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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na s. No 46., Nov. 29. '56. 



Mat/or of London, 13.35 (2"'» S. ii. 213. 293.) — 

 Harl. MS. 6178, British Museum, contains a roll 

 of arms of the mayors and sheriffs of London ; and 

 for the year 1335, gives Nic. Woton for mayor, 

 with his" coat. Argent, a saltire engrailed sable. 

 The sheriffs are stated to be Walter Mordon and 

 Richard Upton. Although some of your corre- 

 spondents have quoted other names as sheriffs 

 for this year, I think there can be no doubt but 

 that the above are correct. As regards the mayor, 

 the roll of arms in the above-named MS. appears 

 very like proof; but I should imagine there 

 must be some records among the city archives 

 that would place the matter beyond a doubt. In 

 the absence of this proof, I would suggest that, pro- 

 bably, Wotton may have been locum tenens during 

 the absence of Reginald at Conduit ; or possibly 

 Reginald may have died towards the end of his 

 mayoralty, and Wotton filled the vacant chair for 

 a short time. W. (Bombay.) 



London. 



Fnhlic Preachers (2"'' S. ii. 373.)— It is pro- 

 bable the inquiries of your correspondent may be 

 forwarded by the following extracts made by per- 

 mission of the Rev. Richard Rigg, the rector of 

 the church of St. Clements, Pyebridge, Norwich, 

 from the registers of that parish : 



" Samuel Robarts, the sonne of M' Thomas Robarts, 

 preacher publique to this City, was buried y« 19 day of 

 Sept. 1680." 



" M'' Thomas Robards, preacher of the Lord's word to 

 this Citye, was buryed the 16 day of June, An. Dm. 

 1584." 



The wording of these two extracts affords suffi- 

 cient evidence that there did exist, at this early 

 period, an office which held some control over 

 the public preachers of the age. The appoint- 

 ment or control over persons selected for these 

 duties appears to have been invested in some com- 

 mission ; but of whom composed, whether lay or 

 clerical, is not now precisely defined. But suffi- 

 cient evidence does exist in the above extracts, 

 that the appointment was deemed a post of honour 

 and worthy of record. 



The explanatory note bears evidence only to 

 the period of the Commonwealth, but these dates 

 bear reference to a far antecedent period, and 

 when the state of the religious community was 

 under widely different principles. Elizabeth was 

 extricating her subjects from Romanism : Crom- 

 well was involving the nation in the confusion 

 consequent on a non-ritual church. 



The councils in selecting the " Triers " had at 

 different periods distinct duties to perform. The 

 dissimilitude in the services of the " preachers pub- 

 lique" of the Queen and the " public preachers " 

 of the Commonwealth must have been great under 

 the different forms of Church government, and of 

 an opposing mode of thinking and teaching. What 



they were during the long period when agitation, 

 doubt, and change, powerfully operated on the 

 minds of the community at large, is a subject well 

 worthy the attention of the Camden Society. 



Heney Davenby. 



Rawsons of Fryston, Sfc; Rowland Whyte 

 (2'«» S. ii. 27.) — G. R. C will find a letter or 

 letters written by a person named Rowland Whyte 

 (also called Wynne^, in the Sidney Correspondence. 

 He was steward, I believe, to Sir Henry Sidney, 

 the father of Sir Philip Sidney, and of Mary, 

 Countess of Pembroke. I doubt, however, if this 

 is the person whom he is in search of. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Colouring Natural Flowers (2"'^ S. ii. 371.) — 

 The colour of flowers is changed only by an alter- 

 ation of the particles of matter forming the petals, 

 and this is produced by chemical decomposition, 

 or by the action of light. It does not depend 

 upon the colour of the water. 



The question reminds me of a story, that white 

 roses budded on black currant trees will produce 

 black flowers. But I never saw it done; nor do I 

 know any instance of a white man becoming black 

 by drinking black tea. Vechs. 



" The Innocents " (P' S. ix. 272.) — The Inno- 

 cents, a Sacred Drama, and other Poems, was 

 written by Mrs. Edwin Toby Caulfield. This 

 lady is also the author of The Deluge, a dramatic 

 poem, published in 1837. R. Inglis. 



Inscriptions on Church Bells, Cumnor (2""^ S. ii. 

 299.) — 



« 1. (a.d. 1717. ") Henry Knight made me. 



4. (A.D.1620.J (T.B. LC. 1717.) 

 2. & 3. Churchwardens' Names. 



5. Let your hope be in the Lord. E. K. 1623. 



6. God prosper the Church of England. 1700. Abr. 

 Rudhall." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



I think you have not been furnished with the 

 following inscriptions on the six bells of St. 

 Peter's Church, Shaftesbury, which I take from 

 Hutchins' Dorset, vol. ii. p. 427. : 



" 1. A wonder great my eye I fix, 



Where was but three you may see six. 

 1684 — T. P. 



2. When I do ring, prepare to pray. 



R. A. S. T. B. 1670. 



3. Wm. Cockey, Bell-founder. 1738. 



4. Mr. Henr\' Saunders, and Mr. Richard Wilkins, 



cu w<i« W. C. 1738. 



5. While thus we join in chearful sound, 

 May love and loyalty abound. 



H. Oram, c. warden. 

 R. Wells, Aldbouine, fecit, 1776. 



6. When you hear me for to toll, 

 Then pray to God to save the soul. 



Anno Domini 1672. 

 T. H. R. W. C. W. T. P." 



C. S. Geeaves. 



