nd
in one volume, press-mark 3932, c.:--_The Hvrte of Hering Masse_; also
Two Notable Sermons, the one of _Repentance_, and the other of the
_Lord's Supper_, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is written, "A copy of
Bradford's _Hurte of Hearyng Masse_, printed for H. Kirham, 1596,
B. L., was in Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition by William
Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, and I believe
earlier.--R. H. BARHAM."]

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Minor Queries.

_Courtney Family._--I throw an apple of discord to your heraldic,
genealogical, and antiquarian, readers. Was there originally more than one
family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Courteney, Courtnaye, Courtenaye,
&c. Which is right, and when did the family commence in England, and how
branch off? If your readers can give no information, who can?

S. A.

Oxford.

"_The Shipwrecked Lovers._"--Can you give me any account of the following
tragedy, where the scene of it is laid, &c.? It is printed along with some
poems, and appears never to have been acted. The name of the piece is _The
Shipwrecked Lovers_, a tragedy in five acts, by James Templeton, Dublin,
12mo., 1801. I regret that I am unable to give any account of the author,
but perhaps some of your Irish readers may be able to do this.

SIGMA.

_Sir John Bingham._--In Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, article "Lucan,"
it is stated that this gentlemen was high in rank in King James's army at
the battle of Aughrim, and turned the fortune of the day in favour of
William by deserting, with his whole command, at the crisis of the battle.
A late number of the _Dublin University Magazine_ repeats this story on the
authority of Mr. Burke, and it would therefore be satisfactory to know
where the latter found a statement affecting so much the honour of the
family in question, one of the first in my native county. The dates of Sir
John's birth and marriage are not given, but the ages of several of his
children are known, and from them it follows that, supposing the father of
the first Lord Lucan not to have married till the mature age of fifty-five
or sixty, he was barely of age at the time of the battle, therefore not
likely to have been high in command. My countrymen are too much inclined,
like the French, to attribute their disasters to treachery, or to any cause
but the equal numbers and courage, and superior discipline, of their
adversaries: but