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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»«» S. No 78., Junk 27. '57. 



Lancie Spezzaie (2"'> S. iil. 369.) — H.E.W.F. 

 is no doubt correct in his suggestion that each of 

 these was to be accompanied by two cavalry 

 soldiers. 



By King Henry VIII.'s ordinance for establish- 

 ing the corps of Gentlemen at Arms, they were to 

 be gentlemen of noble blood ; each was to be in 

 full armour, with two horses, one for himself and 

 another for his page (probably a relay horse for 

 himself), and to provide a derai lancer, " well 

 armed and horsed," and two archers, " well horsed 

 and harnessed." F. A. Cakeington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Lord Chief Justice Coke (2"^ S. iii. 448.) — 

 Arthur Coke, who was the third son of Sir Ed- 

 ward, by Bridget Paston, was baptized at Hunt- 

 ingfield in Suffolk, March 7, 1588. He died at 

 Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 6, 1629, and was buried 

 at Bramfield in the same county, which was his 

 place of residence. His wife pre-deceased him, 

 Nov. 14, 1627. In Bramfield Church is a monu- 

 ment with both their effigies, of which a drawing 

 is given by Suckling (^History of Suffolk, vol. ii.), 

 with a copy of the inscription. They left four 

 daughters and coheirs, Elizabeth, Mary, Winifred, 

 and Theophila, of whom the last and youngest 

 became the wife of her cousin Robert, second son 

 of Clement Coke, of Longford. G. A. C. 



Bolton (2"'^ S. iii. 467.) — In Nichols's Leicester- 

 shire will be found the pedigree, &c., of the 

 Scroopes of Bolton and Masham. In Whitaker's 

 Richmondshire, also some information. There is 

 a little Yorkshire volume called Wensleydale, a 

 poem, by T. Maude, the notes to which present 

 several memorials of the Scroopes Lords of 

 Bolton, Published at Richmond, Yorkshire, 

 price 2.S. 6</., in 12mo. Fked. Bohn. 



York. 



Rhoswitha or Hrotsuitha (2"'* S. iii. 368. 430.) 

 — To the information given by Arterus and 

 Hawkhurst it may be added that Hrotsuitha's 

 whole extant works are published in vol. cxxxvii. 

 of the Abbe Migne's Latin Patrologia (Montrouge, 

 1853) : the historical poems being reprinted from 

 Pertz's Moiiumenta, and the others from an older 

 edition ; and that she is noticed in Dean Milman's 

 History of Latin Christianity, vi. 496. J. C. R. 



Moliere (2""^ S. iii. 427.) — Add to the list an 

 article by Sir Walter Scott in the Foreign Quar- 

 terly Review (reprinted in his Miscellaneous Prose 

 Works'), and one by Mr. C. R. Watson in the 

 Cambridge Essays for 1855. J. C. R. 



Robert Dallam (2"'> S. iii. 271.) — Some parti- 

 culars will be found in the records of the Black- 

 smiths' Company, particularly under the year 

 1623 or 1624. Hyde Clarke. 



Documents signed with the Eucharistic Wine 

 (2"'* S. iii. 370. 438.) — I believe that the earliest 

 instance of this was in a.d. 645, when Pyrrhus, 

 ex-patriarch of Constantinople, having renounced 

 Monathelism, and afterwards relapsed into it, was 

 excommunicated by a Roman synod. The pope, 

 Theodore, subscribed the sentence in the wine of 

 the Eucharistic cup, and laid it on the tomb of St. 

 Peter. Theophanes, p. 509., ed. Bonn ; Anasta- 

 sius, in Muratori's Collection, iii. 139. For fur- 

 ther information, see Ducange, s. voc. Crux, Mar- 

 tene, de Antiquis Eccl, Ritibus, i. 253., ed. Venet., 

 1783. J. C. R. 



Bishop Philip Ellis (2"-^ S. iii, 406. 432.) — I 

 have a copy of — 



" The First Sermon preach'd before Their Majesties ia 

 English at Windsor, on the First Sunday of October, 

 1685. By the Reverend Father Dom. P. S., Monk of the 

 Holy Order of St. Benedict, and of the English Congr. 

 London, Printed by Henry Hills, Printer to the King's 

 most . . ." 



The rest of the title-page is cut off, but the 

 pamphlet is complete in other respects, and is at 

 J. W. H.'s service, if it would be of any use to 

 him, and if he will give me his address. 



J. C. Robertson. 



Bekesboume, Canterbury. 



Oxford Editions of Greek Geometers, ^c. (2*"^ 

 S. ii. 227.) — Professor De Morgan seems to 

 speak as though three only of the fourteen ancient 

 mathematical writers proposed by Dr. E. Bernard 

 for publication had made their appearance, viz. 

 Euclid, in 1703; ApoUonius and Serenus, in 1710; 

 Archimedes and Eutocius, in 1792. I am happy 

 in being able to add the fourteenth of Dr. Ber- 

 nard's proposed works to the list, having before 

 me a copy of — 



" Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonicorum Libri tres. Ex 

 Codd. MSS. Vndecim, nunc primum Grsece editus, Jo- 

 hannes Wallis, SS. Th. D. Geometrias Professor Savil- 

 ianus, &c. recensuit, edidit, Versione et Notis illustravit, 

 et Auctarium adjecit. Oxonii, e Theatre Sheldoniano, An. 

 Dom. 1682." 4to. pp. 328. 



Y. B. N. J. 

 Up in the Air (2"^ S. ii. 352.) — If shaking in a 

 sheet is customary in Yorkshire to a new-married 

 woman who goes the first time to glean corn, so " up 

 in the air " is practised in Berwickshire on any one 

 at the end of harvest. " Up in the air " consists 

 in a number of persons seizing one (whether man 

 or woman) by the legs and shoulders, and lifting 

 him up in the air and letting him down towards 

 the ground, as far as the arms can reach. This 

 sort of swing is given to those who have been 

 favourites during the harvest, with an accompany- 

 ing huzza ; but it is also reserved for those who 

 have been obnoxious, and who, on being let down 

 towards the ground, receive some heavy bumps 

 upon the seat of honour, accompanied with doleful 

 groans. Henet Stephens. 



