Notes and Queries, Number 168, January 15, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 168, January 15, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_St. Munoki's Day._--Professor Craik, in his _Romance of the Peerage_, vol.
ii. p. 337., with reference to the date of the death of Margaret Tudor,
Queen Dowager of Scotland, gives two authorities, namely, 24th November,
1541, from the _Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents_, and _St. Munoki's_ Day,
from the _Chronicle of Perth_, and then says: "I find no saint with a name
resembling _Munok_ in the common lists." Now this Note of mine has
originated in the belief that I _have found_ such a name in the _Calendar
of Saints_, or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if not the
identical _Munok_. "St. Marnok, B. patron of Killmarnock in Scotland,
honoured on the 25th October in the Scots Calendar." Now "Marnok" is most
probably _Munok_, the latter, perhaps, misspelt by a careless scribe in the
_Chronicle of Perth_. There is a discrepancy of a month certainly in these
two dates, 25th October and 24th November; but that is not very wonderful,
as a doubt of the exact day of Queen Margaret's decease evidently exists
among historians, for Pinkerton (vol. ii. p. 371.) conjectures June. The
above extract regarding St. Marnok is from a {63} curious old work in my
possession, published in 1761 in London, and entitled _A Memorial of
Ancient British Piety, or a British Martyrology_. It gives also the names
of St. Moroc, C., Nov. 8; St. Munnu, Ab., Oct. 21, both saints in the
Scottish calendar.
A. S. A.
Punjaub.
_Epitaph in Chesham Churchyard._--
"As an
Encouragement
to Regularity, Integrity,
and good Conduct,
This Stone
was erected at the general Expense
of the Inhabitants of
this Town and Parish
to perpetuate the Memory of
MATTHEW ARCHER,
who served the Office of Clerk with
the utmost Punctuality and Decorum
for upwards of Thirty Years.
He died 15th December, 1793."
F. B. RELTON.
_Gentlemen Pensioners._--
"On Saturday last, the Secretary to the Band of Gentleman Pensioners
did, by order of the Duke of Montague their Captain, dispatch circular
letters to the said gentlemen, signifying his Grace's pleasure to
revive the ancient rules and orders that were practised at the time of
the first institution of the Band in the reign of King Henry VII., viz.
that five of the said Gentleman Pensioners shall attend constantly
every day in the antechamber of the palace where His Majesty shall be
resident, from ten in the forenoon till three in the afternoon, the
usual time of His Majesty's retiring to go to dinner; and on every
Drawing Room night from eight to twelve."--_Weekly Journal_, Jan. 4,
1735.
E.
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