as Fit Objects of 
their Compassion and Charity, and Speedily and 
Chearfully Contribute to their Relief and Assistance 
in this their Great Distress. 

^'Collected at Kinver, in the County of Stafford the Sum of 
Two Pounds, Six Shillings, & four Pence, for the use of the 
sufferers within mentioned, 
By 

William Yate, Cler. 
John Grove, C. Warden. 
''Pray Return this with the Sum Collected to Mr William 
Thershouse, Mercer, Wolverhampton. 

£^ 6 4." 
NorthampioiL J- T« 

107- — Timber -STEALING Riots in Whittlebury and 
Salcey Forests, in 1727-28 (104). — 
IX. Attorney General's opinion. 

I am of opinion that the offenders within mentioned may be 
prosecuted by Informations of Intrusion for entring y* King's forest 
& cutting down trees j But since that may be too slow a remedy, in 
a case of this kind 1 think it is most advisable to proceed upon y* 
statute 43 Eliz. cap. 7, which gives authority to any one Justice of y* 
peace, upon y* confession of y* offender, or y* oath of one witness, to 
convict the Party & adjudge him to pay damages according to the 
value of the Trespass committed, and if the offender shall appear to 
the Justice not to be able or sufficient to pay y^ damages, or shall not 
pay them within the time appointed by the Justice, in that case y* 
Justice may order y* offender to be whipped by y« Constable for 
every such offence. If any Constable shall refuse to execute the 
orders of the Justix:e in this behalf, the Justice may cause him to be 
committed to y* Common Gaol. 

If any of y* offenders described in y* within written letter shall 
assemble to y« number of twelve or more, in order to commit such 
trespasses, the SherrifF or Under-SherrifF of y« County, or any one 
Justice of y« Peace may read f Proclamation directed by y® Act of 
Primo Georgii for preventing tumults, &c., and in case they shall 
continue to assemble by the space of an hour after such Proclamation 
made pursuant to y* s** Act, they will be guilty of Felony without 
benefit of Clergy, If y® s^ offenders shall tumultuously assemble to 

R 2 



132 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

the number of 3 or more, they may be taken up and compelled to 
give Bail to appear at y' Quarter Sessions, and be prosecuted for 
Riots at Common Law. 

As to the pretence of right by reason of his late Majesty's demise, 
it is without any ground whatsoever. 

If any Justice of the Peace shall refuse to take Informations upon 
Oath against these offenders^ or upon such Informations taken to put 
the law in execution ag'* them^ they will be liable to be prosecuted for 
such breach of their duty by Information in y* Court of King's Bench. 

June a3, 1727. P. York. 

X. Another list of Towns and places to which Timber was 
carried away j Totals as under. 

Towns, &o. No.of Treefii. First Valnation. Sold for. 
Erom WhitUebiiry Forest 64 167 JS339 2 6 JB262 2 6 

„ Saloey Forest 16 72 61 5 44 15 

XI. Colonel Whitworth to Tho'. Herbert. London, June 24, 

1727. 
Have written by this post but suppose Elliss will be with you 
before it, with the opinion and directions how to act. Mr. Withers 
mentions my coming, but would not willingly undertake the journey 
without absolute necessity. Elliss likewise brings you an order for 
the Towcester Troop to aid and assist, and there is also an order for 
one of the Troops at Northampton to march immediately to Stony 
Stratford, which you may expect on Monday. If you apprehend two 
or three rioters of the ordinary kind and have them punished 
by the Justices, and if the Exchequer lays hold on those who are 
more able and punishes their purses, I cannot help thinking ,it will 
put a stop to any farther such proceedings. Elliss will carry the 
order to Northampton. Pray write to me by his return. 

XII. A Memorandum by Thos. Herbert as to several offenders. 
Richard Pinckard & Rich^' Simons. One stick. Towcester. 
George Watts. Absent. 

Jos. Simons. Not known. 

Jos. Lawton. Absent. A Trooper. 

Pinckard and Simons pray to answer for their one stick only, and 
that the residue of their neighbours bear a proportion of the expenses 
in prosecutions. 

Simons is unwilling to inform of other persons. 

Pinckard is willing to do it rather than suffer a 2^ prosecution. 

Wm. Winkles. Earl of Pomfret's town, Hulcot. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 133 

This stick is ready to be delivered upon the premises. As the 
neighbourhood have been sufferers they desire the stick towards part 
of their expenses. But do however submit themselves to the pleasure 
of the Surveyor-General. 

£1 i.«; o Paid. 
8 



Blisworth Estimate ^2 



Brackley 
Crofield 
Courteenhall 
Forthoe 

Heathencote 
Lillingstone 
Poukesley 
Slapton 



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No certain answer, 
o 10 o Mr. French promises 

for his Serv** 
276 Paid. 

No certain answer. 
J no. Baily will pay. 
Mr. Foster, L<*. of 
y« Manor is willing 
to pay ^3 los. 
2 JO o Mr. Webb is willing 

to pay deducting 
the carriage back. 
00 800 Paid. 

00 400 Paid, 

o o No answer at all. 

00 400 Paid. 

00 I 5 o In Mr. Winn's ac- 

count. 
XIII. Tho». Herbert to Mr. Wither. July 2, 1727. 
Your orders per messenger & the assistance of y* troops has I 
hope put a stop to the riotous proceedings in both the forests. On 
Thursday last we took 9 prisoners^ since w** no mischief has been 
done. For particulars I refer you to the messenger & Col. Whitworth, 
who also can inform you of the insolence of y* people of Stony 
Stratford in particular, as well as the great destruction w*" has been 
made in this forest, w^ w^ soon have been laid waste. Have had but 
little rest night or day for the last fortnight, but will continue to do 
my utmost in the matter. The Justices bind all over to y* Assize 
that come before 'em, but we seldom take in more than 3 or 4 of a 
town. Please order how I shall dispose of the timber. The persons 
concerned would buy it if they might, and I believe it would save a 
great deal of trouble. The keepers expect y* tops, and say they had 
'em at the late king's accession, but that was inconsiderable and there 
were no prosecutions. What I am against them for, is that I fear 
some of them have not discovered the proceedings as they ought to 



134 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

have done, in order to have a greater share of the plunder. To-morrow 
we are to be at Northampton to prosecute several towns in this 
county, and on Wednesday at Newport Pagnel for Bucks. On Tues- 
day I shall ride the country and mark what trees I can, and so proceed 
without loss of time until the affair is over, and will then give you y* 
best account that I can. Col. Whitworth has reserved several of y' 
most notorious offenders for prosecution in y® Exchequer, but if that 
is not approved I beg I may know, that they may not go unpunished. 
I beg you will let me have an answer by y* next post, and also 
whether you think there will be a prosecution of those bound over to 
the Assizes. 

XIV. Mr. Withers, Surveyor-General, to Tho». Herbert, 

July 5, 1727. 
Am glad you are like to recover most of y* timber stolen, but beg 
you to be very circumspect. You may sell it to the people who are 
possessed of it, or otherwise, in your discretion, provided you get j^ 
best price. The keepers must not, at their peril, touch one stick of 
y" tops 5 let thena also be sold to the King's best advantage. Mr. 
Cracherode, the Solicitor to the Treasury, will send a lawyer down to 
you in a day or two, to prepare for the prosecutions. You will consult 
& agree with him, (and with Mr. W^arner for so much as relates to 
Salcey forest,) who is and who is not to be prosecuted, and who in a 
more rigorous manner in the Exchequer. Some way shall be found 
to gratify the keepers for their extraordinary trouble, 

XV. Thomas Herbert to Mr. Wither. July 13, 1727. 

I rec^ yours of y" ^^ from w**- I expected that a person would 
have been sent down before this to prosecute y' offenders. I saw my 
Liord Halifax yesterday, who said it would be most proper to prosecute 
only some few of y* most notorious, and continue the rest upon their 
recognizanqes, and that he thought y* Timber should be sold imme- 
diately. I told His Lship. that I should have great diflSculty in selling 
it, for several persons who conveyed it away were at first desirous of 
buying it, but now refuse, fancying they shall have it without buying. 
And no unconcerned person cares to buy at any rate without a Pro- 
tection, some of the Towns having threatened any that shall take the 
Timber away. I wish you would send a person down to sell it, with 
some strict order from y* Governm'. whereby the country may be 
made sensible of their errors, and that I am not the author of y* 
prosecutions, which I am now suspected of, and am threatened by 
many, even to be murdered by them. I believe many of 'em would 
not sticl^ to do it privately, nor do I think I shall ever live quietly in 
this place, for many of my neighbours are very much exasperated 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 135 

against me. However I hope an entire stop is put to the destruction 
of y* timber," and that the major part of y* offenders may not feel 
the severity of y" prosecutions, and I beg that I may have as little 
hand in it as possible, any farther than as evidence. Am conscious that 
I have done no more than my duty, without favour or affection to any. 
Have marked all timber that I know of, but I hear of 2 or 3 trees 
that are concealed wh. I shall try to find out. No tree has been cut 
down since this day fortnight. 

XVI. Thomas Herbert to Mr. Wither. July 20, 1727. 

Am surprized y* I have not heard from you since y* 5th. No 
person has been sent down to conduct y* prosecutions, nor have I any 
account from you of what I am to do at y* Assizes, wh. makes me 
very uneasy. If I hear nothing before y* Assizes, (wh. are at Buck- 
ingham next Monday and at Northampton y' next day,) I shall not 
think it safe for me to appear at all, though I am bound to prosecute, 
for the country will then conclude that what I have done has been 
without any authority from the Gov** I can't sell one stick of y' 
timber that was taken away. If nobody appears in this matter, I 
must not appear out of my house. But I beg I may hear from you 
by y* next post. 

XVII. Mr. Wither to Thos. Herbert. July 20, 1727. 

The business of y* approaching elections has brought me to Hall 
for a day or two, when your's came last night, but am returning again 
to London. Am sorry you cannot dispose of y® timber and much 
more so that you apprehend any inconvenience yourself from your 
zealous activity in this affair, but you must recollect that all persons 
who oppose a lawless authority are at first the objects of their rage, 
as it was with us when we destroyed the blacks in this part of the 
world, but that passion soon stood over and we are now quiet, and so 
I am sure it will be with you, especially when they see the Governm* 
undertakes to prosecute y' offenders. Mr. Paxton, the Solicitor to the 
Treasury, or his Agent, I hope is with you by this time, and he will 
follow my L*' Halifax's opinion and advice in the prosecution. Some 
he will not prosecute at y® Assizes but inform against in y® Exchequer, 
and that I leave to y' discretion, since you, with my L^ Halifax's 
advice, must needs be the best judge, and to make some examples is 
all we require. I must beg you to persist in seizing and selling all 
the other wood and warranting it to those who buy it, since leaving it 
to them would be to tolerate their stealing it. Mr. Paxton or his 
Agent will assist you with his advice. If you think it necessary to 
have any person to assist you in selling y* timber let me know it in 



136 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

town, and I will send some person to you, but I hope and believe you 
will do it alone. Have wrote by this post to Lord Halifax and to 
Mr. Paxton in London, & do not doubt that all things will be settled 
at y* Assizes to every body's satisfaction. 

XVIIL Mr. Wither to Thomas Herbert. July 22, 1727. 
Am now with Mr. Paxton who sets out to-morrow to Buckingham, 
where I would have you and Warner meet him. He had been with 
you before but has been forced to attend other tryals of the like 
natiu-e. He will direct and advise you in all things much better than 
I can. For God's sake dispose of the timber by all ways you can, 
in such manner as may be best for the King's service, without 
offending the country by any uncommon ill-usage. You may be sure 
your zeal in this affair will entitle you to some reward, wh. I shall 
take care to recommend in the best manner I am able. 

XIX. Nicholas Paxton, Solicitor to the Treasury, to Thomas 
Herbert. Southampton Buildings July 22, 1727. 
Will set out to-morrow and desires T. H. and Mr. Warner to 
meet him at the sign of the Dog in Stony Stratford, on Monday at 10 
o'clock, with the Informations and Evidence, in order to consult as to 
the proceedings. Is told there is a sign of the Dog, but being a 
stranger in Stony Stratford, may be mistaken j will be found at one 
of the Inns. Jambs Herbert Cooke, f.s.a. 

(To be continued), 

108. — Headlands (64). — In a note on Local Dialect (64) you 
mention " Headland : an edging of grass to a ploughed field." 

In all fields which have been under plough cultivation, the ground 
is left in the familiar ridges and furrows, and the piece of ground 
between two furrows is called a *' land." In the Southern part of the 
County the term " headland " (by the labourers pronounced ^' adlan '*) 
is given to that piece of groimd which is used at each end of the Jield 
to turn the plough upon, and which is then ploughed in a direction at 
right angles to the remainder of the field leaving a 'Mand " at right 
angles to the other " lands " and so called *' headland." 

Furrow is in South Northants called "Thurrowi" is this a more 
ancient form of the word ? 

It is curious to note how much of the pasture land — "grinsard" — 
"greensward" — of our County betrays the ancient plough cultivation 
by shewing the ridges and furrows, and in the majority of cases there 
is no clue as to the date when this old arable land was converted into 
pasture. C. E. Crick. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 137 

109. — Local Dialect (43, 64). — I have heard the following 
words and expressions in the northern part of the county, none of 
which are in the glossaries of Baker or Sternberg. £d. 

Lambing-blast : a name given to severe weather, cold and windy, 

which often conies in March soon after the lambs are born. 
Lay down : to advance money. A rent-collector, having got all the 

Michaelmas rents but one of small amount, told the landlord he 

would lay that down, meaning that he would pay it and recover 

it from the tenant when he could. 
Like, to like oneself : to be pleased and satisfied. A mother sending 

her daughter off for a week's visit told her that if she liked 

herself she might stay longer. 
Limber : supple, pliant. 

Loadened : laden: "the bees are leadened with honey." 
Long-legged shepherd : the crane-fly, daddy long-legs. 
Loosen : loose: ''some o* my tiles got loosen." 
Mash : to smash, pound up, as in " mashed potatoes : " "I fell down 

and the horse's hoof mashed my hand.'* 
Mashy : applied to damp climate : query, marshy ? 
Mould : exact likeness : " she's the mould of her father." 
Moulter : to moult, of fowls. 
Nail-passer : a gimlet. 
Needified : in great need : the overseer said of a married couple, 

apparently above the labouring class, that they were " as needified 

as anybody." 
Nettle-day : a name for the 29th of May, because those who do not 

"shew their oak" on that day are liable to be stung with a 

bunch of nettles. I heard of a postman delivering some nettles 

among the letters, where the housemaid was unprovided with 

oak. 
Nows and thens : occasionally. 

110. — Hue and Cry. — ^The following Extracts from a Record 
of Quarter Sessions for the year 1687 throw some light on the 
unquiet nature of the times and the summary way in which justice 
was vindicated : — 

"Paschae, 1687. Upon the humble petition of Mr. John Hasle- 
wood of Kettering in this county Woollen Draper, shewing that he 
being one of the constables of the Parish of Kettering aforesaid, and 
a Hue and Cry coming to his hand to apprehend and seize three 
persons who had committed a Robbery upon the Lady Bougbton's 
coach upon Hillmorton Heath in the County of Warwicke, and that 
he suspecting three persons at that time at the Swan Inn in Kettering 



138 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

aforesaid^ tooke with him severall of his neighbours, and went to 
seize them in the Inn^ bat before he cotld get thither they were 
escaped^ whereupon he tooke his horse and pursued them, and ov^r- 
takeing them ventured his life, in an Engagement with them, wherein 
his horse (being of the value of ten pounds) was killed under him, 
and a case of pistolls of the value of ffortj shillings taken from him, 
after which he procured a fresh horse and pursued, and engaged them 
againe till one of the said iheeves was killed, and afterwards pursued 
the other two till his horse was tired and they escaped, who thereupon 
humbly prayed this court to finde out some meanes to recompense 
him for his said loss and Damages. It is therefore ordered that the 
said Mr. John Haslewood be allowed the summe of Ten Pounds to 
recompense him for his said loss ; and that the Treasurers for this 
County or one of them do pay him the same at the next Sessions 
whose receipt upon a coppy of this present Order be to them or such 
of them as shall pay it a sufficient Discharge for the same." 

" Upon the humble Petition of Thomas Edy of Harrowden in this 
County, It is ordered that he the said Thomas Edy be allowed the 
summe of ffifty shillings to be paid him by the Treasurers for this 
County or one of them at the next Sessions towards reimbursing him 
such charges as he hath lately been putt to upon the occasion of his 
killing a certain Theefe or high-way man near Sywell in this County, 
upon the pursuit of a Hue and Cry against the said high-way man 
and his fellowes for a Robbery by them then lately committed, whose 
receipt upon a coppy of this Order, shall be to them or such of them 
as shall pay it, a sufficient discharge for the same." 

J. A. GOTCH. 

111. — Carlyle at Naseby. — In Froude*s recently published 
Thomas Carlyle is given a letter to Mrs. Aitkin describing briefly 
Carlyle's visit to Dr. Arnold at Rugby in 1842, and telling how they 
together explored the field of Naseby. Readers of " N. N. & Q." 
will be glad to have this letter inserted in its pages. 

"To Mrs. AitUn, Dumfries. 

"Chelsea: May 10, 1842. 
"I had from Scotsbrig appointed to pause about seventy miles from 
London, and pay a visit to a certain Oxford dignitary of distinction, 
one Dr. Arnold, Master of Rugby School. I would willingly have 
paid five Pounds all the day to be honourably off 5 but it clearly 
revealed itself to me ' thou should'st veritably go,' so at Birmingham 
I booked myself and went. Right well that I did so, for the contrary 
would have looked like the work of a fool 5 and the people all at 
Rugby were of especial kindness to me, and I was really glad to have 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 139 

made their acquaintance. Next day theyMrove me ov^r some fifteen 
miles off to see the field of Naseby fight — Oliver Cromwell's chief 
Wtle, or one of his chief. It was a grand scene for me — Naseby. 
A venerable hamlet^ larger than Middlebie^ all built of mud, but trim 
with high peaked roofs, and two feet thick of smooth thatch on them, 
and plenty of trees scattered round and among. It is built as on the 
brow of the Hagheads at Ecclefechan 5 Cromwell lay with his back 
to that, and King Charles was drawn up as at WuU Welsh's — only 
the Sinclair bum must be mostly dried, and the hollow much wider 
and deeper. They flew at one another, and Cromwell ultimately 
' brash ed him all to roons.' I plucked two gowans and a cowslip 
from the burial heaps of the slain, which still stand as heaps, but 
sunk away in the middle. At seven o'clock they had me home 
again, dinnered, and off in the last railway train." 

112. — William Caret, D.D. — I have been searching for par- 
ticulars of Carey, as a Botanist, but have not succeeded in getting 
any. Dr. Cleghom, formerly of India, now of Edinburgh, lent me 
a volume of an old periodical, published in India, which contained 
several interesting pieces written by Carey, as Secretary of a newly 
formed Botanical Society j but these supply no information respecting 
his early history or subsequent progress in relation to Botany. I shall 
be glad if any readers of " N. N. & Q." can refer me to any sources 
from which such information could be derived. 

50, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. John Walcot. 

The above William Carey was a native of Paulerspury, co. Nor- 
thants. He was born in 1761, and died in India, in 1834. He was 
for a few years pastor of a Baptist, congregation at Moulton, in this 
county, but most of his English work was at Leicester. In 1793 he 
left for India. The following passage, from Baker's Northampton- 
shire, vol. II, p. 210, bears upon our correspondent's query : — 

" He had the choicest garden of any private European in India ; 
and when Dr. Roxburgh returned to his native country, the keys of 
the government botanic gardens were at his request committed to 
Dr. Carey, who in 18 12 printed the Hortus Bengal ensis or catalogue 
of the plants in the Company's botanic gardens at Calcutta. The 
manuscripts of his friend Roxburgh were committed to his care, 
which he edited under the title of The Flora Medico^ first in two 
volumes in 1821-1824; and afterwards in three volumes in 1832. 
The Agricultural and Horticultural society of India originated in the 
prospectus issued by Dr. Carey from the Mission House, Serampore, 
in 1820." Ed. 

s 2 



140 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

113- — ^The Last of the Saundersons. — A melancholy interest 
attaches to the last member of an ancient county family -, such as 
was the Rev. Thomas Sanderson (I spell the name as he used to spell 
it), of Addington Parva, whose ancestors held the manors of Adding- 
ton and of Moulton from remote times, and whose genealogy was so 
ably and clearly set forth in your last impression (10 1 J. 

I remember the last Sanderson, squire-vicar of Addington 
well, as a neighbour and friend 5 and was called upon to perform 
the last offices of the church, at his burial in Addington church-yard 
in the year i8jj. And therefore it is possible for me to supply a few 
reminiscences of the occasion which would otherwise perish for ever. 

I was then recently in holy orders and was curate to the Rev. 
Daniel Crofts (rector of Shelton, Beds., and Mr. Sanderson's oldest 
friend). Mr. Crofts was, like the vicar of Addington, a scion of an 
old county stock — the Crofts family, of Sussex — and given to the 
same tastes 5 — both in fact were squire-parsons of the old school, — the 
one well known in the Oakley and Fitzwilliam fields, the other 
devoted to coursing. Both were kind and generous to the poor. 

A sister of mine, who was given to the dangerous practice of 
making sketches of our neighbours, drew the vicar of Addington (in 
a sketch still existing) surrounded by his dogs, who are leaping upon 
him in all directions — like Actaeon being devoured by his hounds. 
This very reminiscence shows the kindly nature of the man, and that 
his greyhounds loved him as much as they feared him. 

I think I have heard my rector. Crofts, say that Thomas Sanderson 
had a disappointment in his youth, the cause of his remaining ever a 
bachelor. Thus some hasty word of the moment, spoken by some 
belle (and regretted perhaps the next minute,) may have caused an 
ancient family to come to an end. 

But though a confirmed old bachelor when I knew him, he was 
kindly and genial, and loved by his parishioners, and very courteous 
in his manners, especially to the ladies. 

Why I was asked, as quite a young man, to read the funeral 
service, I don't know : perhaps the rest of his older clerical friends 
present did not feel equal to it : perhaps I was asked as representing 
not only my father (another old neighbour), but his oldest and dearest 
friend Crofts, who happened to be disabled by an attack of gout. 

I was given in those days to diary keeping, and will end this 
notice by an extract or two : — 

*' March 11, 18 jj. (Sunday). News came [to Shelton] of poor 
Mr. Sanderson's death just as I was going to church — great blow to 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 141 

Mr. Crofts. Brawn, of Addington, came over to tell Mr. C. — Died 
this morning early. Went to talk to Mr. Crofts about it after Church.*' 

*' March 12. Called on Malim [vicar of Higham Ferrers] about 
poor Sanderson. He came in from Addington while I was there. 
No will. He had cancelled one, leaving legacies to the tune of more 
than «^4,ooo — of which one of s£2oo to Malim." 

"March 17. To poor Sanderson's funeral 5 rode to Stanwick 
Rectory 3 Mr. Sargeaunt took me on in his dogcart ; found I had to 
officiate -, large attendance 5 real, as well as " decent sorrow, decent 
tears." The clergy besides myself were Roberts, Sargeaunt, Malim, 
Tyley, Sutton 3 Laymen — Hopkinson, Bumham, Wilkins, Goodman, 
Knight (Senr. and Junr.), Williams, Gregory, J. Young, Eland. 
The Village Quire sang Ps. xxiii. (old vers.) very touchingly. 
Quite melted at it. Many tears and sobs in the congregation. A 
clergyman's funeral in his own church a very touching thing. ' Lord 
Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.* Grave 
close under the east wall of the chancel. The brass plate on the 
coffin is to be fixed up in the church to the last of the Sandersons, 
Lunch after funeral in the drawing-room. We began to be merry 
over it. Such is man ! " 

Miss E. Saunderson Etough, his cousin, informs me that no 
sale would have taken place if the heir-at-law (her brother) had 
not been very ill at the time and unable to attend to anything 5 
and she and her sisters were abroad. She would be most grateful to 
anyone into whose hands any Saunderson relics came at the sale, if 
they would give her information (through the editor or writer of this 
notice,) as a matter of family and antiquarian interest. 

A note may be made here for the information of posterity, that 
several sepulchral slabs with Sanderson (or Saunderson) epitaphs lie 
buried with their faces down, under the new encaustic tiling of the 
sanctuary of Little Addington chancel. 

If these ancient records in our churches must give place to Minton 
and Co., is it not better to build them into the walls in some less 
prominent part of the church, so that their silent and venerable faces 
could still speak to us of bygone times ? Rob. S. Baker. 

114. — Fire at Wellingborough, 1738 (106). — I send an 
extract from the minutes of the Bath Corporation, which shews how 
far-reaching was the sympathy evoked by the above disastrous fire. 

*' 1738. The Corporation of Bath gave a donation of 10 Guineas 
to the poor Sufferers at Wellingborough in Northamptonshire." 

J. T. Irvine. 



142 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

115« — HiQHAM Ferrers Taxation, 1629. — The original 
from which the following fe taken is in the collection of Mr. W. J. 
Lamb, of Sutton-on-Hull. The names towards the conclusion are 
almost obliterated, and the lines giving the sum total wholly so. 

*' Higham fFerrers A taxacon made by the Churchwardens for the 
repaireinge of the Churche and defrayinge other charges the xxjth 
day of Novemb' in the ffifte yeere of y Raigne of o* soueraigne 
Lorde Charles nowe Kinge of Englande &c An", dni 1629 y« 
taxation is layde at xij^ a yarde lande ij** a cowe & buUocke & iiij** 
a score of sheepe 

Henrie fFreeman Maior 
Arthure Goodday Esqr 
Thomas Rudde gent 
Roger Goodday gent 
John Jackson Alder 
John fFetche Alder 
Xpher Rudde gent 
Henrie ffreeman Alder 
Mathias Steanes Alder if \f 
Nicholas Leonarde Clark xx° 



io« 



io« 



Vja 



XVj" 



Jacob ffreer Clarke 

M™. Pemberton vid 

Greorge Tuke iiij' 

Creorge Chichely : 

Humphrie Barneiam 2* 

Thomas Burge 

ffrancisca Linnekre vid 

Martine Creake 

Nathaniell Agutter ij' 

William Mathewe 

William Dewberie i* vi*^ 

Nicholas £ckes 

George Barree & fFr 

Thomas Sanders 

Thomas Simpson ij* 

Thomas Sanderson tanner ij* 

John Sabie 

John Moore 

Alexander Whitticke iij" 

Roberte Simpson 

John Smithe glover 

Roberte Rudde 



xviij<* 



vij* 

xviij** 

xij* 



xviij*^ 

xijd 

xijd 



xijd 



xij^ 
viij* 
viij** 



Thomas Peter 

Tho : Bay lie 

1 horaas Eaton 

John Streame 

Zachar Linnekre 

George Burge 

Alexander Spencer 

fFrancis Wingrave 

Roberte Skinner 

Thomas Wright hush : 

Tho : Wright Mason 

John Simpson 

John Sanderson iij« 

John Marryott 

Tho : Coo 

Weekley Gente 

Tho: GifForde 

Rich: Lingarde 

Rich: Daye ij« 

Sam Eaton 

Mary Linnekre vid 

John Smithe baker 

John ffeasante 

Peter Leonarde 

Robert Gascoigne 

Jeremie Hodgkin 

William Reanoldes 

Rich : Baylie 

Reanolde Mason vi' 

Rich: Leverocke 

Roberte Astell 

Wid Groue 



xijd 

xviij** 

xviij<* 

xviij* 

xijd 

xviij 

xij* 



;d 



xviij* 
vid 

vid 

ijd 

xijd 

xviij* 

xij* 

xij* 

vjd 

m]^ 

ji\f 

xviij* 

viij* 

iiij* 

xijd 

XXd 

xijd 
xij* 

iijd 
vjd 

vjd 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 143 



Daniell fHawne 


ijd 


Edwarde Selbie Sr. 


ijd 


Reanolde Allcepp 


^d 


John Burge 


viij* 


Barricke Marshall 


iiij* 


John Berrie 


yjd 


Rich : Langley 


't 


James Browne 


ijd 


Edw: Selbie Ju'. 


iijd 


Wid: Simpson & 




Tho: Beebie 


ijd 


Arthur Wright 


vjd 


John Hilliar 


iij* 


Henrie GefFerie 


viijd 


M™ : Jackson vid 


iiij* 


William Savadge 


iiijd 


Paule Jackson 


ij"» 


Edw : Dunce 


iiijd 


Mathew fflawne 


yf 


Tho : Negus 


xxd 


Peter Simpson 


vjd 


firancis Smarte 


ijd 


John Broughton 


ij* 


John fflinte 


xijd 


Rich : Umpherie 


iiij* 


Edw: Sanderson 


ij* 


Tho : Danforde 


ij* 


Henrie Coxe 


vjd 


Edmunde Berridge 


ij' 


Margarett Eckles vid 


xiid 


Tho: Blofeilde 


xx-» 


Arthure Eckles 


Xd 


Wid Huilt 


ij« 


Tho : ffreeman 


vi* 


William Smithe 


ijd 


John Allin 


xijd 


Tho : Miles 


vj- 


David Quintin 


xijd 


John Woodwarde 


vjo 


Joseph Barricke 


ijd 


Willmer Mayle 


ijo 


Barnarde Wadnoe 


vj- 


Edwarde Hopkins 


ijd 


Rich : Birde 


xijd 


Jo: Lambe 


vjd 


Tho : Cooper 


iiijd 


Robert Edie 


ijd 


Henrv Trenton 


ijd 


William Bruer 


ijd 


Jo : Marryott shoemaker 


ijd 


Josephe Linne 


iii]*^ 


ffrancis ffreeman 


xijd 


William Carter 


yjd 


Jhon Sylbie 


iiij* 


Robert Richards 


ijd 


(No christian name, surname 


Iseraell Gamer 


,j« 


illegible) 


iiij* 


William Baylie 


ij- 


ffr tabartho (?) 


vjd 


Wid Stevenson 


Vjd 


William Langly 


ij" 


Tho: Wallis 


iiij* 


flrauncys Rude 


iij* 


John Hills 


iiij* 


Edward Bunson 


ijd 


Wid : Surgant 


xij^ 


Samuell Eaton 


ijd 


Wid Todde 


ij* 


Wid Bo 


iiijd 


Robert Page 


ijd 


Jhon .... 


• • - 

Ijd 



116. — Tom White, the Burghley Postman (99). — I have 
never seen a portrait of this worthy on his pony " Gipsey." Tommy 
White, who is still in the flesh, an inmate of Lord Burghley's 
Hospital, tells me that it was once, many years back, proposed to have 
him and his pony taken ; but, as he did not sit, he supposed it was 
never done^ " leastaways he never heerd of, or seen one.** J. S. 



144 Northamptonshire Notes and Qtceries. 

117. — Floods in 1607. — Is there any record, in parish registers 
or elsewhere, of damage done in this county by the great floods of 
1607 ? A rare tract about these floods has recently been reprinted by 
Mr. E. E. Baker, of Weston-super-Mare. It is entitled " 1607. ^ 
true report of certaine wonderful! overflowings of Waters, now lately 
in Summersetshire, Norfolke, and other places of England : destroying 
many thousands of men, women, and children, overthrowing and 
bearing downe whole townes and villages, and drowning infinite 
numbers of sheepe and other Cattle.*' In this tract there is no 
mention of Northamptonshire : but some places in Huntingdonshire 
suffered, and Bourn^ in Lincolnshire, not more than 8 miles from the 
border of this county, '* was overflowed to the midway of the height 
of the Church." M. M. D. 

118. — County Members. — Particulars as to any of the fol- 
lowing will be very welcome. 

Leigh, Lancashire. W. D. PiNK. 

I J47. Henry Williams, of Alderton. 
John Coope, of Coope Ashby. 
^552-3. Robert Lane. (Qy. afterwards knight ?) 
1 60 1. Sir William Lane, knight. 
1627-8. Francis Nicolls. 
1654. Thomas Brook. 
1636. William Boteler, major-general. 

Alexander Blake, colonel. 
1658-9. William Lisle, of Evenley. 
1 661. George Clerk. 
1 68 j . Edward Mountague. (Qy . brother to 3rd earl of Manchester ?) 

Canon's- Ashby was at one time called Cope's Ashby, from sir 
John Cope, who obtained the monastic property in that lordship 
towards the end of Henry viii's reign, but he does not appear to have 
had a son named John. Was he himself member for the county 
before he was knighted ? 

There is no Robert Lane given as member in the list in Bridges. 

Francis Nicolls may have been the son of Francis Nicolls, 
governor of Tilbury Fort, and nephew and heir of sir Augustine 
Nicolls, of Faxton. He was created baronet in 1641, and died the 
same year. 

There was an Edward Montagu, of Horton, born 1649, grandson 
of the first earl of Manchester, brother of the first earl of Halifax^ 
and father of the second earl. Was he the county member in i68j ? 

Many particulars of the Lane family, of Horton, are given in 
Bridges. Ed. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 145 

119. — The Washingtons. — The writer of this was requested 
in the first instance to describe certain coats of arms on glass of the 
Washingtons and alh'ances. It appeared that Baker*s history of the 
family and their residence, contained in vol. i., 513-520, was capable 
of emendation and enlargement. The following notice, therefore, is 
a supplement to his account. 

No Northamptonshire family has in modern times had so much 
attention paid' to its branches, alliances, and residences, as the 
Washingtons, owing to the supposed descfent of President Washing- 
ton from the Sulgrave family. Numerous Americans have studied 
the evidences here, and English emigrants to America have interested 
themselves in the history of the family for the sake of their adopted 
country. 

The family seems not to have risen here above the rank of middle- 
class gentry. The first of the family mentioned in the pedigree given 
in Baker's history of the county was John Washington, of Whitfield, 
in Lancashire. His great grandson was Laurence Washington, who 
was mayor of Northampton in 1J32 and 1545, and one of the 
original trustees of the Northampton Free Grammar School named 
in Thomas Chipsey's Deed of Foundation, 1541^ — to whom in 1538-9 
the manor of Sulgrave with lands lately belonging to the dissolved 
priories of St. Andrew, Northampton, Canons Ashby, and Catesby, 
were granted by the king. He died in 1583-4 leaving Robert his 
son, heir; who jointly with his son Laurence sold the manor of 
Sulgrave in 16 10. The manor house at Sulgrave was probably built 
by the first Laurence soon after his acquisition of the estate, but if 
we are to accept the date on the glass (1588) described below, as the 
date of the house, it was built by Robert who afterwards sold it. 
The Laurence who with his father sold Sulgrave, and his brother 
Robert, settled at Brington and were buried there. 

The pedigree of the family is given in Baker's History, vol. i., 
P- S^^3^ the inscription at Sulgrave at p. 519, and the inscriptions at 
Brington in vol. i., pp. g^, 94. See also The Washingtons, by 
the Rev. J. N. Simpkinson (formerly Rector of Brington), 8vo., i860. 

According to Baker, the last-named Laurence had amongst other 
sons John and Laurence, who emigrated to America, and from the 
first of whom was descended Greorge Washington, the first President 
of the United States. It has been shown by Col. Chester in The 
Herald and Genealogist of August, 1866, that there is no evidence 
that the John and Laurence who emigrated were the John and 
Laurence the sons of Laurence who died in 1 616, or that they came 
from this county, and that there is strong presumptive evidence against 

T 



146 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

the identity. Unfortunately, Baker*s pedigree has been accepted 
as correct by nearly all enquirers from his day to the present. It was 
only a coincidence that a John and Laurence Washington, of the 
Sulgrave family^ existed at about the same period as another John 
and Laurence Washington emigrated to America. 

There was a family of Laurence in Dorset, originally from the 
North of England, who quartered Washington, but the alliance has 
not been found; although no doubt from this alliance the name 
Laurence became a Christian name in the Sulgrave family. It is 
therefore almost certain that the alliance took place in early times in 
the North of England. 

The manor farm of 210 acres, together with the house, lately the 
property of Col. the Hon. H. Hely Hutchinson is now the property 
of his grandson, Arthur Reynell Pack, Esq. The remains of the 
ho use will be described in the April part of " N. N. & Q." 
\J In the windows of Fawsley Church are numerous coats of arms 

connected with the Knightleys, which are inserted in the windows 
in the usual way. There are also 6 shields connected with 
Washingtons, and as there is no genealogical reason why they 
should be there they have puzzled many observers. There is reason 
for thinking that they have been brought from the manor house at 
Sulgrave, but it is not now known by whom, or to whom they were 
given. Two of the shields are in the s. window of the chancel, and 
four in the w. window of the s. wall of the s. aisle. 

Each shield is surrounded by elaborate mantling or by a wreath 
attached to the shield by clips or scrolls, so that each may be called 
" a composition," and approaches an oval in form. These compo- 
sitions are not inserted in the windows, but are hung inside them. ^/ 
r^ At Weston, in the possession of Lady Hanmer, are two similar 
compositions which are known to have come from the manor house 
at Sulgrave^and these make it almost certain that those at Fawsley came 
from the same place. Baker, writing in 1820-30, states that "within 
these last few years the arms and alliances of the family ornamented 
the kitchen window." Therefore in the following notice of them 
the eight compositions are described in chronological order so far as 
possible. The names of the owners are placed below the shields. 

ff^ No. 1, at Fawsley : Shield, 6iin. x4Jin., Argent 2 bars Gules, in 
chief 3 mullets of the second. In the fess point a crescent Gules for 
difference for the second sovif Crest, a raven Proper rising from a 
ducal crown on a helmet. Below the shield 

Wassh[ington] 
Over and on each side of the shield is elaborate mantling of which 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 147 

the upper side is white and the supposed under side where turned over 
is coloured crimson. The outlines are in dark brown. The whole 
composition is I ft. 6Jin. ^ift. lin. The Washingtons of Sulgrave 
were descended from Robert Washington, who was the second 
son of John Washington, of Whitfield, co. Lane, and hence the^^ 
crescent for difference. (See plate.) ^#^e account of arms in the 
porch further on. It is supposed that the American arms of the 
stars and stripes was taken from the Washington arms. 

I No. 2, at Weston : Shield, 8jin. x 7iin. Washington ac bofow, - C^^^f^ 
impaling Sable three trouts or lucies hauriant in fess Argent, a chief 
Or. Below the shield 

Wasshington V 

AND KiTSON 

[John Wafihington and Mary Eitson] 
The shield is encircled with a wreath, attached to the shield by 
eight clips or scrolls. The wreath is of steel — coloured blue, with 
inserted small leaves of green colour. The whole composition is ift. / 
' 7iin. X ift. liin. (See plate Ji^^, i,a «/)* 
/p No. 3, at Fawsley: Shield 8Jin. x7iin. Washington as before, 
with crescent in outline, impaling Barry of four Or and Sable three 
mascles 2 and i counterchanged. Below the shield 

Wasshingto 

AND PeRGITER 

[Laurence Washington and Amee Pargiter] 
Around the shield a wreath and clips as No. 2. The size of the 
whole as No. 2. 

No. 4, at Fawsley : Shield, 8Jin. x 7iin. Washington as before, 
impaling Gules a chevron between three swans Arg. Below the shield 

Washijtgto 

AND LiGHTB 

[Bobert Washington and Elizabeth Lighte] 
Around the shield a wreath and clips as No. 2. The size of the^ / 
whole as No. 2. "^ 

/ No. 5, at Wieston : Shield, 8Jin. x 7iin. Washington as before, 
impaling Azure a chevron between three covered cups Or. Above 
the shield, 1588. Below the shield 

Washington 
AND Butler 
[Laurence Washington and Margaret Bntler] 
Around the shield a wreath and clips as No. 2. The size of the J 
whole as No. 2. 

T 2 



148 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Il No. 6, at Fawsley: Shield, 8;in.x7iin. Argent on a cross 
Sable, 5 lions rampant Or, impaling Washington with crescent as 
before. Above the shield, 1588. Below the shield is an inscription 
much obliterated 

^ ? A Son of 

I7 Mc ? Wakelyn Married 

punstear of Pa spinster of 

Washingeton ^ Washington. 

[Alban Wakelyn and Anne Washington] 
In the Washington pedigree in Baker, Anne daughter of Robert 
Washington, married an Alban Wakelyn, and this Alban is almost 
certainly the Alban who sold Eydon in 1600, mentioned in Baker's 
History, vol. I., 504, but to whom no wife is given. Around the 
shield a wreath and clips as No. 2. The size of the whole as No. 2. 

No. 7, at Fawsley : Shield, 8Jin. x 7iin. Washington as before, 
impaling Sable 2 pallets Argent, a canton Ermine. Below the shield 
Wasshingto 
AND (blank) 
The wife's name is not filled in. This is the coat of Newce of Herts, 
and Norfolk. No such marriage appears in the pedigree, but an 
Elii5abeth Washington married Francis Mewce of Holdenby. It is 
possible that some Washington whose wife is not named in the pedigree 
married a Newce. Burke gives the coat of Meus as Paly of six Argent 
and Azure on a chief gules three crescents of the first. It is at least odd 
that the coats of both Newce and Meus should be Paly, and it is possible 
that Mewce has been mis-written Newce in some Visitation or other 
document. Around the shield a wreath and clips as No. 2. The size 
of the whole as No. 2. 

No. 8, at Fawsley : Shield, 8Jin. x 7iin. This shield and 
composition has been mutilated. The wreath and scrolls show that 
it was one of the Washington series, but the shield has had the 
Washington coat and impaled coat (if any) broken out, and a con- 
fused combination of Knightley quarters inserted. Above the shield 
is part of the Washington crest. Around the shield a wreath and 
clips as No. 2, The size of the whole as No. 2. 

All the shields from Sulgrave have the crescent for difference. 
The shields on the spandrils of the porch have not. Of the two 
monuments at Brington that to Robert Washington has the crescent 
as the second son of Robert Washington, of Sulgrave, but that to 
Laurence Washington has no crescent. President Washington did 
not use the crescent. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 149 

At Sulgrave Laurence Washing toil (who died in 1583) is styled 
"Gent.** Laurence Washington (who died in 1616) is ** Gent." 
At Brington, Robert Washington (who died in 1622) is "Gent,** son 
of Robert Washington of Solgrave, " Esquire." On this point see 
Hartshorne's Recumbent Effigies under Andrews of Charwelton. ^:::i/ 

Brass at Sulgrave: Baker, writing about 1820-30, states under 
Sulgrave church " On a gray slab the arms of Washington, Beneath 
a small brass figure is inscribed 'Here lyeth, &c. . .* " Contrary 
to his custom he has transcribed the old English into modern character. 
As he has made several mistakes in his transcript, the inscription is 
here reproduced : — 

"Here lyeth buried y« bodys of Laurence WashingtS Gent & 
Amee his | W3rf by whome he had issue iiij sons & vij daughts w* 
laurence dyed y^ day of | an° i j & Amee deceassed 

the VI day of October an° Dni 1564." | 

Laurence Washington died Feb. 19, 1583-4. His wife was a 
daughter of Robert Pargiter, of Gretworth. The most important 
error is putting ''Anne " for "Amee," and this he has repeated in the 
pedigrees of Washington and Pargiter. When Hudson copied the 
brass about 18 jo he omitted the coat of arms. This is 6fin. 
and j|in., and has been enamelled. A few patches of enamel 
remain, but discoloured. It does not now shew traces of a 
crescent. Above the inscription is the headless figure of the man 
and the recess for the wife, whose effigy has been stolen. Below 
are four sons and seven daughters in two groups. See The Brasses of 
Northamptonshire, by Franklin Hudson,* folio, 1853, plate 11. He 
has " Amee " in the plate, and " Anne " in the text. 

The Washington monument was near the e. end of the s. aisle. 
The church has lately undergone great alterations. Several vaults 
were found and amongst others one under the Washington slab, but 
this was shown by a coffin plate to be that of Lydia Jackson, who 
died in 1741. Amee Washington might have been buried in the same 
spot previously 5 but no evidence has been found to shew where she 
was buried) nor is there any record that Laurence was buried at 
Sulgrave. H. D. 

120. — Valentine's Day. — The Boys and girls of Ecton came 
round with the following salutation : — 

" Morrow, morrow, Valentine, 
Empty your purse & fill mine." 

This is mentioned in Cole's MS. diary for 1834, ^^^ ^s slightly 
different from the verses quoted in Baker's Glossary. 



150 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

121. — Election SauiBS. — The first of the following was 
issued in 1703, when the candidates were: — Sir Justinian Isham, 
bart. ', Thomas Cartwright^ esq. 3 lord Mordaunt ; and sir St. Andrew 
St. John, bart. The other two were circulated in 1806, the candidates 
at that time being : — Lord Viscount Althorp 5 William Ralph Cart- 
wright, esq. ', sir William Langham, bart. 

(1) The Northamptonshire Hs^lte. 
Let*8 Remember the Men, that go with us again, 

To Ghuse Knights that can afford, Sir^ 
To Serve without Pension, or other Pretension ; 

And Just and Eight is the word. Sir. 

As for those that have Pay, we have nothing to say ; 

Let the Soldier Live by his Sword, Sir : 
We^re for those that are known, to have Land of their own ; 

And Just and Bight is the word. Sir. 
If we chuse the Court Tools, they may well call us Fools, 

Tho' a Double Saint, and a Jjord, Sir : 
We are sure we can Trust both our Might and our Just ; 

And JtMt and Bight is the word, Sir. 

It will be seen that the burden of the above, '^ Just and Right '* 
refers to the names of the two first-named candidates, sir Justinian and 
Mr. Cartwright. The others, who were unsuccessful, are alluded to 
in the second line of the last verse. 

(2) I%e Freeholders* Besolution ; a New Song. Tune << Snug Little Island." 
The County one Day to the Sheriff did say. 

Indeed, Sir, we'll have a new Member ; 
The man we have hit on» of all that's in Britain, 

Is the man we'll elect in November : 
Oh ! oh ! he's the Lad for a Member ! 
Yes; Langhax's the Lad for a Member! 

Search the Country throughout, 

And you never will doubt, 
But Billy's the Lad for a Member. 

Independent Freeholders, astonish Beholders, 

Such Plumpers they give Billy Lanohak ! 
While our old Member Ralph, cannot e'en raise a Laugh, 

Nor e'er venture once to harangue 'em ! 
Oh! oh! he'll be try'd in November ! 
For Langhax's the Lad for a Member ! 

Search the Country throughout, 

And you never will doubt, 
But Billy's the Lad for a Member. 

A Peer's eldest son, from Althobp has run, 

To contend for a Seat for the County ; 
The Youth perhaps thought that our Votes might be bought. 

By the strength of the Treasury Bounty : 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 151 



(3) 



At the Poll let him give his attendance ; 

We'll shew him we like Independence ; 
And we*ll Vote in the Cause, 
Of blest Liberty's Laws, 

Of Lanqhak and our Independence. 
Written by a warm Friend to a good Cause, Noyember 6, 1806. 
8(mg for 1806. Tune " A Cobbler there was, and he liv*d in a Stall." 
A Statesman there is in a Cabinet lodged, 
Who the Kigfhts of the Commons has strangely hodg-podg'd ; 
For he sends his good Son, a gay, sprightly young Peer, 
Tho' a Member already, to stand for a Shire. 

Derry down down, high derry down. 
This Statesman observing some Counties asleep. 
Thought the Brains of his Country were not very deep ; 
So as Earldom and Gfurter were nothing at all. 

He wish'd, for his Grandeur, their Freedom to faU.—Derry down, &c. 
But the Commons arous'd stand out stiff for their lUghts, 
And demand for their Members two commoner Knights, 
Whom they mean to send up as their priests of St. Stephen, 
And thus make the national Balance more even. — Derry down, &c. 

122.— Hospital of S. John, Wellingborough. — About 
fifty years ago a shoemaker and antiquarian of Wellingborough found 
on a rubbish-heap an old seal. An engraving is here given of an 
impression taken from this seal. The 
rubbish is said to have been carted out of 
the town after the great fire that took place 
in 1738. The finder, Mr. William Cowper, 
was a distant relative of the poet's. The 
present whereabouts of the seal cannot 
now be discovered. It is believed to have 
belonged to a hospital of S. John. No men- 
tion is made of such a foundation in the 
county histories, or in Dugdale. In S. John's 
Street there is remaining an old wall which 
may have formed part of some ecclesiastical building. In Cole's History 
of Wellinghorough a tradition of the existence of this hospital is recorded, 
and the street above-named is thought to have derived its name from 
it. It should, however, be noted that for several hundred years there 
has been property in this parish belonging to S. John's Hospital, 
Northampton ; and possibly this seal may have been used by the Agent 
of that Hospital here. In front of an old house in this street is a 
representation of the Crucifixion, carved in stone, but much mutilated. 
It may have owed its origin to the monks of Crowland. For the loan 
of the impression from which the engraving has been taken our readers 
are indebted to Dr. Dally, of Wolverhampton. 




152 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

123.— Aldwinkle Deeds. — I forward a few notes of deeds 
relating to Aldwinkle which passed through my hands some years 
ago, thinking they may interest your readers. All the persons are of 
Aldwinkle unless otherwise desc^ribed. 

W. C. Boulter. 

i6ij. 9 Oct. Ric. Grubb, son of Ric. Grubbe, labourer, grants to 
Henry Goode, husbandman, a cottage between Ric. Foscott's 
and Boniface Bywater's, which he lately had by gift of his 
father. Consideration, £2^, 

1630. 9 Feb. Hen. By water, baker, grants to Eliz. and Temperance 
Sculthorp, spinsters, cottage between lien. Goode's and Boni- 
face Bywater's. Said cottage in 1614 was granted by Rob. 
Bjrwater, yeoman, to Rob. Baringe, of Keiston, co. Hunts., to 
use of said Hen. Bywater and his heirs for ever. Cons., £^ los. 

^^35* 9 Nov. Temperance Sculthorp, of Oundall, grants to sister 
Eliz. Dolbye and John, her husband, labourer, her half-share in 
cottage which they together bought (as in last deed) '* in 
consideration of natural love and affection.'* John Pyckering 
signs and seals as chief witness. 

1636. 4 July. Indenture between GryfEne Quynceye, of Wigs- 
thorpe, husbandman, and wife Eliz^., late wife to Hen. Goode, 
and Walter Goode, labourer, cousin and heir of Edw. Goode, son 
of said Hen. Goode. Walter is seized of cottage lately Grubbe' s, 
before Orton's, anciently Dickon's, in parish of S. Peter's, 
Aldwinkle, over against the parsonage, between tenements of 
Bywater and Foscott. Eliz. Quincey claims dower and thirds, 
and also certain pales, fences, doors, locks, &c., as executrix to 
her late son. Matter submitted to arbitration : Walter to pay 
4^4, and Eliz. to quit claim to dower, 

1665. 15 May. Indenture between above Walter and Eliz. Goode, 
and their son Hen. and his wife Mary 5 son releases to father 
interest in house in which father dwells, and pays ^8 ; father 
grants to son a messuage occupied by son, and tenement 
adjoining ; reserving to father right to fetch water from backside 
and orchard. Heraldic seal attached bears a fess between three 
estoiles. 

1682, 1 j Jan. Mortgage of messuage in Aldwinkle in possession 
of Hen. Goode, and occupation of his mother Jane, for 99 years, 
to secure repayment of ^^ 6s, orf., borrowed of Wm. Whish, 
of Waddenhoe, baker. 

1688. 16 Apr. £^ more borrowed on security of same. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 153 

124. — ^^The Northampton Miscellany." — A catalogue 
of the minor works in Northamptonshire bibliography would contain 
few of greater rarity than the little crown 8vo. periodical of which the 
full title runs as follows : — 

" The NorUiaxnpton MisceUany, or Honthly Amnsements, &o. Galonlated 
for the Diyeraion of the Country and tiie Profit of the Printer. Vol. I. 
January 81. 1720-1. Northampton : Printed by R. Raikes, and W. 
Dicey, and Sold by J. Weale, Bookseller in B^ord, Q-. Ratton, in 
Harborough, P. Gfibson, in Wisbech, and W. Peachy, near St. Bonnet's 
Church in Cambridge. (Pr. 6d, or 12d. per Quarter.)" 

It is doubtful whether the entire issue extended beyond four monthly 
numbers. 

The first thing that strikes one on an examination of the contents 
is^ that from first to last not a single fact regarding Northampton is 
chronicled. That function was already being discharged by the 
Northampton Mercury, started a few months before the Miscellany ; 
and that the public had thus early learnt to value the Mercury is 
shown by the appearance in the first number of the Miscellany of an 
apologetic '* Post-script,'* in which " our Weekly Readers ** are assured 
their fears are groundless that '' this Pamphlet would render us more 
remiss than usual in our Collection of the News 5" ''our Care shall 
on the contrary be redoubled." The Miscellany is full of one 
subject, and so reflects faithfully the state of the national mind at this 
date. That subject is the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. A 
sudden increase in the commerce of the country had brought on a 
mania for speculation. The South Sea Company led the way with 
promises of untold wealth from South America, and offers of a large 
reduction in the public debt in return for a monopoly of trade with 
that part of the world. The country lost its head, and in 1720 the 
inevitable crash came. Ruin was both deep and widespread, and so 
we are not surprised to find in this little country Miscellany an echo 
of the general cry for justice on the authors of all this misery, and 
many a bitter sarcasm at their expense. ' At the very beginning the 
'* Author " in his '* Dedication " says of himself— 

« He's poor indeed, but then he has some Sense, 
And a whole S. S. Stock of Impudence.*' 

Tlien *' foUowelh the Case of a young Gentlewoman, who had the 
Misfortune to be pester*d with a South Sea Lover, who is a kind of 
Vermin almost as destructive as a D-ct-r." A prominent feature in 
the Miscellany is '* A Political' Journal for the Month," forerunner of 
the summaries In our own Macmillan and Fortnightly. From this 
we learn that the year " was opened with a General Meeting of the 



154 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

South Sea Company, for restoring public Credit, by treating with the 
Bank and India Companies about ihe i8 Millions that the South Sea 
Company intended to ingraft into their respective Stocks." This was 
speedily followed by the passing of an Act "For restraining the Sub- 
Governor, Deputy-Governor, Directors, &c. from going out of this 
Kingdom,'* and requiring them respectively to enter into recognizances 
ranging from twenty-five thousand to one hundred thousand pounds. 
"Petitions for speedy and exemplary Justice*' poured into Parliament. 
It was proposed in the House of Commons to lay an embargo on the 
estate of Craggs, the Postmaster-General, who had corruptly received 
;^4o,ooo worth of the Company's stock, .and, as Mr. Green says in 
his History of the English People, " died of terror of the investigation." 
The crash brought Stanhope to the grave ; Aislabie, the Chancellor of 
th^ Exchequer, was sent to the Tower j many Members of Parlia- 
ment were tainted, and these were threatened with short shrift, when 
Walpole, who had come into power over the ruins of his rivals' 
reputations, pleaded for all members who were implicated that they 
. should have an opportunity of addressing the House before resolution 
be come to. This was conceded, and the fourth number of the 
Miscellany closes with an intimation that *' the Time for hearing this 
being appointed on the ist of May, we shall refer our Readers to our" 
next for a further Account, of this AfFair." As we have already said, 
we are not sure that a fifth number of the Miscellany ever appeared. 

But although the affairs of the South Sea Company are thus 
prominent, we are expressly told that the Miscellany owed its birth, 
not to a demand for political news, but chiefly to a desire for a 
medium for the publication of " whatever Pieces shall be sent us by 
our ingenious Correspondents, whether they be in Prose or Verse, 
Geometrical Problems or Enigmas." Most of the problems and 
enigmas- are in verse, and among the contributors were T. Williams, 
of Middleton-Stony ; E. White, of Weedonj Tho. Palmer, of 
Weeden j John Lewin, of Leicester j H. Albright, of Stony Stratford j 
Geo. Jarvis, of Rowell ; and John Child, of Kingsthorpe. A letter 
in verse, " from a Gentleman in Lincolnshire to his Friend in North- 
ampton," begins — 

** Happy are yon that breathe Northampton Air, 
And drink of rapid Streams as Ohrystal dear ;" 
and then the writer goes on to make his plaint of the miseries of life 
in the fen country. This he does in melancholy strains, of whiqh 
the following lines are offered as an example : — 

*< Eternal Mists their drooping Oonrse distil, 
. And drizlyVaponrs all the Ditches fill. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 155 

The swampy Land's a Bog, the Fields are Seas, 
And too muoh Moisture is the grand Disease. 

« « « « « 

No joyous Birds here stretch their tuneful Throats, 
And pierce the yielding Air with thrilling Notes ; 
' But the hoarse Sea Pies, with their odious Ory, 
Fly o'er the Marph, and tell that Storms are nigh : 
The curs'd Night Baven, and the hooping Owl, 
Disturb our Best, and scare the guilty Soul." 

And the author in his spleen thus libels the poor fen-folk :— 
<' The Goths were not so barbarous a Bace 
As the grim Busticks of this motly Place. 
Of Beason void and Thought, whom Interest rules, 
Yet will be Knaves, though Nature meant them Fools. 
A strange, half humane [human], and ungainly Brood : 
Their Speech uncouth as are their Manners rude. 
Bogies of aU kinds you may at leisure choose. 
One finds the Horse, the other fears the Noose, 
And humbly is content to take the Shoes/' 

The space allotted to this contribution being nearly exhausted, ^it 
must suffice to mention that the Miscellany also includes Lord 
Rosoomnion*s translation of the Dies Irce, to which we imagine many 
a more recent versifier has been under obligations ; a summary of 
" The chiefest and most poignant Arguments made use of by the Right 
Honourable the Earl of Nottingham, in his most Excellent Answer 
to Mr. Whiston*s Letter to him concerning the Eternity of the Scm 
of God 5 " an Account of the Death and Funeral of Pope Clement 
XL 5 etc. . J. L, Cherry. 

125. — Monumental Inscriptions in Peterborough 
Cathedral. III. Queen Katherine's Tomb (23, 73). — One 
inscription in the north choir aisle remains to be noticed : — 12. On 
a small brass plate, a few inches long, inserted in a large flagstone in 
the floor, was (until recently) to be seen this inscription : — " Queen 
. Catherine a^d. m d xxx vi." It has now for months been covered 
during the works in progress at the cathedral -, but the brass was 
broken before these works commenced. 

Originally there seems to have been a table monument to the 
queen's memory. It had no pretensions to architectural beauty. The 
editor has copies of two different engravings of this tomb. One was 
published in the Gentleman* s Magazine for April, ijgg, but represents 
the tomb as it was in 17645 the other is more recent, but its date is 
not given. From these it is seen that it stood on a stone platform of 
about twelve feet by six, and one foot deep. The stone at the top 

u 2 



156 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

was massive, and projected, but its upper surface is not represented. 
The front had three sunk panels: one near each end was simply 
trefoiled in the head -, that in the centre was a square, set diamond- 
wise, containing a cusped quatrefoil, with a plain shield, apparently 
blank. According to an account in the GentlemarC s Magazine, 1798, 
this tomb was wholly removed by dean Tarrant in 1792, and its 
fragments transferred to the deanery garden: but there is nothing 
there now that can be identified as belonging to it. 

There was originally a hearse over the tomb, extending from pillar 
to pillar. A manuscript was sold in 1879, at Messrs. Puttick & 
Simpson's, containing church notes; and among these was a 
drawing, made in i j86, of four banners used at the funeral of queen 
Katherine. The tomb had not been erected many years before it 
received some damage. Dugdale, in The Antient Usage of hearing of 
Arms, p. 42, quotes from a MS. of 1592 an account of " a laudable 
Action of Wm. Fleetwood Recorder of London, who imprisoned . 
certain Persons for defacing wilfully the Monument of Queen 
Catharine at Peterborough, until they had reformed the same : which 
thro' his good endeavour was re-edified and perfected again, and so 
remaineth to this Day." (Baker's MS. notes to Gunton in the 
Bodleian.) 

It again, however, fell into disrepair j for Mr. Taylor, who was 
prebendary from i68j to 1726, repaired the tomb at his own cost 5 
and is said to have cut the inscr^)tion with his own hand. This must 
refer to some inscription on the stone itself, as he can hardly have 
graven the words on the existing brass plate. In the inventory of 
1539, given in Gunton, we read that there wis 'Mn the inclosed 
place where the Lady Katherine lieth buried one Altar Cloth, of black 
Cloth, one Pall of black Velvet, with white cloth of Silver Crossed, 
and one white Altar Cloth." But the pall had been removed before 
Gunton wrote, for he says in the text, p. 57, *'how it came to 
degenerate into one of meaner value is unknown to us, yet this 
changeling was also taken away Anno 1643. with her Spanish 
Scutcheons affixed thereunto.'* The gravestone that lay over the 
queen's body is also said to have been displaced by the " reforming 
Rabble " in 1643. 

In Aubrey's Miscellanies, p. 183, is a strange account of a cure 
performed at this hearse. About the year 1640, Mr. William Back- 
house, of Swallowfield, co. Berks., had a painful sore on his forehead, 
so disagreeable ''that he would see none but his intimate friends.'* 
He used annually to make an antiquarian tour, and being one. year at 
Peterborough he dreamed that he was in a church, and saw a hearse^ 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 157 

and that some one directed him to rub his forehead with the drops on 
the marble beneath it. "The next day he went to Morning Service, 
and afterwards going about the Church he saw the very Hearse 
(which was of black say for Queen Catharine wife to King Henry 
vn I.) and the Marble Grave. Stone hard by. He found drops on the 
Marble and there were some cavities wherein he dipped his finger." 
A complete cure was effected within seven days. Elias Ashmole^ 
" who called Mr. Backhouse father/* was the authority for this 
account. Queen Mary (Katherine's daughter) left directions in her 
will that her mother's body should be removed from Peterborough, 
and re-inierred near the place of her own sepulture 5 but these 
directions were never carried out. (Madden's Privy Purse Expenses 
of the Princess Mary, 1831, p. clxxxvi. Ed. 

126. — Monumental Inscriptions from other Counties 
(27). — In Snettisham church, co. Norfolk, is this inscription : — 
*' Nicholas Styleman of Gayton in the County of I^orthampton Gent 5 
dyed the 13 of Oct: 1726. Aged 72 years and 5 Months His earlier 
Days he spent in the pursuit of the Liberall sciences Commenc'd 
A.M. in Trin : Coll : Cambridge His riper Years in the Converse of 
Books and good company His later days in advising and assisting his 
Neighbours." 

On the floor in Stretham church, co. Camb., is this : — *;' Here lyeth 
y' Lady Walker." From a tablet above it appears she was of South- 
wick, CO. Northants., and was widow of sir Walter Walker, knight, 
and doctor of laws ; she died 1691. . * 

In the churchyard at Market Stainton,co. Line, is this : — ** Sacred 
to the Memory of The Rev*. William Knott, curate of this place (and 
late of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire) Who departed this Life on 
the 4**" day of Oct'. 1834, in the 29th Year of his Age. The Lord 
gave and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the 
Lord. Job 4c. 2iv." 

In the south aisle of Holbeach church, co. Line, is this: — "To 
the memory of Edw*. Worley, Son of George Worley & Judith his 
Wife, born at Little Houghton in Northamptonshire Feb'y- 5*^' 1738-9 
Died of the Small Pox in this Parish Octo'- 26*^- 1763 A Youth of 
distinguished Abilities of a most obliging & sweet Disposition and of 
whom his Friends had justly conceiv'd the greatest hopes.** Ed. 

127. — Brudenel Family: A Query. — In making some 
alterations at Maxey Vicarage in 1881 there was found built into 
an old wall a stone which seemed to have some carving on one 
surface, and which was brought to me by the builder to explain. 



158 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

After careful washing and scrubbing I discovered an ioipaled coat of 
arms. On the dexter side is the coat of the firudenels, A chevron 
between three knight's caps : on the sinister side is Quarterly : ist 
and 4th, Bany of twelve with a canton ; 2nd and 3**, A bend. 
Possibly there may be some bearing in chief on this last coat, but 
the carving is not quite distinct. The stone itself is of some oolite 
formation, the older part of the vicarage being built of Bamack rag. 
Can any reader help me to the member of the family who bore 
this coat ? and what is the family bearing the sinister shield above 
described, into which he married ? I think it likely his name was 
Robert : for in the register of the parish, in the burials for the year 
1539, I find this entry : — 

"RobtBrudhell Esq: the. 16. of August." 
This is the only place, as far as I have discovered, where the name 
occurs. W. D. Sweeting. 

128. — Presentments, 1587, &c. — The following presentments 

are worthy of note : — 

Harringworth. 1587. 5 Dec. Thomas Ha^ward presented for dis- 
obedience in the church of Harringworth ** as in looking uppon 
a Lattin primer not understanding anie thing therein & for 
kepinge on his capp in most part of prayer tyme.*' 

Preston Capes. 1591. "The Minister weareth not the surplice nor 
baptizeth accordinge to the Booke & refuseth bpenlie to wear the 
Surplice : he refuseth to admit any to give thanks after childebirth 
neither dothe he marie with the ringe.'* 

Oundle. 161 3. 15 March. Henry Wortley presented "for obsti- 
nately defendinge that women have noe soules, but their sboe- 
soles.'* He admitted the words and performed a reclamation. 
At the same time William Wortley was presented for ^' allowing 
a wisard to come into his house being sent for by his wife and 
children to tell fortunes.** 

Helpston. 1636. 15' Dec. John Wright senior presented by the 
churchwardens ".for that upon the 27th Nov' last being the Lords 
day immediately at the ending of Divine Service he rose up in 
his place & openly in the audience of the people did unreverently 
malaptly contumeliously & with impudent face exclaim against 
the Minister for ending no sooner — although he was not above 
an houre in sermon as might appear by the glass." Wright 
confessed, pleading that the sermon was not over till almost one 
. o'clock. He was enjoined a penance before the Minister and 
churchwardens, auJ to pay fees amounting to 35. ^. * 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries.. 159 

129- — Four-field-course Farming. — There is a family 
radition that the system of cropping now in such general use among 
practical farmers, called the four-field-course system, was first em- 
ployed by an agriculturist of this county. When first tried the 
plan greatly enriched the experimentalists, making mqney in i;emote 
districts, where previously barter was almost the only means of 
obtaining the necessaries of life. It is said to have been discovered, 
and first tried, by John Sculthorpe, of Harringworth, gentleman, 
who died in 1809. This name is now quite extinct, though descen- 
dants are to be found in the neighbourhood. The plan was very 
early adopted in Norfolk, and was sometimes spoken of as '' Norfolk 
farming." 

Some readers will remember that Tennyson has a reference to 
this subject in *' Audley Court." Two companions are talking old 
matters over, the result of the races, the prospect of a new tenant for 
the hall, the scarcity of game, and then 

*' glancing thence, disonss^d the farm, 
. The fonr-field system, and the price of grain." 

130. — Sir Paul Pyndar. — Some account of this eminent 
diplomatist is given in Cole's History and Antiquities of Welling- 
borough, of which town he was a native. He was bom in 1^65 or 
1566, and died 22 Aug. 1650, as appears by his epitaph in S. Botolph's 
church, Bishopsgate, which is as follows: — "Sir Paul Pyndar, 
Ambassador to the Turkish Emperor anno 16 11, and resident there 
nine years ; faithful in negociations, foreign and domestic, eminent 
for piety, charity, loyalty and prudence; an inhabitant twenty-six 
years in this parish. . A bountiful benefactor. Deceased the 2 2d of 
August, J 6^0 j aged 84 years." (Cole, p. 261.) 

His benefactions were not limited to the parish in \vhich he spent 
his declining years. He expended 5^2000 on enriching the porches 
and front of S. Paul's Cathedral with marble* and figures of the 
apostles, and subsequently he rebuilt the south aisle at a cost of 
sSiJooo, In 1634 he presented to Wellingborough Church plate 
for the Holy Communion, consisting of two silver flagons gilt, and 
a silver cup and cover, each piece being inscribed : — '* The guift of S' 
Paul Pyndar K* Anno 1634 to the towne Church of Wellingborow." 

He further • gave to the same church the treble bell, thus 
inscribed: — ''The gift of Sir Pavle Pinder Knight Anno 1640" 
(North's Church Bells of Northamptonshire, p. 43 j). He also pre- 
sented some communion plate to Peterborough Cathedral. A paten 
and a chalice there have the legend: — "Deo in Ecclesia sua Petri- 



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burgensi 1638 '; *' and two massive flagons have this : — '^ Paulus Pyndar 
miles D.D.D. anno salutis 1639 ^^^ i° Ecclesia sua Petriburgensi." 
(Sweeting's Parish Churches, p. 54.) 

Sir Paul was held in great esteem at court. He possessed a 
very valuable diamond which he used to lend to King James^ and 
afterwards sold to his son. Some ten years before his death his 
property was held to be worth nearly a quarter of a million in money : 
but at his death his aflairs were left in great confusion. The house 
in which he dwelt in Bishopsgate Street is still in existence, and is 
one of the most interesting examples left of old domestic architecture. 
It is now a public-house, preserving in its sign, ''The Sir Paul 
Pindar '* the memory of its former occupier. Some account of sir 
Paul, and three woodcuts of his house and lodge, will be found in 
Thombury and Walford s Old and New London, vol. ii. pp. i ji, 152, 
159. He used for arms : — A chevron Ai'gent between three lion's heads 
erased Ermine crowned Or. In State Worthies an anecdote is preserved 
shewing that he dissuaded James i. from a project he had formed of 
raising the assessments of the clergy, so as to increase his first-fruits 
and tenths. On a monument formerly in the old church at Clapton, 
CO. Northants. to Lawrence Speght, who died at Oundle and was 
there buried, 7 March, 1674, there is mention made of sir Paul 
Pyndar. After some Latin lines, describing the coat of arms used by 
the family, these English verses follow : — 

" Here lies the Corps of Lawrence Speight the Son 
Of Thomas Speght School Master Paragon 
Who unto Cambridge, Oxford, Inns of Court 
Sent near a thousand Youths of good report 
And me' to Turkey where the Noble care 
Of Sr Paul Pinder Lord Ambassador 
Did feed me, death me, breed me & provide 
A large subsistence for me till I dy'd 
Which I enjoyed as contentedly 
As he did give it me affectionately 
But tiiat which did transcend all that he gfave me 
His Godly life example was to save me. " 

This monument is no longer in existence. Before its destruction 
the inscription was copied into the Register book, and from this copy 
the above (which differs slightly from that given by Bridges) has been 
taken. 

Li the year i6ii he appears as a donor to the Bodleian of twenty 
Arabic, Persian^ and other MSS. He was at this time Consul at 
Aleppo of the Company of English Merchants. (Macray's Annals 
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Nt^^-ih-Jil^ f^fAr^ ifi^^iistoric eye, 
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Farthinghoe Constable's Accounts, 


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Ancient Village Sports. 




1700-1730. 


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" The Northamptonshire Journal." 


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Timber-steaUng Eiots in Whittle- 


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aergy deprived in Q. Mary's Seign. 




bury and Salcey Forests in 1727-28. 


176 


Elmer Family of Northampton. 


163 


Eelationship of Jonatlian Swift and 


177 


The Manor House at Sulgrave. 




John Dry den. 


178 


Holdenby. 


164 


Customs of the Town of Northampton. 


179 


Parson Digbie and Tobacco. 


165 


Will of WiUiam Halliday, 1554. 


180 


Incised Memorial Pillar found at 


166 


'' Hills and HoUows." 




Northampton. 


167 


Local Dialect. 


181 


Monumental Inscriptions from other 


168 


Sheppard Family of Towcester. 




Counties. 


169 


The King's Evil. 


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Civil War, 1648. 


170 


Boughton Green Fair. 


183 


Carlyle at Naseby. 


171 


Great Flood at Wellingborough. 


184 


Cricket Played for a Stake. 


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Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 193 

1701. July 16. Paid the Sessions money at S* Thomas 
a Becket . . . 

26. Expenses at Middleton Statty (Statute) with 
the chief constable ..... 

1701-i. Jan. 6. Paid the Sessions Money at Wolftide 

1704. Ap. 17. Paid for meat and drink for Will Some 
and the men that assisted me to press him for a 
Souldier . . . . . . [ 

Paid for sending a Hue & Cry to Charlton . . ' 

Paid the charges of theni that assisted me to take 
Henry Soam at Farthinghoe, Charwelton* and Aynhoe 

1705. Feb. 26. My disbursements come to . 
First levy to . . . . 

1707. May 22. Delivered James Blinco this book with 
P. Edwards 

1706. July 26. In this .levy the Estate that Sir John 
Egerton bought of Mr. Sugburgh is chgd . 
Hue & Cry at night . . • . . 

1707-8. Jan. 27.* Charges with Will Whitmill for a 
warrant and keeping him in custody a night and 
having him to the Captain at Banbury . . 041 

Feb. 9. Expenses of searching Alehouses for Souldiers 

several times . . . , . ..010 

18. Charges at Meeting of Justices about orders 

for takg Men fof Souldiers .... .010 

April 13. Expenses of Henry Soam with lodging a ' 
woman and her child, with victuals and drink, who 
I designed to have had her before the Justices, and 
sent her away with a pass, but they was away at 
Northampton . . . . .009 

Sept. 25. For carrying the Queen's <;arriage to Bister 

(Bicester) . . . . . . o 16 o 

Expenses . . . . . .006 

For carrying the Queen's carriage to Oxford . 200 

1708-9. Feb. 7. Expenses at Thnip (Thorpe Mande- 
ville) with having Mrs. Tims before the Justices 
to pay her maid*s wages 

2 1 St. Charges about Ann Whitmill when she was 
whipt . . . . . .006 

1709. Nov. 22. Paid to a Robbery that was committed 

in King Sutton hundred . • . .208 

* Charlton by NewboUle, as being in the way from Farthinghoe to Aynhoe. 



194 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

1 71 1. Julj 7. Levy made to prosecute Whitmill at ^ s. d 
NorthamptoD Assizes . . . . 4' 10 9 

April. Charges about Ann Whitmell : — For Victuals & 

drink at Lovells before she went to Northampton 196 

Paid Mr. Gibs of Brackley for maksWhitmill's band 026 
Paid Mr. Jobourus for mak" mittimus and for her 
Warrants . . . . . .050 

Whitmill's offence appears to have been child-murder or conceal- 
ment of birth as the charges include " a man and horses for going to 
Brackley to fetch the midwife to Greatworth '* and " Goody Butler for 
going to Northampton, and burying the child." '' Paid the coroner, 
18/6." "Paid Richard Lovell what the coroner and Jurymen and 
witnesses had in bread & beer 18/.*' 

Sept. 4. Paid the coroner for sitting upon William Bats . o 13 4 
Thonger for warning the Jurymen and care of the 
Court . . . . . .040 

Expenses at Richard LovelFs with the Juiy . o 11 o 

Expenses with looking to Groody Bats and two men 
watching Goody Bats all night . . . 0^4 

Expenses with taking Will Bats . • .020 

Paid the Gunsmith for putting Iron Musket in repair 004 
Expenses upon William Bats account . . i 16 o 

1 7 12. Nov. "2. Expenses with the petty and Chief 
Constable consulting about the robbery that was in 
Whitfield Parish in Sutton hundred. . . 006 
13. Given t6 a Sergeant, that was in all the wars, 

who was disbanded and had no money to bear his 

charges, who lay all night at Richard Lovells . . 006 

1 7 13-4^ Mar. 1 6. Sent to Will Lucas to support him in 
his necessity, when he was in Aylesbury Jayle to 
cause him not to marry the woman . . ' o 10 6 

Paid the carrier for carrying the money . .006 

1714. May 7, Paid to Mr. Francis Woodcock the 
. Jayler at Aylesbury Will Lucas his fees 
Expenses with the Overseers of the parish when we 
went to warn Widow Evans to go out of Henry 
Soam's house, because she shd not become charge- 
able to the parish . . . . .006 

Oct. 23. Paid to Mr. Bat of Aylesbury Will Lucas 

charges with Expenses on agreeing the matter . o 15 o 

1 7 14-5. Jan. 8. Paid the Charges of 2 Souldiers 2 
women and 3 children at Henry Soam's who had a 
lawful discharge . . . . .020 



Northamptonshire Notes ^ and Queries. 195 

At £aster paid the charges of the churchwardens and £ s. d. 
Overseers, with getting Jane Poole to Mr. Cartwright 
to have her Examined to have an order to send her 
to her husband . . ... . o 3 10 

1 715-6. Levy for carrying the Kings carriage from 

Brackley to Shipson (Shipston on Stour) . 6 16 o 

Paid the Brackley men*s charges for their horses 

with going down to help us carry the King's carriage 

to Shipsoxi . • . . . . o 10 2 

17 16. May. Paid the trained Souldiers at Brackley . 056 
Expenses at Northampton at the day of appeal about 
settling the matter who should find the train Souldiers 020 
Horse hire . . . . . .026 

Aug. t6. For my going Expenses at the day of appeal 
at Thrupp (Thorpe Mandeville) about getting off 
one of the train Souldiers with some of my parish 
with me . . . • . .010 

Horse hire . . . . . . .006 

Oct. 4. Out three days touching the order for the • 
Militia from Northampton 

Oct. 4. Expenses with fetching Thomas JefFery from 
Bister and having him before a justice at Charlton 
Searching 3 alehouses . . . .006 

Searching the alehouse at Crowton where we lay all 

night . . . ♦ .'.020 

Expenses at Bister sitting all day for JefFery he being 

gone out .. . . . . .044 

As we came back again we lost our way and Paid 

for a Guide ' . . • . . .002 

Dec. 4. Expenses with Mr. Woolf going to Thrupp 
to make our appeal to send Old Groody Whitmill 
away . . . . . .010 

Expenses at Thrupp with having Charles Stooks 
before the Justices to have him examined to have 
an order to send him and his family away . .010 

17 16-7. Jan. 2. Levy made to carry. Charles Stooks & 

his family into Herefordshire . . . 4 10 6 

Paid Mr. Cook for his horse going to Brackley to 
cany the King's officer to Shipson Wh I forgot to 
. set down . . , . . ,010 

171 7. Oct. 2. Expenses with Betsy Jarvis at Banbury 

when she went to be hired at the fair • . 002 

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196 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

1718. Sep. J. Expenses with Henry Soam about £ s. d. 
having him before the Justices for refusing to lodge 
travellers 

1719.. June 9. Expenses having Goody Whitmill 
before the Justices for pulling Mrs. Woolfs hay 

1720. May 21. Paid at Edgcote to Mr. Chauncey*s 
Clerk for warrant to have Ann Whitniill before the 
Justices for selling of ale without a License . 006 

Dec. 16. A Levy made by James Blinco for raising 
^5 8 6 laid upon the parish of Farthinghoe by 
Mr. Frewen of Brackley's Robbery. His losses 
and charges ^98 13 5 which was in King Sutton 
hundred committed 

1721-2. Mar. 30. Paid to 2 Watchmen to Guard 2 
Women all night that threatened to break all the 
windows in town because I could not get them 
lodging • . . . . .020 

May 7. Paid for warrant which the Justices sent to 
Mrs. Woolf to come to Thrupp to shew cause why 
she refused to pay the Window tax on Sir John 
Egerton's house 

Sept. I. Expenses about casting bells which I paid at 

Lovells . . • f . .020 

Dec. 28. Given a woman that had Small Pox to nourish 

her and her two children . . ..002 

1723. This year we pay double cess money 

J. Thicknesse^ Rector. 

^1727. Oct. 25. Given to 2 women who had a very 

great loss by fire/ their husbands burnt and their 

houses burnt by some men who robbed them ; and 

two of their children was burnt and their maid killed 

1727-8. Jan. 20. For relieving a Souldier 'that was 
undet Col. Montagu and served thirty years and had 
a printed pass ; had a wife and 3 children and no 
money to pass their night's quarters. Charges with 
relieving them • . . . .006 

The levy for 1730 is given at full, sir Halland Egerton paying 

£^ 25. od., being more than double the whole of the rest of the 

payments. The duke of Kent is entered as paying 4$. The account 

closes this year with a balance of 125. 6d, due to the incoming con- 
stable. 



^Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 197 

162. — Timber-stealing Riots in Whittlebury and 
Salcey Forests, in 1727-28 (104, 107). — 

XX.. A List of the Persons names w*'^. were bound over to the 
Assizes for unlawfully cutting down and carrying away sev". trees 
out of the Forests of Salcey and Whittle wood belonging to his Mtie. 

Nether Heyf ord 

Milton 

Q-ayton . 

Boade 

Shitlanger 

Stoke Brewen . 

Weston & Weedon 

Helmdbn. 

Mourton Finkany 

CoUingtree * 

Oourteenhall . 

Ashton • 

Hartwell . 

Bradwin*. 

Wappenham • 

Soulgrave 

Falcutt . 

Slapton .. 

Grafton Kegis . 

Wicken . 

Paulerspury . 

Brackley . . , 

Woodend . . 

XXL Thomas Herbert to Mr. Wither. Oct. 31, 1727. 
S'. I think 'tis high time that i should give you some account of 
my proceedings in relation to y® timber that was illegally taken out of 
y® forests of Whittlebury and Salcy, in June last. Doubtlesse,you 
had a particular ace* from y® Solicitor of what passed at y® Assizes, 
y® major part of y« offenders submitting at that time to pay their 
charges, and gave notes for y« pay* of y® timber, or to return it to y® 
forest in 14 days. S' W°» Stanhope, one of y® members chose for y^ 
County of Bucks, has taken up y® notes and paid for all y® timber y* 
was carried into y* County, w«*». amounted to y® sume of ^^83 10 o, 
w**». I dont doubt bijit you have been apprized of. And the North- 
amptonshire people have all along flattered themselves that they should 
be excused paying for their timber by some such means, I having 
most of their notes now by me, very few of them having paid or 
otherwise complyed w*^. y® conditions of them in returning ye timber, 
and I believe means must be used w*^ some of them to oblige them 
to it, w**** I desire your directions in. As to those y* did not comply 
to give notes, but suffered themselves to be indicted some of them 



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ssj they will keep their timber, & threaten anybody that shall offer to 
fetch it away. The Earl of Pontefract's steward will not let us take 
down the timber that was taken out of y® forest & set up in y® town 
of To"\»rcester, without paying an acknowledgment to his Lord as 
Lord of y« Manor, for breaking his freehold 5 I think this is very 
particular, and what no other Lords of Manors have claimed, & as I 
have been informed, have no pretensions of right to do 5 and . this 
proceeding encourages y* populace to desist from buying y* timber or 
letting it be taken away. I beg you will be pleased to give directions 
what shall be done in all these matters. And now I shall give you 
an account of one or two of the worst offenders in these riots and 
are the greatest of trespassers in' other respects to this forest, w*. 
Col. Whitworth desires by all means may be prosecuted in y* Ex-x 
chequer, or other, ways as you shall think fit, they having not bees 
prosecuted by. us ; viz. Luke Brough of Potterspury, and John Ryly 
of Paulerspury, both in Northamptonshire. There are several others 
of y* most notorious, that 1 shall hereafter give you an ace*, of. There 
are 2 or 3 towns that have taken timber, w<*. have not been prosecuted^ 
for want of evidence, no body of y* forest seeing them, I marked it 
at y* same time I did y* others, but desire to know w*. I must do if 
they refuse to let it be taken away. There is one Mr. Welch, a 
Clergyman, that sent his team & Servants of a Sabbath day to fetch a 
tree y^ was cut down by other persons that could not carry it away 
y® day before 5 we can prove this, but can't tell where y® timber now 
is, but is supposed to be concealed by y® Parson, and a stack of hay 
set upon it. The Justices Clerk at North.ton has given me a bill, 
w**. I w^ not pay without your orders, of between 3 & 4 pounds fgr 
Warrants and Writing Lists of the persons bound over, &c., w***. is a 
demand that has not been made in Bucks., the Clerks there I suppose 
being satisfyed with 2 shillings w***, they took from each person, w**. 
amounted to a good sume. I am, &c 

, . T. H. 

XXII. Mr. Wither to Thomas Herbert. Nov'. 5, 1727. 
Has been apprized of all his proceedings, and has had so much 
confidence in him that he leaves many matters to his discretion, 
knowing he will act to the best advantage. Must make an example 
of some of the Northamptonshire people who refuse to comply, by . 
summoning them under the new act of parliament for small debts, 
w***. is equal to an arrest. A little beginning of that kind will make 
the rest comply. Will speak to Lord Pomfret when he goes to town, 
& do not doubt a reasonable complyance 3 in y« mean time mark y« 
timber in Towcester & insist on y® Kings right. Will send a Process 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 199 

against Brough & Ryly. Wishes to know Parson Welch's Xtian 
name, and the names of the others who are to be prosecuted above. 
Do all you can to detect y* Parson's tree. As for the towns y* have 
not been prosecuted, insist upon y* timber they bave taken, and if you 
find y" refractory, assure them they shall be prosecuted above. Ifit 
the Justice's Clerk at North.ton know there is nothing due on his 
pretended bill, & if he looks into the table of fees he will find him- 
self overpay'd by the 2" fee for recognizances. Write to me for the 
future as a Member of Parliament. 

XXIII. Mr. Wither to Tho*. Herbert. Nov. 14, 1727. 
Has waited on L^ Pomfret and does not doubt that his Steward 
will receive orders by this post to- deliver up y® trees gratis. When I 
have all the people's names who are to be prosecuted you shall receive 
processes. Am going again to Hall till after Xtmas. 

XXIV. Tho*. Herbert to Mr. Wither. Nov. ig\ 1727. 

Has received both his letters, but has not yet seen Lord Pomfrets 
Steward. Mr. Welch's Xtian name is John.. Have sent you under- 
neath the names of 3 principal offenders, but beg you will be pleased 
to submit them to Col. Whitworth, as he desired I w* acquaint him 
of them. There are some others y* I w* not have go free if they do 
not make a proper submission, but I beg a little more time for that. 
• Chr. Hart, of Silston,' who keeps an Alehouse. 
Tho-. Sanders head of y- mob, | ^ g^ Sirzt![oxA, Bucks. 
Edw. Forfitt, Jun'., ) ' 

XXV. Chr. Wither Esq. to Thomas Herbert. Jan. 25, 1 727-8. 
Six Subpoenas inclosed, with directions for service, and Instructions 

from the Attorney General in order to draw the Informations. Their 
names are Hart, Brought ^igby, and Parson Welsh, .in North.ton, 
Sanders and Forfitt, in Bucks. This process will be very expensive 
to them without submission, and there can be no submission now, 
without restitution and payment of charges. 

XXVI. Thomas Herbert to Chr. Wither. Jan. 28, 1727-8. 
Have received yours with y' 6 Subpoenas wh. will be served by 

Mr. NicoU of ToW'cester who does business for my L^ Duke of 
Grafton. Luke Brough has been a month in Northampton Gaol for 
Deer-stealing, and Edw. Forfitt is run away for breaking into a 
Pigeon-house, of both which Col. Whitworth knew, and I did not 
question had informed you of, that those processes might have been 
stopped 3 the others will be served by Nicoll, but they are all poor but 
Parson Welch. I can get no other information about him, (his own 
Parish being all afraid of him,) than that he sent his team an4 servants 



200 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

on y« Sabbath day to fetch away a butt of a timber tree, that was cut 
down y® day before by people from another parish, and drawn withoi^t 
the forest and there left ; the persons who cut down the tree went on 
Monday morning, a number of 'em in a body, to y® parsons house to 
fetch away y* tree, but he threatening to shoot any of 'em that should^ 
come upon his ground, they durst not venture. Cannot give dimen- 
sions of the trees, only the value 3 other particulars Required, the best 
account I can give is as follows. Jan. 20, John Ryly, labourer, of 
Paulerspury was at y^ cutting down and taking away of two trees out 
of Meanfallowe Coppice in y* Par. of Greens Norton, in y® forest of 
Whittlewood, value ^4. James Christian of Silston, two timber 
trees out of Titchlake Coppice in y« par. of Whitfield, value about 
£6, Tho». Sanders a serv* in Stony Stratford, I saw cutting down a. 
fine sapling of no great value, but he was concerned in greater facts, 
but can't tell y*? particular day. Col. Whitworth knows he was 
present, and at ye head of a mob in Stony Stratford who insulted him. 
I desired Col. Whitworth to acquaint you long before Xtmas, that I 
had spoke to L* Pomfret's steward about delivering y® timber at Totv- 
cester, &c., but he had no directions about it, therefore the trees. stand 
as they did, both at Towcester and Hulcot. The Steward wont let 
*em be taken down without his \M. directions. All these trees were 
Oak. 

XXVII. Thomas Herbert to Chr. Wither. Feb. 11, 1727-8. 
Mr. NicoU has served the 4 Sub-poenas. Parson Welch I hear 

will write to you. Hart has sent me the enclosed letter but I dont 
know that he has anything to plead for him but his poverty, on which 
account I hope he will be used with as much clemency as possible. 
Have heard nothing from y® others. I wish to know what is to be 
done with the Towcester and Hulcot timber in L* Pomfret's liberties. 

XXVIII. Joseph Welch of Blakesley to Thomas Herbert, 
Feb. 20, 1727-28. 

My brother hath not received any answer from Mr. Wither. I 
desire to know if you have received any answer from him, and if you 
have not, I humbly beg the favour of you to write to him again and 
desire him. to stop all proceedings in the Law that my Brother may 
not be put to any more charges, and I shall think myself extremely 
oblidged to you, and owne the kindness as long as I live, and I know 
if you say the word it is done, and done to the obligation of your 
most humble and obedient servant. P.S. My Brother Francis is 
very ill, therefore I cant come to market today. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 201 

XXIX. Chr. Wither to Thomas Herbert. March 5, 1727-8. 
(In a P.S.) When you come up to town you shall carry back 

attachments against all such of the offenders as have stood in contempt. 

XXX. Thomas Herbert to Chr. Wither. March 7, 1727-8. 
Is not prepared to settle his account at present, not having received 

the money for the Tiftiberthat was illegally carried away last summer, 
by above £^0, Will remit what money he has, if desired. 

XXXI. Thomas Herbert to Chr. Wither. March 14, 1727-8. 
Statement of his a/c, which includes ;f 303-10 value of *' Stolen 

Timber including Lord Pomfret's/' the balance being ^677 10. 
Will remit what he can of this money next week, if he can get 
returns so soon, if not the first opportunity^ '^ I Hope I shall have 
some gratuity for the pains & trouble I had, and the hazard I ran, in 
preventing the destruction of the forest last year. I do solemnly 
protest I would not go through the same again for the value of all the 
timber y^ was cut down, nor I don't know when we shall know an 
end of it. Some of my nearest neighbours I desire may be prosecuted, 
for none was more violent in assaulting me in person, and breaking 
, y* locks off my gates, and cutting down and carrying away of the 
trees ; tiieir names are as follows : John Hobbs, W" Hobbs Jun', 
Augustin Seaton, Rich^ Basely, Edward Lambert, Tho". NichoUs Jun', 
John Parrot, Tho". HoUoway, John Hillyar. A Bro' of Parson 
Welch's who is one of my L* Duke of Grafton's tenants, has been 
with me and begs there may be no further prosecution agrt his 
• brother, and he will pay all charges whatever it be." 

XXXII. Mr. Wither to Thomas Herbert. March 25, 1728. 
I desire you will tell John Hobbs, W" Hobbs, Augustin Seaton, 

Rich* Basely, Edw*. Lambert, Tho-. Nichols, John Parrot, Tho". 
Holloway, & John Hillyer, that unless they make a proper submission 
for their offence, I will order immediate prosecution against them in 
the Exchequer ; the nature of their submission I leave to your dis- 
cretion, but if they refuse or neglect I beg you to certify me. You 
may be assured, on my application, a proper allowance will be made 
you for extraordinary trouble. As to the* Keepers, assure them that if 
they ofier to dispose of their brdwse, and do not sufier you to sell it 
for the King's advantage, (as I here empower you to do,) any so 
offending shall be proportionably amerced in his Salary, & otherwise 
punished, at the Duke of Grafton's discretion, who is determined not 
to suffer such a practice so directly contrary to his* Patent & the 
conditions on w*^ they are entitled to wages. Of this pray give res- 
pective notices, provide for y® sale of y* timber & certify me of the 
offenders. 

BB 



202 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

XXXIII. The. Herbert to Mr. Wither. May 5, 1728. 
Tho^. Sanders of Stony Stratford, on whom a subpoena for ao 
Exchequer prosecution was served^ has been \i{ith me« with great 
submission, and begs pardon for his folly, as well for his crime ag*^ ye 
Govt, as for his abuse of Col. Whitworth & myself, &c. I told him 
I freely forgave him his treatment of me, & w^ readily do an3rtbing 
that might promote his pardon from yourself & the Col., he being a 
person y* I believe was never before guilty of any crime towards y 
forest, w*^ I hope will entitle him to 'as much favour as can be shewn 
him. Not one of the old Stratford people has been with me not- 
withstanding your message to them. They are of opinion that no 
one has the power to punish them, but I hope they will soon be 
convinced to y« contrary, for they deserve no favour. 

163. — Relationship of Jonathan Swift and John Drt- 
DEN. — In the lAfe of yonathan Stvift, Dean of St. Fairick^s, by H. 
Craik, published in 1882, it is stated that the grandmother of the 
dean was Elizabeth Dryden, niece of sir Erasmus Dryden, and sister 
of the rev. Jonathan Dryden. In the pedigree of the Dryden family, 
published by Bak^r in his History of the County, no Elizabeth, niece 
of sir Erasmus, appears. There is no reason td doubt that the rev. 
Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, married an Elizabeth Dryden, a 
member of the Northamptonshire family. As her name was Dryden 
she was the daughter of some male Dryden. Malone, who wrote the 
life of John Dryden, states in a private letter that it was said that the 
rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, was married to one of the 
daughters of sir Erasmus, and this he thinks was not true; and in his 
life of Dryden i., p. I38, conjectures that she was the daughter of 
a brother of sir Erasmus. 

Taking all the known facts into consideration there appears but 
one way of explaining the relationship. Elizabeth, the daughter of 
sir Erasmus, married sir Richard Phillips, bart. Of the seven brothers 
of sir Erasmus only two are recorded to have married, and the mar- 
riage oi one of them is put ^s doubtful in Baker ; but Nicholas Dryden, 
of Moreton Pinkney, married Mary Emyley, and had, according 
to Baker, three sons, Jonathan, John, and Godwin, and one daughter, 
Susanna. Jonathan, the eldest, was bom about i6oi. If this 
Nicholas had also a daughter Elizabeth, who married the rev. Thomas 
Swift, and if his son Jonathan became a clergyman, the matter 
would be clear. 

The rev. Thomas Swift had ten sons, of whom one was named 
Godwin, and another (the father of the dean) was named Jonathan, 



Northamptonskire Notes and Queries. 203 



which names we can fairly suppose they obtained from the two sons 
of Nicholas Dryden^ if we assume that the mother was a daughter of 
the said Nicholas. All the dates so far as we have them agree with 
the supposition I have stated. It is recorded that the poet Dryden 
and dean Swift called each other *' cousins.'* According to the sup- 
position the dean was second cousin once removed to the poet. 
Malone supposes that Jonathan Dryden^ the brother of Elizabeth 
Swift, had a son who was the Jonathan Dryden who was l?om in 
i^39> at Westminster school and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 
and was almost certainly the rev. Jonathan Dryden who was rector 
of Scrayingham and prebendary of York> and was. buried in York 
cathedral in 1702, who had a son Jonathan bom in 1701, who died in 
1740. 

The rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, was a strong royalist. 
He built a peculiar house, dated 1636, with large cellars, with a view 
to storage in troublous times. ''This Thomas Swift, bom in 1595, 
became a man of some mark amid stirring scenes." "When the 
rebellion broke out " In spite of his profession, the vicar of Goodrich 
was of too fervent a spirit to hold aloof from tAe struggle. It had 
scarcely opened before he became known amongst the Parliamentarian 
ranks for a delinquent. The royal standard had been raised in Not- 
tingham, in August, 1642. In October of the same year Thomas 
Swift's stout horses and thriving homestead were visited by the Par- 
liamentary marauders.** 

Mr. Craik gives many particulars of this vicar and his family. 
^'This doughty vicar died in 1658, and was buried underneath the 
altar of the church of which he had been the vicar, and near which 
stood his battered house.*' 



I 
1 Sir Erasmus 
Dryden, bart. 
b. 1553, d. 1632. 



—Prances 
Wilkes 



3 Erasmus Drrd^n' 
b. 1588, 
of Tichmarsh 
d. 1654. 



8 Nicholas Dryden '■ 
b . . . , of Moreton, 
d. 1608-9. 



Mary 
Emyley 
Mar., 151 



John Dryden 
b. 1681, 



'Mary 
Pickering 

I d. 1676; 
J 

Elizabeth 
Howard 



1 Rev. Jonathan 
Dryden, b. 1601, 
of Goodrich, 1646. 
d. 16 . . 



Bev. Jonathan ■ 
Dryden, b. 1689, 

bur. in York Cath. 



Rev. Tho. Swift' 
b. 1595, 
of Goodrich 
d. 1658. 



7 or 8 Jonathan' 
Swift, b. . . 
attorney 
d 



'Elizabeth 
Dryden 



'AbigaU 
Erioh 



Rev. Jonathan 
Dryden, b. 1701, 
of Tork, d. 1740. 



Bev. Jonathan Swift^^Bsther 
b. 1667, Johnson 

(Dean) d. 1745. 

BB ft 



204 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

ITiere is another matter connected with the vicar of Goodrich, 
which, though not connected with this county, may be stated here. 
His grandfather was the rev. Thomas Swifl, preacher at S. Andrew's, 
Canterbury, about 1570, and Mr. Craik has assumed that this Thomas 
was the son of Robert Swift, of Rotherham, the elder son of Robert 
Swift, a rich mercer of that place, to whom with his wife there is an 
altar tomb and brass in Rotherham church. Robert, the mercer, had 
two sons, I, Robert, and a, "William, as shewn by the brass. The 
former had three daughters, who were co-heiresses, and therefore no 
son. The latter had one son, sir Robert Swift, kt., bom in 1563, and 
three daughters. Therefore there is not the slightest evidence that 
the rev. Thomas Swift, of Canterbury, was descended from the rich 
mercer, ai^d the presumption is the other way 5 but the tradition of 
relationship may be true, and he may have been descended from a 
brother of the mercer. The family appears to have been numerous 
in Rotherham, as there are in the Registers between 1543 and 1636 
52 entries of baptisms, 22 of marriages, and 21 of burials of persons 
of the name. H. D. 

164. — Customs op the Town op Northampton, — Among 
the archives of the corporation is preserved a most interesting " Liber * 
Custumarum," a book of the ancient usages and customs of the town 
of Northampton. It contains 145 folios : the contents are partly in 
old English, partly in Latin, partly in French. The following extracts 
will shew the ch^acter of the volume. 

" Usages and the Lawes of the town of Northampton confermed 
bi the Charteres of diverse Kynges of Englonde bi the Purchaces of 
olde wise men of the same town.** 

Cap. 18. " Also purveide hit is that if any straunge man that 
ledeth woUe in to the town of Northampton may not sellen his woUe 
departyn [dividing it] but all hole to gedere. And that no straunge 
man may byen woUe in the towne of Northampton but if it be in 
tyme of the feyre or of good men of the same town And that no 
straunger may byen threde in Northampton for to leden hit owte of 
the town but in tyme of a feire. No straunger may byen fressh 
hydes or peltes in Northampton but in tyme of ffeyres. And that no 
marchaunde of this shire ne non other straunger of other shires that 
comyth into Northampton with woUe hides talowe hony or chese or 
fflesshe shall no where leyne down but in the kynges shoppe. And 
ther to be purveid a commun shoppe." 

Cap. 19. If a man ''have noryshed tapester or servaunte and 
they of wikked wille hem withdrawen or voyden her servise,** the 
bailiff is to punish them. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 205 

Cap. 22. If a man be '' sommouned " before the Mayor and he 
'' with sette the sommouns " he is to be amerced at two shillings. 
" And hit is to undirstonden that a ryche tnan be amercied at ij'. a 
mene man at xij*. a pore man at vj^. And theise amerciaments be 
thei turned in to the profite of the commoune/' 

Cap. 25. No " ffysher nor other man that fisshe sellith ** is to 
buy fish of any man bringing fish to the town before he brings it 
into the market. And no merchant is to go out of the toWn " nygh 
nor fFer by iiij**. myles from Norhampton for to byen ffysish or sake 
for to derthen the towne." If he do so he is to be fined 2/- And if 
he do so thrice '^and thereof be overtaken fforswere. he the craf te a 
yere and a day.'* 

Cap. 26. All " boxsters "• are to *' sitten in a serteyn stede (place) 
to gedyr and on one rewe (row) allso (asj do they of Eckton and alle 
other straunge Boxsters " and they are not to keep any bread at home 
to ''derthen the chepyng " (market). 

Cap. 27. No man ''that bereth burthens of hay or of straw piese 
strawe or bene strawe in to towne ne come hit nougt doun to the 
erthe from his hedde tyll they have solde hit. And if thei done lese 
they the burthene." 

Cap. 28. Timber also is not to be laid " downe to the kynges 
grounde ** till it be sold. 

Cap. 30. No " huckster man nor woman to go out of the town 
to buy ffyshe nor hennes nor kokkes nor chese nor non other vitaile 
nor wode nor cole for to derthen the vitaile And no man ne bye suche 
thyng be fom the prime be rungen at All halowen Chirche." 

Cap. 3 j. If any man be " sommoned to waken in the town 
that nede ben he shall sende no man to wache for hym but yf he be 
manne convenable and defensable. And that wache be made from 
house to house so as it cometh a bougte. And that none be relesed 
nor for borne but if it be a warkeman that lyveth.uppon his owne 
hondes." 

Cap. 38. No man to take a seryante "but if so be that he witte 
howe and in what manere he be departed from his maister that he 
served and that he be departed in good maner.*' 

Cap. 41. If " any man or woman ley his peny uppoun any mar- 
chandyze tille that the seller hym hath graunted the marchandise 
leseth a peny to the profite of the baillifz and gode leve be to the 
other that woUe that marchandize after byen. And if any marcbaund 
bye be lasse than by a ferthyng hole but yf it be peltis to parchemyn 
(skins to make parchment) be in y* mercy of y* baillifs of vj^.'* 



2o6 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Cap. 4.5. No " bocher '' is to " haunte the office of the bocherye 
as a maister " till he pay 3/4 to the town " os they in olde tyme were 
wpnte to geven." 

Cap. 47. No bocher is to '' sellen susseny flessh fressh ne flesshe 
of a dede gote ne calidiouns of a shepe nor nete nor hedys of calverene 
nor of nete nor such manere of fowle thynges but under the pillorie. 
And if tho thynges ben I f oundene in other stedis for to sellen be thei 
loste to the baillifz profite. And the susmy be geven to seke men of 
seynt Leouardis." 

Cap. 66, In 4. Richard 11. ij8i, Simon Daventre, who bad been 
mayor the year before, and Richard Rawlyns were elected burgesses 
for the parliament. And it was ordered that any one holding the 
office of mayor should in future be elected burgess to parliament if 
he had not before served that office of burgess^ notwithstanding the 
office of mayor. 

Cap. 71. No one was to go about the town after the bell of All 
Saints was tolled at nine o'clock at night without a light. 

Cap. 73. Hardware sellers are to sell their goods next the fish 
stalls in Mercers' Row. 

The division into chapters (capitula) continues to cap. 80 j after 
which the various ordinances, customs, petitions, &c., are distinguished 
Only by their several titles. Those that follow are from an inquisition 
according to the statute of Winchester. 

A miller " shall have noo boggy s gese ne dukkys at his mylle nor 
manere of pultre but iij hennys and a cokke.*' 

When a brewer buys a quarter of malt for 2/- he is to sell <a gallon 
of beer for a halfpenny and to make 48 gg^llons of a quarter of malt. 
When malt is 3/- he is to sell at i^ 4/- i^ 5/- x^, 6/- li*, 7/- if*, 
8/- a*, a gallon and no further. "And that he sett non ale asale tylle 
he have sent aftyr the Ale Tasters to see that yt be good and abuUe. 
And that he selle a quarte of the beste ale withyn hym for ob." (i**.) 
For continued neglect of all these and other ordinances he *' to be 
jugged to the cukkjmg stole" and aftir to the Pelorye." 

If a fyssher sell bad fish " he to be jugged unto the stokkes openly 
in the market place." 

An innholder to sell '* a. potte of. iij pyntes of the beste ale for j*." 

The taverner is not to "make nor medyll noo maner of wyne 
within his Tavern." 

A " Bere brewere ** is to make " no maner of Bere but of good 
stuffe and that yt be holsora for mannys body." 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 207 

165--^ Will of William Halliday, Curate of Eye, 
1554.—^*' In Dei norrtiwe Amen Anno dni a thowsande five hundrethe 
fiftie and fowre the iiij*** day of September I Sr Will" Hallidaye being 
whole of mynde & p^rfytt remembraunce do make my laste will in , 
manner and forme followinge &c, ffyrste I bequetbe my soule to 
almyghti god. To Master Whytte a cappe. To M' Booker a cappe. 
To M' Chaplen a sheett. To M' Stewarde a newe xij**. To Sr John 
Chenne a typpett. To Sr Richarde amore a furrede typpett. To John 
beakon my bestt gowne and my bestt coveringe of my bedde & tene 
shillings in golde. To Richarde twehtimara towe olde sydde gowns 
& tene shillings in golde. To William Rooke an olde furred gowne a 
Kettell and a littell ambrye. To my coosyn Jane Hallydaye eighte 
shillings & hire owne coffer. To Edwarde hoUidaye the copye of vaj 
bouse & all the reste of my goods unbequethed so that he shall 
bestowe yerelie fowre shillings uppon a dyrigee & drinckinge in the 
churche amonge pore folke for my soule and all Christen soules on 
my yere daye as longe as he lyues & and is able to do yt. Wyttnesses 
Thoma Shepparde Robert Todde I^obert Tyver Richard Darbie. The 
detts that ar owinge to me Sr William hollidaye. In pn'mis John 
manwell owethe me for fodder xij*. Itm Christopher cottingham 
owethe me that I lente hym Robert barret owethe me that I lente 
hym iij' Itm Maurice Bexwell had mone^y of me for makinge a 
careage of an hundreth fagotts & a halfe wiche were loste thrughe 
his defaute by. reason that he kepte not promise w* me fFor his 
bargayne was to have sett them at thomey myll but I never had none 
of them & therfore I looke for Recompense of hym Willm mason 
can testifie this." 

Eye was a chapelry, and was served by the abbey of Peterborough, 
an^ for a long time after the reformation the curates were simply 
licensed to the church, not instituted as to any benefice. Of the 
legatees named in the above will, John Cheyney and Richard White 
were two of the original prebendaries of thej cathedral j and William 
Booker and Henry Chapman (probably the Mr. Chaplen of the will) 
were petty canons. Ed. 

166.-^" Hills and Hollows." — Will any cortespondeht be 
so good as to tell what is known as to the origin of the curious fields 
known locally as the '' Hills and Hollows '* near Northampton ? 

W, C. 
The site / of the exhausted quarries of stone at Bamack has a 
similar title, being always spoken of as the ''Hills and Holes." 

Ed. 



2o8 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

167. — Local Dialbct (43, 64, 109). — . I have heard the 
following words and expressions in the northern part of the couatj : 
thej are not to be found in the glossaries of Baker or Sternberg. £d. 

Object: objection. "I don't se6 any object to it/* was said of 

something I wished to remove which the speaker wished to retain. 
Oddments : the odd shillings and pence over an exact number of 

pounds. Sternberg gives " Additions, odds." 
Overreach : a horse is liable to stumble, and *' has to take four or 

five steps before he can overreach it,** that is> recover himself; 

get over it. 
Overset : to get over. " Ke got bad in May and never overset it." 

Baker and Sternberg both give " overget '* in this sense. 
Pattens : skates. Almost universally used. 
Pen-teeth : the two next the middle ones, especially troublesome for 

little children to cut. 
Pig-cratch : a frame or rack to carry dead pigs on. The glossaries 

give ** cratch/* a rack for hay, bottleis, &c. 
^ Pine : to cause to waste away. '^ He pined me." ''I was pined to dead." 
Plantain : plantation. 
Prate : of hens, to make a grumbling, uneasy noise, expressive of a 

desire to lay. 
Purpose-visit : a visit with a special intent. " It isn't worth a purpose- 
visit.'* 
Put in : ''I haven't seen you since April put in." 
Rammer : coarse stone rubbish. Baker gives '^ rammell** but I have 

only heard the word pronounced as above. 
Ramper : the main road, the turnpike road. I think this word has 

strayed into the county from Lincolnshire. 

Readily : " the pig has readily put on a stone a week the last month." 

Reckling : the small pig in a litter. 

Remove : to take off a horse's shoes and replace them 3 the accent is 

on the first syllable. 

(To he continued,) 

Sosh, soshwise, on the sosh: are these Northamptonshire ex- 
pressions only ? The word is chiefly used by carpenters, it is not 
given in the Imperial Dictionary. The meaning is crosswise, across 
the grain. C. P. 

The term is also employed in agriculture. Grain drilled in a 
slanting direction across the other rows would be called *' on the sosh." 
Miss Baker seems not to have met with the expression. She only 
quotes " sosh " as a verb, from a MS. poem by Clare, in a passage 
where crows are said to ''sosh askew from the hid woodman's 
stroke." Ed. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 209 

168. — Sheppard Family op Towcester (59). — Was sir 
Thomas Cotton Sheppard, of Chapel Land, Lytcote, co. Bucks., 
connected with the above Northamptonshire family ? Some of the 
family resided there in 1760, and a William Sheppard in the reign of 
Henry viii. 

Grimscotd. C. ShepheaRD. 

169. — ^The Kino's Evil. — In various parish books are fo be 
found notes on the above subject ; occasionally an entry of the names 
of persons who had been touched for the evil, sometimes a parochial 
contribution towards the expenses of sending a parishioner to the 
royal presence, sometimes a certificate that the applicant had not 
been before. A few such entries are here printed, in the hope that 
more may be supplied from the county records. 

Peterborough cathedral. 1669. " To the carrier for the carriage 

of Tho. Ball Chorister up & down from London to be cured of the 

King's Evil, and his charges by the way " . . £1 4?. od. 

. • 1678. ''To Joh. Deacon a poor man in the Minster towards his 

charge in carrying his daughter to be touch'd of tlie evil'*. 105. od. 

Grafton Regis. King Henry viii " touched two poor women for 
the evil '* here, on one of his hunting expeditions. Murray's Hand- 
book for Northamptonshire, p. 129. 

Peterborough, S. John Baptist. '' The Regestry of Certificates 
concerning such as are to be touched for the Disease commonly called 
y« Kings evil. 

A certificate for Margaret Thorp aged about years dated 

Noyemb. 8*^. 1684. 

[This name erased.] John Henson ^ Church 

VT' J/,°,^^ [ wardens 
Tho: Willis J 

A certificate for the son of one ffoy a carpenter in Bungate about 
Lady Day 1688 by me 

John Gilbert vicar," 

Towcester. '' An acct of all Certificates y* have bin given to any 
of y* Parish of Towcester who have bin presum'd to have had y« 
King's evil & were never touch'd for it by his Majesty before. 

A Certificate given to Will ffield Parish Clerk, Feb 19*^^. A«. 1683-4. 

A Certificate given to Mary Stephens of Abthorp, Feb. 20*^. A^ 
1683-4. 

A Certificate to John Johnson Sept 20***. A°. 1686. 

A Certificate given to Eliz. Hill Sept. 20*^. A°. 1686. 

cc 



2IO Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

A Certificate given to William Davis of Towcester & To Jane 
Sheppard of Caldecott. 

To Watts spinster." 

To these may be added the following from the parish books of 
Woodstock, as it related to a member of a Northamptonshire family. 
(Notes and Queries, 5th S. ii. 523.) 

•* June 13, 1687. Granted then by the Minister and Church- 
wardens, a certificate testifying that George, the son of George 
Whitton of Woodstock Parke had not, to the best of their knowledge, 
been touched at aqy time before by his Majesty for the disease com- 
monly called the King's Evill." 

The fact of these entries appearing all towards the close of the 
seventeenth century is explained by an order given by the king to ' 
prevent frequent applications. This command was published in the 
London Gazette for i8-ai Nov. 1672, requiring all persons who came 
to be touched to " bring a certificate under the Hands and Seals of 
the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parishes where they inhabit; 
. that they have not been Touched before,*' and requiring also that a 
register be kept of all such certificates. H. R. S. 

170. — BouoHTON Green Fair.— The following is taken from 
the original charter preserved in the Record Office 3 charter roll, 25 to 
27, Edward iii., N^ 36. 

Carte de anno regni Regis Edvardi terti) post conquestum xxv** : 

[In margin : — "] pro Henrtco Grene 36 

Rex eisdem [i.e., Archiepiscopis Eptjcopis Abba/ibus Prioribus 
Comitibz^s Baronibz^s Justiciars vicecomitibus Prepositis ministris et 
omnibus Ballivis et fidelibz/s suis] salutem Sciatis nos de gra/fa 
nostra speciali concessisse et hac carta nostrsL confirmasse dil^to nobis 
Henrico Grene quod \pse et heredes sui imperpetuum ha/;eant singulis 
annis unam feriam apud manerium suum de Bukton in Comitatu 
NoTthantonensi per tres dies duraturam videlicet in vigilia et in die et 
in crastino Nativitatis saTzcti JohaTznis Baptiste Nisi feria ilia sit ad 
nocumentum vicinarum feriarum quare volurow^ et firmitfr precipimus 
pro nobis et heredibus no5/ris quod predic/us Henricwj iet heredes sui 
predicti imperpetuum ha^eant feriam predic/am apud man^iuw suum 
predictum cum om^zibt/s libertatibz^s et liberis consuetudinibus ad 
hujus feriam pertinentibus Nisi feria ilia sit ad nocumentum vicinarum 
feriarum sicut predic^z^m est hiis testibus ven^rabilibus pa/ribus S. 
Cantuarenji Archiepi^copo totius Anglie Primate R. Londoneiut J. 
Wygorneww cancellano no5/ro Epi^copis V/ilUelmq de Bohun Nor^han- 
ijonensi Willie/mo de Clynton Huntyngdon en^i Comitibus R&dulpho 



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Barone StafFord^ji Johanne de Gray de Retherfeld senescallo hospitij 
nostn et aliis Datum per manum nojf^ram apud Westmonos^muiTi 
xxviij. die FebrwaWi 

per breve de private sigiZ/o. 

[Xranslation.] 

Charters of the 25th year of the reign of King Edward iii. 

For Henry Greene 

The King to the same [archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, 
barons, justices, sheriffs, governors, ministers, and all bailiffs and 
faithful subjects] greeting. You must know that we of our special 
grace have granted and by this our charter have confirmed to our 
beloved Henry Grene that he and his heirs for ever may have one 
fair at his manor at Bukton in the county of Northampton to last for 
three days namely on the vigil and the day and the morrow of the 
Nativity of Saint John the Baptist Provided that that fair be not an 
injury to neighbouring fairs : wherefore we will and strictly charge for 
ourselves and our heirs that the aforesaid Henry and his aforesaid 
. heirs for ever have ^he aforesaid fair at his aforesaid manor with all 
liberties and free customs to a fair of this kind (?) belonging. Provided 
that that fair be not an injury to neighbouring fairs as is aforesaid 
Witnesses the venerable fathers S[imon Islip] Archbishop of Canter- 
bury Primate of all England R[alph Stratford] Bishop of London 
J[ohu Thoresby] Bishop of Worcester our Chancellor William de 
Bohun Earl of Northampton William de Clynton Earl of Huntingdon 
Ralph Baron Stafford John de Gray de Retherfeld Chamberlain of 
our household (?) and others Given by our hand at Westminster the 
28th day of February by brief of privy seal. 

In Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. i., p. 36, are many curious records 
of this fair. The festivities were originally opened with service in the 
church, the neighbouring clergy being present. Various sports 
followed, and there were prizes for wrestling, races, cudgel-playing, 
singlestick, &c.' In the eighteenth century the meeting was largely 
attended^ and valuable prizes were offered, and advertised beforehand 
in the local papers. From one such advertisement, quoted by Baker, 
we learn that the programme in 1730 was arranged to carry the fair 
on from the 24th to the 29th of June. On the 24th the fair was 
opened, and the fair business proper transacted; on the 2jth "the 
ladies and people of the better rank meet to rafHe, see the shows, and 
thence adjourn to a ball at the Red Lion in Northampton '' ; on the . 
26th a match at single-stick ; on the 27th' wrestling ; and on the 29th 
(Monday) horse and foot races, " if there should be any." Subse- 
quently the fair lasted for three days only, the first for sales, the 

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second for pleasure and holiday, the third for sale of horses and cattle. 
Even as late as 50 or 60 years ago, Boughton Green Fair was ** the 
prime county holiday for rich and poor.'' Dr. Lucas has described 
the fair in verse, in his poem entitled " Boughton Green." ' 

From eyery part, stretched o'er the snltry way, 

The labonring teams the various stores oonvey ; 

Vessels of wood and brass, all bright and new. 

In merry mixture rise npon the view : 

See ! pots oapacions lesser pots entomb, 

And hogsheads barrels gorge, for want of room ; 

From their broad base, part in each other hid. 

The lessening tubs shoot up a pyramid. 

Pitchforks, and axes, and tbe deepening spade. 

Beneath the pressing load are harmless laid ; 

Whilst out behind, where pUant poles prevail, 
• The merry waggon seems to wag his tail. 

The old parish church at Boughton^ dedicated to S. John Baptist^ 
was at a considerable distance from any house. It was suffered to 
sink into disrepair, and ultimately to ruin, as there was a chapel of 
ease in the village itself. The tower of the old church fell down 
about a century ago. The present appearance of the church is well 
shewn in the accompanying woodcut. The churchyard has been 
enclosed and put in order since this drawing was made. £d. 




171, — Great Flood at Wellingborough. — **I was told 
lately of an event which should have been recorded in my History of 
IVellingborough, About 45 years ago, there was an extraordinary 
high flood, which carried away a great portion of Wellingborough 
Bridge. The water entered the lower rooms of the house near the 
bridge, and continued rising to such a fearful height that the man was 
necessitated to make his escape and enter his boat, in which he 
conveyed his wife and part of his family and landed them safe on the 
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while in the act of rowing them towards the bridge, a gush of water 
carrying a piece of ice upset ihe boat, and the father and his children 
unfortunately perished. The wife had not been long on the bridge, 
when the strength of the water rent it in twain ; she had no means 
of escape, the water surrounding her on all sides, until a cart came 
and rescued her during the course of the morning.'* —r- From MS 
diary of yohn Cole, 1839. 

172. — The Second Earl of Northampton. — This elegy and 
epitaph are taken from Characters and Elegies^ by Francis Wortley, 
knight and baronet, published in 1646. The persons commemorated 
in the book mostly lost their lives in the service of king Charles i. 
The epitaph is a suggestion, and was not actually inscribed on the 
earl's monument. Bridges, i. 343, has an account of his death at the 
battle of Hopton-heath, and says that the parliamentary officers 
refused to give up the body, except on very unreasonable terms, and 
it was buried in the church of All Saints at Derby, apparently without 
monument or inscription. 

** An Elegy upon the right Honourable th« Earle of Northamptou, 
I Must acknowledge, now I love thee more, 
(When thou art not) than ere I did before. 
• The love wherewith I living loved thee, 
Is changd to honour of thy memory : 
Ab rarifi*d ayre turns to the purest fire, 
So what I lately lov'd, I now admire. 
Many prof esse, they for the King would die ; 
Thou for his sake, didst offered life deny ; 
Thou wouldst not beg, but Martyrdom command, 
They offered what thou woiddst not understand ; 
There's not a hayre, which from thy head was torn. 
And in despite to Loyalty was worn 
In Triumph ; not a wound to thee was given. 
But they are in the black Records of Heaven : 
And when the Grand Inquest for blood shall come, 
They must strike Tallies for thy Martyrdom. 
How many Scotch Bawbies, cast in account. 
Would to the Talents David left amount ? 
For if wee reckon, wee cannot go lesse 
Then this proportion, this they must conf esse ; 
Thy noble loyall blood, I dare be bold, 
Gompar'd with theirs, will this proportion hold : 
What disadvantage hath our Cause, since we 
Become such loosers by a Victory ? 
^t0 ya^^ Spencer DommtM Gompton, Comes iNorthamptonia^ progmie nobilis, 
% Cof\jugto ftBlix^ % JiHia utrisqus dignus, qui sanguineo regi Jidelitaittm martyrio 
obaignivit : Nee inagno Gustavo dissimilis victor in pralio ; Juxta Stafford, per 
infortunium oeadit. Anno salutia, 1644." 



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173- — Ancient Village Sports (135). — A game like the one 
described by Mr. Baker under the title of ''Choosing Partners ** used 
to be played at Glapthorn a quarter of a century ago, and is probably 
still played there : but one person only stood in thfe ring, instead of 
two. The verses sung at the game were these : — 

*' Here standa a young m&n who wants a sweetheart. 
With all his merry maids round him, 
He may choose from east, he may choose from west, 
He may choose the prettiest girl that he loves best." 

. The words are of course altered to suit the sex of the person in 
the ring. After a partner has been chosen, the players dance round, 
singing: — 

" Kow this young couple is married together, 
We propose they kiss each other." 

The game is continued till each player has been chosen. 
Stramongate, Kendal. A. Palmer. 

In the variety of the game given below it is always a girl that is in 
the ring. I have seen this played at Maxey, and took down the words 
carefully 3 but it is clear that they have in the course of ages become 
corrupt. At the fifth line the girl kneels, and at the seventh she 
stands up again. 

" Oh ! this pretty little girl of mine 

Has cost me many a bottle of wine, 

A hottle of wine and a guinea or two. 

To see what my little girl can do. 

Down on the carpet she shall kneel 

While the grass grows on her field; 

Stand upright upon your feet 

And choose the one you love so sweet." 

Here she selects a partner, as in the former game, and the rhyme 
jcontinues as previously given : — 

"Now you're married you must obey," &c. 

Another game is this. The children are in a ring and one in the 
centre. As the ring revolves they sing : — 

**The miller's dog lay on the wall 
And Bingo was his name. Oh ! 

B, I, N, G, O, 
And Bingo was his name, Oh ! " 

After the first two lines the child in the centre points to one that 
has been dancing round, who has to say the first letter, and then to 
another, and so on : if a mistake is made the one in error has to take 
the place in the centre, but if all answer correctly the last line is sung, 
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Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 215 

is the name of the " Frankly n's dogge*' that Ingoldsby introduces 
into a few lines described as " portion of a primitive ballad, which 
has escaj^ed the researches of Kitson and Ellis, but is yet replete with 
beauties of no common order." Ed. 

174 — '*Thb Northamptonshire Journal." — I have a 
fragment — 4pp. 4to. — which bears the title of " The Northampton- 
shire Journal, with the History of the Old and New Testaments.*' 
It is dated " Thursday, March 19, 1741," and consists of a summary 
of home and foreign news, with two or three advertisements. I 
believe it was printed by Dicey^ and there is at least one reference to 
it in the " Northampton Mercury." The " History of the Old and 
New Testament " was probably in the nature of a supplement. There 
is no copy of this periodical in the British Museum, nor have I ever 
seen or heard of any issue beyond the fragment I have mentioned. 
Can any reader of " N. N. & Q." tell us anything about it ? J. T. 

175- — Cleroy deprived in Queen Mary's Reign, — Queen 
Mary came to the throne 6 July 1553, and died 17 Nov. 1558. 
Besides the Northamptonshire clergy deprived in her reign, a list of 
whom is here given^, there were many who resigned their livings, 
doubtless, in some cases, to avoid deprivation.. The actual reason is 
never given, the occasion of the vacancy being recorded as '*per 
deprivationem," and once " per amotionem seu deprivationem.'* The 
date is that of the institution of the succeeding incumbent. 

1554. 7 May Griffin Jones, rector of Norton. 

18 May William de Brigge, rector of Bjrfielde. 

19 May Thurstin Wilson, vicar of Weston super Welande. 
22 May. Richard Gill, rector of Stanwick. 

25 May Richard Barnes, rector of Boughton. 

26 May John Hutton, rector of Eydon. 

2 June Matthew Fox, rector of Hardewick. 

5 June Milo Beris, rector of Kidlington. 

12 June Roger Wade, rector of two parts of the church 
of Clipsto^. 

18 June Edmund Walton, rector of Gretworth, 

19 June Thomas Ponde, rector of Newton. " 
5 July Robert Hare, vicar of Helpeston. 

1 1 July Thomas Custyn, rector of Tighe,. 

21 July William Mustott, rector of Abbington. 

22 July Nicholas Archibalde, rector of Harleston. 
1 8 Aug. George Bennington, vicar of Wilbaston, 

27 Aug. Thomas Small, rector of Tlirapston. 

31 Aug, William Atkynson, rector of Wyckhamonde. 



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I j54. 13 Sep. Thomas Wittesley, vicar of Dalington. 

19 Sep. Roger Wade, rector of third part of church of 
Clipston. 

27 Sep. Thomas Williamson, rector of Eston. 

28 Sep. Benjamin Lee, vicar of Thyndon. 

13 Oct. Thomas Barton, vicar of Daysborough. 

16 Oct. Hugh Palache, vicar of Duston. 

18 Oct. William Boyro, rector of Bleseworth. 
<22 Oct. Thomas Wilynge, vicar of Denforde. 
26 Oct. Greorge Prys, vicar of Lilforde. 

28 Dec. Andrew Cooke, vicar of Slipton. 

I J54-5. 15 Jan. Laurence Cushe, rector of BuUwicke. 

19 Jan. John Smythe, rector of Stanwicke. 
li^S' H^ug. William Blinko, vicar of Wellingborough. 

21 Dec. James Ingram, rector of Okely Parva. 

In addition to the above there were three prebendaries of Peter- 
borough who resigned in this reign, Richard Peter, Edwin Sandys, 
and Leonard Pollard, besides Nicholas Murray, prebendary of the 
fifth stall, who vacated it about 15 j3 5 but' of these Edwin Sandys 
alone is certainly known to have been deprived, or to have withdrawn 
knowing that deprivation was at .hand. Ed. 

176. — Elmer Family of Northampton. — An enquiry has 
been received from Connecticut relative to this family. Sir Thomas 
Elmer is said to have been living at Northampton in 1830. One of 
his sons, Robert, went to America as a young man, residing at Balti- 
more, and ultimately at Brooklyn. Robert had a son George who 
died receqtly in the neighbourhood of Connecticut, leaving a family 
in comfortable circumstances j but they have lost all trace of their 
ancestors and relatives. George was born' in 1833. Any information 
about the family, or any clue by which to discover the residence of 
any descendants of sir Thomas, would be gratefully received by the 
undersigned. 

Hartford, Conn. Sam. E. Elmore. 

177. — The Manor House at Sulgrave (119, 159). — 'It 
.may interest the readers of '' N. N. & Q.'* to know that much 
woodwork, and some, I believe, of the furniture, from the WasB 
ington manor house at Sulgrave was purchased by the late Mr. Wilcox, 
the well known wood-carver of Warwick, and preserved in his resi- 
dence, whiph stands at the comer of Jury Street and the Butts, 
Warwick. The house was until lately occupied by Dr. Bullock, his 
son-in-law. J. Tom Burgess, f.s.a. 



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178. — HoLDENBY (1.52). — In January, 1650. Holdenby house was 
sold to Adam Baynes, esquire, by the commissioners appointed as 
trustees for that purpose by '* An Act for the Conimons in Parliament 
assembled, for sale of th^ Honours, Manours, and Lands heretofore 
belonging to the late King, Queen, and Prince,*' which was passed 
about this time. 

This Adam Baynes was a captain in the parliamentary forces, he lived 
at Knowshop hall, near Leeds, and represented that town during the 
long parliament. ' The price paid by captain Baynes for this royal 
dwelling was 5^22,299 6s, lod., this sum included the house, the park, 
and mill, With other lands, and 200 head of several sorts of deer, and 
some wild cattle. 

In the conveyance dated 27 Jan., 1650, the materials available for 
building are mentioned to be worth ^6,000, above the charge of. 
taking them down. 

A memorandum in the possession of sir Charles Isham, (printed 
in " N. N. & Q.,** art. 152,) states that captain Baynes, or Baines as 
it is there spelt, sold the materials of the house for sSs,$oo, and the 
wood for about 5^500. 

Captain Baynes no doubt thought his title to Holdenby house was 
not a very good one, he therefore began at once to pull the house down 
and sell the materials 5 he also cut down a great part of the timber, 
and as he disparked the park, it may be presumed that he killed or 
^sold the deer, and wild cattle. 

At the restoration this property was claimed and retaken by the 
crown without compensation ; and perhaps rightly so, although nearly 
to the ruin of the late purchaser. The house seems to have been in 
a great measure destroyed before 1652, and the ruins of the mansion, 
with the title of baron, were given by James 11. to the French mar- 
quis of Blanquefort. Mr. E. R. Baynes, the clerk of the peace for 
Buckinghamshire, and the direct descendant of this captain Baynes, 
was good enough to take some trouble in sending me a few notes 
relating to Holdenby, but he has no record of the Northampton 
houses mentioned by Baker. 

Baker mentions in his history that " Part of the materials were 
removed to Northampton, where three houses which sprung from 
them may still be recognised, these are, Mr. Markham*s in St, Giles 
Street, which was advertized in one of the early Northampton Mer- 
curies by the name of Little Holmby ^ Mr. Munday*s in Gold Street ; 
and Miss Fawsitt*s, in the Drapery." 

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Thb House in S. Giles* Street. 

The house in S. Giles* street was probably erected early in the 
17th century 5 in a deed made in March, 1666, by which it was con- 
ve3'ed by Samuel Pishworth to John Clarke, it was described as being 
a " capitall . messuage mantion House or Tenement with outhouses 
yard garden Backside situate in St. Giles Street." It is quite possible 
that this house was one of the few that escaped the great fire in 1675. 
No doubt after the destruction of Holdenby house^ the front doorway, 
with the window over it, and the pilasters were brought to North- 
ampton, and added to the front of the house. 

By a deed dated 21 April, 1696, the property was leased by John 
Clarke to Henry Plowman for the term of 21 years, at the sum of 
jgi 5 ; in this lease the house is for the first time called " little 
Holdenby house." 

In 1720 a William Clarke sold the property to Henry Plowman for 
£600 ; Henry Plowman conveyed it, together with two pews in the 
parish church, to his spn Henry Plowman the younger, of Pitsford, in 
1728, who left all his property including the house to bis wife Anna 
for her life, and after her death to his nephew Charles Markham, 
subject to certain payments. In this way the property came into the 
possession of the Markham family, in which it has since remained. 

Little Holdenby house extended over the whole of the piece of 
ground now occupied by two houses, nos. 18 and 20, which were 
erected after its destruction in 1841 ; the doorway was, however, 
carefully preserved and erected in the garden. Some few years since 
it was given to Lady Clifden and restored to Holdenby. 
The House in Gold Street. 

The piece of land in Gold street on which Mr. Munday's house 
was built was purchased by Solomon Bray from Grace Collins in the 
year 1678 for the sum of sS2i to hold the same unto Solomon Bray 
and his heirs for one thousand years *' Yeilding and paying therefore 
yearely dureing the sayd terme unto the sayd Grace Collins her heirs 
executors administrators and assigns one peppercorne only at the feast 
of Saynt Michael the Archangel! if the same be lawfully demanded.*' 
The property is described in the deed as " a messuage tenement or 
toft with the appurtenances then in the tenure or occupation of the 
said Solomon Bray situate and being in the sayd Towne of North- 
ampton in a certayne streete there called the Gold Streete." " Toft" is 
a word used in old deeds to express a piece of land where a messuage 
formerly stood but which became decayed or burnt and not rebuilt. 

Soon after Solomon Bray obtained possession of the place he 
mortgaged it with another house or " messuage burned down in the 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 219 

late dreadfull fire in Northampton and since the sayd fire rebuilt." 
This Solomon Bray came from Chapel Brampton and was probably 
the ancestor of Richard Bray who for many years kept the Spencer 
Arms at Chapel Brampton. Mrs. Bray his widow died in Brampton 
some five or six years ago. 

In 1 703 the house in Gold street was conv^eyed to Edward Crane 
of Northampton who again mortgaged it. He died in 173 1, leaving 
the property to his son, doctor Edward Crane ; by whom it was left 
to ** John fFox one of the Aldermen of the Town of Northampton 
cousin and a devisee named in the last will and Testament of Edward 
Crane.*' John Fox. sold it to Richard Fox for £20 ; in 1782 Richard 
Fox sold the property to Edward Kirby for ^1805 and in 1787 
Richard Munday of the town of Northampton, hosier, purchased the 
house for ^200; he occupied the house until his death in 1832, when 
it passed to Thomas Garrett a lace-dealer; Mrs. Garrett his wife 
parted with the property in 1845 *o M^' Portal, to whom I am indebted 
for most of this information. This old house was, I have been 
informed, destroyed about forty years ago, and the new house, now 
occupied by Messrs. Gourlay and Muscott, erected on its site, Mr. 
E. F. Law being the architect. 

Before the house was pulled down it was occupied by Mrs. Law, 
a greengrocer, who had all the stone work and carved ornaments 
painted, the leaves being green and the apples red, making the house 
look very gay outside. No doubt she thought it would be a first- 
rate advertisement* 

The House in the Drapery. 

The oldest deeds and writings relating to the house in the Drapery, 
only go back to the middle of the last century ; the first being the 
will of Samuel Hartshorne of Northampton, gentleman, dated 23 Nov. 
i7^^8, by which he gave, together with other property "a messuage 
or tenement with the appurtenances situate in the Parish of All Saints 
in the said Town of Northampton oil the West side of the Drapery 
then in the occupation of John Farrin and a Stable in College Lane 
to his daughter-in-law Ann Hartshorne," the elder. 

In 1780 Ann Hartshorne the younger married Jonathan Markland 
a wine merchant, and the property was conveyed to trustees for her ^ 
use, Christoper Smyth the then clerk of the peace for the county 
being one. This Ann Hartshorne by her will, made in 1788, devised 
the property to her sisters, Hannah Giles, Mary Cole, and Alice 
Swinfen, and. the survivors. In 1823 Hannah Giles and the repre- 
sentatives of the other sisters conveyed the house and premises to Sarah 
Fawsitt and Rebecca Fawsitt, the purchase money being ^225. 

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Tbey sold it to Mr. Robert Bartram in 1830 j and he to Mr. John 
Blackwell in J86j, who was kind enough to gi?e me these particulars. 
I do not know when the old house, built from the remains of Hol- 
denby house, yras pulled down ^ but it must have been some fifty or 
sixty years ago. The title deeds do not seem to contain any infor- 
mation as to this. Q^ ^^ j^^ 

179. — Parson Diobie and Tobacco. — In a curious and rather 
rare quarto tract in my library I find a reference to this clergyman in 
connection with Peterborough, and as I think that it will interest 
most of your readers I will set it out. The tract is by John Deacon, 
and is entitled "Tobacco tortured or the filthie fume of tobacco 
refined shewing all sorts of Subjects that the inward taking of Tobacco 
fumes is very pernicious unto their bodies } ** &c., &c. It was published 
by Richard Field, London, 161 6. It is written in a conversational 
style, the speakers being Capnistus, about to set out upon " A dan- 
gerous adventure towards the uttermost parts of West India with 
speed from whence also I intend to trafiScke Tobacco into this our 
English Land,^* and a famous Doctor Hydrophorus. The latter 
endeavours to persuade the merchant that tobacco is very prejudicial : — * 

" Capn, Well, be it so as you say : but how appeareth the truth of 
your second Proposition : namely, that the smoke of Tobacco taken 
inward, doth spread and disperse throughout the whole bodj, a 
venenious matter, and a mortall enemie to the nature of man : . 

Hydr, The truth thereof doth sound forth itselfe throughout 
everie coast, by the sodaine and lamentable end of many Tobacconists ; 
more especially, by a pitifull experience in Far son Digbie at* Peter- 
borough of late : who (having excessively taken Tobacco in a tippling 
house) did instantly fall downe starke dead in the open streets. All 
which examples (being no less true than wofuU) as they may serve 
for a terrour . to all : so especially, these our insatiable suckers in of 
Tobacco smoke, should conscientiously apply to themselves, and be 
warned thereby." 

It is satisfactory to note that Capnistus at last was brought round 
to Hydrophorus' way of thinking and forsook his trade in Tobacco. 
** I have now gathered," he says at the conclusion, " (I thanke my 
good God) such an experimented and sanctified wisedome from this 
your present discourse, as doth very plainly demonstrate unto me, the 
palpable foolerie of all my former West India Voyages." They then 
take their leave, each calling down the blessing of heaven upon the other. 

Who was this parson Digbie ? 

Weston-fuper.Mare. E. E. B. 



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180. — Incised Memorial Pillar found at Northampton. — 
In 1823, upon the removal of an old lamp-post, on the Wood hill, 
adjoining the south-east corner of All Saints* church yard, was dis- 
covered part of an ancient memorial 
pillar. The inscription on it was evi- 
dently a couplet in Latin. The upper 
part of the pillar containing the begin- 
nings of the two lines has been broken 
off. The stone is of oolite, 3ft. 5iin. 
long, ift. ojin. x 7 in. at bottom, and 
IX in. X 6|in. at the present top. It 
was originally at least 7ft. high. The 
back is rough. The letters are mostly 
about three inches high and of Lom- 
bardic form. It reads 




V Q' 



CORRVIT HOSTIS 



. . . CERB VICTVS ERAT. 

" It has reference to some defeat of an 
enemy, or to one of those sanguinary 
conflicts which formerly occurred here, 
but the nature of wl)ich it is impossible 
to make out.*' A sketch of this stone 
is here given. If it is allowable to 
suggest a completion of the lines, we 
may imagine the whole inscription 
once to have been somewhat in this 
form : — 

Aspics crvdelis campvm qva corrvit hostis, 

Qvi VENIT CVPIENS VINCERE VICTVS ERAT. 

Lo here the plain where fell the cruel foe. 
Who came to conquer was hinaself laid low. 
This would account for all the letters remaining on the stone, if 
we suppose the syllable vm to be contracted into v with a bar above, 
and the abvcrb qva also to be abbreviated in the manner usual in 
mediaeval inscriptions. Another suggestion has been made for com- 
pleting the lines : — 

HiC EST INSOLITO CASV ftVA CORRVIT HOSTIS 
AnGLVS aVI VOLVIT VINCERE VICTVS ERAT. 

In this version the first letter on the stone is considered to need no 
mark of contraction. It is probably of the 13th or 14th century^ 
The stone is now in the Northampton Museum. Ed. 



222 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

181. — Monumental Inscriptions from other Counties 
(27, 126).— On a marble tablet in the chancel of Great Horwood 
church, CO. Bucks., is the following inscription : — 
'* Here Lieth the body of 
Robert Barker, Gent. / 

borne at Cnlworth in North-Hampt-fihire, 
and of Marie (davghter to William Smith I>r 
of Laws.) his beloved wife, 
They lived happily together and had several 
children to whom they g^ve liberal ednoatioit 

and portions, 
They were allsoe well matched in disposition, 
^Fions, Provident and industrious 
In religion orthodox and wichont fraction 
^^ - In charity sincere & without ostentation 

Hospitable and kind to friends, neighbn & strangers 
In their life generally respected & beloved 

Att tiieir death lamented. 
Robert died the 6 March. Aa 1636 aged 70 
Marie died Novembr ye 26 Ao 1656 aged 75 

To whose Memorie 
Their eldest son William Barker D^ 
of Divinite bequeathed y« monvment." ' 
Wlnslow. A. Clear. 

182.— Civil *War, 164.3. — ''The forces of Newarke and of 
the Lord Camden have as good as surprised the large and well affected 
County of Lincolne, having possest themselves of Grantham, Stamford^ 
Peter borow, and went up to the wals of Lincolne.'* xi April. 

" The Camden Army fetches in horse & provisions 15 miles round 
both in . Lincolne and Northamptonshire, having his head-quarter at 
Stamford. There is a partie gone from Cambridge against them, 
which will make them runne in all likelihood.*' 18 April. 

" Collonel Cromwell is at Huntington himself, part of his Forces are 
at Peterboiovgh, he is not full 1000. horse and foot in all.'* 25 April. 

" Cojlonel Cromwell, whose fidelitie none question, is up and 
down in Lin coin e-shire i it were to be wished, that he and the Lord 
Gray, and Sir John Gell, had joyned together, to have withstood the 
Convx)y that came from Newarke with the Ammunition, but whether 
their power were sufficient, is a question j yet it being not attempted, 
the Countreys of Leicester-shire and Northampton-shire have been 
fearefully plundered 5 in which plundering they put little difference 
between friend and enemy." 16 May. 

The above are from a weekly publication entitled : — 
'^ Speciall Passages And certain Informations from severall places, Collected 
for the Hse of all that desire to be tmely Informed." 



Northamptonshire Notes ajid Queries. 223 

The next extract is from : — 

'^ A Gontinyation Of certam Speciall and Remarkable passages informed 

to both Houses of Parliament, and otherwise from divers parts of this 

Kingdome." 

I "By Letters from Northampton it is enformed that the Lord Gray 

in Leicestershire, having notice that the Lord Campden and his son 

M. Noell made preparations for the raising of forces in the County 

. of Rutland against the Parliament, advanced with some forces to the 

Lord Campdens house, called Brooke House in Rutland and after 

some slight opposition took the same, and M. Noell prisoner, with 

good store of armes ammunition and other pilledge, but the Lord 

Campden himself made escape, the Lord Gray having since sent M. 

Noell to Northampton, to remaine there in safe custody, till a fit 

opportunity to send him up to the Parliament.'* • 2 March. ^ 

The next extracts are from : — 

** The Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer : Sent Abroad To prevent mis- 
information.'* 

''Master /Jo^^/ The Queenes Page was taken in Northampton- 
shire, but no Letters of any consequence, being found upon him, and 
withall having the Lord Fairjaxe his passe to goe through his Army, 
he was permitted by the Parliament to goe. to Oxford, without more 
interruption.*' 28 Mar. 

*' As the 'Northampton Forces received a losse near Banbury, both 
of men and Armes, so elsewhere the Parliaments Souldiers have 
regained a greater booty." 15 May. 

The remaining are from : — 

"Mercnrius Pragmatious. Gommnnicating Intelligence from all parts, 
touching all AfEiaires, Designes, Humours, and Conditions, throughout 
the Kingdome. Especially from Westminster, and the Head'Quarters.** 

''And thus Tie undertake during the time of his*' (the lord 
Manchester's) " reigne, all Delinquerits whatsoever may passe for 
honest men either by Order or Ordinance, or else he is none of Dads 
own Son, and so the old Proverb also may. be crossed, if what was 
bred in the bone shall out in the flesh ; so that it will be no marvaile to 
tell you, that divers condemned persons in the Goale at Northampton 
were allowed lately to take out their pardons : But his Lordship had 
not best be prodigall, and deliver out too many, for feare he have 
never a one in the end for himselfe." 12 October. 

"The Parishioners of Ould in Northamptonshire, petitioned 
against one Mr. Slower (an Alien) whom they understand not, and 
therefore would not have him to be their Minister, This was some 
far-Northern Apostle crept into ^ English plantation (as God knowes 
there are too many) on purpose to propagate Treason, by setting the 



224 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Gospel Vi^n ih& wrack in a Scotish tone; a language no Christian 
can learae without putting his moiith into the Cramp, . . . . " here 
follows some strong language against the Presbyterians, wMch need 
not be quoted. 

All the above are taken from a volume of miscellaneous tracts 
and newspapers, lettered LI. 8. 51, in the university library of 
Cambridge. M. M. D. 

183- — Carltle at Nasebt (hi). — Carlyle, writing in his 
Cromwell of the fight of Naseby, quaintly mentions " two ancient 
grinder teeth, dug lately from that ground. . . Sound effectual grin- 
ders, one of them very large 3 which ate their breakfast on the 
fourteenth morning of June two hundred years ago, and except to be 
clenched once in grim battle, had never work to do more in this 
world 1 " It may interest your readers to know that one of these • 
•'ancient grinders" is now in the cabinet of Mr. S. C. Tite, of 
Towcester, a well-known local antiquary. He has also a bullet from 
the same field. Cards are attached to the relics bearing the 
following inscriptions in Carlyle*s handwriting: — 

** jaw-N)oth dug from a burial " Bullet found on Naseby Bat- 

mound (near Gloieterwell) on tie field. Has been in my pos- 

Naseby battle field, on the 23rd .sesBion above 10 years. 

Sept». 1842, by Ed. F**., and sent T. C. 

to me 4 days after. 23 jany. 1864." 

(Seal) Given to Mr. Wake. T. 0. (Seal) 
23 Jany. 1854." 
Blackheath. JoHN Alt Porter. 

184. — Cricket plated for a Stake. — Cricketers of to-day 
will probably be surprised to hear that at any time money was openly 
staked by the respective sides upon tlie issue of a game. In the 
game described below, in an extract taken from the Stamford Mercury 
of 19 Sep., 1794, each player staked his half-guinea. 

•*On Monday last a cricket match was played in Peterboro' 
race-ground, for l^vt guineas and a half a-side, between the youths 
of Wisbech and the youths of Peterboro', which was won by the 
latter, having four men to go in when the game was won." 

Twenty years ago a cricket-ball was occasionally played for in 
country matches, but it is probable that this practice has altogether 
died out. H. R. S. 

185.— An Original Offence. — *' A few days since a boy was 
committed to Peterboro' bridewell, for milking a gentleman's cows, in . 
the neighbourhood, which he had frequently done, rather than go to a 
farther distance to milk his master's.'* — Stamford Mercury, 3 Aug., 
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226 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

in a quaint address. Like a prudent man, he starts bj trying to 
ingratiate himself with the local authorities and his fellow-townsmen 
by expressing surprise '* that this famous, this beautiful, this polite 
Corporation has not long ago been the object of those man [many] 
Printers who have established Printing Offices in Towns of less note. 
And certainly it argues their want of thought : For the Soul of Con- 
versation must be absolutely necessary to a Body of People that excel 
therein/* The editor then acknowledges the "gracious leave which 
the worshipful Mr, Mayor, the . Court of Aldermen, and Common 
Council have unanimously granted " to the proprietors to set up their 
press at Northampton. 

As to the contents of the volume, a careful examination of the 
twelvemonths' issues discloses the singular fact that it contains 
scarcely any town or county nevs at all. Commitments to prison 
excepted, there are not more than ten or a dozen paragraphs of local 
news in the whole year, but there are two or three original jests of 
almost incredible coarseness. This entire absence of all signs of 
public life as we now understand that term has a melancholy sugges- 
tiveness. Of local efforts on behalf of religion, philanthropy, 
politics, trade, the moral, social, and intellectual elevation of the 
community, or even of amusement (excepting a race-meeting or two), 
there is not a single hint in the whole volume. "Whatever doubts we 
may at times have as to the wisdom of some of the forms of public 
activity in these days, we may surely, without undue self-complacence, 
congratulate ourselves on the contrast which in this respect the 
Northampton. Mercury of to-day presents to its predecessor of 1720. 

The major part of the space is occupied by foreign news extracted 
from the London Gazette and from printed sheets called ''news 
letters," of which the "Belfast News Letter,'* established in 1737, is 
a survival. Of London gossip there is an ample supply, and the 
editor had no doubt taken an accurate measure of his readers* taste» 
when he gave them a full account of every execution at Tyburn, and 
printed all the sickening details of the torture to which prisoners were 
subjected who refused to plead. Every issue included a return of 
goods imported into and exported from the port of London, and also 
the London weekly bill of mortality. The latter records, as fatal 
diseases, headmouldshot, headach, evil, stroiiguUion, horse-shoe-head, 
tympany, pain in the stomach, chrisoms, bursten, planet-struck, 
purples, surfeit, and lethargy. Surfeit we know, and evil we could 
giiessj but what can headmouldshot and strongullion be ? There are 
also weekly quotations of South Sea stock, together with much abuse 
of the directors, for the bubble burst in 1720. I may mention that 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 22.7 

up to the end of March, 1720-21, the numbers are of course dated 
1720, according to the old style. The firSt volume ends with the 
issue for April 24, 1721, and the editor therein promises that ''our 
next will be adorn'd with a curious Frotitispiece, being the South 
West Prospect of the Town of Northampton." 

I make these rough notes not from the copy in the Northampton 
Free Library, but from a much finer copy in the possession of Mr. 
John Taylor. It bears the book-plate of Colonel T. S. W. Samwell, 
of Upton Hall, near Northampton. J. L. Cherry. 

188. — "Fairy Jip."— This story from Northamptonshire is by 
T. Sternberg, but is omitted from his Dialect and Folk-lore : — 

Once upon a time, just before the monkey tribe gave up the 
nauseous custom of chewing- tobacco, there lived an old hag, who 
had conceived an inordinate desire to eat an elf ; a circumstance, by 
the way, which indubitably establishes that elves were of masticable 
solidity, and not, as some one has it, mere 

" Shadowey dancers by the suinmer streams." 
So the old lady went to the place where the fairies dwelt, and knocked, 
at the hill top :— " Pretty little Jip/* said she, " come and see the 
sack of cherries I have brought thee, so red, so sweet." Fairies, be 
it known, are extremely fond of this fruit, and the elf rushed out in 
eager haste. " Ha ! ha ! " said One-eye, as she pounced upon him, 
and put him in her bag (witches always carry bsfgs), " take care the 
stones don't stick in thy throttle, my little bird." On the way home 
she had to visit a place some distance from the road, and left Jip 
meanwhile in the charge of a roan who was cutting faggots. No' 
sooner was her back turned than Jip begged the man to let him out, 
and they filled the bag with thorns. One-eye called for her burden, 
and set off towards home, making sure she had her dinner safe on 
her back. " Ay, ay, my lad," said she, as she felt the pricking of the 
thorns j " I'll trounce thee when I get home for stinging me with thy 
pins and needles." When she reached her house she belaboured the 
bag with a huge stick, till she thought she had broken every bone in 
the elf's body ; when she found that she had been wasting her strength 
on a •' kit " of thorns, her rage knew no bounds. Next day she again 
got possession of Jip in a* similar manner, and this time left him in 
care of a man who was breaking stones by the roadside. The elf 
makes his escape as before, and they fill the sack with stones. *' Thou 
little rogue ! " said the witch, as she perspired under the burden, "Til 
soften thy bones nigh-hand." Her appetite was only whetted, not 
blunted, by these repeated failures 5 and, despairing of again catching 
her prey in the same way as before, she assumed the shape of a pedlar, 

BB 2 



228 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

with a churn on his sbouldery and contrived to meet Jip in a wood. \ 
'• Ah ! master Redcap," quoth she, " look alive, my little man, the 
fox is after thee. See ! here he comes \ hie thee into my cfaurn» aod 
• I will shelter thee. Quick ! quick ! *' In jumped the elf. *' Pretty 
bird," chuckled the old crocodile; " dost thee scent the fox ? *' This 
time she went straight home, and gave Jip to her daughter, with ' 
strict orders that she should cut off his noddle, and boil it. When 
the time came for beginning the cooking. Miss One-eye led her 
captive to the chopping-block, and bade him lay down his bead 
" How ? •• quoth Jip ; " I don't know how." •' Like this, to be sure," 
said she ; and, suiting the action to the word, she put her poll in the 
right position. Instantly the fairy seizes the hatchet, and serves ber 
in the manner she intended to serve him. Then, picking up a huge 
pebble, be climbs up the chimney to watch the progress of events. 
As he expected, the witch came to the fire to look after her delicacy ; 
and no sooner does she lift up the lid of the pot, than " plop " came 
down Jip's pebble right into the centre of the remaining optic, the 
light of which it extinguished for ever 3 or, according to some 
versions, killed her stone dead. J. T. 

189. — Incised Memorial Pillar found at Northampton 
(180). — On first looking at the woodcut of the njemorial pillar in 
your last issue I was inclined to think from the boldness of the 
lettering that it was of Roman origin 5 but on a closer examination of 
the letters, and from its shape, I consider that its date may be fairly- 
assigned to the year a.d. 1460 (period of Henry vi.). The 3^ in the 
.word hostis is certainly not Roman but of the time- above referred to; 
also the same may be said of the iE ; but the 21 is the best letter to 
decide the question, as on the great seal that form of letter, with the 
bar across the centre, and also on the top, may be seen to be making 
its appearance amongst the letters of our alphabet about that period, 
and it continued as late (in some instances) as a.d. 1675, but very 
rarely. The % without the bar was fast going out of fashion about 
the year 1600, and the capital A as we now have was taking its place; 
but I have found a few instances of its being used in country places 
at a later date. The top-barred and centre cross-barred capital A's may 
be seen in the signature of Albert Durer's, dated a.d. ijii and 15 14. 

The upright stones (called crosses) were in vogue as early as 
a.d. 800 and as late as 1550 : but although no exact date can be 
ascribed to any one of the letters, still the occurrence of these par- 
ticular ones on the same inscription clearly points out the period of 
its origin, and, in my opinion, it was set up to commemorate the 
battle of Northampton. Delta. 



^S^ Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 229 

^Jii. 190- — Lazar House at Stamford Baron. — Lazar Houses or 

injM: "the Spitel at the Townis ende*' were built for the reception of 
itoMs those labouring under a form of disease, which^ now extinct or 
ttefil very rarelj to be met with in this climate, was endemic amongst us 
tbcfffli" from the tenth to the middle or end of the sixteenth century. It 
r dsi^ was a disease of a very frightful & revolting character, incurable, & 
y i believed to be highly contagious 5 and for these reasons it was 
3flWjei regarded by our forefathers with an intensity of abhorrence which 
im ii appears to have overcome the common feelings of humanity, and to have 
iis, toifi bidden defiance to the ties of nature herself 3 and they termed it " La 
erjMfi grosse Maladie," and believed it to be the disease with which Lazarus 
oJsene was afflicted, when, in the extremity of human misery and destitution, 
^m{: he 3at at the rich man's gate, and the dogs came and licked his sores 5 
5j jjf J the parable, moreover, they seem to have considered as the enunciation 
^fy of historical fact, thence the disease acquired the name of Leprosy of 
uwg Lazarus ; hence also the Leper houses were dedicated (so frequently) 

^; to that imagiinary saint, or to S. Mary Magdalen his supposed sister 3 
U jj thence the wretched inmates of- those places obtaine'd the name of 
r I Brothers of S. Lazarus, Lazarouses, or Lazars. 

The distinct objects of the Malandria and Bede house are clearly 
pointed out in the statutes (loth. Old Translation) of Browne's Hos- 
pital, Stamford, compiled and set forth about 1493-4. " Furthermore 
I ordain and make that no Leper man or woman be admitted or put 
into the said Almshouse, lest he should infect the whole or sound 
fellows, and provoke them to loathsomeness or ogglesome'ness, and 
he shall be removed and brought to some other place where he may 
be received, &c. 5 the Dean of Stamford and the Vicar of All Hallows 
(All Saints) are entrusted with the execution of this statute in per- 
^^ petuity." In 8 Jac. i. the statutes were revised, and this against 

j» the admission of Lepers confirmed. In 1768, John; Bp. of Lincoln, 

' on a revisal of the statutes, repeats the provision. 

At Lincoln, near to the Little-bar-gate lies an isolated spot still 
called " Malandry Closes," on which stood in olden times the 
Hospital of the Holy Innocents, called Malandri or Malardri, cor- 
ruptions doubtless of the Norman-French Maladerie or Malandrerie^ 
a word signifying a Lazar-house or an Hospital for the reception of 
Lepers. The one at Stamford was situated just outside the town, at 
the south end of S. Martin's, in a field close to the hill which still 
retains the name of " Spittal-hill." The house and chapel, dedicated 
to S. Giles, had lands for the support of a chaplain and several poor 
lepers, but when and by whom founded is unknown. In an inquisi- 
tion taken in 1222, it is mentioned that king Stephen alienated from 
his demesne at Stamford 5 acres of land for its use. 






230 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

In 1303 Geoffrey de Croyland, abbot of Peterborough, gaye 
William Poncyn, of Stamford, the wardenship for life, on condition that 
he supplied the chantry in its chapel three times a week, and kept up the 
building of the house and all other accustomed charges. In an in- 
denture of appraisement made 4 May 23 Henry vii. (1538), between 
the prioress, Margaret Gudechepe, and convent of the house and 
priory of S. Michael beside Stamford, and Roger Saunder and 
Eliz. his wife, late of Kyxkeby beside Dean co. Northampton, of 
their agricultural live stock and growing crops in the fields 3 of 
the latter, reference is made to 2 acres of Rye lying " above medul- 
furlong butyng on y* Spitul cross agens y* Spitul.** In the 
account of money laid out in 1^56 by Andrew Scarre for sir William 
Cecil, is this item : " first, for makyng and mowing of the close by the 
spittlehouse ij*. viij*.*' In a deed undated, but apparently, from the 
writing, of the latter end of the reign of Edward i. or beginning of 
Edward 11., of exchange of land (one acre of arjible) between the 
prioress- of the house of S. Michael and convent of the same and 
with the assent of William de Stokes then prior of the said nuns, 
and Hugh de Tickencote, burgess of Stapiford, one head of Hugh's 
land abutted upon land of the convent, and another on Spittledic (Spittle- 
dyke) on the highway that leads to Northampton, The acre of* land 
given by the' convent in exchange was situated between the Hospital 
of S. Giles towards the east, and land of the said Hugh towards the 
west ; one head abuts on the way to Pilsgate, and the other on the 
way to Burle. One of the witnesses to the deed was William Poncyn. 
If he was the same man that was made warden in 1303, which is very 
probable, the then prioress was Matilda de Lenna, or Len. 

In the parish registers of S. Martin's, commencing 1572, are 
numerous entries of the baptisms and burials of dwellers therein. 
The first that I have among many, is the burial on ist May 1574 of 
John Davis, peorter of y* Spittle^ another, the jjurial on 2 July 
1 614 of one Robert DaukinS being killed with an horse, his father 
dwelling at y* Spittle house, and the last, 17 10, Sarah Howell at y« 
Spittle House, bur. Aug. 16, J. Simpson. 

191- — Incised Ston« at. Northampton. — In calling attention 
to an inscription on the parapet of a house situated at the western 
corner of S. Giles* square in Northampton, a correspondent of the 
Northampton Mercury, in a letter dated 7 March, 1838, introduces 
the subject in words which may very appropriately be quoted in such 
a publication as " N. N: & CI." He says : — " The rapidity with 
which the remains of antiquities are disappearing, especially in our 
populous tuwns^ is too obvious to require a remark ^ and doubtless 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 231 



v;e ought to consider ourselves greatly indebted to those whose pens 
and pencils are employed from time to time in rescuing some traces 
of the past from oblivion." He proceeds to make enquiries as to the 
history of the incription, which consisted of these words : — 

'^Eripitur Persona Manet Res/* 
They are taken from Lucretius, De rerum natura, iii^, j8 5 and the 
complete passage is this :-^ 

** Nam yene voces tnm demnm pectore ab imo 
Eliciontur, et eripitur persona, manet res." 

The poet has been maintaining that a true insight into a man's char- 
acter is gained by observing his behaviour in adversity and danger. 
In Creech's translation the lines are thus rendered : — 

** For then their words ■will with their thoughts agree. 
And, all the mask pull'd off, show what they be." 

The disguise being withdrawn, the reality remains. The writer, who 
adopts the signature *' Viator," wished to know if any calamitous 
event were commemorated, and what was the application of the 
quotation. A few weeks later another letter appeared with the same 
signature, regretting that no information on the subject had been 
forthcoming/ and pointing out that the inscription is repeated on a 
stone in the house. ** I have since learnt what, I was then ignorant 
of, that the same inscription still exists in a different form, on a small 
square tablet of stone, inserted in the wall of the same house, on the 
Western front." The slab should have been rather called rectangular, 
as it measures 22in. by i6in. This is the inscription on it : — 



B B. J705. 

Eripitvr Persona 

Manetres. 



It has been quite recently brought again into public notice from 
the fact of the premises, which are now in' the occupation of 
Mr. McKinnell, having been taken down, when the stone, which had 
been concealed by Venetian shutters, was brought to light again. A 
writer in the Northampton Mercury of April 23, 1881, states that in 
1702 Benjamin, Bullivant was mayor of Northampton, and suggests 
that he may have put up the inscription. He would very likely mean 
by the quotation nothing more than that his property would remain 
after he himself was taken away. In the northern part of the county. 



232 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

a bouse erected by a gentleman who was advanced in years^ and who 
did not expect long to enjoy the pleasure of residing in it, has the 
inscription " Sic vos non vobis." Ed. 

192- — Ancient Village Sports (13 j, 173). — Miss Bertha 
Finding, of Raunds, has sent me two more old games as played in 
that village. She observes that the wording is not grammatical, but 
she imagines that grammar has b^n sacrificed to rhythm. 

The first game is ''The Pen Pound." The lasses and lads join 
hands and step round the way the sun goes. One lad or lass must 
be blindfolded, kneeling in the centre of the ring ; and one lad or 
lass walks round outside the ring. These lines are then recited (the 
one in the ring being called for explanation's sake A^ the other B) : — 

A, " Who runs round my pen pound P " 

B, "No one but old king sailor." 

A. ^ Don't you steal all my sheep away, while Fm. a wailer." 

B, " Steal them all i^way, one by one, and leave none but old king sailor." 

At the last word B taps one of those going round, who imme- 
diately runs off and hides. The above is repeated until all the ring 
has fied. A is then bidden by B to search until he finds his lost sheep. 

The second game is called ''The Jolly Sailor Boys." Four lads 
are in the centre of a ring, the children forming which begin hj 
singing these words as they move round : — 

** Here oomes four jolly sailor boys, 
Just lately come ashore ; 
They spend their days in many merry ways, 

As they have done before. 
Bound, round the ring we go, 
Bound, round the ring. 
And he that choose his bonny, bonny lass, 
Must kiss her on the floor." 

The four sailor-boys then choose each a " bonny, bonny lass,*' 
and retire from the centre, and the four chosen lasses take their 
places. The game is then continued and repeated ad libitum. 
Hargrave. RoB. S. Baker. 

193. — The Theatre in S. Giles's Street, Northampton. — 
In Mr. G. J. De Wilde's Ramlles Roundabout (p. 238) mention is 
made of the ''playhouse in St. Giles's Street," which ''occupied the 
site of the new houses facing Castilian Street." An advertisement in 
the Northampton Mercury of 1768 describes it as the "New Theatre, 
in St. Gyles's Street." I should be glad of any information res- 
pecting this place of entertainment, particularly the dates of its 
erection and demolition ; as also of any earlier dramatic represen- 
tation^ in Northampton. . F. A. Tole. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries.' 233 

194- — Public Whippings, 17^3. — The " short round " spoken 
\^of in these extracts from the orders passed at the October sessions, 
27 Geo. II., started from the old Town hall, along by the Peacock inn, 
the Parade, the Drapery, aloiig Mercer's row to the Town halL The 
" long round ** began as above, but turned up Sheep street, leaving the 
Ram inn. to the right, down Bearward street and the Horsemarket, and 
so by Gold street, George row, the Wood hill back to the Town hall. 

"(Northamptonshire). Ordered at the October Sessions 27 George 2. 
Elizabeth, It is ordered by this Court that Elizabeth 

Wormleightonto Wormleighton Convicted of stealing Beans and 
^ ^ ' pease be privately whipt and then discharged on 
paying her fees. By the Court, 

Sarah Andrews It is ordered by this Court that Sarah the Wife 

to be whipt. ^f Jq^u Andrews Convicted of Stealing a Cloth 
' great Coat be publickley whipt the long Round on 

Saturday next and on Saturday the thirtieth day of 
October next she be publickly whipt at Corby by 
the Keeper of the House of Correction at Kettering 
and then discharged on paying her fees. 

By the Court. 

John Comiflh It is ordered by this Court that John Cornish 

to be whipt. ^ Convicted of Stealing three pecks of wheat be 

publickly whipt the short Round on Saturday next 

at the usual Hour and then (Uscharged on paying 

his Fees. " By the Court." 

195-7- Washington ^^^ Isham. — ^This, I believe, is a con- 
nection which has not been before noticed,.and it may be that through 
it something fresh may be added, and so lead us to further inquiry; 
for everything to do with the Washingtons must be of great general 
interest. 

Sir Charles Isham has in his possession at Lamport a letter, un- 
dated, but yrith a seal attached, a little broken, (round the seal 
• • VR • was + himgton; Arms, i** and 4*^ Washington, without 
crescent, a°^ and 3'* . . . ) from Anne lady Washington to her sister 
Judith lady Isham : the latter died at Lamport 25 June, 1625, at the 
age of 34, and was there buried, having been married to sir John 
Isham -in 1607, so the date of the letter is approximately fixed. This 
letter I give below. Now in Nichols' Historical and Genealogical 
Notes relating to Northamptonshire^ p. 15, is this extract from the 
registers of burials of S. Danstan's in the West, London : — " 161 7, 
Dec. 29. Laurence, son of Laurence Washington, iunior.'' There is 

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234 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

a note at the foot of the page to say ''Anne dau. of Laurence Wash- 
ington and Anne, was bap. Aug. 29, 162 1 ; and Lawrence their sod, 
Sept' 30, 1622.** These two exactly tally with the ages of the sur- 
viving children of sir Laurence. The one buried in 1617 must, I 
think, be one of the two sons spoken of in the letter, thus n^ore 
nearly fixing its date, and making it probable that it was written early 
in 1618. 

" To my Deere Sister Judeth the Ladie Isham these. 
Deere Sister, 

When I was w**^ you I esteemed my self verie happie in your 
sweet conversation w^ the hope I conceaved of your perfect recoverie 
of helth as also in som other comforts, of w^ since it hath plased God 
to depHve mee, for he hath taken from mee my tow sons w**» were 
unvaluably Deere unto mee And w* I take as one of my greatest 
causes of discomfort, is to heare that you are falne in to your acos- 
tomed weaknes. But being these are things w*** owr good Grod doeth 
as seemeth best unto him, w*** wee can not withstand we must also 
w^'owt repyning submitt owr selves to his unresistable will. And thus 
good sister Resolving my self pi your good mynde and most setled 
constancy in this resolucon I comitt uss both to his mercy & goodnes 
resting ever Your trewly loving sister 

Anne Washington '* 

Also I find in the large collection of old letters at Lamport the 
following references to the Washington connection : — 
1 62 1. June 2. Justinian Isham writes to his father sir John Isham 
and presents his duty to his " aunt Denton and his uncle Wash* 
. inton." 
1623. Dec. 12. Elizabeth lady Lewyn writes to Judith lady Isham 
and refers to " her own brother Larence Washington." 
This lady Lewyn became, on second marriage, wife of Ralph, 
lord Hopton, see Notes tsf (Queries 6th S. xi. 388, 455 ; xii. 294. 
April 25 (no year) Justinian I§ham writes from Cambridge to sir 
John thus : — " Oro reminisci officium meum ad amicum Denton 
et avunculum et materculam Washington^** Justinian was at 
the time a student at Christ's college. 
March 14 (no year) Elizabeth Isham writes to her brother Justinian 
Isham and speaks of " my unckel Wahiogton." 
These are enough for my purpose to show the intercourse that 
was kept up between the Lewyns of Otteringden, co. Kent, and 
through them between the Washingtons of Maidstone and the family 
at Lamport. 



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In Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd series. No. 1 1, (Nov., 
1884) is given the following Funeral Certificate, which it may be 
worth while to reproduce : — 



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" Lawrence Washington of Maydeston 
in Kent gent, and Registrar of his Ma*^ 
high Court of Chauncerie second sonne of 
Lawrence Washington of Sowlegrave in 
the County of Northampton gent; and 
daughter of William Pargiter of Gritworth 
in the County of Northampton aforesaid 
gent, deceased the 21 day of December 
1 6 19 at his house in Chauncerie Lane and 
was buried in the parishe Churche of 
.... in Maydeston in Kent aforesayd 
his body being thither translated on the 
24 of the same moneth. He maried two wyves the first was Martha 
daughter of Clement Nuse of Haddam in the County of Hartf. gent, 
and had issue by her 6 sonnes and two daughters viz. Lawrence this 
.eldest Sonne and heire who also succeeded his father in the office of 
Register maried to Anne Lewine the da. of William Lewine Doctor 
of the X^ivill La we and Judge of the prerogative Court, Clement his 
second sonne and Clement his 3d sonne who dyed both without issue. 
Raphe 4 sonne, William 5 sonne, and an other all dyed before their 
father. He had also two daughters by the sayd Martha his first wife 
the first was Mary maried to William Horsepoole of Buckland neere 
Maydeston in Kent gent., the second daughter was Martha maried 
to Arthur Beswick sonne and heire apparant of William Beswick 
gent, of Spilmandine in the parishe of Horsmandine in the Countie 
of Kent aforesayd. The second wife of Lawrence Washington 
deceased was Mary the daughter of S' Thomas Scott of Scotts Hall 
in the County of Kent aforesayd Knight and by her had no issue. 
This certificate v^as taken by William Penson Lancaster Herald the 
14 of January 1619 and is testified to be true vnder the hand of 
Lawrence Washington the heire of the sayd Lawrence deceased.'* 

Thus, it will be seen, Laurence Washington and sir John Isham 
married sisters 3 Washington married Anne, sir John (born 27 July, 
1582) married 19 Oct., 1607, at Brixworth, Judith the youngest 
daughter of William Lewyn and sister of sir Justinian Lewyn. The 
funeral certificate also seems to account for the arms of Nuse or 
Newce of Herts, on Shield No. 7 at Fawsley, which sir Henry 

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23^ Nerthamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Dryden has described on page 148, but it alters the Christian name, 
rightly or wronglj, of Pargiter of Gretworth, from Robert to William. 
About a century before, Henry Isham, whose son is described as *' of 
Walmer' Manor" in Kent, had married Anna, widow of William 
Scott, younger brother of sir Reinold Scott of Scotts Hall. 

A mistake of Baker is also here corrected 5 in his pedigree of the 
Washingtons he has omitted altogether the name of Lawrence Wash- 
ington of Maidstone, and has made his son sir Lawrence of Garsdon 
take his place, and has further confused matters by making Lawrence 
Washington of Garsdon, and the wife of William Horsepool, brother 
and sister. It should run, so far as I can gather, as follows :— The first 
Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave (will dated. 18 Oct. 158 1, died 
19 Feb. 1583-4) married Amee daughter of Robert (William?) 
Pargiter of Gretwortt, and had amongst others, two sons, Robert, 
the elder, ancestor of the Brington family, and Lawrence. This 
Lawrence (buried at Maidstone 24 Dec. 16 19) had two wives, first, 
Martha daughter of Clement Nuse of Haddam, co. Herts., and 
secondly, Mary daughter of sir Thomas Scott of Scotts .Hall. He 
had issue by first wife six sons and two daughters. The eldest son 
became sir Lawrence Washington, knight, of Garsdon, which, he 
bought about 1640, he died at Oxford, aged 64, 14 May, and was 
buried 24 May, 1643, at Garsdon, having married Anne daughter of 
William Lewyn. She died 13 June and was buried at Garsdon 16 
June, 1 645, leaving a son and a daughter. Lawrence, the only 
surviving son, died 17 January and was buried 11 Feb. 1661 at 
Garsdon, aged 39, having married Elinor second daughter of William 
Guise of Elmore, co. Glouc. She re-married to sir William Pargiter 
of Gretworth, a cousin of her first husband j Pargiters occur in the 
Isham MSS. as " cousins," and these marriages account for it. The ^ 
daughter Anne married Christopher Guise, she was buried at Gars- 
don 4 June, 1642, aged about 20. Let me refer t^e reader to Miscel- 
lanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1735 Gloucester^ 
shire Notes ^ Queries, vol. 11., pp. ^ j6, 563, 659 ; and also back 
to ''N. N. & Q." pp. 145-149- „ T T 

B. Mlohael and All Angels, Northampton. **^ ISHAM 1.0NGDEN. 

196. — Funeral of Queen Catharine Parr.— ^From a book 
marked " Burials, I. i j,*' in the College of Arms. 

" A brevyate of th' entirement of the ladye Catheryn Parre Quene 
Dowager late wiefe to Kinge Henrye the ight and aftre wiefe to S' 
Thomas lord Seymer of Sudeley & highe admyrall of Englond. 

Itm on Wenysdaye the v*** of Septemb:re betwene ij & Aij of the 
Clocke in the morninge died the aforseyed ladye late Queue Dowager 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 237 

at the Castle of Sudley in Glocestre shyre 1548 and lyeth buried in 
the chappell of the said castle. Itm she was searid & chestid in 
leade accordinglie & so remayned in her pryvee chambre untill things 
were in aredynes 

Hereaftre followeth:e the pvision for the Chappell 
Itm hit was hangid wh blacke clothe garnisshed wh. scoocheons 
of maryagys vidz King Henrye the'ight & hers in pale undre the 
crowne, Her owne in lozenge undre the crowne, also th'armes of the 
Lord admyrall & hers in pale whout crowne. Itm Rayles coved wh 
blacke clothe ffor the mourners to sytt in wh stooles and cusshtsons 
accordinglie whout eyther hersse, ma*^ [mattress?] & vallence or tapres 
savingte ij tapres wheron were ij scoocheons wh stode uppon the corps 
duringe the servyce 

The ordre in proceadinge to the Chappell 

ffyrst ij Conductors in black wth black staves 

Then Gentlemen and Esquiers 
. Then Knights 

Then offycers of howshold wth theyre whyte staves 

Then the Gentlemen Huisshers 

Then Somsett Heraulde in the K's [i.e. King's] cote 

Then the Corps borne by vj Gentlemen in black Gownes wth 
theyre hodes on theyre heades 

Then xl staffe Torches borne on eche side by yeomen rounde 
about the corps, and at eche corner a Knight for assystante^ iiij wth 
theyre hodes on theyre heades 

Then the ladye Jane daughter to the lord Mques Dorsett chiefe 
mourner ledd by a estate, her trayne borne uppe by a yonge ladye 

Then vj other ladie mourners, i j & ij 

Then all ladies ik gentlewomen ij & ij 

Then yeomen iij & iij in a ranke 

Then all other foUowinge 

The mann' of the service in the Churche 

Itm when the corps was sett within the rayles and the mourners 
placid the hole Quere began & songe certen salmes in Englishe & 
reade iij lessons and after the iijde lesson the mourners according to 
theyre degrees & as yt ys accustomyd offeryd into the almes boxe. ' 
And when they hadde don, all other as Gentlemen or gentlewomen 
that woolde 

The ofFerynge don. Doctor Cov'dall the Queue's almner began his 
sermonde wh was verie good & godlie, and in one place thereof he 



238 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

tke a occasion to declare unto the people Lowe that they shulde none 
there thinke seye nor spread abrode that the oiFering whch was there 
don was don anything • to profit the deade 1)ut for the poore onlye. 
And also the lights which were caried & stode aboyt the corps were 
for the honour of the parsson & for none other entent nor purpose 
and so went through ^ith his sermonde & made a godlie prayer and 
th'ole Church answered and praied the same withim in the ende. 

The sermonde don the corps was buried during which tyme the 
Quere songe Te Deum in Englishe 

And this don aftre dynn' the mourners and the rest that wolde 
returned homewarde agayne. All which aforeseyd was don in a- 
morninge." G*. E. C. 

Apart from its historical and county interest, the above extract is 
of value as shewing how the funeral service was altered at the refor- 
mation, before the present office of. the. reformed church was set 
forth. The expression " chested," i.e,, placed in a coffiu, is uncom- 
mon ; it occurs in the heading qi the last chapter in Grenesis, which 
describes Joseph's death : — '* He dieth, and is chested." 

197. — '^An Original Offence*' (185). — The Northampton 
association for apprehending and prosecuting robbers, thieves, &c., 
offered a reward oi £1 in July last for information under the circum- 
stances thus described; — ^'Whereas some evil-disposed Person or 
Persons have lately from time to time Wilfully and Feloniously- 
Milked the Cows grazing in the Midsummer Meadow in the town 
of Northampton, and have taken away the milk." I am informed 
that the offence for which a boy was committed to the Peterborough 
bridewell in 1792 (art. 185) is by no means unknown at this day. I * 
am told that the parson's cow is generally the subject of the experiment. 
Great Houghton. . T. J. 

The following extract from the Northampton Mercury of 24 July, 
172 1, describes an incident at the Northampton assizes held on the 
19th and 20th of the same month : — ** Margaret Mayle, who was 
convicted of being too free with her Neighbour's Shirt, was ordered 
to be whipt for her Forwardness : But she not liking her .Sentence, 
the Court was graciously pleased to remit it, and ordered Peg to be 
sent 3 or '4000 Miles off, out of Harm's way, for fear she should fall 
into the like or worse Dangers again, to which she is very liable. 
She had a Friend in Court that gave her the Character of a mighty 
industrious Woman in her Business^ and that . he found her at two 
o' th* Clock one Morning, milking his Cows, when he little expected 
such Diligence from her." C. A. M. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 239 

198.— Heavy Expenses of Office of High Sheriff. — In 
a pocket-book and almanack of the year 1676, formerly the 
property of Devereux Knightley, esq., of Fawsley, and now in the 
possession of J. P. Earwaker, esq., of Pensarn, is the following 
agreement in MS., which is here printed by his permission. It 
was probably made in 1676, a^ the list of sheriffs shews. 
Edward Harby (of Adston) in 28*^ of Charles 2^ 
John Norton (of ? ) in 29 of Charles 2^ 
Charles Neale (of Wollaston) 30 of Charles 2^ • 
Richard Saltenstall (of Chipping Wardon) 3 1 of Charles 2ti 
The 28th of Charles 11. was from Jan. 30, 1676, to Jan. 29, 
1677.. 

The agreement was kept as to the order of the four gentlemen 
numbered in the list. ^Baker does not state that Richard Saltenstall 
was sheriif . 

'' Articles of Agreement of & by severall Knights & Gentlemen 
(in the County of Northampton) whose names are hereto subscribed 
in pursuance of a Statute made in the J4* yeare of his now Majestie*s 
Raign, to prevent the greate & unnecessary charges of Sheriffs in the 
time of th'e Assizes & ' other publick meetings & for the better 
inabling thewi to do his Ma*^ service in that imploytaent. As also 
for iriaintaining & keeping an amicable Correspondence amongst them. 

1. Imprimis, It is Agreed by All persons whose Nanies are 
hereto subscribed, That no one of them shall directly or indirectly 
either by himself or any other person, seeke or endeavour to free or 
excuse himself either itom^ being nominated Sheriff of the s^ County 
or from being made Sheriff thereof without the Consent or approbation 
of 9 or more of the persons whose names are hereto subscribed first • 
had & obtained in writing under* the hands & Scales of the s^ 9 or 
more persons. 

2. Secondly, That none of the. persons whose names are hereto 
subscribed shall (when he is nftade Sheriff of the s^ County) have 
above 21 Livery men for his attendance> either- at the Assize, or at 
any other time or place where his presence (as Sheriff of the s* 
County) sh^U be required, or however not more in nuTwber of such 
Livery men then the subscribers (besides the meniall servants of such 
person as shall be Sheriff) in case the number of the subscribers 
shall bee 20 or more. However not to exceed the number of 40 
Livery inen, according to the Statute. 

3. Thirdly, When any one of the subscribers to these presents 
shall bee made Sheriff of the s^ County, the Livery shall bee only A 



240 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

Gray Hatt, & a plain Gray Cloth Co ate, Lined & edged with Red, & 
the ^ Livery shall as oft as any of the subscribers shall bee made 
Sheriff of the s* County bee as near matched & as like in Colour 
cloth & all other wayes as can bee reasonably bought & made, which 
s* Livery shall last continue (at least) for the terme of 3 yeares. At 
the expiration of w*** s^ terme If the s* Subscribers or any 9 of them 
shall judge it necessary to make new Liveries in generall or that any- 
particular Subscriber shall renew his Livery being spoyled thro' his 
servants negligence, or more frequent wearing of it then at the 
attendance of the Sheriff, the s* Liverys in generall or part shall 
bee made new by an order under the' hand of the Sherifl* or any 9 of 
them. 

4. Fourthly, That when any of the s** Subscribers shall bee made 
Sheriff of the s* County, every one of the s** Subscribers shall provide 
one man habited in such a Livery as afores* to attend such Sheriff att 
the Assize for the s** County & shall, beare the charge of such Livery- 
man & his horse during the s* Assize, & that every subscriber shall 
send his man within 15 dayes after any subsqriber is made Sheriff to 
become bound to the s^ Sheriff for that year in a bond of 10^^ the 
Condition thereof to be, to perform his duty as a Sheriffs man, so that 
hee shall not bee chid or fined by the Judg or^ Judges. 

5. Fifthly, That when any one of the s*^ Subscribers shall bee 
made Sheriff of the s<* county he shall at the Assize of the s^ County 
(during the time of such Assize) dine at an Ordinary & not make 
any Invitation of any person whatsoever nor keep any under Sherifls 
Table. 

6. . Sixtly, That when any one of the s^ tsubscribers shall be 
. made Sheriff of the s^ County every one of the s^ Subscribers shall 

personally attend such Sheriff at the Assize for the s* County & shall 
there in such Assize dine at the same Table as the Sheriff doth, 
& pay for his owne & servants Ordinary & proper charges, & in case 
by any urgent or extraordinary occasion any one of the s^ Subscribers 
shall bee hindred from comming in person to accompany such Sheriff 
at the Assize, That then he shall send some other Grentleman to 
represent, him & accompany the s^' Sheriff and pay as he himself 
should do if he were personally present. 

7. Seventhly,- That when any one of the sd subscribers shall be 
made Sheriff of the s** County hee shall send one horse or Horses •& 
such other conveniency for the Judges as by law is required, 6r hath 
been Anciently used, but shall give no present or gratuity either to the 
Judges themselves, or to any of their servants^ officers, attendants, or 
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8. Eightly^ That wheD any one of the sd sabscribers shall be made ' 
Sheriff of the s^ County Hee shall not take any Money for any 
place (which by the Law shall be in his disposall As Sheriff of 
the s* County) But shall freely give & dispose of the offices of 
Jaylor & Bailives &c to such respective persons as shall execute the 
offices. 

9. Ninthly^ It is agreed by the subscribers, If any dispute shall 
arise among the Subscribers concerning these Articles, or any Just 
reason appeare for Alteration or Addition to be made in any of them. 
That at the next Assizes for the sd County after such Controversy, or 
ground of Alteration or Addition, the s* subscribers or any 9 of them 
shall or may expound, determine, alter or make any addition to the 
same whereby these Articles may be rendred more easy, acce'ptable, 
convenient or Legall, according to the true intent and meaning of 
them. 

.1 Edward Harby primus VioeoomeB. 

2 John Norton, 2dii8 

William Tate Thomas Catesby 

William Adams Erancis Arandell 

8 Charles Neale Bryan J-anson 

S^ Thomas Samwell * Thomas Andrewe 

John Wolstenholme Henry Edmnnds 

Br John Holman William Alston 

Thomas Ward Bevereux Ejughtley 
Edward Stratford 8^ Boger Gave 
George Clerk 4 Biohard SaltenstaU 

Sr William Craven , Oerrard Gh)re 

PopeDanvers Ben: Bathnrst 

[ErMore] [blank] Creswell 

[blank] Stiddolph [blank] Woodhull 

Igdmnnd Sawyer Tho: Trist 

[blank] Bridges [blank] Washbnm 

Tho: Jennison [blank] Tigh 

Miles Fleetwood John Lynn" 
[Braanre] 

In searching the marriage license act books at. Chester, Mr. Ear* 
waker has recently come across the following entry relating to the 
marriage of the original owner of the book from which the above 
agreement has been extracted : — 

"6 Jan 1 67 1 [-2] Licence to Rowland Sherard clerk Rector 
of Tarporley co. Chester, to marry Devereux Knightley of ffeusley 
CO. Northampton Esq. and Elizabeth Crew of Utkinton in the parish 
of Tarporley spinster. Peter Jones of Tarporley was sworn." 

H. D. 

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242 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

199. — Civil War, 1642. — In Chambers^s journal for January, 
1855, is a review of a book described as "A series of nine letters found 
in the State-paper Office. These letters were written in the year 1642 
by one Nehemiah Wharton, who appears to have been an officer in one 
of the troops of London Volunteers that joined the army of the Earl 
of Essex, and are all addressed to a merchant at ^ the Golden Anchor, 
in St. Swithin*s Lane,* who had been his master. . . . Judging from 
his expressions, his heart was thoroughly in the popular cause, and he 
never forgets to send his 'humble service * to his late master and 'mis- 
tris,* and his 'love to all his fellow-servants 5 ' subscribing himself * your 
poore, auntient, humble, and affectionate servant to commaund.* " 

In his third letter, dated August 30th', 1642, he describes Coventry, 
with which he seems to have been greatly pleased, indulging without 
stint in venisort, sermons, and a very practical use of the permission 
to seize *'base priests." 

" Then comes a change. While on the route to Northampton, 
Nehemiah says : / 1 was exceeding sick, and the pallet of my mouth 
fell down j but Captain Beacon, my loving friend, sent a mile for a 
little pepper, and put it up again.' On Dunsmore Heath, the men 
marched twelve miles 'without any sustenance, insomuch that many 
of them drank stinking water ' — a privation which no doubt made 
them the more willing to ^ pillage the parson * when they got to 
Barby, and found it a poverty-stricken village. At Long Buckby, four 
miles further, Nehemiah relates: 'We had very hard quarter, inso- 
much that many of our captaines could get no lodginge, and our 
soldiers were glad to despossesse the very swine.' A day later and 
their short-commons were exchanged for a surfeit of venison, for the 
soldiers made rare havoc among |;he deer in Lord Northampton's 
park ; and afterwards came near making prisoner of his lordship, who 
had stolen into the town as a spy. ■ 

" Northampton, says Nehemiah, writing on the 7th September, 
for ' statelynesse of buildinge, exceeds Coventry ; but the walls are 
miserably ruined, though the country abounds in mines of stone.* 
Here the troop broke out in mutiny, and demanded an increase of 
pay 3 and great dissensions arose among the horse and foot, the 
former being much .given to harry the latter, although of the same 
army, when occasion offered. ' I myself have lately experimentally 
found it,' writes Nehemiah, yet in a manful spirit 3 * but I am not 
discouraged by any of these, but by God's assistance will undauntedlye 
proceede, for God is able to reconcile all our differences.' 

" Still at Northampton, 13th September. Nehemiah, while riding 
out with twenty musketeers to apprehend a ' base priest,' heard that 
< the base blew coats of Colonell Cholmley's regiment ' had pillaged 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 243 

a worthy gentleman who was not on the royal side, and relates: ' I 
immediately divided my men into three squadrons, surrounded them, 
and forced them to bring their pillage upon their own backs unto the 
house againe ; for which service I was welcomed with the best 
varieties in the house, and had given me a scarlet coate lined with 
■ plush, and several excellent bdokes in folio of my own chusinge.* But, 
alas for the fortune of war, even among friends ! As Nehemiah rode 
back, proud of his exploit and its reward, ' a troope of horse,' he says, 
'belonging unto Col. Fbynes, met me, pillaged me of all, and robbed 
mee of my very sword 5 for which cause I told them I would other 
have my sword or dye in the field, commaunded my men to charge 
with bullet, and by devisions to fire upon, them, which made them 
with shame return me my sword.* .... Nehemiah was so enraged, 
that for a night and a day he watched the gate, to catch the plunderers 
on their arrival 5 but thojigh he ' searched every horseman of that 
troope to the skin, and took from them a fat bock, and a venison- 
pasty ready baked,' he lost his ' own goods.' 

*'Then came 'tidings that Prince Robert [Rupert], that diabolical 
Cavaleere, had surrounded Lester, and demauuded L.2000, or else 
threatned to plunder the toune : whereupion the soldiers were even 
madde to be at them, but wante.d commission.* In the next few 
days, some * famous sermons * were preached, to the great benefit, as 
is. recorded, of the hearers; and Nehemiah was with those who 
' marched forth to meet his Excellency,' as Cromwell was called, and 
the watchword for that night was * Welcome.' It was something to 
have looked on the face of Cromwell. On the 14th September, all 
the forces were drawn out, and the great leader, says Nehemiah, 
* viewed us, both front, rear, and flank, when the drums beating and 
the trumpets sounding made a harmony delectable to our friends, but 
terrible to our enemies * — a thorough review, no doubt." 

Soon after this the regiment marched again into Warwickshire 
(vi^ Rugby to Warwick) where we must leave Nehemiah, for his 
letters do not after this contain any allusions, to our own county. 

John T. Page. 
. The following extracts, which speak of the progress of the civil 
war in this county in 1642, are taken from England's Memorable 
Accidents^ 1642, (British Museum, E. 242./ 6, 19, 28.) : — 
" Wednesday, the 26th of Octob. 

The Kings souldiers have ransacked and spoiled the Lord Sayes 
house and Parke neer Banbury, and the Lord Spencers, house is also 
plundered in Northampton-shire by the Cavaliers, although the said 
Lord hath long attended the King and sideth with them/' 

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244 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

"Thursday, the 3 of Novem. . 
The Lord Generall sent a speciall messenger to the Parliament, 
to advertise them of his present intenti(9ns and affaires^ which mes- 
senger relateth, that his Lordship with his whole Army consisting of 
12000 horse and and (sic) foot, and 37 pieces of Ordnance, marched 
yesterday out of Northampton to Oulney in Buckinghamshire, and 
intended to be this night at Brickhill, and he saitb, that all his soul- 
diers together with the Ministers are well lusty and merry and better 
able to doe service then when they first went from hence, being 
ennured to cold, labour, travell, fasting, wind & wet and that they are 
of SQch uqdaunted courages that they feare no colours nor dangers.** 

" Munday, T4th* of Novemb. 

The Deputy Lieutenants of Darbyshire, Leiceshire, and Notting- 
hamshire are to meet the Committee at Oundle in Northamptonshire, 
to consult of securing those Counties from pillaging robbers, the 
inhabitants of Darby Town contribute largely toward the present 
af&ires, some of them a 100/. some 50/. others 40/. according to their 
present severall abilities." 

" Saturday, the 19 of November. 

The ten Counties Northwards that have lately associated them- 
selves have done it by a speciall and perticular Order from both the 
Houses of Parliament, and they are now raising of 1500 Dragooneers, 
whereof the Couuty of Darby finds 100. Nottingham too. Lincolne 
300. Leicester and Rutland 200. Northampton 300. Bedford, Cam- 
bridge, & Huntington 300. and the County of Warwick 200." 

"Munday, 21th of Novemb. 
The Parliament hath given a speciall Licence to the Counties of 
Bedford, Cambridge, Darby, Huntington, Leicester, Lincolne, North- 
ampton, Nottingham, Rutland and Warwick, to associate themselves 
in hcec verba. Nove. 19. 1642. It is this day Ordered by the 
Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that the County 
of &c., may enter into an Association for their defence and safety^ and j 

that such and such persons, &c. shall be a Committee to meet at such 1 

time and place as they shall thinke fit for raising, of 'Men, Horse, 
Armes, or Ammunition, and ordering all things necessary thereunto, 
and that the Lord Gray Son to the Earle of Stamford, shall Command 
in chiefe, the Forces to be so raised, and have power to Traine and 
carry the said Forces to such places as he shall thinke fit, and to - 
subdue, fight with, kill and slay, and imprison all such persons as 
shall levy War without the consent of both Houses of Parliament." 

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Northamptonshire Notes and Queries.. 245 

200. — Chimnby-Money. — Oii the front of the church. of All 
Saints at Northampton, under the statue of king Charles the second, 
is this inscription : — • 

THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF KING CHARLES II. WHO 
GAVE A THOUSAND TUN OF TIMBER TOWARDS THE REBUILDING 
OF THIS CHURCH AND TO THIS TOWN SEVEN YEARS CHIMNEY- 
MONEY COLLECTED IN IT, HUNT NorthtOU fccit. 
lOHN AOUTTBR MAYOR 
I712. 

^^Chimney-money," or, as it was sometimes called "Hearth- 
money," was established by act of parliament in 1662 (13 & 14 
Charles 11., cap. 10) for ''settling an annual Revenue of two shillings 
upon every Fire-hearth," upon the crown. It was a very unpopular 
measure. In Kennett's Complete History of England^ 1706, is this 
reference to the payment.: — *'This Duty, commonly called Chimney^ 
money y was a burden more uneasie to the People of England than any 
other seems to have been to their Fore-fathers ; and the arbitrary way 
of Collecting it, made it the more insufferable. The King himself 
met with a blunt Rebuke for it, when thinking himself to be unknown 
in a Barge, and allowing himself and his Company to droll upon the 
Watermen that passed by, one of them knowing the King's Face, 
instead of other common Ribaldry, cried out only. Chimney-sweep^ 
Chimney -sweep.'* (Vol. iii., p. 237.) One of the earliest messages 
senit to the house of commons by William iii. was to this eifect : — 
•' That the King being sensible what a grievous Burden the Duty * 
arising from Hearth-Money was unto his People, especially to the 
Poorier Sort, His Majesty was pleased to Agree, either to the Regu- 
lation of it, or to the taking of it wholly away, not doubting but the 
Commons would take care of his Revenue another way." (lb. p, 516.) 
This was a very prudent and popular act of the king's ; and on 24 
April, 1689, t^e royal assent was given to "An Act for the Taking- 
away the Revenue arising; by Hearth- Money.'* 

Macaulay quotes several ballads of the period to prove the unpopu- 
larity of the tax, and ot the collectors, who were called " chimney- 
men." In one of them,are found these lines : — 

" There is not one old dame in ten, 
and Bearoh the nation through, 
But if you talk of ohimney-men 
will spare a curse or two/' 

A correspondent of Notes and Queries (ist S. ii. 379) gives a 
curious instance of this strong feeling of dislike shewing itself on a 



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246 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, 

tombstone in Folkstone churchyard. The stone is dated 1688, and 
is to the menAory of Rebecca Rogers who died in that year. From 
the lines, which we give below, one is tempted to imagine that she 
had difficulties with her landlord as well as with the "chimney-man." 

« A house Bhe hath, it's made of such good fashion, 
The tenant ne*er shall pay for reparation, 
Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent, 
Or turn her out of doors for non-payment ; 
From chimney-money too this cell is free. 
To such a house, who would not tenant be.*' 

The special occasion for the granting the chimney-money collected 
in the town seems to have been the distress arising from the disas- 
trous fire of 1675, in which 600 houses were destroyed. 

201. — Kino Richard the Third. — The battle of Bosworth 
was fought on the 22nd of August, 1485 j and the four-hundredth, 
anniversary of the tight was made the occasion in several papers, 
metropolitan and provincial, for giving some account of the sovereign 
who staked his crown upon the issue of the battle and lost his life in 
it. The scene of the battle is beyond the limits of this county, and 
an account of it would more properly belong to a Leicestershire 
journal 5 but we may in these pages devote some space to a short 
notice of Richard himself, who was a native of Northamptonshire, 
and the only king of England born in the county. 

He was the youngest son of Richard, duke of York, (who was 
killed at Wakefield in 1460,) and Cecily Neville, daughter of Ralph, 
earl of Westmoreland. He was born at Fotheringhay castle in 1450, 
on the 2ist of October, according to Rous, '^ on the feast of the 
Eleven Thousand Virgins.'* He was thus in. his eleventh year when . 
his father died in battle, aiid when his eldest brother, (born in 1441,) 
came to the throne as Edward iv. He was immediately sent for 
safety to Flanders, but was soon recalled by his brother, and became 
closely attached to his person and cause. In 1470 and 147.1, when 
for a few months, (during the brief triumph of queen Margaret and 
the earl of Warwick,) Edward iv. was forced to. leave the kingdom, 
his brother Richard, who had been created duke of Gloucester, accom- 
panied him. He fought with him at Barnet and Tewkesbury, and 
took the command of an army against Scotland. . He held the 
appointment of constable of Wales, and warden of the west marches, 
and was also admiral of England 3 and on Edward's death was made 
protector. He married Anne Neville, daughter of the king-maker, 
and widow of Edward, prince of Wales, son of Henry vi., who had 
been slain at Tewkesbury. The only child of this marriage, Edward, 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 247 

was by his uncle created earl of Salisbury, ^iid by his father prince of 
Wales and earl of Chester ; he lived only to be ten years old. 

Richard iii.'s career during the brief reign of bis nephew, Ed- 
ward v., and his own troubled reign of two years and four months, is 
well known. Few kings have so evil a repute, owing to the character 
which Shakspere has drawn of him. Later historians have done 
something to represent him in a less unfavourable light. . In an article 
on the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, The Times observes : — 
*^ His crimes, and cunning, and shameless savagery are burnt indelibly 
into the fancy. Beside the Richard of poetry there was, however, a 
King Richard, assuredly a better king, if a less majestically demon-, 
iacal felon. It is high time that his mouldering memory should be 
cleansed for popular use from the mildew of ages." 

After falling on the field of Bosworth, the king's body was cast 
aside negligently ; but the necessity of proving his death caused the 
conquerors to make search for it, and bring it to Leicester, where it 
"was exposed for two days in the town hall. It was then buried in 
the monastery of the grey friars, and in the Course of time a handsome 
tomb of alabaster was erected by the order of his successful rival. 
This was utterly destroyed at the dissolution of the monastery, and . 
the king's body cast into the river. 

202, — ''Clem Vengeance,** a Farm at Charwelton. — On 
the voters' list for Charwelton, at the revising barrister's court at 
Byfield, on 16 September last, was the name of Mr. John Wiggin, of 
Clem Vengeance farm, and he qualified for Clem Vengeance cottage. 
The barrister asked the origin of the name, but the overseer (who 
mentioned by the way, that the river Cher well rose in the cellar of his 
house), could not tell, and no one in the court seemed to know. 
Can any readers of ^' N. N. & Q.**. tell us Anything on the subject? 

H. C. W. 

There is not the least doubt about this name; it is quite simple.. 
There are scores of fields in England called *' Vengeance," meaning 
• that they afford very bad pasture ; so also we find '^ Hungry hill,'' 
" Starve-all farm," " Cold harbour," &c., &c. To " clam," or " clem," 
is, to starve. "I shall be clamm'd to death 5" ''He*s well nigh 
clamm'd." " Clem Vengeance " is only a redundant expression, a 
field, or farm, doubly starving for stock. It often happens that a 
farmer, having had a field called perhaps " Vengeance " on a former 
farm, and finding on his present holding a field of somewhat similar 
quality, names it after the former one. For " clam " see the various 
glossaries. H. D. 



248 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

203. — Glbanimo. — Many of the old practices relating to 
gleaning seem to have fallen into disuse as the various parishes were 
enclosed. A permission once freely granted to all the poor has heen 
in most plaees restricted to the parish^ in some to the families of the 
men employed by the farmer. The use of the horse-rake has further 
diminished the amount available for gleaners. Many complaints are 
made now by the poor that the rakings are left too long in thd fields, 
and that the broken heads of grain which escaped the rake become 
sodden and useless 5 also that pigs are turned in immediately after 
the crops are carried^ and even the ploughs, before the gleaners have 
had time to finish. It is a familiar custom in this county^ and is 
probably general, for one or two sheaves to be left standing when the 
rest of the field has been cleared, as a signal that gleaning must not 
be begun. The gleaners* bell^ though by no means so universally 
rung as was once done^ may still be heard during harvest m many 
Northamptonshire villages. In his Church Bells of Northampton- 
shire, the late Mr. Thomas North has recorded the uses of the bells 
in about 330 churches in the county. In 50 of these records is some 
mention of the gleaners* bell. It was rung as a signal that gleaning 
might begin^ thus giving the old and infirm the same chance as the 
young. It was sometimes rung also in the evening, to warn the 
gleaners to leave off. In 15 of these parishes it is not told us at what 
hour the bell is rung, or whether in the morning only. In 12 others 
it is rung only in the morning, mostly at 8 o'clock, never before 7- 
In 1 1 others it is rung at 8 in the morning and 6 in the evening ; 
while at 7 churches it is rung twice, but at different hours. At Stoke 
Doyle we are told it " is occasionally rung." At Bulwick, " some- 
times, not always." At Peterborough' " the Gleaning-bell too which 
was formerly rung is now silent." At Raunds it is rung " if the 
gleaners agree to pay the sexton for it.** So also at Staverton, ^' pro- 
vided the gleaners will pay the clerk a trifle/* At Whittering *' during 
harvest a woman goes round the village ringing a hand-bell as a 
Gleaning-bell." £0. 

204. — HousB IN S. Giles* Strbvt, Northampton (178). — 
We give here the original advertisement from the Northampton Mer- 
cury of 26 March> 1722, referred to at the foot of p. 217 in the 
above article : — 

"To be let either furnisht or unfumisht. A Pleasant House 
call'd little Holmby in St. Giles's Parish in Northampton, 5 Rooms 
on a Floor ; with Gardens, Coach-House, Stables, and Brew House. 
Enquire of Mr. Key, at the Greorge Inn in Northampton." 



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205. — Monumental Inscriptions in Peterborouor 
Cathedral. IV. Old Scarlett (23, 73, i2j). — 13. • On the floor 
of the western transept, immediately to the north of the great west 
door, is a small square stone with this inscription : — 

iVLY 2 1594 
r s 

^TATIS 98 

This commemorates the famous sexton of the sixteenth century, 
Robert Scarlett, now almost always spoken of familiarly, and 
even affectionately, as *' Old Scarlett." On the west walj, at 
some height above this stone, hangs a full length portrait of him, an 
engraving of which, by permission of Mr. Caster, of Peterborough, 
is given with this account. It will be seen that Scarlett is pictured 
as of very " stvrdye limm," and that he has the various implements 
of his office, spade, mattock, bunch of keys, and whip. There is a 
skull on the ground behind him. He wears a frill, and a tight-fitting 
cap. Beneath the portrait are some verses, which are here given 
from the original : — 

TOY SEB OLD BOABLBITS PIOTVEB BTAND ON BIB 

BVT AT TOVB PBBTB THBBB DOTH HIS BODY LYH 

HIS QBAVESTONB DOTH BIB AOB AND DBATH TIHB SHOW 

HIS OBTICB BY THBIB TOKENS YOV KAY KNOW 

BBCOND TO NONB FOB STBBNGTH AND STVEDYB UMM 

A SOABBABE HIQHTY VOIOB WITH YI8A0E QBDC 

HEE HAD INTEB'd TWO QVEENES WITHIN THIS FLAOE 

AND THIS TOWNBS HOVSEHOLDEBS IN HIS LIVES SPAOH 

TWICE OYEB: BVT AT LENGTH HIS OWN TVBNE OAIEB 

WHAT HEE FOB OTHEBS DID FOB TTTV THE SAKE 

WAS DONE : NO DOVBT HIS BOYLE DOTH LIVE FOB AYE 

IN heaven: THOYQH HEBE HIS BODY GLAD IN OLAY 

Engravings of this picture have often appeared. One is in 
Chambers's Book of Days, but the whip in the belt is not represented. 
This seems to be a copy (as suggested by a correspondent in Notes 
and Queries f 5th S. x. 358) of the engraving in Dibdin's Northern 
Tour, i. 13. Another is in Granger's .Wonderful Museum, 1804, 
p. 6<f6. In 1866 it was removed to Loudon for exhibition at South 
Kensington. It is not a contemporary portrait, but a copy, made in 
1747, as appears from-an entry in the accounts of the cathedral : and 
perhaps not even copied from the original. Under 1665 is this item 
in the accounts : — " To the painter for old Scarlett's picture drawing 
I 10 o.** And in 1747 • — '' ^^ ^^* Clifton for copying old Scarlett's 
picture 212 6." From the books of the parish of S. John Baptist' 
it appears that Scarlett was also bellringer there. In his time there 

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250 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

was not a separate gpravejard for the cathedral and parish church. Id 
North's Church Bells of Northamptonshire is given this extract from 
the old churchwardens' accounts (see art. 14a): — ij7a. ''Item to 
Scarlet heyng a poore olde man and lysyng oft in the nyghte to tolle 
the bell for sicke persons the wether beyng grevous and in con- 
sideration of his good service towards a gowne to kepe hym warme 
viijj." No entry of his burial appears in the registers. The 
cathedral book begins in 1615 3 and the names for 1594 are altogether 
missing from the parochial registers, as is seen from this entry under 
April : — " Here about it shold appere that there was a great losse of 
names in the old booke. [In a later hand is added : — ] It seameth 
y* all y* names of such as were buryed, maryed & baptized were not 
at all registred or utterly loste : for y* whole year of 1594." 

In 1584, 2 J July, is an entry of the burial of " Margaret Scarlet, 
the wife of Roberte Scarlet," and in 1585, j.Dec.j "Robcrte Scarlet 
did marry Mawd Gosling the v^ day." If these refer to the subject 
of this article, the venerable sexton must have been then at least in 
his 89th year. Nearly every account represents Scarlett as dying at 
the age of 98 : the inscription says he was in his 98th year, or, in 
other words, aged 97. 

It may be noted that in the engraving in the Wonderful Museum 
there are many details not to be seen in the existing portrait There 
is an open grave, a tombstone, some bones on the ground, and the 
gable-end of a building. Instead of a pillar, as we now see it, there 
appears a buttress, with a tree in the background, and there is no 
skull. It is possible that this engraving, which is dated 1803, may 
have been made from a drawing of the original picture, before the 
present copy was made. 

Scarlett's fame has reached to other countries. In Le Magasin 
Pittoresque, published at Paris in 1855, P* 39^» ^^ given a sketch of 
the grave-digger himself, but without the accessories of skull, pickaxe, 
pillar, and coat of arms. The figure is reversed, the keys being put 
in the right hand, and the spade in the left. There is given with the 
sketch a short description, which will amuse many readers. It will 
be seen that part of the account is imaginary, and part erroneous, for 
the picture is not a fresco, and the body of Mary of Scots has not 
been removed to Windsor, while that of Katherine of Arragon is still 
at Peterborough. 

" Cette esquisse a 6te faite d'aprfes un grand portrait en pied grossiere- 
ment peint k fresque sur la muraille de la cathedrale de Peterborough, 
dans le Northampton. Une douzaine de vieux vers anglais traces 



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sous la peiDture expliquent que ce personnage avait, en sa quality de 
fossoyeur, enterr^ deux reines c^lebres, Catherine, femme de Henri 
VIII. et Marie Stuart, dont les corps, ensevelis d'abord a Peterborough, 
furent transportes depuis i, Windsor. Dans sa longue carriere, il avait 
creus^ les fosses de tons, ses parents,*de tous ses amis, et de plusieurs 
propri^taires qui s'^taient succed6 dans la maison oil il avait toujours 
loge. II ^tait devenu, dans sa vieillesse, un sujet d'^trange curiosity 
pour tout le monde, et en particulier pour les poetes et les chroni- 
queurs : son nom, m^le k Thistoire funebre de deux reines, s*^tait 
popularise au loin par les contes et les l^gendes ; aucun voyageur ne 
passait i, Peterborough sans demander a voir le vieux Scarlet. II y 
avait longtemps qu*il s'^tait prepare son dernier asile, et la plupart de 
ses contemporains commen9aient k croire quMl n'y descendrait jamais, 
lorsque enfin il mourut i, son tour, le a juillet 1594, & T&ge de quatre- 
vingt-dix-huit ans." Ed. 

[Translatioii.] 
This sketch has been made from a large full-length portrait 
rudely painted in fresco on the wall of Peterborough Cathedral in 
Northamptonshire. A dozen of old English verses 'traced beneath 
the painting explain that this person had, in his capacity of grave- 
digger, interred two celebrated queens, Catherine, wife of Henry viii., 
and Mary Stuart, whose bodies, buried in the first instance at 
Peterborough, were subsequently removed to Windsor. In his long 
career, he bad dug the graves of all his relations, of all his friends, 
and of several successive owners of the house where he had always 
resided. He had become, in his old age, an object of strange curiosity 
for everybody, and particularly for poets and chroniclers : his name 
connected with the funeral history of two queens, had become 
popular afar off by tales and legends ; no traveller passed through 
Peterborough without asking to see old Scarlett He had long pre- 
pared his own last resting-place, and the greater number of his 
contemporaries began to think he was never going to occupy it, when 
at last he died in his turn, on the 2nd of July, 1594, at the age of 
98 years. 

206. — A Good Dinner for Prisoners. — In the Stamford 
Mercury for 26 October, 1 792, I read thus : — " The Bishop of Peter- 
borough, in passing through Durham, ordered all the prisoners to have 
a good dinner, and half-a-crown each in money.*' 

Was this a happy thought of the bishop himself (HinchclifFe), 
or was he following any local or ecclesiastical custom ? H. R. S. 

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252 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 

207. — Grbbn Family of Boughton (20, 37, 76, 147). — Can 
any new light be brought to bear apon the origin of the Green 
family and its name ? 

The name has been spelt Grene, Greene, Green j and it is stated 
that tha first is the oldest form 5 and there is authority for sajring 
there was a family in Scandinavia bearing the nanae of Gren, although 
surnames were not borne there generally earlier than the fifteenth 
century, and the records of this family, there do not ascend to a more 
remote date. Yet bearing in mind the influx into the north-east 
of England of people from Denmark and neighbouring countries, 
may it not be that a connection exists between this Gren family of 
Scandinavia, and the Grenes, Greenes, and Greens of England ? The 
word Gren means branch or bough, and it remains to be shewn what 
may have been the occasion of adopting the word as a surname. 
Possibly some rite or custom may supply the explanation. 

Howrah, Bournemouth. ' W. Green. 

208,— Peterborough Volunteer Corps, 1745. — I send 
twelve papers and letters referring to the Peterborough Volunteer 
Corps of 1745. It would seem from them that our loyal ancestors 
of the " Soak " (as bishop Clavering spells the word) first intended to 
subsidize the king. Finding he could not take cash, they oflTered 
royalties to recruits, but if they got no more than the paper '' Men 
enlisted " shews, they were not very successful in this endeavour. 
Their other scheme seems to have done better, and they got their 
complement of men and officers. I do not think this corps lasted 
beyond the lives of the original members, as I have a list of their 
names against almost all of which " dead " is marked, and I see no 
fresh names added. The Isaac Strong Who was ensign was my 
^eat-grandfather, father of Archdeacon Wiljiam Strong. 

Thorpe HaU, Peterborough. C. t. Strong. 

I. Association and Proposals, dated 22 Oct., and signed 29 Oct., 

1745- 

"At a Meeting of the Custos Rotulorum, Justices of the Peace, 
Clergy, Gentlemen and Inhabitants of the Liberty of Peterborough, 
this day held at the Town Hall in the City of Peterborough, an Asso- 
ciation and Subscription recommended by the Right Honourable the 
Earl flfitzwilliam was Universally approved of and Signed by all then 
Present and the Money ariseing by such Subscription was agreed to 
be Presented as a. Voluntary and free Gift to his Majesty as contri- 
buting more effectually to advance his Majesty's Service in this time 
of imminent Danger than any other Methcni of applying such Money. 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 253 

At the said Meeting it was moreover generously Offered by the 
Lord ffitzwilliam in Order to contribute more immediatly to the 
Peace and Safety of this Liberty to furnish at his own Expence Arms 
Accoutrements and Ammunition for any Number of the Inhabitants 
of the said Liberty not exceeding Sixty Men who would Voluntarily 
Inlist themselves into an Independant Company of ffoot and Serve 
his Majesty within the said Liberty and within Ten Miles distant 
from Peterborough without. Pay and during the Term of Six Months 
and his Lordship at the same time offered to give the Sum of One 
Hundred Pounds towards Cloathing the said Company. 

At the same time the following Proposals were made by the Custos 
Rotulorum to be signed by the Several Persons who shall think 
proper to fform and Associate themselves into the said Company and 
agree to the following Terms. 

Proposed 
First that the Right Honourable the Earl ffitzwilliam will Honour the 
said Company wben raised with being their Commander, 

2 That his Lordship be Pleased to Permitt the said Company to 

make Choice of all their Officers, to witt, A Captain, ffirst and 
Second Lieutenant and Ensign. • 

3 That all the Officers above the Rank of a Serjeant do Provide at 

their own Expence their own Arms Accoutrements and Cloaths. 

4 That every Person who shall so Associate and have Arms and 

other Accoutrenaents delivered to them shall give a Note of hand 
to be Accountable for the same and whenever called upon by the 
Captain of the said Company to return the same again to the 
Captain who shall also give such Note, for all the Arms so 
Delivered, to my Lord ffitzwilliam. 

5 That the Uniform be a blew Cloath Coat lapelled and faced with 

Orange and Trimmed with "White Metal Buttons a Hatt edged 
with a Silver Cord with a White Button and an Orange Cockade 
and brown Holland Gayters or Spatter Dashes. 

6 That no Person be Permitted to Associate without first taking the 

Oaths of Abjuration Allegiance and Supremacy before a Majes- 
trate nor without first Signing these Proposals and the following 
Association. 

7 That all Persons who shall so Associate shall be subject during 

all the time they shall serve in the said Company to all the Law- 
futl Comands of their Captain or other Officers and shall be 
drawn up Exercise Muster Arm and go upon Duty at such limes 
as he shall appoint but not be Obliged to March upon any Duty 
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254 Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. . 



8 That if any of the said Company shall at any Time Misbehave 

hioi or themselves or disobey Orders it shall be in the Power of 

the Captain immediatly to Discharge them out of the said 

Company first taking from them their Arms Accoutrements and 

Cloaths." 

A clause of approval and recommendation of the above is signed 

" Milton Thursday Night October the 24*. 1 745. Fitzwilliam C : R :" 

and the terms of association are signed by these persons : — 



"Matt: Wyldbore 
Walden Orme 
Robt. Clarke 
Daul Wales 
I»c : Strong 
Wm Lindsay 
Char. Image 
Danl : De la Bue 
Wm Chatham 
Job G-ibbons 
Bichd Hetley 
Geo Gibbs 
Jno Sharman 
John Gibbs 
Charles Fix 
Robert Willson 
Luke Norman 
WmMan 
Jno. Stevens 1746 
BenjD: Denney 
John Phillips 
John Clarke 
Augustine Warriner 

II. Duplicate of the proposals and association, signed by earl 
Fitzwilliam, but without the names of the volunteers. 

III. Oaths taken by the volunteers: — (a) Oath of Allegiance. 
(1)J Oath against claims of foreign princes, (c) Oath for the special 
occasion, that *' King • George is lawfull and rigbtfull King of this 

Realme That the Person pretending to be Prince of Wales 

during the Life of the l^te King James and since his decease preten- 
ding to be and taking upon himself the Stile and Title of King of 
England by the Name of James the Third or of Scotland by the Name 
of James the Eighth, or the Stile and Title of King of Great Britain 
hath not any right or Title whatsoever to the Crown of this Realm,** 
and promising to " support maintain and defend *' the act of succession 
limiting the succession to the princess Sophia and her heirs. Signed 
by the volunteers, 64 in all. 



Robert Darby 
John Barnes 
Ralph Whitwell 
Wm : Smith 
Wm: Blades 
Wm White dischargd 
Wm Gibbs 
Jacob Hunt 
Major Bywater 
Thos Bowker 
Ridid Ellis discharge 
Richd Bothway 
Wm Smith disohargd 
Richard Beechom 
Tho>. Saunders 
Simon Hall 
Rich. Tercy 
Rod Clarke 
Robt. King 
Benj Cole 



SpringnalL: Brown. 
Robt Griffin 
Edw^. Bingham 
John GoUs 
John Manning 
John Dyson 
John Hetherington 
John Loving - 
Martin Cole 
John Bevis • 
Edw^. Lazton 
Riohd. Harland 
James Olive 
Rob Ellington 
Wm :- Norton 
G«orge Bursnell 
Tho* Loving 
John Diokins 
Robt Sharman 
Tho» Loving 
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Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 255 

IV. Memorandum, dated 29 Oct. 174J, of the officers chosen: 
" Matthew Wyldbore Esq^ to be our Captain Rich** Tryce Gent", to 
be our First Lieutenant Mr. Walden Orme to be oiir Second Lieutenant 
and Mr. Isaac Strong to be our Ensign." . 

V. Letter from earl Fitzwilliam, 29 Oct. 174J, reporting the 
king's gracious reception of the association, and his inability to accept 
the subscription offered, Mr. Pelham telling him there are " three 
several Acts of Parliament against Money being given by way of 
Benevolence from the Subject to the King/* and suggesting that if 
they could " apply it to enlist Men into His Majesty's Service and 
send them to be incorporated into Marshal Wade's Army it would be 
the best way of applying the Money," He desires the opinion of 
the subscribers on this proposal. 

VI. Company's note for their arms, " One Muskett and Sling 
One Bayonett and One Cartooche Box and Belt," promising to 
deliver them up when demanded, as in the fourth proposal. Signed 
by 53 5 three having been discharged, and four elected officers, and 
four having apparently withdrawn, viz., William Lindsay, John 
Stevens, Robert Darby, and Robert Sharman. 

VII. Letter from earl Fitzwilliam. 

" S* : James's Square, 

November the 2»<* : 174J. 
Sir I received Mr. Strong's Letter yesterday, and am extreemly 
glad to hear of the Success there has been in raising so soon, a Com- 
pany of Gentlemen Volunteers at Peterborough. I approve very 
much of the Officers they have chosen, and will send their Com- 
missions as soon as they can be made out. The Drumms and Hal- 
berts shall likewise be sent, but you must lett me have the Arms of 
the City as soon as You can. I think the Company shou*d consist of 
at least jo effective Men exclusive of Officers, Serjeants, Corporals & 
Drumms. I likewise approve very well of the Alteration that is 
propos'd of the Cockades land Spatterdashes. 

I have receiv*d a Letter from the Bishop of Peterborough, which 
expresses that Zeal, that Gratitude, that Attachment to His King and 
Country, worthy of Himself, and worthy of that Body, who has the 
Honour of having Him a Member, and not only expresses it in 
words, but has shewn it by that generous Subscription He has 
order'd in His Name for the Support of both. * 

As We can not apply the Subscription-Money to the Intent it was 
first propos'd, I have very fully consider'd, and talk'd with the most 



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understanding People about the best way of applying it, and as inde- 
pendent Companys are universally exploded, from the great Charge 
and Expence of their Pay, and the Discouragement it will be to the 
regular Troopes who do not receive quite half so much, and as they will 
be unwilling to subject themselves to the Military I^ws, or march far- 
ther or serve longer than they themselves please, so there can be little or 
no Use or dependence had on them equivalent to the Discouragement it 
will give to the Troops who serve on other Terms. I think therefore 
that a general Meeting shou*d be appointed as soon as possible, of all 
the Subscribers, and that they shou'd then be informed that the Money 
subscribed can not be apply'd in the Manner they at the time of sub- 
scribing agreed to. That they shou'd then chuse a Committee and 
empower them to act and apply the Money in such Manner as they 
shall judge proper for the Publick Benefit. I am sorry I can not 
possibly be at the Meeting, but My Opinion is (and I desire it may 
be communicated to the Gentlemen at thfeir Meeting) that the only 
way will be to follow the Examples of St. Martin's, St. James's, the 
County of Hertford, the Tower Hamlets &c. To advertize in the 
Northampton and Stamford Mercurys or what other Papers is 
thought proper— That every able-bodyd Man who shall (under the 
Direction of the said Committee) enlist Himself into any of His 
Majesty's Regiments of Foot, shall at the time of His enlisting 
receive the Summ of four Pounds Bounty-Money, every such Man 
not being under the Stature of Five Feet five Inches complete without 
Shoes, and to have His Discharge if demanded at the end of Six 
Months from the time of his enlisting in case the present Rebellion 
shall be extinguish 'd, and in case this is approv'd of I desire You will 
lett Me know from time to time what Men are enlisted, and I will 
enquire of the Secretary of War what is the best Manner of disposing 
of them after they are enlisted. If this Methode is not approv'd of, 
I know of no other, that can be of the least Use or Service, but shall 
be glad to comply with any better Scheme that can be propos*d. As 
Mr. Brown has wrote to the Bishop, I suppose You will soon have 
His Opinion; If Sir Francis 6* : John or any other Gentleman is 
absent from the Country (He shou'd be wrote to and His Opinion 
ask'd) for as this Money is subscrib'd for a particular purpose, tho' 
that purpose can not be answer'd, yet it shou'd not be apply'd other- 
wise without the consent of the Subscribers. The Day appointed 
for Payment of the Subscriptions, is this Day fortnight, but as it will 
be impossible to make use of the whole money for sometime, I 
think it will be worth the Gentlemen's Consideration at this general 
Meeting, whether it will not be best to pay down at the Day appointed 



Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. 257 

only half the Subscription Money, and defer the other Payment till 
further call'd for. I beg my Compliments to the Gentlemen Volun- 
teers &c. and am Sir 

Your humble Servant 

Fitzwilliam. 
My Service to Mr. Strong and let Him know I have received His 
Letter. 

P: S: I have wrote this in a hurry so hope Gentlenden will 
excuse all Mistakes &c.'* 

VIII. Letter from earl Fitzwilliam to Matthew Wyldbore, 7 
Nov. 1745. Has no objection to the cloth being purchased at Black- 
well Hall, but thinks Peterborough people should be employed as 
much as possible. The commissions had been forwarded. 

IX. Letter from earl Fitzwilliam to Isaac Strong, 30 Nov. 1745. 
" Drums Haldbarts and a Barrel of Powder of 50**' : weight will sett 
out for Peterborough on Monday next *' : he urges care in selecting 
able-bodied men as recruits : he has spoken to sir William Yonge, 
who will send down an officer to receive the men, as soon as " We 
have gott a proper Number." 

X. Letter from the bishop of Peterborough (Robert Clavering) 
to captain Orme. 

"Bath Octo: 17: 1745. 
Sir I find by a Letter from Lord Fitzwilliam to me this Morning 
that he intends to be at Peterborough next Tuesday in order to concert 
and agree with the Justices Clergy Gentry &c of our Soak on such 
measures as may be Conducive to support and Secure his Sacred 
Majesty King George and his faithfull Subjects in all their rights 
Liberties &c Property's as they are now by Law establish'd These 
great Blessings together with the Lives of our Selves & our familys 
are in manifest Hazard too manifest to be Slighted and Overlook'd 
and therefore it is high time to bestir our Selves and according to 
many good Examples before us to Enter without loss of any further 
time into such Engagements as may Secure . us against all Attempts 
of our Enemies wheresoever and particularly at this time against the 
rebellious EfEorts of Disobedient Subjects headed by the Son of a 
bigotted Popish Pretender both educated in the principies of Religion 
at the fountain head of Popery & instructed with maxims of Policy 
from the Courts of France and Spain How miserable must our Lives 
be, if granted to us, if such a Scheme of Religion and Government 
should take place among us The very thought of it even at a Distance 
is Shocking and terrible Stop therefore these great evils as soon as 
may be, by a ready and Zealous Unanimity in providing for your 

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own Safet7 and the publick Welfare and to further this good and 
Laudible Design 70a shall together with my prayers for the Success 
of yo' Deliberations have the hearty Concurrauce of Your affectionate 
Friend and humble servant Rob : Peterboro : 

I Desire you to Communicate this Letter to all the Justices Clergy 

Gentry &c within the Soak and more especially when they are 

met together with Lord Fitzwilliam. 
To Captain Orm« 
These" 

XI. ''An Account of Persons inlisted by the Committee appointed 
by the Subscribers within the Liberty of Peterborough. 

26 Novemb'. 1745. 

Thomas Whittington of Peterborough Gardiner aged 40 Years 
5 Feet 5 Inches compleat, born at Peterborough, broad sett, 
wears his own hair. 

P* in part oi j* ^ 
£ $. d. 
0:5:0 

James Trickey Bom at Cullumstock in Devonshire woolcolnber 
aged 40 Years 5 Feet 8 Inches & an half, streight & well made, 
swarthy complexion, long sharp Nose, wears a Wigg, at the time 
of inlisting workt at his trade with Mr. Warriner, of Peterborough. 

o : a : 6. Inlisted at a General Meeting 

2*. Dec'. 

W». Gann of Crowland in y* County of Lincoln Husbandman born 
at Exton in y« County of Rutland aged 44 Years (looks older) 
5 ffeet 5 Inches, small Leggs, lately discharged out of y« Duke 
of Ancaster's new raisd Regim* on Ace* of Sickness 

b : I : o Inlisted by Capt". Orme, 

M'. Wyldbore; M'. Brown, M'. Tryce & M'. Marshall.'* 
The name of a fourth man is erased. 

XII. Commission to Isaac Strong as ensign, dated 5 Nov. 1745, 
signed by earl Fitzwilliam. 

209.*-*Church Goons at Scaldwell, 1581. — The following 
memorandum was found among some proceedings dated 1581, and the 
persons*named at the end as churchwarden^ held office in that year. 

"The V daye of October in y* yere of our lorde . 15 81 . in y« 
towne howse of scaldwell were founde sartayne Images, & other 
monumentes of poperye, that ys to say, y® pycture of chryst callyd y« 
roode, y* pucture of saynt peter bothe of woode undefaced, the pycture 
of y* trinitye & y* pycture of saynt mudwyn w' hyr cuwe staudyng by 



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her, bothe of Alabaster undefaced, & a table or tabamacle of wood 
whych in y* tyme of popery dyd stande uppon y* aulter wt a great 
number of Images appartayning to y« same all of Alabaster undefaced. 
in y* same bowse was a coffer made of wood in y« w** was vij candle- 
sticks of latyn^ the chrysmatory, w* y« oyle & chrisme as yt was vsyd 
in y* tyme of popery, a pece of y® canapy that y* sacrament dyd hang 
under, the censers whole as they were usyd in y« church, one sanctus 
bell, & one haude bell, a wooden clappe. And a box of wood to fetch 
candlelygh(t) to y« church in y* tyme of popery, and sartayne socketes 
of latyq, whych wer(e) usyd eather'upon the sepulcher or els upon y 
rood lofte. 

These men as I suppose were the(y) that cawsyd y* monuments of 
pope^r to be co«selyd j^^^j^^^^ ^^^^^^ 

Edwarde Palmer 
George Rycarde 
Wyllm Amolde. 
Wyllm cable & Rycharde lole were church wardens wh(en) the 
churche goodes were soude. Also they haue bothe felde & sblde trees 
growing w*in y« churchya(rd.) " 

The letters within parentheses have been cut off from the original 
memorandum. Is the story of Saint Mudwyn, with her cow standing 
by her, well known ? En. 

210. — BnauEST op Bishop White. — Thomas White, appointed 
bishop of Peterborough in 168,5, ^^^ deprived as a non-juror in 
February, 1690, amongst other charitable bequests left by his will 
£^240 to be invested so as produce at least £\o per annum, thiat sum 
being for the poor of Peterborough, and the remainder for the minister 
for his pains in the distribution of it. This j^io was to be distri- 
buted in the church-porch on the 14th of December every year, to 
twenty poor persons, above the age of 40 years, " who shall exactly 
and distinctly repeat" the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and the 
Ten Commandments, without missing or changing one word therein." 
In the case of married persons, both were to make the repetition, or 
to have no share therein. " And I do desire withal it may be observed 
that I do design this gift not only as a corporal, but as a spiritual alms 
to do good unto the sipuls as well as the bodies of the poor, having 
with sorrow of heart taken notice of the inconceivable ignorance 
which prevails among the poor people that they are (at least many of 
them) Christians only in name, but know not why they are so — nor 
what it is to believe, or practise, or pray for, or to answer the demands 
of the Christian profession. To encourage them, therefore^ to learn 

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the foundations of the Christian religion, I have bequeathed this 
charity." (Strickland's Lives of the Seven Bishops, p. 14a.) The 
same amount, under the same conditions, was left to the parish of 
Newark, co. Notts., where the bishop had been born. The money is 
still given away by the vicar of S. John the Baptist, Peterborough, 
after hearing the applicants recite ** the foundations of the Christian 
religion *' as directed by the will. The distribution is now made in 
August. In bishop Kennett's collection of MSS. in the British 
museum, is a list of the first recipients, transcribed for these pages by 
Mr. D. GJenn ; many of the namies are familiar in Peterborough still. 
*' The Distribution of Bp Whites Gift to twenty poor people begun 
ye 14^ day of Decemb. a.d. 1699. 

The first paym^ is but ^ a Years interest 



Widow Trigg 




Wid Coy 




Wid. Poarty 




Wid Wandloy 




Wid Hardy 




Wid Ff ordham 




Wid Smyth 




Wid Roberta 




Wid Af hby 




Godfrey Gamer & Wife 




Wid. WillBOB. Brig Str. 




Wid Sonnington 




Wid. Oarratt 




Wid Younger 




Wid Waipple 




Wid Gunthoipe 


6 


Wid Chandler 




Wid Gray 


6 



211. — Rates for Carriage of Goods, 1743. — It was enacted 
by an act of 3 & 4 William & Mary that the justices of the peace in 
each county should yearly *' assess and rate the prices of all Land 
Carriage of Goods whatsoever." At the April sessions, 1743, the 
justices of Northamptonshire, " taking into consideration that divers 
Waggoners and other Carryers by Combinations amongst themselves 
have raised the prices of carriage of Gk)ods in many places to Excessive 
rates to the great injury of Trade," made a new assessment for the 
year. In each case the rating named below is from London to the 
place named -, the same amount being allowed " from every of the 
said places back again to London.*' 

Three shillings' and sixpence per cwt. to Northampton, Brackley, 
Towcester, Daventry, Higham Ferrers, Thrapston, Wellingborough. 
Four shillings per cwt. to Kettering, Rothwell, Oundle. Four shil- 
ings and sixpence per cwt. to Weldon, Rockingham. 

'* And it is further ordered that a true printed copy of this order 
be fixed in the'severall markett places of all and singular the Cor- 
porations Markett and Great Towns within this County according to 
the Statute that all persons concerned therein may take notice thereof. 

By the Court. 

Smith.'* 



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