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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 182. 



by his will, dated. 15tli August, 1520, appointed 

 his " trusty brethren Hugh, bishopp ofManne, and 

 Thomas Hesketh, esquier," executors, and pro- 

 ceeded : 



" I wyll that the said Bishopp shall haue a goblett 

 of syluer w' a couir, and my said brothir Thomas to 

 haue a pouncid bool of syluer, a counterpoynt, and a 

 cordyn gemnete bedde w' the hangings, a paire of fus- 

 tyan bianketts, and a paire of shetys, and a father bedde 

 that lyeth uppon the game bedde, for their labours." 



So that the vacancy, if there really was any, 

 between his death and the consecration of Bishop 

 Stanley, is much less than is generally supposed. 



H. A. 



[Our authority for the date of Bishop Hesketh's 

 death was Bishop Hildesley's MS. list of the Manx 

 bishops, wliich he presented to the British Museum, 

 and which appears to have been carefully compiled. 

 His words are, " Huau Hesketh died 1510, and was 

 buried in his cathedral of St. Germans in Peel." It is 

 clear, however, there is an error somewhere, which did 

 not escape the notice of William Cole, the Cambridge 

 antiquary; for in his MS. Collections, vol. xxvi. p. 24., 

 he has the following entry: — " Huan Hesketh was 

 living 13 Henry VI] I., 1531, at which time Thomas 

 Earl of Derby appointed, among others. Sir Hugh 

 Hesketh, Bishop of Man, to be one of his executors. 

 (See Collins's Peerage, vol. ii. p. 33.) Wolsey was ap- 

 pointed supervisor of the will, and is in it called Lord 

 Chancellor: he was so made 1516, which proves that 

 he was alive after 1510. The will of Richard Hes- 

 keth, Esq. — to be buried in his chapel at Rufford : 

 executors, Hugh Hesketh, Bishop of Man, his brother; 



and Thomas Hesketh, Esq was proved Nov. 13, 



1520. (In Reff. Manwarinff, 3.) He continued bishop, 

 I presume, forty-three years, from 1487 to 1530. It is 

 plain he was so thirty-four years."] 



Form of Prayer for Prisoners. — 



" It is not, perhaps, generally known, that we have 

 a form of prayer for prisoners, which is printed in the 

 Irish Common Prayer- Book, though not in ours. 

 Mrs. Berkeley, in whose preface of prefaces to her 

 son's poems I first saw this mentioned, regrets the 

 omission ; observing, that the very fine prayer for those 

 under sentence of death, might, being read by the 

 children of the poor, at least keep them from the gal- 

 lows. The remark is just." — Southey's Onmiana, 

 vol. i. p. 50. 



What Irish Common Prayer-Book is here meant? 

 I have the books issued by the late Ecclesiastical 

 History Society, but do not see the service among 

 them. Could the prayer referred to be transferred 

 to " N. & Q. ;" or where is the said Irish Prayer- 

 Book to be found ? Thqmas Lawrence. 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



[The Book of Common Prayer according to the 

 use of the Church of Ireland, we believe, may fre- 

 quently be met with. An edition in folio, 1740, is in 

 the British Museum, containing " The Form of Prayer 

 fiar the Visitation of Prisoners^ treated upon by the 



Archbishops and Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy of 

 Ireland, and agreed upon by Her Majesty's License in 

 their Synod, holden at Dublin in the Year 1711." We 

 are inclined to think that Mrs. Beikeley must have 

 intended its beautiful exhortation — not the prayer — 

 for the use of the poor. See " N. & Q.," Vol. vi., 

 p. 246.] 



10it^\iti. 



EDMUND SPBNSEK, AND SPKNSEBS, OR SPENCERS, OF 

 HURSTWOOD. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 303. 362.) 



Without entering on the question as to possible 

 connexion of the poet with the family above men- 

 tioned, the discussion may be simplified by solving 

 a difficulty suggested by (^liviger (p. 362.), arising 

 from Hurst wood Hall {another estate in Hurst- 

 wood) having been possessed by Townley, and by 

 explaining, 1st, The identity of the tenement once 

 owned by Spencers ; 2ndly, The seeming cause of 

 Whitaker's silence ; and, 3rdly, The certainty of 

 possession by the Spencers. 



I. The former estate of the Spencers in Hurst- 

 wood is a tenement which was purchased by the 

 late Rev. John Hargreaves from the representa- 

 tives of William Ormerod, of Foxstones, in Cllvi- 

 ger, in 1803, and which had been conveyed ia 

 1690, by John Spencer, then of Marsden, to Oliver 

 Ormerod of Hurstwood, and his son Laurence ; 

 the former of these being youngest son, by a second 

 marriage, of Peter Ormerod of Ormerod, and co- 

 executor of his will in 1650. So much for the 

 locality. 



IL As for Dr. Whitaker's silence, I know, from 

 correspondence with him (1808-1816), that, from 

 an irregularity in the Prerogative Office, he was 

 not aware of this will, and uninformed as to this 

 second marriage, or the connexion of this pur- 

 chaser's family with the parent house ; and I think 

 it as probable that he was as unaware of the ancient 

 possession of the purchased tenement by Spencers, 

 as it is certain that this theory as to the connexion 

 of the poet with it was then unknown. If other- 

 wise, he would doubtless have extended his scale, 

 and included it. 



III. As to the certainty of possession by Spen- 

 cers, I have brief extracts from deeds as to this 

 tenement, as follows : — 



1677. Indenture of covenants for a fine, between 

 John Spencer the elder, and Oliver Ormerod of 

 Cliviger, and note of fine. 



1687, Will of same John Spencer, late of Hurst- 

 weod, mentioning possession of this tenement as 



the inheritance of his ^rea^grayj^/^^^^''' Edmund 

 Spencer. 

 1689. Family arrangements of John Spencer (the 

 son) as to same tenement, then in occupation of 

 " Oliver Ormeroyde " before mentioned. 



