3"*«S. X Aug. 25. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



155 



" John Smythe, Nicholas Wakeley, with 11 persons 

 more, were unduly excommunicated, and were demanded 

 3» „ 2"* a piece for fees, and payd 4"^ for every name they 

 had out of the presentment." 



" Gyles Gibbes threatned by M"". Chancellor to be ex- 

 communicated unless he would pay the fees demanded ; 

 and after excommunicated and soe stands, but like to 

 dye, payd for his state 17» „ 0<i and 3',, 2'i_more." 



Your correspondent Me. Williamson will pro- 

 bably find other examples in the same series. 



W. Douglas Hamilton. 



Acts of the Scottish Parliaments (2°^ S. 

 ix. 159.) -i-ScoTus seems unaware that the Acts 

 of the Parliaments of Scotland have been pub- 

 lished under authority in eleven volumes seria- 

 tim and complete. Vol. ii., although the first 

 published (viz. 1814), contains the Acts of the 

 Parliaments from 1424 to 1567. In an Order by 

 the Commissioners prefixed to this volume it is 

 " Resolved " that the " publication of the Parlia- 

 mentary Records of Scotland shall commence with 

 the Rei^n of King James I., and be carried on 

 progressively," but that the first volume " be 

 printed as a second volume in order to leave room 

 in the series of volumes for the more ancient par- 

 liamentary proceedings prior to the Reign of King 

 James I.," which first volume accordingly ap- 



f)eared in 1844, embracing the Acts of the Par- 

 iaments from A. D. 1124 to a.d. 1423. The last 

 four volumes contain the Acts from 1670 to 1707. 

 There is also a volume of " The Parliamentary 

 Records of Scotland in the General Register 

 House, Edinburgh. Vol. I. Printed by Command 

 of his Majesty, King George III. 1804." The 

 first date here is 1240, the last 1571. There is a 

 small volume containing " An Account of the 

 Proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland which 

 met at Edinburgh, May 6th, 1 703. Printed 1 704." 

 Also " The Index, or Abridgement of the Acts of 

 Parliament and Convention (Scots) from 1424 to 

 1707, with the Act ratifying and approving of 

 the Treaty of Union of the Two Kingdoms, Edin. 

 1707," by Sir James Stuart, of Goodtrees, Solici- 

 tor-General for Scotland. William Galloway. 



Figures in Weston Church (2"'* S. x. 108.) 

 — ^Your correspondent AV. A. Leighton will find 

 a coloured representation of the figures he men- 

 tions in Dallaway's Heraldry^ and also in a work 

 published by Hall, Vertue, & Co. (price 3*.), 

 called The Mamud of Heraldry. They represent, 

 according to Dallaway, Sir John de Weston, of 

 Weston Lyzars, in Staffordshire, and Isabel 

 Bromley, his wife, and are taken from a volu- 

 minous pedigree compiled by Sir W. Segar, 

 Garter. H. S. G. 



Confessions in Verse (2"^ S. x. 108.) — About 

 the period mentioned, the broadsheet. Last Dying 

 Speech, Wo7'ds, and Confession of an executed 

 criminal regularly concluded with a " Copy of 

 Verses" written by him "the night before his 



O.N". 

 82.) 



execution." A specimen of such autobiographic 

 lyrics will probably satisfy C. E.'s curiosity. It 

 was supposed to be written by Roland Preston, 

 who was executed at Shrewsbury for the murder 

 of Mr. Bruce and his housekeeper at Longford, 

 Shropshire, about forty-six years ago : — 



" Roland Preston is my name. 

 From Fordhale Gates in Shropshire came. 

 Who by a false deluding girl 

 Am brought to grief and shame." 



U. 

 Milton's "Paradise Lost" (2""* S. ■ 

 — Enclosed are three other titles, used for the 

 so-called "First Edition" oi MWiorCs' Paradise 

 Lost, differing from those noted by Neo-Ebora- 

 CENSis as being in his possession. Your corre- 

 spondent under that signature may be assured 

 that the Comus he possesses is, without doubt, a 

 rare volume, not more than eight or ten being 

 known ; also, that it would at this time produce 

 four times as much as it did at Bright's sale in 

 1*44, and may be therefore congratulated on his 

 purchase at that time. 



I may as well, while on Milton, for Mr. Keight- 

 ley's use (see his Life of Milton, p. 265.) un- 

 ravel the " lines on the Cambridge Carrier," he 

 confessing himself unable to make sense of them. 

 The worthy carrier (Hobson) being of full age, 

 and the prevailing plague not causing the usual 

 packages to be carried to and fro to Cambridge, 

 alike warned him that " his time was come," but 

 the " ruling passion strong in death," he still 

 cried " more weight," meaning of course to carry 

 to and fro, so that subsistence might continue. 



" Paradife loft. | A | POEM | ix | TEN" BOOKS.— 

 The Author J. M. \ Licensed and Entred according | to 

 order | (&c. as No. 1. p. 82. 2°'! S. v.) 1668.". 



No Address or Arguments to this Issue. 



Another same as previously noted (No. 3. page 

 82.), except stars on the side ^*... John Milton 

 ^%.— 1668. 



« Paradise lost. ] A ( POEM | in | TEN BOOKS. I 

 The Author | JOHN MILTON \ LONDON. \ Printed 

 by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by | T. Helder at the 

 Angel in Little Brittain. \ 1669." | 



Arguments, seven leaves. On the last page is 

 Errata without any address of the printer. N. T. 



Frances C. Barnard (2""* S. x. 69.) — All the 

 information I can give to Mr. Inglis is this. I 

 have another book written by that lady, called 

 The Doleful Death and Floivery Funeral of Fancy, 

 1837, from which it appears that she is the wife of 

 Mr. Alfred Barnard, and the niece of the famous 

 botanist Sir J. E. Smith, to whose widow the book 

 is dedicated. F. J. S. 



Longevity (2"'' S. x. 15. oQ.) — In defiance of 

 scepticism, overlaid with whatever amount of 

 fable, to be received " cum grano sails," and sub- 

 ject to whatever prunings, there is doubtless, for 



