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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Alien Refugees. — In Literce Pseiido- Senatus 

 Anglicani Reliquorum Perduellium nomine acjussu 

 conscriptce a Joanne Mi/tono, printed 1676, in a 

 letter entitled " Senatus Populusque Anglicanus 

 amplissimo Civitatis Hamburgensis Senatui," oc- 

 curs, — 



" Vos autera uti eos his de rebus benigne audiatis, tarn 

 de Cochrano caeterisque sceleris illius sociis, quam de iis 

 qui nuper in concionatoremimpune adhuc impetnm fecerunt 

 supplicium sumere velitis, aut e finibus exire jubeatis. 

 Neque pulsos atque exules Tarquinios amicitiiB opibusque 

 Populi Anglicani anteferendos existimetis. Westmonas- 

 terio dat. August 10, 1649." 



Cochrane seems to have pretended some com- 

 mission from the Stuart, and to have been con- 

 cerned in the abduction of some English merchants 

 at Hamburg by pirates ; but I presume the word 

 " Concionatorem " means Speaker, and refers to 

 some attack on the then head of the English Go- 

 vernment. I should be glad to learn to what it 

 refers. It seems our republican ancestors did not 

 regard the right of asylum in other states. 



J. H. L. 



Narcissus Luttrell. — In a copy of Sir W. Da- 

 venant's Works, in the library of the British 

 Museum, is a fly-leaf with this autograph, "E. 

 Luttrell ex dono Narcissi Luttrell." Who was 

 this E. Luttrell ? I have seen somewhere in print 

 a letter, without name, addressed to Narcissus 

 Luttrell, and dated July 15, 1691, respecting the 

 battle of Aughrim. Is there any conjecture as to 

 the writer ? Cl. Hoppee. 



Barristers' Wigs and Gowns. — Since the esta- 

 blishment of the County Courts, some of the at- 

 tornies, calling themselves advocates, have adorned 

 themselves with wigs and gowns, so that the vul- 

 gar are led to believe them counsel learned in the 

 law. Will any of your readers kindly inform me 

 if attornies, or other persons not admitted to the 

 Bar, are by any statute or rule prohibited from 

 adopting such costume ? and if not, whether they 

 thereby lose their statutable qualification of " Gen- 

 tlemen?" seeing, that before an attorney is ad- 

 mitted a member of the Bar, the Inns of Court 

 require him to be off the Roll of Attornies. 



M. A. 



Valentines. — Valentines seem to be quite the 

 rage this season, judging from the display in the 

 shop windows. When were they first sent? and 

 are there any early specimens known to be in 

 existence ? Orson. 



General Wolfe Anecdotes. — Between sixty and 

 seventy years ago, a Captain George Drake (sup- 

 posed to have been a member of the Drake family 

 of Malpas in this county) made a considerable 

 collection of anecdotes relating to General Wolfe. 



Is anything now known of this collection of 

 anecdotes? — the particulars of which, if they have 



not already appeared in print, would doubtless be 

 read, and with great interest, by all admirers of 

 this brave commander. T. W. Jomes. 



Nantwich. 



Fuller's *' Worthies." — At the sale of George 

 Steevens's curious library, in May, 1800, is the 

 following lot : — 



" 1799. Fuller (Thomas) Worthies of England, a very 

 fine copy in russia, with the portrait by Loggan, and 

 Index, a most extraordinary and matchless book ; the 

 late Mr. Steevens having bestowed uncommon pains in 

 transcribing every addition to render it valuable, writtea 

 in his peculiarly neat manner, fol. London, 1662." 



It sold for 43/. Who is the present fortunate 

 possessor of this valuable work ? J. Y. 



Minax ilhuetiti toitb ^nSto«a. 



Peter Burman's " Oratio." — In a pamphlet 

 against the Methodists, published 1771, entitled 

 RigJiteousness Over-much, it is said — 



" The Calvinist clergy took offence at Peter Burman'S 

 Oratio pro Comedia, and tried to deprive him of his Pro- 

 fessorship. They wrote against him, and he replied; 

 but, as thej' could not write Latin, the controversy was 

 carried on in the barbarous dialect of the country, which 

 is not intelligible on dry land. The oration is so good 

 that we may conclude he had the best in the jargon, es- 

 pecially as he held his office." 



I do not find the Oratio or the controversy 

 mentioned in the ordinary biographies of P. Bur- 

 man. Can any of your readers assist me ? S. F. 



[The Oratio is in the British Museum. It is entitled 

 Petri Burmanni Oratio pro Comoedia, Publice in auspiciis 

 Academicarum Itecitationicm., quiljus Terentii Fabula ex- 

 pUcantur, habita, A.D. xiv. Septembris, mdccxi. Trajecti 

 ad Ehenum [Utrecht], ex officina Guilielmi vande Watery 

 Academias Typographi, mdccxi. 4to.] 



Lambeth Degrees. — Has the Archbishop of 

 York the privilege of conferring degrees, in like 

 manner with the Archbishop of Canterbury ? Are 

 such degrees recognised ift any way by the Uni- 

 versities ? Would the latter, for instance, incor- 

 porate a person having a Lambeth degree, and 

 receive him ad eundem ? Patoncb. 



[The Archbishop of York has not the power of granting 

 such degrees; the Archbishop of Armagh has. If any 

 graduate of either University obtain a higher degree by 

 fovour of the Primate of all England, the University to 

 which he belongs is bound to give him the position and 

 place of such higher degree, just the same as if obtained 

 from its own Senate. There is, we believe, no instance of 

 the admission ad eundem of any Cantuar graduate to 

 either Oxford or Cambridge. Should, however, any Ox- 

 ford M.A. be made D.C.L. or D.D. by the Archbishop, 

 and he apply t<f Cambridge for an ad eundem, as he would 

 be Doctor at Oxford, so he must be admitted Doctor at 

 Cambridge. ] 



Milbourne Family. — The arms of Sir John 

 Milbourne, Knt., cj^zen and draper, Sheriff of 



