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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2°* s. No 112., Feb. 20. '58. 



came to the bed side & the said Mary Cudraore spake to 

 it & received answers to the following effect or purpose — 



"Marj^ I adjure you in the name of God to tell me 

 what you are, or what you came for ? 



" Spectre. You need not adjure me, for I come on pur- 

 pose to tell 3'ou, & you are commonly more afraid than 

 hiirt. I am a poor man that came out of England and was 

 up and down here to gett a liveing. This house being a 

 Marshalls, I got in to be a keeper, where in short time, I 

 got about 26 pounds. There was one John Jackson & his 

 wife Joane Jackson being livers in Crosse Lane, w^^ is 

 now called Wills'? lane, who came out of Cornwall (the 

 maid not knowing the names of the English Shires can- 

 not positively remember whether it was Cornwall or some 

 other like place, but she says it was Cornwall or Corn- 

 shire or some such word) & owed a debt for v/<=^ he was 

 ptitt into the Marshalls. We had some few words about 

 the fees, for w'^^ his wife and he contrived to murder me. 



" Mary. The maid asked him if he had hid his money 

 or w' he did with it ? 



" Spectre. He said they took it and that there was a 

 man in Skiddys Castle Lane that was about 5 days in the 

 Marshalls, to whome they gave 3 pound & a twelve shil- 

 ling piece of Gold to keep their Councill, and, continued* 

 he, the day that my bones were takeiu up, this man was 

 in the Roome, the third man next to the Bishop, standing 

 upon one of the turky work chairs ; his colour went and 

 came, w'='' if God had given you the knowledge of, to 

 have looked in his face it would have discovered him & 

 I myself would have been a witness ag'' him, but he had 

 one debt to pay, and he has paid it, for he is now dead. 



" Mary. The maid asked him w* the mans name was ? 



" Spectre. He answered he could not tell, but he de- 

 scribed the cloths w'*" he had on (viz) an old Grey 

 Searge Coat & an old white hatt w'^^ an old paire of shooes 

 & a dirty crevat & he said that a moneth after the}' had 

 murdered him the woman that did it dyed, & that being 

 disturbed at her wicked action she walked as frequently 

 as he did; he added that his declaring it, would be a 

 means to sett her at rest as he believed. Her husband he 

 said went here hence to the North & from thence to Eng- 

 land, where he dyed. He said that about seaven years 

 after h6 was murdered, there was a Schoolemistress liveing 

 in the house & two younge girls lodging w"^ her ; he took 

 the eldest of y" girls out of the bed from her mistriss & 

 the other & told her this & desired her to discover it ; but 

 she neglected to do so, whereupon in a short while she 

 dyed (here the last line of the page is partly broken 



away apparently from damp) and added y' y« 



rnaids speaking to him \i^^ so much courage hindered 

 him or else the minister should have dearly suffered ; he 

 told her also that he was sensible w* trouble she went 

 through (for she had formerly been beaten in her bed & 

 ■was so ill that they thought she would dye, & had lost 

 the use of one of her legs, for above a moneth upon its 

 first appearance to her) but y* was chiefly occasioned 

 through her own folly. He said y* y" greatest occasion of 

 his coming now, was to free some certain gentlemen from 

 any suspicion who were ignorant of his death (then he 

 named three certain gentlemen). He also bid the maid 

 pay to his gossip who never demanded it 36 shillings. 



" Mary. Here the maid asked What his gossips name 

 was, becaulb phaps some other ;pson might come with a 

 false p'tence & demand the money from her. 



" Spectre. He answered that noe man else would de- 

 mand it, she should not enquire after him, till he enquired 

 after her, w<='» he would certainly do & bid her not desire 

 any bodies help towards the paym* of it, but to pay it 

 herself, tho' she,were fain to sell hercloaths to make it up ; 

 here he tould her, w» this money was to be paid for, but 

 bid her not to discover it to anycson, onely because some 

 might think it to be worse than it was, he bid her to dis- 



close it to one pson only, and that not w*out a promise, 

 that it should never be told farther, but bid her be sure to 

 pay the money & that it should be made up some other 

 way to her, and this being ended, he said he would'never 

 trouble her more. 



"Mary. Here the maid desired him to tell his own 

 name. 



" Spectre. He s* his name was Hugh Langford, that he 

 was commonly called by another name, but y* that was his 

 right name ; he s* y* if she heard any trifeling noise here- 

 after, she should not think it was he, for he would never 

 trouble her any more. When he was goeing away he bid her 

 turn her head back, w'='> she did, tho she had not y« power 

 to do it all ye while before & straightway turning about 

 again, she could see him noe more. Whilst this discourse 

 was between y™ the spectre walked to & fro between y° 

 bed & y° table 3 or 4 times." 



Amongst the Crosbie MSS. is an original letter, 

 dated Oct. 18, 1688, written in Cork by Counsel- 

 lor Galway to Sir Thos. Crosbie, in which he gives 

 a curious account of the discovery of the bones, 

 &c., which would form the subject Of another com- 

 munication. R. C. 



Cork. 



BELL LITERATURE. 



(1" S. ix. 240. ; xi. 32.) 



Theophilua, translated by Hendrie. 1847. 



Amongst his Treatises, in the 85th cap., he minutely 

 describes the founding of Bells. He is supposed to 

 have written circa 1200. 



Hombergii. Responsio de superstitione Campanarum 

 pulsibus, quibus placentur Fulmina. Frankfort. 1577. 



Feileri, J. Turden Clocke. Leipsic. 



Emdenii, J. Clocken, New. 1634. 



Spiers ; R. P. Mainrad. Tractatus Musicus Composi- 

 toris Practicus. Auxburgh. 1746. 



Orders of the Company of Ringers in Cheapside. 1603. 

 MS. cxix. in All Souls' Lib. Oxon. 



Launaj' der Glockengiesser. Leipsic. 1834. 



Hubbard's Elements of Campanology. Ipswich. 1854. 



Quarterly Review, article Church Bells. Sept. 1854. 



Several Peals on Bell's Penn}' Post. 1856 — 7. 



Many Papers on Bells in the Musical Gazette, and 

 Proceedings of the Institute of British Architects. 1856 

 —7. 



Changes, Literarj', Pictorial, and Musical. By W. F. 

 Stephenson. Ripon. 1857. 



Denison on Bells and Clocks, in his Lectures on Church 

 Building. 1856. 



Baker on Great Bell at Westminster. 1857. 



Brown's Law of Church Bells. 1857. 



Lukis's Account of Church Bells. Lond. 1857, 



Ellacombe's edition of Beaufoy's Ringers' True Guide. 

 1857. 



Heinrick Otte, Glockenkunde. Leipsic. 1858. 



Words to Churchwardens about the Bells. 



Words to Rural Deans. Devizes. 1858. 



Can any contributor send the names and ad- 

 dresses of any modern Bell Founders on the Con- 

 tinent ? 



H. T. Ellacombb. 



