1805. "THE PORT OF CIRENCESTER."-The following scrap of intelligence from Cirencester was published in the newspapers a hundred years ago:

On Wednesday, the 22nd April, four barges laden with coals, brought from the Severn, after having passed through the grand subterraneous trunk under Sapperton Hill and Hagley Wood, arrived in Cirencester, in Gloucestershire. How welcome such a sight must be in a country where fuel has been hitherto not only dear but scarce, may easily be imagined, and the inhabitants of Cirencester testified by public rejoicings their gladness on the occasion. Thousands of spectators lined the banks of the canal to witness the novel scene, expressing their joy and surprise on seeing a river brought to, and a port formed on, the high wolds of Gloucestershire. Other loaded barges went forward for Kempsford, to which place the canal is completed, and we hear that in a short time it will be in or over the Thames, in its direction to Oxford, &c. The public advantages that must result from this noble undertaking are too obvious to need enumeration.

1806.-A SINGULAR BEQUEST BY A BRISTOLIAN, 1889.-The case re Wall-Pomeroy v. Willway-came before Mr. Justice Kay in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice on Monday [July 22, 1889]. A curious question arose on the construction of the will of Mr. Thomas Philipps Wall, of Kingsdown, Bristol. The clause in question was as follows:-"Now I desire the interest of the £2,500 absolutely and for ever to be divided into annuities of £10 each, and to be paid half-yearly to an equal number of men and women not under 50 years of age, Unitarians, and who attend Lewin's-mead Unitarian Chapel or chapels in Bristol, a tablet to be placed in Lewin's-mead Chapel to give the information of gift, otherwise how should the deserving know of it?" Mr. Christopher James appeared for the executor, Mr. O. L. Clare for the widow, Mr. Ryland for the next-of-kin, and Mr. Ingle Joyce for the Attorney-General. Mr. Justice Kay said that the case was not free from difficulty. He felt the strongest possible reluctance in holding that this was a charitable gift, because here was a man who left a widow surviving him, to whom he gave nothing at all. He gave all his property, excepting his wife's clothes, to what he was pleased to call a charity. If his lordship had the power of the legislature he would not allow such a will as that to take effect. But he was compelled reluctantly to hold that this was a charitable purpose within the statute of Elizabeth. The executor, therefore, must distribute the gift among the deserving poor over 50, Unitarians, who attended the congregations mentioned.-Bristol Times and Mirror, July 31, 1889.

1807.-"JACOBITE " PORTRAITS AT BADMINTON HOUSE.-The late Mr. Evelyn Philip Shirley, of Eatington Park, Warwickshire, made

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the following inquiry in Notes and Queries (5th S. xii. 366), Nov. 8, 1879, but does not appear to have elicited any reply:-The Dukes of Beaufort were (as is well known) always loyal to the house of Stuart, and of the old Tory side in politics. The following letter, without date, appears to be signed by Henry, the second duke, born in 1684, and who died in 1714. It is addressed to "The Rigt Hon. the Lord North and Gray" (William, Lord North and Grey, born 1673, died 1734). The original is at Wroxton, the seat of the Baroness North. It would be interesting to know whether the portraits of the "L.B." (or Loyal Brothers?) are still preserved at Badminton, as the duke proposed they should be. A list of the Loyal Brotherhood is also a desiderWho was Mr. Gouge, the artist on this occasion}

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"Dear Brother North,-The Brotherhood having honoured me with their pictures, according to sketches prepared by Mr Gouge, I hope you will favour me with sitting at a time most convenient for your self, and as Mr Gouge can have opportunities to draw it. M Serjeant Dewes is my solicitor on this occasion, wherefore I beg your answer and approbation, either to him in person, or by Letter directed to Jeremy Dewes, Esq', at the Cocoa tree in general, which is his office at present. The great honour the Brotherhood does me on this occasion shall be acknowledged by the Pictures being entailed for after ages upon my ffamily, as a memorial of the Loyal Brotherhood over whom I have the happiness to preside. This will infinitely oblige, my dear Lord, your faithfull Brother and humble Servant, BEAUFORT, Prest L. B."

The letter is in the hand of a secretary, but signed by the duke.

1808. THOMAS TEMPLE, D.C.L., RECTOR OF BOURTON-ON-THEWATER. In the Rev. Wm. Dunn Macray's calendar of the Bridgewater Manuscripts (Historical Manuscripts Commission, Eleventh Report, appendix, pt. vii., p. 163) we find this entry :

"25 Nov. 1635. Thomas Temple, D.C.L., vicar [rector] of Bourton on the Water, v. Bray Ayleworth, esq., and others, for accusing him of adultery; and a cross suit. Long notes of evidence."

It is only fair to the memory of Dr. Temple to inform the reader, who may not have an opportunity of consulting the manuscript in question, that having been presented to the rectory of Bourton-onthe-Water in 1622, he appears to have held it until 1649, in which year his successor, Antony Palmer, M.A., author of The Gospel New Creature, was appointed by the parliament. This is in itself, I think, proof presumptive of Temple's success in refuting the accusation brought against him. According to Atkyns and Bigland, he was "D.D." Is he to be identified with the Thomas Temple mentioned in Wood's Fusti Oxonienses (ed. Bliss), i. 469, 502, 504? M. C. B.

1809. THE RECORDER OF BRISTOL, 1427-28.-In the Rev. Wm. Dunn Macray's calendar of the Manuscripts of the Corporation of Reading (Historical Manuscripts Commission, Eleventh Report,

appendix, pt. vii., p. 173) this entry appears :

"1427-8. Wine for the Recorder of Bristol, and d to his two valets."

Can anyone throw any light on the above? Simon Oliver was probably then in office as recorder.

M. C. B. 1810.-GEORGE FETTIPLACE, OF COLN ST. ALDWYN'S. Can anyone tell me who George Fettiplace was, who died at "Colice Allwyns," co. Gloucester, 19 Elizabeth? Was he the same George who married Cicely (or Crisley) Poole? If so, who was she? In any case I should like to know what descendants he had, and what became of them.

D. J.

George Fettiplace appears as patron of the benefice of Colne St. Aldwyn's in 1575, and again in 1577; Giles Fettiplace, 1673; the heirs of Giles Fettiplace, 1703; and Theophilus Partridge Fettiplace, 1727. Giles Fettiplace, Esq., was one of two summoned from this place by the Heralds in 1682 and 1683. Henry Powle (or Poole), Esq., was the other. Particulars of some members of both families are in the Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1623, edited for the Harleian Society by Sir John Maclean and W. C. Heane, 1885. In Bigland's Gloucestershire, vol. i., p. 413, these arms are recorded as on a tomb in the chancel "erected for George Fettiplace, a Justice of South Wales, who died of the Plague in 1578":-(1st) Quarterly, 1st, gules, two chevronels argent, for FETTIPLACE; 2d, argent, three torteauxes, for BESSILLES; 3d, sable, a lion passant guardant argent, crowned or; 4th as the 1st. (2d) Quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure, a lion rampant between semée of cross crosslets or, for POOLE; 2d and 3d, argent, a chevron sable between three bucks' heads caboshed gules. On flatstones in the chancel are inscriptions, as given by Rudder and Bigland, viz. :—— "Here lyeth the body of Henry Poole, Esquire, who died the 24 day of August, Anno Dom. 1643;" "Here lyeth buried the body of Ann Poole, Gentlewoman, who deceased the 19th day of August, 1658;" and, "Here lies the body of Thomas Church, Esq., son of Thomas Church, of Tunstall in Shropshire, and of Theophila Fettiplace, his wife, youngest daughter of Giles Fettiplace, Esq. He departed this life at Bath the 15th day of March, 1734, aged 31." Henry Powle, who held the manor of Coln St. Aldwyn's, was speaker of the House of Commons, master of the rolls, and a member of the privy council in the reigns of Charles II. and William III. He died 21 November, 1692, in his 63rd year, and was buried in Quenington Church, where there is a flattering inscription to his memory. See Foss's Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, p. 531.

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A good anecdote has appeared in a note headed "Dean Frampton and Giles Fettyplace, Esq.," ante, vol. i., pp. 273, 274, having been • For extracts from the MS. "Collections of Henry Powle" see ante, i. 406; ii., 83, 154.

quoted from The Life of Robert Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, pp. 126-128.

Our correspondent may perhaps be glad to have the following references, extracted from Marshall's Genealogist's Guide (1879), p. 175-FETTIPLACE, FETTYPLACE, or FETYPLACE: Journal of the British Archæological Association, xvi. 201; Croke's History of the Family of Croke, No. 24; Ashmole's Antiquities of Berkshire, iii. 307; Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, vi. pt. ii. 67; Harleian Society, v. 299; Clarke's Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting, 68, 107; Napier's Notices of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Co. Oxford, 408; Blore's Rutland, 61.

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1811.-MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR BRISTOL, 1655-59.Miles Jackson, who had been mayor of Bristol in 1649, became M.P. in 1654-55; and Joseph Jackson, mayor in 1651, M.P. in 1659. Any information as to these will much oblige.

Leigh, Lancashire.

W. D. PINK.

1812.-KING CHARLES I.'S GLOVES.-In Beck's Gloves, their Annals and Associations (London, 1883), p. 43, this passage occurs:—

"A melancholy interest attaches to a pair of gloves exhibited by their owner before the Archæological Institute in 1861-when a notable number of fine specimens of art industry were gathered together. These were averred to have been given by Charles L on the scaffold to William Juxon, Bishop of London, and to have been subsequently preserved by the bishop's descendants, at Little Compton, Gloucestershire."

In Marah's Memoirs of Archbishop Juxon and his Times; with a Sketch of the Archbishop's Parish, Little Compton (Oxford, 1869), there does not appear to be any mention of the above very interesting relic. I shall be glad to know more about it from anyone who may be able to tell me.

M. C. B.

1813.-LIEUT.-COLONEL RICHARD TOWNSENDE, BORN 1619.— I should be much obliged for any help in tracing the birthplace of Richard Townsende, who was born in 1619. He bore the arms of the Townshends of Norfolk, and was a lieut.-colonel under Fairfax, 1646. So he was not Richard Townsend, of Cirencester, whose son Richard became a Quaker, and went to America. Colonel Townsende served in Ireland in the parliamentary forces, and settled in Co. Cork, where he founded a family. He may be mentioned in some Gloucestershire wills or parish register, Townsend being a rather common surname in the county. Any light on his early life would be gratefully received. R. B. TOWNSHEND.

Hillfields, Redmarley, near Gloucester.

1814.-THE "BRISTOL GAZETTE."-I wish I could discover where, and in whose keeping, the files of the Bristol Gazette may

be.*

There are

I have made great efforts to do so, but have failed. none to be met with either in the Public Library or the Mercantile Rooms at Bristol. And yet the paper was in the last century far and away the best Bristol journal of its day. It was particularly well served by its local correspondents in the country districts in the West of England and South Wales. Most of these were men of education, and their paragraphs of news were models of terse expression and accurate observation and inquiries. One or two of these for the years 1788-9 I have been able to identify. The paper, I think, lived on to about 1850: at all events, in the course of my inquiries I came upon a former resident in Bristol (now dead), who was a subscriber to the paper for several years and to the time of its demise. He had been personally acquainted with the proprietor, and assured me (in 1880) that a complete file of the paper existed, and that it was, to his knowledge, in the possession of the representative of the proprietor for some years after the demise of the paper. He kindly entered into correspondence with several persons with the object of serving me ; but so many changes had taken place in the twenty preceding years that nothing came of the inquiry. Judging from the quality of the paper for the years 1787-9-which years are tolerably complete and bound in a volume in the Library of the British Museum— I should say that whoever is fortunate enough to discover a file of the paper from its first issue to the year 1800, will come upon a mine of local information relating to the West of England and South Wales, exceeding in value anything of a like kind with which I am acquainted.

D. J.

1815.-STONEHOUSE CHURCH: MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. In 1880 accurate copies were taken of the twelve inscriptionst in the church of St. Cyril, Stonehouse :

1.

In memory of Mary Adderly, of Stroud, who died May 5th, 1784, aged 85. | Also in memory of Ann Adderly, | daughter of Mary Adderly, who departed this life March 18th, 1824, iu the ninetieth year of her age.

2.

Sacred to the memory of Louisa, wife of Robert Stephens Davies, Esq., of this Parish, and third daughter of the late Benjamin Spry, A.M., Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and Vicar of Bedminster and Abbots Leigh, in the County of Somerset, and also of St. Mary Redcliff and St. Thomas, in the City of Bristol. She died the 5th Feb, 1819, aged 38 years. Her remains lie deposited in a vault near this

This newspaper was established in 1767, and at the end of the last century the stamp duty on each copy of it and the other Bristol weekly journals was "Threepence-halfpenny." (Arrowsmith's Dictionary of Bristol, p. 190.) No mention of it is made in the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. xvii., p. 421, under the head of Bristol journalism.

+ An index has been given in vol. i., p. 128.