enquiry, but I presume it is the one most known, that for the Vespers of Christmas Day :

"Jesu Redemptor omnium,

Quem lucis ante originem," etc. The author of this hymn is not known; but there was an old hymn, in the Breviary of St. Pius V., which began "Christe Redemptor omnium"-and was composed by St. Ambrose.

As to the lively and ingenious hymn-"O filii et filiæ"-it never had a place in the Roman Breviary, or Missal. Its use was confined to France; and it is probably the composition of some French author, and of no great antiquity.

A perfect collection of Faber's hymns was published two years ago by Richardson & Son, Derby, and 26, Paternoster Row, London, in one handsome volume, price six shillings. F. C. H. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF CHARLES II. (3rd S. v. 289.)-It is asked what authority there is for the existence of James Stewart, a Catholic priest, enumerated by OXONIENSIS (3rd S. v. 211) amongst the children of Charles II.? In the first number of the Home and Foreign Review there is an interesting article on this subject, entitled "Secret History of Charles II.," in which the writer enumerates nineteen documents existing in the Archives of the Jesuits at Rome. A. E. L. LAWN AND CRAPE (3rd S. i. 188; ii. 359.) – J. DIXON asks the meaning of Pope's line:

"A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn." After the Act of Uniformity, and the ejection from the Church of such usurping ministers as refused to conform, it became difficult to fill up the vacancies. It will be obvious, however, to those acquainted with the history of the time, that such difficulty would not extend to the higher orders of the clergy; because there was a large body of learned men still living, who had been episcopally ordained before the suppression of the Prelacy and the Common Prayer. As a matter of necessity, therefore, a very much lower class of men, both as to learning and position in society, were admitted into the Church as curates. These, having no academic gowns, and unable from their pecuniary circumstances to purchase silk, adopted a thin and cheap material called "crape." The word "crape" became the adjective designation for a clergyman of the lowest position in the Church. I need not say that "lawn" is still used to distinguish the episcopate. For full information as to the crape-gown men, I would refer MR. DIXON briefly to Dr. J. Eachard's Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion inquired into, 18mo, London, 1670. Also, Speculum Crape-Gownorum; or, a Looking Glass for the Young Academics, New Foyl'd, 4to, Parts I. and II., London, 1682 (this has been erroneously attributed to Defoe); Reflections upon Two

"I SETTE SALMI" (3rd S. v. 98.)-Several weeks having elapsed without any answer to inquiries about this Italian manuscript, perhaps the following remarks may be acceptable. The seven penitential psalms were paraphrased in terza rima by Dante in his old age; but, like rest of his works, did not see the light till after his death, when his son Jacopo Dante made them known to the world. Jacopo Dante might have been his father's amanuensis, hence his name on the titlepage. What the first word "Can" means, is not so clear. It is, however, just possible that Jacopo might also have been christened Cane after Dante's intimate friend and patron, Cane of Verona.

Maffei, in his Storia della Letteratura Italiana (p. 55), speaks of Dante Alighieri having written a metrical paraphrase of the seven penitential psalms shortly before his death; and Beolchi, in the short Life of Dante, prefixed to his Fiori Poetici, has the following passage:

"Sentiva i suoi giorni declinare verso il termine, onde si diede ad esercitare il suo genio poetico in soggetti sacri. E molto probabile che in questo tempo scrivesse la Parafrasi ai Sette Salmi Penitenziali."

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Notes.

A NEW CHAMPION OF MARY QUEEN OF

SCOTS.

Several important volumes have very recently been published in France on the History of England: they might appropriately be reviewed here, but as the abundance of materials prevents the insertion in " N. & Q." of professed comptesrendus of foreign works, I shall take the liberty of just calling the attention of the readers, under the shape of a brief note, to one of these productions.

M. Louis Wiesener, lecturer on history at the Lycée Louis le Grand, is the author of the octavo I have in view, and his Marie Stuart et le Comte de Bothwell contains an eloquent refutation of the accusations directed against the unfortunate Queen of Scots by Messrs. Mignet, Froude, and other historians. M. Wiesener starts from the proposition that Mary was the victim of a plot deliberately and carefully made by the nobility of Scotland, in order to assume the management of public affairs, -a plot in which the question of religion was more a pretext than a real subject of complaint on the part of the ringleaders. Bothwell had been at the time of Mary's return to Scotland admitted as a member of the privy council; Murray managed, in the first place, to bring about his disgrace.

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The marriage with Darnley, however, momentarily defeated the Regent's plan by introducing in the person of the Queen's consort a rival, who, if he had possessed any strength of character and some honour, would have utterly put down the rising of the ambitious nobles. In this emergency, by a stroke of consummate policy, Murray began by destroying Darnley through the instrumentality of Bothwell; he then ruined Bothwell for having helped to murder Darnley; and, finally, he contrived to make Mary share the condemnation with which he visited his own accomplice.

The

M. Wiesener has consulted with the most scrupulous care all the documents, both written and MS. that exist, concerning Mary Stuart. His critiques of other historians, particularly of M. Mignet, are often thoroughly sound, and at the same time always characterised by fairness and good temper. He is, on the other hand, very severe in his appreciation of Buchanan, whom he finds guilty of the grossest hypocrisy, and whom he denounces as an infamous calumniator. well-known Detectio, the Actio contru Mariam, were pamphlets written at the instigation of Murray; the pretended letters from Mary to Bothwell, the journal of the Regent himself, were, M. Wiesener, supposes, fabrications unblushingly made by Buchanan; and the real nature of which appears palpable enough to those who, only anxious for a knowledge of the truth, consult the authentic documents preserved on this difficult subject.

Whatever may be the opinion entertained respecting the guilt of Mary Queen of Scots, we should hail with satisfaction every fresh attempt to solve this the long-disputed problem; and I think that the volume just described amply deserves, from this point of view, to be made a note of.

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GUSTAVE MASSON.

BISHOP THOMAS KNOX OF THE ISLES.

On the resignation of the see of the Isles by Bishop Andrew Knox, and his final removal to that of Raphoe, which occurred about the commencement of the year 1619, he was succeeded in who was nominated to the see by King Charles I. the Scotish bishopric by his eldest son Thomas, March 18, 1619, from Edinburgh, addressed to in February; and is mentioned in a letter, dated Sir John Campbell of Calder, by his factor there, in the following terms:

"Mr. Thomas Knox is comet heir from court, he is bischope of the Ilis, and his gift past throw the sealis alreddie; he told me that his Majestie spak weill of you."-Book of the Thanes of Cawdor.

His consecration may, therefore, be placed in tical preferments I have not succeeded in asceror about that month; but his previous ecclesiastaining, and the only notice of his career before

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that period, consists in his having been one of the | hostages for his father in September, 1614, when he was surprised by the island chiefs at Islay, and only released on certain conditions, afterwards violated through an act of gross treachery, in November following. (Gregory's Western Isles.)

He had ecclesiastical preferment in the kingdom of Ireland, for we find: "Thomas Knox, B.D., Incumbent of the parish of Clondevadocke, or

* Diocese.—Isles of Bute and Arran, with most of the Hebrides, or Western Archipelago of Isles. ("Sudoreyar," from sudr, south, and ey, island, in Islandic.) Cathedral Chapter (re-established by Act of Scotish Parliament, in July, 1617).-1. Dean, the Parson of Sorbie, or Sorabie, in Tyree, who was also Vicar of Iona, with parish of Crossabill annexed; 2. Sub-Dean, the Parson of Rothesay, in Bute; 3, 4, 5, 6. Parsons of four other parish churches in the diocese; at the same time the Priory of Ardchatten and Abbey of Icolmkill, or Iona ("Hy,") were annexed to the Bishopric, and an Archdeacon appears to have been instituted on Sept. 3, 1662.

Fanvet' -a rectory in his father's diocese of Raphoe-in the year 1622; and as he was necessarily nonresident, he employed a curate, Robert Whyte, M.A.; and paid him 10l. annually, for serving that benefice during his own absence. (Ulster Visitation Book.)

Bishop Knox's death is placed by Keith (Scottish Bishops) in the year 1626; but it may be more probably referred to 1628, as his successor in the see of the Isles, Dr. John Leslie, was nominated on August 17 in the latter year. And it is unlikely that the bishopric would have been allowed to remain so long vacant. These dates are, however, merely conjectural; and, when Mr. Cosmo Innes remarks, that "the succession of the bishops of that see (The Isles) is confused and uncertain throughout, but about the Reformation, it becomes inexplicable;" and as also, in the seventeenth century, even the post-Reformation succession continues defective, it can hardly

be expected that a tyro like myself can succeed in the almost hopeless task of attempting to reconcile the chronological difficulties, and nearly insuperable obstacles, which oppose the compilation of a correct Catalogue of the Bishops of the Isles. However, I append (from my MS. "Fasti Eccl. Scotic.") a brief tabular view of the last seven prelates who occupied this ancient see, between the years 1606 and 1702, which may perhaps be deemed worthy of insertion. With reference to this bishop's connection with the islanders of his diocese-politically, for of his ecclesiastical government unfortunately nothing is recorded-it may be mentioned that, in 1622, the chiefs having made their usual annual appearance before the Privy Council of Scotland at Edinburgh, several acts of importance relating to the Isles were passed. By the first of these, they were bound to build and repair their parish churches to the satisfaction of the Bishop of the Isles; and

Keith, Ware, Cotton, Gregory, Reeve.

Keith, Cotton, Lawson, &c.

Ware, Cotton, Keith, Lawson, Reeve.

Keith, Grub, Lawson, &c.

Keith, Grub, Lawson,

&c.

Keith, Grub, Lawson, &c.

Keith, Grub, Lawson, &c.

they promised to meet the bishop at Icolmkill, whenever he should appoint, to make the necessary arrangements in this matter. The bishop at this time promised to appoint a qualified Commissary for the Isles, complaints having been made on that head. (Rec. Privy Council, July, 1622.)

The above is from Gregory's valuable History of the Western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, and he appears to have considered the bishop to have been Andrew Knox; but it must have occurred during the episcopate of his son and successor, as the former was undoubtedly then in Ireland. The family of Knox of Prehen, near Derry, was descended from these bishops; and, probably also, that of Rappa Castle, in the county of Mayo, which still exists.

Arms. Gu., a falcon volant, or, within an orle, invected on the outer side arg. (Nisbet's Heraldry, i. 178.) A. S. A.