.2»<i S. X. Oct. 27. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cherished remembrances belonging to it ;^ inside, 

 •the arch is flush with the wall, but, outside, the 

 bold dripstone of Anglo-Norman character tells 

 that it is even earlier in date than the font. To 

 my thinking, the oratory built by Earl Kichard 

 at Hambleden was no other than the usual family 

 chapel joined on to the parish-church, as the lords 

 of the soil were then wont to do ; and that this 

 Anglo-Norman doorway belonged to_ an earlier 

 chantry; and that it was, for especial reasons, 

 left untouched when the old chapel was pulled 

 down and the new one erected. The careful pre- 

 servation, in after times, of this same doorway 

 arose, as it seems to me, from a veneration to St. 

 Thomas Cantelupe, who, as a child, must have often 

 gone through it, ^and as a priest, while visiting 

 home, from neighbouring Oxford, of which univer- 

 sity he became Chancellor, he frequently came to 

 say his daily Mass, and to pray ; and in after years, 

 when Lord High Chancellor of the kingdom and 

 Bishop of Hereford, he sometimes sought it for 

 those same purposes. This chapel, it is likely, 

 was afterwards dedicated under the saint's name, 

 and was the chief resort of pilgrims. 



Hambleden itself is a good specimen of those 

 clean, tidy villages nowhere to be found but in 

 our own dear England. Its church, which seems 

 well cared for, has lately gone through the pro- 

 cess, so much to be dreaded, of reparation; it 

 will, however, do every archaeologue's heart good 

 to learn that, with the slight exception of some 

 stained-glass windows ion the south side of the 

 chancel, quite out of harmony with the beautiful 

 east window, everything has been well carried 

 out, with thorough true feeling. The architect 

 has done his part most conscientiously ; and when 

 that frightful, ugly, red brick tower, of as late a 

 period as the reign of Orange William, is replaced 

 by another more akin, in material and architec- 

 ture, to the fine old church, then, and not till 

 then, will the work of love be fully wrought at 

 Hambleden. D. Rock. 



Brook Green, Hammersmith. 



GREENE. 



(2'«» S. X. 292. &c.) 



Queries relating to one branch of this family 

 having lately elicited a good deal of information 

 from readers of " N. & Q.," I would beg to repeat 

 a Query published in 1" S. ii. 89., as it has not yet 

 met with any reply. 



1. I wish to know who is the present possessor 

 of " a fine pedigree of [the Greene family penes 

 T. Wotton, Esq.," as stated in « N. & Q.," 1»* S. 

 i. 200. ? 



2. I wish to find the birth and parentage of 

 John Greene of Enfield ? He was clerk of the 

 New River Company, and died 1705. About 



1660 (?) he married Elizabeth Myddelton, a 

 granddaughter of Sir Hugh, by his son Sir William 

 JNIyddelton ? 



Since this Query was published, in 1850, 1 have 

 gleaned, chiefly from Chancery Suit Depositions, 

 (Greene v. Greene, 1709), that in that year Mrs. 

 Greene had a sister, Sarah Bland, then a widow, 

 aged eighty-three, living near St. Greorge's church, 

 Southwark. That when he married Elizabeth 

 Myddelton (whose monument is in the north aisle 

 of Enfield church, the arms of Greene of Greene 

 Norton being impaled with Myddelton), he was 

 " a Spanish merchant of as good credit as any on 

 Change " ; that he was apprenticed to Mr. Mau- 

 rice Twayson, a merchant ; and his father, who 

 was a counsellor, and very wealthy, went over with 

 him to Spain, whence he returned just before his 

 father's death, very rich. He died at the New 

 River office, near Puddledock, in the parish of St. 

 Andrew Wardrobe : he is supposed to have been 

 buried at Enfield (where he had a house in Tur- 

 key Street as well as in London), because his wife 

 lies there in the church. 



John White, of Enfield, was his cousin german. 



He had an elder brother called Roger, from whom, 

 I believe, descended the late Mr, Greene of Doctors' 

 Commons. By his wife, Elizabeth Myddelton, he 

 had a son Gyles, who married Mary Soames ; they 

 died without issue, and are buried at Dereham. 

 The next brother was William Greene (he died 

 1738), my great-grandfather. 



As I said before in " N. & Q.," July 6, 1850, 

 " I shall be very thankful to know the birth and 

 parentage of the aforesaid John Greene," By the 

 kindness of several gentlemen who have tried to 

 make him out, I am in possession of everything 

 recorded on monuments, &c., at Navestock ; but I 

 cannot graft him into that branch of the family. 



I would also ask, who was Mrs. JEphraim Greene, 

 living 1709, aged sixty ? 



It is probable that the house at the New River 

 Head, where the board now hold their meetings, 

 was built when Mr. John Greene was the clerk ; 

 as his arms (a chev. between 3 bucks trippant) 

 are represented in the ceiling. 



At his death he possessed four shares in the 

 Company — the history of which, as well as of Mr. 

 Greene's descendants, and his second marriage and 

 the issue, I am well acquainted with ; but the 

 question is, from whom was he descended? 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham. 



Appendix, No. xxxv., to Bentham's Ely, con- 

 tains a letter from the antiquary Cole, on the- 

 arms of the Bishops of Ely. At p. *47. he writes 

 of Thomas Greene : — 



" This Bishop's arms ensigned by a mitre, in the pres- 

 bytery at Ely, are thus blazoned Azure 3 Bucks 



