Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Constable of Scotland_ (Vol. v., pp. 297. 350.).--In vol. i. p. 175. of
the _Analecta Scotica_ (Edinburgh, 1834) will be found some curious
"fragments relative to the office of Great Constable of Scotland," more
particularly before it became heritable in the noble family of Erroll.
E. N.
_The Iron Plate in Lewes Castle_ (Vol. v., p. 342.).--In answer to A. W.
I beg to say that the iron plate was taken from the ruins of a cottage
which was burnt down on the estate of Sir Henry Shiffner some time
since; it formed the fire-back of the kitchen: the inscription was
turned to the wall, and therefore not visible.
This inscription is a fac-simile of the iron plate placed to the memory
of Ann Forster in the church of Crowhurst in Surrey, and it would appear
that the founder cast several plates similar to that in Lewes Castle,
which are known to exist and be used as fire-backs. See Brayley and
Britton's _History of Surrey_, vol. iv. p. 131., and note at foot of the
same page.
WILLIAM FIGG.
Lewes.
The monumental (cast iron?) plate in Lewes castle, referred to by A. W.,
probably came from the church of Crowhurst in Surrey, where there are
several monuments to members of the family of Gaynsford, and there were
(in Sept. 1847, when I visited the building) more than one iron plate in
the pavement with inscriptions of the exact character of that at Lewes,
and with the letters similarly inverted and reversed. My impression is
that I saw the memorial in question in the church; but I cannot now
discover the notes I made on the subject at the time, nor a rubbing
which I took of another iron plate of a more ornate though not less rude
character. I remember, in passing within sight of the church on the
Dover Railway, since 1847, to have noticed scaffolding about the tower;
possibly the plate now at Lewes may have been removed at that time.
R. C. H.
The plate was presented to the Antiquarian Museum in Lewes Castle by Sir
H. Shiffner, Bart., about two years ago, when he rescued it from a
farm-house burnt down on his property near Lewes. It has been traced to
a cottage where it previously served the same purpose as at the
farm-house, as back to the fire-place; but no further record of its
former history can be discovered. It is not unusual, however, to find
monumental plates thus desecrated.
E. A. S.
_Chelwoldesbury_ (Vol. v., p. 346.).--Allow me to suggest to your
correspondent W. H. K. the possibility that the name in question may
originally have been Ceolwoldsburh or Ceolweardesburh, i.e. _the burgh_
or _castle of Ceolwold_ or _Ceolweard_, analogously with Brihthelmstûn,
now contracted into _Brighton_. The A.-S. _ce_ has constantly been
corrupted into _che_.
D.
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