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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"i S. VIII. Nov. 5. '59. 



Scandal against Queen Elizabeth (2°"* S. vii. 

 106. 180. 283. 345.)— With reference to this sub- 

 ject the following extract from an article in House- 

 hold Words, vol. xvi. 83., may be interesting : — 



" An entry in a manuscript*, at the Free School of 

 Shrewsbury, tells of a certain son of the Earl of Leicester 



and Queen Elizabeth." " This manuscript, which 



is well preserved and partially illuminated, once belonged 

 to a Roman Catholic vicar of Shrewsbury, who in fifteen 

 hundred and fifty-five was appointed to the vicarage by 

 Queen Mary. He afterwards conformed to the Established 

 Church, and held the living for sixty years. This vicar, 

 who was called Sir John Dychar, migiit not have been 

 friendly to the Protestant Queen : and the singular entry 

 in his hand in the margin of the book may have been a 

 piece of malice. It is however remarkable that an at- 

 tempt has been made to efface the entry, but unsuccess- 

 taUy, the first ink being the blackest, and refusing to be 

 empowered by that which substituted other words, in 

 hopes of misleading the reader. The entry runs as fol- 

 lows : ' Henrj' Roido' Dudley Tuther Plantagenet filius 

 Q. E. reg. et Robt. Comitis Leicestr.' This is written at 

 the top of the page, nearly at the beginning of the book, 

 and at the bottom there has evidently been more ; but a 

 square piece has been cut out of the leaf, therefore the 

 secret is effectually preserved. There is a tradition that 

 such a personage as this mysterious son was brought up 

 secretly at the free-school of Shrewsbury ; but what be- 

 came of him is not known ; nor is it easy to account for 

 this curious entry in the parish-church book of Shrews- 

 bury." 



James Delano. 



Norton Faintly (2°"' S. viii. 249.) — Old Richard 

 Norton, of Norton Conyers, married the daughter 

 of Richard Nevill, Lord Latimer. He had a very 

 large family, and is said to have led his nine sons 

 to join the "rising in the North." Stowe says 

 that he had the honour to bear before the rebel 

 army " a crosse with a banner of the five wounds." 

 When the Earls of Northumberland and West- 

 morland fled, Richard Norton accompanied them 

 into Scotland, and finally escaped into Flanders. 

 Sir George Bowes, writing to the Earl of Sussex, 

 Nov. 17, 1569, says : — 



"-Yesterdaj', Francis Norton, with the number of a 

 hundred horsemen, hath enterd John Stair's house at 

 Worsall, and therin taken his sone and some portion of 

 armor which is not great, but much discomforteth hym 

 for his Sonne. The armour is six corsletts, two or three 

 harquebusses, and six marryons, which he weigheth 

 not." 



In Mr. W. D. Cooper's interesting memoir of 

 Thomas Norton of Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, pre- 

 fixed to Ralph Roister Doister, and Gorhoduc 

 (Shakspeare Society, 1847), is the following note 

 connected wilh the subject of the present en- 

 quiry : — 



''In the Lansd. MSS., 27, 61 (1578), is a pedigree of 

 the Yorkshire 'Nortons, the rebels,' of whom Christopher 

 and Thomas were executed for high treason at Tyburn, 

 27th May, 1570. They were connected by marriage 

 with the Plumptons, Mortons, Thurlands, Tanckerdes of 



[*_It is an entry in the margin of an old Latin Bible, 

 and is facsimiled in Owen and Blakeway's History of 

 Shrewsbury, i. 375. — Ed.] 



Borough bridge, and other Roman Catholics of the North. 

 They are of different blood to the Nortons of Sharpenhoe, 

 and are the famils- of Nortons referred to in Strj-pe's An- 

 nals, vol. ii. part i., pp. 577-8. ; and in Wordsworth's 

 White Doe of Rylstone. They were ancestors of Sir Flet- 

 cher Norton." 



Sampson Davie was the author of a rare tract 

 of seven leaves, in verse, entitled 



" The several Confessions of Thomas Norton and Chris- 

 topher Norton, two of the Northern Rebels, who suffered 

 at Tyburn, and were drawn, hanged, and quartered for 

 treason. May 27 (1570). Imprinted by William How for 

 Richard Jones." 

 ^ Edward F. RiMSAtLT. 



Terminations in " -ness " (2"*" S. vii. 386.) — Mr. 

 WiLLM. Matthews asked, so long since as the 7th 

 of May last, whether " Lincolnshire contains any 

 other names of places having this termination" 

 except " Clayness or Cleaness, Ness Hundred, and 

 Skegness ;" and adds that perhaps I would have 

 the kindness to inform him. I am sorry that I 

 have laid under a charge of a want of courtesy for 

 nearly Jive months ; but I assure Mr. Matthews 

 I replied to his Query to the best of my ability, 

 in a communication to " N. & Q," nearly four 

 months ago. I am glad, however, thus late to put 

 myself right with Mr. Matthews, and will repeat 

 the substance of my former reply. I know of no 

 places in Lincolnshire having the termination of 

 -ness, except Ness Hundred and Skegness. I 

 have never heard of Clayness or Cleaness. Nor is, 

 to the best of my knowledge, Newton Ness in 

 Lincolnshire. Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Shawl at Leyburn : Prisons of Mary Queen of 

 Scots (2°^ S. viii. 248.) — The word sliawl, or 

 shaul, as applied to the lofty natural terrace at 

 Leyburn, in the co. of York, is conjectured by 

 Mr. Barker, in his Three Days at Wensleydale, to 

 be an abbreviation of Shaw-hill; shaw meaning 

 a wood. Mary, Queen of Scots, landed at Work- 

 ington, in Cumberland, on the 16th of May, 1568, 

 and on the 18th was conducted to Carlisle Castle, 

 where she remained a short time in the custody 

 of Henry, eleventh Lord Scrope of Bolton, War- 

 den of the Marches; but Queen Elizabeth, fearing 

 she might escape to Scotland, directed her re- 

 moval to Bolton Castle, where she arrived on the 

 13th July in the same year. In this castle she 

 was under the care of Lord Scrope and Sir 

 Francis Knollys, till the end of Jan. 1569. No 

 written record appears to be known, corrobo- 

 rating the local tradition of Queen Mary's at- 

 tempted escape from this castle. 



C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Transmission through few Links. — The present 

 Anthony ClifFe of Bellcove, co. Wexford, Esq., 

 born 10 March, 1800, is only son of the late 

 Major Anthony Clifie, who was born 1 1 October, 

 1734. Y. S. M. 



