riage--
Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens--"Dies
Irae, Dies Illa"--Aubrey Family--Ogden Family 70
REPLIES:--
Sir George Buc, by E. F. Rimbault and Cecil Monro 73
"A frog he would a-wooing go" 74
Replies to Minor Queries;--Carucate of Land--
Golden Frog and Sir John Poley--The Poley Frog--
Bands--Bishops and their Precedence--"Imprest"
and "Debenture"--Charade--"Laus tua, non tua
Fraus"--Dutch Language--"Construe" and "translate"--
Dutton Family--Mother of Thomas a Becket--
Medal of Stukeley--Dulcarnon--Practice of Scalping--
Derivation of Penny 75
MISCELLANIES:--
"By Hook or by Crook"--Burning dead Bodies--
Etymology of "Barbarian"--Royal and distinguished
Disinterments 78
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 79
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 79
Notices to Correspondents 79
Advertisements 79
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Notes.
GEORGE GORING, EARL OF NORWICH, AND HIS SON GEORGE, LORD GORING.
G.'s inquiry (Vol. i., p. 22.) about the two Gorings of the Civil War--a
period of our history in which I am much interested--has led me to look
into some of the sources of original information for that time, in the hope
that I might be enabled to answer his Queries. I regret I cannot yet answer
his precise questions, when Lord Goring the son was married, and when and
where he died? but I think the following references to notices of the
father and the son will be acceptable to him; and I venture to think that
the working out in this way of neglected biographies, is one of the many
uses to which your excellent periodical may be applied.
Confusion has undoubtedly been made between the father and son by careless
compilers. But whoever carefully reads the passages of contemporary writers
relating to the two Gorings, and keeps in mind that the title of Earl of
Norwich, given by Charles I. in November, 1644, to the father, was not
recognised by the parliamentary party, will have no difficulty in
distinguishing between the two. Thus it will be seen in two of the passages
which I subjoin from Carte's _Letters_, that in 1649 a parliamentarian
calls the father Lord Goring, an
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