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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the genealogy may be traced, will greatly oblige a 

 gentleman interested in finding some authentic 

 records of that family, now believed to be nearly, 

 jf not quite, extinct? A. H. M. 



" A sorrow's a'oivn of sorrow." — To what poet 

 does Tennyson allude, when he says : 



" This is truth the poet sings, 



That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering hap- 

 pier things ? " 



The similarity of sentiment in a couplet in 

 Eloisa to Abelard — 



" Of all afflictions taught a lover yet, 

 'Tis sure the hardest science to forget," 



would lead me to suggest Pope. What say your 

 readers ? A. ChalI/Eteth. 



Gray's Inn. 



Blood Royal and Martyrial. — The Grand Duke 

 Cosmo mentions (see Travels, p. 368., London, 

 1821), that the blood of Charles I. was spattered 

 on the window at Whitehall ; and that no effort 

 to erase it had succeeded, at the date of his visit 

 to England, a.d. 1669. Query, Is it yet to be 

 seen at Whitehall? This inquiry is apropos to 

 those of others of your correspondents, as to blood 

 that will not wash out. A. C. C. 



Lances Brisees, or Lancie Spezzate. — H. E. W. 

 F. wishes to know why the soldiers styled Lancie 

 spezzate, or Lances brisees, employed in the four- 

 teenth and fifteenth centuries, were reckoned as 

 equal to three times the same number of Gen- 

 darmes or Cavalry. 



In the first of the following quotations from 

 Sismondi, 20 Lances are counted as 60 Cavalry. 

 In the second, 400 Lances are esteemed equivalent 

 to 1200 Oendarmes. Was every Lancia Spezzata, 

 of necessity, to be accompanied by two Gendarmes, 

 or Cavalry soldiers ? 



" La manifere dont on 'enrolait les troupes, par Lances 

 Brisees, donnait k un beaucoup plus grand nombre d'of- 

 ficiers les moyens de se faire connaitre. 



"Un Gentilhomme attacTiait a sa personne quelques- 

 uns de ses vassaux ; un Aventurier habile s'associait 

 quelques compagnons de service; ces petites compagnies 

 ne se separaient plus; au contraire, elles grossissaient 

 sans cesse ; et lorsque le capitaine disposait de vingt (20) 

 Lances ; c'est-k-dire de soixante (60) hommes de cavalerie ; 

 il commen9ait a traiter separement et d'une manifere in- 

 dependante avec les souverains qui voulaient le prendre 

 k leur service." — Sismondi, Uistoire des Republiques 

 Italiennes, tome viii. p. 69. 



" Le Comte Oddo, fils de Braccio, recueillit, avec I'aide 

 de Nicholas Piccinino, une partie de son armde ; et les 

 Florentins, qui, a cette epoque, avaient un extreme 

 besoin de troupes, prirent ces deux generaux ^ leur solde, 

 avec quatre cents lances (400) ; ou, douze cents gendarmes 

 (1200)." .— Ilnd., tome Viii. p. 363. 



" On appelait Lances Brisies, Lancie spezzate ; les 

 gendarmes qui traitaientindividuellement pour leur solde, 

 et qui ne faisaient pas partie de la corapagnie de quelque 

 Condottiere." — Ibid., tome ix. p. 322. Note 2. 



23. Rutland Square, Dublin. 



" To knock under." — 



" A common expression which denotes that a man 

 yields or submits. Submission is expressed among good 

 fellows by knocking under the table." — Johnson. 



" An expression borrowed from the practice of knocking 

 under the table when conquered." — Imperial Dictionary. 



Neither Richardson nor Webster notice the 

 phrase. 



" If therefore, after this, I 'go the way of my Fathers,' 

 I freely waive that haughty epitaph ' Magnis tamen ex- 

 cidit ausis,' and instead, knock under table that Satan hath 

 beguiled me to play the fool with myself" — Asgill 

 ("translated" Asgill), quoted in Southey's Doctor, ch. 

 clxxii., p. 452. of the one vol. edit. 



Will some one tell me something about this 

 knocking under table f Is it an obsolete, or an 

 existing, custom ? What kind of submission, and 

 to whom ? and what manner of conquest does it 

 indicate or admit ? and how did the fashion, if it 

 were one, arise ? 



The answer from Johnson has already been 

 given, " N. & Q." P* S. iv. 2-34., but is surely nci 

 satisfactory without further explanation. 



HaRKY LeROT TsMPliR. 



John Zanthey, or Santhey. — On September 4, 

 1649, an act of parliament was passed, appointing 

 John March, John Zanthey, esquires, Moses Wall 

 and Roger Frith, gentlemen, Commissioners to 

 hear and examine the complaints and grievances 

 of the inhabitants of Guernsey. From contem- 

 porary documents preserved in the island, it ap- 

 pears that March and Zanthey belonged to Gray's 

 Inn, but the name of the latter is frequently 

 written Santhey. Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me which is the correct orthography ? 

 Edgae MacCullocb. 



Guernsey. 



Biphean Hills.— Jeremy Taylor somewhere says 

 that the 



" Sun is the eye of the world ; and he is indifferent to the 

 negro or'the cold Russian ; to them that dwell under the 

 line, and them that stand near the tropics, the scalded 

 Indian, or the poor boy that shakes at the foot of the 

 Biphean Hills." 



Where are the Riphean Hills ? T. Q. C. 



Quotation Wanted. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." say where the following lines are to be 

 found ? I have heard them quoted, but by one 

 very old person who has been dead nearly a 

 quarter of a century. They struck me much at 

 the time, and I have never forgotten them : 



" War begets poverty ; poverty, peace ; 

 Peace doth make riches flow (fate ne'er doth ce&se) ; 

 Riches bring pride ; and pride is war's ground ; 

 Wat begets povertv,— and so the world goes round." 



W. T. 



What was Ziges? — Lately reading the Me- 

 moirs of Sir Robert Strange, Knight, by James 



