Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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[In Jermyn's "Suffolk Collections," vol. vi. (Add. MSS. 8173.), in the
British Museum, are the following Notes of this church, taken 1st June,
1808, by H. I. and D. E. D.: "The Church consists of a nave and
chancel, both under one roof, which is covered with thatch. The chancel
is 30 ft. 3 in. long, and 15 ft. 5 in. wide. The communion-table is
neither raised nor inclosed. The floor of the whole church is also of
the same height. The nave is 30 ft. long, and 16 ft. 1 in. wide.
Between the chancel and nave are the remains of a screen, and over it
the arms of George II., between two tables containing the Lord's
Prayer, &c. In the N. E. angle is the pulpit, which is of oak, hexagon,
ordinary, as are also the pews and seats. At the W. end stands the
font, which is octagon, the faces containing roses and lions, and two
figures holding blank escutcheons, the pedestal supported by four
lions. The steeple is in the usual place, small, square, of flints, but
little higher than the roof. In it is only one bell, inscribed 1759.
The entrance into the church on the N. side is through a circular Saxon
arch, not much ornamented. On the side is another of the same
description, but more ornamented, with zig-zag moulding, &c." Then
follow the inscriptions, &c. in the chancel, of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown,
John Brown, Thomas Brown; in the nave, of Henry Keable, with extracts
from the parish register commencing in 1653.]
_The Statute of Kilkenny._--Said to have been passed in 1364. What was the
nature of it?
ABREDONENSIS.
[This statute legally abolished the ancient code of the Irish, called
the Brehon laws, and was passed in a parliament held at Kilkenny in the
40th Edward III., under the government of Lionel, Duke of Clarence,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By this act, the English are commanded in
all controversies to govern themselves by the common laws of England,
so that whoever submitted himself to the Brehon law, or the law of the
Marches, is declared a traitor. Among other things the statute enacted
that "the alliaunce of the English by marriage with any Irish, the
nurture of infantes, and gossipred with the Irish, be deemed high
treason." And again, "If anie man of English race use an Irish name,
Irish apparell, or any other guize or fashion of the Irish, his lands
shall be seized, and his bodie imprisoned, till he shall conform to
English modes and customs." This statute was followed by the 18th Henry
VI. c. i. ii. iii., and the 28th Hen. VI., c. i., with similar
prohibitions and penalties. These prohibitions, however, had little
effect; nor were the English laws universally submitted to throughout
Ireland until the time of James I., when the final extirpation of the
ancient Brehon law was effected.]
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