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 io* s. in. JUNE 3, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNES, 1905.

CONTENTS. -No. 75.

NOTES :- 4 n of Dogs, 4*7.

QUERIES : Sir Lewis Stukeley's 'Petition' "In cauda venenum" Tyndale's Ordination Kwart Family Dr. Cbamherlen Prayer for Twins " national's Festival " "St. James's Chapter" 'The Streets of London,' 428 " Goyle " English Crown Jewel Madden's 'Havelock the Dane' Tunbridge Wells and District " May- dewing" Polish Koyal Genealogy " Guardings" 'Theatrical Remembrancer ' "Tertias of foot," 429 "Pop goes the weasel" Coke or Cook ?' The Lovesick Gardener 'Col. Hewetson Parsloe's Hall, Essex, 430.

REPLIES :-The "Old Bell" Inn, Holborn, 430 Police Uniforms : Omnibuses" Ilnnd": " lie "Charlemagne's Koman Ancestors, 432-"Poeta nascitur non fit" Kpi- grara on a Rose Great Queen Street Inscriptions at San Sebastian Pillion : Flails, 433 -Sack-Shorter : Walpole, 434 Vulgate Portraits which have led to Marriages 'Rebecca' Lincoln Inventory Lines on Mug Bigg, the Dinton Hermit Hollicke or Holleck, 435 "Purdonium" Twitchel Lincoln Civic Insignia: the Mayor's Ring 'Steer to the Nor'-Nor'-West,' 43 i Bibliography of Kpi- taphs "Legenvre" Vixens and Drunkenness Coli- seums Old and New, 437.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Lady Dilke's ' Book of th Spiritual Life ' Furness's ' Variorum Shakespeare ' ' Specimens of the Elizabethan Drama.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

PINCHBECK FAMILY.

IN Dr. James Gaird tier's edition of the there is a letter, under the date 1459, from Friar Brackley to John Paston, in which the Friar says :
 * Pas ton Letters ' (ed. 1897), vol. i. p. 496,

"Doctor Pynchebek and Doctor Westhawe, grete prechowrys and parsonys at London, bene now late made nionkys of Charterows at Schene, one at one place and an other at the other place," &c.

What is known of the preachings of the two doctors] and where can some account of the same be found ] Brother John Brackley, who was a member of the Convent of the Grey Friars in Norwich, and a Doctor of Divinity, was himself a famous preacher ('Paston Letters,' vol. i. p. 269, note 1, quoting Fenn ; and see A. G. Little, ' The Grey Friars in Oxford,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., 1891, p. Ill), and no doubt he had good reason for thus describing them.

What the writer meant by the words "one at one place, and an other at the other place," is not clear. The words suggest that both doctors did not become monks of the same monastery, although it is just above stated that they were made monks "of

Charterows at Schene." Possibly a couple of words have been omitted, and we should read, " made monks of Charterows [i.e., Charterhouse] at London and Schene." This would at any rate be intelligible; but there is not sufficient evidence at present to prove that this was the fact.

Dr. Westhawe seems to be fairly clearly identified with Dr. Thomas West- hawe, Westhaugh, or Westhagh. He was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cam- bridge, in 1432, and it is possible that he is the Westhawe who signed a list of books in the 1473 Catalogue of the University Library, Cambridge. (See 'Collected Papers of Henry Bradshaw,' 1889, p. 54.)

According to Newcourt (' Repertorium,' i. 248, referring to 'Register Gilbert,' 209), Tho. Westhagh (sic), S.T.B., became rector of All Hallows the Great on 9 November, 1448. He was presented to the living by Henry VI., who exercised the rights of patron by reason of the minority of Anna, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Warwick. She appears to have been born before 13 February. 1444 (J. G. Doyle, 'Baronage of England,' vol. iii., 1886, p. 586).

Westhagh resigned before 9 February, 1459 (Newcourt, ut supra, quoting ' Reg. Kemp,' 68), at which date he was succeeded by another Fellow of Pembroke, Edward Storey, who became Bishop of Carlisle and was subsequently translated to Chichester. This date shows that Westhagh's resignation took place some months before Friar Brackley wrote his letter, which Dr. Gairdner con- siders to belong " to the latter part of the year 1459 " (' Paston Letters,' i. 496).

Westhawe was a donor to the library of Pembroke College ('Carnb. Ant. Soc. Conim./ ii. 16), and also to the library of Syon Monas- tery, to which he gave more than fifty books (Mary Bateson, ' Catalogue of the Library of Syon Monastery,' 1898, p. xxvii). There is no mention of him in the ' D.N.B.' or in Le Neve's ' Fasti,' ed. Hardy (1854).

With regard to Dr. Pynchebek, his identity is not quite so clear, but it seems probable that he is the John Pynchbeke (sic), S.T.D., mentioned by Newcourt ('Reper- torium,' ii. 173). He became rector of St. Leonards-le-Hyth, Colchester, 2 March, 1456 ('Reg. Kemp,' 45), the patrons of which were the Abbot and Convent of St. John the Baptist at Colchester. On 21 June, 1457, Pynchbeke exchanged livings with Henry Sharpe, L.D., who was rector of St. Mary Abchurch in London ('Reg. Kemp,' 50), the patron of which was the Master or Warden of Corpus Christi Chapel in the Poultry