Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Spectral Coach and Horses_ (Vol. iv., p. 195.).--A similar legend was
within a few years current near Bury St. Edmunds, in the same county,
where on Christmas Eve, at midnight, a coach drawn by four headless
horses, and driven by a headless coachman, might be seen to come in a
direction from the parish of Great Barton, across the fields, regardless
of fences, and proceed to a deep hole called "Phillis's Hole" near "the
two-mile spinney," in the parish of Rongham, and there find a
resting-place. A few years since, wishing to learn whether this sight
was among the things still looked for or believed in, I proceeded to the
locality at the time stated, but met with no one but a gamekeeper, whom
I found to be quite familiar with the legend. He said he had heard a
good deal in his younger days about the "coach," but had never seen it.
There was, however, an old woman then living who had seen it often, and
who declared that the coach was occupied by a gentleman and a lady, also
without heads, but he did not know what to say to it. All he knew was,
that when a man was out on dark nights, "he could draw anything into his
eye that he liked!"
BURIENSIS.
ANTIQUARIES OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
I have a copy of Weever's _Ancient Funerall Monuments_, which once
belonged to William Burton, the historian of Leicestershire; on a
fly-leaf at the end of the volume is the following list in the autograph
of that celebrated antiquary, which, perhaps, may not be without its
interest to the readers of "N. & Q." I have appended some notes of
identification, which I have no doubt some of your correspondents could
easily render more complete.
"Antiquarii temp. Eliz. Reg.
"1. Recorder Fletewode, Wm.
2. Mr. Atey.
3. Mr. Lambard, Will[=m].
4. Mr. Cope.
5. Mr. Broughton ye Lawyer.
6. Mr. Leigh.
7. Mr. Bourgchier.
8. Mr. Broughton ye Preacher.
9. Mr. Holland, Joseph.
10. Mr. Gartier.
11. Mr. Cotton, Robt.
12. Mr. Thinne, Francis.
13. Jo. Stowe.
14. -- Combes.
15. -- Lloyd.
16. -- Strangman.
17. Hen. Spelman.
18. Arthur Gregory.
19. Anth. Cliffe.
20. Tho. Talbot.
21. Arthur Goulding.
22. Arthur Agard.
23. Will[=m] Camden.
24. Merc. Patten.
25. Samson Erdeswike.
26. -- Josseline.
27. Hen. Sacheverell.
28. Wm. Nettleton de Knocesborough.
29. John Ferne.
30. Ro[=b]t. Bele.
31. John Savile de Templo.
32. Daniell Rogers.
33. Tho. Saville.
34. Henry Saville.
35. Rog. Keymis.
36. John Guillim.
37. -- Dee.
38. -- Heneage.
39. Rich. Scarlet.
40. -- Wodhall.
41. Dent de B[=a]co Regis.
42. -- Bowyer.
43. Robt. Hare.
44. -- Harrison, schoolemr.
45. -- Harrison, ministr."
1. William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, "a learned man and good
antiquary," ob. 1593. (_Wood_, ed. Bliss, i. 598.)
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