2"* S. VI. 145., Oct. 9. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



299 



copied from the marriage registers of the Holy 

 Trinity parish, Chester : — 



" Upon the 22nd of June, in the year 1654. a marriage 

 between William Mulieneux of Neston in the County of 

 Chester, Mariner, and Margaret Bellin of Thornton in 

 the same county, Spinster, was solemnised before the 

 Worshipful John Johnson, Esq., Alderman and Justice of 

 Peace ivithin the City of Chester, and publication of an 

 intention of that marriage having been first published at 

 the Market Cross in Chester, three market daj-s in three 

 several weeks, that is, the 7th, the 14th, and 21st days in 

 the month of June, in the said year 1C54 ; which marriage 

 being performed by the said William and Margaret, ac- 

 cordinc) to an Act of the late Parliament, the said .Justice 

 of Peace pronounced them from thenceforth to be Hus- 

 band and Wife, in the presence of Thomas Humphreys 

 and Robert Dentith, witnesses present at the said mar- 

 riage." 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Cromwell's Act of Parliament, 24th Au^. 1653, 

 enacted that the banns of marriage should be pub- 

 lished three times on three separate Sundays in 

 the church or chapel, or (if the parties desired it) 

 in the market-place next to such church or chapel, 

 on three market days, in three several next follow- 

 ing weeks, between the hours of 11 and 2. (See 

 Burn on Parish Registers, p. 27.) As the act did 

 not prescribe ivho was to publish the banns in the 

 market-place, it would no doubt often occur that 

 the hellman of the town would be the most eligible 

 person to perform that duty, both on account of*i 

 his hell and his voice. This appears to have been 

 a favourite mode of proclaiming the banns, since 

 the parish registers of Boston in Lincolnshire 

 state that the banns proclaimed in the market-place 

 of that town, during 1656, 1657, and 1658, were 

 102, 104, and 108 respectively ; those proclaimed 

 in the church during those years were 48, 31, and 

 52. The last recorded proclauialion in the mar- 

 ket-place was on the 1st of July, 1659. 



PisHEY Thompson. 



In illustration of the entry relative to the pub- 

 lication of banns by the bellman, as noted by N. 

 B., it may be mentioned that by an. ordinance 

 dated August 23, 1653, the banns of marriage 

 were ordered to be published in the market-place 

 of towns, the marriage itself taking place before a 

 justice of the peace. Holland, in his History of 

 Worksop, says this act continued in force till 

 1658, between which date and that above men- 

 tioned sixty marriages were so conducted in that 

 Bmall town, the banns, in one instance, being ex- 

 pressly stated to have been, " according to the 

 act, published at Worksop Market Cross," perhaps 

 by the bellman. X. 



Wellstye, Essex (.?) (2"'' S. vi. 267.) — R. C. W. 

 will (ind Wellstye a farm in the jiarish of Barn- 

 8ton, about two miles anil a quarter south of Dun- 

 mow. I know naught of the family of Lionel 

 Lane. Geo. L. L'kkre. 



Francis Quarles and "The Loyal Convert" (2"* 

 S. vi. 201.) — In the library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, are contained not only two copies of the 

 anonymous pamphlet entitled The Loyall Convert, 

 Oxford, 1643, described by /8, but also the follow- 

 ing one, affording still more decisive evidence than 

 that adduced by /3 that the author is Francis 

 Quarles : — 



" The Profest Royalist : his Qvarrell with the Times : 

 maintained in three Tracts: viz. 



rLoyall Convert. 

 The< New Distemper. 

 (Whipper Whipt. 



Opus Posthumum. Heb. xi. 4. He being dead yet 

 speaketh. Oxford, printed in the Yeere 1645." 



Prefixed to the three tracts above mentioned is 

 the following dedicatory epistle : — 



" To the sacred Majestj' of King Charles, my most dear 

 and dread Soveraign. 



" Sir, Be pleased to cast a gracious eye upon these three 

 Tracts, and at Your leasure (if Your Royall Imployments 

 lend You any) to peruse them. 



" In Your Three Kingdoms You have three sorts of 

 people : The first, confident and faithfull ; The second, 

 diffident and fearfull ; The third, indifferent and doubtful!. 



" The first are with You in their Persons, Purses (or 

 desires), and good tcishes. 



" The second are with You neither in their Purses, nor 

 good ivishes, nor (with their desires) in their Persons. 



"The third are with you in their good wishes, but nei- 

 ther in their Persons, nor Purses, nor Desires. 



" In the last, entituled The Whipper Whipt, these three 

 sorts are represented in three Persons, and presented to 

 the view of Your Sacred Majest3'. 



" You shall find them as busie with their Pens as the 

 Armies are with their Pistols : How they behave them- 

 selves, let the People judge : I appeale to Cesar. Your 

 Majesties Honour, Safety, and Prosperity, The Churches 

 Ti'uth, Unity, and uniformity. Your Kingdoms Peace, 

 Plenty, and Felicity, is the continued object of his Devo- 

 tion, who is, 



" Sir, Your Majesties most Loyall Subject, 

 " Fp.a. Quarles." 



'A\icus. 

 Dublin. 



Blachheath Ridges (S"* S. vi. 267.) — If the 

 querist respecting the above alludes to the hollows 

 near Dartmouth House, I remember above thirty 

 years since being told by my father that they 

 were traces of a Danish encampment. What his 

 authority for the statement was I do not know, 

 but I think their shape and length would lead to 

 the very natural conclusion that they are the re- 

 mains of intrenchments of some sort ; and tlie 

 vicinity of what is called Whitfield's Mount, 

 otherwise the Blacksmith's Forge, has led me to 

 believe that it might have formed part of the de- 

 fences, and afterwards been used by Wat Tyler, 

 when he camped on the heath, and from its 

 shape and ])osition by Whitfield. En passant, it 

 may be remembered by some of your readers that 

 from this mciui.d it is slated by Evelyn that he 

 saw the first shell fired. It is much to be re- 



