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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 127. 



written in an obsolete notation called tablature. 

 Translations, however, are in my possession, and 

 if E. N. wishes for copies, he is quite welcome to 

 have them if he will favour me with a communica- 

 tion. Edward F. Rimbault. 

 29. St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. 



Periwinkle (Vol. i., p. 77.). — The following 

 note, from Withering's Ai-i'angement of British. 

 Plants, vol. ii. p. 341. ed, 1830, will perhaps be 

 acceptable to Melanion : — 



" ViNCA. Periwinkle. (¥tom vincio, to bind ; its 

 runners trailing round other plants. Or to those who 

 prefer a more interesting association, we would inti- 

 mate that of such was formed in ancient times the 

 bridal zone, which none but the bridegroom was privi- 

 leged to untie. In modern Italy it is said to be ap- 

 propriated to a far different usage, that of enwreathing 

 deceased infants ; and is hence called Fior di Morto. — 

 E.)" 



W. R. Deeee Salmon. 



Erasmus' Paraphrase (Vol. i., p. 172.). — If it 

 be allowable to answer one's own Query, and not 

 too late to go back to Vol. i., I should like to 

 notice that the fragment therein referred to cor- 

 responds, as far as it goes, with an edition " Em- 

 priented in Flete Strete the last dale of Januarie, 

 Anno Domini, 1548," by Edward Whitchurch, 

 and is no doubt part of that edition. In the 

 Churchwardens' Accounts for this parish it is thus 

 mentioned : 



" 1589. ItiT), pd. to M'' Vicar v/'^ helayde downe 

 for y« Englyshe Paraphrase of Eras- 

 mus - - - _ ]js. 



Itin, chaynes for two bookes - - xij"*. 



Itra, spent at chayninge y= same - ij''." 



J. Eastwood. 

 Ecclesfield Hall. 



" Black Gowns and Red Coats" (Vol. v., p. 297.). 

 —I am not aware that it was ever any secret, or, 

 at any rate, that there is any occasion to make it 

 so now, that the satire Black Gowns and Red 

 Coats was the production of George Cox, M.A., 

 and Fellow of New College, Oxford ; neither did I 

 ever hear of its suppression. The satire is certainly 

 somewhat severe ; but even those who fell under 

 its lash could scarcely deny its great ability, or the 

 high poetical talent which it evinced. Such as 

 knew the marvellous promise of his youth can 

 never cease to lament that it pleased God to bring 

 the author's life to a premature and unhappy close. 



I have a copy of the little book, which I would 

 gladly lend to any one making a proper application 

 through the publisher. C. W. B. 



Arms of Manchester (Vol. v., p. 59.). — The 

 arms of Manchester (gules 3 hindlets enhanced 

 or) are those attributed to the family of Grelle, 

 De Greslet, or Grelly, feudal Barons of Manchester 



under the Normans. The town has used them for 

 years ; long before the charter of incorporation. 



P.P. 



Sir Thomas Frowyk (Vol. v., p. 295.). — Thomas 

 Frowyk was, in all likelihood, of a family long 

 connected with the government of London. Ac- 

 cording to Fuller, he was born at Ealing in Middle- 

 sex, and was son of Thomas Frowyk, Esq. [if I do 

 not greatly err he was knighted in or before the 

 reign of Richard III.] of Gunnersbury, by the 

 daughter and heiress of Sir John Sturgeon, knight. 

 He was "bred in the study of our municipal law," 

 and read on the statute Prerogativa Regis (17 

 Edw. II. stat. 1.), but In what inn of court, or in 

 what year, I have not seen stated. He was (with 

 others) made serjeant-at-law, by writ tested 10th 

 September, 1496. The feast was kept on the 16th 

 of November following, at Ely House In Holborn, 

 " where dined the King, Queen, and all the chief 

 lords of England." He was afterwards one of the 

 King's Serjeants. On the 11th July, 1502, he 

 (with Mr. Justice Fisher and Humphrey Conyngs- 

 bye, one of the King's Serjeants) made an award 

 between the University and town of Cambridge, 

 adjusting disputes between the two bodies, and 

 defining in minute detail their respective juris- 

 dictions. On the 30th September, 1502, he was 

 constituted Lord Chief Justice of the Common 

 Pleas, and was, at or about the same time, 

 knighted. In 19 Hen. VHI. he was, by Act of 

 Parliament, appointed one of the feoffees to the 

 use of the King's will. He died 17th October, 

 1505, being, as It is said, under forty years old. 

 He was burled, with Joan his wife, in the church 

 of FInchley. He left a large estate to his two 

 daughters, of whom Elah, the eldest, was married 

 to Sir John Spelman, Justice of the King's Bench, 

 "grandfather to Sir Henry, that renowned knight." 

 Sir Thomas Frowyk's arms (azure a cheveron be- 

 tween 3 leopards' faces or) were In a window of 

 the hall of Serjeants' Inn, Fleet Street ; and the 

 same coat (quartering Sturgeon and another) was 

 In a window at St. Dunstan's In the West. (Fuller's 

 Worthies in Middlesex ; Dugdale's Origines Juri- 

 diciales, 47. 128. 328. ; Chronica Series, 74. 76. ; 

 Bibliotheca Legum Anglice, II. 192. ; Excerpta His- 

 torica, 119. 121. 123.; Plumpton Correspondence, 

 152, 153. 161. 165. ; Cooper's Annals of Cambridge, 

 258. 260. ; Rotuli Parliamentorum, vi. 522. ; Col' 

 lectanea Topographica et Genealogica, iv. 107.) 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



John Goldesborough (Vol. v., p. 294.). — John 

 Goldesborough, or Goldesburgli, was born 18 th 

 October, 1568, studied at Oxford, and went thence 

 to the Middle Temple, where he was called to the 

 Bar. In or about 1613 he was constituted Second 

 Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, which office 

 he held till his death, 9th October, 1618. He 



