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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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      Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - Various Various

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851

             A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

                    Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: March 23, 2012 [EBook #39233]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NOV 29, 1851 ***

      Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

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      Vol. IV.—No. 109.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

      FOR

      LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      VOL. IV.—No. 109.

      SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1851.

      Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

      CONTENTS.

      NOTES:—

      Thomas More and John Fisher 417

      Notes on Newspapers, by H. M. Bealby 418

      Treatise of Equivocation 419

      Notes on Virgil, by Dr. Henry 420

      Minor Notes:—Verses presented, to General Monck—Justice to Pope Pius V. 421

      QUERIES:—

      Crosses and Crucifixes 422

      Master of the Buckhounds, by John Branfill Harrison 422

      Minor Queries:—No Cross no Crown—Dido and Æneas—Pegs and Thongs for Rowing: Torture among the Athenians—French Refugees—Isabel, Queen of the Isle of Man—Grand-daughter of John Hampden—Cicada or Tettigonia Septemdecim—The British Sidanen—Jenings or Jennings—Caleva Atrebatum, Site of—Abigail—Etymology of Durden—Connecticut Halfpenny 423

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Arms displayed on Spread Eagle—St. Beuno—Lists of Knights Bachelor—Walker—See of Durham 424

      REPLIES:—

      Convocation of York 425

      The Old Countess of Desmond 426

      Coins of Vabalathus 427

      Marriage of Ecclesiastics 427

      Replies to Minor Queries:—Crowns have their Compass—The Rev. Richard Farmer—Earwig 428

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 429

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted 429

      Notices to Correspondents 430

      Advertisements 430

      List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

      Notes.

      THOMAS MORE AND JOHN FISHER.

      Although I am afraid NOTES AND QUERIES may not be considered as open to contributions purely bibliographical, and admitting I am uncertain whether the following copy of the treatise of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, has been before noted, I am induced to send this extract from Techener's Bulletin du Bibliophile for May 1851. The book is in the library at Douai.

      "This Treatise concernynge the fruytful Saynges of David the King and prophete in the seven penytencyall psalmes, devyded in ten sermons, was made and compyled by the ryght reverente fader in god Johan Fyssher, doctour of dyvinyte and bysshop of Rochester, at the exortacion and sterynge of the most excellent pryncesse Margarete, Countesse of Richemount and Derby, and moder to out souverayne Lorde Kynge Hēry the VII."

      It is described as a small 4to., printed upon vellum, in Gothic letters, at London, 1508, by Wynkyn de Worde, and contains 146 leaves. On the first leaf it has a portcullis, crowned with the motto Dieu et mon Droit. On the recto of the last leaf there is—

      Here endeth the exposycyon of the 7 psalmes. Enprynted at London in the fletestrete, at the sygne of ye Sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde. In the yere of oure lorde M.CCCCC.VIII. ye 16 day of ye moneth of Juyn. The XXIII. yere of ye reygne of our souverayne Lorde Kynge Hēry the Seventh.

      At the back, there is the sun, the monogram of Wynkyn de Worde—the letters W. C. displayed as usual—and beneath, Wynkyn de Worde.

      At the beginning of the book, sur une garde en vélin (a fly-leaf of vellum?), there is written in a very neat hand the following ten verses, the profession of faith of Thomas Morus and of his friend John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester:

      "The surest meanes for to attaine

      The perfect waye to endlesse blisse

      Are happie lief and to remaine

      Wthin ye church where virtue is;

      And if thy conscience be sae sounde

      To thinse thy faith is truth indeede

      Beware in thee noe schisme be founde

      That unitie may have her meede;

      If unitie thow doe embrace

      In heaven (en?)joy possesse thy place."

      Beneath—

      "Qui non rectè vivit in unitate ecclesiæ

      Catholicæ, salvus esse non potest."

      And lower on the same page—

      "Thomas Morus dn̄s cancellarius Angliæ

      Joh. Fisher Epûs Roffensis."

      It is traditionally reported, upon the testimony of some Anglican Benedictines (an order now extinct), that the lines which contain the profession of faith, and those which follow, are in the handwriting of Bishop Fisher, and that the work was presented by him to the chancellor, during their imprisonment, when by order of Henry VIII. the chancellor was denied the consolation of his books.

      In the same library there is a fine Psalter, which belonged to Queen Elizabeth. The Livre d'Heures of Mary Queen of Scots was here also to be found: Maria, glorious martyr and Queen of Scotland. It is conjectured these books were brought to Douai by the fugitive English Roman Catholic priests. In 1790 their collections were confiscated and given to the public library of Douai. It would be of interest to ascertain, if possible, the authenticity of the Heures à l'Usage, stated to have belonged to Mary Queen of Scots. Upon this point one may be permitted to be sceptical. I have myself seen two. One of these, it was said, had been used by Mary on the scaffold, and contained a note in the handwriting, as I think, of James II. attesting the fact. It was understood to have been obtained from a monastery in France. The other, a small Prayer Book MS. in vellum, of good execution,

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