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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



l.2°d S. X. Nov. 17, '60. 



Temple Bar. — The following address is copied 

 from a rare little volume in my possession, en- 

 titled : — 



" A Brief Discourse Concerning the Three chief Prin- 

 ciples of Magnificent Building, viz. Solidity, Conveniency, 

 and Ornament. By Sir Balthazar Gerbier, Knight: 

 London : Printed by Tho. Mabb, for Tho. Heath at the 

 Globe within Ludgate, 1664." 12mo. 



" To the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament. 



" May it please your Honours : 



" It being lately reported* that your Honours have de- 

 liberated to have the Streets made clean, to enlarge some 

 of them, and to Build a Sumptuous Gate at Temple Barr; 

 I thought it my Duty to Present this small Discourse of 

 the three Principals of good Building, and withall a 

 Printed Paper concerning the Cleaning of the Streets, 

 the Levelling the Valley at Fleet-Bridge, with Fleet- 

 Street and Cheapside, and the makeing of a Sumptuous 

 Gate at Temple- Barr, whereof a Draught hath been pre- 

 sented to his Sacred Majesty, and is readi' also to be pro- 

 duced to your Honours upon Command, with all the 

 Devotion of 



" Your Honours 



" Most humble and most 

 " obedient Servant, 

 " B. Gerbier Doitvilly, Knight." 



Perhaps this hitherto unnoticed mention of 

 Temple Bar may interest some of your readers, I 

 may add that I am a collector of Gerbier's nu- 

 merous tracts, with some intention of writing a 

 biography of this singular character. 



Edward F. Kimbault. 



" New Whig Guide." — In the last Catalogue 

 of Mr. Camden Hotten, it is said that this work 

 was edited by Lord Palmerston. Is this the case? 

 We have reason to know that the parodies on 

 Moore and Byron were by the late Sir Alexander 

 Boswell. They are exceedingly clever. From 

 Moore's Journal we learn that the principal part 

 of the New Tory Guide was written by Paul, now 

 Lord Methuen. J. M. 



Skull-cdps. — Jean de la Barriere, Abbe of 

 Feuillan, born 1544, died 1600, reformed the 

 monks of his order. L'Advocat says : — " We 

 read in the Histoire dogmatique et morale du 

 jeune, printed at Paris by Lottin in 1741, p. 

 92., that 'The first reformed Feuillans, in order 

 to mortify themselves, made use of human skulls 

 at their meals instead of cups." The Feuillans 

 are, or were, Cistercians of the order of St. Ber- 

 nard, but I am not able to say whether they were 

 numerous. De la Barriere was the friend of 

 Card. D'Ossat, and died at Rome in the odour of 

 sanctity. B. H. C. 



The Queen's Birthday in Dublin, 1706-7. — 

 Some readers of " N, & Q." may be glad to know 

 in what manner the Queen's birthday was ob- 

 served in Dublin a century and a half ago, as re- 

 corded in the Dublin Gazette, 8th February, 

 1706-7, now before me : — 



" On the 6th instant, being Her Majesty's Birth Day, 

 the Lord Chancellor, with the Nobility, Judges, Gentle- 



men, and a great number of Ladies, met at the Castle 

 about 11a clock, where a song, composed for that occa- 

 sion, was performed by the best Masters in this King- 

 dom ; at 4 a clock they went all to the Play, and from 

 thence to the Fireworks on St. Stephen's-green; and the 

 night concluded with rejoycings and illuminations." 



Abhba. 



Liver and Crow. — There was a publichouse 

 at the lower end of the small town of Yaxley in 

 Huntingdonshire, greatly frequented by the Cam- 

 bridge undergraduates who came to boat or shoot 

 on the adjacent Whittlesea-Mere. Their favour- 

 ite dish was " Liver and Crow ; " i. e. the liver 

 and the adjacent fat of a pig, fried, and mixed 

 with sage and onions. The innkeeper had gi'eat 

 diflSculty in meeting the large demand for this 

 popular delicacy, and had frequently to ransack 

 Peterborough market for the materials of its com- 

 position. 



As a rider to this Note, I may be allowed to 

 direct attention to the full and interesting article 

 in the recent Journal of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society (No. XLV.) on " The Drainage of Whit- 

 tlesea-Mere," by W. Wells, Esq. 



' CUTHBERT BeDE. 



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SYNOD OF KILKENNY, 1614. 



The Rev. R. King {Ch. Hist, of Ireland, p. 899.) 

 mentions a synod held at Kilkenny in 1614, and 

 in p. 1363. quotes Brennan's Ecc. Hist. Ireland, 

 vol. ii. pp. 238-243, as furnishing a more detailed 

 account, derived from the Constitutiones Prov. et 

 Synod. Ecclesice, Sfc. Duhliniensis. On referring 

 to this rare volume I find that uniformly through- 

 out it the date 1624 is assigned to this synod. 

 Will some of your Kilkenny correspondents, or 

 others who feel an interest in the question, men- 

 tion the cause of this discrepancy ? I apprehend 

 the date 1614 is the true one, as Brennan men- 

 tions the retirement of Matthews to Louvain in 



1623, and his death there in the same year. He, 

 however, takes no notice whatever of the date 



1624, which occurs in his original authority 

 wherever this synod is alluded to. 



Another synod for nearly similar purposes (for 

 the province of Armagh) was held at Droghedah 

 in 1614. I am very desirous to find some official 

 Record of the proceedings of this synod or con- 

 ference. It is more than probable that a volume 

 of synodal decrees for the province of Armagh 

 similar to that for the province of Leinster may 

 exist, though I have not been able to meet any 

 trace of it. A record of this synod exists among 

 the UssherMSS. in the library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin [MS. E. 3. 8.], and is referred to by Mr. 

 King at some length. 



While writing on the subject I will append two 

 other queries, which I trust some kind correspon- 

 dent may be able to solve, either through the 



