2nd S. VII. Jan. 22. '3^.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the same as the Rev. Thos. Coney, D.D., Pre- 

 bendary of Wells and Rector of Bath, author of 

 Se?'mons, 8vo. 1730, &c.? R. Inglis. 



Madame Fucher and Holy Coat of Treves. — 

 Where can I find a contemporai'y account of a 

 miracle pretended to be wrought on Madame 

 Fucher, a lame woman, at the last exhibition of 

 the holy coat of Treves in 1844 ? 



What is the colour of the coat ? In some de- 

 votional books printed at Treves, it is painted 

 blue, in others a dusky yellow ; and a German in- 

 scription says they are copied from the silk on 

 which the coat rested. Is it supposed to have the 

 properties of the "Veronica" handkerchief, or 

 only half of them, — transmitting form, but not 

 colour ? T. H. 



Uniforms vjorn at Execution of Charles I. — A 

 friend of mine, who is painting a historical picture 

 of the beheading of Charles I., is anxious to have 

 some precise information as to the military cos- 

 tume (especially with reference to the colours) of 

 the Puritan soldiers of that day. Could you kindly 

 inform him : — 



1. As to the soldiers actually present at the 

 execution. 



2. As to the colour and form of their dress and 

 arms. E. M, 



• Cottingham, near Hull, Jan. 7. 1859. 



Di'ying and keeping Seaweeds. — I shall be truly 

 obliged if any of your readers will give the unini- 

 tiated the benefit of their experience in drying 

 and keeping seaweeds ; and inform us what is the 

 best popular, and yet scientific, book on the sub- 

 ject. L. (1) 



The Wolf in Shepherd's Clothes. — At the end 

 of a pamphlet containing Desiderii Erasmi Rotero- 

 dami Axiomata pro Lidhero, etc., printed at Cologne 

 in 1521, 1 found the following manuscript epigram, 

 which deserves to be rescued from oblivion : — 

 " Carmen non ita pridem in vulgus missum. 

 " Non ego Eomulea miror quod pastor in vrbe 

 Sceptra gerat : pastor conditor vrbis erat. 

 Cumque lupae gentis nutritus lacte sit autor, 



Non ego Romulea miror in vrbe lupos. 

 Ilia raeuin superat tantum admiratio captum, 

 Quomodo securum servet ovile lupus." 



Have these verses been printed before ? And 

 who is the reputed author ? Th. A. 



Oxford. 



Oak Chimney-pieces and Oak Bedsteads. — I 

 wish your numerous readers would send the 

 lohereubouts of good old carved oak or stone 

 chimney-pieces in England, with their dimensions, 

 height, and breadth. Also any well-authenticated 

 oak bedsteads (not those of the Wardour Street 

 period) of Elizabeth and James I. This old Eng- 

 lish household furniture is now becoming very 

 rare; so much of it — chests, bedsteads, dressers 



— having been cut up for firewood ! ! Any small 

 account of each would be very acceptable, parti- 

 cularly as regards dates, figures, &c. Centukion. 



Colonel Thomas Butler. — I have just seen a 

 marriage settlement, dated the 28th April, 1781, in 

 which Col. Thos. Butler, Colonel of the Kilkenny 

 Volunteers, and Sir Richard Wheeler Cuffe, the 

 Lieut.-Colonel of that corps, were trustees ; and 

 Edward Oldfield and John N. Constable of Kil- 

 kenny, and Richard Ryan of Kilfearon, co. Kil- 

 kenny, were witnesses. It appears this Col. T. 

 Butler was also Mayor of Kilkenny in this year. 

 It would confer a signal favour if any of your 

 readers could inform me who this Col. Thos. 

 Butler wasf if he were connected with Lord Or- 

 mond ? Also, who Edward Oldfield, John N". 

 Constable, and Richard Ryan were ? Beta. 



Bishop Thomas West of Ely. — Was Thomas 

 West, Bishop of Ely temp. Henry VII. or VIII., 

 a son or other descendant of either of the Wests 

 Lord Delawarre ? T. P. H. 



William Whately. — 



" A Bride-Bush ; or a Direction for Married Persons 

 plainly describing their Duties, &c., compiled and pub- 

 lished by William Whately, Minister and Preacher of 

 God's Word in Banburie in Oxfordshire. London : Im- 

 printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Maw, and are to 

 be sold at his shop in Paternoster Row, at the signe of 

 the Talbot, 1619." 



A subscriber to " N. & Q." wishes to know 

 something of William Whately, and of his writings. 



S.B. 



[William Whateley, the Puritan Vicar of Banbury 

 during the greater part of the reigns of the First James 

 and Charles, was born at that place 21st May, 1583. His 

 father was a justice of the peace, and twice mayor of the 

 borough. Young Whateley received the rudiments of his 

 education in his native town. His " ripenesse in gram- 

 mer learning, in Latine, Greeke, and Hebrew, was so 

 earely, that about the fourteenth yeare of his age he 

 was sent to Christ's Colledge in Cambridge," where he 

 became B.A. in 1601. Quitting that University, ho en- 

 tered himself at St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, 15th July, 

 1602 ; where he soon became a noted disputant and a 

 ready orator. On the 26th June, 1604, he took his degree 

 of M.A. Soon after he entered into orders, and was ap- 

 pointed lecturer of Banbury. In 1610, he was instituted 

 to the Vicarage of Banbury, which preferment he held 

 until his death, May, 1639. Whateley's popularity in his 

 neighbourhood, and throughout the adjacent country, was 

 extreme. Tradition states that, from his powers of voice 

 and stj'le of preaching, he was called " The Roaring Boy 

 of Banbury." For the publication above referred to, 

 Whateley was convened before the High Commission 

 Court, and there recanted the two following opinions con- 

 tained in it, namely, 1st. " That committing sin of adul- 

 tery by either of the married persons, doth dissolve, an- 

 nihilate, and untye the bond and knot of marriage ;" and 

 2nd. " That the malicious and wilful desertion of either 

 of the married persons doth in like manner dissolve the 

 connection." For farther particulars of William Whate- 

 ley, vide Beesley's History of Banbury, 8vo., 1841, pp. 267 



