J.D.N.N.

Renfrewshire.

If DR. RIMBAULT or any of your correspondents could furnish a reply to any of the Queries inserted by you in Vol. ii., p. 119., relative to the memoir published by Peckard, and other matters connected therewith, I should feel obliged.

MATERRE.

Mr. Henning of Hillingden, a descendant of the Ferrar family, through his great-uncle, Dr. John Mapletoft, (see Ward’s Lives of the Gresham Professors), who was the great-nephew of Nicholas Ferrar, possessed one of the three curious volumes arranged by members of the family, {446} viz.—­A Digest of the History of our Saviour’s Life, with numerous plates.  One of these copies was presented to Charles I. on his going into the North; another to Charles II. at the Restoration; the third remained in the family.  Can any of your readers tell us whether the copies given to the two kings exist, and if so, who are the present possessors of them?

J.H.M.

Bath

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VINEYARDS.

(Vol. ii., p. 393. 414.).

CLERICUS will find some information in the Gentleman’s Magazine for the year 1775 (vol. xlv. pp. 513. 632.) which will direct him to a still fuller discussion of the subject in the third volume of the Archaeologia.

N.B.

At Rochester there is a field so called; it is a very favourite walk.  In the neighbourhood of the Cathedral at Bath, there is one side of a street so called.

S.S.

A part of the town of Richmond (Surrey) is called “the Vineyard.”  The name, of the origin of which I am ignorant, is applied to a collection of small houses between the Roman Catholic Chapel and the Rose Cottage Hotel.

W.A.G.

In the fields between Buckden and Diddington, in the county of Huntingdon, there is what is called “the Vineyard” at the present day; and connected therewith is what is called, and evidently from the shape has been, a “fish pond.”  In Buckden is the abbot’s house, with the original door; and there is no doubt but what the above was, in olden times, belonging to a religious house in that part.

M.C.R.

A small close of land adjoining the churchyard at Oiston, Nottinghamshire (due west of the church), goes by the name of “the Vineyard.”

P.P.

There is also a street at Abingdon called “the Vineyard,” from the land having been formerly used for that purpose by the Benedictines of Abingdon Abbey.  If my memory do not betray me, there is some interesting information on the early cultivation of the vine in England, in an article by Mr. T. Hudson Turner, in the Archaeological Journal, which I have not now at hand.

H.G.T.

There was a vineyard belonging to Ely Place, Holborn:  and another probably in the Abbey grounds at Westminster.  A portion of the estate of the late Chas. Powell, Esq., of Hinton Court, near Hereford, was called the “Vineyard” and the Vineyard of the Monks of St. Mary’s is yet pointed out by the good folks of Beaulieu in Hampshire.  The vineyards of Bath are in the heart, not the suburbs of the present town.