7.

Barley, Herts.

In memory of the Revd Samuel Lee, D.D., | Rector of Barley,¦ Canon in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, and late Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge, who departed this life | December 16th, 1852, | aged 69 years.

8.

Barham, Kent.

Near this place ly ye remains of Lvcy, ye wife of Charles Bean, Vicar of Lidd [? Liddington, Wilts], & daughter of the Reynd James Sessions, Rector of Downtisburn [Duntesbourn Rous], in ye County of Gloucester (together wth those of her infants, Thomas & Catherine). She was a devout & charitable Christian, a dutifull | daughter, an affectionate wife & mother, & a sincere friend with- | out art or reserve. She died abovt | ye 30th y' of her age on ye 27th of Oct. 1715.

9.

Elham Churchyard, Kent.

In loving memory of | Danzey Somerville, of this Parish, | fourth son of the late | Sackville Cresswell, Vicar of Bibury, Gloucestershire, | born Jany 15th, 1825, | died March 30th, 1889. | Also Elizabeth, dearly loved daughter of the above, born March 20th, 1867, died March 16th, 1888.

10.

Hunstanton Churchyard, Norfolk.

William Forge, M.A., | Rector of King Stanley, | Gloucestershire, departed this life | July 12, 1857, | aged 78 years.

11.

Mary Hinson Forge, widow of William Forge, M.A., Rector of King Stanley, Gloucestershire, died May 23, 1871, | aged 86.

12.

Mary Forge, daughter of the | Revd William Forge, | Rector of King Stanley, Gloucestershire, born January 5, 1825, died November 21, 1874, | in hope of the resurrection and eternal life.

13.

George William | Forge, | died March 17, 1860, | aged 36 years

14.

Lichfield Cathedral.

To the memory of the Honourable and Right Reverend | Henry Ryder, D.D., | successively Bishop of Gloucester, and of Lichfield and Coventry, this monument is erected, in testimony of affectionate respect, by many who revered and loved him. His

unsparing self-devotion to the duties of his high office, his unaffected humility, his Christian simplicity, | his expansive charity, his fervent and cheerful piety, | endeared him to his friends, and concentrated universal regard. | Constrained by the love of Christ, he strove to extend the means of worshipping and serving Him both at home and abroad, and to diffuse the light of His gospel among Jews and Gentiles. | As a preacher, affectionate, faithfull, | earnest, persuasive, practical: | as a bishop, paternal, vigilant, apt to teach, given to hospitality, mild and forbearing, yet when duty called inflexible, he exhibited in his daily walk and conversation | a bright example to the flock over which the Holy Ghost had made him overseer. In meek reliance on the grace and intercession of the Redeemer, he lived, he laboured, he died, entering into his rest in the fifty-ninth year of his age, and twenty-first of his episcopate, March XXXI, MDCCCXXXVI, at Hastings, where his mortal remains are deposited. [On white marble tablet near the kneeling effigy of the bishop.]

15.

Westminster Abbey.

Hic in pace requiescit et in spe beatae Resurrectionis Jacobus Henricus Monk, S. T. P., Episcopus Glocestrensis et Bristoliensis, et per annos XXVI Canonicus Westmonasteriensis, Decanus olim Petroburgensis, et per annos XIV apud Cantabrigienses Graecarum Literarum Professor Regius, qui obiit VIto die Junij, anno Dni MDCCCLVIto, episcopatus XXVIto, aetatis LXXIVto. [Brass, marginal (in black-letter) with evangelistic symbols, round the incised brass effigy of bishop in mitre, etc. Floor of north aisle.] R. H. EDLESTON.

Gainford Vicarage, Darlington.

16.

Bath Abbey, Somerset.

Sacred to the memory of Lieut Gen1 | Sir Henry Augustus Montague Cosby, of the Honourable Company's Service, and | of Barnsville Park, in the County of Glocester. Died January 17th, 1822, aged 79.

[Twelve lines of poetry omitted.]

17.

Sacred to the memory of Anne Lady Cosby, | [second] wife of Lieut Gen1 Sir Henry Cosby, died May 24th, 1817.

[Fourteen lines of poetry omitted. In the south transept there are likewise inscriptions to the memory of other members of the Cosby family. (1) Admiral Phillips Cosby, d. 10 Jan., 1808, aged 77. (2) Capt. Phillips Cosby, eldest son of Sir Henry Cosby and Anne, his wife, d. 27 June, 1826, aged 26. (3) Henry Cosby, late Capt. 4th Royal Dragoon Guards, second and last surviving son of

same, d. January, 1842, aged 37. (4) Harriet Frances, his wife, d. March, 1837, aged 30. Their four daughters, viz. (5) Mary Augusta, d. 21 July, 1842, aged 14. (6) Harriet Louisa Anne, d. 28 Jan., 1850, aged 20. (7) Emma Grace Mary Anne, d. 11 May, 1855, aged 22. (8) Frances Eliza Jane, d. 1 Dec., 1857, aged 24. (9) Augusta Louisa, wife of the Rev. William Samuel Parr Wilder, M.A., and only dau. of Sir Henry Cosby and Anne, his wife, d. 16 Dec., 1862, aged 67.]

18.

Mary Riners,

thirty-one years the

To the memory of affectionate wife | of Francis Riners, Esq, of Bitton, | Glocestershire. She died May 11th, 1804, | aged 58. Francis Riners, Esq, died 8th September, 1817, aged 65. | A truly charitable humane

man.

19.

Dundry, Somerset.

(Memorial window.)

In memory of John Adlam, late of Bristol, Gentleman, who departed this life Oct. 2nd, 1858, aged 82, and of Mary Ann, his wife, davghter of John Moore, of Frenchay, Gentleman, | a descendant of an old Somersetshire family. She departed this life March 23rd, 1820, aged 30.

20.

Farrington Gurney, Somerset.

In memory of Charlotte, wife of the Revd Francis Annesley, of Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire, and daughter of the Revd Henry Hodges Mogg and Maria, his wife, | who died the 27th of June, 1837, | aged 28 years.

21.

South Petherton Cemetery, Somerset.

Charles Edward Hey, M. A., | Vicar of this Parish, and formerly Precentor of Bristol Cathedral. | Died Oct. 13, 1884, aged 48 years. 22.

Witham Friary, Somerset.

Here lyeth the body of Mrs Frances Codrington, relict of John Codrington, in the | Covnty of Gloster, Esq., and mother of M Frances Wyndham, the wife of Thomas Wyndham, of Witham,! Esq. Obiit Ivly ye 2, An° 1676. ABHBA.

1874. THE STEEP HOLM IN 1625.-Although the Steep Holm is not geographically within the county of Gloucester, the fact that it forms one of the boundaries of the port of Bristol may justify the publication of the following description of the island early in the seventeenth century. The document from which it is taken is

amongst the multitudinous manuscripts collected by the late Mr. Jefferies, and may be seen in "The Canynge Room," Redcliff Street, Bristol.

Extract from an account book of the Manor of Norton Beauchamp, written about 1625, and in the possession of Mr. [Richard Brickdale] Ward, attorney, of Bristol.

There is belongeinge to this Manour one little Iland called Stipe Holmes, beinge West from Norton Beauchamp 7 or 8 Miles into the Sea called Seaverne; the which cont by estimacōn xxiiij acres: whereuppon groweth nothinge but a certen kinde of smale fuell, called Privett, Elder, & a kinde of wilde garlicke estemed to be of noe more value then the cuttinge or carrieinge awaie, not yet that. There be also within the said Iland certen graie Conies, to the nombre of xx or xxx coples by estimac, but of noe value, because by experience had of them, they be so fedd with garlicke, privet, & Elder (grasse lackeinge), that they do saver of the garlicke & privet in eatinge.

And there is in the West side of the said Ilande one little Springe of fresshe water, never drie, but not to be gone unto without some danger, because it is in the side of the Ilande between the Sea & the highest of the Ilande.

Item, there breedeth yerelie within the said Ilande Gulls and some Pewetts & some other kinde of Sea Fowles, but of smale nomber and value; but there breedeth & cometh to good comonlie of Gulls 16 or 20 dozen, sometymes more and sometymes lesse, but they must be watched from thend of Julie to thend of August by

2 men.

Item, there is to the same noe Entrance in but in two places onlie; the other parts be a hundred faddum of height & more, and unpossible to enter unto it. The same to be rented may be worthe a yere the comoditie of the Gulls, valued at 20s a dozen, as the plentie or scantie is. But the chardges must be taken out of that monie for the Watchemen.

The Comoditie of the Pewetts is of noe value, because there be few or none at all to be accounted of.

Bristol.

J. L.

1875. — RICHARD THE THIRD'S PERMISSION TO WEAR HIS LIVERY.-In Sir Henry Ellis's Original Letters, illustrative of English History, 3rd series, vol. i., p. 113, there is one (No. xlvi.) from Richard III. to the authorities of Gloucester, with permission to wear his Livery (Harl. MS. 433. fol. 127b).

[The wearing of liveries had been forbidden under the heaviest penalties by statutes of the 1st and 2nd of Henry IV.; but the contest of the Roses renewed them. The livery or badge of cognizance of Richard III. was a white boar. Noble, in his History of the College of Arms, says that at Richard's coronation eight thousand cognizances of this kind were wrought upon

fustian, he supposes in silver thread, which cost £20 per thousand. Collars of Richard's livery, of a higher order, consisted of roses in the sunbeams, with a boar pendent. Such an one is still seen suspended from the shoulders to the breast of a monumental figure of one of the Nevils at Brancepeth, Durham: probably the only one now to be found. Richard, in allusion to his badge, gave the name of Blanc Sanglier to the pursuivant who carried his messages. Hall says this pursuivant assisted in performing a part of the last offices to his master after the battle of Bosworth; he bore the body from the field, without covering, thrown behind him across a horse.-Ellis.]

RICHARD, &c. To the Mair, Shireffes, and Aldermen of our Toune of Gloucestre that nowe be, or that herafter for the tyme shalbe, greting. Forasmoche as we wele understande that by meane of Reteyndors, and receiving and wering of lyveres of clothing, baieux [badges], and of signes contrarie to theffect of the statutes by our noble pregenitors heretofore ordeyned and stablished in that behalve, gret and many divisions and inconvenientes have risen and growen in diverse places within this our royme, to the gret troubles and noyaunce of our subgiettes of the same; and speciali now of late amongst you within our said. Towne, by evyll disposed Gentilmen, Jamys Gyse, John Burdet, Edward Brigge, and other in making assault upon our Officers; a Constable of our said Towne not only betyn and grevosux maymed but also therby in dispare of his lyff, as it is to us showed to our full gret displeasur. Wherfore we woll and charge you that if ye have committed theim or any of theim to prisoun ye do suerly Kepe theim their without baille or maynprise, to suche tyme as ye shall understande of our ferther pleasure in that behalve; and if noe, to endevoir you therunto; and over this that ye in no wise from hensfurth suffre any person dwelling amonges you in our said Towne or Fraunchises, for to use or were lyverey of clothing, bagien [badges], signe, or other conisaunce of the yefte of any maner persone, of what estate, degre, or condicion soever he be, but onley oures; and that upon the payne of forfiture of your liberties and fraunchises. And if ye shall knowe any presumyng or attempting soe to doe, that ye furthwith without delaye comytte himm likewise to sure prison, and soo to remayne as above. Faill ye not to accomplisshe this at your uttermest perill. Yeven, &c., at London the vjth day of Decembre A° primo.

1876. THE STATE OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, CIRCA 1536.-In Ellis's Original Letters, 3rd series, vol. iii., p. 47, there is one (No. cclxxii.) from Roland Lee, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to Lord Cromwell, on the state of Gloucestershire (Harl. MS. 283. fol. 163). It was written apparently about A.D. 1536.

[We have here the arraignment of a jury for a presumed false