LONDON, JANUARY 8, 1921. CONTENTS.-No. 143. NOTES:-The Tempests of Holmside, co. Durham, 21 border into Scotland and on Jan. 7, 1570, was with the Lord of Buccleugh at Branksome. He and his son Michael embarked from Aberdeen, Aug. 23, 1570. They were at Louvain in 1571. On June 11, 1571 one John Lea wrote to Lord Burghley from Antwerp that Robert Tempest and others had been earnest suitors at Brussels for pensions of which they were assured: but on Jan. 1, 1572 Michael Tempest wrote to his cousin Cuthbert Vasey from Brussels, that he and his father were both in health French Revolution '-Spencer Mackay, Armiger-The and living quietly with safety of conscience, Glomery-"David Lyall. Pseudonym. 29-Early Ascents without any relief as yet of any prince; of Mont Blanc by English Travellers-Kensington Gravel at Versailles-West-Country Place-names in the Seven- nevertheless they were expecting it shortly teenth Century-Coats of Arms: Identification Sought by the grace of God, and hoped to see a Meliora"-Stevenson and Miss Yonge-Principal," happy end of all their troubles. In another 30-Thackeray: The Newcomes'- Barlow Family Major-General Sir Robert Sale-Chatterton's Apprentice-letter addressed to James Swynhoe, gentleman of the English Countess (i.e. of Northumberland), and dated from Louvain Mar. 4, 1572, Michael Tempest mentions his "cousin Swinburne." Robert Tempest the father died at Brussels. Shortly afterwards Michael went to Spain with one of his sons, probably William. They were in Madrid, May to July 1574, and received 300 ducats, with the promise of 35 ducats a month, or ship to Lambert-'Frankenstein,' 31. "Eminere REPLIES:-A Note on Pepys's Diary. 31-Pamphlet on NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Place-Names of Northumberland and Durham'-'The Story of "Our Mutual Friend." OBITUARY:-Cecil Deedes. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. THE TEMPESTS OF HOLMSIDE, CO. DURHAM. Is vol xiii. of The Catholic Record Society's Publications at p. 117 (note 383) I fell into some error about this family. Dodd ('Church History,' ii., 111) seems also to have fallen into a similar confusion. Perhaps I may be allowed to rectify it here. 40 ducats a month in Flanders. Michael's banishment from the Low Countries was demanded, Dec. 1, 1574 and July 3, 1575. He died abroad before 1588.* (b) Robert Tempest, the third son of the above-mentioned Robert took the law as his profession, as his father, and as his brother Michael had done, and going abroad before the Rebellion took the degree of J.U.L. at some foreign university, probably either Louvain or Paris. He arrived at the English College at Rheims Dec. 24, 1583 and was ordained deacon by Cardinal de Guise (afterwards known as the Cardinal of Lorraine) in the chapel of St Cross in the Cathedral Church of Rheims, Mar. 31, 1584, and left for Rome, being then a priest, Jan. 17, 1585. In 1587 he was living in Paris. He returned to Rheims from Paris Sept. 18, 1590 but left almost at once for (a) Robert Tempest, of Holmside, High Sheriff of Durham in 1561, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lesthall, of Lachford, Oxfordshire; by whom he had five sons, *Cal. S.P. Dom. Add.' 1566-1579, pp. 91, Michael, George, Robert, William and 95, 113, 117, 185, 352, 377, 385; Members of the Thomas. He and his eldest son Michael Inner Temple' (London, 1877), p. 32; Sharp, were attainted in 1569 for having taken 'Memorials of the Rebellion' (London, 1840), part in the Northern Rebellion. He was pp. 33, 264; Bridgwater, Concertatio Ecclesiae Proost, 'Messager des Sciences Historiques specially named by Thomas, Earl of Sussex, (Gand, 1865), pp. 284-6; Hamilton, Chronicle On in a proclamation dated Nov. 19, 1569. of St. Monica's, Louvain,' ii. 136; Surtees, Durham,' ii. 327 pp. 899. England.* He was captured in 1612 and imprisoned, but after two years he was released on bail and according to Cardinal Gasquet (Hist. of Eng. Coll. Kome,' p. 155) Hampshire on parole. In 1624 he became a Jesuit, and died in Hampshire July 13 1640. Who this brother-in-law was I have been unable to find out. Foley (Records Eng. Prov. S.J., vii. 766) says that he was born in 1563 and professed of the four vows March, 1636. the following December. In 1592 he was again in Paris, but afterwards was papal envoy in Scotland in 1598, and then went to Antwerp, from which place he came to the English College at Douay July 3, 1599."allowed to live with his brother-in-law in Returning to Antwerp, he revisited Douay June 17, 1603, and left to take up work on the English Mission for the first time, June 20, 1603. From England he returned to Antwerp, where he died before September 1625, leaving various house property in Antwerp to Douay College, on condition that the College should educate one of his kin on the rents thereof, such kinsman to be nominated by his brother William, of Somerton in Oxfordshire, or his nephew Thomas, one of the sons of the said William, by Elizabeth, dau. of co-heir of William More of Hadham, co. Oxon. The rents being insufficient, Robert Tempest's nephew and executor, Henry Clifford, covenanted to supplement them out of his own pocket. Henry Clifford had married Robert's niece Catherine, daughter of his brother Thomas.* (c) The third Robert Tempest, grandson of the first, and nephew of the second, was the second son of Michael Tempest, by Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Dymoke of Scrivelsby. He was in Rome in 1580, and arrived at the English College, Rheims, " a schola Augensi Aug. 16, 1584. He was again at Rome in 1585 when he entered the English College, but returned to Rheims Oct. 23, 1589, and left for Paris on a visit to his uncle Robert Jan. 15, 1590. While there he experienced a famine, in which he and his uncle were only too thankful to feed on the flesh of asses, mules, and horses. He returned to Rheims Aug. 21 and began to lecture on logic Aug. 30, 1590. He received minor orders Apr. 12, the subdiaconate Apr. 13, and the diaconate June 8 or 9, 1591, all at Soissons, and was ordained priest in the chapel of St. Cross in Rheims Cathedral the following Sept. 21. It is not known when he took the degree of S.T.D. which he did before 1599, but it would seem to have been either at Rome or Paris. In July 1599 he was lecturer on moral theology in the English College at Douay. In 1600 he went to Antwerp to say goodbye to his uncle, returning to Douay on June 12, and on July 15 of the same year he set out for Knox, Douay Diaries,' pp. 12, 23, 200, 203, 234, 236, 237, 250, 282, 300, 374; Cath. Rec. Soc., x. 7, 71 244, 245; Strype, Annals,' III. ii. 598; IV. 148; Hamilton, Chronicle of St. Monica's Louvain,' ii. pp. 134, 136. Robert's elder brother William_passed through Rheims on his way to Verdun, where he was to be educated by the Jesuits, and stayed at the English College from May 2 to 12, 1582. On July 8, 1585 he was again received at the College coming from England, and finally on his way from Paris to England he was again the guest of the College from Mar. 25, 1590 to Apr. 23, 1591.† Another brother (the 4th son of Michael), Edward, arrived at Rheims June 1, 1586, was confirmed by Cardinal de Guise, Dec. 18 following, and left for Rome Mar. 27, 1590.† There, Cardinal Gasquet writes (op. cit., pp.157-8), he was was ordained Mar. 19, 1594, but did not go to England until 1597. Two years later he already a prisoner in the Clink, London, as appears from a list of prisoners in that year, and from that prison on Jan. 15, 1590. from a letter written to the Archpriest Blackwell. He had been captured ten days before by the apostate Sacheverell " (as to whom see 'N. & Q.' 11 S. viii, 405). Nicholas Tempest, a cousin of the third Robert, being the elder son of his uncle Thomas, and brother of Catherine Clifford mentioned above, arrived at Rheims Apr. 28, 1584 and again Nov. 8, 1590. He left for Namur July 10, 1591 and returned Sept. 12, 1591. He again returned from Douay Feb. 13, 1593, and left on May 4 following to take up a military career, nostri vitæ generis pertaesus militatum abiit D. Nicolaus Tempest, scholastica theologiæ studiosus. He died s.p. before 1643, and was buried at? Carrow. If, as seems certain, he took service with the King of Spain, Carrow probably means Corunna (Sp. La Coruña).§! *Cal. S.P. For.,' 1580; Hamilton, op cit., ii. 136; Knox, op cit., pp. 15, 32, 201, 227, 232, 233, 236, 239, 240, 241, 374; Cath. Rec. Soc. x. pp. 7, 22, 26. † Knox, op. cit., pp. 187, 207, 229, 239. Knox op cit., pp. 201, 237, 240, 241, 249, 250; Surtees, Durham,' ii. 327 sqq. Walter Nicholson, William Perks and This originally sinister branch of the Yorkshire Tempests certainly suffered as much as the parent tree for the Catholic | the vicarage and farm. They noted the table, Faith. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. AMONG THE SHAKESPEARE ARCHIVES. RICHARD SHAKESPEARE'S NEIGHBOURS. 1. Sir Thomas Hargreave, Vicar of Snitter field. benches, tressels, ambrey (cupboard), and seven painted-cloths in the hall; bedding, linen and coffer in the parlour above the hall (of the value of 31. 28. 3d.); six bedsteads in the chambers; utensils in the mill-house and kitchen; corn winnowed in the house, and corn growing in the field-12 acres of wheat, 17 of rye and maslin, 8 of barley and dredge, 12 of oats and 19 of peas, 68 acres altogether; 4 oxen (71.), a little ambling nag (26s. 8d.), and an old lame mare (5s.); a wain and a cart, 2 old tumbrels, 3 ploughs, 1 pair of harrows and other things: summa totalis 341. 10s. 2d. 2. Widow Townsend of the Wold. More than one family lived at the Wold in the parish of Snitterfield. Among them were the Townsends-John and his wife Margaret, and their two sons, William and Thomas, and two daughters, Mary and Joan. John Townsend was a freeholder, known to Master Robert Arden. He witnessed the release of John Palmer's tenement, adjoining Richard Shakespeare's farm, to Master Arden on Oct. 1, 1529. When he made his WHILE John Shakespeare was taking his place among seniors and contemporaries in Stratford, his father held a position of some esteem among neighbours at Snitterfield. When Thomas Hargreave, vicar from 1541 to 1557, died, Richard Shakespeare and four other parishioners were called upon to make the inventory of his goods and chattels. The Vicar's income was chiefly derived from his glebe land. He was an energetic farmer with a kinswoman, Ellen Hargreave the elder, to keep house for him. He made his will on Apr. 27, 1557, with bequests to his housekeeper and other relatives in the district a brother William, a sister Joan (wife of John Seylton of Desford), James Hargreave of Minworth; Anthony Har-will on Oct. 10, 1546, he left his freehold to greave, who had a son Thomas; and John his wife for life and to dispose of at death Hargreave of Sutton (Southam), who had as she thought best. He expressed the sons Anthony and John. The last named wish that she and Thomas should occupy was probably the John Hargreave who was two parts of the farm jointly, and William tenant with Richard Shakespeare and John the third part. Among the three he disHenley of Master Robert Arden's property tributed his corn and crop, carts, beasts and in Snitterfield and near neighbour to Richard horses and other things, reserving a cow for Shakespeare. Thomas Hargreave remem- his daughter Joan and a nose-calf for her bered also his servants and god-children, and son. This Joan was Mistress Waterman of left malt and peas to be distributed among the Stratford, wife of Thomas Dickson alias "poor where need is," likewise "beef and Waterman, glover and whittawer in Bridge bacon as much as is in the house." He Street, and future Alderman, and her son bequeathed his soul "to God Almighty and was young Thomas, the future husband of our Blessed Lady and all the Holy Company Phillipa Burbage and landlord of the Swan. of Heaven," and his body "to be buried in John Townsend's other daughter (apparthe church of Snitterfield afore my seat in ently Mary) was married to John Staunton the chancel." Towards the re-casting of of Longbridge, near Warwick, and the the bell he left 10s. Residuary legatees mother of children. One of her later born, and executors were Anthony Fletcher, Vicar or perhaps a grand-child, was Judith of Tachebrooke and our friend Edward Staunton, who became the wife of Alcock of Wotton Wawen, who were to dis- | pose of what was left for the good of his soul at their discretion. Master Thomas Robins of Northbrooke and his son-in-law, Master Edward Grant, he appointed supervisors. On Wednesday, May 5, Richard Shakespeare, in the company of Richard Maids, William Shakespeare's friend, Hamlet Widow Townsend survived her husband ten or twelve years. With her sons, of whom Thomas married and had a Thomas, she lived on the freehold farm at son the Wold, taking an active share in the work. We see her in her "old coat on week-days, with her head in a kerchief, among her bees and milk-pails, grinding malt and making cheese, and busy in the , kitchen, aided by her servant and kinswoman, Alice Townsend, who after her death, we gather, married her son, William. Thomas ploughed the fields with his team of oxen; or followed the 'ox-harrow with seventeen tines (or teeth) of iron." On Sunday she went to church, where her husband was buried, in a hat or cap, wearing her beads and a silver ring, in a gown of velvet, a black kirtle and a red petticoat "over-bodied with red russels " (fox-skins), and "a harnessed girdle of silver." 66 She made her will on June 1, 1558, bequeathing the farm to Thomas, with "all the wood lying against the elms at the chamber end," and a cow and a few household things, and all the remainder of her possessions, except some personal gifts, to William. Mistress Waterman obtained her mother's cap; Thomas' wife had the "harnessed girdle of silver," and the rest of the Sunday garments; a god-daughter, Margaret Phillips, daughter of William Phillips of Stratford (and cousin of the other Margaret Philiips, daughter of Mistress Waterman, now wife of Edward Walford of Evenlode) inherited the silver ring, and Alice Townsend, the prospective wife, as it appears, of William, a cow, a pair of sheets, a twilly (or coverlet), a caldron, two pewter dishes, a pair of tache-hooks and two "partlets. Mary Staunton's children received a memorial groat apiece, while her husband had the appointment of supervisor to the will. Thomas' right to seven gold pieces (two angels and five crowns), given to him one day by his mother in the barn, is acknowledged by William. On Oct. 10, 1558, the inventory of Widow Townsend's goods was made by Thomas Palmer, Thomas Mayowe, and William Bett (or Bott), another resident on the Wold. Was it through the Townsends that young John Shakespeare was apprenticed to a glover and whittawer in Stratford ? And did he enter the service of Joan Townsend's husband, Thomas Dickson alias Waterman, and become a member of her household? When a nephew of Joan and a grandson of Widow Townsend named John, son probably of Thomas Townsend, had a son Edward, baptized on July 13, 1578, Edward Cornwall, brother-in-law of John Shakespeare, living in John Shakespeare's old home in Snitterfield, stood godfather; and when eight years later, on Sept. 4, 1586, John Townsend's son Henry was baptized in Snitterfield Church, John Shakespeare's brother, Henry Shakespeare of Ingon, was sponsor. 3. Roger Lyncecombe. Another link between Snitterfield and Stratford was Roger Lyncecombe. He was a yeoman of Snitterfield with a small shop in Henley Street, Stratford, near the home of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. His farm at Snitterfield was by the Lammas Close. He had land also at Yardley, which he purchased and bequeathed to his son Thomas. We get a glimpse of him in the year 1538 as overseer of the will of a Stratford man, William Facey, who also had land at Yardley. He had two sons, John and the aforesaid Thomas, and three daughters, one married to Thomas Warner of Wellesburn, the second to Henry Bowton cf Pillardington, and the third, Agnes, who was not married in his lifetime. On Jan. 14, 1557, he was appointed overseer to the will of a Snitterfield neighbour, William Bracy, whose goods he helped to appraise on Feb. 7 following. An item in this will throws light on the "second best bed in William Shakespeare's will sixty years later. William Bracy said :— "My wife Margery shall have to her use all my household stuff except one bed, the second-best, the which I give and bequeath to John my son with three pair of sheets." He evidently wished his wife to retain the best bed, and his son to have the secondbest after his death. As evidently Shakespeare wanted his wife to keep her bed, which was the second-best at New Place, when his daughter and her husband, Doctor Hall, came into the house on his decease. On June 24, 1557, Roger Lyncecombe was made overseer of the will of another Snitterfield friend, Thomas Harding. He signed his own will on Aug. 13, 1558, and Richard Shakespeare helped to value his goods on Apr. 21, 1559. The widow maintained the connection with Stratford, where on June 22, 1560, her daughter Agnes married the young usher at the Grammar School, successor to old Dalam and assistant to Master William Smart, William Gilbert alias Higgës (pronounced Hidges). They perhaps lived in a house in Rother Market, for which widow Lyncecombe paid rent until her death in 1570. William Gilbert alias Higgës lived Linen Trade of Ireland in Stratford (with a short break when he EDGAR I. FRIPP. (To be continued.) In entrance hall, Royal Dublin Society, Bust in Goldsmith's Hall, London. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE Oxford and Stowe, Bucks. BRITISH ISLES. William IV. Statues over gateway, Royal Victualling Yard, Cremill, Plymouth, and (See 10 S. xi., xii.: 11 S. i.-xii.: 12 S. i.-vi. Bank of England (Cheese). Busts in Gold passim.) Boadicea (Boudicca) | Queen of the Iceni who died A.D. 61 | after leading her people | against the Roman invader. This Statue by Thomas Thornycroft | was presented to London by his son | Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, C.E. I and placed here by the London County Council | A.D. 1902. Regions Cæsar never knew | Thy posterity shall sway. | Parliament Hill, Essex Naturalist, viii., 1894, p. 248. Elizabeth, dau. of Charles I.-Newport Church, I.O.W. Monument by Marochetti, erected by Queen Victoria. smiths' Hall (Chantrey), Vauxhall Gardens Palace, the Victoria. Buckingham National Memorial was prepared on Primrose Hill the large temporary wooden erection near the gymnasium being put up for the purpose; see 'The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill' (Webster), p. 90. Entrance hall, St. Thomas's Hospital, white marble statue in state robes, by M. Noble, the gift of Sir John Musgrove, Bart., President, 1873. Junior Constitutional Club, Picca dilly, white marble statue in state robes, by [Sir] Thomas Brock, with inscription ; This statue in commemoration of the Diamond Club, and was unveiled on 5th February, 1902, Jubilee was subscribed for by members of the by the Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., PrimeMinister. St. Paul's Cathedral, in front of steps, inscription ;— Charles II.-Old Southwark Town Hall (12 S. v. 260)., underneath the statue was an inscription: "Combustum an. 1676. Reedificatum Annis 1685 et 1686." Removed from the watch-house to the garden of Mr. Edmonds at Walworth (Gent. Mag., Here Queen Victoria | returned thanks to | 1840, pt. i., p. 359). Offered for sale by a Almighty God for the sixtieth anniversary | of Kensington dealer in 1915, who found it in a her accession, | June 22, A.D. 1897. | field at Hayes, Middlesex (John o' London's Houses of Parliament, two statues in. Weekly, Sept. 4, 1920). Stocks' Market Victoria Tower, one within the porch and (12 S. v. 260).-Sloane MS. 655, f. 42b. the other immediately above the entrance, Charlotte.-Kew Palace (Queen's bed-in Prince's Chamber (north wall) marbleroom). Brass plate over fireplace with statue by J. Gibson. See also 'Return of Inscription ;Outdoor Memorials in London,' issued by L.C.C., 1910, pp. 51-53. Maidstone, Kent, statue at top of High Street, by John Thomas, with inscription ; This tablet is placed here by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in memory of her grandmother | Her Majesty Queen Charlotte | consort of His Majesty King George III. There is also a bust of Charlotte by Percy Fitzgerald in the room. George IV.-Kingstown Harbour, Dublin. --Obelisk surmounted by a crown marking the spot where the king ran down the slope to his barge. Royal Dublin Society (on staircase) statue with inscription ;— This Statue of His Majesty George IV. I was erected by the Merchants engaged in the The gift of Alexander Randall | to his nativetown | 1862. | Plaster replica in the town museum. Dublin. Courtyard of Leinster House, bronze statue by John Hughes, the pedestal being wrought in France of French stone by H. Vienne. The three bronze groups represent Peace, Industry and War; it is still uncompleted and its effect spoiled by the surrounding high buildings. Unveiled Feb. 15, |