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12 s. ix. JULY 16, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 55 reprint of the original issue? Where did

(12 S. viii. 391, 476).—Winthrop's 'Life and Letters' says that John Winthrop, son

Perrens find the name Glisee? EDWARD BENSLY. < [The Editor apologizes t>oth to the Querist and heir of John Winthrop of Groton in .and to the Readers of ' N. & Q.' for having inad- the coun ty of Suffolk, was " admitted to vertently written " Fontenelle instead ot, T^n^r TV-m-nlp TiVV 9fi 1 fi94. " Ba y ,e " in the heading to the q ue ry .] ****** Te^le FeK - 1624.^ ^ ^ ANECDOTE, OF LAURENCE STERNE (12 S. found in the Temple records in 1860 by his viii. 129, 215). MR. BENSLY misread my. friend Judge Warren, and that there was a note about Sterne, or his pen ran away, subsequent record, as follows : " John The Yorkshire Herald was my authority. Winthrop, Gentleman, specially admitted It has a long time behind it though it has 29 June 1628." He says, " This may have tampered with its title. The Yor kshire ! been the elder Winthrop." Post, much to be respected, is quite a The Winthrop ' Life and Letters ' shows ST. SWITHIN. early as 1622, that in 1626 he was made ,, .,_ ... .. -.'attorney of the Court of Wards and held "ORGY" (12 S. vm. 48/). Orgy and the Q CQ geveral g> and practised "orgie" are, I fancy too well established before that court> A letter of Brampton for any protest to avail against them. For Gurdon to j w seniorj of Oct> 27 (it was what decent dictionaries say on the ! f 1627 Qr 1628) ghowg that at that time subject see the < O.E.D under Orgy, orgie. jj w ior had a cham ber in the Inner The quotations given for both these .forme .are T le He p res ented drafts of bills to more than respectable, the , ea rhf <t of them : p^j^^t m 1628. One part of his prac being dated 1665. In the 'Tauchmtz Pocket | tice w&g attendance on the Committee of French Dictionary find Orgie, f. revel, : the Houge of CommonSi He was also a drunken feast, so that the French seem to Justice of the Peace. This seems to i ndicate be equal sinners with ourselves; C. C. B. j w ? genioi% wag the Qne specially admitted Sir Herbert Maxwell is, I fear, too late in Jin 1628. M. J. CANAVAN. his protest against the use of this word in the 133, West Springfield Street, singular. The ' N.E.D.' gives quotations j ton > Mass - u --A. from Sir Thomas Herbert ; in 1665, the late j pEERg, MAKTLEa (12 s> ix> 10)> _ Robmson Ellis in 1871 Mr Frederic Har- iThe Historical Associa tion have issued rison m 1883, and the late Lord Bowen in Httle hlet Pic tures of Parliament,' 1887 ; . T1 fr T ,f m ^ lar 'r, rg /' 1 al ,?/ e ?? g '! reprinted from 'The Evolution of Parlia- nized in ' The New Gresham English Die-, ^ , fe p rofess0 r A. F. Pollard. The tionary of 1920, * The Concise Oxford Die- ; H Q thege ictures is a contemporary tionary of ^1911, and ' Oiambers's Twentieth ; drawin of the ^ ^ of Par ii ame P nt on Century Dictionary ot 1902. | A n f g 1523 an P d ^ the ers are re. JOHN B. AAINEWRIGHT. LJted.*Mh ermine bars for the dis- PRIVILEGE or TEMPLARS AND HOSPI- tinguishing of rank on their mantles. TALLERS (12 S. ix. 12). The privilege was M - H. DODDS. exemption from tithes, firstfruits &c ; T }{ ^ ted authority for correct Information on the subject is to be foimd f ^ and nobi iit y is commonly in Southey's Common-place Book voL i. supp( f sed to "^ % ob iii tas pol f ti ca vel civilis I ... [by Robert Glover and Thomas Mffles]. These two Orders were absolutely inde- Ln : William Jaggard, 1608,' fo., with pendent of all spiritual and temporal juris- full-page copper -plates of the King, House diction whatsoever, saving only that of of Lords, Prince of Wales, Duke, Marquis, the Pope ; their property was exempted ; Earl, Viscount and Baron, all in full-dress from all taxation, even from ecclesiastical : official robes. tithes ; they had their own clergy ; they The plates and text (translated into also had their own cemeteries and chapels English) afterwards appeared in Mexia's which could not be placed under interdict. ' Treasurie of Ancient and Modern Times, The first privilege mentioned is doubtless 1613-19,' 2 vols., fo., also printed and pub- that referred to in the query. | lished by my ancestor. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. W. JAGGARD, Capt.
 * ' young thing " in comparison. that the elder Winthrop practised law as