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NOTES AXD QUERIES. 



[2"*S. IX. Arr.iL 14. 'CO. 



Cor.. Hacker (2 nd S. ix. 124. 216.) — I find, in 

 Thoroton's History of Notts, that the Hacker family 

 first settled at East Bridgeford, in that county, 

 about the time of Elizabeth ; when Lord Sheffield 

 sold an estate in the above-mentioned place to 

 John Hacker, who died in 1620, leaving four sons 

 — Francis, Richard, John, and Rowland. 



Francis was the Col. Hacker of regicide noto- 

 riety, and suffered in the succeeding reign, when 

 his estates were forfeited. They were, however, 

 restored to his youngest brother Rowland "by 

 favour of his R. H. the Duke of York," Rowland 

 having "served under the King during those 

 troubles," and was still living in Thoroton's time. 

 Thomas Hacker, another brother, was slain near 

 Colston-Basset fighting for the King. Richard 

 settled at Flintham, and John at Trowel. The 

 Bridgeford property still remains with a repre- 

 sentative of the family through the female line. 



M. E. M. 



Thomas Nicholas Perry Hacker, of Churchill, 

 Oxon, a descendant of a brother of Col. Hacker, 

 died in or about 1768, and is buried in the church- 

 yard of Ascot, a neighbouring village. He de- 

 vised his estates to the family of Bulley of Sarsden, 

 with remainder in default of male issue to Nicho- 

 las Marshall of Enstone, in either case on con- 

 dition of taking the name and arms of Hacker. 

 The Bulleys died without male heirs ; and the 

 eldest son of Nicholas Marshall succeeded to the 

 property in or about 1818, and died unmarried. 

 His brother, the Rev. Edward Marshall Hacker, 

 with whom the use of the name ceased, died and 

 was buried at Iffley, near Oxford, in 1839, leaving 

 issue. The connexion of the family of Marshall 

 with that of Hacker is traced to the marriage of 

 Anne Hacker with one of that family in 1660, 

 who, with her husband, is buried in Great Tew 

 churchyard. Compare History of Enstone, by Rev. 

 J. Jordan, Oxford (Alden), 1856. 



The Hackers, I presume, were a Nottingham- 

 shire family ; but I do not know more of their 

 connexion with that county than that a brother 

 of Col. Hacker was allowed to purchase and retain 

 the family estates there, when confiscated at the 

 Restoration. With the descent of this property 

 I am unacquainted. 



Arms. On a field azure between two mullets or 

 pierced of the field, a cross argent bearing five 

 fusils vair. 



Crest. On a fess a moor-cock proper, resting 

 the dexter claw on a fusil of the shield. 



The arms were exemplified at the Herr'.ds' 

 Office when licence was granted by the crown for 

 the change of name. E. M. 



Refreshment tor Clergymen (2 nd S. ix. 24. 

 189.) — In illustration of vestry hospitalities in 

 the city of London the following quotation may 

 be made. The scene is the church of St. Law- 



rence near Guildhall, where Bishop Warburton 

 was engaged to preach a sermon for the London 

 Hospital, and the date not far from 1770 : — 



" I was introduced by a friend into the vestry, where 

 the Lord Mayor and several of the governors of the hos- 

 pital were waiting for the late Duke of York, who was 

 their president, and in the mean time the Bishop did 

 everything in his power to entertain and alleviate their 

 impatience. He was beyond measure condescending and 

 courteous, and even graciously handed some biscuits and 

 wine on a salver to the curate who was to read the prayers. 

 His lordship, being in good spirits, once rather exceeded 

 the bounds of decorum, by quoting a comic passage from 

 Shakspeare, in his lawn sleeves, and with all his charac- 

 teristic humour ; but, suddenly recollecting himself, he 

 so aptly turned the inadvertence to his own advantage 

 as to raise the admiration of all the compau}'." — Memoirs 

 of Joseph Cradock, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. 



J. G. N. 



Sea Breaches (2 nd S. ix. 30.)— There is an 

 account of these in the Life of William Smith, of 

 Deanston, whose genius prompted a remedy 

 which, after three years of combat against igno- 

 rance and prejudice, he persuaded the landowners 

 to adopt. In 1801 seventy parishes were in 

 danger ; now we never hear of any inroad of the 

 sea. Also, the Life of Archbishop Parker con- 

 tains some sad accounts of irruptions which took 

 place while he was Bishop of Norwich, and which 

 led him to memorialise government on the sub- 

 ject. On traversing the fens between Happis- 

 burgh and Yarmouth, thirty-five years ago, my 

 impression was that the land had, within the 

 existence of man on it, lain at a higher level ; I 

 tried to make myself mistress of its history, but 

 tools were wanting ; the old chroniclers did not aid 

 me. Subsequent observations have strengthened 

 my opinion; perhaps I ought to say "theory." 

 In Horsey Broad is a tuft of trees called 1 " Sanc- 

 tuary island ;" this is now quite uninhabitable, and 

 the broad belt of reeds around it shows subsi- 

 dence. How a criminal could reach it in former 

 times I cannot imagine. How could the church 

 be built with water rising within six feet of the 

 surface, as it now does? If E. G. R. knows this 

 parish, he will, I think, see other circumstances 

 in favour of my opinion, which would take too 

 much room here. One fact is adverse to me — 

 the absence of wild flowers ; the few hedges there 

 are wholly uninteresting ; but, strange enough, I 

 found the hop in one spot, and this is in my 

 favour. The cotton grass grows freely in one 

 meadow between Somerton and Horsey. I beg 

 pardon for so long a Note, but one word more. 

 Remembering the submerged forest of the Lin- 

 colnshire coast, may we not think that the former 

 loss of land at Cromer is due as much to subsi- 

 dence as to the disintegration of the cliff by land 

 springs and high tides ? I hope E. G. R. will 

 prosecute the subject of our eastern fens. 



F. C. B. 

 Norwich. 



