Minor Queries.
St. Augustine's Six Treatises on Music.—Dupin mentions St. Augustine's Six Treatises on Music: do these exist in print? if so, in what edition are they to be found?
E. A. H. L.
Bishop Merriman.—A few years ago inquiry was unsuccessfully made in the Gentleman's Magazine, and elsewhere both in England and Ireland for some particulars of John Merriman, the first Protestant Bishop of Down and Connor.
In Cox's Hibernia Anglicana it appears that "Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh, was consecrated by the Popish Archbishop Curwin; Thomas Lancaster, the first Protestant Bishop of Kildare, was consecrated by Archbishop Brown; and John Merriman, the first Protestant Bishop of Down and Connor, was consecrated by Lancaster when Primate."
This Bishop Merriman had been chaplain to Queen Elizabeth; he was made Vicar of St. John's, Atheboy, in the first year of her reign, and was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, Jan. 19, 1568/9. He died in 1572.
The probable father of Bishop Merriman may be found in the Rutland Papers, published by the Camden Society, where Mr. Meryman, in a second list called William Meryman, who held some office in the "Kechyn," is selected as one of the attendants on Henry VIII. and Queen Katherine to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.
There was formerly a family of the name of Merriman residing in Ireland: does it now exist? In England there are several families of this name: are any of them descended from this source?
T. D. P.