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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 98. 



persecution, from their prominence as officers of 

 the church, would also remember the apostle's ad- 

 vice as good for the present distress, 1 Cor. vii. 

 As, however, your cori'espoiident asks what evi- 

 dence there is tliat Gregory Nazienzen's father 

 had children after he was raised to tlie episcopate, 

 this fact is gathered from his own poem, in v-fhich 

 be makes his father say to him, "Thy years are 

 not so many as I have passed in sacred duties." 

 For though these sacred duties began with his 

 admission into the priesthood, he was made a 

 bishop so soon afterwards, that his younger son, 

 CsBsarius, must at any rate be held to have been 

 born after the elder Gregory became a bishop. 



Curiously enough, however, good evidence ap- 

 pears in the papal law itself, that the marriages of 

 ecclesiastics were not anciently deemed unlawful. 

 In the Corpiis Juris Canonici, or Decretum atireuni, 

 D. Gratiani, Distinctio Ivi. canon 2., which pro- 

 fesses to be a rescript of Pope Damasus (a. j>. 

 366-84), says : 



" Theociorus papa filius [fuit] Tlieodori episcopi de 

 civitate Hierosolyma, Silveriiis papa filius Silverii epis. 

 copl Uom^ — item GelasLus, natione Afer, ex patre 

 episcopo Valerio natus est. Qiiara plures etiam alii 

 inveniuntur : qui de sacerdotibus nati apostolicae sedi 

 prajfuerunt. " 

 To which Gratian attaches as his own conclusion : 



" Hinc Augustinus ait, Vicia parentum Filiis non 

 imputentur." 



Thereby throwing a slur on the said married 

 bishops. But can. xiii., or Casnomanensem, of the 

 same Distinctio, says : 



" Cum ergo ex sacerdotibus nati in summos ponti- 

 fices supra legantur esse promoti, nou sunt intelligendi 

 de fornicatione, sed de legitimis conjugiis." 



I will only add that Atlianasius mentions a 

 Bishop Eupsychius (Prima contra Arianos) who 

 was martyred in the reign of Julian, and that the 

 historian Sozomen says of him (Eccl. Hist., lib. v. 

 ch. 11.), that when he sutfcred he had but recently 

 married, koI oluy en vvixtpiov ivra. H. AValter. 



DOMIKGO rOMELTNE. 



(Vol. i., p. 193.) 



As it is not to be met with in a regular way, your 

 correspondent may be ignorant that Domingo 

 Lomelyne was progenitor of the extinct baronets 

 LoMLE'j, his descendants having softened or cor- 

 rupted his name into an identity with that of tlio 

 great northern race of tlie latter name. They, 

 however, retained different coat-armour in tlie 

 senior line, bearing, in common with many other 

 English families of Italian, Champaigne, and gene- 

 rally trans-Xorman origin, " a chief." Guido de 

 St. Leodigaro and one Lucarnalsus are the earliest 

 heroes to whom I find it assigned ; but Stephen, 

 sou of Odo, Earl of Champaigne (whence Fortibus, 



Earl of Albemarle), also brought it to England at 

 a very early period ; and thence from the Holder- 

 ness anne.x of de Fortibus (in spite of the allega- 

 tions in Wott. Bar., i. 189.), Worsley perhaps 

 copied it. The old Lumley or Lomelyne accounts 

 connect it with the city of Naples. Your corre- 

 spondent will find that Domingo Lomelyne was a 

 Genoese, and of the bedchamber to Henry VIII.; 

 that he maintained at his own cost, and com- 

 manded, a troop of horse at Boulogne in the same 

 reign, and had a pension of 2001. per annum from 

 Queen Elizabeth in 1560. If any of your corre- 

 spondents can give me the junior ramifications of 

 this family diverging from the son and grandson 

 of Domingo, I shall feel much obliged, provided 

 that James Lumley, living 172.3, who married 

 Catherine Hodilow, can be satisfactorily linked with 

 James, the son of Domingo. James and Martin 

 were the family names, and the family was settled 

 in London and Essex. Wm. D'Oylt Baylet. 



PETTT CURT. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 24. 120.) 



Having noticed in a recent number some rather 

 various derivations of the name " Petty Cury," 

 which one of the streets in Cambridge bears, I 

 have been led to examine the word " Cury," and 

 think that a meaning may be given to it, preferable 

 to any of the three mentioned in your paper. The 

 three to which I refer connect the word with 

 "cook-shops," "stables," or some kind of a court- 

 house (" curia"). The arguments brought forward 

 in their favour either arise from the similarity of 

 the words (as "Cury" and "ecurie"), or from the 

 probability that either cook-shops, stables, or a 

 court-house existed in the vicinity of the street, 

 whence it might derive its name. With regard to 

 the name " Cury" being derived from the cook- 

 sliops in the streets, this seems to have little to do 

 with the question; for supposing there are some 

 half dozen such shops there (which I do not know 

 to be tlie case), it proves little as to what was the 

 number tliree or four centuries ago. Secondly, 

 "Cury" derived from "ecurie:" this seems un- 

 satisfactory, for, as nothing whatever is known 

 about our former fellows' horses, the argument in 

 its favour simply consists in "Cury" being similar 

 to " ecurie." The third derivation is, that " Cury" 

 is taken from " curia," a senate or court-house. 

 This falls to tlie ground from the considerations, 

 that if it were derived from it we might expect the 

 name to be Parva Cuiy and not Petty Cury ; and 

 if it be derived from it, it implies that there was 

 some larger court existing at that time, in con- 

 tradistinction to which this was called " Parva 

 Curia." But no larger one (as the advocate of the 

 derivation allows) did exist, so that this derivation 

 meets the fate of the former ones. 



The most probable derivation of the word is 



