June 26. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The writer wishes for an accurate pedigree of 

 •Sir George Carew, showing his rehitionship to Sir 

 Peter Carew, who was buried at Ross, and to Sir 

 Peter who was killed at the skirmish of Glenda- 

 Jough in 1581. H. 



Docking Horses' Tails. — I should be glad to 

 :learn wlien the practice of docking horses' tails 

 commenced in England, or in any country of 

 Europe, and what was the immediate cause of this 

 amputation ? I cannot trace in the plates of 

 Froissart, or others of a later date, any indication 

 of this practice, and in them there are no tails 

 topped of their fair proportions. 



What other nations besides the English have 

 ever docked their horses' tails; and where is any 

 Account to be found of tlieir reasons for so doing? 



If any of your correspondents will answer these 

 ' Queries, I shall feel obliged. Tail. 



St. Albans, William, Abbot of. — Archbishop 

 Morton addressed a monition in 1490 to William, 

 Abbot of St. Albans. It is to be found in Wil- 

 kin's Concilia, in. 632., and is extracted from 

 Archbishop Morton's Register, fol. 22. b. Now, 

 in Tanner's Notitia, and in Dugdale's Monasticon, 

 it is stated that William Wallingford, Abbot of 

 St. Albans, died in 1484 ; and that the chair was 

 vacant until 1492, when Thomas Ramryge was 

 elected abbot. Archbishop Morton's original let- 

 ter is, I believe, to be seen in the register at Lam- 

 beth, and its date is distinctly 1490. This date, 

 Bioreover, agrees with the Excerpta of Dr. Ducarel 

 in the British Museum. 



Can any of your readers solve this difficulty for 

 ane, as I am anxious to know immediately whether 

 I may safely identify " ^Vllliam," the notorious 

 « evil-liver of Morton's monition, with " Walling- 

 ton," wlio bears a respectable character in Dug- 

 dale's Monasticon. L. H. J. Tonna. 



Jeremy Taylor on Friendship. — 



" I am grieved at every sad story I hear. I am 

 troubled when I hear of a pretty bride murdered in her 

 bride-chamber by an ambitious and enraged rival," &c. 

 — Jeremy Taylor on Friendship, p. 37, fol. Lond. 1674. 



This was written a.d. 1657 : what is the case 

 referred to ? C. P. E. 



^ Colonel or Major- General Lee. — The dates of 

 Lis letters tend to prove that Lee was on the con- 

 tinent in 1770; and this is apparently borne out 

 by the " memoirs " published both in America and 

 in England. But Dr. Girdleston, in his strange 

 ■work published in 1813, asserts that on the 

 20th April, 1770, at the christening of Sir Charles 

 Davis's eldest son, Charles Sydney, Lee was at 

 Hushbrooke in Suffolk. The proof, however, is 

 not adduced in a simple and straightforward 

 manner. At page 6, Dr. Girdlestone tells us that 

 some person, not named, remembers that Lee stood 

 sponsor, &c. ; at page 7, that the register proves 



that the baptism took place on the 20th April, 

 1770 ; and at page 13, that the register proves that 

 Lee was on the 20th April " in that church." This 

 last is the only fact bearing on the question at 

 issue. Will any of your intelligent correspondents 

 residing at Bury favour you with a copy of the 

 register of the baptism of Charles Sydney on the 

 20th April, 1770? C. M. L. 



"Roses all that's fair adorn." — Can you inform 

 me where I can find a copy of an old poem, which 

 begins as follows : 



" Roses all that's fair adorn, 

 Rosy-finger'd is the morn," &c. ; 

 since I have searched in vain for k. W. SL 



Donne. — In Walton's Life of Donne it is said 

 that Donne left behind him — 



"The resultance of 1400 authors, most of theiii 

 abridged and analysed with his own hand ; he left also 

 some six score of sermons, all written with his own 

 hand." 



Can any one tell me what has become of these 

 MSS., and where they are now to be found if they 

 still exist? Ajax, 



[The Sermons have been published in three volume* 

 folio: the first printed in 1640, containing eighty; the 

 second in 1649, containing fifty; and the third in 

 1660, containing twenty-six.] 



Dr. Evans. — Who was Dr. Evans, author of 

 the Sketch of Christian Denominations f It would 

 not be easy to ascertain, from internal evidence, 

 what "denomination" he was himself! AVho is 

 the modern editor, the llev. James Bransby ? 



A.A.D. 



[Mr. Evans was born at Uske in Monmouthshire iii 

 1767, studied at the Bristol Academy, and afterwards 

 at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. In 

 1792 he became pastor of a congregation of General 

 Baptists in Worship Street, London ; and opened an 

 academy for youth in Hoxton, which was subsequently 

 removed to Islington. In 1819 he obtained the diploma 

 of Doctor of I>aws from Brown University, in Rhode 

 Island, America. His death took place Jan. 25, 1827. 

 In doctrinal matters, we believe he was a mitigated 

 Socinian ; and we believe his Editor, who was a 

 schoolmaster at Carnarvon, held the same theological 

 views.] 



CARIiING SUNDAY — BOMAN FUNERAL PILE. 



(Vol. iii., p. 449. ; Vol. iv., p. 381. ; Vol. v., p. 67.) 



At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and many other places 

 in the North of England, grey peas, after having 

 been steeped a night in water, are fried with butter, 

 given away, and eaten at a kind of entertainment 

 on the Sunday preceding Palm Sunday, vrhich 



