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NOTES:-The Pury Family, 241-Magdalen College, Oxford, and Gibbon, 242-Mr. Arber's Reprints, 243-Port Royal and Vivisection-An Analysis of Poets' Corner, 244-Baronies of Mowbray and Segrave, 245. QUERIES:-The Oxford and Cambridge Boat-race-Hammond and Cicero-Cooper Family-"Sorry" Statesmen, 246 -"Fortake "-The Castle of Bishop's Stortford-Demography-Roger Robins-Delafield Family "The Poysoning" of Sir E. Andrew-C. Sloper, D.D.-Equal Use in Wine and Fire, 247-Manor of Mere, Staffordshire-Tokens of the Sacrament-King Alaric-Population of Rome and Roman Empire, 249-Authors Wanted, &c., 249. that in early life he was engaged in trade or manufacture, as was by no means uncommon in those days with members of good families, but he was afterwards "of the profession of the law." The old Royalist pamphlet, entitled The Mystery of the Good Old Cause, says that he was first a weaver in Gloucester, then an ignorant country solicitor"; but no more credence is to be given to the scandal of the Royalists under Charles II. than to that of the Puritans under Oliver Cromwell. Whatever he was, he had become a man of mark in his native city, for he was sheriff in 1626 and a successful candidate at the election March 24, 1639-40, when he was elected (to the Long Parliament) in preference to William Singleton, who had been a popular mayor and also a former member, and William Lenthall, the Recorder, afterwards better known as "Speaker REPLIES:-Heraldic: Hutchinson Family, 249-Touching for the King's Evil-The Tomb of Edmund of Langley, Duke of York, 251-The Order of the Garter an Epicene Order-Friesic Songs and Legends, 252-Curiosities of Cricket-Tom Tompier-Parsons who were also Publicans, 253-Dante's "Purgatorio"-Milton's "Animadversions -The Lincoln Missal-St. Sunday, 254-Hare's " Walks in London"-The Great Bell at Brailes-"Historical Glean-Lenthall," who appears to have resented his defeat, ings"-The Surname "Wooly H."-The Order of the Lion and Sun of Persia-Maffled, 255-"As"-An Oil Painting -Sir J. Woodville-" Bibliotheca Parvulorum "-Milton Queries Henry Ingles, 256-"Pumpernickel' - Rowe Family-Sir Drue Drury-Robin Hood Society-R. B. Sheridan-Moore Arms-Public-house Signs, 257-"The Splendid Shilling"-Quakers and Titles-"Hoping against hope' St. Joseph, 258-Archbishop Sharp-Authors Wanted, 259. Notes on Books, &c. Notes. THE PURY FAMILY, &c. (Continued from p. 45.) Alderman Pury was descended from a family which appears to have been already settled in Gloucester in the reign of Henry VII. In 1506 one Walter Pury gave 20l. a year to the poor of the parish of St. Mary de Crypt, in which parish the family lived, and where most of them are buried. Thomas Pury, mercer, was sheriff of the city in 1541 and mayor in 1550, and again in 1560. He died April, 1580, and is buried in the chancel of the church of St. Mary de Crypt, where there is a monument to his memory, with arms and a long Latin inscription signifying that he was son and heir to William Pury, younger brother to John Pury, of Cokeham, in the county of Berks, Esq., by his wife, the sister and co-heiress of John Cooke, Esq., four times mayor of the city. It also states that he was connected by marriage with Sir William Danvers, Kt., one of the Justices of the Common Pleas under Henry VII., and with Richard Pates, who was Recorder of Gloucester and member for the city tempore Mary and Elizabeth. Another monument in the same church to the memory of Alderman Pury describes him as nuper Major hujus civitatis Glocestriæ, filius Gualteri, filii Thomae Pury Armigeri, juxta inhumati," so that the alderman was grandson of Thomas Pury above mentioned. It is probable since in an undated and unpublished letter, written many years after, and when he was again a candidate, he says:-"I have noe assurance of Electio there, it being wth mighty hand and much labored against me. power Only this I can say, if they chewse me not I shall disdayne to beare the name of Recorder amongst them." 66 There is a long and interesting letter calendared in the last publication of State Papers, 1639-40 (Domestic), written from the bishop's palace at Gloucester on March 24, 1639-40, the day of the election, by John Allibonel to Peter Heylin, from which it would seem as if Pury had some Quaker tendencies, for, describing the candidates, he mentions Pury, and says, "Whom nothing has so much endeared as his irreverence in God's house, sitting covered when all the rest sit bare, whose cause is earnestly presented by the aforesaid Nelmes and Edwards," previously described by him as strong and rank Puritans." Mr. Webb, in his admirable introduction to the Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis, says: "He had raised himself into notice by his talents and industry, and was possessed of considerable influence amongst the citizens. In the House he zealously pressed every innovation of Church and State, and, being a speaker of some ability and a man of business, was frequently engaged in their numerous committees." "When the Act for publishing scandalous clergymen and others passed, March 10, 1641, he was appointed one of the commissioners for carrying it into execution in the city and county of Gloucester (Husband's Ordinances). Like Sir Simonds D'Ewes, May, and Burton, he took notes of the proceedings in the Long Parliament, and these existed until a recent period, but cannot now be found, and are believed to have been destroyed. On Nov. 30, 1641, he moved that the famous Dr. Chillingworth should be brought to the bar of the House for having said that some members of the House were guilty of treason, and that they should be: |