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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. DEC. 21, raw.
4 March, 1555/6, as Machyn's 'Diary'
and Wriothesley's 'Chronicle' (ii. 134)
relate. They are most likely correct ;
but Speed dates the execution on the
10th of March, and Stow on the 12th.
Is it known who were Fetherston's secret
abettors ? For he would scarcely have
ventured to claim the crown without
support of some sort. Speed, indeed, says
that he " was seconded by none of any
esteeme," and that the Privy Council
regarded him as a " Lunaticke foole " ; but
would they have executed a lunatic for
treason ? Is it known where Sir Peter
Mewtas lived ? Any further particulars
about this episode would be welcome.
JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT.
TRACTS, c. 1760: 'AGNES BEAUMONT'S STORY.' I should be glad to be supplied with a copy of the title-pagd of a little book of pp. i-viii, 1-125. It purports to have been compiled by the Rev. Samuel James, and the preface is dated " Hitchin, Feb. 10, 1760." The book consists of details of the religious experiences of Mr. Lawrence Spooner, Mrs. Rebecca Combe, Mrs. Gertrude Clarkson, Mrs. Mary Churchman, and Mrs. Agnes Beaumont. My copy is in paper boards with leather back, on which is embossed " Tracts." I am particularly interested in the experiences of Mis. Beaumont, owing to the references therein to John Bunyan. The episode in which Bunyan figured is referred to in Sallie Rochester Ford's ' Mary Bunyan,' chaps, xxxi.-xxxvi. Chap, xxxvi., ' Agnes Beaumont's Story,' and the story told in my " Tracts," are almost identical, except that the latter appears in narrative shape and the former as a dialogue between Mr. Wilson of Hitchin and Agnes.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
SIB EDMUND PEIBCE, KT. In a list of admissions to Merchant Taylors' School at 2 S. ix. 100 occurs the name of George Gilbert Peirce, only son of Sir Edmund Peirce, Kt., born at Maidstone, Kent, 16 March, 1634 ; admitted 27 April, 1647.
The father, when knighted at Raglan Castle, 10 July, 1645, was described as Edmond Peirce, LL.D. and colonel of horse, of Greenwich. In ' C.S.P. Dom., 1655, 3 Oct., p. 367, he is, when apprehended and sent prisoner to Yarmouth, described as oi Colchester. On the Restoration he petitions for office as Master of Requests, and states that he " was Advocate at Doctors' Com- mons when the late King left London
ollowed him to York ; was employed in
ent concerning the Kentish petition, served
n the Life Guards, raising a regiment of
lorse at his own charge ; was Judge Marshal
and Advocate of the Army, and was made Master of Requests, but lost his profession, property, and books ; was decimated and mprisoned, yet wrote and published, at
much danger and expense, many things
very serviceable to King and Church " C.S.P., 1660,' p. 106).
I shall be glad of any particulars of Sir Edmund and the subsequent career of his
son, also of his arms, &c.
R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.
' THE PROGRESS OF MADNESS.' I shall
greatly obliged if you can give me any
nformation with regard to a poem thus
entitled. I want to know where and when
t appeared, and whether it is purchasable
n any volume, &c.
HARRY L. WEINBERG.
EGLIA IN LINCOLNSHIRE : WILLIAM LANG- STROHER. Kenelm Henry Digby in his ' Compitum,' vol. i. p. 163. ed. 1848, says bhat an English gentleman, William Lang- stroher, a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, built in the town of Eglia in Lincolnshire a chapel in honour of St. Zita, and made a journey to Lucca to obtain a relic of her body, which he received from Bishop Balthazar Manni. I cannot identify either Eglia or William Langstroher. Have any of your readers been more fortunate ? EDWARD PEACOCK.
MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SMITH. Informa- tion is desired concerning the family of this officer. Major-General Smith served twenty- three years in the 1st Guards, and was with his regiment in Holland in 1793. He served with distinction in the Maratha War (1804) under Lord Lake, and died in India in 1806. H, PEARSE, Col.
66, Evelyn Gardens, S.W.
SABBATH CHANGED AT THE EXODUS. I have heard it stated, and supported by plausible argument, that when the Hebrews were commanded (Exod. xii. 2), " This month shall be unto you the beginning of months " (or by some similar phrase), a change in the incidence of the Sabbath was effected. I shall be glad to be referred to an authoritative statement of this argument, and to any useful discussion of it. Has MR LYNN dealt with the question ?
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