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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d s. X. Oct. 27. '60. 



the descent of these individuals ? I presume they 

 •were the male representatives of the family, and 

 that on the death of the last James, in 1777, the 

 succession opened to the next heir-male, Col. 

 Robert Campbell of Finab, M.P. for Argyllshire, 

 the son, I believe, of Col. Alexander Campbell be- 

 fore mentioned. Col. Robert was father of Gene- 

 ral Alexander Campbell of Monzie, M.P., whose 

 son is the present Alexander Campbell of Monzie. 

 V R. R. 



Archbishop Cbanmer (2"^ S. x. 210.) —With 

 respect to Cranmer's " acquiring Church lands," 

 the following passage may be quoted from Ralph 

 Morice's Anecdotes of the Archbishop, recently 

 edited by Mr. J. G. Nichols in Narratives of 

 the Days of the Reformation (Camden Society, 

 1860) : — 



"... -when the Kinge understode that, contrary unto the 

 reporte, my lorde of Canterbury hadd purchased no maner 

 of landis, his highnes was contente upon the onlie motion 

 of doctor Buttes, without my lord of Canterbury's know- 

 ledge, that he shoulde have that abbey in Notyngham- 

 shere whiche his wife now enjoyeth, to hym and his 

 heires." 



To which passage the editor has attached the 

 following note : — 



" Todd thinks this was a mistake, and that Cranmer's 

 widow enjoj-ed no abbey in Nottinghamshire, but merely 

 the rectories of Aslacton and Whatton, which had be- 

 longed to the abbey of VVelbeck. i,Life of Cranmer, ii. 

 513.) There is, however, extant a petition of Thomas 

 Cranmer, son of the archbishop, stating that his father had 

 purchased of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. the monastery 

 of Kirkstall and nunnery of Arthington {lUd. p. 615.), 

 which is perhaps the purchase to which Morice refers." 



Some correspondent may be able to state the 

 dates of those purchases. H. 



Sib Francis Fortbscue (2"* S. x. 248.) — Sir 

 Francis Fortescue, 4th baronet of Salden, died 

 9th November, 1729, and was buried in Muresley 

 church, Bucks, where there is a monument to his 

 memory, stating that he died in the sixty-seventh 

 year of his age. He was disordered in his intel- 

 lects, and succeeded his cousin Sir John, in 1717, 

 in the baronetcy, which is a Scottish creation, 

 now vested, it is believed, in the Earl of Fortescue 

 as heir male.^ R. R. 



Legendary Painting (2°"* S. x. 47. 97. 138. 

 177. 279.) — The Bas Breton word for "iron" is j 

 hoiiam, hoarn ; and for a " wolf," hleiz (whence 

 the surname Bleiz, and the diminutive Bleidic) ; 

 but the name Herve, which in Bas Bret, assumes 

 the form Hoarve, Hoerve, Haerve, Hoarne, comes 

 from a different root. It is the same with the 

 En<;lish name Harvey, and is derived "from the 

 O. G. Harvig, Hervig, — which would translate 

 " strong in war." There was a St. Herve, who 

 was also called Breur (i. e. friar) ; whence a mound 

 near G.uingamp, in Bretagne, is said to derive its 

 name of Mene Bre. R. S. Charnock. 



Bell Inscriptions (2°* S. iv. 430. ; v. 37. 51. ; 

 vii. 451., &c.) — In St. Mary's church, St. Neots, 

 are eight bells : — 



1. " Grata sit arguta resonena campanula voce. J. 

 Eayre fecit. August 28, 1753." 



2. Was wrote on the old second : " Johannes est no- 

 man (^sic /) meum. August 28, 1753." 



3. "I. H. S. Nazarenus Rex iudaeorum fill Dei mise- 

 rere mei. J. Eayre fecit, 1753." 



4. " Cum ego vocem mortales attoUant Deo. Anno 

 Domini 1753." 



5. " Ut nos sic homines inter se conueniant. Anno 

 Domini 1753." 



6. " Omnia fiant ad gloriam Dei. J. Eayre fecit, 

 1753." 



7. " Stephen Scarbrow, Churchwarden. Anno Dom. 

 1753. J. Eayre, fecit." 



8. " William Day and William Peppercorn, Church- 

 wardens. William Dobson, Founder, Downham, Norfolk, 

 1832." 



Joseph Eayre was a bell-founder at St. Neots, 

 and afterwards at Leicester. He cast the great 

 bell at St. Neots in 1764 ; but some dispute arose, 

 and the parishioners having refused to satisfy his 

 claim, he left the debt by his will to the poor of 

 the parish ; and figures accordingly on a benefac- 

 tion-board in the church as a donor of lOOZ. to be 

 distributed in bread on St. Thomas's Day. The 

 bell was cracked in 1832. An unsuccessful at- 

 tempt was made to restore its sound by cutting 

 out the crack ; and it was afterwards recast at 

 Downham. 



Clapham, Bedfordshire : — 



1st bell. "Godsave thy Church. 1607." 



2nd. Same inscription, but the word HOHUHO '©* 

 versed. 



3rd. " John Dier made me." 



4th. « Richard Chandler made me. 1685." 



5th. " Christopher Graye made me. 1662." 



The inscriptions in Roman letters on 1, 2, 4, and 

 5., in German text on 3. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



Missing Scriptures (2"'' S. x. 211.) — Mr. 

 Bruce brought with him from Abyssinia three 

 copies of the apocryphal prophecy of Enoch ; one 

 of which (Bruce's Travels, vol. ii. p. 422.) was 

 deposited in the Bodleian, and was translated and 

 published, with an elaborate preliminary disserta- 

 tion, by Archbishop Laurence. This translation 

 received so much attention as to pass through 

 several editions. T. B. J. 



Meaning or Lun (2°* S. x. 287.) — Lun was 

 the stage name adopted by Rich ; hence the allu- 

 sion in the couplet from the Rosciad, quoted bj 

 your correspondent : — 



" On one side folly sits, by some called fun,' 

 And on the other his archpatron Lun." 



The Query, " why a man should be called Lun 

 for his excellent performance of harlequin," natu- 

 rally suggested to M. L. by Park's note, I confess 

 my inability to answer. Charles Wylib. 



