Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The prelate to whom your correspondent alludes was Dr. John Hacket, Rector
of St. Andrews, Holborn, cons. to the see of Lichfield and Coventry on
December 22, 1661. The anecdote was first related by Granger. (Chalmers's
_Biog. Dict._, vol. xvii. p. 7.)
Bishop Bull, while rector of St. George's near Bristol, said the Baptismal
Office by heart on one occasion. (Nelson's _Life_, i. § ix. p. 34.;
_Works_, Oxford, 1827.)
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Mary Queen of Scots' Gold Cross_ (Vol. vi., p. 486.).--
"Would it not facilitate the identification of the Gold Cross of Mary
Queen of Scotts, in the possession of Mr. Price of Glasgow, if a
representation of it was sent to _The Illustrated London News_, as the
publication of it by that Journal would lead antiquaries to the
identification of a valuable historical relic?"
I hope you will insert the above in "N. & Q." in the hope it may meet the
eye of MR. PRICE, and lead to a satisfactory result.
W. H. C.
_Jennings Family_ (Vol. vi., p. 362.).--This family is supposed to have
continued from some time in Cornwall, after the Visitation of 1620; but the
name is not now found there in any great respectability. William Jennings
of Saltash was sheriff of Cornwall, 1678; but his arms differ from those of
the Visitation: argent, a chevron gules between three mariners, plumets
sable.
Francis Jennnings, who recorded the pedigree of 1620, married the daughter
of _Spoure_ of Trebartha; and in a MS. book of that family, compiled about
the latter part of the seventeenth century, the same arms, strange to say,
are stated to be his, and not the lion rampant of the Jennings of
Shropshire. This seems to support the hypothesis that William Jennings, the
sheriff, was the same family. The _Spoure_ MSS. also mention "Ursula,
sister of Sir William Walrond of Bradfield, Devon, who married first,
William Jennings of _Plymouth_ (query, the sheriff?), and afterwards the
Rev. William Croker, Rector of Wolfrey (Wolfardisworthy?) Devon."
PERCURIOSUS.
_Adamson's "England's Defence"_ (Vol. vi., p. 580.) is well worth attention
at the present time; as is also its synopsis before publication, annexed to
_Stratisticos, by John Digges, Muster Master_, &c., 4to., 1590, and filling
pp. 369. to 380. of that curious work, showing the wisdom of our ancestors
on the subject of invasion by foreigners.
E. D.
_Chief Justice Thomas Wood_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--In Berry's _Hampshire
Visitation_ (p. 71.), Thomas Wood is mentioned as having married a daughter
of Sir Thomas de la More, and as having had a daughter named Elizabeth, who
married Sir Thomas Stewkley of Aston, Devon, knight.
I am as anxious as N. C. L. to know something about Thomas Wood's lineage;
and shall be obliged by his telling me where it is said that he built Hall
O'Wood.
EDWARD FOSS.
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