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NOTES AND QITERIES. 



[2nds. No3l.,AuG. 2. 



flight, and the result was there was a line of straws 

 from the farmer's barn to one of his neighbour's, 

 which remained till the morning, when the neigh- 

 bour brought an accusation against the farmer for 

 theft. The evidence of the man who was lurking 

 about the homestead on his own account was 

 brought against him ; the line of straws was cir- 

 cumstantial evidence, as well as the suspicion of 

 the neighbourhood ; but as the neighbour had had 

 a man watching in his own barn, who had not 

 seen the farmer enter, he was acquitted. The 

 watchman of the neighbour had been sent to sleep 

 by the fairies, but this part of the evidence had 

 been withheld. However, from that day forth 

 the young farmer was thought not too honest, and 

 the neighbours' suspicions were confirmed by his 

 bam ever after becoming empty at its proper 

 period. Avon Lea. 



BUIil/ OP ADRIAN THE FOURTH. 



Question as to the authenticity of the Bull of 

 Adrian IV. (Pope), conferring the dominion of 

 Ireland on Henry II. of England, from the Pro- 

 pugnaculum Catholic(B Veritatis, by Anthony Bru- 

 odin, Prague, 1669, whose family were, the author 

 states, hereditary chronologers of the O'Briens of 

 Thomond. F. 



" Authores varii dicunt, quod Adrianus 4 natione An- 

 glus, qui sedem Petri conscenderat Anno circa 1154 domi- 

 nium Regni Hiberniae, sedi Apostolicse a Rege Donato 

 8 Brien quondam oblatum, cesserat Henrico 2'io Anglorum 

 Kegv 



" Hos sequUur Baronius Tom. 12. Annalium, ubi di- 

 ploma recitat hujus concessionis. 



" Ego (ut, quod sentio dicam) non parum de veritate 

 hujus Historiae dubito; nam, vivente Adriano Papa 

 (qui obiit Anno salutis 1159 nee latum pedem in Hiberiiia 

 habuit Henricus 2'!"% aut alius ullus extraneus, prseter 

 Ostmannos : unde manifeste convicitur errore Sanderus in 

 Schismate Anglicano, fol. 196., qui dicit, quod postquam 

 Henricus 2'i"» nonnulla Insulas loca sui, ac suorum (verba 

 sunt Sanderi) hoc est Roberti Pitz Stephani et Kichardi 

 Comitis armis acquisitae tenebat, Clerus Hibernicus, simul 

 cum multis Proceribus suppliciter rogarunt, Adrianum 4 

 summum Pontificem, ut ad tollendas seditiones, Contro- 

 versias, et multas alias inconvenientias, totius Hibernias 

 dominium Henrico 2 concedere vellet, &c. &c. 



" Quis oro non videt, quam crasse Sanderus in hac nar- 

 ratione erret. Adrianus Papa conscendit Petri Cathedram 

 Anno 1154, sed itque annis tantum 4 et mensibus 8 et 

 consequenter obiit Anno 1159 Robertus autem Fitz Ste- 

 phan, cum Geraldino in Hiberniam primb venit in succur- 

 sum Dermitii Logeniae Principis circa Anno salutis 1172, 

 viginti nimiruni duobus annis postquam Adrianus fuit 

 mortuus, quomodo ergo posset esse verum, quod ' Clerus, 

 et populus supplicarunt Adriano Pontifici, ut Kegi Hen- 

 rico, postquam jam nonnulla loca in Insula occupavit, 

 dominium Regi concedere vellet? ' Adde motiva conces- 

 sionis Dominii Hiberniaj, in diplomate Adriani (si ipsius 

 asset) posita, nimirum hac: ut 'lapsam lidem Catholicam 

 restauraret, virtutes plantaret, &c. esse falsa, et conse- 

 quenter ipsum diploma esse subrepticium et falsum: nam 

 fides Catholica in Hibernia floruit, vivente Adriano, tam 

 bene ac in Anglia, vel Italia, ut patet ex uberrima ilia 



sanctorum in Hibernia per tot continua saecula serie, ac 

 cffinobiorum, etiam illo ipso tempore quo Angli Regionem 

 subjugarunt, fundationibus : quomodo ergo per Anglos 

 fides esset restauranda? 



" Eodem argumento exploditur Sto, qui inter alia fig* 

 menta, in sua Chronica dicit quod Adrianus Papa, Henrico 

 2<'o annoprimo sui Regni, hoc est Anno 1155, dominium 

 Regni Hibernife donavit. Exploditur inquam, nam Papa 

 Adrianus fatiscessit antequam Henricus fuisset Rex, ut ex 

 utriaeque vitse Historia coUigitur: ergo non est verum 

 quod Henrico 2'^'^ dominium Hibernise cesserat. Deinde 

 nullum jus habuit unquam Papa in Hiberniam quod non 

 habuit in Angliam, vel Franciam ; quomodo ergo potuis- 

 set transferre dominium rei non suae in alium ? si dicas 

 quod a Rege Donato 6 Brien, jus simul cum Regni corona, 

 Romanus acceperat Pontifex, nihil dicis pro te: nam non 

 habuit Donatus jus transferendi dominium Regni in Pa- 

 pam : et hoc inde patet quod post Donatum regn3.runt 

 pacifice in HiberniS, 4 Reges: sub quibus duo no^ilissima 

 celebrata sunt Concilia Nationalia, et tamen illis regnan- 

 tibus, nunquam fuit auditum, quod Papa Romanus esset 

 Rex, aut Dominus Hibernia : quo dubio procul ipsius le- 

 gati et maxime Cardinalis Joannes Papironius, non sileret, 

 si de tali Domino aliquid scivisset. 



"Concludo igitur primo Papam Adrianum nunquam 

 fuisse Dominum Hiberniie, magis quam Anglise, et con- 

 sequenter nunquam cessisse dominium Hiberniae Regi 

 Angliae. Secundo Henricum 2™» non fuisse Regem An- 

 gliae, aut saltem non fuisse possessionatum in Hibernia, 

 vivente Papa Adriano in Papatu ; et consequenter Hen- 

 ricum Regem nullum accepisse ab Adriano jus in Hiber- 

 niam. Tertio, Henricum devictis armis Hibernis, Anno 

 1 172 Petri sedem regnante Alexandro 3 extorto consensu 

 omnium Regni Procerum obtinuisse dominium Hiberniae, 

 et sic, successu temporis, Reges Angliae in legitimes eva- 

 sisse Hiberniae Dominos : sicut defactb legitimi sunt Reges 

 (utinam et Catholici) ac Domini Hiberniae. Successores 

 etiam tot nobilium Familiarum, qu£e illo regnante in Hi- 

 berniam venerunt veri sunt Hiberui et legitimi possessores 

 bonfe fidei dominiorum quae possident defactb (utinam 

 paterna possiderent omnia bona) quamvis antecessorea 

 illorura tunc non justo magis titulo invaserunt Regnura 

 alienum, quam Milesiani quondam illud rapuerunt Dea- 

 dedinis." 



Cap. 47. lib. 5. 



PRETENBED DAUPHINS. 



In "N. & Q.," P' S. vi. 318., is inaccurate in- 

 formation relative to the man Naundorff", who 

 styled himself Duke of Normandy, and the dau- 

 phin son of Louis XVI. I knew him intimately 

 during several years, and studied thoroughly the 

 question of his pretensions. A full account of his 

 life and death is contained in a work entitled In,' 

 trigues Devoilees, par M. Gruau de la Barre, 

 three vols., Rotterdam, 1847-8. I have a copy 

 quite at the service of Mr. W. H. Hart, of 

 Hatcham, or any other of your correspondents. 



Opposite facts will be found in M. de Beau- 

 chesne's Memoirs of the Dauphin Son of Louis 

 X VL, published in Paris three or four years ago, 

 and of which a translation lately appeared in 

 London. The soi-disant Baron de Richemont 

 was a different pretender from NaundorflP, with 

 whom you confound him in the reply to Mr. 

 PIart ; as is also the monomaniac Meeves, re- 



