ii s. ix. JUNE 20, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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ST. STEPHEN'S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER.
The following letter provides many interest-
ing allusions, and at least one clear indica-
tion of the means by which many precious
fragments of historical London " buildings
came to be preserved in Cottingham'e
Museum. It is addressed to E. Wedlake
Brayley, then librarian of the Russell
Institution :
Waterloo Bridge Road Feb. 28th, 1836.
MY DEAR SIR, In compliance with your request to insert a short notice of my model of the restora- tion of St. Stephen's Chapel in your highly interesting description of the ' Houses of Parlia- ment.' I beg to acquaint you that my attention was first directed to the subject by my 'late friend, Mr. Thos. Gayfere at the time he was engaged in his able restoration of the north entrance to Westminster Hall in the year 1821 , at which period I had casts taken of all the ornaments then re- maining, and afterwards purchased the extensive collection of fragments preserved from the chapel by the late Mr. Capon during the enlargement of the House of Commons at the Union in 1801. These interesting documents in addition to a curious description of the original timber roof of the chapel presented to me by Mr. Gayfere, induced me soon after the fire in 1834 to attempt a restoration of this unrivalled edifice.
The model of the entirior |>ic] being completed in Feb., 1835, 1 had the honour to exhibit it to our most Gracious King and Queen, in the hope of exciting such an interest, in behalf of the pre- servation of this great national movement, as would put to shame any vandalic attempts at its further destruction.
The model of the interior is now in progress, and when completed will exhibit not only. a unique specimen of English architecture, but one which it may be safely affirmed exceeds in beauty of design, and delicacy, and splendour of finishing every other building of the pointed style in Europe.
That you who have written so much, and so ably in defence of its preservation may meet your reward by living to see it restored is the sincere wish of
My Dear Sir, Your most obliged Humble Serv't
L. N. COTTINGHAM.
N.B. The model will be exhibited at the New National Gallery with the designs for the Parlia- ment Houses.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
HENRY DETHICK. Dr. Venn writes, c Gon- ville and Caius College,' vol. i. pp. 38-9, as follows :
" Dyrrycke (Dethick), Henry, sizar, Nov. 1554 B.A., 1556-7 ; M.A., 1560 (apparently incorpor- ated at Oxford, B.A., 1568-9 ; M.A., 1572) ; B.D., 1565. One of the fellows nominated in the charter of Dr. Caius, 1557. Tutor in the College for some time till Oct., 1562 ; steward, 1559 ; bursar, 1559-60 ; Arts Lecturer, 1560 ; Salarist, 1565. Probably youngest son of Simon Dethick, of Wormegay, Norf., who died 1542 (r. ' Norf. Vis.'). One of the witnesses to Bishop Shaxton's
will in 1565. University preacher, 1565 ; ob-
tained the College testimonial for holy orders,.
23 June, 1561. Expelled by the Master dxiring the
disputes of 1565, and appealed to the Archbishop.
- The drift was, as he (Archbishop Parker) judged,,
for Dethick to continue such sticklers in the College, of his pupils, as might win him in time^ by hook or by crook, the Master's room.... He meant, within the compass of that year, to have bestowed Dethick in some benefice. .. .but be- cause they liked not of this, as trusting of further friendship elsewhere, the Archbishop gave them over ' (Strype, ' Parker,' i. 396). Perhaps Vicar of Orpington, Kent, 1567. He was imprisoned by the mandate of Parker, but was released in July,. 1571 , and allowed to go abroad on making a present to the College of 40Z. (' Annals '). It seems, there- fore, very probable that he is the ' Dr. Dethick ' mentioned in a list of 'rebels, traitors, &c., beyond sea,' Dec. 23, 1590 (' Lansd.' 68, p. 157). He was- apparently living at Liege, and is called a canon of St. Paul's there, ' a man of great riches in money and Jewells.' There is a note against his- name, in an early hand, ' preb. of Norwich.' Perhaps author of ' Feria? sacra? viii. libris com' prehensse, in quibus naturae Fabularum et Gratia^ Leges exprimuntur carmine,' Lond., 1577."
To supplement this account it may be recorded that one " Drythicke or Dirrick, a rank Papist, late chaplain to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury," was in Norfolk in, August, 1570 (Public Record Office, S.P. Dom. Eliz., Ixxxiii. 10) ; and that on 3 June, 1578, the Cardinal of Como (Tolomeo Galli, Cardinal Secretary of State) wrote to the Cardinal of Liege, Gerard Van Groesbeck, from Rome as follows (Archivio Vatieano,. Arm. xliv. fol. 28 Litterce Card. Comensis) : - " Cum Canonicatus ecclesiae Santi Pauli Civi* tatis istius Leodiensis obitu ^Egidii Speculi in urbe defunct! proximo vacasset, S rau8 D.N. eum contulit Henrico Dethico Sacerdoti Anglo, qui in examine per concursum facto primo loco appro- batus fuit. Is autem cum mitteret litteras- apostolicas dicta3 provisionis, petiit a me ut eum. commendarem Ill mae Ampl. V. ne scilicet permittat molestianx impedimentumne ullum inferri in adipiscenda possessione, sed sua ei auctoritate favore et auxilio adesse velit. Quo quidem officio et libentius fungor, cmod scio S mo D.N. gratum id fore, qui huiusmodi homines religiosos patria extorres quibuscunque potest inodis sublevat^ Rogo, igitur, &c."
Fr. Persons, S.J., writing 1 Dec., 1598,. says (Cath. Rec. Soc., ii. 207) :
" One Doctor Dethike that lived first in Borne and then in Liege, and was helde for a good mann, untill falliiige acquainted with this factioun, hee- begane first to make journeys to Paris, and then to deal with the Councell of Inglande, as appeareth by his own letters, whereby hee came at last to- bee caste into the Inquisition of Rome, and after- warde hee dyed pyttifully in a Hospitall the year 1594."
Dethick was received at the English Hospice, Rome, 27 Dec., 1592 (Foley,. 'Records S.J.,' vi. 565).
JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.
