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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2» d S. IX. Feb. 11. '60. 



brandum per nnum annum pro animabus Ricardi Regis 

 Anglise, Ducis NorthfoF, Thomas Domini de Clyfford, 

 Matthei de Reilman militis, pro animabus amicorum 

 tneorum, et pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum, 

 de quibus aliqua bona habui, et restitutionem nonfeci." 



My last extract shall be from the will of no less 

 a personage than the celebrated Lord Chief Jus- 

 tice Gascoigne, dated " Die Veneris proxime post 

 festum Sanctse Lucias Virginis, a.t>. mccccxix.": — 



" Item do et lego tribus presbyteris post decessum 

 meum, tribus annis celebraturis, pro anima mea et ani- 

 mabus Elizabeth uxoris mese, et parentum meorum, 

 Domini Johannis fratris mei, et pro animabus quibus 

 maxime sum obligatus exorare, et animabus omnium fide- 

 lium defunctorum, liiij marcas." 



This " pro quibus teneor orare " comprised a 

 variety of spiritual obligations, not only to bene- 

 factors and friends, but to those especially who 

 might have been perverted, and led into sin by 

 the testator, an obligation which would press it- 

 self with great force on the conscience of a dying 

 penitent, and urge him to adopt the only repara- 

 tion in his power, the procuring of prayers for 

 their spiritual welfare. 



Your learned correspondent F. C. H., though 

 he prefers another explanation of the words on 

 the West Herling brass, admits, I observe, the 

 other solution also ; and I think, when he con- 

 siders the commentary afforded by these testa- 

 mentary expressions, he will acknowledge that it 

 is the only solution possible. John Williams. 



Amo's Court. 



SUNDRY REPLIES. 

 Having perused some of the recent Parts of 

 " N. & Q." I find there are several points upon 

 which I can forward information. 



Scotch Clergy deprived at the Revolution (2 nd S. 

 viii. 329. 390.) — Although perhaps better adapted 

 to meet the second than the first of these Queries, 

 there will be found in the first of four quarto 

 volumes (vol. a.) presented in 1783 to the Advo- 

 cates' Library at Edinburgh by John Swinton 

 Lord Swinton, and entitled 



" Kirk Manuscripts, Ane Account of the Names of the 

 Ministers and Parishes since the Revolution 1689, distin- 

 guishing the Episcopalian from the Presbyterian." 



Knox Family (2 nd S. viii. 400.)— If the " Right 

 Hon. William Knox, Under Secretary of State 

 under Lord North's administration," be of the 

 house of Knox, Earls of Ranfurly, your corie- 

 spondent Falcon would find in the genealogical 

 collections of Walter Macfarlane, Esq., of Macfar- 

 lane, the eminent antiquary — 



" An exact and well vouched Genealogie of the ancient 

 Family of Knox or Knox of Ranfurlie, in the Barony 

 and County of Renfrew, in the Kingdom of Scotland." 



Their descent is here traced from 



" Adam Filius Uchtredi, who in the reign of Alexander 



the Second obtained from Walterus Filius Allani Senes- 

 callus Scotia? the Progenitor of the Serene Race of the 

 Steuarts, the Lands of Knock in Baronia sua de Ren- 

 frew." 



These MS. collections are preserved in the 

 Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, and however 

 extensively quoted and referred to as a valuable 

 repertory of historical and genealogical informa- 

 tion, have never been published. References will 

 be found plenteously in Douglas's Peerage, Chal- 

 mers' Caledonia, &c. And in the Baronage of 

 Scotland, it is recorded under " Macfarlane of 

 that Ilk,"— 



" Walter Macfarlane of that Ilk, Esq., a mau of parts, 

 learning, and knowledge, a most ingenious antiquary, and 

 by far the best genealogist of his time. He was possessed 

 of the most valuable materials for a work of this kind of 

 any man in the kingdom, which he collected with great 

 judgement and at considerable expense; and to which 

 we always had and still have free access. This suffici- 

 ently appears by the many quotations from Macfarlane's 

 Collection both in the Peerage and Baronage of Scot- 

 land." 



As many of your readers would perhaps like to 

 see an account of the family from which the great 

 Reformer is held to have sprung, if you are willing 

 to enrich your pages with their history, I shall be 

 glad to transmit you a copy. 



Hour-Glass (2 Bd S. viii. 488.)— In reply to J. 

 A. P. who inquires for illustrations from the old 

 divines having reference to the hour-glass and 

 the brevity of life, I beg to send him two from 

 an author of the seventeenth century : — 



" Our time to remain in this valley of misery is but 

 short ; therefore be diligent, O Christians ! what know 

 ye, but this may be the eleventh hour of the day with 

 you, and but one hour to be spent ? When sawest thou thy 

 hour glass? Therefore be diligent, and upon the improve- 

 ment of this much time as thou hast, depends thy ever- 

 lasting estate." 



" What think ye of eternity, friends? Did you never 

 call time cruel, O cruel time, that hasteth not thy pace, 

 that long Eternity might approach ? Were you never at 

 that, if it had been in your power to have shortened your 

 sand-glass, you would have given it a touch in the bygoing." 



It will be observed, however, that in these 

 quotations the preacher refers to the hour-glass 

 in its daily and familiar use amongst his hearers, 

 making his appeal to the manner in which it 

 mingled with their every- day thoughts and feel- 

 ings, rather than to its employment in the pulpit, 

 or as present to their view. 



I need only remind your correspondent of the 

 effective use made of this feature of the olden 

 time in George Harvey's Preaching of John Knox. 

 Query. What is the name of the parish referred 

 to? William Galloway. 



Rev. John Genest (2 nd S. ix. 65.) — This gen- 

 tleman was born in the year 1764, and after the 

 usual routine of study at Westminster, was en- 

 tered a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, 



