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 us. VIIL DEC. is, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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\ r o\ce spake these verses following (which he then understood not)

The Crown land sold

The Scotch Presbytery rold

The King in a pit

And a Seal upon it.

There will not be much more blood shed in Eng- land, though much more contention and strife. This was presented by M. Thomas Goodwin to some members of the Army. London Printed for John Play ford and are to be sold at his shop in the Inner Temple. 1649."

This Fifth Monarchy production was repudiated by Brayne in Walker's Perfect Occurrences for 20-27 April, 1649, as follows :

" I am desired from Mr. Braynes himselfe to pub- lish that he doth declare that he did never deliver those verses published in his name as any revela- tion or vision to him."

Lastly, as early as 1638. Peters was in a condition of acute mania. An undated letter written by him to John Winthrop is printed in the Collections of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, Series IV., vol. vi. pp. 94-5, upon which it is not possible to place any other construction than that a lunatic wrote it. The first part of this letter is headed ' New-es,' and is sane enough, but the second part, headed ' Invoyce,' runs as follows :

" Butter at Id. per Ib, cheese at Id. per lb., Sack per gal. 6*., Mascadine 6s. 6d., Irish beefe, the tun, 50s., Irish rugs 14s. [Preposterous prices.] They are so deere wee shall not deale with them. Another ship is gone into Pascataway : they had the cold storme at sea. Boston men are thinking of Delawar bay. Mr. Prudden goes to Qvinipiak. Mr. Davenport may sit down at Charlestowne. Mr. Eaton very ill of the skurvey. An eele py. Angells appeare at Boston. Be secret. Your sister Symonds recovering. Berdall hath buryed his wife. Another eele py. Wee have to-morrow morning Jiggells going to your Governour laden with wood ; some dred of the frost at Boston. I wish you were here to goe with us to Boston, 2d day. Salute your wife from us.

I am you know, H. P."

Writing to Winthrop from " Salem the 13 of the 3 <l moneth 1638," John Endecott said (ibid., p. 134) :

"Mr. Peters' illness only detained mee, for he hath bene very ill. But I hope the worst is past, though hee be as sicke in his thoughts as ever."

J. B. WILLIAMS.

' MEMOIRS OF SIR JOHN LANGHAM, BARONET.'

(See ante, pp. 281, 351.) IT may interest MB. BERTRAM DOBELL to know that I have in my possession another manuscript of the same memoir relating to Sir John Langham, my ancestor. I do not know when it was written ; it is on a large

sheet of parchment, and is almost word for word the same as the one given ante, p. 281 but not exactly. For instance, in my MS. no mention is made of " 100Z. left him by his father/' and the wording in places is- slightly different, which is strange if one is a copy of the other. There is no signature or date attached to my MS.

Sir John Langham was born in 1584, and, as the memoir tells us, made his fortune in London as a Turkey merchant. He bought the estate of Cottesbrooke in Northampton- shire in 1636, but lived at Crosby House, in the parish of St. Helen, Bishopsgate y London, arid died there in 1671. He served as Sheriff of London in 1642-3, and was M.P. for the City in 1654, and M.P. for Southwark in 1660. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London with the Lord Mayor and three other Royalist Aldermen from September, 1647, to June, 1648, all accused of high treason. In 1649 he was sent there again, and deprived of his Aldermanship, for refusing, M'ith Lord Mayor Reynardson, to publish an Act " for the exheridition of the Royal Line, and abolishing Monarchy in England, and the setting up of a Common- wealth." He and his eldest son James were among the citizens of London who waited on King Charles II. at Breda, and were both knighted there by him, Sir John being afterwards given a baronetcy, 7 June, 1660, in return for his services to the royal cause.

His w r ife, Mary Bunce, died in 1652, con- sequently the Lady Langham mentioned in Evelyn's 4 Diary,' November, 1654, as being the waiter's kinswoman, was not Sir John's wife, but may have been one of his daughters- iii-law possibly Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Alston, Kt., and wife of James Langham, Sir John's eldest son, or else Mary, daughter of Derrick Hoste of Mort- lake in the county of Surrey, merchant, who married Stephan Langham, a younger son. As a matter of fact, there was no " Lady " Langham at that time, neither Sir John nor Sir James his son being knighted until 1660, six years later; but I fancy it was customary to call married women by that title, and unmarried ones were called Mrs. In John Evelyn's ' Corre- spondence,' 30 July, 1666, will be found two letters : the first written by Sir John to Evelyn, " though a stranger " to him r asking for his opinion on the character and qualifications of a Mr. Philips, a tutor ; the second being a most courteous reply from Evelyn to Sir John. The original has, un- fortunately, not been preserved among my family papers.