Jan. 2a 1853.] 



NOTES AM) QUERIES. 



119 



Tlie lines quoted by your correspondent also 

 occur in the more nKxlern son^ of The Battle of 

 the Boyne, which may be found at p. 144. of Mr. 

 Duffy's work. Thompson Coopbr. 



Cambridge. 



[We nre indebted to many other correspondents for 

 similar Replies to this Query.] 



Jennings Family (Vol. vii., p. 95.). — I am much 

 obliged to Percuriosus for his reply to my Query. 

 The William Jennings, who was Sheriff" of Corn- 

 wall in 1678, an admiral, and knighted by King 

 James II. (see Le Neve's Knights, Harleian MS. 

 5801.), was most probably descended irom the 

 Yorkshire family of that name, his escutcheon 

 being the same. The Francis who married Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of Henry Spoure of Trebartha, was 

 descended from the Shropshire family, whose arms 

 were — Ermine, a lion rampant, gules quartered 

 with those of Jay, as recorded in the Visitation by 

 Henry, the son of Francis. This Francis died 

 about 1610-11. His will (the executor being 

 Henry Spoure) was proved at Doctors' Commons 

 in 1611. But what I particularly wanted to ascer- 

 tain was, whether Rowland, who is the first that 

 occurs in the Cornish Visitation, was the first who 

 settled in Cornwall. I have inquired at the He- 

 ralds' College, but can gain no further information 

 than that to be found in the Visitations of Salop 

 and Cornwall in the British Museum. Percuri- 

 osus would gratify my curiosity, if he would 

 kindly inform me where the Spoure MSS. are to 

 be seen. They are not to be found in the British 

 Museum. I have always thought that they were 

 in the hands of some member of the Rodd family, 

 whose ancestor (a Life Guardsman) was about to 

 be married to the heiress of all the Spoures, but 

 she, dyin<r before the marriage, left him all her 

 estates, Trebartha among the rest which is in the 

 possession of the family to this day. 



S. Jennings-G. 



P. S. — I inclose my card, in order that Percu- 

 Kiosus (who evidently knows something of the 

 family) may communicate personally or by letter. 

 I think that I might possibly be able to give him 

 some information in return for his kindness. 



The Furze or Go7-se in Scandinavia (Vol. vi., 

 pp. 127. 377.). — Henfrey, in his Vegetation of 

 Europe, states that the furze {Ulex Eiiropa;us) 

 occurs, but not abundantly, in the south-western 

 parts of the Scandinavian peninsula. It is well 

 known that in Central Germany it is a greenhouse 

 P^'i'^t. Sei-eucus. 



Mistletoe (Vol. ii., p. 418. ; Vol. iii., pp. 192. 226. 

 396. 462.). — There is in the parish of Staveley, 

 Derbyshire, a solitary mansion called the Hagij, 

 erected by Sir Peter Frescheville, in what was°at 

 that time a park of considerable extent, for a 



hunting lodge, when age and infirmity prevented 

 him from otherwise enjoying the ])loasures of the 

 chase. In one of Colepeper's MSS. at the British 

 Museum, there is the following curious notice of 

 this house : 



" This is the Parke House which Sir Peter Fres- 

 clieville, in his will, 16th March,- 1632, calls my new 

 I>od<jce in Staveley Parke. Heare my Lord Fresche- 

 ville did live, and heare growes the famnvs mislleto 

 tree., the only ouhe in England that bears mistleto, which 

 florished at my deare Wife's birth, who was born 

 heare." 



I presume it is the same which is referred to in 

 the fbllowino; letter addressed by the Countess of 

 Danby to Mrs. Colepeper ; it is without date, but 

 was written between 1663 and 1682 : 



" Dear Cosen. — Pray if you have any of the misclto 

 of yo"' father's oke, ohlidge me so far as to send sum of 

 it to 



Yo' most affectionat servant, Bkidget Danbv."' 



The oak tree still e.xists, and in 1803 it con- 

 tained mistletoe, but there is none to be seen now. 

 About a quarter of a mile from this locality I ob- 

 served the mistletoe in a large crab-tree, and I 

 recently found it in a venerable yew of many cen- 

 turies' growth near Sheffield. W. S. (Sheffield.) 



Inscription on a Dagger (VoX.Vvi., p. 40.). — 

 These lines ibnn a Dutch proverb, and, if thus 

 written, rhyme : 



" Die een peninck wint ende behovt 

 Die macht verteren als hi wort owt. 

 Had ick dat hedocht in miri ionge dafjen 

 Dorst ick het in min ovthcit niel beklagen. " 



Which being interpreted inform us that. He who 

 gains a penny, and saves it, may live on it wherj 

 he becomes old. Had I minded this in my youth- 

 ful days, I should not have to complain in my old 

 age. J. S- 



Norwich. 



Steevens (Vol. ii., p. 476. ; Vol. iii., p. 230. ; 

 Vol. vi., pp. 412. 531.). — Steevens's will contains 

 no mention of any portrait of himself, nor any 

 other except his picture of " Mr. Garrick and 

 Mrs. Cibber, in the characters of Jaftier and Bel- 

 videra, painted by Zottanij," which he bequeatlts 

 to George Keate, Esq. He gives to Miss Char-^ 

 lotte Collins of Graff'hnm, near Midhurst, daughter 

 of the late Christopher and I\Iargaret Collins of 

 Midhurst, 500/. To his cousin Mary Collinson 

 (late Mary Steevens), wife of William Collinson 

 of Narrow Street, RatclifTe Cross, Middlesex, 

 300Z. for a ring (so in my copy). The residue of 

 his property he gives to his dearest cousin Eliza- 

 beth Steevens of Poplar, spinster, and appoints 

 her sole executrix of his will. A copy of the will 

 can be met with in the nintii volume of the 

 Monthly Mirror for 1800. W. S. (Sheffiekl.) 



