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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 97. 



show who St. Trunnian was. I am hnppy, how- 

 ever, to find that your indefatigable correspoiideiit 

 Dr. l-liMBAULT, like myself, has had his attention 

 called to the same unsatisfied Query. 



Paulinas, the first Bishop of York, was the first 

 who preached Christianity in Lindsey ; yet St. 

 Chad was the piitron saint of Barton and its im- 

 mediate neighbourhood, and at times I have 

 fancied that St. Trunnian might have been one of 

 his coadjutors; at other times I have thought he 

 may have been some sainteil person, posted here 

 with the allied force under AnlnlT, previous to the 

 great battle of Brunannburg, which was fought in 

 the adjoining parish in the time of Athelstan : but 

 I never could meet with any conclusive notice, 

 of St. Trunnian, or any particular account of him. 

 Some years ago 1 was dining with a clerical iriend 

 in London, and then made known my anxiety, 

 when he at once referred to the quotation made by 

 Dr. Rimbaui.t from Appius and Virginia, as in 

 Vol. iii., p. 187.; and my friend has since referred 

 me to Ileywood's play of The Four P's (Collier's 

 edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. i. p. 55.), 

 where the Palmer is introduced narrating his 

 pilgrimage : 

 " At Saynt Toiiciimber and Saynt Tioiiion, 



At Sayut Bothulph and Saynt Ann of Buckston ;" 

 inferring a locality for St. Ti'onion as well as St. 

 Botulph, in Lincolnshire: and subsequently my 

 friend notes that — 



" Mr. Ste])licns, in a letter to tbc iiiuiter of the 

 St. James's Chroiiick; points out the following mention 

 of'St. Tronion InGeoflVey Fonton's Traffical Discourses, 

 ■Jto., 1567, fol. 114. b. ; — ' He (rererruig to some one 

 in bis narrative not named) returned in Haste to l.is 

 Lodjfynge, wbere he attended the approche of his 

 Hower of appomtmeiit wytb no lesse Devocyon than 

 the papystes in Franee ])er(brm their ydolatrous Pil- 

 grimage to the ydol Saynt Tronyon upon the iNIoinit 

 Avyon besides Roan.' " 



Should these minutes lead to further inforiua- 

 tion, it will give me great pleasure, as I am anxious 

 to elucidate, as far as I can, the antiquities of my 

 native place. 



^[r. Jaqiics lives at a place called St. Trinnians, 

 near to Richmond in Yorkshire ; but I have not 

 the Historij of Richmondshire to refer to, so as to 

 see whether any notice of our saint is there taken 

 under this evident variation of the same appel- 

 lation. AVm. S. IIesleden. 



Barton-upon-Humber, Aug. 29. 1851. 



3Kc}]Tic^ to iHinor caucrifiS. 



Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor (Vol. iv., 

 pp.9. 137.). — L. M. says that the precedent of 

 Mr. Harley being sworn of the Privy Council 

 does not prove the argument advanced by C., and 

 " for this simple reason, that the individual who 



held the office is not Eight Honorable, but the 

 officer is" What he means by the office (of privy 

 councillor) is not clear ; but surely he does not 

 mean to say that it is not the rank of privy coun- 

 cillor which gives the courtesy style of Right 

 Honorable ? If so, can a man be a member of 

 the Council till he is sivorn at the board ? 



Is the Lord ]\Iayor a member of the Board, not 

 having been sworn? Is he ever summoned to any 

 Council ? AVhcn he attends a meeting on the 

 occasion of the accession, is he summoned f and if 

 so, by whom, and in what manner? The Lord 

 Mayor is certainly not a privy councillor by rea- 

 son of his courtesy style of Lord, any more than 

 the Lord Mayor of York. 



The question is, whether the style of Right 

 Honorable was given to the Lord Mayor from 

 the supposition that he was a privy councillor, or 

 fiom the fact that formerly the Lord Mayor was 

 considered as holding the rank of a Baron ; for if 

 he died during his mayoralty, he was buried with 

 the rank, state, and degree of Baron. 



AVlien does it appear that the style of Right 

 Honorable was first given to the Lord Mayor of 

 London ? E. 



Did Bishop Gibson write n Life of Cromwell ? 

 (Vol. iv., p. 1 17.). — In the Life of the Rev. Isaac 

 Kimber, prefixed to his Sermons, London, 1756, 

 8vo., it is stated that — 



" One of the first productions lie gave to the world 

 was the Life of Oliver Cromwell in 8vo. , printed for 

 Messrs. Brutherton and Cox. This piece met witli a 

 very good reception from the public, and lias passed 

 through several editions, universally esteemed for its 

 style and its impartiality ; and as the author's name 

 was not made public, thougb it was always known to 

 bis friends, it was at first very confidently ascribed to 

 Dr. Gibson, Bishop of London." — P. 10. 



The Life of Kimber appears to have been writ- 

 ten by Edward Kimber, his son, and therefore the 

 claim of Bishop Gibson to this work may very 

 fairly be set aside. 



The Short Critical lievieiv of the Life of Oliver 

 Cromwell, by a Gentleman of the Middle Temple, 

 has always been attributed to John Bankes, an 

 account of whom will be found in Chalmers's 

 Biog. Diet, vol. iii. p. 4"22., where it is confidently 

 stated to be his. It was first ]iublished in 17.39, 

 Svo. I have two copies of a third edition, Lond. 

 1747. 12mo. " Carefully revised and greatly en- 

 larged in every chajiter by the author." In one 

 of the copies the title-page states it to be "by a 

 gentleman of the Middle Temple;" and in the 

 other " by Mr. Bankes." Bishojo Gibson did not 

 die till 1748, and there seems little probability 

 that, if he were the author, another man's name 

 would be put to it during his lifetime. 



I conclude therefore that neither of these two 

 works are by Bishop Gibson. Jas. Crosslet. 



