86 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 4. 1855. 



First Six Centuries, by M. de Tillemont, 1733, 2 vols, 

 folio. In 1746, he published an octavo pamphlet of fifty- 

 pages divided into three parts: — !. The Form of Admit- 

 ting a Convert into the Communion of the Church. 2. A 

 Xitany, together with Prayers in behalf of the Catholick 

 Church. 3. Prayers on the Death of IMembers of the 

 ■Church ; and an Office for those who are deprived of the 

 Advantage of receiving the Sacrament, &c. Several of 

 Dr. Deacon's Letters will be found in BjTom's Remains, 

 vol. i. pp. 496—500., published by the Chetham Society. 

 Mr. Canon Parkinson adds in a note (p. 500.), that "it is 

 -much to be regretted that this admirable scholar did not 

 Jeceive encouragement according to his merits. His let- 

 ters in this work show him to have been a complete 

 master of the English language, of a ready wit, and in- 

 idomitable spirit ; one who ought to have been engaged 

 in a more congenial taste than elaborating his learned 

 yet somewhat arid Catechism, and carrying on contro- 

 versies with men incapable of appreciating his merits and 

 their own immeasurable inferiority."] 



Miliar cauwtcjf. 



Will of Thomas Lord Hoo. — I am printing for 

 the Sussex Society my paper on " The Family of 

 Hoo, of Sussex, Suffolk, Beds, and Herts." Can 

 any reader of "N. & Q." inform me by letter 

 ■where the will of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings, 

 who died 13th Feb. 1455, is proved? Extracts 

 are among the MSS. at Coll. of Arms quoted by 

 Anstis : it was not proved at Lambeth, and I 

 cannot find it in the Index at Doctors' Commons. 

 The extracts from the will, as preserved in the 

 College of Arms, are printed, with some omissions, 

 in Nicolas' Test. Vet. Wm. Dubrant Cooper. 

 SI. Guilford Street, London. 



Longevity of Lawyers. — In the Life of Edward 

 Earl of Clarendon (p. 32. of the edition published 

 at Oxford, 1826), there occurs the following re- 

 mark upon this subject :. 



"And it may be, the long lives of men of that pro- 

 fession (for the lawyers usually live to more years than 

 any other profession) may verj- reasonably be imputed 

 to the exercise they give themselves by their circuits, as 

 •well as to their other acts of temperance and sobriety." 



Does experience justify this assertion ? One 

 might have thought that the clerical would have 

 emulated the legal profession in being conducive 

 to length of days. Archibald Weir. 



Abbe Carlo Fea. — The Chevalier Artaud, 

 member of the French Institute, in his work Italie, 

 published in the Univers Pittoresque in 1852, at 

 p. 367. writes, — 



" Nous nous garderons bien d'oublier I'abbe Fea, suc- 

 cesseur et commentateur de Winkelman, aujourd'hui 

 pre'sident des Antiquites roraaines. C'est un homrae qui 

 joint au plus noble desinteressement, I'erudition la plus 

 vaste. Je ne le loue pas davantage, parce qu'il est un 

 des meilleurs amis que j'aie en Italie." 



This I understand to refer to the Abate Carlo 

 Fea, since dead, a distinguished Roman anti- 

 No. 301.] 



quary. There was a family of consideration in 

 Orkney tracing as proprietors beyond the time 

 1468, when Orkney passed from the Danish under 

 the Scottish dominion, Fea of Clestron, repre- 

 sented in the female line by Mr. Alexander 

 Sutherland Grccme, of Grcemshall, and ancestors 

 of my own. I have heard it asserted that the 

 Abbe Fea belonged to the Orkney family, but as 

 I believe the name to exist at this moment in the 

 Scandinavian countries, I think it is likely he was 

 of Danish origin or descent. I beg information 

 respecting him and of his writings. The mother 

 of the celebrated engraver Sir Robert Strange, a 

 native of Kirkwall, was Mrs. Jean ScoUay, of a 

 fiimily possessing property in the same island with 

 the Fcas, Stronsay, and intermarrying with them. 

 They are the Norse Skuli or Skule, and of this 

 name were, a competitor of the crown of Norway, 

 an earl of Orkney, and a bishop of Iceland ; and 

 the name is said to be still extant in Scandinavian 

 lands. His father David Strang was a respectable 

 citizen and civic dignitary of the city of Kirkwall, 

 and all that is desirable to be known of his 

 parentage and of the family of the Stranges or 

 Strangs is told in Mr. Dennistoun's Life of that 

 artist. W. H. F. 



Elizabeth Bayning, Countess of Sheppy. — Eli- 

 zabeth Bayning, Countess of Sheppy for life, died 

 in July, 1686. On June 19, 1684, she was living 

 in St. Paul's, Covent Garden. By her will she 

 directed her body to be buried at Chevening by 

 the side of her husband, Francis Lennard, Lord 

 Dacre. She was not burled there, neither at St. 

 Paul's above mentioned. Can any of your readers 

 supply the place of her interment ? 



It may be mentioned, that the Countess of 

 Sheppy leaves many portraits in her will by Sir 

 Peter Lely, including one of the Duchess of 

 Cleveland, and a portrait of Lord Grandison, the 

 duchess's father, "reputed" by Sir A. Vandyke. 

 G. Steinman Steinman. 



Prize Office. — Where can be seen a list of the 

 officers of the Prize Office in 1690 ? The commis- 

 sioners sat in Aldersgate Street in 1666. 



G. Steinman Steinman. 



BelVs '■'■ Annotated Edition of the Bintish Poets :" 

 Sir E. Godfrey s House. — The notes in this 

 edition are of questionable value : thus, in a 

 note to AValler's " Lines on the Statue of King 

 Charles I. at Charing Cross," we find the sculp- 

 ture of the pedestal stated to be by Gibbons ; 

 whereas Cunningham's Handbook of London, 1850, 

 of which Mr. Bell has otherwise availed himself, 

 would have informed him of the detection of the 

 eri'or, — Marshall, not Gibbons, being the sculptor. 



What is Mr. Bell's authority for stating the 

 large house at the end of Northumberland Street, 

 " overlooking the river, and now occupied by the 



