ii s. xii. DEC. as, low.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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FATHER JOHN AND DR. BACON (11 S. xii
401, 445). Since my communication at the
second reference I have come across two
facts identifying Richard Bacon Of Fleet
Street with the " medical man of Norfolk."
1. On a gravestone in the Jesus Chapel of Norwich Cathedral is, or was, this inscrip- tion :
"Jane Bacon, Daughter of Henry Howard of Tandredg in the County of Surrey, Esq., Widow to Richard Bacon, Cittison of London, deceased the 10th of Jan., 1664." Blomefield's 4 Norfolk,' iv. p. 12.
2. Sir Henry Waldegrave, second Bart, is said (ibid., x. 465) to have married as his second wife " Catherine, daughter of Richard Bacon, M.D., of London."
By the way, at the end of the seventh line irom the bottom of p. 445, supra, " angelis " .should be "angulis."
JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
HAYCOCK OR HEYCOCK FAMILY (US. xii. 442). This family was connected with Bath in the eighteenth century. The name was most commonly spelt Haycock, but varia- tions were Heacock, Heycock, and Haycox. The following entries from Bath Abbey Church Registers may be of interest to your correspondent :
Christenings.
1742, 10 May, William, son of Samuel Haycox.
1743, 21 Aug., John, son of Samuel Haycox and Cristian.
1750, 20 Sept., Anne, daughter of Joseph Hay- cock and Mary.
1751, 14 Aug., Thomas Mullins, son of Mr. Joseph Haycock and Mary.
1754, 17 Oct., Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Mary Haycock.
Marriages.
1759, 8 Dec., Samuel Woodhouseof St. Paul's, ity of London, bachelor, and Mary Haycock of this parish, wido.w.
1769, 11 July, Henry Phillott, bachelor, and Ann Heycpck, spinster, both of this parish. By licence with consent of parents. Witnesses, Thomas Greaser, S. Phillott. and S. Heycock.
1769, 1 Oct., Joseph Heycock, bachelor, and Ann Heydon, spinster, both of this parish. Wit- nesses, Thomas Creaser and Mary Walsh.
1773, 22 June, Thomas James of Walcot, Bath, and Susanna Haycock of this parish, spinster.
The family was not one which spread itself in Somerset, and there are not many traces of it elsewhere in the county. An earlier generation lived at Creech St. Michael, , village about three miles the London side of Taunton. The wills of Joane Haycocke, widow of Creech (1670), and Richard Haycock of the same parish (1643) are in the Registry &t Taunton.
Portions of the parish registers of Creech
St. Michael have been printed in Phillimore' n
Somerset series, vol. vii. pp. 107-24.
Your correspondent is probably well aware that the Haycocks are found in many other parts of England. The chief branch resided at East Norton and at Saddington in Leicestershire. There is a pedigree of this family in Burke' s ' Landed Gentry,' 1846, vol. i. p. 568. See also vol. ii. p. 1584, of the same edition of Burke, where in the pedigree of Wicksted of Nantwich, Thomas Wicksted is referred to as marrying Susanna Haycock in the late seventeenth century, and compare this with the early Haycock will of Humfrey Haycockes of " Bettus," Salop (the same neighbourhood), quoted in P.C.C. Will?, vol. v. p. 220. There was a Warwickshire branch also (chiefly at Coventry), and in Norfolk the same. From The Times, 10 Dec., 1915, I take the following :
" At the annual distribution of money known as Haycock's Charity yesterday at Wells, Norfolk, for which only persons upwards of 64 years of age are eligible, there were 176 approved applicants out of a total population of 2,560. Of these only 50 were under 70 years of age, and a further 9 were between 70 and 80 years old. Of the re- maining 32 there were 26 octogenarians and nonagenarians, their average age being 85 \ years. The amount received by each successful applicant was 1. 4of."
A. L. HUMPHBEYS.
187, Piccadilly, W.
HISTORY OF COMMERCE (11 S. xii. 442). See ' Commercial Statistics : a Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legisla- tion, Customs Tariffs including all
British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States,' by John MacGregor, 5vols., 1847-50. This work has a section, numbered xiv., en Spain and her colonies, running well into 150 pp. Section v. in vol. i. of the same work gives the resources of France. Consult also Macpherson's ' Annals of Commerce, 4 vols., 1805, and Adam Anderson's ' Origins of Commerce,' 4 vols., 1787. Among more modern books Cunningham's ' Growth ol English Industry and Commerce,' 2 vols., 1905-7, contains some elaborate biblio- graphies which will be found useful.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.
TREE FOLK-LORE: THE ELDER (US. xii. 361, 410, 429, 450, 470, 489). In ' England's Riviera ' (Kegan Paul & Co., 1912), pp. 456-64, the folk-lore and tradi- tions associated with the elder tree are set forth at some length by
J. HARRIS STONE.
Oxford and CambridRe Club, S.W.
