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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. V. 130., JoNE 26. '58. 



dotes and Illustrations, it does not appear that there 

 was any relationship existing between these two 

 bishops : perhaps the Rawlinson MSS., or Mr. 

 Yeowell, may assist my inquiries. A. S. A. 



Barrackpore, April 18, 1858. 



Edmund Brydges. — Information is requested 

 respecting Edmund Brydges, Serjeant-at-Law of 

 Lincoln's Inn, and afterwards a Judge. He died 

 at Ross on circuit, and left two sons, one of whom 

 married and left issue, the other died unmarried. 

 His arms were, " parted per pale, argent a cross 

 sable, charged with a leopard's face or ; ermine a 

 bend sable, charged with three martlets or." The 

 following inscription (supported by two half-length 

 black figures) is under an original copy of his 

 arms : — 



"Edmundus Bridges, Armiger, unus Magroru [unus 

 Magistrorum ? ] de Banco et Thesaurarius Honorabilis 

 Societatis Hospitii Lincolniensis, 1706." 



In "N. & Q." (2°'' S. V. 98.), your correspondent 

 C. E. L. gave an account of a William Brydges, 

 one of the Judges of South Wales, who was, I be- 

 lieve, of the same family, but not the individual of 

 whom I am seeking information. Any particulars 

 respecting the above-named " Edmund," or his 

 family, will be acceptable. His nephew was owner 

 of the Tiberton estate in Herefordshire, and high 

 sheriff of the county. A. L. C. 



Henry Argent. — C&n any of your numerous 

 correspondents furnish me with some particulars 

 relating to Henry Argent, who was for some con- 

 siderable time verger of St. Paul's, London, and 

 died in 1794. William Arnett. 



Samaritans. — Where may be found the most 

 complete history of this nation ? O. S. 



BisTiop of Huron, C. W., 1857. — What are the 

 dates of the academical degrees of Dr. B. Cronyn, 

 the present and first bishop of the new See of 

 Huron, Canada? He was born, it is said, in 1802, 

 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. I also 

 wish to ascertain his place of birth, date of ordina- 

 tion, and successive ecclesiastical preferments. 



A. S. A. 



Suspended Animation, — The following occurs 

 in the Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 this month (June, 1858) : — 



" Lately, at Erie county, Pennsylvania, the Rev. Mr. 

 Reed, a native of Scotland, and four or five years ago as- 

 sistant minister of the Free Church at Millport on the 

 Clyde. It appears that he was going to attend a meeting 

 of the Presbytery. He stopped overnight with another 

 minister at a private house. Mr. Reed was taken with a 

 fit in the night, and it was supposed he had died. The 

 other minister being in a hurry to get to the meeting in 

 session, had him buried the next day. On bis return from 



the meeting, he left word at Oxford that their minister 

 was dead and buried. His friends went immediately to 

 get his remains, and bring them to Oxford, when, to their 

 great sorrow, they discovered that he had been buried 

 alive. The cover of the coffin was split (?), and his 

 shroud was completely torn off, and he turned nearly on 

 his face. He was a bachelor, and a very worthy man. 

 His dreadful death is much lamented." 



The above story is most likely a fiction. " N. 

 & Q." circulates largely in America. Probably 

 some of your American readers will communicate 

 the facts of the case to you, if indeed it be based 

 on any facts whatever. K. P. D. E. 



Morton Family. — Of what family was Charles 

 Morton of the Academy at Newington Green ? 

 He educated Owen, De Foe, and others. 



W. H. Lammin. 



Pulham. 



Sibbes Family. — I am anxious to ascertain the 

 arms borne by the family of Sibbes, of co. Suffolk. 

 Dr. Sibbes, the celebrated master of S. Katherine's 

 Hall at Cambridge (1630), whom Fuller eulogises 

 among his Worthies, was born at Sudbury. Ro- 

 bert Sibbes or Sybbs, of Cony- Weston in 1524 

 purchased Ladies Manor, Rockland-Tofts, co. 

 Norfolk. It was sold by his grandson, John 

 Sibbes, in 1594. The name is not mentioned in 

 Burke's Armoury; nor does Davy in his Suffolk 

 Armoury, {Mus. Brit. Add. MS. 19158.) refer to 

 the family. It could scarcely be identical with 

 that of Sabbe. J. J. Muskett. 



Charter to Odell, Beds. — Where shall I be 

 likely to find a charter granting to the inhabitants 

 of the village of Odell in Bedfordshire the privi- 

 lege of holding a fair ? The charter is supposed 

 to have been granted in the reign of King John. 



A. Brent. 



David Lauxius. — A collection of works on arith- 

 metic, beginning with the Arithmetic of Jordanus 

 Nemorarius, was printed at Paris in 1496; a copy 

 is in the Advocates' Library. In the colophon, 

 after the printers Higmanus and Hopilius have 

 declared their devotion of themselves to the fur- 

 therance of learning, are the following words : — 

 " Et idem quoque facit Dauid Lauxius Bry tannus, 

 Edinburgensis: ubique ex archetypo diligens ope- 

 ns recognitor." Who is this David Lauxius of 

 Edinburgh, corrector of the press ? What was his 

 name before he translated it ? Is anything else 

 known of him? W. H. C. 



Edinburgh. 



Two Engravings by Hollar. — I have two en- 

 gravings by Hollar, and am desirous of knowing 

 through the medium of "N. & Q." what the sub- 

 jects are, and what is their degree of rarity. 

 Bryan's Dictionary does not describe them so that 

 I may recognise them ; perhaps you or some one 

 of your numerous admirers can favour me with 



