2 nd S. IX. June 23. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES, 



485 



chair of Conrad," the " archiepiscopal throne, 

 which Gervase calls the patriarchal chair, stood 

 behind the high altar, was marie of stone, and in 

 it, according to the custom of the Church, the 

 archbishop used to sit upon principal festivals, 

 in his pontifical ornaments, whilst the solemn 

 offices of religion were celebrated, until the con- 

 secration of the Host, when he came down to the 

 high altar, and there performed the ceremony of 

 consecration." 



Now, in spite of all this testimony to the fact of 

 its having been at all events a seat appropriated 

 to the archbishop, the vesturers [?] at this time 

 describe it to be the throne in which the kings of 

 Kent were crowned. 



If you will kindly give me your assistance in 

 determining the real use and history of this vener- 

 able relic (which is still, I am happy to say, in 

 good preservation, though the stones of which it 

 is composed are no longer held together by mor- 

 tar), I shall be sincerely obliged. 



Edmund Sedding. 



Portrait of Charles, Sixth Lord Balti- 

 more. — Can any of your readers inform me if 

 there is a portrait of Charles Calvert, sixth Lord 

 Baltimore, born 1699? There are engravings of 

 George, first Lord (by Thane) Cecil, second Lord 

 (by Booteling), and Frederick, seventh Lord (by 

 Miller) : two of which are in the British Museum. 

 A picture of Charles Lord Baltimore was painted 

 by Harding. In whose possession is this picture, 

 and is there any other ? And have any such por- 

 traits been engraved ? It is probable that they 

 were at Woodcote, near Epsom, until the death of 

 the last Lord in 1771, when the property was sold. 



X. X. 



Knighthood conferred by the Lords Jus- 

 tices of Ireland. — In the "Life of Sir James 

 Ware the Antiquarian " prefixed to the edition of 

 his works, folio, London (?), 1705, it is stated that 



" About the year 1629 he received the Honour of 

 Knighthood from Adam Lord Viscount Ely, and Richard 

 Boyle, Earl of Cork, they both being at that time Lords- 

 Justices." 



Can any other instance be adduced ? 



Respecting the edition from which I quote, 

 Lowndes states that " The title-page, with the ex- 

 ception ofthegeneral title,are dated Dublin, 1704." 

 In the copy lying before me, I find that two of 

 the titles - those prefixed to the " Annals " and 

 " Antiquities * — are dated Dublin, 1705. The 

 general title has for imprint, " London, 1705." 



It would be interesting to know the history of 

 this edition. Who wrote the life of Ware pre- 

 fixed to it ? John Ribton Garstin. 



" Case for the Spectacles." — At p. 5. of this 

 book (London, 1638), occurs the expression " Ne 



gry quidetn " (" as touching the controversy No 

 gry quidem.") Can any of your correspondents 

 explain the phrase? At p. 109. of the same work 

 is the following quotation from a letter of " Hul- 

 dericus, Bishop of Auspurg," to Pope Nicholas : 



" There be some which take Gregory (the Great) for 

 a maintainer of their Sect, whose ignorance I lament ; 

 for they doe not know this perillous Decree was after- 

 wards purged by him, whenas upon a day out of his 

 ponds were drawne above GOOD children's heads; which 

 after he beheld, he utterly condemned his Decree, and 

 praised the counsellof St. Paul, It is better to marry than 

 to burne; adding this also of his owne, It is better 

 marry than be an occasion of death." 



The decree referred to was in favour of the 

 celibacy of the clergy. I should be glad to be 

 referred to any authority for the worthy prelate's 

 statement. Libya. 



[ Gry is from the Gr. ypv or ypv, which signifies the dirt 

 that collects under the nails. Hence " ne gry quidem " 

 means, " not the smallest quantity," or " nothing what- 

 ever." OuSe ypv A.TTOKpive<r9ai., Ne gry quidem respondere, 

 q.d. ne minimum quidetn vocnlam (not a word). Steph. 

 Thes. on ypv. 



The genuineness of S. Ulrick's letter to Pope Nicholas 

 I. has been much disputed; and an apparently fair ac- 

 count of the controversy may be seen in Zedler's Uhiv. 

 Lexicon, xlvi. 868-9, under "the art. " Udalricus." We 

 cannot afford room for more than an abstract. Attention 

 was first directed to the letter in question by Flacius in 

 his Catal. Test. Veritat. ; and it was subsequently re- 

 printed by Wolff, Calixtus, J. F. Mayer, S. Schelwig, &c. 

 It was also produced in MS. by N. Gallus in a conference 

 or disputation with Canisius, 1557. It is prohibited by 

 Indices librorum prohibitorum, p. 524. Mad. 1667, fol., and 

 denounced as false by many distinguished Roman Ca- 

 tholics, as Bellarmine, Baronius, Gretser, and M. Velser, 

 the last of whom wrote a life of S. (Jlrick. They allege 

 that Ulrick could not have been Bp. of Augsburg earlier 

 than a.d. 924 ; whereas Pope Nicholas died 867. To this, 

 however, it is replied, that there was another Ulrick who 

 was previously Bp. of Augsburg, and who wrote " Let- 

 ters " often cited. He probably, if any Ulrick, was the 

 author of the " Letter " in question. We are bound to 

 say that we find no confirmation of the statement re- 

 specting the "61300 children's heads." — J. Wolfius, in 

 his Lection. Memorabil. 1600, pp. 241-3., gives the letter 

 of Ulrick at full length, but presents the statement re- 

 specting the discovery in the " vivarium " thus quali- 

 fied : — " Allata inde aliquot centena (plus quam sex 

 milliahabet avroypaijiov, sed puto errorem esse in numero) 

 infantum submersonim capita." Flacius, in his Catal. 

 Testium Veritatis, 1672, p. 82., has, without qualifica- 

 tion, " plus quam sex millia infantum capita." Flacius 

 also states that old copies of the " Epistola " were extant 

 in bis day (p. 80.), that tineas Sylvius testifies to S. 

 Ulrick's Opposition to the celibacy of the Roman Catholic 

 clergy (to.), and (p. 84.) that Calixtus vindicates the 

 Epistle " contra varias objectiones" in his Tract, de Con- 

 jurj. Clericorum.~\ 



Henpecked. — I am not fortunate enough to 

 possess a copy of the First Series of " N. & Q.," 

 and am unable to say if the phrase "henpecked" 

 has at any time been discussed in it. I have who 

 carefully examined each number of the Second 

 Series of the same work, but have not found any 

 question of the word, either in any numbers yet 



