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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>4 S. VI. 132., July 10. '58. 



''A Sure Guide to Hell"— Who was the author 

 of the spiritual itinerary, A Sure Guide to Hell, 

 by Beelzebub, London, 8vo., 1750? W. C. 



[It was written by Benjamin Bourn, a London book- 

 seller, and the son of a dissenting minister. He died on 

 April 15, 1755.] 



KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN OF .TERIJSALEM. 



(P' S. vii. 628.) 



Me. Winthrop g:ave an extract from Suther- 

 land's Hist, of Knights of Malta, in which it was 

 stated, that 



" In the reign of Henry VIII. the Knights Ingley, 

 Adrian Forrest, Adrian Fortescue, and Marmaduke Bohus, 

 refusing to abjure their faith, perished on the scaffold. 

 Thomas Myttou and Edward Waldegrave died in a dun- 

 geon ; and Richard and James Bell, John Noel, and many 

 others abandoned their country for ever, and sought an 

 asylum at Malta, completely stripped of their posses- 

 sions." 



This statement is supported by Goussaincourt 

 in his Martyrology of the Order, but notwith- 

 standing I venture to question its accuracy. 



"Ingley" was Sir Thomas Dingley noticed by 

 Me. Winthkop in vol. x. p. 177., whose exe- 

 cution along with Sir Adrian Fortescue on July 

 9*, 1589, is recorded by Stow and the Grey 

 Friars' Chronicle. 



" Adrian Forrest." No execution of a person so 

 named is mentioned in any record that I can find. 

 Possibly it is a foreigner's mistaken repetition of 

 the name "Adrian Fortescue," confused with 

 Father John Forrest the Franciscan. 



"Adrian Fortescue." Is it not a mistake to sup- 

 pose him a knight of the Order? Goussaincourt 

 is the authority, but he is not in the lists taken 

 by Me. Winthrop from the Records at Malta, 

 nor those given in the Brit. Mag. for Jan. 18341, 

 and what is known of his history is inconsistent 

 with the idea of his being under vows of poverty 

 and celibacy. He was the second son of Sir John 

 Fortescue of Punsborne, Herts, and joined the 

 army of Henry VII., by whom he was created a 

 Knight Banneret and a Knight of the Bath, and 

 rewarded for his services with several grants of 

 land. He married, first, Anne, daughter and 

 heiress of Sir William Stonor of Stonor, by 

 whom he had an only daughter, married to Sir 

 Henry Wentworth ; and secondly, Anne, daugh- 

 ter of William Reade of Boarstall, Esq., by whom 

 he had a son, Sir John Fortescue of Salden, 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a daughter, 

 Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord 



• Stow has the 10th. 



t Mr. Winthrop does not appear to have seen the 

 books quoted by Mr. Froude, as several names are given 

 by the latter and omitted by the former. Are those 

 books ? 



Keeper. After his execution his widow remar- 

 ried Sir Thomas Parry. Perhaps, as in Stow 

 the two are coupled together thus, " Sir Adrian 

 Fortescue and Thomas Dingley, Knight of Saint 

 John's, and divers other were attainted," it might 

 have been supposed both were knights of the 

 Order.* 



"Marmaduke Bohus." This must refer to Mar- 

 maduke Bowes, Esq., of Angram Grange, Cleve- 

 land, who was executed at York, Nov. 26, 1585, 

 for entertaining a priest, though he had conformed 

 to the established religion. But there seems no 

 reason to suppose him a knight. Challoner says 

 he was married. f 



Sir David Genson. There is an omission al- 

 together of this knight, whose name is spelt also 

 " Gonson " and "Jensey." He had been Lieu- 

 tenant of the Turcopolier at Malta, and was 

 named as a pensioner in the Act for the disso- 

 lution. His end is recorded by Stow : — 



" 1541. The 1 of July, Sir David Genson, Knight of the 

 Rhodes, was drawn through Southwark to S. Thomas of 

 Watrings, and there executed for the Supremacy." 



The other names all belong to the reign of Eliza- 

 beth. 



" Thomas Mytton and Edward Waldegrave." 

 These must be Sir Thomas Metham and Sir 

 Edward Waldegrave, who were imprisoned for 

 hearing Mass in the beginning of Queen Eliza- 

 beth's reign. Sir Edward died in prison Sept. 1, 

 1561, " ex faetore carceris in morbum incidens," 

 says Bridgwater, who mentions no more than Sir 

 Thomas Metham's imprisonment, and not his 

 death. They were both knighted by Queen 

 Mary at her coronation, and their wives were 

 sent to prison with them. They cannot therefore 

 have been Knights of St. John, and are not so 

 entitled by Bridgwater. J 



"Richard &nA James Bell." The names lead to 

 the supposition that these mean Sir Richard and 

 Sir James Shelley, of whom Me. Winthrop has 

 given an account ("N. & Q." 1" S. x. 201. and 

 xi. 179.). 



" John Noel." It seems probable that this refers 

 to Sir John Neville, of whom Bridgwater says, 

 " equestris ordinis vir, obiit in exilio cum filio." 

 But there is no appearance of his being a Knight 

 of St. John. 



Sir Thomas Murkenfield. He is not mentioned 

 by Sutherland, but Bridgwater calls him a Knight 

 of St. John, and Dodd adds, that " refusing to 

 conform to the alterations made in the beginning 

 of Queen Elizabeth's reign, immediately left Eng- 

 land, and died abroad. But I have seen no other 

 authority to connect him with the Order. 



* Clutterbuck's Herts, Burke's Dormant Baronetage ■ 

 (Scotch), Records of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and 

 Originalia Rolls. 



■f Challoner's Missionary Priests. 



X Machyn's Diary, Bridgwater's Concertatio. 



