478 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»dS. VII. JuNEll.'59. 



belonged to the family of Thomas Cromwell, who 

 for the short time of about one year (1539-40) 

 bore the title of Earl of Essex. Any light thrown 

 upon this epitaph will be most welcome. A. 



[This lady was connected with the Cromwells of Wim- 

 bledon, and was a descendant of Thomas Cromwell, Earl 

 of Essex. Her father Thomas Cromwell, the fourth 

 baron, and the fourth in descent from the Earl, was sum- 

 moned to parliament 18th. of James I., and in 1625 was 

 by Charles I. created Viscount Lecale, and in 1644, Earl 

 of Ardglass in Ireland. He was a loyalist, and took the 

 contrary side from his friend Lord Essex, the parliament 

 general. He died in 1653, and was buried at Tickencote, 

 CO. Rutland. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir 

 of Jlobert Meverell, of Throwliegh in Staffordshire, by 

 whom he had issue three daughters, Frances and Jane, 

 who died young ; and Mary, who married William Fitz- 

 Herbert of Tisslngton, co. Derby; also three sons. Wing- 

 field, Vere Essex, and Oliver. The barony became extinct 

 on the demise of Vere Essex (the seventh baron) in 1687. 

 The pedigree is printed in Banks's Dormant and Extinct 

 Baronage, ii. 126.] 



Sir Martin Frobislier. — Can you give me any 

 information about the family of the old navigator 

 Sir Martin Fi-obisher, or tell me where I am likely 

 to find it ? G. H. K. 



[The biographical accounts of Sir Martin Frobisher 

 state that his parents were in very humble circumstances, 

 and the date of his birth as unknown. Dr. Miller, how- 

 ever, in his History and Antiquities of Doncaster, p. 117., 

 says, that " Francis Frobisher was Ma3'or of Doncaster 

 in the year 1535, and from his supposed age, compared 

 with that of Sir Martin's, was most probably the father 

 of this naval hero. Unfortunately the parish register 

 does not commence the baptisms till the year 1558, and 

 Sir Martin must have been born long before that period. 

 However, I have found the baptisms of several of his 

 relations, viz. ' 1561, May 30. Christian, daughter of Wil- 

 liam Frobisher.' '1564, Mar. 2. Darcye, son of William 

 Frobisher.' « 1566, Mar. 18. Matthew, son of the same.' 

 '1567. .Jan. 18. Elizabeth, daughter of the same.' " Dr. 

 Miller then adds in a note the following extract from 

 Maneser's Account of Yorkshire Families : " The father of 

 Sir Martin Frobisher resided sometime at Finningley, his 

 mother was daughter to Mr. Rogers of Everton, his 

 grandfather William married Margaret, daughter of Wm. 

 Boj'nton, of Barmston, Esq. His great-grandfather 

 Francis was Recorder of Doncaster, and married Chris- 

 tian, daughter of Sir Brian Hastings, Knt., and purchased 

 lands at Doncaster."] 



General Monk. — Can you inform me where I 

 can find any account of Monk's reception at the 

 Cloth-workers' Hall before the Restoration ; or if 

 any such reception took place ? G. II. K. 



[In the British Museum are two copies of a folio single 

 leaf, entitled " A Speech made to the Lord General Monck 

 at Clothe-workers Hall in London, the 13th of March, 

 1659 (1660), at which time he was there entertained by 

 that worthy Companie." This Speech is in rhyme. In 

 Rugge's curious Diary, March 1659-60 (Add. MS. 10,146. 

 Brit. Mus.), is the following entry: "Lord General Monk 

 was invited to dinner at the Cloth-workers' Hall, which 

 his Lordship accepted of."] 



Bodleian and Vatican Libraries. — Can you tell 

 how many volumes there are in the Bodleian Li- 

 brary at Oxford, and how many voliimes there 



are at the Vatican at Rome ? If you can, it will 

 assist in solving a curious question. N, B. 



[Mr. Edwards, in his Memoirs of Libt-aries, 2 vols. 8vo. 

 1859, states, that the present number of volumes in the 

 Bodleian library may be very safely estimated as, at least, 

 260,000 in the printed, and 22,000 in the manuscript, de- 

 partments. The statements respecting the number of 

 volumes in the Vatican are conflicting, occasioned by the 

 want of a catalogue. Valery estimated them, in 1840, at 

 80,000 volumes. Mr. Edwards adds, " I am not, now, in- 

 clined to reckon them as amounting to 100,000 volumes." 

 According to the official return of 1850, it contains 25,000 

 manuscripts.] 



Laurence Coster. — I have a very curious im- 

 pression from the first block, cut in black-letter, 

 by Lauwerensz Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem. 

 An engraving which accompanies it (of him) is 

 dated 1433; so that I presume the date of the 

 cutting of the block would be from 1400 to 1433. 

 Can any of your correspondents oblige me with 

 any farther particulars regarding it ? G. S. 



[We would recommend our correspondent to consult 

 the valuable work of Samuel Leigh Sotheby, entitled 

 Principia Typographica : the Block Books issued in Hol- 

 land, Flanders, and Germany during the Fifteenth Century, 

 3 vols, fol., 1858 ; and, if convenient, submit his " very 

 curious impression" to that gentleman. In Mr. Sotheby's 

 remarks on Speculum Humance Salvationis, he offers a 

 suggestion for the consideration of those who take an 

 active interest in the Mentz and Haarlem controversy, 

 " Whether in the beardless and modernly-habited repre- 

 sentative of the Jewish prophet, we have not the in- 

 tended similitude of Lawrence (Coster) Janszoon in his 

 proper costume of Custos of the church of Pavon at Haar- 

 lem (an office, which, from the entries in the registers of 

 that establishment, we know that he held during the 

 years 1423, 1426, 1432, and 1433,) probably in the act of 

 explaining his recent discovery, and descanting upon its 

 future results, for the edification of the individual kneel- 

 ing before him, in whose countenance is displayed an 

 expression of surprise and thankfulness, much more be- 

 coming the character here assigned to him, than that of 

 the Babylonish sovereign suddenly apprehending the 

 destruction of his kingdom and his own approaching 

 fate." (Vol. i. p. 178.) Consult also Mr. Ottley's re- 

 marks on the early Block Books in his History of En- 

 graving, 2 vols. 4to., 1816.] 



Quotation. — A lady has requested me to ask 

 where these lines are to be found : — 



" On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly. 

 While virtuous actions are but born to die." 



Anon. 

 [In Juvenal, Satire ix., translated by Stephen Harvey-, 

 Esq. See Anderson's Poets, xii. 697.] 



The ^^ Expurgatory Index " of Rome. — Sir R. 

 H. Inglis stated, in his place in parliament, on 

 May 10, 1825, that the following authors and 

 books were placed on the Pope's Index. Are 

 there sufficient grounds for the allegation ? Ba- 

 con, De Augmentis Scientiarum ; Locke, On the 

 Human Understanding ; Cudworth's Intellectual 

 System ; Paradise Lost ; Descartes, Opera Philo- 

 sophica ; Copernicus ; Pascal ; Galilei Galileo ; and 



