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Thomas, Earl of Sussex, aged 50, at his house in Covent Garden, says he lodged at Mrs. Bam NOTES:- Oxford in the Great Civil War: Mrs. Bambridge's bridge's most of the time that Oxford remained Estate, 41-An English Army List of 1740, 43-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 45-Thackeray and "The Times'-"Aged 100" at Gussage St. Andrew Mumbo Jumbo - Inscriptions and Heraldry in Salisbury Cathedral: Baker MSS. Collection, 47-Asiago, 48. QUERIES:-"Still life" - Fletcher Family - Author Wanted, 48-Sem, Caricaturist-H. B. Ker, Artist'Histoire Naturelle,' by Francis Bacon-Musical Queries -Garrick's Grant of Arms-Badge of the Earls of War wick, 49- The Man with the Hoe-Scarlet Gloves and Tractarians-Abbé Paul Peyron's 'Antiquities of Nations' Denmark Court-Symbols attached to Signatures Payne Family-Blessed William of Assisi-Neville Heraldry, 50-Hewitt or Hewett Family, 51. REPLIES:-The City Coroner and Treasure-Trove, 51 Largest Bag of Game-Richard Wilson, 55-"Loke"George Barrington - Northanger Abbey': "Horrid" Romances, 56-Fireplaces: Aitch Stones-"As dead as Queen Anne"-Sir Walter Scott: Lockhart's Letter Lost Life of Hugh Peters-"Nihil ardet in inferno nisi propria voluntas"-Latin Contractions, 57-St. Madron's Well-Richard Swift - Milton's Sonnet on 'Tetrachordon": "Like"-"Every Englishman is an island," 58-Fazakerley-Fact or Fancy? 59. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III.'-' Ancient Astronomy in Egypt and its Significance The Numbered Sections in Old English Poetical MSS.'-'The Church Bells of Lancashire Burlington Magazine.' Delegates' Exams., vol. ii. : Greaves v. Babington. A.D. 1646 /7. Richard Zouch, LL.D., Principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxon, present at the making of Mary Bambridge's will. Knew her almost 20 years before her death. (Signs.) Mary Bambridge, widow of Dr. Bambridge, made her will in her house over against Merton College, 25 February, 1643/4. She had three sons in London. The Lord Primate of Armagh reminded her that according to Moses' Law the eldest son should have a double portion. John Greaves, nominated as sole executor, told the King he had been left a good estate. James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, resided at Exeter College. (Signs.) Was present at the making of the will. Thomas Hinson, servant to Dr. Zouch, present at the making of the will. a garrison, and observed her to be a very sickly, weak and feeble old woman, and very defective in her understanding and memory. The sum of 600l. was placed upon bond in this deponent's hands for securing the same, some few days before her death, and shortly after an order came from the Lords Commissioners for the stay and keeping of the same in this deponent's hands for His Majesty's use, and afterwards another order to pay it unto them, but most of it being already predisposed of for this deponent's own necessities, he sent 2501. in gold for H.M.'s use. Was present at the Council Table at Oxford when Mr. Greaves appeared upon a summons and explained how the money was disposed. 1001. was destined for the building of some house of Astronomy which these times would not yet permit, and so it was lent to the King, and the Lord Treasurer assigned it to this deponent for H.M.'s house, whereof this deponent was then Treasurer. (Signs.) John Walker, aged 21, domestic servant to Lord Sussex these 7 years; born at Burstall, co. York. Was at Oxford in Mrs. Bambridge's house. Frances Ellis, wife of William, aged 39, domestic servant to Lord Sussex these 9 years; born at Overthorp, co. North'ton. Was at Oxford at the same time. Matilda Grant, wife of Thomas, aged 36, household servant to Lord Sussex these 20 years; born at Horton, Bucks. That Mrs. Bambridge appeared to be a very weak woman. Richard Zouche (1590-1661), civilian ('D.N.B.,' lxiii. 417), was Regius Professor of Civil Law from 1620 until death; and a judge of High Court of Admiralty from 1641, of which he was deprived in 1649 for his Royalist proclivities, only to be restored thereto one month before his demise. John Bainbridge, or Bambridge, M.D. of both Universities (1582-1643), physician and astronomer (D.N.B.,' ii. 434), originally a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where his kinsman Dr. Joseph Hall, afterwards Bishop of Norwich (whose mother was Winifred Bambridge, a strict Puritan), had been his tutor; he was appointed in 1619, by the founder, the first Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and entered as a Master-Commoner of Merton College, where he lived for some years and filled the office of Senior Linacre Lecturer. He afterwards lived in a house opposite Merton, and, dying there on Nov. 3, 1643, was buried in the College Chapel, where his monumental tablet may still be seen on the north wall of the quire, being the only one remaining there. Bainbridge was godfather of, and gave his Christian name to, John 66 42 ferent." he could never be believed or Wood, Anthony Wood's youngest brother; so false that and on Feb. 1, 1643, Philip Herbert, fourth depended upon......A bold talker, and applicEarl of Pembroke and Chancellor of the able to any undertaking, good, bad, or indifUniversity, came to lodge at his house (v. A. Wood's 1891, i. 86). The D.N.B.' does not mention his marriage, but his eldest son (Deuteronomy xxi. 17) was, probably, the John Bainbridge, s. John, doctoris," who matriculated from St. Alban Hall and took his B.A. degree on Feb. 18, 1627/8, aged 16; M.A. June 3, 1630; and was, possibly, Vicar of Ashburnham, Sussex, in 1632. 66 Life and Times,' O.H.S., The 'D.N.B.' gives his dates as 1590 ?-1658 ? John Greaves (1602-52), mathematician 66 There was an apothecary at Oxford called Anthony Wood whom Philip Alport, vomitt"; patronized when in need of a and this person appears to have dwelt on the south side of High Street, between the present Grove and Oriel Streets, opposite St. Mary's Church; to have married in September, 1658, Millicent Astrey of Little Milton, Oxon, in St. John the Baptist Church (Merton Chapel); and to have been buried, according to the St. Mary's Register, The Philip Alport on June 14, 1665. Serv. Doctris. Bambrig.," privilegiatus May 28, 1641, aged 34, if not identical, was probably a relation (v. Wood's City of Oxford, 1899, i. 138 n., and iii. 247; Wood's 'Life,' i. 220). 6 Thomas Savile, first Viscount Savile of Castlebar, in the peerage of Ireland, second Baron Savile of Pontefract, and first Earl of Sussex, in the peerage of England ( D.N.B.,' 1. 374), is that sinister figure whom Clarendon described as a man "of an ambitious and restless nature, of parts and It was not until over a century and a quarter after this time that the University could boast of a permanent house of Astronomy. Originally the top room in the Tower of the Five Orders of (what is now called) the Old Schools, with the roof above it, was the observatory of the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, such as it was in the earliest days of telescopes. Edmund Halley kept a 24-ft. telescope in his rooms, when he was an undergraduate of Queen's College, about 1676, and with it observed a sunspot.. In 1769 Prof. Thomas Hornsby tried to observe the transit of Venus from his primitive premises on the Schools' Tower; and others used the tower of New College (which together with the Cloisters, &c., had been used by Charles I. as his magazine) and other prominent buildings for the same purpose. So difficult was the observation that Dr. Hornsby seized the opportunity to represent the inconvenience to the Trustees of the great benefactor, Dr. John Radcliffe,. with the happy result that the Trustees built (1) The Extinct Regiments of the British Army,' A. E. Sewell, 1887. 10 Feb. 1737-8. 3 April 1733. 12 June 1731. 2 Nov. 1727. ditto. 21 June 1737. 15 Mar. 1729. 13 July 1737. 14 Mar. 1733-4. 7 Jan. 1738-9. ditto. 14 Mar. 1733-4. 9 Aug. 1734. The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards comes next (p. 6) with the officers here following: (1) John, 2nd Duke of Argyll. He was also Duke of Greenwich (1719). 6 Aug. 1733. 29 Jan. 1733-4. ditto. 5 Feb. 1722-3. 20 Jan. 1730-1. 20 April 1732. 29 Jan. 1733-4. 30 April 1734. 18 July 1737. (2) Third son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Bart., of Walcot, Oxfordshire, and Hawkesbury, Glos.. He was father of Charles J., 1st Baron Hawkesbury (1786), and 1st Earl of Liverpool (1796). (3) Or Chamberlayne, 4th Baronet. The Baronetcy became extinct in 1776. |