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KOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 100. 



Foucault in Lis cellar, — and I believe be will find 

 it to be practically nothing. 



I confess I have had no faith in this theory from 

 the first ; the eflTect, if any and constant, I believe 

 to be magnetic. The results of experiments have 

 been stated from the first very loosely, and the 

 theory itself has been put forth very indistinctly, 

 and not supported by any name of eminence, ex- 

 cept that of Professor Powell. 



In the meantime, and until some competent au- 

 thority has pronounced on the point, 1 propose 

 that such of your readers as are interested in the 

 question make experiments for themselves, di- 

 vidin"- them into four classes, viz., with the plane 

 of oscillation E. and W., N. and S., N.E. and S.AV., 

 N.W. and S.E. ; take the mean of a great many, 

 and communicate them to the editor of " Notes 

 ASD Queries;" and I venture to say that such a 

 collection will do more towards confirming or dis- 

 proving the theory absolutely, than all the papers 

 we have yet seen on the subject. 



I am myself about to make experiments with a 

 twenty-five feet pendulum. H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford, Srpt. 8. 1851. 



LORD MAYOE KOT A PRIVT COU.NCIIXOR. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 9. 137. 180.) 



In p. 180. I find some observations respecting 

 the rank of the Lord Mayor of London, which 

 seem to require further elucidation. But I should 

 not trouble you except for one passage, which 

 leads me to think that the writer is under some 

 little mistake. He seems to think that upon the 

 occasion of a new king's accession, only Privy 

 Councillors are summoned. This is not so. I 

 remember upon the accession of George IV., that 

 I received a summons, being then a member of the 

 House of Commons and holding an official appoint- 

 ment ; and some other private gentlemen were also 

 summoned. I think that the summonses were 

 issued from the Home Oflice, but of this I am not 

 certain ; nor do I know if the same practice has 

 been adopted upon the subsequent accessions. I 

 remember that we all met at Carlton House ; 

 that we all signed some document, recognising 

 the new sovereign, which I apprehend to be the 

 authority for the proclamation ; but that the 

 Privy Councillors only went in to the presence. 



I understand that the theory for summoning me 

 and others was that some persons of various ranks 

 and grades of society should concur in placing the 

 new king upon the throne. 



All this is, however, mere speculation of my 

 own. Theyaci of my summons is certain. As to 

 the Lord Maj-or being Right Honorable, why 

 need we look for other authority than usage ? 



Usage only gives the title of Right Honoi'able to a 

 Privy Councillor being a Commoner. Usage (mly 

 gives that title to a Peer. Excuse this gossip. 



COLLARS OF SS. 



O^ol.iv., p. 147.) 



1 have the pleasure to add to the early examples 

 of the collar of SS. given by Mr. Edward Foss, 

 the names of some personages whose monuments 

 are either represented or described in Blore's 

 JMomimental Bcmains, Dugdale's History of St. 

 PauVs, Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, and Stot- 

 hard's JMomimental Effigies. 



1 . On the effigy of Sir Simon Burley, engraved 

 by Hollar for Dugdale, is a collar apparently 

 marked, but very indistinctly, with SS. Sir 

 Simon was a Knight of the Garter, Chamberlain 

 to Richard II., and was beheaded in 1388. 



2 and 3. Sir Robert Waterton and his wife, in 

 Metldey church, Yorkshire. The collar was is- 

 sued to this knight, when he was an esquire, out 

 of the great wardrobe of Henry Earl of Derby, in 

 the 20th year of Richard II. 



4. Sir William Ryther, in Harwood church, 

 Yorkshire : he lived in the time of Richard II. 



5. John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, iu the 

 cathedral at Canterbury. He was Chamberlain 

 of England, and Captain of Calais in the reign of 

 Henry IV., and died in 1410. 



6. Thomas Fitz-Alan, Earl of Aj-undel, in 

 Arundel church, Sussex ; Chief Butler of England 

 at the coronation of Henry IV., who with his 

 ([ueen was present at the earl's wedding in 1404; 

 temporarv Marshal of England in 1405. Died iu 

 1416, the' 4th of Henry V. 



7 and 8. Sir Edmund de Thorpe and his wife, 

 in Ashwell-Thorpe church, Xorfolk. Two persons 

 of this name, Mon' Esmond Thorp and Mon' 

 Esmon de Thorp, were summoned to a great coun- 

 cil held at AV^estminster in tlie 2nd of Henry IV. 

 It is considered that this Sir Edmund is the person 

 called Lord Thorpe, who was slain in Normandy 

 in 1418; that his wife is Joan, daughter of Sir 

 Robert Norwood, and widow of Roger Lord Scales ; 

 and that she is the Lady Thorpe who died in 

 1415. 



9. Thomas Duke of Clarence, second son of 

 Henry IV., President of the Council, and Lieu- 

 fenanc General of the Forces. He died in 1421, 

 Monument in Canterbury cathedral. 



10, 11, and 12. Ralph Nevill, Earl of West- 

 morland, and his two wives, in Staindrop church, 

 CO. Durham. He was created Earl of Westmorland 

 by Richard II., made Earl Marshal of England by 

 Henry IV., present at the battle of Agiucourt 

 with Henry V., and died in the 4th of Henry VI., 

 1425. 



