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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vn. APRIL 12, 1913.

through carelessness, lie drew Jesse Luke seated on horseback !

It is quite true that at one time th Journal was dated nearly a fortnight ahead as the number published on Monday bore the date of the following Saturday week but the number following that for 8 May 1858, instead of being dated 15 May, bore " May 8* " on its front "page, and so the custom was brought to an end.

W. A. FROST.

16, Amwell Street, E.G.

In The London Journal of 13 March, 1852 p. 9, was an engraving of Prince Rupert's charge at the Battle of Naseby, by John Gilbert, " from the original painting now exhibiting at the British Institution." ] shall be glad to know any particulars con- cerning the present whereabouts of this picture, and also the name of the author of the letterpress entitled ' The Battle ol Naseby ' which accompanied the engraving.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

DIED IN HIS COFFIN (11 S. vi. 468; vii. 96, 134, 156, 214). Newspaper cutting, Dover, 10 April, 1869 :

" An Eccentric Character. The late Mr. Joseph Colegate, carpenter and joiner of Stroud Street, who died recently, had made his coffin twenty- five years ago, and was at one time often in the habit of taking his afternoon naps in it in order to know if it was still the proper size for him."

Another cutting, undated, but much older :

" Deaths. At Osbaston, near Monmouth, aged 90, Dame Morris. She had had her coffin pre- Tiared many years previous to her decease, and kept it in her house."

R. J. FYNMORE.

WINE-FUNGUS SUPERSTITION (11 S. vii. 109, 214). See the curious story of a fungus growing in a cellar in Shorthouse's ' Countess Eve,' chap. x.

F. E. R. POLLARD -URQUHART.

Brockenhurst, Hants.

HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S vi. 428, 517; vii. 55, 155, 231). Under the heading * Interesting Historical Record of Crediton Church,' The Western Times (Exeter) for 26 March, 1913, states that the Vicar (the Rev. W. M. Smith -Dorrien) has just prepared, and had placed in the porch of the grand old church of the Holy Cross, a valuable record of its history dating (so it is expressed) from half a century prior to the Christian era down to the present time. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

A Brief Memoir of the Mildmay Family. Com- piled by Lieut. -Col. Herbert A. St. John Mildmay. (John Lane.)

THE material here collected by Col. St. John Mild- may, although, for parts of the story, somewhat scanty, is, on the whole, of high interest. The family of Mildmay first comes into prominence in the sixteenth century, when, in the persons of Thomas Mildmay and his wife Avicia Gunson, it obtained a share of the estates distributed on the dissolution of the monasteries. This Thomas was Auditor of the Court of Augmentations and of the Duchy of Cornwall, an office of itself affording opportunity of acquiring wealth ; and he was fol- lowed by another Thomas, in whose favour was erected by Queen Elizabeth the office of a Registrar of aliens, for the regulation and taxing of the "foreynirs and stranjers now being and inhabiting within Her Highness' Realm." A younger brother of the Auditor was Walter Mildmay of Apethorpe, who, both by his own career and by the fortunes of his line, may perhaps be counted the most illus- trious branch of the Mildmays. Born c. 1520, he is found, while still a youth, in the service of Govern- ment, and. as years go on, is employed in no small variety of business, principally connected with finance, until, in 1588-9, he is made Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was sent with Cecil in 1570 to Mary, Queen of Scots, at Chatsworth, was one of her judges, and present at her execution. He founded Emauuel College, Cambridge, throwing the weight of his experience in men and affairs, his concern for learning, and the wisdom which his ontemporaries praised in him, upon the side of Puritanism. His son Anthony is a far less attrac- tive character, interest during his time centring in iiis wife Grace Sherrington " one of the most excel- "ent confectioners in England," as a tract of 1603 remarks, telling how King James dined at her louse at Apethorpe. She was an ideal Lady Bountiful, some of whose account-books, together with "collections" concerning medicines and dis- eases, still exist to attest her assiduity, intelligence, and kindness. " When her picture," we are told, ' was at Apethorpe. she was said to step out of it at night, pass through the house and village to see that 11 was in order, and scatter silver pennies for the needy."

The next interesting character in the family a contrast to the puritanical severity of the two nen last mentioned was Sir Anthony Mildmay's nephew Humphrey, who led a somewhat dissolute ife, the particulars of which he recorded in a liary running from 1633 to 1666. Many extracts Tom it are given in this volume, but, as the com- piler says, it is not a specially satisfactory docu- ment, drinking-bouts and lawsuits forming the taple of the matter. More conspicuous figures are Humphrey's two brothers, Anthony, to whom "Yincess Elizabeth and her young brother were ntrusted at Carisbrook Castle, and Henry " the legicide." the protege of James I., being Master )f the Jewel Office, who sat on the trial of Charles I. at eight out of the twenty-two sittings, ,nd is said to have spoken violently against him, hough he was neither present when the sentence f death was passed nor signed the death-warrant.