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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2»'i s. vi. i43., Sept. 25. '5?. 



The mill is still standing, bnt is not at pre- 

 sent in operation, though it is, I believe, to be let. 

 It will soon, by means of the Border Counties' 

 Railway (which will pass within a short distance 

 of it), be rendered much more accessible than it 

 could have been in Mr. Pitt's time. 



W. C. Tbeveltan. 



Wallington. 



Payment of M.P.'s (2"* S. Iv. passim.) — On this 

 subject see Annals of Windsor, vol. i. p. 469. In 

 a note it is said that in the year 1432, the date of 

 the earliest register of the corporation of South- 

 ampton, is the following entry : — 



" Item, payd the iij day of Aprill, to my master the 

 meyre (M.P. that j-ear) in party paj-ment of hys parla- 

 mcnt wages, xls." 



In the Windsor accounts the entries occur 

 nearly every year. See also "Report on the 

 Municipal Records of Winchester and South- 

 ampton," by Thomas AYright (in Proceedings of 

 British ArchcEological Association'). R. C. W. 



Earliest Stone Church in Ireland (2"" S. vi. 233.) 

 — A stone oratory was erected at Banchnr in the 

 twelfth century by Archbishop Malachy. The 

 novelty, however, of such a structure appears to 

 have excited considerable astonishment among 

 the native Irish even at that period. For a simi- 

 lar erection at Armagh annalists have assigned a 

 much earlier date, placing it as far back as the 

 eighth century. A stone church is said to have 

 been built at Clonmacnois by the monarch Flann 

 Siona in 904. A church at Armagh of the same 

 material, roofed with lead, is mentioned as a work 

 of the early part of the eleventh century. That 

 the stone oratory of St. Malachy already alluded 

 to was deemed an architectural innovation is clear 

 from the following passage, which your readers 

 will find quoted in & foot-note, vol. ii. p. 59. of the 

 undermentioned history : — 



" Visum est Malachiaj debere construi in Benchor ora- 

 torium lapideum, instar illorum qux in aliis regionibus 

 extructa conspexerat. Et cum ccepisset jacere funda- 

 menta indigense quidem mirati sunt, quod in terra ilia 

 necdum ejusmodi jedificia invenirentur." — S. Bernard, in 

 Vit. 3Ialacli. 



The celebrated Cormac, who united in his per- 

 son the kingdom and see of Cashel, bequeathed 

 many costly gifts, vessels, gold and silver, vest- 

 ments, mass-books, and other valuable treasures 

 to churches. The beautiful chapel which cro.vned 

 the rock of Cashel was also the work of this mo- 

 narch, who perished in battle with the warrior- 

 abbots of Cork and Kinetty, 908. Lismore, 

 Cashel, and Armagh, were among the several 

 churches enriched by his munificence. Those 

 previously mentioned were the earliest ecclesi- 

 astical (stone) structures in Ireland, the more 

 ancient edifices being nothing more than rude 

 compilations of wattles, clay, and thatch, such 



materials as composed, under the hand of St. Pa- 

 trick (in the sixth century), the first Christian 

 temple that supplanted " the image which pa- 

 ganism had set up " on the Plain of Slaughter. 

 (See Moore's Hist, of Ireland, vol. ii. pp. 59, 60.) 

 Mention is somewhere made (I think in the 

 history to which I have referred) of two remark- 

 able features peculiar to ancient Irish ecclesias- 

 tical architecture, namely, the stone roofs and 

 crypts, which, instead of being subterraneous 

 eells, were chambers occupying the space be- 

 tween the ceiling and the roof. Will any of your 

 readers kindly refer me to the most reliable work 

 treating on Irish architecture, ecclesiastical and 

 domestic ? F. Phillott. 



Population of London (2"* S. vi. 110.) — If X. 

 y. Z. can refer to Sir W. Petty's Essay on Poli- 

 tical Arithmetic, concerning the Growth of London, 

 written in 1682, I think he will find the informa- 

 tion he seeks. Botero's work. On the Causes of 

 the Magnificence and Greatness of Cities, written 

 at the close of the sixteenth century, may be also 

 worth consulting ; and in a more popular recent 

 work. The Pictorial History of England, there are 

 various references to the subject. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Worlis printed hy Plantin and the Stephenses . 

 (2°'' S. vi. 91.) — Peignot, in his Bepertoire Biblio- j 

 graphicjue Universel (Paris, 1812), mentions the 

 following works (p. 118), Index Librorum qui in 

 Typographia Plantiniana venales extant, Antverp, 

 B. Moretus, 1642 ; (p. 363.) Petite Notice sur les 

 Plantins; and adds, "Crevenna a dit un mot sur ceg 

 imprimeurs dans le sixieme volume de son Catu- 

 Ingue de 1776, p. 166., et il I'a dit d'apres Mait- 

 taire ; " (p. 97.) Libri in Officina Rob. Stephani, 

 partim nati, partim resfituti et excusi, 1546 ; and j 

 (p. 363.) Michaelis Maittaire Historia Typogra- 

 phoimm aliquot Parisiensium, vitas et libros com- 

 plectens, Londini, 1717. Anon. 



mie. de Scuderi (2'"' S. v. 274., vi. 177.) — On 

 this celebrated lady, besides the sources I have 

 previously quoted, see M. Cousin's work. La So- 

 ciete Frangaise au XV IP Steele, more especially the 

 twelfth chapter in the second volume. 



Gdstave Masson. 



Martin's Long Melford (2°* S. vi. .190.) —The 

 very interesting manuscript of Roger Martin, Esq., 

 of Long Melford in Suffolk, was published at 

 length in Neale's and Le Kieux's Views of Colle- 

 giate and Parochial Churches, London, 1824, vol. ii. 



H. D'AVENET. 



The Irish Estates (2"'^ S. vi. 207.)— Many 

 years ago I bought by public auction in Fleet 

 Street a small folio MS. volume, which proved to be 

 the original minutes of the Vintners' Company, con- 

 taining the early years of James I. Many of these 

 minutes related to the purchase of the Irish estates 



