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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 182. 



derived : and Mr. Lathbury, who appears perfectly 

 unaware that the tract had ever been ascribed to 

 Sir Bartholomew Shower, a lawyer, remarks : " It 

 is worthy of observation that the author of the 

 letter professes to be a lawyer, though such was 

 not the case. Dr. Binckes being a clergyman." 

 Dr. Kennett also, in his Ecclesiastical Synods., 

 p. 19., referred to by Mr. Lathbury, speaking of 

 Archbishop Wake's reply, says : " I remember one 

 little prejudice to it, that it was wrote by a divine, 

 whereas the argument required an able lawyer ; 

 and the very writer of the Letter to a Convocation 

 Man suggesting himself to be of that profession, 

 there was the greater equity, there should be the 

 like council of one side as there had been of the 

 other." — It has occurred to me that the mistake 

 of assigning the tract to Dr. Binckes may possibly 

 have been occasioned by the circumstance that 

 another tract, with the following title, published 

 in 1701, has the initials W. B. at the end of it, 



— A Letter to a Convocation Man, by a Clergyman 

 in the Country. I have examined both tracts, and 

 they are quite different, and have no appearance 

 of having proceeded from the same hand. Tybo. 



Dublin. 



King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate (Vol vii., 

 p. 356.) was a modern forgery, but not disco- 

 vered to be so, of course, until after publication 

 of the beautiful engraving of it in the Transactions 

 of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, which was 

 made at the expense of, and presented to the 

 Society by, the barons of the Exchequer. 



I believe that a notice of the forgery was pub- 

 lished in a subsequent volume. 



W. C. Tkevel,yan. 



Eulenspiegel or Howleglas (Vol. vii., p. 357.). 



— The following extract from my note-book may 

 be of use : 



" The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Ad- 

 ventures, Cheats, Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel 

 Eulenspiegle. 



* Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame, 

 For Rogues of every country are the same.' 



London, printed in the year mdccix. The only copy 

 of this edition I ever saw was one which had formerly 

 belonged to Ritson, and wl)ich I purchased of Thomas 

 Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old friend 

 Mr. Douce." 



This copy, therefore, is no doubt now in the 

 Bodleian. I have never heard of any other. 



While on the subject of Eulenspiegel, I would 

 call your correspondent's attention to some curious 

 remarks on the Protestant and Romanist versions 

 of it in the Qiuxrtei'ly Review, vol. xxi. p. 108. 



I may also take this opportunity of informing 

 him that a very cleverly illustrated edition of it 

 was published by Scheible of Stuttgart in 1838, 



and that a passage in the Hettlingischen Sas- 

 senchronik (Caspar Abel's Sammlung, p. 185.), 

 written in 1455, goes to prove that Dyll Uln- 

 spiegel, as the wag is styled in the Augsburgh 

 edition of 1540, is no imaginary personage, inasmuch 

 as under the date of 1350 the chronicler tells of a 

 very grievous pestilence which raged through the 

 whole world, and that " dosulfest sterff Ulenspey- 

 gel to Mollen." 



I am unable to answer the Query respecting 

 Murner's visit to England. The most complete 

 account of his life and writings is, I believe, that 

 prefixed by Scheible to his edition of Murner's 

 Narrenbeschioorung, and his satirical dissertation 

 Ob der Konig von England ein Lilgner sey, oder 

 der Luther, William J. Thoms. 



Sir Edwin Sadleir (Vol. vii., p. 357.). — Sir 

 Edwin Sadleir, of Temple Dinsley, in the county 

 of Hertford, Bart., was the third son of Sir Edwin 

 Sadleir (created a baronet by Charles II.), by 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Walker, Knt., 

 LL.D. His elder brothers having died in infancy, 

 he succeeded, on his father's death in 1672, to his 

 honour and estates, and subsequently married 

 Mary, daughter and coheiress of John Lorymer, 

 citizen and apothecary of London, and widow of 

 William Croone, M.D. This lady founded the 

 algebra lectures at Cambridge, and also lectures 

 in the College of Physicians and the Royal Society. 

 (See Cliauncy's Historical Antiquities of Hertford- 

 shire, folio edit., 397, or 8vo edit., ii. 179, 180.; 

 Ward's Lives of the Gresham Professors, 322. 325.; 

 Sir Ralph Sadler's State Papers, ii. 610.; Weld's 

 History of the Royal Society, i. 289.) In the 

 Sadler State Papers, Sir Edwin Sadleir is stated to 

 have died 30th September, 1706 : but that was 

 the date of Lady Sadleir's death ; and, according 

 to Ward, Sir Edwin Sadleir survived her. He 

 died without issue, and thereupon the b.aronetcy 

 became extinct. C. H. Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



Belfry Towers separ'ate from the Body of the 

 Church (Vol. vii., p. 333,). — The tower of the 

 parish church of Llangyfelach, in Glamorganshire, 

 is raised at some little distance from the building. 

 In the legends of the place, this is accounted for 

 by a belief that the devil, in his desire to prevent 

 the erection of the church, carried off a portion of 

 it as often as it was commenced ; and that he was 

 at length only defeated by the two parts being 

 built separate. Seleucus. 



In addition to the bell towers unconnected with 

 the church, noticed in " N. & Q." (Vol. vii., p. 333.), 

 I beg to call the attention of J. S. A. to those of 

 Woburn in Bedfordshire, and Henllan in Den- 

 bighshire. The tower of the former church stands 

 at six yards distance from it, and is a small square 

 building with large buttresses and four pinnacles : 



