Feb. 11. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Marquis of Granby. — In a late number of 

 Chambers's Journal it is stated that there are eigh- 

 teen taverns in London bearing the sign of the 

 Marquis of Granby. How did this sign become 

 so popular ; and which marquis was it whose 

 popularity gained him immortality ; and when 

 lived he ? .J. M. Wharton. 



[This sign is intended as a compliment to John 

 Manners, commonly called Marquis of Granby, eldest 

 son of John, third Duke of Rutland, who appears to have 

 been a good, bluff-brave soldier — active, generous, 

 careful of his men, and beloved by them. Mr. Peter 

 Cunningham (Handbook, p. 398., edit. 1850) informs 

 us, that " Granby spent many an happy hour at the 

 Hercules Pillars public-house, Piccadilly, where Squire 

 Western put his horses up, when in pursuit of Tom 

 Jones." He died, much regretted, on October 19, 1770, 

 without succeeding to the dukedom. 



" What conquests now will Britain boast, 

 Or where display her banners ? 

 Alas ! in Granby she has lost 



True courage and good Manners." 



His popularity is shown by the frequent occurrence of 

 his portrait as a sign-board for public-houses, even of 

 late years ; a fact which at once testifies in favour of 

 his personal qualities, and indicates the low state of 

 our military fame during the latter half of the last 

 century.] 



11 Memorials of English Affairs" 8fc. — Can you 

 inform me who was the author of a folio volume 

 entitled — 



" Memorials of the English Affairs ; or an Historical 

 Account of what passed from the beginning of the 

 Reign of King Charles I. to King Charles II. his 

 happy ' Restauration ; ' containing the Public Trans- 

 actions, Civil and Military, together with the Private 

 Consultations and Secrets of the Cabinet. London : 

 printed for Nathanael Conder, at the Sign of the 

 Peacock in the Poultry, near the Church, mdclxxxii." 



I have never seen any other copy than the one 

 in my possession. L. R. 



[This work is by Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke. The 

 edition of 1682, possessed by our correspondent, was 

 published by Arthur, Earl of Anglesea, who took con- 

 siderable liberties with the manuscript. The best 

 edition, containing the passages cancelled by the Earl, 

 is that of 1732, fol. " This work," says Bishop War- 

 burton, " that has been so much cried up, is a meagre 

 diary, wrote by a poor-spirited, self-interested, and 

 self-conceited lawyer of eminence, but full of facts." 

 At p. 378. (edit. 1682) occurs the following entry: — 

 " From the council of state, Cromwell and his son 

 Ireton went home with Whitelocke to supper, where 

 they were very cheerful, and seemed extremely well- 

 pleased ; they discoursed together till twelve o'clock 

 at night, and told many wonderful observations of 

 God's providence in the affairs of the war, and in the 

 business of the army's coming to London, and seizing 



the members of the house, in all which were miracu- 

 lous passages." To this sentence in the copy now be- 

 fore us, some sturdy royalist has added the following 

 MS. note : — " Whitelocke reports this of himself, as 

 being well pleased with it ; and the success of their 

 villany they accounted God's providence !"] 



Standing when the Lord's Prayer is read. — On 

 Sunday, January 8, the second lesson for morning 

 service is the sixth chapter of St. Matthew, in 

 which occurs the Lord's Prayer. When the offi- 

 ciating clergyman began to read the ninth verse, 

 in which the prayer commences, the congregation 

 at Bristol Cathedral rose, and remained standing 

 till its conclusion. Is this custom observed in other 

 places ? and (if there is to be a change of position) 

 why do the congregation stand, and not kneel, the 

 usual posture of prayer in the Church of England? 



Cervtjs. 



[The custom, we believe, is observed in the majority 

 of churches. The reason for standing rather than 

 kneeling seems to be, that when the Lord's Prayer 

 comes in the course of the lessons it is only read his- 

 torically, as a part of a narrative, which indicates that 

 the whole sacred narrative should be treated, as it was 

 anciently, with the like reverence. The rubric says 

 nothing about sitting ; standing and kneeling being 

 the only postures expressly recognised. In the curious 

 engraving of the interior of a church, prefixed to 

 Bishop Sparrow's Rationale upon the Book of Common 

 Prayer, 1661, there is not a seat of any kind to be seen, 

 pews not having become at this time a general ap- 

 pendage to churches ; probably a few chairs or benches 

 were required for the aged or infirm. The only in- 

 timation of the sitting posture in our present Common 

 Prayer- Book occurs in the rubric, enjoining the people 

 to stand when the Gospel is read, which Wheatly tells 

 us was first inserted in the Scotch Common Prayer- 

 Book. See «< N. & Q.," Vol. ii., pp. 246. 347.] 



Hypocrisy, Sfc. — Can you inform me with whom 

 originated the following saying : " Hypocrisy is 

 the homage which vice renders to virtue" ? 



A. C. W. 



[The saying originated with the Duke de la Roche- 

 foucault, and occurs in his Moral Maxims, No. 233.] 



StUpItetf. 



" CONSILIUM NOVEM DELECTORUM CARDINALIUM," 

 ETC. 



(Yol. viii., p. 54.) 



The Note of your correspondent Novus upon 

 this Consilium ought to have been answered 

 before ; but as none of your contributors who can 

 speak as " having authority " have undertaken to 

 do so, I beg to offer to your readers the following 

 statements and extracts, collected when my sur- 

 prise at the assertions of Novus was quite fresh. 



