June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of the reign of James I., as the compiler speaks of 

 Roger, Earl of Rutland, as being living. This 

 nobleman succeeded to the title in 1588, and died 

 in 1612. The pedigree ends in the Guernsey line 

 with Henry de Beauvoir ; whom we may there- 

 fore presume to have been still alive, or but re- 

 cently deceased; and whose great-grandfather, 

 according to the pedigree, was the first of the 

 name in the island. Allowing three generations 

 to a century, this would throw back the arrival of 

 the first of the De Beauvoirs to some part of the 

 sixteenth century ; but we have proof that they 

 were settled here long before that time. In an 

 authentic document, preserved among the records 

 of the island, the extent of the crown revenues 

 drawn up by order of Edward III. in 1331, the 

 names of Pierre and Guillaume de Beauvoir are 

 found. Another Pierre de Beauvoir, apparently 

 the great-grandson of the above-mentioned Pierre, 

 was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1470 to 1480. As 

 for the family of Harryes, no such I believe ever 

 existed in Guernsey ; but a gentleman of the 

 name of Peter Henry, belonging to a family of 

 very ancient standing in the island, bought pro- 

 perty in Salisbury in the year 1551, where the 

 name seems to have been Anglicised to Harrys or 

 Harris ; as the name of his son Andrew, who was 

 a jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey, appears 

 as often on the records of the island in the one 

 form as in the other. One of Peter Henry's or 

 Harris's daughters was married at Salisbury to a 

 Henry de Beauvoir ; and I have no doubt this is 

 the marriage with which the pedigree ends. If I 

 am right, the Harryes' pedigree has no more claim 

 to authenticity than the De Beauvoir. If Mr. 

 Potter wishes for farther information, and will 

 communicate with me, I shall be happy to answer 

 his inquiries as far as I am able. 



The pedigree itself, however, suggests two or 

 three Queries which I should like to see an- 

 swered. 



The heading' is signed Hamlet Sankye or 

 Saukye. Is anything known of such a person ? 



The pedigree speaks of Sir Robert de Beauveir 

 of Tarwell, Knt., now living. Was there ever a 

 family of the name of De Beauveir, De Beauvoir, 

 or Beaver, of Tarwell, in Nottinghamshire ? And 

 if there was, what arms did they bear ? 



If there was such a family, was it in any way 

 connected with any of the early proprietors of 

 Belvoir Castle ? 



Is anything known of a family of the name of 

 Harryes or Harris of Orton, and what were their 

 arms ? Edgar MacCueloch. 



Guernsey. 



RIGHT OF REFUGE IN THE CHURCH PORCH. 



(Vol. ix., p. 325.) 



The following entry appears in a Corporation 

 Book of this city, under the year 1662 : 



M Thomas Corbold, who hath a loathesome disease, 

 have, with his wife and two children, layne in the Porch 

 of St. Peters per Mountegate above one year ; it is now 

 ordered by the Court that he be put into some place in 

 the Pest-houses during the pleasure of the Court, untill 

 the Lazar-houses be repaired." 



How they were supported during the year does 

 not appear, or if he belonged to the parish; nor is 

 it said that it was considered he gained settlement 

 on the parish by continuing in the porch one year. 



I have heard of similar instances under an idea 

 that any person may lodge in a church porch, and 

 are not removable ; but 1 believe it is an erroneous 

 idea. Goddard Johnson. 



In proof of the idea being current among the 

 lower orders, that the church porch is a place of 

 refuge for any houseless parishioners, I beg to 

 state that a poor woman of the adjoining parish of 

 Langford, came the other day to ask whether I, as 

 a magistrate, could render her any assistance, as, 

 in consequence of her husband's father and mother 

 having gone to America, she and her family had 

 become houseless, and were obliged to take up their 

 abode in the church porch. A. S. 



West Tofts Rectory, Brandon, Norfolk. 



I know an instance where a person found a tem- 

 porary, but at the same time an involuntary, home 

 in a church porch. There was a dispute between 

 the parishes of Frodingham and Broughton, co. 

 Lincoln, some twelve months ago, as to the settle- 

 ment of an old woman. She had been living for 

 some time in, and had become chargeable to the 

 latter parish, but was said to belong to the former. 

 By some means or other the woman's son was in- 

 duced to convey his mother to the parish of Froding- 

 ham, which he did ; and as he knew quite well that 

 the overseer of the parish would not receive her at 

 his hands, he adopted the somewhat strange course 

 of leaving her in the church porch, where she re- 

 mained until evening, when the overseer of Fro- 

 dingham took her away, fearing that her life might 

 be in danger from exposure to the cold, she being 

 far advanced in years. Until I saw Chevereles' 

 Query, I thought the depository of the old woman 

 in the church porch was, so far as the place of de- 

 posit was concerned, more accidental than designed; 

 but after all it may be the remnant of some such 

 custom as that of which he speaks, and I, for one, 

 should be glad to see farther inquiry made into it. 

 To which of J. H. Parker's Parochial Tales does 

 Chevereles allude ? W. E. Howlett. 



Kirton-in-Lindsey. 



