30? 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 231. 



Worstley, Barrett, &c. ? Where did these parties 

 " die, in America," in 1634 ? 



Is the Latin original of the charter in existence ? 

 There is an omission in the bounds given in the 

 paper referred to : can I get an extract from the 

 original entry of limits ? 



Did the charter ever pass the Great Seal ? 



Would it be valid, if only passed under the 

 private seal ? 



Can the date of the grant to Danby be ascer- 

 tained ? 



Are there any memoranda of Plowden's six 

 years' residence as Governor of New Albion (I 

 have some of his residence in Virginia) ? 



Can I get more definite facts about the miscon- 

 duct of Francis ? 



The license for alienation, &c. is stated to have 

 been obtained 15th of Charles, 1646 ; but the 15th 

 of Charles was 1640. When did he arrive to 

 attend to his property, and when was he impri- 

 soned in the Fleet ? 



Who was Beauchamp Plantagenet, the author of 

 the tract on New Albion, published in 1648 ? 



Who were Robert Evelin, Captain Young, and 

 Master Miles, mentioned in that tract ? 



Can you give me any additional facts, dates 

 especially, of events and births, deaths, &c. ? 



I know not into whose hands these Queries will 

 come ; but I can say that, if they are answered, 

 the cause of historic truth and justice will be 

 served ; and I shall have the aid I want towards 

 correcting the misrepresentations and errors that 

 have been accumulating for years on this point. 



S. F. Streeter, Sec. Md. Hist. Soc. 



Baltimore Md., March 2, 1854. 



P. S. — I should like to inquire, through your 

 publication, if any one can give me the family of 

 Mr. Claiborne; and any facts in his history not 

 stated in our works ? 



ANCIENT CLOCK, AND ODEVAERE S HISTORY OF IT. 



As a portion of the history of the magnificent 

 clock, which came into my possession last year, is 

 connected with Holland, I think it probable that 

 I may, through the means of " N. & Q." and the 

 Navorscher, be able to obtain the information re- 

 specting it which I desire. I shall therefore be 

 very much obliged if you will give this commu- 

 nication a place. 



It will be necessary to give a brief description 

 of the clock, so as to enable parties on the other 

 side of the water to recognise and identify it. 

 The clock, which is of copper richly gilt, and 

 elaborately engraved, stands about four feet high, 

 independent of the pedestal. It is of architectural 

 design, and is divided into three stories, having 

 detached columns at each corner. The two lower 



stories contain the dials in the front. The upper- 

 story exhibits the groups of moving silver figures, 

 which strike the quarters, hours, and move in 

 procession whilst a tune is played by a chime of 

 bells. The whole is surmounted by a dome, on 

 which is placed a silver cock, which flaps his 

 wings and crows when the clock strikes. It was 

 made by Isaac Hahrecht (the artist who made the 

 great clock in the cathedral at Strasburg), ac- 

 cording to the inscription on it, in the year 1589 ; 

 and is evidently a model of that celebrated work 

 condensed into a single tower, since it performs 

 all the feats of that clock. Its reputed history, as 

 given in a printed account of it, is, that it was 

 made for Pope Sixtus V., and was for more than 

 two hundred years in the possession of the Court 

 of Rome. It afterwards came into the possession 

 of William I., King of the Netherlands, who 

 authorised Odevaere the antiquary, now de- 

 ceased, to investigate everything concerning it,. 

 and to give a description of it. What I should 

 wish to know is, who was this Odevaere, and 

 where is his description of it to be found ? With 

 regard to the history of the clock, I should wish 

 to know the authority for the statement of its 

 having been made for the Pope, when and how it 

 came to leave the Vatican ; how it became the 

 property of the King of Holland ; when and why 

 it ceased to belong to the crown of Holland ; and 

 under what circumstances it came over to this 

 country, where it was exhibited in 1850? 



If any of the readers of " N. & Q.," or the 

 Navorscher, can give me any information respect- 

 ing it, I shall feel greatly obliged. 



Octavius Morgan. 



9. Pall Mall. 



$ltn0r e&umerf. 



Spielberg, ivhen built? — When and by whom 

 was the prison of Spielberg, in Moravia, built ? 

 Has it been used exclusively as a state prison ? 



M. J. S. 



" Ded. Pavli. 1 " — Can you give me any inform- 

 ation respecting a tract entitled — 



" Ded. Pavli Antiquarius, Theologia, et contra 

 Perciocas Thologo Rvma;tatis nostne scholas Philippi 

 Melanchthonis declamativncvla. Et quaedam alia lectv 

 dignissima." 



F. Coleman. 



16. Great St. Helens. 



Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantelboard : Man- 

 tell and Brace. — What is the origin of this 

 word, and whence came the thing ? It must ori- 

 ginally have had a use and a meaning, before it 

 became a haven of rest for hyacinth-glasses, china 

 monsters, Bohemian glass vases, and a thousand 

 nick-nacks and odds and ends of drawing-room 



