Dec. 7. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



467 



by which he was ennoble:!, inasmuch as he was 

 (lescendeil from Margaret, eldest daughter and co- 

 heir of llichard Beauclianii), Earl of VVarwick and 

 Albemarle; but this is not satisfactorily made out 

 in Banks' table. At all events, the dukedom 

 became again extinct on the death of Christopher 

 Monk, the second Duke of Albemarle, in 1688, 

 S.P. ; but the name was once more revived in 

 1G90-G, by William III., in favour of Arnold 

 Joort Van'Keppcl, Lord of Voorst, who had at- 

 tended the king in several campaigns, and was his 

 Master of the Robes, and on the 10th of Feb- 

 ruary in that year created "Earl of Albemarle 

 in Normandy;" the title having been doubtless 

 selected as one so frequently enjoyed by persons 

 of the highest consideration, and not in any way 

 resting upon an hereditary claim. 



Bkatbrooke. 

 Audley End. 



iUj3lic^ ta itiiixav €iiicviCs. 



Cromwell Poisoned (Vol. ii., p. 393.). — Your 

 correspondent P. T. queries if there be any other 

 statement than that which he adduces respecting 

 Cromwell having been poisoned, I would refer 

 him to the AtheitcE Oxonieims of Anthony a Wood, 

 vol.ii. p. 303.,* in which it is stated that Ur. George 

 Bate's friends gave him credit ibr haviiig given a 

 baneful dose to the Protector, to ingratiate himself 

 with Charles II. Amidst all the mutations of 

 those changeful times, and whether Charles I., 

 Cromwell, or Charles II. were in the ascendant. 

 Dr. Georse Bate always contrived to be the chief 

 state physician. In ^^'hitelock's Memorials of 

 the English Affairs (1732), p. 494., it appears that 

 the Parliament, in 1G.51, ordered Dr. Bate to go 

 into Scotland to attend the General (Cromwell), 

 and to take care of his health ; he being his usual 

 physician in London, and well esteemed by him. 

 He wrote a work styled Elenchus Mutuum miper- 

 orum in Aiigliu. Tliis was severely scrutinised in 

 another, entilled Elenchus Elenchi ; sive Animad- 

 versiones in Geoi-gii Batei, Croinivelli Paricidce, 

 alicpiundo Protomedici, Elenchi Motnum nuperomm 

 ill Anglici. Autore lioht. Pugh ; Parisiis, 1664. 



Dr. Bate, who died 19th April, 1669, was 

 buried at Kingston upon Thames. § N. 



Nov. 9. 1850. 



^^ Never did Cardinal bring Good to England" 

 (Vol.ii., pp.424. 450.). — Bkrucihno is right in 

 his suggestion that Dr. Liiigard may accidentally 

 liave omitted a reference to the place from wiience 

 he really derived this saying; ior Ilall tells us in 

 his Chronicle (ed. 1809, p. 758.), that 



" Cliarlcs, Duke of Suflblkc, seiiing the delay, gave a 

 great clappe on tlie table with his hande and said, 



• I allude to the old edition, 2 vols. Lond. 1691-2, 

 folio ; not having any other at hand. 



' By the masse, now I see that the olde sale! sawe is 

 true, tfi'it there was never Lfgatt nor Cardinall that did 

 good in Enylande.' " 



Whether Charles Brandon was a reader of Piers 

 Ploughman, I know not ; but the following pas- 

 sage from that poem proves he was giving expres- 

 sion to a i'eeHng which had long been jiopular in 

 this country. I (juote from Mr. Wright's edition, 

 published by Pickering : 



" I knew nevere Cardinal 



That he ne cam fra the Pope ; 

 And we clerkes, whan the! come, 

 For hir comunes paieth, 

 For hir peliire and hir pali'reyes nicte. 

 And pilours that hem folncth. 



" The comune clamat cotidie 

 Ech a man til oothtr, 

 'The coiitree is the corscder 

 That Cardinals comme inne ; 

 And ther thel ligge and lenge moost, 

 Lecherie there regneth." 



L. 13789-13SOO. 



]\Ir. Wright observes, in a note upon this pas- 

 sage, that " the contributions levied upon the 

 clergy for the snpjjort of the Pope's messengers 

 and agents was a frequent subject of complaint in 

 the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries." 



Thetas. 



Gloves not worn in the Presence of Royalty 

 (Vol. i., p. 366.).— 



" This week the Lord Coke, with his gloves on, 

 touched and kissed tlie King's hand ; but whether to 

 be confirmed a counsellor, or cashiered, I cannot yet 

 lear.i." — Letter in Court and Times of Charles /., dated 

 April, 1625. 



W. Dn. 



Nonjurors Oratories in London (Vol. ii., p. 354.). — 



" Nothing, my lord, appears so dreadful to me, as 

 the account I have of the barefaced impudence of your 

 Jacobite congregations in London. The marching of 

 the King's forces to and fro through the most factions 

 parts of the kingdom, must (in time) put an end to 

 our little country S(iuabliles ; but your ffty ehurches 

 of nonjurors could never he thus daring, were they not 

 sure of the protection of some liigh ally." — Letter from 

 Bishop Nicholson to Archbishop Wake, dated Rose, 

 Sept. U'O. 1716. in Ellis's Letters, Series iii. 



W. Dn. 



''Filthy Gingran" (Vol.ii., p. 325.). — I have 

 found the following clue to the solution of my 

 Query on this point: — 



" Gingroen (gin-croen) s.f., the toad-flax, a kind of 

 stinking mushroom." — Owen's Welsh Dictionary. 



There is, however, some mistake (a high autho- 

 rity informs me) in the explanation given in the 

 dictionary. Toad-lla.x is certaitdy not a " mush- 

 room," neither does it " stink." Is the AVelsh 

 word applied to both equivocally as distinct ob- 



