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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



26S 



Then, Macbeth, after his slaughter, as well as 

 Lulac, were carried to lona, and placed beside 

 the remains of Duncan in the Royal burying- 

 place. Does this accord with the notion of his 

 being an usurper ? Although we propose on some 

 other occasion to resume our speculations, we are 

 hopeful that they may attract attention, and we 

 should be happy to learn the opinions of others on 

 a historical question of some interest. J. M. 



Bishop Goodman. — On a fly-leaf in one of the 

 early pi-inted books in this (Gloucester Cathedral) 

 library are written the following lines, curious in 

 themselves, but peculiarly interesting as illus- 

 trative of certain passages in the life of Godfrey 

 Goodman, *the bishqp alluded to. He was long 

 suspected of a tendency to Romish doctrines, and 

 was suspended by Laud in 1640, but on his sub- 

 mission was restored. He afterwards was de-^ 

 prived of, or voluntarily resigned, his bishopric,* 

 and died (a Roman Catholic, I believe) in West- 

 minster in 1655 : — 



" Hie Jovis est : mensem claudit quern Februa signum 

 Carolus octavum regni prope terminat annum. 

 Christicolre numerant, quibus anni Janus origo est 

 Blille & sexcentos triginta tresque salutis. 

 Iste dies, annus, mensis priraordia figunt 

 Certa biannalis spatii, quod turn sibi dixit 

 Gloucestrensis agri Godfredus Episcopus. Ille 

 Ante duos, inquit, qu^m Sol Line transigat annos, 

 Aut lare sub nostro milii consociabo scholares 

 Aut me cum monacbis sociatum cella recondet. 



" Sic vovet attestans me : voti sit memor opto, 

 Onto fidem praestet ; Deus hsec tu vota secundes. 

 Sic recordatur, attestatur, comprecatur 



E. A." 

 The witness " E. A." was undoubtedly Edmund 

 Atwood, rector of Staunton, Worcestershire, and 

 vicar of Hartpury in this diocese, the bosom 

 friend and companion of the bishop. Who were 

 the " scholares ?" C. Y. CEAWLEy. 



HoKKOCKS. — Having some curiosity to find the 

 etymology of the name of this astronomer, I found 

 it stated that in some parts of the north of Eng- 

 land the word means a great bullock. Is this 

 true ? If so, probably the word is connected with 

 aurochs, and with the old English word orch, a 

 monstrous fish, and orca, of like meaning. Ox 

 itself may be of the family. A. De Morgan. 



Lord Macaulay. — The early alliance of the 

 Babingtons and Macaulays has been disputed in 

 your columns. Would it avail with the genea- 

 logists that the Christian name " Zachary " is 

 found in the Babington pedigree of Rothley 

 Temple as early as 1549? (See Burke's Com- 

 moners, iv. 517.)<*In reference to Lord Macau- 

 lay's Quaker ancestry, I would add that one of 



these Zacharys showed a friendly feeling towards 

 the sufferers in Charles II.'s time. 



A Quakeress of Keil, in Staffordshire, dying in 

 1682, her husband resolved to bury her in the 

 Friends' cemetery ; but the scheme being inter- 

 cepted by the parish priest, Thomas Walthall, the 

 husband buried her in his own garden, and him- 

 self dying of grief within a week, was laid by her 

 side. On the latter occasion a group of friends 

 were assembled, and one of them being perceived 

 to kneel down in prayer, the whole party were 

 fined in execution of the Conventicle Act. They 

 paid the fines and then appealed ; and, what was 

 a most unusual occurrence in those days, had the 

 better of their oppressor, as the following docu- 

 ment will show : — 



" Upon hearing of council in the appeal brought by 

 William Morgan of Keel, in the county of Stafford, to 

 the record of conviction certified by William Snead, Esq., 

 one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for this county, 

 concerning a conventicle in Keel, it appeared to the Court 

 that the evidence certified in the record of conviction was 

 not under hand and seal, according as the law in that 

 case requires. It was ordered that the said William Mor- 

 gan should have his 40 shillings upon the said Conventicle 

 Act returned him again. Zachary Babington." 



J. w. 



Pew in a Playhouse. — In Pepys' Diary, Feb. 

 15th, 1668-9, is the following curious use of the 

 word pew. Is any similar instance known ? 



" To White Hall : and there, by means of M"^ Cooling, 

 did get into the play, the only one Ave have seen this 

 winter: it was The Five Hours' Adventure. But I sat so 

 far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman 

 that I did see but mj' wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's 

 pew with her." 



A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



A Providential Escape. — An interesting 

 book might be composed on the subject of pro- 

 vidential escapes. Perhaps the following may be 

 thought worthy of being transferred to the pages 

 of " N. & Q." It is a tale of the great French 

 revolution, and is taken from Collectanea Topo- 

 graphia, vol. viii. p. 26. : — 



" A commission of ruffians came to the convent of Eng- 

 lish Augustinian nuns, Rue des Fosse's St. Victor, Paris, 

 to search for priests, of whom they had been informed 

 the house was full. The ladies were ordered into the 

 refectory ; and their strange visitors inspected narrowly 

 the house. After a search of some hours' duration, the 

 leader of the gang told the superioress that she and the 

 ladies were at libertj' ; no priest had been found ; and, he 

 added, it was fortunate for them. There is no doubt that 

 if a single priest had been found, these unfortunate ladies 

 would have been given up to the mob. And yet there 

 was a priest in the house the whole of the time. The 

 confessor was in his apartments, situated at the northern 

 end of the building, aware of what was going on, and 

 waiting with calmness, and the courage which religion 

 alone can afford, the fate which he believed to be in- 

 evitable. Only one door led to his rooms ; and he had 

 no means of escape, except by throwing himself out of 

 his window into a small back court which communi- 



