And if above ten Calves and under twenty then to pay 3d. pr Calfe for the Odds, or let them go On towards ye next Year. For Lambs one at ten and one at seven at Hollowry day if fit to be taken from the Dam &c. as for Calves For Piggs one at ten and one at seven at 18 days old (unless demanded before) but if one at 7 be first paid, then not to pay any more till they Come to thirteen. For Geese one at ten and one at seven to be paid between Midsummer and Michaelmas, and not two under Twenty. For Bees the tenth of the Hony if taken and the tenth of the price if sold. For Pigeons the tenth of such as are taken. For Mills the tenth of the Toll. For ye Fall of every Colt two pence. For Eggs 3 for a Cok and 2 for a Hen. The like for Ducks, Turkeys, &c. For Coneys and Fish the tenth of such as are sold. For Kids one at ten and one at seven to be paid when they may be weaned and will live without the Dam. For Wooll ye tenth Fleece and the tenth part if less than ten Fleeces. For every Score of Sheep sold before the third of May 10d. And after ye 5th of May and before Sheer day 1s. 8d. For every Score of Sheep of an out Parishioner depastured in the Parish 30 days and taken away before Sheer day 1s. 8d. Sheep bought in another Parish, and Shorn in this shall pay the full Tithe in kine unless they have paid it Elsewhere. If a Flock of Sheep dye of the Rot ye Tithe wooll shall be paid. For Herbage the tenth of the Rent of the Ground if an out Parishioner rent it. And the same to be paid by an in Parishioner if he tack a Ground or grase it with Cattle unprofitable to the Vicar. For all Appels and Crabs the tenth Bushel. And likewise ye tenth Bushel of all Wardens, Black-pears, Green-pears, Copheads, and all other Pears whatsoever that shall be gather'd and sold at Market or kept in the house for Winter. For Perry three half-pence pr Hogshead. For Hemp, Flax, Mast, Rape, Woad, Plants, Turnips &c the tenth to be paid when they are gathered or Pulled. For Hop-yards the tenth when ye Hop are Pulled. For Cherry Orchards, Vine Yards &c ye tenth of what they are sold for. In Tithing of Calves ye tenth as it falleth. For Lambs, Piggs, Geese &c., the Owner Choseth two and the Vicar the third, and afterwards the owner 9 and the Vicar ye 10th. For all Manner of sylva cædua or Copice wood the tenth to be paid by the Pole or Perch, or every tenth fagot or Billet. For all Lop-wood the tenth of what it is sold for. For every Weding by Banns 2s. 6d. By Licence 5s. whither Man or Woman live out of the Parish. Every Householder dying worth ten marks shall pay for a Mortuary 3s. 4d. If worth 30 then 6s. 8d. If worth £40 and upwards then 10s. Every Parishoner for burying in the Church shall pay 6s. 8d. Every one not a Parishoner for burying in the Church yard shall pay 3s. 4d. And none to drive on Tithes any longer than an Even reckoning to be made once every Year. "All ye above mentioned Tithes and Profits Mr. Wm. Need Curate of the said Parish of Castlemorton is ffully authoriz'd to demand and receive of the Parishioners by Virtue of Lease granted unto him ye 24th day of December in the year of our Lord 1714 by Mr. John Brown Vicar of Longdon. "Samuel Beale & John Bray being Churchwardens that year." DAWSON, OF LOUGHBOROUGH, CO. LEICESTER. CAN any correspondent enlarge the following scanty Pedigree? John bur. 23 Feb., | Loughborough, b. | bur. 1 Jan. 1581-2. 1547. 1514; m. 22 Aug., Dawson, = Clerk, School master, of Lough borough ; 13 May, 1540; bur. 24 Feb., 1615. FLETCHER, OF WALTON, CO. DERBY. THE following Pedigree is extracted from Additional MS. 24,477, fo. 143 : Paul Fletcher, of Walton Hall, co. Derby, yeoman, by his Will, dated 20 November, 1663, and proved in P. C. C., 20 May, 1664, by Richard Jenkinson and Paul Jeukinson, the Executors, bequeathed to his wife, Dorothy Fletcher, an Annuity of £120 out of lands in Walton. To his nephew, Gilliad Gouge, of Hull, Wine Couper, all his lands in Royston in Holderness, co. York, lately purchased of Thomas Wharton, of Gray's Inn, Esq., in fee, but he to pay to each of his sisters £20 a year. To his nephew Thomas Gouge, of Walton (brother to Gilead Gouge) one-third of coal mines in Walton, and other property, for his life, and after his death to his executors in fee. To each child of Thomas Gouge £200. To Richard Fletcher, son of his deceased brother-in-law, William Fletcher, house, &c., bought of Koger Mollineux, Esq., also 120; and to his two sisters £20 each. To Peter Simpson, of Sheffield, Currier, in fee, houses bought of Byrley; but to pay to his sister Alice £10. To his sister, Jane Jenkinson, and to her two daughters, Elizabeth Littlewood and Anne Key, and to nephew George Jenkinson, £5 each yearly. To each child of his nephew, Paul Jenkinson, £100. Legacies to the poor of Chesterfield and Walton. Testator gave the residue of his real and personal estate to his nephews, Richard Jenkinson, and Paul Jenkinson, in fee equally; and appointed them Exetutors of his Will. From the above Will this Pedigree is deduced : Fletcher= NORTH LEES, PADLEY, AND JESUIT MISSIONS. SHALL feel obliged to the readers of the "RELIQUARY" if they will refer me to any authorities on the subject of Jesuit Missions in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.; especially where they bear upon the two chapels of North Lees and Padley in Derby shire. FRANCIS JOURDAIN, M.A. THE FAMILY OF BROWNE. JUSTIN MCCARTY BROWNE, Esq., of Tasmania, "Heir to the present proprietor of Ballinvoher," is collecting information concerning the "family of Browne, seated in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Ireland," including of course the family of Browne, of the Lings, in Derbyshire, an account of which appeared in an early volume of the RELIQUARY." Any genealogical particulars relating to the different branches of the Brownes will be acceptable, and can be sent to the Editor of the "RELIQUARY." THE RELIQUARY. JANUARY, 1877. ST. CHAD'S GOSPELS AT LICHFIELD. BY LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S. A., ETC., ETC., ETC. IN connection with the very interesting and important notice of a collation of the valuable old MS. of St. Chad's Gospels, preserved in the Cathedral Library at Lichfield, communicated to No. 65 of the "RELIQUARY," by the Right Reverend Bishop Abraham, it appeared to me that some fac-similes of the original writing could not fail to be acceptable to my readers. The Very Reverend the Dean of Lichfield (Dr. Bickersteth), having most obligingly given me permission for the necessary tracings to be made, they have been most kindly and carefully executed for me, and are here given on Plate XV. The following valuable explanatory notes upon these fac-similes are by the Right Reverend Bishop Abraham : Fig. 1, which occurs on the first page (recto) is the now nearly effaced name of the Bishop of Lichfield who received the Book Fig. 4, on page 10, is a tracing of the capital letter B, about which Sir Thos. Duffus Hardy has much to say in his Report ("Further Report") on the Utrecht Psalter, p. 27, end of chap vi. The age and Irish origin of that letter would agree with this. All the Beatitudes are written with similar capitals. Fig. 6, "Meus novi et æterni testamenti" is the reading of S. Mark xiv. 24. I send smudged it to show that the words, novi et eterni, stand in the middle of the line, and could not be an interpolation at the end of the line. Page 217 (recto) Fig. 3, is a very sacred page, on which the Lord's Prayer is written and illuminated at the end of S. Mark's Gospel, there being a vacant space. It is evidently of a much later date than the rest of the MS., e.g. the r of Pater is the only specimen of that mode of writing r in the whole Book. The usual way of writing it in the Gospels is like the R of noster. Evidently this page and Prayer were used to take oaths of compurgation and homage upon. It is much smudged and worn. send the conclusion, whether cmxl, or a malo, or both. The cross precedes the name of Teuclun. Fig. 5, is a specimen of the writing under the Lord's Prayer, by a compurgator. Fig. 2, from page 218, is a tracing of a marginal notice about Dubnms and Cuhelm, sons of the Bishop, showing that at that date (while the MS. was in the possession of Llandaff Cathedral), Bishops were married men. VOL. XVII. I |