July 21. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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churches. Was it in any respect symbolical of a 

 religious feeling, or otherwise, in a secular point of 

 view, allusive to some national event, that had its 

 run, like many of our ale-house signs, at a par- 

 ticular period ? L. F. Stonegbave. 



Precedence of Knights. — Does a knight made 

 by a lord lieutenant take precedence of a Com- 

 panion of the Bath (C. B.), or a Companion of the 

 Guel()hic Order (K. H.), the latter not having 

 been knighted ? Questor. 



Cahir. 



Florins of the fourteenth Century. — Can you 

 inform me of any work on the value of money in 

 the different countries of Europe from the tenth 

 to the seventeenth century ? I have searched the 

 British Museum in vain for information on this 

 subject. 



The point which I especially wish to ascertain 

 is the value (in modern English money) of the 

 Italian and German florin of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury. . T. E. K. 



" The Whig Examiner^'' — When was the last 

 number published ? Miss Aikin (^Life of Addison^ 

 says, "Addison's last Whig Examiner appeared 

 October 8." Sir Walter Scott {Life of Swift) 

 says, " The last Whig Examiner is dated October 

 12." Mr. Cunningham, in one note (Johnson's 

 Live«, vol, ii. p. 142.), confirms what is said by 

 Scott ; but in another, on the same page, he con- 

 tradicts himself with a formality that puzzles me. 

 The Whig Examiner, he says, " consists of five 

 numbers: the first dated Aug. 3, 1710; the last, 

 Avg.\2,\no:' T.W.E. 



Old Books, Country Dealers in, — Can you refer 

 me to a list of the dealers in second-hand books 

 resident out of the metropolis ? The utility of 

 such a list to persons engaged in collecting for 

 any particular object or course of reading, is so 

 obvious, that, if it does not already exist, may I 

 ask the help of " N. & Q." towards its formation ? 



A Bookworm. 



[We do not know of the existence of such a list as 

 Bookworm requires, and, recognising the utility of it, 

 we shall very gladly insert such an one if the country 

 dealers in old books will furnish the materials.] 



<S%erarrf. — William Sherard, LL.D. "the 

 prince and Mascenas of botany," was born at 

 Bushby, CO. Leicester, 1659. ' Where was he 

 buried ? 



His brother James, almost equally eminent in 

 the science of botany, is commemorated in a Latin 

 inscription in Evington Church. Both occasionally 

 spelt the name Sherwood, as did their father. It 



No. 299.] 



is asserted, however, that this was a corruption, 

 and that the Sherards of Bushby were a branch of 

 the Sherards of Stapleford, now ennobled. What 

 is the fact ? T. R. P. 



Wymeswold. 



[Dr. W. Sherard died August 12, 1728, and was buried 

 at Eltham in Kent, it is believed without an epitaph. 

 (Lysons' Environs, vol. iv. p. 655.) We cannot find that 

 he was connected with the Sherards of Stapleford ; in fact, 

 most of his biographers state that Sherwood was the family 

 name ; but it does not appear at what time or for what 

 reason the alteration was made. Some curious notices of 

 the family by Mr. Green will be found in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, October, 1796, p. 810. ; and in Pulteney'a 

 Sketches of Botany, vol. ii. p. 141., edit. 1790.] 



" The Celestial Divorce." — I give the title of a 

 small but curious and interesting book I have 

 lately met with, viz., — 



" II Divorzio Celeste, Cagionato dalle dissolutezze dalla 

 Spoza Romana. Diviso in Trfe Tomi De' costumi dissoluti 

 dell' Adutera. Consagrato alia Semplicit^. de' Cristiani 

 Scropolosi. In Reguaea [Genevra] Appresso Vinigano 

 Cipetti, 1679." 



At the end of the volume, and seemingly part of 

 the same publication, is " II Testamento di Fer- 

 rante Pallavicino, detto II flagello de Barberini."' 

 May I inquire, through the pages of " N. & Q.," 

 who is the author of this book ? and has it been 

 translated into English? Any information on 

 these points will oblige. p. 



[This work is generally attributed to Ferrante Palla- 

 vicino, one of the wits of Italy, who was beheaded for his 

 satirical attacks on the Pope and the Court of Rome in 

 1644. Some, however, deny that he was the author of it. 

 It has also been attributed to a certain Fd. Caponi, who 

 turned Protestant in 1645, at Leipsic. (Ebert's Biblio- 

 graphical Dictionary, vol. iii. p. 1269.) This piece was 

 translated into English by William Lawrence, under the 

 title of Christ Divorced from the Church of Rome, because 

 of its Lewdness, London, 1679, 8vo. Another English 

 edition appeared in 1718, entitled The Celestial Divorce^ 

 made English from the Original Italian of Ferrante Palla- 

 vicino. To this edition Is prefixed an account of the 

 supposed author, Pallavicino.] 



John Cleveland. — Is anything known of this 

 Royalist, who, " being at Norwich, was fetch'd by 

 a guard before the commissioners and sent pri- 

 soner to Yarmouth," from the gaol of which place- 

 he addressed a long and eloquent petition to the 

 Lord Protector ? C. I. P. 



Great Yarmouth. 



[Many of our readers, we presume, have heard of 

 the famous, or, as Wright in his Antiquities of Halifair 

 calls him, the inimitable John Cleaveland, the Royalist 

 wit and poet, the social companion of Samuel Butler, the 

 author of Hudibras, and the beloved friend of Bishop 

 Lake and Bishop Pearson. The latter excellent prelate 

 preached bis funeral sermon, and rendered this reason 

 why he cautiously declined all commending of the de- 

 ceased, " because such praising of him would not be ade- 

 quate to any expectation in that audience, seeing some 

 who knew him not would think it far above him, while 

 those who knew him must know it far below him." His 



