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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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large and costly erection, in memory of Anne, 

 daughter of Sir Thos. Revett. I quote part of 

 the inscription as affording an additional instance 

 of the curious custom which once prevailed of 

 giving the same name to two children of the same 

 family : — 



" Uxor nobiliss. Baron Henrici dni Windesor, cujus et 

 vidua ad extremum usque spiritum jntemerata remansit, et 

 ex cujus connubio mater plurimorum liberorum sed reli- 

 quit tres tantum superstites, Thomam scilicit jam baro- 

 num utriusque parentis fortunarum et honorum filium 

 et heredem digniss. et duas filias unius nominis Eliza- 

 beth seniorum et Elizab. juniorem." 



I have omitted to mention that the crest is in- 

 variably the same — an arm in armour, grasping 

 a broken sword. F. S. Geowse. 



Queen's College, Oxford. 



Minav cauerte^. 



Corporation Diary of Reading. — In Man's 

 History of Reading, 1816, 4to., is a circumstantial 

 and graphic account of the reception of King 

 Edward VI. in that town, on his return from his 

 summer progress in the last year of his life (1552). 

 It is stated to have been derived from the Corpo- 

 ration Diary. On making inquiry after this 

 " Corporation Diary," I am informed that it is 

 not now to be found, and that the present town 

 clerk, who has been in office some fifty years, has 

 never seen it. That such records should stray 

 from their proper custody is an event very much to 

 be deprecated, even though, when in such custody, 

 they are not always so accessible as they should be 

 to the purposes of the historical inquirer. Whether 

 the record in question was in its proper official 

 keeping in Man's time, I cannot say ; perhaps not, 

 as he seems to have had the use of extracts which 

 were not available to Coates, the somewhat earlier 

 historian of the town, but whose work is on the 

 whole a much better book than Man's. May I 

 ask whether this Corporation Diary is now known 

 to be preserved in any public or private collection 

 of manuscripts ? John Gough Nichols. 



" Calypso." — Who is the author of Calypso, a 

 Masque ? It was published in a volume of MiS' 

 cellaneous Poems, consisting of Elegies, Odes, Pas- 

 torals, &c., 8vo., 1778. X. 



Dr. Peckards MSS.—B.ev. Dr. Peckard, of 

 Magdalen College, Cambridge, in his Memoirs of 

 Nicholas Ferrar, ip. 165., Cambridge, 1790, states, 

 that he had then in his possession original papers, 

 " containing accurate registers of the persons sent 

 over [to Virginia by the London Company about 

 1620], male and female, the county, parish, age, 

 and occupation of each, with directions for their 

 proper accommodations." What disposal was 

 made of Dr. Peckard's papers at his death ? 



These registers would be invaluable to American 

 genealogists. Powhatan. 



Boston. 



MS. of Eulogium, Eulogium Historiarum. — 

 Can any of the numerous readers of your excel- 

 lent periodical inform me of the existence of any 

 MS. of a chronicle called the Eulogium, Eulogium, 

 Historiarum, or Eulogium Temporis, written in 

 the latter half of the fourteenth century, appa- 

 rently by a monk of Malmesbury ? I am at pre- 

 sent only acquainted with the MSS. of the work 

 in the Libraries of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 Trinity College, Dublin, Lincoln's Inn, and the 

 British Museum. 



I should be very glad to hear of a MS., nearly 

 contemporary, of the whole or of any portion, 

 however small, of this curious chronicle, which, 

 so far as I know at present, has not been ixiulti- 

 plied to any extent. 



The Lincoln's Inn MS., from wanting the proem 

 (the only part of the work in which its title is 

 mentioned) does not seem to have been identified ; 

 but there is a very full and accurate description of 

 its contents in Mr. Hunter's excellent Catalogue of 

 the Historical MSS. in the Library of Lincoln's 

 Inn (under No. LXXIIL, old numbers), pub- 

 lished in the Appendix to the Report of the Com- 

 missioners on the Public Records for 1837, which 

 renders the identification of any considerable por- 

 tion of the Chronicle a matter of but little diffi- 

 culty to those who have read a perfect manuscript 

 of it. It appears, from a careful examination of 

 an erasure upon which the present title of the 

 work is written (contemporarily) in the oldest 

 MS. at present known, that the name originally 

 assigned to the Chronicle, at least by the writer 

 of that MS., was Compendium, and not Eulogium; 

 and it is not impossible that MSS. may exist 

 bearing the older title. I have, however, as yet 

 not succeeded in finding any. P. Q. R. 



London. 



Works of J. Briggs and H. J. Johns. — Can you 

 give me any account of the two following poets 

 and their works ? 



1. J. Briggs, editor of the Westmoreland Gazette 

 and the Lonsdale Magazine. A memoir of the 

 author was published along with his poetical re- 

 mains about 1826. 



2. H. J. Johns. This author's poems were pub- 

 lished with a memoir about 1836 or 1837. X. 



Thurlehed and Lon^ Oyster. — A Chester roll, 

 temp. Edw. III., recitmg a grant of certain privi- 

 leges, has the following words : " Praeter wreccam 

 regalem Qual. Sturgon et Thurlehed," or, as it is 

 written in other documents of a similar nature, 

 Thorlepol. What is the interpretation of the latter 

 word ? Whales and sturgeon were royal fishes. 

 Query, is thurlehed some other kind of fish ? The 



