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LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 224.

NOTES :-Jack Cade, his Native Place and his Rebellion, 281 Birmingham Statues and Memorials, 282 Ellis of New Bond Street, 285" Bore "Southwark Bridge, 286 Burton's Quotations from " Loech;ous " Notes on Words for the ' N.E.D.,' 287.

QUERIES : Doynell Family Shakespeare and the War- wickshire Dialect Queen Elizabeth and Walsingham, 288' Ethics of the Dust 1 Author of Quotation Wanted Arms of See of Lichfield Silk-Weaving Bewickiana Biographical Information Wanted, 289 Pluralities

G. W. Curtis Heraldic Printers' Athenaeum, 290 'The Fisher- Boy ' Bons Mots Capt. John Cameron, Northern Fencibles Pumbersfelten William Ive, 291.

to ' N. & Q.' I made a copy at the time, and the passages here given are mostly verbatim, though not entirely so.

" Historians for several generations have per- sisted in saying that Jack Cade was an Irishman, and even the venerable Dean Hook has followed suit. That he was born at Newick in Heathfield beyond question. Heathfield stood in the Weald of Kent, the ' Coit andred ' of our Celtic ancestors, and the ' sylva Anderida ' of the Romans; the largest forest in England, extend- ing from Kent in the east, and terminating in Hampshire a total of 120 miles. This famous Weald possesses more mineral treasures than any district in the kingdom, and in the Middle Ages,

" ' Newick ' was of old its name implies. It was next a manor house,

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Bishop Henry Gower, 293 -Tarring The Second Folio an old document that the adjacent ground, now Shakespeare, 294 Prints transferred to Glass Passes or lately known as Heathfield Common, was to the London Parks Saffron Walden Communion called ' Horeapeltre,' from some hoary apple tree Table by Grinling Gibbons in St. Paul's, 295 Sir R. which stood there in the reign of Edward III. L'Estrange's Poem, ' The Loyal Prisoner - - Shilleto - | This common impinges on the Vale of Heathfield,

i Turner's delightful picture. How Jack

-297-The Great Eastern-Gladstone's Involved Sentences I ^ aue s earl y da 3^ were s P ent it would be difficult Voltaire on the Jewish People" A fact is a lie and n ow to ascertain. Where Shakespeare makes a half "Moss, an Actor Major - General Miller Rev. Stafford call Cade the son of a plasterer, and him- John Rigby, D.D. Red Bull Theatre Reversed Engrav- self a shearman, that is a man who shears wor- S^J* 111 "*" 1 Street Bankers -" Over end "=Straight steds, fustians, and such like, he is probably in

error. Whether Jack ever stole ' a cade of Books " The | herrings,' according to Dick's suggestion, I will not venture an opinion, though there is no diffi- culty in accounting for the origin of his name, which signifies a cask or barrel. It was probably borrowed from the sign of a tavern or alehouse, and we know that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries many tradesmen adopted the name of their trades or taverns, which so became hereditary.

" Speed states that Cade had been servant to Sir Thos. Dacre, whose possessions included JACK CADE : HIS NATIVE PLACE AND Hurstmonceaux and Heathfield Park, the latter TTTQ T>T7<T3xriT T TnxT . wmcn 1S sai( * ^ nave measured seven miles

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L HAD occasion last October to address a parishes. A - considerable part of Heathfield query to Sir John Furley as to whether bears the name of Cade Street; a large wayside there was anything in the interleaved copy inn formerly stood in this place, and had the of his father's 'History of the Weald of si f g g f ' The Cat '' evidently a pun on the name Kent' relative to the parentage of Alex- ., ^ ' w. D. c Sussex Archa30 i ogical

ander Iden, the Kentish Sheriff who cap- Society, Vol. XVIII., has observed that the part tured Jack Cade. Kentish historians differ taken by Sussex men in the rising of the ' com- as to his father's Christian name. Curi- I mons. f Kent,' with Cade at their head, has been ously enough, Sir John replied that on the very morning of the date of my letter an I S'^fiSS^ ^^1^ people ^Kent h"as old and torn piece of a newspaper had been never been explained, for the followers of the thrown into his area containing a very rebellious standard included many of the in- close account of Cade's rebellion. It was I ^i^. 8 . ^ 8 ^ 6 ^. 8 ^ 6 ^ and n other counties, a letter from Mark Anthony Lower,

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do not think it has ever been printed in rection were Sussex men. In many instances the its entirety, except in such an ephemeral musters were levied by the Constables, and we publication though doubtless much of it bave b y name upwards of 400 Sussex partisans has been printed in the Kent and Sussex Corded, some of whom became ancestors of Arckvologias-I send a digest of its contents | ft^^e^me? 8 ' dde's 'SSSJST^^ '