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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. V. 129., June 19. '58, 



which the Emperor Charles V. is represented as 

 takintij bis supper at a very unusual time, viz. " at 

 midnight or one o'clock; " whereas " ad una hora 

 dl notte," the original words given in a note, mean 

 one hour after sunset, which, according to the 

 time of year, might be seven or eight o'clock or 

 thereabouts. W. C. Treveltan. 



Wallington. 



Minav €Lueviti. 



Honorary Degrees. — Where will be found any 

 list of the distinguished persons upon whom the 

 degree of D.C.L. has been conferred from an early 

 period ? Is there any separately-published list, or 

 are they only to be collected from going through 

 the printed general catalogue of the Oxford gra- 

 duates, which commences about the Restoration ? 



F. S. A. 



Precedence of Degrees. — As the subject of 

 University badges has lately been discussed in 

 " N. & Q.," perhaps some of the gentlemen who 

 have written on the topic would kindly inform 

 me concerning the precedence of University de- 

 grees. 



Do the "Doctors," "Bachelors," and "Masters" 

 of the Universities of England, Ireland, and Scot- 

 land take precedence of " Esquires," i. e. of all 

 gentlemen legally entitled to the title ? for 999 

 out of every 1000 so designated have no right to 

 the designation. 



Do the graduates of any particular British Uni- 

 versity rank before the graduates of the other 

 Universities ? and, if so, in what order ? 



State the order in which the Faculties take 

 precedence. 



Are the holders of foreign degrees entitled to 

 use the title conferred, and •) enjoy a correspond- 

 ing rank in this country ? A Graduate. 



Arms of Bertrand dii Guesclin. — What were 

 the arms borne by Bertrand du Guesclin ? 



J. M. Jefhson. 

 Hutton Rectorj'. 



Hexham Church. — The parish and parish 

 church of Hexham, in Northumberland, were 

 anciently dedicated to St. Mary. About a cen- 

 tury ago the church fell into decay, and by an 

 arrangement with the lay rector, who was also 

 proprietor of the Abbey Church situate in the 

 town, that building has since then been used as 

 the parish church. Ought the name or dedication 

 of the parish to be changed from St. Mary to St. 

 Andrew ? or is there no incongruity in the wor- 

 ship of the parish of St. Mary being conducted in 

 a building dedicated to St. Andrew ? 



Hagdstauld. 



Friday Dream. — Several articles have appeared 

 in " N. & Q." on " Friday an unlucky day," and 



on " Friday weather ; " but what is the folk lore 

 connected with a " Friday dream," noticed by Sir 

 Thomas Overbury in his character of " A Fair and 

 Happy Milkmaid ?" — 



" Her dreams are so chaste, that she dare tell them : 

 only a Friday's dream is all her superstition ; that she 

 conceals for fear of anger." 



J. Y. 



Dr. Colin Maclaurins MSS. — Can any one in- 

 form me where the MSS. of the celebrated mathe- 

 matician Dr. Colin Maclaurin are deposited ? 



Philebus. 



Greek Time of keeping Easter. — Can any of 

 your readers mention the law by which the mo- 

 dern orthodox Greek Church celebrate Easter ? 

 In 1857 the Latin Easter fell on April 12, the 

 Greek Easter on the 19th, and the Samaritan and 

 Jewish Passover on the 8th, in the Holy Land. 

 The Greek time does not seem to correspond to 

 the Nicene directions, nor to the alteration in the 

 Style, from Old to New. O. S. 



Clerical Peers. — The following peers are at 

 present clergymen : — 



Barons. — Bayning; Riversdale, Bishop of Kil- 

 laloe; Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells; Fitz- 

 gerald and Vesci, Dean of Kilmore ; Plunket, 

 Bishop of Tuam ; De Treyne. 



Viscounts. — Mountmorres, Dean of Achonry ; 

 Sidmouth. 



Earls. — Abergavenny ; Buckinghamshire ; Guil- 

 ford. 



Query, Has there ever yet been an instance of 

 a clerical duke or marquess ? 



There are two marquisates, the heirs presump- 

 tive to which are clergymen, the Rev. Lord John 

 Beresford being heir presumptive to his brother 

 the Marquess of Waterford ; and the Very Rev. 

 Lord Edward Chichester, Dean of Raphoe, to his 

 brother the Marquess of Donegal. Fm. 



Checkmate. — This word, in the following pas- 

 sage from Albion s England, p. 140., seems to 

 stand for " familiar :" — 



" The base attempts of Ball, of Straw, of Lyster, tag and 

 rag, 



Of Villains, Of-skoms, Clowns, and Knaves, that check- 

 mate durst to brag 



With Richard's self, and to their deaths his chiefest 

 princes drag 



Till Walworth," &c. 



J. w. 



Morrison's " General Accountant^'' — In the 5th 

 edition of Morrison's Book-Keeping, Edinburgh, 

 1834, a work under the above title is announced 

 as being preparing for publication in 1 vol. royal 

 8vo., to contain upwards of 400 pages, "embracing 

 a complete course of mercantile computation and 

 accountantship, according to modern practice, ar- 

 ranged on an improved plan, different from any 



