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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. VIII. JcLY 2. '59. 



" Catalogo del Marmi, eccetera, del Signre. Lyde 

 Browne, Londra, 1779, 4to." 



The coincidence of the Christian name suggests 

 to me that there was some relationship between 

 the two. The colonel I believe began his military 

 career in the North Gloucester Militia, as lieu- 

 tenant in 1793 ; but soon after entered the regu- 

 lar army, and arrived at the rank above-mentioned. 

 The worthy officer, Mr. Cole, so barbarously 

 treated by the villains, is, I have heard, still liv- 

 ing at Kew, near Richmond. 2. 



Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh. — George Cro- 

 mer, an Englishman, was appointed Archbishop 

 of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland in 1522, 

 and died 16 March, 1543. Neither Ware nor 

 Harris in their Bishops of Ireland give any ac- 

 count of his family, where born or educated, or 

 of his previous appointments. I understand his 

 name does not appear in the registries of Oxford 

 or Cambridge; it is therefore probable he may 

 have been educated in some of the great schools 

 of London, and enjoyed some employment about 

 the court of Henry VIII. Would some of your 

 correspondents kindly afford me some information 

 as to his early life, and more of his after history 

 as Primate than is contained in Harris, or point 

 out where it could be found, either through your 

 columns, or by letter addressed to the Editor? 



T. V. N. 



Arms of John de Bohun. — In the Harl. Collec- 

 tion is a charter (83. D. 44.) of John de Bohun, 

 dated 22 Edw. III. To it is attached the seal 

 (elegant, and in good preservation,) of his mother, 

 Johanna, daughter and coheir of Wm. de Braose. 

 The seal has a central shield (crusuly a lion ram- 

 pant, Braose,) between three, all alike. Barry,- 

 nebule of six ; a bordure crusuly. Were these 

 arms borne by John de Bohun, husband of 

 Johanna ? Anon. 



Antient Portrait. — At Brickwall, Northiam, is 

 a portrait on panel of a middle-aged lady, which, 

 from the dress and style of painting, is supposed 

 to be of the date either of Philip and Mary, or 

 early in Elizabeth's reign. On the upper corner 

 is a shield, bearing a coat of arms as follows : 

 sable, on a chevron between three saltires couped 

 argent, five ermine spots of the field : on the other 

 side of the lady's face, and corresponding in posi- 

 tion to the shield, is an inscription in white letters, 

 but, a portion of the panel having been broken off 

 and lost, only a part of the inscription is left ; it 

 is as follows, viz. : — 



" Pulchrior eflSgie fac 

 cffisare uirgo uiro . . ." 



" Viro," in the second line, is immediately un- 

 der "fac" in the first, and the termination of both 

 lines appears to have been broken off. " Fac" is 

 probably a portion of " facies." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 from the arms what family the lady belonged to ? 

 She is supposed to have been a Greenwood of 

 Oxfordshire or Worcestershire. Also, can you 

 complete the lines, or throw any light on their 

 meaning ? The first is, probably, " her face is 

 more beautiful than the effigy," which may be 

 hoped, otherwise she was ugly enough. But what 

 can the second mean ? T. E. 



Thomas Randolph. — Some short time since I 

 was favoured with a communication from the 

 Marquis of Kildare, in which he mentions that he 

 was informed by the late Mr. Holmes of the Bri- 

 tish Museum, that, at the end of an old family 

 Bible in the possession of Mr. Shirley, at Eating- 

 ton Park, Warwickshire, is a note of the family of 

 "Thomas Randolph, Esq., Master of her Majes- 

 ties Portes, and Chamberlaine of the Exchequier," 

 who " married Mrs. Ursula Copinger," and had a 

 son Ambrose, " and a daughter Frances, who mar- 

 ried Thomas Fitzgerald." Was this the same 

 person as " Sir Thomas Randolph" mentioned in 

 the 1st volume of Historical Notes as ambassador 

 from Queen Elizabeth to Scotland and France 

 between 1572 and 1586, and died in 1590 ? He 

 was ancestor of the Duke of Leinster, and I am 

 very desirous to ascertain something of his family, 

 and his armorial bearings. Y. S. M. 



Drunkard's Corpse Burnt. — In the parish re- 

 gister of Iken, Suffolk, it is recorded that, on 

 Nov. 10, 1669, Edward Reeve, "nuperde Iken 

 Hall," returning from Saxmundham " impletus 

 fortioribus liquoribus," fell from his horse and 

 broke his neck on the spot ; " et proximo die, 

 vespertine tempore, in ignem posihis.^' Are any 

 other instances on record of this mode of dispos- 

 ing of the corpse of one whose death was the effect 

 of drunkenness ? Ache. 



" Englishry " and " Irishry." — What authority 

 has Lord Macaulay for these words ? {Vide His- 

 tory of England, vol. iii. pp. 132, 133.) They 

 are not to be found either in Johnson or Walker. 

 Permit me to suggest to his Lordship the pro- 

 priety of translating the extracts from Spanish, 

 Dutch, and other foreign works inserted in his 

 notes, in his next edition. N. H. R. 



The Qulf -stream and Climate of England. — 

 Can any correspondents of " N. & Q." direct me 

 to any recent periodical or other publication con- 

 taining an account of the change of the course of 

 the Gulf-stream, and its supposed probable influ- 

 ence on the climate of Great Britain ? 



Jas. Dixon. 



Old Bells. — I have lately seen a pair of curious 

 old bells : they are brass, spherical, similar in 

 shape to the small bells now used for ferrets, and 

 measure 3f inches in diameter. They are very 



