The Curiosities of Heraldry

by Mark Antony Lower

“1618. License to Lady Barbara Hastings to eat flesh in Lent, on account of her great age.” St. Mary, Leicester.

“1643. Richard Snatchall, a stout yong man, a curious blacksmith, died of y^e small-pox.” Chiddingly, co. Sussex.

“1656. A time of mortality upon the Dicker. Richard Luccas, w^thout any buriall was buried!” Ibid.

It would be difficult to say how this was managed.

Some of the entries are occasionally very loose.

“1658. Buried. Wickens, a lame boy. 1659. A maide of N. M. A maide of R. B.” Ibid.

“An infant crisaned!”—Burials. “A mayde from the mill.” “Black John.” “A prentice of M^r. Kirford.” “A Tinker of Berye in Suffolk.” Vide Grimaldi’s Orig. Geneal.

“Richard Cole and his wife were marryed the xixth. of May 1612. Symon Fuller was marryed the 3rd. of October, 1612.” Alfriston, co. Sussex.

“The son of a mason, buried x Feb. 1593.”

“Mother Fowler buried 18th. Nov. 1603.”