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had a mother's loving care. His father wa. about fifteen years of age when he made his firs marriage. The young people seem to have liver upon the husband's parents, who were themselves very poor.

" Penyston Hastings did not tarry before making another marriage. His second wife's name is not given ; but she is said to have been the daughter of a butcher in Gloucester. It was probably through her that the Rector of Chrisl Church became possessed of ' The Plow Inn and other property at Cheltenham which he left

in his third wife by his will The will of the

Rev. Penyston Hastings is dated 21st December, 1713. As it was proved on the 20th January following, the testator did not long survive its execution .... Warren is twice mentioned by his father. The name of Daylesford also occurs.

" The register of burials for Christ Church lias the following entry, after that of 1736, May 25 :

1 ' No entries of burials are to be found in the eld register from this time till April 8th, 1750.' "

Mr. Davis does not know'the precise date of the death of Penyston Hastings, nor his burial place, but thinks that information on th?3e points might be obtained from the records of the Bishop of London at Fulham Palace. W. H. F.

RlCKMANSWORTH CHURCH : INDULGENCE

ix AID OF REPAIRS. The existence of this indulgence was noted by Cussans in his ' History of Hertfordshire,' a copy having been discovered pasted in the cover of an old book in the British Museum ; but it has not hitherto been printed. The document is about 6| in. long by 5 in. broad, and is slightly imperfect at the bottom, although it appears to be complete otherwise. At the head is the representation of an altar, covered by a cloth and surrounded by draperies. Upon the table are a pair of candlesticks and a dish (? a paten) bearing th<- monogram I.H.S. The indulgence reads :

" Be it known to all Christen people which oyeth in their hearts of the power of God showed IFis ,,wn precious body in form of bread in the Church of Rykmersworthe, where wretched and cursed people cruelly and wilfully set fire upon all tlu- images and on the canopy which the Blessed Sacrament was in, and to make the fire more cruel, they put tow with banner staves between the -panes and brasses of the chancel, through which fire the said chancel was burnt and the pyx was molten, and the blessed body of our Lord Jesus I mist in the form of bread was found upon the High Altar and nothing perished. Also they I'i'oke into the vestry and put fire among all the ornaments and jewels, and burnt the said vestry ad all that was therein. Also in the rood tli. y wrapped tow about the blessed rood,
 * <n<l about a pair of organs, and melted all the

wax in th<- said loft, containing in weight 14 score pounds. \\h,.,c as the flaring fire was in the said t about the blessed im,age of Jesus Christ,

neither the said image nor the tow about was nothing hurt through the might and power of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Also to maintain their cruel opinions they went unto the font and brake it open and despoiled the water that was hallowed therein and cast it abroad in the church floor in dispite of the Sacrament of Baptism. And foras- much as the substantial men of the said parish hath inuewed the King's grace, how honourably God was served in the said church in time past and also that it pleased him to shew his great might and power. Wherefore my Lord Cardinal and legate delatere hath granted 100 days of pardon releasing of their penance in purgatory to all them that give any part of their goods to the restoring of the said church. Also my Lord of Lincoln hath granted 40 days."

A collotype reproduction of the indul- gence has been made, and copies may be had of Mr. H. J. Butcher, The Bank House, Rickmansworth. W. B. GERISH.

WALTHAM ABBEY CARVED PANELS : DENNY ARMS. A curious problem is presented by the arms upon the carved panelling once in the Abbey Mansion House at Waltham, and now set up in the form of a small room in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The coat is Quarterly, 1 and 4, a chevron between three mullets ; 2 and 3, a lion rampant (or over a lion rampant a bend). In the first place these are not the family arms of the Right Hon. Sir Anthony Denny, who first, in 1541, obtained a lease of the Abbey House, which, being purchased by his widow, became the residence of their descend- ants for over a century. From this it has been argued that the panelling must be of an earlier date than that at which the Dennys became possessors of the Abbot's Mansion.

However, in ' A Late Tudor Book of Arms,' published by Foster a few years ago, occurs " Dennys, 1 and 4, Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules ; 2 and 3, Argent, a lion rampant azure, crowned or. n This is evidently the very coat which appears on the Waltham panels. Elsewhere one inds that the arms of Denny of Eye in Suffolk, and of Deneys of Suffolk, were Argent, a chevron sable between three lierced mullets gules. Argent a chevron sable between three mullets gules, pierced or, were the arms of

" Mr. Edmund Dennie, borne at Stoke Ashe in Suffolk, and descended from y e family of Deneyes )f Tannington in Suffolk, and now dwelling at

Dhigwell, Essex He died Sept. 5, 1656, and

was buried at Chigwell, being Principal of Cliff ord's

"nn." Harl. MS. 1449, f. 108.

All this seems to point to the conclusion

hat whoever carved the Waltham panels

designed them for the Denny family, and

ntended the arms upon them to be theirs, but