Some other rarely met with occupations "DEAD 66 RECKONING: DEDUCED are glaseman," in 1625 (Wigan), a hawker RECKONING.--Lloyd's List of October 29 in glassware, but in 1599 (Middleton) a draws attention to an article lately consimilar individual is described as a "carier tributed by Mr. Henry Harries of the of glasses" (alienigena) and in 1623 (Wigan) Meteorological Office to The Morning Post as a "glasyer.' In 1677 (Croston) а on the meaning and origin of the nautical dryster is met with, as a person em- locution "dead reckoning." Mr. Harries ployed in drying something, probably in a took pains to point out that all the lexicobleach field, although, of course, he may graphers down to Sir James Murray repeat have been employed in a pottery, as there the old stereotyped definition of the formula are mention in the same Register of as it occurs in Dr. Gregory's Complete Sciences Throwers, Panners, and Pipers, all terms Dictionary of the Arts and used in the manufacture of pottery, but (1819):these would probably be used by persons peregrinating the country as hawkers, as there were no potteries in the districts mentioned at the dates given. Bolton. 66 66 ARCHIBALD SPARKE. 66 PLOUGH-JAGS.-We have this day, Jan. 7, had a fine gang of plough-jags from Burton here. I remember when every village had its own gang," but for many years Burton-on-Stather has provided the only gang in this neighbourhood. The word is given in N.E.D.,' with quotations from Peacock's Ralf Skirlaugh.' It is probably a variant of "plough jogger, one who jogs or pushes a plough (1605, 1658, c. 1787), a ploughman. The local folk-lore should be put on record. A Winterton woman used to say that "when flood was out over all the earth and they came out of Noah's ark they was all so pleased that they dressed theirselves up wi' bits o' things an' danced about, an' the's been plew-jags ever sin'." IRONMONGERS' HALL.-It should be noted in N. & Q.' that, following the damage done by German air-raids in June, 1917, and with a view to the erection of a pile of city offices, the Hall of the Ironmongers' Company at 117 Fenchurch Street has been demolished. The original hall of the Company was in Ironmonger Lane in Cheapside: the Company acquired its Fenchurch Street property in 1457. A hall was built at the southern end of it in 1587, and that was rebuilt in 1750. The building now destroyed had no special features of interest, but the vanishing of such a landmark should not pass unrecorded "In navigation the calculation made of a ship's place by means of a compass and log; the first serving to point out the course she sails on, and the other the distance run. From these two things given, the skilful mariner, making proper allowance for the variation of the compass, leeway currents, etc., is enabled, without any observation of the sun or stars, to ascertain the ship's place tolorably well." Mr. Harries, however, through long The Dutch equivalent of the designation THE SUPER-NABOB OF WANSTEAD. Sir J. Child, for whom, of course, a 66 coat was soon found, became the supernabob of what had once been part of the great Forest of Essex, and had spent a large portion of his great fortune upon the construction of a lordly palace and pleasaunce when he was visited by John Evelyn on March 15, 1683. The entry in the Diary under date March 16 is : "I went to see Sir Josiah Child's prodigious cost in planting walnut trees about his seate, and making fish ponds, many miles in circuit, in Epping Forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes these suddenly monied men, for the most part, seate themselves. He, from a merchant's apprentice and management of the East India Company's Stock, being ariv'd to an Estate ('tis said) of £200,000, and lately married his daughter to the Eldest Sonn of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marquis of Worcester, with £50,000 portional present, and various expecta tions." And, by the by, Evelyn adds:- "I dined at Mr. Houblon's, a rich and gentle French merchant (Morant in his 'History of Essex' says the Family were eminent merchants in the time of Queen Elizabeth) who was building a house in the Forest, near Sir J. Child's, in a place where the late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which came from his lady the widow of Mr. Baker. It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from Whitechapel." HORACE WALPOLE AND WANSTEAD. When on July 17, 1758, Horace Walpole wrote to Richard Bentley, he said : "I dined yesterday at Wanstead. Many years have passed since I saw it. The disposition of the house and the prospects are better than I expected, and very fine; the garden, which they tell you, cost as much as the House, that is, £100,000. is wretched; the furniture fine but totally without taste; such continences and incontinences of Scipio and Alexander, by 1 don't know whom Such flame-coloured gods and goddesses, by Kent! Such family pieces-1 believe the late Earl himself (the heirs of Child, now Irish Peers, were in possession), for they are as ugly as the children that he really begot! The whole great apartment is of oak, finely carved, unpainted, and has a charming effect. The present Earl is the most generous creature in the world; in the first chamber I entered he offered me four marble tables that lay in cases about the room; I compounded, after forty refusals, with only a haunch of vension; I believe he has not had so cheap a visit a good while. I commend myself as I ought, for to be sure, there were twenty ebony tables and a couch and a table and a glass that would have tried the virtue of a philosopher of double my size!" THOMAS HOOD AND WANSTEAD HOUSE. It was at Lake House, an appanage of the Child-Tylney palace, that Thomas Hood dwelt for the four years to 1836. His fierce FIELDING'S ANCESTORS AT SHARPHAM PARK, SOMERSET.-It may be worth while to put on record some facts, which I have recently noted, indicating how Henry Fielding's birthplace at Sharpham came into the possession of his mother's family. Richard Davidge, a London merchant, bought the estate from the Dyer family and others in 1657, and in 1692, after the deaths of himself, his widow, and five of his children, the whole of the considerable Davidge property had come to three of the merchant's daughters, viz., Sarah, wife of Henry (afterwards Sir Henry) Gould, grandmother of the novelist, Katherine, wife of Charles Cottington of Funthill, Wilts, and Ann Davidge. There can be no doubt that Sarah brought Sharpham to her husband as her share of her father's and brothers' estates. The Davidges were a family of merchants settled for a century or more at Bridport and Dorchester, Dorset. Sir Henry Gould was not, as stated in Burke's Landed Gentry,' a member of the Gould family of Upwey, Dorset. He was in fact a son of Andrew Gould, a yeoman of Winsham, Somerset, and a grandson of Henry Gould, also a yeoman living at the same place.. Thus in Fielding the "blue blood" inherited from his father was mingled with another kind of blood (yeoman and commercial) derived from his mother. 17 Holland Road, W.14. F. J. POPE. he 66 Some other rarely met with occupations "DEAD " RECKONING: "DEDUCED are glaseman," in 1625 (Wigan), a hawker RECKONING.--Lloyd's List of October 29 in glassware, but in 1599 (Middleton) a draws attention to an article lately consimilar individual is described as a "carier tributed by Mr. Henry Harries of the of glasses" (alienigena) and in 1623 (Wigan) Meteorological Office to The Morning Post as a glasyer." In 1677 (Croston) on the meaning and origin of the nautical "dryster is met with, as a person em- locution "dead reckoning." Mr. Harries ployed in drying something, probably in a took pains to point out that all the lexicobleach field, although, of course, he may graphers down to Sir James Murray repeat have been employed in a pottery, as there the old stereotyped definition of the formula are mention in the same Register of as it occurs in Dr. Gregory's Complete Throwers, Panners, and Pipers, all terms Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences' used in the manufacture of pottery, but (1819) :these would probably be used by persons peregrinating the country as hawkers, as there were no potteries in the districts mentioned at the dates given. Bolton. 66 ARCHIBALD SPARKE. 66 PLOUGH-JAGS.-We have this day, Jan. 7, had a fine gang of plough-jags from Burton here. I remember when every village had its own gang," but for many years Burton-on-Stather has provided the only gang in this neighbourhood. The word is given in 'N.E.D.,' with quotations from Peacock's Ralf Skirlaugh.' It is probably a variant of "plough jogger, one who jogs or pushes a plough" (1605, 1658, c. 1787), a ploughman. The local folk-lore should be put on record. A Winterton woman used to say that " when flood was out over all the earth and they came out of Noah's ark they was all so pleased that they dressed theirselves up wi' bits o' things an' danced about, an' the's been plew-jags ever sin'." IRONMONGERS' HALL.-It should be noted in N. & Q.' that, following the damage done by German air-raids in June, 1917, and with a view to the erection of a pile of city offices, the Hall of the Ironmongers' Company at 117 Fenchurch Street has been demolished. The original hall of the Company was in Ironmonger Lane in Cheapside: the Company acquired its Fenchurch Street property in 1457. A hall was built at the southern end of it in 1587, and that was rebuilt in 1750. The building now destroyed had no special features of interest, but the vanishing of such a landmark should not pass unrecorded "In navigation the calculation made of a ship's place by means of a compass and log; the first serving to point out the course she sails on, and the other the distance run. From these two things given, the skilful mariner, making proper allowance for the variation of the compass, leeway currents, etc., is enabled, without any observation of the sun or stars, to ascertain the ship's place tolorably well." While this description is specifically correct as far as it goes, there has been no enlightenment vouchsafed hitherto as to how the epithet "dead" came to be applied to the skipper's somewhat elaborate calcu lation, the word's meaning being classed in the N.E.D.' s.v. 5, as unrestricted, unbroken; absolute, complete, utmost." 66 Mr. Harries, however, through long The Dutch equivalent of the designation Queries. We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. PRINCE CHARLES IN NORTH DEVON.-In the Northam Parish Registers an entry records: Prince Charles was at Appledore, July 10, 1645." After his name is an erasure, three inches long, where possibly the names of his friends or that of a ship had been entered. Black's Guide states he was at the Scilly Isles for several months in that year with Lords Capel and Hopton, and later on escaped to Jersey and France. Are his movements earlier in that year known and recorded? Northam, N. Devon. A. CARRINGTON. VALUE OF MONEY.-We are informed that the present value of the sovereign amounts only to some 60 per cent of what it was in 1914. I am anxious to know whether any tables have been published shewing the relative value of the sovereign, or its equivalent, at various periods of English history. For example, what sum, according to our present standards, represents the amount of the fine of 30,000. inflicted upon the fourth [Cavendish] Earl of Devonshire in April, 1687, for striking Col. Colepeper within the verge of the court," or of the fine of 201. inflicted for recusancy in 1581, or of the 30,000. collected as the total customs revenue of England for the year 1377-78, or of the 66,000l. prescribed as the ransom for King Richard I. by the Treaty of Wurtzburg in 1193 ? 66 H. PIRIE-GORDON. BISHOPS OF DURHAM.-I am anxious to know the full style and titles borne by the Bishops of Durham while they still enjoyed Palatine jurisdiction (before 1836). H. PIRIE-GORDON. 20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14. MORGAN BARONETCIES. (1) John Morgan after 1679 styled Sir John Morgan, Baronet," once styled in proceedings of Ecclesiastical Court 66 Miles," probably, almost certainly, identical with John Morgan who, born 1638, son of Rev. Gryffyth Morgan of Bangor, Cardigan, entered Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1657; prebendary of Tullybrackey, co. Limerick, 1666; rector of many parishes in Kerry; trustee with Earl of Thomond to the Stoughton Estates, 1672; by reason of absence, 1696-7; appears in several Chancery proceedings in Ireland, and frequently absent on leave abroad or in England. The P.R.O. Records, Ireland, have been pretty thoroughly searched. His leave of absence in 1679 dates a few days after the death of Sir Thomas Morgan, Bt., of Llangattrch, and Governor of Jersey. He first appears in Kerry, 1674, and is styled of Killarney, which may be Killary of which Edward Morgan was rector, 1664. (2) Edward Morgan, Archdeacon of Ardfest, 1670; died or retired about 1675-6; first appears as Rector of Castleisland and other Kerry parishes, 1664. His son Robert was a rector in Tipperary. He probably was brother to the Chantor above mentioned. The Kerry livings held by E. M. were in gift of the Herberts, who were connected with Llantamaw and Llangattrch Morgans in Wales. The descendants of these clergymen have always claimed a descent from Welsh baronets of the name. It is possible that the Rev. John Morgan claimed the title of a cousin. In 1658 Richard Cromwell is said to have knighted a John Morgan.. This is possibly an error for Sir Thomas Morgan who received a Cromwellian knighthood for the victory of the Danes and subsequently a Caroline baronetcy. Claims to a descent from the Llantamaw baronetcy were put forward by the Morgans of Monastuerau, co. Kildare, in a pedigree published by Geo. Blacker Morgan in 1884. But no descent could be shown beyond middle of the eighteenth century. anything to the Morgan-Williams who were Could this family of Kerry Morgans be ancestors of Oliver Cromwell? There is. an old peasant tradition which calls them. near friends, i.e., relatives of Cromwell. JOHN WARDELL. 36 Trinity College, Dublin. Winchester He MATHEW MYERSE entered College, aged 11, from Milton, in 1547. went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1553, and' took the degree of B.A. in 1556. He was a Senior Student of Christ Church when he was ordained sub-deacon in London in December, 1557. He became rector of Chelsea in 1558, but was deprived in 1559 · to make room for his Edwardian predecessor.. He was prebendary of Highleigh in the Cathedral of Chichester for some short time about 1561, and held other preferments in the diocese of Chichester, and in 1572 he became rector of Bedhampton, near Havant, Hants. Further particulars about him would 66 LEIGH HUNT ON SHELLEY.-Will some Bransby's School, or as vernacularly styled student of the literary decade 1820-30, Ysgol Bransby. and thereabouts, be so good as to an article by Leigh Hunt on Shelley, beginning: : place HOLMES FAMILY OF DEVONSHIRE.-Could any reader give me information concerning the pedigree and descendants of the Holmes family of Devonshire. Their arms, I believe, are: Barry of six, argent and azure, and on a canton gules a chaplet of the first; crest: a holly tree vert, fructed gules; motto: Holme Semper Viret. Information is also desired as to when and to whom these arms were granted. J. P. HOLMES. 48 Lavender Gardens, S. W.11. "TUBUS": A CHRISTIAN NAME.-I should be glad of particulars of the origin and use "Tubus" of as a Christian name. It -occurs in the Registers of parishes in South Devon, and runs through the Sparke family for some generations. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. He is known to have settled in ·Carnarvon, and, during his residence in the town, built and lived in a fine stone mansion locally known a3 Bron Hendre," and bounded on one side by the extant remains of an old Roman wall. He also built and Particulars relating to birth, his years of association and identity with Carnarvon, where he died and where buried, and any Was he mentionable ana would oblige. known or suspected to be a Unitarian? ANEURIN WILLIAMS Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. SIMS.I should be glad to learn any information about the following four boys of this name, who were educated at Westminster School : (1) Sims, who was at school in 1733. (2) Henry Sims, who was admitted in June, 1732, aged 9. (3) James, who was admitted in January, 1730/31, aged 9., (4) Sims Sims, who was admitted in June, 1719, aged 13. G. F. R. B. tradition that a lady of this name was burnt DORA WILBERFOSS.-There is a family at the stake at Beverley, and that she had been a nun at Nunkeeling Priory. I can find no confirmation of the tradition in Foxe's Book of Martyrs,' nor have I seen the name in connexion with either the martyrdoms of the Reformation or of the Marian persecution. Is anything known of her? She was of the family of Wilberfoss of Wilberfoss. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. 21 Park Crescent, Oxford. There are GOGIBUS. This surname occurs at Watten (Nord), in French Flanders. several families so named, but I have not come across it in other towns or villages in the district. What is its origin? F. H. C. SWARTVAGHER. This surname occurs in Is it Flemish ? the Pas-de-Calais. F. H. C. KNOCK HUNDRED ROW, MIDHURST.What is the origin of this place-name in the centre of this little old Sussex town? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey. DREUX FAMILY.-I should be glad to hear whether anything is known of the descendants of the noble French family of Dreux, Huguenot refugees, some of which family settled in Glasgow. The Comte de Dreux is mentioned in the royal lineage, kings of Scotland, in Burke's Peerage,' wherein it is stated that in the year 1285 King Alexander III. married Yolande, |