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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 265. 



Minat <!Rutvit& tatft ^njStaeriS. 



Passage in Erasmus. — Will you be so kind as 

 to invite your readers to elucidate a dark place in 

 one of Erasmus's Colloquies ? 



In a dialogue entitled " Peregrinatio religionis 

 ergo," in which Ogygius and Menedemus are the 

 sole interlocutors, the former tells the latter that 

 he has been to visit — 



" Divum Jacobum Compostellanum, et hinc reversus, Vir- 

 ginem ParathaJassiam apud Anglos percelebrem." 



Menedemus is curious to know more of this 

 Virgo Parathalassia, and says : 



" De Jacobo frequenter audivi : sed obsecro te, describe 

 mihi regnum istius Parathalassias." 



His friend replies : 



" Equidem expediam, quam potero paucissimis. Cele- 

 berrimuni nomen est per universam Angliam, nee temere 

 reperias in ea insula, qui speret, res suas fore salvas, quin 

 illam quotannis aliquo munusculo pro facultatuni modulo 

 salutarit. 



"Men. Ubihabet? 



" Og. Ad extremum Anglise finem inter occidentem et 

 septentrionem, baud proeul h mari passuum fere tribus 

 millibus, vicus est vix alia re victitans quam commean- 

 tium frequentia. Collegium est Canonicorum, sed quibus 

 ^ Latinis Regulae nomen additur; medium genus inter 

 monachos et canonicos quos seculares appellant." 



Though Erasmus indicates the situation of this 

 religious house so precisely, I am unable to dis- 

 cover where it was. Can any of your readers in- 

 form me ? Abdonbnsis. 



Monte Fusco. 



[Erasmus's geography is faulty: Our Lady of Wal 

 Bingham is intended. Mr. Nichols, in his Pilgrimages 

 to St. Mary of Walsingham, p. 82., has the following note 

 to this passage : " Erasmus's description would be enough 

 to puzzle any commentator, if it was not ascertained from 

 so many other proofs that Walsingham is intended. 

 Even as respects the distance of Walsingham from the 

 sea, Erasmus had not preserved an accurate recollection. 

 It is about seven miles from the town of Wells, the nearest 

 port, and eight from the sea ; but most of the pilgrims 

 coming by sea would probably land at Lynn, at a distance 

 of twenty-seven miles."] 



2Tie Revolution of 1688. — Did the Prince of 

 Orange land on the 4th or the 5th of November ? 



D. 



[The Prince of Orange arrived in Torbay on the eve of 

 the anniversarj' of the Gunpowder Plot ; but, according 

 to Burnet (who was on board one of the prince's ships), it 

 appears that, " The 4th of November being the day on 

 which the prince was born and married, he fancied that 

 if he could land that day it would look auspicious to the 

 army, and animate the soldiers. But we all, who con- 

 sidered that the day following being Gunpowder Treason 

 day, our landing that day might have a good effect on 

 the minds of the English nation, were better pleased to 

 see that we could land no sooner." (Harl. MS. 6798. 

 art. 49.) See also Trevor's Life and Times of William III., 

 vol. i. p. 28 L, who says, " On the 4th, the fleet continued 

 to steer their course in order to land at Dartmouth or 

 Torbay. During the night the violence of the wind 



carried them beyond the desired port ; but a favourable 

 change taking place, the following morning the whole 

 fleet was safely carried into Torbay, a place in every way 

 most suited for landing the horse."] 



Richard Wiseman the Surgeon. — I cannot find, 

 in any of the Biographies which I have consulted, 

 the date of the birth and death of Richard Wise- 

 man, the father (as he is often styled) of British 

 surgery. Can any of your readers help me ? The 

 object which I have in view is to do honour to 

 Wiseman's memory. Medicus. 



[The following document, preserved in the Lansdowne 

 MSS., No. 255., may probably lead to the discovery of 

 the parentage at least of Richard Wiseman. It is written 

 by Sir Robert Wyseman, the seventh son of Sir Thomas 

 Wyseman, of Rivenhall, in Essex. Sir Robert was ad- 

 vocate to Charles IL, and afterwards became vicar-general 

 and dean of the Arches. Obit. August 17, 1684, in hisr 

 seventy-fourth year : — " Whereas my worthy friend and 

 kinsman Richard Wiseman, Esq., one of his Majesty's 

 Chirurgeons in Ordinary, hath expressed unto me to 

 have my declaration of his alliance and kindred unto 

 myself and family, I do thereupon declare that 1 do ac- 

 knowledge the said Richard Wiseman to be my kinsman 

 and descendant of my family, and that I do give free 

 liberty to him the said Richard Wiseman to use and bear 

 the coat of arms and crest of my family, in such manner 

 and with such distinction as my worthy friend Sir Ed- 

 ward Walker, knight. Garter Principal King of Arms, 

 shall confirm and assign unto him. In witness hereof I 

 have hereunto set my hand and seal the 3rd day of April, 

 1671. — Robert Wyseman." Nichols, in his Leicester- 

 shire, vol. ii. p. 71., notices a portrait of Richard Wiseman 

 by Cooper, among the pictures in Belvoir Castle.] 



Bishop Dillon. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me whether there was an Irish 

 bishop of the family of Dillon, about six gene- 

 rations back ; perhaps of the see of Ossory or 

 Meath? and, if so, whether any information as 

 to his pedigree and descendants can be obtained ? 

 ^ ° J.H.T. 



[Ware mentions Thomas Dillon, born at Meath, edu- 

 cated at Oxford, promoted to the see of Kildare in 1523, 

 and died in 1531. Archdeacon Cotton adds, " that it ap- 

 pears from the State Papers, vol. ii., that the Earl of 

 Kildare asked Cardinal Wolsey to procure the bishopric 

 for Edward Dillon, then dean, but failing in this, he 

 seems to have obtained the preferment for a namesake, 

 perhaps a brother." — Fasti Eccles. Hiber., vol. ii. p. 230.3 



Tutchin Family. — Information is requested re- 

 specting the family of Tutchin, mentioned in Ma- 

 caulay's History as being condemned by Jeffreys to 

 be flogged through every market-town in Dorset- 

 shire every year for seven years. A. B. 



[There is a biographical account of John Tutchin, or 

 Touchin, the celebrated editor of The Observator, in 

 Noble's Biographical History of England, vol. ii. p. 311. 

 Pope has memorialised him in The Dunciad : 



" Earless, on high, stood unabash'd De Foe ; 

 And Tutchin, flagrant, from the lash below." 



He died Nov. 23, 1707, aged forty-four. Nothing seems 

 to be known of his family connexions.] 



