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own use, and bestowed the remainder on two ladies then 

 high in favour. This is the Bishop's story. It appears, 

 liowever, that after the conviction a doubt arose whether 

 the king could pardon him. The matter was much de- 

 bated, and Bishop Barlow wrote one of his Cases of Con- 

 science (8vo. 1692) on the subject ; and determines the 

 point in the affirmative. It is said that to obviate all 

 doubts, the king granted him a reprieve ; in confirmation 

 of this no pardon appears to have been enrolled. The 

 reprieve was for a long term of j'ears, which the extreme 

 old age to which he attained (ninety) rendered it not 

 improbable that he might have survived. Amongst the 

 records at the Rolls Chapel is a restitution of the estates 

 of Sir Henry St. John, forfeited to the crown by his felo- 

 niously killing and murdering Sir William Estcourt, 

 Bart. It was probably f )r this restitution that the money.-- 

 mentioned by Burnet was paid. Sir Henry died April 8, 

 1742. It is remarkable that exactly 100 years before, in 

 1584, a gentleman of his familj^ Oliver St. John, was 

 tried for a similar offence, for having killed in a duel one 

 Best, Captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth, and 

 Champion of England. See Manning and Bray's Surrei/, 

 ill. 330.] 



Article on Warburton in the Quarterly. — In the 

 Quarterly Reviev) for 1812, vol. vii. p. 383., is 

 ■contained an article on the life and writings of 

 Warburton ; characterised by a critical judgment 

 the most acute, original, and profound, and per- 

 haps not exceeded, in point of style and compo- 

 sition, by any other essay throughout the entire 

 series. The writer of the biographical notice of 

 the same prelate, in Chalmers' Dict,e(\\t. 1814, 

 after citing a passage from the review in question, 

 expresses regret that he "is not permitted to 

 name the author." Perhaps some one of your 

 readers may now consider himself justified in 

 doing so. A. L. 



[The able article in the Quarterly Review is attributed 

 to Dr. Thomas Dunham Whitaker in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, for Feb. 1844, p. 139.] 



" Nero Vindicated^ — I have a roughly exe- 

 cuted caricature representing the Prince Regent 

 with a cup in one hand inscribed " Peterloo En- 

 tire ;" and in the other a scroll, "Thanks to the 

 Butchers of M ." Below is — 



" Weary of wine he gulps the gory flood. 

 And Maraschino yields to native blood." 



v. Nero Vindicated. 



The meaning is obvious enough, but I do not 

 know any work entitled Nero Vindicated. I am 

 collecting illustrations of that time, and shall be 

 obliged by being told what it is. H. S. K. 



[The lines are not quoted from Nero Vindicated, 1820, 

 which is now before us. There is another satirical pam- 

 phlet, probably by the same writer, entitled Nero Van- 

 quished; both published by J. Turner, 170. Aldersgate 

 Street, on the occasion of the Manchester massacre, in 

 1819.3 



Commission for Public Preachers in the Time of 

 the Commonwealth. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents tell me the circumstances under which, 



and the time when, this commission was appointed, 

 and of whom it consisted ? Alfred T. Lee. 



[There were several commissions appointed during the 

 Commonwealth touching " Scandalous Ministers," " Pub- 

 lic Preachers," &c., but the one probably required bv our 

 correspondent is that known by the name of The "triers, 

 appointed by an act passed 'March 20, 1653, entitled 

 " Commissioners appointed for Approbation of Publique 

 Preachers." There were twenty-eight commissioners ap- 

 pointed, whose names are recited in the act preserved in 

 Scobell's Collection, part ii. p. 279. There was a subse- 

 quent commission for "Ejecting ignorant and insufficient 

 Ministers and Schoolmasters," appointed by an act passed 

 Aug. 28, 1654 ; for this purpose a considerable number of 

 secular commissioners, as well as ministers, were no- 

 minated for each county. See their names in Scobell, 

 part ii. pp. 335—343. 



An interesting volume on this subject is about to be 

 issued by The Camden Society.'] 



Dr. Palliser. — Where can I find an account of 

 the leading events of the life of Dr. William Pal- 

 liser, Archbishop of Cashel, who was educated at 

 Trinity Coll., Dublin ? C. J. D. Ingledew. 



[Consult Sir James Ware's Works, by Walter Harris, 

 fol. 1764, vol. i. pp. 487. 580. ; also Cotton's Fasti Ecclesice 

 Hibernica, vol. i. pp. 93. 270.] 



Buck-basket — Can any of your readers give me 

 the derivation of buck-basket ? Quest. 



[Buck (Germ, bauche ; It. bucata): a lye made from 

 ashes, used for making a lather to wash, linen: hence 

 bucking is the act of washing. The Flemish buycken, to 

 wash, and buyckster, a washerwoman, are cognate words. 

 Buck-basket therefore means a basket used for carrying 

 linen to be washed or bucked. 



" Throw foul linen upon him, as if he were going to 

 bucking." — Merry Wives of Windsor. 



Nares adds, " It seems from the Merry Wives of Wind- 

 sor, that they bucked the clothes in the river, in which 

 case we lose sight of the lye or lixivium of the etymolo- 

 gists, of which I am inclined to doubt the authority. The 

 expression of buck-washing conveys the idea of a par- 

 ticular mode : 



" ' You were beat meddle in buck-washing.' " 



Merry Wives of Windsoi-.J 



Earl of Annesley sold into Slavery. — In a 

 volume of the Gentleman's Magazine (about 1750, 

 I believe) there is a very interesting account of 

 this case. The Earl, so far as I recollect, was at 

 last put in possession of the estates which had 

 been so iniquitously withheld from him. I am 

 desirous to know at what period he died, and 

 whether he left any descendants. It is most pro- 

 bable that the Romance of the Peerage will give 

 some particulars relative to his story. 



Henry T. Rilet. 



[This is one of the most singular and romantic cases 

 that ever perhaps engaged the attention of a court of 

 justice. This celebrated trial for ejectment between Jameg 

 Annesley and Richard Earl of Anglesey, which took place 

 . in the Court of Exchequer in Dublin, commenced on the 

 11th of November, 1743, and lasted fifteen days. Full 

 particulars of it will be found in John Burke's Patrician, 

 vol. i.'pp. 309—317., vol. ii. pp. 28—34. James Annesley, 



