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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ S. VII. Mak. 26. '59. 



are •' arms" associated with every English county ? 

 If so, what are those of Essex, Kent, and Glouces- 

 tershire ? S. M. S. 



[For a description of the Cornish arms, see "N. & Q.," 

 1'' S. iv. 174. — The arms of the principal cities and towns 

 in England will be found curiously engraved in Bick- 

 ham's British Monarchy, 1743 ; and in Britannia Depicta, 

 or Ogilby Improved, 1720, there is (as the title sets forth), 

 "A full and particular Description of all the- Cities, 

 Borough Towns, Towns-Corporate, &e. with their Arms," 

 &c. Consult also Berry's Encyclopcedin Heraldica, vol. i., 

 art. "Cities, Boroughs, Towns-Corporate," &c.] 



Rolert Bahorne (2"^ S. vii. 238.)— May I ask on 

 what authority you style him a Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Dublin ? I cannot find that he ever so 

 much as took a degree in this University. Dr. 

 Cotton says that he was a Fellow of the College of 

 Youghall.— i^asii, vol. i. (2nd edit.), p. 167. 



Jas. H. Todd. 



Trin. Coll. Dublin. 



[Our authority is Dr. Cotton, Fasti, edit. 1847, vol. i. 

 p. 25.] 



TheZQ5 Children. — InPepys's Diary, 19th May, 

 1660 (pp. 67-8., edit. 1854), is the following: — 



" By waggon to Lansdune, where the 365 children 

 were born : we saw the hill where they say the house 

 stood wherein the children were born. Tlie basins wherein 

 the male and female children were baptized do stand over 

 a large table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole 

 story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning ' Mar- 

 garita Herman Coraitissa,' &c. The thing was done about 

 200 years ago." 



And a foot-note adds, " This story has been fre- 

 quently printed." Where is the story to be met 

 with ? D. W. 



[The story is narrated of the Countess of Hennesberg, 

 who not only refused to give alms to a female in distress, 

 but accused her of adultery because she carried twins in 

 her arms; whereupon the poor woman praj'ed to God 

 that the Countess might bring forth as many children as 

 there are daj's in the year, which accordingly happened 

 on Good Friday in 1276. Ail the males were baptized 

 and named John, and the females Elizabeth. Samuel 

 Ireland, in his Picturesque Tour through Holland, Bra- 

 bant, Sfc. (i. 81.), thus notices this legend : " I cannot quit 

 the Hague without permission to relate what is told at a 

 neighbouring village, called Loosduynen, about a league 

 from hence. The story is so trifling that I should not 

 venture on its recital, but for the sake of the explanation ; 

 although Erasmus, and other authors of high eminence, 

 have mentioned it with much gravity: 'About the year 

 1276, a Countess of Hennesberg, aged fortj'-two, was de- 

 livered of 365 children at a birth ; said to be by the im- 

 precations of a beggar woman, who (on being refused 

 charity) wished she might have as many children as 

 there were days in the year.' Though a Dutch author 

 mentions having seen the children, and describes them 

 no bigger than shrimps, and though at the village church 

 is still shown the copper vessel in which they were bap- 

 tized by Guy, Bishop of Utrecht, yet the truth seems to 

 be, that, on a 3rd of January, the beggar wished the 

 Countess might have as many children as there had been 

 days in the year: and that her wish was fulfilled by the 

 good Countess being delivered of three children on that 

 day. It is said that credulity once ran so high in this 

 village, as to induce them to place a picture in the church 



illustrative of this whimsical subject." Consult also 

 Moreri, Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, art. Margue- 

 EITE ; Lodov. Guicciardini, Hollandim Selandiaque De- 

 scriptio, 1630, pp. 288-291 ; and Gent. Mag., lii. 376.] 



JSitSliti, 



(2"* S. vii. 106.) 



The author of the pamphlet meant Dallle, 

 though he knew nothing about him, and probably 

 had not read even the title-page of the book on 

 which his blunder is founded. It is : — 



" La F03' fondee sur les Saintes Escritures, contre les 

 Nouveaux Methodistes, par Jean DailM. Charenton, 

 1634, 8vo., pp. 224." 



Daille does not name his adversaries, but calls 

 " Nouveaux Methodistes " certain Roman Catho- 

 lic doctors who boast of a new method to silence 

 Protestants by asking for express scripture au- 

 thority for what they believe, and against what 

 they reject. Though few of his contemporaries 

 had more "human learning," he makes no display, 

 of it in this boob, but writes like a theologian and 

 a gentleman — an unusual combination in the 

 seventeenth century. 



In a note to Southey's Life of Wesley, i. 339., 

 ed. 1858, an extract is given from Crowther's 

 History of the Wesleyan Methodists, which states 

 that — 



" John Spencer, who was librarian to Sion College in 

 1657, published a book in which he asked, ' Where are 

 the Anabaptists and plain pack-staiF Methodists?' Mr. 

 Crowther then saj's, ' Gale also, in the fourth part of The 

 Court of the Gentiles, mentions a religious sect whom he 

 calls ' The New Methodists.' " 



It is very provoking that when a man' makes a 

 quotation he will not add the page. I have looked 

 into Gale, but there is no index ; and, as the table 

 of contents affords no clue, I did not read through 

 a quarto volume of unpleasant type and unin- 

 viting matter. Southey is guilty of the same care- 

 lessness. In the Life of Wesley, ii. 153., he writes 

 about the controversy between Wesley and War- 

 burton, but gives neither its date nor the titles of 

 their books. 



The meeting is recorded in Polwhele's edition 

 of Bishop Lavington's Enthusiasm of the Me- 

 thodists and Papists, Lond. 1833, Introd. ccxxiv. 

 It was held at the (juildhall, Bath. The Bishop 

 of Gloucester (Ryder) presided. The Bishop of 

 Bath and Wells (Beadon), and the rectors of 

 Bath, Walcot, and Bathwick, refused to have 

 anything to do with it. The Archdeacon of Bath 

 (Thomas) attended, and protested against the in- 

 trusion, but was hissed off, and seems to have 

 been pretty well scolded afterwards. The writer 

 of the Few Words, &c. perhaps knew as much of 

 Lavington as of Daille. Though containing much 



