THE GREAT CASE OF THE IMPOSITIONS. (vi. 61-65, 132-4, 230-1.) Mr. Hall is, I fear, disposed to make short work of me as a trespasser on his own manor. That it is his own manor I readily admit, for he has made it so by his scholarly and patient researches, for which historians should owe him a debt of gratitude. But though I would not claim for a moment to compete with Mr. Hall in the knowledge of that intricate subject which he has made his special study, I ventured to question, as I still question, whether he has not, in his righteous zeal against slovenly historians, been unduly harsh in his criticisms on the work of my friend, Professor Stubbs. It is of the all-important negotiations of 1303 that these two authorities take such diametrically opposite views. "In dealing with this "The great object of question, Professor Stubbs the Crown was not to get has stated that the object a present advance on the of this colloquium' was to wool customs, but to settle gain the consent of the permanently the scale of English merchants to an the charge upon wines increase in the custom and merchandise-of the on wool, woolfells, and parvæ custumæ, not the leather."-Mr. Hall, ante, magnæ custuma."-Mr. P. 63.) Hall, ante, p. 64. Here, I maintain, Professor Stubbs is right, and Mr. Hall as distinctly wrong. And this I prove (1) by historical evidence-viz., that the Crown's two previous desperate efforts, under the pressure of its financial difficulties, those namely of 1294 and 1297, had both been avowedly and indisputably directed to the same coveted object of "an increase in the custom on wool, woolfells, and leather," and had ignored the "parvæ custumæ. (2) By internal evidence-viz., that, as I have shown (ante, p. 133), the Crown was obviously here endeavouring to purchase this coveted concession by the grant of special privileges, and by “a surrender of its right of impost" for a limited sum, which would, in any case, be clearly to its disadvantage," and the more so if (as seems here to have been the case) the commutation was based on a low average. I repeat then that "the commutation of its right of undefined 'prises' on general merchandise for a defined and limited scale was, instead of a gain (as implied by Mr. Hall), an actual loss, not only (as is obvious) in money, but also, and specially, in prerogative" (p. 133). It is Mr. Hall, therefore, and not Professor Stubbs, who has "missed the point" of the negotiation, nor has he attempted to reply to me on this question, but contents himself with saying, "I cannot allow that he (Mr. Round) upsets any of my facts." Again, Mr. Hall says of Professor Stubbs, that his gravest mistake" is in implying that "any attempt to go beyond it (the fixed prizage) could only be looked on as an unjust and arbitrary extortion" (p. 64). On this point+ I proved that, on Mr. Hall's own showing, his "prizage of wines" was rigidly limited (not indeed by statute, but) by prescription, and that this prescriptive limitation could be traced back to the earliest times of which we have record. To adopt, like himself, an illustration from the income-tax, those with less than £150 income pay nothing, those with more than £150 and less than £400 pay on one scale, and those with more than £400 on another (compare p. 64). The prizage claimable from any given cargo could be determined as accurately as the tax due from any given income, and to exact more would, in either case, be "an unjust and arbitrary extortion." As Mr. Hall admits that he "tried to prove too much," in re the 20s. rate, I need not remind him that he has not rebutted the original evidence I adduced from Irish records. Again, I ventured to point out that Mr. Hall's statement that "In the more authentic of the two last-mentioned instruments, the Crown had reserved its rights to its * As the prizage on the prizable cask would seem, according to Mr. Hall, to have been worth "at least" 40s.; it will be seen that, taking one cargo with another, 25. a cask would be a favourable commutation. But, honestly (to quote Mr. Hall's words), "I should be ashamed to confess the time or labour that I have bestowed" on trying to understand his views on prizage and "frectagium" on p. 65, or his explanation of them on p. 231. I can only hope that others have been more fortunate. + I readily admitted that on the particular point of "one cask out of every two," Professor Stubbs was mistaken. 278 'ancient aids and prizes due and accustomed." Therefore it still enjoyed the custom on wool and hides as regulated in 1275, and it also had the ancient prizage upon wines, and a discretionary toll upon all merchandize" (p. 63), was a non sequitur, as its right. "To 'the custom on wool and hides' was specially and nominatim reserved in a later Article (VII.).” To this Mr. Hall can only retort-"As I mentioned no individual Article (!) of the confirmatio chartarum, I do not see the point of Mr. Round's 'non sequitur." The point that Mr. Hall had here deduced, the right to the "custom" from that to the "aids and prises," is, however, an important one on his showing, for he rightly reminds us (p. 64) that the "distinction between the custom and the prizage was everywhere maintained in contemporary relations." Lastly, it is a pity that before proclaiming so confidently "I cannot see that Mr. Round has made one point, or elucidated a single difficulty," Mr. Hall did not make himself better acquainted with the elementary facts of history. To my hint that "the maltolte of 1297, surely followed the episode of the refractory earls' instead of producing' it" he briefly retorts that " any decent history will show that 'the maltolte of 1297' was prior to the episode of the refractory earls,' and did (inter alia) produce it." Now Professor Stubbs, as will be admitted by all scholars, has made this period peculiarly his own, and it is probable that (pace Mr. Hall) his history of it is at least a decent one. His statements are here supported by abundant references to original authorities, and they are clear. The writs to the Baronage were issued 26th January. The Barons assembled at Salisbury 24th February. The "episode of the refractory earls followed almost immediately. The Council broke up in dismay," and the Barons prepared for war.+ "The provocation and the exigency of the occasion were too much for" Edward, and he issued his edict for the seizure and maltolte 23rd April."§ Mr. Hall will find the same version in the Select Charters (p. 479), or the Early Plantagenets (p. 238). His own version is indeed one of those vulgar errors which he is so laudably eager to correct, and it has been heedlessly accepted by Hume and by Pearson, and also by the much-denounced Hallam. But then, as Mr. Hall severely reminds us, we, most of us, are content to take our history from the popular historian of the day," and it is to be feared that, in this instance, he must have taken his, from Green's History of the English People. 66 66 I regret that it is the opinion of so excellent a scholar "that Mr. Round should have rather wasted his energies," for if I was clearly wrong on some points, Mr. Hall, I would submit, was at fault on others, and it is surely from the friction of conflicting views that we obtain the spark of historic truth. Brighton. J. H. ROUND. Addington.-Add 1. Master Richard Charlis in armour, 1378, lower part of effigy lost, with marg. inscri. S.C. 2. A man in armour, c. 1445, smail, inscri. lost, relaid, S.C. 3. Robert Watton, Esq., son and heir of Wm. Watton, Esq., lord of manor and patron of church, 1470, in helmet, and wife, Alice, dau. of John Clerk, one of the Barons of the King's Exchequer, S.C. Aldington. John Weddeol, gentilman, in armour, inscri, mutilated. Nave. 1475, and wife Ash-by-Wrotham.-1. Richard Galon, rector, hf. eff. 1465. Chancel. 2. Inscription to Wm. Hodsoll Nave. of Southashe, gent. 1586, arms cut in stone. Aylesford.-Add Inscription to Patricke Savage, cook to Sir Wm. Sedley, born in Ireland, dec. at Aylisford, 1625, æt. 57, left £60 to poor of parish, Lio to repairs of church, 20 shillings o enlargement of Cup for Holy Communion, and 6s. 8d. to buy a cloth for Holy Communion. Nave. Birling.-Water Mylys, receiver to Lord Burgavenny, 1522, with four sons, marginal inscription. South aisle. Brabourn.-The date of No. III. is 1524. Brasses all relaid in chancel. Great Chart.-No. VII. had five wives, whose arms are cut in stone. The three kneeling effigies below are those of his daughters, Ellianor, Bridget, and Mary. Chelsfield. There is another small priest, c. 1420, loose, with fragments of a marginal inscription in English. In No. I. the crucifix is lost except the base, the whole effigy of S. John and that of S. Mary. Two scrolls remain inscribed "Salus mea x-ts est." No. III. remains, two of the sons being ecclesiastics. Cheriton.-All are now mural. Chevening-A modern inscription ascribes the brass mentioned to Griffin Floyd, rector, 1596. Add Inscription to John Lennard, gent. 1556, with shield, now mural. South aisle. Deal, Upper.-Add Anne, infant child of Thos. Consant, pson of Deale, and Judeth, his wife, 1606. Chancel. Downe.-Add Man in civil dress, with anelace, and wife, c. 1400, inscri. lost, relaid. Chancel. Perhaps John Petle and wife Christiana. No. III. has disappeared. Farningham.-Add Inscription to Henry Farbrace, M.A., vicar of Farningham and rector of Ightham, who left 40s. annually to the poor of either parish, 1601. Chancel. Faversham.-Corrections so numerous as to require separate notice. Fordwich.-Add Inscription to Catherine, daughter and heir of Wm. Wickham, of South Mimmes, Esq., and wife to Valentine Norton, gent. 1610, æt. 21. Chancel. Goodnestone.-The effigies of No. II. and III. remain. No. IV. is lost. All brasses relaid north and south in north chancel. The date of No. III. is 1558. Harrietsham.-Susanna, wife of Edward Parthoriche, Esquire, 1603, with one son and two daus., qd. pl. kng. mur. South chancel. Inscription to John Griwnell, senior, 1638. Hardres, Upper.-No. II. eff. lost. No. IV. For Preston, read Paston. Hever.-No. I. is in chancel. No. IV. mural in tower. The small cross to Henry Bwllayen has been restored and relaid with the inscription (by a Norfolk artist, c. 1520) close to the tomb of his father (No. II.). Ioath. The female effigy of No. II. is now fastened down. Horton Kirby.-Add a lady, c. 1460. South transept. A very good brass. Hunton.-A civilian, c. 1510. Leigh.-No. I. is in nave. No. II. in chancel with a shield. No. III. is in chancel on same slab as No. V. engraved, c. 1580. No. IV. cannot be found. No. V. has a recumbent effigy on the same qd. pl. Add Inscription to Stephen Towse, gent., married Ann, widow of Rich. Waller, Esq., of Hall Place, alias Hollingden, 1611, mural, chancel. Luddesdown.-A man in armour, legs mutilated, c. 1450, now mural, formerly on an altar tomb. Perhaps James Montacute, Esq., 1452. Maidstone, Charles Museum.-I. A priest, with chalice and wafer, c. 1520. 2. A lady, c. 1540. Minster, Isle of Sheppey.-This very curious brass has been recently restored by Mr. Waller. Rainham.-Add III. A female figure, husband lost, with four daughters, c. 1490. Chancel. IV. Wm. Ancher, Esq., 1514, now mural, North Chapel. Inscriptions to I. James Donet, Esq., 1409. Chancel. 2. A scroll, loose, c. 1500, inscribed "uiuentes in carne orate p defüct quia moriemini." 3. Christopher Garlick, vicar, "inducted into ye cure" 1571, died 1593. Chancel. Snodland.-Add John, son of "Lancaster Herald, Esq." 1441, head lost, small, now mural. Chancel. The effigies of No. III. are about 1520, and not connected with the inscription to Wm. Tilghman and his wives, 1541. Stourmouth.-Wm. Mareys, M.A., " Clericus," Rector, in academical dress, 1472. Chancel. Tilmanstone.-Richard Fogg, Esq., in civil dress, wife Anna, who placed memorial, one son and three daughters, 1598, kng. mur. Chancel. Upchurch.-A civilian and wife, hf. effs. c. 1370. North chancel. Perhaps these few additions to "Haines' Monumental Brasses" may be of use, as none of them are mentioned there. HERTFORDSHIRE. Great Amwell, St. John Baptist's.-I. A priest. Formerly on floor of chancel; removed thence in 1838, and screwed to a board; it now hangs on the wall of the nave on the south side of the chancel arch. No inscription. Date about 1400. II. A man and two wives, with seven children. Man's head, some children, and inscription missing. 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