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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30. 18C0. 



N«. 235.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — James I. and the Recusants, 497 — Lord Broug- 

 ham, David Hume, and Philarete Chasles, 499 — "Virtue 

 is its own Reward," lb. — A Note on Bugs," 500. 



Minor Notes : — Remarkable Longevity — A Novel Wea- 

 ther Indicator — Lord Clive and Warren Hastings — The 

 Lion and Unicorn — Old Finger-post Rhyme, 500. 



QUERIES : — Latin, Greek, and German Metres — Dr. B— 

 and Luther's Story — "La Scliola de Sclavoni" — The 

 Want — Martello Towers — Eamily of Havard — Bam- 



■ fins: Bladwell — Alban Butler — Mary Wiltshire, a De- 

 scendant of the Stuarts — Camoens — Quotations Wanted 



— Scotch Genealogies — Hon. Capt. Edward Carr — Prices 

 of Llanffwyst — " Busy-less " — Howell, James — Thomas 

 Gyll. Esq. — Who is the Brigand? — Legislature — Value 

 of Money —The late LordDenman, 501. 



Queries with Answers : — " The Spanish Pilgrim" — 

 Augustine Briggs, or Bridgs — Glastonbury Thorn — " Ne 

 gry quidem," 503. 



REPLIES : —Alleged Interpolations in the "Te Deum,"504 



— On Sepulchral Effigies at Kirkby Belers and Ashby Fol- 

 ville, Co. Leicester, 507 — Leonard Mac Nally, 508 — He- 

 raldic Engraving, lb. — Burning of the Jesuitical Books, 

 509 — Garibaldi, an Irish Celebrity, lb. — Dr. Parr — 

 Stolen Brass — General Breezo — Library discovered at 

 Willscott, Co. Oxford— "His People's Good," &c — The 

 Oiley Hero — Les Chauffeurs — Peter Basset — Witty 

 Renderings — St. Madryn — Burial in a Sitting Posture 



— Mors Mortis Morti — Fanshaw's " II Pastor Fido " — 

 Westminster Hall — "Nouveau Testament par les Theo- 

 Iogiens de Louvain " — Rev. George Oliver, D.D. — Tyburn 

 Gallows — Vestigia nula Retrorsum — Huntercombe 

 House — Law of Scotland— Four-bladed Clover — Title of 

 the Cross — Exeter Domesday, &c, 509. 



^otesJ. 



TAMES I. AND THE RECUSANTS. 



{Continued from 321.) 



At the close of the year 1603, James was con- 

 ducting a negotiation through the Nuncio at 

 Paris, by which he hoped to obtain security 

 against conspiracy, by agreeing to grant some 

 amount of toleration to the Roman Catholics. 



Matters had reached this stage when an event 

 occurred which j>ut an end to this attempt at 

 conciliation. In the course of the preceding 

 summer Sir Anthony Standen had been sent by 

 James on a mission to some of the Italian States. 

 His selection for this comparatively unimportant 

 service appears to have turned his head. He was 

 himself a Roman Catholic, and was eager to dis- 

 tinguish himself by taking a part in carrying out 

 the grand scheme of reconciling England to the 

 Papal See. He gave out openly as he passed 

 through France that his embassy was one of an 

 important character. Upon his- arrival in Italy 

 he entered into close communications with Par- 

 sons, the well-known Jesuit, and wrote to Car- 

 dinal Aldobrandini, giving him information of the 

 ■ lings of the English government, and com- 

 menting on them at his pleasure. The Pope, who 

 imagined that the Queen of England was inclined 

 to change her creed, not only made use of Standen 

 to enter into a clandestine correspondence with 



her, but actually sent presents for her to the 

 Nuncio at Paris, who was directed to deliver them 

 to Standen as he passed through that city on his 

 return. But, unluckily for the contrivers of this 

 scheme, by which they hoped to enter England 

 by a back door, Standen was not a man to keep 

 a secret. He had hardly set. foot in England 

 when his whole scheme was known, and he was 

 himself sent to the Tower. James, who was al- 

 ways extremely jealous of its being supposed that 

 he was under his wife's influence, was, naturally 

 enough, enraged. Even a less impulsive man 

 would have seen that those who made no scruple 

 of tampering with a wife, would be utterly un- 

 trustworthy if ever an opportunity offered of suc- 

 cessfully tampering with his subjects. He at 

 once ordered the presents to be returned, and the 

 negotiation to be broken off. 



Cecil's letter in which Parry was informed that 

 orders had been given to return the Pope's pre- 

 sents is dated Feb. 14th, 1604.* On the 22nd of 

 the same month the proclamation was issued by 

 which all priests were ordered to quit the realm. 

 It is impossible not to connect these two facts 

 together. 



On the 19th March, James laid down in his 

 speech at the opening of Parliament the principles 

 on which he then intended to act. The clergy .he 

 would not suffer to remain in his kingdom as iono- 

 as they maintained the Pope's claim to dethrone 

 kings. He had no wish to persecute the laity, if 

 they would only refrain from sedition. They 

 must, however, cease to attempt to make prose- 

 lytes, for he would never allow them again to 

 erect their religion in England. 



It is plain that the feelings which prompted 

 this last declaration would, sooner or later, draw 

 James back again into persecution. For the pre- 

 sent, however, he contented himself with stating 

 that he intended to propose to Parliament some 

 measures for clearing the recusancy laws " by 

 Reason (which is the soul of the law) in case they 

 have been in times past farther or more vigor- 

 ously extended by Judges than the meaning of 

 the law was, or might tend to the hurt as well of 

 the innocent as of guilty persons." 



It was under these circumstances that the Gun- 

 powder Plotters formed their conspiracy. A plot 

 had been discovered in which priests were deeply 

 concerned ; it was known that other priests had 

 been engaged in another, the particulars of which 

 were unknown. An attempt to enter into an ar- 

 rangement with the Pope had been made by 

 James, who in (his question probably stood almost 

 alone amidst his advisers, and that attempt had 

 failed. Upon this he took the step of banishing 

 the priests. It was, no doubt, a mistaken step, 

 but it is impossible to say that it was unprovoked. 



* French Correspondence, S. P. O. 



