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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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proud moment I have been penetrated with the 

 profouudest respect for the name of Roger ; and I 

 cannot patiently see the biggest pig of our sty 

 namelessly consigned to oblivion in the pages of 

 " Notes and Queries." Pray assure R. Cs. that 

 the three Bacons of whom he makes mention are 

 not " the only conspicuous men of the name." 

 And as to the rest, " none of them that I know 

 wrote verses," I beg to refer him to Lord Bacon's 

 Metrical Version of the Psalms, vol. iv. p. 489. of 

 his Works, ed. 1740. Porculus. 



Was not the poet Bacon, quoted by Boswell, 

 the Rev. Phannel Bacon, D.D., Rector of Baldeu 

 in Oxfordshire, and Vicar of Bramber in Sussex, 

 who died January 2, 1783 ? He was not only an 

 admirable poet, but was a famous punster, and is 

 described as possessing an admirable fund of 

 humour. Myfanwy. 



Story referred to hy Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., 

 p. 326.). — Unless the Legenda Aurea be prior in 

 date to the twelfth century, I can refer your cor- 

 respondent to a still earlier authority for the tale in 

 question — Wace {Life of St. Nicholas), in whose 

 pages it appears more at length, but substantially 

 the same. 



According to (I presume) the earlier historian, 

 the case was brought within the jurisdiction of 

 St. Nicholas by the " ieueu " receiving an image 

 of the saint in pledge, and the debtor taking his 

 expurgatory oath thereon. 



The story is told of a saint who lived in the 

 fourth century, and we may, at all events, consider 

 it as being much older than Wace himself. F. I. 



Share of Presbyters in Ordination (Vol. iv., 

 p. 273.). — As a contribution towards answering 

 Mr. Gattt's question, I send the following ex- 

 tract from Hooker : 



" Here it will pprhaps be objected, that the power 

 of ordination itself was not everywhere peculiar and 

 proper unto bishops, as may be seen by a council of 

 C.irthage, which showeth their church's order to have 

 been, that presbyters should, together with the bishop, 

 lay hands upon the ordained. But doth it therefore 

 follow that the power of ordination was not principally 

 and originally in the bishop? .... With us, even at 

 this day, presbyters are licensed to do as much as that 

 council speaketh of, if any be present." — Eccl. Pol. 

 h. vii. c. vi. 5. vol. iii. pp. ^07-8. ed. Keble, 1836. 



J. C. R. 



Weever's Funeral Monument (Vol. iv., p. 474.). 



Wcever was buried in the old church of St. 

 •Tames, Clerkcnwcll, wliii'h was formerly part of 

 the Priory called Ecclesin lic.ntfC Maria; dc Fonte 

 Clericorum, for nuns of the order of St. Benedict. 

 The inscription, on a plate shaped to a pillar near 

 the chancel, has been preserved by Stow, in his 

 Survey of London, p. QOO., Ifi.'}:} ; and by Strype, 

 in his edition of the Survey of London, book iv. 



p. 65. Fuller, in his Church History, vol. ii. 

 p. 208., edit. 1840, informs us that — 



" Weever died in Londin in the fifty-sixth year of 

 his age, and was buried in St. James, Clerkenwell, 

 where he appointed this epitaph for himself: 

 ' Lancashire gave me breath. 

 And Cambridge education, 

 INIiddlesex gave me death. 



And this church my humation. 

 And Christ to me hath given 

 A place with him in heaven.' 

 The certain date of his death I cannot attain ; but, 

 by proportion, I collect it to be about the year of our 

 Lord 1634." 



The date supplied by Storer, in his History of 

 Clerkenwell, p. 186., is " Anno Domini 1632." The 

 e[)itaph given by Fuller, Strype has appended to 

 the original inscription. ]\lr. Storer adds : 



" When the church was taken down, the Society of 

 Antiquaries gave orders for a diligent search to be 

 made after this tablet, but without success ; which is 

 accounted for by a correspondent in the Gentleman s 

 Magazine [see vol. Iviii. part 2. )). 600.], that it had 

 been stolen a few years previously, but was perfectly 

 remembered by an inhabitant to have occupied the 

 situation which has been described." 



J. Y. 



Hoxton. 



Dial Motto at Karlsbad (Vol. iv., p. 471.). — I 

 doubt not the accuracy of Sir Nicholas Tindal's 

 copy of the inscription, but I suspect that the 

 painter of the red capitals made a mistake, and 

 that the d in the word cedit should have been the 

 re<l letter instead of the e ; if so, the chronogram 

 would be as follows, m.dccvvvviiiiiuii, i.e. 1729. 



II. F. 



The red letters undoubtedly compose a chrono- 

 gram ; E in such compositions represents 250. 

 The date is therefore a.d. 1480. E. H. D. D. 



Cabal (Vol. iv., p. 443.). — The word "cabal" 

 occurs in two dilFerent senses in Hudibras ; but I 

 have only before me the Edinburgh edition of 

 1779, and so cannot tell whether Butler used it 

 at a date previous to that assigned to its coinage 

 by Burnet. Hadibi-as was written before the 

 Restoration, at all events ; but 1 have no opportu- 

 nity of consulting the first edition, which was well 

 known for ten years before the Cabal of 1672. 

 " For mystic learning, wondrous able, 

 In magic talisman and cabal." 



Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. 529. 



Upon which I find this learned note : — 



" Ravmund LuUy interprets cabal out of the Arabic, 

 to signify .Scientia superabundans, which liis commen- 

 tator, Cornelius Agrippa, by over-magnifying, lias 

 rendered 'a very sujjerfluous foppery.' Vid. J. Pici, 

 Miranilufa: dc Magia et Cabala, Apol. tome i. pp. 110. 

 111.; Sir Walter Italei'^h's Ilistnrij of the U'oiltl, jiart i, 

 book i. p. 07., edit. 1614; Purchas' I'ilyrims, part ii. 



