Jan. 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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■when we were desired by our revered and excel- 

 lent master to construe the above words as follows : 

 " ' Arborei foetus,' flourish unhidden tit one situation, 

 grass in another," 



Or, more literally : 



" ' Arborei fcniViS,^ flourish unhidden in situations dif- 

 Jerent from, those in which grass (flourishes unbidden)." 



I well remember too, that some of us, while we 

 admired the ingenuity, ventured to doubt the 

 ■correctness of the translation. Will some of 

 your learned correspondents kindly favour me 

 with their opinions ? W. S. 



History of Brittany. — I shall feel obliged to any 

 one who can refer me to a good history or histories 

 of Brittany ; more especially to those which relate 

 to the genealogies and heraldry of the Breton 

 families, or which contain pedigrees. 



T. H. Keeslet, B.A. 



Serjeants' Rings. — T. P. would be obliged to 

 ■any of your antiquarian readers who could inform 

 him, through the medium of your paper, whether 

 the custom of serjeants-at-law presenting rings 

 ■with mottoes, on taking the coif, prevailed so long 

 back as a.d. ] 670-80, and,' if so, whether there 

 are any records, or other sources, from which he 

 could ascertain the motto used by an individual who 

 was admitted to that degree about that period ? 



The Duchess of Cleveland! s Cow-pox. — In 

 Baron'^ Life ofJenner, vol. i. p. 123., there occurs 

 the following note, extracted from one of Dr. 

 Jenner's note-books of 1799 : 



" I know of no direct allusion to the disease in any 

 ancient author, yet the following seems not very dis- 

 tantly to bear upon it. When the Duchess of Cleve- 

 land was taunted by her companions, Moll Davis (Lady 

 Mary Davis) and others, that she might soon have to 

 deplore the loss of that beauty which was then her 

 boast, the small-pox at that time raging in London, 

 she made a reply to this effect, — that she had no fear 

 about the matter, for she had had a disorder which 

 would prevent her from ever catching the small-pox. 

 This was lately communicated by a gentleman in this 

 county, but unfortunately he could not recollect from 

 what author he gained his intelligence." 



■ Can any reader of " N. & Q." supply this miss- 

 ing authority for a fact which is very important in 

 the history of medicine — if true ? 



Onetwothkee. 



Arms of Manchester. — What are the arms of 

 Manchester ? and are they of ancient usage ? or 

 only assigned to the town since its incorporation ? 

 and if the latter, whence did the bearings originate ? 



H. H. H. V. 



Heraldical MSS. of Sir Henry St. George 

 Garter. — What has become of these valuable 

 MSS. ? and if the place of their deposit is known, 

 can access be obtained to them for literary pur- 



poses? They were, as Noble relates, originally 

 sold into the Egmont family, and descended to 

 John James, the third Earl ; but some time after 

 his death, about the year 1831, all the personal 

 property of the family was disposed of; the elfects 

 at Enmore Castle were sold by auction on the spot ; ; 

 and the writer of this well remembers seeing the 

 old family pictures preparing for the same fate in 

 a sales-room in Conduit Street, he thinks of Mr. 

 Abbots. Mr. Braithwaite, of Great Russell Street, 

 was the auctioneer employed at Enmore, and an 

 inquiry was made of him at the time relative to 

 these MSS., and the answer was, that they also 

 were destined to the hammer. A catalogue also . 

 was promised whenever it should come out. The 

 writer was subsequently informed that the MSS. 

 were withdrawn, and he could never learn what 

 became of them. M N. 



The Pelican., as a Symbol of the Saviour. — Is the 

 pelican now, or was it formerly considered as a 

 symbol of Our Saviour ? I have seen it used in the 

 ancient decorations of churches, but never looked . 

 on it as such ; nor can I remember ever having 

 seen it mentioned as an emblem of the Saviour, 

 with the exception of one passage in Dante's Vision 

 (Canto XXV.) of Paradise. lioBEBX Nelson. 



[In the Calendar of the AnpUcan Church Illustrated, 

 p. 328., will be found an engraving of " a pelican feed- 

 ing her young with blood from her own breast, signify- 

 ing the Saviour giving Himself up for the redemption 

 of mankind ; " and in the foot-note references to 

 Aringhi's Roma Subterranea, and other works, in which 

 other representations of the same symbol are to be 

 found. Our correspondent may also be referred to 

 Alt's Heiligenbilder, s. 56.'\ 



Bishop CoverdaWs Bible. — When did Bishop 

 Coverdale commence his translation of the Bible ? 

 Where was the first edition printed ? Is any copy 

 in existence which possesses the original title-page, 

 i. e. not the one added in England, stating that it' 

 is translated from the " Douche and Latyn ?" 



H.H. H.V. 



[We have submitted H. H. H. V.'s Query to our 

 obliging correspondent, George Offor, Esq., whose • 

 library is particularly rich in early English versions of 

 the Bible, and who has kindly favoured us with the 

 following communication] : — 



In reply to your correspondent H. H. H. V.'s 

 very curious question to know when Myles Co- 

 verdale commenced his translation, I beg to state 

 that he was born in 1488, and that it has not yet 

 been discovered when his mind was first led to. 

 contemplate the translation of the Sacred Scrip- 

 tures, nor whether he commenced with the New or 

 the Old Testament. The facts known are, that 

 he finished the translation or the printing of it on 



