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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '68. 



Corp'» ; and one Capt" Forbes belonging to the In- 

 dependents had his leg broke by a 13 Inch Shell 

 which fell into the Trench ; and L* Spey of the 

 Train had his arm broke ; and Hood of our Regi- 

 ment had his Shoulder bone broke by a wall 

 piece, as he was firing of it at the french. So 

 much for our famous Expedition, I waited on 

 M'' Lisle, who was very glad to see me, and as- 

 sur'd me what ever lay in his power he wou'd do 

 for me ; but there is no Prospect of any thing 

 turning out here for my Advantage, for there is a 

 great change in Affairs, but I'll Endeavour to 

 comply with your request. I shou d be glad you 

 wou'd pay Capt" Gibson what money he lent me 

 after mine was gone. I wou'd have sent you In- 

 closed the Account what It comes to, but have 

 lost it, but Capt" Gibson has the Account, which 

 agreed exactly with mine. Pray give my Duty 

 to my Mother and love to my Sister and all other 

 of my ffriends and Relations, and I hope they are 

 all well. I am glad to hear of your Recovery 

 from that sleepy Disorder. I beg leave to Assure 

 you with great truth, 



" Hon"! Sir, 

 "Your most Dutiful Son, 



"AYm. Egan. 

 " P.S. My complements to all 

 my Brother officers to 

 whom I have the Plea- 

 sure of being known to." 

 " To Capt. Rich'' Egan, Paymaster to 



Coll. Eraser's Regim' of Marines 

 at 



Portsmouth." 



MIRACLES. 



Alban Butler has an interesting foot-note to 

 his Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury (Dec. 29.) 

 respecting the collections of miracles attributed to 

 the intercession of that Saint. He says : — 



" Tlio keeper of his shrine, a monk at Cniterbiuy, was 

 commissioned to commit to writing miracles performed 

 througli the Saint's intercession, whiclr came to liis Icnow- 

 ledge. An Englisli iMS. translation of a Latin history of 

 these miracles, compiled by a monk who lived in the 

 monastery of Christ Church at the time of the Saint's 

 martyrdom, is kept in the library of William Constable, 

 esq., at Burton Constable, in Holderness, together with a 

 life of St. Thomas." 



And farther on, in the same note, he says : — 



" A MS. relation in English of 263 miracles wrought 

 by the intercession of St. Thomas of Canterbury, is in the 

 hands of Antony Wright, esq., in Essex." 



He here relates the last miracle of the series, 

 and continues : — 



" The author of this relation was eyewitness to many 

 of the miracles he records, and the book was abroad in 

 the hands of the public within 150 years after the death 

 of St. Thomas: for the original copy belonged to Thomas 

 Trilleck, bishop of Kochester, whose bull bears date March 



C"', 1363 ; and who received the temporalities of that see 

 Dec 26"s 1364, the 88"' of Edward III., and died about 

 Christmas in 1372." 



Both the MSS. here spoken of by Alban Butler 

 were evidently translations of the De Vita et Mi- 

 raculis S. Thomm Cantuar., by Benedict Abbot of 

 Peterborough, which was published in 1850 for 

 the Caxton Society by Dr. Giles. The cure of the 

 son of the Earl of Clare, which was jSTo. 263., and 

 therefore the last in the Essex MS., may be found 

 at p. 264. of Dr. Giles's edition ; and the remark- 

 able account of confirmation being habitually 

 given by the roadside, and that St. Thomas al- 

 ways dismounted to administer that sacrament, 

 while it was usual for the bishop to remain on 

 horseback, will be found at p. 177. 



Through the kindness of its owners, the Burton 

 Constable MS. now lies before me ; and as I wish 

 to ask, as my first Query, What MS. was it that 

 belonged to Bishop Trilleck ? I will first quote 

 the opening sentences of " The p'face of y° 

 translatoure" : — 



" It was my chaunce (goode Reader) to find the ori- 

 ginall coppy of th3-s booke (beinge an auntient parch- 

 mente mauuscripte wrighten in the Latyne tongue) 

 amonge a caos of caste bookes ande waste paps : upon y 

 inside of y= cover whereof it appeareth by a very aun- 

 tient hande wrightinge, that it was some tj-me y^ booke 

 of Thomas Tryliche, b3'Sshop of Kochester : by whom it 

 was soulde unto Williu Reade, bishop of Chechester, who 

 gave the same unto Exiter haule in Oxenforde to be 

 cheyned in y" commo Libi-ary of y" same howse : where 

 (as it is to be supposede) it did rema3'nc, untill such 

 tyme as Henry y" 8'^ (thristinge after y'^ treasure w'in 

 S' Thomas of Canterbury his tombe, (w<^'' as Doctor Saun- 

 ders in his booke de Scisraate Auglicano wrightelh), was 

 so muche .as suffisede to Loade : 26 : waynes), tooke upo 

 him to thruste hym out of heaven, and to iuflicte a pe- 

 nalty upo all such as would honour him as a Sayncte : 

 In w"^'' tempest y" saide book, & all such other coppies 

 thereof as remayned in publique libaries, weare ether de- 

 fasede or (privilj'c) couveyede unto nivate mens handes." 



Against the name of Trilleck is placed in the 

 margin : " he died 47 Edwardi 3. ;" and the note 

 to Reade is " he was made bishop 20 Ri. 2." 



Is the MS. of Benedict, which belonged thus 

 successively to Bishops Trilleck and Reade, and 

 to Exeter Hall, Oxford, still known to exist ? It 

 may help to its recognition to say that, to the 

 perplexity of the " translatoure," it ended at the 

 word tctendit in the middle of p. 256. of Giles's 

 edition ; and that the pages from Concur i-entihis 

 (p. 125.) to incognilus in the middle of p. 151. 

 (Giles), were transposed to the end. 



What has become of the other MS. meutioned 

 by Alban Butler, as " in the hanJs of Antony 

 Wright, esq., in Essex ?" Surely there were not 

 iico books that belonged to Trilleck. My conjec- 

 ture is, that after Butler had written his account 

 of the Burton Constable MS. (in which, by the 

 way, the very phrase Butler uses occurs (fol. 71.) : 

 " it is evident that this originall coppie was abrode 

 w'in 150 years of S' Thomas his death, for it was 



