2>"i S. No 34., Auo. 23. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the Chancellor had two Ladles Cowpei* on his 

 establishment ; or for the other assertion, that 

 Spencer Cowper had deluded Sarah Stout by a 

 feigned marriage ? I find no mention of any such 

 charge against the judge in the accounts of his 

 trial which I have read. They merely state that 

 she was his mistress. S. S. 



[This Query may, perhaps, receive some light from the 

 following passage in the English Traveller, vol. ii. p. 315; 

 " Hertingfordbury, by some esteemed one of the plea- 

 santest villages in England. The seat of the Earl Cow- 

 per here, called Hertingfordbury Park, was the estate of 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Culling, who lies buried in the church- 

 j'ard. This lady, having two natural children by that 

 Lord, a son and a daughter, the former dj'ing soon after 

 lie came of age, the j-oung lady, his sister, sold the estate, 

 in the year 1720, to her father's brother, the late Judge 

 [Spencer] Cowper, for fifty years' purchase at least, and 

 he again disposed of it to his brother, the late great Lord 

 Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of England." It has been 

 said, that in the early part of his life a pretended mar- 

 riage, without the forms of law, took place between Mr. 

 Cowper, afterwards the Chancellor, and the lady here 

 mentioned, Mrs. Elizabeth Culling ; and hence probably 

 originated the story of the Chancellor having two wives, 

 and the name given him by Swift in The Examiner of 

 " Will Bigamy." " But," as Lord Campbell remarks, 

 " there is no foundation whatever for the assertion that 

 he had married Miss Elizabeth Culling ; and, notwith- 

 standing the calumnies of Swift and Mrs. Manley, and 

 the statement with which Voltaire amused Europe, that 

 the Lord Chancellor of England practised and defended 

 polygamy, he had dropped all correspondence with this 

 lady before he was introduced to either of the two wives 

 whom he successively led to the altar." — Lives of the 

 Lord Chancellors, vol. iv. p. 261. 



The following passage from No. 23., folio edition, of 

 The Examiner thus notices the work on Plurality of 

 Wives attributed to the Chancellor : " This gentleman 

 [Will Bigamy] knowing that marriage fees were a con- 

 siderable perquisite to the clergy, found out a way of im- 

 proving them cent, by cent, for the good of the Church. 

 His invention was to marry a second wife while the first 

 was alive, convincing her of the lawfulness by such argu- 

 ments as he did not doubt would make others follow the 

 same example. These he had drawn up in writing, with 

 intention to publish for the general good ; and it is hoped 

 he may now have leisure to finish them." — The statement 

 that Spencer Cowper had deluded Sarah Stout by a 

 feigned marriage originated most probably from the 

 malevolent turn given to the affair of the trial by Mrs. 

 Manley in the New Atalantis, in her story of " Mosco and 

 Zara," in which she made very free with the characters 

 of many high and distinguished personages.] 



Simon Senhouse. — When did Simon Senhouse, 

 prior of Carlisle, die ? J. P. Senhouse. 



[In Burn's Cumberland we read that Simon Senhouse, 

 of the House of Seascales in Cumberland, was chosen 

 prior of Carlisle in 1507 ; and it is added, in the last edi- 

 tion of Dugdale's Monasticon, that he was alive in 1519.] 



Cornelius Kilianus Dufflceus. — Where can an 

 account of this lexicographer be found ? and why 

 is he always quoted as " Kilian ? " though my copy 

 of his work is lettered on the back, " Dufflaei 

 Diet. Teut.-Latinum." And both in the " Epistle 

 to the Reader," and in the commendatory verses 



by him, prefixed to Verstegan's Restitution of De- 

 cayed Intelligence, S^c., he uses the three names as 

 above. The Penny Cyclopcedia says that he cor- 

 rected the press for Christopher Plantin. I sup- 

 pose his " Teut." is the dialect of Brabant. 



E. G. R. 



[Cornelius Kilian was a native of Duffel, in Brabant; 

 hence the affix to his name. Besides his Etymologicon 

 LingucB Teutonicce, he published some Latin Poems, and 

 An Apology for Correctors of the Press against Authors ; 

 and translated into Flemish the Memoirs of Philip de Co- 

 mines. He died in 1607.] 



Synodals. — " Verses, vain repetitions, com- 

 memorations, and synodals." (Preface to the 

 Prayer-Book, Concerning the Service of the 

 Church.) What are synodals ? A. A. D. 



[These were the publication or recital of the provincial 

 constitutions in the parish churches. For after the con- 

 clusion of every provincial synod, the canons thereof were 

 to be read in the churches, and the tenor of them to be 

 declared and made known to the people; and some of 

 them to be annually repeated on certain Sundays in the 

 year. — Dr. Nichols on Preface concerning the Service of the 

 Church.^ 



Horace on Architecture. — Where is it that, ac- 

 cording to Byron, 



" Horace has expressed 

 Shortly and sweetly the masonic folly 

 Of those, forgetting the great place of rest. 

 Who give themselves to architecture wholly." 



L>on Juan. 



Perhaps some classic contributor will kindly 

 point me the Latin poet's line. Palladio. 



[The following lines of the Roman Lyric bard, descrip- 

 tive of the folly of those who build mansions, " forgetting 

 the great place of rest," are unquestionably the passage to 

 which Byron alludes : 



. " Tu secanda marmora 

 Locas, sed ipsum funus, et sepulchri 

 Immemor, struis domos." 



Hor. Od., lib. ii. xviii. v. 17-19. 



"You are buying marble for building, when on the 

 verge of the grave, and, unmindful of the tomb, you 

 begin to build houses."] 



PARISH REGISTERS. 



(2"'i S. ii. 66.) 

 Your correspondent W., of Bombay, has done 

 well in drawing attention to the subject of parish 

 registers. The best course to pursue would be, 

 as he suggests, to have them all printed ; but the 

 expense would be so very great, that I despair of 

 ever seeing the project put in execution. If 

 manuscript copies were taken, and deposited in 

 the General Register Office, a great point would 

 be gained ; but really some immediate provision 

 should be made for the safe custody of the origi- 

 nals. No doubt much better care is taken to 



