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lor's 'Works,' vol. i. p. 20. So Wood has, 'Athen. Oxon.,' vol. ii. col. 485, folio, of Davenport and his brother, "They were only batlers." This gives an opportunity for the remark that for all critical purposes the original edition of Heber's 'Taylor' must be considered as superseded by Eden's revision, with its excellent notes. At p. cclv there is a reference to the 'Athen. Oxon.' (Bliss), vol. iii. col. 1223, the same passage as above. It appears from Wood that Franc. a S. Clara was not known as Christopher Davenport after he became a Franciscan, and that he died in 1680, so that he could not be the Christopher Davenport of 1689. The Franciscan Davenport wrote the 'Historia Minor Prov. Ang. Fratrum Minorum,' which appeared during his life, and he also wrote the 'Supplementum,' which was not, however, published until after his death. Lowndes makes a mistake in calling the Franciscan Francis Davenport, as his name was Christopher.

ED. MARSHALL.

As Christopher Davenport, the Franciscan, died at Somerset House on May 31, 1680, aged eightytwo, he could scarcely have been the same person as the Christopher Davenport who is described by MR. WINTERS as being in 1689 of "New Inn, Esq." G. F. R. B.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries: an Attempt to Illustrate their Suppression. By Francis Aidan Gasquet. Vol. II. (Hodges.)

the book. There are but very few people who know
where all this mass of treasure went to, leaving the king so
poor that he felt himself called on to debase the coinage.
Still fewer are there who know what was the effect on
the people of the sudden change in the ownership of so
large an amount of landed property.

Northumbria: a Repository of Antiquities of North-
umberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland. Durham,
Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Borders of Scotland.
Edited by T. Tindale Wildridge. (London, Gray;
Hull, Peck.)

MR. WILDRIDGE'S compilation differs from many others
There is not a single article that cannot well stand on its
of its class from the fact that it contains no padding.
own merits, and some are of a high degree of excellence.
We are especially pleased to find a useful biographical
notice of William Fowler, the engraver (born 1769, died
1832). Retiring men such as he have seldom justice done
to them during life or after death. Many men who had
Fowler possessed have had their names in all the news-
not one tittle of the ability or self-sacrificing zeal that
papers. He was content if he could save from oblivion
the memory of the remains of ancient and mediæval art
which he saw perishing around him. Had it not been
for Fowler's engravings we should have known nothing
whatever of several interesting objects which have been
John Carter and Fowler's friend Willson, the Lincoln
destroyed since his day. With the solitary exception of
architect, there was hardly a man in England who had
any intelligent knowledge of medieval art when he began
his great series of engravings. Sir Albert Rollit, M.P.,
contributes an interesting genealogical paper showing the
descent of Darwin from a mayor of Hull. Mr. Axon's
paper on The Significance of Kufic Coins in North-
umbria' suggests lines of thought which we should like
to trace very much further. It might well be expanded
into a large volume.

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English Writers.-An Attempt towards a History of English Literature. By Henry Morley, LL. D. Vol. IV. (Cassell & Co.)

THE second and final volume of Mr. Gasquet's great work is before us. We call it great without any hesitation, for the first volume was admitted on all hands to be the fairest book that had as yet been produced concerning the great Tudor revolution. The second volume is larger than the first, and it has not so much of the romance interest in it as its predecessor. This was inevitable. Whatever we may think of the need there was for a refor-Travels,' and William Langland and his 'Vision of Piers mation, or of the judiciousness with which it was carried out, it is not easy to turn Henry into a romance hero, and when a certain series of crimes has been committed, we look on with jaded interest as to those that follow. Quite free from all considerations of right and wrong, we cannot help having as intense a delight in following the careers of More and Fisher as we have in tracing the lot of Shakspeare's heroes. But this cannot go on for ever. We feel, wherever the right or the wrong may have been, that the axe, the rope, the knife, and the fire are not objects which it is well for the brain to be long intimate with.

In the present, as in the former volume, Mr. Gasquet writes with a fairness that makes one envy him. It is so very difficult to write calmly when the feelings are very deeply touched. There is, however, hardly a passage from which it would be possible to deduce what were Mr. Gasquet's theological convictions, though he shows, as was to be expected, a sound hatred of murder and the tortures that lead up to it. The story of the rising in Lincolnshire and the Pilgrimage of Grace are excellently well told. We do not remember having ever met with these unhappy narratives so well given before. Chaps. xi. and xii., "The Spending of the Spoils" and "Some Results of the Suppression," are the most important parts of

WE are glad to welcome another instalment of Prof.
Morley's magnum opus. In this volume he discourses
pleasantly of The Romaunt of the Rose,' Petrarch and
Boccaccio, Richard of Bury, the miracle plays, 'Cursor
Mundi,' John Gower, the old chroniclers, Maundeville's
Plowman.' In recasting the matter which was originally
published some one-and-twenty years ago, Prof. Morley
has omitted the chapters on Chaucer, hoping in the two
succeeding volumes to complete the literary record of
the fourteenth century and to carry it on from Caxton to
Chaucer. If this scheme is carried out the first six
volumes of "English Writers" will contain a history,
or, as the title modestly puts it, 'An Attempt towards a
History of English Literature' from the earliest times
to the invention of printing. We trust Prof. Morley will
have both health and leisure to complete his courageous
and single-handed attempt; but, judging from the ex-
haustive manner in which he deals with the early period,
we shall not be surprised if he exceeds his original esti-
mate of twenty half-yearly volumes.

Records of the English Catholics of 1715. Compiled
wholly from Original Documents. Edited by John
Orlebar Payne. (Burns & Oates.)
THE English Roman Catholic body have been severely
blamed for the small interest which they showed in the
history of their forefathers. In former times the charge
may have been true; it assuredly is not so now. During
the last dozen years a series of valuable works have been
issued relative to the Roman Catholics of the last three

centuries, which puts them and their doings in a very different light from that in which historians have been in the habit of viewing them. Historians such as Lingard and controversialists of the type of Milner were ignorant of the vast masses of record evidence which has been preserved concerning the members of the Roman Catholic body at the time it was a persecuted sect. Had they known of them their narratives would not have

been in all cases such as we find them.

Mr. Payne has taken the date of 1715, the time of what is called the first Jacobite rebellion, and has grouped round the names of those who registered their estates at that time much curious information, mainly, though not solely, derived from wills. We are very glad that he has given us all we possess, but feel, as we turn over his pages, that they might have been extended with advantage. It is, however, manifestly unfair to find fault with a book for being other than it has been planned to be from the first. The details given are arranged under counties. As to those parts of England with which we are the most familiar, we find many curious details which have hitherto been unknown to local historians. We trust the book may be widely read, as it shows in detail the cruel means used on the accession of the house of Hanover for the purpose of enforcing uniformity in religious expression.

WE have received Andrew Brice and the Early Exeter Newspaper Press, and Who Wrote the 'Exmoor Scolding and Courtship,' a communication made by Dr. Brushfield to the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science. It is well worthy of reproduction in pamphlet form. The history of our newspaper press of the last century is worthy of more attention than it has received. Who can tell us what was the origin of our old newspapers, such as the York Courant, the Northampton Journal, and the Leeds Mercury? We take our daily paper in these days as so much a matter of course that it never seems to occur to us that newspapers have a history. We have heard of peasants in the Eastern Counties who have stiffly refused to be convinced that grubs turned into butterflies, and so we could well imagine people who found it impossible to believe that the newspapers of today are any of them the lineal descendants of the tiny grey sheets which satisfied our forefathers' craving for knowledge when George I, was king. Andrew Brice did much for the newspaper press of the south-west. He was, indeed, an enthusiastic man of letters in more than one direction. The large gazetteer which he compiled is but a literary curiosity now, but it was a most useful book when first issued. Even now it is worth while to turn over the leaves in search for facts and fallacies.

Brice was a man of marked character, and never seems to have wished to disguise his feelings. Exeter was his native place, and he loved his home. Consequently he devoted fifteen folio pages to a description of that city, while seven contained all he desired to tell of London. The Exmoor Scolding and Courtship' is one of our oldest dialect publications. It has been reprinted over and over again. Who was the author is unknown. Dr. Brushfield makes it probable that we owe it to the ready pen of Andrew Brice,

WE have received No. VIII. of the "Papers of the New York Shakespeare Society," a small pamphlet entitled The Construction and Types of Shakespeare's Verse as seen in Othello,' by Thomas R. Price, LL.D. (New York, printed for the Society). It consists of but seventy pages. Size is not in such matters any test of value. The labour gone through in the compilation of this elaborate analysis must have been very great. Some Americans with equal zeal have wasted their time in pursuing a phantom. Such has not been the case with

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Le Livre for May supplies a full list of the members of the Société des Bibliophiles Contemporains, otherwise known as the Académie des Beaux Livres. The progress of this scheme, long cherished by M. Octave Uzanne, the distinguished editor of Le Livre, has been followed with much interest. In the list of founders, amidst names principally French, appear a few that are English or American. The English members, it is pleasant to see, are all contributors to N. & Q. No full catalogue exists of the Bibliothèque Nationale. It is a good idea, accordingly, of Le Livre to begin an Inventaire Detaillé des Catalogues Usuels.' With this is an illustration of a Parisian library, showing the fine interior of the Maison Conquet. In the Bibliographie Moderne much space is bestowed upon English works, and there is a specially elaborate and laudatory analysis of the Life of John Francis,' by his son, recently reviewed in these columns.

CANON SPARROW SIMPSON is engaged on a companion volume to his Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul's,' entitled 'Gleanings from Old St. Paul's.' Among other chapters it will contain three devoted to the music of St. Paul's in the olden times, with illustrations. The volume will be published shortly by Mr. Elliot Stock.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and

address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately.

To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

HARROVIENSIS ("Jingoism ").-Jingoism has come to be applied rebukefully to those who advocate a forward or what may be called a Palmerstonian policy abroad. A song was written a few years ago the burden of which

was:

We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

It was popular at music-halls, and the applauders of the warlike sentiments were derided as Jingoes. For "by Jingo," see 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. i. ii. iii, iv. passim.

W. WILKINS ("As mad as a hatter ").-See 2nd S. ix. 462; 3rd S. v. 24, 64, 125; 4th S. viii, 395, 489. (“Yellow bellies ")-This term is applied opprobriously to the inhabitants of marshy counties as a means of likening them to frogs.

G. S. B. (Butchered to make a Roman holyday ").— Byron, Childe Harold,' canto iv.

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MRS. LEOPOLD SCARLETT begs to thank Mr. Bouchier for kindly sending her a copy of the ballad for which she inquired.

NOTICE.

Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher "-at the Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C.

We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1889.

CONTENTS.-N° 180.
NOTES:-Sir Francis Drake, 441-Fettiplace Family, 443-

J. Relph's Poems, 444-"Of all others"-Turnip-Lord
Lee-Family History-"Thief in a candle"-The Lord

Hartington-Chiddingstone, 445-Punning Motto-Richard

Mayor and Gordon Riots, 446.

2421. 18. 5d. against an expenditure of 3241. 28. 6d. (Trans. Plym. Inst., vii. 455). Doubtless the town incurred many petty incidental expenses indethe water, and the conduits were serious items, to pendently. Douceurs, lead pipes for distributing which Richard Hawkins contributed 50%. (Plymouth Corporation Accounts).* Had not a composition QUERIES:-Clam - Richter's Titan -White or Whyte- differed from an ordinary contract the undertaking Prayers of Lord Bacon-Garrick's Birth-Royal Bailiwicks would not have cost Drake the great sum of money Dialogue, a Surname - Medal, 447-Vause Heraldic that the Mayor and Corporation declared that it Knots-King of Arms Black Men as Heralds-Clerical did; yet, notwithstanding their contemporary eviDress-Aitken Family-Turkish Coat of Arms-The "Beni Jesu "-Bournes Family, 448-Gater Family" Dogmatism" dence, the papers (Trans. Plym. Inst. and Dev. and "Puppyism "-Philip Stanhope-Pope Jutte, 449. Assoc.) laboured to represent Drake as a well-paid REPLIES:-Alice Perrers, 449-John Duns Scotus, 451- contractor, their author having lighted on the folAnthony Young, 452-Clocks - Criss Cross Row-Dog-lowing note, for the year 1589-90, in a memoWatches Estienne le Noir-Clubbing-Froude's Two Chiefs of Dunboy,' 453-Cisterns-" La dague de la miséricorde "-Graduates of Scottish Universities-St. Hugh of Lincoln-Citizen and Tosoler-Macaulay, 454-Grimaldi — Book Wanted-Trinity School, 455-Books noted in Young's Travels-Capt. J. Garnault-Chalmers-Sketches from St. George's Fields-Bishop Berkeley-Festival of Trinity, 456-Sir N. Wentworth-Wyre-lace: Hummed-" Quite the

clean potato "-Portrait of Ignatius Sancho-London Proper -Public Lotteries-The Monthly Magazine,' 457-Whitepot-Rubble-built Churches-Wordsworth-Curious Medal

-Duffer, 458.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and
Queries'-'Fenland Notes and Queries.'
Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE PLYMOUTH

LEAT.

(Continued from p. 363.*)

So soon as the Drake Memorial Committee attracted public attention an obstructionist writer hazarded the assertion that he was "prepared to prove beyond the room of controversy that from beginning to end" the Plymouth Corporation had paid the entire cost of bringing in the water, and was not indebted to Drake for anything more than the moiety of a broken brass cannon."+

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Drake left 401. to the Plymouth poor, and the Corporation paid Serjeant Maynard's father 8s. in 1598-9 A.D. for an opinion on the will (Plymouth Corporation Accounts). He also gave the town 50l. in 1580-1 (ibid.), and the Mayor and Corporation of Plymouth in soliciting the aid of Sir Robert Cecil in 1601 against Mr. Wm. Crymes for tapping the leat, stated that it "cost us and Sir Francis Drake, who upon composicion with us undertook the bringeinge home of the same, a greate some of money" (State Papers, Dom.'). Plymouth could not have contributed much, seeing that the corporate receipts in 1590 were

Eleven lines from end of previous article, for "irrational" read rational.

1881.

R. N. Worth, Western Morning News, January 1,

randum book of the Plymouth Corporation, viz. :— the towne and Sr. Frances Drake for the bringinge of "Also this yere the composyton was made betweene the River of Mewe [Meavy] to the towne, for which the towne have paied hym iic [2001.] and more cli [100%], for which he is to compounde with the lords of the land over which it runneth.'

This rough note antedates fact by one year, which fatal discrepancy the author of the papers "hardly knew how to account for " (Trans. Plym. Inst., vii. 462). Nor did it occur to him that numbers of honourable men, rigid Puritans, who understood the nature of this memorandum more thoroughly than he did, had nevertheless given currency to the tradition, and drank " to the pious memory of Sir Francis Drake." No intelligent tyro at the Record Office would balance this memorandum for one moment against the authenticated tradition; a slight acquaintance with the familiar finales concordiæ and recoveries informs him that the vast

majority are fictitious compositions, recognized by law, while their real purport is explained by private and inaccessible deeds, with which, in this case, the people's tradition corresponds.

*Sir Robert Cecil (ancestor of the Marquess of Salis bury) served as a volunteer against the Spanish Armada. He was Lord High Steward of Plymouth in 1601. As to "room for controversy," I understand the author has been controverting intermittingly from 1881 till 1889. Drake's name, to add a "Drake's wing" to the Athenæum † I understand that one party desired, by trading on Institute, though Drake was neither an author nor a sage. To stem the popular current, which ran in favour of a statue, Drake was attacked, his fame, name, and arms, and Hawkins was held up as "the typical Englishman who was "the typical Englishman" in 1871 (Worth, in 1883 (Worth, Trans. Dev. Assoc.) in place of Drake, 'Hist. of Plymouth,' p. 37).

Readers who know all about legal fictions will pardon a digressive outline for the sake of those who do not tions is a question of legal antiquarianism which is conknow. When courts first condescended to entertain ficsidered by many as still undetermined" (Hunter). Land tenure was really a trust. A tenant in capite, for example, might not convey his trust to another without a licence from the Crown to alienate. Should the conveyance of an important trust be contemplated the case was referred to a jury to determine whether any damage would arise. This inquiry was called an "Inquisitio ad quod damnum."

capitulate; but the important payments of the said sums of 2001. and 100%. are wanting. Nor do any approximate amounts appear. Instead we find recorded two significant remissions of rent for old mills leased to Drake, but superseded by his six new mills, which he presented to Plymouth in reversion. In 1592 rent 30l. was remitted; and in 1593 :

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Although compositions by final concords were of wide and varied application, Serjeant Hele, having no precedent for the transfer of powers conferred by an Act of Parliament, had to exercise some ingenuity in assimilating his composition, hence the circumstantial form of the two-fold consideration which needs explanation. On the second reading of the Bill for Preserving Plymouth Haven two provisoes were added (D'Ewes, Jour. Ho. "Item paied to Sr Frauncis Drake, Knyght, in full Com.), viz., all cultivated land, rights of grist mills, paiment of the ccc" thatt the Maior and Commonalty were to paye bym for bringinge of the River and purebas tin clash mills, and such like, were to be comof the land over which the same is broughte, which is pensated for before a sod could be turned. Hence allowed owte of the mille rent which was payable this the legal fiction that 2001. had been paid. Under yere, 201. 16s. 8d." (Trans. Plym. Inst., vii. 466). the other proviso all moorland was to be assessed This is conclusive enough that the said sums of and paid for after completion. Hence the fiction 200l. and 100l. were fictitious. Among the costs of a further payment of 1001, and it is very pro-attending the rejoicings over the entry of the leat bable that some composition was drawn up a year into the town there was a sum, not specified, paid in advance. It may be remarked here that in to Sir Francis Drake, apparently to reimburse him studying the case by the light of the tradition for some petty expense he had incurred. In 1606 everything fits in properly; if the tradition is Sir Thomas Wise received some claret, in full assumed to be false things constantly jar and con- payment of the composition between him and the flict together. town for the land on the watercourse, &c., the value of which had been assessed by a commission two years before-additional evidence that a composition in those days was not a hard and fast contract.

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But the majority of readers will be satisfied with a less technical mode of reasoning. They know the uses of a merchant's waste-book, cash-book, and ledger, and before allowing a memorandum, which is no evidence of an actual cash payment, to unsettle their faith in the tradition of their fathers they would naturally turn, for confirmation or explanation, to the cash-book of the Plymouth Corporation, which, fortunately, is well preserved. It is a large folio of over 600 pages with many thousand entries, comprising the entire record of corporate receipt and expenditure from A.D. 1569 to A.D. 1657 inclusive, and with it the Municipal Accounts are practically complete from the year 1486 to the present time" (Trans. Plym. Inst., vii, 446; and Trans. Dev. Assoc.). Therein all the petty incidental expenses before mentioned are recorded, such as fees for messengers to Drake, horse hire, douceurs, charges for wine and victuals consumed in junketings, lead pipes and warehousing them, plumbers' wages, and various other detailed items too numerous to reMethods of evading licences and inquisitions were soon discovered. For example: if A wished to convey an estate to B, absolutely or temporarily, B, under pretence that the estate was his, commenced a suit against A, and, in the words of Cruise," when the suit was sued out and the parties appeared in court a composition of the suit was entered into with the consent of the judges." The estate was acknowledged to belong to B, who then made some nominal payment in return. This agreement was recorded in the court to be held of equal force with the sentence that would have been given "had the suit not been compounded." Such compositions are known as "Finales concordia" or "Pedes finium," and by them offices and privileges were also transferred. There were other fictitious methods, such as recoveries and even trials by battle, but sufficient is given to explain that "composition was the technical term for a feigned contract. "Composition" and " agreement" are the only terms used in our case. "Contract" is a nineteenth century gratuity.

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There remains the historical method of testing the truth. Drake having returned from Portugal in July, 1589, could not have attended at once to Plymouth leat, for which the memorandum states he was paid 300l. in 1589-90. The Corporation accounts show no such payment within this period, which is too short to admit of the explanatory assertion that the money was paid in small, protracted instalments.

Before Sept., 1590, P. Vosper received a shilling for going to Buckland, Drake's seat, "to knowe when the Judges did come." The Judges of Assize had arrived to assess the damages payable before a 8od could be turned. They surmounted a very serious difficulty, to be explained, and Plymouth was pleased to send them a gratuity of a tun of wine in 1590-1, which cost 201. (Plymouth Corporation Accounts), and serves to explain the mayor's words to Sir Robert Cecil. After the completion of the leat the judges came again-July, 1592-to assess the moorland, in accordance with the second proviso of the Act, which recognized only the Mayor and Commonalty as a matter of form, though Drake paid the costs handsomely. That there should be freeholders and leaseholders, the same award, new no bickering or dissatisfaction, he paid all round, leases or leases nearly expired, which was tantamount to paying for the fee twice over. No profitseeking contractor would have done this, nor would, nor could the Plymouth treasurer have so wasted the town's slender resources, but Drake was wealthy and generous donor (Trans. Plym. Inst.,

viii. 520).

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once owned by my ancestors and formerly by the Fettiplaces, I have found an original deed of covenant made on the marriage of a member of the last-named family, viz., Sir John Fettiplace, Knt., and Elizabeth Carew. The document, the wording of which is very quaint, but puzzling at times, is too long to recite at length, but possibly you may find room for a few extracts, should you deem them worthy of notice. It runs as follows:

traversed a tin district, and tin anciently ranked with silver as a royal metal (Plowden, 'Com.,' 327, ed. 1761). Tinners had power (Chart. 9 Ric. I., Bik. B. Hearne, 360, Chart. 3 Jo., Madox Exch.) to dig in royal or other lands (Act 33 Ed. I., April 10, 1305) in Devon "without licence, tribute, or satisfaction" (Carew, 'Surv. Cornw.,' 13b); "Et aquas et cursus aquarum ad operationes Stannariarum prædictarum divertere ubi et quoties opus fuerit (Act 50 Ed. III., and Acts Ric. II. and Hen. VI.). They might divert watercourses r pull down houses in their search for tin. Vindictive persons would purchase shares in decayed tin-works for the purpose of injuring others or victimizing them by levying blackmail. Devonshiremen complained to Edward II. (1314) that the tinners maliciously destroyed three hundred acres or more annually, and petitioned for a lord warden. Edward III. (1328) appointed the Abbot of Tavistock (Plowden). Tinners were then restrained "ne bestonerer eawe ou cours de eawe par malice." (Plymouth imputed malice to the tinners who tapped the leat -Star Cham. Pro.). But the tinners could summarily lodge in Lydford Gaol those who impeded them, consequently two messengers, sent from Plymouth to protect the leat on Roborough Down, were set up on a bare ridged horse, with their legs tied under his belly, and trotted off to gaol (Star Chamber Pro.). By virtue of their ancient charter they defied the Act of Henry VIII. (23 Hen. VIII, c. 8, 1531-2) for preserving the western havens, which were choked with washings from the tin-feast of the Ascension of our Lord God next comyng works, and the Act (27 Hen. VIII., c. 23) which increased the penalty against them from 10l. to 201.* Fifteen or twenty miles of watercourse lay at the mercy of these tinners, and not one drop of water could have reached Plymouth without their consent first obtained. No one aware of these facts would have asserted in the Devon Trans-and oder services withoute any oder thynge or actions that there was 66 no room for the exercise of Drake's influence or generosity "; or that "his influence, if exerted, would have prevented the necessity for an Act of Parliament." After Drake's death Mr. Wm. Crymes did maintain his right to tap the leat for tinning purposes, as will be shown. The rapacity of the tinners would have taxed the resources of Plymouth with all the other towns of Devon united, and therefore we say that a tradition which merely declares that Plymouth did not perform what she could not perform is absolutely unimpeachable. H. H. DRAKE.

(To be continued.)

FETTIPLACE FAMILY.

It may interest Berkshire archeologists to know that among some old papers relating to Ockwells,

"The lower and first Buildings of the Court of the Priorie [Plympton Mary, near Plymouth] be almost clene chokid with the Sandes that Torey [Brook] bringgith from the Tynne works" (Leland, 'Itin.,' iii. 33).

"This Endenture made the 29th day of August in the 10th yere of the Reigne of King Henry the VIIIth betweene Sr Richarde Carew Kat Nicholas Carew Esquier son and heire apparannt of the sd Sr Richarde on thone Witnessith that the 84 Sr Richard covenannten and partie and Sr Thomas ffetiplace Kat on thoder partie gn'nten by these presents to the 84 Sr Thomas that Elizabeth Carew one of the daughters of the 8 Sr Richarde and sister to the sd Nicholas shall before the feaste of Alle Saynts next comyng by the grace of God mary and and wedde after the lawe of Holy Chirche if the ad take to her husbonde the sd Sr Thomas and hym espouse Sr Thomas will thereunto assent and agre And in likewise the sa Sr Thomas coven'ntith and gn'ntith by these presents to the 8 S Richarde & Nicholas that he shall before the s feast by the same grace of God mary and wedde after the lawes of Holy Chirche if the ed Elizabeth take to his wif the sd Elizabeth and her espouse & will thereunto agre And the ad Sr Richard & Nicholas coven'nten &c by these presents to the sd St Thomas to apparell and araye the gd Elizabeth in alle things necessary and convenient for her degre for the said ad Se Richarde & Nicholas covenannten &c to the 8 Sr mariage after theire discrecions And furdermore the Thomas that the King or Sovereigne lorde by his sufficient l'res patents after the sd mariage and before the shall give and gn'nte to the 8 St Thomas and Elizabeth of Englande to the yerly value of an hundreth merks manors or manor or londes & te'nts within the Realme over alle chargs and reprises To Have and to holde to the 8 St Thomas and Elizabeth and the heires of theire bodies lawfully begoten reservyng only fealte to the King's Highnes and his heires by his l'res patents for all accompte yeldyng or making for the same For the whiche mariage Astats to be made and the sd coven'ants gn'nts promises and agrements on the p'tie of the sd Sr Richarde and Nicholas to be done and performed The 8 St Thomas coven'nteth &c by these presents to the 8 S Richarde and Nicholas that he the s Sir Thomas or his heires within sixe monethes next after the ad mariage and after the same l'res patents of Manors or Manor or landes or ten'ts of the ad clere yerly value of one hundreth marks over alle chargs to the sd Sr Thomas and Elizabeth & theire heires in forme beforesaid made or for defaulte of the Feast of the Ascencion the sd St Thomas or Nicholas makyng of the same Astats by the sd l'res patents before or one of them their executor and assignes consent to pay to the 8d Sr Thomas his executor and assignes two thousand marks that then within the vj monethes after the same Astate made or the sd £ £ m'ks in forme beforesaid paied shall make or cause to be made by recorde or oderwise a sufficient and lawful Astate to Sr John Gaynesforde Sr Symon Hare'cote Knights the ad Nicholas Carewe [sic] Richarde Broke Sergeauntatt-lawe Roger Copley Esquier W Stafforde of Bradfelde in the Countie of Berks Esquier Henry Brigges Esquier and Wm ffermor gentilman of & in the Manor of Shrivenham within the Countie of Berks with thap'ten'nts and of and in oder londes and ten'nts which with the

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