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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the following benefices in the county of Essex, 

 viz. Shallow, Bowells,Bromfield,Chicknal, Imeley, 

 St. Mary's, Colchester, Wickham Bishops, and to 

 Oldham in 1745. He died Nov. 25, 1770; and 

 his only daughter married Thomas Astle, Esq., 

 F.R.S. and F. A.S. He was son of Stephen Morant. 

 If any of the sons or daughters of that eminent 

 antiquary Thomas Astle will give me any inform- 

 ation relative to the pedigree of Philip Morant, 

 M.A., they will greatly oblige me. H. H. M. 



Malta. 



The Position of Suffragan Bishops in Convo- 

 cation. — In Chamberlayne's Magna; Britannia; 

 Notitia, or The Present State of Great Britain, 

 1729, p. 73., it is said: 



" All suffragan bishops and deans, archdeacons, 

 prebendaries, rectors, and vicars, have privileges, some 

 by themselves, others by proxy or by representatives, 

 to sit and vote in the lower house of convocation." 



Is there authority for this statement as regards 

 suffragan bishops ? There is no writ or mandate 

 that I have seen for their appearance. 



W. Fbaser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Cambridge Mathematical Questions. — Can any 

 of your readers inform me whether the University 

 of Cambridge puts forth, by authority, a collection 

 of all the questions proposed to candidates for the 

 B. A. degree ? 



If not, how can one obtain access to the ques- 

 tions which have been asked during the last forty 

 or fifty years ? Iota. 



Crabbe MSS. — In some second-hand book 

 catalogue the following is inserted, viz., — 



"1353. Crabbe (Rev. Geo., Poet), Poems, Prayers, 

 Essays, Sermons, portions of Plays, &c, 5 vols, entirely 

 autograph, together with a Catalogue of Plants, and Ex- 

 tracts from the second Volume of the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society, 1795 (this volume only contains a few 

 Autograph Verses in pencil at the end). An Autograph 

 letter of 4 pages to the Dean of Lincoln, dated Trow- 

 bridge, March 31, 1815. A curious Anonymous letter 

 from ' Priscian ' to Mr. Murray, dated Dec. 8th, 1833, 

 on the Orthography of the name of the Birthplace of 

 the Poet, and which the writer observed in the View of 

 the Town of Aldeburgh in the frontispiece to the Prospectus 

 Mr. M. has just issued, Sfc, interspersed with some por- 

 traits and scraps, in 6 vols. 4to. and 8vo„ dated from 

 1779 to 1823, 8Z. 8s." 



This is a note underneath : 



" The following portion of a Prayer, evidently al- 

 luding to his troubles, occurs in one of the volumes 

 bearing date Dec. 31, 1779 : ' A thousand years, most 

 adored Creator, are in thy Sight as one Day. So con- 

 tract in my Sight my Calamities ! The Year of Sorrow 

 and Care, of Poverty and Disgrace, of Disappointment 

 and wrong, is now passing on to join the Eternal. 



Now, O Lord ! let, I beseech thee, my Afflictions and 

 Prayers be remembered ; my Faults and Follies be 

 forgotten.' « O ! Thou who art the Fountain of Hap- 

 piness, give me better Submission to thy Decrees, 

 better Disposition to correct my flattering Hopes, 

 better Courage to bear up under my State of Op- 

 pression,' " &c. 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." tell me 

 who possesses this ? I should very much like to 

 know. H. T. Bobart. 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



Tilly, an Officer of the Courts at Westminster. 

 — What office did one Tilly hold in one of the 

 Courts at Westminster, circa 8 William III. ? 

 Was he Warden of the Fleet ? What were his 

 connexions by birth and by marriage ? Was he 

 dispossessed ? and if so, why ? J. K. 



Mr. Gye. — Who was Mr. Guye, or Gye, who 

 had chambers in the Temple circa 8 Wm. III. ? 



J. K. 



Three Fleurs-de-Lys. — Some of your heraldic 

 contributors may perhaps be able to say whether 

 there is any instance of an English coat of arms 

 with three fleurs-de-lys in a line (horizontal), in 

 the upper part of the shield ? Such are said to 

 occur in coats of arms of French origin, as in that 

 of the celebrated Da Guesclin, and perhaps in 

 English coats in the form of a triangle. But 

 query whether, in any instance, in a horizontal 

 line? Devoniensis. 



The Commons of Ireland previous to the Union 

 in 1801. — I have understood there was a work 

 which contained either the memoirs or sketches 

 of the political characters of all the members of 

 the last " Commons of Ireland ; " and I have heard 

 it was written by a Rev. Dr. Scott of, I believe, 

 Trinity College, Dublin. Can any reader of 

 " N. & Q." inform me if there be such a work ? 

 and if there be a biographical account of the 

 author to be met with ? C. H. D. 



" All Holyday at Peckham." — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me what is the origin of 

 the phrase " All holyday at Peckham ? " * 



R.W.B. 



Arthur de Vere. — What was the after history 

 of Arthur (Philipson) de Vere, son of John, Earl 

 of Oxford, and hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel 



[* Probably some of our correspondents may know 

 the origin of this phrase ; and as many of them, perhaps, 

 are not acquainted with its meaning among the slang 

 literati, we may as well enlighten them with a quo- 

 tation from the Lexicon Balatronicum et Macaronicum 

 of Master Jon Bee : " Peckham, going to dinner. 

 ' All holiday at Peckham,' 1 no appetite. Peckish, hun- 

 gry." — Ed.] 



