Chapter IV: Part I: canto iii. l. 1249. 24mo. ed. of 1720

In the notes to the above edition (and probably to other of the old editions) your correspondent will find a detailed explanation of these two lines: I refer him to the work itself, as the "note" is scarcely fit to transcribe here.

J. B. COLMAN.

_Comets_ (Vol. iii., p. 223.).--There is a copious list of all the comets that have appeared _since the creation_, and of all that _will appear up to_ A.D. 2000, in the _Art de vérifier les Dates_, vol. i. part i.; and vol. i. part ii. of the last edition.

C.

_Camden and Curwen Families_ (Vol. iii., pp. 89. 125.).--H. C. will find, in Harl. MS. 1437. fo. 69., a short pedigree of the family of Nicholas Culwen of Gressiard and Stubbe, in the county of Lancaster, showing his descent from Gilbert Culwen or Curwen (a younger brother of Curwen of Workington), who appears to have settled at Stubbe about the middle of the fifteenth century.

Although this pedigree was recorded by authority of Norroy King of Arms, in 1613, while Camden held the office of Clarenceux, it does not show any connexion with Gyles Curwen, who married a daughter and coheir of Barbara, of Poulton Hall, in the county of Lancaster, and whose daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Sampson Camden of London, and mother of Camden. Nevertheless, it may possibly throw some light on the subject.

If H. C. cannot conveniently refer to the Harl. MSS., I will with much pleasure send him a copy of this pedigree, and of another, in the same MS., fo. 29., showing Camden's descent from Gyles Curwen, if he will communicate his address to the Editor of "NOTES AND QUERIES."

LLEWELLYN.

_Auriga_ (Vol. iii., p. 188.).--That part of the Roman bridle which went about the horse's ears (_aures_), was termed _aurea_; which, being by a well-known grammatical figure put for the whole head-gear of the horse, suggests as a meaning of _Auriga_, "_is qui_ AUREAS AGIT, he who manages, guides, or (as we say) handles, the reins."

PELETHRONIUS.

Ecclesfield Hall.

_Straw Necklaces_ (Vol. i., p. 4., &c.).--May not these be possibly only Spenser's "rings of rushes," mentioned by him among other fragile ornaments for the head and neck?

"Sometimes her head she fondly would aguize
With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight
About her necke, or rings of rushes plight."
_F. Q._ lib. ii. canto vi. st. 7.

ACHE.

_The Nine of Diamonds, called the Curse of Scotland_ (Vol. i., pp. 61., 90.).--The following explanation is given in a _Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue_, 1785; an ignoble authority, it must be admitted:--

"Diamonds imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown, and
every ninth King of Scotland has been observed for many ages to be a
tyrant, and a curse to that country."

J. H. M.

"_Cum Grano Salis_" (Vol. iii., pp. 88. 153.).--I venture to suggest, that in this phrase the allusion is to a rich and unctuous morsel, which, when assisted _by a little salt_, will be tolerated by the stomach, otherwise will be rejected. In the same way an extravagant statement, when taken with a slight qualification (_cum grano salis_) will be tolerated by the mind. I should wish to be informed what writer first uses this phrase in a metaphorical sense--not, I conceive, any classical author.

X. Z.

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