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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 261. 



Dassouci -were very popular, bj' showing that the Greeks 

 aud Romans knew nothing of the burlesque style, al- 

 though Mons. Le Clerc is of opinion that something of it 

 may be found in Aristophanes. Vavassor wrote this at 

 the request of Balzac, •»vho had a great dislike to this 

 style. Le Clerc published an edition of Vavassor's M'orks 

 at Amsterdam in 1709.] 



Family of Martin Folkes. — Can any of your 

 readers supply particulars of the family of Martin 

 Folkes, F. R. S. ? I am desirous of knowing 

 whether he had a sister named Lucrece, and a 

 brother a counsellor ; and in what way he was 

 connected with the Duke of Montagu. 



BURIENSIS. 



[We cannot discover that Martin Folkes had a sister 

 named Lucrece ; but his wife Lucretia, who had unhap- 

 pily been for some years confined at Chelsea, has a legacy 

 of 400Z. a year bequeathed to her by his will. His 

 youngest daughter was also named Lucretia, who mar- 

 ried, May, 175(3, Richard Betenson, Esq. (afterwards Sir 

 Richard) ; obit. June 6, aged thirty-six. See her monu- 

 ment in Thorpe's Registrum Rnffense, p. 832. Mr. William 

 Folkes, brother to Martin, was a counsellor-at-law, and 

 age7it to the Duke of Montagu, in Lancashire, who mar- 

 ried, first, a daughter of Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Lynn, in 

 Norfolk ; and, secondly, a daughter of Sir William Browne, 

 Knt., whose estates descended to his son. Sir Martin 

 Browne Folkes, Bart. Consult Nichols' Anecdotes, vol. ii. 

 p. 588., and Bowyer's Anecdotes, p. 562.] 



Chronicle of Alphonsus XL — The rare old 

 Spanish Chronicle of Alonzo the Wise (el On- 

 zeno), does it exist in any other than the first 

 edition published at Valladolid, 1551 ? H. E. VV. 



[There is a second edition, illustrated with appendices 

 and various documents, "por D. Francesco CerdayRico," 

 Madrid, 4to., 1787.] 



Butlers '■^ Hudibras" — Which is the editio op- 

 tima of Butler's Hudibras up to this time ? 



H. E. W. 



[Lowndes says, "the best edition, corrected and en- 

 larged, is that of 1819, 3 vols. 8vo. ; " but according to a 

 correspondent in the Gentleman's Mag., vol. Ixxxix. pt. i. 

 p. 416., this edition is disfigured with numerous inaccu- 

 racies.] 



Eev. Joseph GlanviVs Works. — Hallara, in a 

 note in his Literary History^ speaks very highly 

 of the works of an English metaphysician, Glanvil. 

 Can you furnish me with a list of his works, and 

 what may be the degree of their rarity ? Is Sad- 

 ducismus Triumphatus the work of this Glanvil ? 



H. E. W. 



Sydney. 



[ Sadducismus Triumphatus is by the Rev. Joseph Glan- 

 vil, and has passed through several editions. It is noticed 

 in the Retrospective Review, vol. v. p. 87. A list of Glan- 

 vil's numerous works (t(X) long to quote) is given in 

 Watt's Bibliotheca, and Lowndes's Manual. A copious 

 account of this author and his writings will be found in 

 Wood's AthencB Oxon., vol. iii. p. 1244.] 



Whitmore Motto. — What is the origin of the 

 motto of the Whitmores, an ancient Cheshire fa- 



mily, long styled of Thurstanston in that county ? 

 The motto is, " Either for ever." F. L. A. 



[This motto seems to refer to the first and second coats 

 of the Whitmore family arms, which have been used in- 

 discriminately as the coat of this branch of the family.] 



SIE JEROME, JEREMIAH, OR JEREMY BOWES, FIRST 

 ENGLISH AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA. 



(Vol. X., pp. 127. 209.) 



Of this distinguished man I find little to con- 

 nect him in blood with either of the fixmilies of 

 Bowes of Durham, or of London, which were then 

 (temp. Eliz.) in the height of their prosperity. 

 Yet he must have been at least acquainted with 

 Sir Martin Bowes, the Lord Mayor, as both were 

 in favour at court ; and he must have known 

 something of Sir George Bowes, the head of the 

 Durham family (who was Knight Marshal of 

 England north of the Trent, with military power 

 of life and death in those parts then disatFected to 

 the queen), and his brother Sir Robert Bowes, 

 ambassador to the court of Scotland. 



His arms show him to have sprung from the 

 main stock of the Bowes of Durham, as he bore 

 only the difference to show him descended from a 

 sixth brother of that house. As John appears the 

 favourite family name in Sir Jerome's pedigree, 

 he may probably come from John Bowes, Speaker 

 of the House of Commons, 14 Hen. VL (a.d. 1436.) 



The connexion between these three families I 

 can, however, show must have been rather intimate; 

 for at this period Archbishop Hutton married 

 into Sir Martin Bowes' family, and his children 

 intermarried three times into that of Bowes of 

 Durham. Again, Sir George Bowes the Knight 

 Marshal, and the second Lord Bray, both married 

 daughters of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury : 

 Sir Edward Bray (Lord Bray's only brother) left 

 an only daughter, who wedded tlie heir male of 

 the Boweses of Durham ; whilst I'rideswid Bray, 

 their sister, was wife to Sir Percival Hart, and 

 had two sons, one of whom married Cecilia Bowes, 

 daughter of John, Sir Jeremy's brother, and the 

 other Elizabeth Bowes, daughter of Sir Martin, 

 the Lord Mayor. Now all these alliances took 

 place temp. Eliz., or shortly after ; and I cannot 

 help inferring that there must have been more 

 than mere acquaintance betwixt them, and that 

 they were allied by blood as well as name. 



Sir Jerome was buried at Hackney Church, 

 28th March, 1616 ; but as that structure has been 

 since then entirely removed, no monument of 

 him remains. " The inhabitants of the parish of 

 St. Ann's, Blackfriars (curacy), built a faire ware- 

 house in 1597 under the isle for the use of Sir 

 Jerom Bowes, Knight, who then had the said 



