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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1898.
CONTENTS. -No. 46.
NOTES: John Trehearne, 381 Bold Kclecticism, 382 George Barringtou Gig, 384 "Taw " Consulting the Stars at a Birth, 385 Trafalgar Day, 1898 Hounds or Rungs Archduke of Austria in ' King John 'Epitaph, 386.
QUERIES : ' The Farmer of St. Ives,' 386 Author Wanted " Feggy " " Fegges after peace "Proverb Joseph us Reference Sought Tolstoi Sir Thomas Vernon Sir John Rudston Keltic Words, 387' Te Deum 'Brother Law- rencePrediction to Newly Elected Popes Passage in Kinglake "Bounder" W. Barron, Clockmaker Parodies J. Hoddesdon " Mutus Nomen Dedit Cocis " Healen Penny Carter=Brecknock, 388 Portraits by Ward The Weymouth Pine Authors Wanted, 389.
REPLIES : Algernon, 389 Hexham Priory, 391 High Commissioner of the Church St. Bartholomew Marl- borough, Wilts Gentleman Porter, 392 Churches without Fonts A Church Tradition, 393 -Roman Catholic Sir K. Hotham Short a v. Italian a, 394" Hullabaloo " Town Drummer Jamshy'd and Kaikobad, 395 Silhouettes of Children Oldest Parish Register, 396 Eating of Seals Digby's 'De Arte Natandi '" Sable shroud" Dr. Ward Black Images of the Madonna Authors Wanted, 397.
NOTES ON BOOKS : Blakeborough's 'Wit. Character, Folk-lore, and Customs of the North Riding ' Heraud's ' Memoirs of Heraud ' ' Journal of Ex-Libris Society ' Reviews and Magazines.
Notices to Correspondents.
JOHN TREHEARNE, GENTLEMAN PORTER.
A MONUMENT to this worthy, whose office has been discussed in these pages, is in the noble church of St. Saviour, Southwark, against the wall of the north aisle of the choir. It occupies a space 6 ft. 2 in. wide by 7 ft. 2 in. high, and is of stone, painted and gilded. Columns and an entablature of Jacobean Renaissance character frame the coloured half figures of Trehearne and his wife. They face the visitor, are somewhat less than life, and wear ruffs and correspond- ing attire, appropriately coloured. Between them they hofd a small oblong black tablet within a gilded border, the fingers of each appearing on the upper rim, and the tablet is thus inscribed in small gilt Roman capitals : An Epitaph upon John Trehearne, Gentleman Portar to King
James the First.
Had Kings a power to lend their Subjects breath, Trehearne thou should'st not be cast down by Death, Thy Royal Master still would keep thee then, But length of days are* beyond reach of men,
- The bad grammar is corrected by the Rev. Wm.
Thompson, D.D., rector of St. Saviour's, in his excellent account of the church (Ash & Co., 42, Southwark Street, S.E.) ; and among other very nice illustrations he gives one of Trehearne a monument.
Nor wealth, nor strength, or great men's love can
ease The wound Death's arrows make, for thou hast
these.
In thy King's Court good place to thee is given, Whence thou shalt go to y e King's Court in Heaven.
Above the tablet is a mantled shield thus emblazoned : Azure, a chevron between three herons, two and one, or ; on a canton barry of six, gules and azure, a lion rampant gules (?). Over the shield an esquire's helmet, on which the crest, a demi-griffin segreant, holding a fleur de lis, all or.* In the upper corners of the monument are two small shields, (1) as above, (2) also as above impaling Gules, a fess between two lozenges or. In the panelled base of tho monument are, in high relief, six small kneeling figures : two, male and female, probably representing Trehearne and his wife, and behind them, respectively, two other somewhat smaller figures, probably for son and daughter, while behind the latter are two very small female figures, perhaps repre- senting infants, although costumed. The monument is surmounted by a winged death's- head.
The inscription does not tell us the date of Trehearne's death, neither do the parish registers record his burial. But in the ' An- nals of St. Mary Overy ' (or St. Saviour), by William Taylor, 1833, I find at p. 95 :
' ' Under this [Trehearne's] monument was formerly a gravestone with the following inscription : Under this marble doth the body rest of John Traherne that served Queen Elizabeth,
and died Chief Gentleman Porter to King
James, the 22 nd daie of October Anno D'ni 1618.
Here also resteth Margaret the wife of the
said John Traherne, who lived together
man and wife 50 years, and died the
22 of January Anno D'ni 1645.
Here also lieth John Traherne, eldest son
of the said John and Margaret, who died
Chief Clerke of tho Kitchen to King James the
First, 22 nd of August Anno D'ni 1645."
On neither the monument nor the grave- stone do 'we discover the precise nature of the elder Traherne's office ; but in that direction the latter inscription helps us one step nearer. He was "Chief Gentleman Porter," perhaps Chief Porter at the Gate, i.e., Serjeant Porter. The conclusion is scarcely warranted ; but if true, then Tra- herne (or Trehearne) was a successor of Thomas Keyes (the Serjeant Porter famous for his marriage with Lady Mary Grey), who died in 1571, with, perhaps, the intervention of Queen Elizabeth's gigantic Porter of 1580,
- Burke's 'Armory' has the same with some
difference in colours, f. g., the field argent, the chevron gules, and the herons sable for Treheron or Traherne, co. Cornwall.
