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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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by Thomas Earl, who was made parson of St. 

 Mildred's, Bread Street, at the beginning of Queen 

 Elizabeth's reign, and "seems to have been a 

 diligent noter of matters of remark concerning re- 

 ligion in his time " (vol. ii. p. 539.). In the Catal. 

 Libr. MSS. AngL, part ii. p. 366., it is described — 

 « Short notes of matters relating to the church by 

 way of annals, written by some that favoured Pu- 

 ritanism, from the year 1548 to 1599." 



Bishop Moore left his library to the University of 

 Cambridge. Is this MS. in their possession, and 

 is it a piece of historic value ? Q. Q. 



'■'■Jenny's Bawbee." — I would be glad if any of 

 the readers of " N. & Q." would inform me where 

 the old Scottish song, " Jenny's Bawbee," is to 

 be found ? It begins, 



" Your plack and my plack. 

 And Jenny's bawbee, 

 We'll put it i' the pint stoup, 

 An' birl't a' three." 



J. Mn. 



Lord North. — In Forster's Life of Ooldsmith, 

 the following remark occurs respecting Lord 

 North, George III.'s premier : 



•' North was the son of the princess dowager's in- 

 timate friend Lord Guildford, and scandal had not 

 hesitated to find a reason for the extraordinary resem- 

 blance he presented to the king in his clumsy figure, 

 homely face, thick lips, light complexion and hair, 

 bushy eyebrows, and protruding large grey eyes." 



Will some one of your readers favour me with 

 an explanation of the meaning of this insinuation ? 

 Is it really intended to say that " scandal " re- 

 ported Loi'd North to be the son of an illustrious 

 lady of the royal family ? It is clear Lord North 

 strikingly resembled George III. ; did the latter 

 *' favour " his father or his mother in physiognomy ? 

 Did George III. represent the Guelphs or the 

 Saxe-Gotha family ? Observer. 



Ephippiarius. — What is the meaning of the 

 word " Ephippiarius," occurring as the description 

 of a person in a Latin diploma of the seventeenth 

 century ? Does it signify saddler, or, as has been 

 suggested to me, esquire ? V. 



Nixon. — Can any of your readers inform me if 

 there was a painter of this name living at Brighton 

 in or about the year 1806, what pictures he 

 painted, &c., and when he died ? John Gablakd. 



Dorchester. 



Tuebeuf. — Where is it ? A royal charter to 

 the town of Doncaster, given by the hand of 

 Master Eustacius, Dean of Salisbury, Deputy- 

 Chancellor, and witnessed by an Archbishop of 

 Canterbury and others, is dated at Tuebeuf, 22nd 

 May, 5 Richard I. (1 IM). In Miller's History of 



Doncaster (Appendix, Deed No. 1.), the name is 

 printed " Tuke or Toke," but on a reference to 

 the original document it appears as above. 



J. E. J. 



Tooth of Sir I. Newton. — 



" A tooth of Sir Isaac Newton was sold in 1815 for' 

 730/. : a nobleman bought it, and had it set in a ring." 



The above has gone the round of the papers 

 without comment, contradiction, or illustration. 

 Lest it should become matter of history, I wish to 

 ask whether it is a new story or an old one ; and' 

 whether it is a simple lie, or has any foundation iu 

 fact? H.B. C. 



U. U. C. 



Thomas Ceeley. — Who was Thomas Ceeley, 

 who defended Lyme Regis so gallantly with the 

 famous Blake, the former being governor ? His 

 exploits have been recorded In the History of 

 Lyme Regis, &c. Probably we must look to Ply- 

 mouth for his residence. 



Mr. Christopher Ceeley was with Sir Francis 

 Drake in his third voyage Into the West Indies in 

 1572-3. The " Elizabeth Drake," of sixty tons 

 and thirty men, under Sir Francis Drake, whea 

 acting against the Armada, was commanded by 

 Thomas Sealye, another way of spelling Ceeley. 

 There were Ceeleys, Sealeys, &c., in Devonshire 

 and Somersetshire. G. K. L*- 



Marigmerii — Melinglerii — Berefellarii. — In* 

 PIrri's Sicilia Sacra (Grasvius, Antiqu. SiciL, ii. 

 425.) four officers of the Inferior clergy, called 

 marigmerii, are enumerated among the members 

 of the cathedral of Montereale : and, in the same 

 work (iil. 921.), two officers In the cathedral of 

 Cifalu called melinglerii. Can either or both of 

 these words be misprints, or corruptions of some 

 word answering to the French marguillier, which 

 in parish churches means a churchwarden, in col- 

 legiate churches a keeper of the relics ? And what 

 is the derivation of marguiUier ? 



In Dugd. Monast., edit. 1830, vi. 1308., sevea 

 of the inferior clergy of the collegiate church of 

 Beverley are called by what Is said to be au 

 ancient name, Berefellarii. What does this word 

 mean? Can it be a blunder, in the original docu- 

 ment, for beneficiatii f John Jjbbb. 



Peterstow Rectory, Ross. 



" Judceus odor." — 



" Abluitur Judteus odor baptismate divo, 

 Et nova progenies reddita surgit aquis." 



I have seen the above lines attributed to Vigi- 

 lantlus, but have not been able to verify the quo- 

 tation. Can any of your readers tell me where 

 they are to be found ? I suspect they are not of 

 so great antiquity, as Sir Thomas Browne {Vulgar 

 Errors, book iv. chap. 10.), though he investigates 



