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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 180. 



which go under the name of Till Eulenspiegel ? 

 I am searching to find out which are the English 

 translations, but have only succeeded to trace two. 

 The oldest is a very curious black-letter volume 

 in small 4to. in the British Museum, C. 21. §, for- 

 merly in the possession of Mr. Garrick, as appears 

 from Bishop Percy (" Dissertation on the Origin of 

 the British Stage," Reliques, vol. i. p. 134., ed. 

 1812). It is entitled, " Here begynneth a merye 

 Jest of a man that was called Howleglas, and of 

 many marucylous thinges and Jestes that he dyd 

 in his lyfe, in Eastlande and in many other places." 

 Colophon : " Imprynted at London in Tamestrete 

 at the Vintre on the thre Craned wharfs by Wyl- 

 liam Copland." 



Of the second I have only a reference of the title : 

 Tfie German Rogue, or the Life of Till Eulen- 

 spiegel, 1709. 



I am also anxious to learn whether there are any 

 more notices about the visit of Thomas Murner, the 

 author of the German Eulenspiegel, in England, 

 besides that in a letter of Thomas More to Cardi- 

 nal Wolsey in the State Papers, vol. i. p. 125. o. 



Aged 116. — When your correspondents were 

 all in a state of excitement about the old Countess 

 of Desmond, I ventured to ask for proof that some 

 person had, within the age of registers, insurance 

 offices, and legal proof, ever lived to 150, or even 

 to within twenty or thirty years of that age. No 

 answer was given, no such proof offered ; all our 

 clever actuaries were silent. The newspapers 

 now report one such mitigated case : 



" Singular Longevity The Irish papers announce 



the recent death oF Mrs. Mary Power, widow of J. 

 Power, Esq., and aunt of the late Right Hon. II. L. 

 Sheil, at the Ursuline Convent, Cork, at the advanced 

 age of 116 years." 



If this story be true, there can be no difficulty 

 in proving it. The lady was not an obscure per- 

 son, whose antecedents are unknown. Will some 

 one connected with the Ursuline Convent, or Mr. 

 Shell's family, obligingly tell us where the lady 

 was born, and produce the register of her birth — 

 give us, in brief, legal evidence that she was born 

 in the year 1737 ? A. I. 



Annuellarius. — Can any of your numerous 

 readers inform me what the meaning of the word 

 annuellarius is ? It occurs in a section of the con- 

 stitutions of one of our cathedral churches : 



" Itetn, quod nuUus quicq' sit qui aliqui alii servit 

 nisi tantum Epi servus sit, in Vicarior' Choralium 

 Annuellarior' vel Choristarum numeruin in Ecclla 

 Cath. . . . deinceps eligatur." 



P. s. 



Boyer's " Great Theatre of Honour and Nobility,^'' 

 4to. London, 1729.— At the end of the preface to 



this work, a copy of which is in my possession, the 

 following advertisement occurs : 



" Although this volume exceeds by one-fourth part 

 the number of sheets proposed for subscription, never- 

 theless it shall be delivered to the subscribers without 

 enhancing the price ; and their coats of arms shall be 

 inserted in the second volume ; as well as theirs who 

 shall purchase this, provided thay take care to send 

 them, with their blazon, to any one of the booksellers 

 named in the title-page." 



I want to know whether Boyer ever published 

 this second volume ; and shall be much obliged to 

 any correspondent of " N. & Q." who will enlighten 

 me on the subject. S. I. Tucker. 



[Only the first volume has been published. Ac- 

 cording to the original prospectus, now before us, the 

 work was to have made two volumes, divided into six 

 parts. So that the volume of 1729, consisting of three 

 parts, is half of what Boyer originally proposed to 

 publish.] 



List of Bishops of Norwich. — Where can I find 

 a list of the bishops of Norwich, with their coats of 

 arms, from an early date ? Caret. 



[In Blomefield's History of Norfolk, edit. 1739, fol., 

 vol. ii. pp. 330 — 430.] 



".4 Letter to a Convocation Man" — Who, I am 

 desirous of knowing, was the author of A Letter to 

 a Convocation Man, concerning the Rights, Pmvers, 

 and Privileges of that Body, published about 1697, 

 which occasioned Wake's book of The Authority of 

 Christian Princes over their Ecclesiastical Synods 

 asserted? Atterbury says, in the Preface of his 

 Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Con- 

 vocation : 



" If at least I were not prevented by some abler 

 hand, particularly by the author of that letter which 

 first gave rise to this debate ; and who, it was expected, 

 would have appeared once more upon it, and freed 

 what he had advanced from all exceptions." 



W. Fkasee. 



[According to the Bodleian Catalogue, it was written 

 by Sir Bartholomew Shower ; but we have seen it at- 

 tributed to William Binkes, the Prolocutor to the Con- 

 vocation of 1705.] 



Nicholas Thane. — Dr. Browne Willis, in his 

 History of the Town of Buckingham, published 

 London, 1755, says (p. 49.): 



"About the year 1545, as we are told in the Peerage 

 of England, in the account of the Earl of Pomfret's 

 family, his ancestor Richard Fermour of Easton Nes- 

 ton in Northamptonshire, Esq., had his estate seized on 

 and taken away from him upon his having incurred 

 a prcBtnunire, by relieving one Nicholas Thane, an ob- 

 noxious Popish priest, who had been committed a close 

 prisoner to the gaol in the town of Buckingham." 



Can any of your readers inform me what crime 

 or offence this "obnoxious priest" had been guilty 

 of, as to be committed a " close prisoner j " and that 



