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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



147 



Aime Boleyns Ancestry. — I have just been 

 reading John Donne's Five Sermons upon Speciall 

 Occasions, 1626, 4to., and on p. 23. of the first 

 Sermon came to the following passage (Donne is 

 addressing the merchants *of London) : - — 



"We have many noble families derived from j'ou; one 

 enough to enoble a World ; Queene Elizabeth was the 

 great granchild of a Lord Maior of London " (Sir Geof- 

 frey Boleyn, in 1457). 



Rather an odd place for a piece of historical 

 information, was it not? Is any other queen of 

 England known to have been similarly'related to 

 a civic monarch ? G. M. G. 



Sir John Calf. — Where are the following lines 

 to be found ? — 



« Here lies Sir John Calf, 

 Three times Lord Mayor of London. 

 Honour I honour ! ! honour ! ! ! " 



And underneath, written by a wag : — 



*• cruel Death, more subtle than a fox. 

 That would not let this Calf become an ox. 

 That he might browse among the briars and thorns, 

 And near beside his brethren, horns ! horns ! ! horns ! ! ! " 



J. G. 



Letter to Mr. Bayes. — 



" You are free from the charge of resembling the French 

 I'oets, though you may have imitated them. They are 

 jjedantic and correct, but j'ou are full of bounce and fus- 

 tian ; more like the Spaniards, whose great playwright 

 Moxas, according to Mr. Gayton's translation, begins a 

 tragedy thus. The heroine, an Amazon, says ; — 



" ' Echo, whose constant voice knows not restraint, 

 Repeats the utterings of my dire complaint : 

 Rivers, mountains, meadows, travellers shall feel 

 The trenchant edge of my' avenging steel. 

 Plains, flowers, and fruits, the echo and the river. 

 Before my kindled anger soon shall quiver ; 

 I am the Rose of courage pure, which scorns 

 These catifs, and will make them feel my thorns.' 



" To which the hero replies : — 



" ' worthy Rose, rose without a stain. 

 Transplanted out of Africa to Spain ; 

 Rose, more resplendent than the solar ray. 

 May made not thee — thy brightness made the May. 

 Perfect in thee we valour's beauty see do. 

 Sister of Selim, Monarch of Toledo.' 



" Beat this last rhyme if you can, Mr. Bayes ! " 

 The above is from A Letter to Mr. Bayes., Lon- 

 don, 1686, p. 32. Is this a real translation? If 

 so, I shall be glad to be referred to the passage, 

 and to any account of Roxas. The Letter is a 

 feeble attack upon Dryden. C. E. 



Cross at Somersby, Lincolnshire. — In the An- 

 tiqimrian Cabinet, published 1807, vol, v., is an 

 engraving of a stone cross in Somersby Church- 

 yard, similar in design to many we see by the 

 roadside in Roman Catholic countries. On one 

 face, under a pointed roof or canopy, is a repre- 

 sentation of Christ on the cross, on the other the 



Virgin and Child. The author states that the 

 cross was standing, and in very good preservation, 

 in 1806, adding that it was the only instance in 

 England of such a cross having escaped the ra- 

 vages of fanaticism. I shall be glad if any of our 

 antiquarian friends can inform me if it is still in 

 existence ; and whether the above statement as to 

 its being unique is correct ? G, (1.) 



Jacob Gingle, Esq. — Who was the person who 

 adopted this pseudonym, — "by divine permission, 

 metre-monger in ordinary to the two great and 

 populous cities of London- and Westminster," — 

 and author (1729) of a Hudibrastic poem entitled 

 The Ojcford Sermon versified ? Cuthbert Beds. 



Faunes Family. — 



1. Can any of your readers inform me who 

 were the descendants of Adam de Faunes, who 

 lived somewhere in Berwickshire about 1250, and 

 married a Haig of Bauerside ? 



2. Is the family of Fauns Scotch or English ? 

 Burke gives one branch at Leamington. Is this 

 the original family, or some descendants of a col- 

 lateral branch ? 



3. What is the motto of the Fauns family ? 



B, M. B. 

 Witchcraft near Berwick. — In a book entitled 

 The Border Exploits, &c., by W. Scott, Carlisle, 

 1832, p. 118., it is said : — 



" In a village near Berwick, containing fourteen houses, 

 fourteen persons accused of this crime [witchcraft] were 

 condemned to suffer by fire." 



This was about the year 1647. Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q," Inform me what particular village is 

 alluded to ? Mentanthes. 



CaxtorHs Birth-place. — Is it known in what 

 part of the Weald of Kent the father of English 

 printing was born, and the modern name of the 

 locality ? * E. D. 



Sir Hans Sloane. — The father of the founder 

 of the British Museum was Alexander Sloane of 

 Killyleagh, where Sir Hans was born, 16th April, 

 1660. He was, I believe, receiver of the rents 

 of the Clanbrasil family, and it is probable that 

 either he or his father came over from Scotland 

 with Sir James Hamilton, afterwards Lord Clane- 

 boy. Can anyone inform me who his father was, 

 and if the ancestors of Sir Hans have been traced 

 farther back ? Is there any list of Scotchmen 

 who settled in Ireland in the train of Sir James 

 Hamilton and Sir Hugh Montgomery, whose 

 plantation of the Co. Down was quite distinct 

 from what is generally called the Plantation of 

 Ulster ? E. H, D, D. 



John Rutty, M.D. — I am under the impression 

 that a biographical sketch of Dr. Rutty, author of 

 An Essay towards a Natu7-al History of the County 



[* See "N. & Q." I't S. iv. 436. ; v, 3.1 ~ 



