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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and that on the affair being represented to his majesty, 

 he had ordered him a pension of 200Z. per annum." — 

 Annual Register for 1761, p. 63. 



Who is the " Scots nobleman" above referred 

 to P C. J. Douglas. 



Olovensis, Bishoprick of . — In the list of suf- 

 fragan bishops contributed by Mb. Mackenzie 

 Walcott ("N. & Q.," 2""^ S. ii. 1—3.) occurs 

 below the date 1491, — 



" Richard, educated at Oxford, Dominican of Warwick, 

 died in 1502, buried in Blaclifriars, Worcester. Bishop of 

 [Olevensis?] in Mauritania (Worcester)." 



I have reason to believe this bishop's surname 

 was Wycherley. I once found in a patent of 

 Henry VIII., which cited an inquisition referring 

 to transactions apparently of the year 1495 or 

 1496, casual mention of " Ricardus Wycherley 

 tunc Episcopus Eleneri." Either misreading the 

 title, or supposing it a slight clerical error, I took 

 him at the time to be Bishop of Ely ; but a re- 

 ference to Beatson's Political Index corrected my 

 mistake. A friend of mine looked up the inqui- 

 sition, and told me he found the name there 

 written " Clonensis." This sent me to Ireland, 

 where I hesitated between Cloyne and Clonmac- 

 noise, but could not find a resting-place in 

 either. I therefore again consulted the inquisi- 

 tion, and found the word to be " Olonensis " in 

 that document. I presume that " Olevensis " 

 was the proper title. Query, what is the name of 

 the place ? James Gaiednek. 



Johannes F. Crivellus. — I should be very much 

 obliged, if you could inform me, whether anything 

 is known of Johannes Franciscus Crivellus, a 

 painter, about 1480, of considerable merit (some- 

 thing in the style of Perugino), corresponding, in 

 fact, with the account usually given of Carlo 

 Crivelli. Was Carlo this painter's real name, or 

 only, as is sometimes the case, a nickname ? 



J. C. J. 



Grain Crops. — Can any of your readers supply 

 a copy of the pamphlet, published at York, up- 

 wards of fifty years ago, by John Tuke, a land 

 surveyor in extensive practice, and steward to 

 several estates of importance in that locality. Its 

 short title was. On the Advantages of cutting Grain 

 Crops early ; and Mr. Tuke's theory was, that 

 corn, after becoming ripe at the root, would ripen 

 in the ear to greater advantage being cut than 

 remaining on its root. This practice is partially 

 observed among farmers, but is not generally 

 adopted. One great benefit was, I remember, 

 that in case of rain the ear would be less liable 

 to sprout, while the process of ripening in the 

 evaporation of sap in the blade would go on 

 to better advantage both to the straw and the 

 berry. A notice of this subject might have its 

 Utility at the present season. F. R. Maxon. 



Walpole, and Whittington and his Cat. — In 

 Walpole's "Letter to Cole," dated Jan. 8, 1773, 

 in which he shows himself very angry with The 

 Society of Antiquaries, clearly for tlieir publica- 

 tion, in the Archceologia, of Masters' Reply to his 

 Historic Doubts, he says : " for the Antiquarian 

 Society, I shall leave them in peace with Whit- 

 tington and his Cat." In a previous Letter, viz. 

 July 28, 1772, he had stated : 



" I choose to be at liberty to say what I think of the 

 learned Societj'; and, therefore, I have taken leave of 

 them, having so good an occasion presented as their 

 council on Whittingtorf and his Cat, and the ridicule 

 that Foote has thrown on them," &c. 



To what paper or discussion on Whittington 

 and his Cat does Walpole allude ? W. W. (2.) 



Special Service omitted from the Prayer Book 

 of the Church of England. — When was the 

 " Service for the Twenty-third Day of October" 

 omitted from the (Irish) Prayer Book ? It was 

 appointed by Act of Parliament in the 14th & 

 15th year of King Charles IL (1662-63) ; and was 

 ordered to be retained by King George I., by a 

 warrant issued at St. James's Palace, Nov. 3, 1715. 

 In the list of special-service days for the month 

 of October, in Grierson's folio Prayer Book, 

 Dublin (1750), no mention is made of Oct. 23. 

 being a remarkable day, and yet this service is to 

 be found in that edition of the Prayer-Book. On 

 the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, a 

 royal warrant was issued, dated June 21, 1837, 

 in which no mention is made of this special ser- 

 vice ; and yet, in the quarto Prayer-Book pub- 

 lished by Grierson (state printer), Dublin (1846), 

 a reference is made in the month of October to 

 the "Irish Rebellion" of 1641. No special ser- 

 vice appears in this edition. 



The rubric prefixed to the " Service for the 

 Fifth of November " orders that — 



" After Morning Pra5'er, or Preaching, upon the said 

 Fifth Day of November, the Minister of every Parish 

 shall read publicly, distinctly, and plainly, the Act of 

 Parliament made in the third year of King James the 

 First, for the observance of it." 



The rubric preceding the office for the Twenty- 

 ninth day of May orders that — 



" The Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth, and con- 

 firmed in the Thirteenth year of King Charles the Second 

 for the observation of the 29th day of May, yearly, as a 

 day of public thanksgiving is to be read publicly in all 

 Churches at Morning Prayer, immediately after the 

 Nicene Creed, on the Lord's Day next before every such 

 29th of May." 



I have never heard these Acts of Parliament 

 read, although I have attended services on those 

 special days in every part of the United Kingdom. 



JUVERNA, M.A. 



Samuel Rolle, Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, — What can be ascertained of the history 



