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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1912.

CONTENTS.-NO. 149.

NOTES : Will of William Hymlman of Coventry, 341 The Ancestry of E. A. Freeman, 342-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 343 Bodley's Smallest MS. : a Relic of Jeremiah Rich "Geotroposcope," 345 Heine and the Japanese " When, dearest, I but think of thee," 346 " Set np my rest "Tripos : Tripos Verses, 347.

QUERIES : Sir John Tregonwell's Second Wife : George Marten, 347 Date of Publication Wanted Fielding's Parson Thwackum The Cinnabar Moth and Ragwort " Maulth Way "Gardner Prints and Drawings of Old London " Essex Bath," Strand Lane, 348 " Saraf t " Wilkie's Replica of his ' Village Politicians ' E. Hewlett on Burial Customs "The Stars and the Angels' Napo- leon and Wellington- Claim to a Title Lawrence of Nova Scotia ' The Lady Bark,' by D. Ferguson " Club Walks "" Yeoman " v. "Gentleman," 349.

REPLIES : Murder of Lord William Russell, 350 Pagan Customs and Institutions Richard Cromwell at Cheshunt Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia Earth-eating, 351 "According to Cocker" Samuel Favell " Yelver " in Place-Names, 352 Fitzwilliam and Grimaldi Arms " Let severely alone "Apparent Death An Ingenious Tailor, 353 Churchyard Inscriptions : List of Transcrip- tionsJudges who have died on the Bench, 354 Dick Turpin's Ride to York Authors of Quotations Wanted, 355 John Hardy and Samuel Gauntlett, Vicars of Hursley The Guildhall Library Morris Dancers Sir Walter Ralegh's Descendants Plants in Poetry, 356 " Hyke " Lamb's Chapel, London, 357 Devonshire Schools Lease for Three Lives Elizabeth Hardy, Novelist Regent's Circus Scottish Mercenaries in Norway, 358.

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Notices to Correspondents.

WILL OF WILLIAM HYNDMAN OF COVENTRY.

THE following will, of which a draft or copy, with interlineations and deletions, is found among the MSS. in the vestry of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, has never been printed in its entirety, though in his account of the church (' Antiq. of Coventry,' pp. 77-126) Sharp has quoted several of its items. The religious provisions of the will seem singularly out of time, made, as they were, on the eve of the accession of Elizabeth. The family of Palmer mentioned therein were probably relatives of Julines Palmer, the martyr, who was of Coventry origin. " Standards ; ' may be interpreted as " fixtures," though the old word has a wider significance than the modern one. Jesus Chapel in Trinity Church is usually, though not very confidently, identified with the present south transept, which, until

Sir Gilbert Scott's restoration, had a floor- level several feet above the rest of the church and a vaulted passage underneath, of which traces may yet be seen. Hyndman was Mayor in 1553. Of his mayoralty the MS. Annals of the city relate that " the Duke of Northumberland sent to have the Lady Jane proclaimed, but the Mayor being ruled by Mr. Sergeant Saunders, Recorder, would not do it, but, having orders, speedily pro- claimed Queen Mary."

This particular draft is on paper, with neither signature nor witnesses.

In the name of God, amen ; the xxv th daye of Augoost in the yer of owr Lorde, 1558, Wyllyani Hyndman, alias Joyner, of the Cytye of Coventre, allderman, Syck in boddye, yett of good & perfytt memorye, thankes be to God, do orden & make thys my last wyll and testament in maner & foonn followyng :

ffyrst, I beqweathe my soule to Allmyghty God in Trynite, to owr blessed Ladye, Seant Marye, and to all the hollye Companye of heaven, trustyng throwghe the meryttes of Christ, my Savyour & Redemur that my soule shall be savyd ; and my boddye to be bwryed within the Trynitie Chvrche in Coventre aforesaide, other in our Ladye Chappell, or ells in the boddye of the chvrche against Jesus altur. And for my tythes forgotten I gyve & beqweathe to the vykar of the saide chvrche iijs. iiijd.

Item, I gyve to Jesua alter in the saide Chvrche xijd.

Item, I gyve & beqweath vnto owr ladye Chappell in the saide Chvrche towardes the Re- payryng of the altur xijd. ; and if the saide altur be nwe made within a twelmonth, then I wyll that my executors shall gyve to the Makyng of the saide altur v*. viijd.

Item, I wyll to be dawlt amongst the poore people the day befor my departyng xxs.

Item, my wyll is that my executors shall see me onestlye browght to the grownde accordyng to the vse & Coostom as alldermen ar woont to be bwryed, towardes the charges wheroff I gyve xx u nobles to be leveyd of my qwyck Cattell, and yf yt be to lyttle then I wyll that Sybble, my wyffe, shall ley downe xx tt. more.

Item, I gyve & beqweath to Joce, my made- servaunt, iijs. iiijd.

Item, I gyve & beqweath to Rye. Palmer a Cowe aftur the decesse of Sybble, my wyffe, to be delyvured to hym or to hys assignes.

Item, I gyve & beqweathe to Wyllyam Palmer, the soon of Rye. Palmer, a ewe & a lambe.

Item, my wyll ys that all my landes & tene- mentes with thappvrtenaunces lyene; & beyng in Coventre aforsaide, wheroff the on standythe at the Boollryng wherin I now dwell, and the other standyng & beyng over against the Erode- well in Cpventre, whyche my saide two tene- mentes with the premysses & appurtenaunces my wyll ys that my feoffees that now be of the saide houses & landes, that ys to saye, Harrye Collyns of the cytye of Coventre, boocher, Henrye Collyns, the soon & heyre apparaunt of the for- saide Henrye Collyns, John Saunders of the same, boocher, & Rycharde Saunders, the soon of the