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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 220. 



of being waited on by a Carib, wbo had " no beard 

 except a long moustache." Professor Spalding, 

 of St. Andrew's, in his History of English Litera- 

 ture, says that the sonnets of Wordsworth " have 

 a perfection hardly to be surpassed." And J. 

 Stanyan Bigg (the "new poet"), in the December 

 number of Hogg's Instructor, exclaims : 



*' The winter storms come rushing round the wall, 

 Like him who at Jerusalem shriek'd out ' Wo !'" 



CUTIIBERT BEDE, B.A. 



Assuming Names. — Last Term, in the Court of 

 Exchequer, application was made by counsel to 

 add a surname to the name of an attorney on the 

 roll ; he having been left property with a wish 

 expressed that he should take the surname in 

 addition to his own, which he had done, but not 

 by royal license. The court granted the applica- 

 tion. (Law I'imes, vol. xxii. p. 123.) Anon. 



False Dates in Water-marks of Papers. — Lately, 

 in cutting up some paper for photographic pur- 

 poses, I found in one and the same quire two 

 sheets without any mark, two of the date 1851, 

 nine bearing the date 1853, and the remaining 

 eleven were 1854. I can imagine a case might 

 occur in which the authenticity of a document 

 might be much questioned were it dated 1853, 

 when the paper would be presumed not to have 

 been made until a year afterwards. I think this 

 is worth making a note of not only by lawyers, 

 but those interested in historical documents. 



H. W. D. 



Jan. 2, 1854. 



Qucrfaf. 



CAPTAIN EARRE. 



I send you a Note and a Query respecting the 

 same person. Many years since, I passed a few 

 days in one of the wildest spots in the south of 

 England — Ilawkley, in the neighbourhood of Sel- 

 bourne. On a visit to the church of Emshott or 

 Empshot, I heard that the screen had been pre- 

 sented by a Captain Farre, whose memory was in 

 some way connected with the days of the republic ; 

 and on farther inquiry tradition, it appeared, had 

 come to the conclusion that Farre had been one 

 of the regicides who had retired into the neigh- 

 bourhood, and lived and died there in a sort of 

 concealment. I found out, also, the house in which 

 he had lived : a pretty modest cottage, in which 

 a small farmer resided. I was struck, on ap- 

 proaching it, by the beauty of the brick-work of 

 the little porch, which appeared to have been an 

 addition to the original building. On entering 

 the cottage, I found that the kitchen and bed-room 

 only were occupied by the family ; the one room, 

 which had been the sitting-room, being used as a 



granary. The ceiling of this room was ponderous, 

 with a deep rich sunken panelling. The little- 

 porch-entrance and the ceiling of this room were 

 so out of character with the cottage, and indeed 

 with all around, that I caused search to be made 

 in the Registers of the parish to see if I could 

 find some trace of this Captain Farre ; and I now 

 gend you the result. There was no regicide of 

 that name ; but Col. Phaer was one of those to 

 whom the warrant for the execution of Charles 

 was addressed : and he certainly was not one of 

 the twenty-nine subsequently tried for the high 

 treason as it was called. What became of him I 

 know not. Whether he reappeared here as Capt. 

 Farre, or who Capt. Farre was, I shall leave to 

 the speculation of the better informed. There 

 were many Farrs and Phaers out in the great 

 Revolution, and the name is sometimes spelt one 

 way, sometimes the other. Empshot, under Nore 

 Hill or Noah Hill, was certainly an excellent place 

 for concealment. The neighbourhood was, and is, 

 as White said, " famous for its oaks, and infamous 

 for its roads." 



Extracts from the Parish Registers. 

 " Captaine Farre of Nore, when our church was 

 repaired, gave the new silke cushion and pullpit cloath r 

 which was first used on Christmas Day, Anno Domini 

 1664.'* 



" 1683, Feb. 5. Anne Baker, kinswoman of Capt. 

 Farre, was buried, and that very day the moone was 

 new, and the snow thawed ; and the frost broke, which 

 had lasted from Nov. 26, 1683, to that day, which is 

 10 weeks. The ponds were frozen 2 feet, and that little 

 water which was, was not sweet ; the very grave wherein 

 she was buried in the church was froze almost 2 feet 

 over, and our cattel were in a bad case, and we fared 

 worse : and, just in our extremity, God had pitty on 

 us, and sent a gracious raine and thaw. She was 

 buried in linnen ; and paid 50s. to the poore, and 6s. 8d. 

 for being buried in the church." 



" 1685, April 1. Mrs. Farre was buried in linnen, 

 and p d 50*. to the poore." 



"1694. John, son of Mr. John Palmer and Eliza- 

 beth his wife, was born Tuesday, May the 1st, and 

 baptized at home May the 11th; y° Captaine died 

 Thursday last, y" day before." 



" An Account of the Briefe for the Relief of the French 

 Protestants, read May 16th, at Newton, 1686. 



At Noare in Newton. 



Capt. Mr. Robert Farre gave 1 lib. for himself, and 

 his kinswoman Mrs. Elizabeth Farre. 



His man Roger 

 His maid Anna 



1*. 



6d." 



" Gathered towards the relief of the French Pro- 

 testants, May 11, 1688 : 



Captain Far and Mrs. Elizabeth Far, 5s." 



C. F. 



