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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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menced with "A Piach of Sauff from Dean 

 Swift's Snuff Box," (being a description of the 

 snuff-box in question). The next subject on the 

 leaves began with " 'Tis a hundred years since." 

 The leaves appeared to have been extracted from 

 some Irish magazine or periodical, published about 

 the year 1845-6, and to contain much valuable 

 and amusing matter. As I have made repeated 

 inquiries among the London booksellers in vain, 

 for the name of the publication from which the 

 above-mentioned extract was taken, I shall feel 

 much obliged if you will permit me to make a 

 similar inquiry through the medium of " IST. & Q.," 

 and by so doing you will confer a great favour 



upon A SUBSCEIBER. 



Gloucester. 



CromweWs Skull. — I believe that a skull, main- 

 tained by arguments of considerable weight to be 

 the veritable skull of the Protector, is now care- 

 fully kept in the hands of some person in London. 

 It is understood that this interesting relic is re- 

 tained in great secrecy, from the apprehension 

 that a threat, intimated in the reign of George III., 

 that if made public, it would be seized by govern- 

 ment, as the only party to which it could properly 

 belong. 



It is to be hoped that the time in which such a 

 threat could be executed has passed by, and that 

 no danger need now be apprehended by the pos- 

 sessor for his open avowal of the facts of the case, 

 such as they are. 



Indeed, it seems desirable that if fair means 

 could lead to such a result, the skull of one who 

 filled so conspicuous a position amongst England's 

 most distinguished rulers, should become public 

 property. 



Perhaps some one in possession of the arguments 

 verifying the identity of the skull in question with 

 that of Cromwell, would, by a recapitulation of 

 them, favour some readers of the " N. & Q.", and 

 amongst others J. P. 



Dudley. 



Guy, Thomas, Founder of Guy's Hospital, and 

 M.P.for the Borough of Tamworth, d. s. p. 1724. 

 — Can any of your readers give information as to 

 the existence of any member of this family in the 

 male line ? The senior line of descent from Guy's 

 maternal uncle, John Voughton, became extinct 

 in 1843 upon the decease of Elizabeth, the relict 

 ■of Dr. Clarke of Weggington, brother of Sir 

 Charles M. Clarke, Bart. Kt. 



Episcopal Mitre (Vol. iii., p. 62. et seq.). — In 

 addition to this Query, which has elicited much 

 to Interest one, I beg to know at what date and why 

 the use of the mitre in England was discontinued ? 

 At the coronation of George IV. I, for one, was 

 grievously disappointed not to seethe whole bench 

 of bishops mitred as well as robed. S. S. 



John Lord Berkeley, Bishop of Ely. — In the 

 Diary of Dr. Edward Lake, published in the 

 Camden Miscellany, vol. i. p. 16., occur the fol- 

 lowing paragraphs : — 



" Dec. 23. 1677. I administered the sacrament to 

 the Lord John Barclay, being not well." 



To the word Barclay, the editor, George Percy 

 Elliott, Esq., has subjoined the following note : — 



"Probably Lord John Berkeley; he was afterwards 

 Bishop of Rochester, and subsequently of Ely, and 

 was deprived for not taking the oath of allegiance to 

 William and Mary." 



Can any reader of " N". & Q." suggest any au- 

 thority for the statement in the editor's note? 

 Francis Turner was Bishop of Ely from 1684 to 

 1691, when he was deprived for refusing to take 

 the oath of allegiance to William and Mary. 

 Turner was succeeded by Simon Patrick, trans- 

 lated from Chichester. As to the Rochester see, 

 that was filled by Thomas Sprat from 1684 to 

 1713. His biography reminds one more of the 

 Vicar of Bray than the sturdy Nonjuror. J. Y. 



Hoxton. 



Palace of Lucifer. — In Milton's elegy upon the 

 death of Bishop Andrewes there is an allusion to a 

 fabled Palace of Lucifer which I do not quite un- 

 derstand. It seems to refer to some romantic 

 description or other, and I shall be much obliged 

 to any one that will kindly tell me by whom. It 

 is always important to know something of the train 

 of an author's reading, as we then can better un- 

 derstand the ordinary train of his thoughts — 

 " Serpit odoriferas per opes levis aura Favoni, 

 Aura sub innumeris huraida nata rosls, 

 Talis in extremis terra; Gangetidis oris 

 Luciferi regis fingitur esse domus." 

 Eleg. III. In obitum Prcesulis Wintoniciisis, 1. 47. 



And now I will give Thomas AVarton's note in 

 full. He says : 



" I know not where this fiction is to be found. But 

 our author has given a glorious description of a palace 

 of Lucifer in the Paradise Lost, b. v. 757. : 



" * At length into the limits of the North 

 They came, and Satan to his royal seat 

 High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount, 

 Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers 

 From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold. 

 The Palace of Great Lucifer, so call 

 That structure, in the dialect of men 

 Interpreted ; which not long after, he, 

 Affecting all equality with God, 

 In imitation of that mount, whereon 

 Messiah was declar'd in sight of Heaven, 

 The Mountain of the Congregation call'd,' &c. 

 "Here is a mixture of Ariosto and Isaiah. Because 

 Lucifer is simply said by the prophet ' to sit upon the 

 Mount of the Congregation on the sides of the North,' 

 Milton builds him a palace on this mountain, equal in 

 magnificence and brilliancy to the most superb and 



