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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n« S. VII. Mar. 5. '69. 



13. That all maner of persons may sell their 

 goods without paying any toll to the lorde. 



14. That all maner of quit-rents shalbe left, 

 and the money of the same to distrybute amongs 

 the poure people. 



15. That man slaughter shall not be foi'geven 

 for money nor for favour, that Lex Talionis be 

 usid, that is, lyke as a Man doth to anothe, he so 

 to be delt withall. 



16. That all maner prests ^e punysshed where 

 they do the offence as well by temporall Judges as 

 spirituall. 



17. That all runnyng Waters shalbe free vnto 

 cuery man, as well to power as to the Riche, euery 

 man at his nede. 



18. That all maner wilde dere be comon for 

 euery man. 



19. Att the destresse of euery man nothing to 

 be taken from hym, but all to be lefte to his right- 

 full heires. 



20. That ther be demaunded no toll for bests. 



21. That no maner person be suffer id to en- 

 grose any maner corne to cawse derth for his pro- 

 fit, for the scath or vndoing of the people. 



22. That suche persons as hath plentie and 

 abundauiice of Riches to helpe the pore people 

 withoute takyng thereof any lucer or gaynes. 



23. That all suche as be not able to gett their 

 lyving shalbe geven to them such things as they 

 have nede of 



24. And right shalbe don as well to the powre 

 as to the riche w' oute faveoure; 



Now pray God of his grace that we maye do 

 vnto euery man or person as we wolde be don 

 vnto, for we be all brethern, because we be des- 

 sended all of one Father. 



POPIANA. 



Pope at Twickenham.— It has long been a ques- 

 tion what interest A. Pope, the poet, had in the 

 house and grounds at Twickenham, where he 

 i-esided, andyiro/ra whom he obtained such interest. 



Now the property must have belonged to the 

 orown or else to a subject, and if to a subject, 

 must have been of freehold tenure or of copyhold 

 tenure, held either of Sion Manor or else of 

 Twickenham Manor. 



The poet, with his father and mother, moved 

 from Binfield to Ckiswick. The father died at 

 and was buried at Chiswick in October, 1717 ; 

 that is now beyond dispute. 



After the father's death the poet and his 

 mother removed to his well-known villa at Twick- 

 enham. The interest which the poet had in it 

 must almost for certain have been acquired in 

 1717 or 1718. Now, if it was obtained from the 

 crown, the enrolment at full length of the grant 

 or lease would appear in the Land Revenue In- 



rolment Office, No. 11. Spring Gardens, S. W. ; 

 but if from a subject, then, if of freehold tenure, 

 an enrolment of only a memorial of the grant or 

 lease would appear at the Middlesex Registry 

 Office in Bell Yard, Carey Street ; but if of 

 copyhold tenure, then the surrender or grant 

 would appear on the Court Rolls at Northumber- 

 land House of Sion Manor, or in tlie Court Rolls 

 of Twickenham Manor in Fenchurch Street. 



Now all these searches added together, being 

 for only during the two years each (supposing 

 all the four searches made, which is very impro- 

 bable, and taking probabilities into consideration, 

 the searches should be made in the order before 

 indicated) must be very light indeed, and the 

 costs a mere trifle, even if they were charged. 



In making them every individual grant, lease, 

 or surrender in those years must be observed, 

 because the search is for the document under 

 which the poet, as the grantee or lessee, became 

 entitled. 



Now can any one of your numerous readers 

 state whether such searches as above indicated 

 have ever been made ? A. K. Z. 



Pope, Alexander. — I have lately understood 

 that this poet in the interval from April 16, 1716, 

 to Dec. 15, 1720, had an "account" at the bank 

 of Messrs. Gosling. During that period payments 

 were received for him from interest in the Queen's 

 Lottery, South Sea Company, and annuities stand- 

 ing in the name of Martha Blount and — Piggott : 

 a draft for 12Z. 10s. payable to self, closes the ac- 

 count. 



The Beauties of England and Wales, Hereford- 

 shire, pp. 205, 206. mention Pope's visits to Holm 

 Lacey, and that " a sketch is " (or was) — 



" There preserved of the head of the great Lord Straf- 

 ford, copied in crayons from Vandyck by Pope, who not 

 only amused himself with poetry when a guest at Holm 

 Lacey *, but with painting. This, excepting a portrait of 

 Betterton given by him to the late Lord Mansfield, and at 

 Caen Wood, is supposed the only proof remaining of the 

 poet's talent as a painter." 



S. M. S. 



LAST DAYS OF CHARLES I. PKOM THE EXCHE- 

 QUER ROLLS. 



(Concluded from p. 163.) 

 Under the head of necessaries provided for the 

 House of Commons, is an item of lOOl. paid to 

 Edward Byrkhead, Esq., Serjeant-at-Arms, at- 

 tending Mr. Speaker of the Commons House of 

 Parliament, for fuel, candles, and other necessa- 

 ries, and for cleansing the said House for two 

 years ended 29 September, 1647, in part of 200Z. 



* P. 509. suggests that during his visits at this place 

 Pope became acquainted with the details of " the Man of 

 Ross," an adjacent town. 



