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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 138. 



document that, some thirty years since, I found 

 beingxiut into strips for labels for a gardener. The 

 few fragments I was enabled to preserve showed 

 that the document related to some conventual 

 matter, from the repetition of the words " Abbati, 

 Conventii, et Monasterii." One of the lines com- 

 mences with an illuminated capital of about half 

 an inch in height, as follows : 



" Militanti ecdie licet immerlti disponente domino 

 presidente " . . . . 



Another line commences — 



" Persone tam religiose qua seculares necnon duces 

 Marchione " . . . . 



On one of the fragments, apparently an endorse- 

 ment on the back of the document, are the names 

 *' Anselmus," and beneath it " Bonanmy " or 

 " Bouanmy." There are unfortunately no traces 

 of the name of any place, or of a date. The writ- 

 ing is very clear and in good condition. Is the 

 document a papal bull ? I shall be obliged by any 

 reply to my inquiries. K. H. 



Kensington. 



MARKET CEOSSES. 



(Vol. v., p. 511.) 



It is stated in Gillingwater's History of Bury 

 St. Edmunds, edition 1804, that " The theatre, 

 an elegant structure, originally the Old Market 

 Cross, was erected in the year 1780, from a design 

 ty Mr. Adams." 



In Alexander Downing's Plan of the ancient 

 Borough of Bury St. Edmunds, published in 1740, 

 there is a very good view of the old Cross. It 

 appears from this print to have been a fine old 

 building ; the lower part open. It is possible that 

 there might have been a chapel in the upper part 

 of the cross, as it appears in the print on Down- 

 ing's map to have been three stories high, with 

 a bell turret or tower. 



Downing's Plan is not scarce : it is one large 

 sheet, and is engraved by W. C. Toms, sculpt. 



In Thomas Warren's Plan of Bury, subsequently 

 published, there is a view of the New Cross, with 

 the theatre above it, as built in 1780. J. B. 



Since I sent you a hasty Note respecting the 

 Old Market Cross at Bury St. Edmunds, with re- 

 ference to your correspondent's Query, I bethought 

 me of the old market cross which formerly stood 

 in the Great Market Place at Norwich. Blome- 

 field, in his History of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 652., 

 gives an account of that ancient cross, which is too 

 long to quote ; but he states that " it was a neat 

 octagonal building, with steps round it, and an 

 oratory or chapel in it, with a chamber over it." 



Now possibly there might have been such a 

 ** chapel ' in the old cross at Bury, wherein 



"Henry Gage was married in 1655;" for I put 

 faith in all that Mr. Rookwood Gage said or wrote. 

 There is still standing, at Wymondham in Nor* 

 folk, an old wooden market cross, with a chamber 

 over itj supported by wooden columns : it is an 

 octagon building. Blomefield makes no mention 

 of it. An etching was published of this cross, by 

 — Dixon, of Norwich, some few years back. 



^tpXiti to i^t'nor Queries. 



The two Gilberts de Clare (Vol. v., p. 439.).^ 

 In reference to No. 2. of " Irish Queries," as to 

 the relationship which existed between the two 

 Gilberts de Clare, Earls of Gloucester, I beg to 

 send you the information required by your corre- 

 spondent Mac an Bhaird. , ^ 



Gilhertus Co. GIou- ^ Isabella, tertia natu filiariura 

 cest, & Hertf. : & coh£er. Will. Mareschalli 



obiit 14 Henr, 3. Co. Pembr. 



Ricardus, Co. Glou- = Matilda, filia Job. de Laci 



cest. & Hertf. 

 obiit 46 Henr. 3. 



Comit. Lincoln ux. 2. 



Gllbertus, Comes — Joanna de Acres, filia Regis 

 Glouc. & Hertf. I Ed. 1. 

 cogn. Rufus, ob. | 

 24 Ed. 1. /JV 



Dugdale's Baronage, 1. 209. 



See also Miller's Catalogue of Honor, pp. 369—. 

 373.; Vincent's ^rroM/-.s of Brooke, pp. 122, 123.; 

 Yorke's Union of Honour, pp. 109, 110. 



FABNHAMi 



Farnham, Cavan. 



Baxters Shove, Src. (Vol. v., p. 416.).— I fear it 

 may savour somewhat of presumption in me to 

 offer the following remarks to one who confesses 

 himself to be a collector of Baxter's works ; but 

 if they afford no information to your correspondent 

 Mr. Clark, they may probably prove acceptable 

 to other less sedulous inquirers after the writings 

 of this truly pious man. 



Baxter, m his enthusiastic zeal in the cause of 

 religion, did not hesitate to append to some of his 

 popular tracts, titles more calculated to excite 

 the curiosity of the vulgar than engage the atten- 

 tion of the refined reader; as the age became 

 more enlightened, this breach of propriety was 

 discontinued, and these records of genius and 

 piety have been since reprinted under more ap- 

 propriate appellations. If I am not misinformed, 

 the title of Baxter's Shove has undergone this 

 transformation, and now appears under that of 

 The Call to the Unconverted. 



