tokens are not uncommon; I have seen several of
them. They read 10SEPH SAYER RECTOR, a castle;
reverse, OF NEWBERY, a Bible-very similar to the
usual tradesmen's tokens. It is in Boyne (Tokens
issued in the Seventeenth Century, &c., 1858),
Berks, No. 43.
SAMUEL SHAW.
Andover.

THE PARISH BULL (5th S. x. 248, 354.)—Mr. WALFORD cites an instance of an old custom in Kingston-on-Thames, obliging the vicar of the parish to keep a bull at the parsonage, and he asks, "Was this custom general, or was it peculiar to Kingston?" I am able to refer him to a similar custom which prevailed in the manor and parish of Marsh Gibbon, in Buckinghamshire, and came to an end only thirty-eight years ago, upon the laying in, dividing, and enclosing the open and common fields and commons. The following minute appears in the record of the Inclosure Commissioners (Mr. Henry Dixon) Proceedings, dated June 5, 1843 :

"That the Bull Platts being held by the Rector in consideration of his finding a Bull for the use of the Landowners despasturing in the common fields and commonable places within the parish will now revert to the Landowners, and be deemed by the Commissioners as part of the common lands within the parish... the custom of maintaining a common Bull not being consistent with the altered circumstances of the parish when enclosed."

"The only hopeful note of date in the play is when No-body, after promising to build up Paul's steeple without a collection,' observes,' I see not what becomes of these collections.' The steeple was burned in 1561; in 1563 a collection was made throughout the kingdom for its restoration, and the repairs thus paid for were all finished in 1566. But there seems to have been some idea prevalent that the funds had been misapplied. In 1576 the Queen wrote to complain that no progress was made in repairing the steeple; but the Council persuaded her that she could not order subsidies for it in the city because of the heavy contributions the citizens already paid to the government. In 1583 Aylmer, the Bishop of London, suggested to the Council that payments for commutations of penances should be suppressed, what had been paid refunded, and applied to the repairing of of it." Aylmer's were not safe hands to hold money. 'which would well help to make good a good piece Paul's, When Bancroft became Bishop, in 1597, it was proved that the ruins and dilapidations of the Church and Bishop's houses came to 6,513. 14s. And he obtained judgment against Aylmer's son for 4,210. 1s. 8d.; Fletcher, the intermediate Bishop (father of the dramatist), is, as I presume, answerable for the rest. Anyhow, there were scandalous rumours on the matter, and in 1592, two years before Aylmer's death, Verstegan, Parson's intelligencer at Antwerp, in his Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles, &c., thus alludes to them: But it is a wonder to consider what great and grievous exactions have from time to time been generally imposed upon the people, as all the loans, the lotteries, gathering for the steeple of Pauls, new imports,' &c. Bacon, in his official reply, Observations on a Libel, 1592, says upon this: Now to the point of levies and contributions of money, which he calleth exactions. First very coldly he is not abashed to bring in the gathering of I cannot ascertain the situation or extent of the Pauls steeple and the lottery; trifles, and past long "Bull Platts." Doubtless they adjoined the large since; whereof the former, being but a voluntary colleccommon pasture, and the strong deep lands of tion of that men were freely disposed to give, never grew Marsh (2,200 acres) were chiefly grass, which would which it was appointed, and so I imagine was converted to so great a sum as was sufficient to finish the work for have been fed by cows. The custom, however, of to some better use: like to that gathering which was for which we have instances at Kingston and Marsh the fortifications of Paris [one MS. reads Berwick], save could not have been general, as besides the well-that that came to a much greater, though, as I have known fact that the terms and conditions on which heard, no competent sum.' the lands of a manor were held by the tenants arose from the will of the various feudal lords, the conditions must necessarily have been in part dependent also upon the soil and local circumstances. The imposition of such a charge upon the Rector of Marsh points to the lord of the manor, probably the Earl Moreton, the grantee of William the Conqueror, having been also the founder and endower of the church, which gave him the right to make such a condition for the common good of the lord and his tenants. And strange as such a custom now appears to us, the reason for it may be seen in the fact that the rector was entitled to the tithe of calves, and therefore it was to his advantage and interest to promote increase of titheable produce.

Broughton.

FREDERICK J. MORRELL.

After his accusation Nobody is able to turn the tables upon his defamer by showing that all these malpractices must have been Somebody's, for "If Nobody should do them, then should they be undone." L. P.

MORE FAMILY (5th S. x. 407.)-The following note from the Historical Register for 1720 (App., p. 32) may assist MR. MOORE :

"Aug. 26. Nicholas Moore, of Osthorpe Hall, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, Esq.; kill'd at the Ram-Inn in Smithfield, by Mr. Giles Hill, a Life Guard Man, who was the next day committed to Newgate."

There is an entry to the same effect in Salmon's the addition that he was stabbed for drinking Chronological Historian, 1747 (ii. p. 101), with

the Duke of Ormonde's health." In this book he is called Mr. Nicolas Moore, of Osthorpe Hall, Yorkshire. Mr. Moore was probably very far THE PLAY OF "NOBODY AND SOMEBODY" (5th from sober at the time, or he would hardly have S. x. 368.)-In Simpson's School of Shakspere, on proposed the health of the Pretender's commanderpp. 270-1, S. will find the following, which will per-in-chief in the presence of King George's officer. haps help him :

It would clearly be the act of a traitor, and Giles's

punishment, if any, under would be very slight.

the circumstances, not keep it ourselves?" (Bund and Friswell's
EDWARD SOLLY. translation of the Reflections, p. 64).
EDWARD H. MARSHALL.

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THE "UNKNOWN ACRE" OF NEWBURY (5th S. X. 429.)-In the Chamberlain's Rolls of the collegiate church of Ripon, which I am now copying for the Surtees Society, I have found under the head "Decasus redditus " many such entries as Est in decas. redd'us iij acr. t're in Wynkesley quondam Goslini de Brathewate cum denariis romanis hoc anno, vij, quia nescitur ubi jacet " (1479). These of course come among the expenses. J. T. F.

Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

THE ORIGIN OF THE BEAUMONTS OF FOLKINGHAM (5th S. x. 387.)-I believe there is evidence of Henry de Beaumont having been brother of Lewis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham, but I am not able to refer to it from memory. Lewis was undoubtedly a younger son,* by the heiress of the family of Beaumont-le-Vicomte, in Maine, of Lewis de Brienne, who was himself a son of John de Brienne, King of Jerusalem, by his second wife, the Infanta Berengaria of Castile and Leon, aunt of Eleanor, the beloved queen of Edward I. Thus it was Henry de Beaumont came to be styled consanguineus regis" in the reign of Edward II., who was his second cousin.

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The Temple.

HENRY ANDREWS, ALMANAC MAKER, &c. (5th S. ix. 328; x. 55, 76, 119.)—Perhaps the following, which appeared in the Monthly Magazine the year of his death, may be worth preserving in the pages of "N. & Q.” :—

"The late Henry Andrews of Royston, the celebrated calculator, was born at Frieston, near Grantham, of poor parents. By his own industry, from a limited education he made great progress in the liberal arts, and was justly When esteemed one of the best astronomers of the age. looking at the moon out of the chamber window at midonly six years old he would frequently stand in his shirt night; and when about ten years of age he used to fix a table on Frieston Green on clear frosty nights, and set a telescope thereon to view the stars. Soon after this he would sit for weeks together by the fireside with a table At a suitable age he was sent from home to earn his own spread full of books making astronomical calculations. living, and the first situation he filled was at Sleaford as servant to a shopkeeper; after this he went to Lincoln to wait upon a lady, and during this servitude used at every opportunity to make weather glasses and weatherhouses. His last situation of this kind was in the service of J. Feriman, Esq., and his master finding him so intent on study allowed him two or three hours every day for that purpose. On the 1st of April, 1764, he went to Aswarby Hall, the seat of Sir Christopher Whichcote, to view the great eclipse of the sun which was visible on that day, where a number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled for the purpose; and as he had previously calculated a type of this eclipse, he presented the same to the company, showing them the manner of its appearance in a dark room upon a board, and after it was over they than any given in the almanacs. A short time after this unanimously declared that his calculations came nearer period he opened a school at Basingthorpe, near Grantham, and afterwards engaged as an usher in a clergyman's boarding school at Stilton. He then settled in Cambridge, where he proposed to reside, in the expectation that be from the men of science in the University; but the noise might derive some advantage in prosecuting his studies and bustle of the town not being agreeable to him, he left Cambridge, and came to reside at Royston, Hertfordshire, where he opened a school, at the age of twenty-three years, and at this place continued until the day of his death, which happened, after a short illness, on the 26th January, 1820, at the age of seventy-six, having enjoyed an uninterrupted state of good health till his last illness, when the greatness of his mind was more parescaped his lips, but serenity of mind, resignation, and ticularly conspicuous. On his death-bed not a murmur patience were constantly depicted on his countenance. He was greatly esteemed for his integrity, talents, and modesty. He was for nearly fifty years the author of that far-famed production, Moore's Almanac, and com"QUOD TACITUM VELIS," &c. (5th S. x. 428.)-piler of the Nautical Ephemeris. On retiring from the A sentiment very similar to this is expressed by situation of compiler of the Nautical Ephemeris he reRochefoucauld when he says, ceived the thanks of the Board of Longitude, accompanied "How shall we hope by a handsome present, as a just tribute for his long and that another person will keep our secret if we do arduous services, for which he would never receive more

I would refer HERMENTRUDE to a pedigree given in Surtees's Durham, vol. i. p. xlv, note, said to be copied, "with all its original mixture of French and Latin," from the rare work of Du Paz, but I do not find it in the copy in the King's Library. I would also refer her to that storehouse of genealogical lore the preface to Liber de Antiquis Legibus, one of the undervalued volumes of the Camden Society. This preface was written by Mr. Stapleton, brother of the late Lord Beaumont, whose descent from the first Lord Mayor of London is traced through it. He shows that the brass of William, Viscount Beaumont (ob. Dec. 19, 1507), in Wivenhoe Church, Essex, affords evidence of his descent from John, King of Jerusalem, and the royal house of Castile by the elephant bearing a triple-towered castle on which the feet of his effigy are represented to rest.

Westminster.

A. S. ELLIS.

Pedigrees, arms, and genealogical notes of this family occur in Cat. MSS. Bodleian Library (Rawlinson MSS.), part v. fasc. ii. p. 596.

L. L. H.

than a nominal remuneration."

Mr. Knight (in his London, vol. iii.) is not sure that "Francis Moore" was not a nom de guerre, although at p. 241 he gives the portrait of the

"physician" from an anonymous print, published I saw it was in the Duchy of Lancaster Office, and in 1657. Doubtless the publication of Andrews's the second while it was yet uncalendared in the manuscripts would throw considerable light on Record Office. that well-known Vox Stellarum, or Almanac of Francis Moore. M. A. BAUGHAN.

I purchased an old almanac at a London bookstall a short time since, and as I can find no mention of it elsewhere, it may be worth making a note of in your columns. The title-page of this almanac, as follows (printed in red and black letters), will indicate the nature of its contents :“A Royal Almanack and Meteorological Diary for the Year of our Lord, 1778, and of the Julian Period 6491, the second after Bissextile or Leap-year, and the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George III. Containing the feasts and fasts of the Church of England; the times of the lunations; the rising and setting of the sun; the equation of time for the regulating of clocks and watches; the moon's rising

With respect to the singular use of nuper in the entry on the Issue Roll, I ask permission to call attention to the following instances, in which the same word is used in something of a similar

manner :

"Lands of the dower of Maria

nuper

Comitisse

Pembroke, held by Elizabeth, wife of Richard Talbot, of her, are now granted to the said Richard and Elizabeth, and the heirs of the said Elizabeth " (Patent Roll, 15 Ed. III., part 1). The Countess of Pembroke-the famous Marie de Saint Poldied in 1377, and on the roll for the very next year there are two grants to her.

"Isabella filia nostra jam Comitissa Bedeford... si dicta filia nostre vivente dicto Walteri mori contingat..." (sic) (Patent Roll, 48 Ed. III., part ii. ; Jan. 1, 1374).

"Pardon to our dear cousin Maud, Countess of Oxford, for crossing the sea to Brabant without licence, to speak with Robert de Vere her son, late Earl of Oxford," &c. (Patent Roll, 14 Ric. II., part ii.; May 10, 1391). The earl did not die until 1392, but being banished his title was forfeited.

and setting; the times of high water at London Bridge, morning and afternoon; the aspects of the planets and weather. Also, for every sixth day, the increase and decrease of days; the beginning and end of daylight; the nightly rising, southing, and setting of the planets and seven stars; adapted to the meridian and latitude of London. Likewise an exact meteorological journal for the preceding year, or the state of the barometer and thermometer, with the winds, weather, &c., as they were registered every day. Also the depth of rain which fell, and the observations made every month. To which are "Isabella nuper Regina Anglie" (Issue Roll, added the eclipses of the sun and moon and other remarkable phenomena that will happen this year; the Middle-Easter, 3 Hen. IV.; Apr. 15, 1402). That is to sex commencement of the sessions of the peace; a table say, she had become queen dowager; yet there of the terms and their returns, and for finding the times was at this date no other queen. of high water at most of the seaports of this kingdom. By Henry Andrews, Teacher of the Mathematics at Royston, Herts. London: Printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, who dispossessed the Stationers of the Privilege of Printing Almanacks, which they had unjustly monopolized 170 years, 1778. Price 1s."

The almanac contains this advertisement :"At Royston, Herts, Young Gentlemen and others may be commendably boarded with the Author of this Almanack at reasonable rates, and be taught by him as follows, viz., Writing, Arithmetic, Mensuration, Geometry, Trigonometry, Navigation, Astronomy, the use of the Globes, &c."

J. H. W.

ISABELLA, DAUGHTER OF EDWARD III., COUNTESS OF BEDFORD AND LADY DE COUCY (5th S. x. 495, 497.)—I am greatly obliged to MRS. EVERETT GREEN for her kind notice of my little note concerning this princess. I ought, however, to have added that Isabel certainly died in the same year, 1382; for the Issue Roll, Michaelmas, 6 Ric. II., contains a memorandum, dated Oct. 18, respecting certain jewels bought for the king from the executors of Isabel, late Countess of Bedford; and on the Patent Roll, 1 Hen. IV., part iv., is a record that Isabel, Countess of Bedford, was dead on the 8th of October, 6 Ric. II. She appears, therefore, to have died between May 6 and October 8, 1382. I was not able to give an exact reference to John of Gaunt's Register, since the first time that

I feel almost sure that I have seen an exactly similar instance, though I cannot at once recall it. I trust I may be pardoned for preferring the old English name which the princess really bore, Isabel, to the purely modern Isabella, introduced afresh among us from Italy in the reign of Charles II.

While on this subject, MRS. EVERETT GREEN will, I hope, kindly bear with me if I draw her attention to another point of the Coucy pedigree. She identifies with Isabelle of Lorraine, second wife of Ingelram de Coucy, that Lady de Coucy who was Lady Mistress to Queen Isabelle, and was noted for pomp and extravagance; yet the Easter Issue Roll for 1399 distinctly calls her Margaret, Lady de Coucy. Was she not the wife of William de Coucy, cousin of Ingelram?

According to Anderson (who is not infallible), Isabelle of Lorraine was married to Ingelram in 1385. This would agree both with the death of Isabel of England in 1382, and with Froissart's "recently married" in 1389. HERMENTRUde.

TERRITORIAL TITLE OF A PEER (5th S. x. 408.) It is necessary that some territorial designation should be inserted in the patent of creation of a peer. Sir Colin Campbell and Mr. T. B. Macaulay owned no broad acres; but the one was created Lord Clyde, of Clydesdale, and the other

Lord Macaulay, of Rothley Temple, co. Leicester,
the seat of his relations the Babingtons. The
theory, of course, is that every lordship still is
territorial. This was the case once, but is so no
longer.
E. WALFORD, M.A.

RENTON FAMILY (5th S. x. 429.)-There is no town or village in the county of Durham called Renton, but there is a village called Rainton near Durham, which X. must mean. The above family may have taken their name from Rentown, a large village in Dumbartonshire, in the parish of Cardross, three miles from Dumbarton.

EDWARD J. TAYLOR, F.S.A.Newc. Bishopwearmouth, Durham.

ROSEMARY V. MINT (5th S. x. 445.)-As a set off to the saying that mint will not grow where the husband is henpecked, there is also a saying in Yorkshire that rosemary will not grow in the garden of a house unless the woman is the master, or, as it is said in other words, wears the breeches." SIMEON RAYNER.

Pudsey, Yorkshire.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN (5th S. x. 448.)

BISHOP SHIPLEY (5th S. x. 369.)-In an account of his family given in Burke's Landed Gentry, this prelate is stated to have been a son of Jonathan Shipley, of London. Jonathan Boadman, of Doncaster, velvet hunting-cap maker, by his will, proved at York Oct. 5, 1776, left "to his cousin the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph " (Dr. Jonathan Shipley) a diamond ring value twenty guineas," and some other property (Jackson's St. George's Church, Doncaster, p. 116). There are several entries of the name in the parish register of this place, but The name "Botany Bay" was applied to the build-nothing that I have so far met with to connect the ings in question, not from any fancied resemblance of their inmates to the old inhabitants of what Sydney Smith calls "the fifth or pickpocket quarter of the globe," but on account of their isolated and distant situation. Lever, an unimpeachable authority on such a subject, says that "Botany Bay was the slang name given by college men to a new square rather remotely situated from the rest of the college" (Charles O'Malley, ch. xx.). In old days, before the growth of the north-west suburb of Oxford, "Botany Bay" was the appellation of Worcester College in that university.

The Temple.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL.

bishop with them.

Doncaster.

CHARLES JACKSON.

WEATHER LORE (5th S. x. 494.)—Fifty years ago I read in a book of travels,

"More rain, more rest;

Fine weather not the best,"

as a saying much used by sailors. The author heard it during rainy weather off the Azores. It has the advantage over the "old illiterate man's" version in being rhythmical.

X. P. D.

"THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS" (5th S. x. 328, 374.)-A translation of the fairy London in two volumes, 12mo., in the year 1817. tales of the Countess d'Aulnoy was published in Nourjahad was written by Mrs. Sheridan, a conI think that she was also the authoress of a novel nexion of the family of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. called Sidney Biddulph. Philadelphia.

"PIECE" (5th S. x. 250, 334, 525.)—

UNEDA.

"For we see men choose neither faire nor comely women, and yet find sufficient ground even in their Persons, to be taken pleas'd and contented. And there are those that have the choicest pieces for exquisite feature on earth, married even to the envy and neighing of every one that sees them, and these singular objects of Love meet not with constant and reciprocall heats."Gayton's Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, p. 187. R. R.

Boston.

YANKEE (5th S. x. 467.)-In Smollett's novel of Sir Lancelot Greaves, ch. iii., we have Capt. Crowe