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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. X. OCX. 13. 'CO. 



At the Heralds' College I have found no pedi- 

 grees of the Bishop's family which show his pa- 

 rentage. He is said to have been born in 1521 ; 

 and he died in 1594. Geo. R. Cobneb. 



The Gleanehs' Bell. — Recently, at the an- 

 . cient town of Great Wakering, in Essex, with 

 some friends, I found the sexton or bell-ringer 

 just about to enter the church tower for the pur- 

 pose of tolling the bell. It was then on the stroke 

 of six o'clock p.m. Thinking there was to be 

 weekly evening service we proposed retiring, as 

 we had come not to pray, but to pry into the 

 curiosities of the place. The old man told us to 

 stay, as he was only going to ring for the gleaners, 

 and added that he did this regularly during har- 

 vest time, at sun-rise and sun-down. Is this 

 custom common to all counties of England? How 

 far back may it be traced ? And is it simply to 

 be ascribed to the want of watches and clocks in 

 bygone times ? or is there a sacred token of prayer 

 and praise attached to it? S. C. Freeman. 



Bishop Wilson's MS. Instructions to Can- 

 didates FOB Orders. — In p. 256. of Bishop 

 Wilson's Sacra Privata (ed. 1853, J. H. Parker) 

 I find the following N.B. : — 



" To give every person I ordain some shorts in writing, 

 of the nature, dignitj% several branches, hazard of not 

 discharging them faithfully, &c. of the ministry." 



It would be very interesting to know if any of 

 these original MSS. are in existence. As Bishop 

 Wilson presided over the diocese of Sodor and 

 Man for nearly sixty years, many such MSS. 

 must have been distributed. It would seem pro- 

 bable that they are not the same as Bishop Wil- 

 son's Parochialia, as that is too long to be copied 

 in MS. for every candidate. Did the ParocMalia 

 grow out of the M.SS. originally given to the priests 

 and deacons he ordained ? Alfred T. Lee. 



Battle of Bauge. — In describing the battle 

 t fought at Bauge, in Anjou, on the 22nd of March, 

 k 2T 1422 (?), in which the French army under the 

 Marechal de la Fayette, assisted by 7000 Scotch- 

 men under the Earl of IBuchan, son of the Regent 

 of Scotland, defeated an English array under the 

 Duke of Clarence, Hume {Hist, of England, ch. 

 xix. vol. iii. p. 114, Edinb. 8vo. edit. 1818) says, 

 . " the Duke himself was slain by Sir Allan Swin- 

 ton, a Scotch knight, who commanded a company 

 of men at arms;" while Sir James Mackintosh 

 {Hist, of England, ch. iv. vol. i. p. 368., Lond. 1 2mo. 

 edit. 1830) says, " Sir John Swinton, a Scottish 

 knight of distinguished prowess, gave a severe 

 wound in the face to the English prince (Cla- 

 rence). Buchan beat him from his horse by a 

 club, and was rewarded by the dignity of Con- 

 stable of France. Clarence was trampled to 

 death." And Sir Walter Scott's account is, " Sir 

 William of Swinton distinguished the English 



prince by the coronet of gold and gems which he 

 wore over his helmet ; and meeting him in full 

 course, unhorsed and wounded him. As Clarence 

 strove to regain his steed, the Earl of Buchan 

 struck him down with a mace and slew him." 



Was the Christian name of the Scotch, or Scot- 

 tish, knight Allan, or John, or William ? Was his 

 surname Swinton, or was he only of Swinton? 

 Was Clarence slain by the knight or by Buchan ; 

 or was he trampled to death " by no one in parti- 

 cular " ? Neither of the three historians cites the 

 authority from which he describes the battle. 



Was the battle of Bauge fought in 1421, or in 

 1422? Hume's marginal, and Mackintosh's tex- 

 tual, date is — the former 1421, and the latter 

 1422 ; while Scott gives neither marginal nor tex- 

 tual date. Eric. 

 Ville-Marie, Canada. 



A Reputed Holbein. — In the drawing-room 

 at South Hill, co. Somerset, the seat of Sir E. 

 Chetham-Strode, is a picture attributed to PIol- 

 . bein. It is a half-length portrait of a young man 

 in the dress of the period, and with a. sort of 

 flattened cap upon his head. His right hand 

 grasps an hour-glass, and his left, with the fingers 

 open, rests upon a human skull. 

 Above the portrait is this inscription : — 



1549 

 M . V . S 

 A C . 

 aetatis svae 22, 



Can any of your correspondents afford me infor- 

 mation respecting this picture ? 



In the same room is a large portrait of Col. 

 William Strode, with the date 1635 attached to it. 

 Family tradition attributes it to Vandyck. 



C. J. Robinson. 



Historical Medals. — I have in my possession 

 three coins or medals of silver, thin, about the size 

 of a halfpenny ; the legend and portraits in each 

 engraved, not in relief, and the field of each as it 

 were engine- turned. 



No. 1. — Obv. leg. r- 



" Give thy judgements 

 O God unto the King." 



Within the legend a fill-face, with moustache and 

 short square beard, apparently of James I. wear- 

 ing a broad-brimmed hat turned up on the right 

 side, and there a brooch fastened ; a ruff round 

 the neck, and below an ermine cloak open in 

 front ; over it the collar of the Garter. 

 Rev. leg. — 



" And thy rightcousnesse 

 unto the King's son." 



Within the legend, the full-face of a young man, 

 bare-headed, apparently Prince Charles, with a 

 moustache and peaked beard ; large falling collar, 

 armour, and ribbon over it. No date. 



