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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°« S. X. July 28. '60. 



« Ah cruel,' said I, ' when a votary comes. 



To fly, lovely Queen, from the bath and the rooms ! ' 



But heedless alike of my search and concern, 



She vanished, and tidings 1 never could learn. 



Till Sunday the last, by good fortune I went 



To the capital city of fair fertile Kent, 



Where I found her, I found her : 'I know your blue 



eyes. 

 Dear Goddess,' I cried, ' tho' you take this disguise, 

 And I easily guess why you choose to assume. 

 Lovely L 's fair form, meaning face, and sweet 



bloom.' 

 * You're right,' said young Cupid, ' I told her the 



cause 

 Was more notice to gain, and to win more applause ; 

 For I heard her, one day, by dread Styx stoutly 



swear 

 That Kitty excelled her in beauty by far.' " 



• Gent. Mag. vol. xxxii. p. 495. 



In another copy that I have seen the name is 

 printed nearly in full, L — nch.) 



I have a strong suspicion that the above are by 

 Thurlow, Chancellor, It was known in his youth 

 that he wrote amatory verses, and paid attentions 

 to Miss Lynch, a daughter of the Dean of Canter- 

 bury. The affair ended in the seduction of the 

 young lady, it was said under promise of marriage. 

 She set out for London, was taken ill on the road, 

 and died, refusing all nourishment. One of her 

 sisters married Sir William Hanham, of Dean's 

 Court, Dorset, Bart. Thei? mother was a daugh- 

 ter of Archbishop Wake. 



I wish to ascertain what was the Christian name 

 of the Miss Lynch, Thurlow's favourite ; and 

 whether any evidence exists to support the notion 

 that he was the author of the verses. W. D. 



Cakdinal Mazarin. — Can you give me any 

 account or list of that singular collection of fugi- 

 tive pieces commonly called Mazarinades f Hav- 

 ing in my library a large collection of them, and 

 not being aware of their existing in any of our 

 public libraries north of the Tweed, I should be 

 grateful for information on the subject. J. M. 



Church Chancels. — What is the probable ori- 

 gin of church chancels being built in an oblique 

 line with the nave ? I am told that instances of 

 this apparent fault are frequently to be found. I 

 know that St. Peter's, Sudbury, is one of them. 



J. L. M. 



Fratres be Penitentia Jesu Chkisti, other- 

 wise Fratres de Sacco. — Tanner, in his Notitia 

 Monastica, states that this Order was first esta- 

 blished in England in the year 1257, and was totally 

 and universally suppressed by the Council at Lyons 

 in the year 1307. I would ask for an explanation 

 of this statement (which appears to me to be 

 inaccurate, so far as the alleged suppression is con- 

 cerned), and for some information of the circum- 

 stances which occasioned the dissolution of the 

 Order. Tanner farther states that a house of 



this Order was established at Lynn before the 5th 

 Edw. I. (quoting a Norfolk Fine of that date, No. 

 95.), and that the prior there was the vicar- 

 general of the whole Order throughout England. 

 As regards the farther statement, I should be 

 obliged by any information or particulars, and 

 references to seals, deeds, &c., which the readers of 

 "N. & Q." can afford. The only local memorial 

 of the existence of the Order in Lynn is contained 

 in a vellum lloU (preserved amongst the munici- 

 pal muniments of the town), written apparently 

 in the latter part of the reign of Henry III., or in 

 the early years of the reign of Edward I., for the 

 purpose of setting forth a description of the mes- 

 suages, lands, and tenements in the town held of 

 the Bishop of Norwich, as of his baronial feu there, 

 the annual rents due to him in respect thereof, 

 and the names of the then occupying or mesne 

 tenants, and of the original or chief tenants : 

 herein, amongst other entries, is the following : — 



" Fratr. de. Sacc. ten'. 1. aream. i. qua. eor'. eccl'ia. et 

 hitaco. sunt, construct, de. dono. dni. Joh. de Vallib^ et 



de Westacre. et. liicus. fil. Ade. de. Wigeh'. et. 



her'. Alex. fil. psone, aquietat'. ea. v'sus. Epni. p. redd', 

 qd'. eid'm. annuati. solv'nt." 



This proves the existence of a church and man- 

 sion of the Order in Lynn ; but at the present 

 day neither material vestige, record, or tradi- 

 tional report, remains of their site and extent. It 

 would be very interesting to ascertain what be- 

 came of the church and buildings of the monas- 

 tery after the dissolution of the Order. 



Alan Henry Swatman. 



WiTTON. — Can any of your readers furnish a 

 probable derivation of this name, which is borne 

 by more than ten parishes in England, two of 

 •which are situated in the county of Norfolk ? The 

 names of many more places begin with the first 

 syllable of this word, the meaning of which is by 

 no means clear. Is it to be connected with "white," 

 " wheat," " wit," or with none of these ? The fol- ' 

 lowing epigram is written on the fly-leaf of the .1 

 register belonging to the parish of Witton by 

 Bromholm, Norfolk, by some person favouring the 

 derivation " wit " : — 



" The name of Witt this towne it once did beare, 

 But now witless, alas, I quake for feare, 

 The head is sick, the Bodie also weake. 

 Death make an end, they will no physick take." 



The occasion of this entry does not appear : the 

 writing is of the beginning of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. G. W. W. M. 



Epsom Church. — This church was rebuilt in 

 1824 on the site of the old church, which was a 

 very ancient building. 



Evelyn, in his Diary, under date 20th March, 

 1670, says : — 



"We all accompanied the corpse of my dear brother 

 (Richard) to Epsom Church, where he was decently in- 

 terred in the chapel belonging to Woodcote House." 



