2<ii S. VII. Mar. 19. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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give me the colours ? as I cannot find the arras in 

 any armoury. Eheu. 



PhilosopTier quoted hy South. — In South's well- 

 known Sermon (No. xxi.) on the " Fatal Impos- 

 ture and Force of Words," I find " to. eV rj? ^oov^ 

 Twv ev T»7 'f'l'XJJ iTudrjiJi.dTuv crvufioXa" quoted as " the 

 known maxim laid down by the philosopher." 

 Who is " the philosopher ? " S. C. 



Unknown Portrait. — I have in my collection 

 an unknown mezzotinto portrait, a Kit-cat (which 

 I purchased at Mr. C. K. Sharpe's sale) of a gen- 

 tleman, with the following motto below, but no 

 name either of painter or engraver : — 



" lUuc setatis qui.sit. non invenies alterum 

 Lepidiorem ad omneis res, nee qui amicus amico sit 

 magis." Plaut. 



The costume is that of George I. or II. J. M. 



Channel Islands. — Are the Channel Islands 

 part of the United Kingdom ? Suppose a vessel- 

 arrived at Falmouth "for orders" is directed to 

 discharge at Jersey. Is the master bound to pro- 

 ceed thither under a charterparty the conditions 

 of which require that he shall deliver his cargo at 

 a port in the United Kingdom ? 



Charles Wtlie. 



Old Scotch Newspapers. — Can any of your 

 Scotch readers inform me where I can obtain a 

 list of the newspapers published in Scotland in 

 1783 ? and where (if any still exist) files of these 

 newspapers are preserved ? My reason for asking 

 may be thus explained. In a letter in my posses- 

 sion, from the well-known literary character, Mr. 

 Ramsay of Auchtertyre, Perthshire, dated 1783, 

 the writer says : " I saw a notice of your father's 

 death in the newspapers." As the person alluded 

 to lived near Edinburgh, I rather think the notice 

 must have been in an Edinburgh paper, and it is 

 this notice that I am anxious to discover. Are 

 there any lists of births, deaths, &c., such as in 

 the early numbers of Blackwood's Magazine, in 

 existence for the year I have mentioned ? * 



Sigma Theta. 



Rev. Alexander Montgomery. — In Collet's Relics 

 of Literature (p. 361.), these words are prefixed 

 to some lines entitled "The Cripple of Be- 

 thesda " : — 



" The following beautiful and pathetic lines were writ- 

 ten by the Rev. Alexander Montgomery, a native of En- 

 niskillen, who, in the year 1780, was curate of Scrabby, 

 near Granard, in the county of Longford. They ap- 

 pear to have been composed at a time when the author 

 felt his sensibility roused by neglect." 



Has Mr. Montgomery (respecting whom I shall 

 be glad to hear particulars) left any more poetry 

 behind him ? Abhba. 



[* See The Scots Magazine for 1783, with an Index of 

 Kames. — Ed.] 



Family of Lyte. — Can you give me any inform- 

 ation respecting the family (now I believe extinct) 

 of Lyte, of Lyte Gary in the county of Somer- 

 set ? Meletes. 



Walter Harris. — Where may I find any au- 

 thentic particulars of Walter Harris, the well- 

 known editor of Sir James Ware's Works, &c. ? 

 If a sketch of his life and writings has not ap- 

 peared, it might not be too late to remedy the 

 defect. ► Abhba. 



Wm. Smith. — I lately found, in an old MS. 

 volume, a memorandum of "Will Smith, Com- 

 mander of the Russians." Can any of your readers 

 tell me either who he was, or where I would be 

 likely to find any information respecting him ? 



Sigma Theta. 



James Postlethioayt, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, is author of " Cursus Mathematicus 

 Cantab.," 1731, MS. 4to,, on vellum, in the ex- 

 traordinary collection of M. Guglielmo Libri, now 

 about to be sold (No. 828.). Mr. Postlethwayt 

 took no degree, and his name is new to us. Is any- 

 thing farther known of him ? 



C. H. & Thompson Coopeb. 



Cambridge. 



" Marmo e la colonna," SfC. — Who is the author 

 of the following concetto, " on our Saviour bound 

 to a Pillar, in Sculpture " ? — 



" Marmo h la colonna, 

 Marmo son gli empi' ministri e rei, 

 E tu pur, Signor, di marmo sei. 



" Marmo quella h per natura, 

 Marmo quel per dnrezza, 

 Marmo tu, per costanza e fortezza. 



" Ed io, chi di pietade e di cordoglio, 



Spettator ni rimango 



Marmo son se non piango ! " 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 

 Birmingham. 



The Turl, Oxford. — The street leading from 

 High Street to Broad Street, Oxford, in which 

 are the Colleges of Exeter, Jesus, and Lincoln, is 

 called " The Turl." Hearne the antiquary writes 

 (Reliq. Hearniance, vol. ii. p. 484.), with the date 

 June 3rd, 1722, — 



" On Friday last was pulled down the famous Postern 

 Gate in Oxford, called the 'Turl gate' commonly (being 

 a corruption for Thorold gate), which was done by the 

 means of one Dr. Walker, a physician, who lives by it, 

 and pretends that it was a detriment to his house." 



In the History and Directory of Oxfordshire, 

 published by Robert Gardner, it is stated in a 

 note that Turl Street " is so called from a Saxon 

 word signifying a narrow passage or gate, one of 

 the Postern Gates of the city having been at the 

 end of this street." 



Can any of your readers tell me which of these 

 derivations, or whether either of them, is correct? 



