Aug. 26. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Brasses of Notaries. — Can any one who takes 

 an interest in monumental brasses inform me of 

 any brasses of notaries now existing in churclies, 

 either in England or on the Continent ? 



There is one in the church of St. Mary Tower in 

 Ipswich, c. 1475 ; and another, though far inferior 

 one, in the same church, c. 1506. 



Mr. Boutell, in his work on "Monumental 

 Brasses and Slabs," mentions a brass of a notary 

 in the church at Holme Hall, in Norfolk ; but on 

 writing to the parish clerk, to make inquiries 

 respecting it, I was informed that there had been 

 no such brass in the church for the last thirty 

 years. The other brasses of notaries, of which I 

 am cognisant, are : Chart (Great), Kent, c. 1480 ; 

 New College, Oxford, c. 1510; Saint Sauveur, 

 Bruges, c. 1520. W. T. T. 



Ipswich. 



Lancashire Record. — I should be greatly obliged 

 by any of your correspondents informing me 

 where I could find the original record, of which 

 the following is a copy : 



" Inter decreta Comtnissionoium ad pios usiis infra Com. 

 Lane, in Sessione apud Bolton in le Moors 25° die 

 Septembris 1632 habita, inter alia continetur prout 

 seq'. 



" Wherefore the Commissioners aforenamed do this pre- 

 sent 25* of September 1632 aforesaid decree and order 

 that the rents issuing out of the several messuages and 

 lands in Burnley Wood, Colne, Marsden, and Blackow in 

 this Inquisition mentioned (amounting to the sum of 

 15/. 2s. per annum or thereaboutes shall henceforth be 

 paid by the occupants or tenants thereof, unto the feolFees 

 or Churchwardens of Colne aforesaid ; and by them the 

 said feoffees and churchwardens likewise duly paid from 

 time to time to Richard Brereley Clerk now Minister 

 there, and to the priest or Minister there for the time 

 being successively for ever, according to the true intent 

 of the donors of the said Messuages and Lands. 



" Subscribed Jo. Cestrien, Cha. Gerard, Tho. Barton, 

 Tho. Standish, John Atherton, J. Bradshaw. 



" Copia vera examinata 



per me, Thobia Wasse, NC'*"" Pub<='^." 



J. Henderson. 



Parsonage, Colne. 



Custom of Establishing Fairs in North Devon. — 

 Can any of the readers of " N. & Q," throw light 

 on a custom in North Devon as to establishing 

 fairs ? There is a notion, that if a man beats his 

 wife from jealousy, and the mob take it up by 

 what they term " skiverton riding" (or, as it is 

 termed in Yorkshire, " riding the stang,") i. e. a 

 man dressed as a woman seated on a' donkey, 

 escorted by a man carrying or wearing a pair of 

 ram's horns, and a number making discordant 

 noises with rams' and cows' horns, or, as we 

 should term it, rough music, they have the right, 

 after three times riding and affixing the ram's 

 horns for an hour in three adjoining parishes on 

 three separate days, after giving written notice of 



their intention of so doing, of remaining in the 

 parishes, and cannot be turned out by force ; and 

 can keep the horns nailed up in the other parishes 

 an hour : and farther, that the parish so riding 

 skiverton has established the right to hold an 

 annual fair for cattle ; a meeting of the sellers in 

 the first fair agreeing to the tolls to be paid, and 

 first offering them to the delinquent husband, and, 

 upon his refusal of the tolls, then to the lord of 

 the manor. Such, as it is stated, was the way they 

 established fairs at Bratton Fleming and Chittle- 

 hampton, and now at Lynton, where the fair was 

 recently held for the first time. The skiverton 

 riding duly took place three times about two 

 months ago. The man has refused the tolls, and 

 the lord of the manor has accepted them. D. 



Letters of Thomas Moore. — I take the follow- 

 ing advertisement from the Boston Daily Adver- 

 tiser of June 5, 1854 : 



" Notes from the Letters of Thomas Moore to his Pub- 

 lisher James Power (the publication of which was sup- 

 pressed in London), with an Introductory Letter from 

 Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., F.S.A." 



Might I ask what is known of these "Notes," and 

 by whom was the publication suppressed ? W. W. 

 Malta. 



Genei'al Guy on — Kurschid Pasha. — The writer 

 is very desirous of obtaining some information 

 relative to the family of General Guyon (Kurschid 

 Pasha), who now seems to be distinguishing him- 

 self very much on behalf of the Turks in Asia, 

 and who signalised himself for his great bravery 

 during the Hungarian insurrection. The writer 

 believes him to be an Englishman, and wishes to 

 know whether he is any relation to a Capt. Guyon 

 who was living in London about the time of the 

 great riots in the year 1780 ? Cg. 



Damian. — 



"Damian, in Tfie Dead Alive, describes the enormities 

 of Queen Elizabeth, and says that when tired of her 

 lovers, or jealous, she put them to death, and built a secret 

 chamber with their bones, which was lighted with lamps 

 fed by their fat. The book is a favourite with readers 

 here (and not many can read), who believe any evil of 

 Protestants." — Journal of a Tour in the Neapolitan States, 

 London, 1741, p. 236. 



Who was Damian ? What is the Italian name of 

 his book ? Is there a translation ? The passage 

 referred to, or information as to where I can see 

 it, will much oblige R. B. 



Austrian Passports. — I should be obliged if 

 you or any of your correspondents can inform me 

 or direct me to where I can ascertain what are the 

 rules of the Austrian authorities as to the visas 

 required before passengers can enter the Austrian 

 territories. 



I have heard it stated that before any one is 

 allowed to enter them, his passport must be visd'd 



