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 138 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vin.FKB.i2, 1021. out of a coronet a lion sejant. Arms : Argent, between three griffins segreant a bar indented, and inscription to John Holder, Esq., died Mar. 22, 1724, aged 31. He was probably the missing father. The above coat is apparently that of a family in Cam- bridgeshire, whose pedigree was in the 'Visitation ' of 1619. The first immigrants seem to have been Melatia Holder, who became agent for the island in Londom, where he cl. in 1706 s.p.m. Will [147 Eedes]. John. Holder (I think his brother) was of St. Joseph's parish in 1666, owner of 400 acres in 1673, will recorded in the island office in 1,684. These local wills I have not seen. Sunninghill. V. L. OLIVEB, F.S.A. THE TTJRLTTPINS (TTJRBULINES) (12 S. viii. 90). Possibly this is a late variation of Turlupins of whom T. Williams in ' A Dictionary of All Religions,' third London edition, date of preface, 1823, writes : " A sect of enthusiasts, which appeared about the year 1372, in Savoy and Daupbiny. They taught, that when a man is arrived at a certain state of perfection, he is freed from all subjection to the divine law, which we call Antinomianism. John Debantonne was the author of this de- nomination. Some think they were called Tur- lupins, because they usually abode in desolate places, exposed to wolves, lupi." ' A New General English Dictionary ' begun by Thomas Dyche, finished by William Pardon, tenth edition, 1758, gives a very similar account of their tenets, adding that they held " That God was to be applied to only by mental prayer. They practised the most ob- scene matters in publick, and went naked both men and women, and yet to recommend them- selves, they pretended to extraordinary degrees of spirituality and devotion. They called them- selves the fraternity of the poor ; Dauphiny and Savoy were the principal places they appeared in, whence by a severe punishment they were also quickly extirpated." Landais in his ' Grand Dictionnaire,' four- teenth edition, 1862, in the complement says that the Turlupins issued from the Vaudois of the Dauphine, and were mostly to be found in the Netherlands. Under the orders of Charles V. of France most of those in France were burnt. According to the ' Dictionnaire des Dates,' 1845, the sect was excommunicated by Pope Gregory XI. in 1372. Landais quotes the proverb " Malheureux comme turlupins." Le Roux de Lincy in ' Le Livre des Pro- verbes Fra^ais,' second edition, 1859,. vol. ii. p. 66, writes of them as "heretics of. the sect of the Vaudois," and gives, appar- ently as quoted by Ducange, s.v., " Tur- lupini," an ancient verse chronicle : L'an MCCCLXXII je vous dis tout pour voir Furent les Turlupins condamnes a ardoir. He also gives the proverb, "Enfant de* Turlupin, malheureux de nature." He says* nothing about any indecent practices. Landais (quoted above) says that the Turlepins were also called " Begards " ; Boyer in his ' Dictionnaire Francois- Anglois,' 1748, says that they were called also " Fraticelli. " Begards according to Landais- were sectaries, partisans of an extreme per- fection who later permitted all excesses. The Turlupins were very possibly much the same in their tenets and practices as the- Vaudois and the Fraticelli. Bayle in his Dictionary English translation, 1710 r p. 1360 gives stories of the Fraticelli attri- buting to them worse excesses than t hose- told of the Turlupins, but at the same time quotes " an illustrious Protestant " (Du Plessis) who denies that the Fraticelli were- guilty of enormities. Apparently they were- very active heretics. ROBERT PIERPOINT. In his 'Hussite Wars' (p. 117), Count Liitzow states that the direct fore-runners of the Adamites were the " so-called Tur- lupins " in France. He shows that the- Turlupin doctrines passed to Austria, thence- to Bohemia, early in the fourteenth century. Opponents of the Hussites puiposely con- fused them with the Adamites, but the grim general, Jan Zizka, destroyed a number of the former near Tabor. The writer knows the Hussite stronghold Tabor, with the- baptismal pond "Jordan," and the pretty valley of the Luzhnitsa, where these mis- guided folk tried to establish a "garden of Eden." FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. The sect meant are certainly the Turlupins- who were especially active in France in the reign of Charles V. Robert Gaguin men- tions them briefly in the ninth book of his 'Compendium super Francorum gestis/ There is an account of the heresy in the ScharT-Herzog 'Religious Encyclopaedia,' ed. 1909. See also H. C. Lea's 'History of the Inquisition,' vol. ii. pp. 126 and 158. "Turlupins" was apparently a nickname,, the origin of which is uncertain. EDWARD BENSLY.