Nov. 6. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



447 



other words of similar sound, see Richardson's Z)/c- 

 tionnry, under " Hob." In Runswick Bay, in the 

 North Riding of Yorkshire, is a cave called Hob- 

 hole, which is said to be named after a spirit called 

 Hob, who once dwelt there. The fishermen of 

 the neighbourhood still regard the place with 

 superstitious dread, and are unwilling to pass it by 

 night. J. L> R' 



Anglican Baptism (Vol. vl., p. 340.).— W. M. N. 

 m.iy consult the Decrees of the Synod of Thurles, 

 held in 1850. These most important, but both by 

 our church and government strangely overlooked, 

 decisions, have attached to them the signatures of 

 four titular archbishops, twenty bishops, and three 

 procurators who signed for bishops, as well as the 

 name of "Fr. Bruno, Abbas Cisterciensis de 

 Monte Melleario." (Pp. 61, 62. Dublin, 1851.) 



R.G. 



The (Roman) Catholic Church does undoubtedly 

 admit the validity of baptism administered in the 

 English Church. But owing to the difference of 

 opinion amongst Anglican ministers on the subject 

 of baptismal regeneration, and its consequence, 

 the negligent mariner in which baptism was, and 

 often is, administered, her practice is to rebaptize 

 converts conditionally, unless it can be proved, by 

 the testimony of some credible person who was 

 present at the baptism, that it was correctly per- 

 formed. P. A. F. 



W. M. N. inquires whether the Roman Catholic 

 Church admits the validity of Anglican baptism 

 at the present time. 



Three friends of mine, recently received into 

 the Roman Catholic Church, were not rebaptized; 

 and in a letter addressed to the members of the 

 Islington Protestant Institute by the Rev. F. 

 Oakley, I find this passage : 



" And as I am ready to hope that you have all been 

 admitted into the one Catholic Church by baptism, I 

 can regard you as ever in a certain sense the subjects 

 of her motherly care." 



This sentence fully admits the validity of baptism 

 without the Church of Rome at the present time. 



E. D. K— w. 



Glebe Place, Stoke Newington. 



The Maiden-hair Fern (Vol. vi., pp. 30. 108. 

 180.281.). — This plant Adiantum (^CapillusVeneris, 

 Linn.) is growing in abundance on the walls of the 

 churchyard, and on the walls and roof of the 

 church porch, of Morwenstow, Cornwall ; and the 

 vicar will be ready to transmit a plant with roots 

 to any collector who desires it. The plants are of 

 course dwarfish in the scanty crevices where they 

 grow ; but their botanical characteristics are dis- 

 tinctly developed. R. H. 



Printed Sermon by Oliver Cromwell (Vol. vi., 

 p. 340.). — Dryasdust will find this printed ser- 



mon in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. iv. p. 176. 

 (edit. 1809, 4to.). The title is — 



" A most learned, conscientious, and devout Exer- 

 cise ; a Sermon held forth the last Lord's Day of April 

 in the Year 1649 at Sir P(eter) T(emple)'s House in 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields, by Lieutenant- General Oliver 

 Cromwell, as it was faithfully taken in Characters by 

 Aaron Guerdon : London, printed in the Year 1680 

 (4to. 17 pages)." 



Mr. Carlyle, I fear, will not accept this sermon 

 as genuine. I should like to see it duly installed 

 in the next edition of the letters, particularly if 

 illustrated by his amusing interjectional criticisms. 



If, however, Mr. Park's editorial remarks are 

 considered to be an authority, there is ground to 

 believe in its authenticity. After stating the 

 opinions of Granger and Dr. Kippis, he observes : 



" If the Chronicle of Heath is to be depended upon, 

 its authenticity was sufficiently acknowledged. For 

 when in the Humble Petition there was inserted an 

 article against public preachers being Members of Par- 

 liament, Oliver Cromwell is said to have excepted 

 against it expressly, 'because he was one, and divers 

 officers of the army, by whom much good had been 

 done.' " 



One does not see why, because Oliver Cromwell 

 had occasionally preached, this sermon should 

 therefore be genuine; but, passing by the logic 

 of his deduction, had the learned editor read it ? 

 A glance should surely have been sufficient to 

 satisfy him, that it was one of the satirical produc- 

 tions of Mr. John Birkenhead, or some other of 

 the Cavalier party, levelled against the terrible 

 "Lieutenant- General." Jas. Ckossley. 



I have a copy of the sermon referred to by 

 your correspondent Dryasdust. It is an octavo 

 pamphlet of seventeen pages, the title-page literally 

 as follows : 



" A most learned, conscientious, and devout Ex- 

 ercise, or Sermon, held forth the last Lord's Day of 

 April, in the year 1649, at Sir P. T.'s house in Lin- 

 coln's-Inne-Fields, by Lieutenant-General O. Crom- 

 well. As it was faithfully taken in characters by 

 Aaron Guerdon. London, printed in the year 1680." 



The text taken is, as your correspondent states, 

 Romans xiii. and 1st verse : 



" Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers ; 

 for there is no power but of God ; the powers that be 

 are ordained of God." 



A note in pencil at the foot of the title-page 

 states that Sir P. T., at whose house the sermon 

 was delivered, was Sir Peter Temple : what is 

 known of him, or of Aaron Guerdon, who took the 

 report of the discourse ? It will be observed that 

 it was published thirty- one years after it purports 

 to have been delivered, and twenty-two years after 

 Cromwell's death. I presume not to give any 

 opinion respecting the authenticity of this dis- 



