2»«i S. VII. Mar. 5, '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to identify a picture, in which a man is represented 

 holding in his hand the works of Vincentius with 

 "Ut potinr patiar " written over him, you have 

 all the information which my friend has given me. 

 I am unable to answer the question, but perhaps 

 you or some of your numerous correspondents 

 may be able to help rae. John G. Talbot. 



Brighton. 



Jodocus Crull was ei'eated M.D. at Cambridge 

 by royal mandate, 1681. He is author oi Ancient 

 and Present State of Muscovy, 1698 ; a continua- 

 tion of Puffendorf's Introduction to the History of 

 Europe, 1705 ; Antiquities of S. Peter, Westmin- 

 ster, 1710, and (in 2 vols.) 1722. *We hope some 

 of your correspondents may be able to furnish the 

 date of his death, and other particulars respecting 

 him. C. H. & Thompson Coopeb. 



Cambridge. 



:^twar ^utviti bJttb 'MnSiatvi. 

 Arms of St. Thomas Becket. — Hasted, in his 

 History of Canterbury (Cant. 1801, vol. i. p. 29, 

 note s ; vol. ii. p. 338.) says that St. Thomas of 

 Canterbury bore for arms, argent, three Cornish 

 choughs proper. These the City of Canterbury 

 adopted as part of their arms, and the common 

 seal had this inscription round it : — 



" Ictibus immensis Thomas qui corruit ensis, 

 Tutor ab offensis urbis sit Canturiensis." 



Pray what authority is there for assigning these 

 as the family arms of the Beckets ? J. Mat 



[The arms of Thomas Becket, as given in Bedford's 

 Blazon of Episcopacy, p. 1., are "A., three Cornish 

 choughs proper, two and one." — MS. Lambeth, 556."] 



Old Church Chants, Ambrosian and Gregorian. 

 — Can any of your readers give me some informa- 

 tion as to the origin of the Ambrosian and Gre- 

 gorian chants ? Is it to be supposed that they are 

 all old ; or can they be composed on prescribed 

 rules ? I suppose the Gregorian tones are of a 

 more ancient date than the chants of the same 

 name. Did Ambrosius and Gregory compose any 

 of them ? if so, where can I meet with any of the 

 original ones ? or, did they only ordain that such 

 should be used in the ancient Church ? 



E. Elam. 



[To facilitate a reply, Miss Elam should specify the 

 Ambrosian chants she refers to, and the place in which 

 they appear in the office books of the early Church. So 

 also as to any Gregorian strictly entitled to this appel- 

 lation. These chants have been noticed by two corre- 

 spondents in our 1" S. vi. 178. ; vii. 136.] 



Hunting the Ram. — What is the origin of the 

 custom so called, and formerly observed by the 

 Eton scholars ? ^ J. Clement. 



[Huggett, in his MS. History of Eton College, p. 86. 

 (Addit. MS. 4839), thus notices this curious custom: — 

 " It was an ancient custom for the butcher of Eton Col- 



lege to give on the election Saturday a ram to be hunted 

 by the scholars. But by reason (as I have heard) of the 

 ram's crossing the Thames, and running through Wind- 

 sor market-place, with the scholars after it, where some 

 mischief was done ; as also by long courses in that hot 

 season, the health of some of the scholars being thereby 

 thought endangered, about thirty years ago \^circa 1780] 

 the ram was hamstrung, and, after the speech, was with 

 large clubs knocked on the head in the stable-yard. But 

 this carrying a show of barbarity in it, the custom was 

 entirely left off in the election of 1747 ; but the ram, as 

 usual, is served up in pasties at the high table in the 

 hall {anno 1760). 



" Browne Willis, Esq., the great antiquary, would de- 

 rive this custom from what is (or was) used in the manor 

 of East Wrotham, Norfolk, (the rectory, and I believe 

 the manor of which belongs to this college,) where the 

 lord of the manor after harvest gave half an acre of 

 barley and a ram to the tenants thereof; the which ram, 

 if they caught it, was their own ; if not, i^was for the 

 lord again."] 



Pitch-kettled. — I have occasionally stumbled 

 upon this uncommon word. What is its meaning ? 

 I do not find it in the new edition of Nares's 

 Glossary. J. C. B. 



[^Pitch-kettled was a favourite phrase in use during the 

 last century, expressive of being puzzled, or what in the 

 Spectator's time would have been called bamboozled. 

 Cowper uses the word in " An Epistle to Robert Lloyd, 

 Esq. 1754:" — 



" Thus, the preliminaries settled, 

 I fairly find myself pitch-kettled."'] 



CONSECRATION OF BISHOP BAKLOW. 



(2°'' S. vi. 526.; vii. 48. 91. 133.) 



I am quite prepared to answer Lingard, as 

 will appear in the course of this paper ; and I beg 

 to assure Mr. Alfred T. Lee, that I do deny 

 altogether the fact of Barlow's consecration. Nor 

 do I make assertions without proof. 



When I stated that on his introduction to St. 

 David's Barlow was described as full bishop, I 

 meant of course not merely as elect, but as conse- 

 crated. Mr. Lee rightly observes that in the 

 Conge d'elire to elect a successor to Barlow for 

 the see of St. Asaph, Barlow is described as " ul- 

 timi episcopi ibidem e/ec/?," and the same in the 

 commission to consecrate his successor, Warton. 

 Mr. Lee, however, wishes to know in what docu- 

 ment Barlow is described as full bishop of St. 

 Asaph, on or previous to April 21, 1536. It is 

 sufficient that in Cranmer's Register (p. 205-6. et 

 seq.), in all the documents for the removal of 

 Barlow to St. David's, he is described as full 

 Bishop of St. Asaph : " nuper Episcopus Assa- 

 phen." Thus he is taken to be already consecrated, 

 and as such is confirmed in the see of St. David's. 

 I was justified therefore in my statement, that 

 though never actually consecrated, he passed for 

 such, and as such was introduced to St. David's, 



