2»<» S. »» 36., Sept. 6. '66.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



185 



CHURCH FUEKITUBE OF HOBBLING, LINCOLN. 



There is a manuscript among the records In the 

 Will Office, wiihin tiie Exchequer gate, Lincoln, 

 the existence of which is, I believe, nearly un- 

 known. It is a thick foolscap folio volume, 

 slightly imperfect, and in very bad condition as 

 far as binding is concerned, containing lists of 

 the church furniture and articles necessary for 

 the performance of Catholic worship destroyed or 

 put to profane use in many of the parishes within 

 the diocese of Lincoln, during the early part of 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Whether other 

 volumes are in existence containing lists relating 

 to the parishes not occurring in this volume, I 

 am unable to state. I have not been permitted 

 to copy more tlian a few pages of this curious 

 document ; perhaps some one who has greater 

 powers of persuasion or coercion than I have may 

 be more fortunate. If any one should obtain a 

 copy, he will confer a very great favour by per- 

 mitting nie to have af^cess to it for a day or two. 

 This notice will probably at least have the effect 

 of preventing furtlier mutilation or decay. 



I append the entry for the parish of Horbling 

 as a specimen of the nature of the manuscript : 



" HORBLINGE. 



" Thinventarie of all suehe copes, vestmentes, and 

 other nionumentes of superstition as reniayned at any 

 tyme w'in the p'isiie church of Horblin^^e sens the deathe 

 of the lat quene marie, made by Thomas lluckmyiist' 

 and Johnne Burgies, churchwardens, the xviij"* daie of 

 marche, Ao dni 1565. 



"In p'inis the Iinagies of the roode, mare, and Johnne, 

 and all other Imagies of papistrie One Thomas wrigiite 

 had and receauid in Ao p'mo Elizabeth, wVh he brake 

 and burnte, Johnne Browne and Robert peile being 

 churchwardens. 



" Itm. all the masse bookes, portases, mannuelles, le- 

 gendes, grailes, cowchrs, and all otiier booiis of papistrie 

 were sold to Johnne Craile, mercer, by vs Thomas Bck- 

 mynster and Johnne Biirgeis, sens tlie last visitacon 

 holden at ancaster the xix"' of fFebruarie 1565, whoe 

 haithe defaced the same ia teringe and breaking of theim 

 to put spice in. 



" Itm. the roode lofte taken downe by Johnne Craile 

 and Johnne Browne, whoe sold the same to Robert Gaw- 

 thorne and Johnne Craile, whoe haith made a weavers 

 Comb therof, and made windoes and such like thinges., 



"/<m. iij alter stones ar broken and troughes and 

 bridges ar made of theim. 



"7<m. two vestmentes, the one haith Thomas Wrighte, 

 of liorblinge, and haith cut yt in peces and made bedde 

 hanginges therof; And tliother was geven to Richard 

 Col Sonne a scolder, and he haith made a players cote 

 therof, in An" pmo Elizabeth. 



" Itm. two Albes was cut in peces and surplishea made 

 therof to serve for o^ churche. 



"■Itm. the sepulcre was sold to Robert lond, and he 

 saith lie haith made a preese therof. 



"/tni. the crosse, sensors, crismatorie w* two hand- 

 belles, two candlestickes w* crewittes and pax and ail 

 other thinges of bras was broken in peces and sold to 

 Johnne Skipp sens Christmas last past. 



" Itm. a hollie water fatt of stone broken. 



"Itm. three banner clothes, w'ch were geven awaie to 

 childerne to make plaiers cotes of, anno piho Elizabeth. 



" Ex' apud Lincoln in domo Mr. Johannis Aelmer 

 Archiii Lincoln clausnm Lincoln cora R"*" pre' dno nico 

 Lincoln Epo Joliii Aelmer Archno Lincoln et Georgio 



monnsoune generos Com'ss regiis pa' tia 



Thome Tailor notarii publici." 



Edward Peacock. 



Manor Farm, Bottesford, Brigg. 



MEMORIALS OP THE CIVIL WAES. 



The following unpublished letter, from King 

 Charles L to the corporation of Wells, will, I feel 

 sure, prove of sufficient interest to entitle it to 

 preservation in the pages of " N. & Q." It is 

 copied from the original, which remains with the 

 public records of the city. The royal army was 

 then on its way through the Western Counties, 

 having on the 2nd of the same month of July 

 been almost annihilated at Marston Moor ; and it 

 seems evident, from the contents of the letter, 

 that the king's exchequer was then at a very low 

 ebb. 



Mells, fiom whence the letter is dated, and at 

 which place his majesty then held his court, is the 

 ancient family seat of the Homers, and lies about 

 four miles from Frome. This family formerly 

 resided at Clofbrd, a short distance fiom Mells ; 

 but soon after the dissolution of the great mo- 

 nastic establishment at Glastonbury, they iicquired 

 Mells by purchase from the crown, with other 

 large possessions of the Abbey; which circum- 

 stance connected the name with the old local 

 distich : 



" Horner, Popham, Wyndham, and Thynne, 

 When the abbot came out, then they came in." 



At the time of the king's visit the possessor of 

 Mells was Sir John Horner, Knt. ; who was de- 

 voted to the king, and a son-in-law of the well- 

 known loyalist Sir George Speke of White 

 Lackington. He was High Sheriff of Somerset, 

 14 James I. ; and Knight of the Shire for his 

 native county in 1626, and again in 1654. Several 

 of his descendants have had the same honour at 

 subsequent periods. 



At the upper part of the letter the royal auto- 

 graph is written in a clear bold hand. 



« Charles R. 

 " Trusty and welbeloved, Wee greete you well. 

 Whereas VV'ee have for the defence and preservation of 

 Our good Subjects of this Our County, and other Our 

 western parts (of whose hn'alty and good affection to Us 

 Wee have had so much testimonv), advanced hitlier with 

 Our Army, which Wee intend so to governe as that they 

 sliall not bee any opprt-ssiou to Our people; Wherefore 

 Wee doe expect that Our good Subjects will endeavour to 

 supply Us (as much as they are able) for theire support : 

 And wee having taken perticuier notice of the constant 

 readvnesse and affection of the Corporation of Our Citty 

 of Wells to Us and Our cause ; Wee doe now send vnto 



