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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 101., Dec. 5. '57. 



Dblifred by any particulars of the other children of 

 the Rev. Dr. Thackeray ; and if any daughters, 

 and married, and to whom ? 



A CojJSTANT Reader. 



Amber. — Where has this been " found in gravel 



near the east coast of England ? " — KenricKs 



Phoenicia, p. 223. F. C. B. 



Burns's Punch-bowl. — The writer of the " plea- 

 sant recollection " of Burns in the Illustrated 

 London Neivs for November 14, states that 



" Mr. Hastie was the owner of Burns's punch-bowl — 

 that bowl of Inverarj' marble which the mason brother of 

 Burns's ' Jean ' carved into a shape Avorthj' of Greek or 

 mediajval times." 



In a note on the 217th page of the late lamented 

 Mr. Lockhart's Life of Burns, we are told : — 



" Burns's famous black. punch-bowl, of Inverary marble, 

 was the nuptial gift of his father-in-layr, Mr. Armour, 

 who himself fashioned it." 



Can you kindly inform me which authority is to 

 be relied on ? J. Vibtue Wtnen. 



Hackney. 



Dr. Lambert, D.C.L. — Can any correspondent 

 give me some account of Dr. Lambert, Doctor of 

 Laws, whose portrait I have by Sir Peter Lely ? 

 and refer me to any member of his family now 

 living ? T. P. 



Clifton. 



" The Gay Lothario^ — Who is the original of 

 " gK)^ Lothario ? " Cubiosus. 



Brus Family. — Was Robert le Brus, who held 

 Runham, in Norfolk, temp. Edward I., grandfather 

 or related to Robert Bruce, King of Scotland ? 

 The Hotuli Hundredorum says of Runham manor : 



" Et modo tenet illud Robertas le Brus per legem 

 Angliae qui desponsaverat heredem dicti manerii et tenet 

 per cartam." 



This would seem to imply that he was not an 

 Englishman ; for otherwise the words " per legem 

 Anglige" would seem superfluous. How else 

 should an Englishman hold lands in England, but 

 by the law of the land ? 



The grandfather of King Robert Bruce married 

 (says Wood's Scotch Peerage, Edinburgh, 1813,) 

 Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of 

 Gloucester. And it appears in the Rotidi tlfat 

 the bailiff of the Earl of Gloucester unjustly 

 claimed the manor of Stokesby, a parish adjoining 

 Runham. 



But in Blomfield's Norfolk the wife of Robert 

 le Brus, who owned Runham, is said to have been 

 named Beatrix, and to have been niece of Walter 

 Evermere or Evermue : whilst Wood says nothing 

 of a wife named Beatrix, though he says that 

 Robert Bruce died in 1295, and his second wife 

 Christian had the manors of Badow, Essex, and 

 Kemston, Bedfordshire. lu the " Inquisitiones 



Post Mortem," in the escheats of 4th Edward I., 

 is " Robert le Brewes, Runham and Rysindon Bas- 

 set manerium de Walinford honore Gloucest'." 



This of course was in 1276-77, not 1295 ; but 

 the escheat might have been for some real or al- 

 leged treason. I should be much obliged if any 

 of those gentlemen who have recently written in 

 "N. & Q." respecting these families, or any 

 other correspondent, could enable me to deter- 

 mine this question. E. G. R. 



Canterbury Records : Wine and Ordinances : 

 the Burgmote Horn. — In the Burgmote Rolls of 

 the city of Canterbury, dated August, 1636, Lady 

 Wootton is recorded to have presented the mayor 

 and corporation with a buck, which cost, fee 

 20s., and " baking him with wine and ordinances, 

 3Z. lis." What is the meaning of "ordinances" 

 in the above ? 



There are frequent entries in the same Records 

 of " blowing the Burgmote Horn," by which the 

 corporation in times past were assembled toge- 

 ther. Can any of your correspondents throw any 

 light upon this curious practice ? Sempronius. 



Heywood Toivnsend's Parliamentary Debates. — 

 The earliest record of the debates and transac- 

 tions of the House of Commons is the manuscript 

 of Heywood Townsend. The first part of Simon 

 D'Ewes' Journal is copied from this manuscript, 

 which has also been separately published. Town- 

 send was a member of all parliaments from 1580 to 

 1601. Is any thing known of his history ? Is the 

 publication from his manuscript a book readily to 

 be obtained ? H. N. 



New York. 



Schiller's " Mary Stuart.'" — Who is the author 

 of a translation of Schiller's Mary Stuart. By a 

 Lady. Printed at Devonport. 12mo. 1838. 



Iota. 



Bishop Edward Maurice, — Can you give any 

 biographical particulars regarding Edward Mau- 

 rice, Bishop of Ossory, about the year 1754 ? 



R. Inglis. 



[Edward Maurice was a 'Scholar of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and collated May 1, 1716, Praeeentor of Ossory 

 Cathedral. After holding this dignity nearly forty years, 

 he was raised to the Bishopric of Ossory, and consecrated 

 in St. Patrick's, Dublin, by the Archbishop of Dublin, as- 

 sisted by the Bishops of Ferns and Killala, Jan. 27, 1755. 

 Bishop Mant, in his History of the Church of Ireland, has 

 given a notice and specimen of a work by this prelate, 

 namely, a poetical version of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 

 in blank verse ; this remains in manuscript in the library 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, and appears to be highly 

 creditable to the axathor's talents. Bishop Maurice died 

 while engaged in his parochial visitation, at Charleville, 

 near Tullamore, on Feb. 11, 1756, after an incumbency of 

 only one year, and was buried in the chvirch of Attanagh, 



