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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 89. 



for which she only gave her Note to put it to the best 

 advantage ; for some years the interest was well paid, 

 but at her death no books nor ace** were found, and 

 the principal money is all lost. She had a jointure of 

 2000Z. a year, but that goes to her Son-in- Law, Mr. 

 Scawen, Knight of the Shire for Surry: her dissenting 

 friends are the chiefe sufferers." 



Is anything more known of this story ; and, if 

 so, where is the account to be found ? 



De Camera. 



Burton Family. — Roger Burton, in the reign of 

 Charles I., purchased of the Earl of Chesteilield 

 lands at Kilburn, in the parish of Horsley, co. 

 Derby, which remained in the possession of his 

 descendants for more than a century. Perhaps 

 some of your correspondents may be able to inform 

 me how he was connected with the Burtons of 

 Lindley and Dronfield. E. II. A. 



" One who dtcelleth on the castled Rhine."'' — 

 Longfellow, in his exquisite little poem on 

 " Flowers, " says : 



" Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, 

 One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine, 

 When he called the flowers so blue and golden. 

 Stars that in earth's firmament do shine." 



To whom does he allude as dwelling " on the 

 castled Rhine ? " Cowley says : 



" Upon the Jloivers of Heaven we gaze ; 

 The stars of earth no wonder in us raise." 

 And Washington Irving gives an Arabian in- 

 scription from one of the gardens of the Alhambra, 

 which commences with a somewhat similar thought : 

 " How beauteous is this garden, where the flowers 

 of the earth vie witli the stars of Heaven !" 



Seleccus. 



Lady Petrels Monument. — In the church at 

 Ingatestone, in Essex, there is a beautiful monu- 

 ment to Mary Lady Petre, of the date 1684, upon 

 which there is the following curious inscription : — 

 "D. O. M. 

 Certa spe Immortalitatis 

 Parte sui raortali hoc tegitur marmore 



Maria 



"Vidua Domini Robert! Petre Baronis 



de Writtle Guilielmi Joannis et Thomae 



Una trium Baronum Mater 



Qua 13° Jannnarii Aii Diiii 1684 annum 



JEtatis agens 82 in terris devixit, ut 



jEternum in coelo viveret 



Quo illam singularis in Deum pietas 



Suavis in omnes benevolentia 



Profnsa in egenos liberalitas 



Inconcussa in adversis patientia 



Ceu igneus Elia; currus totidem rotis baud 



dubie evixerunt — 



Sicut Sol oriens Mundo in Altissimis Dei 



Sic Mulieris bona: Species in ornamentum domus sua;. 



Ecclus. 26. 



AEIOU." 



I should be glad if any of your learned readers 

 could elucidate the meaning of the five vowels 

 at the foot of the inscription. J. A. Douglas. 



16. Russell Square, June 27. 1851. 



Dr. Young's Narcissa (Voh iii., p. 422.). — J. M. 



says that the Narcissa of Dr. Young was Elizabeth 

 Lee, the poet's daughter-in-law. The letter quoted 

 in the same article from the Evan. Mag. of Nov. 

 1797, calls her Dr. Young's daughter. Has not 

 your correspondent been led into a mistake by 

 calling Narcissa Dr. Young's daughter-in-law ? 

 as, if slie were so, how could she have been named 

 " Lee ?" She might have been his step-daughter, 

 though it has been generally understood that 

 Narcissa was the poet's own and favourite 

 daughter. Will you, or your correspondent 

 J. I\I., be so good as to clear up this point ? 



W. F. S. 

 Surbiton. 



Briwingahle. — AVhat is hriwingable, from which 

 certain burgesses were exempted in a charter of 

 John's ? It cannot be a corruption from hoi'ough- 

 gahle, because all burgesses had to pay gable. 



J • W • 



Thomas Kingeston, Knt., called also Lord Thomas 

 Kingeston. — Can any of your correspondents give 

 any clue or information touching this Lord 

 Kingeston ? He lived in the early part of the 

 reign of Edward III. 



In the extr.ncts from Aske's Collections relating 

 to the descendants of ]\[. Furneaux, published in 

 the first volume of Coll. Top. and Gen., at p. 248., 

 it is stated : 



" Mathew of Bitton was married imto Constantyne 

 Kingston, daughter to the Lord Tliomas of Kingston ; 

 and of the said Mathew and Constantyne came John of 

 Bitton, which died in Portingalo. " 



In a pedigree (Harl. 3ISS. 1982. p. 102.) which 

 shows the descendants of Furneaux, the match 

 between " Sir Math. Bitton" and C. Kingston is 

 laid down, and her arms are marked sab. a lion 

 ramp. or. 



With regard to Mathew de Bitton, he was son 

 and heir of John de Bitton and Havisia Furneaux. 

 The residence of the family was at Hanham, in the 

 parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire, at a place after- 

 wards called " Barre's Court," from Sir John Barre, 

 who married Joan, the great-granddaughter of the 

 said Mathew. The house abutted on the Chace 

 of Kingswood. 



In the 48th of Edward HI. a writ was is- 

 sued, to inquire who were the destroyers of the 

 deer and game in his Majesty's Chace, when it was 

 found that Mathew de Bitton was " Communis 

 malefactor de venasione Dom. Regis in Chacia 

 predicta." It was proved that he had killed thirty- 

 seven deer! After much difficulty, he was brought 



