2"^ S. VII. Fbb. 6. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Ill 



of Voorst, to the Duke of Gelre, most likely of the same 

 year, or of 1354, it being a contemporary copy. No 

 watermark. 



"III. Edward, Duke of Gelre, mortgages to William, 

 Lord of Bronckhorst, the district (^Landdrostambt) of 

 Zutphen in 1363. Contemporary copy. Without a water- 

 mark. 



"■ IV. William of Gulick, Count van den Berg, com- 

 plains about John, Duke of Gelre, and Earl of Blois. 

 From about 1373-1376. The original letter. Without a 

 watermark. 



"V. Letter of Gisebert van Bronckhorst, Governor 

 (Drost) of the province of Zutphen. lie was governor in 

 1384. Watermark : Two Cans, between which another 

 figure. 



" VI. Note, by the magistrate, concerning a day to bo 

 kept for the reconciliation with Evert van Uft. Perhaps 

 in 1390 or 1391. Watermark: Haifa Lily. 



" VII. Letter of Frederick, Count of Meurs and Lord of 

 Baar. Watermark : A Donkey's Head. 



" VIII. List of the cattle of the Zutphen citizens stolen 

 by Henric van Donete. This man is spoken of by Nijhoff 

 about the year 1348. According to notes, written by Mr. 

 van Doorninck and communicated by that gentleman to 

 Mr. Tadama, we still also 15ud in 1385 a Lord of Dorth 

 with the Christian name of Ilendrik. The date of the 

 paper will thus be from 1348 to 1385. Watermark : Half 

 a Lilt/:' (X. c. p. 236.) 



Jonkheer W. J. C. Rammelman Elsevier com- 

 municates, respecting the old paper-marks of the 

 documents in the Leyden archives, that the 

 earliest till this time noticed by him is of the 

 year 1386, and occurs in a register called Het 

 Stedehoek, in 4to., which also contains documents 

 of the year 1348, but written on parchment. The 

 watermark spoken of consists of A Human Head., 

 around which a hand or kerchief is fastened with 

 two bows or knots (most likely a Blackamoors 

 Head). This mark is still found in the book we 

 mentioned till 1450 and later. (Z. c, p. 237.) In 

 a former communication (Z. c, p. 102.) the same 

 gentleman tells us the archives of Leyden possess 

 an account of expenses made by some archers 

 sent from that place to Woudrichem in the year 

 1407. It is written on thick paper, and bears the 

 BulVs Head as watermark. In other accounts, 

 until 145G, we notice various and different signs, 

 as the Bull's Head, with or without a star {Lily ?) 

 in the prolongation of the nose ; the Dog, with or 

 without a bell around his neck ; the Pair of Scales ; 

 the Flying Dragon, &c. 



In the meeting of the Historical Society, 28th 

 March, 1857, Mr. Ortt van Schonanwen pre- 

 sented this body with a collection of paper-marks, 

 most accurately copied by Mr. Ph. de Kruyff, 

 with an indication of the lines {pontuseaux) oc- 

 curring in the different kinds of paper, and of the 

 size and colour of the sheets in the feodal registers 

 of the House Nyenrode since the year 1430. (Kro- 

 nijk, Dertienden Jaargang, 1857, p. 8.) 



As a general, though not infallible rule, I think 

 we may state the paper witliout any characteristic 

 sign to bo the oldest, as the watermark denotes a 

 certain progress in paper-making. 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 



DIABT OF GOFFE, THE BEGICIDE. , 



(2°'^ S. vi. 433.) 



Mr. Peacock quotes "S.'A. G." of Boston, 

 Massachusetts, who inquires in the October num- 

 ber of the American Historical Magazine and 

 Notes and Queries, as to what has become of Goffe's 

 Diary, and refers to Governor Hutchinson's His- 

 tory. On the subject of the Diary, a great-grand- 

 son of Governor Hutchinson can answer the 

 Query. In the History of the Province of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, i. 213. (editio princeps, Boston, 17G4), 

 we have : — 



" In the ship which arrived from London the 27th of 

 July [1660], there came passengers Col.Whaley [_sic'] and 

 Col. GofFe, two of the late King's Judges . . . . . 

 Goffe kept a journal or diary from the day he left West- 

 minster, M'ay 4, until the year 1667, which, together with 

 several other papers belonging to him I have in my pos- 

 session," &c. 



Both Americans and Englishmen will lament 

 that uncontrolled acts committed in the heat of 

 political disturbance should raise regrets ninety- 

 five years after their occurrence. I must tell a Bos- 

 tonian and an American, that that interesting 

 manuscript was destroyed in Boston by Bosto- 

 nians and Americans. I can give a narrative of 

 the circumstances from the third volume of the 

 History. This volume was edited by my cousin, 

 the Rev. John Hutchinson, Precentor and Canon 

 of Lichfield Cathedral, from papers left by the 

 Governor at his death in 1780, and published in 

 1828 by Murray, The book is well known in 

 America, for the Boston Historical Society took 

 500 copies of it. At pp. 124-5. we find the ac- 

 count of an attack made by the mob during a 

 popular tumult upon the house of my great-grand- 

 father, he then being Lieutenant-Governor : — 



"And in the evening of the 26th of August a mob was 

 collected in King Street [now State Street] drawn there 

 by a bonfire, and well supplied with strong drink. After 

 some annoyance to the house of the Registrar of the Ad- 

 miraltj', and somewhat greater to that of the Comptroller 

 of the Customs, whose cellars they plundered of all the 

 wine and spirits in them, thej'- came, with intoxicatedrage, 

 upon the house of the Lieutenant-Governor. The doors 

 were immediately split to pieces with broad axes, and a 

 way made there, and at the windows, for the entry of 

 the mob, which poured in and filled, in an instant, every 

 room in the house. 



" The Lieutenant-Governor had very short notice of 

 the approach of the mob. He directed his children and 

 the rest of his family to leave the house immediatelj", de- 

 termining to keep possession himself. His eldest daugh- 

 ter, after going a little way from the house, returned, 

 and refused to quit it, unless her father would do the 

 like. 



" This caused him to depart from his resolution a few 

 minutes before the mob entered. They continued their 

 possession until daylight; destroyed, carried away, or 

 cast into the street everything that was in the house; 

 demolished every part of it except the walls, as far as 

 lay in their power; and had begun to break away the 

 brickwork. 



"The damage was estimated at about twenty-five hun^ 



