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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58. 



to Ireland by slaying the Irish champion Moraunt 

 in a duel. Perhaps the subject of Irish seaman- 

 ghip may deserve and obtain a Note from readers 

 of "N. & Q." who are qualified to do the subject 

 more justice than the writer of this Note. 



■' H. C. C. 



Thoroton, Shipman, Byron, Pierrepont, Sj'c — 

 Those Nottinghamshire men who annotate their 

 Thoroton will find matter for notes in Thomas 

 Shipman's Carolina, or Loyal Poems, 1683. T. S. 

 was a member of this college, and gave some 

 slight assistance to Thoroton (see Index Norn., 

 sub Shipman), who says, under Scarrington : — 



" Thomas Shipraan, a good Poet, and one of the Cap- 

 tains of the Trained Bands of this County, the present 



owner, married Blargaret, the daughter of Traftord, 



Esquire, who brought him a good inheritance at Bul- 

 cote," &c. 



Carolina was noticed in the Athenceiim of March 

 27th last as containing (p. 177.) an effusion of a 

 former Lord Byron. At p. 29., under date 1658, 

 are lines " Upon S. C, a Presbyterian Minister 

 and Captain, stealing 48 lines from Crashaw's 

 Poems, to patch up an Elegy for Mr. F. P." This 

 F. P. was Francis Pierrepont, son of the Earl of 

 Kingston ; and the plunder, disguised from the 

 original, " Upon the Death of the most desired 

 M"' Herrys," appears at the end of Whitlock's 

 sermon, The Upright Man and his Happy End, 

 preached in 1657, and published in the following 

 year. The pieces at the end of this sermon are 

 by Vere Harcourt, John Viner (Minist. verb. 

 Westmon.), Laurence Palmer, S. Brunsil, Arthur 

 Squire, Sa. Cotes (Bridgftn-diensis), Sam. Picker- 

 ing, R. Grant, S. C, Z. C, Edward Stillingfleet, 

 Fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambr., J. T. C. C. I. 



One name at least of these may be recognised 

 as belonn;ing to Notts, that of Cotes (of whom I> 

 have a MS. sermon) ; and my request is for re- 

 ferences mentioning the connexion of any others 

 with the county. S. F. Ceeswell. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



©tien'c^. 



JOHN COTTON, GENT., AND THOMAS GAEGKAVE, 

 KNIGHT. 



I have before me sundry copies of Court-Roll, 

 bearing date 14th INIay, 3 Edw. VI., in one of 

 which the steward of his majesty's manor-court 

 held at Ecclesfield on that day acknowledges the 

 receipt of the king's mandate to the stewards and 

 understewards of his majesty's manors of Wake- 

 field, Hatfield, Thorne, Fishlake, Sherburne and 

 Ecclesfield, commanding them to take into their 

 bands all and sundry the copyhold chantry-lands 

 and tenements within those manors, and to devise 

 and let the same by copy of Court-Roll "unto 

 John Cotton, gent., in consideration of his good 



and faithful service heretofore done to us and to 

 our late noble father." In another. Sir Thomas 

 Gargrave and Thomas Darley receive from the 

 hands of the king (by his steward, of course,) 

 sundry chantry-lands therein described, to have 

 and to hold for the use of the two then existing 

 chantry-priests at Ecclesfield for the term of their 

 lives, and after their death for the use of John 

 Cotton, his heirs and assigns; whilst in a third 

 document, in which the name of Cotton does not 

 occur, the same Sir Thos. Gargrave sells the said 

 lands, &c. to the parishioners of Ecclesfield to be 

 applied to certain religious and charitable uses to 

 which they are still applied, and for which he has 

 the credit of being the chief benefactor to the 

 parish. But as the lands were only worth four 

 pounds a-year or thereabouts, and the parishioners 

 gave him forty pounds for them, subject as they 

 were to the interest of two lives, the charity on 

 his part does not seem anything very great; espe- 

 cially as the statute of 1 Edw. IV. c. 14. directs 

 certain commissioners to assign chantry-lands to 

 various charitable uses exactly corresponding to 

 those to which Gargrave assigned the lands afore- 

 said. 



My Queries then are. Was Sir Thomas Gar- 

 grave one of those commissioners for the West 

 Riding, or how otherwise had he power to dispose 

 of lands held in trust for the use of another per- 

 son ? Who was John Cotton, and what was his 

 exact connexion with Sir Thomas Gargrave ? Of 

 course, I know what Thoresby and Hunter have 

 to say on Sir Thomas Gargrave's family, and that 

 he married Ann, daughter of Sir William Cotton, 

 but I cannot make out satisfactorily the exact 

 status of the John Cotton mentioned in the docu- 

 ments referred to. I have been on the look out 

 for some years back for any stray hints that might 

 help to answer the queries now propounded, but 

 did not apply to your pages for fear of betraying 

 my ignorance of what may be " the simplest thing 

 in the world." Now, however, a special object 

 connected with the above gives me the courage 

 to run the risk. J. Eastwood. 



VOLTAIRE AND EDWARD FAWKNER. 



In Mr. Carlyle's recent Life of Fredeiick IL, 

 under an account of Voltaire and his literary cor- 

 respondence, the following passage occurs: — 



"His (Voltaire's) own letters of the period are dated 

 now and then from ' Wandsworth.' Allusions there are to 

 Bolingbroke, but the Wandsworth is not Bolingbroke's 

 mansion, which stood in Battersea ; the Wandsworth was 

 one Edward Fawkuer's, a man somewhat admirable to 

 young Voltaire, but extinct now, or nearly so, in human 

 memory. He had been a Turkey merchant it would 

 seem, and nevertheless was admitted to speak his word in 

 intellectual, even in political circles, which was wonder- 

 ful to young Voltaire. This Fawkner, I think, became 

 Sir Edward Fawkner, and some kind of ' Secretary to the 



