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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 172. 



who I found was a near relative of Brydone the 

 tourist, whose birthphice was in the Forest of 

 Ettrick. M. R— son. 



Yankee (Vol. vii., p. 103.). — I am afraid Mr. 

 Bell's ingenious speculations must give way to 

 facts. Our transatlantic brethren do not, either 

 wilh'ngly or unwillingly, adopt Yankee as their 

 " collective name." Yankee was, and is, a name 

 given exclusively to the natives of the New 

 England States, and was never therefore applied, 

 by an American, to the people of New Amsterdam 

 or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are 

 accustomed to call all Americans Yankees ; which 

 is about the same thing as to call all Englishmen 

 Devonians or Lancastrians. Y. A. 



Miniature Ring of Charles I. (Vol.vi., p. 578.). — 

 One of the four rings inquired for is in the pos- 

 session of Mrs. Andrew Henderson, of 102. Glou- 

 cester Place, Portman Square, formerly Miss 

 Adolphus. It came to her in the female line, 

 through her mother's family. The unfortunate 

 Charles I. presented it to Sir Lionel AValden, on 

 the morning on which he lost his life. It bears 

 (as the other one alluded to in Hulbert's History 

 of Salop) a miniature likeness of the king, set in 

 small brilliants. Inside the ring are the words, 

 " Sic transit gloria regum." Mrs. Henderson 

 nndei'stood the four rings to have been presented 

 as follows: — Bishop Juxon, Sir Lionel Walden, 

 Colonel Ashburnham, and Herbert his secretary. 

 Which of the four is now in the possession of the 

 Misses Pigott is not mentioned. Anon.. 



Bishop of Ossory — CardinaVs Hat (Vol. vii., 

 p. 72.). — A. S. A. is quite correct, that the hat is 

 common to all prelates, and that the distinction is 

 only in the number of the tassels to the hat-strings; 

 but I think he is wrong in attributing the hat to 

 priors. I believe it only belonged to abbots, who 

 had black hats and tassels ; while the colour of the 

 prelatical hats and tassels was green. (See Pere 

 Anselme's Palais d'Honneur, chap. xxii. and plate.) 



C. 



Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (Vol. vii., 

 p. 14.). — Hugh Oldham bore for his arms, Sa. 

 a chevron or, between three owls proper on a 

 chief of the second, three roses gu. (See Isaacke's 

 Memorials of the City of Exeter; and also Burke's 

 Armory, under the name Oldom.) I have endea- 

 voured to find some pedigree or particulars of his 

 fiimily, but as yet without success. The following 

 Notes from what I have collected may, however, 

 assist J. B. in his inquiries. He was of Queen's 

 College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Countess 

 of Richmond (King Henry VII.'s mother), and by 

 her interest was installed Bp. of Exeter, April 3, 

 1507. He was a great benefactor to Brazenose 

 College, Oxford, and joint founder (with Richard 



Fox, Bishop of Winchester) of Corpus Christi. 

 He also founded and endowed a school at Man- 

 chester, for educating boys in good and useful 

 literature. He died June 25, f523, under sen- 

 tence of excommunication, in consequence of an 

 action at law then pending between him and the 

 Abbot of Tavistock ; but the Pope's sanction being 

 obtained, he was buried in a chapel built expressly 

 for the purpose, at the upper end of the south aisle 

 of his own cathedral. J. T — t. 



^^ Sic transit gloria mundi" (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 

 183.). — I have lately found two additional pas- 

 sages, which speak of this line being used at the 

 Pope's inauguration. The first is amongst the 

 writings of Cornelius a Lapide : 



" Datus est mihi stimulus carnis mem Angelus Satana, 

 qui me colaphizet." ..." Datus est non a Diabolo sed 

 a Deo ; non quod Deus tentationis sit auctor, sed quia 

 diabolo tentare Paulum parato, id pertnisit, idque tan- 

 tum in specie et materia libidinisad eum humiliandum. 

 Ita August, de Natura et Grat., c. 27. Hie monitor, 

 ait Hieron., Epist. 25., ad Paulum de obitu Blassilla?, 

 Paulo datus est, ad premendam superbiam, uti in curru 

 triumphali triumphanti datur Monitor siiggerens : homi- 

 nem te esse memento. Uti et Pontifici cum inauguratur, 

 stupa accensa et mox extincta accinitur : 



" Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi." 



Commentaria in 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7. 

 vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiaj, 1705, fol. 



The second passage is merely a repetition of the 

 above- quoted words of A Lapide, but I may as 

 well subjoin a reference to it : Ursini ParalipomenUy 

 lib.ii., Meletematum, p. 315. : Norimbergse, 1667, 

 12mo. Rt. 



Warmington. 



Wake (Vol. vi., p. 532.). — In a Wake pedigree 

 in my possession, the name of the wife of Sir 

 Hugh Wake, Knight, Lord of Blisworth, who died 

 May 4, 1315, is stated to be " Joane, daughter 

 and co-heiress of John de Wolverton." I am un- 

 able to say now on what authority. 



W. S. (Sheffield.) 



Sir Hugh Wake, Lord of Deeping in Lincoln- 

 shire and Blyseworth in Northamptonshire, married 

 Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolver- 

 ton. (See Kimber and SohnsoviS Baronetage, 3 vols. 

 1771.) Bkoctana. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



" Words are given to m.an to conceal his thoughts " 

 (Vol. vi., p. 575.). — This saying may be anterior 

 to Dr. South's time, as the first number of The 

 World, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz- 

 Adam, Thursday, January 4, 1753, begins with the 

 following : 



" At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estre- 

 madura (says an old Spanish author), lived Gonzales 



