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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. ijo 59., Feb. 14. '67. 



dragon Pursuivant in 1763, and Clarenceux 

 1784, and who died in 1803, is stated, in Noble's 

 History of the College of Arms, to have been de- 

 scended from a branch of the philosopher Locke's 

 family. He was buried at Warnford, co. Hants ; 

 and is described, in a grant of arms wliich he took 

 out in 1767, as son of John Lock of that place. 

 Upon a print of the Heralds' College, by White, 

 round which the arras of the heralds are given, 

 his coat has a martlet for difference. It appears 

 that, during his connexion with the Heralds' Col- 

 lege, three grafts of arms were made to the name 

 of Lock : one to the herald himself in 1767 ; the 

 second to John Lock of Mildenhall, in Suffolk, in 

 1770 ; and the third to William Lock of Norbury 

 Park, Surrey. All the coats are slight variations 

 of the old arms granted to Sir William Lock, 

 Sheriff of London in 1548, and sculptured on the 

 monument of John Locke the philosopher, at 

 Laver in Essex, viz. Per fess, or and azure, a 

 pale counterchanged between three hawks with 

 wings endorsed of the last. It seems probable, 

 from the period of the grants, and the similar 

 spelling of the name, that the two other grantees 

 of arms were connected with the herald. Can any 

 of your readers give me any information about 

 either of these families, or that of the herald ? 



F.N. 



iiltnar ^ntxiti. 



Nathanael Culverwell. — Any information as to 

 the life and writings of Nathanael Culverwell, 

 " Fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge," 

 author of A Discout^se of the Light of Nature, and 

 other Treatises, Oxford, 1669, will be gratefully 

 received at 23. Rutland Street, Edinburgh. 



JouN Brown, M.D., F.R.CP. 



Monumental Brasses : Artists' Marks. — At the 

 base of one of the shafts of the canopy of the large 

 brass at Trotton, Sussex, is a mark evidently that 

 of the artist or engraver. Can any one furnish 

 me with similar instances (previous to the seven- 

 teenth century) besides that at Westley Water- 

 less, and perhaps Prunch ? As I am preparing 

 for publication a new edition of the Introduction 

 in the Oxford Manual of Monumental Brasses, to 

 be accompanied with a Catalogue, based on Mr. 

 Manning's List, of all the brasses remaining in 

 England, I shall be much indebted to any reader 

 of "N. & Q." who would kindly send me any un- 

 published information to enable me to render the 

 work as complete and accurate as possible. 



H. Haines. 



Paddock House, Gloucester. 



Arnold's Oratorios. — Who wrote the words of 

 the following oratorios ? the music by Dr. Ar- 

 nold : — 1st. Abimelech, performed at the Hay- 

 market, 1768. 2nd. 2 he Resurrection, performed 



at Covent Garden, 1777. 3rd. Redemption, an 

 oratorio, 1786. X. 



Child's Baitledoor. — Why was a child's horn- 

 book or primer so called ? It is very possible 

 that it may have received its name from its re- 

 semblance in shape to the instrument of play 

 known by that name. 



At the same time, it appears to me by no means 

 improbable, that the origin of the word is figura- 

 tive, as implying that learning is the "door" 

 to future provision, or " battels," in life. To im- 

 press this the more strongly upon the infant mind, 

 it may have been the practice with some of our 

 forefathers to make "battling," or, as we should 

 say " dining," contingent upon the young scholar 

 repeating his lesson correctly ; in which case the 

 primer or horn-book might very appropriately be 

 called a "battel- door," or "door to the battels." 



Henby T. Riley. 



Dr. Phillips of Shrewsbury. — Where did Dr. 

 Phillips, once Head Master of Shrewsbury School, 

 reside between the years 1700 and 1735 ? He 

 married, for his second wife, the wido^r of Mr. 

 Childe of Ruilet, and daughter of Sir G. Acton of 

 Aldenham. Where was this marriage solemnised ? 



M.M. 



King John at Hough Priory. — Robert of 

 Brunne, in his version of the Langtoft Chronicle, 

 describing the death of King John, says : 



" At j>e abbay of Suynesheued her he drank poyson, 

 At Hauhe his lif he leued, so say men of j^iit toun." 



To which lines the editor (Tho. Hearne) ap- 

 pends the following note : 



"What he (Brunne) saj's here about King John's 

 dying at Haughe (which is in Cahewotth hundred in Lin- 

 colnshire) is very remarkable, and contrary to other his- 

 torians, who make him die in the castle of Newark. But 

 it seems Robert of Brunne (for 'tis not in the French) had 

 it from tradition, the people of Haughe talking frequently 

 of it in his time." 



I take it for granted that I am not the first to 

 notice the mistake here fallen into by Hearne, in 

 confounding (as he does) Haugh, near Alford, in 

 a distant part of the county, and where there ap- 

 pears to be neither vestige nor tradition of any 

 religious house (and so nothing to tempt King 

 John's avarice), with Hough-on-the-Hill, in the 

 wapentake of Loveden, the Haghensis Prioratus, 

 cella CoBsaris-hurgi, &c., of Dugdale, which lies 

 within a few miles of Newark, between it and 

 Swlneshead. The Query I would put is, whether 

 there is any evidence corroborative of Brunne's 

 tradition, or tending to show that King John 

 stopped at Hough Priory on his way to Newark ? 



J. Sawsom. 



P. S. — Is there any tradition as to the precise 

 spot where King Jolin's treasures (of which he 

 had despoiled the Abbeys of Peterborough, Croy- 



