PROPOSED MARRIAGE OF PRINCE CHARLES WITH

THE INFANTA OF SPAIN [A.D. 1620.] The following is transcribed from an old MS. which there is reason to believe was once in the possession of Dr. Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and probably came to him from his brother, Sir Thomas Lake, principal Secretary of State to James I. The articles, to many readers of "N. & Q.," are possibly unknown in their entire form. They relate to a most important event in English history, viz. a projected marriage between Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I.) and the Infanta of Spain, the romantic circumstances attending which are too well known to need repetition here:·

"A Coppie of the Articles the King was sworne to. "1. That the marriage shalbe p'fected by the Pope's dispensacon and p'cured by the King of Spayne.

"2. That it shalbe first celebrated in Spayne, and then in England wth such necessary solemnitie as is not repugnant to the church of Rome.

"3. That the Infanta and the King of Spayne shall mak choyce of her servants, and not entertaine any of the King of Englands Subjects w1out his good will and con

sent.

"4. That the Infanta and her servants shall have free and publique exercise of Religion as followeth,

"5. That she have one Oratory and chappell in her pallace in London, and whersoever she shall abide, a publique capatious church neere the same, wth a churchard therevnto belonginge.

"6. That her servants, servants servants and ther children and ther discent, or any other whatsoever belonging vnto her maie freelie and publiquely p'fesse themselves catholiques.

"7. That she and her familie may be catholiques in manner followinge,

"8. That the Infanta shall have in her pallace capatious chappell whervnto shee and her servants maie enter and stay at their pleasure wth a private doore for herself and publique for them.

"9. That her chappell and church shalbe decentlie adorned wth alters and other ornaments necessary for

divine worPP, and that shee and her servants maie have free ingresse and regresse at all howres.

"10. That the custodie of chappell and church shalbe put into such hands as the Infanta shall appoint.

"11. That for the service of the church and chappell 24 Priests and assistants shalbe named by the King of

England's subjects wtout his consent.

"12. That a Superior shalbe constituted having Episcopall authoritie to rule in spirituall matters, or in his absence a Vicar.

"13. That the said Vicar maie ponishe her servants and others the ecclesiastick accordinge to the lawes and penalties Ecclecall.

"14. That shee and her servants maie p'cure dispensacons, Indulgences, Jubilles, &c. from Rome.

"15. That her servants shall take an oath of fidelitie to the King, England, the Prince, and the Infanta, the forme wherof is ther expressed.

"16. That the lawes that are and shalbe made in England conc'inge Religion shall not touch her servants and others aforesaid, and that agt Ecclesiastick Superiors onlie shall have power to p'ceed as hath bin accustomed amongst Romishe Catholiques.

“17. That if a Judge Secular shall app'hend an ecclesiastick he shall forth wth deliv' him to the Superior to be p'ceeded against according to the canons of that church.

"18. That the lawes made in England and other the King's Dominions against Catholiques shall not be taken hold vppon the children borne by the Infanta in the intermarriage, but that they shall enjoy by succession.

"19. That the Nurses that give sucke maie be catholiques, and reputed meniall.

"20. That the said Bishopp maie exercise Jurisdiction vppon offending Catholiques of her household, whom she hath alsoe power to turne awaie at her pleasure.

"21. That the BPP and other ecclesiastick p'sons maię curitie that the matrimony shall not be dissolved the wear the habitt of their order and profession, and for seKing of England and the Prince shall bind themselves in the word of a Kinge, and vppon their honors. Moreover they are to p'forme whatsoever shalbe p'pounded by the Catholique King if convenientlie and decentlie it maie be

donn.

"22. That the sonns and daughters maie be brought vpp by the Infanta vntill they be ten yeares of age at the least.

"23. That the places of any of her servants being void maie be supplied by his Catholique Matie.

"24. That the Capitalacōns shalbe confirmed by oath from the King and Prince, and that they shall passe ther Knightlie words that they shall doe as much as they cann to have them established by Parliament.

"25. That these things are to be p'pounded the Pope to the end he maie approve them, and graunt a necessary dispensacōn accordinglie."

The MS. has been corrected by another hand, but the writing of the additional matter is so bad as to render it difficult to be read.

Minor Notes.

INA.

may fall upon the 25th April, which is St. Mark's day. In this case Good Friday falls on St. George's day, and Corpus Christi (the Fête Dieu) on St. John's day. This coincidence is very rare, and has given rise to another French proverb, very old and little known, and which deserves to be noted:

"Quand George Dieu crucifiera,
Que Marc le ressuscitera,
Et que Saint-Jean le portera,
Le fin du monde arrivera."

The first three facts will be realised in 1886. J. K. Fine for an Assault in 1582. The following extract from the Corporate Records of Wells, is a curious instance (though not then an uncommon one here) of punishing for an assault :

"Wheras at the last gen'all convocacōn hit was affirmed that Peter Archer, one of the burgeses of this borough, made an Assalte vppon Richarde Fronche, another burges of the same borough, and fr' hym drewe bludd, and that John Budge did the lyke vppon the sayd Peter, contrarie to the order of the sayd Mr and Colaltie; Therfore hit is nowe, by th' assente and consent of all the psons above-named (the Corporators) agreed that the sayd Peter Archer and John Budge, and eyther of theym, shall pay a Pottell of Wyne apece, to be payed at the next Potacon to be kept wythin the borough aforesayd."

INA.

66

Zays she, Let thee and I go our own way, And we'll let she go shis'n." P. J. F. GANTILLON. Bp. French's "The Unkinde Desertor.” — In p. 97. of the Catalogue of the library of John Dunn Gardner, Esq., sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson in 1854, there is a copy of a full and very interesting statement, which was inserted by Mr. Sheffield Grace in his copy of Bp. French's extremely rare little volume, entitled The Unkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Friends, 1676. I am not aware that the statement in question has

appeared elsewhere in print; but whether or no, a reference to it deserves, I think, a corner in "N. & Q. Авива.

Queen Elizabeth.-This being the tercentenary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, a circumstance recently celebrated in England, I would direct attention to translations of two letters written in French to Henri IV., copies of which are in the archives of Geneva, and were inserted in the Record of December 6, 1858, by Merle D'Aubigné, the first addressed to Henry before his change of religion, the second after. Also to an extremely rare* England's Joy, printed in 4to., n. d., laudatory of poem by R. Verstegan, entitled that sovereign (with acrostic upon her name), occasioned by Lord Mountjoy's defeat of the Irish rebels under the Earl of Tyrone. The acrostic I subjoin:

"E England's blisse and blessed Queene
L Live your prayses in perfection,
I In your subjects harts bee seene
Z Zeale in humble loves subjection.
A Aungels in your love attend you,
B Blessed Jesus ever blesse you,
E Ever so his hand defend you,

T That no harmefull thought distress you:
H Holy powers of Heaven preserve you,
A And all faithfull subjects serve you.
R Royall graces ever grace you,
E Ever true love live about you,
G Glorious angels arms embrace you,
I Joy in England none without you,
N None but grace and virtue note you,
A And the world for wonder cote you."
ITHURIEL.

Minor Queries.

"The Battle of Agincourt.” —In “ N. & Q." (1st S. i. 445.) your correspondent, C. W. G., mentions having noted down the quaint air to which the ballad commencing

"As our King lay musing on his bed,"

was sung "from the lips of an old miner in Derbyshire." Will C. W. G. favour me with a copy of that version, in exchange for one derived from another source? I should feel much obliged by the exchange. Printed copies of the words are to be found in the Roxburghe Collection, 3358; and in Halliwell's Collection, Chetham Library, No. 286. W. CHAPPELL.

201. Regent Street.

"The Fore-castle Sailor."-Will any corre spondent of " N. & Q." inform me how I may obtain the song of "The Fore-castle Sailor," or even a stanza? I have the tune (and a truly noble tune it is), but have not the words. I am told that they were printed in some collection of the

* It consists of four leaves only, small 4to., and sold for eight guineas.

Swinton Family.—I shall feel thankful if any of your correspondents can furnish me with any information of the Swinton family, or of any work in which its genealogy is noticed. I have heard that the Swintons originally came from Byzantium, and that records of them may be seen in the Archives of Paris. From France they appear to have migrated to Scotland; and thence Sir John de Swinton, I believe, is said to have made an excursion to England, and to have taken possession of Chester. We hear of the family being ennobled in Scotland, and afterwards leaving that country and settling at Nutsford in Cheshire.

J. L. SEYMOUR.

The Stone Family of Westminster.-After the Reformation, the celebrated Sir Thomas Gresham purchased, or obtained a grant of, an estate at Wedmore, in Somersetshire, which had theretofore belonged to the chantry of St. Anne, founded in Wedmore church. This property was sold by Sir Thomas to a person named Thomas Stone, of Westminster, Gent.; and by him it was given (A.D. 1594) to his brother Edward Stone, also of Westminster, Gent. Is anything known of this family of the Stones ?

Did Sir Thomas Gresham purchase the estate referred to, or was it given to him?

INA. Charlton Entertainment. — In the London Magazine for July, 1737, I read that

Now in the Geography of E. Macfait, M.D., published at Edinburgh in 1780, the following statement is found, in page 245.:

"It is said to be the general course of all hurricanes, that those in the northern hemisphere go about by the south, those in the southern hemisphere by the north."

"There is an observation with regard to the summer weather in our own country, that seems analogous to this, namely, that when the wind happens to be N.E., if it shifts from thence N., then N.W., and from thence S. W., that the weather is neither so constant nor so good as when it shifts from N.E. to E., and then S.E., and thence S.W."

Is Dr. Macfait's statement of the reversion of

the order of rotation in the different hemispheres the earliest known by the readers of " N. & Q."

JOHN HUSBAND.

What is Scum? What we call foam, or froth, is, I suppose, merely air-bubbles, which burst and disappear more or less rapidly according to circumstances; but there is a certain product of troubled waters, which we often see on the shore after a storm, and which even the rivulet at the bottom of my garden not unfrequently offers to my notice, somewhat more substantial, and yet looking matter, like the whippings of an egg, the very type of unsubstantiality, a white yeastythe most distinctive name for which, perhaps, is scum. What is this? Does the lashing water beat it up from vegetable or from animal deposits? I suppose some of your chemical or microscopical readers can tell us. C. W. BINGHAM.

"These extracts sufficiently introduce us to the fundamental idea of a cyclone, viz. that of a revolving body of air; but they furnish us with no information as to the direction of this rotation, or its order in either hemisphere. The latest inquiries bearing on this head acquaint us with the very important fact, that in both hemispheres the air in the cyclone revolves against the sun. In the northern hemisphere... the rotation of the air in the hurricane is N. W. S. E. In the southern hemisphere.... the rotation of the air is N.E. S.W."

cense the author announces his intention of publishing a second volume containing copies of all the charters, documents, and valuable MSS. that he had consulted for his work. The reception of the first volume did not justify him in carrying out his intention, but the materials were all collected. Does any one know, or will any one say, what became of those materials? and if they are still available to one who has been for some years back engaged in collecting matter for a monograph on one of the abbeys he mentions?

any such notice; can any one verify the reference? The Domesday spelling is Maneis." DE RUPE.

per's poems has reminded me of a question I have often intended to put through the "N. & Q." It is this: Was the Rev. J. Newton's Preface written at the request of Cowper, and certainly printed (as appears from one of Cowper's letters), published with the first edition or not? Grimshawe gives us this Preface, and in a note adds, "Published with the first volume." If so, it certainly could not have accompanied all the copies. I have one now before me, dated 1782. It is the first edition, but it has neither preface, dedication, nor preliminary matter of any kind, except the table of contents. Perhaps MR. BRUCE can solve the difficulty. With regard to that gentleman's own Query, I may state that my copy of Expos

tulation bears evident marks that a cancel has been made between pp. 122. and 123. LETHREDIENSIS. Why was Ludovicus Sforza styled Anglus? · I have a little volume in Latin, printed in the year 1494, dedicated to Ludovico Sforza, surnamed the Moor. The heading of the dedication is in these words: "Ad sapientissimum Ludovicam Sfortiam, Anglum, Septimum Mediolani ducem," &c.

What is the meaning of the word Anglum? Several explanations have been suggested, but none of them is satisfactory.

Peter Martyr, called in the later editions of his works Anglerius, and Ab Angleria, is in the earlier ones denominated Anglus, Angli; he was so named from the place of his birth, Angluira or Angleria, a small district or a town in the duchy of Milan, on the Lago Maggiore, nearly opposite Ardua. But Ludovico was born at Vigevano, a small town, where the family of Sforza possessed a castle, now within the borders of Sardinia, south of Novara. Anglus may be a contraction of Angelus, but this appellation was given only to eccle

siastics.

As the term was undoubtedly intended as a title of honour, it may mean one of the Angeli or Angelici, an order of knighthood instituted in 1191 by Isaaius Angelus Flavius Commenes, Emperor of Constantinople; but did this Order exist in the days of Sforza, and who would probably confer it on him?

I shall be very much obliged by an early answer from any one who can give me information on the subject. NEO EBORACENSIS.

John Foxe's Comedy. - John Foxe, the Martyrologist, is the author of a Latin Comedy, De Christo Triumphante, London, 8vo. 1551, Basil, 1556, an English translation of which was published in 1579 and 1607, by Richard Day. A new

R. INGLIS.

Burscher's Spicilegium.—I have lately two or three times met with a reference to Burscher's Spicilegium, e. g. in Müller's Leben der Erasmus. What is the nature of the work thus named, and when was it published? I should judge it to be a collection of unpublished letters, &c. of eminent men, but I cannot find it mentioned in any catalogue which has come under my notice. W. J. DEANE.

[* The Editor of Memoirs of Dean Comber, p. 68., states that, "in the year 1672, a sacred drama of John Fox made its appearance, said to be published by T. C., M.A., of Sydney College, Cambridge, entitled, Christus Triumphans, and it was designed to introduce it into public schools. These initials were thought by many judicious persons to stand for Thomas Comber, and the intention of its publication was worthy of him; but as no memorandum of this appears among such of his MSS. as are now extant, we cannot vouch for its being brought out by him."]

-

Minor Queries with Answers. Printing in Ireland. -Where may I find any authentic records of the introduction of printing into Ireland? ABHBA.

[Dublin received the art of printing in 1551. Mr. Ames observes that Ireland was one of the last European states into which the art of printing was introduced; the earliest book at present known being an edition of The Boke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Churche, folio. It is a verbal reprint of the Common Prayer of Edward VI. of 1549, and bears for Colophon "Imprinted by Humfrey Powell, printer to the Kynges maieste, in his Hyghnesse realme of Ireland, dwellynge in the Citee of Dublin in the great toure by the Crane. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, anno Domini MDLI." Powell continued to exercise the printing business in Dublin for fifteen years or more, during which time he removed from the river side to a more southern residence in St. Nicholas Street. A fine and perfect copy of Powell's first production may be seen in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Before his residence in Dublin, Powell practised the art of printing in London, in the years 1548 and 1549, and dwelt above Holborn Conduit, where he printed four works. He was a member of the Stationers' Company, and his name is inserted in the charter of 1556.]

The Culver-key. — An American friend, who is a warm admirer of Izaak Walton, writes to know what the flower is which is so often alluded to under this name in the Complete Angler? In one passage Izaak says: "Looking down the meadows I could see a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands." J. E. T. [Mrs. Jane Thompson in the Gent. Mag. for June, 1848, p. 570., inquires after this flower, and states, that the word culver-key is found in some dictionaries, and is there merely called a meadow flower.' There is a flower in great favour with children, which is in bloom about the same time as the cowslip is, which I have heard suggested is the flower in question. I have not learned the name by which it is known in the neighbourhood of London, but in Lincolnshire it is called 'Lady's fingers.' It is a trefoil, and grows in thick patches; the flower is yellow; and although before the cluster of flowers is fully expanded it has some little resemblance to a clenched hand, it is much more like the contracted claws of a bird's foot. Culver being an obsolete name for dove or pigeon, renders it probable that this may be the flower which Walton alludes to." According to others it is the common Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris, which continues in flower from the beginning of May till the end of July. See " N. & Q." 1st Sevi. 293.]

There are two

Chloroform and Diphtheria. words, chloroformyl, or chloroform, and diphtheria, which are in very frequent use. Will any reader of "N. & Q." please to give me their derivation and exact signification? IGNORANS.

[According to Pereira, the name of chloroform was first given to this liquid by Dumas, on account of its relation to formic acid, of which formyle is the base. Chloroform has been regarded as a compound of chlorine with formyle. - Diphthera (Apoépa) is a hide or skin, anything made of skin. The modern name diphtheria has probably been applied to a malady which, as some practitioners think, is only a malignant form of quinsy, on account of the skin or membrane which forms in the throat, if the disease is suffered to run its course.]

Replies.

CONSECRATION OF BISHOP BARLOW.

(2nd S. vi. 526.)

It does not seem certain from MR. MASSINGBERD's inquiry whether he asks respecting the fact of Bishop Barlow's consecration, or the exact date of that event? If the latter, I have no remark to offer, which could supply the want of authority for Godwin's assumption that it took place on the 22nd of February, 1535; but as the point of real interest to those who feel any curiosity on the subject lies in the former Query, I offer a few observations in reference to it.

In the volume of letters relating to the Suppression of Monasteries, as published by the Camden Society, there are several from this individual, written both before and after he was a Bishop, in one entitled "from the writer to the King," and bearing date A.D. 1533. He subscribes himself his unworthy subject and oratour "William Barlo." In a subsequent letter addressed to Cromwell (MS. Cotton. Cleop. E. iv. fol. 107.) he adverts to having been "advouched by the Quen's Gracious bountie to the Priorship of Haverfordwest," and subscribes himself as prior of the same.