DICKINSON’S 
of the source (wool) from which the fa- 
mily derived its wealth.” The note at 
the bottom of this page is curious. 
« Over this porch is a chamber, called, 
as far back as memory or tradition reach, 
Nan Scot’s chamber. The story, of which 
this lady is the heroine, has been handed 
down with a degree of precision and unifor- 
mity which entitles it to more credit than 
most such tales deserve. © The last great 
plague which visited this kingdom is reported 
to have made particular havock in the village 
of Holme, which is likely enough to have 
happened from its vicinity to Newark, where 
it is known to haye raged with peculiar vio- 
leace. During itsinfluence, a woman of the 
name of Ann Scot is said to have retired to 
this chamber, with a sufficient quantity of 
food to serve her for several weeks. Having 
remained there unmolested till her provisions 
were exhausted, she came from her hiding- 
lace either to procure more, or to return to 
Fer former habitation, as circumstances might 
direet her choice. To her great surprise she 
found the village entirely deserted, only one 
erson of its former inhabitants except her- 
self being there alive. Attached to this asy- 
um, and shocked by the horrors of the scene 
without, she is said to have returned to her 
retreat, and to have continued in it till her 
death, at an advanced period of life! A few 
years since many of her habiliments were 
' Yemaining in this chamber, as also a table, 
{the size of which evidently manifested it to 
have been constructed within the room) with 
some smaller pieces of furniture.” 
-In this manner the author proceeds, 
with an account of all the remain- 
ing prebends, occasionally interspersing 
sketches of families accompanied by 
their pedigrees.——In his notice of 
Rampton, twenty miles from Southwell, 
Mr. Dickinson gives a good engraving 
ef an antient gate, which is well worth 
examination, though he says not a word 
abont it. r 
In the history of the government and 
jurisdiction civil and ecclesiastical, Mr. 
Dickinson informs us, that the arch- 
bishop of York is the supreme head of 
Southwell church, and of the liberty of 
Southwell, as well in matters civil as ec- 
clesiastical ; and that Southwell is the 
head or metropolis of a peculiar juris- 
diction, both civil and ecclesiastical : 
these two jurisdictions are not co-exten- 
sive, twenty towns are in the former, 
and twenty-eight in the latter. 
vicar-general, all episcopal functions 
within the peculiar, except ordination 
and confirmation; the archbishop ap- 
points to prebends, but the prebendaries 
ANTIQUITIES IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, &c. 
The - 
_ chapter exercises, in the person of their 
379 
elect their vicar from their own bedy, 
and they appoint all inferiors in the 
church. The archbishop is visitor of 
Southwell. When this place was the 
residence of the archbishops of York, 
they had four parks in the neighbour- 
hood; of these an account is given, and 
anecdotes of the successive vicars. 
Chapter v. treats of the founders, be- 
nefactors, and patrons of the church 
before the conquest, and from that pe- 
riod to the present time, divided into 
portions, each containing a reign; of 
those patrons, &c. » any interesting par- 
ticulars are given, which we recommend 
to the reader’s notice. 
The ensuing extract must terminate 
our survey of this work, which con- 
cludes with an account of the archiepis- 
copal palace; the tombs in the church, 
antiquities in the neighbourhood, and 
of almost every place having any con- 
nection with Southwell: each article is 
curious in itself, but their number for- 
bids particular notice. 
«© The first species of antiquities which 
claim our attention within the parish of 
Southwell, are its four famous wells: from 
one of which, as has bcen before observed, 
the town takes its modern name, and for 
another of which it his been scarcely less 
celebrated. The former of these is situated 
on the side of the hill to the south-east of 
the town, and about half a mile distant frora 
it. The ground in which this spring rises 
belongs to the archbishop of York, and is 
part of what was called the little park, conti- 
guous to the palace. From the circumstance 
of its rising in the demesne of the lord of the 
manor, it early obtained the name of Lord's 
Well, by which itis still distinguished. This 
was much used early in the last centu 
as a bath by persons afflicted with the rheu- 
matism; and near it was erected a sort of 
recess, or aleove of stone work, for the con- 
venience of those that frequented it. ‘This 
has long been destroyed, and the well is no 
longer freqnented as a bath, but by the boys 
of the town for amusement, thouzh its 
stream runs as pure and as limpid as in the 
days of its pristine reputation. The second 
well which demands our notice, was situated 
in the inclosure on the right of the cloister 
leading to the chapter house. Ristes within 
the precincts of the church, it obtained the 
name of Ifoly ]ell. This has been long 
covered over or filled up. 
«« Another of these wells had its name also 
from its situation, which was in the church- 
yard, immediately under the walls of the 
choir, on the north side, near to the chapter- 
house ;. this was called Lady's Well, the 
chureh being dedicated to our lady (the 
Virgin Mary) of Southwell, and the well 
