confiscate its property, the intention of
presentation was abandoned. This is at least plausible, as I do not mean
that it was _originally_ designed for a present to "bluff Harry," because
it was produced before he was born. But the arms were a work for any time;
and I think they were executed just before his rupture with the Pope was
known. To pay him a compliment afterwards from any part of Catholic Europe
was, of course, out of the question.

C. B. A.

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Minor Notes.

_Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III._--

"Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend
Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many
years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James',
Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was
translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St.
James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's;
and on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately
nominated to the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the
20th of April in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was
Rector of St. James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk
House, and had the honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty
and his royal consort, and to baptize several of their majesties'
children."--From _Pennsylvania Chronicle_, Oct. 3, 1768.

M. R. F.

Pennsylvania.

_Copernicus._--The inscription on the tomb of the celebrated Copernicus, in
the cathedral church at Thorn, in Prussian Poland, supposed to have been
written by himself, deserves a place in "N. & Q."

"Non parem _Pauli_ gratiam requiro,
Veniam _Petri_ neque posco; sed quam
In crucis ligno dederat Latroni
Sedulus oro."

FITZROY.

_First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament._--The following
extract from Parry's _Parliaments and Councils of England_, deserves, I
think, a corner in "N. & Q.," especially at the present day:

"1571, A. R. 13, May 10.--Thomas Long, 'a very simple man and unfit' to
serve, is questioned how he came to be elected. He confesses that he
gave the Mayor of Westbury and another four pounds for his place in
parliament. They are ordered to repay this sum, to appear to answer
such things as should be objected against them in that house, and a