Feb. 24. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Ireland — Ancient Usage. — 



" Ireland : Ancient Usage. — The following ancient 

 usage was observed yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. 

 Three of the choir boys and one of the clergymen, of 

 Christ's Church, attended before their lordships to com- 

 ply with the terms on which certain lands are held by 

 the Dean and Chapter of Christ's Church Cathedral, 

 namely, that on specified daj's they shall render homage 

 to Her Majesty in her Court of Exchequer. A hymn 

 having been sung, and certain prayers recited, the cere- 

 mony terminated." — The Evening Journal, February 2, 

 1855. 



Will some Dublin reader of "N. & Q." place 

 on record in its pages, full particulars as to this 

 ancient usage ? L. L. L. 



Ancient Order of Hiccdbites. — Is anything 

 known of a society with the above title ? I find 

 a lodge of the Order existing in Chester about 

 ninety years ago, and should be glad to know 

 something of the nature and constitution of the 

 society. The Order must not be confounded with 

 the Rechabites, inasmuch as the chapters were 

 held at an inn, which would of course be an 

 abomination to the latter-named fraternity. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Minor ^uevitS iut'tfi ^niiatvi. 



Authors of Latin Plays. — Can any of your 

 readers who may have an opportunity of consult- 

 ing Cole's MS. Athenaj Cantab., give me any 

 account of the following authors of Latin plays ? 

 1. Henry Lacy, author of Richardus Tertius, a 

 Latin tragedy, MS , 1586. The author was Fel- 

 low of Trinity College, Cambridge. 2, Stubbe, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, author of 

 Frans Honesta, a Latin comedy, 8vo., 1632. 3. 

 Mr. Hawkswortb, author of Labyrinthus, a Latin 

 comedy, 1635. 4. Thomas Vincent, author of 

 Paria, a Latin play, Svo., 1648; acted before 

 King Charles L, 1627. 5. Mewe, of Emmanuel 

 College, Cambridge, author of Pseudomasia, a 

 Latin play, MS. K. J. 



[Cole's notices of these dramatic writers are extremely 

 meagre. Of Henry Lacy he simply states that he was 

 the author of Richardus Tertius, of which two copies are 

 in the Harleian Collection, Nos. 2412. 692G. — Edmund 

 Stubbe, Fellow of Trinity College, and author of Frans 

 Honesta, 1632. " On Tuesday, February 25, 1622-3, on 

 the arrival of Don Carlos de Colonne and Ferdinand 

 Baron de Boj'scot, ambassadors from the King of Spain 

 and the Archduchess of Austria, who came to Cambridge, 

 they were welcomed into Trinity College by Stubbe." — 

 Walter Haukesworth, author of Labyrinthus, 1635. " In 

 a MS. note," says Cole, " is this added, ' This comedy was 

 exhibited in the College of the Holy Trinity in tlie year 

 1602, at the election of bachelors. The spectators were 

 many noblemen and academicians. It was written by 

 that very eminent person Master Walter Haukesworth.' " 

 Cole then adds the following : " Query, Was he the author 

 of Pedantius : Comoedia olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. 



Trin. Nunquam antehac Typis evulgata. Lond., 12mo., 

 1631?" — Thomas Vincent, of Trinity College, author of 

 Paria, 1648. " Other Latin plays printed with it, as 

 lyoila, &c., but without name." — The only notice of Mewe 

 is the following: " William Mewe, B.D., Emmanuel Col- 

 lege, author of The Pobbery and Spoiling of Jacob and 

 Israel : a fast-sermon before the Commons, November 29, 

 1643, on Isaiah xlii. 24, 25., 4to., 1643." He was rector 

 of Eastington, in Gloucestershire.] 



Ross or Rouse. — " Lives of the Earls of War- 

 wick and Kings of England." MS. in Bibl. Cott. 

 Has this been printed ? If so, where ? 



G. E. T. S. R. N. 



[This MS. is in the Bodleian, and has been published! 

 by Thomas Hearne: "Joannis Rossi Antiquarii War- 

 wicensis Historia Rerum Angliaj, e codice MS. in Biblio- 

 theca Bodleiana descripsit, notisque et indice adornavit 

 Tho. Hearnius, A.M. Oxoniensis. Accedit Joannis Le- 

 landi Antiquarii Nienia in Mortem Henrici Duddelegi 

 Equitis ; cui praefigitur testimonium de Lelando^amplum 

 et prajclarum, hactenus ineditum." Oxonii, 1716, 8vp. 

 Editio secunda, Oxonii, 1745, Svo. Both editions contaia 

 two plates : 1. The statue of Guy, and the portniicture of 

 lohn Rous. 2. The prospect of Guye's Clifi'e. Speaking 

 of Guye's ClifFe, Hearne says, "Here it was that our 

 Warwickshire antiquary John Rous (whose portraicture 

 likewise, exactly taken from an ancient roll, wherein it 

 was drawn to the life by himself, I have represented), 

 after he came from the university, lived, being a chantry 

 priest in this chapel, and compiled his Chron. de Regibus ; 

 of whom, considering his special affection to, and know- 

 ledge in, antiquities, being loth to omit anything which 

 may do honour to his memory, I shall here observe, that 

 for his parentage he was the son of Geffrey Rous of 

 Warwick, but descended of the Rouses of Brinklow in 

 this county ; and touching his education, course of life, 

 and death, have transcribed what Bale from Leland hath- 

 expressed of him." — Page xxix. There is also a MS. in 

 the College of Arms, and another belonging to the Duke 

 of Manchester. The latter was transcribed verbatim et 

 literatim some years ago as a kindness to the late ^^. 

 Pickering, by our valued correspondent the Rev. L. B. 

 Larking. From this transcript a copj' was written out 

 in extenso by the late Mr. Stapleton, which was beauti- 

 fully printed by Whittingham at least ten years ago, 

 with all the portraits and arms in their proper colours^ 

 All that was required was an Introduction, which we 

 believe would readily have been prepared b}'^ one most 

 competent to the task, but who for some reason was 

 never asked to undertake it. We hope it may still bff 

 given to the world, and wish Mr. Pickering had been 

 spared to witness its publication.] 



Hon. AncMtell Grey. — Who was the Hon. 

 Anchitell Grey, compiler of Debates of the House 

 of Commons, in 10 vols. Svo., 1769 ? To what 

 family did he belong ? L. J. 



[The Hon. Anchitell Grey belonged to the Greys of 

 Groby, and was the second" son of Henry, first Earl of 

 Stamford. Collins {Peerage, vol. iii. p. 359.) states that 

 " Anchitell married Mary [the pedigree says Anne], 

 daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Willoughbj', of Risley, 

 in Derbyshire, Bart., by whom he had a son, Willoughby, 

 who died unmarried; and a daughter, Elizabeth, who 

 died before her father." In 1681, he was Deputy-Lieute- 

 nant in the county of Leicester; is mentioned as one of 

 the Commissioners of Somerset in Clarendon's Rebellion, 

 vol. iv. p. 21., edit. 1849 ; and represented the town of 



