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reason for this subscription on page 503. The Church 

 received some damage at the time of the first attack upon 

 Basing House, so that in 1643 fresh repairs had to be 

 undertaken, and then again in 1645 a still greater havock 

 was made in the church by the Parliamentary soldiers 

 assembled for the storming of Basing House. Some 

 barrels of gunpowder appear to have exploded in the 

 church, near the south aisle, which wrecked the windows 

 on that side, and shattered and blev out all the glass, 

 even from the clearstory windows. The accounts of 1646 

 will give some idea of the damage done. Money was again 

 collected for the .reparation of the church, and the 

 inhabitants succeeded in getting a grant of ;ioo towards 

 the costs from the Parliamentary Committee sitting at 

 Winchester. 



Among the payments lor the year 1646 occur " Paid to 

 Peter Sandsbury (parish clerk) for his pains in going to 

 Odiham to seek after the chalice or communion cup which 

 was taken out of Vicar Webb's house by the Parliamentary 

 soldiers the 2ist day of May, 1645, being Wednesday, and 

 still detained by them, is. 



" Paid fora coffin for the soldier which was killed at 

 Francis Dowce's house, and for a shroud, a woman watch- 

 ing with him, with other charges, by the command of the 

 Garrison of Bazinge then being, 8s. 8d. 



"Paid to Mr. Joseph Collyer for twice drawing and en- 

 grossing of the petition delivered to the Committee at 

 Winchester for allowance towards the reparation of the 

 church, being much torn by the blowing up of gunpowder 

 lying in the church, 33. 4d. 



" Paid to Nicholas Coles for his dinner when he came to 

 view the church how the windows might be repaired, 8d." 



" In the next entry we have particulars with respect to 

 materials brought from Basing House for the repairs of 

 the church, as the House of Commons had, on isth October, 

 1645, issued an order for the demolition of Basing House, 

 ' and that wheever fetches away the materials shall have 

 them for their pains.' 



" Paid Thomas Arnold for taking down 4,000 tiles at 

 Bazing ios., and for two days' work for his man to help 

 load tiles at Bazing, 2od." 



" 1647. Received for one of the Lord Marquess's 

 groom's knell, is. 



In 1648 we read " Paid to Barnard Hawtrell for his 

 fee in gaining of our money (i.e. 100) given by the Com- 

 mittee, .5." 



In the inventon' of Church goods made in April, 1650, 

 we find this entry : " Church goods taken by force away. 

 One silver chalice with a cover by the Parliamentary 

 forces, and robbed by thieves in the night of one green 

 velvet pulpit cloth given by Mrs. Hatfield, one green velvet 

 cushion given by Robert Walker, a satin cloth for the 

 pulpit, a cloth of chamlet, two carpets for the communion 

 table, one of silk and the other of tuftaffety, a case of silk 

 taffety, and a surplice." 



"1659. Paid the ringers when Richard, Lord Protector, 

 was proclaimed, 2S. 6d." "Richard Cromwell was pro- 

 claimed Protector on 4th September, 1658, and resigned 

 the office on 25th May, 1659. He died at Hursley on the 

 i2th July, 1712, aged 85." 



WEATHER REPORT FOR THE WEEK. 



From the meteorological register made at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Col. Sir 

 Chas. Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., R.E. Lat. 50 

 54' 59" N. ; long, i' 24' o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

 Observers Sergt. T. Chambers, R.E., and Mr. J. T. Cook. 



*Black bulb in vacuo. tMelted snow. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, December 21, it 



TO GRETNA GREEN. 



' ' Last week eloped from her father's house in the 

 Isle of Wight, with a young gentleman of the 25th 



regiment, Miss L , an amiable young lady of 15 : 



it is imagined they are gone towards Scotland, and 

 will evade the diligence of their pursuers, as they had 

 more than 24 hours start of them." The Salisbury 

 Journal, Aug. 19, 1771. 



OLD SOUTHAMPTON NAMES. 



Kindly allow me through the medium ot your 

 paper to ask your correspondent who is so well 

 versed in local folk lore if he can tell me whether 

 the John Mayor, of Southampton (about 1630), de- 

 scended from the Mayors of Jersey, was the father of 

 J. Mayor, who lived in Northampton soon after. 



CENTURION. 



[According to the Rev. J. Silvester Davies's " His- 

 tory of Southampton," John Mayjor was Sheriff of 

 Southampton in 1598 and 1613, and Mayor in 1600 

 and 1615, and was returned to Parliament as member 

 for the town in 1627-28. He was a benefactor of the 

 town, a bequest of his having " suggested or acceler- 

 ated" the foundation of the workhouse. ED. L. N. 

 and Q.] 



THE BURRARD FAMILY. 



Sir Harry Paul Burrard, who has this week 

 passed his public examination in the Bankruptcy 



