been lord mayor of the city, to exercise the office of lord mayor till next election be made.

He lived to see the Restoration; and for his loyalty, sufferings, and losses, received no other recompence or compensation than the honour of knighthood. His grandson, Samuel Reynardson, Esq. formerly lived at Holiwell, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, and his great grandson, Samuel, had an original portrait of him in his lord mayor's gown and chain, the mace and sword lying by him. This portrait represented him in his brown hair tinged with grey, a picked grey beard, his right hand hanging down, the fore finger of his left supporting a pearl drop pendant from his chain; on the little finger of this hand is a ring with a red stone; his short coat red laced with gold, and the sleeves turned up with laced ruffles. There was in the same room a whole length portrait of a lad in the great boots of the time, holding two greyhounds in a leash.

His house and whole estate here was sold in 1751by his heirs to Mr. Forster, on the site of which are built two houses now in the occupation of Mr. Ralph Nicholson and Mr. Luke Howard.

In digging a hole for a post on the farm belonging to this house in 1780, was found inclosed in an iron pot, a bronze vessel, supposed to have been intended to answer the purpose of a strong box or iron chest. In the cover was a key hole; the lock of which it is supposed communicated with the springs within, one of the uprights of which was broken off. The whole vessel, much consumed by rust, was in the possession of the late Mr. Gough of Enfield; to whom

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Mr. Forster presented it, soon after it was dug up,— It was engraved in the Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1782, p. 368.

OF WHITE HALL.

THE house affectedly called White Hall, is situated on the south side of White Hart Lane, was formerly the property and residence of the family of the Proctors, of Langley in Lodden hundred, Norfolk. The Proctors had likewise a considerable estate inthis parish, but it was sold in lats, in the year 1790.

In 1790 Mr. Abrahams purchased this house and grounds, part of which he soon afterwards converted into a tan yard, and built many store houses and other buildings, requisite for carrying on the trade of a tanner, to a great extent: but a few years afterwards becoming insolvent, the whole of the tan yard and buildings were pulled down, and the materials sold. Mr. Andrews having purchased the mansion house and grounds, sold them to the present possessor, Mr. Henry Hunt,

The Manors.

OF THE MANOR OF TOTTENHAM (34).

The Manor entire—the Division of the Manor into Three Parts-the Manor of Bruses-the Manor of Baliol, or Dawbeneys-the Manor of Pembrokes--the Manor of Mockings-the Manors united in the Gedeney Family—the Purchase of them by the late Henry Hare, first Lord Coleraine, in 1666.

Of the instability of honours and property in the early periods of our annals, the following history of the Manor of Tottenham affords a very striking instance. In the reign of Edward the Confessor, the Manor of Tottenham was the property of Earl Waltheof (in the survey of Doomsday called Wallef), and was rated at five hides (35): thus-the land is ten carucates; in demesne are two carucates besides the said five hides; the lord has two ploughs, the villains twelve; the priest has half a hide; there are six villains who hold as many virgates (36); twenty-four who 'hold half a virgate each; twelve borders who hold five acres each; and seventeen cottars: there is meadow equal to twelve plough lands, and 20s. more; there is pasture for the cattle of the town; wood for 500 hogs; 3s. rent for a wear. In the whole valued at £25 15s. Od. and three ounces of gold; in King Edward's time at £26 0s. Od.

This Wallef was son of the famous Siward Earl of Northumberland, who defeated Macbeth the usurper

(34) Lyson's Environs, vol. iii, p. 518.

(35) A hide of this manor consisted of 128 acres.

(36) A virgate which was always the fourth part of a hide is said to have been thirty-two acres. See note 22, Lyson's Environs, vol iii, p. 520.

of the crown of Scotland (37). In the year 1072 Gospatrick Earl of Northumberland having been deprived of his earldom, King William the Conqueror gave it with the earldom of Huntingdon and Northampton to the said Waltheof, who, in 1069 had married his niece Judith, daughter of Odo, Earl of Albemarle (38), by Adeliza his wife, who was half-sister to King William. Not many years afterwards Waltheof was accused of designs against the king, and beheaded at Winchester (39); being the first nobleman, as it is said, who suffered that death in England. His widow Judith (40), who is supposed to have incensed the king against him, and to have hastened his death (41), was in possession of this manor, when the survey of Doomsday was taken (42). It passed afterwards to her

(37) Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i, p. 4.~(38) Ibid. p. 55.—(39) Ibid. (40) She was daughter of Odo Earl of Albemarle, by Adeliza his wife, half-sister to William the Conqueror, and widow of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland, Huntingdon, and Northampton, by whom she had three daughters; Mand, married to Simon de St. Liz; Judith to Ralph de Tony, Baron of Flamstead; and Alice to Robert, fourth son of Richard de Tonebrigge.-Milles' Cat. of Honour, p. 703.

(41) Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i, p. 55.

(42) A Terra JUDITÆ Comitisse. D'imetone Hund. MANERIUM.- "Judita Comittissa tenet Toteham de rege pro quinque hidis se defendebat. Terra est decem carucatarum. In dominio sunt duæ carucatæ terræ; præter has quinque hidas, et ibi sunt duæ carucatæ. Villani habent duodecim carucas. Presbyter habet dimidium hidæ, et sex villani de sex virgatis, & viginti quatuor vil lani quisque de dimidio virga, et duodecim bordarii quisque de quinque acris, et septendecim cotarii; ibi duo francigenæ de una hida et tribus virgatis et quatuor servi. Pratum decem carucatarum, et virginti solidi de super plus. Pastura ad pecora ville. Silva quingentorum porcorum. De uno gort tres solidi. In totis valent valorem viginti quinque librarum et quindecim solidorum et tres unciarum auri quando recipiebantur decem librarum. Tempore regis Edwardi vi ginti sex libræ. Hoc manerium tenuit Wallef comes.