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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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relates ? He had been trying to pass himself ofF 

 as a native, but — 



" The third day, in the morning, I, prying up and 

 down alone, met a Tiirke, who, in Italian, told me — 

 Ah ! are you an Englishman, and with a kind of 

 malicious posture laying his forefinger under his eye, 

 methought he had the lookes of a designe." — Voyage in 

 the Levant, performed by Mr, Henry Blunt, p. 60. : Lond. 

 1650. 



— a silent, but expressive, "posture," tending to 

 eradicate any previously formed opinion of the 

 verdantness of Mussulmans ! E.. C. Wardb. 



Kidderminster. 



Epitaph at Cray ford. — I send the following 

 lines, if you think them worthy an insertion in 

 your Epitaphiana : a friend saw them in the church- 

 yard of Crayford, Kent. 



" To the Memory of Peter Izod, who was thirty- 

 five years clerk of this parish, and always proved him- 

 self a pious and mirthful man. 



" The life of this clerk was just three score and ten, 

 During half of which time he had sung out Amen. 

 He married when young, like other young men ; 

 His wife died one day, so he chaunted Amen. 

 A second he took, slie departed, — what then ? 

 Pie married, and buried a third with Amen. 

 Thus his joys and his sorrows were treble, but then 

 His voice was deep bass, as lie chaunted Amen. 

 On the horn he could blow as well as most men. 

 But his horn was exalted in blowing Amen. 

 He lost all his wind after threescore and ten, 

 And here with three wives he waits till again 

 The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen." 



Tradition reports these verses to have been com- 

 posed by some curate of the parish. Qu^stok. 



The Font at Islip. — 



" In the garden is placed a relic of some interest — 

 the font in which it is said King Edward the Con- 

 fessor was baptized at Islip. The block of stone in 

 which the basin of immersion is excavated, is unusually 

 massy. It is of an octangular shape, and the outside 

 is adorned by tracery work. The interior diameter of 

 the basin is thirty inches, and the depth twenty. The 

 whole, witli the pedestal, which is of a piece with the 

 rest, is five feet high, and bears the following imperfect 

 inscription : 



' This sacred Font Saint Edward first receavd, 



From Womb to Grace, from Grace to Glory went, 

 His virtuous life. To thisfayi-e Isle beqveth'd, 



Prase .... and to vs but lent. 

 Let this remaine, the Trophies of his Fame, 

 A King baptizd from hence a Saint became.' 

 " Then is inscribed : 

 ♦ This Fonte came from the King's CbapeU in Islip.' " 

 Extracted from the Beauties of England and 

 Wales, title " Oxfordshire," p. 454. 



In the gardens at Kiddington there — 

 " was an old font wherein it is said Edward the Con- 



fessor was baptized, being brought thither from an old 

 decayed chapel at Islip (the birth-place of that religious 

 prince), where it had been put up to an indecent use, 

 as well as the chapel." — Extracted from The English 

 Baronets, being a Historical and Genealogical Account of 

 their Families, published 1727. 



The Viscounts Montague, and consequently the 

 Brownes of Kiddington, traced their descent from 

 this king through Joan de Beaufort, daughter of 

 John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. C. B. 



" As good as a Play" — I note this very or- 

 dinary phrase as having royal origin or, at least, 

 authority. It was a remark of King Charles II., 

 when he revived a practice of his predecessors, 

 and attended the sittings of the House of Lords. 



The particular occasion was the debate, then 

 interesting to him, on Lord Roos' Divorce Bill. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



^itert'r^. 



LOVETT OF ASTWELIi. 



It is stated in all the pedigrees of this family which 

 I have seen, that Thomas Lovett, Esq., of AstweU 

 in Northamptonshire, who died in 1542, married 

 for his first wife Elizabeth, daughter (Burke calls 

 her " heir," Extinct Baronetage, p. 11 0.) of John Bo- 

 teler, Esq., of Woodhall Watton, in Hertfordshire. 

 The pedigree of the Botelers in Clutterbuck's 

 Hertfordshire (vol. il. p. 476.) does not notice this 

 marriage, nor is there any distinct allusion to it in 

 the wills of either family. Thomas Lovett's will, 

 dated 20th November, 1542, and proved on the 

 following 19th January, does not contain the 

 name of Boteler. (Testamenta Vetusta, vol. ii. 

 p. 697.) His father Thomas Lovett, indeed, in 

 his will dated 29th October, 7 Henry VII., and 

 proved 28th January, 1492 (^Test. Vetust., vol. ii. 

 p. 410.), bequeaths to Isabel Lovett and Margaret, 

 his daughters, "CZ. which John Boteler oweth 

 me," but he refers to no relationship between the 

 families. Again, "John Butteler, Esquier," by 

 his will, dated 7th September, 1513, and proved 

 at Lambeth 1 1th July, 1515, appoints "his most 

 gracious Maister, Maister Thomas Louett," to be 

 supervisor of his will, and bequeaths to him "a 

 Sauterbook as a poore remembraunce ; " but he 

 alludes to no marriage, nor does he mention a 

 daughter Elizabeth. This John Boteler is said 

 by Clutterbuck to have married three wives : 

 1. Katherine, daughter of Thomas Acton ; 2. Mar- 

 garet, daughter of Henry Belknap, who died 

 18th August, 1513 ; 3. Dorothy, daughter of 

 William Tyrrell, Esq., of Gipping in Suffolk : the 

 last-mentioned was the mother of his heir. Sir 

 Philip Boteler, Kt. ; but I can nowhere find who 

 was the mother of the son Richard, and the 

 daughters Mary and Joyce mentioned in his will. 



