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reprint of the original issue? Where did
John Winthrop: Inner Temple, 1628 (12 S. viii. 391, 476).—Winthrop's 'Life and Letters' says that John Winthrop, son
Perrens find the name Glisee? EDWARD BENSLY. < [The Editor apologizes t>oth to the Querist and heir of John Winthrop of Groton in .and to the Readers of ' N. & Q.' for having inad- the coun ty of Suffolk, was " admitted to vertently written " Fontenelle instead ot , T^n^r TV-m-nlp TiVV 9fi 1 fi94. " Ba y ,e " in the heading to the q ue ry .] ****** Te^le FeK - 1624.^ ^ ^ ANECDOTE, OF LAURENCE STERNE (12 S. found in the Temple records in 1860 by his viii. 129, 215). MR. BENSLY misread my . friend Judge Warren, and that there was a note about Sterne, or his pen ran away, subsequent record, as follows : " John The Yorkshire Herald was my authority. Winthrop, Gentleman, specially admitted It has a long time behind it though it has 29 June 1628." He says, " This may have tampered with its title. The Yor kshire ! been the elder Winthrop." Post, much to be respected, is quite a The Winthrop ' Life and Letters ' shows
- ' young thing " in comparison. that the elder Winthrop practised law as
ST. SWITHIN. early as 1622, that in 1626 he was made ,, .,_ ... .. -.'attorney of the Court of Wards and held "ORGY" (12 S. vm. 48/). Orgy and the Q CQ geveral g> and practised "orgie" are, I fancy too well established before that court> A letter of Brampton for any protest to avail against them. For Gurdon to j w seniorj of Oct> 27 (it was what decent dictionaries say on the ! f 1627 Qr 1628) ghowg that at that time subject see the < O.E.D under Orgy, orgie. jj w ior had a cham ber in the Inner The quotations given for both these .forme .are T le He p res ented drafts of bills to more than respectable , the , ea rhf <t of them : p^j^^t m 1628 . One part of his prac being dated 1665. In the 'Tauchmtz Pocket | tice w&g attendance on the Committee of French Dictionary find Orgie, f. revel, : the Houge of CommonSi He was also a drunken feast, so that the French seem to Justice of the Peace . This seems to i ndicate be equal sinners with ourselves; C. C. B. j w ? genioi% wag the Qne specially admitted Sir Herbert Maxwell is, I fear, too late in Jin 1628. M. J. CANAVAN. his protest against the use of this word in the 133, West Springfield Street, singular. The ' N.E.D.' gives quotations j ton > Mass - u --A. from Sir Thomas Herbert ; in 1665, the late j pEERg , MAKTLEa (12 s> ix> 10)> _ Robmson Ellis in 1871 Mr Frederic Har- iThe Historical Associa tion have issued rison m 1883, and the late Lord Bowen in Httle hlet Pic tures of Parliament,' 1887 ; . T1 fr T ,f m ^ lar 'r, rg /' 1 al ,?/ e ?? g '! reprinted from 'The Evolution of Parlia- nized in ' The New Gresham English Die- , ^ , fe p rofess0 r A. F. Pollard. The tionary of 1920, * The Concise Oxford Die- ; H Q thege ictures is a contemporary tionary of ^1911, and ' Oiambers's Twentieth ; drawin of the ^ ^ of Par ii ame P nt on Century Dictionary ot 1902. | A n f g 1523 an P d ^ the ers are re . JOHN B. AAINEWRIGHT. LJted.*Mh ermine bars for the dis- PRIVILEGE or TEMPLARS AND HOSPI- tinguishing of rank on their mantles. TALLERS (12 S. ix. 12). The privilege was M - H. DODDS. exemption from tithes, firstfruits &c ; T }{ ^ ted authority for correct Information on the subject is to be foimd f ^ and nobi iit y is commonly in Southey's Common-place Book voL i. supp( f sed to "^ % ob iii tas pol f ti ca vel civilis I ... [by Robert Glover and Thomas Mffles]. These two Orders were absolutely inde- Ln : William Jaggard, 1608,' fo., with pendent of all spiritual and temporal juris- full-page copper -plates of the King, House diction whatsoever, saving only that of of Lords, Prince of Wales, Duke, Marquis, the Pope ; their property was exempted ; Earl, Viscount and Baron, all in full-dress from all taxation, even from ecclesiastical : official robes. tithes ; they had their own clergy ; they The plates and text (translated into also had their own cemeteries and chapels English) afterwards appeared in Mexia's which could not be placed under interdict. ' Treasurie of Ancient and Modern Times, The first privilege mentioned is doubtless 1613-19,' 2 vols., fo., also printed and pub- that referred to in the query. | lished by my ancestor. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. W. JAGGARD, Capt.
