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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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St. Viar (2"'' S. iii. 447.) — Cantabeigibnsis 

 will find the following "Story of St. Viar" in 

 D'lsraeli's Curiosities of Literature^ ii. 32. 



" Mabillon has preserved a curious literary blunder of 

 some pious Spaniards, who applied to the Pope for con- 

 secrating a day in honour of Sai7it Viar. His holiness, 

 in the voluminous catalogue of his saints, was ignorant 

 of this one. The only proof brought forward for his ex- 

 istence was this inscription : 



S. VIAR. 

 An antiquary, however, hindered one more festival in the 

 Catholic calendar, by convincing them that these letters 

 wei-e only the remains of an inscription erected for an an- 

 cient surveyor of the roads; and he read their saintship 

 thus : 



PR^FECTUS VIARUM." 



N. M. F. 

 Gonville and Caius Coll., Cambridge. 



Dyzemas Bay (2"'* S. iii. 289.) — Dyzemas Day 

 is tithe-day. In Portuguese, dizimas, dizimos, 

 tenths, tithes ; in Law Latin, decinue, the same. 

 Of course the farmers would consider Dyzemas 

 Day an " ill-omened name." There was a form of 

 writ " Decimis solvendis." Thomas Boys. 



Bleeding- Heart Yard (2°^ S. iii. 254. 317. 456.) 

 — The transposition of Heart and Hart was never 

 more ludicrously exemplified than by a sign-board 

 at the little village of Ufton in Warwickshire, where 

 there is a small inn halfway up the hill, near the 

 church, called the White Hart, and denoted by 

 the figure of a human heart, or rather an ace of 

 hearts, painted in white, — at least it used to be so 

 a few years ago ; and it was to this little inn that 

 the bodies of the Rev. W. Atterbury, and the 

 coachman of the Sovereign London coach from 

 Birmingham, were carried, after being killed on 

 the spot by the overturn of the coach in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood. N. L. T. 



Upon the site now occupied by Ely Place and 

 its adjacent streets stood the splendid town man- 

 sion and gardens of the Bishop of Ely, which were 

 contained within a walled enclosure of upwards of 

 twenty acres. (Tallis's Illustrated London.) This 

 residence the bishop was compelled by Queen 

 Elizabeth to resign to her favourite chancellor. 

 Sir Christopher Hatton. It was subsequently 

 called after his name, and at Hatton House he 

 died in 1591. Sir Christopher was succeeded by 

 his nephew Newport, who took the name of 

 Hatton, and whose widow subsequently married 

 Sir Edward Coke. The Lady Hatton was a 

 woman of imperious and violent temper, and was 

 said to have entered into a compact with the evil 

 one, which compact expired on the night of a 

 grand festival, at which his Satanic Majesty made 

 his appearance in the guise of a cavalier of the 

 period ; and after treading a measure with the 

 Lady Hatton, he lured her into the gardens, 

 where he tore her in pieces. On the spot where 



her bleeding heart was found, still palpitating with 

 the last throes of life, now stands " Bleeding 

 Heart Yard." This legend may serve to explain 

 to Mb. Challsteth the spelling of the word. 



John Pavin Phillifs. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Slavery in England (2"^ S. ii. 187. 256.) — In 

 The Tatler, No. 245. for Nov. 2, 1710, Steele 

 refers to the collars then worn by negro slaves. 

 In a letter from " Pompey," who styles himself " a 

 blackamoor boy," and complains of the indifference 

 with which he is treated by his mistress, he says, — 



" The parrot, who came over with me from our country, 

 is as much esteemed by her as I .am. Besides this, the 

 shock- dog has a collar that cost almost as much as mine." 



Vox. 



Charles II.' s Knights and Baronets (2°'^ S. iii. 

 427.) — A list of baronets created during this 

 reign may be found in CoUIns's Baronetage, ed. 

 Wootton, 1741, or Courthope's Extinct Baronets, 

 8vo. 1835. 



They will also be found enrolled on the Patent 

 Rolls of the respective years, now in the General 

 Record Office — Rolls Department. 



The knights may be found in Philpot's List of 

 Knights. See Moule's Bibl. Heraldica. 



A register of knighthoods is also preserved in 

 the College of Arms. S. E. G. 



Sir Thomas Morels Hou^e at Chelsea (2""* S. ii. 

 324.) — The paper on this subject was most pro- 

 bably a draft of that by Dr. King, intended by 

 him for Hearne, and printed at length in Faulkner's 

 Chelsea (2nd ed. vol. i. p. 118.). It affords con- 

 clusive evidence that the house afterwards called 

 Beaufort House was the home of Sir T. More. 



Hitherto there had been a slight doubt, because 

 Aubrey states that Sir John Danvers personally 

 informed him, his house — Danvers House — was 

 the great Chancellor's residence. Hearne, ap- 

 parently on Aubrey's authority (as appears by 

 King's letter), states the same. It is now, how- 

 ever, certain Aubrey was in error. Mr. Jones has 

 proved (2"'' S. iii. 317.) that Danvers was at one 

 time resident in Beaufort House. Hence the 

 error. Faulkner makes no mention thereof. But 

 how the articles Sir John showed the antiquary 

 should have come to Danvers House is another 

 point; perhaps the knight was jesting with his 

 visitor ; I hope it was so. 



There could have been no reasonable doubt as 

 to the accuracy of Dr. King's remarks ; if any re- 

 mained, Mr. Jones has dispelled them. A unani- 

 mous local tradition, and discoveries even now 

 occasionally made, support Dr. King's statement 

 that Beaufort House was the " poor house " of Sir 

 Thomas More. 



The name of Danvers is still to be found in 

 Chelsea. H. G. D. 



Knightsbridge. 



