brought upon the honourable calling to which he had been initiated, and accordingly gave him such a trimming with the cat o' nine tails as must have convinced him that the principles of honour and honesty are essential to that respectable profession."

Since the above was written, another paragraph, bearing further evidence on the subject, has been found in Sarah Farley's Bristol Journal for August 20, 1785. It states that ten days previously the execution had taken place at Ilchester, of Thomas Woodham, aged 69, convicted of highway robbery. His arrest must have taken place a very short time before his trial, for, in his capacity as hangman for Gloucestershire, he had executed a man at Gloucester only a few weeks before his own death. It is added that he expressed much regret on his way to the scaffold that he had not been in a position to dispose of the two or three convicts who remained to be executed in his own county.

J. L.

1674.--" VIEWS OF BERKELEY CASTLE," 1840. I have a large-sized folio, entitled Views of Berkeley Castle, "taken on the spot, and drawn on stone, by Mr. H. Marklove;" and "dedicated, with permission, to the Right Hon. Lord Segrave, December, 1840." The printer of the letter-press was William Partridge, of Nailsworth, who subsequently removed to Stroud, where, as I understand, he died; and a list of more than two hundred subscribers is prefixed. "Price to Subscribers, £1 1s.; to NonSubscribers, £1 5s." The ten plates are in the following order :1. North East View; 2. North West View; 3. Entrance, First Gate; 4. The Inner Gate; 5. Entrance to the Keep; 6. The Hall; 7. The Chapel; 8. Entrance to the Room in which Edward II. was murdered; 9. View from the Leads; and 10. The Chalice, or Godwin Cup.

A notice to this effect has been inserted :•- "As an accompaniment to this work, Mr. Marklove intends to publish two tinted lithographic views of the fine old Church of Berkeley, and two of the Mausoleum of the Berkeley Family. As they are subjects so well worthy the attention both of the antiquarian and artist, Mr. M. hopes to be honoured with the names of those persons who have subscribed to the Berkeley Castle Views. Price 158. [changed in manuscript to £1 18.]"

I shall be glad to know whether these four plates were published. BIBLIOGRAPHER.

1675.-THE DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL, 1588.The following is an extract from Arber's Transcript of Stationers' Registers, vol. ii., p. 485:

"1587-88. Die mercurij. 28. februarij.

John Charle

woode.

Receaued of him for his lycence to prynte,
Artycles to be enquired of within the Dyoces of
Gloucester and Brystoll. vnder master warden
Coldockes hand

vjd."

At p. 466 of the same volume the same word in the singular ("dioces") is used with reference to Winchester. Has the extract any bearing on the history of the union of Gloucester and Bristol as a diocese? L. MATTHEWS GRIFFITHS.

The explanation of this union of dioceses is, that John Bullingham, D.D., was consecrated for the bishopric of Gloucester, September 3, 1581; and that he held in commendam the bishopric of Bristol from the same year until 1589, when Richard Fletcher, D.D., was consecrated thereto. Bullingham held Gloucester to the day of his death, May 20, 1598. See ante, vol. ii., p. 33. EDITOR

1676.-A SLYMBRIDGE CURIOSITY.-In an old account of rarities of this county I find the following:-" At Slymbridge, a little village on the banks of the Severn, about ten miles south of Gloucester, there is a family of the sirname of Knight, which has been distinguished for many generations by having five fingers and a thumb on each hand."* Can any of your correspondents give any further information with reference to this peculiarity, and whether it still exists? JOHN MILLS.

Gloucester.

1677.-WILLIAM PHELPS, OF TEWKESBURY, 1592.-In the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. vii., p. 239, in an article on John Bull, Mus. Doc., this passage appears :

"On 29 May, 1592, some curious entries in the Chapel [Royal] cheque-book record the appointment, as a gentleman-extraordinary, of Mr. William Phelps, of Tewkesbury, the reason being that 'he dyd show a moste rare kyndnes to Mr. Doctor Bull in his great distresse, beinge robbed in those parts.'

I shall feel much obliged to anyone who can favour me with a copy of these "curious entries." Who was Mr. Phelps? Νο mention of the matter by Bennett in either his History of Tewkesbury (1830) or The Tewkesbury Register and Magazine (1840-50).

G. A. W.

1678. SIR STEPHEN NAISH, KNT.-Is anything known of the family to which belonged Sir Stephen Naish, Knt., of Bristol, and of Leweston, Dorset, sheriff of Bristol in 1785, and of Dorset, in 31 Geo. III? On what occasion was he knighted? when did he die and where was he buried? The Leweston estate is said to have been purchased by his father, a Bristol merchant, of Lord Brooke. Sir Stephen left a sister and sole heiress, Anne, or Anna, who married 1st, William Gordon, who died at Bristol, 1802; and 2ndly, John Berkeley Burland. C. H. MAYO.

Long Burton Vicarage, Sherborne, Dorset.

This statement is made, but not exactly in the same words, in Curiosities, Natural and Artificial, of the Island of Great Britain, vol. ii., p. 293, London, n.d.-ED.

1679.-PORTRAITS OF EDWARD COLSTON.-The latest writer on the life of Colston, the Rev. William Hunt, in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xi., p. 406, has made this statement:"Four protraits of him exist: one belongs to the school he founded on St. Augustine's Back, [Bristol]; another, painted by Richardson, and engraved by Vertue, was executed by order of the corporation in 1702, at the cost of 177. 11s., and is still in the council house; a third is in the Merchants' Hall; and the fourth, painted by Kneller in 1693, is in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. The effigy on his tomb [in All Saints' Church] was executed by Rysbrach from Richardson's portrait." I shall be glad to know whether there are any other portraits of this Bristol worthy, and if so, by whom painted and engraved. G, A. W.

1680.-BALL FAMILY, OF STONEHOUSE.-Mr. C. E. GildersomeDickinson has written in Notes and Queries (7th S. vi. 367), November 10, 1888:-" Sir Alexander John Ball, Bart., a distinguished admiral and the friend of Nelson, died at Malta (of which island he was first British governor) in 1809. I am desirous of obtaining any information with regard to the familywhich was of Stonehouse, co. Gloucester-beyond the somewhat crude and inaccurate pedigree which appears in Betham, and is subsequently inserted by Burke until the baronetcy became extinct in 1874. What connexion had Sir Alexander with Blofield? where and when was his mother buried? what became of his brothers and sisters? and who is the present representative of the family? I have reason to think the family was connected with Cape Breton Isle." Mr. Dickinson may be glad to be referred to vol. i. of our Notes and Queries, pp. 13, 128, 129, 377, where (with one or two inaccuracies) he will find sundry particulars of Sir Alexander John Ball, Bart., and the Ball family of Stonehouse. He is probably aware of the article on Sir Alexander in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. iii., p. 70. The Rev. William Ball Wright has published an 8vo, entitled Records of the Anglo-Irish Families of Ball (Dublin, 1887), but has not included the Stonehouse family. EDITOR.

1681.-MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR CIRENCESTER, 1547-1552. -A MS. list of the members of the first parliament of Edward VI. (from the Hatfield collection) names John Eston and George Ferrrers, Esqrs., as representing Cirencester. This statement that Cirencester returned to parliament so early as 1547 is opposed to the heretofore and (it was thought) fairly substantiated belief that the borough was enfranchised for the first time in 13 Eliz., 1571, making its first returns at the general election in that year. In the parliamentary returns of 1545 no mention is made of Cirencester, nor does any trace exist of after members for the borough prior to 1571. That the return made in the latter year

was a new departure would seem by the resolution of the House passed on 6 April, immediately after the meeting of parliament, which enjoins that an inquiry be made in the case of Cirencester and certain other boroughs, they having "returned no burgesses in the last parliament." It is singular that if Cirencester received the right to elect representatives in 1547, the privilege should not have been continued without a break of twenty years. I do not know much of the abovenamed members said to have been returned in 1547, and shall be glad to have some particulars. John Eston appears as member for Southwark from 1553 to 1559; and George Ferrers for Brackley in 1555, and for St. Albans in 1571.

Leigh, Lancashire.

W. D. PINK.

Mr. K. J. Beecham, the latest historian of Cirencester, in his History of Cirencester and the Roman City Corinium (1886), p. 171, begins his chapter on the "representation of the borough" with these words :-"Cirencester is stated to have sent representatives to a great council as early as 1338, but did not acquire the right of permanently electing two members until 1571." We leave the matter for further investigation.

EDITOR.

1682.-SIR NICHOLAS ARNOLD, LORD DEPUTY OF IRELAND.In Notes and Queries (7th S. vi. 287), October 13, 1888, Mr. F. J. Furnivall has inquired :-- "William Harrison, in bk. iii. ch. i. of his celebrated Description of England (p. 5, part ii. of my edition for the new Shakspere Society), says: 'Sir Nicholas Arnold of late hath bred the best horses in England, and written of the maner of their production.' Lowndes and Hazlitt have no entry of any book of his, nor has the British Museum any in its catalogue. Sir Nicholas Arnold's name is not in the Dictionary of National Biography. His arms are given in Metcalfe's Book of Knights, A.D. 1548-53, p. 102, ed. 1885. Can anyone tell me anything

about him?"

In the same volume, p. 394, Mr. W. D. Pink has replied :-"He was of Highnam Court, co. Gloucester, and third son of John Arnold, Esq., of Monmouth (vide Burke's Landed Gentry). He was M.P. for Gloucestershire in 1552-3 and 1555; Gloucester city in 1559 and 1563-67; Cricklade, 1571; Gloucestershire again, 1572-83 [?]. Knighted by Edward VI., [and] Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1564-5. I have not the date of his decease, but it seems to have been after 1583."

The manors of Highnam and Over, and divers messuages and lands, with the tithes thereof, lying in the parish of Churcham, near Gloucester, and all formerly belonging to the abbey of Gloucester, were granted to John Arnold, of Monmouthshire, Esq., 33 Hen. VIII., at whose death livery of the manor of Highnam was granted to his son, Sir Nicholas Arnold, 37 Hen.

VIII. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Dennys, of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, and was succeeded by Rowland Arnold, his son, who married Mary, daughter of John Brydges, Lord Chandos, and left an only daughter and heiress, wedded to Thomas Lucy, son of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcot, Warwickshire. (Rudder's Gloucestershire, p. 342.) Nicholas Arnold served as sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1558 and 1559. (Ib., p. 53.) Mention of him is made in the "Selections from the Calendars of State Papers (Domestic)," ante, vol. iii., pp. 391, 466, 467, 469, 474, 475; and as appears from one of them, his death took place in the early part of 1580. In the Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1547-1580, there are eleven references to him; in the Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, 1515-1574, he is mentioned (and at much length) at pp. 354, 359, 362; and in the same for 1575-1588, at pp. 94, 414; while in the Calendar of State Papers (Ireland), 1509-1573, the particulars given of him (as may be seen in the index to the volume, p. 545) are too many to enumerate. In the chancel of the church of Churcham, of which parish Highnam was a part, there is, as Bigland has recorded in his Gloucestershire (1791), vol. i., p. 337, "a small tablet of stone inlaid and bordured with alabaster, sculptured with devices and arms as follow:-On four escutcheons: 1. Gules, on a fess between three billets argent, three lions passant guardant purpure, for OLDISWORTH; impaling, gules, five marlions wings in saltire argent, for PORTER; 2. PORTER; impaling, gules, a chevron ermine, between three pheons or, for ARNOLD; 3. ARNOLD, impaling, or, a chevron between three cinquefoils azure, on a chief gules, a griffin passant ermine, for HAWKINS; 4. as the first." The inscription has been thus given by Bigland: Here lye buried near this place the | bodies of Edward Oldisworth, Esq., and Tace, his wife, dowghter of | Arthur Porter, Esq., and of Alice, his wife, and sister to Sir Thomas Porter, Knight, which | Alice was dowghter of John Arnold, Esq., and of Isabel, his wife, and sister to | Sir Nicholas Arnold, Knight, which Isabel was the daughter of William Hawkins, Esquier, | the said John, Isabel, and Sir Nicholas, | being also interred in this | church. The said Edward departed this life the 8th day of August, 1570; and the | Tacey the 8th day of June, 1576, havinge | had betwene them five children; wherof two sonnes, Arnold and Thomas, and three daughters, Margaret, Anne, and | Dorothy, of whom only Anne died | yonge, in the life of her parents.

EDITOR.

1683.-EDMUND WALLER, 1646.-In one of the registers of the parish of Cheltenham there is an entry of the following marriage: “1646, Oct. 6. Edmund Waller and Margaret Howse." The bridegroom was, I am informed, in some way connected with his distinguished namesake, the poet. If so, how was it? J. G.