V. William Hall. Arms—A. three talbots' heads erased between nine cross-c Crest-A talbot's head. REV. THOMAS ROGERS, RECTOR OF HORRINGER, SUFF I have received from a relative in Canada a small 4to volu vellum, intitled, "The faith, doctrine, and religion, profes tected in the realme of England, and Dominions of the same in thirtynine articles, concordably agreed vpon by the reue and Clergie of this Kingdome, at two seuerall meetings or c theirs in the yeeres of our Lord 1562 and 1604. Printed by and are to be sold by Michael Sparke at the signe of the greene Arbor, neere the little Old bayly 1629." The preface is inscribed to the Most Reverend Father Richard &c. Abp of Canterbury, and is dated "at Horninger Bury, in Suff., the 11 of March, Ann. 1607. Your Graces poore Chaplaine alwayes at command Thomas Rogers." I learn from Gage's History of Thingoe, p. 506, that T was presented by the Crown to the Rectory of Great and Lit herth, 12th December, 1581, and appears to have resigned th in 1588, when Jões Harrison was presented to the livings by Jermyn, Knt. He, however, would appear to have continu the parish. I shall be thankful for any reference to an ac author and his family. Sir James Stonehouse (vol. III, p. 69).-See baptisms of Sir James Stonehouse's children in the extracts from Islington parish register, in Nelson's history of that place.-G. W. M. The Tau in the Drury Arms (vol. I, p. 12.)-After Nicholas Drury returned from the expedition with John of Gaunt, in 1386, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and that perhaps is the reason why the Tau is added to the Drury Arms. The original coat of the family was simply, Argent on a chief Vert, two mullets pierced Or. The family is descended from John De Drury, one of the companions in arms of William the Norman.-JOHN PIGGOT, JUNR. Churches with Thatched Roofs.-The following ohurches of East Anglia have thatched roofs. Norfolk Bridgham, Old Buckenham, Belton, Chedgrave, Crostwick, Hackford, Hales, Heckingham, Horning, Kempston, Kirby Bedon, Mautby, Marlingford, S. Ethelred, Norwich, S. Michael, Ormsby, S. Margaret Paston, S. Peter Ridlington, Rockland S. Mary, St. Nicholas Swafield, Skingham, Sizeland (or Sisland), Thorpe (next Haddiscoe), Thorpe (next Norwich), and Thurlton. Suffolk S. Andrew Gorleston, Gisleham, Kirtley, and Pakefield. Lincolnshire-S. Margaret Somersby, near Horncastle, Rigsby, near Alford, and Markby. Would any one give me other examples.-JOHN PIGGOT, JUNE. QUERIES. Family of Thorowgood.-If any of your readers can give me particulars of the family of Thorowgood, of Low Leyton, Essex, ante 1711, I shall be obliged.-T. Families of Nelson.-Any information about the ancestors of George Nelson, who was buried "near to his aunt Stevens," at Little Glemham, co. Suffolk, November 14th, 1773, will confer a favour.-L. ERRATA. Vol. III, page 191, 1. 8, for et read h't (habet); 10, for bū read br'i; 16, for Hawekyn read Havekyn; 17, for Heighdon read Heydon; 24 for de Normaunt read le Normaunt. P. 200, 1. 5 and 3 from bottom, for xxs. read xxd. P. 186, 1. 6, for Gentleman read Gentlewoman. Vol. I, p. 296, 1. 11, for Dr. Clerke, ob. 31st Oct., 1730, read 31st Oct., The East Anglian. MARCH, 1868. NOTES. FIRE AT BECCLES, 1586. In a curious collection of reprints of "Old Black Letter Ballads and Broadsides," lately published by Joseph Lilly, of New Street, Covent Garden, are included two relating to the Great Fire at Beccles, in 1586. They are thus described :- 1. "A brief sonet declaring the lamentation of Beckles, a Market Towne in Suffolke which was in the great winde upon S. Andrewes eve pitifully burned with fire to the value by estimation of twentie thousand pounds. And to the number of fourescore dwelling houses, besides a great number of other houses. 1586. To the tune of Labandalashotte. Finis. q, D. Sterrie. At London. Imprinted by Robert Robinson for Nicholas Colman of Norwich, dwelling in St. Andrewes Churchyarde. 2. A proper new Sonet declaring the lamentation of Beccles a Market Towne in Suffolke, which was in the great winde upon S. Andrewes eve last past, most pitifully burned with fire, to the losse by estimation of twentie thousande pounde and upwarde, to the number of fourescore dwelling houses. 1586. At London, Imprinted by Robert Robinson for Nicholas Colme of Norwich, dwelling in S. Andrewes Churchyard. The author complains bitterly that "No helpe was found to slacke the fyre"-that the thieves stole "Theyr neighbors wealth which wasted lay about the streetes that time;"-that " from the morning nyne a clocke till foure a clocke at night," Beccles lost "fourscore houses, the Church, and temple;" and that The market place and houses fayre that stood about the same Hath felt the force and violence of this most fearful flame. A mutilated copy of this rare ballad was discovered some few years ago in the binding of an old Italian work, printed in 1584, in the library of the Royal Society. T.D. was Thomas Deloney, the "balletting silk-weaver" of Norwich, and probably the above was one of his earliest productions. "Wilson's tune," or "Wilson's Wilde," as it is sometimes called, is preserved in William Ballet's Lute Book, a M.S. in Trinity College, Dublin. The tune of "Labandalashotte" is mentioned in the "Handfull of Pleasant Delights," 1584, but it has not been recovered. Is there any account among the Corporation Records of this great fire; or where can I find further particulars.-T. A. THE EAST ANGLIAN TRADESMEN'S TOKENS.-NO. 11 (VOL. III, P. 195). 193. O. Thomas Bull. 1669-the Barber-Surgeons' Arms. The Bull family, of Manewden, resided there for a long period. In 1569, William Bull left a small charity to the poor; and since then, many notices of the Bulls occur.C. G. Manningtree. 194. O. R. 195. 0. R. Henry Carter. Chyrvrgeon-the Barber-Surgeons' Arms. Of. Manitree. in Esex.-I. E. 1655. A farthing. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. 196. O. Theophilus Harvey-the Royal Arms. R. In Manitree 1669-T. R. H. and 4 conjoined. 197. O. R. 198. 0. R. 199. 0. Moulsham. Thomas Joyce. of-a wooden pail. John Little. 1666—a woman spinning. Willm. Sweeting-a wheelbarrow. A farthing. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. Thomas. Hvcherson-T. A. H. R. In. Newport.-1658. A farthing. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. This, doubtless, belongs to Essex, as the name Hucherson on the preceding one gives Newport Pond, and they were all probably issued by the same family. This place has not yet been previously placed in any list of Essex Tokens.-C. G. 206. 0. William. Sewell. of-1667. A farthing. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. A mansion called "Great House," in Pebmarsh parish, for upwards of two centuries belonged to the Sewell family, but they sold it in 1652, to Colonel T. Cook, who was member for Essex in Oliver Cromwell's Parliament.-C. G. Pentlow. Another Essex parish, never before noticed for its token. 207. 0. R. A farthing. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. Plaistow. 208. 0. R. John Corie of-J. M. C. Plastow. Mealman-1657. John Phillips. At the--a dog eating out of a flesh pot. Thomas Pollard. at. the—a ship. In Plaistowe. 1668-His Half Peny. Pleshey. Humfrey Sarient. of-Crest, a hand couped at the wrist grasping a tilting spear. Pleshey In Essex. (16)59-Arms, a bar between three crosses fitchée. Purfleet. 212. 0. R. Samuel Irons. at. Purflet-His Halfe Peny. 1669, Quendon and Quendon Street. 213. 0. His, Half. Peny. 1669,-H. E. B. R. In. Qvenden. Street.-The King's Head Crowned. A half-penny. In Mr. C. Golding's collection. This token is (I think) correctly placed here, though inserted in Boyne's Tokens of the Seventeenth Century as No. 1865, in the London list. No such street exists in London that I know, or can learn of, and certainly is not an important one now, and in the Parish Clerk's Survey of each Street, Lane, and Alley, printed in 1732, it does not occur. The token is not ́noticed either in Akerman's London Tradesmen's Tokens, published 1849, nor in J. H. Burns' extensive and valuable Notes on the Beaufoy Cabinet of London Tokens, belonging to the Corporation of London, published in 1855.-C. G. |