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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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stitious minds of his companions. Any informa- 

 tion, however, on the subject will be acceptable. 



T. II. 

 Mincing Lane, Jan. 10. 1851. 



Aged Monks. — Ingulphus {apud Wharlon, An- 

 gliu Sacra, G13.) speaks of fi\e monks of Croy- 

 land Abbey, who lived in the tenth century, the 

 oldest of whom, he says, attained the age of one 

 hundred and sixty-eight years: his name was Cla- 

 renibaldus. The youngest, named Thurgar, died 

 at the premature age of one hundred and fifteen. 

 Can any of your correspondents inform me of 

 any similar instance of longevity being recorded 

 in monkisli chronicles? I remember reading of 

 some old Englisli monks who died at a greater age 

 than brother Thurgar, but omitted to " make a 

 note of it" at the time, and should now be glad to 

 find it. F. SoMNER Merryweatdek. 



Gloucester Place, Kentish Town. 



Ladi/ Alice Citrmichael, danglder of John first 

 Karl of Hyndford. — John second Lord Carmicliael 

 succeeded his grandfather in 1672. He was born 

 28tli February, 1G38, and married, 9th October, 

 1669, Beatrice Drummond, second daughter of 

 David third Lord IMaderty, by whom he liad seven 

 sons and/oHr daughters, lie was created Earl of 

 Hyndford in iTof, and died in 1710. 



I wish to be informed (if any of the obliging 

 readers of your valuable publication can refer me 

 to the authority) what became of Alice, who is 

 named among the daughters of this earl in one of 

 the early Scottish Peerages (anterior probably to 

 that of Crawfurd, in 1716), but which the writer 

 of this is unable to indicate. Archibald, tlie 

 youngest son, was born 15th April, 1693. The 

 Lady Beatrice, the eldest daughter, married, in 

 1700, Cockburn; Mary married Montgomery ; and 

 Anne married Maxiudl. It is traditionally re- 

 ported that the Lady Alice, in consequence of her 

 marriage with one of her father s tenants, named 

 Biset or Bisset, gave offence to the family, who 

 upon that contrived to have her name omitted in all 

 subsequent peerages. The late Alexander Cassy, 

 of Peutonville, who becpieatlied by will several 

 tliousand poumls to found a cliarity at Banff, was 

 son of Alexander Cassy of that place, and — Biset, 

 one of the daughters, sprung from tlie above- 

 named marriage. Scotus. 



" A Veise may find Him" — In the first stanza of 

 Herbert's poem entitled the Church Porch, in the 

 Temple, the following lines occur : — 



" A verse may find him, whom a sermon flies, 

 And turn delight into a sacrifice." 



Which contain, evidently, the same idea as the one 

 enunciated in the subsequent ones quoted by 

 "W^ordsworth (I believe) as a motto prefixed to 

 his ecclesiastical sonnets, without an author as- 

 fiiiined : — 



" A verse may catch a wanderlnjr sold that flies- 

 More powerful tracts : and by a blest surprise 

 Convert delight into a sacrifice." 



Query, Who was the author of them ? R. W. E. 

 Hull. 



Darcshury, the White Chapel of England. — 

 Sometime ago I copied the following from a local 

 print : — 



" ' Nixon's Piophectj. — When a fox without cubs shall 

 sit in the White Chapel of England, then men shall 

 travel to Paris without horses, and kings shall run 

 away and leave their crowns.' 



" The present incumhent of Daresbury, Cheshire 

 (the White Chapel of England), is the Rev. Mr. 

 Fawkes, who (1849) is unmarried. The striking ac- 

 complishment — railway travelling and the revolutions 

 of the present year — must be obvious to every one." 



]\Iy Query to the above is this : Why is the 

 church of Daresbury called the "Wliite Chapel of 

 Entdand, and how did the name originate ? The 

 people in the neighbourhood, I understand, know 

 nothing on the suliject. 



An answer to the above from one of your 

 learned correspondents would greatly oblige. 



J. G. 



Ulm Manuscript. — Can you inform me where 

 the Ulm manuscript is, which was in the posses- 

 sion of Archdeacon Butler, at Shrewsbury, in the 

 year 1832. It is a document of great interest, 

 and some critical value, and ought to be, if it is 

 not already, in public keeping. It is a Latin 

 MS. of the Acts and Epistles, probably of the 

 ninth century, and contains the Pseudo-IIierony- 

 mian Prologue to the " Canonical" Eiiistles. 



It renders the classical passage, 1 John v. 7, 8., 

 in this wise : — 



" Quia tres sunt ■qui testimonium dant, spiritus, et 

 aqua, et sanguis, et tres unum sunt. Slcut In coelo j 

 tres sunt, P^ter, Verbura, et Spiritus, et tres unum 

 sunt," 



You will remember that it is quoted by Person 

 in his Letters to Travis, p. 148., and again referred 

 to by him, pp. 394. 400. 



Was it sohl on the death of the Bishop of Lich- 

 field, or bequeathed to any public institution ? or 

 did it find its way into the j)ossession of the Duke 

 ' of Sussex, who was curious in biblical matters, 

 and was a correspondent of Dr. Butler ? Some 

 of your learned readers will perhaps enable you 

 to trace it. O. T. Dobbin, LL.D. T.C.D. 



Hull, Yorkshire, Jan. 1851. 



Merrick and Tattersall. — Will any of your cor- 

 respondents be so obliging as to give the years of 

 hirth of Merrick, the poet and versifier of the 

 Psalms, and of his biographer, Tattersail. The 

 years of their deaths are given respectively 1 769 



