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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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any such notice ; can any one verify the refer- 

 ence ? The Domesday spelling is Maneis." 



De Rupb. 

 First Edition of Cowper's Poems. — The com- 

 munication of Mr. Bruce respecting one of Cow- 

 per's poems has reminded me of a question I have 

 often intended to put through the " N. & Q." It 

 is this: — Was the Rev. J. Newton's Preface 

 written at the request of Cowper, and certainly 

 printed (as appears from one of Cowper's letters), 

 published with the first edition or not ? Grim- 

 shawe gives us this Preface, and in a note adds, 

 " Published with the first volume." If so, it cer- 

 tainly could not have accompanied all the copies. 

 I have one now before me, dated 1782. It is the 

 first edition, but it has neither preface, dedication, 

 nor preliminary matter of any kind, except the 

 table of contents. Perhaps Mr. Bruce can solve 

 the difficulty. With regard to that gentleman's 

 own Query, I may state that my copy of Expos- 

 tulation bears evident marks that a cancel has been 

 made between pp. 122. and 123. Lethrediensis. 



Why was Ludovicus S/orza styled Anglus? — 

 I have a little volume in Latin, printed in the 

 year 1494, dedicated to Ludovico Sforza, surnamed 

 the Moor. The heading of the dedication is in 

 these words: "Ad saplentissimum Ludovicam 

 Sfortiam, Anglum, Septimum Mediolani ducem," 

 &c. 



What Is the meaning of the word Anglian ? 

 Several explanations have been suggested, but 

 none of them is satisfactory. 



Peter Martyr, called in the later editions of his 

 works Anglerius, and Ab Angleria, is in the ear- 

 lier ones denominated Anglus, Angli ; he was so 

 named from the place of his birth, Angluira or 

 Angleria, a small district or a town in the duchy 

 of Milan, on the Lago Maggiore, nearly opposite 

 Ardua. But Ludovico was born at Vigevano, a 

 small town, where the family of Sforza possessed 

 a castle, now within the borders of Sardinia, south 

 of Novara. Anglus may bo a contraction of An- 

 gelus, but this appellation was given only to eccle- 

 siastics. 



As the term was undoubtedly intended as a title 

 of honour, it may mean one of the Angeli or An- 

 gelici, an order of knighthood instituted in 1191 

 by Isaaius Angelus Flavius Commenes, Emperor 

 of Constantinople ; but did this Order exist in the 

 days of Sforza, and who would probably confer it 

 on him ? 



I shall be very much obliged by an early answer 

 from any one who can give me information on the 

 subject. Neo Eboracensis. 



John Foxe's Comedy. — John Foxe, the Mar- 

 tyrologist, is the author of a Latin Comedy, De 

 Christo Triumphante, London, 8vo. 1551, Basil, 

 1556, an English translation of which was pub- 

 lished in 1579 and 1607, by Richard Day. A new 



edition (Latin and English) appeared in 1672, 

 edited by T. C. of Sidney College, Cambridge, i. e. 

 Thomas Comber, afterwards Dean of Durham. 

 Can you inform me whether the translation pub- 

 lished in 1672 differs from that of Richard Day, 

 or is only a reprint ? Is there any notice of this 

 publication in the Memoirs of Dean Comber, pub- 

 lished in 1799 ?' R. Inglis. 



Armorial Bearings. — Required, and would 

 much oblige, the armorial bearings of 



1. "Sir Lambert Perney, a knight of Liege," 

 mentioned by Froissart, 1382. 



2. Arms of a family called Bullen of Redruth, 

 Cornwall, in seventeenth century. 



3. Arms of Blake, Attorney-General of Jamaica, 

 (circa 1770), of the family of Nicholas Allen Blake, 

 and of Nicholas Blake of London, 1682. 



4. Arms of " Sherren." 



5. Arms of Dr. Hodges, Dean of Hereford, and 

 Rector of Kensington, circa 1664. 



6. Arms of Bonella Hodges, mother of 1st Lord 

 Penrhyn. 



7. What were the arms of Lawrence of Tver 

 (not St. Ives) in Bucks ? and what became of the 

 family ? And was not Lawrence Lawrence, about 

 the beginning of 18th century, the last of it ? 



Who was Lawrence the judge whom Cromwell 

 sent to Scotland ? Spalatro. 



Quebec. 



Dr. Giles Thome. — Will any correspondent 

 oblige me with the entry on matriculation of Dr. 

 Giles Thorne, of Balliol College, Oxford ? He was 

 Archdeacon of Bucks, and chaplain to Charles II. 

 He died 1671. M. D. 



Blue Blood, — AVill any of your correspondents 

 kindly help me out of a difficulty, by referring to 

 some good authority, explanatory of this expres- 

 sion in its Spanish meaning, as intimating illustri- 

 ous birth and high extraction ? fj>, 



Burschers Spicilegium. — I have lately two or 

 three times met with a reference to Burscher's 

 Spicilegium, e. g. in Miiller's Leben der Erasmus. 

 What is the nature of the work thus named, and 

 when was it published ? I should judge it to be 

 a collection of unpublished letters, &c. of eminent 

 men, but I cannot ffnd it mentioned in any cata- 

 logue which has come under my notice. 



W. J. Deanb. 



[* The Editor oi Memoirs of Dean Comher,'^. 68., states 

 that, " in the j'ear 1672, a sacred drama of John Fox 

 made its appearance, said to be published by T. C, M.A., 

 of Sj'dncy College, Cambridge, entitled, Christus Trium,' 

 phans, and it was designed to introduce it into public 

 schools. These initials were thought by many judicious 

 persons to stand for Thomas Comber, and the intention of 

 its publication was worthy of him ; but as no memorandum 

 of this appears among such of his MSS. as are now ex- 

 tant, we cannot vouch fpr its beipg brought out by 

 him."] 



