Mak. 4. 1854.] 



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Sir James Ware informs us that Bishop Lyon 

 was Vicar of Naas in 1573, Vicar of Brandanston 

 in 1580, and chaplain to Lord Grey, who was sent 

 to Ireland as Lord Deputy in September, 1580. 

 This is inconsistent with the statement, that Queen 

 Elizabeth took him from the quarter-deck to 

 make him a bishop, inasmuch as he was in holy 

 orders, and in possession of preferment in Ireland, 

 nearly ten years before he was raised to the highest 

 order in the ministry. If, therefore, he was ever 

 distinguished for gallantry in naval warfare, it 

 must have been before 1573 ; for we have no 

 reason to suppose that the Rev. George Walker, 

 the hero of Londonderry, had him as an example. 

 But, as no action with the Spaniards could have 

 taken place prior to 1577, how is this to be recon- 

 ciled with the common account, tbat his gallantry 

 against them attracted the notice of the queen ? 

 In a miscellaneous compilation, entitled Jeffer- 

 son's Selections (published in York in 1795, and 

 indebted for its information about Lyon to an old 

 newspaper, which gave oral tradition as its sole 

 authority), we are told that his picture, in the 

 captain's uniform, the left hand wanting a finger, 

 is still to be seen in the bishop's palace at Cork. 

 The picture is there, and represents him certainly 

 as wanting a finger ; he is dressed, however, not 

 in a captain's uniform, but in a very scholar-like 

 black gown. 



I know not how Mr. Croker could have given 

 the year 1606 as the date of his appointment to 

 the see of Cloyne, for we learn from Ware, who is 

 no mean authority, that he was first appointed 

 to the see of Boss in 1582 ; that the sees of Cork 

 and Cloyne were given to him in commendam in 

 1583 (as is recorded in the Consistorial Court of 

 Cork), and that the three sees were formally 

 united in his person in 1586. 



In 1595 he was appointed one of the commis- 

 sioners to consider the best means of peopling 

 Munster with English settlers, and of establishing 

 a voluntary composition throughout that province 

 in lieu of cess and taxes ; this does not look as if 

 he had been an illiterate captain of a ship, or one 

 of those " rude-bred soldiers, whose education 

 was at the musket-mouth." In fact, Ware does 

 not seem to have considered him remarkable for 

 anything except such qualities as well became his 

 order. And we have the high testimony of Arch- 

 bishop Bramhall (quoted by Ware), that " Cork 

 and Ross fared the best of any bishoprick in that 

 province, a very good man, Bishop Lyon, having 

 been placed there early in the Reformation." 



Abhba. 



CURIOUS MARRIAGE AGREEMENT. 



The original of the following paper is in exist- 

 ence in this city : 



" To Mrs. Deborah Leasiing. 



" Madam. — Seeing; I, Jacob Sprier, have addressed 

 myself to you upon the design of marriage, I therefore 

 esteem it necessary to submit to your consideration 

 some particulars, before we enter upon that solemn en- 

 terprise which may either establish our happiness or 

 occasion our inquietude during life, and if you concur 

 with those particulars, I shall have great encourage- 

 ment to carry my design into execution ; and since 

 happiness is the grand pursuit of a rational creature, 

 so marriage ought not to be attempted short of a pro- 

 spect of arriving thereat ; and in order thereto (should 

 we marry) 1 conceive the following rules and parti- 

 culars ought to be steadily observed and kept, viz. : 



" 1st. That we keep but one purse: a severance of 

 interest bespeaking diffidence, mistrust, and disunity of 

 mind. 



" 2nd. That we avoid anger as much as possible, 

 especially with each other; but if either should be 

 overtaken therewith, the other to treat the angry party 

 with temper and moderation during the continuance of 

 such anger; and afterwards, if need require, let the 

 matter of heat be coolly discussed when reason shall 

 resume its government. 



" 3rd. As we have different stocks of children to- 

 which we are and ought to be strongly attached by- 

 ties of nature, so it's proper when such children or any 

 of them need correction, it be administered by the 

 party from whom they have descended ; unless, in the 

 opinion of both parties, it shall be thought necessary to 

 be otherwise administered for the children's good. 



" 4th. That no difference or partiality be made with, 

 respect to such children who live with us in point of 

 common usage touching education, food, raiment, and. 

 treatment, otherwise than as age, circumstance, and 

 convenience may render it necessary, to be agreed upon 

 between us, and grounded upon reason. 



",5th. That civility, courtesy, and kind treatment 

 be always exercised and extended towards such child 

 or children that now is or hereafter may be removed 

 from us. 



" 6th. That we use our mutual endeavours to in- 

 struct, counsel, improve, admonish, and advise all our 

 children, without partiality, for their general good ; 

 and that we ardently endeavour to promote both their 

 temporal and eternal welfare. 



" 7th. That each of us use our best endeavours to 

 inculcate upon the minds of our respective stocks of 

 children a venerable and honourable opinion of the 

 other of us ; and avoid as much as possible any insinu- 

 ation that may have a different tendency. 



" 8th. That in matters where either of us is more 

 capable of judging than the other of us, and best ac- 

 quainted therein, that the person so most capable of 

 judging, and best acquainted, do follow his or her own 

 judgment without control, unless the other shall be able 

 to give a sufficient reason to the contrary ; then, and in 

 such case, the same to be conclusive; and that we do 

 adhere to each other in things reasonable and expedient 



