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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. VII. Jan. 1. '69. 



new Royal Exchange, was built mainly at the 

 charge of Thomas Pike, Sheriff of London, in 1410, 

 whose ancestor, Nicolas Pike, was sheriff in 1332. 

 Can any of your readers, having access to the cor- 

 poration records, state of what City company they 

 were freemen, and from what county they came? 



Architect. 



Er^lish Clay Pipes. — Searching through the back 

 -volumes of " N. & Q." for information upon early 

 English clay pipes, I find Mr. W. J. B. Smith's 

 communication (1" S. ix. 546.) to have proved the 

 induction of a host of others, not upon the articles 

 to which he called attention, but to the practice 

 of smoking. As, however, I believe your valuable 

 periodical circulates among many who have col- 

 lected the utensils themselves, I wish to inquire 

 whether nothing more has been elicited relative 

 to the Hunt family ? no less than three members 

 of which would appear to have been among our 

 earliest national pipe-makers. Their names, al- 

 though apparently most frequent upon pipes in 

 the south-west of England, are occasionally found 

 in far-distant places, and the occurrence of such 

 in Ireland seems to point to their importation into 

 that country nearly three centuries ago. Any of 

 your readers furnishing me with a list of pipe- 

 potters' names (or initials, where such only occur) 

 upon pipes met with in their localities, or in public 

 collections, will be welcome to my own in return. 



H. EcEOTD Smith. 



Belle Vue, Claughton, Birkenhead. 



Armorial Query. — I have a small silver escut- 

 cheon on the top of an old box, which, if cor- 

 rectly engraved, stands thus : Argent, a chevron 

 g. between 3 fleurs-de-lys (2 and 1) of the second. 

 Crest. A griffin passant. Motto. " Dieu mon port." 



I cannot find the coat amongst the list of those 

 containing fleurs-de-lys in " N. & Q." I should be 

 very glad to know to whom it belongs. 



C. W. Bingham. 



Deptford. — On Sept. 26, 1670: — 



" Captain Pierce, late Capt. of His Majesty's ship the 

 Saphire, together with his Lieutenant, were, according to 

 the Sentence of the Court Marshal, executed on board the 

 Dragon, near Deptford." — London Gazette, No. 508. 



What was the offence ? 



Alfred John Dunkin. 



[The "Saphire" was unfortunately lost on 31 Mar. 

 1670, on the coast of Sicily, through the default and 

 cowardice of Capt. John Pierce and his lieutenant Andrew 

 Logan, who, upon the approach of four sail, supposed to 

 be Turkish men-of-war, ordered the ship to run from 

 them, contrary to the persuasion of the master and pur- 

 ser, who wished them to fight. The court-martial was 

 held on board the « Bezan," on Sept. 16, 1670 : Sir Jere- 

 miah Smith was president of the court. — London Gazette, 

 No. 505.] 



Rev. H. F. Lyte. — Could you oblige me with 

 some account of the Rev. H. F. Lyte, who edited 

 the Poems of Henry Vaughan ? What are the 

 titles of Mr. Lyte's poetical works, published and 

 unpublished ? His Life and Remains were pub- 

 lished in 1850. R. Inglis. 



[Henry Francis Lyte was born at Kelso on June 1, 

 1793, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1812, where 

 he obtained a scholarship; In 1815 he took orders, and 

 obtained the curacy of Taghinon in Ireland ; but subse- 

 quently removed to the more genial clime of South Devon, 

 where he held for a j'ear or two the curacy of Charlton, 

 near Kingsbridge, which eventually led him to take 

 charge of the new church at Lower Brixham. His bio- 

 grapher informs us, that " during the hours spent in his 

 extensive library, the formation of which had been for 

 years his favourite recreation, he had made a large ac- 

 quaintance with the writings of the Fathers, and the 

 earlier divines of the Anglican Church ; having, by his 

 wide bibliographical research, enriched his stores with 

 most of the best editions of the Fathers, and also accumu- 

 lated a rare and valuable collection of the works of the 

 Nonjurors, for whose quaint, severe, j'et simple style, he 

 possessed a peculiar relish, and had, at one time, partially 

 prepared for publication a new edition of their writings, 

 with a history of their chief men and their times." Mr. 

 Lyte died at Nice on the 20th Nov. 1847, and a simple 

 marble cross in the English cemetery at that place fitly 

 marks the last earthly resting-place of this amiable and 

 gifted man. In 1833 Mr. Lyte published a volume of 

 Poems, chiefly Meligious, 8vo. His Remains consist of a 

 Prefatory Memoir, Poems, Early Poems, and Sermons. 

 His extensive library was sold bv Southgate and Barrett 

 in July, 1849.] 



Cawood's New Testament. — I shall feel obliged 

 by a short collation of the New Testament title- 

 page of the 1569, 4to. Bible, Cranmer's edition, 

 printed by J. Cawood. J, S. M. 



[I have two editions of Cranmer's Bible printed by 

 J. Cawood, small pot 4to., 1569. One ends on folio 132. 

 % The encie of the newe Testament, with a large wood- 

 cut on the reverse — the other on the same folio, but 

 numbered in error 128. The ende of the new Testaments 

 within a border, with the same woodcut on the reverse, 

 followed by two leaves of table on the reverse of the 

 second leat^ "Imprinted at London in Powles Church- 

 yarde by Jhon Cawood, Printer to the Quenes Maiestie," 

 within a border. The title-page to the New Testament 

 is exactly the same in each, and somewhat difficult to de- 

 scribe. It is in a square tablet, sitting on which there is 

 a young angel on the left with a trumpet, and on the 

 right another reading. In the centre, " The newe Testa- 

 ment in English, <ra«-slated after the Greeke, — conteyning 

 these bookes." The list of books in blackletter in columns, 

 excepting lines three and four. Under the list 1569 ; re- 

 verse blank. — G. Offob.] 



Monograph. — This is a new term, frequently 

 used now, but not to be found in Johnson's Dic- 

 tionary ; though that contains monogram^ explained 

 as a cipher. By the context of the passages in 

 which it occurs, monograph would seem to mean a 

 treatise on a single subject. Is that the true de- 

 finition of the word ? Stymies. 



[This word occurs in Webster's Dictionary : — " Mono- 

 graph, n. Gr. ftovos, sole, and yp<>-<t>v, description. An 

 account or description of a single thing or class of things ; 



