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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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deed, an old neighbour of mine used frequently 

 to tell me that he was daily expecting a particular 

 hive to swariu, because he had seen a number of 

 sweeps going into it. D. A. 



Arbroath. 



Cambridge Jeux cTEsprit (!'* S. xli. 52. 154.) 

 — To the list furnished by Mb. Bates maybe 

 added — 



« Sketches of Cantabs, by John Smith (of Smith Hall), 

 gent., with two illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Lon- 

 don, 1850." 



U. B. 



Index Motto (2'"' S. iii. passim). — ! have just 

 met with these verses in an old book ; they seem 

 to deserve a place in " N. & Q." appurtenant to 

 many communications on Indexes. 



" In Laudem Indicutn. 



(Parodia Horat. ode ii. lib. ii.) 



" Tantus hand libro decor est, valorque 

 Abdita multis, studiose lector, 

 Indicis justi nisi comprobato 

 Splendeat usu. 



" Claret hinc dius Maro ; claret ajvo, 

 Notus indoctos Juvenalis, atque 

 Flaccus ; et sic indicibus libellos 

 Fama celebrat. 



" Rectius sic invenias petendo 

 Quod velis, quam si faciem, evolutis 

 Paginis, omnem vidoas, utrumque et 

 Servias ista. 



" Decipit fidcns sibi srope i^vriti.y), 

 Nee petitum dat, nisi certa menti 

 Obiret norma indicis, atque pellat 

 Inde timorem. 



" IJedditnm quodcumque suo locorum, 

 Excidens menti dubio labanti, 

 Monstrat Index, indeque quemque falsis 

 Dedocet uti. 



" Vocibus, sedemque locumque tutum 

 Defcrrens istis ; placidamque mentem, 

 Qui Indicis librorum oculo irretorto 

 Spectat araatos." 



George. 



"AcomMeth" (2"'^ S. iii. 30.) — In the French 

 language there is a word, comb/e, which signifies 

 ^'■raised to the highest pitch of;" and in reply to 

 the Query of J. B., I would suggest that acombleth 

 is derived from it. " A horse that acombleth" i. e. 

 "a horse that prances or j'ears." I have searched 

 in vain for the word in many dictionaries and 

 cyclopedias, as also in an old edition of the 

 Sportsman's Dictionary ; but even there, there is 

 no such word. Hbnri. 



" What teas the largest Sum ever given for a 

 Picture? (2"'' S. iii. 110.) — Though not a direct 

 answer to Cuthbert Bede's Query, it is interest- 

 ing, in vindication of the love of art in our own 

 country, to notice the extravagant price offered 

 some years since for the " liaising of Lazarus," by 



Sebastian del Piombo, — a picture which has now, 

 I believe, found a resting-place in our National 

 Gallery. It was formerly in the possession of the 

 Duke of Orleans, who is said to have purchased it 

 for 24,000 francs. It subsequently became the 

 property of Mr. Angerstein for 3,500Z., and by him 

 the large sum of 20,000Z. was refused when ten- 

 dered by Mr. Beckford of Fonthill Abbey ; his 

 demand being five per cent, in addition to the 

 amount stated. John Bookek. 



Mayors Re-elected (2"-' S. ii. 384. 477. ; iii. 99.) 

 — John Spencer Viras four times mayor of Galway, 

 1665-G8 ; Theodore Russell, twelve times, 1674- 

 85 ; Denis Daly, seven times, 1769-88 ; Peter 

 Daly, five times, 1778-99 ; Hyacinth Daly, twelve 

 times, 1779 — 1816 ; Denis Bowes Daly, ten times, 

 1784—1812; and James Daly, five times, 1804- 

 19. (Hardiman's Histoi-y of Galway, pp. 217-29.) 



Abhba. 



Ecclesiastics employed in State Affairs (2"^^ S. iii. 

 p. 91.) — Bishop Robinson was not the last clerical 

 statesman : Charles, first Earl of Liverpool, was 

 in deacon's orders. (Wraxall's Memoirs, vol. ii. 

 p. 210.) Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



notes on books, etc. 



Mr. Kemble is a man of uncommon and original power, 

 and his State Papers and Correspondence illustrative of 

 the Social and Political State of Europe from the Revo- 

 lution to tJie Accession of the House of Hanover, (8vo., 

 J. W. Parker & Son), is a most able and important vo- 

 lume. Besides an historical introduction, which lays 

 open the general state of Europe in a masterly waj% the 

 work contains — prefixed to its several divisions — various 

 biographical notices of the most interesting kind. Those 

 of the Electress Sophia of Hanover, Elizabeth Charlotte 

 Duchess of Orleans, Madame de Roclclitz, Count Schulen- 

 burg, Patkul and Cavalier, are models of this kind of 

 writing. The letters themselves are of varied interest. 

 The names of some of the writers — Leibnitz, the Electress 

 Sophia, Bishop Burnet, Thomas Burnet, Sir Isaac Newton, 

 the Duchess of Marlborough, Caroline Princess of Wales, 

 afterwards Queen of George II. — are sufficient to exhibit 

 the importance of the contents. We have no room for 

 extracts, or we should not feel the slightest difficulty in 

 selecting passages of interest. The two accounts given of 

 an interview between the Electress Sophia and the Czar 

 Peter would certainly be amongst the extracts Ave should 

 make. The Electress and her daughter Sophia Charlotte 

 of Prussia wrote to their correspondents separate accounts 

 of this great event. The people collected in crowds around 

 the place appointed for receiving the Russian autocrat. 

 The bashful Czar could not face the glances of a Hano- 

 verian mob, whereupon the Elector dispersed the crowd 

 with the soldiers of his guard, and the Czar slipped unob- 

 served into the palace, and ran up a private staircase to his 

 appointed room. Introduced to the ladies of the Electoral 

 House, he buried his face in his hands, and for some time 

 was silentand confused. But the Electress and Sophia Char- 

 lotte took him, one on each side, and determined to over- 



