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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 152. 



Family of Ames. — I recently saw in the pos- 

 session of a poor man, a small copper token of the 

 year 1652, with the figure of a man (lipping 

 candles in a vat, and the inscription " john ames, 

 Yarmouth." Who was this John Ames ? Can it 

 be the father of the antiquary ? If so, is there 

 any record of his having been a tallowchandler ? 



L. A. M. 



Magna Jememutha. 



Edmund Chaloner. — James Chaloner, Go- 

 vernor of the Isle of Man, and one of the Judges 

 of Charles I., had, by his wife Ursula Fairfax, one 

 son and three daughters. The son, Edmund Cha- 

 loner, was born in 1635, and was living at his 

 father's death in 1660. Any information respect- 

 ing his subsequent career, and especially of his 

 marriage and issue, will greatly oblige tJasuLA. 



Serjeant Painter, Serjeant Surgeon, Serjeant 

 of the Pantry, Sfc. — In what sense is the term 

 Serjeant applied in these instances ? Does it 

 imply any seniority in rank amongst or over the 

 class of persons serving in these offices ? A very 

 long and interesting account of the derivation and 

 meaning of the word serjeant, as connected with 

 tenure per serjentiam, and per servicium militare, 

 as also the degree and title of serjeant-at-law, will 

 be found in the Penny Cydopcedia, vol. xxi., but 

 it does not illustrate the application of the title to 

 these offices. 



Can any of your readers furnish any references 

 to any account or explanation of these offices ? 

 The term serjeant surgeon would imply something 

 more than serving (serviens), because all tlie sur- 

 geons in ordinary may be considered as sei'vientes. 



Waller's Handwriting. — What kind of hand, 

 and especially as to signature, did Waller the poet 

 write ? There is no autograph of his in the Mu- 

 seum. M. 



Fercett. — .Thomas de la Mare, by his will dated 

 in 1348, and deposited in the Register at York, 

 bequeaths to Master Richard de Buckingham a 

 book called Fercett. 



Can any of your learned readers inform me 

 what is the subject treated of in this book ? Is it 

 to be found in any of the catalogues of our cele- 

 brated book collectors ? F. M. 



Lady-day in Harvest. — Allow me through the 

 medium of your columns to inquire how many 

 festivals are yearly celebrated by the Church in 

 honour of the blessed Vii-gin Mary, and on what 

 day does Lady-day in Harvest fall ? 



H. Edwards. 



Alitor (ShMtxiti ^n^tnerrtf. 



JDutensiana : London, 1 806, 8vo., printed for 

 Rich. Philips. This volume is stated on the title- 

 page to be " intended as a sequel to the Memoirs 

 of a Traveller," translated from the French under 

 the superintendence of the author, and is called 

 vol. v., the four preceding volumes forming the 

 memoirs, which seem originally to have been pub- 

 lished in two vols. 8vo., 1782, 



Can any of your readers inform me where any 

 account of the author is to be found ? He re- 

 sided much in England, though a native of France, 

 and sometime secretarj', as it would appear, to 

 Mr. Mackenzie (brother to Lord Bute), envoy 

 from Great Britain to the Court of Turin, soon 

 after the accession of King George III. 



The Memoirs are often known as DucTiillons' , 

 which the author states in vol. i. was the name of 

 a family estate. The fifth volume, entitled Du- 

 tensiana, would seem to lead to his name. G. 



[ In vol. V. p. viii. of the translation, the author says, 

 " The title of the present work is taken from my own 

 name. I knew none better to give it, considering the 

 variety of the subjects, which no other title could so 

 well express." A short notice of the author, Louis 

 Dutens, will be found in Rose's Biographical Dic- 

 tionary. ] 



Romanist Members of Magdalen. — I should be 

 glad of any biographical information respecting 

 the following members of the Church of Rome, 

 who, at the suggestion of Lord Sunderland, were 

 admitted into Magdalen College, Oxford, in the 

 year 1687-8 : — 



President. — Bonaventure Giffard. 



Fellows. — Thomas Higgons, Richard Compton, 

 Thomas Fairfax, Philip Lewis, Alexander Cotton, 

 Thomas Guilford, Ambrose Belson, John Dryden, 

 George Plowden, Lawrence Wood, John Rosse, 

 John Christmasse, James Clerke, Robert Chet- 

 tleborough, John Denham, John Woolhouse, 

 Stephen Galloway, Francis Hungate, Job Allibone, 

 Charles Brockwell, Thomas Constable, John Ward, 

 Andrew Giffiird, John Harding, Richard Short, 

 Robert Jones, Ralph Clayton, — Hawardin. 



Demies. — Robert Hills, John Cuffand, Edward 

 Casey, Samuel Cox, Thomas Blunt, Thomas Ley- 

 mour, Thomas Ashw ell, JohnDuddell, — Baring- 

 ton, — Ealls, — Hungatt, — Landry, — Dighy, 



— Colgrand, — Stafford. 



Choristers. — Kilby, — Brooke, — Harding, 



— Hilliard, — Ranolds, — Earles, — Coombes, 



— Godwin, — Wake. Magdalensis. 



[Most of the above individuals will be found noticed 

 in Dodd's Church History of England, vol. iii. fol. ; 

 Wood's AthencR Oxon., by Bliss ; but especially in 

 Joseph Berington's Memoirs of Gregorio Panzani, 8vo. 

 1793.] 



