NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 24. 
written by Myles Coverdale (and it is much in his 
style), it must have been interspersed with re- 
marks by another party, for in the preface, signed, 
as it is said, by Coverdale, allusion is made to 
things occurring in 1573, four years after his 
death. Epwarp F. Rimpavttr. 
QUE RIES. 
SPECULUM EXEMPLORUM :—EPISTOLA DE MISERIA 
CURATORUM. 
Who was the compiler of the Speculum Exem- | 
plorum, printed for the first time at Deventer, in 
1481? A copy of the fourth edition, Argent, 1490, 
does not afford any information about this matter ; 
and I think that Panzer (v. 195.) will be consulted 
in vain. Agreeing in opinion with your corre- 
spondent “ “GASTROS” (No. 21. p. 338) that a 
querist should invariably give an idea of the ex- 
tent of his acquaintance with the subject proposed, 
I think it right to say, that I have examined the 
list of authors of Exempla, which is to be found 
in the appendix to Possevin’s Apparatus Sacer, 
tom. i. sig. 6 2., and that I have read Ribadeneira’s 
notice of the improvements made in this Speculum 
by the Jesuit Joannes Major. 
Who was the writer of the EHpistola de Miseria 
Curatorum 2? My copy consists of eight leaves, and 
a large bird’s-cage on the verso of the last leaf is 
evidently the printer’s device. Scemiller makes 
mention of an Augsburg edition of this curious 
tract. (Biblioth. Acad. Ingolstad. Incunab. typog. 
Fascic. il. p. 142. Ingolst. 1788.) R. G. 
THE SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE, 
The review of Mr. Wright’s England under the 
House of Hanover, illustrated by the Caricatures 
and Satires of the Day, given in the Atheneum 
(No. 1090.), cites a popular ballad on the flight 
and attainder of the second Duke of Ormonde, as 
taken down from the mouth of an Isle of Wight 
fishmonger. This review elicited from a corre- 
spondent (Atheneum, No. 1092.) another version 
of the same ballad as prevalent in Northumberland. 
I made a note of these at the time ; and was lately 
much interested at receiving from an esteemed | 
correspondent (the Rey. P. Moore, Rochenon, co. 
Kilkenny), a fragment of another version of the 
same ballad, which he (being at the time ignorant 
of the existence of any other version of the song) 
had taken down from the ee of a very old man of 
that neighbourhood, viz. 
“My name is Ormond; have you not heard of me? 
For I have lately forsaken my own counterie ; 
I fought for my life, and they plundered my estate, 
For being so loyal to Queen Anne the great. 
Queen Anne’s darling, and cavalier’s delight, 
And the Presbyterian crew, they shall never have | 
their flight. 
| for 
I am afraid of my calendry ; my monasteries are all 
sold, 
And my subjects are bartered for the sake of English 
gold. 
But, as Iam Ormond, I vow and declare, 
I'll curb the heartless Whigs of their wigs, never 
fear.” 
I do not quote the versions given in the Atheneum, 
but, on a comparison, it will be seen that they all 
must have been derived from the same original. 
The success of your queries concerning the Duke 
_of Monmouth impel me to propose a few concern- 
ing the almost as unfortunate, and nearly as cele- 
brated, second Duke of Ormonde. Many scraps 
of traditionary lore relative to the latter nobleman 
must linger in and about London, where he was 
the idol of the populace, as well as the leader of 
what we should now call the “ legitimist” party. 
With your leave, I shall therefore propose the 
following Queries, viz. 
1. Who was the aafuiten of the anonymous life of 
the second Duke of Ormonde, published in one 
volume octavo, some years after his attainder ? 
2. Was the ballad, of which the above is a frag- 
ment, printed at the time; and if so, does it exist ? 
3. What pamphlets, ballads, or fugitive pieces, 
were issued from the press, or privately printed, 
on the occasion of the Duke’s flight and subse- 
quent attainder ? 
4. Does any contemporary writer mention facts 
or incidents relative to the matter in question, be- 
tween the period of the accession of George I., and 
the Duke's final departure from his residence at 
Richmond ? 
5. Does any traditionary or unpublished infor- 
mation on the subject exist in or about London or 
Richmond ? JAMES GRAVES. 
Kilkenny. 
MAYORS.—WHAT IS THEIR CORRECT PREFIX ? 
I wish to ask, of any of your numerous readers, 
what may be considered the most proper official 
prefix for Mayors, whether Right Worshipful or 
Worshipful ? Opinions, I find, differ upon the 
subject. In the Secretary's Guide, 5th ed. p. 95., 
it is said that Mayors are Right Worshipful ; the 
late Mr. Beltz, Lancaster Herald, was of opinion 
| that they were Worshipful only; and Mr. Dod, 
the author of a work on Precedence, &c., in 
answer to an inquiry on the point, thought that 
Mayors of cities were Right Worshipful, and those 
of towns were only Worshipful. With due defer- 
ence, however, I am rather inclined to think that 
all Mayors, whether of cities or of towns, ought 
properly to be styled “the Right Worshipful” 
the following reason :—all Magistrates are 
Worshipful, I believe, although not always in 
these days so designated, and a mayor being the 
