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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''-i S. No 83., Aug. 1. '57. 



William de Flanders. — Could you assist me to 

 <the following evidence ; the detail of relationship 

 Ibetween William de Flanders, father of Lady 

 Mortimer, and Queen Eleanor, consort of King 

 Edward I. William D'Oyly Baylet. 



Thomas Vavasor. — Thomas Vavasor took the 

 degree of B.A. at Cambridge, 1536-7. He was 

 D.D. in or before 1549, and in prison at Hull for 

 adhering to the Roman Catholic faith, 1574, having 

 been brought to Hull from York, where he had 

 resided. Further information respecting him will 

 be acceptable. We especially desire to know 

 when and where he took the degree of D.D., and 

 when he died. C H. & Thompson Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



Charles Coleman. — Charles Coleman was 

 created Doctor of Music at Cambridge on the 

 especial recommendation of the committee for 

 reformation of that university, June 26, 1651. 

 He is noticed by Sir John Hawkins, who states 

 that his death occurred in Fetter Lane. We hope 

 to be able through your columns to obtain the 

 date of his death. C. H. & Thompson Coopek. 

 Cambridge. 



French Protestants in London. — What congre- 

 gations of French Protestants were there in 

 London in the reign of Charles I ? What form 

 of prayer did they use ? What were the names of 

 their ministers ? Meletes. 



Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel. — In Archdall's 

 edition of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. iv. 

 p. 318., it is stated that the Earl of Tyrconnel, — 

 " Lies buried under a handsome tomb of black marble, in 

 the chapel of the family's foundation in Donnybrooke 

 Church [near Dublin], with this inscription; over which 

 are the arms of Fitzwilliam, and the coronet, but no crest 

 or supporters : 



" ' Here lyeth the Body of the Right Honourable and 

 most Noble Lord Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel, Lord Viscount 

 f itz-Williams of Meryonge [Merrion], Baron of Thorn- 

 castle [otherwise Merrion], who died at his House in 

 Meryonge, April 11th, 1667, and was Buried the 12th day 

 of the same month.' " 



Where may I learn particulars of the chapel 

 founded at Donnybrook by the Fitzwilliam family, 

 of which the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert is the 

 present representative ? As I can testify from my 

 own observation, the church, chapel, and this and 

 many other tombs (Archbishop King's included) 

 have disappeared ; but when and how I cannot 

 tell. Richard, sixth Viscount Fitzwilliam, who 

 died in 1776, and other members of the family, 

 have been interred in the same place, a Richard 

 Fitzwilliam having been living at Donnybrook in 

 1432. Abhba. 



Smith's " History of Kerry." — In one of Mil- 

 liken and Son's Catalogues, published in Dublin 



about thirty years since, are the following par- 

 ticulars : 



" 325. Smith's Ancient and Present State of the County 

 of Kerry, cartooned on strong writing-paper in large 4to., 

 in 2 vols., with considerable alterations and additions in 

 manuscript. The undoubted autograph of the author, 

 and originally intended by him for a republication of the 

 work. In the title of this perfectly unique copy appears 

 the following MS. note : ' N.B. This manuscript was not 

 that from which my history was printed, but from an 

 abridgment of this, as far as to page 483., many parts of 

 this being thrown into the notes, particularly the chapter 

 on Counties Palatine, p. 120., &c. My chief reason for 

 abridging this was want of encouragement to print it 

 entire. — Ch. Smith.' " 



Can you inform me of the habitat of this in- 

 teresting copy of a valuable work, or whether any 

 of the author's " considerable alterations and ad- 

 ditions " have appeared in print ? Abhba. 



Henry Wharton. — Birch, in his Life of Tillot' 

 son, cites the MS. Diary of Henry Wharton, 

 written in Latin, and then in the possession of the 

 Rev. Mr. Calamy. Is this Diary still in existence, 

 or has it ever been printed ? E. H. A. 



" The Secret History of Europe. — Can any 

 reader of "N. & Q." refer me to any critical 

 notice of a work in three volumes, entitled The 

 Secret History of Europe. It was published by 

 Curll and Pemberton in 1715. There is no edi- 

 tor's name ; neither is there any direct authority 

 avowed for many of the articles contained in the 

 four parts of which the work consists. Yet it 

 contains so many curious particulars of the secret 

 history of England — more especially during the 

 reigns of Charles II. and James II., and in con- 

 nexion with the glorious Revolution of 1C88, of 

 which the compiler is a strenuous admirer — that 

 I should be glad to know something of its history 

 and its compiler. P. C. 



English Latin. — I presume it is generally ad- 

 mitted that the English pronunciation of Latin is 

 corrupt, and that no other country has adopted 

 our mode of utterance. Considering that our an- 

 cient records were written in Latin, that our cor- 

 respondence with the Papal court was carried on 

 in that language, and that in the discussions with 

 its ministers it was generally spoken, it has often 

 puzzled me to determine at what period the 

 present mode of pronouncing it was first intro- 

 duced among our countrymen, it being apparent 

 that an Englishman in speaking Latin would 

 scarcely be intelligible i,o a foreigner. Perhaps 

 some learned correspondent will enlighten me. 



JuvENis Septuagenarius. 



Steer and Leetham Families. — I would feel 

 obliged if any of your readers could give any in- 

 formation respecting the antecedents of the family 

 of Steer, of the Manor Hall, Darnall, near Shef- 

 field ? where they sprung from ? what arms they 



