Minor Queries Answered.
Augmentation Office.
—I should esteem it a favour if any of your correspondents could inform me whether the original grants made in Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. reigns, of the property of dissolved religious establishments, are to be met with in the Augmentation Office, and if not, where? as it would greatly assist in tracing titles to property formerly belonging to those establishments, and which passed from the hands of the crown to different individuals at those periods.
J. N. CHADWICK.
[All grants from the crown pass under letters patent, which are enrolled on the patent rolls. Those for the time of Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI. are in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, and can be readily searched if the name of grantee and date is known. In the Augmentation Office, a branch of the Carlton Ride Record Office, are the "particulars" for those grants, which give considerable information. See 8th Report of the Deputy-keeper of the Public Records.]
"Smectymnus."
—Who were the five divines who united their powers in writing against episcopacy under the above title, which is said to be composed of the initial letters of their names?
O. P. Q.
[They were Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow: their followers were called Smectymnuans. See Butler's Hudibras, with Grey's notes, Part I, canto iii. line 1166.]