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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 242. 



party ascended, he having been their guide." — Travels 

 through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, §r., vol. ii. p. 21., by 

 Thomas Watkins, A.M., F.R.S., in the years 1787, 

 1788, 1789; 2 vols. 8vo., 2nd edition, London, 1794. 



Anon. 



[The reference is probably to M. D'Orville, whose 

 minute description of his journey up Mount iEtna 

 was copied into the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxxiv. 

 p. 281., extracted from D'Orville's work, entitled 

 Sicula, or the History and Antiquities of the Island of 

 Sicily, §"c., 2 vols, folio, Amsterdam.] 



Sir Adam, or Sir Ambrose, Brown. — This 

 friend of Evelyn, who lived at Betchworth Park, 

 is sometimes called Sir Adam, and sometimes Sir 

 Ambrose, in Evelyn's Memoirs. Is not Sir Adam 

 the correct name ? C. H. 



[The entries in Evelyn's Diary seem to be correct. 

 Sir Ambrose Brown, obit. 1661, was the father of Sir 

 Adam, obit. 1690. See the pedigree in Manning and 

 Bray's Surrey, vol. i. p. 560.] 



&ej)lteg. 



NORWICH, K.IRKPATBICK COLLECTION OT MSS. TOE 

 THE HISTORY OT. 



(Vol. ix., p. 515.) 



Your correspondent T. A. T. can find a full, 

 but in one respect a most unsatisfactory reply to 

 his inquiry, in the preface to a History of the 

 Religious Orders and Communities, and of the 

 Hospital and Castle of Norwich, by Mr. John 

 Kirkpatrick, Treasurer of the Great Hospital, 

 bearing the names of Edwards and Hughes, 

 London, and Stevenson and Hatchett, Norwich, 

 as publishers, and dated 1845. This volume was 

 printed at the expense of Hudson Gurney, Esq., 

 whose " well-known liberality and laudable desire 

 to perpetuate the knowledge of the antiquities of 

 his native city," the preface fitly records ; but it 

 was not, in the commercial sense of the word, 

 published ; and, therefore, the information it gives 

 may not be generally accessible. The following is 

 the list of the collections which were " safe in the 

 custody of the corporation about thirty years ago 

 (say between 1800 and 1810), when M. de Hague 

 held the office of town-clerk." 



"1. A thick volume of the early history and jurisdic- 

 tion of the city ; date 1 720. 



2. A similar folio volume, being an account of the 



military state of the city, its walls, towns, ponds, 

 pits, wells, pumps, &c. ; date 1722. 



3. A thick quarto. 



4. Several large bundles, foolscap folio; Annals of 



Norwich. 



5. A fasciculus, foolscap folio ; origin'of charities and 



wills relating thereto, in each parish. 



6. Memorandum books of monuments. 



7. Ditto of merchants' marks. 



8. Ditto of plans of churches. 



9. Paper containing drawings of the city gates, and a 



plan of Norwich. 



10. Drawings of all the churches. 



11. An immense number of small pieces of paper, con- 



taining notes of the tenures of each house in Nor- 

 wich." 

 No portion of these collections remains at present 

 in the hands of the legatees, and the greater number 

 of them is not so much as known to be in existence^ 

 The " thick quarto," marked "3" in the list, is that 

 which Mr. Gurney' s zeal has caused to be printed ; 

 and it is now the property of the representatives of 

 the late Mr. William Herring of Hethersett, whose 

 father purchased it many years ago of a bookseller. 

 The paper marked " 9 " was " said to have been in 

 the possession of the Friars' Society," which was 

 discovered some twenty years ago. My father had 

 tracings of the "Drawings of the City Gates;" 

 but I am not sure that they are made from Kirk- 

 patrick's original. The collection marked " 10," 

 my father saw " in the possession of Mr. William 

 Matthews, Mr. De Hague's clerk." And "a por- 

 tion of the papers included under the last number'* 

 was said to be existence in 1845 ; but Mr. Dawson 

 Turner, who compiled the " Preface," was " not 

 fully informed" respecting them, and I can throw no 

 light upon the subject. It is very remarkable that 

 the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Association 

 has done nothing for the recovery or discovery of 

 the remainder of this invaluable bequest ; perhaps- 

 the inquiry of T. A. T. may incite them to attempt 

 both, and in this hope I trouble you with this reply. 



B. B. Woodward^ 

 Bungay, Suffolk. 



In the year 1845, one of the MSS. of Mr. John 

 Kirkpatrick was printed at Yarmouth, edited by 

 Mr. Dawson Turner, at the expense of Mr, Hudson 

 Gurney. This MS. is the History of the Religious 

 Orders and Communities, and of the Hospital and 

 Castle of Norwich, and filled a quarto of 258 folios 

 in the handwriting of the author. In a very in- 

 teresting preface, the editor states that no portion 

 of Kirkpatrick's bequest remains at present in the 

 hands of the corporation of Norwich, or is even 

 known to be in existence, except the volume thus 

 edited, and perhaps some fragments of the " small 

 pieces of paper," described in the will as " con- 

 taining notes of the tenure of each house in Nor- 

 wich," which, if such do exist, are, it is to be 

 feared, so scattered and injured as to be useless. 

 The editor enumerates and describes eleven MSS. 

 which, he says, were safe in the custody of the 

 corporation about forty years ago from the present 

 time : but, he adds, they have now disappeared, 

 with the exception of the volume which he has 

 edited. This MS. is the property of the repre- 

 sentatives of the late Mr. William Herring, of 

 Hethersett, whose father purchased it of a book- 

 seller. F. C. H. 



