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13. S. P. O. Car. II. vol. lxv. Art. 39. Mr. Bradley tould me, &c. Butler, which keeps a victualling house near Charing Crosse, who sends letters to Lambert, and receives letters from Lambert,-the said Bradley told me that Lambert's Butler tould him that if his Matie should send to Gurnsey (the place where Lambert is prisoner) for the execution of him, the Governor would not only refuse it, but oppose it, and that if the insurrection went on, Gurnsey and England was but a little distance. Lambert would quickly be in England to head a party.

EDWARD RIGGS. [In dorso] Rigg's confession. R. 23, decr.

14. S. P. O. Col. Atkins to [Lord Arlington.] Castle Cornet, Oct. 3/13, 1667. MY LORD, I received yours of the 9/19 September, which came not to my hands till the 27 of the same month. The prisoners of State in this Island is only Mr. Lambert who by order from His Matie, as appears by my instructions, I received at my arrival heere from my Lord Hatton. Heere remains no warrant nor record of his commitment. His straiter confinement was by order from his Matie since, the occasion whereof your Lordship well knows was upon the business for which Vaucourt the Frenchman was executed. He remains still close till I receive further orders, and I cannot say otherwise than that hee hath carried himself ever since with modestie and discretion conforme to his Maties commands.

F. ATKINS.

15. S. P. O. Domestic. Car. II. vol. i. Art. 56. To the King's Most Excellent Maty.

The humble Petition of Mrs. Lambert humbly sheweth. That your Petitioner's estate being very small, and not able to maintaine herselfe, ten children and her husband at that great charge his close imprisonment requires, humbly prays-That your Maty would be pleased to add to your former grace and favour in letting her said husband have the liberty of taking a house in the Island he is now prisoner,-that your poore petitioner her children and family may all live there together with him, without which the charge is so insupportable in being thus divided that in a very short time wee shall not be able to live. Which if your Maty will bee pleased gratiously to grant we shall be obliged ever to pray.

16. S. P. O. Dom. Various, 588, p. 9 b. The King to the Duke of Albemarle, General of the

Rt Trusty, &c. count Falconbridge,

Forces. Whereas Thos VisJohn Lord Bellasys, and Sir Thomas Ingram, Kt Chancellor of our Dutchy of Lancaster have made humble sute unto us on behalf of Colonel John Lambert, now a prisoner in our isle of Guernsey that we would grant him the liberty of the said Island, and to take a house therein for himself and family to live in-he passing his word or giving security to remaine a true prisoner in our said Island, we are gratiously pleased to condescend unto that their request, and have accordingly thought fit hereby to signify our pleasure unto you, requiring and authorizing you to give effectual orders that he the said Col. Jo. Lambert may have and enjoy the liberty of our foresaid isle of Guernsey, and take a house therein for the lodging and accomodation of himself and family, he passing his word unto you, or giving sufficient security, that he will remaine a true prisoner in that our island. And for so, &c. Given, &c. Decr 3, 1667, in the 19 year of our reigne.

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Whereas wee did by our warrant of Nov. in ye 13 yeare of our Reigne give order that you shd allow such liberty and indulgence to Coll. Jo. Lambert your prisoner within the precincts of that our Island as will consist with the security of his person, and as you in your discretion should think fitt, which we found reason since to abridge and refraine by a signification of our Royal pleasure by one of our principal secretaries of state. Now whereas wee have been again humbly moved in favour of the said Coll. Lambert, our will and pleasure is that you continue to allow unto him the full benefit of our former gracious favour and indulgence, as it was signified to you by our said Warrant of Nov", any let or signification to the contrary notwithstanding, the same to continue until further order. For which, &c.

18. S. P. O. Domestic, Various, No. 589, fol. 8.
Lambert's daughter to have access to him.

Whereas humble suite hath been made to us in favour of John Lambert now close prisoner in your custody, That in consideration of his present distemper and bad estate of health, wee would be graciousely pleased to grant our royall licence to Frances Lambert, one of the daughters of the said John Lambert to be and remaine with her father during the time of his indisposition, and till our further pleasure in that behalf be signified unto you :As also that Mary Hatton, one other of his daughters, might have access to see and visit her sd Father and to returne againe. Our will, &c.-that accordingly you permit and suffer the said Frances Lambert to be and remaine with her said Father, and the said Mary Hatton to have accesse to see and visitte him and to returne again as her occasions shall require. For, &c. Given, &c. At Whitehall, Feb. 17, 1667-8. By his, &c. [Signed] ARLINGTON.

To the Govr of Guernsey. [N.B. In the beginning of the 'year 1665, in consequence of certain complaints, Lord Hatton was called away from Guernsey, and Colonel Atkins was authorised to act in his place. Lord Hatton never returned, and died in 1670. His younger son, Charles Hatton, married Colonel Lambert's daughter Mary.]

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To the King's most Sacred Majesty. The Humble petition of Christopher L Hatton, &c. humbly sheweth

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That your petitioner having been by your Majesty's favor constituted for life Governor of the Isle, &c. three persons and no more took occasion to complain of Your petitioner Upon which complaint your Majesty was pleased to send for your Petitioner Your Petitioner is not ignorant that attempts have been made to suggest his misfortunes as faults in the case of his sonn's marriage with a prisoner's daughter there, and though he is confident your Majesty will not lay that as a crime to your Petitioner, yett he craves leave to say his consent could not be reasonably inferred,-being to a person whose Father was attainted, who had no portion. And the thing had no ill effect since the Prisoner remained in safe custody, and delivered up in that safety he remains. And no sooner did your Petitioner know of that match was a yeare and more after the pretended marriage, but he turned his sonn out of doores, and hath never since given him a penny Your petitioner humbly prays,

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20. From the Council Register. Order in Council, 15 November, 1668. Upon reading the petition of John de la Marche, Gentleman, Porter of Castle Cornet in the Isle of Guernsey, praying that His Matie will be graciously pleasde to order that his three years salary in arreare may be paid unto him, together with such allowance or other consideration as shall be thought fit for (inter alia) his fee for the safe custody of John Lambert for these eight years - it was ordered, that the Petitioner do deliver a copy of the said Petition unto Colonell Jonathan Atkins, His Majesty's Governor of Guernsey, who is hereby required to certify the truth of the allegations thereof to the Board, &c.

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"And here I do profess, that as I have lived, so I desire, and by the grace of God resolve, to die in the communion of the Catholic Church of Christ, and a true son of the Church of England: which, as it stands by law established, to be both in doctrine and worship agreeable to the word of God, and in the most, and most material, points of both, conformable to the faith and practice of the Godly Churches of Christ in the primitive and purer times, I do firmly believe. . . . . And herein I am abundantly satisfied that the schism which the Papist on the one hand, and the superstition which the Puritan on the other, lay to our charge, are very justly chargeable upon themselves respectively."

Bishop Sanderson was born at Rotheram in Yorkshire, Sept. 19, 1587, recommended to the bishopric of Lincoln by Dr. Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660, and died Jan. 29, 1662.

The celebrated Lord Exmouth, born at Dover in 1757, wrote as follows in one of the very last letters he ever penned. Speaking of the attacks made against the Church of England, he says:

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"I am much inclined to consider this (i. e. the cholera then raging) an infliction of Providence, to shew His power to the discontented of the world, who have long been striving against the government of man, and are commencing their attacks on our Church. But they will fail! God will never suffer his Church to fall."

The Rev. John Kettlewell, deprived as a nonjuror, together with Sancroft, Ken, and others, drew up a few days before his death a declaration of his faith. This he presented on the altar when he received the Blessed Sacrament for the last time from Bishop Lloyd. In this declaration he

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"I profess to continue firm and stedfast in the unity and communion of Christ's Holy Catholic Church. And having been not only made a member, but, by my blessed

master Jesus Christ's inestimable vouchsafement, called to be a minister of His in the Church of England; I do

profess and declare, that as I have lived and ministered hitherto, so I do still continue firm in its faith, worship, and communion."

Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, the friend of George Herbert, prefaces his last will with these among other remarks. He thanks God devoutly "for that constant and cheerful resolution, which the same Spirit hath established in me, to live and die in the religion now professed in the Church of England." And the saintly George Herbert himself, while lying on his bed of sickness, desired Mr. Duncon to pray with him. "What prayers?" asked Mr. Duncon. The holy man fervently replied, "O Sir! the prayers of my mother the Church of England. No other prayers are equal to them!" Nicolas Ridley, in his farewell letter, written on the eve of his martyrdom, characterises the doctrines of the Church of England,. for which he was about to die, as "God's eternal and everlasting truth."

While on the subject of last sayings and wills, I would notice a curious bequest in the will of Benjamin Franklin, though of course it is alien to our proper subject. It runs thus:

curiously wrought in the form of the cap of liberty, I "My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head Washington. If it were a sceptre, he has merited it, and give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General would become it."

W. BOWEN ROWLANDS.

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"If the English Langue is acknowledged by the head of the Order all is well; otherwise it cannot be the LanHospitallers of St. John. guage of England, or a branch of the Order of the Knights Who appointed the Grand Prior, for by the Statutes, sect. XIII. (Of the Elections), No. 3, the election is in the hands of the Master and Council."

But who is the head of the Order to whom HISTORICUS alludes, and the Master and Council, by whose authority the Grand Prior of the Engpossible that your correspondent is in earnest, lish Langue should be appointed? Can it be when referring to a few aged officials at Rome, as the persons to whom the English Knights must bend in submission if desirous of being acknowledged as the "real" English Langue of the Order of St. John? Should that be his object, he will fail in accomplishing it. These Roman dignitaries

having no more right to nominate an English Grand Prior, because the office he holds was at one time subject to a Catholic head, than they would in appointing a Bishop of Malta from his officiating on festival days in St. John's Church, where the Grand Master and his Knights were accustomed to worship. Therefore, may we add, that any attempt on their part to claim jurisdiction over the English Langue, will not be acknowledged. In truth, it would be simply absurd after the candid admission of SIR GEORGE BOWYER (p. 252), that the Pope is not permitted to appoint the Grand Prior of the Language to which he belongs, "unless by convention with the Order" at Rome. Surely if the Catholic Master and Council decline yielding implicit obedience to "His Holiness" the Pope, it cannot be expected that the Protestant branch should pursue a different course, or be willing to acknowledge those persons as the chiefs of their Order who have shown so little consideration to the head of their church; depriving him of an authority, which, from the determination of his predecessors, he might legally claim, and the Knights of St. John in other days dared not to deny. The English Langue, in its strict sense of justice, cannot observe this innovation on the part of the Roman branch without a word of remark. It being well known that the pontiffs of ancient times could appoint a Grand Master of the Order without consulting the crowned heads of Europe, how is it that the present Pope cannot even nominate the Prior of a single Langue, unless by consent of, or convention with, the Master and Council at Rome?

Were HISTORICUS a member of the Order, we might ask him at what period, for what reasons, and in what manner this important change has occurred. Perhaps our old friend J. J. W., who is a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, and well read in its history, will kindly give us this infor

mation.

We shall await his answer before returning to the subject again. AN OBSERVER.

QUEEN ISABELLA, “THE CATHOLIC."
(3rd S. iv. 76.)

In answer to the remarks of your correspondent LELIUS, I still consider that I was justified in protesting against the unfavourable character, drawn by Mr. G. A. Bergenroth, of Queen Isabella, "the Catholic."

One would suppose from the remarks of LæLIUS that I contented myself with a mere protest, for he says: "If MR. DALTON is called upon to protest, let him first deal with facts." Did I not deal with facts? I quoted the authority of Peter Martyr, who, in a letter written to the Archbishop of Granada on the very day of the queen's

death, speaks of her in the highest terms of praise. His testimony is the more valuable, because he was intimately acquainted with Isabella.

I then referred to the late Mr. Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella, which is considered to be, with a few inaccuracies here and there, a very valuable and interesting biography. These inaccuracies have been corrected in the Spanish translation of the work by Señor Sabau y Larroya. Every effort, however, seems to have been made by Mr. Prescott to consult the original authorities to which access was permitted. Above all, he was fortunate in being able to make use of the copious illustrations of Isabella's reign by Clemencin, the lamented secretary of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid; and also of the labours of another modern Spanish historian named Muñoz, who calls "the Catholic Queen" the incomparable Isabella. (Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia, tom. iii. p. 29.)

What, then, is the result of his researches respecting the character of Isabella? LELIUS does not even allude to the quotations which I made from Prescott's History, all of which directly contradict, in the most emphatic manner, the assertions of Mr. Bergenroth.

I hope your correspondent will carefully peruse "the character of Isabella " as drawn by Mr. Prescott (Hist. of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella "the Catholic" of Spain, 7th ed. in one vol. London, 1854, chap. xvi. p. 463, &c.)

Mr. Bergenroth may have found documents in the Archives at Simancas, which will no doubt throw considerable light on the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. But the facts which he quotes in his preface to the admirable Calendar of Letters, Despatches, &c., which he has edited, do not in my humble judgment authorise him to speak in the way he does of Queen Isabella. Believing such to be the truth, I consider I was quite justified in entering my protest against the writer's sweeping assertions.

With regard to Queen Elizabeth and the "Historical Parallel" drawn by Dr. Hefele between her and Isabella, I decline entering into any details which would probably lead me into a controversy with your correspondent, which I am sure would be unsuitable for the pages of "N. & Q."

I will therefore merely observe, that LÆLIUS is quite incorrect in supposing, that the bull of excommunication against Elizabeth authorised her subjects to kill her. Lingard gives the substance

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CAST FROM CROMWELL'S FACE (3rd S. iv. 26.)At Lady Frankland Russell's, Chequers Court, near Wendover, Bucks, there is a cast of Cromwell's face, indisputably taken soon after death; it speaks for itself. Chequers Court belonged to the family, and is full of interesting relics of the Protector and his compeers.* SEXAGENARIAN.

INSCRIPTION AT TRUJILLO (3rd S. iv. 50.) It seems to me impossible to make out any meaning from the words, as they are given by your correspondent C. M. As he saw them around a shield fixed on the wall of a church, he seems not to have been in a position to have copied them correctly. The very first word, Slacis, in the inscription, is not Spanish, neither is the word Decon.

J. DALTON.

LAW OF ADULTERY (3rd S. iv. 7.) — Your correspondent A. M. inquires what was the name of the king mentioned in ancient history, who caused a law to be enacted against adultery, under which the offender was to be punished by the loss of both his eyes. The question, I imagine, refers to the case of Zaleucus, prince and lawgiver of the Locrians, who having established such a law amongst his countrymen, his own son, detected in the fact, was brought for judgment before him. The people were willing and desirous to pardon; but strict justice demanded the exaction of the penalty; and the unhappy father, rather than shrink from his duty, commanded one of his own eyes to be first put out, and then one of his son's. Thus saving, by personal suffering, his child from a punishment almost worse than death. The story is to be found in Val. Max. vi. 5, 3; and also in Elian, Var. Hist. xiii. 24. See, too, Dion.

Hal. xii. 20.

W.

ALICIA DE LACY (3rd S. iv. 27.)—It strikes me that your correspondent S. S. will have some difficulty in finding the authority for the story of Alicia's connection with " Thomas Edgar." She was unquestionably a profligate woman, her second husband, Sir Ebulo L'Estrange, having been her paramour during the life of the Earl of Lancaster; and she also contracted a mock marriage with one Richard de St. Martin. She afterwards married Hugo de Frenes, and died childless in 1348. Is the "Thomas Edgar" alluded to by your correspondent identical with Richard de St. Martin? Sir Ebulo L'Estrange was, I believe, a bachelor at the time of his marriage with Alicia. If there be any truth in the story, I shall be as anxious to discover it as your correspondent.

HERMENTRUde.

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Thomas Langton, appointed in 1483. This Thomas Langton was translated from St. David's to Salisbury in 1485; and from Salisbury to Winchester in 1493. His arms as Bishop of Winchester (similar, as far as my memory serves me, to those described by W. P.), are over the gateway of the old castle at Taunton. On January 20, 1501, he was translated from Winchester to Canterbury; but died on the 27th of the same month, before his translation could be perfected. The shields that W. P. inquires about may perhaps be his. I take it for granted that they are not old enough to have belonged to Stephen Langton, who was archbishop in the time of King John.

MELETES.

There can be little doubt that the shields which perplex your correspondent W. P. are those of Wolsey and the see of York.

Wolsey's coat was: On a cross, engrailed, four leopards' faces; on fess point, a lion rampant; on a chief, a rose barbed, seeded, between two choughs.

The old arms of the see of York were nearly identical with those of Canterbury. Whitehall, then called York House, was the palace of the SEXAGENARIAN. archbishop.

MR. JOHN COLLET: DR. COLLET (3rd S. iv. 47.) The author of the Common-place Book to which MR. HAZLITT alludes, was John Collet, only son of Thomas Collet of Highgate and the Middle Temple, Esq., by Martha, daughter of John Sherrington, of London, merchant. (Life of Nic. Ferrar, ed. Mayor, 379.) He was a member of the Middle Temple, having previously been, like his father, a fellow commoner of Clare Hall, Cambridge. (Knight's Life of Colet, 263.) His will, wherein he is described as of S. Andrew, Holborn, Esq., bears date May 9, 1711, and was proved in the Prerogative Court, Nov. 26, 1713. Our friend MR. GEO. R. CORNER has kindly furnished us with an extract from this will, which is of considerable interest as relating to the Gidding Story Books and other MSS. of the testator's great uncle Nicholas Ferrar and the portraits of that celebrated person and his parents.

Dr. Collet, whose Daily Devotions were advertised in 1671, was the famous Dean of St. Paul's, for amongst his works Anthony à Wood enumerates " Daily Devotions; or, the Christian's Morning Sacrifice, &c. Printed at London several times in twelves and sixteens." A copy of the twentieth edition, Lond. 12mo, 1693, is in Sion Coll. Library. (Reading's Cat. Sion Coll. Libr. B. vi. 38.) To this edition is prefixed the Dean's portrait engraved by J. Sturt. (Lowndes, ed. Bohn, 495.)

We have not ascertained when this work was first printed. Its authenticity appears questionC. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

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CAPTAIN THOMAS Kerridge (3rd S. iv. 49.) — He is repeatedly mentioned in Mr. Gainsbury's Calendar of East India State Papers. See the Preface, p. 1. and Index. It would appear that he was living in 1616.

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER. GODOLPHIN: WHITE EAGLE (3rd S. iii. 448; iv. 56.) When I wrote Dölfyn, "the little spring," I meant "the spring in the valley." This reminds me of the Cornish surname Edeveain, var. Edyvane, Edyveain, Edyvean, and Edyfyn, which latter is said to have been the earliest orthography of the name. I will give some sug gestions as to the etymology. 1. A corruption of the French form of Edwin; 2. from the Cornish izy-rean," the little bottom or valley;" 3. from izy-vyin," the valley of stones; 4. from izy-fyn, "the spring in the valley or bottom." Cf. the Cornish name Devane. R. S. CHARNOCK.

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HOPTON FAMILY (3rd S. iv. 48.)—In your 1 iv. 97, you were good enough to print a Note of mine embodying a curious old letter, written by a Mr. Ernle, respecting Lady Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset, the grandmother of himself and of Lord Hopton, which will sufficiently indicate the multitude of "existing families, directly or remotely connected" with them. A pedigree of the family is to be found in Blore's Rulland; and also in Sir R. C. Hoare's Monastic Remains of Witham, Bruton, and Stavordale; from which it would appear probable that the male line may not be extinct even now; although the Lord Hopton himself being the only son of his father, and dying without issue, the property and direct representation of the family went to his four sisters: First Rachel, who married, 1, David Kemeys of Keven Mably; and 2, Thos. Morgan. Second, Mary, who married, 1, Sir Henry Mackworth; and 2, Sir Thomas Hartopp. Third, Catherine, married to John Windham, ancestor of the Earls

of Egremont. And fourth, Margaret, married to Sir Baynham Throckmorton.

Lord Hopton's father had seven brothers and ten sisters; whose names were, according to the letter above-mentioned: Lady Bacon, Lady Smith, Lady Morton, Lady Bannister, and Lady Fettiplace; Bingham, Baskett, Cole, Thomas, and Ernle."

Lady Morton was the ancestress of the Playdells of Whatcombe, in this county. Lady Bannister's granddaughter, by her first husband, Sir John Rogers of Bryanston, became Duchess of Richmond; and her daughter and heiress, by Sir Robert Bannister, Lady Maynard. Mrs. Bingham was my own ancestress. Mrs. Cole's daughter, and eventual heiress, Dorothy, married, in Nailsea church, near Bristol, in 1635, Mr. Alexander Popham, and died 1643. From Mrs. Ernle my own family is also descended, and the Money

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SERMONS UPON INOCULATION (1st S. vi. 510, 616; 2nd S. iii. 243; 3rd S. iii. 390, 476; iv. 13.)—It is nearly fourteen years, as the above references will show, since this subject was introduced into these pages. But, although the latest correspondent of "N. & Q." quotes Dr. Moseley's question

"Can any person say what may be the consequences of introducing a bestial humour into the human frame after a long lapse of years? "—

yet no one has recorded in these pages that other Query, that was propounded as a crushing reply to Dr. Moseley's question. It was this:

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