Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_William Williams of Geneva._--In _Livre des Anglois, a Geneve_, with a few
biographical notes by J. S. Burn, Esq., pages 5, 6. 12, 13., mention is
made of Guillaume--Will[=m] Will[=m]s, and Jane his wife,--Will[=m]
Will[=m]s, a senior of the church there in 1555, 1556, 1557, 1558; and some
of the years he was a godfather. I shall be glad to have some further
account of such William Williams, or references to where to find such?
GLWYSIG.
_The First of April and "The Cap awry."_--Tom Moore, in his Diary, 1819,
says:
"April 1st. Made Bessy turn her cap awry in honour of the day."
What was the origin of this custom? Was this the way a fool was supposed to
show that his head was turned?
C. R.
Paternoster Row.
_Sir G. Browne, Bart._--Sir George Browne, Bart., of West Stafford, Berks,
and Wickham, is said to have had nineteen children by his wife Eleanor
Blount; and that three of those children were sons, killed in the service
of Charles I.
Was either of those sons named Richard; and was any of them, and which,
married? If so, where, and to whom?
NEWBURY.
_Bishop Butler._--Will any of our Roman Catholic friends tell us on what
authority they assert that Bishop Butler, the author of _The Analogy_, died
in their communion? That he was suspected of a tendency that way during his
life is acknowledged by all, though the grounds, that of setting up a cross
in his chapel, are confessedly unsatisfactory. But, besides this, it is
alleged that he died with a Roman Catholic book of devotion in his hand,
and that the last person in whose company he was seen was a priest of that
persuasion. One would be glad to have this question sifted.
X. Y. Z.
_Oaken Tombs._--In Dr. Whitaker's noble history of _Loidis and Elmete_, p.
322., is the following passage:
"Next in point of time is a very singular memorial, which has evidently
been removed from its original position, between the chapel and the
high altar, to a situation at the south side and west end of the
chapel.... The tomb is a messy frame-work of oak, with quarter-foils
and arms on three sides, and on the table above three statues of the
same material, namely, of a knight bare-headed, with rather youthful
countenance and sharp features, and his two wives. On the filleting is
this rude inscription in Old English:
'Bonys emong Stonys, lyes here ful styl,
Quilst the sawle wanders wher God wyl.
Anno D^{ni} MCCCCCXXIX.'
This commemorates Sir John Savile, who married, &c.
"Over all has been a canopy, or rather tester, for the whole must have
originally resembled an antique and massy bedstead, exhibiting the very
incongruous appearance of a husband in bed with two wives at once."
The Doctor adds:
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