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CONTENTS. No. 110.

TJOTES : Henry III. and the Canons of York, 221 Mr. Hill 'On a Day of Thanksgiveing for y Victory at Nasby, June 27, 1645.' 222 -An Rusrlish Army List of 1740, 223- Incriptions at Cissel (Norcl) 225 Nitrification Sign- Painting Danteiana " Corioli " in Shakespeare's ' Corio- lanus,' 226.

'QUERIES : Congreve's Dramatic Works St. John's Head Altar-slabs Moorrtelds Davidians : David George's See*; -Harris, a Spanish Jesuit, 227 Biblio- graphy of International Law Emerson's 'English Traits,' '228 John Nowes or Nawes James Nivan or Nivie Bishops of Dromore. Fifteenth Century De Brus Tomb, H*rllepool Flincks and Foulkes Families Abraham Lincoln : 'The Tyneside Observer 'Derbyshire Dialect : MS. Glossaries, 229 Armorial Book-Stamp Pilgrimages and Tavern-signs Lambe Mary Lamplugh First Street Lighting by Electricity in England Gordon's Khartoum 'Journals' " Parish Marks'' " A red rag to a bull" The Australian Buih-John James. Ejected Minister: Deborah Newton, 230 St. Bartholomew's in 'Moor Lane : " Copy " Torture. " Humorous and Linarer- ing" "The Touch of Paris" Author of Quotation Wanted, 231.

REPLIES : Old Stained Glass, 231 Rev. John Gutch, Antiquary and Divine, 232 Marten Arms Dr. Bnt'er's Ale Fani Parkas Henry Jenkins ('? Jackson): killed in a Duel, 233 "In albis" Tennyson on Tobacco Ramage Lafin as an International Language White Wine. 234 Jeanne of Flanders Snow-whire Church Persistent 'Error Slang Terms : Origin of" Bellnm "London Inn- 'holders. 235 "The Derby Blues" : "The Oxford "lues" Battle Bridge Cinders and Moscow 236 Maffey Family Celtic Patron Saints Earliest Clerical Directory Wast India Company'-" Motto, 237 The Irish in Spiin Wild Boar in Heraldry The "Big Four" of Chicago Toponymies Curious Surnames Giraldus Cambrensis The Parish of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 238.

'NOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Contribution to an Essex Dialect Dictionary ' ' Th Oxford University Press General Catalogue ' -' The Baxter Book, 1919.'

OBITUARY : Charles Madeley.

Notices to Correspondents.

HENRY III. AND THE CANONS OF YORK.

IN 'The Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops,' edited by Canon Raine for the " Rolls Series," are included : " Two Letters from Henrv III. about the Use of the Canonical Houses, by the King's Retinue, &c." (iii. pp. 170-1, under No. cxviii.).

The first of these recites that when the 'king celebrated Christmas at York in the 36th year of his reign, on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the King of Scotland, his marshals had com- mandeered certain houses of certain canons of St. Peter of York. Thereupon the dean and chapter showed the king " quasdam cartas praedecessorum nostrorum," by which

they claimed exemption for their houses ; and the king, without deciding the question of their rights, assented to their petition that the present case should not form a precedent in prejudice to whatever rights they pos- sessed under the aforesaid charters. In these letters patent the king's style is given as : " Henricus Dei gratia rex Angliae, dominus Hiberniae, dux Nor- manniae et comes Andegaviae," and the testing clause runs : " Teste meipso apud Eboracum, sexto die Januarii, anno regni mei XXXVI."

The second "letter" is a short writ, as follows : :

" Henricus rex An<*liae omnibus baronibus et toti familiae suae, eb mariscallis suis salutem. Prohibeo vobis ne hospitium capiatis nee hospitemini in propriis domibus et hospitiis cauonicorum Saneti Petri Eboracensis infra eivitatetn. Et, similiter, nemo hospitetur extra urbem in propriis villis eorum. Teste Roberto episcopo Lincolniensi et cancellario,!Waltero, et Roberto comite de Mellent, apud Eboracum."

Instead of a letter of Henry III., this appears to represent one of the " cartas praedecessorum nostrorum. ' ' Assuming that " Angliae " is a wrong extension of Angl[orum], the style is that of Henry I. The first witness, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, would be Robert Bloet, who held the see 1093-1123 (Gams, 'Series Episcoporum,' p. 192), and Robert, Count of Meulan, is the king's trusted friend Robert de Beaumont, who died June 5, 1118 (Ordericus Vitalis, ed. ' Soc. de 1'Histoire de France,' iv. 313). But Robert Bloet, who was possibly chan- cellor under William I. in 1086-7,and certainly chancellor under William II. until he became a bishop (Davis, ' Regesta Regum Anglo -Normannorum,' pp. xvii-xviii), was never chancellor under Henry I. Indeed, in Robert's time, the chancellor resigned the Great Seal as a matter of course on attaining episcopal . rank. So if we are to read the witnesses' names as printed, we have here a very careless monkish concoction. But probably we should read : " Roberto epis- copo Lincolniensi, et cancellario Waltero." The latter name would be correctly placed for the chancellor, between the bishop and the count. If so, " Waltero " must be an error for Waldrico, the Waldric whose last certain appearance as chancellor is under date of Nov. 7, 1106 (Round, 'Feudal England,' pp. 480-1). It seems that his name is given as Walter in a late Inspeximus of a suspicious Tewkesbury charter (ibid). The unusual name would be a trap for later writers. G H

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