THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY & NATURALIST. 



Abbey of Lire, for the sum of g 53., paid him by the 

 bailiffs of the town of Southampton ; that sum (see 

 " Hist, of Southampton," under Carisbrooke and 

 Lire) having been a charge on the revenues of the 

 town for the abbey of Lire. The receipt is dated 6 

 Henry IV (1404-5). J. SILVESTER DAVIES. 



It is asked by the writer of the article, who Master 

 Robert Glover Somerset was ? This is intended for 

 Robert Glover, Esq., the famous genealogist oi the 

 i6th century, and Somerset, herald-at-arms. Doubt- 

 less the "old booke" is in the Herald's College. 

 Peter Heylyn, D.D., an old writer, states that the 

 I.W. was taken from the English by William-Fitz 

 Osborne, Earl of Hereford, in the time of William, 

 and that he became the first lord thereof. After his 

 death, and the proscription of his son Roger, it fell to 

 the Crown, and %vas by Henry I bestowed on the 

 family of the Ryvers, Earls of Devon, who continued 

 until Isabel de Fortibus surrendered her interest in 

 the Island to Edward I. In 1445, Henry Beauchamp, 

 Earl of Warwick, was crowned King of the Isle of 

 Wight, and 1466, Richard, Lord Widevile, Earl of 

 Ryvers, was made by Edward IV lord of the Island. 

 Du Chaillu, in his new work, "The Viking Age," 

 states that in the year 1006 (temp. Ethelred II) a great 

 fleet came to Sandwich and ravaged wherever it 

 went. It returned in winter to the Isle of Wight ; 

 the distress and fear in the land was extreme. 

 36,000 and provisions was paid as tribute to the in- 

 vaders. H.D.C. 



Robert Glover, referred to by William Camden, 

 was one of the officials of Herald's College, known as 

 " Somerset Herald." Camden himself was another 

 official, namely, " Clarenceux King at Arms." 

 Possibly the " old booke of Cares-brooke Priorie " is 

 still at the Herald's College, where it may have been, 

 in Glover's time, in his charge. 



J. S. ATTWOOD (Plymouth). 



I have received the following interesting letter from 

 Mr. Harris Nicolas Pinnock upon the subject about 

 which I wrote last week. J. GROVES, Carisbrooke. 



Master Robert Glover was Somerset Herald in Camden's 

 time Sir Harris Nicolas in his preface to the " Siege of 

 Caerlaverock " states that " the text has been formed from 

 a MS. copy of the poem in the autograph of Glover, the 

 celebrated herald, preserved in the Library of the College 

 of Arms, to which was attached the following certificate 

 that it was transcribed from the original : 



' Exemplar verissimum vetusti eundem reverendae 

 antiquatis monumenti, religiose admodum transcripti 

 renovati, et ab injuria temporis vindicati eundem fideliter 

 cum prototipo sive original! in omnibus concordare 

 testatus Robert Glovcrus, Somersett fecialis regius nomen 

 inditum Mariscallus designatus. Qui veritati testimonium 

 perbibere pulchrum ducens tarn hie in ponte, quam etiam 

 in calce, manu propria nomen suum subscribsit, tertio 

 nonas Februarij Anno Christo Salvatoris MDLXXXYIIo 

 Regno vero Serma 1 Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo. Glover 

 Somersett, Mareschal au Norroy Roy d' Armes." 



The signature at the end of the poem is " R. Glover, 

 Somersett." 



Query. "The old booke of Caresbrooke Priorie'' 

 presumably was amongst the Heralds' records when 

 Glover showed it to Camden. Can it still be preserved in 

 the Library of the College of Arms? 



HARRIS X. PINNOCK. 



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' 50" N. ; long. i24'o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

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



* Black bulb in vacuo. 



THE HAMPSHIRE IXDEPEXDEXT, January 25, 1890. 



SOWING SAGE ON GRAVES. 



" Sir George and I, and his clerk Mr. Stephens, 

 and Mr. Holt, our guide, over to Gosport ; and so rode 

 to Southampton. In our way besides my Lord 

 Southampton's parks and lands, which in one view 

 we could see 6,000 per annum, we observed a little 

 churchward, where the graves are accustomed to be 

 all sowed with sage. At Southampton the town .is 

 one most gallant street, and is walled round with 

 stone, etc. , and Bevis's picture upon one of the gates ; 

 many old walls of religious houses, and the keye, 

 well w-orth seeing." Pepys's Diary, April 26, 1662. 



I should be glad to know whether the custom of 

 sowing sage on graves is still known in any part of 

 Hampshire, and also whether any other herbs are 

 commonly used for a similar purpose ? Can anyone 

 suggest what churchyard is here referred to ? It is 

 presumably one near Titch field. J.H.K. 



