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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 135. 



Fitzjohn, Lord Fitzjolin, who was summoned to 

 parliament in 23 Edward I., and died two years 

 after in France ? He was the son of John Fitz- 

 john Fitzgeoffrey, who died near Guildford in 

 1258, and who was the son and heir of John 

 Fitzgeoffrey, Justiciary of Ireland in 1246. His 

 mother's name is not mentioned in any authorities 

 I have been able to consult, and I should feel par- 

 ticularly obliged by any one communicating to me 

 his mothers name, and also his maternal grand- 

 mother s name, if they have ever been ascertained. 



Tewaks. 



Quotations wanted. — Can any of your numerous 

 correspondents oblige me with the information as 

 to where the following may be found : 



" The difficult passages they shun, 

 And hold their farthing rushlight to the sun." 



Again, this : 



«' And like unholy men 



Quote scripture for the deed." 



Again, this : The entire epigram said to have 

 been made by Porson on a Fellow of his college, 

 who habitually pronounced Euphrates (short) in- 

 stead of Eui^hrates. The only words I remember — 

 it is now near thirty years since I heard it — are 



" Et corripuit fluxeum; " 

 and Jekyll, the celebrated wit, rendered the epi- 

 gram into English, and part of It thus : 

 " He abridged the river." 



H.M. 



Sons of the Conqueror — William Rufus and 

 Walter tyrell. — Sir N. W. Wraxall (Posthumous 

 Memoirs, vol. i. p. 425.) says of the Duke of 

 Dorset : 



"Tlis only son perished at twenty-one in an Irish 

 foxehase : a mode of dying not the most glorious or 

 distinguished, though two sons of William the Con- 

 queror, one of whom was a King of England, termi- 

 nated their lives in a similar occupation." 



Who are these two sons? William Rufus would 

 be one of them ; but who is the other ? And 

 whilst I am on this subject, I would inquire, on 

 what authority does the commonly received story 

 of William II.'s death by the hand of Sir Walter 

 Tyrrell rest ? Tewars. 



Bi-ass of Lady Gore. — Moody, in his Sketches 

 of Hampshire, states that there is a brass of an 

 Abbess, 1434, Lady Gore by name, in the church 

 of Nether Wallop. Biit In the Oxford Manual it 

 is stated (Introduction, p. xxxix.) that only two 

 brasses of Abbesses are known, one at Elstow, 

 Beds, to Elizabeth Ilervey, and the other at Den- 

 ham, Bucks, to Agues Jordan, Abbess of Syon, 

 both c. 1530. Which Is correct of these two 

 authorities ? Ukicokn. 



SmytKs MSS. relating to Gloucestershire. — In 

 "Rudder s History of Gloucestershire, title "Nibley," 

 p. 575., is the following passage: 



" John Smyth, of Nibley, ancestor to the present 

 proprietor, was very eminent for his great assiduity in 

 collecting every kind of information respecting this 

 county and its inhabitants. He wrote the Genealogi- 

 cal History of the Berkeley Family, in three folio MSS., 

 which Sir William Dugdale abridged and published in 

 his Baronage of England. In three other folio MSS. 

 he has registered -with great exactness the names of the 

 lords of mayiors in the county in the year 1608, the 

 number of men in each parish able to bear arms, with their 

 names, age, stature, professions, armour, and weapons. 

 The sums each landholder paid to subsidies granted in a 

 certain year are set down in another MS. He likewise 

 committed to writing a very particular account of the 

 customs of the several manors in the hundred of Berke- 

 ley, and the pedigrees of their respective lords. These and 

 some other MSS., which cost him forty years in com- 

 piling, are now (1779) in the possession of Nicholas 

 Smyth, Esq., the fifth from him in lineal descent." 



I shall feel much obliged to any of your readers 

 who will inform me where these MSS., or any of 

 them, may now be seen. Those that I particu- 

 larly want to inspect fare printed in Italics in the 

 above quotation. Julius Paeteige. 



Birmingham. 



[Atkyns, in his Gloucestershire, p. 579., states that 

 Smythe's MSS. were at the time he wrote, a.d. 1712, 

 in the custody of his great-grandson, Sir George 

 Smith, who generously communicated them to all tiiat 

 desired a perusal of them. Fosbrooke, however, in the 

 preface to his History of Gloucestershire, published in 

 1807, speaks of them as being in the possession of the 

 Earl of Berkeley. He says, " Of the noblemen and 

 gentlemen who honoured me with support and inform- 

 ation, the Earl of Berkeley's permission to use Mr. 

 Smythe's MSS. in every important extent has been of 

 essential service." Fosbrooke subsequently published, 

 in 1821, a quarto volume o( Abstracts and Extracts of 

 Smythe's Lives of the Berkeleys from these manuscripts.] 



Origin of Terms in Change-ringing. — I shall 

 be obliged by any one informing me as to the origin 

 and derivation of the terms " plain bob," " grand- 

 sire bob," " single bob minor," " grandsire treble," 

 " cators," " cinques," et hoc genus omne, so well 

 known to campanologists. Axfeed Gatty. 



[Our correspondent may probably get some clue to 

 the derivation of these terms in a work entitled Cam- 

 panologia Improved; or the Art of Ringing made Easy, 

 third edition, 1 2mo. 1733. We may also mention, that 

 some Notes of Dedications of Churches .ind Bells in 

 the Diocese of Gloucester will be found in the British 

 Museum, Add. MSS. 5836. f. 189 b.] 



Keseph's Bible. — About the year 1828, there 

 was issued a thin duodecimo pamphlet by some 

 one who took the cognomen of Keseph, and who 



