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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 230. 



Mr. B., in preference to being considered as the 

 founder of a new family, supposed himself, or 

 wished to be supposed by others, to be descended 

 from an old stock of the same name, he kindly 

 offered to supply the desired information, and was 

 ready to execute a pedigree to order. G. A. C. 

 [The Editor has been informed by a person on 

 whose accuracy he can rely, that a lady who received a 

 letter from Mr. Spence offering certain information 

 respecting his family taken from the Cotgreave pe- 

 digree, and who imprudently sent money for the same, 

 got nothing but tiie most absurd rubbish in return, 

 and having been induced to make inquiries into the 

 subject, was fully satisfied that the whole thing was a 

 fraud.] 



LICENCES TO CRENE1LATE. 



(Vol. ix., p. 220.) 



The subjoined list of names and places will 

 supply Mb. Parker with the counties of all the 

 places named in his inquiry, except two in which 

 I suspect some error. If farther references to 

 authorities are desired, they will be given with 

 pleasure in reply to a private application, but 

 would crowd your pages inconveniently. 



1. Cokefield for Melton — Cokefeud for Moulton, 

 Suffolk. 



2. Grisnak for Molun — Query this? 



3. Langeton for Newton in Makerfield — L. for 

 Newton Hall or Castle, the head of the Palatine Ba- 

 rony of Newton, in Lancashire. 



4. Esselynton for Esselynton — E. in Northumber- 

 land. 



5. Trussel for Cubleston — C. in Staffordshire. 



6. De la Beche for De la Beche — De la Beche 

 Castle, Aldworth, Berks. 



7. The same for Beaumes — Beaumys Castle, Shin- 

 field, Berks. 



8. Cobham for Pringham- — P. alias Sterborough 

 Castle, Surrey. 



9. The same for Orkesdene — O. in Kent. 



10. " Burghchier" for Stanstede — Bourchier for 

 Stansted, Essex. 



] 1. Dalham for " Credonio" — " Fortalicium in loco 

 de Crodonio." Printed Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 143. 



12. Lengleys for Heyheved — Highhead Castle, in 

 Cumberland. 



13. ^4eton for Chevelyngham — i/eton for Chilling- 

 ham, Northumberland. 



Geo. O. 

 Sedbury Park, Chepstow. 



There can, I think, be little doubt that Stans- 

 stede, in Mr. J. H. Parker's list, is Stanstead 

 Hall, near Halstead in Essex. I have never seen 

 Stanstead Hall, but about a month since I was in 

 company with the late occupant ; from whom I 

 learned, in casual conversation, that it was an 

 ancient house, with moat and fortifications. In 

 addition to this I may state, that there are monu- 



ments in the old church (St. Andrew) of Halstead 

 to some of the Bourchier family. These facts, 

 taken together, seem to fix the locality with suffi- 

 cient precision. One of the monuments just re- 

 ferred to is a brass, commemorating Sir Bartho- 

 lomew Bourchier and his two wives ; which, when 

 I copied it in 1847, was under the flooring of a 

 pew in the south aisle. He died May 8, 1409; 

 and was previously the possessor of Stanstead 

 Hall : so I learn from my own MS. Catalogue of 

 brass rubbings in my collection, but I am not able 

 to give any better reference to authenticate the 

 statement. W» Sparrow Simpson. 



Heyheved, mentioned in Mr. Parker's list, is 

 Highhead Castle in Cumberland. In the reign of 

 Edward II. it was a peel house (pelum de Hey- 

 heved) possessed by Harcla, Earl of Carlisle. In 

 modern times it became the property of a family 

 named Richmond, one of whom erected the pre- 

 sent house, after a plan by Inigo Jones. But he 

 died before it was finished, leaving co-heirs, who 

 quarrelled about the partition of the estate, and 

 actually put a hedge through the centre of the 

 house. Eventually one-half came into the hands 

 of Lord Brougham, who is understood to have 

 purchased the other, and will probably restore the 

 whole. K. 



NEWSPAPER FOLK LORE. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 221. 338. 466. ; Vol. ix., pp. 29. 84.) 



It may be instructive to collate the four stories 

 recorded in the above references, and compare them 

 with a case that was brought before Mr. Jardine at 

 Bow Street Police Court ; and which was reported 

 in The Times for February 22, 1854. Let the 

 following extract suffice : it is descriptive of the 

 operation of extracting a worm from the body of 

 one Harriet Gunton, by a female quack of the 

 name of Jane Browning : 



" I laid myself on the bed as she desired, and she 

 told Mrs. Jones to hold my mouth to prevent my 

 breathing. Mrs. Jones held me from behind, and 

 nearly suffocated me. She kept me down, while the 

 prisoner tried to get the worms out of my body with 

 her hands. This lasted for about a quarter of an hour, 

 and caused me dreadful pain. The prisoner told me 

 that one of the worms had bit her finger, and slipped 

 away again, and she could not get at it. She tried a 

 second time, and said the worm had bit her again. I 

 then begged her to leave off, if she could not succeed 

 in getting it away ; for I believed I should die under 

 the operation. She tried a third time, and said she 

 had broken two skins of it, which would prevent it 

 getting up my body ..... 



She then put her hand under the clothes. I felt some- 

 thing touch me like a cloth, and she drew away her 

 hand ; throwing something into the pan, which sounded 



