I have ascertained that he was the only
son of Thomas Godbold, a gentleman of small estate residing at
Metfield, in Suffolk, and was nephew to John Godbold, Esq.,
Serjeant-at-Law, who was appointed Chief Justice of the Isle of
Ely in 1638. He appears to have been knighted previously to
1664, and married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Richard
Freston, of Mendham (Norfolk), Esq., and relict of Sir Nicholas
Bacon, of Gillingham, Bart., whom he survived, and died without
issue in 1687. I should consider myself under an obligation to
any of your correspondents who could afford me any further
account of this learned knight, or refer me to any biographical
or other notice of him."
To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains unsupplied.
Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for repeating the
inquiry.
G.A.C.
Ancient motto.
Many years since I read that some pope or emperor caused the following,
or a motto very similar to it, to be engraven in the centre of his
table:--
"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam
accumbere indignus est."
It being a maxim which all should observe in the daily intercourse of
life, and in the propriety of which all must concur, I send this to
"NOTES AND QUERIES" (the long wished-for medium), in the hopes that some
kind "note-maker" can inform me from whence this motto is taken, and to
whom ascribed.
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