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 438 NOTES AND QUERIES, [lo'-s.iv. NOV. 25.1905. calls Fenn a priest, and it seems probable that, like Sander himself, he waa ordained abroad. 2. That he was ordained abroad is stated by Dodd (' Church Hint.,' first edition, vol. i. p. 510) and by Qillow (ii. 244) and the •D.N.B.' (xviii. 313). Pits is silent on the matter. Probably the 'D.N.B.' and Gillow follow Dodd. Dodd is probably wrong in saying he was ordained from the English College at Rome, as the 'D.N.B.' points out. He may thus also be wrong in stating that he was ordained abroad ; but until it is shown that John Fenn was a priest at Elizabeth's accession, I do not feel inclined to accept H. C.'s sug- gested identification, although I feel that •without it John Danister is a very nebulous character. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. TUFNEL FAMILY (10th S. . iv. 389).—The William and John Tufnel of the query, who rendered accounts for bricklaying and joinery work done at " Her Majesties Receipt of ExcheqV' and at houses in " Burlington Ground," 1711-22, were, no doubt, sons of John Tufnell, for twenty-three years mason to Westminster Abbey, who was buried there in 1696-7, aged fifty-three. Col. Chester thought it was very probable that John Tufnell (1644-97) was a son of Edward Tufnell and Catherine Moorecocke, of Christ Church, London, married in 1638. Of the sons William and John, William was buried in the Abbey in 1733, and is described in the journals of the day as master builder and bricklayer to the New River Company, and as leaving a fortune of from 30.000/. to 50,0001. John was joiner to the Abbey, and died in 1723 in his forty-second year (see 'The Registers of Westminster Abbey,' printed by the Harleian Society in 1876, for several references). I can refer your correspondent to other sources of information, if desired. GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. SO, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S. !•:. The Tufnell who succeeded Sir William Halton (not Hattou) as possessor of the manor of Barnsbury belonged to the Essex family of that name, now represented by Mr. Tufnell of Langley's Park in that county, whose kinsman Col. Edward Tufnell, M.P., is the present owner of the London estate com- prised in the manor of Barnsbury. Essex county histories and Burke's 'Commoners' give pedigrees of the family. An ancestor was M.P. for Southwark in the reign of Charles II. It is unlikely that the William and John Tufnel referred to belonged to this family. H. ITHAMAR (10th S. iv. 387).— What authority ' is there for this as a girl's name 1 As a name it has a double warrant. Firstly, as pointed out in the editorial note, it is in the Bible ; secondly, it is the name of a Kentish saint, Ithamar, Bishop of Rochester, a native of Canterbury, whose life is given by the Bollandists under 10 June. He was the first Englishman who sat in that see, to which he succeeded in 644 ; and at his death, in 655 or 656, he was buried in the church. JAS. PLATT, Jun. MULBERRY AND QUINCE (10th S. iv. 386). — My predecessor in the vicarage of Norton,. near Evesham, Narcissus George Batt, an Irishman, who was appointed in 1854, had a considerable knowledge of fruit-trees. In the garden on the south side of the vicarage- house he planted a mulberry-tree. Some- body then told him that he ought also to have a quince-tree, whereupon ne planted one on the north side. I do not remember, however, that any mention was made of luck. in connexion with it. W. C. B. JJlisrdlsutcms. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ao. The Political History of England.—Tht History of England from the Xorman Conyiteit to thf. heath of John, 10W-1216. By George Burton Adams. (Longmans & Co.) THK second volume of 'The Political History of Kngland,' dealing with the period from the Norman Conquest virtually to the signature of Magna Carta, has followed close upon the heels of the tenth volume, in commendation of which we have already spoken (see ante, p. 318). It furnishes proof how broad is the basis upon which this fine undertaking is established, that this portion of the work is supplied by the Professor of History in Yale University, whose share in the events and the progress recorded is, of course, the same as our own. It is a piece of very sound and capable work- manship, and will be of immense service to English scholarship. Based, naturally, upon such early authorities as 'The Saxon Chronicle,' the works of men like William of Poitiers, William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and Wil- liam of Newburgh, the ' Historia Ecclesi- astica' of Orderic Vitalis. the 'Imagines Histo- riarum' of Ralph de Diceto, and similar works, the republication of which in the Rolls Series is one of the most important bequests of the past cen- tury, it makes full use of the contributions of the various editors of the series (notably of the splendid introductions of Bishop Stubbs), Sir Thomas Duffos Hardy, and J. S. Brewer, of the all -important labours of Freeman, Mr. Horace Round, Sir James Ramsay, Miss Kate Norgate, Prof. Felix Liebermann, and other writers, French, German, and American. It detracts from the vivacity of the pages that the questions connected with the growtn andiderelop- iiicnt of chivalry and similar matters ace dis-