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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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33 shall have passed the Examinations required from 

 time to time by the authorities of the College." 



I am also enabled, through the kindness of the 

 Rev. Principal of St. Augustine's College, Can- 

 terbury, to add the particulars of the hood sanc- 

 tioned by His Grace the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, as Visitor of that College, which is given, 

 with a diploma, to the Licentiates in Theology of 

 St. Augustine's. Mr. Weir has already alluded 

 to this (p. 258.), but the following description, 

 being more exact and from the best authority, 

 will doubtless be acceptable : — 



" The shape of this hood resembles in a great measure 

 the Oxford Hood, but is scantier. The material is black 

 mohair, with a stripe of crimson cloth running round, 

 two inches from the border." 



I may add that this college is not empowered 

 to grant degrees, though the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, its Visitor, can, as well as the Arch- 

 bishop of Armagh. (See 2"" S. v. 149.) Query, — 

 What hoods are worn for these degrees ? 



John Ribton Gabstin. 



Picton Castle and Muddlescomh (2""^ S. vli. 36.) 

 — The pedigree of the Dwnn or Donne family, as 

 also that of the Morgans of Muddlescomb, will be 

 found in extenso in J'he Heraldic Visitations of 

 Waies by Lewis Dwnn, who was himself a cadet 

 of the Muddlescomb family. The direct line of 

 the Donnes failed at the death of Sir Harry 

 Donne of Picton Castle, and the estates were di- 

 vided between his two daughters and coheiresses. 

 Jane Donne married Sir Thomas Phillipps, Knt., 

 and had Picton Castle and the other Pembroke- 

 shire estates as her portion. Muddlescomb fell 

 to the share of the other sister. Jennet, who mar- 

 ried Trehaiarn Morgan, Esq. Their descendants 

 retained Muddlescomb until an heiress carried it 

 into the junior line of Mausel of Margam by 

 marrying Sir Francis Mansel, who made Muddle- 

 scomb his chief residence. The estate remained 

 in the Mansel family until Sir William, father of 

 the present Sir John Mansel, sold it. Muddle- 

 scomb is near Kidwelly, in Carmarthenshire, and 

 the estate has been sold and divided ; one farm 

 alone (I believe) retaining the ancient name. The 

 mansion has long since passed away. Owen 

 Donne of Muddlescomb married Katherine, 

 daughter of John Wogan of Picton Castle, Esq., 

 by Lady Anne Butler, daughter of the Earl of 

 Ormond ; and in their son, Sir Harry Donne, 

 the main line of Muddlescomb ended ; but as 

 there had been numerous younger sons in the 

 different generations preceding, 1 have no doubt 

 that many families bearing the name of Donne 

 or Dunn trace their origin from this ancient 

 stock. There is still extant in Pembrokeshire a 



family of the name of Dunn ; and a member of 

 that family was high sheriff of the county in 1858. 

 I forgot to mention that none of the descendants 

 of the daughters of Sir Harry Donne ever as- 

 sumed this name. John Pavin Phu-lifs. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Minutes of Committees (2"* S. vii. 29.)— The 

 question of Liber as to the proper mode of au- 

 thenticating the minutes of committees hardly 

 admits of a general answer. Committees and other 

 boards, which deliberate and pass resolutions, 

 commonly employ a secretary or clerk, who at- 

 tends their meetings, and takes notes of their pro- 

 ceedings. After the meeting he reduces these notes 

 into the shape of formal minutes, which constitute 

 the record of the proceedings. It is a common 

 practice for the officer who keeps this record to 

 submit the minutes of the previous meeting to the 

 Committee or Board at its next sitting : they are 

 then read aloud, and if recognised by the members 

 present as a faithful record, are generally authen- 

 ticated by the signature of the chairman. This 

 subsequent recognition of the minutes by the 

 Board, attested by the chairman's signature, gives 

 additional value and formality to the record, but 

 is not necessary to its authenticity. The record 

 of the proceedings of the Privy Council is pre- 

 pared by the clerk of the council, or under his 

 superintendence; but the minutes of the last coun- 

 cil are not read in the Queen's presence, when she 

 holds a council. In like manner the proceedings 

 of a Parliamentary Committee, both of Lords and 

 Commons, are minuted by the committee clerk in 

 attendance, who, in case of doubt, would consult 

 the chairman of the committee, but the minutes of 

 a previous day are never read to the committee 

 and signed by the chairman. In like manner, the 

 proceedings of the Houses of Parliament are mi- 

 nuted by the clerks at the table, and entered in 

 their journals. L. 



" Omne ignotum pro magnifco" (2"^ S. vi, 311. 

 381.) — To the question, "Where is this to be 

 found ? " it was replied, correctly, " in Galgacus's 

 speech in Tacltus's Agricola.'" 



It ought to have been added, that Ritter (per- 

 haps on the whole the best editor of the text of 

 Tacitus), suspects the sentence to be a " marginal 

 gloss," and accordingly "brackets" it. It certainly 

 is most awkwardly inserted, and it is difficult to 

 believe that Tacitus can have written it. S. C. 



Meaning of a " Likeiamme " (2°"* S. vi. 412.)— 

 It will be found on examination that the term 

 " likeiamme" as used by Recorde in his Pathway 

 to Knowledge, does not refer to equal surfaces, 

 but to equal sides. " Here shal you marke that 

 al those squares which have their sides al equal, 

 may be called also for easy understandinge like- 

 sides, as Q. and S." [Q. a square ; S. a rhombus] 



