May 13. 1854.] 



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borough to inclose sundry lands called Queen- 

 borough Common ; such inclosure was opposed by 

 the trustees, who claimed under the act of par- 

 liament which constituted their existence to be in 

 the position of the mayor*, &c, and thus, if they 

 were the lords of the manor, to have a veto upon 

 the inclosure of the waste. The plaintiffs relied 

 very much upon the following fact, which I here 

 embalm as a note, and append thereon a query : — 

 During the mayoralty of Mr. Greet f, a gentleman 

 who died in 1829, a turbot was caught by a 

 dredger on the Queenborough oyster-grounds : 

 this unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon 

 by the Queenborough officials, and seized for the 

 mayor's behoof as his perquisite, a la sturgeon. 



Query, a like instance ? 



The jury, after two days' long sitting, decided 

 that Queenborough was neither a manor nor a 

 reputed manor. A. J. Dunkin. 



Dartford. 



OWEN ROWE THE REGICIDE. 



Mark Noble, in his Lives of the Regicides, 

 says that Owen Rowe was descended from Sir 

 Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. 

 In the Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 

 6337. p. 52., is a coat in trick : Argent, on a 

 chevron azure, three bezants between three 

 trefoils per pale gules and vert, a martlet sable 



late years, by a bye-law, has been arranged to substi- 

 tute either two liorses or three bullocks. A Leeze is sup- 

 posed to contain about seven acres of land of herbage. 

 The common consists of about 240 acres, including 

 roads. 



* See Hogarth's Visit, &c. to Queenborough. A 

 hearty laugh will repay the trouble. The mayor was 

 then a thatcher : the room remains as it did in 

 Hogarth's day ; and as Queenborough was then, so 

 it is now, one long street without any trade. 



■J - Of Mr. Greet's mayoralty many humorous tales 

 are told : he was at times popular, but towards the 

 close of his reign most decidedly the reverse. At his 

 funeral the dredgers, &c. threw halfpence into his 

 grave to pay his passage to the lower regions. He, 

 one day, ex officio, sentenced a pilferer to a flogging 

 at the cart's tail, and as executioners did not volun- 

 teer, he took off his coat, and himself applied the cat 

 to the bare back of the culprit from one end of the 

 street to the other. Mr. Greet was one of the best 

 friends Queenborough ever had. After his death 

 it plunged deeply into debt, had its paraphernalia 

 and books seized and sold by the sheriff, and now all 

 its property is in the hands of trustees to pay its debts, 

 whilst its poor-rates are, a witness, a late mayor said, 

 nine shillings in the pound. The debt was originally 

 12,700/.; but as no interest has been paid thereon, it is 

 now 17,000/. The trustees have received about 4,000/., 

 but this sum has been melted in subsequent litigation ; 

 for Queenborough men are mightily fond of supporting 

 the law courts. 



for difference; crest, a roe's head couped gules, 

 attired or, rising from a wreath ; and beneath is 

 written, " Coll. Row, Coll. of hors and futt." 

 These arms I imagine to have been the regicide's. 

 If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose ? The 

 Hackney Parish Register records, that on Nov. 6, 

 1655, Captain Henry Rowe was buried from Mr. 

 Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How 

 was he related to Colonel Owen Rowe ? I should 

 feel particularly obliged to any correspondent who 

 could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos. 

 Rowe. 



According to Mr. Lysons (Environs of London, 

 vol. iv. p. 540.), the daughter of Mr. Rowland 

 Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married Colonel 

 Rowe ; adding in a note, that he supposes this 

 Colonel Rowe to have been Colonel Owen Rowe, 

 the regicide. The same statement is found in 

 Hasted's History of Kent (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. 

 I should be glad of some more certain information 

 on this point ; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, 

 if any, besides two daughters, whose marriages 

 are recorded in the Hackney Register. 



I am likewise anxious to learn whether there 

 exist any lineal descendants of this family of Rowe, 

 which had its origin in Kent ; and thence branch- 

 ing off in the sixteenth century, settled and ob- 

 tained large possessions in Shacklewell, Waltham- 

 stow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell 

 Hill. Through females, several of our nobility 

 are descended from them. Tee Bee. 



WHITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD. 



The second and concluding volume of Brad- 

 ford's writings, which I am editing for the Parker 

 Society, is about to be concluded. 



Bradford's Treatise against the Fear of Death, 

 with Sweet Meditations on the Felicity of the Life 

 to Come and the Kingdom of Christ, was printed 

 by Powell without a date, by Singleton without a 

 date, and by Wolf 1583, — the last two editions 

 being mentioned by Herbert, the first of Powell 

 by Dibdin from Herbert's MS. additions. If any 

 of your readers could inform me where a copy of 

 any one of these editions is to be found, it would 

 greatly oblige. 



I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, 

 with the edition of Bradford's Letter on the Mass, 

 printed by Waldegrave, Edinburgh. 



Some of the early editions of Bradford's writ- 

 ings are very rare. I possess his Examinations, 

 Griffith, 1561 ; and Meditations, Hall, 1562 ; both 

 of which are scarce : as also the only copy I have 

 ever seen (though imperfect) of the first edition of 

 his Sermon on Repentance, evidently printed in 

 1553. 



His Complaint of Verity is of extraordinary 

 rarity. The only copy I am aware of is possessed 



