Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 | Page 7

William Peyto, Bishop of Salisbury
1557 William Allen 1587 Philip Howard 1675 ---- Erskine ---- Henry
Stuart of York 1747 Thomas Weld 1830 Charles Acton 1839 or 1842
Nicolas Wiseman, who is the 53rd 1850 on the list of English Cardinals
Both the latter were born abroad, the former at Naples, the latter at
Seville; but they were born of British subjects, and were brought to
England at an early age to be educated. The Cardinal of York was born
in Rome; but being of the royal family of England, was always styled
the Cardinal of England.
G.W.

October 26. 1850.
_Thomas Regiolapidensis._--Where can I find any information as to the
saint who figures in the following curious story? Regiolapidensis may
probably mean _of Königstein_, in Saxony; but Albon Butler takes no
notice of this Thomas.
"Incipit narratiuncula e libro vingto, cui titular _Vita atq. Gesta B.
Thomæ Regiolapidensis, ex ordine FF. Prædicatorum_, excerpta.
"Quum verò prædicator indefensus, missionum ecclesiasticarum causâ,
in borealibus versaretur partibus, miraculum ibi stupendum sanè
patravit. Conspexit enim taurum ingentem, vaccarum (sicut poëta
quidam ex ethnicis ait) 'magnâ comitante catervâ,' in prato quodam
graminoso ferocientem, maceriâ tantum bassâ inter se et belluam istam
horrendam interpositâ. Constitit Thomas, constitit et bos, horribiliter
rugiens, caudâ erectâ, cornibus immaniter sæviens, ore spumam,
naribus vaporem, oculis fulgur emittens, maceriam transsilire, in virum
sanctum irruere, corpusque ejus venerabile in aëra jactitare, visibiliter
nimis paratus. {407} Thomas autem, eaptâ occasione, oculos in
monstrum obfirmat, signumque crucis magneticum in modum
indesinenter ducere aggreditur, En portentum inauditum! geminis
belluae luminibus illico palpebrae obducuntur, titubat taurus, cadit, ac,
signo magnetico sopitus, primò raucum stertens, mox infantiliter
placidum trahens halitum, humi pronus recumbit. Nec moratus donec
hostis iste cornutus somnum excuteret, viv sanctus ad hospitium se
propinquum laetus inde incolumisque recepit."
RUSTICUS.
"_Her Brow was fair._"--Can any of your many readers inform me of
the author of the following lines, which I copy as I found them quoted
in Dr. Armstrong's _Lectures_:
"Her brow was fair, but very pale, And looked like stainless marble; a
touch methought would soil Its whiteness. On her temple, one blue vein
Ran like a tendril; one through her shadowy hand Branched like the
fibre of a leaf away."

J.M.B.
_Hoods warn by Doctors of Divinity of Aberdeen._--Will you allow
me to inquire, through the pages of your publication, of what colour
and material the exterior and lining of hoods were composed which
Doctors in Divinity, who had graduated at Aberdeen, Glasgow, and St.
Andrew's, prior to the Reformation, were accustomed to wear? I
imagine, the same as those worn by Doctors who had graduated at Paris:
but what hoods they wore I know not. I trust that some of your
correspondents will enlighten me upon this subject.
LL.D.
_Irish Brigade._--Where can I find any account of the institution and
history of the Irish brigade, a part of the army of France under the
Bourbons?
J.D.
Bath.
_Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception._--In the charge delivered by
the Bishop of London to his clergy, on the 2nd instant, the following
passage occurs:
"It is not easy to say what the members of that Church [the Church of
Rome] are required to believe now; it is impossible for men to foresee
what they may be called upon to admit as an article of faith next year,
or in any future year: for instance, till of late it was open to a Roman
Catholic to believe or not, as he might see reason, the fanciful notion of
the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin; but the present
Bishop of Rome has seen fit to make it an article of their faith; and no
member of his church can henceforth question it without denying the
infallibility of his spiritual sovereign, and so hazarding, as it is asserted,
his own salvation."
Can any of your correspondents inform me where the papal decision on
this point is to be found?

L.
_Gospel Oak Tree at Kentish Town._--Can you inform me why an
ancient oak tree, in a field at Kentish Town, is called the "Gospel Oak
Tree." It is situated and grows in the field called the "Gospel Oak
Field," Kentish Town, St. Pancras, Middlesex. Tradition says Saint
Augustine, or one of the ancient Fathers of the Church, preached under
its branches.
STEPHEN.
_Arminian Nunnery in Huntingdonshire._--Where can I find an account
of a religious academy called the _Arminian Nunnery_, founded by the
family of the FERRARS, at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire? I have
seen some MS. collections of Francis Peck on the subject, but they are
formed in a bad spirit. Has not Thomas Hearne left us something about
this institution?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Ruding's Annotated Langbaine._--Can any of your readers inform me
who possesses the copy of Langbaine's Account of the English
Dramatic Poets with MS. additions, and