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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 74. 



publication ; and tbat, without the books from 

 which they had been "noted" and "queried," 

 they couhl not be made so : and if I had antici- 

 pated the course of events (notwithstanding an 

 inducement which I will mention presently), I 

 should not have thought of publishing a Part I. 

 But when I sent it to the press, I had no idea 

 that I should ever return here, or be at an incon- 

 venient distance from the libraries which were 

 then within my reach, and open to ray use. As it 

 was, I regretted that I liad done so, and felt 

 obliged to hurry the pamphlet through the pre^s, 

 that I might pack up these papers, and many other 

 tilings more likely to be hurt by carriage, for a 

 residence an hundred miles off; and here they arc 

 in stain quo. I have not attempted to do any 

 thing with them, not only because I have been 

 Very much occupied in other ways, but because I 

 do not know that I could fit them for publication 

 without referring to some books to which I have 

 not access. At the same time I feel bound to add, 

 that while I still tiiink that some of the things to 

 which I refer might be worth printing, yet I do 

 not consider them so important as the matter 

 which formed the suliject of the Part already pub- 

 lished. I did think (and that was the inducement 

 to which I have already referred) that it was high 

 time to call the attention of disinterested and re- 

 flecting persons to the facts alleged by mesmerists, 

 and to the names by which they are attested. I 

 Lave the satisiaclion of knowing that I have in 

 some degree succeeded in this design. I may 

 perhaps some day find a channel for publishing 

 the fragments alluded to ; but in the mean time, 

 I shall be very glad if I can supply anything 

 w^hich your correspondent m.ay think wanting, or 

 explain anything unintelligible in what is pub- 

 lished, if he will let me hear from him either with 

 or without his name. I am sorry to ask for so 

 much space, knowing how little you have to spare ; 

 but I cainiot resist the temptation to otfer an ex- 

 planation, which will be so widely circulated, and 

 among such readers as I know this will be, if you 

 can find room for it. J. R. JiLutlasd. 



Gloucester, March 24. 



LORD HOWARD OF EFFISGHAM. 



(Vol. iii., p. 185.) 



The following observations, though slight in 

 themselves, may tend to show that Charles Lord 

 Ilowai-d of Effingham, afterwards Eail of Not- 

 tingham, was, or professed to be, a Protestant. 



1st. On his embassy to Spain, Carte says (I 

 quote from CoUins's Peerage, vol. iv. p. 272.) — 



" On Friday the last of this Month His Catholick 

 IMajesty ratified the peace upon Oatli in a great cham- 

 ber of the palace .... It was pretended that the Clergy 

 would not suffer this to be done in a Church or Chapel 



I where the neglect of reverence of the Holy Sacrament 

 ! would give scandal." 



I I presume the "neglect of reverence" was ap- 

 prehended in the case of the English a)nbassador. 



2nd. In Fuller's Worthies (Surrey), speaking of 

 Lord Nottingham, it is said — 



" He lived to be very aged, who wrote 'man,' (if 

 not married) in the first of Queen Elizaheth, heing an 

 invited guest at the solemn consecration of Matthew 

 Parker at Lambeth ; and many years after, hy his 

 testimony, confuted those lewd and loud lies which the 

 papists tell of the Xag's Head in Cheapside." 



3rd. He was one of the commissioners on the 

 trial of Ciarnet and others ; and told him, as he 

 stood in a box made like a pulpit — 



" Sir, you have this day done more good in that 

 pidpit wherein you now stand, than yon have done in 

 any other pulpit all the days of your life," — ArcJueo- 

 Ingia, vol. xv. 



His coffin-plate has been engraved somewhere, 

 and, if his will exists, it might probably settle the 

 question. Q. D. 



Lord Howard of E^ffingham (Vol. iii., p. 185.). 

 — There is some proof tiiat he was a Protestant 

 in the letter of instructions to him from King 

 James {Biog. Brit., p. 2C79.) : 



" Only we forewarn you, that in the performance of 

 that ceremony, which is likely to he done in the King's 

 (of Spiin) chapel, you have especial care that it be 

 not done in the forenoon, in the time of mass, to the 

 scandal of our religion ; but rather in the afternoon, at 

 what time their service is more free from note of 

 superstition." 



Jlay Lord EflSngham have changed his religion 

 between the Armada and his mission to Spain ? 



C.B. 



lOVANNI VOI.PB. 



(Vol. iii., p. 188.) 



The Volpes were an ancient, noble Florentine 

 familj' of the second class, some branches of which 

 according: to the usacre of Florence, chanjred their 

 name, and adopted that of Bigliotti. The object of 

 the change was to remove the disqtialification which 

 attached to them, as nobles, of holding otBces un- 

 der the republic. In illustration of this singular 

 practice, the following extracts may be cited : 



" Le peuple nomma une commission pour corriger 

 les statuts de la rtpublique, et reprimer par les lois 

 I'insolence des nobles. Une ordonnance fameuse, 

 connue sons le nom d' Ordinamenti delta Giustizia, 

 fut I'ouvrage de cette commission. Pour le maintien 

 de la liherte et do la justice, elle sanctionna la jurispru- 

 dence la plus tyrannique, et la plus injuste. Trente- 

 sept families, les phis noldes et les plus respectables de 

 Florence, furent exclus a jamais du priorat, sans qu'il 

 leur fut permis de recouvrer les droits de cite, en se 



