2n<» S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



359 



his Sacred Majesty King Charles the First ; toge- 

 ther with Observations on the Author's Life," I 

 find that he was born " in Cornwal (where there 

 hath been nothing ordinary in either Divinity or 

 Law, these sixty years) improved at Lincoln's- 

 Inne, &c. " His pains in the Law " verified his 

 anagram : 



" William Nov, 

 I MoYL In Law," &c. 



" Much to his advantage is that Character Arch- 

 bishop Laud gives him : ' That he was the best 

 friend the Church ever had of a Lay-man, since it 

 needed any such,' " &c. 



Ought not the inscription on the monument run 

 thus : after Esq., " xon of the Attorney-General," 

 &c. Qu. If he had a son ? the sketch does not 

 even give the date of his birth. Qu. If married ? 

 Qu. Or where buried ? But it gives date of death, 

 " August 6th, 1634." He is sometimes styled " Sir 

 William Noy." Qu. When was he knighted, and 

 on what occasion ? I should be obliged for any 

 answer to these Queries, that I may add to the 

 sketch in the Compleat Lawyer. 



Belater-Adime. 



The English Militia (2"^ S. v. 74.) — If your 

 correspondent * will refer to Memoirs and Cor- 

 respondence of Viscount Castlereagh, 4 vols. 8vo., 

 1848, he will find enumerated four more regiments 

 of English militia, to be added to the complement 

 of that force serving in Ireland, to subdue the re- 

 bellion of 1798, viz. : — 



The Cambridge, commanded by Philip, Earl of 

 Hardwicke. 



1st West York, commanded by Wm., Earl Fitz- 

 Williara. 



2nd West Yoi-k, commanded by John, Viscount 

 DQwne. 



The Pembroke, commanded by Col. John Colby. 



These memoirs also contain various letters from 

 the Duke of Portland, Marquis Cornwallis, Earl 

 of Hardwicke, Earl Camden, Viscount Castlereagh, 

 &c., expressive of the timely and most efficient 

 succour the government of Ireland had received 

 from the introduction of the English militia force ; 

 and Lord Castlereagh, writing to Mr. Pitt from 

 Dublin Castle, Sept. 7, 1798, says "the troops 

 from England cannot fail to dissipate every alarm ; 

 and I consider it peculiarly advantageous that we 

 shall owe our security so entirely to the interpo- 

 sition of Great Britain." It may be here noted 

 as remarkable, how the convenient and ready 

 usefulness of this powerful force served to indicate 

 how it might be turned to account, as an auxiliary 

 supply, for the expeditious augmentation of the 

 regular army. With this view volunteering for 

 the line was adopted in 1799, which was continued 

 occasionally, and is now permanently established : 

 a system which has completely changed the origi- 

 nal constitution of the militia, and made it quite 

 subsidiary to the line. Aspiciens. 



Dover (2"* S. vi. 297.) — The church in the 

 castle is dedicated to S. Mary, not S. Martin. It 

 is desecrated as a coal-cellar. A notice of it with 

 drawings will be found in a number of The Buil- 

 der of last month. 



There were two churches of S. Martin at Dover: 

 one a collegiate church, S. Martin's-le- Grand, 

 founded by U. Wightred, near the present Market- 

 place ; the other the priory of S. Martin New- 

 work, ("which of course had a minster,) of the 

 twelfth century, adjoining the Folkstone road. 



In a forthcoming History of Dover I shall hope 

 to give such a list of drawings, &c. as will interest 

 E. F. D. C. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Bezelimis Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen 

 (2"'' S. vi. 310.) — An inquirer desires to be in- 

 formed as to the sources of information regarding 

 this prelate, to whom the Emperor Conrad II. in 

 1038 A.D. granted the right to hold a market at 

 Stade, on the south bank of the Elbe; whence ori- 

 ginated the Stade-toll, the payment of which is 

 enforced to the present day on all vessels ascend- 

 ing the river from the sea. If your correspon- 

 dent will turn to the Report and Evidence taken 

 during the last session before the Secret Com- 

 mittee of the House of Commons, to inquire into 

 the origin and effect of the Stade-toll, and ordered 

 to be printed 14 July, 1858, he will find in the 

 evidence of Professor Wurm of Hamburg, p. 2., 

 some references to the archbishop, which may 

 serve to guide his investigations. 



J. Emerson Tennent. 



Charles Steward (2"* S. vi. 326.)— The monu- 

 ment in question, which I had the pleasure of 

 inspecting in July last under the guidance of the 

 Rev. W. H. Jones, is of a class much superior to 

 those usually met with in country churches. The 

 Stewards of Norfolk and Dorset bear arms almost 

 identical with those on the Bradford-on-Avon 

 monument; and probably an inquiry from under 

 Mr. Jones's hand, addressed to T. Steward, Esq. 

 of Heigliam Lodge, Norwich, would result in his 

 obtaining the information he seeks. T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Electric Telegraph foretold (2""^ S. vi. 265.) — 

 At the above reference, a prophecy of the electric 

 telegraph, in 1816, is alluded to in general terms. 

 In Notes to Assist the Memory, 2nd edit., 1827 

 (the first edition of which was published in 1819), 

 the following note is added to the article on tele- 

 graphs : — 



" The electric fluid has been comUictocl by a wire four 

 miles ill length, apparently inst.'»ntaneously,"and without 

 anj' diminution of etFect. If this should be found to be 

 the case with the galvanic circuit, an instantaneous 

 TKLKciitArii might be constructed by means of wires and 

 compasses." 



Query, Who performed the experiment with 

 the wire four miles in length ? J. de L. 



