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 9* S. XII. JULY 18. 1903.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1908.

CONTENTS. No. 290.

NOTES : Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 41 Bridge Chantry in West Riding, 43-First Flesh-eater, 45 " Cabal " ' Bis- clavret ' Lieut. -Col. Simcoe Breaking Glass at Jewish Weddings, 46 Cures for Epilepsy and Thrush, 47.

QUERIES : The Hapsburgs as Emperors of Germany Venison Feast, 47 Lucretius Carnegie Libraries Columbarium in Church Tower Lambeth Brighton Manor Court Roll Patton : Peyton Holbein Portraits Skeleton in Alum Rock Christian Names and Natio- nality, 48 Flats The Albany "But, should fortune nil your sail " Anatomie Vivante St. Dials Kentish Game "Ingeminate" Lord John Russell and the Alabama, 49.

REPLIES -.Birch-sap Wine Gillygate at York " Folks," 50 Riming Epitapn Fasting Spittle Origin of Turn- bullsCornish Rimes Skulls, 51 Pope self-condemned for Heresy Byroniana River not flowing on Sabbath, 52 Atkyns ' The Three Ravens ' Johnson, 53 Quotation Duels of Clergymen" Tyre" Bacon on Hercules, 54 Tongue-twisters " Nightcaps M uhammed, 55 Mil- ton's Nativity' Orange Blossoms " Vicereine" Wykes Pedigree Klopstock's ' Stabat Mater,' 56 "To mug" The Pope and St. Bartholomew's "Uther" and "Arthur" Mayors' Precedence, 57 Fees for Register- searching General Richard Hope " Hagioscope," 58 Mottoes, 59.

NOTES ON BOOKS: Wright's 'Milton 'Lucas's 'Lamb, Vol. V. Crawford's ' Authorship of Arden of Feversham Frowde's ' Dickens ' ' Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeo legist.'

Notices to Correspondents.

gates,

SIR FERDINANDO GORGES, LORD

PALATINE OF MAINE.

(See ante, p. 21.)

IT is advisable at this point to make some mention of !Sir Ferdinando's son and grand- son, to show their connexion with the Province of Maine. I also give some notes taken from the public records.

Sir Ferdinando's eldest surviving son John (afterwards Col.) Gorges was born on 23 April, 1593. He was a member of Parliament for county Somerset in 1650, and for Taunton in 1654. He died on 6 April, 1656, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster (his will proved 1 June, 1657). He married first, at St. James's, Clerkenwell, on 31 July, 1628, the Lady Fynes, daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and secondly Mary, daughter of Sir John Mead e, of Wendon Loftus, co. Essex, who died a year after her husband, and was also buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 15 September, 1657. Unlike his father, Col. John Gorges served under Cromwell during the Civil War. He had five children by his second wife, but the only one that will concern us is the eldest, named Ferdinando, after his grandfather. This Ferdinando

Gorges was born at Wendon Loftus, co. Essex, on 19 August, 1630 [?], and died at Ashley, co. Wilts, on 25 January, 1718, aged eighty- nine years. He married as his second wife Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Archdale, of Loats, near Chipping Wycombe, co. Bucks, Ssq., at St. Bride's Church, London, on 22 May, 1660. There is a monument in Ashley Church, co. Wilts, with the following nscription :

"Near this place lieth the body of Ferdinando Gorges late of Westminster Esquire sometime jrovernor of the Province of Maine in New Eng- and. He was born at Loftus in Essex, grandson and heir to Sir Ferdinando Gorges of Ashton Phil- ips in the County of Somerset, Knight. He mar- ried Mary the eldest daughter of Thomas Archdale of Loats in Chipping Wycomb in the C Bucks Esquire. They were eminent examples of virtue and entirely happy in their mutual affections and lad many children of whom only two survived jheir indulgent and tender parents. He was charitable and patient courteous and beneficent, zealous and constant to the Church and a great admirer of learning. He is interred in the same grave in which Sir Theobald Gorges was buried Anno Dom 1647 2 nd son of the Marchioness of Northampton and uncle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Gorges. Obiit Anno Dom 1718 set 89. Virtus post funera vivit."

Evelyn, in his ' Diary,' under date of 4 July, 1671, quotes :

" To Council, where we drew up and agreed to a letter to be sent to New England, and made some proposals to Mr. Ferdinando Gorges for his interest in a plantation there."

In the State Papers under date of Decem- ber, 1677, is the following :

"Case of Ferdinando Gorges presented to the Lords of Trades and Plantations. Recapitulates the grant of Maine to his grandfather Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the sum spent in planting the Colony, the loss of the Province owing to the troubles in Eng- land, the restitution of the Province according to the King's Order of 11 June, 1664. Seizure of the Province by the Boston Government after three years' quiet possession, contrary to the King's Man- damus of 10 April, 1666. The disobedience of several of the Bpstoners in refusing to come over at the King's bidding. Prays that the Province may be restored to him, that the persons who had dis- obeyed the King's commands be sent over, and that satisfaction be given to those who have suffered only for acting according to the King's orders. Sir Ferdinando Gorges was constituted Governor- General over New England, but the rebellion stopped his going over, he serving the King in his wars in England."

Again, under date of October, 1680, occurs the following entry :

"Petition of the General Assembly of Maine

to the King The Massachusetts Government,

being owners by late purchase from the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, His Majesty's Lieutenant and their Chief Proprietor, and having notified the oath of allegiance to them and having letters, and