Fountain, Briggs, Esq. *Gawdy, Sir Thomas, Kt. *Greenwood, John, Sheriff. (n.) King, Henry, Gent. *Spelt also Frere, Friar, and *Lindsey, Matthew, Ald (n.) Long, Robert, Esq. (f.) May, John, of Lynn, Ald. (f.) Mayor of Lynn for the time being. Mayor of Norwich for the time being. (n.) * Money, Samuel, of Binnam. Mountford, Sir Edmund, Kt. Owner, Edward, Esq. (f.) *Palgrave, Sir John, Bart. Parkes, Samuel, Gent. *Parmenter, Adrian, Esq. (n.) Paston, Sir William, Bart. (f.) *Peckoner,** Matthew, Ald. (n.) Pell, Sir Valentine, Kt. Vicecomes. (f.) Percivall, John, Esq. of Lynn. tron. Rich, Robert, Esq. Russell, Thomas, Esq. merston. Skippon, Philip, Esq. (f.) *Smith, Samuel, Esq. *Spelt also Parks, Parker, Packle Peckover and Peckford. Reygnes, Keyves, Reimes, and Regin. "Sidley and Redley. Fryar. Causell, Gousall, and Gausey. *** *** Guibon. Hogan, Hoogan, Hoggin. *Sotherton, Thomas, Esq. *Spelman, John, Esq. Springall, Thomas, of St. Mary's. Steward, Esq. (n. f.) Swalter, John, of Southcreak. *Symonds, William, of Norwich, Ald. (n.) Taylor, Henry, Esq. (f.) *Thacker, John, Ald. (n.) Thorisby, Edmund, Esq. (f.) Tofts, John, Gent. (n. f.) Tofts, Thomas, Ald. (n. f.) Toll, Thomas, Esq. *Tooley, John, Esq. (n.) Townsend, Roger, Esq. (f.) Utber, Thomas. Vincent, John, of Crinisham. Walpool, John, Esq. Wasted, Thomas, Gent. (n. f.) ** Spelt also Wilson. SUFFOLK. Suffolk Committees (Husband, ii.), in 1643: 1st April (with Supplement, 29th September), p. 19, p. 321;- 7th May (with Supplements and Revisals, 1st June, 3d August, 20th September), p. 172, p. 193, p. 10 Appendix, p. 328; - Association specially, 10th August, p. 284. For support of Fairfax in 1644-5, and to the end of the War: 15th February 1644-5, p. 605. The (f.) designates the exclusively Fairfax men; the asterisk (*) those of the 10th August; (i.) means, for Ipswich; (e.) Bury St. Edmunds; (a.) Aldborough. Aldermen of Bury St. Ed- Bacon), Thomas, Esq. (f.) munds (e.) Aldus, John, Gent. (i.) *Appleton, Isaac, Esq. Bacon, Sir Butts, Bart. *Bacon, Sir Edmund, Bart. *Bacon, Francis, Esq. *Bacon, Nathaniel,ofFreeston, Esq. Bailiffs of Aldborough. (a.) Bailiffs of Ipswich. (i.) *Baker, Thomas, Esq. Barnardiston, Sir Nathaniel, Kt. *Barnardiston, Sir Thomas, Kt. *Barrow, Maurice, Esq. *Bacon, Nathaniel, of Ipswich, Basse,* John, Esq. Esq. Bacon, Nicholas, Esq. Spelt also Bates, Base, and Bace. * Bence, Alexander, Esq. (f.) Esq. Gurdon, Brampton, jun. Esq. Gurdon, John, Esq. *Harvey, Edmund, Esq. Rous, Sir John, Kt. APPENDIX C. No. 1. LETTER TO DOWNHALL. [Vol. i. p. 53.] THE stolen Letter of the Ashmole Museum has been found printed, and even reprinted. It is of the last degree of insignificance: a mere Note of Invitation to Downhall to stand "Godfather unto my Child." Man-child now ten days old,* who, as we may see, is christened "on Thursday next" by the name of RICHARD, and had strange ups and downs as a Man when it came to that! To my approved good Friend Mr. Henry Downhall, at his Chambers in St. John's College, Cambridge: These. LOVING SIR, Huntingdon, 14th October 1626. Make me so much your servant as to be** Godfather unto my Child. I would myself have come over to have made a formal invitation; but my occasions would not permit me: and therefore hold me in that excused. The Day of your trouble is Thursday next. Let me entreat your company on Wednesday. By this time it appears, I am more apt to encroach upon you for new favours than to show my thankfulness for the love I have already found. But I know your patience and your goodness cannot be exhausted by Your friend and servant, OLIVER CROMWELL. § Of this Downhall, sometimes written Downhault, and even Downett and Downtell; who grounds his claim, such as it is, to human remembrance on the above small Note from Oliver, -8 **"by being" in orig. *Vol. i. p. 68. & Hearne's Liber Niger Scaccarii (London, 1771), i. 261 n. helpful hand has, with unsubduable research, discovered various particulars, which might amount almost to an outline of a history of Downhall, were such needed. He was of Northamptonshire, come of gentlefolks in that County. Admitted Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, 12th April 1614; had known Oliver, and apparently been helpful and instructive to him, two years after that. More interesting still, he this same Downhall was Vicar of St. Ives when Oliver came thither in 1635; still Vicar when Oliver left it, though with far other tendencies than Oliver's now; and had, alas, to be "ejected with his Curate, in 1642," as an Anti-Puritan Malignant:* Oliver's course and his having altogether parted now! Nay farther, the same Downhall, surviving the Restoration, became "Archdeacon of Huntingdon" in 1667: fifty-one years ago he had lodged there as Oliver Cromwell's Guest and Gossip; and now he comes as Archdeacon, with a very strange set of Annals written in his old head, poor Downhall! He died "at Cottingham in Northamptonshire, his native region, in the winter-time of 1669;". and so, with his Ashmole Letter, ends, ** No. 2. AT ELY. [Vol. i. p. 93.] - THERE is at Ely a Charitable Foundation now above four centuries old; which in Oliver's time was named the Ely Feoffees' Fund, and is now known as Parsons' Charity; the old Records of which, though somewhat mutilated during those years, offer one or two faint but indubitable vestiges of Oliver, not to be neglected on the present occasion. This Charity of ancient worthy Thomas Parsons, it appears, had, shortly before Oliver's arrival in Ely, been somewhat remodelled by a new Royal Charter: To be henceforth more specially devoted to the Poor of Ely; to be governed by Twelve Feoffees; namely, by Three Dignitaries of the Cathedral, and * Vol. i. p. 86. ** Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, iii. 187; and мs. communicated by Mr. Cooper, resting on the following formidable mass of documentary Authorities: Cole Mss. (which is a Transcript of Baker's History of St. John's College), 166. 358. Rymer's Foedera, xix. 261. Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesia Anglicanae, p. 160. Kennet's Register and Chronicle, pp. 207. 251. Walker's Sufferings ii. 129, 130. Wood's Athena (2d edition, passage wanting in both the 1st and 3d), ii. 1179. |