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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. Ko 116., Mar. 20. '68. 



logic of M. A. 18 peculiar, viz., "Barristers wear 

 wigs and gowns ; attornies do the same, and 

 cannot be prevented ; semble, therefore, that the 

 attornies thereupon become barristers, and conse- 

 quently cease to be gentlemen ! " 



The requirement, that before a man is admitted 

 to the Bar, he should cease to be an attorney, has 

 an obvious reason, viz. that it would be against 

 the propriety and fitness of things for a man to be 

 one day collecting and arranging the statements 

 of witnesses, &c. &c., and the next feeing himself, 

 and, as advocate, managing the case in court. 



As to "gentility," in the true sense, it is no 

 more conferred by a wig and gown, than it is by 

 an act of parliament, either on barristers or at- 

 tornies. 



It may be information to some of your readers 

 to be told that an attorney, or attornee, was ori- 

 ginally (and indeed still is that and something 

 more) a person who took the place, or turn, of an- 

 other, to manage his business in court ; and this 

 sort of attorney is an a^rney-at-law. Anybody 

 may be made an attorne^by letter or power of at- 

 torney, to do this or that, as to receive the produce 

 of stock, to execute a deed, &c. Lex. 



Brandegose Bell (2"'^ S. v. 133.)— Is not this 

 roast goose rather than wild goose f the former 

 being much more naturally connected with ring- 

 ing of a bell at one o'clock, for dinner time, and 

 being more obviously derived from the German 

 brand, a common prefix to words to designate 

 things burnt or roasted. F. C. H. 



[Phillips, in his New World of Words, defines Brand- 

 goose, or Brant-goose, ' as a kind of wild-fowl, somewhat 

 less than an ordinary goose, so called from the dark 

 color, like a burnt coal, of its breast and wings.' The 

 passage in Boys's Hist, of Sandwich (p. 311.), referred to 

 by our former correspondent, obviouslj' relates to the 

 first hour of the morning, and not to one o'clock in the 

 afternoon. The passage in question is an extract from 

 the Book of Customs, and is as follows : — ' Sacrista ec- 

 clesie sancti Petri solet /^olibet anno habere iiij solidos 

 de communi per manus ipsorum custodum pro campana 

 pulsanda, qualibet die ad horam primam, que dicitur brand- 

 gose belle," etc.] 



Counts of Holy Roman Empire (2""^ S. v. 88.)— 

 The title of Count of Holy Roman Empire ceased 

 to be conferred when the Emperor of Rome and 

 Germany, Francis II., in 1805, assumed the style 

 of Emperor of Austria. In Edmondson's Heraldry 

 will be found the patent of Francis Dillon, created 

 a baron of Holy Roman Empire on Aug. 22, 1769. 



Among the Counts still living may be men- 

 tioned, — ^Earl Cowper, Earl of Denbigh, Viscount 

 TaafFe, Lord Arundel of Wardour, Sir Horace 

 St. Paul, Bart., John De la Feld, Gen. Andrew 

 O'Reilly, brother of Margaret Lady Talbot de 

 Malahide, Peter de Salis, James Nugent, Valerio 

 Magawly (Cerati), Edward D'Alton. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Thomas Obizzi, and the Battle of Neville's Cross 

 (2°'» S. V. 171.)— This gentleman would rob of 

 his due honours the gallant Northumbrian squire, 

 John Copeland, who, as it would seem, was " the 

 chief instrument " in the capture of David Bruce. 

 It appears from Rymer's Fcedera, that — 



" The Scotch king fought with great bravery, or 

 rather desperation, and was taken alive with diffic'ultj'; 

 and, though he had two spears hanging in his body, his 

 leg desperately wounded, and being disarmed, his sword 

 having been beat out of his hand, disdained captivity, 

 and provoked the English by opprobrious language to 

 kill him. When John Copeland advised him to yield, he 

 struck him on the face with his gauntlet so fiercely that 

 he knocked out two of his teeth." 



Another source informs us, that — 



" On Queen Philippa demanding the King of Scotland 

 of John Copeland, he replied, ' That he would not de- 

 liver his prisoner to any man or woman except his own 

 lord.' At this time, Edward III. was at Calais, and on 

 hearing of the conduct of Copeland, he ordered him to 

 repair thither, which he did immediately, having secured 

 his captive in a castle in Northumberland. The king, on 

 seeing him, thanked him for his bravery, made him a 

 knight banneret, and settled on him 100/. a j'ear in lands, 

 and then told him to return home, and deliver his prisoner 

 to the queen." 



In an article on " Neville's Cross " in the Gen- 

 tleman's Magazine for October, 1854, the reward 

 is stated to have been j^ye hundred a year, instead 

 of one; and that Copeland " was afterwards Sheriff 

 of Northumberland for six years in succession" (?) 

 (This article is illustrated by me with a copper- 

 plate etching of the present state of " Neville's 

 Cross.") A local tradition appears that King 

 David was captured beneath the bridge at Aldin 

 Grange, whither he had fled for concealment ; but 

 this tradition is neither borne out by the chroni- 

 clers, nor by the apparent age of the bridge." 



CCTHBERT BeDE. 



" The chief instrument of taking David II., son 

 of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, at the famous 

 battle of Durham, gained by the English, 1346," 

 was not Thomas Obizzi, but John Copland, or 

 Copeland, an English esquire, who for the service 

 thus rendered was made by Edward III. a knight 

 banneret, with a salary of 5004 per annum to him 

 and his heirs, until lauds producing that amount 

 near his residence could be procured for him. He 

 also made him a squire of his body and of his 

 household, Warden of Berwick, Keeper of Rox- 

 burgh Castle, &c. See Froissart's Chronicles ; 

 Stow's Annals, folio, 1631, p. 243. ; Camden's Bri- 

 tannia (by Gough, 3 vols, folio, 1789), vol. iii. pp. , 

 120, 121.; and Speed's History of Oreat Britain, 

 folio, 1611, p. 580. 



Obizzi's name does not appear in any account 

 of the battle of Durham that I have seen, nor in 

 the list of the Knights of the Garter in Haydn's 

 Book of Dignities. 



The Order of the Garter was not instituted 



