HOOKER, SERM. III. VOL. III. P. 789, ED. Ox., 1836:-"What should I mention him that preferred imprisonment with Cato before some other's imperial sublimity? What is the story here referred to?" (5th S. vi. 8.) To this query at the above reference no reply has appeared. I have since met with a story which may possibly be the one intended by Hooker. But if so, he has transferred to an individual what was the act of the whole senate:

family of Scot of the line of Malcolm Kanmore. From these remote ancestors the wide-spread family of Scott claim at least traditional descent. The second son of Gathelus was Niul, from whence the O'Neils, Lords of Ulster, their original patrimony; and, lastly, the name of the third son was Breorgan, from whom the modern O'Briens (descendants of the historic kings of Ireland) claim their name and descent. The descendants of the O'Neils and O'Briens have always claimed the historic term of Prince. But not so the Scotts, although the descendants of the eldest son of Gathelus, and deriving their descent from the ancient kings of Scotia, Ireland, and the ScotoIrish, Scoto-Pictish, and Scoto-Saxon kings of Scotland. It should be borne in mind that the history of Ireland virtually ceased at the Norman Conquest, when, in a measure, it may be said that the history of England commenced. The annals and chronicles relating to the Picts and Scots and the Gaelic nationalities are amongst the most ancient records of the kingdom, and Dr. Skene, under the authority of the Lords of the Treasury, is ably bringing to light the traditional history of the two countries originally called Scotia.

J. R. SCOTT, F.S.A.

"M. quoque Porcium Catonem admiratio fortis et sinceræ vitæ adeo admirabilem senatui fecit, ut cum invito C. Cæsare consule adversus publicanos dicendo in curia diem extraheret, et ob id ejus jussu a lictore in carcerem duceretur, universus senatus illum sequi non dubitaret: quæ res divini animi perseverantiam flexit."-writing on old parchments becomes brown and Val. Max., ii. 10, 7.

This sermon, however, in which the story of Cato
is found, as originally printed, does not extend to
the portion which contains it, but ends at p. 759.
The remaining part, pp. 760-800, is added for the
first time in the Cl. Pr. edition of 1836 from a MS.
in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. See
vol. iii. p. 759, and vol. i., pref. p. xlv. Mr. Keble
remarks, p. xlv, that this MS. has been "
posed, but on no good ground, to be in Hooker's
own handwriting." Under these circumstances a
mistake of "him" for "them" is not to be won-
dered at.
ED. MARSHALL.

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PARCHMENT DEEDS (5th S. viii. 9.)-When the

almost illegible, it can generally be restored with ease by means of a strong solution of tannic acid. This should be carefully applied with a brush to the writing intended to be revived. It ought to be allowed to soak into the parchment for a few minutes, after which the superabundant moisture can be removed with blotting-paper, and the parchment then put to press under that material. Sometimes the dose may have to be repeated. It is as well to stretch the deed in the first instance upon a board with drawing pins. This process will remove, too, all creases in the parchment, for the tannic acid acts in a twofold way, supplying the place of the tannic acid which has decayed in the ink and also retanning the skin. Tincture of oak-galls, the active principle of which is tannic

stains the parchment. Probably stale breadcrumbs would clean parchment, but care would be needful to prevent the remains of the ink in very old deeds being removed, as then the characters could not be restored by any means.

TITLE OF "PRINCE" (5th S. vii. 410.)-The family of O'Neill, as descendants of the Celtic race of kings of Ulster, have always considered them-acid, is sometimes used, but is objectionable, as it selves entitled to the term Prince, and so likewise have the O'Briens; but not so the Scotts, like the O'Neils and O'Briens descendants and representatives of Gaedhelas Gathelus Gael, the founder of the Irish nation. Gaedhelas, with his wife Scota (whose name gave the name of Scotia to Ireland six centuries or more before that name was applied to Scotland), had three sons. Ir or Heber John Power, in his Handy Book on Books, p. 48, (whence Erin, Irland, and Hybernia) Scot, from says: "Old Writings, to make Legible. In a pint whom the royal Celtic or Gaelic race of the name of boiling water put six bruised gall-nuts, and let it of Scot derive their name and descent, and which stand for three days. Wash the writing with the afterwards conferred that name on the descend- mixture to restore the colour, and, if not strong ants of Feargus and Kenneth MacAlpin, the Scoto-enough, add more galls." RICHARD HEMMING. Pictish monarch of a part of Scotland, and on the The Library, Owens College, Manchester.

W. P. W. PHILLIMORE, B.A.

him or help him till the alcalde came, because the last person seen near a dead body is presumed to be the murderer, and it is proverbially difficult to prove a negative. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. HUGH DE POYNINGS (5th S. vii. 448, 491; viii.

PULESTON OF EMRAL, FLINTSHIRE (5th S. viii. 27.)—If C. H. will refer to Burke's Peerage, he will find the pedigree of this family given, down to the present possessor of the baronetcy. The period from 1655 to 1662 is rendered interesting by the fact that the good Philip Henry was then tutor in the family, and became minister of Wor-78.)-It has been pointed out by HERMENTRUDE thenbury, the parish in which Emral is situated. He was invited to come there from Oxford and take charge of her sons by Lady Puleston, wife of Sir John Puleston, one of the Commonwealth judges, and he remained there until he was ejected under the Act of Uniformity in 1662. But he still continued to reside at Broad Oak, in the immediate neighbourhood of Emral, until his death in 1696. Much curious and interesting detail of his life there is given in the biography of him by his son, the celebrated Matthew Henry. The fine old mansion of Emral, built by the judge about 1650, is now uninhabited, and seems likely to perish from neglect and decay. G. B. B.

SALLEY ABBEY (5th S. viii. 9.)-The arms of this abbey are given in Yonge's Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 (Surtees Soc., vol. xli. for 1862), viz., Azure, five fusils in fess or. These are the arms ascribed to the older Percys, the monastery having been founded by William, Lord Percy, the fourth of that name after the Conquest. A second shield is also given in the same visitation, thus: Argent, on a pale sable

a crozier or.

J. H. U.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (5th S. vii. 366.)— I think that I can explain the little difficulty mentioned by H. G. C. The "English copy means a poem by S. T. Coleridge entitled Kisses, which can be found amongst his earlier effusions, and the idea of which he admits having derived from the Carmina Quadragesimalia. The copy of Latin verses alluded to is a very good one, on the thesis, "An omne Corpus componatur?" Affr., and its subject is the composition of the kiss. These Latin elegiacs may be found in vol. ii. p. 19, and form the twentieth set in the book. In some editions of Coleridge's poems they are printed by way of illustration. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

A CARDIGANSHIRE BELIEF (5th S. viii. 28.)-1 fancy that the following extract from Tom Jones will show how common the belief was, as well as the cause of it. When Tom Jones was thought to have been killed by Ensign Northerton, the French lieutenant declares, "Begar, me no tush de Engliseman de mort; me ave heard the English lay, law, what you call, hang up de man dat tush him last" (b. vii. ch. xii.). I remember when I was in Spain, some years ago, hearing of the following. An Englishman fell down in a fit in the public street of Malaga; no one would go near

(5th S. vii. 491) that the wife of John, Lord Welles, was Eleanor, not Margaret, de Mowbray. I had simply followed the authority of Sir B. Burke, who, in his Dormant and Extinct Peerages, at p. 572, states that Lord Welles m. "Margaret or Eleanor, dau. of John, Lord Mowbray," and in his Royal Families, at Ped. xlvii., calls her in direct terms Margaret de Mowbray.

I observe that in the pedigree kindly indicated by SYWL in vol. xv. of the S. A. C., its compiler, the late Mr. Durrant Cooper, while affixing a general list of the sources from which it is derived, fails to quote his particular authority for the marriage of Eleanor de Welles and Hugh de Poynings, and I should welcome a confirmation of it. H. W.

New Univ. Club.

MISUSED WORDS: MISQUOTING (5th S. viii. 26.)-Apropos of this subject, how many clergy are there (I only know two, and one of them is myself) who do not say, "Ye are now to declare it"? Now is not in the Prayer Book. But many of us take great liberties with this formula. We are very apt to say "any just cause or impediment," and to leave out "two," and both are wrong. My rector thinks proper to say "these parties" for one couple, which sounds vulgar. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A.

Opinions." The second of the series is connected with the discussion in which Lord Lyttelton's Obs. on Saint Paul, 1747, formed part. Annett's tracts on the Resurrection were his contribution to another celebrated discussion, which centred round the admirably conceived Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection, 1729, by Bishop Sherlock, of whom it has been lately said by Mr. Leslie Ste

Cecil, and Curinall_Senione-Colonel St. John. Dugdale's Diary, under date of June 21, 1643, has the following: "The Queene's forces... advanced from Newark towards Nottingham... Baron Done slayne on ye K. p'te." And under date of June 24 (the register distinctly says the 27th), the following: "The Barron Done buried in ye Quire of Newarke church, in ye vaut at ye east end, wth great solempnity." Probably MR. EDWARD PEA-phen that he had a strong touch of the lawyer in COCK, from his magnificent Civil War collections, will be able to identify the person named. He was probably one of the officers whom the queen sent from Holland, by permission of the Prince of Orange, and it is possible that even Dugdale did not give his name quite correctly. J. L. C.

THE "APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA" (5th S. viii. 49.)-S. F.'s question as to the celebrated saying, "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul," will be best answered by the following extract from Dr. King's Anecdotes of His Own Times, pp. 7-9, describing an incident at a dinner party given by the Duke of Ormonde in 1715:

"Sir William Wyndham told us that the shortest prayer he had ever heard was the prayer of a common soldier just before the battle of Blenheim, O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul.' This was followed by a general laugh...... Atterbury, seeming to join in the conversation, and applying himself to Sir William Wyndham, said, 'Your prayer, Sir William, is indeed very short; but I remember another as short, but a much better, offered up likewise by a poor soldier in the same circumstances," O God, if in the day of battle I forget thee, do not thou forget me!" This, as Atterbury pronounced it with his usual grace and dignity, was a very gentle and polite reproof, and was immediately felt by the whole company.'

W. P. COURTNEY.

15, Queen Anne's Gate, S. W. WENTWORTH, GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA (5th S. vii. 389; viii. 36.)-MR. HANCOCK is mistaken. There was not a governor of Jamaica, circa 1690, of the name of Wentworth. S. D. S. "Bosk": "IMBOSK" (5th S. viii. 68.)-To imbosk, v.a., in the sense of concealing oneself as in a thick wood, is very effectively used by Milton in his First Book Of Reformation in England :— "They" (the Prelatists) "fear the plain field of the Scriptures; the chase is too hot; they seek the dark, the bushy, the tangled forest; they would imbosk; they feel themselves strook in the transparent streams of divine truth," &c.

G. A. SALA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREE-THINKING TRACTS (5th S. vi. 307.)-These anonymous pamphlets came from the pen of Peter Annett, better known by his History of the Man after God's own Heart, 1761; and they contain the earliest of his publications. Copies of them are frequently prefixed by a title, "A Collection of Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer, Noted by his Sufferings for his

his composition. Annett's tract was perhaps first
issued in 1743; another copy of the year 1744 is
called "third edition." There was a later tract
in perhaps the same year, entitled The Resurrec-
tion of Jesus demonstrated to have no Proof, 8vo.;
and another, The Resurrection re-considered, 8vo.;
perhaps by the same hand. The tract on social
bliss was suggested by unfortunate circumstances
in his own domestic position. Annett is said,
apparently on good authority, to have been a
native of Liverpool, born in 1693; and he died,
after much suffering, Jan. 18, 1769.
I have some
voluminous memoranda about him.

Stretford, near Manchester.

J. E. BAILEY.

OXFORDSHIRE FLINT IMPLEMENTS (5th S. vii. 447.)-I find that I have been anticipated in drawing attention to the flint implements in the district, or part of the district, which I mentioned. I have met with a pamphlet, of twelves pages Svo., with plate, the title of which is

"I. On some Flint Implements found associated
Thanet. By Col. A. Lane Fox, Hon. Sec.'
with Roman Remains in Oxfordshire and the Isle of

It is the separate publication of a paper which had
appeared in some periodical. Will any one in-
form me which it is? Col. Fox scarcely seems
to be aware of their great number and wide
diffusion.
ED. MARSHALL.

"A celebrated heroine in the romance called the 'Mirror of Knighthood,' which is mentioned by Cervantes among the books found in the library of Don Quixote, b. i. ch. vi. From the great celebrity of this lady, occasioned by the popularity of the romance, her name was commonly used for a mistress...... This Spanish romance was translated into English by one Margaret Tyler, and published in nine successive parts between period. The author of the novel of Kenilworth' has 1598 and 1602. Hence it was so well known at that

taken advantage of this circumstance to make his dialogue characteristic, when M. Lambourne says, I will visit his Lindabrides, by St. George, be he willing or no' (chap. ii.)."

A. O. V. P.

"Lindabrides" occurs also in Woodstock, and is thus explained in a foot-note (edit. 1871, p. 361): -"A sort of court name for a female of no reputation (derived from a character in an old Spanish romance)." C. C. M.

5th S. VIII. AUG. 4, '77.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

LADY ANNE HAMILTON AND THE "SECRET HISTORY" (5th S. vii. 410; viii. 58.)-The following is a cutting I find amongst my collections. It will probably interest T. :—

"Authentic Records of the Court of England for the last Seventy Years, 1832. This very scurrilous volume was rigidly suppressed, and Phillips the publisher underwent several prosecutions. The strange farrago published as the Diary of the Reign of George IV. is in part made up from this Authentic Record."

OLPHAR HAMST.

THE RIVER EDDLESTON (5th S. vii. 368.)-F. Edmunds, in Traces of History in Names of Places, second ed., Lond., 1872, p. 202 ("Vocabulary"), has :

"Eddle, Eddles, E., cor. from Ethel, noble, a man's name...... Ex., Edlaston (Derb.), Ethel's town," &c. And at p. 162 there is :

"Adl, Addles, Adling, E., from Ethel, name of a man, and incga, descendants. Ex. Adling-tun, now Adlington (Lanc.), the town of the descendants of a noble, probably such as bore no title, being younger sons and their posterity."

ED. MARSHALL.

Mr. Wm. Chambers, in his History of Peeblesshire, published in 1864, says (p. 344):—

"Previous to 1189 the lands of Eddleston were granted to Eadulf, an Anglo-Saxon settler, from whom came the present designation, Eadulfston, or, corruptedly, Eddles

ton."

Hence also is the name of the small river which
joins the Tweed at Peebles, usually called Eddles-
ton Water.
J. MANUEL.

CARTWRIGHT, ALIAS VICARS, OF SCAWSBY, CO. YORK (5th S. viii. 47.)-The arms, as borne on the book-plate of Joseph Vickers, Esq., Dublin, 1792, have a slight resemblance to those of Edward Vicars, of Quarne, co. Derby, 1569, viz., Gu., a cross patonce, between, in base, a battle-axe and fleur-de-lis ar.; on a dexter and sinister canton or, a crescent and quatrefoil of the first. Crest, a dove bearing an olive sprig in its bill, ar. Motto, "Fidelis et constans." W. PIGOTT.

"Come then, and, added," &c.
Cowper's Task, bk. vi. 1. 855.
C. F. S. WARREN, M.A.

(5th S. viii. 49, 80.)
"Father of light," &c.

"God of my life, to thee I call;

Afflicted at thy feet I fall."

History of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon.
Andrews. (Tegg.)

cation to time.

By W.

"Or some

To Robert Fitzwalter (temp. Henry II.) is given the
credit of having rebuilt the Priory of Dunmow (originally
founded in 1104), "in which priory arose a custom, begun
and instituted either by him or some of his ancestors,
which is verified by the common saying or proverb,
sleeping or waking, in a year and a day, may lawfully go
'That he which repents him not of his marriage, either
to Dunmow and fetch a gammon of bacon.""
of his ancestors" is a phrase very indefinite in its appli-
Archæologists who have thought
seriously on this subject suggest a remote antiquity, and
the sow-most fertile in the office of maternity. Just
are inclined to believe that the bacon has reference to
ninety-nine years ago the Rev. Henry Bate gave a fillip
to the then seemingly moribund and undignified celebra-
tion by producing a comic opera on the subject (The
Flitch of Bacon) at the Haymarket, which remained
a stock piece for nearly half a century. After a time
Ainsworth published his novel, The Flitch of Bacon, the
the ceremony fell into disuse; but when Mr. Harrison
business of claiming the reward of keeping up conjugal
harmony was revived by Mr. Smith, formerly lessee of
Cremorne Gardens. In none of the gainers of the flitch
do we see much merit. One of the best cases (where
claim was never thought of being made) is recorded on
Rev. Dr. Leyborne states of his wife Rebecca that for
a monument in the abbey church at Bath. There the
twenty-three years he never saw her once ruffled, nor
heard her utter a peevish word, and that neither in her
mouth nor character was there ever the slightest con-
Nearly a quarter of a century of married life and no dif-
tradiction. Dreadfully dull their home must have been!
ference of opinion to enliven it! Now, the moral world
is like the physical world. Fancy such a circumstance
as the wind blowing, all your life long, only in the direc-
tion in which you happen to be going; never to have

AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. viii. 69.) the enjoyment of a joyous struggle with a strong,

Reminiscences of Cheltenham College. In the prefatory notice the author signs himself" Paul Ward," but I have been told that no such name ever existed on the roll-call of the college. The author calls himself an old Cheltonian. E. R. VYVYAN.

generous breeze, and getting the laughing better or the
laughing worst of it, as the case might be !

Jedburgh Abbey: Historical and Descriptive. By James
Watson. (Edinburgh, D. Douglas.)

THIS is just what an historical and descriptive handbook should be, namely, brief, clear, and everywhere to the AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. viii. point. The visitor to this interesting monument will 49.)

"Sanctus Ivo erat Brito," &c.

find in Mr. Watson an intelligent and useful guide, never
saying more than is necessary, but always saying enough.
We make note of one curious fact. Paul Methuen,

These lines occur in the office-hymn for St. Ives of Corn-minister of Jedburgh, 1560, was excommunicated for wall (see Quarterly Review for July, 1872. p 34. note).

R. R. LLOYD.

(5th S. viii. 69.)
"And every woe a tear can claim," &c.
Byron, The Giaour.

G. F. S. E.

immorality, but was admitted to reconciliation by public
penance. On finding this too severe for him, Paul
Methuen (or Methven) passed into England and settled
here. The present F. H. Paul Methuen, Lord Methuen
of Corsham (Wilts), is a descendant of John Methuen,
Secretary of State in Scotland in 1440.