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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 254. 



Religious Accounts, by Bishop Challoner, in the 

 relation of the barbarous execution of a priest, 

 Edmund Genings, at Tyburn, on the 10th of 

 December, 1591, the author writes as follows : 



"After he was ripped up and his bowels cast into the 

 fire, 'if credit maybe given,' says his brother (who wrote 

 his life, published at St. Omers, 1614), p. 86, 'to hundreds 

 of people standing by, and to the hangman himself, the 

 blessed martyr, his heart being in the executioner's hand, 

 uttered these words, Sancte Gregori ora pro me, which 

 the hangman hearing, swore a most wicked oath, 



' Z ds ! see, his heart is in my hand, and yet Gregory 



is in his mouth. O egregious Papist ! ' " 



F. C. H. 



Milton's Mulberry Tree (Vol. x., p. 46.). — I 

 am happy to be able to inform Garlichithe that 

 " Milton's mulberry " still flourishes in the garden 

 of Christ's College, Cambridge. About six years 

 ago the trunk, which was reduced by decay to a 

 mere shell, was completely covered by a mound of 

 earth, with the best eflfect. The old tree is now 

 in luxuriant foliage, with abundant promise of 

 fruit. S. C. 



Christ's College. 



'^ De male qucesitis" (Vol. ii., p. 167.; Vol. ix., 

 p. 600.). — An earlier citation of this line than 

 those adduced by R. P. and Biblioth. Chetham- 

 ENSis, occurs in Walsinghatn's Hist. Ang., a writer 

 who seems rather fond of quoting Latin poetry, 

 and included in Camden's Anglica, Normanica, 

 &c. : 



" Quia de male qusesitis vix gaudet tertius h£eres ; 

 Nee habet eventus sordida pr^da bonos." 



P. 260., edit. Francof. 1603. 



Were it not for something of false quantity, the 

 smoothness of these lines would seem to carry 

 them back to a more classical period. They are 

 rather Ovidian. Novus. 



Prior's Epitaph on himself (Vol. ix., p. 283.). — 

 A correspondent in the Antiquarian Repertory, 

 printed in 1784, observes : 



" I lately met with the following very ancient epitaph 

 upon a tombstone in Scotland, and it is undoubted!}' that 

 from which Matthew Prior borrowed those well known 

 lines intended for his own monument : 



" John Carnagie lies here, 



Descended from Adam and Eve : 

 If any can boast of a pedi^rree liigher, 

 He will wilhngly give them leave." 



G. Blencowe. 



In the London Journal, Oct. 19. 1723, is an 

 answer to Matthew Prior's epitaph on himself: 



" Hold, Matthew Prior, by your leave, 

 Your epitaph is something odd ; 

 Bourbon and you are sons of Eve, 

 But Nassau is a son of God." 



J. Y. 



Radcliff Pedigree (Vol. x., p. 164.)- — Being 

 engaged in perfecting the pedigree of Radcliffs of 

 Ordsall, Lancashire, who were of the same family 

 as Sir Richard RadclifFe, K.G., the intimate asso- 

 ciate of King Richard III. your correspondent, 

 A Constant Reader, inquires after, I am enabled 

 to answer his Query at once. Besides the above 

 valiant knight, there was another named Sir John 

 RadclifFe, K.B., who lived in the reign of King 

 Henry VI., both being of the same family. The 

 arms borne by these knights, as well as by the 

 Ordsall Radcliffes, were : " Argent, a bend en- 

 grailed, sable ; " being precisely the same arms 

 (with the addition of a coronet) as those borne by 

 the noble house of Derwentwater, to which family 

 they claimed alliance. T. P. L. 



Letter of James II. (Vol. x., p. 66.). — The 

 substance of this document, though not the original, 

 is contained in the Lambeth MSS., No. 941. p. 

 101. The notice in the printed catalogue is as 

 follows : 



"Abstract of the Princess of Orange's Letter to her 

 father King James II., about his turning papist, with the 

 substance of the king's letter to the princess on that sub- 

 ject. Without date." 



But I am not aware that it has ever been 

 printed ; it is not to be found either in Clarke's 

 Memoirs, nor in Fox's Appendix to the Life of 

 James II. C. H. (1.) 



Scottish Songs (Vol. x., p. 126.). — A song by 

 Robert Crawford, " Hear me ye nymphs, and 

 ev'ry swain," &c., to the tune of "The bush aboon 

 Traquair," will be found in the Vocal Melodies of 

 Scotland, by Dun and Thomson, vol. iv. p. 42. 

 Several songs to each of the tunes of " The yel- 

 low-haired laddie," " Wandering Willie," and 

 many more, are contained in the Musical Cyclo- 

 pedia, a collection of English, Scottish, and Irish 

 songs, by Jas. Wilson, Esq., 1834. F. C. H. 



Female Parish Clerks (Vol. ix., pp. 162. 431.). 

 — There was only a poor wretched ragged woman, 

 a female clerk, to sliow us this church (Collump- 

 ton, CO. Devon). She pays a man for doing the 

 duty, while she receives the salary, in right of her 

 deceased husband. — D'Arblay's Diary, vol. v. 

 p. 206 (1791). E.ILA. 



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