m. 10d. Richard, pars. of Thorneton. ROLL 1046, 35 incip. 36 HENRY III. m. 1. John, pars. of Holm. m. 2. William, pars, of Hoton. m. 3. Fr. Fr. Peter le Gras and Fr. Thomas of Haytesend, monks of Furness Abb. m. 4. Church of Farnham vacat. John conversus, attorney for prioress of Symingthwayte (Eufemia, Prioress; her predecessor, Sapientia. Roll 1048, m. 7). m. 5. Robert, pars. of Bulewye. Sweyn was pars. here. m. 10. Fr. Hamo and and Fr. Nicholas, canons of Park Piory. m. 11. Alexander, monk of Salley Abbey. Robert, canon of Egleston Abbey. Robert le Breton, canon of Worksop Priory. m. 14. Peter, pars. of Preston. m. 18. Fr. William, mast. of the House of the Nuns of Swyne. m. 20. Robert pars. of Wath. Bradford, monk of Kirkstall. m. 25. Robert, canon John of of St. Agatha Abbey. m. 26. Elias, parson of Baddeswrth. m. 28. Adam, canon of Bolton Priory. m. 30. Robert, canon of Kirkham Priory. m. 32. Roger, late pars. of Manefield. William his predecessor. William pars. of Burton. m. 34. m. 32.) m. 35. Robert, pars. of Manefeud. (See William of Haget, former pars. of Wykehale. Henry of Beverley, canon, atty. for Prior of Bridlington. Fr. Hugh of Rossedale, atty. for Prioress of Rossedale. m. 41. Ralph, pars of Lodesham. m. 42. Robert, pars. of Birkyn (John, his predecessor, dec.; m. 31d). m. 28d. Thomas, pars. of Heton (in Wap. of Aggebrigge). Fr. Alexander, monk of Cogham Abbey. m. 18d. Fr. Hugh of Elmeswell, canon of St. Oswald, atty. for his Prior. m. 14d. Will. Haget, formerly pars. of Wyhall. Barth. Turet, formerly patron. (See m. 60.) m. 13d. M. Ralph, pars. of Houston. Farnham, once bishop of Nicholas of Durham. m. 11d. Fr. Thomas Testard, atty. for Fountains. Abb. of m. 8d. of Derfeld. (See m. 7d. m. 5d. m. 2d. of Watton. m. ld. m. 60. Will. Haget, once pars. of Wykhal. The Prior of Park holds the advn. m. 35.) Fr. Hamo, monk of Holy Trinity, York. M. Stephen of Ecclesfield, pars. Robert, pars. of Almanbye? ARCHBISHOP'S GRINDAL'S INSTRUC a TIONS ON PUBLIC PENANCE.— Mention was made in N. & Q.' some months ago of the punishments inflicted by country squires and parsons upon erring females. This brought me a good deal of correspondence, including letters from reader who is preparing a book dealing with early penances and punishments. I was able to give a good deal of northern data, but it slipped my mind at that time that Dr. Grindal (Bishop of London, 1559; Archbishop of York, 1570; Archbishop of Canterbury 1575) had laid down very precise instructions as to the manner of conducting these penances. He commences : First, I wish at every public penance a sermon, if it be possible to be had. Secondly, in the same sermon the grievousness of the offence is to be opened: the party to be exhorted to unfeigned repentance, with assurance of God's mercy if they so do, and doubling of their damnation if they remain obstinate, or feign repentance where none is, and so lying to the Holy Ghost. a Thirdy, where no sermon is, there let homily be read, meet for the purpose. Fourthly, let the offender be set over against the pulpit during the sermon or homily, and there stand bareheaded with the sheet, or other accustomed note of difference; and that upon some board raised a foot and a half at least, above the church floor; that they may be in loco editiore, et eminentiores omni populo. Fifthly: it is very requisite that the preacher, in some place of his sermon, or the curate, after the end of the homily, remaining still in the pulpit should publicly interrogate the offenders, whether they do confess their fault and whether they do truly repent and that the said offenders or penitents, should answer directly one after another (if there be many), much like to this short form following mutatis mutandis. Provided always that order be given by the Ordinaries when they assign penances, that if the penitents do show themselves irreverent, or impenitent at penances, that their punishments should be reiterated and be removed from the church to the market-place, that though themselves may thereby seem incorrigible, yet their public shame may be a terror to others. If the ordinary see cause to commute the wearing of the sheet only (for other commutation I wish none), then appoint a good portion of money to be delivered immediately after the penance done in form aforesaid by the penitent himself, to the Collectors for the with this proviso, that if he show not good signs of repentance him has to be put again in his penance with the sheet; and then no money at no time to be taken of him. poor; J. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH. Grove House, Norton-on-Tees. OLD LOMBARD STREET. On 1 Apr. 1567, William More of Loseley, Surrey (afterwards Sir William More Kt. and M.P. for Guildford) released to Richard Polsted of Albury, Surrey (apparently his son-in-law) all right in a house with shops situate in the street (vico) called Lumberd Streete "" in the parish of All Saints "Lomberstreate," London. The property had lately been been in the tenure or occupation of John "Grasham " (Sir John Gresham, lord mayor, Levant merchant, d. 1556) and was on 28 Aug. 1548 granted by Sir Michael Stanhope and John Bellowe Esq. to Henry Polsted (father of Richard), W. More and Henry Mylls, citizen and grocer of London. According to a contemporary endorsement on the deed of 1567, Mrs. Cordell" dwelt in the house. HALLEY'S VERSES TO R. S. B. NEWTON. The Latin hexameters prefixed by Halley to the first edition of Newton's Principia (1687), were reproduced by S. P. Rigaud, in his Essay on the First Publication of the Principia,' and again by Sir David Brewster in the appendix to his Life of Newton (ed. 1855 etc.). In each of those cases, by the use of different styles of type, the changes made by subsequent editors. were shown. An English versification, which Rigaud, in his Essay, says was not well done, appeared in Benjamin Martin's General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, London, January, 1755, of which a copy is in the Library of the Boston Athenæum, Boston, Massachusetts, where I was happy to locate it, after rather protracted search elsewhere. The first and only clue I had, originally, to the existence of the English verses, was in a side-note in the sketch of Halley in Biog. Brit.,' iv. (Lond. 1757). S. HAWKER'S GODMOTHER (see clii. R. • 459 s.v. The Newdigate Prize ').-Did Hawker really marry his godmother? BaringGould felt sure that he did, while Maskell (for whom see the 'D.N.B.'), and Mr. C. E. Byles, the biographer of Hawker, felt equally sure that he did not. The simplest way to clear up the matter would be to give the name of the real godmother. The baptism took place at Stoke Damerel (Devonport); the date is known and also the name of the officiant. (C. E. Byles, p. 2.) M. PASSPORT TO FRANCE, 1689.-How can I trace a woman and child who had a passport from the English Government to France in 1684? Would they be registered in France? Or have any records of passports or the residence of English persons in France been kept? E. E. COPE. Finchampstead Place, Berks. DR. WILLIAM PERFECT. Can anyone refer me to a Life of Wm. Perfect, M.D., of London or West Malling, Kent? He wrote two volumes of poems and two volumes on obstetrics; professed to cure insanity, and kept an asylum. Incidentally he was Grand Master of Kent. He died in 1809. The Gent's Mag. has only a general panegyric. The 'D.N.B.' is silent; so is Munk's 'Roll of the College of Physicians.' F. WILLIAM COCK, M.D. HATE wrote: For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair. Similarly Byron ('The Prisoner of Chillon,' St. i.) After six months of struggle between life and death, Pirandello was able to leave the nursing home, but he found himself an old man: his hair and beard had become snow white; one night only had made a ravage that twenty years could not have done. It is not clear from the above passage whether Signor hair Luigi Pirandello's turned white in a single night, or whether the roots only were affected then, and the result appeared at the end of six months. What similar cases are to be found in history? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. JOHN STANLEY S. J.-Sir William Stanley of Hooton (1548-1630) had an only brother named John, who became а Jesuit. Was John a widower when he I have not access here entered the Society? to Bro. Foley's Records of the English Province, S.J.' John is mentioned as having attended Sir William's funeral, and would have been chief mourner had he not been a religious. As it is the chief mourner was a nephew (probably a son of John Poole of Capenhurst and Mary, Sir William's half-sister) Another nephew named Stanley also attended. He appears to have been a Canon of Mechlin. If he was not John Stanley's son, who was he? See Chatham Soc. vol. xxv. (1851) at pp. lix., lx. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. DE BEAUVOIR FAMILY.-Can anyone tell me where I can find an account and pedigree of this famous Guernsey family and of the branch which settled in England, and other counties in the eighteenth cenand were flourishing in Essex, Hertfordshire tury? HUGH BEAVER. ING ALFRED IN THE NEW MURAL PAINTINGS FOR ST. STEPHEN'S HALL.-Apropos of those paintings, illustrations of which appear in The Times of June 28, the following extract from the Morning Post of 5 Apr., 1926 is of interest. Sir Charles Oman writes of Rumours Concerning King Alfred. It is seldom that the work of an Elizabethan interpolator (to use a kinder word than forger) has any practical effect on our personal surroundings. I find, however, to-day that the misplaced ingenuity of a certain well-known literary man of 1600 is likely to cause me much trouble. One of the "fathers of English History" got hold of the only copy of Asser's Life of King Alfred. He published it with various unscrupulous interpolations of his own Another interpolation was one in which he inserted under the year 877 а statement that King Alfred's fleet destroyed a large Danish squadron off Swanage early in that year. This scrap has persisted in every edition of Asser down to 1912, when the late Mr. Stephenson published the real text of that ancient author with the forged paragraphs duly stigmatised. Unfortunately the gentlemen responsible for choosing the series of historical events to be commemorated in St. Stephen's Hall have selected precisely this naval action, which never took place, as the starting point of their chronicle. This must be stopped at all costs! Who was the interpolator, and is the statement in italics correct? There is a monument at Swanage, whose erector was apparently similarly misled by the "forgeries." G. M. MARSTON. Los OSS OF THE GREAT HARRY.-In All the Days of My Life' by Mrs. Amelia E. Barr (1913) mention is made on p. 2 of the disaster that overcame the Great Harry when she was dashed to pieces on the Scarlet Rocks outside Castletown, Isle of Man. In what year did this tragedy occur? Mrs. Barr adds that a large grave in Kirk Malew Churchyard records the story of the disaster. Can any reader oblige me with the inscription on the stone? C. ROY HUDLESTON. Little Mead, Chapel Green Lane, JACKSON OF THE RED HOUSE, HACKNEY. Some of Charles Lamb's books came into the possession of Moxon at whose sale they were purchased by Francis Jackson, merchant and shipowner, freeman of the Paviors Company (admitted March, 1805) who resided in the Red House, 14 Mare Street, Hackney. Jackson is said to have been a friend of Lamb and claimed descent from Capt. Jackson of the Essays of Elia.' These books passed to his son, the late R. C. Jackson, who lived as a recluse in Camberwell, a friend of Walter Pater and the presumed original of Marius the Epicurean. It would be interesting to know more. Is a complete list of these books available? Is it known at what period F. Jackson lived at the Red House? It has traditionally unable to verify. older literary associations which I have been G. W. WRIGLEY. 258, Victoria Park Road, South Hackney. BONHAM: CARTER: PYKE FAMILIES. A correspondent has sent me the following abstract of the will of William Pyke. William Pyke, of Portsmouth, Esquire; dear of her sister Mrs. Burrows; Ann Rice, daughwife Anne; tenements in Gosport in occupation John Carter, Knight; niece Susanna Lee, dau. ter of wife by former husband; grandson, Sir of late brother John Pike; nephew Timothy son of John Pike; children of late brother Thomas Pike; sister Mary Lambert's dau., Hart now wife of wife's niece Elizabeth Burrows; dau. Ann Bonham's late husband; son-in-law John Carter; granddaughter Susannah Atherley; granddaughter Ann Goodenough; Arthur Atherley, husband of Susannah A.; George Trenchard Goodenough husband of Ann G.; grandson William Carter; four grandchildren Ann Bonham, Bessey B. Henry B., and Thomas B.; grandson Edward Carter; dau. Ann Bonham and grandson Sir John Carter, Exors. Witnesses: Thos. White, John Sissmore, George Bensted. Dated Oct. 25, 1774; proved by both exors. May 28, 1777. (Register Collier, fo. 334). Can any reader say if the above named testator was related to the Pykes of London and Greenwich (v. 10 S. viii. 44)? with a sketch of John Pounds, reference is In the 'D.N.B.' xvi. 233, in connection made to a portrait of the latter as being Edward Carter, esq., of Portsmouth." "in the possession of the family of the late EUGENE F. McPIKE. CATHOLIC REGISTERS PRINTED.—I should be much obliged for information respecting any English or Welsh Catholic Replies. Registers of Births, Deaths, or Marriages- JOHN RANBY, SERGT.-SURGEON TO in print other than the following:-Acton Burnell, Mawley Hall, Newport (Salop), Plowden, and Shrewsbury, published by the Shropshire Parish Record Society; Ufton Court and Woolhampton, Weston Underwood, Woburn Lodge and Weybridge, and City of Worcester, printed by F. A. Crisp; the Birmingham Franciscan Mission, and Lanherne Convent (marriages only), printed in Phillimore's Parish Registers and those contained in the volumes of the Catholic Record Society. CUNDELL FAMILY.-Abraham Cundell, was Can any youngest son of William and Alice Cundell, of Long Stanton, Cambs., was baptized 1833, the year of his birth, and was married and living in Cottingham, Cambs., in 1850, for in that year a son, Walter, christened at the Cottenham Parish Church. He, with his family, left for either America or the colonies about that time. colonial of Australia especially-or U.S. A. readers give me any information likely to help to trace Abraham Cundell's descendants? ERNEST CUNDELL. UTHOR WANTED.-Can anyone tell me Arote a poem about a man who thanked God that he was born half a fool "? J. C. * See ante p. 20. KING GEORGE II. (clii. 461.) JOHN Ranby (1703–1773), with his natural son of the same name (1743-1820), fills. more than two columns in the D.N.B.' He was the son of Joseph Ranby of St. Gilesin-the-Fields in the county of Middlesex, elder daughter of the Hon. Dacre Barrettinnholder, and married, in 1729, Jane, the Lennard. Many details of his career and a list of authorities will be found in the 'D.N.B.' notice by Sir D'Arcy-Power. This. may be supplemented in a few points. D'Arcy says that Fielding introduced Ranby in Tom Jones.' He is not mentioned by name. See Book viii., chap. 13, in the history of the Man of the Hill: Sir This surgeon, whose name I have forgot, though I remember it began with an R, had the first character in his profession, and was serjeant-surgeon to the king. He had, moreover, many good qualities, and was a very generous, good natured man, and ready to do any service to his fellow-creatures. We may allow this to be intended as a tribute to Ranby, while not forgetting that the incident which the Man of the Hill is here describing is represented as happening in the reign of Charles II. But there is a direct mention of Ranby in Fielding's Introduction to his Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon,' where he writes I was I In the beginning of August, 1753, persuaded by Mr. Ranby, the King's premier serjeant-surgeon, and the ablest advice. believe, in all branches of the physical profession, to go immediately to Bath. In a note on this passage Austin Dobson mentions an unconfirmed tradition that he [Ranby] served as the artist's model for A Rake's Progress' (Nichols's the hero of Anecdotes,' 1781, p. 68*).' In the Catalogue of the principal prints by, or after, Hogarth,' at the end of Dobson's William Hogarth' (1907), is following: the A View of Mr. Ranby's House at Chiswick. Publish'd as the Act directs by Jane Hogarth 1781.' There is a copy in the British Museum without the writing, but with the manuscript title, A View of Mr. Ranby the Surgeon's house. Taken from Hogarth's window at Chiswick.' It is there dated 1748. Mr. Ranby's house was pulled down some ninety years since and the gardens and site absorbed in the grounds of Chiswick House. Its last occupant was Lady Mary Coke, who were |