Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851

and Queries, Number 75, April 5,
1851, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Other: George Bell
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{257} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 75.] SATURDAY, APRIL 5. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped
Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Two Chancellors, by Edward Foss 257
Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III. 258
Folk Lore:--Cure of Hooping Cough--Charms from Devonshire--Lent
Lilies--Oak Webs, &c. 258
The Threnodia Carolina of Sir Thomas Herbert, by Bolton Corney 259
Minor Notes:--Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis--Moorfields in Charles
II.'s Time--Derivation of Yankee--A Word to Literary Men 260
QUERIES:
Poems of John Seguard of Norwich, by Sir F. Madden 261
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke 262

Minor Queries:--The Vellum-bound Junius--What is a Tye?--"Marriage
is such a Rabble Rout"--Arms of Robert Nelson--Knebsend or Nebsend,
co. York --Moore's Almanack--Archbishop Loftus--Matrix of Monastic
Seal--Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon-- Villiers Duke of
Buckingham--Porci solidi-pedes-- The Heywood Family--Was Charles
II. ever in Wales?--Dog's Head in the Pot--"Poor Alinda's growing old"
262
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Who was the Author of "The
Modest Enquiry, &c."?--William Penn's Family --Deal, Dover, and
Harwich--Author of Broad Stone of Honour--Pope Joan--The Well o'
the World's End--Sides and Angles--Meaning of Ratche --"Feast of
Reason," &c.--Tu autem 264
REPLIES:--
Barons of Hugh Lupus 266
Edmund Prideaux and the First Post-office 266
Lady Jane of Westmoreland 268
Replies to Minor Queries:--Ulm Manuscript--Father Maximilian
Hell--Meaning of "strained" as used by Shakspeare--Headings of
Chapters in English Bibles 269
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 269
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 270
Notices to Correspondents 270
Advertisements 271
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Notes.

TWO CHANCELLORS.
Although neither your readers nor I are politicians enough to interfere
in the changes proposed with reference to the office of Lord Chancellor,
I doubt not that some of them, now the subject is on the tapis, may feel
interested in a fact connected with it, which our ancient records
disclose: namely, that on one occasion there were two chancellors
acting at the same time for several months together, and both regularly
appointed by the king.
It is an unique instance, occurring in the reign of Edward IV.: the two
chancellors being Thomas Rotheram, Bishop of Lincoln, and John
Alcock, Bishop of Rochester. The former received the Great Seal in
May, 1474, in the fourteenth year of the reign, and without any doubt
continued chancellor till the king's death; and yet, from April to
September in the following year, the latter was also addressed by the
same title. During that interval of five months, there are numerous writs
of Privy Seal addressed by the king to both, in which each of them is
styled "our chancellor."
This curious circumstance may be thus accounted for. King Edward
had for some time been contemplating an invasion of France; and when
his preparations were completed (about April), as he required his
chancellor, Bishop Rotheram, to attend him on the expedition, it
became necessary to provide some competent person to transact the
business of the Chancery in his absence. On previous occasions of this
nature, it had been usual to place the seal that was used in England,
when the king was abroad, in the hands of the Master of the Rolls, or
some other master in Chancery, with the title of Keeper: but, for some
unexplained reason (perhaps because Bishop Alcock was a man whom
the king delighted to honour), this prelate was dignified with the
superior designation, although Bishop Rotheram still retained it. The
voyage being delayed from April to July, during the whole of that
period, each being in England, both acted in the same character; Privy
Seals, as I have said, being sent to both, and bills in Chancery being
addressed also to Bishop Alcock as chancellor. Rotheram was with the
king in France as his chancellor, and is so described on opening the

negotiation in August, which led to the discreditable peace by