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curious right here mentioned; but possibly some 
of your correspondents may throw light upon 
it. I have not found such a right mentioned in 
any book. C. 8. Greavezs. 
[Among the various methods of transferring inherit- 
ances with our ancestors, was that of conveying them by 
a horn, either in Frankalmoigne, or in fee, or in serjeantry. 
Ingulphus particularly specifies the horn: At first,” 
says he, speaking of the Conqueror’s time, ‘‘ many estates 
were transferred by bare word of mouth, without any 
writing or charter, only by the lord’s sword, or helmet, 
or horn, or cup; and many tenements by a spur, a scraper, 
a bow, and some by an arrow.” In Kennet’s Parochial 
Antiquities, Edward the Confessor gives the rangership 
of Bernwode forest, in Bucks, with a hyde of land, to 
Nigel and his heirs, to be held by a horn. This Nigel 
had killed a large boar there: and this was his remuner- 
ation. According to Blount (Fragmenta Antiquitatis, 
p. 186. edit. 1784), * Walter Achard, or Agard, claimed 
to hold by inheritance the office of Escheator and Coroner 
through the whole honour of Tetbury, co. Stafford, and 
the Bailiwick of Leyke, for which oftice he could produce 
no evidences, charter, or other writing, but only a white 
hunter’s horn, decorated in the middle and at each end 
with silver gilt; to which also was affixed a girdle of 
fine black silk, adorned with certain buckles of silver, in 
the midst of which are placed the arms of Edmund 
(Crouchback, the first Earl of Lancaster), second son of 
Henry III. [{Dr. Pegge says, these arms cannot be ad- 
mitted; but must be the bearing either of John of Gaunt, 
or of his son, Henry IV.; most likely of the former. } 
Probably these offices were enjoyed by the family of 
Ferrers of Tamworth, by this horn, before they came to 
the Agards; for Nicholas Agard of Tetbury, who was 
living in 1569, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir 
of Roger Ferrers, the eleventh son of Sir Thomas Ferrers, 
of Tamworth. From Agard, the horn descended by a 
marriage with the heiress of that family to the Stanhopes 
of Elvaston; and was subsequently purchased of Charles 
Stanhope, Esq., by Mr. Samuel Foxlowe, of Staveley, in 
Derbyshire, who enjoys [ 1784 ] the offices above-mentioned 
by this tenure, and in virtue of his being in possession of 
the horn.” Thus far Blount. On turning to Burke’s 
Commoners, vol, ii. p. 29. edit. 1837, we learn that the Rev. 
William Bagshawe, incumbent of Worrhhill Chapel, and 
of Banner Cross, co. York, married Anne, daughter of 
Samuel Foxlowe, Esq., of Staveley, and has had issue 
William, who died Nov. 9, 1818, and Mary Catherine 
Anne, who married Henry Marwood Greaves, second son 
of Bustard Greaves, Esq. In addition to Blount, consult 
a curious paper by Dr, Pegge, Archeologia, vol. iii. p. 1., 
entitled, * Of the Horn, as a Charter or Instrument of 
Conveyance.” | 
Old Deeds (1* S. xii. 408.) — The suggestions 
of your correspondents are very good. ‘The pre- 
servation of ancient deeds is too little attended to. 
Perhaps some one will kindly inform us what is 
the best mode of cleaning and restoring old pam- 
phlets. Frequently they are found creased, 
crumpled, and covered with dirt. How can this 
be removed without endangering the writing ? 
Is it known what is the process used in the public 
Record Offices, where much has been done in 
this way ? Karu, 
[The best mode of cleaning paper documents, whether 
printed or manuscript, is by rubbing them with bread- 
NOTES AND QUERIES, [204 S. N06, Fen, 9. °56, 
| crumbs or indian-rubber; the latter is the best agent if 
the paper is strong enough to bear it. A delicate hand is 
necessary. To clean vellum documents use the same; or, 
if the dirt is stubborn, use a sponge slightly damped with 
spring water. Where the latter is used, be careful not to 
touch the writing roughly, and place each document be- 
tween pieces of pasteboard, with a heavy superincumbent 
weight until dry. If our correspondent needs assistance, 
we would recommend him to apply to Mr. Henry Gough, 
of Islington, whose beautiful restoration of the Cottonian 
MSS., at the British Museum, proclaim him to be the best 
authority in these matters in the present day. } 
Passage in Tennyson's “ In Memoriam.” —In a 
paper on Alfred ‘Tennyson’s Poems, in the Cam- 
bridge Essays, the following lines are quoted : 
“ FT hold it true, whate’er befall ; 
I feel it when I sorrow most ; 
Tis better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all.” 
In the Introduction to English Literature, by 
Henry Reed, the same stanza is quoted thus : 
“ This truth came borne on bier and pall, 
I felt it when I sorrow’d most, 
Tis better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all.” 
Which is the correct version ? 
Wiruram Broop. 
Dublin. 
[The first is the reading in the edition of 1850; also 
that of the fifth and sixth editions, published in 1851 and 
1855.] 
Replies. 
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH. 
(2°°8.1. 7) 
I have been for months intending. to supply the 
readers of “ N. & Q,” with the very information 
asked for by Mr. Peter Cunnincuam. ‘There is 
a certain proverb, however, extant about ‘ good 
intentions,” too familiar to need quoting here ; 
but as, according to another, it is ‘“‘never too late 
to mend,” I will endeavour forthwith to atone for 
my neglect. 
Mr. Giles Vanbrugh was a sugar-baker, carry- 
ing on business in Weaver Street, Chester, at 
least as early as 1667, as the following extracts 
from the registers of Holy Trinity Church clearly 
prove: 
“ Carleton, buried Oct. 13, 1667. 
Elizabeth, buried Nov, 27, 1667. 
Mary, born Nov. 3; baptized Nov. 19, 1668. 
Victoria, baptized Jan. 25, 1669-70. 
Elizabeth, baptized May 4, 1671. 
Robina, baptized Sept. 22, 1672. 
Carleton, baptized Sept, 18, 1673. 
An infant son, buried Aug. 31, 1674, 
Giles, baptized Sept. 3, 1675. 
Catherina, baptized Oct. 9, 1676; buried March 22, 
677. 
Dudley, born Oct, 21; baptized Oct, 25, 1677, 
