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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2'»«» S. VIIL July 16. '69. 



et Arma illorum Equitum de Comitatu Eboracensi 

 qui cum Edwardo Primo Rege Stipendia mere- 

 bant in Scotia et alibi." 



Can you refer me to any similar List of the 

 Knights of other counties of the date of 1290 to 

 1300 ? N. H. R. 



Knights of the Royal Oak. — Collins, in his 

 Baronetcy (1741), gives the names of 787 knights 

 of this order. Pie states in a note that it was in- 

 tended that the knights of the order should wear 

 a silver medal with a device of the King (Charles 

 II.) in the oak, pendant to a ribbon, about their 

 necks ; but, he adds, it was thought proper to lay 

 it aside lest it might create heats and animosities, 

 and open those wounds afresh which at that time 

 were thought prudent should be healed." It ap- 

 pears that each member of the order was required 

 to possess a certain amount in land, and the value 

 of the estate of each knight in 1660 is annexed to 

 his name. Collins states that he obtained " the 

 list from the MS. of Peter le Neve, Norroy, now 

 among the collection of Mr. Joseph Ames." 



Can you give me any farther information rela- 

 tive to this order ? I do not remember to have 

 read of its establishment in any history of the 

 reign of Charles II. N. H. R. 



[See"N". &Q."2°dS. i. 455.] 



Marat in Edinburgh. — In the 8th edition of the 

 Encyclopcedia Britannica, now in the course of pub- 

 lication, (vol. xiv. p. 294.), it is said of the noted 

 French revolutionist, Marat — the victim of Char- 

 lotte Corde — " We find him in Edinburgh, in 1774, 

 supporting himself by giving lessons in French." 

 The same statement is made, but less positively, 

 by Lord Brougham in his notice of Marat. And 

 the circumstance is alluded to by Lamartine in 

 his History of the Girondists. Can any of your 

 correspondents supply decisive evidence on this 

 matter ? 



Lord Brougham, and the writer in the Encyclo- 

 padia, mention that about the same time Marat's 

 first publication. The Chains of Slavery^ made its 

 appearance : I observe that this came out anony- 

 mously in London in 1776. See Watt's Biblio- 

 theca Britannica, voce Slavery. The title is very 

 illustrative of the author's subsequent history and 

 character : — 



_ " The Chains of Slaverj', a Work wherein ^e Clandes- 

 tine and Villainous Attempts of Princes to ruin Liberty 

 are pointfed out, and the dreadful Scenes of Despotism 

 disclosed, to which is prefixed an Address to the Electors 

 of Great Britain, in order to draw their timelj'' Attention 

 to the Choice of proper Representatives in the next Par- 

 liament." 



G. 



Edinburgh. 



Buratariana. — Some time since a Query was 

 inserted as to the authorship of this political 

 satire (1" S. x. 185.), when a correspondent 

 kindly promised (ibid. 353.) at some future time 



to communicate particulars as to the writers of 

 several of the articles in it. That promise not 

 having been fulfilled *, will you permit me to ask 

 from some of your Irish correspondents materials 

 for a history of this very curious volume ? M. S. 



Ten and Tenglars, vjhat are they ? — In the ac- 

 counts of the churchwardens of Eltham, under 

 the date 1600, is the following charge : — JHf 



" The carrying the great bell to be new cast Mr. Morse, 

 bell founder, dwelling in Whitechapel without Aldgate, 

 being agreed with all for 5/., and to deliver it at the ■ 

 weight that he received it, that was 9 hundred and a 

 half. And at the receiving of the bell back again it 

 weighed 3 score and 7 lb. more than it did before. There 

 was 3 score and 3 lb. at 8d. the lb., and 3 lb. at 2s. &d. 

 the pound, being called ten and tenglars. The whole 

 sum is . . . . . .71. 10s." 



By " ten " perhaps tin is meant ; but what can 

 " tenglars" mean ? It must have been something 

 of unusual value to be charged at 2s. 6^. per lb. 

 and of unusual virtue, when 3 lbs. was consi<lered 

 a sufficient alloy for 63 lbs. Was the Mr. Morse 

 named an ancestor, or only the predecessor, of the 

 present celebrated firm of Mears at Whitechapel ? 



A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Royal Chapel of St. Matthew, Ringsend. — Can 

 anyone tell me in what year of the reign of Queen 

 Anne this church, situated in the neighbourhood 

 of Dublin, was erected? At what cost? and 

 from what funds ? A reference to Brooking's 

 very curious " Map of the City and Suburbs of 

 Dublin, and also the Archbishop and Earl of 

 Meath's Liberties, with the Bounds of each Parish," 

 published in 1728, will show the great changes 

 that have taken place in this neighbourhood dur- 

 ing the last century. Trishtown and St. Matthew's 

 church are represented as almost surrounded by 

 the sea, from which no small extent of ground has 

 been since reclaimed ; and the desolate appear- 

 ance of the country along the south-east side of 

 the bay of Dublin, now so thickly inhabited, is par- 

 ticularly striking. Sandymount, Merrion, Kings- 

 town, and others, were then unknown. Abhba. 



Bishopric of St. David's. — In the year 1718, 

 Adam, Bishop of St. David's, made a return of all 

 livings under a certain value in his diocese, with a 

 view to augmentation by the governors of Queen 

 Anne's Bounty. Unfortunately the bishop's cer- 

 tificate does not embody the most important and 

 necessary information, namely, the source of the 

 certified income. Any information as to the 

 probable depository of the original data which 

 governed the bishop's return will be thankfully 

 received by A. M. 



* The writer of the reply in question was the late Rt. 

 Hon. J. Wilson Croker. Mr. Croker probably never re- 

 covered the copy of the Baratariana alluded to in his 

 Note. 



