230 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 45. 



the present day? I am acquainted with Bishop 

 Marsh's volume, but he seems ill-informed and 

 speaks vaguely about lloman Catholic versions. 



2. What is the authority for the familiar story 

 of a bill being brought into parliament for the 

 suppression of all vernacular translations in 

 liichard II. 's reign, and of its being stoutly op- 

 posed by John of Gaunt ? "What, are we the 

 di'egs of the earth not to hear the Scriptures in 

 our own tongue ? " Usher mentions the cir- 

 cumstance {Histnria Dngmatica, ^'c), and it is 

 borrowed from him by Fox. But I am so ig- 

 norant as not to know the original and cotem- 

 porary authority. 



3. Your learned correspondent, Dr. Maitland, 

 in his Dark ylg-es, snubs D'Aubiirne most unmer- 

 eifully for repeating an old story about Lutlier s 

 stumbling upon a J?ible, and pooh-pooh's D'Au- 

 bigne's authority, Mathesius, as no better than a 

 goose. May I ask whether it is possible to dis- 

 cover the probable foundation of such a story, 

 and whether Luther has left us in his writings 

 any account of his early familiarity with Scrip- 

 ture, that would bear upon tlie alleged incident, 

 and show how much of it may be true? C. F. S. 



iSltnor caucric^. 



The Lost Tribes. — A list of all the theories and 

 publications respecting the ten tribes commonly 

 called the Lost tribes, or any communication con- 

 cerning theui, will much oblige. Jarltzbekg. 



Partrige Familtj. — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me where I can see the grant mentioned in the 

 following note taken from Strype's Ecclesiastical 

 Memorials, vol. iii. p. 542 : " I find a grant to the 

 Lady Jane Partrige fur life, of the manor of 

 Kenne in Devon, oitheyearly value of 57/. Vls.O^cL, 

 but this not before April, 1553." Can any of your 

 readers tell me how to obtain access to a private 

 act 1st Mary, Sessio secunda, cap. 9., anno 1553, 

 intituled, " An Act for the Kestitution in Blood 

 of the Heirs of Sir Miles Paitrige, Knight?" 

 Strype calls it an act for the restitution of the 

 daughters of Sir Miles Partrige, and I think he 

 must be right, as I have prima facie proof that 

 Sir Miles left no sou. Were the debates on the 

 acts of parliament recorded in those days, and if 

 so, how can they be seen ? J. Paetkige. 



Birmingham. 



Commoner mari'ijing a Peeress. — Formerly, 

 when a commoner married a peeress in her own 

 right, he assumed her title and dignity. The 

 right was, I believe, disputed during the reign of 

 Henry VIIL, in the case of the claimant of the 

 barony of Talbois, when it was decided that no 

 man could take his wife's titles unless he had issue 

 male by her, but, if there were such issue, he be- 



came, as in cases of landed property, "tenant by 

 curtesy " of her dignities. Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me whether any subsequent 

 decision has deprived of this right a commoner 

 marrying a peeress and having issue male by her? 



L. Pv. N. 



The Character " lS'." — "What is the correct name 

 of the character "&?" I have heard it called 

 ample-se-and, awpuzzdnd, empuzdd, amjmssij, and 

 apples-and, — all evident corruptions of one and 

 the same word. AVhat is that word ? 



M. A. Lower. 



Combs buried with the Dead. — "\\'hen the corpse 

 of St. Cuthbert was disinterred in the cathedral of 

 Durham, there was found upon his breast a ])lain 

 simple Saxon comb. A similar relicpie has been 

 also discovered in other sepulchres of the same 

 sanctuary. 



Can any of your learned contributors inform me 

 (for I am totally ignorant) the origin and intent 

 of this strange accompaniment of the burial of the 

 ancient dead. The comb of St. Cuthbert is, I be- 

 lieve, carefully preserved by the Dean and Chapter 

 of Durham. 11. S. Hawker. 



Morwenstow, Cornwall. 



Cave's Historia Literaria. — My present Queries 

 arise out of a Note which I took of a passage in 

 Adam Clarke's Bibliograplty, under the article 

 "W. Cave" (vol. ii. p. 161.). 



1. Has not the bibliographer assigned a wrong 

 date to the publication of Cave's Historia Literaria, 

 viz. 1740, instead of 1688-1698 ? 



2. Will some of your readers do me the favour 

 of mentioning the successive editions of the His- 

 toria Literaria, together with the year and the 

 place of a])pearance of each of tliem? 



According to the Biographia Britannica (ed. 2., 

 " Cave, AV."), this learned work came out in the 

 year above stated, and there were two impressions 

 printed at Geneva in 1705 and 1720 respectively. 



R. K. J. 



Julin. — Will Dr. Bell, who adverts to the tra- 

 dition of the doomed city, Julin, in your last nuni- 

 ber (Vol. ii., p. 178.), oblige me by a "Note" of the 

 story as it is told by Adam of Bremen, whose work 

 I am not within reach of ? I have long wanted to 

 trace this legend. V. 



Belgravia, Aug. 17. 1850. 



Ilichardmn Family. — Can of your corre- 

 spondents inform me who " Mr. John Richardson, 

 of the jNIarket Place, Leeds," was ? he was living 

 1681 to 1700 and after, and he made entries of 

 the births of eleven children on the leaves of an 

 old book, and also an entry of tlie death of his 

 wife, named Lydea, who died 20th December, 1700. 

 These entries are now in possession of one of his 

 daughters' descendants, who is desirou.s to know 



