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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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nyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common 

 Pleas ; Charles Tindal, Commander R.N., now of 

 Burlington Gardens ; Acton Tindal, of the Manor 

 House, Aylesbury, Esq. ; the Rev. Henry Tindal, 

 Rector of Bulpham, Essex; and Thomas William 

 Tindal of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Special Pleadei". 

 To revert to the two younger sons of Oliver Fock- 

 lington of Brinkton, Clerk, M.D. William is de- 

 scribed in the pedigree before me as of the parish 

 of St. Dunstan's in the West, London, Gentleman; 

 he died 1741, leaving issue Robert Pocklington, 

 of the Six Clerks Office, and of Chelmsworth, co. 

 Suffolk, and William Pocklington, of the parish 

 of St. Dunstan's aforesaid, Gentleman; and two 

 daughters, who both died unmarried. Charles 

 Pocklington, the youngest son of Oliver of Brink- 

 ton, was in holy orders; he died before 1726, 

 leaving two daughters living in 1758. 



I shall be very glad of any accurate information 

 concerning the parentage of John Pocklington, 

 D.D.? How was he related to the Yorkshire 

 Pocklingtons, whose arms his descendants use and 

 quarter? He was certainly the most eminent 

 man of his name. See State Trials, Wood's 

 Athence, Fuller's Injured Innocence, &c. 



A Descendant of John Pockungton, 



MITBED ABBATS NOKTH OF TRENT. 



(2°'^ S. iv. 170.) 



In answer to Oxoniensis, I would remark 

 that there can scarcely be a doubt that the 

 Abbats of Jervaulx assumed the mitre, howbeit 

 their house may not be found in the list of mitred 

 abbeys. An incised slab to the memory of Peter 

 de Snape, the seventeenth abbat, is laid in the 

 centre of the chapter house, and probably has 

 never been disturbed since the time of his burial 

 in A.D. 1436. A superb floriated cross extends to 

 the length and breadth of a large oblong stone, 

 the terminations passing through the fillet, on 

 which the inscription is engraved : on the stem of 

 the cross is the representation of a chalice ; on 

 the observer's left hand is a fine pastoral stuff, and 

 on the right a well-executed mitre. 



In Middleham church is a slab, more gorgeously 

 sculptured, but by no means so elegant in design 

 as Peter de Snape's : this is supposed to have been 

 originally laid in Jervaulx Abbey, and to have 

 been removed shortly before its despoliation in 

 A.p. 1537. It covered the remains of Robert 

 Thornton, the twenty-second abbat, which may 

 also have been removed. He died in 1533. Here 

 again the mitre is introduced, placed in the centre 

 of the design. I believe both these stones are 

 figured in Dr. Whitaker's History of Richnond- 

 shire. 



In the Augmentation Office are impressions, In 

 red wax, of two different seals belonging to Jer- 



vaulx Abbey ; both have an abbat in the central 

 compartment, but in one of them the wax is 

 broken near the head, and only a circlet can be 

 distinguished, which has the appearance of the 

 coronet or base of a mitre. In the other the 

 whole shape of the mitre is quite distinct, and the 

 date of the design would be late in the fourteenth 

 or early in the fifteenth century. Dr. Whitaker, 

 if I recollect right, is altogether silent on this 

 subject, but Mr. Longstaffe, iu his excellent Guide 

 through Richmondshire, says that this abbey, 

 spiritually, was a mitred one, but not parliament- 

 arily so. Patonce. 



The abbey of Jerveaux was not a mitred abbey, 

 but there was a third north of Trent, viz. the 

 Benedictine abbey of St. Peter and St. Hilda at 

 Whitby. 



In all, twenty-seven abbots (sometimes twenty- 

 nine), and two priors, almost all Benedictines, 

 held baronies and sat in parliament. The abbot 

 of St. Albans took the first place among the 

 mitred abbots in parliament. The precedency of 

 St. Alban's was granted to it by Adrian IV. in 

 1154: " Sicut B. Albanus proto-niartyr est An- 

 glorum, ita et abbas sui raonasterii sedem primara 

 habet in parliaraento." The other abbots sat ac- 

 cording to the seniority of their summons. A 

 fourth may also be added, though it was only a 

 priory, i. e. Durham, whose prior was mitred 

 circa 1574, but never called to parliament. 



Before Edward III. reduced the number of 

 tli.eir seats to twenty- five abbots and two priors, 

 there had been, temp. Henry III., sixty-four 

 abbots and thirty-six priors in the parliament. 



For lists of the mitred abbots see Glossary of 

 Heraldry, p. xxix., and Spelman's History of Sa- 

 crilege, Appendix I., edit. 1846. Ceykep. 



The Cistercian monastery of Jorevalle, or Jer- 

 veaux, is described in Barker's lliree Days of 

 Wensleydfde, as a rich and mitred abl)ey. When, 

 A.D. 1307, Edward I., after keeping the previous 

 Christmas at Carlisle, held on the octaves of St. 

 Hilary a " Great Parliament " in that city, — to 

 which were summoned "eighty-seven earls and 

 barons ; twenty bishops, sixty-one abbots, and 

 eight priors ; besides many deans, archdeacons, 

 and other inferiour clearkes of the Convocation ; 

 the Master of the Knights of y'' Temple, of every 

 shire two knights ; of every city, two citizens ; 

 and of every borough, two burgesses," &c. (Stowe's 

 Chron.), — we find the Lord Abbot of Jorevall 

 thirty-sixth on the roll of Abbots, taking prece- 

 dence over those of Fountains and Bellaland, both 

 Cistercian houses. C. J. D. Ikgledew. 



Northallerton. 



