2'"iS. IX. April 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



313 



"Case rou the Sfectacles 'J (2 nJ S. ix. 13.) 



— I would refer Lybly to an edition of 



" Lynde's Via Tuta, with Notes, Quotations, and Re- 

 ferences ; with some Additional Matter from the Case for 

 the Spectacles, and the Stricture in Lyndo-Mastigem of 

 Dr. Featlv, by the late Rev. George Ingram, Rector of 

 Chedburgh, Suffolk. London, Leslie, 8vo. 1848." 



A brief memoir of the learned knight is prefixed 

 by .the editor, from which I extract the follow- 

 ing : — 



"Our author's 'first work appears to have been Ancient 

 diameters of the Visible" Church, published in London, 

 1625. But his most celebrated and valuable works are 

 his Via Tuta and Via Devia, both of which passed 

 through several editions, and were translated into vari- 

 ous languages. Their author, as might be expected, 

 met with the most violent attacks from the Roman 

 party, but his deep learning and exalted piety placed 

 him far beyond the reach of personal abuse, while his 

 works were too strong in fact, and too conclusive In ar- 

 gument, to be shaken by the attempts made by the Po- 

 pish writers. One of his chief opponents was Robert 

 Jeuison *, a Jesuit, who wrote a book entitled A Pair of 

 Spectacles for Sir II. Lynde to see his Way withall," S,~c. 



Lynde replied to him in what he called A Case 

 for the Spectacles, or a Defence of the Via- Tuta. 

 This was refused to be licensed by the chaplain to 

 the archbishop, but was after the author's death 

 licensed by Dr. Weeks, chaplain to the Bishop of 

 London, and published in the year 1638 by Dr. D. 

 Featley, together with a treatise of his own, enti- 

 tled 



" Stricturas in Lyndo-Mastigem, by the Way of Sup- 

 plement to the Knight's Answer when he left off, pre- 

 vented by Death." 



And a sermon preached at his funeral at Cobham, 

 June 14th, 163G. G. W. W. Ingram. 



Gibraltar. 



Wright of Plowland (2 nd S. ix. 174.) — Iu an 

 old pedigree of the Thorntons of East Newton, in 

 the East Riding of York (to which family belonged 

 the collector of The Thornton Romances, edited 

 by Mr. Ilalliwell for the Camden Society), I find 

 that Anne, daughter of Robert Thornton of East 

 Newton, Esq. (by Margery, daughter of George 

 Tliwenge of Hclmsley-on-the-Hill, Esq.) was mar- 

 ried to William (or, according to another account, 

 to Robert) Wright of Ploweland, Gent. In the se- 

 cond pedigree, Anne is said to have died in 1581 ; 

 while to Robert Wright is assigned the date 1569 



— whether that of his marriage, or his death, does 

 not appear. Their issue is stated to have been, 

 Robert Wright, 1592; John; William, 1604; 

 Francis, and Nicolas. 1 am anxious to know what 

 was the relationship existing between these per- 



* Robertus Jenisonus, natione Anglus, patria Dunel- 

 mensis, natos anno mdxc, in societatem xxvii. aetatis 

 ingressus ; Scripsit Anglicfc Ocularhi ; justum volumon de 

 variis lidei eapitibtU controversis, contra " Viam Tutam " 

 Bnmfredi Lyndi. Rhotomagi, mocxx.m. in Octavo. — 

 BMiotheca Scriptonm RibadeneircB, p. 4 1 2. * 



sons and the "John and Christopher Wright of 

 Plowland in Holderness," mentioned at p. 174. as 

 conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot. And where 

 may I learn farther particulars respecting these 

 two, and the family to which they belonged ? In 

 the first of the pedigrees above referred to, the arms 

 assigned to William Wright are — arg., a fess 

 chequy, or and az., between three eagles' heads 

 erased, sa. Quartering : az. three crescents, or. 

 To what family does the latter coat appertain ? 

 and through what match did it come to be quar- 

 tered by the Wrights ? Ache. 



Holding up the Hand (2 nd S. ix. 72.) — Your 

 respected correspondent at Stoke Newington ap- 

 pears to have confounded two things which are 

 perfectly distinct in what was for many years his 

 adopted country. In the United States any 

 person who declares that he has conscientious 

 objections to taking an oath can affirm instead of 

 swearing. The commencement and conclusion 

 of an affirmation are, " You do solemnly, sin- 

 cerely, and truly declare and affirm that 



and so you affirm," and the affirmant either bows 

 or says, " I do." I never saw a person making an 

 affirmation hold up his hand. Those who swear 

 either do so upon the Bible or " by the uplifted 

 hand " ; and in the latter case the form is, " You 

 do swear by Almighty God, the Searcher of all 

 hearts, that .... and this as you shall answer to 

 God at the great day." 



Most of the members of Congress from the New 

 England States, being descended from the Eng- 

 lish Independents, swear by the uplifted hand. In 

 this State the practice is confined to the Scotch 

 and Irish Covenanters and Presbyterians and their 

 descendants. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Dilettanti Society (2 nd S. ix. 64. 125. 201.)— 

 Where can I see the proceedings of this Society 

 from its commencement ? I have among my 

 MSS. three volumes (written in a large and bold 

 hand, and not unlike the autograph of the Lord 

 Chesterfield), of remarks on the pictures and 

 sculptures of Rome and Florence, and other places 

 in Italy, in 1730, 1, and 2, written by a person 

 evidently of some standing in society, and well 

 acquainted with his subject. Every statue the 

 writer describes most carefully as to height ami 

 size, as well of the body as of the limbs and joints. 

 The writing, as I before observed, is not unlike 

 that of Lord Chesterfield; but on comparing dates, 

 I find one on which day the author mentions his 

 entering Rome to be the same on which Lord 

 Chesterfield made a speech in the House of Lords ! 

 It has been suggested that the remarks are by a per- 

 son afterwards a member of the Dilettanti Society ; 

 and I wish to obtain access to the proceedings 

 to ascertain this — possibly there may be some re- 

 ference to my MS. in the proceedings. R» C. 



