2nd s. VI I. April 16. '59.] 



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Matthias Earhery. — Where can I find an ac- 

 count of Matthias Earbery, the Nonjuror, of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, a. b. 1710? There 

 was another Matthias, or Matthew, Earbery, 

 whom Watt confounds with him, of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, a.b. 1679, author of Deism Ex- 

 amined and Confuted. 'AXtevi. 



Dublin. 



[Dr. Bliss, in ReliquioB Hearniance, p. 474., has furnished 

 an interesting notice of this sturdy Nonjuror: — "Earbery 

 was a political writer of some renown. He was born 

 July 11, 1690, educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 and exercised his pen with great spirit and courage in 

 defence of the Stuarts and the Torj- cause. The follow- 

 ing is the most complete list of his works I have been 

 able to procure : Principles of Church Unity Considered, 

 Lond. 1716, 8vo. An Answer to 3Ir. Whiston's Disser- 

 tation on the Ignatian Epistles, Lond. 1716, 8vo. History 

 of the German Reformation, founded upon Heresye of 

 John Wickliffe, John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, 1720, 

 8vo. History of the Clemency of our English Monarchs, 

 Lond. 1717; 2nd edit. 1720. This was accounted a sedi- 

 tious libel, upon which the author retreated into France, 

 and published A Vindication of the History of Clemency, 

 with Reflections upon the late Proceedings against the 

 Author, Lond. 1720, 8vo. Upon Barbery's absconding 

 from the kingdom, sentence of outlaAvry was pronounced 

 against him, which -was reversed in the Court of King's 

 Bench, Dec. 2, 1725. An Admonition to Dr. Kennet, ap- 

 pended to the Earl of Nottingham's Answer to Whiston, 

 Lond. 1721, 8vo. Tho. Burnett on the State of the Dead, 

 and of those that are to rise. Translated from the Latiii. 

 With Remarks upon each Chapter, and an Answer to all 

 the Heresies therein, Lond. 1727, 8vo. The Occasional 

 Historian, No. I. Lond. 1730 ; Nos. II. & III., 1731 : No. 

 IV. and last, 1732. This was written against The Crafts- 

 man, in pursuance of an advertisement inserted in the 

 London Evening Post of Sept. 20, 1730: "Whereas The 

 Craftsman has for some time past openly declared himself 

 to be a root and branch man, and has made several injust 

 and scandalous reflections upon the family of the Stuarts, 

 not sparing even King Charles I. : this is to give notice, 

 that if he reflects further upon any one of that line, I 

 shall shake his rotten commonwealth principles into 

 atoms. Matthias Earbery.' He died Oct, 3, 1740. 

 There is a neat small portrait of him in gown and band, 

 'jam politico denatus, postea resurrecturus cum patria,' 

 J. Cole, sculp, from a picture by J. Fry." 



Risings. — In Eapin's History of England, 2nd 

 edit., in 2 vols, fol., 1733, it is stated that Isabella, 

 daughter of Philippe IV. {dit le Bel), widow of 

 Edward II. of England, and mother of Edw. III., 

 was confined by the latter to her house at Risings, 

 near London, for twenty-eight years. (Rapin, i. 

 413.) 



I request to be informed where, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, Risings was situated ? In 

 an old map I observe " Riseing Cast" put down, 

 about a mile, as I judge, N.E. of Ilford in Essex; 

 and perhaps some correspondent will inform me if 

 that be the spot in question, and furnish me with 

 some account of "Riseing Cast." ScBnTAxoB. 



[The place where Isabella the Fair was confined, and 

 destined to s; end the long years of her widowhood, was 

 Castle-Rising in Norfolk, which is 102 miles from Lon- 

 don. It was part of her own demesnes, having been 



lately surrendered to her by the widowed lady of the last 

 baron of Montalt. Enough remains to show "that Castle- 

 Rising must have been almost an impregnable fortress. 

 See Blomefield's Norfolk, edit. '1808, vol. ix. pp. 42-58.] 



Heraldic. — Can any of your readers more con- 

 versant with heraldry than myself, inform me how 

 the following shield should be described ? I give 

 the best description I can : Party per pale, or and 

 gules, a cross molines, in the cantons or quarters^ 

 \st and 4th three annulets 2. 1, 2nd and 3rd a lion 

 passant guardant, counterchanged. The latter part 

 is the difiiculty. After looking in two or three 

 books on the subject, I cannot find in them an in- 

 stance of different charges being thus described 

 about a cross. G. E. 



[The shield may be described as " Quarterly 1st and 

 4th or 3 annulets gules, 2nd and 3rd gules, a lion passant 

 guardant or, over all a cross moline counterchanged." 

 Our correspondent should have forwarded a drawing.] 



ST. Paul's visit to bbitain (2""* S. vii. 90. 158. 



222.) : PREExiSTENCE OF SOULS (2""* S. ii. 329. 



453. 517. ; iii. 50. 132. ; iv. 157. 234. 298.) 



Who is the poet who applies to St. Paul the 

 deslsnation of Wolf, as is s^tated in the Life of 

 Wolfgangus by Otho (Pertz, iv. 521.), 



" O lupe Paule rapax, quid jam remanebit in orbe 

 Quod non ore trahas? " 



where it is shown that these metempsychosologic 

 appellations are used in a good as well as bad 

 sense : thus Christ is the lion of the tribe of Judah, 

 although Satan, " as a roaring lion walketh about 

 seeking whom he may devour." The doctrine of 

 Pythagoras and Plato is humorously illustrated in 

 The Dreamer (a series of dreams forming an in- 

 direct satire on the abuses of religion, literature, 

 &c. by Dr. William King) by quotations from 

 sacred as well as profane writers, e. g. Isaiah, Ivi. 

 10, 11.; Nahum, ii. 12. : — 



"A judicious critic," he writes, " or observant reader, 

 will scarce allow that more than four or five, in tlie long 

 catalogue of Roman Emperors,had any humanity ; and al- 

 though they might perhaps have a just claim to be stiled 

 Lords of the Earth, they had no right to the title of Men. 

 There is an excellent dissertation in Erasmus on the 

 princelj' qualities of the [Eagle and the Lion ; wherein 

 that great wit has demonstrated that Emperors and Kings 

 are very justly represented by those animals, or that there 

 must be a similarity in their souls, as all their actions are 

 similar and correspondent." 



When the opinion of the Preexistence of Souls 

 was discussed in "K & Q." (2"^ S. ii. iii. iv.) 

 the work of a very celebrated writer bearing en- 

 tirely on this subject was overlooked : I mean that 

 of Samuel Parker, Bishop of Oxford, entitled — 



"Account of the Platonick Philosophy; with an Ac- 

 count of the Nature and Extent of the Divine Dominion 

 and Goodness, especially as they refer to Origen's Hypo- 

 thesis concerning the Pre-existence of Souls, with a Re- 

 futation of the Doctrine itself." 



