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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. A. 10, 1912.

" BAG AND BAGGAGE." This phrase must have been common before Shakespeare's time. The ' N.E.D.' gives four examples of its earlier use. And I have found two more :

How erste wee did them thence, sans bag and bagage, tosse.

' Mirror for Magistrates,' Burdet, st. 75. With bag and baggage, selye wretch, I yelded into Beautie's hand.

' Tottel's Miscellany,' ed. Arber, p. 173.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

INVENTORY OF 1701. The following; quaintly worded record, now contained among the miscellaneous papers belonging to the parish of St. John Zachary, may be deemed of sufficient interest for the columns of ' N. & Q.' :

" An Inventary of the Goods of James Middle- ton, of the parrish of S e Olaves, Silver Street,* Seased by the Landlord M r Tho: Jackson and taken and appraised by us whose Names are Vnder writt this 1 st day of May 1701. In the Garratt : One beddstead, one frame, two boxis, one window Chutter, one dow trough ; tow p r of Stairs : one old flock bedd, two bolsters, Sum old lineing, one beddstead, two Chears, one trunk, two old boxis, one old Scarfe, fower shelues, one mantle peece, one hone, one Rodd ; One p r of Stairs : One flock bedd and bolster, one Pillow, Sume old C'overing, one beddstead and Rodd teaster and headcloth, one falldown table, fower old Chears. one Small Graite, one Small trunk, fower prints, one Chimbley peece ; On the Grown' 1 flower and Yard : One old Graite, a table (or two tables), one frunt Sash and one Sash dore, fower old Chears, three Stooles, three Shelues, sume peggs, the lead of the Sink, one Salt box, one p r of bellose, two Runletts, one funell, Sume old Shelues and Sume lumber, one Earthen dish, one mugg, one tinn Cover ; In y Cellor : One Petition and sume tubbs. All the Goods within Mentioned are appraised and vallued to fortey Shillings. (Signed) Thomas Keene, George Stray. (Witness) J. Jackson."

WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

UNUSUAL SYMBOLISM. The following ecclesiological note may be as new and as interesting to many of your readers as it was to me when it met my eye in The Church Union Gazette for July, 1912. The North Dartmoor Branch of the E.C.U. was lately conducted to St. Clether's Well Chapel, Cornwall, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, who had been one of the discoverers of the ruins in the middle of a quagmire.

"Every stone of the ancient chapel was found and re-erected upon the ancient plan, which was quite traceable, after the locality had been thoroughly drained The discovery was most fascinating. The well was found ; a channel was also found which conducted the overflow through the chapel,


 * " Giles without Cripplegate " struck out.

and under the altar, over the bones of the Saint buried beneath, and out through the south wall of the chapel into a second well, and thence down a channel to the river below. The idea was evidently borrowed from the Vision of the Holy Waters as described in the 47th chapter of Ezekiel. The altr.r is a large stone slab, and stands upon four rude stone pillars through which the water makes its way from the north to the south side of the chapel."

ST. SWITHIN.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SIR JOHN BEALE OF KENT : HIS BARO- NETCY. (See 4 S. ii. 580.) In 1868 the questions were asked, " Why was Sir John Beale made a baronet ? " " What collateral descendants had he ? "

I am answering the latter in the forth- coming Part I. of ' Records of the Beale Family,' detailing many other collaterals in later volumes, and giving coats of arms of the family's alliances in their true tinctures.

Can any one tell me why John Beale was created a baronet in the all-important year 1660, no one having responded to the request of forty-four years ago ? Can any correspondent inform me to what branch of the family the querist belonged ?

Will MR. W. D. PINK be so kind as to tell me whence he got his data concerning the origin of baronetcies conferred on citizens of London, as recorded by him at 9S. ix. 61 ?

I have a photograph of the patent con- ferring the title upon John Beale. There is the usual condition of aid for maintenance of thirty footmen in Ireland for three years, but no mention of the heirs of his body. Is such an omission usual from the form of wording in Charles II. "s time ?

G. F. TRACY BEALE.

Point House, Exmouth.

' MANDRAKES FOUND AT ALBURY, NEAR BISHOP'S STARFORD.' Such is, I believe, the title of a pamphlet that once came to my notice, but diligent search at the British Museum has failed to locate it in that collection.

Can any one state where a copy is to be found, or give a brief description of the narrative ? W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.