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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Sir William Godbold. 
Mr. Editor, —In the Gentleman's Magazine for 
July, 1842, occurs this : — 
“Jn the parish church of Mendham, Suffolk, is a 
mural morument bearing an inscription, of which the 
following is a transcript : 
«“¢M.S. V. C™ Doctissimique D. Gulielmi God- 
bold Militis ex illustri et perantiqua Prosapia 
oriundi, Qui post Septennem Peregrinationem 
animi excolendi gratia per Italiam, Graeciam, 
Palestinam, Arabiam, Persiam, in solo natali in 
bonarum literarum studiis consenescens morte 
repentind obiit Londini mense Aprilis A®. D, 
MDCXIIC, «wtatis LXIXx.’ 
“ One would presume that so great a traveller would 
have obtained some celebrity in his day; but I have 
never met with any notice of Sir William Godbold. I 
have ascertained that he was the only son of Thomas 
Godbold, a gentleman of small estate residing at Met- 
field, in Suffolk, and was nephew to John Godbold, 
Esq., Serjeant-at- Law, who was appointed Chief Justice 
of the Isle of Ely in 1638. He appears to have been 
knighted previously to 1664, and married Elizabeth, 
daughter and heir of Richard Freston, of Mendham 
(Norfolk), Esq., and relict of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of 
Gillingham, Bart., whom he survived, and died with- 
out issue in 1687. I should consider myself under an 
obligation to any of your correspondents who could 
afford me any further account of this learned knight, or 
refer me to any biographical or other notice of him.” 
To the writer of that letter the desideratum 
still remains unsupplied. Your welcome publi- 
cation appears to offer a channel for repeating the 
inquiry. G. A.C. 
Ancient Motto. 
Many years since I read that some pope or 
emperor caused the following, or a motto very 
similar to it, to be engraven in the centre of his 
table : — 
«Si quis amicum absentem rodere delectat ad hane 
mensam accumbere indignus est.” 
It being a maxim which all should observe in 
the daily intercourse of life; and in the propriety 
of which all must concur, I send this to “ Notxs 
AND Queries” (the long wished-for medium), in 
the hopes that some kind “ note-maker” can inform 
me from whence this motto is taken, and to whom 
ascribed. J. E.M. 
Works of King Alfred. 
Sir, —If any of your readers can inform me of 
MSS. of the Works of King Alfred the Great, 
besides those which are found in the large public 
collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not 
only on the Alfred Committee, who propose to 
Ls a complete edition of King Alfred’s Works, 
ut also on their Secretary, who is your obedient 
servant, J. A. GiEs. 
Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23, 1849. 
“ Bive” and “ Chote” Lambs. 
I should be much obliged to any of your readers 
who would favour me with an explanation of the 
words “Bive” and “Chote.” ‘They were thus 
applied in an inventory taken in Kent. 
“27 Hen. VIII. Michael™. 
“Rive lambes at xvi‘. the pece. 
“Chote lambes at xii?. the pece.” 
EW. 
Anecdote of the Civil Wars. 
Horace Walpole alludes to an anecdote of a 
country gentleman, during the Civil Wars, falling 
in with one of the armies on the day of some 
battle (Edgehill or Naseby?) as he was quietly 
going out with his hounds. Where did Walpole 
find this anecdote ? C. 
A Political Maxim — when first used. 
Who first used the phrase —“* When bad men 
conspire, good men must combine ” ? C. 
Richard of Cirencester. 
S. A. A. inquires whether the authenticity of 
Richard of Cirencester, the Monk of Westminster, 
has ever been satisfactorily proved. The prevailing 
opinion amongst some of the greatest antiquaries 
has been that the work was a forgery by Dr. Ber- 
tram, of Copenhagen, with a view of testing the 
antiquarian knowledge of the famous Dr. Stuke- 
ley; of this opinion was the learned and acute 
Dr. Whittaker and Mr. Conybeare. It is also fur- 
ther worthy of mention that. some years since, 
when the late Earl Spencer was in Copenhagen, he 
searched in vain for the original manuscript, which 
no one there could tell him had ever existed, and 
very many doubt if it ever existed at all. 
Lord Erskine’s Brooms. 
When and where was it that a man was appre- 
hended for selling brooms without a hawker’s 
licence, and defended himself by showing that 
they were the agricultural produce of Lord 
Erskine’s property, and that he was Lord E.'s 
servant ? GRIFFIN. 
John Bell of the Chancery Bar. 
When did John Bell cease to practise in the 
Court of Chancery, and when did he give up 
practice altogether, and when was the conversation 
with Lord Eldon on that subject supposed to have 
taken place ? GRIFFIN. 
Billing sgate. 
Mr. Editor, — Stow, in his Survey of London, 
with reference to Billingsgate, states, from Geoffrey 
of Monmouth, “that it was built by Belin, a king 
of the Britons, whose ashes were enclosed in a 
vessel of brass, and set upon a high pinnacle of 
