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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. NO 90„ Sew. 19. '57. 



is (speaking of the nuns of St. Benedict), " your 

 solitude and scarcity deserve to be the envy of 

 king's courts." The word resentment is used to 

 express the translator's (S. Cressy) readiness to 

 acknowledge his obligation to the abbess Lady 

 Gascoigne, — "my worthy esteeme and resentment 

 for your many favours." Can any of your readers 

 refer me to a similar use of these words ? 



Geokgb Offob. 

 Hackney. 



Quotations Wanted. — Where are the following 

 lines, or any similar to them, to be found ? 



" You were a pale and patient wife, 



And thanked your husband for his love, 

 But turned your wounded soul from life 

 To watch with one above." 



J. R. C. 



Can you inform me where I can find the follow- 

 ing lines, and give me any information as to the 

 persons referred to ? 



« Humble though rich — a strange anomaly, 

 A lesson to old Montague or Komilly." 



M.A. 

 Cambridge. 



Nathaniel Lord Crewe and Bishop Gibson. — 

 I should be glad to receive any explanation of the 

 statement made in a note which I cite from 

 p. 205. of Mr. Gibson's Dilston Hall and Bam- 

 brugh Castle : 



"It has been already stated that Dr. Crewe in the 

 earlier part of his career was preferred in the church by 

 Bishop Gibson, tind at the close of his long life he did not 

 forget his patron, for he left a legacy to that prelate which 

 amounted to between 3000/. and 4000/. The legacy re- 

 flected honour upon the testator and the legatee, for 

 Bishop Gibson gave it among Lord Crewe's relations. 

 The circumstance is mentioned in Cole's 3ISS., v. xxx." 



Now I am at a loss to know how Bishop 

 Gibson could have been Lord Crewe's patron, 

 seeing that Crewe must have been about five-and- 

 thirty when Gibson was born. He was at that 

 time, I believe, already head of his college. Rector 

 of Whitney, Dean and Precentor of Chichester, 

 and Clerk of the Closet to the King. And it was 

 not long before he was made Bishop of Oxford, 

 and shortly afterwards translated to Durham, 

 when surely he stood in no need of patronage 

 from anybody. Anything new relating to Lord 

 Crewe would be very acceptable. E. H. A. 



[Our worthy correspondent, Mr. Gibson, must have 

 been nodding whilst making his note from Cole's MS., 

 which reads as follows : " One thing ought particularly 

 to be mentioned to the honour of Bishop Gibson, who, 

 when he had a legacy left him by Dr. Crowe, who had 

 been preferre 1 by him, of between 3000/. and 4000/., 

 generous! V gave it among that Doctor's poor relations." 

 (Addit. Ms. 6831, p. 43., being vol. xxx. of Cole's Col- 



lections.') This extraordinary act of Bishop Gibson's 

 generosity is noticed by Mr. Whiston in his Memoirs, 

 p. 214., and in the Biog. Britan., Supp. vi. 69. The indi- 

 vidual referred to is Dr. William Crowe of Trinitv Hall, 

 Cambridge, A.B. 1713; A.M. 1717; D.D. 1728. He was 

 not only chaplain to Bishop Gibson, but Rector of St. Bo- 

 tolph, Bishopsgate, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Ma- 

 jesty. He was one of the most eloquent preachers of his 

 time, and, it is believed, only preached from notes written 

 on the back of a card. He died in 1743, and is recorded 

 by the Messrs. Lysons (^Environs, ii. 339.) as buried in 

 Finchley churchyard. For notices of Bishop Crewe see 

 a scarce volume, entitled An Examination of the Life and 

 Character of Naihaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham ; 

 wherein the Writings of his several biographers and 

 other authors are critically reviewed, and compared with. 

 a Manuscript never before published, containing curious 

 Anecdotes of that Prelate. London, 1790, 8vo. In Cole's 

 Collection of MSS., vols. xxix. xxx. xxxi. xxxv., are 

 some curious original letters and papers relative to the 

 Crewe family. Consult also Richardson's Local His- 

 torian's Table Book, Historical Division, vols. i. to v., and 

 Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. part ii.] 



Simon Fish, Author of " The Supplication of 

 Beggars'' — Is anything known of the above 

 book or its author ? Of what family was he, and 

 are any of his descendants known to exist? 

 Guillim states, " that eminent and faithful martyr 

 of Christ, James Baynham, Esq., son of Sir Alex- 

 ander Baynham of Westljury," having married 

 "the wife of Simon Fish, author of a famous 

 Book entituled The Supplication of Beggars" 

 (which "tended much to the reformation of re- 

 ligion"), was "suspected of the same inclination," 

 &c. Did he bear arms, and if so, what ? 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Southampton. 



[Simon Fish was a native of Kent, educated at Oxford, 

 and about 1524 entered Gray's Inn to study the law. A 

 play written by one Roo, or Roe, was then acted, in which 

 severe censures were thrown upon Wolsej^ and Fish un- 

 dertook to perform the part in which the Cardinal was 

 ridiculed. An order was issued against him the same 

 night, but he fled into Germany, where he met with Wil- 

 liam Tyndale. About 152.5-6 he wrote his celebrated 

 satire The Supplication of Beggars, which has been fre- 

 quently reprinted, and may be found in Fox's Momiments, 

 ii. 279.' A copy in the- British Museum contains the fol- 

 lowing MS. note by the Rev. W. M ask ell : "This is the 

 earliest known and genuine edition : of which no other 

 copy can be traced. It was reprinted and published by 

 Mr. Pickering in 1845 : 100 copies." A copy was sent to 

 Anne Boleyn, who gave it to Henry VIII. Fish was re- 

 called home, and was graciously countenanced hy the 

 king. Sir Thomas More, in 1529, replied to Fish's work 

 in a treatise. The Supplication of Souls in Purgatory. 

 Fish died of the plague about 1531, and was buried in the 

 church of St. Dunstan in the West. Tanner ascribes to 

 him two works, called The Boke of Merchants, rightly ne- 

 cessary to all Folkes, newly made by the Lord Pantapole ; 

 and The Spiritual Nosegay. He also published, about 

 1530, The Suvim of the Scriptures, translated from the 

 Dutch. His widow married James Bainham, afterwards 

 one of the martj'rs.] 



St. Mary -of -the- Snow. — Can you give me any 

 information with regard to the title of the Blessed 

 Virgin, " Maria zum Schnee," or " Maria ad Nives." 



