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NOTES ANB QUERIES. 



[2a« S. No 66., JaU. 24. '67. 



" 50 E. III. John Atteyate, John Atte more. 

 " 21 R. II. Gregory atte Lathe. 

 " S. D. Will. Mudepit, Osbert Spir hard. 

 « 11 Edw. I. Will. Milkaubred, Walter, son of Will. 

 Milk and bred. 

 « 12 I-I. IV. Nicholas Milkeherde. 

 "12 Edw. II. John in Angulo, William in the Wro." 



G. H. D. 



SK^pIteiS t0 Minav ^utvit^. 



Hildehrand Jacob (2"'' S. iii. 48.) — This gen- 

 tleman was the eldest son of Sir John Jacob, of 

 West Wratting, eo. Cambridge, and died June 3, 

 1739. He lived in Clarges Street, Piccadill}^ and 

 in 1717, married Isuriel, daughter of Sir John 

 Bland, of Kippax Park, co. York, and had issue 

 one son and one daughter. She died in 1744. G. 



Rvdhalls, the Bell-founders (2"'^ S. ii. 467. ; Iii. 

 18.) — The following account is given of the Rud- 

 halls : — 



" The precise time when the family established their 

 bell-foundvy in the city of Gloucester is not known. The 

 names of the founders were Abraham, senior ; Abraham, 

 junior; Abel, Tiiomas ; and now, John Rudhall. The 

 number of church bells cast by them, as stated in the 

 printed lists, is 4,454 : but those are omitted which, having 

 been previously made by them, have been recast : there- 

 fore, it is probable, the whole number may exceed five 

 thousand. Tliey have sent bells to most parts of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, to the East and West Indies, and to 

 North and South America." — History and Description 

 of the City of Gloucester, by George Worrall, Counsel ; 

 Gloucester, 1829. 12mo. 



To the preceding may be added, that it is said 

 that a bell-foundry was established in Gloucester 

 upwards of 500 years ago ; that it extended from 

 a large house situated on the south side of the 

 Eastgate Street, down to the Bell Lane (which 

 derives its name from that circumstance) ; and it 

 may also be remarked, that of the two first-rate 

 hotels in that city, one is styled " The Bell," and 

 adjoins Bell Lane, in the Southgate Street. ij. 



I well remember, some forty-five years since, 

 a large printed broadside, framed, hanging up in 

 one of the studies of the Bodleian Library, which 

 contained a list of the various places in England 

 where Abraham Rudhall, the then celebrated bell- 

 founder, had exercised his skill ; and where spe- 

 cimens, memorials of his art, were to be found. 

 Perhaps some of your Oxford correspondents will 

 inform us if such a memorial still exists ? 



S. M. H. O. 



Baiter's " Chronicle'* (2'^ S. ii. 509.)— In your 

 Editorial Notice, appended to this Query, you 

 mention that the "edition of 1730—1733" "was 

 edited by Edward Phillips, the nephew of Milton, 

 and is considered by the booksellers the best 

 edition." I have a copy of an edition by Phillips, 

 with a continuation by him down to the Restor- 



ation of Charles II., which the editor, in his pre- 

 face, lauds as highly as the knight does the original 

 work. It is printed 1679 ; and at the head of the 

 title-page is written, "pr. 20/. 9s., Nov"^ 18"^ '83;" 

 which, if referring to the book, seems high even 

 for those days.* 



The title-page contains vignettes of " Verolam," 

 " Lincolne," " London," " York ; " and figures of 

 " A Roman," " A Saxon," " A Dane," and " A 

 Norman ; " besides a portrait of Charles I., and 

 what I take for the vera effigies of the worshipful 

 knight himself. Opposite the frontispiece is a 

 portrait of Charles II., and the volume is inter- 

 leaved with curious engravings of the kings of 

 England, cut from some other book, and pasted 

 on sheets ; commencing with the Conqueror, and 

 ending with Charles 1. These engravings are 

 oval, about two inches in the transverse diameter, 

 and of considerable antiquity. One of the same 

 set, pasted on the back of the title-page, consists 

 of a representation of St. George slaying a dragon, 

 surmounted by the cross and crown of England, 

 encircled by the dates of the kings' reigns, and 

 subscribed " Effigies Regum Anglorum a Wil- 

 helmo Conquestore." On the second title-page, 

 the work is called the "seventh impression" of 

 Phillips' edition. I should like to know whether 

 this is not a more valuable edition than those you 

 mention ; and also to get some clue to the work 

 from which the engravings are cut ? From what 

 remains of the letter-press on the back of them, 

 they seem to be from some much more concise, 

 but scarcely less quaintly worded work, tlian the 

 Chronicle. J. C. H. 



Irish High Sheriffs (2"'' S. ii. 508.) — Abhba 

 will find, in the late lamented Mr. Ferguson's Ex- 

 chequer Notes, and his papers, the roost perfect 

 known list of the high sheriffs of counties in Ire- 

 land. In some instances it begins in the thirteenth 

 century, and appears very correct since the be- 

 ginning of the last century. Simon Ward. 



The Order of St. Michael (2"^ S. ii. 229.) — 

 Since I wrote last on this subject I have acci- 

 dentally discovered what became of the collar of 

 this order which was worn by King Henry VIII. 

 In the next reign it was converted into a collar of 

 the Garter for the use of Sir William Herbert, 

 afterwards created Earl of Pembroke : 



" Item, a coller of golde of th' order of sajmt MIchaell.. 

 (Sidenote} ix" Dec. 1549 this coller gyven by the Kinges 

 Ma* to sir Will'm Herbert knight, m"" of the K'es horses, 

 to make for the said sir Wyll'm a coller of the Garter, 

 w'^ii coller of S' Michaell w'inwrj^tten was dd. to hj^m of 

 the weight of xxx oz. of golde by vertue of the coun- 

 sailles warraunt." — Inventory of Jewels, Plate, &c., 3 

 Edw. VI., in MS. Soc. Antiq., cxxix. 



The same MS. contains another memorandum, 



I* Lowndes values this edition at 6s.] 



