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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 1^5. 



" N. & Q." inform me what Mr. Nash this was, 

 and Avhat became of him ? Was he related to the 

 Caslles and Abbeys Nash ? John Gaeland. 



Dorchester. 



Woodwork of St. Andrew's Priory Church, 

 Barnwell. — The Cambridge Architectural Society, 

 ivhich is now attempting the restoration of St. 

 Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell, v/ill feel 

 deeply indebted to any of your readers who can 

 give them any information respecting the carved 

 woodwork removed from that church some forty 

 years ago, to make way for the present hideous 

 arrangement of pews and pulpit. A man who 

 lives on the spot speaks of a fine wood screen, and 

 liighly decorated pulpit, some portions of which 

 were sold by auction ; and the rest was in his pos- 

 session for some time, and portions of it were 

 given away by him to all who applied for it. 



The Treasurer. 



Trin. Coll. Camb. 



*' The Mitre and the Crown."' — I find the following 

 work, at first published anonymously, reprinted as 

 Dr. Atterbury's in Sir Walter Scott's edition of 

 the Somers" Tracts. No reason is assigned by the 

 editor for ascribing it to him, and I should be glad 

 to know whether there is any satisfactory evidence 

 for doing so. The original tract appears as anony- 

 mous in the Bodleian Catalogue : 



" The Mitre and the Crown, or a real Distinction 

 between them : in a Letter to a Reverend Member 

 of the Convocation: Lond. 1711, 8vo." 



Dublin. 



Military 3fusic. — Was military music ever 

 played at night in the time of King Charles I. ? 



MiLlTARIS. 

 Belfast. 



Steven Church. — Can you give me any inform- 

 ation concerning the original church of Stoven, 

 Suffolk, which was of good Norman work through- 

 out, as lately ascertained by the vast number of 

 Norman mouldings found in the walls in restoring 

 it ? L. (2) 



[In Jermyn's "Suffolk Collections," vol. vi. (Add. 

 MSS. 8173.), in the British Museum, are the following 

 Notes of this church, taken 1st June, 1808, by H. I. 

 and D. E. D. : "The Church consists of a nave and 

 chancel, both under one roof, which is covered with 

 thatch. The cliancel is 30 ft. 3 in. long, and 1 5 ft. 5 m. 

 ■wide. 'Jhe communion-table is neither raised nor in- 

 closed. The floor of the whole church is also of the 

 same height. The nave is 30 ft. long, and 16 ft. 1 in. 

 wide. Between the chancel and nave are the remains 

 of a screen, and over it the arms of George II., between 

 two tables containing the Lord's Prayer, &c. In the 



N. E. angle is the pulpit, which is of oak, hexagon, 

 ordinary, as are also the pews and seats. At the W.. 

 end stands the font, which is octagon, the faces con- 

 taining roses and lions, and two figures holding blank 

 escutcheons, the pedestal supported by four lions. The 

 steeple is in tlie usual place, small, square, of flints, 

 but little liigher than the roof. In it is only one bell, 

 inscribed 17.59. The entrance into the church on the 

 N. side is through a circular Saxon arcli, not much 

 ornamented. On the side is another of the same de- 

 scription, but more ornamented, with zig-zag moulding, 

 &c." Then follow the inscriptions, &c. in the chancel, 

 of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, John Brown, Thomas Brown ; 

 in the nave, of Henry Kcable, with extracts from the 

 parish register commencing in 1653.] 



The Statute of Kilkenny. — Said to have been 

 passed in 1364. What was the nature of it? 



Abkedonensis. 



[This statute legally abolished the ancient code «f 

 the Irish, called the Brehon laws, and was passed in a 

 parliament held at Kilkenny in the 40th Edward III., 

 under the government of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By tliis act, the English 

 are commanded in all controversies to govern them- 

 selves by the common laws of England, so that wlio- 

 ever submitted himself to the Brehon law, or the law 

 of the Marches, is declared a traitor. Among other 

 things the statute enacted that " the alliaunce of tlve 

 English by marriage with any Irish, the nurture of 

 infantes, and gossipred with the Irish, be deemed high 

 treason." And again, " If anie man of English race 

 use an Irish name, Irish apparell, or any otlier guize 

 or fashion of the Irish, his lands shall be seized, and 

 his bodie imprisoned, till he shall conform to English 

 modes and customs." This statute was followed by the 

 ISth Henry VI. c. i. ii. iii., and the 28th Hen. VT.> 

 c. i., with similar prohibitions and penalties. These- 

 prohibitions, however, had little effect ; nor were the 

 Englisli laws universally submitted to throughout Ire- 

 land until the time of James I., when the final extir- 

 pation of the ancient Brehon law was efTected.] 



Kenne of Kenne. — Can any of your Kcntisb 

 correspondents inform me to whom a certain 

 Christ. Kenne of Kenne, in co. Somerset, sold the 

 manor of " Oakley," in the parish of Higham, near 

 llochester ; and in whose possession it was about, 

 the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth or comt- 

 mencement of James I. ? 



The above Kenne, by marrying Elizabetli, the 

 daughter of Sir Roger Cholmeley, and widow of 

 Sir Leonard Beckwith, of Selby, in co. York, 

 acquired possession of the same manor in co, 

 Kent. 



After the death of his first wife, he married a 

 Florence Stalling, who survived him. He died in 

 1592. F. T. 



[« Christopher Kenne of Kenne, In the county of 

 Somerset, Esq., was possessed of the manor of Little 

 Okeley, in Higham, Kent, in the right of his wife, the 

 daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Cholmeley, anna 



