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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 168. 



Magnetic Intensity, also Sabine's Contributions to 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, 1843, No. V. T. B. 



Monument at Wadstena (Vol. vL, pp. 388.518.). 

 — I have received the following (which I trans- 

 late) from my friend in Denmark, whom I men- 

 tioned in my last communication on this monu- 

 ment : 



" It is only about a month since I saw Queen 

 Philippa's tombstone in the c|iurch of Vadstena 

 Monastery. It is a very large stone, on which the 

 device and inscription are cut in outline, but there 

 is no brass about it. King Erik Menved's and Queen 

 Ingeberg's monument in llingsted Church is the finest 

 brass I ever saw, and I have seen many." 



There is a good engraving of the brass alluded 

 to, which is a very rich one, in Antiquariske An- 

 naler, vol. iii. : Copenhagen, 1820. The inscrip- 

 tions are curious, and the date 1319. 



W. C. Treveltan. 



Waliington. 



David Routh, R. C. Bishop of Ossory (Vol. iii., 

 p. 169.). — In the article on a Cardinal's Monu- 

 ment, by Mr. J. Graves, of Kilkenny, allusion is 

 made to the monument of the above Catholic 

 Bishop Routh or Rothe, as being in the Cathedral 

 of St. Canice, Kilkenny, with his arms " sur- 

 mounted by a cardinal's hat," and that he died 

 some years after 1643. If Mr. Graves would 

 give the date of this prelate's decease, or rather a 

 copy of the full inscription on his monument, with 

 a notice of the sculptured armorial bearings there- 

 upon, he would be conferring a favour on a distant 

 inquirer ; and as Mr. Graves is, apparently, a re- 

 sident at Kilkenny, no obstacle exists to prevent 

 his complying with this request. 



Any notices procurable regarding Bishop Routh 

 are well deserving of insertion in " N. & Q.," for 

 he was a man of deep learning and research, and 

 is well known to have assisted the celebrated 

 Archbishop Ussher of Armagh in the compilation 

 of his Primordia, for which he had high compli- 

 ments paid him by that eminent prelate, notwith- 

 standing their being of difierent religions. 



Bishop Routh was also himself the author of a 

 work on Irish Ecclesiastical History, now very 

 rare, and seldom procurable complete. He pub- 

 lished it anonymously, in two volumes 8vo., in 

 tte year 1617, at " Coloniae, apud Steph. Ro- 

 linum," with the following rather long title : 



" Analecta Sacra, Nova, et Mira, de llebus Catho- 

 licorum in Hibernia : Divisa in tres partes, quarum I, 

 Continet semestrem gravaminam relationem, secundci 

 hac editione novis adauctam additamentis, et Notis il- 

 lustratam. II. Para;nesin ad Marty res designates. 

 III. Processum IMartyrialem quorundam Fidei Pu- 

 gilium ; Collectore et Relatore, T. N. Philadelpho." 



I fear this has degenerated from a Note into a 

 Query ; however, I may state in conclusion, that 



Mr, Graves is in error in styling the hat on Bi- 

 shop Routh's monument a cardinal's, for all Ca- 

 tholic prelates, and abbots also, have their armo- 

 rial bearings surmounted by a hat, exactly similar 

 to a cardinal's hat, with this difference only, that 

 the number of tassels depending from it varies 

 according to the rank of the prelate, from the car- 

 dinal's with fifteen tassels in five rows, down to 

 that of a prior with three only on each side in 

 two rows. A. S. A. 



Punjaub. 



Cardinal Erskine (Vol. ii., p. 406. ; Vol. iii., p. 13.). 



— Several notices of this ecclesiastic have ap- 

 peared in " N. & Q.," but as none of them give the 

 exact information required, I now do so, though 

 perhaps tardily. He was born 13th February, 

 1753, at Rome, where his father, Colin Erskine, a 

 Jacobite, and exiled scion of the noble Scottish 

 house of Erskine, Earls of Kellie, had taken up 

 his residence. " Monsignor Charles Erskine," 

 having embraced the ecclesiastical life at an early 

 age, and passed through several gradations in the 

 Church of Rome, was, in 1785, "Promotore della 

 Fede," an office of the Congregation of Rites ; in 

 1794 auditor to Pope Pius VI., and raised to the 

 purple by Pope Pius VII., who created him a 

 Cardinal-Deacon of the Holy Roman Church, 

 25th February, 1801. Cardinal Erskine accom- 

 panied the latter pontiff in his exile from Rome 

 in the year 1809, and died at Paris, 19th March, 

 1811, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, and 

 eleventh of his cardinalate. A. S. A. 



Punjaub. 



"Ne'er to these chambers," Sfc. (Vol. vii., p. 14.). 



— In reply to Aram's Query : " Where do these 

 lines come from ? " they come from Tickell's 

 sublime and pathetic " Elegy on the Death of 

 Addison." Aram (" Wits have short memories," 

 &c.) has misquoted them. In a poem of so high a 

 mood, to displace a word is to destroy a beauty. 

 Aram has interpolated several words. The follow- 

 ing is the true version : 



" Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, 

 Since their foundation, came a nobler guest. 

 Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convey'd 

 A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." 



George Daniel. 



Canonbury. 



These lines are taken from the " Elegy on the 

 Death of Addison," written by Tickell. They are, 

 if I remember rightly, inscribed on the gravestone 

 recently placed over his remains by the Earl of 

 Ellesmere, in the north aisle of Henry VII.'s 

 Chapel. The last two lines which your corre- 

 spondent quotes should be as follows : 



" Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss convet/'d 

 A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade." 



J. K. R. W. 



