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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 204. 



position of the tombs. The interior view may be 

 seen among Craven Ord's drawings in the library 

 of the British Museum ; and I am happy to say 

 I possess Johnson's original sketches of all the 

 monuments, and of the exterior of the building. 

 A fair idea of the extent of the destruction m.ay 

 1)6 gained by the mention of the fact, that six 

 hundred-weight of alabaster effigies were beaten 

 into powder, and sold to line water-cisterns. Some 

 of the figures were rescued by the late Dr. W. 

 Clubbe, and erected into a pyramid in his garden 

 at Brandeston Vicarage, with this inscription : 



" Fuimus. Indignant Reader, these monumental re- 

 mains are not (as thou mayest suppose) the ruins of 

 Time, but were destroyed in an irruption of the Goths 

 so late in the Christian era as the year 1789. Credite 

 posteri." 



John "Woddehspoon. 



Norwich. 



William ITaunton, son and heir of Thomas 

 Naunton (temp. Hen. VII.), and Margery, daugh- 

 ter and heiress of Richard Busiarde, married Eli- 

 zabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Wingfield. Their 

 only child, Henry Naunton, was the father of two 

 sons, viz. Robert the secretary (temp. James I.), 

 whose son died unmarried, and daughter, married 

 to Paul Viscount Bayning, died without issue ; and 

 William Naunton (fil. 2'). His son and heir, who 

 married a Coke, had one daughter, Theophila, 

 married to William Leman (ancestor of the family 

 whose great estates are in search of an owner) : 

 their only issue, Theophila, married Thomas Rede, 

 who thereby became possessed of Letheringham 

 in Suffolk, and the whole of the Naunton pro- 

 perty. His estates went to his son Robert, who, 

 dying without issue in 1822, left them much di- 

 minished to his nephew, the Rev. Robert Rede 

 Cooper, second son of the Rev. Samuel Lovick 

 Cooper and Sarah Leman, youngest daughter, and 

 eventually heiress, of the above Thomas Rede. 

 The Rev. Robert Rede Rede (for he assumed that 

 name) died a few years ago possessed of Ashmans 

 Park, Suff., which was independent of the Naun- 

 ton property, and of certain heir-looms, the sole 

 remains of the great estates of the " Nauntons of 

 Letheringham," which continue in the possession 

 of the descendants of that family. It is at Ash- 

 mans that the portrait inquired for by your corre- 

 spondent Q. will probably be found. Whether 

 that estate has already been sold by the daughters 

 of the late possessor (four co-heiresses) I am un- 

 able to say. H. C. K. 



BARNACLES. 



(Vol. viii., p. 223.) 



In reference to the article on the barnacle bird 

 in " N. & Q." as above, I send you a paper which 

 I lately put in our local journal (The Tralee 



Chronicle'), containing a collection of notices of 

 the curious errors and gradual correction of them, 

 on the subject of the barnacle. 1 fear it may be 

 long for your columns, but don't know how to 

 shorten i t ; nor can I well omit another amusing 

 notice of the subject, to Avhich, since I published 

 it, an intelligent friend called my attention ; it is 

 from the Memoirs of Lady Fanshaw : — 



" When we came to Calais, we met the Earl of 

 Strafford and Sir Kenelm Dlgby, with some others of 

 our countrymen ; we were all feasted at the Governor's 

 of the castle, and much excellent discourse passed ; 

 but, as was reason, most share was Sir Kenelm Digby's, 

 who had enlarged somewhat more in extraordinary 

 stories than might be averred, and all of them passed 

 with great applause and wonder of tlie Frencli then at 

 table ; but the concluding one was — that barnacles, a 

 bird in Jersey, was first a shell-fish to appearance, and 

 from that sticking upon old wood, became in time a 

 bird. After some consideration, they unanimously burst 

 out into laughter, believing it altogether false, and, to 

 say the truth, it was the only thing true be bad dis- 

 coursed with them! — that was his infirmity, tho' 

 otherwise a person of most excellent parts, and a very 

 free bred gentleman." — Lady Fanshaw's Memoirs, 

 pp. 72-3. 



A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



As a tail-piece to the curious information 

 communicated respecting these strange creatures 

 in Vol. i., pp. 117. 169. 2.54. 340., Vol. viii., 

 pp. 124. 223., may be added an advertisement, ex- 

 tracted from the monthly compendium annexed 

 to La Belle Assemblee, or Bell's Court and Fa- 

 shionable Magazine, for June, 1807, in the follow- 

 ing terms : 



" Wonderful natural curiosity, called the Goose Tree, 

 Barnacle Tree, or Tree bearing Geese, taken up at sea, 

 on the 12th of January, 1807, by Captain Bytheway, 

 and was more than twenty men could raise out of the 

 water, which may be seen at the Exhibition Rooms, 

 Spring Gardens, from ten o'clock in the morning till 

 ten at night, every day. Admission, one shilling ; 

 children half-price. 



" The Barnacles which form tlie present Exhibition, 

 possess a neck upwards of two feet in length, resem- 

 bling the windpipe of a chicken; each shell contains 

 five pieces, and notwithstanding the many thousands 

 which hang to eight inches of the tree, part of the fowl 

 may be seen from each shell. Sir Robert Moxay, in 

 the Wonders of Nature and Art, speaking of this sin- 

 gularly curious production, says, in every shell he 

 opened he found a perfect sea-fowl, with a bill like 

 that of a goose, feet like those of water-fowl, and the 

 feathers all plainly formed. 



" The above wonderful and almost indescribable 

 curiosit}', is the only exhibition of the kind in the 

 world." 



