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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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well as the printed documents of the Polish 

 Unitarian Churches. Besides, if, as there is 

 reason to believe, the lines were composed shortly 

 after the death of F. Socinus, met (ivill fall) 

 would now correctly describe what, at so small a 

 distance from the days of Luther and Calvin, m;iy 

 be supposed to have been the feeling among the 

 Polish Unitarians; whereas Dr. Pusey's jace^ (lies 

 low, in the present tense) does as certainly par- 

 take somewhat of the gran<liloquent. That no 

 " boast," however, was intended, becomes probable, 

 when we consider that the distich was designed to 

 convey a feeling of reverence towards Socinus 

 rather than an insult to Rome. Joun R. Beard. 



33ri3lir^ ia Wmax caurririS. 



The Kduigs-stuhl at Rheuze (Vol. ii., p. 442). — 

 Dr. Bkll, who inquires for an engraving of the 

 old K'unigs or Kaisers- stuM, at Rheuze, is referred 

 to the History of Geriiiuni/, on the Plan of Mrs. 

 Marhham's Histories, publislie<l by Murray, where, 

 on the 188th page, he will find a very neat wood- 

 cut of this building, which we are told was de- 

 stroyed in 1807, and rebuilt after the original 

 model in 1843. It is of an octagon form, sup- 

 ported by pillars, with seven stone seats round the 

 sides for the electors, and one in the centre for 

 the emperor. M. H. G. 



[The woodcuts of this work deserve especial com- 

 mendation, being accuiate represer.tations of objects of 

 historical interest, instead of the imaginative illustra- 

 tions too often introduced into works which claim to 

 represent the truth of history. Many of the ensravings, 

 such as that of the ruoin in which the Council of Constance 

 was lietd, and the O/flcs of the Anabaptists attached to 

 the tower of St. LnmherCs Church, Miuister, are, we have 

 understood, copied from original sketches placed at 

 Mr. Murray's disposal for the purpose of being used 

 in the work in question.] 



Mrs. Tempest (Vol. ii., p. 407). — This lady was 

 one of the two daughters of Henry Tempest, Esq., 

 of Newton Grange, Yorkshire (sou of Sir John 

 Tempest of Tong Hall, who was created a baronet 

 in 1664), by his wife Alathea, daughter of Sir 

 Henry Thompson of Marston, co. Yoi'k. She died 

 unmarried in 1703. As the Daphne of Poi)e's 

 pastoral " Winter," inscribed to iier memory, she 

 is celebrated in terms which scarcely bear out the 

 remark of your correspondent, that the poet "has 

 no special allusion to her." J. T. Hammack. 



Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Roinish 

 Churches. — In reply to M.'s Query, I beg to in- 

 form him, that to find a calendar of both the above 

 churclies, he need seek no further than the Al- 

 vianach dc Gotha for the year 18.51. He will 

 there find what he wants, on authority no doubt 

 sufficient. l^- C. 



The Conquest (Vol. ii., p. 440). — I do not 

 agree with L. in thinking that the modern notion, 

 that this word means " a forcible method of acqui- 

 sition," is an erroneous one ; but have no doubt 

 that, whatever its original derivation may be, it 

 was used in that sense. If William I. never pre- 

 tended " to annex the idea of victory to conquisi- 

 tion," it is certain that his son William II. did: 

 for we find a charter of his in the Moiuisticon (ed. 

 1846), vol. vi. p. 992., confirming a grant of the 

 church of St. Mary of Andover to the abbey of 

 St. Florence, at Salmur, in Aiijou, in which there 

 is the following recital : 



" Noscant qui sunt et qui futuri sunt, quod Willi- 

 elmus rex, qui arniis Anylicam terram sibi subjugavit, 

 dedit," &c. 



If this charter was granted by AVilliam I., under 

 whom Dugdale has placed it in his Chronica Series, 

 p. 1., nomine Baldric, the argument is so much the 

 stronger ; but I have endeavoured to prove by 

 internal evidence {Judges of England, vol. i. p. 67.) 

 that it is a charter of William II. Edward Foss. 



Thruscross (Vol. ii., p. 441.). — In a sermon 

 preached at the funeral of Lady Margaret Mainard, 

 at Little Easton, in Essex, June 30, 1682, by 

 Bishop Ken, he says : 



" The silenced, and plundered, and persecuted clergy 

 she thought worthy of double honour, did vow a cer- 

 tain siuri yearly out of her income, which she laid aside, 

 only to succour them. The congregations where she 

 then communicated, were those of the Reverend and 

 pious Dr. Thruscross and Dr. INIossom, both now in 

 heaven, and that of the then Mr. Gunning, the now 

 most worthy Bishop of Ely, for whom she ever after 

 had a peculiar veneration." 



" My last son Izaak, borne the 7th of September, 

 1651, at halfe an houre after two o'clock in the after- 

 noone, being Sunday, and he was baptized that evening 

 by Mr. Thruscross, in my house in Clerkenvvell. Mr. 

 Henry Davison and my brother Beacham were his 

 godfatliers, and JNlrs. Iloe his godmother." — Izaak 

 Walton's Entry in his Pmi/cr Book. 



Peckhard, in his Life of Nicholas Ferrar, p. 213., 

 quotes Barwick's JAi'e, Oley, Thruscross, and 

 Thorndike. W. P. 



Osnaburgh Bishopric (Vol. ii., pp. 358. 447.). — 

 The succession to this bishopric was regulated by 

 the Treaty of Westphalia, in 1648. By virtue of 

 that treaty the see of Osnaburgh is alternately 

 possessed by a Romish and a Protestant prince ; 

 and when it comes to the turn of a Protestant, it 

 is to be given to a younger son of the house of 

 Hanover. The Almanack de Gotha will most 

 probably supply the intbrmation who succeeded 

 the late Duke of Ycn'k. Looking at the names of 

 the titular bishops of Osnaburgh, it may be in- 

 ferred that the duties attached to the see are con- 

 fined to its temporalities. J. T. Hammack. 



