Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the History and Antiquities of Gloucestershire, Volume 4

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William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Company, Limited, 1890 - Gloucestershire (England)

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Contents

A Plea for Pewter Vessels
21
A Gloucester Worthy of the present Century
22
Curious Custom 1527 Smyth v Smyth an Impostor Defeated 64
23
The Rev John Parsons House at Redland Bristol 1529 Restoration of Lechlade Church
24
A Glimpse of Edward Colston 1
26
Parliamentary Election Compromise 1842
27
The Accident at Olverston Church on Christmas Day 1838
31
Dyer Family of WottonunderEdge 1537 Sir Nevill Poole Knt M P for Cirencester 1626
32
Monumental Inscriptions 1542 Rutter Family of Gloucestershire
33
Poole Family of Saperton
34
A Statue of Edward Colston Suggested
40
Monumental Inscriptions
41
An Act concerning the Condytes at Gloucester 33 Hen VIII
45
The Severn Fisheries
48
The Redesdale Memorial Hall
55
The First Bank in the West of England 1552 A Remarkable Dream 33 33
58
Cirencester
59
A Bristol Ruminating
61
Strange Treatment of a Methodist Preacher 1557 The Post Office Sixty Years Ago 58 59 59 61 62
62
Monumental Iuscriptions
63
Memorials of the Rev John Bryant Clifford of Bristol
64
Earl Brhitric and his Successors
65
Poem written on leaving Badminton 1836
70
A Domestic Outrage in Gloucestershire circa 1220
71
Lechlade Church
73
An old Bitton Account Book
93
63
99
The Forest of Dean
100
64
126
70
127
Monumental Inscriptions
134
Mock Mayors
142
The Berkeley Memorial Case 73
145
Monumental Inscriptions
155
the Will of James Michell with Inventory A D
164
An old Epigram
170
Miss Ann Wickss Bequests
176
John Palmer M P and his improved Postal Arrangements
190
Monumental Inscriptions
196
The Butler Tower of Bristol Cathedral
202
Notes on the Parish of Wickwar continued
208
Brokethrope Manor Lease A D 1500
214
The Upton Family
223
The Preservation of Church Registers
237
The late Thomas William Cattell
246
74
257
The Wealth and Splendour of Edward Duke of Buckingham
261
A Slymbridge Curiosity
268
year
284
Lines on Cheltenham
293
Sir George Snigges Monument in St Stephens Bristol
299
Inscriptions in the New Cemetery near Cheltenham
305
William Phelps of Tewkesbury 1592
316
Derivation of the name Blanket
324
1811
331
Extraordinary Speed in Coach Travelling 1833
337
A Newspaper Jubilee 1889
343
William Taylor HourGlass Maker
349
Transcript of Whaddon Parish Register 16741711
365
169
372
Gills Elegy on Mistress Penelope Noel
373
Monumental Inscriptions
461
The Will of Samuel Birt of Haresfield with Inventory
467
Monumental Inscriptions
473
The Fry Collection of Bibles
482
Turnpike Riots at Gloucester 1734
493
Dimensions of St John the Baptists Cirencester
503
Origin of the Festival of the Three Choirs
509
The Mayor of Bristol and the Riots of 1831
511
Local Cases of Longevity 18801889
513
An Incident of Life in Gloucestershire in the Fourteenth Century
514
Monumental Inscriptions
515
The Conservancy of the Severn
519
The Steep Holm in 1625
520
Maisemore Register of Baptisms 16001663 concluded
524
Monumental Inscriptions from other Counties
534
Monumental Inscriptions
543
King Lucius and Gloucester 540 542 1887 Oldisworth Family
548
The late Thomas Gambier Parry D L of Highnam Court
549
The old Post Offices Bristol
551
External Church Work in the Diocese during 1889
552
The Effigy of King Edward II in Gloucester Cathedral
553
Destruction of Hasleden or Hazelton Tithe Barn by Fire
555
Thomas Dover M
556
The Preservation of the Fairford Windows
557
Monumental Inscriptions
558
The Cowley or Colley Family
563
Alexander Popes Description of Bristol 1739
567
Cirencester and the Four Ways
570
Cider and Perry Brandy
571
Complaint of the Conduct of the Lady Anne Berkeley
572
The Blood of Hales
575
Bishop Cheneys Desire to Resign 1563
576
Monumental Inscriptions
577
Monumental Inscriptions
579
A strange Superstition
580
The Gloucestershire Society in London
581
The Rev Robert Cox Clifton M A 1903 Gwinnett Family 1904 Somers Family 1905 The Lists of the Mayors of Bristol 543
582
The Surname Sterridge or Stirridge 1909 The Patronage of Painswick Vicarage
583
Monumental Inscriptions
584
An unpopular Tax on Cider 1763
585
Further Notes on Rockhampton Parish
586
The Death of a veteran Journalist of Cheltenham 1914 Lines on the Death of Luke Singleton
596
Abbot Berkeley of Flaxley
597
The Fry Collection of Bibles
598
The Jerningham Family of Painswick
599
A Gloucestershire Scandal in the Fifteenth Century
600
Sir John Francis Davis Bart K C B F R
603
Monumental Inscriptions 1922 Lines written after a Visit to Bristol Cathedral
612
514
622
The Patronage of Painswick Vicarage
638
The Eland Family of Gloucestershire
644
Gloucestershire Signboards
650
The Coronation of King Henry III in Gloucester Abbey
656
The Gloucester Bell Foundry
662
The Patronage of Painswick Vicarage
670
The Dedication of Lower Lemington Church
673
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596
675
598
676
600
677
Singular Bequest by a Tewkesbury Lady
680

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