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thority for either of these assertions. The first 

 constable, John Foxley, was appointed in Oc- 

 tober, 1365, and in the month of May in that 

 year several patents were dated " apud castrum 

 nostrum in insula de Shepeye " by the king. 

 The surveyor of works appears to have been ap- 

 pointed in 1361. I am anxious to obtain some 

 clue to the verification or refutation of Hasted's 

 statements, for upon them depends the assignment 

 of a limiting date to a passage in a manuscript of 

 the fourteenth century in my hands, the writer 

 of which employs the phrase " castellum quod 

 cedificat (sc. rex) quod dicitur Schepheye," which 

 must therefore have been written before the 

 completion of the castle. H. F. 



The Mowlray Family. — Curtis, in his Topo- 

 graphical History of Leicestershire, under " Lind- 

 ley," says, " Goisfrid's [de Wirce] daughter 

 married Nigel de Mowbray, and she gave lands 

 here to Garendon Abbey." Curtis gives no au- 

 thority for this statement, which, if true, would 

 account for the fact of the estates of Goisfrid de 

 Wirce passing into the possession of the Albini 

 family, and so into that of the English family of 

 Mowbray. Can the statement of Curtis as to 

 the marriage be authenticated ? T. North. 



Leicester. 



Texts. — From a recent number of The Guar- 

 dian, I see that a clergyman took his text from 

 the Apocryphal Book of Ecclesiasticus. I should 

 very much like to know whether clergymen are 

 restricted in selecting their texts to the canonical 

 books, or whether it merely depends on the " au- 

 thority of custom." In early days, preachers were 

 not so much confined. As far as beautiful apho- 

 risms and elegance of diction are concerned, the 

 Books of "Ecclesiasticus" and "Wisdom" are only 

 second to the productions of the inspired writers. 



Bishop Butler quotes largely from them in his 

 Sermons (e. g. in the one upon the " Government 

 of the Tongue," and in that upon " Forgiveness of 

 Injuries," &c.). Oxoniensis. 



P.S. I may here note another custom begin- 

 ning to obtain, namely, that of clergymen select- 

 ing two or three portions from different passages 

 of Scripture for their text. 



Fullers Funeral Sermon. — Aubrey, in his cha- 

 racter of Thos. Fuller, the historian, speaking of 

 his works (see Letters from Bodleian, vol. ii. p. 

 354.) says : — 



" Scripsit amongst other things : ' A Funerall Sermon 

 on Hen. Danvers, Esq., the eldest son of S' John Dan- 

 vers, and only son by his second wife, Darteby [should 

 be Dauntesey], Brother to Henry Earl of Danby, preached 

 at Lavington, in Wilts. Obiit 19° NoV^.' " 



Fuller's intimacy with the family is well known, 

 and the statement made by Aubrey, who was re- 

 lated to Sir John Danvers, is no doubt deserving 



credit ; but I have sought in vain for any such 

 sermon in the Library of the British Museum, 

 and all inquiries addressed to parties most inti- 

 mate with Fuller's writings have been fruitless. 

 Queen's College or Sidney College Library may 

 contain all Fuller's works, as he was a member of 

 both those colleges, and I should feel greatly 

 obliged if any of your Cambridge correspondents 

 would examine farther into a subject in which I 

 feel some curiosity as holding a situation which 

 has made me anxious to collect all attainable in- 

 formation relative to the Dauntesey Danvers, 

 Lees, and Berties, the former possessors of Bishops 

 Lavington, Wilts. E. W. 



Archbishop Laud. — Is the picture of Arch- 

 bishop Laud, in the collection of his Grace the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, an undoubtedly genuine 

 and original portrait by Vandyke ? What was 

 the fate of the series of portraits in the Lambeth 

 gallery during the time of Cromwell? and how 

 were they restored ? In what collections are 

 there other original portraits of Archbishop Laud? 



T. B. D. 



Seven Dates Vacant. — For a particular kind of 

 Almanack that I have in hand, relating to births 

 and marriages of eminent personages, there are 

 seven days in the year vacant : March 8th, 12th, 

 17th; April 6th; July 1st; October 6th; No- 

 vember 26th. Now I shall be grateful to any 

 correspondent of " N. & Q." who can and will 

 fill up these dates for me, as I am unable to find 

 that any one of distinction will either marry or 

 come into this sphere on the days noted. 



G. W. S. P. 



Symbolical meaning of a Cloven Foot. — The 

 Rev. J. Prime, in his Exposition of the Gala^ 

 thians, 1587, calls upon his readers to "examine the 

 spirits — compare matters and causes — ruminate 

 and chue the kud — meditate the state of their 

 salvation, and go the waies thereunto ivith a eleane 

 and a clouenfoot, that is, as Isichivs saith, with a 

 wise, a discreet, and a distinguishing understad- 

 ing." The cloven foot and chewing the cud were 

 the criterion of clean beasts (Lev. xi. 3.). How 

 has a cloven foot become an emblem of evil ? 

 Thus Satan is pictured with cloven feet ; and in 

 the old altar-piece formerly exhibited in White- 

 chapel church. White Kennett was painted as Judas 

 with a cloven foot. In the same preface this godly 

 puritan says, " If the Bible was indeed deeply im- 

 printed in the harts of al me, I could have wished 

 euen Luthers wish, That al bookes els were in a 

 faire light fiar." In what book has Luther ex- 

 pressed a wish somewhat like that of Mahomet 

 and the Koran ? George Opfor. 



Dutch Tragedy. — 



" Mnch that is good Tragedy at Amsterdam would be 

 broad Farce in London. In one Dutch Tragedy a lady 



