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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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never so many, j'et he will find you ont, and know j-ou ; 

 and 3'ou shall not fail, but every time that he commeth 

 unto you, you shall spit in his mouth and anoint his 

 tongue with jour spittle. And thus doing, he will never 

 forsake you." 



R. W. B. 



ISAHELLE DK DOUVRE. 



Beziers (Histoire de Baj/eux, a Caen, 1773, 

 p. 54.), describing the cathedral, writes : — 



" II y a au dehors de la Tour meridionale une epitaphe 

 bien singuliere : elle est gravee en grand caractbrcs sur 

 les pierres qui ferment I'un des piliers d'appui du cote de 

 la grande Place k 7 ou 8 pieds du rez-de-chaussee ; void 

 ce qu'on 3' lit: — 



" Quarta dies Pasche fuerat ciim Clerus ad hujus 

 Que jacet Mc vetule venimus exequias, 

 Letitieque diem magis amisisse dolemus 

 Quam centum tales si caderent vetule.' 



Cette inscription, dont les lettres sont anciennes et telles 

 qu'on s'en servoit avant les diphtongues, ne porte ni 

 date ni nom apellatif. Quelques-uns pretendent qu'elle 

 regarde la Maitresse d'un Due de Normandie, qui, au lieu 

 d'etre enterree dans I'Eglise, comme elle I'avoit de'sire, fut 

 enclavee, pour parler ainsi, dans I'epaisseur du mur de la 

 Tour, par ordre du chapitre. Ne seroit-ce point plutot 

 Isabelle deDouvre, Maitresse de Robert Comte de Gloces- 

 tre, batard de Henri I., Roi d'Angleterre, dont naquit 

 Richard, qui, malgrd le ddfaut de sa naissance, fut nomme 

 I'an 1133 h, I'Evcche de Baj^eux? la date de son obit au 

 24 d'Avril insinue que ce fut le jour de son decfes. La 

 femme designee dans I'dpitaphe mourut agee et aux Fetes 

 de Paques : or Paques en I'annee 1166 tomba au 24 d'Avril. 

 Ces epoques paroissent assez s'accorder entr'elles, et I'in- 

 scription est assurement du meme terns." 



At p. 220., Beziers gives some account of this 

 Isabelle de Douvre, who appears to have been a 

 daughter of " Samson, Baron de Douvre " (the 

 same who is mentioned in the Domesday Survey 

 as Radulfus de Sancto Sjinsone, and Sanson Cle- 

 ricus, and Capellanus). This lady was sister of 

 Thomas II., Archbisihop of York, and also of 

 Richard, Bishop of Bayeux ; and, besides her 

 non Richard, who succeeded his uncle in the see 

 of Bayeux, she would seem to have had another 

 son, Roger, who became Bishop of Worcester, 

 and who is described as a son of Robert of Kent, 

 Caen, or Glo'ster, — fwtwo concubihi, — conse- 

 quently not by Mabel Fitz-Hsemon, but no doubt 

 by Isabelle de Douvre. What I Avish to ask is, 

 whether Beziers is right in his conjecture that 

 Isabelle is the person here alluded to in this epi- 

 taph or inscription ? and, also, whether the in- 

 scription is still known to exist? J. S. B. 



Jeips. — Are any of the descendants of the 

 blood of Judiih known to be in existence ? And 

 can one or more bo named as indisputable ? 



Are there any claimants, at the periodical call- 

 ings-over, of descent from any of the other eleven 

 patriarchs ? And are there many of each ? and 

 which ? 



Are any of the Goldsmidts, Rothschilds, or 

 Salomons connected by blood or affinity with any 

 of the twelve tribes ? and which ? n, x. 



Chap Books. — This term has jumped up of late, 

 and is so frequently met with now that it would 

 be desirable if some one would inform us in " N. 

 & Q." what is precisely meant by a Chap Book. 



F. C. H. 



Tyndale : 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10.— Sir Thomas More, 

 in his Confutation of Tyndale, instances an extra- 

 ordinary perversion of I Cor. vi. 9. : — 



" For haue not some of Tyndals holy elected sorte 

 chaunged the laten texte of saynt Poule in the fyrste 

 pystle to the Corinthians? For where the olde transla- 

 cyon hathe thys word fornicarii and the newe translacyon 

 scortatores, which sygnyfyeth in engb'sshe whore hunters, - 

 thej- haue put in th3's worde saceudotes, that is to say 

 prestes." 



By the old translation Sir Thomas means the 

 Vulgate, with which Erasmus, in the first edition 

 of his Latin version, agrees; but in his second and 

 subsequent editions he changed the word " forni- 

 carii" to "scortatores." Can any of your readers 

 refer me to the source from whence Sir I'homas 

 More obtained the third term "sacerdotes" in this 

 passage? He must have been a daring writer 

 who, however he might have been shocked at the 

 licentiousness of the priesthood in those fiery 

 times, would even hint at " fornicarii " and " sa- 

 cerdotes" being terms of similar import. (More's 

 Confutation, pt. ii. p. 287., Rastcll, 15.33, or Works, 

 folio, 1557, p. 666.) George Offor. 



Family of Fitz- James. — By a brief, dated 

 Rome, September 20, 1755, Benedict XIV. con- 

 ferred the titular grand priory of England of the 

 Order of Malta on the commander Giovanni 

 Battista Altieri, as the brief expresses it, "at the 

 recommendation of His Most Sacred Majesty, 

 James, King of Great Britain," in the same man- 

 ner as he had before conferred it on the noble 

 Bonaventura Fitz-James, who had resigned it on 

 quitting the habit of the Order, and entering into 

 a secular life, for the sake of continuing his family, 

 &c. The immediate predecessor in this titular dig- 

 nity of Bonaventura, Fitz-James (nominated in 

 1734) was a Peter Fitz-James. Were these Fitz- 

 Jameses of the ducal families of France and Spain? 

 or were they connected with the unfortunate prince 

 named in the brief by a nearer and more tender 

 tie ? John James Watts. 



Malta. 



Trying Prisoners in the Dark. — At what court 

 was it, whether in Rome, or Greece, or elsewhere, 

 that the prisoners were tried in the djirk, ?o that 



