Sept. 8, 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



ISD 



" Thev have taken great pains and trouble to compass 

 their bisiiopricks, and they will not leave them for a 

 trifle ; for the deacons, whose defects will not lift them up 

 to dignities, all their study is to disgrace them that have 

 gotten the least degree above them ; and because they 

 cannot bishop, they proclaim they never heard of any. 

 The Scriptures, say they, speak of deacons and elders, but 

 not a word of bishops.' Their discourses are full of de- 

 traction; their sermons nothing but railing; and their 

 conclusions nothing but heresies and treasons. For their 

 religion thev have, I confess they have it above reach, 

 and, God willing, I will never reach for it. 



" They Christen without the Cross, marry without the 

 ring, receive the sacrament without reverence, dy with- 

 out repentance, and bury without Divine Service : they 

 keep no holy days, nor acknowledge any saint but St. 

 Andrew, who, they said, got that honour by presenting 

 Christ with an oaten-cake after his forty days' fast. They 

 say, likewise, that he that translated the Bible was the 

 son of a maulster, because it speaks of a miracle done by 

 barie3' loaves, whereas they swear they were oaten-cakes, 

 and "that no other bread of that quantity could have 

 sufficed so many thousands. 



" They use no prayer at all, for they say it is needless, 

 God knows their minds without pratling; and what he 

 doth, he loves to do it freel}'. Their Sabbath's exercise is 

 a preaching in the forenoon, and a persecution in the 

 afternoon ; they go to church in the forenoon to hear the 

 law, and to the crags and mountains in the afternoon to 

 louze themselves. 



" They hold their noses if you talk of bear-baiting, and 

 stop their ears if you speak of a play. Fornication they 

 hold but a pastime, wherein man's ability is approved, 

 and a woman's fertility discovered. At adultery they 

 shake their heads ; theft they rail at ; murther they wink 

 at ; and blasphemy they laugh at. They think it impos- 

 sible to lose the way to Heaven, if they can but leave 

 Rome behind them. 



" To be opposite to the Pope, is to be presently with 

 God: to conclude, I am persuaded, that if God and his 

 angels, at the last day, should come down in their whitest 

 garments, they would run away and cry, 'The children 

 of the chappell are come again to torment us ; let us flie 

 from the abomination of these boys, and hide ourselves in 

 the mountains. 



" For the Lords Temporal and Spiritual, temporizing 

 gentlemen, if I were apt to speak of any, I could not speak 

 much of them : onely I must let you know, they are not 

 Scottishmen; for as soon as they fall from the breast of 

 the beast their mother, their careful sire posts them away 

 for France; where, as they pass, the sea sucks from them 

 that which they have suokt from their rude dams; there 

 they gather new flesh, new blood, new manners, and there 

 they learn to put on their cloaths, and then return into 

 their countrys, to wear them out; there they learn to 

 stand, to speak, and to discourse and congee, to court 

 women, and to complement with men. 



" They spared of no cost to honor the king, nor for no 

 complemental courtesie to welcome their countr3mien ; 

 their followers are their fellows, their wives their slaves, 

 their horses their masters, and their swords their judges ; 

 by reason whereof they have but few laborers, and 

 those not very rich. Their parliaments hold but three 

 days, their statutes three lines, and their suits are deter- 

 mined in a manner in three words, or very few more, &c. 

 " The wonders of their kingdom are these: the Lord 

 Chancellor, he is believed ; the Master of the Rolls, well 

 spoken of; and the whole counsel, who are the judges for 

 all causes, are free from suspition of corruption. The 

 countrv, although it be mountainous, affords no monsters 

 but women ; of which the greatest sort (as countesses 

 No. 306.] 



and ladies) are kept like lions, in iron grates ; the mer- 

 chants' wives are also prisoners, but not in so strong a 

 hold; they have wooden cages, like our boar Franks, 

 through which, sometimes peeping to catch the air, we 

 are almost choaked with the sight of them. The greatest 

 madness amongst the men is jealousie, in that they fear 

 what no man that hath but two of his senses -will take 

 from them. 



" The ladies are of opinion that Susanna could not be 

 chast, because she bathed so often. Pride is a thing bred 

 in their bones, and their flesh naturally abhors cleanli- 

 ness ; their breath commonly stinks of pottage, their linen 



of , their hands of pig's , their body of sweat, 



and their splay-feet never offend in socks. To be chained 

 in marriage with one of them, were to be tied to a dead 

 carkasse, and cast into a stinking ditch. Formosity and 

 a dainty face are things they dream not of. 



" The oyntments they most frequently use amongst 

 them are brimstone and butter for the scab, and oyl of 

 bays and staves-acre. I protest, I had rather be the 

 meanest servant of the two of my pupil's chamber-maid, 

 then to be the master-minion to the fairest countess I 

 have yet discovered. The sin of curiosity of ojmtments 

 is but newly crept into the kingdom, and 1 4o not think 

 will long continue. 



" To draw you down by degrees from the citizens' wives 

 to the country gentlewomen, and convey you to common 

 dames in Sea Coal Lane, that converse with rags and 

 marrow-bones, are things of minerall race : every whore in 

 Houndsditch is an Helena, and the greasie bauds in Turn- 

 hal Street are Greekish dames, in comparison to these. 

 And therefore, to conclude, the men of old did no more 

 wonder, that the great Messias should be born in so poor 

 a town as Bethlem in Judea, then I wonder that so brave 

 a prince as King James should be born in so stinking a 

 town as Edenburg, in lousy Scotland." 



H. Martin. 



Halifax. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPRICS. 



(Vol. xii., p. 125.) 



Some of the titles named by Mr. P. ThompsoIN 

 are those of ancient Irish sees. Enachdune, a 

 village in the county of Galway, was formerly the 

 seat of a bishop. Subsequently it became united 

 to Tuam, and finally was merged in that see. 



Maio, another very ancient see in Ireland, be- 

 came united to Tuam in or about the year 1559. 



Rathlin, or Raghlin, is believed to have been 

 the see of a bishop so early as the sixth century. 

 It is now one of the churches contained in the 

 diocese of Connor. 



The best account of Irish archbishoprics and 

 bishoprics is to be found in Sir James Ware's 

 Works, by Harris, down to the year 1738. From 

 that period my Fasti Ecclesics Hibervica may be 

 consulted for the Protestant prelates. A list of 

 the Roman Catholic bishops is given in Battersby's 

 Catholic Directory for the year 1836 or 1837 (I 

 have not the book within reach at this moment), 

 Dublin, 12mo. 



As for a general account of the archbishoprics 

 and bishoprics of the Roman Catholic church in 

 the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early part of the 



