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AUG 6 1891

LIBRARY.

Gloucestershire
Notes and Queries.

WE

Frocester Chapel.

E are enabled to place before the reader an engraving of the old chapel taken about twelve months ago, which shows its delapidated appearance previous to the recent repairs described by Mr. Symonds on page 49 ante. It may be noted that the brick plaster and wood "leanto," erected against the bellturret to make the roof watertight, which appears in the engraving has been removed. For the photograph from which this view has been taken we are indebted to Dr. D. W. Eshelby, of Frocester, who has also kindly supplied a copy of an inscription on a tablet affixed to the north wall of the nave of Frocester Chapel. It is to the following effect:

This sacred monument records the mortality of
Wm Mills, Esq

(late of Calcutta in the province of Bengal),
who exchanged worlds the 3rd day of Dec', 1809,

VOL. V

Aged 49,

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Star Chamber Proceedings.

E give some extracts and notes thereon from the Star Chamber Proceedings relating to Gloucestershire, which have been contributed by D. T.

The bill of complaint of Davy vabe Thlewelyn* and Margery his wife alleges as follows:

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That wher the seyd Margery being In her owne Dwellyng house at Twekysbury in the countie of Gloucestre the day of - in the xxvith yer of the reyng of our sou'eng lord Kyng Henry the eight [1534-5] one Elizabeth, wiff unto one Thomas Arkell, of the seiyd Towne of Twekysbury of her malycous and cruell mynde the seiyd with force and armes assaulted the seyd Margery with a knyff, entendyng to have murdered and slayne the seyd Margery, had she not been letted by one the seyd Elizabeth, not yet contented, her seyd evil entent on the

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cam' in the nyght in to the house of the seyd Davy, and then and ther assaulted and sore wounded the seyd Margery on her hedd, so y' she was in dyspeir of her liff, to the grete hurt, costs, and expenses of the seyd Davy and Margery. [Prayer for redress follows in the usual form.]

Henry VIII., Bundle 18, No. 91.

In the 7th year of Henry VIII. [1515-16], one Thomas Thompson, of Stroudwater, yeoman, was suspected of having murdered a certain person, not named, at Stroud. An inquest was held on the body, and the jury appear to have returned an open verdict. At all events, they did not find that any guilt could be laid against Thompson. This must have given dissatisfaction, for proceedings were instituted in the Star Chamber to enquire, inter alia, how the jury had arrived at their

There was a considerable, not to say large, Welsh element in the population of the county of Gloucester down to the end of the Tudor period, which had not adopted the English custom of a fixed and transmissible family surname. Many examples of the use of the "Ap" might be found, not only where the county borders on Monmouthshire, but also on the other side of the Severn, and in particular in and near Dursley. "Vabe" is synonymous with "Ap," and is the softened form of "Mab" (son), used in the living language.

verdict, and what influence had been brought to bear upon them. Certain interrogatories were administered, 11 July in the year before mentioned, to ten of the jurymen, beginning with the foreman.

John Darstyn, of Dumbleton, co. Gloucester, gent., whose deposition in substance runs as follows::

"That there was no evidence offered on the inquest concerning the said murder supposed to be done by the said Tompson." [That is, as I take it, that no evidence was given, implicating Thompson in the murder.]

"That deponent dwelleth from Strode Water, where the said murder is supposed to be done, by the space of xx myles, and never came within the said town to his knowledge."

"That he is not servant, nor any way appertaiyning to the said William Compton, Knt" [who was supposed (1) to have instigated the murder, and (2) to have used undue influence with the jury].

"That oon Stratford and oon Barne be and were of the same Tyme of the Hundred where the murder was supposed to be committed, and that they be all of sufficient free holde to his knowledge."

"That no manner of person never laboured hym, nor noon of his company to his knowledge to acquyte the seid Compton of the seid murder."

The other deponents, in the main, merely confirm what the foreman has stated. It will not be necessary to give more than their names, except in the case of the two last, who introduce some personal matters into their depositions.

Stephen Coton, of Twexbury, gent.

Nicholas Sempyr, of Twexbury.
Gyles Brodewey, of Porslyp, gent.

Richard Gylbert, of Hassell, husbandman.

Richard Boucher, of Twexbury, marchant.

John Busshe, of Twexbury, tanner.

Roger Pulton, of Corslaunde, husbandman.

William Barne, of Packenell, in parish of Strode, husbandman,

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