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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>'» S. VIII. July 9. '59. 



Chandos Place, sometime the Abhot of Reading's, 

 and Chertsey House, London (2"^ S. vii. 516.) — 

 Among the Records of the Court of Augmenta- 

 tion, are the particulars for a grant to Sir Richard 

 Long, Knt., of the farm of a messuage called 

 " Redyng place," with other farms in the parish of 

 St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, London, late of 

 the Monastery of Redyng ; and it appears by the 

 description of the property, that Sir Richard 

 Long held Redyng Place, with the gardens and 

 stables, abutting south on Thames Street and east 

 on Addyng Strete (Addle Hill ?), and on the west 

 to my Lord Burghi's house : and William Doun- 

 ing held a messuage and wharf under a lease to 

 him from the Abbot and Convent of Reading ; 

 and Robert Hamond held two tenements and a 

 wharf, under a lease granted to him by King 

 Henry VIII. in the 30th year of his reign. 



Redyng Place was, therefore, situate at the 

 south-west corner of Addle Hill, on the north side 

 of Upper Thames Street ; and the site is now oc- 

 cupied by " The Acorn" public-house and other 

 houses. 



There are also the particulars for another grant, 

 to Sir Anthony Kingston, Knt., in the 37th Henry 

 VIII., of a messuage or tenement called " The 

 Chertesey House," in the parish of St. Peter, 

 near Paul's Wharf, London, late belonging to the 

 Monastery of Bustleham, or Bisham, Berks ; but 

 no farther description of the premises. 



Chertsey House was, however, situate on the 

 east side of Baynard's Castle, and had been the 

 residence of the Abbots of Chertsey from a very 

 early period, but was granted by King Henry 

 VIII. to his monastery of Bustleham, or Bishani, 

 which he refounded in the 27th year of his reign 

 as a mitred abbey, but which was dissolved three 

 years afterwards. 



Reading House, with the wharf belonging to it, 

 was on the west side of Baynard's Castle. So that 

 it is clear they were distinct residences. 



I have not yet been able to ascertain whether 

 either of those houses was granted to Sir Richard 

 Long or Sir Anthony Kingston, in pursuance of 

 the particulars and surveys in the Augmentation 

 Office, nor to connect with either of them Lord 

 Chandos or Lord Sandes ; but I am inclined to 

 think that Stow is correct, and that Fleetwood 

 must have made a mistake between the two, as 

 he says he went to Chandos House, formerly the 

 abbot of Reading's, and that he went on to the 

 river to survey the house from the water, which 

 he might have done as to Chertsey House, which 

 was next the river, but not as to Reading Place, 

 which was on the north side of Thames Street. 



Sir Richard Long was Gentleman of the Privy 

 Chamber to King Henry VIII. His son and 

 heir, Henry Long, of Shingay, Esq., who died 

 15 April, 1573, was buried at St. Peter and Paul's 

 wharf, and the inscription on his monument tells 



us that his father. Sir Richard, was third son of 

 Sir Thomas Long, Knt., of (Wraxall) Wilts. 

 In the same inscription it is stated that Henry 

 Long married Dorothy, the daughter of Nicholas 

 Clarke, of Weston, Esqr., and Elizabeth Ramsey, 

 his wife, sole heir of Thomas Ramsey, of Hicham, 

 Esq., her father ; by whom he had issue one son 

 and three daughters, of whom only one daughter, 

 Elizabeth, survived her father and became his 

 sole heiress. Who did she marry ? 



I find from Dugdale's Baronage that William 

 Lord Sandes married for his second wife, Cathe- 

 rine, daughter of Edward Lord Chandos. and 

 died 29th September, 1623. So that there was a 

 connexion between those two families. 



Sir Anthony Kingston was, as I collect from 

 Mr. Lemon's Calendar of State Papers, one of the 

 gentlemen implicated in Wyatt's rebellion against 

 Queen Mary, who were pardoned and set at li- 

 berty in 1555 ; but in the following year he was 

 accused with a great many of the Western gentle- 

 men of a conspiracy to depose Queen Mary, and 

 for making the Lady Elizabeth Queen, and that 

 she should marry the Earl of Devonshire. 



I shall be glad of any farther information re- 

 specting these monastic residences, and their 

 owners and occupiers after the Reformation. 



Geo. R. Corneb. 



Oah Bedsteads and Oak Furniture (2"* S. vii. 

 69. 114. 203.)— Your correspondent C. W. Bing- 

 ham mentions having ar, old oak chest with the 

 date 1676, which he terms " a dignified old age." 

 We have had, however, in our family, from time 

 immemorial, an oak chest, beautifully carved and 

 inlaid, bearing the following date : " 1665, A.G.," 

 inclosed in a circle : consequently this can boast 

 of ati age " more dignified " still. 



We have also in the family an oak chair, in 

 excellent preservation, with the date 1576, and 

 the initials M. T. and J. B. It is very plain, with 

 an upright back. Most of the old oak chairs I 

 have seen have leaning backs, and are much 

 carved. I should like to know if any of your 

 correspondents possess any oak furniture of an 

 older date ? H. E. Wilkinson. 



Tutenag (2""* S. vii. 476. 519.) — Tintenaig, 

 Tutenag, is properly neither Portuguese nor Chi- 

 nese, but Indian, as its derivation shows : lite- 

 rally, a compound of two or three inferior metals : 

 as of tin or nickel, and of zinc or iron, or possibly 

 lead, also, — all with copper. It is loosely applied 

 to pinchbeck, &c.,* and strictly to laminated 

 metals. Nemo. 



Lateen Sails (2°^ S. vii. 516.)— If you are thank- 

 ful for light, it is found in the East. Latteen in 

 that Archipelago means trilateral ; from Lat, a 

 line or side (latus), and teen, three. Nemo. 



As an alloy of copper, tiinbach. 



