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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 135. 



p. 204. The account of his works given there 

 agrees with the extract from the Gentleman's 

 Magazine. It is also stated that he was the 

 author of a sermon entitled A Return from Argier, 

 preached at Minehead, March 16, 1627, on the Re- 

 admission of a relapsed Ch7'istian into our Church, 

 on Gal. V. 2.: London, 1628, 4to, and that he 

 was a sufferer from the rebellion. In Harwood he 

 is described as Rector of Bagborough and Cro- 

 combe, and Canon of Exeter. The "MS. account 

 is very short. He is there described as "R. of 

 Rowbarrow, Som.; Cap. of Exon. — See his works 

 in Wood:' J. H. L. 



BIKTHPLACE OF ST. PATRICK. 



(Yol. v., p. 344.). 



From the following extracts I send in answer to 

 your correspondent Ceyrbp, there seems to be 

 very great doubt if St. Patrick ever existed in 

 reality, but that we ought rather to place h im in 

 the same category with St. Amphibalus, St. Denis, 

 &o. Dr. Ledwich relates that — 



" In Usuard's, and the Roman Mxrtyrology, Bishop 

 Patrick, of Auvergne, is placed at the 16th day of 

 March, and on the same day the office of the Lateran 

 canons, approved by Pius V., celebrates the festival of 

 a Patrick, the apostle of Ireland. The 1 7 th of March 

 is dedicated to Patrick, Bishop of Nola. Had not 

 Dr. Maurice, then, the bast reasons for supposing that 

 Pdtricus Auvernensis sunk a day lower in the calendar, 

 and made for the Irish a Patricius Hibernensis ? This 

 seems exactly to be the case. It is very extraordinary 

 the I6th and 17th of March should have three Patricks, 

 one of Auvergne, another of Ireland, and a third of 

 Nola ! The antiquities of Glastonbury record three 

 Patricks, one of Auvergne, another archbishop of Ire- 

 land, and a third an abbot. The last, according to a 

 martyrology cited by Usher, went on the mission to 

 Ireland, a.d. 850, but was unsuccessful : he returned 

 and died at Glastonbury. If all that is now advanced 

 be not a fardel of monkish fictions, which it certainly 

 is, the last Patrick was the man who was beatified by 

 the bigoted Anglo-Saxons, for his endeavours to bring, 

 the Irish to a conformity with the Romish church." 



Dr. Aikin remarks upon this — 



" The author now ventures upon the bold attempt 

 of annihilating St. Patrick. It is an undoubted fact, 

 that this saint is not mentioned in any author, or in any 

 work of veracity, in the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth 

 centuries. His name is in Bede's Martyrology ; but it 

 is more than probable that that martyrology is not 

 Bede's : nor can It be conceived that Bede, in his other 

 works, should never notice the signal service rendered 

 by Patrick to the Roman church, and the signal 

 miracles wrought by him In its behalf, if he had ever 

 heard of them ; for the old venerabills was zealously 

 .devoted to that church and its mythology." 



The saint certainly vanishes into " an airy no- 

 thing," if we are to credit the above authors. I 



have also consulted Ware, a Roman Catholic 

 writer, author of the Antiquitates Hibernicce, and 

 nowhere can I find a trace of St. Patrick's birth- 

 place, although he is frequently mentioned. In 

 his seventh chapter he says, "Sancti prascipui 

 Hibernici Seculi quinti, qui Euangelium in Hiber- 

 nia prsedicaerunt, fuerunt Palladius, Patricius," 

 and many others. The twenty-sixth chapter, en- 

 titled " Monasteriologia Hibernica, sive Diatriba 

 de Hiberniae Coenoblis, in qua Origines eorum et 

 aliae Antiquitates aperiuntur," gives the names 

 and titles of the founders of monasteries, as also 

 their dates, and, in speaking of one of them, but in 

 this case specifying no date, relates a <!urious cir- 

 cumstance as to the building of a church. It may 

 perhaps interest your readers, and I will there- 

 fore quote the passage (p. 212.) : 



*' Sanctus Patricius construxit hoc coenoblum Canon- 

 ids regularibus, elque prasfeclt Abbatem S. Dunnlum: 

 Eccleslam vero adjecit (juxta Jocelinum Furnessen- 

 sem), contra morem receptum, non ab Occidente in 

 Orientem, sed a Septentrione in Austrum protensam." 



This nevertheless hangs upon the reality of a 

 St. Patrick. In another part of the same work it 

 is said of a monastery (p. 219.) : 



" S. Dabeocum fundasse ferunt Seculo .5, vivente 

 S. Patricio. Alii S.PatricIum fundatorem volunt." 



From these quotations it is clear Ware treated 

 him as a real actor in Irish ecclesiastical affairs ; 

 but the two first-named authors appear to set the 

 matter at rest. E. M. R, 



Grantham. 



Cabal (Vol. iv., p. 507.). — The two quotations 

 from Hudibras evidently refer to two different 

 meanings of this word Cabal. The first, alluding 

 to the ancient Cabala, or Mysteries, or Secrets, 

 from whence Cabalistic; the second, to its more 

 modern, or political acceptation, — both, however, 

 including the idea of secrecy or privity, as opposed 

 to a general participation of knowledge or purpose. 

 It is the latter application of the word to which 

 the inquiry of E. H. D. D., at p. 443., Vol. iv., re- 

 fers : and Mb. Kerslet's quotation from a book 

 printed in 1655 (p. 139., Vol. v.), proves its usage 

 in this sense at least seven years before Burnet'^s 

 derivation of the word from the initials of the five 

 chief ministers of Charles IL I do not think that 

 Pepys could use the word Cabal, as applicable to 

 the " king's confidential advisers," sevei-al years 

 before Burnet derived it from their initials ; the 

 ministers in question having been appointed circa 

 1670. Burnet's definition was published in 1672, 

 and Pepys was appointed Secretary to the Admi- 

 ralty in -1673. Blount, in his Glossographia, 

 3rd edition, 1670, says, " We use to say he is not 

 of our cabal, that is, he is not received into our 



