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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 189. 



York within a year after his appointment. His suc- 

 cessor John became a suffragan to the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, and died such in 1420. Tlionias Scrope, 

 a divine from Leicestershire, was appointed by the Pope 

 to this see in 1430 : he could not live in peace with the 

 Irish, and therefore became vicar-general to the Bishop 

 of Norwich. Thomas Radcliffe, his successor, never 

 lived in Ireland : 'the profits of his see did not extend 

 to 30Z. sterling, and for its extreme poverty it is void 

 and desolate, and almost extincted, in so much as none 

 ■will own the same, or abide therein.' Dr. Radcliffe 

 was therefore obliged to become a suffragan to the 

 Bishop of Durham. William, who followed him in 

 the Dromore succession in 1500, lived in York, and 

 was suffragan to its archbishop ; and it would seem his 

 successors were also suffragans in England, imtil the 

 plantation of Ulster improved the circumstances of that 

 province." 



An Oxford B. C. L. 



Pope and BucTianan. — I beg to suggest as a 

 Query, whether Pope did not borrow the opening 

 of his Essay on Man from that of the second book 

 of Buchanan's Latin poem De Sphcera. Let us 

 compare them. 

 Buchanan : 

 " Jam mihi Timoleon, animo majora capaci 

 Concipe ; nee terras semper mirare jacentes ; 

 Excute degeneres circum mortalia curas, 

 Et mecum ingentes coeli spatiare per auras." 



Pope: 

 " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things 

 To low ambition and the pride of kings ; 

 Let us, since life can little more supply 

 Than just to look about us and to die. 

 Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man." 



I do not remember the comparison to have been 

 made before. Wm. Ewaet. 



University Club. 



Scarce MSS. in the British Museum. — In 

 Cotton MSS., Titus, B L, will be found a curious 

 and valuable collection of papers entitled "Crom- 

 well's Remembrances." These comprise : 



L A period from about the death of Anne 

 Boleyn to his attainder. 



2. They are very miscellaneous, consisting of 

 memoranda of subjects for conference with the 

 king. Notices of persons to be remembered for 

 offices. Sale of lands. Diplomacy, and various 

 ■other particulars. Notes relative to the dissolu- 

 tion of monasteries ; their riches, revenues, and 

 pensions to abbots, &c. The reception of Anne 

 Cleves, and the alteration of the royal house- 

 hold thereupon. Privy council and parliamentary 

 notes. Foreign alliances. Scotch and Irish affairs, 

 consequent on the dissolution of abbeys, &c. 



These curious materials for history are in the 

 rough and confused state in which they were left 

 by their author, and, to render them available, 

 would require an index to the whole. 



The " Remembrances" are in some degree illus- 

 trated by Harl. MS. 604., which is a very curious 

 volume of monastic affairs at the dissolution. Also 

 by 605, 606, and 607. The last two belong to the 

 reign of Philip and Mary, and contain an ofhcial 

 account of tiie lands sold by them belonging to 

 the crown in the third and fourth years of their 

 reign. E. G. Ballard. 



The Royal Garden at Holyrood Palace. — I can- 

 not help noticing a disgraceful fact, which has only 

 lately come to my knowledge. There is, adjoin- 

 ing the Palace of Holyrood, an ancient garden of 

 the old kings of Scotland : in it is a curious sun- 

 dial, with Queen Mary's name on it. There is a 

 pear-tree planted by her hands, and there are many 

 other deeply interesting traces of the royal race, 

 Avho little dreamed how their old stately places 

 were to be profaned, after they themselves were 

 laid in the dust. The garden of the Royal Stuarts 

 is now let to a market gardener! Are there no 

 true-hearted Scotchmen left, who will redeem it 

 from such desecration ? L. M. M. R. 



The Old Ship '' Royal Escape." —The follow- 

 ing extract from the Norwich Mercury of Aug. 21, 

 1819, under the head of "Yarmouth News," will 

 probably be gratifying to your querist Anon, 

 Vol. vii., p. 380. : 



" On the ISth inst. put into this port (Yarmouth), 

 having been grounded on tiie Barnard Sand, The 

 Royal Escape, government hoy, with horses for his 

 royal highness at Hanover. This vessel is the same 

 that King Charles II. made his escape in from Bright' 

 helmstone." 



Joseph Davet. 



^xizxiti. 



" THE LIGHT OF BEITTAINE. 



I should be glad, through the medium of " N. 

 & Q.," to be favoured with some particulars re- 

 garding this work, and its author, Maister Henry 

 Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq. He presented the said 

 work with his own hand to " our late soveraigne 

 queene and matchlesse mistresse, on the day when 

 shee came, in royall manner, to Panic's Church." 

 I shall also be glad of any information about his 

 son, Maister Thomas Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq., 

 " a true immitator and heyre to hit father's ver- 

 tues," and who 



" Presented to the Majestic of King James, (with) an 

 excellent mappe or genealogicall table (contayning the 

 bredth and circumference of twenty large sheets of 

 paper), which he eiititleth BrUtaines Monarchy, approu- 

 ing Brute's History, and the whole succession of this 

 our nation, from the very original, with the just ob- 

 servation of al times, changes, arid occasions therein 

 happening. This worthy worke, having cost above 



