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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, N" 72., May 16. '67. 



Moreover, the Nag's Head Consecration, if true, 

 would not invalidate the Irish succession. And 

 in four or five cases Irish bishops have assisted in 

 consecrating English bishops. And both Williams 

 and Laud's succession may be traced to Christo- 

 pher, Archbishop of Armagh, who in 1616 was 

 one of the consecrators of Thomas Morton, Bishop 

 of Chester, and afterwards of Durham. It is not 

 a little remarkable that Irish bishops should have 

 so seldom assisted to consecrate English prelates. 



E. G. R. 



Governor Bradstreet (2"^ S. iii. 248.) — In Dr. 

 Wm. Allen's American Biographical and Histo- 

 rical Dictionary, 2nd edit., Boston, 1832, at pp. 

 144. to 147., there are interesting notices of — 



1. Simon Bradstreet, Governor of Massa- 

 chusetts, who died at Salem, March 27, 1697, 

 aged 94 years. 



2. Anne Bradstreet, his wife, who died Sept. 16, 

 1672, aged 60, and of whom John Norton says : 



" Her breast was a brave palace, a broad street, 

 Where all heroic ample thoughts did meet, 

 Whei'e nature such a tenement had ta'en 

 That other souls, to hers, dwelt in a lane." 



3. Simon Bradstreet, Minister of Charlestown, 

 Massachusetts, who died Dec. 31, 1741, aged 72 

 years. 



4. Simon Bradstreet, Minister of Marblehead, 

 Massachusetts, who died Oct. 5, 1771 ; and 



5. John Bradstreet, Major-General in America, 

 who died at New York, Oct. 21, 1774. 



Among the clandestine marriages performed in 

 the Savoy Church, Strand, was that of Samuel 

 Huntley, widower, and Catherine Bradstreet, 

 spinster, aged twenty-one, who were thus united 

 on the 15th of February, 1755. D. B. 



Regent Square. 



Old Prayer-Book (2"'^ S. iii. 353.) — I observe 

 the inquiries of the Rector of Weston Market 

 with reference to prayers in his Prayer-Book of 

 about 1660, and it may assist his researches into 

 their authority and authorship to mention as fol- 

 lows. 



A series which I presume to correspond with 

 his, is appended to the Daily Psalms in my copy 

 of the Common Prayer printed in 8vo. by Robert 

 Barker,' in 1615, and another series at the end of 

 Sternhold and Hopkins's version, printed in 1621, 

 which is bound with it. 



I add, after collation, that ihe first series, mixed 

 with other prayers, will be found in Elizabeth's 

 Common Prayer-Book of 1559, pp. 246 — 257., and 

 the second series, with the exception of a prayer by 

 St. Augustine, and a Confession of Faith between 

 pp. 258. and 271. of the same book, in the edition 

 published by the Parker Society. 



The inquirer will also find in the notes to these 

 pages much information as to the sources of these 

 compositions. • Lancastbiensis. 



Flying Sketches on Horseback (2"" S. iii. 347.)— 

 I beg *.'s pardon : the thing he considers impos- 

 sible is very easy, and the phrase he objects to 

 Is abundantly intelligible. I myself have made 

 several such sketches (and for instance, at Wa- 

 terloo) ; that is, without alighting from my horse, 

 sitting a little on one side, and passing the bridle 

 over the left hand, in which I held a bit of paper 

 or card, I sketched with a pencil in my right 

 hand the objects before me. The degree of knacky 

 or skill that an officer may possess or acquire in,, 

 this practice will of course be very various. Some 

 sketches (my own for example) may be very rude, 

 but I have seen very clever ones. And it is a 

 practice which every staff officer should endeavour 

 to acquire. *• does not know that the Duke of 

 Wellington used, during a battle,, to write his 

 orders on horseback in short notes. If one can 

 write letters legibly, one that can draw will surely 

 trace an intelligible outline. C. 



" As in smooth oil the razor best is whet," SfC. 

 (2"^ S. iii. 356.) — The lines C. is in quest of are 

 to be found in the Anthologia Oxoniensis, p. 122., 

 and are there attributed to Young. They vary 

 slightly from his version : 



" Harmless Wit. 



" As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, 

 So wit is by politeness sharpest set : 

 Their want of edge from their offence is seen : 

 Both pain the least, when exquisitely keen." 



The following Latin version from the pen of 

 Mr. Booth, of Magdalen, accompanies them : 



« Sine Felle Sales. 



" Exacuit molli cultrum sibi tonsor olivo ; 

 Salsior inbana redditur arte lepos. 

 Arguit obtusum dolor inde secutus acumen : 

 Imoque secat melius, laadit uterque minus." 



Oxoniensis. 



Disuse of the Pillory (2"'' S. iii. 346.) — There 

 is surely a mistake here. The pillory was not 

 finally abolished until the year 1837, 1st Vic. 

 c. 23. (vide Peimy Cyclopcedia, art. " Pillory"). I 

 saw a man undergoing the punishment of the pil- 

 lory in London in the year 1831. I have forgotten 

 the offence for which he was condemned, nor am I 

 sure as to the locality, but I think that it was in 

 front of the Old Bailey. The period was either the 

 latter end of January or the commencement of 

 February, as I was passing through London on 

 my way to school after the Christmas holidays. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



" Bane " and " Bale " (2"'' S. iii. 204.) — I can- 

 not agree with your correspondent that bane and 

 bale are the same word, as they are derived from 

 the Celtic, in which they have distinct significa- 

 tions. Bane is from bann, or bona, i.e. death ; 

 hence also our word wan. Bale is from baogal, 



