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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



443 



having at this moment before me a copy of a 

 Memoir of Si?' John King, Knight, written by his 

 father in 1677, and first published by Messrs. 

 Bell and Daldy in 1855, I would suggest the pro- 

 bability of General Koy having likewise sprung 

 from Jean Le Roy, who left Rouen for England 

 in 1572, and died in London in 1615. S. O. R. 



aa^plits ta Minav eaucrtc^. 



(Allege fl) Superstitions regarding the Blos- 

 soming of Plants (2"^ S. vii. 312.)— It is true that 

 our forefathers connected the blossoming of plants 

 with festivals and saints' days. The practice was 

 common all over Christendom. The instances are 

 far too numerous to be mentioned here ; but a 

 few may be added to those enumerated by Notsa, 

 and his inaccuracies rectified. The snowdrop was 

 called Fair Maid of Fehruary, or Purification 

 Floiver, from its blossoming about the Feast of 

 our Lady's Purification. The flower of St. Mar- 

 garet's day was the Herh Margaret, not La Belle 

 Marguerite, which is a modern misnomer. There 

 was the Leid Lihj, or daffodil, the Pasque flower, 

 or anemone, Herh Trinity, Herh Chnstophei', St. 

 Barnahy's Thistle, Canterbury Bell, in honour of 

 St. Augustin of England, Herb St. Robert, and 

 many more. The AVhite Lily blossoms, not about 

 the Feast of the Annunciation, which is the 25th 

 of March, but near that of the Visitation, the 2nd 

 of July. But NoTSA mistakes when he supposes 

 that our Catholic ancestors imagined that flowers 

 expanded at certain festivals in honour of those 

 days. The fact was, that their piety led them to 

 name the plants after the saints' days and festi- 

 vals on or about which they blossomed. Had 

 NoTSA given this matter just consideration, he 

 would have found no reason to head his Note 

 with the odious charge of " Superstition." He 

 would rather have seen cause to admire the pious 

 feeling which sought to excite devotion from the 

 annual concurrence of certain flowers with cer- 

 tain festivals ; a practice certainly more edifying 

 than the modern practice of calling plants after 

 Pagan associations, or adopting such improved 

 names as " Venus' Navelwort," " Lycopei'don,'" or 

 " Phallus impudicus." F. C. H. 



Father Paul's '■'History of the Council of Trent" 

 (2"* S. vii. 351.) — I cannot answer Me. Yeowell's 

 Query respecting the alleged tampering with the 

 text of this noble book better than by citing the 

 preface to vol. i. of the new edition (Firenze, 

 1858, 4 vols. sm. 8vo.), an edition which, if I re- 

 member rightly, the intolerant party inefTectually 

 .attempted to suppress : — 



" Primo nostro pensiero, accingendoci alia ristampa 

 <lella Storia dd CnncUio Tridentino, fii di far esegaire in 

 Venezia uu riscontro di alcuna delle moderne stampe col 

 manoscritto che tiene luogo di autografo, il quale con- 



servasi nella Biblioteca di San Marco : c gia erasi dato 

 niano al lavoro, quando fummo avvertiti da persone degno 

 di fede e dotte nelle istorie venete, che simil riscontro 

 omai era superfluo, e che prendendo a modello la prima 

 edizione, eravatno certi di aver dinanzi il manoscritto 

 Marciano." * 



Accordingly the editors have followed exactly 

 the text as printed by John Bill in 1619. With- 

 out such authority I should not have ventured to 

 speak on any point of criticism respecting a book 

 written in what is to me a dead language ; I am 

 now encouraged to say that, after a careful perusal 

 of the London edition, I too formed a very favour- 

 able opinion of the care and accuracy with which 

 it was executed. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Dr. John Leyden (2"i S. vii. 236. 384.) —Your 

 correspondent C. B. will be glad to learn that an 

 edition of the poetical works of Leyden, with the 

 Memoir by Sir Walter Scott, and supplementary 

 notes by Mr. Robert White of Newcastle, the 

 historian of the battle of Otterburn, was published 

 by Messrs. Rutherford of Kelso last year. 



^ ^ E. n. A. 



In a late publication (Hawick and its Old 

 Memories, James Dalgleish, Hawick, 1858) it is 

 stated that this distinguished man sat for his 

 portrait before leaving England, and that the 

 half-finished likeness found its way afterwards 

 into the possession of the late Mr. Heber. As 

 there is no other likeness of the poet in existence,, 

 can any of your readers point out where it is 

 likely to be found ? J. 



Farren Family (2"* S. vii. 279.)— Edward, 12ih 

 Earl of Derby, whose second wife was the daugh- 

 ter of Mr. George Farren of Cork, impaled argent, 

 a fesse gules, between three horse-shoes. F. G. 



Hugh de Calverley (2"'^ S. vii. 386.) — Sir Hugh 

 de Calvelegh of Lea, near Chester, seems almost 

 too distinguished a warrior to be a subject of 

 inquiry. Your correspondent may refer to the 

 Index in Johnes's Froissart, also to biograpljical 

 notices in Fuller's Worthies, Lysons's Magna 

 Bi'itannia (vol. ii.), and Ormerod's Cheshire. 



The proper orthography is as above, but Sir 

 Hugh sometimes occurs as "de Calverley" in Re- 

 cords, as in his appointment as " Capitaneus villaj 

 Caleis," 1375. 



He died issueless on St. George's Day, 1394; 

 but the descendants of his brother's heirs general, 

 namely, of the Cottons of Combermere, and the 

 Leghs of Lyme, are still connected with the raili- 



* " Nel secolo scorso fu la prima edizione riscontrata 

 con il manoscritto Marciano, che tiene luogo di autografo, 

 dal Foscarini, nel presente dal Gamba; ed entranibi la 

 trovarono fedelissima : cosa a dir vero maravigliosa di un 

 libro stampato in paese straniero. — Yedi Bianclii-Giovini, 

 Biografia di Fru Paolo Sarpi, Bruxelles, 183G, vol. ii. pp. 

 312—314." 



