J.T.  HAMMACK.

Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Romish Churches.—­In reply to M.’s Query, I beg to inform him, that to find a calendar of both the above churches, he need seek no further than the Almanach de Gotha for the year 1851.  He will there find what he wants, on authority no doubt sufficient.

D.C.

The Conquest (Vol. ii., p. 440).—­I do not agree with L. in thinking that the modern notion, that this word means “a forcible method of acquisition,” is an erroneous one; but have no doubt that, whatever its original derivation may be, it was used in that sense.  If William I. never pretended “to annex the idea of victory to conquisition,” it is certain that his son William II. did:  for we find a charter of his in the Monasticon (ed. 1846), vol. vi. p. 992., confirming a grant of the church of St. Mary of Andover to the abbey of St. Florence, at Salmur, in Anjou, in which there is the following recital: 

  “Noscant qui sunt et qui futuri sunt, quod Willielmus
  rex, qui armis Anglicam terram sibi subjugavit,
  dedit.” &c.

If this charter was granted by William I., under whom Dugdale has placed it in his Chronica Series, p. 1., nomine Baldric, the argument is so much the stronger; but I have endeavored to prove by internal evidence (Judges of England, vol. i. p. 67.) that it is a charter of William II.

EDWARD FOSS.

Thruscross (Vol. ii., p. 441.).—­In a sermon preached at the funeral of Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton, in Essex, June 30, 1682, by Bishop Ken, he says: 

“The silenced, and plundered, and persecuted clergy she thought worthy of double honour, did vow a certain sum yearly out of her income, which she laid aside, only to succour them.  The congregations where she then communicated, were those of the Reverend and pious Dr. Thruscross and Dr. Mossom, both now in heaven, and that of the then Mr. Gunning, the now most worthy Bishop of Ely, for whom she ever after had a peculiar veneration.”

“My last son Izaak, borne the 7th of September, 1651, at halfe an houre after two o’clock in the afternoone, being Sunday, and he was baptized that evening by Mr. Thruscross, in my house in Clerkenwell.  Mr. Henry Davison and my brother Beacham were his godfathers, and Mrs. Roe his godmother.”—­Izaak Walton’s Entry in his Prayer Book.

Peckhard, in his Life of Nicholas Ferrar, p. 213., quotes Barwick’s Life, Oley, Thruscross, and Thorndike.

W.P.

Osnaburgh Bishopric (Vol. ii., pp. 358. 447.).—­The succession to this bishopric was regulated by the Treaty of Westphalia, in 1648.  By virtue of that treaty the see of Osnaburgh is alternately possessed by a Romish and a Protestant prince; and when it comes to the turn of a Protestant, it is to be given to a younger son of the house of Hanover.  The Almanach de Gotha will most probably supply the information who succeeded the late Duke of York.  Looking at the names of the titular bishops of Osnaburgh, it may be inferred that the duties attached to the see are confined to its temporalities.