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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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bishop's feelings, might also be so far thrust upon 

 his notice from the vicinity of the " Hospitall " to 

 the cathedral, the seat of his spiritual functions, 

 and from its lying in the way of his daily walks. 

 As a visible institution it has now ceased to exist, 

 along with the several religious fluctuations under 

 which it had passed. Various accounts of the 

 building are to be seen in the different histories 

 of Glasgow ; perhaps the most accurate and con- 

 densed is the description by " Wade, Glasgow, 

 1821," p. 60., as " a neat little structure of free- 

 stone, the interesting, although shattered, remains 

 of which were removed in 1 805, because they stood 

 in the way of opening St. Nicholas Street. They 

 were in the style usually denominated Gothic." 



Attached to the hospital, on the northwest, was 

 originally a set of apartments for the accommoda- 

 tion of a priest, who officiated to the inmates of 

 the building in a small neat chapel, also con- 

 structed of freestone, adjoining'to the apartments 

 in question on the east. In McUre's time (1736) : 



" The font " (he means, we suppose, a piscina or stoup 

 for containing holy water) was " yet to be seen, as were 

 also the founder's arms (three alcorns in the seed upon a 

 bend dexter within, a crosier behind the shield sur- 

 mounted of a salmon fish, with the ensign or arms of the 

 episcopal see, Mc Ure,'^. 67.) upon the building in several 

 places. The hospital was founded and provided with 

 every requisite for divine service about the j-ear 1450 by 

 Bishop Muirhead, the same who founded the Vicar's Cof- 

 lege. The original foundation was for twelve poor old 

 la3'raen and a chaplain. Its revenues are supposed to 

 have suffered greatly at the Reformation. By the pious 

 and primitive Bishop Leighton they were, however, in a 

 small degree augmented. In 1736 they were neverthe- 

 less so scanty as only to afford about 60 merks Scots 

 (3/. 6s. 9d. sterlg.^ to each of four brethren. An improve- 

 ment has since taken place ; for in 1815 ten pensioners 

 were on the foundation, and received 31. a j'ear each. 

 The Magistrates and Town Council are patrons of the 

 Hospital ; but they appoint a Preceptor, in whom is 

 vested the immediate management of its affairs." 



There are no traditionary particulars connected 

 with the bishop while he filled the see of Glasgow 

 that I could ever ascertain. It is probable that 

 he occupied as a residence the archiepiscopal pa- 

 lace or castle adjacent to the cathedral, the last 

 portions of which were removed about 1792 as a 

 site for the erection of the Royal Infirmary. This 

 noble ancient edifice was shorn of its glory after 

 the Reformation, and is said to have been allowed 

 gradually to fall into disrepair, till it finally be- 

 came nearly a ruin. There are, however, evi- 

 dences that some years prior to the incumbency 

 of the bishop certain parts of it had been in a 

 habitable condition, meetings of the College Faculty 

 taking place therein, their Minutes dated " At the 

 Castell of Glasgow." If too lordly a dwelling- 

 place for the humble-minded bishop there would 

 be no difficulty at that period in obtaining one of 

 the numerous prebendary houses or manses of less 

 ostentation, which were so thickly planted in the 

 neighbourhood of the cathedral, and which may 



be deemed the most in consonance with the cha» 

 racter of the man who was such a strict follower 

 of " Him who had not where to lay his head." 



A new, accurate, well-printed, and reasonably- 

 priced edition of Leighton's Life and Works would,. 

 I think, be a great boon to the public. Many have 

 a prejudice against him, in the sectarianism of the 

 North, as not of "their communion," which an 

 acquaintance with his writings would undoubtedly 

 to a great extent remove. The rich, lofty, and 

 magnificent ideas in his Sermons, all so beautifully 

 traced out and applied, and combined with so 

 much of the intense spiritual feeling, cannot fail 

 to make it to be perceived that the writer's whole 

 mind and soul were engaged, and that while upon 

 earth he lived in and breathed a celestial atmo* 

 sphere. G. N. 



HENEY SMITH, iECTUEER OF ST. CLEMENT CANES. 



(1" S. iii. 222. ; vi. 129. 231. ; vii. 223.) 



We believe that we are enabled to add to and 

 correct the accounts of this justly celebrated 

 divine by Dr. Fuller, and in Wood's Athence Oxo' 

 nienses, Nichols's Leicestershire, Brooks's Lives of 

 the Puritans, Chalmers's Biog. Diet, and ojher 

 works. 



He was admitted a fellow commoner of Queen's 

 College, Cambridge, 17th July, 1573. As he was 

 not matriculated at Cambridge, the probability is 

 that he did not continue there long. 



Fully believing his identity with Henry Smithy 

 matriculated at Oxford in 1575 as a member of 

 Lincoln College, we doubt whether he took a de- 

 gree at Oxford, or elsewhere. It seems that one 

 Henry Smith, of Hart Hall, proceeded M.A. at 

 Oxford, 9th July, 1579 ; and that another of the 

 same name and house took that degree 3rd May, 

 1583. Wood states the latter to have been our 

 Henry Smith, and describes him as of Hart HalJ, 

 lately of Lincoln College ; but our Henry Smith, 

 although he refers to his having been at a Univer- 

 sity, never calls himself M.A., nor do we find him 

 so called by his contemporaries. He indeed terras 

 himself Theologus, and is so described by others. 

 Richard Greenham, in a letter to Lord Burghley, 

 1587, laments that Mr. Smith had not tarried in 

 the University until his gifts were grown into 

 some more maturity, and says that neither he nor 

 the Lord Treasurer could obtain that favour of 

 his father. 



In consequence of his temporary suspension by 

 Bishop Aylmer, he has been ranked with the 

 Puritans ; but he wrote well and warmly in de- 

 fence of the Church of England against the Brown- 

 ists and Barrowists. 



Without the least desire to detract from Mr. 

 Marsden's encomium on Lord Burghley for his 

 successful exertions in procuring Mr. Smith's 



