June 18. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



607. 



place, 1530, 8vo., 8 leaves. Printed in Italics, and 

 probably at Cologne or in Holland." He enu- 

 merates several other editions, the last of which is 

 that of Walch, 1786. B. H. C. 



Oaken Tombs and Effigies (Vol. vii., p. 528.)- — 

 These are rare. Three of the latter exist at Little 

 Horkesley, Essex. Two are figures of cross-legged 

 knights in chain armour and surcoats : one is a 

 female figure wimpled. They are supposed by 

 Suckling to represent members of the Horkesley 

 family, who held that manor from 1210 to 1322. 



Another instance is the effigy of a cross-legged 

 knight in chain mail at Danbury in the same 

 county. An account of these will be found in 

 vol. iii. of Weale's Architechiral Papers. 



At Ashwell, Rutland, is an effigy in wood of a 

 cross-legged knight, also in chain mail, if I re- 

 member rightly. It is not quite evident, from 

 the description in Weale's book, whether there are 

 three effigies at Danbury or only one. Of the 

 same material is the figure of Isabella of Angou- 

 leme at Fontevrault. A catalogue of these wooden 

 effigies would be interesting. Cheverells. 



Bowyer Bible (Vol. y'n., passini). — Relative to 

 the history and various possessors of this curious 

 Bible, I find the following notice in The Times, 

 Oct. 14, 1840 : 



" There is at present, in the possession of Mrs. Par- 

 ker of Golden Square, a copy of Macklin's Bible in 

 forty-five large volumes, illustrated with nearly 7000 

 engravings from the age of Michael Angelo to that 

 of Reynolds and West. The work also contains about 

 200 original drawings or vignettes by Loutherbourg. 



" The prints and etchings include the works of Raf- 

 faelle, Marc Antonio, Albert Durer, Callot, Rembrandt, 

 and other masters, consisting of representations of nearly 

 every fact, circumstance, and object mentioned in the 

 Holy Scriptures. There are, moreover, designs of trees, 

 plants, flowers, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects; 

 such as, besides fossils, have been adduced in proof of 

 the universal Deluge. The most authentic Scripture 

 atlasses are bound up with the volumes. The Bible 

 was the property of the late Mr. Bowyer the publisher, 

 who collected and arranged the engravings, etchings, 

 and drawings at great expense and labour ; and he is 

 said to have been engaged for upwards of thirty years 

 in rendering it perfect. It was insured at the Albion 

 Insurance Office for 3000/." 



In the British Museum are several large works, 

 particularly British topography, illustrated in a 

 similar manner, and which thus contain materials 

 of the rarest and most valuable description. Of 

 these I would only at present mention Salmon's 

 Hertfordshire illustrated by Baskerville, and Ly- 

 sons's Environs, in the King's Library. A long list 

 of such valuable works might be furnished from 

 the Museum catalogues. 



One of the most laborious collectors of curious 

 prints of every kind was John Bagford, whose 



voluminous collections are amongst the Harleian 

 MSS. in many folio volumes, in which will be 

 found illustrations of topography to be met with 

 nowhere else. E. G. Ballabd. 



Longevity (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 504.). — Our friend 

 A. J. is certainly not one of the "remnant of true 

 believers." By way of aiding in the crusade ta 

 convert him to the faith, I hereunder quote a 

 couple of instances, " within the age of registers,'* 

 which I trust will in some degree satisfy his pagan 

 incredulity. The parish registers of the township 

 of Church Minshull, in Cheshire, begin in 1561» 

 and in the portion for the year 1649 appears the 

 following : 



" Thomas Damme, of Leighton, buried the 26th of 

 February, being of the age of seven 'score and fourteen."' 



This entry was made under the "Puritan dis- 

 pensation," when the parish scribe was at any rate 

 supposed to be an " oracle of truth." Here, how- 

 ever, is another instance, culled from the Register 

 of Burials for the parish of Frodsham, also in 

 Cheshire : 



" 151|, Feb. 12. Thomas Hough, cujus aetas cxli." 

 And again, on the very next day after — 



« Feb. 13. Randle Wall, aetas 104." 



I have met with other instances, but those now 

 enumerated will probably suffice for my present 

 purpose. T. Hughes^ 



Chester. 



John Locke, baptized 17th December, 1716, in 

 the parish of Coney Weston, was buried in Larling 

 parish, county of Norfolk, 21st July, 1823. He is- 

 registered as 1 10 years of age. He and his family 

 always said that he was three years old when he 

 was baptized. I saw and conversed with him in 

 Jan. 1823. F. W. J. 



Lady Anne Gray (Vol. vii., p. 501.). — Referring^ 

 to Sir John Harington's poem, I do not find that 

 the Christian name of the Lady Gray is set down 

 at all; the words of the stanza are, — 



" First doth she give to Grey, 

 The falcon's curtesse kind." 



I find in the pedigrees, British Museum, a " Lady 

 Anne Grey " (daughter to John Lord Grey of 

 Pirgo, brother to Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk) 

 married to " Henry Denny of Waltham," father to 

 the Earl of Norwich of that name. She was his 

 first wife, and dying without issue, he married 

 again " Lady Honora Grey, daughter of Lord 

 Grey de Wilton ; " but I scarce think this Lady 

 Anne Grey could have been the maid of honour 

 to the princess. The number of Greys of different 

 stocks and branches at that period, are beyond 

 counting or distinguishing from each other, and 

 yet the fall of a queen's maid of honour should be 



