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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 42. 



but this is evidently incorrect ; it is Waddington, 

 in Mytton, West Yorkshire. 



CiiERicus Cravensis. 



The New Temple (Vol. ii., p. 103.), —As your 

 correspondent is interested in a question connected 

 with the occupants of the New Tenijile at the be- 

 ginning of the fourteenth century, I venture to 

 state, at the hazard of its being of any use to him, 

 that I have before me the transcript of a deed, 

 dated at Canterbury, the 16tli of July, 129.3, by 

 which two prebendaries of the churcli of York 

 engage to pay to the Abbot of Newenham, in the 

 county of Devon, the sum of 200 marks sterling, 

 at the New Temple in London, in accordance with 

 a bond entered into by tLiem before G. de Thorn- 

 ton and others, the king's j ustices. S. S. S. 



C3ucrirs?. 



ESSATES OF CEKTAIN PARADOXES : POEM ON 

 NOTHING. 



Who was the author of a thin 4to. volume with 

 the above title, printed fur Tho. Thorpe, 1616 ? 

 The contents are, " The Praise of K. Richard the 

 Third — The French Poetes — Nothing — That 

 it is good to be in Debt." 



Tlie late ]\Ir. Yarnold had a SIS. copy of the 

 "Praise of K. Richard," to which was prefixed 

 the following dedication : — 



"to the honouhable sir henry nevill, kniohte." 



" I am bokic to adventure to yu'' honors viewe this 

 small portion of my privatt labors, as an earnest pony 

 of my love, beinge a mere Paradoxe in prayse of a 

 most blame-wortliie and condemned Prince, Kin<i-e 

 Richard the Third ; who alboit I shold guilde w"" faire 

 better termes of eloquence then 1 liave don, and freate 

 jnyself to deathe in pursuite of his commendacions, yet 

 liis disgrace beinge so publicke, and the workle so 

 opinionate of his misdoings, as 1 shold not be able so 

 farre to justifie him as they tocontlemne him. Yet that 

 they may see what may be saide, and to shew how fane 

 they liaue mispraysed his vertues, this following Treatise 

 shall make manyfest. Yo'' hon'' may peruse and cen- 

 sure yt at yo' best leisure, and though yt be not trickt 

 lip wth elegancye of phrase, yet may it satisfye a right 

 curious judgniente, yf the reasons be considered a. 

 they ought. But, howsoever, yf you please to accepte 

 it, 1 shall Ihinke my labors well bestowed ; who, both 

 in this and what ells I may, devote myself to yo' bono', 

 and rest, Yo' bono" most affectionat servant, 



" Hen. W." 



The praise of Nothing is very well versified from 

 the Latin of Passerat, whose verses Dr. Johnson 

 thought worthy of a place in his Life of Lord 

 Rochester. Besides llochester's seventeen stanzas 

 "Upon Nothinjr," there appears to have been 

 another copy of verses on this fertile subject ; ibr 

 Pleckuoe, in his Epigramts of All Sorts, 1671, has 



" Somewhat to Mr. J. A. on his excellent poem of 

 Nothing." Is anything known of this Nothing f 



S. W. iSlNGER. 



Mickleham, July 29. 1850. 



S^iwax (Queried. 



Papers of Perjury. — In Leicester's Common- 

 wealth occurs the following passage : — 



" The gentlemen were all taken and cast into prison, 

 and afterwards were sent down to Ludlow, there to 

 wear papers of perjury." 



Can any of your readers refer me to a graphic 

 account of the custom of perjurers wearing papers 

 denoting their crime, to which I suppose this 

 passage alludes ? S. It. 



Church Rates. — CII. would be obliged to any 

 of your readers who could refer him to the volume 

 of either the Genilemaii's or the British Magazine 

 which contains some remarks on the article on 

 Church Kates in Knight's Political Dictionarj/, and. 

 on Cyric-sceat. 



St, Thomas of Lancastei-'s Accomplices. — In No. 

 15. I find an extract from Ilymer, by Mr. Monck- 

 TON MiLNES, relative to some accomplices of St. 

 Thomas of Lancaster, supposed to have worked 

 miracles. — Query, Was "The Parson of Wigan" 

 one of these accomplices, and what was his name ? 

 ^Vas he ever brought to trial for aiding the Earl, 

 preaching sedition in the parish church of Wigan, 

 and oflijring absolution to all who would join the 

 standard of the barons ? and what was the result 

 of that trial — death or pardon ? 



Clericus Ceatensis. 



Prelates of France. — P. C. S. S. is desirous to 

 know where he can meet with an accurate list of 

 the Archbishops and Bishops of France (or more 

 properly of their Sees) under the old regime. 



Lord Chancellor's Oath. — The gazette of the 

 IGth July notified that the llight Hon. Sir Thomas 

 Vv'ilde, in council, took the oath olLord Chancellor 

 of Great Britain and Jicland on the 15th inst. ; 

 and the same gazette announced the direction of 

 the Queen that letters jjatent be passed granting 

 the dignity of baron to the llight Hon. Sir 'J'homas 

 Wilde, Knt., Lord Chancellor of that part of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 

 called Great Britain. 



AVhy, when he is only Chancellor of Great 

 Britain, should he take the oath of Chancellor of 

 Great Britain and Ireland f J. 



3Iedi(Bval Nomenclature. — In what work is to 

 be obtained the Lest information explanatory of 

 the nomenclature of the useful arts in medieval 

 times ? A. 



