July 12. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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before the justiciaries, when he aclinowledged all 

 his transgressions, and placed himself at the mercy 

 of the king. He was committed " prisonEe Dom. 

 Regis, quousque Justiciarii habeant locutionem 

 cum consilio Dom. Regis." 



Any further information respecting him also 

 would be very acceptable. A very detaii*id ac- 

 count of the inquiry is at the Chapter House, 

 among the Forest Proceedings. 



H. T. El-LACOMBE. 



Clyst St. George, June 24. J851. 



Posse-ision nine Points of the Laic. — "What is the 

 origin of the expression " Possession is nine points 

 of the law?" The explanation I wish for is, not 

 as to possession conferring a strong title to pro- 

 perty, which is self-evident, but as to the number 

 of points involved in the proposition, which I take 

 to mean nine points out of ten. Has the phrase 

 any reference to the ten commandments or points 

 of law promulgated by Moses ? I should add that 

 three things are said to be necessary to confer a 

 perfect title to land, namely, possession, right of 

 possession, and right of property. C. I^.S. 



Rev. Henry Botirne, A.M. — Could any of your 

 numerous readers furnish me with any informa- 

 tion respecting Bourne, whose history of New- 

 castle-on-Tyne was published in 1736, after the 

 author's decease? I know, I believe, all that is 

 to be gathered from local sources, but should be 

 greatly obliged by any references to printed or 

 MS. works which contain allusions to him or his 

 writings. One of his college friends was the 

 Reverend Granville AVheler, Esq, of Otterden, 

 Kent, who, though in holy orders, chose to be so 

 described, being the eldest son of a knight, the 

 amiable Sir George Wheler, Prebendary of Dur- 

 ham, and Rector of Houghton-le- Spring. 



E. H. A. 



Prior Lachteim — Robert Douglas. — In Bishop 

 Keith's Affairs of Church and State of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. p. 809 , Prior Lachteim is mentioned : 

 will any of your readers inform me who this per- 

 son was? It is not explained in the note; but it 

 is suggested that by Lachteim Loch Tay is meant. 

 Ls this correct ? 



Query 2. Is there any truth in the report that 

 Mary, queen of Scotland, had a son by George 

 Douglas, who was the father of Robert Douglas, 

 a celebrated I'resbjterian preacher during the 

 Covenanting reign of terror in Scotland, after the 

 Glasgow General Assembly in 1638? If, as I 

 suppose, there is no truth in this, what was the 

 parentage and early history of Mr. Robert Dou- 

 glas ? \Voilrow notices this report, and says tliat 

 lie was born in England. See Wodrow's Analectu, 

 4to., 1842, vol. ii. p. 16G. : printed for the Banna- 

 tyne Club. A. C. W. 



Brompton. 



Jacobus de Voragine. — Can any friend give any 

 information respecting an edition of the above 

 author printed at Venice, a.d. 1482? The follow- 

 ing is the colophon : — 



" Reverendl Fratris Jacobi de Voragine de Sancto 

 cum legendis opus perutile hie fineni liabet ; Venetiis 

 per Andreain Jacobi de Catthara impressum : liiipensis 

 Octaviani scoti Modoetreiisis sub inclyto duce Johanne 

 Mo9enico. Anno ab incarnatione domini 148'J, die 17 

 Mensis Mali." 



I can find no mention of it either in Panzer or 

 Brunet or Ebert. Bne. 



Brasenose. 



Peace Illumination, 1802. — Miss ]\Iartineau, in 

 her Litroduction to the History of the Peace, p. 56., 

 repeats the story told in a foot-note on p. 181. of 

 the Annual Register for 1802, of M. Otto, the 

 French ambassador, being compelled to substitute 

 the word " amity " for the word " concord " sus- 

 pended in coloured lamps, in consequence of the 

 irritated mob's determination to assault his house, 

 unless the offensive word " concord " were re- 

 moved, the said mob reading it as though it were 

 spelled " conquered," and inferring thence that 

 M. Otto intended to insinuate that John Bull was 

 conquered by France. The story, moreover, goes 

 on to relate that the mob also insisted that the 

 blazing initials G. R. should be surmounted by an 

 illuminated crown. Tliis anecdote, notwithstand- 

 ing its embalmment in the Annual Register, has 

 always borne in my eyes an apocryphal air. It 

 assumes that the mob was ignorant and intel- 

 lectual at the same moment ; that whilst it was in 

 a riotous mood it was yet in a temper to be rea- 

 soned with, and able to comprehend the reasons 

 addressed to it. But one cannot help fancying 

 th.^t the mental calibre which understood " con- 

 cord" to mean "conquered," would just as readily 

 believe that "amity" meant "enmity," to say 

 nought of its remarkable patience in waiting to 

 see the changes dictated by itself carried out. 

 This circumstance occurred, if at all, within the 

 memory of many subscribers to " Notes and 

 Queries." Is there one amongst them whose per- 

 sonal recollection will enable him to endorse the 

 word Truth upon this curious story ? 



Henet Campkin. 



Planets of the Months. — Can any of your nu- 

 merous correspondents give me the names of the 

 planets for the months, and the names of the 

 precious stones which symbolize those planets ? 



T.B. 



AVimpole Street. 



Family of Ky me. — Sir John Kyme is said to 

 have married a daughter of Edward IV. Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me where I can 

 fiml an account of this Sir John Kyme, his de- 

 scendants, &c. ? I should be glad of information 

 respecting the ftimily of Kyme generally, their 



