(Book II., fo. 129.)

received a posset and a jelly for his imme- necting Manningtree with Ipswich. The diate delectation, and a tart and a cheesecake parish lies in two manors-Over-Hall-withto take home with him. At least that is Netherhall and Shotley Hall or Kirkton. what Mr. Jones remembers to have been No. I. usual when he was a chorister. The gracecup with mulled wine went round to all the guests, and the two grace-cups that were used are still in the possession of the Chapter. They are a very fine pair, silver gilt, with handles and covers, standing about 15 inches high, and holding about three pints apiece. They have engraven on them the arms of the bishopric ensigned by mitres. The dateletter, confirmed by the leopard's head crowned, shows that they were hall-marked

in 1764.

There was a man cook in the service of the Chapter who went from house to house. The last but one was named Sanglier, a Frenchman, doubtless, and he lived in the small rectory house of St. Mary's in the South Bailey.

In dei nomine Amen septimo Kalendas Augusti Anno Domini millesimo cccclxjij. Ego Johannes Pertryche de Schotele alias Kyrketon compos mentis & bene memoriæ condo testamentum meum in hunc modum In primis lego Animam meam deo que meum ad sepeliendum in cimiterio beate marie omnipotenti beate marie ac omnibus sanctis corpus de Schotle alias Kyrketon. Item lego summo Altari eiusdem ecclesie iij' iiijd pro decimis oblationibus & aliis omissis transactum. Item lego ad reparacionem ecclesie beate marie de Schotle alias Kyrketon infernio sive externio ubicumque [? one word]necesse facere x'. Item convento fratrum Augustini de Orford x' pro xxxli [a trental] Sancti Gregorii. Item convento fratrum minorum Gippewici x' simili modo pro xxx. Item lego Johanne Halle uxori Roberti Halle filie mee xiij iiijd sub hac condicione viz. ut ipsa Johanna & nec ipse Robertus perturbant uel [vel] ad [? iniuriam] aliquo modo proturbant sive contradicant Thomam perteryche filium meum quacumque ex causa sive pro aliqua viz. sive bona mobilia sive immobilia Et si contingat quod Absit quod isti duo faciant ut laborant contra meam ultimam sive habeant de bonis meis nisi ad [? one word] voluntatem tunc volo quod nichil [nihil] habeat predicti Thomæ filii mei sicut sibi placuit Residuum vero omnium bonorum meorum debitis Abstractis do & lego Thomæ pertryche ac Agneti consorti sue heredibus & Assignatis suis ut ipsi ordinent & melius viderint expedire In cuius rei testimonium disponant pro anima mea & uxore meo [sic] sicut sigillum meum presentibus Apposui ac eciam his testibus domino Andreo capellano Roberto ov'ton ballivo de Herwiche [Harwich] Johanne Hastyng minore de Schotle & Aliis multis Anno domini probatum fuit, &c. Apud Gippewicum xxiiijto die mensis Januarii Anno supradicto Et comyssa supradict' etc.

No. II.

(Book III., fo. 156b.).

In Dei nomine Amen undecimo die mensis

There are two interesting drawings, dating from about 1780, in the Kaye Collection at the British Museum, iii. 1, 2, one of which represents a residence dinner at Durham with the prebendary at the head of the table, in gown, cassock, bands, and wig, and about half a dozen gentlemen in the picturesque dress of the period; these are the only figures shown in the drawing. The other represents a number of old women in uniform cloaks sitting at a long table, from one end of which the prebendary, habited as above, and with a benevolent smile, as in the case of Dr. Jenkyns handing the shilling, is distributing to them long clay pipes. They appear to have just had their dinner, and the grace-cup is on the table, having just gone round. The expressions ou their countenances are exactly those of the old Novembris Anno domini millesimo ccccmo lxxxxiij. women in Caldecott's illustration of Mrs. Ego Thomas Pertryche de Schoteley senior compos Mary Blaize, when she "strove the neigh-mentis et sane memorie condo testamentum meum bourhood to please with manners wondrous in hunc modum. In primis lego Animam meam deo omnipotenti beate marie ae omnibus sanctis winning," and cups of tea. Corpus que meum ad sepeliendum in Cimiterio Durham. ecclesie parochialis de Schotley predicti. Item lego summo Altari eiusdem ecclesie vi viij. Item lego fabricando une fenestre in parte Australi dicte ecclesie iij iiij. Item lego domini [sic] fratrum minorum de gippewici pro uno trigintali pro anima mea ad celebrandum x'. Item lego domini [sic] fratrum Augustini de Orford iij iiij. Item lego Johanne filie mee uxori Johannis werry de villa croft cum domo & gardina sibi & heredibus suis predicta duas pecias terre iacentes infra Sewall' post obitum Agnetis uxoris mee. Item lego Agneti uxori mee totum illud tenementum in quo habitocum omnibus suis pertinentiis ubique jacent diu quedam vixerit. Et volo quod post decessum uxoris mee illud tenementum predictum cum pertinentiis suis dividatur inter duos filios meos equaliter viz. Thomam & Johannem Ita eque inter eos dividatur. Et volo quod Johannes filius meus habeat mansione.

J. T. F.

SHOTLEY WILLS, 1463-1538. THE following five wills have been transcribed from the registered copies preserved in the Probate Court at Ipswich. No. I. and No. II. are written in abbreviated Latin in an unusually crabbed hand, by no means easy to decipher. The Latin is here extended. A few words have baffled the skill of the modern transcriber.

The parish of Shotley, in Suffolk, occupies the apex of a triangle of land, bounded on its two sides by the rivers Orwell and Stour, and having for its base the railway line con

Lady saynt Mary & vnto all the holy companye of Hevyn & my body to be buryed in the Cherch yarde of Shotteley aforesaid. Item I bequeth my Ten't lyeng in Dedh'm [in Essex] holdyn by Copy of Courte Rolle w all the londs therto belongyng to my Syster Elyzabeth Partrych hyr heyers & assigneis aft the deth of my Mother Isabell Partrych And the Residue of all my goods I geue vnto my Mother & my Syster Elyzabeth aforesaid for to -se me Honestlye buryed. Whom I make myn -executryces. Wyttenes of this my powre [poor] Will and Testament Syr John Bulle pryst Rycharde Maye & Margerye May wt other.

Proved at Ipswich, 8 Oct., 1538.

Dedham lies in the valley of the Stour, which separates Essex from Suffolk. Dedham is bounded by the Essex parishes of Langham, Ardleigh, and Lawford, and the Suffolk parishes of Stratford St. Mary and East Bergholt. It is not improbable that from the Partridges of Shotley were descended the Partridges whose history begins in the registers of Stratford and the adjoining parish of Higham in the years 1589 and 1585 respectively. See Partridge of Shelley Hall' in Muskett's 'Suffolk Manorial Families,' ii. 165-70.

No. V.

(Book XIII., fo. 7.)

this my last will and Testament Thomas Blosse the elder Rychard Brome John Turno Will'm Smyth and John Branston the elder.

[Fo. 8] Proved at Ipswich, 5 May, 1538, by the executrix.

No. V. appears to be the last recorded will of any Partridge of Shotley, but the following notes prove that the name continued to exist in the parish. The register is incomplete: baptisms begin in 1644, marriages in 1687/8, and burials in 1571. An examination of the last section down to 1612 brought to Patrick, and also the two following, both in light eight entries relating to a family named

1604:

daught of Thom's patrich bur.
The same daie [30 of August] An infant the

The 23 of December Thom's Patrich the husband of Mary bur.

The following notes are from various sources :

1628, 22 April, marriage licence, Thomas Fuller, widower, and Alice Pattriche of Shotley, widow, to be married at S. Helen's, Ipswich.

1639, 18 Oct., administration of Alice Partrige of Shotley granted to her aunt Susan, wife of William Browne, during the minority of her sisters, Mary and Hester Fuller.

1657, 26 Nov., administration of Alice Partridge, late of Shotley, Suffolk, spinster, granted to Henry Partridge, her uncle (P.C C.).

1671, "John paterredg of Shotely singellman and Mary Barrnard ware married the 24th of August" (Brantham parish register)

1728, marriage licence, John Partridge, of Shotley, Suffolk, to Ann Waller of the same, at Mistleigh or Manningtree. E. M.

In the name of god Amen I Isabell pertryche wedowe of the p'ish of Shotteley in Suff beyng in good mynde lawded be Jesu The iiijte daye of Apryll & the yere of our lorde god M'cccccxxxviijte make my last will & Testament in this man' & forme folowyng [fo. 8] ffyrst I bequeth my soule to god to our ladye & to all the companye in hevyn my body to be buryed in the cherch yarde of Shotley I bequeth to the high Aulter ther iiij for my tythes forgotton & not don. Item I bequeth ij Trentallys of three score masses to be said by some honest pryst for my husbonds soule & myn & our ffrynds Soulls. Item I bequeth & geue to Johan Pette the yonger iiijor Ewe lambys. Item I bequeth to my doughter Elyzabeth p'trych my pece of grounde callyd Betts the which I gaue hyr State in tyll such tyme as the said Johan Pette com to the age of xx yerys. Then she to haue yt. And yf yt fortune hyr to dye or [before] that tyme Than the said pece of grounde to remayne to my said doughter Elyzabeth & to hyr assign' in ffee Symplee for eu. And I will the rente therof be payde alweys & as yt hath eu' be in the house that I dwell in. And also I geue to the said Johan Pette my Ten'tt callyd Burton when she comyth to the age aforesaid. And yf she dye a fore the age Than my said doughter Elyzabeth to haue yt in ffee 1579. Symplee as ys aforesaid wreton. Also I geue to the said Johan Pette oon Brasse pott next the best

whan she comyth to the age aforesaid. The Resydue of all my gooddys moveabylls & vnmoveabylls wher so eu' they ley or be I geue to my said doughter Elyzabeth payeng my detts and honestlye buryyng mie. And eu' a monge as she may be some dedys of Charytie to remembyr my soule my husbonds soule & all Crystyn soulls or cause to be don. Whom I ordeyn & make my sole executryx and Sup'vyso' Master Symonde Nvcolls p'son of Erwarton whom I geue iij iiij. These be wyttenes of

QUANDARY." Many speculations have been hazarded as to the origin of this word; but we have all of us overlooked a highly important piece of evidence, to which Dr. Ellis drew attention as far back as 1871. The 'N.E.D.' gives the earliest quotation as from Lily's 'Euphues': "in a great quandarie," ed. Arber, p. 45, the date being

The next quotation is the very important one from Stanyhurst's Virgil' (ed. Arber, P. 94) in which quandáre is so used as to show that the accent was on the penultimate, the date being 1582.

there is another notice of the word, in 1582, The next quotation is dated 1611. But which practically explains its origin. This is from Rich. Mulcaster's First Part of the Elementarie which entreateth chefelie of

O'Donoghue quotes the following statement sent, bearing the date 1847-"a relic of from a memoir prefaced by John Mitchel youth......quite artificial in sentiment," but to his edition of Mangan's poems: "He containing some tolerable lines, perhaps." never published a line in any English The friend above alluded to, upon receipt of periodical." This statement is disproved, by the poem, wrote back inquiring whether the the sudden appearance to the writer of an author had not intended the title to be in oversetting of Schiller's poem 'Hope,' which the plural or An Horatian Echo.' To this is to be found in vol. vii. N.S. of Chambers's "the ex-School-Inspector" answered that if Journal, April, 1847. This poem, which does the plural were used it was to be Echoes, not not appear in any edition of Mangan's poetry, Echos; but "the composer" thought that runs as follows: :"the singular was preferable." Hence the title as we know it- Horatian Echo.' W. BAILEY-KEMPLING.

The future is man's immemorial hymn.
In vain runs the present a-wasting:
To a golden goal in the distance dim

In life, in death, he is hasting.

The world grows old, and young, and old,
But the ancient story still bears to be told.

- Extracts MILLIKIN-ENTWISLE FAMILIES. are given below from the will of Catherine Price, of the parish of St. Mary, Woolnoth,

Hope smiles on the boy from the hour of his in the City of London :birth;

To the youth it gives bliss without limit;
It gleams for old age as a star on earth,

And the darkness of death cannot dim it.
Its rays will gild even the fathomless gloom
When the pilgrim of life lies down in the tomb.
Never deem it a Shibboleth phrase of the crowd,
Never call it the dream of a rhymer;
The instinct of Nature proclaims it aloud :-
We are destined for something sublimer.
This truth which the witness within reveals
The purest worshipper deepliest feels.

J. C. Mangan.
J. CRAUFORD NEIL.

2, Dolphin Terrace, S.C.R., Dublin. "BETTY." (See 9th S. xi. 227.)- Some American students at Göttingen told me that they have heard the term "black betty used in the United States of a kind of "black pudding or 'haggis." On p. 50 of A New Dictionary of Americanisms,' by Sylva Clapin, one reads: "Betty, the strawbound and pear-shaped flask of commerce, in which olive oil is brought from Italy." E. S. DODGSON.

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[The latter meaning is noted in the 'N.E.D.'] MATTHEW ARNOLD'S 'HORATIAN ECHO.'This poem appeared first in The Century Guild Hobby Horse for July, 1887. Arnold was a constant reader of this magazine, and on his expressing a wish that "something could be done" to render its publicity less restricted, a friend--one of the leaders of the Guild-suggested that the poet might himself "do something" by sending them a contribution. In reply, while pointing out his inability, through pressure of work, to "promise anything," the illustrious patron agreed that if he could make anything of a little Horatian Echo, in verse, which had lain by for years, discarded because of an unsatisfactory stanza, they should have it." Within a few weeks the revised MS. was

To be buried in the churchyard of Lee, Kent. Mentions indenture bearing date Nov., 1743, between Henry Price, then of the parish of Saint Bride's (my late husband), and Francis Smith, of the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, relating to 10 acres of land in Upwell, in the county of Norfolk; 15 acres in Upwell, in a place called Netmore, in the occupation of John May; also lot of 16 acres called Lake's End, in Upwell, in the occupation of John Raper; also the 'Hen and Chickens' in Whitechapel High Street, in the occupation of John Allen; also one undivided third part of tenements in Noble Street, in the parish of St. Olave, Sikver [? Silver] Street.

"Bequeaths Hen and Chickens' to Mary Entwisle, Margaret Entwisle, and Jane Millikin, widow, all of Lombard Street, London, milliners, and immediately after their decease to the use of Halley Benson Millikin, son of the said Jane Millikin. Legacies to my cousin Robert Smith,' Elizabeth Caton, niece of my said late husband. Mary Entwisle sole executrix. Witnesses - Basil Herne, Basil Herne [sic], William Herne.

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"Dated July 8, 1764. Proved Nov. 14, 1765, by Mary Entwisle, sole executrix."-P.C.C., Register Rushworth, fo. 423.

A correspondent says:

"Part of Lombard Street is in the parish of St. Mary, Woolnoth, and I conjecture that in her second widowhood Catherine Price went to live with the sisters Entwisle.

"As to the houses and land which appear to have been settled on the second marriage of Catherine, of her estate or of that of Henry Price. Possibly it is not clear whether they originally formed part the part of tenements in Noble Street came to her from her first husband."

The purport of the above will be made rather more clear by adding that Katherine Price, younger surviving daughter of Dr. Edmond Halley, had first married, 2 October, 1721, Richard Butler, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, widower (cp. published 'Register of Church of St. Margaret, Lee,' p. 13). Her second husband was Henry Price, who died in January, 1764.

Reference to the marriage of James Millikin and Jane Entwisle, 26 October, 1749,