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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vi. AUG. 3, 1912.

"CHALK SUNDAY "= FIRST SUNDAY IN JUNE. I have seen it alleged in The Academy some years ago that as late as the beginning of this century in some southern English counties and Sussex was especially men- tioned a custom prevailed of taking small pieces of chalk in a bag or satchel into church on the first Sunday in June, and kneeling on them during service. Such books on Sussex as I have been able to consult make no mention of any such custom. Where does it obtain, and what is its origin and meaning ?

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any of your readers tell me who is the author of the following lines ? I believe they form part of a soliloquy of a dead monk.

lie through centuries

And hear the blessed mutter of the mass.

WM. NORMAN.

[Browning, 'The Bishop orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church.']

- I should be much obliged if any of your readers could kindly supply the source of the following quotation :

Sorrow sleeps ever at the heart.

A. M. CORBETT.

PATENT FOR BARONETCY IN BLANK. At 9 S. iii. 387 GANTELET D'OR refers to a statesman of George III.'s time whom he does not name, but on whose friend that king was willing to bestow a baronetcy.

I have good reasons for asking if that minister was Pitt. Can any herald of the College of Arms, or other official, kindly answer this ?

Also, is there any special significance in a family being called " a good Plantagenet house " ? B. L.

JACQUES DARTNELL. Can any of your readers give me information as to the identity of Jacques Dartnell ? He is men- tioned in a document dated 12 May, 1537 ('Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.' vol. xii. pt. i. No. 1,186). He is referred to m conjunction with William Wallace as a popular leader who had been betrayed by his followers. R. DODDS.

ROBERT BURDETT, ALDERMAN OF LONDON, DIED 1677-8. Where was his town residence in London, and had he a country property? How many daughters had he ?

(MRS.) COPE. Fmchampstead, Berks.

AN OXFORD JACOBITE PLOT. In August or September, 1715, six men (Ralph Bethel], Ensign Meyer, Adams, a cook, and Capts. Gordon, Dorrell, and Kerr) were discovered in an attempt to raise the Jacobite standard in Oxford ; the first three turned king's evidence. The three captains were tried by a Committee of the Lords, and hanged at Tyburn (' Treasury Papers,' vol. ccxiv., No. 15 ; vol. ccxlviii., No. 40). Where can I find a full account of this plot ? and what was Gordon's Christian name ?

J. M. BULLOCH. 123, Pall Mall, S.W.

COL. CHESTER'S EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS. When Col. J. L. Chester died in 1882, he left, amongst other MSS., eighty- seven volumes of extracts from parish registers in duplicate, one set of which is now in the possession of the College of Arms. I shall be grateful if any of your readers can inform me if the other set has been sold ; and, if so, to whom. GENEALOGIST.

Adelaide, S.A.

RlCHBOROUGH REMAINS IN BETHNAL

GREEN. In W. Clark Russell's ' Betwixt the Forelands ' (p. 47), as quoted from ' Pennant's Journey to the Isle of Wight,' is an account of the discovery of a wharf or landing-place of triangular form at Rich- borough Castle :

''It was a shell of brickwork, two bricks thick, filled with earth, the two projecting sides tied together with a brace of the same material. Two sorts of brick were used in this building : one was eighteen inches by twelve and three and a halt' thick ; the other seventeen by eleven and one and a quarter thick. Mr. Ebenezer Mussel, of Bethnal Green, near London, purchased the whole quantity of materials, and employed them in paving a courtyard and part of his house."

Do these Roman remains still exist in Bethnal Green ? and, if so, where ? What was the subsequent history of this Roman wharf found at Richborough ?

G. H. W.

SIR CHRISTOPHER DANBY. I should be glad to know if there are any living descend- ants of Sir Christopher Danby, Kt., who married Margaret, dau. of Thomas, Lord Scroope of Upsale and Masham.

P. D. M.

"ACCORDING TO COCKER." Is anything known of the descendants of Cocker, the celebrated arithmetician, whose great prowess gave rise to the above expression 1

R. H. LlNDAM.

Bookham Gables, Surrey.