Oct. 18. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" The Church of England allows their very bishops 

 to be twice— nay tlirice — nay even four times married 

 without any impediment to their episcopal functions, 

 whereas the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople would 

 not admit the Emperor Leo, a layman, into the church, 

 because he had married a fourth wife." 



Winston, thougli a " fanciful man," as Burnet 

 calls him, was well read in Christian antiquity, 

 and his opinion is therefore of some weight. 

 Wall's authority no one would willingly under- 

 value. 



I cannot call to mind any English bishop who 

 was four times married ; yet Whiston would 

 hardly have asserted the fact if he had not had 

 some example in view. I should be obliged to 

 any one who would inform me on the subject.* 



When on the subject of AVhiston, I should be 

 clad to know if his edition of our Common Praver 



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Book published in 1713, and his Prnnitive ^New 

 Testament published in 174-5, still exist.f 



The former he entitled 2^he Liturgy of the 

 Church of Enrrlnnd reduced nearer to the Primitive 

 Standard. The latter contains, besides the Ca- 

 nonical Books of the New Testament, the Apostolic 

 Constitutions, Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of 

 Timothy to Diognetus, &c. &e., all of which he 

 considered as of equal authority with the Canonical 

 Books. The Apostolic Constitutions indeed he 

 terms " the most sacred of the Canonical Books of 

 the New Testament." K. S. 



Robert Douglas (Vol. iv., p. 2-3.). — There is no 

 truth in the report that this person was a grandson 

 of Mary Queen of Scots. His diary during the 

 march of the Scots troops to England, 1644, is 

 printed in a work entitled Historiccd Fragments 

 relative to Scotish Affairs from 1635 to 1664, 

 Edin., 1833, 8vo., published by Stevenson of 

 Edinburgh, and edited by James i\laidment, Esq., 

 of that city, wbo has enriched the volume with 

 many notes and illustrations, and has given in 

 addition a pretty copious account of Douglas. 

 His letters and papers fell into the hands of 

 Wodrow. (See Analecta Scotica, vol. i. p. 326.) 

 Allow me to correct an error. The Bannatyne 

 Club did 7iot print Wodrow's Analecta. This 

 very amusing collection was a. munificent present 



[ * We have somewhere read of a Bishop Thomas 

 giving his fourth wife a ring with tliis posy : — 

 " If I survive, 

 I'll make it five." 

 This may give a clue to our corrc^spondent. 



f 'I'hc two works mentioned by K. S., thougli scarce, 

 occasionally occur for sale. Tlie " Common Prayer 

 Book" was republished by the Rev. IVter Hall iji bis 

 Fraymenta Lilurt/ica, vol. iii.j 



from the late Earl of Glasgow to the members of 

 the Maitland Club, of which his lordship was 

 president; it is mfour thick 4to. volumes, and full 

 of all sorts of out-of-the-way information. It 

 seems very little known at present south the 

 Tweed. I question whether Iilr. Macaulay has 

 gone through it, although he is no doubt familiar 

 with Wodrow's one-sided work on the Sufferings 

 of the Scotish Presbyterian clergy. J. Mt. 



The Leman Baronetcy (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.). — 

 The attempt in Scotland to give a right to an 

 English title of honour is exposed fully in Mr. 

 Turnbull's Anglo- Scotia Baronets, Edin. 1846, 

 P. XXXII. iii. The " certified court proceed- 

 ings" are worth nothing, and woidd not be sus- 

 tained in a court of law. The party called Sir 

 Edward Godfrey Leman may or may not be 

 the next heir of the Lord JNlayor, but he must 

 prove his right in England by such evidence as 

 may be required there, and not by reference to 

 what would not even be looked at in the Scotish 

 law courts. J- Mt. 



Cachecope Bell (Vol. iii., p. 407.). — Is it pos- 

 sible that this word may be a corruption of the 

 low Latin "Catascopus" (Gr. Karda-KOKos), and 

 that it was applied to a bell which a watchman 

 tolled to give an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a 

 bell set apart for this duty, in churches on the 

 continent. C.P.Ph***. 



May not this have been a bell specially rung at 

 funerals, and deriving its name (as has been sug- 

 gested to me) from cache corps, " cover the body" 

 (in the ground) ? And why not, since we have got 

 "curfew" out oi' couore feu, "cover the fire?" 



A.G. 



Ecclesfield. 



[E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this 

 terra.] 



"D(eM et mon Droit" (Vol. iii., p. 407.). —In 

 Bishop Nicolson's English Historical Library, 

 part iii. chap, i., under the section treating of 

 Charters appears the following paragraph : 



"The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the 

 most noble order of Knights of the Garter, had his 

 arms sometimes encircled with their motto of ' Honi 

 soit,' &c.; that of ' Dieu et mon Droit ' having for- 

 merly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating 

 that the Kings of England hold their empire from God 

 alone. But neither o/' ^/(ovc ever a|ipeared on the Broad 

 Seal, before the days of Henry the Eighth." 



Ekanciscus. 



Defoe's House at Stoke Newington (Vol. iv., 

 p. 256.). — This house is the one which was occu- 

 pied bv the late William Erend, M.A., of the Rock 

 Life ()nice, and wliicli now belongs to his widow. 

 It is on the south side of Church Street, a little to 

 the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has about 

 four acres of ground attached, bounded on the 



