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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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carries the time of Nixon's alleged existence much 

 before tbe period named by T. Hughes, namely, 

 James I.'s reign. A Hermit at Hampstead. 



Parochial Libraries (Vol. viii., p. 62.). — There 

 is an extensive, and rather valuable, library at- 

 tached to St. Mary's Chui'ch, Bridgenorth, pre- 

 sented to and for the use of the parishioners, by 

 Dean Stackhouse in 1750. It comprises some eight 

 hundred volumes, chiefly divinity. There are two 

 or three fine MSS. in the collection, one especially 

 worthy of notice. A splendidly illuminated Latin 

 MS., dated about 1460, engrossed upon vellum, 

 and extending to three hundred leaves (C. 62. in 

 the Catalogue). I noticed many fragments of 

 early MSS. bound up with Hebrew and Latin 

 editions of the Bible ; and a portion of a remark- 

 ably tine missal, forming the dexter cover of a 

 copy of Laertius de Vita Philosophica (4to. 1524). 

 Surely a society may be formed, having for its 

 object the rescuing, transcribing, and printing of 

 those scarcely noticed fragments. Mb. Hales' 

 plan appears perfectly feasible. I am convinced 

 much interesting matter would be brought to light, 

 if a little interest was excited on the subject. 



R. C. Wabde. 



Kidderminster. 



Over the porch of Nantwich Church is a small 

 room, once the repository of the ecclesiastical 

 records ; but latterly (in consequence of the sacri- 

 legious abstraction of those documents by an un- 

 known hand) used for a library. of theological 

 works, placed there for the special behoof of the 

 neighbouring clergy. The collection is but a 

 small one ; and is, I I'ear, not often troubled by those 

 for whose use it was designed. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



" Ampers and" Sec. (Vol. viii., p. 173.). — Mb. 

 C. Mansfield Ingleby having revived this Query 

 without apparently being aware of the previous 

 discussion and of Mb. Nicholl's solution, " and joer 

 se and," may I be permitted to enter a protest 

 against the latter mixture of English and Latin, 

 though fully concurring in the statement of Mb. 

 KiCHOLL, that it is a rapidly formed et (Iff). To 

 the variety of pronunciations already appearing in 

 "N. & Q.," let me add what I believe will be 

 found to be the most general, empesand, which I 

 believe to be a corruption from emm, ess, and 

 (MS. and) by the introduction of a labial, as in 

 many other instances. But has any one ever seen 

 it spelt till the Query appeared in " N. & Q.," and 

 where ? Fbank Howabd. 



The Arms of De Sissonne (Vol. viii., p. 243.). 

 — There is a copy of Histoire Genealogique et 

 Chi-omlogique de la Maison Royale de France, par 

 le Pc7-e Anselme, nine vols, folio, Paris, 1726-33, 

 in the library of Sir R. Taylor's Institution, Ox- 



ford. The arms of the Seigneurs de Sissonne are 

 not blazoned in it. It is stated by Anselme, that 



" Louis, Batard de Sarrebruche-Roucy, fils nature! 

 de Jean de Sarrebruche, Comte de Roucy, fut Seigneur 

 de Sissonne, servit sous Jean d'Humieres, et est nomme 

 dans plusieurs actes des ann^es 1510, 151,5, 1517, et 

 1518. II fit un accord devaiit le prevot de Paris avec 

 Robert de Sarrebruche, Comte de Roucy, le 28 Mars, 

 1498, touchant la terre et chatellenie de Sissonne." — 

 Tome viii. p. 537. 



The arms of the "Comte de Sarrebruche, Sire de 

 Commercy en Lorraine, Conseiller et Chambellan 

 du Roi, Bouteiller de France," &c., are repre- 

 sented — 



" D'azur seme de croix recroisetees au pied fich6 

 d'or, au lion d'argent couronne d'or sur le tout." 



The following are also extracts from the Histoire 

 Genealogique : 



" Louis de Roucy, Comte de Sissonne, election de 

 Laon, portoit d'or au lion d'azur." .... 

 "Le Nobiliairede Picardie, in 4", p. 46., donnea Louis 

 de Roucy, Comte de Sissonne, deux neveux, Charles et 

 Louis de Roucy, Seigneurs d'Origny et de Ste Preuve." 

 — Tome viii. p. 538. 



J. Macbat. 



St. Patrick's Purgatory (Vol. vii., p. 552.). — 

 Some degree of doubt appearing to exist, by the 

 statement in p. 178. of the present volume, as to 

 the position of the real St. Patrick's Purgatory, I 

 send the following from Camden : 



" The Liffey" says he, " near unto his spring head, 

 enlarges his stream and spreads abroad into a lake, 

 wherein appears above the water an island, and in it, 

 hard by a little monastery, a very narrow vault within 

 the ground, much spoken of by reason of its religious 

 horrors. Which cave some say was dug by Ulysses 

 when he went down to parley with those in hell. 



" The inhabitants," he continues, *' term it in these 

 days Elian w' Frugadory, that is, The Isle of Purgatory, 

 or St, Patrick's Purgatory. For some persons devoutly 

 credulous affirm that St. Patrick, the Irishmen's 

 apostle, or else some abbot of the same name, obtained 

 by most earnest prayer at the hands of God, that the 

 punishments and torments which the wicked are to 

 sufifer after this life, might here be presented to the 

 eye ; that so he might the more easily root out the 

 sins and heathenish errors which stuck so fast to his 

 countrymen tbe Irish," 



G.W. 



Stansted, Montfichet. 



Sir George Carr (Vol. vii., pp. 512. 558.). — 

 Since W. St. and Gulielmus replied to my Query, 

 I have discovered more particular information 

 regarding him. In a MS. in Trinity College, 

 Dublin, I find the following : 



" Sir George Carr of Southerhall, Yorkshire, mar- 

 ried, on Jan. 15, 1637, Grissell, daughter of Sir Robert 

 Meredith, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland ; 

 their son, William Carr, born Jan. 11, 1639, married 



