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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 148. 



reuerand Prelate, Doctor Whitegift, Lord Arclibishop 

 of Canterbury, by whose especiall instruction and en- 

 couragement I vndertooke this general worke, in honor 

 of my Prince and Country." At the end of the work 

 is a curious " Epistle Dedicated to the Lord Maior and 

 Aldermen of London," in which he states most feelingly 

 the heavy blows and great discouragements he received 

 from his friends at the commencement of the under- 

 taking, for " one amongst the rest, after he had sworn 

 an oath, said, I thanke God that I am not yet mad, to 

 waste my time, spend two hundred pound a yeere, 

 trouble myselfe, and all my friends, onely to gayne as- 

 surance of endlesse reproach, losse of liberty, and bring 

 all my dayes in question." Howes lived, however, to 

 " tender his free offered thirty yeeres labours to the 

 patronage of the right Honourable and grave fathers " 

 of the City of London, telling them at the same time 

 how heroically he had surmounted the labours and 

 difficulties of bis Continuation, in spite " of all precur- 

 rent vipers, lurking adders, and venomous tongues !"] 



Mediaeval Words. — In Chronicles of Jocelin of 

 Brakeland, translated by T. E. Tomlins, the follow- 

 ing words occur, of which I should be glad to know 

 the meaning : 



Firmars (who held the towns), Pitancery, Bar- 

 rators, Hanapers. 



In what glossary are they to be found ? 



J. R. Relton, 



[Consult the glossary at the end of the edition of 

 Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, edited by J. G. Roke- 

 wode for the Camden Society; also Spelman's Glos- 

 sari/.'} 



Saints' Days and Sundays. — What is the rule, 

 if there is one, for reading the l/essons, Epistle, 

 and Gospel, when a saint's day, with particular 

 lessons, &c., falls on a Sunday? On Sunday 

 July 25th, in this present year, being the seventh 

 Sunday after Trinity, and also St. James's Day, in 

 St. Margaret's Chui'ch, Westminster, the Lessons, 

 Epistle, and Gospel for " St. James's Day " were 

 read ; while at the Abbey, only a few steps off, the 

 Lessons for the seventh Sunday after Trinity were 

 used, with the Epistle and Gospel for St. James's 

 Day. t 



[It was ruled by the Bishop of London, in his 

 Charge of 1 842, p. 65., that " Where a saint's day falls 

 upon a Sunday, the collect for the saint's day, as well 

 as that for the Sunday, should be read, and the Epistle 

 and Gospel for the saint's day, but the Lessons for the 

 Sunday."] 



George Clialmers. — I have a book (there is no 

 title) with a prefix to Chap. I. : " An Introduc- 

 tion to the History of the Revolt of the Colonies." 

 At the conclusion is, "End of Volume I." A 

 jNlS. remark on the fly-leaf says : " This book 

 was printed in the year 1782, for (Gteorge Chalmers, 

 Esq., the author, who wrote an History of the Rise 

 and Progress of the American Colonies, published 

 in quarto." Will some of your correspondents 



oblige me by saying whether the work was ever 

 completed; or, if not, what impeded its conclusion? 

 There is no publisher's or printer's name. 



BONSALT- 



[There is a copy of this work in the British ]\Iu- 

 seum, without a title-page or any prefatory matter. 

 On the fly-leaf is written in pencil, " By Georgj 

 Chalmers." The place and date are queried in the ca- 

 talogue as " Lond. 1790?"] 



Sir William Denny. — Who was Sir William 

 Denny, said to be the author of Pelecanicidium : 

 or the Christian Adviser against Self-Murder ; to- 

 gether with a Guide and the Pilgrim's Pass to the 

 Land of the Living, 1653 ? J. R. Reltox. 



[Sir William Denny, of Gillingham, in Norfolk, was 

 created a baronet 3rd of June, 1642, married jNIiss 

 Catherine Young, but had no issue. Sir William died 

 in great indigence, and with him the title expired. 

 Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.'} 



Scotch Psalms and Paraphrases. — When and by 

 whom were the Psalms of David in Metre, and 

 T7-anslations and Paraphrases in Verse of seccral 

 Passages of Sacred Scripture, written, which are 

 now used in the Kirk and other Presbyterian con- 

 gregations in Scotland ? G. A. T. 



Withy ham. 



[The metrical version of the Psalms used in the 

 Kirk was composed by an Englishman named Francis 

 Rouse, a native of Cornwall, who flourished as one cf 

 the keenest republicans during the reign of Charles 1. 

 and the Commonwealth. In early life Rouse studied 

 as a lawyer, but abandoned the profession on Ijccoming 

 a member of the Rump Parliament. He subsequently 

 assisted Cromwell to the supreme authority as Pro- 

 tector, whom he affected to look upon as a compound 

 of the characters of Moses and Joshua ; and his original 

 intention was to form the English Commonwealth after 

 the model of the Jewish. Hence, after he was made 

 Provost of Eton, his cotemporaries styled him " the 

 old illiterate Jew of Eton." After a life of political 

 strife, he died in 1659, and was buried with great 

 pomp at Eton. His writings were printed in 1657, 

 under the title of The Works of Francis Rous, Esq., 

 fol. See«N. & a," Vol. v., p! 80.] 



Suffragan Bishops. — Cotemporary with the 

 act which mafle Henry VIII. head of the English 

 Church, another act was passed to constitute 

 twenty-four suiFragan bishops, and twenty-four 

 new towns were named as their sees. Were these 

 bishops ever nominated, and how long did tliey 

 act ? J- "^^' 



[Slx-and-twenty places were named as the scats (no- 

 minally) of the sufTragan bishops ; Gloucester and 

 Bristol were subsequently made new bishoprics. The 

 act 26 Hen. VIII. c. 14. was repealed by 1 & 2 Philip 

 and Mary, c. 8., but it was revived by 1 Elizabeth, 

 though seldom put in practice since that time. For 

 the names of the suffragans nominated under this act, 

 see A List of the Suffragan Bishops in England, drawn 



