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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na S. N» 84., Aug. 8. '57. 



with the neighbourhood, he said the same custom 

 existed in one or two places in Montgomeryshire. 

 Query, Can any of your correspondents say 

 whether such a custom exists in any other church ? 



G. R. G. 



Alex. Fyfe. — Information required of an author 

 of the reign of Queen Anne, named Alexander 

 Fyfe. He published a play, The Royal Martyr, 

 or King Charles the First, 4to. 1709. X. 



Secular Canons. — Reference is requested to 

 any work illustrating the rules of life adopted (if 

 any) by the secular clergy of the Middle Ages. 



.riN 



" Won golden opinions,^^ Sfc. — What is the ori- 

 gin of the phrase " Won golden opinions from all 

 sorts of men?" I find it used by Dr. San^uel 

 Johnson as a quotation. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Occupations of the Irish. — Could any of your 

 contributors inform me, through the medium of 

 your columns, whether any return exists of the 

 occupations of the Irish people ? In the census 

 for England and Wales (1851), this information is 

 supplied in regard to the English ; but in the 

 Irish census (1851) I am unable to find the in- 

 formation which I require. D. H. S. 

 York. 



Monkish Latin. — What works furnish a Dic- 

 tionary, Grammar, or Phrase-book of the Latin in 

 use in the monasteries ? «riK 



Anonymous Poems. — Where do the following 

 lines occur, " Sweet Innocence," and " Dove-eyed 

 Truth " ? I think in Sir William Jones' Poems, 

 but cannot find them. Who is the author of a 

 poem written " On seeing a Beautiful Idiot " ? 



Anonymous Plays. — Is anything known regard- 

 ing the authorship of the two following pieces 

 published in The Court of Session Garland"^ 1st. 

 " La Festa D'Overgroghi," an Operetta seria co- 

 mica. 2nd. " Scene from the Jury court opera." 



X. 



Willovghhy My nor s. — 



"On Sunday, June 10th, 1716, one Reverend Wil- 

 loughby Mynors, M.A. Preached a Seditious Sermon, his 

 Text being the 10th verse of the 30th Chapter of Isaiah, 

 to a great and rude Multitude at Saint Pancras Church, 

 Middlesex ; the Sermon has been since Published, but is 

 thought hy some who heard it to differ much from that he 

 Preached on Friday, June 22nd. Mr. Smith, one of his 

 Majesty's Messengers, apprehended the Rev. W. Mynors 

 for the Sermon he Preached at Pancras in which he was 

 thought to reflect on the present Government, and also 



the Printer, Mr. John Morphew, and both were taken 

 up."— The Weekly Journal, June 30, 1716. 



Who was Willoughby Mynors ? R. 



[ Willoughby Mynors was Curate of St. Leonard, Shore- 

 ditch, but refusing to take the oaths, he subsequently 

 officiated at a Nonjuring orator3' in Spitalfields. He was 

 the author of three Sermons, "Comfort under Affliction," 

 Psalm Ixxiii. 12, 13. 8vo. 1716 ; "True Loyalty; or, 

 Non-resistance the only Support of Monarchy," Isa. xxx. 

 10., 8vo. 1716 ; and a Sermon on May 29th, Ezra ix. 13, 

 14., 8vo. 1717. Most of the Nonjurors at this time were 

 severely molested by the government, and from the fol- 

 lowing notices in that violent partizan paper. The Weekly 

 Journal, it appears that Mynors did not escape. "A 

 curate living not far from Shoreditch, having the inso- 

 lence to disturb the Peace of His Majesty's good subjects, 

 by keeping a Nonjuring meeting-house in Spitalfields, it 

 is hoped that all persons loyally affected to King George, 

 will timely suppress the diabolical society, as they have 

 done the like seditious assemblies in the Savoy, Scroop's 

 Court in Holborn, and in Aldersgate Street." ( Weekly 

 Journal, Oct. 27, 1716.) "On Sunday, Oct. 28, 1716, a 

 Jacobite assembly was held at a house in Spital-Yard, 

 Spital Fields, said to be the dwelling of Mr. Mynors, a 

 Nonjuring clergyman, and late curate of St. Leonard, 

 Shoreditch, which occasioned a great tumult ; but the 

 tide seems so far turned, that the mob, contrary to their 

 former proceedings, were for venting their spleen against 

 this gentleman, and those who compose his congregation. 

 The other Jacobite assemblies in town appear quite 

 dispirited and out of countenance." (76., Nov. 3, 1716.) 

 " On Monday, Nov. 19, 1716, the grand inquest for the 

 County of Middlesex met at Westminster, when it was 

 particularly referred to the constables of the liberty of 

 Shoreditch to enquire into the behaviour and conduct of 

 Mj'nors the Nonjuror, who is represented to keep a Non- 

 juring conventicle, and to make a report of their enquiry." 

 — /6., Nov. 24, 1716.] 



Lucy B. Westwood. — There was published in 

 1850, a volume entitled, Memoir and Poetical 

 Remains of Lucy B. Westwood. Could you give 

 me some account of the authoress ? X. 



[Lucy Bell Westwood was born at Seaweed Cottage, 

 Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, on July 14, 1832. In 1842, 

 she was sent to a school at Croydon belonging to the 

 Society of Friends, of which community she was by birth 

 a member. In 1844 symptoms of her long-protracted 

 malady appeared, which induced her friends in the fol- 

 lowing year to procure her admission into the Orthopaedic 

 Institution in London. In March, 1850, whilst residing 

 at Huntingdon, she was attacked with hooping-cough, 

 which producing inflammation on the chest, she died on 

 the 19th of that month.] 



Mews What is the derivation of the word 



mews, as applied to stables ? J. B. S. 



[Richardson derives this word from the "Fr. muer ; 

 Lat. mutare, to change ; to change the feathers, to moult ; 

 and as niue, the noun, was applied not merely to the 

 change, but to the place of change {sc. the cage or coop 

 where hawks changed or moulted their feathers), to mue 

 became consequentially to encage, to coop up, to confine." 

 Hence Pennant in his London, p. 151., tells us, that " on 

 the north side of Charing Cross stand the royal stables," 

 called from the original use of the buildings on their site, 

 the mews ; having been used for keeping the king's fal- 

 cons, at least from the time of Richard III." See also 

 »N. &Q."1'»S. iv. 20.] 



