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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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rishioners," who, and not the parishes, were ca- 

 pable of imbibing the instruction. In conclusion 

 I should like to know to whom we owe our present 

 orthography of " parson," as applied to the person 

 among the parishens ? R. Jas. Allen. 



The Woman given in Marriage by a Woman. — 

 From Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, it 

 appears, that owing to her father not being able 

 to attend church on the morning of her marriage, 

 she was, in default of a male, given away by her 

 old governess. Is the substitution of a female for 

 a male contemplated by the words of the rubric ? 

 Clebictjs Rusticus. 



Candidates for Parliament propose themselves. — 

 In our county-borough, Dorchester, the candidates 

 propose themselves to the constituency. Is this 

 done in any other borough ? 



Clericus Rusticus. 



" Halloo ! " — Is halloo ! derivable from au 

 coup ? The French, when they cry " Fire ! 

 Fire ! " say " Au feu ! Au feu ! " Why not " Au 

 coup ! Au coup ! " for " Wolf! Wolf! " to set the 

 dogs on ? Ovris. 



jMtn0r <^\xtx\ti inttl) ^wi^tvi. 



The King's Book. — Will you kindly give in- 

 formation as to what is the "King's Book," so 

 frequently mentioned in connexion with the value 

 of church livings ? H. R. B. 



[This is the return of the Commissioners appointed 

 under 26 Henry VIII. c. 3. to value the first-fruits and 

 tenths bestowed by that act on the king. The valuation 

 then made is still in force, and the record containing it is 

 that commonl)' known as the King's Book. It is en- 

 titled Valor Ecclesiasticus Tempore Henrici VIII., Auctori- 

 tate Regia ijistitutus, and has been printed by the Record 

 Commission. The volumes, with the date of publication, 

 contain the Dioceses in the following order: I. Canter- 

 bury, Rochester, Bath and Wells, Bristol, Chichester, 

 London, 1810. II. Winchester, Salisburj', Oxford, Exe- 

 ter, Gloucester, 1814. III. Hereford, Coventry and Lich- 

 field, Worcester, Norwich, Ely, 1817. iV. Lincoln, 

 Peterborough, Llandaff, St. David's, Bangor, St. Asaph, 

 1821. V. York, Chester, Carlisle, Durham, 1825. An 

 Appendix is annexed to each volume, consisting of Re- 

 turns made in 1810, by the prelates, of places in their 

 respective dioceses where there exists any peculiar juris- 

 diction. Vol. VI. consists of a General Introduction by 

 the Rev. Joseph Hunter, an Appendix and Index. In 

 1786 this return was also printed bj' John Bacon, entitled 

 Liber Regis, vel Thesaurus Rerum JEccksiasticarum, 4to.] 



Valentine Oreatrakes, the famous Stroker. — Has 

 the date of the death of this celebrated empiric 

 been ascertained ? or any other particulars re- 

 specting his later history ? Ware, in his History 

 of the Writers of Ireland, states that he was living 

 in Dublin in 1681, p. 199. A. Tatlob, M.A. 



[Some interesting notices of Valentine Greatrakes, the 

 touch doctor, will be found in Burke's Patrician, vol. i. 

 353, ; vol, ii, 254., with his pedigree. Consult also the 



3Iont}ily Magazine for May, 1803, p. 337. ; Granger's Biog, 

 Diet, vol. iv. 31. ; Worthington's Diary, ii. 215. ; Wood's 

 AthencB Oxon. ; besides the following works : Enthusias- 

 mus Triumphatus, written by Philophilus Parresiastes, 

 with the Observations and Reply of Alazonomastix, 8vo. 

 1656 ; Account of V. Greatrakes^ Strange Cures, 4to. 1666 ; 

 and Wonders no Miracles ; or, an Examination of Great- 

 rakes's Cures, 4to., 1666.] 



The Jerusalem Cross. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me why the five crosses, form- 

 ing the present Jerusalem cross iji, were adopted 

 as symbolical of the Holy Land ? They are cut 

 into the pillars at the entrance of the place of the 

 nativity of Our Saviour (descending from the 

 Greek Church into the Holy Place) ; but three of 

 them are placed on the upper line, and two below. 

 Our cicerone, a Franciscan monk, could give us 

 no information upon this point. Hakim Haggi. 



[The Patriarchal and Jerusalem crosses (or the five 

 crosses) are symbolical of the Greek Church, as the square 

 or oblong form of the cross more particularlj' distin- 

 guishes the Western Church. The four minor crosses are 

 emblematical of the wounds of Our Saviour's hands and 

 feet ; whilst the larger or central cross shows forth His 

 death, — the four extremities pointing respectively to the 

 four quarters of that world for which He died. Vide 

 Explicit Liber de Cruce Vaticana, by Stephen Borgia, 

 Secretary to the Propaganda, 1779, note c, p. 8.] 



Sir Robert Harcouris Tomb. — Can you kindly 

 inform me in what book I could find a plate of 

 the tomb of a knight's lady wearing the Order of 

 the Garter on her arm in the church of Stanton 

 Harcourt ? R. H. A. Bradley. 



Merton College, Oxford. 



[Robert Wilkinson, of Cornhill, published a separate 

 engraving of this tomb on the 4th of June, 1813, with the 

 following inscription : " This plate represents the tomb of 

 Sir Robert Harcourt, Knight of the Garter, and of his lady, 

 Margaret, daughter of Sir John Byron, of Clayton in Lan- 

 cashire, and relict of Sir Wm. Atherton, of Atherton in the 

 same county. SirRobertdiedNov. 14, 1471, and was buried, 

 together with his lady, at Stanton Harcourt, in Oxford- 

 shire. The shield, encircled by the Garter, contains the 

 arms of Harcourt and Byron, the latter not quite cor- 

 rectly sculptured ; and the plain shield exhibits the coat 

 of Harcourt, impaled with that of Stanton, in allusion, 

 doubtless, to the acquisition of the estate of Stanton, since 

 called Stanton Harcourt, by the marriage of Robert de 

 Harcourt in the twelfth centur3' with the heir of Cam- 

 ville, whose mother received the lordship of Stanton in 

 gift on that occasion from her cousin Adeliza, second 

 Queen to Henry I." This tomb is also engraved in 

 Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. part iii. p. 229. 

 plate xc] 



De Foe. — Where can the best authenticated 

 edition of the Life of Daniel Defoe be procured ? 



E. H, Croydon. 



Newport Pagnell. 



[The following works may be consulted : Walter Wil- 

 son's Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe, 

 3 vols. 8vo., 1830 ; and John Forster's Life of De Foe, 

 reprinted with additions from the Edinburgh Revieu?, ia 

 the Travellers' Library, vol. xvi., 1856.] 



