Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
[A volume of his poems was published anonymously by Dodsley, and
entitled _Odes and Epistles_; containing an Ode on his own Conversion
from Popery: London, 1739, 8vo., 2nd edit. There are also other pieces
by him in Dodsley's Collection, and the _New Foundling Hospital for
Wit_. He also published _Faith_, a Poem; a strange attempt to overturn
the Epicurean doctrine by that of the Trinity; and _Verses to the
Queen_; with a New Year's Gift of Irish Manufacture, 1775, 4to.]
_Huntbach MSS._--Can you tell me where the Huntbach MSS. now lie? Shaw, in
his _History of Staffordshire_, drew largely from them.
URSUS.
[Dr. Wilkes's Collections, with those of Fielde, Huntbach, Loxdale, and
Shaw, as also the engraved plates and drawings, published and
unpublished, relative to the _History of Staffordshire_, were, in the
year 1820, in the possession of William Hamper, F.S.A., Deritend House,
Birmingham.]
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_Holy Loaf Money._--In Dr. Whitaker's _Whalley_, p. 149., mention is made
of holy loaf money. What is meant by this?
T. I. W.
[This seems to be some ecclesiastical due payable on Hlaf-mass, or
Loaf-mass, commonly called Lammas-Day (August 1st). See Somner and
Junius. It was called Loaf or Bread-mass, because it was a day of
oblation of grain, or of bread made of new wheat; and was also the
holiday of St. Peter ad Vincula, when Peter-pence were paid. Du Cange
likewise mentions the _Panis benedictus_, and that money was given by
the recipients of it on the following occasion:--"Since the
catechumens," says he, "before baptism could neither partake of the
Divine Mysteries, nor consequently of the Eucharist, a loaf was
consecrated and given to them by the priest, whereby they were prepared
for receiving the body of Christ."]
_St. Philip's, Bristol._--Can you inform me when the Church of St. Philip,
Bristol, was made parochial, and in what year the Priory of Benedictines,
mentioned by William de Worcester in connexion with this church, was
dissolved, and when founded?
E. W. GODWIN.
[Neither Dugdale nor Tanner could discover any notices of this priory,
except the traditionary account preserved in William of Worcester, p.
20.: "---- juxta Cimiterium et Ecclesiam Sancti Philippi, ubi quondam
ecclesia religiosorum et Prioratus scituatur." It was probably a cell
to the Tewkesbury monastery; and the historians of Bristol state, that
the exact time when it became parochial is not known; but it was very
early, being mentioned in Gaunt's deeds before the year 1200; and, like
St. James's, became a parish church through the accession of
inhabitants.]
_Foreign Universities._--Is there any history of the University of Bologna?
or where can be found any account of the foundation and constitution of the
foreign universities in general?
J. C. H. R.
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