Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 | Page 9

Queen Elizabeth's work (which she executed during her captivity
before she ascended the throne) been printed? Richard Viscount
Preston's appeared first, I believe, in 1712, in 12mo. How often has it
been reprinted? What other English translations have been made, and
what are the latest?
JARTZBERG.
Gloucestershire Gospel Tree.--Mary Roberts, in her Ruins and Old
Trees associated with Historical Events, gives a very pretty account of
a certain Gospel Tree. Can any kind correspondent inform me where in
Gloucestershire it is situated? Although a native of the county, I never
heard of it.
W. H. B.
Churchyards--Epitaphs.--Up to the time of the Norman Conquest,
churchyards appear to have been considered almost as sacred as
churches; but soon after that period, though regarded as places of
sanctuary, they were often used for profane purposes. I recollect
reading of fairs and rustic sports being held in them as early as John's
reign, but unfortunately I have not been an observer of your motto, and
know not now where to refer for such instances. I shall therefore feel
obliged to any of your readers who will specify a few instances of the
profanation of churchyards at different periods, or refer me to works
where such may be found. Churchyards appear to have been used in
special cases for sepulture from the year 750, but not commonly so
used till the end of the fourteenth century. Are there any instances of
sepulchral monuments, between the above dates, now existing in
churchyards?
Stone crosses, evidently of Saxon or very early Roman structure, are
found in churchyards, but I am not aware of any sepulchral monuments
detached from the church of the same date. I shall be glad of any

notices of early monuments or remarkable epitaphs in churchyards.
When did churchyards cease to be places of sanctuary? What is the
exact meaning of the word "yard?" and was not "God's acre" applied to
Christian cemeteries before sepulture was admitted in churches or
churchyards?
W. H. K.
Drayton Beauchamp, June 10.
Anthony Warton.--Who was Anthony Warton, minister of the word at
Breamore, in Hampshire, and author of Refinement of Zion, London,
1657? Another Anthony Warton was matriculated at Magdalen College,
Oxford, 2nd Nov., 1665, at sixteen, as son of Francis Warton, of
Breamore, Hants, plebeian. He remained clerk till 1671; chaplain from
1671 to 1674; instituted vicar of Godalming, Surrey, in 1682; obiit 15th
March, 1714-15. He was father of Thomas Warton, Demy and Fellow
of Magdalen College, vicar of Basingstoke, Hants, and of Cobham,
Surrey, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, 1718-28; who
was father of the more celebrated Thomas Warton, Fellow of Trinity
College, Oxford, and of Joseph Warton, Head Master of Winchester
School.
Manning says (History of Surrey, vol. i. p. 648.) that Anthony Warton,
vicar of Breamore, Hants, was younger brother of Michael Warton,
Esq., of Beverley, but originally of Warton Hall in Lancashire. Both
Wood and Manning seem to have confounded the first Anthony with
the clerk, &c. of Magdalen. Was the former brother of Francis?
MAGDALENENSIS.
Cardinal's Hat.--O'Halloran mentions the cardinal's
hat--"birede"--"biretrum"--as the hat anciently worn by the Irish doctors.
What is its history?
J. SANSOM.
Maps of London.--I should be grateful to any of your correspondents

who could inform me whether there are any maps of London before
that of Aggas? what they are? and where they are to be found? The date
of Aggas's map is supposed to be about 1560, and must have been after
1548, as the site of Essex House in the Strand is there called "Paget
Place." There is a MS. map by Anthony Van Den Wyngerde in the
Sutherland Collection in the Bodleian, the date of which would be
about 1559.
EDWARD FOSS.
Griffith of Penrhyn.--Can any of your correspondents refer me to a
good pedigree of GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN AND CARNARVON?
WILLIAM D'OYLY BAYLEY.
Coatham, near Redcar.
The Mariner's Compass.--What is the origin of the fleur-de-lis with
which the northern radius of the compass-card is always ornamented?
NAUTILUS.
Pontefract on the Thames.--Permit me to ask, through the medium of
your useful publication, where Pontefract on the Thames was situate in
{57} the fourteenth century? Several documents of Edw. II. are dated
from Shene (Richmond); in 1318, one from Mortelak; in 1322, one
from Istelworth; and several are dated Pountfrcyt, or Pontem fractum
super Thamis. (See Rymer's Foedera). It is very clear that this
Pountfrcyt on the Thames must have been at no great distance from
Shene, Mortlake, and Isleworth, also upon the Thames; and this is
further corroborated by the dates following, from the places alluded to,
so closely.
N.
June 14. 1850.
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