2'"i S. VIII., Oct. 29. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



355 



iv. p. 715.) In the Taxatio Eccles. P. Nicholai, 

 it is written Karthimel, and Kerthmel. Leland, 

 in his Itin., vol. viii. p. 94., writes Carthemaile. 

 Camden, in his Brit.^ vol. iii. p. 380., writes Carth- 

 mell ; the same in the Parliamevtary Survey of 

 Church Lands, 1649 ; and Cm-thmele in a deed of 

 Prior Hall of Cartmel — and Kerthmell in a deed 

 of King John to W. Mareschall, Earl of Pem- 

 broke, the founder of the priory, in 1189. In the 

 time of St. Cuthbert there was a place named 

 Sudgedluit in Cartmel, which I presume to have 

 been the chief town of the district of Cartmel. 

 Nothing is known of it now. What is the mean- 

 ing of the name ? and is anything known of it in 

 history ? And also the meaning and origin of a 

 rent called "service-silver," the amount being 

 8/. 15s. 3c?, and with another charged on fifteen 

 farms formerly belonging to Cartmel Priory, 

 namely, a " gresson," or rent called the " know- 

 inge," of 11. 17*. \Od.y this latter payable every 

 second year and a half. James Finlayson. 



Mechanics' Institution, Manchester. 



Rev. Anthony Nourse Sanderson, was rector of 

 Newton Longiieville, Bucks, and died and was 

 buried there in 1793 or 4. I shall be obliged if 

 any of your readers can give information of the 

 Christian name and residence of the father of the 

 above. R. W. 



Guildhall, Worcester. 



Duke of Bolton. — Popular report says that the 

 Marquis of Winchester created Duke of Bolton, 

 affected mental derangement on account of poli- 

 tical troubles in which he was involved prior to 

 the Revolution of 1688. It is said that he hunted 

 in his woods at Bolton Hall in Yorkshire by 

 torch light. Can any correspondent of " N. & 

 Q." supply any information on this subject?* 



M.4. 



Minor «auertci tuttib an^toerjS. 



Nell Gwyns House at Windsor. — The following 

 is a warrant from King Charles XL touching a 

 legal instrument executed in September in the 

 thirty-second year of his reign, conveying in trust 

 Buribrd House, &c. to Eleanor, or Ellen Gwynn, 

 for her life, and after her to her issue Charles 

 Earl of Burford, &c. Are the premises herein 

 described still standing? or is the site in Windsor 

 to be pointed out ? 



" Cha» the 2"^ etc. To our r' trusty and r' welbeloved 

 Cousin Charles Earle of Dorset and" Middlesex and to 

 our trusty and welbeloved S'' Geo Hewit Bar' S'' Edw<* 



* It should be stated for the benefit of those interested 

 in historical research, that a chest of ancient documents 

 relating to Bolton Castle and the estates, dating from the 

 period of the foundation of the castle, is preserved at 

 Bolton Hal!, the Yorkshire residence of the present Lord 

 Bolton. 



Villiers Kn' and Will Chiffinch Esq. greeting. Whereas 

 by certain indentures of lease and release bearing date 

 the 13"» and H"" of Sept. in the 32"'i yeare of our reigne 

 and by an indenture of assignment d'ated the s^ 14"» of 

 Septemb. William Chiffinch Esqr. did by and with our 

 privity and direction grant release convey and assignc 

 to you the s<i Charles E. of Dorset and Middx, S"" George 

 Hewet Bart and S"" Edwi Villiers Kn* and your heirs 

 executors and assigns all that new erected capitall mes- 

 suage or mansion house now called or knowne by the 

 name of Burford House with the gardens orchards out 

 houses stables and appurtenances thereunto belonging 

 situate and being in New Windsor in the co. of Barks, 

 and by the s'' deeds the same are declared to be in trust 

 for Ellen Gwyn for and during her life and after her de- 

 cease in trust for Charles Earl of Burford and the heirs 

 males of his body And for default of such issue in trust 

 for us our heirs & successors for ever. And whereas our 

 intention was the sayd house should have been declared 

 not only with provision for the heirs males but also for 

 the heirs females of the !»' E. of Burford and for de- 

 fault of such issue of the s"! E. of Burford to and for the 

 use and benefit of the sayd Ellen Gwynn and her heirs 

 for ever and not in trust for us our heirs and successors. 

 Our will and pleasure therefore is and we do hereby di- 

 rect and appoint that you make and declare further trusts 

 and estates of and in the sayd premisses according to our 

 sayd intention herein before expressed by such deed and 

 conveyance or conveyances as the aayd Ellen Gwyn or 

 her Councell learned in the law shall approve of. And 

 for so doing any act or thing relating thereunto these pre- 

 sents or the enrollment thereof shall be a sufficient war- 

 rant. Given at Whitehatt the 7^^ day of Februarj% 168f ." 



Cl. Hopper. 



[We learn from Tighe and Davis's Annals of Windsor, 

 ii. 327. 441., that Yerrio's pencil was employed by the 

 king's orders to paint the staircases in the house at 

 Windsor in which Nell Gwyn resided, then, or soon 

 after, called Burford House, from being the residence of 

 her son, the young Earl of Burford, afterwards created 

 Duke of St. Albans. This house is the subject of KnyfF's 

 well-known large engraving, entitled "A Trospect of the 

 House at Windsor belonging to his Grace Charles Beau- 

 clerk, Duke of St. Albans, Earl of Burford, and Baron of 

 Heddington, Cap* of the Hon^Ji* Band of Gentlemen Pen- 

 sioners, Mifrshall and Surveyor of the Hawkes to His 

 Maj*'<=, and one of the Gentlemen of His Maj" Bed Cham- 

 ber (L. Knytf, De. J. Kip, Scu.)." The only letter of 

 Nell Gwyn's composition known to exist is dated 

 " Windsor, Burford House, April 14, 1684." (Cunning- 

 ham's Nell Gwyn, p. 151.) It seems that somewhere 

 about the year 1690, the Prince and Princess of Denmark 

 removed from this residence ; but it was subsequently 

 again occupied by the Duke of St. Albans. The evidence 

 in support of the statement that the house originallj' 

 occupied bj- Nell Gwyn, and subsequently hy Prince 

 George of Denmark, was identical with the premises oc- 

 cupied by the Duke of St. Albans, seems conclusive. 

 The house was situated on the spot now occupied by the 

 Queen's Mews. 3 



Oath of Vargas. — There was a painting in the 

 Great Exhibition of Paintings at Manchester with 

 this title. Could some correspondent kindly in- 

 form me to what it refers ? Libya. 



[Vargas is a name of such frequent occurrence in 

 Spanish literature and art that, before attempting a posi- 

 tive reply to our correspondent's Query, we should wish 

 for farther particulars. 

 ^ Don Juan de Vargas, in his Aventures (Paris, 1853), 



