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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 179. 



which I have access, I believe that the cross stood 

 on the opposite side, between the pump and the 

 house of Dr. Burchell. Most likely its remains 

 were demolished .when the two redoubts were 

 erected at the London ends of Kingsland and 

 Hackney Roads, to fortify the entrance to the 

 City, in the year 1642. 



The best accounts that I have seen of the painted 

 window are in Dr. Denne's Register of Benefac- 

 tions to the parish, compiled in 1745, and printed 

 in 1778; and Dr. Hughson's History of London, 

 vol. iv. pp. 436, 437. Hbnrt Edwards. 



Race for Canterbury (Vol. vii., pp. 219. 268.). — 

 It is probable that the lines 



" The man whose place they thought to take, 

 Is still alive, and still a Wake," 



are erroneously written on the print referred to ; 

 but I have no doubt of having seen a print of 

 which (with the variation of " ye think " for " they 

 thought ") is the genuine engraved motto. B. C. 



Lady High Sheriff (Vol. vii., p. 236.). — 

 There is a passage in Warton's History of English 

 Poetry (vol. i. p. 194., Tegg's edition) which will 

 in part answer the Query of your correspondent 

 W. M. It is in the form of a note, appended to 

 the following lines from the metrical romance of 

 Iponiydon : 



" They come to the castelle yate 

 The porter was redy there at, 

 The porter to theyme they gan calle, 

 And prayd hym go in to the halle, 

 And say thy lady gent and fre, 

 That comen ar men of ferre contre, 

 And if it plese hyr, we wolle hyr pray, 

 That we myght ete with hyr to-day." 



On this passage Warton remarks : 



" She was lady, by inheritance, of the signory. The 

 female feudatories exercised all the duties and honours 

 of their feudal jurisdiction in person. In Spenser, 

 where we read of the Lady of the Castle, we are to un- 

 derstand such a character. See a story of a Comtesse, 

 who entertains a knight in her castle with much gal- 

 lantry. (^Mem. sur VAnc. Chev., ii. 69.) It is well known 

 that anciently in England ladies were sheriffs of 

 counties." 



To this note of Warton's, Park adds another, 

 which I also give as being more conclusive on the 

 subject. It is as follows : 



" [Margaret, Countess of Richmond, was a justice of 

 peace. Sir W. Dugdale tells us that Ela, %vidow of 

 William, Earl of Salisbury, executed the sheriff's 

 office for the county of Wilts, in different parts of the 

 reign of Henry III. (See Baronage, vol. i. p. 177.) 

 From Fuller's Worthies we find that Elizabeth, widow 

 of Thomas Lord Clifford, was sheriffess of Westmore- 

 land for many years; and from Pennant's Scottish Tour 

 we learn that for the same county Anne, the celebrated 

 Countess of - Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, 



often sat in person as sheriffess. Yet Ritson doubted 

 of facts to substantiate Mr. Warton's assertion. See 

 his Obs. p. 10., and reply in the Gent. Mag. 1782, 

 p. .573. — Pakk."] 



T. C. S. 



T can answer part of W. M.'s Query, by a re- 

 ference to a personage who could not have been 

 very far from being the first instance of the kind 

 (Query, was she ?). 



"About this time (1202) Gerard de Camville, his 

 old and faithful adherent, was restored by John to the 

 possession of the honours of which he had been de- 

 prived by King Richard ; and it is a remarkable cir- 

 cumstance that, on the death of the said Gerard, in 

 the eighteenth year of the king's reign, his widow, 

 Nichola Camville (who is described by an ancient his- 

 torian as being ' a martial woman of great courage and 

 address ') had the sheriffalty of the county of Lincoln 

 committed^ to her; which honourable and important 

 trust was continued to her by a grant of Henry III.," 

 &c. 



The above quotation is taken from Bailey's 

 Annals of Nottinghamshire, now publishing in 

 Numbers (Part III. p. 107.). Should I be wrong 

 in asking correspondents to contribute towards a 

 list of ladies holding the above honorable post ? 



FURVUS. 



St. James's. 



Burial of an unclaimed Corpse (Vol. vii., 

 p. 262.). — E. G. R.'s question is easily answered. 

 The parish of Keswick proved that some years 

 before they had buried a body found on a piece 

 of land. This was evidence of reputation that at 

 the time of the burial the land was in Keswick, 

 otherwise the parishioners would not have taken 

 on themselves this work of uncalled-for benevo- 

 lence. The fact of their having incurred an ex- 

 pense, which, unless the land was in their parish, 

 would have been the burden of Markshall, satisfied 

 the commissioner that the land must have be- 

 longed to Keswick. I have no doubt this was the 

 reason, though I never heard of the question in 

 connexion with Keswick and Markshall. Bat- 

 tersea Rise, I heard when a boy, had formerly 

 belonged to Clapham, and been given to Battersea 

 for the same reason as E. G. R. states to have been 

 the cause of Markshall losing its territory to 

 Keswick. J. H. L. 



Surname of Allan (Vol. vii., p. 205.). — I think 

 A. S. A. will find that this name was introduced 

 into Britain from Normandy. It occurs in early 

 Norman times as a personal name, and afterwards 

 as a patronymic. Thus Alan, the son of Flathald, 

 who had the castle of Oswestry granted him by 

 the Conqueror, had a son, William Fitz-Alan, 

 ancestor of the great baronial house of Arundel. 

 In the Hundred Rolls, temp. Edward I., it is very 

 common under the orthographies oi fil. Alan, fl. 



