Jan. 3. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ranee to the same effect as to the genuineness of 

 the Narrative, and says the author died at his seat 

 in Gloucestershire in the year 1774. 



Can any of your readers throw further light on 

 this story, or inform who the hero of the Narra- 

 tive really was ? W. W. E. T. 



Warwick Square, Belgravia. 



Clerical Members of Parliament. — In a note 

 in p. 4. of The Lexington Papers, recently pub- 

 lished, mention is made of a Mr. Robert Sutton, 

 ■who, after having taken deacon's orders, and 

 having accompanied his relative, Lord Lexington, 

 to Vienna, in the joint capacity of chaplain and 

 secretary, was, on his recall in 1697, appointed 

 resident minister at the Imperial Court ; was sub- 

 sequently sent as envoy extraordinary to the 

 Ottoman Porte ; in 1720, succeeded Lord Stair as 

 British minister at Paris; in 1721, was elected 

 M, P. for Notts ; and in 1725, was created Knight 

 of the Bath. The editor adds this remark : 



" It is well known that holy orders were not at that 

 time considered any disqualification for civil employ- 

 ments, but I do not recollect any other instance of a 

 clerical Knight of the Bath." 



Do you, Mr. Editor, or any of your readers, 

 recollect any other instance since the Reformation, 

 of a clerical member of parliament, before the 

 celebrated one of Home Tooke ? Were any such 

 instances quoted in the debates on the bill for 

 excluding clergymen from Parliament ? Clericus. 



Aliens of Rossull. — Can any of you cor- 

 respondents furnish me with the arms borne by 

 the Aliens of Rossull and Redivales, Lancasiiire ? 

 Of this family was the celebrated Cardinal Allen. 

 Also the arms borne by the Pendleburys, another 

 Lancashire family ? J. C. 



Number of the Children of Israel. — In Exod. 

 xii. 37. it is stated that the numbers of the 

 children of Israel constituting the Exodus was 

 ■** 600,000 men," "besides children." No specific 

 mention is made of women : it will be diminishing 

 the difficulty if the 600,000 are considered the 

 aggregate of the adults of both sexes. It is said 

 that the time the Israelites remained in Egypt 

 •was 430 years (Ex. xii. 40.). The number who 

 were located in Egypt was seventy (Gen. xlvi. 27.). 

 I wish to ascertain from some competent statician 

 what, under the most favourable circumstances, 

 would be the increase of seventy people in 430 

 years? I am aware that Professor Lee, in his 

 invaluable translation of the Book of Job, is of 

 opinion that 215 years is the time the Israelites 

 actually remained in Egypt ; and the remainder 

 must be considered the previous time they were in 

 Canaan. If the Professor's calculation be adopted, 

 the statician could easily show the difference at 

 215 and 430 years. iEGEOTos. 



Compiiiatio Eccles. Anglic, — In Bishop Bur- 

 net's " Hist, of the Reform.," vol. ii. of first folio 

 edition, London, 1679, Coll. of Records, b. ii. 

 p. 100. No. XL. is " An instrument of the speech 

 of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Chicheley) made 

 to the House of Commons about it," scilicet, Sta- 

 tute of Provisors. It begins as follows : — 



" Die Veneris, penultimo mensis Januarii, a.d. sccwm- 

 dum cursum et computationem Ecclesice AnglicancB mil- 

 lesirao quadringentesimo decimo seplimo, indictione 



sexta, pontificatus Martini Papae quinti anno 



undecimo." 



Now as Martin V. was chosen Pope by the Coun- 

 cil of Constance, November 11, 1417, his eleventh 

 year would extend over January, 1428, and the 

 sixth indiction answers to the same year, which 

 would, however, be styled 1427 in ecclesiastical 

 documents till March 25. Can the Computatio 

 Eccles. Anglic, mean anything more than a refer- 

 ence to the distinction between the ecclesiastical 

 and historical times of commencing the year ? If 

 it does not, decimo septimo must be an error for 

 vicesimo septimo, made in transferring the nu- 

 meral letters into words. Has this error been 

 corrected in subsequent editions of Burnet ? 



H.W. 



Martinique. — Will any of your correspon- 

 dents, acquainted with the history of the French 

 islands, inform me why was the island of Mar- 

 tinique so called ? English writers style the island 

 Martinico, but none have gone so far as to give the 

 derivation or meaning of the word. W. J. C. 



St. Lucia. 



Objective and Subjective. — Will some of 

 your intelligent readers deign to enlighten a 

 merely physical ignoramus as to the precise mean- 

 ino- (always supposing there be a meaning) of 

 the oft-recurring words "objective" and "sub- 

 jective" ("omjective" and " sumjective," accord- 

 ing to Mr. Carlyle) in the Highgate " talk," sup- 

 posed by sundry transcendental sages of our day 

 to be the expression of an almost inspired wisdom. 

 Is this exoteric jargon transluteable into intelligible 

 English ? or is it not (as Chalmers called it, speak- 

 mgScotlice) " all buff? " Most assuredly he who 

 really understands it (not affects to understand it) 

 need not, as Southey used to say, be afraid of 

 cracking peach-stones. X. 



Quarter Waggoner. — The master of a ship of 

 war has the charge of navigating her from port to 

 port, under the direction of the captain ; and he is 

 moreover charged to make what improvements he 

 can in the charts. Now the masters were some- 

 times rather slack in the latter department, in 

 which case they procured certificates from their 

 captains to the Navy Board, stating^ that they had 

 seen nothing but what was already in the general 

 " Quarter Waggoner." 



