Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Cinquante Lettres d'Exhortation._--Can any of your readers inform me who
is the author of the following work?--
"Cinquante lettres d'exhortation et de consolation sur les souffrances
de ces derniers tems, et sur quelques autres sujets; ecrites a diverses
personnes par Mons. D. V. B. pendant ses exils et ses prisons, en
France; et depuis que par ordre du Roi, il s'est retire en Hollande. La
Haye, 1704, 8vo."
The copy which I have seen is lettered on the back "Beringke-Lettres;" but
I can find no account of any person of that name at all likely to have
written the letters, nor any authority for ascribing their authorship to a
person of that name.
TYRO.
Dublin.
_Old Tract on the Eucharist._--Can any of your readers tell me the name of
the author of the following tract?--
"A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church,
relating to the Eucharist. Lond. 1688."
Wishing to procure a copy, I have asked several booksellers, but without
success. It has been most strongly recommended by a writer of the present
day.
ABHBA.
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Replies.
CARDINAL'S MONUMENT.
(Vol. iii., p. 106.)
Your correspondent and querist, J. D. A., asks for some information
respecting the coat of arms surmounted by a cardinal's hat, sculptured and
affixed to one of the pillars of the south transept in St. Saviour's
Church, Southwark. I send in reply an extract from a now scarce book,
Arthur Tiler's _History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's_, 1765, with which
all the later historians of the church agree:--
"Anno 1400. 2 Hen. IV.
"The whole church was new built about this time; Henry Beaufort (second
son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III.), Cardinal
of St. Eusebius, and Bishop of Winchester from the year 1405 to the
time of his death in 1447, might have contributed towards the building,
being a man of great wealth, for which he was called the rich Cardinal,
_as the arms of the Beauforts are carved in stone on a pillar in the
south cross aisle; and by the remaining sculpture on each side it
appears to be done for strings pendant from a Cardinal's hat placed
over them_. The arms are quarterly France and England, a border compone
argent and azure."
When the transepts were rebuilt, some years since, the cardinal's hat,
which till that time was nearly defaced, was then restored, and the coat of
arms newly emblazoned.
W. B.
19. Winchester Place, St. Saviour's, Southwark.
[G. A. S. and JAMES H. SMITH have forwarded similar replies.]
With reference to the Query of J. D. A. (p. 106. ante), it would appear
that the cardinal's hat, but with a difference in the number of rows of
tassels, is sometimes seen on the monuments of men who never were raised to
that dignity.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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