By T. H. Baker. 273 



We have seen above that the gunpowder in the custody of the 

 churchwardens, which was purchased in 1589, when the country 

 was threatened with a Spanish invasion, was sold in 1596, when 

 the scare was over, but it was renewed, for in 1620 is another 

 entry : — 



"And ytt is alsoe ordered that the Gunpowder reinaynenge nowe in the 

 Churche for the hundred of Mere shalbe soulde bye the Churche Wardens to the 

 souldiers of the trayned Bande att xij d . the pounde, the money thereof comenge 

 to reinayne in the Churche Wardens hands to p'vide other powder hereafter." 



In 1626 is an entry of another character amongst the disburse- 

 ments : — 



" To a stranger that preached heare, vj 9 ." 



And again in 1627 : — 



"To a preacher the xxviij of May, iij 6 ." 



And in 1630 :— 



" To a Preacher that preatched heare iij s ." 



shall receave testimonyes many & worthy, beyond all exceptione, O r Kinge 

 highly favoreth him ; & hath granted him much grace and this one in particular, 

 to make Collections in o r University. Now for as muche as the particular help 

 of men in y r place shall much advance the reliefe of this worthy man (the 

 Kinge's most royall intente) I most earnestly . . . intreat you, to sett 

 forward this worthy worke in y r famous Colledge that this distressed nobleman, 

 finding that we who live in peace, have a true feelinge of his afflictione may 

 glorify God & geve a worthy testimony of O l Universitie & the whole Kingdome, 

 &c." No very definite information was elicited by this as to who Contarini was, 

 though from the above it appears that collections for him must have been general 

 throughout England. The Strife of the Roses, by W. H. Hamilton Rogers, 

 has a good article on the family, but no mention is made of this particular 

 member of it. Du Cange {Hist. Byzant., p. 255, ed. 1680), mentions their 

 connection with Venice, and the Editor of Notes and Queries states that a 

 family named Palaeologue has for some centuries been settled in Eoumania. A 

 branch of the family settled at Landulph, in Cornwall, in which Church is a brass 

 inscribed : " Here lyeth the Body of Theodoro Paleologus of Pesaro in Italye : 

 descended from ye Imperyail lyne of ye last Christian Emperors^of Greece, being 

 the sonne of Camilio, ye sone of Prosper, the sonne of Theodoro, the sonne of 

 John, ye sonne of Thomas second brother to Constantine Paleologus the 8th of 

 that name and last of ye line yt raygned in Constantinople, untill subdued by 

 the Turkes ; who married with Mary ye daughter of William Balls of Hadlye in 

 Souffolke Gent and had issue 5 children Theodoro, John, Ferdinando, Maria, 

 and Dorothy, and departed this life at Clyfton, ye 5th of January, 1636." 



