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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ S. X Aug. 25. '60. 



mony be produces in his letter, from St. Au- 

 gustin, viz. that St. Ambrose, when consulted; 

 replied, "When I go to Rome, I fast on the 

 Saturday as they do at Rome." Socrates, then, 

 is utterly untrustworthy on this point. Martene 

 says of him, — - 



" Veriim Socratem, si non mendacii, saltern oscitantiae 

 arguunt Cassianus et S. Leo Papa, ipsi aetate aequales, sed 

 auctoritate longfe superiores, qui non solum tres, sed sex 

 integras hebdomadas Romae, atque adfeo in Occidente 

 jejunatum fuisse tradunt." (Z>e Antiq. Ecc. Jtitibus, lib. 

 iv. cap. 18.) 



Benedict XIV., also, speaking of this strange 

 assertion, says : — 



• ..." id purum putum mendacium esse, evincunt 

 contraria Leonis Magni, Petri Chrysologi, aliorumque 

 Patruni, qui Socratis ostate vixerunt, testimonia congesta 

 a Natali Alexandre, Dissert, iv. ad sec. 2." (Z)e Synodo 

 Dicecesand, lib. xi. cap. 1.) 



I demur, moreover, to the principle which 

 seems to be assumed by your correspondent, that 

 any one writing at a former period is to be taken 

 as affording " evidence " of what took place 

 during that period. That depends on many con- 

 ditions. Would a man now writing, in London, 

 on the customs of the inhabitants of Moscow, for 

 example, but who never had been at Moscow, 

 afford " historical evidence " of those customs ? 

 Now Socrates was a layman, living at Constanti- 

 nople ; and he advances an absurd assertion about 

 Rome, which, as we have seen, is in opposition to 

 his contemporaries, who had greater opportunities 

 of knowing the truth. His authority, then, is 

 nil. 



Mr. Buckton speaks of " the difficulty arising 

 from the darkness spread over this period (eighth 

 and ninth centuries) by the ascendency of Rome, 

 then encouraging the propagation of idle tales, in 

 lieu of history and criticism." Now from this I 

 of course totally dissent ; but I refrain from com- 

 bating it, because such inflammable matter is, I 

 think, entirely unsuited to the peaceful pages of 

 " N. & Q." John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



BISHOP BEDELL. 

 (2"^ S. vii. 350. ; viii. 301. ; x. 61. 97.) 

 The following letters and documents relating to 

 Bishop Bedell are preserved in Her Majesty's 

 State Paper Office : — 



1627. May 29. Charles I. to Lord Deputy. [Hy. Gary, 

 Viscount Falkland]. For William Bedell, B.D., to be 

 Provost of Trinity College by Dublin. (Copv.) 



1629. June 2. William Bedell, the late ' Provost of 

 Trinity College, to Archbishop Laud. To assist the two 

 fellovirs of the College deputed to intercede with the King 

 for their freedom of election of a new Provost. [N. B. 

 There is attached to this letter a verj' perfect impression 

 of Bedell's seal, bearing his peculiar device — a crucible in 

 flames, and surrounded with the Hebrew motto.] 



1630. Dec. 6. Bishop of Kilmore to Archbishop Laud. 



Has received his letter enclosed in those of Mr. Hamilton. 

 Relates the strife he has fallen into with regard to his 

 unworthy chancellor of his diocese [i. e. Dr. Allan Cooke]. 

 1630. Dec. 15. Orders of the Lords Justices [Adam 

 Loftus, Viscount Ely, and Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork] 

 and Council in the cause of William, Bishop of Kilmore 

 and Ardagh, pit, and Robert Ferrall, deft. : appointing 

 that the town and castle of Glynne and 12 cartrones of 

 land anciently belonging to the bishopric of Ardagh, to- 

 gether with the Rectories of Clonogher and Clonderath, 

 should be reassured to the Church of Ardagh. (Copy.) 



1630. Dec. 15. Charles I. to the Lords Justices. War- 

 rant for carrying into effect the above Order, notwith- 

 standing the Statute of Mortmain. 



1631. May 10, Dublin. Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh 

 to Archbishop Laud. Touching the castle of Glynne and 

 12 cartrones of land laying hard b}' in Ardagh, which 

 Lisagh O'Ferral, sometime holding the place of Bishop of 

 Ardagh [1583—1608], ma^e away with, and which Sir 

 Thomas Cary endeavours to wrest from the see. 



1637. Sept. 2. Bishop of Kilmore to Laud. Expects 

 Laud's thoughts about our university patent and statutes. 

 Hopes the settlement of the College will be healthful to 

 the Church. The King's letters in favour of the Bishops 

 of Ardagh and Kilmore about the Leitrira lands. Has 

 called to residence Mr. N[icola3] Bernard, Dean of the 

 rural deanery of Kilmore. 



1637. Oct. 12. Laud to Bishop of Kilmore. His views 

 as to dissolving pluralities, especially of bishoprics and 

 residence of clergy. .(Extract.) 



1638. Sept. 19. Acts of the Diocesan Synod of Kilmore 

 on the complaint of Margery King, wife of Murtach 

 King, Vicar of the parish of Templeport, against William 

 Bayly, Vicar of Anagheliflf, for battery and injury to her 

 husband and herself. 



1638. Oct. 20. The inhibition suit from the Primate of 

 Armagh to the Bishop of Kilmore against making synodal 

 decrees. 



1638. Nov. 12. Dublin. Bishop of Kilmore to Laud. 

 Sickness of his son in England, "fhe ill success of the 

 inhibition of pluralities and non-residence. He deprived 

 Mr. Bayly of the benefice into which he first intruded 

 himself, and excommunicated him for his second intru- 

 sion into that of Mr. King, the translator of the Bible 

 into Irish. 



1638. Dec. 1. Bishop of Kilmore to the Lord Deputy. 

 [Thos. Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.] Vindicates Mr. 

 King, whose living he had taken away, and refers to the 

 Lord Primate, the Bishop of Meath, and Sir James Ware, 

 for his character. His fitness to translate the Bible into 

 Irish. 



1638. Dec. 20. Bishop of Kilmore to Laud, Is glad his 

 Grace does not despair of the recovery of our ecclesiastical 

 body. The Lord Primate promised to use his utmost 

 endeavours to reme<ly our disorders. Tlie bruit has much 

 ceased concerning his bringing into the Castle-Chamber, 

 and prtsmunire for the Diocesan Synod. — The termon 

 lands. 



1638. Dec. Sum of the matters objected against Mur- 

 tach King. — Indorsed Articles of the High Commission. 



163§. Jan. 12. Bishop of Derry [D^ John Bramhall] 

 to Laud. Inter alia, forbears to send the bishop of Kil- 

 more's canons lately made at his Diocesan Synod. Derry 

 considers it a strange attempt, and the first that has been 

 heard of in Europe for 600 years. 



163|. March 13. Charles I. to the Archbishop of Dublin 

 and others relative to the complaint of D''. Allan Cooke, 

 the Vicar-general and Ofiicial of the Bishop of Kilmore, 

 and a certain Thomas Price, made to the Primate of Ar- 

 magh. (Formal Document bv the Lord Deputy in Latin.) 



1039. March 29. The Primale of Armagh to Charles I. 



