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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 229. 



See the original letter in the college treasury, box 1 or 

 6." (Cole's MSS., vol. xlvi. p. 207.). Among the King's 

 Pamphlets in the British Museum is " The Petition 

 and Articles exhibited in Parliament against John 

 Pocklington, D. D., Parson of Yelden, in Bedfordshire, 

 -anno 1641." The petition "humbly sheweth, That 

 -John Pocklington, D. D., Rector of the parish of 

 Yelden in the county of Bedford, Vicar of Waresley in 

 the county of Huntingdon, Prebend of Lincoln, Peter- 

 borough, and Windsor, hath been a chief author and 

 ringleader in all those innovations which have of late 

 flowed into the Church of England." The Articles 

 exhibited (too long to quote) are singularly illustrative 

 of the ecclesiastical usages in the reign of Charles I., 

 and would make a curious appendix to the Rev. H. T. 

 Ellacombe's article at p. 257. of the present Number. 

 Having rendered himself obnoxious to the popular 

 faction by the publication of his Altare Christianum and 

 Sunday no Sabbath, the parliament that met on Nov. 3, 

 1 640, ordered these two works to be btirnt by the com- 

 mon hangman in both the Universities, and in the 

 city of London. He died on November 14, and was 

 buried Nov. 16, 1642, in the churchyard of Peter- 

 borough Cathedral. On his monumental slab is the 

 following inscription: "John Pocklington, S.S. Theo- 

 logia Doctor, obiit Nov. 14, 1642." A copy of his 

 will is in the British Museum (Lansdown, 990, p. 74.). 

 It is dated Sept. 6, 1642 ; and in it bequests are made 

 to his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth, and his sons 

 John and Oliver. His wife Anne was made sole exe- 

 cutrix. He orders his body " to be buried in Monk's 

 churchyard, at the foot of those monks martyrs whose 

 •monument is well known : let there be a fair stone 

 with a great crosse cut upon it laid on my grave." For 

 notices of Dr. Pocklington, see Willis's Survey of 

 Cathedrals, vol. iii. p. 521.; Walker's Sufferings of the 

 Clergy, Part II. p. 95. ; and Fuller's Church History, 

 book xi. cent. xvii. sect. 30 — 33.] • 



Last Marquis of Annandale. — 1 . When and 

 where did he die ? 2. Any particulars regarding 

 his history ? 3. When and why was Lochwood, 

 the family residence, abandoned ? 4. How many 

 marquisses were there, and were any of them men 

 of any note in their day and generation ? 



Annandale. 



[The first marquis "was William Johnstone, third 

 Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, who was advanced 

 4th June, 1701, to the Marquisate of Annandale. He 

 died at Bath, 14th January, 1721, and was succeeded 

 by his son James, who died 21st February, 1730. 

 George, his half-brother, born 29th May, 1720, was 

 the third and last Marquis of Annandale. An inquest 

 from the Court of Chancery, 5th March, 1748, found 

 this marquis a lunatic, and incapable of "governing 

 himself and his estate, and that he had been so from 

 the 12th December, 1744. He died at Turnham 

 Green on the 29th April, 1792, in the seventy-second 

 year of his age, and was buried at Chiswick, 7th May 

 following. {Gent. Mag., May, 1792, p. 481.) Since 

 his decease the honours of the house of Annandale 

 have remained dormant, although they have been 

 claimed by several branches of the family. (Burke's 



Extinct Peerages.) Before the union of the two 

 crowns the Johnstones were frequently wardens of the 

 west borders, and were held in enthusiastic admiration 

 for their exploits against the English, the Douglasses, 

 and other borderers. During the wars between the 

 two nations, they effectually suppressed the plunderers 

 on the borders ; hence their device, a winged spur, and 

 their motto, " Alight thieves all," to denote their au- 

 thority in commanding them to surrender. Loch- 

 wood, the ancient seat of the Marquisses of Annandale, 

 was inhabited till 1724, three years after the death of 

 the first marquis, when it was finally abandoned by 

 the family, and suffered gradually to fall into decay. 

 In The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iv. 

 p. 1 12., we read " that the principal estate in the parish 

 of Moffat has descended to Mr. Hope Johnstone of 

 Annandale, to whom it is believed the titles also, in so 

 far as claimed, of right belong, and whose restoration 

 to the dormant honours of the family would afford 

 universal satisfaction in this part of Scotland ; because 

 it is the general feeling that he has a right to them, 

 and that in his family they would not only be sup- 

 ported, but graced." Some farther particulars of the 

 three marquisses will be found in Douglass' Peerage of 

 Scotland (by Wood), vol. i. p. 75., and in The Scots 

 Compendium, edit. 1764, p. 151.] 



Heralds' College. — Richard III. incorporated 

 the College of Arms in 1483, and that body con- 

 sisted of three kings of arms, six heralds, and four 

 pursuivants. Can you inform me of the names of 

 these first members of that Heraldic body ? 



Escutcheon. 



— Vicarage. 



[Mark Noble, in his History of the College of Arms, 

 p. 57., remarks, " There is nothing more difficult than 

 to obtain a true and authentic series of the heralds, 

 previous to the foundation of the College of Arms, or, 

 to speak more properly, the incorporation of that body. 

 Mr. Lant, Mr. Anstis, Mr. Edmondson, and other 

 gentlemen, who had the best opportunities, and whose 

 industry was equal to # their advantage, have not been 

 able to accomplish it ; and from that time, especially 

 in Richard's reign, it is not practicable. Some idea 

 may be formed of the heraldic body at the commence- 

 ment of this reign, by observing the names of those 

 who attended the funeral of Edward IV. Sandford 

 and other writers mention Garter, Clarenceux, Nor- 

 roy, March, and Ireland, kings at arms ; Chester, Lei- 

 cester, Gloucester, and Buckingham, heralds ; and 

 Rouge- Croix, Rose-Blanch, Calais, Guisnes, and Har- 

 rington, pursuivants."] 



Teddy the Tiler.— Who was Teddy the Tiler ? 



W. P. E. 



[This is a fire-and- water farce, taken from the 

 French by G. Herbert Rodwell, Esq., ending with 

 one element and beginning with the other. Mr. 

 Power's performance of Teddy, as many of our readers 

 will remember, kept the audience in one broad grin 

 from beginning to end. It will be found in Cumber- 

 land's British Theatre, vol. xxv., with remarks, biogra- 

 phical and critical.] 



