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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 240. 



neighbours any reasonable liberty with regard 

 to country sports, so I should be very sorry if 

 either myself or my servants had taken any im- 

 proper ones. 



I am no sportsman, Sir, and was as much 

 tempted this morning by the beauty of the day 

 and the pleasure of the ride as by the hopes of 

 any sport. I went out, and, neither acquainted 

 with the bounds of the manors nor your request 

 to the neighbouring gentlemen, could only follow 

 my groom where he led me. I quitted your 

 manor the instant I received your message, with- 

 out having killed anything in it. I assure you 

 that you shall never have again the same subject 

 of complaint. With regard to the liberty you are 

 so good as to grant me for other sports, I return 

 you my most humble thanks, but shall not make 

 much use of it, as there are still in my father's 

 manor more game than would satisfy so moderate 

 a sportsman as myself. 



My father would be extremely angry if his 

 servants had destroyed any of your game; but 

 they all assure him they have killed no one hare 

 upon your liberties. As to pheasants, they have 

 only killed one this season, and that in Inwood 

 copse. 



I am, 



Sir, 

 Your obedient humble servant, 



E. Gibbon, Junior. 



E. G. F. S. 



BOHN S " ORDERICUS VITALIS. 



In looking through the pages of Ordericus Vi- 

 talise vol. ii. (Bohn's edition), I have noticed some 

 trifling inaccuracies, to one or more of which you 

 will perhaps suffer me to call the editor's attention 

 through the medium of " 1ST. & Q.," in case he be 

 not already aware of them. 



At p. 70. King William is described as offering 

 the bishopric of Mans to " Samson, Bishop of 

 Bayeux, his chaplain." So in the index to Histor. 

 Anglic, circa tempus Conquestus, Sfc, a Francisco 

 Maseres^ I find this passage of Vifalis referred to 

 under the title of " Sanson Baiocensis episcopus" 



But yet Odo was Bishop of Bayeux at this 

 time ; and notwithstanding what Marbode after- 

 wards said of Bayeux, when he invited his old 

 pupil to meet him there, viz. " Sedes prassulibus 

 sufficit ilia tribus," yet Samson, even then, was 

 not Bishop of Bayeux, but of Worcester. 



The original words of Vitalis are, " Sansoni 

 Baiocensi," Samson being (temp. Will. I.) Canon 

 and Treasurer of Bayeux, as well as Baron of 

 Dover, and Canon of St. Martin's there, Dean of 

 Wolverhampton, and chaplain to William. He 

 was a married man, and apparently at the time in 

 question only in deacon's orders. One of his sons, 



at a later period,. became Bishop of Bayeux, as did 

 also a grandson, whose mother (according to 

 Beziers) was " Isabelle de Dovre, maitresse de 

 Robert Conte de Glocester, batard de Henri L, 

 Roi d'Angleterre." Upon which I would found 

 a Query, viz., Was this grandson of Samson, 

 whose name was Richard, an uterine or a half 

 brother of Roger, Bishop of Worcester ? Both 

 are described as sons of Robert, Earl of Glou- 

 cester. 



At p. 261. Alberede is described in the text of 

 the translation to be a daughter of " Hugh, 

 Bishop of Evreux," whereas in the original she is 

 said to be " Hugonis Bajocensis episcopi filia." 



In a note to this passage we are informed that 

 Hugh, Bishop of Lisieux, died at the Council of 

 Rheims (Oct. 1049), and that he was eldest son of 

 Ralph, Count d'lvri, &c. On the contrary, we 

 are told at p. 428, note 2, that it was Odo's pre- 

 decessor (i. e. Hugh d'lvri) in the see of Bayeux, 

 who died at the Council of Rheims, Oct. 1049. 

 Again, in a note at p. 118, we learn that Hugh 

 d'Eu, who succeeded Herbert as Bishop of Lisieux 

 in 1050, or the year following the Council in 

 question, did not vacate that see until 1077. 



Before I close this Note, I should be glad to 

 inquire what grounds the editor has for asserting 

 (p. 32, n. 1.) that Thomas, Archbishop of York, 

 " was not a chaplain to the king" before his pro- 

 motion. Thierry, Histoire de la Conquete, &fc. 

 (Par. 1825, tome ii. p. 18.), says: "Thomas, l'un 

 des chapelains du roi, fut nomine archeveque 

 d'York." And by Godwin {De Prcesul. Angl., 

 torn. ii. p. 244.) we are told that Odo — 



" Eum (Thomam) Thesaurarium Baiocensem con- 

 stituit, et postea Regi fratri commendavit, ut illi csset a 

 sacras." 



Anon. 



A CURIOUS EXPOSITION. 



The following curious illustration, which I met 

 with the other day in a book where few would be 

 likely to look for it, seems to me fairly to deserve 

 a place among the Notes of your interesting pub- 

 lication. It forms the moral exposition, by Corne- 

 lius a Lapide, of Ex. vii. 22.': "And the magicians 

 of Egypt did so with their enchantments," &c. 



" See here," he says, " how the devil contends with 

 God, the magicians with the prophets, and heretics 

 witli the orthodox, by imitating their words and deeds. 

 In our days, as the English Martyrology testifies, 

 Richard White (Vitus) disputed with a wicked En- 

 glish Calvinist, who was more mighty in drinking than 

 in argument, concerning the keys of the Church, and 

 when the heretic pertinaciously asserted that they were 

 given to himself, White wittily and ingeniously re- 

 plied : ' I believe that they have been given to you as 

 they were to Peter, but with this distinction, that his 

 were the keys of heaven, but yours of the beer-cellar ; 



