NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N» 51., Dec. 20. 'oG. 



later than 1480. , My copy has lost the last page. 

 Is the book rare ? J» C. J. 



" Marranys." — What is the meaning of this 

 word in a letter written from Clerk, Bishop of 

 Bath, to Cardinal Wolsey, a.d. 1527, and quoted 

 in Mr. Trollope's charming sketch of the Girlhood 

 of Catherine de Medici, p. 80. : 



« agaynsl pristes, and cluirchis'they hav5 bebavj'd 



themselfes as it dotli become Marranys And Lutherans to 

 do." 



C. W. B. 



Engraved Portraits. — Can any of your readers 

 tell me what became oF the library of the late Dr. 

 ^leath, Master of Etwall Hospital, or more par- 

 ticularly of a volume or volumes of engraved por- 

 traits which he had collected ? 



CHAfiL£!3 PaSI^AM. 



St. MartirCs-in-lhe-Fi'elds. — Churches so deno- 

 minated exist in London, Liverpool, and, I believe, 

 Chester. Can any connection in respect to Causa- 

 tion be shown to exist between these names ? 



E. H. D. D. 



Portrait of Godiva. — Peacham, in his Dialogue 

 between the Cross in Cheape and Charing Crosse, 

 4to., 1642, mentions the fear that the destruction 

 of Cheapside Crosse would lead to the destruction 

 (of all the other Eleanor Crosses. He alludes also 

 to those of Abingdon and Coventry, Chester, &c. 



Chai'ing Crosse then says : 



" They will find friends I'll warrant you ; I know Mr. 

 Maior of Coventrj' will have a care of bis, it being so fair 

 an ornament of that ancient and well governed Citie, 

 whose liberties and freedom were long since obtained by 

 Godiva, wife as I take it, of Leofricus, a Saxon Prince, 

 who being incensed against that Citie, she procured their 

 privileges againe by riding (as was enjoyued by her hus- 

 band) naked through the Citie at noon day; and her 

 picture so riding, is set up in gtasie i?l a foindmo I'ti St. 

 Michael's Church in the same Citie." 



Cheap replies : 



"I wonder that window is not beatett down by the 

 Brownists in all this time ! a woman's picture riding 

 naked set up in a Church window ! " 



Charing Crosse replies : 



" Why not as well as the Devil's in many windows ? " 



Can any Of your readers inform me at what 

 period this singular ornament was removed from 

 St. Michael's church window ? Peacham was a 

 man as remarkable for his honesty of report, as 

 for his lively sallies. VarviceNSIs. 



" Weep not for me," Sfc. — Who was the author 

 tef the following sertnon, quoted by Dr. Eachard 

 in The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt df 

 the Clergy, p. 84., 9th edit. 1683 : 



" St. Luke, xxiii. 28., ' Weep hot for me, weep for yoiit- 

 Selves.' Here are (says the Doctor) eight Wt>»-ds, and 

 eight parts. 1. Weep not; 2. But weepi 3. Weep hot, 

 but weep. 4. Weep fot me. 6. For yourselves. 6. For 



me, for yourselves, 7. Weep not for nie. 8; But weep 

 for yourselves. That is to say, North, North and by 

 East, North North East, North East and by North, 

 North East, North East and by East, East North East, 

 East and by North, East" 



This is one of the passA^d for which Eachard 

 was censured by good Bafnabas Oley in his Pre- 

 face to Geoi-ge Herbert's Country Parson, 1673. 

 Oley says : 



" Sir, how could you write that descant upon our 

 Blessed Saviour's words ['Weep not for me,' &c.] Avithout 

 mingling your tears with your ink ? Had you known 

 the author you would ha\ie pitied him : he was a man of 

 great wit, mixed with excess : of a fiincy extended to his 

 hurt." 



Eachard's letter ih reply to Oley Was the sub- 

 ject Of a Query in » N. & Q.,** P' S. i. 320. ; but 

 the Rev. Geo. Wyatt had mistaken the old En- 

 glish letters 38. &. for 33. 1. J. Y. 



Demonological Qaertesw-^Iti books on demono- 

 logy and witchcraft, published about the beginning 

 of the last century, many persons and practices 

 are mentioned without ifeference or explanation. 

 Probably at that time they were notorious, but 

 are now forgotten. I have noted a few, and shall 

 be much obliged by being told where I call find 

 an account of them. 



" AppdrllioAs : of Robert Lackman of Norwich ; ]VIary 

 Gough of Rochester ; Robert Devine of Taunton ; H. 

 Dorien, ' the master of the ceremonies ; ' and Zachary, 

 * the Socinian lover.' " 



" Witches : Bertha de Rosenbery, Anne Bodenham, 

 Mary Hill Bekkington, J. Br\'an of iToughall." 



" The Bewitchings of John Goodman's Four Children; 

 of Uiric Neussek- ; and of Maude Robertson." 



" The Practice of Shooting at a Crucifix from behind 

 to render the Shooter invulnerable." 



" The Devil's Rock in the Palatinate, where he was 

 frightened at an Old Shoe." 



J. E. T. 



William of Nassington. — A book Called The 

 Myrrour of Life (Brit. Mus. Eg. 657.) was written 

 by a certain William of Nassyngton, and bears 

 the (iate 1418. Can you or any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me where I can find an account 

 of the authorj or of any family of the name of 

 Nassyngton ? B,ovillus. 



Norwich. 



[Nassington is the name of a parish in Northampton- 

 shire, aS well as of a preb'endal stall ih Lincoln cathedral. 

 The title of the wOrk is Speeulutn Vitte, or Myrr6ur of 

 Life, and is not the Egerton MSS. 657, but Addit. MS. 

 Sl'ol, and the Royal MS., 17 C. viii. We learn from a 

 note on the fly-leaf of the former copy, that it is generallj', 

 but falsely ascribed to Hampole, because in the greater 

 number of copies the lines containing the name of Nas- 

 syngton are wanting. Thie finest copy existing belongs 

 to Mr. Singer. See Warton'S Historp of English Poetry, 

 vol. ii. pp. 367 — 870., edit. 1840, for some account of the 

 poem.] 



