Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 | Page 5

the Development
of Man's Nature, by Atkinson and Martineau, which cannot be called
sceptical, for its unbelief is unhesitating, is the immediate cause of my
writing to-day.

A. L. R.
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Minor Notes.
Original Warrant.--The following warrant from the original in the
Surrenden collection may interest some of your correspondents, as
bearing upon more than one Query that has appeared in your
columns:--
"Forasmuch as S^r John Payton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, hath
heretofore receaved a warrant from the Lls. of the counsell, by her
Ma^{ts} commandment, for the removinge of Wright the Preist out of
the Tower, to Framingham Castle, and for that, since then, it is thought
more convenient, that he be removed to the Clincke--Theise therefore
shalbe to require now (sic) to enlarge him of his imprisonment in the
Tower, and to deliver him prisoner into the hands of the L. Bishop of
London, to be committed by his Lp. to the Clincke, because it is for her
M^{ts} speciall service,--for doinge whereof, this shalbe your warrant.
"From the court at "Oatlands this 29 "of September, 1602. "RO.
CECYLL.
"To Mr. Anthony Deeringe, "Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of
London."

"2. October, 1602.
"I have receyed Mr. Wryght from Mr. Derynge, Deputy Lieutenant, and
have comitted him to the Clincke according the direction from Mr.
Secretary above expressed.
"RIC. LONDON."
L. B. L.

Gloves.--Prince Rupert.--In your First Vol., pp. 72. 405., and in other
places in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to the presentation of
gloves. If what is contained in the following {221} paper be not
generally known, it may claim an interest with some of your readers:--
"At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present
The Kings most excellent Majesty, His Highness Prince Rupert, Lord
Archbp. of Canterbury," [with twelve others, who are named.]
"Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of
all [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came
to the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w^{ch} amounted to a great
Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His
Ma^{tie} this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was
thereupon pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be
no such distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord
B[~p] before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of 50l.
to be employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of St.
Paul. And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord Archb[~p] of
Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he hath paid
the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50l. for the use aforesaid, and produced a Receipt
for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for Rebuilding the said
Church for the time being, w^{ch} as it is a pious work, so will it be
some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard the Expense of Gloves did
usually farr exceed that Sum.
"PHI. LLOYD."
Tanner's MSS. vol. 282. 112. al. 74.
One of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices
of Prince Rupert posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention
made of him in this paper, Echard speaks of his having the command
of one squadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war.
J. SANSOM.

Inscription on a Gun (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your notes on "the Potter's
and Shepherd's Keepsakes" remind me of an old gun, often handled by
me in my youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick was
en-nailed:--
"Of all the sports as is, I fancies most a gun; And, after my decease, I
leaves this to my son."
Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors'
Commons, I know not.
C. W. B.
Richard III. (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).--The statement by MR. HARRISON,
that Richard was not a "hunchback," is curiously "backed" by an
ingenious conjecture of that very remarkable man, Doctor John Wallis
of Oxford, in his Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ, first published in
1653. The passage occurs in the 2d section of chapter 14, "De
Etymologia." Wallis is treating of the words crook, crouch, cross, &c.,
and says:
"Hinc item croisado de militibus dicebatur ad bellum (quod vocant)
sanctum conscriptis (pro recuperanda terra sancta) qui à tergo gestabant
formam Crucis; et Richardus olim Rex Angliæ dicebatur
crouch-backed, non quod dorso fucrit incurvato, sed quod à tergo
gestare gestiebat formam Crucis."
G. F. G.
Edinburgh.
Lines by Pope.--On the back of a letter in my possession, written by the
poet Gray, are the following lines in the handwriting of his friend
Mason:--
"By Mr. Pope.
"Tom Wood of Chiswick, deep divine, To Painter Kent gave all this

coin. 'Tis the first coin, I'm bold to say, That ever Churchman gave to
Lay."
"Wrote in Evelyn's book