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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 278. 



Bishops in Chess (Vol. xL, p. 126.). — I can 

 throw no light upon this subject, and indeed Sir 

 F. Madden seems to have settled the question ; 

 but it reminds me of ajeu cCesprit of Mr. Dudley 

 North in the House of Commons, which I myself 

 heard many years ago, and which may amuse some 

 of your readers. 



During the progress of the bill through Parlia- 

 ment for the establishment of colonial prelates, 

 some opposition was apprehended; and Mr. North, 

 being asked to support the measure, replied, " I 

 Trill certainly attend if you wish it, bat I protest 

 I never met a black bishop except at chess." 



Braybbooke. 



Monastenj of Nutcelle (Vol. x., p. 287.). — This 

 monastery, to which Winfrid, the Anglo-Saxon 

 missionary (afterwards called Boniface), once be- 

 longed, is, I believe, Nutwell in Devon : this place 

 is situated on the left bank of the Exe, a few 

 miles from Exraouth. 



I am not able to give any particulars of Nut- 

 well as an abbey, and I have no work of reference 

 by me which would supply the information. I 

 can at present only state that at the dissolution a 

 portion at least of Nutwell was granted by Ed- 

 Trard VI. to one of the family of Prideaux ; the 

 original grant under the great seal is in the pos- 

 session of Mr. George Prideaux of Plymouth. 

 As Crediton was the birthplace of Winfrid (alias 

 Boniface), it seems far more probable that his 

 monastery was situated in the same district, and 

 on the bank of the same river, than in the more 

 distant locality of Netley. L^lics. 



Use of the Term " vaccinated" in 1725 (Vol. xi., 

 p. 62.). — It would be desirable to obtain expla- 

 nation whether the precise word "vaccinated" does 

 really occur in Byrom's MS. Journal, in his notice 

 of the paper communicated to the Royal Society 

 by Mr. Claudius Amyand, Sergeant Surgeon, in 



Byrom's MS. Journal Is stated in his editor's 

 introduction (p. viii.) to be " shrouded in the ob- 

 scurity of his own shorthand," and to have been 

 "hitherto unintelligible." If the word there 

 written is obscure, but its meaning obvious, a more 

 recent synonyme may have been introduced, 

 without considering explanation necessary. 



It is admitted that Jenner's merit lay in the 

 scientific application of results known practically 

 to be preventatives by milkers, as your corre- 

 spondent mentions. They were probably known 

 far beyond Jenner's range, and long before his 

 time. I can speak to such results having come 

 within the observation of a Cheshire gentleman 

 who died In 1753, and who had been informed 

 of them shortly after settling on his estate la 

 Prestbury parish, in or about 1740. 



L ANC ASTEIEN SXS . 



English Bishops' Mitres (Vol. x., pp. 87. 227.). 

 — 'If the following brief notices be worth inserting 

 in a quiet corner of " N. & Q.," they are perfectly 

 at the worthy Editor's service. 



Bishops wore their mitres at the coronations 

 of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Queen Mary, and 

 Queen Elizabeth. At that of James I. they wore 

 their rochets, and therefore, most probably, their 

 square caps. At the coronation of Charles I. the 

 account given of that ceremony Is not sufficiently 

 explicit to say whether or not mitres were worn 

 on that occasion. The Archbishop, after the Re- 

 cognition, invested himself " in pontificalibus." 

 whether this term Is to be received in its full 

 signification. In reference to the Roman Catholic 

 ritual, or simply as a conventional term signifying 

 that the bishops were In their proper ecclesiasticed 

 habits. Is not quite clear. The ceremony was per- 

 formed as at Edward VI.'s coronation, according" 

 to the form agreeable to the use of the Reformed 

 Church of England. In the ceremonial of Ed- 

 ward's coronation the same term Is used, and the 

 bishops wore their mitres. 



At the coronation of Charles II. the bishops 

 wore their rochets ; as also at the coronation of 

 James II., with their square caps In their hands. 

 At the coronation of William and Mary they wore 

 their rochets and caps. The bishops wore their 

 caps at Queen Anne's coronation. At the corona- 

 tions of George I., George II., and George III. 

 they carried their caps In their hands, and put 

 them on at the time the peers put on their coro- 

 nets. Immediately after the " crowning." Had the 

 bishops worn their mitres at the coronation of 

 George III., the circumstance would not have 

 escaped the observation of Leake (afterwards 

 Garter), who was present at the ceremony, and 

 who has left a very particular account In manu- 

 script of the various costumes worn on Ihat occa- 

 sion. It needs scarcely be remarked, that at the 

 coronations which have happened during the pre- 

 sent century, the bishops wore their caps, which 

 they put on when the peers put on their coronets. 

 Thos. Wm. King, York Herald. 

 College of Arms. 



Earthenware Vessels found in the Foundations of 

 Buildings (Vol. x., pp. 386. 434. 516. ; Vol. xi., 

 p. 74.). — I do not think any of your correspondents 

 have offered a satisfactory solution of this curious 

 subject, for It seems to me Improbable that jugs 

 would be employed either as acoustic Instruments, 

 or to hold the ashes of the dead, or for the purpose 

 of strengthening foundations. , 



In Cambridge they are very frequently found in 

 digging up the foundations of old houses, not em- 

 bedded in the masonry, but lying In the soil below 

 the basement floor ; they are generally of the type 

 known as Bellarmines, or Grey-beards, and my 

 attention has been called at different times to 



