April 19. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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called Joanc loas Pope of Home : against the sur- 

 mises and objections made to the contrary by Robert 

 Bellarmini and CcBsar Baronius, Cardinals, Flori- 

 mondus Rcemondus, mid other Popish Writers, im- 

 piidently denying the same, 4to , pp. 128, 1610. 

 The work was dedicated to tbe Archbishop of 

 York, and was reprinted in 1C23 in 4to., and in 

 French, 1633, 8vo. The author, in his addi-ess To 

 the Popish Reader, says : 



" I "ffi^'' ""'" '^^^ ^'^''* " discourse toucJnng Pope 

 JoANE (Jfthou darest read il, for fear uf falling into thy 

 Pope's curse), whose Popedome I will make good unto thee, 

 not bij the testimonies of Pautaleon, and Functius, and 

 Sleidan, atui lllyricus, and Constaiitinus Phrygio, and 

 John Bale, and Robert Barnys, because thou hast con- 

 demned their persons, and their hooks too, to hell ; but by 

 the testimonies of thy brethren^ the soiines of t]iine own 

 mother; because, as one saitli, ' Amici contra amieura, 

 et inimici pro iiiiralco, invinciblle testimonium est.' " 



EL C. Harington. 



The Close, Exeter. 



Abbot Eustacius (Vol. iii., p. 141.). — As J. L.'s 

 inquiry after an abbot of that name has hitherto 

 been unsuccessful, perhaps he woidd like to know 

 that Eustacia was abbess of the monastery at 

 Shaftesbury (founded by King Alfred), tempore 

 incerto, but probably in the time of Stephen. See 

 ^A^illis's History of Abbeys, and a History of the 

 Ancient Town of Shaftesbury, p. 2 1 . Blowen. 



The Vellum-bound Junius (Vol. iii., p. 262.). — 

 In the Minor Queries of your Number 75., you 

 have kindly inserted my notice on tlie vellum- 

 bound Junius. I beg to state further, that the 

 reason of my being so desirous to procure this 

 copy at the Stowe sale was, that it was not only 

 bound in vellum, but was also printed on that 

 article. If any of your correspondents can inform 

 me of another copy printed on vellum, I should 

 be glad. W. D. Haggard. 



Bank of England, April 5. 1851. 



Meaning of Waste-bo6k (Vol. iii., pp. 118. 195. 

 251.). — Among a list of " the books j)rinted for, 

 and are to be sold by John Hancock, at the sign 

 of the Three Bibles in Pope's-head Alley, in Corn- 

 hill," I find The Absolute Accountant, or London 

 Merchant, containing instructions and directions 

 for the methodical keeping of merchant's ac- 

 counts, after the most exact and concise way of 

 debtor and creditor ; also a Memorial, vulgarly 

 called a waste-book, and a cash-book, with a jour- 

 nal and a ledger, &c., 1670. This is the first 

 reference I have seen to the correct designation 

 of the book, which might have received its vulgar 

 name of waste from wast, tlie second person of 

 10US — thus the Memorial or the Wast-book. 



Elowen. 



Cowdray (Vol. iii., p. 194.). — There is a rais- 

 priot hpre of Eastbourne for Easebourne. There is 



a curious note on Cowdray, and the superstition 

 attached to it, in Crokers Boswell, p. 711. Svo. 

 edit. C. 



Solemnisation of Matrimony (Vol. ii., p. 464.). — 

 A. A. will find, from Blackstone's Commentaries, 

 vol. ii. p. 135., that in feudal times a husband had 

 the power of protecting his lands from the wife's 

 claim to dower, by endowing her, ad ostium Ec- 

 clesice, with specific estates to the exclusion of 

 others ; or, if he had no lands at the time of the 

 marriage, by an endowment in goods, chattels, or 

 money. When special endowments were thus 

 made, the husband, after affiance made and troth 

 plighted, used to declare with what specific lajids 

 he naeant to endow his wife (" rptod dotal earn de 

 tali manerio" &c.) ; and therefore, in the old York 

 ritual {Seld. Ux. Hcbr. 1. ii. c. 27.) there is at 

 this part of the matrimonial service the following 

 rubric — '■'■ Sacerdos interroget dotem mulieris ; et si 

 terra ei in dotem detur, tunc dicatur psalmus iste," &c. 

 When the wife was endowed generalli/, the hus- 

 band seems to have said " with all my lands and 

 tenements I thee endow," and then they all became 

 liable to her dower. When he endowed her with per- 

 sonalty only, he used to say, "with all my worldly 

 goods (or, as the Salisbury ritual has it, " with all 

 my worldly chattels"^ I thee endow," which en- 

 titled the wife to her thirds, or pars rationabilis, 

 of his personal estate, which is provided for by 

 Magna Charta, cap. 26. The meaning, therefore, 

 of the words noticed in A. A.'s Query, if they can 

 be said to have any meaning in the present state 

 of the law, is simply that the wife's dower is to be 

 general, and not specific, or, in other words, that 

 sh<j is to have her pars rationabilis in all her hus- 

 band's goods. J. F. M. 



Epitaph on the Countess of Pembrohe (Vol. iii., 

 p. 262.). — Although J. H. M. has concluded that 

 William Browne was not the author of this 

 epitaph, because it is not to be found amongst his 

 Pastorals, it would nevertheless appear that the 

 lines are rightly attributed to him, if the following 

 extract maj' be relied on : 



" The well-known epitaph of the celebrated Countess 

 of Pembroke, the sister of Sir Philip Sidney, has been 

 generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. The first stanza is 

 printed in Jonson's poems ; but It Is found in the manu- 

 script volume of poems by William Browne, the author 

 of Britannia's Pastorals, preserved in the Lansdown 

 Collection, British INIuseum, No. 777., and on this 

 evidence may be fairly appropriated to him, particu- 

 larly as it is knonm that he was a great favourite with 

 William, Earl of Pembroke, sou of the Countess." — 

 Relics of Literature : London, Boys, 1823, p. 60. 



Alfred GAXTr. 



Scandal against Queen Elizabeth (Vol. ii., p. 393. ; 

 Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197. 225.). — Your corre- 

 spondeuts seem to have overlooked the celebratod 



