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[Aug. U. 1855. 



Church in honour of that holy man, by another prhice." 

 — Sanderson, p. 89. 



Well, then, may Mr. Raine say, in speaking of 

 these costly copes and gorgeous vestments at 

 Durham — 



« When the reader is informed, that, to almost everj' one 

 of the altars in the Church, and there were at least forty 

 in number,' themselves rich in ornaments, were appropri- 

 ated robes equally splendid with those above described, 

 he may perhaps be enabled to form some idea of the 

 gorgeous external pageantry of the Church during those 

 times." 



CUTHBEET BeDE, B, A. 



ARMS OF ABBEY OF BARDNEY. 



■ What were the arms formerly used by the mitred 

 abbey of Bardney on the Witham, near Boston in 

 Lincolnshire ? Fuller, in his Church Hist., says he 

 could not discover them. There is an escutcheon 

 of arms finely carved on an oak panel in the 

 present vicarage-house at Boston ; but which was 

 removed from the old vicarage-house, where it 

 was seen by Dr. Stukeley, and was the subject of 

 a correspondence between Mr. Maurice Johnson 

 and Roger Gale. If the arms of Bardney Abbey 

 have not been authentically ascertained, I should 

 venture to suppose that the arms upon this oak 

 panel are those which were formerly borne by 

 this institution; they are as follows, in the lan- 

 guage of Dr. Stukeley : " A fesse charged with a 

 fish and two annulets between three plates, each 

 charged with a cross fitchee." This escutcheon is 

 attached by a cord to a mitre; a pastoral staff 

 passes diagonally behind the escutcheon ; at the 

 top are the words " Ibi, Ubi," in old English 

 characters ; and on each side of the escutcheon a 

 single letter in the same character, that on the 

 right of the panel being evidently an I; that on 

 the left is indistinct, I think it is an H. Mr. 

 Johnson thought they were both I. I do not 

 know of any particular connexion between the 

 abbey of Bardney and the church or town of 

 Boston. 



The Abbot of Bardney owned a fishery at 

 Boston in 1539. He also held property there at 

 the Dissolution, which was sold by Henry VIII. 

 to the corporation of Boston in 1546. The river 

 Witham, in which the Abbot of Bardney had a 

 fishery, was, and is yet, famed for its pikes ; hence 

 the phrase "Witham pike, none like;" and the 

 fish in the old escutcheon to which I have alluded 

 is evidently a representation of that fish. It may, 

 however, be intended for the Vesica Piscis, which 

 is frequently found on the seals of bishops and 

 monastic institutions. I have somewhere seen it 

 stated that the fish there represented very often 

 resembled the pike. May I request information 

 upon tliis subject ? Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



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Minav UStmviti, 



Kymerton. — In the pedigree of Vaughan of 

 Hergest Court, Knigton, co. Hereford, is a match 

 with "John Price of Kyme:- on," time of Eliza- 

 beth or James I. In what parish and county is 

 "Kymerton?" G. Steinman Steinman. 



Huntington and Lennard Families. — Can any 

 particulars be found in Carlisle of the Huntimrton 

 family (sometime Quakers), or of the Lennard 

 family ? The Hon. Henry Lennard died at Car- 

 lisle in 1703; and Mary, his widow, in 1707, leaving 

 three daughters. Was she a daughter of Admiral 

 Sir Richard Haddock ? G. Steinman Steinman. 



William Bailie, Bishop of Clonfert. — It appears, 

 from Dr. Cotton's Fasti Feci. Hih., that William 

 Bailie was Bishop of Clonfert from 1644 to 1664, 

 a native of Scotland, educated at Glasgow, but 

 D.D. of Oxford. From the records in the Ulster 

 King of Arms Office, it appears that his only 

 daughter and heir, Jane Bailie, in 1639 married 

 James Hamilton, Esq., of Bailieborough, county 

 of Cavan (vide Fun. Ent., viii. 233.). 



Can any of your correspondents tell from what 

 Scotch family he sprang, and what arms he bore ? 



I looked through a large number of the MS. 

 pedigrees deposited in the Advocates' Library, and 

 mentioned this bishop to several antiquaries in 

 Edinburgh. I also searched the records there, 

 but could gain no clue to his family. 



His will is not deposited in the Prerogative 

 Court in Dublin, as I had that searched ; nor is 

 he mentioned in those records of the University 

 of Glasgow which have been published. 



M. Meekins. 



Temple. 



Origin of the Sign of Cock and Pye. — At Ips- 

 wich and Woodbridge are inns known by the 

 above sign. The occupier of the first-mentioned 

 states that he has frequently been questioned by his 

 guests relative to the derivation of his sign with- 

 out being enabled to give a satisfactory reply. 

 Such being the case, he would feel obliged by 

 being informed on the point. At the time cock- 

 fighting was deemed an amusement, this ancient 

 inn was much frequented by those who patronised 

 that objectionable custom. At this period it was 

 frequently announced in advertisements, " there 

 will be cock-fighting at the Cock and Pye as 

 usual." 



On one occasion, when this house was under re- 

 pair, a rude representation of a cock standing upon 

 a pie was discovered. It is well known that the 

 eastern counties were formerly noted for en- 

 couraging cock-fighting, now very properly dis- 

 continued ; the county newspapers then frequently 

 contained advertisements relative thereto. At 

 Winfarthing, West Beckham, and Burgh, in Nor- 



