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Van Lennep appends as authorities for this note,-Zueder de Culenburgh; Origines Culenburgica in Matth. Anal., tom. iii. p. 628.; Historie ofte Beschrijvinge van 't Utrechtsche Bisdom, deel. ii. bl. 595. No. 15.

I cannot believe that Van Lennep intended to mystify his Dutch readers by this elaborate note, and thus to take credit for the song as his own. On the other hand, I find it impossible to doubt the originality of "Young Lochinvar," which was published long before Van Lennep's legend.

Perhaps one of your correspondents may be able throw light upon this subject, and may point out some passage in the preface or notes to the legend, which may have escaped my observation, indicating the source from which the author obtained the song.

It is right that I should add that, in the same work, in another legend, "Het huis ter Leede," I find twenty lines, or thereabouts, very closely imitated from the remarkable passage in Lord Byron's Lara, beginning

"Night wanes, the vapours round the mountains curled," &c.

SENEX.

PAROCHIALIA: CHRIST CHURCH, CORK.

Of all the public records in this county, none have experienced more neglect, and consequent decay, than the ancient written memorials of our parish churches. As regards parish registers their foss may be accounted for in many ways. In the first place, it was customary in former times to entrust these documents to the care of ignorant parish sextons, who, provided they could secure their portion of the fee for entry, &c., had little regard for the safety of their charge; secondly, for the want of a safer depositary they were often kept in the parish clergyman's house, on whose removal, by preferment or death, they were in many cases forgotten and lost; and thirdly, they have often been borrowed and stolen with a downright, dishonest intent to rob some rightful inheritor, by destroying the evidence such a document could testify to; other causes could be assigned for the paucity of ancient parish registers now existing. I am aware of the fate of some valuable records of this description in this county, but as any allusion to them would be attended with a mention of the names of those now departed, silence shall be observed. Another class of document akin to them, is the old vestry account book: these point out the nature of the parish expenditure, the cost of the church furniture, ornamentation, &c. In August, 1857, my attention was directed to an old chest in a small apartment under the organ gallery in Christ church, Cork; it was fastened with three locks as usual (Canon XCVI.). On mentioning the circumstance to the

respected rector of the parish, he promptly had the chest opened; when the ancient parish register, and parish account book (the oldest in this city or county), and other highly interesting documents concerning this church were brought to light. The register is written on thick vellum, and contains forty-eight folios, each folio is 17 inches long by 7 inches in breadth. The parish account book is slightly imperfect. The following items will give some insight as to the working of a parochial vestry in the seventeenth century:

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at this period to bury in shrouds, for procuring which the parish was at considerable expense; calico appears to have been the usual material: 3 yards made a shroud for a woman. There was always an allowance for drink. On the first page of the Parish Register is the following note:

"This booke was provided for the Registringe of all Marriages, Christenings, and Burialls within this pish of Christ Church in Corke, Ano Dni. 1643, Robert Kinge and George White beinge then Churchwardens of the said pish, &c. And given by John Bayly of Corke, Gent., in consideration of the seate which the above said Churchwardens have now erected upon there owne proper cost and charge. Doe give and appoynt freely unto the said John Bayly for to sitt with the said Robert King and George White in the foresaid seat. As witness our hands this 15th June, 1643. Robert King and George White, Church Wardens."

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The following are amongst the most remarkable entries. The first in the Register is probably the father of him who gave the book: "John Bayly, the elder, late Clerke of the Citty and the parish of Christ Church, Cork, deceased 26 July, 1643.

1645, Sept. 9. Margaret, dr. of Morogh O'Brainn, Lord Baron of Insequin, Lord President of Munster, baptised.

1646, Aug. 14. Roger, s. of Roger Boyle, Lorde baron of Brohil, and of his Lady baptised.

1646, July 19. Teige Don married Anstase ne Teige. 1644, Dec. 3. Ser Arter Hide, Knt., buried.

1644, Mar. 11. Elinor Braine, dr. to my Ld. Inchiquin buried.

1645, Feb. 7. Nicholas Dallison, s. to Sir Maksennon, buried.

1645, Feb. 19. Mr Will. Conyers, Jentman of my Ld. Pr hors, buried.

1646, Ap. 14. Henery Spenser, Precher of God's word, buried.

1646, Ap. 24. Dorety, dr. to Sir Percy Smith, buried. 1646, Sep. 4. Rich Sterton, who was most cruelly murdered by the enemy.

1646, Nov. 6. Sir Andra Barott, Knt., buried. 1646, Jan. 28. Mr Cornelius Gray, Precher of God's word, buried.

1647, Dec. 2. Mager Generale Craig, beeing wounted in the Battel at Cnocknonoss, buried.

1647, Dec. 2. Sir Wm Bridges, beeing wounted in the Battel, was likewise buried.

1647, Dec. 4. Cornet Nightengale, buried.

1655, Ap. 23. Will., son of James Feeld, an Irishman and Cateren, bap.

Joqsaue Blod went to Killfenora out of the Citie of Cork with mene wepin tears the sicint day of Aprel,

1665.'

[This entry is on the top of a blank page.] 1656, Feb. 26. Frances Hering, one of Lient-Coll. Finches Comp, buried.

1657, June 2. Esay Thomas, Recorder of this Citty, buried.

1658, May 1. Henry Pepper, Sword-bearer of the Citty of Cork, buried.

1659, Sep. 18. Jaene Blundell, buried in the night, dy'd in Childbirth.

1660, Nov. 4. Dame Margaret, wife of Sir Robt. Copinger, buried.

Jan. 10. Henrie Bill, being unfortunately slaine with a great gun.

1662, May 17. Richard, son of Sir Richd Kyrl, buried. 1664, Mar. 30. John Tucker being 100 and 10, buried. Charles the Second of that name, King of gret brittan, ffrance, and Irland, was proclamed in this Citty of Corke the 18 of May, 1660. Whom God prosper, Amen, Amen.'

This is also written on the top of a blank page. From the irregularity of the dates, it is most probable that the items were at first written on small. pieces of paper and filed, and subsequently entered in the Register this would appear to be the case from the following item in the parish account book:.

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"The Editor takes this opportunity of acknowledging his obligations to the Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the University of Oxford, for the use of a copy of this rare volume, including also the fifth book, first edition, in correcting the press; and also for the following note regarding the two:-The four first books were, according to Maunsell, printed in 1592-8. Walton, however, and he is probably right, says that they did not appear till the year 1594. The fifth was published by itself in 1597, the printer being the person who executed the first part in 1594. It is singular that neither Ames nor Herbert (who notice the first part, Typograph. Antiq., vol. ii. p. 1230.) knew anything of the fifth book. What they say of the first is quoted from Maunsell (Cat., Part i. p. 59.), and the Stationers' Register.'"

Happening to possess copies of both the editions here mentioned, and knowing the deep interest which everything connected with Richard Hooker awakens in so many minds, I record a few particulars of the first of these volumes, reserving a notice of the second, rather larger, though contain ing only the fifth book, for a future opportunity. The following is the title-page:

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Politie.
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Printed at London by John Windet, dwelling at the Signe of the Crosse Keyes, neere Powle's Wharffe,

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Richard Hooker, of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, written in defence of the present government established, against the new-desired discipline.

"Printed by John Windet, 1593, in folio."

Again I quote from Ames's Typographical Antiquities (vol. iii. p. 1250.), in notice of printers,

article "John Windet": —

1593. Ric. Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie, written in defence of the present government, established 1592.

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Maunsell, p. 59. Licensed. Folio."

I have extracted these two quotations from copies of the respective works in the Bodleian Library.†

Again, Walton, in his Life of Hooker ‡, says: "His first four Books, and large Epistle, have been declared to be printed at his being at Boscum, anno 1594." These are the passages which, so far as I can gather, fix the date of this first edition of the first four books. And now to the volume itself.

It begins at once with Hooker's own Preface. This occupies 45 pages, addressed "To them that seeke (as they tearme it) the reformation of Lawes, and orders Ecclesiasticall in the Church of England.'

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The 46th page contains the summary of " things handled in the Bookes following," of which eight are numbered. It need scarcely be mentioned that only four are here printed. This is alluded to at the close of the volume in "An Advertisement to the Reader," prefixed to the list of errata by Hooker himself. I quote the passage more readily, from its being omitted in Mr. Keble's edition :

"I have for some causes (gentle Reader) thought it at this time more fit to let goe these first four books by themselves, then to stay both them and the rest, till the whole might together be published. Such generalities of the cause in question as here are handled, it will be perhaps not amisse to consider apart, as by way of introduction unto the bookes that are to followe concerning particulars. In the meane while thine helping hand must be craved for the amendment of such faults committed in printing as (omitting others of lesse moment) I have set downe."

I look forward to another opportunity of offering, for "N. & Q.," a similar notice of the fifth book; of which, as mentioned above, the first edition is before me, printed by the same John

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Windet, "dwelling at Powle's Wharfe," with the
date added, viz. 1597.*
FRANCIS TRENCH.
Islip, Oxford.

Minor Notes.

SINGULAR RESTORATION OF THE ANCIENT SEALS OF GRIMSBY.. - More than one of the Lincolnshire admirers of "N. & Q." will be obliged to the editor if he will preserve in its columns the following account of the discovery of the ancient seals of the borough of Grimsby:

"A meeting of the Council was held on Friday evening Harrison and Bennett, and Councillors Skelton, Bennett, last present M. Leppington, Esq. (Mayor), Aldermen W. T. Wintringham, Coatsworth, Kennington, Weightman, and Veal. The first business on the notice-paper was to receive a communication from the Town Clerk

relative to the restoration of the ancient common seal and and Mayor's seals of the borough. The Town Clerk stated that some two years ago, Mr. Tolmin Smith, a barrister-at-law, who was about to deliver a lecture on Havelock, applied to him for examples of the corporation seals, as he understood there was some reference in the old seal to a remote ancestor of Havelock. He wrote in reply, giving the best information he could procure, and informing Mr. Tolmin Smith that the seals had been missing many years, and were supposed to have been stolen, and that he thought it very probable they had found their way into the possession of some antiquarian society. Mr. lington Literary Society, referred to the loss of the Tolmin Smith, in a recent lecture delivered before the IsGrimsby corporate seals, and stated how highly they were prized. Mr. Frederick Carritt, solicitor, of Basinghall Street, London, was present at the lecture, and at its close communicated to Mr. T. Smith that the long-lost their value, and that he should be happy to restore them. seals were in his possession, though he was not aware of The Town Clerk immediately received communications both from Mr. Carritt and Mr. Smith, and Mr. Carritt had since forwarded the seals to him to be restored to the

Corporation. The Town Clerk produced the seals, which genuine seals, as Councillor Skelton remembered having were inspected, and there is no doubt of their being the seen them before they were lost. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Carritt for having immediately and voluntarily, on ascertaining that these long-lost seals were the property of and valuable to the Corporation, forwarded such seals to the Town Clerk of the Corporation, as also to Mr. Smith, for having mentioned in his lecture the loss of the seals, which had led to Mr. Carritt's knowledge of their value and their restoration. The seals are supposed to have been lost about thirty-six years since. It appears to have been the custom, under the old Corporation, for these old seals to be handed over to the Chamberlains, and it is probable that instead of passing them on to his successor, one of the Chamberlains had retained

* The Bodleian Library has the first edition of the two works. As in the case of my own copy (with which they exactly correspond), they are bound in one volume. Though one was printed some years after the other, the type, paper, general form, and appearance, are very much the same both in the Bodleian copy and my own. The two distinct publications issued from the press of the same printer, and have all the appearance of having been not only bound together, but brought out-I do not mean as editions, but as copies at the same time.

them, or they had been stolen from him, and had passed through various hands until they came into possession of a relative of Mr. Carritt, who lived at North Coates, and recently into Mr. Carritt's possession as his executor. The old seals are supposed to have been in use by the Saxons before the period of William the Conqueror, and to have been discontinued about the time of the Com

monwealth, when the present seal was adopted. The seals will be deposited with the ancient charters and muniments of the corporation." - Stamford Mercury, Dec. 21, 1860. GRIME.

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Coriolanus Hawke.

1608. Burd. Juliet Burbege. 1609. Desdemonye Bishop."

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C. J. R.

which ought to be a highly-prized relic? The stone statues, I presume, were damaged by the fire. H. W.

WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED. - A Query (which I am unable to answer) in reference to this charming poet prompts me to ask why there is no English edition of his works? I have an American edition in two volumes, published by Redfield of New York; but it is full of errors, and a great part of the second volume is occupied with ridiculous replies in verse to Praed's famous charade. Praed's poems were to be edited by his fellowSome years ago it was stated that Etonians, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge and Moultrie, and published by J. W. Parker & Son. It is a disgrace to England that we are obliged to send across the Atlantic for the works of so original and felicitous and thoroughly English a poet. MORTIMER COLLINS

Queries.

ARMS WANted. In the Harl. MSS. 2151., PLUCK. M. Esquiros, in the Revue des Deux Randle Holme gives the following arins from a Mondes, defines this word ("dérivé de l'ancien stained-glass window in Bunbury church, CheSaxon") thus, "le courage uni à la fermeté, à shire: S., two bars A., on a canton G. (?),'a fleurl'obstination, au sang-froid, à une résolution crois-de-lis O. To what family do they belong? sante et qui ne cède jamais.'

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C. J. R.

THE GRASSHOPPER ON THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. -No doubt some of your readers remember that during a thunderstorm last summer the grasshopper of the Royal Exchange was surrounded by the electric fluid to such a degree as to produce a very remarkable effect. This circumstance was deemed worthy of a paragraph in The Times of Aug. 11, 1860, which I cut out and have now before me. After observing that this insect was the crest of Sir Thomas Gresham, it runs thus:"By many it is believed that the present grasshopper is the same which adorned the spire of the original structure; but if not, it is at all events the identical emblem which has surmounted the three subsequent towers, viz. that erected after the fire of London; that built by Mr. Smith in 1813; and after the last fire it was preserved and used again by Mr. Tite, &c."

Now in juxta-position to this I wish to place the following, and to found a Query upon it. Having occasion to refer to a recent No. of The Builder, I observed a notice of auction in the fullowing terms:

"The original Grasshopper and Stone Statues from the late Royal Exchange, &c. &c.-Mr. Frederick Indermans will sell by Auction, on the premises, Kent Place, Old Kent Road, &c."

From which it would appear that the present golden insect is not the real Simon Pure. Can any light be thrown upon what must appear to be rather a questionable mode of dealing with that

G. W. M.

BURYING IN LINEN.-When, and for what purpose, was the law first enacted which prohibited the use of linen in burying the dead? An anonymous writer (William Taylor, of Norwich), in remarking on this law says: the Monthly Magazine for February, 1800, p. 53.,

"Another beneficial consequence flows from it which is of great importance, especially at the present time, when the price of paper and of books is become so enormously high. For it appears that by the prohibition to clothe the bodies of the dead in linen, at least 200,000 lbs. of rags are annually saved from untimely corruption in the grave, and in due time pass to the hands of the manufacturers of paper."

It may well be doubted whether the observance could be enforced, although the profits derived of such a law, if it really exists, or ever did exist, commonly I suspect than at the present day, by from the rag bag, which was formerly kept, more

naturally hold out a strong inducement. If careful housewives and domestic servants, would 200,000 lbs. was a fair estimate sixty years ago, what would the annual saving be now?

Q.

of Mr. Forester's translation of Ordericus Vitalis CALVACAMP, IN NORMANDY.-At p. 147. vol. iv. (Bohn's edition), the Toeni family are said, in a foot-note, to have sprung from a Frank named "Hugh de Calvacamp." Will any learned correspondent versed in early Norman antiquities kindly say who this personage was, and where

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CARTHAGE AND THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA. With reference to the late important discoveries made at Carthage and Tunis, can anyone inform me if any modern inscriptions, rudely cut as if with a knife, have been deciphered? I am told such to be the case, but should be glad of the particulars. These inscriptions, or scratchings, are attributed to the Knights of Malta, when they were on detachment duty on the coast of Africa, and that when time hung heavy on their hands they amused themselves by recording their names on the ruins. I have been an interested reader

of Carthage and her Remains, by Dr. Davis, F.R.G.S., but he makes no allusion to the subject. I should feel much obliged if any correspondent of "N. & Q." could afford me information as might serve to elucidate the military history of the Knights of S. John of Jerusalem.

J. W. BRYANS. CHARLATAN. Can any of your readers point out an early instance of the use of the word "Charlatan" as applied to a quack doctor; or a satisfactory derivation of the word used in that or any other sense?

X. O.

LATIN POEM ON THE DE WITTS. "Ad Manes violatos Jani Wittii, Libertatis Bataviæ Vindicis, quondam, ac victimæ."

Gent. Mag., March, 1757, p. 184.
"Wittiadum cineres, et Barneveldia busta,
Urnaque ab impurâ non temeranda manu;
Quicquid et heroum fatalis a cæde supersit,
Ossaque vix terris jam tumulata suis;
Ecquid, honorati Manes, sentitis in umbris,
Curaque vos diræ tangit inulta necis?
Ecquid in Elysiis, nondum secura, viretis
Otia, defunctis liberiora, patent?
Invidia et vulgi nondum satiata veneno

Cessat, in insontes semper acerba viros?
Quicquid et adrosit mentita calumnia vivis,
Post obitum duplici fœnore livor agit.
Vestraque deteritur conducto fama libello,
Nomina qui fœdâ labe gravanda notet.
Nomina quæ Batavis horrorem annalibus addunt,
Et pia queis Batavo sanguine vena calet," &c.
The above lines are the commencement of a

poem in vindication of the De Witts, too long to
be transcribed whole for insertion in "N. & Q."
They appear to me to be elegant and classical.
The metre throughout the poem is correct, with
the exception of some niceties in versification not
understood, or not attended to, in those days.
The editor of the Gent. Mag. says they were sent
to him by a correspondent from Amsterdam, where
a controversy on the merits or demerits of the two
brothers was then raging. Can anyone acquainted
with Dutch literature give me information as to
the authorship of the verses
W. D.

FONTENELLE AND THE JANSENISTS. "Fontenelle had long been suspected of a leaning to

the Jansenists, which became apparent after his dispute with Bossuet, and his banishment from the Court. His intentions were good, and had his courage allowed him to go on, he would have become a Protestant." p. 21.-A Letter concerning Enthusiasm, addressed to the Rev. John Wesley, by a Layman, London, 1769, pp. 64. If there is any authority for this I shall be F. B. obliged by a reference to it. MAYORS OF GRIMSBY. - Where is there to be seen a list of the Mayors of Grimsby, co. Lincoln ? GRIME.

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HUTCHINS'S "DORSET.". The gentry of this country are making great exertions to have a correct new edition of Hutchins's Dorset, and Messrs. Ship and Hodson have kindly undertaken the work at our request. I wish to forward to them a few correct genealogical trees, and you will much assist me, and indeed the work itself, by printing the Queries I send you in your next publication.

Were the Peverels of Bradford Peverel, co. Dorset, descended from the Peverels of the Peak, Nottingham, Whittington, Dover, Brunne, London, Sampford Peverel, co. Devon, or Ermington,

co. Devon ?

Was Drogo De Bardolf, temp. Edward III. (referred to in Hutchins's Dorset, first edition, 1774, vol. i. pp. 475. 488.) descended from Donn Bardolf by Beatrice de Warren, his wife?

Was John Coplestone of Exeter, temp. Henry VIII. (mentioned in Hutchins's Dorset, first edition, 1774, vol. i. p. 444.), descended from the Coplestones of Coplestone, co. Devon?

Were the Warhams of Okeley, co. Hants, temp. Henry VIII., descended through any maternal channels from noble houses? To what period could they trace their descent paternally?

Was Archbishop Warham, temp. Henry VII., of the kin of William of Wykeham?

Leigh House, Wimborne.

THOMAS PARR HENNING.

A JACK OF PARIS. Sir Thomas More in his Works, vol. i. p. 675., speaks of " A Jak of Parys, an evil pye twyse baken." Can any of ders explain this?

your reaE. H. CHARLES LAMB.—I remember once seeing in a collection of miscellaneous poems some exquisite verses on the "South Wind," attributed to Charles Lamb. Are they his? They do not (so far as I am aware) appear in any edition of his works his " Plays," as he used to call them.

MORTIMER COLLINS.

LATIN GRACES.-Will any of your obliging correspondents favour me with a reference to some published work containing the Latin "graces," chaunted, or said before and after meat at our Universities and Public Schools; or give me the benefit of any private collection of the same through the medium of your columns ? F. PHILLOTT.

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