Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 10.djvu/443

 9* 8.x. NOV. 2?, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

435

service ; and no one hired a hind without the production of this permit from his last master. Mr. Middleton H. Dand, of Hauxley Northumberland, has supplied me with ar original example of " the lines" produced by a hind to his father. As it represents the form in common use here at the date indicated, I append a copy of the document :

T u W fc Chevin gton, FebT 28th, 1794. The Bearer. John Mather, is at Liberty to hire with who he pleases to Enter the 12 of May. (Sd.) Jos. Fenwick."

R. OLIVER HESLOP. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

WADHAM FAMILY (9 th S. x. 248). The late H. S. Grazebrook sent me in 1874 the follow- ing sketch pedigree of Dr. Simon Ford :

"Richard Ford, of East Ogwell, n r Newton

-Busnell, co. Devon, married Worth, a descendant

of an uncle of Nicholas Wadham, menf 1 in Dr. Ford s ace' book, 1681, as having joined him in a Bond. Qy. if then living? "

Gives issue :

''Simon Ford, D.D, Rector of Oldswinford from 22 May, 1676, to 7 Ap., 1699, his death jet. 80. Born at East Ogwell, married I 8 ' Mrs. Anne Thackham, 1653, died a few years afterwards. 2ndly Martha Stanipe of Reading, sister of Sir Thomas Stampe, Sheriff of London, 1676. Ob. 13 Nov., 1684, bur. at Oldswinford. Issue : Mary=Hercy ; Martha=Thos. Milward; James, living 1680 qy. at Newington,

1 /U4.

From a pedigree penes Ed. Milward Oliver, compiled from family papers by J. H. Dixon, of Stourbridge, about 1820.

Ant. a Wood also states that Ford was "descended by the Worths from the uncle of Nich. Wadham, Esq., founder of Wadham Coll. in Oxon," and further on :

"In the next year stood for a scholarship in Wadham Coll. upon account, as I presume, of being a Founder's kinsman, but was injuriously, as some thought, put aside."

In the 'D.NB.' only the two wives Anne Thackham and Martha Stamp are mentioned. May I inquire the names of the other two referred to at p. 248 ? R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate, Kent.

"KIT-CAT" PORTRAITS (9 th S. x. 188, 231, 316). A long and circumstantial account of the state in which Sir Richard Phillips found the old club-room of the Kit-Cat Club at Barn Elms is given in his 'Morning's Walk from London to Kew'(1817). I extract. the following reference to the pictures :

" The Kit-Cat pictures were painted early in the eighteenth century, and about the ye*af 1710 were brought to this spot ; but the room I have been describing was not built till ten or fifteen years afterwards. They were forty-two in number and were presented by the members to the elder Tonson, who died in 1736. He left them to his great-nephew,

also an eminent bookseller, who died in 1767 1 hey were then removed from this building to the house of his brother at Water Oakley, near Windsor ; and on his death to the house of Mr -Baker of Hertingfordbury, where they now remain, and where I lately saw them splendidly lodged and in nne preservation."

What was the subsequent history of the pictures, and where are they now located ?

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

THE MITRE (9 th S. viii. 324, 493, 531 ; ix. 174, 334, 397, 496; x. 192, 290, 370). This subject was discussed at length in 1 st S. iii 62, 144, 284 x. 87, "227 ; xi. 152, 275, 334, 354. The discussion now appears to have reached the forbidden land of theological controversy; whither I shall not follow it. I shall only remark that there is an excellent article on the mitre in Addis and Arnold's 'Catholic Dictionary,' the writer of which comes to the conclusion " that for the first thousand years of her history ther was no general use of mitres in the Church."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

C. C. B. invites us to tread on forbidden ground. May I .suggest one consideration ? If Christ is our High Priest, He must have priests of the same sort under Him. All Christians can hardly be such priests, for the passages which speak of them as priests make them also kings. If they be not kings in the ordinary meaning of the word, neither are they priests. The continuation of the sacri- icial priesthood seems to be demanded by Eebrews viii. 4. W. C. B.

If the pointed character of the Jewish mitre bore ,any definite relation to the sacrificial character of the Jewish priesthood, D. C. B.'s answer would be more germane to the matter. My point is that the Jewish priests, whatever their attributes and duties were the spiritual heads of the'Jewish people, and that the Christian priesthood, whatever .heir attributes, were the spiritual heads of the Christian people in those early days ; and a similar dress, and that in no case could it )e said that there was any certainty that hey did not. ALDENHAM.
 * hat it was not unnatural, nor indeed unlikely,
 * hat they should wear in their ministrations

OXFORD STREET (9 th S. x. 368). The Editor ightly asks, "What is the precise meaning of top 1 " We may have four different points of view : (1) Rising ground ; (2) Point of compass (North) ; (3) Point of departure ; (4) Regard to the capital city, or central point of mportance. So that the point which might >e the top to one person might be the bottom