12S. IX. JULY 9, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 21 LONDON, JULY 9, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 169. NOTES : Glass-Painters of York : Petty, 21 Inscriptions in the Churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford, 22 The British Museum and the Upcott and Phillipps Collections, 24 Aldeburgh Chamberlains' Accounts, 26 Old Cheese Fairs and Others Milton and Elzevicr, 28 Wife's Death 140 years after her Husband's Birth London Taverns, 29 QUERIES : " Quiet Neighbour "Merry Merest Name of Author Wanted The Suffolk Feast, 29 Hockley of Hampshire Penzance Fair : " Caput Johannis in Disco " -De Brus Tomb at Hartlepool, 30 Cheese Moulds of ".letal instead of Wood Lord Camoys's Milk Syphons Waterloo ville Waterloo Bounty Survey of Pope Nicholas IV 6 Old Snuff-box from Foundation-pile of Old London Bridge, 31 Sir Henry Price French and Italian Trans- lators of Gellert Public Penance Authors Wanted, 32. REPLIES : Horse-riding Records, 32 Transportations after the Forty-five Domenick Angelo's Burial-place " Bishop of Oxford's Coinage," 33 ' Neck or Nothing ' Staresmore of Frolesworth Pye House, 34 Manchester and Midland Railway The Plague Pits Dr. John Mis- aubin, 35 Silver Medal : Identification Ladies' Por- traits, 36 Flag flown on Armistice Day Relapses into Savage Life Louis de Rouge mont, 37 Chautauqua Cigarette Smoking " Bomenteek " Combe House, Herefordshire Christopher Milles, 38 Aldeburgh : Salt Monopoly Window Tax and Daircs Sundials, 39. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' More about Unknown London ' 'Portsmouth Parish Church ' ' The Poems of Robert Her- rick.' Notices to Correspondents. GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (See ante, pp. 127, 323, 364, 406, 442, 485.) VII. THE PETTY FAMILY. MATTHEW PETTY, the head of one of the principal families of glass -painters of York. The year in which he was free of the city is not known. * He was probably born about the year 1415 and learnt his business with John Chamber the elder, for in 1437 he was one of the witnesses to the elder Chamber's will, who bequeathed him 3s. 4c. He was evidently also a brother-in-law of the Chamber brothers, for the younger, in his will made in 1450, speaks of " Gillot Pety," my sister, to whom he bequeathed 3s. 4d.,
- The Roll of Freemen of York (Surtees Soc.)
contains over 36,500 names. It is possible, there- fore, that some glass-painters and the dates on which they were free have been overlooked. and a similar sum to Matthew Petty. Whether Matthew Petty carried on the Chamber business on the death of the younger brother or not it is impossible .to say. Chamber had intended that his son Richard should succeed him, but the son died within a month of his father, and, as has previously been shown, the probabilities are that the Chamber business was continued by the apprentice, William Inglish. It would seem at first sight that the most likely successor to Chamber would be his brother-in-law, Matthew Petty, who was not only fifteen years or more senior to Inglish, who had become free the same year Chamber died, but was the more highly esteemed of the two, for to Petty, Chamber bequeathed 3s. 4rf., whilst Inglish received but a third ?art of 5s. But the probabilities are that in 450, when the younger Chamber died, Matthew Petty already had a business and a partner of his own, viz., Thomas My let, for these two are mentioned as doing work for the Minster in the Fabric Rolls of 1447 and circa 1450 (date uncertain), whilst in 1463, when the " hole craft of glasyers of this citee of York," consisting of eight master glass-painters, appeared before the mayor, aldermen, and council to have new ordi- nances granted, Thomas Mylet's name ap- pears next after that of Matthew Petty, who evidently headed the representatives of the craft and was presumably, therefore, master that same year. Petty and Mylet, whose name does not occur in the Fabric Rolls after that of c. 1450, though, as stated above, he was alive in 1463, evidently suc- ceeded Thomas Shirley in the care of the Minster glass, whose name or the names of whose workmen are entered in the Rolls as doing work at the Minster* in the years 1443 and 1446. * Matthew Petty was evidently twice married, his first wife, named Gillot, being
- It would seem that, with the exception of the
great east window, which was executed by the Dean and Chapter themselves, in their own shop, and with labour hired specially for the purpose, the whole of the windows in the minster were ordered from firms of glass-painters in the city and paid for directly by private donors or through the chamberlain or sacrist. This explains why, with the exception of the years 1471 and 1577, not a single item relating to glass-painting as distinct from plain glazing and repairs appears in the Rolls. Where the work is specifically men- tioned it is invariably in emendacione fenestrarum ; emendantis et reparantis defectus in fenestris vitreis, &c. The Roll of 1 47 1 seems to be the fabric keeper's verbatim transcript of Matthew Petty's bill for painting forty-eight panels of glass all
