Mar. 18. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Darcy, of Flatten, co. Meath. — It is on record 

 that, in the year 1486, the citizens of Dublin, en- 

 couraged by the Earl of Kildare and the Arch- 

 bishop, received Lambert Simnel, and actually 

 crowned him King of England and Ireland in 

 Christ's Church ; and that to make the solemnity 

 more imposing, they not only borrowed a crown 

 for the occasion from the head of the image of the 

 Virgin that stood in the church dedicated to her 

 service at Dame's Gate, but carried the young 

 impostor on the shoulders of " a monstrous man, 

 one Darcy, of Flatten, in the county of Meath." 



Did this " monstrous man " leave any de- 

 scendants ? And if so, is there any representative, 

 and where, at the present day ? Flatten has long 

 since passed into other hands. Abhba. 



Dorset. — In Byrom's MS. Journal, about to be 

 printed for the Chetham Society, I find the fol- 

 lowing entry : 



•'May 18, 1725. I found the effect of last night 

 drinking that foolish Dorset, which was pleasant 

 enough, but did not at all agree with me, for it made 

 me very stupid all day." 



Query, What is Dorset ? R. P. 



" Vanitatem observare." — Can any of your 

 readers explain the following extract from the 

 Council of Ancyra, a.d. 314? I quote from a 

 Latin translation : 



" Mulieribus quoque Christianis non liceat in suis 

 lanificiis vanitatem observare ; sed Deum invocent ad- 

 jutorem, qui eis sapientiam texendi donavit." 



What is meant by " vanitatem observare ? " 



R. H. G. 



King's Prerogative. — A writer in the Edin- 

 burgh Review, vol. lxxiv. p. 77., asserts, on the au- 

 thority of Blackstone (but he does not refer to 

 the volume and page of the Commentaries, and I 

 have in vain sought for the passages), that it is to 

 this day a branch of the king's prerogative, at the 

 death of every bishop, to have his kennel of hounds, 

 or a compensation in lieu of it. Does the writer 

 mean, and is it the fact, that if a bishop die with- 

 out having a kennel of hounds, his executors are 

 to pay the king a compensation in lieu thereof? 

 And if it is, what is the amount of that com- 

 pensation ? Is it merely nominal ? I can under- 

 stand the king claiming a bishop's kennel of 

 hounds or compensation in feudal times, when 

 bishops were hunters (vide Raine's Auckland 

 Castle, a work of great merit, and abounding with 

 much curious information) ; but to say, to this day 

 it is a branch of the king's prerogative, is an insult 

 alike to our bishops and to religious practices in 

 the nineteenth century. Of hunting bishops in 

 feudal times, I beg to refer your readers, in ad- 

 dition to Mr. Raine's work, to an article in the 

 fifty-eighth volume of the Quarterly Review, 



p. 433., for an extract from a letter of Peter of 

 Blois to Walter, Bishop of Rochester, who at the 

 age of eighty was a great hunter. Peter was 

 shocked at his lordship's indulgence in so un- 

 clerical a sport. It is obvious neither Peter nor 

 the Pope could have heard of the hunting Bishops 

 of Durham. Fra. Mewbuen. 



Quotations in Cowper. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents indicate the sources of the following 

 quotations, which occur in Cowper's Letters 

 (Hayley's Life and Letters of Cowper, 4 vols., 

 1812) ? In vol. iii. p. 278. the following verses, 

 referring to the Atonement, are cited : 



" Tov 5e ko.6' oufia feep ko.1 <ro\ feed ifiol nal aS(\cj)o?s 

 'Hfxtrepois, avrov aa^ofiipois SavaTcp." 



In vol. iv. p. 240. it is stated that Twining ap- 

 plied to Pope's translation of Homer the Latin 

 verse — 



* Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen." 



L. 



Cawley the Regicide. — Mr. Waylen, in his 

 History of Marlborough, just published, shows 

 that Cawley of Chichester, the regicide, has in 

 Burke's Commoners been confounded with Cawley 

 of Burderop, in Wiltshire ; and he adds, " the fact 

 that a son of the real regicide (the Rev. John 

 Cawley) became a rector of the neighbouring 

 parish of Didcot," &c. has helped to confound the 

 families. May I ask what is the authority for 

 stating that the Rev. J. Cawley was a son of the 

 regicide ? C. T. R. 



fflinav <&\izvies> Softfi 8ntffoerrf. 



Dr. John Pocklington. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents oblige me with information respecting 

 the family, or the armorial bearings of Dr. John 

 Pocklington ? He wrote Altare Christianum and 

 Sunday no Sabbath. The parliament deprived him 

 of his dignities a.d. 1640 ; and he died Nov. 14, 

 1642. Dr. Pocklington descended from Ralph 

 Pocklington, who, with his brother Roger, fol- 

 lowed Margaret of Anjou after the battle of 

 Wakefield, a.d. 1460. He is said to have settled 

 in the west, where he lived to have three sons. 

 The family is mentioned in connexion with the 

 county of York, as early as a.d. 1253. X. Y. Z. 



[John Pocklington was first a scholar at Sidney 

 Sussex College, B. D. in 1621, and afterwards a Fel- 

 low of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He subsequently 

 became Rector of Yelden in Bedfordshire, Vicar of 

 Waresley in Huntingdonshire, prebend of Lincoln, 

 Peterborough, and Windsor ; and was also one of the 

 chaplains to Charles I. "On the 15th May, 1611, 

 the Earl of Kent, with consent of Lord Harington, 

 wrote to Sidney College to dispense with Mr. Pock- 

 lington's holding a small living with cure of souls. 



