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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. VIIL JULY 5, 1913.
St. John of Bletsoe.—I should be very grateful if any one of your numerous readers could kindly furnish me with the dates of the two following marriages and the place where solemnized:—
Sir John St. John, of Bletsoe, Knt., and Anne da. of Thomas Nevell, of Cotterstock, c. 1552-8, his 2nd wife, who was bur. at Bletsoe, 22 Aug., 1595.
Oliver, 1st Ld. St. John, of Bletsoe (s. & h. of above), and Elizabeth, da. (orwid.)of Sir Edward Griffin, Knt., who was, I believe, Attorney Genl. temp. Q. Eliz. She was his 2nd wife, and was bur. at Wakerley, Northants, 1 Dec., 1609. This m. would have taken place c. 1560-70.
Also I should be glad to learn what became of Oliver, 4th Lord St. John of Bletsoe, said to have died in 1646, and of Elizabeth Paulet his wife. The usual sources of information are singularly reticent as to the above, and I am unable to ascertain their place of marriage or burial, nor have I come across any trace of will or administration.
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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I should be glad to learn (i) the author of a poem about the Dead Sea, beginning I looked upon a sea
And lo 'twas dead, Although by Herman's snows And Jordan fed.
and (ii) the author of the following transla- tions :
(a) Sounds which address the ear are lost and die, But truths submitted to the faithful sight Are writ and graven Math a beam of light.
Horace, ' A. P.,' 180-2.
(6) Intestine quarrels place an obvious lever In every hand of every unbeliever.
Virgil, ' JEn.,' ii. 104.
The latter was quoted in 1888 by the Master of Trinity, Dr. Butler, I believe, as a translation of " Hoc Ithacus velit et magno mercentur Atridae." G. H. J.
Youth will be served.
E. H. E.
JANE CROMWELL, FRADSWELL. I shall
be grateful if your readers can give me any
information regarding the following per-
sonages.
On the wall of Fradswell Church, near Stafford, is a tablet to the memory of Jane (or Joanna) Cromwell, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Ardglas in Ireland, and Elizabeth his countess. The deceased lady is stated to be " of the noble families of the Crom wells and the Meverells." The monument was erected
by her younger brother, Vere Essex Crom-
well, in 1672. The lady died 7 Aug., 1647,
and the grave is described as " tumulus
obscurus."
The Latin inscription runs as follows : Inscription on Wall Tablet in Fradswell Church*
Staffs.
Siste gradum viator, siste, quid properas ? En puellae insignis tumulus obscurus.
Nouien legito,
IANA CROMWELL
Ex nobilibus familijs Cromwellorum et
Meverellorum
faeliciter conjunctis feliciter oriunda Filia THOMAE comitis de ARDGLAS in regno>
Hiberniae
et ELIZABETHJE comitissae ejus (Heu quid lacrumis dicere conatus) fuit ;
Fuit tamen, at talis ut Nobilitate ornata nobilitatem decoravit suam :
sanguine et Titulis illustris :
Forma Ingenio pudicitia et pudore praeclarissima r virgo nitens, comitis filia, sexus decus, suorum
deliciae,
Gent is Gloria.
quse cum anos xx optandse maturitatis impleverat^
Mortem obijt inoptandam,
vii Aug M DC XL vn
cujus f rater nobilis VERB ESSEX CROMWELL
Etsi minor natu et tantillo patrimonio fruitur
Amoris et pietatis ergo
Hoc illud monumentum
P D D D Ano. M DC LXXII
Quod si aliquis iinpius in futurum violare ausus-
erit, sacrilegi merito poenas luat.
CECIL HIBBERD,
[A query on this subject, including the epitaph,, appeared at 2 S. vii. 477, and we reproduce here the editorial by which it was answered :
" This lady was connected with the Cromwells of Wimbledon, and was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex. Her father Thomas Cromwell, the fourth baron, and the fourth in descent from the Earl, was summoned to Parlia- ment 18th of James I., and in 1625 was by Charles I. created Viscount Lecale, and in 1644, Earl of Ardglass in Ireland. He was a loyalist, and took the contrary side from his friend Lord Essex, the parliament general. He died in 1653 r and was buried at Tickencote, co. Rutland. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert Meverell, of Throwliegh in Staffordshire, by whom he had issue three daughters, Frances and Jane, who died young ; and Mary, who married William FitzHerbert of Tissington, co. Derby ; also three sons, Wingfield, Vere Essex, and. Oliver. The barony became extinct on the demise of Vere Essex (the seventh baron) in 1687. The pedigree is printed in Banks's Dormant andl Extinct Baronage, ii. 126."J
ST. PAUL AT VIRGIL'S TOMB. Where can* I find, printed in extenso. the mediaeval Latin hymn in which this legend is related I A stanza was quoted at 11 S. vii. 463.
R. L. MORETON..
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