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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n4 S. YIII. Oct. 22. '59. 



Leland cbaracterises as "tarn splendldum Britan- 

 niae sidus," wrote a poem in the twelfth century 

 entitled Antiocheis. Warton says : 



" Mr. Wise, the late Radcliffe librarian, told me that a 

 MS. of the Antiocheis Avas in the library of the Duke of 

 Chandos at Canons." 



When was this library dispersed? And is the 

 whereabouts of this MS. known ? 



Edward F. Rimbaclt. 



James CoUinson, N.P. — T saw lately the book- 

 plate of James Collinson, of Lancaster, N.P., who 

 must have lived sometime in the last century. 

 The arms are, as well as I can describe them 

 ■without the tinctures, on a bar arched, two mullets ; 

 in chief a squirrel ; in base three hatchets ; with 

 a lamb for a crest. I am anxious to know who 

 James Collinson was ? Can N.P. denote Notary 

 Public ? Is there any pedigree of the family o f 

 Collinson? E.H.A. 



Marriage Law. — Before the act of Geo. II.' 

 the law relative to marriages in England was the 

 old law of Christendom, the simple contract law, 

 which we now know as the Scotch law. An en<!y- 

 clopsedia of 1744, speaking of England, says "But 

 marriages without this sanction [' the blessing of 

 the priest'] are not therefore null and void, but 

 only esteemed irregular." And the pamphlets 

 which preceded and partly incited the act of Geo. 

 II. describe a state of things perfectly resembling 

 that in Scotland as to the state of the law and the 

 power of individuals over the contract. Was the 

 marriage by simple contract in presence of v/it- 

 nesses as common as it is supposed to be in Scot- 

 land ? What references can be given to cases in 

 which the courts were obliged to acknowledge the 

 simple contract without clergyman or religious 

 ceremony ? Did the words de fvturo, followed 

 by cohabitation, constitute a valid marriage ? M. 



Andreiv : Gaffman. — In the northern district 

 of Lincolnshire, the afternoon refreshment taken 

 by farm labourers about 4 or 5 o'clock, and which 

 is called heaver, or hevcr, in 2"* S. viii. 370., is 

 styled an andrew. This title to an afternoon's 

 luncheon is, I think, much more difficult to ac- 

 count for than heaver. 



In the same district, the servant who is charged 

 with the general superintendance of a farm, and 

 called the "ground-keeper" in other parts of 

 Lincolnshire and elsewhere, is known as the gaff- 

 man. Query, the origin of this name ? 



PisHEY Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Military Queries. — 1. Can any of your mili- 

 tary correspondents give me any information re- 

 specting a Capt. George Freer, who served in the 

 101st Regt. about the end of last century ? The 

 regiment, I believe, was noted for duellists. Did 

 be take any part in such proceedings ? 



2. Information wanted respecting John (?) 

 Duncanson, an officer in the army, killed in a 

 duel at Malta during last century? Who was 

 he, or what regiment did he belong to? Who 

 was the man who killed him ? 



3. Will some of the correspondents, who have 

 so kindly answered my " Watson of Bilton Park" 

 Queries, inform me what arms this family bore? 

 And also if there has ever been any view of either 

 Mai ton Abbey or Bilton Park published ? 



Sigma Theta, 

 Glass Bells for Churches. — The London papers 

 mention that " a bell of green glass, fourteen 

 inches high and thirteen inches in diameter, has 

 been placed in the turret of the chapel at the 

 Grange, Borrowdale." Many of your readers, as 

 well as myself, would be glad to know where 

 farther information can be had as to the manner 

 in which it is hung and struck, and the material 

 of which the clapper and hammer is formed. Are 

 there any other glass bells in use in England or 

 abroad ? Vrtan Rheged. 



Alhert Duref. — There is an engraving by Albert 

 Durer, signed but not dated, which is called "The 

 Holy Family with a Butterfly," from having a 

 butterfly at the right hand corner, which is 

 really no more than a much improved copy of a 

 print by Martin Schongauer. AVas the Martin 

 Schoen print copied from a painting ? J. C. J. 



Monument of Sir Nicholas Dixon in Cheshunt 

 Church. — Will some correspondent have the kind- 

 ness to refer me to a printed work containing any 

 engraved copy of the above before it became 

 eflaced by time or neglect ? R. W. Dixon. 



Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



Kend?'ick Family. — I should be glad to know 

 what grounds there are for supposing that this 

 family (Kenrick) is descended from the Saxon 

 kings, as stated in an epitaph printed in Ash- 

 mole's Berkshire, p. 149., fol. ? 



The brother of the person on whom the epi- 

 taph was written was John Kendrick, so justly 

 celebrated for his munificent charities in Reading, 

 Newbury, and London. His will is given at 

 length in Strype's Stowe, and members of the 

 family mentioned as living at Chester. 



In this branch of the family was a baronetcy, 

 which became extinct towards the close of the 

 seventeenth century by the death, without male 

 issue, of the first holder, Sir William Kenrick. 



I have found records of the family as living in 

 Denbighshire (Wynn Hall), Flint, Caernarvon, 

 and Shropshire (Woore) ; and also at Bewdley, in 

 Worcestershire. The first and two last are un- 

 doubtedly from various evidences immediately 

 connected. 



They are connected with the families of Eyton, 

 Thelwall, and Wilbraham (Lord Skelmersdale), in 



