2°* S. IX. ArniL 14. -GO.] 



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The Rev. Christopher Love (1 st S. xii. 206.; 

 2 nd S. iv. 173. 259.; ix. 160.)— The widow of 

 Christopher Love did not long remain disconso- 

 late, having married Mr. Edward Bradshaw, of 

 Chester, within three years of her late husband's 

 execution. I find no trace of her having had any 

 children by Mr. Love : possibly a reference to the 

 memoir of him in No. 3945. of the Sloane MSS.* 

 in the British Museum, would clear up that point. 

 Mr. Edward Bradshaw was a mercer at Chester ; 

 and married, for his first wife, at St. Peter's 

 Church in this city, Dec. 5, 1631, Susanna, daugh- 

 ter and heiress of (perhaps his old master) Chris- 

 topher Blease, mercer, and alderman of Chester. 

 • By this lady he had twelve children ; the eldest 

 son and heir, James, becoming afterwards Sir 

 James Bradshaw, Knt., of Risby, co.York, through 

 his marriage with the sole daughter and heiress of 

 Edward Ellerker, of Risby, Esq. On the death 

 of his first wife, Susanna, Mr. Bradshaw married 

 Mar.v, relict of the Rev. Christopher Love, and 

 thus, in the words of the dedication referred to by 

 B. L., " caused a mournful widow to forget her 

 sorrows." Seven children were the fruit of this 

 double second marriage. Edward Bradshaw served 

 the office of mayor of Chester in 1648, and again 

 in 1653 ; in addition to which I find him church- 

 warden of St. Peter's parish in 1636-7. He died, 

 aged sixty-six, on the 31st of October, 1671, and 

 was buried in St. Peter's church, Chester, where 

 a monument exists to his memory, erected by his 

 son, Sir James. Christopher seems to have been 

 a favourite name with Mr. Bradshaw, for he mar- 

 ried the daughter of one Christopher, the widow 

 of another, and had by his first wife a son Chris- 

 topher, baptized at St. Peter's in the year of his 

 first mayoralty, Sept. 3, 164S. What was Mary 

 Bradshaw's maiden name, and whether she died a 

 wife or a widow, are still, so far as I am con- 

 cerned, matters for farlher investigation. By the 

 way, who was the William Taylor who dedicated 

 his edition of Love's Sermons to Mr. Bradshaw ? 



T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Order of Prayer in French (2 na S. ix. 199.) 

 — M. Thg. has met with a copy of the Order of 

 Prayer published at London, in Latin and in 

 French, in February, 155^ (and again at Frank- 

 fort in 1555), by Valerandus Pollanus, superin- 

 tendent of- the church of French and AValloon 

 refugees, or " strangers," settled in London and at 

 Glastonbury. The book is of some rarity, but 

 there are copies of the Latin editions in the Bod- 

 leian : and a Latin edition (1551), and a French 

 one (1555), are in the University Library at 

 Cambridge. 



Mr. Procter (Hist, of Common Prayer, Cam- 



* The MS. treats more of Mr. Love's ministerial la- 

 bours than of his personal biography, and closes abruptly 

 U [Kige 67. — Ed.] 



bridge, 1856, p. 45.) notices this work of Pollanus, 

 which some have thought furnished hints to the 

 revisers of the Book of Common Prayer, in some 

 additions made in 1552 to the ancieut services. 

 The title of the book set forth in 1552, and dedi- 

 cated to King Edward, is : — 



" Liturgia sacra seu Ritus Ministerii in Eeclesia pere- 

 grinorum profugorum propter Evangelium Christi Argen- 

 tina. Adjecta est ad finem brevis Apologia pro hac 

 Liturgia, per Valerandam Pollanum Flandrum. Lond., 

 23 Febrnar, Ann. 1551 ( = 1552)." 



Farther information will be found in Strype, 

 Cranmer, ii. 23. ; Ecclesiastical Memorials, Ed. 

 VI., i. 29. ; Laurence, Bampt. Led., p. 210. And 



for an account of these refugees, I would refer 



your correspondent to 



" A History of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other 

 Protestant Refugees settled in England, from the Reign 

 of Hen. VIII. to the Edict of Nantes. Bv J. S. Burn. 

 Lond., 1846." 



Johannes Dalaberus (Jean de la Bere), the 

 former owner, probably belonged to the com- 

 munion for whom this Form of Prayer was framed, 

 and some information respecting him may perhaps 

 be found in the registers of Foreign Protestant 

 Churches in England, now deposited in the Office 

 of the Registrar General. G. W. TV. Minns. 



Mawhood Family (2' a S. v. 61.) — Perhaps 

 the following extract may interest T. M. H., and 

 furnish a clue to farther discoveries respecting the 

 Mawhoods : — 



"This lady (Mary, daughter of Dr. Comber, Dean of 

 Durham) when very young married the Rev. Thomas 

 Brooke, M.A., rector of Richmond in Yorkshire, by whom 

 she had several children of both sexes, though only two 

 of them left issue, viz., 1. William ; 2. Anne. 



"1. William Brooke, M.D., of Field-head in the West 

 Riding of the county of York, married Alice Mawhood of 

 an ancient family (and doubly related on her mother's 

 side to the celebrated Alexander Pope), by whom he had 

 issue, 1. William, 2. John Charles, 3. Mary, 4. Margaret, 

 5. Jane." — Comber's Life of Comber, p. 424 Appendix.) 



E. H. A. 



Inn Signs painted ay Eminent Artists (2 nd 

 S. viii. 236., &c.) — I am enabled, on good autho- 

 rity, to add the following example : — At that 

 part of the Great North Road between Stilton 

 and Wansford, called "Kate's Cabin," — with Ches- 

 terton on the one hand and Alwalton on the other, 

 stood a well-known public-house called " the Dry- 

 den's Head." The head, of course, was that of 

 the poet, who was accustomed to visit this neigh- 

 bourhood, where dwelt his " honoured kinsman, 

 John Dryden, Esq. of Chesterton in the county of 

 Huntingdon ; " and the poet's head was painted 

 upon the sign by no less an artist than Sir Wil- 

 liam Beechey. Sir William was at that time a 

 journeyman housepainter, and was employed for 

 some time on the decorations of Alwalton Hall, — 

 a very fanciful erection, now demolished. Several 

 doors and panels were there painted by Sir Wil- 



