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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2nd s. No ilO., Feb. 6. 



resided at Baraber bridge, or Preston, or its 

 neighbourhood in the latter county. 



I have addressed an advertisement to parish 

 clerks, but hitherto have received no reply. If 

 you will do me the favour to make known my 

 wish in your " N. & Q." so widely circulated and 

 universally admired, it might possibly lead to the 

 discovery of where the marriage took place, 

 though so long ago as the year 1717, or even pre- 

 viously, and procuring the certificate, for which 

 n gratuity of ten pounds will be given. Address, 

 Mr. Cawer, Melbourn, near lloystor, Cambridge- 

 shire. *• 



Fencihle Light Dragoons. — Towards the end of 

 the last century, and during the French revolu- 

 tionary war, there appears to have been in this 

 country a very considerable cavalry force of the 

 above description : and I should be glad to be 

 made acquainted with particulars of these Fen- 

 cibles, viz. their origin, strength, duties, and dura- 

 tion of services. Qujesitus. 



Quotation, — Who is the author of the following 

 lines ? I am not certain as to the accuracy of the 

 text : 



" Suns maj' set, and moons may wane, 

 Rise, and are restored again." 



C. W. Staunton. 



Willie Wood. — There is, I believe, a Jacobite 

 song in existence under the above title. Can any 

 reader of " N. & Q." oblige me with a copy of it, 

 or refer me to some work in which it may be 

 found ? T. Hughes. 



Chester. ^ 



Was Perkin Wai-leck, Richard Duke of York ? 

 — At the risk of opening up an old subject, I 

 venture to ask the above question; it occurred 

 to me the other day, on reading Mrs. Shelley's 

 romance The Fortunes of Perhin Warbeck ; as in 

 the preface to that work she states, that "Records 

 exist in the Tower, some well known, others with 

 which those who have access to those interesting 

 papers are alone acquainted, which put the ques- 

 tion almost beyond a' doubt." Sir Henry Ellis, 

 who must have had ample opportunities of be- 

 coming acquainted with the real state of this 

 interesting question, remarks, in his Letters illus- 

 trative of JEnglish History (1st Ser. vol. i. p. 18.), 

 " 'Who was Perkin Warbeck?' is a question which 

 the English annals cannot resolve." There is only 

 once mention make of Perkin Warbeck in this 

 publication (see "N. & Q." 1" S. iv. 377.), and 

 that is an allusion to his landing in England, in a 

 Note by Sib F. Madden ; where, however, he 

 mentions having drawn up an article on his his- 

 tory, for the Society of Antiquaries, which was 

 printed in The Archceologia, xxvii. 153. I am 

 unable to refer to this work, and would therefore 

 beg a corner for my Query, which, if it meets the 



eye of Sir F. Madden or Mr. T. Duffus Hardy, 

 may, perhaps, elicit a reply. A. S. A. 



Barrackpore, E. I., Dec. 24, 1857. 



iHtnor (QucrteS SwttT) ^\xi\atxi. 



Richard Fitz-Ralph [i2. Armachamis']. — There 

 formerly existed in Archbishop Tenison's library 

 a MS. Sermon, preached by Richard Fitz-Ralph 

 in Coleraine (see Reeve's Eccl. Ant. Down and 

 Connor, p. 75.) : is it known where this MS. is 

 now preserved ? If lost, as I fear, are there any 

 known transcripts of it, and where ? What other 

 writings (unpublished) remain by this author ? 

 and where can I get the best biography of him ? 



Enivri. 



Fivemiletown. 



[There is a verj' good account of Richard Fitz-Ralph 

 in Prince's Worthies of Devon, pp. 294 — 298. Ware and 

 Harris assert that the prelate was a native of Dundalk : 

 hence the following distich formerly chanted by the pea- 

 santry of Ireland : 



" Many a mile have I gone, and many did I walk, 

 But never saw a holier man than Richard of Dundalk." 



Prince, however, contends, with some appearance of truth, 

 that Fitz-Ralph was bom in England, at North-hal), 

 Widecombe-in-the-Moor, which is thus noticed by a poet 

 whose history may be good," although his poetry is but 

 indifferent : 



" The messuage there, which anticntly 

 was chief, or capital, 

 Tho' much decay'd, remaining still, 



is called yet North-hall. 

 This house did antiently belong 



to Ralph the son of Ralph; 

 So is he named in a Deed 



of much antiquity, 

 Which bears no date, for at that time 

 was less iniquity." 



Prince adds, " on probable grounds we may conclude that 

 he was a native of this country; viz. that he was edu- 

 cated at Oxford; was chosen Commissary [Vice-Chan- 

 cellor] of that university ; was made Archdeacon of 

 Lichfield ; and was encouraged against the cunning en- 

 croachments of the Mendicant Friars by the English 

 bishops and prelates." Prince farther argues that he 

 was born in Devonshire : 1. From his Amiily having been 

 long settled there. 2. That he was consecrated at Exeter, 

 probably having come to take leave of his relatives and 

 friends. Prince also quotes a list of his Works from 

 Bale. In the Lansdowne MS. 393. are the following 

 pieces by Fitz-Ralph : 1. Sermones habiti in variis locis, 

 de diversis Sanctis et temporibus. 2. Propositio ad 

 Papam ex parte illustris Principis Domini Regis Anglise 

 in consistorio pro gratia Jubilea ejusdem Domini Regis 

 populo obtinenda, anno Domini 1349, de mense Augusti. 

 3. Propositio ex parte Prelatorum et Curatorum tocius 

 ecclesie coram Domino nostro Papa in publico Consistorio, 

 A.D. 1350, mensis Julii die quinta. 4. Propositio facta in 

 Consistorio coram Domino Papa et Cardinalibus ac Pre- 

 latis ad utilitatem Cleri ac populi Christiani super ma- 

 teria mendicitatis ac privilegiorum contra fratres de 

 ordinibus Mendicantium quibuscunque apud Avinion' die 

 viii. mensis Novembris, a.d. 1357. 5. Objectus Domini 

 Ardmachani. 6. Informationes et motiva Domini Ard- 



