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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 274. 



(1 Tim. iv. 16.) "Thy" instead of "The" doc- 

 trine. Will you or any of your readers inform 

 me of the cause of value of this volume ? Is it 

 from its being supposed to be an intentional mis- 

 print, or the rarity of the edition ? I possess one 

 of the date of 1660 (John Field, London), having 

 the same reading of the above passage. H. W. D. 



The Episcopal Wig (Vol. xi., p. 11.). — The 

 first modern bishop who abandoned the episcopal 

 wig, was the Honourable Edward Legge, Bishop 

 of Oxford, 1815 ; and he, it was said, had a special 

 permission from the Prince Regent to do so. 



E. F. 



James ll.'s Writings (Vol. x., p. 485.). — G. N. 

 inquires whether certain devotional writings by 

 King James II. were ever published, and, if so, 

 under what title, &c. ? I have an 



" Abridgment of the Life of James II., extracted from 

 an English manuscript of the Eev. Father Francis San- 

 ders, of the Society of Jesus, and Confessor to his late 

 Majesty, &c. 



"Also, a Collection of the said King's own Thoughts 

 upon several subjects of Piety, by Father Francis Britton- 

 neau, one of the same Society. Done out of French from 

 the Paris Edition. 1703. London, printed for R. Wilson, 

 Bookseller at Maidstone in Kent, and sold by the Book- 

 sellers of London and Westminster. 1704. Price 2s." 

 12mo. pp. 192. 



from p. 109. to the end are — 



" The Sentiments of James II. upon divers subjects of 

 Piety," which collection, such as it is, says the French 

 translator's advertisement, " is no more than a plain and 

 faithful Translation of what he had set down with his 

 own hand in English." 



" The approbation " of this work is dated Paris, 

 the 13th of December, 1702. E. P. Shirley. 



Houndshill. 



Canons of York (Vol. xi., p. 11.). — The va- 

 cancy of a canon residentiary of York is obliged 

 to be given, not to the first man, but to the pre- 

 bendary of York, who applies for it. My au- 

 thority is a prebendary of that cathedral. E. F. 



Rose of Sharon ■=■ Jericho (Vol. x., p. 508.). — I 

 think Mr. Middleton must allude to the " Rose 

 of Jericho," Anastatica hierochuntica, a cruciferous 

 plant, the Kaf Maryam, " Mary's Hand," of the 

 Arabs, which, growing in the wastes of Arabia and 

 Palestine, has the property of recovering its fresh- 

 ness when placed in water, after having been ga- 

 thered and dried. Most botanical works will give 

 farther information on this point. Seleucds. 



Eminent Men bom in the same Year (Vol. xi., 

 p. 27.). — Looking at the circumstances that your 

 correspondent has taken both England and France, 

 and has included Chateaubriand and Castlereagh, 

 it is not too much to suppose that twenty men 

 might have been named, Englishmen or French- 



men, of whom seven being born in the same year 

 would be quoted as a coincidence. Again, co- 

 temporaries of the highest note are usually between 

 fifty and sixty years of age at the same time. 

 The search for a coincidence, then, may be fairly 

 conducted by picking out twenty men of fame 

 who are born in the same decade. Supposing each 

 year of that decade to be as likely as any other to 

 be the year of birth, it is not more than seventeen 

 to three against some one year giving seven or 

 more of them. It is about an even chance that 

 the coincidence would be found once, at least, in 

 four trials. 



It appears then that of twenty cotemporaries 

 who are within ten years of each other, it is not 

 six to one against seven or more being of one 

 year. And it is never difficult to find, in two 

 great countries, twenty such cotemporaries who 

 are all of high fame. It is true that a cluster 

 containing men so remarkable as Napoleon and 

 Wellington cannot often be found. 1. 4. 13. 



Murray of Broughton (Vol. x., p. 144.). — In 

 answer to Y. S. M., I beg to inform him that 

 there is no proof that Mungo Murray of Brough- 

 ton (or Brochtoun), who had a charter in 1508 

 of lands in Galloway, was second son of Cuthbert 

 Murray of Cockpool, as stated by the inaccurate 

 peerage writer Douglas. It is very likely, how- 

 ever, that he was a cadet of that family. " Johne 

 of Murray, of Kirkcassalt, sone and ayr of Un- 

 quhile Stevin of Murray of Brochtoun," is pur- 

 suer of an action before the Lords Auditors, 

 March 23, 1481; and is styled "of Brochtoun" 

 in a subsequent notice respecting the lands of 

 Kirkcassalt in 1490. Between these dates, how- 

 ever, appears the name of " Moungo Murray of 

 Brochton ;" and I have met with notices of 

 " Herbert Murray, son to Unquhile Mungo Mur- 

 ray of Brochtoun," as flourishing in 1563 and 

 1564. A descendant, probably George Murray 

 of Brochtoun, had a charter in 1602 of the lands 

 of Mekill Brochtoun and Little Brochtoun ; in 

 which, after the heirs male of his body, John 

 Murray (afterwards Earl of Annandale), son of 

 Charles Murray of Cockpool and the heirs male of 

 his body, whom failing, William Murray and Mal- 

 colm Murray, brothers-german of George, and 

 their heirs male respectively, are called to the 

 succession. It is probable that George was father 

 of John Murray of Brochtoun, who married a 

 coheiress of Cockpool, as mentioned by Y. S. M. 



R. R. 



Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Vol. x., 

 p. 301.). — In the notice of James Sandilands 

 several mistakes occur, which only require to be 

 noticed. Sir James Sandilands is said to have 

 resigned the property of the Order into the hands 

 of the Queen of England., instead of the Queen of 

 Scotland. Torphichen is printed Torphicen ; and 



