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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2"^ S. no 82., July 25. '57. 



Mr. John Steward of GrandtuUy, and heir to the 

 estates of her brother, the Duke of Douglas, who 

 died, without issue, in 1761. L. F. B. 



An Ordination Query. — Can any clergyman or 

 lawyer inform me if one can be ordained a few 

 days before one's twenty-third birthday ? It so 

 happens that mine falls just after the Sunday on 

 which I wish to be ordained. The rubrick says 

 no person to be admitted a Deacon under twenty- 

 three years of age, unless he have a faculty. Is 

 that a dispensing power belonging to every bishop? 



M. W. C. 



Alnwick. 



Monuments in Churches, — Previous to the 

 erection of a monument in a church, is it neces- 

 sary, or is it customary, to have a faculty fi"om the 

 bishop of the diocese ? Abhba. 



Bishop Godwin, De Prcesulibus. — Of this valu- 

 able work I have the edition, folio, Cantab. 1743, 

 with the Continuation by Richardson : and I am 

 also aware of the existence of three previous edi- 

 tions ; two in English, 4to. London, 1601, and 4to. 

 London, 1615, and one in Latin, 4fo. London, 1616. 

 I wish to learn if there are any other editions be- 

 sides these which I have enumerated ; and, parti- 

 cularly, if there is any published supplement or 

 appendix bringing the subject down more nearly 

 to our own day. I have constructed a list of 

 bishops (a mere list, without any biographical or 

 other details) from 1743 to the present time ; but 

 I believe the list to be very imperfect. It was 

 compiled mainly from Mr. Perceval's Apology for 

 Apostolical Succession, 8vo. London, 1839 ; but as 

 the materials there were collected with a different 

 end in view, it was not very easy to form an ac- 

 curate catalogue. If there be no list published or' 

 announced, perhaps you would not object to open 

 your columns for the formation of a correct cata- 

 logue? I should only propose (what it is the 

 fashion now to call) a "nominal list," with the 

 dates of consecration or translation ; and I would 

 very willingly send you transcripts of my lists for 

 the several dioceses of England, which could then 

 be corrected and amended by your correspondents ; 

 many of whom, as is evident from their contri- 

 butions to " N, & Q.," are full of information on 

 this very point. I need hardly add, what every 

 historical student knows, that an accurate cata- 

 logue of bishops is very often extremely useful, 

 even if it does not exceed the mere nominal list 

 which I suggest, if the dates be but accurate. If 

 you will allow me to print, as a specimen of what 

 I mean, my supplementary list for the metropoli- 

 tical see, it may serve to illustrate my meaning : 

 and if you think it desirable, I will gladly send 

 you the rest of my matter in such portions as you 



may be able conveniently to admit into the neces- 

 sarily limited space which you could afford. 



CANTERBURr. 



1737. John Potter. 



1747. Thomas Herring, transl. from York and Bangor. 



1757. Matthew Button. 



1758. Thomas Seeker, from Bristol. 



1768. Frederick Cornwallis, from Lichfield. 

 1 783. John Moore, from Bangor. 

 1805. Charles Manners Sutton, from Norwich. 

 1828. William Howley, from London. 

 1848. John Bird 'Sumner, from Chester. 



Where a consecration occurs, I have generally 

 noted in my list the day of the month, as well as 

 the year. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



[Bishop Godwin's work, Z)e Prcesulibus, is certainly one 

 of great research and distinguished merit, and if trans- 

 lated and revised, and brought down to the present time, 

 would be a valuable addition to our ecclesiastical lite- 

 rature ; but the nominal list suggested by our correspon- 

 dent has already been compiled b\' different writers. In 

 1812, Rivingtons published a pamphlet of 32 pages of ^ 

 Catalogue of Bislinps of Canterbury and York from 1G8S to 

 1812, edited by John Samuel Browne. A complete list to 

 1814 is also given in Storer's History and Antiquities of 

 the Cathedral Churches of Britain, 4 vols. 4to. 1814-19. 

 Mr. T. Sepping's list, in his useful work The Sees of Eng- 

 land, Wales, Ireland, and the Colonies, 12mo. 1835, in- 

 cludes the prelates between 1750 and 1835. Haydn, in 

 The Book of Dignities, continued Beatson's list to the year 

 185L But the most accurate list of bishops since the 

 Reformation is that by the Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval, 

 which was carefully compiled from the Lambeth regis- 

 ters, and from personal applications to many of the right 

 reverend prelates. Collections for a Fasti EcclesicB Angli- 

 cancB, by the late Rev. Thomas Stone, M.A., 4 vols, folio, 

 are preserved in the British Museum, Addit. MSS. 18767 

 — 18770. ; and our correspondent the Rkv. Mackenzie 

 Walcott has also prepared for publication A History of 

 the English Episcopate. ] 



'''^ Mala capta^ — Stow speaks of a tax called 

 the Mala capta, levied on the merchants of the 

 Wool Staple at Calais in the time of Edward III. 

 Can any of your readers tell me what this tax 

 was ? Newton Crosland, 



Hj'de Vale, Greenwich. 



[Stow, in his Survey, says "The King (Edw. III.) or- 

 dained at Calais two maj-ors, one for the town, and one 

 for the staple ; and he took for male capta, commonly 

 called 3Taltorth, twenty shillings, and of the said mer- 

 chants guardians of the town forty pence, upon every 

 sack of wool." This 3Ialtorth, or Maltolte, in the reign of 

 Edward I. was forty shillings for every sack of wool. 

 Spelman, s. v. Maletolte, says, " Venit Angliam sub 

 anno 29 Edw. I. cum idem Rex 40 solidos h quolibet 

 sacco ianae decoqueret." Cowel also says, " Maletent, or 

 Maletolte, Malum vel indebitum telonium, in the statute 

 called ' The Confirmation of the Liberties,' &c. 25 Edw. I. 

 cap. 7., is interpreted to be a toll of forty shillings for 

 every sack of wool. See also the Statute de Tallagio non 

 concedendo, anno 35 Edw. 1." The word maile was 

 formerly a general term for any kind of money. See 

 Cowel's Interpreter, under Maile, and Blackmaile.'] 



Powell ofFostill {Forest Hill?) — The Rev. J. 

 Hannah, in his preface to his edition of the Poems 



