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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 179. 



Among the Centum Oravamina offered to Pope 

 Adrian in 1521 by tlie Princes of Germany, as 

 given in Herbert's Henry VII Lt p. 139., this is the 

 51st: 



" That suffragans used to baptize bels under pre- 

 tence oi driving away divels and tempests ; and for 

 this purpose did invite many rich godfathers, who were 

 to touch the rope while the bell was exorcised, and its 

 name invoked (unto which all the people must an- 

 swer). And that a banquet was used to be made 

 thereupon, at the cost of the layicks, amounting in 

 little towns to a hundred florins, whither the god- 

 fathers were to come, and bring great gifts, &c., 

 whereas they desired that the said bels might be bap- 

 tized not onely by suffragans, but by any priest, with 

 holy water, salt, herbs, without such costs." 



H. T. Ellacombb. 



Clyst St. George. 



Will Mr. Gole oblige me and your readers with 

 a reference to the Golden Legend, from which he 

 has sent a quotation bearing on bells and storms. 



H. T. ELIiACOMBE. 



Clyst St. George. 



Exercise Day (Vol. vii., p. 205.). — The extract 

 from the borough chamberlain's accounts, referred 

 to by your correspondent Leicestbiensis, relates 

 rather to a religious assembly or meeting esta- 

 blished by authority in the reign of Elizabeth, 

 and designed as a check on the growing tendency 

 towards Puritanism, which marked that period. 

 In this diocese (at that time the diocese of Ches- 

 ter) Bishop Downham instituted a " monthly exer- 

 cise," which was confirmed by his successor Dr. 

 Chadderton, in an injunction bearing date Sept. 1, 

 1585. (See Appendix to Strype's Annals, vol. i.) 

 It is there decreed that all parsons, vicars, curates, 

 and schoolmasters shall resort to this exercise, 

 there either to speak or write ; and certain penal- 

 ties are enforced on any neglect of its observance. 

 In the churchwardens' accounts of this parish is 

 an entry of similar import to that quoted by 

 Leicestriensis : " 1656, Pd. for minister diner at 

 the exercise day, 00 . 00 . 06," the only perceptible 

 difference being in the degree of hospitality ex- 

 tended to the clergy by their entertainers. 



John Bookeb. 



Prestwich. 



The Iron Mask (Vol. v., p. 474. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 234.). — Your correspondent A. S. A. asks with 

 much complacency, " VVhat authority Mr. James 

 Cornish has for asserting (Vol. v., p. 474.) that 

 the mysterious secret of the Masque de fer has 

 ever been satisfactorily explained ? " Mr. James 

 Cornish does not make statements of historical 

 facts without authority : he therefore begs to refer 

 A. S. A. to Delort, Histoire de V Homme au Masque 

 de fer, Paris, 1825 ; and to The True History of 

 the State Prisoner, commonly called " The Iron 



Mash," ^c, by the Hon. George Agar Ellis: Lon- 

 don, 1826. 



I repeat " my sanguine " expectations that 

 " Junius " will yet be " unearthed." " Matthias" 

 made an equal boast with the " mighty shade," 

 that he would be for ever unknown. 



Your Journal " N. & Q." has left no doubt about 

 the author of The Pursuits of Literature. 



James Cornish. 



Shakspeare's Use of the Word ^^ Delighted" 

 (Vohii., pp. 113. 139. 200. &c.). — The following 

 passage from Douce's Illustrations has not been 

 referred to by any of your contributors on this 

 point ; to some it may be unknown : 



" With respect to the much contested and obscure 

 expression of bathing the delighted spirit in fiery floods, 

 Milton appears to have felt less difficulty in its con- 

 sideration than we do at present ; for he certainly 

 remembered it when he made Comus say : 



" • one sip of this 



Will hathe the drooping spirits in delight 

 Beyond the bliss of dreams,' " 



W. T. M. 

 Hong Kong. 



Samuel Daniel (Vol. vi., p. 603.). — A copy of 

 an original letter of Samuel Daniel, sent to Lord 

 Keeper Egerton with a present of his Works 

 newly augmented, 1601, is printed in Censura Lite- 

 raria, ed. 1808, vol. vi. p. 391. 



John Daniel, who published Songs for the Lute, 

 Viol, and Voice, 1606, is supposed to have been 

 the brother of the poet, and the publisher of his 

 works in 1 623. He was of Christ Church, Oxford ; 

 and took his degree of Bachelor of Music in 1604. 

 At the commencement of the reign of Charles I., 

 he Avas one of the court musicians, and his name 

 occurs among the " Musicians for the Lutes and 

 Voices," in a privy seal, dated Dec. 20, 1625, ex- 

 empting the musicians belonging to the court from 

 the payment of subsidies. 



John Daniel's Songs were " printed by T. E. 

 for Thomas Adams, at the Signe of the White 

 Lyon, Panic's Church Yard, folio, 1606." They 

 are dedicated, in rhyme, to " Mrs. Anne Greene, 

 the worthy Daughter to Sir William Greene, of 

 Milton, Knight." Edward F. Rimbault. 



English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 

 1559 (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 203. ; Vol, vii., p. 260.), — 

 I regret that I am unable to furnish A. S, A, with 

 any additional information respecting the Marian 

 bishops. None of the authorities I used give the 

 dates he requires. Possibly, Mr. Charles Butler's 

 Historical Memoii'es of the English, Irish, and 

 Scottish Catholics, 4 vols. 8vo., 1822, might answer 

 his Queries. 



I have ascertained from Calamy's Life and 

 Tim^s (vol. i. p. 409.), that Thomas White, the 



