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. iv. SEPT. 9, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 201 LONDON, SATU1WAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1905. CONTENTS.-No. 89. NOTB8 :—Cranmer and the Boleyn Family — Montaigne, Webster, and Marston, 201—Cheshire Words, 203—" Sjam- bok": ite Pronunciation—" Facts are stubborn things"— John Bland, the Edinburgh Actor-Manager, 201—Trud- fteon-stroke In Swimming—Dante: Unknown Portrait- Copenhagen House — Translated Surnames — The Grey- friars Burial-Ground, 205—The " Black" Bourbons, 208. Worth — Graham Family Bible — Detached Belfries — "Bush and grease," 207— Authors of Quotations Wanted — Faded Daguerreotypes — Welsh Poem —"Bobby Daz- zler"—The Purpose of a Flaw—"Just before the battle. mother " — Geoffrey Whitney's Autograph—Whltcombe Family, 208—Shatford's ' Hlstrfomastlx,' 209. REPLIES :—" Pop goes the Weasel," 209 — Sir Robert Howard, the Dramatist, 211—Paul Family—Ineitited Poem by Klngsley—Slipper, a Surname—"Love in ptiantastlck triumph sat "—Scottish Naval and Military Academy, 212 —Public Meeting—" Nailgalrs "—Forests set on Fire by Lightning—" The Pilgrim of Kternity"—William Wayn- flete—"Newlands," Chalfont St. Peter, 213—Officers of State In Ireland—Sir Thomas Browne on Oblivion—Sir John Fastolf—Thomas a Becket. 214-Crlcket: Karliest Mention — Hooper=Long— Lamb's Panopticon, 216 — Rushbearlng — Boddington Family — Roger Aschum : "Schedule," 216—Banter Woods— fhe Duke's Bagnio In Long Acre—" Twopenny " for Head — Owen Brigstocke, 217 —William Lewis, Comedian — Famous Pictures as Signs, 218. SOTBS ON BOOKS :—'A Companion to Greek Studies'— •The Burlington'—Reviews aud Magazines. Notices to Correspondents. CRANMER AND THE BOLEYN FAMILY. I FIND that two recent biographers of Cranmer have been disposed to call in question a statement of mine that he was chaplain to the Boleyn family before he became Archbishop. Canon Mason, in his life of the Keformer (p. 15, note), was un- able to see any evidence of the fact, and •now Prof. Pollard in his (p. 42, note) goes so far as to state that there is no evidence for it. Prof. Pollard apparently thinks that I have been misled by an error of Brewer's •(which I corrected) in identifying one chap- lain of Anne Boleyn's father (who was really John Barlow) with Cranmer. But I think he might have supposed that neither Brewer nor I would have stated as an historical fact a thing for which there was no sort of evidence whatever. The statement that Cranmer was chaplain to Anne Boleyn's father, the Earl of Wiltshire, is expressly made by Harpsfield (' Pretended Divorce,' p. 289) and in the narrative of 'Cranmer's Kecantacyons,' p. 3. Moreover, in his ex- amination before Brooks, in September, 1555, he was taunted with having made an im- moral compact with the King when he was Queen Anne's chaplain. He denied the com- pact, but did not deny having been Queen Anne's chaplain (Cranmer's ' Kemains,' 217, Parker Soc.). There is even strictly con- temporary evidence quite as explicit; for Dr. Ortiz, writing to the Empress from Bologna on 22 February, 1533, says dis- tinctly, on the authority of Chapuys, that the King had given the Archbishopric of Canterbury to a chaplain "of this Anna," which had been taken ill by many (' Lett. and Papers,' vol. v. No. 178). It is a pity Prof. Pollard did not write to me to ask my authority before denying a fact, which is surely a very material one, in the life of his hero. He is equally wrong in stating that I "did not repeat it" in my article on Cranmer in the ' Diet, of National Biography,' where I have distinctly stated that he entered the Earl of Wiltshire's service at the King's recommendation. JAMES GAIRDNEK. West View, Pinner. MONTAIGNE, WEBSTER, AND MARSTON: DR. DONNE AND WEBSTER. (See ante, pp. 41, 121.) ONE incident in ' The Duchess of Malfi' was certainly suggested by Montaigne. Delio has a suit to Pescara for the citadel of St. Bennet, which has been forfeited by Antonio Bologna, but his suit is refused. Presently Julia, the Cardinal's mistress, makes petition for the citadel, and hands Pescara a letter from the Cardinal. Her petition is granted. Delio, who was a witness of the success of Julia's suit, is naturally indignant with his friend, who denied his request and yet gave the citadel to such a creature as Julia. But Pescara replies :— It were not fit I should bestow so main a piece of wrong Upon my friend ; 'tin a gratification Only due to a strumpet. •The Duchess of Malfi,' V. i. 56-9, p. 92, col. 1. Compare:— Epaminondas had caused a dissolute young man to be imprisoned; Pelopidas intreated him, that for his sake he would set him at libertie, but he refused him, and yeelded to free him at the request of an harlot of his, which likewise sued for hia enlargement; saying, it was a gratification due unto a Court izan, aud not to a Captaine.—Book i. chap. xxix. p. 91, col. 1. Bosola is a master of phrases, and he is fond of sayings of men eminent for their wisdom, which he does not scruple to use as occasion offers. I will deal with some of his utterances and trace them to their_ various sources:—