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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Bishop of Porpliyry, coadjutor of Adrien Gouffier, 

 Bishop of Coutances, also ordained in the islands. 

 By a deed dated 1548, Philippe de Cossey, Bishop 

 of Coutances, gives to Pierre Pinchon, Abbot of 

 Hanibie, and Bishop of Porphyry, in partibus in- 

 Jidelium '■'■jus exercendi pontificalia tarn in continenti 

 quam in iiisulis." It would appear from these 

 notes that the coadjutors of Coutances usually 

 bore the title of Bishops of Porphyry. Informa- 

 tion is sought with a view to clearing up some 

 points in the ecclesiastical history of Guernsey. 



Edgar MAcCurLocH. 

 Guernsey. 



Address " Par le Diahle a la Fortane." — 



" Us portent jusqu' au ciel d'orgueilleux batimens, 

 Et i'or brille partout dans leurs apartetnents : 

 Us repoussent la mer par de3 digues profondes, 

 Et dans des lits nouveaux ils font couler les ondes ; 

 Us forcent la Nature en mille endroits divers, 

 Et font souvent changer de face a I'Univers. 

 Ces peuples insolens ont d'un andace extreme, 

 Entrepris de percer jusqu' h mes Etats meme. 

 Pour fournir a leur choix des metaux precieux, 

 La terre foUement est ouverte en tous lieux, 

 Enfin ces profondeurs, per^ant notre sijour, 

 Font croire h nos sujets qu'il vont revoir le jour." 



The above rather striking lines are quoted with- 

 out reference, in L'Art de Bhetorique, Douay, 

 1729, " as addressed ' par le Diable a la Fortune.' " 

 Can any of your readers tell me whence they are 

 taken ? J. B. B. 



Capt. Peter Ewing. — There was a drama with 

 the following title, The Soldier s Opera, 8vo., 

 1792. By Captain Peter Ewing of the Marines. 

 Could any of your readers give rae any informa- 

 tion regarding the author ? X. 



Newton Family. — George Neville Newton, Esq., 

 was born in the neighbourhood of Lewes in 1696 ; 

 he was afterwards of Brighton, &c. He married, 

 and lost his wife shortly after the birth of his only 

 son in 1729. Query, Who was his wife? Wanted 

 also the maiden name of Tabitha, widow of Apsley 

 Newton, Esq., of Southover, living at Eton in 

 1760. She was married about 1740-50, died 1803, 

 and was owner of the manor of Poldhurst in Har- 

 bledown, co. Kent. McMoa. 



Ivorij Carvers of Dieppe. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me when the manufacture of 

 carved ivory was first established at Dieppe, and 

 whether there is any record preserved of the prin- 

 cipal artists engaged in it ? Meletes. 



Robert Bloornfield. — Where was Bloomfield, 

 the author of The Farmer's Boy, buried ? He 

 died at ShefFord, in Bedfordshire, and was in- 

 terred in a neighbouring churchyard. X. 



" My Dog and I." — Can any one say v/here Sir 

 Walter Scott found the following lines, which he 



puts into the mouth of Oliver Proudfute, the 

 bonnet-maker, in the Fair Maid of Perth ? — 



" My dog and I, we have a trick, 

 To visit maids when they are sick ; 

 When they are sick, and like to die, 

 thither do come my dog and I. 



" And when I die, as needs must hap, 

 Then bury me under the good ale-tap ; 

 With folded arms, there let me lie. 

 Cheek for jowl, my dog and I." 



There are verses very similar to these in an old 

 song in the Forest of Dean. Pepin le Bref. 



Thome of St. Albans. — Will any of your cor- 

 respondents oblige me with the grant and date of 

 the arms of Thorne of St. Albans, mentioned in 

 Edmondson and Burke, but not in Gwillim ? 



W. T. 



William Co7'7ier, M.A. — The following notice 

 of the above is from Knight's Life of Dean Colet : 



" W. C. was Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge ; he was also Proctor to the University ; but he is 

 more especially remembered amongst the scholars of S. 

 Paul's School, for the intimacy that was between him 

 and the famous Dr. Is. Barrow : by Avhose interest with 

 Dr. Seth Ward, then Lord Bishop of Sarum, he got him 

 into the prebendship of that church, which he quitted on 

 his taking the^mastership of Trinity College," &c. 



From reading this one would think that Mr. 

 Corker was the prebend and master referred to, 

 though it appears on examination to be Dr. 

 Barrow. Perhaps Messrs. Cooper, or some 

 others of your correspondents, can give me fur- 

 ther information respecting William Corker, and 

 also tell me Avhether there is any printed Register 

 of Cambridge Degrees before 1659. 



DUNELMENSIS. 



" Personn," or " Persone" and " Parson : " 

 " ParisheJis." — A reviewer in the last Sat. Rev., 

 p. 529., is somewhat severe on the late Professor 

 Reed for changing Chaucer's "pore personn" 

 into the " poore parson," and crowning the 

 blunder by calling him a " clergyman." In the 

 copy which 1 have at hand the words are given 

 " poure persone," and if the Pennsylvanian Pro- 

 fessor has blundered, and formed a wrong estimate 

 of Chaucer's character, he may yet plead that he 

 sins in good company ; for the whole passE^e as 

 quoted by the Professor of Modern History at 

 Cambridge, in a lecture on " Desultory and Sys- 

 tematic Reading," delivered before the Young 

 Men's Christian Association in Exeter Hall, runs : 



" A good man there was of religion, 

 That was a poore parson of a town ; 

 But rich he was of holy thought and work ; 

 He was also a learned man, a clerk 

 That Christe's gospel truely would preach. 

 His parisJies devoutly would he teach." 



Thereby making what appears to me to be a much 

 more patent blunder : the word in Chaucer is 

 parishensy which, I t-ake it, can only mean " pa- 



