_Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what was the language of such proclamation?
_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N. & Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting the episcopate.
Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers, but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.
In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs:
"Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant (afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note.
Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge, Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.
Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does not etiquette forbid such practice now?
_Celebrated Wagers._--I should be glad if any correspondent will point out any remarkable { 451} instances of the above. The ordinary channels for obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with.
"_Pay me tribute, or else_----."--In Mr. Bunn's late work, _Old England and New England_, I find this note:
"We all remember the haughty message of the ruler of a certain province to the governor of a neighbouring one, 'Pay me tribute, or else----;' and the appropriate reply, 'I owe you none, and if----.'"
Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment? The anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the governors and what the provinces?
"_A regular Turk._"--We often hear of people bad to manage being "regular Turks." When did the phrase originate? Though not a journal for politics, "N. & Q." will no doubt breathe a wish for the present sultan to be, in the approaching warfare, "a regular Turk."