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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 64., Mar. 21. '57. 



wife, children, or age, the pedigree being strictly 

 confined to the descent of the elder or main line. 

 Most probably he was the recorder, but where 

 was bis tomb ? Can any persons acquainted with 

 the churches of Staffordshire or other counties 

 and their monuments, or possessing collections of 

 monumental inscriptions, point out the locality of 

 the above ; or give any information as to the pre- 

 sent abode of the engraver, whose name was either 

 Heindrich or Kennedy, 12. Little Russell Street, 

 British Museum, and living there Oct. 1853 ? 



W. A. L. 



CHAUCEES CANTEBBUEY PILGRIMS. 



Has any attempt been made to identify the 

 characters of the Pilgrims ? 



I think I have succeeded in identifying mine 

 Host of the Tabard, whose name is handed down 

 to us in the prologue to the Cook's tale ; who in 

 answer to the host says : 



" And therfore, Herry Bailly, by thy faith, 

 Be thou nat wroth, or we departen here, 

 Though that my tale be of an hostvlere." 



Lines 4356 to 4358. 



In the Parliament held at Westminster, in 50th 

 Edw. III., Henry Bailly was one of the represen- 

 tatives for that borough. And he was again re- 

 turned to the Parliament held at Gloucester 2nd 

 Richard II. 



We cannot read Chaucer's description of the 

 Host of the Tabard without acknowledging the 

 likelihood of his having been a popular man among 

 his fellow-townsmen, and selected for his fitness 

 to represent them in Parliament : 



" A semely man our hoste was withall, 

 For to have been a marshalL in an halle, 

 A large man he was, with eyen stepe; 

 A fairer burgeis is ther none in Chepe. 

 Bold of his speche, and wise and wellytaught, 

 And of manhood him lacked rights naught. 

 Eke therto was he righte a mery man." 



Lines 753 to 759. 



With such qualifications he would have had a 

 good chance of being elected, even at the present 

 day, by the burgesses of Southwark. 



I am referred by Mr. W. Durrant Cooper, 

 F.S. A., to the Subsidy Rolls 4 Richard II., wherein 

 occurs, in Southwark, the names of — 



" Henr' BaylifF, Ostyler, Xpian Ux eius - <■ ij«." 



I shall be glad of any further particulars re- 

 specting Henry Bailly, or any other of the pil- 

 grims. 



Roger the Coke is one of the pilgrims mentioned 

 by name. Can he be identified ? 



" Our Hoste answerd and sayde, I grant it thee : 

 Kow tell on, Roger, and loke that it be good, 

 For many a pastee hast thou letten blood, 

 And many a Jack of Dover hast thou sold." 



What was a Jack of Dover ? G. R. C. 



Mitiax ^ntviti. 



Priest of the name of Trevelyan. — Can any of 

 the readers of " N. & Q." refer me to any account 

 of a priest of the Church of England of the name 

 of Trevelyan, who joined the Church of Rome 

 towards the close of the last century ? He warmly 

 maintained, I am informed, the validity of his 

 Anglican Orders after he had left the Church of 

 England, and continued for some time to act as a 

 priest, and to say mass in the legation of Bologna ; 

 but at last, solely for the sake of peace, and with- 

 out any doubt respecting his own sacerdotal cha- 

 racter, he gave way to the solicitations of the 

 Roman Catholic bishop, and submitted to be re- 

 ordained. If there is any publication containing 

 the arguments used either by him or against him, I 

 should be glad to know of it. 



William Feaseb, B. C. L. 



Alton, Staffordshire, 



'''■ Kersleius de vero usu med." — Information is 

 requested as to this author and his work, quoted 

 as above in Burton's Anatomy^ Part I. sec. 2. 

 mem. 2. subs. 1. T. H. Kehslby. 



British Saint. — Who was the first British 

 female saint and martyr ? Notsa. 



Clergymen interdicted from Smoking hy a Bi- 

 shop. — Can any of your readers oblige me with the 

 name of the bishop, and the year it occurred ? A 

 writer in The Lancet states that it is within the last 

 ten years. Clekicus Anglicanus. 



Etherington Family. — Information is desired 

 respecling the family of Etherington of Hull, of 

 which Sir Henry Etherington, who was created a 

 baronet in 1775, was a member. J. E. 



'■^ Pull Devil, pull Baher." — My attention 

 having been called to the following epigram, oc- 

 casioned by the recent poisonings at Hong Kong, 

 I am desirous of knowing whether the epigram 

 itself accounts for the origin of the phrase. Per- 

 haps some of your correspondents can answer the 

 Query ? 



" Pull devil, pull baker, in England's the cry. 

 When their prowess those black and white combatants 



try, 

 But in China by order of Governor Yeh, 

 The devil and baker both pull the same way." 



W. B. C. 



Gilray^s Caricatures. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me to what the following; caricature refers? 

 It is In my possession, and the following Is an out- 

 line of its peculiarities. It is entitled Blowing 

 up the Pic Nics, or Harlequin Quixote attacking 

 the Puppets (vide Tottenham Street Pantomime), 

 April, 1802. A figure in the parti-coloured dress, 

 holding a scourge-like pen, In the feather of which 

 are inscribed the names of the daily papers of the 



