[Our correspondent will find the required information in
Prideaux's _Churchwarden's Guide_, 5th edit. 1850, price 6s.,
who has devoted sect. ii. "to the persons liable to be chosen to
the office of churchwarden, and the persons disqualified and
exempt from serving that office." (Pp. 4-17.) Consult also
Cripps's _Practical Treatise on the Law relating to the Church
and the Clergy_, 8vo. 1850, pp. 176-201., price 26s.]
_Sir John Powell._--In Vol. vii., p. 262., of "N. & Q." is an inquiry
respecting Sir John Powell, and an answer given, in which there must
surely be some mistake, or there must have been two Sir John Powells.
I beg to give the following extract from Britton's _History and
Antiquities of the Abbey Church of Gloucester_:
"A full-length marble statue, in judicial robes, erected by John
Snell, Esq., to the memory of his uncle, Judge Powell, who in
1685 represented this city, his native place, in parliament. He
was successively a Justice of Common Pleas and the King's Bench,
and was one of the Judges who tried the seven Bishops, and
joined in the declaration against the King's dispensing power.
For this, James II. deprived him of his office, July 2, 1688;
but William III. created him, first a Baron of the Exchequer,
then a Judge in the Common Pleas, and on June 18, 1702, advanced
him to the King's Bench, where he sat till his death, June 14,
1713."
I will add, that on the floor near the above monument are inscribed the
names, &c., of various members of his family.
Sir John Powell is traditionally said to have lived at an old house
called Wightfield in this county, which certainly belonged, at one time,
to the above John Snell, who had married the judge's niece, and from
whose descendants it was purchased by the grandfather of the present
possessor.
Allow me to ask, by-the-bye, if the place, as spelt in your paper,
should not be Langharne, or more correctly still, Llangharne?