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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 29. 1855. 



Rev. George Oliver, D.D., generation 26, end of 

 the line. Pitman Jones. 



Exeter. 



' Confusion of Authors (Vol. x., p. 394.). — The 

 quotation erroneously ascribed to Juvenal was 

 the well-known " Credat Judaeus Apella," which 

 forms part of v. 100. of the " Iter Brundusinura." 



Xiv. 

 Charade: "/ sit here on a rock'' (Vol. xli., 

 p. 365.). — This charade, with a few slight verbal 

 variations, was much circulated about fourteen 

 years ago, and was then attributed to the late 

 Bishop of Salisbury. I believe, however, that it 

 is only an ingenious hoax ; and that no one has 

 ever guessed it, simply because, from its very con- 

 struction, it is unguessable. 



Of a similar character is the following, to which 

 I should be glad to see the answer, if any one can 

 solve it : 



" In jerlda short, and nut-brown coat I live; 



Pleasure to all, and pain to all I give. 



Quivers I have, and pointed arrows too ; 



Gold is my dart, and iron is my bow. 



Nothing I send, yet many things I write ; 



I never go to war, yet always fight. 



Nothing I eat, yet I am always full ; 



Poisons from books, and sweets from flowers I cull. 



A spotted back I have, and earthen scrip ; 



Black is my face, and blubber is my lip. 



No tears I shed, and yet I always weep ; 



Sleeping I wake, andVaking do I sleep." 



F. C. H. 

 Allen Family (Vol. xii., p. 427.). — William 

 Allen, of Brindley, had, by Frances Aldersey of 

 Spurstow, his wife, two sons, and at least eight 

 daughters. Of the former, William, who was 

 twice married, had issue by Elizabeth Aldersay of 

 Spurstow, his first wife, an only son John, born 

 in 1627, who died childless; and two daughters, 

 co-heiresses, the elder of whom, Elizabeth, mar- 

 ried to William Hewett of Chester, inherited 

 Brindley. The first, named William Allen, had 

 also another son, Richard Allen ; but whether he 

 ever married, does not appear from the pedigree 

 in Ormerod's Cheshire, to which valuable work I 

 am indebted for the information here conveyed. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Sir Anthony Pearson (Vol. xii., p. 450.), — He 

 was the first Friend who successfully petitioned 

 for religious toleration. His daughter Grace 

 married Giles Chambers, and was, I believe, aunt 

 to Mary Locke, the mother of Grace Locke, who 

 was born in 1750. Grace Chambers became a 

 preacher, and in that capacity travelled through 

 England, Ireland, and Wales. She died in 1760, 

 between 90 and 100 years of age. Fdit. 



Roman Catholic Bishoprics: John Tynmouth 

 (Vol. xii., p. 430.). —John Tynmouth, about 

 No. 322,] 



whom Mr. Thompson inquires, was a Franciscan 

 at Lynn, in Norfolk, educated at the Franciscan 

 Convent (now Sidney College), at Cambridge, 

 and afterwards among the members of his frater- 

 nity at Oxford. He was made a Suffragan bi- 

 shop, with the title of Argos, and, dying in 1524, 

 was buried in the churchyard of Boston, in Lin- 

 colnshire, of which parish he had been vicar. He 

 bequeathed five pounds to each of the Franciscan 

 houses at Lynn, Cambridge, and Oxford. See 

 Ath. Oxon., i., 566., and Dodd's Church History, 

 i. 187. Thompson Coopbe. 



Cambridge. 



" Minne " and Minnesingers (Vol. xii., p. 426.). 



— The word minne, is an old German word, 

 meaning love, and apparently a primitive word, 

 of which it would be vain to seek for the deriva- 

 tion. The character of the Minnesingers and 

 their verses are too well known for the fanci- 

 ful and thoroughly German speculation of Heri- 

 bert Rau lo obtain credit. It is very fine, but 

 assuredly without foundation in fact. The Minne- 

 singers were a sort of German troubadours ; but 

 their songs were more amatory. E, H. K, is pro- 

 bably acquainted with a work which appeared 

 about thirty years ago, entitled The Lays of the 

 Minnesingers, &c. ; if not, he would probably find 

 it useful in forming his opinion of these minstrels. 

 By the way, is Johnson right in deriving the 

 word minstrel from the Spanish? May it not 

 have some connexion with Minnesingers ? 



F. C. H,, Germano-Anglus. 



Women s Pews (Vol. xii., p. 443.).— Mr. Offor 

 mentions " several entries for materials to repair 

 the women's pews," which he has met with in " one 

 of the oldest parish church registers in London." 

 Mr. Offor does not mention the dates at which 

 these entries occur, but adds, " as if the sexes 

 were at that time separated in churcli." In the 

 churchwardens' accounts for the parish of Lever- 

 ton, near Boston, in Lancashire, for 1639, I find 

 the following entry : " An order made for deter- 

 mining the women to their respective seats in the 

 church." Six seats (or pews) were appropriated 

 to the females, of whom forty-one are mentioned 

 by name. Not only is the particular pew stated 

 in which they are respectively to sit, but also the 

 order in which they are to occupy each pew. The 

 churchwardens' (Leverton) accounts commence in 

 1493. I shall give copious extracts from these 

 very curious documents in my forthcoming His- 

 tory of Boston. Pis hey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington, 



"^ sleeveless Errand" (Vol. xii., pp. 58. 481.). 



— My explanation of the origin of this popular 

 phrase was, I trust, something more than a " con- 

 jecture hazarded ; " and in reply to the question 

 of your correspondent G. A, C. (" What can be 



