2°.< S. No 87., Sept. 13. '66.] 



^OTES AND QUKRIES. 



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tried as participators in the No-popery riots, of 

 whom fifty-eight wei'e found guilty, and ,of these 

 only twenty-five were executed. Nine of the 

 rioters brought to trial were women, viz. : 



Mary Roberts, and Charlotte Gardiner (a 

 negro girl), tried July 4, and executed July 11, 

 on Tower Hill. 



Letitia Holland, tried July 6, and convicted. 

 She was ordered for execution by " His Majesty 

 in Council," on July 14, but respited on July 2.3. 



Sarah Harwell, Elizabeth Harwell, and Judith 

 Swiney, tried July 11, and acquitted. 



Mary Cook and Susannah Howard, tried July 

 12, and Elizabeth Collins, tried July 13, were all 

 convicted. Howard, however, was respited on 

 July .30. Cook and Collins were executed on 

 August 9, in Saint George's Fields. 



None of the rioters underwent their sentence 

 at Tyburn. It is therefore clear that Mr. Rogers's 

 impression of seeing " a whole cartful of young 

 girls, in dresses of various colours, on their way 

 to be executed at Tyburn," is incorrect. 



I may perhaps be permitted to remark that 

 Mr. Dickens must have been a diligent reader of 

 the Morning Chronicle for 1780. It is surprising 

 to find in the newspapers so many of the incidents 

 and names which appear in Bariiahy Rudge. Even 

 the raven is historical. Robert S. Salmon. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Colonel John Duncomhe (2°'^ S. ii. 157.) — I 

 am much obliged to your correspondent Juverna, 

 but I think he is mistaken in some of his dates. 

 John Dimcombe appears by the Records of the 

 War Office " to have entered the army in 1700, 

 to have been promoted to be a captain in 1702, 

 and to have been appointed to a company in the 

 1st Foot Guards on the 2nd of October, 1715." 



I have taken some trouble to ascertain who he 

 was, but unsuccessfully. In the inscription on 

 his wife Susannah's tomb he is spoken of as the 

 Hon. Col. John Duncombe, and in his will he so 

 stylos himself; in Pearch's Collection of Poems he 

 is also so described ; yet he was not a son of 

 Anthony, Lord Feversham, tiie only peer of the 

 name of Duncombe in the last century, or the 

 one which preceded it, and he is moreover styled 

 Honourable before 1747, when the Feversham 

 peerage was created. He stated of himself that he 

 was page to James If. when the latter was Duke of 

 York, and also that he was wounded in the leg at 

 the siege of Lille ; he was on intimate terms with 

 the second Duke of Marlborough, whose bond he 

 held for 12,000Z., and he devised to his daughter 

 estates at Marston-Moreton, co. Beds, where the 

 Duncombes long had been possessed of lands, and 

 the manor of which had been the property of 

 Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, devised by her 

 to her grandson the Hon. John Spencer, unjcle of 

 the second Duke of Marlborough, 



Colonel Dupcorobe's daughter appears to have 

 married Colonel Rowland Reynold (Cql. 3rd Foot 

 Guards, June 9, 1743), and their daughter and 

 heir to have married Admiral Sir Robert Har- 

 land, Bart. 



I presume an heiress of the Duncombe family 

 married some peer's son, who thereupon took the 

 name of Duncombe. On these data can any of 

 your readers assist me ? Jambs Knowles. 



Parish Jiegisters (2"'» S. ii. 66. 151.) — The 

 subject of parish registers, and especially some 

 with which I am acquainted, has been anxiously 

 impressed upon my mind. I began at one time to 

 make a transcript of the registers in my possession 

 in this manner. ^ had several sheets of foolscap 

 paper headed with each year; the baptisms, mar- 

 riages, and burials, being kept in separate batches. 

 I then began copying each entry as it appeared, in 

 the original tattered pages, with their defects. I 

 kept a margin of an inch wide on the left hand 

 side of each page, on vsrhich afterwards to write the 

 date of each entry, so that it might be the more con- 

 spicuous. I intended then to copy these sheets 

 into large books, placing each entry in chronolo- 

 gical order ; to keep this order the more easily 

 was the chief use of adding the dates on the 

 margin. A pressure of time and public duty pre- 

 vented my completing the work ; but I live in 

 hopes of doing so. The copies I intended for re- 

 ference, and to give rest to the poor tattered 

 leaves, except when required for legal evidence. 

 What a mass of curious entries and valuable in- 

 formation would be thus brought to light ; nx) 

 doubt many to find their way into the pages of 

 " N. & Q." Simon Ward. 



I rejoice that your correspondents still keep alive 

 the question of parish registers and other eccle- 

 siastical records. My own experience corresponds 

 with that of Mb. Edward Peacock, as to the fact 

 that, in some parishes, the registers have been 

 but imperfectly kept, whilst in others (as in iny 

 own) they have not been kept at all, but have 

 h£jd the in luck to be burnt or otherwise de.- 

 stroyed. And although the occasional loss of tlje 

 registers of a small parish might be a matter of 

 no great moment, supposing the transcripts in the 

 diocesan registry were more ejisily accessible than 

 they are, and as well kept and catalogued as they 

 ought to be, yet, if we may take Mr. Peacock-'s 

 account of the episcopal registries of one diocese 

 as a sample of the whole, it is evident that, in 

 many cases, the loss might not easily be repaired. 

 The. difficulty with regard to diocesan records 

 seems to be, that those who have the custody of 

 them have no leisure for perusing, arranging, and 

 cataloguing them ; and probably there is no fund 

 out of which a qualified officer could be paid to 

 look after them, so as to render them accessible 

 to the public. Consequently not only parochial 



