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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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on the 27th of October, 1539. According to Ni- 

 chols, in his History of Leicestershire, she received 

 sixty shillings reward, and a pension, the amount 

 of which, however, he does not mention. Has not 

 some pious Catholic recorded the sufferings and 

 deaths of these persons ? T. E. S. 



Supervisor. — In the reign of Queen Eliza- 

 beth, and earlier periods, I find many references 

 to the supervisors of the counties of England, and 

 also the supervisors of North Wales and of South 

 Wales. Where can I learn what were the duties 

 of this officer, who appears to have received a fee 

 from the crown ? I do not think he acted as 

 "surveyor," in the present meaning of that word; 

 but I imagine that he was more of a local receiver 

 of rents for the crown. I shall be glad to have a 

 certified explanation of the duties of the officer. 



W. P. 



America known to the Chinese. — In an In- 

 dian paper some time ago appeared a letter from 

 a correspondent in China, in which it was asserted 

 that a Chinese book had been discovered, con- 

 taining an account of a voyage to Mexico in the 

 fourth century of the Christian Era. Has any- 

 thing been heard about this at home ? Exi l. 

 Bombay Presidency. 



Creswell: Slaves. — About five years ago, a 

 paragraph went the round of the papers to the 

 effect that an owner of slaves, named Creswell, 

 had died in America, at New Orleans or St. Louis 

 I think, intestate. This was afterwards followed 

 by another paragraph relating to the sale, &c, of 

 his property. A relation of mine is anxious to 

 learn the title and dates of any newspaper con- 

 taining them ; but. references to American papers 

 would be preferable. S. F. Creswell. 



Radford, Nottingham. 



Authorship. —Will any reader be so good as 

 to tell me who were the authors of these two 

 books ? — 



1. "The History of the Church of Great Britain from 

 the Birth of Our Saviour until the Year of Our Lord 

 1667. London, 1674, 4to." (The Dedication signed 

 « G. G.") 



[By George Geeves. Vide the Rev. II. F. Lyte's Sale 

 Catalogue, Lot 164G; and St raker's last Catalogue ar- 

 ranged according to Subjects, no date, art. 6110.] 



2. " De Tenrplis; a Treatise of Temples. London, 

 1638, 12mo." (The Dedication signed " K. T.") 



A Templar. 

 Herbert's Sunday, — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents call to mind an old church tune, to 

 which those words of George Herbert may be set, 

 " Oh day, most calm, most bright ! " ,&c. 6, 8, 8, 

 8, 8, 8, 6 ? Vryan Rheged. 



Thomas Randolph. — Thomas Randolph was 

 Master of the Posts and Chamberlain of the Ex- 

 chequer to Queen Elizabeth. In Historical Notes 

 he is mentioned as Sir Thomas, and is said to have 



been four times ambassador to Scotland, and to 

 have died in 1590. He married Mrs. Ursula 

 Coppinger, and had a son Ambrose. His second 

 child Frances married Thomas Fitzgerald, who, 

 with his wife, was buried at Walton-upon-Thames. 

 What were his arms, and was he related to the 

 poet Thomas Randolph, who died in 1634? or 

 to Dr. John Randolph, Bishop of London in 

 1809 ? I should be grateful for any farther infor- 

 mation relating to him.* Shildox. 



Petrarch. — Some months ago I observed an an- 

 nouncement of some new discovered Italian poetry 

 of Petrarch. Has the fact been confirmed, or has 

 anything more transpired as to the supposed dis- 

 covery of farther poems by the lover of Laura ? 



Vaucluse. 



©tune:* mftt) &ngtocn?. 



A Case for the Spectacles. — I have lately 

 met with a volume with the following title : — 



" A Case for the Spectacles, or a Defence of Via Tuta, 

 the Safe Way, by Sir Humphry Lynde, Knight, in answer 

 to a Book written by J. R. called a paire of Spectacles, 

 Together with a treatise Intituled Strictures in Lyndo- 

 maatygem by way of supplement to the Knight's answer, 

 where he left off prevented by death. And a Sermon 

 Preached at his Funerall at Cobban), June 14th, 1636. 

 By Daniel Featley, D.D. London : Printed by M. P. for 

 Robert Milbourne, at the signe of the Vnicorne in Fleet 

 Street, neere Fleet Bridge, 1638." 



Where can I find any account of this contro- 

 versy, and any particulars in connexion with Sir 

 Humphry Lynde and Daniel Featley, D.D. ? 

 Who was the J. R. mentioned in the title-page ? 

 At p. 17. of the work a "Mr. Lloyd the Ro- 

 manist " is spoken of in terms that lead one to sup- 

 pose he was the author of the Paire of Spectacles. 

 At p. 18. the same person is called John Floyd, 

 and the name occurs, spelt in this manner, at pp. 

 116.127. 142.; p. 145. he is said to be a "Jesuite." 

 Is anything known of this Lloyd or Floyd ? 



LlBTA. 



[On June 27, 1G23, a discussion took place at Sir H. 

 Lynde's house on the Romish controversy. Drs. Featley 

 and White on one side, and the Jesuits Fisher and Swete 

 on the other. A report of the debate was published by 

 command of Archbishop Abbot, entitled The Romish 

 Fisher Cavght and Held in his Oivne Net ; or a True Re- 

 lation of the Protestant Conference and Popish Difference : 

 a Justification of the one, and Refutation of the other, in 

 matter of Fact and Faith. By Daniel Featly, D.D. 4to. 

 1624. The names of the persons present at this discus- 

 sion are given at p. 46. A Case for the Spectacles, Ac. 

 has been republished by the Reformation Society in Gib- 

 son's Preservative against Pope?;/, Supplement, vol. v., 

 edited by R. P. Blakeney, M.A.] 



" Trepasser : " to die. — I shall feel much ob- 

 liged to any correspondent of " N. & Q." who will 

 furnish me with the exact value and origin of the 



[* Thomas Randolph is noticed in our last volume, 

 pp. 12. 34— Ed.] 



