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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 252. 



I find this passage upon the election of the Em- 

 peror of Germany : 



" When the election is concluded by a plurality of suf- 

 frages, if the new Emperor is of the assemblj^ the electors 

 go from the conclave or place of meeting, to the high 

 altar of the church and seat [q. him] upon it; and here 

 the Archbishop of Mentz makes him sign the capitu- 

 lation. When he departs from the altar, he is conducted 

 to a gallery over the entrance of the choir; where, 

 seating himself with his electors, he hears the proclam- 

 ation made of his election." 



Is this observed now the monarchy is hereditary ? 

 Probably many of the ceremonies at the Pope's 

 election were adapted from those observed at the 

 election of the Emperors. H. P. 



WHERE WAS THOMAS SAMPSON THE PURITAN 

 BORN ? 



Strype says at " Playford " (JEcd. Memorials, 

 vol. ii. par. 1. p. 403., Oxford edit). But, if so, 

 why did he not inherit the Playford property, 

 which passed to the Feltons of Shotley, by the 

 marriage of Robert Felton with Margery, sister 

 and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Sampson, who died 

 s.p. ? 



In the Heralds' Visitations (Harl, MSS. 1139. 

 1532. 4108. &c.) mention is made of Thomas (al. 

 Turner ?) Sampson, as sprung from another 

 branch of the same family, and living at Bing- 

 field, in Berks, who died in the same year as the 

 Puritan (1589). Can this be the identical person? 



Thomas Sampson the Puritan is said to have 

 married a niece of the martyr Latimer, who ac- 

 companied him to Frankfort, and died there. 

 Thomas, or Turner, Sampson of Binfield appears 

 to have married, first, Julian, daughter of John 

 Redish, and afterwards Ellen, daughter of John 

 Younge. Was Julian Redish, or Radyshe, Bi- 

 shop Latimer's niece ? The registers of Thur- 

 cai^ton in Leicestershire might possibly determine 

 this. 



It is observable that Latimer, after re^igninnf 

 his bishopric in 1539, was placed " in ward" for a 

 considerable time in the house of Richard Sampson, 

 then Bishop of Chichester, who was great uncle to 

 Thomas of Binfield. 



On the otlier hand it is to be noticed, in the 

 long list of children given to this Th(mias in the 

 Harl. MSS., that the names of a son and a 

 daughter of the Puritan (viz. Nathaniel and 

 Joiniia) do not occur. In a letter to Peter 

 Martyr (Orig. Letters relative to the English Tie- 

 fnrniution, <^c., pir. i. p. 183., Parker Society's 

 editii)n), the future Dean of Christ's Church 

 writes: "All our friends are well. My wife and 

 our Joanna salute you." And his monument in 

 the clinpel of Wigston Hos})ital, was placed there 

 by hia sons John and Nathaniel ; the latter of 



whom I imagine to have had afterwards a stall in 

 the collegiate church of Southwell. 



Can you or any correspondent help me to elu- 

 cidate this question ? Anon. 



Minor ^wttiti. 



Tindal MSS. — The papers of Dr. Matthew 

 Tindal are known to have fallen into the hands of 

 Eustace Budgell, and, upon his affairs becoming 

 involved, to have passed into the possession of 

 some bookseller. There is reason to believe that 

 these papers, as well as the papers of Nicholas 

 Tindal, the^ translator of Rapin, are still in exist- 

 ence. Any information upon this subject is much 

 desired. M. H. A. 



Lines on the Marquis of Anglesey. — Many years 

 since, some lines (in the manner of Campbell's 

 " Wounded Hussar ") appeared in the Naval and 

 Military Gazette, on the late gallant Marquis of 

 Anglesey ; whether original or extracted from some 

 work of the period I do not know, but they were 

 remarkably graceful and appropriate. They com- 

 menced thus : 



" Erect in the pride of his chivalrous fame, 

 Still he moves in his glory, our Wounded Hussar." 



but I remember, in addition, only the second verse: 



" How gallantly still 'neath his silvery brow 



Shines the spirit within of the dauntless hussar ; 

 Whose soul at Majorga no numbers could bow. 

 As he led on the squadrons of Britain afar ! " 



The verses were much admired at the time of 

 their publication, and I am sure their reprint, if a 

 copy of them could be found, would gratify many 

 persons, especially at present, when the recent 

 setting of " Corunna's twin-star with Moore," as 

 Lord Anglesey was styled, is a subject of such 

 general regret. S. R. G. 



Pictaveus — Tankersley. — In Brit. Mus. Harl. 

 MS. 4630. f. 615., the following occurs:— Tan- 

 kersley of Tankersley, near Barnesley, in the 

 wapentake of Staincrosse, co. York. Coat of 

 armour : Argent, on a bend gules, three escallops 

 or. 



Sir Henry Tankersley, Knt., was seised of the 

 manor of Tankersley about 10 Hen. III. : he mar- 

 ried Agnes, daughter and coheiress of Roger 

 Pictaveus, Lord of Burghwallis, formerly De 

 Burgo ; issue, — 



Sir Richard Tankersley, living 42 Hen., who 

 had with a daughter, married to John Wortley, a 

 son and heir, 



Sir Richard Tankersley, who had issue two 

 'hiughrers, coheiresses : the younger, Alice, mar- 

 ried Richard Tyns of Burghwallis ; and the elder, 

 Joan, married Sir Hugh Eland, Knt., of Eland, in 

 the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley, co. York. 



