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NOTES AND QUERIES, 



[2-* S. IX. Mak. 3. '60. 



were other rooms in the house where he might 

 enjoy himself without annoying others. Of a 

 piece with this was his behaviour among some of 

 his old acquaintances in Colchester, at a literary 

 club, with whom he passed an evening, as he went 

 to take possession of his living. Knowing the 

 temper of the man, a pipe and bottle (contrary to 

 the law of the club) were placed on the table, and 

 he did ample justice to both ; for he smoked and 

 drank the whole night, and talked so incessantly 

 that Dr. Forster, who is president, and in common 

 assumes the airs of a dictator at the club, sat 

 silent like one who had lost the use of hi3 tongue." 



J . x . 



The Coif.— 



" Sir H. Spelman in son libr. 174. dit que l'inception de 

 wearing del Coyfes per le Justices fuit quant Friers fue- 

 ront Justice?, a coverer lour bald pates.— Verb. Coyfa, 2 

 Edw. III. 36. (b), 4 Edw. III. 31., 29 Edw. III. 12." 



This passage occurs as a note at p. 301. (b) of 

 Lord Chief Justice Dyer's report of the Wager of 

 Battle in Paramour's case in the Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas in Trin. Term, 13 Eliz., over which 

 trial Lord Chief Justice Dyer and the Judges 

 Weston and Harper (Mr. Justice Webbe being 

 absent from illness) presided. 



This passage does not occur in the edition of 

 1585, but is one of the notes to the edition of 

 1688, which in the preface are stated to have been 

 " collected by the care and industry of five or six 

 of the most eminent and learned lawyers that this 

 last age hath bred." F. A. Carrington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Baptismal Names. — Looking over an _ old 

 parochial register in the Brit. Museum collections, 

 I made a note of some rather peculiar Christian 

 names : — 

 " 1587. Obediencia Cruttenden. 



1591. Fearnot (a daur.) Hepden. 



1605. Gootlgift (a daur.) Noake ; Faint-not Noakes; 

 Thankful (a son) Hepden. 



1607. Godward Fremans. 



1639. Thunder (a son) Gouldsmith, son of H* and 

 Marg' G ." 



I have marked in some instances wherein the 

 person was male or female, as it would be impos- 

 sible almost to have divined the sex from the 

 appellation. This list might have been very much 

 extended, but the above will suffice as specimens. 

 Unfortunately my memorandum is wanting in the 

 name of the parish from whence I made the 

 extracts. Ithtjriei.. 



The Rev. Christopher Love. — Several in- 

 quiries have been made in your valuable work re- 

 specting the family of the Rev. Christopher Love, 

 who was beheaded about the middle of the seven- 

 teenth century. I have before me a copy of a 

 work entitled, The Combate between the Flesh and 

 Spirit, &c, published in 1654, " being the Summe 

 and Substance of 27 Sermons preached, &c," " by 



Mr. Christopher Love, &c." This work contains a 

 dedication from the pen of William Taylor, part 

 of which I here transcribe : — 



" To the Right worshipful, my worthy friends, Mr. 

 Edward Bradshaw, Major of the City of Chester ; and 

 Mrs. Mary Bradshaw, his wife. 



" Right Worshipful and Honoured friends" . . . (after 



some preliminary remarks, the following appears) 



" But indeed, the reason of this dedication (besides the 

 publick expression of my respect to you both) is the 

 consideration of that special interest you both have to 

 anything of Master Loves. Your interest, Sir, is un- 

 doubted to this Treatise, as having married his widow, 

 whereby God hath made the solitary to dwell, and rest in 

 the house of her husband, and hath caused a mournful 

 widow to forget her sorrows. And your right (dear Mis- 

 tresse Bradshaw) is very great to the works of this 

 worth}' man, as having had the honor for several yeeres 

 to be the wife of this eminent servant and Ambassadour 

 of Jesus Christ." .... 



Now, although from the dedication referred to, 

 it would appear that Mr. Love's widow married 

 Mr. E. Bradshaw, yet it does not clearly appear 

 whether or not Mr. Love left any children. The 

 above, however, might possibly furnish a clue to 

 inquirers. 



Can any of your readers furnish information as 

 to who the said Mr. E. Bradshaw, Major, &c, 

 was ? And of what family of Bradshaw he was 

 connected with ? B. L. 



P. S. Query, is the word Major above to be 

 reckoned synonymous with Mayor ? * 



The First Reporters. — As reporting is now 

 a scientific profession, the following Note may 

 prove of interest to " gentlemen of the fourth 

 estate." Few of the learned professions can boast 

 such an ancient and noble origin. In O'Haloran's 

 History oj Ireland, published at Limerick in 1778, 

 vol. ii. p. 61., is the following curious entry : — 

 Bille, a Milesian king of a portion of Spain, had 

 a son named Gollamh, who " solicited his father's 

 permission to assist their Phoenician ancestors, 

 then greatly distressed by continental wars," and 

 having gained his consent the passage goes on 

 thus : — 



" With a well-appointed fleet of thirty ships and a 

 select number of intrepid warriors, he weighed anchor 

 from the harbour of Corunna for Syria. It appears that 

 war was not the sole business of this equipment ; for in 

 this fleet were embarked twelve youths of uncommon 

 learning and abilities, who were directed to make re- 

 marks on whatever they found new, either in astronomy, 

 navigation, arts, sciences, and manufactures. They were 

 to communicate their remarks and discoveries to each 

 other, and keep an exact account of whatever was worthy 

 of notice. This took place in the year of the world 2650." 

 (O'Haloran quotes the Annals for this.) 



It is quite clear that those "twelve noble youths" 

 were reporters, and it is curious enough that when 

 a few of the London or provincial reporters at- 

 tend in the country, at meetings or on other busi- 



[ * Mayor was anciently spelt Maior, or Major. — Ed.] 



