June 5. 1852.] 



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curate witbin the county where the corpse was 

 buried (except him in whose parish the corpse was 

 buried), who must administer the oath and set his 

 hand gratis. No affidavit to be necessary for a 

 person dying of the plague. It imposes a fine of 

 61. for every infringement ; one halt" to go to the 

 informer, and the other half to the poor of the 

 parish. 



I have not been able to ascertain when this act 

 tras repealed, but imagine it to have been of but 

 short continuance. Is there no mistake in the 

 date of the affidavit quoted by Mr. Taylor ? Is 

 1769 a lapsus for 1679? The first entry in the 

 book provided for such purposes in this parish 

 bears date August, 1678, and there is no entry later 

 than 1681, which appears also to be the limit of the 

 Act's observance in the adjacent parish of Rad- 

 cliffe. There, the entries immediately follow the 

 record of the burial itself in the registers, and not 

 in a separate book, as with us. 



Under the year 1679 occurs the following 

 memorandum in the parish registers of RadclilTe : 



" An orphan of Ralph Mather's, of Radcliffe, was 

 buried y"= 9th day of April, and sertefied to l)e wounde 

 uppe in woollen onely, under the hand of M"^ William 

 Hulme." 



In the churchwardens' accounts of this parish 

 (Prestwich) for the year 1681 is found the follow- 

 ing item of receipt : 



" Received a fine of James Crompton fFor buringe 

 his son and not bringinge in an affidavitt according to 

 the Acte for buryng in woollin, 02 • 10 • 00." 



John Bookek. 



Prestwich, Manchester. 



The act of parliament imposing a penalty xipon 

 burials, where any material but wool was made 

 use of, was 30 Car. II. stat. 1. c. 3., afterwards 

 repealed by the 54 Geo. III. c. 108. I am able to 

 adduce an instance of the act being enforced, in 

 the following extract from the churchwardens' 

 book of the parish of Eye for the year 1 686-7 : 



" Ilec. for Mi' Grace Thrower bee- 7 „ 



inge buried in Linnen - - 3 " 



J. B. COLMAN. 



Eye. 



BEAEMS' MS. "meMOIRES TOUCHAI^T LE COMMEECE." 



(Vol. v., p. 126.) 



In the hope of satisfying the curiosity of J. 1\I., 

 I will communicate the information concerning 

 Daniel Braams which I find in my family papers. 



_ According to a genealogical tree in my posses- 

 sion, confirmed and delivered 13th September, 

 1661, by the kings-at-armsand heralds of Brabant*, 



* This document is quoted by Kok in his Vaderl. 

 Woordenboek, vol. viii. p. 899. ; and by Scheltema, 

 Geschied. en letterk. Mengelwerk, vol. ill. p. 183. 



Daniel Braems descended from an illustrious 

 family of Brabant, a younger branch of the Vilains, 

 of the house of the burgraves, or viscounts of 

 Ghent. 



During the Spanish religious persecutions, about 

 1550, his ancestors emigrated from Flanders, and 

 settled at Dover. 



His father was Daniel Braams *, keeper of the 

 regalia of Charles I., and in high favour at court. 

 On Cromwell's coming to power he fled, and soon 

 after died, leaving an only son in childhood, by 

 his widow, Mary, daughter of the well-knowa 

 navigator Jacob le Maire. 



Mary, with her youthful son Daniel, settled in 

 Holland, where she had many relatives, and con- 

 tracted a second marriage with Andreas Schnel- 

 lingwouw. She soon after went to the East Indies 

 with her husband, who had been appointed secre- 

 tary to the Schepenen at Batavia. Thus, Daniel 

 Braams went very early to the Indies, where he 

 passed a great part of his life. He became Gene- 

 ral Accomptant of the East India Company at 

 Batavia, and for his services received a gold chain 

 and a medal. 



In the family papers in his own hand now before 

 me, he writes : 



" The 29 th November, a" 1686, I set sail with my 

 family from Batavia, in the ship Kastricum, to return 

 to Europe, after I had been thirty-four years and a 

 half in India. The 21st March, 1687, we arrived at 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; and on the 1 9th April pro- 

 ceeded thence, with thirteen ships. When we had 

 reached the . . . degree of north latitude, having 

 Ireland to the east, it pleased the Most High to call my 

 dear and virtuous wife to His eternal rest, on the 9th of 

 July, A" 1687. The dtad body was, by my orders, 

 enclosed in a coffin and placed behind the ship. At 

 Amsterdam she was buried in the vault of my grand- 

 father in the N. Capel." 



Daniel Braams was twice married in Batavia; 

 first, with Clara Reijers, and secondly, with a 

 daughter of Anthonio Paviloen, Councillor Extra- 

 ordinary of India. Besides several children who 

 died young, he left the following, all born in the 

 East "indies: — By his first marriage: 1. Maria, 

 b. 1667; d. 1743; m. Philip David Uchelen, go- 

 vernor of Banda and Ternate. 2. Abigail, b. 1672 ; 

 d. 1753; m. Cornelis Ileinsius, Landschrijver of 

 the land of Cuyk. 3. Clara Sara, b. 1681 ; d. 1750; 

 m. at Amsterdam Jan van der Burgh. By his 

 second marriage: 4. Johannes Jacobus, b. 1683; 

 d. 1743, His godfather was Cornelis Speelman, 

 governor of India; he m. Maria Uijlenbroek, and 

 died s. p. J- F. L. C. 



Amersfoort. 



P.S. — Mr. J. F. L. Coenen would feel happy if, 



* An excellent family portrait of him, painted by 

 A. Vandyk, is now in the possession of Mevr. de dou- 

 airiere Coenen, van 's Gravesloot, at Utrecht. 



