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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 185. 



believe, considered fictitious, and ascribed to Defoe ; 

 yet at the end of the work we find : 



" N. B. — The little boy so often mentioned in the 

 foregoing sheets, now lives with Mr. Galapin, a tobac- 

 conist, in Monument Yard ; and may be referred to 

 for the truth of most of the particulars before related." 



W. PiNKERTON. 



Ham. 



Grub Street Journal (Vol. vil., p. 383.). — Mr. 

 James Crossley, after quoting Eustace Budgell's 

 conjectures as to the writers of this paper, leaves 

 it as doubtful whether Pope was or was not one 

 of them. The poet has himself contradicted 

 Budgell's insinuation when he retorted upon him 

 in those terrible lines (alluding to his alleged 

 forgery of a will) : 



" Let Budgell charge low Grub Street to my quill. 

 And write whate'er he please — except my will I " 



Alexander Andrews. 



Wives of Ecclesiastics (Vol. i., p. 115.). — In 

 considering " the statutes made by Anselm, Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, Thomas, Archbishop of 

 York, and all the other bishops of England," ann. 

 1108, interdicting the marriage of ecclesiastics, 

 might it not be worth investigating, by such of 

 your correspondents as are curious on the sub- 

 ject, what had been the antecedents of the several 

 bishops themselves ? 



With respect to Thomas II., Archbishop of 

 York, it is historically certain, that he was the 

 son of an ecclesiastic, and likewise the grandson of 

 an ecclesiastic (his father being one of the bishops 

 who concurred in these statutes). Neither does 

 it seem altogether unlikely that Thomas himself 

 also had spent some part of his early life in bonds 

 of wedlock, since we learn from the Monasticon 

 (vol. iii. p. 490. of new edit.), that " Thomas, son 

 of Thomas (the second of that name), Archbishop of 

 York, confirmed what his predecessors, Thomas 

 and Girard, had given," &c. If this be correct, as 

 stated *, the conclusion is inevitable ; but possibly 

 some error may have arisen out of the circum- 

 stance, that Thomas I. and Thomas II., Arch- 

 bishops of York, were uncle and nephew. 



J. Sansom. 



Blanco White. — In Vol. vii., p. 404., is a copy 

 of a sonnet which is said to be "o« the Rev. Joseph 

 Blanco White." This sonnet is one which I have 

 been in search of for some years. I saw it in a 

 newspaper (I believe the Athenceum), but not 

 having secured a copy of it at the time, now ten 

 or twelve years ago, I have had occasion to regret 



* Robertus Bloetus also, who was still Bishop of 

 Lincoln, and Rogcrus, Bishop of Salisbury, appear to 

 have had sons, though, perhaps, not born in wedlock ; 

 but query. 



it ever since, and am consequently much obliged 

 to Balliolensis for his preservation of it in " N. 

 & Q." " It is needless," as he well observes, " to 

 say anything in its praise." I should add, that my 

 strong impression is that this sonnet was written 

 by Blanco White. H. C. K. 

 Rectory, Hereford. 



Captain Ayloff (Vol. vii., p. 429.). — Your cor- 

 respondent will find a short notice of Capt. AylofT 

 in Jsicoh's Poetical Register (1719-20, 8vo., 2 vols.), 

 and two of his poetical pieces — "Marvell's Ghost" 

 and the "Cambridge Commencement" — in Ni- 

 chols's Collection of Poems (vol. iii. pp. 186—188.), 

 1780, 12mo. There is considerable vigour in his 

 " Marvell's Ghost ; " and had he cultivated his 

 talent, he might have taken a respectable place as 

 a poet amongst the writers of his time. 



Jas. Crosslet. 



General Monk and the University of Cambridge 

 (Vol. vii., p. 427.). — I cannot doubt that "W. D." 

 was Dr. William Dillingham, Master of Emmanuel 

 College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University, 

 from November 1659 till November 1660. 



The election to which his letter relates took 

 place April 3, 1660. The votes were : 

 Lord General Moncke - - - - 341 

 Thomas Crouch, M.A., Fellow of Trin. Coll. 211 

 Oliver St. John, Chancellor of the University 157 



The Vice-Chancellor, In his accounts, makes this 

 charge : 



" Paid to two messengers sent to wait on y' Lord 

 Generall about y" burgesship, 4Z. 10s." — 31 S. Baker^ 

 xl. 59. 



On the 22nd of May, General Monk, who had 

 been also chosen for Devonshire, made his election 

 to sit for that county. C. II. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



In reply to Leicestriensis, I beg leave to in- 

 form him that " W. D." was Wm. Dillingham, 

 D.D., master of Clare Hall, and at the time Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The 

 letter in question, which was the original draft, 

 was, with a variety of other family papers, stolen 

 from me in 1843. J. P. Ord. 



P.S. — Query, from whom did the present pos- 

 sessor obtain it ? 



The Ribston Pippin (Vol, vii., p. 436.). — The 

 remarks of your correspondent H. C. K., respect- 

 ing the uncertain origin of the Ribston pippin, 

 reminded me of a communication which I received 

 about fifty years ago, from one of the sisters of the 

 late Sir Henry Goodricke, the last of the family 

 who possessed Ribston. Though it leaves the 

 question concerning the origin of that excellent 

 apple unsettled, yet it may not be uninteresting to 



