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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to all bishopricks, for the new Bishops were summoned 

 to the very next Parliament after their appointments. 

 Henry VIII. created a Spiritual Baron by patent. In 1514 

 he granted to the Abbot of Tavistock and his successors, 

 that he and they should be * Spiritual and Religious 

 Lords of Parliament,' stipulating, at the same time, that 

 if it should happen, in consequence of the distance of the 

 said monaster^', that anj' Abbot of the same for the time 

 being should fiiil in his attendance in Parliament, he 

 should be pardoned for the omission on the payment of 

 live marks.* No allusion is made to tenure or to tempo- 

 ralities, and the Crown appears to have possessed the 

 right of creating a spiritual as well as a temporal Lord, 

 b}' letters patent." G. 



Bisliops sit ill the House of Lords (they are 

 lords of parliament, but not peers of the realm) 

 in right of their baronies. But the word harony 

 is one now of twofold meaning. Formerly the 

 posst?ssion of the territorial barony carried with it 

 the rights and privileges of a baron. .Now the 

 case is altered : the territorial barony is one thing, 

 tlie barony of name, rank, dignity, and precedence 

 another. In theory there still exist some ancient 

 baronies by tenure, but the settlement of those 

 baronial estates by Act of Parliament has virtually 

 set the theory aside. W. C. 



ROBERT HERRICK, THE POET. 



(2"'^ S. X. 174.) 



I believe I can answer satisfactorily the two 

 questions put to me by Mr. Haggard : — 



" L Was Robert Heyrick, of Leicester [mentioned in 

 J. G. N.'s former communication at p. 102.], the author of 

 Robert Herrick's Poems '? " 



The poet was a nephew and godson of Robert 

 Heyrick of Leicester, being one of the sons of 

 Nicholas Heyrick, of Cheapside in the city of 

 London, goldsmith. Robert Heyrick, in his will, 

 ■written in 1617, leaves: "To Robert Heyricke, 

 my brother Nicholas's son, my godson, five pounds." 



" 2. Why was Herrick ejected from his vicarage? " 



Certainly, as a high-churchman and cavalier : 

 whilst his cousin Richard Herriek, the warden of 

 Manchester, retained his preferment during the 

 Commonwealth, having conformed to the Presby- 

 terian discipline. 



Mr. PIaggabd quotes some biographer who 

 states that the exact time of the poet's death has 

 not been correctly ascertained. This is not the 

 case. It is shown by his parish register to have 

 occurred in October, 1674 ; and in the inscription 

 placed on a monumental tablet, which has been 

 erected to the poet's memory in the church of 

 Dean Prior s by William Perry Herrick, Esq., of 

 Beaumanor, it is so stated : 



" He died Vicar of this Parish in the year 1674." 



* Pat. 5 Hen. VIIL p. 2. n. 22. Selden's Titles of Ho- 

 nour, 621. 



But, by some fatality, this line is omitted in the 

 copy of the inscription given by Mr. E. Walpobd 

 in the biography prefixed to his recent edition of 

 the poet's Works. There are other particulars in 

 which Mr. WALroRD and the poet's former bio- 

 graphers are inaccurate, but these I must take 

 leave to reserve for another occasion. 



Since I sent to " N. & Q." the curious verses 

 to which these remarks refer, I have found that 

 " Clement Chare," upon whose marriage and its 

 accompanying festivities they were written, was a 

 tradesman of Leicester, and a man of less import- 

 ance than I had imagined. His real name was 

 Charde, not Chare. By a deed (printed in Ni- 

 chols's Leicestershi7'e^ i. 590.), Clement Charde, 

 mercer, and Dorothy his wife, sold for Ql. lOs. to 

 Thomas Cotton, gentleman, a garden containing 

 half an acre in Dead Lane, Leicester ; dated 38 

 Eliz., 6 Feb. This shows that his marriage took 

 place before 1596. Clement Chai'de was chosen 

 mace-bearer to the corporation of Leicester, Dec. 

 17, 1598, and vacated that office by death in Dec. 

 1605 {Ihid., pp. 416. 419.) 



John Gough Nichols. 



Harvest Bell : Gleaner's Bell (2"'* S. x* 

 288.) — I have a note made 1841. It has been 

 the custom from time immemorial for the parish 

 clerk of Driffield to ring what is called the " Har- 

 vest Bell." He rings the tenor bell a few minutes 

 at five o'clock each morning, and at seven each 

 evening, to warn the labourers in the harvest fields 

 when to began and cease their labour. The clerk 

 is rewarded with a portion of corn from each crop, 

 which, like tithes, was often paid in kind, but is 

 now received by an equivalent in money. The 

 " Gleaner's Bell " has been introduced in some 

 corn villages, that all may start fairly. 



H. T. Ellacombe. 

 The custom I'ecently mentioned in " N. & Q." 

 prevails in some of the Oxfordshire parishes. I 

 can name two of these, namely, the parishes of 

 Tadmarton and SwalclifTe near Banbury. The 

 bell tolls twice daily during the harvest time, in 

 the morning and evening, and the gleaners are 

 A'ery particular in attending to its warnings. I 

 believe that this custom has prevailed for many 

 years in the places above-mentioned. C. Cooke. 

 Pall Mall. 



The custom of ringing the church bell at sunset, 

 or at a certain time of the evening, is common in 

 many parts of England. I had occasion to search 

 the Charity Commissioners' Reports some time 

 back for materials for a series of articles on this 

 and other subjects which were published in Cas- 

 sell's Familij Paper, and the records were numer- 

 ous of bequests of land for the purpose of paying 

 the parish-clerk for performing this office. Some- 



