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him if he will give the date of Sir Thomas’s burial 
from the register of Williamsburgh Church. As 
Sir Thomas married a third wife when in Vir- 
ginia, perhaps this same register may contain the 
record of his marriage, and other information re- 
specting him and his family. Iam disposed to 
think that he had a son born in Virginia of his 
own name, who succeeded to his baronetcy — 
another title conferred by warrant only — and 
whose will, dated January 4, 1688, was proved in 
C. P. C., June 13, 1691. 
Can Mr. Batcu ascertain whether the memora- 
ble cavalier made a will? It is not unlikely that 
his Virginian wife was a lady of the Ludwell 
family. G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. 
Publication of Banns (2° S. i. 34.) —Extract 
from the register of Grappenhall Church, Cheshire: 
“ Publication of Intended Marriages-since the first of 
frebruarie, 1653, 
“Upon the 12, the 19, and 26 of ffebruarie, being the 
Lordes dayes, the intended Marriage was publisht att the 
Close of morning Exesise. 
¢ John Pickering of Lachford, and 
Ann Turner of Warrington.” 
J. K. 
Old Silver Medal (2"4 S. i. 55.) —This is evi- 
dently one struck by the Chapter of Hildesheim, 
sede vacante, that is, in the interval between the 
death of one bishop and the election, confirmation, 
and enthroning of his successor. The see was 
one of the most ancient in Germany, having been 
founded by Charlemagne in the town of Eltzen ; 
whence it was transferred to Hildesheim by his suc- 
cessor, Louis the Pius. Gunthar, the first bishop, 
died in a.p. 835. The cathedral is dedicated to 
the Blessed Virgin Mary. The chapter consisted 
of noble canons ; hence the coronetted escutcheons 
on the medal. The bishop enjoyed extensive pri- 
vileges and jurisdiction as a prince of the empire, 
and ranked the ninth of the thirty who originally 
had seats in the diet. After the Reformation, he 
was the only Catholic bishop in Lower Saxony. 
Part of the territory of the see had in various 
contests been torn from it by its neighbours, the 
Dukes of Brunswick, to whom those acquisitions 
were confirmed by the Treaties of Munster and 
Westphalia. In the latter part of the seventeenth 
century, the Archbishops of Cologne were elected 
to this see, and hence its original subjection to 
Mentz appeared less obvious. Like other eccle- 
siastical states, it was overthrown in the storms 
of the French Revolution, was secularised, and, 
after being incorporated in the short-lived king- 
dom of Westphalia, was finally given to Hanover 
by the Treaty of Vienna in 1815. 
The cathedral of Tildesheim possesses, among 
other monuments of remote antiquity, a most re- 
markable relic of heathen Saxony —the basis of 
the idol Irmensul, which was overthrown in the 
«“ Betweene 
time of Charlemagne ; and having at a later period 
been recovered from a river into which it had 
been cast, has for many ages served to support a 
candelabrum near the entrance of the choir. 
Within the territory is the village of Hamelen, 
famous for the story of the Piper, which is already 
familiar to the readers of the 1** S. of “ N. & Q.” 
ARTERUS. 
Dublin. 
This medal was struck by order of the Chapter 
of the Bishoprick of Hildesheim (Capitulum Hilde- 
siensis, Kingdom of Hanover), to commemorate 
the period of the Sede Vacante, which lasted from 
1761 to 1763, after the death of Bishop Clement 
Augustus (a Duke of Bavaria, and Elector of Co- 
logne, 1724—1761). The thirty-two coronetted 
shields (sixteen on each side) are the arms of the 
thirty-two canons of which the chapter is composed. 
The shield near the Virgin is that of the bishopric, 
and the church represented on the medal is the 
cathedral. The initial T under the episcopal chair 
signifies the artist’s name, John Thiebaud of 
Augsburg. elas (rey lis 
A Caution to Antiquarics (2°49 8. i. 67.) — The 
writer of the Note on the so-called Pelasgie in- 
scription of “ Brrr pivose” on Tory Hill, is (from 
the internal evidence of his article) no doubt 
aware of a paper on the same subject published in 
Vhe Transactions of the Kilkenny Archeological 
Society, vol. i. (1849—51) pp. 800—304, and 
which goes over the same ground which H. H. H. 
would seem to put himself forward as being the 
first to occupy in 1856? Why did he not quote 
it? James Graves. 
Kilkenny. 
Posies on Rings (24 S. i. 82.) —I forward the 
subjoined, copying the spelling literally. Ona 
small wedding-ring, evidently of old date : 
“ Whear this i giue 
i wish to liue.” 
On a very thick and large gold ring, having on it 
the Mint mark, D. S., capitals interlaced : 
“Tn thee my choyce 
I do rejoyce.” 
Also on a small heart-shaped silver locket, the 
following, in old raised letters : 
“let vs loue 
like turtle doue.” 
The letters, I may add, appear to have been 
beaten up from the back. N.S. Hermexen. 
Sidmouth. 
Samuel Barnard (1% S, ix. 458.) — In Denne’s 
History of Lambeth, Samuel Barnard, D.D., is 
said to be domestic chaplain to Archbishop Ab- 
bot, “and one of his nearest relations ;” whilst 
Edward Abbot is named among the archbishop’s 
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