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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 108. 



caution of Edward I. to be allowed to remain in 

 its present obscurity. 



On the 27th November the prince addressed a 

 letter to Master Gerard de Pecoraria, earnestly 

 bessrinnf him to favour and forward the affairs of 

 Ralph de Baldok, then Bishop Elect of London. 

 The "affairs" in question were the removal of 

 certain scruples instilled into the Papal ear against 

 the approval of the bishop elect ; a matter gene- 

 rally involving some diplomacy and much money. 

 Master Gerard was employed lay the Pope to col- 

 lect various dues in England; and so his good will 

 was worth obtaining. But the following Letter 

 Close will show how he received his " quietus," as 

 far as the King of England was concerned : 



" The King to Ralph de Sandwich. — By reason of 

 the excessive and indecent presumption with which 

 Gorard de Pecoraria is making oppressive levies and 

 collections of money in various places ; by whose 

 authority we know not, for he will not show it ; and 

 inasmuch as the same is highly derogatory to our 

 crovrn, and injurious to our people, and many com- 

 plamts have been made against him on that account; 

 We command you to take the said Gerard before the 

 Mayor and Sheriffs of London, and there warn him to 

 cease from making the said levies, and to quit the king- 

 dom in six days, provided that at such warning no public 

 notary be present, so that the warning be given to the said 

 Gerard alone, no one else hearing. And be you careful 

 that no one but yourself see this letter, or get a copy 

 thereof." 



Who can doubt that such a mandate was strictly 

 carried out ? 



I regret that my memoranda do not preserve 

 the original language. Joseph Burtt. 



Mr. Gibson will find that this story, as well as 

 that relative to Sir William Gascoigne, is also told 

 by Mr. Foss (Judges of England, vol. iii. pp. 43. 

 261.), who suggests that the offence committed by 

 Prince Edward was an insult to Walter de Lang- 

 ton, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, occasioned 

 probably by the boldness with which that prelate, 

 while treasurer, corrected the insolence of Peter 

 de Gaveston, and restrained the Prince's extrava- 

 gance. {Ibid. p. 1 14.) R. S. V. P. 



ELIZABETH JOCELINE S LEGACY TO AN UNBORNE 

 CHILD. 



(Vol. iv., p. 367.) 



Your correspondent J. M. G., whose letter is 

 inserted in your I06th Number, labours under 

 various mistakes relating to this small volume. 

 The first edition was not printed in 1684, but 

 imore than sixty years earlier. [Moreover, that 

 edition, «r at least what the Rev. C. IL Craufurd 

 appended to hie Sermons in 1840 as a reprint, is 

 not a genuine or faithful republication of the ori- 

 ginal work. I have for several years possessed a 



co\}j 0? the third impression, printed at "London, 

 by lohn Hauiland, for Hanna Barres, 1625 ;" and 

 of this third impression a fac-simile reprint has 

 passed through the press of Messrs. Blackwood in 

 pjdinburgh, which new edition corresponds litera- 

 tim et verbatim (line for line and page for page) 

 with the earliest impression known to exist, which 

 differs materially in several passages from the re- 

 print published by Mr. Craufurd. This new edi- 

 tion is accompanied by a long preface or disserta- 

 tion containing many particulars relating to the 

 authoress and her relatives, and to a number of 

 ladies of high station and polished education, who 

 during the period intervening between the Re- 

 formation in England and the Revolution in 1688, 

 distinguished theinselves by publishing works cha- 

 racterized by exalted piety and refined taste. 

 With regard to Mrs. Joceline, no printed work 

 appears to have preserved correct information. 

 Genealogists seem to have conspired to change her 

 Christian name from Elizabeth to Mary or Jane. 

 The husband is supposed to have sprung from an 

 old Cambridgeshire family, the Joscelyns of Ho- 

 gington, now called Oakington, the name of a parish 

 adjoining to Cottenham. The writer of the pre- 

 face seems rather disposed to trace his parentage 

 to John Joscelyn (Archbishop Parker's chaplain), 

 who, according to Strype, was an Essex man. 



But I have probably exceeded the bounds 

 allotted to an answer to a Query. J. L. 



Edinburgh. 



The Mother s Legacy to her unborne Child is 

 reprinted for the benefit of the Troubridge Na- 

 tional Schools, and can be procured at Ilatchard's, 

 Piccadilly. J. S. 



ancplie^ ta iHtimr €iutxitS. 



Coleridge s " Christabel" (Vol. iv., p. 316.).— I 

 am not familiar with the Coleridge Papers, under 

 that title, nor indeed am I quite sure that I know 

 at all to what papers Mr. Mortimer Collins re- 

 fers in his question. On this account I am not 

 qualified, as he will perhaps think, to give an opi- 

 nion upon the genuineness of the lines quoted as a 

 continuation of " Christabel." If I may be allowed, 

 however, to hazard a judgment, as one to whom 

 most of the great poet-philosopher's works have 

 long and affectionately been known, I would ven- 

 ture to express .in opinion against the right of 

 these lines to admission as one of his productions. 

 I do it with diflidence; but with the hope that I 

 may aid in eliciting the truth concerning them. 



1 presume " brookless plash " is a misprint for 

 "brooklet's plash." 



The expressions "the sorrows of human* years," 

 "wild despair," "the years of life below," of a 

 person who is not yet dead and in heaven, do not 

 seem to me, as they stand in the lines, to be in 



