2» d S. IX. June 23. 'CO.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



487 



velvet," meaning the mole that threw up the heap 

 which caused the horse to stumble and fall. Those 

 were black and bitter days, when party was a real 

 madness, and matters, on both sides, were pushed 

 to extremities. 



Is the author of the Latin epigram known ? 



I believe there is no evidence but Jacobite as- 

 sertion that " Sorrel" once belonged to Sir John 

 Fenwick ; but that assertion was contemporary, 

 and, as far as I know, has never been contradicted. 



Faeniciana is, I suppose, a pun on Fenwick. 



W. D. 



[The Latin epigram is printed in " N. & Q." 2nd S. i. 

 467. ; see also p. 487., where it is conjectured that Dr. 

 Smith is the author of it. Miss Strickland (Qtieens of 

 England, viii. 58., ed. 1854), informs us, without stating 

 her authorit3 r , that "King William took possession of all 

 the personal effects of Sir John Fenwick ; among others, 

 in evil hour for himself, of a remarkable sorrel pony, 

 which creature was connected with his future history."] 



Thomas Fuller, M.D. — Who was the Thomas 

 Fuller, M.D. to whom we owe the mass of prover- 

 bial philosophy contained in 



" Introductio ad Prudentiam ; or, Directions, Counsels, 

 and Cautions. 12mo. 2 vols. 1726-27, and Gnomologia, 

 Adagies, &c. 12mo. 1732?" 



J. O. 



[Thomas Fuller was an English physician of some re- 

 pute in the early part of the last century. He studied at 

 Queen's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of 

 M.D. in 1681 ; after which he settled at Sevenoaks in 

 Kent, and died there on Sept. 17, 1734, in the eighty- 

 first year of his age. — Nichols's Literary Anec. i. 370.] 



Bath Family. — Can any of your genealogical 

 correspondents give me any particulars respecting 

 the Devonshire family of Bath, occupying, temp. 

 Henry III., Bathe House, in the parish of North- 

 Taw ton, and possessed of other estates ^in the 

 county of Devon ? C. B. 



[Walter de Baa, or De Bathe, was Sheriff of Devon in 

 1217. 



Walter de Bathe, perhaps his son, filled the same office 

 from 1236 to 1251, in which year he probably died. 



Sir Walter, his son, died in 1276, possessed of lands in 

 East Raddon, Harberton, Washbourne, Brixham, and 

 many other places in the county of Devon. This Sir 

 Walter founded a chantry in the parish church of Cole- 

 brooke, and was succeeded by his son, 



Augustine de Bath, who held the manors of Bathe in 

 North Tawton, Colebrooke, Sheepwashe, and Weare in 

 Topsham, and dying left two daughters his coheirs, 

 Margaret, wife of Sir Andrew de Metstead, and Elinor, 

 wife of Walter de Horton. 



This Augustine de Bathe appears to have had a brother 

 Walter de Bathe, who was Sheriff of Devon in 121)0, and 

 again in 1324, whose son Thomas de Bathe in the year 

 1350 lost a suit at law respecting Shecpwash with Elinor, 

 wife of John Holland, daughter and heir of Sir Andrew 

 Metstead. 



Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, on the authority of 

 Pole and Risdon, says Sir Henry de Bathe, Chief Justice 

 Of the King's Bench in 1217, was a brother of Sir Walter 

 de Bathe, the second mentioned above; but Mr. Foss, in 

 hie' Judges of England, shows that this Sir Henry was 



son or nephew and heir to Hugh de Bathonia, who was 

 an officer of the King's Wardrobe 1215, Sheriff of Bucks, 

 1222 ; of Berks, 1226, and died about 1236. This Sir Henry 

 the Judge, died early in the year 1261 ; his wife Aliva 

 was of kindred to the Bassets and Samfords, and after 

 his death married Nicholas de Yattingdon. His grandson 

 John had an only child Joan, married to John de Bohun. 

 Arms of Bathe of North Tawton — Gules, a chevron 

 argent between three plates. We are indebted to Mr, 

 John Tuckett's valuable Devon Collections for the fore- 

 going particulars.] 



Married by the Hangman. — In the articles 

 of war of the Scottish expeditionary army of 

 1644, occurs the following paragraph : — 



"If any common whores shall be found following the 

 army, if they be married women, and run away from 

 their husbands, they shall be put to death without 

 mercy ; and if they be unmarried, they shall first be 

 married by the hangman, and thereafter by him scourged 

 out of the army." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 what being " married by the hangman" means? 



J. F. C. 



[Captain Grose, in his Lexicon Balatronicum, informs 

 us, that "Persons chained or handcuffed together, in 

 order to be conveyed to gaol, or on board the lighters for 

 transportation, are in the cant language said to be mar- 

 ried together."] 



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TEMPLES: CHURCHES, WHY SO CALLED? 



(2 nd S. viii. 291.) 



A correspondent has asked why the word tem- 

 ple is appropriated in Roman Catholic countries 

 to the place in which Protestant worship is per- 

 formed, and quotes the History of the Republic of 

 Holland of 1705 in illustration of his meaning. 

 The Archduke Mathias alluded to in this quota- 

 tion I suppose is he who was elected emperor in 1612. 

 At that period the word was in common use, not 

 simply by Protestants in Roman Catholic coun- 

 tries, but specially, and almost alone, by the " Re- 

 formed" as distinct from the Lutherans. For 

 reasons which I can easier guess than find stated, 

 Calvin and his followers seem to have preferred 

 the word temple as the proper designation of a 

 place of worship. Thus in the Institutes (lib. iii. 

 cap. 20. sec. 30., ed. in French, 1562), Calvin says, 

 " Now, since God has ordained to all his people to 

 pray in common, it is also required, that in order 

 to do this, there should be Temples set apart," 

 &c. So also in the Commentary on the Gospels 

 (French ed., 1563), he says in the preface, which 

 is dated 1555, that at Zurich the refugees from 

 Locarno were not only received and permitted to 

 exercise their religion, " but also a temple was 

 assigned them." The preference of Calvin was 

 adopted by his followers, but the Lutherans re- 

 tained the use of the word church. I give an 

 example from Musculus, who published his Loci 



