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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 46. 



These are not only meagre reasons, but they are 

 incon'ect. 



The doctrine of regions was coeval with the 

 death of Our Lord. The east was the realm of the 

 oracles ; the especial Throne of God. Tire west 

 was the domain of the people ; the Galilee of all 

 nations was there. The south, the land of the 

 mid-day, was sacred to things lieavenly and divine. 

 The north was the devoted region of Satan and his 

 hosts ; tlie hiir of demons, and their haunt. In 

 some of our ancient churches, over against the font, 

 and in the northern walls, there was a devil's door. 



It was thrown open at every baptism for the 

 escape of the fiend, and at all other seasons care- 

 fully closed. Hence came the old dislilvc to se- 

 pulture at the north. R. S. Hawker. 



Moi-wenstow, Cornwall. 



Sir John Perrot (Vol. ii., p. 217.).— This Query 

 surprises me. Sir John Perrot was not governor 

 of Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII., and your 

 correspondent E. N. W. is mistaken in his belief 

 that Sir John was hehended in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth. He was convicted of treason 16tli June, 

 1592, and died in the Tower in September follow- 

 ing. In the British Plutarch, 3rd edit., 1791, 

 vol. i. p. 121,, is Tlie Life of Sir John Perrot. 

 The authorities given are Cox's History of Ireland; 

 Life of Sir John Perrot, 8vo., 1728; Hiographia 

 Britannica ; Salmon's Chronological History ; to 

 which I may add the following references: — 

 Howell's State Trials, i. ]31o; Camden's Annals; 

 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia ; Lloyd's State 

 Worthies; Nash's Worcestershire ; Strypes Fccle- 

 siasticcd Memorials, iii. 297. ; Strype's Annals, iii. 

 337.398—404.; Stradling Leiters,4S— 50.; Nare's 

 Life of Lord Biirghley , iii. 407.; Fourth Report of 

 Deputy Keeper of Puhlic Records, Appendix, ii. 

 281. Dean Swift, in his Introduction to Polite 

 Convei'sation, says, — 



" Sir John Peirot was the first man of quality whom 

 I find upon the record to have sworn l)y GocTs wcinnds. 

 Fie lived in the reign of Quten Elizabeth, and was 

 supposed to be a natural son of Henry VIII., who 

 might also have been his instructor." 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, August 31. 1850. 



Coins of Constantius II. — The coins of this 

 prince are, from their titles being identical with 

 those of his cousin, very difficidt to be distin- 

 guished. My only guide is the portrait. Gallus 

 died at twenty-nine ; and we may suppose that his 

 coins would present a more youthful portrait than 

 Constantius II. The face of Constantius is long 

 and thin, and is distinguished by the royal diadem. 

 The youthful head resembling Constantius the 

 Great with the laurel crown. Rev,. Two military 

 figiu-es standing, with spears and bucklers, be- 

 tween them two standards., Ex. s m n B., I have 



arranged in my cabinet, 'ho-w far rightly I know 

 not, as that of Gallus. E.S. T. 



'■'■She ne'er ivith t)-eacherous Kiss" (Vol. ii., 

 p. 130.). — C. A. H. will find the lines,— 

 " She ne'er with trait'rous kiss," &c. 



in a poem named "Woman," 2nd ed. p. 34., by 

 Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq., published in 1818, 

 by Henry Colburn, Conduit street. E. D. B. 



California (Vol. ii., p. 132.). — Your corre- 

 spondent E. N. W. will find earlier anticipations of 

 " the jrolden Imrvest now gathering in California," 

 m Yo\. li'i. of Hakluyt's Voyages, ■p. 440-42., where 

 an account is given of Sir F. Drake's taking pos- 

 session of Nova Albion. 



" There is no part of earth here to bee taken up, 

 wherein there is not speclall likelihood of gold or silver." 



In Callendar's Voyages, vol. i. p. 303., and other 

 collections containing Sir F. Drake's voyage to Ma- 

 gellanica, there is the same notice. The earth of 

 the country seemed to promise very rich veins of 

 gold and silver, there being hardly any digging 

 without throwing up some of the ores of them. 



T.J. 



Bishops and their Precedence (Vol. ii., pp. 9. 76.) 

 — The precedence of bishops is regulated by the 

 act of 31 Hen. VIII. c. 10., " for placing of the 

 Lords." Bishops are, in fact, temporal barons, 

 and, as stated in Stejihen's Bluckstone, vol. iii. 

 jip. 5, 6., sit in the House of Peers in right of suc- 

 cession to certain ancient baronies annexed, or 

 supposed to be annexed, to their episcopal lands ; 

 and as they have in addition high spiritual rank, it 

 is but right they should have place before those 

 who, in temporal rank only, are equal to them. 

 This is, in effect, the meaning of the reason given by 

 Coke in part iii. of the Institutes, p. 361. ed. 1670, 

 where, after noticing the precedence amongst the 

 bishops themselves, namely, 1. The Bishop of 

 London, 2. The Bishop of Durham, 3. The 

 Bishop of Winchester, he observes : 



" But the other bishops have place above all the 

 barons of the realm, because they hold their bishop- 

 ricks of the king per baroniam ; but they give place to 

 viscounts, earls, marquesses, and dukes." 



Akun. 



Elizabeth and Isabel (Vol. i., pp. 439. 488.).— 

 The title of ^lius Antonius Nebressengis's his- 

 tory is, Rerum a Fernando et Elisabe Hispaniarani 

 falicissiviis regibus gestarum Decades duce. J. B. 



Dr. Thomas Bevers Legal Polity of Great 

 Britain (Vol. i., p. 483.). — Is J. R. aware that 

 the principal part of the parish of Mortimer, near 

 Reading, as well as the manorial rights, belongs to 

 a Richard Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq., residing not 

 very fur from that spot, at Englefield House, about 

 five miles on the Newbury Road from Reading. 



