Dec. 14. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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English Prize Essays. — Is there at present, in 

 either of the universities, or elsewhere, any prize, 

 medal, or premium given for English essays, for 

 which all England could compete, irrespective of 

 birth, place of education, &c. ; and, if so, particu- 

 lars as to time, snbject, and place, or an intimation 

 as to where such could be obtained, would greatly 

 oblige Modest Ambition. 



Rev. Josepli Blanco Wliite. — History of the In- 

 quisition. — In the Rev. J. H. Thorn's Life of the 

 Rev. Joseph Blanco White it is stated that he had 

 made a collection for a history of the Inquisition 

 which he intended to publish ; and in a batch of 

 advertisements preceding the first volume of 

 Smedley's Reformed Religion in France, pub- 

 lished in 1832 by Rivingtons, as part of their 

 Tlieological Library, I find an announcement of 

 other works to be included in the series, and 

 amongst others, already in preparation, The 

 Origiii and Grouth of the Roman Catholic Inqui- 

 sition against Heresy and Apostacy ; by Joseph 

 Blanco White, M.A. I need not ask whether the 

 work yvas published, for it is not to be found in the 

 London Catalogue ; but I wish to ask wlietlier any 

 portion of the work was ever placed in the pub- 

 lisher's hands, or ever printed ; or whether he 

 made any considerable progress in the collection, 

 and, if so, in whoso hands the MSS. are? Such 

 pajjcrs, if they exist, would probably prove of too 

 much importance to allow of their remaining un- 

 published. Iota. 



Lady Deloi'aine. — The Delia of Pope's line, 

 " Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage," 

 is supposed to have been Lady Deloraine, who 

 remarried W. Windam, Esq., of Carshara, and 

 died in Oct., 1741. The pers(ni said to have been 

 poisoned was a Miss JLickenzie. Are the grounds 

 of this strange suspicion known ? 



Edwaed F. Rimbault. 



Speke Family. — I shall be glad to ascertain the 

 family name and the armorial bearings of Alice, 

 wife of Sir John Speke, father of Sir .lohn Speke, 

 founder of the cliapel of St. George in Exeter Ca- 

 thedral. She is said to have been maid of honour 

 to Queen Catherine. J. D. S. 



Pope's Villa. — In Pope's Literary Correspondence, 

 publislied by Curll, an engraving is advertised of 

 his (Pope's) Villa at Twiclceiiiiam, engraved by 

 Ilysbrach and published by Curll. Are any of 

 your correspondents aware of the existence of a 

 copy, and the price at which it can be obtained ? 



C. Bathuust W. 



Armarial Bcarinss. — Anions: the numerous 

 coats-armorial in tiie great east window of tlie 

 choir of Exeter Cathedral, liiere is one respecting 

 which I am at a loss. Argent a cross between 

 four crescents gules. Can either of your readers 

 Jtindly afford the name ? J. D. S. 



Passage fi'om Tennyson. — You have so many 

 correspondents well versed in lore and legend, 

 that I am induced to beg through you for an ex- 

 planation of the allusion contained in the follow- 

 ing passage of Tennyson : — 



" JNlorn broaden'd on the borders of the dark, 

 Ere I saw her, who clasp'd in her last trance 

 Her murder'd father's head." 



It occurs in the Dream of Fair Women, st. 67. 

 Cambridge. W. M. C. 



Sauenap, Meaning of. — In the will of Jane 

 Heryng, of Bury, 1419, occurs this bequest : — 



" To Alysoti my dowter, xl s. and ij pottys of bras 

 neste the besto, and a peyr bedys of blak get, and a 

 grene hod, and a red hod, and a gowne of violet, and 

 another of taune, and a towayll of diaper werk, and a 

 saiienap ; also a cloke and a rownd table." 



What was the sauenap f Bubiensis. 



Hoods ivorn by Doctors of the University of 

 Cambridge. — Pray permit me to inquire, through 

 your agency, what is the proper lining of the scar- 

 let cloth hoods worn by doctors in the three 

 faculties of the university of Cambridge? The 

 robe-makers of Cambridge have determined upon 

 a pink or rose-coloured silli for all ; the London 

 artists adopt a shot silk (light blue and crimson) 

 sometimes for all faculties, at others for Doctors 

 in Divinity onlj'. On ancient monuments (there 

 is one in Cantei'bury Cathedral) I find that the 

 hoods were lined with ermine ; and this is the 

 material of those attached to the full-dress robes 

 of doctors on the occasion of their creation, and in 

 the schools, and at congregations. I cannot find 

 the scatutes bearing u2)on tlie subject. 



As the Oxford statutes have recently been pub- 

 lished, the matter is not so much in the dark, — 

 black silk being tlie material prescribed for the 

 lining of hoods of Doctors in Divinitj', and those of 

 the doctors in the other faculties being prescribed 

 to be oi silk of any intermediate colour, which the 

 Oxford doctors understand to mean a deep rose- 

 colour. D. C. L. 



U. University Club, Dec. 4. 1850. 



Euclid and Aristotle. — The ordinary chronologies 

 place Aristotle as nearly a century anterior to 

 Euclid; but Professor De Morgan ("Eucleides," 

 in Dr. Smith's Biographical Dictionary) considers 

 them as contemporary. Any of your readers con- 

 versant with the subject will oblige me by saying 

 which is right, and likewise luhy so. 



Geometricus. 



Ventriloquism. — Fanningus, the King's Whispe?-er. 

 — To the Query respecting Brandon the juggler 

 (Vol. ii., p. 424.), I beg 'leave to add another 

 somewhat simihir. 'Where is any information to be 

 obtained of " Tlie King's Whisperer, eyyacrTplfiveos, 

 nomine Fanningus, who resided at Oxford in 

 1643?" T.J. 



