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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 133. 



"local habitation." Of course, two or three in- 

 stances from English poets would not absolutely 

 determine the question one way or the other, as 

 we pronounce many words derived from Greek 

 and Latin sources in defiance of their original 

 quantity. Still they would not be without their 

 value. Can any wise man of the East help ? 



Harey Leroy Temple. 



Ballad on Shdkspeare. — About fifty years ago 

 there was an old ballad in praise of Shakspeare 

 which used to be very popular in Warwickshire. 

 All I remember is the following stanza, which, I 

 remember, was the concluding one : — 

 •* The pride of all nature was sweet Willy, O ; 

 The pride of our land was sweet Willy, O ; 

 And when Willy died, it was Nature that sighed 

 At the loss of her all — her sweet Willy, O." 



Where can the rest of the ballad be obtained ? 

 and who was the author ? Saxonicus. 



Dr. Toby Matthew. — In Le Neve's Lives of 

 the Protestant Archbishops under Dr. Toby Mat- 

 thew, Archbishop of York, it is stated that he was 

 appointed Bishop of Durham in 1595 ; and that 

 on 7th April, Archbishop Whitgift granted a com- 

 mission to Archbishop Hutton, " to confirm and 

 consecrate this our bishop within the province of 

 Canterbury, which," says Le Neve, "no doubt 

 was done accordingly, though I cannot find, either 

 in his diary or elsewhere, the time when, place 

 where, or the names of the bishops who assisted at 

 that solemnity," (vol. ii. pp. 105-6.). In Surtees' 

 History of Durham, it is said that his consecration 

 took place on " Palm Sunday." Palm Sunday 

 fell on 9th April that year : the very Sunday, 

 therefore, which followed the date of the licence 

 mentioned by Le Neve. I believe Surtees refers 

 to Rot. Durham as his authority. In the Church 

 of England Magazine, Jan. 1847, p. 13., there is a 

 Life of Dr. T. Matthew, said to be " Abridged 

 from a manuscript in the British Museum, entitled 

 * The Preaching Bishop,' " &c. Does this docu- 

 ment supply the information which Le Neve 

 sought in vain ? * Can any reader ascertain from 

 the diary, or elsewhere, what the bishop was doing 

 on 9th April, 1595, or where he was ; or give any 

 information on the subject ? C. H. D. 



[* The MS. in the British Museum does not supply 

 the information required ; it merely corrects Bishop 

 Godwyn's date of the consecration, viz. March, 1594: 

 " but," says the writer, " he was mistaken ; it was the 

 year after, for he preached the first sermon after he was 

 made bishop. May 11, 1595, as he himself sets down, 

 being then forty-eight years of age." It is not given 

 in Mr. Perceval's valuable list of the consecrations of 

 English prelates in the Appendix to his Apology for the 

 Apostolical Succession, so that we may conclude it is not 

 to be found among the Lambeth records. It is possible 

 it may be found in the document quoted by Surtees, 

 viz. « Rot. Mathew, A." — Ed.] 



Hart and Mohun. — Very little is known of 

 these two old actors and managers. When were 

 they born, and when did they die ? 



Edwakd F. Kimbault. 



Burial without Religious Service. — In case of 

 the friends of any person deceased either object- 

 ing to, or not wishing to compel the clergyman to 

 use, the burial service, is there any law to forbid 

 the corpse being interred in the parish churchyard 

 without any religious service at all? Suppose the 

 deceased were a baptized dissenter, who had him- 

 self in his lifetime objected to, and whose sur- 

 viving relatives also objected to the performance 

 of the burial service, though they wished the body 

 to be deposited in the churchyard ; does a clergy- 

 man render himself liable to any penalty in per' 

 mitting the body to be thus silently interred? 

 Some years ago, at the Kensal Green cemetery, 

 the sons of Carlile protested at the grave against 

 the performance of any religious service. The 

 chaplain persisted in its performance in spite of 

 their expressed wishes to the contrary ! Was this 

 right or wrong in a legal point of view ? C. H. D. 



GanganelKs Bible. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me who was the translator of the " Gan- 

 ganelli (Pope) Bible," published in 1784 in folio, 

 what is the merit of the translation, and who 

 wrote the notes ? If I mistake not, Evans, the 

 auctioneer who sold the Duke of Sussex's library, 

 puts in the catalogue that the notes are not the 

 Pope's, it being "a scandalous imposture" in the 

 title-page to say so, *' for they have a free-thinking 

 tendency." 



The title-page of said Bible says that that Pope 

 and the translator were liberals, and the author of 

 the notes must have been a radical, all very in- 

 telligible in those days, but not without instruc- 

 tion to these. 



The Duke's copy sold to the British Museum 

 for 30/. May I ask why it is so rare ? J. D. G. 



Wherland Family. — Information is desired re- 

 specting the family of "Wherland," now of Cork, 

 and whether they came from Scotland ; and if so, 

 whether the family still exists there ? The crest of 

 the Cork Wherlands is a demi-lion rampant out 

 of a ducal coronet. T. W. W. 



Flemish Proverb quoted by Chaucer. — Can any 

 of the readers of " N. & Q.," or, should I not rather 

 say, of its Dutch ally, "De Navorschee," point 

 out the original of the old Flemish proverb, 

 " Soth play quod play," 



quoted by Chaucer in his Prologue to the " Cook's 

 Tale ; " and whether or not there is any history 

 attached to it ? Philo-Chauceb. 



Derivation of the Word " Callis," an Almshouse. 

 — The word is not given in Bailey or Hichardson. 

 It appears in Holloway's and Halliwell's ProvinctaZ 



