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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 71. 



Chertsea. His successor, John de Logpje of Bur- 

 stowe, witnessed in the tenth year of Edward II. 

 a deed rehxting to the transfer of Land in Hadre- 

 sham, Surre)'. The name became gradually cor- 

 rupted to Lodge. 



To return to the subject of inquiry, Bigod de 

 Loges — 



" held five tenements in Sow of the Earl of Chester, by 

 the service of conducting the said earl towards the king's 

 court through the midst of the forest of Ciuinock, 

 meeting him at Rotford bridge upon his coming, and 

 at Hopwas bridge on his return. la which forest the 

 earl might, if he pleased, kill a deer at his coming, and 

 another at his going back : giving unto Loges each time 

 he should so attend him a barbed arrow. Hugo de 

 Loges granted to William Bagot all his lands in Sow, 

 to hold of him the said Hugo and liis heirs, by the 

 payment of a pair of white gloves at the feast of 

 St. Michael yearly." — Dugdale. 



Bigod de Loges had two sons, Hugo and 

 Odardus : 



" Odardus de Loges was infeoffed by Ranulphus de 

 Meschines, Earl of Chester, in the baronies of Stanyton, 

 Wigton, Doudryt, Waverton, Blencoyd, and Kirkbride, 

 in the county of Cumberland ; and the said Odardus 

 built Wigton church and endowed it. He lived until 

 King John's time. Henry 1. confirmed the grant of 

 the barony to him, by wliich it is probable that lie 

 lived a hundred years. He had issue Adam. Adam 

 had issue Odard, the lord, whoso son and heir, Adam 

 the Second, died without issue, and Odard the Fourth 

 likewise," &c. — Denton's MS. 



Of the branch settled in Staffordshire and War- 

 wickshire — 



" Hugo de Loges married, tempo Richard I., Mar- 

 gerie, daughter and heiress of Robert de Brok. By 

 this marriage Hugo became possessed of the manor of 

 Casterton in Warwickshire. He was forester of Can- 

 nock chace. He had issue Hugo de Loges, of Chester- 

 ton, whose son and heir, Sir Richard de Loges, died 

 21st of Edward I. Sir Richard had issue two sons, 

 Richard and Hugo. The eldest, Richard of Chester- 

 ton, left issue an only daughter, Elizabeth, married to 

 Nicholas de Warwick. The issue of this marriage 

 was John de Warwick, whose daughter and heiress, 

 Eleonora, married Sir John de Peto, and brought the 

 manor of Chesterton into that family." — Dugdale. 



M. J, T. 



SHAK.SPEAKE S " ANTONY AUD CLEOPATRA. 



(Vol. iii., p. 139.) 



The scene in Antony and Cleopatra contains 

 two expressions which are in Henry VIII. — 

 " Learn this, Silius." 

 "Learn this, brother." — Hen. VIII. 

 " The Captain's captain." 

 " To be her Mistress' mistress, the Queen's queen." — 



Hen. VI I L 



The first of these passages is in a scene in Henry 

 VIII., which Mr. Hickson gives to Fletcher (and 



of which, by-the-bye, it may be observed, that, 

 like the scene in Antony and Cleopatra, it has 

 nothing to do with the business of tlie play). The 

 other is in a scene which he gives to Shakspeare. 



But, perhaps, there may be doubts whether 

 rightly. I am exceedingly ignorant in Fletcher ; 

 but here is a form of expression which occurs 

 twice in the scene, which, I believe, is more con- 

 formable to the practice of Fletcher : — 

 " A heed was in his countenance." 

 " And force them with a constancy." 



There is very great stiffness in the versification: 

 one instance is quite extraordinary : 

 " Yet I know her for 

 A spleeny Lutheran ; and not wholesome to 

 Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of 

 Our hard rul'd king." 



There is great stiffness and tameness in the 

 matter in many places. 



Lastly, what Mr. Hickson hopes he has taken 

 off Shakspeare's shoulder.-;, the compliments to 

 the Queen and the King, is brought in here most 

 forcedly : — 



" She (i. e. A. Boleyn) is a gallant creature, and 

 complete 

 In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her 

 Will fall some blessings to this land, which shall 

 In it be niemoriz'd." « 



But there is also the general question, whether, 

 either upon « priori probability, or inferences de- 

 rived from particular passages, we are bound to 

 suppose that the two authors wrote scene by scene. 

 Shakspeare might surely be allowed to touch up 

 scenes, of which the mass might be written by 

 Fletcher. 



As to the dates, Mb. Coi-lier is persuaded that 

 Henry VIII. was written in the winter of 1603-4. 

 The accession of James was in March, 1603. Mb. 

 Collier thinks that the compliments to Queen 

 Elizabeth were not written in her lifetime. He 

 thinks that, even in the last year of her long reign, 

 no one would have ventured to call her an " aged 

 princess," though merely as a way of saying that 

 she would have a long reign ; and he says, there is 

 not the slightest evidence that the compliment to 

 King James was an interpolation. But surely it 

 is strong evidence that if there is no interpolation, 

 this passage — 



"As when 

 The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix," 



afterwards — 

 " When Heav'n shall call her from this cloud of dark. 



ness," 

 and then, after disposing of the King — 



" She shall be to the happiness of England 

 An aged princess 



W^ould I had known no more — but she laust die ; 

 She must — the saints must hane her yet a virgin^** &e. 



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