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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. VIIL KOV. i, 1913.
CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS, 1623-1756 :
SAFFRON WALDEN. These accounts are
still preserved in the church. I should be
glad to hear of similar accounts of this
period which have been published with
good glossaries. I append two puzzling
entries which some reader may probably
solve. The first seems to refer to a possible
case of body -snatching or the theft of a
leaden coffin. Was body-snatching com-
monly practised at this date ? The second
mentions an " Ordenance of Parliament."
What Ordinance ?
1639. Rec d of Mrs. Swallow widow, late wife of Thos. Swallow, for breaking the ground in the church a second time to see whether the coffin was stolen or not of her husband 00 10
1643. Rec d of John Pam'ent for the brasses that weere taken of the graves stones by an Ordenance of Parliament, which wayed
7 score 18 Ib 02 19
G. MONTAGU BENTON. Saffron Walden, Essex.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Will some correspondent kindly correct the following, and say where it comes from ? I am told it is a translation of a Scandi- navian poem or proverb :
To custom's law 'tis meet to bend ;
Seek not to in things uncommon ;
And learn thy O, my friend,
In the sweet pride of being woman.
J. D.
Camoys Court, Barcombe.
How early can the following lines be found ? They are in Kingsley's * Westward Ho ! ' attributed to " Queen Elizabeth, 1569," at the head of chap, xxix., and seem to have taken Kingsley's fancy, as the first four lines are also quoted in the preceding chapter :
The daughter of debate
That discord still doth sow Shall reap no gain where former rule
Hath taught still peace to grow. No foreign banish'd wight Shall anker in this port ; Our realm it brooks no strangers' force ; Let them elsewhere resort.
W. B. H,
ANTHONY MARSH, CLOCKMAKER, LONDON. Can any reader tell me the date when this well-known maker of clocks began his business, and where? He seems to have been noted for the delicacy of his crafts- manship, especially for his manner of en- graving the works themselves. I recently examined one of his small timepieces which has been in use for the last seventy years
and more, and was struck with the beauty
of the engraving all round the back of the
clock, where no eye but the winder's ever
sees it. I should like to know whether h&
holds a high place amongst English clock-
makers. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
23, Unthank Road, Norwich.
SIR GEORGE WRIGHT OF RICHMOND, SURREY. Who was the father of this man ? Sir George married Dorothy Farnham at Richmond, 10 Aug., 1597, and was buried at the same place, 25 Nov., 1623. He was the founder of the almshouses in the town known as Queen Elizabeth's. What relation to him was Sir Robert Wright of Richmond, whose will was proved 1610 ? A. STEPHENS DYER,
237, Kingston Road, Teddington.
THE MODEL OF WATERLOO. In the journal of an English officer in Canada, dated 1839, is the following entry :
- ' I must go home to Europe this year, if only to
see the ' Model of Waterloo ' and the * Daguerro- type.'"
What was the Model of Waterloo ? and where was it shown ? P. D. M.
NAME OF DURHAM. (See US. vi. 436.) I will gladly give your correspondent at the above reference any details he may care to have about Admiral Sir Philip Durham, whose life I have, and whose place, Largo House, on the coast of Fife, I know well. The Durham s of Largo were a junior branch of the Durham s of Grange, and in the male line have all died out. I am very anxious to find out if any of the Durham s of Grange, when they lost their property about 1700, went to Ireland, and perhaps your corre- spondent, as he has been interested in the name, may know this.
JAMES DURHAM.
Cromer Grange, Norfolk.
JACKSON'S TOWER, Henbury Hundred, Gloucestershire, 2 miles N.W. from Bristol. Can any reader oblige the writer with information as to the origin of this name, or give any reference that would establish the identity of the family indicated ?
In 1795 one Josias Jackson, of the Rocks, St. Vincent, West Indies, was a colonial proprietor and merchant of Bristol. He was M.P. for Southampton in 1807, and was a brother of John Mills Jackson of Bristol, whose daughter married in 1816 Col. John Fane, M.P. for Lyme Regis, a grandson of the ninth Earl of Westmorland.
ROBERT BARNEWALL JACKSON.
St. Arvans, The Cliff, Sandown, I.W.
