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CONTENTS.- N° 256, NOTES:-Ashmole MS. 1792, 401-Fleance, 402-"Homeri interest, and supplies dates wanting elsewhere, and corrects readings. The subjoined list of its contents will therefore, it is thought, be acceptable to the readers of "N. & Q.," and particularly to those who may possess Mr. Black's valuable Catalogue. 1. "A letter from the Counsell to certaine chosen Commissioners in everye shire for the execuc'on of ye Proclamation for vniformitye in religion & common prayer, by waye of Oyer & Terminer, in Mr Secretary Smithes mens hande, penned bylike by his master." Greenwich, November, [1573].-Fol. 1. 2. "A letter to the Bishopp for the execuc❜on of her Mats Proclamac'on for the vniformitie sett forth in the Booke and other iniunctions, penned by Sir Thomas Smithe." Greenwich, [7] Nov. [1573].-F. 1b. Cardany other"; in this MS., "attempt any other"]. The name of the writer is not given in Cardwell. Caunterburye that none be admytted to preach but such 3. "A l're from the Councell to the Lo. Archbishop of as shall minister the Sacraments also." Lond., 17 Jan. 1579.-F. 2. Ibid., 440. REPLIES:-Obscure Expressions, 409-Harrogate Spa, 410- Notes. ASHMOLE MS. 1792. In Mr. Black's Catalogue of the Ashmolean MSS. (Oxf., 1845) the following is the entry made under this number:— "The MS. numbered 6538 [i.e. so numbered in the old Catalogue of 1697, where it is also marked 50, in sequence to Dugdale's MSS.] cannot now be found. It was in folio, and thus described in 1697: Divers Letters from the Privy Council and Archbishop of Canterbury; and to and from several great Officers of State, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth.' Whether originals or transcripts it does not appear." From the time that Mr. Black thus wrote the volume has hitherto remained undiscovered, not having come to light when the Ashmolean MSS. were removed from the Museum to the Bodleian in 1860. Now, however, in the course of arranging and binding various MS. papers of Jo. Aubrey, which formed part of the Museum collection, the missing book has happily been found among these papers, and is at length restored to its place. It is a thin volume of thirty-two leaves, but deficient alike in the middle and at the end, and contains transcripts (apparently made for Whitgift's own use from his own originals) by two formal copyists of portions of the archbishop's official correspondence, together with other papers. Although most of the documents have appeared in print from other transcripts, the volume possesses considerable 4. "A letter from the Councell to the Bishop of London to cause common prayers, sermons and thankesgivings for a victorye gotten against the Turke, penned by Mr. Frem: with the Lo. Tresurers correction." Greenwich, Nov. 1571.-F. 2 b. 5. "A l're to the Lord Mayor to the same effect, corrected, enlarged by the Lo. Treasurer."-F. 3. 6. "Articles agreed by the Bishops, exhibited to her Matie, Anno Domini 1583, September." Signed by Canterbury, Peterb., Roch., Lond., Linc., Exeter, Salisb., Norwich, and St. David's.-F. 3 b. Ibid., 466, dated 1584, without signatures. 7. " Articles sent from the Lords of the Counsell, ult. Novembris, 1583."-F. 5. Ibid., 463, with a letter from the Archb. to the Bp. of London about the same, dated 12 Dec. 1583. 8. "The Ministers of Kent to the Prevye Counsell, an° 1583."-F. 6. Fuller's Church Hist., bk. ix. p. 144. 9. Letter from Whitgift" to the Lordes of the Counsell, the 4th of February, 1583."-F. 7. (Two leaves wanting at the end.) Ibid., p. 145. Abridged in Strype's Life of Whitgift, bk. iii. ch. iii. 10. " My answeare to the Counsells Letters touching certaine Ministers, the 22 of September, 1584."-F. 9. Fuller, ibid., p. 152, without date. 11. The Lord Treasurer's Letter to me, the 5th of Appendix to Whitgift, bk. iii. No. ix., dated 1 July. July, 1584."-F. 9 b. Ibid., p. 154, without date. Strype's 12. "An answeare to the Lord Treasurers Letter of the fift of Julie, 1584."-F. 10 b. Fuller, ibid., p. 156, without date. Strype, ibid., No. x., dated 3 July. F. 12 b. Fuller, ibid., p. 159, without date. 14. "An answeare to the Lord Treasurers Letter of the 17 of July, 1584."-F. 13. Fuller, ibid., p. 160, without date. Strype, ibid., No. xi., dated 15 July. 15. "To the Lord Treasurer touching Beale."--F. 14. Without date. Abridged in Strype's Whitgift, bk. iii, ch. vi., dated 6 May, 1584. 16. "Mr. Secretaries [ie. Sir F. Walsingham's] Letter for Leverwood," 22 June, 1585.-F. 14 b. Fuller, ibid., p. 162, without date. 17. "The answeare."-F. 15. Fuller, ibid. Abstract in Strype, ibid., bk. iii, ch. xiii. 18. The Earle of Leicesters letter to me," 14 July.— F. 15 b. Fuller, ibid., p. 176, from a MS. in his possession, formerly Sir Peter Manwood's. Abstract in Strype, ibid. 19. "An answeare of the Earle of Leicesters Letter of the 14 of July," 17 July, 1585.-F. 16. Fuller, ibid., p. 177. Abstract in Strype, ibid. him the hero of such a romance as might befit one whose remarkable destiny it was to be "the root and father of many kings," besides a line of 20. Letter "to Sir Christopher Hatton," [1585]-puissant English earls. Attempts have been made F. 16. Strype, ibid. 21. "To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie," 24 March, 1584.-F. 16 b. Fuller, ibid., p. 174, without date. Strype, ibid., ch. xi. 22. "To her Maiestie," [1584]-F. 17. (One leaf, possibly more, wanting.) Strype, ibid., ch. viii. 23. Part of the Petition of the House of Commons in Dec. 1584.-F. 18. Strype's Appendix, bk. iii. No. xiii. 24. "Answeares to the Petitions of the Commons, presented by the Byshop of Canterbury to the Quenes Maiestie.-F. 19. Cf. different copies in Strype, ibid., bk. iii. ch. x., and Appendix, No. xiii. 25. "Certaine articles desired by the Treasurer of her Maiesties Housholde [Sir F. Knollys] to be charitably answeared by the Byshop of Canterbury in respect of clearing of her Maiesties saftie."-F. 21 b. Without date. The answers mentioned by Strype, ibid., bk. iii. ch. xi., under date of 1584. 26. An answeare to a fond and slaunderous sillogisme."-F. 22 b. Mentioned ibid. 27. "The resolution of a pretended sillogisme captiouslie and unsufficientlie concluding the Archbishopp of Canterburie by pratize of papish tirrany to endanger her Maiesties safety."-F. 23. Ibid., bk. iii. ch. xxi., under the year 1588, but a portion only, from a mutilated to show that there was at least nothing improbable in the flight of Fleance into Wales, and love passage with the daughter of a prince of that country, but they are not confirmed by what has been discovered about him. It is well known now that there is one reference to Fleance himself in our records, the Hundred Rolls (i. 434) of the time of Edward I. The jurors of the hundred of Launditch, Norfolk, say, "Melam (Mileham) with its appurtenances was in the hands of William the Bastard at the Conquest, and the said king gave the manor to a certain knight named Flancus, who came with him into England, and afterwards the manor descended from heir to heir unto John Fitzalan, now in the king's custody." If this statement were exact the manor must have been granted to him in the brief interval between the date of the survey and the Conqueror's death. It is curious how nearly in this instance the spelling of the name resembles Fleance; other forms occur, as Fleald, Flaald, Flahald, but Fledald is the most correct.* Saving the record just given, the name only occurs in the patronymic of his son, 30. "The somme of the Lo. Tresurers speech in Par-"Alanus filius Flaaldi," as he was invariably liament against Plurallities."-F. 26 b. 31. "The groundes of Mr. Forscues speech."-F. 28 b. 32. "Against the bill of Pluralities "(with an extract from Foxe about Mr. Rogers), being an abstract of Whitgift's Reasons.-F. 30 b. Imperfect, ending (on f. 32 b) in a section headed, “It is preiudiciall to her Maiesties aucthoritie and state." The Reasons are printed in full by Strype, ibid., ch. xi. Oxford. FLEANCE. W. D. MACRAY. Shakespeare knew of the legend which made Banquo, thane of Lochaber, ancestor of the Stewarts, and therefore of Elizabeth's successor. Whether the great dramatist believed the story or not matters little; it suited his purpose and he adopted it. The historic muse was his servant, not his mistress, so made familiar to every one by Macbeth is the lucky escape of Fleance to fulfil the "promise" of the witches to Banquo: "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none." Consequently Fleance and his father figure at the head of the genealogy of the Stewart kings, and are likely to, for the prosaic truth stands no chance now against a baseless fiction enshrined in the monumental literature of England. The story cannot, I believe, be traced higher than the fanciful Booke of Hector Boëce, and it was probably originated by some imaginative herald, who, vainly presuming there was nothing recorded of Fleance but his bare name, felt safe in making designated. Fleance was probably dead when his son first occurs, viz., witnessing two charters of Henry I., made at Windsor on the same day, Sept. 3, 1101, for there is evidence in one of these deeds that Alan was in possession of the fief in Norfolk. There are other royal instruments of Henry I. witnessed by Alan, and he must have been an important personage for his name to precede those of powerful barons like Robert Malet. He was afterwards sheriff of Salop, and was the last common ancestor of the Earls of Arundel, denominated Fitzalan from him, and of the Stewarts and Kings of Scotland, by his two sons William and Walter. he certainly came from Brittany, and occurs there Returning to Flaald, as we will now call Fleance, about 1075 as Fledald, the younger brother and heir of Alan, the seneschal of Dol." It seems to me remarkable this should have hitherto escaped notice. The fact and identity are certain, and the details to be found in the histories of Brittany by Lobineau and Morice are sufficiently interesting to be reproduced. *The name Fladald bore was not a common one in Brittany, and his descendants never used it. There was a Count Flodoald, whom Charlemagne made governor of Vannes in 786. Many interesting names were introduced Roland, as well as Oliver, Ongwen, Ign ge or Innoguent into this country from Brittany: Riwallon, Ruellan or (Imogen of Shakespeare, by error made in Hollingshed's index), and others. It appears about 1075 John, Lord of Dol and of Ireland and the most noble house of Ormonde, Combourg, then a young man, having lately suc- still existing in the male line.‡ Perhaps it was ceeded to the patrimony through his elder brothers the siege of Dol in 1076 which introduced them having entered the Church, William being then both to the notice of William the Conqueror. Abbot of St. Florent, at Saumur (1070; ob. 29 | Alan, the seneschal of Dol, himself went in the first June, 1118), made known his intention of estab-crusade, 1097, with other Bretons, as mentioned lishing a cell or priory in connexion with that by Ordericus (Bohn's ed., iii. 99). abbey in honour of St. Mary and St. Florent at a vill called Mezuoit, near the castle of Dol, obtained the authority of Pope Gregory VII. (1073-85), and that the buildings might be commenced got Evan, Archbishop of Dol (1076; ob. 27 Oct., 1081), to consecrate the cemetery. Either there and then, or soon after, the founder obtained the necessary concession from Geoffrey, Count of Rennes, in the presence, among others, of Galfrid de Monasteriis,* Alan the seneschal ("Siniscallus"), and Hervey the butler ("Butellarius"). Before long Hamon the viscount remitted all his customary rights in the vill, witnessed inter alios by Hugo de Mara,† Alan the seneschal, and Hervey the butler. Then Alan the seneschal himself followed, and in like manner resigned his rights, giving the oven of the vill of Mezuoit and his part of the sale of bread. This was also conceded by Fledald his brother, and on this account the monks then received another brother, Riwallon, as a monk (Lobineau, ii. 138). The position of Fledald at this date was that of next brother and heir of Alan, the seneschal or steward of Dol, an hereditary office in his family, with lands attached and certain rights, one of which, it seems-the monopoly of baking bread in the district-Alan remitted to the monks, with his share of the produce. Whether Fledald's knowledge of the duties of this office recommended him to William the Conqueror does not appear, but it is remarkable to find his descendants in the same capacity afterwards to the kings of Scotland, and no less so that Hervey the butler should be the progenitor (as he no doubt was, although the fact has not been remarked before) of the great Butlers *Galfridus de Monasteriis, or de Monasteriolo, had his name from Moûtiers, near Vitre, which he possessed. His father Wido, presbyter, having given a third of the church there to the Abbey of St. Sergius, he himself gave another third, accepting from the monks a horse of the value of 30s. By Hadwise he had two sons, Bartholomew and Geoffrey. Sons or brothers of the last were probably Robert "de Mosters," tenant of Earl Alan in the first to find a ford and cross the Aire when William the Conqueror with his army was vexatiously detained by the swollen river in 1069, as related by Ordericus (Bohn's ed., ii. 27). Robert, who had two sons, Lisois and Galfrid, was ancestor of the Musters of Yorkshire and Notts. Yorkshire and Notts, 1086, and Lisois "des Moutiers," It was probably this Hugo de Mara who came with Hugh Lupus and was settled by him in his palatinate of Chester; if so, he was a son of Norman, and was accompanied by two brothers, Ralph and Roger. Ralph was the earl's dapifer or steward. The Rev. R. W. Eyton, in his History of Shropshire (vii. 219), remarks the connexion between Alan fitz Flaald or his descendants and the ancient cells in England of the famous abbey of St. Florent at Saumur, viz. Andover, Sele, and Sporle, each benefited by the family, and adds, "this possibly points to some fact in their early history, but to me that fact is latent." This prediction is here verified. "Alanus filius Flealdi" was one of the witnesses to the charter obtained by Wihenoc, monk of St. Florent, for the cell of Andover, sealed at Storwell in the New Forest (Mon. Angl., i. 553). Riwallon, father of John de Dol before mentioned, gave lands in Combourg to the Abbey of Marmoutier in the time of Count Conan (1040-66), and the monks forthwith established a cell there. In 1098 John de Dol II. confirmed to this cell or priory the gift of "Alanus filius Flaudi" of whatsoever rights he had in the church of Gugnen, given by Main, son of Theon, on the restoration to health of his sons Hamon and Walter (Morice, Preuves à l'Hist. de Br., i. 492). Possibly Walter Alan fitz Fleald was was the grandfather of Alan. one of those in whose "seeing and hearing' Henry I. at York confirmed to the monks of Marmoutier the princely donation of Ralph Paynel. Westminster. A. S. ELLIS. "HOMERI QUÆ NUNC EXTANT," &c.: MR. PALEY. In deference to his great name as a scholar the special privilege has been accorded to MR. PALEY of taking exception (ante, p. 384) to my brief notice (ante, p. 379) of his Homeri quæ, &c. To the writer of that notice a few words in justification may be permitted. I ventured to deprecate what I our Homer," thought MR. PALEY's ill treatment of " and MR. PALEY'S charge is that, in quoting a line of the Homeric hymn to the Delian Apollo cited, as Homer's own and as spoken by and of himself, by Thucydides (Hist., iii. 104, sub anno 426 B.C.), I showed myself unacquainted with the subject. The line is this : "A blind man: He houseth on Chios the craggy"; Theobald Walter, who obtained from Henry II. the office of great butler of Ireland, was, I suspect, especially fitted to fill this post by knowledge of its duties, derived from previous members of his family. It cost the nation so recently as 1810 no less than 216,000Z. to purchase the prizage of wines (a privilege of this hereditary office) from his heir the Marquis of Ormonde. attempted" in my note. I may appeal to my past contributions to your columns to show that I am not an advocate of unnecessary changes, for I believe this is only the second instance in which I have conjectured a misprint. If my not overcourteous opponent is entitled to denounce as and I quoted it because in Pye's version-if Pye's it be it is familiar to all as a pathetic portrait of the old man eloquent. I intended it to prove neither his blindness nor the priority of Chios over Smyrna, Rhodes, nor Colophon. It was a plaint used ad misericordiam, not a proof. Suppose MR. PALEY, embracing the congenial role of Mr." sacrilege" all doubts of the infallibility of William Lauder, had determined to dethrone Milton from his pride of place, and suppose I had prayed him to spare of 66 "The blind old Bard of Tuttle's balmy lane," and to refrain from reducing him to the low estate some mute inglorious Milton," would MR. PALEY "affirm" my ignorance for allowing Tothill Street to stand for Petty France; for calling the roadway "balmy," which it never was, with the odour of sanctity, at least; or for making Milton dumb as well as blind, and inglorious, though a king-killer and a Latinist? But is all this MR. PALEY's thunder? Is none of it poor Dennis's? Before MR. PALEY was busying himself with Buildings the whole question of Homer's individuality, duality, plurality, that is, his nullity and reality, was as familiar to men of that remote age as 66 Mouldings" became to him. Only their doubtings as to the redaction of Homer's text the language, not the construction of the poems-lay between Pisistratus and Pericles and Aspasia, the latter editors (?) being less respectable, no doubt, than Ante-Plato, Anti-machus, Aristotle, or Zenodotus, the patriarch of Ephesus and of all Homeric editors since, say, 280 B.C. MR. PALEY affirms that, as Pindar and the Dramatists did not take all plot and legend from 66 our Homer," "our Homer" did not exist for them. Now, Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur is the primitive Arturian epic of England. Did Sir Richard Blackmore take wholly from him the ten and the twelve books of his incomparable Prince and King Arthur? Does the Laureate confine himself for all his gestes to Sir Thomas? Does he make no use of the Mabinogion in his Arturian series? There is not a reader but will re call instance upon instance of great poets not always choosing to have recourse for plot and matter to the greatest. THE WRITER OF THE NOTICE. SHAKSPEARIANA. "EARTHLIER HAPPY," 66 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," ACT I. sc. 1, L. 76 (5th S. x. 243, 284, 383.)-If MR. EBSWORTH'S observations on persistent and pedantical tamperings with the text of Shakespeare" are meant to apply to me, he is wide of the mark, for I expressly spoke of the reading as properly retained in the text, and as one with which an editor would not be justified in tampering because supported by authority; and this is an answer to his statement that "certainly one instance of unnecessary change appears to be Messrs. Heminge and Condell's printers, I am equally justified in regarding his implicit faith in them as a superstition. If he can see nothing in verbal criticism but a "word-pecking mania," and if a conjecture (guarded in its objects as mine was) is uninteresting to him, his remedy is to let it alone, and not to shut his eyes to a difficulty and then say he does not see it. If Shakespeare's received text (which I have both in my former note and this disclaimed any attempt to disturb) had compared the degree of happiness of the distilled and withered roses, the explanation which occupies exactly three-fourths of MR. EBSWORTH'S answer would have been applicable, though quite unnecessary. It does not touch the difficulty which I pointed out-that the comparison is between the degrees of earthliness of their happiness, and that the more earthly happiness is assumed to be the preferable state. It would be quite intelligible that a married life should be spoken of as the more earthly and the cloister life as the more heavenly happiness, but this is a distinction which utterly fails in the comparison of the distilled and withered roses, to which only the word "earthlier" relates. If he cannot see this, I can only appeal from his intelligence to what he politely calls "the capacity of ordinary readers." JOHN FITCHETT MARSH. P.S.-Since writing the above I have read MR. EBSWORTH'S "postscript," which leaves me nothing to add except to congratulate him on his discovery that "earthlier happy " well represents feliciorem. On referring to my notes on the Midsummer Night's Dream I find a memorandum of the passage quoted by MR. EBSWORTH from the Colloquia Heywood. It will be found in his Pleasant DiaFamiliaria, with a metrical version by Thomas logues and Drammas (1637):— "Mar. Now answer me: Pam. The nose with the sweet smell, the eye with sight, Procus et Puella, Dial. 2. I was not aware of the existence of the selection of the dialogues published in 1568 under the title of A Modest Meane to Mariage, and I shall feel |