Sept. 2. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Roche, Lord Femoy. — Mr. Burke makes Ralph 

 de la Roche the husband of Lady Elizabeth de 

 Clare, daughter of Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, by 

 the Princess Joan (of Acres), daughter of King 

 Edward I. : but she appears to have married, first, 

 John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster ; 

 secondly, Theobald Lord Vernon ; and thirdly, 

 Sir Roger D'Amory. Can any of your readers 

 explain this ? Y. S. M. 



Hedding Family. — In Burke's Visitation of the 

 Seats and Arms, second series, there is a pedigree 

 of the family of Hedding. Was Ethelswytha de 

 Hesdene (who was & great heiress and a descendant 

 of the Saxon kings, and who soon after the Con- 

 quest married the son of Osburn de Gorseburg) a 

 descendant of Ilbodus de Hesding (or Hesden, as 

 he is sometimes called), and if so, was she his 

 daughter ? 



Who did he marry ? and how was she a " de- 

 scendant of the Saxon kings ? " 



Any information on the subject will be thank- 

 fully received by your constant reader Cid. 



The Public never blushes, — Who was the au- 

 thor of the saying, "The public never blushes," 

 quoted, I think, by De Stael ? Bkistoliknsis. 



Dr. Llewellyn. — I have in my possession an 

 old MS. book, which I picked up by chance in a 

 humble country cottage, containing sermons, and 

 many curious and learned notes, the results, ap- 

 parently, of extensive classical and philosophical 

 reading, I find the name of Dr. Llewellyn on the 

 front page, but the date I am unable to determine. 

 Attached to one of the sermons on 1 St. Peter i. 

 2. (latter part), " Grace unto you," &c., I find the 

 following note : " Bishop Lloyd's visitation at 

 Peterborough, a-eirT. 280." 



I shall be glad if this may serve as a clue to 

 any of your readers to find out who this Dr. 

 Llewellyn was, as he would seem from his writings 

 to have been a person of some consideration In 

 his day. M. A., Oxon. 



King in the Field of Battle. — 



" In the wars of Europe which were waged among our 

 forefathers, it was usual for the enemy, when there was a 

 king in the field, to demand by a trumpet in what part of 

 the camp he resided, that they might avoid firing upon 

 the royal pavilion."— Addison's Freeholder, No. XXIII., 

 p. 129. ed. 1744. 



Where is there any mention of this custom ? 



Cpl. 

 " Baratariana " and " Pranceriana." — As is 

 generally supposed, the chief writers of the former 

 work (consisting of fugitive political pieces, pub- 

 lished during the administration of Lord Towns- 

 hend in Ireland) were Sir Hercules Langrlshe, 

 Bart., Mr. Grattan (then a young barrister not in 

 parliament), and Mr. Henry Flood. Is this sup- 



position correct? And who were concerned ia 

 the composition of the other? Both works at- 

 tracted no small share of attention during the 

 latter half of the eighteenth century. Abhba. 



Lords Clarendon and Hyde, and the Academy 

 for Riding in Oxford — ^In the Preface to the 

 Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon (vol. ili. 8vo. 

 Oxford, 1759), it is stated that 



" The noble heiresses of the Earl of Clarendon, out of 

 their regard to the publick, and to this seat of learning, 

 have been pleased to fulfil the kind intentions of Lord 

 Hyde (expressed in a will which became void by his 

 dying before his father, the then Earl of Clarendon), and 

 adopt a scheme recommended both by him and his great- 

 grandfather. To this end they have sent to the Univer- 

 sity this history to be printed at our press, on condition 

 that the profits arising from the publication or sale of this 

 work be applied, as a beginning for a fund, for supporting 

 a manage (manage) or academy for riding, and other 

 useful exercises, in Oxford." 



Can any of your readers Inform me whether the 

 Riding Academy mentioned in the above extract 

 was ever established at Oxford ? Some weeks 

 since, and before I had seen the passage now 

 quoted, in conversation with a graduate of the 

 University, I happened to inquire whether Oxford 

 possessed such a means for assisting her youthful 

 members to acquire a knowledge of the art of 

 equitation, and was informed that there is no 

 riding school in the University. By a curious 

 coincidence I have been reminded of that conver- 

 sation by meeting with the passage in Lord 

 Clarendon^s Life, and submit the extract from it 

 to " N. & Q.," in the hope of obtaining a reply, 

 explaining the reasons why Lord Hyde's intentions 

 have not been carried into effect. Querist. 



Captain Richard Symonds. — Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." inform me where I shall find 

 a biographical notice of this gentleman, who was 

 captain of a company In the army of King Charles I. ? 

 also where his Diaries are deposited? I already 

 know of those in the Harleian Library. 7i. z. 



"/ra signo Thau^'' — I think perhaps the following 

 may be acceptable as a minor note tasome of your 

 archseologlcal or even general readers. In the 

 cloister leading from the Church to the Chapter 

 House, in Southwell Minster, Notts, I found the 

 following curious inscription: — "Hie jacet Will™"' 

 Talbot, miser et indignus sacerdos, expectans re- 

 surrectionem mortuum in signo Thau' (Old En- 

 glish). May I append a query in the following 

 words : — Is it known whether the Greek letter T is 

 elsewhere used for the Cross ? and if it is, can in- 

 stances can be given ? J. G. T. 



Luke ii. 14. — Can any of your readers explain 

 how it ever came to pass, that the latter part of 

 St. Luke il. 14. was translated, as It stands in the 

 Vulgate, " Hominlbus bonce voluntatis f " M. A. 



