Chapter X: Y. Z

_Oaken Tombs._--In Dr. Whitaker's noble history of _Loidis and Elmete_, p. 322., is the following passage:

"Next in point of time is a very singular memorial, which has evidently
been removed from its original position, between the chapel and the
high altar, to a situation at the south side and west end of the
chapel.... The tomb is a messy frame-work of oak, with quarter-foils
and arms on three sides, and on the table above three statues of the
same material, namely, of a knight bare-headed, with rather youthful
countenance and sharp features, and his two wives. On the filleting is
this rude inscription in Old English:

'Bonys emong Stonys, lyes here ful styl,
Quilst the sawle wanders wher God wyl.
Anno D^{ni} MCCCCCXXIX.'

This commemorates Sir John Savile, who married, &c.

"Over all has been a canopy, or rather tester, for the whole must have
originally resembled an antique and massy bedstead, exhibiting the very
incongruous appearance of a husband in bed with two wives at once."

The Doctor adds:

"Oaken tombs are very rare; that of Aymer de Valence in Westminster
Abbey has been and still is in part coated over with copper, gilt, and
enamelled, and I have seen another in the church of Tickencote in
Rutlandshire. I do not recollect a third specimen."

Query, How many have been discovered since the great historian's day?

ST. BEES.

_Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth._--In the State Paper Office (_Dom. Pap._, temp. Jac. I.), there is, under date of 1608, a letter from Mr. Chamberlaine to Sir Dudley Carleton, of October 28, in which Chamberlaine says:

"I heare of a Bill put into the Exchequer, concerninge much lande that
sh^d be alienated on account of the alleged bastardy of Queen
Elizabeth."

P. C. S. S. is desirous to know whether there be any record in the Court of Exchequer which bears out this singular statement.

P. C. S. S.

_"Pugna Porcorum."_--Where may be found some account of the author, object, &c. of this facetious production?

P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.

_Parviso._--Can any of your readers inform me as to the meaning of the word _parviso_; it occurs in the usual form of the "Testamur" for Responsions. On reference to Webster's _Dictionary_, I find that _parvis_ is a small porch or gateway; perhaps this may throw some light upon the question.

OXONIENSIS.

_Mr. Justice Newton._--There is a very stiff Indian-ink copy of a portrait in the _Sutherland Illustrated Clarendon_, in the Bodleian Library, the original of which I should be glad to trace. It is described in the Catalogue to be "by Bulfinch," {529} which is probably a mistake. It bears the following inscription:

"This is drawn from the painting in the hands of Mr. Justice Newton of
the Middle Temple."

Can any one inform me when this learned justice lived; or rather, for it concerns me more, when he died? And farther, if it be not too hopeless an inquiry to make, who his existing representatives (if any) may be?

F. KYFFIN LENTHALL.

36. Mount Street, Grosvenor Square.

_Mufti._--I hear military men employ this term, "we went in _mufti_:" meaning, out of uniform. Whence is it derived?

MARIA.

_Ryming and Cuculling._--In that very curious volume of extracts from _The Presbytery Book of Strathbogie_, A.D. 1631-54, which was printed for the Spalding Club in 1843, occurs the following passage:

"George Jinkin and John Christie referred from the Session of
Abercherder, for _ryming and cuculling_, called, compeird not. Ordained
to be summonded _pro_ 2^o."--P. 242.

Accordingly, on--

"The said day, George Jinkin in Abercherder, being summonded for his
_ryming and cuculling_, being called, compeired; and being accused of
the foresaid fault, confessed he only spoke three words of _that ryme_.
Being sharpely rebuked, and instructed of the grosnes of that sin, was
ordained to satisfie in sackcloth, which he promised to do."--P. 245.

What was the "fault" here alluded to, and visited with a species of discipline with which the presbytery, and those under its jurisdiction, appear to have been very familiar?

D.

_Custom at the Savoy Church._--At the Savoy Church (London), the Sunday following Christmas Day, there was a chair placed near the door, covered with a cloth: on the chair was an orange, in a plate.

Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me the meaning of this?

CERIDWEN.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Faithfull Teate._--I lately fell in with a small work by this divine, entitled _Ter Tria_, and on the fly-leaf is a MS. note, stating that some years ago a copy of the same book was priced, in a bookseller's catalogue in London, at 1l. 7s. 6d. I wish to learn some particulars relative to the author, and if the work is valuable, or scarce, or both.

J. S.

[Neither Calamy nor Brook has furnished any biographical notices of Dr.
Faithfull Teate. When he wrote _Ter Tria_, in 1658, he was a "Preacher
of the Word at Sudbury in Suffolk." A second edition of it was
published in 1669. In 1665 appeared his _Scripture Map of the
Wildernesse of Sin_," 4to. In a discourse on _Right Thoughts, the
Righteous Man's Evidence_, he has the following passage, accommodated
to his own destitute state after his ejectment: "The righteous man, in
thinking of his present condition of life, thinks it his relief, that
the less money he has he may go the more upon trust; the less he finds
in his purse, seeks the more in the promise of Him that has said, 'I
will never leave thee, nor forsake thee;' so that he thinks no man can
take away his livelihood, unless he can first take away God's truth."
Lowndes has given the following prices of _Ter Tria_: Sir M. M. Sykes,
part iii. 626., 5s.; Nassau, part ii. 682., 8s.; White Knights, 4068.,
1l.; _Bibl. Ang. Poet._, 764., 1l. 11s. 6d.]

_Kelway Family._--Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." guide me to anything like a pedigree of the family of _Kelloway_, _Kaloway_, or _Kelway_; which I find from Lysons' _Devonshire_ possessed the manor of Mokesbean in that county from the time of Henry II.?

In the first year of Edward III., when the property of those who suffered after the battle of Boroughbridge was restored, John de Keilewaye was found "hæres de integro sanguine" to Lord Gifford of Brimesfield.

The last of the family appears to have been John Kelloway of Collampton in Devon, who married Joan Tregarthian; and dying in 1530, left co-heiresses married to Greville of Penheale, Codrington of Codrington, Harwood, and Cooke.

The arms of the family are singular, being, Argent within a bordure engrailed sable, two groving irons in saltire sable, between four pears Or.

R. H. C.

[The pedigree of this family will be found in two copies by Munday of
the "Visitation of Devonshire," A.D. 1564, in the Harleian MSS. 1091.
p. 90., and 1538, p. 2166. The only difference in the arms is, in both
copies, that there is _no bordure engrailed_; but this has probably
been added since as a _difference_, as was often done to distinguish
families. The name is here spelt _Kelloway_, and the pedigree begins
with "Thomas Kelloway of Stowford in County Devon, who married Anne,
daughter of ---- Copleston, of ----, in county Somerset," and ends with
"John Kelloway, who married Margery, daughter of John Arscott of
Dunsland, and left issue Robert, who married ----, and Richard."]

_Regatta._--What is the etymology of the word _regatta_? From whence is it derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat-race?