THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY 6- NATURALIST. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, December 7, 



THOMAS NOTESHULLYNG, MAYOR OF 



SOUTHAMPTON. 



Your correspondent F. A. E. is not quite correct in 

 the particulars which he has given. The name of 

 Thomas Noteshullyng, late Mayor of Southampton, 

 occurs in a deed of confirmation, bearing date Dec. 7 

 (7 Ed. Ill), 1333, which is recited in an indenture of 

 agreement made subsequently between William of 

 Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, and the Mayor 

 and burgesses of Southampton, and dated Dec. 31 

 (42 Ed. Ill), 1368. This Thomas Noteshullyng is not 

 to be identified with any of those mayors of the name 

 of Thomas suggested by your correspondent, but 

 rather probably with the Thomas referred to by him 

 as occurring in a document of Edward II of uncertain 

 year (Hist. MSS. Commission Report, p. 59), and also 

 with the Thomas de Nutshulling or Nushellynge who, 

 as he will see by my list, was one of the bailiffs in 1326, 

 1332, and 1333. The document as exhibited in the 

 Historical MSS. Report (p. 67) leaves no room for 

 doubt that this Thomas had been quite recently 

 Mayor of Southampton, but when I am at a loss to 

 suggest. Could he have been acting only for a short 

 period, or even a deputy ? It was from this in- 

 denture of 1368 that I supplied the name of the 

 second bailiff tor that year. Had I read on through 

 its recitals and found the name of this Thomas (late 

 mayor) I should only have been able to put him in a 

 foot note, with a query as to his year. I have now 

 noted him for further observation. 



J. SILVESTER DAVIES. 



RECENT DISCOVERIES AT CHILBOLTON. 



In reply to Mr. G. Parker's inquiry in your Notes 

 and Queries last week, I shall be glad at any time to 

 give him or anyone else all the information I can con- 

 cerning an3 r finds either of a scientific or archaeological 

 character, but I cannot, of course, express any de- 

 cided opinion on the meaning of remains which I have 

 not seen. I am glad to know that Mr. Parker takes 

 an interest in Roman coins and other articles of 

 antiquity, and I shall be pleased at any time I hear of 

 a discovery either geological or antiquarian being 

 made, to visit the place as soon as I can, if any one 

 will let me know of such discovery. Our county is 

 second to none in regard to the matters of scientific 

 and archaeological interest connected with it, and 

 every year that passes is now adding to our know- 

 ledge of this part of England in pre-historic time. 

 Chilbolton is one of the oldest of our Hampshire 

 villages, and I am not at all surprised to hear of a 

 Roman coin beingfound there. Roman coins have been 

 found in or near many of our old villages, a circum- 

 stance which tends to prove that these old village 

 sites are older than the Saxon period, and were 



probably the dwelling places of people in Romano- 

 British time. We are gradually accumulating a mass 

 of evidence concerning the old British or Celtic 

 people of Hampshire, and I hope shortly to bring 

 some new information before the Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland concerning the 

 characteristic remains of these people in our county. If 

 the coin found at Chilbolton was discovered with the 

 bones, it may have been a case similar to that dis- 

 covered at Paulsgrove, near Porchester, in August, 

 1888, where several skeletons of Roman age were 

 found, one of which I assisted to remove. One of 

 these had among the bones of the hand some Roman 

 coins, which were probably placed there at the burial, 

 in accordance with the old Roman pagan custom of 

 providing the dead with a coin to pay Charon, the 

 mythological ferryman, his fare tor ferrying the 

 shades of the dead across the river Styx. The Chil- 

 bolton coin being of the age of Constantine is, of 

 course, of the 4th century. As the old British people 

 of Hampshire cremated their dead, the bones found 

 may have been placed there at a later period when 

 burial was replacing cremation, or be a Roman burial, 

 or the bones may be of a later date than the coin. 



T. W. SHORE. 



THE WEATHER IN NOVEMBER. 



This month has been exceptionally fine, and there 

 has been less rain than in any November for fifteen 

 years, except once, which was in 1879, when it was 

 only 0-35 inches. The total fall this month has been 

 1-41 inches, and the average of the previous ten years 

 is 375 inches. Since January it we have had 24-67 

 inches, and the average for the same time is 28-47 

 inches. Rain fell on only six days, and the most in 

 24 hours was 0-53 inches. 



As is very often the case in November, the 

 barometer has been vefy steady and high, being on 

 twenty-five days 30 inches and upwards and on seven 

 days over 305 inches. This is almost always attended 

 with fog or dull weather, the weight of the air 

 supporting a large quantity of moisture which thesun 

 has not power to break through ; so that although 

 twenty-lour days were without rain, only five were 

 recorded as " fine sunshine." 



The temperature has been rather mild for Novem- 

 ber. The highest in the day was twice 59 degrees ; 

 and 50 degrees and upwards on twenty-two days. 

 The lowest at night was twice 49 degrees. There 

 were frosts on nine nights. The lowest was 24 

 degrees. 



Below is the rainfall for November for the last 

 fifteen years. November is the wettest month of the 

 year on the average : 



18753-66 

 18763-68 

 18778-68 

 18782-07 



18790-35 

 1880 3-40 

 18815-25 



18824-25 



3 4'49 

 4-1-67 

 54-04 

 6 4-21 



1887 4'37 



18885.47 



1889 1-41 



Average 3-80 



Fordingbridge. 



T. WESTLAKE. 



