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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. No 85., Auo. 15. '57. 



Scrope, second Lord Vise unt Howe, in the peerage of 

 Ireland, was born in 172', and succeeded to the title on 

 the death of his father in 1735. In the forepart of 1757 

 he was ordered to America, being then colonel command- 

 ing the Sixtieth or Koyal Americans, and arrived at Hali- 

 fax in July following. On the 28th of September, 1757, 

 he was appointed colonel of the Fifty- fifth Foot, and on 

 the 29th of December brigadier general in America. In 

 the next year, when Abercrombie was chosen to proceed 

 against Ticonderoga, Pitt selected Lord Howe to be the 

 soul of the enterprise. On the 8th of July he landed with 

 the army at Howe's Point, at the outlet of Lake George, 

 and commenced his march along the west road for Ti- 

 conderoga, in command of the right centre. They had 

 proceeded about two miles, and an advanced party of 

 rangers under Lord Howe was near Frontbrook, when 

 they suddenly came upon a party of Frenchmen who 

 had lost their way. A skirmish ensued, in which his 

 lordship "foremost fighting fell," and expired immedi- 

 ately. In him, says Mante, " the soul of the army seemed 

 to expire." By his military talents and many virtues he 

 had acquired esteem and affection. Howe's corpse was 

 escorted to Albany for interment by Philip Schuyler, a 

 young hero of native growth, afterwards general in the 

 iJevolution, and was buried in St. Peter's Church. Mas- 

 sachusetts erected a monument to his memory in West- 

 minster Abbev, at the expense of 250?. Lord Howe was 

 a member of "Parliament for Nottingham at the time of 

 his decease.' " 



It would interest the citizens of Massachusetts 

 to be informed if the monument erected by their 

 State is still remaining in Westminster Abbey, 

 what inscription it bears, and its present state of 

 preservation. W. W. 



Malta. 



[The monument of Brigadier-General Viscount Howe, 

 which is raised against the window in the nave, was de- 

 signed bv J. Stuart, and sculptured by P. Scheemakers. 

 It is principally of white marble, and consists of an im- 

 mense tablet (supported by lions' heads on a plinth), 

 having a regular cornice surmounted by a female figure, 

 representing the Genius of Massachusetts Bay sitting 

 mournfully at the foot of an obelisk, behind which is a 

 trophy of military ensigns ; and in front the arms and 

 crest of the deceased. Arms, sculp. : A fess between three 

 wolves' heads, couped ; Howe. Crest : a lion's gamb, 

 erased. The inscription is as follows : 



« The Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, 

 by an order of the Great and General Court, bearing date 

 Feb. 1, 1759, caused this monument to be erected to the 

 memory of Geokge Augusti's, Lord Viscount Howe, 

 Brigadier-General of His Majesty's forces in America, 

 who was slain July 6, 1758, on the march to Ticonderoga, 

 in the thirty-fourth year of his age : in testimony of the 

 sense.thej' had of his' services and military virtues, and of 

 the affection their officers and soldiers bore to his com- 

 mand. He lived respected and beloved : the publick re- 

 gretted his loss : to his family it is irreparable." — Neale's 

 Westminster Abbey, ii. 237.] 



Oliver Carter of Richmondshire, B.A., 1559, 

 was admitted a fellow of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, March 18, 1562-3; commenced M.A., 

 1563, was admitted a senior fellow, April 28, 1564, 

 and a college preacher April 25, 1565. He pro- 

 ceeded B D., 1569, and was author o{ An Answer 

 made unto certain Popish Questions and Demaundes, 

 London, 8vo., 1579. This work, not mentioned 



in Herbert's Ames, was printed by Thomas Daw- 

 son for George Bishop, and is dedicated to Henry 

 Earl of Derby. Any further particulars as to 

 Oliver Carter will be acceptable to 



C. H. & Thompson CoorER. 



Cambridge. 



[Hibbert, in his History of Foundations in Manchester, 

 i. 89., gives the following quotation respecting Oliver 

 Carter from Hollingworth's MS. Mancuniensis : "Oliver 

 Carter the third fellow on Queen Elizabeth's new founda- 

 tion of Manchester College (who had been a fellow on 

 Queen Mary's foundation ) was a learned man, who wrote 

 a booke in answer to Bristow's motives. He preached 

 solidly and succinctly." Mr. Hollingworth adds, "This 

 Mr. Carter's sons did walk in the godly ways of their fa- 

 ther. One of them was preferred to a bishoprick in Ireland, 

 and a more frequent preacher and baptizer than other bi- 

 shops of his time." Hollingworth also states that " Oliver 

 Carter, one of the fellows nominated on the foundation of 

 Elizabeth, being indisposed in the pulpit while preaching 

 on the goodness of God in providing a succession of godly 

 ministers, Mr. W. Bourne went up immediately into the 

 pulpit, and (God assisting him) preached on the same 

 text ; a visible and present proof (he adds) of Mr. Carter's 

 doctrine." (Hibbert's Manchester, i. 120., see also pp. 

 107, 108.) Carter is also noticed in Strype's Annals, 

 edit. 1824, vol. ii. pt. ii. 546. 548. 710., as a preacher at 

 Manchester, a moderator in certain exercises called pro- 

 phesyings: he and William Fulke answered Rishton's 

 Challenge. The Manchester Collegiate Register of Burials 

 states, that " Mr. Oliver Carter, one off the ffellowes of y° 

 Colledg of Manch"- was buried March 20, 1604-5."] 



John Charles Brooke, F.S.A., Somerset Herald. 

 — Particulars are requested concerning him, or 

 references to available sources of information. 

 His mother was Alice, eldest daughter and co- 

 heir of William Mawhood of Doncaster, Esq. In 

 Comber's Life of Dean Comber, App. p. 424., she 

 is stated to have been " of an ancient family (and 

 doubly related on her mother's side to the cele- 

 brated Alexander Pope)." Qu. In what ways ? 



Ache. 



[Biographical notices of John Charles Brooke will be 

 found in Noble's College of Arms, pp. 426 — 434. ; and in 

 Gentleman's Mag., Ixiv. 187. 275. ; Ixvii. 5. See also Ni- 

 chols's Literary Anecdotes, i. 681. 684. ; iii. 263. ; vi. 142. 

 254. 303. William Cole has recorded the following gos- 

 siping note respecting him (Addit. MS. 5864. f. 313. Brit. 

 Mus. ) : — " Dr. Lort coming from Lambeth last night, 

 and dining with me this Sunday, July 30, 1780, told me, 

 that Mr. Brooke, who had called upon me some four or 

 five years ago, with Mr. Gough, had been detected in cut- 

 ting out some leaves, &c. in a manuscript in the British 

 Museum, the consequence of which was, that he was dis- 

 charged from ever coming there again, and made his 

 company avoided by other people. It had been agreed 

 at a meeting of the Antiquaries' Societj', that some of the 

 members should be deputed to visit St. Faith's Church 

 under St. Paul's Cathedral, to see what discoveries could 

 be there made. Dr. Lort was one of them, to whom Mr. 

 Gough wrote, desiring to know whether he might bring 

 Mr. Brooke with him, to whom an answer was sent in 

 the negative. He is now at Brussels, whither he lately 

 went with a Roman Catholic gentleman, to enter his 

 daughter at the Dames Angloises Augustines, from 

 whence he wrote very lately to Mr. Gough, desiring him 

 to direct to Monsieur le Chevalier Brooke k Brusaelles. 



