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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §. NOY, Feb. 16. '66. 
see Swift's Works (Scott's edition), vol. xvii. 
pp: 219. 412. and 449. The following is a short 
extract : 
“T desire you [Lord Carteret] will tell Lord Fitzwaltet 
[who married the duke’s granddaughter } that if he will 
not send fifty pounds to make a monument for the old 
duke, I and the chapter will erect a small one of ourselves 
for ten pounds; wherein it shall be expressed, that the 
posterity of the duke, naming particularly Lady Holder- 
ness and Mr. Mildmay, not havinge the genefosity to 
erect a monument, we have done it of ourselves. And if, 
for an excuse, they pretend they will send for his body, 
let them know it is mine; and rather than send it, I will 
take up the bones, and make of it a skeleton, and put it 
in my register-office, to be a memorial of their baseness to 
all posterity. ” 
ABHBA. 
Judge Jeffreys and the Earldom (2° S. i. 70.) — 
n a foot-note in Sir Harris Nicolas’s Synopsis of 
the Peerage, and sub “ Jeffreys,” it is said: 
“That the titles of Earl of Flint and Viseount Wick- 
ham were sarcastically applied to this notorious per- 
sonage. Granger, vol. iv. p. 272. says, ‘there is a print 
of Judge Jeffreys as Earl of Flint, Viscount Wickham, 
and Baron of Wem;’ and adds, ‘I was once inclined to 
think it a sareasm, until a curiotis gentleman showed me 
the following book, Dissertatio Lithologica, dedicated to 
Honoratissimo Domino Georgid Comiti Flintensi, Vice- 
eomiti de Weickham, Baroni de Weim, supretho Anglie 
Cancellario, et serenissimo Jacobo Secunio regi Anglie 
a secretioribus consiliis.’ The proof which convinced 
Granger is, however, evidently a satirical dedication to 
him as the flinty Jeffreys.” 
7: 
If the title of Earl of Flint was conferred on 
Jeffreys, the reason why that designation was 
chosen, no doubt, was because he was a Flintshire 
man. He was first-cousin to Sir John Trevor, 
Master of the Rolls, and Speaker of the House of 
Comitions, who died 1696. His family was an 
ancient one, and of the tribe of Bleddyn ab Cynfyn. 
When Jeffreys was urging the violent proceedings 
against Cornish, his cousin, Sir-J ohn, remonstrated 
with him, and declared that if he executed the man 
it would be mufder, but in vaiti ; he used to brow- 
beat the witnesses from the bench. Most his- 
torians describe his personal appearance as con- 
formable to the ferocity of his disposition, but in 
the picture of him at Erthig, he is represented in 
his robes, with the piirse, and what appears to be a 
viscount’s coronet fiear him, as 4 remarkably hand- 
some man, with a very intelligent countenance ; 
the eyes have an expression of languor. Though 
a bad man, he was undoubtedly a great lawyer, 
and the Reports published by Vernon were his 
work, but his name was téo utipopular to be pre- 
fixed to them. Sir Williani Williams, Speaker 
of the House of Cominons in the last two short 
parliaments of Chas. II., had been made Solicitor- 
General by James IL., with a promise of the 
chaneellorship if he succeeded in bringing about 
the conviction of the bishops. When they were 
acquitted; there was a great cheer in the hall, and 
Jeffreys, who was sitting in the Court of Chatcery, 
being told the reason, was observed to lift his 
nosegay to his face to hide his triumphant smile, 
as much as to say, “ Mr. Solicitor, I keep itty 
seal ;” for he knew it had been promised to Wil- 
lias if he had succeeded. 
Francis Rosert Davies. 
Moyglass Mawr. ? 
The Screw Bayonet (2"4 S. i. 82.)—The anec- 
dote referred to by W. K. R. B. is given by 
Captain Grose, Treatise on Ancient Armour (ist 
edit. p.115.). The regiment was the 25th, com- 
manded by Lieut.-Col. Maxwell; and the engage- 
ment, during oné of William IIL.’s campaigns in 
Flanders. 
The regular introduction of the bayonet, ac- 
cording to Grose, took place in France about 
1671. The first corps armed with them being 
the regiment of Fusiliers, raised that year, and 
since called the Royal Regiment of Artillery. It 
appears that a contrivance for fixing the bayonet, 
so as not to prevent loading and firing, was in use 
in Queen Antie’s reign; and, as an intermediate 
step between the dagger-bayonet and that of the 
present form, by fixing two rings on the woodeti 
handle of the dagger ofiginally intended for 
screwing into the muzzles of the pieces, which 
were slipped over the barrel. Grosé engraves oné 
as a speciinen. I have a plug or dagget=bayonet 
of the ancient form, and I believe they are not of 
very usual occurrence. E. 8. Taytor. 
Ormesby, St. Margaret. 
Edmund Bohun the Licenser.—In Macaulay, 
vol. iii, p. 443., the argument against the non- 
jurors from the practice of the primitive Chris- 
tidtis, is said to be-= 
“ Remarkably well put in a tract entitled, The Doctrine 
of Non-resistance or Passive Obedience no way concerned 
in the controversies now depending between the William- 
ites and the Jacobites; by a Lay Gentleman,” &c. 
The author of this “small piece” was Edmund 
Bohun; afterwards the unfortunate licenser of the 
press, as appears by his Autobiography, p. 85. 
He was, in his day, a useful, as well as an indus- 
trious writer and translator; witifess the History 
of the Desertion (tiany times cited as an autliority 
by Mr: Macatilay), Life of Jewel, Geographital 
Dictionary, Versions of Whedre and Sleidan, anid 
The Justice of Peace his Calling. But Ma- 
catilay, having borne testimony, as it seems un- 
consciotisly, to Bohun’s argumentative powers, 
prefers (in vol. iv. pp. 350— 356.) to exhibit him 
as the editor of “ Filmer’s absurd treatise,” and 
the antdgonist of Sidney’s views, as a man of 
“mean understanding,” of “weak and narrow 
mind.” Effect is thus given to an amusing pic- 
