Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854

ly, 1 James II., to Garret Wall, alias Duvall, sen., Esq.; Garret Wall, alias Duvall, jun.; Jas.

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the only freeholder present. In 1799 he was raised to the Bench of the Court of Session by the title of Lord Bannatyne; and consequently he neither did nor could act as sheriff seven years after he ceased to hold that office. It is true that, as a technical formality, he nominated himself chairman of the meeting to enable him to sign the minute of the election in that capacity; but it is not true that he either administered the oaths to himself, or signed the return of the election as sheriff. I was then a lad, and was present as a spectator on that occasion, when I saw Mr. Blain the sheriff-substitute admini

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ily; and I then heard it said, that they could trace a very ancient and brilliant line from one Osbert, who married a great heiress at the Conquest, and that they were direct descendants of the ancient kings of England. Some of Mr. Burke's publications I think would assist ?ραλδικο?; not having the

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n July, 1802, Eloisa Knudson, who died s. p. Sept. 14, 1805; and, secondly, Oct. 5, 1830, Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Michael Grazebrook, Esq., of Audnam, co. Stafford, by wh

iii., pp. 576. 631.).-The accompanying extract wi

What this is to his purpose I cannot tell, nor do I see wherefore he brought it in, unless it were to blame Rolle for quoting Speed for it. And therefore, in behalf of both, I shall take the liberty to say thus much. That I know not what harm it is for a man in

g him, that neither was Fitzherbert the man who prohibited the archbishop, neither was he Chief Justice when he did it. His name was Geoffrey Fitz-Peter. He was Earl of Essex, and a very eminent man in those days; and his place was much greater than this author represents it; even Lord Justice

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of Pope Boniface ordaining that, however human circumstances might be changed, the city of Canterbury should ever thereafter be esteemed

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tical view if taken by his holiness), I hope we shall hear from Mr. Fraser whether the former of the above maxims has been effe

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to cause fun by an elaborately modulated cadenza on the word coal-dust, and then to call on the company to join in chorus. He next continued with some significant word, as "notwithstanding;" and, after a pause of some bars rest, he w

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cause of Charles I." As I have long wished to see a list of King Charles's officers, but have never, as yet, met with anything like a complete catalogue of those who fell, or of thos

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us mori?" Such an inscription would of course be à propos in the case of a tombstone; but the ordinary interpretation, "Deo

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. p. 246.) that as early as the thirteenth century the practice of the whitewashing buildings was universal; and tha

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buildings, as any church wardens or bricklayers of the nineteenth century. Several writs of Henry III. are extant, directing the Norman Chapel in the Tower to be whitewashed. Westminster Hall was white

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