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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«dS. N0 64, Jah. 10. '67. 



pliecy would be fulfilled when mankind should 

 move at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and when 

 language should be darted" I should be very 

 much obliged if any one could inform me where I 

 could find the above fact in print, L. E. 



Miixtix <!kmxitS initS ^u^&icrg. 



Jacobite Relic. — Where can I find the conclu- 

 sion of the following Jacobite song ? 

 1. 



" Mackintosh was a soldier brave, 

 And of his friends he toolt his leave, 

 Towards Northumberland he drew 

 Marching along with a jovial crew. 



2. 



" Loud, daring warrior, he did say 

 Five hundred guineas he would lay 

 To fight the Melsha if they would stay, 

 But they all prov'd cowards and ran away. 



3. 

 "Then ..... and swear 

 That if ever proud Preston he did come near. 

 Ere the right should starve or the wrong should standi 

 He would drive them into some foreign land." 



C. MaNSFIEIiD iNGIiEBT. 



Birmingham. 



[Another version of this ballad is given in Hogg's 

 Jacobite Relics of Scotland, Second Series, p. 102., which 

 commences — 



" Mackintosh was a soldier brave, 

 And did most gallantly behave. 

 When into Northumberland he came. 

 With gallant men of his own name." 



It is entitled " An excellent new Song on the Rebellion," 

 and alludes to the disgraceful catastrophe at Preston, and 

 the fate of Lord Derwentwater.] 



Sir John Cornwall. — Monstrelet (^Chron., transl. 

 by Johnes, 1810, vol. ii. p. 84.) mentions Sir John 

 Cornioall as " an English knight of great renown, 

 and who had married a sister of the King of Eng- 

 land." To which, in a foot-note, the editor puts a 

 Query : " Who was this ?" Has this Query been 

 answered ? J. Sansom. 



[The person referred to is Sir John Cornwall, K.G., 

 who married the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of John of 

 Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and sister of King Henry lY. 

 Sir John Cornwall died at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, 

 1443, and was interred in the Black-Fryers in London. 

 Cf. Sandford's Genealogical History, p. 238. ; Fuller's 

 Church History, art. Shropshire, and " N. & Q." 1'* S. 

 X. 283.] 



Placard, — What was the significatioii* of a 

 placard In the reign of Henry VIH., as it occurs 

 in the act 3 Hen. VIII. cap. xiii. ? " The kynges 

 speciall lycence under his placarde sygned and 

 sealed with his prevey scale or sygnet." J. G. N. 



[Cotgrave explains Placard as " a placard. Or inscrip- 

 tion set up } a table wherein lawS, orders, &e. are written, 



and hung up." See also Todd's Johnson, "Placard, a flat 

 piece of metal, stone, or wood, a plate to nail against a 

 wall ; Gr. irAaf, tabula : hence applied to an edict, or table 

 of orders, set up in public places," See also the examples 

 quoted by Richardson.] 



EDMUND PEACHAM. 



(2"'' S. ii. 451.) 



I am happy to give J. S. the information he 

 requires concerning Peacham's book or Sermon. 

 It was never printed, nor is any copy of it known 

 to exist. I gather my knowledge of its contents 

 from — 



" The Second Examination of Edmund Peacham, Clerk, 

 taken before the Lords at the Tower, January 14tb, 1614." 



" Part of a Letter from Sir Ralph Winwood." 



"Interrogatories whereupon Peacham is to be ex- 

 amined." 



" The Examination of Edmund Peacham, at the Tower, 

 March 10th, 1614." 



" The True State of the Question whether Peacham's 

 case be Treason or not ) " — 



all of which curious papers are printed in Dal- 

 rymple's Memorials and Letters relating to the 

 History of Britcdn in the Reign of James 1., Bvo. 

 Glasgow, 1766, p. 54. et seq. J. S. says he can- 

 not reconcile my statements with " the popular 

 impression " as to the character of the book at the 

 time of Peacham's trial. He then refers to Cham- 

 berlain's letter to Carleton, of Aug. 14, 1615, in 

 " Halliwell, vol. ii. p. 370." I have had some dif- 

 ficulty in making out this reference, which, I find, 

 at last, refers to The Court and Times of James /., 

 1848, edited, I believe, by Mr. Shoberl. The pas- 

 sage in the letter, and the note of the editor (both 

 of which I copy) surely do not contradict what I 

 have asserted respecting the character of Pea- 

 cham's book : 



" Peacham, the minister, after a year's imprisonment 

 in the Tower, was arraigned the 7th of this month at the 

 assizes in Somersetshire, before the lord chief baron and 

 Sir Henry Montagu. Sir Randolph Crew and Sir Henry 

 Yelverton were sent down to prosecute the business. 

 Seven Knights were taken from the bench and appointed 

 to be of the jury. He defended himself very simply, but 

 obstinately and doggedly enough. But this offence was 

 so foul and scandalous that he was condemned of high 

 treason, yet not hitherto executed nor perhaps shall be, 

 if he have the grace to submit himself and show some 

 remorse." 



" He died in prison a few months afterwards, no doubt 

 from the effects of the torture he had endured ' by ex- 

 press command of the king.' He was an old clergyman 

 upwards of sixty, and his offence was reflecting in a ser- 

 mon, which he had neither printed nor published, on the 

 King's extravagant expenditure." — Note. 



Dalrymple notices a letter of Chamberlain's, 

 dated Feb. 23, 1615, in which the following pas- 

 sage occurs : 



" The King baa had the opinion of the judges severally 



