s. ix. JAN. 3, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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it was purchased by Mr. Alderman
Langbam in fee for 17,OOOZ. in the 17th year
of Charles I. [1642]." From this it is seen
that Sir John Langham paid 35,000/. for
the whole estate.
MB. HUMPHREYS has made a mistake in thinking that Langham Place belonged to
- Sir James Langham, 2nd Bart., son of Sir
John, as it was only purchased in 1812 by Sir James Langham, 10th Bart., who built his town house on the site now occupied by the Langham Hotel.
Also, if he refers to Bishop Burnet, I think 3ie will find that it was not Sir John Langham, but his son Sir James, " who was famed for 3iis readiness in speaking florid Latin. This -.accomplishment is also mentioned by Lut- trell in his ' Diary,' viz., Sir James Langham,
"eminently known for his being well versed in the Latin Tongue, died much lamented at his 'house in Lincoln's Inn Fields," 1699.
With reference to Lady Elizabeth Lang- liam's funeral sermon, which MB. HUM- PHREYS says was preached and published by Simon Ford, I should like to say that I found it printed in a book called
- ' The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons of the
Later Age. In two parts : (1) Of Divines ; (2) Of Nobility and Gentry of both Sexes. By Sam : 'Clarke, sometime Pastor of Bennet Fink, London. Printed and Revised by himself just before his death, &c. 1683."
'This, however, may not be the same sermon --as the one MB. HUMPHREYS alludes to. Mine is entitled 'The Life and Death of the Right Honble. the Lady Elizabeth Langham, who died Anno Christi 1664.'
The funeral sermon of Mary, Lady Lang- ham, first w T ife of Sir James, 2nd Bart., was written by Dr. Edward Reynolds, Rector of Braunston, Northamptonshire, and after- wards Bishop of Norwich. Her picture was engraved by Faithorne, and an account of her will be found in Granger's ' Catalogue of Engraved British Heads,' vol. iv. p. 179. CHARLES LANGHAM, Bt.
Tempo Manor, co. Fermanagh.
I notice that it is stated that Sir James
Bunce married Mary, daughter of Thomas
Gypps, or Gibbs, of London ; but Hasted's
' Kent,' vol. iii. p. 45, states that it was
Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gipps, Esq.
Sarah's brother, Roger Gipps, married Helen, daughter of Sir William Brockman and his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Simon Bunce.
N-- Sir James Bunce 1 s son James married Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Hugessen by Margery, another daughter of Sir W. Brockman.
Hasted also records
"a warrant for a baronet's patent, which neither he [Sir James Bunce] nor any of his descendants ever took out, although I find him stiled in deeds and writings Sir James Bunce of East Greenwich, Knight and Baronet."
R. J. FYNMOBE. Sandgate.
BISHOP RlCHABD OF BUBY*S LlBBABY
(US. viii. 341, 397, 435). One final word as to the wanderings of the MS. of the ' Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense.' We now know from DR. MACBAY that it " was restored to Durham from the Bodleian by decree of Convocation on 15 Nov., 1810." Was this the date of its actual transference ? MB. F. MAD AN ascribed this (at the first reference) to the year 1820. There can hardly have been a delay of ten years in executing the decree. Then, as to the when and wherefore of the second journey of this MS., MB. H. D. HUGHES wrote on 6 Dec. :
"You may be interested to know the further particulars as to the removal of the R.P.D. from Durham. It was removed to the Public Record Office from the Exchequer Buildings, Durham (where the Episcopal Registers, &c., are kept), as being one of the Cursitor's Records of the Pala- tinate of Durham, by warrant of the Master of the Rolls, ab some time between the dates 17 Nov., 1868, and 26 Feb., 1869."
With regard to DB. MACBAY'S question :
" Is it [the portion of Bury's Register for 1338-42 to be found in that volume [Bishop Kellawe's Register for 1311-16] still?"
I can only quote MB. MAD AN' s latest words (22 Nov.):
"We parted with our Kellawe Register to Durham, and are not responsible for its later history." " Habent sua fata libelli ! "
J. B. McGovEBX.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
WALTEB DE MUNDY, KNT., A.D. 1300 (11 S. viii. 129). A friend has examined this part of the roll (Close Roll, 28 Edward I., membrane lid) with a magnifying - glass. What was supposed to be " Mundy " is really Muncy, and denotes the same person whose name appears on p. 384 of the Calen- dar. The error arose from the y being so written that part of it causes the c to look like a d.
There were people named Mundi living at this time in Norfolk. On 22 Feb., 1230, Richard Mundi, son of Henry, son of Edwyii of Deepdale, came before Ranulph, Abbot of Ramsey, in his Court at Brancaster (Norfolk), and acknowledged that the land which he held in Deepdale was servile and
