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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°a S. IX. June 16. '60. 



Death of Charles II. (2 nd S. i. 110. 247.) — 

 At the above pages, I solved the five initials, " P. 

 M. A. C. F." which Lord Macaulay acknowledged 

 himself unable to decypher, and of which he ex- 

 pressed his conviction " that the true solution had 

 not yet been suggested" (Hist., vol. i. p. 438., 

 note). I had explained them to signify " Pere 

 Mansuete A Capuchin Friar;" and I did this on 

 the authority of the Memoirs of the Rev. John 

 Huddleston, reprinted in 1816 from a memoir of 

 much earlier date. 



I revert to the subject now, in consequence of 

 my solution having been remarkably corroborated 

 by Rev. Dk. Oliver in a late communication to 

 an Exeter paper. That learned and venerable 

 antiquary there states that many years ago he 

 copied the following entry from the MS. book of 

 Professions of the English Benedictines of Lamb- 

 spring in Westphalia : — 



" Benedict Gibbon, of Westcliffe, in the diocese of 

 Canterbury, was professed 21st March, 1672; he died 1st 

 January, 1723." — " N.B. This missionary, dining with 

 Father Mansuet, Order of St. Francis, a Confessor to 

 James, Duke of York, desired him to go to his royal 

 highness, and advise him to propose to King Charles II., 

 then near his end, whether he did not desire to die yi the 

 communion of the Catholic Church. The Duke did so; 

 and the consequence was, that F. Huddleston happily 

 concluded this reconciliation." 



The meaning of the five initials is now surely 

 solved beyond any doubt. F. C. H. 



The Bunyan Pedigree (2 nd S. ix. 69.)— There 

 • must be an error in some of the dates furnished 

 by Mr. Cresswell. If George Bunyan's youngest 

 child, Amelia, was born in 1767, and she was 

 twelve or thirteen years old when her father died, 

 he must have died about 1779 or 1780, and his 

 death could not have occurred during the occu- 

 pation of Philadelphia by the British army, which 

 commenced September 23, 1777, and terminated 

 June 18, 1778. 



I have carefully examined the files of the Penn- 

 sylvania Ledger and Toiv/ie's Evening Post, the 

 only papers published in Philadelphia whilst the 

 British army remained here for the period em- 

 braced between those two dates, and can find no 

 mention of the death of George Bunyan or any 

 other notice of him. I have been informed that 

 there is no record of his interment in the ground 

 of the first Baptist church of this city. 



An accident which delayed my reception of the 

 January numbers of " N. & Q." a month bey in d 

 the usual time, retarded my search, and has de- 

 layed this answer. I do not see it stated how 

 George Bunyan was related to the immortal John. 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Joseph Clarke (2 nd S. ix. 281.) — This gen- 

 tleman was a native of Hull, and brother of the 

 late Dr. Thomas Clarke, Vicar of the Holy Trinity 



church in that town. Mr. Joseph Clarke con- 

 ferred an important benefit on the members of the 

 Hull Subscription Library in the compilation of a 

 scientific catalogue of their books ; and has been 

 eminently successful in tracing out the real names 

 of the authors and editors of anonymous and 

 pseudonymous works. Mr. Clarke died on the 

 28th July, 1851, at the age of eighty years, and 

 his remains were interred within the communion 

 rails of the Holy Trinity church, Hull.. C. F. 



Hymn on Prater (2 nd S. ix. 403.) — Lord Car- 

 lisle is the author of the hymn inquired for by 

 your correspondent. The quotation is, however, 

 given incorrectly. The lines run thus : — 



" Go u'hen the morning shineth,- 

 Go if hen the noon is bright, 

 Go when the eve declineth, 

 Go in the hush of night." 



E. T. L. 

 Rebellion or 1715 (2 nd S. ix. 404.) — In the 

 reply of the editor to Mr. Thornber, the Histori- 

 cal Register, vol. ii. 1717, has been overlooked : — 

 The Report of " the Tryals of the Preston Pri- 

 soners" commences in p. 1. "TheTryal of Edward 

 Tildesley, Esq.," is given at p. 15., and that of 

 " John Dalton, Esq.," at p. 34. Many others are 

 given, and the Report closes at p. 58., referring to 

 a future number for the " Tryals of Francis Fran- 

 cia, commonly called the Jew, and Mr. Howel the 

 Clergyman." Lancastriensis. 



The Psalter of the Blessed Virgin (2 od S. 

 ix. 407. 453.) — I am requested by Vedette to 

 state my grounds for asserting that the imitation of 

 the Te Deum is falsely ascribed to St. Bonaventure. 

 I asserted it on the well-known authority of the 

 Rev. Alban Butler. It is true that I have had 

 no opportunity of examining for myself the au- 

 thorities which he adduces — Fabricius, Bellar- 

 min, Labbe, and Natalis Alexander. But until I 

 am able to do so, I must continue to prefer rest- 

 ing upon the word of so learned and judicious a 

 critic as Alban Butler, to the result of a professed 

 examination of these authorities by Mr. King of 

 Dublin, which appears to be the only reliance of 

 Vedette. F. C. H. 



Pigtails (2 nd S. ix. 354.) —The only pigtail of 

 which I ever saw the inside was altogether the 

 wearer's own hair growing on his head. It was 

 perhaps eight or nine inches long, and, as your 

 correspondent J. S. Burn describes, was wound 

 round closely and neatly (I was seldom allowed 

 to officiate) to within an inch or an inch and a 

 half of the end. This was a pigtail as distin- 

 guished from a hag or a club. The long queues of 

 the Life-Guards of that day, which I think nearly 

 reached their horses' cruppers, had leather cases) I 

 believe ; and I used to hear of eelskins being used 

 for the same purpose. J. P. O. 



