Chapter C: Gonville

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Minor Queries.

_English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 1559._--MR. DREDGE'S list (Vol. vi., p. 203.) was very acceptable and interesting; but he has left unanswered several points regarding these bishops. 1. _Bishop Scot's_ death is given as at Louvain, but not the period when it occurred. 2. _Bishop Bayne_ is merely said to have "died at Islington in 1560," month unnoticed. 3. _Bishop Goldwell_ is "said to have died shortly afterwards (1580) at Rome," while I gave my authority as to his being still alive in the year 1584 (Vol. vi., p. 100.). 4. _Bishop Pate_ is said to have also "died at Louvain," but no date is mentioned. 5. _Bishop Pole_ "died in 1568." Is neither the place nor month known? In conclusion, with regard to the "English bishops deprived, 1691," only the years of the deaths of _Bishops Frampton_ and _White_ are stated. I trust MR. DREDGE, if he sees this, will forgive my being so minute and particular in my inquiries on the above points, and kindly recollect that I am far away from all public libraries and sources of information. For the replies he has so readily afforded, I am very grateful indeed.

A. S. A.

Wuzzeerabad.

_John Williams of Southwark, Esq._ (elder brother of Morgan Williams, who married a daughter of Walter Cromwell of Putney, from whom descended Oliver Cromwell: Jones's _Brecknockshire_, vol. ii. p. 111.).--Will you, or either of your readers, oblige me with some account of the male descendants of such John Williams; or of John Williams ("heir to the paternal estate" of such Morgan Williams: Waring's _Recollections of Iolo Morganwg_, p. 162.) and his male descendants, or any references to such account?

GLYWYSIG.

"_A Screw._"--Why should a broken-down horse be called "a screw?" Is it because he has "a screw loose," or because a force equivalent to the screw-propeller must be applied to make him go? This was discussed at a hunting dinner the other evening, and the guests could arrive at no satisfactory conclusion: neither could they agree as to the definite meaning that should be assigned to "screw," and what description of horse came under that very condemnatory designation. Perhaps "N. & Q." can assist them to a proper meaning.

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_Tanner's MSS._--In a collection of MSS. relative to Eton College, in Birch and Sloane Collection, British Museum, mention is made of _Tanner's MSS._, which, at the time these MSS. on Eton were collected (1736), were in the Picture Gallery at Oxford. Are these the MSS. inquired for by your correspondent in Vol. vi., p. 434.?

E. G. B.

_The Westminster Assembly of Divines._--On the cover of _A Collection of Confessions of Faith, &c., of the Church of Scotland_, in my possession, is the following memorandum:

"The minutes of the Westminster Assembly are yet reserved in private
hands."--Calamy's Abridgment of _Baxter's Life_, p. 85.

In Dr. Williams's Library, Redcross Street, there is part of a journal; but Neal, in his _History of the Puritans_ (preface), tells us--

"The records of this Assembly were burnt in the Fire of London."

Strype, preface to _Lightfoot's Remains_, says:

"A journal of the various debates among the learned men in the
Westminster Assembly, was diligently kept by Dr. Lightfoot."

And Strype tells us he had seen it.

I shall be much obliged to any of your readers who can inform me where this journal, or any other, of the proceedings of the Assembly can be procured?

JOSEPH STANSBURY.

_The Witch Countess of Morton._--Can any one give me any information about a Countess of Morton who was called "The Witch?" Her picture is at Dalmahoy.