NOTES:-The Peace Pageant on the Thames, 197- QUERIES:- Huett Tomb-Sir Peter Denis - Chevalier REPLIES:-Indentures, 211-Master Gunner, 212-Litera- NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Supplement to the Letters of OBITUARY:-Richard Welford. Notices to Correspondents. THE PEACE Notes. PAGEANT ON THE Stepney and its maritime hamlets which were long "the Nursery of English seamen.' or The Spert monument in the south wall of the chancel of Stepney Church (which has been restored thrice at least by the records, viz., in 1725, in 1806, and in 1894) sets out that there, almost within sight of the famous Ratcliff Cross and Stairs and but a stone's throw from the Mansion House of the Stuart and Georgian Trinity Corporation, is laid the body of Sir Thomas Spert, kt., sometime Controller of the Navy to and Master of the Worthie Societie Henry VIII., "and both the First Founder died 8th September, 1541." Corporation called the Trinity House, who To Spert the Corporation of Trinity House erected this memorial in 1622, eighty yeares after the decease of theyr Founder," when the Trinity Guild and Fraternity had been changed into the Corporation of the Trinity House in official documents of the Brotherhood, though not in the common parlance on the Seven Seas. Metcalfe, in his 'Book of Knights,' states that Sir Thomas Spert was among the "knightes made by ye Kinge at York Place now called Whitehall, Anno D'ni 1529, the 21st yere of his reigne." There do not seem to be any in 1622 to contest the claim for Thomas Spert as "of Stebonheth" in domicile and citizenship, and the Corporation's own memorial only fol lowed and replaced the monuments upraised originally in, Stepney Church by the founding pilot's own family. For Norden says, writing of Stepney Church : "Sir Thomas Spert, Knight, sometime Comptroller of the Shipes to H. 8. Dame MargeryDame Anne, and Dame Mary, his wives, lie in the Chancell there." By the Act passed in Queen Elizabeth's eighth year (1566), enabling Trinity, among other things, to grant licences to mariners to ply on the River Thames, the Guild or Fraternity is described as 66 "charged with the conduction of the Queens Majesties Naval Royal, who are bound to foresee the good increase and maintenance of ships most EAST LONDON antiquaries, especially, and the meet for Her Majesties Marine Service." great Service of the ancient Brotherhood, This Act is revealing in other respects withal, Guild, Corporation, and Admiralty annexe, for it recites that by the destroying and whose homes are dispersed so generally over taking away of certain sea-marks on the the wide area of the modern Port of London, coast, to the great detriment and hurt of were gratified to observe that some pride of the Commonweal and the perishing of no place was justly and naturally given to small number of people, both home and Trinity" in the national Pageant on the foreign trade was injured." Also that the Thames on Aug. 4, 1919; and they only provision of licences to mariners to row on regretted that the Royal Progress could not the Thames had become necessary the be extended to where so much English sea- better to keep and refrain themselves from adventure is historically localized-to Old' folly, idleness, and lewd company; and for 66 66 the relief of their wives and children.' Prior to this time, it seems, wherrymen claimed and roughly exerted the sole right of rowing on the river, and were in the habit of molesting the private boats of both English and foreign vessels. For this was a period, as the Trinity official historian, more than hints, when there was a sort of Elizabethan mariners-" of which the proper designation should probably have been pirates and the most fitting destination the nearest yardarm-who infested the high seas, being pests to the trading shipping of both friend and foe alike." And there is much evidence discoverable that to this fitting destination the Trinity captains faithfully remitted many rovers, native and foreign, in the North Sea, in due pursuance 66 of their multifarious national duties. It will be noticed that when, on Aug. 5, The Prime Minister was asked :"whether, in view of the fact that the East End of London has always, since the Armistice, been left out of official Peace Celebrations, Processions, Triumphal Marches, and land and water Pageants, a reason could be given why the Great Pageant of the 4th August could not have started opposite Greenwich and Poplar, and finished at Chelsea, and thus have afforded a larger number of wounded and war workers an opportunity of viewing the Royal Progress; and, considering the amount of war service done by the residents of the Eastern portion of the Metropolis-quite apart from purely historical associations-would the right honourable gentleman see that the East End has its share in any future official rejoicing?" Mr. Bonar Law replied that the River Pageant was "not part of the official Peace Celebrations, although the Admiralty rendered every assistance possible......The factors governing the length of the course were time, tide, land facilities, and the fact that the principal boats were pulling boats, which rendered any extension impracticable.' "" 1696. Willm Noblett of Mitton and Sarah Sorebutts of the P'ish of Ribchester were marryed att Grindleton Chappel, Octob. 1st. These three entries are in the handwriting of William Bankes, who was incumbent of Clitheroe from 1672 to 1696. They are in proper order of date among the marriages, and would appear to have been entered at or about the time the marriages were contracted. It is possible that Bankes himself performed the ceremony on each occasion, as the churches of Grindleton and Mitton are both near Clitheroe, and that he made the entries in the Clitheroe Register as a record of his own doings. I think this is the more probable, because Bankes left Clitheroe for the Clitheroe Registers is in December, 1696. the Vicarage of Mitton, and his last entry in On a blank page of the Registers, between the end of the burials and the commencement of the marriages (the latter of which in that volume commence in 1681), there are the following entries :— Mr Willm Bankes, Ministr of Chitherowe, and Mrs. Elizab. Webster of Clitherowe, marryed by Mr. Tho Slacke, Rector of Bolton juxta Bowland, October ye 4th, 1686. John King and Margarett Scott marryed June 25, 1695. Mr John Lister of Clitherowe and Anne Swinglehurst of Clitherowe were marryed Octob. 2, 1682. Mr John Taylor of Chatborn and Ann Fountain of Linton married July ye 4th, 1717. It should be noted that Chatburn is in the parochial chapelry of Clitheroe. The first three of these entries are in the handwriting of Bankes. The last entry is in that of Thomas Taylor, who was incumbent of Clitheroe from 1701 to 1737. The first entry, singularly enough, is that of the marriage of Bankes himself. There is no entry of this marriage in the Bolton-byBowland register, so that it apparently did not take place there. The entries were certainly not made contemporaneously with the marriages themselves, as they are not in order of date. It is hard to think they were marriages performed at Clitheroe, and forgotten to be entered at the proper time, and then recollected and entered years afterwards. Surely Bankes, as the incumbent of Clitheroe, would have taken care that his own marriage was entered in due course among the other marriages of the year in its proper place; and we can hardly imagine that Lister's marriage in 1682 (which is entered after King's marriage of 1695), if it took place at Clitheroe, was only entered in the register thirteen years at least after the event. Moreover, if these marriages had been performed at Clitheroe and forgotten to be entered at the time, they would most probably have been interlined among the marriages of the appropriate year, instead of being entered by themselves in a separate place. They appear to me to be memoranda of marriages that had taken place elsewhere, of which it was desirable to keep a record in the place where the parties lived. A reason for this is not far to seek, for at the period to which these entries relate, and for years afterwards, the Church of England, through the Ecclesiastical Courts, exercised a control over the morals of the people. William Brigge and Elizabeth Lord marryed the 19th of October. Mr Bernerd Driver and Bridgett Ffarrer marryed the 26 of Sep. by License from Chester, 1669. As at this period the year began on March 25, the 18th of March, 1669, when the interview with Mr. Driver took place, was the 18th of March, 1670, according to the present reckoning. It is therefore clear that the entry of his marriage in the register could not have been made at the date of the interview, or there would have been no need to By the 109th Canon, if any offend their interview him; and if the marriage had brethren either by adultery, whoredom, taken place at Clitheroe, every one would incest, or drunkenness, or by swearing, have known about it. The interview must ribbaldry, usury, or any other uncleanness have resulted in Driver furnishing satisand wickedness of life," the churchwardens | factory evidence that he was legally married, are enjoined to present them to their and to set the matter at rest the minister Ordinaries. And by the 113th Canon, which must have entered the marriage in the states that churchwardens, either through Register, which, it will be seen, he was able fear of their superiors, or through negligence" to do only a little out of proper order. often neglect their duties in this respect, the minister is empowered to join the churchwardens in their presentments, or, if the churchwardens will not present, then the ministers are empowered to do so themselves. Canon 115 clearly recognizes the duty of ministers and churchwardens to present not only the crimes and disorders committed by criminous persons in their parishes, but also the common fame which is spread abroad of them "-in other words, local gossip and tittle-tattle. 66 Curiously enough, there is another case of a somewhat similar character in the Clitheroe Registers. In a blank space under a list of what he calls "Publications of Marriages (but which is evidently a list of the publications of banns) during the year 1675 Bankes has made the following entry :Ch. K. and J. Du say they were marryed ffeb. y 14th. 1680, but I never had any testimoniall willm Bankes. thereof brought. Not content with this, at the end of the marriages for 1680 (which was the end of the marriages in that volume) Bankes has written again :— Christopher Kendall and Jennett Dugdall sayd they were marryed ffebuary the 14th, 1680, but I never had any testimoniall thereof brought. Willm Bankes. These canons were frequently acted on and offenders presented to the Ecclesiastical Courts; and if the charges were sustained, the guilty parties were ordered to do penance, or, if the case were serious, excommunicated. The working of the system is illustrated by the following entry in the Clitheroe Church-Then comes the following entry by Thomas wardens' Accounts for 1669:Taylor, who became incumbent in 1701 :May y 20th, 1704. 1669, Mch 18. Itm, spent at Airton's in attendance of Mr. Driver, to know whether hee was marryed or noe, ffor the discharge of the minister and churchwardens 0 0 6 There was apparently some scandal about Mr. Driver. It was probably whispered among the gossips of the town that he and the lady he called Mrs. Driver had not been legally made man and wife. In order, therefore, to discharge their consciences, and enable them to decide whether they must take action under the canons, they sent for Mr. Driver to the alehouse, and over sixpennyworth of small beer got his explanation of the matter. On turning to the Register for 1669 we find the following entries towards the end of the marriages in 1669: I received a testimoniall from ye Reverend Mr. Phillipson, now Vicar of Almondbury, yt ye above mentioned Christopher Kendall and Jennet Dugdall were marryed Feb. yo 14, 1680, as above Witness my hand, Witness also Richard Dugdale. Tho. Taylor, Min of Clithero. There may have been more reasons than one that led to duplicate entries of marriages, but I think it is pretty clear that in many cases they were intended to preserve a record of the marriage in the register of the parish where the parties lived, in order to prevent scandal, and to save trouble to the church officers, and annoyance to the parties concerned. WM. SELF WEEKS. Westwood, Clitheroe. Vicars. INCUMBENTS AND PATRONS OF 1830 Newton Dickinson HEREFORD. BOTH churches were built early in the 1854 William Newton 1909 Owen Randal Slacke 1911 James Jobling Patrons. Rev. N. D. H. Newton (Patronage vested in the Newton family until 1918, when it lapsed pro tempore to the Bishop.) 1918 Herbert Fuller Bright Bishop of Hereford RECTORS OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, BROBURY. Patrons. The following lists are compiled from (a) Episcopal Registers (Hereford), published by the Cantilupe Society, the completion of which series will help to fill up some gaps in the lists; (b) the parish registers (Bredwardine from 1723, Brobury from 1786); (c) notes of a paper published in The 1305 Peter de Brockbury William de BrockRoss Gazette by the late Canon Phillott and kindly sent me by my predecessor, Prebendary H. T. Williamson; (d) Duncomb's "History of Hereford' (Cooke's continuation) 1325 Thomas of Bosbury for Brobury only (an inaccurate and incomplete list). I am also indebted to Canon Bannister for some facts and verifications. 1329 Walter de Marstone 1423 Thomas Warde of Wigmore (Wig- 1436 John Forgys up to more held the King Henry VIII. William Brydges Wright bury (i.e. Bro- Wm. de Brockbury Bishop of Hereford }Sir John Seymore John Scudamore (of Holm Lacy) and James Warnecomb } John, Viscount Thomas Bennet John Scudamore and Wright Rev. W. T. Spurdens ton For subsequent rectors, making 42 names in all, see list of Vicars of Bredwardine, the parishes having been united in 1851. I should be grateful for any corrections, comments, or additions. H. F. B. COMPSTON. Bredwardine Vicarage, Hereford. LEWKNOR FAMILY. IN 7 Edward I. Roger de Lewkenor claimed and had the manor of Horstede, i.e., Horsted Keynes, in Sussex, which he and his ancestors had owned from time immemorial ('Sussex Archæological Collections,' iii. 91). Mr. Weekley in his 'Romance of Names' (p. 100) has: "Lukner, Du. Luykenaar, man from Liège." Mr. Leukner, a good and learned man, and a Catholic in mind and heart. There however I did not stay more than a twelvemonth, as at Easter the heretics sought to force us to attend their worship, and to partake of their counterfeit sacrament. I returned then with my brother to my father's house, whither Mr. Leukner himself soon followed us, being resolved to live as a Catholic in very deed, and not merely in desire. While there, he superintended our Latin studies for the next two years, but afterwards going to Belgium, he lived and died there most holily.' Edmund Lewknor resigned his fellowship in 1577, being then Vice-Rector of the College. On June 5, 1579, he arrived at the English College at Rheims, and received the first tonsure, minor orders, and the subdiaconate at Laon, Sept. 20, 1579, the diaconate at Rheims at the hands of Mgr. Cosme Claussé de Marchaumort, Bishop of Châlons-surThe best pedigree is in the volume of Marne, Mar. 19, and the priesthood at Sussex Archæological Collections above Soissons between May 25 and 29, 1580, and cited, and was compiled by William Durrant he said his first mass in the Church of St. Cooper, F.S.A. Charles Henry Cooper in Etienne, Rheims, June 16, 1580. He became * Athenae Cantabrigienses,' i. 251, expressed lecturer on the Catechism in 1585, and the opinion that Edmund Lewkenor (B.A., apparently continued in that office except 1562/3, Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- for a short holiday in August, 1589, until he bridge, Mar. 31, 1563), was probably a left. In December, 1588 he was auyounger son of Edward Lewkenor, groom- thorized to hear the confessions of all porter, who was implicated in Sir Thomas English people of either sex. In May and Wyatt's rebellion, and died in the Tower of June, 1590, he gave a seven weeks' course London in 1556: but this seems impossible of lectures in logic to the older students. from a perusal of W. D. Cooper's pedigree On Aug. 8, 1593, he set out for Douay, and and introductory notes. He was much matriculated at the University there in more likely a brother of Thomas Lewknor, examined as a suspected Papist Mar. 24, 1576, M.P. for Midhurst 1586 and 1588, and of Richard Lewknor of West Dean, Chief Justice of Wales, and son of Edmund Lewknor of Fyning Manor in the parish of Rogate. Nevertheless, C. H. Cooper's suggestion has been accepted with a query by Foster in his Alumni Oxonienses, and by Boase in his 'Registrum Collegii Exoniensis,' pp. 74, 75. Edmund Lewknor commenced M.A. at Cambridge in 1565, but before taking that degree migrated to Exeter College, Oxford, in 1566, as one of the original Fellows on Sir William Petre's foundation, and took the degree of M.A. in 1567. Among his pupils there were Thomas and John Gerard, sons of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, Lancs. Kt., the former of whom became a baronet in 1611, and the latter a Jesuit in 1588. The latter writes in his autobiography (J. Morris, ‘The Condition of Catholics under James I. p. xi) :— "At the age of fifteen I was sent to Exeter College, Oxford, where my tutor was a certain April, 1594 (see Knox, 'Douay Diaries,' passim). He seems to have been the writer of the latter portion of the Second Diary which came to an end in 1593 (see Cath. Rec. Soc. vol. x. p. 1, &c.). Boase tentatively ascribes to him The Estate of the English Fugitives, 1591,' printed in Sadler Papers' ii. 478. Is it known when he died? 6 Nicholas Lewkenor entered Winchester College aged 13, from Broadwater, Sussex, in 1529. Possibly he was the illegitimate son of John Lewkenor who was parson of Broadwater 12 Henry VII. Is anything known of him? The Bursar of Winchester College has kindly sent me the following notes about the Winchester scholar George Lewkner : 1. Winchester College Register: "Nomina Scholarium admissorum Ao Dni 1556. [7th Annorum in festo Omnium Sanctorum preterito, name:] Georgius Lewkner de Tangmer, xij dioc.] Cichestrensis. [Marginal note:] rec. Oxon." 2. "Liber Successionis et Dignitatis " (compiled from New College records), under year 1562 (the date is of admission to Fellowship after two years of probation): "Jan. 29 [i.e., 1562 /3] Lukener [alias] Lewkener, De villa Tagmer [sic for Georg. |