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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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definitely fixed to be between the Nicene Creed 

 and the Ofiertory, and this direction is corroborated 

 by the rubric after the Nicene Creed, which, in 

 the books of which I am speaking, names amongst 

 other things to be then proclaimed by the curate 

 hanns of marriage. 



The alterations in the rubi'ics have evidently 

 been made by the printers without authority ; and, 

 therefore, the original rule still holds good, viz. 

 that the banns shall be published during the time 

 of Morning Service (i. e. in the accustomed place), 

 and of Evening Service (when there is no Morn- 

 ing Service) "immediately after the Second Les- 

 son." This direction is in no degree nullified by 

 the statute 26 Geo. II., and in natural deference 

 to old and universal custom, and with the valu- 

 able authority of the late Baron Alderson, no 

 clel'gyman need, I think, hesitate for a moment as 

 to the course he should adopt in this really very 

 plain and simple matter. Edmund Sedding. 



I am not aware of any other legal interpreta- 

 tion of the Act of Parliament, respecting the time 

 of publication, than that of Baron Alderson. But 

 the whole question is discussed at length in that 

 repertory of authorities and facts and precedents, 

 A. J. Stephens' edition of the Book of Common 

 Prayer (vol. ii. p. 1151.), 8vo., Lond. 1850. His 

 view coincides with the dictum of Baron Alderson 

 as to the proper time. E. M. 



BOLETN AND HaMMOND FAMILIES (2°** S. ix. 



425.) — Col. Robert Hammond married a daughter 

 of John Hampden, who, according to Mr. Noble 

 in his Life of Cf^omivell, took for his second wife 

 the Lady Letitia Vachell of Coley, and that she 

 was buried at Great Hampden, Bucks, 29 March, 

 1666. Lady Vachell was the daughter of Sir 

 Francis Knovvlls, Knight, and married,* 23 Sept. 

 1616, Sir Thomas Vachell, who died July, 1638. 

 (Coates' Histori/ of Reading.) Fuller, in his 

 Worthies, ii. 227., says. Sir Francis KnowUs mar- 

 ried Cary, sister to Henry Lord Hunsdon 



(and cousin-german to Queen Elizabeth, having 

 Mary Bullen for her mother). Sir Francis had 

 with other children Sir Francis, who was living 

 at, and chosen a member of, the late Long Par- 

 liament ; since dead, aged ninety-nine, the father 

 of the Lady Letitia Vachell. Burke's Landed 

 Gentry gives no daughter to Mary Boleyn (sister 

 to Queen Anne Boleyn) and William Carey,' but 

 only mentions Henry, created Lord Hunsdon by 

 Queen Elizabeth. 



Thus the descent would be from Boleyn, — Cary 

 who marries Knowlls, who marries Hampden, 

 whose daughter married Hammond. This is 

 plain, but two doubts arise. 1st. Was the daugh- 

 ter of Hampden by his first or second wife ? 

 2nd. Was Hampden's second wife the Lady Va- 

 chell ? Mr. Coates thinks not, as in the register 

 of St. Mary's is the following entry : *' Burial, 



1666, Mch. 29. _ The Lady Vachell." The re- 

 gisters of the parish of Great Hampden have been 

 examined, but without any record of the inter- 

 ment mentioned by Mr. Noble. In a book on the 

 death of that much-bewailed gentleman Colonel 

 Robert Hammond, by Dr. Simon Ford of Read- 

 ing, Dec. 5, 1654, is a preface and dedication to 

 the noble and worthily-honoured ladies and gen- 

 tlemen, the Lady Cecilia ICnoUys, the Lady Le- 

 tice Vachell, the Lady Anne Pye, Mrs. Letice 

 Hampden *, Mrs. Elizabeth, Margaret, and Mary 

 Hammond, Mrs. Trevor, and all the rest of the 

 noble families concerned in that late sad stroke of 

 Providence. R. J. Fynmore. 



AiSLABiE ojp Studley (2"^ B. X. 8.) — It is stated 

 in Charlton's Burghley, p. 189. that Wm. Aislabie, 

 the husband of Elizabeth Cecil, on her death 

 married for his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Sir Charles Vernon, Kt., and died in 1781, leaving 

 issue by both his wives. In the pedigree of the 

 Cecil family in Blore's Rutland, p. 81., only one 

 child by Elizabeth Cecil is named, Elizabeth, who 

 was married to Chas. Allanson of Bramham Big- 

 gin, CO. York, Esq. and died s. p. J. P. 



P. R. may find the information which he 

 requires in the pedigree of Earl de Grey and 

 Ripon, in connexion with the following clues : — 



Fountains Abbey was in the " Messenger" 

 family till 1767, when it was sold to William Ais- 

 labie, Esq., of Studley ; and on the death of the 

 late Mr. E. S. Lawrence in 1845, it came to Earl 

 de Grey (by will). (Abbeys of Yorkshire.) 



In the church of Patrick Brompton, is the mo- 

 nument of William Lawrence, Esq., only son of 

 Wm. Lawrence, by his wife Anna Sophia, the 

 daughter and co-heir of William Aislabie, Esq., of 

 Studley. {Hist, of Richmond,') 



The above Mr. Lawrence was heir presumptive 

 of Studley Park and Hackfall : he was cousin- 

 german to Sir Soulden Lawrence. Spalatro. 



JuD^us Odor (P' S. vii. 295., &c.)-— 

 " En 1262, une memorable confA-ence eut lieu devant 

 le roi et la reine d'Aragon, entre le savant rabbin Zechiel 

 et le frfere Paul Ciriaque, domenican tr^s ^rudit. Quarid 

 le docteur juif eut cit^ le Toldos Jeschut, le Targum, les 

 archives du Sanh^drin, le Nissachon Vetus, le Talmud, 

 &c., la reine finit la dispute en lui demandant /^oar^ztoi les 

 jnifs puaient." — Victor Hugo, LittSrature et Philosophie 

 Melees, Bruxelles, 1837, t. i. p. 62. 



Heine gives a poetical version of the contro- 

 versy, at the end of which, the queen being asked 

 to decide, says : — 



" Welcher recht hat, wetss ich nicht — 

 Doch es will mich schier bedlinken, 

 Dass der Rabbi und der Monch, 

 Dass sie alle beide stinken." 



Romanzers, p. 283., Hafiaburg, 1851. 



Where is the original story ? H. B. C. 



* This similarity of Christian names may have caused 

 Mr. Noble's error, if it is an error. 



