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 10 s. x. DEC. 12, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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"that of the death of Bishop Barlow is in correct.

One of the benefactors of Whitgift's Hospital of the Holy Trinity, Croydon was Bishop Barlow, and I append an ntry from its records :

" The 22 of March being the first day of the foundation of this Hospital, Wm. Barlow, sometime Bishop of Rochester and Chaplaine to the founder hath given a com'emoration sermon for wh' he hatl allowd 13s. 4d, and 3s. 4o?. to the Vicar of Croydor to publish it, as also 13s. Id. for a dinner and 10* unto the poor brothers' box for ever, wh' benevo lence of his is dulie performed by the woshippful oompaiiie of fishmongers of London."

The building of the Hospital in question was commenced on 14 Feb., 1596, and was finished on 29 Sept., 1599. Further, al- though the date of Barlow's benefaction as not given, yet from other benefactors' gifts specified before and after his, the date must have been at or about that of his death in 1613.

In a full and particular list of the Bishops of Rochester in ' The History and Antiqui- ties of Rochester' (1772) there is a fairly lengthy account of William Barlow, in which it is stated that he was elected to the See of Lincoln in 1608, and died suddenly at his palace of Buckden, 7 Sept., 1613.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. Thornton Heath.

Is there any evidence to make good the claim of William Barlow to priority over Paul Bush, first Bishop of Bristol (b. 1490, d. 1558) ? "He took to wife Edith Ashley, scurrilously called by Pits ' his concubine.' '

She died in 1553, but I cannot find the date of their marriage.

On the other hand, Barlow appears from ' D.N.B.' to have married in 1550. Tradition in Bristol describes Paul Bush as the first Bishop who was married ; his tomb in the Cathedral is close by that of his wife.

J. A. N.

In the church of Easton, near Winchester, is a mural monument to Agatha, relict of William Barlow, successively Bishop of -St. Asaph, St. Davids, Bath and Wells, and Chichester, which records the singular iortunes of their five daughters, who were married to five bishops, viz., York, Win- chester, Coventry and Lichfield, Hereford, and Chichester. Agatha and her son William Barlow, B.A. (rector here from 1577, and Archdeacon of Salisbury, died 25 May, 1625), are buried in the chancel.

THOS. FISHEB. Merstham.

The following works bear on this interest- ing point :

" A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente Wryters, made by lohn Ponet, Doc- toure of Divinitee. London, In the house of Reynold e Wolfe, 1549."

Ponet or Poynet became Bishop of Rochester and Winchester successively, but was de- prived upon the accession of Mary in 1553, whereupon he decided it was distinctly healthier (and safer) to reside on the Con- tinent. There he prepared and issued surreptitiously several publications, among them being

" An Apologie fully answeringe by Scriptures and aunceant Doctors a blasphemose book gatherid by Dr. Steph. Gardiner, D. Smith of Oxford, etc., against the Godly Mariadge of Priests. Newly corrected and amended. 1556." No place or printer.

The following also appeared at the time :

" A traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng that the pretensed Marriage of Priestes and Professed Persons is no Marriage, but altogether unlawful, and in all ages and all countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed. Herewith is comprised a full Confutation of Doctor Poynette's boke entitled a 'Defence for the Marriage of Priestes '-By Thomas Martin, Doctour of the Civile Lawes. London, R. Caly, 1554." Dedicated to Queen Mary.

"Defence of Priestes' Mariages stablysshed by the imperiall Laws of the Realme of England, agaynst a Ciuilian namyng hymself Thomas Martin, goying about to disproue the said Mariages, lawful! by the eternall worde of God and by the Hygh Court of Parliament, only forbydden by forayii lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the Visour of the Churche. [By Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury.] London, Rd. Jugge." 1556.

WM. JAGGARD.

' LETTERS LEFT AT THE PASTRY-COOK'S '

,10 S. x. 427). The author is Horace May-

kew, one of a literary family well known

n the Middle Victorian period (1845-65)

as " the brothers Mayhew." Horace May-

lew was for some time sub-editor of Punch

under Mark Lemon. The ' Dictionary of

National Biography ' says (vol. xxxiii.

p. 154: "In 1853 he wrote 'Letters left

at the Pastry-Cook's ' " ; but Allibone's

Dictionary of English Literature,' vol. ii.

p. 1255, gives the date of the ' Letters '

as 1851, 8vo. L. A. W.

Dublin.

The title-page to the fourth edition, 1853, states that they were edited by Horace Mayhew, and published by Ingram, Cooke & "Co., 227, Strand. The editor in his

reface, after explaining how he became possessed of them, informs his readers that

he originals are left with the publisher,