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31. 4s. It. paid him for a pic- 
ture of the king, 21. It. paid 
him for a new frame to my 
grandmother’s - 6s. 
“1649. May 9. Item, given at John Tredeskin’s 
[ Tradescant] - 2s. 6d. 
— Junel. Paid Mr. Lawes, a month’s teach- 
ing of my wife - Il. 10s. 
— Sept. 1. It. spent at Tunbridge Welles, in 
19 dayes stay - 261. 8s, 
“1650. April 8. It. paid Mr. Lilly [Sir Peter] for 
my wife’s picture - 51. 
“1651. April 21, It. paid Mr. Lelie for my picture, 
5l. It. paid him for my wife’s 
picture, being larger, 101. It. 
given Mr. Lelie’s man, 5s. 
— April 23. It. paid Frank Rower for a frame 
for my wife’s picture 4/. 
— Aug. 7. Spent in Spring Gardens, and coach 
hire thither - - 17s. 
— Sept. 3. Baublesat Bartholomew fayre, 4s. 
— Oct. 3. ~It. given the Scots prisoners, 8s. 
— Nov. 13. It. paid for bringing a great cake 
from Richborow - 3s. 
— March 9. Twelve paire of gloves given my 
Valentine, the Lady Palmer 
11. 12s, 
March 22. It. paid Mr. Lilly for Mrs. Mon- 
tague’s picture, the larger size 
101. 
The entry concerning the celebrated Henry 
Lawes, Milton’s Tuneful Harry, is very interest- 
ing, and is well illustrated by the following dedi- 
cation, prefixed to Lawes’ Second Book of Ayres 
and Dialogues, 1655 :— 
“To the Honourable the Lady Dering, Wife to Sir 
Edward Dering, of Surenden Dering, Bart. 
“ Madam,—TI have consider’d, but could not finde 
it lay in my power, to offer this Book to any but your 
Ladiship. Not only in regard of that honour and 
esteem you have for Musick, but because those Songs 
which fill this Book have receiv’d much lustre by your 
excellent performance of them; and (which I confesse 
I rejoice to speak of) some, which I esteem the best of 
these ayres, were of your own composition, after your 
noble husband was pleas’d to give the words. For 
(although your Ladiship resolv’d to keep it private) I 
beg leave to declare, for my own honour, that you are 
not only excellent for the time you spent in the prac- 
tice of what I set, but are your self so good a composer, 
that few of any sex have arriv’d to such perfection. So 
as this Book (at least a part of it) is not Dedicated, 
but only brought home to your Ladiship. And here 
I would say (could I do it without sadness), how pre- 
tious to my thoughts is the memory of your excellent 
Mother (that great example of prudence and charity ), 
whose pious meditations were often advane’d by hear- 
ing your voice. 1 wish all prosperity to your Ladi- 
ship, and to him who (like yourself) is made up of 
Harmony; to say nothing of the rest of his high 
accomplishments of wisdome and learning. May you 
both live long, happy in each other, when I am become 
ashes ; who, while I am in this world, shall be ever 
found, Madame, 
* Your Ladiship’s humble Admirer 
“ and faithful Servant, 
“ Henry Lawes.” 
The Derings appear to have been great lovers 
and patrons of music; and one of their family, 
Richard, practised the art as his profession. This 
excellent musician was educated in Italy; and, 
when his education was completed, he returned to 
England with great reputation. He resided in his 
own country for some time, but, upon a very 
pressing invitation, went to Brussels, and became 
organist to the convent of English nuns there. 
From the marriage of Charles I., until the time 
when that monarch left England, he was organist 
to the Queen. In 1610 he was admitted to the 
degree of Bachelor in Music at Oxford, and died 
in the communion of the Church of Rome, about 
the year 1657. Epwarp F, Rimpautr. 
BAYSWATER AND ITS ORIGIN, 
A piece of topographical history was disclosed 
at the recent trial of a cause at Westminster, 
which it may be worth while to record among 
your “ Notes.” The Dean and Chapter of West- 
minster are possessed of the manor of Westbourne 
Green, in the parish of Paddington, parcel of the 
possessions of the extinct Abbey of Westminster. 
It must have belonged to the Abbey when Domes- 
day was compiled ; for, though neither Westbourne 
nor Knightsbridge (also a manor of the same house) 
is specially named in that survey, yet we know, 
from a later record, viz. a Quo Warranto in 22 
Edward I., that both of those manors were mem- 
bers, or constituent hamlets, of the vill of West- 
minster, which is mentioned in Domesday among 
the lands of the Abbey. The most considerable 
tenant under the abbot in this vill was Bainiardus, 
probably the same Norman associate of the Con- 
queror who is called Baignardus and Bainardus in 
other parts of the survey, and who gave his name 
to Baynard’s Castle. 
The descent of the land held by him of the 
abbot cannot be clearly traced: but his name long 
remained attached to part of it; and, as late as 
the year 1653, a parliamentary grant of the Abbey 
or Chapter lands to Foxcrafte and another, de- 
scribes -“‘ the common field at Paddington” as 
being “near to a place commonly called Baynard’s 
Watering.” 
In 1720, the lands of the Dean and Chapter in 
the same common field are described, in a terrier 
of the Chapter, to be in the occupation of Alex- 
ander Bond, of Bear’s Watering, in the same parish 
of Paddington. 
The common field referred to, is the well-known 
piece of garden ground lying between Craven 
