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He writes of a letter he received in 1911 from in the Rectory oft Orpington till 1566.fc He

went with Thomas Goldwell, Bisncp^of St. Asaph, to Rome, where we find boih^in

Mr. Cockaday, who apparently claims to hav went seen the alleged act on " ***/ m>?>p,dons "

several occasions

but, for all this, only one (in 1906) is men tioned by MB. MOBLEY. We are told, too that hedgehogs are " very common in tha district." This being so, one would hav thought MB. MORLEY might have tried t see the event for himself for " what th soldier said " is not evidence. Then is no " fifteen or twenty yards " rather a Ion distance from which to see and be sure o: what was happening ? My faith is greatly stretched when we are told that at tha distance " the contraction of the cheek [of a hedgehog !] in the act of suction also was evident "... .and " only the extremity o the mouth touched the teat, and the teeth were not in contact at all " /

ALFBED S. E. ACKEBMANN.

BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTUB\ (12 S. iv. 330; v. 107). The Rev. Joseph Hunter in his ' South Yorkshire : The His tory and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster in the Diocese and County of York,' ii. (1831), 97, writes:

" On August 18th, 1491, a commission issued from the Ecclesiastical Court at York, to William, Bishop of Dromore, to consecrate anew the chapel of \Ventworth, in the parish of Wath, with its chapelyard."

George Brann is said to have been Bishop of Dromore from 1489 to his translation, April 15, 1499, to the see of Elphin. If the above extract is correct, George cannot have been appointed until after Aug. 18, 1491. That being so, who was Bishop William ? Brann 's predecessor at Dromore is said to have been Thomas Radclifie, 1440-89, and his successor William, 1500-4. The

succession of these Irisn bishops is very

uncertain.

J. W. F.

REV. DR. CLENOCK (12 S. v. 124). Maurice Clenock took the degree of B.C.L. at Oxford in 1548, and, according to Mr. Gillow ('Bibl. Diet. Eng. Cath.,' i. 500), subsequently became D.C.L. and D.D. Nicolas Sander says he was a Prebendary of York, and, though this has been doubted, Dom Norbert Birt, O.S.B., has shown that Sander was quite accurate ('Elizabethan Religious Settlement, 1 p. 152). Clenock was also Chancellor of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Rector of Orpington, Kent, and was Bishop -nominate of Bangor at Queen Mary's death. He was one of the witnesses to Cardinal Pole's will. He seems to have gone abroad early in Queen Eliza- beth's reign, though he was not succeeded I

January, It 63/4. In 1567 he became Camerarius, and in 1578 Gustos* of the English Ho&jriee there, and was first Rector of the English College, 1578-9 (ep. Catholic Record Society's Publications, i. 23, 48 ; ii. 3). In P.R.O., S.P. Dom Eliz., cxlviii. 61,, mention is made, among " the doctors that be at Rome," of D. Morris Clenocke, " over- seer of the Englishe hospitall." This docu- ment is considered as belonging to 1581; but Clenock had certainly ceased to je&ide at Rome in that year. He was unpopular among the English exiles, as he was oon-- sidered to favour the Welsh unduly.

JOHN B, WAINEWBICET.-

There is quite a lengthy bibliograj hy ol' this individual in the ' D.N.B.,' the ' Catholic Encyclopaedia,' Gillow's 'Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics,' Foley's ' Records,' and in the Transactions of the Catholic Record Society, but the birth and death dates are not given. In the Trans- actions above he is usually referred to as either Mr. or Dr. Morrice.

ABCHIBATJD SPABKE..

BOASE BBOTHEBS (12 S. v. 95). Tnere- s a portrait of Mr. George Boase in The

Illustrated London Nev.s, Oct. p. 521.

1897,

I have a photograph of the late Mr.. Frederic Boase, and will be pleased to lend it or the purpose lie has in hand. I am ending on the query to Mrs. Lewis Thom- on, who is sister to the three brothers Boase. SJie might be able to help in the
 * o MB. HAMBLEY ROWE if it is of any service

bove mattei.

A. KATE RANEB.

25 Boscobel Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea.

BlBLIOCBAPHY OF EPITAPHS (12 S. V. 68^,

29). Here are the titles of a few books hat I have :

Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones ; or, a Curious Colleo

on of about 900 of the most remarkable Epitaphs, Antient and Modern, Serious and Merry, in the Kingdoms of Great Britain, Ireland, &c., in English. Verse. Faithfully collected by James Jones, gent. Vol. 1., 1727. [1 have only the one vol.]

Churchyard Gleanings and Epigrammatic Scraps :.. being a Collection of remarkable Epitaphs and Epigrams. By William Pulleyn. [Undated.]

ISepulchralia, or "Sermons in Ktones": being. Epitaphs from the Churchyards in the neighbour- hood of Blackpool. 1873.

Among the 'J ombs of Colchester. 1880.

Faithf ul Servants : being Epi taphs and Obituaries recording their Names and Services. Edited and in part collected by Arthur J. Munby, M.A., F.S.A. 1891.