April 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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King's Astrologer happens not to have been sub- 

 jected to formal abolition, and, being hereditary, 

 it is now vested in the person of Mr. Gadbury, 

 resident at Bristol. He is auctioneer to the Court 

 of Bankruptcy, and a very wortliy man. He tells 

 me there is neither salary nor privilege attacheii to 

 his nominal post. B. B. 



Pembroke. 



William, second Duke of Hamilton. — Can any of 

 ^our numerous correspondents inform me if tliere 

 is any monumental inscription, or other memorial, 

 •dedicated to the memory of William, second Duke 

 •of Hamilton, who expired on the 12th of Septem- 

 ber, 1651, from the effects of a wound received at 

 the battle of Worcester on the 3rd of the stime 

 anonth ? He was interred before the high altar 

 in Worcester Cathedral, having died at the Com- 

 ftnandery in that city ; but there is neither 

 " storied urn or animated bust " 



-as a record of his sepulture within that venerable 

 pile. 



In making an inspection of the Commandery, 

 -an old building, probably once belonging to the 

 Knights Templars, I was gravely told, and my in- 

 ibrmant even showed me the very spot beneath 

 the floor of one of the rooms, in which, as tradition 

 points out, he is said to have been buried. 



J. B. Whitborne. 



The Ring Finger. — Having observed various 

 Remarks on the ring finger in your last volume, I 

 ;shall be much obliged if you can give me any in- 

 formation on the subject. As a lady of my ac- 

 quaintance has had the misfortune to lose that 

 £nger, it has been said that she cannot be legally 

 married in the Church of England in consequence, 

 and had better, if ever solicited, cross the border 

 to Scotland to make the marriage binding. 



A Ring. 



Bishop of London s Palace in Bishopsgate. — 

 ■Historians agree that King Henry VII., on his ar- 

 rival in London after the battle of Bosworth, took 

 Tip his residence for a iew^ days at the Bishop of 

 London's palace, and Bacon tells us * this palace 

 was in Bishopsgate Street. Can any of your 

 readers inform me where it stood ? J. G. 



Earls of Clare (Vol. v., p. 205.). — Can H.C. K., 

 who appears to have access to an old pedigree of 

 this family, answer any of the following Queries ? 



1. Which was the Richard Earl of Clare whose 

 •daughter married William de Braose, who was 

 starved to death at Windsor in 1240 ? 

 _ 2. Who was Isabel de Clare, who married Wil- 

 liam de Braose, grandson of the above ? 



3. Who was Alice, daughter of Richard Earl of 

 Clare, who nuxrried William third Baron Percy ? 



' [* Where? Our correspondent should have given 

 the reference. — Ed."] 



4. Who was Mabel, daughter of an Earl of 

 Clare, who married Nigel de Mowbray, a baron at 

 the coronation of Richard I. ? 



5. Who was de Clare, treasurer of tHe 



church of York, living between 1150 and 1200? 



E. H. Y. 



Lothian s Scottish Historical Maps. — 



Ptolemy's Scotland, a.d. 146. > 



Richard's Ditto, a.d. 446. 



Roman Ditto, a.d. 80 to 446. 



Piclish Ditto, a.d. 446 to 843. 



Picts and Scots Ditto, a.d. 843 to 1071. 



Sheriffdoms, Earldoms, and Lordships of 



the 1 5th Century. 

 Highlands in Clans", 1715-45. Track of 

 Prince Charles Stuart. 



I should be glad to hear where this progressive 

 series, or any of them, might be met with. I un- 

 derstand it was considered a very complete Atlas 

 of Scotland in the olden times ; but on applying 

 to my Edinburgh bookseller, I was informed they 

 were out of print. I think they bear date 1834, 

 and I should think the plates are still in existence. 

 They were said to be very accurate, and the price 

 was under a pound. They were published by 

 John Lothian, formerly Geographer and Map 

 Publisher, Edinburgh. Elginensis. 



Sally Liinn. — Partial to my sweet tea-cake, I 

 often think when eating it of Sally Lunn, the 

 pretty pastrycook of Bath, to whose inventive 

 genius we are said to be indebted for this fari- 

 naceous delicacy. Is anything known of Sally 

 Lunn ? is she a personage or a myth ? 



Shirley Hibberd. 



^'■Bough-House." — At the late assizes for the 

 county of Suffolk, the v/itnesses in two separate 

 cases spoke of a " bough-house," and the explana- 

 tion given was, that certain houses where beer, &c. 

 was sold at fair-time only had boughs outside to 

 indicate their character. As an illustration of the 

 fixmiliar proverb, " Good wine needs no hush" and 

 as the word does not o6cur in Forby's Glossary of 

 East Anglia, it may perhaps deserve a place. 



BUHIENSIS. 



Dyson's Collection of Proclamations. — The 

 curious collection of old proclamations, &c., in the 

 library of the Society of Antiquaries is sometimes 

 referred to as Dysons, sometimes as Ames's. Was 

 Dyson the original collector ? and, if so, when did 

 he live? Edward F. Rimbault. 



" The Hour and the Man." — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me what is the origin of this 

 expression? It occurs in Guy Mannering, and 

 printed in Italics, but not within inverted commas. 

 Is it a quotation ? T. D^ 



