Mae. 5. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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Orange. We doubt if this vicar-apostolic at- 

 tempted to visit his diocese ; for, on the breaking 

 out of the revolution at London in the ensuing 

 November, he was apprehended and committed to 

 Newgate (Macaulay's History^ vol. ii. p. 563.), yet 

 he was soon restored to liberty. Foreseeing but 

 faint hope of serving the cause of religion in such 

 turbulent times, he left England for the court of 

 his exiled sovereign at St. Germains, and, after 

 staying some time, obtained permission to visit the 

 Eternal City. In 1693 Pope Innocent XII. made 

 him an assistant prelate ; and on the feast of St. 

 Louis, six years later, he sung the high mass at 

 Rome, in the French church, before many car- 

 dinals, invited and received by the Cardinal de 

 Bouillon. The Prince of Monacho, ambassador 

 of France, being then incognito, assisted in a 

 tribune. Resigning his western vicariat, he was 

 promoted by Pope Clement XI. to the vacant see 

 of Segni, in the Campagna di Roma. There he 

 originated a seminary, over which he watched with 



Earental zeal and solicitude. In November 1710, 

 e held a synod in the choir of his cathedral; 

 about seventy of his clergy attended, all of whom 

 he entertained with generous hospitality. In ad- 

 dition to his many meritorious works, he sub- 

 stantially repaired and embellished his palace, and 

 to his cathedral he left a splendid mitre and some 

 costly vestments ; but the bulk of his property he 

 bequeathed to his seminary. A dropsy of the 

 chest carried him off on the 16th November, 1726, 

 set. seventy-four, and his remains were interred in 

 the centre of the seminary church. 



Seven sermons of this prelate, preached before 

 James II. at Windsor and St. James's, were 

 printed. 



A beautiful portrait of the Bishop, engraved by 

 Meyer, is prefixed to the Ellis Correspondence, 

 published by the late Lord Dover, in two volumes 

 «vo., 1829. 



James Smith was consecrated Bishop of Cal- 

 liopolis, and appointed Vicar-Apostolic of the 

 Northern District, 1688 : he died May 20, 1711. 



The following Vicars- Apostolic were nominated 

 after the above four till the year 1750. 



Midland District. — George With am, of the 

 ancient Roman Catholic family of the Withams 

 of Cliffe, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, was 

 educated at Douay College, consecrated Bishop of 

 Marcopolis, and appointed Vicar-Apostolic of the 

 Midland District in 1703. He was removed to 

 the Northern District in 1716, and died in 1725, 

 at Cliffe Hall, the seat of his family. 



Western District. — Matthew Pritchard, a Fran- 

 ciscan Friar, Bishop of Myrinen : I have not been 

 able to ascertain the date either of his consecration 

 or death ; the latter took place at PerthyrQ, Mon- 

 mouthshire.* 



* I have since learned Bishop Pritchard was conse- 

 crated in 1715. 



Northern District. — Thomas Williams, a Do- 

 minican friar, Bishop of Tiberiopolis, died at 

 Huddlestone, Yorkshire, April 14, 1740. 



J. F. W. 



The reply of E. H. A. to my Query about 

 these Vicars-Apostolic is rather unsatisfactory. 

 I admit his correction of Chalcedon for Chalets, 

 but wish that he had been more explicit ia 

 his notices of both those Vicars- Apostolic ap- 

 pointed in 1685-88, as well as of those since no- 

 minated. When did Smith and Ellis die ? and 

 what was the see in Italy to which the latter was 

 nominated ? Who were the consecrators of Gif- 

 fard, Ellis, and Smith ? Bishop Ley burn was, I 

 think, one, and is said to have been " assisted by 

 two Irish prelates." Who were they ? E. H. A. 

 also refers, as his authority, to a tract by the Rev. 

 L. Darwall, in Christians Miscellany : but he does 

 not give the date of that publication, nor did I 

 ever hear of it. Surely some ecclesiastical reader 

 of " N. & Q." will answer some, at least, of these 

 inquiries of mine. I know many of your sub- 

 scribers can do so if they choose. I am desirous 

 of possessing the names and dates of consecration 

 and death of every Roman Catholic Vicar-Apo- 

 stolic appointed for England since 1689, and also 

 of those for Scotland, if possible. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



SMOCK MABBIAGES. SCOTCH LAW OF MARRIAGE. 



(Vol. vii., p. 191.) 



To a certain extent, the information Mr. F. H. 

 Brett got from his Scotch friend is correct. 

 An idea does exist in some parts of Scotland, 

 that children born out of wedlock must be "under 

 the apron string" at the solemnisation of the mar- 

 riage of their parents, before they can b& legiti- 

 mated per suhsequens matrimonium. How this 

 notion originated, I do not pretend to say ; but it 

 is easy to speculate as to its origin. But Mr. 

 Brett's friend showed a blessed ignorance of the 

 laws of his native country, if he ever said that " in 

 the Scotch law of marriage there is a clause pro- 

 viding that all 'under the apron string,' at the 

 time of the marriage, shall be considered legiti- 

 mate." The Scotch law of marriage is not statu- 

 tory, and, consequently. It has no clauses. 



I have often felt sore at the ignorance displayed, 

 even in well-informed circles in England, as to 

 the real principles of the Scotch law of marriage ; 

 and I am encouraged by the comprehensive terms 

 of Mr. Brett's Query, to hope that you will 

 permit me to say a word or two which may serve 

 to dissipate some of the delusions that prevail as 

 to both the constitution of a Scotch marriage, and 

 its effects. 



In Scotland, as in every country whose system 

 of jurisprudence is based on the civil law, mar- 



