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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2k, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 130.

NOTES : Cheshire and the Pipe Rolls, 141 Cobbett Bib- liography. 142 Fitzwilliam and Grimaldi Families, 144 Bishop Ken's Birthplace Joseph Fussell, a Forgotten Water-Colourist, 145 Parnell's ' Old Beauty ' : a Reading Sir Walter Scott and Freemasonry " Employee " " Dacia"=Denmark, 146 " Tarpough" Hertfordshire Inscriptions : Hundred of Dacorum Swinburne's Poems : "the morn" A Danish Visitor of Sir Walter Scott's " Dictograph," 147.

QUERIES: "Lord Burlacy"in 1645, 147 The Talbote Miss Ingalls Augustin Heckell A Tuscan Inscription Swedenborg : Advertisement in London Newspapers, 1783 Kennett and Howe Families, 148 Rhuddlan Henry Rowe Othniel Haggatt of Barbadoes Richard Newcome, Vicar of Hursley The Home Counties "Pomander" Card Games Cromwellian Marriages in Ireland, 149.

REPLIES : Relics of London's Past, 150 Edward Gibbon's Residences, 152 Quarles Family Shakespeare's Signa- tures, 153 'She Stoops to Conquer ' : ExplanationsWanted Andrew Lang Pilfold of Effingham Lyndon Evelyn, 154 Forlorn Hope at Badajos First Use of Finger-Prints for Identification Pope : Reference Wanted, 155 Sir Robert Bartley, K.C.B. Detached Portions of Counties Families : Duration in Male Line, 156 Toads and Poison Gray's ' Elegy ' : Translations and Parodies, 157 Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly James Pattison Stewart The Use of Forks T. Campbell, c. 1729 " Visto "= "Vista" "Chalk Sunday," 158.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Andrew Lang's ' History of English

Literature.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

CHESHIRE AND THE PIPE ROLLS.

IN the Pipe Rolls of several of the early years of Henry II. there are entries relating to farms of the land of the Earl of Chester, which raise some interesting questions. There is no such entry in the earliest Pipe Roll, which is usually ascribed to the thirty-first year of Henry I., namely, 1129- 1130. The regular series begin in the reign of Henry II. with the year 1155-6. The | entries relating to the land of the Earl of Chester come at the end of the Pipe Roll for the year comprised between 30 Sept., 1157, and 29 Sept., 1158.

We then find, under the heading ' Terra Comitis Cestrie,' a statement that Simon I fitz William renders account of the farm I of the land of the Earl of Chester for half a | year. The amount of the farm is not stated, but was evidently 294Z., for he had paid into the Treasury 1501. 5s. 2d., and he had also made a payment of 33/. 6s. 8d. to Richard de Hay, and so had exceeded his liability

by 33Z. 11*. lOrf. (?). This shows that for the half-year he need only have paid in 147Z., and thus the farm for the whole year was 294Z. The entry of the Earl's land occurs in the next year, 1158-9, where the amount to be accounted for is definitely stated as being 294Z. In this year the same account- ant takes credit for 451. , payments of or for " the Countess " for half a year, and for 371. Us. 4%d. for the alms of " the Earl." The next year 1159-60 Robert de Monte Alto joins Simon in rendering account of the Earl's lands. They make various payments for tithes and alms, for works at the Castle of Chester and at the bridge of the Castle, and for soldiers and servants " of two castles " (no doubt those mentioned next year). They also take credit for 307., payments of "the Earl and Countess." In 1160-61 the same parties render account of 41Z. 13s. 6d., arrears of last year's farm, and 294/., the current farm. The Castellans of Hodeslea and Wristlesham had been paid 161. 18s. each; and 2151. odd was disbursed in works in the city, no doubt Chester. A payment of the Earl of 201. is included, but there is no mention of the Countess. In 1161-2 the farm was 304Z., and Robert de Monte Alto renders the account alone. He makes various payments for works in the city, and for the Castellans just mentioned, but no payments for the Earl or Countess appear. A sum of 40Z. and another of 20Z.* are included as payments of or for " the Earl's mother." The 40Z. is entered as " de preterite," no doubt being in respect of the previous year. Nothing is entered relating to the lands of the Earl of Chester in the following year 1162 and the entries disappear.

Simon fitz William was the grandson of Hugh de Mara, and a cousin of Robert de Montalt (or Mold), and the latter was the hereditary steward of the earldom of Chester. The Earl was obviously Hugh C'yfelioc, son of Randle Gernons, who had died in 1153 ; but who was " the Countess " ? and why were the Earl's lands in farm ?

It is suggested that these entries upon the Pipe Rolls throw some light upon the great controversy of the seventeenth century between Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring as to the legitimacy of their ancestress, Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyfe- lioc. It will be remembered that the legitimacy of Amicia depends upon whether

roll, but it is plain that was the amount from the addition of the other items.
 * The 2W. is apparently not decipherable on the