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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. I860. 



NO. 244.— CONTENTS. 



NOTHS: — Joseph Henshaw, Bishop of Peterborough, 161 



— Mathematical Bibliography, 162 — The " Remember " of 

 Charles the First on the Scaffold: What it meant, 164 — 

 Lord Inchiquin's Marriagre, 165 — Passage in Dante, J6. — 

 Curious Smoke-vents in Millom Castle, Cumberland, 166. 



Minor Notes : — The Father of Mr. Secretary Nicholas — 

 Errors and Discrepancies in Books on the Peerage — 

 Money Value— To Harden "Wood for Shipbuilding — 

 Garibaldi, 166. 



QUERIES : — Children's Drama, 158— The " Suffolk Mer- 

 cury"— A Leicester Ball Ticket — Pallens — Authorship 

 of "A Preparation to the Holy Communion"— Salvator 

 Rosa — Miss as a Title — Hymnology — The Four Geo^es : 

 Geoi^ II. — Theophilus Gay, M.D.: "William Gay, M.D. — 

 Consecration of a Private Burial Ground — Badges of 

 Scottish Clans— Passage in Demosthenes — Comprimbre 

 in Kent, where? — "Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, 

 Esq.,"&c. — Wills — Farrendine — Bible by Barker dated 

 1495 — MS. of Hale's " Pleas of the Crown," 168. 



Qtteries wixn Answees : — Naples founded on E^s — 

 Portrait of John Bunyan— "The Battle of Hexham" — 

 Goodwin's (John) Writings— Astir — Slang Nomenclature 

 of Coins, 170. 



REPLIES : — Boleyn and Hammond Families, 171 — The 

 Medicinal "Virtues of Spiders' Web, 172 — Signs at Monk- 

 heath, Cheshire, 173- APacificatory Precedent— Burnet's 

 MSS. — Robert Heyrick — Marshal Due de Berwick — 

 Leighton Family — Picture of " Protector Somerset," or of 

 the Lord Admiral Seymour? — Sir John Gayer— Ride v. 

 Drive — Floyd. John, the Jesuit — Magnetic Declination 

 Nelson of Chaddleworth — Seson family — Centenarianism 



— Commemoration Sermons, &C., 173. 



Monthly Feuilleton of French Books. 



JOSEPH HENSHAW, BISHOP OF PETER- 

 BOROUGH. 



In a note on Wood's Athence (iii. 1196, ed. 

 Bliss), Baker refers to his MS. 26. p. 371. for " A 

 true account of Bishop Henshaw." 



As I believe that this account (probably the 

 same that is contained in Kennett's collections, 

 MS. Lansd. 986. fo. 216.) has never been printed, 

 and as a new edition of the Athence is in prepara- 

 tion; it seems worth while to seek a place for it 

 in " N. & Q." I have also gleaned a few details 

 from another volume of the Baker MSS. 



" Dec. 27, 1645. Upon the humble petition of the 



Children of D"". Henshaw, from whome the Rectories of 



Hayshott §■ East Lavant, in the County of Sussex, are 



sequestred: It is ordered that the s<i Children shall have 



the full value of the fifth part of one of the s'^ Rectories, 



F aU cliarges first deducted, for their maintenance, unless 



^ good cause be shewen to the contrary, on y« 19"^ day of 



* Febr. next, to be quarterly payd by such persons to 



whome the s"i Rectories are sequestred, the s'' children 



yielding all due obedience to the s<i Sequestration." — 



Baker 3IS. 27. 407. 



" Apr. 16. 1646. Where as the Rectory of the parish 

 Church of Stedham, in the County of Sussex, is & 

 standeth sequestred by order of this Committee from 

 D''. Henshaw, to the use of John Baker, a godly and or- 

 thodox Divine, who hath sithence left the same. It is 

 ordered— (to some other)." —Ibid. pp. 433, 434. 

 " Jul, 10. 1647. Whereas the Recton' of the Parish 



Church of HeysJioit, in the County of Sussex, is sequestred 

 from Dr. Henshaw to the use of Mr. Smallwood, who hath 

 sithence left the same & is setled in the Church of Kird- 

 ford in the s^ county. It is ordered that the s* Rectory 

 shall from henceforth stand sequestred to the use of 

 Richard Garrett, a godly & orthodox Divine." — Ibid. 

 407. 



It is scarcely necessary to say that these lordly 

 decrees are taken from The Boohs of the Com- 

 mitte for plundred Ministers, of which Baker gives 

 large portions, and which ought to be printed en- 

 tire. 



" Josephus Henshaw, S. T. P. Decanus Eccl. Cicestr. 

 rite in Epum electus 15. Apr. 1663, Installatus die 28. 

 Mail per MagrQm. Johem. Howorth Decani Procuratorem 

 et primum Prebendar." — 



" March 9. 1678. D^^. Henshaw, Bp. of Peterborough 

 attending on the Parliament (w<='' opened March 6.). was 

 seen at Morning Prayers at Westminster Abbey, & died 

 suddenly that night." — Ibid. pp. 349, 350. 



Extracted from " Particulars concerning the 

 Church of Peterborough, &c. from MSS. of the 

 R^ Rev"!. White, L^p. of Petfbr." 



See farther respecting Henshaw, Walker's Suf- 

 ferings, ii. 13.; Kennett's Register and Chron. 

 234. 481. 841.; Kennett's Complete Hist. (ed. 2.), 

 iii. 359. (about his sudden death) ; Gunton's 

 Peterb. Cathedr. On the King's birthday, May 

 29. 1669, Pepysj heard "the Bishop of Peter- 

 borough preach, but dully ; but a good anthem 

 of Pelham's." 



" An Account of Bp. Henshaw by Wh[ite Kennett] 

 Ld. Bp. of Peterborough. 



" It cost me some time and trouble before I found out 

 Philip Henshaw, Esq*., son of a nephew of Bp. Henshaw, 

 who now enjoys the Bp.'s estate in Sussex, Avho wrote me 

 word that the Bp. was second son of Thomas Henshaw, 

 Sollicitor- General in Ireland, bom, as he supposes, at 

 Sonnting * in Sussex, where most of the s<i Sollicitor's 

 children were born, his Family residing there. His 

 Mother was only Daughter to one Wistow, chief Surgeon 

 to Queen Eliz. The Bp. married one of the family of the 

 Mays of Rawmars nigh Chichester, She was Aunt to the 

 present [Sept. 2. 1719] S"". Thomas May, by whome he 

 had two children, one Son & a Daughter. His Son mar- 

 ried S'. Humfrey Gore's Sister of Hertfordshire, & died 

 without Issue. His Daughter married S^ Andrew Hacket, 

 Bp. Hacket's Son, and left onely a Daughter, married to 

 one Whithall in Shropshire, but what Issue we know not. 

 He died at his Lodging in James Street, Covent Garden, 

 March 9. 1678 : being on a Sunday, & had been twice at 

 the Chappell in White-Hall that daj'-. He was buried at . 

 Lavant in Sussex, where his Wife and Son were interred 

 before. There is no Monument, but I do design to put 

 one up (1 transcribe M''. Henshaw's Letter), he having 

 been so kind to my Father, who was his eldest Brother's 

 Son, 



" Asto his Education, he was put to the Charter House 

 School, where he & his two Brothers were the three first 

 Scholars admitted on the Foundation by Sutton himself, 

 who was their nigh Relation. My Uncle says, he does 

 not know what College he was of in Oxford, before he 

 was Fellow of All Souls. He was afterwards Parson of 

 Lavant, Chaplain to the D. of Buck, who was murdered 

 by Felton ; afterwards in Exile with K. Ch. 2'>. for several 



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