2»'i S. X. Aug. 25. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



153 



Eespecting the business of appeal between Dr. Allan 

 Cooke and the Bishop of Kilmore. Indorsed by the 

 Bishop " Apostle's refutatory." (An inclosure, 12 Mav, 

 1639.) 



1639. May 2. Petition of the Bishop of Kilmore to the 

 King in Chancery, with Order thereon, touching two 

 several appeals, one by Allan Cooke, Doctor of Law, his 

 Vicar-General, the other by William Bayly, M.A. (Copy.) 



1639. May 24. Dublin. Bishop of Kilmore to Laud. 

 Concerning his Chancellor's appeal from the Lord Pri- 

 mate to the Chancery. (Encloses Charles's letter to the 

 Archbishop of Dublin and others, and his petition to the 

 King in Chancery.) 



1639. June 28. Laud to the Bishop of Kilmore. The 

 appeals of Chancellor Cooke and Baj'Iy to the King in 

 Chancery — explains the danger of incurring a prcemunire 

 about his diocesan sj'nod. — The broken times of the Church 

 we live in. — The speech of the Chief Justice of the Com- 

 mon Pleas. (Copy.) 



1639. Aug. 7. Bishop of Derry to Laud. States (inter 

 alia) that the Bishopric of Kilmore is settled by the au- 

 thority of the Council Board. 



1641. Nov. 6. Remonstrance of the Gentry and Com- 

 monalty of Cavan to the Lords Justices and Council. 

 FThis extraordinary document is generally attributed to 

 Bedell; but whether he was coerced or not into drawing 

 it up — who can say ?] 



• 1641. Nov. 10. Dublin Castle. Ansioer of the Lords 

 Justices [Rob*. Lord Dillon, and Sir William Parsons] 

 and Council to the above. [A vofy severe document.] 



HERALDIC VISITATIONS OF IRISH COUNTIES. 

 (2°« S. X. 89.) 



A reference to the voluminous and most valu- 

 able " Reports of the Commissioners on the Public 

 Records of Ireland" enables me to answer the 

 inquiry of Abhba on this subject very fully. 



Your correspondent will there find (2nd Rep. 

 Sup. p. Q5.) a Report from the late Sir William 

 Bethani, then (1811) Deputy Ulster, giving a list 

 of the contents of the Office of Arms at Dublin. 

 This list is also printed in Moule's Bihliotheca 

 Heraldica, p. 609, but, as neither of these books 

 are commonly to be met with, I transcribe the 

 Report (from the original) so far as it relates to 

 the Query of your correspondent : — 



" Ulster King of Arms has in his possession '=^ [cus- 

 tody] 1st. Four Volumes of Books called Visitation books 

 containing the Pedigrees and Arms of the Nobility and 

 Gentrj' of several Counties in Ireland, particularly the 

 Counties of Dublin, Meath, Louth, and Wexford,' from 

 1568 to 1620, taken by virtue of Commissions directed 

 to Nicholas Narbonne and Daniel Moleyneux, Ulster 

 King of Arms. It appears that Visitations were made 

 in other Counties, from the references in various Books 

 now in the Oifice to such as were formerly there, and 

 which were, it is supposed, detained as private property 

 by the heirs or executors of the former Officers, but at 

 what particular period is unknown. Many Books are 

 said to have been carried off by the Person holding the 

 Office of Athlone Pursuivant of Arms, who fled to France 

 with King James II. He also carried off the Official 

 Seal." 



A very interesting account of the Wexford Vi- 

 sitation of 1618 — the only one mentioned by your 



correspondent — was given in the Wexford Inde- 

 pendent of August 6th, 1856. 



I should with pleasure lend a copy of that paper 

 to Abhba (whose address I know), if it would fa- 

 cilitate his inquiries. 



It is much to be desired that the good old cus- 

 tom of holding Visitations (if ever it was a custom 

 at this side of the Channel), should be revived; and 

 were the courteous gentleman and accomplished 

 genealogist who now holds the Office of Ulster to 

 visit each county in Ireland, there is little fear 

 that his summons would be disregarded even in 

 these utilitarian days. 



Since the appointment of Sir Bernard Burke, 

 the Office of Arms has assumed an air of neatness 

 and a lightsomeness not at all in keeping with the 

 musty associations usually connected with such 

 places, and literary men are allowed free access to 

 the documents there preserved when their inquiry 

 is for a literary object. 



It is to be regretted the powers of Ulster in re- 

 straining the use of unauthorised arms are not put 

 in force. Not to mention armorial bearings for 

 ■which some kind of prescriptive right is claimed, 

 one is constantly horrified by seeing on the panels 

 of cars and cabs plying for hire in the streets of 

 Dublin barbarous imitations of heraldic devices, 

 depicted in the most glaring colours, utterly re- 

 gardless of every principle of " the gentle Science 

 of Armorie." 



In England the tax on armorial bearings gives 

 a sanction to law of the Kings of Arms, and tacitly 

 enforces that sovereign's sway. 



In "justice to Ireland" let us have this tax ex- 

 tended to this country : it is the first and the last 

 we shall ask for ! John Ribton Gabstin, A.M. 

 Merrion Street, Dublin. 



Coronation op Edwabd IV. (2"* S. x. 106.)— 

 There is a mystification in the " extract from the 

 Cinque Ports at Romney," as communicated by 

 your correspondent, which is indeed puzzling. 

 "Be it remembered, that on Sunday after the 

 Feast of St. Leon, and on the Vigil of the Apostles 

 Peter and Paul, in the year 1461, our Lord Ed- 

 ward the 4th after the Conquest ' sublevatus est 

 in regena et apud Westm. coronatus.' " Now, 

 that the Sunday after the Feast of St. Leo should 

 be also the Vigil of SS. Peter and Paul is simf)ly 

 impossible. The Feast of St. Leo and the VigU 

 occur, and have always occurred, on the same 

 day — June 28. That this is the case at present, 

 anyone may satisfy himself by inspecting the Ro- 

 man breviary. And there has been no alteration 

 since 1461, as I have a proof now before me in a 

 MS. volume written just at that period. This 

 codex commences with a Calendar, in which June 

 28 is thus noted : " Leonis ppe. Vigilia." And 

 June 29, "Petri et Paul!," rubricated. I have 



