Z-d S. VIII. July 16. »69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Minor ^uetiti tofft ^nitotrS, 



Cardinal Howard, Sec. — On a former occasion 

 (2°** S. iv. 328.) I communicated some inscriptions 

 in the church of S. Marco at Florence, and I now 

 transmit you an inscription from the cloisters of 

 a convent adjoining that church, hoping some 

 reader of " N. & Q." may favour me with some 

 information of the person commemorated: — 



"F. Filippo Tommaso Hovard di Norfolck, Inglese, 

 creato Cardinale da Clemente X., il di xxvii. Maggio al 

 1675. Viva quest' anno mdclxxvii." 



A p«(rtrait of this Cardinal Howard is affixed, 

 who it appears lived in the time of our Charles II. 

 There is also another Englishman so honoured 

 named Walter, in 1304, time of Edward I., and 

 an Archbishop of Canterbury in 1280. This last 

 must have been John de Pecheham, or Peckham, 

 the "Index" of whose "register" was published 

 in 2 vols, by Dr. Ducarel in 1756. Delta. 



[Philip Howard, generally styled the Cardinal of Nor- 

 folk, was the third son of Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel, 

 who died in 1652. He was made a cardinal by Clement 

 X. in 1675, and was Lord Almoner to Catherine of Bra- 

 ganza. Queen Consort of Charles 11. He died at Home 

 in 1694. Our amusing diarist, Samuel Pepys, paid him a 

 visit on the 23rd January, 1666-7 : " To St. James's, to 

 see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, of 

 my late Lord Aubigney's ; and I took my Lord Brouncker 

 with me, he being acquainted with my present Lord Al- 

 moner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolke ; so 

 he and 1 did see the organ, but 1 do not like it, it being 

 a bauble, with a virginal joining to it: so 1 shall not 

 meddle with it. The Almoner seems a good-natured 

 gentleman : here I observed the deske which he hath 

 made to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of 

 his cha^'re. He discoursed much of the goodness of the 

 musique at Rome, but could not tell me how long mu~ 

 sique had been in any perfection in that Church, which I 

 would be glad to know. He speaks much of the great 

 buildings that this pope [Alexander VII. ], whom, in 

 mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time."] 



" To sleep like a fop." — Can any of your 

 readers inform me what is the derivation of the 

 common English expression, " to sleep like a 

 top ? " sxnd has it any connexion with the French 

 saying " Dormir comme une taupe? " 



E. M. Fodder. 



[We sometimes adapt foreign phrases to our English 

 vernacular by a change of a peculiar kind. For foreign 

 we substitute English words similar in sound, but very 

 different in meaning ; j'et so that the general sense of the 

 foreign phrase is retained. Thus the French expression, 

 "faire un faux pas," becomes in familiar — perhaps it 

 should be said in vulgar — English, "to make a fox's 

 paw," 3'et "still with .the original idea of committing an 

 indiscretion. So the French idea of sleeping like a dor- 

 mouse (taupe), in English becomes "sleeping like a top;" 

 the two phrases being alike employed to express pro- 

 found sleep. Some have derived this saying from the 

 Italian topo, the generic name applied indiscriminately 

 to the common mouss, the field mouse, or the dormouse : 

 hence the proverb " Ei dorme come un topo ; " He sleeps 

 like a top!" or, "Dorme come un ghiro," "He sleeps 

 like a dormouse !" We may add, that topo is also Spanish 

 for a mole.] 



Eev. Richard Lufkin. — " IT. & Q." has occa- 

 sionally favoured us with instances of longlived 

 clerical incumbents, among others that of the 

 Rev. Peter Cole of Hawkesbury, near Tetbury 

 (P* S. xi. 407.) ; but in England's Gazetteer, by 

 Stephen Whatley, Lond. 1751, vol. ii., there is a 

 remarkable instance of a rector, not only holding 

 a benefice for a long period, but attaining a most 

 amazing age, as appears from the following ex- 

 tract : — 



"Ufford, Suffolk, near Woodbridge. Richard Lufkin 

 was rector of this parish 67 j'ears, and buried in 1678, 

 a3tat. Ill, having preached the Sunday before he died." 

 I shall be obliged to any reader of your miscel- 

 lany who will give me some particulars of the 

 Rev. Richard Lufkin, confirmatory, jf he can, of 

 this statement. <!>. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



[The Rev. Richard Lufkin was inducted to the Rectory 

 of Ufford in 1621, ;' and held the living fbr fifty-seven 

 years, except that in the time of the Great Rebellion 

 he was sequestered, and one Isaac Wells, a true blue Pro- 

 testant, served the cure. Mr. Lufkin died in Sept. 1678, 

 aged 110 years, and his son-in-law, the Rev. Stephen 

 Kimball, succeeded him, who, having continued rector for 

 forty-four 3'ears, died Nov. 9, 1722. 



Master bowsing seems to have found plenty of work 

 for his sacrilegious hands in Ufford church. In his Jour- 

 nal is the following entry : — " Ufford, Jan. 27, 1643. We 

 brake down thirty superstitious pictures ; and gave direc- 

 tion to take down thirty-seven more ; and forty cherubims 

 to be taken down of wood, and the chancel levelled. 

 There was a picture of Christ on the cross, and God the 

 Father above it. I left thirty- seven superstitious pic- 

 tures to be taken down^and took up six superstitious 

 inscriptions in brass." OT Aug. 31, 1644, this Iconoclast 

 pursued his work of destruction : " Some of the thirty- 

 seven superstitious pictures we had left, we brake down 

 now. In the chancel we brake down an angel; three 

 Orate pro anima in the glass ; and the Trinity in a tri- 

 angle; and twelve cherubims on the roof of the chan- 

 cel ; and nigh 100 Jesus-Maria in capital letters, and the 

 steps to be levelled. We brake down the organ cases, 

 and gave them to the poor. In the church there was 

 on the roof above 100 Jesus and Mary in great capital 

 letters, and a crosier staff to be broke down, in glass; 

 and above twenty stars on the roof. There is a glorious 

 cover over the font, like a Pope's triple crown, with a 

 pelican on the top picking its breast, all gilt over with 

 gold."] 



Coal, when first used in England for Domestic 

 Purposes. — In An Historical Account of Charter- 

 House, 4to. 1808, p. 147., occurs a letter from Sir 

 John Haryngton to Mr. Sutton, dated 21st Dec. 

 1608, in which he says, "I will provyde yo' lodg- 

 ing at Bath, warm and clenly, good dry wood for 

 yo' fyre." When was coal first used in England 

 for domestic purposes? Most probably it was 

 much earlier used in this country than wood for 

 fires in kitchens, furnaces, &c. W. H. 



Oriental Club. 



[Coal was first discovered and worked at Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne early in the thirteenth century; but being 

 supposed prejudicial to health, its use was prohibited in 

 and near London, A.r>. 1306. According to Rymer's Fadera, 



