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four miles instead of one. When I asked the 

 reason, I was told that the pathway was not a 

 lich-road, and therefore it was not lawful to bring 

 a corpse along it. J. M. (4) 



The Petworth Begister (Vol. iii., p. 510. ; Vol.iv., 

 p. 27.). — Your correspondents Llewellyn and 

 J. S. B. do not appear to be acquainted with 

 Heylyn's quotations from the book thus designated. 

 In one place (p. 63., folio; vol. i. p. 132., 8vo.) he 

 refers to it for a statement — 



"That many at this tune [a. d. 1548] affirmed the 

 most blessed Sacrament of the altar to be of little 

 regard," &c. 



And in another place (p. 65., folio ; vol. i. p. 136., 

 8vo.), he gives an extract relating to Day, Bishop 

 of Chichester : — 



" Seel Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mlhi dixit) non 

 subscripsit." 



Hence the Register would seem to have been a 

 sort of chronicle, kept by the rector of Petworth ; 

 and it does not appear whether it was or was not 

 in the same volume with the register of births, 

 marriages, and deaths. In the latter case, it may 

 possibly be still in the Petworth parish chest ; for 

 the returns to which your correspondents refer, 

 would probably not have mentioned any other 

 registers than those of which the law takes cogni- 

 zance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was 

 attached to the register of births, &c., it may have 

 shared the too couunon fate of early registers ; 

 for, when an order of 1597 directed tlie clergy to 

 transcribe on parclnnent the entries made in the 

 proper registers since the beginning of Elizabeth's 

 reign, they seem to have generally interpreted it 

 as a permission to make away with tlie older 

 registers, altliough there are cases in which the 

 projier books are still preserved. (I am myself 

 acquainted with two in this neighbourhood ; and 

 J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him witli the 

 author of tlie very curious .and valuable History 

 of Parish liegisters, can no doubt mention many 

 others.) But how did Ileylyn, who collected 

 most of his materials about 1638, get hold of the 



book? J. C. RODEKTSON. 



Bekesbourne. 



HollancTs " Momimenta Sepulchralia Ecclesia 

 S. Pauli" (Vol. ii., p. 265. ; Vol. iii., p. 427. ; Vol.iv., 

 p. 62.). — Sir Egerton Brydges, in his Censura 

 JAterariu, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to 

 Henry Holland. In his notice of Ilcroologia 

 Anglica, he says : 



" The author was lleury Holland, son of Philemon 

 IIollaiK), a i)liy^ifiaii and schoolmaster at Coventry, 

 and the well-known translator of Camden, &c. Henry 

 was born at Coventry, and travelled with John, Lord 

 Harrington, into the Palatinate in lO'IIi. and collected 

 and wrote (besides the IleriiiAoiiia) MmaimeiUa Sepul- 

 chralia Ecclcsice S. 2'auli, Lortil., 4lo. ; and engraved 

 and published A Book of Khtija, being a true and lively 



effigies of all oiir English Kings from the Conquest till 

 tills present, &c., 1618. He was not educated either in 

 Oxford or Cambridge ; having been a member of the 

 society of Stationers in London. I think it is most 

 probable that he was brother to Abraham Holland, 

 who subscribes his name as ' Abr. Holland alumnus 

 S. S. Trin. Coll. Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin 

 verses on the death of John, second Lord Harrington, 

 of Exton, in the Heroologiu ; which Abraham was the 

 author of a poem called Naumachia, or Holland's Sea- 

 Fight, Lond. IG'2-J, and died Feb. 18, 1625, when his 

 Posthuma were edited by ' his brother H. Holland.' 

 At this time, however, there were other writers of the 

 name of Hen. Holland. — (See Wood's Athence, i. 499.)" 



J. Y. 

 Hoxton. 



Mistake as to an Eclipse (Vol. iv., p. 58.). — 

 From your correspondent's mention of it, I should 

 have supposed Casaubon meant that the astrono- 

 mers had been mistaken in the calculation of an 

 eclipse. But the matter is of another kind. In 

 the lunar eclipse of April 3, 1605, two observers, 

 Wendelinus and Lansberg, in different longitudes, 

 made the eclipse end at times far more different 

 than their difference of longitudes would explain. 

 The ending of a lunar eclipse, observed with the 

 unassisted eye, is a very indefinite phenomenon. 



The allusion to this, made by Meric Casaubon, 

 is only what the French call a j:)lat de son metier. 

 He Avas an upholder of the ancients in philosophy, 

 and his bias would be to depreciate modern suc- 

 cesses, and magnify modern failures. When he 

 talks of the astronomer being " deceived in the 

 hour," he prob.ably uses the word hour for time, 

 as done in French and old English. M, 



'■'■A Posie of other Mens Floicers'" (Vol. iv., 

 p. 58.). — D. Q. is referred to Montaigne, who is 

 the author of the passage ; but not having access 

 to his works, I am not able to give a paginal 

 reference. H. 'T. E. 



Clyst St. George. 



Havies^ History of Magnetical Discovery (Vol. iv., 

 p. 58.). — The Histo?-y, c^-c, by T. S. Davies, is 

 in the British Annual for 1837, published by 

 Bailiiere. M. 



Marriage of Bishops (Vol. iv., p. 57.). — A. B.C. 

 will find his questions fully answered in Henry 

 Wharton's tract, entitled A Treatise of the Ce- 

 libacy of the Clergy, tchei-ein its Rise and Progress 

 ai'c historically conside7'ed, 1688, 4to.pp. 168- There 

 is also another treatise on the same subject, en- 

 titled An Answer to a Discourse concerning the 

 Celibaci/ of the Cle?gy, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply 

 to Abraham AV^oodhead. E. C. Harrington. 



'J'he Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851. 



" The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong" 

 (Vol. iii., ]). 494.). — The same idea as tliat con- 

 veyed in this line is frequently exjiresscd, though 

 not iu precisely the same words, in Defoe's Jure 



