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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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over the Eomau Catliolic Church in England and 

 Wales : 



Archbishop of Westminster. 

 Consecrated. 

 1850. Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman. 



Bishop of Hexham. 

 1850. William Hogarth. 



Bishop of Beverley. 

 1850, John Briggs. 



Bishop of Liverpool. 

 1850. George Brown. 



Bishop of Birmingham, 

 1850. William Ullathorne. 



Bishop of Northampton. 

 1850. William Wareing. 



Bishop of Newport and Menevia. 

 1850. Thomas Joseph Browne. 



Bishop of Nottingham. 

 1850. Joseph William Hendren (from Clifton); re- 

 signed his bishoprick, 185S. 



Bishop of Clifton. 



1850. Joseph William Hendren (removed In 1851 



to Nottingham). 



1851. Thomas Burgess. 



Bishop of Salford. 

 1851. William Turner. 



Bishop of Plymouth. 

 1851. George Errington. 



Bishop of Shrewsbury. 

 1851. James Brown. 



Bishop of Southwark. 

 1851. Thomas Grant. 



The foregoing I believe to be, in the main, a 

 correct account of the Roman Catholic episcopate 

 in England and Wales from the accession of Eliza- 

 beth down to the present year. J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



BANBURY ZEAL, ETC. 



'(Vol.vii., p. 106.) 



I have no doubt that the particular instance of 

 Zeal in the cause of the Church at Banbury, which 

 Addison had in mind when he wrote No. 220. of 

 the Tatler, published Sept. 5, 1710, was a grand 

 demonstration made by its inhabitants in favour 

 of Dr. Sacheverell, whose trial had terminated in 

 his acquittal on March 23 of that year. And my 

 opinion Is strengthened by the introduction al- 

 most immediately afterwards of a passage on the 

 party use of the terms High Church and Low- 

 Church. 



On June 3, 1710, the High Church champion 

 made a triumplial entry into Banbury, which is 

 ridiculed in a pamphlet called The Banb . . y 

 Apes, or the Monkeys chattering to the Magpye ; 

 in a Letter to a Friend in London. On the back 

 of the title Is a large woodcut, representing the 

 procession which accompanied the doctor ; among 

 the personages of which the Mayor of Banbury 

 (as a wolf), and the aldermen (as apes), are con- 

 spicuous figures. Dr. Sacheverell himself appears 

 on horseback, followed by a crowd of persons 

 bearing crosses and rosaries, or strewing branches. 

 The accompanying letter-press describes this pro- 

 cession as being closed by twenty-four tinkers 

 beating on their kettles, and a "vast mob, hol- 

 lowing, hooping, and playing the devil." There is 

 another tract on the same subject, which is ex- 

 tremely scarce, entitled — 



"An Appeal from the City to the Country for the 

 Preservation of Her Majesty's Person, Liberty, Pro- 

 perty, and the Protestant Religion, &c. Occasionally 

 written upon the late impudent Affronts offer'd to 

 Her Majesty's Royal Crown and Dignity by the Peo- 

 ple of Banbury and Warwick : Lond. 8vo. 1710." 



To your correspondent H.'s (p. 222.) quotation 

 from Bralth wait's "Drunken Barnaby" may be 

 added this extract from an earlier poem by the 

 same writer, called " A Strappado for the Divell :" 



" But now for Bradford I must haste away : 

 Bradford, if I should rightly set it forth, 

 Stile it I might Banberry of the North ; 

 And well this title with the town agrees, 

 Famous for twanging ale, zeal, cakes, and cheese." 



A few words on " Banbury Cakes" and I have 

 done. The earliest mention of them I am aware 

 of (next to that in Camden's Britannia, published 

 by Philemon Holland in 1608, and already re- 

 ferred to), is by Ben Jonson, In his Bartholomew 

 Fair, written 1614 ; where he introduces " Zeal- 

 of-the-Land Busy" as "a Banbury Man," who 

 " was a baker — but he does dream now, and see 

 visions : he has given over his trade, out of a 

 scruple he took, that, In spiced conscience, those 

 cakes he made were served to bridales, maypoles, 

 morrlsses, and such profane feasts and meetings." 

 I do not know whether the sale of Banbury cakes 

 flourished in the last century ; but I find recorded 

 in Beesley's Hist, of Banbury (published 1841) 

 that Mr. Samuel Beesley sold In 1840 no fewer 

 than 139,500 twopenny cakes; and In 1841, the 

 sale had increased by at least a fourth. In 

 Aug. 1841, 5,400 were sold weekly ; being shipped 

 to America, India, and even Australia. I fancy 

 their celebrity In early days can hardly parallel 

 this, but I do not vouch for the statistics. 



J. R. M.. M.A. 



