Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 | Page 8

Newspapers._--
"The materials for a satisfactory history of newspapers, lie scattered in
facts known one to this person, and one to that. If each London or
provincial journalist, each reader, and each critic, who has an anecdote
and a date, would give it publicity, some future volume might be
prepared from the combined supply, much more complete than any to
be fairly expected from a comparatively unaided writer who ventures
upon an almost untrodden ground."
The foregoing extract from the interesting volumes recently published
by Mr. Knight Hunt, under the unpretending title of _The Fourth Estate:
Contributions towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of
the Press_, has been very kindly recommended to our attention by The
Examiner. We gladly avail ourselves of the suggestion, and shall be
pleased to record in our columns any facts of the nature referred to by

Mr. Hunt.
_Steele's Burial-place._--Sir Richard Steele died in the house now the
"Ivy Bush" Inn, at Carmarthen, on the 1st of September, 1729.
Where was he buried?
Is there a monument or inscription to his memory in any church in or
near Carmarthen?
LLEWELLYN.
_Socinian Boast._--In an allocution recently held by Dr. Pusey, to the
London Church Union, in St. Martin's Hall, reported in The Times of
Oct. 17, the following passage occurs:
"The Socinian boast might be a warning to us against such declarations.
The Socinian pictured Calvin as carrying on the protest against Rome
more vigorously than Luther, himself than Calvin:
"Tota jacet Babylon; destruxit tecta Lutherus, Calvinus muros, sed
fundamenta Socinus."
Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used?
L.
_Descent of Edward IV._--Professor Millar, in his Historical View of
the English Government (ii. 174.), in discussing the claim of Edward
IV. to the English throne, speaks of "a popular though probably a
groundless tradition, that by his mother he was descended from Henry
III. by an elder brother of Edward I., who, on account of his personal
deformity, had been excluded from the succession to the crown."
Where may I find this tradition? or where meet with any information on
the subject?
S.A.Y. {376}
_Viscount Castlecomer._--Sir Christopher Wanderforde, who
succeeded poor Strafford as Lord Deputy of Ireland, in April, 1640,
was created, between that date and his death, which occurred in
December of the same year, Baron Mowbray and Musters, and
Viscount Castlecomer. I should be glad to know the date of the patent
of his creation, whether Sir Christopher himself ever took up the title,
and what became of the title afterwards?
S.A.Y.
_Judge Cradock, afterwards Newton._--MR ELLACOMBE (Vol. ii., p.
249.), in his notice of a monument in Yatton Church to "Judge Newton,
alias Cradock," says, "the arms of Cradock are _Arg._ on chevron

_az._ three garbs or." Richard Cradock, he adds, "was the first of his
family who took the name of Newton." Does MR. ELLACOMBE mean
that the above arms were those of the _Cradock family_, or that this
Richard Cradock assumed the coat as well as the name of _Newton_?
The above was the bearing of the family of Newton, of East Newton, in
the North Riding of York. The eldest daughter and coheir of John
Newton of East Newton was married to William Thornton, which
family thus became possessed of the estate of East Newton, and
quartered the coat assigned by MR. ELLACOMBE to Cradock. I
should be glad to know the occasion on which Richard Cradock
assumed the name and arms of Newton, as well as the connexion
between these Newtons and those settled at East Newton.
S.A.Y.
_Totness Church._--In Totness Church, the N. angle of the chancel is
cut off in the lower part of the building, in order to allow an arched
passage from one side of the church to the other outside.
The upper part of the building is supported by a very strong buttress or
pier, leaving the diagonal passage between it and the internal wall. Can
any one tell whether this was done merely to afford a gangway for want
of room outside?
The graveyard has been recently enlarged in that direction, for all the
tombstones beyond the line of the chancel appear to be of late date. An
old woman informed me, with an air of solemn authenticity, that this
arched passage was reserved as a place of deposit for the bodies of
persons seized for debt, which lay there till they were redeemed.
H.G.T.
_Meaning of "Harissers_."--It is customary in the county of Dorset,
after carrying a field of corn, to leave behind a sheaf, to intimate to the
rest of the parish that the families of those who reaped the field are to
have the first lease. After these gleaners have finished, the sheaf is
removed, and other parties are admitted, called "barissers." I have been