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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 237. 



by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand, Manchester ; and 

 was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for 

 17/. 



I should be obliged to any one who would sup- 

 plv me with any information about early editions 

 of Bradford's writings. 



Every one is familiar with the story that Brad- 

 ford, on seeing a criminal pass to execution, said, 

 " There goes John Bradford but for the grace of 

 God." Can any one inform me of any early 

 printed authority for that story ? A. Townsend. 



Weston Lane, Bath. 



[In the British Museum are the following works by 

 John Bradford, bound in one volume, press- mark 

 3932, c. : — The Hvrte of Hering Masse ; also Two 

 Notable Sermons, the one of Repentance, and the other 

 of the Lord's Supper, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is 

 written, " A copy of Bradford's Hurte of Hearijng 

 Masse, printed for H. Kirham, 1596, B. L., was in 

 Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition by William 

 Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, 

 and I believe earlier. — R. H. Barham."] 



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Courtney Family. — I throw an apple of discord 

 to your heraldic, genealogical, and antiquarian 

 readers. Was there originally more than one 

 family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Cour- 

 teney, Courtnaye, Courtenaye, &c. Which is 

 right, and when did the family commence in 

 England, and how branch off? If your readers 

 can give no information, who can ? S. A. 



Oxford. 



* The Shipwrecked Lovers." — Can you give 

 me any account of the following tragedy, where 

 the scene of it is laid, &c. ? It is printed along 

 with some poems, and appears never to have been 

 acted. The name of the piece is The Ship- 

 wrecked Lovers, a tragedy in five acts, by James 

 Templeton, Dublin, 12mo., 1801. I regret that I 

 am unable to give any account of the author, but 

 perhaps some of your Irish readers may be able to 

 do this. Sigma. 



Sir John Bingham. — In Burke's Peerage and 

 Baronetage, article " Lucan," it is stated that this 

 gentleman was high in rank in King James's army 

 at the battle of Aughrim, and turned the fortune 

 of the day in favour of William by deserting, 

 with his whole command, at the crisis of the 

 battle. A late number of the DrMin University 

 Magazine repeats this story on the authority of 

 Mr. Burke, and it would therefore be satisfactory 

 to know where the latter found a statement 

 affecting so much the honour of the family in 

 question, one of the first in my native county. 

 The dates of Sir John's birth and marriage are 



not given, but the ages of several of his children 

 are known, and from them it follows that, sup- 

 posing the father of the first Lord Lucan not to 

 have married till the mature age of fifty-five -or 

 sixty, he was barely of age at the time of the 

 battle, therefore not likely to have been high in 

 command. My countrymen are too much inclined, 

 like the French, to attribute their disasters to 

 treachery, or to any cause but the equal numbers 

 and courage, and superior discipline, of their ad- 

 versaries ; but they have never done so to less 

 purpose than when they ascribe the loss of that 

 battle to a man who was in all probability not 

 born in 1691, and must in any case have been a 

 mere boy at the time. No peerage that I have 

 met with gives the date of his birth, which would 

 at once settle the question. It seems most un- 

 likely, if such were actually the case, that the 

 family, on attaining the peerage, should have re- 

 vived the title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose 

 representatives they were), and thus challenged 

 public attention, always on the alert on such 

 points in Ireland, to their alleged dishonour and 

 betrayal of the cause for which he fought and fell. 



J. S. Warden. 



Proclamation for making Mustard. — Did Queen 

 Elizabeth issue a proclamation for " the right of 

 making mustard ?" And if so, what was the lan- 

 guage of such proclamation ? An Admirer. 



Judges practising at the Bar. — A curious dis- 

 quisition has run through " N. & Q." on the re- 

 linquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do 

 not see that any of them are shown to have offici- 

 ated as parish priests after quitting the episcopate. 



Not that this is the point I wish now to put 

 before you and your readers, but I want informa- 

 tion on a somewhat kindred subject. 



In Craik's Romance of the Peerage there occurs : 



" Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was 

 Mr. Sergeant (aftewards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who 

 subsequently rose to be first a puisne judge, and then 

 Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence trans- 

 ferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, 

 and after all ended his days a practitioner at the bar." 

 — Vol. iv. p. 29. note. 



Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the 

 Common Pleas in 1683 ; he was counsel for the 

 seven bishops in 1688, as was also another dis- 

 placed judge, Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, 

 who was superseded in 1686. 



Are these the only two instances of judges, 

 qui olimfuere, practising at the bar ? If not, are 

 they the latest ? And farther, if not the latest, 

 does not etiquette forbid such practice now ? 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Celebrated Wagers. — I should be glad if any 

 correspondent will point out any remarkable in- 



