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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 132. 



Probably the number of private lordships of this 

 kind is not now great ; for, at the passing of the 

 above statute, the majority were in the Crown; and 

 if any have since been re-granted, it is most likely 

 that their franchises and tenure would be so modi- 

 fied as to leave no vestige of the Marcher privileges 

 in them. 



The statement of your correspondent suggests 

 to me another doubt. How could any Lordship 

 Marcher be " erected by Martin of Tours ? " Every 

 such lordship must be of the creation of the Crown, 

 either shown or presumed. The date of the esta- 

 blishment of these marcherships is so ancient that, 

 perhaps, no one may have actually seen any docu- 

 ment to prove them but charters of confirmation 

 and inquisitions post-mortem ; still the law refers 

 their origin to specific Crown grants, and not to 

 the act or authority of a mere subject. If, there- 

 fore, Martin, who was a tenant in capite of the 

 Crown, founded the lordship of Kemes, he must 

 have done — as the military invaders of Ireland in 

 a subsequent reign did — conquered the territory 

 with his own arms, and obtained palatine jurisdic- 

 tion over it, with the assent and by the authority 

 of the King. 



Let me add, that the MS. treatise in the Harleian 

 Collection (referred to ante, p. 135.) is printed in 

 Pennant's Wales, and, more correctly, in vol. ii. of 

 the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Societtj. It 

 is much to be lamented that the treatise on the 

 Lordships Marchers, bequeathed by Sir Matthew 

 Hale to the Society of Lincoln's Inn, is not to be 

 found in that library. If the work was composed 

 by that eminent judge himself, it must be one of 

 the highest value and authority. Does any one 

 possess it, or a copy of it ? E. Smibke. 



DOCTEINE OF THE RESURRECTION. 



(Vol. iii., p. 374.) 

 " Can any of your readers inform me of any 

 traces of the doctrine of the resurrection before 

 the Christian era ? " I shall endeavour as briefly 

 as possible to do justice to this important subject 

 by giving extracts from, and references to, various 

 authors, especially Hody in his work llie Resur- 

 rection of the (Same) Body Asserted from the 

 Traditions of the Heathens, Sfc. The arguments 

 derived from this source are as follow : — 



1. " The gross notions of the heathens concern- 

 ing the soul in its state of separation, that it has 

 all the same parts as the body has." 



Confer Farmer on the Worship of Human 

 Spirits in the Ancient Heathen Nations, p. 419. et 

 ^q.; JEschyli Persce, v. 616. ; and Blomfield's 

 note ; Nicolaus de Sepulchris Hebrceorum, ^c, 

 cap. ix. and xiv. 



2. "Their opinion concerning the transmigra- 

 tion of souls." Confer Vossli Idololat., lib. i. c. x. 



3. " Their opinion concerning the duration of 

 the soul as long as the body lasted, and its ad- 

 herence to the body after death," v. Cicero, Tus- 

 cul. QiuEst., lib. i. ; Lucret., lib. iii. Concerning 

 the opinion of the Egyptians, v. Greenham on 

 JEmbalming. 



4. " The belief that some men have ascended 

 up into heaven in their bodies, there to remain for 

 ever," v. Hody. 



5. " That others have done so even after death 

 upon a re-union of their souls and bodies." (H.) 

 " There were not only certain persons under the 

 law and among the Jews who were raised to life ; 

 but there were also histories among the Gentiles of 

 several who rose the third day ; and Plato men- 

 tioneth another who revived the twelfth day after 

 death, Plato de Rep., lib. x. ; Plin. lib. vii. 52., 

 " De his qui elati revixerunt ;" Philostrat. lib. iii. 

 c. xiii." — Pearson on the Creed. There are 

 histories of this description in Bonifacii Hist. 

 LudicecB, p. 561. et seq. 



6. " The opinion of the Pythagoreans and Pla- 

 tonists, &c., concerning the restitution of our 

 bodies, and of all other things in the world to 

 their former state, after the revolution of many 

 ages, by a new birth or production." On the 

 Platonic year confer Gale's Court of the Gentiles, 

 book iii. c. 7. ; on the Phoenix cycle of the Egyp- 

 tians, Rev. Edw. Greswell's Fasti Catholici and 

 Origines Calendarice. By some this restitution is 

 considered as merely astronomical, v. Costard's 

 Hist, of Astronomy, p. 131. "The opinion of 

 some of the Genethllacal writers, that the soul 

 returns and is united to the same body in the 

 space of 440 years." — Varro ap Aug. de Civit. 

 xxii. 28. ; Jackson's Works, vol. iii. p. 424. "The 

 opinion of the Stoics concerning the reproduction 

 of all the same men, &c., after the general con- 

 flagration," V. Eiisebii Praep. Evang., lib. xv. ; M, 

 Antonin. Imp., lib. xi. The resurrection was as- 

 serted by the Persian Magi, the Indian Brach- 

 mans, and other philosophers both oriental and 

 western. " Thus we have demonstrated what 

 evident notices the heathens had of the last con- 

 flagration, with the ensuing judgment, and man's 

 immortal state ; and all from sacred oracles and 

 traditions." — Gale, ut supra. 



BlBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



' CAN A CLERGYMAN MARRY HIMSELl' ? 

 (Yol. v., p. 370.) 



A Query has been put respecting a clergyman 

 marrying himself. Such a thing did once occur 



In the case of the Rev. J. D. T. M. F g, curate 



of the parish of S n M 1, Somersetshire. 



The parish register Informs us that — 



" On three several Sundays, namely, on the 22nd 

 and 29th days of July, and the 5th August in the year 



