Sept. 27. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Marn^aret, liis first wife, was the daughter of 

 Hugh Earl of Stafford ; and his second wife was 

 Joan de Beaufort, only daughter of John of Ghent, 

 Duke of Lancaster, by Catherine Swinl'ord. 



13. John Fitz-Alan, Lord Maltravers and Earl 

 of Arundel, in the church at Arundel, Sussex. 

 He distinguished himself by the capture of many 

 towns and fortresses in Normandy in the year of 

 his death, 1434. 



14. William Phelip Lord Bardolf, in Benning- 

 ton church, Suffolk. Treasurer of the household 

 of Henry V., Knight of the Garter, and Chamber- 

 lain to Henry VL Died in the 19 th year of this 

 reign, 1440. 



15 and 16. John Beaufort Duke of Somerset, 

 and his wife, in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, Knight 

 of the Garter, created Duke of Somerset and Earl 

 of Kendal, and at the same time made Lieutenant 

 and Captain-General of Aquitaine, France and 

 Xorraandy. Died in 1444. 



17. Kobert Lord Hungerford, who served in the 

 wars in France and Guienne, and died in 1453. 

 His effigy is drawn by Stothard {Mon. Eff. p. 98.). 



18. Sir John Nevill, in Harwood church, York- 

 shire. Died 22nd Edward IV., 1482. 



I presume that Mr. Edward Foss would refer 

 to the curious passage in the printed Rolls of 

 Parliament, vol. iii. p. 313., wherein it appears that 

 Richard IL, in the 20th year of his reign, formally 

 declared that he assumed, bore, and used, and that 

 by his leave and wish persons of his retinue also 

 bore and used, the livery of the collar of his uncle, 

 the Duke of Lancaster. 



Mr. John Gough Nichols, in the Gent. Mag. 

 for 1842, quotes the principal part of this passage, 

 and produces some interesting evidence in favour 

 of the view that the livery of the collar of the 

 Duke of Lancaster was the collar of SS. 



Llewjelltn. 



WRITTEN SERMOXS. 



(Vol. iii., pp. 478. 526. ; Vol. iv., pp. 8. 41.) 



The statement that the reading of sermons did 

 not prevail in the eai-ly ages of Christianity not 

 having been called in question, althougli irrecon- 

 cileable with the practice of tlie Fathers, as as- 

 certained from their own writings, I am induced 

 to observe that in Fcrrariiis de Ritu Sac. Concionum, 

 evidence is adduced that extemporaneous preaching 

 was occasionally superseded by more elaborate and 

 written discourses, sometimes committed to me- 

 mory, sometimes recited, that is, read. 



" Narrat Gregorius (Horn. 21. ex Libro Quadr»- 

 glnta Iloiniliunini) sok-iniif ibi fuisse dum Concionein 

 liiiberct, |)',T Dictatuin lo(|iii ; additcjue, Ob laiiguen- 

 tein stuinuclium jam lei/em se iion posse (iiia; dictaverat ; 

 ac proiiidu vultu se Kvaiigelicx LectiuiiLs eKplaiiationem 

 non amplius pur Dictutuin, sed per familiares collocu- 



tiones pronunciarc. Per DIctatum autem loqui nihd 

 aliud fuit Gregorio quam de scripto dicere ex eo per- 

 spicuum fit, quod verbo Dictare pro Scribere passim 

 usi sunt Veteres Auetores, Sidonlus Epistola septima 

 Librl primi, undecima quarti, ultima septimi, sexta 

 octavi, tertla noni ; Aldhelmus de Laudibus VirginkatU, 

 cap. vii., Gregorius Magnus, lib. x. Epistolarum, Ep. 

 xxii. "ad Joannem Ravennae Subdiaconum," et " Epis- 

 tola ad Leonardum ; " quae prjemittitur Expositioni in 

 Job, et alii : usu nimlrum ex prisco more petito quo 

 Auetores dim, ut est apud Plinium in Epistolis non 

 uno loco, Notariis dictare consuevorant. Vox prajterea 

 Legere qua usus est Gregorius hoc ipsum aperte 

 coiifirmat; ea eiiim diimtaxat legere possumus qua; 

 scripta sunt etante oculos posita." — Ferrarius, ut supra, 

 lib. ii. 15. 



Fabric! us, in jliis Bibliothecaria Antiquaria 

 (cap. xi., De Concionibus Christianorum), thus 

 refers to this passage : 



" Conciones plcrasque dictas ex memorla, qunsdam 

 etiam de scripto recitatas, observatum Ferrario, lib. ii. 

 cap. 15." 



It may therefore be inferred that he knew of no 

 other testimony equally pertinent, but surely we 

 may surmise that other fathers, e.g. Gregory Na- 

 zianzen (who, in the words of Bellarmine, " sapi- 

 entiam mirifice cum eloquentia copulavit") occa- 

 sionally were unable to commit to memory the 

 numerous discussions which they had so diligently 

 prepared. 



I have been requested by the Rev. Richard 

 Bingham, Jun., to state that he has in his pos- 

 session autograph sermons by his illustrious an- 

 cestor, in some of whijh are notes only or heads of 

 subjects, and which are therefore unfavourable to 

 the suspicion expressed (p. 42.), that the author of 

 the Antiquities of the Christian Church was pre- 

 judiced against extempore preaching. 



BiBLlOTHECARICS CuETHAMENSIS. 



The Authoress of " A Residence on the Shores of 

 the Baltic" (Vol. iv., p. 113.). — As in a publica- 

 tion such as "Notes and Queries" the most 

 precise correctness, even in matters of secondary 

 importance, is, above all things, to be desiderated, 

 I am sure J. R. will be glad to be corrected in a 

 statement made by him, in the concluding sentence 

 of his interesting communication, "Traditions from 

 remote Periods through few Hands," concerning 

 the above accomplished lady. Tiiis elegant writer 

 was not " one ol' four congenital children," though 

 it is quite true tliat such a birth occurred in her 

 family. The following account of so unusual an 

 occurrence is taken irom Matchett's Norfolk and 

 Norwich Remembrancer and Vude Mecum, a work 

 compiled principally from the columns of The 

 Norfolk Chronicle, of which ^Ir. Matchett was for 

 many years a co-proprietor and assistant editor : — 



