it is
printed in the Camden Society's book, where the editor, Mr. Halliwell,
understood the passage as meaning that the king was deceived or
betrayed. I take the meaning to be that the black monk of Abingdon had
descried, or discovered, the king as he was eating his dinner at
Waddington Hall; whereupon the Talbots, and some other parties in the
neighbourhood, formed plans for his apprehension, and arrested him on
the first convenient opportunity, as he was crossing the ford across the
river Ribble, formed by the hyppyngstones at Bungerley. Waddington
belonged to Sir John Tempest, of Bracewell, who was the father-in-law of
Thomas Talbot. Both Sir John Tempest and Sir James Harrington of
Brierley, near Barnsley, were concerned in the king's capture, and each
received one hundred marks reward; but the fact of Sir Thomas Talbot
being the chief actor, is shown by his having received the larger reward
of 100L. Further particulars respecting these and other parties
concerned, will be found in the notes to Warksworth's _Chronicle_. The
chief residence of the unhappy monarch during his retreat was at Bolton
Hall, where his boots, his gloves, and a spoon, are still preserved, and
are engraved in Whitaker's _Craven_. An interior view of the ancient
hall at Bolton, which is still remaining, is engraved in the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ for May, 1841. Sir Ralph Pudsay, of Bolton, had
married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstal, who attended the king
as esquire of the body.
JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.
_Mentmore, Bucks, Notes from Register of._--Having recently had occasion
to go through the entire registers of the parish of Mentmore, Bucks, I
send you three extracts, not noticed by Lipscombe, the two first
relating to an extinct branch of the house of Hamilton, the third
illustrating the "Manners and Customs of the English" at the end of the
seventeenth century.
"1732, William Hamilton, an infant son of Lord Viscount Limerick, Feb.
28."
"1741. The Honourable Charles Hamilton, son of Lord Viscount Limerick,
Jan. 4."
"Memorand. A beggar woman of Slapton, whipt at Mentmoir, July 5th,
1698."
Q.D.
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QUERIES
JOHN JOKYN, OR JOACHIM, THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
I am very desirous to be informed in what _French_ author I can find any
account of John Jokyn (Joachim?), who was ambassador to England from
France during the time of Cardinal Wolsey. I have looked into the
greater part of the
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