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This demand was, in view at once of the gravity of the king's necessities and of the enormous and rapidly increasing wealth of the Church, a moderate QUERIES:-William Hiseland-Everle: Gysburne-Waterdemand. But the Primate Winchelsey and the bury -Thomas Proclus Taylor-Edward II.-Petworth Gaol-Col. H. Slaughter-Stained Glass, 7-Flixton- Pope Boniface VIII. regarded the position of the Burial-place of Capel Lofft-Nelson Relic Mangles-king as a favourable one to promulgate the monstrous George Morland --John André- Colby Font-Hill-Sir Kenelm Digby, 8-London Directories-"Sones carnall" -Vergilius-Authors Wanted, 9. REPLIES:-Galleries in Church Porches, 9-" God save the claim that Church property should pay no taxes to the king, but to the Pope alone. To this end Winchelsey produced the celebrated king," 10-Compound Adjective-Lord Monson-Sub Bull by Boniface, known as "Clericis Laicos," forstituted Portraits Sheep-stealer Hanged-Astrological Signatures, 11-Churchwardens-Joseph Miller-Forest bidding the clergy to grant to laymen any part of Cloth "-Peter of Colechurch-Squib, 12-'The Giaour '— the revenue of their benefices without the permisSaxon Pedigree-Robin and Dead Child-Cunobelinus or In Convocation this Cymbeline-Fighting like devils," &c., 13- Stephension of the Holy See. Duck-"Jolly"-Lines on Oxford and Cambridge, 14-attitude was supported with the dictum that Aerolites-Breve and Crotchet-Motto-Eschuid-Change of Religion-Pitt Club, 15-Accents in French-Anec obedience was due to their spiritual lord and to dotes of Books-Fovilla-Simon Grynæus, 16-Laurence their temporal, but most to the spiritual: to which Hyde- Topographical Collections"Feer and Flet"latter they ingenuously offered to submit the point Sir John Jervis, 17-Louis Philippe-Duke of Gloucester -The Man of Ghent-Early Newspapers, 18-Authors at issue. Wanted, 19. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Chalmers's A Scots Medieval Architect-Atkinson's Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland'- Earle's Colonial Days'-'Whitaker's Almanack'-'Naval and Military Trophies,' Part IV. Notices to Correspondents, Fotes. THE PARLIAMENTARY WRIT OF 25 EDWARD I. The writ of summons, dated 26 January, 25 Edward I. (1296/7), for a Parliament to meet at Salisbury, is invested with much interest from the fact that Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald, quoting, as it appears, John Vincent, raised a doubt as to the regularity of this writ. The manner in which this doubt originated is very clearly set forth, in his 'Historic Peerage,' by William Courthope, Somerset, who gives with great fulness and perspicacity many details connected with the writ, and he adds critical remarks which indicate that he was much impressed by the doubt raised; all of which may be found, as any one familiar with his valuable work knows under "Fitz-John." The essence of the objection which has been thus taken to this writ is that it is addressed to the temporality only, and ignores the whole body of peers spiritual, not a single bishop or abbot being included; and dealing for the present with this point only, it is not a little strange that Courthope, in his very careful statement of the case, makes no allusion to the unusual circumstances of the ecclesiastical party at this particular time. These circumstances are well known. King Edward having returned from the campaign in King Edward, thus involved both at home and abroad in the greatest difficulties, rose at this crisis to the height of his magnificent career. He proceeded to outlaw the whole clergy, saying, in effect, that if they would not obey the law they should take no benefit of the law. The Chief Justice, at Westminster, publicly announced in the plainest terms the position taken by the king. All this happened at the end of 1296 and the beginning of 1297, the date of this writ of summons. If the king proposed to call a Parliament it is in the highest degree probable that the intention was to take counsel with the temporality concerning this Bull and the obduracy of the clergy. Their obduracy was, however, of no long standing, as the clergy soon fell away from Winchelsey to make their peace with the king and resume their allegiance. Many had thus been inlawed before the end of the summer, which may explain the facts noticed by Courthope, that various clerics were summoned later in the year. The precise nature of the meeting at Salisbury has also been questioned, and it has been doubted whether this was a Parliament at all, independently of the validity of the writ of summons to it. Courthope quotes authorities for the date of assembly as Sunday, the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle, which he expands as 21 September, 25 Edw. I., 1297, and in a foot-note remarks that 21 September that year fell on a Saturday. This discrepancy might have suggested an error, even if the unusually long notice of nearly eight months had raised no surprise. The source of the confusion, however, presents no great difficulty. The writ doubtless summoned the Parliament THE RELIQUARY and ILLUSTRATED MR. ARCHEOLOGIST. 2s. 6d. Quarterly. Edited by J. ROMILLY ALLEN, F.S.A. The DEVIL at NOTRE DAME. Collotype Frontispiece. A RECORD of the KISTVAENS found in the STEWARTRY of KIRKCUDBRIGHT. By Fred R. Coles. 16 Illustrations. The STOURHEAD COLLECTION in the WILTSHIRE ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S MUSEUM at DEVIZES. By Rev. E. H. Goddard 45 Illustrations. HOP TALLIES. By Edward Lovett. 4 Illustrations. GERALD MARSHALL SUPPLIES MATERIAL for FAMILY HISTORIES on moderate terms. Will Abstracts, which are the backbone of Pedigrees, at cheap rates. Advice free. Care of Greenberg & Co. 80, Chancery-lane, W.C. 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As a book of ballads, interesting to all who have British blood in their veins, Dr. Bennett's contribution will be welcome. Dr. Bennett's Ballads will leave a strong impression on the memory of those who read them." CHATTO & WINDUS, 110 and 111, St. Martin's-lane, W.C. STICKPHAST PASTE still sticks. HAIRLESS PAPER-PAD. THE AUTHOR'S PHARLES London, E.C.) also Works on Natural History, just published, and post free to Collectors.-MAGGS BROS., 159, Church-street, Paddington, London, W, of Baliol, and being under the necessity of continuing the French war with two armies, a southern in Gascony and a northern in Flanders, found himself with an exhausted treasury, and demanded a fifth from the clergy. This demand was, in view at once of the gravity of the king's necessities and of the enormous and rapidly increasing wealth of the Church, a moderate demand. But the Primate Winchelsey and the QUERIES:-William Hiseland-Everle: Gysburne-Water- king as a favourable one to promulgate the monstrous claim that Church property should pay no taxes to the king, but to the Pope alone. REPLIES:-Galleries in Church Porches, 9-" God save the Duck-" Jolly"-Lines on Oxford and Cambridge, 14-attitude was supported with the dictum that THE PARLIAMENTARY WRIT OF 25 EDWARD I. The writ of summons, dated 26 January, 25 Edward I. (1296/7), for a Parliament to meet at Salisbury, is invested with much interest from the fact that Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald, quoting, as it appears, John Vincent, raised a doubt as to the regularity of this writ. The manner in which this doubt originated is very clearly set forth, in his 'Historic Peerage,' by William Courthope, Somerset, who gives with great fulness and perspicacity many details connected with the writ, and he adds critical remarks which indicate that he was much impressed by the doubt raised; all of which may be found, as any one familiar with his valuable work knows under "Fitz-John." The essence of the objection which has been thus taken to this writ is that it is addressed to the temporality only, and ignores the whole body of peers spiritual, not a single bishop or abbot being included; and dealing for the present with this point only, it is not a little strange that Courthope, in his very careful statement of the case, makes no allusion to the unusual circumstances of the ecclesiastical party at this particular time. These circumstances are well known. King Edward having returned from the campaign in King Edward, thus involved both at home and abroad in the greatest difficulties, rose at this crisis to the height of his magnificent career. Не proceeded to outlaw the whole clergy, saying, in effect, that if they would not obey the law they should take no benefit of the law. The Chief Justice, at Westminster, publicly announced in the plainest terms the position taken by the king. All this happened at the end of 1296 and the beginning of 1297, the date of this writ of summons. If the king proposed to call a Parliament it is in the highest degree probable that the intention was to take counsel with the temporality concerning this Bull and the obduracy of the clergy. Their obduracy was, however, of no long standing, as the clergy soon fell away from Winchelsey to make their peace with the king and resume their allegiance. Many had thus been inlawed before the end of the summer, which may explain the facts noticed by Courthope, that various clerics were summoned later in the year. The precise nature of the meeting at Salisbury has also been questioned, and it has been doubted whether this was a Parliament at all, independently of the validity of the writ of summons to it. Courthope quotes authorities for the date of assembly as Sunday, the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle, which he expands as 21 September, 25 Edw. I., 1297, and in a foot-note remarks that 21 September that year fell on a Saturday. This discrepancy might have suggested an error, even if the unusually long notice of nearly eight months had raised no surprise. The source of the confusion, however, presents no great difficulty. The writ doubtless summoned the Parliament at Drury Lane, and also the extracts from the Ami des Lois and the Rédacteur in reference to a French invasion of England, are all very interesting; but to readers of to-day the advertisements will offer the greatest amount of attraction. George Washington, Pitt, and Fox are not nearly so much part and parcel of the old world as lotteries and patent cures for king's evil. thew) the Apostle, viz., 24 February, 1296/7, which was a Sunday that year. The Parliament duly met on that date, and though little is known of its deliberations, the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford then refused to lead the campaign in Gascony, on the ground that the king was not going thither in person; and it was on this occasion that the supposed punning allusion to Bigot's name occurred. King Edward himself The advertisements number sixty-five, and the was still at Salisbury on 7 March, when the most remarkable one of all heads the first column. Archbishop Winchelsey had audience there to In large type we have the announcement of an discuss the situation, and on this occasion, it" extraordinary large reptile " which seems, a modus vivendi was arranged. may be inspected "with the greatest pleasure" at 422, Reasonable consideration of these plain facts Oxford Street. The bite of this " leads to the opinion that there was a Parliament most beautiful rattlesnake largest and at Salisbury in response to the writ of summons this country "is attended with immediate disever imported into in question; that those who were omitted from solution," but the owner of this pleasant companion the summons were outlaws, and had conse- does not offer practical demonstrations of its power. quently no right to receive writs; that this There are four lottery advertisements, the special Parliament discussed the Bull and the general claims of each of which are urged with all the flowery situation; that King Edward, having taken eloquence of the quack and the cheap-jack. Patent counsel and heard the views of the lords tem- medicine advertisements take a very important poral, subsequently came to an informal under-place in the paper, and the income from these must standing, for the existence of which there is have been considerable. They range from Dr. good evidence, with the prime mover in the James's analeptic pill to nostrums for scald heads, matter, Archbishop Winchelsey; and that the and wind up with Dr. Solander's "Sanative Engsupposed Parliament at Salisbury of 21 Septem-lish Tea," for "nervous, bilious, consumptive, and ber, 1297, at which date the king was in relaxed constitutions," in packets at 2s. 9d., and in Flanders, is a myth arising from a mistake very canisters at 10s. 6d. each. The fact that it was in easily to be made. use "by several most noble and elevated of the nobility" was to be taken as an indisputable proof of its efficacy, but a few abridged testimonials from smaller fry, such as a corn-chandler, an apothecary, &c., are given. Mr. Moberly Bell's face would be an interesting study if some of these advertisements were now brought to him for insertion in the Times. The great probability that this writ produced a Parliament has an important bearing on the regularity of the writ itself; especially so since those were present who would have been glad to take exception to the legality of the summons if they could have done so; and, duly regarded in all its bearings and its peculiar circumstances, the validity of this writ of 26 January, 25 Edw. I., notwithstanding the opinions of the eminent authorities named, seems to be more easily defended than opposed. HAMILTON HALL. 6 A Cat o' Nine Tails,' by the Nine Muses, at the low price of fourpence, and 'A Guide Spiritual and Temporal,' which contained "a variety of matter that comes home to men's hearts," and which may have been had for one shilling. ing advertisement in the paper relates to "An From a literary point of view, the most interestAsylum of Genius (where complete justice will be done to Literary works, and money occasionally advanced to the authors themselves, to advertise them)," which was just opened at 137, Fleet Street. THE TIMES, 9 NOVEMBER, 1796. Here we have one of the earliest appeals to the The facsimile reprint of the Times of the above vanity of the amateur scribbler. Among the pubdate is in many respects exceedingly interesting.lications of this philanthropic institution were It is of the 3,736th number, and it appeared simultaneously with the 30,043rd number. A greater contrast between the four-page sheet of 1796 and the sixteen-page issue of 1896 it would be impossible to instance. Of course the great interest of the issue of 9 November, 1796, lies in the announcement of Washington's resignation of the Presidency of the United States-a piece of information which then occupied seven weeks in transmission, whereas now news travels the same distance in about seven minutes. The intimation that "Mr. Fox will dine at Guildhall as well as Mr. Pitt"; that Mr. Kemble and Mrs. Siddons Auctioneers' advertisements, for which the newspapers of the day keenly competed, occupy nearly the whole of one page, Messrs. Skinner, Dyke & Skinner holding most of their sales at Garraway's Coffee House, the great mart of the day, their offices being in Aldersgate Street, whilst Mr. Christie's sales were chiefly conducted at his great room in Pall Mall, No. 125, adjoining the house in |