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a scion of the same stock as the Stormouths, an- 

 ciently of Kinchine (an adjoining estate), and 

 consequently apparent heirs nominees under the 

 entail of Pitscandly, in the event of the failure of 

 the Farquhar line. The heiress of the late James 

 Stormouth, Esq., of Lednathy, who died in 1817, 

 was Miss Margaret Stormouth, only surviving 

 child of Patrick Stormouth, Edinburgh, brother 

 of the late James of Lednathy. She wedded 

 James Darling, Esq, banker in Kelso, grandson of 

 Darling of Longhaugh and Appletreeleaves, in the 

 parish of Melrose, Koxburghshire, Scotland, by 

 whom she had issue, of whom the present pro- 

 prietor is second son. " The Darlings of Long- 

 haugh, &c., are, next to the Pringles, the oldest 

 family, or Sept, in Gala Water." The name of 

 Stormouth is derived from the district of that 

 name in the east of Perthshire. 



David MacGbkgok Peteb. 

 Angus. 



A Warning to would-be M.PJ's. — At a time of 

 general election to Parliament, it may not be un- 

 seasonable to lay before your readers a short 

 notice of what I believe is at least one of the 

 earliest instances upon record of the punishment 

 of a Member of the House of Commons, on the 

 score of corruption between him and his consti- 

 tuents. It is preserved in Grafton's Abridgement 

 of his Chronicles of England, 8vo., Lond., 1571, 

 in his account of the Parliament which began at 

 Westminster the 2nd day of April, 1570 ; entitled 

 in the margin : 



" An undiscrete Burgeoys of the Parliament. 



" And it fortuneil that in the said Parliament one 

 very undiscrete and unmete man was returned a Bur- 

 geoys for the Borough of VVestbery in Wiltshire, who 

 being instructed by such as delighted to abuse his sim- 

 plicitie to evil purposes, as he himselfe in the Parliament 

 lious (beyng sober) openly declared, or els caryed by 

 excesse of drink, or both, did spreade abroade lewde and 

 sedicious rumours againste the Queenes majesties person. 

 And being thereof detected to the Parliament house, and 

 the offence by hym confessed, and his defectes and insuffi- 

 ciency well considered, hee was from the house committed 

 to ward. And for that there was confessed corruption in 

 receaving of money for his election, and also a band 

 taken of him by certein of the Town of Westbury to save 

 them harmless of the said corrupt retorne (as hee con- 

 fessed), the Towne was amerced by the Parliament House 

 at twentie Pounds. And it was ordered that hee should 

 have his said bande redelyvered. And afterward the 

 sayd person, for the spreading of his sedicious rumour, he 

 was by order of the Queues Majesties most honorable 

 Council, sett on the pillory in Chepesyde in London." 



H. E. 



Handel not a Musical Doctor. — It is said Handel 

 was offered the degree of Musical Doctor by the 

 Senate at Oxford, which he declined. What 

 authority at Oxford may there be for this asser- 

 tion ? He was asked why he did not take this 

 degree, and replied: "Vat de dyfil trow my 



monnie away for dat — de blockhead's vish ? I no 

 vant to be von Doctor." If this anecdote be true, 

 it is certain the offer of the Senate was not ac- 

 companied by the permission to omit keeping the 

 customary act. Bhazenose. 



John Aubrey. — The readers of "N. & Q." are 

 respectfully reminded that an excellent oppor- 

 tunity is afforded, in the intended restoration of 

 the church of Kingston St. Michael, Wilts, of 

 doing an act of tardy justice to one of the fathers 

 of English Archosology, by the erection of a modest 

 tablet, as designed by himself (see his Life by 

 Britton, p. 75.), to the memory of John Aubket ; 

 whose residence, Easton Piers, was in that parish. 

 Although the writer is not authorised to say so, 

 he is well assured that any contribution to this 

 object will be readily taken charge of, and zeal- 

 ously applied, by the Secretaries of the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological Society. F. K. 



Bath, March 22, 1857. 



THE NONJUEOR8.' 



Hearne, in his Diary under August 12, 1734, 

 has the following entry : 



" I must remember to write to Dr. Rawlinson *, to know 

 who is made a Rt. Rev. in the room of Mr. Gandy de- 

 ceased.! Also to congratulate him for his benefactions 

 (at least designed ones) with respect to his giving dupli- 

 cate books to the University of Oxford, though I fear he 

 met with opposition, not only in that point, but likewise 

 in his endeavour to obtain some materials from the Ox- 

 ford registers, in order to the better carrying on his book 

 about the nonjuring sufferers, particularly those of the 

 clergy." 



This intended book is also noticed by Hearne at 

 pp. 837. and 848. of his Diary. I should like to 

 know whether this work is among the Rawlinson 

 MSS. in the Bodleian. 



In the Christian Observer for June, 18.37, occurs 

 the following editorial remark : 



" It so happens that many years ago, from our admira- 

 tion of portions of the devotional and practical writings 

 of the Nonjurors, we actually endeavoured to collect ma- 

 terials for some new and interesting notices respecting 

 them; but we desisted, because we could not separate 

 what was good in them from their doctrinal and practical 

 errors. [ ?] Their leaders were, for the most part, devout 

 men, who made great sacrifices for conscience sake. 

 Some of their descendants — as, for instance, a gentleman 

 of Bath, who bears the respected name of Hickes — possess 

 valuable documents, which deserve to be collected." 



* Dr. Richard Rawlinson was consecrated a Bishop of 

 the Nonjuring communion on March 25, 1728, by Henry 

 Gandy, Henry Doughty, and John Blackburne. Dr. 

 Rawlinson died on March 6, 1755 ; his Oratory was in 

 Gray's Inn, Holborn. 



t See a notice of Henry Gaudy's consecration in " N. & 

 Q.," 1" S. ii. 366. 



