[Carwithen, in his _History of the Church of England_, vol. i. p.
221. note _g_, speaking of the first book of Homilies, says,
"These Homilies were the work of Cranmer, Ridley, Latimer,
Hopkins, and Becon, one of Cranmer's chaplains. There is little
but internal evidence by which the author of any particular Homily
can be ascertained. The Homily 'Of the Salvation of Mankind,'
being the third as they are now placed, was ascribed by Gardiner
to Cranmer; and Cranmer never denied that it was his. The
eleventh, in three parts, is by Becon; and it is printed among his
works published by himself in three volumes folio. It is in the
second volume." Consult also Le Bas' _Life of Cranmer_, vol. i. p.
284., and Soames' _Hist. of the Reformation_, vol. iii. p. 56.]
_Family of Hotham of Yorkshire._--The family of Hotham, or Hothum, of
Boudeby in Yorkshire, acquired large possessions in Kilkenny at an early
period, apparently in consequence of an intermarriage with the Le
Despencers, lords of a third of the liberty of Kilkenny. Can any reader
of "NOTES AND QUERIES" supply me with a pedigree of that family,
especially as connecting therewith Sir John Hotham, Bishop of Ossory,
1779-1782? Any particulars respecting the life of that prelate will also
be thankfully acknowledged: he is said to have been a member of an old
Yorkshire family. (Cotton's _Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae_, vol. ii. p.
288.)