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J^OTES AND QUERIES. 



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friendly pages of " N. & Q.," or else by a direct 

 communication. 



1. What MS. records of Irish Koman Catholic 

 Synods held during the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries are known to exist in our public 

 libraries ? 



2. What official (or other) printed records of 

 these are to be met with ? This Query of course 

 not to extend to works likely to he consulted on such 

 a subject. Any information on these points will 

 oblige Aiken Ibvine, Clerk. 



Fivemiletown, co. Tyrone. 



Makket and Watside Crosses. — In P' S. v. 

 511. occurs an inquiry which has only received 

 partial reply, as to the " interesting crosses " still 

 remaining in many places, and known by the above 

 designation, some of which (as that at Winches- 

 ter *) are of singular beauty, while others, less 

 carefully preserved, are fast crumbling to decay. 

 As tbey are met with generally near the site of 

 religious foundations, they may be considered to 

 have been designed originally for purposes of de- 

 votion, subsequently blended with secular uses, as 

 in the so-called Poultry cross at Salisbury. One 

 such, bearing traces of much original beauty both 

 of workmanship and design, but now unhappily 

 much decayed, still stands in the centre of the little 

 market town of Stalbridge f , Dorset, whose origin 

 is shrouded in mystery, save that the town having 

 grown into importance under the fostering care of 

 the abbots of Sherborne' — the former owners of the 

 place, and once resident there — it may be pre- 

 sumed to owe its origin (as does the market and 

 fair still held beneath it) to one of its former 

 patrons, but which is unknown. Hutchins gives 

 a drawing and description of it as it existed 

 (being then much more perfect) in his day, but 

 says nothing of the builder or the date of erec- 

 tion. Can these be ascertained ? Do any records 

 of the former abbey of Sherborne exist that may 

 throw light on the matter ? In pursuing some 

 researches lately on the early history of this place, 

 I was shown a curious old map of the town and 

 surrounding neighbourhood on which the ancient 

 boundary crosses formerly existing here were 

 marked, no vestiges of which now remain, they 

 having been sacrificed to public opinion during 

 the time of the Commonwealth. A "full Architec- 

 tural Account of the Cross at Stalbridge " will 

 appear in the forthcoming new edition of Hutchins; 



* See a description of this cross, and some remarks on 

 the origin of market crosses, in a useful manual. Knight's 

 Journey Book of Hampshire, London, 1841, pp. 86. 88. 



t Leland (quoted by Hutchins) calls it Stap/e/ord. In 

 Domesday Book it is called by its present name. Could 

 a market have existed at that early period? Some years 

 since the right of presentation to the rectory was disputed 

 by the Audley family, to whom the manor was granted at 

 the Dissolution. 



and if to this could be added any details not 

 hitherto known as to its earlier history, it would 

 enhance the value of that interesting and useful 

 work, and I have therefore for that object brought 

 the subject before the notice of the valued contri- 

 butors of " N. & Q.," who can doubtless afford 

 some assistance in elucidating these inquiries. 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 

 Southampton. 



Hogarth's Gold Tkket of Admission to 

 Vacxhall Gardens. — It is well known that Mr. 

 Tyers presented Hogarth with the gold medal in 

 question, as a ticket of admission for himself and 

 friends. At his death it became the property of 

 Mrs. Lewis, his faithful housekeeper; and upon 

 her demise, it passed into the hands of Mr. P. F. 

 Hart, Chief Clerk of the Duchy of Cornwall Office, 

 and Second Clerk of the Kitchen to George III. 

 On the death of this gentleman, the ticket, then 

 current at the gardens for a limited number (six 

 persons) on each night of performance, became 

 by his will the property of Captain Tuck, of Lam- 

 beth, who, after the death of Mrs. Lewis, had 

 taken some trouble, and introduced the medal, 

 which had been dormant for some years, to Mr. 

 Barrett, the then proprietor, who politely ob- 

 served, that the medal was an honour to the esta- 

 blishment, and should be admitted as above stated, 

 six persons, or, as he termed it, " one coach." 



Hogarth's "gold ticket" was lately in the pos- 

 session of Mr. F. Gye, the proprietor of Covent 

 Garden Theatre. It was, I believe, advertised 

 for sale. Who is now the possessor of this relic ? 

 Edward F. RiMBAuiiT. 



Hume of Castle Hume. — The Right Hon. 

 Sir Gustavus Hume of Castle Hume, county Fer- 

 managh, P. C, Bart, and M.P., the brother of 

 Lady Polwarth and Lady Caldwell of Castle Cald- 

 well, and the father of Mary, Countess of Ely, 

 appears to have been descended from Sir John 

 Hume of North Berwick, ambassador to the 

 Court of England in 1593, the younger brother of 

 Sir Patrick Hume, sixth Baron of Polwarth. 

 Any of your correspondents who can supply the 

 intermediate links in this genealogy, or furnish 

 any particulars of the family of Hume of Castle 

 Hume, will oblige your obedient servant. 



W. H. G. B. 



Greene. — Stephen Frewen, citizen of London 

 (youngest brother of Accepted Frewen, Arch- . 

 bishop of York), Master of the Skinners' Com- 

 pany, and fined for Alderman of Vintry Ward, 

 married, secondly (between 1631 and 1636), 

 Elizabeth (surname not known), but her arms 

 were "azure, three bucks tripping or." Her hus- 

 band's coat of Frewen impaling this coat appear 

 in stained glass in the hall windows at Brickwall, 

 Northiam, and were introduced there shortly after 

 1666. Stephen and Elizabeth Frewen had two 



