ECUS.

_Extract from Parish Register of North Runcton, Norfolk_.

Sir,--As a pendant to the extracts from the register of East Peckham,
Kent, in your third number, I send the following, which I copied some
time ago from one of the register books of the parish of North Runcton,
Norfolk, and which may prove interesting to some of your readers.

C.W.G

"Jun. 12. 1660.

"Reader,--Lest whatever pseudography (as there is much thereof)
occurring to thy intentionall or accidentall view of the following
pages in this book should prove offensive to thee, I thought good
to give thee an account of what hath occasioned the same, viz. In
the woful days of the late usurper, the registring of births, not
baptisms, was injoyned and required, to give a liberty to all the
adversaries of Pedobaptisme, &c., and, besides some circumstances,
too unhandsome for the calling and person of a minister, were then
allso annexed to him that was to keep a register of all, &c.; and
so it came to passe, that persons of no learning, for many places,
were chosen by y'e parish, and ministers declined the office.

NATH ROWLES."

_The Norman Crusader_.

"The Norman Crusader," in the horse-armoury in the Tower of London, or a
part of it, came from Green's Museum. He obtained the hauberk from Tong
Castle. At the dispersion of the Museum, the hauberk was purchased by
Bullock, of Liverpool (afterwards of the Egyptian Hall), in whose
catalogue for 1808 it appears as a _standing_ figure, holding a brown
bill in the right hand, and resting the left upon a heater shield.

Bullock at this time added the chauses.--In 1810, the "London Museum"
was opened at the "Egyptian Temple" (Hall), the figure as before; but,
in the catalogue for 1813, we have the man _and horse_ standing in front
of the gallery, and named "The Norman Crusader."

At the "decline and fall" of Bullock's Museum, Mr. Gwennap purchased the
Crusader for, it is said, 200 guineas; and after being put in thorough
repair, it was placed in the "Aplotheca," Brook Street, Mr. Gwennap,
jun. adding the sword.

During its repair, it was discovered that the armour was not originally
made for a horse, but for an elephant; and, on inquiry, it appeared that
Bullock had purchased it, together with other curiosities, of a sailor,
had taken it to pieces, and formed the armour for the horse.

At the sale of Gwennap's collection, "The Norm