Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 | Page 9

she brought the
Duke of Monmouth to the King."
C.
_St. Alban's Day._--A friend has asked me the following question,
which some of your readers may perhaps be able to answer, viz.:--
"Till the reign of Ed. VI. St. Alban's Day was kept in England on June
22d (the supposed anniversary {400} of his martyrdom). It was then
erased from the kalendar, but restored to it in the reign of Chas. II.;
when it was transferred to June 17th. Why was this change made?"
W.C. TREVELYAN.
Black Broth (No. 19. p. 300.).--If this were a sauce or condiment, may
not the colour have been produced by the juice of the Boletus, much
used in Greece to the present day?
S.S.S.

_Deputy-Lieutenants of the Tower of London._--By whom were these
officers appointed? What was the nature of their duties? Had they a
salary, or was the office an honorary appointment? They used to meet
periodically, was it for the transaction of business? if so, what business?
Does the office still exist?
S.S.S.
_Buccaneers--Charles II._--There is a passage in Bryan Edward's
History of the West Indies (vol. i. p. 164. 4to edit. 1793), in which he
gives an opinion that the buccaneers of Jamaica were not the pirates
and robbers that they have been commonly represented; and mentions,
on the authority of a MS. journal of Sir William Beeston, that Charles
II. had a pecuniary interest in the buccaneering, and continued to
receive a share of the booty after he had publicly ordered the
suppression of buccaneering: and also, speaking of Sir Henry Morgan,
and the honours he received from Charles II., gives an opinion that the
stories told of Morgan's cruelty are untrue. Can any of your readers tell
me who Sir William Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? or
refer me to any accessible information about Charles II.'s connection
with the buccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards's favourable
opinion of the Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan?
C.
_Travelling in 1590.--Richard Hooker._--Could any of your readers
give me some particulars of travelling at the above period between
London and Salisbury? I should also feel greatly indebted for any
unpublished particulars in the life of the "Judicious Richard Hooker"
after his marriage. Answers might be sent, either through "NOTES
AND QUERIES," or direct to me,
W. HASTINGS KELKE. Drayton Beauchamp, Tring.
_Decker's Raven's Almanack--Nash's Terrors of the Night,
&c._--Having lately picked up a volume of old tracts, I am anxious to
learn how far I may congratulate myself on having met with a prize.
Among the contents are--

1. "The Rauen's Almanacke," for the year 1609, purporting to be by T.
Deckers. Is this the same person with Thomas Dekker the dramatist?
2. Nashe's "Terrors of the Night" (wanting eight leaves at the
beginning.) Of this, Beloe (the only authority within my reach) says,
that only one copy is known to exist; can his statement be correct?
3. A religious tract, which seems only remarkable for its bad printing,
obscure wording, and almost invariably using the third person singular
of the verb, whatever be the nominative. It begins--
"To all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words, and
makes mention of his words, &c."....
And the first division ends--
"This have I written in love to all your soules, who am one who did
drinke of the cup of fornication, and have drunke of the cup of
indignation, but now drinkes the cup of salvation, where sorrow and
tears is fled away; and yet am a man of sorrows and well acquainted
with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and travels that it may be brought
forth of captivity; called by the world F.H."
Who is F.H.?
4. Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, and the like, by Thomas
Tusser; but as the tract is mutilated up to cap. 3.,
"I have been prayde, To shew mine aide," &c.,
I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as
Tusser's Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry. Information on any
of the above points would oblige.
J.E.
_Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the
nature of their duties generally? What is the rank of a prebendary of a
cathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders?

Would a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector
not being one? Where is the best account of prebends to be found?
S.S.S.
_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle._--There is at Warwick Castle a
fine half-length portrait of Luther by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary
portraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a genuine one? Has it
been engraved?
E.M.B.
_Rawdon Papers._--The Rev. Mr. Berwick, in introducing to the public,
in 1819, the interesting volume known by the