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[2<i S. N 6., FEB. 9. '56.

curious right here mentioned ; but possibly some of your correspondents may throw light upon it. I have not found such a right mentioned in any book. C. S. GREAVES.

Among the various methods of transferring inherit- ances with our ancestors, was that of conveying them by a horn, either in Frankalmoigne, or in fee, or in serjeantry. Ingulphus particularly specifies the horn : " At first," says he, speaking of the Conqueror's time, "many estates were transferred by bare word of mouth, without any writing or charter, only by the lord's sword, or helmet, or horn, or cup ; and many tenements by a spur, a scraper, a bow, and some by an arrow." In Rennet's Parochial Antiquities, Edward the Confessor gives the rangership of Bernwode forest, in Bucks, with a hyde of land, to Nigel and his heirs, to be held by a horn. This Nigel had killed a large boar there : and this was his remuner- ation. According to Blount (Fragmenta Antiquitatis, p. 186. edit. 1784), " Walter Achard, or Agard, claimed to hold by inheritance the office of Escheator and Coroner through the whole honour of Tetbury, co. Stafford, and the Bailiwick of Leyke, for which office he could produce no evidences, charter, or other writing, but only a white hunter's horn, decorated in the middle and at each end with silver gilt ; to which also was affixed a girdle of fine black silk, adorned with certain buckles of silver, in the midst of which are placed the arms of Edmund (Crouchbaek, the first Earl of Lancaster), second son of Henry III. [Dr. Pegge says, these arms cannot be ad- mitted; but must be the bearing either of John of Gaunt, or of his son, Hemy IV. ; most likely of the former. ] Probably these offices were enjoyed by the family of Ferrers of Tamworth, by this horn, before they came to the Agards ; for Nicholas Agard of Tetbury, who was living in 1569, married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Roger Ferrers, the eleventh son of Sir Thomas Ferrers, of Tamworth. From Agard, the horn descended by a marriage with the heiress of that family to the Stanhopes of Elvaston ; and was subsequently purchased of Charles Stanhope, Esq., by Mr. Samuel Foxlowe, of Staveley, in Derbyshire, who enjoys [1784] the offices above-mentioned by this tenure, and in virtue of his being in possession of the horn." Thus far Blount. On turning to Burke's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 29. edit. 1837, we learn that the Rev. William Bagshawe, incumbent of Wormhill Chapel, and of Banner Cross, co. York, married Anne, daughter of Samuel Foxlowe, Esq., of Staveley, and has had issue William, who died Nov. 9, 1818, and Mary Catherine Anne, who married Henry Marwood Greaves, second son of Bustard Greaves, Esq. In addition to Blount, consult a curious paper by Dr. Pegge, Archceologia, vol. iii. p. 1., entitled, "Of the "Horn, as a Charter or Instrument of Conveyance."]

Old Deeds (1 st S. xii. 408.) The suggestions of your correspondents are very good. The pre- servation of ancient deeds is too little attended to. Perhaps some one will kindly inform us what is the best mode of cleaning and restoring old pam- phlets. Frequently they are found creased, crumpled, and covered with dirt. How can this be _ removed without endangering the writing? Is it known what is the process used in the public Record Offices, where much has been done in this way ? KARL.

[The best mode of cleaning paper documents, whether printed or manuscript, is by rubbing them with bread-

crumbs or indian-rubber ; the latter is the best agent if the paper is strong enough to bear it. A delicate hand is necessary. To clean veUum documents use the same ; or, if the dirt is stubborn, use a sponge slightly damped with spring water. Where the latter is used, be careful not to touch the writing roughly, and place each document be- tween pieces of pasteboard, with a heavy superincumbent weight until dry. If our correspondent needs assistance, we would recommend him to apply to Mr. Henry Gough, of Islington, whose beautiful restoration of the Cottoniau MSS., at the British Museum, proclaim him to be the best authority in these matters in the present day.]

Passage in Tennyson's "In Memoriam" In a paper on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, in the Cam- bridge Essays, the following lines are quoted :

" I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most ; 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all."

In the Introduction to English Literature, by Henry Reed, the same stanza is quoted thus :

" This truth came borne on bier and pall, I felt it when I sorrow'd most, 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all."

Which is the correct version ?

. WILLIAM BLOOD.

Dublin.

[The first is the reading in the edition of 1850 ; also that of the fifth and sixth editions, published in 1851 and 1855.]

SIR JOHN VANBRUGH.

(2 nd S. i. 7.)

I have been for months intending to supply the readers of " N". & Q." with the very information asked for by MR. PETER CUNNINGHAM. There is a certain proverb, however, extant about " good intentions," too familiar to need quoting here ; but as, according to another, it is " never too late to mend," I will endeavour forthwith to atone for my neglect.

Mr. Giles Vanbrugh was a sugar-baker, carry- ing on business in Weaver Street, Chester, at least as early as 1667, as the following extracts from the registers of Holy Trinity Church clearly prove :

"Carleton, buried Oct. 13, 1667. Elizabeth, buried Nov. 27, 1667. Mary, born Nov. 3 ; baptized Nov. 19, 1668. Victoria, baptized Jan. 25, 1669-70. Elizabeth, baptized May 4, 1671. Robina, baptized Sept. 22, 1672. Carleton, baptized Sept. 18, 1673. An infant son, buried Aug. 31, 1674. Giles, baptized Sept. 3, 1075.

Catherina, baptized Oct. 9, 1676 ; buried March 22, 1677.

Dudley, born Oct. 21 ; baptized Oct. 25, 1077,