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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. N» 39., SKpt. 27. '56. 



long fives, still sometimes played in the tennis 

 courts, and then the game of long fives made a 



fame of refined skill is tennis. The name is 

 'rench, said to be a corruption of " tenez." Pent- 

 house is "appentis," a lean-to roof. Grille, the 

 grated opening. Dedans, the interior, a place 

 where spectators stand. Tambour and chaces are 

 both clearly French, and so are the terms deuce 

 and advantage, used in marking. Shakspeare 

 knew the language of the tennis court, but Charles 

 II. re-introduced the game, and it is said there 

 were more courts in England in his day than there 

 are at present. It is the game of games. See also 

 " N. & Q.," 1" S. xii. 308. A. Holt White. 



Mayor of London in 1335 (2"'^ S. i. 353. 483. 

 520.; ii. 213.) — Maitland gives for a.d. 1335, 

 Reynold at Conduyte, Mayor, in the margin at 

 the head of the list, putting Fabian and Arnold as 

 avihorities. 



As sheriffs in 1335, he gives Walter Mordon 

 and Richard Upton. The name of Watton does 

 not appear at or near the period. 



In Stow's Survey, printed by Elizabeth Purs- 

 low, AD. 1633, at p. 550. is given : 



"1335 The ninth. 



" Walter Mordon, ) ou -o! 



Richard Upton, j Shenflfes. 



" Maior, Nicholas Watton, Reigaold at the Con- 

 duit, Saith Grafton." 



In this edition of Stow's Survey the name of 

 the mayor is clearly a^xed, not prefixed. The 

 date of the year and reign, then the sheriffs, then 

 the armorial bearings of the mayor, and his name 

 as mayor under. The ninth year of Edw. III. 

 was from Jan. 25, 1335, to Jan. 24, 1336. 



G. H. D. 



I am not quite sure that I rightly apprehend 

 Mr. E. S. Taylor's meaning, when he says : " No 

 mention is made of Wotton. The discrepancy in 

 the authorities quoted is very extraordinary, but 

 I think a reference to Stow, beginning at the com- 

 mencement of the reign, will show that the above 

 gives his list correctly, at any rate." 



The number in which my former note occurs is 

 packed up for the binder ; but in it I certainly 

 mentioned that my edition of State (which appears 

 to differ from Mr. Taylor's in other particulars 

 also) does mention "Richard Wotton" as mayor, 

 between the dates 1335 and 1336, as those dates 

 stand in the margin ; at all events, for the same 

 year in which Walter Morden and Richard Upton 

 were sheriffs. It is evident, therefore, that Stow's 

 Chronicle underwent revision and some con- 

 siderable alterations between these two small 

 black-letter editions. J. Sansom. 



"Nolo episcopari'' (2"'' S. ii. 155. 197.) — The 

 origin of this saying is, I presume, to bo found in 

 the fact that for several centuries, sometimes from 



pious diffidence, at others assumed modesty, 

 episcopal and the papal dignity too had to be 

 forced upon those who were elected or nominated 

 to the high office ; who would resort to subter- 

 fuge, conceal themselves, and even accuse them- 

 selves of unchastity, nay, of deadlier sins, to avoid 

 the burthen sought to be thrust upon them. In 

 Milner's History of the Church may be found 

 many instances of this ; and in his account of St. 

 Ambrose in particular, the pious and amiable his- 

 torian is exceedingly scandalised by the falsehoods 

 which the saint told in order to escape being 

 elected to the Archbishopric of Milan. In short, 

 Nolo episcopari became the fashion, — just as our 

 Speakers of the House of Commons used to go 

 through the farce of being forced into the chair 

 after their election. So that the phrase, I take it, 

 originated in the customary practice rather than 

 in any formal or ceremonial disavowal. Delta. 



The words, " who does modestly refuse it at 

 first," &c., down to the end of the paragraph 

 quoted by Arterus from Chamberlayne's Present 

 State of England (editions, London, 1700, 1704), 

 are omitted in the twenty-fifth edition, London, 

 1718, which may intimate, at least, that Chamber- 

 layne had then discovered the denial to be out of 

 use. Yet the authority of Prynne, as quoted by 

 Edward Foss, fully justifies his question in 

 p. 155., which yet remains unanswered. 



P. H. F. 



Ancient Monastic Libraries (2"'^ S. i. 485.) — • 

 Milton's Priory of Penwortham (Chetham Society) 

 contains a list of above 100 vols, belonging to the 

 Abbey of Evesham, temp. Richard II. Anon. 



Longevity (2"* S. i. 452.) — The following epi- 

 taph upon a tombstone lately erected in Mucross 

 Abbey, near Killarney, Ireland, is curious, and 

 may be thought worthy of a corner in " N. & Q." 



« Erected 

 By Dani Shine, 



In Memory 



of His Father 



Owen Shine, 



Who deParted 



This Life AprH 



The e™ 1847, 



Aged 1 14 yr'. 



Pray for him." 



The capitals are copied exactly as they appear 



on the stone. T. J. Allman. 



Thanksgiving Day in the United States (2"** S. 

 ii. 198.) — EiN Frager, with reference to a pas- 

 sage in an American work, " They arrived in New 

 York on Thanksgiving Day, Dec. 8, 1842," asks, 

 " Why is Dec. 8. termed Thanksgiving Day ? " 

 All the States composing the Union observe one 

 day yearly — the governor of eacii State fixing 

 that day, year by year, ad libitum — as a day of 



