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The value of Church Notes, meaning memoranda of the epitaphs and heraldry in churches, before church architecture was understood or appreciated as it now is, has always been highly estimated by genealogists and biographers. The professional heralds deemed such evidences among their most reliable materials, at a time when they possessed the power, which they did not hesitate to exercise, to destroy or deface any display of armorial insignia assumed unduly or irregularly. Epitaphs, however apt to be flattering or even “lying” in their tributes of personal eulogy, are generally trustworthy for their statements of facts and dates, and may be ranked among the best kinds of contemporary testimony. The heralds, therefore, when riding on their visitations did not neglect their opportunities for gathering church notes, as well as notes of the armory displayed on the walls and windows of manor-houses, to contribute to their materials for the genealogies it was their business to construct. Many such notes are interspersed, with the pedigrees, in their MS. visitation-books, of which the Camden Society possesses a very interesting and excellent example in Camden's Visitation of Huntingdonshire.
page 2 note 1 The earliest collection of epitaphs with which I am acquainted (it includes no armorial notes) is that found in the Register of the Grey Friars of London. (Cotton. MS. Vitellius, F. XII.) It contains nearly six hundred, recording many more than that number of individuals. I had the satisfaction to edit a careful abstract of this in the Bth volume of Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, 1838.
page 3 note 1 There are two large volumes of Weever's MSS. in the library of the Society of Antiquaries. They are in excellent preservation. One of them contains the materials of his printed work, and some former owner (probably Mr. Lane, of Hillingdon, hereafter mentioned,) has been at the pains to mark throughout, in red ink, the pages of the Funerall Monuments in which the several passages are introduced. The second volume consists of other papers, partly perhaps used in Weever's introductory disquisition. Among them is his unpublished fasciculus for the diocese of Lichfield, which by the same hand as before is marked in the margin with references to books where the epitaphs have since been printed.
These interesting collections were presented to the Society in 1792, by William Southouse, Esq. P.S.A., who had then recently acquired them on the death of Mr. John Lane, of Hillingdon. (Archæologia, vol. xi. p. 447.) They are probably the same of which Hearne speaks as having come after Weever's death into the hands of his nephew Mr. Caltharn, who lived in Little Britain. (Account of Antiquities in and about Oxford, at the end of Leland's Itinerary, ii. § 6.)
Upon Weever's inaccuracy see the Gentleman's Magazine, 1807, p. 808, and Gough's British Topography, 1780, vol. i. p. 121. Possibly many of the errors of his work are those of the press, and might be amended by comparison with his MSS.
page 3 note 2 The Harl. MS. 965, one of Symonds's not yet published, contains his church notes of the following places in Oxfordshire:—Burford, Cromarsh Battel, Cromarsh Gifford, Dorchester, Mapledurham, Wheatley, Whitchurch, and Whitney; of Worcester Cathedral, these extend from p. 168 to 211; and in Berkshire, of Abingdon, Aldworth, Cholsey, the three churches in Beading, and the Abbey gate-house, and Streatly.
The Harl. MS. 964 contains his notes of the nine parish churches of Oxford, of six others in the suburbs of that city, of St. Bartholomew's Chapel, Osney Abbey, and the college chapels of Magdalen, Merton, and University.
page 4 note 1 No. 6829, a large folio of 349 pages. The heraldry throughout is depicted on the margin in colours, but there are no drawings of monuments.
page 4 note 2 Other volumes of Holles's Lincolnshire collections are in the Lansdowne collection, and one in the Addit. MSS. which was presented by Sir Joseph Banks. See some account of the Lincolnshire collectors, Holles and Bishop Sanderson, read before the Archaeological Institute at Lincoln in 1848, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., reported in the Gentleman's Magazine of that year, vol. xxx. p. 299 (but not printed in the Institute's Lincoln volume).
page 4 note 3 The books alluded to are:—
Account of Boston and the Hundred of Skirbeck. By Plshey Thompson. 1820. (Second edition, 1856.) 8vo. and 4to.
Historical Account of the Town and Soke of Horncastle. By George Weir. 1820. History of Old and New Sleaford and the neighbouring parishes. By James Creasy. 1825. 8vo.
An Account of the Churches in the division of Holland, in the county of Lincoln, with sixty-nine illustrations. 1843. 8vo.
Some of the most interesting portions of Holles's MS. were printed in The Topographer, 1789 (see the several places in Lincolnshire recapitulated in the General Index of Articles at the end of vol. iv.) They were commenced by his account of Great Grimsby, including the sepulchral memorials of his own family, in vol. i. pp. 242–255; and in vol. ii. are his church notes of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, among which (p. 52) is the memorial of his first wife.
Various portions of Holles's church-notes have also been printed, of late years, in the columns of the Stamford Mercury. These have been derived from a transcript made by Mr. George Agar Hansard (author of The Booh of Archery), which, on that gentleman's leaving this country for Borneo, has been recently purchased for the library of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. Another transcript, it is believed, was made for the late Lord Monson, and one formerly for Mr. Gough. It is to be hoped, however, that no one will venture to print from any of these without due collation with the original, or errors will assuredly be incurred quite as serious as those in Weever.
The following entries are extracted from the diary of Elias Ashmole:—
1675, Feb. 10, Colonel Gervais Hollis, a Master of Requests, died.
March 9, Colonel Gervais Hollis's body was carried through London towards Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, where he was buried.
Gervase Holies is briefly noticed in Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, and other bio-graphical particulars will be found in a paper entitled “Shadows of the Past, connected with the History of Grimsby,” written by the Rev. Edward Trollope (now Archdeacon of Stowe), and printed in the Reports and Papers of the Associated Architectural Societies for 1859. It is accompanied by a portrait of the Colonel, lithographed from a painting in the possession of the Duke of Portland.
page 5 note 1 The church notes of Lincoln, compared with those taken by Robert Sanderson (afterwards Bishop of that see), are printed in Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, 1779, 4to. pp. 294—320.
page 6 note 1 But not of all. The great History of Kent, by Hasted, presents a remarkable exception. No epitaphs are given, but the sepulchral memorials of portions of that county are to be found, not only in Weever as before noticed, but in three other books—
Registrwm Roffense; or a Collection of Ancient Records, &c. &c, together with the monumental inscriptions in the several churches and chapels within the diocese of Rochester. By John Thorpe, M.D. 1769. Folio.
Tour through the Isle of Thanet and East Kent. By Zachariah Cozens. 1793. 4to.
The Monuments and Painted Glass of upwards of one hundred Churches, chiefly in the eastern part of Kent. By Philip Parsons. 1794. 4to.
Besides those of Canterbury (both cathedral and parish churches) in Somner's History of that city, 1640, 4to. (second edition by Dr. Batteley, 1703, folio,) and in Dart's History of the Cathedral Church. The monumental inscriptions at Canterbury were again printed so recently as 1836 in a 4to. volume, entitled “Illustrative Views of the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury,” the seventeen plates of which were the same which had first appeared in Woolnoth's Cathedrals.
page 6 note 2 Some few of the finest sepulchral brasses were published in John Carter's own work on Ancient Sculpture and Painting, 1780–87.
page 7 note 1 The descriptions were written by one of the warmest friends of the Camden Society in its earliest days, the late Bev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L., F.S.A., Registrar of the University of Oxford.
page 7 note 2 Stothard (except in a very few cases) engraved the effigies only. It was his intention to have illustrated his descriptions with vignette representations of the monuments, but the descriptions were deferred, and not supplied until long after his death, by his brother-in-law Alfred John Kempe, F.S. A. The work was completed in 1832 (see the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. cii. ii. p. 233); it had been commenced in 1811.
page 7 note 3 It was commenced in 1839 (in numbers), and left unfinished at the death of the junior Hollis, in 1844.
page 7 note 4 The old name was latten, or Collen plate, i.e. brought from Cologne.
page 8 note 1 Dr. Rawlinson, in Ms History of Hereford Cathedral (p. 137), reckons up, no doubt from the despoiled gravestones, as many as 170 brasses “visibly lost” in various parts of that church. Of those which remained in the time of Dingley and Rawlinson, there are now imperfect remains of only thirteen, which are particularly described in the Rev. Herbert Haines's Manual of Monumental Brasses, 1861, p. 77.
On the great destruction of monuments in the single church of the Grey Friars in London, where “sixe hundred sixty and three persons of qualitie” were interred, see Stowe and Weever, and the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. v. 275 (as before referred to).
page 8 note 2 It was about thirty years ago, or shortly before, that a collection of impressions of Brasses, which was formed fifty years before by Mr. Craven Ord (comprising some of which the originals have since disappeared), was purchased for the British Museum at the price of 40l. See a letter of John Charles Brooke (afterwards Somerset Herald) to Mr. Gough, describing Mr. Ord's modus operandi, in Nichols's Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. vi. p. 393. It was written in 1780, when Mr. Ord had already “a large collection.” This collection is now in the Print Room: see Haines's Manual, pp. ccl. cclvii.
page 8 note 3 First by C. E. Manning, Esq., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (now Rector of Diss and Secretary of the Norfolk Archaeological Society), in his List of Monumental Brasses. 1846. 8vo.
Next, in a Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses, with a descriptive catalogue of 450 rubbings, in the possession of the Oxford Architectural Society. 1848. 8vo. Thirdly, in a list of the Sepulchral Brasses of England; alphabetically arranged in Counties. By Justin Simpson. 1857. 8vo.
Most completely in the Manual of Monumental Brasses, comprising an Introduction to the study of these memorials, and a List of those remaining in the British Isles. With 200 illustrations. By the Rev. Herbert Haines, B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. 1861. 8vo.
page 10 note 1 “An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire; or, a Discourse on Funeral Monuments in the County, delivered before the members of the Religious and Useful Knowledge Society at Northampton. 1840.”
page 10 note 2 Mr. Bloxam has kindly circulated among some of his friends copies of an incomplete and untitled work (printed some years ago), lettered by the bookbinder Fragmenta Sepulchralia. 8vo. pp. X76. There is a copy in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.
page 12 note 1 “The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Winchester, containing all the Inscriptions upon the Tombs and Monuments, with an Account of the Bishops, Priors, Deans, and Prebendaries. Also the History of Hyde Abbey, begun by the Right Honourable Henry, late Earl of Clarendon, and continued to this time by Samuel Gale, Gent. Adorned with Sculptures. 1715.” 8vo. It has eighteen plates, eight of which are of the most remarkable monuments. (See Upcott's Bibliographical Account of English Topography, p. 284.)
page 12 note 2 “The Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Worcester by that learned antiquary, Thomas Abingdon, Esq., to which are added the Antiquities of Cathedral Churches of Chichester and Lichfield. 1717.” 8vo. The book was evidently at first intended to terminate with Chichester, as all its portions before p. 210 are followed by an index which includes the whole of them. The Antiquities of Lichfield Cathedral are separately paged (pp. 62), and have no index. There are no plates to this book.
page 12 note 3 In the memoir of Dr. Rawlinson, in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, it is stated that “The books the publication of which he promoted are supposed to be the History and Antiquities of Winchester, 1715; the History and Antiquities of Hereford, 1717; the History and Antiquities of Rochester, 1717, 1723; Inscriptions on Tombs in Bimhill-fields, 1717; History and Antiquities of the Churches of Salisbury and Bath, 1719, 1723; Aubrey's History of Surrey, 1719; Norden's Delineation of Northamptonshire, 1720; History and Antiquities of Glastonbury, 1722.”
Curll's book of the inscriptions in Bunhill Fields has been recently reprinted as a supplement to “Proceedings in reference to the Preservation of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. 1867.” 8vo. It is prefaced by some very interesting remarks upon the most eminent persons interred in that great cemetery of the Dissenting Churches. Some of the more important later memorials have been published in a book entitled, “Bunhill Memorials. Sacred Reminiscences of Three Hundred Ministers and other persons of note, who are buried in Bunhill Fields, of every denomination. With the inscriptions on their Tombs and Gravestones, and other historical information respecting them, from authentic sources. Edited by J. A. Jones, 1849,” 12mo. (A companion volume entitled Sacred Remains, consists of ordination charges, sermons, &c.) but the genealogist will be glad to be referred to several MS. volumes of Epitaphs from Bunhill Fields, collected by the late Rev. Dr. Eippon, which are now preserved in the library of the College of Arms.
page 13 note 1 This was “printed for R. Gosling,” not for Curll. The account of the Bishops and Deans of Hereford, occupying 100 pages of the volume, was contributed by Browne Willis, as acknowledged in the preface.
page 14 note 1 I take this opportunity to give the following particulars regarding the authorship of this work. It was printed by Joseph Pote, bookseller at Eton, and in the preface, which is signed J. P., it is stated that “necessity, not choice, obliged the Bookseller to act himself in the double capacity of Author and Printer.” He had previously acknowledged that the book had been compiled in great measure from Ashmole's History of the Order of the Garter, together with the monumental inscriptions which “Mr. Mapletoft, one of the officers of St. George's Chapel, by a commendable diligence, had collected.”
I have discovered evident proof that Mapletoft did not consider. that sufficient credit was awarded to him by Pote. There axe two copies of the book in the library of the. Dean and Chapter of Windsor, in one of which is inscribed—
“The gift of Dr. Joseph Goodall, Provost of Eton College, to the library of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. May 25, 1814.”
(Previously) “E Libris G. Wingfield.” At the foot of the title-page is written (perhaps an autograph),
“John Mapletoft, Author.”
The words “Author and” (quoted at the commencement of this note) are erased at p. ii. of the preface, and at p. 408 is this further intimation:—
“John Mapletoft, Verger and Sub-Chanter of St. George's Chapel, Deputy-Governor of the Poor Knights, and Under Chapter-Clerk to the College, who was the Author of this book, died Anno JEtatis 53, October 4th, 1764, and lies buried under the lower pavement on the south side of the church.”
Mr. Joseph Pote died April 3,1787, aged 84; and in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lvii. p. 365, is some account of him, and of his works, but without rendering justice to Mr. John Mapletoft.
page 15 note 1 
John Le Neve's original collections are preserved in the British Museum among the Harleian MSS. They amount in all to twenty-six volumes, viz.—
3605–3616. Twelve volumes, in folio, of Monumental Inscriptions, of which the last No., 3616, was not included in his printed work.
3617–3624. Eight volumes, in folio, containing a list of all the Churches in England, their Value in the King's Book, &c, to which he intended to add the Patrons' names, and Monumental Inscriptions. This collection is, however, a mere skeleton.
362S. An Obituary, from the year 1678 to 1706: a large folio volume, indexed.
6127. Under this No. of the Harl. MSS. are catalogued five volumes, also in folio, being his collection for all the Cathedrals, their Monuments and Dignitaries; a design afterwards published in part by Browne Willis.
page 15 note 2 “This modest work, which professes to be little more than a collection of Monumental Inscriptions, and ‘rather a history of the Inhabitants of Gloucestershire than of the Shire itself,’ was begun about thirty years ago, by the late Kalph Bigland, Esq., principally to obtain information relative to his profession.” (Mr. Gough, in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1786, p. 1062.) It, in fact, took its shape as an Appendix to the other histories, Atkyns having been reprinted in 1768 and Rudder published in 1779, after Bigland commenced his “Historical, Monu-mental, and Genealogical Collections.”
page 18 note 1 It may be admitted that, during the three last centuries, monuments were often erected so as to mutilate and injure fine architectural features, and sometimes placed in very improper positions. Thus, a gigantic monument to the Duke of Buckingham, who was assassinated at Portsmouth in 1628, occupied the eastern wall of the church of St. Thomas in that town, until recently removed. So, at East Harptree, in Somersetshire, the monument of Sir John Newton, who entertained Leland in his itinerary, and gave him some valuable information, was erected on a similar spot, so that the communion-table stood partly in front of it. It has suffered accordingly. The ecclesiastical taste of the present generation has pulled it down, the tomb and effigy alone remaining. Its former appearance, with a canopy of Ionic columns, is preserved in an engraving in The Record of the House of Gournay, repeated in the Herald and Genealogist, vol. iv. p. 441.
page 19 note 1 I am happy to state that a plan of the whole edifice, marking the ancient interments, was previously taken by Mr. Emlyn, the architect, and that it is now in custody of the Dean; together with a duplicate copy, in which subsequent interments in the chapel are denoted.
page 19 note 2 See Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Third Series, Dec. 1865, p. 205. Other complaints of the destruction of sepulchral monuments have been frequently made in that journal.
page 20 note 1 “At Exeter some of the most interesting tombs in the country hare been simply destroyed. Of the Courtenay tomb there is not a vestige of old work left, and the so-called restoration is partly in stucco More than this, the monuments no longer stand over the places of interment. … The fine monument of Bishop Oldham was thus treated: First, all vestiges of old colour, of which much remained in its original condition, were removed; then all the stone-work, except the sculpture, and, it is said (though I can scarcely believe it), the effigy was retooled, and finally the whole was painted up in oil-colours of the most distressing crudeness. The furbishing up of the Carew monument is not a bit better; even the inscriptions are now of no sort of authority, except as possible copies.”—Letter, signed John C. Jackson, in The Times, July 12, 1867.
page 20 note 2 Vol. i. p. 156; described in p. 442.
page 20 note 3 Vol. i. p. 68.
page 20 note 4 Notes and Queries, III. xi. 440, 530.
page 21 note 1 “— My body to be buried in the north side of the quere of the chirch of our Lady of Stanwell, afor the ymage of our lady, wher the sepultur of our Lord stondith; wherupon I will ther be made a playne tamie of marble of a competent hight to th' entent that yt may ber the blissid body of our Lord & the sepultur at the time of Estre, to stond uppon the same, and with myne Armes and a scriptur convenient to be sett aboute the same tombe by thadvyse of myne executors and overseers underwretyn." (Will dated 1479.) A representation of this monument is fortunately preserved in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1793, p. 993.
page 22 note 1 Of the family of Dingley of Charleton, in the parish of Cropthorn, near Pershore, Nash gives a pedigree in his History of Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 272. They became extinct in the male line about the beginning of the last century, having latterly written their name Dineley, which orthography was adopted by their successors, the Dineley Goodyeres. Our author paid great attention to their monuments at Cropthorn, as will be seen hereafter.
page 22 note 2 There is a pedigree of Dingley of Woolverton in the Hampshire Visitation of 1634. This has been printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Visitation of Hampshire), and also in Berry's Hampshire Genealogies. But the family was of much higher antiquity than that pedigree shows, as appears by its alliances with many other distinguished Hampshire families. Its head who was contemporary with our author was Sir John Dingley. Hasted, the historian of Kent, was maternally descended from the family of Dingley of Woolverton; as the celebrated comedian Foote was from the Dingleys of Charleton.
page 22 note 3 See in the Appendix some account of Henry Dingley, a genealogist of the Charleton family, and Habingdon's remarks in reference to him.
page 22 note 4 As drawn for the frontispiece of his Joumall through the Low-Countreys, and in other parts of his MSS.
page 22 note 5 History of Worcestershire, Supplement, p. 16.
page 23 note 1 In Mr. E. P. Shirley's introduction to Dingley's Irish Journal, in the Transactions of the Kilkenny Archseological Society.
page 23 note 2 The Dingleys were in fact numerous at King's Norton, and in the copious extracts from the register of that place, which are to be seen in Dr. Prattinton's Worcestershire Collections in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries (sub tit. Bromsgrove) the name is of frequent occurrence. The gentleman who died there in 1690 (and whose eldest son Edward was born there in 1680), mentions in his will his wife Judith, his father-in-law William Fitter, and John Fitter of King's Norton, yeoman: and, moreover, another contemporary of his own names—“Thomas Dineley of Stoke Pryor, gent.”
page 23 note 3 It is so on the title-page of his earliest book, the Journal of the Low Countries. The letters of reference to objects in his drawings frequently form his name. In his French Journal he has followed this conceit in his plan of Dieppe, in his view of the castle of Eichelieu, in the monument at Fontevraud, in his view of Mons. Guille's house at Tours, and in a representation of the Grand Vizier's standard. In all these five cases the letters spell out
Thomas Dingley.
In his Irish Journal (p. 181) the references to the draught of the fort of Halebolin on Cork river furnish the spelling
Thomas Dineley
but a few pages further on the view of Glyn Castle is marked with Thomas Dingl, and subsequently the plan of the castle of Limerick Thomas Dingley. SO in our own volume, in the north sketch of the King's Bath at Bath (p. 62) we again decipher Thomas Dingley.
Dingley of Southampton.
From the original Visitation of Hampshire made in 1622 and 1624 (in the College of Arms, C. 19, f. 34b).
Arms: Argent, a fess sable, and in chief a mnllet between two pellets of the last: impaling Gules, crusilly fitchy and a lion rampant or, for Hopton.
page 25 note 1 He died in 1660, about July: see in Mrs. Green's Calendar of Domestic State Papers, of that date, the petition of Eichard Walker of Southampton, merchant, asking for the vacant place of Comptroller of the Port.
page 25 note 2 See in Dingley's Alphabett of Arms (p. xiii. 42, of the present volume), “Shirley, James, a famous Poet, my Schoolmr', bore paly of 6 Or and azure a Canton erminee.”
page 26 note 1 The date is unfilled up, and at first November was written, but altered to December. As the title-page of the Journall (the MS. of which is described hereafter, Appendix I.) bears the date 1674, it would seem that before it was written fairly, the author had forgotten the exact date of his departure.
page 27 note 1 “Here belongs to the Jesuits Colledge a famous library, which, together with all the curiosities of the church, were shown us by Father Wortesley, an English Jesuite, and Brother Philip, a student.”
page 27 note 2 “In this Citty (Bruxelles) are two English Cloysters of Nunnes, one of Benedictines, whereof Madam Vavazor of Yorkshire is Lady Abbesse; the other of Dominicans, founded by ye Lrd Ph. Howard, whereof Madam Boyle, related to the Lrd Burlington, is Lady Abbesse.”
page 27 note 3 At Ghent, “the Colledge of English Jesuites is but very small and mean; here we were treated by them wth great civility.
“The English Nunnery of Benedictines, wherein none known to any of our company but Dame Peters and two Howards sisters.”
page 27 note 4 Again he remarks at Bruges: “In this citty are two English nunnerys; the one of the order of St. Austen, Madm. Beningfeild Lady Abbesse; the other of Franciscans, Madm. Birker Lady Abbyesse. In the last the Nuns have the power of electing a new lady Abbyess every 3 yeer. Where are also seven of the senior sisters, which, upon all important occasions, advise with ye Lady Abbyesse. Nuns related to some of our company in these Monstres are two Dame Windsores sisters, and Dame Acton, all 3 of Worcestershire.”
page 28 note 1 John Bowcocke, of Clare Hall, B.A. 1661, but not M.A.
page 28 note 2 The Platform of Melun, at p. 285.
page 28 note 3 See much regarding that nunnery in The Herald and Genealogist, vol. iii., where Dingley's account of the murder of Lord Carrington at Pontoise has been extracted at p. 65. The English epitaphs copied by Dingley at the Huguenots' Burying-place at Charenton, near Paris, are printed in The Topographer and Genealogist, vol. iii. p. 298.
page 28 note 4 He remarks, “Paris is not altogether (as I take it) so large as London, but more populous.”
page 29 note 1 “A.D. 1676. The present lady abbess is Mademoiselle de, sister to Madam de Montespan, minion and concubine to the present French king, Lewis XIV.”
page 29 note 2 A large engraving of the same is given in Sandford's Genealogical History of England, edit. 1677, p. 65. The drawing had been sent to him by the lady abbess, “delineated by her own scenographer,” about three years before her death. Sand-ford describes it as “that stately Monument erected An. Dom. 1638 by the late Lady Abbess, Madam Jeane Baptiste de Bourbon, daughter of King Henry the Great, out of a high respect to the memory of our Kings and Queens interred in the church of the said monastery.”
page 29 note 3 At Moulins, the concourse on the great meadow along the Allier, called Champ-bonnet, “was the more numerous this June 2nd and 3rd, 1676, because of a flatt bottom'd boat built there, lin'd with crimson velvet fring'd with gold, and prepar'd on purpose to transport Madam de Montespan, cheif mistress to the K (at her returne from the Bourbon Baths), by this river towards Nevers, and down the River Loyre to the Abbey of Fontevrault, neer Saumur, where her sister is Lady Abbess.”
page 31 note 1 He does not distinctly say so; but the latter part of his book (pp. 215–236) bears this title, “A Journey from Bunratty Castle in the county of Clare, unto the famous Port and Town of Youghall in the county of Cork, and thence to the Port of Minehead in England.” On a vacant page soon after there is what appears to be a slight sketch of Stonehenge.
page 31 note 2 P. 252 and p. 296; pp. 14, 34 of printed edition.
page 31 note 3 The annotator of this part of the Tour in Ireland remarked, that “Dineley had been Arnot's subaltern when he served under the command of the Duke of Beaufort.” But I believe this was founded only upon some misapprehension.
page 32 note 1 Many of Dingley's sketches in his Irish Journal have groups of soldiers by way of figures. These were cut out of some prints, and stuck on to his foregrounds. An instance will be found copied in the view of the Exchange and Quay of Youghal, but the engraver has generally omitted them.
page 32 note 2 Again, in opposite pages, both years 1680 and 1681 occur. In p. 196, he writes, “Glyn Castle, in the county of Limerick, now 1681, in the hands of Major Fitz Gerald,” and in p. 197 he mentions “Kilrush, a town in the county of Clare, belonging to the Right Honble Henry Earle of Thomond, at this time, 1680, in the tenure of Major Granniere.”
page 33 note 1 Notitia Cambro-Britannica, p. 106.
page 33 note 2 This drawing was, in fact, removed from p. 171 of his Irish Journal.
page 34 note 3 Edward Earl of Worcester, the Duke of Beaufort's father, and the Earl of Thomond, had married sisters, the coheiresses of Henry fifth Earl of Thomond; and it is certain that the intercourse of the families was maintained, for in 1686 Lord Ibrachan, the Earl of Thomond's son and heir-apparent, was married to Ladj Henrietta Somerset, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort. This young couple were not, however, cousins, as might be supposed, for the Duke of Beaufort was the son of his father's first wife, Elizabeth Dormer. The relationship is shown in the following table:—
page 34 note 1 Lord Macaulay, in Ma History of England, when describing the preparations made by the government and loyal noblemen to resist the invasion of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685, and enlarging on the great influence of the Duke of Beaufort, remarks that “His official tours through the extensive region in which he represented the majesty of the throne were scarcely inferior in pomp to royal progresses,” quoting for his authority the London Gazettes of July 1684. There ia, however, no authority for concluding that the Duke of Beaufort made any other official tour as Lord President of Wales than this of 1684, which was evidently specially undertaken to re-establish, if possible, the waning loyalty of the Welsh towards the House of Stuart, at that ticklish time when the Crown was doing its utmost to enforce the surrender of municipal charters. See particularly the speech made by the Recorder of Carmarthen (p. 138), and the account of the surrender of the Charter of Cardiff at p. 201. In the History of Shrewsbury, by Owen and Blakeway, there is another misapprehension respecting the Duke's progress, viz., that it was inaugural upon a re-appointment to the office of Lord President.
page 35 note 1 Besides Shrewsbury and Ludlow, Dineley's Welsh Journal contains also in its earlier pages some notes of Worcester, with several drawings made in that cathedral, which are probably the fruit of some longer and quieter visit than that he made in attendance on the Duke of Beaufort on the morning of the 17th July, 1684. There are other notes of Worcester in the present volume.
page 35 note 2 Only two printed sermons by Dr. Hayward are mentioned in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica. They are dated 1673 and 1676.
page 35 note 3 Some of the dates which occur are—1680; when he notices Windsor: “ten years ago from 1681;” King's Peon and Weobley in Herefordshire 1682; Hampton Court in Herefordshire, Jan. 1683; Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, April 30, 1684; Spy Park and Sir Walter Long's drawn on the next day; Hereford in the same year (p. 200).
page 37 note 1 See p. 42 hereafter.
page 37 note 2 Noble's College of Anns, p. 359.
page 40 note 1 See Litta, Famiglie celehri Italiane, art. COLONNA. But Litta does not give an engraving of the monument in question.
page 40 note 2 Nichols's Literary Illustrations, vol. v. p. 519.
page 43 note 1 One “Thomas Dingley” was witness to a deed of Sir Francis Winnington, March 1673. (Bewdley.) (Frattinton MSS. Soc.of Antiq., index of names.)
page 43 note 2 The heiress of this family was married to Edward Winnington, esq. counsellorat-Iaw and M.P. for Droitwich, fourth son of Sir Francis Winnington, of Stanford Court, and younger brother to Sir Francis Winnington, solicitor-general to James II.