May 26. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



407. 



require of your hands, saith the Lord. Thus saith the 

 Ahnighty Lord, Your house is desolate," &c. 



Not only is this second (or fourth) book of Esdras 

 not found in the Gfeek Septuagint, but it is ex- 

 cluded from the canon of Scripture throughout 

 the entire Latin Church. And yet we find one 

 part of the passage above quoted attributed to the 

 « Wisdom of God" (St. Luke xi. 49, 50.) : 



" Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send 

 them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall 

 slay and persecute ; that the blood of all the prophets, 

 ■which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be 

 required of this generation," &c. 



What I would seek permission to ask is, whether 

 any parallel can be found to the whole or any 

 part of this passage in the canonical Scriptures of 

 the Old Testament? 



I wish for something closer than that fine de- 

 scription of the eagle in the Song of Moses (Deulj. 

 xxxii. 11, 12.): 



" As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her 

 young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth 

 them on her wings : so the Lord alone did lead him," &c. 



Neither are such general allusions as that of 

 Ps. xci. 4. sufficiently precise to answer the ob- 

 ject of my inquiry. J. Sansom. 



Dover or Dovor. — On what ground is it that 

 certain parties are endeavouring to persuade the 

 English world to write Dover with two o's, Dovor f 

 Dubris in Latin, and Douvres in French, will 

 hardly justify this. A. B. C. 



Peacham's Worhs. — I should be much obliged 

 if any of your correspondents would inform me of 

 the nature or contents of the following works by 

 this once popular author : 



" Commons Complaint. 1611." 



"An April Shower, shed in abundance of Teares for the 

 Death of the Kight Noble Richard Sacvile, Baron of 

 Buckhurst and Earl of Dorset. 4to., London, 1624." 



"The Truth of our Times revealed out of one Man's 

 experience, by way of Essay. 8vo., London, 1638." 



" The Duty of Subjects to their King, and Love of their 

 native Countrv in time of Extremity and Danger. In 

 Two Books. 4 to., London, 1639." 



" A merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum, or Mine and 

 Thine. 4to., London, 1639." 



The above works are not to be found in the 

 British Museum, but are, I believe, in the Malone 

 Collection, Oxford. S. Wiswould. 



Knights Hospitallers in Ireland. — I perceive the 

 Camden Society purpose publishing the " Extent 

 of the Estates of the Hospitallers in England," 

 from a MS. in the public library at Malta, to be 

 edited by the Rev. Lambert B. Larking. I bew 

 to be informed whether a similar *' Extent of the 

 Hospitallers' Property in Ireland" is to be found 

 in the library at Malta or elsewhere ; and if so. 



is there any likelihood of its being published ? My 

 object is to ascertain a detailed account of the 

 landed property, &c. of tliat order in the county 

 of Down in Ulster, where their estates were pretty 

 extensive. Perhaps, through the courtesy of Mr, 

 Larking, your correspondent W. W. of Malta, or 

 some other of your contributors, the desired in- 

 formation could be procured. W. R. G. 



Sporting Queries. — When was fox-hunting in- 

 troduced into the south of England ? 



When did stag-hunting cease in the south of 

 England ; excepting the north of Devon and 

 Somerset, where it continues ? 



How was hare-hunting conducted formerly ? 



Where can I find the best account of English 

 field sports ? 



When did hawking go out, and shooting with a 

 hand-gun come in ? 



Where is the first mention of fishing with the 

 artificial fly in English rivers ? When did this 

 begin ? G. R. L. 



Sepia Etchings. — Can any of your readers give 

 me information concerning a book of 125 sepia 

 etchings, now in my possession, entitled "Devises 

 dessignees a la plume, par Morisieur Rabel; given my 

 mother, the Lady Le Gros, by Sir Wiilyam Paston, 

 her neere Kinsman? — Frances Burwell, a lover of 

 drawings and pictures." W. R. Baylet. 



Oxford. 



Clerical Incumbency. — A question having been 

 started in conversation, for an instance of a clergy- 

 man of the Church of England who had for the 

 longest time held a single benefice — feeling the 

 difficulty of answering such a general question — 

 I still could not refrain from mentioning an in- 

 dividual case in this neighbourhood ; but I think 

 it very probable some reader of " N. & Q." may 

 adduce an example stronger than mine, which I 

 hope he will please to communicate. 



The Messrs. Lysons, in their History of Devon^ 

 Part II., p. 570., speak of the Rev. Potter Cole 

 having been Lord of the Manor of Woolfardis- 

 worthy, near Bideford ; and state that he died at 

 the age of ninety-seven, having been vicar of 

 Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, seventy- three years. 

 This is perfectly correct, and it is confirmed, with 

 some particulars of this estimable man, who died 

 March 24, 1802, in the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 April, 1802, p. 376. The parish Is a large one, 

 and the church was said to be the mother of seven 

 daughters, or chapels-of-ease, within her juris- 

 diction (see Rudder, p. 482.). The patronan;e has 

 long been in the Liverpool family. Sir Robert 

 Jenkinson having presented to it in 1679. Mr. 

 Cole is said never, during his whole incumbency, 

 to have been one month at a time out of his parish : 

 and with many virtues, his unbounded charity 



