2'"» S. X, Aug. 4, '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUSTA. 18G0. 



NO. 240. —'CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— James Land the Recusants, 81— A Prodigy of 

 Literary Labour, 85 — The Baronetage of James I. andthe 

 Feudal Baronet, 86 — Honest Tom Martin's House. Ih. 



Minor Notes : — A Pacificatory Precedent — Distinction 

 by Lines of Colours in Arms — Bishopric of Norwich : 

 Cong^ d'61ire — Char : Charwoman — Epitaph on Rosa- 

 mund—Oliver Cromwell a Wool-grotver — Stars compared 

 to Sentries — Arms of the City of London, 87. 



QUERIES : — Boyland, Sir Richard, Justice Itinerant of the 

 King — Althorp Household Books — George III. and Han- 

 nah Lightfoot — " History of Robespierre " — Sir Thomas 

 Williams — Heraldic Visitations of Irish Counties — Ver- 

 ncr and Lammie or L'Amys Families — Joseph Scaliger — 

 Taafe arid Gordon Families — Willses and Junius — Crown 

 Diamonds of France — American Rivers — Robert Robin- 

 son — " Burthen'd Pilgrim " — Freshfleld of Norwich — 

 "Witty Sayings of Charles II. — "Pressing to Death" — 

 " Origin of Governments " — Andronicus, 88. 



Queries with Answees: — Song Wanted— "Ode to the 

 Cuckoo " — Bibliography— Druses — Lewis Sharpe — PapaJ 

 Tiara — Dates, 91. 



REPLIES : — Burning of the Jesuitical Books, 92— Gowrie's 

 Mother, lb. — Beloe's Sexagenarian, 93 — Christopher, Lord 

 Hatton, 95 — Duke of Kent's Canadian Residence — Letter 

 of Cromwell — Socrates — Antrobus — Additions to Pope's 

 Works — Novel Weather Indicator — "Regno delle due 

 Sicilie " — The Judges' Black Cap — Legendary Painting — 

 End — Burnet's. Life of Bishop Bedell — Error in English 

 Bible — The Rolliad — The Prices of Llanffwyst — Battia- 

 combe Family — Acheson Family, 95. 



Notes on Books. 



JAMES I. AND THE RECUSANTS. 

 (Concluded from 2°* S. ix. 499.) 



In November, 1604, the conviction of a Mr. 

 Pound in the Star Chamber caused great excite- 

 ment amongst the English Roman Catholics. The 

 story is thus told by Mr. Jardine (p. 45.) : — 



" The judges of assize for the northern circuit, Baron 

 Saville and Serjeant Phillips, were reported to have ut- 

 tered strong invectives against the Roman Catholics on 

 occasion of these prosecutions; and the former in parti- 

 cular was said to have declared as law to the grand jury 

 that all persons attending upon the celebration of mass 

 by a Jesuit or seminary priest were guilty of felony. 

 Upon this, Mr. Pound .... presented a petition to the 

 King, complaining generally of the persecution of the 

 Roman Catholics, and in particular of the rigorous pro- 

 ceedings and alarming doctrines of the Judges at Man- 

 chester." 



Being arrested, and by order of the Privy Coun- 

 cil prosecuted in the Star Chamber : — 



" In the end Mr. Pound was sentenced by the court to 

 be imprisoned in the Fleet during the King's pleasure; 

 to stand in the pillory, both at Lancaster and Westmin- 

 ster, and to pay a fine of one thousand pounds." 



Here Mr. Jardine leaves the story. It is, how- 

 ever, possible to continue it a little farther. Whe- 

 ther Mr. Pound actually stood in the pillory at 

 Westminster is uncertain. Eudasmon Johannes, 

 evidently referring to him, states that a certain 



anonymous person stood in the pillory in London 

 during a whole day.* Abbot, taking advantage of 

 the vague character of the charge of cruelty 

 against the government for having persecuted a 

 person whose name is not given, boldly treats the 

 whole affair as a fiction.j- This is, of course, prov- 

 ing too much. 



His farther course may be traced by means of 

 a paper now calendared among the undated papers 

 of 1604, the true date of which is traced, by the 

 mention of Pound's case, to the spring of 1605.J 

 It is entitled " Proceedings at York and Lancas- 

 ter against Recusants." According to this Mr. 

 Pound, who "was there by order of the Star 

 Chamber," contented himself at York with saying 

 that " if he had offended, he was sorry for it." He 

 was then taken on to Lancaster, and there — 



" First, Mr. Pound there being resolved both bj' the 

 Attorney of the Wards, and Mr. Tilsley, to whom he ap- 

 pealed in the Star Chamber for testimony, and by all 

 other the Justices of peace at the former and this assizes 

 present of the untruth of his information to his Majesty, he 

 thereupon confessed his fault, and with humility sub- 

 mitted himself." 



This is a very different story from that which is 

 given in the authorities referred to by Mr. Jar- 

 dine. They say that Pound was condemned sim- 

 ply for complaining of the proceedings of the 

 judges. The extract given above can only be in- 

 terpreted to mean that he charged them with 

 saying things which they did not say. 



Upon his submission the fine of 1000^. was re- 

 duced to 100Z.§ Such a state of things as this, half 

 persecution, half toleration, could not long con- 

 tinue. In the beginning of the year 1605 a cir- 

 cumstance occurred which unexpectedly led to a 

 renewal, in all its rigour, of the Elizabethan per- 

 secution. 



In the summer of 1602, whilst James was still 

 in Scotland, Sir James Lindsay, a Scotch Roman 

 Catholic whose ordinary residence was at Rome, 

 was on a visit to his native country. The Pope 

 made use of this visit to entrust him with a letter 

 for James, in which he assured the king of his 

 friendship, and acquainted him with the messages 

 which he had sent to all Catholic princes, requir- 

 ing them to throw no obstructions in the way of 

 James's accession to the English throne. He 

 concluded by expressing a wish that if he would 

 not himself forsase the Protestant faith, he would 

 at least permit his eldest son to be educated in the 

 Roman Catholic religion. 



James returned only a verbal answer, although 

 he accompanied it by some short memoranda for 

 Lindsay's own use. Lindsay was detained in Scot- 



* Eudaemon Jbhannes, Col. Ag. 1610, p. 238. 



t Antilogia, Lond. 1613, fol. 132, b. 



j Domestic Series, v. 73. 



§ As appears from a list of fines actually paid in con- 

 sequence of decrees in the Star Chamber, S. P. 0. Domes- 

 tic Series, xliii. 52, Jan. ? 1609. 



