Man, to be one of his
executors. (See Collins's _Peerage_, vol. ii. p. 33.) Wolsey was
appointed supervisor of the will, and is in it called Lord
Chancellor: he was so made 1516, which proves that he was alive
after 1510. The will of Richard Hesketh, Esq.--to be buried in his
chapel at Rufford: executors, Hugh Hesketh, Bishop of Man, his
brother; and Thomas Hesketh, Esq.--was proved Nov. 13, 1520. (In
_Reg. Manwaring_, 3.) He continued bishop, I presume, forty-three
years, from 1487 to 1530. It is plain he was so thirty-four
years."]

_Form of Prayer for Prisoners._--

"It is not, perhaps, generally known, that we have a form of prayer
for prisoners, which is printed in the Irish Common Prayer-Book,
though not in ours. Mrs. Berkeley, in whose preface of prefaces to
her son's poems I first saw this mentioned, regrets the omission;
observing, that the very fine prayer for those under sentence of
death, might, being read by the children of the poor, at least keep
them from the gallows. The remark is just."--Southey's _Omniana_,
vol. i. p. 50.

What Irish Common Prayer-Book is here meant? I have the books issued by
the late Ecclesiastical History Society, but do not see the service
among them. Could the prayer referred to be transferred to "N. & Q.;" or
where is the said Irish Prayer-Book to be found?

THOMAS LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

[The Book of Common Prayer according to the use of the Church of
Ireland, we believe, may frequently be met with. An edition in
folio, 1740, is in the British Museum, containing "The Form of
Prayer for the Visitation of Prisoners, treated upon by the
Archbishops and Bishops, and the rest of the Clergy of Ireland, and
agreed upon by Her Majesty's License in their Synod, holden at
Dublin in the Year 1711." We are inclined to think that Mrs.
Berkeley must have intended its beautiful exhortation--not the
prayer--for the use of the poor. See "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 246.]

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REPLIES.

EDMUND SPENSER, AND SPENSERS, OR SPENCERS, OF HURSTWOOD.

(Vol. vii., pp. 303. 362.)

Without entering on the question as to possible connexion of the poet
with the family above mentioned, the discussion may be simplified by
solving a difficulty suggested by CLIVIGER (p. 362.), arising from
Hurstwood Hall (_another estate in Hur