Alinda's
growing old" 262

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Who was the Author of
"The Modest Enquiry, &c."?--William Penn's Family
--Deal, Dover, and Harwich--Author of Broad
Stone of Honour--Pope Joan--The Well o' the
World's End--Sides and Angles--Meaning of Ratche
--"Feast of Reason," &c.--Tu autem 264

REPLIES:--

Barons of Hugh Lupus 266

Edmund Prideaux and the First Post-office 266

Lady Jane of Westmoreland 268

Replies to Minor Queries:--Ulm Manuscript--Father
Maximilian Hell--Meaning of "strained" as used by
Shakspeare--Headings of Chapters in English Bibles 269

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 269

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 270

Notices to Correspondents 270

Advertisements 271

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Notes.

TWO CHANCELLORS.

Although neither your readers nor I are politicians enough to interfere in
the changes proposed with reference to the office of Lord Chancellor, I
doubt not that some of them, now the subject is on the _tapis_, may feel
interested in a fact connected with it, which our ancient records disclose:
namely, that on one occasion there were _two chancellors_ acting at the
same time for several months together, and both regularly appointed by the
king.

It is an unique instance, occurring in the reign of Edward IV.: the two
chancellors being Thomas Rotheram, Bishop of Lincoln, and John Alcock,
Bishop of Rochester. The former received the Great Seal in May, 1474, in
the fourteenth year of the reign, and without any doubt continued
chancellor till the king's death; and yet, from April to September in the
following year, the latter was also addressed by the same title. During
that interval of five months, there are numerous writs of Privy Seal
addressed by the king to both, in which each of them is styled "our
chancellor."

This curious circumstance may be thus accounted for. King Edward had for
some time been contemplating an invasion of France; and when his
preparations were completed (about April), as he required his chancellor,
Bishop Rotheram, to attend him on the expedition, it became necessary to
provide some competent person to transact the