2"'» S. Vll. Ja\. 15. '6y.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



43 



Fish, which is vulgarly called a Sea-Hog, from its being 

 like a Swine both in Shape and Flesh, its Residence is in 

 the Sea, and appear in multitudes against an approaching 

 Storm, tumbling after a strange manner with their Bellies 

 upwards, about Ships that are on their several Voyages ; 

 and that it should leave the Deep to rove up into Fresh 

 Water Rivers, and more especiallj' to crawl so far up a 

 Common-Shore, it seems somewhat amazing- among the 

 Curious; there is now great turning over of Partridge. 

 whose Prognostications are much admired by the Mob, 

 but they find he has took no more Notice in this year's 

 Almanack of this Porpoises untimely Death in a Com- 

 mon-Shore, than of the Thunder which we had last Week, 

 he taking no notice that we shall have any at all this 

 Year; but to make amends for this Fault, 1 believe it 

 wou'd be very acceptible to the Fools under Crispin's 

 Meridian, if in his next year's Almanack he would oblige 

 them with the Ifgleg of this poor Fish : but the general 

 conjecture of this Creature's rambling so far up a sh — n 

 Concavity under Ground, is, that it either came from the 

 French Coasts, and signifies Lewis is ready to beshit 

 himself, for fear the Affair will not go as they shou'd do 

 in Spain ; or else it came from the Spanish Coasts, and 

 intimates, by his Obscurit}-, that the Duke of Anjou had 

 rather hide liis head than fight ; and the last Conjectui'e 

 I believe to be most probable, because Partridge saj's in 

 his Prognostications in this Month, The Gingerbread King 

 of Spain full of Fears and Fatigue, it belongs to the Family. 

 Moreover it is thought this Strange Fish came of some 

 good Family, because the Possessors of it talk of having 



R 1 in F street embalm it against they shew it 



at Green-Goose-Fair. 



" Licensed according to Order. 

 " London, Printed for R. Smith near Spittle-Fields- 

 Market, 1704." 



Edwaud F. Kimbault. 



TLT-LEAF SCHlBBLINGS, ETC. 



1. From the man who rescued the Queen Mary's 

 psalter from destruction, on presenting it to the 

 queen : — 



" God save the most vertuous and Nobull quene Mary's 

 gras. 

 And sende her to injoye the crowne of Eynglande longe 



tyme and space. 

 Her enemies to confounde and utterly to deface. 

 And to folio her godly procedynges, God give us gras ; 

 As every subyegte us bounde for her gras to praye 

 That God may preserve her body from all dangers both 

 night and daye, 



God save the Quene. 

 Be me, your hurabul and poore creytur, Rafe Pryne, 

 Grocer of London, wishes your Gras prosperus helthe." 



2. From an early book in Sion College : — 



"Item si mulier jejuna bibat per triduum duos ciathos 

 aquae in qua erramentum extinguitur, fit in perpetuum 

 sterilis." 



AVhat is erramentum f 



3. Line (in book of Homilies by a vicar of Magd. 

 Oxon. fifteenth century) which reads the same 

 both ways : — 



" Anna tenet mappam raadidam, mappam tenet Anna." 



4. In a MS., end of the seventeenth century: — 

 "Teatamentum J. M. Ari (propria manu scribentis), 



A.D. 1736, setatis 77; cui singulari fere forte eveuit, ut 

 de paterna gente sedulo inquirenti, non occurrebat quis- 

 piam oriundus. In fide, spe et charitate humillima om- 

 nipotenti Creatori animam dedo. 



" Acceptationem penitentias meae et remissionem pecca- 

 torum supplicissime implorans, et ad extremum vitae 

 terminum imploraturus per Jesum Xtum Salvatorem 

 nostrum. 



"Pater de Coelis, Deus Fill Redemptor Mundi, Deus 

 Spiritus Sanctus, Deus Sancta Trinitas, Unus Deus, 



" MiSEREKE Mei." 



I should much like to know who was the writer 



5. Sixteenth century : — 



" There is no charge in the Churche so daungerous but 

 y' a good conscience can avoyde it ; but a weak or cor- 

 rupt conscience may sone be cast awaye: like as the wild 

 rose from whence the bee fetcheth her honj-, and like- 

 wise the spider her poyson. The Prince may do his de- 

 voir doing justece, and not doing tyranny. Tlie man of 

 armes, going to the warre and not hurting the poore peo- 

 ple. The maried man may live well in his house w*out 

 advoutery. The riche man geveth his goods for God's 

 sake w'out usury. The laborer in workyng. The shepe- 

 hard in kyping of his shepe w'out hertyng of his neigh- 

 bors, and in like case of others. 



" Now to prove this is true from the Scripture, David was 

 good and Saule evill: Of pristes, Mathias good, and Ob- 

 nias (Hophni?) naught: Of prophetes, Daniel good, Ba- 

 1am evill : Of shepeherdes, Abell good, Abimilech evil ; 

 Ofwidowes, Judithe good, Jezabell evill; Of riche,. Job 

 good, Naball naught; Of the apostles, St. Peter good, 

 Judas was reproved. 



" Respice finis (jic^. 



" And y" shalt neV do amiss. 



" Posui finem curls, spes ac fortuna valete." 



J. C. J. 



A Friend to the House of Hanover. — On a 

 fly-leaf of a work entitled " Mathematical Tables, 

 Sfc, by J. Brown, Mathematician," published the 

 latter end of last century, and which I picked up 

 at a recent sale of old books in this place, I found 

 the following quaint verses inscribed, in which 

 strong proof is afforded of the writer having been 

 any but an adherent of the hapless House of 

 Stuart. 



" I love with all my heart 



The Hanoverian part, 



And for their settlement. 



My conscience gives consent. 



Most glorious is the cause 



To fight for George's Laws. 



This is my mind and heart, 



Tho' none should take my part. 



The tory party here 



Most hatefuU doth appear. 



I ever have denied 



To be on James's side : 



To be with such a king 



Will Britain's ruin bring : 



In this opinion I 



Resolve to live and die." 



K. 

 Arbroath. 



Inscription in a Bible.— On a fly-leaf of an an- 



