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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<iS. N07O., May2.'67. 



settled at Shawomet, which he named Warwick, where 

 he resided until his death ia 1677. One biographical no- 

 tice of him states, that " his opinions on religion were so 

 peculiar, that it is impossible for any one at this day full}' 

 to comprehend them." There is conclusive evidence that 

 he was not a Quaker, for in 1656 four of that sect arrived 

 in Boston, and were committed to prison until a ship 

 could be found, to carry them back to England, " Lest," 

 says Gorton, " the purity of the religion professed in tlie 

 churches of New England should be denied with error." 

 Farther particulars of him will be found in Savage's Win- 

 throp, ii. 67. 295 — 299; Hutchinson's Massachusets, i. 117 



124. 549. ; Morton's Memorial, 202 — 206. ; Massachusets 



Hist Coll. xvii. 47 — 51. ; and Gallender's Hist. Discourse 

 in Rhode Island Hist. Coll., iv. 89—92., and ii. 9—20. See 

 also Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, chap, xxv.] 



" Labor ipse voluptas." — This is one of those 

 quotations of which everybody knows the author- 

 ship. Will somebody enlighten me? I have in 

 vain consulted the indices to all the Latin poets 

 usually met with. J. Eastwood. 



[This common quotation is from Manillas, Astrono- 

 micon, lib. iv. 155., where it reads " Labor est etiam ipsa 

 voUiptas."] 



^tpUti* 



(2"'^ S. ii. 352.) 



Jean Louis D'Usson, Marquis de Bonnac, 

 French Ambassador-Extraordinary to the Otto- 

 man Porte in 1713, was second son of Salomon 

 D'Usson, first Marquis de Bonnac, — so created by 

 Louis XIV. in 1683, — by his wife, Esther de Jaus- 

 sand, daughter of Claude, Baron de Tarabel — 

 married in 1672 ; — and his elder brother, Claude 

 FranQois, after a short career in the army, during 

 which he served in Piedmont, in Ireland, and at 

 the battle of Marsiglia in 1693, having quitted 

 the world to enter the Dominican order, Jean 

 Louis succeeded to the family title and estates at 

 his father's death in 1698. After having been one 

 of the Royal Musketeers, he was made a captain 

 of Dragoons in 1694, and proceeded in a diplo- 

 matic capacity in 1697 to Denmark, where his 

 paternal uncle, FranQois Seigneur de Bonrepaus, 

 was then French Ambassador : when his uncle 

 quitted Denmark, at the close of the same year, 

 and proceeded to Holland as ambassador to the 

 States General there, he accompanied him, and 

 remained there till 1699. His uncle having re- 

 turned to France in 1699, the young marquis was 

 sent to Germany as Envoy-Extraordinary from 

 the King of France, in 1700, and was raised to the 

 rank of Mestre-de-Camp of a cavalry regiment in 

 1701. Louis XIV. nominated him Envoy to the 

 Swedish Court in 1702, and bestowed upon him, 

 in 1707, the hereditary post of Royal Lieutenant 

 — Lieutenant de Roi — of the province of Foix ; 

 he also received the chief command in that country 

 during the same year. In 1711 he was appointed 



Envoy-Extraordinary to the Court of Spain ; and 

 in 1713 was ordered to proceed to Constantinople 

 in the quality of ambassador from the Court of 

 France to the Sultan Ahmed III, 



While French Ambassador in Turkej', the IMar- 

 quis de Bonnac married, Nov. 22, 17l5,Magdelaine 

 FranQoise de Gontaut, second daughter of Ar- 

 mand-Charles Due de BIron, Peer of France, and 

 Lieutenant- General of the royal armies, by whom 

 he had a son, born at Constantinople, in 1716. 



The family of D'Usson or de Dusson was a 

 noble and ancient house in the county of Donezan, 

 and derived the name from the chateau d'Usson 

 in that county, which formerly belonged to the 

 Counts of Cerdagne, and was a dependency of 

 the kingdom of Arragon ; it was subsequently 

 under the Counts of Foix, and the Kings of Na- 

 varre, but was reunited to France in 1 623, and 

 finally ^taken possession of, in 1711, by the Mar- 

 quis de Bonnac above mentioned. Bernard, 

 Baron D'Usson, the first of the family on record, 

 is mentioned in a deed of 1177 ; and the fifteenth 

 in lineal male descent from him was the subject 

 of the present notice : two uncles of [the mar.quia 

 also held high diplomatic appointments. 1. Fran- 

 qois. Seigneur de Bonrepaus, under whom the 

 marquis first entered on his career of diplomacy, 

 was ambassador to England in 1685-89, and a 

 naval officer of distinction ; he died unmarried in 

 1719. 2. Jean, Marquis de Bezac and Vicomte 

 de S. Martin, who was a soldier, and commanded 

 at the siege of Limerick in Ireland; in 1701 he 

 was envoy from France to the Princes of Ger- 

 many, and commander-in-chief of the allied troops 

 there : being obliged from ill-health to return to 

 France, Louis XIV. made him governor of Nice, 

 and he died at Marseilles in September, 1705 ; 

 though married, he left no issue. 



I think the above sufficiently replies to T, J.'s 

 Query regarding Bonac. A. S. A. 



Barrackpore, E. I., 21st Feb. 1857. 



THE HUSBAND OF MRS. MANLET. 



(2"d S. iii. 291.) 



Except that he was a scoundrel, there is, I be- 

 lieve, little known of the individual who was the 

 (pretended) husband of Mrs. Manley. If it had 

 not been for his villany, Mrs. De la Riviere 

 Manley might have borne a name among the most 

 virtuous, as she was one of the wittiest, of women. 

 After losing her father, the old cavalier. Sir Roger, 

 early in life, the motherless girl and her sister fell 

 under the careless guardianship of an indifferent 

 aunt, or, as it is more frequently said, the more 

 evil guardianship of a male cousin. She certainly 

 lived in the house of an aunt, where she read 

 romances of the period and personages of chivalry ; 

 and, with a lively mind full of ideas of knights, 



