July 5. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



13 



1844, havinj^ been copied into that paper from the 

 Guide to Burgldey House, pp.36., published by 

 Draliard in 1812. 



A very slight tinge of romance attends the real 

 facts of this union, which took place when the late 

 Marquis was Mr. Henry Cecil. The lady was not 

 of so lowly an origin as the fiction relates. Mr. 

 Cecil did not become the Lord of Burgldey until 

 the death of his uncle, the 9th Earl of Exeter, two 

 years after this marriage, up to which rime he 

 resided at Bolas, Salop, the residence of his wife 

 before her marriage, and there the two eldest of 

 their four children were born. The Countess of 

 Exeter died greatly beloved and respected at the 

 early age of twenty-four, having been married 

 nearly seven years. J. P. Jun. 



Bicetre (Vol. iii., p. 518.). — It was certainly 

 anciently called Vincestre. It is so in Monstrelet, 

 whose history begins about 1400. One of the 

 treaties between the Burgundians and Orleanists 

 was made there. President Henault says (under 

 Charles VI.) that this castle belonged to John, 

 Bishop of Winchester. If he is right in the 

 Christian name, he must mean had belonged, not 

 appartenoit, for the John Bishops that I find in 

 Britton's list are : 



Elected. Died. 



- 1261 1267 



- 1282 1:304 



- 1316 1319 



- 1323 1333 



C. B. 



On a Passage in Dryden (Vol. iii., p. 492.). — 

 Mr. Breen appears to me decidedly wrong in the 

 view he takes of the passage he quotes from 

 Dryden. In the first place, he commits the mis- 

 take of assuming that Dryden is expressing his 

 own opinion, or speaking in his own ])erson. The 

 fact is, howevei', that the speaker is Torresmond. 

 Torresmond is " mad" enough to love the queen ; 

 be has already spoken of the " madness of liis high 

 attempt," he says he raves ; and when the queen 

 offers to give him counsel for his cure, he says he 

 wishes not be cured : 



" There is a pleasure, sure, 

 In being mad, which none but madmen know !" 

 This is inference, not assertion. Whether it be 

 natural or not, I will not say, but I can see no 

 blunder. S. H. 



Derivation of Yankee (Vol. iii., p. 461.). — 

 Washington Irving, in his Knickerbocker s His- 

 tory of New Yo7-k, gives the same derivation of 

 " Yankee " tliat is quoted from Dr. TurnbuU and 

 from Mr. RiciimomJ. Irviug's authority is, I be- 

 lieve, earlier tlian both these. Is the derivation 

 his? and if his, is he in earnest in giving it? I 

 ask this, not because I have reason to doubt in this 

 instance either his seriousness or his philological 

 accuracy, but by way of inserting a caution on 



John of Oxon 

 John de Pontessara 

 John de Sandale - 

 John de Stratford - 



behalf of the unwary. I have read or heard of 

 a learned German who quoted that book as ve- 

 ritable history. The philology may be as baseless 

 as the narrative. It is a happy suggestion of a 

 derivation at all events, be it in jest or in earnest. 



E. J. S. 



Ferrante Pallavicino (Vol. iii., pp. 478. 523.). — 

 Your correspondent Charles O'Soulet will find 

 some account of Ferrante Pallavicino in Chal- 

 mers, or any other biographical dictionary ; and 

 a very complete one in the Dictionnaire Historique 

 of Prosper Marchand. Tlie manuscript he pos- 

 sesses has been printed more than once ; it first 

 appeared in the Opera Scelte di Fei-rante Palla- 

 vicino printed at Geneva, but with the imprint 

 Villafranca, 1660, 12mo., of which there are 

 several reimpressions. It is there entitled La 

 Disgratia del Coate D'Olivares, and bears the 

 fictitious subscription of " Madrid li 28 Gennaro, 

 1643," at the end. If the MS. was written at 

 Genoa, it is most probably only a transcript ; for 

 Pallavicino was resident at Venice when it appears 

 to have been written, and was soon jifter tre- 

 panned by a vile caitiff named Charles de Bresche 

 alias De Morfu, a Frenchman employed by the 

 Pope's nuncio Vitellio, into the power of those 

 whom his writings had incensed, and was by them 

 put to death at Avignon in 1644. 



S. W. SiNGEE. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The reputation which Mr. Foss acquired as a dili- 

 gent investigator of legal antiquities, and an impartial 

 biographer of those who have won for themselves seats 

 on tlis woolsack or tlie bench, by tht publication of the 

 first two volumes of his Judges of England, ivith Sketches 

 of their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices connected with 

 the Courts at JVeslminster from the time of the Conquest, 

 will be more than confirmed by the third and fourth 

 volumes, which have just been issued. In these, which 

 are devoted to the Judges who flourished between the 

 years 1272 and 1485 — that is to say, from the reign of 

 Edward I. to that of Richard 111. inclusive, Mr. Foss 

 has added 473 to his former list of 580 Judges ; and 

 when we say, that every biography shows with what 

 diligence, and we may add with what intelligence, 

 Mr. Foss has waded through all available sources of 

 information, including particularly the voluminous 

 publications of the late Record Commission, we have 

 done more than sufficient to justify our opening state- 

 ment, and to recommend his work to the favourable 

 notice of all lovers of historical truth. To the general 

 reader the surveys of the reigns, in which Mr. Foss 

 points out not only everything remarkable connected 

 with the law, but the gradual development of our legal 

 system, will be by no means the least attractive portion 

 his book ; while his endeavours to trace the successive 

 institution of the several Inns of Court and Chancery, 

 and also of the three didercnt Inns occupied by the 



