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O N T E N T S

I. A Calendar of Papers of the Tresham I'amily, of the Reigns of
Elizabeth and James I., 1580—1605. Preserved at Rushton HaU.
II. A Testimony against Periwigs and Periwig-Making, and Playing on
Instruments of Musick among Christians, or auy other in the days of
the Gospel. Being several Reasons against those things, By one who
for Good Conscience sake hath denyed and forsaken them, John
MuLiiiTEE, Barber in Northampton.
III. Lord Spencer's Library. A Sketch of a "Visit to Althorp, the Seat of
John Poyntz, Earl Spencer, K.G , &c.
IV. Memorials of the Rev. John Don, M.A., Rector of Fawsley, North
amptonshire, 1624 — 1645.
I.— A Sermon upon the Word Malt. Preached in the Stump of
a hollow Tree. With Aocount of the Life of the Author.
II. — The Text oe Three MS. Versions op the Sermon on the
WORD Malt.
HI.— The Worthy Sayings op Old Mr. Dod. Fit to be treasured
up in the Memory of every Christian. In Two Parts.
IV. — Bibliographical List op the Writings op .Tohn Dod. With
Biographical Notice by the Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A.
v.— Reperbnobs to Biographical Notices op John Dod.
VI. — Addenda.
V. Schedule of Deeds, &c., belonging to Brington Charity Estate ; with an
Account of the Charities belonging to the Parish of Bring-ton.
VI. A Paper on Puritans in Northamptonshire, dated 16 July, 1590. "With
Particulars of the "Glassies" holden at the Bull in Northampton ;
andof one Edmond Snape beeinge or pretending to be Curate of S.
Peters in Northampton.
VII. The Eest-less Ghost : Or, Wonderful News from Northamptonshire, and
Southwark. Being a most true and Perfect Account of a Persons
Appearance that was Murdred above two Hundred and Pitty Tears
ago. First about three weeks sinoe, to one WiUiam Clarke at
Hennington, in Northampton-shire, whom it appointed to meet in
Southwark, and did there appear to him again, and several others, on
Simday last the 10th. of this instant January.

VIII. A FuU and True Belation of the Tryal, 'Condemnation, and Execution
of Ann Foster, (who was Arrained for a Witch) on Saturday the 22th
of this Instant August, at the place of Execution at Northampton.
IX. The Northamptonshire Female Dreamer; or the Wonderful Revelations
of East Hadon, and Ravingthorp : by an Angel. By SaUy Sly.
Facsi-mile Illustration.
X.  Second Edition.
XI. A Strange and Lamentable accident that ha.ppened lately at Mears
Ashby in Northamptonshire. 1642. Of one Mary Wilmore, wife to
Iohn Wilmore, rough Mason, who was delivered of a Childe without
a head, and credibly reported to have a firme Crosse on the brest, as
this ensuing Story shaU relate. Facsimile Illustration.
XII. An answer at large, to a most hereticaU, trayterous, and PapisticaU
Byll, in English verse, which was cast abrode in the etreetes of North
ampton, and brought before the Iudges at the last Assises there. 1570.
XIII. Historical & Genealogical Notes relating to Northamptonshire. From
" CoUectanea Topographica et Genealogioa ;" aud "Excerpta
Historica." By J. Bowyer Nichols.
XIV. Francis Tresham, of Rushton, the Gunpowder Plot Conspirator. A
Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By the Hon. G. C. Grantley
Fitzhardinge Berkeley. With Notices of the Bonase Tree.
XV. Report of the Transactions & Excursions of the Royal -Archseologioal
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, at their Annual Meeting at
Northampton, 1878.
XVI. A Sketch of the History of the Town and Couuty of Northampton.
By the Rev. William Mone, Rector of Wymingtoii.
XVII. The Poysoning of Sir Euseby Andrew. My Opinion at the Assises in
Northampton demaunded in Court touching the poysoning of Sr
Euseby Andrew more fully ratified. Also, My Euidence in open
Court deliuered at the Assizes at Northampton 3 seueral times upon
Commaunde. By Iohn Cotta, of Northampton, Doctor in Physioke.
XVIII. The Customes of Tardley Hastings set Downe by Henery Chesley the
24th day of June in the yeare 1609 in the seaventh yeare of our
Lord Bang James by the Grace of God &c.
XIX. The Huth Library. A Catalogue of the I'riuted Books, Manuscripts,
Autograph Letters, and Engravings, CoUected by Henry Huth, with
CoUations and BibUographical Descriptions. — Books Relating to the
History of Northamptonshire ; or Written by IN atives or Residents
in the County of Northampton.

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The Tresham Family,

THE REIGNS OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES I.,
1580 — 1605.
PRESERVED AT RUSHTON HALL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

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REFAC E.

In bringing under public notice the appended Calendar of tho Rushton papers,
I have at tbe oiitset-to express my most cordial thanks to W. Clarke Thornhill,
Esq., of Rushton Hall, for his ready and cheerful compliance with my wish to
examine the valuable colleotion of papers which had been found concealed in his
venerable mansion some forty years ago. The discovery of these papers is very
interesting. In 1828, on removing a lintel over an ancient doorway iu the Great
Hall, a handsomely-bound Roman Catholic book of devotion fell out upon the
workmen. This circunistance at once led to further examination, and a very
large recess or closet was discovered in a thick stone wall, of about five feet long,
and fourteen or fifteen inches wide, almost filled with bundles of manuscripts,
and containing about twenty Catholic books iu excellent preseiYation. As
will be seen from the annexed Calendar, tho contents of the manuscripts are
various, consisting of historical notes, by Sir Thomas Tresham, rolled up with
building bills, deeds, and farming contracts, and of a portion of the domestic
correspondence of the Tresham family between the year 1580 and 1605. In a
manuscript letter found amongst them, some light is thrown upon the design of
Sir Thomas Tresham in the erection ot the singularly, unique building the
Triangular Lodge, aud the reason of his selecting- that peculiar mode of illus
trating his favourite doctrine, the Trinity The extract runs thus ; — ¦
'* If it be demanded why I labour so mueh in the Trinity and Passion of Christ to
depaint in thig chamber, thia is the principal instance thereof ; That at my last being hither
committed, * and I usuaUy having my servants here allowed me, to read nightly au hour to
me after supper, it fortuned that Fulcis, my theu servant, reading in the Chrisiian Mesolu-
ilon, in the Treatise of Proof that there is a, God, Sfc, there was upon a wainscot table at
that instant, tbree loud knocks (as if it bad been with an iron hammer) given; to the great
amazing of me and my two servants, Fulcis aud Nilkton."
" * This refers to bis commitments for recusancy, whieh had been frequent."
There is strong reason to believe that these books and papers were concealed
in the latter end ot November, 1605, as the paper of the latest date is a memo
randum, without a signature, of certain bonds, therein stated to bave been
delivered up to Mrs. Tresham on the 28th November, 1605, by the writer of the
memorandum. Sir Thomas Tresham, to whom and whose connexion the papers
mainly relate, had died in the preceding September, and his sen. Sir Francis
Tresham had only succeeded to tho title and the estates a month or two, when,
on Noveraber 12th, 1605, he was apprehended on the charge of complicity in the
Gunpowder Plot. This doubtless led to the concealment of the papers, whilst
those that were strictly political were in all probability destroyed. The papers
though not specificaUy relating to the Gunpowder Plot, contain rauch vahiable
information upon the condition and domestic bistory of the Roman Catholics at
that period, their expectations from James I, and their grievous disappointment
on bis accession, and they throw great light ou the causes which led to tho
conspiracy. The papers have necessarily suffered to a considerable extent
through the long period of their concealment,
JOHN TAYLOR.
Nm-thamptoti, Novemher, 1871.

Cahtttrar of §lxts^t0ii '^ni^ns,

No. I.
1. Historical Notes, Extracts from HoUingshed, &c.
2. Meraa in Sir T. Tresbam's hand- writing of his Proclamation of James the
1st in the Town of Northampton, 25 Maroh, 1603.
3. Letter from Sir T. T. to the Bishop of Durham, 15th Jany., 1602-3.
4. Letter from Perdino Band to Sir T. T. with a Book 13th Augst, 1603,
with some Notes of Sir T. T.
5. Letter ot Sir T. T. to G. Le Geo Levens about his going to Cirencester
& Mason's work, 1604.
6. Sir T. T's Instructions to his Counsel for answering an Order in Chancery
sued against him by his CovLsin Mrs. Anne -V"aux, Easter, 1594.
7. Objections to Sir T. T's answer & his replies to the objections.
8. MS. Copy of an Answer to a Protestant's Letter to a Friend beyond Seas
concerning a late Proclamation. {Elkth's Proclamation, Xovr., 1591.)
9. A Letter to the Bishop of Durhaai about Horses stolen.
10. Several Copies of a Correspondence with Lord Eobert Spencer about a
Debt contracted with him by Sir T. T. as surety for hia eldest Son, Octr., 1604.

No. a.
1. A Letter from Sir T. Tresham to his Sistor Lady Vaux about an
arrangement of her Lord's affairs. Bogsden, 26th Feby., 1592-3. (2 copies.)
2. Letter from Lady Tresham to Mr. Thos. Tresham (her Husband's
Cousin) entreating his forbearance to visit Sir T. T. when he camo to .Rushton
upon some Uberty granted him after long restraint. (JVo Date.)
3. Letter from Sir T. T. to the Lord Chancellor (q. Hatton) about tho
advowson of Weldon, 2nd AprU, 1591.
4. Letter from Sir T. T. to the Lord & Lady Vaux about the arrangement
of their affairs. Baster-day, 1593. And copy of the same.
5. Petition to the Lord Treasurer, the Chancellor of the E.vchequer, & the
Chief-Baron for the removal of certain Indictments against Sir T. T. for recusancy.
6. Letter from Geo. Levens to Hir T. T. about sundry matters of domestic
business, 29th Jany., 1602-.-;. N."S.— Levens Sir T. T.'s Steward.
7. Three Epigrams.
8. The Oath to be administered to Recusants.
9. Lord Vaux to Lord Burleigh about 'his ilistre.sses, 18th Fob}'... b'i92-:>.

10. Lady Tresham to her Nieoe Merile Vaux about her Father's affairs, May
8tb, 1593.
11. Sir Thos. Tresham to his youngest Nephew Vaux about the settlement
of his Father's affairs by Act of Parliament, 8 March, 1592-3.
12. Sir T. T. to his Sister Lady Vaux about her Husband's affairs, 27
May, 1593.
13. Extract from a proposed BiU tor selling Lord Vaux's Lands.
14. Letter from Sir T. T. to a Lord bewaiUng his being detained at Rushton
In consequence of uot obtains a Licence from the Bishop to remove 5 mUes,
6 May, 1593.
15. Drafts of several Letters from Sir T. T. to his Nephew. {No Date.)
See 21.
16. A List of Cattle, &c., bought by Lewis Tresham of Lady T. his mother.
{JVo Date.)
17. Letter ot Lady Tresham to Mr. CeoiU to use his interest with his Father
that Sir T. T. might be Prisoner at Banbury instead of Ely, 21 March, 1589.
18. Letter from Sir T. T. with answers to queries about the arrangement
of Lord Vaux's affairs, 26 May, 1593.
19. From [Sir T. T. to Mr. Cheyney (his Solicitor) about ATTLEBOROUGH
Parsonage, Jan. 6th, 1592-3.
20. Copy of part of a Letter from Sir T. T. to ono of his Nephews, the
Vaux's. (N'o Date.)
21. A long Letter of reproach from Sir T. T. to his Nephew, Geo. Vaui,
9th Novr, 1592.
22. Another Letter from the same to the same, 20th May, 1593.
23. Letter from Sir T. T. to the same Lord as No. 14 thanking hira for his
assistance & informing him that he had obtained his License, 10th May, 1593.
24. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lord Henry Howard alluding to the Raleigh
Plot & the Puritans, & to tbe proposed creation of Knights. Rushton,
16th July, 1603. (Curio-ns.)
25. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lord Mounteagle respecting the shuffling
conduct of his Father Lord Morley about Lady Mounteagle's jointure, 2 Feby.,
1592. {Curious.)
26. Two Copies of a conference in the Fleet between Sir T. T. & Fulcis
respecting a claim by the latter & a Petition to the Lord Keeper thereon, 12.
July, 1599.
No. 5.
1. An Agreement k a formal copy of the same between Sir T. T. & Willm
GrombaU for certain Buildings at Rothwell Cross, 2 July,^1578.
2. A Letter to Sir T. T. from a buUder about certain work doue, 10 Jany,
{No -year.)
3 A Letter to Sir JT T. from a Steward about farming business, &o.,
from Rushton, 12 Octr., 1598. ' '
4. A Letter from Lewis Tresham to Sir T. T, relating his cudgeUing ono
FarweU at dinner m the Temple Hall, 9 March, 159S. {C-urious.)
5. Letter from Sir T. T. to his Daur Lady Stourton respecting a marriage
between a Mr. Webb & his Daughter Catherine, 7 March, 1599-1600.
6. From Lord Stourton to Sir T,T. about Mr, Wobb'sEstate, 8 AprU q 1600

7. From John Osborne to Sir T. T. about Francis Tresliam's pardon for the
Essex Rebellion, 4 Maroh, 1600, ( Very curious.)
8. John Throckmorton to Sir T. T. about the arrangement of Francis
Tresbam's pardon, 5 March, 1600. ( Very curious.)
9. Sir T. T's Letter to Lady Stourton about the losses ho had sustained by
purchasing F. Tresbam's Pardon, 2 June, 1601. {Interesting.)
10. Letter from E. Watson to Sir T. T. congratulating him ou Fras. Tresbam's
escape and consenting to join in bond, 4 May, q. 1601.
11. Letter from Francis Tresham to Sir T. T, about lotting Hogsdons.
(No Dale.)
12. Letter from F. Tresham to Sir T. T. about Money arrangements, naming
Catesby & Winter as his Cousins. No Date lut indorsed ly Sir T, T,, (Whit
sunday, 1605.)
13. A Love-Letter of F. Tresbam's. (Nu Date.)
14. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. Band respecting a dispute between him
& one Cradoek to bo left to Arbitr.ition, 21st April, 1593. (In this he speaks of
being committed to Prison & not aUowed to come into Northamptonshire for
full 8 years.)
15. Letter from Sir T. T. to a Lord (uot named) about a conversation with
Lord St. John respecting his Wife's secreting treasure, 16 April, 1595.
16. Letter from Thos. Tresham to Sir T. T. thanking him for the loan of
Papers, 3 May, 1595.
17. Letter from the same to the same about a purchase of Land, 3 Novr., 1599.
18. Letter from the same to tho same asking payment of a Debt, &c.,
7 Jany., 1601-2.
19. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. NichoUs his Counsel asking his opinion
respecting the effect of a mistake iu the date of his licence to travel, with
Mr. NichoU's opinion, 17 Jany,, 1602-3,
20. Letter from Thos. Tiesham to Sir T. T. about certaiu Thieves, 23
Novr., 1603.
21. Long Letter from Sir T. T. to Lady T. concerning Anne Vaux's suit
& Mrs. Geo. Vaux, All Saints day, 1594. (Original & copy.)
22. A Letter in Fras. Tresbam's writing about the letting ot Lands. (No Date.)
23. Letter ot Eras. Tresham to bis Father about the arrangement of charges
ou his Lands to pay Debts; (No Date.)
24. Copy of a Letter from Sir T. T. with an enclosed Paper about the suits
of his Nieces, dated from the Fleet, 14th Octr., 1699.
25. A Petition against Sir T. T. and Fras. Tresham.
26. Warrant to levy Provision Money in BEKliriELD, dated 5 Mar., 1601-2.
27. Two copies of the well-known Letters ot the Lord Keeper and the Earl
of Essex at the time of the quarrel of the latter with the Queen.
28. Letter from Sir T. T. to a Lady (not named) thanking her for courtesies
shewn to his Brother, 20th Deer., 1676.
29. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mrs. Sydney agreeing to the iramediate
marriage of Fras. Tresham with ber Grand-Daur., 29 July, 1599 or 1697 q.

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No. 4.
1. Letter from G. Shurrock to Sir T, T, offering to purchaso a piece of
Land, 28 M.aroh, 1598.
2. Note frora Sir T. T. enclosing a Receipt, Ilth Octr., 1600.
3. Letter from Fras. Tresham to Sir T. T. stating an Aocount, 23 May, 1604.
4. Note from Francis Tresham to Sir T. T. relating to the same business.
(No Date,)
5. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. Moxey concerning Band's Debts, 30th
May, 1588.
6. A Latin Letter from N. Morrice to Sir T. T. (No Date— the -wnter
prolably a Priest.)
7. Letter from Thos. HUl a Priest to Sir T. T. written the day before he
expected to be executed. (No Date.)
8. Letter to Lady Tresham signed E. Harbert in reply to thanks for
attention to her Son, dated Ragland, 21 Juue, (no year.) (Interesting.)
9. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. Maxey concerning money arrangements
with Baall, 11 July, 1588. '
10. Bond of Edwd DaUyson, 17 March, 19th Elizh.
11. Rowland Ridge to Sir T. T. (Unintelligible.) 23rd Sepr,, 1595.
12. A Conference betweeii the Bishop ot London and one Merbury, 5
Deer., 1578.
13. Two Copies of Lists of Bonds, &o., delivered to Mrs. Tresham, 28 Novr.,
1605. (This seems to fix the date of the enclosure of the Papers.)
14. John Flamstead to Sir T. T. about the purchase of Lands at Benefield,
9th May, 1588.
15. An Ancient Award between some of the Ancestors of the Tresham
Family, Oct. 30, H. 6th.
16. A Bill of Receipt indented for the sum awarded to one of the parties
to the award.
17. Bill for Copies ot Records, &c.
18. Declaration of Allegiance, 33 Hen. 6.
19. Bond for £10 from Hugh Erdswick to Sir T. T., 9th Jipril, 28th Eliz.
20. Memorandum by Johu Osborne of Bonds given for Fras. Tresbam's
Pardon, 27th Feby., 43rd Elizh. (Giirions.)
21. Extracts from Records relating to the Tresham Family.
22. Pair Copy of a Petition of Sir T. T. to Sir Christopher Hatton for
discharge from his imprisonment in the Fleet. (No Date.)
23. Letter from T. B. to Sir T. T. hinting at religious persecutions, dated
14th Maroh only.
24. Letter from Sir T. T. to a Lady justifying himself frora a charge ot
having accused her and her Husband of iU-treatment of him during his commit
ment at their House, 23 Octr., 1581.
25. Petition from Sir T. T. to the Lords of the Council for a licence to
remove from Hogsden to Westminster. (No Date.)
26. Letter to the same effect to the Earl of Leicester, (1^.) datedl Octr. 1583.
27. Copy ot a Loyal Declaration to James 1st from the English Catholics.
28. Two Copies of the Petition of the Eugli.sh Cathohcs to Queen Elizabeth.
29. Genealogy ot the different Pretenders to the English Throne-(.-l pparentlv
torn from Doleman' s Sool-. ) •'

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30. Weekly disbursements to Labourers iu 1599.
31, A Catholic treatise agaiust going to churoh, &c.
32. A Treatise in Latin,
33. Book of Accouuts (rom Sep, 24, 1593, to July 2fth, 1394,
No. 5.
1. Letter from Munke, Lord Salisbury's Seoretary to Sir T. T. respecting his
serving in Forest Commissions, 2 J uly, 1605.
2. Copy of part of a Letter from Sir T. T. to the Lord Keeper Egerton
respecting his decree iu Fulcis's case.
3. Fragments of Latin Lectures, Declamations, &c.
4. Agreement between the Inhabitants of Rothwell & Sir T. T. respecting
a School and School House there, 1st May, 33rd Eliz.
5. Copy of a Letter from Lord Vaux to the Lord Treasurer & a statement
of his ease for tha Lords of the Council.
6. Letter from Johu Andrew (one of Sir T. T's Stewards) to Sir T. T. about
his estates, 28 Octr., 1604.
7. Copy ot the Earl of Essex's Trial (a copy ot the same is in Harl. MSS.)
8. Copies .of three Letters from Sir T. T.
1. To Lord Vaux.
2. To Lord Mordaunt.
3. To Flamstead (his servant) 17 May, 1593.
9. Letter to Lady Vaux about her Husband's affairs, 28 Jauy., 1592-3.
10. Notes in SirT. T's hand-writing entitled "Apologie forQueeneCathorine."
11. A Latin Book in MS, (Unintelligible.)
12. Notes by Sir T. T. of Proceedings against oue Pound in the Star
Chamber, 9 Novr., 1604. (Curious.)
13. Fragment iu the handwriting of Sir T. T. relating to a Petition by
some of his Tenants against him.
14. Letter frora Sir T. T. to Fras. Treshara reproaching him with having
neglected his business. (No legible date lut after 1600.)
N.B. — Tlieie seems to liave been several of this time from an indorsement
and from titeir being numbered 8 and 10 withno otker numlers.
15. Copies of Letters of Sir T. T. to Mr. Band respecting George Vaux
(Nearly destroyed ly damp.)
16. Letter to Sir T. T. from a friend declining to permit his name to be
used in a purchase, 13 June, 1588. (No name.)
17. Letter from Lady Tresham to the Countess of Lincoln urging her to
buy an Estate of Sir Thomas T., 8th May, 1588.
18. Petition from Sir T. T. to the Lords of the CouncU for the discharge of
English Catholics from imprisonment at Ely and Banbury, 25 March, 1690.
(Cunous.) 19. A Roll of Papers mostly in Sir T. T's hand-writing consisting of Notes on
several points of Casuisty probably intended to be used ou some of his Exami
nations before the Council.
20. A printed Dialogue on some points of Catholic Churoh History.
21. A Roll ot Papers containing figures aud signs apparently working out
a religious anagram upon Sir T. T's name aud that of his Patron Samt.
22. An indorsement in Sir T. T's writing intended for the Letter of Thomas
HUI. See No. 4, 7,

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No. 6.
1. A Petition from the Lay Cathohcs of England to James 1st, Julj-, 1604,
with a Letter from the banished Priests to the Lords of the CouncU, 24 Septr. ,1604.
2. A Letter from Richard Bray to Sir T. T. ascribing the above Petition to
him, dated Stourton, 17 Novr., 1604.
3. A Letter from T. L. \q. T. T.] to Lord Mordant about the purchase
of certain Leases, 3rd October, 1583.
4. Letter from Lady Tresham to the Countess of Worcester thanking her
for attentions to her Son, 18 Deer., J 582.
5. Letter from Lady Tresham to the Eari of Worcester to the same effect,
10th Juue, 1583.
6. Letter from' Sir T. T. to Vv^. Mildmay requesting him to procure him
Liberty to remove trom Hoxton to Westminster, 1st Octr., 1683.
7. Letter to Mr. Farmer from Sir T. T. respecting an arrangement upon his
second Son's (Lewis T.) marriage, his eldest son (Francis) having refused to
marry, 19 April, 1583. (Curious.)
8. Letter from Sir T. T. to Sir Christr. Hatton requesting his interest in
procuring his discharge, 15 Jany., 1582.
9. Letter from Luke Kirbie to Mr. Camberford, dated 10 Jany., 1581.
(Published in Cliallower's Missy. Priests.)
10. Extract from the Commission for Northamptonshire issued under the
Proclamation of Novr., 1591, against Serainary Priests.
11. Proceedings in the Star Chamber against SirThos. T., Sir Wm. Catesby,
Lord Vaux, and others, for a contempt in refusing to swear whether Campion had
been at their houses, 15 Novr., 1581. See Harl. lUS., No. 859, ss i <b 5
12. Arrangement of a Conference between several Missionary Priests in the
Tower aud some Protestant Divines, Novr., 1581.
13. Letters from Sir T. T. to the Lords of the Council justifying his refusal to
swear respecting Campion. Dated from the Fleet, 1st Septr., 1581.
14. Bill of Charges at the Northampton Assizes, (q. Date.)
15. Draft of a Letter from Sir T. T. to " My Cosine Horseman'' respecting
the furtherance of his Petitiou tor removing from Hoxton, 2nd Octr., 1683.
16a. Letter from Sir T. T. to Sir Christr. Hatton thanking hira for past favors
and begging his assistance to effect his removal from Hogsden, 10th Octr., 1583.
166. Letter from Lady Treshara to the Countess of Worcester thanking her
for kindness shewn to her eldest son, 13 June, 1583. See Nos. 4 <£ 8 — j. 5.
17. Letter from Lady Tresham to the Countess of Bedford requesting her
assistance in procuring Sir T. T. to be removed from the Fleet to Hogsden,
dated 27 May, 1583.
18. Reasons why Sir T. T. should have more liberty (in Lady T's writing)
relating to his first imprisonment by order of the Star-Chamber for harbouring
Campion. (No Date.)
19. Letter from Lady Tresham to her Cosine about T. T's removal from
the Fleet to Hogsden, 28 May, 1583.
20. Letter from Sir T. T. to one of the Lords of the CouncU (not named)
respecting his Brother's departure from England. Dated "from my Prison
Ilth Feby., 1581."
21. Letter frora Sir T. T. to another person in power on the same subject
In this he states the date of his first commitment, (10 Augt, 1680) 10 Feby., 1581.
22. A few leaves of a printed Book on Catholic Divinity. (No Title.)

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23. Information against Sir T. T. for converting arable Land into pasture.
24. Calculation of the profit ot feeding sheep in Francis Tresbam's
hand-writing. 25. A Scrivener's BiU for writing done for Sir T. Tresham in 1597.
26. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lady T. about an interview with Mrs. A, Vaux,
1594. (In this Lady Catesby is called Lady T's sister.)
27. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lady Vaux about her Lords affairs, 16 Jany., 1594.
28. Letter frora Sir T. T. to Mrs..Sidlej-, 16 May, 1592.
29. Memorm in Lord Mountegle's hand- writing that Sir T. 1. had on the
6th Jany, 1692, delivered to his Daughter Lady M. certaiu Jewells & Ornaments.
It states that on that day Lord M. attained his full age ot 18 years.
30. Interrogatories to be put by the Mayor of Durham to 2 persons
suspected ot stealing Sir T. T.'s horses.
31. Notes by Sir T. T. on the projects of the Puritans to prevent the
peace with Spain. (Probably IGOS.)
32. Letter from Sir T. T. to a relation (not named) relating to a dispute with
Sir Edwd Montague, 22nd Octr., 1603.
33. Reasons for the Prosecution of Catholics by Queen Elizabeth, 1603.
34. Notes of Sir T. T. for the coraposition of the Petition of the lay Catholics
of England iu July, 1604. (.See No. 1.)
35. Report of Conferences in the Tower between Campion & several Protestant
Divines, 31 Augt., 1581.
36. Petition of Sir T. T. to the Lord Keeper Egerton in the matter of
Fulcis, July (1591) q,
37. Mema respecting Lord Vaux's Petition to Parliament, 11 Mar : 1594.
38. Letter from Sir T. T. to -VV. Gascoyne requesting him to make a favor
able coraposition for the recusancy flues ot Sir T, T's servant Vavasor, 29 Jany.,
1590. 39. Letter from Fras. T. to Sir T. T. about raising Money, 1604. (In this
Letter he raentions Robt. Catesby with discredit.)
40. Draft of Sir T. T.'s Letter to Lord Henry Howard. ,See Xo. 2. s. 24.
41. Letter of Sir T. T. to Mr. Band about a Loan of £500, 2 June, 1588.
42. Letter frora Sir T. T. to Giles Porter, Esqre, requesting him to assist his
son Lewis iu his intended journey into Spain, 17 March, 1604.
43. Draft of Sir T. T's Letter to Lord Henry Howard. ,See supra 40 4'
No. 2, sec. 24.
44. Letter from Lady Tresha-m to the Lord Treasurer (Burleigh) praying that
her Husband might be conflned at Banbury & not at Ely, 21 Maroh, 1589. On
the other side a .Draft of a Letter to Mr. CeciU on the same subject. See No, 2,
sec 17.
45. Mema by Sir T. T. of a Conversation between him and Lord Morley's
Brother respecting Lord Monteagle, dated July, 1595.
46. Note of Sir T. T, desiring certain apparell to be sent him that he might
appear before the Lords of the CouncU. (No Date.)
47. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. WUkes respecting his enlargement from
Hogsden, 13 June, 1583.
48. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lord Mordant respecting certain Securities iti
the Excheqner. (No Dale. )
49. Letter from Sir T. T. to George Levens respecting the studies of his
Son Lewis, 7 Deer,, 1596. (Curious.)

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50. Letter from Sir T. T. to Dr. Case apologizing for a mistake respecting
sending hira half a Buck, 2 Octr., 1699.
61. Letter principally in Sir T. T.'s writing about Lord Vaux's affairs, 13
March, 1692.
52. Letter from Sir T. T. to his Cousin Horseman respecting Fulcis's
affairs. From the Fleet, 29 July, 1599.
53. Letter from a Servant ot Sir T. T. -(probably George Levens) to
Francis T. giving him an accouut ot Land of his Father exchanged ; in this
he agrees to a suggestion of Fras. Tresbam's to deceive Sir T. T. by a mis-state
ment of the quantity of Land. (No Date.)
54. Letter from Sir T. T. to or Andrews to procure him a Licence from
the Bishop of Peterborough to remove from Rushton, 28 Feby., 1593.
55. Oath of Allegiance and supremacy to be taken by Catholics under the
1 Ja. I 0. With some questions upon it.
56. Letter from John Stanhope to Sir T. T. mentioning Fras. Tresham,
20 Septr,, 1603. From Woodstocke (q. whether James 1st was not there at
that time ?)
67. Letter from Sir T. T. to Mr. Bridewell interceding for Coney-stealers :
4 April, 1688.
58. Letter from Lady Tresham to Lady Egerton begging her to intercede
with her Husband the Lord Keeper for Sir T. T. then a Prisoner in the Fleet
respecting Fulcis's business, 12 Jany., 1599.
59. Condition of a Bond by Lewis Treshara for paying £200 to Sir T. T.
within 20 days after the death of Fras. Tresham. (No Date.)
60. Some mystical Notes of Sir T. T. on the Trinity with a ridiculous
aocount of a miracle which happened to him.
61. Lady Tresham to Mr. Culpeper about mortgaging Land, 30 Maroh, 1591.
62. Letters relating to Sir T. T.'s suit with Mrs. Anne Vaux, 23 Novr., 1594.
63. Hints respecting a supplication to the Queen for the relief of Catholics.
64. Letter from Sir T. T. to Lord Vaux about George Vaux's children, 22 July
1594 ; "being the flrst Letter of my writing to any since my arrival at Rushton
from my long close imprisonment in the Fleet."
65. Copy of a Latin Letter from Campion. (M-uch alliterated.)
66. Copies of Lettera & Papers relating to the persecuted Priests in 1580.
(Curious but much mutilated and scarcely legible.)
67. Letter from SirT. T. to Mr. Watson thanking him. & Sir E. Montague
for procuring him a Licence to return to Ely, 29 June, 1593.
68. Memoranda by Sir T. T. respecting Debts from Lord Vaux.
69. Answers ot CathoUcs to Protestants.
70. A discourse ot the " real Presence " held in the Fleet Prison between
Sir T. T. & Dr. Lylie sent by the Eari of Leicester to Sir Wm. Catesby, 3 Septr.
1581. *
71. A Treatise ou aome Koman Catholic Boctriues. {marl^ ilUgihU.)

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The order of arrayning of Robert Earle of
Essex & Henry Earle of Southampton
at Westminster the 19th day of february
1600 Aud Tho Lord Burkhurst Lord
Highe Treasurer ot England by her
Maties Comission for yt day
Also
The Names of all the Earles Lords Knightes & Gentlemen
who did acompany the Earle of Essex into the oitty of London
upon the 8th day of february Anno 1600 & was taken the
same night for Traytour at Essex house in the Strand.
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A Declaration of the cau
ses that have mooued the Cardinal
of Bourbon, the Princes, Peoros, Gentlemen,
Townes and Commiualties Catho-
like ot this Realme of Fraunce, to oppose them-
selues to those which by all meanes
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wing his pleasure concorning
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London
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u
The
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operibus vos considerantes, glorificent Deum in die visitationis.
In that wherein they misreporte of you, as of malefactors, by tho good
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A. Short Treatise Against
Adiaphorists, Nevters, and such as
say they may be aaued in any Sect or
Religion, and would make
of many diuers sects one
Church.
I Cor 2 Veni non in sablimitate sermonis ant sa
piential
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Fsal. 63. Sagitteo parnuloru factes sunt plagse eoru.
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cessitie have one chief head,
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to rvle the same,
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A
Bvrvey of the
New Religion, Detecting
many Grosse Absvrdities
which it implieth.
Set forth by Matthew KeUison,
Doctor and Professor of Diuinitie.
Divided into Eight Bookes.
Ne-wly augmented by the Author.
^unquid colUgunt.de spinis vuas, aut de tHhulisJicua ? Math 7.
Do men gather grapes of thornes, or figges of thistles ?
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Tatioe & Sow, FniifTisEs and Pcemsheks, NoaTnAMPTOir,

TESTIMONY Against
Periwigs and Periwig- Making, and
Playing on Instruments of Mufick
among CHRISTIANS, or any
other in the days of the Gospel.
Being feveral Reasons against thofe things. By one -who for Good
Confcience sake hath denyed and forsaken them,
yohn yiulliner.
But -God forbid that I fhould glory, fave in the Cross of our Lord ^esus
Chrifi by -whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the ivorld
Gal 6. 14.
But fhe that liveth in pleafure, is dead while fhe liveth, i Tim. 5. 6
Wo to the Crown of Pride, Isa. 38. i. Wo to them that are at eafe in Zion
fs* trust in the mountain of Sa-maria, tvihch are named chief of the nations
to whom the house of Israel came. Paffe ye unto Calneh and fee, andfrom
thence go ye to Hemath the great ; then go down to Gath of the Philistines,
le they letter then thefe kingdoms ? or their border greater then your border ?
Ye that put far a-way the evil day i^ caufe the feat of violence to come near :
That lie upon beds qf ivory, and ftretch themfelves upon their couches and
eat the lambs out qf the floch. and the calves out of the midft of the stall :
That chaunt to the found of the viol and invent to themfelves inftruiuents
of mufick like David : That drink -wine in bowls, and anoint themfelves
with the chief ointments .- lut they are not grieved for the afflictions of
Joseph. Amos 6. i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
It is better to go to the Hottse of Mourning then to go to the Hotise of Feasting ;
for that is the end of all men, and the living zvill lay it to heart. Sorrow
is better then Laughter, for by the fadnefs of the Cruntenance, the heart
is made better, Eccles. 7- ^i 3-
Printed in the Year, 1667

NOETHAMPTOS 1
BEPMNTED BY TAYLOR & SoN.
1872.

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The Reasons why John MulHner Bar
ber in Northampton, left off his Im
ployment of Borders and Periwig-
making, and how it was with him, as
to his Inward Condition before he
yoyned with the People of God, in
scorn called Quakers ; as also his Testi
mony for them, and his earnest Desires
to his Neighbours and Acquain
tance of the Town of Northampton,
that they would as well as himself
be reconciled to the Vrinciple of God
in their Conscience, now after this
y udgment of God that hath been upon
this Town by Fire.
Loving Neighbou/rs and Acquaintance,
/"^ Ince I have left off my Imployment of making Borders and
^^^ Peri-wigs, it hath occasioned several of you to speak hardly of
V.__' me, and many Reports there are and have been eon cerning of
it, insomuch that I have been told, I have made my self a Toicn and
Country-talk. 'No'w for the clearing of my self and the Truth of God
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in which I am concerned, and your Understandings, it hath been much
in my Mind to acquaint you with the Eeasons why I left it, which I
would fain have avoyded, and not to appeared so openly amongst you,
for I have sent several Letters to some Persons whom / have been
concerned with, in Town and Country, to let them know why I left
them ; but this would not satisfie me, but as / have been a publick
Professor of this Employment for many years, / found I could not
be clear in the sight of G'od and man, till I had publickly given my
Eeason why I left it off; and likewise how it was with rae, as to my
inward Codition, before I joyned with this People of God, who are
in Scorn called Quakers.
Ever since I was about ten or twelve years of age, that 1 began to
think that there was a OoA, it hath been my earnest Breathing desire,
to know Peace with him ; and often when I was walking in the field,
I have thought, that the very Fowls of the Air, and the Beasts of the
Eield were in a better Condition then I was, if I did not know Peace
with G'od when my Dayes were at an End : And it hath been my ear
nest Cry to God, in the time of my Apprentiship and since, as I have
been walking in the Eield & other Places, as I have been in private by
myself, that I had rather have my JLELL, or Sorrow ^ Trouble here in this
Ufe, then to endure the Everlasting DISPLEASVBE of the Qod of Heaven
hereafter; and in order to this good desire, which was begotten in me
by the Lord, I did love to wirte >Sermons, & to hear the best of Teach
ers as I thought then, which I bave gone two Miles to hear, in the
time of my Apprentiship, rather then I would have gone to sport or
play my time away ; and at that time, as I have been going, I have
cryed and begged of God, That I might not miss of something that might
lefor my Soul's good, when my dayes ivere at an End : And after this
manner have I gone out in those dayes ; and since I came to the
Town of Northampton to set up for my Trade, I was a great Hearer of
Simon Eord, who belonged to the Parish of Alhollows ; and I have
writ his Sermons, and after I had done, I have come home and locked
my self in, and took my Bible and read the Scriptures, and after /
have read his /Sermons, and have laid them before me, and have knee
led down and cryed and prayed to God, that if there was any thing
in them, whereby I might come to the Knowledge of God's Ever
lasting Truth, that he would not Withhold himself from me, that 1
might have an Vnderstanding of il ; For l^ord (/have said) thou knotv-

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est my Desire is before thee, and that I did not beg for any thing in this life,
lut for my Soul's Peace with thee, when my dayes were at an End : And
the more /prayed and cryed, the more Trouble 1 had ; so that I knew
not what to do 1 was so much distressed ; but I thought to go to Simon
Ford, who was my Teacher, in hopes he would have satisfied me, but
finding that / could not declare my Condition, as I had felt it upon
my Spirit for some time, 7 took a sheet of Paper and writ my
Condition, and read it to him, how that I was in great trouble night
and day, so that I could not tell what to do, though I had writ his
Sermons, and laid them before me, and cryed and prayed to God, that
he would give me a true Understanding of his way, that J might have
my Soul saved when my dayes were at an End : And much more J"
did write to this Purpose, which writing some of my Neighbours
at that time did see, as J shewed it to them : So he confessed, these
were good desires, and could say little against me, but after pretty
much discourse to this Purpose he advised me to read a Book, which I
did get and read it ; but no Comfort could I get from him nor the
Book neither though I went to him and several more of that Goat,
several times, before /joyned with this People called Quakers : And
/ was satisfied that there was that in me that time, that no man could
satisfie, except the G'od of Heaven appear in him : And sometimes /
have seen this People, when they have come amongst us, when / waa
a Hearer of Simon Eord, into the very Assemblies, and though they
have said very little, what a Confusion was there among the Teachfers
and Hearers ! And sometimes I have seen them, two or three that
came into this Place, which was suffered by the Judgment through
Kre to be laid waste, that they have come into the Assembly at Alhal-
lows -with iSack-cloth and Ashes upon their Heads, bare foot and
bare-headed, which I did at that very tirae, very much strange at : And
another time I saw another come into the School, when they were act
ing their parts in strange Dresses, and wished them, to train up their
Children in the Fear of the Lord; and they did lay violently upon him
with their (Sticks, so that I was much troubled to see it: And seve
ral tiraes / have cryed and prayed to God to know, why was it so, that
thia People came amongst us after tbis manner; what is the matter
with them ? notwithstanding though it be so, and they are never so
uncomely, yet if this be thy People, give me an Understanding con
cerning of it ; for thou knowst what my soul travels after : And be
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fore I joyned -with them, it was very hard for me to deny my self and
become a Eool, by reason of my great Acquaintance and Business, in
way of my Trade : I thought I did noi care if I had been of any Beligi
on, so I had not been of that : Many of my Acquaintance would make a
Mock at me ; so one time I purposed to go to Halson Horse Baoe, about
two Miles off Northampton, & then if went thither, I thought they would
not take notice of me for such an one ; bub as soon as / come / thought
they took notice of me, and said. What, ive 'hear you are turned Quaker :
but the Lord knew what Pain my soul was in at that time ; but I
thought long to get by my self to cry and pray to God ; and come-
ing home my .Brother M, came with me ; for I know his very heart
was concerned for me at that time ; but there was such a ioad and
Pain fell upon me at that time that made me ery out with many tears
running down my Cheeks, Lord Ood of Heaven have Mercy upon me, what
shall Idotobe saved? Lord Ood of Heaven have Mercy upon me, ivhut shall I
do to be saved? so he fell a crying to me and said, What ayleth theo Brother
the Lord will have Mercy upon thee : And /knew not any one living in all
the world that could afford me any Corafort, except the God of Heaven
did. Neighbours & Acquaintance, I write no Lye to you this day God
is my witness ; and so long (I do believe) as my brother hath Life
and Sense, he will not forget that time, as he hath told rae since :
And about this time there were several of this People carried out
dead out of the County Goal, which lay in the Dungeon^
EOE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS ; which I know not, but
might be by Eeason of the Straitness of the Place as they were
confined in, and for want of common Air ¦ And then I began to en
quire what was the matter, and I could not understand that any
thing was laid to their Charge, except it was as concerning the wor
ship of their God ; and then I wished, if they suffered for God's sake
and for Eighteousness sake, that / might suffer with them
too ; for I did not care if they burned me, if [ was sure it was for
God's sake ; but all the Business was to know whether / should be
sure of it: So J discoursed with some of my Neighbours and
Acquaintance & they said it was a Fancy and a "Whimsie, Bewitching
and Delusion ; and after this rate they talked ; but the Lord knew
my heart, was it a Whimsie, and Delusion, and Bewitching, to ery
and pray to Qod to have Mercy upon my soul, when my dayos were
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of my sonl, and if this was Delusion, I will be deluded more ; for
I am sure God hath promised. Seek and you shall find, knock and
it shall be opened; and do they say, this is but a Fancy and a Whimsie.
And many times I have gone into the field, and have got into a Land
of Corn in private, when no Eye or Ear hath seen or heard me, and
there have I kneeled down, and prayed and <;ryed to God, and plea
ded with him, as I was created, and he my Creator, and I had a
soul to be saved, that he would not withhold himself from me ; for
I knew not any one living upon the Face of the whole Earth that I
could have any Comfort in, if thou, O thou God of Heaven and
Earth didst not help me ; and whither should I go, or how should I
pray ; for thou 0 God of Heaven and Earth. Hast the Words of Eter
nal Life, and I shall not let thee rest till thou hast Mercy upon me i
for I cannot trust my /Salvation upon this man's Faith, or tho other
man's Faith, but upon thee, 0 thou God of Heaven and Earth alone ;
and after this manner J went on.
And J was a great lover of Musick, and many times as J have been
thinking of God, and of the Condition that J was in, it would have
brought trouble upon me ; so that many times I have took my CiU
tern, or Treble 'Viol, or any instrument as I had most Delight in,
thinking to drive away tltese Thoughts, and I have been so troubled,
as / have been playing, that J have laid my instrument down, and
have reasoned with my self after this manner, and fell a crying to God,
it is true I love this Muwick, but what gobd can these sounds do me
when my soul wants Peace with God; and this dotli but stir up
Laughter, and Lightness of Spirit, to make me forget my Maker and
this will last but a little while, and I had better seek my Peace with
God, and then, At his Bight Hand there is Pleasures for evermore ; and
these thoughts I had then : So that my Musick began to be a Burden
to me, and J would fain have sold them, my Instruments, but that J
had not Freedom iu my Mind to do ; for if J did, those who bought
thera would have raade use of them as I did, and J thought J would
not be the cause of it ; so J took as many as I suppose cost forty
Shilling, and BUEN.ED THEM, and had great Peace in my mind
in doing of it, which is more to me then ail the Pleasures in this
world : And often I have cried to God and said as the Scriptures say.
Thou art no Bespecter of Persons, though I am but a poor simple man,
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man, since my Sincerity is before thee, and thou seest what my Heart
earnestly breaths after ; for it was not this Name, or that Name that
I minded, but Peace with God, when my dayes were at an End.
Then as to my Employment of Periwig making ; it is more then
twelve years siuce I began to make them & much might be said for the
making of them by some, yet much questioning & reasoning have I had
within my self for some years ; so that at some times I have been trou
bled when I have been making of them, and I could not tell what was
the Eeason of my Trouble except that was ; and sometimes when I
have seen some of my Friends come in I have been ready to put them
out of my sight, and could not go on with any Content but Trou
ble, so long as they were looking on me, and some have spoke to me,
and told me. They thought I did not do well in making of them ;
& to this purpose they have spoken, and many times I have reason
ed with my self after this manner, what need I make such ado and be
so much concerned, there is hardly any man but is desirous of a good
Head of Hair, and if Nature doth not afford it, if there be an Art to
make a Decent Wig or Border, what harm is that ?
Object. But are there not several of thy Friends, who wear Borders, and
are acconnted honest men ?
Ansiv. As for those whose Hair is wasted, fallen and gone off their
Heads through infirmity of Body, and for want of it do find that their
health is impaired, or lessened, if such do wear short Borders for tbeir
health sake, and for no other End or Cause whatsoever, I judge them
not ; but let none make a pretence that they wear Borders or Wigs
for their Health, when in Eeallity, another thing is the Cause, for God
the Eighteous Judge sees in Secret, and he hates Pride and Hypocrisie,
the spirit of which is judged, & for ever to be judg'd with all its fruits
by the Lord and his People And let all those who have Hair growing
upon their heads, sufficient to serve them, I mean what is really need
ful or useful, be content therewith, and not find fault with their
own Hair, and cut it off, and lust after and put ou others Hair.
And further, thus I reasoned, is there not some of thy Friends
who make them ; & sell Hair for the making of them, and drive a great
Trade and what, do J not think that they have not as much Care to
go to Heaven as J have, and what need J make such ado, and be so
concerned ? But all this would not do, but here lay that which was
very near me, that ivas, if God should call me to account at this very time,-
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while J am reasoning after this manner, whether or no J could stand clear
in his sight and make them ; for if J stood condemned in God's sight,
it was not this man's making of them nor the other man's wearing
of them, that would justifie me in God's sight ; for if God con
demns me in my Conscience, J know no man living, who can justifie
or take away that Guilt .- And here J stood in this Condition for
some time ; and the Lord knew the travel of my soul in these things,
and J knew not what J should do to be cleared of them, so that J
have been almost out of Hopes sometime, and said within my self,
and cried, J am afraid, J shall dye with this upon -xnj Conscience,
and then what will become of me hereafter, and how can I stand clear
in the sight of God, that am condemned for it in my Conscience ?
But my Prayers and Cryes were, for God to deliver me ; for J could
not deliver my self out of it, but here J lay one day after another
crying to God to be delivered : So suddenly after our dreadful fire, in
which J was, with the rest of my Neighbours, a Partaker of that Judg
ment, then J was more concerned then before ; so that J knew not
what to do, to get over it, it lay so hard upon me to bear : But still
this cursed Enemy of my Soul, this SELF-END Spirit, began to
work with me again, and reason with me after this manner ; what,
am / resolved to ruin my self, and turn away all ; if J do leave this, J
must expect to lose a great deal of my Trimming Trade and J had better
leave off that, then leaveo ff this Periwig- making; it sits so well with me
in the Condition J am in, by Eeason of my Lameness ; I had a con
siderable Trade in it with several of my Acquaintance in Town aud
Country, and some of them are Pe:sons of Quality, and with me very
well and if J leave that J shall disoblige them much and what will
J do then? am J minded to undo my self? But still there was an
inward Cry in rae. Lord save my soul ; for that lies at stake, and it is
that J plead for, and J care not what J go through, so my soul may
have Peace with thee, when my dayes are at an End, for my soul is
for Everlasting, but tbis Trouble cannot last long; These things
stuck very hard with me, that made me cry out night and day. Lord
deliver me, and help me over this Weight and Pain that is upon my Spirit,
and J care not what J do, so J may be clear of thern -. So through much
TEOUBLE OF SPIRIT J was willing to leave them : But this would
not clear me, but as I had been a publick Professor of this Employ
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that was, I should send for my two men, as I had instructed in that
way, and tell them how I was troubled, and take a Wig aud burn it
before them, as a Testimony for God against them: But this was ve
ry hard, but no Peace could I have before I did it, and much Pain
and Sorrow I had before I did it .• and no Comfort, but Torment of
mind I had till I had given up to do it ; so according to the Pain
and Sorrow that lay hard upon me / gave up to do it, and I thank
God, I have much Ease & Comfort of Mind since /have done it, for the
Lord hath not put me upou any thing, but what he hath given me
strength to go through, and he is not a hard Master, and I have great
Peace and Comfort in what I have done, whicli is more to me then
all the Perishing, Fading things in this world : And whoever he be
that doth expect Peace with God in himself, he raust know a Cross to
his own Will, to cross his sinful -thoughts, Words and Actions ; and
whatever he knows God requires of him, he must do it, though it be
a great Cross to him, though it is very hard to Flesh and Blood ;
'¥lesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven ; but a man must
be born again -. And as truly it is witnessed, as ever it was writ in the
Scripture ; God's People this day do know this spiritual Birth, Bles
sed be God for ever : and they travel in Spirit till God gives Encrease
and delivers them : And I am sure, and can speak by Experience, I ne
ver met with a better Friend iu all my Life, then the Spirit of God;
for it never crosseth that which is according to God's Will, but if
God's Will be not done, this /Spirit brings Pain and Trouble upon the
Soul, if it be minded.
So / would desire any ingenuous sober Eeader, without Prejudice
to judge, if it had been tiieir own Case, whether they would not
have left off this Employment of Periwig-making, rather then to have
went on with so much Condemnation in theraselves ; and these be the
Eeasons and Occasions why I left them off: And now, you my lo
ving Neighbours and Acquaintance, I would not have you think,
that now I have denyed my self, and took up this- Cross, as to come
among his poor scorned People, and left off my Musick which was a
great Delight to me ; and likewise this Employment of Periijviq -ma
king, which / have told you was so hard for me to part with, that
now /thmk my self safe enough: No, God is my witness this day,
from whom / have my Breath & Being, I have as much need of keep-
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whatever I have done, it is no more but my Duty to God, to an
swer his Eequiringa in my Conscience ; and here I lie still upon the
Free Mercies of Qod, through his Grace in his /Son Christ Jesus ray
/Saviour to be saved ; and I care not what / go through for Christ's
sake : And here I find a Pressing forward to the Mark of the Price of
the high Calling which is in Christ Jesus : And at the end I do
not question, as I keep faithful to God, I shall obtain the /Salvation
of my Soul, and that is enough.
And whereas there is most dreadful speeches cast against this poor,
scorned and scoffed People of God, who are called Quakers, as if they
had their very Principle from the darkest Hell ; and some have told
me, They come from the Jesuits and Papists ; and very, hardly peo
ple have spoken concering them : But truly Neighbours and Ac
quaintance, I would intreat you to let me speak in this matter, and
I hope I have not behaved my self so badly amongst you, for almost
this twenty yeara, but I may have a little Credit for what I say : So
long aa I have come amongst them, which I think is 13 or 14 years
I never understood any such thing, but the very main Aim that they
have and do drive at, is to have People be faithful to God in what
they know in themselves ; and this ia that plain down right way
they have drove at and do, and God hath proapered them and will do :
let all thoae that are Opposers of this Principle of God, do what
they can : They ean as well stop the Sun from shining, the Eain
from falling, as hinder thia spiritual work from prospering in the
Hearts of hia People ; for it is beyond the strength of man to hinder
it: They were not set up by man, nor can man pull thera down.
And as for the Jesuits and Pa/pists, I know not what they are as to
their Principles, neither indeed do I desire to know, but those that are
not as they should be, I desire the Lord may make them so. But as
to my own part, / will tell you what my Faith is, and what I do be
lieve, call me what you please, nor / never desired to believe other
wise : That is, / do believe in Ood, who is the Father Almighty, Maker of
Heaven Sf Earth andin Jesus Ohrist his only Son, our Lord, who was concei
ved iy theholy Ghost ; born of ^Ae Virgin Mary ; and thathe did suffer under
Pontius Pilate, and the third day he rose again from the dead, and sits at
the Bight Hand of Ood his Father, who shall judge both the quick and the
dead ; and I do believe, that God hath a Church, where there is the
Communion of Saints in his Spirit and Power ; and I do believe The 'Eor-
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giveness of Sins, the Besurrection of the Body, and Everlasting lAfe, accor
ding to the Testimony recorded in the holy Scriptures : but indeed,
/ do not believe that at your publick Places of Worship, that this is
the Church of God, nor your Assemblies are the Communion of
Saints ; for it is not the Saints Life, to live in Cursing and Swearing,
in Pride and Drunkenness, in .Envy and Malice, Hatred and Covetous
ness, &c. but in the Spirit of Truth, which leads into all Truth:
.But alas ! vvhat of all these Evils is there not coramitted in this age
amongst those that do assemble themselves together, in your Publick
Assemblies, where there is so many Prayers of, Good Lord deliver us
from them ; which / say, / am a witness for God, he stands ready to
deliver you, if you will come to him : But you will not come to him that
you may have Life John 5. 39. And again, the Saints do not believe,
that Christ Jesus the Son of the living God, did pray to his Father to
put his poor Caeatures upon those things which were impossible to be
done ; for when he wished his Disciples to pray, he said to them. Pray
thus. Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy King
dom com, thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven, and so forth. Now
sorae among you say, God's Will cannot be done here, we must live
in sin so long as we live [There is no Freedom from sin on this side ihe
Grave, no Peace with Ood to be known here'] Oh ! what a damnable Do
ctrine is this ; if men would but plead for God's Kingdom, as they do
for the Devil's, and would but believe that God was as able through
the Light aud Life of his Son Christ Jesus, Rom. 5. 10. For if when we
u-ere Enemies, we were reconciled to God, by the 'Death of his Son :
much more leing reconciled, we shall be saved by his Life. To save them
from. their sins, as the Devil was to keep thera iu their sins, we should
have brave living ; and yet all will say, God is above the Devil.
For the Lord sake. Neighbours and Acquaintance, consider these
things; for God is my witness this day, /plead not with you for your
silver nor your gold, nor for any thing that you have in this world,
but beseech you to be reconciled to the Principle of Qod in your
Conscience : And how many Scriptures is there to perswade you to
a Holy Life as Without Holiness none shall see God. Heb. 12. 10. For
they verily for afew dayes chastened us after their men Pleasure, but he for
our Profit, that we might be Pvrtakers of his Holiness. Except a man le
born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, John 3. 3. We
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God, keepeth himself, and that Wicked one toucheth him not. Be ye therefore
Perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is Perfect Mat 5.48. And
raany more Places to this purpose and yet you say, the Scripture must
be your rule, see how contrary you walk to it and say it is impossible
to be done ; and Christ he said. Mat. 7. 14. Because strait is the Gate,
and narrow is the Way which leadeth unto Life, and few there be that
find it. The Saints they were persecuted and imprisoned and Christ
said. For if they do these things in a green Tree, what shall be done in the
dry? Luke 23. 31. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they
regarded not my Sayings, they -will not regard yours : I pray you do
but look back, which look more like Saints, those as assemble
theraselves together in your Assemblies, or these whom Christ spake
of, who are persecuted for Eighteousness sake ; and truly I look
upon these to be Beal Saints, and h-id rather take my Portion among
such in this day, if it be in Persecution, then to enjoy the Pleasures
of sin for a season. And when I carae araongst this People at first,
what a strangeness did it Cause amongst my very Eelations and Ac
quaintance, insomuch that my nearest Eelations were stirred up, in
Envy and Bitterness against me, some signifying as if I had not been
fit to live upon the Earth ; and the Lord knows, I had no other De
sire in my Heart, but to do that which my God-fathers & God-mothers
as they call them, promised I should do, as is the Custom now adays^
which People talk of; but if they come to do it, they rise up as an
Army against them, Father against the /Son, and Daughter against
the Mother and Al Evil-doers against Christ's Appearances spiri
tually, so that in effect they say Ihey ivill not have this man to rule o-
ver us : and whoever he be that is a true spiritual Traveller, will
find these things to be true : And that was. That I should forsake the
Devil and all his tvorks, the vain Pomps and Vanities of this mcked
world, the sinful lusts of the flesh, and so forth ; but as long as I could
talk of these things, and not do them, no notice was took of me, as
to be offended with me ; but when I came to do these things, what
a do was here, and wliath strangeness did it beget amoragst my ve
ry familiar Acquaintance ! And God is my witness, at this time
it is the very end of my Travel in Spirit, To make my Peace with
God when my dayes are at an tnd.
Aud now Neighbour and Acquaintance, / being one that have
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not be clear in the sight of God and man, till I had acquainted you
how it was with me from a Child to this day, which I hope will
give no occasion of Offence to any ; but eould heartily wish, that
you may not be alwayes Professors, but Possessors of that Life which
is beyond all the Profession in the world ; and that you may know
the Lord's will to be done in your hearts, as it is in Heaven, and
then you will pray as you should do, and know what to pray for ;
And truly my loving Neighbours and Acquaintance, if it had been
possible for you to have seen the inside of me, I have told you the
very Travel of my soul in these things, and what I have here writ I
have Lad the Experience of; and do not think it is a Whimsie, or a
Fancy and a Delusion to serve God : it is your Concern as well as
mine, your souls lie in dagger of Euin, as well as mine hath done, and
therefore for the Lord's sake consider these things, which belong to
your everlasting peace, before they be hid from your Eyes ; for here
is but a little while before your dayes be at an End, and we shall see
man no more, and what is all thia world worth then ? it is not all
the words of earthly wise men, though called Teaches of this age or
any man that can justifie you, if God condemn you by his Light and
Spirit in your own hearts ; therefore for the Zord's sake, think not
that God will be mocked, nor make not sleight of these things ; for
such as you sow you must reap : Tour souls lie in danger of ever
lasting Misery, and it is an inward Eeformation, a new heart, a right
spirit as God looka for of us all : and it is the earnest Breathing of
my soul, you may seek after it, aa well as myself
And now, you my loving Neighbours and Acquaintance of this
Town of Norfhampton, where among you I have drawn my first breath,
how hath my heart been pained, to behold the Euins of this poor
Town, and I have and do from my very soul deaire, that this Affli
ction which God hath sent amongst us may be for the better, and not
for the worse : And it is not long since there was another warning
by Thunder, Lightning and Hail-storm, such that in all my dayes I
do not know I have beard or seen the like; what Dread and
Fear were the poor Inhabitants iu at that time ? Oh that you would
have kept your minds exercised as I do beleive some did, and had
some /Sense of the Dread and Fear of this Terrible God, that can
shake terribly the Earth, And make the Inhabitants fear before him 1 I
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ing that the Town had been fired by Eeason of the Lightning that
was at that time ? The Lord grant that you may be of that Princi
ple or iZeligion, as it hath been my desire from a Child to be of that
Eeligion which would endure a Thunder-clap, that is, if God should
have called me or you to Judgment at that very time, we might be
ready with Oyl in our iamps ; and not Put it off to buy when the
Bridgroom comes ; for blessed be God, at that very time, I do not
speak it for any Praise among you, God is my witness, but as I felt
it upon my Spirit at that very time ; I could sing for Joy in my Spi
rit, when others were running up and down in Dread and Fear ; and
for ever my soul shall trust in this God, who is mighty to save, and
mighty to destroy, God blessed for ever : And the very Inhabiti^nts
themselves could not but at that time confess, that God had sent
another Judgment amongst them, in my hearing ; but yet for all this,
what blasPheming the Name of God is here, and Drunkenness and
all manner of Wickedness almost, committed, Envy, Malice and Ha
tred, and what not, insomuch that some have told me several times,
that you think in your Conscience, you are a great deal worse then
you were before the Fire, and why is it so with you, for the Lord's
sake consider, what will become of you that go on in this resolute
way ; God will not alwayes strive with you ; put not (/ beseech you)
this day of the Lord afar off, but while it ts to day, harden not your
Hearts: / would intreat you that you would look -back, for about
this twenty years, what have this pnor, scorned People of God cal
led Quakers preached amongst you, but this principle, to have Peo
ple mind God in their Conscience, and to be faithful to what they
know of God ; and what hard measure have they met with ? how
have they been stocked and stoned, and whipped and imprisoned,
their Goods rended from them, and for nothing but for God's sake,
to keep their Conscience clear in his sight ? And how have some seal
ed it with their Blood, and still are ready, through patient Suffering
in his Power, God be magnified for it, with their Lives given up,
and if God should suffer them to be brought to the stake for the Te
stimony of Jesus : And let the Eain fall, and the Wind blow ; and
the Storms beat, they are anchored upon that Eock Christ Jesus,
which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail against .• And do not think,
that this Pearl of great price, which they have sold all for, they
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risheth : and this /say of them, that are faithful to God in what they
know, they are the People of God, and there is no more required of
any of us, but to be faithful to what we know, be it much or little.
So this is my Testimony for this people, if I should write no more ;
for I wait for my Dissolution, nor I know not how few my dayes
may be araongst you.
And now, you my loving Neighbours and Acqaintance, since it
hath been the Good Pleasure of the God of Heaven, to send this Af
fliction of Lameness upon me, so that in the prime of my age, my
strength is taken from me ; I dare not charge God with Injustice ; nor
murmure against him ; he is Just and Eighteous in all his wayes, and
if he had not sent this Affliction upon me, I know not whether /
should have been conformable to his Heavenly Will ; but in Love and
Tenderness to my soul hath he suffered this Exercise to come upon
me, and I have for ever Cause to bless his Name, that ever he hath
dealt with rae after this manner, if he never restore me to my former
strength again his Will be done, though to look at it, it is very hard,
and / know, I am an Object of Pity to many of you ; but why should
I murmur at it ? Shall the Pot say to the Potier ivhy hast thou made me
thus? No I shall not, but bless his Name, that ever he hath spared
me to this day, that I should answer what he required of this poor
weak Body of mine ; and this is the greatest Joy and Corafort of my
Soul, that as I have found my strength go from me outwardly, my
Faith, and Hope, and /Strength hath renewed in God inwardly : And
here I have great Cause of Joy and Comfort, and to God let the
Honour and Praise be, who is worthy over all blessed for ever, and
for everraore saith my soul.
And one thing more I would desire of you, to have a Care of
speaking slightingly of the /Spirit of God and Christ, and making a
Mock thereat, as some have done, as saying. What the Spirit will not
let you do this or that ? Let me prevail with you, to have a Care what
you say, as to this thing, lest you sin the unpardonable sin against
the Holy Ghost. I have wondered when some men have spoke to
me after this manner, who profess to be Wise and Eeligious, should
offer to speak so slightingly of this Spiritual Appearance of Christ ;
for if ever you know God, you must know him Spiritually ; For Godis a
Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in i'ruth :
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against the Spirit : And to be spiritually minded is ldfe and Peace, lut to
le carnally minded is Death. And again. Qwench not the Spirit ; (brieve
not the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of Bedemption,
Eph. 4. 30. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh ; andyour sons cmd your daughters shall prophesie, your
old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions Joel 2.28 And
several more Scriptures there are that we may read, concerning their
spiritual Conditions ; but this spiritual Appearance of Christ is so
mocked and scorned at, that when any of God's People are brought
before some, you are ready to say, what, you are troubled with the
Spirit, you cannot swear, you cannot give us Eespect ; you must come
with theeing & thouing in your mouths, and be brought before whom
you will, all is one to you : Blessed be God that it is so, that there is a,
People have more regard to please God, then to please any man living
as to these things : Some time / have had concerns with some of
you, that rather then I would have come before you with my hat on,
if I could have been clear in God's sight, I had rather have lain at your
Feet ; but at any time, if I did not stand faithful to this small thing as
you count of, what Pain and /&rrow have I had quickly after it in
my Conscience, that / knew I had not done well in it, and it hath
caused me to cry sometimes to God, surely / shall take more care next
time. Now if you would but keep to your rule the Scriptures, as you rec
kon them, methinks you need not be so much offended, when as the
Scriptures speak against having men's Persons in Admiration, because
of Advantage ; He that respects mens Persons commits sin : Christ saith
Tiearn of me, I am meek and lowly, and yow shall find rest to your souls ;
Who learns Lowliness of him will not take Offence at those who in
Obedience to him, speak his Language [fThee and Thou to a single Per
son, and who wear their Hats upon their Heads, for which they were
made. If men would but truly come to serve the Lord their God in
their Hearts, it would teach them better manners one to another, then
a few dissembling Titles of Honour, aud worshipful with the Cap and
Knee ; I pray you what do they all signifie, but to make men proud,
amd there is too much of that already ? But this let them do. Do-
justly, love Mercy, and walk humbly with their God, and then there will
be no Ofience taken. And why should you take Occasion at Thee
or Thou ? in the /Scripture you may plentifully see, tbat when the
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welfare of your immortal souls, and though this come from a simple
Instrument, yet I would intreat you to bear with me ; for it is in
Love to you all.
And before ever I set Pen to paper to write this, I have in the very
secret of my soul desired, that / might have lain in a Cave in the
ground and have cried out these few dayes / have here upon the
Earth, to the /ord, rather then I would have appeared so openly a-
mongst you, but I could not be clear till I had signified my mind
to you ; and so / do appeal to the Principle of God in all your Con
sciences ; I being one that have had my being amongst you almost
all my dayes, what damnable Practice or Principle have any of yoa
seen by me, that makes you talk at this rate ? Except you call this
damnable which checks and reproves you when you do not do well .
and which of you all dare to say h6 hath it not in him ? which is the
great Love of God unto Mankind, which doth either excuse, or ac
cuse if they do good or evil ; and this is that Witness that God hath
not left himself without, in the hearts of all Mankind.
And certainly, if there had been any thing in your Teachers
Doctrines, Eeasons, Uses and Applications ; if Crying and Tears,
Sighs and Groans would afforded me any Corafort in them the Lord
would have satisfied me in them ; but I could not get Peace in them,
though the Lord knows it was my daily Prayers from a Child, to be
satisfied : Aud therefore, having dealt plainly with you, and having
told you how it was with me from my Childhood, do you think that I
am deluded ; and do you think that I -with many more that have
known this spiritual Travel, will be scoffed and scorned out of this
experienced Principle of God in our Consciences ? my God be blessed,
we know better things : And though you may Goliah like, come in
defiance against this Host of the Living God, yet be it known to you,
You are but men, and not Gods and though we are but poor /Striplings,
and simple JIfecaniek, poor Tradesmen, and some coming from their
flocks and herds : We do not encounter with 'you, with Swords or
Spears ; but in the Name of the Lord we go on, and here the Lord
hath given strength and patience to suffer, whatever hath come up-
on his poor People, for the trial of their Faith : So that They are
more then Conquerors, through him that hath loved them, as above twen
ty Tears Experience can witness, since the Lord first brought them
forth, out of this Northern Part of this Nation ; and this is that
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Lamb's Spirit in which we war, of which God hath said, Shall have
the Victory.
And do not think tis Excommunication or rending our Goods from
us, or Banishment, or any other thing, that shall be ever able To separate
us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord : And, if Christ
be not In Vs, tve are Reprobates ; and if it were not that this Princi
ple of God were in us, and if we did not know aud enjoy something
that was above this world, we were of all people, as the Scripture
saith. Of all men in the 'World, the most miserable -. For indeed, the Case
is God's, as we are concerned in, and if he doth not carry it on in us,
we cannot go any* further ; and this is that City that God hath set
on a Hill, which cannot be hid : For alas, Onr Profeseion is as erap
ty as any Profession, if we find not this Principle of God in our Con
sciences, to prosper, which teacheth us to deny all Ungodliness : and
if it be but a /Sigh, or a Groan, a Cry or a Tear, that cometh from
an Honest Heart, God hath regard to it ; for alas though there may
be tricks that men may shufle or cut one with another, we cannot
deal so with this Alseeing God, with whom we have to do ; for alas,
without God we can do nothing, therefore it is to this Principle in
your Consciences I direct you; for no further then you find me
plead for God, no longer own me.
Neighbours and Acquaintance of this Town of Northampton, I
pray you, do you but a little consider what Condition you were in
suddenly after this Judgment of God that was amongst us by Fire, at
which time we met one another, several with Tears in their Eyes,
telling one another of their Losses by this sad Judgment I Oh what
a tender Frame of Spirit were many of you in then ! O that you had
kept to that ! and it would have been greatly for your good : for
then you would have gone forward in that which is good, till you
had found EeconcUiation and Establishment with your Maker, and
you would have remembred his Judgments and Mercy, & have spoken
of them to his Praise ; but how little is this minded now ! So that many
live as if there were no God I To hear the great Abominations that are
committed in your streets is a greif to the upright now, as such things
were a grief to the upright in all ages. Oh that these things raay be
considered, laid to heart & amended, before it be too late ; for our days
are swiftly passing over, as a Weavers Shuttle, and as a tale that is fold.
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may come and not let those former Afflictions slip out of your
Eemembrance ; for God hath promised, he will Not break the bruised
Reed, nor quench the smoaking 'Flax, but if your Sins toere as Scarlet,
he tvould make them as wooll, if as Crimson, he would make them as Snow,
and this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our .Eyes ; and
this is that humble way that my soul hath found Favour with him, and
for ever my soul shall praise him, And I know not how few my dayos
may be amongst you yet this is my Testimony and my Belief concern
ing this People, those of them as are faithful, / could wish /could say
eo for all as are called So, that they are the People of God. So
whether you will be reconciled to this Principle of God in your
Conscience or no, / am clear in my self concerning you.
'Who am a "Well-wisher to your immortal Souls,
yohn yiulliner.

THE END.

Lor\D Spencei\'s Library.

A SKETCH

A VISIT TO ALTHORP,

NORTHAMPTONSHIBE,

The Seat of John Poyntz Eakl Spbncer, K.G., &c.

1^5

Northampton :
TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
1870.

Refrinted, by permission.
From the Birmingham Daily Post,
xdth Afril, 1870.

LORD SPENCER'S LIBRARY.

" All things are corrupted and decay with time : Saturn
ceaseth not to devour his offspring, aud oblivion covereth the
glories of the world ; but God hath provided mortals a
remedy in books, without whioh all that was ever great would
have been forgotten or unknown." Five hundred years ago,
a century before the divine art of printing was invented,
Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, wrote these words in
his " Philobiblon" — his meraorable eulogy on books. In an
age when manuscripts alone, rare ahd Costly, preserved the
Hterary treasures of older days, good Richard Aungerville —
or de Bury — the most powerful prelate in the reign of Edward
the Tfiird, friend of Petrarch and of all the great men of his
day, collected his magnificent library, and first proposed to
provide poor students with free and ready access to the
literary treasures, " in which we see the dead as if alive, iu
whioh we foresee things to come, in whioh warlike affairs are
methodised, in whioh the arts of peace are well aet forth."
In another noble passage he adds, " To books how easily,
how secretly, how safely may we expose the nakedness of
human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are
the masters who teaoh without rods, without anger, without
blame. If you approach them, they are not asleep. If you
question them, they are not silent. If you mistake them,
they never murmur. If you are ignorant, tbey do not laugh.
Oh, books ! alone, liberal and making liberal, who give to all
who ask, and who emancipate all who serve you." Such
golden words might ^ell be written over auy great library,
and over none more jippropriately than over the raagnlficeut
Library at Althorp, near Northampton, which George John,
second Earl, Spencer collected, and which Dibdinso fully and
admirably desonbed.

The view of the great Arsenal at Springfield inspired
Longfellow with some of his noblest lines. The glories of
York Minster have made many a poet, and have left deep
and perraanent impressions on every beholder's mind.
These, with all their wondrous power, still fail in impressive
ness before a vast library of old-world books.
The " sight of a great library " impressed good Bishop.
Hall with some of his most noble thoughts and eloquent
expressions. The long array of solemn silent books, the
quiet growth of many years of collection, and still more
years of patient thought, the Campo Santo, where brains
long since at rest still think aloud, where pens long quiet
write on still, where voices long silent are heard year after
year, where all the glories of man's mind and life are gar
nered up for general blessing, where the history of the past,
the work of the present, and the hopes of the future are
enshrined, must ever form iu every really reflective mind,
and even perhaps on the most casual glance, a mighty
monument of man's power and weakness, and glory, and
shame. A great library is the record of man's life and works
the chronicle of his hopes, and fears, and achievements,
and failures ; the history of hia progress, the story cf his
career, the monument of hia genius, the memorial of hia
fame. Its books are the living witnesses of what he has
done and what he may do, the foretellinga of the future as
well as the narratives ofthe past. Only four hundred years
have passed away since the divine art of printing waa in
vented, and the world has been revolutionised, and its
changes are only commencing now. Every year sees some
new means of cheapening and diffusing books, spreading
written speech, circulating amongst the humblest and
poorest the richest treasures of the past, and placing within
reach of the poorest student the literary treasures which
the richest could not purchase a, few centuries ago. Books,
have been the quiet, silent evangelisers of the world, and
their worth, their value, their influence can only be felt
by comparing the condition of civilised and literate countries
with those where books and writing are scarcely known.
In these days of cheap books, of books for the people, of
books circulated broadcast over the land, and despised and

neglected because they are so cheap, so common, it will be
worth while to glance at one of the greatest libraries— not
in size, but quality — one of the choicest and costliest known,
and to see what treasures it contains and how it has been
formed. Althorp hes about six miles from Northampton and five
from "Weedon, and is a fine old mansion, in a park of five
hundred acres, well stocked with deer. All round the house
are groves of noble oaks, planted In the seventeenth century
chiefiy, and highly praised by John Evelyn, in his famous
Sylva, for he was a guest at Althorp. If we avail ourselves
of the private courtesy of the Rector of Brington,* who holds
the honourable office of honorary librarian of Althorp, and
who has a bibliophile's as well a scholar's love of the books
confided to his care, we may visit the quiet old church of
Brington, where many of the Spencers rest in peace, pausing
to look at the quaint old finials of the old oak benches, the
stately monuments — Elizabethan, Jacobean, Georgian— of
the Spencers, the curious old slab and brass on the floor. In
memory of some Washlngtons, who may be reasonably con
nected with George Washington, asthe armorial shield bears
most distinctly the "Star and Stripes," the arms cf the
United States. "We may glance down the slope on which the
old church stands, look over some pleasant reaches of North
ampton fields, with well-thatched homesteads lighted by the
morning sun, pass along a noble avenue of firs, and on
towards the private entrance to Althorp Park. Here, with
an ope-n, sesame- — a private key — we pass to the pleasant un
dulations, watch the grazing of the herd of deer, pause at the
memorial stone, recording the planting of the trees, note Its
quaintly pious motto, "Up and bee doing and God will
prosper ;" and follow the winding path leading down towards
the broad garden terrace, and the many-windowed hall. Till
comparatively recent days the " deer could be fed from the
windows," in accordance with Lord Spencer's phrase, but
more modern fashions bave prevailed, and the noble but un
ostentatious building is now more isolated from the pnrk, but
its long line of wall and windows gives no sort of prospect of
the treasures it enshrines.
Althorp has been a possession of the Spencers since 1512,
but was chiefly adopted as a residence about 1646. One of
• The Eev. P. J. Ponsonby, M.A.

the family, Thomas Spencer, has an interest for Warwick
shire readers, from his magnificent house at Claverdon, (of
which a ruined tower may still be seen on the right of the
railway from Hatton to Stratford,) and of whose princely
hospitality Dugdale writes in the highest terms of praise.
Another of the Spencers was associated with "Wormleighton,
In -Warwickshire, and was once an owner of Paokwood, near
Knowle. The present hall at Althorp ia of magnificent pro
portions, and contains many noble rooms. Ita pictures and
Ita china would confer undying honour on any other house,
but its Library haa long bad a world-wide fame. Entering a
fine hall, taming sharply to our left down a wing at right
angles to the hall, passing through a dining-room, with
Titian's famous portrait of the fasting Cornaro, who attained
ao great an age; a fragment of a Raffaelle cartoon, and
Rembrandt's magnificent portrait of his mother, as an art-
treasure of the room ; passing through a drawing room, with
a Dffidalus and Icarus, by "Vandyke ; a "Venus and Adonis and
a Venetian lady, by Titian ; a Cleopatra, by Guido, we
enter the first great book room, the Long Library, with Clint's
fine portrait of George John Earl Spencer, the genius loci
of this world of booke. Here begin thoae eight noble rooms,
extending four hundred feet, in which the Althorp
book treasures are preserved. Thia Is the room where
originally all the " Pifteeners," the books printed in the
fifteenth century, were kept. Here the historian Gibbon
"exhausted a whole morning, in company with the
noble owner, among the first editions of Cicero." Here
were accumulated the most generally interesting part
of the whole library, the hundreds of Bibles, which represent
all the great editions, from the Mazarine Bible of 1455, down
to the Bibles in all languages of half a century ago. Not
only in this room, all around us on neat white painted
shelves, but in other rooms also, a magnificent collection of
Bibles and Liturgies is preserved. Here are the polyglot
versions of Alcala, Antwerp, Paris, London, Hamburg, and
Leipsic. Here are Greek Bibles, with the Aldine "Prin
ceps," and from the Strasburg, 1526, to the Oxford, 1798.
Here are Latin Bibles — twenty of whioh were printed
before 1480, and a maguificent series of vellum copies about
1476. Here are twelve choice editions of the sixteenth
century; seven ofthe seventeenth; ten ofthe eighteenth.
The early English Bibles are rare and choice, and valuable

beyond price. Coverdale's Zurich Bible, 1535; the two
London Bibles, 1537 ; that of Grafton and of -Whitchurch,
1540 ; CromweU's Bible, 1539 ; ten editions from 1551 to 1581 ;
Tyndal's most rare Testament, 1536 (printed at Antwerp) ; the
Southwark-printed copy, 1538 ; the folio Testament (with
Erasmian paraphrase), by -Whitchurch, 1548 ; the octavo
of Gualtler, 1550 ; and five editions between 1450 and 1600 ; -
the Cranmer Bible, 1566 ; the Saxon and English Gospels,
1571 ; the Genevan Bible of Edinburgh, 1576-79 (the first
complete Bible from a Scottish press, whioh Dibdln
humorously described as " in the Scottish language"), com
bine to make one hundred copies of rare, remarkable, or
choice editions of the liible (or parts of theBible) in English,
now on the Althorp shelves. The nine German Bibles
printed before 1405 ; the ten Italian Bibles (one with the
autograph of Sixtus V.) ; the fifteen French Bibles ; the four
Spanish Bibles ; the Sclavonic, 1581 ; the Delft Dutch, 1477 ;
Ihe Prince Eadzivil's Polish Bible of 1563, which cost Lord
Spencer a hundred guineas to complete; the Bohemian
Bible of 1596; the LIvonian Bible of 1689, with European
and Asiatic versions of all languages and dates, are beyond
description for interest aud value too.
In Patristic and Scholastic Theology there are fourteen
rare additions of Thomas Aquinas, printed before 1480, and
raostl.y from the presses of Schoaffer (one of the alleged
inventors of printing), Sweynheim (of the great Roman press),
and Mentelin ; thirty editions of St. Augustine, seventeen
being between 1467 and 1490, and many being " date-marks
of typography ;" seven editions of St. Chrysostom, hy Zell,
and Laver, and AzzoguidI; thirteen of St. Jerome, including
the celebrated "Oxford Book," alleged to be 1468; the
" Adversus Gentes" of Lactantius, the first book printed in
Italy, at the famous Subiaco press ; eighteen of the earliest-
printed Missals, from 1475 to 1504; the fine Mozarabio
Missal, printed by Cardinal Ximenes, in 1500; six Missals
fromthe Naples press; many choice Breviaries, Psalters,
&c., &c., in all tongues and of all dates.
The Raffaelle Library has a superb" example of a " Holy
Family," in the painter's second period ; and a mass of
History, Poetry, &o., on the crowded shelves around.
The BiUiard Room Library is the largest and most striking

of the rooms devoted to the books. It has a light gallery
around it, and tier upou tier of shelves, on whioh many of
the choicest classics and county histories, &c., are kept ; and
in the gallery are scores, if not hundreds, of quarto volumes,
each containing a dozen to twenty of the little quarto tracts
which dil duty as newspapers iu the great Civil ^War, and
record the contests between Parliament aud King, As a
rule, neither Law, nor Botany, nor Medicine are represented
in this vast collection; but Astrouomy, Chemistry, Mathe
matics, Fortification, Philosophy, Lexicography, Belles-
lettres, &c., are especially honoured by the choicest books.
The books in the Billiard-room Include some fine large-paper
copies of the principal county histories, superb books on
natural history; Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, with his own
manuscript corrections ; Baskerville's Virgil, with splendid
etchings inserted, and a unique "specimen" sheet of his
type. All the other rooms of this vast library — for it numbers
45,000 volumes, nearly every one of which is a treasure
to literature — sink into insignificance compared with one
room alone. Range after range, press after press, shelf
after shelf, may attract the eye aud bewilder even the
coolest brain in its attempt to master even the titles of the
treasures ; but wheu room after room has been passed, when
book after book has beeu noted, when anticipation haa been
dwarfed by facta, and wonder ia wearied at the riohes it haa
seen, one of the dummy panels in one of the side walls ia
opened, a noble hall is passed, a turn to the left is taken,
and a lofty room is entered, where the morning sun-light
streams in through the two windows on the right, and the
tall presses, with tasteful wire-lattice work and neat white-
painted doors, carefully closed, and secured by little brass
padlocks, show that the sanchim is reached, and that we are
at last in the presence of the choicest treasures of the Althorp
shelves. A little upright glass-case on our left contains
some hundreds cf microscopic editions of classics, from
Dldot's lovely little "Horace" backwards — some in the
choicest covers, the work of true artist-hands; some little
volumes of manuscript, in Italian hand, and with glorious
illuminations; aud one curious little volume, with leaves of
paper made fi ora familiar EngUsh plants. Over the mantle-
piece are some family portraits in miniatare — and one of

Lord "John Rusaell in his early manhood. All round the
room, crowded with portly folios, handsome and dainty little
duodecimos, are oases full of the very choicest books now
known to exist. Here in scholarly seclusion are the choicest
editions — the eclitiones principes of the choicest authors of
Greece and Rome. Here are the aeventy editions of Cicoro
— memorable from Gibbon's morning among them, as well
aa for their classic value and literary worth— nearly fifty of
which were printed before 1473, mostly representing different
"texts," and thus practically as valuable as manuscripts now
lost for ever. Here are eight editions of Horace prior to
1480; here are copies of Ovid from all the Italian early
presses of Parma, Venice, and Rome; here is Livy as
printed by Sweynheim and by Aldus in glorious tomes-; here
Is Pliny, on vellum, from the press of Eome, In 1471 ; while
superb works of the Aldus press aud Etienne press, and
Bodoni's Parma press, are spread all around. Here Is a rich
case of Aldines, with the now famiUar device; there is a row
ofthe choicest works by Bodoni, who equalled even our own
Baakerville iu making printing an "art." Here Is the
Florence edition of Homer, dated 1474; herela the most rare
Horace, printed iu Naples in 1476, by Arnoldus de Bruxella ;
here is the famous Terence of Riessenger, 1471, so curious
from details of the early laws of Sicily and Naples, and for
which two volumes Lord Spencer was chiefly induced to buy
Count Cassauo's library to enrich his shelves. Here on this
Horace (well marked il.R.K. —rarlssiimcs — is Lord Spencer's
pencil-notp that it was the rarest, choicest classic he had
known) is a curious " bill " of old Roger Payne, with all his
minute details of the material, and the time employed In
the binding of this rarest of books. Here, among nearly a
dozen editions of Dante, is the maguificent edition of 1477
— one of tho eight editions between 1472 and 1434. Here is
thefirst Roman Mis-sal (a superb rubricated copy), on vellum,
printed as early as 1477.
Here is the most famous single volume probably In the
whole world— the volume which originally led the Duke of
Roxburghe to begin book-collecting, and whioh sold at his
great sa'e for £2,260 ! It ia only a small folio volume, some
two inches thick, but it is an edition of Boccaccio, printed
at Venice, by Valdarfer, as early as 1471, and no other
perfect copy is known. Its very history is a romance.

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At the second Duke of Roxhurghe's table, some conversation
on the book occurred. His Grace remembered that it had
onee been offered to him for £100. He sought and found
and bought it, and his son was so struck by the conversation
that he became so great a coUector that the sale of his books
in 1812 lasted forty-two days. When this famous volume
was put up, Lord Spencer and Lord Blandford were both
eager to possess it. It was started at £100, the price was
doubled, then went to £250, and then jumped to £500. As
the price advanced, the bids were smaller, only £5 at a time.
At laat the lot was left to two competitors ; Lord Spencer
said £2,250, and Lord Blandford £10 more, at which price
the treasure became his own. Lord Spencer had resolved to
give £1,812 (the amount representing the date 1812), but
having had a "windfall of £438," he advanced to £2,250 ;
and although he lost the volume, he was lucky enough to
secure it a few years later for only £900. The deacription of
the contest by Dibdln Is one of the curiosities of literature,
and the sale one of the most extraordinary in bibliomaniac
annals, since the owners of Althorp, Blenheim, and Chats
worth competed for the possession of this unique and
memorable book.
The Caxton press volumes in this room are quite un
surpassed in number and condition. Fifty-seven separate
works from the Father of the English Press is a noble col
lection for a private library. Even the British Museum can
boast only fifty-five, but of these eleven are unique, while
Lord Spencer has only three unique. Here, in a quiet
corner, are the first and second editions of Caxton's " Game
of Chesse," and two copies of his "Chaucer's Tales," of
excessive rarity and curious value ; here are dainty little
volumea with queer or reverent colophons, and in quaint old
half-printing half-manuscript lettera, with ink still aa black
as a raven, and leaves as crisp aa of a modern book. Here
are the real treasures, the incunabula, t'he cradle-books ofthe
English press. Here are the materials for the history of the
printing art. Here are the choice romances which delighted
the days of Edward the Third. Here, too, are the works ot
Caxton's friends and pupils, a magnificent vellum folio of
the "Boke of St. Alban's," by Dame JuUana Berners,
printed by -Wynkyn de -Worde ; here are Pynson's books by
the dozen, and here are scores of rare, choice, splendid

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samples of the fifteenth century Engli.-jh press. In other
" presses " of thia noble room are the Block-Booka whioh
preceded printing before some one— Guttenburg, or Fiist,
or Schoeffer — had the wit to break up words into single
letters, and thus to "invent" the printing art. Here is
not only the earliest known wood-cut, with a date, the St.
¦Christopher, with date 1423 — seeming to show, too, that
wood-blocks and separate letters may have been used
together — but here is a real old wood-block itself, of the
fifteenth century, with aome of the impreasions It haa pro
duced. The 1423 St. Christopher is a land-mark in art. It
has had reams written about it, and its value ; and its quaint
¦old coloured sketch of the good saint crossing the stream
and bearing the boy upon his shoulders, is curious and
graphic in the extreme. Here, too, is a superb copy of the
famous Mazarine Bible, supposed to have been printed as
¦early as 1455— a sumptuous copy, with sound and solid old
paper, clean, and clear, and stainless ; sharp and clear-cut
old gothic letter, glossy raven ink, and brilliant rubrications,
which have kept their colour unfaded In all the chances and
changes of four hundred years. Here, too, are not only the
choicest classics, but real art- works of the binder's taste.
Books bound by Roger Payne, and De Rome, aud Padeloup,
are crowded in the cases, in rich profusion, and delight tha
eye, and taste, and judgment of the bibliopegic connoisseur.
Here, too, among the treasures, are choice copies of all the
four folio editions of Shakespeare's Plays; a copy, in
brilUant oondition, of the excessively rare Sonnets, dated
1609 ; not to mention a copy of Steevens's edition of 1783,
enlarged by a mass of " lUustrations " selected from rare
sources too.
This room, in fact, if well examined, contains the history
¦of- modern civiUsation. The classic tone and taste, the
revival of learning, the invention of printing, the trans
lations of the Scriptures, the history of printing and book
binding, are all amply iUustrated by the contenta of this
unrivalled room. Not only to the bibliomaniac, who values
books merely because they are rare ; not only to the
bibUopegist, who admires books because they are well bound !
but to the bibUophile, who honours books for their contents
— does the Spencer Library most powerfully appeal. In
mere money value this noble roora alone would probably be

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valued at nearly £60,000. It is gratifying to find that the
present Earl devotes especial care to this rich legacy of
learning, that he assigns the charge of his treasures to an
old retainer of his house, who lives among the books, and
loves his labour, and that his honorary librarian spares no
devotion to the magnificent Ubrary placed under his care.
The literary tastes of the Spencers have been remarkable
for several generations. Farts of an old library, three
centuries old, are still in the great colleotion. There waa
another addition of the books of Dr. George, but the mass
of the present library was collected during the life of one
learned, liberal, and patient coUector, the late Earl, who died
in 1834, at the ripe old age of seventy-seven, after a long and
honourable career at the Admiralty and at Vienna during
the troublous times from 1780 to 1812. Late' in the last
century he purchased the collection of Count Keviczky, an
unsurpassed library of classic volumes, first editions from
all the Continental presses, and aU in the most perfect
condition. During many years purchases were made with
taste and Uberality. Under the guidance of Dibdin, rare
volumes were exchanged frora Lincoln Cathedral, fine hooka
were bought from the superb Alchorne Library in order to
secure a few Caxtons, and from the Cracherode sale, and
finally tbe splendid library of Count Cassano was purchased,
in 1819. In short, the Spencer Library is not only large, but
choice — not only choice, but priceless; and, in Dibdin's own
words, its " remerabrance can only perish with every other
record of individual fame." The Bibliotheca Spenceriana
and the iEdes Althorpianse of Dibdin have given the
Spencer Library a world-wide fame ; and Mr. Edward
Edwards, the Historian of Libraries, from whose works some
of the foregoing facts have been taken, speaks in tho
highest terms, from personal knowledge, of this vast col
leotion, the catalogue of which fiUs two hundred and fifty
volumes of titles, aa having been " created with a liberal
hand, aud imparted with a Uberal heart."

A Grave Divine; pre cif e , tiot tarhuteni ,-
^4ntl ii£ver ^iiittyqf the CAu-rDies rent :
\Meek even tojinnerj-j moSl devout to GoD:
liiu u batpccrf of tke due pr Offi o/" Dod

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REV. JOHN DOD, M.A.,
Rector of Fawsley , Northamptonshire ^ 1624 — 1645.

TO WHIOH IS PEEFIXED

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE.

Containing Bibliographical List of the Writings of John Dod
and References to Biographical Notices of him, etc.

FAC-SIMILE PORTRAIT.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR & SON.

1881.

To OUR Readers,

The Publication of these memorials was undertaken at the request of Sir
Henry Dryden, Bart., of Canon's Ashby, in this county, a copy of the
early edition of " The Sermon on Malt " having been sent the hon.
baronet by Mr. Albert Hartshorne. The publisher feels that no apology
is needed for the re-publication, in Northamptonshire, of the -writings of
"Old Dr. Dod," the worthy Puritan ha-ving been so intimately connected
¦with this county and having, so unmistakeably, added to the memorableness
of at least two places in the county, otherwise memorable — Canon's Ashby
and Fawsley. — He ministered for some time in the Parish Church of Canon's
Ashby, and was for twenty-one years rector of Fawsley, wliere he died
in 164s at the advanced age of 95. His " Plaine and Familiar Exposition
of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and .Seuenteenth Chapters of the Prouerbs of
Salomon" (1609) was dedicated ''To the Right -Worshipfvl our approoued
good friend Erasmvs Driden Esquire ;'' whilst his " Plaine and Familiar
Exposition of the Lord's Prayer" (1635) is dedicated "To the Right
-Worshipfvl his much honoured loving friend Mr. Richajd Knightley," who
was himself an eminent Puritan.
Having succeeded in obtaining a copy from the original copper-plate
portrait of Dod, (by Cross) we have been enabled to present our readers
with a photo-lithographic fac-simile of the same as a frontispiece.
Not the least interesting feature of the memorials is the insertion of the
text of the only three knowu MS. versions of the Sermon on the word
" Malt." The dates of the MSS. of the three texts are all contemporary
-with Dod. That of the text found in the Bodleian Library is written by
Ashmole himself on the back of a letter signed "J. Suckling, 1629."
It has been sought to preserve in every detail the quaint characteristics of
the original editions of the writings here embodied ; and the Publisher trusts
that his efforts to re-produce the quaintest sermon and sayings of this
eminent divine in their original garb may meet with the appreciation not
merely of the bibliophile and antiquary but of the general public.
JOHN TATLOR.
Northatnpton, October, 1875.

CONTENTS.

I.
A Sermon upon the -Word Malt. Preached in the Stump of a
hollow Tree, by the Rev. John Dod, M.A. Author of the
Remarkable and approved Sayings, to which is prefixed a brief
Account of the Life of the Author. •
II.
The Text of Three MS. -Versions of the Sermon on the
-WORD Malt. III.
The -Worthy Sayings of Old Mr. Dod. Fit to be treasured
up in the Memory of every Christian. In Two Parts.
IV.
Bibliographical List of the -Writings of John Dod. -With
Biographical Notice by the Rev. W. D. SWEETING, M.A.
V.
References to Biographical Notices of John Dod.
VI.
Addenda.

SERMON

UPON THE -WORD

MALT.

TO "WHICH IS PREFIXED

The LIFE of the AUTHOR.

SERMON,

UPON THE WORD

MALT. PREACHED
In the Stump of a hollow Tree,
Rev. JOHN 'dod, M.A.
author OF THE
Remarkable and Approved SAYINGS,
TO -WHICH IS PREFIXED
A brief Account of the LIFE ofthe Author.
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'TUl all his active Pow'rs are loft.
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Next to GOD's Throne his Spirit flies.
"With Juftice flaming iu his Eyes
JEHOVAH frowns ! bids Fiends his Soul confine,
"Where aU that dwell are drunk with Wrath Di-vine. ANON.
Who hath Wo, -who hath Sorro-w, -who hath Contentions, -who hath
Babbling, -who hath Wounds -without Caufe, -who hath Rednefs of
Eyes f They that tarry long at the Wine. Prov. xxiii. 29, 30,
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M.D. CCL, XXVII.

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THE

LIFE

OF THE

Reverend JOHN DOD.

T

H E Reverend JOHN DOD -was born
in the year 1549, at Shotlidge, near
_ Malpas, in Cheftiire ; his parents had an
eftate of one hundred marks a year, -which -went
to the eldefl brother ; this John was the youngeft
of feventeen. He -was fent to "Weftchefter fchool,
and -when he was about fourteen years old, -was
difpofed of to Jefus College, Cambridge, -where
he -was chofen firft fcholar, and after-wards fello-w
in that college, -where he remained near fxteen
years. The manner of his converfion -was as
follo-ws ; — Being

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Being accufed by the Ste-ward of the college
to the Mafier, for the non-payment of a coufi-
derable fum of money due for one of his pupils,
-which Mr. DOD had paid, but it had been
neglected to be fet down, there arofe a hot dif
pute bet-ween them, and Mr. DOD -was fo
grieved at the thoughts of being counted difhonefi,
that he fell fick of a violent fever, fo that his life
-was looked apon to be in danger.
All his forro-w, as yet, -was -worldly, (as him-
felf faid) he neither did, nor knew ho-w to pray,
'till the LORD impreft upon his heart thofe
words, Rom. vii. 14. The La-w is fpiritual,
but I am carnal, fold under fin. His fins then
came upon him like armed men, and the tide of
his thoughts were turned ; he now left off think
ing how he was wronged, and ferioufly confider
ed how he had offended his Maker, was humbled
before GOD, and earneftly befought Him to
grant pardon and peace in JESUS CHRIST ;
but for fome time found no comfort, yet was
kept ftill feeking the LORD, who at laft, accord
ing to his promife,'* was found of Him, and gave
him to fee his full falvation, in the death of the
Redeemer. He then defired his accuser to come to him,
and told him, that though he had accounted
him his great enemy, he uow acknowledged him
to be his good friend, for that he was the inftru
ment of bringing his foul to GOD.
* Matt. vii. 7. After-

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A.fterwards, (by Divine Providence) this man
remembered that Mr. DOD had paid him the
money, and acknowledged the wrong he had
done him, endeavouring all he could to clear his
character ; and Mr. DOD afterwards declared,
he had not a more faithful friend in all the col
lege, during his abode there, than this man.
"When he had been fome years Master of Arts,
he was appointed to oppofe the Philofophy Act,
at the Commencement, which he did with great
approbation j infomuch, that it was defired he
fhould difpute again, the next Commencementj
but that he avoided. He was fo facetioufly folid,
that the Oxford Divines who were prefent,
courted him home with them, and would have
planted him in their Univerfity, which he alfo
declined. Dr. Fulk, Dr. Chaderdon, Dr. Whitaker,
and fome others who frequently met to expound
the Scriptures, from their refpect to Mr. DOD,
took him in among them. The whole Epiftle to
Hebrews was one part of the word of truth to
which they attended.
"While he continued Fellow of Jefus College,
by the importunity of fome godly people of Ely,
he went weekly, and preached among them in
that city, where his miniftry was attended with
peculiar fuccefs. When

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privately ; and himfelf faid he thought this part
of his -life was as ufeful as any.
He was fent for far and near to fuch as were
wounded in fpirit, to whom the, LORD made
him extenfively ufeful. When he had thus fpent
fome years, by the care and induftry of Mr.
Richard Knightly of Prefton, after the death
of King James, he was allowed again to preach
publicly, and fettled at Fauftley, in Northamp-
tonfhire, where he preached twice every LORD's
Day ; there he went over the Gofpel of John,
the Epiftle to the Coloffians, and other Scrip
tures. He was a great wit, an excellent fcholar, a
profound Hebrician ; and in one vacation taught
that tongue to Mr. John Gregorie, that admira
ble linguift.
He was a moft generous, charitable, humble,
pious, fpiritual, heavenly-minded, and much-
beloved man ; a plain, praftical ffearching, fer
vent, evangelical preacher ; a paffive Non con-
formift, not loving any the worfe for differing
about ceremonies, but all the better for their
unity of affeftions in grace and goodnefs.
Dr. Prefton was his friend, and when uear
death, came to Prefton a mile from where Mr.
DOD lived, for the benefit of his converfation,
to whom he was made very ufeful, prayed by
him

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him when he lay dying, and preached his fune
ral fermon.
He had an excellent gift in fimilitudes, which
flowed freely and frequently from him. In
preaching he always took great care to fpeak to
the meaneft capacity, and feed the lambs of the
flock. He ftrove much to make men fee their
loft condition clearly ; and then (not wifhing to
keep them under terror) would largely open to
them the promifes and grace of CHRIST, ac
cording to the gofpel.
He fpoke very diftinftly, taking great care to
fhew the difierence between babes in CHRIST,
and hypocrites. He lived much by faith, both
for fpirituals and temporals ; and very con-
folatory, rendering religion the moft fweet and
comfortable life, notwithftanding fufferings.
His preaching was of great ufe to the igno
rant, as they could not but admhre his method
of making fpiritual things plain to their under-
ftandings. His life and do6trine were fo holy
and fpiritual, as to filence even defperate oppo-
fers of religion ; was very fuccefsful in making
peace, and apt in anfwering cafes of confcience.
Being a noted Puritan, though he meddled
not with ftate matters, he was ufed ill by the
King's cavaliers, who plundered his houfe, and
would have taken his very fheets, had he not
put them under his chair for a cufhion, all which
B a he

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he took patiently, calling to mind one of his
old maxims, fanSiified afflictions are fpiritual pro
motions. During his laft illnefs it pleafed GOD to try
him by grievous pains of the ftranguary ; but
when he had any intermifsions, he breathed out
fuch fpeeches as were to the praife of GOD, and
edification of others. He employed thofe about
him to read the Scriptures, which he expounded
to them, and when his ftrength was fpent with
fpeaking he retired to prayer and meditation ;
when he felt his pains returning, he defired his
friends to pray that GOD would either give him
deliverance or patience. A little before his
death, he faid he had been wreflling with Satan,
who told him he never had preached, prayed,
nor done any thing as he ought, either for man
ner or end ; but he faid he had anfwered him
from the example of the prodigal and the pub
lican. His faith and patience were increafed and
perfefted by his fufferings ; he longed and thirfted
to be with CHRIST ; one of his laft fpeeches
was, / defire to he diffolved and be tvith CHRIST.
Soon after which he obtained a happy deliver
ance from Jin and forrow, and his fpirit took
flight to the realms of everlafting bliss, there to
join wfth the glorified throng, in affcribing falva
tion to GOD and the LAMB, for ever and
ever.

He

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He died Anno Chrifii 1645, ^S^"^ 9^ years,
and was buried in Fauftley church.
This account of Mr. DOD is as particular as
the prefent defign would admit of ; thofe who
defire further fatisfaftion may confult the follow
ing books, from whence thefe anecdotes are col-
lefted.. darkens Martyrology.
Fuller's Worthies a-nd Church Hi/tory.
Neal's Hi/tory of the Puritans,

SERMON

UPON THE WO RD

MALT.

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SERMON,

UPON THE WORD

MALT.

MR. DOD being for' fome time in a vil
lage near Cambridge, and having fre
quently obferved the irregular beha
viour of fome of the fludents of the Univerfity,
particularly excefs in drinking, to which they
were greatly addifted, took occafion to explode
fuch practices in public from the pulpit.
It happened fome time after this, feveral of
thefe young fparks riding out, met Mr. DOD
on the road, they efpied him fome diftance off,
aud immediately on firft fight of him, cried out,
C " here

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" here comes father DOD ! Now we'll have
fome fport with the old man." Accordingly
they confulted each other, and foon refolved in
what manner they would divert themfelves on
this occafion, namely, by compelling him to preach
them a Sermon in the ftump of a hollow tree,
that happened to be on the fpot. Mr. DOD
kept jogging on, little thinking of any plot
forming againft him, at length arrived where the
fludents were waiting for him. The compliments
at this meeting having paffed, they enquired of
the good man if the report they had heard of his
having preached agaiuft drunkennefs of late, was
true ; Mr. DOD replied, that perceiving the
prevalency of fuch evils, and efpecially amongft
thofe from whom better things might be expected,
he could not difpenfe with a delay in reproving the
fame, corififlant with his public character as a Mi
nifter ; therefore he had inveighed againft a vice
fo very detefiable in the fight of GOD and all good

The collegians then faid they had a favour to
requeft of him that he would indulge tiiem with a
Serraon from a text of their own chufing. To this
Mr. DOD replied in the negative, alledging it
was highly unreafonable to require a man, pub
licly to deliver his fentiments, upon any fubjeft,
without first giving him an opportunity to rumi
nate the fame in his own thoughts in private ;
befides, adds he, I am upon a journey, in pur-
fuit of other concerns at prefent, therefore defire
you will lay afide, and defift from any further folici-

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felicitations in this affair. To which the ftudents
anfwered " they were thoroughly perfuaded he
was mafter of elocution, never at a lofs for mat
ter upon any fubjeiSt, that they could not bear
the thoughts of a denial, and perhaps fuch a fair
opportunity might never again prefent itfelf.
Mr. DOD feeing himfelf thus befet, replied;
" Well, gentlemen, as you are thus urgent for
my compliance, pray what is the fubjeSl I am to
handle." They anfwered, " Sir. the word
— M ALT ; — and, for want of a better, here.
Sir, is your pulpit j pointing to the ftump of a
hollow tree at hand.
Hereupon, the venerable man mounted the
roflrum, and addreffed his hearers in the follow
ing manner :

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BELOVED,
IA.M a little man, come at a fhort warning,
— to deliver a brief difcourfe — upon a fmall
fubjedt, — tb a thin congregation, — and from an
unworthy pulpit.
Beloved, niy text is
MALT.
Which cannot be divided into words, it being
but one ; nor into fyllables, it being but one ;
therefore, of neceffity, I muft reduce it into
letters, which I find to be thefe ;
M.  A.  L.  T.
M — my beloved, is Moral.
A — is Allegorical.
L — is Litteral.

T — is Theological.

The

The nioral is fet forth to teach you drunkards
good manners ; therefore,
M — my Mafters
A — ^All of you
L — Liften
T— to my Text.
The allegorical is when oue thing is fpoken,
and another is intended ; the thing expreffed is
MALT ; the thing ifguified is the oil of MALT,
which you Bacchanals make
M — ^your Meat,
A — your Apparel,
L — your Liberty, AND
T— your Text.
The litteral is according to the letter
M — Much
A'^'Afe, L— Little
T— Thrift. The

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The theological is according to the effedts it
produces, which I find to confist of two kinds.
THE
Firfi, Refpefts this life. THE
Second, That which is to come.
The effedts it produces in this world, are
in fome,
M — Murder, in others,
A— Adultery, in all,
L — Licentious Lives, in many
T— Treafon.
The effedts confequent in the world to come,
are, M— Mifery,

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M— Mifery,
A — Anguifh,
L — Lamentation,
T— Torment.
Thus, firs, having briefly opened and explain
ed my fhort text, give me leave to make a little
ufe and improvement of the foregoing.
AND
Firfl, by way of exhortation,
M — my Mafters
A— All of you
L— Leave off
T — Tippling. o R,
Secondly, by way of commination,
M — my Mafters
A — All of you
L — Look for
T— Torment. Now

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Now to wind up the whole and draw to a clofe
take with you the charadteriftic of a drunkard.
A drunkard is the annoyance of modefty.
The fpoil of civility.
His own fhame.
His wife's forrow.
His children's curfe.
His neighbour's feoff.
The alehoufe man's benefactor.
The devil's drudge.
A tvalking fwill bowl.
The pidhire of a beaft.
And, monfter of a man.

FINIS.

The Text of Three MS. Versions
OS
THE SERMON ON THE WORD
MALT.

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I.
[British Museum, Sloane MS. ^']6g,ff. aib to 22b.]
An Extempore Sermon
P'ched att -f request of two Schollers (by a Lover of
Ale) out of a hollow Tree.
Beloved,
Let mee crave yo' attenton ; for I am a Little Man,
come att a short warning, to preach a breife Sermon,
vpon a Small subiect, to a thin Congregaton, in an
vnworthy pulpit.
And now my beloved my text is Malt. Which
I qannot devide into Sentences because it is none,
nor into words it being but one, nor into Syllables
because (upon the whole matter) it is but a monosyllable
therefore I must (as necessity enforces mee) divide it
into Letters w* I find iu my text to be only these
foure M. a. 1. t.

M

my beloved is Morrall

A

is Allegoricall

1
is Litterall and
T
is Theologicall
Th«
! morali is well set
forth to teach
you Drunkards
good :
manners, wherefore
M
my Masters.
A
all of you
L
listen
T
to my text
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The Allegoricall is when one thinge is spoken of, &
a-nother thinge is meant now the thing spoaken of is
bare Malt, but the thing meant is stronge beer w"""
you Rusticks make
M meat
A apparrell
L Liberty &
T treasure
The Litterall is according to the Letter
M much
A Ale
L Little
T thrift much Ale little thrift.
The Theologicall is according to y' Efiects w* it
works, w""" I find in my text to be of twoe kinds, i'' in
this world a'J' in y= world to come
In this world y= effects w""" it works are
In some M Murther
in others A Adultery
in some L loosnes of Life
in others T treason
In y= world to come
In some M misery
in others A anguish
in some L languishing
in others T torment

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Wherefore my first use shalbe Exhortaton
M my Masters
A all of you
L leaue
T tippling
or else secondly by way of Comminaton I say
M my Masters
A all- of you
L look for
T torment
Soe much for this tyme & text, only by. way of
Cauton take this,
A Drunkard is au Annoyance of modesty, the trouble
of Civility, y'= Spoyle of wealth, the destructon of Reason,
the Brewers Agent, y'' Alehouses benefacto"-, the Beggers
Companion, the Constables trouble, his wifes woe, his
Childrens sorrow, his neighbours Scoff, his owne sh^me, a
wakeing-Swill-tub, the picture of a beast, & the monster
of a man.
Say-well & doe-well end both w* a Letter
Say-well is good, but doe-well is better.

n.
[British Museum, Sloane MS. 6ig, f 43.]
At a certain time there was a minister invited to preach
at a Country P'ish Church & takeing an occasion to
reproue Drunkards called them by Opprobrious names as
Malt Wormes, &c.
Some of them disliking of it did Conclude therupon if
they could fitly doe it to beate him ; It chanced not long
after this minister haueing occasion to Travaile that "Way
mett these Parishoners Comeiiig out of an Alehouse
who threatened him & pulld him off his horse, & told
him hee must there make a Sermon & they would give
him a text ; And his text should bee malt.
Hee thinking fitter then to yeild to them theu to
contend with men in that Case began his sermon in this
wise. Take Notice that the Text is
MALT.
There is noe preaching without a division & this" text
cannot well bee devided into many parts, because it is but
one word.
Nor into many Billables because it is a mony sillable ;
It must therfore bee devided into Letters & they are
foure M. a. 1. t. These rep'sent the four interp'-tations
that wee divines do often use. M. Morali. A. Ale-
goricall. L. Litterall & T. Trophologicall.

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M. Morali the morrall interp'tation is put first to teach
you boisterous men some good manners at Least in
stirring up yo' attention to the Sermon
M. Masters, A. All, L. listen, T. to the Text.
A. Allegoricall. The Allegory is when one thing is
Spoken & another thing is meant.
The thing Spoken of is malt the thing meant is the
Oyle of Malt, com 'only called Ale which to you Drunk
ards is so p'cious that you count it to bee M. meate;
A armo', L libertye, T treasure.
L. Literall the Literall Sense as it hath been often
heard of hertefore it is still true according to the Letter.
M. much. A. ale. L. litle. T. thirst.
T. the Tropho-Logicall Sence is In this world, or in the
world to coriie. The thing here Spoken of is the oyle of
Malt Ale which worketh in Some of you and Causeth
M. murder. A adultery, & it maketh all of you to bee
L looseliuers & many T Traitors.
That w'='' herafter followeth both in this world & the
world to Come is M. misery. A, anguish, L. lam
entation, T. Trouble.
I should now make Conclusion that So you might
Escape those Dangers, but I have noe hope to p'vaile
because I plainly See by my Text as it plainly telleth mee it is
M to A y' is a thousand to one you will neuer amende
because all Drunkards are Such as L. Hue, T. Theeues.

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III.
[Bodleian Library, Ashm. MS. %'2,6,f. loa.]
Certaine Drunkards, retorning from a merry
meeting at a Country Alehouse, by the way
overtooke a Preacher ¦ who in a Sermon, he had
lately made against Drunkenes, amongst other
bitter reproofes, (as the sweete Lyquore fellowes
construed it) had tearmed them Malt-Wormes.
wherefore they agreed to take him, & by violence
compell him to preach them a Sermon, appointing
him his Theame to be
MALT.
Preacher There is noe Teaching w^out a Division. This Theame
canot well be divided into many parts, because it is but
one word ; nor yet into Sylables, as being a Mono-sillable.
It must therefore be parted into foure Letters, & those
being M ALT: doe forme y" word Malt, my Theame.
Theis foure Letters, represent foure distinct Interpreta-
Cons, w* we Divines doe much vse ; first M : Morali,
secondly A : Allegoricall, thirdly L : Litterall, fourthly
T : Tropologicall.
The Morali is fittly placed first, if not to teach rude
boysterous fello\ves good Manners ; yet at least to procure
your peaceble attencon to y' Sermon, wherefore,
M : Masters, A : all, L : listen, T : to theame.

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An Allegory is, when one thing is spoken & another
thing ment y' thing here spoken is of Malt, the thing
meant is the oyle of Malt, w* to the Drunkards is soe
pretious, as that they account M : their Meate, A : their
Ale, L : their Liberty, T : their Treasure.
Their litterall sence, hath ever byne found sutable to
the Theame, & confirmed by Beggerly Experience
M : A : L : T : much Ale, little Thrift.
The Tropologicall, is manifested by the effect in the
humor predominant, stirring up in some M : Murther, in
others A : Adultery, in most L : loose living, andin others
some T : Trechery, and Consequently M : Misery,
A : Anguish, L : Lamentation, T : Tribulation.
For Conclusion, I doe seriously exhort you all vnto
Repentance, & amendment of lyfe, y' soe you may
escape the penalty due to such swinish livers ; but I much
feare y' I loose my labour; my Theme shewing that it is
M : to A : a Thousand pounds to a Pott of Ale, if
I : K : L : one Knave of Fifty, will ever L : T : leave to
love potting.
Neverthelesse, in regard of the discharge of my dutiful!
Love unto you, my dearely beloved Brethren, I doe
againe & againe, exhort you one thing ; M : mend,
A : and L : leave T : tipling.
By this tyme the Ale, and his perswasion soe wrought,
as they fell asleepe ; and the Preacher closely, crept away.

The WORTHY
SAYINGS OF
Old Mr. DOD.
Fit to be treafured up in the
Memory of every Christian.
In TWO PARTS.

Price Two-Pence, or Twelve Shilling a Hundred
to those who buy them to give away. ft

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Old Mr. DO D's Sayings.
Nothing can hurt us but Sin ; and that fhall
not hurt us, if we can repent of it. And
nothing can do us good, but the Love and Favour
of God in Chrift; and that we fhall have if we
feek it.
No Man is in a bad Condition, but he that hath
a hard Heart and cannot pray.
So much Sin, fo much Sorrow ; fo much Holi-
nefs, fo much Happinefs.
Make thy Sin thy greateft Sorrow ; fo fhall thy
Sorrow never hurt thee. Make Jefus Chrift thy
greateft Joy, fo fhalt thou never want Joy.
A Man that hath the Spirit of Prayer, hath
more than if he had all the World.
Two Things he recomraended to a married Cou
ple, Cares and Strifes : For the Firft, let your
Cares be, which fhall pleafe God moft : For your
Strifes, let them be, which fhall love God moft,
and which fhall love one another beft : So will
your Cares and Strifes be to Purpofe : So will all
needlefs Cares and Strifes van ifh.
If you be in a married Eftate, know and believe
it though you might have had a better or richer
Wife or Hufband, yet fure enough, you could
never had a fitter, becaufe it was appointed by
God in Heaven, before it poffibly be accomplifhed
here upon Earth : And therefore, though mutual
Love be not kindly performed to thee, yet do
thou

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thou thy Part in Obedience to God, and thou fhalt
be fure to have Comfort in the End, though God
exercife thee with Chaftifement for Time.
There are no Afflidtions or Miferies befal us
but by God's Appointment; and cannot hurt us,
but muft needs do us Good, if we be God's Chil
dren : But, firft, befure you mix not Sin with
them, for that only makes them bitter. Secondly,
Look not at the Rod, but at him that fmiteth ;
for that caufeth fretting and fainting both.
If thou defireft to be affured, that thy Sins be
forgiven thee, labour to forgive Injuries and Of
fences done unto thee.
In all Miferies and Diftrefs, it is beft Wifdom
to go to that Friend that is moft near, moft wil
ling, and moft able to help ; Such a Friend is God
He would often fay, he had no Reafon to com
plain of his CroflTes, being they were the bitter
Fruits of his Sins.
Where Siu lies heavy, Croffes lay light ; and
contrary, where Croffes lie heavy. Sins lie light.
Either Prayer will make a Man give over fin
ning, or finning make a Man give over Prayer.
Four Things we may learn from Children; i.
They take no unneceflTary Care. a. They fleep with
out Malice. 3 . They are content with their Con
dition. 4. They are humble; the Child of a King,
will play with the Child of a Beggar.
There is no Afflidtion fo fmall, but we fliould
fink under it, if God upheld not; and there is no
Sin fo great, but we fhould commit it if God re
ftrained not.

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If we be railed on, or reviled, or injurioufly
dealt withal, by Friend or Foe, we fhould be
more troubled for the Sin againft God, than
the Offenee done to ourfelves.
A godly Man is like a Sheep, every Place is
tbe better for him where he comes. A wicked
Man is like a Goat, every Place is the worfe for
him, he leaves a ftinking Savour behind him.
Sandtified Afflidtions are Spiritual Promotions,
and are far better for the Chriftian than all the
Silver and Gold in the World, feeing that the
Trial of our Faith is much more precious than of
Gold which perifheth.
Directions for the Lord's Day. Make the Sab
bath the Market-Day for thy Soul : Lofe not one
Hour, but be either praying, conferring, or
meditating : Think not thy own Thoughts : Let
every Day have its Duties : Turn the Sermon
heard into Matter of Prayer, Inftrudlion into Pe
tition, Reproof into Confeffion, Confolation into
Thankfgiving : Think much of the Sermon heard,
and make fomething of it all the Week long.
Directions for euery -Day. Firft, for Morning.
Every Morning pre-fuppofe, i. I muft die. 2. I
may die every Night. 3. Whither will my. Soul
go ? To Heaven or to Hell ? Secondly, for Night.
Every Night aflt thy Soul thefe Queftions : i.
Have I twice this Day humbled myfelf before
God in private? How 'did I pray? In Faith aud
Love. 3. What have my Thoughts been this
Day ? 4. What have I been in my Place and Cal
ling ? 5. What have I been in Company ? Did I
fpeak of good Things? Or did I hear, and with
Mary

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Mary lay up ? 6. If God, with the Morning, re
newed Mercies, was I thankful? 7. If the Day af
forded me Matter of Sorrow, did I fret ? Or did I
lie in the Duft before God ? When you have thus
done, where you have been failing, confefs it
with Sorrow; the lefs Work you will have to do
when Death comes : Thus every Night reckon
right with thy God.
What we fhall -win by Prayer, we fhall wear
with Comfort.
For the Comfort of God's People, he obferved
out of the 119th Pfalm, That tho' the Wicked
were the Plowers of the Righteous, and would
plow deep, make long Furrows, and even plow
their Hearts out if they could; yet the Righteous
Lord, that fits in Heaven, laughs at them, and
cuts their Cords, and then they can plow no more.
In cafe of Perfecutions, and other Sufferings,
God's People fliould ferioufly confider thefe four
Things. I. God wills them and fends them:
Now God's Will is a perfedt Rule of Righteouf-
nefs : And what God doth is fo well done, that it
could not be better done. 2. There is need of
them, or elfe we fhould not have them. 3. Their
Number, Meafure and Continuance, is deter
mined by God ; they are but for a Moment, and
laft but for a few Z)ays. Not too heavy, too ma
ny, or too long, as the Devil would have them,
nor too few, too fhort, or too light, as our cor
rupt Natures would have them. 4. Their End
is a. freight of Glory, aud the Crown that attends
them everlasting.
Three Things make a Man count himfelf happy here

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here below, i. To have a good Eftate. 2. To have
it in a good Place. 3. By good Neighbours. Now
thefe three, they that die in the Lord, eminently en
joy. I. Their heavenly Inheritance is great. Eye
hath not feen, nor hath Ear heard the like. a. 'Tis
in a good Place, Heaven, which is a Houfe made for
them, and made by God, and therefore muft needs be
good. 3. By good Neighbours, God, Chrift, the
Spirit, Angels and Saints. Adam had a good Inheri
tance, and in a good Place, but he had an evil Neigh
bour the Devil that troubled him, that marred all : but
there's no evil Neighbours in Heaven.
The Paffions of God's People do not hinder the
Succefs of their Prayers. Elias was a Man fubjedl to
like Paffions as we are, and he prayed, and was heard.
Three Things concur to the making up of the Si
againft the Holy Ghoft. i. Light in the Mind. 2.
Malice in the Heart. 3. The Infenfiblenefs of the Ssn.
He that fears he hath committed it, and hath not com
mitted it.
To perfuade us not to return Railing for Railing,
he would fay If a Dog barked at a Sheep, a Sheep
would not bark at a Dog.
FourArgumentsagainft immoderate Cares for earthly
Things, that we might not difhonour or deny God,
he obferved, i. 'Tis needlefs. 2. 'Tisbrutifh. 3. 'Tis
bootlefs. 'Tis heathenifh. i. Needlefs: What need
we care and God too ? Our Father knows we have
Need of thefe Things, and he bids us be careful for
nothing, but caft our Cares on him who careth for us.
a. Brutifli, nay, more than brutifli, Confider the
Fowls of the Air, and tht Ravens that he feeds, they
toil uot. 3. Bootlefs, or to no Purpofe, Which of
you

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you, by taking Thought, can add one Cubit to his
Stature, or Penny to his Eftate ? 4. Heathenifh, After
all thefe Things do the Gentiles feek.
Many in the World take their Saintfhip upon Truft,
and trade in the Duties of Religion with the Credit
they have gained from other Opinions : They believe
themfelves to be Chriftians, becaufe others hoped them
to be fuch, and fo zealoufly trade in Duties that lie
outmoft, to keep up their Credit, but never look for
a Stock of folid Grace within ; this undoes many.
As we read of daily Bread, fo of daily Croffes,
which we are bid to take, not to make : We need not
make Croffes for ourfelves, as we are too prone to do;
but let God make them for us : Croffes being made in
Heaven, beft fit the Saints Backs, and we muft not lay
them down till they and we lie down together.
It was a notable Saying of a holy Man, Quench
Hell and burn Heaven, yet will I love and fear my God.
It is not crying out upon the Devil, nor exclaiming
againft Sin in Prayer or Difcourfe but fighting with
the Devil, and mortifying our Lufts, that God chiefly
looks upon.
The empty Profeffor difappoints two at once ; i.
The World, who feeing his Leaves, expedts Fruit,
but finds none. a. Himfelf, who thinks to reach
Heaven, but falls Iho t of it.
The only Way for a diftreffed Soul, that cannot
faften on former Cornforts by Reason of future Back-
flidings, and fo queftions all his former Evidences, is
to renew his Repentance, as if he never had believed.
Some are apt to think, if they were in fuch a Fa
mily, under fuch a Minifter, out of fnch Tempta
tions, the Devil would not meddle with him as he does :
But

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But fuch fhould know, that fo long as his old
friend is within, he will be knocking at the door
without. The feeds are fown fo deep in the Nature of the
Devil and the Saint, that they will never be rooted
out, until the Devil fhall ceafe to be a Devil, and
Sin to be Sin, and the Saint to be a Saint.
The Sinner is the Devil's Miller, always grind
ing, and the Devil is always filling the hopper,
that the Mill may not ftand ftill.
There be fome Sins that an ignorant perfon
cannot commit ; but there are far more that an
ignorant perfon cannot but commit.
Brown Bread with the Gofpel is good Fare.
There be five Ties by which the God of Heaven
hath bound himfelf to be the Saint's Life-Giiard
againft the Powers of Darkness, i. His relation
as Father, a. His Love to them, they being the
Birth of his everlafting council, and partakers of
his own Likenefs. 3 . The price of his Son's Blood,
and his covenant with them. 4. Their depen
dance upon him, and expedtafions from hirh in
all their ftreights. j. Chrift's prefent employ^
ment in heaven is to fee all things fairly carried
between God and them.- The

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The Second Part of
Old Mr, DO D's Sayings.
B Efore he was married, he could fcarce
maintain himfelf, his Living being but
fmaU, and thereupon he was thinking how
he fhould do to raaintain a Wife and Chil
dren ; but looking out of his Study- Win
dow, he faw a Hen and Chickens fcratching
for their Living, when he considered. That
the Hen did but live before, and had nothing
to fpare, and fhe had as much with that
great Family, § Upon a Time, when an
Afflidtion was upon him, which went to his
Heart, and under the Burthen thereof he
wept ; yet when he faw that it was the Will
of God, faid he, to one whom he loved, I
will go and blefs God, for I believe this will
be for my Good § He was of a weaned
Difpofition from the World, and he labour'd
to wean others. He put this Difference
between rich and poor Chriftians, That for
poor Chriftians, their Father kept the Purfe,
but the rich keep the Purfe in their own
Hands; but it did often fall out, that it is
better that the Purfe is in their Father's
Hand& than theirs. § He ufed to compare
wicked Men to Waves in the Sea ; thofe of
great Eftate were great Waves, those of
fmall Eftate fmall Waves ; but that all were

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as reftlefs as Waves. § To a Friend of his,
that was raifed from a mean Eftate to much
worldly Greatnefs, he fent Word, That this
was but as if he fliould go out of a Boat in
to a Ship, aud that he fhould remember,
that while he was in this World, he was
upon the Sea. § Having preached out of that
Text, ' O Woman, great is thy Faith ! be
it unto thee even as thou wilt,' He invited
fome Women to Dinner, and told them. It
was an ufual Saying, ' Let a Woman have
her Will, and then Ihe'll be quiet ' Now the
Way for a Woman to have her Will, is to
get a ftrong Faith, and pray as the Woman
did in the Gospel. § He ufed to marvel what
the "Vocation of fome was, who were fo ea
ger for Recreations, and fay. If we fhould
come into a Houfe, and fee many Phyfick-
Boxes and Glaffes, we fliould conclude fome-
body was fick ; fo, when we fee Hounds
and Hawks, Cards and Dice, we may fear
there is fome fick Soul in the Family § He
ufed to fay. If it were lawful to envy any,
he would euvy thofe that turned -to God in
their Youth, whereb f they efcaped much
Sin and Sorrow, an I were like Jacob, that
ftole away the Blefiings betitaes. || Some
riotous Gentlemen dining at the Table of a
worthy Grentleman, were ftarved in the
Midft of a Feaft, becaufe refraining from

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Swearing (Meat and Drink to them) in the
Prefence of Mr. Dod: One after Dinner
fairly confeffed, that he thought it had been
impoffible for him to forbear Oaths for fuch
a Time : Hereat Mr. Dod fell iuto a perti
nent aud feafonable Discourfe, of what
Power Men have more than they know of
themfelves to refrain from Sin, and how ac
tive God's reftraining Grace would be in us
to bridle us from Wickednefs, were we not
wanting to ourfelves. || His Preaching was
fo fearching, that fome fuppofed he had In
formers to tell him of Mens Adtions, becaufe
he touched them fo clofe : He anfwered,
that the Word was fearching, and that if
he was fhut up in a dark "Vault, where none
could come at him, yet allow him but a
Bible and Candle, he would preach as he
did. II He ufed to fay. That Afflidtions were
God's Potions, which we might fweeten by
Faith and Prayer ; but we for the moft
Part make them bitter, putting into God's
Cup the ill Ingredients of our own Impa
tience and unbelief. || He told fome of his
Friends, That if he ¦ was to pafs Sentence
who was a rich Man, he would not look
into his Purfe or Cheft, to fee how much
Silver or Gold ; but he would look into his
Heart, what Promifes were treafured up
there; for we count him rich, who is rich

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in Bonds and the pleading the Promifes is the
fuing of the Bonds. § He would fay that was
well which ended everlaftingly well, and that
was 111 which ended everlaftingly 111. § That a
Man was never undone till in Hell. H Speaking
about going to Law, his Opinion was. That it
was better to buy Love than Law ; for one might
have a great Deal of Love for a little, where
as he could have but a little Law for a great
Deal. II Being to advife a young Man in the
Choice of a Yoke-Fellow, he bid him look princi
pally after Godlinefs. Men talk of a Portion ;
Grace is the beft Portion : The wife Woman
buildeth up the Houfe ; that is, the godly Wo
man, not the rich. || He was much given to
Hofpitality, and when he had invited a great
many, fo that his Wife would begin to doubt of
her Provifion, when fo many were come, he would
ufually Say, Better want Meat than good Com
pany. 11 When hi faw a true Chriftian look fad,
he would ufe that Speech which Jonadab did to
Amnon, Thou art a King's Son. 1| He would
fay to thofe that complained of Loffes and Croffes,
that which Eliphaz faid to Job, Do the Confo-
lations of God feem fmall - to you? God hath ta
ken away your Children, your Goods; but he
hath not taken away himfelf, nor Chrift, nor his
Spirit uor Heaven, nor eternal Life. H He
advised Hufbands and Wives, that when either
of thein were in a Paffion, they fliould not anfwer

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Paffion for Paflion, but with Com-paffion. || When
his Servant came to vifit him in a Morning, he
would fay. Have yoii been with God to blefs him
for your Sleep this Night ? He might have made
your Bed your Grave. || Being at Holmby-Houfe,
and invited by an Honourable Perfonage to fee
that ftately Building, eredted by Sir Chriftopher
Hatton, he defired to be excufed, and to fit ftill
looking on a Flower in his Hand, giving this
Reafon : I fee more of God in this Flower, than
in all the beautiful Edifices in the World. || The
Soldiers coming to his Houfe in the Time of the
late Wars, and having taken moft of the Linen
and Houfhold Stuff, bringing them down into
the Room where Mr. Dod was fet warming him by
the Fire-Side, he, in their Abfence out of the
Room, in fearching for more, took a Pair of Sheets,
and clapped them under the Cufhion whereon he
fat, much pleafing himfelf, after their Depar
ture, that he had plundered the Plunderers, and
by a lawful Felony, faved fo much of his own
to himfelf. |1 He always expedted Troubles, and
prepared himfelf for them ; and put this Dif
ference betwixt the Aflllidtions for which we are
prepared and others, that the one are Blows on
the Harnefs, and the others are Blows upon the
Flefh. II He ufed to compare Rebukes, uttered in
a Paffion, to fcalding Potions, which the Patients
could not take down; and his Opinion was, that
if we would do to others, we fhould labour for

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Meeknefs of Wifdom, whereby we may be enabled to uf
foft Words and hardArguments. || In the Beginning ofthe
Wars, when many good People came unto him, being af
frighted with the Soldiers, he encouraged them ufing this
Speech, That if a Houfe was full of Rods, what need the
Child fear, when none of them could move without the
Father's Hand ? And the Lord was a loving Father, and
Eftate and Life were all at his Difpofal || When afterwards
fome Soldiers came to his Houfe, and threatened to knock
him on the Head, he anfwered with Confidence, That if
they did, they fhould fend him to Heaven, where he longed
to be : But they could do nothing without God's Leave. ||
When the Soldiers broke open his Chefts and Cupboards, and
plundered him of his Goods, he faid to a Friend of his,
that he would not do them that Honour to fay. That they
had taken aught from him, but it was the Lord, alledging
that of J ob, who, when he was fpoiled by the Sabaeans and
Chaldaeans, yet did not fo much as name the Inftruments,but
faid. The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away.
II He would fay, he hat could anfwer two Queftions well,
might have Comfort in any Place or Condition, viz. Who
am I ? and What do I here ? Am I a Child of God ? and
am I in my Calling and Way ? He hath given his Angels
Charge to keep thee in all thy Ways. || He ufed to fay, That
the Knowledge of two Things would make one willingtoluf-
fer or to die, viz. What Heaven is, and that it is mine-
Yes, faid one if a Man was fure. To whom he anfwered.
Truly, Affurance is to be had ; and what have we been
doing all this while ? || He ufed to fay, they that hope
to go to Heaven (as moft do) and have not Evidence for
it, were like to a Man, that by paffing by fome great Houfe
or Eftate, would fay, this is mine ; but being bid to fliow
his title, would fay, fomebody muft have it ; and why not
I ? Such is many Men's Title to Heaven,

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A goodly Minifter being in a Confumption, came to
Afhby, not far from Fawfly, to have the Help of Mr.
Dod's Counfels and Comforts : Hewas much oprreffed with
Melancholy, aud, a little before his Death, asked Mr Dod,
What will you fay to me, that am going out of the World,
and can find no Comfort ? To whom he faid. What will you
fay of our Saviour, who, when he was going out of the
World, found no Comfort, but cried out. My God, my
Gad, why haft thou forfaken me ? This Speech much re-
frefhed the Mintfter, a little before he went to his heavenly
Inheritance. || Being ftricken in Years, he ufed to compare
himfelf unto Sampfon, when his Hair was cut off: I arife
in the Morning, fays he, as Sampfon did, and think I will
go out as at other Times : Go watch, ftudy, and ride, as
when a young Man : Bnt, alas ! he quickly found an
Alteration, and fo did I ; who muft ftoop to Age, who
hath dipt my Hair, and taken away my Strength. || In
the 53rd Year of his Age he had a Fever, in which there
was little Hopes of his Life : The Phyfician feeing fome
Signs of his Recovery, faid to him, in the Prefence of
divers Friends. Now I hope you will recover. To whom
Mr. Dod anfwered. You think to comfort me by this, but
you make my Heart fad : It is as if you fhould tell one that
hath been fore Weather-beaten on the Sea and conceived
that he was arrived at an Haven where he longed to be,
that he muft go back again, that he may be toffed with new
Winds and Waves. || He called Death the Friend of Grace,
though it was an Enemy to Nature ; and whereas the Word,
Sacraments, and Prayer do only weaken Sin Death kills
it. II He would often say in his Sicknefs, I am not afraid to
look at Death in the Face. I can fay. Death where is ths
Sting ? Death cannot hurt me. He fpake how Death way
a fweet Sleep to a Christian ; adding. That if Parents
fhould tell little Children, who had played all the Day,

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that they muft go to Bed, they would be ready to cry ;
but a labouring Man's glad when Night comes that he
may go to Reft: Thus wicked Men Death is unwel
come to but a Child of God, who hath laboured and
fuffered, is glad when Death comceh, that he may reft
from his Labour.
FINIS.

g^ppiitri^.

Bibliographical List of the Writings of John Dod and
References to Biographical Notices of him, etc.

aSibliotfreca liTottfratttonensis*

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN DOD.

DOD, Jolm, FoAvsley.
John Dod was born at Shocklach, in Cheshire, o. 1649, He was the youngest of
seventeen children. Prom a school at Westchester, he proceeded to Jesus College,
Cambridge, where he was scholar and subsequently fellow. "While resident at Cam
bridge, as fellow, he used to go every week to Ely to preach. His first appointment
was at Hanwell in Oxfordshire, where he resided about 20 years, from li77 to 1597.
"While there he was one of five Preachers who kept up the Lecture at Banbury.
About 1597 he was suspended: but he subsequently ministered at Canons Ashby, and
ultimately became rector of Fawsley, both in Northamptonshire. He died at his
living, and was there buried, in the year 1645, having reached the great age of 95
years. The following entry appears in the Parish Register at Fawsley : " Mr. John
Dod mimster was buried August 19 1645,"
Prefixed to an edition of his Ten Sermons published in 1661 is a portrait of him,
an oval with four lines under it. Opposite the head, on the left side, you read the
inscription — ** Ob. An. Ch. 1645." On the right side— etatis suae 96." underneath,
*' A Grave Divine ; precise, not turbulent ;
And never guilty of the Churches rent :
Meek even to sinners ; most devout to God :
This is but part of the due praise of Dod."
Although a pronounced Puritan, he was a staunch Royalist, Granger says of
him: — "He was in learning excelled by few, and in unaffected piety by none*
Nothing was ever objected to this meek and humble man, but his being a puritan."
His work on the Ten Commandments, of which at least 19 editions were published
during his life-time, procured for him the title of The Decalogist. His " Sayings "
became very popular, and were widely circulated. As a preacher he had great repu
tation, and of his personal piety and devotion there has been but one opinion. He
married a daughterof Dr. Bound and had 12 children. One of his grandsons, whp was
born at Fawsley rectory, had a most changeable career. Dr. John Wilkins took
Holy Orders and became chaplain to Lord Say. He afterwards joined the Presby,
terians and took the covenant. He became warden of Wadham College, Oxford; and
also Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from which post he was ejected. But he
again conformed to the Church of England, and after some minor preferments died
Bishop of Chester. He had married the sister of Oliver Cromwell. W. D. S.

A Plaine and familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements, with a
methodicall short Catechisme, containing briefly all the principall
grounds of Christian Religion. Psal. 119. 30,
The entrance into thy worda sheweth light,
and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
London Printed by T. C. for Thomas Man, dwelling in Paternoster Eowe, at
the aigne of the Talbot. 1604. 4to.

A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. -With a
methodicall short Catechisme, containing briefly all the principal
grounds of Christian Eeligion. Psal. 119. 30.
The entrance into thy words sheweth light,
and giueth vnderstanding to the simple.
At LoHBOH Printed by George Eld for Thomas Man, dwelling in Paternoster
Eow, at the signe of the Talbot. 1609. 4ito.
Trinity OoUege, Dublin, D. kk. 4.

A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. With a
Methodicall Shdrt Catechisme, containing brieflie all the pfinoipall
grounds of Christian Beligion. Ne-wly corrected and inlarged by the
Author. Psalm. 119. 30.
The entrance into thy worda sheweth light, and giueth vn
derstanding to the simple.
At LoKDOM", Printed by Humfrey Lownes for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-
noster-row, at the signe of the Talbot. 1615. 4to.
Britisli Museum, 3165. Ci
Taylor Collection.
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian Religion. Newly corrected and inlarged by the
Author. Psalme 119. 130.
The entrance into thy words sheweth light, and giueth
vnderstanding to the simple.
LoiTDOH', Printed by Hichard Field for Thomas Man, dwelling in Fater-noster
row, at the signe of the Talbot. 1618. 4to.
Taylor Collection.
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandem(ents. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian "Religion. The fifteenth Edition : Newly
corrected and amended by the Author.
Psalme 119. 130.
The entrance into thy words sheweth light, and giueth
vnderstanding to the simple.
"I/oirDOM", Printed by Richard Field, for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster
row, at the signe of the Talbot. 1622. 4to.
Boileian, 4o. D. 45. Th.
A plaine and familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian Eeligion. The eighteenth Edition. Newly
corrected and amended by the Author.
Psalm. 119. 130.
The entrance into thy "Word sheweth light, and giueth vnder
standing to the simple.
LoiTDOH-, Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Man, &o. and are sold by Iohn
Wright at the signe of the Bible without Newgate. 1630. 4to.
"The Epistle Dedicatprie" signed " Iohn Dod, Eobert Cleaner."
University Library, Cambridge, 73. 41. 65,
A plaine and familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian Religion. The eighteenth Edition. Newly
corrected and amended by the Author.
Psalm. 119. 30.
The entrance into thy Word sheweth light, and giueth vnderstan
ding to the simple.
LoNDoif, Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Man, Pavl Man, and lonah Man
1632. 4to.
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A plain and familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian Religion. The uinthteenth Edition. Newly
corrected and amended by the Author.
Psal. 119. 130.
The entrance into thy Word sheweth light, and giveth understanding
to the simple.
LoifDos, Printed by the Assignes of loane Man, and Benjamin Fisher. 1635. 4to.
British Museum, 1016. 1. 4.
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ninth and Tenth Chapters of
the Prouerbs of Salomon. Matthew. 13. 35.
I will open my mouth in Parables, and will vtter
the thinges which haue beene kept secret from
the foundation of the world.
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signe of the Talbot. 1606. 4to.
University Library, Cambridge, Dd. 3. 39.
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the Prouerbs of Salomon. Matth. 13. 35.
I will open my mouth in Parables, and will vtter the things
which haue been kept secret from the foundation of the
world.
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I will open mj mouth in Parables, and wUl vtter the things
which haue been kept secret from the foundation of the
world.
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A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man
of vnderatanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels.
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A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man
of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels.
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Proverbs. 2. 10. 11.
When wisdome enteretfe into thine heart, and knowledge de
lighteth thy soule. Then shall counsell preserue thee, and
vnderstanding shall keepe thee.
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teth thy soule. Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnder
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Proverbs. 2. 10. 11.
When wisedome entreth into thine hart, and knowledge deligh
teth thy soule. Then shall counsell preserue thoe, and vnder
standing shall keepe thee.
At London Imprinted by T. C. for Eoger lackson : and are to bee sold at his shop
iu Fleet-street, neere the Conduit. 1615. 4to.
British Museum, 873. h. 16.

A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seuen
teenth Chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon.

London, Printed by Thomas Haveland for Thomas Man, 1609. 4to.
) Eight -y-V-orshipfvU our approoued g
m Esquire : Grrace and peace be multi
Signed " John Dod, Eobert Cleaner,

Dedication: " To the Eight -y-V-orshipfvll our approoued good friend Erasmvs
Driden Esquire : Grrace and peace be multiplied,"

British Museum, 3109. c,
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seuen
teenth Chapter of the Prouerbs of Salomon.
London, Printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611. 4to.
Dedication: "To the Right Worshipfvll ovr approved good friend, Erasmvs
Driden Esquire ; Grace and peace be multiplied."
Signed " John Dod, Bobert Cleaner."
British Museum, 873. h. 16.
5
University Library, Cambridge, Dd. 3. 39.
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition : of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon. By lOHN DoD
and Eobert Cleaver. Psalme 34. Ter. 8.
U Taste yee, and see how gracious the Lord is. Blessed is the
man that trusteth in him.
London Printed for Roger lackson, and are to be sold at his Shop in Tleete
streete neere the Conduit. 1610, 4to,
Taylor Colleciion,

A Plaine and Familiar Exposition : ot tho Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and
Twentieth Chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon. By lOHN DoD and
Eobert Cleaver. Psalme 34. Ter. 8.
Taste yee, and see how gracious the Lord is. Blessed is the
man tbat trusteth in him.
London Printed for Eoger lackson, and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleete-
streete neere the Conduit. 1611. 4to.
British Museum, 873. h. 16.
8
2ViB% College, Dublin, BB. k. 31.
A Briefe Explanation of the whole Booke of the Prouerbs of Salomon.
By Eobert Cleaver.
At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, and Eobert lackson.
1616. 4to.
Dedication: "To the Right Worshipfvll Thomas Crew Esquier, grace, mercie,
and peace be multiplied in lesvs Christ."
Signed " Iohn Dod. Eobert Cleaver "
British Museum, 219. e. 21.
Two Sermons on the Third ot the Lamentations ot leremie : Preached at
Hanwell in the first yeare of his Maiesties raigne, 1602. The one by
I. D. the other by E. C. Philip. 3. 1.
It grieneth me not to vrrite tbe same tbings to yoa, and
for you it is a sure thing.
Isaiah 56. 3.
Hearken, and your soule shall Hue.
At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for lonas Man, and are to be sold at
the signe of the Starre, at the West dore of Paules Church in London,
1608. 4to.
British Museum, 3109. o.
6
Two Sermons on the Third of the Lamentations. Preached at Hanwell
in the first yeere of his Maiesties reigne, 1602. The one by I. D. the
other by R. C. Philip. 3.1.
It grieneth me not to write the same things to you, and
for you it is a sure thing.
Isaiah 65, 3.
Hearken, and your soule shall line.
At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and are to be sold
at the signe of the Talbot in Pater noster row. 1610. 4to.
Trinity CoUege, Cambridge, K. 24. 26.
A Remedy against Privat Contentions. A Godly and Frvitfull Sermon
on lames, 4, 1, &c. Wherein is at large Discovered the hatefulnes,
and pernitiousnes of priuate lars and Contentions, with manifolde
remedies against the same. By Mr, John Dod.
2, Cor. 10, 3.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but mightie
through God to cast downe holds.
London Printed by Iohn Windit for Thomas Man. 1609. 4to.
British Museum, 3109, c.

VI.
A Remedy against Privat Contentions. A Godly and FrvitfvU Sermon
ou lames, 4. 1. &o. Wherein is at large discovered the hatefulnes,
and perniciousnesse of priuate lars and Contentions, with manifold
remedies against the same. By Mr, Iohn Dod.
2. Cor. 10. 3.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but migh
tie through God to cast downe holds.
At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, aud are to be sold
at the signe of the Talbot in Paternoster row. 1610. 4to,'
University Library, Cambridge, 8. 37. 66,
Trinity College, Cambridge, K. 24. 26.
A Remedy against Privat Contentions. A Godly and Frvittvll Sermon
on lames, 4. 1. &c. Wherin is at Large Discouered the hatefulnes,
and perniciousnesse ot priuate lars and Contentions, with manifold
remedies against the same. By Mr. lOHN DoD.
2. Cor. 10, 3,
The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but migh
tie through God to cast downe holds.
At London Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Thomas Man, and are to be sould
at the signe of the Talbot in Paternoster rowe. 1614. 4to.
British Museum, 4473. aaa.
A Remedy against Privat Contentions. A Godly and FrvitfvU Sermon on
lames, 4. 1. &o. Wherein is at Largo Discovered the hatefulnes, and
perniciousnesse of priuate lars and Contentions, -vrith manifold
remedies against the same. By Mr. Iohn Dod.
2. Cor. 10. 3.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but mightie through
God to cast downe holds.
At London printed by Felix &ng8ton for Thomas Man, and are to be sold at
the signe of the Talbot in Pater-noster row. 1618. 4to.
Al p. 34.
" The Second Sermon, Lamentations, chap. 3. vers. 6B, &c."
Bodleian, 4o. D. 45. Th.
A Briefe Dialogve, Concerning preparation for the worthy reoeiuing of the
Lords Svpper. Taken, for the most part, ont ot the ten Sermons of
Mr. 1. DOD and Mr. R. Cleaver, touching that Subiect.
London : Printed by Thomas Harper for John Harison, and are to be sold by
Henry Overton, at his shop m Popes-head alley, neere Lombard-street.
1633. Svo.
Bodleian, 8o. S. 302. Art.
Ten Sermons tending ohlefely to the fitting ot men for the worthy
receiulng of the Lords Supper. Wherein amongst many other holy
mstructions : the Doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and
of Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy Commu
nicants are largely and effectually handled. The six flrst, by I DoD
The foure last, by R, Cleaner, Whereunto is annexed, a plaine and
learned metaphrase on the Epistle to the CoUossians, written by a
godly and mdicious Preacher. There is also set betore the Sermons a
short Dialogue of Preparation : containing the chiefe points that con
cerne the worthy receiulng of the Lords Supper, taken for the most
part, out of the Sermons following : and coUected into a method for
the benefit and ease of those that desire direotion in this matter.
¦^""fw I'"°*«'iby„ William HaU for Roger lackson, and are to bee sold at his
shop, neere the Conduit in Fleet-street. 1609. 4to.
Taylor Collection.

VII.
Ten Sermons tending chiefely to the fitting ot men tor the worthy
receiuing of the Lords Supper. Wherein amongst many other holy
instructions ; the Doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation,
and ot Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy Com
municants are largely and effectuaUy handled. The six first, by 1.
Dod. The toure last, by R. Cleaner. Whereunto is annexed, a plaine
and leamed metaphrase on the Epistle to the CoUossians, written by
a godly and iudioious Preacher. There is also set before the
Sermons, a short Dialogue of Preparation ; containing the chiefe
points that concerne the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper, taken
for the most part, out of the Sermons foUowing : and collected into
a method for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this
matter.
London Printedby William Hall for Roger lackson, and are to bee sold at his
shop, neere the Conduit in Fleet-street. 1610. 4to.
St. John's College, Cambridge, Aa. 14. 34.
Ten Sermons tending chiefely to the fitting of men for the worthy receiu
ing of the Lords Supper. Whorein amongst many other holy
Instructions, the Doctrines of sound Repentance and Humiliation,
and of Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy Com
municants, are largely and effectually handled. The sixs first, by
I. Dod. The foure last, by R. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed a
plaine and learned Metaphrase on the Epistle to the CoUossians,
written by a godly and iudicious Preacher. There is also set before
the Sermons, a short Dialogue of Preparation : containing the chiefe
points that concerne the worthy receiuing ot the Lords Supper, taken
for the most part, out of the Sermons following : and collected into
a method, for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in
this matter. Newly Printed and Enlarged.
London ; Printed by T, P, for Eoger lackson, and are to be sould at his Shop
neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet. 1621. 4to.
Bodleian, 4o. D. 46. Th.
Ten Sermons, Tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy
receiuing of the Lord's Svpper. Wherein, amongst many other holy^
Instruciijons, the Doctrines ot sound Repentance and Humiliation,
and of Gods speciall fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy Com
municants, are largely and effectually handled. The sixe first, by I.
Dod. The toure last, by E. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed a plaine
and learned Metaphrase on the Epistle to the Colossians, Written by
a godly and iudicious Preacher. There is also set before the Sermons,
a short Dialogue of Preparation, containing the chiefe Points that
concerne the worthy receiuing ot the Lords Supper : taken, for the
most part, out of the Sermons following ; and collected into a Method,
tor the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.
Newly Printed, and enlarged.
London, Printed by T. 0. and E. C. for William Sheffard, and are to be sold at
his Shop in Popes-Head Alley, at the entrance in out of Lombard-street.
1628. 4to.
Taylor Collection,
Ten Sermons, Tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy
receiuing of the Lord's Svpper. Wherein, amongst many other holy
Instructions, the Doctrines of sound Repentance and Humiliation,
and of God's speciall Fauours vnto penitent sinners, and worthy Com
municants, are largely and effectually handled. The sixe first, by
1, Dod, The foure last, by R, Cleaver, Whereunto is annexed a plaine
and learned Metaphrase on the Epistle to the Colossians, Written by
a godly and iudicious Preacher, There is also set before the Sermons,
a shoi't Dialogue of Preparation, containing the chiefe Points that
concerne the worthy receiuing of the Lords Supper : taken, forthe
most part, out of the Sernions following ; and collected into a Method,
for the benefit and ease of those that desire direotion in this raatter.
Newly Printed, and inlarged.
London : Printed by Thomas Harper, for John Harrison, 1634. 4to.
Triniiy College, DuiUn, OC. 1. 64.

vill.
Ten Sermons, Tending chiefly to the fitting of men tor the worthy
receiving of the Lords Supper. Wherein, amongst many other holy
Instructions; the Doctrines of sound Repentance and Humihation,
and of Gods speciaU favours unto penitent sinners, and vrorthy Com
municants, are largely aud effectuaUy handled. The sixe first, by
J. Dod. The four last, by R. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed a plain
and learned Metaphrase on the Epistle to the Colossianss Written by
a godly and iudioious Preacher. There is also set bef ore the Sermons,
a short Dialogue of Preparation, containing the chief Points that
concern the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper : taken for the
most part, out of the Sermons foUowing ; and coUected into a Method,
for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter.
Newly printed : and in this Edition are many Faults amended which
had escaped former impressions. Also there is now added the
Authors Life : Collected 1661. with his Effigies.
London, Printed by S. Griffin for W. Lee, at the Turks head in Fleet-street,
over against Fetter-Lane, 1661. 8vo.
Dr. -IVilliams' Library.
Taylor CoUection.
A Godlie Forme of Hovseholde Government : for the Ordering of Private
Families, according to the direotion of Gods word. Wherevnto is ad-
ioined in a more particular manner, the seuerall duties of the Hus
band towards his Wife ; and the Wiues dutie towards her Husband.
The Parents dutie towards their chUdren : and the Childrens towards
their Parents. The Masters dutie towards his Seruants : and also the
Seniants dutie towards their Masters. First, gathered by R, C. And
now newly perused, amended, and augmented, by lOHN DOD, and
Eobert Cleuer. Isidore.
Thou profltest much when thou readest, if thon
practisest that which thou readest.
Barnarde.
What auaileth it thee to reade often in bookes the
holy name of thy Sauiour, except thou studie aud en-
deuour to haue godlinesse in thy behauiour ?
At London, Printed for Thomas Man, and are to be sold by Arthur lohnson,
dwelling at the signe of the white horse, neere the great IT orth doore of
Paules. 1612. Svo.
British Museum, 4405. e.
Taylor Collection.
A Godly Forme of Hovshold Government : Por the ordering of private
Families, according to the direction of Gods Word. Whereunto is
adiojned in a more particular manner. The seuerall duties of tie Hus
band towards bis wite : and the Wiues dutie towards her Husband :
The Parents dutie towards their Children : and the Childrens towards
their Parents. The Masters dutie towards his Seruants ; and also the
Seruants dutie towards their Masters. First, gathered by R. C. and
now newly perused, amended, and augmented, By lOHK DoD, and
Robert Cleuer. Isidore.
Thou profltest much when thou readest, if thou
practisest tbat which thou readest.
Bernard.
What auaileth it thee to reade often in bookes the
holy Name of our Sauiour, except Ihou studie and en-
deuour to haue godlinesse in thy behauiour.
London, Printed by the Assignes of Thomas Man, and are to be sold by John
Clarke, under St. Peter's Church in CornhiU. 1630,
Trinity College, Dublin, CC. n. 51,

IX.
Three Godlie and Frvittvl Sermons ; the two first preached by Maister
John Dod : the last by Maister Robert Cleaver. Whereunto are
annexed, fiue Propositions, or points of doctrine, comprehended in
three other Sermons, by the same Author.
London, Printed for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls
Church-yard, at the signe of the white Swan. 1610. 4to.
Bodleian, Mar. 824.
Seven Godlie and FrvitfvU Sermons. The six first preached by Master
Iohn Dod : the last by Master Robert Cleaver. Wherevnto is
annexed, a briefe Discourse, touching, 1. Extinguishing of the Spirit,
2. Murmuring in affliction.
At London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Wilham Welby, and are to be sold
at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Swan. 1614. 4to.
Bodleian, io. V. 60. Th.
Taylor Collection,
Bathshebaes Instrvotions to her Sonne Lemvel : Containing a fruitfuU and
plaine Exposition of the last Chapter of the Proverbs. Describing
the duties of a Great-man, and the vertues of a Gracious Woman.
Penned by a godly and learned man, now with God. Perused, and
published tor the vse ot Gods Church, by Iohn Dod, and William
Hinde.
Printed at London by Iohn Beale, for Eoger lackson, and are to be sold at his
shop neere the great Cunduit in Fleet-streete. 1614. 4to.
British Museum, 873. h. 16.

Bowels Opened, or, a Discovery of the Neere and deere Love, Vnion and
Communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt
Him and every beleeving soule. Delivered iu divers Sermons on the
Fourth Fifth and Sixt Chapters of the Canticles. By that Reverend
and -PaithfuU Minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late Preacher unto
the Honourable Societie of Grayes lnne, and Master of Katharine
HaU in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his owne pen in his
lifetime, and the rest of thera perused and corrected by those whom
he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
Cant. 4. 10.
Thou hast ravished my heart, my Sister, my Spouse, thou hast
ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, and with one chaine of .
thy necke,
London. Printed by G. M. for George Edwards in the Old Baily in Greene
Arbour at the signe of the Angell, Mdcxxxix. 4to.
" To the Christian Eeader," signed " Thine in lesus Christ I. Dod."
British Museum, 3166 c.
Bowels Opened : or, a Discovery of the Neare and Deare Love, -Vnion and
Communion betwixt Christ, and the Chvrch, and consequently betwixt
Him and every beleeving Soule. Delivered in divers Sermons on the
fourth, fifth, and sixth Chapters of the Canticles. By that Rev
erend and faithfull Minister of the Word, Dr, Sibs, late Preacher
unto the Honourable Society of Grayes-lnne, and Master of Kath
erine Hall in Cambridge, Being in part finished by his owne pen
in his life-time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those
whom he intrusted with the pubUshing of his Works.
Cant. 4. 11.
Thou hast ravished my heart, my Sister, my Spouse : thon hast ravi
shed my heart with one of thine eyes, and with one chaine of thy
necke.
London, Printed by G. M. for George Edwards in the Old Baily in Greene-
Arbour, at the Signe of the Angell. 1641. 4to.
" To the Christian Eeader," signed " Thine in lesus Christ, I. Dod."
jBritish Museum, 3166. c.

Bowels Opened : or a Discovery of the Near and Dear Love, -Vnion and Com
munion betwixt Christ andthe Chvrch, and consequently betwixt Him
and every Beleeving-Soul. Delivered in divers Sermons ou the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Chapters of theCantioles. BythatRevereudand faith
full Minister of the Word Dr. Sibs, late Preacher nnto the Honor
able Society of Grays-Inn, and Master of Katharine-hall in Cam
bridge. Being in part finished by his own Pen in his life-time, and
the rest of them perused and corrected by those whora he intrusted
with the publishing of his Works. The third Edition.
Cant. 4. 11. Thou hast ravished my heart, my Sister, my Spouse, thou hast ravi
shed my heart with one of thine eyes, and with one ehain of thy neck.
London, Printed by E. Cotes for John Clark, and are to be sold at bis shop at
the lower end of Cheapside at the entrance into Mercers-Chappel, 1648. 4to.
"To the Christian Eeader," signed "Thine in Jesus Christ, I. Dod."
British Museum, 4452. dd,
A Plaine and Familiar Exposition on the Lords Prayer. First preached
in divers Serraons ; the Substance whereof, is now published for the
benefit of the Chvrch. Newly corrected and amended by lOHN
Dod Minister of the Word. Humilitie heapeth Honour.
Ecclesiastes 12. 11.
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nailes
fastened by the Masters of Assembhes, which are gi
ven by one Shepheard.
London, Printed by M. D. for Daniel Pakemam, and are to be sold at the Signe
of the Eaine-bow, neere tbe Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-street. 1635. 4to.
Dedication " To the Eight Worshipfvll his much honoured loving friend Mr.
Richard Knightley ; grace, mercy, and peace bee multiplyed."
Signed "Iohn Dod."
British Museum, 3225. aa.

Old Mr. Dods Sayings
London, Printed by A.
Black letter.
Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, Pamphlets, 2 No. 19.

London, Printed by A. Maxwell, in the year. Anno Dom, 1680. 12mo. 12 pages.
Black letter.

The Rev. Mr. Dod's Eemarkable Sayings.
London : Printed and Sold in Stonecutter street, Fleet-Market. Svo.
Woodcut Medallion Portrait on Title.
British Museum, 4905. aa.
Old Mr. Dod's Sayings.
London, Printed by A. Maxwell, in the Tear M.D O.LX.VII. Folio. Single sheet,
Two columns.
Bodleian, Wood 276a. 286,
A Second Sheet of Old Mr. DoD's Sayings : or another Posie gathered out
of Mr. Dod's Garden. * * * Collected by R. T. Licensed
and Entered according to Order.
London, Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acorn in S. Pauls Church
yard, near the little North door. 1670. A Sheet in Two Columns.
British Museum, 816. m. 21.
10
Old Mr. Dod's Sayings.
London, Printed by A. MaxweU, in the Year m.dc.lxxi. Single Sheet. Two
columns.
iSritish Muteiim, 816. m. 21.
9

Old Mr. Dod's Sayings, composed in Verse for the better Help of Mem
ory, and the Delightfulness of Childrens Reading and Learning them.
Whereby they may the better be ingrafted in their Meraories and
Understandings. Coraposed by T. S. a Well-Wilier to the Precious
and Immortal souls of all persons whatsoever.
Printed by A. P. and T. H. for T. Passinger, at the three Bibles, on London
bridge. 1678. 12mo.
With ";a Postcript in Eemembrance of that never to be forgotten Anthour,
Mr. Dod," of 4 pages j and on last leaf a rude Woodcut of King Charles in
the Oake, Inscribed " The EoyaU Oake."
British Museum, 1076. a. 34.
A Second Sheet ot Old Mr. Don's Sayings. -* * * CoUected by E. T.
London ; Printed for Tho. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge ; And
for Joseph Marshal, at the Bible in Newgate-street, 1724. Where may be
had the First Sheet of Old Mr. Dod's Sayings. Single Sheet. Two columns.
Woodcut Medallion Portrait.
British Museum, 1881. c. 7.
127*
The Worthy Sayings ot Old Mr. Dod. Fit to be treasured up in tha
Memory ot every Christian. In Two Parts.
Price Two-Pence, or Twelve Shilling a Hundred to thoae who buy them to give
away. 8vo. [1780] ?
Woodcut Portrait on Title page and large Woodcut of our Saviour on the
Cross at the eud.
British Museum, 11621, e. 5.
9
Taylor Collection.
Dod's Sayings, in Two Parts. Being a Collection ot some of his most
useful and remarkable Sentences ; faithfuUy extracted from his own
Works.
London : Printed and sold by H. Trapp, No. I, Pater-noster-Row, near Cheapside.
MDCCLXxxvi. [ Price Two - peace. 3
Taylor CoUection.
Gleanings of Heavenly Wisdom : or, the Sayings of John Dod, M.A.,
and Philip Henry, M.A.
The words of the wise are as goads.
Eccl, zu, 11.
London: T.Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row; and Edinburgh. MsoooLI.
16mo.
University Library, Cambridge, 6, 48. 48.
A Sermon, upon the Word Malt, Preached in the Stump of a hollow Tree,
by the Eev, John Dod, M.A. Author of the Remarkable and
Approved Sayings. To whioh is prefixed, a brief Account of the
Life ot the Author. Tbe Drunkard feels his Vitals waste.
Yet drowns his Health to please his Taste ;
'Till all bis active Pow'rs are lost.
And fainting Life draws near the Dust. WATTS.
Next to God's Throne his Spirit flies.
With Justice flaming in his Eyes
Jehovah frowns ! bids Fiends his Soul confine.
Where all that dwell are drunk with Wrath Divine. Anon.
Who hath Wo, who bath Sorrow, who bath Contentions, who hath
Babbling, who bath Wounds without Cause, who hath Redness of
Eyes ? They that tarry long at the Wine, Prov. xxiii. 29, 30.
London : Printed for T. Sookett, No. UO, Aldersgate-Street, J, Abraham,
Olney, Bucks, E. Handscomb, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and B. Chater, Pool,
Dorset. [F rice Four-Pence.] M.DCCi:,xxvii. Svo.
British Museum, 1417. b, 11.

An Extempore Sermon on Malt, Preached at the request of two Scholars,
By a Lover of Ale, Out of a hollow Tree.
Why need the Drunkard strive his Acts to smother.
Drink runs but out of one Hog's-head into another.
Price Three-[half-pen]ce. — Printed & Sold at No. 42, Bishopsgate within, London*
Folio. Single sheet. Two Columns.
Sir F. Madden Collection,
Au Extempore Sermon Preached at the Request of two Scholars (by a
Lover of Ale) out of a Hollow Tree.
A Sheet. Folio.
BritishMuseum, 1892. d.
21*
Dod's Sermon on Malt.
Sold by Read and Burton, Booksellers and Stationers, Thoroughfare, Ipswich.
Folio. Single sheet. [1832,]
Taylor Collection. -

Editions not verified.
A Plain Exposition of the Ten Commandments, by DoD and Cleaver,
1606.
TVati't Bib. Brit., 309b.
DOD and Cleaver's Exposition ot the Commandments, 1625.
Puttick 4r Simjpson, March 19*i, 1874.
A Plain Exposition ot the Ten Commandments, by DOD and Cleaver with
a Methodical Short Catechism, 1735.
Watt's Bib. Brit., 309»
Dod's Sermons on the Lord's Prayer, 1634.
Puttick ^ Simfson, March 19*4, 1874,

Norfha-mjAon, j. t.
Febrmry, 1875.

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F AWS LET.
1611. Nov. 24. 58, Geo. Abbot, Archbp. of Canterbury,
to the Rishop of Peterborough, Eecomniends care in not
allowing the deprived ministers, Barbon, Sheffield, Don, &c.,
to preach in his diocese, as the King would be much oifended.
State Papers, {Domestic Series), 1611-1618, vol. Ixvii.
1614. Sep. 28. 90. Archbp. Abbot to the Bp. of Peter
borough. The King -wishes to know the' truth of a report that
several silenced ministers, especially Mr. Dod and Mr. Cleaver,
are suffered to preach in his diocese ; and also that Mr. Catelyne,
of Northampton, though professing conformity when questioned,
does not " use perpetuall conformity ; " the refractory disposi
tion of the people of that town cannot be borne with.
State Fapers, {Domestic -Series), 1611-1618, vol. Ixxvii.
The Life of Master John Dod, who died Anno Christi
1645. Olar'ke's Martyroloyie, 1651., p. 404.
PlWSLET.
Ten Sermons, Tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the
worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. '* * '*
The sixe first, by J. Don. Tbe four last, by E. Cleaver.
* * * Also tbere is now added the Authors Life :
Collected 1661. with his effigies.
London, Printed by S. Griffin for W. Lee, at the Turks head in Fleet-street,
over against Fetter-Lane, 1661. Octavo,
Account of Mr. John Dod.
Barksdale's Memorials of Worthy Persons, 1661, p. 143.
The Birth and Breeding of Mr. Dod.
Miller's Church History of Britain, 1655, p. 119.
Account of John Dod.
Miller's History of Worthies of Enyland, 1662, p. 181, (Ches-Shire).
"The fJewish Rabbins have a fond and a false conceit, that Methuselah, who
indeed dyed in the very year (and his death a sad prognostick) of the deluge, had a
Cabin built him in the outside of Noahs Ark, where he was preserved by himself.
But most true it is, that good Father Dod, though he lived to see the flood of our late
Civil Wars, made to himself a cabin in his own contented conscience, and though his
cloths were wetted with the waves, (when plundred) he was dry in the deluge, such
his self -solace in his holy meditations."
Account of the famous old Mr. John Dod.
Neal's History qf the Puritans, 1732, vol. iii., p. 319.
Notice of Mr. John Dod.
Burnham's Pious Memorials, 1758, p. 168.
A Sermon, upon the 'Word Malt. Preached in the Stump
of a hollow Tree, by the Eev. John Dod, M.A. Author of tbe
Eemarkable and Approved Sayings. To which is prefixed, a
brief Account of the Life of the Author.

London 1 Printed for T. Sookett, No. 110, Aldersgate Street, J. Abraham, Olney,
Bucks, E. Handscomb, AmpthUl, Bedfordshire, and B. Chater, Pool,
Dorset. [Price Four-penoe,] M,DOCli,xxvii. Octavo.

FAWSLEY. Account of John Dod.
Middleton's Biographia Evangelica, 1779, vol. iii., p, 171.
Account of Mr. John Dod.
Bridge's Northa-mptonshire, 1791, vol. i., p. 70.
Short Memoirs of Mr. John Dod.
The Christian's Magazine, October, 1791.
Account of John Dod, usually styled the Decalogist.
Chalmer's Oeneral Biographical Dictionary, 1813, vol. xii., p. 143.
Account of John Dod, M. of A. of Cambridge.
JVood's Fasti Oxonienses, 1815, vol. i., c. 232.
Account of John Dod, A.M. generally styled the Deca
logist. BaTcer's Northamptonshire, 1822, vol. i., p. 388.
List of tbe Writings of John Don, usually styled tbe
Decalogist. Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, vol. i., 309^
Notice of the Portrait of John Dod, the Decalogist.
Granger's Biographical History of England, 1824, vol. ii., p. 74.
Accouut of John Dod, tbe Decalogist.
Burke's History of the Commoners, 1836, vol. iii., p, 549.
Account of John Dod, the Decalogist,
Burke's History of the Landed Gentry, 1838, vol. iii., p. 549.
Account of John Dod, A.M., generally styled "The
Decalogist."
Coleman's Mem'orials of Independent Churches in Northam ^ fon-,hne,
1853, p. 7.

FAWSLEY.
Account of John Dod. A celebrated Puritan Divine,
Darling's Cyclopesdia Blbliogr aphica, 1854, c. 929.
Dr. Dodd's "Sermon on Malt."
Notes and Queries, 1855, 1st S., vol. xii., pp. 383, 497.
Account of John Dod, usually styled the Decalogist.
Rose's Biographical Dictionary, 1857, vol. vii., p. 93.
Account of John Dod, 1547-1645. Eector of Fawesley,
1624.
AUibone's Dictionary of English Literature, 1859, vol. i., p. 507.
Account of John Dod, commonly called the D,ecalogist.
liuperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, vol. ii., p. 114.
Account of John Dod.
Bailey's Life of Thomas Puller, 1874, p. 43.

Northampton, J. T.
February, 1875.

3.b!trnxtra.

The PARSON put to his TRUMPS ; or an EXTEMPORE
LECTURE on MALT.
Fro-m the New TFonderful Magazine artd MarveUous Chronicle. 1793.
Four men, returning home from an alehouse, where they had
made themselves as drunk as beasts, met a poor priest, who
had lately preached a very bitter sermon against drunkenness,
for which these drunkards were resolved to be revenged on the
poor gentleman.
Accordingly they stopt him, ordered him to get up upon a
bank just by, and preach them a sermon. He begged to be
excused, told them they were in liquor, and that if they would
come to his house, he would give them what instructions he
was able. To which one of them replied, with all the brutality
he was master of, that he was a liar ; for that they tvere not in
liquor, but the liquor tvas in them. Then they continued to
upbraid him with the scandalous names he had given them in a
late sermon, calling them Malt-tvorms, &c. and threatening him,
that if he did not immediately mount the bank, they would
throw him into the ditch.
The poor priest, finding it to no purpose to argue longer
with them, obeyed, mounted, and began, taking his text from
I Cor. vi. Be not deceiued ; neither fornicators — nor drunkards
— shall inherit the kingdom qf God.
At which they seemed greatly enraged, and ordered him to
change his text, on pain of being worse used. Accordingly he
did, and took it from Phil. iii. Brethren, be follotvers together
of me, and mark them tvhich tvalk so, as ye have us for an
ensample ; for many tvalk of -whom I have told you often, and now
tell you even iveeping, that their end is destruction, and their god

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is their belly, and their glory is their shame. At which they
stormed like drunkards, told him, that he added but fuel to the
fire, and that ifhe had a mind to sleep in a whole skin, he must
take some other text. At which the priest, being driven between
hawk and buzzard, told them, he did not know what would please
them, and therefore begged of them to propose some text to
him which would give them no offence. Accordingly, after
some pause, and a great number of oaths, one of them told him
that his text must, and should be MALT. To which the priest
replied. Gentlemen, you have proposed a hard task to me;
but I must comply with your pleasure. As you are sensible
there is no preaching without division, so my task is so much
the more difficult, as there is no dividing my text : I cannot even
divide it into syllables, because there is but one ; so that I am
obliged to divide it into the four letters of the text you proposed
to me, to wit, M. A. L. T. The letters, gentlemen, represent
four interpretations, which divines frequently thus interpret,
M Moral, A Allegorical, L Literal, T Tropological.
The Moral interpretation iswith good reason and judgment
put first, to teach you rude boisterous men some good manners,
some regard to the ministers of the gospel, or to procure some
attention to what I am to propound in my serraon ; therefore,
M Masters, A all, L listen, T to the Text.
An Allegory is when one thing is spoken, and another thing
meant. The thing spoken of is Malt ; the thing meant is the
Oil of Malt, commonly called Ale, which to you drunkards is so
precious, that you account it to be M Meat, A Ale, L Liberty,
T Treasure. The Literal sense (as it has often in the times of yore been
explained, so I hope you will not contradict a truth for which
we can plead the sanction of venerable antiquity) is M Much,
A Ale, L Idttle, T Thrift.
The Tropological sense and meaning applies to the present
time, or that which pow is, to the future, or that -which is to
come, either in this world or the world to come. The thing that
now is, is the effect which Oil of Malt worketh and produceth
in some of you ; to wit, M Murder, A Adultery, L Loose Living,
T Treason; and that which hereafter followeth, both in this
world, as also in the world to come, is M Misery, A Anguish,
L Lamentation, T Trouble.

As I perceive, gentlemen, that your eyes draw towards sleep,
so I shall now come to my conclusion, and endeavour to let you
noisy, boisterous, and insulting gentlemen , see (that unless you
mend this wicked course of life, these impious works of the flesh,
and turn to God) into what eternal misery you plunge yourselves ;
pray God grant this reformation, though for my part I have but
small hopes of it, plainly perceiving myself, as well as being
instructed by my text, that it is -* M to A, that is, a thousand
pounds to a pot of Ale, that you will never mend, because all
drunkards are L Lewd, T Thieves. But as I am by my function
bound to discharge my conscience and duty first towards God,
secondly towards my neighbour ; I say once again, concluding
with my text, M Men, A All, and L Leave, T Tipling ; otherwise
M Masters, A all, L Look for, T Terror and Tortnent.
By this time the fumes of the liquor so far prevailed over,
them, that they were quite drunk, and consequently not able to
see one another, much less to find their way home, wliich the
priest perceiving, made his escape, and left them to get sober
by sleeping in the open field.
* M. signifies Mille, a 1000, and is frequently so used in Printing.

THE WRITINGS OF JOHN DOD.

A Plaine and FamiUar Exposition on the Lords Prayer First preached in
divers Sermons ; The Substance whereof, is now published for the
benefit of the Chvrch, Bj I. D. Minister of the Word.
Humilitie heapeth Honor.
Ecclesiaates 12. 11.
Xhe words of the wise are as goads, and asjiailes
fastenof] by the Masters of Assemblies, which are gi
ven by one Shepheard.
LoifDON, Printed by I. D. for Daniel Pakeman, and are to be sold at the Signe
of the Baine-bow, neere the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-street. 1634. 4to,
JReUffious Tract Society,
A Godly Forme of Hovsholde Governement : For the Ordering of Privat©
Families, according to the direction of Gods Word. Whereunto is
adioyned in a more particular manner, the seueral duties of the
Husband towards his wife : and the Wiues dutie towards her
Husband. The Parents dutie towards their Children : and the
Childrens towards their Parents. The Masters duty towards, hia
Seruants : and also the Seruants duty towards their Masters. First,
gathered by R, C. and now newly pervsed, amenmended, and
augmented, by lOHN Dor, and Robert Cleuor.
Isidore.
Thou profltest much when thou Headest, if thou
practisest that which thou Readest.
Bernardo.
What auayleth it thee to reade often in Bookes the Holy K'ame
of thy .Sauiour, Except thou studie and Endeiiour to haue
godlines it thy behauiour P
LoBTDOM", Printed by T. C. for Thomas Man, and are to be sold by Arthur
lohnson, neere the great X4'ortb doore of Faules Ghurch, 1614. 8to.
Meligiom Tract Society,
The Patrimony of Christian Children : Or, a Defence of Infants Baptisme
prooued to be consonant to the Scriptures and will of God (against
the erroneous positions of the Anabaptists. By Robebt Cleayeb,
with the ioynt consent of Mr. John Dod.
Mat. 21. 16.
Haue yee neuer read. Out of the mouth of Babes and
Sucklings, thou hast perfected praiae f
LoSDOK, Printed by Bernard Alsop, for Joseph Hunscot and Beniamin Fisher,
and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot in Pater-noater Bowe. 1624.
4.to.
Dash Collection,
Two Sermons on the Third of the Lamentations. Preached at Hanwell
in the first yeere of his Maiesties reigne, 1602. The one by I. D,
The other by R. C. Philip 3. 1.
It grieueth me not to write the same things to yon, aud for
you it ia a sure thing.
Isaiah. 55. 3.
Hearken, and your soule ahall line.
At London Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and are to be sold
at the signo of the Talbot in Pater noster row. 1618, 4to.
Dasli CoUecfiout

A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ton Commandements. With a
Methodicall Short Catechisme, Containing briefly the principall
grounds of Christian Religion. The sixteenth Edition : Newly cor-
ruoted and amended by the Autbor. Psalm. 119. 130.
The entrance into thy Word sheweth light, and giueth
vnderstanding to the simple.
Loi^noN' Printed by I. D. for Thomas Man, and are to be sold by Thomas
Pavier. 1625. 4to.
Dash Collection.
A plain and familiar Exposition of tho Ten Commandements. With a
Methodical Short Catechisme, containing briefly the principall grounds
of Christian Religion The nineteenth Edition. Newly corrected and
amended by the Author. Psalm. 119. 130.
The entrance into thy Word sheweth light, and giveth
understanding to tbe simple.
liOTsmoTSt, Printed by W. Leybourn for Andrew Kemb, over against St. Margaret's
Hill in Southwark. 1662. ito.
Beligious Tract Society.
The Parson put to his Trumps ; or, an Extempore Lecture on Malt.
Wonderful Magcaine, and Marvellous Ch-onicle, [1793,] vol. ii., p. 99.
A Quaint Sermon. Tfie Penn-y Magazine, vol. 1., p. 6.

BOOKS RELATIVE TO PARTICULAR TOWNS, PARISHES,
SEATS, FAMILIES, CUSTOMS, AND HISTORICAL
EVENTS.

PAWSLEY. CHARACTEE OF JOHN DOD.
In a rare little book, " Richard Capel's Tentations : Their
Nature, Danger, Cure. The fourth Part. London, 1655,"
occurs the following valuable testimony to the personal worth,
sound judgment, and theological acumen of Dr. Dod :
" Mark them wlio cause divisions amongst you, and avoid them : you
cannot perhaps confute them, yet you oan and must avoid them : you
may justly suspect, that their talk of the Spirit is but talk : for that the
Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of peace and union, hut amongst these men
there is little else but confusion and division ; this is true, when divisions
arise out of the nature of the opinions, but not wheu they come by the
malice of men.
" One thing I advise, that as we are to keep as muck as maybe, from
the breath (the infectious breath) of these meij, so we must keep our
selves from the sight of their bookes. And here I commend vmto you
the advice of a rare man (Mr. John Dod) a man whom I may call by mine
owne experienoe, John the Divine, who having raised a Doctrine, That
by nature we are prone to evill and not to good ; his Use is, that we
should not be too bold or busie with Papists or Brownists bookes : A
counsell, had it been taken in time, we had not seen the dayes we
see." pp. 249, 2fi0.
"The best and best leamed of our PrelaticaU and antiprelatioall
Divines have taken good and great paines to prove usury to be a thing
utterly unlawfull : Mr. John Dod in Hs last Edition of his book on the
Commandements makes usury a breach of the eighth Commandement, and
old Mr. Vdall in a book of his called Obedience of the Q-ospel, and in
the second Sermon, Vdall (I say) is there so severe and sharp against
usury, that if my memory faile me not (as I think it doth uot) he there
saith that it is as cleare in the Word that usury is a sin, as that Christ
came into the world to save sinners," p. 292.
British Museum, E, 1590.
Also, in the Life of Capel, by his friend Valentine Marshall,
prefixed to his " Remains," on the Reverse of A 4, London,

FAWSLEY.
1658, occurs the following gratifying tribute to Mr. Dod's
character, as a Christian Minister : — .
" As for his inward stormes ; they were very many, and exceeding
bitter, (together with a number of bodily infirmities, attending him in
his younger yeares) but it was well for him, that he bore the yoke in
his youth. And none, that I know, can now set out these to any pur
pose, (if ever an ooooasion be offered) but that eminent and learned
Divine, Dr. Harris, that knew so much of his temptations and desettions,
by reason of that intimate aquaintance he had with him in those dayes,
(being his Kinsman besides) occasioned the more, by the often recourse
he had then into those parts, for the fetching of some spiritual refresh
ing from that Divine of Divines, Mr. John Dod, that was both able and
willing to speak a word in season to a broken and a contrite heart."
" Famous Mr. Dod (that woxdd say, so much Latine, was so much
flesh in a Sermon.)" A. 6.
" Mr. Dod his own self (as I have been often told by this great Divine)
would seldome end his devotions, in his own family, but with the use of
the Lords prayer." Eeverse of A. 8.
British Museum, 1416 a. 26.
The Life of Master John Dod, who died Anno Christi 1645.
Clarkes Martyroloyie, Brd edition, 1677, pp. 168-178.
[Account of] John Dod.
Middleton's Evangelical Biography, 1816, vol. iii., p. 171.
Notice of Mr. John Dod
Burnham's Pious Memorials, 1821, pp. 205-207.
Account of John Dod, A.M.
Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, vol. iii., p. 1.
The Worthy Sayings of Old Mr. Dod.
Notes Sf Queries, 1880, 6th S., vol. ii., p. 327 ;
vol. iii., pp. 13, 116.
Notice of Mr. John Dod.
Echard's History of England, 1718, vol, ii., p. 645.
Account of John Dod, who is known as " the Decalogist."
Nichols' Herald and Genealogist, part, xi., 1864, p. 417.

XXIV.
FAWSLEY. Notices of Mr. Dod.
Life and Death of Bobert Harris, B.D., 1660, pp. 11, 20.
At the British Museum, among the Ayscough MSS.,
No. 427^, are some original letters by Dod, addressed to Lady
Vere. In one of them, dated Dec. 20, 1642, he says he is "not
far off ninety-seven years old." He lived until August, 1645,
aud on the 19th of that month was buried at Fawsley.

Sttowk 0f Mu)iB, ^r.,

BBLOsaiira lo

Bl\I NGTON ChAI^ITY EsTATE

ACCOUNT OF THE CHARITIES

BSLOSatlTG- TO

THE PARISH OF BRINGTON,
In the County qf Northampton.

|i;ort|ampton :
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR & SON.
London: J. B. SMITH, SOHO SQITAEE.
1876.

CONTENTS.
Fage.
Schedule of Deeds, &c., belonging to Brington Charity Estate . . . . 5
From Bridges' History of Northamptonshire, 1791  27
A Chauntry, &c.
From Baker's History of Northamptonshire, 1820  27
Benefactions. Charity Lands, &o.
From the Eeports of the Commissioners of Charities, 1815-1831 . . . . 28
The Charity Estate.
Fournoys' Charity.

kljebttle of gwbs, ^t.

BELONOINQ TO

Brington Phai^ity Estate.

No. 29. — 21^^ Deer. 1262.
Grant from Thomas son of Richd. de Briucton to his friend
Eustace for his services i2d. issuing out of land which was late of
Richard de Broccole according to the custom in consideration of 8s.
paid by said Eustace. 7 Witnesses.
A'o. 2^.— TVo Dafe.
Grant from Eustace son of Lord Thomas lord of West
Bryngton to Alexander son of Simon Glasim of i2d. annually by 2
payments which he had from Thos. .son of Richd. of West Bryngton
to be received froin William son of Richard de Broccole. One seal
affixed. 6 Witnesses. N'o. 2. — Feb. id, 26 Edtvd. i, 1298. •
Grant from William de Carvill son of Nicholas de Carvill to
Robert de Grendon of an half acre of land with appurts. in the West
fields of Brynton. To have and to hold said land to said Robert his
heirs & assigns for ever for the services therefore due and of right
accustomed to the chief lord of the fee. Warranty of quiet possession.
No. ^. — i6tk April, 1301.
Agreement between Elyas de Staneford and the tenants of
William Manger lord of the Manor of Newbotel as to the rendering of
servicesand the amount and payment of rent. No seal. 7 Witnesses.
No. 12. — No Date.
Grant from Wm. Manger son of Symon Manger of Brincton to
John son of Thos. le Franceps of Brington Clerk & Margaret his wife
for their services &26S. of a certain messuage in Brington. Habendum.
Reddendum fd. at Easter annually. Warranty. One seal.

No. ii.-^No Date.
Grant from Hugo le Crucher of Stackdale to Thos. le Franceps
Clerk for his services and 2s. of one acre of arable land. Habendum
of chief lord. Reddendum services therefore due & of right accustomed.
Warranty. Seal appended. 7 Witnesses.
No. 17. — 2(Z May,g Edtvd. 2, 1316.
Grant from Richd. Pronwet to John Fabie of Whelton of \ acre
of arable land in west fields of Brincton. Habendum of chief lord.
Reddendum services, &c. Warranty. 5 Witnesses.
No. 37. — ^oth June, 13 17.
Grant from Issabell daughter of Nicholay de Uproton to Thos.
Philip Cisson of Buckeby of 2 acres of arable land in fields of
Brincton. Habendum of chief lord. Reddendum services. Warranty,
&c. 7 Witnesses. No. I. — 8</i July, 14 Edtvd. 2, 1320.
Grant from Henry de Blakelesle & Margaret his wife of
Kyrkebrincton to Elias de Staneford for his services of a broadway
of land also a right of way, &c. , Habendum of chief lord. Rendering
services, &c. No. 16. — No, Date.
Grant from Henry son of Richard Raverok of Thorp near
Daventry to Elias de Staneford 2 acres of arable land in fields of
Brincton co. Northampton. Habendum, Reddendum id. at Easter
and all accustomed services. Warranty. One seal. 8 Witnesses.
No. 26. — Octr. i8th, 1329.
Grant from Agnes (late wife of Wm. Broccole) a widow to Lord
Thos. Cosyn of Church Briucton two selions of arable land lying in fields
of Brington. Habendum of chief lord. Warranty, &c. Seal affixed.
No. 28. — Octr. 18th, 1329, 3 Edwd. 3.
Release from Robert son of late William Broccole de Brynton
to Thos. Cosyn of same place of all claim which he has or may here
after have in 2 selions of arable land lying with appurts. in fields of
Brynton. 5 Witnesses. No. 27. — Octr. i8th, 1329.
Same as above. (No. 26.)

7
No. 14. — Augt. s°th, 2 Edwd. 3, 1328.
Power of Attorney from Alice wife of Hugo Croucher of Brynton
to John de Herleston to deliver seisin to John Syer & Joan his wife of
1 acre of land in fields of Brington in pursuance of her feoffment* to
them. Seal affixed. (* N.B. We do not seem to have this feoffment.)
No. 34. — 2^th Septr. 1334, 8 Edwd. 3.
Grant from Margaret late wife of Reginald de Podyaton of
Bryngton widow to Willm. her son of -j acre of arable land in fields of
Brynton. Habendum of chief lord. Warranty, &c. j Witnesses.
No. 13. — 8 Deer. 1349, 23 Edwd. 3.
Grant from William Martyn of West Brington to Ady le Ray
& Willm. Freman of Brington of one house with croft and all his
lands with pasture, &c. in fields of Brington. Habendum of chief lord.
Reddendum 6s. annuaUy by 2 payments. Warranty. One seal.
No. 15. — i2th June, 13^2.
Grant from Wm. Bretdygne of Church Bryngton to Wm.
Brochole of Bryngton & Ellen his wife of his messuage with 4 selions
of land with a croft 6 acres of arable land and i acre & 1 headland
and I rood in fields of Bryngton and all appurts. &c. Habendum of
_ chief lord. Reddendum services, &c. Warranty. 4 Witnesses.
No. 7. — i8th Octr. 1356, 30 Edwd. 3.
Grant from John Chaynel of Burton Leycester to Richard Ryvet
son of Ralph Milner and Agnes his wife of the western half of his house
& garden with appurts. late of John Hykedon the other or eastern half
being of John Marreys. Habendum of chief lord. Warranty, &c.
No. 6. — 24//i Feb. 1357, 31 Edwd. 3.
Grant from Robert de Waldegrave Parson of the church of
Waldegrave, &c. to Lord John Cosyn of Brington of one messuage with
croft adjoining with appurts. in the city of Brington and 2 acres of
arable land, &c. ike. to hira belonging. Habendum of chief lord.
Warranty, &c.

No. 20. — 6th Feb. 1364.
Grant from Wm. Wolf of Eston to Richard Ryvet son of Ralph
Mylner of Bryngton & Agnes his wife of half a messuage & garden &
all easements & appurts. late of John Hykedon iu Brington. Bounded,
&c. Habendum of chief lord. Warranty. One seal. 6 Witnesses.
No. 18. — 2ist. March, 1367, 41 Edwd. 3.
Grant from Wm. Gytoun of Herleston to Wm. Coke & Agnes
his wife of Thorp near Daventry one house i-J acre of arable land with
appurts. in Church Brington. Bounded, &c. Habendum of chief lord.
Warranty. ^ Witnesses. No. ig.—iith Deer. 1372.
Grant from William Cook of Thorp near Daventry to Wm.
Webbester of Brington ofall that tenement with garden aud i^ acre
of arable land & appurts. which he had by feoffment from Wm.
Gytoun of Herleston in town & fields of Church Brington. Habendum
of chief lord, &c. Warranty. No seal now. 6 Witnesses.
No. 10. — -^oth Septr. 1376.
William Russhenel of Whelton surrenders & grants to Wra.
Webbester of Church Brington 6 acres of arable land with appurts. in
fields of Brington. Bounded, &c. Habendam to Wm. Webbestere his
heirs & assigns for tbe term of 60 years paying annualy i6d. by two
equal portions. Warranty, fee.
No. 24. — 2gth Janry. 1391, 14 Richd. 2.
Agnes Webbester wife of late Wm. Webbester of Bryngton
releases & for ever quits claim to her son Wm. Webbester all her claim
or right which she has or may have in her late husband's lands late of
Wm. Cook of Daventry. No. 80. — 21.?* June, 1401, 2 Hen. 4.
Grant from Richard Ryvet son of Ralph Milner of Brington to
Nicholas Larwey of Upton and Robert Danyet of Northampton all that
messuage with garden & appurts. late of John Hykeman in town of
Bryngton & other of John Cheynel of Sutton in county of Leceyster
Also 7 acres of land with its hades in fields of Brington lying, &c. &c.
Habendum for ever of chief lord. Warranty. ^ Witnesses.

No. 8i. — 3(i July, 1401, 2 Hen. 4.
Grant from Nicholas Larwey & Robert Danyet to Ralph Milner
of Brington & Alice Larwey (same property as No. 80) to hold to said
Richd. Ryvet & Alice his wife and the legitimate heirs of their bodies
of chief lord of fee for services therefore dne and of right accustomed.
If no children then to lawful heirs of said Richd. Ryvet for ever. 2
seals, &c. No. 3. — Novr. goth, 1406, 8 Hen. 4.
Grant from John Teyntour de Herleston to his brother Robert
of the annual sum of 2s. 8d. out of all his houses, fee. in Brington late
his father's. No. 35. — i8th April, 1414, 2 Hen. 5.
Grant from Richard Milner Clerk Wm. Wyche Smyth Henry
Otho Marche and Willm. Lidbury to Alice Tailour wife of late Richd.
Tailour alias Ryvet of all land & tenemts. &c. in Church Brington
granted by him to them for her life. Habendum of chief lord. ^
Witnesses. No. II. — io;A Augt. 1414, 2 Hen. 5.
Release from William Wyche Smith for himself & his heirs to
her who was wife of Richard Taylour alias Ryvet of all his claim to all
those lands & tenemts. which he lately had by feoffment of sd. Richard
now deced. situate in fields of Church Brington. _5 Witnesses.
No. 39. — 26th March, 141.5, 3 Hen. j.
Power of Attorney from Richd. Bussard to John Byghton Clerk
& John Dalby Clerk to enfeoff John Bnssard his son & heir ofall that
messuage garden and croft adjoining that held for a term of years of
me by John Asshewell and 24 acres of land with appurts. which John
Billingham held of me all in Church Brington.
No. 31. — Novr. 1st, 141 J, 3 Hen. 5.
Grant from John Hill to Jno. Irvey of West Brington & Wm.
Carvill of Great Brington of i messuage with curtilage adjoining &
all land belonging situate in Hall street. Habendum of chief lord.
Warranty. ^ Witnesses.

No. 32. — Deer. 8th, i4i_5, 3 Hen. ^.
Grant from John Irvey and Wm. Carvill to John Hill of West
Bryngton & Alice his wife of one messuage with curtilage adjoining,
&c. late had by us by feoffment of sd. John Hill. Habendum. e,
Witnesses. No. ^6. — 20th Augt. 1424, 2 Hen. 6.
Alice wife of late John Hill of West Bryngton widow grants to
Richard Ranlyn son of late John Rawlinson and Agnes his wife all her
messuage and curtilage adjoining and all appurts, late her husband's said
messuage is situate near Halle street. Habendum of chief for ever.
Warranty. 7 Witnesses. No. 90. — ^th May, 28 Hen. 6, 14.50.
Document issued under the seal of the mayor of Norhampton
stating that Agnes Hykedon widow of Simon Hykedon appeared before
him and being sworn oQ the Holy Evangelists declared to the effect that
as Henry Breteyn claims to hold as acquired by purchase and shows
that the said Agnes a little after the death of the said Simon late her
husband gave and granted by her deed to John Breteyn the son of said
Henry & lately deceased one toft, &c. &c. ¦ the said Agnes swears that
she never enfeoffed the said John or any one else ofthe said premises-
In witness. Seal affixed.
No. 71. — "Jth May, 14.50, 28 Henry 6.
Grant from Agnes Hykedon widow of West Bryngton to
Edward Grey & others of one messuage with appurtenances late of
Wm. Smith deceased also one toft with a croft adjoining his inclosure
and 4a. 3r. op. of arable land bounded, &c. Habendum of chief lord
for ever. Sealed with her seal & also that ofthe mayor of Northampton
in presence of Thos. Knyghtley then mayor the 2 bailiffs & 4 other
persons named & others.
No. 9, 70, 75. — July gd, 1450, 28 Henry 6.
Indenture made in 3 parts betn. Agnes Hykedon widow and
13 other persons (as No. 71) whereby she grants to last named parties
a messuage toft and croft & 4a. 3r. op. of arable land with appurts.
at Brington.

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upon trust after her decease to take collect and receive all the
rents and profits arising from the aforesaid lands and tenements with
their appurts. and distribute those clear profits to the use and profit of
the parishioners and citizens of Brington in greatest need to be
distributed for their benefit and advantage according to their sound
discretion. Major part of feoffees to bind the rest. Power for
remainder to elect other feoffee's on death of 4 or j of their number.
No. 8.— No Date.
Grant from Ralph Parsona de Hetford to his grandson William
for his homage' & service and 40s. of 2 yard lands in the fields of
Brinton with appurts. in his lordship. Habendum to him & his heirs.
Reddendum los. by -Jly payments & usual services. Warranty, &c.
Witnesses. Sealed 1 seal.
No. 78. — 10th June, 14.51, 29 Hen. 6.
Indenture of lease from John Bussard of Kyslyngbury and
Richard Parker and Joan his wife daughter and heiress of him John
Bussard granting & surrendering, &c. to Thos. Breteyn of Great
Bryngton and Agnes his wife & William their son all that yard land of
arable land with pasture, &c. belonging thereto in fields of Great
Bryngton. Habendum for 14 years from feast of St. Michael next
foUowg. date of these presents. Reddendum annually s.t Easter 2d. to
sd. ist. parties & 2s. to Richd. Bussard brother of sd. John for 6 acres
parcel of said yard land by 4 payments. The said Thos. Breteyn to
perform & pay all services & rents to chief lord as accustomed.
Covenant not to demise without license. Warranty for 14 years. In
witness. 3 seals. No. 42. — 22d Octr. 14.51, 30 Hen. 6.
Grant from Wm. Breteyn son of late Richd. Breteyn of
Bryngton deceased to Thos. Breteyn & Agnes his wife John Phyppe
junr. and John Byllyngham all that land tenements rents & services
with all appurts. in village and fields of Bryngton late his father's.
Habendum, fee. Warranty. Seal affixed. 5 Witnesses.
No. 38. — 8th April, 1454, 32 Hen. 6.
Release from William Catesby Knight and Wm. Gedney Esq.
to John Pridde his heirs & assigns of all their estate title, &c. in all that
land & tenement with appurts. in city & fields of Church Brington
late enfeoffed to them with Robt. Rood deced. & said John Pridde by
Alice Taillour.

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No. .57. — No Date.
Terrier of land of Wm. Catesby.
No. 66. — goth Septr. 14.66, 6 Edwd. 4.
Complaint of certain persons parishioners of Church Brington as
to payment of certain tithes to Mr. John Waren parson of Brington.
No. 4^.~-4th Novr. 1466, 6 Edwd. 4.
Award on the above complaint of Richard Bishop of Sarum
Richard Wydevill Earl Rivers Master Roger Radcliff the Quenes
Chanceler John Forster, Esq. the Quenes general Receiver John Dyne
the Quenes general Attorney & Robert Asham who had been agreed
upon as arbitrators. No. 46. — io*A Octr. 1468, 8 Edwd. 4.
Indenture of this date witnesses that Thos. Breton & Agnes his
wife of Church Bryngton have granted, &c. to Richard Plaket and
Alice his wife of same place all that their tenemt. situate in Brington
aforesaid between a house of John Catesby on one part and John
Byllyngham on other side with ifyard land of arable land with appurts.
in fields, &c. of Great Bryngton. Habendum to sd. 'Richard & Alice
during their lives. Reddendum annually 27s. at quarterly periods.
Covenants to repair, &c. 5 Witnesses.
No. 68.—ioth Octr. 1468, 8 Edwd. 4.
Bond from above named Thos. Breton to above named Richard
Plaket for ;^ 10. No. 33. — 14th January, 1470, 9 Edwd. 4.
Power of Attorney from Thos. Bryten of Church Bryngton to
Simon Kette and Henry Terry to grant to John Gatesby and 3 others
one messuage with i| yard land with appurts. to have & to hold to
sd. John Gatesby according to feoffment already made.
No. ^2.—2^th June, 147 1, 11 Edwd. 4.
Grant from Eobert Payntour of Gayton co. Northampton to
John Stanley & 4 others all & singular his lands with pastures, &c. in
town and fields of Bryngton. Habendum for ever. Warranty, &c.

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No. 40. — 2^th June, 147 1, 11 Edwd. 4.
Power of Attorney to John "Tyrakok & Wm. Duukeley.to enfeoff
John Stanley & 4 others. Quiet possession, &c. of above.
No. 4. — 20th Septr. 1474, 14 Edwd. 4.
Indenture of lease from Thos. Noble, &c. to John Symcox of
Great Bryngton & Emma his wife of all his lands and tenements in
town & fields of Bryngton for lives of said John Symcox & Emma his
wife. Habendum of chief lord. Covenants to keep in repair.
Warranty, &c. No. 74. — 20th April, 1480, 20 Edwd. 4.
Indenture between John Dawes of Dalyngton & Alice his
wife of I part and John Kynning & 4 others of other part. Witnesseth
said ist parties grant unto said John Kynning & others a messuage
with croft lying thereto with appurts. situate in Much Bryngton
between a tenement of Thos. Gray, &c. &c. Habendum. Reddendum
13s. 4d. annually. Other covenants as usual.
No. 41. — 20 Edwd. 4, 1480, 20th April.
Bond for ^^20 from above-named John Dawes to John Kynning
and 4 others above-named.
No. 43 and 50. — 20th Septr. 1483, i Richd. 3.
Lease aud counterpart witnesseth that Wm.' Ferrour and 2
others grant to Wm. Irvey of Harpoll and' Elizth. his wife 3 acres of
arable land with appurts. which said parties had by grant of Wm.
Irvey site, in fields of Bryngton. Habendum during lives of sd. Wm.
Irvey and Elizth. his wife and the lives of each of them. Reddendum
a rose (a flower). Warranty during their lives.
No. 21. — 6th July, 2 Richd. 2, 1484.
Indenture made between Henry Atwoode of Bryngton Richard
Plaket of same town and John Dowtles of Clasthorp of one part and
John Tryplot of Rothewell carver of the other part witnesseth said
parties to have agreed as follovi^s in presence of John Catesby of
Althorp that said John Tryplot carve and erect a rodelofte (cross) in
Brington church like one lately erected by him in church of Castell
Assheby Northampton for which he is to have ;^io. by 5 payments of
40s each at stated periods.

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No. 22,— gl May 14, 8 Hen. 7. 1493.
Conveyance from Henry I'erry (one of the feoffees) of Great
Brington to Henry Attewode and others of all that sd. messuage with
appurts. in Little Bryngton near Hall st. also gives a toft and croft and
4a, 3r. op, of arable land situate in fields of Brington. Habendum of
chief lord for services, &c. Warranty. Seal affixed. Witnesses.
No. 73. — lolh July*, 10 Hen. 7, 1495.
Conveyance from Humphrey Catesby Esq. son & heir of John
Catesby to Henry Duncley & 7 others (feoffees) of all right claim, &c.
of his father in (same as No. 23) ante. Habendum for ever of chief
lord. Warranty. Constitutes 2 persons his lawful attorneys.
No. .56. — 1.5^^ -June, 10 Hen. 7, 149.5.
Conveyance from Thos. Webbe son of Thos. Webb as heir of
his father (same as last).
No, 44. — li^th Octr. II Hen. 7, 149.5-
Humfrey Catesby Esq. son & heir of John Catesby and John
Catesby Clerk my brother release remit & quit claim to Henry Duncley
& others all right claim, &c. (same as above). Warranty, &c.
No. gg.—No Date.
Presentment & certificate of John Griffyth & Thos. Robinson
of Brington being sworn to make true certificate unto the King's
Commissioners to divers articles to them delivered. Signed John
Hynde Supervisor. No. 48. — 1st Deer, go Hen. 8, 1J38.
Feoffment from Wm. Gamraage of Bryngton Parva in the
county of Northn. to John Gryffn & others of 4 messuages 2
cottages and gl yard lands of arable land with appurts. in Church
Bryngton & Bryngton in the tenure & occupation of various persons
therein named. Habendum of chief lord for accustomed services for
ever. Seal affixed.

No. go. — 6th Feb. go Hen. 8, 1539.
Release from Roger Dunkley & 4 others to Richard Creyton of
Newbottel John Chare & 6 others of quiet possession & all their estate
right title and interest of and in those 4 messuages 2 cottages and gl
yard lands of arable lande pasture, &c. with appurts. to them belonging
situate in village & fields of Church Brington late had by gift of Will.
Gammage dated ist Deer, i J38.
No. 67. — -goth Janry. g Eliz. 1561.
Counterpart indenture made betn. Sir John Spencer of Althorp
in the county of Northampton Knight Henry Webb of Newbottle
Bryncton Magna & Richard Robins of Bryncton Magna husbandman
of the one part feofees to the use of the inhabitants of Bryncton
aforesaid of certain lands & tenements within the said village and
John Howlet of Stane upon the Hill in the county aforesaid husbandman
of the other part witnesseth that the sd. Sir John Spencer Henry Webb
& Eichard Robins with the full assent consent & agreement of all the
residue of the inhabitants of Bryncton aforesaid demised a messuage
or tenement with i| yard land & meadows closes commons & other
profits and commodities lying to the same tenement with the appurts.
in the village parish or fields of Bryncton aforesaid. Habendum to sd.
John Howlet for 21 years from feast of St. Michael thence next
ensuing. Reddendum to use of the inhabitants of Bryncton 2^s.
annually at the feast of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary and St.
Michael. Covenant for re-entry. Covenant to repair & uphold. In
witness seal affixed, fee.
No. 72. — 20th Novr. 1^61, 4 Eliz.
Bargain & sale from John Marsh of London Esq. and John
Wood in consideration of a certain sum of money to them paid by John
Spencer of Althropp enfeoffed all that their land & pasture to the
extent of 3s. 4d. in Great Brington. Habendum to proper use &:
benefit of sd. John Spencer of our present lady the Queen as of her
manor of Eastyrenvyche in free socage & not in capite. Warranty.
Power of Attorney. Receipt for £g. 6s. 8d. endorsed.
No. 49. — goth Novr., 4 Eliz. 1.561.
Feoffment from Wm. Freeman son & heir of William Freeman
deceased in consideration of .50s. by Thos. Hodges & others of Church
Brington of al & singular lands, &c. in parish of Church Bryngton.
Habendum of chirflord. Warranty, &c.

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.There is a note appended to the effect that feoffees had
specified in this deed that they should be put in trust to dispose &
bestow all and singular those lands, &c. to the only proper use or uses
of the whole parish or township of Much Brington.
No. 4'].~goth Novr. 4 Eliz. 1^61.
Bond from Wm. Freeman of Hannington county Northampton
for ;^io. to Thos. Hodge^ & others. Condition is that whereas Wm.
Freernan in consideration of ^os. hath sold all his lands tenem^ents, &c.
in Churcji Bryngton as by deed of feoffment of even date herewith
doth appear the premises being worth 5s. yearly value. If premises are
held quietly bond to be of none effect. Otherwise in full force.
No. .53. — 20th Deer. .5 Eliz. 1.562.
Indenture of lease between Henry Drapar and 2 other feO|ffees
of certain land within the town of Great Brington co. Northatpapton and
the whole inhabitants, of aforesaid township of one part and Alexr,
Charnbers of the other part witnesseth said feoffees let, &,c. one
cottage caHed Mill Hoijse & appurts. and 6, Jauids au4' two roods of
arable land & the commons for 2 beasts and 6 sheep., Habendjum for
21 years. Refldendum yearly to use of the whole inhabitants of Great
Brington lis. by 2 payments. Covenants to re-enter & repaif-i la
witness, &c.. No. j4 and 55.— 6th May, 7 Elixii 1.56^,
Conveyance from old feoffees to new ones by indenture made
in 3 parts between Richd.. Robyns Henry Draper alias Webbe and
Wm. Gregory for divers good causes, &c, have released set free &
enfeoffed to John Creyton & 16 others 4 messuages 2 cottages & 3I
yard lands of land with, appurts. in field* of Church Bryngton and
Brington Parva and also gi acres with appurts. in Church Brington
and also i close of pasture with appurts. in Stagdale End and also .2
otli^r closes of pasture in Bryngton Parva all in tenures & occupations
of divers persons, &c. &c. had from Wm. Gammage by feoffment dated
I Deer. 30 Hen. 8. Habendum of chief lord. Warranty, &c. 3
seals affixed.

others

No. 96.
Imperfect draft of a tripartite deed from John Creyton and

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No. ']6.—%ist Octr. 1.573.
Extract from records of first fruits and tenths in the custody of
the Remerabrancer of the same relating to the value of chantries and
other spiritual preferments in the county of Northampton.
No. 92. — 12th Octr. 1.582.
Receipt for 2s. 6d. from Thos. Burton to parish of Brington
toward reparation of the town of Portch Moth.
No. 63. — 4th Octr. 44 Eliz. 1601.
Indorsed the exchange of Bryngton lands. Indenture made
between Sir Robert Spencer of Althropp Northn. Knight of one part
Francis Gregorie late of Harpole in said county gent. & 7 others of
other part witnesseth that said Robert Spencer grants to said second
parties six lands one butt & one rood of arable land lying and being
within the parish and fields of Great Bryngton i. e. one headland at
Newbottle Bridge on a furlong called Butte End abutting, &c. to hold
unto the 2nd. parties their heirs & assigns in exchange for six other
lands of arable containing like quantities of land. And by the same
indenture the second parties granted unto Sir Robert Spencer the sd.
six lands of arable in the parish & fields of Great Bryngton abutting
as therein mentd. to hold the last mentioned premises unto the said Sir
Robert Spencer his heirs and assigns in exchange.
Proviso that if any adverse lawful title should be established to
any of the lands exchanged the now abstracting indenture should be
void and that the parties might enter into the possession and hold their
former lands. In witness, &c.
No. 59. — ']th Febry. 1602.
Note signed by seven persons as to depositing town evidences
&c. in great chest in the chancell.
No. 58. — 22d July, 2 Jas. 1, 1604.
Bond (not signed or sealed) of Robert Darvyll to Robert
Mashing^on & John Middleton for payment for 8s. (altered to 4s.)
No. 84. — 24th July, 2 Jas. 1, 1604.
Indenture between Sir Robt. Spencer Knight Lord Spencer of
Wormeleighton of one part and Francis Gregorie and 6 others of other

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part. Lord Spencer for divers good reasons gives & grants for himself
& heirs to said second parties all common and depasturing for horse
beast and sheep as doth belong or appertain to one yard land called
Coppin's yard land at Great Brington and to be used in common fields
of Great Brington to have & to hold to sd. 2nd parties their heirs &
assigns to their own proper use & behoof. Warranty, &c. Endorsed,
A grant of the common of Coppin's yard land by the Lord Spencer
to the feoffees of Brington.
No. 79. — lo^A Feb. 2 Jas. i, 160.5.
Release from Francis Gregory of Harpole co. Northampton to
Thos, Webb and others of all right title, &c. which he has or may have
in 6 selions of land one butte and one rood of arable land situate in
parish & fields of Brington which were lately granted to him sd. Francis
Gregory and others by indenture of 4th Octr. 44 Eliz. to have and to
hold to said 2nd parties for ever. In witness, &c.
No. 82. — 10th Feb. 2 Jas. 1, nSoj.
Same as No. 79, except as to property which is one yard land
called Coppin's yard land situate, fee.
No. 83. — lo^A Feb. 2 Jas., 1605.
Same as No. 79, except as to property which is 4 messuages
2 cottages gl yard lands with appurtenances, &c.
No. 77. — 1st Septr. 4 Jas. 1, 1606.
Endorsed feoffment of the town lands by the old feoffees
Thos. Webb alias Draper Thos. Billingham Henry Smyth & Richd.
Dunckley existing & surviving feoffees of houses lauds and tenements
within written for and in consideration and to the intent that rents and
profits of the houses lands and tenements within written shall be
converted and applied to the maintenance and support of the poor and
in other good uses only accustomed for ever to be had in the parish qf
Great Brington aforesaid have enfeoffed Thos. Andrew & 15 others
4 houses 2 cottages and gl yard lands with appurts. &c. & gi acres of
land at Brington. Habendum said premises, &c. to sole & proper
use of said second parties for the intentions and purposes above stated.
Clause of individual surrender by each of 4 persons. Delivery of
possession indorsed.

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No. 51. — loth Septr. 4 Jas. 1, 1606.
Joint & several release from Thos. Andrewe & others to Lord
Spencer of all their right and interest of common for horse and beast
in a croft called Fisher's. Habendum to use and behoof of said Lord
Spencer. Warranty, &c.
No. 63. — 10th Septr. 4 Jas. 1, 1606.
Indenture between Sir Robert Spencer Knight Lord Spencer
Baron of Wormeleighton of one part Thos. Andrews & others of other
part. Clause shewing title. Now this indenture witnesseth that the
said Robert Lord Spencer of a good and charitable purpose and to the
intent that all the rent issues and profits arising and coming of such part
of the premises as be not hereafter excepted shall and may for ever
herecfier be employed and converted to the relief and benefit qf such poor
people as for the time being do isf shall inhabit and dwell in the parish
of Great Brington {foresaid and to other lawful and other godly uses
there granted and enfeoffed to said Thos. Andrews and others certain
premises therein mentioned. Habendum said land premises and
pasture fo said second parties their heirs and assigns nevertheless to the
end and intent that the issues and profits of the premises (except before
excepted) may be employed as before expressed. Reddendum yearly
to said Robert Lord Spencer his heirs & assigns for certain premises
7s. and for other premises 3s. yearly and out of a tenement 6d.
Covenant for re-entry if rent not paid until it is paid. Power of Attorney
to deliver possession. In witness, &c. Livery of seisin signed by
said second parties endorsed.
No. 6g. — 20th Octr. 4 Jas. 1, 1606.
Counterpart indenture of lease made between Thos. Andrew
& ors. feoffees to the use of the poor within the parish of Brington of
one part & Thos. Goodman of other part. Witnesseth said feoffees in
consideration of 40s. have demised all that tenement or cottage with
appurts. &c. for 21 years from feast of St. Michael next ensuing.
Reddendum i is. annually by two half yearly payments. Covenants as
usual. In witness, &c. Signed & sealed by Thos. Goodman.
No. 61. — 20th Octr. 4 Jas. 1, 1606.
Indenturemade between Thos.Andrewe of Hurleston co. Northn.
gent. & other feoffees of certain land and tenements within the township
and fields of Great Brington afsd. to the use of the poor within the said
parish of one part & Robt. Warwick of other part. The said feoffees
in consideration of ;f .20 demise all that messuage, &c. &c. Habendum
for 21 years. Reddendum 27s. yearly rent and other usual covenants^
&c. In witness^ &c.

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No. 8.5. — loth Octr. 7 Jas. i, 1609.
Counterpart lease betn. Thos. Andrewe & ors. feoffees to the
use of the inhabitants of Brington of certain lands and tenements
within the said parish of i part & Wm. Abbotte of other part
witnesseth said feoffees in consideration of 40s. demise one baye of a
house called the Town House. Habendum for 21 years. Reddendum
yearly to said feoffees to the use of the inhabitants 4s. yearly. Other
usual covenants. In witness, &c.
No. 86. — 10 Octr. 7 Jas. 1, 1609.
Counterpart indenture of lease in same form as No. 8j. except
the lessees name and property who is Richard Turlington & the
property 2 bays of same house.
No. 87. — 10th Octr. 7 Jas. 1, 1609.
Counterpart indenture of lease from Thos. Andrewe & others
feoffees, &c. to Wm. Browne of Great Brington in consideration of £4
and Ijs. yearly rent demised one cottage house & close of land, &c.
Trusts, &c. in same form in all particulars as No. 85.
No. 88. — loth Octr. 7 Jas. 1, 1609.
Counterpart indenture of lease in same form as No. 8jj made
between Thos. Andrewe & others feoffees, &c. & James Patricke
demised one cottage house adjoining Brington Church & courtyard
adjoining the said cottage. Consideration 40s. Rent 4s. yearly.
Term 21 years. No. 89. — 10th Octr. 7 Jas. 1, 1609.
Indenture of lease in same form as No. 8.5, between Thos.
Andrewe & others feoffees, &c. and Wm. Flecknoe & Jas. Flecknoe
demised a messuage & i of a yard land. Habendum 21 years.
Reddendum £10 as consideration & 9s. yearly rent. Usual covenants,
&c. No. 91. — 10th Octr. 7 Jas. i, 1609.
Counterpart lease in same form as No. 85, betn. Thoraas
Andrewe feoffees, &c. and John Robines and Wm. Robines sd. feoffees
in consideration of £20 demised a messuage & i of a yard land in
Brington with appurts. Term 21 years. Rent ijs. Usual covenants,

No. 60. — 24th .Ipr'il, 4 Chai. I, 1628.
Indenture between Francis Morley of Twywell Northn. gentn.
of one part & Richard Kining of Brington Magna Northn. tailor of
other part in consideration of £28 5s. grants & demises all that cottage
or tenement with appurts. in Brington Magna and a little yard &
backside thereto belonging & common of pasture for 2 beasts, &c. &c.
Habendum for ever of chief lord of the fee by rents thence due and of
right accustomed. Warranty. In witness, &c.
No. 98. — ^th Febry. 1648.
Thos. Andrew and 3 others surviving feoffees to intent that
messuages, &c. thereinafter expressed " may be converted applyed and
disposed of for and towards the maintenance and sustentation of the
poor* ani ofi-H/icK/ of and in the parish of Great Brington in the said
County of Northton. and for divers other good and charitable* ani otfve*
uses within the said parish and town* accoTSL>ig, toiK,e iLicietloaof iK,a
PeoEPee*. K.eieoi|tei namei have granted to Right Honorable Lord Spencer
otherwise Robert Earl of Sunderland and others certain property
therein named to have & to hold the same to said Earl Spencer &
others their heirs and assigns for ever to the intent & purposes & to
& for the charitable uses herein above-mentioned & expressed. Livery
of seisin indorsed. In witness, &c. &c.
* This is interlined in a different hand-writing.
No. 64. — 10th November, 1652.
Indenture made between Richard Kining & Isabella his wife
of (No. 60) Brington Magna Northton. taylor of i part and John
Masonne of other part (same as No. 60.) Habendum for ever of chief
lord. Warranty, &c. and other usual covenants. Livery of seisin
indorsed. A'o. 94. — i']th May, 27 Chas. 2, 167 j.
Attested copy of indenture between John Waforne the elder of
-Bugbrookeco. Northton. of one part and John Churchof Little Brington
of other part witnesses sd. J. Waforne in consideration of natural love,
&c. grants to said John Church all that cottage house or tenements
situate at Brington to hold &c. in trust for sd. John Waforne during his
life and after his decease in trust for his wife Margaret and his son John
Waforne. Livery of seisin, &c.

No. 99. — Igth -June, 2 PFm. ^ Mary, 1690.
Robert Earl of Sunderland & 2 others surviving feoffees of
certain trust premises, &c. enfeoffs his son and heir apparent Right
Honble. Chas. Lord Spencer and others of same property as in No. 98
on the same trusts as therein altered. Livery of seisin endorsed.
No. 10^5. — Igth July, II Anne, 1711.
Indenture (Quadripartite) between Charles Earl of Sunderland
and others tenants and landholders in Brington of ist part John Loe of
2nd [jart Edmund Bromwith of 3 part & Edmund Chapman of 4th
part witnesseth said Edraund Bromwieh release said premises therein
mentd. to Edmund Chapman for 5s. to hold for unexpired term of
years in trust for above Charles Earl of Sunderland to whom reversion
is conveyed. In witness, &c. 1 1 seals. Six signatures.
No. 95.— 27<A July, 1711.
Bond from John Loe yeoman to Honble. Charles Count of
Sunderland and others for ^^70 for due observance of covenants in a
certain indenture of release of even date therewith.
No. IOI. — 26th July, 10 -Anne, 1711.
John Loe & wife to Lord Sunderland & others lease for a year
of same property as mentioned in No. 100.
No. IOO. — 2']th July, 10 Anyie, 171 1.
Indenture of release between John Loe and Mary his wife of one
part and Charles Earl of Sunderland and others inhabitairts landholders
& tenants in Brington of other part witnesseth in consideration of ^130
grants and sells fee. to sd. Chas. Earl of Sunderland all those premises
therein particularly described. Habendum for ever of chief lord. Two
seals affixed & signed by John Loe & Mary his wife. Receipt for
consideration endorsed. (Endorsed) John Loe to Lord Sunderland &
others. Release. No. 102.— Igth May, 9 Geo. 1, 1723,
Grant & release from John Church senr. Edward Manning senr.
& Samuel Bowman of Little Brington 3 surviving feoffees to Robert
Earl of Sunderland and others of same premises and upon same trusts
as (No. 98. r Feb. 1648). 3 seals aud signatures. (Endorsed)
Feoffment in trust for the poor of Great Brington.

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No. log. — i^th June, 6 Geo. 2, 1732.
Lease for a year (see No. 104 next following).
No. 104. — 16th June, 6 Geo. 2, 1732
Tripartite indenture of release Damaris Wafforne widow of
John Wafforne & Joseph Wafforne & Anne his wife John Gudgeon &
others of 2nd part (fcWm.Jephcott of 3rd part witnesseth in consideration
of ;£'4j js. said first parties grant sell, &c. to said 2nd parties of all
the messuage cottage or tenement with appurts. situate, &c. (see No.
100) with appurts. to have & to hold to said second parties, &c. &c.
No. 6a. — June, iyg2, Trinity Term.
Concordia made before certain Justices at Westminster between
parties named and concerning same property as that mentd. in No. 1 34 •
(atite,) No. 106. — 2o^A Sept. 17 Geo. 2, 1743.
(Copy.) John Gudging and others to Hon. John Spencer &
others deed of trust in which sd. John Gudging and others are called
surviving feoffees or trustees of lands & tenements thereafter mentioned
to hold premises, &c. upon same trusts as No. 98, 5 Febry. 1648, except
word "pious" instead of "other" uses.
No. 108. — 21st Octr. 1768.
John Baker & others to Hon. John Earl Spencer lease for a
year (see post No. 107.) No. 107. — 22d Octr. 1768.
John Baker and six others to Hon. John Earl Spencer copy
deed of trust for the poor's land at Brington (same as No. 98 and 106
as regards property and trusts).
No. 97. — 28th Janry. 14 Geo. 3, 1774.
General release from John Shipton to Honorable Earl Spencer
& others. No property mentioned.

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No. IIO. — 2ist Augt. 38 Geo. g, 1798.
Robt. Andrew Esq. & others to Right Honble. Earl Spencer
and others lease for a year (see post No. no).
No. iog.~-22d Augt. 38 Geo. 3, 1798.
Robert Andrew Esq. & others to the Right Honble. Earl
Spencer and others deed of trust of the Estates belonging to the poor
of Great and Little Brington in the county of Northampton. Same-
property and same trusts as those in Nos. 98 aud 106.
No. III. — 2d May, 1801.
The trustees of Great Brington poor's land to Mr. Saml.
Dumbleton counterpart lease of a farm house and lands in Great
Brington called The Moor Farm for a terra of 12 years from jth April
1801 at ;^I34 a year. No. 112. — 8th May, 1813.
The trustees of Great Brington charity land to Mr. John Butlin
lease of a farm house and lands in Great Brington called The Moor
Farra from year to year at £110 per annura.
No. iig. — 22flf May, 1826.
The Right Honorable Earl Spencer and others to the Right
Honorable Lord Viscount Althorp & others lease for a year (see No.
114 post). A'o. 114. — 2gd May, 1826.
The Right Honorable Earl Spencer & others to the Right
Honorable Lord Viscount Althorp &: others deed of trust of the estates
belonging to the poor of Great and Little Brington in the county of
Northampton (same as Nos. 98 & 106 as regards property & trusts).
No. nj. — goth January, 1846.
The Honorable & Revd. Geo. Spencer & others to Earl
Spencer & ors. appointment of new trustees of the Brington Charity
and conveyance of the trust estate to them in fee.

I have scheduled and arranged the nj documents left by
Lord Spencer relating to the Brington Trust in the order of their
date, the numbers found on the back of them being no criterion as
to this order, the figures having been indorsed apparently without
any attention to dates.
They are now tied in bundles according to the nurabers,
each figure being placed opposite the account of it in the Schedule,
so that should it be wished to refer to any particular one, it can
easily be done.
From the 21st Deer. 1262, the date of the first deed, (No.
29) to 3rd July, 14J0, all are simple feoffments from one person to
another without mention of any Charitable Trust whatever.
By deed in 3 parts (Nos. 9, 70, 7j) dated 3 July, 28 Hen.
6, 14J0, made by Agnes Hykedon, and settling certain property
therein mentioned upon trust " after her decease to take collect
" and receive all the rents and profits arising frora the aforesaid lands
"and tenements with their appurtenances and distribute those clear
" profits to the use and profit of the parishioners dnd citizens of
" Brington in greatest need to be distributed for their benefit and
"advantage according to their sound discretion."
No further trusts appear on any of the deeds or documents till
the goth January, 3 Eliz. ij6i, when in a lease (No. 67) of this date
certain persons therein naraed are called " Feoffees to the use qf the
inhabitants" and in all deeds made subsequent, relating to the trust
property, they are so styled.
By deed of 4* A October, 44 Eliz. 1601, (No. 6j) an exchange
of the poor's land was effected between Sir Robert Spencer of Althropp
and the feoffees for other lands in same parish.
By feoffment from old feoffees to new ones dated 1st Septr. 4
Jas. 1, 1606 (No. 77), it is witnessed that to the intent that "rents
" and profits of the houses lands and teneraents within written shall be
" converted and applied to the maintenance and support of the poor
" and in other good uses only accustomed for ever to be had in the
"parish of Great Brington aforesaid" certain property should be held
upon trust for the intentions and purposes above stated.

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By an indenture (No. 63) dated 10th Sept. 4 Jas. 1, 1606,
made between Lord Spencer Baron of Wormeleighton of one part and
Thomas Andrews and others of the other " part it is witnessed that the
" said Robert Lord Spencer of a good and charitable purpose and to the
" intent that all the rents issues and profits arising and coming of such
" part of the premises as be not hereafter excepted shall and may for
"ever hereafter be employed and converted to the relief and benefit of
" such poor people as for the time being do and shall inhabit and dwell
" in the parish of Great Brington aforesaid and to other lawful and
"other godly uses there," granted certain property to the end and intent
that the issues and profits of the premises might be employed as
before expressed.
. In the dealings with the trust property by the feoffees after this
they are soraetimes described as "feoffees tothe use of the poor" and
sometimes as " feoffees to the use of the inhabitants" of Brington.
In ^ feoffment to new feoffees dated ^th February, 1648 (No. 98),
Thos. Andrews and 3 others surviving feoffees to intent that messuages,
&c. thereinafter expressed " may be converted applyed and disposed
"of for and towarde the maintenance and sustentation of the poor
" oai cR-uAoR. of and in the parish of Great Brington in the said county of
" Northton. and for divers other good and-charitable an,i otR,ei uses within
" the said parish and town aooo-iiLng. to iR* iuioietion, of lK,e f<M)ffee6 Reieaftei
" ruwnei have granted to Right Honorable Lord Spencer otherwise
" Robert Earl of Sunderland and others" certain property therein
named to the intent and purposes and to and for the charitable uses
herein above mentioned and expressed.
The words above, which are written backwards are interlined
in this deed, and to all appearance in a different handwriting. The
foregoing trusts do not warrant the alteration, but in the subsequent
deeds of trust this alteration seems to have been continued, except that
in later deeds the word " pious" has beeu used instead of " other" uses,
see Nos. 99, 102, 106, 107, 109, 114, and nj.
The .above statement I believe to be a correct analysis of the
II j deeds and documents contained in the Brington Box and more
particularly set forth in the foregoing Schedule.
GEORGE H. LEE,
27th Septr. i8j4.
Charity Commission.

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From Bridges' History of Northa-mptonshire, 179T.
Vol. i., page 478.
Within the parish church oi Brington was a chauntry, but by whom
founded is unknown. ' In i j3 j, 26 Hen. VIII. the profits accruing
to William Duncley the Incumbent were rated at vi /. In the thirtieth
year of the same reigu, " the lands appropriated to the support of this
chauntry were vested by a deed of feofment in divers ofthe parishioners,
to be employed by thera to such parochial uses as should be thought
necessary. t Rot. in Offic. Primit. n. 27. " Commiss. Return, anno 2 Edw. VI.

From Baker' s History of Northamptonshire, 1820.
Vol. i., page 100.
Benefactions. Chantry Lands, &c.
A small part only of the poor's land referred to in the abstract
of charitable donations (p. 80), was the gift of Alice Hykedon ; the
far greater proportion was the reputed endowment of a Chantry. In
the ecclesiastical survey ij3j (26 Hen. 8), the chantry at "Brington"
was rated in rents and profits at £6 per ann. and William Duncley
was returned to be the chantry priest*" ; but John Gryifyth and other
inhabitants of Brington, by presentment to the king's commissioners,
certified that there was no chantry here, and that 4 messuages 7 cottages
and 4I yards (virgates) of arable land in Church Brington and Little
Brington, now supposed to be to the use of a chantry priest, were
given by " auncyent benefactors unto the seyd Towneshyppe and put
in feofferaent uppon trust" to eraploy the revenues and profits "as
they should seme good," as in payment of fifteenths, finding of
soldiers and arms, and such other charges ; and that sometimes the
said rents have been applied to maintaining a priest, sometimes a year,
sometimes half a year, sometimes a quarter, to pray for the said
benefactors, and to help hira to visit at tiraes needful ; the parish being
wide and many villages therein, sorae of them being two miles distant
b Augm, OiF.

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from the parish church -, that there was never known to be any orna
ments, jewels, chattels, or mansion-house belonging to such priest ;
and that when tenths were demanded for the said lands as belonging
to a chantry, they were advised by Thomas Heritage, clerk, deceased,
then one of his majesty's chaplains, surveyor of his works at West
minster, and parson of Brington, to resist the payment, but for fear of
a contempt, and having spent in the suit all they were able to raise,
they were of " force driven to pay the said tenths hitherto, when of
right they ought to have paid none"." This remonstrance appears to
have produced the desired effect, for on the dissolution of chantries
2 Edw. 6 (i J48), their lands were valued at £4 gs. gid. per ann.-
reciting a feoffment of them dated i Dec. 30 Hen. 8, "to divers of
the parisheners of Brington wherein is " declaryd no use but to be
eraployed by the parisheners to suche use as to them shall seme
good and necessary''." The coraraissioners of inclosure allotted
122 a. 28 p. to the feoffees ofthe poor's laud, which, with the farm
house attached, is now let for ;if i7o. P^r ann. besides which the feoffees
have 29 cottages and about 9 a. of old inclosure in Great and Little
Brington, producing ^^34. 13s. per ann. (exclusive of 13 of the cottages
being occupied rent-free) ; and about 12 a. at Napton in Warwickshire,
purchased some years since by the feoffees, and now let for ;^20. per
ann, h Augm. Off. o Parish Evidences,

From the Reports of the Commissioners of Charities^
1S15— 1831.
The Charity Estate.
This property is vested in trustees, the present surviving trustees
being the Right honourable the Earl Spencer, Robert Andrew, esq.,
and Messrs William. Hornsby,- Williara Kenning, William Marston,
and Samuel Dumbleton. The last trust-deeds are dated the 21st and
2 2d August 1798.
The estate appears to have been originally settled for charitable
uses in the tirae of Henry the 6th, and is described in the trust-deeds
as a messuage and close of ground, another messuage and close called
Butcher's Close, another messuage and close of pasture, a messuage

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and gi acres of land, eight small cottages, a messuage or tenement,
and two other closes of land, and two other messuages or teneraents,
all in the parish of Great Brington, an allotraent in the West Field in
the parish of Great Brington, containing iiia. i r. 29 p., awarded
under an Act passed in the i6th George 2, for dividing the comraon
fields of Great and Little Brington, in lieu of open field-lands, and a
close, containing by estimation 1 1 acres, in the parish of Napton-on-
the-Hill, in the county of Warwick, allotted in lieu of lands in the
open fields there ; and the trusts declared by the deed are that the
rents and profits of the premises shall be applied and disposed of for
and towards the maintenance and support of the poor, and the church
of the parish of Great Brington, and other good, charitable and pious
uses, within the town and parish of Great Brington, according to the
directions of the feoffees and trustees, in pursuance of former deeds to
the same purport.
In its present coudition the property consists of the premises
above described, and of several additional cottages, which have been
built since the date of the deeds of 1798 on part of the land at
Brington, and it is let as follows :
I. A house, homestead, andthe allotmentof iii A. i R. 29P.
are let to John Butlin, as yearly tenant, at the annual
rent of - -
2. The rest of the property at Brington, consisting of several
small tenements with gardens, and some small pieces of
land, excepting a. few cottages which are occupied by
poor persons incapable of paying rent, is let to sundry
persons, as yearly tenants, at rents amounting together
yearly to---------
3. The land at Napton is let to  Truslove, as yearly
tenant, at the annual rent of 

The rents paid are the full annual value of the premises ; and it
has been necessary of late to allow a deduction from the rents of
Butlin aud Truslove, to the amount of 24/., and ,3/. a year respectively.
Two of the trustees usually act in the management and administra
tion of the property and trust, on behalf of theraselves and the rest^
and a regular account is kept of receipts and payraents which is made
up half-yearly, and is inspected by Lord Spencer once a year. From
the account-book, and the evidence of two of the trustees, it appears,
that in January 181 j there was due to Mr. John Walker, one of the

£¦

s.

d.

170

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~~

35

13



20

—

—

225

13

—

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trustees, for various sums expended by him in building four new
cottages, rebuilding some old cottages, and converting others into
separate tenements, and in erecting and improving buildings on the
farm at Brington, the sum of 8i8/. ; that at a meeting of the trustees
held in February i8i j, it was agreed that the balance should be repaid
to Mr. Walker, by instalments in the space of five years, out of the
net produce of the trust-estates, with interest at the rate of five per
cent, to be settled half-yearly as the rent's should be received ; that
since the year i8ij there have been expended several other large
sums of money, in repairs, and in completing repairs and improve
ments of the cottages, and in draining part of Butlin's farm and
thatching ; that the principal and interest due and payable to Mr.
Walker have been gradually paid and are now wholly discharged ; that
in the winter of 1823, 1824, a quantity of coals was distributed among
poor people, the expense of which amounted to 48I. 11s. $d. ; that
the balance in hand on the 24th January 182J amounted to 6gl. 12s.
iiid.; and that in the winter of 1824, 1 82 j, coals were given away
to the amount of jo/., or thereabouts.
The cottages and buildings are all now in fair condition, and it
may be expected that no further heavy expenditure in repairs will be
required for a considerable tirae.

FouRNOYs's Charity.
By Indenture, dated 29th November 1700, between Peter Fournoys,
esq., of the first part, Thomas Leigh, Hugh Trimmell, and George
Curteis, of the second part, and the Rev. Charles Trimmell, the
rector, and the then churchwardens of Brington, of the third part,
reciting, that the said Peter Fournoys on the 28th of the then raonth
of November, had transferred to the said Thomas Leigh, Hugh
Trimmell, and George Curteis, looZ. stock, and " 2 j/. per cent for
trade," which the said Peter Fournoys then had in the joint stock of
the company trading to the East Indies, to the intent that the produce
thereof, and also the "said principal sum of i2jZ." might be disposed
of to the uses therein mentioned, the said Peter Fournoys, Thomas
Leigh, Hugh Trimmell, and George Curteis, declared that the said

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i2j/. stock was so transferred to thera, upon trust, that they should
pay to the said Charles Trimmell, and the rector and churchwardens,
of Brington, for the time being, the dividends and produce thereof, and
that the said Charles Triraraell, and the rector and churchwardens
should lay out the sarae in buying Bibles, Catechisras, and religious
books, for the poor people of the parish of Brington, and in binding
out poor boys or girls there apprentices, and setting the poor of the
parish to work, or in any other way for the relief of the poor of
Brington, which should be agreed on by the said Charles Triraraell,
and the rector and churchwardens, or two of them, whereof the rector
should be one ; and that it should be lawful for the trustees to dispose
of the stock, and put out the produce thereof on other securities ; and
that after the death of the said Charles Triraraell, such persons as
should be appointed by the Earl of Sunderland, or the owner of
Althorpe for the tirae being, should have the same power in managing
the charity as was thereby given to the said Charles Trimmell ; and
that the trustees should yearly make up their accounts concerning the
charity to the parishioners of Brington, at a vestry, and enter them in
a book to be kept in the coraraon chest.
The stock raentioned in the will was disposed of raany years ago,
and the produce invested in South Sea annuities, the stocks in which,
and the annual dividends thereof, are as follows :
Stocks.
£. s. d.
16 11 2 South Sea Stock
70 12 10 Old South Sea Annuities -
49 13 j New - ditto
Total annual income - -
This charity was suspended in operation for a considerable time,
in consequence of the stocks not being transferred to fresh trustees.
The last transfer, previous to oue which has very recently been made,
was in 1743; andof the trustees named in that transfer, a Mr. George
Hall was the survivor. In November 1786, Mr. Hall gave a powerof
attorney to Messrs. Martin & Co., Bankers, London, to receive the
dividends, and they were received by one of the members of that firm
until 1807, at which time Mr. Hall had been long dead. Lord
Spencer's agent in 1808 made inquiries at Messrs. Martin's & Oo.
respecting the property, and several attempts were subsequently made

Yearly Dividends

£¦

s.

d.

-

II

6

2

2

4

I

9

8

4

3

6

3a
to discover the personal representatives of Mr. Hall, but without
success. Tn 182 1 it was at length found that H. Somerville, of
Stafford, M.D., was the legal personal representative, but in con
sequence, principally, of difficulty arising from a positive affidavit of
identity being required at the South Sea House, the assignment to new
trustees was not effected before February .182J, when a deed was
executed, whereby the Right honourable Lord Viscount Duncannon,
the Honourable W. II. Littleton, and Anthony Spedding, gentleman)
became trustees of the fund.
The income of the charity is understood to have been applied
fornierly in different ways for the poor of the parish of Brington, and
principally in apprenticing children, and occasionally purchasing books
for children ; but of late it has been made applicable to the support of
and supplying books for a Sunday-school, and the funds for such pur
pose, during the suspension of payment of the dividends, until 1821,
were furnished by Lord Spencer. The sum received by Lord Spencer's
agent, in respect of arrears of dividends, amounts, to 67/. 4s. 40!., out
of which there was to be paid to Lord Spencer, in discharge of his
advances up to 1821, the sum of ggi. 2s. 2d.; and there was also to
be paid the bill of Messrs. Bicknell and Spedding, solicitors, for
expenses relating to the tracing of the representatives of Mr. Hall the
surviving trustee, attendances at the South Sea House, and preparing
the deed of appointment of new trustees, which bill had not at the
time of this Inquiry been delivered, the business having been but
recently completed.

Northampton : Taylor & Son, Printers and Publishers.

A PAPER

Unritans in ^ortl^amptonsl^TO,

DATED i6 JULY. 1J90.

With Particulars of the " Glassies "
holden at the Bull in
Northampton ;

And of one Edmond Snape beeinge or pretending to be
Curate of S. Peters in Northampton.

From the original MS. in the British Museum.
MS. Lans. 64, folio 51.

TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
1878.

Articles wherewith ye Ministers qf Northam, isf Warwick shires are
charged, etc. 16 July, 1J90.

ffirst, they have agreed upon, and appoynted amongest them selves
certayne generali meetinge, w°h they call Synodes j and others more
particulare in severall Shiers or Diocesses, w°h they call Classes.
Item, some of the especiall places so appoynted for the Synodes, are —
London, Cambridge at tymes of commencement and Sturbridge
ffayre, and Oxforde at the Act ; becausse at those tymes and
places they may assemble w' least suspition.
It'm, in the sayde Synodes those there asserabled treat and determine of
such matters, as are eyther propownded unto them a newe, or have
bene debated before in the Classeis as fyt to be considered on and pro
vided for : And lykewise what course shalbe holden by the ministers
in theyr severall places : w°h beinge concluded upon by the Synode
it is holden autenticall, and is decreed to be put accordinglye in ex
ecution.
It'm, in the Classis beinge a more particulare asserablie of certeyue
ministers in severall shires or Diocesses (accordinge to the appoynt
ment of the generail Synodes) meetinge in sorae private place for the
moste parte after a prayer there conceaved, and a sermon or exercise
made; It is signified by some that were present, what hath bene determi
ned in the last Synode : And then they doe deliberate as well for the
better execution thereof, as allso what further poyntes they thincke
convenient to be presented to the Considera ton of y" next Synode.
It'm, accordinge to this place, sondrie, or at least one such Synode —
or Synodes have bene holden at everie or sorae of y" sayde places and
tymes afore specified ; and namelie at or aboute Sturbridge ffayre
tyme last at Cambridge.

6. It'm, at all or some of such Synodes there have mett and bene assembled
' Dr. Whitakers, Mr. Cartwrighte, Knewstubbs, Travers, Charke,
Egerton, Greneham, Warde, ffludd, Chatterton, Perkins, —
Dike, Snape, and others ; or some of thera.
7. Item at some of the sayde Synodes it hath bene debated, concluded,
agreed on, and determined by all or moste voyces ; that Such as cannot
preache, are no ministers : that the Sacraments oughte not to be recea
ved at their handes; that All one kinde of doctrine must be preached
by those thatfavoure that caufse towchinge the erectinge or establishinge
the govern-ment : that Everie minister in his charge shoulde by all
holie and lawfull raeanes endevoure to bringe in and establishe that
govern-ment : that Ano athe, whereby a man might be tyed to reveale
any thinge, w* may be penall to hira selfe, or his faithfull bretheren,
is againste charitie ; and needs not, or ought not to be taken ; or to
lyke effect, or sorae thinge tendinge that waye w' sundrie other poynts.
8. Item, the determinatons raade in Synode have bene published &
signified in sundrie of the Asserablies called Classes, and by
thera assented unto to be put in execution. Naraelie, a Classeis
hath bene holden at the Bull in Northarapton ; in Mr. Sharpes
howsse, minister of ffawesley and in Mr. Snapes chamber ; and
in everie or some of them ; where the sarae Decrees or Articles, and
others have bene published and made knowne to be executed.
y. It'm, the rainisters in Northampton shier (who especiallye doe —
asserable thera selves at such Classes, and namelye were present at y,
afore sayde Classes) are Mr. Snape, Stone, rainister of
warkton *\v'harton, Edwardes of Courtnoll, Spicer of Cookenoe, At
kins of Higham, ftletcher of Abington, Larke of Wellingbo-
roughe, Prowdeloe of Weeden, Kinge of Coleworthe, Bare-
bone, and others ; or some of them.
10. It'ra, Mr. Snape declaringe upon a tyrae his issue of dealinge at
Oxforde about the cominge of Mr. ffavoure th elder; he decla
red this or the lyke forme of wordes to no lesse effect : Viz, he
shewed, that in their Classes w°h they have in this shier of North
ampton (as they have in moste places of the lande beside) they had
« concluded generallye that. The dumbe ministerie shoulde be taught
to be noe ministerie at all.
II. Item, he the sayde Snape then declared that in the sarae Classeis they
had agreed upon this poynte ; that they shoulde ioyntlye in their se
verall Charges and congregations teach all one kynde of doctrine
tendinge to the erectinge of the government,

12. Item, he declared in these, or the lyke wordes : How say you (sayde
he) if we devise a waye, whereby to shake of all the Anti-chri
stian yoke aud government of the Bishopps : and will ioyntlie
together erect the discipline and government all in one day. But
peradventure it will not be yet this yeare and this halfe.
13. It'ra, that they woulde doe,, these things in such sorte by these y'"'
Classes, that by the grace of god they (Viz, the Bishopps)
shoulde never be able to prevayle againste it.
14. It'ra, upon the first of Peter the jth he declared, that in the
Churche ot god there oughte not to be anye government by Lo.
Bishopps; but that there oughte to be a Christian equali-
tie amonge the ministers of god ; Nor the ministers of y°
worde shoulde goe w' their trowpes and traynes, as theyr
manner is at these dayes.
ij. It'ra, that the Discipline of the Churche is of an absolute ne-
cessitie to the- Churche; And that the Church oughte of
necessitie to be governed by Pastors, Doctors, Elders,
Deacons, and Widowes ; w"h he declared out of y"' wordes
of Peter ; The Elders, w""" are amonge you. &c.
16. That here one, and there one, picked out of the prophane and
coraraon raultitude, and put aparte to serve the Lorde; maketh
the Churche of god ; and not the generail multitude : out of y"»
wordes of Peter, But you are a chosen generation.
17. That as nothinge maketh a separaton betwene man and wife, but
whoredome : so what soever beinge devised by the brayne of man, &
is brought into the Churche to be used in the outwarde worshippe
and service of god (seeme it never so good and godlye, never so
holie) it is spirituall whoredome ; out of the seconde Comman
dement.
18, It'm, Mr. Snape beeinge demanded how a man coulde be a mi
nister of god, that stoode onelye by the authoritie of man in re
spect of his outwarde callinge, and fell at his comaundement •
Answered, that he had bene in such a perplexitie hira selfe;
that rather than he woulde have stoode by the vertue of anye
letters of Orders, he woulde have bene hanged upon y« gallowes.
19. It'm, Mr. Snape hath at sundrie tymes, or once at y* least
in the hearinge of Others declared, that before it were longe; it

shoulde be seene, that they woulde have this government by
Doctors, Pastors, Elders, Deacons, and Widowes; and
that in deede all, or sorae of the sayde ministers afore articula
ted have begon in theyr severall Cures to erect them, or some
parte of thera.
It'm, let the paper (w'h is a coppie of a certayne wrytinge sup
posed to have bene set downe by him the sayde Snape) be shewed
unto him, and let hira upon his oathe declare whether he doth
not knowe or beleeve that the sarae is a true coppie of a wry-
tinge set downe under his owne hand, or not.

Edmonde Snape either heard of or feared a searche to have
bene intended for bookes not autorized : and thereupon he caussed to
be caried divers sortes of such bookes to otie George Bevis a tan
ner, desiringe him to lay them up in some secret place ; who bestow
ed thera thereupon in his barke-howsse. And afterwards the sayde
Snape fetched away agayne the sayde bookes or moste of them ; but
left 2j or there aboutes of the bookes called (A defence of the eccle-
siasticall discipline) in 4° againste Mr. Bridges, w' the saide Be
vis, and desired liim to sell them after 14. or 16.^ and they or some
of them were by him the sayde Bevis accordinglie solde.
It'm, Christopher Hodgekinson obteyned a promisse of y" sayde
Snape ; that he woulde baptise his childe : but Snape added
sayinge, you must then give it a Christian name allowed in y' scrip
tures. Then Hodgekinson tolde him, that his wives father, whose
narae was Richarde, desired to have the givinge of the name. Well
sayde Snape) yo" must doe as I bid yo", least when yo" come, the
Congregation be troubled, ' Not w'stinge Hodgekinson thinkinge it
woulde not have bene made a matter of such iraportance, caussed the
Childe to be brought to St. Peters; and Snape proceeded in th'
action (thoughe not accordinge to the booke ofcoraon prayer by lawe
established) untill he came tothe naraingeof y° childe: but hearinge
thera callinge it Richarde, and that they would not give it anye o-
ther name ; he stayed there, and woulde not in anye case baptise the
Childe. And so it was caried awaye thence, and was baptised
the weeke followinge at All-hallowes churche, and called Richarde.
It'm the sayde Snape beeinge or pretending to be Curate of St.
Peters in Northarapton, doth not in his Ministratows reade the Con
fession, Absoluton, Psallraes, Lessons, Letanie, Epistle, gospellj

Administreth the sacraments of baptisme and the supper, marieth,
burieth, churcheth or giveth thanckes for weomen after Childe-
burthe, visiteth the sycke, nor perfourraeth other partes of his
dutie at all, or at least not accordinge to the forme prescribed by the
booke of Common prayer authorized; but in some changeth, some
partes omitteth, and othe;-s addeth, choppeth, and mingleth it
w' other prayers and speeches of his owne &c, as it pleaseth his
owne humor.
It'm, sondrie Ministers who mett in one or more Synodes assembled
w*''in a yeare and an halfe last past and lesse, concluded and agreed
that everie man in his severall charge shoulde indevoure to erect
a government of Paste's, governinge Elders, and Deacons :
That they shoulde teache and houlde, that all ministers who are
called accordinge to the order of the Churche of Englande to be an un
lawfull, or have an unlawfull callinge : And that such allreadie
beeinge ministers, as stande affected well unto their Courses, and
whom they dare trust, shoulde be induced to renownce their former
callinge by Bishopps, and to take a newe approbaton by them in
their Classis, beeinge an assemblie of sondrie ministers w"'in a
certayne compasse in a shyer, and whereof they have aboute iiij. in
a shier, or so manye as convenientlye raay be : And that this is
the Lordes ordinance, wherebye onelye they raust stande in theyr mi-
nisterit : And that the lyke approbation shalbe used in those that
were not ministers before : And that after such callinge, they
that were not rainisters afore, may preache untill they be called to
some certayne charge. At what tyme if the people of such place
call them, then are they to be holden full ministers, and may mini
ster the sacraments. Never the lesse it is permitted, that y"
shall goe to the Bishoppe for writinge (for their safe standinge in
theyr callinge) as unto a Civill magistrate in a matter belonginge
onelye to the out warde man, and none otherwise, ffor they holde,
that thereby he receaveth uot anye power to be a minister; or to
lyke effect hath it bene concluded, or is practised araonges'
them.
It'm, in sondrie places of this realme such their determinatons have
bene and are put in vre and practise : namelye in Northampton-
shier, in Essex, Suffolke, Norfolke, Warwickshier, De-
vonshier, Cornwall, &c. The sayde Snape renownceJ
or woulde not stande in his ministerie by the callinge of the Bishoppe,
and was agayne (as afore) allowed or called by the Classis ; but
woulde not thereupon administer the Lordes Supper. But afterwards

the parishe of St. Peters afore sayde, or some of them, knoweinge
that by reason such determinaton he might not accorapte himselfe a
full minister, untill some particulare congregation had chosen
hira; They did thereupon choose him for their minister: And by
that callinge and as afore, doth he stSnde in his ministerie at this
present, and not by the callinge of the Bishoppe.
Itera, one Larke not farre frora Wellingboroughe in the sayde shier
beeinge not afore a rainister accordinge to the churche of Englande
had the approbaton of the sayde Snape and others of a Classis up
pon tryall made of him : And then was by them willed for his safe
standinge to goe to a Bishoppe (as to a Civill magistrate onelye)
for writinge.
It'm, accordinge to the usuall place concluded on in that behalfe, one
Hocknell havinge bene 6. or 7. yeares afore a minister, beeinge
to have a benefice was willed to bringe some testiihoniall from the
ministers of the sayde shier for his siifficiencie and conversaton,
(because moste patrones that eyther them selves be so affected, or
have frende so bene, have bene dealt w' to such lyke effect.) Where
upon he cominge to the sayde Snape, Was willed to renownce his
first callinge, and not to stande by the Bishopps callinge into the mi
nisterie : And had to that purpose by him and his comparlions of
the Classis a text given, and a daye prefixed to preach upon it;
w°h was by Hocknell perfourmed before the Classis and others at
' St. Peters aforesayde. After w'h sermon the Classis alone
beinge assembled, Hocknell was willed to stande aloole. Then
Penrie began to make a speeche, and to exhorte them to be fcarefuU
to call upon god and to deale w' out affection in this action, kc.
After w°h they fell' to consultaton. Sonne lyked that he shoulde
be adraitted : and others misliked both becausse he had not delyve-
. red the Metaphore that was in his text; artd beeauSse he was
no grecian nor hebritian. Who ovor-w6yingB the rest, Hocknell
was called for^ and in some sorte comended. Sut y' speaker
of the Classis tolde him he must take more paynes at his bobke, before
they woulde allowe of him as a fytt minister. Whereupon Hock-
, nell fell out w* them, and conteniminge theyr Censures did proceede
and tooke possession of his benefice.
At the end of the MS. occui's :
" Sir, Be pleased to Transcribe this Copy, and return it as soon
as possible pray Send the pt'obf back as soon' as you can. Frcra
Mr. Leackes in the Old Baily."

The Rest-less Ghost:
OR,
Wonderful News from Northampton-
s/iire, and Southwark.
Being a most true and Perfect Account of a
Persons Appearance that vv^as Murdred
above Wfo Hundred and Fifty Years ago,
First about three weeks since, to one William Clarke at Hennington
in Northampton-shire, whom it appointed to meet in Southwark,
and did there appear to him again, and several others, on Sunday
last the lotb. qf this instant January.
Where it Discovered a great parcel of Money, and some
writings buried in the ground, wh'ich were disposed off hy his
Order, and then seeming satisfied it disappeared.

This Relation is taken from the said Wt//.
C/arks own Mouth, who came to Lofidon
on purpose, and will be Attested and Ju
stified by Wi//. Stub/fins, Iohn Char/tofi,
and J^ohfi Stevens, to be spoken with any
day, at the Gastle Inn without Smith-
Fie/d-Barrs, and many others.
Printed for J-ohn Millet.

Northampton .•
Reprinted by Taylor 6^ Son.
1878.

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Mens Opinions must necessarily be of the same
size and scantling with their understand
ings ; 'What we cannot comprehend, 'tis our
interest, lest our Judgements should be suspected to under
value and laugh at, as false and fabulous, wherefore since
tue most accute Philosophers amongst us cannot but confess
their ignorance of the Nature, Power, Operations, and
Modes of Acting of Spirits, and seperated souls, no won
der if the Scioli and Smatterers, that effect the Title
qf Wits, not bdng able to sole all the Uncouth Apparen cies
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ies daily happening, labour to conceal their Folly by a
more egregious and plain demonstration qf it, in denying
the whole matter of Fact, though never so conspicuous;
and asserting that there are Really no such Phoenomi-
na's; but the truth qf the following Relation is so Noto
rious and Ready to be Attested, as we have mentioned in
the Title page,' that it will better become Ingenious men
to study how to Reconcile the same to Religious and phi
losophical principles, then like incredulous Buffoons, to
question the certainty qf it.

THe Person that is the Original Authour of
this Account (from whose own mouth the
same is taken) Is an Honest, Substantial
Man, named William Clark, by Profession
a Maulster, but living at present in a Farm-House, at
a Town called Hennington, within four Miles of
Northampton. The house is usually called Old Pells
house, persons of that name having for several Gene
rations lived in it; Nor was it within the Memory
of man any way Haunted or Disturbed, till within
this Twelve-Month last past, or there abouts : since
which time this Good-man Clark and his Family
have been often alarra'd and affrighted, some tiraes
the doors in the Night all Unlock'd, Unbolted, and
flung off the Hinges; at other times the Windows
broken so lamentably, as if the Devil had been got
into one of the Froliques of our London Hectors,
to raake work for the Glaziers in his Nocturnal Rarables.

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Eambles. Oftentimes the Good man would get up
in his shirt to see what was the matter, or occasion of
so much Confusion, but still nothing appeared, till
about three weeks since. He being walking a little way
off from his House, the Spirit on a sudden became
visible to hira, at first in a very horrid, but immedi
ately after in a more familiar and humane shape : yet
was the raan much frighted at it for the present, till
recollecting his scattered spirits, he took the courage ;
(In the Name of Almighty God, blessed for ever,)
to Demand what it was, and what it would have ? I'o
which the Apparition with a pleasant friendly coun
tenance, and distinct voice. Answered • in these words
(as near as he can reraeraber thera) or at least to this
Effect.

/ am the disturbed Spirit of a person
long since Dead, I was Murthered
neer this place Two hundred sixty and
seven years, nine weeks, and two days
ago, to this very time, and come along
with me and I will shew you where it
was done.

This being said, it conducted hira into the next
Close to the side of a Hedge, and then said ; Here
was I kill'd, ray head being seperated from my body;
Goodman Clark askt him how he came to be killed. He

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He answered. For lucre and covetousness of niy '^-
state. The man demanded whether he dwelt therea
bouts in his life time; he replyed. No, he inhabited at
London in Southwark, where he had some Money^ and
Writings that had ever since lain buried in the Earth,
and that till the same was taken up and disposed of ac
cording to bis mind, he should never be at rest. The
man further inquired, why he had not discovered the
same sooner, rather than now after so very long a space
of time ; He answered, that he did for several years
after his murther haunt and disturb that place, but was
at last laid, and bound down by the Magical Art of a
certain Fryer (whose name he mentioned but the man
has forgot it) for two hundred and fifty, during which
time he was confined from appearing on earth, but
now the same being expired he was come and resolv
ed this man should do what he desired, or else should
never have any peace : The man inquired what was his
reque.st; The Phantasme or Ghost said, that he should
go to London the very next Day, and that it would
meet hira there and shew hira the place where the
things were hid ; The man replyed he could not with
out great prejudice go so soon, but within a fortnight
he would be there : At last they concluded he should
come within that time, and that the Ghost would
meet him upon London-Bridge or going into Southwark
and so for that time it disappeared.
Clark strangely surprised with this accident, coraing
bome acquaints his Neighbours, but more especially
the Minister of the parish he dwelt in, and several o-
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ther learned and Godly men, with the story, and ali
the strange circurastances, who unanimously advised
him to keep his word, and not fail to meet it, but not
to eat or drink in any place whether it should lead
him, &c.
Several times ill this fortnight it appeared to him,
but in a very gentle manner, putting hira in raind of
his promise, which Clark gave it fresh assurances he
would make good, and being now familiarized, talk'd
as freely to it as to any of his companions, one time
it told him ; It left a Wife and two children behind at
its Death, and that its estate had now run through four
several Families. At another time he demanded, whe
ther it had been all this while in Joy or Torment, and
whether when he had done and perforraed its will, it
would go into a state of eternal happiness, but to nei
ther of these questions it would not answer one word,
but when it was minded to be gone, would still bid
him go on before and not look back, and so left him.
The Carryer from that Town told all this of the
story at the Castle-Inn without Smithfield Bars near
three weeks ago, and that Clark was to come up a-
bout it, and accordingly on Saturday the ninth of Jan.
167J. made a journey porposely and solely to London,
on that occasion, and on Sunday in the afternoon (be
ing somewhat impatient to know the up-shot of the
matter) would needs walk over the bridge into South
wark; but no sooner was he going off frora the Bridge
foot into the Burrough, but the spirit appeared in the
common habit of a man, standing right before him, and

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and with an enviting smle turn'd about led him on to
a place in Southwark, (which I ara forced to omit nam
ing particularly for fear of adding to the peoples trou
ble by sending more enquirers, of whom thousands
have already been there, so that 'tis sufficiently known
to most on that side of the water.) -Being come there,
he would not for some tirae appear to go in, because
as he alledged there were some strangers present that
were nothing concern'd, but as soon as they were gone
he went in visible both to Clark and two Women and
others that were in the house, where it very mildly
told them the whole story aforesaid, & that they were
some of his posterity, & then shewed them a place,
bidding them dig there next day and then he would be
with them again. Next day Clark going over early,
they dug accordingly in that place, and about 8 foot
deep, found a pot and in it a considerable quantity of
gold, & at the bottom of that some Writings, some of
paper which did moulder away & crumble to dust
if they touched them, but others of parchraent were
whole, by whose dates it appeared they had lain there
as long as he had said before it was since he was Mur
thered ; Clark was the raan took up the pot, the Spirit
visibly standing by in humane shape in the presence of several persons, and
then it gave him particular order how he should dispose of what he found,
which he distributed accordingly, and then the spirit appeared to him again
in a very joyful contented manner, saying. Thou hast doue well, and hence
forth I shall he at rest, so as never more to trouble thee.
All which being dispatcht, ihe said William Clarice, having no other
business at all in London, having told all that enquired of him this
Helation ffor so the Pha-ntasme or Ghost desired that it should be
made publique) this was taken from his mouth in the presence of se
veral witnesses, and so he went homewards ver-y well satisfied,
¦on Thm-sday, the lith. of this instant lanuary. Finis.

A Full and True
RELATION OF THE
TRYAL,
CONDEMNATION, and EXECUTION

OF

Ann Foster,
(Who was Arrained for a Witch) on Saturday
• the 22th of this Inftant Auguft, at the place
of Execution at Northampton.
With the Manner how She by her MaUce and
Witchcraft fet all the Barns and Corn on Fire belong
ing to one Jofeph Weeden living in Eqftcoat, and be
witched a whole Flock of Sheep in a most lamenta
ble manner, and betwitching all his Horfes, with his
other Cattle, to the utter Ruin and undoing of the faid
Jofeph Weeden. And alfo in what likenefs the Devil
appeared to Her while fhe was in Prifon, and the
m^ner of her Deportment at her Tryal.

London, Printed for D. M. 1674.

Northampton :
Reprinted iy Taylor &= Son.
1878.

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A Full and True Relation qf the Tryal, Condem
nation and Execution of Ann Fofter, (who was
Arraigned for a WitchJ on Saturday the 22lh of
this inflant Auguft, at the place of Execution at
Northampton.

Notwithftanding that many have taken very
great pains to confute, by reafon of the opinion
fo long held in the world, that there have been
and are Witches, arguing againft the Exprefs Text of
Scripture, Thou fhalt not suffer a Witch to live ; and falfly
finding out Sophifmes to make the Witch of Endor, I
know not what kind of Cunning Woraan, taught only
to play tricks by the Idolatrous Priefts; for why fhould
a Law be made fo fe verely againft Witches if there had
been none ? or why ftiould the Scripture record fo pe
culiar a Story of the witch of Endor, if fhe had known
no more then fome few Tricks of Legerdemain, and
had not had a particular converfe with Infernal Spi
rits. I fay, notwithftanding all the Clutter thefe men have
raade to introduce this unbelief of witches into the
World, by alleadging firft that there is no fuch thing as
a witch in Scripture. And fecondly, that the opinion
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of Witchcraft firfl: took Birth from Heathen Fables,
and was afterwards improved by Popilh Impoftures,
and laughing at all the ftrange and wonderful Stories
related by fo many credible witneffes in Confirmati
on of it, yet certainly there are fuch lewd and wicked
people, who give themfelves over to the Dominion of
the Prince of the Power of the Air to have his aid and
affiftance in executing their Malice and Revenge ; of
what follows will be a very pregnant Teftimony, which
being no lefs true than it is fad and wonderful.
There lived and ftill liveth in the Town of Eqftcoat
near Fofters-Booth in Northampton Shire, a Rich and
fubflantial Grazier, who happening about Apr'il laft,
(when Mutton wai very dear and fcarce) to have killed
a Sheep for the ufe of his own Family, there came in
to his houfe an old' woman who long had been obferved
to be muttering to her felf, came into his Houfe, and
would needs have fome of his Mutton, but he neither
willing to fpare it, nor ftie to give the price it was then
worth, he utterly refufed to let her have any; where
upon fhe went away murmerring and grumbling, and
told him he had as good have done what fhe defired, and
took her mony; He took fo little notice of what fhe
faid, that fome few days after he did not all remem
ber it, when it happened, that going into his Failure
he found thirty of his Sheep in a condition dead, and in
a firange and miferable manner, their Leggs broke in
pieces, and their Bones all fhattered in their Skins ;
whereupon amazed at the ftrangenefs of the fpectacle, he
fent

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lent for feveral of his Neighbours to view them, who
no lefs wondring at it then he, entred into a fufpition
that they muft needs be bewiched, and advifed him to
take one of them and burn it, for they faid, that they
had heard it confidently affirmed by Men of reputed
knowledg, that upon doing fo the Witch would appear;
Whereupon, the honeft Grazier, over-perfwaded by
his Neighbours, took one of the Sheep and threw it in
to the Fire; but though they could by no means burn
it ; yet immediately came the fame old Woman runing
in a great hurry, that would fome days before have
brought fome of this Mutton, and in a mighty Chafe,
asked him what he meant, to offer to burn his Sheep,
which fully increafing his fufpition, having a Knife in
hand, and led, perhaps by that general opinion, that
fetching Blood of the Witch takes a way her power of
doing any harm, he gave her a little cut over the hand
and fetching blood of her, ihe little regarding and neg
lecting to apply any remedy to it, it wrankled and fwell'd
extreamly, whereupon ihe came again, and threatned
that ihe would arreft and trouble him for it ; and he to
avoid any thing of trouble, being a quiet Man, was con
tent to give her twenty ihillings towards her cure, which
ihe had no fooner received of him, but fhe returned thefe
or the like words, that that was the Divils mony, and
that now ihe had power enough to puniih him, nor did
fhe delay to execute her Malice, but foon after, being
ailisted by Satan, her Colleague, about the 22th. of
May laft fet his Houfe and Barns on fire, and notwith
ftanding all the help of his Neighbours to quench it, they
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could nothing prevail, but that one of his Barns was
quite burnt to the ground, and foraetiraes the fire would
be in his wheat, and fomtimes in his Chambers, fo that
they knew not which way to turn themfelves to extin-
guifh it, at length with much pain and labour and
the good Spirit prevailing over the bad, they made a
ihift to put it out. without any confiderable damage to
his houfhould Goods, fave only that the Barn before-
mentioned, was quite confumed ; among the reft of the
Neighbours that came to affift at this fire, carae like-
wife this old woman, who was obferved to tell feveral
of the others, that all they did, was but in vain, and
that do what they co.uld, they fhould never be able to
quench the fire, whereupon they were more and raore
confirraed in the former ftrong prefuraptions they had,
that all this mifchief was done by her deviliih Art, and
thereupon laying hands on this fufpected witch, carried
her before the next Juftice of the Peace, where being
charged for having by Devilifh practifes and corabina
tion with the Prince of Darknefs ; first caufeed this
poor mans Sheep to die in that ftrange and mi
ferable manner, and afterwards to have kind
led the fire in his Barns and Houfes, fhe freely
confeffed all, and boafted that ihe would make many
more die as well as her felf: Upon which confeffion of
hers, ihe was by Mittimus from the Juftice of
Peace committed to Northampton Goal, there to re
main till the next Affizes.
No fooner was ihe brought in, but the .Keepers of
tbe Goal caufed her to be Chained clofe to a Poft
that

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that was in the Goal ; but fhe had not been long fo tied
before flie began to fwell in all parts of her Body, that
her Skin was ready to burft, which caufed her to cry
out in a moft lamentable manner, infomuch that they
were forced to Unchain her again, and to give her more
Liberty that the Devil might corae to fuck her, the
which he ufually did, coraing conftantly about the dead
tirae of the Night in the likenefs of a Rat, which at his
coming, made a moft lamentable and hideous noife
which affiighted the people that did belong to the
Goal, which caufed many to come and fee her during
her abode there, and feveral hath been with her when
the Devil hath been coming to her, but could fee no
thing but things like Rats, and heard a moft terrible
Noife ; Not long after, the Affizes being come, this
witch that went by the Name of Ann Forfter, was cal
led to the Bar, and being asked whether flie were guil
ty of thofe Crimes that were there alleadged againft
her : She at the firft pleaded not guilty, but it being
fo evidently proved that ihe was the Person that had
¦coramitted all thofe things before nientioned, flie then
confeffed, and faid that the. Devil did provoke her to
do all thofe Mifchiefs, and feeing that Sentence of
Death was paft upon her. She prayed to God to forgive
her, and defired the Man (on whom ihe had fo much
fpent her Malice, which was to the Ruine of him) to
forgive her likewife, for ihe could no way make him
amends but only by fatisfying the Law, according to
the sentence which was pronounced againft her. She faid
that ihe could bring out raany more that were as bad as
her

(8)
her felf. After Sentence of Death was paft upon her,
ihe mightily defired to be Burned ; but the Court would
give no Ear to that, but that ihe should be hanged at
the Common place of Execution, which accordingly
was performed on Saturday laft being the 22th of this
Inftant Auguft.

FINIS,

THE
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
FEMALE DREAMER
OR THE
Wonderful Revelations of
EAST - HADON,
and R A VI N GTHO RP:
by an Angel.

" When Fancy drives her Midnight Chariot over the
Bridge of an Alderman's Nofe, he drearas he fmells the pip
ing hot Haunch, and well fed Capon ; or oyer the Lover's
Lips, fhe dreams of Kiffes, fweet as ambrofial Dews, tho'
perhaps bliftered with Plagues." Shakefpear.

By SALLY SLY.
BIRMINGHAM:
Printed for Butlyn, aud Garitt, and may be had of all News-
Carriers throughout the Kingdom.

On the Certainty of Dreams.
The Wife of Hector, in his warlike Pride,
Dreamt of his Death, the night before he died :
She faw the crimfon Stream diftain the Ground,
While his great Soul came burftiug thro' the Wound.
Well was he warn'd, from Battle to refrain, '\
But Men decree'd to die, are warn'd in vain : >
He dar'd the Dream, and by his Foe was flain. j

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NOW it came to pafs iu the Twenty eighth
year of the reign of George the Third, that
I dreamed I was at a fmall but pleafant Village,
called Eaft-Hadon, near Northampton. And in
my Dream, behold an Angel flood before rae, of
majeftic countenance, his hair iu graceful ringlets
flowed round his Shoulders, and he was clad in a
Vefture whiter than the virgin Snow, and whofe
borders were fringed with buruiflied Gold, having
a rod in his hand : and when I faw hira I fell upon
the Ground, and did hira reverance : then he
touched me with the end of his rod, and faid
" Damfel arillj, and I will tell thee wonderful
things. "
Then I arofe, and bowed my self Seven times to
wards the earth, and said. Oh ! my lord, do not
deceive thine Handmaid, I know that uo fecret
thing can be hid from thee.
Then the Angel fjiake and laid, I'here was a Man
in the land, (even in this Village) named Samuel,
aud he was a juft upright man : his subftance
alfo was feven hundred Sheep, and two hundred
yoke of Oxen ; and he had Men and Women fer-
vants, and a very great Houihold ; fo that this
Man was the greateft of all the men of the Eaft-
Haddon ; but unto him were born neither Sons
nor Daughters. Now there lived with Samuel, a
young Man named Caleb, aud he was his eldeft
brother's

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brother's Son; and he did eat bread every day at
Sarauel's table, and he lay iu his Bofom, and was
.unto him as a Son, and Samuel loved him.
Now Samuel was old and well ftriken in years ;
and he faid unto Caleb, I am going the way of all
Fleffi ; therefore my Sheep and Oxen, ray Fatlings
and all the fine Gold of Ophir, which I have trea
fured up, fliall be thine. Now it carae to pafs that
Sarauel's Eyes grew dim, by reafon of age, aud he
was fick, and his ficknefs was unto Death. Now
Sarauel's Wife who was of the daughters of Canaan
hated Caleb; and while Sarauel was on his bed of
ficknefs, fhe fent for one Judas of Ravingthorp, a
cunning man ; and fhe faid unto him, Sarauel is
drawing near the gates of Death, and he hath made
no will, and all his Inheritance and Riches will
come to Caleb
Then Judas faid unto her, there fhall be a Will
made, and we will cut Caleb off frora the Inheri
tance, and we will only leave him a few Crumbs to
keep him from ftarving, or being burdenforae to
the Parifh. Now Judas was a very covetous man,
and he faid unto Samuel's Wife,- you know I ara
Sarauel's Seven and fortieth Coufin, therefore let ¦ all
his Flocks and Herds aud fine Gold be delivered
into ray hands, and I will take care of thee. Now
old Sarauel had treafured up a bag with ^oo pieces
of Gold in it; and fhe gave the bag to Judas, and
alfo the keys of all Sarauel's Treafures : now Sarau
el's Wife again faid, let the Crumbs given to Caleb
be but few indeed ; and Judas faid, when I have
made Samuel's Will, Caleb will be fure to eat and
drink the Bread and Water of affliction, all the days of

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of his life.
And Judas faid to Samuel's Wife, I fliould not like
to have a Partner that would too narrowly pry into my
conduct ; I will therefore nominate Daniel to be Exe
cutor with me. Then fhe faid uuto him, Daniel's Ig
norance and Poverty will no doubt fecure him your
Tool ; but coufin Judas, what wiil the world fay, when
they fee you a rich Farraer, and Daniel the poor day-
labourer, joint Executors to Samuel's Will.
Now old Sarauel knew nothing of all this evil,
hatching agaiuft Caleb, (his Nephew and Heir : )
his Mind was in a continual Stupor, for the hand
of the Lord was very heavy upon hira. Now Judas
being greatly afraid, left Sarauel fhould die before
the Will (to enrich himfelf) was made, faddled
his Horfe and went with fpeed, in the black and
dark Night, to one of the Scribes at Northampton,
where he got the pretended Will of Samuel raade
quite to his own raind, with latitude and powers to
himfelf, fcarce ever heard of in the annals of
Hiftory. Now when Judas returned to Eaft-Hadon,
( with his Pocket loaded with Mifchief to poor
Caleb,) every one began to think old Samuel was
dying ; ou which a Pen was thruft into his hand,
and a certain Man's hand guided the dying hand
of Samuel, iu order to raake him write and fign
his Narae to this pretended Will. Now foon after
this, old Samuel gathered his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the Ghoft. And Behold ! Judas buried
him, and dropt a few Crocodile Tears over the
Grave of his Seven and fortieth Coufin : now Judas
who had got the pretended Will of Samuel execut ed

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ed as already defcribed, and bare the Bag with
the 500 pieces of Gold, took poffeffion of Samuel's
eftate, and laughs at the Trick he has played on
Caleb.* And now, O Darafel, it is irapoffible to defcribe the
Agony and plaintive Grief of poor Caleb ; who hav
ing loft his affectionate Uncle, and alfo his Eftate,
grew melancholy, and abandoned himfelf to Defpair,
and the traces of diftrefs are to this day to be feen in
the features of his Face : however the Angels are fent
to corafort this greatly injured raan, and to affure him
that the wickednefs of the Wicked fliall come to an
end, and that the hidden things of darknefs flialiybore
be brought to Light.
Now there was at Eaft-Hadon, a mau named
Houftop, and he like Judas was a fon of Belial, who
feared not the Lord : now this mau, whofe Heart was
hard as the nether Milftone, joined with Judas, in do
ing all the mifchief he could to Caleb, after the death
of Sarauel his Uncle : Now Mr. Houjhp io far from
pitying Caleb, that he goes every year flyly, and
fweeps the Crumbs (which Judas left,) from off poor
Caleb's Table, and gives them unto Dogs. Now as
all the evils and injuftice done to Caleb, by Mr.
Houflop will foon be told to the Elders of the Land,
and be fung in every Village, Town, and City; I fliall
referve the revelations concerning hira, to a future
Day. But be affured O Damfel, that all the evil deeds
done to Caleb, by Judas and Houflop, are all recorded in
* It is reported that Judas of JRavingthorp's Skull, is so thick
that Peach stones may be craok'd upon it ; however the artful
manner iu which ho has got this infernal Business executed, seems
a little to contradict the Keport,

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in the black Doomsday Book, and they will both be
called away (like Samuel's Wife) very foon, by the
grira Tyrant Death, and be judged for all thefe things
by Hira whofe Dwelling is not with raen.
Now this raan (JudaS,) who was Guide and Ring
leader to thera who betrayed Caleb, has purchased a
Field with the reward of iniquity, and now his crimes
are told, 'tis moft probable, he will depart and hang
himself, and falling down headlong will burft afunder
and all his Bowels (with the Collops of fat on his Flanks)
will gufh out, and this fliall be known to all the dwel
lers at Eaft-Hadon and Ravingthorp.
Now after thefe things which the Angel toldme, he
wrapt his Face in his fnowy Mantle, and fuddenly
difappeared ; and I awoke, and behold it was a Dream.

A serious Address to all capable of giving good
Advice; and particularly to the Gentlemen
of the Law.
1 HE Dreeam is true and the Interpretation thereof
certain The Deceafed Gentleman called Samuel knew
no more of the Contents of the Will, than the People
inhabiting the Defarts of Arabia. All his real and
perfonal Eftate, lay in the County of Northampton ;
and from a variety of Local Circumftances, there is
reafon to believe, that all the efforts of redrefs, if
fought in that County, would prove abortive : therefore
if any Gentleman of the Law, or otherwife, will from
motives of Humanity and common Juftice, give an
anfwer to the following Queftions, with fuitable Direct
ions how to proceed, it vvill be doing Effential fervice
to an injured Man.

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QUESTION S.
Firft, Sarauel's Wife is Dead ; can the injured Heir at
Law prefer a Bill of Indidtment againft all the other
parties for a Confpiracy.
Secondly, Are there net now three men in the Prison
of Newgate, Tried and Convi6ted a few Seflions ago,
of a Conspiracy fomewhat firailar to this uow com
plained of.
Thirdly, Can fuch Indiftment be tried at Juftice Hall, in
the Old Bailey, London ; and would it be advifable
to apprehend all the Confpirators by virtue of a
Judges Warrant.
Fourthly, Or would it be advilable, for the Heir to file
a Bill in Chancery againft Judas, and try the iffue at
comraon Law ; but as all the Affets lie in North-
amptonfhire, can the Venue be changed.
Fifthly, Is the injurd Heir more likely to have Juftice
done hira, if this pretended fallacious Will was
littegated in the Epifcopal Court, London.

Anfwers to the Five Queftions from Gentlemen of
the Law, and the candid Public, how to cope with, and
punifh this neft of nefarious Delinquents, will be
thankfully received, and gratefully acknowledged.
Be pleafed to addrefs to John Fabian, Efq. No 107,
Fore-Street near Cripplegate : or to Mr. Robert
Bloxham, No. i, Ratcliff-Row, Old Street, Loudon.
N. _B. No Letters but what are Poft Paid, will be
taken in at either place.

End of the Firft Dream and Appendages.

«-

THE
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
FEMALE DREAMER;
OR THE
Wonderful Revelations of
EAST - HADON,
and RAVINGTHORP:
by an Angel.

Now Sally drives the enquiring Chariot round.
O'er Hadon Plains, and is with Laurels crown'd ;
Proud of her Steeds, flie fmoaks along the field.
While araple Vouchers fill her burnifh'd Shield.
Second Edition,
By SALLY SLY.
Publifhed, Price is. 6A. ( by the Author of this Dream, )
PALEMON, or the Country Clodhopper's 41 Letters, on a
variety of fubjects, fold by T. Burnham, Northampton ;
j. Weft, Rowell; H. Turpin, No. 104, St. John Street; and
J. Bew, Paternofter Row, London.
P.S. This Dreara, with the Author's Stri6tures on Pedi
grees arid Wills may be had gratis, by thofe who purchase the
Volume of Letters.
BIRMINGHAM:
Printed and Sold by

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NOW it came to pafs in the Twenty eighth
year of the reign of George the Third, that
I dreamed I was at a fmall but pleafant Village,
called Eaft-Hadon, near Northampton. And in
¦my Dream, behold an Angel ftood before me, of
majeftic countenance, his hair in graceful ringlets
flowed round his Shoulders, and he was clad in a
Vefture whiter than the virgin Snow, and whofe
borders were fringed with burniffied Gold, having
a rod in his hand : and when I faw him I fell upon
the Ground, and did him reverance : then he
touched me with the end of his rod, and faid
" Damfel arife, and I will tell thee wonderful
things. "
Then I arofe, and bowed my self Seven times to
wards the earth, and said. Oh ! my lord, do not
deceive thine Handmaid, I know that no fecret
thing can be hid from thee.
Then the Angel fpake and faid. There was a Man
in the land, (even in this Village) named Samuel,
and he was a juft upright man : his subftance
alfo was feven hundred Sheep, and two hundred
yoke of Oxen ; and he had Meu and Women fer-
vants, and a very great Houffiold ; fo that this
Man was the greateft of all the men of the Eaft
Hadon ; but unto hira were born neither Sons
nor Daughters. Now there lived with Samuel a
young Man naraed Calel, and he was his eldeft
brother's

c 3 i
brother's Son ; and he did eat bread every day at
Sarauel's table, and he lay in his Bofom, and was
unto him as a Son, and Samuel loved him.
Now Samuel was old and well ftriken in years ;
and he faid unto Caleb, I am going the way of all
Fleffi ; therefore ray Sheep and Oxen, my Fatlings
and all the fine Gold of Ophir, which I have trea
fured up, ffiall be thine. Now it came to pafs that
Samuel's Eyes grew dira, by reafon of age, and he
was fick, and his ficknefs was unto Death. Now
Samuel's Wife who was of the daughters of Canaan
hated Caleb ; and while Sarauel was on his bed of
ficknefs, ffie lent for one Judas of Ravingthorp, a
cunning man ; and fhe faid unto -him, Samuel is
drawing near the gates of Death, and he hath made
no Will, and all his Inheritance and Riches will
come to Caleb
Then Judas faid unto her, there fliall be a Will
made, and we will cut Caleb off from the Inheri
tance, and we will only leave him a few Crumbs to
keep him frora ftarving, or being burdenforae to
the Pariffi. Now Judas was a very covetous man,
and he faid unto Sarauel's Wife, yo.u know I am
Samuel's Seven and fortieth Coufin, therefore let all ¦
his Flocks and Herds aud fine Gold be deliveied
into my hands, and I will take care of thee. "Now
old Samuel had treafured up a bag with 500 pieces
of Gold in it; and ffie gave the bag to Judas, and
alfo the keys of all Samuel's Treafures : now Samu
el's Wife again faid, let the Crumbs given to Caleb
be but few indeed ; and Judas faid, when I have
made Samuel's Will, Caleb will be fure to eat and
drink the Bread and Water of affliction, all the days of

[ 4 ]
of his life.
And Judas faid to Samuel's Wife, I ffiould not like
to have a Partner that would too narrowly pry into ray
conduct ; I will therefore nominate Daniel to be Exe
cutor with me. Then fhe faid unto hira, Daniel's Ig
norance and Poverty will no doubt fecure him your
Tool ; but coufin Judas, what will the world fay, when
they fee you a rich Farmer, and Daniel the poor day-
labourer, joint Executors to Samuel's Will.
Now old Sarauel knew nothing of all this evil,
hatching againft Caleb, (his Nephew and Heir : )
his Mind was in a continual Stupor, for the hand
of the Lord was very heavy upon hira. Now Judas
being greatly afraid, left Sarauel ffiould die before
the Will (to enrich hirafelf) was made, faddled
his Horfe and went with fpeed, in the black and
dark Night, to one of the Scribes at Northampton,
where he got the pretended Will of Samuel made
quite to his own mind, with latitude and powers to
himfelf, fcarce ever heard of in the annals of
Hiftory. Now wheu Judas returned to Eaft-Hadon,
( with his Pocket loaded with Mifchief to poor
Caleb,) every one began to think old Samuel was
dying ; on which a Pen was thruft into his hand,
and a certain Mau's hand guided the dying hand
of Samuel, in order to raake hira write aud fign
his Narae to this pretended Will. Now foon after
this, old Samuel gathered his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the Ghoft. And Behold ! J udas buried
him, and dropt a few Crocodile Tears over the
Grave of his Seven and fortieth Coufin : now Judas
who had got the pretended Will of Sarauel execut ed

C 5 )
ed as already defcribed, and bare the Bag with
the joo pieces of Gold, took poffeffion of Samuel's
eftate, and laughs at the Trick he has played on
Caleb.* And now, O Damfel, it is impoffible to defcribe the
Agony and plaintive Grief of poor Caleb ; who hav
ing loft his affectionate Uncle, and alfo his Eftate,
grew melancholy, and abandoned himfelf to Defpair,
and the traces of diftrefs are to this day to be feen in
the features of his Face : however the Angels are fent
to comfort this greatly injured man, and to affure him
that the wickednefs of the Wicked ffiall come to an
end, and that the hidden things of darknefs ihaW foon
be brought to Light.
Now there was at  a man naraed
Houflop, and he like Judas was a fon of Belial, who
feared not the Lord : now this raan, whofe Heart was
hard as the nether Milftone, joined with Judas, in do
ing all the mifchief he could to Caleb, after the death
of Samuel his Uncle : Now Mr. Houflop fo far from
pitying Caleb, that he goes every year flyly, and
fweeps the Crumbs (which Judas left,) from off poor
Caleb's Table, and gives thera unto Dogs. Now as
all the evils and iujuftice done to Caleb, by Mr.
Houflop will foon be told to the Elders of the Land,
and be fung in every Village, Town, and City ; I ffiall
referve the revelations concerning hira, to a future
Day. But be affured O Damfel, that all the evil deeds
done to Caleb, by Judas and Houflop, are all recorded

* It is reported that Judas of JRavingthorp's Skull, is so thick
that Peach stones may be oraok'd upon it ; however the artful
manner in which he has got this Business executed, seems a little
to contradict tbe Beport.

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in the black Doomsday Book, and they will both be
called away (like Samuel's Wife) very foon, by the
grira Tyrant Death, and be judged for all thofe things
by Him whofe Dwelling is not with men.
Now this raan (Judas,) who was Guide and Ring
leader to them who betrayed Caleb, has purchased a
Field with the reward of iniquity, and now his crimes
are told, 'tis moft probable, he will depart and hang
himself, and falling down headlong will burft afunder
and all his Bowels (with the Collops of fat on his Flanks)
will guffi out, and this ffiall be known to all the dwel
lers at Eaft-Hadon and Ravingthorp.
Now after thefe things which the Angel toldme, he
wrapt his Face in his fnowy Mantle, and fuddenly
difappeared : and I awoke, and behold it was a Dream.

1 HE Dreara is true and the Interpretation thereof
certain The Deceafed Gentleman called Samuel knew
no more of the Contents of the Will, than the People
inhabiting the Defarts of Arabia. All his real and
perfonal Eftate, lay in the County of Northampton ;
and from a variety of Local Circumftances, there is
reafon to believe, that the efforts of redrefs, if
fought in that County, will not prove abortive : as an
injured man loudly calling for Juftice, Caleb fully rests
his caufe on a chain of ftubborn Fa6ts, a number of re
putable Witneffes, and on the good and equitable Laws
of this Land ; and I have no doubt but the Law to which
he has now appealed will do him ample and compleat
Juflice.

C 1 1
ANSWERS T o
CORRESPONDENTS

ift. Since the firft Edition of thefe Dreams were printed,
( which have beeu well received by the candid Public, )
thanks are due to an old Woman of Eaft-Hadon, for her
curious anecdotes concerning Judas : that Samuel's Houfe is
now haunted with evil fpirits, and frightful apparitions, is
not to be wondered at.
2d. R. Y. the injured Man, who lately travelled i6o Miles,
to have our opinion and advice, is hereby informed that his
title to the two Houses, is undeniably clear, and that we
ffiall immediately proceed againft the parties in poffeffion,
by Ejeftment.
3d. J. W. of Rowell has but little reafon to conclude, that
his late worthy Father's ribbed Stocking Conscience Execu
tor will ever do him juftice, without being compelled there
to. This rapacious Animal, who is emphatically the very
Knave of Hearts ; like a monftrous Wen, has fucked the vi
tal powers from all the members, viz. the fatherlefs Chil
dren. We hope this Leicefterfliire Executor will prevent
our fileing a Bill of Difcovery againft him.
4th. H. B. is informed, though he is undoubtedly Heir at
Law, yet the Eftate uot being hereditary, the Teftator had
a juft right to give it away : we advife him to drop the fuit,
for fear the uncharitable world fliould compare hira to Ahab
coveting Naboth's Vineyard.
jth. A. G. of Coventry is too violent ; he ffiould confider,
that to expofe the condu£t of bad Men, is like attempting to
gripe

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gripe a thorn hedge, which generally fetehes blood of the
hand that preffes it : in our opinion, his cafe is more fit for
Arbitration than Law.
6th. W. D. of Medburn has been very ill ufed ; we have
taken the opinion of au eminent Counfellor on his cafe, and
though it is plain the will alluded to was made five years af
ter the Teftator's death, yet that fallacious will being efta-
bliffied in Chancery, and the aiSt of Limitation affefting his
claim, his only remedy lies in Equity, though this we can
not advife to.
7th. Selina, a Lady near Northampton, has indeed told us a
fad tale of woe ; the three repacious Executors of whom ffie
coraplains, it is evident, have turned the old Squire's Manfion
into a den of Thieves, and like Aaron's Rod, have fwallowed
up all the Faraily Eftate ; and that one of them is now bor
dering on diftraftion is not unlikely^ for
Is there a torment can on earth exceed.
The keen refleftions of an evil deed.
P. S. Perfons unjuftly kept out of their Eftates, &c. may
have the beft of advice, and able affiftance, by plainly ftating
their cafe, with real Name and Place of abode, by addreffing
to TRUMAN and Co. No. 70, Wood "Street, Cheapfide,
London.
No Letters but what are Poft-paid, will be taken in.

STRANGE And Lamentable acddent that happened lately ac
Mcatf Afliby in Northamptoiithitc. i6^z.
Of one Mar J rriJmtrc, wife tole&tt Wi(/w«r/ rough M fjn, who was
ddmr:d of a Childe wrhouta bead, artd cicdibly reported
to have a firme Cro(f; onthe breft, as ihh en-
luing Story ftull rehcc.
Hor: iiirMd'cmf.

Priarcd at L^rdon f t R'sh- *rtrper an<? Jh^inm wint., and .irc to bccfjiil
at rht B'blc and Hujpc m Smithfield. 4^4*.

'^WmmMmmmmmmMMM

A ftrange and lamentable Acci
dent that happened lately at Mearf-
Afliby in Northampton fhire.
1642.

His Kingdome once glorying
in the flourifhing title of 01-
bion : which is as much as
happineffe and tranquility,
ftam Ecclef. quam Reipub.)
but now being clouded and
maskt with various diftracti-
ons, as are apparantly knowne and made manifeft
to the whole world, in fo much that fhe is made
a laughing ftocke, and a fcorne to all Nations,
rnay now with the Publican cry. Lord have mercy
on me a finner : or with Eccebolius, chiefe Captain
of the Apoftates, who in Constantines time tooke
upon him the note of a zealous Chriftian : in the
reigne of lulian he became a Pagan ; lulian being
dead then he would become a Chriftian : but be-
A 2 ing

ing fenfible of his mutability and inconftancy,
proftrated himfelfe flat upon the ground at the
Porch of the Temple, crying with a loud voyce.
Tread on me, tread on me, for I am unfavoury
fait. I feare me we have too too many of thefe un
favourable and wheeling Rotundities frequent
amongft us, but I pray God it happeneth not to
them as it did to lulian Uncle to lulian the Apo-
ftate, for their contemning and flighting Gods ho
ly ordinances, who comming into a Church at
Antioch, profaned the Lords Table by piffing
upon it, faying in fcorne, that the Divine Provi
dence tooke no care of outward ceremonies. But
not long after divine Juftice found him out, for
being taken with a difeafe that rotted his bowels,
his excrements leaving their wonted paffage, ran
through his throat and blafphemous mouth in as
ftinking a manner, as the poyfoned trafh and beg
garly rudiments are fomented now adayes from
the impudent mouthes of unlearned and ignorant
Teachers, the event of whofe pernicious and il
literate doctrine will lead me to this enfuing fto-
ry of Gods wrath and judgements to over curi
ous and nice zelots of our times. In

In Mearf- Afhby in Nottingham fhire, one Ma
ry Wilmore, wife of Iohn Wilmore, rough Mafon,
being great with childe, and much perplext in
•ninde, to thinke that her childe when it pleafed
od fhe fhould be delivered, fhould be baptized
with the figne of the Croffe : The Minifter of
the Parifh being a very honeft and conformable
man, not fuiting with the vaine babling and erro
neous Sycophants, as there are too too many
thereabouts inhabiting, defires her husband to
goe to Hardwicke, a Village neare adjoyning to
one Mafter Bannard a reverend Divine, to know
his opinion concerning the Croffe in Baptifme :
whofe anfwer was. That it was no wayes necef
fary to falvation, but an ancient, laudable, and
decent ceremony of the Church of England.
Which anfwer being related to her from her
hufband, it is reported fhe fhould fay, I had ra
ther my childe fhould bee borne without a head,
then to have a head to be figned with the figne of
the Croffe.
Haply this woman through her weakneffe, or
too much confiding in the conventicling Secta
ries, Qui quicquid in buccam venerit hlatterant .-
might thinke fhe did well, fuppoling as fhee was
taught by them, the Croffe in Baptifme to bee a
pernicious, popifh and idolatrous ceremony : yet
see Vzzah, 2 Sam. 6. 6, 7. l Chron. 13. 9, 10 vid.
ludg. 8. 27. though thy intent in doing a feeming
A 3 good

^ood action be never fo good, yet if thou have
not warrant for not fo doing, thou and thine acti
on may happly perifh together, as the fequell of
this ftory will declare. It pleafed God about a
month after, fhee was accordingly delivered of a
Monfter, Rudes indegestaque moles, a child with
out a head, to the fhame of the parents, in not ha
ving that part whereon it might have been markt
with that token whereof it fhould never after
have beene afhamed.
What ftrange judgements of God have wee
feene, faith Pollychronus, in the times of revolters
as we may fee in the third yeare of Queene Eliza
beth of ever bleffed memory, when as in Moore
and Geofferey, two of the divells agents, publifht
their prodigious and hereticall tenents, to the al
lurement of many faithfull and conftant belee-
vers : the yeare after was many monftrous births.
A man childe was borne at Chichefter in Suffex,
the head, armes, and legs whereof were like Ana
tomy, the breft and belly monftrous big from the
naveil, about the necke a great coller of flefh and
skin growing, like to the double ruffes and nec-
kerchiefes then in ufe, and many more Hke acci
dents, Que nunc norandi non eft locus. Good
Lord therefore which haft made and fafhioned
us, and as there is one Lord, one faith, and one
baptifme, one God and Father of all, even fo
Lord grant that wee may joyntly agree in love, and

and that there remaine amongft us a godly con
fent and loving concord, and that nothing bee
done in c^ntention and vainglory: and fuffer us
not to exercife our felves in the workes of the
flefh, as hatred, emulations, contentions, herefies,
feditions, needleffe and unprofitable queftions,
which tend to rebellion and difcord, breeding
ungodlineffe, and make diffention : breake thou
the bonds of Sathan, and the malice of thofe who
extinguifh the bond of peace.
By Iohn Locke, Cleric.

FINIS.

^, jvfwer at large, to
^m3 traytcrOu$,anxI Papifti
tr ^>l caU liB?U,mCngUa»
toetfe.ivtjic^fedjt csft ainoBc in
t^eftrtetts
^^^orthamton , anti b;cugjj«
before t^,. jM§ct nt-tht ^
Uft aiinrcst^are.
r^^ yy - 1570,

^@S*jl^mpnnted atj
Awdelye.

Northampto7i :
Reprinted by Taylor &= .Son.
l88i.

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EF A C E .

The rarity of this Tract haa induced us to inolude it in our Series of
Northamptonshire Reprints. Aocording to Ritson its Author was Thonias
Knell, " perhaps no other than the celebrated comic actor contemporary with
Tarlton and others." The only copy of this edition known is in St. John's
CoUege Library, Cambridge, from which this reprint is taken. An edition
issued as a broadside was in the Heber Collection, whioh was sold in lot
385, the second day's sale, December 9, 1834. This is now in the library of
S. Christie Miller, Esq., of Britwell, Burnham, Bucks, who has very obligingly
famished us with the following particulars : The heading ia " An answer
to a Papistical! Byll, cast in the streetes of Northampton, and brought before
the Iudges at the laat Syses. 1570." It consists of 9 stanzas (numbered) of
tbe "byll," eaoh followed by a stanza in answer from the "Protestant."
Ending with (numbered " 10.")
" 10 The Papist.
Non e'st Inuentxis
10 The protestant.
Coronat opus,
Exitus acta probat."
" Imprynted at London by Iohn Awdely dwellyng in litle Britain streete
wythout Aldersgate. 1570." These stanzas and imprint are set up in two
columns and in a third column is (in prose) " Three helps deuised by the
Pope for his Mayden Priestes.'' The stanzas of the "byll" itself are the
same, with the exception of slight differences in orthography, as in this reprint.
The stanzas in Answer are entirely different.
It ia entered in the Eegister of tho Stationers' Company under date
1670-1 : " Recevyd of John awdelay for his lycense for pryntinge of a ballett
an answere to a papest byll in Northampton, . . . iiijil."
A notice of Thomas Knell will be found in Collier's Bibliographical
Account of Early English Literature.

JOHN TAYLOR.

Northampton, January, 1881.

I

^ An aunfwere at large to a
most t)cvcttcal, traptevous^
and papisticall Byll, written
in ffinglislj ttxst.
^ The papisticall verse.
Jiofa nofo tng iSaiaters margcb ^rieslts,
^oto Iglie gDtt of iljeae nctocs ?
gOK mnst forsake gonr toiclieb Igues,
gonr fagncs raust to tlje stffocs.
The Christian aunswer.
Such thoughtes, such wordes, such men, such
such faith, such fruites appeare : (deedes
Such mind, such raoode, such harts, such feates
as Paptistes shew you heare.
The filthye iraage of their mindes,
their poisoned tonges bewray :
As Gospell getteth good successe,
and Popery both decay.
Still spuing out the spirit of spite,
whose loue Gods lawes defies :
Which hate the thing that God doth loue,
and what God doth despise.
That they raaintaine against his word,
by Canons of the Pope :
For whose behoofe some haue of late,
bene fensed in a rope.
Because Gods word hathcast.a downe,
their Priests of Roraish Ball :
A.ij. With

An aunswer fo
With whom the vice of whoredorae is
esteemd no vice at all.
But Mariage (which God hath made
for man to Hue well in :
Which also he hath sanctified)
they do conderane as sin.
They spit out spitefull rage at this,
as all men now may see :
For that that Christ doth raake hys Church,
from popish bondage free.
His Ministers and Preachers true,
haue libertie uo lesse :
Then other men to take them wiues,
as Paule doth well expresse.
But they of Ministers make scorne,
resemblyng Aarons brood":
Though Christ becara the final Prjest
by shedding of his blood.
And brought that office to an end,
appointing others iust :
To serue him in his ministrie,
such as his Church raight trust.
Not Balams brood of ladas sect,
not Romish shauelinges sure :
Which vnto vile Sodoraitrie,
do all raen so alure.
Whose Gotish church is common Stewes,
of Fornication vile : In

a papisticall Bill.
In which who seekes Gods lawes to keepe,
can tarie but a while.
But Ministers of Misteries,
no Sacrifice to giue :
But such as seeke by Gcds true hestes
most holylye to Hue.
Not like to Priestes, but like to raen,
so raortified by grace :
That Roraish boarish lecherie,
in thera can take no place.
Which haue ech one his maiied wife,
with bed raost vndefiled :
As Paule doth teach, to euery man,
which whoredome hath exiled.
And therefore Popish Sicophant,
that newes doost spread a pace :
That Christian raen raust vertu leaue
and honestie deface.
All men do see your beastly lyues,
which you were best forsake :
Least that your porcion be full sore,
araydst the firy lake.
You that like double Traitours gaspe
for time of your returne :
And gape for breath, & hope for change
that you the truth might spume.
How like you this, your knauery is
in euery cost espide : A. iij. You

An aunswer to
You roniish Priestes which haue no wyues,
all Christians you deride.
And these be newes for you, take hede,
leaue of, repent, amend :
God hath disclosed your vilanie,
and hastened hath your end.
Now must you leaue the Romish stewes,
and eke your God the Pope :
Or els prepare your selues to wyn,
a gybbet with a rope
Now take you wiues, leaue romish stewes,
and learne to lyue well.
For why adulterous whoremongers,
for aye shall hang in hell-
The papisticall verse.
2 M,\'ai nube our faomtn nofu lake tare,
toyat Uft tIjEg go or Icabe;
^itlje Euerg preacljhig knant must ^aui
a to^oore iu |oust to trtabe :
The Christian aunswer.
Such hart still see, such study bent,
such study, such deuise :
Such thought, such mocion of the mind
such question doth arise.
All Papistes shame at this demaund,
which haue the sparke of grace :
To heare such hainous wordes biowne out,
from

a papisticall Byll.
from such a shameles face.
When euer was there lesse regard .
of chaste lyfe, then was then :
When Dispensatios made the Priests
lyue more like beastes, then men ?
When euery Priest hath not his wyfe,
but many Priestes ten whoores :
When priestly lecherie did defile
their honest neighbours doores.
When neither mayd nor raaried wyfe
in honest life could stand :
If shorne shaueliug might deuise,
to haue thera vnder hand.
When one Priest had two dosen of whoores,
to vse thera at his wyll :
And scotfree scapt in Boners dayes,
and kept his liuyng styll.
Then where was care ? oh where was grace ?
surely they were exiled :
And that raade many a virgin ttien,
by Priestes to be defiled.
Remeraber well this old prouerbe,
of Shauelings great abuses :
That Priestes & Doues wher euer they come
raake very filthy houses.
But beastly raan what words be these ?
what monstrous hart or minde :
To cast out such inhuraaiue speeche, so far

IO An aunswer to
so far beyond all kinde.
Are Preachers now with you but knaues ?
fye Papistes, blush at this :
The Preacher is the Trurape of God,
this sure is spoke amis.
A lying knaue, a brauling knaue,
a romish knaue raore fyt :
But sure thys Epithite thou adst
without reason or wyt.
For Epithites we adde to shew
the nature, force, and kinde :
Of men, of thiugs, and wordes as we
in Rethoricke rules do finde.
But contraries for Epithites,
wyse men do neuer place :
Epithetons of lyke must be,
to shew of wordes the grace.
Preaching a woord of Maiestie,
and Knaue, doo disagree :
Although a Knaue hath ioynd them thus,
frora wyt and learning free.
A sclaunderous knaue, a foolish knaue,
a foule raalicious knaue :
These Epithites may sound more fyt,
for him that thus doth raue.
Which doth enuy Gods preached word
a blynde erronious elfe :
Which hath with that vile hoore of Rome,
no dout

a papisticall Byll. 1 1
no dout bewitch him selfe.
Which flattering whoore that Serpentine,
full often hath bene trode :
Whose fruites & brood throughout the world,
are now disperst abrode.
Marke these newes then, ye popish brood,
feare God, repent I say :
Dread Christ, and leaue your trade in tirae,
least halter be your pay.
The papisticall verse.
3 Pere is not nofa a strumpet toljoore,
in all tl^e lanb to ^aue :
S^eg are so sobainlg snatt^tb 6p,
fajtl^ some (Beneua J^naue.
The Christian answer.
The lying toung doth slay tbe foule,
sayth Salomon the wyfe :
Shall Papists then escape trow you,
which all delight in lyes ?
There is not now a strumpet whoore,
(saith he) in all the land :
Which false reproch from whence it coraes,
all raen may understand.
Of proposicion false, proceedes
conclusion raost vile :
Which Papists sclaiiders would raaintaine,
but Papist stay a while. B.j. To

12 An aunswer to
To many whoores are yet to finde,
if Gods wyll were not so :
Although wheu Poperie raignd, there were
ten times as many mo.
It is no sharae that whores decrease,
but sharae it is to see :
All Papists haue such whoorish hartes,
as now appeares in thee.
When Pope bare rule, whoores were mayn-
then whoores did rauch aug raent : (taynd
But now I trust that Christ beares rule,
all whoores wyll soone be spent.
Though Papistes more delight in whoores,
lyke knaues meere bestiall :
Then in the maried Matrons lyfe,
which vertue passeth all.
And though the Pope, and Romish filthes,
in Rome haue open Stewes :
If in Geneua Pope should dwell,
he should heare other newes.
His gotish hart would right soone ake,
there whooredorae for to vse :
Their heads there from their shoulders leape
which so them selues abuse.
But Pope receaues the golden rent,
of whooredoraes filthy sin :
To decke his crowne, for whoores do bring
him mickle treasure in. Geneuian

a papisticall Byll. 1 3
Geneuian men that there haue seene,
true discipline take place :
Hold Rome sinke of Sodoraitrie,
and Papists past all grace.
They seeke no whoore, though Roraaines do,
it is their coramon trade.
As may appeare by such a Knaue,
as this complaynt hath made.
For sure a merry day it was,
when whoores in euery streete :
The Papists might obtaine to haue,
an act adiudged meete.
But since Geueua gaue vs light,
whoores Priests & whoores are fled
And so wyll Papists soone I hope,
when gallowes hath them sped.
The papisticall verse.
4 Paiflltr Jitgborne, alias libnrne Igke,
^ere bfaelltt^ in t^is lobine :
W,^it\^ sought bg all t|[e meanes ^e toulb,
t^e faster to plucke botone,
5 §ut I of l^gm bare faell prononntt,
anb tgme l^e Irut^ s^all Irg :
@)^at ^e s^all trust bnto Ijis ^eeles,
or els in ^mitljfielb frg.
6 ^ot |je, buf l^onsanbes of ^is stct,
must to deneua se^ekie :
Z\it fonstlgng of l^t ^osptU bxax(%,
B,ij. preuayles

14 An aunswer to
prtuagUsJ^em not a htlt.
The Christian answer.
These be the fruites of Papists blynde,
loe here the hartes of those :
Whose traitrous slauudring tonges do shew
they are profest Gods foes.
Of Sathans seede, which loueth lyes
and sclaunders to blase out :
Against the truth, and Church of God,
I put you out of dout.
Whose eyes do weere, and teeth do gnash :
at sincere Preachers true :
Because they see what good successe,
doth after them ensue.
This Maister FFyborne well is knowne,
thou Papist to thy shame :
(And all the rable of thy rout,)
that seekest hira to defarae.
To be a raan of learning graue,
of iudgeraent sound and right :
A raaryed Minister he is,
of lyuing raost vpright.
A worthy Pastor of Gods flocke,
a zealous teacher knowne :
Which hath in deede by studious payne
much popery ouerthrowne.
A modest man and curteous.
of gentle sprite, and milde :
Who

a pap isticall Byll. 1 5
Who seekes the hurt I dare wel vouch
of neither man nor child.
No sclaunderer is he no dout,
but one that meaneth good :
Yea if it were to such as hee
might know to seek his blood.
A reuerend mau for knowledge sake,
thou doost thy wit abuse :
With such a name hym to reproch,
and so him to misuse.
But what is sclaunder thine, thou foole,
thou trayterous tiburne tike'?
The gallowes grones for thee no dout,
the rope will breake thy necke.
For where thou saiest he sought to pull
the Easter downe to ground :
His doctrine tended your abuse
of Easter to confound.
Which feast no dout you must polute,
but he sought to erect.
The simple sincere truth of Christ,
which you do all reiect.
Like Romish Rebels, hopyng styll,
the darkning of thys day :
But first I trust all popish knaues
shall be the gallowes pray.
And where thou sayest thou darst pronounce,
that time the truth, shall trye :
B.iij. That

1 6 An aunswer to
That Wyborne raust trust to his heeles,
or els in Sraithfielde fry.
This happy time hath tryed in deede,
out truth to your decay :
And to the ruine of your rout,
which hope but for a day.
Your sacke of lies is ransackt now,
your ware appeareth drosse :
You leane vpon a broken stafFe,
Gods truth bringes you to losse.
And time hath lent by Gods good grace,
such corafort for the nonce :
That all Gods Preachers shall not neede,
abrode to lay their bones.
Their safegarde sure in England is,
they neede not feare the fier :
Although the Papistes do begin
to hang a litle hyer.
God hath reueald your counsels, fooles,
God hath layd open now
Your traitrous harts, which vnto God
and Queene will neuer bow.
Darst thou pronounce thou traitor bold
that Wyborne hence must flee ?
Is neither godly feare at all,
nor Subiectes loue iu thee ?
What should hira raoue to step one foote ?
your hope is surely spoyld : God

a papisticall Bill. 17
God hath hira selfe your poysnous pride
in open battayle foyld.
Shall Smithfield be your shambles yet
Gods Sayntes to kyll and slay ?
Stay Papist, packe vp Holburne hill,
for you the fitter way.
Shal Wylorne trust vnto his heeles ?
No, Wyborne trust in God :
Aud Carts shall trusse vp these in time
to Tyburne loade by loade.
Shal thousands packe for feare of you,
thou I'raytour, darst thou say :
When thou & thine hast well obtaynd
old Saturnes second day ?
There is no cause, God haue the prayse
but thousandes of his sect :
Of other landes that worship Christ
may here them selues protect.
And boldnes more encreaseth still,
through Gods almighty grace :
When traitrous Papists dare not once
to shew their double face.
For euery one that thou doost meete,
thou thynkst wyll thee betray :
Thy wits be breetch, thy braynes all duld :
thy hart hath neuer stay.
If worst should fal, that God for synne,
and for our negligence : Should

1 8 An aunswer to
Should plague vs so to geue you power,
and vs to driue from hence :
God hath that happy Citie made,
Geneua of great fame.
For his poore peoples safe defence,
to shroud thera iu the same.
But when your Pope shall downe be cast
and hence now you must, flee :
Like vacabondes or Foxes whelpes
you know not where to bee.
Your stay is gone, a Papist, fye,
all men do you detest :
He stayes not here, saith euery" mau,
so you shall haue no rest.
And this is true, the time is come,
lie tel you truer newes :
Al Papists which haue traitrous harts
and do their Prince refuse,
Must now relent, and turne forthwith,
and true become God knowes :
Or els prepare to geue their flesh,
at once to feede the Crowes.
Or els if that their hartes wyll not,
be true to Princely state :
Get hence to Alba, there lye safe
as Story dyd of late.
And if you get in hys sure court,
God cannot fynde you there : Dalba

a papisticall Byll. 19
Dalba shall keepe Story in store,
his Queene he needes not. feare.
Your wresting long of Gods true word
can nothing you preuaile :
Haue done I say, dispatch therefore,
plucke downe your Pecocks tayle.
Downe on your knees you Asses stout,
pray God and Queene for grace :
You can no longer now preuayle,
your practise takes no place.
It bootes you not to Pius now
for mercy for to seeke :
For you be traytours proude at home,
his Bui is not worth a leeke.
Therefore as thousands traitours are,
by thousands all agree :
To turne to God, or els make hast,
to scale the gallow tree.
The papisticall verse.
% gr^t ^tuil fa^en ^e faonlb €\xitt tempi
in Stiiplure stcmeb bgse :
g^nb for ^im l^eg bo ^tripture lake,
to magnlagne all t^eir Igcs.
8 SC^erefore ht patkgng piallgng knaues,
gour ragling is to plagne :
Commgt gour gastarbs to l^e bag,
%\\is ^ge gou ^ente agagne.
The Christian answer.Cj, Goliab

20 An aunswer io
Goliah brought a sword to field,
which cut his throte in fine :
And wherwith all maist thou be beate,
but with this rod of thine ?
The Deuil when he tempted Christ,
in Scripture seemed wyse :
And therefore thou aud Papists all,
do Scripture cleane despyse.
An argument right strong no doubt,
Christ was adiudgd to dye :
No iudgement therfore raust be vsde,
fye, fye, blinde Papists, fye.
Because the Deuil falsifi :d
the Scripture at his wyll :
The Papists will no Scripture haue,
it doth their market spyll.
But now in earnest we or you,
the truth is tryed or this :
Who haue the Scriptures raost abusd
and taken them amis.
You like to Sathan proue I may,
chuse out what semes your turne :
And all the rest that you confoundes,
you do conderane and burne.
We for trutlies sake true scripture vse
you wrest with staring eyes :
All our tormoile for lESVS CHRIST,
but yours for popish lyes. Therefore

a papisticall Byll. 2 1
Therefore to you I say packe hence,
your glosing will not stand :
Go practise now your poperie
out of our Christian land.
Your whispering, your priuie prates,
lyke Knaues where as you lye :
Preuailes no more in Christian eares,
it is not worth a Flye.
Your fained fables false are found,
your tales of little Iohn ;
Your pagents playd of Robin Hood,
are knowne to euery one.
And wher thou bidst them to corarait,
their Bastards to the bag :
All men do see how on your part,
the world now doth wag.
God be the iudge twixt tirae and time,
when Bastards hye did sit :
Your Popes own Bastards, for whom sure
the gallowes was more fit.
Bastards of Bishops, ye Cardinals brood.
Priests Bastards euery where :
The Votaries compilde by Bale,
can tell you then and there.
Coramit remembrance to your harts,
you Papists yet in tirae ;
And hye you from your Romish waies,
yet do forsake your crime. G.ij. Bid

22 An aunswer to
Bid Basans Buls, and Bastards theirs
hye hence and get the bag :
Their pompe decays, & on their partes
the world will not wag.
Bid Pope come downe that sits so hye
aboue all Princes thrones :
And set his hands to hold the plough,
these newes are for the nonce.
And if his traiterous "idle bones,
will not so fadge to worke :
Let him go get into the field,
and sue to serue the Turke.
If that hira not will satisfie,
now that he is downe cast :
Let hira go learne to clout old shoes,
and that in all the hast.
For bis reuenewes will bee spent,
to begging he must trudge :
Or els go learne to be hangde,
full like the Deuils drudge.
The papisticall verse.
9 ginb fc^erj | lolb gon of gour fegues,
lake gou for tl^em no tare :
S^ift for gour selues, ant> trubge b\i\ sptbe
least falter be gour s^are.
The Christian answer.
Like matter, like conclusion. a moni-

a papisticall Byll. 23
a monishing he geues :
Who warning lesse leades all his life,
as he at randon Hues.
I might no lesse geue warning to,
to you of Baalams sort.
Which do belye Gods litle flocke
to make your selues a sport.
That you would haue some raore regard,
both for you and your wyues :
Which lyue now most laciuiously,
and lead most wicked lyues.
And sorae whicl most unwisely leaue,
their Children, wyues and all :
And run like traytours from the land,
to serue the Roraish Ball.
But of your wyues I do not speake,
your lyues I touch in deede :
Whora I do wisih in lESVS CHRIST
repentant faith wyth speede.
Or els to shift and leaue this soyle,
it is no place for such :
As do at Christes Gospell kicke,
and at Gods truth so grutch.
Your time is come, I warne you now,
most friendly to beware :
Least that you finde it corae to passe,
when halter is your share.
And wheu we see your daies preuayle,
Ciij. as here

24 An aunswer to
as here tofore it was :
Which day shall be euen shortly now.
Post calendas grcecas.
That Papists rule, and popery raignes
and truth is layd in dust :
Then weele begin stifl come the time,
your warning for to trust.
And leaue our wiues at vour curtsy,
and shift our selues to saue :
But till that day, I leaue thee still,
a very traitrous knaue.
^ And God preserue our noble Queene
Elizabeth ech houre :
That she by drawne sharpe sword may quite
cut downe the Papistes power.
And GOD enlarge her noble raigne
lyke heauens daies to bee :
That all the Papists hope by her,
cleane spoiled we may see.
That Gods true word she may defend,
and all her foes deface :
Which enmies be to Chri.ites truth,
and traitours to her Grace.
AMEN.
The Papist.
FINIS. * Non est inuentus.
The answer. Non

a papisticall Bill. 25
Non est inuentus maUe t|)(S
selaunirer so iioHre,
%yX\ Est inuentus tOOlte (tt
i^antr it to bnfollr.
Veritas non quaerit angulos,
S!)eto tl^g face :
Non audeo dixit, ffff^C Wg
treetres trcscrue no grace.
Tunc desine, ^|)Ott jFoolC,
leaue of tfig toovlts, trtspatc^
Aut prode mendax 'STi^at
stratgt)t Vc^t gallolues mag
ti^ee catc|.
FINIS . Tho. Knell Iu.

(5^

HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL NOTES
"• RELATING TO
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

*' Colledaitea; iCo|o^ra^^ica et ^tmh^xv^ ;

( t

^^terpta pistnrita."

By j. bowyer NICHOLS.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR & SON.
1879.

J

N D E X

Account of the Sale of Bishops' Lands, between the Years 1647 aud 1651 1
Dugdale's MSS. Additions to his Baronage . . . . . . . . . . 4
Taxation of the Tenth and Fifteenth in Hampshire, in 1334 . . . . 5
Pedigree of Danvers, of Cotherop, co. Oxon, including Descents of
Umpton, Englefeld, Traoy, Gate, Fray, Walgrave, Power, Langston,
Boteler, GiEPord, Fowler, Chamberlain, &o., &o. . . . . . . . . ^
Younger Branches of the House of Percy . . . . . . . . . , 6
List of Monastic Cartularies, at present existing, or which are, known to
have existed sinoe the Dissolution of Religious Houses . . . . . . 6
Pedigrees from the Plea-Rolls, &o. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Poetical History of the Family of Maunsell  9
Account of the Arms & other Paintings, now or formerly in the Windows
of the Churoh of St. Giles, Camberwell . . . . . . . . . . 9
Descent of the Family of Wickham of Swalcllffe, oo. Oxon, and their
Kindred to the Founder of New College . . . . . . . . . . 10
"Valuation of the Estates of the Bishopricks of England and Wales, in 1647 11
Extracts from the Parish Registers and Epitaphs, at Campton, co. Bedford 11
Extracts from the Parish Registers of Camberwell, Surrey . . . . . . 11
Burials at Chaoombe Priory, eo. Northampton . . . . . . . . ..12
Funeral Certificates, temp. Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Sepulchral Memorials of the Sackville Family, at Withyam, Sussex . . 13
Exemplification of Records and Charters relating to the Manor of Morton
Pynkeny, and other Manors of the Barony of Pinkeney, iu the county
of Northamptoli, Temp. Edwd. II. & III. &c  13
Sepulchral Memorials of the Scudamore Family at Home-Lacy, eo. Hereford 13
Abstract of Documents Relative to the Manor of Gumley, co. Leicester,
and to Freeschools at Little Harrowden, Pitchley, and IrthUngborough,
CO. Northampton, and Hallaton, CO. Leicester .. .. ... ..14
Names of Pilgrims from England to Rome in the years 1504-1507, 1581-
1587 ; with some of earlier date . . . . . . . . . . 14
Transcripts and Abstracts of Wills . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Extracts from the Parish Registers of St. Dunstan's in the West, London 16
Register of the Sepulchral Inscriptions Existing temp. Hen. "VIII. in
the Church of the Grey Friars, London . . . . . . . . . . 15
Genealogical Notices of the Anglo-Breton Family of De Gorham . . . . 15
Deeds Relative to the Family of Lovett, of Northamptonshire. From
Originals in the Possession of the Earl Ferrers . . . . . . . . 16
Notices of the Mautravers Family . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Register of Marriages in Westminster Abbey  16
Register of Baptisms in Westminster Abbey  16
Extracts from the Topographical Collections of Sir Henry Calthorpe, Knt.
temp. Charles I. relating to several Parishes in the County of Norfolk 16

Description of an Ancient Register of the Parish of Aston-sub-edge, co.
Gloucester ; with Extracts . . . . . . . . . . • • ..17
Memorials of the Family of Cobham .. .. .. .. .. ..17
Register of Burials in Westminster Abbey . . . . . . . . ..17
Sepulchral Inscriptions at the Convent of Oanonesses Regular of the Order
of St. Augustine, Rue des Fosses, St. "Victor, Paris . . . . . . 19
Charters Relating to the Abbey of Burnham, co. Buckingham . . . . 19
Notices of the Family of Ingram, of Little Wolford, in co. Warwick 19
Extracts from the Registers of the Parish of Great Billing, co. North
ampton, chiefly Relating to the Family of O'Brien, Earls of Thomond 19
Strangers Resident in London in 1595 . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Genealogy of the Family of Gylle, or Gill, of Hertfordshire ; Illus
trated by Wills and other Documenta . . . . . . . . . . 20
The Pedigree of the Family of Babington of Dethick and Kingston, with
their Alliances, in the Counties of Stafford, Nottingham, and Derby 21

@j?rfrpta pistorita,

Two Letters from Simon Siallworthe, one of the Officers of the Bishop
of Lincoln, to Sir William Stonor, Knight, giving an Account of the
State of London, and the Political News, shortly before the Accession
of Richard the Third. . . .' .. ..  23
A Letter from Sir Marmaduke Darell to his Cousin William Darell, Esq.
giving an Account of the Death of Mary Queen of Soots, of whioh he
was an Eye-Wituess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
A Description of the Standards borne in the Field by Peers and Knights,
in the Reign of Henry the Eighth, from a MS. in the CoUege qf Arms
marked I. 2. compiled between the Years 1510 and 1525 . . . . 24
Extracts from the Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Seventh, from
December Ao 7, 1491, to Maroh Ao 20, 1505  26
Issue of Katherine de Roelt, Wife of Sir Hugh Swynford, and afterwards
of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster . . . . . . . . . . 27
The Actes of the full' honorable & knyght'ly Armes doon betwene the
right' uoble lordes Sir Antony WodeviJe, Lorde Scales & of Newselles,
brothir to the moost high' & excellent Prineesse the Qweene of
Englonde & of Fraunce and Lady of Irlonde, Chalenger' ; and Sir
Anton, the Basterde of Bourg°e Erie of Roche and Lorde of Bever &
Beveresse, afore the moost Xp'en & viotoriouse Prince Edward the
iiij the the Kyng of Englond & of Fraunce and Lorde of Irlond the
.xj. & xij. daies of Juyne in the .vij. yeere of his reigne Defender' ;
the Erie of Woroestre, then Grete Conestable of Englond ; in Smyth
felde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^ _ . . 27
TheWill of Anthony Earl Rivers, 1483  27
Marriage Settlement of William Haute of Kent, Esq. with Joan Daughter
of Richard Wydeville of the said County, Esq. 18th July 1429. . . 27
Coronation of King Richard the Third . . . . . . . , . , . . 27
Miscellaneous Extracts from the Close Rolls of King John . . . . . . 28

€aUittnmK Copograp^ua &t ^zmuhQUK,

Account of the Sale of Bishops' Lands, between the
Years 1647 ¦'^"d 1651.
So early as the month of September 1643, the memorable Long Par
liament had appointed a Comraittee for the Sequestration of the lands
of all Bishops, Deans, and Chapters, (Whitl. Mem. p. 63.) andsubse-
queutly proceeded to utterly abolish the narae and title of Archbishops
and Bishops by an Ordinance baaring date 9 Oct. 1646, by which they
vested all their honors, raanors, lordships, &c. and all their charters,
deeds, books, writings, &c. in the hands of Trustees, " for the payraent
of the just and necessary debts of the kingdom." (ScobeU, p. gg, pt. i.)
Pursuant to which, on 16 Nov. 1646, an ordinance was issued for the
sale of all the Bishops' lands and estates for the service ofthe Comraon
wealth. (Ib.p. IOI.) By the same authority all purchasers were to
have letters patents under the Great Seal of England for these grants,
and to hold of the King in fealty only, according to the tenure of the
manor of East Greenwich. The Attorney-general was authorised to
prepare a Bill for each grant or sale, and the Lord Chancellor em
powered to pass it J whilst the titles of the purchasers were to be de
fended atthe public charge. (Ib. p. 133.) In addition to these secu
rities, and in order to afford greater encourageraent to their chapmen
(as Walker calls them), the estates were sold at an appraisement barely
equivalent to the materials of the raansion«houses and timber on the
grounds, so that, as Dr. Bate truly reraarks, (Elench. Mot. p. 5a,
edit. 1676.), "Episcoporura latifundia viii pretio sub hasta posuerint,
unde sectores innuraeri confluxerunt, qui materia ruderibusque palatio-
rum et silvis excisis pretium emptionis solventes, praedia arapla et in
tegra maneria gratis fere adipiscuntur." It was, moreover, ordered,
that all surveys, particulars, contracts, &c. of the lands so sequestrated,
should be registered by a public officer, and catalogues drawn up of all.

evidences and writings touching the titles of the same (Scob. p- 1 1 1.) ;
and this register ought still to exist in some one of the public Record
Offices, and would be at the present day a singularly curious document.
The same steps, in regard to the lands of Deansand Chapters, were taken
in April, 1649, ^" referring to which, and to the previous act. Walker
only says, "Having no information relating to the proceedings on that
act, I can ouly assure the reader, that the lands, &c. were, in fact, sold,
or converted by the Coraraissioners to their own private uses; but can
give him no particulars relating to these matters." (p. 14.)
The account now first printed, of the sale of the Episcopal lands, with
the names of the purchasers, and prices, will sufficiently show to what
an extent the proceedings in question were carried. It is transcribed
frora a MS- nearly or quite coeval, recently presented to the British
Museura by William Bray, Esq. F.S.A. (MSS. Add. 9049.) A recent
copy of it exists among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian library,
B. 236, from which a list of the estates belonging to the Sees of Dur
ham and Winchester was inserted in the new edition ofthe Monasticon,
vol. i. pp. 233. 233.
As a necessary prelude to the Restoration, the two acts of Sequestra
tion were repealed in 'March, 1639-1660; and, onthe King's return,
the subject of the restoration of these lands to the rightful owners, and
the compensation to be made to the purchasers, became a subject of
frequent deliberation in Parliaraent, and produced several pamphlets on
the side of the latter party. Araong which may be noticed. An
Apology for purchases of lands late of Bishops, Deans, and Chapters.
(Aug. t66o.) Proposals on behalf of the Purchasers, &c. (Sept. 1660),
and Petition ofthe Purchasers to the House of Commons (Oct. 1660.)
The King had partly pledged himself to some equitable accommoda*
tion, and communicated his wishes on the subject to the Parliament in
September, 1660 ; and, on the 7th of October following, a Coraraission
was especially appointed " to inquire into the pretended sales and pur*
chases of Crown and Church Lands," (Kennet's Regist. p. 273.) These
Commissioners sate in the Star Charaber, and their proceedings are
stated to have given the parties concerned great satisfaction. Bishop
Kennet repeatedly refers to a MS. containing the orders of the Com
missioners, but chiefly in regard to lands belonging to the Dean and
Chapter of Peterborough. (Cf. Reg. pp. 376, 388-9, 475, 579, 6oj,
6a8, 6g '.) He does not state, however, where this MS. was deposited,
nor does it seem to form a part of his own collections, now existing in
the British Museum among the Lansdowne MSS. If hereafter found,
it will, no doubt, afford some useful information in illustration of tbe
idocument bere printed.

The only liberty taken with the MS. is to restore in some cases a
stricter chronological order than there observed, and occasionally to
abbreviate the Christian names of persons.
F. M.

Biabop rioks.'

Uate of
Convey ance.

Lands.

Purchasers.

Purchase Money.

1647.

£ B. d.

Pet.

7 Jan.

Parcell of the mannor of
Borough Berrie

Walter Sly

467 9 6i

I>

14 Jan.

Parcell of the manner of
Thwites

Robert Henson

82 0 0

ft

21 Feb.

Parcell of the mannor ot
Borroughberry

John Bellamy

389 19 10

»»

20 Mart
1648.
23 Jun.

Peterborough Pallace

James Russell

3122 0 0

Three tenemtes in Peter-
Wm. Samford, )
borougfh Court in Fleet-
Robert Brome >
459 10 0
street
j
»
22 Sept.
Parcell of the mannor of
Borough
Fower tennemts in Peterbo
Thomas Baynard
146 6 0
24 Jan.
EdwardWoodford
255 0 0
rough Courte
"
7 Feb.
A. messuage called the
Eagle and Child in Fleet
Street
Joseph Carell
71 5 0
)J
28 Mar.
The manners of Guntborpe
and Thwaits
Ihe mannor of Withering-
George Smith
613 3 6i
Sir Will. Roberts
1077 10 6
ft
ton, et al.
!>
24 Mar.
The fee-farme rent of the
mannor of Thurleby
Henry Eioe
1113 10 0
Co. &L.
15 June
The mannor of Broewood
George Arnold
2468 18 10
>>
21 June
1649.
Pee-farme rent out of EpPj
Itohington
Nathan Taylor )
Will. Bridges f
0 10 6
Pet.
26 Sept.
The mannor of Eye
John Bellamy
968 15 10
J?
28 Sept.
The Bell, and other houses
in Carter-lane
Tho. Massam
780 10 0
15 Fob.
Of the mannor of Burrough-
berry, cum pertinen.
Walter St. John \
Henry St. John
John Thurloe
Tho. Alyne
Tho. Mathews )
2982 13 9
vol. i, pp. I, 4-6, 122-126, 884-
Dugdale's MSS. Additions to his Baronage.
These additions and corrections are copied from the MSS. notes of
the author, in his own handwriting, inserted in a copy of his work now
preserved among Gough's books in the Bodleian library.
At sorae future period, a new edition of this valuable work may pro
bably be undertaken, and it is with the hope of contributing in no small
degree to render it more complete, as well as more accurate, that the
pages of the " Collectanea " have been opened to the Genealogist. In
pursuance with this object, it is proposed to print from the stores of the
Bodleian, the whole ofthe MSS. notes of Dugdale himself, and of Le
Neve ; as well as to glean from the additions made by other eminent
antiquaries, inserted in various copies ofthe Baronage. There probably
exist many private collections directed towards the iraproveraent of Dug
dale, and the Editors would feel obliged by the coraraunication of any
particulars which tend to illustrate the descents of the ancient Peerage.
*' ¦ ¦' vol. i., p. 51
The castle of Fodringey, with the Haralets of Nassington and
Harwell , . vol. i., p. 53
King's charter, ' tor a market every weeke upon the Wednsday, at
his mannour of Fodringhey, and a faire there yearely, on the eve, day
and morrow of St. Nicholas
TlrjB HospitaU of St. Jaraes at Aynho
Thomas, Lord Grey, Wyrthorpe, neere Staraford
Widville, Earl .Ri5i;ers
Vaux of Harwedpn .
Parker Lord Morley and Montegle
Bray Parr, Marquess of Northarapton
Corapton, Earl of Northarapton
Cecill, L. Burleigh
Cecill, Vicount Wirableton
, Cecill, Earl of Salisbury
Lord Montagu, of Boughton
Finch, Earl of Winchelsea
Lord Finch of Daventre
Fane Earl of Westmorland
Brudnell, Earl of Cardigan ' Cart, as, U.n.46,

vol. i

'•. P- 54

vol. i..

, p. 210

vol. i.,

, p. 22 j

vol. ii

i., p. 1 j

vol. ii.

, p. 188

vol. ii..

, p. 189

vol. ii.,

i ?• ^9i

vol. ii.,

. p. 198

vol. ii.,

, p. 206

vol. ii.,

, p. 206

vol. ii..

, p. 208

vol. ii.,

, p. 208

vol. ii.,

, p. 221

vol. ii.,

i p. 223

vol. ii..

, p. 223

vol. ii..

, p. 224

vol. ii..

. p. 330

Lord Hatton — Viscount Hatton, of Gretton vol. ii., p. 337
Watson, Lord Rockingham vol. ii., p. 338
Lord Crewe of Stene vol. ii., p. 344
Henry Fitz-Roy, Earl of Ewston and Duke of Grafton vol. ii., p. 349
Spencer of Wormleighton and Althorpe vol. v., p. 6
Henry Blount of Great Harowden vol. vi., p. 8_5
Lacy of Thornhage vol. vi., p. 149
Keynes of Dodford vol. vi., p. 393
Knightley of Fawsley vol. vi., p. 397
Clavering of Werkeworth vol. vii., p. 49
Sir John de Falvesle vol. vii., p. 59
Basset of Weldon vol. vii,, p. 255
Despenser vol. vii., p. 259
Hugh Delaval ol Thingdon vol. vii., p. 265.
Keynes of Dodford vol. vii., p. 265
Chetwode of Warkworth vol vii., p, 267
Ralph Bulraer, Heyford vol. viii., pp. 69, 71
Guy de Watervill vol. viii., p. 78
John de Havering vol. viii., p. 78
Williara de Havering* vol. viii., p. 79
Sir John de Clavering, of Aynho vol. viii., p. 159
Sir Thomas Green, of Greens Norton vol. viii., p. 161
Hausted vol. viii., p. 182
Taxation of the Tenth and Fifteenth in Hampshire,
IN 1334.
[From a Register of the Abbey of Tichfield called the " Reraeraora-
toriura de Tichefelde," compiled in the reign of Richard II. and
now in the possession of the Duke of Portland.]
— (Northamptonshire, vol. i., pp. 175, 178.)
Pedigree of Danvers, of Cotherop, co. Oxon, including
Descents of Umpton, Englefeld, Tracy, Gate, Fray,
Walgrave, Power, Langston, Boteler, Gifford, Fowler,
Chamberlain, &c., &c.
— (Northamptonshire, vol. i., p. 327.)
Younger Branches of the House of Percy.
vol. ii., p. j7.
* Hanged for felony before Robert Mallet, justice for gaol delivery at Northampton. ;
p Esch, 24 Edw. I. no, 76,

List of Monastic Cartularies at present existing, or which
ARE known to have existed since the Dissolution of
Religious Houses.
The value of these docuraents to the Topographer is so obvious as to
need no comment, and the utility of a list like tbe present to those who
are in search of information not easily obtained, raay be advocated on the
authorities of Dugdale, Ashmole, and B ishop Kennet (to say nothing of
Tanner) all of whom compiled similar catalogues of cartularies, raore or
less perfect. The list which follows is the result of very considerable
labour and research,and will doubtless be appreciated by those who know
how to estimate it justly. Mere extracts of Cartularies have, in general,
been oraitted, unless the originals are destroyed or lost. In the coluinu
containing the names of possessors, those which are inserted on the au
thority of Dugdale or Tanner, are raarked with aD. orT. and the date,
when known, added.
Monasteries. In whose possession, or where existing.
Brackley  Magd. Coll. Oxford.
Canons' Ashby  John Orlebar of Hinwick, 1830. (olim
Rich. Orlebar of Puddington, Bedf.— D.)
Chacombe" 
(Terrarium)  Augment. Off.
Daventry  MS. Cott. Claud. D. xii.
  Duchy of Lancaster Office,
'   John Rushworth, Lincoln's Inn 1651. — D.
Finched  Rob. Kirkham, 1640. — D.'
Higham Ferrers  Duke of Buckingham, 1833. (nlim T. Astle.)
Lenton  MS. Cott. Otho, B. xiv.'
  Sam. Roper of Heauor, 1677. — D.
  Sir Francis Willoughby. — T.
Luffield  Dean and Chap. Westminster, 1640. — D.
  Dean and Chapt. Westm. (olim  Okeley,
1649, pfslea J. Battely, 17 10.)
Northampton, St. Andrew, MS. Cott. Vesp. E. xvii.'^ (olim Sir Chr.
Hatton.)
  MS. Reg, II B. IX. Br. Mus. (olim John
Theyer.— T.
a Cartularies of Carhow and Chacombe are known to have existed ; but it is not
mentioned where.
' The Kirkhams still possess Pinched. Qy. if they have the Cartulary ?
¦ Burnt in 1731. This is the reference given in Smith's Catalogue. The MS. now
marked B. xiv. was formerly B. i, in all probability.

1
Monasteries. In whose possession, or where existing.
Northampton, St. Andrew, Rich. Neale, Bishop of Durham. — T.
  Sir John Larab, 1641. — -D. (?
—— (in Roluh)   Harding of Portsea, co, Hants, 1820.
 St. James  MS, Cott. Tib. E. v.^
¦——  Robert Tanfield, of Inner Temple. (Vincent's
Excerpts from do. MS. Coll. Arms, No.
218.)
Peterborough  MS. Cott. Otho, A. xvn.' Transcript of do.
Johu Bridges of Lincoln's In^i.
 "Maldone"  •  Vesp. E. xxi. (olim Sir Chr.
Hatton.)
 "Mare"   Vesp. E. xxn. (dim Sir Chr.
Hatton.)
— —   Cleop. C. I. and II.
   Faust. B. III.
 (Rentale)   ¦ Nero, C. Vii.
— —  Dean and Chapter, Peterborough, 1640. — D.
 " The Vv'hite Book" Sir Robert Wingfield, 1636.— T.'.
^^—" Liber Niger" ... Society of Antiquaries, No. 60. (o/i/« Earl of
Exeter.) Transcript of do. Soc. of Antiq.
No. 131, and SirT. Phillipps, No. 78.
— —  Soc. of Antiq. No. 38. (oZj?« Earl of Exeter.)
Transcript of do. Soc. of Antiq. No. 136.
 " Sacristee "  Duke of Montagu, 1 7 14.— T.
 "Consuetudinarium" (i vols.) Archiepisc. Libr. Lambeth, — T.
- — -  Oliver St. John.— D.
  Will. Pierpoint.— D.
Pipewell  MS. Cott. Jul, A. 1.
— — -   Calig. A. XII.
"-^ — -  — — ' — ¦ — Calig. A. XIII.
   Otho, B. XiV.
•=^-^  ,  Duke of 13uckiugham, Stowe, No. 84. (olim
Tho. Astle and John Caley.)
'^ —  Transcript, Sir Chr. Hatton, ftovv Lord
Winchelsea (?)
Sulby  Sir Chr. Hatton ? °»
'' Injured in the fire of 1731,
» Burnt iu the Ciotton fire, 1731.
' Qy. th€i same with MS. Cott. Vesp. E. jtxti.
m Mr. Stephens says a Register was in the hands of one of his acquaihtancps iti
Northafnptonsbire. D-agd.
vol. i, pp. 73, 76, 197, 198, 201, 203, 205, 208> 4oi,
vol. ii., pp. io», 103, 199.

Pedigrees from the Plea-Rolls, &c.
These Pedigrees are contained in a thin folio volurae of 3a pages,
preserved araongst the Rawlinson collection in the Bodleian Library,
No. 116. They are neatly written in a hand of about Queen Elizabeth's
reign, and have an index prefixed, which obviates the partial inconve
nience of their not being disposed iu chronological order. The volume
formerly belonged to Richard St. George, whose arms are on the covers,
and afterwards to W. Whiston. vol. i., p. 128.
[Fo. ai"*.] Anno E. 3. p'dUo.
North't. 371. Andreas filius [Joh'is] Russell petit v' Hugonem de
Northburgh et Hugonera filium ejus unu' mesuagiu', quadraginta
acras terre, quadraginta acras p'ti, et vi m'catas redd' cum p'tin-
enciis in Etton. vol. i.,p. a6o.
[Fo. 22.] Mich'is, anno E. iij"" quinto.
North't. 414. Johannes de Widevill et Henricus filius Rob'ti
de Kersebrook petunt v' Johanne' filiu' Walteri de Blunt ma
ner' de Passenham. vol. i., p. a6i.
[Fo. 28.] Mich'is, anno H. 3. xxv'° coram Rege.
North't. 28. Walterus Grendall pet' v' Eustach' de Cantilupo
X caruc' terre in Berweby [Barby] et advoc' Eccl'ie. vol. i,, p. 269.
[Fo. 28''.] Mich'is, anno vicesimo quinto H. 3. coram Rege.
North't. 8. Walterus de Grendal pet' v' Eustachiu de Cante-
lup. X caruc' terre in Berweby et advoc' Eccl'e ejusd' vill'.
[Fo, 29.] Anno quadragesimo nono.
North't, 20. Petrus de Monte recogn' ij raesuagia et unam
virgatam terre in Whitfeld esse jus Prioris Hospital' Sancti
Johannis Bap'te de Brakele pro sum'a xxxi m'e. vol. i., p. 270.
[Fo. 29.J Anno xvij*"" E. fil. R. H.
North'ton. 16. Ric'us de la Vache et Mabill' uxor ejus recu-
per' seiara suam de raed' xj mesuagior' xj virgat' terre et ij» redd'
in Sutelhangre [Shittlehanger], et al'.
[Fo. 29''.] Hillarii, anno xviij*° E. 3.
North't. 218. JoKes filius Ric'i de Brandeston pet' v' Nor*
man'm Swinford, chr. man'iu' de Gildesburg [Guilsborough]. vol. i., p. 271.
[Po. 30.] Hillarii, anno vi'° inciplen' vij'", de Banco.
North't. 18. Presentdco ad Eccl'am de Ashley Pertinet una
vice ad Abbera de Pipewell et Rad'm Basset, chr. de Welledon.
. ., ¦ vol. i., p. ip.
[Fo. 34".] Hillarii, anno E. j. septimo.
North't. is- Quo Warranto de Thingden. vol. i., p. 376.
[Printed in Bridges's Northamptonshire, vol, ii. p, 257,]

Poetical History of the Family of Maunsell.
The following curious specimen of ancient local poetry is copied
frora a small thin raanuscript volume in the possession of Thomas
Philip Maunsell, Esq, of Thorpe Malsor, Northamptonshire, the
lineal representative of the Hugh Mansel, of Berry End, raentioned
in the poem. It is written in a small, cramped, aud in some parts
almost illegible hand, of the time of Charles I; but is, I apprehend,
the composition of an earlier period. It is followed in the volume by
entries made by John Maunsell, Barrister at Law, then of Woodford,
in Essex, but afterwards of Thorpe Malsor, coraraencing with the
births, raarriages, and burials of the family from 1539 to 1606; a
rough -genealogical sketch from Sier le Maunsell, which nearly
corresponds with the poem, and is verified by references to deeds from
s. d. to 24 Eliz. and ending with a pedigree from Richard Maunsell,
of Chicheley, in Buckinghamshire, buried 1539. to which is prefixed^
"Mem. Sil' John Borough, being Garter King at Armes, there was a
visitation made by Mr. Yorke and Mr. Lilly, and I being absent at
the visitation at Romford, entered ray arraes and pedigree as followeth,
25 Sept. 1634, for w""" I paid 275. 6d." signed "John Maunsell."
These private documents furnish a general corroboration of the
legendary tradition cf the story ; but it is a most remarkable
circumstance that almost every fact related, except the accidental
raurder, is confirraed by historical evidence frora extraneous sources.
vol. i,, p. 389.
Account of the Arms & other Paintings, now or formerly
IN the Windows of the Church of St. Giles, Camberwell.
The arms of William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, K.G. who
died in 1571, and his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Lord
Cobham, K.G. who died in 1565. This shield, which is suspended
from the neck of a like figure with the last, had been ignorantly
reversed. It is the same that Bray describes as four coats impaling nine
others, broken ; and concerning which Lysons .says the coats are so
small, confused, and indistinct that it is impossible to describe them."
Under the shield was formerly the following verse, as I learn from a
fragment now in the possession of Samuel Isaac Lilley, Esq. of
Peckhara : AS ¦ POR • Ti, ¦ VNOUDLT ' THET • SHALL ¦ PBRTSHE •
AND • YE ¦ ENEMYES ¦ OE ' YE ¦ LOBD ' SHALL ¦ OONSTMB ' TEA ' EVTN '
A3 ¦ TE • SMOAKE • SHALL • THET ¦ COUSVME • AWAY .
[Ptal-m 37, ver. 20,]
I am not in any way able to account for the situation of these
arms, as the Marquis was buried at Warxvick, and his lady at St.
Paul's, and no benefaction to the church or parish of Camberwell has
been recorded of either. vol. ii„ p. 117,

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Descent of the Family of Wickham of Swalcliffe, co. Oxon,
AND their Kindred to the Founder of New College.
The Collection of MSS., of which the following papers form a por
tion, is in the possession of the Right Honourable William Wickham,
who is descended from William Wickham, consecrated Bishop of Lin
coln in 1584, and translated to Winchester in 1595, but died the same
year. By what raeans they came into the possession of Mr. Wick-
ham's faraily is unknown : but, as his ancestor the Dean of liTork was a
considerable collector of family history, it is not improbable that, on the
termination of the controversy to which they relate, they were given to
hira by sorae of the Swalcliffe branch of Wickhams. vol. ii., p. 22j.
Robert de Vere sonne of S' John Vere, of Twywell.
Elizabeth ye daughter and heire of S'' John de Lazore, was endowed
at the church doore of lands in Sudbrough by her husband. vol. ii., p. 229.
The Copy of a Letter sent to Doctor Culpeper, Warden of Newe
Colledg in Oxford, by the Right Honorable S' W"" Cicill, K'. Lord
Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England. vol. ii,, p. 241.
Sir John de Vere, son or grandson of Alberic de Vere, who held
Twywell temp. Hen. II.
Reginald de Waterville, and "Strangia" or "Estranea" his
wife, held Marham in the 25th of Hen. III. He was probably son of
Hugh de Waterville. Thorp Waterville, co. Northampton, and
Orton Waterville, co. Huntingdon, were a part of their possessions.
They bore Gules, 3 fleurs-de-lys Or, a chief barry nebuly Argent and
Azure. Eobert de Wickham, arm. of co. Northampton, was summoned
25 E. I. to serve beyond seas. vol. iii., p. 360.
A Thomas Wickham (living in 1443, and deceased in 1448) and
Agnes his wife, are mentioned in a deed relating to Theuford, co.
Northampton. Vide Baker's Northamptonshire, i. p. 711. As the
towns of Evenly and Shutford, mentioned in the will of Thomas
Wickham (p, 374), are both In Northamptonshire, it is raore than
probable that they are the sarae person, and that theie is an error in
the date of the death. Amongst the Oxfordshire Gentry, 12 Hen.
VI. aie, Thos. Wickham chev', Thos. Wykhara de SwaleclyfFe, Will.
Wickbara arm.
Isabell the daughter of a Giles Poulton was of Densborough, co.
Northarapton, and died in 1560. He was father of Ferdinando,
Poulton, a lawyer of some repute. Arms, Argent, a fess Gules
charged with 3 Plates between 3 mullets Gules. vol. iii., p. 361.

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Valuation of the Estates of the Bishopricks of
England and Wales, in 1647.
(MS. Rawlinson 240,)
— (Northamptonshire, vol. iii,, pp. 19, 4a, 45.)
Extracts from the Parish Registers and Epitaphs,
AT Campton, co. Bedford.
To the memory of the Rev* Christopher Davenport, late
Rector of Creaton, Northamptonshire, who died Oct''. 7"', 1795,
aged 60 years. Here the wicked cease from troubling.
And the weary are at rest.
Also M". Eliz"' Davenport, relict of the above Christopher
Davenport, who died July 2^, i'jg6, aged 6^ years.
They were araiable in their lives.
And in death not long divided.
The grave is iramediately below, under the east window, with a head
stone. Mr. Davenport was for many years Curate of Campton, under
Dr. Osborn, and died at Shefford. His wife was sister to the Rev.
Williara Cole of Ely, and also to Counsellor Cole. vol. iii.j p. 132.

Extracts from the Parish Registers of Camberwell,
Surrey.
i6j3, Oct. 27. Mr. Jonathan Driden, Vicar of Cam.''
vol. iii, p. 165.
The Rev. ] onathan Dryden was the eldest son of Nicholas Dryden,
gent, of Morton Pinkeney (brother to Sir Erasmus Dryden the first
Baronet) and consequently second-cousin to the poet. See Baker's
Northamptonshire. On the 5th July 1646, the committee of
Hereford sequestered and ordered the profits of the Vicarage of
Gotheridge into his hands until the Christmas following. He was
to see the cure duly officiated ; and to receive, gather, and dis
pose of the dues of the living. vol. iv., p. 396.
), The Rev. Jonathan Dryden, FeUow of Trinity college, Cambridge, was author
of some verses in the Cambridge Colleotious in 1661 on the death of the Duke of
Gloucester, and the marriage of the Prince of Orange, and in 1662 on the marriage
of Charles II. See Sir Walter Soott's Life of Drydeu. He is not mentioned ia
Bray's Ust ot the Vicars of Camberwell.

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Burials at Chacombe Priory, co. Northampton.
In a volurae of miscellaneous Papers in the British Museum (MS.
Add. 5758, f. 21.) forraerly belonging to John Anstis, Esq. Garter King
of Arras, and chiefly relating to Precedency of Peers and Processions
from the reign of Henry VIII. downwards, I find the following Article
written by a Herald in the time of Henry the Eighth, containing the
naraes of the persons of note buried at Chacorabe Priory, co. Northara'pt.
which may contribute some additional information to the account of
this Religious House given in Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. i. pp.
591—594. vol. ii., p. 388.
Funeral Certificates, temp. Elizabeth.
S' Wilim Hatton, ais Newporte, Knight, nephewe and heire
to S' Christopher Hatton of Haldenbye, in the Countye of
Northt. Knighte (late Lord Chauncello"' of Englande, and
Knight of the moste, honorable order of the Garter,) maried
to his first wife Elizabeth, daughter and sole heire apparaunt to.
Frauncis Gawdye of Wallingeton, in the Countye of Norff
Esquire, one of the Justices of the Kinges Benche, and by her
had yssue Frauncis, theire onlye daughter and heire, at this
psent about the age of seaven yeares. After he raaried to his
second wife Elizabeth, daughter to S' Tho. Cecyll of Burghley,
in the Countye of Northt. Knyght, and by her had yssue one
onlye daughter, named Cecillia, nowe about one yeare and a
halfe ould. And about the thirtyesixe yeare of his age it pleased
the Lorde to call hiro to his mercye at Ellye house in Holborne,
the xij"" daye of Marche 1596 ; from whence his bodye was con
veyed to his house at Haldenbye aforesaid, and frora thence was
worshippfully accorapaned to the gishe Churche at Haldenbye
aforesaide, and was there buried accordinge to his estate &
degree. At w* funerall the Standarde was borne by M' Tho
raas Tresham, and the pennon of his Armes borne by M'^ Ro'Bte
Wingefeilde. The healrae and creast borne by Ralfe Brooke,
als Yorke Heraulde. The sworde, targe, and coate borne by
Richard Lee, ais Clarencieulx, E,sq. Kinge of Arraes. The
cheife mourner S' Thomas Cecyll, Knight, aforesaide. The
foure assistauntes S"' Richarde Knightley, S' Edwarde Dennye
S-- Willm Cornewallis, Knightes, and M' Wilim Cecyll, Esq!
In witnes wherof we have hereunto subscribed o'' names the xxj*
daye of Marche, in the xxxix* yeare of the reigne of o'' sover
aigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth. Tho. Cecill. Ri. Knyghtley.
Ed. Denny. Willia Cof waleys.
vol. iii., p. 291.

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Sepulchral Memorials of the Sackville Family, at
Withyam, Sussex.
Here lyeth John Corapton, Esquier, the son of Sir Henry
Corapton," Knight of the Honerable Order of the Bath. He
dyed at his house in Bramble Ty, July 28, 1639, the 29th year
of his age,
Ou a brass-plate fixed on a leaden box in the shape of a heart :
1 he hart of Isabella Countesse of Northampton, wife to Jaraes
Earle of Northampton, 2^ daughter & coheire to Richard Earle
of Dorset, and by her mother's side, (wbo was daughter & heire
to George Earle of Cumberland) a coheire to y' estate, died the
14th of October i66j. vol. iii., p. 298.
The R' Hon"" Mary Countess of Dorset & Middlesex, relict
of the R' Honb'= Charles Earl of Dorset & Middlesex, L^
Charaberlain of her Maj' Household, third daur of the R'
Honb'* James Earl of Northampton, by Mary Countess of North
ampton, died August 6, 1691, in the 23'* year of her age. vol iii,, p. 300.
Exemplification of Records and Charters relating to the
Manor of Morton Pynkeny, and other Manors of the
Barony of Pinkeney, in the county of Northampton,
Temp. Edwd, II. & III, &c.
Transcribed from an old roll, preserved among the muniments ofthe
Colepepyrs, of Preston, in Aylesford, Kent. The handwriting is of
about the period of Henry IV. and it may be presuraed thai the names
in p. 228 — 229 were the actual tenants at the time of its compilation.
vol. iv., p. 223.
Sepulchral Memorials of the Scudamore Family at Home-
Lacy, CO. Hereford
" The Honble Charles Fitzroy Scudamore,' died August 19"', 1782 ;
aged 73 years."
Arms : Fitzroy and Scudamore quarterly, on an escocheon of
pretence Scudamore. vol. iv., p. 258-
c By Lady Cecily Sackville, elder daughter of the Lord Treasurer.
f Charles Fitzroy, natural son of the first Duke of Grafton, married at Home-Lacy
17 July 1748, to Frances, only daughter and heir of James the last Viscount
Scudamore, widow of Henry third Duke of Beaufort, from whom she had been
divorced, (Priv. Act 17 Geo. II,) assumed the name and arms of Scudamore 1749,
Priv. A ct 22 Geo. IL) aud had is.sue an only daughter and heir Frances, born 10th
July 1749-,50, married the 2d of April 1771, to Charles, Duke of Norfolk, who died
s. p. Deo. 16, 1815, and was buried at Dorking in Surrey. (MSS, in the College of
Arms.)

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Abstract of Documents Relative to the Manor op Gumlet,
CO. Leicester, and to Freeschools at Little Harrowden,
Pitchley, and Irthlingborough, co. Northampton, and
Hallaton, CO. Leicester,
Frora the papers of the late Joseph Cradoek, Esq. F.S.A. of Gumley
Hall. ' vol. iii,, p. 330.
Names of Pilgrims from Fngland to Rome in the years
1504-1507, 1581-1587; with some of earlier date.
Extracted from the Records of the English College at Rome, by
W. C Trevelyan, of Wallington, Esq. and comraunicated by
him to the Rev. John Hodgson, of Hsrtburn, M.R.S.L., &c.
1506.
Marcii 25. Thomas Topclefe de Collegio Fodringay

1.58,3.

vol. v., p. 71.

vol. v., p. 81.

Joa : Robertus, Petroburg
4 o'^'. Guliel. Brakenbury 7 n . u
Huge. GriflSttus 1 Petroburgenses.
1584.
s 10''. Bernarilus Garterus ) ,. r> .l i_
Philippus Dobbus j ^'°'=- Petroburg.
'^'^ vol v., p. 82.
Transcripts and Abstracts of Wills.
I have many transcripts and abstracts, more or less perfect, of wills
from the fifteenth to the beginning ofthe eighteenth century, of which
I now send two or three specimens; and shall have pleasure in
supplying successive contributions. G. B.
Sir Thomas Cheney, or Cheyne. vol. v., p. 88
Thomas Montagu." vol. v., p. 89
Johu Broughton, Esq,'' vol. v., p. 89
Charles Earl of Worcester." vol, v., p. 30^
Francis Catesby of Whiston, Esq. vol. v,, p. 306,
George Kirkham, Esq. vol. v., p. 307
Sir Walter Mauntell. vol. v., p. 308
Nicholas Woodhull, Esq. vol. v,, p. 309,
Anthony Wodhull, Esq. vol. vii., p. 42
Sir Robert Kirkham. vol. vii., p. 44,
Francis Tanfield, Esq. vol. vii., p. 45
John Butler, Esq. vol, vii., p. 46,
„ Ancestor of the Dukes of Montagu.
I) A very brief abstract of this will is given in " Testamenta 'Vetusta,'' p. 557,
J This will has been partly abstracted in Dugd. Bar, ii. p. 294, and Testamenta
Vetusta, p, 622,

I^

Extracts from the Parish Registers of St. Dunstan's
IN the West, London.
Burials.
16x7. Dec. 29. Laurence, son of Laurence Washington, iunior."
vol. v., p. 205,
Marriages,
1600, June 16, Shakerley Marmyon, gent, and Mary Lukyn,''
vol, v., p. 2 16.
Baptisms.
ij;78. June 4. Elizabeth, the daughter of Mr, George'' (w°
maried y' inques of Northampton, added in another but contemporary
hand.') vol. v., p. 219.
Register of the Sepulchral Inscriptions Existing temp.
Hen. viii. in the Church of the Grey Friars, London.
Wiflrra^ Chambyrleui armig de comitatu North'tnton, et Jofia ux'
ejus ; ob. 3 Oct. 147 ". vol. v., p. 283.
Genealogical Notices of the Anglo-Breton Family of
De Goruam of Northamptonshire.
vol. v„ pp. 330-345.
vol. vi,, p. 288.
Deeds Relative to the Family of Lovett, of North
amptonshire. From Originals in the Possession of the
Earl Ferrers.
vol. vi., p. 299.
0 Anne, dau. of Lawrence Washington snd Anne, was bap. Aug. 29, 1621 ;
and Lawrence, their son, Sept, 30, 1622. Uf this family (tbe ancestors of the Barls
Ferrers, and of the American President) in which the narae of Lawrence was frequent,
a pedigree will be found in Baker's Northamptonshire, vol. i. p. 514.
' These were the parents of Shakerley ilarmion the dramatic poet. The lady
was the only dau. of Bartrobe Lukin, of London, gent. See the pedigree of
Shakerley and Marmion in Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 548.
ll Sir Thomas' Gorges ; see Hoare's Modem Wilts, Hundred of Cawden, p. 30 ;
where is a pedigree showing that Sir Thomas had several children by the Marchioness,
but the name of Elizabeth does not occur among them.
¦1 The Chamberlayne family was connected with St. Clere, the maternal family
of William Gage,

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Notices of the Mautravers Family.
1328. J. M. confirmed in manor of Winterburn Hutton,
Dors, and 10/. laud in Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, and manor of
Overton, Northamptonshire, for life.— Pat. 2 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 1.
vol. vi., p. 346.
Register of Marriages in Westminster Abbey,
1699. Nathaniell Parkhurst,' of Catesby, in Northamptonsh.
caelebs, mar'* to Altharaia Smith, of Kensintou, single w. March 7.
vol. vii,, p. 173.
1705. Gilbert Afleck, p Esq. was mar^ to Mrs. Anne Dolben on
Saturday Nov. 3. ' vol. vii., p. 174.
Register of Baptisms in Westminster Abbey.
1680. Simon, son of D'' Siraon Patrick by Penelope his wife,
Octob. 3"i.
1685. Penelope,' d. of Dr Siin° Patrick by Pen. his wife, (horn
£3) Decemb. 21. vol. vii, p. 247.
1701. Mary,' d. of Mr. John Dolben and Eliz. bapt. 19 Febr.
vol, vii., p. 248.
Extracts from the Topographical Collections of Sir
Henry Calthorpe, Knt. temp. Charles I. relating to
SEVERAL Parishes in the County of Norfolk.
vol, vii,, p. 197.
Stifkey,
In 4 Ric. II. Sir John de Akom, Attorney-general of the Earl of
Northampton, grants a lease for nine years of the church of St. Mary
in Stifkey, and view of the raanor of Stifkey, with the appurtenances.
It is added, " being the inheritance of the Earle of Northampton ; of
wardes, marriages, escheats, and forfeitures, rendring j/. 6s. 8d."
vol. vii., p. 202.
' Nathl. Parkhurst died 20 May 1715, set, 39. She was eldest daughter of
Altham Smyth, Esq. Barrister, 9th son of Sir Thomas Smyth, of Hill Hall, 00. Essex,
Bart, born 1683.
P Gilbert AfBeck, of Dalham Hall, 00, Suffolk, M,P. for the town of Cambridge
1722 and 1741. Anne, 3rd daughter of John Dolben, Esq. second son of John
Dolben, Archbishop of York, and brother of Sir Gilbert Dolben, the 1st Bart.
1 Buried in the Abbey Septeraber 1687.
s . Mary, daughter of Johu Dolben (second son ot Dr. Johu Dolben, Archbishop
of Tork) by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Tanfield Mulso, of Finedon, 00,
Northampton ; died 24 June 1710, and was buried at Finedon, For the marriage of
her slater Anne to Gilbert Affleek, Ksq, see p, 174, sub nr.no, 1706.

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Description of an Ancient Register op the Parish of
aston-sub-edge, co. gloucester; with extracts.
An" Doin. 1544.
Edmundus Catisby filius Edmundi Catesby'' generosi suscepit
sacramentum baptismatf 13° Januarii ; susceptorf ei^ Edmundus
Porter, Thomas Bussell generos^ et diia Katherina Gybbes, 1568°.
vol. vii., p. 280.
Memorials of the Family of Cobham.
The following Notes frora Charters, &c. are in the hand-writing of
Robert Glover, Soraerset Herald, in a volurae of the library of the
College of Arms, marked Philipot E. i. ; and were derived immediately
from the muniment room at Cobham Hall. They are interspersed
with notices of the families of Brooke, de la Pole, and several others.
vol, vii., p. 320.
Children of Williara Lord Cobham.
Maxirailianus Broke natus in die Mercurii 4 Decembris ij6o,
inter horas 9 et 10 ante raeridiera apud Nigras fratres Londini.
Cujus fidejussores in sacro fonte fuerunt Ser| Elizabetha Regina,
Wiltius Parre Marchio Northarapt et Henricus coraes Aruudellas
vol, vii., p. 3_52,
Register of Burials jn Westminster Abbey.
1619. Sr. Christopher Hatton'' was b' at y entr. into S' Erasm's
Chap. Sept 11. vol vii., p. 3j8.
1621. The Lady Sophia Anna Cecill,* daur. to the Earl of
Exeter, was buried in St John Bapt. Chap', Sept. 15. vol. vii., p. 259-
1622. Thomas Cecill, Earle of Exceter,'' was buried in S' John
Baptist's Chappellj Febr. 10. vol. vii., p. 3Sg.
i This entry supplies a blank in Mr. Baker's pedigree of Catesby, History of
Northamptonshire, i. 245 ; where it is stated that Edraund Catesby, sixth son of
Sir Richard Catesby, of Ashby Legers, 00. Northampton, M.P. for co. Warwick,
married " Eliz. daughter of A, Yorke, of Aston, co . . ., . . . "
"• Sir Christopher Hatton, ot Kirby, co. Northampton, K.B, ancestor of the
Viscounts Hatton. He married Alice, daughter of Thoraas Fanshaw, of Ware
Park, 00. Herts, Esq.
i Only issue of Thomas Earl of Exeter, who died 7 Feb. 1622 (see sub eo anno,)
by Frances Bruges his second wife.

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1632. The Countesse of Buckingham '' was buried Apr. 21.
, vol. vii., p. 363.
1638. &' Christopher Hatton's son,* bur  Nov.
vol. vii., p. 364.
1639. Mrs. Alice Hatton, d. of S"^ Xtopher Hat. was b* Oct. 2.
vol. vii., p. 364.
1641 . Mr. Francis Hatton," the son of S' Xtoph-^ Hatton, was buried
in Abbot Islip's Chappell, Febr. 16. vol. vii., p. 36^.
1670. The Lord Hatton ? was buried Aug. vol. vii., 375.
1672. The Lady Hatton & her daur. were buried Jan. 11.
vol. vii., p. 376.
1678. Will", the son of D"" Patrick, Jul. 12.

1679. Judith Ishara,y May 22.
1689. The Lady Le' Strange? buried Aug. 6.
169J,. Mr. Sanders,"' 11"' Aug.
1700. Mr. John Dryden'' bu. May 13.

vol. viii., p. 2.
vol. viii., p. 3.
vol. viii., p. 8.
vol. viii., p. II.
vol. viii., p. 12.
1 Mary, daughter of Anthony Beaumont, of Glenfield, co. Lane. Esq, widow of
Sir George "Villiers, Knt. created Countess of Buckingham 1618, She married
secondly Sir Thomas Corapton, Knt, brother to William 1st Earl of Northampton.
i Sir Christopher Hatton had by his wife EHzabeth Fanshawe twelve children,
of wbom this and several others died young. See antea, sub anno 1619, and
postea sub 1639, 1641, and 1672.
° See antea, sub annis 1638, and 1639.
y Sir Christopher Hatton, K.B, (son of Sir Christopher buried 1619) created
Lord Hatton July 1643 ; married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Charles
Montagu, younger brother of Henry Earl of Manchester.
y Daughter of Sir Justinian Isham, Bart, by his first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Jobn
Garrard, of Lamer, co. Herts, ob. 18 May 1679.
1 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Justinian Isham, of Langport, co, Northampton,
Bart, and relict of Sir Nicholas Lestrange, of Hunstanton, 00. Norfolk, Bart, who
died 1669. See antea sub auno 1 679, the burial of her sister.
' Clement Saunders, Esq. eldest son of Sir William Saunders, of East Haddon,
CO. Northampton, Knt. Carver in ordinary to King Charles II,, King James II. and
King William III. ob. 10 Aug. anno set. 84.
'' The poet and dramatist ; the great High Peiest OP ALL theNine ; eldest son
of Erasmus Dryden, of Tichmarsh, 00, Northampton, third son of Sir Erasmus
Dryden, of Canons Ashby, the first Bart., born at Aldwincle 9 Aug. 1681, married
EUzabetb, daughter of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Berkshire^ and died 1 May
1700.

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Sepulchral Inscriptions at the Convent of Canonesses
Regular of the Order of St. Augustine, Rue des Fosses,
St. 'Victor, Paris.
This Religious House, the only one remaining for English ladies
out of several that forraerly existed iu Paris, was founded either in
a.d. 1634, or in a.d. 163^. According to an account coraraunicated
in the most obliging raanner by the estiraable ladies who at present
constitute the society, through their Confessor the Rev. Mr. O'Toole,
it appears that the foundation took place in the forraer of those years,
and that the benevolent lady to whora the honour of it is due, was
Dame Letitia Tredway, daughter of Sir Walter Tredway,' of Bulkeley
Park, Buckinghamshire. , ...
° vol. VIII,, p. 24.
Charters Relating to the Abbey of Burnham, co.
Buckingham.
10. A charter of King Edward III. 1328, confirming all the pre
ceding charters, and also two grants of Williara de Chalveye and
Michael de Northarapton vol. viii., p. 124.
Notices op the Family op Ingram, of Little Wolford, in
THE County of Warwick.
By the decease of Mrs. Barbara Ingrara, who died unmarried at
Thenford, in the county of Northampton, June 28, 1 83^5, aged 89,
the ancient family of Ingram of Wolford became extinct, and the
property devolved, by the will of her cousin, Mrs. Mary Ingram,
who died in 182J, to Samuel Aray Severne, Esq. of Wallop hall,
in the county of Salop. vol. viii., p. 140.
Burials.
"Barbara Ingrara of Thenford (Northamptonshire), buried July i
1835, aged 89." vol. viii., p. 143.
Extracts from the Registers of the Parish of Great Billing,
CO. Northampton, chiefly Relating to the Family of
O'Brien, Earls op Thomond.
vol. viii., p. 189.
a Sir Walter Tredway, styled of Northamptonshire, when knighted 23 July
1603, was the son of Thomas Tredway, a Bencher of the Inner Temple, and grand
son of Thomas or Henry, of Amersham, Bucks. He had two daughters, Lettice, a
nun, mentioned in the text ; and Eliza, married to William Staiford, of Blatherwick
CO. Northampton. The will of Sir Walter 1604, is registered in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury. His uncle Eobert Tredway, of Easton, co. Northampton
married Margaret, daughterof Guy Fisher, of Buckden, and left issue. See 'Visit
Lino. 1634. 7V>-—M(lit.

Strangers Resident in London in 159^.
The Names of all suche Gentleraen of Accompte as were residing
within y' Citie of London, Liberties and Suburbes thereof, a8
November i595) anno 38 Elizabethae "reginae, &c; Endorsed, by
Lord Burghley, " 2 x'"'' 1595. Names of Strangers beyng not
Citezes lodgyg in London."
(Landsdowne MSS. 78, No. 6"]. Burghley Papers.) vol. viii., p. 2oj,
Farringdon Infra.
¦ Scares, of the countye of Northampton, gent. vol. viii., p. 206.
Creplegate Warde.
William Emery, of the countie of Northampton, gent. vol. viii., p. ao8.
Mr. 8'iante Yelverton,'' of the same county.
Aldrichgate Warde.
Milton
gr "Will"" Fitzwilliam, of Peterborough in y= countye of North
ampton, knight.
Edward Montagu, of Northamptonshire, esquier. vol. viii., p. 209

The Genealogy op the Family of Gylle, or Gill, of
Hertfordshire j Illustrated by Wills and other
Documents.
John, of Sudbro, Northamptonsh.
vol. viii., p. 278.
Elizabeth, daughter of John Gill, Esq, of Wingate, Herts, married
to Robert Randes, Esq. of Truswell, co. Northampton. CVisitat. of
Northamptonsh. Harl, MS. 1187, f. 16.) vol. viii., p. 411.
r Mr. Serjeant Yelverton— Christopher Yelverton purchased Easton Maudit, co.
Northampton, about the year 1579 ; was made Serjeant-at-law 1589, and one of the
Queen's Serjeants 1598 ; vid. Dugdale's Orig. Juridio,

21

The Pedigree of the Family of Babington of Dethick and
Kingston, with their Alliances, chiefly in the Counties
OF Stafford, Nottingham, and Derby.
In io Edw. II. 1317, East Bridgeford, or lands therein, belonged
to Thoraas de Multon, then a minor and in wardship,' Sir John
married Benedicta, daughter and heir of Siraon Ward,' of co. Cambridge,
and had issue five sons and one daughter. Arms, Ward, O. a fret S.
'VI. 2. Sir William Babington, Knt. of Chilwell, jure uxoris,
and Kiddington, Oxon, called in some pedigrees the eldest son.
8 Hen. IV. 1407. William Babington levied a fine at Westminster,
on the day before Ascension Day.' Attorney-General, January t6,
1413 ; Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Nov. 4, 1420 ; In the same
year he was joint patron with Wm. Tresham of the Church of
Boughton, CO. Northarapton ;" Chief Justice of the Coraraon Pleas,
May_5, I Hen. 'VI. 1422." vol. viii., p. 317
Sir Robert appears to have used B. a cross recercelee voided between
four cross-crosslets or. TheEarl of Banbury used both coats quar
terly, the latter in the ist and 4th. Knowles of Cold Ashby, co.
Northampton 1^79, gave "G. on a chevron A. three roses G.; on a
canton A. a fleur de lys G." vol. viii., p. 321.
I Ric. III. Sir John Babington, of Dethick and Kingston was
feoffee of Richard Whalley for sorae property in Notts." Slain on
Richard's part at Bosworth, 1485, by Sir Jaraes Blount, Provost
Marshall. This Sir James Blount raarried Jane Delves, a cousin to the man
he slew. He was Knight and Banneret 2 Hen. 'VII." and3Hen. VII.
r Abbr. Eot. Origin, vol. ii. p. 239.
« Anno 9 and 12 Edw. II, 1316 and 1319, a Simon Warde was keeper of the
King's castle at York, and in 1316 of the county also. In 43 Bdw. III.
Simon Warde had the custody of the manor of Staunford and Grantham, 00, North
ampton. In 44 Edw, III, 1371, he was " Escaetor Eegis " for Northampton and
Rutland, and 46 Edw. III. the castle and manor of Okeham, late in the custody of
Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, deceased, were assigned to him.
Abbr. Rot, Orig. vol, i. pp, 222, 243, aud vol. ii. pp. 302, 310, 321,
t Thoroton, vol. ii. p. 233.
u Bridges, vol. ii. p. 86.
„ See his patents for these several offioes Cal. Rot, Pat. pp. 262b, 267b, 269, 269b.
X Hari, MS. 4204, p, 102.
" Thoroton in Kirketon.
• Shaw, Staff, vol. i. p. 80.

had a grant of Ashby Ledgers, and Blisworth, co. Northampton,
both forfeited by Sir William Catesby, the " Cat." ? vol. vm., p. 324.
A fine was levied 18 Hen. VII. on the manors of Weston and
Ashley, co. Northampton, between Thos. Babington deraandant and
Edraund Ormond deforcient." Gave towards the vestimenta et jocalia
of Peter House 6s. 8d. 14 July, 2 Hen. VIII. 1511.^ vol. viii., p. 328.
John Babington, Rector of Cossington, and soraetirae Vicar of
Rothley, raarried Maria Frances, daughter ofthe Rev. Joseph Stephen
Pratt, B.C.L. Prebendary of Peterborough. vol. viii., p. 33a.
Thomas Babington, B.A. Camb. 1510; presented by Thomas
Comberford, Esq. 22 May 1510; to the rectory of Yelvertoft, co.
Northampton. Died at Cambridge before 2 Apr. ijii, when his
successor was presented to Yelvertoft.'' vol. viii., p. 335.
In Alfreton church are brasses to John Ormonde, ob. i J03, and
Joan Chaworth his wife, ob. 1507. The inscription states her descent
from Chaworth, Caltoft, Bret, Aylesbury, Engayne, and Basset of
Weldon.f vol. viii., p. 340.
2 Edw. VI. 1^53. A fine was levied between Edward Gryfiyn,
Esq. demandant, and Thoraas Babington, Esq. and Henry his son
deforciants, of the raoiety of Weston and Ashley raanors, and half
the advowson of Ashley, and other lands and teneraents in Ashley,
Weston, Sutton and Dingley, all in co. Northampton, for the con
sideration of 130 marcs, to the use of Edward Gryfiyn, who sub
sequently purchased all Babington's part of the manor of Ashley.*
vol. viii., p. 347.
p Bridges's Northamp. vol. i. pp. 15, 235.
o Bridges, vol. ii. p. 359.
p Cole's MS. vol. xlii. p. 37.
i Bridges, vol. i. p. 609.
f Hari. MS. 154, p. 2 ; 246, p. 53 ; 1400, pt, 2, p, 35 ; 6594, p, 40. Thoroton's
Notts. Bridges' Northamptonsh. vol, i, p, ^.2. Dugdale's Baronage.
^ Bridges, vol. ii. pp. 273, 359.

;^£;erpta pistorua.

Two Letters from Simon Stallworthe, one of the Officers
OF THE Bishop of Lincoln, to Sir William Stonor,
Knight, giving an Account of the State of London,
AND THE Political News, shortly before the Accession
OF Richard the Third.
On the death of Edward the Fourth, the throne devolved on his
son, theu a boy about thirteen years of age ; and it becarae a question
between his mother, Elizabeth Wydevile, the Queen, supported by
her son, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, the Earl Rivers, and her
other relations, and Richard Duke of Gloucester, the young monarch's
uncle, aided by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckinghara, who should
govern the realra inhis narae ; a contention which naturally increased
the ill-will Gloucester had always borne towards the Queen and her
family. It was Elizabeth's first object to have her son crowned : for
this purpose he set out from Ludlow towards'the end of April, and having
passed through Northampton, arrived at Stony Stratford on his way to
London, on the 29th of that month. Gloucester, accorapanied by the
Duke of Buckingham, came to Northampton iraraediately after the
King's departure, and found tbere the Earl Rivers, whose intention of
Joining the King was frustrated by his being arrested hy them.
Gloucester and Buckingham then proceeded to Stratford, and raet the
King in that town on the next day, the 30th of April. After
professing the greatest loyalty to his person, they fixed a quarrel on
Lord Richard Grey, the Queen's son, on the ground that he and his
brother the Marquess of Dorset, and Lord Rivers, had plotted to rule
the kingdora, to set variance " among the states, and to subdue and
destroy the noble blood of the realra, in aid of which," they said,
" Dorset had entered the Tower, and taken thence the royal treasure,
and sent men to the sea." The King was brought back to North-
a rapton ; and Lord Richard Grey and Earl Rivers, with Sir Thoraas
Vaughan, were sent prisoners to Pomfret Castle, and there beheaded
in June following. p. 13.

24

A Letter from Sir Marmaduke Darell to his Cousin
William Darell, Esa. giving an Account of the Death
OF Mary Queen of Scots, of which he was an Eye-
WlTNESS. p. 17.
A Description of the Standards borne in the Field by
Peers and Knights, in the Reign of Henry the
Eighth, from a MS. in the College of Arms marked
I. 2. COMPILED between THE YeARS IjIO AND I52J.
p. 52.
William Fitzwilliam.*
Azure and Or, A an ibex Sable, maned and tufted Argent, ducally
gorged and chained Or, and on the shoulder a mullet for difference^
with five trefoils slipped Argent. In B, C, and D, two similar trefoils.
Motto, Loyall et s'aprouvara.
Arms. — Quarterly, of four grand quarters : I. and IV. Lozengy
Argent and Gules, a mullet Sable pierced, for difference ; II. Quarterly,
of four grand quarters, i. and 4. Quarterly, i. and iv. Argent, three
fusils in fess Gules, 11. and iii. Or, an eagle displayed Vert, beaked
and merabered Gules: 2. and 3. Gules, a saltire Argent, a label of
three points gobouy Argent and Azure -, over all, an escutcheon
Quarterly, i. Argent, a canton Gules; 11. imperfect ^ iii. Gules, a
cross engrailed Argent j iv. Argent, a cross engrailed Gules: III.
Quarterly, i. Gules, six martlets, two, two and two Argent : 2. Azure,
a. bend Or, with a label of three points Gules i 3. imperfect: 4,
Argent, a bend fusilly Sable.
Mayster John Dyve of Harleston, North'.
Azure and Or, divided into four compartraents by three motto
bends. Eight representations of a crest, viz. on a wreath Argent and
Azure a horse's hoof Or shoed Azure, between two dragons' wings
Gules ; one large and three smaller in A ; two in B, and one in C,
andD. Motto, De bien faire je espoir.
^rm.— Quarterly, of four grand quarters: I. Gules, a fesse dancette
Or between three escallops Ermine ; II. Argent, a chevron Sable, on
a chief of the last three mullets of the field j III. Quarterly, i. and
4. Argent, a chevron Sable fretted Or, between three stags' heads
couped Gules; 2. and 3. Argent, a fess and canton Gules ; IV. Sable,
a chevron between three bees or butterflies volant Argent. p. jS,
* In a subsequent hand is added, " Erie of Southampton,"

Mayster Compton.
Gold and Blue, A a dragon's head erased, fore-paws and wings
erect Gules, encircled by a ducal coronet Or.
No division by bends, and no Motto.
Arms. — Sabl«, a lion passant gardant Or, between three helmets
Argent. p. 167.
John Hartwell de Preston in com. Northampton.
Four stripes Or and Sable, A on a wreath Or and Azure, a stag
beetle passant Gules, wings endorsed Argent, (Imperfect,)
Arms. — Quarterly, i. and 4. Sable, a stag's head caboshed Argent'
between the attires a cross patee of the last ; 2. and 3. Gules, eight
lozenges Argent, five in chief, and three in base. p. 326.
Katissby. A a leopard passant guardant Or, armed Gules. (Imperfect.)
Arms. — Quarterly, i. Argent, two lions passant Sable, armed Gules,
langued and crowned Or; 2. Bendy of eight Azure aud Or, a bordure
Gules ; 3. Or, two bars Gules, a bend Azure ; 4. Gules, a fret Or, and
chief Argent. p. 328.
Mayster John Mordant.
A on a wreath Or and Azure, a Moor's head affronte, couped at the
shoulders Sable, vested of the last, fimbriated Or, wreathed Or and
Purpure, with three eagles' heads erased Argent, ducally gorged Gules,
and charged with three estoiles Sable, holding in the beak a cinquefoil
Argent, slipped Vert ; B and C, in each two eagles' heads as in A. —
Motto, Lucera tuara da Nobis.
Arms. — Quarterly of six : I. and VI. Argent, a chevron between
three estoiles Sable; II. Gules, a cross patonce Or; III. Gules, an
eagle displayed Argent, within a bordure engrailed Or ; IV. Argent,
on a bend Sable a hawk's lure Or ; V. Quarterly, per pale indented Or
and Gules, iu the r. and 4. five lozenges conjoined in cross Gules. p. 329.
John Byrd de Thorphyll, Northampton.
A on a wreath an eagle's head per pale Gules and Azure, beaked Or
and charged with a pheon Argent.— (No Motto bends.) — (No Arras.)
p. 33_5.
Georg Wyt wang. North.
A on a wreath Argent and Azure, a sea hog statant Or, scaly Sable,
fins, ears, and legs from the knee downwards Gules. (Remainder
imperfect.) Arms.— .4rgfent, a chevron Azure, between three seals' paws erased
Gules, on a chief Sable, three  Or. p. 335

20

Extracts from the Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry
THE Seventh, from December A° 7, 1491, to March A°
20, 150^. A" 1493.
Mar. 2. To Mast. Bray for rewardes to thera that brought cokkes
at Shrovetide at Westm', £1.
Sir Reginald Bray, K.G, and a Knipht Banneret, Treasurer of the King's Wars,
a distinguished favourite of Henry "VII, Bray's Chapel at Windsor is a monument
of his taste and liberality. A Memoir of him will be found in Kippis' Biogra-phia
Britannica. P-93-
May 13. To the waytes of Northampton in rewarde, 13. 4d, p. 94.
A" 1495.
March 25. To my Lady Bray for an ymage, gSi 6s, 8d.
One of the Queen's gentlewomen. See a note about her in her Majesty's Privy
Purse Expences, p. 179. p. 102.
July S- To Brora riding to Northaraptonshire and Ruteland with
five lettres, 10s. p. 103.
Sept. 12. At Northarapton.
To David Malpas for the reparacone done and made at Rokyngham
Castell, ^6 19^. gd. p. ioj-
A". 1496.
Feb. 14. To my Lady Bray for stoles and skrenes, £1 2s. p. 107.
A" 1498.
May 27. Delivered to Master Shaa towards Master Bray belding at
Heggecote, 3B100.
Baker, in his History of Northamptonshire, says, " The manor and advowson
of ' Ocheoote,' ali.is ' Eggeoote,' were sold to Sir Reginald Bray in the 6 Henry VIIi
1490-1, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Richard WhittiLghara, and her second
husband, Thomas Haselwode, Esq. for 800^." and that "the old Manor-house was
taken down about the middle of tbe last oeutury. When first erected does not
appear. Additions were made to it temp. Henry 'VIII. by Sir Thomas CromweU.
Earl of Essex, who purchased the manor in 1,')35." pp. 492, 495. This entry shews
that it was built by Sir Reginald Bray in 1498, and that the King gave him lOOZ,
towards the expense of building it. p. 117.
Sept. 5. At Pet : Heronghs. — 7. At Coly Weston.
12. At Vaux. — 13. At Northampton. — 16. At Hegecot. — 19.
At Banbury. — 20. At Wodestok. p. 120.
A" 1499.
Aug. 3. Lent to Master vBray for the reparing of the Soveraign
.^200. p. 122.

a7

Issue of Katherine de Roelt, Wife of Sir Hugh Swvnford,
AND afterwards OF JoHN OF GaUNT DuKE OF LANCASTER.
Sir John Swynford, Knight, died in the 44 Edw. III. seized of
Sprotton Haldenby and the Manor of Newbottlegrave, co. JMorth-
araptouj leaving by Alice hi, wife, Elizabeth, his daughter and heir,
aet. 13, and wife of Sir Thomas Broughton, Knt. — Esch. 46 Edw. HI-
No. 57. p. 156.
Sir ]ohn Swynford raarried Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Thoraas
Arden, aud had by her a daughter, who raarried William Abberbury,
early in the reign of Henry the Sixth. — MS. marked F. i. in the
College of Arms ; but in Baker's History of Northamptonshire Sir
John Swynford of Spratton /'tfre uxoris, who was Alice daughter and
heir of Thoraas Arden of Hanwell co. Oxon, and of Spratton, died
in 46 Edward III. leaving Elizabeth his daughter and heir wife of
Williara Alderbury, who was seized of Spratton in 48 Edward III,
P- 1.57-
The Actes of the full' honorable & knyght'ly Arraes doon
betwene the right' noble lordes Sir Antony Wodevile, Lorde Scales &
of Newselles, brothir to the moost high' & excellent Prineesse the
Qweene of Englonde & of Fraunce and Lady of Irlonde, Chalenger' •
and Sir Anton, the Basterde of Bourg"" Erie of Roche and Lorde of
Bever & Beveresse, afore the moost Xp'en & victoriouse Prince
Edwarde the iiij""' the Kyng of Englond & of Fraunce and Lorde of
Irlond the .xj. & xij, daies of Juyne in the .vij. yeere of his reigne
Defender' ; the Erie of Worcestre, then Grete Conestable of Englond •
in Smythfelde. p. 176.
The Will of Anthony Earl Rivers, 1483. p. 240.
Marriage Settlement of William Haute of Kent, Esq.
with Joan Daughter of Richard Wydeville of the
SAID County, Esa. i8th July 1429. p, 249.

Coronation of King Richard the Third. '- P- 379-

28
Miscellaneous Extracts from the Close Rolls of King
John.
The following extracts from the Close Rolls of the reign of King
John, chiefly of the 7th and 9th years, have been selected from a
valuable collection, which has been obligingly communicated for the use
of this Work. Many of the articles contain information of some impor
tance : others, it is presumed, will be found to coraprise curious and
amusing meraorials of a very interesting period. An iramense fund of
materials exists among the Tower records for the elucidation of the
whole of that reign, which, notwithstanding the extensive and
important collections of Prynne on the subject, are but imperfectly
known to the public.
Order to the sheriff of York to respite William de Beaumont from
the payraent of ten raarks which he owed to the Jews at York, and
to free hira from the interest of the debt as long as he should remain
beyond sea with horses and arms in the King's service. Northarapton,
23 May i20_5. (7 Joh. ra, 26.) p. 393.
Mandate to the constable of Northampton to retain Peter the
Saracen,* the maker of crossbows, and another with him, for the
King's service, and allow hira gd. a day. Freeraantle, 26 July 1205.
(7 Joh. ra. 19.) p. 39^.
Order to the sheriff of Northampton to give possession to Kempe,
the King's balistarius, of land of the annual value of 50 shillings in
the King's escheats iu Newcastle, which he had granted to hira till he
could provide for hira in marriage. Hengham, 17 Oct. 120^. (7
Joh. m. II,) p. 397.
Order to the provost of Winchester to send for the King's use a
good chariot with all its furniture and four horses, to be at North
ampton on the Tuesday after the close of Easter. Dated at
Ludgershall, Wilts, loth April 1208. (9 Joh, m. 3 )— The King was
at Northarapton on the 15th and i6th of that raonth. p. 400.
Mandate to Williara Briwere to deliver to Andrew de Beauchamp
and William Revel, who were going into Poitou to perform the King's
command, 2000 raarks out of the treasury at Oxford. And order to
the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer to repay the said W.
Briwere out of the first raoney that came into their hands, and to
send other monies that should afterwards be received, to the treasury
at Marlborough. Northarapton, i^ April 1208. (9 Joh. ra. 3.) p. 401.
* In the Pipe Roll 6 Rio, I, (Lond. & Middl.) tbe following entry occurs :— "Pro
duoendis ad regem hominibus arbelastariorum regis cum arbalastis k hernas' eorum
& oum quodam sarraceno & quodam Griffon' xiijs, k iiijd,"

Fl\ANCIS Tl\ESHAM,
OF RUSHION,
A Tale of the Seventeenth Century.

HON. G. C. GRANTLEY FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY.

jN[OTICEg OF THE ^OC/^E JrEE.

Nortliampton :
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR & SON.
1879.

Reprinted from
llEATH'8 Book of Beauty.
1836.

DEDICATED BT THE AUTHOR,
WITH THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND EESPECT,
TO
THB LADIES FITZPATBICZ.

Francis Tresham.

In the third year of the reign of James the Pirst, and at the hour
of eight, during an evening in the latter part of the month of
October, I must introduce my readers to the interior of a small but
neat farm-house, situated on a little hill, commanding a view of the
then not extensive village of Brigstoek, in Northamptonshire ; and
upon the left hand of the road which runs from Grafton. In one
comer of the room, and working at her needle by the light of a
lamp, sat a very pretty and interesting — nay — absolutely beautiful
girl ; while in the middle of the apartment, a rude oaken table was
spread with such homely viands as the house afforded ; not forgetting
a portly and capacious jug of nappy ale, a smoking can of elder
wine, and the crackling comforts of a large wood fire. At the table,
but with his back turned to it, and his face to the fire, seemingly
impatient at the delay of his accustomed, and usually punctual
meal, sat a very hearty and respectable-looking old man, whose
ruddy cheek and whitened head went far to prove that temperance
and occupation are the best physicians : he had all the appearance
of a farmer, but, at the same time, of one of those who had
surmounted the difficulties of his situation. After an occasional
impatient " Pshaw 1" and a hearty kick or two bestowed upon his
sheep-dog, whom he designated by the name of Bob, and who every
now and then solicited the commencement of supper, by thrusting
his rough muzzle into his master's hand, the father of the pretty
girl, for such he was, addressed her with the often-renewed question
of — " Why, what can keep the boy so long ? — I can't take things so
coolly as you do, Mary ; — there you sit as if you never wanted to
eat again, working at the Lord knows what, or gazing upon that
gold chain and locket which you say you found hanging to a
hawthorn bough, in the forest ! — TJmph — I have been through the
forest for many years, and never found sueh fruit on tree as that."
Here he paused ; and observing that his daughter still continued
unmoved, he resumed — "How do you know, Mary, whether the

delay whieh has taken plaoe iu the arrival of your brother and his
men, may not proceed from some affray with the noted deer-stealer,
of whom they talk so much, who strikes the venison whether in or
out of season ? Tour brother, I say, may have eome by the worst ;
but you care not."
" Hush, my dear father," said Mary, rising with the tear in
her lovely eyes ; '' say not so : I mind not the bantering which you
and my brother bestow upon me regarding the chain and locket ;
but do not tax me with the want of affection."
" Well, well, dear !" (fondly patting her cheek, and kissing her
forehead as she knelt by his side,) " I meant not what I said — but
there they are."
At this moment the door opened, and the brother entered, a
stout, fine young man, one of the keepers of the Farmingwoods
Forest ; and with him two of his assistants ; one of whom had his
head bandaged, and was otherwise covered with blood. They were
all three apparently much heated with recent exertion ; and the
brother, as he flung himself into a chair, remarked, that he thought
he should never have caught his wind again. — " But come, father,
some drink ; and you shall hear what has kept us from you so long :
no squirrel-hunt, or locket-finding, (with an arch glance at Mary,)
as you, I perceive, are ready to say, but a real job with the deer-
stealers ; ay, and with that one, too, of whom you have heard me
speak, but to whom I have never been so close as I was this blessed
evening. Well, you must know, father, (sighing as he placed the
emptied horn upon the table,) we were out after the black Aver I
told you of, that has three inches of fat, I know upon his brisket,
and who is the best venison of any upon my walk : and whilst we
were creeping at him, having the wind of him, what little there was,
the air shifted suddenly to the west, and he twigged us, pacing off
slowly over the great lawn towards the thicket on the other side.
There he stopped for a moment, to gaze back upon the place where
we were hid ; and as he put up his nose to snuff the breeze, twang
goes a cross-bow from the opposite side, and down he fell. Out
from the brake whence the shot came dashed that very same gallant
in green to whom I have before alluded ; and, with a brace of long-
dogs with him, he runs towards the deer : on tve came at the same
time ; and we had each neared the venison before he was aware of
our approach, so intent did he seem upon the spoil. When our
eyes met. Halt ! was the word with him ; and, shouting to his dogs,
he heads short back again for the thick wood, Tou know, father,
that I can run ?"

" Ay, boy, well, when any one is after thee !"
" Ay, and when I am after others. So, calling to Jack here, to
let fly a bolt at him, I held on my course. Jack pulled up to take
aim — shot, but missed his raark, though I saw the bolt whiz by his
left ear ; and on we ran. I kept on his line. Jack, when he had
pulled, struck off to to the right, and Will to the open track on the
left, guessing that he would not hold his way through the thick
wood, nor attempt to hide because of his dogs. Well, he entered
Old Tree Hills, and struck into Blackthorn Copse ; and here we
thought, and rightly too, that we should house him. I catehed a
glimpse of his dogs as they ran in, and heard a pheasant crow, which
he had put up ; and the blackbirds also made a devil of a clatter,
for it was so late that they had come in to roost; and when I
reached the place, I saw by his leap the exact spot where he had
taken cover. By thia time, Will had headed him ; and Jack had got
on the open green-sward 'twixt the copse and the hills ; so, calling
out, ' Stand fast, boys !' in I went, taking care to keep my eyes
about me. I had not been in above a minute when I heard a rush,
and Will calls out that he had catehed him — it — he should have said ;
for, by the time Jack had got round, and I had forced ray way through,
there was Will stretched upon the grass, and with such a broken
head as keeps him from his feed to-night ; and such a one, as will
serve to stop his jaw for a week at least. It was then dark, or
nearly so, and we have never set eyes upon the poacher since ; but,
should we ever meet again, now that I have sent to the keepers of
Rockingham Forest fbr their famous bloodhound, it shall go hard
with rae, but 1 give a better account of hira, or my name's not Joe
Trimmer. Speak, WUl 1 — as thou canst not eat, — thou wert the
nearest to him, as thy pate can testify, what sort of a chap was he ? "
During the recital of this tale, the eyes of Mary had never
once been turned upon the narrator ; on the contrary, her work
went on faster than ever, though more than once she drew from her
pretty hand, with the point of her needle, a dark stain ; but now,
on this direct question, she gazed scrulinisingly upon him to whom
it was addressed.
"What sort ot a chap," replied Will; "why, let me see. In
the first place, he is full six feet three, or may-be more ; and bigger
round the waist than your father. I ought to know, as I had hold
of him; and then, his legs— why, they are like young oak-trees ;
with a foot — ay, twice as big as mine, — and that's a good un for a
mouse: and for his face, why, it is covered with red hair, and the
fiercest I ever saw, barring the ould one-eyed mastiff at the ranger's
lodge. And when he cursed me, which he heartily did, as he struck

with the butt-end of his cross-bow, his voice was as hoarse as a
buck's in October."
On hearing this reply, Mary's eyes fell again upon her work,
which now went on with a far greater chance of utility than it did
before. After a vast deal of conversation occasioned by the
adventure, and after the ale-jug had been more than once replenished)
the brother and his men rose to depart, and wishing Mary a good
night, with a sarcastic caution to take care of the locket, they quitted
the house. Not long after the evening I have described, and past noon, on
a clear, dry, and rather frosty 29th of October, I have again to
present Mary to my readers. She was, at the raoment I am
speaking of, passing over the stepping-stones, which served as a
bridge across the shallow brook, whicli still murmurs in the close
vicinity of the handsome and ancient village-cburch of Brigstoek.
The appearance of the stream then was widely different from what
it is now ; yet, when nearly opposite to Catshead wopd, it shakes off
the contaminations of the village, and to this day retains its
primitive purity ; murmuring as gently, and beaming as brightly,
through its green beds of water-cresses, as it did when the wild
leader of the antlered herd used to soU himself from the heat of
his blood in the deeper pools which the autumn floods had
occasionally worn within its broken banks. It is necessary now to
say more of Mary's appearance. She might have reached her
nineteenth year ; her figure tall and graceful, more so than her
station in society would have led the observer to expect; and
though the frequent exposure to the sun and wind might have
tinged the rose upon her cheek with the slightest shade of brown,
stUl it amounted to nothing more than the ripening hue upon the
downy apricot, contrasting beautifully with the snowy whiteness of
her swan-like neck and bosom.
At the time I speak of, the noble forests of Eockingham,
Brigstoek, and Farmingwoods, were as one ; and the deer had free
access to all the open pastures that then extended over the
undulating country lying between Brigstoek and Grafton. The
character of the whole extent was wild and beautiful in the extreme,
though always wanting that bold and lofty character which alone
exists in a more hilly or mountainous region.
But, to return to our heroine. Mary, in passing the church,
looked long and wistfully at its time-worn portal. Entering the
forest-path, she proceeded in the direction of Farmingwoods' lodge,
then the ranger's residence, now the benevolent and hospitable
mansion of the Ladies Fitz-Patrick ; and in a short time reached

the more sequestered and impervious thickets of the wood; when
her quick and anxious glance seemed to stray amid the reddened
foliage of the trees of some expected object. At length, she paused
beneath a large oak, tbat seemed to fling its arms abroad, as if in
defiance of the storm, and listened attentively : not a sound met
her ear save the hoarse cry of the buck, the occasional scream of the
jay, or the shriller note of the large green woodpecker, mingled at
times with the soft solitary song of the robin-red-breast, as it hopped
within a yard of her upon the ground in timid curiosity. She had
not long remained thus, when a low whistle met her ear, as of one
who called upon a dog : and, either from its startling effect, or from
some other cause, the colour came fresher and faster on her lovely
face and neck than it had done before. In another moment, making
a signal of restraint to two large deer-hounds who were at his heels,
a tall young man stood before her.
His dress, clothed as he was from head to foot in green, might
have been that of any person employed in the objects of the chase ;
but, from his bearing, soft, but occasionally flashing eye, and open
forehead, any person might perceive that he came of a gentle line.
In short, there was that about him, which in a strange place not
only procured him the smile and prolonged observance of the village
lasses whom he encountered, but even the unnurtured peasant yielded
him, from instinct, that homage which he would have offered to an
acknowledged superior. His countenance was remarkable for a
mild but changeful expression; his person, tall and graceful,
though athletic, was framed alike to figure in the stately minuet,
and to hold his own in a bout at quarter-staff, or in the use of any
other weapon on which the safety of his head depended ; and the
short curling chestnut hair that clung closely to his brow, with the
unwrinkled smoothness of his cheek, alone interrupted by a light
mustache, proclaimed his age to be about eight-and-twenty.
" Dearest Mary, this is too good of you," (advancing close up
to her, and catching her in his arms, dropping at the same time a
cross-bow, which he had previously held ;) " I hardly dared expect
that you would have met me at this open hour of the day. My
reason for urging you to come was, alas ! that I have news, heavy
news to impart, which had better reach your ear thus, than in any
other way. I am summoned hence. Fear not, weep not, Mary ;
let not those lovely eyes grow dim with tears ; 'tis but for a short
time, nay, bnt a few hours, and then, perchance, all will be well, and
I shall return to the sweet wild wood, and to those dear scenes, and
to that loveliness, which I know nowhere else but here."

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" Leave this neighbourhood, Francis, and for a short time ! To
me, all hours alike are long that separate us : and this, before you
have fulfilled that promise which alone can reconcile me to myself!"
and, bursting into an agony of tears, she hid her face in his bosom.
" Weep not, Mary ! you little know the cause that tears me
hence ; it is one to whieh I am bound, body and soul ; that I have
sworn, awfully sworn, to sustain with my wealth and with my life —
mt/ wealth, did I say ? what has the fatal pledge left me that I can
call my own ? I am no longer master of my actions ; life and soul
are set upon a single cast, and I dare not now retreat. Even I, the
last of my line, may be swept from the face of day in a cause which
my heart tells me is wrong, but which I am fatally bound to espouse :
our religion and the rights of conscience may call loudly for the
fulfilment of our design, but yet I cannot look on Heaven and seek
there for an approving witness. The intolerant bigotry of James I.
drove me to league with those with whom I have embarked my
fortune ; and, by degrees, I have become pledged to crush the life of
one, bound by the ties of wedlock to the only relative I have on
earth. — But no — he shall not die ; not even if the fate of our
enterprise should hang upon tbe timely warning : I would abide its
downfaU sooner than a hair of his honoured head should suffer ; let him
be saved, and I am reckless of the rest. Look at me, Mary, (for
she had continued to sob upon his breast ;) I am unknown here,
even here, where best my lineage might be traced : a few years
spent abroad, and one is soon forgotten. Thou knowest me only as
thy Francis, others know me but as oue madly bent on sylvan
sport ; and yet I have another and nobler name, and a wilder game
in view, as the numbered hours soon wiU testify. This blood upon
my sleeve is but of the deer ; it has stained thy dress. But hush-
that sound !"
The deep tongue of a bloodhound was now heard approaching
the place where they stood, with the encouraging cheer of men, who
seemed to be following close upon his track.
"Mary, dearest Mary! I must leave thee. Those sounds
(pomtmg in the direction of the bloodhound, whose heavy and'
redoubled tongue was nearing them fast) I may not abide ; there is
more in them than brings safety to me, One week from this time,
and at five in the afternoon, meet me at the Bocase Tree; I wiU
then join thee, never to part again."
Thus saying, and snatching up his cross-how, he dashed through
the thicket m an opposite direction from that in which the cause of
alarm proceeded, and was soon out of sight. Close, and closer still,

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the deep-mouthed hound advanced, till his long lashing stem, tinged
at its tapering point with blood, andhis broad, glossy, black back,
could be seen glancing to and fro among the growing fern. At
length he appeared in the open space near the oak, his tanned and
sweeping lips traUing in quest upon the tainted turf; then, suddenly
raising his head, he dashed forward, and at a bound seized and
overthrew the terrified and fainting girl. In a moment, she was
rescued from her perilous situation, the hound having only fastened
on her dress, and her wondering brother with his assistants stood
before her.
" Speak ! Mary, speak I which way has he gone — him — the man
we spoke of at my father's house, and whom WUl has so faithfully
described, has he — has he passed this way ?"
A thousand thoughts in a moment rushed upon her mind ; but,
with that readiness in the hour of danger which is so often the
attribute of woman, she instantly replied, " No — I have not seen
Mm ; no such person so described can have passed this way."
" Here, Chaunter :" said the owner of the hound, " try round,
old boy ! — Strange ; I would have sworn that thou hadst checked at
nothing save the blood of the slaughtered deer, or the foil of some
strange dog."
But no ; the hound, after a cast about the oak, returned, and
would again have flown on Mary.
Her brother, now losing his temper at the check his pursuit
had met with, desired her to return home ; and, with angry sneer^
asked her, whether she was looking for any more lockets ? then
speeding away in a wider circle down the wind, she again heard
them loudly but slowly resume the line of scent ; and they were
soon out of reach of all further observation.
When she was left alone, and, in her way home, had time to
recall the circumstances that had passed so hurriedly, the bitterness
of the truth came full upon her mind : her lover — he on whom was
centred every hope she had in the world, was a lawless deer-stealer.
Hitherto, she had believed him to be one who, with all due license,
had hunted for his own amusement; but now, it seemed, though the
person the under-keeper described was widely different from her
lover, that circumstances went far to prove that they were one and
the same. She looked for the blood upon her dress, now in anxious
fear that might betray her secret ; but the hound had tom the stain
away, and, in the hurry of the moment, her brother had not observed
it. Tears, — tears, the solace of many a weary heart, now came to
her relief; and, wondering what great event could call her lover
from the forest, and the signification of his mysterious intimations

1?
The time has arrived when we must transport our reader^ to
Liveden new buUd, an unfinished house ; then, as now, partaking of
the Elizabethan style, and built in the shape of a cross. It was
commenced, and left unfinished, by Sir Thomas llresham, who difed
in 1604 or -5 ; abandoned, it is supposed, on account of the
persecution of the Catholics ; and is, to this moment, an extraordi
nary object for the inspection of the curious, and no unapt
illustration of the vain, fickle, and perishable nature of the inteiition
of man. A line of white gates through the Farmingwoods'
demesne, put up and painted purposely to direct those who would
seek the building, will (from the kind attention of the owners of
the property) point the stranger's way to the object he has in view .
It was now past the earlier hours of the night, and a red and
flickering light, proceeding from a newly made fire in what was in
tended for the kitchen chimney, threw an unusual and uncertain
glare upon its roofless walls. A flask or two of wine were also near
the fire ; and there were evident preparations for the broiling some
food upon, the embers. Close by the burning brands, and warming
themselves, though occasionally shading their, eyes from the glare of
the fire, and looking anxiously to the southern entrance of the apart
ment, sat two men. One of them, who seemed to take the lead,
was perhaps a little above the middle size ; and, though he had laid
aside his long sword, he stUl retained about bis person weapons of
both an offensive and defensive description. He had passed the
middle age ; yet, his well formed limbs were still capably of every
exertion, while his face bespoke a large share of resolution, mingled
with a gloomy and anxious expression ; and care, rather than years,
had tinged considerably with gray that portion of his otherv^dse
dark hair which the close confines of a steel head-piece suffered to
be visible. His corapanion might have been a year or two younger;
and, save that he was carefully armed, there was nothing remarkable
in his appearance beyond a thick bushy pair of eyebrows over
shadowing a comraon set of features, whose expression, if they had any,
was that of a dogged and sullen disposition. A step in the outer por
tion ofthe building was now heard ; the hands of the personages we have
described instinctively clutched their weapons ;' and at the same
instant Francis, in his sylvan dress, stood before them.
" How now, Catesby ! " said he, addressing the one we have the
more particularly described, and holding out his hand to the oth^r ;
" before, rather than after, your time as usual,"
But Catesby, making a sign of caution, motioned to him a seat
by his side at the fire, saying at the same time, sarcastically, " Must
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perteiSiitibfi of the (fiiVpatfeolics, and consequently, the fitter place
foi* the rpdreysers' 6f ¦their wrongs to take counsel in. Even hadst
thtfe"not"fiifd this ai£!,s(iuerading fit upon thee, thou couldst not have
received &e in 80 fit' a, place, i^ot even at thy goodly manor of Eush-
ton; for,'! am of the Douglas opinion, and, on matters of import
ance, I would sooner hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak ;
nay, would rather listen to that owl which now hoots above our
heads and o'er th^ desolation of thy house, than to the choicest
linnet that ever owned a cage. But come, my comrades in a glori
ous cause ! it is not the first time that we have counselled in the open
air : Essex's failure is still fresh upon our minds ; and as we were
foiled then, so have we now the likelier chance to win."
They then commenced their repast ; and though there was an
evident wish on the part of Catesby to do away with all restraint,
and as palpable a one with Tresham, to whom we must now give his
real name, to be at hi#ease, still there was a coolness that neither
wine nor warmth had power to drive away.
At length a peculiar whistle at the door, and then an approach
ing step, were heard, both of which appeared well known to Catesby ;
and an armed retainer, in the dress of a newly raised regiment
of horse, entered the place.
" What now, Tom 1 is all right in Lady Wood ?"
" Tes, sir," was the concise reply, and the man again retired.
Catesby, then drawing closer to Tresham, thus opened his
business : — " I have come to tell thee all is prepared ; our plans per
fected ; and our friends firm at their posts : but stUl we want money
— more we must rhave ; and to thee I come for the sinews of war.
In this papert.,thou wilt read the sums reijuired : do so, and let me
see thee consign it to the flames."
Tresham jread : and^ as the Ught played upon his countenance,
Catesby watched its changeful expression. When he remarked a
trace of hesitation or doubt, a frown passed over his own deter
mined brow, and his hand seeited inclined to seek the hilt of a
poniard that peeped from beneath his vest. Tresham suddenly looked
up from the paper ; and his glance for a moment met, and quaUed
beneath, the searching 'gaze bf his companion : it was but for a
moment. " Catesby, I cannot coinply with these terms unless I have more
time : to raise such a sum immediately would be impossible : neither do
I see, nor can I consent to, the necessity of the indiscriminate slaughter
you propose. One thfere is whose life I value more than my own,
and he ffifusfc and shialllje Saved : that one, a staunch Catholic, the

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Lord Mounteagle, has wedded my only sister ; and to him, in other
respects, am I deeply indebted. Nay, Catesby, frown not : I tell
thee here alone, and at the dead of night, with thine armed com-
panions, be they many or be they few, to back thee in thy violence,
that, sooner than injure one hair of his honoured head, I would con
sent to suffer the varied torments of the rack ! He shall be safe, or
I stir not another foot."
" Stay," said Catesby, impetuously interrupting him; "thou
hast called our project cruel : but hast thon compared it with the
dreadful atrocities practised against the Catholics ? — has thou reck
oned up the numbers that have been butchered by the bloody knife
of the common executioner, and the hundreds that have perished in
the miserable and squalid privations of their gloomy prisons ? ay,
and the thousands that have been reduced from affluence and ease
to the lowest state of want and beggary ? If th6u hast, ask thyself
to whom the charge of cruelty best can be applied."
" Catesby, I grant you the wrongs, but I hesitate at the means
of retribution. Thou knowest the words — Vengeance is mine alone :
should not the redress of wrongs come from a higher hand than
thine ? "
" Now, Tresham-, by my soul thou dost o'erstep the bounds of
all patience, and dost lay far short, in resolution, of the most
whining and pitiful priest. It is to thee, and such as thee, that we
owe our present calamities : it is this damnable doctrine of non-
resistance that makes us slaves ! No authority of priest or pontiff
can deprive man of his right to repel injustice : and it were better
that our limbs were nipped and cramped with the bitterest chains,
than that the freedom of conscience should be fettered. Oh, Tresham !
I did not expect such a sentiment from thee. Hast thou no spirit?
Is the fire dead within thee, that the wrongs of thy religion can find
no fuel, no refuge, in thy breast ? or, dost thou, a craven, quail
before the great revenge those wrongs have conjured forth ? Look
above thee ! Why hath thy house no roof? Why are the holy
signs that range along its site left wide and incomplete ? Doth not
the chilling echo of these empty walls speak volumes to thy heart ;
and every vacant niche, where should have stood some saint or
symbol of our faith, cry out aloud for right and reformation ? Ay,
Tresham, they do cry, and thou hast heard their call, spite of thy
masquerading foUy. Look on my hands — discoloured, scarred, and
broken with their toil : I have wrought, like a galley slave, in dark
ness, while men above enjoyed the glorious light and air of heaven ;
yet would I not retract one hour of that blessed work for aU the
bliss of light and life, could I but see the confirmation of; my hope."

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Here, Catesby, suddenly changing the manner and tone of his
speech, and fixing his keen eyes full on the face of Tresham, (while
Winter, which was the name of his companion, clutching his dagger,
drew rather in the rear of the parties,) exclaimed, in concentrated
accents of thedeepest feeling, yet sternly and imperiously, " What, sir,
doth that man deserve who, for the safety of one life, would sell his
God, his country, and the lives of his allies ? Ay," aaid he, sud
denly confronting Tresham, and, at the same time, half unsheathing
his sword, '' what would he deseive who, by any indirect measure,
even endangered such a cause as this ? "
Tresham quailed not beneath his scrutinizing gaze ; nor did he
seem dismayed at tbe startling and unexpected question. Looking
full upon Catesby, he steadily answered — "Death! "
" Hast thou not written to Mounteagle ? Winter has seen a
letter, without name or date, warning him of danger."
This was said with startling vehemence, calculated to detect a
shadow of falsehood ; but on Tresham it had no apparent effect.
" I have not written such a letter ; nay, more, the man who
deems me capable of such an act, or, so deeming, confesses it not
openly to my face, is one in whose false blood I would write the
foulness of his suspicion, were he placed within my reach!"
Winter here stepped more in front of Tresham, and thus ad
dressed him: —
" The letter Catesby mentions, / have seen ! It was in a dis
guised character ; and, to your teeth, I say that there was a peculiar
quaintness in some of the letters more resembling thy hand than any
I have seen before : nay, frown not, nor lay hands upon thy sword j
the subject hath a wound which shall be probed. Hast thou had
communication by letter or otherwise, directly or indirectly, with
any one in London since we saw thee last ?"
" No— by my life, I have not ! "
" But thou hast been in town ?"
"Ihave; but what of that ? Away with these implied sus-
picions ! I will not be questioned like a hind who steals his mas
ter's corn I If thou hast aught to bring against me, speak ! If thou
hast proof to damn me, shew it ! But to thy face I tell thee, Catesby,
and to thine — he — they lie most foully in their throats, who
brand me with a bare suspicion!"
Catesby here held out his hand.
" Tresham, I believe thee. Winter, let it pass ; I now look
upori the letter thou hast seen as nothing more than one of those
harebrained forgeries that every public man is liable to receive from

an oppressed and feverish population. , S);ispicion, attaches, not to us,
otherwise that letter had not been shewn by Lord Mounteagle'^ con
fidential secretary to one of our party: let the subject drop, and
now to duty : still shaU the trusty Fawkes have his wish; back,BhajU
tbe Scottish beggars to their barren hUls, and England's wrongs be
scattered in the air. Cdme, Tresham ! we must to town together —
we cannot do without thee ; our steeds are in the adjoining wood
and relays wait us on the road :" and, as they left Tresham for a
moment to look upon the night, Catesby remarked to Winter, in an
under tone, "Had his eye quailed beneath my glance, or had he in
his bearing betrayed aught that could have confirmed suspicion, I
had given thee the signal for his death ; as it was, it went against
my soul to slay him on such vague approof."
" WeU," said Winter, " I do not differ with thee, and Heaven
send we are not mistaking in our mercy."
Everything being in readiness, they' now caUed forth Tresham,.
and the three proceeded on their road to London.
We must take the liberty, upon the evening of the fourth of
November, of transporting our readers to a handsome country-house,
in the immediate vicinity of London, the interior of which was fur
nished in a costly style pf elegance, and the supper-table laid out
with ample and luxurious preparation. By the fire, in an easy-
chair, and busied with the publications ofthe day, sat a handsome,
middle-aged man. A servant entered the room and presented to
his master, on a silver salver, a letter.
"From whom?"
" I know not, my lord."
"How, sirrah?"
" It was left, my lord, by a taU man wrapped in a cloak, with
his hat pulled down upon his face, and who refused to give his
name, but desired that the letter might immediately reach your
hands." The servd,nt retired, and Lord Mounteagle looked at the super-
scription : it was directed, " for his honoured hands ;" and, mutter
ing something of the same disguised character as before, he broke
the sealed thread that bound it, and read the contents aloud, which,
whatever the former communication might have been, now consisted
of but one line : —
" Thou hast heard— and Ufe -is thine, to lose or to enjoy. Thanks,
my anxious, though anonymous correspondent: think not thy
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So early as four o'clock on the following morning. Lord
Mounteagle, who had made no preparations for retiring to rest, was
summoned by a royal mesenger to attend the king in council.
Without dwelling on circumstances that are too weU known to
merit further description, we must now wend our way back to the
forest. It was on the sixth of November, on an afternoon which had
set in with a dark and lowering sky, the wind blowing in gusts, that
Mary was seen, with her cloak wrapped around her, proceeding
through the Farmingwoods Forest by a path which now leads by
the steward's house belonging to the haU. Her step was hurried ;
and she frequently started as the deer crossed her path, or bounded
suddenly from the low bushes where they were browsing in search
of the acorns that had fallen from the trees. Once or twice, as
she looked anxiously around, she thought she saw the figure of a
man, who seemed to be following her; but the glimpse she had was
so uncertain, and as it was then growing dark, she supposed she
must have been deceived by the waving of some forest-bough, and
she continued on her way.
At length, she reached an unusually large and hollow old oak-
tree, called, from a tradition which is current to this moment, the
Bocase Tree ; having derived its name from the reputed fact of
Eobin Hood, in, one of his lengthened wanderings in search of
spoliation in the king's forests, having ' hidden his bow and arms in
its cavity, until the ranger, who suddenly appeared in the vicinity,
had passed. The huge and gnarled roots of the tree wound
themselves on the ground like monstrous serpents ; and upon one
of these she seated herself. Darkness was fast approaching, and
the pheasants might be heard crowing as they sought, and more
than usually, the lowest boughs of the thickest trees on the side most
sheltered from the wind. Flocks of wood-pigeons, though scattered,
wheeled round in different directions ; and the wild cry of the carrion-
crows, mingled with the hoarser croak of the raven, met her ear, as
if the feathered race were aware of some approaching event which
boded any thing but peace and rest. The wind continued to blow
at intervals ; and then, for a few moments, it would be entirely
calm, though stUl the dark and drifting clouds above swept hurrying
by, as if there was no cessation of tbe tempestuous current. As
she sat observing the wildness of the evening, and fearfully watching
the indications of an approaching storm, which she was too mueh
used to the forest not to remark, a startled herd of deer came
bounding by her, and, in the same direction, the figures of three
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instinctively drew within the hollow of the tree ; and when within
fifty yards, the horsemen halted, and one of them dismounting,
though still wrapped in his cloak, approached the spot where she
was. Long, however, before his face or even his figure could be
recognised, a something within, whieh passeth all understanding,
save that of true love, assured her that it was Tresham. In another
instant she was in his arms.
" Once more, dearest Mary, I hold you to my breast, to part, I
trust, no more. This evening seals our fate ; every pledge that I
have ever made you shall be redeemed ; but time must not be trifled
with — we must fiy to a foreign shore."
" Nay, but Francis, what need is there for flight ? if bound by
the holy vow, what need of concealment ? My father cannot but
give us his blessing, and must be honoured by the connexion of one
whose manners shew that he is of a rank superior to ours. Where
— where can I be so happy as near the declining years of my sire ?"
While she was speaking, the wind had for a short space been
hushed ; but suddenly, from the furthest verge of the forest, a roar,
like that of the mighty waters of a distant ocean, came upon their
ear. Nearer and nearer swept the coming storm, till the whole
forest bent before the blast ; boughs torn from the trunks themselves
came sweeping by; and every instant the crash of the falling timber
shook the earth with appalling violence. The night assumed
a pitchy darkness, rendered still more awfully visible by the
occasional fiashes of lightning which shot athwart the troubled sky.
Mary, in terror, clung to her lover for support ; and as they leant
against the inner surface of the hollow tree, which at present
shielded them from the blast, they could feel its rugged bark-bend
to and fro before the fury of the tempest, and its roots absolutely
heave the ground in which it stood.
At this moment, an exclamation of horror from Tresham, as he
felt the very roots themselves start beneath his feet, recalled Mary
to a further sense of her danger ; and the next, clasping her in his
arms, he bore her forth before the raging wind, and placed her on
the sheltered side of a rising bank, that at least offered no danger
from the trees above. The oak they had that instant left, Uke some
huge monster of the deep, when it feels the first deadly thrust of
the harpoon, writhed as if in mortal agony ; and then, as its shiver
ing limbs, joining the roar of the surrounding forest, seemed to
shriek above the storm, with one monstrous throe, its roots rending
the earth asunder, and casting the mould and moss high in the
murky air, the whole tree fell thundering to the ground. As if
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turies had braved alike the electric fluid and the fury ofthe winds,
the storm now abated ; but with the transient light of the young
moon, the dark figures of several men were seen approaching the
bank where the lovers were, and in such a manner that the chance
of remaining unobserved seemed impossible. Tresham whispered —
" Mary, these are not my men, and there are odds against me ; but,
once upon my steed, and hence, by other means, to London, my
ship, now lying in the Thames, should bear us where no foe could
interrupt our happiness."
Saying thus, he stood firm before her, and drew his sword, yet
stirred not a foot, in the vain hope that they might be passed un
seen. At the same time he was observed by the leader of the
opposite party ; and as they called upon him to surrender, he, from
a silver whistle at his breast, gave a signal to his own attendants.
At once he was surrounded and attacked — Mary fell fainting to the
ground, and more than once the steps of the assailed and the
assailing passed over her. Well and gallantly did Tresham defend
himself; one foe had already fallen, andhe had broken ground in
the direction of the galloping sound of approaching hoofs. His ser
vants came, but proved of little avail ; they were only two in num
ber, while his assailants still made five ; yet, from their complete
appointments, they might, by chance, have turned the tide of
battle, had not the horse of one of them run foul of, and fallen over,
a limb of the uprooted tree, and in the act severely disabled his
rider; the other was soon cut down, encumbered as he was with a
led horse ; and Tresham, after a determined resistance, being
severely wounded, was at length overpowered and made prisoner.
" Haste," said the leader of the party, " to the ranger's lodge •
there let us first secure our prisoner ; these forests are no safe place,
and there may be more company in them yet than we would like to
see." Tresham maintained a determined silence till arrived within the
lodge, where he first discovered that he had fallen into the hands of
the head constable of Westminster.
" I need not ask," he said haughtUy, " upon what authority
you have thus arrested me — another persecution on the score of
conscience ?"
He hesitated as he concluded the question ; and either from
loss of blood, or some other cause, there was a slight tremulousness
of lip and manner.
" No score of conscience. Sir," was the stern reply ; " but on a
charge of high treason — as one of the conspirators of the damnable
popish plot, discovered and frustrated on the night of yesterday."

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" How ! — frustrated, sayest thou— the Lord Mountedgjle/t is >he *
safe ?" " He is, sir, and by a timely letter from an unknown hand, all '
have been saved from the hellish scheme that would have hurled the
pride of England to eternity ! "
" Thank God ! " escaped the lips of the prisoner ; but so
faintly was it said, that those who heard it scarce could be assured
that their ears had not deceived them.
Some time now elapsed in placing the state-prisoner in a room
of sufficient security, and on dressing the wounds received on either
side; and, when all had been arranged and settled, then, for the
first time, they missed one of their party.
" How ! " exclaimed Jack, the under-keeper, with whom we
have been previously acquainted ; "s' death! — where is Trimmer?
he was with us ; he gave the first information to the officer as to
where we were to beat up our game ; and though the night was as
dark as a tan-pit, yet I'll swear he was the first to make in upon
our man." This was soon communicated to the ranger, who, calling some
of his men, immediately set off in search of the head-keeper. Some
hours had elapsed during the occurrence of these events ; the night
had passed, and the gray light of morning was become visible in the
east, and a calm had succeeded the hurricane, as if nature, exhausted
with her previous exertion, had sunk into a deep and death-like ;
sleep. The forest was stripped bare of every lingering vestige of its
summer hue; and the scathed and scattered limbs of its withered
pride bore ample testimony to the violence of the tempest. Here,
lay an uprooted tree ; th^re, the ghastly looking trunk of one poss
essed of but half its former height, having been rent asunder like
the mast of some wrecked vessel.
The party now passed up the avenue of witchelms, crossed the
open lawn of the forest, and by the time they were within a few
hundred yards of the place they sought, it was sufficiently light to
remark objects. All was as still as death, and though it was now dry
and clear over head, the storm had concluded with' rain ; and the red
and angry looking sun began to gUd the large and pendant drops of
moisture that still hung upon the underwood, on the bright red berries
of the hawthorn, and upon the deeper bloom ofthe clustering sloes.
As they approached the spot where they should first have seen the'
wide-spreading and lofty head of the bocase-tree, the range who
was in front, paused, and pointing to a tall, bare, and whitened
limb, the topmost point of a large dead tree, that reared its spectral
shape far above the surrounding forest, he remarked — " Why, surely

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the blighted maple ought not to be sejn from this spot : but yonder
it is, with a solit'iry r.aven perched on its highest bough, as it he
were watching ihe carcass of something below."
They all looked that way, and hastened on with a species of
awe for which they could scarcely account. At a turn of the forest,
where now stands a lonely shed, and one of the gates of the present
Farmingwoods Park, they came immediately upon the scene of the
arrest of Tresham, of the violence of the storm, and of the mischief
of man. The first object that presented itself was the uprooted
trunk of a huge tree ; its mighty arms scattered, broken, and, in
some places, driven deep into the earth, bore testimony to the ex
tent and violence of its fall; and within its boughs, cast and
entangled, lay the prostrate body of a goodly steed, whose struggles
seemed well nigh over. Grazing at a little distance, amid the stun
ted thorns and pollard ashes that had been lopped for the brousings
of the deer, and as if loath to leave his companion, was another
horse, his saddle turned beneath him, and the reins of his bridle
entangled under his feet ; while the body of him who seemed to have
been his rider, and whose military appearance bespoke him one of
the newly raised regiments of the time, lay within a few yards.
Beyond this painful spectacle, and beneath a gently rising bank,
another sight presented itself, which touched the heart of the most
reckless of the party with pity. Poor Mary I — her long, fair, and
disheveUed hair almost completely concealing her face, and descend
ing down her neck and shoulders till its moistened clusters fell upon
the pale features of one that lay beneath her, her left hand resting
on the earth for support, and the other placed upon her brother's
breast, cold, and motionless, and every garment dretiched with rain
— she looked the very personification of grief.
At first they thought that life had passed awav, but on touch
ing her, a slight motion was observable in her lips ; and eveu her
brother, whose wounds, inferring from the ensanguined state of her
hands, she had evidently felt for during the night, and tried to
stanch, also showed some signs of existence. Eestoratives were in
stantly resorted to ; and the strong horse caught, mounted and sent
for assistance, while the rest of the party hastily constructed a
species of litter, with the fallen boughs of the tree, and bore their
melancholy burden to the lodge.
But little more remains to be said. Francis Tresham, the last
ofthe male line of his race, ere he was aware that Mary was under
the same roof with him, guarded by a strong escort, was hurried to
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wound, the seeds of sickness were sown, which soon after termin
ated his existence.
Mary and her wounded relative both recovered ; but from the
night which we have described, she was never seen to smile again.
She would sit for hour after hour, gazing on the chain and locket
which she always wore around her neck ; but she never alluded to
the past events (and which, from a feeling of delicacy, were also
avoided by her family,) save once, when, after a long and melan
choly silence, she abruptly addressed her brother, to ask him how
they had gained intelligence that he (meaning Tresham) was to have
been present on the spot where he was captured. He replied, that
ever after the occurrence with the bloodhound he had had his sus
picions, and therefore had watched her on the eventful evening to
the appointed place ; bad encountered by chance the officers of
justice, who had followed Tresham from London, to whom he com
municated his conjectures that they each were after one and the
same person.
The site of this occurrence, and the very spot where the bocase-
tree once stood, is to this day marked by a rude stone, mentioned
in 1643 as the boundary of the forest, and still observed for the same
purpose : on the stone is engraved the following inscription — " On
this place, grew the Bocase Tree."

i0tas,e Cree.

In Northaraptonshire, at one of the boundaries of Brigstoek
Forest, formerly no doubt included in the great forest of Rockingham,
there is an old stone standing, 3 ft, 9 inches high, i ft. 9 inches wide,
called " Bocase Stone." It is of a kind found in the neighbourhood,
called " Raunds," or " Stanwick stone," full of shells. One side is
very smooth : and on this, quite at the upper part, is this inscription,
in capital letters : —
"Jn This Plaes Grew Bocase Tree."
And lower down, just above the ground :
"Here Stood Bocase Tree."
The stone is mentioned in the histories of the county, but with
out any explanation of the meaning. I cannot hear of any local
tradition, nor do I know of any ancient name of place or person that
might elucidate the matter. Perhaps some of your readers may be
able to say why a tree was called Bocase ?
H. W.
[In the following passage there is an apparent allusion to the tree
in question : — " Upon the Borders of the Forrest here, next Brigstoek
and Sudborough there is an Oak called King Stephen's Oak, now an old
hollow Tree, which is famous upon two Accounts through all the
neighbouring Parts ; i. Because according to Tradition King Stephen
shot a Deer from this Tree, which being granted true, the Tree must
be at least ^S'^ Tears old, a very memorable Age indeed. 2. Because
the hollow Trunk is so capacious, that at the Brigstoek Processions
(when it is their Custom to put as many Boys into it as 'twill hold)
they have put into it between thirty and forty Boys, for so many it
will hold without Difficulty." Magna Britannia, vol. iii., p. 478.
(Northamptonsh.) It is hazardous to attempt explanations and
etymologies of local terms, without a due amount of local information.
But if we may be permitted to suppose the " Bocase Tree " to have been
identical with the tree from which the King shot the stag, we would
understand by it " Buck-case Tree," the tree near which a luck was
deprived of its " case," i.e. skinned or flayed. "Case, to skin an
animal. Cases, skins." (Halliwell). The skinning of the slaugh
tered deer was a standing rule of the chace. " The Harte and all
manner of Deare are flayne." (Noble Art of Fenerie or Hunting, p.
241.^ Hence the very particular directions how, when a " Harte," is
killed, " to take ofFhis skinne." The skin of a wild animal was
frequently called his case, and flaying was called casing. " The flay-

ing, striping [stripping], and casing of all manner chaces." "Tou
must beginne at the snowt or nose of the beast, and so turne his
skinne over his eares all alongst the body, vuitill you come to the taile
. . . . This is called casing" (p. 241)- So Shakespeare, " We'll
make more sport with the fox, ere we case him ;" and again in a
double sense. "But though my coje be a pitiful one, I hope I shaU
not he flayed out of it."
Amongst the old terms corresponding to buck were boue, bucca,
aud bock. On the whole then, we are disposed to regard bocase as
equivalent to bock-case, or buck-case, and as appertaining to the spot
where a buck, having been slain by a royal band, was according to
due forra deprived of his case, or flayed. The buck-case, then, would
be simply the buckskin, or buck's skin.
Be it observed, however, that according to the strict rules of
mediaeval nomenclature, which with respect to all matters connected
with hunting were very precise, the proper name of the hart's and
deer's case was skinne or coate. This may explain why we find bocase
(or buck case) only as a local term, though we have buckage, Buck
stone, buckstall (a net for catching deer), &c., all words of more
general use.] — Notes & Queries, 2nd Series, vm,, p. 498.
In the remarks made upon my Query about the meaning of the
name Bocase, as applied to a stone now standing, and a tree that
once stood, in Brigstoek Forest, Northamptonshire, a quotation is in
troduced ftom Cox's Magna Britannia referring to a tree in the same
forest called " King Stephen Oak," and implying that perhaps this
may have been the tree about whicb my enquiry was made. But
they were two different trees, as I was already aware, and will now
show. King Stephen's oak, to which the Magna Britannia alludes,
and which gave to one of tbe ridings in the forest the name of
" Stephen Oak Riding," is now quite gone : but an old woodman
(only dead about four years since) knew and often pointed out to my
informant the exact spot on which it stood, as he remembered when
some portion of it still remained. This was a mile and a half, or
rather raore, from the site of the Bocase stone and tree. This fact
rather interferes with the otherwise ingenious explanation of "Buck-
case," as denoting the spot where the buck was cased or flayed : as
one can hardly suppose that having shot a deer on one spot, they
would carry it a mile and a half to flay it at another. They would
either flay it where it was kiljgd, or carry it home at once for the
operation. So that I should be glad if your etymological readers
would still consider my Query as open to another solution. —
Notes & Queries, 2nd Series, ix., p. 274. H. W.

EEPOBT
OP THE
Transactions and Excui^sions
OF
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

AT THEIE

ANNUAL MEETING AT NORTHAMPTON,
July 30 to August 6, 1878.

Under the Presidency of the Ven. Lord Alwyne CoMPTot

WITH A PAPE'R ON
£ Pislorg of t^£ Cflfan anir fi'otmtg of ^orl^amgtan
By the Rev. W. Monk, Rector of Wymington.

NOBTHAMPTON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR & SON.
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1878.

Reprinted (hy Permission^
from
The Northampton Mercury,
August 3 and xo, 1878.

VISIT OF THE

OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

Tuesday, July ZWh, 1878.

The Eoyal Arohteological Institute of Great Britain and
Ireland is holding its thirty-fifth annual congress in our
towa and neighbourhood, for the proceedings which com
menced last Tuesday will not terminate till Tuesday next.
The Institute, originally termed the British Archseologioal
Association, was established in London in December, 1843,
but two years after, when the Association met at Win.
Chester, a split occurred, and while one body designated
themselves the Boyal ArchEeological Institute, the other
adhered to the old title. It was the Institute that, more
than a year ago, expressed the desire to visit onr ancient
borough, and it will be remembered that theu the Corpora.
tion expressed their desire to grant the use of the Town-
hall, the Museum, and other rooms at their disposal, as
well as to do all they could to facilitate the researches of so
distinguished a society. For some reason or other, with
which we are not acquainted, the Institnte determined to
hold their meeting last year at Hereford, and, conse
quently, when tbe time came round again for another
annual congress, the application to the Town Council was
renewed. It is quite true that on that occasion two or
three gentlemen fought rather shy of the whole matter,
wheu they found it was likely to involve v, little personal
expense; but a large majority of the Town Council
took it up heartily, and determined to give the In
stitute snch a reception that, wherever it might be spoken of
hereafter, the town would have noreason to be ashamed ofit.
As to whether the institute are really worthy of being enter
tained, that is a question, we should think, which would not
admit of a doubt, when it is known that there are amongst
the members such men as Lord Talbot de Malahide,
F.S.A., the Ven. Lord Alwyne Compton, Dr. Evans,
F.K.S,, P,S.A,, Mr, J. H. Parker and Mr. M. H. Bloxam,
two eminent authorities on Gothic architecture; Mr. G.
T. Clarke, F.S.A., the indefatigable director of the Dowlais
Iron Company, South Wales, who is as thoroughly prac.
tical in archseology as he is in his own special engineering
department ; Mr. S, Sharp, F.S.A., P,G,S., who has done
so much m illustrating the antiquities of the couuty,
as well as in giving permanence to its geological
history ; Mr. Tom Burgess, P.S.A., onoe a Brixworth
lad, who will have the pleasure of expatiating learnedly
upon the unique ohnroh there ; Mr. fi. H. Wood, F.S.A.i

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Eev. J. Puller Eussell, P.8.A., Mr. Pairleas Barber, P.S.A.
Mr, Micklethwaite, P,S,A., aud other gentlemen including
the energetic genaraf seorptiary, Mr. Albert Hartshorne,
who bears a name that oan never be mentioned withou t
):espect in this county, of -^itho^e memorials his father w^B
the talented illustrator amd historian. Such an array of
names — and it might be considerably increased — is one that
must command the respect of all intelligent men, and all
eduoated pessons will agree that the; Town Oounoil took a
right step when they decided to give the Institute a recep.
tion that should show on their part a disposition to
recognise the distinguished and disinterested labours of a
body to whom we ow© much of our education, so far as
architectural taste is concerned, and who largely help ns
to place a correct oritioail estimate upon the works ot the
" grand old masters," Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time.
The Reception.
The reception by the Town Council took place in the As.
sembly Eoom ou Tuesday mqrnjiig. The Mayor (Aid. Tfib-
butt), attended by Sergaant-at-Mape, the ex-Mayqr (41^- G-
Turner), Alderman P. P. Perry, Mr. R, Turner, Mr. W, J.
Peirce, Mr. James Wetherell, Mr, James Barry, Mr. R.
Howes, Mr. W, Adkins, Mr, Konow, Mr, Tebbutt, Eev.
J, T. Brown, Dr. Soott, Rev. P. Banton, Rev. E, N, Tom,
Bev, N. T. Hughes, Rev. E. T, Lawrence, and others, as
cended the platform, on whieh were several of the i>rincipal
ofBcials of the institute, including the Lord T'albot de
Malahide, P.S.A., the president, to whom the Mayor gave
place. The Town Clerk then read the following addness : —
" To th? President ai(d Members of the Royal Ai^o^^P^ogi'
oal Institute of Gr^at Britain and Ireland. We, tlie Mayor,
Aldermen, aud burgenses of the borous'h of N'oi'thamptoh,
most heartily acknowledge the distinguished honour con
ferred upon our ancieht town by its selection this year for
your visit. Tou need not our assurance that qur town and
nelghboui;hoQd exhibit many interesting architectural
remains, churches, castles, mansions, and memorials of the
past whioh will repay the investigation of the historian and
antiquary. We estimate highly the importance of your
researches in the elnoidation of historioal and social
questions, the dissipation of fabulous traditioits in illus
trating the growth of sciences, laws, and civilizations, and
enriching the present age with more complete Ideas of the
treasures and triumphs of ancient art. We beg to con
clude with a very cordial welcome, and hope that your visit
may be pleasant and satisfactory. Given under our common
seal the 30th July, 1878,"— The Mayoi^, handipg the ad
dress to Lord Talbot, said he had uiuch pleasure in pre
senting it from the ancient borough bf Northampton, and
he trusted that the meeting would ^e a success, and in every
way satisfactory to the officers and members of the insti
tute.— In reply, the Lo:fd President desired to tender, on
behalf of the ihstitulie, their very best thanks for the very
handsome address and cordial welcome whioh the town had
given them. It would be cheering to them to consider, in
the oonrse of their pjjopeedmgs, that a town with such an
influential Corporation as that of Nortliampton took an
interest in their pursuits, which he was satisfied would have
a tendency to preserve the ancient monuments of our
eountry. He feared that it was not every Corporation that
was ^u»Uy deserving of pjaise, but he was sure that ours
,w;»^,a,inadftl in that respect, (?%ir, h^ai, an,d l^iUghter.)
To visit' that noble bnllung and that large hall would be

quite Buffioient to convince one that the taste whioh pre
sided over its erection must act powerfully in stimulating
an interest in ancient art. (Applause.) Having thanked
them for the address, he might be permitted to say a few-
words upon the subject of their meetings. He was afraid
that he could not do much in the way of dilating upon the
antiquities of the county j but he might just say that
though they had a meeting at the extreme end of Feterp
borough, when they went over a Uttle of the ground which
would be traversed again on this occasion, yet they were
really in a new country, and the antiquities of Northampton
had been barely touched upon by what they had done.
(Hear, hear.) There were many historical associations
connected with this county, some of great importance in
relation to the history of the country at large, and to the
constitutional history of this country, and he hoped that
Bome gentleman would give them a paper upon some of those
remarkable events which had occurred in this part of the
country. He missed, however, the presence of one old
friend in particular who was intimately connected with the
county, and whose specialiti it was to describe from time to
time the different historical events that had taken place In
the localities where the Institute held their meetings, and
who would, no doubt, had he been living, have favoured
them with an accouut of Northampton, and of the battles
which took place here in the neighbourhood, and had such
a powerful influence on the future of this country. He
need only mention the name of the Eev. G. H. Hartshorne
to 'awaken the feeling that in the death of him they had
sustained a very great loss. (Hear, hear.) "While it was a
pleasure for one to attend' those meetings, and to meet with
those amongst whom friendships had been formed, yet
there was also a painful feeling attached to that when one
came to think of the deaths that were constantly oc
curing. Here he might mention that when he first joined
the society a good many years ago, and for some tiine
afterwards it had had the advantage of being presided over
by a nobleman who was highly accomplished in every branch
of science and of art, and who did much to promote the
prosperity of that society. A great many would remember
the old Marquis of Northampton (the father of the present
Marquis). There was, perhaps, no one in such a high
position who took such a lively interest m literatur'e,
science, and art as that nobleman did, having been presi
dent of the Royal Society, for many years president of the
Geographical fcJociety, and of many other learned societies,
his scholarship being one of the brightest jewels in his
coronet. (Applause.) — The Archdeacon of North
ampton then stepped forwatd, and presented the following
address : —
To the Bight Hon. the President and Members of the Boyal
Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
My Lords and Genilemen, — We, the archdeacon and clergy
of Northampton, desire to bid a very cordial and respectful
welcome to your learned and distiu guished society upon the
occasion of its visit to our county and county town. We
cannot but be conscious that some of the most ancient land
marks and objects of interest, ^the investigation of which
will be at once your pleasure and our advantage, are of eccle
siastical origin and association, and that while you are the
skiUed Bcholars and faithful explorers of the history and
atiti'^'uitles of our parishes, the clergy* remain, after your
acceptable visits and teachings, to hand dowii the knowledge.
and the discoveries they have derived from you— a sacred
tradition to succeeding generations. Under the presidency
and leadership of a Northamptonshire clergyman, himself an
eminent member of your parent Council, we heartily wish
you an agreeable aUd profitable sojourn ina county 'which
(if an^) can boast of noble churches and the richest heir
looms of ecclesiastical and civil lore.— Signed oh my own'
behalf, and on behalf of the clergy of Northampton, F, H,
Tbicenesss, Archdeacon.— July 13, 1S78,

Uho Loud ftlESttBUT briefly ackuowledged thig address,
remarking that they were deeply indebted, as they always
were, to the co-operation of the clergy, from whom he was
sure they would receive great help on that occasion. — The
Aechdeaoon said he had yet another address to present,
whioh was as follows : —
To the Eight Hon. the President and Members of the Boyal
Arctaeeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
My Lords and Gentleman,— We, the patrons, officials, and
members of the Architectural Society of the-Archdeaconiies
of Northampton aud Oakham, need hardly employ many
words to express a brotherly welcome to the kindred souls
of your distinguished institute upon the occasion of your
meeting at Northampton to-day. We gladly lay at your feet
and disposal any information to which our own researches
may have attained in the history of the grand old buildings,
civil, ecclesiastical, and domestic, in which Northampton
shire abounds. We shall hall with the highest satisfaction
any new suggestions made, any old truths unravelled, any
fresh light brought in to which we had not reached by pur
less extended observation, and shall esteem it no light privi
lege to add the speculations and discoveries of a wider
experience to the oommon stock of antiquarian treasure.
The restoration of our ancient and beautiful cburches has,
with the willing consent of the clergy and churchwardens,
occupied very much of our attention during the past few
years, aud whatever criticism in this direction your more
practised skill may prompt can be usefully adapted aud
applied to the churches that are yet unrestored. It is our
earnest desire aud confident hope that occasions like the
present may be the means of cultivating among all educated
meu a higher appreciation of the noble and captivating art,
in the name of which we welcome you to Northampton, and
tbat while you are the trusty and trusted investigators of the
illustrious past in the architecture of the nation at large, we
may be the pioneers iu our own county of good taste, sound
judgment, and gracious design in the buildings of the present
and of future generations. — Signed, on behalf of the society,
by F. H. Thickhbsse, Archdeacon of Northampton.
The Lobs Fbesisent said the address was very fiattering,
and he regretted extremely that his friend Sir Charles
Anderson was not present to reply to it. In the name of
the Institute, however, he (Lord Talbot) tendered their best
thanks. It was very satisfactory to flnd that a society
which had done so much for the investigation of archi
tecture, and had thrown so much light upon the scieuce of
archseology, should have invited their co-operation. It
was almost like a " self-denying ordinance " to invite the
Institute (laughter), for when they knew the attachment of
some gentlemen to the work of investigating the antiquities
of various places, it required no small amount of moral
courage to invite a society which might possibly demolish
some of their most cherished theories. (Laughter, and
hear, hear.) In the name of the Institute, he again ten
dered their thanks for the address, and had a very pleasing
duty to perform, which was to vacate the ohair, and call
upon Lord Alwyne Compton to deliver an address. (Ap
plause.) He was a gentleman who had for many years fol
lowed the footsteps of his noble father, and he (Lord Talbot)
was sure no person could have been selected more capable
of doing justice to the subject, and promoting the objects
they had iu view than he, and that under his presidency
the members would add much to the influence of the society.
(Hear, hear.)
The President (the Ven. Lord Alwyne Compton) then
delivered hia address as follows :— My Lord Talbot, Mr.
Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — I flnd it is an important
part of my duties, as president of the meeting of the
Boyal ArohsBological Institute, to deliver what is called a
discourse, and I am told that this would be the most con.
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tkat 1 shotdd address yon otter luncheon, bnt had this beeh
adhered to you would have expected the usual form of after-
dinner speech, which, I suppose, should be a short, pointed,
witty discourse about nothing at all, (Laughter.) Now you
will require something more of me. My subject is long
enough to occupy any length of time, only I fear, on the
one hand, I may find it difficult to interest those amongst
you who for the first time have joined the ranks of the
Archseologioal Institute ; and, on the other hand, that what
ever I say may be a twice-told tale to my fellow-members
of longer standing. Bo not then suppose, ladies and gentle
men, that because archesology must be my theme, I intend
to begin, as used to be the rule, and, perhaps, still is with
our brother antiquaries of Italy, at the creation of the
world, (Laughter.) The study of primeval antiquities is
indeed most fascinating, and it is of no small importance,
connecting itself, as it does, with the whole history of man.
No doubt some of you have read that remarkable paper by
Mr. Wallace, in whioh he shows how httle historioal
foundation there is for the theory of the gradual develop
ment of man's civilization from the ignorance which he is
supposed to have shared with his supposed ancestors —
the anthropoid apes. On the cpntrary, the earliest traces
of man — whether in his bones or in his works — show a very
high order of intelligence, and, at any rate, in a large part
of the globe, barbarism has followed, not preceded, civilisa
tion. But of this primeval archseology we have not, perhaps,
the most important monuments in our country, or, at any
rate, in Northamptonshire ; and while we hope for inte
resting papers upou all antiquarian subjects from our
friends assembled here, we know that of course the local
subjects must in a great measure predominate. Nor shall
I attempt to describe the rich feast of antiquities that our
guests will find in and around Northampton. Briton,
Boman, Anglo-Saxon, Dane, Norman : all have beeu here,
and have left the marks of their presence.. Our churches, if
not of the great size of those in some parts of the kingdom,
are numerous, and contain examples of every style, from
the earliest Saxon of Brixworth, as Mr. Parker has sup.
posed, and the Danish of Earl's Barton, to the late Per-
pendicular of Whiston ; and our domestic architecture
ranges from the Edwardian towers of Bockingham to the
Elizabethan towers of Castle Ashby. But of all this you
will hear from others ; all this you will, I hope, see for
yourselves. I think I can more profitably occupy your
time now with a few remarks on a question that is of
passing interest to the antiquary, and is now pressed upon
us from a new and imexpeoted quarter — the question of the
restoration of ancient buildings. (Hear, hear,) I
need not tell any one here present, whether he
be a dweller in Northamptonshire, or one of our
guests from some other county, that the restoration ot
onr ancient buildings has for many years employed our
architects, giving a practical interest to one part at least
of the studies of our archseologists. Through the length
and breadth of our country, from the grand cathedral to
the humblest parish church, this work has been going on at
a cost of many thousands of pounds. I believe that in
some counties scarcely a church remains unrestored ; iu
others — here for example — the work is in full swing. But
nothing passes unquestioned now-a-days ; and we have of
late beeu assured that all this work is mischievous — in fact
little else than destruction — aud a society has been formed,
called, I believe, " The Society for the Preservation of
Ancient Monuments," but wmch devotes much of its
energies rather to preventing restoration than to meeting
decay. (Hear, hear,) I do not think any antiquary wiU
deny that under the name of restoration much destruction
has actually in many cases takeu plaoe. Workmen in all
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like a good job, well-finished and complete work.
(Laughter.) Old untidinesses are a pain to them ; they
prefer spick-and-span novelty to the crumbling stones in
which lichens and artists delight, and thus, even with the
best restoration, rich mouldings are sometimes simplified, by
being scraped down, and, even where the old work is most
accurately copied, much of its beauty will be gone, miich
of its spirit be missmg. A workman who tries to copy is
not likely to produce an effect equal to that of the man
who was, to a greater or less degree, original in his work.
Thus it comes that to the archaeological student an unre
stored church is a special delight; but when the con.
elusion is drawn that, therefore, no church should be
restored— that no improvements must be attempted — that
we must neither, like the men of old, boldly put our owu
work in the plaoe of that of our predecessors, nor yet, as we
have lately been doing, lovingly try to reinstate what they
did — but must retain all as we find it — we feel there
must surely be some mistake ; that surely this new zeal for
the preservation of ancient monuments outruns discretion.
(Laughter.) And ihat it does, so seems quite certain, wheu
we find it gravely argued that if a church is too small, or
in any way inconvenient for its main purpose — the public
worship of God— we must carefully preserve it as it is,
putting, if need be, iron bands to keep its stones together,!
for they respect the stones far too much to replace one of
them — and build by the side of it a new church for use.
(Laughter.) This suggestion is so preposterous that it is
really difficult to argue against it. Of course it might be
possible to adopt it in the case of a very few buUdmgs of
very great interest. But the difficulty that has been found
in providing, eveu by legislation, for the preservation oi
some of the most ancient remains in this country — a-
preservation involving no expense, but simply the loss,,
from cultivation, of a few acres of ground, sho'ws how im-
practicable it would be to raise the necessary funds. We
flnd it hard enough work to get all we need for restoration
on the present system, when we are pressed on the one hand
by the religious, and on the other by the seathetic, feeling.
But to build a new church, in order to keep the old oue
intact, would appeal to the feelings and to the
pockets only of the small band of the . Society
for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, or, as it has
sometimes been called " Buinistic Society." (Laughter.)
And. what would be the flnal result ? Suppose such a
scheme had beeu adopted two centuries ago, how many of'
our ancient churches should we now have to study from p
Would not the certain result after a few years, be the neg.
lect of the disused Building, and its consequent decay, and
ruin ? I have been tempted to speak on this subject to.
day, because we have here for the study of our friends two
very remarkable examples of restoration which go far to
vindioatethe system, when duly carried out, from the re.
cent attacks upon it. St. Sepulchre's is oue of the few
churches built iu England in a circular form after the
model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
It has been restored. What is the result ? It is that the
antiquary will find it more worthy of his study than it was
betore. It was restored by Sic Gilbert— then Mr.— Scott,
working with some of the members of the Architectural
Society of thia eounty as well as with the local authorities
of the parish. No attempt was made to carry out the im.
possible task of replacing the exact circular church of
Simon de St. Liz, but many features of the old work,
which were before concealed, are now visible, and being
still a churoh, there is every probabihty that it will remain
for the study of future antiquarians' for generations to
come. The other example I would refer to is, in some
respects, more remarkable aud more to my purpose.
It is the Queen's Cross. I need uot teU you that

ihe BiaTeh ot improTemeut, of tiie progieaa of decay
I know not which, has deprived us of several of
those beautiful monuments of the love of Edward I.
How is it that our example remains P It is owing to the
hand of the restorer. In the year 1713 it was nearly falling
into min by reason of age, A hundred or sixty years
more of neg'leet would probably have left nothing but a
njin for lis to study. But it was restored by the Honour
able Assembly ot Magistrates of the county of North
ampton, as appears by a notioe placed upon it at that time,
A second restoration took place in 1762 ; a third, at a com
paratively recent period, was carried out by Mr, Blore, the
architect ; and I oau hardly imagine a more crucial ex
ample of the good or the evil, wbiohever it may be, of
restoration, than this thrice-restored cross. The dates are
enough to frighten the antiquary. (Laughter.) Queen
Anne's time, whatever it may have beeh in respect to
household furniture, whioh we now delight to copy, was
certainly not a very Gothic period ; 1763 was a period' of
taste we have not yet reached ; and Blore's work does not
always oommend itself to our judgment. Tet when Mr.
Law, an architect, and a member of our local society,
stirred up by the bitter words ot a paper read at the
Aroheeologioal Association, which met here 16 years ago,
examined minutely and carefully this Gross, he found the
restorations throughout had been so carefully executed
that, but tor the use of different stone, he could not have
distinguished the new work from the old, and that all the
most singular features of the dpsign, which had been
attributed to Mr. Blore, existed in liie original stone work,
(Applause.) Thus we find that, thanks to this one of
several generations of restorers, we have Queen's Cross
still to admire and to study, such as it was when first
erected, nothing being wanting except the termination,
which, in a true spirit of conservative restoration, was
left imperfect by Blore, though it is almost certain
that a cross originally stood on the summit, I think
these two cases of restoration — and there are many others
equally carefully carried out in this county — are a fair
answer to the attacks made upon restorers generaUy. Still,
as I have already said, there have been many cases ; and
there might be some more, where persons engaged in this
very necessary work, either from ignorance or carelessness,
have done as much mischief to an ancient monument as
time itself was doing, and the only safeguard against this
is to be fouud, first, in the more correct taste, and the more
reverent esteem for" old work diffused by this Institute and
its many smaller sister societies ; and, secondly, by the
preservation of records of what existed before sueh
restoration began, and what was done iu eaoh case : whioh
records form, or should form, part of our stated work.
Looking at ths great need for such records, and the great
mass of them that should be accumulated, I think it is
much to be wished that all antiquarians should, if possible,
irork together. And I hope 1 shall not be considered by
the more energetic workers of the institute to be stepping
beyond my province as president of this meeting, if I
express my earnest wish that the two long-divided bodies
of the Institute and the Association could once more
coalesce into one. I do not for a moment suppose it would
be. an easy work to carry this out ; each has, no doubt, to
a great extent, now an established individuahty, and,
though we often see two individuals joined together
happily as heads of a new household, marriaeres of whole
90<neties are not so common. Still I cannot but think one
peripatetic society of antiquaries for the British Isles
Would be quite enough combined with the local societies,
which are so general ; and, though I have my own opinion
on the original split- an opinion suffldently indicated by
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the othei?— I oamtot help feeling tbat old feuds are hest for.
gotten, and that each society would be strengthened aud
invigorated by their union. And theu the ArchEeological
Institute and Association — for such I suppose would be ita
style and title — might further connect itself with all the
local societies. Many of them have already joined to the
extent of publishing their transactions in one common
volume ; thus, at a very moderate increase of expense,
aeouring a much wider ciroulatlon for the papers contributed
by their various membera. But I think if the Inatitute and
Asaociation would take a central position with respect to
them all, aud would prepare annually tor them all au index,
or catalogue raisonni, of their several contributions to
antiquarian knowledge, we should be able to do a great
deal more, and avert the risk whioh now exists of the same
work beiug doue twice over in different places. This work
ot union might, perhaps, tend still farther; though it
might, perhaps, be too much to look forward to really
nnited action with such important independent bodies as
the Society of Antiquaries, the Institute of British
Architects, and others. But still it is well to bear in mind
that union is strength, and that, whether for the study or
for the preservation' of our ancient monuments, we ahall
be more powerful, in proportion as we can bring to united
action the whole ot those who take an interest in these
subjects. (Applause,)
Lord Talbot then tendered their sincere thanks to the
President of the meeting tor his address, which was ao
full ot information and suggestion. For hia own part,
although he belonged to the society for the preservation of
ancient buildings, he did not go the same lengtii that some
people did iu holding that in no case was restoration neces
sary, but he was not quite sure whether, looking at the
extent to which restoration was carried on now, it did not
meau the complete destruction of the ancient character of
many of our most valued buildings. He would not at
that time enter upon the question upon which there had
been quite a civil war, namely, in regard to the restoration
ot St. Albans, but would conclude by moving a vote of
thanks to the President for his valuable address. — Lord
Alwyne Compton, in reply, said he was glad to receive
their thanks. He was not aware that Lord Talbot be
longed to the society to whioh he (Lord Alwyne) had referred
but he was exceedingly glad that he had had the pleasure
of getting " a rise" out of the President. (Laughter.) lAt
the same time, he had not the slightest doubt that if he
were living in the same parish as Lord Talbot, and the
churoh had to be restored, they would agree upon every
detail, for although not a member of the Society for the
Preservation of Ancient Monumenta, he (Lord Alwyne)
would stand up for conservative restoration. He would
not destroy anything ancient if it could possibly be pre
served As an illustration of the manner in which the
work of restoration should be carried out, he again alluded
to the Queen's Cross, bits of stone of the smallest size
having been put in so as to retain the old mouldings. He
hoped the society to whioh the Lord President of the Insti
tute belonged would do some good, only he feared that it
might do some harm in preventing, desirable restoration,
and being an excuse for people keeping their money in
their pockets when it would be much better taken out.
(Laughter.)— Mr. J. H, Paekek followed, by expressing
his surprise to eee a letter from the seoretary of the society
just alluded to, calling upon him (the speaker) to attack
Mr, Jones for the restoration he had effected at Bradford-
on-Avon, But the truth was that, having acquired bit by
bit the property whioh originally belonged to the churoh,
formed a committee, and engaged Mr. Irvine, oue of the best
of Mr, Soott's clerks of works, he had carried out a most
Aeslrable work, and it was most outrageous that he should

be attacked for it. At the same time, it was perfectly
true, as the late Sir Gilbert Scott pointed out, that a great
deal of mischief was done by so-called restoration, which
was nothing less than the demolition of old buildings, and
the replacing of them by new ones. — Lord Alwyne caused
some laughter by saying that the last thing was that the
society, it was said, had forwarded an address to Sir
Garnet Wolseley begging that there might not be too much
restoration in the Island of Cyprus. — The Town Clbek
aaid he was desired by his Worship the Mayor to give an
invitation to all the members of the Institute, the ladies
and other friends, to accompany the Corporation to Gold.
street Lecture Hall for luncheon. — Lord Alwyne Compton
expressed the thanks of the Institute ts the Mayor for his
kindness, and aaid they would be glad to avail themselvea
of the kmd invitation. The ladies did not like to apeak,
but he was sure they did not feel his Worship's kindness
the less. The Ltjncheon,
Very shortly afterwards the Mayor and members of the
Corporation led the way, followed by the ladies and gen
tlemen present, to the number ot nearly 200, and forming
a procession not quite so straggling as one might have
supposed it would have been, A short walk brought them
to the hall, where a sumptuous cold collation had been pre
pared by Mr, G. Nichols, of the Drapery, the well-known
restaurateur, whose menu gave the utmost satisfaction.
The Mayor presided, supported on his right by Lord Talbot
de Malahide, and on his left by the Ven. Lord Alwyne
Compton, the assemblage being one of the most brilliant,
perhaps, that has ever gathered within the walla of the
Beligious and Useful Knowledge Society, After the repast
the Mayor gave " The Queen and Eoyal Family," aud
that toast having been duly honoured, Mr, G. L. Watson
was called upon to give "The Bishop and Clergy and
Ministers of all Denominations." He gave credit to the
clergy for having in moat casea preserved the antiquities of
the CQtmtry, and of having carried out where it was neces
sary the work of restoration in the most careful and loving
spirit, the incumbent of a parish being usually the superin
tendent of the works. — The Aechdeaoon op Noeth-
amfI^on responded. He was sure that the toast could not
have come from a more acceptable source than from a lay
man, who was himself the master ot one of the finest
baronial residences in the country — Bockingham Castle —
and who was foremost in the promotion of every good work.
(Applause.) Certainly it was their dukyto take an interest in
in all lawful subjects that could and did interest the peo
ple, and perhaps the clergy were, more naturally than other
men, those to whom archseologists might look as the cus
todians of our ancient churches for Christian worship. It
was true that iu the eyea of the practical world archseolo
gists were looked upon as thoroughly dried old mummies
(laughter) ; but he felt thankful that the Mayor had taken
a more charitable view of them, and had at any rate re
garded them as mummies that required feeding (laughter),
and that whether they belonged to the Society for the Pre
servation of Public Monuments or not, the Corporation
had given a practical proof of their desire to preserve the
preservers of ancient buildings (laughter), and they could
not thauk the Corporation too much for then- munificent hos
pitality, and for the handsome reception at the hands of the
Mayor that morniug, (Applause,)— The Bev, E, T, Pktist,
on behalf of " The Ministera of other Denominationa,"
said it was with very great pleaaure they welcomed the
Boyal Archseologioal Institute, in the hope that their visit
might stimulate some to the study of those old buUdinga
which they might be permitted to see during the engage
ments of the week, — Mr. C, G, Mbkewethee, Q.C, M.P.,
wbo arrived somewhat late, said tbat their excellent toast-

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master (Pinkard) had called npon him, without asking
whether he was ready or not, to propose a toast ; but as
the motto of the service whose health he had to propose
waa " Beady, aye ready ! " he would not be discharging
his duty if he were to "show the white feather."
(Laughter,) Having apologised for not having been
able to get there earlier, he remarked that though it was
well to come in at the end ot a fray, it was not so well to
come in at the end of a feast ; but still he wished to bear
his humble part in welcoming the Koyal Archseologioal
Institute, and though he waa sorry he was not able to
hear the President's address, he rejoiced that among the
presidents ot the' sections was one of his oldest friends and
firat aohoolfellows, one who contributed as much, if not
more, to their information and instmction than to his ; he
meant Mr. 3Beresford Hope, who was detained by Par
liamentary duties from being present. (Applause.) Mr.
Merewether then said, with regard to the army and navy,
that they had been in everybody's mind of late, and it was
at one time expected that they were once more going to
show us how battles were won in the days of old, when
they carried the fiag of England's glory before an admiring
world. But, happily, and thanks to God for it, we had
been spared that spectacle, and many of those who were so
suddenly enrolled were now laying down their weapons
and returning home. He gave them " The Army, Navy,
Militia, and Volunteers." — Captaiu Tuenee thoaght
there was a Militia officer present to respond for that
branch of the service, and he remarked that it was not
often the Volunteers were put first, although he believed
they were the fiower of the army, (Laughter.) Perhaps
it was natural for one to think so, when they reflected that
had the force been in existence many years ago, we should
not have had a Dane's Camp to visit now, becauae' the
Volunteera would not have allowed one to have been
formed, (Laughter.) On their behalf he had great plea
sure in returning thanks for the toast which had 'been so
merrUy — he was going to say so '* merewefcherly "
(laughter) — 'proposed by the junior member for the borough.
— Captain Gunning replied on behalf of the >Militia, who
were justly called the constitutional force ot England, aud
who had done good service whenever they had been icalled
upon. :They might well be proud of the numbers they had
aent to swell the regular forces, the Northamptonshire and
Butland Militia alone having furnished over two hundred
men for the line. (Applause.) — Lord Henley proposed
the next toast, that of '' The Eoyal Archaeological Insti
tute," coupling with it the name of Lord 'Talbot de
Malahide. As a native. Lord Henley, on behalf of the
town and county, offered our sincere congrstulations, and
he believed he waa expressing the feelings of all when he
said we were glad to see the Institute here on this occa
sion. (Applause.) It waa the first time that he had had
the pleasure of being at one of their meetings, but he had
frequently road of their proceedings in the newspapers,
and had constantly seen the name of the noble
President mentioned as taking a leading part in the pro
ceedings of the Institute. Abetter society we conld not
wish to visit us, and he thought we should be able to
show them a good many objects of interest during their
stay amongst us. Perhaps there was no provincial town or
neighbourhood which abounded so much aa ours did in
objects of historical and archseological research, and where
the researches of the members could be more auocesstnlly
carried out. First of all there were in the town itself many
monuments ot the past, which he hoped all would take the
trouble to inspect if they had not done so. He mentioned
the churches of Bt. Sepulchre and St. Peter, the latter
of ¦:whioh wag shortly to be visited ; and then there were
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and the great bistoric battle flelds ot tbe neighbourhood,
particularly that of Naseby, which he was afraid was too
far offi to be visited, but if they had auy spare time he
hoped that an excursion would be made in that direction.
In conclusion, he asked the company to drink the toast
cordiallyj and said he trusted they would have a pleasant
time while they remained in Northampton. (Applause.)—
Lord Talbot said that the proposer of the- toast had given
some hints, and they could not do better than take advan.
tage of them, eo far as time permitted. With reference to
themselves, their fleld was a somewhat modest one. Of
course they were anxious to see ancient buildings and
monuments, but, as a rule, they would not dive into the
historyof the, (Ustricts which they visited. At the same
time they availed themselves of all the instmction they
could get in going over an important locality, aud always
got, as no doubt they would ' get here, valuable hints on
the question of restoration. Indeed in this county were
some of the finest specimens of judicious restoration, and
the information which would be gathered would largely
help, he was sure, to form an opinion as to what course
should be generally followed in the work of restoration.
(Hear, hear.) While he was on his legs he had another
task imposed upon him, and it was a very agreeable one.
That was to propose the health of a body of gentlemen to
whom they 'Were largely indebted — he meant the Mayor and
Corporation. (Applause,) It was delightful to find in these
days of destruction, when so many good things were being
destroyed, that there was one which still held its grouud,
and he hoped, always would, and it was that hospitality which
he trusted would ever be a distinguishing-characteristic
in the constitution of Ehglishmen. (Applause;) He asked
them all to return their -sincere thanks to the Corporation
of Northampton, and to drink the health of the Worshipful
the Mayor. (The toast was drunk with three cheers.) — ^The
Mayok, in responding, said he did not remember that there
had ever been such a meeting as that in Northampton
before — oue which he waa sure would be' interesting even
to those who were not acquainted with the nature and the
designs of the Institute, which he had no doubt were calou.
lated to elicit information that would be for the public
good. He trusted that the meeting would be a serviceable
one to the Institute, and that it wbuld be attended with
great success. Having remarked that the Corporation
cordially welcomed them, he would not say more, flrst,
because time waa short ; and, next, because a better speaker
had to follow.— Councillor Peibob, J.P,, said he supposed
he was aelected as the representative of the Corporation
because he was the first to propose that a proper reception
should be given to the Eoyal Archseologioal Institute wheu
the subject was first brought forward in the Town Council.
He was sure that they felt grateful to the Archseologioal
Institute for coming here. Men who lived and moved, for
tbe most part, withia a circumscribed radius were too apt
to think that they knew a good deal ; but when they were
brought in contact with others of more extended knowledge
aud experience, they felt that, instead of being tritons
amongst minnows, they were in reality only minnows
amongst tritons, (Laughter.) He was sure, therefore,
feeling how much they knew and how much they oould im
part to ns, that, though tbe time was short, they would tsike
what notes they could, and particularly of the old Castle,
wbich ere long would be a thing of the past, as the site had
been sold to the London and. North- Western Bailway Co.
In that way they might do great service to the town, for
we might sit there for twelve months and not obtain so
much knowledge as would probably be gained in the course
of the excursions during the ensuing week. (Hear, hear,
and applause,)— Dr. Evans, F.B.S., F.S.A., said he was
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health of the ladies. Their presence gave an interest to
the meeting whicb it would not otherwise possesa. Though
be waa there repreaenting the Antiquities Section he was
glad to think that the process of restoration would never
be applied in any manner to the ladies (laughter) ; and
those interested in archaological pursuits would find that the
association of the ladies added a preciseness to the pleasure
ot the pursuits of the members which would otherwise be
regarded as somewhat dry and uninteresting. Speaking
for himself, had he not received the assistance of the lady
portion of his family he would not have been able to do
what be had done in the way of promoting antiquarian
research. As veriflera of referencea and judges in all
matters of taste, the aid of the ladies was aimply invaluable.
(Laughter and applau3e.)—Mr. S. Shabp, F.S.A., F.G.S.,
said it was curious that the task of responding bad fallen
upou the vice-president of the section, and more curious
that an old man much more ancient than the president
ahould have been selected to respond (laughter) ; but he
supposed that his great experience bad given bim an
assurance such as no unmated man could have any idea
ot. (Laughter.) The ladies had been called the *' orna
mental sex," but he was inclined to think they were the
intellectual sex also. Woman — he liked the word woman
— was the ornament of the home, a solace in our trouble,
and our best adviser in our difficulties. He could not
better conclude than by quoting the words of our North
amptonshire poet, John Clare, who aaid, in one of bis
sweetest lyrics —
O the voice of woman's love I
What a bosom-stirring word!
Was a sweeter ever uttered.
Was a dearer ever heard,
Thau woman's love?
How it melts upon tbe ear.
How it nourishes the heart I
Cold, ah ! cold, must his appear.
Who hath never shared a part
Of woman's love.
'Tis pleasure to the mourner,
'Tis freedom to the thrall ;
The pilgrimage of many.
And the resting place of all.
Is woman's love.
'Tis the gem of beauty's birth.
It competes with joys above
What were angels upon earth.
If without a woman's love.-
A woman's love?
The ExoxmsiONg.
The luucheOh Oter, the company at once broke np, and
proceeded to St. Peter's Churoh. There was quite a large
gathering around Mr. J. H. PabkeE when he proceeded to
describe the building, of whose antiquity we are all so
justly proud. Forthe convenience bf the members, a guide
to the excursions, with a folding map, had been issued by
the Executive of the Institute, and both that and the
" General Notes " were found very useful. It was not long
before our preconceived notions in regard to the chnrch
were demolished by one of the best authorities on the sub
ject. We had been accustomed to regard the whole build-
ing aa Norman, or rather Late Norman. Mr. Parker says
it is one ot the best examples in England ot the rich
Norman style, the oldest portion of it dating back to the
time ot Henry II., 1150 or thereabouts. At flrst sight it
seems a church of which one can easily give a description,
^s there is so much of it, apparently, of oue period; but,

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on coining to examine it closely, he finds that that ia by nd
means the case. He pomted out first that the east end was
restored lately by Sir Gilbert Scott, many believing that
the chancel originally terminated with an apse ; and indeed
we are assured by one gentleman ot the town, who is no
mean authority, that the old foundations were discovered
when that portion of the church was restored. The most
curious fact was that the tower is of a much later date,
probably of the time of Henry VIII, In support of this
view, Mr, Parker pointed out that what was regarded as
the tower arch, whioh, as everybody knows who has been
inside the churoh, is richly decorated, is not such in reality,
ha'ving evidently beeu built out of old materials, probably
those of the entrance to the Lady Chapel that onoe existed.
There were very many cases in whioh rich chantry chapels,
being private property, had been pulled dowu and the
materials used in various other parts of the building. He
called attention to the fact that two of the clerestory
windows were out in two by the tower wall, and remarked,
with reeard to the side aisles, that though they were intended
to be vaulted the nave was not, as in 1150 they never ventured
to throw astone vault over a space 20 feet wide. He also paid
a passing tribute to the memory of the late Miss Baker, to
whose loving care aud willing hands, it seems, we owe the
. restoration of the pier capitals to almost their pristine
beauty. They were once hidden by plaster, and in a true
conservative spirit, she set to work with a bone knife — for
she would use no metal instrument, lest it might injure the
face of the stonework — and picked out all the enorustations
of plaster and whitewash. Outside the building Mr, Parker
called attention to the arch on the western side, whioh is
almost flat, and evidently constructed of old materials, and
to the arcading; the arcade above, on the north side
ot tbe tower, differing from the one below. The
rounded buttresses, too, had nothing in tbem ot the
Norman style, and were not bonded into the other
part ot the work. Before leaving the churchyard
several gentlemen interested in geology had discovered the
tomb of Dr, William Smith, who, as Mr. Sharp remarks
in his handy little work on the science, has been called
the " Father of English Geology." " Strata Smith " he
was called, and, perhaps, that best characterises the
admirable foundation he laid for all succeeding students
of the stone records of Creation. Proceeding next to the
grounds ot the old Castle, it may be that aome of our
visitors were disappointed at the fragmentary traces that
are left of the fortress whioh once guarded the western
aide of the town, when it waa walled, as we are reminded
by our street atUl known as Derngate. The Northampton
Caatle had not the advantage that some of the old feuda
tory strongholds had in the matter of position. It did
not frown from some lofty eminence, removed from the
busy scenes of industry, and it may be that to that fact ia
owing, in no amall measure, the gradual disappearance of
the ruined stone work. There is now little more to look
at than a portion of a crumbling bastion, on the Black
Lion-hiU side, and a postern-gate on the river.side, where
the wall is in the best state of preservation, and the
character of the plinth is stillwell deflned. Mr. E. P. Law was
on tbe ground to exhibit photographs of fragments, includ
ing one of a stone pier and chamber, which was engraved
and described by the late Mr. G. J. De Wilde, and leaflets
of that were distributed by Mr. John Taylor. To Mr.
Thomas Scriven, we believe, the company were indebted
for a useful old plan of the ground, showmg that, aa
Leland states, there was not only an outer and inner ward,
but a keep at the north-east end of the latter. Some of
the visitors thought that the Bailway Company should be
memorialised as to the impending destruction of the ruins,
Trhile others were of opiuiou that long ago tbe authorities

should have made au effort to get tbe Castle site into their
possession, as it would have made an excellent recreation
ground for the western side of the town. — From the Castle
the party proceeded in carriages, .which were in waiting,
to Dane's Camp, at Hunsbury-hill, the only traces now
discernible being those of a large oval, of about two acres
iu exteut, with a single ditch and double vallum. It ia
supposed to have been a pre-Boman station in connection
with the great oppidum on Borough-hill.— The Queen's
Cross was next visited, and of that beautiful memorial ot
la clihre reine, bearing in mind the references already-
made to it, and also that a paper was to be read upon it
by Mr, Law the following evening, little need be said here.
The Cross, as townspeople well know, stands in ita beauty
by the side of the London-road, a testimony alike of the
conjugal love of Edward Lougsbauks and of the skUl ot
Jobn de Battle, who built it between the yeara 1291 and
1294. The grace of the -figures representing the Queen
have been the theme of many a pen, and so skilfully are
they placed beneath the canopy as to suggest a larger
number of flgures. The Cross was restored in the reign ot
Queen Anne, in the middle of the last oeutury, and again
some thirty yeara ago by Blore, From the documents pre-
aerved of the erection of the Cross, we learn not only that
the effigies were designed by William de Ireland, but that
iu all probability the summit was crowned by a figure ot
the Virgin. Mr. E, F, Law described the Croaa, and we may
add that thoae who deaire to know more about it will find a
description of its architectural features, and the results ot
the researches of the Bev, C, H. Hartshorne and Mr. Law,
embodied in a popular account published some years ago by.
Mr. John Taylor, If that be carefully read, it oould. ao
longer be said truly that —
The peasant passes by the way.
And looks up to yon graven crest ;
The pedlar-woman, worn and grey.
Sits down upon its step to rest ;
But never thinks 'twas reared up for
The love ot good Queen Eleanor.
For earthly loves do all pass by.
And little trace of sorrow leave;
The country lad goes whistling nigh
Where heavy hearts once stooped to grieve.
And who, but for the bedesman's lore.
Now knows the name of Eleanor P
On tbe retum journey the old hospital of St. John's, in
Bridge-street, was visited. The quaint building, with ita
one gable and rose window facing the street, was founded '
in 1137 ; but the present building belongs to the Decorated
period. The stained glass on the staircase, the arrange
ments of the dormitories, and the semi-detached chapel,
were duly inspected. In tbe small yard at the back of tbe
hospital many of those who fell at the battle of Nbrth-
ampton were interred. The hospital was situated close to
the south gate of the town.
At the^ evening meeting, wbioh was held after
the table d'hSte, the real work of the Congress was entered
upon,— Dr. Evans, F.B.S,, President ofthe Section of
Antiquities, gave a valuable and exhaustive risumi of the
history of the county. He passed rapidly in review the
leading points so admirably summarised by the late Eev.
Thomas James, Theddingworth, and then proceeded to trace
the paleolithic and neohthic remains found in the county,
as well as the relics of the pre-Norman period. The most
interesting portion of the discourse related to the coins
found and minted at Stamford and Northampton respec
tively, a subject which has been the subject of deep research
by Mr, Samuel Sharp, P.S A,, the vice-president of the
section, who has catalogued no less than 686 varieties of
corns minted in Saxon times, whilst only 58 varieties were
known to have beeu coined since the Conqnest at the

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former place.— The Ber. U. Baexb then gave a long and
elaborate address, not only on the line of Boman forts
along the southern bank of the river Nene, but also with
respect to the origin of the name ot Northampton, which,
in Domesday Book, is written Northantonescire. Separating
this into North-antone-scire, he thought that iu the portion
of the name " Antone " he had discovered the original
.name of the river mentioned by Tacitus, " Antona," which
Gibson, in his edition of Oamden, falsely gaveas '' Antona."
With regard to the word Nene, he was disposed to think it
came from the Celtic " Nant," which means a valley. This
paper elicited much discussion, in which Lord Talbot, Mr.
Fairless Barber, P.S.A-, Mr, M. H. Bloxam, F.S.A , Mr,
J. Tom Burgess, F.S.A., and Dr. Evans took part.
Wednesday.
About a quarter to ten this morning the members and
their friends, including several ladies, assembled at the
'Peacock Hotel, and the commotion caused by'the.prepara-
tion of the carriages, "which, as tbey left, formed no in
signiflcant corf ^oe, excited ' no small amount df curiosity
amongst the public who were looking on. The party were
soon on tbe road for Harlestone, and, on reaching the ¦v'il-
lage, proceeded thenoe to the church, the history of which
is, perhaps, better known than that of any other eoblesias-
tical edifice in the county. It appeared from the statement
of the ' Eector (Eev. D. Morton) that the tower was cer
tainly there in 1294, because the then Eector reoeived a
small grant df land in order that he might purchase some
bell ropes. The chancel was reb" Ht, according to Bray's
M.S., by Eichard De Hette, in 1320, and the body Of the
church was completed five years later. Those statements
are further confirmed by a monumental slab, and one part
of the work being more elaborately flnished than the
other, the Eector might have said, "This is all I can do,
and this is the way the church ought to be restored." It
was a singular coincidence that Mr. Parker did not go into
the church at onoe, following, he said, a very wholesome
rule of Mr. Freeman's, to look at the outside first. He
never saw itbetore, but he considered it a very fine church,
and, without knowing that the dates had been fixed,
assigned the tow'er to tbe period of Edward I., and the
nave to that of Edward III. He called attention to two
lepers' windows ¦ in the chancel. Eickman gave them the
name of lowislde windows, while the Camden Society
(^Ued them hagioscopes. According to his (Mr. Parker's)
view it was not desirable to give Greek names to parts
of English Churches. He, therefore, called them lepers'
¦windows, at which those afflicted used to come to receive
the offlce of the Holy Communion, the elements being
placed in a cleft stick. It was very unusual to have two
such windows. Mr. M. H. Bloxam, also a well-known
authority on the subject,- expressed the opinion that
such "windows were rather for outer confession, and
said there was a similar window at Dunchurch. Mr.
Parker having remarked that he believed that there were
monuments which would conflrm his view, Canon Venables
entered a protest against the too common practice of re
moving monuments, which formed historical links in the
history of a parish ohurch, simply because they did not
fall in with our taste iu the present day. The whistle Of
¦Mr. Hartshorne, the energetic secretary, reminded the
partythatthey had lingeied too long, and a move had to
be made for Althorp. The house, unfortunately for the
Visit Of so many distinguished savants, is c'.osed. How
ever, through the courtesy of Earl Spencer, and by the
-fciadness of the resident clergy to whom they were oon.
fided, the principal bibliographical rarities were displayed
in the magnificent picture gallery. We saw, for instance,
one 6f the fir^t printed Bibles, the famous Mazarin Bible,
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copies extant. It is to us, even now, a marvel of typo
graphy, the "resistor"— a technical term applied by
printers to the falling of one page on the baok of another
—being almost faultless, while the regularity of the old
black letter type, with its flne initial lettera, might well in
those early days of the art, when Guttemberg was printing
with moveable letters, have given rise to the legend of the
Devil of Dr. Faustus, There was a John Faust associa
ted with Guttemberg and Schoeffer ; and it_ is said
tbat when copies of the Scriptures were so rapidly pro
duced, and supplied at such a comparatively cheap rate,
thus superseding the labours" ot the monks, the story was
circulated that Faust, who was employed to sell the books,
was in league with his Satanic Majesty. The early printed
books were preceded by the block books, and we had much
pleasure in being able to inspect closely not only a copy ot
the Biblia Pauperum— the Bible for poor priests— but two ot
the blocks used in the printing ot it. We need hardly inform
those who have studied the subject that the generally re
oeived opinion is that similar blocks, with passages ot
Scripture cut upon them, are supposed to have suggested
the idea of 'moveable type. Earlier still is tbe famous
print illustrative ot the legend of St. Christopher carrying
the Infant' Jesus across the sea. A very good copy of tbat
old print was published many years ago iu the Genileman^s
Magazine, and the original, as to .which there has been, as
it seems to us, a groundless charge of tampering with the
date, is considered far too precious to be handled indis
criminately. There were other books scarcely less in
teresting to the bibliographer — oue of Wynkyn de Worde'a,
*' The crafte to lyue and to dye well," one of Miles Cover-
dale's famous folio Bibles, a rare copy of Petraoh, printed
iu the style trom which our Italic type takes its name, an
exquisitely beautiful little missal, and other rarities, which,
in the course of a brief visit, one had no time to examine
carefully. — From Althorp the route lay through the park to
Brington Church, The first objects to be pointed out in
the interior were the slab and brasses of the ancestors ot
the great George Washington. There, on the shield, were
the two bars, in chief three mullets, which, said our guide
book, if not the origin of the American " stars and stripes,"
is at least a remarkable coincidence. We were informed,
however, bj Mr. Tom Burgess, who has pursued his inves
tigation as far perhaps as any one, that the author of
American Independence, iu signing documents, used a seal
with the arms upou it, and, if so, the adoption of the star-
spangled banner is easily accounted for. The piers of the
south arcade of the churoh, fluted on one side aud plain on
the other ; the carved ends of the old seats, some ot them
bearing shields, with traces of stencilling still visible ;
the curious old font, and other things, did not
escape the observation of the visitors ; while ' Mr, A.
Hartshorne favoured them with some remarks upon the
effigries and tombs, which are exceedingly fine memorials of
the dead of an illustrious family. One of the monuments
is mural, the flgures in relief being the work of Flaxman.
The Eector afforded some valuable information upon the
chief characteristics of the building, adding the tradition
that when Charles I. was a prisoner at Holdenby, he used
to come and receive the Communion through the altar rails
there, he being more or less excommunicated by the chap
lain of the mansion where he was a State prisoner. To
Holdenby House the party, after a passin g glimpse at tbe
birthplace of the Washlngtons, pursued their way, and on
arriving there found a most substantial lunoheon awaiting
them in a marquee, which had been pitched between the
two archways, dated 1583, which stand like veteran senti
nels to mark the spot where once was situated the magnifi
cent palace built by John Thorpe, commonly called Jobn
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the period, and wbich Included those a,t Burghley and
Kirby. The work of the moming appeared to have shar.
pened tbe appetites of all, and Mr. Nicihol's catei:ing 'was
thoroughly appreciated. After, luncheon the party visited
the more modern residence of the Viscountess Ohfdeu at
Holdenby, and the Bey. F. C, Alderson kindly drew at.
tention to the objecjis of interest, and showed tbe only part
of tbe residence which escaped demolition after the sale of
the old mansion, in. 1650, il having beeu bought previously
from the Crown by a Yorkshire speculator — a Mr. Baines —
who reserved a part to live in, and sold the rest tor
£27,000, beiug, as a matter of conrSe, turned out on the
restoration of Charles II. , but i^ot before he had made the
most he could of his bargain from a business point ot view..
The iuansion afterwards passed ihto the hands of tbe Earl
ot Feversham, the great Duke of Marlborough, and ulti.
mately the Clifden family. Inthe "General Notes" Mr.
Hartshorne gave a risumi of the principal incidents con.
nected with King Charles's captivity, and of his attempts
to communicate with his friends, and a block plan
waa useful, serving to indicate the site of the original
palace, which was described by Evelyn as being in 1675
" like a Eoman ruine, a stately, solemn, and pleasing view."
Proceeding to the church, which is of the Late Decorated
period, the Eector pointed out iu the south aisle an altar
atone and an old inouumental slab. The whole of the church
was restored in 1866 by the late Sir Gilbert Scott, and prior
to that, in 1818, the chanosl was rebuilt from the designa
of Sir H. Dryden, Bart, The nave is separated from the
chancel by a very fine carved oak screen, on which one
gentlemen believed he saw a head of Medusa ; aud the
stalls were takeu from a chantry chapel, founded in 1391.
These contain seyeral miserere seats, but only one, so far as
we oould make out, is grotesquely carved, and that is very
curious, representing a man with a drum and a monkey on
his shoulder. The churchyard wall was built of materials
taken from the House, and our own town had no insignifi
cant share of similar spoil, as three houses were built here,
one of them being known as " Little Holdenby." Leaving
the ground from whicb the hiatoric palace must have disap
peared soon after the death of the unfortunate monarch
who was imprisoned there, the party next drove to Sprat
ton, startling the inhabitants out of the wonted quietude
of their country life. The Vicar (Eev. J, Ll. Eoberts) ex
pressed the pleasure that he felt on receiving such a body,
and described the leading characteristics of the building.
Mr. Parker had already remarked that the tower waa oue
of the flnest features of the ohurch, the entrance being at
the west, where there is a rather fine doorway with a
moulding over it, terminating on one side with a much-
worn corbel of a serpent snapping off a woman's head.
The church is Transitional, and 'Mr. Eoberts says that it
Was a vicarage, belonging at one time to the Abbey of St.
James's, Northanmtoil'. There is a flne recumbent efflgy,
in alabaster, of Sir Johu Swinford (brother of Catherine
Swinford, the wife of John of Gaunt), who died in 1371 :
aud for an engraving of it, hanging near, fo* the instruc
tion ot the parishioners, the Vicar is indebted to tbe late
Eev. 0. H. Hartshorne. The flgure weara a collar of S.S.,
the earliest known example of the kind in England, which
indicates that the deceased was a high officer of State, a
similar collar beiug worn, one gentleman said, by the Lord
Chaucellor, and another by the Lord Mayor of London . The
Vicar was proud of a very old register, and also of a fine ser
vice of communion plate, the latter dating from the time of
Queen Anne, which was considered the best period for old
silver work. The cburch was restored in 1847 by Sir Gil.
hert Scott, and the Vioar invited any gentlemen so disposed
to ascend tbe tower and put the weathercock right, as it
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to accept the invitation. Mr. Parker, who had discovered
another leper's window, made some remarks, in the course
ot whioh he said that the tour arches on tbe north side
were Norman, the aisle on that side having been a narrow
one, with a lean-to root. Generally speaking tbe early
aisles were very narrow, and were enlarged afterwards. The
chantry chapel forming the south aisle was a Decorated
one, bnt the windows were older, and the chancel, of the
Edwardian period, also was richly decorated, another
chantry chapel being added to the nortb aisle. It looked
as though there had been a window over the chancel arch,
but Mr. Eoberts assured him that it waa only a recessed
arch, as there was nothing on tbe exterior. Tbe clerestory,
as was usually the case, belonged to a later period, probably
to that of Henry VIII. Again resuming their seats in the
vehicles, the party were conveyed to the last plaoe men
tioned in the programme ot the day's excursion, Brixworth,
where there is one ot tbe most interesting churches in the
kingdom. Mr. Parker having takeu his stand ou tbe.
south side ot the church, remarked, looking at the exterior,
that it was one extremely interesting, but yet one very
difflcult to explain, because it belonged to so many different
periods. That there were before tbem the remains ot
Boman work. was evident, but how far tbey extended waa
another question. He observed that the editor of Murray's
Handbook spoke ot only Boman materials, bnt some con
sidered that though Eoman materials had been used, the
work waa that of the Saxon period. He (Mr. Parker)
thought that tbe brioka were those of the third century.
The mle in Bome, aa experienoe had taught tbem, was
that esich brick ahould be of tbe thickness of the mortar
between. Applying a foot rule, they would find that in the
flrst century there were ten bricks to the toot, in the second
eight, in the third six, and in the fourth four. Six bricks
to the toot, therefore, would certainly not be a late period.
His own impression was that the ohurch was built at the
beginning ot the seventh or eighth century, although
the clerestory windows and the lower arches looked
like Boman rather than Saxon, and deserved closer
attention. The materials were certainly Eoman, and
Eoman of a good period, but most of the Eoman
work was usually a mass of concrete, faced on
various ways, the walla beiug often six teet in thickness.
The construction, however, looked better than could be
expected at auy bad period. The tower waa Norman, the
lower part being of the Ilth century, and was certainly
rather puzzling, being built upon a porch, with four door
ways. There are other examples of that at Monkwear
mouth and Colchester. Tbe staircase was probably added
in the lltb century, so as to reach the belfry, aud then
the upper part and the spire added iu the 13th century.
The work was from the Eoman period downwards, and it
was extremely difflcult to define which belonged to each
period. Walking round to the east end au animated dis-
cuaaion ensued with regard to the ambulatory around tbe
apse. Mr. Parker said that part was evidently modern,
but had beeu built upon the old foundations found there,
which were Norman, and not Boman. He briefly de
scribed tbe difference between the Boman apse and the
Norman, and the party then went inside the churoh.
Being seated, tbe Vioar (Eev. H. E. Gedge) explained that
the Eev. G. A. Poole would have beeu present to say a
faw words upon the characteristic features ot tbe church
iaaide, but iu his absence he (the Vicar) was obliged to do
so, and to propound tbe theory ot the Brixworthians. It
was thia that without the preaent church, and all around
it, with one exception, ou the north aide, there were, about
forty or flfty yeara ago, the original fouudationa of a
buUding wbich had existed, at a space of 8ft. 6in., outside
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plan which he exhibited. On the south side some of thosti
existed to thia day. It was supposed that they completed
the building, which was originally a Boman basUica. He
challenged contradiction, so as to put himself inthe position
of havmg to defend the remotest antiquity that was
claimed ; they aaid it was of the 4th century, and Mr.
Parker had gone a century further back in speaking of
the materials used. In proceeding to point out tbe in
teresting features of the interior ot the building in which
they were, for he admitted that no one could say when
that part which was assumed to have stood on the outer
lines was demolished, the Vioar asked them to observe tnat
the apices of the pier arches rise and become larger as you
go eastward. He went on to say that though externally
the apse was rectangular, in the interior, as we saw it now, it
was aemi-circular, aud that there were doorways leading
from the main building into the ambulatory or corridor, so
that advocates could communicate with their clients. The
proportions of the building corresponded with those of the
Eoman basilica, being sixty feet by thirty, and presenting
two perfect squares, whioli was tUe precise measurement
of Solomon's temple, taking the cubit at one foot. He
thought, therefore, that there was good ground for be.
lieving that thia was a Eoman basilica, which, never having
been polluted by idolatrous rites, was subsequently con
verted into a Christian church. If the Saxons built the
place, it was certainly strange that they should have used
tiles in one place and have done some herring-bone work
in another, mixing the whole thing up like a Christmas
plum pudding. (Laughter,) In conclusion, he stated
that ou the west side of the lobby on the south
side there would be seen inserted in tue wall a Boman
eagle, whicb was laid on its side instead ot with its
head upwards, and it was certainly not likely that it would
have beeu put there by Eoman hands, but more probable
that the Saxons laid it there with the face inside instead of
outside. . Mr. Parker having remarked that he knew of no
reason for baving a wall round a Boman basilica like that
described, Mr. Bloxam mentioned that the church for.
merly belonged to the great Benedictine Abbey of Peter.
borough, and that it was referred to in a document of the
Sth century. He had known it as a church upwards of 50
years, aud had made drawings of it, including a drawmg
of that curious atone relic of the 14th century, and under
stood that at the time it was discovered there was a bone
in the stone ; he had not met with one so small in size be
fore, Ee did not think the nave earlier than the 8tb
century, aud the tower not earlier than the lltb ; it was
not quite Norman, but was approaching that. Dr. Evans
asked whether tbe vicar Iknew of any trace of a Boman
town near tbere whioh would have afforded such a popula.
tion as to make a Boman basilica necessary in that part of
the conntry p The Vicar admitted that that was where
they were beaten ; but was it not possible that though it
might have been necessary at one time, the altered con.
dition of things had made the transference of tbe seat ot
justice necessary? The Master of Keys asked What
the Eomans did at Brixworth ? and the answer of the late
Vicar was flrst that the place was on the roadway of a line
of ports between tbe Wash and tbe Severn ; next, that
Eoman pottery and coins had been found all around the
church; and Lord Strathnairn had said, when visiting
Lord Spencer, " the more I see of Brixworth, the more I
consider it an impregnable position," and the Eomans
would have too keen au eye not to see that. The finding
of Boman swords and pottery was disputed by Mr. Sharp,
who had seen both, and decided that tuey were not Boman.
Mr. G. T, Clark said that the question was not one to
be determined merely by the consideration of population.
Bere tbere were unquestionably a quantity of Eomaji

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maitbrials, and tbe quantity ot tbem forbad the supposition
that they had beeu brought from any great distance.
Still, having seen something of Eoman basiticse himaelf he
thought the proportions were not as stated ; and further,
that th6 apse was stltogether deeper than that of the Eoman
basilica, which was intended to hold the judge and scarcely
anyone else. In that building, if he sat in the apse, he
would not have that command of the pepple whioh he
would ha-ve in a basilica. Theu again he (Mr. Clark) ba'd
never seen a basilica with an ambulatory around it like
that described, and it was quite clear that that church was iu.
tisnded to have aisles airbiind it, which should be au integral
pUi:t of the building, ahd not leave it a mere parallelogiram.
It appeared to him'that though the materials weire Boman,
the work was not that of the Eoman builders. The party
afterwards inspected the small shrine alluded to by Mr.
Bloxam, the carved stone eagle in the wall, and the tower,
and afterwards assembled to return to town direct. We
may aidd that the Vicar having stated tbat ttie plan he used
was drawn and coloured by two ladies, Mr. Clark, in liis
concluding remarks, gracefully acknowledged their ser
vices. An hour's drive, and the party reached North-
amptoh at seven o'clock, after a most pleasant day's excur
sion. Amongst those present in addition to the memberk
of the Institute already mentioned were — Alderinan Perry,
Mr. W. Adkina, J.P:, Bev. T. C. Beasley, Mr. W. Jonea,
J.P., the Misses Turner, Mr. H. and Mrs. Mulliner, Mir.
Clough (Bristol), &c.
In the evening a conversazione was held at the Guild-
ball, at which a small and select company' were present.
The principal bnainess allotted to this meeting waa the
rtiading of a paper, by Mr. E, F. Law, on "Queen's
Cross.' In the course of an able paper he aaid : The
monument to which I have the honour of callihg your
attention to-day is ohe of the iuost elaborate, yet chaste
and graeeful, aud, withal, beautifully appropriate memo
rials, to be found in the United Kingdom, or ih auy other
part of the world. Its appropriate beauty, as a work ot
art, is rendered almost sublime from the fact that it standa
on the wayside hill, not only as a memorial of one who is
no more, but also as a tangible manifestation of that con
jugal affection, which may be cultivated aud enjoyed alike
in the cottage of the poor and in the mansion of the rich —
in the heart ot the peasant and in the bosom of the peer.
The late Eev, Mr. Hartshorne, wheu speaking ot the Cross
at Northampton, says : " It was no uncertain chai;m of
endearment which bound tbe hearts of Edward and Eleanor
together ; no false lustre shone from their union ; these
rOyal hearts were united by an attachment and tenderness
which has, perhaps, never been exceeded." He then
dealt with afew arguments, pro and eon., which have been
adduced concerning the restorations which from time to
time have beeu carried out in connection with this beauti
ful structure. After the most careful examination, be
said, I have arrived at tbe conclusion that the several
restorations of the Northampton "Queen's Cross" have
interfered but little with the general character of the
structure. Indeed, so carefully, and, upon the whole, so
faithfully, have tbe restorations been executed, that, bad
it uot been for tbe varieties of the stone used in the several
restorations, it would have been difficult to ascertain where
some ot them bad been effected. He then entered into a
?ri'|<!»'l bistory of the restorations it bad undergone— iu
1713, 1762, and again by Mr. Blore more recently— show.
mg, by a series of carefully-prepared drawings of details,
that no material portions had iu any case been altered or
removed. As to tbe original finial, he cited an entry in
the accounts ofthe period, of a payment to WilUam De
Ireland, who executed the flgures, in which five ai-e men.
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iBighth'ave been the Virgin. A paper by Mi;. E. Soriveh,
oh " The histbry and planting of Oastle Ashby," if as un.
avoidably postponed for want of time. During the
evening the foUowing programme of muaic was rendered
in good style by a number of members of the Choral
Society, un.der tbe eonductorship of "Mr. Butler Wilkins : —
March, "Flambeaux" (Scotson Clarke) ; choriis, " Happy
we," from "Acis and Galatea" (Handel); instrumentsd
quartette (Beethoven) ;• chorus and solo, "Wow tramp
o'er moss and f^ll" (Bishop) ;overtuire," La Coui:6hne d'Or"
(Hermann) ; part song, " Plicebus " (Bishop). A'temporary
museum had been arranged in the upper museuini:o6m, under
the superintendence of Mr. E. Beaay , of the British Museum,
and comprised some very choice articles, among the prin.
cipal of which was a collection of, water colour drawings
of great artistic merit, the work of the late Eev. Mr. Petit,
representing various churches in the county, and other ob
jects of architectural interest'; these were lent by'M,i8s Petit.
Mr. E, F. Law exhibited a large series of similar drawings
by himself. Several were also exhibited by Mi^. Ebenezer
Law and Mr. W. T. Law. An addition'al interest at
tached to these drawings, from the fact that a n'umber ot
them represented buildings which the course of modern
improvement has swept away. 'The Marquis of North
ampton contributed largely, his exhibits comprising por
traits of Johu Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and Lady
Shrewsbury, temp. 1440 ; a silver-headed stafl, used by oue
of the Compton family as Constable of the Tower in the
reign of Charles II. ; a beautifully carved Gothic box, and
a selection of coins, medals, and rings. Lord Talbot De
Malahide sent a head-piece of chain mail, aud several other
articles of antiquarian interest. Miss Hartshorne had sent
a curious portrait of Charles I,, which could only be recog
nised when seen reflected from a cylindrical mirror — a
Jacobite device ; several coins, medals, &c. ; a number of
rare books relatmg to the great Civil 'war ; a curious piece
of Indian work in ivory of the 18th century, called " the
Holdenby casket," and found by the late Bev. C. H.
Hartshorne iu a dealer's shop. The lid has engraved upou
it a representation of Holdenby House. Sir H. Dryden,
Bart,, occupied a case with a large collection of pipes of
all sorts aud sizes, and almost of all times and countries.
Mr. H. Mulliner exhibited iu a case several Eoman and
Mediseval bronzes and keys, a Scotch dirk, some medals
of various exhibitions, &c. Mr. E. Booth, of Glendon,
exhibited a portrait, by Holbein, of Catherine Parr, wife
of Henry VIII. ; and the Eev, Percy Brent a model ot
Admiral Eodney's flag ship, " The Queen Charlotte." Miss
Stopford Sackville had forwarded a flue example of tapestry,
said to have been worked at Stamford, and near it was
hung a fine piece ot early work of similar materials, lent
by Mr. E. Waterton. A beautiful christening robe, em
broidered with gold and silver, given to a Sic John .Eobiuaou
by Charles II., who is aaid to have acted as godfather ou
tlie occasion, was exhibited by the Bev. Sir P. Eoblnson,
and alsoa,n old gilt aalver and covered cup. Eev. J. FuUer
EusseU had a case of rare specimens of early printing,
comprising examples of WiUiam Caxton, Wynkyn de
Worde, &c. ; an original document, bearing the signature
and seal of General Fakfax, temp. CromweU. In same
case were a firman from a Sultan of Turkey, and the
original grant of the lands of Delapr6 Abbey, dated 1543,
and bearmg tbe seal of Henry VIII., lent by Mr. Scriven.
A pair of curious wool scales were lent by Mr. E. F. Law,
and the Corporation of this town ahowed their peculiar
" Wincheater " measures, and the Corporate regalia were
also on view. Mr. A. Hartshorne, the general secretary,
exhibited some Eoman remains, &B., aud Mr. B, Beady a

eolleotion of 'great value and rarity, embracing what 'Wai
of special interest to us — a series of casts of mediseval
seals baving reference to this neighbourhood ; and near
these was placed a case contaming a beautiful collection of
sealing-wax casts from gems in the British Museum ; there
was also a series of medieval bronzes, some bronze
statuettes, &c., of various periods ; a choice coUection ot
Celtic, Eoman, and Saxon rings and gems ; and several
curious coins and medals. The examples of Early EngUsh
and foreign reUquaries, monstr^no'es, pixes, &a., shown by
the same gentleman, were very interesting ; while a pack
of cards, temp. Charles II., on which were engravings
referring to the Titus Oates plot and the murder of "Sir
Godtree," was a curiosity that does not often faU to the
lot of players. Perhaps the most remarkable of this
gentleman's exhibits were several castings from Chaldean
inscriptions, ou terra-cotta, in the British Museum, in
cluding the one recently deciphered by the late Mr, George
Smith, containing an accoimt of the Deluge, singularly
like that recorded in Scripture ; a map or plan, and a legal
record, with a part of the clay covering, with which it was
customary to protect tablets of this description from
injury. Among other articles were some old swords, lent
by Captain Hartshorne, Mr. S. Heywood, and Mr. B.
Smith; and early printed Tracts and Broadsides referring
to local subjects, leut by Mr. John Taylor,
On Thursday morning the annual meeting was held, the
business occupying but a short lime. At 9,45 a.m. the
members and their friends left the Bridge-street railway
station for Wellingborough, where carriages were in
waiting to convey them to Irchester. The name is derived
like the names of all places with a similar termination from
castra, aud it ia said that there was one of the fourteen
forts of Ostorius, the Eoman general, who subdued the
British prince Caractacus, A.D, 50, or thereabouts. In
this county of " 'squires and apirea" the steeple at Irchester
is conspicuous iu a group of the latter, but, says Mr, H,
Hartshorne, there is nothing very striking otherwise about
the church. There are, inside, some exceUent Perpendicular
screens, aud the pulpit is a good example of cinque-cento
work. Leaving for Eushden, the party examined the
church there. It is, says the same gentleman from whom
we are quoting, " a highly beautiful buUding, with a mag
nificient" Late Decorated steeple, finer even than that at
Higham Ferrers." There is architectural evidence that the
whole circuit of tbe walls is of the very end of the 13th
century. The nave arcades are early Perpendicular, those
of the chancel are later, and the alterations subsequently
tell their own story, " Within, the lofty transepts, the
rich strainer arch, the fine roofs, the parcloses and the Early
English sediUa and piscina help to make up au interior
which is not only exceedingly interesting, but very striking
indeed," Driving next to Higham Ferrers, the grand col
legiate church, which Mr, Hartshorne considers " the finest
in a district remarkable for the splendour of its ecclesias
tical buUdings, its historical associations, aud the numerous
monuments of mediseval piety, with whioh it -is sur
rounded," some time is spent here. Speaking generaUy,
the Barly English aud Decorated styles prevail. To the
former belong the tower, with its sumptuous double en.
trance, and the south arcade; to the latter, the Lady
chapel, tbe double north arcade, and the roofa of the nave
and north aiale, Tbe interior is rich in brasses, heraldry
staUs, parcloses, aud tile pavements, some of the enrich-
ments being due probably to Archbishop Chichele, a native
of the place, to whose munificence is owing the School
House, Bede House, and College. It being now lime for
luncheon, the party repaired to the Green Dragon, where
they sat down to a substantial repast. Afterwards the
party divided, those forming No. 1 proceeding iu the direc-

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tion of Eaunds, and those forming No. 2 to tbe railway
station for Thrapston, The former saw, at Eaunds, a fine
and massive Early English tower, with a singular
pedimeutal set-off. The chancel, with ita flue east window
and aisle, are ot the same period ; but the north aud south
aisles are decorated, with certain later features introduced.
Near the church is a large bam, perhaps as early as the
13th century. Stanwick, whieh was next visited, has a
church with a unique Early English octagonal lantern ot
great beauty, with a 14th century spire. The body of the
church is of the same date as the tower, but both this and
the south aiale have loeen greatly altered in Perpendicular
times, Irthlingborough churoh,whither the party drove next,
has a curious and interesting character, its peculiarities
arising mainly from the use made of the Norman founda
tions tor the 13th century ohurch, from the enlarged
building that was required wheu the college was founded
in the time of Edward III., by Johu Pyel, and from the
domestic buildings then added, which do not exactly teU
their own story. The most remarkable feature is the pon
derous tower, a partly domestic structure, with its lofty
lantern. This is attached to the main body of the churoh
by the westem porch, and has vaulted chambers and other
domestic features connected with it. They were probably
offices of the college. The interior of the church, which ia
not so impressive as the outside, coutaina the effigies ot
Pyel and his wife, shockingly mutilated, aud a good
canopied tomb iu Purbeek marble, late 15th century. Pro
ceeding next to Finedon, a ohurch "f great size and beauty
was seen. The whole building, exivpt tower aud spire,
which are rich Perpendicular, is Early Decorated work.
The details throughout are of the best, the interior being
as flue aa the exterior. The chancel aoreen is of atone —
an unusual feature iu this country. A fine strainer arch
takes the thrust of the western walls of the transept.
The ancient practice of separating the meu from the
women prevails here. In the room over the porch ia a
curious colleotion of Divinity and valuable editions of the
Fathers, During the stay at Finedon, the hospitality of
the Eev. G. W. Paul, who provided tea for his distinguished
visitors in the vicarage garden, was most gratefully ac
cepted, aud afterwards left for Higham Ferrers station,
where they were rejoined by party No, 2, who were also pro.
ceeding homewards, havin °r spent a most delierhtful after
noon in the neighbourhood of Thrapston. Islip, with its
well-proportioned Decorated churoh and Perpendicular
tower and spire, was first 'visited ; then Lowick, where
there is a beautiful tower aud octagonal lantern, with
flying buttresses. The style that prevails is Early Perpen
dicular, with painted glass of Decorated character in the
windows of the north aisle. The effigies of Balph Green and
his wite (1419) are the work of Thomas Prentys and
Eobert Sutton, " kervers " of Chellaston, iu Derbyshire,
and were erected, according to an indenture still existing iu
1420, al a cost ot £40. The tomb aud efflgy of Edward
Stafford, Earl of WUtshire, are among the finest works
ot this period ; the heraldic and other details being
delicately and faithfully executed, and the sculp
ture of the whole as flne as it can be. " The dignity and
solemnity ot this fine church," says Mr. Hartshorne,
" leaves an impression upon the mind not easily effaced."
A pleasant drive brought the party to Drayton House,
which stands in the midst of a park full of fine avenues of
wyoh-elms and limes. Sir Simon de Drayton had license
in the 5lh of Edward III. lo crenellate or embattle tbe
mansion aud to impark thirty acres. The house, like the
ownership, was subject to many changes. Henry Greene
rebuilt a part of lirayton ; it was much altered by the
Mordaunts in the time of EUzabeth, and considerably
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great character to the house. Tijdor towers are <jrownpd
by W'Uiam.lil. cupolas, and a vast hall has been ijiter- ^
polated within the old. .quadrangle, the approach to which i(8
through a screen of the time of Simon de .D-r,ayton, T-he
hoflse retains its spangled beds, a qnantity of old China,
and a large number of portraits. The garde;is were re
stored to their ancient formality of the late ifr. Stopfoyd
Sackville. There are large pieces of still water, in which
the house is reflected, with lime trees of great size sweeping
the banks and walks of turf between them . The old hedges
of hornbeam and beech might be. the very same ,intrqdiv?.e4
trom Holland by Sir Johu Ger.maiue, who, according to
Walpole, was so ignorant that, he turned the pillars bif his
new colonnade with the capitals downwards, supposing
them to be , pe.clestals. This nobleman's seco.nd wife was
Lady Elizabeth, better knoi^n as Lady Betty . Germaine,
who survived him 50 years, and died in ,17^9, bequeathing
the gfeater part of her large fortijiie to Lord George,
second aon of . the flrat Duke, of Dorset. He assumed the
name of Germaine in ,1770, .and was created Viscount Sack
ville in 1782. After going oyer the house and grounds,
Mrs. stopford Sackville very generpusly offered refresh
ments, which were thankfully accepted,,. a;fd the.,p9,rty then
returned to Thrapston, proceeding tjiepce, by rail, to
Northampton, and joining party No. 2. fn route.
Friday.
It-forttjnately .happened, as the morning was sojnewhat
dull, ^pd a drizzling rain commenced, that the proceedings
were conflned, in the early part of tlie day, to the town.
The churches of -St. Sepulchre, St. Giles', and AU Saints'
were visited. With regard to the first, someof our readers
may not kpow that there are only four ro.und churches iu
England, one here, aud the others at London (the Temple),
Cambridge, Little Maplestead, St. Giles's, like.Dustou, is a -
cross ohurch, and . churches of that kind are unusual in this
country. With regard to All Saints', Mr. Hartshorne quotes
Petit (ArcHepimrjU Principles and Prejudices), a,nd says that
apparently there is no special evidence that the church i3
the wo.rk lOt Sir Christopher Wreji. Togetlier ,with the
clit(rches, the principal streets were noticed, apd parlidii-
lariy the houses built out oJ the ruins bl Hqldgnby iii the
Drapery, Gold-^treet, anS St. (liles's-streel. It is considered
probable- that the one on the east side of the Market-square,
occupied by Mr. Cardwell, ia another. It ia dated.1595, aiid
bears the Welfh piptto, Heb Byrn, -heb Dym, Bym d digi)n,'
that is, literally, " Withput, ftod without everything, (jod
and enough." It is a motto still frequently, seen in fbe
decorations of -Welsh towns ou gala day.^. The EUzatiethau
house built by the Hasleriggs in Marefair, and pecnpied f or
many years by the ill-reqiiited historian of the county,
Baker, was also duly examined, and then, after luncheon,,
preparations were made ,for au afternoon excursion to
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Feiday (resumed.)
Besnming our report of the proceedings of the Insti
tute at tbe point where we left off in our last, we re
mark that, though Friday morning week was reserved
lor visiting the churohes of St. Sepulchre and St. Giles,
and a general perambulation ol the town, in consequence
ol the length ol the sectional meetings, very little was
done. In the antiquities seotion. Dr. hlvans presiding, a
paper was read by Mr. M. H. Bloxam ou " The Sepul
chral ElSgies, both Sculptured and ol Brass Incised, ol
Northamptonshire." 1 illy years ago the late Mr. Uery,
of Daventry, commenced to make a series ol rubbings of
the brasses, which were now in his (Mr. Bloxam's)
possession. But ol about two huudred he limited his re
marks to a lew. He classified them as follows : — Eccle
siastics, judges, knights, laymen, and ladies, and con-
flned bis attention principaUy to the first ol these. It
seems that, np to the middle ol the 14th century, ec
clesiastics always appeared with a short beard and
moustache, aud it might be that there was some canon
in the Church that compelled them to wear the beard
short. Tbere were portraits ot WiclilEe, which repre
sented him with a long beard, but they were uot correct
ones, as he was close shaven like other priests. In con
clusion, Mr. Bloxam remarked that so numerous were
the monuments ol which he bad been speaking, that he
thought he should be able to produce from them, il he
were writing a history ol British costumes, an example
ol tbe costume ol every period. Ihe Ven. Lord Alwyne
Ojmpton made a lew remarks npon the altar tomb at
Higham Ferrers, and, after thanking IVfr. Bloxam, the
Chairman next caUed upon Mr, S. Sharp to read a paper
on " The Bones in Kothwell Crypt," Mr. Sharp gave
the measurements of the crypt, and the calciUatious he
had madei in order to show that the popular notion con
cerning these bones were altogether absurd. Instead ol
them representing the skeletons ol some thirty thousand
people, the maximum number could not be greater thah
3,6u0 in round numbers. On one occasion he had with him
when he visited the crypt a gentleman ol the medical
prolession, who luUy conflrmed him in the view that
these were not the skeletons ol a number ol men ol
gigantic Irame who had laUen in battle, aud that so far
from them having been hacked and hewn by battle sixes,
wbntever injuries were apparent now were such as might
have been caused by the mattock or spade. The most
rational conclusion is that these bones have been takeu
np from some unused burial ground, and carefully de-
posited in that consecrated sepulchre not earUer than
the sixteenth century. Mr. Bloxam agreed with tbe
Tiew taken by Mr. Sharp, that the crypt was used as a
charnel house, or capella carnaria. ihe Ven. Lord
Alwyne Compton said it was a rather dry subject to talk
about dry bones. He remarked that it was most
probable that for the sake ol decency the bones were
slacked in the crypt at an early period in consequence ol
it becoming necessary to nse the burying ground over
again. Dr. Scott said that on the continent it was the
practice to have charnel houses, where the boaes of the
dead were stacked up iu the most exact order as at
Eothwell. Mr Parker remarked that in Brittany there
were places where bones which had been dug up were
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paper; the meetinjf concluded, some ladies and gentlemei
going to one church and some to the other ; bnt so lar as
we could ascertain, no regular examination was made ol
either. In the alternoon a large party assembled at the
Peacock lor an excursion, Earl's Barton being the first
place visited. On the way thither attention was directed
to the little church ol Weston FaveU, where James
Hervey, the author ol the " Meditations," aud other
works, lies buried. ,It waa a beautiful afternocm,
and the country, with many ol the fields ol corn
ready lor the operations ol harvest, which had
commenced in some places, was most lair to look upon.
In little more than an hour we arrived at Earl's Barton,
proceeding at ouce to the churoh, which Mr. Parker pro
nounced as oue ol the most remarkable we have in the
country. "The tower," says Mr. Hartshorne, "is no
doubt the most complete example of the particular
Bomanesque style, whioh is called Anglo-Saxon, 01
these leatures the most notable are : the ' battering ' ol
the tower in stages, the absence ol open pedimeutal
arches, the ornate character of the belfry windows, and
the great number ol stone ribs. The long and short work
so plentilul here, and so constant in all buildings of this
class, is of itself no strict criterion of date, for, like
special features in all styles, it over-lapped, aud ran into
the style which succeeded it." Mr. Parker placed the
date at 1020, earlier than Deerhurst, which ia dated
1056. He said he need hardly point out tbat the rude
rubble work was held together by the strips ; and Irom
the first time he saw it he came to the conclusion that it
was carpenters', and not masons' work. Long and short
work was often said to be carpenters' work, but that de
pended upon circumstances. However, the binding
together ol the rabble work there by strips ol stone was
a carpenter's, and not a mason's, idea. He next.caUed
attention to the windows, which were later than those at
Jarrow and Monkswearmouth, the pecuUarity being in
the balusters, which resembled the spokes of a cart-
wheel. They, too, were probably the work oi a car
penter. The west door was peculiar in having an im.
post, ornamented with flat panels, like recessed arches.
The mouldings ol the arch, one being round, and tbe
middle and outer ones square, running down to the
ground, approached the Norman. In reply to a question
as to how long the tower was likely to last, Mr. Parker
said, "As long as it has stood already, if lelt alone."
Ol the other portions ol the church he remarked tbat the
chancel was Late Norman, probably ol the time of
Henry II. , aud so also were the arcades. There were
some peculiarities iu the sedilia and piscina also worthy
ol attention. The tower arch did not properly, belong to
the tower, but to a later period, probably the 14th cen
tury. The wood work was ol the I§th, and the roof
modern, but a very good imitation. On leaving the
church we noticed a fine doorway, 'with zigzag moulding,,
in the south porch, and Mr. Burgess drew attention to a
mound and moat on the north-western side ol the
churchyard. Having lingered some time at Earl's Bar
ton, a move was made lor Castle Ashby, where the party
'were received on behalf ol the Marquis, who is absent, by
the Ven. Lord and Lady Alwyne Compton. The visitors
entered the courtyard Irom the south frout, and at once
had their ingenuity exercised upon the lettered battle.
ments of the oastle, whioh are formed by the Latin ver.
sion ot Psalm oxxvU., 1 : " Except the Lord build the
Jiouse," &c. These battlements also form a balustrade

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to the roof of the building, on ascending to which one
discovers that the letters in stoqe are very much larger
than they appear from below. With these as a breast
work in Iront ol us, we look down upou the gardens,
whioh were designed by the late Marquis. 'We have seen
nothing better iu the way ol bedding, and it would be
impoasible to conceive ol anything more striking and
beautilul. All the coioura were dearly and aharply de
flned ; the bright scarlet geraniums being toned down by
the delicate blue ol the lobelias, or the dark purple ol
the loliage plants, and the whole so arranged as to bring
out eaoh of the figures distinctly. From the gardens we
tum to the landscape betore us, and in the vista whioh
ia formed by the trees, catch a glimpse of the church ol
Eaaton Maudit, where Bishop Percy lived so long as
vicar, compiling there his Reliques of Ancient EngUsh
Poetry,^ and sweetening the hours of literary toil by
entertaining his Iriends — Johnson, the great lexico
grapher ; Goldsmith, the author ol the Deserted Village ;
David Garrick, the actor ; Shenstone, the once famous
pastoral poet ; aud, doubtless, other kindred spirits.
And then we let the eye sweep round the horizon,
 ' o'er bill and dale and lawn.
And verdant fields, and darkening heath between,
resting at last upon that grand avenue which stretches
away for three miles Irom the Italian gates to Yardley
Chase, where the Plantagenets hunted and Cowper
moralised. 01 the interior of the house the party saw as much
as could be seen iu the short time at their disposal. The
grand staircase, and its beautilul wood-carving, with
scenes illustrative ol the chase, was first inspected ; a
passing glance being bestowed upon the paintings, and
the three splendid tapestries, by Paulus Nievwenhove,
Ulustrative ol the Deluge, Proceeding through the ante
room, where Lord Alwyne drew attention to the tapestry
sent by Queen Elizabeth to fit up a room for her recep
tion, the party at length arrived in King William's
dining-room. This is a very spacious and lolly room,
liirnisbed with exquisite taste, and the size ol it may be
estimated when we state that with some sixty or seventy
persons it did not seem over-crowded. There was still
space to move abont and examine the lamily portraits,
the magnificently-carved cabinets, and art treasures. The
chimney-piece is of carved woodwork, upon each side of
it being figures of Prudence, Justice, Temoerance, Faith,
Hope, and (jharity, with brackets outside them to hold
costly vases. The chimney-piece, dated 1601, was brought
from Canoubury House by the late Marquis, having
originally belonged to a nobleman who was known as the
" rich" Spencer, and whose daughter Elizabeth eloped in
a curious mimner with Lord 'William Compton. It
appears, from a statement made by Lord Alwyne, that
Lord "WiUiam, a young gallant ol the Court, lell in love
with a Miss Spencer, whose lather. Sir John Spencer, was
opposed to the match. Accordingly, Lord WUUam, dis
guised as a baker's boy, went to the house early oue
moming, and Sir John gave him sixpence, and called him
a good lad, but when it was known that he had carried
off the young lady in his basket. Sir John was very
wroth, and said they should not have another sixpence ol
his, ' ' However, Lord William becaine a lavourite at
Court, and one day Queen EUzabeth requested Sir Johu
to stand as godfather to an inlant in whom 3he_ took
spedal' interest. He did so, when he lound that it was
his own grandchild, and alterwards he became reconciled
to the young couple. Lord William was a son, he (Lord

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Alwyne) thought, ot Henry, first Lord Compton, who was
also a distinguished man in his time. William, the first
Earl, built the greater part of the house. His son,
Spencer Compton, second Earl, was killed whilst fighting
for the King against the Parliamentarians, at Hopton
Heath. There was one other portrait worthy of par-
ticular attention, of VUliers, Duke ol Buckingham, alter
his assassination. It was not known by whom it was
painted, but as Vandyke was in the eountry at the time,
it seemed pro'bable that he was the painter of it. There
is a copy at Althorp, but not nearly so good a picture.
Lord Alwyne then stated that there were some fine old
groined cellars, it any one cared to look at them, and the
view Irom the top ot the houae, to which Mr, 'R. G. Scriven
would be happy to escort them, was particularly fine. To
that we have already alluded, and we may here state that Mr.
Scriven gave an introductory paper on the Castile and its
surroundings whUe the party were in the dining-rooni.
He acknowledged that he was largely indebted tor his
inlormation to Baker's account, which was taken trom
Eobinson's Vitruvius Britannicus— a, rather rare book.
That there was a caatle at the time of Edward I, was
shown by the license granted to Walter de Langton,
Bishop of Coventry aud Lichfield, in 1306, who wished to
tortify hia mansion at Esseby after the manner ot a
oastle, that is, to build it with battlements and loopholes
ior discharging the greater arrows called " quarrels,"
aud other missiles, tor the annoyance of the enemy. The
place was in the hands ot the De la Poles, in the middle
ol the 14th century, when we find it styled Castell.
Assheby, and iu the 15th it came into the family ot Grey
de Euthyn, when, no doubt, owing to its proximity to
their seat at Yardley Hastings, it was deserted aud
became a ruin. Scarcely a century had passed when
Leland wrote : — " Almost in the midle way betwixt Wel-
ingborow and Northampton I passed Assheby, more
than a mile of on the left-hand, wher hath bene a castle
that now is olene downe, and is made but a septum lor
hestes," In 1512, Sir William Compton purchased the
manor, and irom a, survey made in 1565, it appears he
had leased to one George Carleton, Esq., the site ol the
manor and iarm of Asheby David, with all the demesne
lands " whereunto pertaineth the old ruined Castle, aud
a building called the Porter's Lodge or le Gate House,"
and an inclosure called " the Castell Yarde." The lease
expired in 1583, and Baker fixed the commencement of
the present building between that year apd 1589, when
Henry Lord Compton died. His arms and those ot his
first wife, Lady Francis Hastings, daughter ot the Earl
ot Huntingdon, appear over the door leading from the
court yard into the northern tower. She died in 1574,
and he then married Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress
ol Sir John Spencer, the wealthy London merchant, and
it was in compliance with her wish that he proceeded to
" build np Ashby House," although, according to Cam
den, it was Henry Lord Compton who began " to build a
faire sightly house" ; so that the date of commencement
may be fixed between 1583 and 1589. The Elizabethan part
may be presumed to have been completed when King
James I, and his Queen honoured its noble owner with a
visit in 1685, In 1624, Inigo Jones built the screen
containing the chapel and gallery, thus completing the
quadrangle. Not much progress was made with the lay
ing out oi the grounds, owing to the CivU War, bnt
alter that the Comptons, who had been residing at
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century, and, inspired with a lore of improvement, pro-
ceeded to enlarge the gardens. Evelyn refers to that in
speakina' of his reception there, whioh, it aeema, was not
a very agreeable one, and he returned somewhat hastily
to Althorp, twelve miles distant. No part ot the present
avenue was in existence in Evelyn's time, and nothing
was now left ot what he saw except the house. The
great avenue was originally planted with limes and elms
alternately, but the limes were afterwards cut out. He
(Mr. Scriven) had a map ot the gardens as they existed
in 1760, when there were tour great avenues, stretching
north, sonth, east, and west, bnt ot those only the one
to the south remained in anything like its original
perfection, although it was still possible to trace
the linea of the others. Tn the shrubberries, which
vvere laid out by Lawrence Brown, well known as " Oapa-
bUity" Brown, were two cedar trees, and one of
these, whioh is now a wreck, is dated trom the
fact that Charles, the first Marquis, born in 1760,
waa forbidden when a boy to jump over the young tree.
" Capability " Brown was paid for his work by the gitt
of a manor, and trom that time comparatively little waa
done till the estate came into the possession of the late
Marquis, who laid out the gardens, as already stated.
While one party went to the roof to look at these,
another proceeded to the churoh hard by, which has been
described an architectural gem set in a profusion ot
natural foliage. The entrance, pnys Mr, Hartshorne, is
through an elaborate doorway of the latest Norman, the
north aisle being ot the Decorated, and the nave, south
aisle, and chancel ot the Perpendicular, style. The
churoh, whioh was beautifully restored a tew years ago,
contains several monumeutR — one, in Purbeek marble, ot
David de Esseby (about 1268), beiug the earliest knightly
figure in the county ; a full-sized braaa ot William de
Ermine (1401), wearing a cope ; a recumbent effigy of
Ladv Margaret Leveson Gower, in white marble, the
workot Marochetti; and a noble colossal seated figure
of an Angel of the Ee3nrrection,by Tenerani, in memory
of Margaret, the wife ot Spencer, second Marquia ot
Northampton. 'While some were making an inspection
ot the church, under the guidance ot the Ven. Lord
Alwyne Compton, a tew others had the advantage,
through the kindness ot Lady Alwyne, ot perusing a
volume containing the genealogy ot the Howard family,
which was most sumptuously bound in crimson velvet aud
richly chaste mountings. The splendid collection of Etrus
can vases, the Oriental china, the copy of Coverdale's Bible,
and other treasures, elicited the admiration of those who
had decided to remain in the mansion rather than to go
on to the church ; and all too soon the secretary's whistle
summoned the party together as speedily as possible.
They were very shortly alter on their way to Whiston,
where there ia a chureh which afforda a good example ol
the Late Perpendicular style. It has a very short
chancel, and no clerestories ; and, according to an in-
sorintion in one ot the windows, was built in 1534 by
Anthony Catesby, Isabella his wite, and John their son,
though it would seem that there was a chnrch anterior to
that, as the rector (Hon. and Eev. L. C. E, Irby) pro
duced a list ol the rectors trom 1277 to the present time.
The building inside is ol white Ketton stone, and the
exterior ot Weldon stone. The rector drnw attention
te an old Communion table, vrith a cloth over it, bearing
the date 1704, and also to the Prayer Book and_ Service
wbich were used on the desks ^bont the same period. T^e

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also asked one or two gentlemen to examine an old drip
stone, which he thought might possibly be a portion otthe
older churoh. Descending Irom the church by a narrow
lane, whence a capital view is obtained of the tower,
beantiluUy enriched with quatreloils and other work,' the
party resumed their journey, Cogenhoe or Cooknoe being
the next and last place visited. The churoh; said Mr.
Parker, is a very remarkable, one, and the Eector (Eev,
CH, Burnham) had really given them the' history.
Therewas the tomb ot the founder, Nicholas de Cogen
hoe, who died in 1280, and they could not put the nave
earlier than willjin a few years of that date, namely, the
reign of Edward I. The chancel did not date so far back
as 1150, aa the Eector had been led to suppose, but to
1160 or 1170, as they did not get the pointed arches so
decided at the earlier date. The restoration was one that
no 'one could find fault with, and he was glad to see that
ihe oli 'hagioscope had been preserved,' The _deeply-
recessed arches in the chancel were very peculiar, and
also the piscina, which he could not help thinking' had
been moved, aa in its present position it was inconsistent
vrith the sedUia. The tower was Perpendicular, very
good ot its order, and the clerestory was of the same
period. Some of the corbels and the i arms ' upon the
capitals were well worthy of more attention and time
than they were able to give. The tower arch was a very
fine one, and 'where it was of such a height they'not un
frequently saw a platlorm, terming a sort ol beltry tor
the ringers. All the work ot the church was very good,
and they might safely say that there ihad been a Norman
churoh there. Belore leaving, the Eector called atten
tion to some beautilul specimens of needlework, supposed
to be of the time of Queen Elizabeth, and 'the -whole of
the party then repaired to the Eectory grounds, where
they were ¦ very kindly entertained by Mr. and ; Mrs.
Burnham, tea' 'and other' refireshments being served onthe
lawn, whioh is most delightluEy; situated on an eminence,
commanding an eKtensiveiviewiofthe Nene valley. A
good joke occurred here,- Some gentlemen, iwho 'were
most ardent in their search for sucb antiquities, imagined
that they had discovered a veritable Eoman mound and
tosse, and were 'slightly disappointed when they fcarned,
through 'Our Surveyor (Mr. J- H, Pidcock), that the
works had been thrown up by him, in, the course ot con
structing the Blisworth and Peterborough, line ot rail
way. After a hearty laugh and a pleasant chat, the
party returned to town, having thorougMy enjoyed, the
day's excursion. The Mayor, the Town Clerk,' Mr. W.
Adkins, J,Pj, and others, accompanied the members and
their friends on this occasion. In the evening a conver.
sazione was held at the -Town Hall, when a paper, on
The History of the Gounty ol Northampton was read by
the Eev. W. Monk, oft Wymington, 'which wiU be lound
Appended. Sattjbdat's' Excubsion,
Notwithstanding one or two slight drawbacks, was one
oi the most successful ol the seriesi introducing the
townspeople, as well as the uiembers andi their Iriends,
to comparatively new and unexplored ground. The party
lelt the Midland Eailway Station for Kettering, by the
9.35 a.m, trai i, special coaches having been attached for
their convenience by the railway officials. On reaching
Kettering it was lound that the rain was descending tar
too heavily to be encountered without umbrellas. The
carriages were iq waiting outside the station, but, ual or.

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tunately,-jthe seats of, the open ones had got very wet,
and thedisoomiort ol those who had bespoken outside
places was thereby increased. Despite the showery
weather the party was larger than was anticipated, and
as the carriages already hired would not accommodate
all, the Eev. T. C. Beasley, one of the honorary local
secretaries, kindly undertook, at no smaU amount ot
personal inconvenience, to see that the required vehicular
provision was iorthcoming. Accordingly, a start was
made for the Eoyal, a pasaing glimpse being obtained ol
the church, with its renjarkably fine Early Perpendicular
tower and spire, as we entered the town-. Mr. Richard
son kindly promised to supj ly another carriage with aU
possible speed, and bo we moved lorward, as the result
proved, to brave the pitiless elements. A strange sight
must have been presented by the carriages, the open ones
especially, as they drove along, every one holding an
nmbreUa, and each overlapping the other till the whole
ol them looked like a Eoman testudo, with this difference,
that the latter was certainly iar more effective iu protecting
soldiers irom the darts and missiles oi the enemy, than
our iragile covering was in withstanding the rain, which
lound its way through all 'the openings, saturating
everybody's clothes, for it lell in torrents, whUe the
vivid flashes of lightning and the loud peals ol the
thunder following each other in quick succession, showed
that the storm waa one ol no ordinai-y character. One or
two ol the ladies got out, and made the best of their way
back to Kettering, but the others hore up bravely, and
though their "garments" were " cUnging like cere
ments," they hoped with the gentlemen that it waa only
a passing storm, and that it would be a flne day alter aU.
And their hopes were realised. But belore the rain had
quite ceased a mishap occurred which necessitated a
stoppage, and consequent loss ol tinde, which could not be
made up alterwards. The splash-board ol the large
break gave way, am? two clerical gentlemen, riding on
the box with the driver, had to step down and ride as
best they could, whUe a couple ot straps- were passed
round the board to keep it from tailing on the horses,
the straps being tightly held by a gentleman lor the dis
tance of two miles, and in such manner the last carriage
entered Eothwell. The workmen of Messrs. Ball and
Son quickly repaired the damage, and in the meanwhUe the
church was visited. It is a bmlding of great architectural
and antiquarian interest, containing work of all periods.
The west doorway ol which therO' is a good illustration
in Mr. Bloxam's work on " Gothic Architecture," is of
Semi-Ndrman character. It is deeply recessed, the arch
being pointed and the lace enriched with the zigzag aud
semi-hexagonal mouldings. The shafts of the jambs are
banded, and have capitals ot stiffly aculptured loliage.
The interior ol the whole church, Mr. Parker aaid, dated
from the end ot the 12th or the beginning ol the 13th
century. The aisles are dirided trom the nave by tour
lolty plain and double-recessed pointed arches, with
square edges, springing irom square piers with engaged
semi-cylindrical shafts on each side, and banded midway
between the bases-and capitals ; the latter of whioh are
enriched with sculptured foliage, and surmounted by
square abaci. The building owes its extreme length to a
flne chancel, wbich originally did not extend 'oeyond the
first three recessed arches ; the transepts which the
church at one time possessed being demolished in 1673.
Mr. Parker, in giving a short descriptive lecture, aaked
whether it would* be a sin to remove the singing gallery

at the west end. According to the new society iot thd
protection ol ancient monuments, that must be preserved
as a part ol the hiatory ot the 18th century, and also, be
supposed, the unsightly square pews. In advocating the
removal ol these modem excrescences, he told the fol
lowing amusing story : — When a young man, he attended
a ohurch iu which there was a lot of the old-fashioned
sleeping boxes, as they were caUed, one ot them being occu
pied by a neighbour ot his. When he (Mr. Parker) became
churchwarden he had them aU cut down a couple oi leet,
which made his neighbour very angry, because he could
no longer sleejf in church without being seen by the
people, and so he hit npon the ingenious expedient of
having the floor ot his pew lowered a couple of feet, so
that he conld sleep as he did before. Mr. Parker having
drawn attention to tbe very peculiar and pretty Early
English tont, and other unique features ot the building,
the party then dispersed, not leaving, however, betore
they had risited the crypt and had seen lor themselves
the immense pUes ol bones stacked up around it. A cur
sory inspection fnUy satisfied us of the correctness ot
the theory advocated by Mr. Sharp in his paper that thia
crypt was simply used as a charnel house or capella
cainaria. The exterior of the church, whioh has a fine
stone turret near the tower on the north-western
side, next occupied attention, and subsequently the old
Market House, which was built in 1577, by Sir Thomas
Tresham, the lather ot one ot the conspirators con
cerned in the Gunpowder Plot, who, says Fuller, was
" more forward in beginning than fortunate in finish
ing hia tabrics." The building is adorned vrith shields
bearing the arms ol the gentry of the county, and
around it the following inscription : —
Thomb Tbxsaui Militis fuit hoc ofus
Iir OBAIIAU nVLOIS FATBIiB FEOIT SUjE
IBIBUBQUE IS'OBTHAMFIONI.S VEL MAXIUB
EUJUSQUB VIOIHI SIBI PAOI. HIHIL
FBiETBB BONTTAE COMMUHB QU2:SIVIT
iriniL FB.ETBB UECUS FEBENITE AMIGOBUM.
MALE QUI INTEEFBEZATUB DIGNUS HAUU
lAirxo EST Boiro. Ao. DoMiirx Millesimo
QUIHOSNTBSIMO SBFTUAOBSIMO SEFTIMO.
This nobleman was the builder of the Triangular
Lodge, at Eushton, oi which more anon. On leaving
Eothwell, alter a briet stay, which enabled most of
the party to get their damp clothes dried, the next
drive was to Eushton HaU, the buUding ol which waa
begun by Sir Thomas Tresham, about 1690, the earliest
date upon it being 1595, and finished by the Cokaynes
by the end ol 1630. Mr. Hartshorne thinks it probable
that the architect was John Thorpe, but it ia suggested
in the tract published by Mr. John Taylor that tbe de
sign waa turnished by Sir Thomas Tresham himself,
architecture being eridently his hobby. Be that as it
may, there is but Uttle doubt that tbe Triangular Lodge,
which stands in the north-western end ol the grounds,
was one ol his architectural conceits. It is, says Mr.
Hartshorne, one ol the lour triangular buildings in the
kingdom, the others being Geddington Cross, the lower
end ot Maiden Churoh, and Longlord Castle, designed by
John Thorpe, and the idea may have been suggested to
Sir Thomas by that eminent architect. 'What the object
was in buUding this extraordinary lodge it is impossible
to say. It may have been intended simply as a pun upoQ

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Ms O'wn name, Tres-ame, and that was the conclusion at
onoe arrived at by several gentlemen ; or it may have
been intended as an embodiment oi the religious views
of the persecuted recuscmt, who describes himseli
aa haring, " completed his triple apprenticeship in direct
adversity," whatever that may mean, aud to afford a
retreat to him during his meditation on the doctrine ot
the Trinity. Whatever may be the correct theory, the
buUding still remains a puzzle, the learned still being en
gaged in trying to decipher the mystical inscriptions
about it. The persistent arrangement ot everything in
threes is, says Mr. Hartshorne, most ingenious ; tor
instance — three floors, three sides, each measuring 33 leet
3 inches, three trefoil windows in each ot the three gables
on each side, Latin inscriptions containing 33 letters,
&c." Whatever all these may mean, the religious cha
racter of the building cannot be questioned when we read
the Latin texts, the meaning oi which do not admit ot a
doubt, and, consider these, together with the emblematical
figures — the hen and chickens, and the pelican in her
piety, the seven-branched candlestick, and the seven
eyes ot (Jod, the dove and serpent, and the hand oi
God on a globe. The mottoes between these, read
downwards, consecutively, iorm a Latin sentence,
which has been rendered, "Behold not lor rayself alone
have I laboured." Above the door by which access to
the building is obtained is a shield bearing the Tresham
arms, and the happy motto, Tres testimon/iwm dant —
" There are three that bear testimony." Leaving the
lodge and its mystic symboUsm, and the grounds where
the glorious John Dryden is said to have derived in
spiration ior his muse, and whioh had been so kindly
thrown open on this occasion by Mr. W, Clark-Thornhill,
we drove on a short distance to the church, five minutes
only being allowed to look at the monuments there. One
is a cross-legged effigy in Purbeek marble oi Sir WUUam
de Goldingham, who died in 1296. The question olten put
is asked, whether the croasing oi the lega is at all signifi
cant oi his connection vrith the Crusades, and the reply
ia " by uo means." It is asserted, though we do uot
know upon authority, that he was a Knight Templar.
It may be so, and it is not at all imprebable that this
was the knight, as the Eev. C. H, Hartshorne suggests,
who in 1255 was constable ot Eockingham Castle, and
had also charge ot the forest. The other effigy in ala
baster is that oi Sir Thomas Tresham, the grandtather
ot the builder ot the lodge, who died in 1559. He was
the last Prior oi the Order ol St. John oi Jerusalem, and
is represented wearing the mantle oi the Order, vrith a
cross flory on the breast. Geddington was the next
place risited, ior the sake oi seeing the cross. Only a lew
of the party alighted, as a drive round it was sufficient to
enable any one to discover first that the figures are
decidedly inferior to those oi the cross at Northampton,
and next that the diaper work oi the panels below is in a
remarkably good state of preservation. That it is one of
the Eleanor Crosses there can be no doubt, Mr. Hunter
fixing it as the third resting place on the journey Irom
Hardby to London. From Geddington it was nearly an
hour's drive to Kirby. . On the road we passed through
Stanion, and iarther on saw traces ot the quarries whence
most ot the atone was obtained lor the buUding ol the
churohes. Turning off Irom the main road to Stamtord,
the confines ol the Kirby demesne were reached in a very
short time, and we at last stood vrithin the park. Here
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going dovm a hill one of the horses commenced kiddng,
Ind got one ot its hind legs over pole and trace. The
ladies were considerably alarmed. AU got out, and by
the iudicioua advice ot one gentleman— Mr. Orlebar, we
believe— the unfortunate animal was extricated from its
critical position with nothing worse than a flesh wound and
bmisea . In the meantime moat of the party were scampering
across the park, evidently bent on taking the shortest cut
to the hall, where it was expected luncheon would be pre
pared. The figure waa the highest yet charged, bnt _ the
repast was undoubtedly the'best. It was got up by a lady
on the premises, and did her infinite credit. Need it be
said that the company did ample justice to the good
things prorided ? The ducks and chickens, puddings and
pasties, disappeared 'with marveUous rapidity, ^and^ we
fear that those who were the last to arrive fared rather
badly in the matter of choice, though there was stUl
plenty left. The lunoheon despatched, we were informed
that only a few minutes could be spared for the purpose
ot rievring what is now the mere vfreckTot a great man
sion. It was buUt,' as appears from inscriptions' on the
greathaU, in 1572, by John Thorpe, the architect : Of
Holdenby House, for Humfrey Stafford, and on qniteaa pa
latial a scale as the latter. Five yeara later the property
passed to Sir Christopher Hatton, who employed the same
architect to form the great quadrangle. In 1638-40 Inigo
Jones altered the screen which encloses the quadrangle
and built the stately entrance front, and the wa,Us and
gateways ot the outer court. It is probably to his- good
taste, says Mr. Hartshorne, that we owe the beautiful
coved ceUing of the great staircase. AU the party made
a point ot seeing this, of ascending the stone staircase,
which is still in a tolerably good state, andgoingdnto the
balcony which overlooks the great haU. TMs part of the
buUding is now in a sad State. The birds have done
something morethan use each " juttys frieze; and but
tress"' as a " coign ot vantage," for they have appro
priated the great hall itself as their " prooreant cradle,"
flitting hither and thither in all parts'of the bmlding,
which is falling fast into decay. There is but a small
portion ot the building which can be used, and that can
scarcely be called habitable. The principal room; looking
out'upon the south front from one ot the great bay win
dows added by Thorpe, and the room where' lunoheon was
served, is in a most dilapidated state, the walls baring
been stripped ol their coverings, and in many i places
scribbled upon and shametuUy disfigured by those who
have had the privUege of "risiting the place. The stone
¦work, however, haa not been seriously -afiected either by
the ravages of Time or the vandaUsm of risitors. It is
difficult, as Mr. Hartshorne says, to single ont any special
feature. " The porch, the carved pUasters facing'it, the
• frifezea, the parapet of the haU, and the elaborate gables
flanking it, are alone worth a long journey to see," The
colour ot the stone and the sharpness of the sculpture
are not the least striking features of this ruined mansion,
whioh as late as 1820 was inhabited, and only a short
time betore that. When the Great Napoleon kept us for
some time in a state of trepidation, was spoken of as a
retreat tor the Court, It is now, vrith the whole of the
freehold estates, in the market, and only a fortnight ago
was blMugbt'to the hammer, when the sum of .£235,000
waa offered. ^This did not, however, come up to the
reserve price, and'the lot' was vrithdrawn. It yet remains
to be seen who ia the mfflionaire that can i^ord to pur
chase the estate, and restore or rebuild the mauaiou,

which at present belongs to the earldom of Winchilseft
and Nottmgham. H>aving hastUy, run over the ruined
pUe, we left for Eockihgham Castle, where a most
magniflcent reception awaited us. Having sent the
vehioles on to the stables, we enter the court-yard of
the Castle through a gateway flanked by two grand drum
towers. Mr. Watson, the present master ,of the Castle,
receives us most oorduiUy, whUe Mr. G. T. Clark (ol
Dowlais) — and we knowot no better authority — ^proceeds,
iu the most business-Uke tashion, to caU our attention
flrst to the doorway and the waUs ol the haU, which are
original. Time wUl not permit us to enter the haU, and
so Mr. Clark at once conducts ns to the wall of i the
court-yard, which commands a far riew up and down the
vaUey ol the WeUand, and a atiU more extensive one over
the undulating heights whioh form its opposite horizon.
We oau understand why this position ahould have been
chosen aa a place ol retirement and defence. It is weU
described by the Eev. C. H. Hartshorne as " being
sheltered on the south-eastern side by deep and nearly
impenetrable woods, and in the contrary direction pro-
tected by the natural accUvity of the tongue of land
ou which the crowning fortress was buUt." Mr. Clark
calls attention to the position so admirably chosen at a
time when siege guns were unknovm. We look over the
wall, see the angle whioh represents a lormer tower, and
trace tbe probable site ot a British camp. Mr. Bloxam
is the anthority tor that, but there is no time to chaUenge
his opinion, and Mr. Clark hurries on tiU he gets to two
rowa ol yew treea, which he explains represent the upper
and lower waUs of the old Castle, We ascend a flight oi
steps, and loUow the line ol the old waU, indicated by a
great step, and on the outside by a retaining waU. We
have already perceived below the deep rariue, which is
part ot the natural detences oi the Castle already
aUuded to. We see that that narrows off, and shallows
up at the end. We at length reach a more elevated spot,
when Mr. Clark ascends the wall, and completes a most
interesting description oi the old Castle. Those who
were conversant — and who was not ? — with that modern
work of flotion, "The Antiquary," would remember the
ludicrous vein running through the character oi Jonathan
Oldbuck, and yet that character was drawn by a loring
as weU as a skUinl hand. But it must be confessed that
there was about the antiquary oi the last century, or
virtimso, as he was caUed, a strong vein ol the
ludicrous, and even now there were museums in
high places where there were stUl to be lound
such things as the shoe ot O'Brien, the giant, and
a part ol the larthingale ol Queen Elizabeth. As a prool
that antiquaries themselves were keenly sensitive about
this, Mr. Clark noticed the change in the designation of
the FeUows simply because they had been laughed at by
Peter Pangloss. The antiquary now caUed himself an
archseologist, and that was not a mere change of name.
It mar ked a period, commencing 35 or 40 years age,
during which more attention had been paid by the his
torian to the pursuits of the antiquary. 11 any one
would look into the writings ot Arnold, ol Macaulay, and
more particularly ot Freeman, he would see that great
attention was paid to topography, and that was a branch
oi archseology to which historians who preceded Arnold
paid-but little attention^ As a branch of modern archaeo
logy, he (Mr. Clark) might mention comparative archao-
logy, whieh had done as much for archaeology as com-
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and he did not know any Castle in relation to which it
was so necessary to caU in the aid ot comparative
archseology as that in whiqh they stood. To understand
what they had seen, it was unportant to keep in riew
where there are reniains not only analogous to those of
Eockingham Castle, but where the earthworks were more
perfect. They were standing there upon the slope of the
keep, the keep being a moated mound, and if he had time
he could show them how it was continued aU round, and
formed a large mound vrith a flat top, and a ditch around
the base. That there was a ditch was clear, not only from
the plan stUl extant, but irom the traces whioh might be seen
on the other side and where he was standing. That,
therefore, was the moated mound, whioh was the site ol
the old pre-Norman dweUing ; and ii they would go to
Bnnklow, they would see the thing very periect, and
how the great court waa appUed to it and projected Irom
it. There they had a mere mound, but ii they would
carry the eye round the edge they would see what was
once appUed to it. The chieltain Uved there, and the re-
tainers in the yard below, which was in turn deiended by
a 'bank ol earth and ditch outside. When the Normans
oame Jthey built their waUs, as they almost always did
buUd them, along the line oi 'ancient detences;
but there probably they removed the bank, and re
placed it by a waU. Whether they did it or whether
it was done when the first Mr. Watson made the garden
was uncertain ; but it was impossible not to see that the
parapet walk, along whioh they had come, represented
the old earthworks forming the banks which enclosed the
great court applied to that mound. That waa the ancient
history oi Eockingham Caatle betore the Normans came
there and buUt the towers, built the shaUow or polygonal
keep, and carried the walls dovra the slopes of the keep
tiU they met the gateway. The actual remains were still
to be seen, and they had already ascended steps which
were on the site of the old waU, and which were formed
vrith the materials ot the waU. Besides that great waU
there was another waU, leading by a mass of evergreen,
whioh he pointed out, and which coincided with the part
ot the present house, aud trom that another along the
Une ot the yew hedge, in that way dividing the Castle
into three principal courts. The (Jastle was attacked in
the Ciril war, and was ordered by the Par'liament to be
" sUghted " as a strong plaoe. The mound was then
carried away to fiU up the ditch, and the moat being des.
troyed, the Castle was easUy approached. The ditch was
the artificial defence, and that being the side tor which
nature had done least when the contents ot the mound
were put into the ditch the Castle would be eaaUy taken.
There was a plan showing how that ditch was deiended
by a palisading, and Leland mentioned " a strong tower
in the area oi the castelle, and trom it, over the dungeon
dike, a drawbridge to the dungeon toure," so that that
was pretty conclusive aa to the preriously existing state of
things. Mr. Clark then spoke briefly of the forest,
which stood almost alone lor its compactness and com.
plete history. It stretohed Irom Northampton to Stam.
lord, and was the favourite hunting-ground of King
John and ot the Plantaganet kings. Accounts were kept
both of the castle and the forest vrith the most scrupulous
minuteness, and even now one may learn not only how
the royal hounds and hawks were to be fed, bnt what it
cost ; not only what tools the workmen used upon the
estate, but the cost ot each of them, 4id. being the price
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Inasons. After Mr. Clark's leotnrette, there was oniy i
few minutes left to avail oneself of the hospitality ot Mr.
Watson, who kindly invited the company to partake of
tea and refreshments betore learing "for the railway
station, which was reached in good time, and the return
journey was accomplished on the London and North-
Western EaUway, in special coaches, kindly set apart
for the use of the antiquaries and their iriends. Among
those who acconipanied them on this moat enjoyable ex
cursion were Mr. P. P. Perry, J.P., Mr. H. MulUner,
Mr. J. Eunaon, Mr. John Tayloi-, &c. In the evening a
sectional meeting was held, when Mr. S. Tucker (Eouge
Croix) re^d a paper on " The Descent and Varying
Armorials of the Spencers of Wormleighton and
Althorpe." The conclusion ot Eouge Croix was not
that Earl Spencer has not descended from the old Une oi
the Despencers, but that he is not descended iu the way
that is generally supposed.
SimTIOE AT THE EoUND CHTTECH.
On Sunday morning last the Eev. Canon Pownall,
rioar oi South Kilworth, preached at St. Sepulchre's
Churoh, betore the members of the Institute. He took
tor his text Revelations xxi,, 22 — " And I saw no temple
therein, ior the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are
the temple ol it." In the course ol his sermon, he said
as they met there that day in a church which was built
in imitation oi the Temple Church at Jerusalem, vrith
their minds doubtless charged with some of its historical
associations, and with their hearta, he trusted, attuned
to something even higher and better than these, it seemed
to him that there was something in the words of the text
suggestive — something, the consideration of which would
carry their thoughts heavenward. The preceding writers
in the Sacred Scriptures had led the mind step by step
from the law to the Gospel, from the old covenant to the
new one, onwards and yet onwards ; but the spirit of
man yearned for something more complete. It longed to
look outside this lile oi three score years and ten, and,
il it could, it would project itselt into the dim realms ol
the luture. It would know the " grand secret," as it
had been called, before the time. Bnt that would be to
walk by sight, aud not by laith, and by it laith would be
swallowed up in certainty, and hope in present enjoy
ment. Bnt baffled as to au inquiry into the luture, the
mind recoUed, and took up an inquiry into the past.
Seeking to Uve outside its ovm span ot time, it explored
the world as it had been, because that it could touch and
handle ; and so meu could sympathise with archaeology
who were not archEeological students themselves. Besides
that intereat, archseology had its reireshings and rewards.
Were that the time, the place, or the occasion to do so,
he could name many, but he only mentioned one, which
he did not think was unsuitable. For anyone among
them who was tempted to regard his own time de
spairingly, the issues ot party striie in Churoh and State
gloomUy, to turn aside trom everything which he saw
vrithout as being base, mercenary, selfish, and dis
appointing in his own mind — gloomUy, and perhaps
morbidly, to turn aside — he knew no better corrective
than a thoughttul study ol human lile as men found it
to be in the days when the Anglo-Saxon chronicle was
penned — days oi human misery exceedingly great ; or to
take a period less remote than that — ^in the days ol the
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Gurnet said that that addition was made to their irersioil
of the Book ol Common Prayer-f-" Give peace in our
time, oh Lord ; because there is none other that fighteth
tor us but only thou, oh God." It was the cry ol a
people in anguish. "Such was the confusion," said
Bishop Burnet, " such was the wretchedness, the
disquietude of the many through the restlessness
of the few." Let the man study patiently the
records of past days, let him see how men lived,.
vrith how little they had to content themselves,
and how the exaction, the profligacy, or latuous
caprice ol one indiridual was able to make the whole
kingdom miserable lor years, and he would rise some
times Irom that comparison ol now and then thankful
for tbe present which bad grovm up out ol such a past.
Eecognising the lact that man's craving curiosity to Uve
outside his time by discovering what human lite was in
other times, and under other conditions, received satis-
faction in part, he asked, not what history had been to
his hearers, but what was history very often in itself P
It was a chronicle of one who possessed scanty sources of
information, and the historian had often been the advo
cate, and not the judge. For a writer of Hallam's fair
ness of mind, what an acute feeling of disappointment
must have been conveyed to his inquiring nature before
he penned the words : " We can trace the pedigree of
friends ; fiU up the catalogue of places besieged, and pro
rinces desolated ; describe even the pageantry of coro
nations and festivals ; bnt we cannot recover the genuine
history of mankind.' ' He (the preacher) ieared that it waa
so. The coUector oi antiquities might fill his museum
with objects oi unquestioned interest. The flint imple
ment, the ancient coin, might carry them back to periods
remote. The sculptor's work, the mouldering colnmn,
the crumbling dust, the cloister, and the ruin by the iv y
grown keep of the Norman fortress, carrying them back-
might instruct them, charm them, move them, help them,
variously, but " we cannot recover the genuine history of
mankind." Between them and much of the past, there
was, so to speak, a great gulf fixed, so thattthose who
would pass from hence to it conld not. Was then
archaeological inqmry ot little account vrith wise men P
He- could not say that, but they aU knew there were
moments in everybody's lite when questions addressed
themselves to them which sounded in the ears of con
science like echoes ol the voice ol Qod, "What doest
thou heres Oh, man p For what purpose was the present
time given thee P How art thou turning it to account P"
And then the foiled mind, thrown back and back again,
found at least something soUd to rest upou by the. help of
religion. BeUgion taught them how that their life work
was with the present. They inight learn lessons: from
tbe past ; their hopes rested in the future; but their life
work was now. And yet the past had its teachinga. He
who was beUeved to have founded that church might, he
thought; be taken to read them a lesson. A Crusader
who had fought in Palestine for the burial plaoe of
Christ ; he returned frem the Crusade animated vrith the
desire to reproduce here what he had seen there — the
Churoh of the Holy Sepulchre. The Crusades had their
Uttlenesses — they had their Quixotism ; they had their
immoraUty aud their unreality. But no enterprise
ever addressed itsell more largely, more devoutly to
what wa^nselfish in man. The battle ground was now
changed. Not for the burial plaee of a dead Christ
was the Crusader warring uow> but for a place not made

with hands. At this point his text lifted them to the
contemplation of the high truth, that no material temple
stood in the heavenly Jerusalem. He pointed out that
that one verae spiritualised the description, which was
materialistic in character, of course ; whioh was the
accommodation of human language to finite human
capacity ; and how, in the description, what was told
them in the verse became the vanishing point of the
vision. And who were the Crusaders now ? They were
those 'who were found not only in Palestine, but it might
be in Northampton, doing battle vrith wrong, teaching
the ignorant, rooting out prejudice, resctung ' the
wretched, and lifting the fallen, 'Such, then, under the
spiritual moulding of his text, was the lesson taught
them of the present time, as' they worshipped Jn' St.
Sepulchre's Church that day,' itselt an interesting memo
rial of the Crusades, in a town which had, more than
once, been prominently connected vrith them. From-his
, point of riew the buUding might .klso be regarded as the
connecting link vrith the futtire. It liad its own ^gnifi-
cation. 'The great Crusading "King— 'Eifchard Coeur' de
rLion— vvhen he kept his Easter in 'Northampton, inthe
. year' 1193, it was said, probably knelt in thankfulness on
^^the^floor of the Eound Church,, upon his return' from the
. jHoly Land. WeU, if those ancieiit walls were the
..symbol to their minds of centuries aU gone, the form in
which they were buUt SymboUsed tim<? to come, and some-
'thing more than time. In every a.ijp they knew'the round
form, the circle, had seemed to- men the emblem oi time
vrithout end — eternity. So, too, the round form of that
church, haring no end, and enciroUng the principles W
life, might fairly be taken to signify the kingdom of 'the
eternal majesty, and the hope ot life everlasting — the
never-fading rewards 'with which the juat ahoild be
finally crowned. — The Mayor aud Corporation atteiided
the 8errice,^t the close of which a coUectiou'wasmaide
in aid of the' funds tor completing the restoration ot the
round part ot the church. The offertory amounted to
-^14 Ss, 4id. ; the evening coUection was '^4 Is. lOd.
At the CHtTBOH 01' All Saints,
On. Sunday-morning, preaching from the text, " Heaven
"'and. earth shaU pasa away, bnt my Word ahall not pasa
u. away" (Luke-xxi., v. 33), the Eev. E. ,B..HxJl, referring
>to the wiOrb and visit of the Archseologioal Society,- aaid :
— What a -world ot change this ia ! I suppose there ia
I never' a time when thia thought isnot forced upon us.
Theontside world ia ever changing. How we reaUae that
now, just, when so many amongst us are busy examining
•the records of the past — studying the story that other
¦.generation3';have left behind them in, .parchment and
I. stone. .As we look on the mason's handiworki and the
careful labour of the scribe, the fair carvings and the
delicate lettering stiU seem to tell one tsile — thatthey
were tar difterent men and women to ourselves, in far
'Other circumstances than' our own. There is a strange,
>.ialmost sacred, interest in tracing' this out. One would
fancy itf'hardly -possible to- Uve in any historic place, espe-
ciallyin suchian old world town as this, and.have.no
interest in those who have gone betore us. They Uved
and died where we stand now, and played out their Uttle
part of joy and sorrow, passion and suffering, self-
sacrifice and selfishness. We cannot be uninterested iu
'I'theiT'Stbry, so like, yet so unlike, our own. We read in
•it^what has made us and our surroundings what we and
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was when the Danes held sway here in the 10th century,
or when Harold met Morcar here in the Ilth, or Becket
Henry in the 12th. But we know that our own churoh
was granted by the Earl Simon to St. Andrew's Priory
in the Ilth century, changed as it ia now from what it
waa then. And & it is doubtiul whether any oi that
building remains, at least we know that part oi the
tower and the crypt stiU stand as they stood when Par
liament was held in the chancel oi this church in the
14th century. Surely those were different days wheu on
the very spot of ground where we have heard God's
word and worshipped Him this morning, the knights of
the shire in Parliament assembled agreed to levy the
poll-tax, which ended in Wat Tyler's rebeUion, It waa a
different scene when, under the very same smaU archway
by which we enter this church, the great Queen EUzabeth
passed when she visited it, as it theu was three centuries
ago. Thus in the past history ot Northampton, men played
their part on the great world's atage, in very different
anrroundings : the principlea that governed the acting
much the same ; the stage was strangely different. It ia no
profitless study. We don't understand our own position,
or realise how we ought to walk and act, tUl we under
stand something ot them and their life-work. Then we
learn to be less insulated, to graap our position better, as
only one link in a long chain ; to learn what we owe to
those yet to come, by seeing what we owe to those who
have gone before us. And as we see their handiwork on
every side, it aU teaches the great lesson of change.
Heaven and earth pass away. It is new and old, side by
side, everywhere^ The railway of thia century runs at
the foot of the Mediaeval Castle ; the citizens ol to-day
meet and worahip in churchea where a lar different cere
monial was practised and other doctrines taught ; side by
side vrith the now shop iront stands the ancient arch or
pUasters. AU — all speaks oi change and progress.
Heaven and earth shall pass away." But this, you
may say, is only sentimental, alter all, and concerns ua
little ; that the past world in England was different to
our own ; is interesting, perhaps, as a matter ol hiatory,
but no more, 'Who, however, has not Uved long enough
to ieel that his owu immediate world ia a very changing
world indeed ? — changing in ita outward circumstances,
in the form of labonra he undertakes, the position he
holds, the relation in whioh he stands to others,
and (what ia ot quite as much concern) the relation
in which others stand to himP Onr circle ot Iriends
is ever varying, old faces disappearing from the fami
liar haunts, new ones taking their accustomed places.
And (what is, perhaps, the most atartling of all, when
we reaUse it) we ouraelvea have as much a ahare in the
fleeting nature of aU here as others. We, too, vary
from day to day ; we are not what we were — not even in
our outside appearance to our fellow-men. They recog
nise the fact, it we do not, that as our circumstances
change so we change ourselves, StiU more is this true
ot the inner lite we aU live between ourselves and God.
To some ot us a matter of intense thankfulness, " God
be praised that I am not what I was " ; to othera a very
saddening thought, from whioh they would gladly escape
would conacience let them.
Vox oh ! 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
" Heaven and earth shaU pasa away, but My Word
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all this ; knew far better than we know it, yet He mates
this confident prediction. All else changes, ourselves,
our little world — even the universe itselt. Yes, it may
all perish, and become cold and barren and lifeless aa the
moon which so coldly Ughts us — be absorbed into the sun,
BO that the elements melt vrith fervent heat. Let it
perish as it will, My Word endures for ever. AU ex
perience, all history tells ua that this ia the way meu live
in years to come. Material monuments are as nothing.
Tou gaze on them with wonder for a few momenta, and
pasa by on the other side. It ia the word, the little
fleeting breath, the word giring a momentary expression
to thought, 80 subtle, ao intangible. This apparently the
most evanescent ot aU things ; this lasts for ever. So
great minds hold their sway over their fellow-men cen
turies after brain and liie have mouldered away, and
their place knows them no more. Other great men have
spoken, and the world haa liatened ; other teachera have
taught, and their teUow-men have reverenced and drunk
in their vrisdom, but what has ever lived, and spread, and
worked, like this word ot Christ. Buddha haa been
heard in India and China ; Mahomet has gained followers
in Aaia and Africa ; Christ's Word alone haa reached
every sort and age ot man, and still shows greater and
greater power of Ufe.
Monday's Exouesion.
On Monday a large party as.'sprabled at the Bridge-
street railway station, going thence to Oundle, where no
stay was ma,de to see the town, but the carriages in
waiting were immediately filled with the view ot going
to Cotterstock. On exaraining the church there, aU were
charmed with its beauty, and with the appropriate and
expensive manner in whioh it haa been reatored. The
Vicar read an interesting paper on this edifice, in which
he gave the details ot ita history and restoration.
The church has an Early English tower and nave, and a
large chancel, the result ot a collegiate foundation in 1337.
Tansor was next reached, where there is a Norraan
church, one ot the few churohes in the county which re
main to be restored. To this edifice raany features of
great interest belong. The Norman pillars and capitals
ot the nave, the fine old oak seats, and other pecuUar
characteriatica, attracted attention. But the chief
intereat centered in Fotheringhay. The Castle site, with
ita amall remaining bit of wall, and the mound whereon
once atood the keep, with the atrange viciaaitudea of ita
story, attracted an eager examination. The great haU,
where Mary, the unfortunate and beautiful Queen of
Scots, was beheaded, was removed, in 1586, by direotion
of Sir Robert Cotton, and worked up at Connington
Castle, the other portions ot the building being taken to
Fineshade. The general form ot the Castle may stUl be
traced. The church is a splendid specimen of the
Perpendicular style, and there the party lingered as long
as they possibly conld. The tombs of the Princes,
erected by order of Queen Elizabeth, stand on each side
of what was once the chancel arch, the chancel itselt no
longer remaining. Proceeding to Waustord the party
dirided, a few continuing onwards to Peterborough, where
the Cathedral was the chiet object of interest, (^anou
Westcott entertaining thera afterwards and the majority
going dovm the branch line to Barnack, where a most
hospitable reception was given to them by Canon
Argles, who inrited all to a luncheon, to which ample
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yery remarkable churoh, which has been admirably re
stored. "The Canon read an exhaustive paper thfereou,
yvhich was listened to with great attentioii. Mr. Packer
made some remarks, in the course of which he qheationed
some ot the dates assigned to different portions of' the
buUdihg. The striking feature ot the churdh is ita vener
able Saxon tower, reminding one of that of the churehea
ot Earl'a Barton and Deerhurat. Barnack ia recorded
to have been ravaged and laid waate by the Danes in
1013. The church, or part of it, waa probably burnt
at that time, and re-built by Canute after he became a
Christian. The company were particularly intereated by
the inspection of a fine classical figure executed in the
atone knovm as " Baraack Eag," which, Canon Argles
said, was found in the course of 'building the Eectory some
years ago.' A Eoman tile,' 12iifi. 'by''14in.', was also ex
hibited, and being stamped distinctly, " Leg. IX. Hisp.,"
there could be no doubt that it marked the presence in
tbat part of "the county of the' Nin-thEiomau' Legion.
Haring looked over' the chtirch the' party were much dis-
'appointed to find that, Ovring to some mistake,' the
carritiges which should have been in waiting at Barnack
to convey the aeotion to Stamford had not arrived, and,
therefore, those who did nCt Walk thither were compeUed
to remain at Bamack. From Mr. Canon and 'Mrs.
Argles, however, they met vrith the^ utmost' kindness,
being inrited to partake of further refreshraent before
learing. A tew gentlemen and ladies on learning that
the distance acroas the park to, Stamford waa not more
than two-and-a-half miles; determined to walk; ,and so
carry out the programme. We need hardly s^iy that Jfchey
were well repaid for any flxtra fatigue to which they
submitted themselves. Burghley House is one ofthe
most magnificent mansions in the country, -Indeed^itis
qnistionable whether there is any other wbifib for ex-
' tent, stateliness, and richness is even compsirajhle'to the
grand EUzabethan structure. It 'stands in a,, finely
wooded park, seven' mUeS in circumference,, , ahdr-being
buUt of Bamack Eag,', jTime has scarcely impaired the
beauty of its ' grand' (Outlines, and it rgmains _ a "poble ¦
'raotmment to the disoritoinAtion and, genius of .its arohi-
¦ teet, John Thorpe; who, as we have already ^^tated,
"designed "Kirby Hall 'and'^' other stately pUe3.,',„The
mansi(>n Iraving been. bmlt; it was furnished by trig first
Lord Biirghley, who may be said to have been the foiinder
of Ihe'Cecil family, vrith a costUness befitting its Archi
tectural splendour. There is an anecdote onrecord to the
effect that when Queen Elizabeth first, risited her famous
Treasurer, and he. With natural pride, wasexhibii^g the
palace 6f hia own creation, she, with an.^pprovingsmile,
' tnriied to Min, an'd, tapping him famUiarly on the cheek,
declared that "her money and 7w« taste had iqad&a very
pretty place," It'is a pity that the anec^te is ^e|; well
"authenticated. But, . unfortunately; there is at-ietter,
dated 1585, in vvhich the Treasurer say^'t^at the hquse is
' of "bis mother's inheritance; and, thathe is but a, farmer.
However; he must afterwards have soon beepine a very
wealthy nobleman, or he could not have entertained the
Queen no less than a dozen times, while the suinptnous
style in which the apartments were . fitted up, and the
coUection of ari: treasures that have been added to and
sustained in a maimer without paraUel, betoken a princely
revenue. That portion of the house on the eastern side
is kept express^ for shoWj' and includes tihe great or
Yictoria Hall, so named in commemmoration of Her
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the exti'eme height 60tt., with a bay window looking east,
the recess oi which is ,13ft. long and Oft, deep. From
this risitors pass into' a spacious vestibule,; and then,
after traversing the coWidors, ascend the ancient stone
staircase with its deep vaulted root, groined over the
landings, to the chapel; which is decorated with some
most auperb carved work by Grinling Gibbona, probably
the only artist who ever "gave to wood the loose and
airy Ughtneas of flowera." The chapel contains several
fine paintings, and the room adjoining a aeries, mostly
Scriptural subjects, by great masters. , There is the
Petition of Zebedee's wife, by Paul Veronese ; the St.
CeciUa of DBMenichino ; Christ supported in the Clouds,
'by ^Eubeus; Conversion of St. Paul, by Clorio; and
nnmerops -others. The billiard room has portraits by Sir
P. Lely, Sir Godfrey KneUer, and other eminent portrait
painters. The baU room ia 51 teet long by 28 leet wide,
and 25. leet- high, the waUa and ceUinga baring been
painted by Louis Laguerre, a pupil of the celebrated
¦\rerrio, and among the subjects are , three iUustrative ot
•the. lives ol Antony and Cleopatra. Other rooms have
distinctive names indicating the prevailing style ot the
decoration or upholstery, and most ol them contain
examples ol the greatest masters — Michael Angelo,
Eembrandt, 'Vandyck, Gaspar Poussin, Euysdaal, Albert
Purer,, AngeUca Kauffman, Cimabue, MnriUo, Claude,
I Titian, Holbeinj Zuccaro, &c. Snch designation as
" The Purple Satin Bedroom," and " The Purple Satin
Dressing Eooih,". and (the " George " rooms, tUl we come
, to the Filth ,br "Heaven," are significant ol the tact
that all that money and art could do to enrich the building
has been done by thoae who have borne the title oi Lord
of Burleigh,! It would, however, be foreign to our
purpose to go into a history of the famUy, or a description
of the house, of which, vrith but a sraaU portion of time
at their ijisposal, only a cursory inspection could be made
by the party J who had to hasten back and rejoin their
friends who proceeded homewards by raU, haring spent
,the day moat agreeably and profitably.
. ,..In the evening, at the Town HaU, the Ven. Lord Alwyne
Compton presiding, Mr., J. T. Burgess first gave an
. address on " Tha opening ot the Clarence vault at
Tewkesbury," and urged the Institute to utter a protest
against the mercenary exhibition ot the reUcs tound
therein. — The Seoretary (Mr. Hartshorne) was requested
to communicate with the proper authorities on the aubject.
— Mr, Micklethwaite read a very exhaustive paper on
" The state of the parish churohes in the year 1548." —
The Eev. A. Foster, of Farndish, next read a very in
teresting paper on "Easton Maudit," in the course of
which he remarked that many old Northaraptonshire
sayings and phrases were to be found in the mouths of
the Easton folk, who have lived in the same restricted
area aU their Uves, in a spot as yet unreached by the
changing tide of shoemakers. Names of taraiUes remain
too, on the registers lor generations, besides the namea ot
those who are commemorated on the monuraents. The
registers go back to 1539, and owe their preservation to
the illustrious riear, Thomas Percy, raany ot whose
literary works were corapleted in the old vicarage houae,
a portion of the present dweUing, and among them his
"Eeliques ot Ancient EngUah Poetry," which were
pubUshed in 1765, whUe he was atUl Vioar ot Eaaton.
Here Percy gathered round him " a brilliant literary
society," Dr. Johnaon, Shenatone, Goldsmith, and
Garrick having been entertained by him at the Vicarage.

The name ol the great thinker is stiU associated •with the
Vicarage by a raised terrace, which goes by the name of
Johnson's Walk. Hence, ^doubtless, he often gazed on
the slender spire rising above the then low-rooted Vicar
age, and here wiU we take leave (said Mr. Forster) of
the home ot Bishop Percy and the sheepfold which he
once shepherded.— A conversation on the preservation of
architectural monuraents foUowed, in which the President,
Mr. Tucker, and Mr. E. F. Law took part.
Tuesday's PaocBEDiNas.
On Tuesday the final meeting of the members of the
Institute was held in the Town HaU, at 10 a.m., Lord
Alwyne Compton in the chair, when the foUovring reso-
lutions were carried : — 1. Proposed by Mr. Pabkbr, and
seconded by Mr. Tucker, " That the thanka of the In.
stitute be returned to the Mayor and Corporation for the
great hospitality and kindness shown on aU hands." 2.
Proposed by Mr. Tucker, seconded by Mr. Hilton,
" 'That the thanks ot the Institute be returned to the
local committee and secretaries for their great serrices
rendered." This waa suitably replied to by the Eev. C.
T. Bbaslbt. 3. Propoaed by Sir Henrt Drtden,
aeconded by Mr. Tom BuRaBSS, " That thanka be re
turned to the readers of the papera." This was replied
to by the Eev. A. J. Foster. It waa alao resolved
"That thanks be returned to aU the entertainers of mera.
bers of the Institute, both in the town and neighbour
hood, for the great hospitaUty and kindness shovm ; aa
also to the perraanent offlcers of the Institute." These
resolutions were aU unaniraously carried, and the congress
was brought to a conclusion with a general expression of
satisfaction at the success and interest of the proceedings.
Later in the day a select party visited Canon's Ashby,
where they were received and hospitably entertained by
Sir Henry and Lady Dryden. The risitors were con
ducted over the Abbey and grounds both by the leamed
baronet, who described the same, and by Mr. Hartshorne,
much to their pleasure and profit, and so concluded one
the most interesting meetings ever held by the Institute.

A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY
CF TUB
|o«Jit and |onnlg of |oHhamulon ;
BBIBa
^ |apjr f eab at t^t S&jning Conkrsajioitt
OF
THE AmfUAL MEETING
OF
S^^e iiogal §.rrIj»oIogicaI Institute
Of Great Britain and Ireland,
BBLD IH
THE TOWN HALL, AT NORTHAMPTON,
Ok Feidat, ihb 2sd August, 1878.

BY
THE REV. WILLIAM MONK, M.A.,
St. John's College, Cambridge,
AaaociATE op the Royal Genealogical and Historical Societt ot
Great Britain,
Late Hon. Sec, to the Society of Antiquaries for the Copntt
of Northampton, F.S.A., F.R.A.S.,
Sditoe of Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures,
Rector, of ¦Wymington, &c., &c.

NOBTHAUPTOK :
TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
W8.

a Sftetcf) of tlje l^istarg of ti&e SCobitt anb
Countg of Wottfjampton.

Mr. Monk said ; My Lord President, Ladies, and
G entlemen : The Emperor Charles V . uf Germany, when he
V anted some historioal work, is reported to have usually
demanded, " Bring me my iiur." I'ielding declares as
follows ; — '* Everything w ich the historian writes,
excepting his names aud dates, is false ; all that the
novelist pens, with the same exceptions, is true." Severe
criticisms these, with a vengeauoe, on tUe historioal
faculty and function 1 One muy hope that thia sketch of
the history of the great town and county of Nortbampton
may prove to be a variation from such a vindictive rule ;
for truth, in the outline, or at the bottom, is the great
charm even of fiction, and of poetry in particular, as
well as of all tbe ranges of human effort aud conclusion
in general. My plan in this paper is as follows : 1 do not
propose to weary you with a monotonous resume of those
facts and dates with whioh everyone is familiar, and
wbioh can be found in any topograpliical handbook or
gazetteer. I design, rather, to seize on the striking^ land
marks in this history, whence to draw iuterences aud
data, and whence to illustrate human motive, influeuce,
and action, as well as to indicate providential inter
positions from the memoirs of some ot those exempUrs
who have been natives of, or connected with, this town
and county, or whose works or deeds have helped to im
mortalise their memories, and to perpetuate their glories.
If I sketch the glowing outline, or indicate the materials
of the moving panorama of this history, perhaps you, at
your leisure, will hll in the picture with your owu more
or less masterly details. But let us not forget what is
involved in this outline and panorama. "You have here
grotesque groupings of local customs — quaint eccen
tricities of humour, thrilling episodes of daring adven
ture, niceties of language, variations of race, changes
and revolutions, time-honoured pagtantries of civic
ceremonial, inspiring periods of dignified prose and of
immortal verse ; the manly sturd.uess of patient in
dustry and of enterprise, the stubborn hardihood of
Anglo-Saxon unreadiness and of JN orman dash, the
sublime inspirations of genius, the thrilling eloquence of
the orator and of the preacher, the ardent aspirations of
devotion, triumphant progresses of perseverance,
the exalted purposes of philanthrophy, the master
ful teachings of self-denial ; the attractions and
repulsions of intrigue, dark machinations of treason,
of assassination, and of crime ; the feverish impulses
of ambition, the astute counsels of statesmen,
the dogmas of philosophers, the heroic struggles
of patriotism, the strategies, the bloody strifes,
and the writhing agonies of battles ; the misfortunes of
persecuted beauty, the gorgeous processions — the haunts
and the homes— of Kings, of Queens, aud of other Eoyal
personages ; the solemn assemblies of Parliaments, and
of religious worship ; the incomparable scenes of natui'e,
and, finally, the irreversible decrees, the grander leadings,
and the dread decisions of Divine Providence. But,
what shall we more say? We may well stay here and
ponder, For, all these, and many more exciting, de-

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pressing, or ennobling agencies, school and confound our
reason, inform our intellect, people our imagination,
stimulate the memory, and electrify the_ whole being
when brought into contact with the majestic throbbings
of those great battling spirits, who, being dead yet speak
to us, and rule us from their tombs with all the irre
sistible sovereignty of their own sceptred sway ; and
when we are made to bow reverently down in the illimit
able vestibule of Almighty God, when contemplating the
beautiful, the infinite, the perfect and the true, all
centering in the vasty universes of the First Great Cause.
In the pursuit of this plan I propose to speak of thia
town and county under the two sections : First, or their
Physical, Geookaphical, and Natural History,
AS WELL AS of their TeADE AND GENERAL Ee-
bottrces ; and, secondly, op their historical
Memorials, together with thfir Ethnolooical,
Genealooical. Bioqbaphical, Social, Political,
and Kklioiotjs Features. Happily for me, what
seems to be too ambitious a design in this paper, on
my part, is largely qualified by two facts, viz., 1st,
X did not choose tbe subject, but it was proposed to
me ; and, secondly, two great factors of the whole
history of the town and county have been eliminated
from this paper, and apportioned to the antiquarian and
arcbi*^ectural seotion, leaving me a modest, but most in
teresting residuum, to which I am but too glad to confine
myself on this occasion ; for, without such an omission, I
had not dared the attempt of compressing so multifarious
a history into so small a space. 1. Op the Physical,
Geoobaphical, and Natural History op the
County, as well as op its Trade and Gpneral
Eesouroes : A south-midland county, about seventy miles
long, varying in breadth from seven to twenty-six miles,
and containing nearly 630,000 acres of land, together
with twenty hundreds and 333 parishes, as well as
chapelries and hamlets. Its watershed is remarkable,
having no less than eight rivulets, or rivers, rising within
its limits. Its climate and soil are well fitted for agri
culture, especially for grazing. It is in the very middle
of England, being bounded by nine other counties, and
having little waste or common ground. The goodness of
its ash timber, and the remains of the once great forests
of Eockingham, Saloey, and i/Phittlebury are to be
noted. There is, too, the old adage of " its spires and its
squires" not to be forgotten. The estates being consider
able, and the farms generally not large. This county
possesses many points of geological interest, being
situated half way between the great belt of the Oolitic and
Liassio formations crossing England trom Dorsetshire on
the south to Yorkshire on the north-east ; the lias forming
its great basal foundation. The clay of the upper lias
is largely nsed for bri' kmaking, palEeontological re
mains being numerous herein. Above the lias are
found the inferior oolite beds of the Northamptonshire
sand, of an «ggregate thickness of about 80 feet, abont
60 feet ofthe lower division of whicb sand contains that
valuable iron ore for which the county is now so famous.
Very high table land lies about Naseby, and the general
character ot the scenery is undulating and attractive. In
that curious old book, Morton's History of Northwrnpton-
thire, are numerous illustrations of the natural history
of the county ; some correct, others not so ; some in-
itructive, and others absurd, but all entertaining Much
more oan be written of the trade and general resources of
thii town and oonnty than need be referred to hei«. Tbe

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gtajile trade— Jthe shoe manufaetnre-^dema'nas primary
notioe. In olden times, the wool-staplers, v^eaVers of
serges, of tammies, and of ' shalloons ¦ were more num'e-
roua than shoemakers. The agrieultiiral returns are
large aud profitable, allovring for the present tem
porary depression of the landed interest. Th'ere
are interesting terra cotta works at Stamford, the
clay being found intermixed with the white silicious sand,
and at CoUyweston and Easton there is a thin bed of
a oaloareo-arenaceous nature, 'which splits up into the
well-known CoUyweston slates, much used fdr roofing.
The 'Weldon stone prevails, like innfcture to the cele
brated Ketton and Casterton stone; also, the Stamford
marble, the Barnack rag, the Al'walton marblej ajid other
buildin? and lime-burning stones are profitably used.
We must speak a little more fully of the ironstone, for
the double reason that it prevails particula!rly in 'these
immediate neighbourhoods, which are now hondured by
the present visit of your great and important liistitute.
It is, too, of so much industrial and commercial- vitlue, in
a national point of view, notwithstanding 311 the positiVe
predictions of the geologists, if adoessiUe coal
beds should be found in the couiity , or iu its more
immediate localities. The iron sttae prevails fu its
greatest thickness near Northa'mpton. It is very rich in
ore at Wellingborough and at Irchester, aiid it is
quarried largely at Duston, Bliswo'th. Grayton, Sto^e-
nine-Churohes, Cogenhoe, Finedon, "WAbdf ord, Thi-ap-
stoh, Crahford, Isham, Wollaston, Irchester, Glendon,
and at other 'places circling round Northampton; there
being, also, large beds at Burton Latimer and elsew-here,
ranging right awiy even as far as Staraford. At 'Finedoii,
glass is being profitably made trom the melted slag, as^it
runs hot from the furnaces. The statistics of this out
put of iron stone are very important, but with' these I
will not here tronble you. In fine, this cbunty is highly
favoured of Frovidenoe in its fertile soil, in its salubrious
climate, in its mineral wealth, in its buildihg stones, and
in its lime, sand, and gravel. Sometimes, absolute fact
confounds abstract science, and investigation paralyses
speculation. Possibly this county maiy becorae the centre
ofthe black country, sending its productions to every
region of the habitable globe. We how pass on; in natural
sequence, to— 2. The Histobical Memorials ot this
Town and County, together with THEfR' Ethno
logical, Genealogical, Bioor^hical, Social, Po
litical, AND Eeligious Features. Pope, the great
contemporary of our equallygreat Ndrthamptonsbire poet,
Dryden, Says : "The proper studyof mankind' is'mafa."
With due limitation this is true. God's twin books of nature
and of revelation agree together. Whilst we give due heed
to these, man, the masterpiece of His creation, at once
is mounted by Almighty wisdom upon the lofty pedestal
of eternity, and there he stands the observer, and theob-
aerved, with all his quenchless consciousnesses, with all
his burden of accountabilities, and with all his matchless
destinies. The main material of history, the child of Pro
vidence, the sorrowing subject of revelation, the object of
redemption, the lord of creation upon earth, and the
favoured heir to the mansions of glory in Heaven. Hence,
of necessity, he is the chiefest element in history, sacred
aud profane. In this stirring age of startling solutions
of historicnl problems, and of propheticnl puzzles — when
history is being made, ar-d prophecy is being fulfilled
daily, weekly, monthly, yearly — we are led to look more
cnnonsly into the historic and sacred page. We scan

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more closely in these latter momentous days Time's che
quered chronicles, and we evolve from all these elements
the hand of God in history, the providence of Jehovah in
prophecy, as well as in the social, moral, political, and re
ligions ferments around us, and then we come to the in
evitable conclusion that " He doeth all things well." In
glancing back into the dim distant ages we are imme
diately met by the usual difficulties about aborigines, and
their doings, conceming whora we need not now much
trouble ourselves. Historv repeats itself in its usual
cycles all the world over, and so it does in Northampton
shire. "That the first Phoenicinn sea-captain ever name
so far inland we cannot say. The Carthaginians shared
the trade of Britain with the Phoenicians ere Eoraan, or
Saion, or Norseman set foot upon our coasts. The tin
mines of Cornwall possibly did not yield their treasures
many ages before tbe iron ores of Northamptonshire were
utilised by our rude forefathers. The Phoenicians found
the land inhabited, but by whom we know not, excepting
that these previous settlers belonged to what is called the
stone age. This age was succeeded hy the bronze age,
nnmerons archaeological specimens having been found to
illustrate both of those periods. Perhaps these earliest
inhabitants were of the Celtic, or Keltic, branch of the
great Aryan family of nations. Were they, or were they
not, of the lost tribes of the House of Israel? Greet
enterprise helped to open up the commerce of Britain, and
to introduce the Eomans, after the fall of Carthage.
Cassar's invasion gives us more precise information. "The
religion of these Ancient Britons was Druidical. This
worship prevailed in every part of the island. Often
times must the sylvan fastnesses of this county have wit
nessed to the savage orgies of these idolatrous riles,
whatever substratum of sublime tmth there might have
been at tbe bottom of all. Bnal was worshipped on the
banks of the Avon, of the Welland, and ofthe Nene, as
well as on those of the Jordan, of the Tigris, and of the
Euphrates. Can we forget that the old Israelites bowed
down to Baal ? Here, too, in these districts under review,
the rites ot Jupiter and of Apollo, of Bacchus, and of
Venus, succeeded those of Baal. The stubborn courage
of the Boman legionary triumphed over the rude valour
of the impetuous Briton. Cunobeline, or Cymbeline,
King of the Trinobantes, probably conquered the Iceni,
who bordered on, and mingled with the Coritavi,
the understood aborigines of this county. Osto
rius Scapula next appears on the scene, the remains
of whose works, at Chester House nnd elsewhere, are the
Bubiects of present explorations and of another paper hy
the Eev. E. S. Baker in connection with these gather
ings. Caractacus, the pattern British chief of our school
histories, was taken captive by the Eomans. The Saxons
appear immediately after the death of Severus. Now
Carausius enters on the defence of the coasts, against the
ravages of the Sea-kings. Early Christianity has taken
deep roots, to be systematised more extensively by the
mission ot St. Augustine. The Britains call in the
Anglo-Saxons to drive out the Picts and Soots. In the
event, ont of all these chaotic elements, you have consoli-
dnted the Anglo-Saxon. race, institutions, and empire, the
pride, the boast, and the envy of the inhabitants of the
globe. But the history of the town and county is neces
sarily hound up in that of the empire. Hence, whilst it
is beside our present purpose for me to attempt general
recitals ot national history, we must still enumerate some
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this town and county. We have to speak of Eoyal visits
and progresses, of battles, of conspiracies, of Parlia
mentary assemblies, and of varied events as they occurred
in these interesting localities. Simon de St. Liz, having
married Maude, a grand-niece of the Conqueror, we may
conclude that the stern monarch paid his visits here.
Henry the First kept high festival at Eastertide ; whilst
Stephen held numerous Councils within the walls ot tne
" Beauty of the Midlands." Many other Councils sat
here during the 12th century, the captive King William,
ot Scotland, having been brought to this place. North
ampton was a favourite aud convenient rendezvous for
the Crusaders, the historical Churoh of St. Sepulchre's
testifying to this fact. Here, doubtless, Coeur de Lion
aud his high-souled heroes refreshed both their vows and
their courage for the dangerous campaigns of the Holy
Wars. Henry the Third held here his Courts, with all
tbe picturesque pomp of mediseval magnificence. So
fond was he of this town that he oame almost every year.
That iron monarch, Edward the First, the brave, the
persevering, the indefatigable; led his victorious veterans
hitherward in passing to and from his Northern wars.
Parliament deliberated here during the reigns of Edward
II., Edward III., and Eichard II., decision and timidity
alternating in the monarchs during these memorable
reigns. The Second Edward, the soft and the carpet-
knight, as well as his magnanimous son. Edward III.,
doubtless, came here, the latter exulting in all the "pomp
and circumstance of war," with mailed knight, with
serried rank, with glittering panoply, with nodding
plume, with fluttering pennon, and with emblazoned
arms, all earnest, and all desperate for war's dreadful
game. We migrate for a moment to the other side of the
county, maintaining our dynastic sequence. Edmund,
the son of Edward the Third, rebuilt and resided at
Fotheringhay, the ominous and tragic, which became a
loved residence of the turbulent House of Tork. Here
was buried Edward, Duke of Tork ; as well were interred
Eichard and Edward Plantagenet, father and son.
Within these walls was born Eichard the Third, of mas
terful genius, of subtile intellect, of undoubted bravery,
but of questionable memory. Eeturning to Northampton,
the Second Eichard, like to the Second Edward and to
the Second Henry, was the vacillating, the fearful, the
tearful, the desponding, the unsuccessful, and the conse
quently unfortunate one, passed the gates with faltering
footfall and with unsteady purpose. Henry the Sixth
and his Queen stayed the night in this town , on the eve
of the Battle of Northampton, the King being brought
back here a prisoner on the following day. Edward the
Fourth varied his visits to the town and county with the
romance of adventure aud of love. At the Queen's Oak,
near to Grafton Honor, he meets incidentally with
Elizabeth Woodville, his destined wife and the mother ot
his children. At Grafton Eegis the bluff Harry toys with
Anne Boleyn, whilst he furtively steps aside to confer
with Campeggio and Wolsey concerning his divorce
from Catherine. The latter, the austere daughter
of Ferdinand and of Isabella, and the aunt of
the Emperor Charles the Fifth — the virtuous woman,
and the faithful wife, who, after residing at Fother
inghay and at Buckden, dies of grief in that state
room at Kimbolton, and lies buried within the
precincts of the county, at Peterborough, near to the
long empty grave of Mary, the Scottish Queen. So is
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suffering, the common lot of all mortals, without respect
to rank, to condition, or to sex. Henry's Eighth wife,
auother Catherine, the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, ia
claimed by this couuty as a native of Green's Norton.
Queen Elizabeth visibed this town and Burleigh iu 1564.
She also journeyed to Kirby. We can picture to ourselves
the pomp and 'bravery of these progresses, and try to
realize a something of the imperious dignity of this
Tudor Queen. But what apology can we offer for
Fotheringhay, the orison house, the death scene, the
thrilling agony of Mary Queen of Soots, the remorseful
shame of Elizabeth, the shuddering anguish of James p
Let us veil the subject with mouraful musings, and dis
miss it with thoughtful thankfulness, in the remembrance
that such unlawful enormities can never again disgrace
our national annals, or blot with avenging blood our
royal escutcheon. James the First, just mentioned,
stayed at Apethorpe, in two of his peregrinations be
tween 'his Scottish and English capitals, where his bust
remains, nresented by himself, as a memento of these
visits. Here he first met vrith 'Villiers, afterwards Duke
of Buckingham, whose portrait, taken after death, we
have seen this afternoon at Castle Ashby,_ whilst his
Queen, Anne of Denmark, on another oocasion, made a
royal pilgrimage to Althorpe. His son Charles— the
heroic, the steadfast, the misunderstood, the betrayed,
leaves his touching memories with this county at Ape
thorpe, at Wellingborough, at Holdenby, and at
Althorpe. Monmouth, the misguided, visited Eushton,
where a room is still named after him. William the
•Third stayed at Apethorpe, as he did at Kimbolton,
where a portrait, a room, and a gallery, still keep him in
remembrance, it was at Kirby that a retreat was provided
for George III., as a precaution against the eventuali
ties of Napoleon's threatened invasion. But last in the
order of time, we have to note the ¦visit, in 1844, both
to Northampton and to Burleigh, of our Empress-Queen,
the estimable and the good, the beloved of her subiects,
the honoured of her contemporaries, and the highly
favoured of Divine Providence in a highly favoured age.
But the battle scene — the dread arbitrament of war ;
" the most arduous of national duties, and the greatest
of national crimes," cannot now be overlooked. This
town and county have not escaped these ravages. Celt
and Briton, Plot and Soot, Eoman, Saxon, and Dane,
Cavalier and Eoundhead — all here have met in deadly en
counter in " the battle of the warrior which is with con
fused noise, and wilh garments rolled in blood." Here
and there mementoes remain of siege, of battle, of strife,
of sank, of storm, of carnagp, as these are found in the
crumbling min, in the nodding wall, in the tumulus,
in the entrenched camp, in the rust-eaten weapon, and
in the tell-tale disiointed skeleton. Arbury bank
shows signs of conflict ; and at Danesmore, near to
Edgcott, tradition declares a battle to have been fought
between the Danes and Saxons, whilst on the same
spot a sanguinary engagement took plaoe in 1469 between
the Welsh, under the Earl of Pembroke, who were de
feated, and the Yorkists. In 1460 was fonght the battle
of Northampton, between the Yorkists and Lancastrians,
in which the latter, after much slaughter, were defeated.
During the Civil War of the Great Eebellion a minor
battle was fought at Middleton Cheney, in 1643, when
the Parliamentarians, as at Edgehill, were defeated. In
June, 1645, occurred the decisive engagement at Naseby, in
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The most memorable of these battles was this at Naseby.
Here, as at Dunbar, Cromwell shone out the consummate
general ; and, here, likewise, he triumphed. This man,
whose life was a hurricane of action, whose death was an
agony of remorse, and whose influences for good and for
evil might have been about equally balanced, stalked
heuce and stole the crown, and the life, and the inheri
tance of his king ; usurpii g for his own body a
traitor's plaoe amongst the illustrious dead in Henry
the Seventh's chapel ; to be afterwards cast out amongst
the bones of felons ; and, realising, in his own case, the
soarcastio inquiry of the Prophet lilijah, made of the guilty
Ahab — " Hast thou killed, and hast thou taken
possession " ? the curse of the manslayer and of the whole
sale robber, culminating on his' own devoted head.
¦When you read Addison's description of his visit to
Westminster Abbey, or (what is better still) when you
go thither yourself, you cannot help feeling mighty stir
rings of soul in contemplating that unique scene of
antiquity, of magnificence, and of mortality. Here are
centred the ashes of the magnanimous dead during the
lapses of ages, from remote times up to thepresent moment
of our chequered national history. Orators, poets, authors,
historians, explorers, warriors, philosophers, philanthro
pists, artists, architects, navigators, kings, queens, and
other royal personages, all realise here the sublime decla
ration of the prophet Job, how that " the small and the
great" lie in the tomb. Amidst that silent but impres
sive gathering repose, side by side, the mouldering
remains of three'Queens, viz-, of Elizabeth, of her sister
Mary, Queen of England, and of her cousm Mary, Queen
of Scotland. What a tempestuous torrent of rivalries
and of differences demeaned their lives ! What sublime
associations ennoble the peaceful solitude of their graves
slumbering amidst the roar of the million-peopled city !
We hereupon learn this lesson, in reviewing tiie career of
those who have gone on before us, in summarising the
biographical history of this town and county of M orth-
ampton. We have to thiuk of, and to deal charitably
with, the dead, as well as with the living, however much
we differ frora them in our own views and conclusions, iu
all the varied arcana of human thought and of human
knowledge. But the Almighty's estimate of the extreme
value cf biography is practically given to us in the large
way in which it enters into the inspired pages of the
Holy Scriptures. Henoe, in our references here to the
dead, we can well reduce to practice that noble dictum
which I heard the late Bishop Wilberforce utter in the
Sheldonian Theatre, at Oxford, on the occasion of the
inauguration there of the Central African Mission, wheu
he spoke of Livingstone as a Presbyterian working with
the members of the Church of England in evangelising
Africa. The Bishop, with oue of his happiest impulses,
said: "'He (Livingstone) is one of those great spirits in
whom the master truths of Christianity have eaten out
the sectarian element." We can profitably keep that
sentiment in view in a biographical history such as we
have before us. In alluding to the battles and to the
connections of Eoyalty with this town and county, we
find the chronological order to be the most convenient ;
but in this biographical sketch, grouping under heads
will be the best. In carrying out this plan, the public
benefactors seem to come to the front. It is striking to
notice the number of founders of colleges who present
themselves. All honour to the town, to the county, and
to the Midlands ! Let ns begin with Eoyalty. Qneeu

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Elizabeth Woodville, before mentioned, completed the
foundation of Queen's College, left unfinished by Margaret
of Anjou, Consort of Henry VI., who himself founded
Eton College, with King's and Christ's, in the same
University of Cambridge. Here, too, we may venture
across the border, and notioe how that Lady Margaret
of Bletsoe, Elizabeth WoodvUle's daughter, mother
of Henry VII., re-founded my owu College, St. John's,
as also Christ's, at Cambridge ; whilst Sir Walter Mild
may, herein alluded to, founded Emmanuel College in
1584. But Archbishop Chicheley, of Higham Ferrers,
not only rebuilt that noble ohurch and founded his
College and Hospital there, but also his genius and muni
ficence established the great Colleges ia Oxford of St.
John's and of All Souls'. Sir Edward Montague, Baron
of Boughton, was a bountiful benefactor to Sidney
College, in about 1640, as was also his son, Bishop
Montague. The Eev. Eichard Newton, of Yardley
Hastings, founded Hertford College, Oxford, in 1753.
The Eev. Thomas Seaton gave his Kislingbury estate for
the foundation of the Seatonian prize at Cambridge.
Last, but by no means the least, we cannot orait the
noble donation of Earl i'itzwilliam of his library and
pictures and of ^6100, 000, for the establishment of that
most beautiful museum, the Fitzwilliam, at Cambridge.
Hence, eight of the noble foundations of onr two great
Universities have been founded or re-founded by North
amptonshire worthies, viz., five at Cambridge and three
at Oxford, besides the Fitzwilliara Museum and other
endowments. If such a spirit were contagious just
now, we might get some help for the Selwyn College.
It is irapossible here to enuraerate the names of all the
benefactors, in founding schools and charities, within
this town and county. Of illustrious naraes, since
Fuller's tirae, we raust memorialize, as Northampton
natives, more or less noteworthy, Doddridge, Gill,
Whitby, the well-known commentators ; Alban Butler,
Parkhurst, Coles, Gunton, Manning, Bishop Parker, as
historians and lexicographers ; Carey, Samuel Clarke,
Johu Newton, Paley, Bishop Wilkins, Woolston, and
Henry Law, as divines, orientalists, and philosophers;
John Dryden, Chapone, Welsted, Clare, and "William
Lisle Bowles, as poets ; and surely, we cannot forget
Fuller himself— a worthy— the author of The Worthies.
In a biographical sketch, extending over so wide a
range, it is difficult to mention every one deserving
distinction ; but one thing is very certain, that there
are great irrepressible spirits, who, in their owu
imperial way, signalise themselves ; for it is impossible
for any one to be possessed of great abilities
without being aware ot so coveted a possession, and with
out, m some way or other, displaying these abilities The
town and county of Northarapton claim their inheritance
ot sorae ot the choice spirits, whose naraes and deeds
and productions .are worid-wide, and belong to all tirae
The conqueror himself was a raan of infinite powers'
although his moral qualities were low. Simon de St Liz'
his great nephew-in-law, the paternal benefactor to this
town, was evidently a man of liberal ideas and of
generous irapulses. A'Beoket stands forth, with all hia
accoraplishments with his towering spirit and indomitable
energy, indissolubly connected with this town. Chichelev
cannot, in conscience, be forgotten; neither can Eichard
III. nor Wolsey, dying so uear at hand, the one at
Bosworth, the other at Leicester. We now corae to the

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days of Elizabeth. She was a woman of commanding
genius, alth<mgh she was afflicted with some of the worst
faults of her father. In seeing through other people ; in
putting thera into their right places ; and, in employing
their faculties the best fitted to that position, is an un
erring attribute of genius. She, like Louis Quatorze and
the First Napoleon, exercised this faculty in an eminent
degree. 'Hence, under God, in apportioning such extra
ordinary lights to her and to her age, she. was enabled to
display this instinct in choosing and in using her gifted
instruraents. She was not a fool amongst fools, but a wise
woraan amongst wise raen. Walsinghara, the two Bacons,
Burleigh, were her statesmen, whilst Ealeigh, Frobisher,
Drake, and others, with the inooraparable poets, Shake
speare and Spenser, brightly adorned her reign. No
less thanfive of these extraordinary raen wereNorthampton-
shire worthies, whom we cannot uow overlook, as being
of her illustrious band — Burleigh, Hatton, Mildmay, and
Yelverton, as well as Spenser, as being araongst her raost
remarkable worthies. Time presses now to pass on to Jaraes
I. Here we descend frora the noble and exalted to the
wicked depths of assassins and of traitors. Too, in order
that we may have the disagreeables altogether, we will
put Empson — the disreputable screw-wrench of Henry
VII., of a century earlier— amongst the fitting company of
the gunpowder conspirators. Herein we mast confess
that this county bears an unenvi^lde notoriety. Vaux
and Tresham, and Catesby, and Mordaunt, and Digby,
were Northnraptonshire men, or nearly so. But the
puzzle is, how ihat Sir Francis Treshara, with all his
gifts and graces, could have joined such a plot. We
cannot now say more of Charles I., or of Cromwell, than
has been said, but we oan think the more deeply. In
summarising notable Northaraptonshire worthies, our
instincts will steal over the boundary into Bedfordshire and
Buckinghamshire, to Bunyan and Cowper, but we must
forbear. The Montagues have left their mark in our midst.
I have already spoken of two, but we must raention
Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax, poet, philosopher,
scholar, statesman, and the right - hand man of
Williara III. Of Divines, Doddridge, Gill, Whitby, Park
hurst, Clarke, Paley, Hervey, and Law, with Bishops
Wilkins, Morton, Dolben, and Percy, stand forth an
erainent group. Perhaps the most wonderful raan of
these was Carey, the founder of the Baptist raissious in
India. Concerning poets, we need siraply to mention the
narae of John Dryden to stir up our poetical syrapathies.
Bridges and Baker deraand their place, as in our day,
in archEeological research, do Hartshorne, De Wilde,
and James, as well as Spencer Joshua Alwyne, 2nd
Marquis of Northampton. But, now, two moving
spirits must close our too meagre biographical suraraary,
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. If not
with us, they are of us, and I dare to say that no
Briton would, if he could undo the severance of the
United States, the somewhat irritable, but loyal
daughter, from the venerable raother land ; or replace
with the royal standard of Great Britain Columbia's
spangled banner, emblazoned with its stars and stripes,
if borrowed from the time-worn heraldry of a Northarap
tonshire escutcheon. But tbere is one worthy for whom
tears are uot yet dry, and for whom sorrows are not yet
healed— the late Chancellor of the ExchecLuer, the Eight
Honourable George Ward Hunt, Of the living it were in-

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Tidioui to speak, hnt this county ia bleated with a kind
and munificent nobility ; a gifted and energetic bishop ;
an unobtrusive and faithful clergy ; a friendly and hos
pitable gentry ; incorruptible officers of State ; and a
loyal and industrious people. These characteristics of
this county are those of most other counties iu the United
Kingdom. The heart of the old country still beats with
the throbbings of youthful vigor, and the predictions of
the prophets of evil, of her approaching decline and
fall, as yet will not be fulfilled. Britain's destined raission
is not yet accoraplished. The forshadowings of more
eminent pinnacles of greatness tower high above the surge
of things around and about us. Her beneficence and
charity, and fair plav, and philanthrophy, and, pre-emi
nently, her Christianity, have still to hein to usher iu the
glorious universal reign of the Prince of Peace. But, iu
fine, we have to speak of libraries, and let us close with
books. There is the public library in this county town of
considerable extent and usefulness, but there is that raag-
nificent and unique private library at Althorpe — so rich
in printed copies of the Word of God. What a heritage
have we in books ! Herein are stereotyped the wisdom of
the immortal dead and of the living, as well as the lively
oracles of Almighty God, treasured up in imperishable
pases for the use of genius, of discovery, of in
vention, of industrv, of progress, and of holiness.
The might of the mailed hand is as nothing when com
pared with the wizard power of the pen. "True science
and true philosophy are hereby shown to us to be not the
foes but the handmaidens of true religion. 'When in a
large library, in what an august presence chamber do we
stand. We can realise in such corapany the burning
words of Hazlitt : — " Books more wonderful than the
wishing cup of the Arabian talps transport us instantly
not only to all seasons, but to all times. Books can con
jure up to vivid existence all the good and grent men of
antiquity, and for individual satisfaction can make them
act over again the most renowned of their exploits.
Orators declaim, historians recite, and poets sing, in a
word, frora the eqnator to the pole, from the beginning
of time until now by books, as by a miracle, the reader may
be where he pleases " But, my Lord President, whether
there be wisdom, it ahall fail ; whether there be tongues,
they shall cease: whether there be knowledge, it shall
vanish a.way. When the beauteous sceneries of this our
owu_ earth, with her solemn woods, ber honry roi'ks, her
sentimental solitudes, and her ocean heaving heavily, shall
all have been dismantled ; when, ofthe illurainated seroll
of hiatory, with its erabattled hosts, its gorgeous cities,
and its escutfiheoned dynasties, nothing shall have re
mained, save ita spiritual eleraents — then Christian char
acter alone shall survive the renovating fires of the universe,
passing frora _ finite to infinite, from measurable to im
measurable, in the enlarged , enraptured faculties of the
blossed dead, when our indefinitely developed faculties
shall overlook all the philosophies, all the histories, and
all the knowledge of earth, in the fuller grasp of God's
inscrutable wisdora, the raiddle links alone of which
are seen by clouded mortals, but the first and last
of whose dazzling succession are hidden in the re
fulgent splendours of His adamantine throne.

lag^Utttng of <§k &mtli ^ntoto.

My Opinion at the Assises in Northampton de
maunded in Court touching the poysoning
of Sr Euseby Andre-w more fully ratified.
Also, My Euidence in open Court deliuered at
the Assizes at Northampton 3 seueral
times upon Commaunde.

By iohn cotta, of Northampton,-
Doctor in Physicke.

From the original MS. in possession of Sir Charles Isham, Bart., at
Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

|(orl|(ampton ;
TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.

1881.

j^ F^EFACE.

To Sir Charles Isham, Bart, our best thanks are due for the
loan of the original MS., with permission to publish it in the series
of our Northamptonshire Tracts, of this relation of the Poysoning of
S' Euseby Andrew, which forms one of the treasures of his unique and
invaluable Library at Lamport.
The following Autograph Note is on the cover of the MS. :
"Nov. 9. 1733. This MS. belongs to Sir Justinian Isham, Bart.
Tho : Hearne."
In Reliquice Hearniance, Vol. 11., p. 787, Oxford, 1857, is
recorded, 1733 : "Nov. 10. Sir Justinian Isham hath a little 4to MS.
ou paper, which I read over yesterday, being delivered to me by his
brother Dr. Euseby Isham, rector of Lincoln college, being Dr. John
Cotta's opinion about the death of sir Euseby Andrew. The D'^ [Cotta]
thus intitles it, ' My opinion at the assizes in Northampton demanded
in court, touching the poysoning of S' Euseby Andrew, more fully
satisfied.' Signed John Cotta, and then he adds, 'My evidence in open
court delivered at the assizes at Northampton 3 several times upon
commande.' "
Ant. a Wood makes mention of Dr. Cotta in his Ath. Ox., ed.
Bliss, Vol. I., p. 104, as the author of several curious Books relating to
Witchcraft. Cotta was " Doctor of Physicke " in Northampton.
The following Note appears in the MS. of this interesting
narrative : " S' Euseby Andrew descended of a very ancient Family, for
several Generations seated at Charwelton, in Northtonshire, -was son
of Thomas Andrew, Esq., by Mary his wife, daughter of Gregory
Isham, and sister to S'' Euseby Isham, of Pichely and Braunston in Co
Northt. The which Thomas being Sheriff of Northamptonshire
attended (according to Cambden) upon Mary Queen of Scots to her
execution at Fotheringhay Castle. S' Eusebie Andrew married Anne,
daughter of S"' Richard Knightley, of Fauesley, by his second Lady
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, L*
Protector, and as appears by y' Inquisition post mortem, died on the
last day of July. 17. Jacob, leaving Edward his son and heir eleven
years of age." /

JOHN TAYLOR.

Northampton, January, 1881.

r r

My Opinion at the Assises in Northampton
demaunded tn Court touching the poysoning
of S' Euseby Andrew more fully ratified.
My first reason that bredd suspition
was for that S' Euseby Andrew did
not seeme to me to die of that disease
whereof he had so long before langui
shed but of another kinde.
That he died of another kind is manifest
First, for that the last disease wherof
he died was an acute sharpe and
swift disease. The first disease wherof
he had so long before languished was a
Chronicke lingring disease, into which
two kinds Phisitions do diuide all
^mt^il^Xtt diseases.^ That the last disease was
Morb generib. ^j^ acuts discase is manifest, for that
Gal. Com. in '
Aph,«.Lib.4. as is the manner^ of an accute disease J;q°°t;;fnrm^do
it was in his motion swift and in his "toeierite
. , . moueant Bed ut . , .
accidents and qualitie sharpe. This 
was planely seene, for that immediatly
after the approch of this latter, disease
Sr Euseby Andrew was driuen to
keepe his Chambre, was unable to
stand upon his leggs, to sett up in
his bedd to turne him in his bed
wherby a generail extrearae
anxietie and distresse of all his
body by continuall uehement faintings
and soundings, by extreme torment of

of his stomake sides and gutts, he was
in few daies compelled to yeild up the
Ghost. jlorbi dinturni
. • 1 • J J aut Chronioi tarde
That the first disease was in kind and mouentur propter
like this, is as manifest, for that (as artvi^Sem™
is the nature of a Chronicke disease) ^^It^^^^^'^^''^*
it was in his motion slow, and in <">'^ ¦ ™ -ipi"- «.
... 1 11 Ijib, 4.
his accidents and quahtie dull
wherwith Sr Euseby was able usually
to walke abroade, to ride abroade,
keepe company, to discourse, to take
Tabaceo. That the latter disease was of an
other kind differrent from the first,
is yet farther manifest, namely for
that it had accidents which were
not in the first, that is a blacknes
of the tonge, sorenes, and rawnes
of the throate, and a fresh Excoria
tion in the stomake found after his
3. Ergo ulcus non dcccase. That blacknes of the tonge.
erat quippe ulcus . r -i i
eit aoiatio cont. . . sorcucs aud rawucs of the throate
quJeTpartisdirisio ^^ the first dlseasc I did not obserue.
Me!h.M^d.t...raThe excoHation in the stomake I
igitur erat eioori- am assurcd could be no companion of
»tio qu» est ...._¦ . - ^
tantam of the first discase. The reason is for
ablutio. Exibat .i . i . , '
tamen Sanguis per ttiat upou the parte excooate (the
8^anfiSp.,. tenu. blak ^ blood that couered it, beinge L'p3"o"el
arnmoorrodente gep.tly Wiped away) there appeared Telitpari m d.
under it no inequahtie, no uneuenes, «<""?««¦ M<«i-»M-
, ¦'' ' Loc. lib. o. cap.j.
no solution, no diuision of the naturali"
continewed union of the parte, no
festering, no corruption, no hoUownes
rio matter or ulcer, but only a fresh

fresh bleeding which certainly doth
demonstrate a fresh or greene exco
riation, and therfore no companion of
the first disease. It seemeth therfore
a necessarie conclusion both from
the differrent kinds of the first and
second disease, as also from accidents
which were in the latter and not in
the first, that Sr Euseby Andrew
died not, of that disease wherof he had
sp long before languished, but of an
other kind.
If he died of a new disease there was
a new cause, and that remaineth to
be enquired into whether Poyson yea
or noe, which in my opinion may too
iustly be doubted, for these reasons
following The first reason is for that in the stomake
of Sr Euseby Andrew, after his decease,
was found an usuall effect of a Corroding
fretting Poyson namely an excoriation
in the stomake before mentioned with
out any probable or manifest cause
therof within the body. That there was
no manifest or probable cause therof
within the body doth seeme to me.
First for that in my uiew and sighte
therof, there was nether the substance
nor any relique, nor the staine or
discolour of any inbred humour in or
upon or neare the part excoriate which
in all ulcers of that kind or excoriations coVciusa morbi' "
is impossible.* Secondly for that as there tTrl"i™bstanu!,'
was nether staine nor substance, of "i colore.
any

any inbred humour, so of some outward
corroding matter, there were manye
presumptions in Court deposed, namely
a Bason and Porringers stained, the
bason staininge gellie in the takinge
disliked, distasted after the takinge,
within short time cast up againe, and
after it following extreme purginge
uomiting, torments of stomake sides
and gutts, continewing untill death
wherof were many witnesses of note
and worth.
The second reason is for that the ex
coriation found in the stomake had so
suspitiousa proportion withthe suspected
gellie, which was deposed in Court, to
staine the Bason and Porringers and
speedily after the taking to cause Sir
Euseby Andrew to grow sick, to purge
to uomit, to be extremely tormented
in stomake sides and gutts.
The first liquour of the suspected gellie
was all cast away and fresh liquor
was added unto the same ingredients
both which were in Court deposed.
Compare this exceeding quaHfication of
the suspected gellie and the short stay
therof in the stomake of Sr Euseby
(which was likewise deposed) with the
slendernes of the excoriation, afld it
will produce a uery great likenes
betwene the one as the cause, and the
other as the effect. The excoriation
was before described to haue bene
uery superficial! without any ulcer
depth

depth, hollownes, flaw, or uneuenes.
Proportionable hereto seemed the
short stay of the suspected gellie
in the stomake, and likewise the
strengthe therof refract and exceedingly
abated by casting away the first liquor
wherin was the first maine tincture
and force thereof. * • "in qnaounque
quantitate sumi*
The third reason is, for that as the rdicamrn^um'
stomake of Sr Euseby was found exco- at<>tos°° genere
J nocet licet magis
riate so not long nor many dayes before "«' "'""^ p"»
-' ^ auantitate maiore
his death the usuall passages downe uei minore n«m
¦ , ,1 , 1 .•, . ,. necesse est ut
into the stomake were hkewise disco- aiiquaiissit
loured raw and sore, namely the omTinrsumatur.
tonge was black the throate sore ltlt'^et.v^^.
and raw, as Sr Euseby did ofte com-
plaine. Of this blacknes of the tonge
sorenes and rawnes of the throate
there appeared no manifest cause
within the body. This was manifeste.
The usuall causes within the bodye
produceing theis effects, are inward
inflammations and scalding, boyling
and burning, essential! feauers, which
necessarily do alter the pulse, in
magnitude, celeritie, or crebritie, as
also the urine in substance, or colour,
or both. The pulse of Sr Euseby Andrew
was scarse at all altered from his
former wont, except only sometimes
intermitting, in his sounding fitts.
The urine was uerie litle altred
in colour or substance as I suppose
may be testified, by two other Phisi
tions who were present some few
bowers before his death. If it be
haply

• "Ventriculi sen
sus est exquisi-
tissimuB per se
et propter ner-
uos quos habet
a sexto pari.

obieot.

haply obiected that the Scorbut produced
those Staines sorenes, and rawnes in the
mouth and throate. Let it be withall
considered, whether the number and
weight of signes and presumptions of
poyson doe not by many degrees weigh
downe that one of the Scorbut.
4- The fourth reason is, for that beside the
excoriation in the stomake there was no
other so manifest cause founde in any
other principall part within the bodye of
that generail uexation and distresse of
that continuall torment of stomake sides
and gutts of that continuall faintinge
and soundinge of Sr Euseby Andrew.
The lounges were in their substance
founde without either inflam[OT]ation or
apostemation, onely some outward parts
were withered and drye. The hart was
onely uery fatt. The Spleene was free
from exception. The liuer onely was
puffed and on the gibbose part some
what spotted. The gall was onely said
to be uerye small or wasted much.
It is against art or reason for a
Phisition who ueweth the manifest
excoriation in the stomake (a part so
sensible and of so exquisite sense) to
seeke a remote cause of the torments of
the stomake of uomiting and uehement
purging of foundinge and faintinge either
in withered Lounges, puffed Liuer or
wasted gall.
It may be obiected that Sr Euseby
Andrew

Andrew in his first lingringe Chronicke
disease had purginge uomitinge faintinge
paine in his stomake before there was
any suspition of poysoninge.
It is true yett did the purginge uomi
tinge faintinge and paine of the stomake
which was in his Chronicke disease
manifestly differ in the manner and
remission from that which came after
the mention and suspition of poyson
which in the intention and uehemence
farr exceded it, as was seene apparently
both by another Phisition who in his
former disease had geuen councell and
by many other Spectators of note. The
same accidents in kinde by their inten
tion and remission and by their
differrent manner and causes do
both produce and indicate different
species of diseases. For example
heat thirst and idlenes of braine
are seene both in an intermittinge
Tertian, and in an exquisite burning
or ardent feauer, but by their
intermission and remission are
knowne when propre unto the Tertian
and by their intention without
intermission when propre or proceed
ing from the ardent feauer. They
are likewise distinguished by their
[ardent-*] different causes. The heate
and thirste of the Tertian proceeding frora
[* Crossed through.]

from choler putrifyeinge without the
veines, and the heate and thirst of
the ardent Feauer, from choler putrif-
ieing within the veines doth offer a
raanifest distinction and difference.
It is therefore graunted that Sr Euseby
Andrew had before the mention or
suspition of poysoninge purginge
uomitinge faintinge paines of the
stomake, but they were much different
and easily distinguished from those
which came after the mention of
poysoning both by the uehemence
and intention of the latter, and also
by the manifest discouery of another
more forcible and likely cause namely
an excoriation in the stomake which
was before proued to haue bene no
possible companion of the first disease.
The fift reason is, for that all the notumtua'"'
signes of poyson, which all concurring '^^Zl^Lr
are euer and only propre unto ai>ade»">n«tr-
. , - ant quo tem-
Poyson taken from without, and not pore sumuntm.
.,-, ....... . Alia docent post
unto royson bredd within were in quamsmnpt*
Court deposed to haue bene founde -MercariXubj.
in or aboute Sr Euseby Andrew ««n<«'-c«p.6.
euen as they are usually by Physitions
published. The signes by Physitions
published are of 3 kinds.
The fifst are signes of Poyson goeinge
before the Poyson taken, glueing
Occasion of suspition.
The

nen.

9
2. The Second are signes of poyson with
the poyson arguinge the time of takinge
it.
. The third are signes of poyson after
the poyson^taken,
Signes of the first]^kind and goeinge
before the poyson taken are these.
i.jBginet.ub. , Any ucnemous poysoning or poyson-
6.jsp. 27(ie some creature obserued neare or aboute
the uessells or meates or drinkes of
the sicke.
Staines or unusuall discolours follow- ^Hyerommm
2, , . ,, . Mercurialis,
mge in any usuall meates or drinkes nb.j.deuen.
of the sicke, or in the uessells containing
them without any probable or manifest
cause therof, in any knowne or allowed
ingredient Bason and Porringers were deposed
to haue bene stained wherin Sir
Euseby Andrew his gellie was kept
without any cause therof in any knowne
ingredient. Signes of the second kind with the
poyson arguinge the time of takinge ai'e
these Any unusuall tast^ or smell in usuall 3. qui suspioan.
« . , . . . P . . , tur venenam
'• norishments mamrestly round, without caueantsiM
111 • r . .1 racibis domin-
any probable or manifest cause therot antium sapomm
in any knowne or allowed ingredient. ^*i°tt™Tb e
It was deposed in Court that Sr Euseby 'Z,^;l^,
Andrew distasted the suspected gellie o^nnafen.
which stained the bason and porringers,
as soone as it was receaued into his
mouth. The

IO

Obieot.

Answ.

The reason of the distaste nor of
the staining of the uessells in any
alowed or knowne ingredient, is not
as yet made knowne.
After such distasted^ norishments i. gsi. e.de
taken into the body, sodaine sicknes ^™- "'''-' ¦
following fainting, sounding, purging
uomiting torments of stomake, sides
gutts, and the like, the body before
being in health or free from those
accidents. That Sr Euseby Andrew had the
former signes or accidents after
the taking of the suspected gellie
was in Court deposed.
It may be obiected that Sr Euseby
Andrew was not before in health
and therfore this signe, doth not hold
in him.
I Answere; A man is saide to be in
health ether absolutely as free from all
diseases (which no man or uery few
can affirme) or respectiuely or in
regard of this or that particular
disease. Sr Euseby Andrew was
not in health in regard of his
dropsie or Scorbut or any other
nominated disease, but he was in
health in regard of his last disease,
and the accidents therof untill he
did take the suspected gellie, as is
in the 4. reason prooued. r Signes

II
Signes of the third kind or after
the poyson taken are these.
I. First the usuall passages in the
stomake ether excoriate or raw^ or pebrptt.""
discoloured or the like, namely the
mouth the tonge or throate, without
any manifest cause therof within the
body. That Sr Euseby Andrew his tonge
was black, and his throate sore, and
faw, was partly complained by hira
selfe while he lined, and partly seene
by othefs, and as I conceaue is not
denied by any. Whether there were
any probable or manifest cause therof
within the body, I subraitt unto the
iudgment of any indifferent reader
who pleaseth to consider the second
and third reasons goinge before.
3. A second signe of poyson' of the third ^H't^'"'
kind or after the poyson taken is, Staines
or spotts, or swellinges in the body,
without any inward cause therof
within the body.
In Sr Euseby Andrew was seene
Staines or spotts upon his liuer
and in his mouth, but whether
without probable cause therof within
the body I referr unto the consideration
of the number and weight of the
signes of poyson from without.
3. A third signe of poyson of the third
kind, is any excoriation of the gutts or

i 2

or storaake found, after the decease
of the sicke, without any probable
dr manifest cause therof within the
body. That there was an excoriation found
in the storaake of Sr Euseby is -not
denied. That there was no probable or
manifest cause therof within the
body is in the first reason subraitted
unto Indlfferrent iudgment, namely
for that there -was no inbredd humor
to be discerned or seene in or aboute
or nere the part excoriate ether
by the colour or substance of such
humour. Contrariwise there were
many signes, of some corrodlnge
matter or poyson taken frora ,
without in or about Sr Euseby •
Andrew as hath bene prooued by
depositions in Court. The signes
deposed were these. First a bason
and Porringers stained with a
gelHe. Secondly Sr Euseby
Andrew his distaste of that geUIe
as soone as it was in his raouthe.
Thirdly his growing extreme sicke
iraraediately after it was swallowed
downe. Fourthly after his growing
sicke a ueheraent purging and
uomitinge, a fainting, and sounding
and extrerae torraents of his
storaake sides and gutts, from
which

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plnribns signis
sinsdem generis
simnl fastis
non Bolnm
species nel ge
nus moibi com-
pertiuB erit
nem quoque
e gi^itudo
ipains cognosci
tur. Gal. com.j.
in prorrhet.

which accidents in that intense
and uehement degree, he was
formerly free as was deposed
in Court by a Physition whorae
he had forraerly used and who
did see hira in his last extreraes
likewise, and as I ray selfe do know.
Thus all signes of poyson taken frora
without concurring and so many
circunstances consenting in one
and the selfe same kind and affirraation,
I suppose, I haue sufficiently raade
good ray opinion. Those signes are
raost certaine and infallible which
do euer and only signifie and
point out one and the selfe sarae
kinde of disease, as sayeth Galen* „ _,. .
' J oertissims aunt
comment, i, in Prorrhet sect. 4. signa qu«.
perpetuo et
The signes before raentioned to be "i» ""«'*•
found in or about Sr Euseby Andrew
do all concurring togeather euer and
only signifie that kind of disease
which ariseth frora poyson taken
frora without and not bredd within.
Therfore Sir Euseby Andrew
his disease accorapanied with all
those signes concurring did arise
frora poyson taken from without and
not bredd within. My

My Opinion in this cause. I was
by authoritiei commaunded to deliuer
and by oth was bound to speake the
truth of my iudgment and opinion.
And I take it the office of euery
honest Physition to speake the
truth in the behalfe of his distressed
Patient espetially by hiraselfe when
dying therto required. This I hope
will satisfie all intelligent ingenuous'
minds.
John Cotta.

»5

My Euidence in open Court deliuered at the
Assizes at Northampton 3 seueral times
upon Commaunde.
I was sent for by Sir Euseby
Andrew, in his last extreraitie
wherof he died twice. First by
his Apothecary Nicholas Rawlins
upon the Sunday before his death.
Secondly by his seruant Euseby
Barbon upon the Tuesday before
he died. I carae then unto him
altogether ignorant of any proiect
matter or mention of Poyson. After
my coming he tolde rae as he was
able, in weake manner of fainting
speach that I was welcome and that
he desired to speake with me before
he died. After these wordes uttered
or unto that purpose, I left him a while
and went downe to seeke my seruant.
When I returned, he asked me
whether I had euer seene him sick
forraerly in that strange raanner
and torment wherin nowe he was.
My Answere was that I had neuer
seene him in that raanner. He then
tolde rae, that he had bene torraented
in that raanner euer since he h^-d
taken a broth or gellie. I

I deraaunded who gaue hira that
gellie, whether his Physition. He
Answered no, but saled there was
fault therin, and further at that
time did not proceede, his strength
sences and speech so farr fayHnge
that no life was expected a greate
space. Vpon certaine ¦Cordialls
adralnlstred he beyond all expectation
both of my selfe and all presente
obtained unexpected ease and rerai-
ssion of his extreraities a large tirae
though not freed from thera. Vpon
this hope by hira conceaued of his
recouery the next day he abruptly
uttered unto rae these wordes,
videlicet Doctor how ara I behol[d]ing
unto yow, I hope now I shall Hue.
If I Hue I will discouer the
strangest practise or wonder that
was euer heard of in Northampton
shire, but If I die, God wUl reuenge
it, and I hope ray brothers wIH caU
ray wronge into question. Hereto
I Answered nothing, that day or
the next, (I do not remeraber
whether) ; he relapsed againe
and then uttered these wordes unto
me videlicet ; Good Doctor Iett me
goe

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with you unto Northampton, I
obiected his weakenes for such
a Journey, and his unfittnes, he
saied he raight be carried in his
Coatch with a bed therin. And
the iourney being obiected, as too
much for hira, he -then desired he
might goe unto Dauentree being
neare hand, wherin while I seeraed
not forward to satisfie him, he
burst out into these speeches j I
ara not safe, I ara not secure iri<H
ray owne house; I would I were
a poore Sheppard that I raight
He in the fieldes. After the passions
uttered, (the distance of tirae I do
not remeraber) the Ladie Andrew
his wief carae unto hira and had
some speeche with hira, (but what
it was I do not now reraeraber)
but his reply was It is enough
for yow that I haue desired it, but
since yow braue rae in ray owne
house and in this poore distresse
wherin I am, get yow from rae,
and corae no raore at rae, untill I
sende for yow. Yow make her
(quoth he) yowr bedfellow yowr
companion, I wott she is no
companion for yow; At another time

time Sr Euseby fallinge into a
new passion because Mistris Moyle
was not remoued out of his house
the Lady Andrews intreated me
to tell him that M"' Moyle was
gone, which I was loth to say
because I knew the contrary, I
notwithstanding to quallifie his
discontented raoanes and complaints
did teU hira that I did heare that
she was gone, which ray Ladye
confirraing likewise unto hira, he
suddenly and wishly looked up
and saied yow lie, yow knowe
she shall not goe, Aboute the
same time or before, I do not weU
reraeraber, it was bruted by some
in the house that Sr Euseby did
talke idly, which he understand
ing by whorae or what raeanes (I
knowe not) he did call me unto
him, and wishing sorae that stoode
neere, to stande a part, he uttered
these wordes vIdeHcet Doctor, they
would raake yow beleeue that I
do talke idly, but because yow
shall know, that I do not talke
idly, I wiH glue yow ray reasons
why I suspecte M"' Moyle. He

He then related that Jaqulnto
had told hira of a bason stained
with a geUIe, wherinto M™ Moyle
had cast salt; that Jaqulnto told
him she was a bad woman, and
raeant hira no good, and warned
Mistris Francis his daughter, to
take heede that M"'" Moyle came
not neare her Fathers brothes or
gellies. He further saied that she
was too officious aboute him, to
rise at 3 or 2 a clock to giue him
gelHe or broth. He saied further
that after his taking of a gellie he
iraraediately did fall into uoraiting
and purging 20 tiraes a day 3
dayes togeather, and into those torraents
of his stomake sides and gutts which
I did then see. He farther saide
that M"' Moyle had geuen forth that
he could not Hue past Tuesday, which
day (saide he) I had died in my
owne feeling and in aH others expe
ctation, that were present, if yow
coming unto Charieton that night
had not by yowr CordiaHs reuiued
and kept me a Hue. He saide farther
that M'" Moyle did talke of
burying him the next day. He
added farther that M" Moyle
when he was in a sounding fitt
di4

did take the pillows and boalster
from under his head, which
afterward reuiuing he did misse,
and caH for as he saied. These
thinges as his reasons of suspecting
M"' Moyle, he did deliuer unto
me, while I replied that I was
sorrie that his minde was troubled
with such thinges, and woondered
that a stranger who seeraed unto
rae a sober and raodest Gentlewoman
should intende any such mischiefe,
he therto Answered Good Doctor
be not ledd by thera, Yow are an
honest raan saied he, they are too
subtin for yow. Thus we brake
of conferrence for that tirae. Some
howers before his death he caHed
for his clothes, and s^^ide he would
arise and die in his cloths and not
in his bed. In the meane season
some Gentlemen did offer him
a writing or instruraent to scale, '
which he then refused saying; —
I ara now distracted and troubled
bring it againe anone. I doubt
the parson will controuert sorae
part of it. After his clothes were
put on he did point and was ledd
unto a Chaire nere his bed where he

did sett downe, and called for the
formerly mentioned writing and
uewed it, sett his hand unto it,
sealed and deliuered it. He then
caHed for his will which he untied
and brake the seale, and taking
a penn begann to rase some thing
therin, but Mr Thomas Andrews
staled his hande saying. Good
brother do not alter yowr will;
I hope she wIH prooue a good
mother unto her chHdren, by which
Sr Euseby not seeming much raoued
another gentleraan upon his knees
thus spake unto hira. Good Sir
remember that yow haue almost
bene raarried togeather these
20. yeares, and yow haue had
many sweete chHdren togeather
and as yow mett in loue, so part
in loue. Herunto Sir Euseby
answered I am contented, and
threw the pen from him, and
deHuered the wHl backe againe.
Then he required to be laied
upon his bed in his cloths and
caHed for the preachers to pfay
with hira, which they did untill
his strength and speach, and
senses failed hira, and he drew
his wind uery short and frora
that shortnes of breath did faH to

to lie gaping and now and then did
take a gaspe. After we, herby
now supposed him dead, he againe
reuiued, and feeling for his
pockett did draw there out a
Seale and offered it saying, the
boy, the boy. He was demaunded
whether he ment his eldest sonn
he Answered Yea ; and puttinge
againe his hand into his pockett
he drew out a key ; and added it
unto the seale, in the hand of one
who stood neare hira whorae I
do not remember. He then
relapsed againe a short time
unto drawing his winde ¦ short
and gaspeing, and then reuiuing
againe saide ray Brothers, ray
Brothers who being called unto
hira, he saied Norton, Norton I
would haue an honest use raade
therof, and no raore but an
honest use. This saide he then
relapsed againe, so longe space
that I supposed hira past reuiuing
any more, and I went downe
into the Court; There after I
had stayed some space, (how
longe I do not remeraber) I was
caHed up againe unto hira. When he

23
he did see rae he saied. O Doctor
I cannot die, do yow know the
cause, I Answered no, he saied
I will tell yow, The AngeHs
haue beene aboute rae this hower,
and will not suffer rae to die,
untill I haue raade knowne,
that Mistris Moyle is the cause
of ray death. I did Answere
hira that I was sorry to heare
hira so sale; for that It raay
now be deemed, he died not
in Charitie for that he did not
forgett and forglue. He hereto
replied I do forglue her but
God comraaunded the AngeHs
and they would not suffer rae to
die untin I had thus spoken,
and now I shaH die. Vpon these
wordes a knight standing by,
(as I do reraeraber saide unto
one Mr Harrison a Preacher
By God yow DIuInes are flatterers
yow should now tell hira that
these Angelis are DIuells. Herto
I Answered I did not take those
wordes fittlnge, but if (Mr Harrison)
saide I yow wIH teH Sr Euseby that
those his wordes, may be deemed to pro
ceede

24
from a sick braine, or unto such
purpose, yow raay do uery weH.
Then Mr Harrison spake unto
Sr Euseby : Sir I beseeche yow
reraeraber your selfe, yow speake
such thinges as raay breede rauch
trouble, and yow knowe you are going
out of the world I pray you take
heede what yow sale ; Sr Euseby
looking upon him shaking his head,
and gently raoouing his hand towards
hira saide, this is no tirae to lie now.
And then did relapse againe, unto a
short drawing his wind and gaspeing
and neuer did looke up nor speake
any raore untiH he died so farr as I
reraeraber.

Set Downe by Henery Chesley the i^^th day of June
In the yeare 1609 in the seaventh yeare of our
Lord King garnet by the Grace of God
&c
These Custoraes have been knowne in Yardley this
hundred yeares and upwards Acknowledged to
be true upon oath by the said Henery
Chesley and Thoraas Creake and proved
by these men upon oath before
Judge Yelverton att Easton
house in or about the
yeare 1607.

From an early MS. in the possession of Mr. Benjamin Longland,
of Yardley Hastings,

TAYLOR & SON, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS.
1881.

The Custotnes of Yardley Hastings set Downe by
Henery Chesley the 2\th day of June In the
yeare 1609 i^i the seaventh yeare of our Lord
King J-ames by the Grace of God &c These
Customes have been knowne in Yardley this
hundred yeares and upwards Acknowledged to
be true upon oath by the said Henery Chesley and
Thomas Creake and proved by these men upon
oath before Judge Yelverton att Easton house in
or about the yeare 1607.
I First. The Custorae is that every Coraraunicant
raan or woraan Is to give a peny for their offering at
ye Communion and at noe other time.
2 Secondly. That every husbandraan holding Land
in the fields aforesaid is to pay for every yard land
ffive pence at Easter following for the hay of the old
for the Lotts In the field and also for the hades for the
Tyths of the ground for a rate according to our
Custorae.
3 Thirdly. That every raan poor and Rich is to pay
a peny at Easter for their Garden,

4 Fourthly. That every man that keepeth a fire is
to pay a smoak half peny.
5 Fifthly. That every raan that hath a Cow or raore
that giveth Milk shaH pay at Easter next following two
pence a Cow whether she be Barridge or MHch If he
hath a heifer that hath a Calfe after Easter then he is
to pay a peny for her att Lararaas And if he selleth
the Calfe the parson is to have the tenth peny but if
he weane it or eat it then he is to pay but a half peny.
6 Sixthly. That look how raany Sheep any raan
hath here at Candlmas day at night so raany is the
parson to have Tithe of Either tythe wool if he
shears them or else half pence a peice [for so many as
he hath.]* If he selleth them And every feH that faHeth
after Candlemas day the parson is to have the tenth
fell if there be so many if not he is to have half
pence a peice for so many as he hath And further
If a man buy any sheep after Easter he is to pay for
every month they goe a Groat a hundred and noe tythe
wool this is the Custome.
7 Seventhly. And for the tythe Larabs our Custome
is always on Black Munday or the raunday in Easter
week the parson is to take his tythe Lambs that day
and look what odds their remains of Lambs at Easter
the parson is Likewise to have half pence a peice for
and noe more, tythe Lambs Also the tythe Lambs
* Grossecl throujjU in the M.S.

are to suck till sheare day paying to ye owners of ye
Ewes that suckles them pence a peice When they
take thera away and a peny a Lamb for the Shepherd
that keeps them this is ye Custome.
Eighthly. Also the parson is to have the tenth
pigg or one att seaven and then the parson is to
give to the owners of the pigg farthings a peice and
further If the pigg be reared for the parson he is to
give to the owner of the sowe a peck of barley for
bringing up the pigg seaven weeks If the owner of
the sowe doe not pay the Rate then the parson is to
have a tythe pigg the next Litter.
Ninthly. Also the peirson is to have the Tenth
Goose att Lararaas If he hath one att seaven then
the parson is to give ye owners farthings If the
owners have raore than a tythe then the owners are to
give the parson Likewise farthings a peice,
Also the parson ffor every foal that faHeth within
the said Town is to have for every such foale a peny
att Easter next foHowing after it is foaled
Also the parson is to put in ffour Beasts into Yardley
Parke att St. George for his tythes there tlH Lararaas.
And ffurther the parson is to pay to the town for
Mad Craft four shiHings A yeare In the follow year
And for the other years the parson is to pay to

the Town twelve pence a yeare for ye Latter
Cropp If he keeps it tlH harvest be done If the
whole Town have not need of it for the whole herd
Line of Beasts And this Justified Long Agoe by
Robertt Knight and Iohn Browne old men that when
they spake it were fourscore years old This was the
Custorae then and soe It hath been ever since And
these Customes were Receiued and paid by Henery
Chesley In the parishing of Yardley for Mr. WHkinson
seaven yeares together.
1 2 Also the parson is to have tythe Apples the Tenth
according to ye Custorae.
14 Also the parson is to have the Tythe hemp the
Tenth part according to ye Custome.
I^ The parson is to have the Tyth Eggs that is two
Eggs for every henn & 3 for a Cock and these are to
be paid att Easter According to the Custome.
16 The parson is to provide for the Town always
on Rogation Munday he Is to Bake a strike of
Wheat Into Bread and Cakes for the parish and
Likewise A strike of Mault to Brew in Drink for ye
parish the same day when they goe About the fields a
Procession according to ye Custorae.

7
Also the parson is to provide BuH & Boar at his
own Charge for the good of the Cattel in the Towne
& for hiraself According to our Custorae.
The parson is to finde a heward att his own charge
frora Lararaas day tlH harvest be done for the good of
the graine in the field according to our custorae.
The parson is to give the whole Town A Christraas
Dinner According to our custorae.
Also the Custorae is both for the parson & his
tenants & the whole Town to putt their Calves into
ye chase and there to be suramered.
Also the parson is to finde a Load of Barley Straw
att Christraas and Likewise att Easter for the seats
in the Church that parishoners raight be warrae in the
Curch with corafort to heare Gods word.
[The Dorse.]
The Custoraes of Yardley. These are the Customes
of Yardley Hastings That Henery Chesley and
Thomas Creake Did prove upon their oaths before
Sir Christopher Yelverton ye old Iudge att his
house In Easton Maudit In ye yeare 1608
whereof this is A Copy of thera.

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ALEYN, Charles. The Historie of that wise and Fortunate
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of the Just is blessed. London, Printed by I\ohn'] R[edmayne.] 1661.
Sm. Svo. R. p. 112.
The names of the Persons, 1 leaf ; *, 6 leaves ; B— ^K 6 in twelves. Dedicated
to George Mountagu, Esq., in an epistle, where Barksdale speaks of it as a greater
distinction that there were so raany persons of that family of courtesy and culture,
than that it contained among its members three knigbts of the Garter.
[Contains Account of Mr, Johu Dod,]
 Memorials of Worthy Persons. The Third Decad. By Cl.
Barksdale. Qvos corpora non valemus, recordatione teneamus. Hieron.
Oxford, Printed by A. i^ L. Lieclifield, Printers to the Vniv er sity, for
the Editor. 1662. Sm. Svo. r. p. 112.
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of Christ Churoh, Oxford, son of Edward, Earl of Clarendon,
 Memorials of Worthy Persons. (Lights aud Ornaments of the
Church of England.) The Fourth Decad. By Cl. Barksdale. Hi
Majores tui sunt, si te illis dignum prestes. Seu. Oxford, Printed by
A. and L. Lichfeld. 1663. Sm. Svo. r. p. 112.
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David Williams, Esq. [Contains Account of Mr. John Langley.]
 Memorials of Alderman Whitmore, Bishop Wilkins, Bishop
Reynolds, Alderman Adams. [Quotation from Clemens Romanus.]
London, Printed by J. Redmayne for John Barksdale Bookseller in
Cirencester. 1681. Sm. Svo. r. p. 112.
Title and prefixes, 3 leaves ; B — D 5 in eights. Anthony Wood gives us to
understand that Barksdale compiled these biographies chiefly from the funeral
sermons of the deceased persons.
BAllWICK, John. Geronikes, Or The Fight, Victory, and
Triumph of S. Pavl. Accommodated to the Right Reve; end Father
in God Thomas [Morton] late L : Bishop of Duresme, in a Sermon

preached at his Funeral, in the Parish Church of St. Peter at Easton-
Mauduit in Northamptonshire on Michaelmas-day, 1659. Together
with the Life of the said Bishop. By John Barwiek (now) D.D. And
one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary. . . . London, Printed for
R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane, 1660. 4to. p. 116,
Title and portrait, 2 loaves ; A, 4 leaves ; B — Z in fours, Z i blank.
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BISHOPS. The Bishops Last Good Night. Anno Dom. 1642.
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woodcuts at the top, aud a broad woodcut border. p. 169.
BOREMAN, R. A Mirrovr of Mercy and Iudgement. Or, An
Exact true Narrative of the Life and Death of Freeman Sonds Esquier,
Sonne to Sir George Sonds of Lees Court in Shelwich in Kent.
Who being about the age of 19. for Murthering his Elder Brother on
Tuesday the 7th of August, was arraigned and condemned at Maid
stone, Executed there on Tuesday the 21. of the same Moneth i6_5_5 ....
London, Printed for Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at his shop at
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BROADSIDES. Love and Jealousie : Or, a Song in the Duke of
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BROOKE, Christopher. The Ghost of Richard the Third.
Expressing hiraselfe in these three Parts.
I. His Character.
3. His Legend.
3. His Tragedie,
Containing more of him then hath been heretofore shewed, either in
Chronicles, Playes, or Poems. Laurea Desidice prcebetur nulla. Printed
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some opposition which had been offered to the piiblioation of the poem. There are
complimentary verses by Chapman, Browne, Jonsou, Daborne, Wither, and Fr.
Dyne. This poem haa been reprinted for the Sliakespoare Society. The present
copy ia in the finest pcisiblc condition ; tlio ooly other perfect one known is in ths
Bodleian Library,

BUCK, Sir George. The Great Plantagenet. Or a Continved
Svccession of that Royall Narae from Henry the Second to our Second
[Sacred] Soveraigne Kiug Charles. By Geo. Bvck, Gent. London:
Printed by Nicholas and Iohn Okes. Anno Domini 1635. 4to. o. m.
p- n6-
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 The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third.
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W. Wilson, and are to be sold ly IV. L. H. M. and D. P. 1647.
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[BURLEIGH, W. Cecil, Lord.] The Execution of lustice iu
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certaine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and eneraies
of the Realme, without any Per.secvtion of them for questions of Reli
gion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers
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BURLEIGH STATE PAPERS. A Collection of §tate Papers,
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Edward VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elisabeth. From the Year 1542
to i_57o. Transcribed from Original Letters and other Authentick
Memorials, Never before Publish'd. . . . By Samuel Haynes. London:
W. Bowyer, 1740,— A Collection of State Papers relating to Affairs
in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 157 1 to 1596 
By William Murdin, London, W. Bou-yer. 1759. ^ vols. Folio, r.
p. 244.
C. W. A Petition of W. C. Exhibited to the High Court of Par
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Master Alexander Henderson, and some other worthy Ministers of
Scotland. Printed in the yeare, 16,^.1. 410, p. aO
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COLES, EtisHA. Nolens Volens : Or, You sbail make Latin
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General Heads as were judg'd most capable of Hieroglyphicks. Illus
trated (with great variety) in Four and Twentv Copper Plates : With
the Rude Translation opposite, for the Exercise of those that begin to
make Latin. London: Printed by Andrew Clark for T. Basset. 167.5.
Sm. Svo. p. 330.
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On the back of the printed title are some curious versea in a contemporary hand.
COLLIER, John Payne. Illustrations of Old English Literature.
[The Green Series.] Life and Death of Gamaliel Ratsey. 1605.
?• 333- (vol. iii., 2.)
DELIGHTS FOR YOUNG MEN AND MAIDS : Containing
I. Near an hundred Riddles, with Pictures, and a Key to each. . 2. Two
true Lovers Knots. 3. Several Maggots and Whimsies to puzzle Lovers.
4. Cupid's Cabinet opened ; or, a' new secret Way of Writing. 5. An
Hieroglyphical Letter in Verse. 6. A new true Lovers Knot. 7. The
Tunbridge Love Letter. 8. Wit and Folly in a Maze. 9. The Trial of
Ingenuity. 10, Posies for Rings. 11. A Fancy in Hieroglyphicks,
which may be read three Ways. 12. Welshman's Love-Letter to his
Sweetheart. Printed and Sold by William and Cluer Dicey . . .
[About 1720.] Sm. Svo. Woodcuts. p. 416.
Twelve leaves. In prose and verse.
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Descriptive Catalogue of the Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, and
of many valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John, Earl
Spencer. Lmidon. 1814-15. 4 vols. 4to. Large paper. Woodcuts
and plaits, o. m. P- 427-
 Aedes Althorpianas ; Or an Account of the Mansion, Books
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To which is added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana.
London. 1822. 2 vols. 4to. Large paper. Portraits and plates,
o. M. P- 4^7-
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in the Library of the Duke de Cassano Serra and now in Earl Spencer's
collection. London. 1823. 4to. Large paper, o. m. p. 428.
DODDRIDGE, Philip. Hymns founded on Various Texts of the
Holy Scriptures. Published frora the Author's Manuscript by Job. Orton,
Salop, Printed iy J. Eddowes and J. Cotton. 1755. Sra. Svo. bl. m,
P- 437'
A— Q i in twelves.

DRYDEN, John. The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden,
Esq; containing all his original Poems, Tales, &c. [With Notes and
Life by Samuel Derrick.] London. 1 760. 4 vols. Svo. Portrait, r.
P- 454-
 The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq. London. i'j62.
6 vols. Sm. Svo. Portrait. P- 454-
 Of Dramatick Poesie, An Essay. By John Dryden, Esq.
London, Printed for Henry Herringman. 1668. 4to. p. 454.
A— K in fours. First edition.
— — - Secret Love, Or The Maiden-Queen : As it is Acted By His
Majestie's Servants, at the Theater-Royal. Written by John Dryden
Esq; .... London, Printed for Henry Herringman . . . 1668. 4to.
P- 454-
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pages respecting the play, "Which," Dryden says, "I have ever valued above the
rest of my Follies of thia kind."
¦  Sr Martin Mar-all, Or The Feign'd Innocence: A Coraedy,
As it was Acted at His Highnesse the Duke of York's Theatre London,
Prin teri for H. Herringman. 1668. 4to. p. 454.
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containing the song, "Blind Love to this hour," First edition.
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Theatre-Royal .... Written by John Driden Esquire. London,
Printedfor H. Herringman, 1669. 4to. p. 454.
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1669. 4to. ^ 4j4.
A — K in fours. First edition, with preface by the author, who refers to it as a
failure on the stage, and states that it was his first essay iu dramatio poetry, and
had been altered by him from another piece.
 Tyrannick Love, Or The Royal Martyr. A Tragedy. As it
is Acted by his Majesties Servants, at the Theatre Royal. By John
Dryden, Servant to his Majesty. London, Printed for H. Herringman.
1670. 4to. p. 454.
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Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman. i6jo. 4to. p. 454,
A^M 2 in fours.
First edition of an adaptation of Shakespeare's " Tempest." See a long note
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C Hainovs Sinne.
FULLER, Thomas. Davids \ Heartie Repentance.
^ Heavie Punishraent.
By Thoraas Fvller Master of Arts of Sidnye Colledge in Cambridge.
London, Printed by Tho. Cotei, for Iohn Bellamie, dwelling at the three
Golden L-t/ons in Cornehill. 1631. Sm. Svo. bl. m. p, 562.
A — E in eights, the last leaf blank. In verse.
Dedicated " To the Honorable Mr. Edward, Mr. WiUiam, and Mr. Christopher
Montagu, Sonnes to the Right Honorable, Edward Lord Montagu, of Boughton."
The present copy, with several uncut leaves, was fouud in a volume of tracts. In
fine state it is of the rarest occurrence,
— — Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Consisting of Personall Medi
tations. Scripture Observations. Historical! Applications. Mixt Con
templations. Exeter, Printed for Thomas Hunt, 1645. ^™- ^vo. r. m.
p. 562.
A, 6 leaves ; B — M 6 in twelves, first and last leaves blank.
First edition. Dedicated " To the Right Honourable the Lady Dalkeith, Lady
Governesse to her Highnesse the Prineesse Henrietta." This is, it is believed, the
flrst book printed at Exeter. ,
 Good Thoughts in Worse Times. Consisting of Personall
Meditations. Scripture Observations. Meditations on the Times.
Meditations on all kind of Prayers. Occasionall Meditations. London,
Printed by W. W. for John Williams at the Crowne in Sl. Pauls
Church-yard. 1647. Sm. Svo. p. 562.
A, 8 leaves. A, 2 occupied by the stationer's device, title on A 3 ; B — L in twelves,
last two leaves blank.
— - — The Holy [and the Profane] State, Cambridge : Printed
ly Roger Darnel for John Williams, and are to be sold at the signe of
the Crown in S. Pauls Churchyard. 16^2. Folio, Portraits. Large
paper. p. J62.
Engraved title, having portrait of Charles I, in the upper centre aud plate of the
Prince ot Wales's feathers, both by W. Marshall, 2 leases ; A — Kkk in fours, last
leaf blank, except that in Q and Hhh there are six leaves,
" The Profane State " commences with a separate title on Zz 2. All the portraits
are on the text, except those of Joan of Naples and Joan of Arc at pp, 360 and 373
of the " Profane State."
 The Holy [and the Profane] State. The second Edition
enlarged. Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for John Williams, isfc. 164.8.
Folio. Portraits. R, M. ]>. 563.
A 4 leaves including the frontispiece ; B — Pp in sixes, aud Qq, 8 leaves.
 The Historie of the Holy Warre. The third edition. Cam
bridge, Printed by Roger Daniel, and are to be sold by John Williams
at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Cliurch-Yard. 1647. Folio, r. m.
P- 563.
A 9 leaves including engraved title and "A declaration of the frontispiece;"
followed by a map of Palestine, 2 leaves ; B-Co in sixes ; Dd, 8 leaves, the last blank.

FULLER, Thomas. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines
thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testaraent acted thereon.
London, Printedby J. F. for John Williams. . . . 16^0. Folio. Map
and plates, r. m. P- 5^3-
Frontispiece by J. Goddard and engraved title by F. Clein, 2 leaves ; printed
title, 1 leaf; dedication to Esme Stuart, Earl of March, &c., and to the Eeader,
3 leaves; B— F in fours; G, 6 leaves; H — Er in fours ; Ss, 6 leaves; Tt— Xx in
fours ; Yy, 6 leaves ; Zz, 2 leaves ; Aaa — Bbbb in fours . A large map of Palestine,
and twenty-seveu folding maps and plates.
First Edition. This copy appears to be on large paper. At the foot of the
engraved title occur the arms of Hugh Forth, Merchant of London, with an in
scription by Fuller to him in Latin,
 Abel Redevivus : Or, The dead yet speaking. The Lives
and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by severall able and
learned Men (whose naraes ye shall finde in the Epistle to the Reader.)
And now digested into one Volurane, for the benefit and satisfaction of
all those that desire to be acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Vir-
tve. London : Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling
in Brides Churchyard,near Fleetstreet. 1651. Portraits. 4to. r. m. p. ^63.
Portrait of Fuller, frontispiece by Vaughan, and printed title, 3 leaves ; Epistle,
4 leaves ; table, 1 leaf ; Aa — Iiii in fours ; portrait of Bishop Andrewes, I leaf ;
iif e of Andrewes, 10 leaves ; then Kkkk— Fff f f 2 iu fours.
¦  A Triple Reconciler, stating the Controversies, whether
Ministers have an Exclusive power of Comraunicants from the Sacra
ment. . . . London, Printed by Will. Bently for Will. Shears at the Bible
in S. Pauls Churchyard. Ann Dom. 1654. Sm, Svo. p. ^6^.
A, 4 leaves, B — K in eights, title on A 2 ; [then follows, with a new set of signa
tures and title] " A Sermon Preached At the CoUegiat Churoh of S. Peter in West
minster, on the 27 of March, boing tho day of his Majesties Inauguration. London,
Pi-inted hj Will. Bently for Jokn -Williams. 1654." A — E 4 in eights. The sermon
on the inauguration ends on sig. C. ; and the rest of the volume ia occupied by
another preached by FuUer ou Innocents' day.
 Anthologia. or The Speach of Flowers. Partly Morali,
partly Misticall. Sould by Iohn Stafford nere Fleete bridge. i6jj.
Sm. Svo. p. ^64.
Title, engraved by R. Vaughan, preceded by a blank, 2 leaves ; A, 2 leaves ;
B— G 5 in eights.
Dedioated by the pubUsher to "my much Honored Friend, William Stafford
Esquire, Merchant of BristoU." This volume was repubUshed in 1663 with the
" Grnithologia."  The Church History of Britain : Frora the Birth of Jesus
Christ, untill the Year M. DC. XLVIII. Endeavoured by Thomas
Fuller. London, Printed for Iohn Williams at the signe of the Crown
in St. Paul's Church-yard, An7io 1655. Folio, r. m. p. <6,l.
A full collation is given by Lowndes.
An index to the book is bound up at the end of FuUer's " Appeal of Injured
Innocence," 1659, On the old fly-leaf of the present copy, before it was rebound,
was the following memorandum; "John Curtis, pr. 25». 1668." Above this ia

the autograph of " Thomas Martin of Palgravo, April the 4* 1721," and a note in
Ilartin's hand : " Exchang'd with Mr. Burrough for Chaucer's worke and Lidgate's
Bocoaoe, bound up together."
FULLER, Thomas. The Appeal of Iniured Innocence : unto the
Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader. In a Controversie betwixt the
Animadvertor Dr. Peter Heylyn and the Author Thomas .Fuller.
London, Printed by W. Godbid. 1659. Folio, r. m. p, (,64.
Title aud dedication to Lord Berkeley, 2 leaves ; B, 4 leaves ; G — N, 2 leaves
each; N (repeated) — S, 2 leaves each; Aa — Zz, 2 leaves eaoh; aaa— ccc, 2 leaves
eaoh ; Aaa — Yyy, 2 leaves each, the last blank. The index to the Church-History "
is bound up at the end, 10 leaves.
The " Appeal," which was an answer to Heylin's " Examen," is frequently bound
up with the " Church-History," having, as Wood teUs us, been appended, on its pub
lication, to all the copies of the History then remaining in quires.
 Ephemeris Parliamentaria ; Or A Faithfull Register Of the
Transactions in Parliament, in the third and fourth years of the reign
of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles : Containing The severall
Speeches, Cases, and Arguments of Law transacted between his
Majesty and both Houses. Together with the Grand Mysteries of
the Kingdorae then in Agitation. London : Printed for John Williams
and Francis Eglesfield, . . . 16^54. Folio. p. ^64.
IT, 4 leaves ; HIT, 4 leaves ; A, 2 leaves ; B— I in fours ; K, 2 leaves ; L— T 2 in
fours ; Aa— Tt in fours.
 The Best Name on Earth. Together with severall other
sermons lately preached at S. Brides; and in other places. London,
Printed by R. D.for John Stqford, at the George at Fleet-bridge. 1657.
Sm. Svo. R. P- 5^5-
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eights. Witii a frontispiece by W, HoUar.
The other Sermons mentioned on the title are "The Worst of EvUs," "The
Snare Broken," and " Strange Justice," each with a separate title. The last page
of the book has Stafford's device.
 Mixt Contemplations in Better Times. London, Printed by
R: D.for John Wiliiams . . . 1660. Sm. 8vo. P- 5'^5'
a, 4 loaves ; A— E in eights ; (A)— E 6 in eights.
Dedicated from Zion College, May 2, 1660, "To the truly Honourable and most
Virtuous Lady, the Lady Monok."
 The History of the Worthies of England. Endeavoured by
Thoraas Fuller, D.D. London, Printed l-y J. G. W. L. and IV. G.
1662. Folio. With a portrait of Fuller l-y D. Loggan. R. m. p. 565.
A full collation is given by Lowndes.
From the private collection of Mr, W. Pickering. On the fly-leaf of the present
copy occurs the following memorandum; "februarie, 1661, given me by young
Mr. fuller, reward £a." This was a posthumous publication. The "Panegyric'
on Charles II., printed in 1660, 4to, is here republished. Inserted in the volume is
fl duplicate of tho poitrait hy Loggan, a proof before letters,

FULLER, Thomas. The Life of that Reverend Divine, and Learned
Historian, Dr. Thomas Fuller. London, Printed for J. W. H. B. and
H. M. 1661. Sm. Svo. Portrait. p. $6^.
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GOMERSALL, Robert. The Levites Revenge: Containing.
Poetical] Meditations vpon the 19. and 20. Chapters of Tvdges. By
R. Gomersall. Imprinted al Londonin the yeare 1628. Sra. Svo. g. m.
p. 606,
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(or frontispiece) by T. Cecil, in six compartments, 1 leaf ; B— F in eights.
Dedicated " To His worthily respected Friend, Master Barton HoUday, Arch-
Deacon of Oxford." The volume has forty-nine leaves, not forty (as stated by
Mr. CoUier, "Bibl, Cat,," i,, 317). From Mr. Corser's collection,
GUNTON, Symon. The History of the Church of Peterburgh :
Wherein the raost reraarkable things concerning that Place, from the
first Foundation thereof. With other Passages of History, not unworthy
Publick View, are represented. By Symon Gunton, late Prebendary, of
that church. Illustrated with Sculptures. And set forth by Symon
Patrick, D.D. now Dean of the same. London. 1686. Folio. Large
paper. R. p. 63 7^
Title and imprimatur, 2 leaves ; preface by Patrick, 2 leaves ; pp. 1-348.
Craven Ord's copy, with MS, notes and collations iu his handwriting. This copy
contains the four plates mentioned by Lowndes, two others on the letterpress at pp,
243 and 280, and two modern views of the cathedral are inserted.
HARTSHORNE, C, H. The Book Rarities of the University,
of Carabridge. Oxford . . . 1829. Royal Svo. Large paper. Fac
similes, p. 659.
HAUSTED, P. Senile Odium. Coracedia Cantabrigiee publice
Academicis recitata in Collegio Reginali ab ejusdem Collegii juventute.
Cantabrig'im. 1633. Sm. Svo. p. 661.
Title and preUminaries, i leaves ; A— G 3 in eights.
HEARNE. Benedictus, Abbas Petroburgensis, de Vita & Gestis
Henriei II. et Richardi I. Oxonice. 1735. 2 vols. p. 66g.
HEATH, James. An Elegie upon D' Tho. Fuller that most In
comparable Writer, Who Deceased August the i^* M. DC. LXI.
[At end :] S'lc mcerel James Heath. London, Printed M. DC. LXI.
A folio sheet. p. g^g.
Bound up with Fuller's "Worthies," 1662,
HOLLAND, H. Hermologia Anglica hoc est clarissimorum et
doctissimorum aliqovt [sic] Anglorura qvi florvervut ab anno Cristi .
M. D. usq.' ad presentem annvm M.D.CXX, Viuae Effigies Vitae
et elogia Duobus tomis Authore H. H, Anglo Britauno; ImpenHs

Crispini Passmi Calcographus [«c] et Jansonii Bibliopoles Arnhemienses.
Folio. Portraits, r. m. p. yi2.
Title and dedication to King Jamea, 2 leaves ; Prsefatio, 2 leaves ; Post-prsefatio,
3 pages; "T. D. Saorse Theologise Baccalaureua," &c,, 1 page; "Ejusdem T, D.
in laudem operis," &c., 1 leaf ; Latin lines signed "I, Gi-utorus," 1 leaf ; ' Encomium
Operis," &o., 1 leaf, followed by two other leaves of Latin verses ; on the verso of
the last is the portrait of Henry VIII, ; A— V in sixes ; " Nomina," &c., 1 leaf.
Most of the portraits are printed on the letterpress ; but the " Tomb of Q,
EUzabeth" and the portraits of Frobisher, Sir J. Harington, and Bishop Bale are
separate platea, and are placed respectively between signatures C v— vi, H vi  I,
M— M ii, 0 iv— 0 v. [Contains an Account of the Cecils,]
HUTCHINSON, Francis. An Historical Essay concerning
Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact; . . . And also
Two Sermons : One in Proof of the Christian Religion ; the other con
cerning Good and Evil Angels .... The Second Edition, with con
siderable Additions. London-. 1720. Svo. P- 7.5o.
A, 8 leaves ; a. 8 leaves ; B— Y in eights.
KENNETT, White, Bishop of Peterborough. Parochial Anti
quities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other
Adjacent Parts In the Counties of Oxford and Bucks  Oxford,
Printed at the Theater, i6g^. 4to. Large paper, r. P- 797-
Title, 1 leaf ; dedication to Sir William Glynne, 3 leaves ; preface, 4 leaves ;
A— Oooooin fours. With nine platea.
 Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia. An Attempt Towards
laying the Foundation of an American Library, In Several Books,
Papers, and Writings, Humbly given to the Society for Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, For the Perpetual Use and Benefit of
their Members, their Missionaries, Friends, Correspondents, and Others
concern'd in the Good Design of Planting and Promoting Christianity
within Her Majesties Colonies and Plantations in the West-Indies.
By a Member of the said Society. London : Printed for J. Churchill,
at the Black Swan in Pater- Noster-Row. 1713. 4to. g. m. P- 797-
Accompanying thia copy ia an autograph memorandum by W. Taylor, aecretary
of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, stating that at a meeting held on
the 19th Nov., 1714, Dean Kennett laid before it a printed copy of his book, and
received the thanks of the members for hia valuable labonra, together with fifty
copiea for distribution at his own discretion.
LICIA, or Poemes of Love, in Honour of the admirable and
singular vertues of his Lady, to the imitation of the best Latin Poets,
and others. Whereunto is added the Rising to the Crowne of Richard
the third. Auxit musarum numerum. Sappho addita musis.
Foelix si swvus, sic voluisset Amor.
\_London, 1J93.] 4to. r. p. 848.
A— M in fours.
NaroisBua Luttrell's copy, having coat him sixpence ; afterwards Mr, Heber's
and Mr. Corser's. " It hftB been supposed that it was not printed for sale, but from

the prefatory matter it is evident this waa not the case. The sonnets are obvioualy
in imitation of Daniel ; to theae aueceed miscellanies, and finally a poem in the style
of the 'Mirror for Magistrates.' Some extracts from it are given in 'Restituta'
iv., 15." — Bill. Seher., part viii., N'o. 1294.
The volume is ascribed to GUes Fletcher the elder by Mr. Joseph Hunter, in
hia "New Illustrations of Shakespeare," 1845, ii., 77, and has been published as
the work of that author by Mr. Grosart.
The title is enclosed in a curious woodcut border. There is a separate title to
the poem on Richard III., on sig. L. The epistle to Lady MoUineux, wife to Sir
Richard Mollineux, Knight, is dated "from my chamber, Sept. 4, 1593," and the
Preface to the Reader is dated four days later. The author attributes the production
of his work to the kindness which he had received at the hands of Sir Richard and
Lady Mollineux, and one or two other friends of his and theirs.
Not more than three copies appear to be known —one in the Malone collection;
a second, formerly Farmer's, Steevens's, aud Caldecott's ; the present, from the
libraries of Heber and Corser.
LLOYD, Lodowicke. The Pilgrimage of Princes, Newly pub
lished, by Lodowicke Lloid Esquier, one of her Maiesties Sergeants at
Armes. Imprinted at London, by Iohn Wolfe. 1586. 4to. Black
letter. p- 856.
IT and Hf, 4 leaves eaoh ; A— Iu in fours. The leaf following the title has a set
of acrostic verses on " Christoforos Hattonvs," and this is succeeded by a prose
dedication to Sir Christopher Hatton, Then comes four sets of commendatory verses
in Latin, and a separate leaf, bearing thirty Alexandrine verses in English by Thomas
Churchyard, Sheet Ll is occupied with " The Deathes of certaine Noble Princes
iu engiish verse."
The first edition was printed by WiUiam Jones without date, but between 1571
and 1574. It contains "The Pilgrimage of Queens" and "The Auothor to his
booke," the latter in English A.lexandrines, but neither of these waa reprinted in the
later editions.
 The Pilgrimage of Princes. Newly published : by Lodowicke
Lloid Esquire, oue of her Maiesties Sergeants at Armes. London, Printed
by W. White. 1607. 4to. p_ 3^6.
A— Ddd 2 in fours. This is a reprint of the proceding edition, both aa regards pre
liminary matter and text,
MANNING, Owen, and William BRAY. The History and
Antiquities of the County of Surrey ; Compiled from the best and most
authentic Historians, valuable Records, aud manuscripts iu the Public
Offices and Libraries, and in private hands. With a Fac Simile copy of
Domesday, engraved on thirteen plates. By the late Rev. Owen Manning.
 Continued to the present time by William Bray, of Shire,
Esq  London, 1804-14. 3 vols, bound in 7. Folio. Portraits',
plates, isfc. p_ 8^^_
This copy is enlarged into seven volumes by the addition of a great number of extra
illustrations consisting of valuable engraved portraits and views, aud a great number of
original drawings.

MARMION, Shackerley. A Morali Poem, Intituled the Legend
of Cvpid and Psyche. Or Cvpid and his Mistris, As it was lately
presented to the Prince Elector. Written by Shackerley Marmion,
Gent. Lucrece my booke, 'fore Brutus did refraine.
But Brutus gone, she tooke it up againe.
London ; Printed by N. and I. Okes, and are to be sold by H. Sheppard,
at his shop in Chancery lane neere Serjants lnne, at the Bible. 163J.
4to. p. 910.
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being deficient) was altered with a peu to 1638, a circumstance which led to the
erroneous supposition that thore were two quarto editions. In the reprint of this poem
by Singer some passages are omitted. The engraved title runs ; " Cvpid and Psiche or
an Epick Poem of Cupid and his Mistress. As it was lately presented to the Prince
Elector. Written by Shakerly Marmion. Principibus placuisse Viris non Vltima lavs
est. London. Printed 'by Iohn Ohes for R: Sheppard 1637."
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vants at the Cock-Pit. Written by Shackerley Mermion, Gent. London,
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S. Pauls Church-yard. 1641. 4to. p. 910.
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MORE, Sir Thomas. The Historie of the Pitifvll Life, and
unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke his
brother: With the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping
Richard the third, and his miserable eud. Written by the Right
Honorable Sir Thomas Moore, sometimes Lord Chancellor of England.
London, Printed by Thomas Payne for the Company of Stationers, and
areto be sold by Mich: Young, at his shop in Bedford-street in Covent-
Garden, -neere the new Exchange, 1641. Sm, Svo. p. 996.
A, 4 leaves ; B — X 7 in twelves ; with portraits of the two kings.
On K i occurs a new title : " The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Reigne of
Richard the Third, Written  London, Printed hy T. Paine and M. Simmons.
1641." Dedicated by W.pUiam] S, [heares], the stationer, " To the Right WorshipfvU
Sir Iohn Lenthall Knight, MarshaU of the Kings-Bench." Two titles were printed to
this book ; in the other itis said to be "Printed hy Thomas Payne for WUliam Sheares,
and are to he sold bi/ Michael Toung." From the Towneley collection.
MORTON, John. The Natural History of Northampton-shire;
with Some account of the Antiquities. To which is Annex'd A Trans-
script of Doomsday-Book, so far as it relates to That County. London
1712, Folio. Large paper. Map and plates. R. p. looi.
The collation in Lowndes as to text and plates is accurate except as to the trans
cript of Doomsday Book, which occupies pp, 1-46, and the indices, pp, i.-x. Lowndes
. states that the transcript extends from p, I to p. x., and does not mention the indioea,-

NASH, Thomas. A CountercufFe giuen to Martin lunior : by the
venturous, bardie, and renowned Pasquill of Englande, Caualiero. Nat
of olde Martins making, which newlie knighted the Saints in Heauen,
with rise vppe Sir Peter and Sir Paule; But latelie dubd for his
seruioe at home iu the defence of his Countrey, aud for the cleane
breaking of his stafFe vpon Martins face. Printed between the skye and
the grounde, wythin a myle of an Oake, and not manie Fieldes off-', from,
the vnpriuiledged Presse of the Ass-ignes of Martin Junior. Anno Dom.
1589. 4to. BR. M. p. 1017.
Four leaves.
From the collections of Ames, Herbert, and Mr, Maskell.
NAUNTON, Sir Robert. Fragmehta Regalia, or observations
on the late Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favorits. Written by
Sir Robert Naunton, Master of the Court of Wards. Printed, Anno
Dom. 164.1. 4to. p. 1020.
A— F 2 in fouts,
NORTHAMPTON, Henry Howard, Earl of. A defensatiue
against the poyson of supposed Prophesies : Not hitherto confuted by
the penne of any man, which being grounded, eyther vppon the war
rant and authority of olde paynted bookes, expositions of Dreames,
Oracles, Reuelotions, Inuocations of damned spirites, Judicialles ot
Astrologie,- or auy other kinde of pretended knowledge whatsoeuer,
De futuris contingentibus : haue beene causes of great disorder in the
common wealth, and cheefely among the simple and vnlearned people :
very needefull to be published at this time, considering the late offence
which grew by most palpable and grosse errours in Astrology. At London
Printed by Iohn Charlewood, Printer to the right Honourable Earle qf
Arundell. 1583. 4to. p. 104^.
Title, 1 leaf ; dedication to Sir Francis Walsingham, 8 leaves ; to the reader, 1
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A fine clean copy in the original vellum cover.
PECK, Francis. Desiderata Curiosa. Second Edition, greatly
corrected  London, ijjg. 2 vols. Folio. Large paper. Plates.
¦*• p. 1117.
PECKARD, P. Memoirs of the Life of M^ Nicholas Ferrar. By
P. Peckard, D.D. Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge. Cambridge.
1790. Svo. Portrait. Large paper. The edges uncut. p. 1117.
Ferrar was the founder of the Huntingdonshire nunnery of Little Gidding, cele
brated for the application of the art of needlework to bookbinding, and one of the
promoters of the EngUsh settlements in Virginia.
PENRI, John. A Treatise wherein is manlfestlie proved, that
Reformation and those that sincerely fauor the same, are vnjustly
charged to be enemies, vnto hir Maiestie, and the state. Written both

for the clearing of those that stande in that cause : and the stopping of
the sclaunderous mouthes of all the enemies thereof. [Quotation from
Zephaniah.] 1J90. 4to. p. 1123.
Title and preface, 6 leaves ; B — I 2 iu fours. See Herbert's Ames, p. 1713.
PENRI, John. A viewe of sorae part of such publike wants and
disorders as are in the service of God within her Majesties countrie
of Wales, togither with an humble Petition unto this high Court of
Parliament for their speedy redresse. Anno 1588. From the Original
Edition. Edited by James O. Halliwell. London. 1861. 4to. p. 11 24.
Twenty-six copies printed,
PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ....
The second Edition . . . London. 1^6^. 3 vols. Svo. a. m.
p. 112^.
From Mr. G, Daniel's library.
 The Percy Folio Manuscript. Edited by John W. Hales
and Frederick J. Furnivall .... London . . . . 1867. 4 vols. 4to.
Largest paper. p. ii2_;.
The original MS. ia now in the British Museum.
R., E. Evgenia's Teares for Great Brittaynes Distractions or.
Some slender observations reflecting on those sad Times. Written
by E. [dward] R. [eyuolds ?] London, Printed for William Sheares at the
signe of the Bible in Covent-Garden. 1642. Svo. The edges uncut. p. 1213,
A — C in eights, besides a frontispiece engraved in compartments by W, MarshaU,
From Mr. Corser's library.
RANDOLPH, Thomas. Poetical and Dramatic Works of Thomas
Randolph, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Now first collected, and
Edited . . . , By W. C. Hazlitt. London .... 1875. ^ vols. Svo.
Plates. P- 1219-
One of tbe two copies printed on vellum.
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Authours in a Scholers Library. Presented in a priuate Shew. To
which is added. The Conceited Pedlar  London, Printed by
Thomas Harper, for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold by Richard Mynne,
at his shop in Little Britayne, at the signe of Saint Paul. M.DC.XXX.
4to. P- laip-
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No edition has hitherto been described with this imprint.
 The lealovs Lovers. A Comedie presented to their gracious
Majesties at Cambridge, By the students of Trinitie-Qolledge, Written

by Thomas Randolph, Master of Arts, and Fellow of the House ....
Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. Ann. Dom.
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Dedicated to Dr. Comber, Dean of Carlisle, and Vice-Chancellor. Second edition,
the first was in 1632.
RANDOLPH, Thomas, Poeras with the Mvses Looking-Glasse :
and Amyntas. By Thomas Randolph Master of Arts, and late Fellow
of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge. Oxford, Printed by Leonard Lichfield
Printer to the Vniversity, for Francis Bowman. M. DC. XXXVIII. 4to.
p. 1220.
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Lovers. Arystippus  The Fourth Edition enlarged,
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title. A— P in eights, P 7 blank; "tho Jealous Lovers" (with a new title, whioh
forms P 8), A— G 4 in eights.
SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedy of King Richard the
third. Containing, His treacherous Plots agaiust his brother Clarence :
the pittiefull raurther of his innocent nephewes : his tyrannicall vsurpation :
with the whole course of his detested life, and most deserued death. As
it hath beene lately Acted by the Right honourable the Lord
Charaberlaine his seruants. At London Printed by Valentine Sims, for
Andrew Wise, dwelling in Paules Chuch-yard [sic'] at the Signe qf the
Angell. 1597. 4to. r. m. p. 1334.
A— M 3 in fours.
First edition. From the Heber and Daniel collections. The only other copy known
is that in the Bodleian. The book is entered in the Capell catalogue, but it is not now
in that collection.
SHEPHERD, Thomas. Spiritual Songs: or. Songs of Praise
with Penitential Cries to Alraighty God, Upon Several Occasions..
Together with the Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's : First Turn'd,
then Paraphras'd in English Verse : With au Addition of a Sacred
Poem on Dives and Lazarus. The Thirteenth Edition Corrected,
London: Printed for D. Midwinter .... 1735. Sm. Svo. p. 1345.
A — M in eights.
SONDES, Sir George. Sir George Sondes His plaine Narrative
to the World, Of all Passages upon the death of his two sonnes,
London. Printed in the Yeare, 16^5. Folio. p. 1374,
Frontispiece of arms and title, 2 leaves; B— I, 2 leaves each; K, 1 leaf; L, 3

17
STAFFORD, Anthony. Stafifords Niobe : or his Age of Teares.
The first Part. A Treatise no lesse profitable and comfortable then the
times damnable. Wherein Deaths visard is pulled oft", and her face
discouered not to be so fearefull as the Vulgar makes it ; and withall is
shewed, that death is onely bad tp the bad, good to the good. The
second Edition ; newlie corrected & amended. Printed at London by
Humfrey Lownes. 1611. Sm. Svo. o, m. p. 1391.
A, 10 leaves ; title on A 2 ; B— K 6 in twelves, last leaf blank.
Dedicated to Robert, Earl of SaUsbury, iu au Epistle, iu which the author
mentions that his father aud the Earl's (Lord Burleigh) had been neighbours.
 Stafifords Niobe, Dissolv'd into a Nilvs : or. His Age drown'd
in her owne teares : seruing as a Second Part to the former Treatise.
Wherein the vanitie and villanie of the Age, and the miserie of Man are
so painted to the life, as that it will make a man long to leave this
painted life, to come to that true and eternall one. Seclusus a seculo.
Printed at London by H. L. for Matthew Lownes. 1611. Sra. Svo.
o. m. p. 1391.
A — 0 10 in twelves ; title on A 2, and between A and B are 5 leaves marked H,
Dedicated to Anne, Countess of Dorset.
The dedication is foUowed by an address " To the younger Gentry of England,"
and by a second "To the long-ear'd Reader," thelatter composed in a strong vein of
invective, on account of some attacks which had been made on the former part of
the "Niobe." At sig. N commences a new pagination, with the following headline :
"An admonition to a discontented Romanist," which occupies the rest of the volume.
From Mr. Maskell's collection.
 The Gvide of Honovr, Or the Ballance wherin she may weigh
her Actions. A Discourse written (by way of humble advise) by the
Author then residing in Forreigne parts, to a truely Noble Lord of England
his most honour'd Friend. Worthy the perusall of all who are Gently or
Nobly borne, whom it instructeth how to carry themselves in both
Fortunes with applause and security. By Antony Stafford, Gent. Printed
at London by T. C.for T. Slater, dwelling at the Swan in Ducklane. 16^4.
Sm. Svo. p. 1392-
A, 8 leaves ; B— H 2 in twelves, the last leaf having only the errata.
Dedicated to George, Lord Berkeley, to whom the treatise is addressed.
 The Femall Glory: or. The Life, and Death of our Blessed
Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate Mother : To
whose sacred Memory the Author dedicates these his humble En
deavours. A Treatise worthy the reading, and meditation of all raodest
women, who live under the Government of Vertue, and are obedient

to her Lawes. By Anth. Stafiford, Gent. London, Printed by Thomas
Harper, for Iohn Waterson,  kSsJ- Sra. Svo. Plates, bl, m.
p. 1392.
a — e in eights, including the frontispiece ; A, 3 leavea ; B — R in eights, last leaf
blank, and the preceding one occupiaJ by the colophon.
The dedication copy on large paper, and in the original richly gUt morocco, pre
sented to Lady Theophila Coke, whose autograph is on the title-page.
After the dedicatory epistle follow addresses "To the Feminine Reader" and
"To the Masculine reader." Then comes " Meditationes poeticse & Christianse in
annunciationem beatae Virginis, W. A.," and " The Ghyrlond of the bleaaed Virgin
Marie," two sets of verses signed, "B. J.," and probably from the pen of Ben
Jonson. "A Pannegyricke upou the blessed Virgin Mary," a poem occupying
seven pages, with the initials, "T, M," " A Panegyricke &o.," a poem of two and
a-half pages without signature. The prefatory matter concludes with au anonymous
poem of twenty-seven pages, entitled, "A Panegyricke dedioated to the eternall
Memory, and glorious Fame of the blessed Virgin Mary."
STANBRIDGE. Vulgaria stabrige. [This title is printed iu
white letters on a black ground, from a wood block. Beneath it is a
cut of a Master and Scholars.] [Colophon.] Enprynted at London in
Fletestrcte by Wynkyn de Worde at the sygne of the sonne. \n. c?.] 4to.
br. m. p. 1394.
A — 0 in sixes. The printer's large device is on the verso of the last leaf.
From the collections of W. Herbert and Dr, BUsa.
WASTEL, Simon. A Trve Christians Daily Delight : Being The
Surarae of euery Chapter of the Old and New Testaraents, set downe
Alphabetically, in English Verse .... By Simon Wastel, sometimes
of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, now Schoole-Master of the Free-
Schoole in Northampton. [Mottoes.] London, Printed by G. Eld and
M. Flesher, for Robert Mylbourne . . . 1623. Sm. Svo. p. 1567.
A, 8 leavea ; B — K 4 in twelvea, the last loaf blank.
WEAVER, Thomas. Plantagenets Tragicall Story : or, tht
Death of King Edward the Fourth : with The un naturali Voyage of
Richard the Third through the Red Sea of his Nephews innocent
bloud to his usurped Crowne. Metaphrased by T. W. Gent. Prospe-
rum Scelus virtus vocatur. Sen. London, Printed by M. F. for Richard
Tomlins at the Sun and Bible neer Pie-corner. 1649. Sm. Svo. r.
P- 1571-
A— I in eights, including a portrait of the author by W. Marahall, with six linea
of verse beneath it, subscribed "J. S."
A Poem divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to Edward Benlowes,
Esq., and has commendatory versea by J. C, S. N., and D. S. The second part is
dedicated to Mr. D. W,, and here Weaver mentions that the work was ready two
yeara before, that he had not designed it for publication, but that he was forced
into print by the importunity of friends.

WESTMORELAND, Mildmay Fane, eighth Earl of. Otia
Sacra Optima Fides Deus nobis hcec Otia fecit. Virg. London Printed
by Richard Cotes. 1648. 4to. p. 1582.
A— Y in fours, besides two folding leaves between pp. 70-1 and 110-11. In two
Parts, with an engraved title to each, ,ind other plates and cuts ou the letter-press.
Privately printed for the author. This copy does not contain the two extra leaves
which were in Allen's copy, and which were taken out of it to be inserted in Dr.
Bliss's. The only other copy known to possess those leaves was Mr. J. Dunn
Gardner's, which waa sold by auction iu 1854.
Vv'ILD; Robert. Iter Boreale. Together with some other Select
Poeras, Not heretofore Printed. By the same Author. London, Printed
for L. F. and are to be sold at the Parrot in St. Paul's Church-yard.
1661. Sm. Svo. p. 1.592'
A — D in eights, the first leaf blank. The earliest collected edition.
 Iter Boreale, With large Additions. of several other Poems
beiug An exact collection of all hitherto Extant. Never before Published
together. The Author R. Wild. D.D. Printed for the Booksellers in
London, MDCLXVIIL Sm. Svo. p. 1593.
A — H 7 in eights, title on A 2. Second collected edition.
 A Poem vpon the Imprisonment of Mr. Calamy in Newgate.
By Robert Wild. D.D Author of the late " Iter Boreale." \n. p. or d.
About 1660.] A Broadside. p. I.593'
In verse, printed in two columns.

APPENDIX.
CIVIL WAR TRACTS. The Parliament of Ladies, Or Divers
reraarkable passages of Ladies in Spring-Gardens  The second
Edition corrected by the originall, unto which is added a Supplement of
sorae further proceedings in the said Parliament. P\r']inted in the yeare
1647. 8 leaves. P- i<5j8.
From the libraries of Dr. BUss and Sir W. Tite.
DRYDEN, John. To His Sacred Maiesty, A Panegyrick on His
Coronation. By John Dryden. London, Printed for Henry Herring
man, . . . 1661. Folio. P- 1664.
A— B, 2 leaves each. Fir»t Edition.
KENNETT, W., Bp. of Peterborough. A Register and Chro
nicle Ecclesiastical and Civil : containing matters of Fact, delivered
in the Words of the most authentick Books, Papers, and Records :
digested in exact order of time  Faithfully taken from the
Manuscript Collections of the Lord Bishop of Peterborough. London.
1728, Folio. R. p. 1 67 1.

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AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND OTHER
DOCUMENTS.
AKENSIDE, Mark. b. 1721, d. 1770. A. L. s. Addressed to
his sister. Dated Sept. i6th, 1762. p. 1679.
" Hopes that Mr. Addison continues in tolerable ease from his complaint," &c.
BURLEIGH, William Cecil, Lord. b. 1520, d. 1.598. A. L, s.
Superscription to Mr. Peter, auditor of the receipts at the Exchequer,
Sept. 26, 1574. p. 1681.
On financial matters, in whioh he speaks of Secretary Walsingham.
DRYDEN, John. b. 1631, d, 1700. A. L. s. Addressed to Mrs.
Steward at Cotterstock. Dated " Candlemas-day, 1698." p. i6S^.
" Old men are not so insensible of beauty as it may be you young Ladies think ;
for my own part I must needs acknowledge that your fair eyes had raade me your
slave before I received your fiue presents  I pass my time sometimes with
Ovid, and sometimes with our Old English Poet Chaucer, translateing such stories
as best please my fancy."
KATHERINE PARR, Queen of Henry VIIL b. 1^13, d. 1^48.
Letter signed " Kateryu the quene." Addressed to her brother on the
occasion of her marriage to the King. p. 1695.
" Ryght der and welbiloued brother we grete youe wel Lating youe wit that
when it hath pleased Almighty god of his goodnes to inclyne the Kings Matj, in suche
wise towards me as it hathe pleased his highnes to take me of all others most un-
worthie to his wief whiche is as of reason it ought to be the greatest Joye and com
fort that could happen to me in this world. To th'intent yo' being my natural
brother may reioyse w' me in the goodnes of god and of his Mat*, as the person who
by nature hath most cause of the same I thought mete to give you this advertise
ment aud to require you to let me som tyme here of your heolthe as freendly as ye
wold have doon if god & his Mat*, had not called me to this honor, which I assure
you shal be moch to my comfort.
" Given at my lords raanor of Otelands the xx"" of July the xxxvih year of hia
Mates, raoat noble reign,"
Addressed :—" To our right der and entirely beloved Brother the Lord Parre Lord
Warden of the Marches."
SOUTHAMPTON, Henry, Earl of. b. 1^73, d. 1624. A L. s.
Addressed to "The Lo : Spencer." p. 1704.
Thanks for the letter "which brought mee the good newes of your health and all
yours wch Qod longe continew," " We are now nearly ready to leavy our men for the low
contries and our drumes shall beate I thinke in ten dayea " — mentiona that " no part
of the subsidies ia yett come," with other matters respecting the campaign.

iEnata.

BROADSIDES. A Poem upon the Imprisonment of Mr. Calamy in
Newgate. By Robert Wild, D.D. Author of the late Iter Boreale.
[About 1670.] p. 221. (36)
WORTLEY, Sir Francis. Characters and Elegies. By Francis
Wortley, Knight and Baronet. Printed in the Yeere, ClQ. IqC XLVI.
4to. p. 1622.
A — K 2 in fours, and a leaf of errata which is misplaced between pp. 32-3.
This copy, in the original gilt vellum binding with strings, and with the author's
autograph corrections aud additions, waa apparently that presented to Lady Abigail
Sherard, and came from the library of Lord Harborough, On the flyleaf at the
beginning is a letter in the handwriting of Sir F. Wortley to her ladyship, and at the
end are copied, in a different hand, two short pieces, entitled " Britannicus hia
blessing, and Britannicus his Wellcome," printed together, at Cambridge, 4to., 1646.
The letter has been printed in " Notes and Queries." Among the persons upon whom
elegies aro here found is Francis Quarles the poet. The author appears to have been
much vexed at the numerous errors of the press. At the end of the laat page he has
written "never worse printer", and atthe head of the errata he says, "I shall
desire the reader of these Phansies to pardon the errors of the Presse : I used the help
of a meane Scholar in the copy, and being (as I am a prisoner) could not see the errors
but in the book."
[Contains an Elegy upon tbe Right Honourable the Earle of Northampton.]

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I.— 28 pages, 2/
The Witches of Northamptonshire.
Agnes Browne. 1 Arthur Bill. )
loane Vaughan. / Hellen lenkenson. > WitoheB.
Mary Barber. )
Who were all executed at Horthampton the 22. of luly last, 1612.
London, Printed by Tho: Purfoot, for Arthur lohnson. 1612,
II.— 8 pages, 1/
Tryals and Condemnation of the lorthamptonshire Witches.
An Aooount of the Tryals, Examination and Condemnation, of Elinor Shaw, aud
Mary Phillip's (Two notorious Witches,) at Northampton Assizes, on Wednesday
the 7th of Maroh 1705. for Bewitching a Woman, and two children, Tormenting
them in a sad and lamentable manner tiU they Dyed. With an Accoimt of their
strange Confessions, about their Familiarity with the Devil, and how they made a
wicked Contract with him, to be revenged on several Persons, by Bewitching their
Cattel to Death, &o. and several other strange and amazing Particulars.
London,- Printed for F. Thorn, near Fleet-street.
III.— 8 pages, 1/ ^
Births, Educations, & Lives of the lorthamptonshire Witches.
Being a true and faithful Aooouu'; of the Births, Educations, Lives, and Con
versations of Elinor Shaw, and Mary Phillips, (the two notorious Witches)
that were Executed at Northampton, on Saturday, March the l7th, 1705, for
bewitching a Woman and two Children to Death, &o. Containing the manner
and occasion of their tuming Witches, the League they made with the Devil, and
the strange Discourse they had with him ; As also the particulars of their amazing
Pranks and remarkable A'ctions, hoth before and after their Apprehension, and
how they Bewitched eeveral Persons to Death, besides abundance of all sorts of
Cattle, even to the ruin of many Families, with their full Confession to the Mini
ster, and last Dying Speeches at the place of Execution, the like never^ before
heard of. Londmi, Printedfor F. Thorn, near Fleet-street, 1706
IV.— 18 pages, 1/
1 Brief History of Witchcraft.
, With Especial Reference to the Witches of Northamptonshire. Collected in great
part from Original Sources. Fac-simile Illustrations,
V. — 8 pages, 1/
The Eemarkahle Case of the Duchess of Bedford,
In the Eeign of Edward IV., who was charged with having by Witchcraft flxed
the Love of the King on her Daughter Queen Elizaheth. Furnished by the Rolls
Qf Parliament of 9tli Edward JY, Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.

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VI.— 8 pages, 1/
Eelation of a Memorahle Piece of Witchcraft,
At Welton, uear Daventry, in Northamptonshire. At the House of Widdow Stiff,
whose youngest Daughter vomited in less than three days three GaUons of Water
and a vast quantity of Stones and Coals. With other Remarkable Actions.
VII.— 16 pages, 1/
The Barby Apparition.
Communicated by Sie Chaeles Isham, Baet,, in a Letter to Henry Spicer, Esq.
VIII,— 40 pages, 1/
.The Grunpowder Treason.
Trials of the Conspirators, Extracted from Cobbett's CoUection of State Trials :
with Account of their Arraignment and Execution. Also, Histoet of the
Gtjnpowdbe Plot, Written by King James, Extracted from the first Colleotion of
his Works pubUshed during his life-time, by Mountague, Bishop of Winchester.
IX.— 12 pages, 1/
The State of lorthampton from the heginning of the Eire,
Sept. 20th 1676. to Nov, 5th. Represented in a Letter to a Friend in London ;
and now recommended to aU well disposed Persons, in order to Christian -Charity,
and speedy reUef for the said distressed Town and People. By a Country
Minister. Licensed, Nov. 22. 1675. Roger L' estrange.
London, Printedfor Jonathan Robinson, 1675.
X, — 24 pages, 1/
Eelations of Eemarkahle Eires in lorthamptonshire,
Compiled from Early Manuscripts, Parish Registers, Old Tracts by Eye-Witnesses
and Sufferers, Briefs by Royal Authority, ParUamentary Documents, County
Histories, Newspapers, &o. From the Xlth to the XVIIIth Centuries. Illustrations.
XI. — 24 pages, 1/
^[orthamptonshire Topography :
An Historical Aocount of what has been done for Illustrating the Topographical
Antiquities ofJ;he County of Northampton, By Richaed Gouqh.
XII.— 8 pages, 1/
Poetical History of the Eamily of Maunsell.
From the MS. in the possession of Thomas PhUip Maunsell, Esq., of Thorpe
Malsor, Northamptonshire. With Preface and Notes by Gboeqe Bakee, Esq,
XIII,— 12 pages, 1/
Architectural Description of Triangular Lodge at Eushton.
With Notes of the Parish Church and of the Tresham Family. By the Rev.
W. D. SwEBTiNO, M.A. Second Edition, Revised. Illustrations.

XIV,-8 pages, 1/
The Siege of Burghley House hy Oliver Cromwell.
A True Relation of ColoneU Cromwels proceedings against the CavaUers.
Wherein is set forth the Number of those that were Taken, Kil'd, and Maimed, at
his late Victories obtained over them. London, Printedfor Bejamin Allen, 1643.
XV,— 12 pages, 1/
Baker's History of lorthamptonshire :
Index Locorum.
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XVI.— 16 pages, 1/
A Calendar of Papers of the Tresham Eamily,
Of the Reigns of Elizabeih and James I., 1580—1606. Preserved at Rushton
HaU, Northamptonshire.
The discovery of these papers is very iateresting. Iq 1828, ou removing a lintel over an ancient
doorway in the Great Hall, a handsomely -bound Koman Catholic book of devotion fell out upon tho
workmen. This oiroumstaiice at onee led to further examination, and a very large recess, or closet,
was discovered in a thick stone wall, of about five feet long, and fourteen or flfteen inches wide,
almosli fllled with bundles of manuscripts, and containing about twenty Catholic books in excellent
preservation. The ccmtents of the manuscripts are various, consisting of historical notes, by Sir
Thomas Tresham, rolled up with building bills, deeds, and farming contracts and of a portion ofthe
domestic correspondence of the Tresham faniily between the years 1580 and 1605. In a manuscript
letter found amongst them, some light is thrown upon the design of Sir Thomas Tresham in tha
erection of the singularly unique building, the Triangular Lodge, and the reason of his selecting
that peculiar mode of illustrating his favourite doctrine the Trinity, There is strong reason to
believe that these books and papers were concealed in the latter end of November, 1605, as the
paper of the latest date is a memorandum without a signature, of certain bonds, therein stated
to have been delivered up to Mrs. Tresham on the 28th November, 1605, by the writer of
the memorandum. Sir Thomas Tresham, to whom and whose eonnection the papers mainly
relate, had died in the preceding September, and his son. Sir Francis Tresham had only succeeded to
the title and the estates a month or two, when on November 12th, 1605, he was apprehended on the
charge of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, This doubtless led to the concealment ofthe papers,
whilst those that were strictly political were in all probability destroyed. The papers though not
Bpeeiflcally relating to the Gunpowder Plot, contain much valuable information upon the condition
and domestic history ofthe Eoman Catholics at that period, their expectations from James I., and
their grevious disappointment on his accession, and they thrdw great light on the causes
which led to the conspiracy, XVII,— 22 pages, 1/
A Testimony against Periwigs and Periwig-Making,
And Playing on Instruments of Musick among Christians, or any other in the
days of the Gospel. Being several Reasons against those things, By one who for
Good Conscience sake hath denyed and forsaken them, John Mullinee, Barber in
Northampton. , Printed in the year, 1667.
John MulHner, being Town and Country talk, determines to clear himself and the Truth of God
by giving reasons why he left off making Borders and Periwigs— Youthful longings after the peace
of God — Seeks instruction from Simon Eord of Allhallows, but in vain — Inclines towards the
Quakers who are suifering persecution — His inclination treated as " a Fancy and a Whimsie,
Bewitching and Delusion " — Seeks relief in music but doubts what good its sounds ean do him —
Burns his musical instruments — As a testimony against his employment, burns a wig before two men
whomhe had instructed in it— Leaves Periwig making, in which he has suffered much self-condemnation
 Eebnts the charge that the Quakers "come from the Jesuits or Papists"— His creed as to
doctrine and the Churoh— A persuasive to Holiness— His relations stirred up against him— Lessons
of the great Fire of Northampton, and Storm of Thunder, Lightning, and Hail— Appeal on behalf of
the Quakers— His lameness and resignation- Warning against slighting the spmt of God— Urges
lowliness and humility— Prays for his calumniators— The futility of persecuting the Quakers, and
their steadfastness— Closing Appeal.

XVIII,— 20 pages, 1/
Lord Spencer's Library, 1870. Entertainment at Althorp, 1603.
A Sketch of a Visit to Althorp, Northamptonshire, the Seat of Earl Spencer, K,G.
AooOTJNT or TEE Entebtainment given to the Queen of James the First and
Prince Henry, at Althorpe, on Saturday, being the 25th of June, 1603.
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XIX.— 52 pages, 1/
Early History of Simday Schools in lorthamptonsMre.
A Study of a Kock: but not Geological. A Paper on the Early History of
Sunday Schools, especiaUy in ^Northamptonshire. By the Rev. W. J. Baht. With
Appendix, containing Extracts lUustrative of the Early History of Sunday
Schoola in Northamptonshire, frpm Original Documents, &c. Second Edition.
A very valuable contribution to the social and religioua history of Korthamptonshire, and the
only attempt jet made to present in any form an account of the establishment of Sunday Schools in
the County, from the earliest period, and the subsequent progress ofthe movement. « » •
In 1785 the flrst Sunday School in Northamptonshire was opened in the town of Wellingborough,
and from thence we have a gratifying record of the establishment of Sunday Schools at Northamp
ton, Brixworth, Oulworth, Spratton, Creaton, Pitaford, Moulton, Welford, West Haddon, Long
Buckby, Floore, Crick, Collingtree, Byfield, Duston, Earl's Barton, Brington, Towcester, Eavena-
thorpe, Brampton, Pattishall, Brigstoek, Corby, Kingsthorpe, Bothersthorpe, Weedon, and other
places. Many ofthe details ofthe management ofthe Schools are full of a quaint interest, which
wUl henceforth take their place amongst the curiosities of Sunday School life. Amongst rewards
given, for instance, we find a hat, a pair of stockings, a handkerchief, a bonnet, &c., and in another
instance, children were paid for good attendance. Some ofthe methods by which the Sunday School
was at firat supported are novel. At Stony Stratford for example, a dramatic company performed
the tragedy of Jane Shore for the benefit of the Sunday Schools in that town. These more fully
appear in a series of extracts which form the Appendix, and which, relating to the early History
of Sunday Schools in Northamptonshire, are referred to in the body of the paper. * •
The collection of these materials has involved much personal labour and research, and being.in
this form, permanently preserved, they cannot fail to have a very general interest.
XX,— 70 pages, 2/6
Memorials of Rev. John Dod, M.A.,
Rector of Ea-wsley, Northamptonshire, 1624 — 1645. Fac-simile Portrait.
I.— A Sermon upon the Word Malt. Preached iu the Stump of a hollow Tree,
by the Eev, John Dod, M,A. With Account of the Life of the Author.
II,— The Text or These MS. Versions oe the Sermon on the word Malt.
III.— The Worthy Sayings of Old Mb. Dod. Fit to be treasured up in tha
Memory of erei-y Christian. In Two "Parts.
IV.— Bibliographical List of the WRiTmas of John Dod. With Biographical
Notioe by the Rer. W. D. Sweetino, M.A.
V. — Refeebkoes to Biographical JSTotices of John Dod.
VI, — Addenda,
The puWication of the pamphlet was undertaien at the requeat of Sir Henry Dryden, Bart,,
of Canon's Ashby, a copy of the early edition of " The Sermon on Malt," haying been sent the
hon. bart. by Mr, Albert Hartshorne, Dr. Dod ministered for some time in the pariah church of
Canon's Ashby, and when he died in 1645, had been twenty-one years Eector ol Fawsley, and had
attained the ripe old age of 91, Not the least interesting feature of the Memorials is the
insertion of tho teit of the only three known MS. yersion? of the Sermon on the Word "Malt"
—the variations in the versions being worthy of note. The dates ofthe MSS, are all contemporary
with Dod, The work further comprises " The Worthy Sayings of Old Mr, Dod. Kt to be treasured
up in the Memory of every Christian. In Two Parts;" a "Bibliographical List of the Writings
of John Dod. Wilh biogi-aphlcal notioe by the Eev. W. D. Sweeting. M.A. ; " and " Eeferences
toBiographicalM-otioesof JohnDod," ... "It has been sought to preserve ill every
detail the quaint characteristics of the original editions of the writings here embodied j and to
reproduce the quaintest sermon and sayings of this eminent divine in their original garb must
meet with the appreciation not merely of the bibliophile and antiquary but of the general public.
Certainly this effort to perpetuate the memory of one of our most eminent Northamptonshire
Divines, merits the appreciative support of the -gMhMB."— Northampton ReraU, October 30, 1876.

XXI.-32 pages, 1/
The Brington Charity Estate.
Schedule of Deeds, &o., helonging to Brington Charity Estate ; with an Aocount
of the Charities belonging to the Parish of Brington.
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Castle Ashby: Historical and Descriptive.
Sketch of the Castle and Grounds; -with Notes of the Parish Church, List of
Patrons, Incumbents, &c. Together with Biographical Notices of the North
ampton and Compton Peerages. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
XXIII.— 8 pages, 1/
The Puritans in lorthamptonshire, 1590.
A Paper ou Puritans iu Northamptonshire, dated 16 July, 1590. With Particulars
of the "Glassies" holden at the Bull in Northampton; and of one Edmond
Snape beeinge or pretending to be Curate of S. Peters in Northampton. From
the original MS. in the British Museum,
XXIV.— 8 pages, 1/
The Rest-less Grhost :
Or, Wonderful News from Northamptonshire, and Southwark. Being a most true
and Perfect Account of ' a Persons Appearance that was Murdred above two
Hundred -and Eifty Tears ago. Eirst about three weeks since, to one WiUiam
Claike at Hennington in Northampton-shire, whom it appointed to meet in
Southwark, and did there appear to him again, and several others, on Sunday last
the 10th. of this instant January. Where it Discovered a great parcel of Money,
and some -writings buried in the'ground, which were disposed off by his Order, and
then seeming satisfied it disappeared. This Relation is taken from the said WiU
Clarks o-wn Mouth, who came to London on purpose, and wilt be Attested and
Justifled by WUl. Stuhbins, Iohn Charlton, and John Stevens, to be spoken with
any day, at the Castle Inn without Smith-Eield-Barrs, and many others.
Printedfor John Millet.
XXV.— 8 pages, 1/
Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution of Ann Poster. .
(Who was Arrained for a Witch) on Saturday the 22th of this Instant Augfust, at
the place of Execution at Northampton. With the Manner how She by her Malice
aud Witchcraft set aU the Bams and Com on Fire belonging to one Joseph
Weeden living in Eastcoat, and bewitched a whole Flock of Sheep in a most
lamentable manner, and be-witohing aU his Horses, with his other Cattle, to the
utter Ruin and undoing of the said Joseph Weeden. And also iu what likeness
the Devil appeared to Her while she was in Prison, and the manner of her
IJeportment at her Tryal. London, Printedfor B. if. 1674.
XXVI.— 32 pages, 1/
Rushton : Historical, Biographical, Archseologioal.
Including Sketohes of the Tresham and Cokayne Families, a Description of the
Triangular Lodge, and Notes of the HaU, Grounds, and Parish Church. Sbcomd
Edition. Illustrations. XXVII.— 16 pages, 1/
The Northamptonshire Female Dreamer ;
Or the Wonderful Revelations of East Hadon, and Ravingthorp : by an Angel.
By SaUy Sly. 1st and 2nd Editions. Facsimile Illustration Birmingham.
XXVIII.— 8 pages, 2/
A Strange and Lamentable Accident
That happened lately at Mears Ashby in Northamptonshire. 1642. Of one Mary
Wilmore, -wife to Iohn Wilmore, rough Mason, who was deUvered of a ChUde
¦without a head, and credibly reported to have a firme Crosse on the brest, as
this ensuing Story shall relate. Facsimile lUustrations.
Printed at London for Rich. Sarper, 1642.

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A PapisticaU Byll.
An answer at large, to a most hereticaU, trayterous, and PapisticaU SyU, in
EngUsh verse, which was oast" abrode in the streetes of Northamton, and brought
before the Judges at the last Assises there. 1570, By Tho. KneU Iu.
Imprinted at London by Iohn Awdelye.
XXX,— 32 pages, If
Historical and 'G-enealogical lotes
Relating to Northamptonshire, from " Collectanea Topographica et Genealogioa;"
and " Excerpta Historica." By J. Bowyek Nichols.
XXXI,— 24 pages, 6d.
Francis Tresham, of Rushton,
The Gunpowder Plot Conspirator : A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. With
Notices of the Bocase Tree. XXXII,- 68 pages, 1/
Transactions & Excursions of Royal Archaeological Institute,
At their Annual Meeting at Northampton, 1878, Under the Presidency of the
Ven. Lord Alwyne Compton, With a Paper on the History of the Town and
County of Northampton. By the Rev. W. Monk, Rector of Wymington.

XXXIII,— 28 pages, 1/
The Poysoning of Sir Euseby Andrew.
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Court deliuered at the Assizes at Northampton 3 seueral times upon Com
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