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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2nd s. No 92., Oc!T. 3. '57. 



Burgundy, and of the frontiers of Germany, were inflamed 

 to follow them. In the Archbishopric of Cologne, boys of 

 noble families imitated their example. Apprentices and 

 young labourers, animated with a child-like love of their 

 Saviour, flocked to the same standard. The King of 

 France took alarm ; but moved by the sanctity of their 

 object, he scrupled to act without consulting the univer- 

 sity. The doctors disapproved of the movement; and 

 then the king ordered the children to return to their 

 parents. The greatest number obeyed, but many per- 

 severed; and however blamed by a number of ecclesias- 

 tics, it is certain that the people favoured them. * Only 

 infidels,' said they, ' and despisers of God, can blame such 

 a pious impulse.' Pope Innocent III., on hearing of it, 

 exclaimed, lamenting, ' These children shame us : while 

 we sleep, they set oif with joy to recover the Holy Land.' 

 Many thousands of them reached Marseilles, where they 

 embarked. Amidst all their subsequent calamities, these 

 poor young pilgrims gave affecting proof at least of their 

 faith arid constancy. Many, on falling into the hands of 

 the Turks, preferred death to apostasy. Not one, it is 

 said, could be prevailed upon to abjure Christ. In Ger- 

 manj-- too, near 20,000 children had assembled, dressed as 

 pilgrims, marked with a cross, carrjang scrips and staves. 

 They crossed the Alps under their little chief Nicolas, 

 who was himself a boy not quite 10 years old. On their 

 road through Italy many perished ; some returned home 

 after cruel sufferings, but grieving only for their return ; 

 others went to Rome to demand absolution from their 

 vow : for they had taken vows from which only the Pope, 

 they said, could free them. Pope Gregory IX. afterwards 

 raised on the coast of St. Pierre, where two of their ships 

 from Marseilles had perished, a church dedicated to the 

 new hoi}'- innocents, with a foundation for 12 ecclesias- 

 tics ; and he caused the bodies that had been recovered 

 from the sea to be preserved as the relics of martyrs, who 

 had sacrificed their lives for the faith." — Compitum, 

 vol. i. pp. 49, 50., where the references to the original 

 authorities may be seen. 



Ceybep. 



The Querist may be supplied with trilinguar 

 references for the information he desires. In 

 ]^atin he may read Matt. Paris's account of this 

 crusade, under the date of 1213, p. 204. of the 

 Lond. ed. 1686. In French he may read its his- 

 tory in Sismondi's Hist, des Franqois, torn. vi. 

 eh, XXV., under same date, p. 346. of 1st ed. ; and 

 in Walter's Hist, of England, vol. i., note to 

 p. 472., he may see it in English. Sismondi gives 

 other references, viz, Bernard Guido, Vie d' Inno- 

 cent III. ; Muratori, Script. ltd., t. iii. p. 482. ; 

 and Roger de Hoveden, Contin. p. 167. Sismondi 

 says that B. Guido affirms that the number of 

 children reached 90,000. A. B. 



Mr. George Lloyd will find an account of the 

 crusade above mentioned in Michaud's History 

 of the Crusades, translated by W. Robson, vol. ii. 

 p. 202., and vol. iii. p. 441. App., 1852. J. H. 



MtpTteiS tfl Minof ^xitxizi. 



Professor Young (2"-^ S. iv. 196.) — As this 

 gentleman's name is now before the readers of 



" N. & Q.," allow me to ask if he is known to be 

 the author of the following: 



" Martial Effusions of Ancient Times addressed to the 

 Spartan Hosts to excite them to Valour and Discipline," 

 &c. — From the Fragments of Tyrtceus, 12mo. pp. xi. 15-7. 

 Edin. University Press. 1807. 



This choice little book is addressed 



"To the Martial Bands of the Britons, armed, and 

 arming, to defend, on British Ground, the Honour, the 

 Libertj', the Laws, the Hearths, and the Altars, of the 

 British Empire, &c. 



Dated Glasgow College, May 1, 1804, with auto- 

 graph signature, J. Y., to the Preface. 



My book is evidently a privately printed one, 

 but (although no allusion is made to it in this 

 later edition) I find it had been previously pub- 

 lished, also anon., at London by Hatchard, small 

 8vo. 1804. It may not be out of place hereto 

 note a similar work published by Dr. James 

 Moor, a predecessor of Young's at Glasgow Col- 

 lege, entitled : Spartan Lessons ; or the Praise of 

 Valour ; in the verses of Tyrtceus, 4to. pp. xxvii.- 

 30. Glasgow, M. & A. Foulis, 1759. This, which 

 served J. Y. for a model, is thus introduced : 



" These remains of ancient panegyric on Martial Spirit 

 and personal. Valour, of old, the daily lessons of the 

 Spartan Youth, are, with propriety, inscribed to the young 

 Gentlemen, lately bred at the Universiti/ of Glaxgow, at 

 present serving their countrj^, as officers of the Highland 

 Battalions now in America." 



Although Dr. Moor's book bears an English 

 title, address, and prefatory matter, he has not, 

 like J. Y., favoured his Celtic patriots with an 

 English version of the fragments. L. R. H. 



Can a Clergyman of the Established Church 

 legally refuse to marry a Protestant and Roman 

 Catholic, ^'C. ? (2"* S. i. 374.) — The various 

 statutes passed in Ireland prohibiting the marriage 

 of Protestants and Roman Catholics, viz. 9 Wil- 

 liam III., cap. iii. ; 2 Anne, cap. vi. ; and 9 Geo. 

 II., cap. xi. ; were all repealed by the 32 Geo. III., 

 cap. xxi. The 12th section of this Act is as fol- 

 lows : 



" And be it Enacted that it shall and may be lawful 

 for Protestants and persons professing the Roman Ca- 

 tholic religion to intermarrj', and to and for Archbishop.?, 

 Bishops, and all persons having lawful jurisdiction to 

 grant licences for marriages to be celebrated between 

 Protestants and persons professing the Roman Catholic 

 religion, and for Clergymen of the Established Church, 

 or Protestant Dissenting Ministers, to publish the banns 

 of marriage between such persons, and that Clergymen of 

 the Established Church, or other Protestant ministers, 

 duly celebrating such marriages shall not be liable to any 

 pain, penalty, or- censure, for celebrating the same, anj'- 

 law to the contrary notwithstanding." 



This statute having thus placed Roman Ca- 

 tholics in precisely the same position as Pro- 

 testants, with respect to their intermarriages hy 

 Protestant clergymen, the question of the liability 

 of a clergyman for the non-performance of the 



