THE HERVEY FAMILY OF NORWICH.

(Continued from p. 210./

IN CATTON OLD CHURCH.

I. Sacred to the Memory of FRANCES ELIZABETH, the Wife of HENRY HARVEY, Esq., who died March 28th, 1818, Aged 34 years, and lies interred on the south side of this church.

II. This stone is erected in Memory of a beloved and lamented Aunt HARRIETTE IVES HARVEY, who expired on the 28th Dec., 1847, in the the 71st year of her age.

Also of an affectionate and lamented Father GEORGE FREDERICK HARVEY, Capt. in the 18th Hussars, who died 18th April, 1847, in the 61st year of his age, and lies interred in the family vault in St. Clement's Church, Norwich.

IN ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, NORWICH.

Sacred to the Memory of ANN HARVEY, a daughter of the late Jeremiah Ives, Esq., of Surry House, in this parish. In her was happily combined engaging manners, habitual cheerfulness, extensive charity, and affectionate attention; few have lived more universally beloved, few have died more sincerely lamented; she departed this life August xxv, M.DCCCI, Aged XLI years. The victim of a disease hopeless, lingering, and of extreme pain, yet borne with resignation and with resolution; for her support was in religion, her confidence in God.

A husband dedicates this Monument, the sad record of departed worth, the plaintive memorial of surviving affection.

IN THORPE CHURCH.

Sacred to the Memory of FRANCES HARVEY, daughter of Sir Roger Kerrison, of Brooke, in the County of Norfolk, wife of John Harvey, Esq., of Thorpe Lodge, who died July 2nd, 1809, aged 43. Eminently possessed of religion and virtue; by husband, children, and friends, sincerely beloved, respected, and lamented.

CAROLINE HARVEY, who died December 1792, aged 7 months.
JOHN HARVEY, who died January 18th, 1806, aged 18 years.
JULIA HARVEY, who died June 26th, 1808, aged 19 years.
LOUISA HARVEY, who died October 15th, 1810, aged 15 years.

MARIANNE DAY, wife of the Rev. Charles Day, of Horsford, in this county, who died March 18th, 1812, aged 26 years.

JOHN HARVEY, Esq., born 6th May, 1755, died 9th February, 1842, second son of Robert Harvey, Esq., of Norwich, a magistrate of Norfolk, Suffolk, and City of Norwich; Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the East Norfolk Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry; Sheriff of Norwich, 1784, Mayor of Norwich, 1792, High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1825. He was possessed of integrity, fortitude, and charity, and through a long public life was amongst the foremost as the liberal encourager of whatever might promote the welfare and happiness of his fellow men; steady and warm in his friendship; towards the infirmities of others ready to forbear; in trouble or affliction, zealous to assist, kind hearted and courteous in manners; his memory will be cherished by all classes, and by his numerous family, as their never-failing friend and affectionate parent.

For monumental inscription to George Harvey, Esq., see inscription in St. Clement's Church.

IN WATTON CHURCH.

I. In Memory of EDWARD HARVEY, Gent., who died the 30th of May, 1771, in the 25th year of his age.

Also five of his children, who died in their infancy, four of whom are buried in this church yard, and one in St. Clement's Church, Norwich.

II. Sacred to the Memory of MARY HARVEY, relict and widow of Edward Harvey, who died December the 15th, 1790, Aged 72 years.

III. Sacred to the Memory of ROBERT EDWARD, son of Robert and Charlotte Harvey, who died an infant, Sept. 26th, 1794.

IV. Sacred to the Memory of ELIZABETH HARVEY, Spinster, who died November the 8th, 1800, Aged 58 years.

V. Sacred to the Memory of ROBERT HARVEY, Esq., of Watton, who died on the 20th of November, 1820, in the 71st year of his age.

VI. Sacred to the Memory of CHARLOTTE HARVEY, widow of Robert Harvey. Esq., who died July 29th, 1849, in the 94th year of her age.

VII. Sacred to the Memory of JOHN HARVEY, late of this Parish, Gentleman, who died on the 26th day of August, 1828, Aged 75 years.

(To be continued.)

VISITATION OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-(Addenda to p. 101.)

BURY, of Meldreth,-Sab. a chevron engrailed Or, between 3 plates, on each a cross patée Gules.

BATSON, of Horsheath,-Argent, 3 bats wings erect Sab., 2 1, on a chief Gules, a lion passant guardant Arg.

EATON, of Stetchworth,-Or, a fret Azure.

HALL, of Stretham,-Argent, a chevron Gules, fretty Argent, between 3 demi-lions rampant Azure, on a chief Gules, as many chaplets Ŏr.

HOUND, of Cambridge,-Argent, on a chevron between 3 hounds Gules, as many besants. LOUND, of Duxford,-Per chevron flory Or, and Gules 3 lions passant counter-changed. LYNN, of Bassingbourne,-Gules, a demi-lion rampant crowned Argent, a border Or,

pellettée.

MANNINGHAM, of Swavesey,-Sable, a fess Ermine, in chief three griffins heads erased.. NORTON, of Hinxton.-Argent, on a bend between 2 lions rampant Sable, 3 escallops of the fleld.

RUDSTON, of Swaffham,-Argent three bulls heads couped Sable.

STOKES, of Cambridge,-Argent, on a bend engrailed Sable, three dolphins embowed of the field.

TURPIN, of Bassingbourne,-Azure, a griffin segreant Or, collared Sable, in dexter chief

a cresent.

VESCY, of Isleham,-Sab. a lion rampant Ermine, debruised by a bendlet Or. WALTER, of Crawden,-Argent, gutteé de sang, 2 swords in saltire Gu., in chief a lion rampant Sable.

J. H. SPERLING.

QUERIES.

Names of Authors Wanted.-Can any of your readers inform me who was the author of "Ximenes, a dramatic action," and several poems, and also of "an Essay on the source of positive pleasure"? The above were printed by Wilkin and Youngman, of Norwich, about 1820.-THOS. R. TALLACK.

Family of Alston.-Any information as to the date and place of marriage of Bridget Alston, of Boxford, to the Rev. Edward Bridgman, between 1626 and 1643; and of her sister Anne, to Henry Payne, of Worlington, gent., between 1620 and 1630, will oblige-G.

Rev. W. Lee.-In Beamish's Life of Sir M. I. Brunel (p 10), it is stated on the authority of Dr. Royle's "Productive Resources of India," that the Rev. W. Lee, of St. John's College, Cambridge, the inventor of a machine for knitting and weaving stockings, was induced by Henry the Fourth of France to establish himself at Rouen, because he received no encouragement at home. Where can I find an account of this inventor ?--L.

In the churchyard of the parish of Theberton, near Yoxford, Suffolk, against the south wall of the church, and near the porch, is an old brick tomb, on which is the following inscription in capital letters.

Here is a stone to sitt upon | Under which lies in hopes to rise | To ye day of blisse and happinesse, | Honest John Fenn, the sonne of William Fenn, Clarke and | late Rector of this Parish. Being turned out of his Living, and sequestered for His loyalty to the late | King Charles the first. | He departed this life, the 22 day of October, Anno Dom. 1678.

The name of John Fenn is not mentioned in the "Nonconformist's Memorial," neither have I met with it in any published work.

As a few years since, many ancient tombstones were ruthlessly removed from their legitimate positions, to make way for modern improvements, it may not be uninteresting to your antiquarian readers that the above inscription should be recorded some where, I therefore venture to send it to the East Anglian.

Theberton is a small parish, purely agricutural. The church (St. Peter's) is an ancient structure, the interior recently very highly decorated, has a round tower, octangular at top, containing four bells. The patronage is vested in the Crown, and in the incumbency of the Reverend Henry Hardinge, M.A.-S. A.W., Westleton Grange.

MORTUARY FEES (p. 234).

In the "New Commentaries on the Laws of England," by H. J. Stephen, vol. 3, p. 98 (2nd Edition, London, 1848), we are informed that mortuaries are "a sort of ecclesiastical heriots,* being a customary † gift claimed by, and due to the minister in very many parishes on the death of his parishioners. They seem originally to have been like lay heriots, only a voluntary bequest to the church, being intended (as Lyndewoode informs us, from a constitution of Archbishop Langham) as a kind of expiation and amends to the clergy, for the personal tithes and other ecclesiastical duties, which the laity in their life-time might have neglected or forgotten to pay. For this purpose, after the lord's heriot or best good was taken out, the second best chattel was reserved to the church as a mortuary. And therefore in the laws of King Canute, this mortuary is called soul scot (saulsceat), or symbolum anima. It was anciently usual in this kingdom to bring the mortuary to church, along with the corpse, when it came to be buried; and thence it is sometimes called a corse-present, a term which bespeaks it to have been once a voluntary donation. However, in Bracton's time, so early as Henry the third, we find it riveted into an established custom; insomuch that the bequests of heriots and mortuaries were held to be necessary ingredients in every testament of chattels,"

"The variety of customs with regard to mortuaries, giving frequently a handle to exactions on the one side, and frauds or expensive litigations on the other, it was thought proper by statute 21 Hen. VIII, cap. 6, to reduce them to some kind of certainty. For this purpose it is enacted, that all mortuaries or corse-presents to parsons of any parish, shall be taken in the following manner; unless where by custom less or none at all is due, viz: for every person who does not leave goods to the value of ten marks, nothing; for every person who leaves goods to the value of ten marks and under thirty pounds, 38. 4d.; if above thirty pounds and under forty pounds, 68. 8d; if above forty pounds, of what value soever they may be, 108., and no more. And no mortuary shall throughout the kingdom, be paid for the death of any feme covert, nor for any child, nor for any one of full age that is not a housekeeper, nor for any wayfaring man; but such wayfaring man's mortuary shall be paid in the parish to which he belongs. And upon this statute stands the law of mortuaries to this day." (P. 100.)

This it will be noticed does not answer G.W.M's query-" When did the custom of giving mortuaries fall into disuse ;" and I have referred to Hook's "Church Dictionary," Wharton's" Law Lexicon," Dale's" Clergyman's Legal Hand Book," and Burn's "Ecclesiastical Law," without ascertaining that fact. Indeed their articles on the subject (with the exception of Burns) are all apparently compilations from Stephen's "New Commentaries."

Dale however mentions an Act (23 Vict c. 62. sec. 8, 9), which provides under certain circumstances for the commutation of Easter offerings, mortuaries and surplice fees, from which we may infer that there are parishes in which mortuaries are still paid.

I hope G.W.M. will endeavour to answer his own query by investigation among parish registers, in the meantime I would recommend to him the article "mortuaries" in Burn's "Ecclesiastical Law" (a book readily met with) which is the most comprehensive account of the subject in print.—A.

Although unable to answer G.W.M's. question in your July No., as to the time when the custom of giving Mortuary fees fell into disuse, I would like to say a word or two about them. In the Churchwardens' accounts of Bungay St. Mary, there are recorded from the year 1550 to 1711, the names of no less than 83 persons on whose interments mortuary fees of 6s. 8d. each, were in almost every case received; a few at 3s. 4d. being the exceptions, but I do not find an instance where a fee has been received by this church, for church-yard burials, expressly so stated. Of these 83, 56 are shown to have been received for adults buried in the church, and 10 for children buried in the church. Of the remaining 17 it is possible some may have been for interment without the church, but there is nothing to shew from the following heads of entries, that it was so; indeed the conclusion to be drawn from them leans the other way. They are thus made up.

3-"For breaking up church ground.

3-"For breaking up the ground.

2-"For breaking up the graves.

1-"For a child's grave.

6- For the grave.

-"For the burying.

1-"For a mortuary.' 19

In none of these do the name of "church"

occur.

The only time "Mortuary" is mentioned is in 1622-3, and runs thus "Received for a mortuary for Mr. Burrough, iij. iiijd.”

Other entries show the frequency of "sonken graves" in the church, that required to be raised, and made level with the floor. After 1711 no similar entries occur, nor are there any from 1523 (at which date the book commences) till 1550.

Happily for our sanitary welfare, interments within this church have been for many years of very rare occurrence, there are however several of subsequent date to 1711, as the floor stones tell, but by whom the fees (if any) were received does not appear.

It would seem from the above, and the date of its disuse in the parish mentioned by G.W.M., that the discontinuance of mortuary fees was gradual, extending over upwards of at least 30 years, the difference between 1711 and 1741, and that they did not apply in this parish to interments without the church, is tolerably well sustained from the summary of entries given above.

The first entry runs thus:

"1550. Itm. rec' of ffrancis Tibnam, ffor ye breking of ye churche grownd for the buriall of Mrs. Sone, vjs. viijd.”

The last.

"1711. Received for buring Robt. Yorke, in ye church, 68. 8d."

The last Act of Parliament that I can find refered to, as bearing on the subject of Mortuarys is 28 Geo. II. cap. 6, but I have never seen the Act itself.-G. B. BAKER, Bungay.