June 3. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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for this the rubicund promontory of your nose indicates.' 

 Thus do heretics turn water into blood. This is their 

 miracle." 



Richard White I presume to have been an 

 ejected Fellow of New College, Oxford, after- 

 wards rector of the University of Douai, and a 

 Count Palatine of the empire, author of sundry 

 antiquarian and theological works; but it is surely 

 strange that this piece of ribaldry, of which he 

 had been guilty, should be thought worthy of 

 being recorded ; and still more so, that it should 

 be thus applied by a grave and learned Jesuit 

 commentator. C. W. B. 



&linov $atc£. 



Inscription. — The following quaint inscription 

 is to be found on a gravestone in the churchyard 

 of Llangollen, North Wales : 



" Our life is but a winter's day : 

 Some only breakfast and away ; 

 Others to dinner stay, and are full fed ; 

 The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. 

 Large is the debt who lingers out the day ; 

 Who goes the soonest has the least to pay." 



J. R. G. 



Dublin. 



Antiquarian Documenti. — At a time when 

 public records and state papers are being thrown 

 open by the Government in so liberal a spirit, 

 might not some plan be devised for admitting the 

 public to the Church's antiquarian documents also, 

 treasured in the various chapter-houses, diocesan 

 registries, and cathedral libraries ? 



Might not catalogues of these be printed, as 

 well as the more historically valuable and curious 

 of the papers themselves? And is there any 

 sufficient reason why the earlier portions of the 

 parochial registers throughout the country might 

 not be published, say down to the commencement 

 of the present century, prior to which they appear 

 to have no other value except for literary pur- 

 poses? J. Sansom. 



Bishop Watson's Map of Europe in 1854. — 

 The following paragraph is an extract from a 

 letter written by Bishop Watson to Dr. Falconer 

 of Bath, in the year 1804 : 



" The death of a single prince in any part of Europe, 

 remarkable either for wisdom or folly, renders political 

 conjectures of future contingencies so extremely uncer- 

 tain, that I seldom indulge myself in forming them ; 

 yet it seems to me probable, that Europe will soon be 

 divided among three powers, France, Austria, and 

 Russia ; and in half a century between two, France 

 and Russia ; and that America will become the greatest 

 naval power on the globe, and be replenished by mi- 

 grations of oppressed and discontented people from 

 every part of Europe." — See Anecdotes of the Life of 



Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 2 vols. 8vo., London, 

 1818, vol. ii. p. 196. 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple. 



Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of 

 Lincoln. — In searching through the registers of 

 the bishops of Lincoln, the following curious en- 

 tries met my eye : 



"Smoke-farthings. — Commissio domini episcopi ad 

 levandum le Smoke farthinges, alias diet. Lincoln far- 

 thingesanostris Archidiaconatus nostri Leycestrias sub- 

 ditis ad utilitatem nostra; matricis ecclesias Cath. Line, 

 sponsa; nostra; convertend., dicti Smoke farthinges con- 

 ceduntur ad constructionem campanili ecclesias pre- 

 bendalis Sanctas Margarets Leycestr. 1444." 



The above entry occurs at fo. 48. of the register 

 of William Alnewick, Bishop of Lincoln. 



"A* 1450. Testamentum domini Thomce Cumberworth, 

 militis. — In the name of Gode and to his loveyng, 

 Amen. I, Thomas Cumbyrworth, knyght, the xv day 

 of Feberer, the yere of oure Lord m'cccc and l. in 

 clere mynde and hele of body, blyssed be Gode, ordan 

 my last wyll on this wyse folowyng. Furst, I gyff my 

 sawle to God, my Lorde and my Redemptur, and my 

 wrechid body to be beryd in a chifFe w'owte any kyste 

 in the northyle of the parych kirke of Someretby 

 be my wyfe, and I wyll my body ly still, my mowth 

 opyn, untild xxiiij owrys, and after laid on here w'owtyn 

 any thyng y r opon to coverit bot a sheit and a blak 

 cloth, w* a white crose of cloth of golde, bot I wyl my 

 kyste be made and stande by, and at my bereall giff it 

 to hym that fillis my grave ; also I gif my blissid Lord 

 God for my mortuary there I am bered my best hors." 



This entry occurs at fo. 43. of the register of 

 Marmaduke Lumley, Bishop of Lincoln. Z. 



Marston and Erasmus. — I am not aware the 

 following similarity of idea, between a passage in 

 Marston's Antonio and Mellida and one in Eras- 

 mus' Colloquies, has ever been pointed out : 



" .... As having clasp'd a rose 

 Within my palm, the rose being ta'en away, 

 My hand retains a little breath of sweet. 

 So may man's trunk, his spirit slipp'd away, 

 Hold still a faint perfume of his sweet guest." 

 Antonio and Mellida, Act IV. Sc. 1. From 

 the reprint in the Ancient British Drama. 



" Anima quae moderatur utrunque corpus animantis, 

 improprie dicitur anima cum revera sint tenues quaj- 

 dam anima; reliquia?, non aliter quam odor rosarum 

 manet in manu, etiam rosa submota." — Erasmi Colloq., 

 Ley den edit. 1703, vol. i. p. 694. 



H. F. S. 



Cambridge. 



Puzzle for the Heralds. — Some years ago Sir 

 John Newport, Bart., and who was married, and Sir 

 Simon Newport, who had received the honour of 

 knighthood, and was also married, lived in or 



