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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[21x1 s, K" 109., Jan. SO. '58. 



the play mentioned by A Desultory Keader 

 (last vol. p. 461.), and should feel greatly obliged 

 to liim for an inspection of it. A private commu- 

 nication enclosed to the editor seems somehow or 

 other to have miscarried, as some notes sent along 

 with it, and intended for insertion, have not ap- 

 peared. E. H. Adamson. 

 St. Alban's Parsonage, Gateshead. 



Mr. Seijeant Bridges (2"'> S. v. 48.) — Your 

 correspondent A. L. C. inquires about an " Ed- 

 mund Bridges, Serjeant-at-law, who was living in 

 1700, and died at Ross." I am inclined to think 

 that he is mistaken both in the Christian name, 

 and in the date. It does not appear that there 

 was any Serjeant Bridges of that name, but there 

 was a William Bridges who was made a Serjeant- 

 at-law, Dec. 20, 1714, and his history is as follows: 

 — He died Oct. 12, 1736, aged 73, and was buried 

 at How-Caple, not far from Ross. His will was 

 proved in the same year in the Prerogative Court 

 of Canterbury. He had married Susannah, one 

 of the daughters and coheirs of Edward Noel of 

 the Inner Temple, and a Commissioner of Excise. 

 This gentleman is stated in the obituaries of the 

 time to have been " of the Gainsborough family." 

 He died in 1721, aged 80, and was buried under 

 the communion table in the church of St. Clement 

 Danes. His daughter, Mrs. Bridges, was baptized 

 at St. Clement Danes, March 17, 1671, and, dying 

 in April, 1723, was buried at How-Caple. Ser- 

 jeant Bridges and his wife had, besides other 

 female issue, three sons and two daughters, who 

 were buried at St. Clement Danes. One of their 

 daughters married \Villiam Gregory of Woolhope, 

 which is, I believe, in the pai-ish of How-Caple. 



There is a monument in How-Caple church to 

 the memory of Serjeant Bridges and his wife. 

 On this he is described as second son of Marshal 

 Bridges of Tiberton, Esq. C. E. L. 



WaWitim Peerage (2°^ S. iv. 472.)— It would 

 be interesting to know who was John Olmyns, 

 what were his claims to the honours of the peer- 

 age, and how his son came to have the singular 

 name of Drigne-Billers ? I remember once notic- 

 ing it stated in the account of Wm. Smith, Esq., 

 many years M. P. for Norwich, and maternal 

 grandfather of Florence Nightingale, which is 

 given in the obituary of The Gentlemans Maga- 

 zine, that he married Miss Cope, cousin of Lady 

 Waltham. Mrs. Smith's father, whose elder bro- 

 ther took the name of Sherbrook, was twice mar- 

 ried. His first wife, by whom he had an only 

 daughter married to an officer of the name of 

 Pigot, was Miss Coe of Maldon in Essex. As 

 Mrs. Smith, however, was one of Mr. Cope's second 

 family, she could not, strictly speaking, claim any 

 relationship with the second Lady Waltham, who 

 it seemed was one of the Coe family. 



; E. n.A. 



'■'■Blue Coat Boys at Alderrnans Funerals (2"*^ 

 S. iv. 128.) — In answer to Mr. Husk, I do not 

 think the attendance of Blue Coat Boys was con- 

 fined to the funerals of aldermen. I would refer 

 him to The Gentlemans Magazine for August, 

 1736, in which number the singular will of 

 'Samuel Wright of Newington Green, Esquire," 

 is given in extenso. In a codicil he says, " I de- 

 sire my funeral may be performed in a grave, 

 decent, not in a pompous manner. I would have 

 no Blue Coat Boys nor parish boys at my funeral, 

 &c." It is tru-e that in this his last will and testa- 

 ment he had bequeathed several handsome lega- 

 cies to different charities, and amongst them " to 

 Christ Church Hospital lOOOZ. ;" and so he may 

 have expected the Governors of that institution, 

 out of respect to his memory and gratitude to him, 

 would have wished that some of the boys might 

 join in his funeral procession. It seems, therefore, 

 that their attendance was rather of a mercenary 

 character, as in Mr. Husk's extract the " hir- 

 ing " of them is mentioned, and in this case also 

 it was a sort of return for " value received." 



J. B. S. 



Woodha^'ne. 



l^wo Brothers of the same Christian Name (2"^ 

 S. iv. 207. 257. 293.) — See volumes viii. ix. x. xi. 

 of tlie first series of " N. & Q." for several in- 

 stances of this peculiarity. To these may be added 

 the following which have come under my observa- 

 tion : — 



1. Alan de Strother (one of the Northumber- 

 land family of that name) conveys to Alan de 

 Strother the elder, Ms brother, &c., Sunday after 

 Easter, 1376 (old deed cited in Archccologia JEli- 

 ana. New Series, vol. i. p. 25.). 



Henry Percy, second Earl of Northumberland, 

 by his wife the Lady Eleanor Neville, had two 

 sons named Henry, and two sons named John. 

 As little is known of the latter couple, it may be 

 presumed that the elder died before the birth of 

 the younger. This, however, was not the case as 

 regards the former couple: for the younger Henry 

 was the sixth son, and must have received his 

 Christian name during the lifetime of his brother, 

 the eldest son, who survived his father, and suc- 

 ceeded to the title. 



3. The Paston Letters supply another example. 

 Sir John Paston, Knight, who died unmarried in 

 1479, had a younger brother, also named John, 

 who succeeded him in his estates, and was the 

 ancestor of Sir Robert Paston, Bart., created Earl 

 of-Yarmouth in the reign of Charles II. 



E. H. A. 



Women receiving the Lord's Supper in Gloves : 

 the " Dominicale " (2"*^ S. v.48.) — 1 cannot believe 

 that this practice can be even remotely connected 

 with the custom of the early ages of the Christian 

 church, because that custom does not appear to have 



