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 12 s.i. MAY 13, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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1472/3, he was described in Register O as of Basingstoke) ; afterwards (1473-8) Scholar and Fellow of New College, Oxford (' Liber Succ. et Dign.') ; of the Middle Temple ; serjeant, 1494 (being then a Bencher of his Inn) ; king's serjeant, 1497 ; judge of the Common Pleas, 1503 (Ingpen's ' M.T. Bench Book,' 120) ; died in or about 1509 (Foss) ; will of John Kvngesmill, gent., of Frefolke, Hants, proved P.C.C. 1509. In the Kings- mill pedigree, as printed in ' Visitations of Hampshire ' (Harl. Soc.), 2, 3, the place- name " Freibock " probably stands for Freefolk.

63. 1487-8, Mr. John Newport; office not stated, but certainly counsel ; fee, 6s. Sd., raised in 1489-90 to 13s. 4d., and in 1504-5 to 26s. Sd., last paid in 1518-9 (roll of 1519-20 missing). Scholar, elected in 1466, as " de Suberton, filius tenentis de Huntburne " ; afterwards (1472-6) Scholar and Fellow of New College, Oxford (' Liber Succ. et Dign.'); of Lincoln's Inn, admitted February, 1478/9 (' L.I. Admission Registers,' i. 21) ; serjeant, 1510 (' Black Books of L.I.,' i. 161) ; will of John Newport, serjeant-at-law, of Soberton, Hants, proved P.C.C. 1521. At Soberton, where he owned the manor, one of the church bells is inscribed " orate pro animabus Johannis Newport et Elizabet uxoris eius " (' Viet. Hist. Hants/ iii. 259, 267).

64. 1487-8, Mr. Hamonde (Hamon) ;

office .not stated, but probably counsel; fee, 6s. Sd., last paid in 1491-2. Cf. No. 48 above.

65. 1489-90, John Fesaunt, auditor; fee, 13s. 4rf., last paid in 1500-1 ; succeeded next year by John Wily. John Phesaunt was clerk of lands at 40s. in 1470-1.

66. 1489-90, Mr. Hayes (Hayce); office not stated, but probably counsel ; fee, 6s. Sd., not paid after 1490-1.

67. 1490-1, J. Adams, attorney in the Common Bench ; fee, 6s. Sd., not paid after 1491-2.

68. 1491-2, Mr.

Froste ; office not

stated, but probably counsel ; fee, 13s. 4d., raised in 1493-4 to 26s. Sd. ; became steward in 1 504- 5 at 51., and so remained until 1528-9, when succeeded by Mr. Wyntersalle. " Item ij olle deaurate vocate le quart pottes ex donacione mri Froste " (Inventory of " jo- calia," &c., of June 10, 19 H. VIII., 1527).

69. 1491-2, Edmund Deny, attorney in the Exchequer ; fee, 6s. Sd., last paid in 1512-3 (roll of 1513-4 missing). Probably Edmund Denny, clerk in the Exchequer, who became King's Remembrancer in 1504, and a baron of the Exchequer in 1513 (Foss) ; will proved

P.C.C. 1520. For a like promotion, see- No. 6 above.

70. 1492-3, John Whetham, attorney in. the Common Bench ; fee, 6s. Sd., last paid in 1501-2 (roll of 1502-3 missing). H. C.

Winchester College.

THE REPULSE OF THE TURKS FROM VIENNA.

THE BRIT. Mus. CAT. 9079, d. 13, is a letter, there ascribed I do not know on what grounds to Arthur Whitebrook, probably a relative, perhaps grandson, of Sir John Whitebrook of Water Newton, Hunts, and,, like the latter, obviously a Catholic recusant. The details it contains relative to the repulse of the Turks from Vienna justify wider dis- semination of its information. A True Copy of a Letter. A. Whitebrook

From an English Gentleman in the Emperor's Army, to an English Officer in Holland, concern- ing the Total Bout of the Turks, by the United Forces of the Christians, Commanded in person,, by the Emperour, the King of Poland, and Duke of Lorain.

I cannot express myself in words suitable to- the great deliverance it hath pleased God to give the Nation, and Empire of the Germans, from the- Cruelties and Barbarieties it groaned under, by the Savage Violences of Turkish Infidels, in Conjunction with a worse sort of men than them- selves, who outwardly pretend a Belief of the Blessed Jesus, when at the same time, their power, Industry, and council tends to no less than the Total Extirpation of Christianity, and the setting up its common Enemy Mahumetism j-, under the same notion of the old Rebels in Eng~ land (viz. for the True Protestant Religion). There being in the Hungarian Nation two Sects of Protestants, viz. Lutherans, and Calvinists- the latter of which, claiming the said Epithet under the Banner of the Horrid Imposture and great Idol of the East (Mahomet). I could do- no less than make this little short Reflection,, because it to me seems a Remark of so near a Parrallel with some practices in my own Country,, the Respect I bear to it, would not suffer me to be silent in the said particulars.

The King of Poland, with a Royal Army attending him, arrived at our Camp, the Emperour having caused all necessary Provisions, to be made for his Royal Majesties Reception, before- which, several considerable Reinforcements,, were arrived, being part of the Auxiliary Troops of the Empire, of which great Numbers are on their March from all the Remotest parts of the- Empire : immediately after his Majesty of Poland was arrived a great Council of War was held in the Emperours Tent ; which being ended, prayers were publickly offered throughout the Camp, for a Success upon the Endeavours of the United Arms, of the Christians against the Turks and Infidels, which being ended, immediately the whole Army, by Order, was on its March towards the Enemy ; who lay in siege before Vienna according to common Computation 150,000 strong at least : the Army marched in three Batalias r