2n4 S. VII. Feb. 5. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



107 



considerable purchases of land, which subsequently proved 

 greatly advantageous. He purchased Weald Hall, in 

 Essex', for his family seat ; his town residence being in 

 St. John's, Clerkenwell. He married Mary, daughter of 

 Hugh Hare Lord Colrane, by Lucy daughter of Henry 

 Earl of Manchester, by whom he had three daughters 

 and six sons, who all died without issue except Hugh, 

 who succeeded to his father's estates, and resided at 

 Weald Hall. According to the pedigree of the family in 

 Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 185., Erasmus 

 Smith was living in 1683, setat. 73. There is a portrait of 

 him in Christ's^Hospital, London, Arms : Gu. on a chey. 

 or, between three bezants, as many crosses form^e fitche'e 

 sa. ; quartering Heriz. Crest, out of a ducal coronet or, 

 an Indian goat's head ar. eared sa. beard and attire of 

 the first. See Morant's Essex, i. 119.] 



Holinshed's Chronicles. — I have a very perfect 

 edition (black letter) of Holinshed's ^'- Historic 

 of England, from the time that it was first in- 

 habited vntill the time that it was last con- 

 quered," completed in A. d. 1587. To it is added 

 the Chronicles of Ireland continued up to a. d. 

 1586, and those of Scotland continued up to a. d. 

 1585. Can you or any of your readers inform me 

 whether there exists any similar continuation of 

 the Historic of England from the Norman in- 

 vasion, at which my edition terminates ? 



W. S. Brownes. 



[Our correspondent seems to possess the latter portion 

 of vol. i. and the whole of vol. ii. of Holinshed's Chronicles. 

 The first portion of vol. i. consists of " A Description of 

 Britaine and England." The work consists of another 

 volume, entitled, " The Third Volume of Chronicles, be- 

 ginning at Duke William the Norman, commonlie called 

 the Conqueror, and descending by degrees of Yeeres to 

 all the Kings and Queenes of England in their orderlie 

 successions. First compiled by Raphaell Holiushed, and 

 by him extended to the j^eare 1577 ; now newlie recog- 

 nised, augmented, and continued (with occurrences and 

 accidents of fresh memorie) to the year 1586." Fol., 

 1587.] 



Winchester College. — Wanted the names of 

 the Head Masters of Winchester College between 

 1570 and 1600; also the name of the Head Master 

 in 1754-5. Iota. 



[Christopher Johnson, 1560 ; Thomas Bilson, 1571 ; 

 Hugh Lloyd or Floyd, 1580 ; John Harman, 1588 ; Dr. 

 Benj. Haj'den (no date) ; Nicholas Love, Dec. 22, 1601. 

 Dr. John "Burton was Head Master in 1754-5. — Walcott's 

 William of Wyheham and his Colleges.'] 



Crook and Crosier, — The crook and the crosier 

 are both borne by the bishop and confounded by 

 ignorant people ; but is it not the case that there 

 is an essential difference between them ? is not 

 the latter the patriarchal, and the former the epis- 

 copal insignia ? and does the former belong to the 

 Latin, and the latter to the Greek Church ? 



G. Williams, 



[Dr. Hook in his Church Dictionary thus distinguishes 

 the crosier and crook : — "A crosier is the pastoral staff 

 of an archbishop, and is to be distinguished from the pas- 

 toral staff of a bishop j the latter terminating in an orna- 

 mented crook, while the crosier always terminates in a 

 cross."] 



iSitpliti, 



BABTHOLOMEW FAIR. 



(2°-! S. vii. 61.) 



I have read with great interest the account of 

 a black-letter pamphlet, Newes from Bartholmew 

 Fayre, contributed to " N. & Q." of Jan. 22nd by 

 Mr. Collier ; who is of course quite right in 

 concluding that I did not mention it in my recent 

 Memoirs of the Fair, because it had not come 

 under my observation. Mr. Collier is, I think, 

 unquestionably right in his opinion that a perfect 

 copy of this publication would not be found to 

 contain more than eight leaves, and that the title- 

 page and last leaf only were, wanting from the 

 copy upon which his account of it is founded. 

 From the passages cited in Mr. Collier's notice, 

 I am led to a suspicion (not quite a belief), 

 founded rather upon instinct than upon reason, 

 that if any of your correspondents should possess 

 a perfect copy of the tract, he may find even so 

 late a date as 1658 upon the title-page. Very 

 great doubt is cast upon any such suspicion by 

 the fact that the verses are in black-letter type, 

 and that the general appearance of the printed 

 leaves justified so very competent a judge as Mr. 

 Collier in the opinion that they were published 

 in the first years of the seventeenth century. Un- 

 quoted passages of the same tract in Mr. Collier's 

 possession may also determine finally against the 

 impression now upon my mind. I do not think 

 that the sudden leap from the subject of the last 

 Bartholomew Fair to the proclamation — 

 " Be it knowne to all noses red, 

 Nos maximus omnium is gone and dead," — 



can be only " a mere drollery from beginning to 

 end." The jest seems to be too elaborate to be 

 entirely purposeless ; and whatever may be its 

 meaning, I have little doubt that it is a caricature 

 of somebody or something, — one of those blunt 

 shafts aimed wide of its mark which passed for 

 wit with its author, and with more men than its 

 author, when there was a public satisfied with in- 

 spirations of the Smithfield muses. 



Oliver Cromwell died in the year 1658, imme- 

 diately after Bartholomew Fair, on the 3rd of 

 September. The tract professes to be written 

 after fair time, to give London news, " where some 

 be merry and some do muse " — to tell " who hath 

 been at Bartholmew Faire, and what good stirring 

 hath been there : " and after a prelude about the 

 fair, suddenly breaks out into a proclamation that 

 Nos maximus omnium is dead. Cromwell's nose 

 was a convenient target for the jester, and Nos 

 maximus omnium was, as applied to the late Pro- 

 tector, a good average Smithfield jest. The tone 

 of proclamation seems, from the extracts given by 

 Mr. Collier, to be retained throughout the re- 

 mainder of the piece ; and this would account 

 for the use of black-letter by the printer, that 



