There are points in the pedigree, as genealogists will see, totally discrepant from the Peerages.
Thomas Russell Potter.
Wymeswold.
Minor Queries.
Dog-whippers: Frankincense.—Can any reader throw light upon the following entries in the churchwardens' account-book for the parish of Forest Hill, near Oxford?
"1694. Pd to Tho. Mills for whipping dogs out of church, 1 shilling.
"1702. Pd for frankincense for the church, 6 pence."
The only passage which occurs to me as at all bearing upon so late a use of incense in parish churches in this country, is the following extract from Herbert:
"The country parson hath a care that his church be swept and kept clean; and at great festivals, strewed and stuck with boughs, and perfumed with incense."
This hardly brings the custom later than 1630.