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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»4 S. IX, Mae. 1U. '60. 



on 10th June, 1742, says, " The process is begun against 

 her Grace of Beaufort, and articles exhibited in Doctors' 

 Commons. Lady Townshend [Harrison] lias had them 

 copied, and lent them to me. There is everything proved 

 to your heart's content, to the birth of the child, and 

 much delectable reading." This repudiated lady, after 

 the death of the Duke, was married, secondly, to Col. 

 Charles Fitzro}', natural son of the Duke of Grafton, by 

 whom she left a daughter, Frances, who became the wife 

 of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. 



The other lady noticed by Earl Nugent was Lady Hen- 

 rietta, only daughter of James, first Earl Waldegrave, 

 born 2nd Jan. 1716-17, and was married, first, to the Hon. 

 Edward Herbert, only brother to the Marquis of Powis, 

 on 7th July, 1734. Becoming a widow, she married, 

 secondly, in 1738-9, John Beard, the leading great singer 

 at Covent Garden theatre, of which he was for some time 

 one of the patentees. Lady Henrietta died 31st May, 

 1753, and Beard erected to her memory a handsome pyra- 

 midal monument, expressive of his love and sorrow.] 



Bishop Latimer. — Has any relationship or 

 connexion ever been traced between the family 

 of Queen Catharine Parr and that of this excel- 

 lent Reformer ? His father was, we are told, of 

 Thurcaston, Leicestershire; and though Foxe calls 

 him a husbandman, he would appear to have been 

 " well to do in the world," as the expression is. I 

 should also be obliged by any details respecting 

 that place, or the family of the Reformer. Are 

 there any local traditions of him, or allusions in 

 county topographies, &c. ? S. M. S. 



[Many families of the name of Latimer were of great 

 note in Leicestershire ; but there does not appear to have 

 been any relationship between the Reformer and the 

 Queen of Henrj' VIII. Katharine Parr married for her 

 second husband John Neville Lord Latimer, whose ma- 

 ternal ancestors were the Latimers, lords of C°rby and 

 Shenstone. The heiress of this family, marrying John 

 Lord Neville, of Raby and Middleham, became the 

 mother of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, whose 

 fifth son, by Joanna Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 

 Duke of Lancaster, took the title of Lord Latimer, and 

 married the third daughter and co-heiress of Richard 

 Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. From this pair John 

 Neville, Lord Latimer, Katharine's husband, was the 

 fourth in descent. (Hopkinson's MSS. quoted in Strick- 

 land's Queens of England.) In the first Sermon preached 

 by Hugh Latimer before King Edward VI., on March 8, 

 1549, he gave the following curious account of his 

 parentage : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands 

 of his own ; onely he had a farme of three or four pounds 

 a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much 

 as kept halfe a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred 

 sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, 

 and did finde the King an harness, with himself and his 

 horse, whilest he came unto the place that he should 

 receive the King's wages. I can remember I buckled his 

 harness when he went to Black-heath Field. He kept 

 me to school ; or else I had not been able to have preached 

 before the King's Majestie now. He married my disters 

 with five pounds, or twenty nobles, a piece : so that he 

 brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept 

 hospitallity for his poor neighbours, and some almes he 

 gave to the poor. And all this he did of the same farme 

 where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pounds by the 

 year and more, and is not able to do any thing for his 

 Prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of 

 drink to the poor." For some interesting particulars of 



this celebrated Reformer and Martyr consult Nichols's 

 Leicestershire, iii. 1061.] 



Tintagel.— In The Times of Sept. 23, 1859, 

 there was an article upon the return of Capt. Sir 

 F. L. M'Clintock's expedition, wherein the writer 

 says, 



"At last the mystery of Franklin's fate is solved. . . . 

 ' The condolences and sympathies of a nation accompany 

 the sorrows of his widow and the griefs of his friends, but 

 it is not altogether out of place for the country to express 

 its satisfaction that the lives of brave sailors were not 

 uselessly sacrificed in a series of expeditions which should 

 have borne for their motto ' Hoping against hope.' So 

 far it is satisfactory to know the ' final search ' has proved 

 that Sir John Franklin is dead. Alas ! there can be no 

 longer those sad mailings from an irnaginaiy Tintagel to 

 persuade the credulous that an Arthur still lives." 



Can you or any of your numerous Readers fur- 

 nish a clear exposition of the allusion in the last 

 sentence to Tintagel, its wailings, &c. J. H. W. 



[The writer of the above passage, most probably, when 

 he penned it, had the following lines in Tennyson's Morle 

 d' Arthur floating in his mind: 

 "Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, 

 Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern, 

 Beneath them ; and descending they were ware 

 That all the decks were dense with stately forms 

 Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream — by these 

 Three Queens with crowns of gold — and from them 



rose 

 A erg that shiver'd to the tingling stars, 

 And as it were one voice, and agony 

 Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills 

 All night in a ivaste land, where no one comes, 

 Or hath come, since the making of the world." 

 King Arthur fell in the battle of Camlan (Camelford), 

 a spot not far removed from his castle of Tintagel, to the 

 chapel of which Tennyson, in the poem just quoted, 

 makes Sir Bedivere convey his wounded lord: 

 "And bore him to a chapel nigh the field; 

 A broken chancel with a broken cross, 

 That stood on a dark strait of barren laud." 

 The above passages, taken in connexion with one of 

 the earliest Welsh traditions — 



" Anoeth bydd bedd y Arthur " 

 (Unknown is the grave of Arthur), 

 will fully explain the allusion of The Times' writer.] 



" A wet sheet," etc. — Can any of the readers 

 of "N. & Q." suggest the meaning of (he last two 

 lines of the first verse of Allan Cunningham's 

 song, " A wet sheet and a flowing sea " ? The lines 

 run thus : — 



" Away the good ship flies, and leaves 

 Old England on the lee." 



A lee-shore is that to which the wind blows 

 from the sea ; it is, therefore, difficult to under- 

 stand how a sailing vessel can leave " Old England 

 on the lee." E. V. 



[The wind, it is evident, crosses the line of the good 

 ship's course. She is working to windward. With the aid 

 of a wet sheet and favouring tide, she rapidly leaves Old 

 England on the lee. And by the same token, if other 

 sailing ships that cannot work to windward are in com- 

 pany, she will soon leave them hull'down.J 



