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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. V. 123., May 8. '58. 



Col. John Peacock (2°* S. v. 147.) —I have a 

 copy of a pedigree of Peacocke of Chawley, ex- 

 tracted from a Visitation of Berkshire taken in 

 1664, in which John Peacocke is described as "of 

 Chawley, in the parish of Cumner, a Major of 

 Foot." It is impossible that this could be the 

 same John Peacocke referred to as training a 

 troop of horse in June, 1685, as his eldest son, 

 Francis Peacocke of Chawley, is described as 

 aged fifty- eight on March 16, 1664. The said 

 Francis Peacocke had a son John, who may pos- 

 sibly be the Colonel John Peacocke referred to, 

 but he was probably a young man when the Visi- 

 tation was made, and, as such, no information is 

 given in the pedigree but his bare name. The 

 pedigree deduces their descent from a younger 

 son of Robert Peacocke, Lord Mayor of York (he 

 was Lord Mayor in 1548 and 1567). The arms 

 are, "Gules, on a fesse argent between three plates, 

 as many lozenges sable, with crescent for differ- 

 ence." James Pbacock. 



Sunderland. 



Echo Poetry (2'"' S. v. 234.) 

 Herbert's Poems, " Heaven." 



See George 

 Ache. 



KOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The members of the Camden Society have lately re- 

 ceived a volume of great importance, which is calculated 

 to lead them to a right understanding of much -which in 

 the domestic politj' of our cathedral institutions is either 

 unknown or misunderstood. We feel confident that The 

 Domesday of St. Paul's of the Year 1222, with an Intro- 

 duction, Notes, and Illustrations, by the Archdeacon of 

 London, will be highly appreciated by all who are com- 

 petent judges of its merits. The work has assumed a 

 character materially different from that which was at 

 first contemplated, owing to the discovery of other docu- 

 ments, which showed the relation of the manors to the 

 cathedral as a landed estate, held to farm by its own 

 members, and occupied by a tenantry according to the 

 general custom of the age. In the valuable Introduc- 

 tion to these curious documents, the Archdeacon has 

 incidentally noticed a remarkable fact in connexion with 

 this Cathedral. It is well known that the course of pro- 

 ceeding usually adopted by the early Church for the con- 

 version of a new district was by the mission of a Bishop 

 with his clergy, the erection of a See, and the building 

 of a collegiate church. But whilst the revenue and pro- 

 duce of the manors of St. Paul's were appropriated to 

 the support and sustenance of all its members, from the 

 Dean to the humblest servitor, the doorkeeper of the 

 brewery, the Bishop himself was no sharer in its endow- 

 ments. " It is remarkable," says the archdeacon, " that 

 though the Statutes of the Cathedral describe the thirty 

 Prebendaries as forming with the Bishop unum corpus, of 

 which he is the head, there is no evidence of his sharing 

 with them any part of the revenue, or of his living, in 

 intercourse with them. The Bishops of London appear 

 to have possessed their manors in the time of the Anglo- 

 Saxon kings in their own right, for there are no traces 

 of any of the episcopal lands having at any time belonged 



to the Cathedral." This documentary history of the 

 nianorial property of one of the most ancient Sees of the 

 English Church is a valuable addition to the stores of 

 our historical literature, and may be perused with ad- 

 vantage by the statesman, lawyer, or divine. The Editor 

 has added a number of apposite philological notes, and 

 the manner in which a very difficult task has been exe- 

 cuted corresponds with its importance, and increases its 

 value. 



By-the-bye we m&j mention that The Camden Society 

 held its Annual General Meeting on Monday last, when 

 Earl Jermyn, who has been for several j'ears an active 

 Member of the Council, was elected President in the room 

 of the late Lord Braybrooke. After the reading of the 

 Report, which spoke very satisfactorily of the progress 

 of the Society, a vote expressive of the loss which the 

 Camden Society had sustained by the death of its Presi- 

 dent, and of its sympathy and condolence with his familj', 

 was carried unanimously. 



Our Correspondents who from time to time address 

 Queries to us on the subject of old books, will be glad to 

 learn that Mr. Bohn's new, enlarged, and cheaper edition 

 of Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual is progressing satisfac- 

 toril}'. The second part, which completes the first volume, 

 has just been issued, and comes dowir to the article 

 " Cyrus the Great." 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Books to be sent direct to 

 the eentleman by whom they are required, and whose name and ad- 

 dress are given for that purpose. 



Bishop Wilktns's Mrbcury ; oh the Swift and Secret Messenoeh. 



8vo. London. 1644 and 1694. Either edition will do. 

 Falconer (John), Cryptomenysis Patepacta ; oa the Art of Secret 



Information, &c. 8vo. London. 1685. 



Wanted by F. W. Iladdon, 36. Adelaide Road, Haveratock Hill, N. W 



fiatkei to il[,atreg^anXsmti. 



Mb. CottiEB's Life op Sharspbarb. }Ve copy the following from 

 The Athenseum of Saturday last: — 



" Maidenhead, April J8. 



" I write in order to anticipate others in the correction of a blunder 

 committed in the new Life of S'lakspeare, acoompanyini my second 

 edition of his works recently published. I was led into it by Ben Jon- 

 son's Iftter to Cecil, publiihed in The Atliencenm of the IMh of Auprust 

 last, which I had £0 fullv in mv mind, in reference to the Gun- 

 powder Plot, that readinj Maraton's un'lated letter, I at once hastily 

 concluded that its dark and ambiguous phraseology related to the samn 

 historical event. I continued in that persuasion until a zealous and 

 learned friend of mine made me sensible of my error, and that Mar- 

 ston's letter was occasioned by the threatened arrest of Lord Kimbolton 

 and other members of thn House of Commons in 1611. Nobody hns 

 hitlierto supposed that Shakspeare's dramatic contemporary had lived 

 so long. I am glad that my vexatious mistake is on a matter quite in- 

 cidental, and that it does not affect any of the events in the biography 

 of our great poet. "J. Pavne Collikb." 



M. E. Berkt. Your book is a copy of Philpot'a edition of Camden's 

 Remaines. ' 



OxoNiENsis. An edition of Christopher Smart's Poems, includina his 

 English and Latin translations, was published at Heading in 1791 in two 

 vols. 12mo. 



M. Burton. The article sent respecting a Portrait o/Made. de Main- 

 tenon is an advertisement. 



Dodo and Thomas Cbosfield. As we cannot possibly riccipher the pro- 

 per names, or even theflgures, in many of' the articles forwarded by these 

 correspoulents, we are compelled to omit them. 



Qois will find Dr. South' s Latin Poetn on Cromwell in our 1st S. vi. 490. 



SvKEs Dyke. Inquiries are being made as to " Sykes Dyke andmanor 

 of John de Chappelt, near Carlisle." 



Erratum.— 2nd S. v. 356. col. i. 1.35., for "preacher" reod " teacher." 



** Notes and Quehjks" is published at noon on Friday, and is also 

 issued in Monthly Parts. The subscription for Stamped Copies for 

 Six Months forwarded direct from the Publishers (including the Half- 

 yearly Index) is Us. Ad., which may be paid by Post Office Order in 

 favour of Messrs. Bell and Daldy, 186. Fleet Street, E.C; to whom 

 so all Cummonications fob the Editor should be. addressed. 



