296 



NOTES AND QUEUIES. [2nd s. v. 119., apkil lo. '58. 



pp. 1. 140. 256. and 652. This paper is an abstract and 

 translation of the German work on this subject by Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Buhle, which is an expansion of a Latin dis- 

 sertation read by the Professor in the year 1803 to the 

 Philosophical Society of Gbttingen. Portions of this paper 

 are now in course of being reprinted in the Free-Masons^ 

 Magazine of March and April. Buhle's work has been 

 extensively used by George Soane in his New Curiosities 

 of Literature, but with very slight acknowledgment.] 



John Postlethwayte. — Can you give me any 

 account of John Postlethwayte, Master of St. 

 Paul's School from 1697 to 1713 ? Sigma. 



[John Postlethwayte was born at Millom in Cumber- 

 land, and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He was 

 first master of St. Martin's school, founded by Abp. Teni- 

 son, where his successful method of teaching youth led 

 to his appointment as Head Master of St. Paul's School. 

 He died on Sept. 26, 1713, and his Funeral Sermon, enti- 

 tled The Christian Schoolmaster, preached by Dr. John 

 Hancock, has been published. Some account of him is 

 printed in Knight's Life of Dean Colet, 1724, pp. 384-387.] 



" Sitnon Pure." — Can you inform me where the 

 character from whom the expression "the real 

 Simon Pure" occurs, and what are the circum- 

 stances in his history which occasion his cele- 

 brity? P. F.W. 



[If our correspondent will open Mrs. Centlivre's 

 Comedy, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Act V. Sc. 1., he will 

 find the pretended as well as the real Simon Pure figuring 

 as characters in the house of Obadiah Prim.] 



Lord Nelsons Motto. — ^Whence his motto, "Pal- 

 mam qui meruit ferat ? " X. 

 [From Dr. Jortin, Lusus Poetici, "Ad Ventos," stanza 

 4. : — 



" Et nobis faciles parcite, et hostibus. 

 Concurrant pariter cum ratibus rates : 

 Spectent Numina ponti, et 

 Palmam qui meruit, ferat."] 



3Sitpliei» 



LIFE OF JANE DORMER, DUCHESS OF FERIA. 



(2"'> S.v. 13.) 



T. F. inquired where the Life of Jane Dormer, 

 Duchess of Feria, referred to by Dr. Lingard, was 

 to be met with. I am advised by some friends to 

 reply that I have been for some time preparing 

 the Memoirs of this lady for publication from the 

 original MS. in the possession of Lord Dormer, 

 who has most kindly lent it to me for the purpose. 



The MS. contains much interesting matter, but 

 requires considerable verbal abridgement. I hope, 

 however, to have it ready for the press in the 

 course of the present year, with additional docu- 

 ments illustrative of the history, which I have 

 been fortunate enough to meet with, both in 

 public and private collections. 



I take the opportunity of asking the assistance 

 of your readers in elucidating two questions. 



The author of the work referred to was Henry 



Clifford, Secretary to the Duchess during the 

 last nine or ten years of her life, i. e. from 1603 

 to 16^^. I have been unable to obtain farther 

 information respecting him, except that I believe 

 him to be identical with the Henry Clifford who 

 married Catharine, daughter of Thomas, and 

 sister of Robert Tempest, of Lynce Green, Dur- 

 ham, and was buried in St. Andrew's church at 

 Antwerp, in 1644. (Surtees's Durham., vol. ii. 

 pp. 328, 329.) I should be under a great obli- 

 gation to any of your correspondents who could 

 indicate what branch of the Clifford family he was 

 connected with, or supply any other infownation 

 respecting him. The Henry Clifford deceased in 

 1644 left no will, and administration of his effects 

 was granted to his wife's cousin, Augustine Belson, 

 of Aston Rowant, Oxon. And the will of Catha- 

 rine, his widow, tells nothing of her husband's 

 family. He is called " Chaplain to the Duchess '* 

 in a note in Churton's Life of Nowell, but this is 

 certainly an error. 



In addition to the Life itself, the volume con- 

 tains copies of several letters from this Henry 

 Clifford to Sir Robert Dormer, half-brother of 

 the Duchess, afterwards the first Lord Dormer. 

 These letters appear to have been copied into the 

 book by the direction of the late Edward Jerning- 

 ham, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., who had the MS. for 

 some years in his possession. I should be obliged 

 to any one who can inform me where the originals 

 of those letters are to be found. Theelder branch 

 of the Dormer family is now represented by 

 Lord Chesterfield, but I have no means of know- 

 ing whether any such documents are in his Lord- 

 ship's possession. E. E, Estcourt. 



Birmingham. 



THE APOSTLES MASS AT ST. PAULS. 



(2"'> S. V. 213.) 

 The apostles' mass, about which J. G. N. asks, 

 was one of three masses to be said every day in the 

 year, the last three days of Holy Week excepted, 

 by the minor canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- 

 don, as we learn from the "Consuetudines Ecc. S. 

 Pauli Lond.," given in Dugdale's History, edit. 

 Ellis, p. 353., wherein it is said, " Sunt in ecclesia 

 S. Pauli canonici qui minores appellantur — Missa 

 Beatae Marite, Missa Apostolorum, Missa Capitu- 

 larum ad eos pertinet officio vicicitudinario," &c. 

 This mass was celebrated at the apostles' altar : 

 " Ad idem altare (Apostolorum) celebrant novem 

 minores praebendas Missam Apostolorum, per eb- 

 domadas suas," &c. (ib. p. 333.). 



By a Privy Council's letter, dated June 24, 

 1549, to Bishop Bonner, " for the reformation of 

 certain masses at St. Paul's," this, as well as the 

 mass of the Blessed Virgin, was ordered to be dis- 

 used, and the " Letter " says, — 



" Having very credible notice that within your cathe- 



