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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2°<i S. VII. Feb. 26. '59. 



power of the High Constable tended to restrain 

 some actions of the king. No wonder that the 

 jealous tyrant declared that the oflice was too 

 great for a subject, and that in future he would 

 hold it himself. The baton of the Duke has, how- 

 ever, been carefully preserved by his descendants, 

 and is now in the possession of Lord Stafford. 



F. C. H. 



MADAME rOCHEB AND HOLT COAT OF TEEVES. 



(2°" S. vii. 69. 125.) 



Contemporary accounts of the most important 



giatters in connexion with the exhibition of the 

 oly coat are collected in — 



"Heil.-Rock.-Album, eine zusamenstelling der wicht- 

 sten. AktenstUche, Briefe, Addressen, Berichte und 

 Zeitungs-artikel uber die Austellung des heiligen Rockes, 

 in Trier. Leipzig, Verlag von Mayer und Wigand, 1844, 

 pp. 185." 



The miracles are described in — 

 " Drei und zwanzig wanderbare Heilungen die sich 

 wahrend der Austellung des h. Rocks in der Domkirche 

 zu Trier vom 18 August bis 6 Oktober, 1844 ereignet. 

 Ein Sendschreiben filr alle welche Wahrheit lieben und 

 suehen. Coblenz, 1845, Verlag von J. Holscher." 



Probably both may be procured by any foreign 

 bookseller ; the latter is in the British Museum. 

 Neither mentions " Madame Fucher." I was at 

 Treves in 1846, while the excitement .was still 

 strong, and did not hear the name. I beg to sug- 

 gest that, as T. H.'s authorities are not original, 

 " Fucher " may be a mistake of Fisher. The 

 Countess Droste-Vischering had been lame find 

 unable to walk without crutches for some years. 

 She joined the pilgrims, and, when opposite to 

 the holy coat, recovered the use of her limbs, 

 threw down the crutches, and walked unassisted 

 to her carriage. Protestants and Catholics dif- 

 fered as to the cause of the cure and its com- 

 pleteness ; but I heard no suspicion that it was 

 " pretended." 



Our " lohnbedienter," a very intelligent man, 

 told us that his father had been completely cured 

 of a disease under which he had suffered for eight 

 years, but I did not make a note, and cannot rely 

 upon my memory for separating t]iat from other 

 cures. I had noticed the difference of colour in 

 the pictures of the coat, and I asked him which 

 was right. He said he had seen it twice, and 

 made up his mind the second time to look stea- 

 dily at it, but was so overcome with awe that he 

 could not. I put the same question to others 

 without any satisfactory result. Some had not 

 time to examine ; some said the light was un- 

 favourable : but I incline to think that the coat 

 is a faded brown. In Theodore Haupt's Pano- 

 rama von Trier, Trier, 1846, it is said, — 



" Dieses Gewand, ist ein Unterkleid Tunica, der Stoff 

 desselben und die Art der Verfertigung ist nicht erkenn- 

 bar, die Farbe unbeschreiblich." — P. 56. 



The pictures which I saw were small and cheap. 

 I bought specimens of each. All had inscrip- 

 tions, but none to the effect quoted by T. H. 

 Perhaps he will oblige me with the very words. 

 The only one in which silk is mentioned is " seide 

 in welcher der h. Rock Jesu Christ! vom Jahre 

 1810 bis 1844 gelegen hat." Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



T. H. asks for an answer to his inquiry on the 

 above subject. The following is offered. A small 

 work, entitled The Apostolical Christians, and Ca- 

 tholics of Germany, with a preface by the Rev. 

 Wni. Goode, 1845, contains the story, not of Ma- 

 dame Fuscher, but of the young Countess Von 

 Droste-Vischering, a relative of the Archbishop 

 of Cologne : — 



" Under the influence of strong excitement produced 

 by the expectation of a miracle, while in presence of the 

 relic, she threw aside her crutches, and left the cathedral 

 leaning upon the arm of her grandmother. The crutches 

 were hung up in the cathedral as a trophj- of her mira- 

 culous cure, and as an evidence to the faithful that the 

 Church of Rome still possesses the power of working 

 miracles. The Countess repaired to Kreutzenach, a small 

 watering-place, but, alas! it was necessary to lift her out 

 of the carriage, and she has been obliged to resume the 

 use of crutches." 



A Subscriber. 



I was present in 1844 at the septennial exposi- 

 tion of this so-called relic, and had a very close 

 inspection of the garment in question. In shape 

 it resembled a guernsey; it is of the colour of 

 German tinder, of which substance it seemed to 

 me to be made. Its dimensions would about suit 

 the Norfolk Giant. R. S. Charnock. 



HcpItcjS t0 Minax ^mxiti. 



Archbishops' Mitre (2^^ S. vii. 130.) —There is 

 no authority for the coronet being used with the 

 mitres of English archbishops. Edmondson says 

 that the mitres of archbishops rising from ducal 

 coronets was an assumption in his time; and 

 would, therefore, now be a little more than a cen- 

 tury ago. On the tombs of the Archbishops of 

 Canterbury and York the mitre has no distinction 

 from that of bishops generally. On reference to the 

 books of this College no distinction appears to be 

 made. It may be observed that the Bishops of 

 Durham, formerly exercising palatinate jurisdic- 

 tion, used their mitres issuing from coronets, as 

 shown upon their seals, and are so represented in 

 their monumental effigies : sometimes with plumes 

 of feathers. Thos. Wm. King, York Herald. 



College of Arms. 



" Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love " 

 (pt^ S. iv. 24. 72. 391.; vii. 192.) — Will one of 

 your readers, possessor of a copy of BickerstalTs 



