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NOTES AND QUERIES. [S^^ s. N" iis., Mar. 13. 



'68. 



p. 567.) three beautiful drawings, by Hewlett 

 (1821) of seals and counterseals of Joreval Ab- 

 bey. The original impressions are in the Aug- 

 mentation Office. The first (a. d. 1397-8) gives 

 only the counterseal ; the second and third give 

 both seals and counterseals. The original seals 

 are, apparently, the ones referred to by your cor- 

 respondent Patonce. The impressions may not 

 be as distinct as they were thirty-six years ago : 

 and, as Howlett's drawings seem to be minutely 

 faithful, I will speak of the bearing the latter 

 have upon the question of Mitred Abbots. 



In the drawing of the seal, dated 1412, the 

 head is uncovered, the tonsure being perfectly 

 apparent. In the third seal, dated 1417, we have, 

 plainly, a Mitred Abbot ; and, moreover, the 

 mitre is a jewelled one — a mitra pretiosa. But 

 Pope Clement IV., in order to distinguish bishops 

 from mitred abbots, directed that the latter, when 

 exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, should use, in 

 Synod, orphreyed mitres (aurifrigiatd) ; and those 

 not exempt, simple, white and plain ones {simplex). 

 The mitra pretiosa was reserved for bishops. 

 (See Pugin's Gloss. Eccl. Orn. p. 175.) The 

 lapse of 150 years had, perhaps, caused this rule 

 to fall into desuetude. However, if Howlett's 

 drawing may be relied on, the Superior of Joreval 

 is represented on his seal, in 1417, as a Mitred 

 Abbot. Robert Townsend. 



Albany, N. Y. 



"C?no/" (2"-i S. V. 123.) — 



" A burglar would not condescend to sit among pick- 

 pockets. My informant has known a housebreaker to 

 say with a sneer, when requested to sit down with the 

 'gonoffs,' ' No, no! I may be a thief; but at least I'm a 

 respectable one.'" — Letter va. Moi-ning Chronicle, Nov. 2, 

 1849. 



" Ganaf (plur. ganobim), der Dieb." — Volstandiges ju- 

 disch-deutshes und deutsch-jiidisches JVorterhuch. Ham- 

 burg. No date. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



George Washington (2"^ S.v. 179.). As Wash- 

 ington Irving has linked his hero with the early 

 history of England, it may interest some of his 

 readers to know that LaWrence Washington of 

 Gai'sden, Sheriff of Wilts in 1651, and the repre- 

 sentative of the Wiltshire branch of the Wash- 

 ingtons, was the owner of the venerable temple 

 of Stonehenge (now the property of Sir Edmund 

 Antrobus). See Inigo Jones's Stonehenge. This 

 is the Washington mentioned in one of Irving's 

 foot-notes, the ancestor of Earl Ferrers, who 

 perished at Tyburn in 1750. . J. W. 



Hugh Stuart Boyd (2»<i S. v. 88. 175.) —If X. 

 will correspond with J. Harvey, Bookseller, Sid- 

 mouth, Devon, he thinks he can put him in the 

 way of obtaining the information he desires, if 

 obtainable. J. IIaeyey published for Mr. Boyd, 



in 1834, a new edition of his works, entitled The 

 Fathers not Papists, or Six Discourses by the most 

 eloquent Fathei-s of the Church ; with numerous Ex- 

 tracts fvom their Writings, 8vo. bds., lOs. Qd. 

 Sidmouth. 



This gentlemen (then blind), resided for some 

 time in Bath ; I think in 1833. His wife and 

 daughter resided with him. Some years after- 

 wards (I think about 1839 or 1840) I met the 

 daughter (then Mrs. Henry Hayes or Ileyes) in 

 Bath ; but whether Mr. Boyd was then alive or 

 not, I know not. Vryan Rheged. 



Rupert's Tower at Woolwich (2'"* S. v. 171.) — 

 I think Naseby is mistaken in inquiring for Ru- 

 pert's Tower. There is a large red brick build- 

 ing in the corner of the Laboratory Square, known 

 as Rupert's House, in which it is believed he re- 

 sided. It is unaltered (apparently) externally, 

 except by the addition of the large dial of a clock, 

 which I have lately erected there in the gable, by 

 which it may be readily distinguished. 



G. W. Bennett. 

 • Blackheath. 



[There was clearly a building formerly at Woolwich, 

 known as Rupert's Tower, from the following passage in 

 The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. vii. p. 533. : 

 " Near the present entrance of the Laboratoiy was for- 

 merly an ancient tower, called Prince Rupert's. Here 

 Mrs. Simpson, relict of the mathematician, died at the 

 great age of 102, and was buried at Piumsted."'] 



Hughes's " Boscobel " (2"* S. iv. 463.) — Al- 

 though the authorities enumerated in your review 

 of this book appear respectably numerous, the 

 three following appear to be unnoticed : Dr. 

 George Bate's Elenchus Motuum ; Capt. Alford's 

 Narrative, and Colonel Gounter's Narrative.* I 

 observe that the writer of a recent article, en- 

 titled " Boscobel," in Blackwood's Magazine, when 

 speaking of the men who had just won the vic- 

 tories of Dunbar and Worcester, delivers it as his 

 dictum that in comparison with the Cavaliers they 

 were a pack of arrant cowards, for they had that 

 evil conscience which makes cowards of us all. 

 As the " N. & Q." seems a favourite repository 

 for parallel passages, allow me to cap Blackwood 

 with Milton : — 



" It is true, on our side the sins of our lives not seldom 

 fought against us; but on their [the Cavaliers'3 side, 

 besides these, the grand sin of their cause." — Eikonoklastes. 



J. Waylen. 



Song of the Douglas (2"'^ S. v. 169.) — Sir 

 Walter Scott uses a scrap of this poem as a pass- 

 word for the disguised Abbot when imposed on 

 the Lady of Lochleven as a serving-man, and a 

 note records it as quoted from " Sir John Hol- 

 land's poem of The Howlet ; known to collec- 



[* This was reprinted in 1846, and copies of it may, 

 we believe, still be procured of Mr. Fvussell Smith.] 



