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n s. ix. MAR. 28, i9i4.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 243 the Lady Katharine, sister of Henry, second Earl of Southampton) and Anne, his second wife, daughter and coheir of Edgar Calybutt, serjeant-at-law. This lady had two sons by a former husband—one of whom was a priest—but their names are nowhere given.

Richard was educated at home, and afterwards under Stephen Limbert at Norwich Grammar School, until at the age of 15 he was admitted as pensioner to the bachelors' table at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 27 Feb., 1584/5. He took the degree of B.A. in 1588-9, being second out of thirty-two in the list, and that of M.A. in 1592, and became Junior Fellow and Humanity Lecturer at Christmas, 1592, and Senior Fellow and Dean at Michaelmas, 1595. Soon afterwards he was reconciled to the Catholic Church "by the means and ministry" of his half-brother, and of Father John Gerard, S.J., and about this time his mother died and his father was also reconciled. Richard, thereupon, determined to go to Rome, but on landing at Flushing, then held by the English, he was arrested by the Governor, and imprisoned there for six weeks. On 24 April, 1596, the Privy Council issued

On arriving in England, Richard was imprisoned for another six weeks, and was deprived of his Fellowship, though this deprivation does not seem to have taken effect till Michaelmas, 1596.

He entered the English College at Rome as an alumnus of Pope Clement VIII. 30 Nov., 1598, in the name of Richard Fincham. He may have chosen this name because Sir Charles Cornwallis, a younger son of Sir Thomas, and therefore Richard's first cousin, had married as his first wife Anne, sister and coheir of William Fincham of Fincham Hall, Norfolk, who died without issue 14 Elizabeth. (N.B. The 'D.N.B.' is in error in giving her name as Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Farnham of Fincham.) There is, however, an earlier connexion, not indeed between the Fincham and Cornwallis families, but between the Finchams and the Calybutts, William Fincham's grandfather John Fincham having had a sister who was married to a Calybutt. This John Fincham married as his second wife Ela, daughter of Gregory Edgar, and it is possible that his sister Mrs. Calybutt was the mother of Richard Cornwallis's maternal grandfather. The pedigrees in the Harleian Society's 'Visitations of Norfolk' do not throw any light on the question. Richard Cornwallis took the usual college oaths on 28 Feb., 1599, and signed as Richard Fincham. He was ordained priest on the following 5 June, but was not sent into England till 4 May, 1601. When Sir Charles Cornwallis was appointed British Ambassador to Spain in 1605, Richard accompanied him, and died at the British Embassy there about October, 1606.

The chief sources for the above account are Blomefield's 'Norfolk,' vii. 155, 349-50; Foley's 'Records of the English Province S.J.,' i. 181-3; and Venn's 'Gonville and Caius College,' i. 123-4.

It is perhaps worth noting that there was a William Calybutt of Coxford, who left three daughters and coheirs: (1) Anne, married to Thomas Gardener of Coxford; (2) Elizabeth, married to Henry Walpole; and (3) Katharine, wife of John Walpole of Houghton, and mother of Father Edward Walpole, S.J. This William Calybutt of Coxford was probably the third son of Francis Calybutt of Castle Acre.

over forty-five years Nelson (1758-1805) remained the only public statue the riverless town possessed, and J. G. Kohl, a German traveller, noting the fact in September, 1842, expressed surprise that a community of "200,000 living specimens of humanity" should own "only one marble man among them." He contrasted the place in this respect with Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Hull, Dublin, and Edinburgh, remarking also that "Birmingham and Leeds appear to me, among all the large towns of England, to be the two most destitute of taste, ornament, and enjoyment." Kohl's "marble" man, none the less, is of bronze.

The news of the victory of the Nile was received in Birmingham with ringing of bells, firing of guns, and illumination of buildings. The 29th of November, 1798, was a day of general thanksgiving, and collections were made in churches and other places of public resort for relatives