Page xviii. line 17.
“Ora lepore fluunt, sicuti dives _fagus_ auro.”
For “_fagus_” read “Tagus.” This obvious error, which unaccountably had
escaped my notice, was pointed out in _Quart. Rev._ lxxiii. 513.
P. xx. The following verses are transcribed from a MS. (in the collection
of the late Mr. B. H. Bright) consisting of _Hymni_, &c. by Picus
Mirandula:
“_Pici Mirandulæ Carmen Extemporale._
Quid tibi facundum nostra in præconia fontem
Solvere collibuit,
Æterna vates, Skelton, dignissime lauro,
Castalidumque decus?
Nos neque Pieridum celebramus antra sororum,
Fonte nec Aonio
Ebibimus vatum ditantes ora liquores.
At tibi Apollo chelym [_sic_]
Auratam dedit, et vocalia plectra sorores;
Inque tuis labiis
Dulcior Hyblæo residet suadela liquore;
Se tibi Calliope
Infudit totam: tu carmine vincis olorem;
Cedit et ipse tibi
Ultro porrecta cithara Rhodopeius Orpheus:
Tu modulante lyra
Et mulcere feras et duras ducere quercus,
Tu potes et rapidos
Flexanimis fidibus fluviorum sistere cursus;
Flectere saxa potes.
Græcia Mæonio quantum debebat Homero,
Mantua Virgilio,
Tantum Skeltoni jam se debere fatetur
Terra Britanna suo:
Primus in hanc Latio deduxit ab orbe Camenas;
Primus hic edocuit
Exculte pureque loqui: te principe, Skelton,
Anglia nil metuat
Vel cum Romanis versu certare poetis.
Vive valeque diu!”
P. xxxiv. To my notices of Garnesche add the following (collected by Mr.
D. E. Davy) from _Gent. Mag._ for Sept. 1844, p. 229:
“Sir Christopher Garneys, knt., whom I suppose to be the person
who was the object of Skelton’s satire, was the second son of
Edmund Garneys, esq. of Beccles, who was the second son of
Peter Garneys, esq. of Beccles, whose eldest son, Thomas, was
of Kenton. He, ‘Sir Christopher,’ was janitor of Caleys, and
often employed in the wars temp. H. viii....
In a window of the chapel in the north aisle of St. Peter’s
Mancroft Church, Norfolk, was the following inscription:
‘ ... anda ... a ... Dei, pro animabus Thome Elys tercia
vice hujus civitatis Norwici Majoris et Margarete consortis
sue.—Orandumque est pro animabus Edmundi Garnysh armigeri,
et Matilde ejus consortis, filie predictorum Thome Elis et
Margarete, ac pro longevo statu Christopheri Garnysh militis,
dicti serenissimi Principis ville sue Calisie Janitoris.’ See
Blomf. Norf. vol. iv. p. 199. [vol. ii. 628. ed. fol.]
‘A description of the Standards borne in the field by Peers
and Knights in the reign of Hen. Eighth, from a MS. in the
College of Arms marked I. 2. Compiled between the years 1510
and 1525.’—Syr Christoffer Garnys. ‘A on a wreath, Argent
and Gules, an arm erased below the elbow, and erect proper,
holding a falchion Argent, pomel and hilt Or, the blade imbrued
in 3 places Gules. (Imperfect.)—Arms. Argent a chevron Azure
between 3 escallops Sable.’ Excerpta Historica, p. 317.
‘Standards, temp. H. viii. Harl. MS. 4632. Syr Xr’ofer
Garneyshe. Blue. The device, on a wreath Argent and Gules, an
arm erased, grasping a scymitar, Proper.—Motto, ‘Oublere ne
dois.’’ Collect. Topog. vol. iii. p. 64.
‘The names of the Inglishmen which were sent in Ambassade
to the French King, before the Qwenes Landing, and oder
Gentilmen in their Compaigne.’—‘Sir Christopher Garneys’ (inter
al.).—Leland’s Collect, vol. ii. p. 704.
In the Athenæum for July 18, 1840, p. 572, there is a long
letter, dated ‘at Morpeth, the xxviij day of Decembre,’ and
signed ‘C. Garneys,’ whom the editor supposes to have been one
of the medical attendants sent by the King, upon the illness of
Queen Margaret: it was more probably [certainly, see _Account
of Skelton and his Writings_, p. xxxii.] Sir Christ. Garneys,
knt.
Sir Christopher was knighted at Touraine, 25 Dec. 5 H. viii.
1513, and married Jane, daughter of.... She died 27th March,
1552. Her will was dated 27th Aug. 1550, and proved 12th May,
1552; she was buried at Greenwich. Her husband was dead when
she made her will. She names her son Arthur Dymoke, esq.
Bequeaths most of her personal estate for charitable purposes.”