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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



L2»<» S. IX. Feb. 18. 'CO. 



familiar with the four following, which will serve 

 A3 an example : — 



"Currite Castalides Christo comitate Cameenae, 

 Concelebratune cunctorum carmine certum 

 Confugium collapsorum ; eoncurrite, cantus 

 Concinaaturaj celebres celebresque cothurnos." 



A. W. S. 



ARCHniSHOP King's Lectureship. — In the 

 Picture of Dublin, p. 174. (Dublin, 1843), there is 

 the following paragraph : — 



" There is a lectureship connected with this Chapel [of 

 St. George, Dublin], endowed by Dr. Wo. King, for- 

 merly Archbishop of Dublin, but which has been in abey- 

 ance for many years. It is to be hoped that the will of 

 the founder will be strictly complied with ; and that the 

 prelate who now fills the see of Dublin will adopt the 

 necessary means for its revival." 



Any information regarding this lectureship, 

 which, so far as I am aware, is still in abeyance, 

 will much oblige. I cannot find mention of it in 

 Bishop Mant's History of the Church of Ir el aid, 

 nor in Whitelaw and Walsh's History of the 

 City of Dublin. Archdeacon Cotton reminds us 

 in his Fasti Ecclcsicc Hibernica; vol. ii. p. 23., 

 that as sufficiently appears by the archbishop's 

 will, now in the Prerogative Office, Dublin, his 

 charities, both public and private, were many and 

 Iar<"e. Abiiba. 



Judge Buller's Law. — On 27 Nov. 1782, 

 Gilray published a caricature likeness of Judge 

 Bullet under the title of "Judge Thumb." What 

 authority is there for the assertion that Judge 

 Buller ever ruled That a man might lawfully beat 

 his wife with a stick, if it were not thicker than 

 his thumb? Benedict. 



Family of Havard. — This antient family, 

 who were descended from Sir Walter Havard, one 

 of the followers of the Conqueror, upon whom 

 was conferred the lordship of the manor of Pon- 

 twylym near Brecon, resided there until the time 

 of Thos. Havard, sheriff of Breconshire in 1549 and 

 1555, who was the last of the name seated there. 

 The mansion of Pontwylym was in 1809 used as a 

 farmhouse. In Jones's History of Breconshire I 

 find six or eight pages devoted to their genealogy. 

 Although they have ceased to be classed among 

 the commoners of England, I should be glad to be 

 informed who is the present representative of the 

 elder branch of this family, or, in other words, the 

 head of the house. Ralph Woodman. 



Songs wanted. — I am surprised to find in 

 Popular Music no mention of that capital hunt- 

 ing song "A southerly wind and a cloudy sky," 

 perhaps the best in our language. No doubt Mr. 

 Wm. Chappell, whose work cannot be over-esti- 

 mated, has good reasons for the omission, and will, 

 with ready courtesy, give them. I believe the 

 music, which is so happily wedded to the words, 

 had a prior attachment to " Somehow my spindle I 



mislaid." May I ask who wrote the two songs, 

 and who composed a tune which, particularly as 

 respects the second alliance, furnishes so admirable 

 an adaptation of sense to sound ? I would also 

 like to know if this can be purchased, and where ? 



11. W. Dixon. 

 Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



Gloucester Custom. — I was reading that it 

 was the " custom of the city of Gloucester to pre- 

 sent to the sovereign at Christmas a lamprey-pie 

 with a raised crust." Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me when this was the custom, and 

 when it was left off? J. Chenevix Frost. 



Col. Hacker. — Information is requested re- 

 specting the family and arms of Col. Francis 

 Hacker, who lived in Charles I.'s time. G. C. H. 



Clergy Peers and Commoners. — Can any 

 of your readers furnish me with a list of ordained 

 clergymen of the United Established Church who 

 have ever been created peers ? Early in the pre- 

 sent century, in the case of Home Tooke, a bill 

 was passed to render clergymen ineligible as mem- 

 bers of the House of Commons. What name does 

 this bill bear, and what are the terms in which the 

 prohibition is made? Clergymen are permitted 

 to discharge the civil functions of the magistracy, 

 by what argument can they be debarred from the 

 tenure of so important a civil right as a seat in the 

 House of Commons? Are there any dissenting 

 ministers (I don't allude to the front row of the 

 "Opposition") in the House; if so, how many, 

 and of what bodies ? C. Le Poer Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



Sir W. Jennings. — Lord Braybrooke, in the 

 third edition of Pepys's Diary, iii. p. 341., says 

 that Sir William Jennings, who " attended James 

 II. after his abdication, and served as a captain in 

 the French navy," was "a distinguished sea officer, 

 brother to Sir Robert Jennings of Ripon." No 

 such person, however, as either Sir Wm. or Sir 

 Robert Jennings is mentioned either in the pedi- 

 gree of the family of Jenings of Ripon entered 

 at Dugdale's Visitation, 15th Aug. 1665, or in any 

 local record. Was he more remotely descended 

 from this family, who wrote their name with 

 one n, as Pepys (vol. iii. p 201.) does that of 

 " Jenings of the Ruby," who distinguished himself 

 at the fight of Dunkirk, and was apparently the 

 Sir William alluded to? L. F. 



Hospitals for Lepers. — I shall feel obliged for 

 any information respecting hospitals for lepers. I 

 am especially anxious to learn anything about the 

 arrangement of their chapels. R. H. C. 



Mr. Lyde Browne. — I have ineffectually en- 

 deavoured, in such biographical works as were 

 within my reach, to find a memoir of this gentle- 

 man, who was one of the most celebrated dilettanti 



