41.

Sacred to the beloved memory of

Mary Anne, widow of Richard Crosier Sherwood, Esqre, of Suffolk Lawn, Cheltenham, | died July 12th, 1875, | aged 75 years.

42.

Sacred to the memory of | Sophia, widow of the late | MajorGeneral Thomas Shuldham, of the Honourable | East India Company's Service, on the Bengal Establishment, who died February 8th, 1855, | aged 88 years.

43.

Erected to the memory of a highly revered & deeply beloved mother, | Mary, | relict of Nicholas Sykes, Esquire, of Swanland, Yorkshire. She left this vale of tears February 25th, 1844, aged 76. She walked in the fear & love of God.

44.

Sacred to the memory of | Richard Tickell, | Lieutenant-General Bengal Engineers, Companion of the Bath, who departed this life on the 3rd of August, 1855, aged 70 years. His mortal remains lie interred at Leckhampton. This humble tribute is erected by his sorrowing widow.

45.

Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant William Lockett Trotter, | Adjutant 45th Regiment | Bengal Native Infantry, who died at Landour on the 25th day of August, 1857, | aged 27 [years] and 11 months. This tribute is erected | to the memory of a very dear friend by his brother officers.

46.

Dedicated by his widow to the beloved memory of Colonel Joseph Turton, of the Bengal Horse Artillery, who departed this life on board the Steamer "Hindostan" in the Red Sea, | August 17th, 1858, aged 54 years. Also in memory of two infant children who died in India: Henry Zouch, June 29th, 1847, aged 15 days, and Mary Dora, August 8th, 1855, aged 5 months. Also in memory of Marie, widow of the above Col. J. Turton, who fell asleep 6th March, 1875. | R.I.P.

47.

To the beloved and honoured memory of James Webster, Esquire, of Hatherley Court, Cheltenham, Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant | for the County of Gloucester, who departed this life, in the faith of Christ and in perfect peace, on the 6th December, 1858, aged 71. | His mortal remains are laid in the churchyard at Shurdington, in hope of the resurrection eternal life.

48.

to

Sacred to the beloved and revered memory of | Anne, widow of the Reverend John Kedington Whish, | who died on Christmas night 1863, aged 81 years.

49.

Sacred to the memory of Jonathan Williamson, Esqre, ' of
Liverpool, and Lansdown Place, in this Town. He died at
Cheltenham Feby 23rd, 1864, aged 49, and was interred at Kensal
Green. This tablet is erected by his affectionate
widow.

and bereaved

ABHBA.

1922.-LINES WRITTEN AFTER A VISIT TO BRISTOL CATHEDRAL, -From a small posthumous volume by John Addington Symonds, M.D., of Clifton, entitled Verses, edited by his son, and “printed for private circulation only," Bristol, 1871, these lines have been taken :

Eve's latest light still lingered fair

On each sepulchral stone,

As through the dim Cathedral aisle
I wandered all alone.

I looked not on the faded shield
Of pompous heraldry;
My mood was not to moralize
On Death's sad mockery.

I looked not on the tomb of him
Who died in Holy War-
A kindling sight! but I was pressed
With thoughts more tender far.
Alas! I saw beneath me spread

Many a pavement stone,
That touched my very soul, albeit
The names were all unknown.

It was enough that I might see
The ages graven there;

Scarce twice ten years, or little more,
Was all they did declare.

Enough that round me withered lay

The very bloom of life,

The manly youth, the maid betrothed,
The wife, not long a wife.

"Come hither, hoary-headed man,
I pray you tell to me,

What mean so many early graves:
Declare why this should be?

Methinks that Death is dainty here

To store such youthful clay;

Elsewhere he smites both old and young,
The care-worn and the gay."

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"Oh! know ye not that hard by flows
A spring of virtuous powers,
To heal that fell disease which blights
So many English flowers?

So hither many a faded one

Fond friends and parents bear;
Most that lie buried 'neath our feet
I ween were strangers here.

They sleep not with their father's bones,
No kindred o'er them sigh"-

The old man turned away nor saw
The tears that dimmed mine eye.
He turned away, and little thought
What lesson he had spoken
On Fate's inexorable will

And Hope's frail visions broken.

BRISTOLIENSIS.

1923. AN UNPOPULAR TAX ON CIDER, 1763. (See No. 1911.) I wish to correct an error in my previous note on this subject, from which the reader will infer that the agitation in the western counties against the tax was wholly fruitless. The truth is that the discontent of the West became so formidable that the unpopular impost was abolished in 1766. The duty repealed in 1830 was one of the taxes revived during the revolutionary war with France. Bristol. J. L.

1924.-FARM RENTS IN THE LAST CENTURY.-The following extract from an advertisement in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal for May 12, 1759, is interesting as throwing light on the value of agricultural land near large towns at that date:

"To be sold (in fee) by Auction, at the Exchange Coffee House, on Thursday, the 21st of June next, between the Hours of Twelve and Two, An Estate at Westbury, two Miles from Bristol; Consisting of two Farm Houses, a good Orchard, and upwards of 250 Acres of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Ground, lying all compact together, well timber'd with Oak, and rented by Samuel Smith, yeoman, at £190 a year; the Landlord allowing the usual Taxes, and £10 a Year for Bristol Soil. The above Premises are capable of large Improvements, and are all Tithe free."

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In the following July is the announcement of a sale of an Estate in fee situate in Moorend and Mangotsfield...consisting of a good Farm House, Barn, Stable, and other convenient Outhouses, with about 14 Acres of Arable, 10 Acres of Meadow and Pasture, and an Acre and an half of Wood and Timber, fit to cut, The whole now lett together at the Yearly Rent of £25. The Estate is Tythe free, and there is a Right of Common for any number of Cattle thereto belonging."

VOL. IV.

J. L.

1925.-COMMON LANDS IN OLDBURY-ON-SEVERN PARISH.-— The following is a copy of an old parchment slip in my brother's possession at Moreton; it relates to a piece of common land at Oldbury-on-Severn, which, prior to the Inclosure Act, was occupied in turn for one year by each of the seven owners thereof. Other common fields in the parish were held in a different way. The owner of each "rudge" was to mow it before the end of July, as then cattle could be turned in to graze over the whole. I suppose it was a partial survival of the Saxon system.

Copy.

"Sharrows Green and the changable Acre in the Weastham go round in corse once in seven years as followeth :

Richard Jones ....... .1665, again in 1735
Thurston's, now Rogers......1666,

1736

It looks as if the list was originally written for the first column of dates, and that the holder of the list in 1735 added the second column and the "now Rogers," &c., and subsequently wrote the second list of names and dates.

Chester.

JOHN CULLIMORE.

1926. A SPECIMEN OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE DIALECT. — (See No. 1833.) I recently had as visitor from Gloucestershire a young man who had spent some time in Worcestershire. In his opinion there was more friendliness among people in the latter county than in the former. "They are all so nunited," he said; they visit one another at their houses, and are very friendly." I had never heard the word in Gloucestershire, and had no idea it was in common use until I saw your note.

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Coventry.

H. C. W.

1927.-LIST OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.— In the Dictionary of National Biography (now in course of publication) may be found sketches of the following persons, who, by birth or residence, or by both, have been more or less connected with Gloucestershire, and of whom it may be convenient to have a list for reference :

Vol. I.

ALEXANDER of Hales (d. 1245), theologian.

ALFIELD, or AUFIELD, THOMAS, alias BADGER (d. 1585), seminary prest.

ALLEINE, Rev. WILLIAM (1614-1677), author.

ALLIBOND, Rev. JOHN, D.D. (1597-1658), rector of Broadwell (?), author.

ANDERDON, JOHN LAVICOUNT (1792-1874), biographer of Bishop

Ken.

ANGEL, OT ANGELL, JOHN (d. 1655), evangelist and author.

Vol. II.

ASHBY, HARRY (1744-1818), writing-engraver.

ASPLIN, Rev. WILLIAM (1687-1758), rector of Eastleach Martin, or Burthorpe, theological author.

ATKYNS, JOHN TRACY (d. 1773), cursitor baron of the Exchequer. ATKYNS, RICHARD (1615-1677), writer on typography.

ATKYNS, Sir ROBERT (1621-1709), chief baron of the Exchequer, legal author.

ATKYNS, Sir ROBERT (1647-1711), Gloucestershire historian. AUSTIN, WILLIAM, M.D. (1754-1793), physician and medical

author.

AYSCOUGH, FRANCIS, D.D. (1700-1766), dean of Bristol.
BAALUN, or BALUN, JOHN de (d. 1235) justice itinerant.
BAILY, EDWARD HODGES (1788-1867), sculptor.

Vol. III

BALL, Sir ALEXANDER JOHN (1757-1809), rear-admiral. *
BALL, ANDREW (d. 1653), captain in the navy.

BALLARD, GEORGE (1706-1755), antiquary and author.
BANNISTER, CHARLES (1738-1804), actor and vocalist.

BARING, CHARLES THOMAS, D.D. (1807-1879), bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1856-1861.

BARKER, ANDREW (d. 1577), Bristol merchant.

BARKSDALE, Rev. CLEMENT (1609-1687), rector of Naunton and Stow-on-the-Wold, (chiefly) theological author.

BARON, JOHN, M.D., F.R.S. (1786-1851), physician, biographer of Dr. Jenner and medical author.

BARONSDALE, WILLIAM, M.D. (d. 1608), physician.

BARRETT, WILLIAM (1733-1789), surgeon, Bristol historian. BARRY, Rev. EDWARD, M.D., D.D. (1759-1822), theological and medical author.

BATHURST, ALLEN, 1st Earl (1684-1775), statesman.

BATHURST, HENRY, 2nd Earl (1714-1794), lord high chancellor. BATHURST, HENRY, 3rd Earl (1762-1834), statesman.

BAYLEE, Rev. JOSEPH, D.D. (1808-1883), vicar of Sheepscombe, theological author.

BAYLEY, JOHN (Whitcomb] (d. 1869), antiquary and author.

See vol i., p. 13. Not "John Alexander," as by mistake.