2"4 S. VI. 144., Oct. 2. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



2?7 



" Ode to St. Michael's Mount," -by H. Davy, is in 

 the first volume. It is composed of twelve verses, 

 of six lines each. At the end of the same volume 

 is an " Extract from an unfinished poem on 

 Mount's Bay, by Humphry Davy^ This piece is 

 in blank verse, and consists of 106 lines. The 

 Anthology is now scarce, but not of much value. 

 If your correspondent cannot readily procure a 

 copy of it, I would gladly transcribe the " Ode " 

 for him; or if he would accept of the loan of the 

 volume containing both Sir Humphry's poems, it 

 is at his service. W. George. 



Bristol. 



Selastianus Franck (2"^ S. vi. 232.) — A good 

 account of this writer will be found in Zedler 

 (^Francke), and in Bayle (^Francus). Gesner 

 (under Sehastianus) gives a list of his works : — 

 " Sebastianus Francus Werdensis Chronica ; Pa- 

 radoxa Theologica ; Arcam Auream ; Lihrvm sig- 

 natum Septem Sigillis, etc. ,• scripsit Germanice." 

 Other works are mentioned, all in German. S. 

 Franck was an Anabaptist of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, and is described as a fanatic and heretic. 

 His heresies, however, appear to have been rather 

 crotchety than systematic. They were opposed 

 by Luther and Melancthon. Whether he was a 

 Dutchman or a German is undecided. Many of 

 his works are in the library of the British Mu- 

 seum ; but they do not appear to have been 

 thought worthy of a translation, except perhaps 

 in one or two instances into Dutch. 



There was another Sebastian Francke, who 

 flourished in the seventeenth century. He was a 

 Lutheran preacher, and excelled in music. 



Thomas Boys. 



Some account of this man will be found in 

 Bayle's Dictionary, fol. edit., 1786, at vol. iii. fol. 

 99. • D. B. 



I have before me an interleaved copy of Des- 

 camp's Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et 

 Hollandois, with MS. notes, which appear to have 

 been written in 1779 by M. Francois Mols, a 

 native of Antwerp, kindly lent to me by his 

 Excellency Mons. Van de Weyer, the Belgian 

 Minister, in which there is a short notice of a 

 Sebastian Frank, who is stated to have been 

 born about 1.573. M. Mols adds that Sebastian, 

 who was a painter of battles, spelt his name 

 Vranckx ; and that he was of quite another fii- 

 mily to the Franken (improperly written Frank), 

 with whom biographers have confounded him. 

 Van Man<ler falls into this mistake ; but later 

 authors have no excuse for doing so, because 

 Van Dyck painted the portrait of Sebastian 

 Franken tlie youngfr, which was engravcil by 

 Hondius. May not the Sebastianus Frank of 

 F. E. K. have been an ancestor ? Perhaps his 

 prandfuther ? Consult Tilkington's Dictionanj of 

 Painters. \V. N. S. 



Heaton Royds (2"'» S. vi. 232.) — J. will find, in 

 T. Langdale's Topographical Dictionary of York- 

 shire, 2nd edit., at p. 310., as follows : — 



" Heaton Royds, hamlet, in the township of Heaton 

 and parish of Bradford, 2^ miles from Bradford." 



A Constant Readee. 

 Warrington. 



This name is applied to a house and estate 

 situated on rather high ground, about 2^ miles 

 from the town of Bradford, in the township of 

 Heaton. The house has been erected in the 

 seventeenth century, but is much decayed, and 

 has been altered from the residence of one of the 

 gentry of the parish ; it is now divided into several 

 small tenements. The estate still continues in the 

 family of Dixon, whose ancestors resided there. 

 A pedigree may be found in Whitaker's Loidis et 

 Elmete. F. Hailstone. 



Horton Hall. 



This place is situated in the township of Heaton, 

 in the parish of Bradford. He will find it men- 

 tioned in Kelly's Post Office Directory for York- 

 shire. C. Harding. 



Bishop Brownrig (2°* S. vi. 208.) — I have a 

 short interesting memoir of Bishop Brownrig in a 

 book entitled Memoires of the Lives and Actions, 

 Sxifferings and Deaths, of those Noble, Reverend, 

 and Excellent Personages that svffered from 1637 

 to 1660, by David Lloyd, A.M., sometime of Oriel 

 Coll. in O-xon. In this same work I have met 

 with "O (i.evyo)i> iraXiv /j.axno'^Tat," quoted as a 

 Greek proverb. This may interest the inquirers 

 after the origin of the passage in the Pleasant 

 Satyre on Poesie, and the Hudibras of Butler. 



B. W. 



See Baxter's commendation of him (^Of National 

 Churches, 14. § 35.) ; Prynne's Canterburie^s Doome, 

 pp. 192, 193. ,- Stillingtieet's Life, p. 15. ; Lloyd's 

 Memoires, pp. 129. 458. 460. ; Hacket's Life of 

 Williams, vol. ii. p. 32. ; Baker's MSS. vol. xvi. 

 pp. 299, 300., vol. xxxvi. p. 100. In 1617 he was 

 in trouble for questioning the doctrine of Divine 

 right (Heywood's Cambridge Transactions during 

 the Puritan Period, vol. ii. pp. 292-294.). Brown- 

 rig was chaplain to Bp. Morton (Morton's Life, 

 York, 1669, p. 77.). 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Jewish IVadition respecting the Sea Serpent (2'"' 

 S. iii. 149. 336.) — The following passage from 

 Die Zoologie des Tulmiids, by Dr. Lewysohn, gives 

 some idea of the opinions of the Jews on this 

 subject. We see something in this akin both to 

 classic and Scandinavian mythology: — 



" The Levi.atlian is usiuilij' regarded either as a twisted 

 serpent, or as a flying rapidly moving serpent, or, lastlj', 

 as a crocodile. Tlie 'I'ahnud, however, makes of it a fabu- 

 lous sea monster. The female lies in a circle round the 



