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who flourished as an antiquary about a century later than Brails- 

 ford. From a comparison between my own copy of Brailsford 

 and that of Bassano in the College, I am satisfied that they are 

 from the same source, and that the newly discovered volume is 

 the original. So far as I know, Brailsford's MSS. have perished; 

 but Daniel Dakeyne copied many of them, and in this case, 

 fortunately, he possessed the original papers. 



When recently I had the privilege of examining and copying 

 Dakeyne's MSS., which are still at Holt House, under the care of 

 the worthy holder thereof, the Rev. J. D. Cannon, who married 

 the last heir female of the family, I found, bound up with other 

 papers in Vol. I. of the Dakeyne Collection, a single sheet in a 

 very remarkable handwriting of the old legal order, from which I 

 opine that the writer himself was a lawyer ; it was not merely an 

 account of the coat armour and monumental inscriptions in the 

 church, but it contained some genealogical and topographical 

 notes, and a few anecdotes relating to the persons and places of 

 Ashover. Amongst these notes was a short account of ancient 

 buildings in the parish, with. a reference to Stubbing Edge, and a 

 pedigree of the Dakeynes of that place, brought down to Frances, 

 daughter of Arthur Dakeyne, then (1685) aged about eleven, of 

 Digby, Charles, and John, who were living 1685. "Henry and 

 Trigot lost their lives in the .sea fight when Obdam, the Dutch 

 Ad", was sunk in the time of Charles II., and Gregory lost his 

 life in the present King's service in the West Indies, and John 

 and Charles are now in the military service under our present 

 King James II." — Daniel. Is it not probable, by ihe way, that the 

 curious motto used by this family, " Strike Dakeyne, the devil's 

 in the hemp," may have had its origin in a sea fight, when some 

 Dakeyne, possibly one of these sons, was attempting in vain to 

 sever the grappling ropes which bound his ship to the enemy, 

 possibly a fire ship ? The captain or admiral may well be excused 

 for using such an expression at such a moment, and Dakeyne 

 may have proudly adopted it in memory of a successful achieve- 

 ment. Daniel Dakeyne himself did not know the writer of this 

 sheet, but lie records that it was formerly in the possession of 



