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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 254. 



Pope now proceeded, as subsequently with 

 respect to what he called the piratical and frau- 

 dulent publication of his Letters. In the one 

 case he moved the House of Lords, in the other 

 the Court of Chancery, and in both instances took 

 care to fail. 



" Mr. Pope," writes Arbuthnot, in June 1729, " is well ; 

 he had got an injunction in Chancer}' against the printers 

 who had pirated his Dunciad ; it was dissolved again be- 

 cause the printer could not prove any property ; nor did the 

 author appear." 



I have now come down to the edition of Gil- 

 liver, and henceforth it is all comparatively smooth 

 sailing. Genuine and piratical editions were still 

 published, but are easily distinguished. Mr. Car- 

 ruthers, indeed, refers to a quarto edition printed 

 by Gilliver. I have never seen it. C. assumes, as 

 I do, that the quarto referred to, even by Gilliver 

 himself, who speaks of remaining copies, is the 

 quarto published by A. Dod. 



No doubt much that I have said is merely spe- 

 culative ; but all, I believe, is founded on fact. I 

 should not have chosen to hazard a formal opinion 

 on the subject, but for the direct request (Vol. x., 

 p. 110.). 



The Writee of the Articles in the 

 Athen^um. 



THE ENGLISH, IRISH, AND SCOTCH KNIGHTS OF THE 

 ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM. 



(Continued from p. 177.) 



Dudley, George. On the 12th day of October, 

 1557, George Dudley, an English Knight, who 

 some years before (1545) had been received into 

 the Venerable Language of England, as a military 

 brother, and who in the schism and division stirred 

 up by Henry VIH , King of England, against the 

 Catholic church, had followed that error, had 

 taken a wife, had adhered to the said schism, and 

 had abandoned his habit, being penitent, came in 

 the Convent, and having asked pardon of the 

 Order for his previous conduct, the same was 

 granted by the Right Rev. Lord the Grand 

 Master, and his venerable council. But the great 

 favour it was to be understood had not been 

 granted, without it having first been satisfactorily 

 proved that the said George Dudley had become, 

 through his humiliation and prayers, absolved from 

 his apostacy and other crimes by him committed, 

 and reconciled and restored to the bosom of the 

 holy mother church. He was therefore pardoned, 

 and re-admitted into the fellowship of the Order, 

 and of the brothers thereof. 



On the 11th of May, 1558, it was decided by 

 the Right Rev. Lord the Grand Master, and the 

 Venerable Council, that on account of the poverty 

 of the brother George Dudley, at present the only 



English brother of the Venerable Language of 

 England, permission should be granted for him to 

 sue for, exact, and recover, all the revenues and 

 rents of houses belonging to the said Language, 

 existing in the New Town of Valetta, from any 

 and all of the tenants, and to give receipts for the 

 same so long as the Venerable Language be con- 

 gregated and exist in the Convent. Vide Latin 

 Manuscripts of the Order, 1557, 1558. 



Fairfax, Nicholas, was fifth son of Richard 

 Fairfax, of Walton, co. York, and his wife Eus- 

 tacia, daughter and heiress of John Carthorp, 

 His elder brother was ancestor of the Viscounts 

 Fairfiix, extinct in 1772; and from his third 

 brother Guy descended the Lords Fairfax of Ca- 

 meron, known to be still extant, and domiciliated 

 in the United States of America. Vide " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. ix., p. 379. ; Thoresby, 67. ; Douglas's 

 Peerage, vol. i. p. 559. fol. 



Irvine, James, fifth son of Alexander Irvine, 

 Younger, of Drum, in the co. of Aberdeen (who 

 was slain at the battle of Pinkie in the lifetime of 

 his father), and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Ogilvie of Findlater, was ordained by the Grand 

 Master, Prior of Scotland. Vide Burke, 637. 



Leighton, Cuthbert, second son of John Leigh- 

 ton, of Stretton, co. Salop, and Anchoret, daugh- 

 ter and co-heir of Sir John Burgh, of Wallesbo- 

 rough, in the same county. This knight, at the 

 dissolution of the religious houses, had a particular 

 I)ension allowed him by act of parliament. Vide 

 Playfair's Baronett., vol. vi.. Appendix cxlv. 



Massingberd, Os%oald, second son of Sir Thomas 

 Massingberd, of Sutton, co. of Lincoln, and his 

 wife Joan, daughter and heiress of John Braytoft, 

 of Braytoft, in the same county. He was ap- 

 pointed Prior of Ireland at the recommendation 

 of Cardinal Pole, and afterwards Turcopolier of 

 the Order in succession to Sir Nicholas Upton, 

 While Massingberd was residing in Malta he 

 appears to have been in continual trouble, either 

 with the Grand Master, or his brother knights, 

 the Captain Di Verga, Jurats of the island, or 

 people. The accusations under different periods, 

 which are now to be found recorded against him, 

 were for murder, theft, oppression, and other un- 

 justifiable acts. That he was guilty of murder in 

 killing four slaves, and for committing this atro- 

 cious crime was only condemned to be deprived 

 of his habit for two days, and for a brief period to 

 lose his dignity of a commander, has already been 

 published in " N. & Q.," Vol. ix., p. 418.^ His un- 

 principled character in other respects will be seen 

 by referring to the official Latin Manuscripts of 

 the Order of St. John, now in the Record Oflice. 

 Under date of the 30th of August, 1552, there is 

 a record of which the following is a correct trans- 

 lation. 



The Right Reverend Lord, the Grand Master, 

 and Venerable Council, having heard the report 



