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John ye most unfortunate Bishop of Lincolne," &c., which concludes with the words, " And your Petitioner shall ever pray unto God to blesse yr. M tie, ye Queene & most happy Issue." H. G. HARRISON. Aysgarth, iSevenoaks.

SELBORNE CHURCH BELLS (12 S. vii. 371). - At Flixton, in Lancashire, a set of eight bells was hung in the tower of the parish church in January, 1808. The bells were drawn on carts from Manchester to Flixton, and on their arrival

" the tenor bell was taken into a field and deposited in a small hole made for that purpose, and turned mouth upwards when Ten Guineas' \vorth of Double Strong Ale was put in for the populace to regale themselves with, and in little more than one hour the whole of the 'good old stingo' disap- peared, and the whole of the bells were deposited in the church." See D. H. Langton, ' History of Flixton, '1898, p. 75.

These bells had been cast by John Rud- hall at Gloucester, in 1806, and five of them (including the tenor, which is 43 in. diam.) are still in use. The first three were recast in 1888. F. H. C.

The treble bell at Selborne is still in existence, though two of the other bells have been recast since 1735. Such methods of "christening " bells were not uncommon in the eighteenth century. We bear of them at Gillingham, Kent, in 1700 : at Ecclesfield, Yorkshire, in 1750, and at Canewdon, Essex, in 1791. At Hat ton in Warwick- shire during Dr. Parr's time, there were great doings when a new ring of eight bells was put up in 1809. The great bell, holding more than 73 gallons, was " filled with good ale and emptied, too," as Dr. Parr tells us in his 'Memoirs ' (vol. ii. p. 316).

H. B. WALTERS.

DECIMATE (12 S. vii. 329). I saw this word in print some years ago when an Irish member speaking in the House was reported to have said that, owing to oppressive treat rnent, the population of his country had been "decimated to the extent of two thirds." WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S.

LEASE FOR 99 YEARS (12 S. vii. 371). I think the explanation is that leases fo over 100 years pay a largely increasec stamp duty, and it has therefore beer thought better to leave no room for doub about the lease being subject to the lowe duty. C. L. P.

DICKENS REFERENCE WANTED (12 S. di. 371). The speaker was Lord Mutanhed addressing Mr. Pickwick) at " Ba ath. ' ' See- 3hap. xxxv. of ' Pickwick Club Papers. '

HERBERT BIRCH.

20 Holmbush Road, Putney, S.W.

[Many correspondents thanked fo-r supplying: his reference.]

HEACOCK OR HILCOCK NAME (12 S. vii. 312). Heacock, according to Canon, Bardsley, is an abbreviation of Heathcoat, or Heathcock. There is a record of the- carriage at St. James', Clerkenwell, in 1630, of Antbonie Hartley and Margery Heacocke- and of another marriage at St. George's,, Hanover Square, in 1788, of John Stephenson and Eleanor Heacock.

W. JAGGARD, Capt.

QUARR ABBEY : FOUNDATION CHARTER 12 S. vii, 332, 377). The list of witnesses kindly supplied by W. A. B. C. are the lames attesting the later confirmation charter granted to the monastery by the founder's son Richard, after A.D. 1155, when he succeeded to the Lordship of the Isle of Wight, and before 1161, the year in which tie died. This deed is given at length in Worsley's 'History,' Appendix, No. 51 The list of witnesses I am in quest of ar& the names of those attesting the original founder's charter of Baldwin de Redvers,, circa 1131-2.

The Rev. J. Charles Cox, 'Ecclesiastical' History,' Victorian County Hist. Hamp. ii. 11, writes :

"The Bishop (Giffard) in 1129 founded the first English monastery of Cistercians at Waverley, close to the borders of Hampshire. Three years later the second English house of this order was founded in the Winchester diocese, for in 1132 a Cistercian abbey was established at Quarr, Isle of Wight."

The writer on ' The Religious Houses of Hampshire ' (ibid. p. 137), says :

"The Cistercian abbey of Quarr was one of

the earliest foundations of that order in the King- dom. It was founded by Baldwin, the second de Redvers, Lord of the Wight, in 1131. By a charter of that date he granted to Geoffrey, abbot of his Norman monastery of Savigny, land on which to- build the monastery, the manor of Arreton."

Mr. Percy G. Stone, ' Arch. Antiq. of the 1. of W. from the Xlth to the XVIIth Centuries,' vol. i. p. 31, after alluding to its foundation says :

" He (the founder) appears to have supplied it with monks from the then Benedictine monastery of Savigny."