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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«<i s. IX. Jan. 28. '60. 



once trace the old Land. I have already had some 

 correspondence on this subject with Mr. Dash- 

 wood, and, while agreeing with me in suspecting 

 the earlier portion of Mrs. Sherwood's Table to 

 have been compiled from Spencean materials, he 

 feels anxious, as everyone who ever knew Mrs. 

 Sherwood, either personally or by her writings, 

 must do, — utterly to repudiate the notion of that 

 excellent woman having knowingly sanctioned a 

 fraud. 



I see, in the Preface to her Life, that the 

 editor thanks her relative, the Rev. H. Short, and 

 her kind friend F. G. West, Esq., barrister-at-law, 

 for their very able assistance : " without which," 

 she says, " I could not have presented to the pub- 

 lic the records of relationship with the family of 

 Bacon." It does not appear whether these gen- 

 tlemen had anything to do with the early part of 

 the pedigree. 



The first entry is that of a Butts who married 

 the daughter and heir of Sir Wm. Fitzhugh, of 

 Congleton and Elton, co. Chester ; and the second 

 Butts (Sir William) is slain at the battle of Poic- 

 tiers, after having married a daughter of Sir Ra- 

 nulph Cotgrave, Lord of Hargrove, co. Chester. 

 Then follow three Butts's, all of Congleton. Now, 

 on referring to the letters of Mr. Dixon and Lord 

 Monson, the reader will find that in each instance 

 of pedigree supplied by Mr. Spence, the materials 

 were said by him to be derived from documents in 

 the possession of the Cotgreave family ; and while 

 Mr. Dixon was furnished with an ancestor who 

 fell at the battle of Wakefield, Lord Monson was 

 offered one who was slain at the battle of Poic- 

 tiers. Mr. Dixon's ancestor Ralph was made to 

 quarter the ensigns of Fitzhugh, and other noble 

 houses, " in right of his mother Maude, daughter 

 of Sir Ralph Fitzhugh de Congleton and Elton, 

 co. Chester," — the authority given being that of 

 a very ancient pedigree of the Cotgreaves de Har- 

 grave. Still the old cards, shuffled over again ! 

 It happened, unfortunately for Mr/ Spence, that 

 both Mr. Dixon and Lord Monson had made 

 genealogy their special study; but, no doubt, 

 many persons unacquainted with genealogical mat- 

 ters have been made victims to Mr. Spence's 

 fictions. 



Perhaps the gentlemen mentioned by the editor 

 of Mrs. Sherwood's Life would kindly inform the 

 readers of " N. & Q." whether my suspicions are 

 correct ? and whether they, or Mrs. Sherwood 

 herself, compiled the earlier portion of the Butts 

 pedigree from materials furnished by Mr. Spence ? 



Jaydee. 



Henrt VI. and Edward IV. — Sir Richard 

 Baker says that the body of the deceased Henry 

 was treated with great indignity. " He was 



brought from the Tower to Paul's Church in an 

 open coffin, bare-faced, where he bled ; from 

 thence in a boat to Chertsey Abbey, without 

 Priest or clerk, torch or taper, saying or singing, 

 and there buried." This cannot be reconciled 

 .with the following account taken from the Pellis 

 rec.eptorum : — 



" De Custubus et expensis circa sepulturam prxdieti 

 Henrici. . 



" Die Martis, xxiv die Junii. 



" Hugoni Brice, in denariis sibi liberatis per manus 

 proprias pro tot denariis per ipsum solutis tarn pro clero, 

 tela linen, speciebus, et aliis ordinariis expensis, per ipsum 

 appositis et expenditis {sic) circa sepulturam dicti Hen- 

 rici de Windesore, qui infra Turrim Londonia? diem suum 

 clausit extremum ; ac pro vadiis et regardis diversoruni 

 bominum portnntium tortos, a Turre prcedicta usque 

 Ecclesiam Cathedralem Sancti Pauli Londonia;, et abinde 

 usque Chertescy cum corpore praesenti per Breve prae- 

 dietum. — xv/. iii s . vi d . ob. 



" Magistro Iticbardo Martyn in denariis sibi liberatis 

 ad Vices; videlicet, una vice per manus proprias ix/. x 8 . 

 xi a . pro tot denariis per ipsum solutis pro xxviii. ulnis 

 tela; linese de Holandia, et expensis factis tarn infra Tuirim 

 praedictam ad nltimum Vale dicti Henrici, quasi apud 

 Chertsey in die Sepultune ejusdem : ac pro regardo dato 

 diversis soldariis Calesii vigilantibus circa corpus, et pro 

 conductu Bargearum cum Magistris ac Nautis remi- 

 gantibus per aquam Tbamisis usque Chertesey praedic- 

 tam ; et alia vice v'nil. xii*. iii d . pro tot denariis per 

 ipsum solutis iv. Ordinibus Fratrum infra civitatem Lon- 

 doniae, et Fratribus Sanctaj Crucis in eadem, et in aliis 

 operibus cbaritativis ; videlicet, Fratribus Carmelitis xx 8 . 

 Fratribus Augustinis xx s . Fratribus Minoribus xx 8 . 

 Fratribus Pradicatoribus, pro obsequiis et Missis Cele- 

 brandis xl 8 . et dictis Fratribus Sanctie Crucis x'., ac pro 

 Obsequiis et Missis dicendis apud Chertesey proodictam, 

 in die sepulturte dicti Henrici, lii s . iii d . per Breve pras- 

 dictum. xviii 1 . iii s . ii d ." 



John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Mariner's Compass. — The title of the fol- 

 lowing work, now printed for the first time, will 

 speak for itself: — 



" La Composizione del Mondo di Ristoro D' Arezzo 

 Testo Italiano del 1282 pubblicato da Enrico Narducci. 

 Rome, 1859, 8vo." 



The following allusion to the compass-needle is 

 curious, and must be placed among the early 

 ones : — 



" E trouiamo tali . erbe e tali . fiori cbella . uirtude del 

 cielo si rnuouono e uanno riuolti tutta uia uerso la faccia 

 del sole . e tali . no . e anche langola cbe ghuidi li mari- 

 nari cbe per la uirtu del cielo e tratla e riuolta alia stella 

 la quale e chiamata tramontana (p. 264.) 



The word angola can, I suppose, only mean the 

 angled, sharp-cornered, needle which guides the 

 mariners, &c. The manuscript is dated as finished 

 in 1282, Ridolfo inperadore aletto, Martino quarto 

 papa residente, Amen. It is now published to 

 rescue Ristoro from oblivion, to show the condition 

 of the Italian language in the thirteenth century, 

 and to give an idea of the astronomical and physi- 

 cal knowledge of the time : it will serve all these 

 purposes well. A. De Morgan. 



