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Caithness, by the mob at Thurso while John was Earl of Orkney, and according to Dalrymple's _Annals_ in A.D. 1222; but in the narrative given by the historian Torfaeus, in his _Orcades_, of Haco, King of Norway's expedition against the western coast of Scotland in 1263, which terminated in the defeat of the invaders by the Scots at Largs, in Ayrshire, and the death of King Haco on his return back in the palace of the bishop of Orkney at Kirkwall, reference is made to the Codex Flateyensis as to the burial of King Haco in the city of Bergen, in Norway, where his remains were finally deposited, after lying some months before the shrine of the patron saint in the cathedral of Saint Magnus, at Kirkwall. There is not a syllable of King Haco or his expedition in the _Orkneyinga Saga_; and as I cannot reconcile this reference of Torfaeus (2nd edition, 1715, book ii. p. 170.) with the _Saga_, the favour of information is desired from some of your antiquarian correspondents. The Codex Flateyensis has been ascribed to a pensioner of the king of Norway resident in Flottay, one of the southern isles of Orkney, but with more probability can be attributed to some of the monks of the monastery built on the small island of Flatey, lying in Breida Fiord, a gulf on the west coast of Iceland. W.H.F. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Incumbents of Church Livings in Kent._--I have by me the following MS. note:--"A list of B.A.'s graduated at Cambridge from 1500 to 1735 may be found in 'Additional MSS. British Museum, No. 5,585.'" Will any of your correspondents inform me if this reference is correct, and if the list can be examined? Is there in the British Museum or elsewhere a list of incumbents of church livings in Kent (with name and birthplace) from 1600 to 1660? BRANBRIDGES. _York Buildings Company._--This company existed about the middle of the last century. I shall be glad to be informed where the papers connected with it are to be met with, and may be referred to. WDN. _Saying ascribed to Montaigne._--The saying, "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them," is usually ascribed to Montaigne. In what part of his works are these words to be found? I heard doubts expressed of their genuineness some years ago by a reader of the _Essays_; and my own search for them has also proved hitherto unsuccessful. C. FORBES. {2
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