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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd g. No 60„ Feb. 21. '57. 



Minav caunriei. 



George a Green. — Can any reader of " N. & 

 Q." give me information as to the present where- 

 abouts of an early prose romance on the subject 

 of George a Green, totally different from the one 

 generally known, and which I formerly reprinted. 

 The book to which I allude Is entitled The Finder 

 of Wakefield, being a History of George a Green, 

 6fc., full of pretty Histories, Songs, Catches, Jests, 

 and Riddles, 4to. (bl. let.) 1632. It was sold in the 

 Gordonstoun sale and purchased by Mr. Tnglis. I 

 saw the copy some twenty-five years since, and 

 made some notes of it, but these I have unfortu- 

 nately mislaid. William J. Thoms. 



Glycerine for Old Books. — There have ap- 

 peared in " N. & Q." from time to time many 

 inquiries and communications on the subject of 

 restoring the bindings of old books. One cor- 

 respondent, Luke Limner, suggested (2"'^ S. II. 

 156.) that the " thing most wanting to render the 

 leather supple is an oil or fatty matter to replace 

 the unction dried out of the skin by the action of 

 time.". May I ask if any experiments for this 

 purpose have been made with glycerine ? if not, 

 may I suggest it as deserving trial, and request 

 those who try it to record in your columns the 

 result of their experiments for the benefit of 

 every other Book Lover. 



Archbishop Slattery. — Doctor Michael Slattery, 

 whose death has very recently taken place, and 

 who was for some years (I believe from 1834 to 

 the present year) Roman Catholic Archbishop of 

 Cashel, was a graduate of the University of Dub- 

 lin. Is there any other instance of the kind on 

 record ? Abhba. 



Portraits of Bishops. — Where can a list of the 

 portraits, either paintings or engravings, be found 

 of the bishops, &c., of the Church of England ? 

 My object is to procure a list of those who were 

 natives of Devon or Cornwall, stating where their 

 painted portraits are still to be seen, or in what 

 works engravings of them may be found. 



An Ecclesiastic. 



Thirty Years' War. — Mr. Carlyle in his Crom- 

 welFs Letters and Speeches attributes the words 

 " Ich habe genug, Bruder ; rette Dich " to Gus- 

 tavus Adolphus, on the field of Liitzen, giving 

 Schiller as his authority. Mr. Chapman in his 

 recent History of Gustavus Adolphus does not 

 mention these last words, and my own copy of 

 the Geschichte des dreissigjdhrigen Kriegs has no 

 marginal references, which would give me the 

 original authority. Would some reader of" N. & 

 Q." kindly supply it. 



Carlyle says " AUes fiir Ruhin und Ehr " were 

 the words Duke Bernhard of Weimar carried on 



his flag through many battles in that thirty years' 

 war — in allusion to Elizabeth of Bohemia. Mr. 

 Chapman says of Christian of Brunswick, " to his 

 motto Tout pour Dieu'" was now added " et pour 

 elle." Is Mr. Carlyle mistaken, or did the two 

 dukes bear similar mottoes ? Schiller, the only 

 authority he quotes just at this place, says of 

 Christian of Brunswick Halberstadt — " und die 

 Devise : AUes fur Gott und sie, auf Seinen Fah- 

 nen." T. X. H. 



Family of Mauleverer. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me to what family the follow- 

 ing arms belonged : Argent, upon a chevron, 

 three martlets ? colours not known. 



These were quartered by Sa. three greyhounds 

 courant, arg., being the arms of Mauleverer, of 

 Arnclifie, co. York, and recorded by Glover in 

 1585. C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Northallerton. 



Speech addressed to Charles II. — Among the 

 MSS. relating to the Reformed Church at Ro- 

 chelle, and lodged in Marsh's library, there is a 

 speech addressed to Charles II. with this title : 

 " Harangue du Roy faite par Mons. Lombard, un 

 MInistre de I'Eglise Fran^oise de La Savoye, le 

 19 Octobre, 1681." In this speech a Declaration 

 is mentioned favourable to the Protestants, What 

 was it, and in what work can I find it ? 



Among these MSS. there are several very in- 

 teresting documents. Clericus (D.) 



" St. Leon," a Drama. — Who is the author of 

 St. Leon, a drama in three acts ? Published by 

 Ed. Churton, London, 1835. X. 



English Currants and Foreign Currants. — The 

 elder D'Israeli, in his article on the Introducers of 

 Exotic Flowers and Fruits, says that — 



" The currant-bush was transplanted when our com- 

 merce with the island of Zante was first opened in the 

 reign of Henry VIII." 



I have been more than once assured that the 

 currants of commerce, the produce of Zante and 

 Patras, are not identical with the garden currants 

 of this country, and that the former do not belong 

 to the genus Ribes. Is D'Israeli right or wrong 

 in the above assertion ? Henry T. Rileit. 



« The Election." — Who is the author of The 

 Election, an interlude, ]2mo., 1784? It is said 

 to have been written by a clergyman in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Yarmouth, and refers to some inci- 

 dents which took place at the election of members 

 for that town. X. 



Twins ; Martin-heifer ; Free-martin. — Being, 

 the other day, at the private baptism of a boy and 

 girl, the twin children of a poor woman, a gossip 

 who had contributed her full quota to the popu- 



