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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 227. 



years ago for the library of the Royal Dublin Society, 

 if I mistake not, for 1/. 6s., or rather more.) The pro- 

 foundly learned Vice- Provost, Doctor Barrett, never 

 met with one ; and many gentlemen well skilled in the 

 literature of Ireland, who have been applied to for in- 

 formation on the subject, are even unacquainted with 

 the name of the book." 



Of Dr. Madden, known as "Premium" Madden, 

 few memorials exist ; and yet he was a man of 

 -whom Johnson said, " His was a name Ireland 

 ought to honour." The book in question does 

 not appear to be of " uncommon rarity." Is it 

 considered by competent judges of " exceeding 

 -merit ? " I would be glad to know. Abhba. 



[Probably, from this work having appeared anony- 

 -mously, it was unknown to the writers of his life in 

 Chalmers' and Rose's Biographical Dictionaries, as well 

 •as to Mr. Nichols, when he wrote his account of Dr. 

 Madden in his Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 32. A 

 volume containing the Reflections and Resolutions, to- 

 gether with the author's tragedy, Themistocles, 1 729, 

 and his tract, A Proposal for the General Encourage- 

 ment of Learning in Dublin College, 1 732, is in the 

 Grenville Collection in the British Museum. This 

 volume was presented by Dr. Madden to Philip, Earl 

 of Chesterfield, as appears from the following MS. note 

 on a fly-leaf: " To his Excellency the Right Hon. 

 Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 

 land, these Tracts, writ (how meanly soever) with a 

 real zeal for the service of that country, are most 

 humbly presented by the author, his most obedient 

 humble servant."] 



King Edward I. 's Arm. — Fuller, speaking of 

 the death and character of King Edward I., winds 

 up with these words : 



" As the arm of King Edward I. was accounted the 

 measure of a yard, generally received in England ; so 

 his actions are an excellent model and a praiseworthy 

 platform for succeeding princes to imitate." — Church 

 History, b. Hi., a. d. 1 307. 



Query, Is there historical proof of this state- 

 ment of " honest Tom ? " He gives no reference, 

 apparently considering the fact too well established 

 to require any. J. M. B. 



[Ask that staunch and sturdy royalist, Peter Heylin, 

 whether Old Tom is not sometimes more facetious 

 than correct ; and whether, in the extract given above, 

 we should not read Richard I. for Edward I. In 

 Knyghton's Chronicle, lib. ir. cap. viii. sub Hen. I., we 

 find, " Mercatorum falsam ulnam castigavit adhibita 

 brachii sui mensura." See also William of Malms- 

 bury in Vita Hen. I., and Spelm. Hen. T. apud Wil- 

 kins, 299., who inform us, that a new standard of lon- 

 gitudinal measure was ascertained by Henry I., who 

 commanded that the ulna, or ancient ell, which answers 

 to the modern yard, should be made of the exact length 

 of his own arm.] 



Elstob, Elizabeth. — Can any of your numerous 

 correspondents state where that celebrated Saxon 



linguist, Mrs. Elizabeth Elstob, was buried ? In 

 Chambers's Biographical Illustrations of Worces- 

 tershire, she is said to have been buried at Saint 

 Margaret's, Westminster ; but after every inquiry, 

 made many years since of the then worthy church- 

 warden of the parish, our researches were in vain, 

 for there is no account of her sepulture in the 

 church or graveyard. J. B. Whitbotjrne. 



[Most of the biographical notices of Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Elstob state that she was buried at St. Margaret's, 

 Westminster. We can only account for the name not 

 appearing in the register of that church, from her 

 having changed her name when she opened her school in 

 Worcestershire, as stated, on the authority of Mr. Geo. 

 Ballard, in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. iv. p. 714. 

 Ballard's Correspondence is in the Bodleian.] 



Monumental Brasses in London. — Can any of 

 your correspondents favour me with a list of 

 churches in London, or within a mile of the same, 

 containing monumental brasses ? I know of St. 

 Helen's, Bishopsgate, only. J. W. Brown. 



[As our young crypto-antiquary dates his letter from 

 Crosby Hall, he will probably find in its library the fol- 

 lowing works to assist him in his researches : — List 

 of Monumental Brasses in England ( Rivington), Manual 

 for the Study of Monumental Brasses (Parker), and 

 Sperling's Church Walks in Middlesex (Masters). Two 

 are noticed in Waller's Monumental Brasses, fob, 1842, 

 viz. Dr. Christopher Urswick, in Hackney Church, 

 A.n. 1521, and Andrew Evyngar and wife, in All- 

 Hallows Barking Church. If we mistake not, there 

 is one in St. Faith's, near St. Paul's.] 



<RcpItc£. 



RAPPING NO NOVELTY; AND TABLE-TCRNING. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 512. 632.; Vol. ix., pp. 39. 88. 135.) 



" There is a curious criminal process on record, ma- 

 nuscript 1770, noticed by Voltaire as in the library of 

 the King of France, which was founded upon a re- 

 markable set of visions said to have occurred to the 

 monks of Orleans. 



" The illustrious house of St. Memin had been very 

 liberal to the convent, and had their family vault under 

 the church. The wife of a Lord of St. Memin, Provost 

 of Orleans, died, and was buried. The husband, 

 thinking that his ancestors had given more than enough 

 to the convent, sent the monks a present, which they 

 thought too small. They formed a plan to have her 

 body disinterred, and to force the widower to pay a 

 second fee for depositing it again in holy ground. 



" The soul of the lady first appeared to two of the 

 brethren, and said to them, ' I am damned, like Judas, 

 because my husband has not given sufficient.' They 

 hoped to extort money for the repose of her soul. But 

 the husband said, • If she is really damned, all the 

 money in the world won't save her,' and gave them 

 nothing. Perceiving their mistake, they declared she 

 appeared again, saying she was in Purgatory, and de- 



