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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 11 8. v. MAR. 28,1912.

JEFFREYS'S COLLEAGUE, NORTHERN CIR- CUIT, 1684 (11 S. v. 167).

" Tuesday, July 29th, 1684, the assizes began at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before George Jeffries, Bart., Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and Richard Holloway, Knight, of the same court." Brand, ' History of Newcastle,' vol. ii. p. 490.

Holloway had been made a judge on 25 September of the year before only.

RICHD. WELFORD. Ncwcastle-upon-Tyne.

REV. SAMUEL GREATHEED (US. iv. 347 ; v. 71, 132). Those interested in MR. W. P. COURTNEY'S valuable biographical notes on p. 71 should refer to the foot-notes on pp. 209-10 of Newton's 'Letters to Bull,' published in 1847 by my great-great-grand- father, the Rev. T. P. Bull. From these it is clear that the " brother officer " who was instrumental in Greatheed's conversion was Lieut. -Col. Mackelcan. Cowper's reference to Greatheed as there given is that he was " a man of letters and taste, meek and learned as Moses."

Greatheed was trained, as stated, at the Newport Pagnell Theological College or Institution, where he acted as assistant tutor from 1786 to 1789, but he was never minister of the Independent Chapel there. The Rev. William Bull was sole minister from 1764 to 1800, when his son the Rev. T. P. Bull joined him as co-pastor.

Greatheed lived at Newport Pagnell for some nineteen years, but part of the time he was pastor of the Independent Chapel, Woburn, which was built principally by his instrumentality. He was concerned in the formation of the Bedfordshire Union of Christians in 1797, an institution which admitted the co-operation of good men of different denominations ; and later he was active in establishing a Bible Society in Somersetshire.

He was by bodily infirmity confined to his house a considerable time prior to his death. He left several manuscripts, which included a ' History of Missions ' and ' A Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians.'

There was no issue of his first marriage with Ann Hamilton. She died intestate, and the considerable property which was settled by her on 30 August, 1788, passed absolutely to Greatheed under the terms of the settlement.

FREDK. WM. BULL, F.S.A.

THE LUMBER TROOPERS (US. v. 130).- See 6 S. vi. 448, 490 ; vii. 16, 477.

R. J. FYNMORE.

LOCWELLA ABBEY (11 S. v. 149). This istercian monastery was founded in 1151 ay the monks of Quarr, to whom a spot had Deen given in the forest of Chippenham, called Lockwell, where there is a fine spring now on Lockswell Heath, at the back of Lord Lansdowne's plantations at Bowood), tmt in 1154 was removed by the founders to Stanleigh, also situated in the forest of hippenham. It was sometimes called " Empress's Stanley," as the Empress Maud was one of the founders. Stanley, or Stanleigh cum Studley, is still a tything in the forest of Chippenham, about two miles east of the town of Chippenham. See Dug- dale's ' Monasticon,' vol. v. (1846 edition), pp. 563 sqq. W. A. B. CoOLlDGE.

The reference is, no doubt, to Lockswell, near Chippenham, Wilts, where, prior to 1150, a Cistercian abbey, colonized from Quarr, was founded by Henry, son of the Duke of Normandy (afterwards Henry II.), and endowed with lands at Lockswell. This abbey seems to have been called, also, St. Mary of Drownfont, or " de Drogonis fonte," and it was in 1154, a few years after its foundation, removed by Henry and his mother, the Empress Maud, to Stanleigh, commonly called Stanley Imperatricis, near Chippenham, with the result that Lockswell Abbey fell into oblivion, and its very site was matter of doubt until 1823, when Mr. W. L. Bowles set to work to discover it. These few facts are taken from a long and interesting letter on the subject from Mr. Bowles in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1823, i. 24.

F. SYDNEY EDEN.

SELKIRK FAMILY (11 S. v. 109). Alex- ander Selkirk (1676-1721), the prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was the seventh son of John Selcraig, shoemaker, of Largo, Fifeshire, and Euphan Mackie. In 1868. Thomas Selcraig, Selkirk's only collateral descendant, was living in Edinburgh. See the interesting account of Alexander Selkirk in ' D.N.B.,' li. 224. A. R. BAYLEY.

In March, 1909, the death was announced of Mr. Andrew Selkirk of Cowdenheath,^Fife, who was stated to be "a descendant of Alexander Selkirk, who was the original of Defoe's ' Robinson Crusoe.' ' He " was the owner of much house property, which was all planned and largely built by him- self." His trade was that of an engineer, but he could turn his hand to almost anything, and had travelled extensively in Australia and New Zealand. JOHN T. PAGE.

[MR. CHAS. HALL CROUCH also thanked for reply.l