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. iv. NOV. 25,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 437 embellishes the story with a characteristic foot-note :— " Anthony Beke was, therefore, the first who dared to bring A slovenly, unhandsome corse. Betwixt the wind and his nobility. If, however, the funeral of the Patriarch Bishop was conducted with the same solemnities as that of his successor. Cardinal Langley, the breaking an entrance through the wall was a matter of necessity rather than superstition, for Langley's hearse was drawn into the nave of the Cathedral by four stately black horses, which, with all their housings of velvet, became the official perquisite of the sacrist." RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. BURNS AND THE "PALACE OF TRAQUAIR" <10tb S. iv. 387).—In 1787 Burns and his friend Ainslie made a tour through the south of Scotland, the poet writing an interesting journal as they went. Under date 14 May this entry occurs :— "Come to Inverleithen, a famous spa, and in the vicinity of the palace of Traquair: where, having dined and drunk some Galloway-whey, I here remain till to-morrow—saw Elibanks and Elibraes, on the other side of the Tweed." See Robert Chambers's 'Life and Works of Robert Burns,' ii. 80 (Library Edition, 1856). THOMAS BAYNE. O. B. will find, by reference to Napier's that Burns designated Traquair House as the "Palace of Traquair" in his 'Border Tour.' Leaving Edinburgh on 6 May, 1787, he writes :— " Monday, come to Inverleithing, a famous shaw, and in the vicinity of the Palace of Traquair, where having dined, and drank some Galloway-whey, 1 •here remain till to-morrow." I believe "shaw" means, in the Scottish •dialect, show, and also a wood. JAMES WATSON. Folkestone. ' JENETTA NORWEB,' A LOST BOOK (10th S. iv. 389).—A copy of this book is in the British Museum: " Norweb, Janetta, Mrs. The Memoirs of Janetta : a tale, alas! too true. •Gainsborough, 1812, 12mo." FRANCIS G. HALEY. National Liberal Club. WILLIAM MILLER'S ENGRAVINGS (10th S. iv. 369).—David Constable, an Edinburgh advocate, the eldest son of the publisher, was •wont to commission private plates of draw- ings of subjects in which he was interested to be engraved for him. Most probably, therefore, the vignette of Hume's Monument, Edinburgh, was one of such plates. William Miller, as is well known, was largely employed and very liberally treated and encouraged by Archibald Constable, notably in connexion with engraved title-pages and illustrations to the Waverley Novels. ALDOBRAND OLDENBUCK. Fairport. CROMWELL HOUSE, HIGHGATE (10th S. iv. 48, 135).—I am sorry that the obliging ex- perts who replied to my query are unable to adduce any positive evidence relating to Ireton's alleged occupancy of this house and the date of its erection. Since sending my query I have found that a boundary stone is let into the wall, dated 1614, with the letters i°c on the obverse side. At this date Ireton was just four years old. In J. H. Lloyd's ' History of Highgate ' — the most thorough and trustworthy work on the subject that I have come across—it is stated that Ireton certainly resided in Highgate, and his signature appears three times as one of the acting governors of the Grammar School. Perhaps one of your correspondents who has leisure for the task would undertake a re- search among the archives of the school and of the parish of Hprnsey for the purpose of settling the points in question. It is desirable to bear in mind that Prickett's Prize Essay has to be read with caution. The following is a glaring instance of the author's careless- ness. He says that in the Register of Horn- sey Church there is an entry of a man dying in 1663 at Highgate, in the house of the Countess of Huntingdon, who, according to Prickett, was the celebrated countess who so zealously supported Wesley and Whiten1 eld. As a matter of fact, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, the " Queen of the Methodists," was not born until thirty-four years after the above date. Unfortunately, Howitt, in his 'Northern Heights,' has fallen into the same error, probably misled by Prickett. HENRY JOHNSON. JOHN BANISTER, WYKEHAMIST (10th S. iv. 289, 355).—I hope some one may be able to prove or disprove, in a conclusive fashion, H. C.'s very ingenious suggestion that John Danister may be the same as John Fenn. The evidence I have to offer tends towards disproof, but is not convincing. 1. In the first place, Dr. Sander, who, as H. C. points out, knew Fenn, and who, it seems, knew Danister, differentiates them in the list in his ' De Visibili Monarchia,' which is reprinted in Gee's ' Elizabethan Clergy ' at pp. 225 sqq. In this list John Danister appears as a priest, and John Fenn as the school- master of Bury St. Edmund's. Sander never
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