but he says not a word about his ever having been consecrated. It is common with Anglicans to write as if the story of the Nag's Head had given rise to the popular and universal belief in the defect in the consecration of Parker and his colleagues. This is entirely untrue. The story of the Nag's Head, if it arose from anything but a true tradition, arose out of the common belief, and witnessed to it: and it was only put forward a few years before the production of the Lambeth register, which has every appearance of having been opportunely discovered -if not invented-in order to meet it. There are certain cases in which the silence of contemporaries is very significant, and this surely is such a case. We do net mean to say that it disproves the alleged fact, but we do not see how any man, endowed with common sense, can deny that it makes that fact very doubtful.”

To this exceedingly characteristic course of argument, the following equally characteristic admission is appended as a foot-note: —

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'Machyn's Diary, we believe, certainly mentions the doubts exist as to the state of the manuscript." ceremony in question, but we understand that some

ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S CONSECRATION AS RECORDED IN MACHYN'S DIARY.

My attention has been directed by a friend to an article entitled "Anglican Sacerdotalism" published in the Roman Catholic periodical called The Month for September, 1868. The object of the writer is to show how utterly vain, in his opinion, are the claims of "the Anglicans" to be legitimate priests of the Christian church; and the great point in view is to break the chain of episcopal succession at the period of the English Reformation. The writer endeavours, at considerable length, to suggest fresh doubts in favour of the scandalous story known as the Nag's Head Consecration; whilst, on the other hand, he is not unprepared even to discredit the official record of Archbishop Parker's consecration, which stands on the leaves of the archiepiscopal register at Lambeth. Dr. Lingard, it seems, determined the question too impartially, "judging as an historical critic" (p. 261), and not as a polemical partisan. But it is necessary, it is argued, that even a record of such grave importance should be corroborated by other contemporary evidence; and such, it is added, is either deficient or doubtful. The writer remarks that ·

"Stowe, the chronicler, was the friend and protégé of Parker. He records the consecration of Cardinal Pole, he mentions Parker's death, and dwells upon his memory:

and fruitless attempt to convince those who Now, without entering further into the thank

"Being convinced against their will,
Are of the same opinion still,"

it is merely to the last disingenuous and jesuitical insinuation that I wish to give a direct contradiction. The state of the original manuscript of Machyn's Diary is perfectly well known; and may be every day examined in the library of the British Museum. It was one of those volumes which were seriously injured in the fire from which the Cottonian Collection suffered, but it was carefully repaired, and again rendered accessible, by Sir Frederic Madden in the year 1829. In 1848 its contents were printed verbatim et literatim by the Camden Society, showing all the imperfections resulting from the fire, but at the same time supplying in brackets such of the lost portions as had been formerly extracted by our industrious and conscientious ecclesiastical historian, John Strype.

The passages which relate to Archbishop Parker in the month of December, 1559, are altogether three. The first, which perhaps mentioned his election, is partly gone; but the second, which records his consecration, is perfect excepting the single word Canterbury, and it distinctly states that the ceremony took place "at Lambeth." The three stand as follows:

of December coincides with the process recorded in the register of the archiepiscopate.

In regard to the original purport of Machyn's preceding paragraph, which is of less importance, there may be some doubt; for Machyn had actually recorded the election, or destination, of the new bishops, including Parker, six months before: :

"The xxiiij day of June [1559] was elected vj nuw byshopes, com from beyond the see, master Parker bysshope of Canturbere, master Gryndalle bysshope of London, docthur Score bysshope of Harfford, Barlow (of) Chechastur, doctur Bylle of Salysbere, doctur Cokes (of) Norwyche."

Where the name of Bylle is a mistake for Jewell.

WILLIAM FRASER.

UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE, 1759-1789: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENT.

"1751, May 3rd.-Set out from the Hague with Lord Holdernesse.

June 18th-His Lordship received the seals of the Southern Department. Came into office with his Lordship as one of the Clerks, and attended him as private Secretary until 1759, May. when on the resignation of Mr Wallace I was appointed one of the joint undersecretaries, in which situation I continued, till the

1761, 25th March, when Lord Holdernesse resigned the seals and Lord Bute received them. In the month of May following an offer was made through Lord Holdernesse of a Commission of Commissary with the Allied Army, which I accepted, and served at the head-quarters of his late Serene Highness, the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, during the campaign of that year. In the year following I was appointed Commissary-General to the Army under the command of the Hereditary Prince, now reigning Duke, and continued with that Army till Munster (?) as Commissary till the middle of March, the cessation of hostilities; and after being employed at 1763, returned to England at the close of the month.

[The foolish and absurd story known as the Nag's Head fable was first told in 1604, forty years after Abp. Parker's consecration. In addition to the testimony to its validity given in the register of the see of Canterbury, as well as by Machyn, there is an Account of the Rites and Ceremonies which took place at his Consecration, carefully preserved among the manuscripts in the library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and called "Historiola." It was written by the archbishop's direction about the year 1569, and has here and there the archbishop's own directions. In 1841 it was printed by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, with an Introductory Preface and Notes. As to the official Register, Archbishop Abbot, in the year 1614 invited Colleton, the arch-priest, with two or three other Roman Catholic missionaries, to Lambeth, and submitted the Register to their inspection, in presence of six of his own episcopal colleagues. (Dodd, ii. 277; Godwin, p. 219.) It was also examined by so acute an historical critic as Dr. Lingard, who was convinced of its authenticity, and pronounced that "the several objections against it are founded on misconception or ignorance: that the register agrees in every particular with what we know of the history of the times; and that there exists not the semblance of a reason for pronouncing it a forgery." Vide three letters on Protestant Ordinations by Dr. Lingard, inserted in The Catholic Magazine and Review of 1834, vol. v. pp. 499, 704, 774, which as historical papers well merit republication in a separate form.-ED.]

as private secretary. His Lordship being Lord-Lieutenant till the Duke of Grafton was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department on the 12th of July, 1765, made me an offer through my friend Mr

1765, July 26th-Stonehewer (?) then one of the undersecretaries, to return to the office. The late Mr Lovel Stanhope was then the other under-secretary, but he resigned the week following.

1766, May 23rd.-General Conway succeeded the Duke of Grafton in the Northern Department, in which I continued.

1768, January. . . .-Lord Weymouth succeeded General Conway in the Northern Department.

October 21st-Went to the Southern Department with Lord Weymouth.

1770, Decr 19th-Lord Weymouth resigned and was succeeded by Lord Rochford. Went to the Northern Department, to which Lord Sandwich was appointed. 1771, January 22nd.-Lord Halifax appointed to the Northern Department.

June 12th.-On the death of Lord Halifax, Lord Suffolk was appointed to the Northern Department.

1779, March 5th-Lord Suffolk died. Lord Weymouth, then in the Southern Department, took the seals of both, and I as sole under-secretary till the appointment of Lord Stormont on the 27th October following.

1782, March 27th.-Mr Fox was appointed Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, the third Department being abolished as unnecessary.

1782, July 17th.-Lord Grantham received the seals of the Foreign Department.

1783, April 2nd,-Mr Fox again received the seals.

December 19th.-Carried the seals to the King at 12 o'clock at night (having been called out of my bed for the purpose), when His Majesty was pleased to make several remarks on the various troublesome and disagreeable scenes to which I had for so many years been witness, and ended the most gracious approbation of my conduct with this expression-that it had always afforded him great satisfaction during the various changes, that

he had been able to preserve one honest man. Earl Temple received the seals, and resigned them on the 23rd. 1783, Decr 23rd.-The Marquis of Carmarthen then received the seals. From this time till

1787, June 17th, I remained as sole under-secretary, when I was seized with a violent fever, attended with circumstances that disabled me after 34 years of unremitting labour in the most confidential situations, and nearly completing my 60th year, from continuing any longer in office."*

F. M. S.

"EUPHUES AND HIS EPHOEBUS."- Professor Edward Dowden, of Trinity College, Dublin, informs me, under date October 16, 1868, that his friend, Professor Rushton of Queen's College, Cork, had pointed out to him that Euphues and his Ephabus is almost entirely a literal translation from Plutarch on "Education." Mr. Dowden adds:

"I did not compare Lyly with the Greek, but with Philemon Holland's The Philosophie, commonly called 'The Morals written by the learned Philosopher Plutarch of Charonea' [London, 1603, fol.], pp. 2 and onwards. Lyly and Holland read as different translations of the same original, Lyly omitting passages here and there, and making a few additions.'

I have added the above note in the re-impression of Euphues now printing.

Civil Service Club, Oct. 21, 1868.

EDWARD ARBER.

OLD BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS.-Is the following worth a corner in your paper? Its quaintness is certainly very amusing. I extract it from an old work entitled The Practice of Quietness.† Who was the author of this work?

"These Books Printed for John Saywell, are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greyhound in little Britain without Aldersgate; and at the Pile of Bibles in the Stocks Fishmarket, looking into Lumbard-street, over against the Post-house, London.

"That informing piece and Catechisticall Foundation entituled, viz. Wollebius, his Abridgement of Christian Divinity; Englished, cleared and enlarged, by Alexander Ross, Author of that Curious piece, entituled, viz. ПANZEBEIA or a View of all Religions, and ChurchGovernments in the world, with a discovery of Heresies in all Ages and Places, &c. whereunto is also adjoyned, Apocalypsis, or the revelation of certain notorious advancers of Heresie; with an account of their lives, actions and ends.

"That Practicall piece, entituled, viz. The Returning Backslider (and the Saint's Priviledge), &c. or a Commentary on the whole 14th chapt. of Hosea the third time reprinted, being one of the legitimate pieces of that truly pious author Dr Richard Sibbs.

"For the use of pious Families, there is lately reprinted Mr Henry Smith's Sermons, with God's arrow against Atheists, &c. To which are now added the Life of Mr Henry Smith by Tho. Fuller, B.D., and Alphabeticall

* Some of Mr. Fraser's letters will be found in the correspondence of Sir A. Mitchell now in the British Museum. Any information respecting him will be wel

come.

[† By George Webbe, Bishop of Limerick, ob. 1641.]

Tables very advantagious to the Reader; which additions aforesaid, contain three sheets at the beginning of the Book, and five sheets at the end of the Book, viz. eight in all, and distinguisheth them from all other surreptitious and imperfect copies.

"The History of the World, the second part, being a continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Rawleigh, Kt. beginning where he left, and continued to the year 1640. With a large Chronologie of those times by Alexander Ross, once Chaplain in Ordinary to his late Majesty King Charls the first. The true Copy whereof (by the Authour's appointment and approbation) is distinguished by the Greyhound in the Front-spiece from any other, however coloured by a pretended (though abusive) representation of the Reverend Authour in the Title page, or the delusive Vision of Birds, &c. of the pretender thereto.

"A new Primer, entituled, Mr Hoole's Primer; more easie and delightsome for the learner than any yet extant, having 24 severall representations of Persons, Beasts, Birds, &c. answering the severall letters of the Alphabet, in a copperplate, laying also the surest foundation for true spelling; the defect whereof (in the ordinary teaching) is very much complained of.

"Mr Hool's Rudiments of Latine Grammar usually taught in all schools; delivered in a very plain method for young beginners. By help whereof (in want of an able School-master) Gentlemen may teach their children themselves with much ease and delight.

"At his shop also Gentlemen, Country booksellers, and Chapmen may be furnished or provided with all sorts of English and Latin Books, and of other forraign languages as they please."

W. H. B.

HOWARD. In a series of interesting, but withal rather fanciful, papers entitled "Word Gossip," contributed by the Rev. W. S. Blackley, M.A., to the third volume of the Churchman's Shilling Magazine, the saying "Nine tailors make a man is traced from a source before unsuspected by me, and, I venture to think, by many others of your readers also. After stating that "to toll a bell is an inaccurate way of saying to tell a knell on a bell," the writer goes on to speak of the manner in which the sex of a deceased person was (and in some places is) made known by the number of strokes sounded after the execution of the knell proper

"NINE TAILORS MAKE A MAN": NORFOLK

...

generally three for a child, six for a woman, and nine for a man. These strokes of course were counted, and had an arithmetical idea connected with them; and thus the knell at its conclusion was said to be told or counted. By degrees this idea became confused or lost, and the participle told was referred to a supposed infinitive to toll, instead of its natural infinitive to tell or count By carrying the history of this error a little further we may arrive at the elucidation of an otherwise most obscure proverb. The strokes told or counted at the end o a knell were called, from their office, tellers; this term again was corrupted into tailors from their sounding at the end or tail of the knell, and nine of these being given to announce the death of an adult male gave rise to the common saying 'Nine tailors make a man'-a formula otherwise expressed by the very vulgar fraction, tailor = -'a tailor is the ninth part of a man.'"pp. 246, 247.

man 9'

"N. & Q." has published several papers on the much-disputed point, whether a Mr. Joshua Bugg did change his name to Norfolk Howard, or whether that eagerly-received story was a myth. This is what Mr. Blackley has to tell us on the subject:

"A few years ago a Welsh gentleman altered his name; the lieutenant of his county denying his right to do so, refused to address him by his new style in official correspondence. Considerable debate arose on the subject, and the question being brought before a court of law, it was held that there was nothing illegal in the change of name effected. The decision was given the day before the Derby day. The Times, on the day after the Derby day, inserted a leading article on the right of changing names; the writer of that article went to the Derby, and doubtless knowing what the subject of his night's writing was to be, had it frequently present in his mind. In Epsom he noticed an innkeeper's name posted up as Joshua Bugg-truly an ominous epithet for one of his callingand The Times' writer in his article cited this extraordinary patronymic as an example both of a name needing change and of its owner's right to change it. The article declared that, as far as legality was concerned, Mr. Joshua Bugg might take the name of Norfolk Howard to-morrow.' Mr. Joshua Bugg was a reader of The Times, and 'followed the leader' implicitly. Not only did he announce in the next day's Times his change of name, but actually adopted the writer's chance suggestion, and took the style of Norfolk Howard' from that time."-p. 36.

ST. SWITHIN.

ANCIENT SONGS, ETC. -A HINT!-Allow me to make an observation: -The circulation of "N. & Q." is, I know, very great; but I question if it goes amongst a class that could frequently give the best replies to queries after lost or rare songs and ballads. I allude to old peasant yeomen, farmers' men, and venerable village dames and nurses. When a country ditty is wanted, I would advise country squires and clergymen who love such lore to make inquiry amongst the tenantry and folk of their neighbourhoods. By so doing, they will frequently obtain what is wanted, and often other equally valuable and curious relics that have not been asked for.

V. S. G. Of Gottenburg, Sweden (now at Vevey, Switzerland). DOWLING MONEY.-In the Huntingdonshire village from whence I write, the poor who are in the receipt of parochial relief call it "the Dowling Money.' This I take to be the equivalent of "dole-ing money," the o and a being pronounced very broadly in this county. Thus, went through the gate" is pronounced powny went through the gaht."

Queries.

the pony

the

CUTHBERT BEDE.

ANONYMOUS. 1. Who was the author of a poem called "The Karamanian Exile," and where is it to be found?

2. An anonymous writer in Saunder's Monthly

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Magazine (Delhi) some years ago published "Incidents in the Life of a Dreamer." The diction is careless, but there is considerable interest in the psychological or preterphysical fact that these incidents," although purely original and the experience of veritable normal sleep, closely resemble those produced, according to De Quincey, by the poppy juice, and to Bayard Taylor by hasheesh, the product of hemp-a plant of quite a distinct family. There are certain peculiarities common to the three authors, and on the most curious points not the least do the natural dreams resemble those produced by the drugs in question. The incidents are equally vivid. The author at the time had not read The Confessions of an Opium Eater, and B. Taylor's book was of subsequent date.

S.

"This portrait of Barry the painter I purchased at the sale of his effects, which took place shortly after his death. It was a favorite candle-light study of his, but never intended to be made public, as it was his intention that no portrait of him should be seen by the world past the meridian of life. He drew this a few years before his death with pen-and-ink, and in his usual painting-dress. From my long acquaintance with him, I can answer for its being a strong characteristic likeness of that eminent artist and most singular man." Signed "CHAS. WARREN."

Can you refer me to any other portrait of and by Barry representing him in the later years of his

life ?

Sheffield.

JOHN J. BAGSHAWE.

MR. BUCKLE'S MSS.-Mr. Glennie, in his letter to The Times, June 18, 1862, stated that "great parts of the special history of civilisation in England were in MS. in a fit state for publication, and that there existed outlines of essays" on various interesting subjects. What has become of these MSS.? and why have they not been published? TEWARS.

"CROM A BOO."-The motto of the house of Leinster is "Crom a Boo," which signifies “the father's vineyards," and alludes to a most learned work of that title, of which only two copies are in existence. Can you give me any information about this? OSPHAL.

ANECDOTE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.-I have read somewhere, as an instance of the effect of trifles ("What great events from little causes spring!"), that, during one of the French revolutions, a statesman, engaged on an errand of great moment to the revolution, was arrested in his progress by the sight of a lady's foot, and that the delay occasioned thereby exercised a remarkable influence on the revolution. Can you or any of your readers furnish me with or inform