Oct. 23. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Bare Cross (Vol. vi., p. 24.3.). — As one instance 

 of the occurrence of this name, I may mention that 

 an open space just beyond the Eastjjates of this 

 town, and from whence four roads diverge, now 

 called " the Haymarket," and previously " the 

 Coal-hill," was formerly designated the Bare-hill 

 Cross. 



Entries respecting this locality are of frequent 

 occurrence in our local records of the sixteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries ; and, in accordance with 

 that delightful and never-enough-to-be-envied 

 freedom from the shackles of orthography which 

 then prevailed, every man being his own dic- 

 tionary, we find it appearing under the several 

 forms of Barehill, Bearehill, Beerehill, Berehyll, 

 Barwell, and Barrell Crosse. Here, however, un- 

 like the locality mentioned by your correspondent 

 John H. A., a stone cross formerly existed, as is 

 evinced by entries in 1575-6 of the sale of the 

 materials, and of " the old wood of the broken 

 cage,'' which either formed part of the cross or 

 stood near it. A new cage was set up on the 

 spot, by order of a Common Hall, in 1600 ; and 

 one out of several pairs of stocks, with which the 

 town was provided "for the punishment of evil- 

 doers," stood here from an earlier period. 



Lbicestriexsis. 



Waller Family (Vol. v., p. 619.). — I am much 

 obliged to Mr. L. K. Larking for his answer to 

 my Query respecting Catherine Pope, afterwards 

 Lady Boteler ; but on looking at the pedigree of 

 the Waller family as given in Lipscomb's Bucks, 

 Pt. V. p. 182,, I was astonished to find that, ac- 

 cording to that authority, the poet's grandfather's 

 name was not Francis, as stated by Mr. Larking. 

 I also observed there was a discrepancy between 

 the account given by Lipscomb and that of Arthur 

 Collins, who says {English Peerage, vol. ii. p. 316., 

 ed. 1741) Edmond Brudenell, Esq., M.P. for co. 

 Bucks, had issue Alice, sole daughter and heir, 

 ■who " married Richard Waller, jun., Esq. of co. 

 Kent, son and heir of that great warrior, &e., 

 and was ancestor to that famous refiner of our 

 English versification, Edmond Waller of Beacons- 

 field, Esq.;" whereas in Lipscomb it will be seen 

 Edmond Waller does not descend from that mar- 

 riage at all. I think that if Mr. Larking would 

 be at the trouble of framing a corrected pedi- 

 gree of the poet's ancestors, it would be very 

 acceptable to your readers, who have now no 

 means of testing and correcting Lipscomb. I 

 need scarcely say the latter makes no mention of 

 Lady Boteler. Tewars. 



Lord Stafford Mines, ^c. (Vol. vl., p. 222.).— 

 BoXis will find the lines in "Lines to Alnwick 

 Castle " (which, however, I have never seen in 

 print), by Hallett or Hallard, an American author 

 (I am quoting from memory, and forget the 

 name). From allusions in the poem, it was writ- 



ten before the Independence of Greece. The lines 

 begin — 



" Home of the Percy's high-born race ! " 

 and proceed in a high strain till they come to a 

 passage where the author breaks oif from — 

 " I traced upon the chapel walls 



Each high heroic name, 



From him who once the red cross set 



Where now o'er mosque and minaret 



Glitter the Sultan's crescent moons ; " 

 and descends — 



" To him who, when a younger son, 



Fought for King George at Lexington ; 



A Major of Dragoons. 



That last half stanza it has dashed 



From my warm lip the sparkling cup; 



The light that o'er my eye-beam flashed, 



The power that bore my spirit up 



Above this bank-note world, is gone, 



And Alnwick's but a market town, 



And this, alas ! is market day." 

 After some other lines, he proceeds : 

 " 'Tis what our President, Monro, 



Has called an era of good feeling. 



The Highlander, the bitterest foe 



To modern laws, has felt their blow. 



Submitted to be taxed, and vote, 



And put on pantaloons and coat. 



And leave off cattle-stealing : 



Lord Stafford mines," &c. 

 The lines conclude with — 

 " You ask, if yet the Percy lives 



In the proud pomp of feudal state ? 



The present representatives 



Of Hotspur and his gentle Kate 



Are some half-dozen serving men 



In the drab coats of William Penn ; 



A chambermaid, wliose large black eye 



And jetty hair, so long and curling. 



Spoke Nature's aris-to-cracy, 



And one half groom, half seneschal, 



Who bowed me through court, bower and hall, 



PVom donjon vault to turret wall, 



For ten and sixpence sterling." 



J. H. L. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The good people of Worcestershire are indebted to 

 Mr. Jabez Allies for a very handsome volume illustra- 

 tive of the history of their native county. His book, 

 which treats On the Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon 

 Antiquities and Folk Lore of Worcestershire, has now 

 reached a second edition ; and, as Mr. Allies has em- 

 bodied in this, not only the additions made by him; to 

 the original work, but also several separate publications 

 on points of folk-lore and legendary interest, few coun- 

 ties can boast a more industriously or carefully com- 

 piled history of what may be called its popular anti- 

 quities, and of those remains which were formerly 



