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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 88. 



from John Pinkerton, Esq., the antiquarian writer, 

 dated the 23rd February, 1794 : 



" In looking over the Survei/ of Scotland accom- 

 plished by your exertions, it occurred to me that I 

 eould furnish an article, wortliy to appear in an Ap- 

 pendix to one of the volumes of the Stutislhal Account. 

 I need not inform you, that in the third volume of 

 Prynne's Records tliere is a large but undigested list 

 of all those in Scotland who paid homage to Edward I. 

 in 1291 and 1296, forming a kind of Doomsday Book 

 of the country at that period. Four years ago, I, with 

 some labour, reduced the numerous names and designa- 

 tions into alphabetical order, and the list being now 

 adapted to general use, and containing the names and 

 designations of the chief landholders, citizens, and clergy 

 of the time, it may be regarded as of no small import- 

 ance to our ancient statistics, topography, and gene- 

 alogy. If your opinion coincides, i shall with plea- 

 sure present it to you for the purpose, and correct the 

 press." 



Now tlie article so kindly proffered by Mr. 

 Pinkerton did not apjiear in the Statistical Ac- 

 count of Scotland, or in any of Mr. Pinkerton's 

 subsequent publications, that I am aware of. I 

 should feel obliged if any correspondent could 

 inform me if it was ever published. 



Aberdoniensis. 



iHiiTOr «aucric^ ^nStucrcU. 



Dr. Sachevei-ell. — Was Dr. Sacheverell's speech 

 on his trial (supposed to have been tlie work of 

 Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester) ever 

 published ? If so, when, and by whom ? 



Colli AVobbles. 



[A printed copy of Dr. Sacheverell's speech is now 

 on our table, but without ar>y publisher's name. The 

 following is a copy of thetitle: " The Speech of Henry 

 Sacheverell, D. D., upon his Impeachment at the Bar 

 of the House of Lords, in AVestminster Hall, March 7. 

 170fg. London, Printed in the year 1710." On the 

 back of the title-page appears the following advertise- 

 ment: "Just published, Collections of Passages re- 

 ferred to by Dr. Henry Sacheverell in his Answer to 

 the Articles of his Impeachment, under four Heads. 

 I. Testimonies concerning the doctrine of Non-resist- 

 ance to the Supreme Powers. II. Blasphemous, irre- 

 ligious, and heretical Positions, lately published. 

 HI. The Church and Clergy abused. IV. The Queen, 

 State, and Ministry reflected upon."] 



Princess Wilbrahama. — Advertisement of a 

 pamphlet appearing in 1767 : 



" A plain Narrative of Facts relating to the Persoii 

 who lately passed under the assumed name of the 

 Princess Wilbrahama, lately detected at the Devizes : 

 containing her whole History, from her first Elope- 

 ment with the Hon. Mrs. Sc***ts, till her Discovery 

 and Commitment to Devizes Bridewell; together with 

 the very extraordinary Circumstances attending that 

 Discovery, and the Report of a Jury of Matrons sum- 

 moned on that Occasion, &c. London : printed for 

 the Author." 



I shall be very thankful for any dncidation of 

 the above case. It appears to have been suffi- 

 ciently popular to warrant the publisher in engag- 

 ing, as he says, "the best artists" to illustrate it 

 with a series of caricatures. I have never been 

 able to meet with a copy in any public library. 



J. Waylen. 



[The notorious Impostor noticed in the communica- 

 tion of our correspondent, performed Irer surprising 

 feats of hazardous versatility between the years 1765 

 and 1768. On different occasions she assumed the 

 names of Wilson, alias Boxall, alias Mollineaux, alias 

 Irving, alias Baroness Wilmington, alias Lady Vis- 

 coimtess Wilbrihammon, alias Countess of Normandy. 

 In 17t>6 her ladyship, " with gentle mien and accent 

 bland," received for her dextrous lubricities sometliing 

 like a whipping, at Coventry. In 17G7 she was ad- 

 judged a vagabond at Devizes, and in the following 

 year sentenced to transportation at the AV^stminster 

 assizes. Alderman Hewitt of Coventry, in 1778, pub- 

 lished some memorabilia of her ladyship in a pamphlet 

 entitled. Memoirs of the celebrated Lady Viscountess 

 Wilbriltammon, tlie greatest Impnstress of the present aqe. 

 The alderman does not notice the tract mentioned by 

 our correspondent, so that it still remains a query 

 whether it was ever issued, although it may have been 

 advertised.] 



Early Visitations. — In Noble's College of Arms, 

 it is stated, p. 25^ that — 



" Henry VL sent persons through many of the 

 counties of England to collect the names of the gentry 

 of each ; these lists have reached our time. It is 

 observable, that many are mentioned in them who had 

 adopted the meanest trades, yet were still accounted 

 gentry." 



AVhere are these lists to be found ? 



H. AVlTHAM. 



[Noble's statements upon such points are extremely 

 loose. We know not of any sirch lists, but would 

 refer to Grimaldi's Origines Genealogicte, under " Rolls 

 and Visitations," where, in all probability, something 

 may be found in reference to the subject, if there ever 

 were any such lists.] 



WRITTEN SERMONS. 



(Vol. iii., pp. 478. 526.) 



Perhaps the publication of the following docu- 

 ment may lead to a solution of the question sent 

 by M. C. L. (Vol. iii., p. 478.). It is a copy of a 

 letter from the Duke of Monmouth, as Chancellor 

 of the University of Cambridge, intimating to the 

 clergy the displeasure of Charles II. at tlieir use 

 of periwigs, and their practice of reading sermons. 

 His Majesty, it will be found, thought both cus- 

 toms equally important and equally unbecoming. 

 Of the latter, it is stated that it " took beginning 

 with the disorders of the late times, and that the 

 way of preaching [without book was most agree- 



