2ni s. X. July 7. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



influence of John ii Lasco, a Pole of high rank, 

 ■who had arrived in England on the 13th of May 

 in the same year. The letters patent constituting 

 this Church, which was to be called " Templum 

 Domini Jesu," were dated on the 24th of July, 

 and will be found in llymer's Fcedera, xv. 242., 

 and in Burnet's History of the Heformation, vol. 

 ii., Collection of Records, No. 51. John a Lasco, 

 " natione Polanus," was constituted the fii'st super- 

 intendent ; and as ministers were nominated Gual- 

 terus de Boemis, Martinus Flandrus, Franciscus 

 Eiverius, and Rodolphus Gallus. By these names 

 it would seem that the country of each was desig- 

 nated ; but I am not sure that such was the fact. 

 The first name is variously read Deloemis, instead 

 of de Boemis ; and what would be the meaning of 

 River ius ? 



1. In the Index to the Works of the Parker 

 Society, the first is entered as " Deloenus (Gual- 

 ter) or Walter Delvin." I believe the true name 

 was Deloene, but should be glad to learn from 

 whence he came. 



2. The Fleming was certainly Martinus Micro- 

 nius, some of whose letters written in London are 

 printed in the collection from Zurich printed for 

 the Parker Society. 



3. Franciscus Iliverius was Perusel, afterwards 

 the minister at Wesel in the Duchy of Cleves, 

 who befriended the Duchess of Suffolk in her 

 exile, as appears in Foxe's interesting narrative of 

 that matter. 



4. ThefourthwasVauville, who married Joanna, 

 the attendant on the wife of Bishop Hooper. He 

 is sometimes called Richard instead of Rodolph, 

 but I suppose by mistake. 



Having failed to find these ministers duly de- 

 scribed in Mr. J. S. Burn's History of the Foreign 

 Protestant Refugees, 1846, I submit the above 

 notices for correction and amplification. 



It is noticed by Strype, Mccles. Memorials, vol. 

 ii. p. 241., that Martin Micronius carried the re- 

 gister of the Dutch church with him to Embden, 

 when that church was broken up on Queen Mary's 

 accession. Is that register still in existence ? 



John Gough Nichols. 



Blake Queries. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." point out the connexion and arrange- 

 ment of the following materials of a pedigree of 

 Blake ? — 



1. The celebrated Admiral Robert Blake had 

 the following brothers, viz.: 1. Humphrey; 2. 

 (Dr. of Physic) William ; 3. George, who obtained 

 in 1671 a patent for erecting a lighthouse in Bar- 

 badoes ; 4. Alexander ; 5. Samuel, an officer ; 6. 

 Benjamin; 7. Nicholas, a Spanish merchant of 

 London trading with the West Indies. 



2. In Jamaica, Nov. 6, 1717, we find the birth of 

 Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Blake. In 



1 743 the marriage of Alexander Blake and Ha- 

 gar Williams. 



The deaths of Elizabeth Blake, Nicholas Blake, 

 and Benjamin Blake, circa 1750-60. These three 

 were the children of Benjamin Blake. The younger 

 Benjamin again had four children, viz. : 1. Wil- 

 liam Blake, Speaker of the House of Assembly ; 

 2. Benjamin William Blake ; 3. Nicholas Allen 

 Blake ; 4. Margaret Bonella Blake. 



3. In Barbadoes we find the will of Elizabeth, 

 wife of Nicholas Blake (merchant of London, and 

 of Bishop's Mead, Kent), in 1663, in which their 

 son Nicholas is mentioned, and their relatives 

 Prideaux, Mortimer, Turville, arid Wilson. In 

 1664, we find the marriage of' the elder Nicholas 

 Blake and Mrs. Mary Mussinden, and his mar- 

 riage ajiain with Mrs. Judith , who died in 



1667. He himself died in 1682. B. 



South Sea Stock. — Are there in the British 

 Museum any printed documents containing lists 

 of the holders of South Sea Stock at any time 

 from 1711 to 1720 ? G. A. S. L. 



The Cobler of Glocester. — Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q." give me information respecting the 

 notable personage written of under this name, or 

 who were the authors of the pamphlets respecting 

 him, and the circumstances under which they 

 were written ? I have in my possession — 



« The Life and Death of Ralph Wallis the Cobler of 

 Glocester : together with some inquiry into the Mystery 

 of Conventicleism. London, printed by E. Okes for Wil- 

 liam Whitwood, 1670." 



And I perceive that the Collectanea Glocestri- 

 ensia, in the possession of John Delafield Phelps, 

 Esq., Chavenage House, contains in addition to 

 this tract others, entitled " Room for the Cobler 

 of Glocester and his Wife," " The Cobler of Glo- 

 cester revived," and " The Young Cobler of Glo- 

 cester, or Magna Charta — Discourse of between 

 a poor Man and his Wife." But all I am able to 

 gather from the first, which is the only one I have 

 read, is, that a religious controversy was carried 

 on with great violence, and that some controver- 

 sialist at, or probably officially connected with, 

 Glocester took part in it, and was soundly abused 

 by an opponent in the above-mentioned imaginary 

 biography. J. J. P. 



Stench and SaiEiiL. — 



" He observed that stink or stench meant no more 

 than a strong impression on the olfactory nerves, and 

 might be applied to substances of the most opposite 

 qualities ; that in the Dutch language stinken signified 

 the most agreeable perfume as well as the most fetid 

 odour, as appears ia Van Vloudel's translation of Horace 

 in that beautiful ode, Quls multa gracilis, &c. The words 

 liquidis perfusus odoribus, he translates, van civet e mos- 

 chata gestinken." — Humphry Clinker, vol. i. p. 28. ed. 

 1779. 



Is the above quotation genuine, or manufac- 

 tured by Smollett for the occasion ? I cannot find 



