2nd g. No 58., Feb. 7. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



113 



eye. He lived in times which ministred peculiar op- 

 portunities of meeting with books that were not every 

 day brought into public light ; and few eminent libraries 

 were bought where he had not the liberty to pick and 

 chuse." Richard Smyth died on March 26, 1675, aged 

 85, and was buried on the north side of the chancel of 

 St. Giles', Cripplegate. His library came into the hands 

 of Richard Chiswell, bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, 

 and was sold by auction in May and June, 1682. The 

 Sale Catalogue, with manuscript prices, is now in the 

 British Museum. C(. « N. & Q.," 1st S. ii. 389.] 



Sir Ode of WyncJiestere. — Robert of Brunne, 

 in his version of " Peter Langtoft's Chronicle " 

 (Hearne's Works, vol. iii. p. 94., Oxford, 1725), 

 has the following lines : 



" For a bisshop he sent at morn whan it was day, 

 Sir Ode of Wynchestere, so J:>at bisshop hight." 



The lines refer to the time of the death of Wil- 

 liam Rufus, when the see of Winchester was va- 

 cant. Who was " Sir Ode the bisshop " ? Was 

 he a late instance of the early Chorepiscopiis f or 

 was he an early instance of the later bishop in par- 

 tihus ? I do not recollect that he is mentioned in 

 Wharton's List of Suffragans, published at the 

 end of Mr. Lewis's Essay, in vol. vi. of Nichols's 

 Bihlioth. Topogr. ; but I am away from books, 

 and my notes on the subject are but scanty. 



Lewis occasionally refers to the " Memoir on 

 the Winhhurne seal ; " and speaks of the " effigies 

 of Thomas Swillington on the Winkburne seal." 

 What is the Winkburne seal, and where deposited? 



J. Sansom. 



[The " Memoir on the "Winkburne Seal " is noticed by 

 Dr. Pegge in his Letter, immediately following Lewis's 

 Essay. Dr. Pegge states that " the matrix of this oval 

 seal was in the possession of the late Mrs. Mary Burnell 

 of Winkburne, co. Nottingham, and is now [1784] the 

 property of my kinsman, Peter Pegge, Esq., lord of that 

 manor." See his "Observations on a Seal of Thomas, 

 Suffragan Bishop of Philadelphia," in ArcJusologia, vol. 

 vii. p. 362. We cannot find any mention made of " Sir 

 Ode," either as bishop or suffragan of Winchester. At 

 the death of William IL this see was vacant, as noticed 

 by Sir John Hayward in his Life of fFilliam IL, p. 216., 

 Avho says, " At this time he held in his hands three bishop- 

 ricks, Canterburie, Winchester, and Salisbnrie, and twelve 

 Abbeys." In the same page of Langtoft's Chronicle, Wil- 

 liam IL is said to have been buried at Westminster, 

 " At Westminstre is he laid, at Saynt Peter Kirke ; " 

 whereas, as is well known, he was buried at Winchester.] 



" A Timicisgy." — In An Account of the Pro- 

 ceedings against Thomas Collins and John Free- 

 man, &;c. ^c. (a pamphlet published at Carmarthen, 

 in 1773), it is recorded that — 



" The said Freeman obtained from the Duke of Cumber- 

 land, Peggy, a grey mare got by Squirrel, which he has 

 got valued at lOOZ. A Timwisgy, value lOZ., from a horse- 

 dealer in Holbourn. A bay Switch-tail Mare from the 

 French Ambassador," &c. 



Now, what was this Timwisgy ? 



CUTHBEET BeDE. 



[A timwisgy, or rather tim-whisky, is a light one-horse 

 chaise without a head.] 



Amulet. — What is the derivation of this word ? 



M. A. S. 



[Richardson'derives it from the Latin" Amnletum, from 

 atnoliri, amoUtus (from a and molei, a heap or mass), to 

 heave away, to drive away, to repel. That which throws 

 off, expels, repels, wards oft' any evil or mischance ; and 

 further, that confers some charms."] 



aacpitejf. 



THE ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL. 



(2»'J S. ii. 229. 420. 470. 514. ; iii. 76.) 

 The reference kindly furnished in " N. & Q." of 

 Dec. 27, to the volunie compiled by the Rev. D. 

 T. Powell, of Tottenham, now the MS. Addit. 

 17,436, in the British Museum, enables^ me to an- 

 swer — in the' negative — my original inquiry for 

 a list of the early Knights of St. Michael, and that 

 upon no less authority than Count Durfort and 

 King Louis XVIII., who were both well informed 

 in the gentilitial antiquities of their native coun- 

 try. It appears that the only known catalogue of 

 the Knights of St. Michael created before the 

 foundation of the Order of St. Esprit, is that of 

 the fifteen original knights, contained in the or- 

 donnance of Louis XL, by which he founded the 

 Order, at his castle of Amboise, on the 1st Au- 

 gust, 1469. The founder reserved to himself the 

 nomination of twenty-one other companions, in 

 order to make thirty-six in the whole ; but of 

 those twenty-one there is no list extant, nor of 

 their successors, before the union of the Order 

 to that of the Holy Ghost in the year 1579. 



"In order to ascertain this," states Mr. Powell, "I 

 mentioned to my friend Count Durfort (since the Re- 

 storation Peer of France, and Lieut.-General of the army) 

 the difficulty I found in making out the list of the knights 

 according to their election by the different monarchs 

 afterwards. This Count Avas a'man extremely conversant 

 with things relative to the nobility of France — tres Men 

 instruit duns Vhistoire de la noblesse, §-c. His reply was 

 that he believed no such list existed, but would make 

 further inquiry. Accordingly he told me that since, 

 having been on a visit for some days to his sovereign 

 Louis XVIIL, at Hartwell, near Aylesbury, he had men- 

 tioned to the King the subject, whose answer was that 

 there is no extant list, either in print or MS., of the 

 Knights of St. Michael previous to the Order being incor- 

 porated with that of St. Esprit by Henri III., 1579, or 

 when the Order was in its lustre ; but that there are lists 

 of the Knights of St. INIichael that Avere made, after the 

 said incorporation, separate from £lie two united orders, 

 which continued till the Revolution. The Count after- 

 wards said it would be very difficult to find the whole, 

 but that he believed there might be a list in the library 

 of the King of France." 



Notwithstanding these difficulties, the late Rev. 

 D. T. Powell proceeded to compile his collection 

 (now the Additional MS. 17,436) by turning 

 over the pages of Pere Anselme and other genea- 

 logical authorities? and his volume consists of 



