2»<i S. Vn. JWB 11. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



477 



be was now ^'■dyed doubly black" in the blood that 

 was shed ; or, by the terror he inspired. Can 

 anyone point me to the place where this may 

 be found ? F. F. E. 



Bradow Family of Lincolnshire. — Can any of 

 your readers give any account of this family, its 

 coat of arms, and to whom the last of the family, 

 an heiress I believe, was married ? 11. 



iKtn0r dMtviti Jnttlb ^n&oitxi. 

 Sir Thomas Rowe. — Has any life of this distin- 

 guished diplomatist been published ? He was 

 member of a family originally seated in Kent, 

 which produced, besides himself, the following 

 eminent men : Sir Thomas, Sir William, and Sir 

 Henry, all Lord Mayors of London ; John Rowe 

 of Lewes, co. Sussex, Principal of Clifford's Inn, 

 London ; Sir Nicholas of Muswell Hill ; and Sir 

 Henry of Shacklewell, co. Middlesex. Sir Tho- 

 mas was the first ambassador to the Great Mogul, 

 and our Indian Empire owes much to the treaties 

 which he obtained from that monarch. Sir 

 Thomas was afterwards sent on an embasssy to 

 the Court of Constantinople, and subsequently to 

 the Kings of Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and 

 Germany. He was British representative at the 

 Diet of Ratisbon, and died soon after his return 

 from thence, in the year 1663 [1644]. He was also 

 Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, from 1638 

 to 1644, and represented the borough of Windsor 

 in 1639. He married Elianor, daughter of Sir 

 Thomas Cave, Knight, who survived him, I shall 

 be glad of farther particulars of one whose bio- 

 graphy has been treated with unmerited neglect. 



C. J. Robinson. 



[We agree with our correspondent, that the biography 

 of Sir Thomas Koe or Eowe lias been treated with un- 

 merited neglect. The best biographical account of this 

 ambassador will be found in the Biographia Britannica, 

 wiiich is valuable for its references to other works._ Be- 

 sides the numerous papers relating to Sir Thomas in the 

 llarleian, Additional, and other manuscripts in the British 

 Museum, as well as iu the Calendar of State Papers, he 

 is noticed in Lempriere's Biography ; Lysons's Environs 

 of London, iv. 181. 280, 281 ; IJrydges's Northamptonshire, 

 i. 579. 583 ; The Greek Church ; a Sketch by the author 

 of Proposals for Christian Union ; Wright's Essex, ii. 

 509 ; Hasted's Kent, iv. 748 ; Pari. Hist. ii. 599. 614 ; and 

 a short abstract of his will is given in The Antiquarian 

 Repertory, i. 140. An excellent portrait of Sir Thomas, 

 by Geo. Vertue, is prefixed to Samuel Kichardson's in- 

 complete edition of his Negotiations, fol. 1740. What 

 .authority has C. J. R. for connecting John Rowe, Princi- 

 pal of Clifford's Inn, with the family of which Sir Thomas 

 Roe was a member?] 



Charles Herle. — I have before me a small book 

 with the following title : — 



" Worldly Policy and Moral Prudence : the Vanity and 

 Folly of the one, the Solidity and Usefulness of the other. 

 In a Moral Discourse. By Charles Herle, Minister of 



God's Word at Winwick in Lancashire. London, printed 

 for Samuel Gellibrand, at the Ball in St. Paul's Church- 

 yard, 1655." 



What is known of the author ? Did he write 

 anything else, and what ? I. M. S. 



Jedburgh. 



[Charles Herle was born at Prideaux-Herle, Cornwall, 

 in 1598 ; educated at Exeter College, Oxford ; M.A. in 

 1618. He became rector of Winwick, one of the richest 

 benefices in England. In 1643, he was elected one of the 

 Assembly of Divines, and in 1646, voted prolocutor of 

 that assembly. After Charles I. was beheaded, he retired 

 to his rectory of Winwick, having fiirst received satisfac- 

 tion for his services and losses during the civil war. In 

 1654, he was appointed one of the assistants to the Com- 

 missioners of Lancashire, for the ejection of scandalous 

 ministers and schoolmasters ; being esteemed by his 

 party a most painful and godly preacher. He died at 

 Winwick, in September, 1659. For a list of his works, 

 see Wood's Athence (Bliss), iii. 477., and Watt's Biblio- 

 theca, s. v. Consult also Fuller's Worthies, art. " Corn- 

 wall," and Carew's Cornwall, edit. 1811, p. 168.] 



Jane Ci'omwell. — During a visit to Stafford- 

 shire, last week, I met at Fradswell Church a 

 very little distance from Chartley Castle, the fol- 

 lowing epitaph : — 



" Siste gradum viator, siste, quid properas ? ' 



En puellae insignis tumulus obecurus. 



Nomen legito, 



Jana Ckomwell. 



Ex nobilibus familijs Cromwellorum et Meverillorum 



F<Bliciter conjunctis feliciter oriunda, 



Filia Thomse Comitis de Ardglas in regno Hiberni<», 



Et Elizabethie comitissje ejus. 



(Heu quid lacrumis dicere conatus) fuit; 



Fuit tamen, at talis ut 



Nobilitate ornata Nobilitatem ornavit suam : 



Sanguine et titulis illustris : 



Forma, ingenio, pudicitia et pudore praeclarissima : 



Virgo nitens, Comitis (jiu. comis) filia, sexus decus, 



suorum delicise. 



Qua) cum alios xx optandee mortis impleverat, 



Mortem obijt inoptanSam, 



Vii. Aug. M.DC.XLVII. 



Cujus frater nobilis, Vere Essex Cromwell 



Etsi minor natu, et tantillo patrimonio fruitur, (?) 



Amoris et pietatis ergo 



Hoc istud nionumentum 



P. D. D. D. AiTo M.DC.LXXII. 



Quod si aliquis impius in futurum violare ausus erit 



Sacrilegi merito pcenas luat." 



It seems to me that the writer, or the engraver, 

 of this inscription lacked a due knowledge of 

 Latin. But it would be a pleasure to many in 

 the neighbourhood of Fradswell, and a matter of 

 interest to others, if they could learn from any of 

 your correspondents who this " Jane Cromwell " 

 was. An Earl of Essex lived hard by, at a date 

 not far off those of the monument, for whom a 

 bridge was built that made Chartley more acces- 

 sible. And I observe that, on the division of the 

 property of the republican Earl of Essex, the 

 Chartley estate went to Sir Robert Shirley. But 

 he was a Devereux ; and Jane Cromwell and her 

 brother Vere Essex Cromwell would seem to have 



