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across the chest, — the last will be again more 

 particularly referred to. 



The only inscription is "Anno a^tatis ;" but no 

 age is given, and underneath, "A° 1617." The 

 man is apparently about twenty-five, fair, of rather 

 inanimate countenance; but his hair is worn li- 

 terally on end, rising up straight all round the 

 head, and giving him a frightened aspect. With 

 his right hand he clasps the right hand of a female ; 

 but no more is given of her in the picture than to 

 a little above the wrist, which is covered with a 

 black sleeve and lace ruffle. 



The following facts serve, in my opinion, to 

 identify the portrait. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 

 Henry Cock of Broxbournbury, was heiress to 

 that property. After the death of her second 

 husband. Sir Robert Oxenbridge, 28th May, 1616, 

 she remarried Sir Richard Lucy, — I have little 

 doubt in 1617, the date of the picture. It could 

 scarcely have been earlier, on account of her re- 

 cent widowhood ; it was not later, because, in 

 1617, Sir Richard was made a baronet, and styled 

 of Broxbournbury, — a place with which he was 

 connected only by this marriage. His wife died 

 in 1645 ; but he enjoyed the Broxbourn property 

 jure maritl till his death in 1667, when it reverted 

 to Sir John Monson, who inherited it by mar- 

 riage with the daughter and heir of Elizabeth, 

 Ursula Oxenbridge. 



The portrait I therefore believe to be of Sir 

 Richard Lucy, while the date and junction of 

 hands allude to the event which has entitled him, 

 as life possessor of Broxbournbury, to be com- 

 memorated on its walls. 



I do not think the painting was ever larger, or 

 that the figure of the wife ever existed as part of 

 it. There is no memory or tradition of any more 

 than now remains. The mark of the groove of 

 the pannel is traceable all round the picture ; and 

 if the female had been also pourtrayed, it must 

 have been in a separate compartment, divided 

 from the hand — a very improbable arrangement. 

 I now arrive at the point which alone puzzles 

 me, and which may receive from the numerous 

 readers of " N. & Q." some explanatory conjec- 

 tures. The scarf before alluded to, is covered 

 with curious embroidery of anchors, caducei, the 

 letters S, and the Douglas badges (the crowned 

 heart). Have these devices any meaning ? and if 

 so, what? Are they merely the caprice of the 

 embroiderer or the painter ? or are they emblems 

 indicative of the wearer ? If the two first be or- 

 naments of no import, the two last at least are 

 curious selections, unless they have some appro- 

 priate meaning. Monson. 



▲NCI£KT DEMESNE AT ORMESBY, CO. NORFOLK. 



May I ask the prompt assistance of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." with regard to the privileges and 



present stability of this tenure ? and I should be 

 indeed thankful for transcripts of any documents 

 or notices in which this parish is mentioned, 



Ormesby was perhaps always " Terra Regis," as 

 it is called in Domesday Book, though, in King 

 Edward's time, it was held by Garth, the brother 

 of Harold. This is confirmed in the Hundred 

 Rolls, and the verdict of the jury was in favour of 

 the claim. 



The fee-rents payable to the crown were granted 

 out by King John, in consideration of a fixed 

 yearly rent of 16^., to be paid by the grantee. 

 This fee-farm rent was subsequently sold or 

 granted to different persons of distinction, but re- 

 verted to the crown in Hen. VIII.'s time, in whose 

 possession it remained till 1665 ; when Charles II., 

 after confirming by a charter the privileges of the 

 tenants and inhabitants, as exemption from serv- 

 ing on juries — from contribution to the expenses 

 of knights of the shire — from theolony, stallage,, 

 cumrage (what is this ?), pontage, pannage, pic- 

 cage, murage, and passage — disposed of it by sale, 

 it is said, to the Earl of Tankerville. 



A complete series of the lords or holders of the 

 manor, who paid the fee-farm rent, and the pos- 

 sessors of the fee-farm who received it, up to the 

 present time, might be compiled from the Records. 



The inhabitants have always exercised their 

 rights, but are now threatened with an attack on 

 them, which will be a serious loss to the poor : as 

 they are at present, owing to their exemption 

 from market tolls, able to dispose of their garden 

 produce very advantageously. Reference to cases 

 in which the privileges attached to ancient de- 

 mesne manors have been brought in question, 

 attacked or defended, would also be valuable. 



I beg to state, to avoid giving needless trouble, 

 that I have consulted common books of reference, 

 like Bacon's Abridgement, The Hundred Rolls, 

 Calendar of Inquisitiones post Mortem, &c. as 

 printed by the Record Commissioners, but I have 

 no access at present to the original inquisitions, 

 extents, &c. Any information of this kind, or 

 suggestions for the preservation of the privileges, 

 addressed to the Editor, or direct to myself, will 

 be thankfully acknowledged. E. S. Taylor. 



Ormesby St. Margaret. 



A RELIC OF THE EARL OF HONTLY, 1562. 



In the possession of a member of the house of 

 Athole there is a coin, shown lately to the writer, 

 which seems to possess some interest as a relic. It 

 is of old standard gold weighing about an ounce, 

 having on one side in relief the letters " G. H. S." 

 entwined together in form of a monogram, en- 

 circled with the motto — 



" NEMO . POTEST . DVOBIS . DOMINIS . SERYIRE *b " 



(nobody can serve two masters), and on the re- 



