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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 287. 



1717, we learn that he was the son of Mr. Wm. Fox, of 

 Parlev, in Wiltshire, and that his mother was Elizabeth, 

 .daughter of Thomas Pavey of Wilts. The writer of these 

 Memoirs seems cautiously to suppress what is known of 

 his origin. He says, " As it is not material to enter into 

 the genealogy of the family on the side of the father, who 

 was of substance enough to breed up this his son in a 

 liberal education, thereby to impregnate and manure 

 those seeds of virtue and honesty which he had received 

 from his birth ; so it is altogether needless to ransack the 

 heralds' office for the origin and descent of his mother.] 



Gypsies in England. — When did gypsies first 

 Attract attention in England by their wander- 

 inorg p G. K. L. 



[The earliest circumstantial account we have of gypsies 

 in England occurs in The Art of Juggling or Legerdemaine, 

 by S. R. [Samuel Rid], Lond., 1612, 4to. He says, "This 

 kind of people, about a hundred years ago, beganne to ga- 

 ther a head, as the first heere, about the southerne parts. 

 And this, as I am informed, and can gather, was their 

 beginning : — Certain Egyptians banished their country 

 (belike not for their good conditions) arrived heere in 

 England, who for quaint tricks and devices, not known 

 heere at that time among us, were esteemed and had in 

 ^reat admiration, insomuch that many of our English 

 hyterers joined them, and in time learned their craftie 

 cosening. The speech which they used was the right 

 Egyptian language, with Avhom our Englishmen con- 

 Tcrsing at least learned their language. These people 

 continuing about the country, and practising their cosen- 

 ing art, purchased themselves great credit among the 

 country people, and got much by palmistry and telling of 

 fortunes, insomuch they pitifully cosened poor country 

 girls, both of money, silver spoons, and the best of their 

 apparelle, or any goods they could make." This writer 

 farther states they had a leader of the name of Giles 

 Hather, who was termed their king ; and a woman of the 

 jiame of Calot was called queen : " these, riding through 

 the country on horseback and in strange attire, had a 

 prettie traine after them." According to this writer, the 

 gypsies arrived here about 1512, or ten years before the 

 statute 22 Henry VHI. c. 10. was passed." Some interest- 

 ing notices of the gypsy race will be found in Hoyland's 

 Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and present State 

 of the Gypsies, 8vo., York, 1816; and The Zincali; or, an 

 Account of the Gypsies of Spain, by George Borrow.] 



Money-chair. — What is the meaning of money- 

 chair in the following passage in Burke's Trials 

 connected icith the Aristocracy, p. 300. ? 



In 1699 Mr. [Spencer] Cowper, a barrister, 

 says, — 



" The last circuit was in parliament time, and my bro- 

 ther (a barrister), being in the money-chair, could not 

 attend the circuit as he used to do." 



Eden Warwick. 



Birmingham. 



[Mr. William Cowper (afterwards Chancellor), brother 

 of Spencer Cowper, was at this time M.P. for Hertford, 

 and was appointed what is now called " Chairman of 

 Ways and Means." See Journals of the House of Com- 

 mons, April 12, 1699 : " The House resolved itself into a 

 committee, to consider farther of a bill for granting to 

 His Majesty [William III.] the sum of one million, four 

 hundred, eighty-four thousand and fifteen pounds, one 

 shilling and eleven pence three farthings for disbanding 

 the army, providing for the navy, and for other neces- 

 sary occasions. Mr. Cowper took the chair for the com- 

 mittee."] 



Bonner an Author of the Homilies. — Which two 

 of the Homilies were written by Bishop Bonner? 

 William Fbaser, B.C.L. 

 Alton, Staffordshire. 



[In 15.55 was published "Homelies sette forth by the 

 Righte Reuerende Father-in-God Edmunde [Bonner], 

 Byshop of London, not onh' promised before in his booke, 

 intituled 'A Necessary Doctrine,' but also now of late 

 adioyned and added therevnto, to be read within his dio- 

 cesse of London, of all persons, vycars, and curates, vnto 

 theyr parishioners, vpon Sondayes and holydayes." The 

 fifth homily in this work, signed E. B., has the significant 

 title " Of Chrysten Love and Charitie ! " which, with a 

 few verbal alterations, now forms two parts in our First 

 Book of Homilies, and is probably the one (or rather 

 two) inquired after by our correspondent.] 



St. Edburgh. — I shall feel obliged by any in- 

 formation relative to this saint, to whom Leigh 

 Church, Worcestershire, is dedicated. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



[St. Edburgh, or Edburge, was daughter to Edward 

 the Elder, King of England, obit 690. Her relics were 

 subsequently translated from Winchester to Pershore in 

 Worcestershire. Consult William of Malmesburj', lib. ii. 

 cap. xiii. ; also Britannia Sancta, June 15, and Alban 

 Butler's Lives, Dec. 21.] 



^tiilit^. 



JOHN LOCKE. 



(Vol. ix., p. 493.) 



In reply to the application of C. J., I beg to 

 furnish the following particulars, which I think 

 will be found quite correct, both as regards the 

 parentage of that "eminent man," John Locke, 

 and the connexion of the family of Kenn, Kenne, 

 Kene, or Keene, with that of the philosopher. 



John Locke, who was Sheriff" of London in 

 1461, and (with Jane his wife) was enfeoffed in 

 1499 with the mansion of Merton Place, co. Surrey, 

 was the father of Thomas Locke, of London, 

 merchant and mercer. 



This Thomas married Joan, sole daughter and 



heiress of Wilcotts, of Rotherham, co. York, 



who bore. Azure, an eagle displayed argent. 

 They had issue : 1. John, died s. p. in 1519. 2. Sir 

 William, Knt., alderman, mercer, and Sheriff, in 

 1548, of London. He married four times, and, by 

 his first and second wives, had a large family; 

 died August 24, 1550. 3. Michael Locke. 



Thomas Locke died in 1507, and was buried 

 in the Mercers' Chapel, London. 



Michael, his third son, was the father of, 1. Mat- 

 thew. 2. Christopher. 3. John. 



Christopher Locke, the second son, was of 

 Pilrow in East Brent, co. Somerset, and was there 

 buried, March 12, 1607. His issue was, six sons 

 and three daughters, viz. : Christopher, Jeremy, 

 Richard, John, Peter, Lewis; Honor, Christian, 

 Frances. 



