Dec. 15. 1849.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 103 
Extract from Parish Register of North Runcton, 
Norfolk. 
Sir,— As a pendant to the extracts from the 
register of East Peckham, Kent, in your third 
number, I send the following, which I copied some 
time ago from one of the register books of the 
parish of North Runcton, Norfolk, and which 
may prove interesting to some of your readers. 
C. W. G. 
«Jun. 12. 1660. 
«“ Reader,— Lest whatever pseudograply (as there 
is much thereof) occurring to thy intentionall or acci- 
dentall view of the following pages in this book should 
prove offensive to thee, I thought good to give thee an 
account of what hath occasioned the same, viz. In the 
woful days of the late usurper, the registring of births, 
not baptisms, was injoyned and required, to give a 
liberty to all the adversaries of Pedobaptisme, &c., and, 
besides some circumstances, too unhandsome for the 
calling and person of a minister, were then allso anexed 
to him that was to keep a register of all, &c. ; and so 
it came to passe, that persons of no learning, for many 
places, were chosen by y® parish, and ministers declined 
the office, Natu. Row es.” 
The Norman Crusader. 
“ The Norman Crusader,” in the horse-armoury 
in the Tower of London, ora part of it, came from 
Green’s Museum. He obtained the hauberk from 
Tong Castle. At the dispersion of the Museum, 
the hauberk was purchased by Bullock, of Liver- 
pool (afterwards of the Egyptian Hall), in whose 
catalogue for 1808 it appears as a standing figure, 
holding a brown bill in the right hand, and resting 
the left upon a heater shield. 
Bullock at this time added the chauses. — In 
1810, the “ London Museum” was opened at the 
“ Egyptian Temple” (Hall), the figure as before ; 
but, in the catalogue for 1813, we have the man 
and horse standing in front of the gallery, and 
named “ The Norman Crusader.” 
At the “decline and fall” of Bullock’s Museum, 
Mr. Gwennap purchased the Crusader for, it is 
said, 200 guineas; and after being put in thorough 
repair, it was placed in the “Aplotheca,” Brook 
Street, Mr. Gwennap, jun. adding the sword. 
During its repair, it was discovered that the 
armour was not originally made for a horse, but 
for an elephant; and, on inquiry, it appeared that 
Bullock had purchased it, together with other cu- 
riosities, of a sailor, had taken it to pieces, and 
formed the armour for the horse. 
At the sale of Gwennap’s collection, “ The Nor- 
man Crusader” was knocked down by Geo. Robins 
to a Mr. Bentley, for 30/7, and he being unable to 
polish it, as he had intended, sold it to the autho- 
rities at the Tower for one hundred guineas, where 
it is exhibited as “The Norman Crusader.” Naso. 
Lady Jane of Westmoreland. 
Sir, — On page 206. of Mr. Collier’s second vo- 
lume of Extracts from the Registers of the Station- 
ers’ Company, the following entry occurs: — 
“1585-6. Cold and uncoth blowes, of the lady 
Jane of Westmorland.” And on page 211., 
“A songe of Lady Jane of Westmorland.” Mr. 
Collier considers these entries to refer to the same 
production. 
The name of Lady Jane of Westmoreland does 
not occur in Park’s edition of Royal and Noble 
Authors; but it would clearly be entitled to a 
place there, if we can ascertain who she was. 
I have little doubt she was Jane, daughter of 
Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland, and first 
wife of Henry Nevill, fifth Earl of Westmoreland, 
by whom she was mother of Charles, Earl of West- 
moreland, one of the chiefs of the northern re- 
bellion. 
Collins, under the title “Rutland,” states that 
Anne, daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Rutland, 
married Henry, Earl of Westmoreland ; but under 
the title “ Abergavenny” he states that the same 
Henry, Earl of Westmoreland, married Jane, 
daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Rutland. The 
last statement I presume to be the correct one. 
I can find no other person, at the period in 
question, to whom the title of Lady Jane of West- 
moreland could have been attributed; and her 
sister Frances, who also married a Henry Nevill 
(fourth Lord Abergavenny of that name), is known 
to have been an authoress. An account of her 
will be found in the first volume of the Royal and 
Noble Authors, by Park. Lady Frances Aber- 
gavenny (whose work is entered on page 52. of 
Mr. Collier’s second volume), had an only daugh- 
ter, who married Sir Thomas Fane, and from this 
marriage the present Earl of Westmoreland is de- 
scended. Orn: 
NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES. 
The Lobster in the Medal of the Pretender. 
Your correspondent, Mr. B, Nieutrneae, de- 
sires an answer to his Query (in your No. 4), 
Why is the figure of a Lobster introduced into the 
impression upon the rare medal struck 20th June, 
1688, in contempt or ridicule of Prince James 
Edward, the newly-born son of King James II. ? 
A reference to the two following works will, 
perhaps, supply the answer : — 
Ist. In Philemon Holland’s translation of Pliny’s 
Natural History (a great authority at the time) this 
passage occurs in book ix. cap. 30. :— 
« Lobsters, so long as they are secure of any fear and 
danger, go directly straight, letting down their hornes 
at length along their sides; .... but if they be in 
any fear, up go their hornes straight—and then they 
creep byas and go sidelong.” 
And in the next chapter (31.) : — 
“ Crabs” (which were often confounded with lobsters) 
