Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 | Page 7

Thurso while John was Earl of Orkney, and
according to Dalrymple's Annals in A.D. 1222; but in the narrative
given by the historian Torfæus, in his _Orcades_, of Haco, King of
Norway's expedition against the western coast of Scotland in 1263,
which terminated in the defeat of the invaders by the Scots at Largs, in
Ayrshire, and the death of King Haco on his return back in the palace
of the bishop of Orkney at Kirkwall, reference is made to the Codex
Flateyensis as to the burial of King Haco in the city of Bergen, in
Norway, where his remains were finally deposited, after lying some
months before the shrine of the patron saint in the cathedral of Saint
Magnus, at Kirkwall. There is not a syllable of King Haco or his
expedition in the _Orkneyinga Saga_; and as I cannot reconcile this
reference of Torfæus (2nd edition, 1715, book ii. p. 170.) with the

_Saga_, the favour of information is desired from some of your
antiquarian correspondents. The Codex Flateyensis has been ascribed to
a pensioner of the king of Norway resident in Flottay, one of the
southern isles of Orkney, but with more probability can be attributed to
some of the monks of the monastery built on the small island of Flatey,
lying in Breida Fiord, a gulf on the west coast of Iceland.
W.H.F.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_Incumbents of Church Livings in Kent._--I have by me the following
MS. note:--"A list of B.A.'s graduated at Cambridge from 1500 to 1735
may be found in 'Additional MSS. British Museum, No. 5,585.'" Will
any of your correspondents inform me if this reference is correct, and if
the list can be examined?
Is there in the British Museum or elsewhere a list of incumbents of
church livings in Kent (with name and birthplace) from 1600 to 1660?
BRANBRIDGES.
_York Buildings Company._--This company existed about the middle
of the last century. I shall be glad to be informed where the papers
connected with it are to be met with, and may be referred to.
WDN.
_Saying ascribed to Montaigne._--The saying, "I have here only made a
nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the
thread that ties them," is usually ascribed to Montaigne. In what part of
his works are these words to be found? I heard doubts expressed of
their genuineness some years ago by a reader of the _Essays_; and my
own search for them has also proved hitherto unsuccessful.
C. FORBES. {279}
"Modum promissionis."--Will any of your readers help to interpret the
following expression in a mediæval author:--
"(Ut vulgò loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit?"
I have reason to think that modum promissionis means "a provisional
arrangement:" but by whom, and in what common parlance, was this
expression used?
C.W.B.
_Roman Catholic Theology._--Is there any work containing a list of
Roman Catholic theological works published in the English language

from the year 1558 to 1700?
M.Y.A.H.
_Wife of Edward the Outlaw._--Can any of your correspondents inform
me who was the wife of Edward the Outlaw, and consequently mother
of Margaret of Scotland, and ancestress of the kings of England?
The account adopted by most historians is that Canute, in 1017, sent the
two sons of Edmund Ironside to the king of Denmark, whence they
were transferred to Solomon, king of Hungary, who gave his sister to
the eldest; and, on his death without issue, married the second Edward
to Agatha, daughter of the Emperor Henry II. (or, in some accounts,
Henry III., or even, in Grafton's _Chronicles_, called Henry IV.), and
sister to his own queen.
That Edward the Outlaw returned to England in 1057, having had five
children, of whom three survived: Edgar; Margaret, who in 1067
married King Malcolm of Scotland, and another daughter.
Now this account is manifestly incorrect. The Emperor Henry II. died
childless: when on his death-bed he restored his wife to her parents,
declaring that both he and she had kept their vows of chastity.
Solomon did not ascend the throne of Hungary until 1063, in which
year he had also married Sophia, daughter of the Emperor Henry III.;
but this monarch (who was born in October, 1017, married his first
wife in 1036, who died, leaving one child, in 1038 and his second wife
in November 1043) could not be the grandfather of the five children of
Edward the Outlaw, born prior to 1057.
The Saxon Chronicle says, that Edward married Agatha the emperor's
cousin.
E.H.Y.
_Conde's "Arabs in Spain"_.--In Professor de Vericour's _Historical
Analysis of Christian Civilisation_, just published, it is stated (p. 499.)
that Conde's Arabs in Spain has been translated into English. I have
never met with a translation, and fancy that the Professor has made a
mistake. Can any of your