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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-oS. N<»66., Jan. 24. '57. 



trial of Sir Montagu Burgoyne for having been 

 absent from the parish church of Sutton. The 

 action was brought by the rector of the parish, 

 (who had quarrelled with Sir Montagu,) the noto- 

 rious Dr. Free ; who was afterwards deprived of 

 his living, and degraded. Sir Vicary Gibbs was 

 the judge ; and the defendant obtained a verdict 

 by pleading indisposition as the cause of his ab- 

 sence. Dr. Free conducted his own cause in full 

 canonicals. Arthur B. Mesuam. 



Trafalgar Veterans (T^^ S. iii. 18.)— The Rev. 

 Henry Bellairs, the present rector of Bedworth, 

 Warwickshire, was a midshipman on board the 

 " Victory " at the battle of Trafalgar. He held a 

 commission afterwards in the 15th Hussars. 

 Warwickshire is rather famous for the number of 

 its beneficed clergymen who have served in the 

 army. Among them may be numbered Lord 

 Charles Paulet, vicar of Wellesbourne ; Hon. 

 Grantham M. Yorke, rector of St. Philip's, Bir- 

 mingham, formerly a captain in the 15th Hussars ; 

 and Granville Granville, vicar of Stratford-on- 

 Avon. The late vicar of Kenilworth, R. E. 

 Eardley Wilmot, now rector of All Souls, Mary- 

 lebone, London, was an officer in the Royal Ar- 

 tillery. N. L. T. 



Descendants of Simon de Montfort (2"'* S. iii. 

 12.) — Guy de Montfort, second son of Simon, 

 married the heiress of Earl Aldobrandini, sur- 

 named the Red, of Tuscany ; became earl, in 

 right of his father-in-law, and was the ancestor 

 of an Italian De Montfort (Trivet's Annals^ 

 p. 240.). Richard de Montfort, the youngest son, 

 is said by Dugdale to be the ancestor of the 

 family of Wellesbourne de Montfort in Leicester- 

 shire. (Stothard's Effigies, p. 36.) M. A. E. G. 



Union Jack (2°'* S. iii. 11.) — In reference to 

 your correspondent J. O. L.'s Query, as to the 

 Union Jack, it may be suggested that the Jacks 

 taken on board by Admiral Blake after the aboli- 

 tion of the Union Jack (St. George and St. An- 

 drew), were St. Georgis Jacks, i. e. Jacks of the 

 W^hite Squadron. 



If I apprehend J. O. L.'s Query aright, he 

 ■wishes to know whether the Union Jacks of the 

 first two Stuarts were St. George and St. Andrew 

 hlent in one field, ns we see in the Union Jacks 

 after the union with Scotland, or quarterly, as 

 they were carried, I think, at Oliver Cromwell's 

 funeral, and engravings of which are to be seen 

 in Noble's House of Ci'omwell. L. H. E. 



James Scott, Fellow of University College, Ox- 

 ford (2°'» S. iii. 29.) — Graduated B.A. 1721 ; 

 M.A. 1724 ; Minister of Trinity Church, Leeds, 

 Vicar of Bardsey in Yorkshire, and domestic 

 chaplain to Frederick Prince of Wales. He mar- 

 ried a Miss Wickham, grand- daughter to John 



Wickham, Dean of York. He was the father of 

 James Scott, D.D., a celebrated public preacher 

 at Cambridge, and well known in the days of 

 Wilkes and Liberty as the author of the political 

 letters in the Public Advertiser, signed " Anti- 

 Sejanus." My authorities are the List of Oxford 

 Graduates and Nichols's Literary Anecdotes. 



'A\tevs. 

 Dublin. 



Ancient Parliamentary Speech (2'"^ S. ii. 430.) — 

 J. Bennet's reference sent me to my copy o[ Sir 

 Antony Weldon, ed. 1650, p. 25., and to my surprise 

 I found the following foot-note, in the handwriting 

 of the late Wm. Bedford, F.S.A. : 



" This is a specimen of the accuracy of this foul- 

 mouthed writer ; it is certain from Sully's own memoirs, 

 and the authentic documents there quoted, that Sully 

 came over in an English vessel. The account of Sir An- 

 tony Weldon convicts itself of falsehood ; for as Grave- 

 lines is twelve miles from Calais, and Dover only twenty- 

 one from the same place, the Calais packet with the em- 

 bassador on board must have reached the English coast 

 before Sir Jerome's'messenger to the English admiral 

 could have returned. The truth is, it was the English 

 vessel in which Sully came over that fired upon the 

 French vice-admiral." 



It would appear, however, from Sir Robert 

 Mansel's own words, that Weldon's account of the 

 transaction is correct. I may mention that my 

 copy of Weldon is enriched with a note in the au- 

 tograph of Sir Walter Scott : 



" This is considered as a libel upon -James, and indeed I 

 should be unwilling to see it in any other light." 



I hope that some Cambrian antiquary may be 

 able to solve my doubts as to the identity of the 

 admiral. W. K. R. B. 



The Greek Cross (2"'' S. ii. 498.) — Mr. M. 

 Walcott is certainly mistaken, I think, in ima- 

 gining that Bishop Beveridge had a Greek, or, in 

 tact, any early example before him, when he wrote 

 the passage quoted. What the bishop really meant 

 was, that (contrary to all ancient examples) there 

 was a piece of wood sticking ord from the centre 

 of the cross on which our Lord sat*, and was so 

 supported ; he makes no mention of the piece to 

 which the feet were nailed, though he says that it 

 was towards the bottom. I say that he could not 

 have had a Greek picture in his eye, because they 

 always, as far as I know, at least in early examples, 

 represent the feet as nailed separately. And this 

 no doubt is more correct. 



1. From the nature of the thing : for if one 

 nail passed through both feet, the size of the nail 

 and force required would make It impossible, ex- 



* Perhaps Beveridge's idea came from the Avords of 



Justin Martyr : " a piece iv iJ.i<T<a Trenyiyiiivov cos Kipa.';, e<f ^ 



ijroxoCvTai 01 o-ravpou/aei'oi," which really means on which 

 the feet rested, and so the body was supported; "Ubi 

 requiescit qui clavis affigitur." 



