2«'» S. N" 112., Feb. 20. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



159 



gather from it that Richard and Anne Powell had 

 six sons and four daughters. But what is more 

 worthy of remark is the discrepancy between this 

 register and the extracts given by Dr. Bliss from 

 the Oxford Matriculation register. In the parish 

 register I do not find the baptism of any Thomas 

 Powell entered, but that Richard, son of Richard 

 Powell, was baptized June 10, 1621. I also find 

 thai James Powell was baptized Oct. 5, 1623, which 

 does not tally with the age given from the Matri- 

 culation register. 



It is just possible' that Dr. Bliss may have 

 wrongly transcribed one name or figure, as I per- 

 ceive to have been somewhat the case with the 

 editor of " N. & Q." in the answer to Mb. James 

 Knowles' Query. The passage quoted from 

 Wood's Life, p. 127., is erroneously transcribed 

 by the interpolation of the word " born." Anthony 

 h Wood does not say that he was born at Sandford, 

 but that he simply went over there from Oxford 

 to take note of some of its antiquities.* He was 

 born some thirty years before in a house opposite 

 Merton College. W. F. C. 



MedicEval Interments (2'"'^ S. v. 88.) — T. B. 

 will find much information on the subject of me- 

 diaeval burials in the second volume of Dr. Rock's 

 Church of our Fathers (Dolman). He should also 

 consult Mores Caiholici; but as that work has no 

 index it will be a wearisome task, but he will be 

 repaid by the references he will find to other 

 sources of information. A glance at the authori- 

 ties quoted by the author of Compitum, in the last 

 chapter of th^ seventh book, will be useful. 



The followmg works contain something to the 

 purpose : — 



" Wills and Inventories of the Northern Counties (Sur- 



tces Society)." 



"Testamenta Eboracensia (Surtees Society)." 



" Maskell's Monumenta Kitualia Ecclesise Anglicanaj." 



" Herbert's History of the London Livery Companies." 



" Beacon's Relics of Rome." 



"The Index to the Parker Society's Publications." 



And all Guild-books and Churchwardens' accounts earlier 



than 1560. 



Two mediaeval hearse- cloths or palls exist in 

 London ; one in the possession of the Fishmon- 

 gers', the other of the Saddlers' Company. 



I think some ancient biers are yet to be found. 

 I have an impression that I have seen one in a 

 village church in Yorkshire ; perhaps Campsal. 

 There was one during the memory of persons now 

 alive in Northorpe church in this county, but it is 

 not to be found now. Edwahb Peacock. 



The Manor, Bottesford, near 

 Brigg, Lincolnshire. 



Parochial Libraries (P* S. vii. 193.) — In the 

 parvise, better known as " Dove's Chamber," over 

 the south porch of St. Neot's church, is a parochial 



[* We find the passage was correctly transcribed, but 

 Mr. Compositor has inserted the word " born." — Ed.] 



library, of which about fifty volumes are " sup- 

 posed to be Dr. Bray's ;" twenty-two were given 

 by the Rev. J. Cole, Rector of the adjoining 

 parish of Eynesbury, and a few more are from 

 unknown donors. The books are chiefly in toler- 

 able condition ; the subject, divinity. In a paro- 

 chial library at Gravely Rectory, near St. Neot's, 

 I saw a few years since an odd volume of Walton's 

 Polyglott Bible. Another odd volume, besides a 

 complete set, is in the Beccles parochial library. 



Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire. 



Button's Epitaph (2"'^ S. v. 107.) — Closely 

 allied to this is a scrap I have just found on a 

 Button-hole: — 



" < Which is the deepest, the longest, the broadest, and 

 the smallest grave in this churchj'ard ? ' said a pedestrian 

 to his companion, while meditating among the tombs at 

 Esher. 



" ' Why,' replied he, ' it is that in which Miles Button 

 is buried ; for it is Miles below the sod, miles in length, 

 miles in breadth, and j'et after all, it is but a button- 

 hole.' " 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Double Christian Names (2"'^ S. iv. 376.) — At 

 the contest for a registrar for the North Riding of 

 the county of York, between J. S. Walton and 

 R. W. C. Peirse, Esqrs., in 1829, when 1282 free- 

 holders voted and paired off, there appear to have 

 been no less than 87 with more than one Chris- 

 tian name, and 6 with more than two. 



At the contest for a registrar for the West Rid- 

 ing, between the Hon. Arthur Lascelles, T. B. 

 Hodgson, and J. Stephenson, Esqrs., in 1842, 

 when 3801 freeholders voted and paired off, 355 

 had more than one Christian name, and 10 more 

 than two. C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Henley (2"'i S. i. 454.)— The inquirer who 

 sought information respecting Henley-on-Thames, 

 may find the names of incumbents from 1521 to 

 1707, evidently with some omissions, in Browne 

 Willis's MSS., fol. xlv., in the Bodleian. E. M. 



Richard Fitz-Ralph \R. Armachanus'] (2"'* S. v. 

 110.) — " Is it known where this MS. is now pre- 

 served ? If lost, as I fear, are there any known 

 transcripts of it, and where ? " 



I was informed by the Rev. Philip Hale, ex- 

 librarian of Abp. Tenison's library, not many 

 months since, that the collection remains intact in 

 the building formerly used as the reading room, 

 42,^ Castle Street, Leicester Square. Of the trans- 

 lation by John de Trevisa of the Latin sermon of 

 Radulph, or Fitz-Rauf, Archbishop of Armagh, 

 Nov. 8, 1357, there are, I believe, several copies 

 in various collections. Among the Harl. MSS. 

 19p0; in the library of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, see Translations of the Cambridge Anti- 

 quarian Society ; A Descriptive Catalogue of the 

 Manuscripts and Scarce Books in the Library of St. 



