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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. NO 72., May 16. '57. 



similar latent meaning in the I7tli chapter of the 

 Apocalypse, and quotes Zeller's Theol. Jahrhilcher 

 (vol. i. p. 364.) to show " that the Hebrew letters 

 of the words Nero Ccesar together make up the 

 mystic number 666." H. G. H. 



Gray's Inn. 



SARDINIAN MOTTO : " F. E. R. T." 



(I" S. vi. 314. 544., xii. 509.; 2°^' S. i. 442. 572.) 



Perhaps the following may settle the queestio 

 vexata of the interpretation of the motto. It is an 

 extract from the second book, p. 150., of a veiy 

 curious work called 



" Le Imprese Illustri del S"" Jeronimo Rvscelli, Aggivn- 

 tori Nvovam il qvarto Libro Da Vincenzo Rvscelli Da 

 Viterbo, &c. In Venetla appresso Francisco de fracescri 

 Senesi, mdlxxxiiii.," 4to. pp. 496 and 82. 



" essendo cosa certissima, chc il Conte Amato 



Primo, di Sauvia, passb il mare contra Infideli con le sue 

 genti, ed oltre h, molt' altre illustri fattioni, che egli fece h 

 beneficio de' Cristiani, e gloria di Dio, salub la Religion 

 di Rodi dair assedio, onde dal gran Mastro di quella Reli- 

 gione fu richiesto, e pregato h, voler riceuer I'Arme, 6 In- 

 segne di detta Religione. Ed indi quell' ottirao Signorc 

 institufe 1' ordine de' Caualieri dell' Annvnoiata, che c 

 sempre poi durato, e dura in Sauvia, e come afferma il 

 diligentissimo Paradino, ordinb allora con lui quattordici 

 altri de' piii nobili, e primi suoi Caualieri, i nomi de' quali 

 furono questi, 



" Amato, Conte di Gineua. 



Antonio Signor di Beauiu. 



Vgo di Cialon, Signor d'Arlac. 



Amato di Gineua. 



Giouanni di Vienna, Ammiragli di Fracia. 



Guglielmo di Granzon. 



Gugilielmo di Chalamon. 



Orlando de Veissi di Borbon. 



Stefano, bastardo de la Baome. 



Gasparre de Moumeur. 



Barll de Foras. 



Tennardo de Menton. 



Amato Bonnardo. 



Riccardo Mussardo, Inglese. 

 " I detti Caualieri di Sauoia, si chiamano Caualieri dell' 

 ordine dell' Annunciata. E portano per loro insegna da- 

 uanti al petto vn pendente con 1' imagine della salutatione 

 angelica alia beata Vekgine, madre del Signor nostro. 

 II qual pendente fe attaccato h, vn collaro d' oro, tirato a 

 martello in forma di cordella, leggiadramente intralacciata 

 k groppi con le quatro lettere da quattro lati, F. E. R. T. 

 come si vede in questo disegno. [An engraving of the 

 collar is here given.] 



" Le quai lettere vogliono, che sien principij di parole 

 intere, e che tutte insieme rileuino, Fortitvdo Eivs 

 Rhodvm Tenvit. Et 



ogri par che b' intenda, che questo gran Signore, di chi 1 1' Impresa dell' 

 Elefante, sopra la qual ei ^ fatto questo poco discorso, sia in animo 

 di accrescerlo altamente, ed a^glungerli ogni dignit^ possibi- 

 le, molto piti forse con gli effetti, e con 1' operationi 

 di Caualieri, conforme al debito, ed all' intention 

 loro nel seruitio della Religion nostra, 

 che con rendite, 6 entrate ocio- 

 se, con titoli, e con pri- 

 uilegi d' inchio- 

 stro e car- 

 ta." 



Quaere, Is anything known of the history of the 



Englishman, Riccardo Mussardo, above named as 

 the junior knight dell' Annunciata ? Eeic. 



Ville- Marie, Canada. 



MRS. MANLET. 



(2"* S. iii. 350.) 



Dr. Doran appears to have overlooked one 

 record of Mrs. Manley which, if correct, goes a 

 great way to prove that her character has not, 

 hitherto, been held in lower estimation than it 

 deserves. The circumstance I allude to is as 

 follows : 



" In 1705 she (Mrs. Manley) was concerned with one 

 Mrs. Mary Thompson, a young woman who had been 

 kept by a gentleman of the name of Pheasant, of Up- 

 wood in Huntingdonshire, and then deceased, in prose- 

 cuting a suit in Doctors' Commons, on the part of Mrs. 

 Thompson, as the widow of Mr. Pheasant; the object of 

 the suit being to establish her right of dower out of Mr, 

 Pheasant's estates, which were about 1500/. a year. 



"It appears on the evidence, wliich is recorded in 

 Doctors' Commons, that Mrs. Manley and Mrs. Thompson 

 were jointly concerned in the prosecution, and that she 

 was to have had 100/. per annum for life if it had suc- 

 ceeded. 



" They procured one Edmund Smith, a very infamous 

 fellow, and then a prisoner in the Fleet, to forge a mar- 

 riage entrj' in the register at a church in Aldersgate 

 Street, which was supported by Smith's swearing him- 

 self to have procured the parson who performed the cere- 

 mony ; and that he, and a Mr. Abson, were present at 

 the wedding. The parson fixed on was one Dr. Cleaver, 

 who appears from the evidence to have been a low and 

 scandalous priest, and, it is believed, the man who mar- 

 ried at the Fleet. 



" Cleaver and Abson were both dead when Smith was 

 examined. 



" The cause was supported by some weak collateral evi- 

 dence, and was overthrown by the strongest evidence to 

 the wickedness of Smith's character, and by proof that 

 the entry which Smith swore to have been entered by 

 Mr, Pheasant himself, was not in Mr. Pheasant's hand- 

 writing ; who lived with Mrs. lliompson as his mistress, 

 and not as his wife. 



" Upon the whole Mrs. Mauley's conduct in this affair 

 shows her to have been a base and wicked woman, 

 capable of suborning perjury and forgery for gain. 



« She passed the remainder of her life with Swift's very 

 good friend John Barber, alderman and printer, as his 

 mistress." 



These particulars are extracted from a note to 

 The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard 

 Steele, Illustrated viiih Literary and Historical 

 Anecdotes iy John Nichols, 1787, vol. ii. pp. 455, 

 456. 



The account is given as being " well authenti- 

 cated," and is, besides, so circumstantial that it 

 might easily have been disproved if untrue. 



Much as she is deserving of pity for her first 

 misfortune, it did not necessarily oblige her to take 

 to the ill course of life she adopted, and I cannot 

 but think, that the character she was at so little 



