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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" Se. 26, 1854," and which, as I consider them a 

 literary curiosity, I have pasted on a card, and 

 intend to preserve them. How many more be- 

 sides myself have got this addition to the days of 

 the month ? or what will be made of it in a cen- 

 tury or two hence, sliould any of the envelopes or 

 impressions be then in existence and noticed ? 



E. H. 

 Dublin. 



" The Poor Voters Song" — There was a lyric 

 in The Times (I think about twenty years ago) 

 under this title, which would be well worth re- 

 printing. It began : 



" They knew that I was poor. 

 And they thought that I was base." 



M. 



Pegrime Mmdntree — Matthew Hopkins. — In 

 an ancient parish register belonging to the parish 

 of Midley-cum-Manningtree, commencing in 1559, 

 is the following entry : 



" George Pegrime (old George Pegrime Manintree), by 

 whose labour and art tlie chapel there was built and de- 

 dicated to God and King James, was buried at Mistley, 

 Feb. 25th, 1642." 



It is well known that King James stood high in 

 the estimation of clergymen at this period, one 

 of that monarch's favourite maxims being " No 

 bishops, no king." 



In the same register is the following entry : 



"Matthew Hopkins, son of Mr. James Hopkins, Mi- 

 nister of Wenham, was buried at Mistley, August 12th, 

 1647." 



There is reason to believe that this was the noted 

 Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general to the as- 

 sociated counties, who has frequently been men- 

 tioned by various writers. Sir Walter Scott 

 says : 



" He was perhaps a native of Manningtree in Essex ; at 

 any rate he resided there in the year 1644, when an epi- 

 demic cry of witchcraft arose in that town. " 



The same authority adds that — 



" Hopkins canied on proceedings under pretence of 

 witchcraft for three or four years previous to 1647, but 

 that his tone became lowered, and he began to disavow 

 some of the cruelties he had formerly practised." 



It is not known that any writer has made any 

 mention of Hopkins after 1647. The inference 

 therefore is, that the particulars in the register 

 refer to him. If so, Hopkins was the son of a 

 clergyman. G. Blencowe. 



Pulpit Pun. — It is not a hundred years since 

 a mixed congregation assembled in Chapel Aller- 

 ton chapel, chiefly to witness the so-called " con- 

 verting " and cleansing a number of ungodly ves- 

 sels. The ceremony over, one pimis old dame 

 offered up a prayer for the " young lambs of the 

 flock;" another "lad in black," not to be outdone 



by Sister Walton, responded, and blandly asked 

 who was to pray for the " old ewes." This set 

 the godly congregation (who had just before been 

 groaning beneath their terrible load of guilt) into 

 a titter ; and it was some time again before ivor- 

 ship went on smoothly. Jason. 



Louis Napoleon and his Beard. — The news- 

 papers inform us that the chisel of an Irish artist, 

 Mr. Matthew Park, has lately produced a bust of 

 the emperor, which is the most truthful likeness, 

 of its kind, which has yet appeared. A peculiarity 

 of this bust is the division of His Majesty's beard 

 to each side, which may be seen prominently dis- 

 played in the engraving of it given in The Illus- 

 trated London News of August 26th. Moreover, 

 we are told that this division is not a fancy of the 

 sculptor, but in strict accordance with the mode 

 of arranging that hirsute appendage recently 

 adopted by liis Imperial Majesty. Now that we 

 are at war with a Czar delighting in " ne confun- 

 dars," it may interest our allies the French to 

 know that rabbinical lore has pronounced all who 

 divide their beards a la mode d^Empereur to be 

 invincible against the world, as the following from 

 Buxtorfs Florilegium Hebraicum^ Basle, 1649, will 

 show (voce Barba, p. 32.) : 



" Qui habet divisionem in barba sua, totus mundus noa 

 prasvalet ei (contra eum ?)." — Sanhedr, fol. 100. col. 2. 

 ex Ben S3Ta. 



J. R. G. 



Dublin. 



Thierry's Theory. — The newspapers lately an- 

 nounced that the office of proctor in convocation 

 for the clergy of Canterbury was to be contested 

 by the Rev. A. Oxenden and the Rev. J. C. B. 

 Riddell, gentlemen who, I believe, trace their an- 

 cestry to the companions of Hengist and of Rollo 

 respectively. Might not a disciple of M. Thierry 

 make something of this ? Let us try. 



"Aujourd'hui meme, que huit sifecles se sont ecoules 

 depuis la funeste bataille de Hastings, on voit encore, 

 sous les voiites de la meme cath^drale oil le Saxon 

 Thomas-Becket a succomb^ sous les coups meurtriers des 

 ennemis de sa race, une vive contestation pour la repre- 

 sentation du clerge de Cantorberi entre M. Ochsenbein» 

 membre d'une tres-ancienne famille du royaume Saxon 

 de Kent, et M. Ridel, descendant du Sieur de Ridel, qui 

 se trouve sur le Rol de Batel-Abhaye, et parent de ce . 

 Geoffroy Ridel a qui I'archeveque Saxon, au lieu de son 

 titre d.'Archidiacre, a donne celui d^Archidiable (" Ai-chi- 

 diabolus noster : " S. Thorn. Cantuar. Epistol.). 



" Low churchman (homme de la basse eglise, puritain, 

 vigh) et high churchman (homme de la haute eglise, thory) 

 — Saxon et Normand — voila comme se reprochait I'in- 

 extinguible lutte sous le voile sombre et my.stique de la 

 theologie reformee de I'Anglicanisme ! " 



Clericus Casttjakiensis. 



