2'"i a VII. May 21. '59.] 



NOTES AND t^UERIES. 



417 



fraternity ; if so, I should be glad to know what ? 

 I should also like to find out whether any of the 

 names are of known persons ? The book appears 

 1o have belonged to Harfield Pritt. " Inter SS. 

 Steph. et Joan, natus fui an. Dni 1593. Harfil- 

 dus Prilt." 



Entries. 

 « Feb. 12, 1628. Rob. Br— ba— . 



Feb. 25, 1G27. Alice Smith obiit. 



Mar. 5, 1647. Kdvardus Fitter obiit. 



Mar. 26, 1630. Anne Town. 



Mar. 29, 1657. Brig. Moselev, ob. die Paschaj. 



April 2, 1634. Mr. Town ob." 



6, 1652. Maria Birch, vid. ob. 



26, 1632. Ed. Sta[ndish], ob. 



May 9, 1647. DiTs Walter Hassellus obiit. 



Jan. 2, 1648. Joannes Birch ob., cujus uxor ob. Apr. 6. 



Jun. 17, Dns Harf. Pritt, 1661. 



July 19, 1621. Thomas grevill. 



Oct. 22, 1632. Depos. Orpet. 



Nov. 14, Lod. Grevill. 



(21), 1632. Ebn. Smith ob. 



Dec 23, 1638. Gulielm. Pritt ob." 



J. C. J. 



Didl Dutch Hieroglyphic. — In examining Cole's 

 MSS. in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 5840. 

 p. 402.), having occasion to copy a letter of John 

 Croft, vicar of Winslow, to Browne Willis, the anti- 

 quai-y, I came upon the following sentence : — 



" 'Tis an Happiness to Men of our Order, that our 

 Gentry is blended with some such good Friends to assist 

 the Stemming of the threatening Torrent, wherein the 

 Church must run the same Risque with the Monarchy, 

 to whom the rank Whigg is a Beast of Prey : give him a 

 Scent of Royall Blood, and a Taste of Plunder, the Catte 

 can as easily foregoe her beloved Mose, as He insulting 

 the Crowne : and if he dares not express bis Words at 

 Length, his Spight and Malice shall be represented in a 

 Dull Dutch Hieroglyphic." 



The first part of this effusion is no doubt an 

 attempt on the part of a Tory clergyman to make 

 court to a Tory patron ; but what is the " Dull 

 Dutch Hieroglyphic?" It may have some refer- 

 ence to William of Orange, though the letter must 

 have been written long after his reign, and most 

 likely about 1730—50. 



Can any of your readers inform me whether it 

 is likely to refer to any occurrence, or political 

 pasquinade, of that day ? B. N. C. 



"5re»2* Admonitio de Re Eucharistica" — Can 

 anyone give me any information respecting the 

 following tract or its author ? — 



" Brevis Admonitio de Re Evcharistica, hsec continens, 

 I. Consilium Filii Dei instituentis Eucharistiam. II. Con- 

 silium satanae quo Dei consilium conatur euertere. III. 

 Quibus medijs consilio satanm possit iri obuiam. Scripta 

 a C. Elaeodo Tyrgadae." 



'AXievs. 



Dublin, 



Turneisser' s Description of a rare Plant found 

 near Rockdale in 1548. — In the Historia sive 

 Descriptio Plantarvm omnivm tarn Domesticarvm 

 quam Exoticarvm a Leonhardo Thurneissero zum 



. Thurn, folio, Berlin, anno 1587, the author, at p, 



i Ixii., names a plant which bloomed in the begin- 



I ning of May : " Quo etiam tempore a me in An- 



I glia anno 1548, vltra vrbem Rockdali, in Monte 



Beck, est reperta." It is not easy to identify the 



plant from the author's description, although it is 



umbelliferous, and he says it resembles fennel in 



appearance ; but my Queries are, 1. Where is the 



town of Rockdale ? 2. Is there a hill near it called 



Beck ? 3. Is a species of fennel still known in the 



neighbourhood ? 



The author was a Swiss, a disciple of Para- 

 celsus, and, like his master, a great charlatan, but, 

 unlike him, a good scholar. p. R. R. 



Dr. Inx. — Deering (Historical Account of Not- 

 tingham, p. 160.) refers to a sermon preached by 

 Dr. Inx before King James I. at Newark. Who 

 was Dr. Inx, and when was the sermon in ques- 

 tion preached ? C. H. & Thompson Coopee. 



Cambridge. 



" Catch Cope Bells.'" — In the churchwardens' 

 accounts of the parish of S. Martin, Leicester, 

 are various references to these bells. What were 

 they ? Thos. North. 



Leicester. 



Comte de VEscalopier, — In Mem. de Mad. de 

 Longueville, note p. 243., is the following state- 

 ment : — 



" II n'y a qu'un seul hotel de la Place Royale qui soit 

 reste dans la meme famille de 1612 jusqu'a nos jours, k 

 savoir, I'hotel qui porte le No. 25. et qui de p^re en fils est 

 arrive a son proprietaii'e actuel M. le Comte de I'Esca- 

 lopier." 



How did this hotel, and how did the family, 

 escape the destruction and proscription of all the 

 aristocratic families of France in the Revolution 

 of 1793 ? Does the Comte retain his ancient title, 

 or has he had one bestowed upon him by the pre- 

 sent government ? N. J. H. 



J5. Frere. — Will any of your Transatlantic 

 correspondents give me any information about 

 this author, who is thus mentioned in Allibone's 

 Critical Dictionary of English Literature and Bri- 

 tish and American Authors, Philadelphia, 1859, 

 vol. i. p. 638. ? — 



"Frere, B. Novels, Plays, &c., 1790-1813."* 



Vkyan Rheged. 



Milward of Co. Sussex, — Can Mr. Lower or 

 any other correspondent inform me whether the 

 Sussex Milwards are a branch of the family of 

 that name long seated in Derbyshire and the ad- 

 joining counties ? They bear the same arms, but 

 I have no means of ascertaining whether they 



[* When Frere published his work. The Adventures of 

 a Dramatist on a Journey to the London Managers, 2 vols. 

 12mo., 1813, he was residing at Handsworth in Stafford- 

 shire."— Ed.] 



