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 12 s. VIIL MAY 2i, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 407 case he had probably named his son after glass " (tabulas Anglicanas de glasse). He his old master. In this case, as previously made his wife Sibel his executrix and residu- stated, he must have delayed taking up his j ary legatee, and " Mr.^ Henry Shirwyn," freedom until long after he had attained his j whose relationship to the testator is not majority. The Thomas Shirwyn who died stated, supervisor. Witnesses, his workman, in 1481 made his will (Reg. Test. Ebor. v. ! Thomas Newsom, and others of whom nothing 112d) on October 2 of that year, describing! is known. Will proved Oct. 15, 1481. himself as citizen and glazier of York and JOHN A. KNOWLES. desiring "to be buried in my parish church of St. Helen in Stanegate." After the usual bequests to the rector, chaplains, &c., i p ETTY FRANCE. On July 23, 1920, he left 3s. Id. to the fabric of the church, and | Yo rk Street, Westminster, was officially "also to the making of a new chalice Gs. To re stored to its original name of Petty Alice, his mother, 3s. 4d. " Also to the Lady France, although its actual translation Katharine, my sister 2s. This sister must did not take lace until many months later . have married a member of the nobility, and y et> so far a j know, neither bouquets the fact is noteworthy as showing consider- nor meda i s have been showered upon the able light on the social status of a master London County Council by grateful an- glass-painter in medieval times. tiquaries, although I believe this to be the To Cecilia my sister 12*. Also to Joan Bukler, first i^ance (I write under immediate ^^*o^ ^^s^Zfi^, correction) when, instead of wresting a my best gown except my 'mortuary, my best hallowed name to unimportant modernity, double cloak, my bow and arrows, a headpiece, the L.C.C. has returned a street to its with my sword and a buckler. Also I bequeath original and historic title, to the said Matthew my son, 24 shafe [i.e., sheets] p f f ff raiir , " rnri f rr rr, Tnt Viil Strp^t of glasse of which number, two are of ruby, with, Bt> ? ttraun f e. ran from lutJ all my instruments belonging to my art. Also by St. Margarets, into James Street. Its I bequeath to the parish church of Crake [Crayke name was first. changed when Frederick near Easingwold, which church had no doubt Duke of York, one of the sons of our German proved a good customer] 6d. Also to the high king George the Second, lodged there for altar of the house of nuns at Molseby 12d ^ monthg Before then ^ street> Godwin, in his alphabetical list of mona- a good handsome Street which cometh stories in The Archaeologists Handbooks, out of Tuth il-Street, and runneth into says Molesby was a Benedictine nunnery in j ames 's-Street,"* was called Petty France. Yorkshire founded by Henry II before 1167. We are mstmc ted, somewhat vaguely, that .is not, however, given in the 'index to the name was given to this narrowed locality abridged Dugdale, nor in Bartholomews " from the number of French refugees and Gazetteer so is probably now extinct or merc hants who inhabited it ,"| Presumably known by another name. * Besant is referring to the exodus from To Thomas Newsom ^ evidently the Fmnce to England after the revocation Thomas Newsom free in 1470 and the third of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 . Canoil generation of a family of journeymen glass- Westlake, thinks that the ori in of the painters; his father John Newsom learnt name ig far earli possibly a | O ut 1535. KV?^ Wlth , Thnms Shirley (free 1439 But he doeg not his reasons for so died 1458) and his grandfather, also called thinking John, was free of the city in 1418 and a John Milton magnificent as poet and witness to the will of John Chamber the detestable as politician lived there from elder in 1437 two English tables f of 1651 _ 2 until ^ 1660 . O ne of his secre- r'<vler for kindly supplying him with the above Andrew Marvell. We have letters from information. " the pretty garden house," which was - ,U '''prSt ot^to^ci^ ^iHM not f ^^d until 1877. William Hariitt or Hashed sheet nowadays known as " crown " rented the house for some years, because with a " punty " mark or knob of glass in the it had been Milton's ; and in 1868 William middle. In Randal Holme's time (1688) a table Howitt tells us there was still a stone there was " a broad peece of glass neere a yard, some more, square. 11 is also called a Tablet." but in * Stow Strype, ' Survey of London.' the fifteenth century it would not measure more f Sir Walter Besant, ' The Fascination of London.' than a sheet of modern " antique " glass, which j Canon H. E. Westlake. ' The Story of English averages approximately 24 x 15 inches. Towns: Westminster.'
 * The writer is indebted to the Rev. Canon taries who lived there with him was