2'"i S. X. July 28. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Signs at Monkshbath, Cheshire (2°^ S, x. 

 46.) — P.P.'s 6rst question relates to an old legend 

 of a countryman being led by a monk to a cavern, 

 in -which lay asleep knights and chargers ; man 

 and horse, to be both awakened at some time 

 when England was to be in peril. I believe the 

 legend is told in Walter Scott's Demonology of 

 some place in Scotland, in almost the same terms, 

 but I think the Cheshire version is mixed up with 

 Nixon's prophecies of the three-thumbed miller 

 of Alderley, who was to hold three kings' horses 

 up to his knees in blood ; which was rather looked 

 for, when the Emperors and King of Prussia visited 

 England in 1814. It was, if I recollect, put into 

 verse by a servant of the Stanley (of Alderley) 

 family, and printed in the neighbourhood (pro- 

 bably at Macclesfield) thirty years since. About 

 1830-31, if I am not mistaken, the legend ap- 

 peared in that almost forgotten periodical the 

 Mirror, the precursor of the Penny Magazine and 

 " cheap Serials." J. II. L. 



Britain 1116 b.c. (2"* S. ix. 402. 494.) — In 

 a curious little pocket volume, the title of which, 

 in brief, is : — 



"Chronological Tables, containing the Successions of 

 all y« Popes, Emperours and Kings, which have reigned 

 in Europe from y" Nativitv of our Saviour to y" year 

 1696. By Coll, W™ Parsons. The Fifth ImpVession. 

 London : Printed and Sold by Sam. Lowndes against 

 Exeter Change," &c. &c., 



the earlier history of Britain is given as fol- 

 lows : — 



"Although we begin y^ /Era of our Computation but 

 from y« time of Egbert and y« Series of y° most Ancient 

 times are very Intricate and y« Storj'S somew* Fabulous, 

 till y» time of Dunwallo : yet before him occurs 7 Samo- 



theans, I Albionist, and 20 Trojans which last 



begin their Dynasty vi^^ Brute who (Ah Mundi 2850, be- 

 fore X' 1100) arriv'd in England called Albion, as Scot- 

 land was Caledonia : and (as Tacitus saith) divided y« 

 Island, y® greatest in Europe, into Great and Little Brit- 

 tain, whose Line after manj' years Ended in Ferrox and 

 Porrex j^ 2 Sons of Gorbodug. Then after great Bicker- 

 ings for about 90 y" y<> Monarch^' degenerated into a 

 Pentarch}'. In w'='», 1*' Staterus of Albania, Yeven of 

 Northumberland, Pinner of Loegria, Kudac of Wales and 

 Cloton of Cornwal, whose brave Son Mulmutius Dunwallo 

 (after an Interregnum of 50 y') having subdued y« other 

 rulers in y® Pentarchy was chosen K. 3529, and was y« I't 

 Crown'd K. of Britain ; His Predecessors being but ac- 

 counted as Rulers, Dukes, or Govern". '1 bus he brought it 

 to a Monarchy again. In whose Line are 15British Mon- 

 archs to y^ time of Cassibelane (3890). About which 

 time 1. Csesar entred y® Kingdom and made it Tributary. 

 From whose time to Lucius y« 1" Christian K. (aii X" 

 270) we find 7, and from him to Vortigern 12, who in- 

 viting y Saxons to his Aid ag«' y« Picts and Scots (460) 

 gave them an opportunity of becoming M" of y® whole. 

 In w<''» Series to y« time of Egbert (800) we meet w*'» 13 

 more, of whom Cadwallader is y® last. And y® Saxons 

 dividing y« Island into 7 Petty Kingdoms," &c. ' 



The above is dedicated to " The Most Honble. 

 Charles Marq. of Worcester, Son and Heir Ap- 

 parent to his Grace Henry Duke of Beaufort," 



&c., and contains a commendatory notice from the 

 pen of 



"J. Delacrose y« late Author of y® Universal and His- 

 torical Bibliotheque, in his Works of y® -Learned (Feb. 

 169A, Fol" 190) upon y« Publishing of y® 3" Impression of 

 these Tables." 



The author also disclaims the imputation of his 

 work being " no more than a Bare Translation of 

 y® French Edition by Mons. Marcel." 



Is anything known of the author or the work 

 above noticed ? It consists of " 43 copper- 

 plates . . . compassed for the Pockett," and seems 

 to have been one of the earliest eflbrts of "letter- 

 graving on copper-plates " from the tone of the 

 closing pragraph of Mons. Delacrose's recommen- 

 dation. Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Alban Butler (2""^ S. ix. 502.)— K R. is mis- 

 taken in supposing that the " early history of the 

 author of the Lives of the Saints is involved in 

 some obscurity." An intei'estiug account of his 

 life and writings was written by his nephew, the 

 late Charles Butler, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, and 

 is prefixed to most recent editions of the Lives 

 of the Saints. The Rev. Alban Butler was born 

 in Northamptonshire, and died May 15, 1773, in 

 the sixty-third year of his age. He lived for some 

 time but a few miles from where I write, and I 

 have known several who were personally ac- 

 quainted with him. More need not be said to 

 convince N. R. that Alhian Butler was a very 

 different person, and lived a whole century ear- 

 lier. . F. C. H. 



Publication of Banns (2'"' S. x. 18.) — The 

 statute 26 G. II. c. 33, s. 1. provides that the banns 

 should be published " during the time of morning 

 service, or of the evening service if there be no 

 morning service, in such church or chapel, on any 

 of those Sundays immediately after the second 

 lesson." E. M. has given Baron Alderson's inter- 

 pretation of the clause ; but generally the words, 

 " immediately after the second lesson " have been 

 interpreted as belonging to the whole sentence 

 which I have quoted. The clause has not been 

 rendered invalid by any later acts, such as those 

 of 4 G. IV. c. 76., G & 7 W. IV. c. 85. &c. 



On the contrary, the clause is re-enacted by 

 4 G. IV. c. 76.* Presbyter. 



Colonel Hooke (2'^^ S. x. 19.) — In illustra- 

 tion of your correspondent's suggestion I would 

 submit that nothing is more common than for a 

 French printer to insert the letter c before k in 

 English and other words. York he always spells 

 Yorrk. A Parisian publisher sends me a journal 

 to an address with which I furnished him. In 

 that address the word Hook occurs. Invariably 

 on the cover in which the journal reaches me the 

 word Hook is spelt Hoock. Hochlandkr. 



[* See "N. cSc Q." 2"<i S. i. 34. 77. 123. 142.— Ed.] 



