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Vol. IV. — iSlo. 109.] Saturday, November 29. 1851. 



C Price Threepence. 

 t Stamped Edition 4<'- 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes : -^ Page 



Thomas More and John Fisher _ - - - 417 



Notes on Newspapers, by H. M. Bealby . ^ ■• 418 



Treatise of Equivocation _--..- 419 



Notes on Virgil, by Dr. Henry - . - - 420 

 Minor Notes : — Verses presented to General Monck — 



Justice to Pope Pius V. - - -. - - 421 



Queries : — 



Crosses and Crucifixes ■ , , - - 422 



Master of the Buckhounds, by John BranfiU Harrison - 422 

 IMtnor Queries; — "No Cross no Crown" — Dido and 

 ^^neas— Pegs and Thongs for Rowing : Tortiu'c among 

 the Athenians — - French Refngees — Is.ibei, Queen of 

 the Isle of Man — Granddaughter of John Hampden — 

 Cicada or Tettigonia Septemdecim — The British Si- 

 danen — Jenings or Jennings — Caleva Atrubatum, 

 Site of — Abigail — Etymology ofDurden — Connec- 

 ticut Halfpenny ------ 423 



Minor QuEiuts Answered : — Arms displayed on Spread 

 Eagle— St. Beuno — Lists of Kniglits Bachelor — 

 Walker — See of Durham - - ^ - 424 



Replies : — 



Convocation of York . . • , - 



The Old Countess of Desmond - . - . 



Coins of Vabalathus . . - - , 



Marriage of E^cclesiastics - - - - - 

 Replies to Minor Queries: — " Crowns have their Com- 

 pass " — The Rev. Richard Farmer — Earwig - 



BIlSCCLLANEOUS : — . 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - 



Notices to Correspondents - , - 



Advertisements - - - - • 



425 



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 427 

 427 



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- 430 



flatts. 



THOM.A.S MORE AND JOHN riSHER. 



AUliough I am afraid " Notes and Queries " 

 may not Iju considered as open to contributions 

 purely ljil)lion;rapliical, and admitting I am uncer- 

 tain whether the following copy of the treatise of 

 John Flsiier, Bishoj) of Rochester, has been before 

 noted, I am induced to send tiiis e.xtract from 

 Techener'.s Bulletin du Bibliophile for j\Iay 1851. 

 The book is in the library at Douai. 



" This Treatise conceriiyiige tlie friiylful Sayn^os of 

 David the K.\n^ and prophete in tlie .seven penytencyall 

 psalines, devyded hi ten sermons, was made and 

 compyled by the ryght reverente fader in gotl Jolian 



Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, 

 at the exortaeion and sterynge of the most excellent 

 pryncesse Margarete, Countesse of liichemount and 

 Derby, and moder to our souverayne Lcrde Kynge 

 Hery the VII." 



It is described as a small 4to., printed upon 

 vellum, in Gothic letters, at London, 1508, by 

 Wynkyn de Words, and contains 146 leaves. On 

 the first leaf it has a portcullis, crowned with the 

 motto " Dieu et nion Droit." On the recto of the 

 last leaf there is-— 



" Here endeth the exposycyon of the 7 psalmes. 

 Enprynted at London in the fletestrete, at the sygne of 

 y^ .Sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of cure 

 lorde M.ccccc.vm. >"" 16 day of y' mooeth of Jiiyn. The 

 XXIII. yere of y* reygne of our souverayne Lorde Kynge 

 Hery the Seventh." 



At the back, there is the ?un, the monogram of 

 Wynkyn de Worde — the letters W. C. displayed 

 as usual — and beneath, "Wynkyn de Worde." 



At the beginning of the book, "sur une garde en 

 vclin" (a fly-leaf of vellum ?), there is written in a 

 very neat h;ind the following ten verses, the pro- 

 fession of faith of Thomas Morns and of his friend 

 John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester : 



«' The surest meanes for to attains 

 The perfect wave to endlesse blisse 

 Are happie lief and to remaine 

 W'thjii yc church where virtue is; 

 And if thy conscience be sae sounde 

 To thinse thy faith is truth indeede 

 Beware in thee noe schisme be foundo 

 That unitie may have her meede ; 

 If unitie thow doe embrace 

 In heaven (ck ? )joy possesse thy place." 



Beneath — 



" Qui non recte vivit in unitate ecclesiae 

 Catholicae, salvus esse non potest." 



And lower on the same page — 



" Thomas ISIorus diis cancellarius Anglise 

 Job. Fisher Epus Roffensis. " 



Tt is traditionally re[)orted, upon the testimony 

 of some Anglican Benedictines (an order now ex- 

 tinct), that the lines wliich contain the jirofession 

 of faith, and those which Ibllow, arc in the hand- 

 writing of Bishop Fisher, and that the work was 



Vor,. IV.— No. 109. 



