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Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln.—In searching through the registers of the bishops of Lincoln, the following curious entries met my eye:
"Smoke-farthings.—Commissio domini episcopi ad levandum le Smoke farthinges, alias dict. Lincoln farthinges a nostris Archidiaconatus nostri Leycestriæ: subditis ad utilitatem nostræ matricis ecclesiæ Cath. Linc. sponsæ nostræ convertend., dicti Smoke farthinges conceduntur ad constructionem campanili ecclesiæ prebendalis Sanctæ Margaretæ Leycestr. 1444."
The above entry occurs at fo. 48. of the register of William Alnewick, Bishop of Lincoln.
"Ao 1450. Testamentum domini Thomæ Cumberworth, militis.—In the name of Gode and to his loveyng, Amen. I, Thomas Cumbyrworth, knyght, the xv day of Feberer, the yere of oure Lord mlcccc and L. in clere mynde and hele of body, blyssed be Gode, ordan my last wyll on this wyse folowyng. Furst, I gyff my sawle to God, my Lorde and my Redemptur, and my wrechid body to be beryd in a chiffe wtowte any kyste in the northyle of the parych kirke of Someretby be my wyfe, and I wyll my body ly still, my mowth opyn, untild xxiiij owrys, and after laid on bere w[t]towtyn any thyng yropon to coverit bot a sheit and a blak cloth, wt a white crose of cloth of golde, but I wyl my kyste be made and stande by, and at my bereall giff it to hym that fillis my grave; also I gif my blissid Lord God for my mortuary there I am bered my best hors."
This entry occurs at fo. 43. of the register of Marmaduke Lumley, Bishop of Lincoln.
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Marston and Erasmus.—I am not aware the following similarity of idea, between a passage in Marston's Antonio and Mellida and one in Erasmus' Colloquies, has ever been pointed out:
" . . . . As having clasp'd a rose
Within my palm, the rose being ta'en away,