Chapter C: Genealogy of European Sovereigns

Sir,--Can you or any of your correspondents tell me of one or two of the best works on the "Genealogy of European Sovereigns?" I know of one,--Anderson's _Royal Genealogies_, London, 1732, folio. But that is not of as late a date as I should wish to see.

Q.X.Z.

Duke of Ashgrove.

At p. 14. of Doctor Simon Forman's _Diary_ (edited by Mr. Halliwell, 1849), mention is twice made of Forman being engaged as "Scholmaster to the _Duke of Ashgrove's_ Sonnes." Who was the person thus alluded to?

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Sir William Godbold.

Mr. Editor,--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for July, 1842, occurs this:--

"In the parish church of Mendham, Suffolk, is a mural monument
bearing an inscription, of which the following is a transcript:

"'M.S.V.Cmi Doctissimique D. Gulielmi Godbold Militis ex
illustri et perantiquâ Prosapiâ oriundi, Qui post Septennem
Peregrinationem animi excolendi gratiâ per Italiam, Græciam,
Palæstinam, Arabiam, Persiam, in solo natali in bonarum
literarum studiis consenescens morte repentinâ obiit Londini
mense Aprilis Ao. D. MDCXIIIC, ætatis LXIX.'

"One would presume that so great a traveller would have obtained
some celebrity in his day; but I have never met with any notice
of Sir William Godbold. I have ascertained that he was the only
son of Thomas Godbold, a gentleman of small estate residing at
Metfield, in Suffolk, and was nephew to John Godbold, Esq.,
Serjeant-at-Law, who was appointed Chief Justice of the Isle of
Ely in 1638. He appears to have been knighted previously to
1664, and married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Richard
Freston, of Mendham (Norfolk), Esq., and relict of Sir Nicholas
Bacon, of Gillingham, Bart., whom he survived, and died without
issue in 1687. I should consider myself under an obligation to
any of your correspondents who could afford me any further
account of this learned knight, or refer me to any biographical
or other notice of him."

To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains unsupplied. Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for repeating the inquiry.

G.A.C.

Ancient motto.

Many years since I read that some pope or emperor caused the following, or a motto very similar to it, to be engraven in the centre of his table:--

"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam
accumbere indignus est."

It being a maxim which all should observe in the daily intercourse of life, and in the propriety of which all must concur, I send this to "NOTES AND QUERIES" (the long wished-for medium), in the hopes that some kind "note-maker" can inform me from whence this motto is taken, and to whom ascribed.

J.E.M.

Works of King Alfred.

Sir,--If any of your readers can inform me of MSS. of the Works of Kings Alfred the Great, besides those which are found in the larger public collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not only on the Alfred Committee, who propose to publish a complete edition of King Alfred's Works, but also on their Secretary, who is your obedient servant,

J.A. GILES.

Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23. 1849

"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.

I should be much obliged to any of your readers who would favour me with an explanation of the words "Bive" and "Chote." They were thus applied in an inventory taken Kent.

"27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.
Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.
Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."

T.W.

Anecdote of the Civil Wars.

Horace Walpole alludes to an anecdote of a country gentleman, during the Civil Wars, falling in with one of the armies on the day of some battle (Edgehill or Naseby?) as he was _quietly going out with his hounds_. Where did Walpole find this anecdote?

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A Political Maxim--when first used.

Who first used the phrase--"_When bad men conspire, good men must combine_"?