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A small part of Taylor's information is given in marginal notes, but his text, which, in fact, contains all that illustrates the point at issue, is the following: "We took one coach, two coachmen, and four horses, And merrily from London made our courses. We wheel'd the top of the heavy hill call'd Holborn, (Up which hath been full many a sinful soul borne,) And so along we jolted past St. Giles's, NOTES: : Wives of Ecclesiastics Nat. Lee's Certificate in favour of Verses 149 149 150 Notes upon Cunningham's London, by E. F. Rimbault On Authors and Books, No. 3., by Bolton Corney Cartwright's Poems 151 151 TRAVELLING OF OLD IN ENGLAND. I do not know any where a more distinct account of the commencement and progress of a journey in England, two centuries ago, than is given in Taylor's (the Water-poet) narrative, in prose and verse, of his travels from London to the Isle of Wight, while Charles I. was there. It is short, | as well as clear, and the stages, and the time it took to perform them, are one after another pointed out. Moreover, he states that the journey was performed in a public coach drawn by four horses, and conducted by two coachmen. There were four passengers besides Taylor, and they started from the Rose, near Holborn Bridge, in the Southampton coach (which came weekly to that inn), on Thursday, 19th October, 1647, and arrived on the same evening, at 5 o'clock, at Staines. They remained all night at the Bush, and next morning proceeded by Bagshot to Alton, where they put up at the White Hart, and again slept. On Saturday they again set off early, and The tract from which I quote was printed in 1648 for the author, who was paid for it, as appears by his title-page, in the following manner: "When John Taylor hath been from London to the Isle of Wight and returned again, and at his return he do give, or cause to be given, to me a book or pamphlet of true news, and relations of passages, at the Island, and to and fro in his journey, I do promise to give him, or his assignes, the sum of what I please in lawful money of England, provided that the said sum be not under six pence." This, as many are aware, was a usual mode with Taylor and some others to pay themselves for their expeditions: the Water-poet made many journeys of the kind, as may be seen by the list of his works in the folio of 1630, in which, of course, his Travels from London to the Isle of Wight, in 1647, As your correspondent G. G. seems fond of inquiring into the modus itinerandi of bygone days, and thinks a series of travelling hand-bills would be interesting, I send you two, copied from an original news-book almost two centuries old, and which I believe have never been reprinted. They are interesting, as showing not only the snail-like pace at which our ancestors were content to travel, but also how much they were willing to give for the tardy infliction. East Winch, 14th Dec. 1849. "AN ADVERTISEMENT. G. M. "From the 26th day of April, 1658, there will continue to go stage coaches from the George Inn without Aldersgate, London, unto the several cities and towns, for the rates, and at the times, hereafter mentioned and declared. "Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. "To Salisbury in two days for xxs. To Blandford and Dorchester in two days and half for xxxs. To Burput in three days for xxx8. To Exmaster, Hunnington, and Exeter, in four days for XLS. To Stamford in two days for xxs. To Newark in two days and a half for xxvs. To Bawtrey in three days for xxxs. To Doncaster and Ferribridge for xxxvs. To York in four days for x1.8. "Mondays and Wednesdays to Ockinton and Plimouth for Ls. Every Monday to Helperby and Northallerton for XLVS. To Darneton Ferryhil for Ls. To Durham for LVS. To Newcastle for ul. Once every fortnight to Edinburgh for Ivl. a peece, Mondays. Every Friday to Wakefield in four days for XLs. "All persons who desire to travel unto the cities, towns, and roads, herein hereafter mentioned and expressed, namely, to Coventry, Litchfield, Stone, Namptwich, Chester, Warrington, Wiggan, Chorley, Preston, Gastang, Lancaster, and Kendal; and also to Stamford, Grantham, Newark, Tuxford, Bawtrey, Doncaster, Ferribridge, York, Helperby, Northallerton, Darneton, Ferryhill, Durham, and Newcastle, Wakefield, Leeds, and Hallifax; and also to Salisbury, Blandford, Dorchester, Barput, Exmaster, Hunnington and Exeter, Ockinton, Plimouth and Cornwall; let them repair to the George Inn at Holborn Bridge, London, and thence they shall be in good coaches with good horses, upon every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at and for reasonable rates." - From Mercurius Politicus for Thursday, April 8th, 1658. " The post-masters on Chester road petitioning, have received orders, and do accordingly publish the following Advertisement: "All gentlemen, merchants, and others, who have occasion to travel between London and Westchester, Manchester and Warrington, or any other town upon the road, for the accommodation of trade, despatch of business, and ease of purse, upon every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, between six and ten of the clock at the house of Mr. Christopher Charteris, at the sign of the Harts Horns in West Smithfield, and post-master there, and at the post-master of Chester, at the post-master of Manchester, and at the post-master of Warrington, may have a good and able single horse or more, furnished, at threepence the mile, without charge of a guide; and so likewise at the house of Mr. Thomas Challenor, post-master at Stone in Staffordshire upon every Tuesday, and Thursday, and Saturday mornings to go into London; and so likewise at all the several post-masters upon the road, who will have all such set days so many horses with furniture in readiness to furnish the riders without any stay, to carry them to or from any the places aforesaid in four days, as well to London, as from thence, and to places nearer in less time, aecording as their occasions shall require, they ingaging at first stage where they take horse, for the safe delivery of the same to the next intermediate stage, and not to ride that horse any further, without consent of the post-master by whom he rides, and so from stage to stage on their journey's end. " All those who intend to ride this way, are desired to give a little notice beforehand, if conveniently they can, to the several post-masters where they first take horse, whereby they may be furnished with so many horses as the riders shall require with expedition. "This undertaking began the 28th of June, 1658, at all the places abovesaid, and so continues by the several post-masters."- From Mercurius Politicus for Thursday, 24th June, 1658. Milton was indebted to it for the idea of his IN Penseroso; and Hazlitt calls it "the perfection of this kind of writing." My object in now calling your attention to it, is to point out a copy, hitherto, I believe, unnoticed, among Malone's MSS. in the Bodleian Library. It is entitled, A Song in ye praise of Melancholy, and has appended to it, in the handwriting of Malone, the following note: "Dr. Strode, the author of this beautiful little piece, part of which has been ascribed unjustly to Fletcher, because it is sung in his Nice Valour, was born about the year 1600, and died canon of Christchurch in 1644. Milton evidently took the hint of his L'Allegro and Penseroso from it." The same MS. (marked No. 21. in the Malone 1| Catalogue) contains A Song against Melancholy, beginning "Returne my joyes and hither bring," which I do not remember to have seen in print. It is also ascribed to Dr. Strode by Malone. I have now before me a curious musical MS. in the hand-writing of the celebrated Henry Lawes, containing the music to Dr. Strode's play of The Floating Island, performed by the students of Christ Church, Oxford, on the 29th of August, 1636. It is followed by the two songs in question; and, although the name of the author is not given, the fact of their being written in at the end of Dr. Strode's "tragi-comedy," in some measure confirms Malone's statement. To turn to a different subject, although in some degree connected with it, I have great doubts as to the authorship of the clever poem entitled Exale-tation of Ale, generally attributed to Fletcher's "brother in letters," Beaumont. The poem, I am aware, is to be found in Beaumont's Poems, and may, on that authority, be assigned to him as its author; but about one third of the pieces there printed as Beaumont's, are referable to other writers, though left undesignated by the editor. I have in my library a copy of the poem in question, which may be thus described: - "The Exale-tation of Ale, the ancient Lickquor of this Realme; or a cleare definition of its efficatious opperation in severall pates, arts, and professions. London, printed by T. Badger, 1646. Small 8vo. 7 leaves." It begins as follows, and contains many variations from the copy given in Ritson's English Songs: " Not drunken, nor sober, but neighbour to both, To speake no great harme of a pot of good ale." A MS. note on the title-page of this little tract assigns it to Bishop Andrews, but on what authority does not appear. Lord Bacon, indeed, tells us, "The press hath been injurious to the memory of Bishop Andrews, to whom it owed a deep and solemn reverence. It hath sent forth a pamphlet upon an idle subject, under the venerable name of that great man, who was born grave and sober; and still farther to aggravate the injury, it hath given to that idle subject the idler title of The Ex-ale-tation of Ale." - Bacon's Works, vol. i. p. 180. edit. 1730. Perhaps some of your readers can throw light upon this obscure subject. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. THE SCRIBE OTLOH. In the note respecting Otloh, on the first page of your eighth number, the name of the well-known Abbot Hilduinus is twice erroneously printed Hilderinus, probably in consequence of my indistinct writing. I will take occasion to add, that Graff, in his Diutiska, does not give the whole of the interesting old German version of Otloh's prayer, but merely corrections of that given by Pez. It seems that Otloh, in correcting and enlarging Willibald's Life of S. Boniface, gave a large portion of the Saint's letters; and therefore the (vol. ii.) reprinted Willibald's Life, subjoining only Otloh's preface, it being their intention to print the whole of S. Boniface's letters in a subsequent volume. Your readers will have observed of the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica that our scribe is not remarkable for the elegance or correctness of his Latinity, and in this preface he adverts to the nodosa et perplexa oratio which his task imposed on him; but he has this Christian consolation: "Habeant amatores sapientiæ sæcularis Tullium; nos imperiti et ignobiles, despecti et contemptibiles, sequamur Christum, Christum, qui non philosophos, sed piscatores elegit discipulos. S. W. S. [The foregoing furnishes, we trust, a satisfactory explanation to the kind remonstrances of our correspondent, "A SINCERE WELL-WISHER," on the subject of Otloh's incorrect Latinity.] WIVES OF ECCLESIASTICS. The following extract will tend to throw some light upon the customs formerly prevailing in this country as to the marriage of priests. In Parkin's continuation of Blomefield's History of Norfolk, vol. xi. p. 114. (edit. 1810), the following passage occurs: " Parish of Randworth. It appears from the register of Langley Abbey, that there was a contest about the church of Pankford's being a chapel belonging to the church of Randworth. One of the witnesses deposed that he had heard it said from more ancient times, that there were two powerful sisters, who enjoyed Randworth and Pankford, and they quarrelled who should take place in Randworth church, that being the church for both townships. Upon which one of the sisters built a wooden oratory in Pankford (where there is now a stone church) but the rector of Randworth had all the profit thereof. At length (as the neighbours said) a woman named Elswyd, having the right of the said church and oratory, married Ralph, chaplain or curate of Stokesby, to whom she gave the said church and oratory. By Elswyd he had a son, Hermer, who enjoyed it." This Ralph de Stokesby was instituted in the reign of Henry I., and Hermer his son was instituted by William Turbe (or Turbus), Bishop of Norwich. Parkin remarks, "The history above-mentioned of Ralph, the chaplain's marriage, and his wife's presenting him to the rectory, is a piece of antiquity highly valuable, as it fully and plainly proves, that in the year 1174, when Turbus, the Bishop of Norwich, died, the church of Rome allowed of the marriage of the clergy, and their sons succeeding them in their church preferments, and that there was no positive law, either canon or civil, to hinder it, as their own records and the register of Langley testify. And it is further to be observed that one of the witnesses in this cause deposed, that he knew Ringolf the grandfather, Ralph the son, and Hermerus the grandson, all rectors successively of the church of Randworth with Pankford chapel annexed, and the same thing was also deposed by Ralph, chaplain of Randworth, son of Hermer." I take the following passage from Henry's History of England, vol. viii. p. 36. (edit. 1814): "What were called ipso facto or ipso jure suspensions and deprivations (by which those priests who were guilty of certain irregularities and vices were declared to be suspended from their offices, or deprived of their benefices), came first into use in this period (13th century). The first example we meet with of suspension and deprivation of this kind is in the constitutions of Otho, the Pope's legate, in the synod of London, A. D. 1237. By the 15th of these constitutions it is decreed, that all married priests be ipso jure deprived of their benefices, that all their goods, even those which they had gotten with their wives, be applied to the use of the church, and that their children be incapable of church-preferments. But this was an obstinate plague (as they called it) which for several centuries baffled all the power and cunning of the court of Rome, and required extraordinary methods to drive it out of the church." C. W. G. Instances of married priests are by no means of uncommon occurrence in ancient charters, at least down to the end of Edward III.; were it necessary, I could furnish your correspondent with several examples from charters in my possession. The following passage from Sir Roger Twysden's Defence of the Church will, I think, supply a satisfactory answer to your correspondent. It occurs chap. ix. p. 204-5. of Professor Corrie's edition: " For permitting of matrimony to the clergy, it is undoubted all here had the liberty of marrying before Lanfrane, in a council held at Worcester (Winchester -note), 1076, did rather advise than command the contrary, which Huntindon (who was himself the son of one in holy orders) says was first prohibited by Anselm, 1102. But 'multi presbyterorum statuta concilii Londoniensis postponentes, suas feminas retinebant, aut certe duxerant quas prius non habebant,' &c.; so that his constitutions came quickly neglected -priests both marrying and retayning their wives. Divers constitutions were afterwards made by several legates in the point, as by Stephen Langton at Oxford, 1222, registered by Lyndewode; yet it is manifest they did secretly contract marriage, which some are of opinion they continued till towards the end of Edward the Third's reign. This I am the rather induced to believe out of that in Knyghton, that John de Athilwerl, clerk, was slain by his wife and servant in his own house, at Leicester, 1944, for which fact she was burnt and he hanged. Now I conceive, had she been only his concubine, or his servant, she had not sufferred by the judgment of burning for the murder, but hanging only; neither can I interpret the word 'clericus' for other than one in holy orders prohibited marriage by the canons of Rome; though I know large loquendo,' as our Lyndewode hath it, 'omnes in ecclesia ad divinum officium ordinati,' are sometimes so styled; of which, such as were 'infra subdiaconatum' might retain their wives, but those who were in 'subdiaconatu, or above, were to quit them. But the canons yet remaining, made at sundry times from Lanfranc even to Chichele, by the space of more than three hundred years, enough assure us this point of celibate was not easily imposed on the English clergy, and that such as laid it might take it off again." From the above historical statement we might be prepared for the instances of priests' wives which every now and then occur in old charters. If you do not think that enough already has been said upon this subject, I should be glad to direct your attention to a passage from Chaucer cited in Campbell's valuable and most interesting Lives of the Lord Chancellors (vol. i. p. 259.). The noble and learned author gives a conclusive answer to your correspondent's difficulty, when, writing of William of Wickham, he says "It has been supposed that he had early taken deacon's orders, because in 1952 he was styled 'clericus,' or clerk; but this designation was given to men in civil employments, although not in the Church, and hitherto he had no ecclesiastical function or benefice. On the 6th of December, 1361, he was admitted to the order of 'acolyte;' he was ordained subdeacon on 12th March, 1362, and priest on 12th June following." D. of L. O. WM. HARDY. On the floor of the chancel of Nutfield church, Surrey, are some brass plates representing a man represe in the ordinary civilian's dress, and a a lady in a long gown by his side, neither of them presenting any peculiarities of costume; under them, however, is the following inscription: "Orate pro animabus Willielmi Grafton quondam clerici hujus ecclesie et Johanne uxoris ejusdem et Johannis filii eorundem, quorum animabus propitietur deus. Amen." The man has no tonsure. Over them are two coats of arms, the one bearing Or, a chevron, the other the same impaling a saltire. There is no date on the monument, but, from the costume and execution, it may be placed somewhere about the year 1450. The absence of the tonsure and ecclesiastical dress seem to show that William Grafton did |