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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. VII. Mar. 2G. '59. 



book * which its congregations use. I send for 

 H. L. L. a copy printed a few years ago. A. M. 

 Greenock. 



Anvalonnacu (2""^ S. vii. 206. ; and Sat. Review, 

 March 5, 1859, p. 280.) — Without trespassing on 

 philological grounds, may 1 be allowed to refer to 

 the maps of ancient and modern France published 

 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- 

 ledge ? There we find Aballo, the modern Aval- 

 Ion, on the road connecting Sens and Autun, 

 where the inscription was Ibund. Avedonacum 

 or Aunay (supposed the Anvadonnacon of the 

 Sat. Rev.) lies in the extreme west, near Roche- 

 fort, whereas the other inscriptions were found 

 not far from the places to which they contain 

 some reference. 



By the way, the ancient name of Glastonbury, 

 Avalon or Afalon, of which I have only seen hesi- 

 tating derivations, might be explained by a know- 

 ledge of that of Aballo. S. F. C. 



St. John's. 



The Twelve Alls (2"^ S. vii. 177.)— The readers 

 of Walpole's Letters will remember a poem com- 

 mencing — 



" L'Allemagne craint tout," 



concerning which the writer says, 



" Here is a new thing which has been much talked 

 about, j'our brother Ga\(fridus Mann) gave me the copy 

 of it." (^Letter to H. Mann, 22 Oct. 1741.) 



Ainsworth the novelist has in his Ballads a 

 poem entitled •' All Spice or a Spice of All," 

 which consists of forty-two alls, and is evidently 

 compounded of the spicy ingredients quoted by 

 J. Y., and ends like that with the prophecy of 

 a great increase of population in his satanic 

 majesty's dominions. H. S. G. 



Bishop Hard (2°'^ S. vl. 245.; vii. 136.) — See 

 European Magazine, vol. liii. pp. 403. 474; Joseph 

 Milner's Life, p. xii. ; Carlisle's Grammar Schools, 

 vol. ii. pp. 472. 476 ; English stanzas by Hurd in 

 the Cambridge Collection of verses on the peace, 

 fol. 1748, signat. G. 



Gray {Wo7-ks, vol. v. p. 52, ed. Pickering), 

 drily remarks that Hurd " was the last person 

 who left off stiff topped gloves." J. E. B. Match. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Alleged Copy o/ Sentence on our Blessed Saviour 

 (2"'* S. vii. 104. 178.)— I, too, have a copy of the 

 sentence, cut from a newspaper, and said to have 

 been translated from the Courrier des Etats Unis. 

 In a verbal point of view, it differs considerably 

 from the copy given at p. 104., though the sense 

 is pretty much the same. My copy was cut from 

 Woolmer's Exeter Gazette, but I cannot say the 

 exact date when. P. Hutchinson. 



* Published by J. S. Lang, George Street, Glasgow, 

 one shilling and upwards. 



"J. man's a man for a' that'' (2°'' S.vii. 146.226.) 

 — The following (extracted some time ago from 

 the Life of Margaret Fuller, Marchesa Ossoli), 

 may supply an additional note on this song : — 



" A Scotch gentleman told me the following story: — 

 R. Burns, still only in the dawn of his celebrity, was in- 

 vited to dine with one of the neighbouring (so-called) 

 gentrj'. On arriving he found his plate set in the ser- 

 vants' room. After dinner he was invited into the room 

 where the guests were assembled, a chair placed for him 

 at the lower end of the board, a glass of wine offered, and 

 he was requested to sing one of his songs for the enter- 

 tainment of the company. He drank the wine, and 

 thundered off his grand song, 



' A man's a man for a' that,' &c. ; 



and, having finished his prophecy and prayer, left the 

 churlish entertainers to hide their heads in the home 

 they had disgraced." 



S. M. S. 

 Work on Heraldry (2"'^ S. vi. 32.)— The 

 author was Thomas Brydson ; and the work was 

 published in Edinburgh in 1795, and entitled 

 View of Heraldry, in reference to the Usages of 

 Chivalry, and the General Economy of the Feudal 

 System, Sj~c. 8vo. pp. 319. "A work," according to 

 Lowndes, " of uncommon ingenuity, deserving of 

 being called ' The Philosophy of Heraldry.' " 



A.A.R. 



Portraits of Sir Philip Sidney (2"* S. vii. 213.) 

 — Nearly five years since I drew attention to the 

 portrait prefixed to Dr. Zouch's Memoirs of the 

 Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, in a letter 

 to Mr. Urban, which may be found in Gent. Mag. 

 (N. S.), xlii. 152. May I be allowed here to point 

 out a singular but not unpardonable typogra- 

 phical error in that letter which I have only just 

 discovered ? I referred to Mr. Pears as of " C. 

 C. C. Oxford." This the printer makes " Christ 

 Church College," instead of " Corpus Christi Col- 

 lege." 



I have seen many copies of the Sidney papers ; 

 each contained the portrait which your correspon- 

 dent's copy wants. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



The Godwin Family (2""^ S. vii. 148.)=— The 

 armorial bearings of this family were S. a chevron 

 ermine between three leopards' heads, cabossed 

 O. In A will find some particulars of this family 

 in the Visitation of Somersetshire in 1623. T. P. 



Clifton. 



Changes in Language and Orthography (2'"' S. 

 vii. 234.) — Will Charles M. C. kindly favour 

 me with the references to the passages and words 

 he has cited from Bentley On Free-Thinking, 

 excepting those contained in paragraph No. 5. ? 

 I should be obliged to him, also, if he would 

 specify the edition he has used. 



Herbert Coleridge. 



10. Chester Place, 



Regent's Park, N.W. 



