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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2"d S. Vlir. Sept. 3. '59. 



Border. He recently filled (he office of sheriflF of 

 Berwick, and may be said to be " the leading 

 man" of that burgh. M. L. 



IlandeTs Hallelujah Chorus (2"'^ S. viii. 107.)— 

 I hope there is a better reason for standing on 

 .this occasion than that given in the " newspaper- 

 cutting," namely, the custom of the Christian 

 church for its members to adopt that reverent 

 attitude during the singing or saying of a doxo- 

 logy, at all times. W. J. Bebnhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Cespoole (2°'* S. vili. 110.) — Before giving a 

 decided answer to your correspondent's Query, 

 one would wish to see the "diary" wliich he cites, 

 or at any rate to know something about it. It 

 does appear likely, however, that Liverpool was, 

 as he suggests, the place intended. Passing from 

 Preston to Chester, a traveller would as probably 

 as not go via Liverpool. But why should Liver- 

 pool be called Cespoole ? 



1. Chester, originally Deva, because situate on 

 the river Dee, was afterwards Cesti-ia, or Cestrea, 

 and Cheshire was Cestre-sJiire. 



2. Chester, or Cestrea, had by charter certain 

 extraordinary privileges : — 



" la those tracts are several other ports, all subordinate 

 to the comptroller of Chester ; and even Liverpool, in the 

 patent, is styled a creek of the port of Chester.'" — Pennant's 

 Tour in Wales, ed. 1784, i. 206. 



May we not, then, form a fair conjecture as to 

 the origin of the term Cespoole ? While Liver- 

 pool, already an infant Hercules, was deemed only 

 " a creek of the port of Chester " (or Cestria), we 

 must also bear in mind that a pool was in fact the 

 original site of the town ; and therefore, while 

 the inhabitants called it Lever-poole or Lyver- 

 poole, the men of Chester, zealous for their own 

 patent rights, might very naturally call it Cestre- 

 poole, and by abbreviation Cespoole, i. e. the pool 

 of Chester — as an equivalent to what it was by 

 the Chester charter, a creek of Chester. 



With regard to the supposed shortening of 

 Cestre-poole into Cespoole, it is worthy of ob- 

 servation that the old form of " Liverpool " itself, 

 namely Leverpoole or Lyverpoole, experienced an 

 abbreviation, and became Lyrpole (Leland), or, as 

 we find it in an old map, Lerpoole. 



It does not, however, by any means follow that 

 Cespoole was a name ever very generally applied 

 to Liverpool. The traveller may perhaps have 

 first picked it up when he got to Chester, where 

 the inhabitants, seeing nothing in their own trade 

 but decay, and nothing in that of Liverpool but 

 progress, might console themselves by locally em- 

 ploying the term Cestre-poole, and more briefly 

 though less elegantly Cespoole, as the appellation 

 of a prosperous rival, and as a memorial of their 

 own past ascendency. For instance, seeing the 

 motto on the Liverpool corporation- seal, " Sigil- 



lum Commune Burgensium Lever," the Chester 

 people might exclaim, " No ! Not Zerer-poole, 

 but CcA'^re-poole ! " Thus Cestre-poole, or Ces- 

 poole, may have been a nickname of Liverpool 

 occasionally used in Chester, but seldom heard 

 anywhere else. Thomas Boys. 



Sir Henry Calverley (2"'^ S. viii. 28.) — 



Sir VTilliam Calverley of=ElizalH!th, d. of Sir 

 Calverley, Yorkshire. I William MidUleton. 



1. Walter Calverley 

 of Calverley. 



Thomas=l3ab2l, d. of Bertram 

 I Anderson, of New- 

 castlc-on-Tyne. 



Sir John Calverley. Kt., of Llttleburn,=Ann, d. of Matthew Hutton, 

 Durham, died 1638. I Archbishop of York. 



John (5th son) of Eriholme,=l. Margaret, d. of Thoa. Jenyson, 

 Yorkihire, born 1002. I of Irctiester, Northampton, 



£sn. 



Henry • (4th son"), Kt.=Mary, d. of Sir H. Thompson, of 

 1675-6, died 1631. I E8krick,Kt. 



Margaret. Henry. 

 Both died young. 



Marv=Mflrried 1695, Hon. Bennett Sherarrt of 

 died I Stapleford. Lord Sherard, 1700 ; Earl 

 1702. ofHarboroush, 1717. 



Bennett Henry, born and died 1702. 



There is a mezzotint of Mrs. Sherrard from a 

 portrait by Kneller. 



In the before-mentioned volume is a copy of 

 the " Bill of Fees " paid by Sir Henry " for his 

 honour of knighthood," and receipt for the same, 

 amounting to 81Z. 135. Ad., dated 10 Feb. 167|, 

 and also " a copy of Sir Henry Calverley's letter 

 to his agent in England, after his travels in Italy, 

 &c. in '82 and '83," dated " Orleans, 18th June, 

 '83, Sti. novo." 



I have also a common-place book of Henry 

 Calverley of 1657-8. 



If your correspondent wishes for any farther 

 information about this Sir Henry or his family, 

 and will apply either through the columns of " N. 

 & Q.," or by letter, I shall be glad, as far as in 

 my power, to afford it. 



Walter Calveblet Teeveltan. 



Wallington, Newcastle- on-Tyne, 



P.S. If the date of the letter is correct, it js 

 probable that the date of the death, as given in 

 the inscription, is the true one. 



Shelley and Barhamwick (2"'» S. viii. 70. 116.) 

 — On looking into Lord Coke's Keport of^ Shel- 

 ley's case, I .find the place in question is in the 



* Sir Henry, about whom the Query is made, is pro- 

 bably the above 4th son of John Calverley of Eriliolme ; 

 but if so, there must be a mistake in the date 1685, as I 

 find from a MS. volume (principally of genealogical col- 

 lections) which I possess, and which had belonged to Sir 

 Henry's grandfather, that he died at Paris, June 14th, 

 1684. The volume contains a copy of the inscription on 

 his monument in the south aisle of York Minster, in 

 which the date of his death is given, "vii. Kal. Jul. an. 

 dom. MDCLXxxiin. jetatis plus minus quadragesinio." 



