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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 105. 



" Modern Univeisal History." — At the con- 

 clusion of the preface of this History, in vol. 

 ■ xvi. of the first edition, it is stated, " this work 

 is illustrated by the most complete set of maps 

 that modern geography furnishes." My copy 

 is a very fine one, but I do not find any maps 

 whatever in it. Can any of your readers inform 

 me whether such maps exist ; and if so, in what 

 volumes, and at what pages, they ought to be ? 

 Are they to be obtained separately ? S. Quarto. 



[The maps and charts, thirty-seven in number, to the 

 Miidern part of tlie Universal History, were pubhshed 

 separately, in folio, 1766 : the volume and page where 

 they are to be inserted are given on each plate.] 



Origin of Evil. — Where shall I find this pro- 

 blem I'ully discussed ? A. A. D. 



[In Abp. King's Essay on the Origin of Evil, trans- 

 lated by Bishop Law, which has passed through several 

 editions.] 



Nolo Episcopari. — AVhy is this pln-ase applied 

 to a, feigned reluctance in accepting an ofl'er ? 



A. A. D. 



[From a note in Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. i. 

 p. S80. , edit. Christian, we learn that "it is a prevail- 

 ing vulgar error, that every bishop, before he accepts 

 the bishoprick whicli is offered him, affects a maiden 

 coyness, and answers Nolo episcopari. The origin of 

 these words and the notion I have not been able to dis- 

 cover ; the bishops certainly give no such refusal at 

 present, and I am inclined to think they never did at 

 any time in this country."] 



Authors of the Homilies. — Presuming that the 

 authors of the Church Homilies are well known, 

 their writings having been adopted by our church, 

 and set forth and enjoined by authority to be read 

 in all churches, I fear I am only showing great 

 ignorance by asking where I can meet with a list 

 of the writers of those discourses, distinguishing 

 which of the Homilies were written by each au- 

 thor ; and if the writers of some of them be un- 

 known, tlien I should be glad to have the names 

 of such as are known, and the particular Homilies 

 which were written by them. G. R. C. 



[Carwlthen, in his History of the Church of Eiir/lancl, 

 vol. i. p. 221. note (/, speaking of the first book of 

 Homilies, says, " These Homilies were the work of 

 Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer, Hopkins, and Becon, one 

 of Cranmer's chaplains. There is little but internal 

 evidence by which the author of any particular Homily 

 can be ascertained. The Homily ' Of the Salvation 

 of Mankind,' being the third as they are now placed, 

 was ascriljed by Gardiner to Cranmer; and Cranmer 

 never denied that it was his. The eleventh, in three 

 parts, is by Becon ; and it is printed among his works 

 published by himself in three volumes folio. It is in 

 the second volume." Consult also Le Bas' Life of 

 Cranmer, vol. i. p. 284., and Soames' Hist, of the lie- 

 formation, vol. iii. p. 56.] 



Famihj of Hotham of Yorkshire. — The family 

 of Hotham, or Hothum, of Boudeby in Yorkshire, 

 acquired large possessions in Kilkenny at an early 

 period, apparently in consecpience of an intermar- 

 riage with the Le Despencers, lords of a third of 

 tiie liberty of Kilkenny. Can any reader of 

 "Notes and Queries" supply me with a pedigree 

 of that family, especially as connecting therewith 

 Sir John Hotham, Bishop of Ossory, 1779—1782? 

 Any particulars respecting the life of that prelate 

 will also be thankfully acknowledged : he is said 

 to have been a member of an old Yorkshire 

 family. (Cotton's Fasti Ecclesice Hihernica, vol. ii. 

 p. 288.) James Graves. 



Kilkenny, Oct. 11. 1851. 



[There are several references to the Hotham family 

 in Sims' Index to all the Pedigrees and Arms in the 

 Heralds^ Visitations and other Genealogical MSS. iti the 

 British Museum, under Yorkshire. Granger (Bio- 

 graphical Hist., vol. ii. p. 217.) has given a short 

 account of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull temp. 

 Charles I. See also Gentleman's Mag., vol. Ixiv. p. 182., 

 for a notice of Sir Charles; and vol. Ixviii. p. 65^. for 

 an account of the death of Lady Dorothy Hotham.] 



Vogelioeide. — What authority has Longfellow 

 for his legend of Walter of the Bird Meadow ? 

 I find this epitaph given as his in Hone : 



" Pascua qui volucrum vivus, Walthere, fuisti, 

 Qui flos eloquii, qui Palladis os, obiisti ! 

 Ergo quod aureolam probitas tua possit habere. 

 Qui legit, hie dicat — ' Deus istius miserere!'" 



Has Julius Mosen's Legend of the Crossbill, 

 translated by Longfellow, any more ancient 

 foundation ? Mortimer Collins. 



[The epitaph, and a very interesting sketch of the 

 life of Walter Vogclweide, with some ably translated 

 specimens of his poetical compositions, will be found in 

 the late Edgar Taylor's Lays of the Minnisingers, Svo. 

 London, 1825.] 



Meaning of Shentta. — AVhat is a silver Skeatta ? 

 See Gent. Mag., May, 1851, p. 537. 



J. R. Relton. 



[IMr. Akerman, in his very useful Numismatic Manual, 

 p. 227., says, '■ The word sceatta is by some derived 

 from sceat, a part or portion. Professor White, in a 

 paper read to the Ashmolean Society, remarks, that it 

 is of Moeso-Gothic origin, scatt signifying in the Gos- 

 pels of Uphilas a pound, a penny, and, indeed, money 

 in general." Ruding observes that, " Whatever might 

 have been the precise value of the sceatta, it was un- 

 doubtedly the smallest coin known among the Saxons 

 at the latter end of the seventh century, as appears 

 from its forming part of a proverb : Ne sceat ne scilling, 

 From the least to the greatest."^ 



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