bourne, March 21; Canon of St. Paul's, Oct. 10, 1558; Wrotham, March 22, 1558; Bishop of Sidon; died at Greenwich, 1558. (Canterbury.) 1558. March 8. Licensed to officiate; Christopher, Bishop of Sidon. (Canterbury.)

John, Bishop of Hippo. (Canterbury.)

William Favell, of Collumpton; Prior of St. Nicholas, Exeter; Archdeacon of Totness, Aug. 10, 1549; Bishop of Hippo; died July 24, 1537. (Exeter.)

Lambeth, by the Primate and Bishops of London and Rochester to Dover: he was born at Sutton Valence; educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; Rector of Llanarmon; Dudley, 1549; Dunmow, Feb. 11, 1560; Canfield; Chart, Jan. 19, 1567; Prebendary of St. Paul's, Oct. 25, 1566; Archdeacon of St. Asaph, 1559; Master of Eastbridge Hospital, 1594; Dean of Canterbury, Sept. 16, 1584: he died May 19, 1597, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. (Canterbury.)

Thomas Bele, an Austin Canon; Vicar of Wi

tham, Jan. 28, 1528; Prebendary of St. Paul's, Nov. 11, 1501; Prior of St. Mary Spital, London; Ranton; Abbat of Dorchester; Bishop of Lydda; died Aug. 12, 1540, and was buried at Bury St. Edmunds. (London.) 1537. John Byrd, consecrated June 24, to Penrith, by the Primate and Bishops of Rochester and St. Asaph; translated to Bangor, 1539; and Chester, Aug. 5, 1541. (Llandaff.) 1537. Thomas Morley, Abbat of Stanley; consecrated Nov. 4, by the Primate and Bishops of Lincoln and Rochester to Marlborough. (Salisbury.) 1537. Richard Yngworth, consecrated Dec. 9, by the Primate and Bishops of Rochester and St. Asaph to Dover; Rector of Chidingstone, May 10, 1539; Chart, May 28, 1541; Wrotham, April 3, 1546; Prior of Langley Regis. (Canterbury.) 1538. Henry Holbeche, consecrated March 24, by the Bishops of London, Worcester, and St. Asaph, in Rochester Place, at Lambeth, to Bristol; translated to Lincoln. (Worcester.) 1538. William Finch, consecrated April 7, in the Dominican Church, London, by the Bishops of Rochester, St. Asaph, and Colchester, to Taunton; he was Prior of Braemar; Rector of West Carnmell, May 8, 1554; Prebendary of Wells, Jan. 6, 1557. (Bath and Wells.)

1539. Robert King, consecrated to Roan, near Athens, translated to Osney and Oxford. (Lincoln.)

1539. John Thornden, D.D., Master of Canterbury Hall Oxford; Commissary of Oxford, 1506-1514; Prior of Dover, 1508; Rector of High Hardys, Dec. 23, 1505; Newington, Aug. 6, 1506; Harbledown, Aug. 30, 1507; Aldington, June 21, 1512; Illogh Monachorum, Nov. 2, 1514; consecrated to Sirmium (Szerem) in Hungary. (Canterbury.)

Richard Thornden le Stede, Monk of Canterbury; Rector of Chidingstone, May 10, 1539; Chart, May 28, 1541; Wrotham, April 3; Tentwarden, April 19, 1546; Adisham, 1554; Bishopsbourne, June 14, 1554; Lydde; Proctor in Convocation, 1541; Prebendary of Canterbury, April 18, 1542; Vice-dean, May 17, 1556. Consecrated to (Syrinensis) and Dover: he proved false to his patron Cranmer, and was a great persecutor: he died 1558, and was buried at Bishopsbourne. (Canterbury.)

1553. Robert Pursglove, born at Tideswell; educated at

;

St. Paul's School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Prior of Gisborne; Provost of Rotherham; Archdeacon of Nottingham, 1553, founder of Gisborne School; Bishop of Hull: he died May 2, 1579, and was buried at Tideswell. (York.) 1567. Richard Barnes, consecrated April 5, at York, to Nottingham; translated to Carlisle, July 23, 1570; and to Durham, May 9, 1575. (Lincoln.) 1569. Richard Rogers, S.T.B., consecrated May 15, at

the Primate and Bishops of London, Bristol, and Rochester, to Colchester; he was Vicar of Rickmansworth, 1584; Witham, March 7, 1587: he died Feb. - 1607. (London.)

1848. G. T. Spencer, Bishop of Madras (Commissary). (Bath and Wells.)

1856.

Reginald Courtney, Bishop of Kingston; Archdeacon of Jamaica. (Jamaica.)

What has become of Dr. Walker's noble proposal to endow a See of Cornwall, acknowledged in Parliament and by both Houses of Convocation? MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

ETYMOLOGIES.

"Merry England." This expression, I apprehend, conveys an erroneous idea to the minds of persons in general. It is usually supposed to refer to the gay, joyous character of the English people of the olden time; whereas, as I hope I shall be able to show, it is like "La Belle France," and such terms indicative of the nature and appearance of the country, not of the character of the people.

The origin of our word merry is the Anglolanguage, for I have not met any term resembling Saxon mipig, a word seemingly peculiar to that it in any of the cognate dialects. Its proper meaning seems to be pleasant, cheerful, agreeable. Thus in the Canterbury Tales, the Persone says:

"I wol yow telle a měry tale in prose;" and this tale is a grave "Treatise on Penitence," to which merry, in its present acceptation, could never be applied. In like manner it is said of Chaunticlere the cock :

"His vois was merier than the mery orgon," which is not merry in our sense of the word. But merry is also used of places:

"Of erbe yve that groweth in our yerd that mery is." "That made hem in a cite for to tarie,

Hugh

That stood full mery upon a haven syde." Lincoln is termed merry in the ballad of " of Lincoln;" we also meet with Merry Carlisle and Merryland Town, in which the reference is plainly to the site, &c., of the place, rather than to the character of the inhabitants. Merry England is then, we may say, England that abounds in comforts, and is pleasant to live in.

I cannot help thinking that merry in its original

sense would, in some cases, pretty accurately express the peculiar Portuguese term saudoso. The Lusitanian lexicographers define the substantive saudade," grief arising from the absence of the beloved object, accompanied by the desire of seeing it again; " which is something like desiderium. But we find saudoso in connections where this is not the exact sense. Thus we meet with olhos saudosos,"mery eyen," and Camoens says:

"Nos saudosos campos do Mondego,"

in both of which places it is the pleasure of presence, rather than the pain of absence, that is indicated. As I am on the subject of etymology I will give the origin of suüdade, saudoso, of which I have seen no derivation. As then an older form is soidade, soïdoso, I would say, having in view the syncopating character of the Portuguese language, that the root of them, as of the French souci, is sol icitus. I may add that souci and

saudade are names of the same flower.

"Good Cheer."-I have given cheerful as a sense of merry, and it is curious to mark the progress of the word cheer. There can, I think, be hardly a doubt that the origin is kápa, "head; retained by the Spaniards in cara, and changed by the Italians to cera, ciera, and by the French to chère, all signifying "face." Hence our cheer usually denotes aspect, countenance; then it was applied to the mind, as in "Be of good cheer;' and finally, indicative, some might say, of the English character, good cheer came to signify good eating and drinking! There were also the verbs to cheer and to cheer up, the last contracted to chirp, as in

"He takes his chirping pint and cracks his jokes." "Lechery." This word is usually derived from the French lécher, to lick; but this is evidently incorrect, for both it and licorous must come from luxuria, which is exactly the same with it in sense. THOS. KEIGHTLEY.

DUKE THE POET.

It may perhaps be doubted whether Richard Duke deserved the honour of being immortalised by the pen of our great moralist; but, since the thing has been done, it seems only a proper mark of respect to Johnson to make a note of anything that may assist in filling up his sketches, and carrying out his purpose. This is especially the case when the biographer was at a loss for materials; and I believe that of all the Lives of the Poets that of Duke is the shortest and most superficial. In my copy it does not occupy so much as one full page; and what little there is quite accords with the opening words—“Of Mr. Richard Duke I can find few memorials." More of his circumstances and personal history may, I

think, be learned from a document which I lately found, while searching for something else, among some family deeds and papers in my possession. How it, and several other documents to which Duke was a party, came to be where they are, I cannot tell; but I think that (if room can be made for it) this one is worth printing as it stands; for it seems as if it could not be materially abridged without losing some part of the character or information. It is written on parchment, and enDischarge to his fathers Executors, 1679:" dorsed "A Coppie of Mr. Richard Duke his

"KNOW all men by these presents that I, Richard Duke, Batchelor of Art, eldest sonne and heire of Richard Duke, late Citizen and Scrivener of London, deceased, and now of the full age of one and twenty yeares, doe hereby acknowledge, and declare, that I have received and had, at and before thensealeing and delivery hereof, of and from Robert Chilcott, Citizen and Merchantaylor of London, George Dashwood of London, esquire, and Thomas Goodwin, Citizen and Scrivener of London, executors of the last will and testament ceased, my share, and the better share to my of the said Richard Duke my said late father, deowne content, of all my said fathers printed books, which he, in and by the said will, did will and appoynt should be devided betweene his two sonnes (namely), mee the said Richard Duke, and my brother Robert Duke; and that I should have the better share. And that I have also received and had, of and from them the said executors, in severall boxes and otherwise, all the deeds, evidences, and writeings, which upon, or after, the decease of my said late father came to, and have remayned in the hands, or custody, of them the said executors, or some or one of them, which do concern or relate unto the messuage, tenement, or inne, commonly called, or known, by the name, or signe, of the White Beare, scituate and being in West Smithfeild, in the parish of St. Sepulchre's without Newgate, London. And also all those which doe concerne, or relate, unto a messunge or tenement scituate and being in Charterhouse Lane, on the west side of the said lane, in the county of Middlesex, and in the parish of St. Sepulchre's without Newgate, London, aforesaid (and commonly called, and knowne, by the name, or signe, of the Woll Sack or Wooll Pack), the which said inne, and tenement, my said late father, by his said last will and testament, did give, de vise, and bequeath, unto his said executors, and to the survivors, and survivor, of them, and the executors, and administrators, of the survivors of them, dureing, and untill, I the said Richard Duke should have attayned unto my full age of one and twenty yeares, upon the trust and to the intents and purposes in the same his last will and testament expressed, declared, and conteyned. And

from, and after, I the said Richard Duke should have fully attained that my said full age of one and twenty yeares (if I should so long live) then he gave, devised, and bequeathed the said messuages or tenements unto me the said Richard Duke, my heires and assigns for ever: subject, nevertheless, to the provisoes and conditions conteyned, and appearing, in the said will and testament of my said late father. As for touching and concerning which my said share of bookes, and the deeds, evidences, and writeings aforesaid, and all trust, clayme, and pretence, whatsoever concerning them, or any of them, I the said Richard Duke doe hereby, for me, my heires, executors, administrators, and assigns, fully, cleerly, and absolutely remise, release, and for ever discharge, them the said Robert Chilcott, George Dashwood, and Thomas Goodwin, their heires, executors, and administrators, and every of them. AND know ye farther that I the said Richard Duke, in conformity and obedience to the expresse will, order, and appointment of my said late father, declared in and by his said last will and testament, HAVE remised, released, and for ever quitt claymed, and by these presents doe remise, release, and for ever quitt claym, unto the said Robert Chilcott, George Dashwood, and Thomas Goodwin, and every of them, their, and every of their heires, executors, and administrators, all or any childs part, or customary part or share, which I the said Richard Duke can or may clayme, or demande, out of any part or share of the estate whatsoever of my said late father, by force or virtue of the custom of the city of London, or otherwise how soever (except only such perticular legacyes as should be, and are, given or shall fall to mee, by and according to the true intent, and meaneing, of the same last will and testament of my said late father).

"IN WITNES whereof I the said Richard Duke have hereunto set my hand and seale. Dated the sixth day of September, Anno Dni 1679, and in the one and thirtieth yeare of the reigne of our sovereigne Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

"RICHARD Duke.

"Sealed and delivered in the presence of John Sherley, Wm. Antrobus, Ser., and Sam. Bradley."

The truth of the copy is attested by Wm. Antrobus and John Dann.

I should like to add one or two remarks, as well as some further particulars, which may be gleaned from some of the other documents; but this one will occupy so much space that it would be unreasonable to ask for more at present. Allow me, however, to add a Query. Johnson states that the poet is said to have been tutor to the Duke of Richmond; and this seems not impro

bable. The duke must have been about seven years old when the poet came of age and gave this discharge. I shall be much obliged to any one who will tell me, either through “N. & Q." or directly, where I may find the particulars of the young Duke of Richmond's conversion to Popery, and re-conversion to Protestantism. S. R. MAITLAND.

Gloucester.

FORGED ROMAN WAXEN TABLETS." In the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edited by William Smith, LL.D. second edit., 1848, I may be permitted to notice an error which ought not to exist in a work of any authority. Under the head of " Tabula," the writer of that article has referred to certain "ancient waxen tablets," said to have been discovered in one of the gold mines near the village of Abrudbianya, in Hungary, and which were described by M. Massmann of Munich in his Libellus Aurarius, sive Tabule cerate, et Antiquissimæ et unica Romana, Leipsic, 1840, 4to. The date assigned to these tablets is A. D. 167. and, supposing them to be genuine, they would afford us the earliest existing specimens of cursive minuscule Roman writing; but the fact is, that they have been long proved to be fictitious by the continental scholars and palæographers; and a statement to that effect was published by Silvestre in the Paleographie Universelle, published in 1839-1841, and, more recently, repeated in the English translation of that work, 1850, vol. i p. 255. I may add, from my own testimony, that these very tablets, or similar ones, were offered to me for purchase several years ago, but were rejected at once as palpable forgeries. F. MADDEN.

British Museum.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY.

Papers has been received, has determined us to con[The general satisfaction with which this series of tinue it in the present volume: and We shall be greatly obliged by the communication of Inedited Letters, Ballads, or other Documents, which may serve to Macaulay.] throw light upon the eventful period treated of by Mr.

Jack Ketch (2nd S. i. 72.) —

"The Apologie of John Ketch, Esq., the Executioner of London, in vindication of himself as to the Execution of the late Lord Russel, on July 21, 1683.

"It is an old saying and a true one, that one story's good till another's heard, but it is one of the most difficult things imaginable to dispossess the world of any censure or prejudice, that is once fixt or hath taken root in the harts of the People. However, since it is not fit that so publick a Person as the Executioner of Justice and the Law's Sentence upon Criminals and Malefactors should lye under the scandal of untrue Reports, and be unjustly

expos'd to popular Clamour, I thought it a matter of highest importance to me to clear and vindicate myself as to the manner of my Lord Russel's Execution, and the hard usage he is said to have had in the Severing of his Head from his Body.

"As to the several reports that have been rais'd, as it hath been always a common Custom in the World, not only to magnifie and misrepresent the truth, but to forgo things that never were, the falsity of them will appear to judicious Persons as well by the improbability of them as by testimony of those that know the Contrary; As namely that I had been drinking all the foregoing Night and was in Drink when I came upon the Scaffold, when as all my Neighbours can testifie that I went orderlie to Bed that Night and wholly undisguis'd in Drink. That I had 20 Guinnies the Night before. That after the First blow my Lord should say, You Dog did I give you 10 Guinnies to use me so inhumanly?"Tis true I receav'd 10 Guenies but not till after having dispos'd of his Coat, Hat, and Periwig; I took the boldness to give him a small remembrance of the Civilities customary on the like occasion, as to the report of my striking my Lord into the Shoulder, how false it is I appeal to those that were the nearest Spectatours of the Execution; and for my being committed Prisoner to Newgate, it is so Easie a matter to disprove the truth thereof, that I need not trouble myself any farther about it.

"But my grand business is to acquit myself and come off as fairly as I can, as to those grievous Obloquies and Invectives that have been thrown upon me for not Severing my Lords Head from his Body at one blow, and indeed had I given my Lord more Blows then one out of design to put him to more then ordinary Pain, as I have been Taxt, I might justly be exclaim'd on as Guilty of grater Inhumanity then can be imputed even to one of my Profession, or had it been occasioned by a Bungling and Supine Negligence, I had been much to blame. But there are circumstances enow to clear me in this particular, and to make it plainly appear that my Lord himself was the real obstruct that he had not a quicker dispatch out of this World; since if I may speak it of a Person of his Quality? He died with more Galantry then Discresion, and did not dispose him for receiving of the fatal Stroke in such a posture as was most suitable, for whereas he should have put his hands before his Breast, or else behind him, he spread them out before him, nor would he be persuaded to give any Signal or pull his Cap over his eyes, which might possibly be the Occasion that discovering the Blow, he somewhat heav'd his Body. Moreover after having receiv'd the Guinnies, and according to my duty ask't his Lordships Pardon, I receav'd some Interruption just as I was taking Aim, and going to give the Blow. Thus have I truely and faithfully expos'd to the Publick all that can be said in this matter, and hope, whatever prejudice the undiscerning Multitude may retain, to have given sufficient satisfaction to all rational judicious Persons."

No. 2627. of the Collection of Proclamations, &c., presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester, by James O. Halliwell, Esq., F.R.S. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.

Prince of Orange (2nd S. i. 370.)—

MARRIOT THE GREAT EATER.

In that amusing and really instructive work, John Dunton's Life and Errors, may be found the following paragraph:

"The air of New England was sharper than at London, which, with the temptation of fresh provisions, made me eat like a second Mariot of Gray's Inn."

Upon which Dunton's editor, Mr. J. B. Nichols, has this note:

"Of this celebrated eater no other record, it is probable, now remains." Not so.

In Smith's Obituary, edited for the Camden Society by Sir Henry Ellis, I find the following entry :

"25 Nov. 1653, Old Marriot of Gray's Inn (ye great eater) buried."

Sir Henry Ellis is silent about this Gray's Inn worthy.

Not so Charles Cotton, Walton's associate in The Complete Angler, who, in his Poems on Seve ral Occasions, 1689, has two copies of verses on the Gray's Inn cormorant; one (p. 349.) called "On the Great Eater of Gray's Inn," the other (p. 417.) "On Marriot." From the former we learn that he was spare and thin:

"Approaching famine in thy physnomy." The other has this line:

"Mariot the eater of Gray's Inn is dead.”

The readers of John Dunton and Charles Cotton will probably make a note of this communication. PETER CUNNINGHAM.

Kensington.

THE LASS OF RICHMOND HILL.

In the Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, by the Hon. Charles Langdale, lately published, there is the following quotation from the above song : "I'd crowns resign

To call thee mine,
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill!"

And it is stated, upon the authority of the late
Lord Stourton, that the song was written to cele-

shame; for the sentence of confiscation and banishment

against the Ruart did not state the crime for which it was passed."

deference to his lordship's opinion, I consider this to be a mistake, and I beg to enumerate two or three other individual ladies, for whom it has been

resided on the Hill near the Terrace, at the period