Chapter I: Front Matter

NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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No. 14.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS

NOTES:
Reprints of Old Books, by J.P. Collier. 209
Catacombs and Bone-houses. 210
Lines attributed to Hudibras. 210
Notes from Fly-leaves, No. 5. 211
The Pursuits of Literature. 212

QUERIES:--
Barryana. 212
Nine Queries by the Rev. J. Jebb. 212
Minor Queries:--Mowbray Coheirs--Draytone and
Yong--Fraternity of Christian Doctrine--Treatise
by Engelbert--New Year's Day Custom--Under the
Rose--Norman Pedigrees--Dr. Johnson's Library--Golden
Frog--Singular Motto--Sir Stephen Fox--Antony
Alsop--Derivation of Calamity, &c. 213

REPLIES:--
Field of Forty Footsteps, by E.F. Rimbault. 217
Queries answered, No. 4.--Pokership, by Bolton Corney. 218
Mertens the Printer. 218
Etymology of Armagh. 218
Matters of the Revels, by E.F. Rimbault. 219
Replies to Minor Queries:--Red Maids--Poetical Symbolism--Fraternitye
of Vagabondes--Anonymous Ravennas--Dick Shore--Travelling in
England--Sanuto--Darnley's Birth-place--History of Edward II., &c. 219

MISCELLANIES:--Gray's Elegy--Shylock--Sonnet--The
Devotee--By Hook or by Crook--Macaulay's Young
Levite--Praise undeserved--Cowper's "Task". 221

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 223
Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 223
Notices to Correspondents. 223
Advertisements. 224

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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRINTS OF OLD BOOKS

Most people are aware of the great demand there is for English literature, and indeed for all literature in the United States: for some years the anxiety of persons in that part of the world to obtain copies of our early printed books, prose, poetry, and plays, has been well known to such as collect and sell them on this side of the water. Where American purchasers could not obtain original editions they have, in all possible cases, secured reprints, and they have made some themselves.

Not very long since a present of a most creditable and well-edited republication of "Four Old Plays" was sent to me from Cambridge, U.S., consisting of "Three Interludes: _Thersytes_, _Jack Jugler_, and Heywood's _Pardoner and Frere_; and _Jocasta_, a tragedy by Gascoigne and Kinwelmarsh." They are preceded by a very well written and intelligent, and at the same time modest, Introduction, signed F.J.C., the initials of Mr. Francis James Child; who in fact was kind enough to forward the volume to me, and who, if I am not mistaken, was formerly a correspondent of mine in a different part of the republic.

My particular reason for noticing the book is to impress upon editors in this country the necessity of accuracy, not only for the sake of readers and critics here, but for the sake of those abroad, because Mr. Child's work illustrates especially the disadvantage of the want of that accuracy. It so happens that two, if not three, of the pieces included in the Cambridge volume, are absolutely unique, and are now in the library of the Duke of Devonshire. They went through my hands some years ago, and as they had been previously reprinted in London (two of them for the Roxburghe Club), I took the opportunity of collating my copies of them. The third interlude, which was not reprinted for any society, but as a private speculation, "by George Smeeton, in St. Martin's Church-yard," is Heywood's _Pardoner and Frere_, the full title of which is "_A mery playe betwene the pardoner, and the frere, the curate and neybour Pratte_." The original copy has the following imprint: "Imprynted by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll, the yere of our lorde, M. CCCCC. xxx III."

The reprint by Smeeton is in black letter, and it professes to be a fac-simile, or as nearly so as possible; and although it consists of only eight leaves, it contains no fewer than forty variations from the original, all more or less important, and one of them the total omission of a line, so that the preceding line is left without its corresponding rhyme, and the sense materially injured.

Unfortunately, Mr. Child reprinted in America from this defective reprint in England; but his sagacity prevented him from falling into some of the blunders, although it could not supply him with the wanting line; and his notes are extremely clear and pertinent. I shall not go over the thirty-nine other errors; but I shall just quote the passage as it stands in the (as far as I know) unique copy, now deposited at Devonshire House, and supply in italics the necessary line. It occurs in a speech by the Pardoner, near the end, where he is praising one of his relics:-- {210}

"I wyll edefy more, with the syght of it
Than wyll all the pratynge of holy wryt;
For that except that the precher, hym selfe lyue well,
His predycacyon wyll helpe neuer a dell,
And I know well, that thy lyuynge is nought:
_Thou art an apostata, yf it were well sought_,
An homycyde thou art I know well inoughe," &c.

The line omitted is the more remarkable, because it contains an instance of the employment of a word very old in our language, and in use in the best periods of our prose and poetry: "apostata" is explained in the _Promptorium_, is found in Skelton and Heywood, and so down to the time of Massinger, who was especially fond of it.

How many copies were issued of Smeeton's reprint of _The Pardoner and the Frere_, I know not; but any of your readers, who chance to possess it, will do well to add the absent line in the margin, so that the mistake may be both rectified and recorded. I was not aware of Mr. Child's intention to re-publish the interlude in the United States, or I would long ago have sent him the correction, as indeed I did, a day or two after I received his volume. It was, nevertheless, somewhat ungracious to thank him for his book, and at the same time to point out an important error in it, for which, however, he was in no way responsible.

J. PAYNE COLLIER.

Kensington, Jan. 28. 1850.

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CATACOMBS AND BONE-HOUSES.

Without attempting to answer the queries of MR. GATTY, (No. 11. p. 171.) I venture to send a note on the subject. I believe it will generally be found that the local tradition makes such collections of bones to be "the grisly gleanings of some battlefield." One of the most noteworthy collections of this kind that I have seen is contained in the crypt of Hythe Church, Kent, where a vast quantity of bones are piled up with great regularity, and preserved with much care. According to a written statement suspended in the crypt, they are the relics of Britons and Saxons slain in a battle fought on the beach in the sixth century; the local tradition is nearly to the same effect, but of course is of little value, as it has most likely arisen from or been conformed to this "written chronicle;" both writing and tradition must indeed be regarded with distrust. It is affirmed in the neighbourhood that the bones were _dug up_ from the beach; but I, at least, could hear of no tradition as to the period when they were exhumed. Perhaps some resident will ascertain whether any such exists.

The bones have all the appearance of considerable antiquity; yet they are in excellent preservation. The skulls are remarkably white and perfect, and are altogether a very curious collection, differing greatly in size, form, and thickness. The holes and fractures in many of them (made evidently during life) leave no doubt that they belonged to persons who met with a violent death.

I will not pretend to reply to the concluding queries of your correspondent, but I would just remark that, from what we know of the feeling of our ancestors respecting the remains of the dead, it appears probably that if from any cause a large quantity of human bones were found, or were from any cause obliged to be disturbed, some ecclesiastic or pious layman would take measures to have them removed to some consecrated spot where they might be safe from further molestation. They would hardly be treated in any such manner as Dr. Mantell states the bones removed by the railway engineers from the Priory ground at Lewes were treated. I remain, sir, your very obedient servant,

J.T.

Syndenham, Jan. 21. 1850.

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LINES ATTRIBUTED TO HUDIBRAS.

Perhaps the following extract from a volume entitled _The Relics of Literature_, published by Boys and Co., Ludgate Hill, 1820, may prove interesting, as further illustrating the so frequently disputed passage which forms the subject matter of your first article in No. 12.:--

"Few popular quotations have more engaged the pens of critics
than the following:--

'For he that fights and runs away
Will live to fight another day.'

"These lines are almost universally supposed to form a part of
_Hudibras_; and, so confident have even scholars been on the
subject, that in 1784 a wager was made at Bootle's, of twenty to
one, that they were to be found in that inimitable poem. Dodsley
was referred to as the arbitrator, when he ridiculed the idea of
consulting him on the subject, saying, 'Every fool knows they
are in _Hudibras_.' George Selwyn, who was present, said to
Dodsley, 'Pray, sir, will you be good enough, then, to inform an
old fool, who is at the same time your wise worship's very
humble servant, in what canto they are to be found?' Dodsley
took down the volume, but he could not find the passage; the
next day came, with no better success; and the sage bibliopole
was obliged to confess, 'that a man might be ignorant of the
author of this well-known couplet without being absolutely a
fool.'"

I have also the following memorandum in a common-place book of mine, but I do not remember from what source I transcribed it many years past:--

"The couplet, thus erroneously ascribed to the author of
_Hudibras_, occurs in a small volume of Miscellaneous Poems, by
Sir John Mennis, written in the reign of Charles the Second,
which has now become extremely scarce. The original of the
couplet may, however, be traced to much higher authority, even
to Demosthenes, who has the following expression:-- {211}

'[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]',

of which the lines are almost a literal translation."

While on the subject of quotations, let me ask whether any of your correspondents can tell me where the passage, "Providence tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," is to be found?

Among a few of the many floating quotable passages universally known, without any trace of the authors, among general readers and writers, are the following:--

"When wild in woods the noble savage ran."

DRYDEN's _Conquest of Grenada_.

"And whistled as he went for want of thought."

DRYDEN's _Cymon and Iphigenia_.

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide."

DRYDEN's _Absalom and Achitophel_, st. i. I. 163.

"The tenth transmitter of a foolish face."

SAVAGE.

"When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war."

NAT. LEE.

The real line in Lee is--

"When Greeks join Greeks then was the tug of war."

LEE's _Alexander the Great_.

J.W.G. GUTCH

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I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these lines, if you do not think the subject already exhausted by Mr. Rimbault's curious and interesting communication.

1. Does not the _entire_ quotation run somewhat thus:--

"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain
Can never hope to fight again"?

2. Are the two last lines in the _Musarum Deliciæ_?

3. May not the idea suggesting the two first lines be traced to some passage in one of the orations of _Demosthenes_, and, PAST him, to the "[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]" of some contemporary, if not still older writer?

4. Whose _Apothegems_ [qy., those of Demosthenes?] are under consideration on folio 239., from which Mr. Rimbault quotes?

Queries 1, 2, 3 have long stood _in MS._ in my note-book, and I should much like to see them in _print_, while the subject to which they refer is still fresh in the minds of your readers.

MELANION

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The lines--

"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"

resemble the following quatrain in the _Satyre Menippée_, being one of the several verses appended to the tapestry on which was wrought the battle of Senlis:--

"Souvent celuy qui demeure
Est cause de son meschef;
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure
Peut combattre de rechef."

A.J.H.

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NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, No. 5.

In the library of St. John's College are some hundreds of volumes bequeathed to it by Thomas Baker; most of these have little notices on the fly-leaves, some thirty or forty of which seem worth printing. One (Strype's _Life of Parker_) has marginal notes throughout the book, the value of which will be duly appreciated by those who have read Baker's notes on Burnet's _Reformation_. (See the _British Magazine_ for the last year.)

Hereafter, if you do not object, I hope to send larger extracts from Baker's MSS.; at present I confine myself to a single specimen, taken from the fly-leaf of a copy of Noy's _Compleat Lawyer_, London, 1665. (St. John's Library, Class mark, I. 10. 49)

"Gul. Noye de S. Buriens. Com. Cornub. Armig. unus Magistrorum
de Banco fieri fecit, 1626. On a window in Lincoln Inn's
Chapell. See Stow's _Survey_, &c. vol. ii. lib. ii. p. 73.

"This book has a former edition, London, 1661; but not so fair a
print, and without the Author's Life.

"See Fuller's _Worthies in Cornwall_, p. 200.

"See Mr. Gerard's Letter to Lord Strafford, dated Jan 3. 1634.
_Mr. Noy continues ill, & is retired to his house at Brentford:
I saw him much fallen away in his Face & Body, but as yellow as
Gold--with the Jaundice--his bloody waters continue with drain
his Body._

"See Lloyd's _State Worthies_, p. 892, 893. &c.

"Aug. 9. [1634] Wm Noy Esquire the King's Attorney died at
Brainford.--Mr. Ric. Smith's _Obituary_.

"See Wm Noy's Will (very remarkable) MS. vol. xxx. p. 309.

"16th Dec. 1631. Conc. Ornatissimo viro Gulielmo Noye, ut sit de
Consilio Universitatis--et annuatim 40th recipiat, &c.--Regr.
Acad Cant.

"See Howell's Letters, sect 6. pp. 30, 31.

"Rex 27. October. 1632 constituit Willielmum Noye Arm.
Attornatum suum Generalem, durante beneplacito.--Rymer, tom. 19.
p. 347.

"See his (W.N.) will, very pious except the last clause, which
is next to impious. vol. xxxvi. MS. p. 379.

"Young Noy, the dissipanding Noy, is kill'd in France in a
Duell, by a Brother of St. John Biron; so now the younger
Brother is Heir and Ward to the King.--A Letter to Lord Deputy
Wentworth, vol. ii. p. 2 dat. Apr. 5. 1636."

It may be as well to add, that the references to vols. xxx. and xxxvi. of MS. are to two different copies of the will in two volumes of Baker's MSS., in the University library. The word "dissipanding," in the last quotation, doubtless is an allusion {212} to "dissipanda" in the will itself. I once had occasion to take a copy of this will, and found the variations between the two copies trifling.

J.E.B. MAYOR

[We shall be obliged by our correspondent forwarding, at his
convenience, the proposed copies of Baker's MS. notes.]

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THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE.

Many years ago, the satirical poem, entitled _The Pursuits of Literature_, engaged public attention for a very considerable time; the author concealed his name; and from 1796 at least to 1800, the world continued guessing at who could be the author. Amongst the names to which the poem was ascribed were those of Anstey, Colman, Jun., Coombe, Cumberland, Harry Dampier, Goodall, Hudderford, Knapp, MATHIAS, Mansell, Wrangham, Stephen Weston, and many others, chiefly Etonians. George Steevens, it is believed, fixed upon the real author at an early period: at least in the _St. James's Chronicle_, from Tuesday, May 1. to Thursday, May 3. 1798, we find--

"THE PURSUER OF LITERATURE PURSUED

"_Hic niger est_.

"With learned jargon and conceit,
With tongue as prompt to lie as
The veriest mountebank and cheat,
Steps forth the black ----.

"At first the world was all astounded,
Some said it was _Elias_;
But when the riddle was expounded,
'Twas little black ----.

"This labour'd work would seem the job
Of hundred-handed _Gyas_;
But proves to issue from the nob
Of little black ----.

"Through learned shoals of garbled Greek
We trace his favourite bias,
But when the malice comes to speak,
We recognise ----.

"What strutting _Bantam_, weak but proud,
E'er held his head so high as
This pigmy idol of the crowd,
The prancing pert ----.

"[Greek: Touto to biblion], he'll swear,
Is [Greek: plaeron taes sophias],
But men of sense and taste declare
'Tis little black ----.

"Oh! were this scribbler, for a time,
Struck dumb like _Zacharias_,
Who could regret the spiteful rhyme
Of little black ----.

"Small was his stature who in fight
O'erthrew the great _Darius_
But small in genius as in height
Is little black ----.

"Say, could'st thou gain the butt of sack
And salary that _Pye_ has,
Would it not cheer thy visage black,
Thou envious rogue ----.

"When next accus'd deny it not!
Do think of _Ananias_!
Remember how _he_ went to pot,
As thou may'st, friend ----.

"BARACHIAS."

I am, &c., your humble servant,

H.E.

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QUERIES.

BARRYANA.

The inquiries of "DRAMATICUS," and others in your number for Nov. 10., prompt me to say that should any of your correspondents happen to possess information answering the following queries, or any of them, I shall be thankful to share it.

1. What became of the natural child of Elizabeth Barry, the actress, who died 1713; and whether the Earl of Rochester, its father, was really Wilmot (as Galt assumes) or Hyde, on whom that title was conferred at Wilmot's death? The former mentions a natural daughter in his last will; but he names it "Elizabeth Clerke," and does not allude to its mother. Mrs. Barry's will mentions no kindred whatever. But Galt describes her as daughter of Edward Barry, Esq., a barrister of Charles I.'s reign.--Who was he? Spranger Barry, the actor of fifty years later, Sir William Betham and myself have succeeded in connecting satisfactorily, and legitimately, with the noble house of Barry, Lord Santry; but I cannot as yet show that Mrs. E. Barry inherited her theatrical talent from an identical source.

2. Of what family was Mr. Barry, the Secretary to the Equivalent Company, who died about 1738? I possess immense collections on the name of Barry, but I cannot identify any London will or administration as this individual's.

3. Whether Sir Robert Walpole's Secret Government Lists of the Pretender's adherents, agents, and emissaries in London (who were supposed to be under the evil-eye of Jonathan Wild) still exist, and are accessible?

WILLIAM D'OYLY BAYLEY.

Coatham, Yorkshire, Jan. 1849-50.

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NINE QUERIES.

1. _Book-plate._--Whose was the book-plate with the following device:--An eagle or vulture feeding with a snake another bird nearly as large as herself; a landscape, with the sea, &c. in the distance: very meanly engraved, in an oval, compassed with the motto, "Pietas homini tutissima virtus"?

2. _Addison's Books._--I have two or three volumes, bound apparently at the beginning of {213} the last century, with a stamp on the cover, consisting of J.A., in a cursive character, within a small circle. Was this the book-stamp of Joseph Addison?

3. _Viridis Vallis._--Where was the monastery of "Viridis Vallis," and what is its vernacular name?

4. _Cosmopoli._--Has _Cosmopoli_ been ever appropriated to any known locality? Archdeacon Cotton mentions it among the pseudonymes in his _Typographical Gazetteer_. The work whose real locality I wish to ascertain is, _Sandii Paradox_. iv. _Evang._ 1670. 1 vol. 8vo.

5. _Seriopoli._--The same information is wanting respecting "Seriopoli; apud Entrapelios Impensis Catonis Uticensis:" which occurs in the title-page of "Seria de Jocis," one of the tracts connected with the Bollandist controversy.

6. _Early Edition of the Vulgate._--Where is there any critical notice of a very beautiful edition of the Vultage, small 4to., entitled "Sacra Biblia, cum studiis ac diligentia emendata;" in the colophon, "Venetiis, apud Jolitos, 1588"? The preface is by "Johannes Jolitus de Ferrarüs." The book is full of curious wood-cuts. This is not the book mentioned in Masch's _Le Long_ (part ii, p. 229), though that was also printed by the Gioliti in 1588; as the title of the latter book is "Biblia ad vetustissima Exemplaria castigata," and the preface is by Hentenius.

7. _Identity of Anonymous Annotators._--Can any of the correspondents of "NOTES AND QUERIES" point out to a literary Backwoodsman, like myself, any royal road towards assigning to the proper authors the handwriting of anonymous annotations in fly-leaves and margins? I have many of these, which I should be glad to ascertain.

8. _Complutensian Polyglot._--In what review or periodical did there appear, some time ago, a notice of the supposed discovery (or of conjectures as to the existence) of the MSS. from which the "Complutensian Polyglot" was compiled, involving, of course, the repudiation of the common story of the rocket maker of Alcala? Has any further light been thrown on this subject?

9. _Blunder in Malone's Shakspeare._--Has any notice been taken of the following odd blunder in Malone's _Shakspeare_, Dublin ed. 1794?

In vol. ii. p. 138, the editor, speaking of _John_ Shakspeare's will (the father of William), says "This extraordinary will consisted of fourteen articles, _but the first leaf being unluckily wanting_, I am unable to ascertain either its date, or the particular occasion on which it was written." He then gives a copy of the will, beginning at the third article, in the middle of a sentence, thus: "... at least spiritually." Now, in the first vol. p. 154. is a document, professing to be William Shakspeare's will. But of this the first three paragraphs belong to John Shakspeare's will, his name being mentioned in each: and the third concludes with the words "at least spiritually." The fourth paragraph, to the end, belongs to William Shakspeare's will, as given in Johnson and Stevens's editions. This is a palpable instance of editorial carelessness: Mr. Malone had mixed the two documents, mislaid the first portion of the transcript of William Shakspeare's will, and then neglected to examine the postscript, or he must have found out his mistake.

Was this error acknowledged or corrected in any subsequent edition?

JOHN JEBB.

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MINOR QUERIES

_Mowbray Coheirs._--Collins in his _Peerage_ (ed. Brydges, 1812), says, at p. 18., speaking of Thomas Duke of Norfolk:--

"In 15 Henry VII, he made partition with Maurice, surviving
brother of William Marquiss of Berkeley (who died issueless), of
the lands that came to them by inheritance, by right of their
descent, from the coheirs of _Mowbray_, Duke of Norfolk;"

and quotes, as his authority, _Commun. de T. Pasch, 15 Henry VII., Rot._ 1.

The roll of the whole year referred to has been examined, without finding any notice of the subject.

Should any of your readers have met with the statement elsewhere, it may happen that there is some error in Collins's reference to his authority; and a clue to the right roll, or any other notice of the division of this great inheritance, will be acceptable.

G.

_Draytone and Yong._--The following note was found by me among the Exchequer Records, on their sale and dispersion, a few years ago:--

"I praye you fellowe Draytone do so invehe for me as to Resave
all svche moneye as is dewe to me from the handes of Ser
Vincente Skyner Knyghte or else wheare from thos offysers of the
excheqer And this shalbe yovr discharge. Written the laste daye
of Janvarye 1607. Henry Yong."

Can your subscribers inform me who the writer was? Mr. Payne Collier states that there was an interlude-maker of the name of Henry Yong in the reign of Henry VIII. Is it likely that the note was addressed to Michael Drayton?

ROBT. COLE.

Upper Norton Street, Jan. 23, 1850.

_The Fraternity of Christian Doctrine._--I think I see some names among your correspondents who might inform me where I shall find the fullest account of the Fraternity of Christian Doctrine, established by St. Charles Borromeo in the diocese of Milan. I am acquainted with the regulations for their establishment in _Acta. Concil. Mediol._, and with the incidental notices of them which {214} occur in Borromeo's writings, as also in the later authors, Bishop Burnet, Alban Butler, and Bishop Wilson (of Calcutta). The numbers of the Sunday schools under the management of the Confraternity, the number of teachers, of scholars, the books employed, the occasional rank in life of the teachers, their method of teaching, and whether any manuals have ever been compiled for their guidance--are points upon which I would gladly gather any information.

C.F.S.

_Treatise by Englebert, Archbishop of Treves._--Bishop Cosin (in his _Hist. Trans._ cap. vii. §12) refers to _Engelb. Archiep. Trevirensis, ap. Goldasti Imper._ tom. i. In Goldast's _Politica Imperialia_ there is a treatise by S. Engelb. Abb. _Admoutens_ in Austria: but I find neither the author referred to, nor the treatise intended, by Cosin. According to Eisengrein, who is followed by Possivinus, there were _two_ Engelberts; viz. Engelbertus, S. Matthiæ _Treverensis_, Benedictinæ possessionis Abbus, patria _Mosellanus_, who lived A.D. 987; and S. Engelbert, who flourished A.D. 1157, and who is described as _Admontensis_ Benedictinæ posessionis Abbus, _Germanus_. Can any of your correspondents kindly direct me to the intended treatise of the Archbishop of Treves?

J. SANSOM.

Oxford, Jan. 9. 1850.

_New Year's Day Custom._--I shall be glad if any of your readers can inform me of the origin and signification, of the custom of carrying about decorated apples on New Year's Day, and presenting them to the friends of the bearers. The apples have three skewers of wood stuck into them so as to form a tripod foundation, and their sides are ornamented with oat grains, while various evergreens and berries adorn the top. A raisin is occasionally fastened on each oat grain, but this is, I believe, and innovation.

SELEUCUS.

_Under the Rose._--That the English proverbial expression, _Under the Rose_, is derived from the confessional, is, I believe, generally admitted: but the authorship of the well-known Latin verses on this subject is still, as far as I am aware, a _rexata quæstio_, and gives a somewhat different and _tantaleau_[1] meaning to the adage:--

"Est Rosa flas Veneris, quem, quo sua furta laterent,
Harpoerati, Matris dona, dicavit Amor.
Inde rosam mensis hospes suspendit amicis,
Convivæ ut sub ca dicta tacenda sciant."

Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these not inelegant or unclassical lines are to be attributed?

ARCHÆUS.

Wiesbaden, Dec. 15. 1849.

[Footnote 1: See Pindar's First Olympic Ode.]

_Norman Pedigrees._--Can any gentleman inform me where (in what book) may be found the situation of the places from which the companions of William the Norman took their names? Such _French_ names as have _De_ prefixed--in fact, a _Gazetteer_? Also, where may be found--if such exist--pedigrees of the same _worthies_?

B.

_Dr. Johnson's library._--I have long wanted to know what became of the library of Dr. Samuel Johnson (of our city), or if he had any considerable collection of books. Perhaps some of your correspondents would answer both these queries. I happen to have a few, some of which were used in compiling his Dictionary, and are full of his marks, with references to the quotations, most of which are to be found in the Dictionary. I have also his own Prayer-Book.

T.G. LOMAX.

Lichfield, Jan. 11. 1850.

_Golden Frog._--In the church of Boxstead, in the county of Suffolk, there is a large and very handsome monument of marble, in a niche of which stands, in full proportion, a man in armour, his head bare, with moustaches and a tuft on his chin; in his right hand he holds a truncheon, and by his side is his sword; his armour is garnished with gold studs, and his helmet stands on the ground behind him; from his right ear hangs a _gold frog_.

This monument was erected in memory of Sir John Poley, of Wrongay, in Norfolk, knight, who died in 1638, at the age of upwards of eighty, having served much abroad under Henry IV. of France, Christian King of Denmark, &c., and in Queen Elizabeth's service against the Spaniards.

"Illius ante alios cepit cum dextera Gades
Militis Angliaci, et fulmina sensit Iberis."

I send you this detail, in hopes that some of your correspondents may be able to explain the ornament in his ear, whether it be the badge of any order, and whether any other instance is known of its use. There is in Boxstead Hall, the seat of the very ancient family of Poley, a portrait of Sir John having the same ornament.