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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



bourne, March 21 ; Canon of St. Paul's, Oct. 10, 

 1553; Wrotham, March 22, 1558; Bishop of 

 Sidon; died at Greenwich, 1558. (Canterbury.) 

 1558. March 8. Licensed to officiate ; Christopher, Bishop 

 of Sidon. (Canterbury.) 



John, Bishop of Hippo. (Canterbury.) 



William Favell, of CoUumpton ; Prior of St. Nicho- 

 las, Exeter; Archdeacon of Totness, Aug. 10, 

 1549; Bishop of Hippo; died July 24, 1537. 

 ' (Exeter.) 



Matthew Makerel, Abbat of Burlings; Bishop of 

 Chalcedon. (Canterbury.) 



Thomas Bele, an Austin Canon ; Vicar of Wi- 

 tliam, Jan. 28, 1528 ; Prebendary of St. Paul's, 

 Nov. 11, 1521 ; Prior of St. Mary Spital, London ; 

 Ranton ; Abbat of Dorchester ; Bishop of Lydda ; 

 died Aug. 12, 1540, and was buried at Bury St. 

 Edmunds. (London.) 

 1587. John Byrd, consecrated June 24, to Penrith, by the 

 Primate and Bishops of Rochester and St. Asaph ; 

 translated to Bangor, 1539 ; and Chester, Aug. 5, 

 1541. (LlandafF.) 

 1537. Thomas Morley, Abbat of Stanley; consecrated 

 Nov. 4, by the Primate and Bishops of Lincoln 

 and Rochester to Marlborough. (Salisbury.) 



1537. Richard Yngworth, consecrated Dec. 9, by the 



Primate and Bishops of Rochester and St. Asaph 

 to Dover ; Rector of Chidingstone, May 10, 1539 ; 

 Chart, May 28, 1541 ; Wrotham, April 3, 1546 ; 

 Prior of Langley Regis. (Canterbury.) 

 1638. Henry Holbeche, consecrated March 24, by the 

 Bishops of London, Worcester, and St. Asaph, 

 in Rochester Place, at Lambeth, to Bristol; 

 translated to Lincoln, (Worcester.) 



1538. William Finch, consecrated April 7, in the Do- 



minican Church, London, by the Bishops of Ro- 

 chester, St. Asaph, and Colchester, to Taunton ; 

 he was Prior of Braemar ; Rector of West Carn- 

 mell, Mav 8, 1554 ; Prebendary of Wells, Jan. 6, 

 1557. (Bath and Wells.) 



1539. Robert King, consecrated to Roan, near Athens, 



translated to Osney and Oxford. (Lincoln.) 



1539. John Tiiornden, D.D., Master of Canterbury Hall, 

 Oxford; Commissary of Oxford, 1506 — 1514; 

 Prior of Dover, 1508 ; Rector of High Hardys, 

 Dec. 23, 1505 ; Newington, Aug. 6, 1506 ; Har- 

 bledown, Aug. 30, 1507 ; Aldington, June 21, 

 1512; lilogh Monachorum, Nov. 2, 1514; con- 

 secrated to Sirmium (Szerem) in Hungary. 

 (Canterbury.) 

 Richard Thornden le Stede, Monk of Canterbury ; 

 Rector of Chidingstone, May 10, 1539 ; Chart, 

 May 28, 1541 ; Wrotham, April 3 ; Tentwarden, 

 April 19, 1546; Adisham, 1554; Bishopsbourne, 

 June 14, 1554; Lydde; Proctor in Convocation, 

 1541 ; Prebendary of Canterbury, April 18, 

 1542 ; Vice-dean, May 17, 1556. Consecrated to 

 (Syrinensis) and Dover : he proved false to his 

 patron Cranmer, and was a great persecutor : he 

 died 1558, and was buried at Bishopsbourne. 

 (Canterbury.) 



1553, Robert Pursglove, born at Tideswell ; educated at 

 St. Paul's School, and Corpus Chrisli College, 

 Oxford ; Prior of Gisborne ; Provost of Rother- 



ham; Archdeacon of Nottingham, 1553, ; 



founder of Gisborne School ; Bishop of Hull : he 

 died May 2, 1579, and was buried at Tideswell. 

 (York.) 



1667. Richard Barnes, consecrated April 5, at York, to 

 Nottingham; translated to Carlisle, July 23, 

 1570 ; and to Durham, May 9, 1575. (Lincoln.) 



1669, Richard Rogers, S.T.B., consecrated May 15, at 



Lambeth, by the Primate and Bishops t£ London 

 and Rochester to Dover : he was born at Sutton 

 Valence; educated at Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge; Rector of Llanarmon ; Dudley, 1549; 

 Dunmow, Feb. 11, 1560 ; Canfield ; Chart, Jan. 19, 

 1567 ; Prebendary of St. Paul's, Oct. 25, 1566 ; 



Archdeacon of St. Asaph, 1559 ; Master of 



Eastbridge Hospital, 1594 ; Dean of Canterbury', 

 Sept. 16, 1584 : he died May 19, 1597, and was 

 buried in Canterbury Cathedral. (Canterbury.) 



1592. John Sterne, consecrated Nov. 12, at Fulham, by 

 the Primate and Bishops of London, Bristol, and 

 Rochester, to Colchester ; lie was Vicar of Rick- 

 mansworth, 1584 ; VVitham, March 7, 1587 : he 

 died Feb. — , 1607. (London.) 



1848. G. T. Spencer, Bishop of Madras (Commissary). 

 (Bath and Wells.) 



1856, Reginald Courtne)', Bishop of Kingston ; Arch- 

 deacon of Jamaica. (Jamaica.} 



What has become of Dr. Walker's noble pro- 

 posal to endow a See of Cornwall, acknowledged 

 in Parliament and by both Houses of Convo- 

 cation ? M.A.CKENZIE ^VALCOTT, M.A, 



ETYMOLOGIES, 



" Merry England." — This expression, I appre- 

 hend, conveys an erroneous idea to the minds of 

 persons .in general. It is usually supposed to 

 refer to the gay, joyous character of the English 

 people of the olden time ; whereas, as I hope I 

 shall be able to show, it is like " La Belle France," 

 and such terms indicative of the nature and ap- 

 pearance of the country, not of the character of 

 the people. 



The origin of our word merry is the Anglo- 

 Saxon mipis, a word seemingly peculiar to that 

 language, for I have not met any term resembling 

 it in any of the cognate dialects. Its proper 

 meaning seems to be pleasant, cheerful, agreeable. 

 Thus in the Canterbury Tales, the Person e says : 

 " I wol yow telle a mery tale in prose ; " 



and this tale is a grave " Treatise on Penitence," 

 to which merry, in its present acceptation, could 

 never be applied. In like manner it is said of 

 Chaunticlere the cock : 



" His vols was merier than the mevT/ orgon," 



which is not merry in our sense of the word. But 

 merry is also used of places : 

 " Of erbe yve that groweth in our yerd that mery is." 



" That made hem in a cite for to tarie, 

 That stood full mery upon a haven sj'de." 



Lincoln is termed merry in the ballad of " Hugh 

 of Lincoln;" we also meet with Merry Carlisle 

 and MerrylaxiA Town, in which the reference is 

 plainly to the site, &c., of the place, rather than to 

 the character of the inhabitants. Merry England 

 is then, we may say, England that abounds in 

 comforts, and is pleasant to live in, 



1 cannot help thinking that merry in its original 



