and S, VII. May 14. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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officers, be being tben only 23. He was a rising 

 man in the French army before the English ever 

 set foot in Corsica. E. C. B. 



Fleetwood, Recorder of Lo^idon (2"'* S. vii. 317.) 

 — I have stated, on the authority of Sir Henry 

 Ellis and Dr. Lipscomb, that he was the illegi- 

 timate son of Robert Fleetwood ; but I have 

 reason to think that is an error, and I wish to 

 inquire if there is any evidence of his illegitimacy. 

 I have seen the will of his father, who was a soli- 

 citor or notary, and dwelt in Fleet Street, in the 

 parish of St. Dunstan. He mentions his son Wil- 

 liam Fleetwood of the Middle Temple, but there 

 is nothing from which illegitimacy can be inferred. 

 The Recorder's pedigree, by Vincent, at the Col- 

 lege of Arms, bi'ings down the descent from his 

 grandfather through the Recorder to his descend- 

 ants, without any indication of illegitimacy ; but 

 Vincent gives the arms, which are those of the 

 family (at Chalfont St. Giles), with a bordure, a 

 difference which must have been made subse- 

 quently to the Recorder's time ; for he used the 

 arms of his family without any difference, as ap- 

 pears from his seal to a document penes J. J. 

 Howard, Esq., F.S.A., who bought it at the sale 

 of the late Mr. Gregory's collections. The Re- 

 corder's arms are also in one of the north side 

 windows of the Middle Temple Hall. And in 

 Liber Fleetwood at Guildhall, a book which Re- 

 corder Fleetwood presented to the Lord Mayor 

 and Aldermen on resigning his office, 31st July, 

 1576, in which the arms of the then Lord Mayor, 

 of all the Aldermen, and his own arms, are em- 

 blazoned, the arms of Fleetwood are those of his 

 ftither's family, viz. Party per pale nebule, az. and 

 or, three martlets counterchanged quartering, 

 which is highly inconsistent with the notion of his 

 illegitimacy. Geo. R. Corner. 



Lines cited by Burke (2'"* S. vii. 342.) — Taken 

 from Prior's Protogenes and Apelles : — 



" On the plain ground Apelles drew 

 A circle regularly true : 

 ' And will you please, sweetheart,' said be, 

 'To show your master this from me? 

 By it he presently -will know 

 Ilow painters write their names at Co.' " 



M. H. 



The Sapiens of the Stoics; Misti'anslations of 

 Montaigne (2"'^ S. vii. 355.) — The objection of 

 J, J. J. that the translators have not given the 

 word sage (i. 2.) in the singular number, applies 

 equally to the version of Florio as to those of 

 Cotton and Hazlitt, without, however, vitiating 

 the sense. That of Florio appears to him to have 

 the preference ; but in this passage, where Mon- 

 taigne says, " the Italians have more suitably 

 christened sorrow by its name malignity,'^ the ver- 

 sions of Cotton and Hazlitt are clearly preferable 

 to Florio's in showing that tristezza means ma- 



lignity as well as sorrow. This peculiarity had 

 not been observed by Montaigne in Greek, Latin, 

 or French, the other languages with which he 

 was familiar. It had its origin probably from 

 the prevalence of the doctrines of the Porch in 

 Italy ; for Plutarch (Z)e Stoicomm repugnanliis, 

 XXV.) quotes from Chrysippus the declaration 

 that envy was a sorrow at other men's good, — its 

 counterpart being a rejoicing at other men's mis- 

 fortunes ; this sorrow and this rejoicing being 

 equally malignant. The cynical caricature of the 

 Stoic sage, as given by Horace {Sat. i. Hi. 124.) 

 is not quoted by Montaigne, which he would cer- 

 tainly have done, had he considered it germane to 

 his matter. Horace is a very favourite author of 

 his, and the Latin was his mother tongue, for 

 although born in France, he did not begin to 

 learn Perlgordin or French till his seventh year ; 

 but it Is probable he silently condemned such 

 caricature ("see i. 13. sub finem) as inconsistent 

 with truth and probability. His authorities for 

 the opinions of Zeno and Chrysippus would be 

 Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, 

 and Seneca, — not Horace, as Aristophanes Is no 

 authority for the doctrines of Socrates. (See 

 Tennemann's Manual, s. 163 — 5.) 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



The Grave of Pocahontas (2"<* S. vl. 316. ; vii. 

 131.) — Under the portrait mentioned by Gran- 

 ger, In vol. li. p. 57., edit. 1775, the Princess Po- 

 cahontas Is styled " Matoaks, ais Rebecka, daugh- 

 ter to the mighty Prince Powhatan, Emperour of 

 Attanoughkornouck ats Virginia, converted and 

 baptized in the Christian faith, and wife to the 

 worff M' Job Rolff. ^t. 21. A° I6I6." 



I am, through the kindness of a friend at 

 Gravesend, enabled to send the following extract 

 from the register. Her grave is in the parish 

 church of Gravesend. 



« 1616, May 21. Rebecca Krolf, wj'ff of Thomas Rrolf, 

 gent. A Virginia Ladv borne, was buried in the Chann- 

 cell." 



See History of Gravesend (pp. 286, 287.), by 

 R. P. Cruden, for a short but interesting account 

 of her. G. J. Hay. 



"■Sarcasm'' (2""^ S. vii. 341.) — Allow me to 

 offer " sneering praise," as a short definition of 

 "sarcasm," — that Is, upholding anyone's defects, 

 bad actions, or what not. In a tone of voice or 

 mode of expression that gives the negative to ap- 

 proving words. And In the Implied negation lies, 

 I think, the distinction between "sarcasm" and 

 "satire": thus, a humorous description of the 

 said defects, &c., making censure apparent by a 

 sneer " direct" as it were, would I conclude fall 

 under the latter title. 



Invective is, I take it, " mere passionate abuse," 

 merited or unmerited. Yiiay-os. 



