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provides for transcripts of the registers to be sent to the bishop, &c. (see Phillimore's of England,' by the Rsv. Dr. Cox, &c.)
 * Law of the Church,' ' The Parish Registers

A parish which could command the services of such a good scribe as George Milton was fortunate. I subjoin a copy of the title- page :

Toe Register Book of the Parish Churche of Ilfard- combe wherein is written christnings weddings & buriengs 1602 The first parte contains the Christnings from

the yere 1567 The seconde parte contains the marriages from

the same yere 1567 'The third parte contains the buriengs from the

same yere 1567

Koate the yere of our Lord God beginnethe alwais the five & twentithe day of Marche

George Milton

Newe wrote the Register book &c. in the yere of our Lord 1602

J. J. H.

LOYAL AND FRIENDLY SOCIETY OP THE BLUE AND ORANGE (11 S. iv. 170). I recently obtained from Mr. Thorpe some MSS. from the library of John Wilson Croker, and an extract from one letter, interesting of itself for its autobiographical details, may help MR. WM. MACARTHUR a little. Croker at the time was collecting material for his once famous article in The Quarterly Review (vol. Ixxxvi.), 1850, en- titled 'Lord Clarendon and the Orange Institution,' though the revised proof gives the title as ' The Orange System in Ireland.' "Writing from " West Molesey, Surrey, <> Dec.,49," he says :

" It is of some importance to my view of the Orange case to show that though the special institution called Orangeism arose in opposition -to the Irish rebels at the beginning of the French Devolution, there had been Williamite and Hanover associations and celebrations ever since our own Revolution. In the first place there was the celebration of the 5th November in the Liturgy. In the next place the Lord Lieutenant .-and other public authorities used on that day to make a procession round the statues (William =and George II.) in College and St. Stephen's {Jreen I myself followed such a procession the first time I went to the Castle Court about 1801.

When I was a young boy there was in Cork

a, Hanoverian or Brunswick association of some
 * kind ; they were armed, and drilled in a blue

uniform with scarlet or orange facings. I have seen them drawn up on parade, but I believe they only marched to a tavern dinner. My father was one of the body ; and I have an idea it dated from the seige [sic] of Cork in 1690. I would beg of you to make enquiry of some old inhabitant of "Cork after this very respectable body. I myself am 69, and saw them probably about 62 Bears ago, and not having thought of them since, 'it is only surprising that I remember so much them. There was also an association called

the Friendly Brothers, to which I belonged, but it was merely a convivial or kind of Masonic association but I believe none but Protestant* were admitted, and it also I suspect had been originally something of a political association. I know that the few times I attended their meet- ings in Dublin about 1804 and in London about 1808 the gentlemen I met were, if not Orangemen, at least of a very zealous loyalty."

I also got the revised proof of the article in question, and it is a standing example of what Croker had to put up with from Lockhart, and almost excuses the chagrin he often expressed, for quite half the article was cut out.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.' Kensal Lodge, N.W.

JAMES W T RIGHT (11 S. v. 148). James Wright, b. 1643, d. 1713, antiquary and man. of letters (son of Abraham Wright, 1611- 1 690, divine, and author of ' Delitise Deli- tiarum,' a collection of epigrams, 1637), was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple, 1672. The ' D.X.B.' says " he was a skilful anti- quary and not a bad poet .... and possessed many rare and valuable old manuscripts," being " one of the finest collectors of old plays since Cartwright," 1611-43 (dramatist, and friend of Ben Jonson and Izaak Walton), He published ' History and Antiquities .... Rutland' (1684), 'Country Conversations' (1694), ' Historia Histrionica ' (1699), and other works.

See ' Milton's Poems.' ed. by Thomas Warton, 1785, ad fin. (This long note by Warton contains the only connected account extant of Wright and his writings.)

A list of authorities will be found in the ' D.N.B.' referring to James Wright and his father, Abraham Wright, including Chalmers's ' Biographical Dictionary,' Hal- kett and Laing's ' Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature,' Allibone's ' Dictionary of English Literature,' and ' X. & Q.,' 3 S. ii. 469 and 6 S. x. 36.

F. C. WHITE.

26, Arran Street, Cardiff.

FLEETWOOD OF MISSENDEN : THE KINGS - LEY FAMILY (11 S. v. 41, 158). In ' Lancashire Fines '* Thomas Kingsley is deforciant of lands, &c., in Chorley. &c., Lanes, John Fleetwood being one of the plaintiffs (Final Concords, 29 March, 1557).

Agnes, sister of Robert Fleetwood, father of the Recorder, married Johnf Gellibrand of Chorley Hall. A possible clue is therefore

Ix. 133.
 * Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,

t Chetham Society, O.S., Ixxxii. 114, calls him " Thomas."