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and Tiirpin's escape after shooting one of the Kings in mistake for Bays. Turpin was wounded in the encounter, and lay next night at a house near Wellclose Square, where he would have been taken had not a wench warned him. On the 4th he shot Morris, and then, as he told the topsman who turned him off at York Knavesmire in 1739,

" he took a black horse out of a close near the road.... and made off, but afterwards the same evening stole a chestnut mare, and, turning the black horse loose, made the best of his way for London."

We thus see the germ of truth in the legend of Turpin's escape on a black animal. He now gave up the road and confined hirn- self to horse - stealing. The executions of Gregory, Rose, and the rest of the gang may be traced in the papers. An innocent man was all but hanged for Gregory. The outrages are not exaggerated by the chap- books, &c. From the Post of 11 Feb., 1735, we learn that poor Lawrence was in a critical condition as a result of being put on the fire ; and the same barbarity was shown to poor Widow Shelley at Loughton in Essex a few days before. Contemporaries knew nothing of any " ride to York," which is at variance with known facts.

ERIC R. WATSON.

LONDON'S " TERRITORIALS " IN 1588 AND 1599: LAMBARDE MSS. (11 S. vi. 323,364). In ' Queen Elizabeth's Progresses,' Nichols, vol. i. p. 46, 1573, says :

" In the month of July, the archbishop sent to the treasurer sundry MS. Treatises and Collec- tions of his own, giving account of the tract of the county, and of the antiquities of divers places therein. That the Queen, who would be inquisitive concerning the places where she journeyed, might have the more satisfaction given her by her said treasurer, who was near her person, and whom she looked upon as a man of special learning and knowledge of the history and antiquities of her kingdom, and so would be most apt to put her questions to him. The archbishop had privately sent him before Lam- barde's ' Topographical Discourse of Kent ' in MS. which might now stand him in good stead for that purpose."

Lambarde's ' Perambulations ' were finished 1570, but not published until 1576.

Nichols goes on to say :

" We may collect the value of that book [Lambarde's], which as it had a very learned man for its author v so it had the perusals, corrections, and additions of two other men of learning in antiquity ; and they no less than an archbishop of Canterbury, and a lord treasurer of England."

Does the manuscript still exist ?

R. J. FYNMORE.

GREAT GLEMHAM, co. SUFFOLK (11 S. vi. 369). Crabbe the poet lived at Great Glem- ham Hall, which at that time belonged to his friend and patron, Dudley North,* from 17 Oct., 1796, until October, 1801. In the autumn of the latter year " Mr. North and his brother, having a joint property in the Glemham estate, agreed to divide by selling it." See chap. viL of the Rev. George Crabbe's ' Life ' of his father. Great Glem- ham Hall, there spoken of as a "beautiful residence " and a " commodious mansion," is described as having stood " in the lowest ground." It had been pulled down by the time the ' Life ' was written, the preface of which is dated 6 Jan., 1834 ; and we are told in a note that " a new and elegant mansion has been built on the hill, by Dr. Kilderbeck, who bought the estate."

In the ' Souvenir ' of the Crabbe Celebra- tion, which was held at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 16 to 18 Sept., 1905, is a view of Great Glemham Hall from a pencil sketch in the Fitch Collection. In this it appears as a gabled house with mullioned windows and a projecting wing at either end of the front, forming three sides of a courtyard. Jolm .Crabbe, the poet's younger son, was after- wards the incumbent of the two Glemhams. EDWARD BENSLY.

No, the house on the estate at Great Glemham recently sold by the Marchioness of Graham is modern.

Glemham Hall in the adjoining parish of Little Glemham, an ancient moated mansion, built of brick, and surrounded by a park of 350 acres, was the residence of the Glemham family about which LAC inquires. It is now the property of the Earl of Guilford. whose ancestor acquired it by purchase from the last of the Glemhams, a grandson of Sir Thomas Glemham, the heroic governor of York and Carlisle during the Civil War, who died in exile in Holland in 1649. but whose remains were brought to England and interred in the church of Little Glemham.

The ' Muster Roll of Two Hundred Foot- men from the Hundreds of Hoxon and Plomesgate [Suffolk] under Sir Thomas Glemham, Knight, A.D. 1631, 'was printed in vol. xiii. of The East Anglian.

In ' The Loans from Suffolk, 1627,' ibid., interesting references will be found to Sir Henry Glemham, and to Sir Thomas Glem- ham and " his sicke wife," " whoe is dead since," and "he himselfe is gone alonge w tb the Duke's grace to attend him in this Voyage,"


 * North's seat was Little Glemham Hall.