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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io< h s. in. MARCH 25, 1905.

second edition is dated 1708, and vol. ii., 1710 not only defines some of the old wool and cheese weights mentioned at the last reference, but gives the statutes under which they were authorized, thus :

" Clove is a Weight of Cheese containing the 32 nd Part of the Weigh and so is 8 pound by the 9 th Hy. VI. c. 8.

" Pesa, pensa, pisa is a Wey or Weigh, or a certain Weight or Measure of Cheese and Wool, containing formerly 256 pounds.

"Sack of Wool is a determinate quantity, con- taining just 26 stone, and every stone is 14 pounds, by 14 Ed. III. Stat. 1. c. 2. But in Scotland a Sack is 24 Stone and each Stone contains 16 Pounds,

" Sarpler, otherwise called a Pocket, is a half Sack of Wooll, a Sack is 80 Tod, a Tod 2 Stone and a Stone 14 pounds. This in Scotland is called Serpliath, and contains 80 Stone.

" Tod of Wpoll, is a Weight mentioned in 12 l Car. Cap. 23_ containing 28 pound or 2 Stone weight.

"Weigh of Cheese, Wool, &c., Waga, alias Vaga, is 256 Pound Weight, Averdupoize, for by 9 Hy. VI. c. 8. a weigh of Cheese ought to contain 32 Cloves, and each Clove 8 pound, tho' some say but 7."

Under other weights the following author- izing statutes, 51 Hy. III., 31 Edw. I., and 12 Hy. VII., are mentioned, but no chapters are quoted by Dr. Harris.

G. YARROW BALDOCK.

FATHER PAUL SARPI IN EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE (10 th S3. iii. 44, 84, 144). The above articles have called to my notice a pamphlet of 89 pp., with the following title- page :

"A Declaration of the Variance betweene the Pope, and the Segniory of Venice, with the pro- ceedings and present state thereof. Whereunto is annexed a Defence of the Venetians, written by an Italian doctor of Divinitie, Against the Censure of Paulus Quintus, prooving the Nullitie thereof by Holy Scriptures, Canons, and Catholique Doctors. Anno Dom. 1606."

8vo, without printer's name or place of pub- lication. The account of the part played by Father Sarpi begins on p. 28 :

" It is strange to see what sundry sorts of gybing and biting Pasquils were let fly abroad in derision of his Holinesse. But, amongst the workes Apolo- geticall sagely and iudiciously written. Frier Paulo hath in a set Treatise composed by him, not onely defended the Venetians from this Excommunication and demands, but also in many points lessened the Authoritie of the Pope, by sound allegations, and by the proofe of privileges appertaining of right and in dignity unto the State: whom it is said that this Commonwealth hath rewarded for his labour with a good pension yeerely during life. And I have likewise met with another intelligence, That there is on the other side made out a secret processe against him, by the Church, for his infide- litie and treachery therein. Nay, a later newes hath here arrived, That this Frier Paido hath bene since solemnly (by his image or picture) burned at Rome, and reproehed also by a scorne

full appellation of a mezo Lutherano; such and so hote a fire of the Popes wrath, hath blazed foorth against him. But the Venetians, on the other side, (to upholde him in comfort, and make him amends in glory,) have out of their grace and con- templation of his well deserving, dignified him with a better chosen title of Theologo detifftutto ; Expressing thereby the nature of his merite to have beene this, Even the opening unto their darkened understandings, some necessary trueths in Divinitie, tending to the discovery of the false pretences of the Romish Supremacie. This high Attribute, from so ludicious and Illustrious a Senate, is (in the stead of his image reported to have beene consumed with flames) like to a goodly or gilded statue, which shall preserve his name and memory, in all succeeding times."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

WALL : MARTIN (10 th S. ii. 309). I am not able to answer the query by the REV. EDWIN S. CRANE. Was the mother of Mary Brilliana (Martin) Mary, daughter of Edmund Bray T M.D., by Brilliana his wife, daughter of Alexander Popham, of Tewkesbury and Bourton-on-the-Hill, both Gloucestershire, by Brilliana his wife, daughter of Sir Edward Harley, whose father, Sir Robert Harley, of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, married 22 July, 1623, Brilliana, daughter of Edward, Lord Con way ? I am much interested in Wall of Faintree, in the parish of Chetton, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and of Leomin- ster and Kingsland, both Herefordshire (see 'Visitation of Shropshire,' 1623, Harleian Publication, and 'Visitation of Hereforshire,' 1569, edited by the late Rev. F. W. Weaver). Col. John Wall's father was John Wall, M.D., of Worcester, at one time Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He married in 1740 Catharine, youngest daughter of Martin Sandys (he died 17 January, 1753, aged eighty), of Worcester, barrister-at-law, uncle of the first Lord Sandys, of Ombersley, Worcestershire. Col. John Wall's paternal grandfather was another John Wall, Mayor of Worcester 1703, who was probably the Alderman Wall buried at Powick in 1734. He is stated in Green's 'History of Worcester' to have been descended from a good family near the Leominster already referred to. Can any correspondent kindly give his parentage and say whom he married, and state when his wife died and where she was buried 1 In the ' Visitation of Hereford- shire ' in 1683 there is a John Wall (baptized at Kingsland, 28 December, 1662), third son of Henry Wall (administration at Hereford, 18 May, 1676), of Kingsland, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Henry Philley, rector of Croft, Herefordshire ; and in the same ' Visitation ' there is another John Wall, son of Richard Wall, of Madley,