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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'»'i S. VI. loO., Nov. 13. '58. 



P. Feldencaldm. — I sball be much obliged by 

 an account of P. Feldencaldus, or a reference to 

 liis works. He wrote Judicium Ccelorum et Terra, 

 Hanibur2-, 1642 ; and from the Preface it appears 

 that he hau lived in Holland, and visited London. 

 He speaks of his other writings as offensive to the 

 ignorant and powerful, but docs not give theii- 

 names. E. A. 0. 



Paris. 



Fire-Bell. — There is in the abbey church at 

 Sherborne in Dorsetshire a fire-bell, confined 

 exclusively to giving the alarm in case of a fire 

 breaking out in that town. The motto round 

 the rim or carrel runs thus : — 

 « J. W. I. C. 1652. 

 " Lord, quench this furious flame; 

 Arise, run, help, put out the same." 

 Query,— Are such special bells for the extinc- 

 tion of fire to be found in other old towns ; and 

 if so, the date and origin of the same ? 11. C. 



Anonymous Work. — Who is the author of an 

 old theological work, entitled : 



" A Few Notices on Predestination and Election, com- 

 posed for the Edification of a Gentleman, friend to the 

 Author, published to prevent Calumny ; again published 

 to stop its mouth ; and now a third "time published be- 

 cause its mouth will not be stopped " .' 



J.Y. 

 Comet of l4Si\.— 



"In this same yere [a.d. 1401] appered a sten-e, 

 whech thei clepe comata, betwix the west and the north, 

 in the mouth of Blaroh, Avith a hie bem, whech bem • 

 bowed Into the north." 



So says Capgrave, in his Chronicle of England, 

 p. 278. What comet was this? Has it reap- 

 peared ? S. W. Kix. 



Francis Lotd Lovel. — Gough, in his edition of 

 Camden, says that — 



" The body of a man in very rich clothing was found 

 seated in a chair with a table and mass-book before him 

 in a vault at Minster Lovel, in Oxfordshire, when that 

 house was being pulled down not many years since ; that 

 the body was entire when the workmen discovered it, but 

 soon fell to dust." 



This story has been pronounced a fiction. Per- 

 haps some correspondent can give the true history 

 to which it is supposed io refer, viz. Francis Lord 

 Lovel, the Yorkist, defeated by Henry VIL at 

 Stokefield, near Newark, and reported to have 

 been drowned in the Trent in his flight. He was 

 said, however, to have escaped, and taken refuge 

 at Minster Lovel, and concealed in a secret 

 hiding-place known only to one or two persons. 



Simon Ward. 



Elia Amos Russell. — Not long since I met with 

 a very well-preserved parchment, exhibiting in an 

 extremely beautiful drawing the well-known coat 

 of arms of Russell (Dukes and Earls of Bedford). 

 Instead of the motto — "Che sara sara" — stands 



the name " Elia Amos Russell." According to 

 tradition, this Elia Amos emigrated from England , 

 to Holland, and was father (or grandfather) to I 

 Anna Petronella Russell, who was born 12 August, 

 175G, and deceased in the beginning of this cen- 

 tury; she had neither brethren nor sisters. j 



For a merely genealogical interest, I should be ' 

 much obliged to know more particulars about 

 Elia Amos : the place he occupies in the Russell 

 pedigree, the motives of his departure from Eng- 

 land, &c. J. G. De Hoop Scheffer. 



From the Navorscher, Jub', 1858. 



James Hepburn, Earl of Sothivell. — If any of 

 your readers can give a full and particular descrip- 

 tion of the personal appearance, features, &c., of 

 James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, husband of 

 Mary Queen of Scots, they would much oblige 



Drachsholm. 



" /< is thine, oh Neptune!" — "It is thine, oh 

 Neptune," said the pilot, " to save or destroy ; but 

 ever while I live will I hold my rudder straight." 



H.J. 



Cahry Family. — Wanted pedigrees, or any par- 

 ticulars, of Joseph the father, and Joseph the son. 

 They were both miniature portrait-])ainters, and 

 supposed to have come from Cumberland or Nor- 

 thumberland. Joseph, the younger, was a soldier 

 in the 5th Regiment, when it was disbanded on 

 account of defection in Ireland in 1798 ; he after- 

 wards was allowed a pension, and was in some 

 way employed in the Duke of York's School at 

 Chelsea. He married, in 1792, Miss Ann Hal- 

 crow at Islington church ; he died in 1816 ; they 

 were in' some way related to the noble families of 

 Radcliff and Petre. The Miss Halcrow was re- 

 lated to the Halcrows of Orkney and Shetland. 

 Any certain account of either of the Cabry or 

 Halcrow families would be kindly acknowledged 

 by J. F. C. 



Don Carlos. — In Motley's History of the Rise 

 of the Dutch Republic, a reference is made to the 

 death of Don Carlos of Spain as follows : — 



" As to the process and the death of the Prince, the 

 mystery has not been removed, and the field is still open 

 to conjecture. It seems a thankless task to grope in the 

 dark after the truth at a variety of sources, when tho 

 truth roallv exists in tangible shape, if profane hands 

 could be laid upon it. The secret is buried in the bosom 

 of the Vatican. Philip (Don Carlos's Father) wrote two 

 letters on the subject to Pius V. The contents of the 

 first (21st Jan. 1668) are known. He informed the pon- 

 tiff that he had been obliged to imprison his son, and 

 promised that he would, in the conduct of the affair, omit 

 nothing which could be expected of a Father, and oF a 

 just and prudent King. 7%e 'second letter, hi which he 

 narrated, or is s>tpix>sed to hace narrated, the whole cowse 

 of the tragic proceedings doiim to the death and burial of the 

 Prince, has never yet been made public. There are hopes 

 that this secret missive, after three centuries of darkness, 

 may soon see the light." — lloutlcdge's edition oi Dutch 

 Rep., vol. ii. 196-7. 



