Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Although unconnected with the foregoing, will you allow space for
another record? Only within a few years the last of a family, invariably
called "Cromwell," died. It was not their true name, but they have held
it to perpetuate the treason of their ancestor, who followed the great
Protector after he had temporarily abandoned the siege of Pembroke
Castle; and, procuring an interview on "Ridgway," an eminence between
here and Tenby, this unworthy townsman told the general to return, as
the garrison were reduced "to a bean a day." The advice was followed.
Pembroke was taken; but the stern captor ordered the traitor to be
hanged! Thenceforward the family ever went by the name of Cromwell.
B. B.
Replies to Minor Queries.
_Broad Arrow_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--P. C. S. S. has always understood
that the "broad arrow" on government stores represented the _Pheon_, the
well-known arms of the Sydney family. Henry Viscount Sydney, afterwards
Earl of Romney, was Master-General of the Ordnance from July, 1693, to
June, 1702.
P. C. S. S.
_Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas_ (Vol. iv., p. 293).--In reply to the
second query of Βορέας, I send the following extract from Sir
James Ware's _Writers of Ireland_:--
"John Maxwell was at first promoted to the Sees of Killala and
Achonry, and afterwards translated to the archbishopric of Tuam.
He writ a Treatise intitled, Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas; Printed
London, 1643 or 1644, 4to., which he published under the name of
J.A. In answer to which came out a Tract intitled, Lex, Rex; The
Law and the Prince, a dispute for the just Prerogative of King and
People. Containing the Reasons and Causes of the most necessary
defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland, and of their expedition
for the aid and help of their dear brethren in England. In which
their Innocency is asserted, and a full Answer is given to a
seditious Pamphlet, intitled, Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas, or the
Sacred and Royal Prerogative of Christian Kings under the name of
J. A. but penned by John Maxwell, the excommunicate Prelate.
London, 1644, 4to."
TYRO.
Dublin.
Your correspondent Βορέας asks who was the author of the
_Sancta Regum Majestas, or the Sacred and Royal Prerogative of Christian
Kings_: Oxford, 1644.
This work has been by some erroneously attributed to Archbishop Ussher,
from the supposition that the letters J.A., subscribed to the
dedication, denoted Jacobus Armachanus; they signify, however, Johannes
Alladensis, and the real author was John Maxwell, Bishop of Killala. See
Ware's _Writers of Ireland_ (Harris's edit.), p. 357.
J. H. T.
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