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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 189. 



that temporising monarch. Perhaps it was a well- 

 known Spanish proverb. Chevebells. 



Lowhell (Vol. vii., p. 181.). — The inclosed was 

 taken from the Northampton Herald of the 16 th 

 April, 1853 : 



" On Monday last this village was thrown into a 

 state of great excitement by the tidings that a married 

 labourer, named Samuel Peckover, had taken poison, 

 with the intent of destroying himself. This was found 

 to be the case. He had swallowed a dose of mercury, 

 such as is commonly used for sheep, and, but for the 

 timely arrival of Mr. Jones, surgeon, from Brackley, 

 who administered him a powerful antidote, he would 

 have expired within a short time. The circumstance 

 which led the misguided man to attempt this rash act 

 was as follows : — Although a married man, and wedded 

 to a very respectable woman, he had seduced a young 

 female of the village, named Adelaide Hirons, who was 

 delivered of a female child on Saturday last. This 

 disgraceful affair, of course, had become known to the 

 neighbours, who expressed great indignation at his 

 most disreputable conduct, and they in consequence 

 determined to put him to open shame by ' lowbelling ' 

 him in front of his cottage in the evening, wlien all the 

 old pots and kettles in the village were put in requi- 

 sition, and a continual discord was kept up for two or 

 three hours, by way of administering him a wholesome 

 punishment for his breaking the marriage vows. It is 

 supposed that the fear of this impending disgrace, and 

 also remorse for his crime, were the cause of his thus 

 attempting to make away with himself, and to rush 

 unprepared and unpardoned into the presence of his 

 Maker 1 " 



F. James. 



Overseers of Wills (Vol. vii., p. 500.). — J. K. 

 will find what he seeks about, overseers and super- 

 visors of wills, in Burn's Ecclesiastical Law. 



F. O. Martin. 



Detached Belfry Towers (Vol, vii., pp. 333. 416. 

 465.). — I have also to inform you that the tower of 

 Terrington St. Clement's Church, about five miles 

 from Kinsr's Lynn, is detached from the church. 



J. N. C. 



King's Lynn. 



To the list of churches having detached towers 

 may be added the church of Chittlehampton, near 

 South Molton, Devon. It is several years since I 

 last visited the spot, but I have a distinct recollec- 

 tion of the fact. J. Sansom. 



Amongst your list of towers separate from the 

 church, I think you have not mentioned West- 

 bury on Severn, near Gloucester. H. H. Gibbs. 



Add to your list of Detached Church Towers, 

 the magnificent Norman tower at Bury St. Ed- 

 munds in Suffolk. J. B. 



Vincent Family (Vol. vii., p. 501.). — The repre- 

 sentative of Augustine Vincent is Thomas Went- 



worth Edmunds of Worsbro', W. Barnsley, in the 

 county of York, the son of the late Wm. Bennet 

 Martin of the same place, Esq., who has assumed 

 the name of his great-uncle, Francis Offley Ed- 

 munds. There is a memoir of Augustine Vincent, 

 by Mr. Hunter, published, I believe, by Pickering, 

 Piccadilly, which shows the descent, and may per- 

 haps throw light on Francis Vincent. The name, 

 I believe, is still common at Finedon in Northamp- 

 tonshire. F. O. Maetin* 

 Stoudon Place, Brentwood. 



Pronunciation of " Cohe''' (Vol. vi., p. 16.). — 

 In a list of books " printed and sold by Richard 

 Chiswell," at the end of a copy of Cave's Lives of 

 the Fathers, 1683, in my possession, the following 

 occurs among the folios : " Lord Cook's Reports 

 in English." This is exactly fiftv years after his 

 death. " H. C. K. 



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