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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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containing the houses, number of religions, and 

 revenues, and the several dioceses in which they 

 were to be found. M. 



Midgham House, Nowbury, Berks. 



Haberdasher (Vol. ii., p. 167.). — 



" Habeidaslier, a retailer of goods, a dealer in small 

 wares; T. hnabcertaiisclier, from haab ; 15. have; It. 

 hdveri, haberi, goods, wares ; and tuuscher, vertauscher. 

 a dealer, an exchanger; G. tuis/iar ; D. tusker; B. 

 fiiischer." 



This derivation of the term haberdasher is from 

 Thomsons Etymons, and seems to be satisfactory. 



Huberdascher was the name of a trade at least 

 as early as the reign of Eihvard III.; but it is not 

 easy to decide what was the sort of trade or busi- 

 ness then carried on under that name. Any eluci- 

 dation of tliat point would be very acceptable. A. 



" Rapido confrai-ius orbi" (Vol. ii., p. 120.). — 

 No answer having apjjeared to the inquiry of N. B., 

 it may be stated that, in Hartshorne's Book- 

 Rarities of Cambridge, mention is made of a 

 painting, in Emanuel dillege, of "Abp. Sancroft, 

 sitting at a writing-table, with arms, and motto, 

 Rupido coidrariiis orbi. P. P. Lens, F. L." 



Brayley, in his Concise Account of Lambeth 

 Palace, describes a ])ortrait, in the vestry, of "A 

 young man in a clerical haliit, or rather that of a 

 student, with a motto beneath, ' Kupido contrarium 

 orbo'" (whether the motto, as thus <riven, is the 

 prmter s or the pauiter s error d()es not appear), 

 ".-■upposed to be Abp. Sancroft when young. — 

 Date 1650." G. A. S. 



Robertson of Mnirtonm (Vol. ii., p. 135.). — 

 C. R. M. will find a pe<ligree of ihe family of Ro- 

 bertson nf Muirton in a sn)all duodecimo entitled : 



" The History and Martial Atchievcmeiits of the 

 RohertsDiis of .Slrowaa. Edinburgh : printed tor and 

 by Ale.\. Ilobettson in Morisoiis Close ; wliere Sub- 

 scribers may call tor their coijies." 



The (late of publication is not given ; 1 think, 

 however, it must liave been ])rinted soon after 1st 

 Janiuiry 1771, which is the latest ilate in the body 

 of the work. 



The greater portion of the; volume is oecupie<l 

 with the poems of Alexander Robertson ofStrowaii, 

 who died in 1749. A. R. X. 



Paisley. 



"■NoU me tanixere" (Vol. ii., p. l.>3.).— The fol- 

 lowing list of some of the painters of this subject 

 may assist H. R. : — 



Timoteo delltt Vde — for St. Angelo at Cogli. 



Titian — formerly in the Orlean.s collection, and 

 engraved by N. Tardieii, in the Grozat (iallery. 



Ippolilo Scarstdla (Lo Scarsrllino) — for St. 

 Nicolo Ferrara. 



Crislofiro Riincidli (II C!,iv. (h'lle Pomarance) 

 — lor the Ereinitani al Si. Severino. 



Lucio Massari — for the Celestini, Bologna. 

 Francesco Boni (II Gobbiuo) — for the Domi- 

 nicani, Faeuza. I. Z. P. 



Clergy sold for Slaves (Vol. ii., p. 51.). — Mr. 

 Sansom will find in the Cromwellian Diary of 

 Thomas Burton, iv. 255. 273. 301 — 305., ample 

 material for an answer to his question respecting 

 the sale of any of the loyal party for slaves during 

 the rebellion. 



There is no evidence of any clergymen having 

 been sold as slaves to Algiers or Barbadoes. Drs. 

 Beale, Martin, and Sterne, heads of colleges, were 

 threatened with tliis outrage (see Querela Can- 

 tabrigiensis aii])ended to the Mercurius Rusticus 

 p. 184.). In the life of Dr. John Barwick, one of 

 the authors of the Querela (in the Eng. transl. 

 p. 42.), the story is thus told : 



" The rebels at that time threatened some of their 

 greatest men and most learned heads (such as Dr. 

 William Beale, Dr. Edward Martin, and Dr. Richard 

 Sterne) transportation into the isles of America, or even 

 to the barbarian Tuiks : for these great men, and several 

 other very eminent divines, were kept close prisoners 

 in a ship on the Thames, under the batches, almost 

 killed with stench, hunger, and watihing ; and treated 

 by the senseless mariners with more insolence than if 

 they had been the vilest slaves, or had been confined 

 there for some Infamous robhery or murther. Nay, one 

 lligby, a scoundrel of the very dregs of the parliament 

 rebels, did at that time expose these venerable persons to 

 sale, and ivould nctnally hive sold them for slaves, if any 

 one would have bought them." 



In a note, it is added that Rigby moved twice in 

 the Long Pailiainent, 



" That those lords and gentlemen who were prisoners, 

 sbould be sold as slaves to Aryiere, or sent to the new 

 plantations in the West Indies, because he had con- 

 tracted with two merchants for that purpose." 



Col. Rigby, so justly denounced by Barwick, sat in 

 the Lons Parliament for the borough of Wisan, 

 and m the parliament of 1G58-9 represented Lan- 

 cashire. He was a native of Preston, was bred to 

 the law, and held a colonel's rank in the parlia- 

 mentary army. He was one of the conunittee of 

 sequestrators for Lancashire, served at the siege of 

 Lath:im House, and in 1649 was created Baron of 

 the E.Kchequer, but was superseded by Cromwell. 

 Calaniy, the historian ami chaplain of the Non- 

 conformists, treated Walker's statement quoted by 

 J\Ir. S.\nsom as a fiction, and advised him to ex- 

 punge the ])assage. See his Church and Dissent- 

 ers compai-ed as to Persecution, 1719, pp. 40, 41. 



A. B. R. 



North Side of Churchyards (Vol. ii., pp. 55. 

 189.). — One of y<nir writers has recently en- 

 deavimred to c.xplain the popular dislike to l)urial 

 on the n(M'th side of the church, by refc'rcnce to 

 the place of tlie chur.'hyard cross, the sunnincss, 

 and the greater resort of the people to the south. 



