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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 65. 



" In the 19th year of the reign of Edward III., she 

 became a nun in tlie Abbey of Langley, in the county 

 of Norfolk; but quitting that religious establisliment, 

 she married Sir Ralph Cobham, Knt., and died anno 

 36 Edward III." 



By Cal. Ing. P. Mortem, vol. i. p. 328., we find 

 that Kalph Cobham died 19th Edward III.*, 

 that is, the same year in which the Countess en- 

 tered the Al/bey, from whence we may conclude 

 that she retired there to pass in seclusion the 

 period of mourning. W. Hastings Kelke. 



HENRY CHETTLE. 



Dr. Rimbault, in the introduction to his edition 

 of Kind-Hearts Dream, for the Percy Society, 

 says, " Of the author, Henry Chettle, very little 

 is known ; . . . we are ignorant of the time and 

 place of his birth or deatli, and of the manner in 

 which he obtained his living." (Pp. vii. viii.) I 

 trouble you with this note in the hope that it may 

 furnish him with a clue to further particulars of 

 Henry Chettle. 



Plutchins {Hist, of Dorset., vol. i. p. 53. ed. 

 1774) mentions a family named Chettle, which was 

 seated at Blandfbrd St. Mary from 1547 to about 

 1690, and gives the following names as lineal 

 successors to property in that parish: Henry 

 Chettle, ob. 1553. John, s. and h., ob. 1590. 

 Edward, s. and h., ob. 1609, "leaving Henry, his 

 son and heir, eleven years nine months old." 

 Among the burials for the same parish (p. 57.) 

 occurs " Henry Chettle, Esq., 1616;" and at 

 pp. 119. 208. the marriage of "Henry Chettle, 

 Gent., and Susan Chiddecot, 1610." This last 

 extract is from the register of the parish of Steple, 

 in the Isle of Purbeck, which also contains, says 

 Hutchins, many notices of the Chettle family ; but 

 all, I should infer, subsequent to the year 1610. 



I have ascertained that the statement in 

 Hutchins corresponds with the entry in the regis- 

 ter of Blandford St. Mary, of the burial of Henry 

 Chettle in 1616; and that there is no entry of the 

 baptism of any one of that name. In fact, the 

 registers only begin in 1581. Now it is clear that 

 there were two persons of this name living at the 

 same time, viz. H. C, aged eleven years in 1609; 

 and H. C, who marries in 1610. And if the con- 

 jecture of the learned editor be correct, as probably 

 it is, that the poet, Henry Chettle, "died in or 

 before the year 1607," it is equally clear that he 

 was a third of the same name, and that he coidd 

 not be the person whose name occurs as buried in 



* If my copy be correct, it is 19 Edw. II. in the 

 printed calendar: but it must have been Kdw. III., for, 

 from the possessions described, it must have been 

 Sir Ralph Cobham who married the widow of Thomas 

 de Brotherton. 



1616. But the name is not a common one, and 

 there seems sufficient to warrant further research 

 into this subject. I venture, therefore, to make 

 these two suggestions in the form of Queries: 



I. Can any intei-nal evidence be gathered from 

 the writings of Henry Chettle, as to his family, 

 origin, and birthplace ? Kind-HearCs Dream, the 

 only one of his works whii^h I have either seen or 

 have the means of consulting, contains nothing 

 specific enough to connect him with Dorset, or 

 the West. It would seem, indeed, as if he were 

 acquainted with the New Forest, but not better 

 than with Essex, and other parts adjacent to 

 London. 



II. Would it not be worth while to search the 

 Heralds' Visitations for the county of Dorset, the 

 AVill-office, and the Inquisitions "post mortem?" 

 The family was of some consequence, and is men- 

 tioned even in Domesday-book as holding lands 

 in the county. Hutchins blazons their arms — 

 Az. 3 spiders, or; but gives no pedigree of the 

 family. E. A. D. 



COVERDALE S BIBLE. 



AYe are told by Mr. Granville Pcnn, in the 

 Preface to the Annotations to the Book of the New 

 Covenant, that " in 1535 Cover<lale printed an 

 English translation of the Old Testament, to 

 which he annexed Tyndale's revision of the New, 

 probably revised by himself. These last consti- 

 tute what is called Corerdale's Bible. Now, the 

 title-page of Coverdale's Bible expressly states 

 that it was faithfully and tridy translated out of 

 Douche and Latyn into E)iglishe ;" and that this is 

 literally true may be seen by comparing any por- 

 tion of it with the common German version of 

 Liither. The following portion is taken quite at 

 hazard from the original edition ; and I have 

 added Tyndale's version of 1526, as edited by 

 Mr. Otfor : 



1535. 

 John, vi. 41. 



The murmured the lewes ther oner, that he sayde: 

 I am y' bred which is come downc from heauO, and 

 they sayde: Is not this Icsus, losephs Sonne, who.se 

 father and mother we knowe ? How sayeth he then, I 

 am come downe from hcaue ? Icsus answered, and 

 sayde vnto them : JNIurmur not amonge yourc seines. 

 No man can come vnto me, excepte the father which 

 hath sent me, drawe him. And 1 shal rayse him vp 

 at the last daye. It is wrytten in the prophetes: 

 They shal all be taughte of God. Who so ener now 

 heareth it of the father and lerneth it, commeth vnto 

 me. Not that eny man hath sene the father, saue he 

 which is of the father, the sam.e hath sene the father. 



lAitlier, 

 41 Da mnrreten die Juden daruber, das er sagte : 

 Ich bin das brodt, das vom himmel gekommen ist. 



