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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-* s. vi. 139., aug. 28. '58. 



Lord's Day, not Sabhnth (2"" S. vi. 148.) — The 

 practice of calling the Lord's D.iy by the Jewish 

 name Sabbath originated in the sixteenth century, 

 when that mighty engine for good and for evil, 

 the printing-press, put the Bible into the hands 

 of thousands, who, in their indiscriminating No- 

 Popery zeal, confounded the Old and New Testa- 

 ments, the Law and the Gospel. In vain did the 

 leading Reformers combat the rabbinical notions 

 and practices of Anabaptists and Puritans ; but 

 those self-willed Judaical Christians persisted in 

 going " thrice as far as the Jews themselves in 

 their gross and carnal superstition of Sabbath 

 worship" (Calvin, 7ns//;. viii. 34.). In reference 

 to the same outburst of fanatical error, the lan- 

 guage of Luther was no less just and emphatic: — 



"If anywhere the (Sun-)day is made holy for the mere 

 day's sake — if anywhere any one sets up its observance 

 upon a Jewish foundation — then I order j-ou to work on 

 it, to ride on it, to dance on it, to feast on it, to do any- 

 thing that shall reprove this encroachment upon Chris- 

 tian liberty." — Quoted by Coleridge, in his Table Talk, 

 vol. ii. p. 3"l6. 



Crannier, too, sympathised as little with the 

 Judaisers of this country, and scrupled not to 

 direct his clergy upon the first fitting occasion to 

 teach the people that " they would 'grievously of- 

 fend God if they abstained from working on Sun- 

 days in harvest- time." It was reserved, however, 

 for priestly intolerance in a later day, when vainly 

 endeavouring to enforce by penal measures uni- 

 formity of faith and discipline among English 

 Protestants, to expurgate (practically at least) 

 that glorious apostolical chapter on Christian 

 liberty, namely, the 14th of Romans, and thereby 

 to perpetuate error and weaken the bands of 

 charity. Hence the names of Paley, Arnold, 

 Whately, Powell, et id genus omiie, are not unfre- 

 quently classed with the fautors of heresy by a 

 certain section of our branch of the Catholic 

 Church. j8. 



Cricket (2°'' S. vi. 133.)— In reply to Le- 

 FEBVRE, I would suggest his trying to find a small 

 book by J. Nyren, edited by Mr. Chas. Cowden 

 Clarke, and published 1833. A representation of 

 this game as it used to be played is in the Pavilion 

 at Lord's ; as are also two old-fashioned bats. A 

 history of the game is certainly wanted, and if any 

 one is induced to undertake it, I would suggest 

 his searching the records of the Hambleton Club, 

 one of the oldest clubs in England. Some few 

 years back these records were ail in good order, 

 as I heard from one of its then oldest members. 



The Duchess of Barri, after looking on at a 

 cricket match for some two hours, is reported to 

 have asked when the game would commence. 



Gaind. 



Riccardo Miissardo (2"* S. iii. 392.) — He was 

 no doubt a member of the family whicli gave its 

 name to a parish in this county, now known as 



Miserdine, formerly as Green Hamsteed, granted 

 by the Conqueror with twenty-seven other manors 

 to Hascoit Musard, where his descendants long 

 remained seated. This Hascoit had, according to 

 Sir Robert Atkyns, a son and heir named Richard, 

 who, as the only individual of that name occurring 

 in the pedigree, is probably the subject of Eric's 

 Query, which I repeat, — Is anything known of 

 his history ? Cooper Hill. 



Gloucester. 



Wells Library (2""^ S. v. 57.) —I am happy to 

 relate a very different story from that given by 

 your correspondent, In a. About a month before 

 the date of his letter, I happened to be detained 

 by a mistake in an appointment the whole of a 

 very wet day at Wells. On inquiring about the 

 library, the key was immediately brought me, and 

 every facility afforded of a thorough inspection of 

 the books. I have passed many long days in our 

 English libraries, and in those of France, Italy, &c., 

 and never experienced more courtesy and atten- 

 tion than at the library of Wells Cathedral. A. A. 



Women in Parliament (2°'' S. vi. 12.)— The 

 following note may possibly elicit some farther 

 information on the subject : — 



" It is recorded, that among the persons returned to the 

 Parliament of 1361 (35 Edward III.), were ' Marie, Coun- 

 tesse de Nortf ; Alianor, Countesse de Ormond ; Philippa, 

 Countesse de March ; Agnes, Countesse de Pembrook ; 

 and Catharine, Countesse de Atholl.' In the preceding 

 year also, there had been writs tested at Roynton, on the 

 5th of April, issued to diyers Earls, Bishops, and to four 

 Abbesses, requiring their attendance at Westminster on 

 the morrow of the Trinit)', for the purpose of treating of 

 an aid for the making cf the King's eldest sou a Knight, 

 &c. It does not appear, however, that any ladies ever 

 actuall}' took their seats in Pai'liament b}- virtue of these 

 summonses; but there are numerous instances on record 

 of both squires and knights having sat in the House cf 

 Lords in right of their wives." 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Provision awl Intention : Predecease (2°'' S. vi. 

 65.) — The narrative concerning Heale House is 

 so very clearly written, which stories about de- 

 scent often are not, that I am tempted to find 

 fault with one word in the heading. It was not 

 the provision of the will which was defeated, but 

 the intention. The legal rights which pass under 

 a will all pass under its provisions ; and one of 

 them is the right, under certain circumstances, to 

 cut off an entail. I should say that,Robert Hyde's 

 previsions did not come true. What is to be said 

 for the verb to predecease f To say that A died 

 before B is shorter by a letter than to say that 

 A predeceased B, and has a better sound. I 

 have several times seen this word ; and I should 

 like to raise a feeling against it. M. 



" Eagle and Arrow " (2"* S. vi. 78.)— Jeremy 

 Taylor, Sermon on Via IntelligenticE^ init. 



C. P. E. 



