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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. JUNE 29, 1907.

papers, and whose letter has been mislaid, kindly communicate with me direct ?

I should also be much obliged to hear from any one else having any Fanshawe papers, or who can help me to trace the three-quarter portrait of Sir R. Fanshawe in blue silk dress with lace collar, and grey- hound. E. FANSHAWE. Carltoii Club, Pall Mall.

QUEEN MARY I. AT WOBMLEY, HERTS. I am told it is recorded somewhere that Queen Mary baited at the above village on her way to London. I should be very glad of the reference. I can find nothing in Strype, Tytler, Kennet, or Strickland.

H. B.

Cox's ORANGE PIPPINS. Will any one please inform me who Cox was the person who gives his name to the famous apple ?

POMME.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any reader refer me to a complete version of the old ballad in which the daughter of Pharaoh is depicted as

Walking in style by the banks of the Nile ?

W. A. M. I have read somewhere the following :

"The great poet, in apostrophizing the little child, says :

Custom lies upon thee like a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." Whence are these words ?

LIONEL SCHANK. Who is the author of a poem beginning,

For those short hours of happiness

I thank thee,

or something in that style ? What is the title of the poem ? W. H. M.

Did I but purpose to embark with thee

On the smooth surface of a summer sea, And to forsake thy ship and seek the shore

When the skies threaten and the tempests roar ?

K. E. F.

JEFFERSON OF WESTWARD, CUMBERLAND. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me par- ticulars regarding the ancestry of Robert Jefferson, of Stone Raise, parish of Westward, co. Cumberland ? His daughter Margaret married, 27 Sept., 1815, Christopher Parker, of Petteril Green, Cumberland.

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

PAUL SPENCE, a deacon of Queen Mary's reign, was ordained priest abroad, and sent on the English mission in 1576. He was committed to the Clink by Ralph Rokeby (' D.N.B.,' xlix. 152) on 29 Dec., 1585, and

was shortly afterwards examined at the Guildhall by a Mr. Yonge and others. On being sent back to the Clink he was on divers occasions subjected to the controversial attacks of John Copcot (' D.N.B.,' xii. 164), and by the following December is said to have subscribed to the ecclesiastical supre- macy of the Crown. If, however, he sub- scribed at all, he must have at once with- drawn his subscription, for he remained in the Clink till after March, 1588. From the Clink he was removed to Worcester Gaol,, where in 1590 he was reported to the Privy Council to be saying Mass. About this year he entered into controversy with Robert Abbot (' D.N.B.,' i. 24), and in the event the latter in 1594 published a work entitled * A Miroir of Papists' Subtilties ; discovering divers wretched and miserable Evasions and Shifts, which a secret cavilling Papist, in the behalf of one Paul Spence, late prisoner in the castle of Worcester, hath gathered out of Saunders, Bellarmine, and others,* &c. By this year Spence had been exiled and was living abroad. Is anything further known of him ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SCOTT'S ' QUENTIN DURWARD.' In chap, xvii. the gipsy Hayraddin swears by the " Seven Night-Walkers," who punish the breakers of oaths. Who were those "Walkers"?

In chap. xxv. an Italian " statuary," i.e., sculptor, is mentioned who predicted Charles I.'s unhappy death from the melancholy of his face. Who was this Italian ? A. B. E. R.

" WY " IN HAMPSHIRE. ' Bygone Hamp- shire,' by Wm. Andrews, states that two Hampshire fairs are mentioned in Lang- land's ' Vision of Piers Plowman ' in the line

At Wy and at Winchester I went to the fair. What modern place is meant by " Wy " ? It cannot be found on a map of Hants.

S. MEAD. Faversham.

FORD CHURCH, c. 1670. On 5 May, 1674, John Gordon, jun., of Avochie, preserved to the Synod of Moray " a full and formall testimonie from the minister of Fuird (or Foord) in Ingland that he was orderlie maried by him to Elizabeth Gordon," daughter of Harry Gordon, of Braco, in the parish of Grange, Banff shire. On 10 Oct., 1671, the Synod had recommended that young Avochie " be injoyned to separat '* from Elizabeth " untill he report a testi- moniall from the minister and place where he was lawfully and orderlie maried."