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THE TOWNSHEND MSS.

The following extracts I take from a MS. notebook in my possession, written by one Henry Townshend, Esq., of Elmley Lovatt, co. Worc.). The book (which is a thick octavo of some 500 pages) is bound up and interleaved with The Compleat Justice (1061), and the MSS. vary in date from 1638 to 1683-4. I have carefully selected those that appear of the greatest histrionic or antiquarian value:

"At Lent Assiz. Worc. 8° Marc. 1660, one Vrsula Corbett condemned to be burnt and exer done for poysoning her husband. So at Lent Assiz. 1661, another wooman burnt for stabbing her husband." (MS. leaf to face p. 195.)

"One Ch. Chapman hangd at Worc. 20° Marc. 1640, for only breaking a hole in the wall of the howse, and putting his arm in to open the doore, and toke nothing out, of Ant Artin's house in 584 Elmley Lovatt." (MS. leaf to face p. 38.)

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One Eliz. Mayney being imprisoned for mur587 thering her bastard childe, and one Wm. Shipman for felony, they both brok prison. And being retaken: being indited for murther, and anothr bill for breaking of prison, was acquitt of the murther and founde guilty of breach of prison: and because she was found guilty by Comon Law and not of felony by Statut, she had iudgmt of death and exerc pformed. At Lent Assiz. 11o Mar. 1662, before Sr. Rob. Hyde. As for Shipman, he should have had his booke, but being willing to be transported, was resptd." (MS. to face p. 230.)

3. Bind a witch with her armes close pinioned, and her legges wth her cloths together, and throw her in water: and she will not sink, as was attested vpon seuerall woomen at Worc. Assizes, 1660."

"One Joan Bibb, of Rushock, in Worcshr, was tyed, and throwen into a poole, as a witch, to see whether she could swimm. And she did bring her actn agst Mr. Shaw, the parson, and recouered 10b damadges. 8° Marc. 1660.

"Memd. I compounded for (her) and others wth Mr. Shaw, and gaue them 20 for costes and damadges by way of referense (query, recompense?) or both pts to me: and both ptys contented." (MS. to face p. 363.)

"8° Jan. 1660, Worc. Vpon peticn of the Grand Jury, yt was consented to by the Court, and so ordered: That ther shalbe no order of Court at

Sessions, or act of Sessions, by Justices, for churchw. and ouerseers of poore to finde house or house-roome for any lusty yong married people, but to finde houses for themselves at ther will. And at Assizes, 8° Marc. 1660, upon the like

peticn Sr. Rob. Hyde one of the Judgs sd, that yf yong men marry together befor they haue howsis, ther is no law to enforc. chw. and O. by the Justices to find howses, but yf they cañot get any, let them lye vnder an oke." (MS. leaf to face p. 220.)

"Mem". I being a Justice of Peace in the yeare 1638, did cause Trinity Sessions (then so called) to be kept according to 2 H. V. 4., on the Tuesday after ye week of Translacon of St. Thomas, not as vsually, Tuesday after Trinity Sunday." (MS. leaf to face p. 289.)

"Memd. After the happy restauraci of Charles the Second to the Crown, 1660, I was restored, and agayn did alter Christmas Sessions, wh was vsually kept the Tuesday after Twelfth-day: yf the same fall on a Munday, to y° Tuesday senight after, 1661, being 14° Jan." (MS. leaf to face p. 289.)

"And soe, 1662, it will happen to the Sumer Sessions to begin 15° July, and Michaems Sessions to begin 7° Oct. agst the vsual practise." (MS. leaf to face p. 289.)

"Memd. 8° Jan. 1660, at Christms Sessions at Worc. Consented to, and ordered vpon the presentmt of the Grand Jury, that the multitude of cott. erected yn the tyme of the late warr, to be a great grievance. That all cottages, erected since the beginng of the late warres, contrary to laws, to be pluckt down, either vpon the decease, or remouall of the dwellers. And yf now persons be placed therein, being not old or impotent, to be ited, and punished according to 31 Eliz. 7." leaf to face p. 65.)

"Ordered, 11° Jan. 6° Car. By the petion of the Grand Jury, that ther be no making of mault wthin this Countie from this day vntl the next Generall Sessions, vnless it be for prouision of their own priuat howses, or in cases of necessity, yí any such happñ as shalbe allowed by 3 Justices of ye Limitt, and for such quantitis as they shall think fitt." (MS. leaf to face p. 185.)

"Memd. 30 July 1662. By letters from the Lords of Counsell, and seconded by an attest of 19 psons from Bristoll, yt was comanded that all tobacco planted wthin the Countie of Worc. should be speedily destroyd by order of the Sherif and Justices of Peace, to whom ye sd letters were directed." (MS. leaf to face p. 330.)

"Att Lent Assizes, Mr. Baron Atkins in s charge dyd recommend to ye Justices of the Peace of ys Countie, strict watch of ye Scotë pedlars, in regard they were employd to carry letters of correspondense betwixt ye factious party of our nation to ye discontented party of Scotland: Anno 1683" (MS. to face p. 279.)

wich 30° Sept. 1651, before Sr. Sam Wyld, then "Memd. At the Qter Sessions kept at DroitChief Baron, by reason of the late plundering of Worc. by the King's rout, and parlt army plundering, the Grand Inquest did consent yt the sum of 500lb be raysed out of the Countie, for the finding poore people of the Citty materialls to sett them on work to relieve themselves." (MS. leaf to face p. 1.)

"One Jo. Taylor of Elmbridg. was fined, and had judgmt at Worc. Assizes, 22° Aug. 1661, to pay 201 and two months' imprisonmt w'ht bayle, then bayld by two Justices to appeare at Sumer Assizes, then and ther solemnly to acknowledg his faulte, in speaking such scandalous wordes, s That ye kingdome is governed by Papistes and popish lawes: Mr. Georg Symonds and mys bailed him, and bound him also to his behavior." (MS. leaf to face p. 341.)

"Parsons and Curats shall teach that ye prishears may, wth a safe and quiet conscience, aftr ther common prayers on holidays, in tyme of harvest, labour and save those things weh God hath sent. Injuncti of Edw. VI. 1547: 2 Eliz. 1549, reprāt 1661." (MS. leaf to face p. 304.)

"Articles in ye Bpps uisitacin of Worc. 1662, by Bpp Gaudin:

1. Do y churchwdns and sidesmen diligently take notic of their names, who w1hout a suificient cause were absent on the Lordes-dav, and othr holydayes? (MS. leaf to face p. 305.)

2. Do y churchwdns and sidesmen, by warran from the Justices, levy 12a for psons absen.

from church, and is ye money so levyed distributed to ye poore of the pish, and kept in a book?" (MS. leaf to face p. 306.)

QUAKERS.

"Concerning the sect of Quakrs, ther being in gaole above 50 psons, it was Sr. Ed. Hyde's directions at Lent Assizes, 8° Marc. 1660, to bayle the men (firste acknowledging their Allegiance to ye Kinge) either by recognizanc, or pmise to appeare at the next Assizes, and in ye mean to be of peacebl demeanor. And accordingly Mr. Georg. Symonds and myself releaed them on promise only." (MS. leaf to face p. 270.)

"Proclam1n, 29 Jan. 1660, prohibiting all subjects of whateuer degree or quality soeuer to eate any manr of flesh in Lent, or any other daies vsually obserued as ffish-daies, without lisence accordg to lawe." (MS. leaf to face p. 160.)

This is merely a tithe of the interesting matter the volume contains; the principal portion, however, is too local to interest general readers. If you think a few other extracts would be acceptable, I should be happy to send them for insertion. R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster.

The Morning Chronicle of Friday, Nov. 19, in a valuable sketch of "the great duke's" career, has committed an oversight which I take an early opportunity of correcting.

These words occur in the third column of the fourth page:

"Perhaps Wellington was the most perfect living contradiction the world ever saw of Goldsmith's (not Talleyrand's) maxim, that speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts."

I do not remember to have found the saying in any of Goldsmith's works, except it be in his "Essay on the Policy of concealing our Wants or Poverty;" and certainly he is there speaking of something very different, and not intending to lay down a profligate and unprincipled maxim. His words are these:

"It is usually said by grammarians, that the use of language is to express our wants and desires; but men who know the world hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them."

A far abler man than either Talleyrand or Goldsmith (viz. Dr. South) was the author of the saying. I quote from his sermon upon 1 Cor. iii. 19., and heartily wish that said sermon, and another by the same writer, upon "Lying lips an abomination

to the Lord," were more generally acted upon than they are:

"It is looked upon as a great piece of weakness and unfitness for business (forsooth) for a man to be so clear and open, as really to think not only what he

says but what he swears: and when he makes any pro

mise, to have the least intent of performing it; but when his interest serves instead of veracity, and engages him rather to be true to another, than false to himself. "He only now speaks like an oracle, who speaks tricks and ambiguities. Nothing is thought beautiful that is not painted: so that, what between French fashions and Italian dissimulations, the old, generous English spirit, which heretofore made this nation so great in the eyes of all the world round about it, seems utterly lost and extinct; and we are degenerated into a mean, sharking, fallacious, undermining way of converse; there being a snare and a trepan almost in every word we hear, and every action we see. Men speak with designs of mischief, and therefore they speak in the dark. In short, this seems to be the true, inward judgment of all our politick sages, that speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.”— Vol. i. p. 114.: Dublin, 1720, fol.

Warmington.

CHRONOGRAM ON THE BEHEADING OF KING

CHARLES L

RT.

having sent, as I know he intended, a Note upon The vicar of Brockthrop, Gloucestershire, not the above, I am tempted to do so, with the hope of thereby eliciting some further light upon it, which, though disinterred by myself from the whitewash some twenty-five years ago, was reserved for my friend's ingenuity suddenly to discover its hidden meaning. It occurs on the oaken wall-plate of the porch of the said church, the letters being cut, apparently by a pocket-knife, yet boldly, in one continuous line, thus:

"Ter Deno IanI Labens reX soLe CaDente 500 + 1+1-50 + 10+ 50+100+500 CaroLVs eXVtVs soLIO $CeptroqVe seCVre 100+50+5+10+5+5+50+1+100 + 5+100+5}

=1212

=436

1648."

Query, May "sole cadente," which is also allusive to Charles as England's* sun, be translated, "in the afternoon"?

Query, When was the precise moment of his decapitation?

It is not difficult to see the drift of this, despite its awkward †, cramped construction; still a satis

There is a medal of Charles I., having in the foreground the monarch on horseback, in the distance the city of London; over all, this legend: "Sol rediens orbem, sic rex illuminat urbem."

†The poet, in his anxiety to get such words as would count the date A.D. 1648, was thereby limit in his choice. Doubtless similar inscriptions migh

factory translation from the well-known pen of Rurus, or other contributor to "N. & Q" is a desideratum. I. N. TRANS-DOBUNUS.

On reading the interesting specimens of chronogram, in Vol. vi., pp. 361. 368. of "N. & Q.," it occurred to me that a distich, rudely incised in the cornice of the south porch of the little village church of Brockthrop, near Gloucester, which always struck me as oddly cramped and barbarous in construction, might possibly come under the same category. I send you the result of my examination, which has proved entirely satisfactory :

"Ter deno Iani labens rex sole cadente
Carolus exutus solio sceptroque secure."

Forming a chronogram thus:

"Ter Deno IanI Labens reX soLe CaDente 500+ 1+1+50 + 10+50+100+500 CaroLVs eXVtVs soLIo sCeptroq Ve seCVre 100+55+10+5+5+50+1+100+ 5 + 105

Year of King Charles's martyrdom

= 1212

= 436

1648."

I send you a rubbing of the inscription. By the extreme rudeness of the letters, and the abbreviation of the que, which would make the date deficient by five unless supplied, it is not improbable that it was cut by one ignorant of its chronogrammatical nature. I also subjoin a smooth and accurate translation by a septuagenarian hand : "Ere thirtieth January's setting sun

The axe on royal Charles its work had done.
His throne and sceptre lost-his short race run."
F. T. J. B.

Brockthrop.

A Collection of Loyal Songs, vol. i. p. 172., printed 1731, contains the following: — "Chronosticon Decollationis CAROLI Regis tricesimo die Januarii, secunda Hora Pomeridiana, Anno Dom.

MDCXLVIII:

"Anno

SI DeVs nobIsCVM," i. e. 1612.

B. H. COWPER.

Minor Notes.

Sir Gammer Vans and Foote's Story of the SheBear.-The following piece of nonsense went the rounds of the United States newspapers about twenty-one years ago, and is in the style of the above-named pieces, which appeared in Vol. ii. of "N. & Q." It was intended to burlesque Mr. Van Buren's letter resigning the office of Secretary of State, which his political opponents denounced as rather obscure and incomprehensible:

"Dear Sir,-The great moving spring of atheistical principles, predicated and promulgated by the fence of popish superstition, could not be more gratifet ta Jeptha was when he was commander, under the fluence of the Providence mail-packet coming in tact with belles lettres.

"That class of persons who are never entrusted wit anything should be careful what use they make of it, for it is a well-known fact that the heterogeneous matter, compounding with a sour stomach, renders the garment

unfit for use; therefore buff vests are fittest for the rising generation, especially when dampness does not conspire to prevent horticulture from springing up amidst the vapours of enthusiasm, which could not have inspired genius with Junius's Letters, although it might have had a hand in hanging Gibbs the pirate."

Philadelphia.

UNEDA

Lord Nelson.-Everything which relates to our noble-hearted hero is of importance in the eyes his admirers: therefore the epitaph on the grave stone of one of his old followers will be read with interest. I met with it, four years ago, in the churchyard of Wouldham, a village on the Medway, half-way between Rochester and Maidstone. The concluding lines appear to contradict the statement of my reverend brother, MR. GATTY ("N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 438.), that Lord Nelson died in the arms of his chaplain, Dr. Scott. Can the two state ments be reconciled?

"Sacred

to the Memory of WALTER BURKE, Esq.,

of this Parish,

who died on the 12th September, 1615,
in the 70th year of his Age.

He was Purser of his Majesty's ship Victory in the glorious battle of Trafalgar, and in his arms

the immortal Nelson died."

T. H. KERSLEY, B.A.

barbarism and distortion.

states are of French origin. Some of them har been done into English, and occasionally in