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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 154. 



caster ; Hobhirk, or Hopekirk, in Roxburghshire, 

 &c. The last-named place is stated, in Lewis's 

 Topographical Dictionary, to be not distinguished 

 by any events of historical importance, but " ap- 

 pears to have derived its name from the situation 

 of its church." What that situation is, however, 

 we arc not informed. C. J. 



Sussex Ghost-Story. — One of the works of 

 Polhill, an eminent theological writer of the seven- 

 teenth century, is said to contain a marvellous 

 tale of a ghost which visited the village of Bright- 

 ling, CO. Sussex ; and which resisted, with xdtimate 

 success, the efforts of several neighbouring clergy- 

 men, who sought by prayer and fasting to lay it. 

 I shall be glad to see this story transferred (with 

 exact references) to the pages of " N. & Q." 



Mark Antony Lower. 



Lewes. 



Scotch East-India Company. — Where can any 

 information be obtained respecting the Scotch 

 East-India Company ; it was in existence, and had 

 ships trading to India, in 1701 ? 



Where may information be obtained with regard 

 to the trial of a Captain Green and a Mr. Mather, 

 the captain and chief officer of an East Indiaman 

 (it is believed of one of the Scotch East-India 

 Company's ships), who were executed in Scotland 

 for the crime of piracy in the early part of the last 

 century ? W. Pinkeeton. 



Ham. 



Pepyss Morma. — The egotist Pepys committed 

 himself once, and once only, in the course of his 

 selfish and worldly-minded Diary, to a little, a very 

 little outbreak of the pathetic, when (1662, Oct. 

 23rd) he says : 



" This night was buried, as I hear by the bells, at 

 Barking Church, my poor Morma, whose siclcness being 

 desperate, did kill lier poor father ; and he being dead 

 for sorrow, she could not recover, nor desired to live, 

 but from that time do languish more and more, and so 

 is now dead and buried." 



The editor. Lord Braybrooke, says, " There is 

 no other allusion to this person in the Diary." 

 Would any of your readers resident near Barking 

 spend a shilling to ascertain from the register of 

 burials of that place who "poor Morma" was, 

 whose death so moved the cold nature of the 

 diarist ? Her father's death, we may presume, 

 will probably be found near the same date, in the 

 same register, and will serve to identify her. J. K. 



Passage in Milton. — I have met with one diffi- 

 culty in Milton, which I have not been able to 

 overcome. It is book ii. 2., " Or where," &c. The 

 description is true, for Warburton refers to Petit 

 de la Croix's translation of Sherefeddin's Life 

 of Tamerlane ; and I myself can give instances 



from the Shah-nameh : but where did Milton get 

 his information, for La Croix's work was not pub- 

 lished till 1722 ? I have searched Purchas, Hack- 

 luyt, Heylin, &c., but in vain. Perhaps some of 

 your readers have been more fortunate. T. K. 

 Fairfax House, Chiswick. 



The Venerable Bede. — I shall feel very grateful 

 for any information in answer to the following 

 Queries : — 



1. Is it more 'correct to write the name, in 

 English, of this illustrious man, Bede or Beda ? 

 And the reasons for the answer. 



2. A list of the different editions of his works, 

 distinguishing home and continental editions; as 

 also those of his complete works, and of portions 

 of his works. 



3. What were the remaining lines of the epitaph 

 over his tomb, commencing — 



" Hac sunt in fossa Bcdaj venerabllis ossu ?" 



I have met with a translation of them, thus : 



" Here the remains of Beda rest in peace : 

 Grant him, good Lord, the joys that never cease : 

 Grant him to drink, from Wisdom's fountain clear, 

 Those living streams for which he panted here." 



4. What churches, chapels, chapels in churches, 

 or altars in churches, were formerly dedicated 

 under his invocation ? Ceykep. 



Consecration of Bishops in Ireland. — By the 

 Irish Act of the 2nd of Elizabeth, c. 4., it is 

 ordered that there shall be an investiture and 

 consecration of the bishop, "with all speed and 

 celerity," on the receipt of the collation. 



Query, what is the legal interpretation of the 

 words marked with inverted commas ; or, in other 

 words, within what period, after the receipt of the 

 collation by the bishop or archbishop, must the 

 investiture and consecration take place ? 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Gerit Comhaer. — As your valuable "N". & Q." 

 may boast of readers in Denmark, and our " Na- 

 vorscher " is not equally felicitous, we venture to 

 apply to your learned correspondents in that 

 part of Europe for the solution of the following 

 question : 



In an old MS. chronicle of the beginning of the 

 sixteenth century, mention is made of a certain 

 Gerit Comhaer, native of Boramel, who resided 

 afterwards in Deventer, and departed from thence 

 to Denmark, where the King appointed him master 

 of his mint. This must have happened in the last 

 part of the fourteenth century. Further parti- 

 culars will be highly acceptable. 



^ Y. A. N. (in the NavorscJier).. 



Arnhem. 



