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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 295. 



" History of the Winds," in the third part of the 

 Instauratio Magna : 



" I remember I asked a certain merchant (a wise and 

 discreet man), who had made a plantation in Greenland, 

 and had wintered there, why that country was so extreme 

 cold, seeing it stood in a reasonable temperate climate. 

 He said it was not so great as it was reported, but that 

 the cause was two-fold. One was, that the masses and 

 heaps of ice which came out of the Scythian sea were 

 carried thither. The other (which he also thought to be 

 the better reason) was because the west wind there blows 

 many parts of the year more than the east wind, as also, 

 said he, it doth with us ; but it there blows from the con- 

 tinent, and cold, but with us from the sea, and warmish ; 

 and, said he, if the east wind should blow here in England 

 so often and constantly as the west wind does there, we 

 should have far colder weather, even equal to that as is there." 



C. B. A. 



PALET AND BISHOP PORTBUS. 



Whilst looking over a volume of sermons by 

 Bishop Porteus the other day, I met with a dis- 

 course upon the text, Ps. xxii. 28., and was im- 

 mediately struck by its resemblance to one of 

 Paley's sermons : the resemblance appeared to me 

 so strong that I was induced to compare them to- 

 gether, and, on doing so, I discovered, to my no 

 small surprise, that they were for the most part 

 nearly word for word alike. The circumstance is 

 not without interest, and will remind the readers 

 of " N. & Q." of the similar coincidence between 

 sermons by Doddridge and Whitefield, lately 

 pointed out in your pages (Vol. xl., pp. 46. 133.). 

 Bishop Porteus's sermon may be found in Sermons 

 en several Subjects, by the Rij^ht Reverend Beilby 

 Porteus, D.D., Bishop of Chester. The fourth 

 edition, corrected. 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1784. 

 It forms Sermon X. vol. il. p. 215., and a note in- 

 forms us that it was " preached before the House 

 of Lords, January 30, 1778." Paley's sermon may 

 be found in the edition of his Works, published by 

 the Rev. Edmund Paley, in four volumes 8vo., 

 London, 1838. It forms No. XIV. of the Sermons 

 on Particular Subjects, vol. iv. p. 354. Judging 

 from the internal evidence of the two sermons, I 

 should think that the authorship must rest with 

 Bishop Porteus. The differences between the two 

 sermons consist for the most part in the omission 

 (from the copy ascribed to Paley) of several ob- 

 servations having somewhat of a political bearing, 

 but suitable to the audience before which the 

 bishop is noted to have delivered it. Indeed, I 

 should say that the alterations in Paley's copy 

 were such as to adapt a striking sermon, preached 

 on a special occasion, and before a particular con- 

 gregation, to a more ordinary class of hearers. If 

 any of your correspondents differ from this view, 

 or are in possession of information which may 



enable them to confirm or controvert it, I shall 

 esteem it a favour if they will communicate the 

 results of their researches to your pages. 



W. Spaebow Simpson. 



JOHN HOWLAND, ONE OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. 



Bartlett, in his Pilgrim Fathers, indicates sur- 

 prise at being shown a " family tree " by one of 

 the descendants of the pilgrims ; but why it should 

 excite surprise that a citizen of New England 

 should be desirous of tracing and recording his 

 genealogy, I cannot imagine ; at any rate I am 

 glad to be able to state that family genealogies 

 are no rare things in the land of the pilgrims, and 

 that increasing attention is being paid to such 

 matters. To elicit information relative to the 

 family of one of the pilgrim fathers is the object 

 of this communication. Among the most efficient 

 of the pilgrims who in 1620, from the deck of the 

 "Mayflower," landed upon the shore of New Eng- 

 land, was John Howland ; he was at that time 

 about twenty-eight years of age, and was a parti- 

 cipant in every active enterprise undertaken by 

 the colonists. Of his antecedents literally nothing 

 is known other than that he was said to be " of 

 London." He held important offices in the ma- 

 gistracy of the colony, to perform the duties of 

 which required a degree of education and ability 

 not generally possessed in those days by other 

 than respectable and wealthy families, and not 

 universally by such even. He married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of John Carver, the first governor of 

 the colony. He died in 1672, aged eighty years, 

 leaving four sons and six daughters, from whom 

 have descended a numerous posterity. So far 

 preliminary to my Query, which is this: Was John 

 Howland the pilgrim identical with the John 

 Howland of the third generation in the following 

 record, which is part of a record obtained from 

 Heralds' College, Bennet's Hill, London ? 



John Howland of London, gent., citizen and 

 Salter, married Ann, daughter of Green way Clay, 

 county Norfolk. 



The children of John and Ann Howland were — 



1st. Richard, D.D., BIsliop of Peterborough; 

 baptized September 25, 1540. 



2nd. John of London, also of Essex ; baptized 

 August 10, 1541, married Emma, daughter and 

 heiress of Nicolas Revell of London. 



3rd. William ; baptized 1542. 



4th. Christina, 1544. 



5th. Robert of Gray's Inn, without issue. 



6th. Sir Giles of Streatham, co. Surrey, Knt. ; 

 baptized 1549, died 1608. 



And six other children. 



To John and Emma Howland were born, — 



1st. John of Newport, co. Essex, son and heir 

 (the pilgrim ?). 



