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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and character of the above-named distinguished 

 statesman, other than the under-mentioned, is re- 

 quested : — 



Gentleman's Magazine, 1850. 



IJlaekwood's Magazine, 1850. 



Christian Guardian, July, 1850. 



Christian Kemembrancer, vol. xx. 



Memoir published by the Trustees of Sir Robert Peel's 

 Papers. 2 parts. London, Murray, 1856. 



Sir Robert Peel, a Type of Statesmanship, by Jelinger 

 Symons, Esq. Longman, 1856. 



Memoir by Guizot. London, Bentley, 1857. 



D. F. Jarman, B.A., F. F. Statham, 13. A., 



and Wm. Brock. 



In December, 1856, a prayer called the " States- 

 man's," attributed to Sir R. Peel, went the round 

 of the newspapers, but I cannot now recollect if it 

 was ever proved to be Sir Robert's own composi- 

 tion. Any light that can be thrown upon it would 

 be acceptable. F. G. 



Occasional Forms of Prayer, when first used. — 

 Many very interesting lists of occasional forms of 

 prayer have appeared in " N". & Q." from time to 

 time, but I do not remember to have seen any in- 

 formation respecting their origin. The following 

 extract from Strype's Memorials ofAhp. Cranmer, 

 book I. ch. xxix., may throw some light upon the 

 subject : — 



" Occasional prayers and suffrages, to be used through- 

 out all churches, began now [1543-4] to be more usual 

 than formerlj'. For these common devotions were twice 

 this 3'ear appointed by authority, as they had been once 

 the last ; which I look upon the Archbishop to be the 

 great instrument in procuring: that he might by this 

 means, by little and little, bring into use prayer in the 

 English tongue, which he so much desired ; and that the 

 people, by understanding part of their prayers, might be 

 the more desirous to have their whole service rendered 

 intelligible ; whereby God might be served with the more 

 seriousness and devotion." 



He then goes on to specify an instance in 1543, 

 remarking : — 



" It is not so evident that these prayers were in the 

 English tongue: but in the year following, viz. 1544, 

 there were, without controversy, certain suffrages drawn 

 up in the mother-tongue by the Archbishop's means; 

 which he intended to be universally observed every- 

 where." 



The whole chapter, which is entitled Occasional 

 Forms of Prayer and Sufjfrages, may be consulted. 

 ». Archibald Weib. 



Enfield. 



" Gestes of Guarine." — In Leland's Collec- 

 tanea, vol. i. p. 230., occur some pages of 

 "Things excerptid oute of an old Englisch boke yn 

 Rj'me of the Gestes of Guarine, and his Sunnes." 



And at p. 236., the author adds — 



"Here lakkid a Quayre or ii in the olde Englisch 

 Booke of the nobile actes of the Guarines; and these 

 thinges that folow I translatid owte of an olde French 

 Historic yn Rirae of the actes of the Guarines onto the 

 DeathofFulcothe2." 



Is anything known of these two old " Bookes in 

 Rime," except what Leland has preserved ? He 

 has taken the heads of the story, and set them 

 down in a dry antiquarian way; but it would 

 seem that the English and the French were two 

 versions of the same romantic poem. In the mar- 

 gin of p. 237. Leland adds a reference to the 

 " Englisch historic " of the Fitzwarines. Does he 

 mean the same Englisch poem from which he had 

 made his excerpts, or is there any other history of 

 this family ? 



The name, in its latter form, is appended to that 

 of a parish in Somersetshire (Norton Fitzwarren) , 

 where there is a fine British earthwork. W. P. P. 



James Stirling. — Having lately read with high 

 satisfaction this gentleman's Letters from the Slave 

 States, may I ask of what other works, if any, he 

 is author, &c. ? T. 



Mediceval Burials, Sj-c. — I should be much ob- 

 liged to your correspondents for information di- 

 rected to me, 17. Sutton Place, Hackney, upon 

 mediseval burials. I want references to original 

 sources, such as MSS., paintings, illuminations, 

 &c., especially of the funerals of great pers(his. 



J. C. J. 



Oliver Cromicell. — One of J. Dury's letters, 

 dated July 22, 1654, states : — 



" The weeklj' sheete of newes printed at Genoa, July 

 1-11, by Farroni, tells us that the L. Protector hath 

 changed the Great Scale of England, setting upon the 

 new one his owne Effigies on horse-back, with this in- 

 scription: ' Olivero il grand Imperatore d' Inghil- terra, di 

 Scotia, Hibernia e Francia : e Prottetore de protestanti, e 

 delle chiese rifomiate ' . . ." 



Is there any corroboration of this statement ? 

 Another letter, dated Zurich, 30 April, 1655, gives 

 an account of an Irish friar reported to have a de- 

 sign against the Protector's life. Ithubiel. 



Family of Ferrers. — Can you inform me whe- 

 ther William, second Lord Ferrers of Groby, who 

 died in 18 Edw. II., had any issue besideg Henry, 

 his son and heir, who succeeded him in the barony ? 



Who was the Thomas de Ferrers to whom King 

 Edw. III. in the 9th year of his reign gave licence 

 to hold the manor of Caldore, of the grant of Dun- 

 can, Earl of Fife ? Meletes. 



Mummy of a Manchester Lady. — Many years 

 ago I recollect seeing in the Manchester Museum 

 of Natural History the mummy of a female, sus- 

 pended in a case, with a glass door, and was told 

 that the figure represented a lady of the last cen- 

 tury, well known in Manchester, whose life estates 

 had been devised, after she was "dead and buried," 

 to some relatives who treated her whilst living 

 with great unklndness. To prevent their succeed- 

 ing under this conditional devise of an eccentric 

 father or brother, she bequeathed her estates to 



