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means of your publication. Of course we all 

 know of " grace cups " and " loving cups," but 

 can any of your readers tell me whether cups of 

 family love were usual in former days as legacies? 

 It seems to me a pleasanter and more unselfish 

 bequest than a mourning ring. The affection for 

 the departed donor of the cup, according to the 

 inscription on the " cup of love," is to draw closer 

 the bonds of affection amongst the surviving rela- 

 tions ; a warm and enduring sunbeam of affection 

 is to be reflected from the past upon the present. 



" 10 Junii, 1742. 



Poculum Charitatis 



Nepotibus suis singulis et neptibus 



Ab Avia amantissima C. N. legatum est, 



Hac mente, 



Ut quoties alii alios interviserent, 



Ex eo propinarent sibi, 



Et meraores quo affectu eos ipsa dilexit 



Eo se invicem prosequerentur." 



Which may be roughly rendered : — 



" A Grandmother a Cup of Lovo 



To each Grandchild bequeaths, 

 And trusts, each, love of her will prove 



By mutual deeds of love. 

 Oft as they meet, and drink, may they 



Think, as the cup goes round, 

 Of her advice who's past away 



And mingled with the ground." 



G. 



Farrcn Family.- — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me whether there are any families in Ireland 

 of the name of Farren ? what are their coats of 

 arms ? and if there is any pedigree of such fami- 

 lies extant ? * Genealogist. 



Origin of the Bayonet. — 



" A lower ridge or buttress of the Montagne d'AiThune 

 is called La Bayonette from that weapon of war, invented 

 extemporaneously, it is said, on this spot by a Basque re- 

 giment, who having run short of ammunition, assaulted 

 the Spaniards opposed to them by sticking the long 

 knives which the Basques commonly carry into the bar- 

 rels of their muskets, and thus charging the enemy. This 

 inust have occurred some time in the sixteenth or early 

 in the seventeenth century." 



The foregoing is from Murray's Handbook of 

 France. Whence is the story derived ? J. Y. A. 



" A Memorial for the Learned." — In the year 

 1686 there was printed A Memorial for the 

 Learned, which is said on the title-page to have 

 been the work of J. D. Gent. The dedication to 

 Lord Grey de Ruthyn is signed by N". Tate, the 

 poet-laureate, who mentions that the MS. was 

 submitted to him, that the author was a person of 

 position, and the work one of great learning and 

 research. That it was the production of an ac- 

 complished and learned man is obvious, and there 

 could be no other reason except the modesty of 

 the writer for objecting to his name being given 

 to the public. The copy before me was formerly 

 in the Lauderdale library, — one of those choice col- 



lections of books carefully preserved in old fami- 

 lies which occasionally are broken up, but which 

 ought always to be held by the possessor of the 

 title and estate as heirlooms. J. M. 



Edinburgh. 



Tuke's " Divine Comedian." — Can you give me 

 any information regarding a piece with the follow- 

 ing title, and its author ? The Divine Comedian ; 

 or, the Right Use of Plays, — a sacred tragi-comedy, 

 by Richard Tuke, 4to. 1672. This sacred drama 

 is said, in the Biographia Dramatica, to be dedi- 

 cated to the Countess of Warwick. R. Inglis. 

 Glasgow. J^fo<{4^ 



Portrait of Mad. de Maintenon. — Last Friday, 

 on view at Christie & Manson's, was one of the" 

 finest portraits I ever saw, entered in the cata- 

 logue as Mad. de Maintenon, by " Netcher." 

 There must be something symbolical in the ac- 

 companiments, which I am anxious to ascertain. 

 She holds a large full-blown rose in her right 

 hand, with leaves falling down ; a gold watch in 

 tortoiseshell case, the pointers past twelve. Is 

 this very remarkable picture known ? Any in- 

 formation will oblige C. R., M.D. 



Dr. Watts' s last Thoughts on the Trinity. — Was 

 Dr. Watts a Unitarian ? This has recently (by 

 implication) been denied. A correspondent ("N. 

 & Q.," 2"'^ S. V. 523.) contrives, very adroitly, to 

 avoid telling us what were Dr. Watts's real senti- 

 ments. Now, if we may believe Dr. Credibility 

 Lardner (letters to the Rev. Mr. Merivale, and 

 Merivale's letters to Dr. Priestley), Dr. Watts died 

 a Unitarian. Why was the pamphlet suppressed ? 

 Why did the executors " think it unfit for publi- 

 cation?" Surely it was unfit in no other sense 

 than being against his former opinions. Will 

 some one of your correspondents tell us what this 

 pamphlet contains ? Let us have the truth. 



G.N. 



TtaleigKs Portraits. — Can your correspondent, 

 N. B., inform me if a small engraving I have of 

 Sir Walter, by Rob. Vaughan (1650), is taken 

 from the picture he mentions at Bothwell. The 

 staff is in his right hand, resting on a globe. He 

 is in armour, and cocks and shields are in the top 

 corners : over, is " Tam Marti, quam Mercurio." 



E. W. 



Quotation Wanted. — 

 " To talk with our past hours, 



And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 



And how they might have borne more welcome news." 



Vespertilio. 

 Polwhele's " Frolick." — In a catalogue of Shak- 

 sperian and dramatic literature, I observed a MS. 

 piece, with the following title : The Frolick, or, 

 the Lawyer cheated, a new comedy by E. P. Eliza- 

 beth Polwhele, "an unfortunate younge woman 

 haunted by Poetick divils," 1671 — original un- 



