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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'» S. VIII. Dec. 31. '59. 



iianiiatls Stampensis" [d'Etampes]. " Vocato ad 

 hoc Decano Christianitutis loci." Du Cange, 1842. 

 It would appear, then, that the expression Dc- 

 canatus Christianitatis, as applied to lands^ indi- 

 cated the prcedium specially assigned for the due 

 maintenance of the Dean, as chief of the Chapter. 



Thomas Boys. 



Portraits of Archbishop Laud (2"'» S. viii. 309. 

 437.) — On a blank page in the register book of 

 South Kilworth, co. Leicester, there is a pen 

 and ink sketch of Archbishop Laud, with the 

 name of Vandyke, if I remember rightly, in the 

 corner. A. 



Altar Tomb as Communion Table (2°'' S. viii. 

 379.) — At Tong, in Shropshire, there is a very 

 fine alabaster tomb used as the communion table. 

 There is a very good description of Tong church 

 in one of the six first numbers of the Archceolo- 

 gical Journal. A. 



Liverpool, c\c. (2"'^ S. viii. 110. 198. 239. 257.) — 

 As this is said to be a vexed question, perhaps 

 the following extract from The Glossary of He- 

 raldry, p. 203., published by J. H. Parker, Oxford, 

 may be interesting to 3'our correspondent B.ILC, 

 as suggestive of the derivation of the name : — 



"Lever — The cormorant; part of the insignia of the 

 town of Liverpool." 



E. A. B. 



Sancte-bell (V^ S. v. 104. 208.; x. 332. 434.; 

 xi. 150.) — As these bells are by no means com- 

 mon, I may perhaps be allowed to fill a brief space 

 in these pages by mentioning four examples that 

 are not given in Bloxam's Glossary : — 



1. Wyre, Worcestershire. This church is of 

 Saxon (or, at any rate, very early Norman) archi- 

 tecture, and the bell-cot (in which the sancte-bell 

 still remains) at the junction of the nave and 

 chancel, appears to be contemporaneous with the 

 earliest portions of the edifice. 



2. Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire. This church 

 Las been lately restored by Sir John Pakington, 

 but I presume that the old bell-cot has not been 

 interfered with. 



3. Whitbou7-ne, Herefordshire, close on the bor- 

 ders of Worcestershire in the valley of the Teme. 

 A fine ancient lych-gate will also be found here. 



4. March, Cambridgeshire. The bell- cot is very 

 handsome, and in good condition, but the bell is 

 gone. The state of this beautiful church, as re- 

 gards its horse-boxes of pues, and its " Gre- 

 cian" chancel, is much to be deplored; but the 

 open timber roof of the nave is " a thing of 

 beauty," and, it is to be hoped, will remain " a 

 joy for ever." It is in a fine state of preservation, 

 and is a mass of elaborate ornament. Its most 

 striking and beautiful feature consists in its eighty 

 figures of angels, with their wings loidely -spread, 

 and the outer feathers left distinct. Such a winged 



company, and in such an unmutilated condition, is 

 a rare sight, and is worthy of a visit, even though 

 that visit should necessarily include the dangers 

 and discomforts of the Eastern Counties Railway. 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



Titles conferred by Olicer Cromv;e\l (2°* S. vii. 

 476. 518. ; viii. 382. 420.) —The Protector made 

 one baronet of Ireland, viz. Maurice Fenton, son 

 and heir of Sir William Fenton of Mitchelstown, 

 CO. Cork, Knight, who was so created 14 July, 

 1658. According to Burke {Extinct and Dormant 

 Baronetcies, p. 605.) he was succeeded in the title 

 by his son Sir William, called second baronet, 

 which, if correct, is singular,'a3 tliere seems to be no 

 vestige of any other creation by Charles II. Sir 

 Maurice was one of the Irish members of Richard 

 Cromwell's House of Commons. R. R. 



Extracts from an Early MS. (2""^ S. viii. 411.) 

 — I can identify the last of these extracts. The 

 words " Sanguineo ore Gallus contra Anglos " are 

 not a line, but only a heading prefixed by the 

 transcriber to the verses which follow, beginning 

 " SicciDC tarn crebris frustra conventibus Anglos 

 Qiiaerimus, et dubii pacis abimus iter." 

 They were written in the bitterness of his spirit 

 by (^aguin,the minister of Charles VIII. of France, 

 who was sent over to England in embassy in the 

 winter of 1490, with a view to establish friendly 

 relations between the two countries. Charles VIIL 

 was at that time engaged ia war with Brittany, 

 which he was bent on reducing into complete sub- 

 jection ; and England was looking on with great 

 impatience, determined to interfere, as she after- 

 wards did, though too late, in behalf of the duchy, 

 and at the same time compel the King of France 

 to acknowledge himself a vassal of England by 

 the renewal of the tribute paid by Lewis XL to 

 Edward IV. Ambassadors of both powers first 

 met at Calais; afterwards Gaguin and his col- 

 leagues came to England, but after a good deal of 

 going and coming were unable to effect the object 

 of their mission. Gaguin revenged himself for his 

 ill success by the above epigram, wliich is men- 

 tioned by Bernard Andre in his Life of Henry 

 VIL* recently edited by me in the Government 

 Series of Chronicles. Unfortunately Andre quotes 

 only the first line of the poem ; otherwise it would 

 have been possible to correct some manifest errors 

 and omissions in H. F.'s copy, which I can throw 

 no light on. There is no difficulty, however, about 

 the general sense. 



Henry VII. was perhaps not insensible to the 

 taunt of ingratitude thrown at him in the line 



" Exul, ope nostra victor, ad anna redis," 

 having been unquestionably indebted to France 

 for his elevation to the throne. All the poets on 

 this side the Cliannel appear to have taxed their 

 ingenuity to answer Gaguin. That of iEgidius 



* See Memorials of Henry VII. p. 5C. 



