Aug. 19. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



141 



to the "cooked" census returns on "Religious 

 Worship." 



1. Horbling : open seats. 



2. Swaton : restoration, open seats. 



3. Rauceby: restoration. 



4. Sleaford : restoration, open seats. 



5. Edenham; restoration. 



6. Halton-Holegate : restoration, open seats. * 



7. Handleby : church rebuilding. 



8. Keal East : tower rebuilt. 



9. Miningsby : restoration ( ?), open seats. 



10. Sibsey : chancel rebuilding, restoration. 



11. Spilsby: restoration, new /jews. 



12. Stickford : new chancel (at the expense of Bishop 

 Kaye). 



13. Thorpe : restoration ( ?). 



14. Lincoln : St. Michael, rebuilding. 



15. St. Peter-in-Eastgate : (?) restoration. 



16. St. Peter-at- Arches : restoration; new/>ews(?). 



17. Hogsthorpe: restoration. 



18. Mablethorpe : new chancel. 



19. Saleby ; new church. 



20. Langton St. Andrew : new church. 



21. Barrowby : church restored ; chancel screen de- 

 stroyed. 



22. Woolsthorpe: church rebuilt. 



23. Sansthorpe : church rebuilt. 



24. Algarkirk : church elaborately restored ; open seats. 



25. Boston : church elaborately restored, open seats. 



26. Brothertoft : church rebuilt. 



27. Fishtoft : church restored, open seats. 



28. Holland-fen : chancel built. 



29. Pinchbeck : church built. 

 SO. Skirbeck : church built. 



31. Swineshead : chancel rebuilt. 



32. Whaplode : church restored, open seats. 



33. Horncastle : church built. 



34. Walcot : church built. 



35. Lincoln : chapel of St. Anne built. 



36. Fulbeck : restoration. 



37. Elkington, K, and 38. S. : churches restored. 



39. Haugham: (?) church built. 



40. Welton-le-Wold : church rebuilt. 



41. Deeping-fen : church built. 



42. Stamford : St. Mar}^, church restored. 



43. Torrington : church built. 



44. Holton : church rebuilt. 



45. Ulceby : church restored. 



46. Gainsborough : Holy Trinity, church built. 



47. Stockwith: church built. 



48. Lea : church restored, open seats. 



49. Riseholme : church built at the expense of Bishop 

 Kaye. 



50. New Bolingbroke : church built. 



51. Manthorpe : church built. 



52. Stickney : rebuilt, &c. 



Tlie above is probably incorrect in some very 

 slight particulars ; it is also capable, doubtless, of 

 considerable enlargement, communications towards 

 which will be thankfully received. 



Thomas Collis. 



Boston. 



ABDUCTIONS IN IKBLAND. 



The recent attempt of Mr. John Garden, a 

 magistrate, a Deputy-Lieutenant, and lately 

 High Sheriff of the county of Tipperary, to carry 



off by force Miss Eleanor Arbuthnot, a young 

 Scotch lady, sister of the Honorable Mrs. Gough, 

 has excited great indignation throughout the 

 empire. The crime of abduction was formerly 

 very common in Ireland amongst the rural classes ; 

 gentlemen were not altogether free from a dispo- 

 sition to follow their example ; and a few details 

 will be illustrative of the former state oi society 

 in that country. The trial and conviction of Sir 

 Henry Brown Hayes, Knt., before Mr. Justice 

 Day, at the Cork Spring Assizes of 1801, for the 

 abduction of Miss Mary Pike, a Quaker heiress, 

 was a very remarkable one ; the prosecution, 

 having been specially conducted by the celebrated 

 John Philpot Curran. The anecdote is well 

 known, — that when the mob cheered Curran, who 

 was very popular, on his way to court, with a 

 genuine Irish greeting : " Counsellor, we hope 

 you'll gain the day V his reply was: "If I do, 

 take care you don't lose the knight!" 



Two very young girls, sisters, of the name of 

 Kennedy, who were supposed to be entitled to 

 fortunes of 2000/. each, considerable sums in those 

 days in Ireland, had been some years previously 

 carried off under circumstances which created a 

 great sensation at the time, and the case was 

 alluded to by Mr. Curran in his address to the 

 jury. An application had been made on the 

 part of Sir Henry Hayes to the Court of Queen's 

 Bench, that his trial should take place in Dublin 

 instead of in the city of Cork, where the offence 

 had been committed; on the ground, that great 

 prejudice existed against him in that quarter : 



"That application," he observed, "was refused; and 

 justly did you, my Lord, and the learned judges, your 

 brethren, ground yourselves upon the reason you gave : 

 'We will not,' said you, 'give a judicial sanction to a 

 reproach of such scandalous atrocity upon any county in 

 the land, much less upon the second city in it.' ' I do 

 remember,' said one of you, ' a case which happened not 

 twenty years since. A similar crime was committed on 

 two young women of the name of Kennedy; it was 

 actually necessary to guard them through two counties 

 with a" military force as they went to prosecute. That 

 mean and odious bias, that the dregs of every com- 

 munity will feel by natural sympathy with everything 

 base, was in favour of the prisoners. Every means was 

 used to try and baffle justice by practising upon the 

 modesty and constancy of the prosecutrixes and their 

 friends ; but the infuriated populace, that had assembled 

 to celebrate the triumph of an acquittal, were the unwil- 

 ling spectators of the vindication of the law. The Court 

 recollected that particular respect is due to the female who 

 nobly comes forward to vindicate the law, and give pro- 

 tection to her sex. The jury remembered what they 

 owed to their oaths, to their families, to their country. 

 They felt as became the fathers of families, and foresaw 

 what the hideous consequences would be of impunity in 

 a case of manifest guilt; they pronounced that verdict 

 which saved their characters, and the offenders were 

 executed.' " 



Again : 



" In the case of the Misses Kennedy, the young ladies 

 had been obliged to submit to a marriage and cohabit- 



