Feb. 21. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



17: 



of John Pococke, gentleman, of Woolley, among 

 other children, a son named William ; but of whom 

 no further mention is made. 



Can any of your Norfolk or Berkshire friends 

 state whether this son William ever settled at 

 Dunham Parva, In Norfolk? — as, by so doing, an 

 obligation will be conferred on your occasional 

 correspondent Feanciscus. 



Letters to the Clergy. — In the Diary of Walter 

 Yovge (published by the Camden Society), p. 24., 

 is the following : 



"16 Dec. 1614. This day the Ministers of this 

 Diocese (Exon) were called before the Bishop of 

 Exon, who read letters from the Archbishop, the effects 

 of which were, that every minister should exhort his 

 parishioners to continue together the Sabl)ath Day, 

 and not to wander to other preachers who have better 

 gifts than their own pastors, but should content them- 

 selves with the Word of God read and Homilies. 

 2. That all should kneel at the receiving of the Sacra- 

 ment. 3. To declare unto their parishioners that it is 

 not necessary to have the Word preached at the Sacra- 

 ments. — Dictu Magistri Knowles, Vicarii de Axmin- 

 ster, at that time present." 



Query, Can any of your readers say to what 

 letter, and on what occasion such orders were Issued 

 by the archbishop, and also whether they have been 

 published in any volume on ecclesiastical matters ? 



H. T. E. 



Margaret Burr. — It Is related in Allan Cun- 

 ningham's Life of Gainsborough, that he married 

 a young lady named Margaret Burr, of Scottish 

 extraction ; and that 



" On an occasion of household festivity, when her 

 husband was high in fame, she vindicated some little 

 ostentation in her dress by whispering to her niece, 

 now Mrs. Lane, ' I have some right to this, for you 

 know, my love, I am a prince's daughter.' " 

 The biograpiier of the British Painters prefaces 

 this by saying, 



" Nor must I omit to tell that rumour conferred 

 other attractions (besides an annuity) upon her ; she 

 was said to be the natural daughter of one of our 

 exiled princes, nor was she, when a wife and a mother, 

 desirous of having this circumstance forgotten." 



As I just now read In Vol. iv., p. 244., some ac- 

 count of Berwick, and other natural children of 

 James II., I was put In mind of the above anec- 

 dote, and should be glad of any information re- 

 specting the Miss Burr's parentage In question. 

 Myself a collateral descendant of her husband, I 

 know from other sources that the tradition Is 

 worthy of credit ; and to the genealogist and an- 

 tiquary It may be a historically Interesting en- 

 quiry. H. W.G.R 



Northern Ballads. — Is any gentleman In pos- 

 session of any old printed copies of Danish or 

 Swedish popular ballads, or of any manuscript col- 

 lection of similar remains ? Are any such known 



to exist in any public library in Great Britain ? 

 By printed, of course I mean old fly-sheets, from 

 the sixteenth century downward ; they are gene- 

 rally of four, sometimes of eight, leaves small 

 octavo. Any information, either personally, or 

 through " N. & Q.," will much oblige. 



Geoegb Stephens.- 

 Copenhagen. 



" Blamed be the man^'' cVe. — Where is the fol- 

 lowing couplet to be found ? 



" Blamed be the man that first invented ink. 

 And made it easier for to write than think." 



N. O. K. 



" Quid est Episcopus." — Can any correspondent 

 furnish me with the reference to a passage sup- 

 posed to exist in one of the early fathers ( I think 

 Irenaeus) : — 



•' Quid est episcopus, nisi primus presbyter ? " 



X. G. X. 



Henry Isaac. — I shall feel obliged to any person 

 who can give any account (for genealogical pur- 

 poses) of Henry Isaac, who lived at Roehampton 

 about the middle of last centur_^. He was a dia- 

 mond merchant from Holland. He had a collec- 

 tion of pictures, one of which was the Lord of the 

 Vineyard paying his Labourers, by Rembrandt. 



H. T. E. 



German Poet quoted by Camden. — Britannia, 

 sive regnorum Anglice, Scotia, et Hibei^rdce choro- 

 graphica descriptio : Gulielmo Camdeno : Lond. 

 1607, folio, p. 302., Middlesex. 



" Nee magno hinc intervallo Tamisim duplici ostiolo 

 Colus postquam insulas sparserit, illabitur. Ad quern 

 ut nostrte aetatis Poeta Germanus lusit : 



' Tot campos, sylvas, tot rcgia tecta, tot hortos 



Artifici dextra excultos, tot vidimus arces, 



Aut nunc Ausonio, Tamisis cum Tybride certet.'" 



Camden, speaking of the Colne falling with a 

 double mouth Into the Tiiames, quotes a Germim 

 poet of his day ; and I should be much obliged by 

 any reader of the " N. & Q." favouring me with 

 the name, and reference to tiie author from whence 

 the preceding quotation Is taken. i^°F. 



American Degrees. — Several members of the 

 Brougham Institute here, and constant readers of 

 " N. & Q ," would feel obliged If some of your 

 learned correspondents would give them some 

 information about the obtaining of American 

 degrees, as recently a large cargo of diplomas had 

 arrived in this quarter, such as D.D. and LL.D., 

 and conferred on men of third-rate talent. What 

 we want is, to be informed how such degrees are 

 obtained ; If it is the president, or president and 

 professors, of the American academies who confer 

 them. Tills subject is so frequently agitated here, 

 that you would greatly oblige many Inquirers by 

 making a question of it in " N. & C^.," so that we 



