2°'« S. VII. ArKiL 9. '69.] 



NOTES AND ^QUERIES. 



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out the boundary line of the forest, as it formerly 

 existed. It has, I believe, been long since dis- 

 afforested and cultivated. J. 



Members of Parliament. — Is there any printed 

 work containing lists of members of parliament 

 during the interval between the period embraced 

 by the parliamentary writs published by the Re- 

 cord Commissioners, and the period when the 

 parliamentary histories begin their lists ; that 'is 

 to say, between 1326 and 1552 ? J. W. 



Creek Indians. — Where may the following pam- 

 phlet be seen or purchased ? 



" The Speech of a Creek Indian against the immoderate 

 Use of Spirituous Liquors. Delivered in a National As- 

 sembly of the Creeks. To which are added, 1. Letter 

 from Yariza, an Indian Maid of the Royal Line of the 

 Mohawks, to the principal Ladies of New York. 2. In- 

 dian Songs of Peace. 3. An American Fable. Together 

 with some Remarks upon the Character and Genius of the 

 Indians, and upon theCustonts and Ceremonies at making 

 War and Peace. 8vo. Is. Printed and sold by R. Grif- 

 iiths at the Dunciad in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1754." 



In connexion with the above, any information 

 respecting MacGillivray, a Creek chief, and the 

 arras of the Drumnaglas family, inquired after in 

 " N. & Q.," 2"'* S. iii. 149., will be esteemed a 

 favour. A. M. 



Princes Street, Cavendish Square. 



"Come to the green Savannah,''^ — Who is the 

 author of the lines commencing, — 



" Come to the green Savannah, 

 To the Indian wild-wood bower, 

 Where the tyrant's frown cannot daunt thee, 

 Nor th' oppressor's arm hath power ? " 



I remember meeting with them nearly forty 

 years ago. J. M. 



Coins in Foundations. — The custom of placing 

 coins under foundation stones, how and when did 

 it originate ? And is it confined to tlie founding 

 of sacred edifices alone ? * Wykb. 



^^ Moldwarps " in Heraldry. — In Waverlei/, Sir* 

 W. Scott speaks of " moldwarps and wy verns " as 

 terms used in heraldry. I cannot find the former 

 of these in Parker's Glossary of Heraldry. Can 

 anyone give me an explanation of it ? or is it 

 merely used without any meaning, as the " three 

 ermines passant," in the same novel, are an im- 

 possible bearing ? Selbach. 



Alderman Thekestone. — Alderman Thekestone 

 of Ripon, solicitor, who was mayor of that town 

 in 1615, went to reside at Islington, co. Middle- 

 sex, in, 1 622, as appears from a curious entry in a 

 minute-book of the Ripon Corporation. It is 

 there said, " He and his whole famylie are now re- 



[* The custom is ancient : see "N. & Q," 1»» S. vi. 

 270.470.; vii. 166.] 



moved to Eslington, in the county of Middlesex." 

 Thekeston wrote a brief Chronicle of the town of 

 which he was mayor, entitled — 



" The Names of all the Wakemen of Rippon, since the 

 yeare of grace 1486, collected oute of Auncient Chrona- 

 cles and Wryttings, by ffrancis Theckstone, Mayor of the 

 said Towne of Rippon, Anno D'ni 1G15 " — 



which is yet preserved in an ancient bye-law- 

 book of the old trade guilds of Ripon. I am at 

 present engaged in publishing a series of topo- 

 graphical tracts, the first number or part of which 

 is a faithful copy of a MS. chronicle of Ripon 

 ending in 1724. This is the book from which old 

 Gent culled a great part of his information. I 

 have added many notes to it, principally from un- 

 published sources ; and I also give, as an appen- 

 dix, a verbatim et literatim copy of Alderman 

 Thekestone's Chronicle, along with a perfect list 

 of the wakemen and mayors up to the present 

 time. If any gentleman, conversant with the 

 pedigrees of the families formerly living in the 

 parish of Islington, can furnish me with a few 

 notes of the residence there of our old Ripon 

 chronicler, I shall esteem it a favour. I ought to 

 add that he left the banks of the ]Jre and the 

 Skell in disgrace. William Harrison. 



Chronicle Office, Ripon. 



Philip Parsons. — In the Harleian MS., 6924, 

 there is a comedy by Philip Parsons having the 

 title of Atalanta, 1612. Is anything known re- 

 garding the author ? R. Inglis. 



Glasgow. 



Rob. IVycliff.—Who was_ Rob. Wy cliff. Cap. 

 Rector of St. Crux in the city of York between 

 the years 1352 and 1379 ? Was he of the same 

 family as the great reformer ? The living of St. 

 Crux at that time was in the gift of the abbot and 

 convent of St. Mary's, York. R. 



Stillingfleet. 



Perpetual Curates. — Will you kindly refer me 

 to the best sources of information respecting the 

 exact position, &c. of perpetual curates in the 

 United Church of England and Ireland? Mr. 

 Fonblanque, in his very interesting book, entitled 

 Hoiv We are Governed; or, the Church, the Se^ 

 nate, and the Bench, gives the following paragraph 

 (p. 90.) : - 



"An incumbent differs from a [stipendiary] curate in 

 being fi"ee from the liability to summary dismissal men- 

 tioned just now, as his ordinary title of perpetual curate 

 shows ; but he has no independent rule, and is in the eye 

 of the law (notwithstanding his having sole authority in 

 his own church) only an assistant to the rector or vicar 

 of the parish in which it is situated." 



Abbba. 



Abp. Neiles Grandfather. — Richard Neile, or 

 Neale, born in 1562, the son of a tallow-chandler 

 in Westminster, became a very remarkable man. 

 Educated in Westminster School, and afterwards 



