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FLODDEN : ABERDEENSHIRE MEN SLAIN.
The late Mr. William Watt, in his ' History
of Aberdeen and Banff ' (Edinburgh, 1900),
p. 116, says :
" In that disastrous battle [Flodden] there fell
of Aberdeenshire men Johnston of Caskieben,
George Ogilvie younger of Auchleven, Abercrombie of Birkenbog, young Glaster of Glack "
Where did Mr. Watt find a record of these names ? They do not occur in the list compiled, from all sources known to him, by Col. the Hon. Fitzwilliam Elliot, whose monograph ' The Battle of Flodden ' was published in Edinburgh in 1911.
P. J. ANDERSON.
University Library, Aberdeen.
BISHOP OF SORRON. In 1417 John, Bishop of Sorron, by command of Archbishop Chicheley, reconciled Croydon Church and churchyard, which had been lately polluted by blood. Is Sorron the same as Sarum ? I cannot find a clue. M.A.OxoN.
IDENTIFICATION OF CHURCH FROM PHOTO- GRAPHS. I should be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could assist me in identifying a parish church from three old photographs which have come into my possession, one exterior and two interior. From these the building is shown to consist of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, west tower, and south porch. There is also a vestry on the north of the chancel, whose east wall is flush with that of the chancel, with a square buttress between. The vestry has a pointed east doorway. The exterior photograph is taken from the east, and shows a five-light chancel window, with Perpendicular tracery and four-centred arch. The south-east buttress is diagonal, and of two stages. The east window of the south aisle is of four lights, with Perpendicular tracery and four-centred arch. The walling is rubble, but there is an embattled ashlar parapet at the east end ; of chancel, south aisle, and porch. The south walls are not visible. The tower has an embattled parapet, with angle pinnacles.
The interior views show a pointed arcade on octagonal columns, with moulded capitals, apparently of the Perpendicular period. There are a clerestory, and north, south, and west galleries, the west gallery containing an organ. The nave and chancel roofs are of flat pitch, the latter cutting across the head of the .east window. The wide pointed chancel arch is of two continuous moulded orders, with a hoodmould on each side. The wooden pulpit (apparently modern) is in the north-east corner of the nave, and the nave is seated with square pews on the north side
of the middle alley, and with chairs on the
south side. The floors of the nave and
chancel are on the same level, and flagged.
There is a low wooden chancel screen in front
of the arch, with traceried panels on the nave
side, and in the chancel is some good stall
work, apparently of fifteenth-century date,
not easy to describe, as the photographs only
show it in part. There are apparently four
stalls on the north side against the wall,
with what appear to be their carved
misericords put above them against the wall.
But what should make the church fairly
easy to identify is the marble figure of a lady
in the middle of the chancel, on a high
pedestal. She is represented kneeling on a
cushion in an aspiring attitude, with fing rs
touching and thumbs crossed. There is an
inscription on the south side of the pedestal,
but it is hot decipherable in the photograph.
The monument appears to be of eight eenth-
or early nineteenth-century date. There is
apparently another marble figure (standing)
at the east end of the north wall of the
chancel, but this is not very distinct in
the photograph. There are six candles on
the shelf behind the altar. F. H. C.
FRANCIS PLACE. In a valuable series of essays on economic questions edited by Lord Malmesbury, entitled ' The New Order ' and published in 1908, mention is made of one Francis Place, a social reformer and follower of Jeremy Bentham. I believe this man was a tailor by trade, and as I have run up against his name many times, I should be glad to have some account of his life and work. M. L. R. BRESLAR.
Percy House, South Hackney, N.E.
[The ' D. N. B. ' devotes nearly six columns to Francis Place. A Life of Place bv Mr. Graham Wallas was published in 1898 by Messrs. Longmans & Co., price 12s.~|
EFFIGY AT OLD CLEEVE. In the north wall of the church of Old Cleeve, in West Somerset, there is a recumbent stone figure under an arch. The figure is apparently pf a late thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century date. It is robed in a long mantle of many folds down to the feet. There is a belt round the waist from which depends a dagger. Round the top of the mantle is a row of beads, which may be a finish to the dress or an independent circlet. The long hair is confined by a band, studded at regular intervals by roseates. The feet rest on a long-tailed cat, which has its face turned towards the figure and has a mouse held down by its right foot. Can any of your readers kindly explain the meaning of this
