[258]In Archæologia, vol. xxxv. p. 99, Mr. Akerman has given a series of patterns, which show the variety of designs according to the fancy of each workman. The pattern on the right-hand side of our second illustration at [p. 223] is used as a border in the toga of the later Roman empire. The height of the wine vessel at [p. 214] is seven inches and a half; of the oil-flask at [p. 225], five inches; of the largest drinking cup, five inches; and the smallest, three inches and three-quarters; the jar, two inches.
[259]The following dates prior to 1700 of the Parish Registers in the Forest district are taken from the Parish Register Abstract: Accounts and Papers: 1833, vol. xxviii. (No. 13), p. 398:—
| Eling | 1537 |
| Christchurch | 1586 |
| Milford | 1594 |
| Boldre | 1596 |
| Ellingham | 1596 |
| Bramshaw (loose leaves) | 1598 |
| Fordingbridge | 1642 |
| Beaulieu | 1654 |
| Ibbesley | 1654 |
| Milton | 1654 |
| Lymington | 1662 |
| Dibden | 1665 |
| Fawley | 1673 |
| Breamore | 1675 |
| Sopley | 1678 |
| Minestead | 1682 |
| Ringwood | 1692 |
| Brockenhurst | 1693 |
[260]See chapter v., [p. 51], foot-note.
[261]Part of the Act is quoted in Burn’s History of Parish Registers, second edition, pp. 26 and 27, and where, at pp. 159, 160, 161, are given several examples of this kind of marriage—amongst them, that of Oliver Cromwell’s daughter Frances, in 1657, from the Register of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
[262]Burn, in his History of Parish Registers, second edition, pp. 171, 172, 173, gives several similar instances of such licences. These most valuable books at Ellingham are, notwithstanding the incumbent’s care, in a shocking state of preservation. I trust some transcript of them may be made before they quite fall to pieces. Ellingham also possesses another book containing the names of the owners of the different pews in the church in 1672, invaluable to any local historian. In the beginning of this book are inserted a number of law-forms of agreements, wills, and indentures, probably for the use of the clergyman, who was, perhaps, consulted by his parishioners in worldly as also spiritual matters. In the Register there is, unfortunately, no mention of the death of Alice Lisle, as the burials are torn out from 1664 to 1695.
[263]See Notes and Queries. First Series, vol. ii., pp. 344, 345. In the Churchwardens’ Books of Fordingbridge we find—“1609. For smoke-mony, for makynge and deliveringe of the bills xvjd,” which would confirm the first explanation given in the text.
[264]30 Car. II., cap. iii. See Journals of the House of Commons, vol. viii., p. 650; ix., p. 440. In Burn’s History of Parish Registers, second edition, p. 117, may be found a much more complicated affidavit than those given in the text.
[265]See chap. v., pp. 57, 58. It is just possible that by his “τὰς πλησίον νήσους,” Diodorus may mean the Shingle Islands, which we have described in chapter xiv. [p. 151], and whose sudden appearance and disappearance would lead to the most extravagant reports.
[266]“On the Newer Deposits of the Sussex Coast:” Geological Journal, vol. xiii. pp. 64, 65.