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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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" Lives of Eminent Lawj/ers^ — Kearsley, the 

 bookseller, published in 1790, in one volume 8vo., 

 " Strictures on the Lives and Characters of the most 

 Eminent Lawyers of the Present Day, including, 

 among other celebrated names, those of the Lord 

 Cliancellor and the Twelve Judges." Chancellor 

 Thurlow is severely handled, perhaps deservedly. 

 The author is not severe indiscriminately ; on the 

 contrary, in many instances he does justice to the 

 virtues of those whose lives he has sketched. 



One passage from the notice of Thurlow may 

 be worth quoting : — 



" It has been the misfortune of this country, that the 

 legal and political characters have been lately so blended, 

 that more attention has been paid, to the latter than the 

 former, and often at the expense of it. This was not 

 formerly the case ; and we pronounce without hesitation, 

 that the public suffers by the unnatural unron. Let those 

 who have been so long anxiously looking for decrees in 

 the Court of Chancery be asked their sentiments of a 

 political Chancellor, they will paint their miserj' in such 

 colours as must convince every impartial person that the 

 supremacy in the House of Lords, and in the first Court 

 of Equity, should not be in the same person." 



This was written in 1790, and it would be im- 

 portant to ascertain who it was that upwards of 

 sixty years ago ventured to speak out so boldly. 



J. Mt. 



Edmund Peacham. — Mb. Rimbault's state- 

 ment (2""* S. ii. 427.) with regard to the character 

 of Peaoham's book seems to imply that he has seen 

 a copy of it, or at least some account of its con- 

 tents. I should be very glad to know where any 

 such is to be found. I was not aware that any- 

 thing was known of the nature of the writing in 

 question (a sermon in MS., I believe), more than 

 may be gathered from the interrogatories upon 

 which Peacham was examined, and from a paper 

 on the subject addressed by the king to the 

 council. The popular impression as to the cha- 

 racter of it, at the time of the trial, (for which see 

 Chamberlain's letter to Carleton, ATig. 14, 1615 ; 

 Halliivell, vol. ii. p. 370.), is difficult to reconcile 

 with Me. Rimbault's statement. J. S. 



George Herbert's Sinecure. — What was this 

 sinecure presented to Herbert by James I. on the 

 death of Dr. Parry, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died 

 26th Sept. 1623 ? It had been previously held 

 by Sir Philip Sidney. It seems to have been some 

 post connected with Wales. J. Y. 



Pope Urban VL. — Selden, in his Table Talk, 

 makes the following statement : 



" The Papists call our religion a Parliamentary religion, 

 but there was once, I am sure, a Parliamentary Pope. 

 Pope Urban (VI.) was made Pope in England by Act of 

 Parliament against Pope Clement (Vll.). The Act is not 

 in the Book of Statutes, either because he that compiled 



the Book would not have the name of Pope there, or else 

 he would not iet it appear that they meddled with any 

 such thing, but 'tis upon the Polls." 



It is an historical fact that England sided with 

 Urban ; but what are we to understand by " 'tis 

 in the Rolls " ? Clekicus (D.). 



[The Roll referred to by Selden, somewhat mutilated, 

 is given in the printed Rolls of Parliament, vol. iii. p. 48. 

 sect. 78., under 2 Rich. II. 1378. We quote a passage 

 from it : " Que le dit Urban estoit duement esluz en Pape, 

 et que .... il et ... . doit estre verraie Pape, et . . . 

 de Sainte Esglise Ten doit accepter et obeir. Et a ce 

 faire s'accorderent toutz les Prelatz, Seigurs, et Goes en 

 le Parlement avaunt dit."] 



The New President of the United States. — A 

 paragraph has been going the round of the news- 

 papers as follows : 



" The New American President an Irishman. — It is not 

 generally known that Mr. Buchanan may be claimed by 

 Ulster. We understand that he was born at Omagh, in 

 the county of Tyrone ; and we are told that he emigrated, 

 to act as British Consul to New York." — Northern Whig. 



In a late number of " N. & Q." (2"<> S. ii. 396.) 

 is an article intituled '■'■Honora Sneyd: Miss 

 Edgeworth : Major Andre" at the end of which is 

 a letter dated New York, Dec. 25, 1821, respect- 

 ing some offerings " To any of the relatives of the 

 late Major Andre, London," and ending, — 



" If these tokens of sympathy and respect are received, 

 please inform us through the British Consul, Mr. Bu- 

 chanan, of this city, or the London Courier." 



Query, is this Mr. Buchanan that Mr. Bu- 

 chanan ? J, S. s. 



[Clearly not. The new President of the United States 

 was born on the 13th April, 1791, in the county of Frank- 

 lin, State of Pennsylvania. See Bogue's Men of the 

 Time.-] ■' 



^^Cair guin truis." — On what grounds is the 

 ancient Cair guin truis (see Nennius's Hist, of the 

 Britons, vol. iii. p. 7.) supposed by some to be 

 identical with Norwich ? Rovillds. 



Norwich. 



[In Ussher's list of the British cities (Britan. Eccles. 

 Antiq., p. 59.) the name of this place is Cair-Guintguic, 

 which he says " may perhaps have been Norwich (called 

 by the Britons, Cair-Guntin), or rather Winwick, in Lan- 

 cashire ; but according to the expounder of Nennius, it is 

 Winton, or Winchester."] 



Kit-cat Club. — Is there not a picture by Kneller 

 containing the portraits of members of this Club ? 

 Where does it exist ? and what is the subject of 

 it ? Sttlites. 



[Jacob Tonson, who was the key-stone of the Kit-Cat 

 Club, was in high favour with all its members, who pre- 

 sented him with their portraits. These portraits were 

 executed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, all uniform in size, and 

 were hung up in the room which Tonson had added to 

 his residence at Barn Elms for the meetings of the club. 

 These pictures, on the death of old Tonson's nephew 

 Jacob, came into the possession of hja brother Richard, 



