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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 187. 



Members of Parliament. — Pennant, in The 

 Journey from Chester to London, p. 94., says : 



" The ancient owners of Rudgley were of the same 

 name with the town : some of the family had the 

 honour of being sheriffs of the county in the reign of 

 Edward III. Another was knight of the shire in the 

 same period." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." verify the last 

 portion of Pennant's statement ? J. W. S. R. 



St. Ives, Hunts. 



Taret. — I have lately met with mention of a 

 " small insect called the Taret." What may this 

 be ? Tyho. 



Jeroboam of Claret., SfC — Could any of your 

 correspondents inform me what a Jeroboam of 

 Claret is, and from what it is derived : also a 

 Magnum of Port ? Winebibbeb. 



William Williams of Geneva. — In Livre des 

 Anglois, a Geneve, with a few biographical notes 

 by J. S. Burn, Esq., y)ages 5, 6. 12, 13., mention is 

 made of Guillaume — WilUn Willms, and Jane his 

 wife, — Willm Willins, a senior of the church 

 there in 1555, 1556, 1557, 1558 ; and some of the 

 years he was a godfather. I shall be glad to have 

 some further account of such William Williams, or 

 references to where to find such ? Glwysig. 



The First of April and " The Cap awry." — Tom 

 Moore, in his Diary, 1819, says : 



" April 1st. Made Bessy turn her cap awry in 

 honour of the day." 



What was the origin of this custom ? Was this 

 the way a fool was supposed to show that his head 

 was turned ? C. li. 



Paternoster Row. 



Sir G. Browne, Bart. — Sir George Browne, 

 Bart., of West Stafford, Bei'ks, and Wickham, is 

 said to have had nineteen children by his wife 

 Eleanor Blount ; and that three of those children 

 were sons, killed in the service of Charles I. 



W^as either of those sons named Richard ; and 

 was any of them, and which, married ? If so, 

 ■where, and to whom ? Newbury. 



Bishop Butler. — Will any of our Roman Ca- 

 tholic friends tell us on what authority they assert 

 that Bishop Butler, the author of The Analogy, 

 died in their communion ? That he was suspected 

 of a tendency that way during his life is acknow- 

 ledged by all, though the grounds, that of setting 

 up a cross in his chapel, are confessedly unsatis- 

 factory. But, besides this, it is alleged that he 

 died with a Roman Catholic book of devotion in 

 his hand, and that the last person in whose com- 

 pany he was seen was a priest of that persuasion. 

 One would be glad to have this question sifted. 



X. Y. Z. 



Oaken Tombs. — In Dr. Whitaker's noble his- 

 tory of Loidis and Elmete, p. 322., is the following 

 passage : 



" Next in point of time is a very singular memorial, 

 which has evidently been removed from its original 

 position, between the chapel and the high altar, to a 

 situation at the south side and west end of the chapel. 



The tomb is a massy frame-work of oak, with 



quater-foils and arms on three sides, and on the table 

 above three statues of the same material, namely, of a 

 knight bare-headed, with rather a youthful counte- 

 nance and sharp features, and his two wives. On tha 

 filleting is this rude inscription in Old English : 



' Bonys emong Stonys, lyes here ful styl, 

 Quilst the sawle wanders wher God wyl. 

 Anno D"' mcccccxxix.' 



This commemorates Sir John Savile, who married, &c; 

 " Over all has been a canopy, or rather tester, for 

 the whole must have originally resembled an antique 

 and massy bedstead, exhibiting the very incongruous- 

 appearance of a husband in bed with two wives at 

 once." 



The Doctor adds : 



" Oaken tombs are very rare ; that of Aymer de- 

 Valence in Westminster Abbey has been and still is in 

 part coated over with copper, gilt, and enamelled, and 

 I have seen another in the church of Tickencote in 

 Rutlandshire. I do not recollect a third specimen." 



Query, How many have been discovered since 

 the great historian's day ? St. Bees. 



Alleged Bastardy of Elizabeth. — In the State 

 Paper Office (Dom. Pap., temp. Jac. I.), there is, 

 under date of 1608, a letter from Mr. Chamber- 

 iaine to Sir Dudley Carleton, of October 28, in 

 which Chamberlaine says : 



*' I heare of a Bill put into the Exchequer, con.- 

 cerninge much lande that sh'^ be alienated on account 

 of the alleged bastardy of Queen Elizabeth." 



P. C. S. S. is desirous to know whether there be 

 any record in the Court of Exchequer whicii bears 

 out this singular statement. P. C. S. S. 



" Piigna Porcorum." — Where may be found 

 some account of the author, object, &c. of thi& 

 facetious production ? P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



Parviso. — Can any of your readers inform me 

 as to the meaning of the word parviso ; it occui-s 

 in the usual form of the " Testamur" for Respon- 

 sions. On reference to Webster's Dictionary, I 

 find that parvis is a small porch or gateway ; per- 

 haps this may throw some light upon the question. 



OxONIEKSI3. 



Mr. Justice Newton. — There is a very stiff 

 Indian-ink copy of a portrait in the Sutherland 

 Illustrated Clarendon, in the Bo<iieian Library, the 

 original of which I should be glad to trace. It is 

 described in the Catalogue to be " by Bulfinch.;' 



