Jan. 22. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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wrought upon the good man and his whole family, 

 that they always after that time frequented the parisli- 

 church ; and never more ahsented themselves from 

 Mr. Bull's communion," — Pp. 39— 41., Lond. 1714, 

 8vo. 



Some few dates will prove that Bull could not 

 have been the person alluded to. Bp. Sprat's 

 Discourse to the Clergy of his Diocese was delivered 

 in the year 1695. And he speaks of the minister 

 qf the London parish as one who " was afterwards 

 an eminent Bishop of our Church." We must 

 therefore suppose him to have been dead at the 

 time of Bp. Sprat's visitation. Now, in the first 

 place (as J. K. remarks), " Bull never held a 

 London cure." And, in the second place, he was 

 not consecrated Bishop until the 29th of April, 

 1705 (ten years after Bp. Sprat's visitation), and 

 did not die until Feb. 1709-10. (Life, pp.410— 

 474.) 



Southey's conjecture is therefore fatally wrong. 

 And now as regards Bp. Hacket. The omission 

 of the anecdote from the Life prefixed to his Ser- 

 mons must, I think, do away with his claims also, 

 thouj^h he was restored to his parish of St. An- 

 drew's, Holborn, and was not consecrated Bishop 

 of Lichfield until December, 1661. Unfortunately, 

 I have not always followed Captain Cuttle's advice, 

 or I should now be able to contribute some more 

 decisive information. I have my own suspicions 

 on the matter, but am afraid to guess in print. 



Rt. 



Warmington. 



The prelate to whom your correspondent alludes 

 was Dr. John Hacket, Rector of St. Andrews, 

 Holborn, cons, to the see of Lichfield and Coven- 

 try on December 22, 1661. The anecdote was 

 first related by Granger. (Chalmers's Biog. Diet., 

 vol. xvii. p. 7.) 



Bishop Bull, while rector of St. George's near 

 Bristol, said the Baptismal Ofiice by heart on one 

 occasion. (Nelson's Life, i. § ix. p. 34. ; Works, 

 Oxford, 1827.) Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Mary Queen of Scots' Gold Cross (Vol. vi., 

 p.486.).— 



" Would it not facilitate the identification of the 

 Gold Cross of Mary Queen of Scotts, in the possession 

 of Mr. Price of Glasgow, if a representation of it was 

 sent to The Illustrated London News, as the publication 

 of it by that Journal would lead antiquaries to the 

 identification of a valuable historical relic ? " 



I hope you will insert the above in " N. & Q." 

 in the hope it may meet the eye of Mr. Price, 

 and lead to a satisfactory result. W. H. C. 



Jennings Family (Vol.vi., p. 362.). — This family 

 is supposed to have continued for some time in 



Cornwall, after the Visitation of 1620; but the 

 name is not now found there in any great respect-r 

 ability. William Jennings of Saltash was sheriff 

 of Cornwall, 1678 ; but his arms diflfer from those 

 of the Visitation : argent, a chevron gules between 

 three mariners, plumets sable. 



Francis Jennings, who recorded the pedigree of 

 1620, married the daughter of Spoure of Trebartha; 

 and in a MS. book of that family, compiled about 

 the latter part of the seventeenth century, the 

 same arms, strange to say, are stated to be his, 

 and not the lion rampant of the Jennings of Shrop- 

 shire. This seems to support the hypothesis that 

 William Jennings, the sheriff, was of the same 

 family. The Spoure MSS. also mention "Ursula, 

 sister of Sir William Walrond of Bradfield, Devon, 

 who married first, William Jennings of Plymouth 

 (query, the sheriff?), and afterwards the Rev. 

 William Croker, Rector of Wolfrey (Wolfardis- 

 worthy ?) Devon." Peecuriosds. 



Adamsons " England's Defence" (Vol. vi., 

 p. 580.) is well worth attention at the present 

 time ; as is also its synopsis before publication, 

 annexed to Stratisticos, by John Digges, Muster 

 Master, &c., 4to,, 1590, and filling pp. 369. to 380. 

 of that curious work, showing the wisdom of our 

 ancestors on the subject of invasion by foreigners. 



£. D. 



Chief Justice Thomas Wood (Vol. vil., p. 14.). — 

 In Berry's Hampshire Visitation (p. 71.), Thomas 

 Wood is mentioned as having married a daughter 

 of Sir Thomas de la More, and as having had 

 a daughter named Elizabeth, who married Sir 

 Thomas Stewkley of Aston, Devon, knight. 



I am as anxious as N. C. L. to know something 

 about Thomas Wood's lineage ; and shall be 

 obliged by his telling me where it Is said that he 

 built Hall O'Wood. Edwari> Foss. 



Aldiborontiphoscophornio (Vol. vii., p. 40.). — 

 This euphonious and formidable name will be found 

 in The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragi' 

 dized by any Company of Tragedians, viz., Chronon- 

 hotonthologos, written by " Honest merry Harry 

 Carey," who wrote also The Dragon of Wantley, a 

 burlesque opera (founded on the old ballad of that 

 name). The Dragoness (a sequel to The Dragon'), 

 &c. &c. While the public were applauding his 

 dramatic drolleries and beautiful ballads (of which 

 the most beautiful is " Sally in our Alley"), their 

 unhappy author, in a fit of despondency, destroyed 

 himself at his lodgings in Warner Street, Clerken- 

 well. There is an engraving by Faber, in 1729, 

 of Harry Carey, from a painting by Worsdale 

 (the celebrated Jemmy !) ; which is rare. 



George Daniei-. 



[We are indebted to several other correspondents for 

 replies to the Query of F, R. S.] 



