Chapter II: Part 2

As we had Kings of England of the name of Edward before the Conquest, Edward the First was distinguished from these monarchs by being styled "King Edward, the son of King Henry" (his father was called "King Henry, the son of King John"). In like manner, Edward II. was distinguished from his father by being called "King Edward, the son of King Edward;" but Edward III. could not thus be distinguished from his father; he was therefore called King Edward III.; but, as there were Kings Edward _before_ the Conquest, the third was qualified by the addition of the phrase in question, "post conquestum." To Richard II. generally, and to his successors up to Henry VIII. either generally or occasionally, the same phrase, "post conquestum," was also applied; but, if we except Edward IV. and V., this phrase was not at all required, or applicable in their cases, inasmuch as no King of England _before_ the Conquest was named either Richard or Henry.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, Feb. 4. 1851.

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DESCENT OF HENRY IV.

(Vol. ii., p. 375.; Vol. iii., p. 120.)

Upon the deposition of Richard II., 30th September, 1399, Henry IV., then Duke of Lancaster, claimed the crown in the following terms:

"In the name of the Fader, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, I, Henry of
Lancastre, chalenge this Rewme of Ynglonde and the Croune, with all the
Membres and the appurtenances, als I that am descendit be ryght lyne of
the Blode comyng fro the gude Lord King Henry thirde, and thorghe that
ryght that God of his grace hath sent me with helpe of my kyn and of my
friendes to recover it: the which Rewme was in poynt to be ondone for
defaut of Governance, and undoying of the gude Lawes."

Rapin observes upon this (vol. i. p. 476.):--

"It was not without reason that he affected to make use of obscure
expressions, which left undetermined the foundation upon which he built
his pretended right. If he seemed to derive his title from Henry III.
rather than from Edward III., his grandfather, it was because there was
a rumour that Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, surnamed Crouch-back, was
eldest son of Henry III.; but by reason of his deformity Edward I., his
younger brother, was placed on the throne. According to this
supposition, the Duke would have made the ignorant believe he could
ground his title upon being son of Blanch of Lancaster, granddaughter
of Edmund Crouch-back, and heiress of that family. But as he was
sensible everybody could not be imposed upon by so gross a forgery, he
added certain expressions, intimating that he built his right also upon
the service he had just done the state. This is the meaning of the
claim, expressed in such obscure terms. As it was resolved to adjudge
the crown to the Duke, the Parliament took care not to examine his
claim too closely, but were very willing to suppose it uncontestable.
Thus, without any regard to the just rights of the Earl of March, it
was decreed that Henry should be proclaimed king, which was done that
very day," &c.

It would seem, however, that Henry was to a certain extent compelled to make his claim to the crown in the form he did (Hales, _Hist. C. L._ c. 5.), notwithstanding his desire to do so as a conqueror. (Seld. _Tit. Hon._ l. 3.)

J. B. COLMAN.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Chauncy--Entwysel._--To a dry genealogical Query (Vol. iii., p. 61.), your readers will wish me to reply as briefly as possible. F. R. R. will find that Sir H. Chauncy's statement is borrowed from Weever. The latter founded his statement, that "Wilfred Entwysel was the last heir of his house," on the authority of Dalton, Norroy; but this statement, as your correspondent has shown, and as other evidence would prove, is not well-founded. It may be assumed that Sir Bertyne Entwysel did not leave issue, _male_, by Lucy his wife, the daughter of Sir John Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne, as Leland speaks of a daughter only, "of whom Master Bradene, of Northamptonshire, is descended." His connexion with Lancashire is shown by his epitaph, and by our finding his name as a witness to a Lancashire charter. The alliance which he formed may be urged as a further proof. Leland's expression, that "he came into England," may imply that Sir Bertyne remained in France discharging the duties of his office, from the period of the Battle of Agincourt, where he {172} signally distinguished himself, until his services were again called for in the Wars of the Roses.

J. H. M.

_"Pretended" Reprint of Ancient Poetry_, in J. Taylor's Catalogue of 1824 (Vol. ii., p. 463.), replied to by CATO (Vol. ii., p. 500.).--My attention has been drawn to the above, wherein doubts have been raised as to the existence of a volume supposed to be UNIQUE; and criticisms follow on my note, which records the fact, that "only TWO COPIES were reprinted." CATO has already stated that the reprinting the TWO COPIES was at the expense of the late Rev. Peter Hall; and ONE COPY produced at his sale twenty shillings: the other copy bore the impress of Mr. Davidson, a highly respectable printer; and that only two copies were reprinted, one of which came direct to me from the Rev. Peter Hall. This copy was purchased from me by an eminent statesman, who has formed one of the finest libraries in the kingdom.

JAMES TAYLOR, Formerly of Blackfriars Road.

Newick, Jan. 27. 1851.

_Lights on the Altar._--I would refer your correspondent D. SHOLBUS (Vol. ii., p. 495.) to one of the Canons published under King Edgar, about the year 968. Lambard's Latin version of the ordinance is as follows:--

"Semper in ecclesia lumen ardeat dum Missa decantetur."

([Greek: Archaionomia], ed. Wheloc. p. 70. Cantab. 1644. Compare Cressy's _Church History of Brittany_, p. 870. A.D. 1668.)

R. G.

_Cognation of the Jews and Lacedaemonians_ (Vol. ii., p. 377.).--I should occupy too much space in your interesting publication were I to give a list of the critics or ethnographers who have commented on this passage, and shall therefore be content to mention some of the most important works which may afford sufficient information, or at least enable your correspondent to pursue the inquiry farther.

Calmet's _Dissertation sur la Parente des Juifs et des Lacedemoniens_, which is included in his Dissertations, Paris, 1720, in 3 vols. 4to, and also in his _Commentaires_.--Stillingfleet's _Origines Sacrae_, book iii., c. 4., who admits the probability that the Spartans had relation to Abraham, as deriving from Phaleg, from whom Abraham came. This appears to have been intended by the expressions of Josephus, [Greek: ex henos genous kai ek tes pros Abramon oikeiotetos] (book xii. c. iv.); but the Versions, and most critics, interpret the words in the 12th chap. of 1 Maccabees, [Greek: ek genous Abraam], as implying that they came from Abraham: see Selden, _de Synedriis_, l. ii. c. iii. s.v.--The Rev. Charles Forster's _Historical Geography of Arabia_, part i. sect. vi., in which he discusses "the vestiges of Arab colonies, and maintains the Arabo-Abrahamic origin of the Greeks."--Stephanus Morinus, in _Diss. de Cognatione Lacedaemoniorum et Hebraeorum_ (inter dissertationes viii. Dordraci, 1700, 8vo.)

Your correspondent, who, in Vol. ii., p. 230., requests to be supplied with "a list of all the theories and publications respecting the ten tribes commonly called the Lost Tribes," will probably be satisfied with that furnished by Basnage's _History of the Jews_, in which, however, he overlooks the theory of Olaus Rudbeckius, Filius, that they are to be found neither in Asia, nor Africa, nor America, but in Lapland! The same author, in a treatise _de Ave Selau, cujus mentio fit Numer._ xi. 31., endeavours to establish an analogy between the Hebrew and Gothic languages.

T. J.

_Queen Mary's Lament_ (Vol. iii., p. 89.).--The following copy of verses, written by this beautiful and unfortunate princess, during her confinement in Fotheringay Castle, was presented to the public by the kindness of a very eminent and liberal collector:--

"Que suis-je helas? et de quoi sert la vie?
J'en suis fors qu'un corps prive de cueur;
Un ombre vayn, un objet de malheur,
Qui n'a plus rien que de mourir en vie.
Plus ne me portez, O enemys, d'envie,
Qui n'a plus l'esprit a la grandeur,
J'ai consomme d'excessive douleur,
Voltre ire en bref de voir assouvie.
Et vous amys qui m'avez tenu chere,
Souvenez-vous que sans cueur, et sans santey,
Je ne scaurois auqun bon oeuvre faire.
Souhaitez donc fin de calamitey,
Et que _sus bas_ etant assez punie,
J'aie ma part en la joie infinie."

The verses are written on a sheet of paper, by Mary herself, in a large rambling hand. The following literal translation of them was made by a countrywoman of Mary's, a lady in beauty of person and elegance of mind by no means inferior to that accomplished and unfortunate princess:

"Alas, what am I? and in what estate?
A wretched corse bereaved of its heart,
An empty shadow, lost, unfortunate:
To die is now in life my only part.
Foes to my greatness, let your envy rest,
In me no taste for grandeur now is found;
Consum'd by grief, with heavy ills oppress'd,
Your wishes and desires will soon be crown'd.
And you, my friends, who still have held me dear,
Bethink you, that when health and heart are fled,
And ev'ry hope of future good is dead,
'Tis time to wish our sorrows ended here;
And that this punishment on earth is given,
That my pure soul may rise to endless bliss in heaven."

Immediately before her execution she repeated the following Latin prayer, composed by herself, {173} and which has been set to a beautiful plaintive air, by Dr. Harington of Bath:

"O Domine Deus speravi in te!
O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In dura catena, in misera poena desidero te!
Languendo, gemendo, et genuflectendo,
Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me!"

It may be thus paraphrased:

"In this last solemn and tremendous hour,
My Lord, my Saviour, I invoke Thy power!
In these sad pangs of anguish and of death,
Receive, O Lord, Thy suppliant's parting breath!
Before Thy hallowed cross she prostrate lies,
O hear her prayers, commiserate her sighs!
Extend thy arms of mercy and of love,
And bear her to thy peaceful realms above."
_Anecdotes of some Distinguished Persons_,
8vo. London, 1795, vol. i. p. 154.

H. E.

_Tandem D. O. M._ (Vol. iii., p. 62.)--I would suggest that this inscription might be resolved into

"Tandem Deus Otia Misit,"

a thanksgiving for the fulfilment of some oft-made prayer or long-cherished hope; the idea--if I am right in my conjecture--having probably been taken from the 6th line of Virgil's 1st Eclogue--

"O Melibaee! deus nobis haec otia fecit."

Any accounts that remain of the great Carthaginian Captain's Cornish namesake, may perhaps tend to show that he had preferred the "otium cum dignitate" of literary leisure to the turmoil of the battle of life, and to the use of the _harness_, whether civil or military, that it had forced him to wear.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

[J. V. S. suggests, "May it not in its complete state be 'Tandem Deo,
Optimo et Maximo,' and its translation, 'When all is done, let praise
be to God most mighty and most beneficent?'" and X. Z. says, "Possibly,
'Tandem desiderato opere mactus'--not, I think, a very choice specimen
of Latinity, but perhaps good enough for a fly-leaf."]

_Tandem D. O. M._ (Vol. iii., p. 62.).--Is not D. O. M. the common abbreviation for "Deo Optimo Maximo?" and so the whole phrase an acknowledgment by the painful (and probably pious) collector of the most interesting library referred to, of his thanks to God on having "_at length_" obtained possession of some long-coveted folio, or vainly-sought-for edition?

J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

_D. O. M._--I am emboldened by the Query respecting "Tandem D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 62.) to ask, what is the solution of D. O. M.? On the head of a tombstone, the inscription is frequent on the continent. I am aware that it is interpreted "Deo Optimo Maximo" when occurring in the dedication of a church; but it appears on a tomb to supply the place of our M.S., or the D. M. of the Romans. Can any of your readers give me the true meaning? It must be well known, I should think, to all who have studied inscriptions. As I am indebted to Faber Marinus for an excuse for putting this Query, it is only courteous to suggest a solution to his D. O. M.--may it be "Datus omnino Musis?"

[Greek: Oo.]

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St. Peter's, Threekingham, Lincolnshire.--Belfry Windows and Lower Lucarnes, N. E. and W. Sides of Spire: Lower Lucarnes S. Side of Spire, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tier of Spire Lights: Inner South Doorway and North Doorway: Mouldings, Full Size.

St. Andrew's, Heckington, Lincolnshire.--North Doorway, Nave Piers and Archmouldings. Caps and Bases, Nave, Transept, Choir and Tower Arches.

To be completed in Twenty Parts, each containing 6 Plates, imperial folio.

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This Day, No. 6., price 2s. 6d.,

DETAILS of GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, Measured and Drawn from existing Examples. By JAMES K. COLLING, Architect.

CONTENTS:

Doorway from Etton Church, Yorkshire.
Priest's Doorways from Denton Church, Norfolk, and Higham Ferrers Church,
Northamptonshire.
Window from Frampton Church, Lincolnshire.
Tracery and Groining from Beverley Minster.
One Compartment of Nave and Label Terminations from St. Mary's Church,
Beverley.

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THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, FOR MARCH, 1851, Number Nineteen of

John Miller's Catalogue of Books, Old and New,

On Sale at 43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square.

THIS SERIES OF CATALOGUES For 1851, CONTAINS

No. 1.

Books on Architecture, Painting, and Fine Arts Generally, Heraldry, Family History, Poetry, and the Drama.

No. 2.

Classics, Coins, Ireland, Language, Phrenology, Sports and Games.

No. 3.

Bibles and Bible Prints, Manuscripts, Banking & Currency, London, Shakspeare, History, Chronicles and Divinity.

No. 4.

(_The present list_)

Comprises Books on all the previous enumerated subjects, besides some highly interesting Pictorial Works, Antiquarian Publications, Club Books, and an extensive Collection of Miscellanies.

POST OFFICE ORDERS SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE AT THE CHARING CROSS OFFICE.

A Catalogue is Published Monthly with occasional Supplemental Sheets, and can be had GRATIS by any Book-buyer, on application to the Publisher. It will be found to comprise a judicious selection of works in every department of Literature, in various Languages, Ancient and Modern. Each Year's Series of Catalogues embrace upwards of 10,000 Distinct Works.

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AMERICA. Being the Latest and most Accurate Description of the New World, and the Remarkable Voyages thither, with the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, by OGLEBY, folio, calf, gilt, illustrated with upwards of 120 fine engravings, maps, and port., 18s. 6d. 1671.

AN ANALYSIS of the Picture of the Transfiguration of Raffaello Sanzio D'Urbino, the Letterpress in English, atlas folio, half russia, fine portrait of Raphael, plate of the Transfiguration, and 17 beautiful mezzotinto heads, the size of the original picture traced by M. Gauband, engraved by Godby, 1l. 5s. 1817.

ANNUAL REGISTER (The New), a General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature from the commencement in 1780 to 1817, 38 vols. 8vo. half russia, neat, 2l. 2s. 1784-1817.

Comprises the most eventful period of European history.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, The Journal of, from its commencement to January 1850, 20 parts, 8vo. numerous engravings of antiquities, 2l. 2s. 1845-50.

CAMDEN'S (Wm.) Britannia, or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain, and Ireland, together with the adjacent Islands, Revised and Digested, with Large Additions, by EDMUND GIBSON, Bishop of Lincoln, 2 vols. folio, calf, neat, maps of the counties, prints of coins, and port. by White, 1l. 4s. 1753.

CATROU and ROUILLE, Roman History, with Notes, Historical, Geographical, and Critical, 6 vols. folio, calf, gilt, fine copy, illustrated with numerous copperplates, maps, and medals. 1l. 10s. 1737.

CHAUCER (Geffrey). The Works of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, with many Additions, folio, cf. neat, black letter, port., 1l. 5s. Islip, 1598.

DART'S History and Antiquities of Westminster Abbey: an Account of its Ancient Building, Altar, Reliques, Customs, Saxon Charters, &c., Lives of the Abbots, &c., 2 vols. folio, nearly 200 fine engravings, with all the arms of the subscribers, calf, gilt, fine copy, 1l. 11s. 6d. 1720.

DART (J.) History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and the once Adjoining Monastery, folio, calf, neat, fine plates, 1l. 1s. 1726.

DAVENANT (Sir William), The Works, now first collected and published from the Original Copies, folio, calf, gilt, fine copy, port., 14s. 6d. 1673.

DRYDEN'S (J.) Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas, 2 vols. folio, calf, neat, good copy, with the fine portrait engraved by Edelinck, 12s. 6d. 1701.

ENGRAVINGS after the Best Pictures of the Great Masters, with Descriptions in French and English. Large atlas folio, elegantly half bound, morocco, gilt edges. 20 fine plates, 2l. 12s. 6d. 1844.

FAULKNER'S Account of Chelsea, 2 vols. 8vo. large paper, proof plates, each leaf separately and neatly inlaid in royal 4to. for illustrating, only 1l. 5s. 1820.

QUARTERLY JOURNAL of Science and Art, edited by BRANDE, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, from its Commencement in 1816, to its Conclusion in 1831, complete in 32 vols. 8vo. bound in 16, half calf, very neat, numerous engravings, 2l. 15s. 1816-32.

ROY'S (Le) Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain, and their Particular System of Castramelation, illustrated from Vestiges of the Camps of Agricola, &c., published by the Society of Antiquaries, imp. folio, 51 fine plates, half bound, morocco, 1l. 10s. 1793.

SHAKSPEARE, The Works of, collated and corrected by the Former Editions by MR. POPE, 6 vols. 4to. calf, gilt, a very neat copy, port., 2l. 2s. 1725.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, from its Commencement in 1768 to 1831, forming 44 vols. very neatly half bound in calf, uniform, the rest unbound, in all 48 vols., illustrated with numerous portraits and plates, 2l. 12s. 6d. 1768-1826.

WALPOLE'S (Horace) History of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a List of their Works, enlarged and continued to the present Time by T. PARK, 5 vols. 8vo. 150 fine original and very brilliant impressions, elegantly bound in russia, marble edges, 3l. 3s. 1806.

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