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 9 th S. III. FE

EB.2V99.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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taking the pledge ' a condition of admission is an

legal confederacy, and its members are liable to

3ven years' penal servitude, unless it be either

i egistered as a friendly society or the pledge be

1 aken on a form approved by justices of the peace,"

D. M. R.

NORTH-COUNTRY VERSE WANTED.

A dree neet, a dree neet, for th' squire te pass away, . i dree neet, a dree neet, but a ganning sowl can't stay.

Where can I obtain the remainder of the
 * ibove North-Country rhyme 1 ? W. C.

WILLIAM CORNWALLIS was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School, in 1597. I should be glad to receive any particulars relating to him. G. F. R. B.

KOBERT DEWHURST was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School, in 1595. Any information concerning his parentage and career would be of assistance.

G. F. R. B.

SUNDIALS. I should be grateful for any information regarding sundials in Great Britain or Ireland dated before 1580. I have searched through the latest edition of Mrs. Gatty's book on the subject and in various other places, and I can only discover six ; but I think that there must be more. I want to know all details regarding them.

FLORENCE PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

JOHN WATKINS. I should be very glad to learn the date of the death of John Watkins, author of the ' Universal Biographical and Historical Dictionary.' His latest preface is dated 30 May, 1831, and I cannot trace him farther. He was born in Devonshire; his earliest publication, an 'Essay towards the History of Bideford,' appeared in 1792 ; and his later life was apparently spent in London. E. I. CARLYLE.

PARLIAMENT CAKES. It appears to have been at one time customary for members of Parliament, when attending the House, to take in their pockets a particular cake or gingerbread of a very attractive kind, no refreshments being obtainable within the precincts. I have heard elderly people speak with regret of the superiority of these cakes to the ordinary gingerbread of commerce, and I know one who is anxious to renew this pleasant acquaintance of youth. Are these cakes still to be purchased, and where ?

HOLCOMBE INGLEBY. [See 8 th S. x. 455; xi. 93, 211.]

"BEDELL FAMILY. Arthur Bedell, gent, M.P. Lichfield, 1572-83. Richard Bedell, M.P. for Eye 1571, and for Weymouth 1572 until

death. William Bedell, M.P. Hythe, 1547-52. Any information respecting these M.P.s will oblige. The last was probably " of Writtle, Essex " (see * Vis. Essex,' Harl vol., p. 25).

W. D. PINK.

EASTER. Can you or any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' inform me when, and by what authority, the celebration of Easter was moved back from Sunday night nox Domi- nicato Sunday morning at St. Peter's at Rome? F. JOSEPH SPENCER,

Melrose, Alameda, Cal.

" THE RABBI LION OP PRAGUE." One of the February magazines contains an account of the legends which have accumulated round this historic character of the seventeenth century. Can any reader inform me where I may obtain further particulars about him, and also whether he has ever been made the subject of fiction in the shape of story, play, or poem, in English or otherwise ?

CHARLES J. PEARCE.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam. T.

[Lucan, 'Pharsalia,' vii. 819.]

Give what Thou wilt, without Thee we are poor ; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

W. E. L

Where does the following occur ? Who was the author ?

Tales are delectable

Although they be nought but fable.

K. P. D. E.

gqrttts,

THE CHARTER RELATING TO ST. PETER'S,

WOLVERHAMPTON. (9 th S. ii. 46, 214 ; iii. 70.) AT the last reference MR. ANSCOMBE claims that he has shown that I, in supplying a translation of this charter to my friend Mr. Duignan, "did not treat a single one of the [chronological] data fundamentally, and that [I] made no fewer than five compu- tistical mistakes." The latter charge is some- what surprising, for the only chronological note given in Mr. Duignan 's brochure is that the date 996 "is a mistake of the copyist for 994 ; the seventh indiction (subsequently thrice given) falling in that year, and not in 996." The reason for this note was that the only text known, that in the ' Monasticon,' reads, "anno...D.cccc.xcvi. (ita autograph., rescribe tamen xcvi.)." I assumed that the latter was a mistake, possibly typographical, for xciv., because Archbishop Sigeric, who is an important person in the text, died in 995,