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V. and A. Museum, South Kensington. I
have for years wondered why a work con-
sidered worthy of being at the S.K.M. has
been turned out of the cathedral. It makes
one thing the less to attract a visitor to the
town, to say nothing of more cogent reasons
for keeping it in its proper place.
RALPH THOMAS.
" CLOISTERER,." This word appears to have had a technical meaning, which I hope some of your readers will define. The
- N.E.D.' says only : " One who dwells
in a cloister ; a monk or nun."
In the injunctions addressed by John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln (1521-47), to the Abbess of Elstow, is a charge (Archceo- logia, xlvii. 52)
" that all the sayd ladyes bothe of the abbesse side and of the misericorde doo obserue and kepe the quere att matens, masse, and all other dyvyne seruice, as those that be called the cloystrers, with- out ther be any lawfull impedyment."
Q. V.
PASTON FAMILY. There is in my posses- sion a MS. commonplace book, bound in vellum, written by the Rev. J. Paston between, apparently, 1700 and 1750. It contains (inter alia) epitaphs ; poems by Mr. Paston ; copies of letters from James III, Dr. Tillotson, and others ; and extracts on various subjects from Mr. Paston's "Al- manacks " for 1686 et seq. On the last page of the book there is a genealogical account of Mr. Paston's family, which I think is of sufficient importance to record in ' N. & Q.' It is as follows :
" My dear Father (the Rev. Mr. James Paston' Hector of Littlemere & Finingham, both in ye County of Suffolk) was born at Faversham in Cam- bridgeshire on Christmas day Anno Domini 1642. He was admitted in Trinity College in Cambridge, but I can't tell in what year. He there took his degrees of Batehelor & Master of Arts. He came young into Suffolk (as I remember, before he was 20 years old), and was made Master of ye Free School in Gislingham. He was ordained Deacon at Norwich by Bishop Reynolds in ye Parish Church of St. Martin at ye Palace on May ye 21st, 1665. On the death of Mr. Edmond Mayer, Reef of Fin- ingham, he was Presented to that Living by Mr. Frere ; his Induction to it bears Date Sept : ye 9th, 1667. He had some time after that ye Free School of Botesdale given him by S r Edmond Bacon of Redgrave, where he continued till ye year 1681, when upon ye Death of Mr. Whitehead, Reef of Livermere parva, he was presented to that Living by Mr. Richard Coke of ye same Parish. His In- duction to this Living bears date Aug: ye 8th, 1681, and he obtained a Personal Union of these 2 Livings. He was Ordained Priest by ye aforesaid B p Reynolds (in ye same Church in which he was before Ordained Deacon) on March ye 25th, 1667. He married Elizabeth, the only Daughter of Edmond
Mayer above named, by whom he had ft ve Children,
viz., James, born at ye Parsonage in Finingham
Jan. ye 10th, 1674.
William (since deceased), born at Botesdale April ye 16th, 1677.
Ellis, born ibid : Sept : ye 24th, 1678.
Elizabeth, born ibid Sept ye 28th, 1680.
Ann, born at Livermere parva May ye 3rd, 1684.
Our Mother died in Childbed of this last, and my Father took to his second Wife Alice, ye Widow of Mr. Nathaniel Fox of Westhorp in Suffolk & one of ye Sisters of S r Robert Wright, Lord Chief Justice of England in ye Reign of King James 2nd.
My good Father died at ye Parsonage of Liver- mere parva Feb: ye 9th, 1721/2, in ye Eightieth year of his Age, and lies buried in ye Chancel there."
NEWTON WADE.
Newport, Mon.
OLD PULPITS. (See ante, p. 238.) Your review of ' English Church Furniture ' re- minds me that the instance given of the removal of a carved seventeenth-century pulpit is not the only one of its kind, unfor- tunately. Last year I visited the out-of-the- way church at Alderton, near Northampton, and found that the carved and inscribed back of the pulpit of 1631, with the sounding- board, had been removed for a very insuffi- cient reason, but fortunately had not been destroyed, being in a pew at the back of the church. R. B R.
" AJSTFHACTUOSITY." In speaking of the obscurity of much of the language of the poetry of Meredith, in the account of that author in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' (vol. xxx. p. 637), the writer applies the expression " anfractuosity," with the remark " to use a word of Dr. Johnson's." This would give the impression that it was coined by Johnson. But the word is found long before his time. The first instance of its use quoted by Dr. Murray is in Peter Lowe's ' Whole Course of Chirurgerie ' (published in 1596) : " The vayne goeth aboue the artier, but not right lyne as other parts doe, but in anfractuosities, like unto a Woodbine." The " anfractuosities of the brain " is also found in the Philosophical Transactions for 1687. Ray and others use the adjective " anfractuous." The only thing original in Johnson (Boswell, iv. 336) is its application (no doubt intended mirth- fully his jokes were ponderoiis) to the human mind, as shown in reluctance to sit for a picture. W. T. LYNN.
Blackheath.
DICKENSIANA : CAPT. CUTTLE. All novel- ists on a large scale forget themselves once in a while, and frequent attention has been called to Dickens's slips of memory as to
