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 10 S. VII. MARCH 16, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Child of his : Father John Rowe, Esq. \ of Flaws- worth Hall in the County of Durham | a Magis- trate | who administered Justice with Discernment, Candor and Impartiality | a Christian | Devout and Exemplary j in the Exercise of every private and publick Duty | a Friend to Mercy | a Patron to Distress | an Enemy only to Vice and Idleness J he lived esteem'd by all who knew him | and died lamented by the wise and good | the 16th of De- cember, 177S | in the 65th year of his age.

RTJVIGNY.

Galway Cottage, Chertsey.

SIB WILLIAM DRURY'S FUNERAL " EXE- CUTED." (See ' Parish Registers,' ante, p. 26.) It is somewhat remarkable, in view of " exsequi funus," " exsequiari funus," and corresponding Latin expressions, and the frequent Elizabethan use of such words as " exequies " and " exequial," that the ' N.E.D.,' while providing phrases in which people are said to " execute " Masses, sacrifices, feasts, and the like, has no ex- ample of " executing " a funeral.

The Sir William Drury whose funeral was " executed " 10 March, 1589/90, must be distinguished from the Sir William Drury (knighted 11 May, 1570) whose life is given in the ' D.X.B.,' xii. 60. I think he is pro- bably the Sir William Drury knighted in 1574, and not the Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire knighted in 1576. He succeeded his grandfather, another Sir William Drury (knighted 1546/7), while he was yet a minor, in 1557. There is very little to add to the account of him given in Cullum's ' Hawsted.' It may, however, be pointed out that the Sir John Borough (knighted 1586), in a duel with whom he was mortally wounded in France, was colonel in command of a Sussex regiment of 1,000 men, and Sir William Drury himself was colonel in command of a Hampshire regi- ment of 1,000 men, the whole of the army under the command of General Lord Wil- loughby de Eresby consisting of 4,000 men. The campaign in support of Henry IV. of France lasted from the end of September, 1589, to the middle of January, 1589/90. The duel seems to have taken place shortly before 21 January, 1589/90 (cf. S. P. Dom. Eliz., ccxxx. 19). If, however, this is so, it is somewhat remarkable that the commission for the post-mortem inquisition was not issued till 9 February ; and as A. B. C. has pointed out, the funeral was not " executed " till 10 March.

A letter from Sir William Drury on taking up his command at Portsmouth, 26 Sept., 1589, is still extant (S. P. Dom. Add. Eliz., xxxi. 69). I do not think Cullum mentions

that at the time of his death Sir William. who had been granted the receivership of the counties of Essex, Herts, and Middlesex, and of the City of London, was in the Queen's debt to the amount of over 3,OOOZ., and that great portions of his lands were sold after his death to make good the deficit. Many years afterwards his son Sir Robert (knighted before Rouen in 1591) was forgiven the balance of the debt (some 600Z. odd), as a reward for his services. Sir William's widow married Sir John Scott, and died shortly before 1 March, 1598/9. The ' D.N.B.' in its account of Sir John Scott (li. 107) does not mention the latter fact, nor that she was a daughter of Sir William, Stafford of Graf ton (ktiighterl 1545) and Sir William Drury's widow.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

" PLUMPER'S INN." (See " Plump " in- Voting,' 10 S. vi. 148, 212, 276, 377 ; vii. 77.) The 'Directory of the West Riding/ by Edward Baines, 1822, has, " Tinsley, in the parish of Rotherham, Swinden, John, maltster & victualler, Plumper's Inn." In the ' Sheffield Directory,' 1906, there ap- pears twice " Plumpers' Inn." This sign is not mentioned in the ' History of Sign- boards ' by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten. The Sheffield Iris, dated Tuesday, 16 June, 1807, has : "On Thursday, in the last week of the Yorkshire Election, a Freeholder, aged 101, gave a plumper to* Lord Milton."

HENRY JOHN BEARDSHAW. 27, Northumberland Road, Sheffield.

CHARLES LAMB ONTHICKNESSE'S 'FRANCE.' I take the following from an old book- seller's catalogue :

"Thicknesse (P.). Useful Hints to those who Make the Tour of France. 1770. 1 4-v.

"Charles Lamb's copy, with the following cha- racteristic note in his autograph inside the cover : ' This is a book of 110 great Thicknesse. C. Lamb.'"

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

RADNORSHIRE RIME. The following was; given me many years ago by the then member for the Radnor Boroughs :

Radnorshire, Radnorshire,

Without park or deer,

Or knight or peer,

Or any one with five hundred a year, Except Tommy Fowler of Abercwmhir.

FRANCIS KING.

SINGLE TOOTH. (See 9 S. xi. 488 ; xii. 71.) Besides the instances of this mon- strosity I gave at the first reference, there is, one in a passage of Herodotus (ix. 83,.