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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 45., Nov. 8. '56. 



the j'outhful slave, recovered his estates ; but it is rather 

 singular that he never assumed the titles himself, or 

 afterwards disturbed his uncle in the possession of them. 

 In a note to the State Trials the subsequent fate of James 

 Annesley is thus recorded: — "James Annesley, Esq., died 

 Jan. 5, 1760. He was twice married ; first, to a daughter 

 of Mr. Chester, at Staines-Bridge, in Middlesex, by whom 

 he had one son and two daughters. The son, James An- 

 nesley, Esq., died Nov. 1763, without issue ; and the eldest 

 daughter was married to Charles Wheeler, Esq., son of 

 the late Captain Wheeler in the Guinea trade. Annesley 

 himself was married, secondly, to a daughter of Sir 

 Thomas I'Anson of Bounds, near Tonbridge, in Kent, 

 gentleman-porter of the Tower, by whom he had a 

 daughter and a son, who are both dead ; the son, aged 

 about seven years, died about the beginning of 1764; 

 and the daughter, aged about twelve, died in May, 1765.] 



Tumbrel. — I saw lately, in an old court leet 

 book, a presentment of an officer for not keeping a 

 tumbrel in order. What was a tumbrel ? D. W. 



[Some authors make the tumbrel sj'nonymous with the 

 cucking-stool ; but that there was a difference between 

 them is clear from an extract in Lysons's jE'ntjirows, vol. ii. 

 p. 244. : "At a court of the manor of Edgeware, anno 

 1552, the inhabitants were presented for not having a 

 tumbrel and cucking-stool." The tumbrel, or tomhereau, 

 was a two-wheeled cart," unloaded by throwing back, in 

 which, for the sake of exposure, adulterers or fornicators 

 were carted through the town. (Fosbroke.) Lipscomb, 

 in his Bucks, i. 516., also speaks of the tumbrel as a dif- 

 ferent instrument of punishment to the cucking-stool. 

 He sa3's, " The tumbrel had many advantages over the 

 ordinary cucking-stool, and was the more honourable in- 

 strument of the two ; not used for the more flagitious 

 offenders, or those scolds who talked the loudest, but for 

 ladies of higher rank, and that a scolding dame, entitled 

 to such distinction in her punishment, was as proud of it, 

 as a nobleman claiming the privilege of being hanged 

 with a silken halter, instead of a common one made of 

 hemp."] 



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NEWCOURt's " REPERTORIUM." 



(2''<» S. ii. 30.4.) 



I perfectly agree with your correspondent J. Y. 

 that, as the diocese of London will shortly be sub- 

 jected to a new arrangement, it is much to be 

 desired that steps should be taken to complete to 

 the present time that valuable work, Newcourt's 

 Mepertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londi- 

 nense. But what he recommends will scarcely 

 meet the want in the best manner. 



The authorities of Sion College would, of them- 

 selves, be able to give but an insufficient aid to 

 the correct continuation of Newcourt's work. Let 

 the Bishop of London be applied to to allow a 

 continuation of Newcourt's list of incumbents 

 throughout his work, to be extracted from the 

 registers 'of the diocese ; the lists would then be 

 straightforwardly correct, and the work be com- 

 pleted in the shape of Supplement, through the 

 whole diocese. 



The biographical notices of each incumbent 



should be very limited in extent, referring rather, 

 where the persons deserved more particular notice, 

 to works where more extensive information re- 

 lating to them could be found. 



The access, since Newcourt's time, to abbey 

 registers and important information from a variety 

 of sources, the Journals of the House of Commons, 

 &c., would add much to the local history his text 

 contains. 



What I would recommend is, that a Supple- 

 ment to Newcourt's Repertorium should be pre- 

 pared to the several parts of the work as they 

 stand, bringing the history down to the alteration 

 of the diocese as now in contemplation. 



The work, as it at present stands, valuable as 

 it is, brings so undeservedly low a price, that the 

 republication would not remunerate the under- 

 taking. 



Let a Supplement to the work be prepared, as 

 far as possible, in uniformity with Newcourt's own 

 arrangement, and published in portions or parts 

 not too expensive, and there can be no doubt but 

 that the produce in point of sale would, between, 

 the incumbents and the general public in these 

 inquisitive times, sufficiently reward the under- 

 taking. Henry Ellis. 



LUCY WALTERS, MOTHER OF THE DUKE OF 

 MONMOUTH. 



(2"'i S. ii. 308.) 



" Of all the numerous progeny was none 

 So beautiful, so brave, as Absalom. 



With secret joy, indulgent David view'd 

 His youthful image in his son renew'd ; 

 To all his wishes nothing he denied. 

 And made the charming Annabel his bride." 



Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel. 



The annexed descent of Lucy AA''alters is based 

 on, and chiefly derived from, the Visitation Pedi- 

 gree of her family in the Heraldic Visitations of 

 Wales, by Lewys Dwnn, Deputy Herald at Arms, 

 published for the Welsh MS. Society, Llando- 

 very, folio, 1846, vol. i. p. 228. This pedigree, 

 which was taken by Lewys Dwnn, at Haverford- 

 west in 1609, terminates with John Walter, son 

 of Roger Walter, and does not include Richard 

 Walter, brother of the former and father of Lucy 

 Walters. Richard may, therefore, be presumed 

 to have been then unborn. Of the name of his 

 wife, of his children, other than Lucy, if any, and 

 of her place and date of birth, I have no particu- 

 lars ; but her legitimacy does not appear to have 

 been questioned. Sir Walter Scott (Dry den's 

 Works, note iii., on Absalom and Achitophel, 

 Edinburgh, 8vo., 1821, vol. ix. p. 250.), refersto 

 her as " Mrs. Lucy Walters, or Waters, otherwise 

 called Barlow, a beautiful young lady, of a good 

 Welch family." The name of Walter indicates 



