of good esteem, and
was last with Coll. Barwick. It was observed that he gained much
monyes, yet none thrived lesse than hee; and falling sicke about 3
weeks since, was much troubled in his conscience, but would not utter
himself to any but a minister, who being sent for He did acknowledge
himself ye person y^t cut of ye head of King Charles, for w^{ch} he had
100^{lbs} and w^{th} much seeming penitence and receiving such comforts
as the Devine, one parson Leshely, an emminent man here, could afford
him, he dyed in a quarter of an hour afterwards. This you may report
for truth, allthough you should not have it from any other hand. He had
100^{lbs} for ye doing of itt. There is one Wm. Hewit condemned for ye
same, I think now in Newgate; he will be glad you acquaint him of this
if he have it not allready."

Oldmixon, in his _British Empire in America_, mentions a Sir John Marsham
of Barbados; was he a knight or baronet, and when did he die?

W. DOWNING BRUCE, F.S.A.

Middle Temple.

_Legend represented in Frettenham Church._--Perhaps some one of your
numerous readers may {408} be able to give an explanation of the following
legend, for such I suppose it to be:--

In the parish church of Frettenham, co. Norfolk, several alabaster carvings
were discovered some years ago, near the chancel arch, having traces of
colour. The most perfect, and the one which had most claims to merit as a
piece of sculpture, represented a very curious scene. A horse was standing
fixed in a kind of stocks, a machine for holding animals fast while they
were being shod. But it (the horse) had only three legs: close by stood a
Bishop, or mitred Abbot, holding the horse's missing fore quarter, on the
hoof of which a smith was nailing a shoe. Of course the power which had so
easily removed a leg would as easily replace it.

The details of the story may be very safely conjectured to have been--a
Bishop or high church dignitary is going on a journey or pilgrimage; his
horse drops a shoe; on being taken to a smith's to have it replaced, the
animal becomes restive, and cannot be shod even with the help of the
stocks; whereupon the bishop facilitates the operation in the manner before
described. One feels tempted to ask why he could not have replaced the shoe
without the smith's intervention.

What I want to know is, of whom is this story told? I regret that not
having seen the carving in question, I c