HARE FAMILY (p. 79).

Richard Hare (son of John Hare, mercer, of London), is described as citizen and mercer of London: he died 5th Oct., 1575, leaving a wife and three children, namely Ralph, Richard, and Margaret. Sir Ralph Hare, K.B., was of Stow Bardolph; and Richard was probably the person named by your correspondent K. I have hitherto found no account of him, except that he is named in the will of his uncle, Ralph Hare, Bencher of the Inner Temple, as "my unfortunte nephew Richard Hare," and to whom his uncle left an annuity of £20. Of the marriage with a daughter of Edwards of Arlsey, or of Samuel Hare, I have no account.

Could K. or any other of your correspondents furnish the full inscriptions referred to, or give any account of the said Richard and Samuel Hare? if so, I shall be glad to have the information.

Stow Bardolph, Downham, Norfolk.

G. H. DASHWOOD.

MASTER RICHARD COPPYNGE, OF BROCKLEY.

At the late visit of the Suffolk Archæological Institute, to Brockley church, the Rev. Henry Creed called attention to the name of Master Richard Coppynge, on the base of the church tower, but gave no information about this personage. It may be of interest to him and the other visitors on that interesting day, to note that on the table of the drawing room, at Somerton hall, where the Institute met with good old English hospitality, from J. E. Hale, Esq., were a number of early Court Rolls of the manor of Brockley hall, sent for inspection by F. C. Brooke, Esq., of Ufford, the present lord of the manor; and that on taking up a roll of the reign of Henry the Seventh, the name of Richard Coppynge occurred; and a cursory examination of the later rolls, down to the time of James the First, shewed that the family continued to be connected with Brockley till that date. Where can I see a pedigree of this old Suffolk race? And what is the meaning of the name ?-S.

FRESCO DISCOVERED AT ELSING, NORFOLK.

In the early part of this year 1860, my attention was called to a fresco series of paintings on the south-eastern church wall at Elsing, Norfolk. As yet, no opportunity has occurred to bring the subject prominently before the N. and N. Archæological Society, therefore, if you will allow their introduction in your East Anglian Journal, a step towards some record will have been taken ere the Rector, the Rev. J. J. C. Valpy, order their recovering by plaister, as the designs are too rough and mutilated to remain with benefit.

The Ist of the series your correspondent did not see, but the subject treated of relates to John the Baptist, and he had the description from the Clergyman. It consisted of Herodias dancing before Herod; her attitude was rolicking and bent to the ground, so that her auburn hair touched the very ground. In the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of the series, the writer made a tracing of the designs, which have been thus secured.

Tab. II denoted John the Baptist preaching before Herod and Herodias, in the characteristic costume of the age. She has pointed heater-shaped shoes. Herod's figure is marked by solerets of a puce diaper; slight indications of a toga, and of braced or ribbed braccie. He seems to rest on one foot, a posture seen on antique gems. But John has a vestment of blue, he has rough hair inclined to red, and coarse feet; no zone visible, or in dignity does the figure approach that found at Witton, and published by Mr. Minns, in N. and N. A. Journal last year.

Tab. III. In the female (Herodias) the same form of shoes and slim figure as in the former, but little is perceptible of the form, except the lower part of the dress and feet, shoes pointed also. The soldier objective only through his trunk or body, has a jupon fringed at bottom, indicative of the time of the Edwards. John is coming from the prison in supplicating posture, color of hair and costume according with Tab. II. There is a portcullis to the prison gate, with iron teeth, and tracings of Early English ecclesiastic architecture.

Tab. IV, is most perfect. It represents the dire attack on John whilst emanating from the prison passage; the centurion or soldier seizes John by the hair to pull him down on the block at his feet, habited as guards would be with jupon, belt, and soleret very long and peaked. The next figure thereon is the Decapitator, accoutred withh elmet and plume, jupon, belt, soleret and diaper colour, as the preceding. The massy sword, scimitar shape, is ready for the blow, and small annulated braces of metal appear more than half way up. Is this to secure a more powerful effect; or through its length for a hand grasp ?-Thus far of the description which requires illustration, not here admissable or attainable.

My own inferences are-- (1) they were designs of the 14th century, and given in honor of part of the church dedicated to St. John the Baptist; and (2) that the artists were itinerant, and men who had no recourse to the western world's observances of St. John the Baptist-the girdle being concealed by the garments, if ever put there, but the camel's raiment is visible. There is no nimbus or agnus dei, no severe ecclesiastic outline, but simply a rough and not imposing draft. The enquiry should be where and when was the dedication of this part of the building to St. John the Baptist, for doubtless the designs are nearly coeval to such a purpose. I could trouble you with the comparison of the early designs in stone, &c., of St. John, in the continental churches, where the precursor of our Saviour was so honored by a nimbus and agnus dei within a shield, but think I must already have trespassed sufficiently on your journal.-S. SOTHERN, Norwich.

STRANGERS IN NORWICH (p. 60).

A few years since I made some notes 'of matters connected with Norwich; and among them I find is a reference to a letter of Bp. Parkhurst, of Norwich, for one church for the Strangers in that City, preserved in the Library of Bennet College, Cambridge. I have no means of procuring a copy of it, but if any of your Cambridge correspondents would send you a copy, it would form an acceptable pendant to what has already appeared. -NORWICENSIS.

DR. TRUMBULL.

In the memoir of Dr. Trumbull, in Pigot's History of Hadleigh, mention is made of the Doctor's "tender grief" for the loss of his wife Anna, in 1682, but no notice is taken of his second marriage with Elizabeth, youngest daughter of James Calthorpe, Esq., of Ampton, ancestor of the present Lord Calthorpe, and that the "sad fatality of his life" attended him also in this instance; as we gather from the following inscription on a black marble slab within the altar rails of Ampton church :

"To the Memory of Elizabeth, wife of Charles Trumbull, L.L.D. Rector of Hadleigh, and youngest daughter of James Calthorpe, Esq., of Ampton. She died June 11th, 1686, and Charles their son died 12th of July following."

ANIMALS AT THE FEET OF EFFIGIES (p. 64).

In Bennett's History of Tewkesbury, p. 160, is this note :

Lions at the feet of effigies are explained by several writers as emblems of vigilance and courage; but Mr. Gough doubts the etymology, and thinks the practice was derived from an allusion to the words in Psalm xci. 13. "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder; and the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet."-Dogs on monuments are thought by some to have been chosen on account of their reputation for watchfulness and fidelity. Mr. Gough supposes, that, when at the feet of ladies, they may allude to their favourite lap dogs; and adds, "that knights and nobles may have them at their feet as the companions of their sports, or as symbols of their rank.”

Henry Curtis, Vicar of Martham, Norfolk (p. 24).-Was instituted on the 19th of April, 1683.-J. L'ESTRANGE.

QUERIES.

Brasses in East Anglia.-Where can I refer to the most extended list or lists of Brasses remaining, or formerly existing, in the churches of all, or either of the counties comprised within the sphere of your inquiries ?-L. Querns. In the will of Alice Pechye, of Soham, 1525, the testatrix directs that her " querne shalbe common to euerie poore man who hath neede and helpinge to the reparacyon of the same."-(Reg. Wills, Bury, Lib. Brydone, fol. 310.) Can any of your readers give any explanation of this item; or supply any further information about Querns?-BURIENSIS.

Yawl.-What is the origin of this word, applied to a particular kind of boat on the coast of East Anglia ?—L.

Ton and Tun.-What is the difference between the terminations Ton and Tun in names of places?-L.

Picture of King Edmund.-In the will of Thomas Bright, of Bury St. Edmund's, proved 1711, the testator bequeaths his "picture of King Edmund to the town of Bury St. Edmund's, to be hung up in the chamber where his grandfather Mr. Thomas Bright, was." The portrait of Thomas Bright, one of the great benefactors of that town, may still be seen in the Council Chamber; but I looked in vain for the "picture of King Edmund.” Is any thing known of it ?—S.

ERRATA.

P. 84, line 6 from top, for Himes read Huius; pp. 87--90 should be 85–88.

The arms and inscriptions in memory of the Hare family, which were in the chancel of Leigh church, Essex, prior to the year 1837 (about the year when the parish iconoclasts commenced the work of destruction and removal), are as follow:

1. Lozenge shield-Gules two bars, a chief indented Or.

Near this place lyeth the body of Jane, fourth daughter of Samuel Hare, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Edwards of Arlesy, in the county of Bedford, Esq. She died 12 Feb., 1669, aged 8 months.

2. Heart-shaped shield-Gules two bars, a chief indented Or, charged with a mullet Sa., for difference, impaling Edwards, per bend sinister Sable and Erm. a lion rampant Or. Catherine Hare, second daughter of Richard Edwards of Arlesy, county of Bedford, Esq., and wife of Richard Hare, citizen and mercer of London, who dedicated this to her memory. She departed this life June 5, 1668.

The parish register, which came down to about twenty years later, is lost or destroyed, though it is said to have been extant within living memory. Only one entry of the burial of one of the family occurs in the succeeding volume, viz. :-"Samuel Hare, Esq., buried in the chancel, Sep. 29, 1702." There is no sepulchral monument to his memory.

Morant, in his History of Essex, sub. Wallasea Island (which lies in the mouth of the river Crouch), mentions "Ringwood marsh, the property of the heirs of the late justice Hare, of Lee." Who those heirs were I am unable to say, nor can I supply any further information about the family. Samuel Hare is, I presume, the justice Hare referred to, and was most probably brother to Richard.-K.

FEMALE PARISH APPRENTICES.

The custom of binding poor girls apprentice, by the churchwardens and overseers of parishes, to learn the "art of housewifery," which is now fallen into disuse, appears at one time to have been practised to a considerable extent, particularly in agricultural districts, and farmers were often supplied in this way with maid-servants as well as men-servants, or, as they were then called, "town girls" and "town boys." A curious Indenture in my possession records the apprenticeship of one of these "town girls," in the following terms :

"This Indenture made the tenth day of July, in the twelth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith, &c., Annoq. Dom. 1713. Witnesseth that William Brampton, Gent., and William Palgrave, Gent., Church-wardens of the parish of Pulham St. Mary Magdelene, in the county of Norf.; and Mr. Robert Moril, and Mr. William Buckenham, Overseers of the poor of the said parish, by and with the consent of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said county, whose names are hereunto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these presents do put and place Sarah Howes, a poor child of the said parish, apprentice to Lawranse Vnderwood, with him to dwell and serve from the day of the date of these presents, until the said apprentice shall accomplish the full age of twenty-one years, according to the statute in that case made and provided: during all which term the said apprentice her said master faithfully shall serve in all lawful businesses, according to her power, wit, and ability; and honestly, orderly, and obediently in all things demean and behave herself towards her said master and all his, during the said term. And the said Lawranse Vnderwood for himself, his executors, and administrators, doth covenant and grant to and with the said Church-wardens and Overseers, and every of them, their and every of their executors and administrators, and their and every of their successors for the time being, by these presents, that the said Sarah Howes, the said apprentice, in the art of housewifery shall learn and instruct. And shall and will during all the term aforesaid, find, provide, and allow unto the said apprentice, meet, competent, and sufficient meat, drink and apparel, lodging, washing, and all other things necessary and fit for an apprentice. And also shall and will so provide for the apprentice that she be not any way a charge to the said parish, or parishioners of the same; but of and from all charge shall and will save the said parish and parishioners harmless and indempnified during the said term. And at the end of the said term, shall and will make, provide, allow, and deliver unto the said apprentice double apparel of all sorts, good and new, that is to say a good new suit for the holy-days, and another for the working-days. In witness whereof the parties abovesaid to these present indentures, interchangeably have put their hands and seals the day and year above-written."

LAWRANSE VNDERWOOD.

his marke
L.S.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

CHRISTIAN WARD.
ELIZABETH PALGRAVE.

We whose names are subscribed, Justices of the Peace of the county aforesaid, do hereby consent to the putting forth of the above said Sarah Howes apprentice, according to the intent and meaning of the indenture abovesaid.

-G. R., Pulham, Norfolk.

J. MALLOM.

J. SAYER.