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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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quary, but there arc few memories wliieh are not 

 the better for being from time to time refreshed. 

 My own is not of the best, whieh is sometimes dis- 

 advantageous to me, but not in a case like tliis. 

 I have frequently read over fhe Antiquary, again 

 and again, and have always derived mueli pleasure 

 and amusement from so doing, and tliat pleasure I 

 liojie still ag;iin to enjoy. J. S — s. 



Dr. Ensehy Cleaver (Vol. ii., p, 297.).— Your 

 correspondent H. Cotton, Thurles, Ii-eland, is 

 mistaken witli regard to Dr. Euseby Cleaver. He 

 was never ]5isliop of Cork and lloss. He was 

 Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and translated 

 thence to the archbishopric of Dublin ahout the 

 year 1805. No doubt the transaction will be 

 found in the llegistry of Ferns, but I do not know 

 the date of his consecration. 



I was acquainted with that good man, and my 

 mother was his lii'St cousin. H. S. 



Belgiave, Nov. 15. 1850. 



Mrs. Partington (Vol. ii., pp.377. 411.). —In 

 the Rev. Sydney Smith's speech at Taunton, on 

 the Lords' rejection of the lleform Bill, October, 

 1831, is this passage : 



" The attempt of tlie Lords to stop tlic jirogrcss of 

 reform, remhids me very forcibly of the great storm of 

 Sidmoutb, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. 

 Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, 

 there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide 

 rose to an incredible height — tlie waves rushed in 

 upon the houses, and everything was tlireatcned with 

 destruction. \v\ the midst of this sublime and terrible 

 storm, Dame Partington, who lived u|)on the be:icli, 

 was seen at the door of her house witli mop and pat- 

 tens, trundling lier mop, squeezing out the fea-watcr, 

 and vigorously pushing away the Allantic Ocean. The 

 Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; 

 but I need not tell you that the contest was luieqnal. 

 The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was 

 excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have 

 meddled with a tempest." 



This speech is reprinted in the collected editions 

 of Sydney Smith's Worlts. Unless an allusion to 

 Mrs. Partington of a ]irior date to October, 1831, 

 is produced, we may fairly consider that the cele- 

 brity of that lady is owing to Sydney Smith. 



I doubt if Lord Brougham ever alluded to Mrs. 

 Partington. Certain it is he never made any speech 

 in the House of Commons on the lleform Bill, as 

 he was raised to the peerage some months before 

 that bill was brought forward. C. H. Cooper. 



"Never did Cardinal bring good to JEnglaiuV 

 (Vol. ii., p. 424.). — Your correspondent O. P. Q. 

 refers to Dr. Lingard's History of England, in which 

 this exclamation of the Duke of Suffolk, on the ad- 

 journment of the legatine inquiry into the validity 

 of the marriage of Henry VllL and Catharine of 

 Arragoii, is termed an " old saw," and remarks, 

 that he should be srlad to know if this saying is to 



be met with elsewhere, and what gave rise to it. 

 Before we enter upon the inquiries suggested by 

 O. P. Q., it seems to me that we have to consider 

 a previous question — what authority is therefor 

 terming it an " old saw." Dr. Lingard refers to 

 " Cavendish, 434.; Herbert, 278." as his authorities 

 for the whole paragraph. But Herbert does not 

 contain anything of the kind ; and Cavendish re- 

 lates the matter very differently : 



" With that stepped forth the Duke of Suffolk from 

 the king, and by his commandment spoke these words 

 with a stout and an liault countenance, ' It was never 

 merry in England,' quoth he, ' whilst we bad car- 

 dinals amongst us!'" — Cavendish's Jl'olsei/, pp. ^32, 

 233 , Singer's edition. 



Is Dr. Lingard the authority for these words 

 being an " old saw," or has he merely omitted to 

 give a reference to the place from whence he really 

 derived them ? Bekuciuno. 



Pandects, Florentine Edition of(Yo]. ii., p. 421.). 

 — Your correspondent R. G. will find copies of the 

 Florentine edition of the Pandects of 1553, both 

 in the British Museum and in the Bodleian library 

 at Oxford. It is described in the catalogues of 

 both under the title oi' Pandecia. C. L. L. 



Master John Shorne (Vol. ii., p. 387.). — Mr. 

 Thorns, in his curious notes on this personage, has 

 expressed mtu;h regret that fuller details relating 

 to a representation of Magister Johannes Scharn, 

 at Cawston, Norfolk, communicated to the Archre- 

 ological Institute by the Rev. James Bulwer, had 

 not been preserved in the Archaological Journal. 

 I believe that the omission was solely in deference 

 to Mr. Bulwer's intention of giving in another 

 publicaticm the results of his inquiries ; and those 

 persons who may desire detailed information re- 

 garding Master John will do well to peruse Mr. 

 Bidwer's curious memoir in the Norfolk Arche- 

 ology, vol. ii. p. 280., published March 1849, where 

 representations of the figure at Cawston, and of 

 another at Gateley, Norfolk, are given. There 

 seems to be no evidence that Sir John, although 

 in both instances pourtrayed with a nimbus, had 

 been actually canonized ; and it is deserving of 

 notice that in no ancient evidence hitherto cited is 

 he designated as a Saint, but merely as Master, or 

 Sir John. I am surprised that Dr. Iluseubeth, 

 who is so intimately conversant with the examples 

 of hagiotypic sj'uibols existing in Norfolk, should 

 not have given him even a siqjplementary place in 

 his most useful manual of the Emblems of Saints, 

 recently published. (Burns, 1850, 12mo.) I have 

 sought for Sir John in vain, in either section of 

 that valuable work. It occurs neither under the 

 names of saints, nor in the series of emblems. 



Albekt Wat. 



'■Iler brow icns fair" (Vol. ii., p. 407).— The 

 author of the passage quoted by J.M. B. is Barry 

 Cornwall. It occurs in one of the delicious 



