Queen's Messengers. - I should esteem it a favour conferred if any of your readers could give me any memoranda touching the early origin of the corps now termed Queen's Messengers, the former "Knightes caligate of Armes." The only mention that I have read of their origin is a brief notice in Knight's London, No. 131. p. 91.; but doubtless there exists, did I know what works to consult, many more voluminous a history of their origin and proceedings than the short summary given in the work of Mr. Knight. In whose reign were they first created? and by whom were they appointed? In fact, any data relating to their early history would very much oblige, J. U. G. G.

Bishop Lesly of Ross' Epitaph-Machoreus or Macorovius, "De Prælio Aveniпічно." - Would any of your readers be so kind as to favour me with a copy of the Latin epitaph of Bishop Lesly, of Ross, inscribed on his tomb in the abbey church of Gurtenburg, near Brussels?

Can any one furnish the entire title and imprint of a Latin poem, De Prælio Aveniniano, said to have been written in 1594, by a Scottish Jesuit named Alexander Macorovius, or Machoreus? Any particulars concerning this author would gratify

LLEWELYN ST. GEORGE.

Sir William Rider.-" H. F." would feel obliged by a reference to any work containing an account of Sir William Rider and his family. He was

Lord Mayor of London in 1600; and his daugh

ter Mary was married to Sir Thomas Lake, of Cannons, Secretary of State temp. James I. Не wishes more particularly to ascertain the date of Sir William Rider's death.

The Word "Poghele." -What is the etymology and precise meaning of the word "Poghele" (pronounced Poughley), or rather the first part of it, which occurs occasionally as the name of a place in the county of Berks, and perhaps elsewhere? W.

Duncan Campbell.-Was the Duncan Campbell, of whom memoirs were written by Defoe, a real or an imaginary person ? If the former, where can one find any authentic account of him? L. B.

Boston de Bury de Bib. Monasteriorum. any of your correspondents give me a refere to the original MS. of Boston de Bury de B thecis Monasteriorum?

Cazena on the Inquisition. Can any one me what is the public opinion of Cazena's worn the Inquisition? I see Limborch and many quoted concerning that tribunal, but never zena. Is the book scarce? - or is it not estee I never saw but one copy.

The Reconciliation, 1554.- In 1554 Car. Pole directed a register to be kept in every of all the parishioners who, on a certain day, to be reconciled to the Church of Rome absolved. (Burnet's Ref. vol. iii. p. 245.) The Bishop of London's Declaration (Feb. 19.1554) runs thus:

"And they not so reconciled, every one shall have processe made agaynst him accor the canons, as the case shall requyre; for whic pose the pastours and curates of every paryshe commaunded by their archedeacon to certyfre writinge of every man and woman's name that so reconciled."

Have any of your readers at any time sec made a note of such a register?

The most probable place place of deposit woul the Bishop's Registry, but I have never yet fortunate enough to meet with one of t curious returns.

MISCELLANIES.

J.S

Darkness at the Crucifixion. The foll passage, in a volume of Lectures by the Ret Blunt, has fallen under my notice:

"It was this Dionysius (the Areopagite) of r the earliest Christian historians relate that, bei Heliopolis, in Egypt, at the time of our Lord's fixion, when he beheld the mid-day darkness attended that awful event, he exclaimed, Eib

God of Nature suffers, or the frame of the wor be dissolved.'

Having very limited opportunity of studyin ancient historians, I should be greatly obl. you would inform me from what work ta count is derived; or refer me to any authe having embraced Christianity, who give a de tion of the crucifixion of our Saviour; and

cially with reference to the "darkness over earth" at the time of that event, mention St. Luke, who also adds, that "the sun was ened." Your kindly consenting, as you your second number, to receive queries respe references, has induced me to trouble you so

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[Our correspondent will find much that is to purpose, both in the way of statements and of refer to original authorities, in Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, chap. xiii. of the Heathen Authors: vol. ii. p. 125. of the original 4to. edition; or vol. vii. p. 370. of the 8vo. ed.tion of his works by Kippis, 1788.]

High-Doctrine.- In the Cambridgeshire fens there are a great number of Dissenters, and I believe Cromwell's Ironsides were chiefly recruited from those districts. On the higher lands adjoinng are the old parish churches; and in conversation it is not uncommon to hear the tenets of the Church of England described as High land Doctrine, in contra-distinction to the Low land, or Dissenters' doctrine.

The thing is amusing, if nothing else, and I heard it while staying some few years ago with ny brother, who lives on the edges of the Cambridgeshire fens.

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Wife of Robert de Bruce. - In the Surrenden Collection is an interesting roll, entitled "Libeatio facta Ingelardo de Warlee Custodi Gardeobe, 7 E. 2."

It is, as its title imports, the release to the teeper of the wardrobe, for one year's accounts, . 7 Ε. 2.

I shall probably be able to send you therefrom "notes" " illustrative illu of the history of that

few

time.

As a commencement, I think that the subjoined "note" will interest your historical readers.

It appears that the unfortunate wife of Robert Bruce was then consigned to the care of the Abbess of Barking, with an allowance of 20s. per week for the same. She was, I believe, the daugher of Henry de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and died _n 1328. In the above roll there is the following entry:

"C liberati Anne de Veer Abbatisse de Berkyng, per manus domini Roberti de Wakfeld clerici, super expensis domine Elizabethe uxoris Roberti de Brus, percipientis per ebdomadum xx, et ibidem perhendi

nantis."

"Clberati Johanni de Stystede valletto Abbatisse de Berkyngg, per manus proprias, super expensis Domine de Brus in Abbathia de Berkyng perhendi

nantis."

It does not appear, in the above roll, how long the hapless queen remained in the abbey. LAMBERT B. LARKING.

Ryarsh Vicarage, Dec. 14. 1849.

The Talisman of Charlemagne. - I beg to refer your correspondent, on the subject of Charlemagne's Talisman, to what professes to be a correct representation of this antique relic, in The Illustrated London News, of March 8th, 1845; but it is not there described as "a small nut, in a gold filigree envelopment," and gives the idea of an

ornament much too large for the finger or even wrist of any lady: that paper says,

"This curious object of vertu is described in the Parisian journals as, ' la plus belle relique de l'Europe;' and it has, certainly, excited considerable interest in the archæological and religious circles of the continent. The talisman is of fine gold, of round form, as our illustration shows, set with gems, and in the centre are two rough sapphires, and a portion of the Holy Cross; besides other relics brought from the Holy Land."

The rest of the description much resembles your correspondent's, and asserts the talisman to be at that time the property of Prince Louis Napoleon, then a prisoner in the château of Ham. S. A. Μ.

Sayers the Caricaturist. - In Wright's England under the House of Hanover, vol. ii. p. 83 n., it is stated that James Sayer, the caricaturist, "died in the earlier part of the present century, no long time after his patron, Pitt." In Sepulchral Reminiscences of a Market Town, by Mr. Dawson Turner (Yarmouth, 8vo. 1848), p. 73 n., the caricaturist is called Sayers, and is said to have died on the 20th of April, 1823. C. H. COOPER. Cambridge, Dec. 29. 1849.

May-Day. To what old custom does the following passage allude?

"It is likewise on the first day of this month [May] that we see the ruddy milk-maid exerting herself in a most sprightly manner under a pyramid of silver tankards, and, like the virgin Tarpeia, oppressed by the costly ornaments which her benefactors lay upon her." - Spectator, No. 365.

MELANION.

[Our correspondent will find much curious illustration of this now obsolete custom in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 357. (ed. Hone), where the preceding passage from the Spectator is quoted; and we are told "these decorations of silver cups, tankards, &c. were borrowed for the purpose, and hung round the milk pails (with the addition of flowers and ribands), which the maidens carried upon their heads when they went to the houses of their customers, and danced in order to obtain a small gratuity from each of them." In Tempest's Cryes of London there is a print of a wellknown merry milk-maid, Kate Smith, dancing with the milk pail decorations upon her head. See also Hone's Every Day Book, i. p. 576.]

Dr. Dee's Petition. - There is no mention of Dr. Dee's petition to King James in the list of his works in Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannica; but in Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 263., is an account of the preface to a scarce work of his, in which he defends himself from the charge of being a conjurer, or caller of divels, &c.

Tanner mentions his Supplication to Queen Mary for the Recovery of Ancient Writings and Monu

ments.

I fear, however, that your correspondent is ac

which you have in view in your admirable publication. OXONIENSIS.

been restored in Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode's last [Bishop Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns have rubricated edition of the Common Prayer, as far as was practicable; they were carefully collated with the original, and all variations corrected, except those which would materially affect immemorial use. The entire hymns are of great length, but all those verses which have been at all generally sung in churches are to be found in the edition to which we refer.

Queen's printers have lately restored the lesser Saints' We may take this opportunity of noticing that the Days to the kalendar in their smaller editions of the Common Prayer. We are not aware of any other similar editions in which the kalendar appears thus complete.]

mology of Daysman, which, in the Book of Job, Etymology of "Daysman." - What is the etyand in some of our provincial dialects, means a mediator or arbitrator? MARK ANTONY LOWER.

[NARES defines Daysman, an umpire or arbitrator, Todd shows that day sometimes meant Judgment." from his fixing a day for decision; and adds, "Mr. Jacob, in his Low Dictionary, tells us, "Days-man signifies, in the North of England, an arbitrator or person chosen to determine an affair in dispute, who is called a Dies-man or Days-man." Jacob's definition may be again illustrated from NARES:-"In Switzerland (as we are informed by Simlerus) they had some common arbitrators, or dayesmen, in every towne, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man."-Burton, Anat

Roland Monoux.

In answer to your corre spondent "," p. 137., the monumental brass in his possession is, no doubt, from the church at Edmonton, Middlesex. Lysons (Environs of London, vol. ii. p. 263.), in his description of Edmon ton Church, says, "Near the door is a brass plate. with some English verses to the memory of Ro LAND MONOUX (no date)." He subjoins, in a note, arms on a chevron betw. 3 oak-leaves as many bezants, on a chief 2 anchors, a martlet for differ. ence. On the brass plate are some English verses, nowise remarkable.'

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These arms (omitting the chief) are those horne by the Baronet Monnoux of Sandy in Bedfordshire (extinct in 1814), who was descended from Sir George Monox, of Walthamstow, Lord Mayor of London, who died in 1543, to whom and his lady there are brasses in Walthamstow Church. ROLAND of Edmonton was doubtless of the same family. I am not able to give an opinion of the date of the brass in question; but it might be readily conjectured from the style of its execution.

Your readers will, I am sure, all unite with me in commendation of your correspondent "M's" correct feeling in offering to restore this monument to its original site. I hope "M's" example will find many followers. There are hundreds of

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these pillaged brasses in the hands of "collectors," and your admirable publication will have effected a great public good, if it shall have been instrumental in promoting their restoration. Cambridge, Jan 1. 1850.

E. VENTRIS.

Ancient Motto. In reference to a query (No. 6. p. 93.), and a reply (No. 7. p 104.), permit me to remark, that St. Augustine, the celebrated Bishop of Hippo, was the person who caused to be engraved on his table the distich against detractors. Possidius, in his Life of that Father (S. Augustini, Opera Omnia, Paris, 1690, vol. x. part ii. p. 272.), gives the verses no doubt an adaptation of Horace thus: —

Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford.-At p. 157. of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," your correspondent "B." inquires about a pamphlet relating to the marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford. "P. C. S.S." cannot give the precise title of the pamphlet in question; but he is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts (Biblioth. Brit.), and on that of his old friend Sylvanus Urban (ient. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 543.), that it was published in London, towards the end of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable and very disgraceful transactions to which it refers were afterwards (in 1749) made the subject of a novel, called Dalinda, or The Double Marriage. Lond. 12mo. Price threepence.

The gentleman who was the hero of this scandalous affair was Mr. Thomas Estcourt Cresswell, of Pinkney Park, Wilts, M.P. for Wootton Bassett. He married Anne, the sole and very wealthy heiress of Edward Warneford, Esq. As it cannot be the object of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" to revive a tale of antiquated scandal, "P. C. S.S." will not place upon its pages the details of this painful affair the cruel injury inflicted upon Miss Scrope (the lady to whom Mr. Cresswell was said to have been secretly married before his union with Miss Warneford) and the base and unmanly contrivance by which, it was stated, that he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives at the same time. Miss Scrope appears to have retained, for a considerable time, a deep sense of her injuries; for in 1749 she published a pamphlet, in her own name, called Miss Scrope's Answer to Mr.Cresswell's Narrative. (Lond. Baldwin. Price 28. 6d.

If "B." should be desirous of further informa