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niversary of his martyrdom). It was then erased 
from the kalendar, but restored to it in the reign 
of Chas. IL. ; when it was transferred to June 17th. 
Why was this change made?” 
W. C. Treve.yan. 
Black Broth (No. 19. p.300.).—If this were a 
sauce or condiment, may not the colour have been 
produced by the juice of the Boletus, much used 
in Greece to the present day ? 5.5.8. 
Deputy-Lieutenants of the Tower of London. — 
By whom were these officers appointed ? What was 
the nature of their duties? Had they a salary, or 
was the office an honorary appointment? ‘They 
used to meet periodically, was it for the transac- 
tion of business? if so, what business? Does the 
office still exist ? 8.8. S. 
Buccaneers. — Charles II.— There is a pas- 
sage in Bryan Edwards’s History of the West 
Indies (vol. i. p. 164. 4to. edit. 1793), in which he 
gives an opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica 
were not the pirates and robbers that they have 
been commonly represented; and mentions, on 
the authority of a MS. journal of Sir William 
Beeston, that Charles II. had a pecuniary interest 
in the buccaneering, and continued to receive a 
share of the booty after he had publicly ordered 
the suppression of buccaneering ; and also, speak- 
ing of Sir Henry Morgan, and the honours he 
received from Charles II., gives an opinion that 
the stories told of Morgan’s cruelty are untrue. 
Can any of your readers tell me who Sir William 
Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or 
refer me to any accessible information about 
Charles IL’s connection with the buccaneers, or 
that may support Bryan Edwards’s favourable 
opinion of the Jamaica buccaneers :nd of Si 
Henry Morgan? C. 
Travelling in 1590.— Richard Hooker.— Could 
any of your readers give me some particulars of 
travelling at the above period between London 
and Salisbury? I should also feel greatly in- 
debted for any unpublished partieulars in the life 
of the “ Judicious Richard Hooker” after his mar- 
riage. Answers might be sent, either through 
“Nores AND QuERIES,” or direct to me, 
W. Hastines Kevxe. 
Drayton Beauchamp, Tring. 
Decker’s Raven's Almanack— Nash's Terrors of 
the Night, §c.— Having lately picked up a volume 
of old tracts, I am anxious to learn how far I may 
congratulate myself on having met with a prize. 
Among the contents are— 
1. “The Rauen’s Almanacke,” for the year 
1609, purporting to be by T. Deckers. Is this 
the same person with Thomas Dekker the drama- 
tist P 
2. Nashe’s “Terrors of the Night” (wanting 
eight leaves at the beginning). Of this, Beloe 
(the only authority within my reach) says, that 
only one copy is known to exist; can his state- 
ment be correct ? 
3. A religious tract, which seems only remark- 
able for its bad printing, obscure wording, and 
almost invariably using the third person singular 
of the verb, whatever be the nominative. /t 
begins — 
“To all you who profess the name of our Lord 
Jesus in words, and makes mention of his wads, 
Pc a Pe 
And the first division ends — 
“« This have I written in love to all your soules,who 
am one who did drinke of the cup of fornication, and 
have drunke of the cup of indignation, but now diinkes 
the cup of salvation, where sorrow and tears is fled 
away; and yet am a man of sorrows and well acquairted 
with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and travels jhat 
it may be brought forth of captivity; called by the 
world F. H.” 
Who is F. H.? 
4, Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, 
and the like, by Thomas Tusser; but as the sract 
is mutilated up to cap. 3., 
«I have been prayde, 
To shew mine aide,” &c., 
I am not book-learned enough to know whetier it 
be the same as Tusser’s Five Hundred Poynts of 
Good Husbandry. Information on any of the 
above points would oblige J. E. 
Prebendaries. — When were prebendaries first 
appointed, and what the nature of their duties 
generally ? What is the rank of a prebendary of 
a cathedral or other church, whether as a layman 
or a clerk in orders ? Would a vicar, being a pre- 
bendary, take precedence as such of a rector not 
being one? Where is the best account of pre- 
bends to be found ? 8.8. S. 
Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle.—There is 
at Warwick Castle a fine half-length portrait of 
Luther, by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary 
portraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a 
genuine one? Has it been engraved? E. M. B. 
Rawdon Papers. —The Rev. Mr. Berwick, in 
introducing to the public, in 1819, the interesting 
volume known by the name of Rawdon Papers, 
says, — 
«“ They are a small part of a correspondence which 
was left in the Editor’s hands after the greater portion 
had been sent several years before to the Marquis of 
Hastings, whose absence at this time prevents the 
Editor’s making such additions to his stock as might 
render it more interesting to the public.” 
Do these papers still exist in the possession of 
