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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"J S. VI. 151., Nov. 20. '58. 



after that period ? Is Cann Hall, in the town of 

 Brklgnortb, still e.xisting? One or two indi- 

 viduals of the name represented Bridgnorth and 

 Leominster in parliament about this time. Henry 

 Canne was Provost of Bridgnorth in 1322. 



Of what family was Thomas Canne, who was 

 appointed by a Royal Commission, 34 Edward IIL, 

 1 3()0, to deliver up fortresses in France ? (Ry mer's 

 Foedera.^ 



In a paper on Cheyne or Cheney family, printed 

 in the British ArchiEological Institute's Journal, 

 vol. X. p. 49., the name of Cheyne is stated to 

 have been anciently spelt De Caneto, and De 

 Kan. What is the authority for this statement ? 



At Wymondham, in Norfolk, there is a family 

 of Cann, of long continuance there. Will any 

 friend oblige me with a pedigree of that family 

 from its earliest known representative? 



In the parish of Tamerton Foliott, Devon, 

 there is a manor or barton called Cann barton, 

 and a large quarry and wood, tlie property of 

 Lord Morley, respectively known as Cann Quarry 

 and Cann Wood. Whence do these places derive 

 their names ? 



The Canns of Compton Greenfield, Gloucester- 

 shire, extinct baronets, derive from William Cann, 

 Esq., Mayor of Bristol in 1648. When did he or 

 his ancestors first settle in that city ? 



The Canns of Fuidge House, county Devon, 

 signed themselves of that place early in the six- 

 teenth centur3'. Can they be traced in that 

 county earlier than this date ? Edmondson states 

 in his Heraldry that their arms were registered 

 in the College of Arms. If such be the case, 

 probably their pedigree may have been entered 

 there likewise. 



The Hon. George Lionel Massey, third son 

 of Nathaniel William, second Baron Clarina, of 

 Elm Park, county Limerick, married on Nov. 17, 

 1832, Rebecca Anne, widow of John Cann, Esq. 

 Who was this John Cann ? 



There is a family of McCann in Ireland, Is 

 that a branch of the English family of Cann ? 

 and if so, when did it leave the parent stem ? 



Information on any of the foregoing heads will 

 be very acceptable to T. Hughes. 



4. Paradise Row, Chester, 



Minor caucrteS. 



Cathedral Manuscripts and Records, temp. Jac. I. 

 — By letters of Privy Seal, dated the 30th July, 

 1G22, King James I. directed the sum of \UOl. to 

 be paid by way of imprest towards the charges of 

 Patrick Young, Keeper of his Majesty's Library, 

 who was " appointed by his Majesty to make 

 search in all his Majesty's Cathedrall churches 

 within his realme of England, for all old manu- 

 scripts and ancient recordes, and bring an inven- 



torie of them to his Majestic." Is it known what 

 was the result of this commission ? Did it lead 

 to any books or manuscripts being transferred 

 from the cathedral libraries to the royal collection ? 

 Or is there any trace of the " inventorie " which 

 Patrick Young was to prepare ? J. G. N. 



Anointing at Coronations. — Gwillim, in his Dis- 

 play of Heraldry, speaks of the anointing and 

 crowning of the kings of England, as being rites 

 bestowed upon them, and also on the kings of 

 France, Sicily, and Jerusalem, to the exclusion of 

 the sovereigns of Spain, Portugal, Arragon, Na- 

 varre, and many others. 



The firstoccasion on which mention is made of the 

 use of oil for a sacred purpose occurs Gen. xxviii. 

 13., when Jacob, after the vision of angels, &c., " Set 

 up a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it, and 

 callecl the name of the place Beth-el." Tlie very 

 particular directions given for the composition of 

 the consecrated oil to be used in anointing the 

 sacred vessels, as well as Aaron and his sons, may 

 lead us to suppose that this rite was not an esta- 

 blished usage before the time of Moses (Exod. 

 xlviii. 41.) ; but that the anointing of kings was a 

 custom prior to the time of Saul appears probable 

 from the way in which he is always spoken of as 

 "the Lord's anointed" as an understood thing, 

 and, therefore, probably in use among the heathen 

 nations. To this day the kings of Siam and Ava 

 have lustral water poured on their heads at their 

 enthronisation ; but I do not know whether this 

 is a universal oriental custom, and I shall feel 

 obliged by any information on the subject ; and 

 also, whether any ceremony of the sort, either 

 with oil or water, is performed upon any Christian 

 priests, abbots, or bishops ? And whether the con- 

 secrated oil is poured on the heads of the Em- 

 perors of Russia and Austria ? M. G. 



Warwickshire. 



Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore. — In a note at 

 p. 219., in his Feudal and Military Antiquities of 

 Northmnbei-land, recently published, Mr. Harts- 

 horne states positively that the Bp. of Dromore 

 " was in no way allied to the noble family of the 

 Percies, having been born of low parentage in the 

 Cartway at Bridgenorth." Is this statement cor- 

 rect ? I have a pedigree (said to be copied from 

 one in the collections of Sir Thomas Banks, au- 

 thor of the Dormant Peei-age,) tracing the bishop's 

 descent from Sir Ralph Percy (younger son of 

 Henry, the second Earl of Northumberland, by 

 the Lady Eleanor Neville), who was slain at 

 Hedgeley Moor, 25 April, 1464. 



I have also a note to the effect that in a sheet 

 pedigree of the Earls of Northumberland, which 

 he printed about 1795, Dr. Percy inserted that 

 descent, which he had previously suggested in 

 Nash's History of Worcestershire, vol. ii. p. 318, 



E. H. A. 



