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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2nd s. No 90., Sept. 19. '57. 



me that there is an inn bearing the above sign in 

 that city. Mr. Barnes made some inquiries (on 

 seeing my query) respecting the origin of the sign 

 in Oxford ; and was informed that the inn had 

 formerly been kept by a man of itind and liberal 

 disposition, who allowed his customers to get so 

 deeply into his debt as to compel him to dispose of 

 his business to a successor possessed of greater 

 firmness, who, upon taking possession, changed 

 the designation which the house had formerly 

 borne, to " The case is altered," i.e. ready money, 

 and no credit. This version of the story will 

 scarcely account for the incident travelling down 

 to Wales and passing into a proverb ; so that I 

 suspect there must be some other foundation, both 

 for the sign and the saying. 



John Pavin Phili.ips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



I observed some two years ago about (I think) 

 a mile out of the town of Northampton the sign 

 of " The case is altered." J. F. G. 



Among the Civil War Tracts in the British 

 Museum is the following : 



" The Case is Altered : both thy Case, and my Case, 

 and every Man's Case. With a direction for a speedy 

 present wav to make every thing dog-cheap. London, 

 4to., 1649."" 



This is a Satire on the Parliament. One of Ben 

 Jonson's most celebrated comedies is entitled 2'he 

 Case is Altered, 4to. 1609, which is partly borrowed 

 from Plautus. See also Pope's Imitations of Ho' 

 race, book ii. sat. i. line 154. J. Y. 



Dr. Case, a kind of quack doctor in the reign 

 of Charles II., made a fortune, and setting up his 

 carriage amused the town by his motto : " The 

 Case is altered." G. R. L. 



%tj^\iti to S^inax f^ntxiti. 



Lucy, Countess of Bedford (2°'i S. iv. 210.) — 

 Edward, third Earl of Bedford, died May 2, 1627, 

 at which time his countess, Lucy, was so ill that 

 she only survived her husband a few days. She 

 was buried in Exton Church on the 31st of the 

 same month. Bbaybbooke. 



Payment of M.P.'s (2"* S. iv. 188.) — The pay- 

 ment of 2s. per diem to M.P.'s was compulsory. 

 There are innumerable entries in the archives of 

 corporations respecting such matters, and how the 

 rate was to be made for the commonaltie, &c. of 

 the borough to bear the same equably. Our in- 

 quirer may see full particul&,rs in Roberts's History 

 of the Southern People of England, 8vo., Long- 

 man & Co. When electors paid the wages and 



the travelling bill they did not scruple to question 

 the M.P. upon the performance of his duties. 

 Occasionally the burghers prescribed duties which 

 the M.P. would not perform. G. R. L. 



An Act of Parliament passed in the 34th & 35th 

 years of the reign of Henry VIIL, 1542-3 (c. 24.), 

 will give some information to Mb. Godwin on this 

 subject. It recites that the Manor of Burlewas, 

 otherwise called the Shyre Manor of the county 

 of Cambridge, and 200 acres of land, 100 acres of 

 meadow and 100 acres of pasture in Maddingley, 

 were let to farm at lOl. a year, to the intent that 

 the yearly profits should be applied to the pay- 

 ment of the fees and wages of the Knights of that 

 county sent to Parliament, whereby the inhabitants 

 of the county had been discharged from such pay- 

 ment; and that for the more sure continuance 

 thereof, and that it might be perfectly known 

 what person should be charged to pay the said 

 rent of 10^., all the gentlemen of the said county 

 desired that it might be, and it was, enacted that 

 John Hynde, one of the king's serjeants-at-law, 

 and his heirs, should bold the same to him, his heirs 

 and assigns for ever, upon condition to pay lOl. to 

 the Sheriff and Members of the county, who were 

 incorporated by the Act, by the name of the War- 

 dens of the fees and wages of the Knights of the 

 Shire of Cambridge, and were to divide the same 

 between the two knights every year. The last 

 section of the Act discharges the county and its 

 inhabitants for ever from all such monies as there- 

 tofore had been accustomed to be levied and paid 

 for the fees of the Knights of the Parliament. 



John Hynde became a Judge of the Common 

 Pleas in 1545, and died in 1550. Who. has now 

 the Manor of Burlewas, or what is done with the 

 rent-charge of lOZ., I do not know. 



Edwaed Foss. 



Gratuity to a Member of Parliament. — The fol- 

 lowing curious record is taken from the " Convo- 

 cation " books of the city of Wells : 



"August?, 1606. 

 « v£ allow'd to ye Burg's of the I"liament. — Wheras 

 James Kirton, Esquier, Kecorder of the saied Cittie or 

 Borough, hath s'ved Burg's of the P'liament l4st past to 

 his greate charge as it is nowe alledged ; It is therfore 

 ordered and agreed hy the consent of all those p'sons 

 above wrytten that the saied James Kirton shall liaye 

 allowed and paied vnto him by way of gratuitie the some 

 of five poundes, to be paied him at the next accompte." 



This James Kirton resided at West Camel, 

 Somerset, and was elected M.P. for Wells, a.d. 

 1601—1603. ^ Ina. 



Anonymous Plays (2°'^ S. iv, 108.)— These are 

 either from the iertile wits of the present Lord 

 Neaves, one of the judges of the Court of Session 

 in Scotland, or Mr. Douijlas Cheape, formerly 

 Professor of Civil Law in Edinburgh University. 

 The scene is laid at Over Gogar, then the country 



