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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 121. 



folk ; from thence he is often called Baconthorpe. 

 After some years spent in the Convent of Blackney, 

 five miles from Walsingham, he removed to Oxford, 

 and thence to Paris, where he was honoured by 

 degrees both in law and divinity, and was con- 

 sidered the head of the Averroists. In 1333 he 

 was invited by letters to Rome ; and Paulus 

 Pansa, writing of him from thence, says, " This 

 one resolute doctor has furnished the Christian re- 

 ligion with armour against the Jews, stronger 

 than any of Vulcan's," &c. He was held in great 

 esteem all throughout Italy. He died in London, 

 1346. 



4th. Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the 

 great seal to Queen Elizabeth, was born at Chisle- 

 hurst, in Kent, 1510, and educated at Cam- 

 bridge. " As a statesman," says his historian, he 

 was remarkable for a clear head and deep coun- 

 sels ; he had much of that penetrating genius, 

 solidity, and j udgment, persuasive eloquence, and 

 comprehensive knowledge of law and equity, which 

 afterwards shone with so great a lustre in his son" 

 (Francis Lord Verulam). He died Feb. 26th, 

 1578, equally lamented by the queen and her 

 subjects ; a monument was erected to him in St. 

 Paul's, which was destroyed by the Great Fire, 

 1666. Sir Nicholas left several MSS., which 

 have never been published. 



5th. Anthony Bacon, the eldest son of Sir 

 Nicholas by his first wife, born 1558, and educated 

 at Cambridge. He was personally acquainted 

 with most of the literati of that age. At Geneva 

 he lodged in the house of the celebrated Theodore 

 Beza. In 1585, he visited Henry of Navarre, 

 then at Berne; here be became acquainted with 

 the learned Lambert Danaeus, who, as a mark of 

 esteem, dedicated several of his works to him. 

 In 1586, he formed an intimacy with the famous 

 Philip Plessis de Mornay at Montaubon; 1591, 

 he returned to England ; from this time he carried 

 on an extensive correspondence with the literati, 

 and in 1596 he began a correspondence with 

 Henry of Navarre, then Henry IV. of France. 

 The time of his death is uncertain. 



6th. Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, 

 second son of Sir Nicholas, born 1560, educated 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge; died April 9th, 

 1621. What can be a more concise and expressive 

 notice of this great man than that of Walpole ! — 



" The Prophet of Arts which Newton was sent to 



reveal It would be impertinent to enter into an 



account of this amazing genius or his works ; both will 

 be universally admired so long as science exists." 



7th. Sir Nathaniel Bacon, K. B., a younger son 

 by his second wife of Sir Nicholas, was an excel- 

 lent painter. He studied his art in Italy, but 

 his style and colouring approach nearer to the 

 Flemish school. I can find no date of his birth, &c. 



8th. Phanuel Bacon, D.D., an admirable wit 

 and poet. He died at Balden, Jan. 2nd, 1733. 



9th. John Bacon, the celebrated sculptor, and 

 possessed also of respectable literary talents ; born 

 m Southwark 1740, died 1799. 



I hope you will not consider this list too long 

 for insertion ; but I thought it useless to give a 

 long string of names without a short notice of 

 each. MrrANWT. 



COLLAR OF SS. 

 (Vol. v., p. 81.) 



Having only commenced subscribing to " N. & 

 Q." at the beginning of the present year, I am 

 not aware what has been said prior to this date, 

 with reference to the Collar of SS. ; but should 

 not Mr. Boutell's remarks about this collar have 

 been published, I beg to send them for the inform- 

 ation of those interested : 



" Next to the Garter itself, the most celebrated 

 knightly decoration of this class is the Collar of SS. 

 introduced by King Henry IV., apparently as a me- 

 morial of the success with which his aspiring ambition 

 had been crowned : this letter S, repeated either iit 

 links of gold, or in gold embroidery, worked upon a 

 fillet of blue, is the initial of the word ' Souveraine," 

 Henry's motto, which he bore while Earl of Derby, 

 and which, as he afterwards became sovereign, appeared 

 auspicious." 



I dare say this idea of Mr. Boutell's may have 

 been very ably refuted, by having pointed out the 

 existence of the collar on a knight who is known 

 for certain to have died prior to the reign of 

 Henry IV. ; but I must say that I have seen 

 nothing in the Numbers of the current year which 

 alters my opinion. 



With reference to what Mb. Lewis Evans says, 

 at page 38., I beg to remark that he only assumes 

 their dates from current report^ for the dates are 

 not on either of the tombs he mentions ; and 1 

 think Me. Evans is not a great studier of monu- 

 mental effigies, otherwise he would not talk of a 

 knight being dressed in "a coif de mailles and 

 pointed helmet." I assume he means " a camail 

 and pointed bascinet." 



Llewellyn, at p. 81., makes mention of several, 

 but of the only two upon which he ventures to fix 

 a date, prior to Henry IV., one is " commonly 

 ascribed," &c., and the other is " vulgarly called," 

 &c., so that I place no reliance upon the truth of 

 his deductions. Edwardus de la Hale, whom he 

 mentions as No. 7., died, I think he will find, in 

 1431, and not 1421. 



As regards the brass of Sir Thomas Peryent 

 and lady, at Digswell, Herts, I may mention that 

 although he wears a collar, yet I do not think it 

 ought to be fixed as certain that it is that of the 

 SS., for no letter, or portion of a letter, remains 

 to prove it, although the collar which Lady Peryent 

 wears is perfectly distinct. 



