NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 116. 



belonging to the convent : these were then seventy 

 in number. 



Lambertus Wilhelmi, a monk of Sion Abbey, 

 and director of these nuns, composed in the year 

 1452 a History of the Convent of St. Margaret at 

 Gouda, by order of its superintendent, Heymanus 

 Florentii, a monk of 'S. Gravezande. This con- 

 vent was burnt in 1572 by one of Lumey's cap- 

 tains, Hans Aulterman, who for his many crimes 

 was condemned on the 11th of April, 1573, and 

 burnt alive at the gates of Gouda. 



The Nicholas de Wit mentioned in the Query 

 was prior of the monastery of St. Michael, near 

 Schoonhoven. (See further T. Walvisch, Beschry- 

 vingvan Gouda, II. pp. 123 — 172.) Elsevier. 



Leyden, Navorscher, Jan. 1852. 



Rev. John Paget (Vol. iv., p. 133.). — Of this 

 clergyman the following mention is made in the 

 Resolutions of the States General: 



" 9 January, 1 607. Op te requeste van John Paget, 

 predikand van de Engelsche regimenten, is geordon- 

 neert de selve te stellen in liandeii van den Ovesten 

 Horace Vere, Ridder, omme ordre te stellen, dat den 

 suppl. van syn tractament mach worden betaelt." 



9 January, 1607. Touching the request of John 

 Paget, chaplain of the English regiments, is ordained 

 that the same be placed in the hands of the Colonel 

 Horace Vere, Knight, that provision may be made for 

 the payment of the suppliant's salary. 



From the register of a marriage celebrated at 

 Leyden the 7th of January, 1649, between Mathys 

 Paget, smith, and Maria Picters Del Tombe, both 

 of that city, it would appear that other members 

 of the Paget family have resided there. Elsevier. 



Leyden, Navorscher, Jan. 1852. 



The Rev. John Paget doubtless belonged to an 

 English or Scotch family, sometimes also called 

 Pagett, or Pagetius. John Paget, who was the 

 first minister of the English church in Amsterdam, 

 came there in 1607, and preached his introductory 

 sermon on the 5th of February, in the chapel pre- 

 pared for that purpose : his formal induction took 

 place in the month of April, in the same year, and 

 here he remained twenty-nine years. Thomas 

 Paget, invited from Blackeley in England, was in- 

 ducted in November 1639, and departed the 29th 

 of August 1646, for Shrewsbury. Robert Paget, 

 or Pagetius, minister of the Scotch congregation 

 at Dordrecht from 1638 to 1685, "was a man of 

 extensive biblical knowledge, but of extreme 

 modesty." When the English church in Amster- 

 dam was offered him, he could not be prevailed 

 upon to accept it. With Jacob Borstius he lived 

 on terms of close intimacy. 



Consult the Kerkelyk Alphabeth of Veeris, 

 Wagenaar, Seschryving van Amsterdam, and Balen 

 Beschryoing van Dordt; also 2'he History of the 

 Scottish Church at Rotterdam, by the Rev. William 



Steven, M.A., Edinburgh and Rotterdam, 1832, 

 and Schotel, Kerkelyk Dordrecht, vol. i. p. 457., 

 and the note (2), vol. ii. p. 217., where many par- 

 ticulars concerning the Pagets, especially Robert, 

 are found. It is, however, probable that Cran- 

 MORE may obtain more information touching his 

 family in England than in this country. In 

 Tocher's Gelehrten Lexicon mention is made of 

 Ephraim, Eusebius, and Wilhelmus Paget, all of 

 whom resided in England. 



We also read in the L'yste van de Namen der 

 Predikanten in de Provincievan Utrecht, by H. van 

 Rhenen, 1705, p. 66., that Robert Paget, an 

 Englishman, and English preacher at Dordt, 

 nephew of Thomas Paget, was invited to Utrecht 

 in 1655, but declined. He remained at Dordrecht, 

 and died there in 1684. V. D. N. 



Rotterdam, Navorscher, Jan. 1852. 



Lines on the Bible (Vol. iv., p. 473.). — "Within 

 that awful volume lies," &c. These lines are 

 Walter Scott's. They are spoken by the White 

 Lady of Avenel, in The Monastery. It appears 

 tliat they were copied by Lord Byron into his 

 Bible, for they are inserted at the end of Galig- 

 nani's 1 -vol. edition of Byron's Works (Paris, 1826), 

 among the " attributed pieces," as " lines found in 

 Lord Byron's Bible." This I believe is the only 

 authority on which the compiler of the volume 

 referred to by your correspondent can have sup- 

 posed his lordship to have been the author. In 

 Murray's editions they have no place, nor even in 

 Galignani's later editions. B. R. I. 



[We are indebted to many other correspondents for 

 similar replies.] 



Dial Mottoes (Vol. iv., p. 471.)'. — The following 

 is an inscription which I copied from a dial-plate 

 in the churchyard of Kirk- Arbory, Isle of Man : 

 "Thomas Kirkall de 



Bolton Fecit. 



Horula dum quota sit 



Quajritur hora fngit. 



1678." 



There is a coat of arms also, but the tinctures 

 are not marked; viz. Quarterly of three coats: 

 first and fourth, three roundels in fess, between 

 two barrulets ; second, on a bend three mullets ; 

 third, a chevron between three lozenges. 



T. H. Kersley, B. a. 



MartiaTs Distribution of Hours (Vol. iv., 

 pp. 273. 332.). — I ought perhaps to thank Theo- 

 PHYLACT for good intcutiou in answering, not the 

 question I did ask, but that which he thinks I 

 " might have asked." 



My real question was based upon an assump- 

 tion, the truth of which Theophylact denies : 

 his reply therefore is rather a challenge to the 

 premiss, than an answer to the question. 



