290 NOTES AND QUERIES. cw* s. iv. OCT. 7, IMS. teenth and early nineteenth century. Is anything known of the antecedents of this branch of the Hardings ? HAKDINGCOURT. GENERAL SIMCOE AND ST. DOMINGO. — General Simcoe, of Wolford, near Honiton, was sent by the British Government to St. Domingo in March. 1797, as commander of the forces. What snip—man-of-war presum- ably—did he sail in 1 He returned in August, 1797. What ship did he return in 1 J. E. HOLLAND. SHERIFF'S CHALLENGE IN DOMESDAY.—When the sheriff challenged a manor "for the king's ferra," what was the nature of his claim? Was it a sufficient answer that Elgar, Earl of Mercia, had held the manor .' A. T. M. OXFORD MATRICULATIONS. — Can any of your readers refer me to a work of recent date containing the names of those students •who have matriculated at Oxford, with par- ticulars of their parentage, public school, •fee., after the plan of the late Joseph Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses ' and ' Oxford Men, 1880- 1892'] Has any work appeared since the latter publication! I am unable to trace such at the British Museum. J. A. NORRIS. 2, Kenninfjton Park Gardens, S.E. DETACHED BELFRIES. (10th S. iv. 207.) THIS question has frequently appeared in ' N. & O.,' the first time even as far back as 1853. For MR. RANDOLPH'S benefit I have compiled the following list from the replies. Bedford. — Woburn. Elstow. Marston- Morteyn. Berks.—Theale. Cambridge.—Tid St. Giles. Cheshire.—St. John's, Chester. Congleton. Cornwall.—My lor. Launceston. Gwennap. Cumberland.—Kirkoswald. Denbigh.—Hen! Ian. Devon.—Chittlehampton. Essex.—Wix. Wrabness. Glamorgan.—Llangyfelach. Gloucs.—Berkeley. Westbury. Hereford.—Ledbury. Pernbridge. Bosbury. Holmer. Richard's Castle. Yarpole. Kent.—Brookland. Lincoln.—Fleet. Flixbrough. Middlesex.—St. George's, Tufnell Park, N. Norfolk. — Walton. Terrington. West Walton. East Derehara. Northumberland.—Morpeth. Oxford.—New College. Somerset. —Westbury-on-Severn. Suffolk.—Beccles. Bramfield. East Berg- holt. Surrey.—All Saints', Lambeth. Sussex.—The Cathedral, Cliichester. Warwick.—Lap worth. Worcester.—Evesham. Ireland.—Baltinglass. EVERARD HOME COLBMAN. Detached belfries were once very common. St. Paul's had one, and Westminster Abbey had one ; and the remains of the " Five Bell Tower" on the north side of the choir of Rochester are still to be seen. St. Edmund's Abbey had two, one of which is used for St. James's Church, and a similar
- ower at the west end of St. Margaret's
'I m r<-!i, for which it was used as a campanile. This is shown in a plan in the Eas,t Anglian Magazine, published at Lowestoft thirty years ago. I suppose the old tower at Hackney is still n existence, though the bells have long since seen removed to the west tower of the modern church. The Salisbury tower was restored by Wren, jut never used, and was taken down by order of the Prince Regent. The site was shut off oy an iron balustrade from the rest of the Jlose, and has since been called " the Dead Sea." The tower was so much lower than the clerestory of the cathedral that the bells were quite inaudible on the other side. I think this was the real reason for removing it. WALTER SCARGILL. Colchester. In the 'History of Bosbury,' by the Rev. Samuel Bentley, it is mentioned (p. 17) that in Herefordshire there are seven churches with detached towers, viz., at Bosbury, Gar- way, Holmer, Ledbury, Pembridge, rpole, and Richard's Castle. " They are fjenerally supposed to have been built for defensive purposes, as predatory excursion* were frequently made by the Welsh into Hereford- shire, both before and after the period of their erection." B, B. I have notes of the following instances of detached church towers. Whether every tower contains a belfry or not I am unable to say :— Warmsworth, Yorkshire. West Walton and Little Shoring, Norfolk. Ormskirk, Lancashire. Hackney, Middlesex. Tydd St. Giles, Cambridge. Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire. Sutton St. Mary, Lincolnshire.
