_Cromwell's Estates._--In Carlyle's edition of _Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches_, there is a note (p. 75. vol. iv. of the 3rd ed. 1850)
containing a list of the estates which the Protector owned at the time
of his death, as follows; there being, besides Newhall, specified as "in
Essex," five, viz.--
"Dalby,
Broughton,
Burleigh,
Oakham, and
Egleton."
of which the editor has ascertained the localities; and six, viz.--
£ s. d
"Gower, valued at 479 0 0 per an.
Chepstall valued at 549 7 3
Magore valued at 448 0 0
Sydenham valued at 3121 9 6
Woolaston valued at 664 16 6
Chaulton valued at 500 0 0,"
of which, he say, "he knows nothing."
It would surely be a proper, and, one might hope, an attainable object
of inquiry, to search out these unplaced estates of the great Protector,
and give them a local habitation in modern knowledge. This is precisely
one of the kind of queries which your publication seems best fitted to
aid; and I therefore submit it, in the hope of some discoveries, to your
correspondents.
V.
Belgravia, Feb. 18, 1850.
_What are Depinges?_--In the orders made in 1574 for regulating the
fishery at Yarmouth, the Dutch settlers there are "To provide themselves
with twine and _depinges_ in foreign places." What are Depinges?