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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. FEB. 12, 1910.

sprinkling " of the Welsh are Celts. It cannot be too often repeated that the Celts were a tall, fair people, and that the short, slender type of Welshman, with dark hair and eyes, represents a far older stock Silurian or Iberian among which the Celts came as conquerors. JAS. PLATT, Jim.

[We regret that this is probably the last com- munication that we shall have the privilege of printing in ' N. & Q.' from the pen of MR. PLATT. See post, p. 140.]

In the Eggen-Tal in Tirol is the village of Welschnofen, while on the plateau between the Eggen-Tal and the Adige is the village of Deutschnofen. Both villages are now German-speaking, but presumably the former was so called from being at one time populated by an Italian-speaking colony from the Val di Fassa, just as Mezzo tedesco or Mezzo - corona, over against Mezzolombardo, was originally German-speaking and called Kron- Metz. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

WILLIAM WYNNE RYLAND (10 S. xii. 383). In many of the accounts of this famous engraver it is stated that he gained a medal at the Academie Royale in Paris. The following paragraph from The Public Adver- tiser confirms this statement, and helps to indicate the exact period of Ryland's resi- dence in the French capital :

"Monday, Sep. 20, 1756. The Prize Medal given by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris for Drawing was won last month by Mr. William Byland, son of Mr. Byland, printer of this city."

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

FIRST NONCONFORMIST MINISTER ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT (11 S. i. 108). The Rev. George Pearce Gould, the President of the Baptist College, Regent's Park, kindly writes in reference to the question whether Mr. Sil- vester Horne, the well-known minister of Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road, is the first Nonconformist minister to sit in Parliament :

"If you waive any seeming anachronism in apply- ing the term Nonconformist to a Dissenter prior to the time of Charles II., I should cite the case of Mr. P. Barebone. He was a notable preacher, and he appears to have been pastor of a congregation in London (see Walter Wilson's ' Dissenting Churches,' vol. i. pp. 46 if.). There is reason to think that Barebone was still exercising his func- tion of pastor when he obtained a seat in Cromwell's Parliament of 1653."

References have been frequently made in ' N. & Q.' to Praise- God Barebones, including 3 S. i. 211, 253. At the latter W. H. stated :

"In 1653 Cromwell nominated persons to form a convention or parliament. Bar bone was one of the seven Londoners selected. Of this convention

Rons was president, but the Stuart faction appear to have thought Praise-God Barebones a droller name than any .they could extract from Rous, and hence termed the Parliament derisively P.-G. Barebone's Parliament."

At 4 S. iii. 215 MR. STEINMAN STEINMAN quotes from the Church Register of St. Andrew, Holborn, of 5 January, 1679-80, the statement that " Praise God Barebone" was buried " At ye ground near ye Artillery," and adds that "his death has nowhere been recorded." See also 'D.N.B.,' first edition, vol. iii. pp. 151-3.

It is curious in reference to Ipswich, for which Mr. Horne has been returned, that a tract should be published with the following title-page :

"That wicked and blasphemous petition of Praise God Barbone and his sectarian crew, presented to that so-called the Parliament of the Common- wealth of England, Feb. 9, 1659, for which they had the thanks of that House, anatomized. Worthily stiled by his excellency the Lord Generall Monck, Bold, of dangerous consequences and venemous. By a lover of Christ and his Ordinances, Ministers and their calling, Parliaments and their Freedome ; the Town of Ipswich, her peace and prosperity, Civil and Ecclesiasticall, being some- times an Inhabitant there. Printed by Philo- Monarchseus (4 April, 1660)." Barbon is here pronounced "worthy of all dedignation, indignation, and abomination." 1 In or about 1880 there was an Irish Presbyterian minister in the House of Commons. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

The Rev. Silvester Horne is not the first Dissenting Minister to enter the House of Commons. Mr. Joseph Brotherton, who was M.P. for Salford from 1832 until his death in 1857, was the minister of the Bible Christian Church, Salford (1816-57).

Another instance is that of the famous Free Trade orator William Johnson Fox, M.P. for Oldham, who was at the same time minister of South Place Chapel, Finsbury. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

The Liberator for February says : " The Church Times desires to raise the point whether the minister of a Nonconformist congre- gation should be excluded from the House of Commons under the same Standing Order which excludes the Established clergy. The point does not affect Dr. Leach, who still ranks as a Congre- gational minister, because he has resigned his charge, but Mr. Silvester Horne has no intention of resigning Whitefield's. Mr. Edward Miall and Mr. Henry Richard were both ordained as Congregational ministers, but they had ceased to be pastors in charge long before they entered Parliament. Mr. George Nicholls was a paid lay pastor before entering the last Parliament, but he resigned his charge upon his election. But there