NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 62. 



ing to the manor of Rotberfield, co. Sussex, these 

 words occur : — 



" R. K. cepit extra manus domini unam suem tre 

 nat' de ferling," &c. 



I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents 

 ■who will explain the words suem and. ferling. 



What is the etymology of grasson, a word used 

 in some north-country manors for a fine paid on 

 alienation of copyhold lands ? C. W. G. 



Cranmers Descendants. — Being much inte- 

 rested ill everything tliat concerns the martyrs of 

 the Reformation, and not the less so from being 

 descended (in the female line) from the father of 

 Archbishop Cranmer, I should be very glad if any 

 of your correspondents could inform me whether 

 there are any of his male descendants still in ex- 

 istence. Gilpin, in his Lives of the Reformers., 

 says that the Archbishop's wife and children lived 

 in great obscurity. This was probably on account 

 of the prejudice, which had hardly passed away, 

 against the marriage of tJie clergy ; but surely the 

 descendants of so great a man, if there be such, 

 have not lost the records or pedigree by which 

 their descent can be verified. C. D. F. 



Collections of Pasquinades. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me whether a collection has 

 ever been published of the satirical verses affixed 

 to the torso of Menelaus, at the corner of the 

 Palazzo Braschi at Rome, and commonly known 

 as Pasquinades, from the name of a tailor whose 

 shop stood near the place of its discovery ? (See 

 Nibby, Itinerario di Roma, ii. 409.) I send you a 

 specimen which I do not remember to have seen 

 in print. It was occasioned by the Pope Pius VI. 

 (Braschi) having placed his own coat of arms in 

 various parts of St. Peter's. They consisted of the 

 double-headed eagle, two stars, a lily, and the head 

 of a boy, puffing at it. 



" Eedde aquilam imperio ; Gallorum lilia regi; 

 Sidera redde polo; castera Brasche tibi." 



The eagle being restored to the Holy Roman 

 Empire, the lily to the Most Christian King, and 

 the stars to the firmament, there remained tor the 

 Pope himself— an empty puff. MARroRio. 



Portraits of Bishops. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me of portraits of John Williams, 

 ai-chbishop of York (previously bishop of Lincoln) ; 

 John Owen, bishop of St. Asa'pli ; George Griffith, 

 bishop of St. Asajjh ; Lewis B.nyley, bishop of Ban- 

 gor; Humphrey Henchman, hiehop of Lonuoii 

 (previously bishop of Salisbury) ; Lord Chief Jus- 

 tice Glynne ; and Sir Thonias Milward, chief justice 

 of Chester. ■ 



Cassan, in his Bishops of Salisbury, me»t5tmsotie 

 01 ilenchman; but I mean exclusively oi/ this 



i, Y. Y. 



The Butcher Buie.—Can any of your readers 



furnish me with the rest of a Scotch song of which 

 I have heard these two couplets ? 



" The Deil sat girning in a nook, 



Breaking sticks to burn the duke. 



A' the Whigs sal cae to hell ! 



Geordie sal gae there hissel." 



And who was the writer ? Mezzotinto. 



Rodolph Gualter. — I think I have somewhere 

 seen it stated that Rodoljjh Gualter (minister at 

 Zurich, and well known as a correspondent of our 

 divines in the age of the Reformation) was a 

 Scotchman. Will any of your correspondents 

 oblige me by supplying either a reference for this 

 statement, or a disproof of it — or both ? 



J. C. R. 



Passage in St. Mark. — What Fathers of the 

 early Christian Church have annotated that re- 

 markable text, JM.iik xiii. 32., " ou5e & vlhs," 

 " Neither the Son ?" 



As this subject has certainly engaged the atten- 

 tion of many of your readers, it will be a great 

 favour eonf(?rred on the present writer, if their 

 replies should indicate the authors' names, the 

 date and place of the edition, the page, and such 

 other distinctive marks as stall lead to a prompt 

 investigation of the subject : among them, whether 

 the authors quoted are in the library of the British 

 Museum. Calmet. 



" Fronte Capillata^^.c. — On the Grammar School 

 at Guilsbro, in Northamptonshire, is inscribed the 

 following hexameter : — 



" Fronte capillata post est Occasio calva." 



I suppose it alludes to some allegorical repre- 

 sentation of Occasio ; and is intended to convey 

 the same meaning as our English proverb, " Seize 

 time by the forelocks." From what author is this 

 inscription taken ? E. H. A. 



i^C{lItC^. 



" GOD SPEED THE PLOUGa." 



(Vol. i., p. 230.) 



L. S. asks, in what rebellion "was the banner 

 carried with the motto " God speed the plough ?" 

 — {Homily against Wilfid Rebellion.) 



Probably in the rebellion of the Earls of Nor- 

 thumberland and Westmoreland in the north of 

 England, during the autumn of a.d. 1569. In the 

 passage of the homily which immediately follows 

 the one quoted by L, S., occur these words : — 



" And though some rebels bear the picture of the 

 five wcunds painted, against those who put their only 



hope of salvation in the wounds of Christ and 



though they do bear the image of the cross painted in 

 a rag .... yet let no good and godly subject .... 

 follow such sfcindard-bearers of rebellion." 



Again : just before the quotation cited by L. S. 



