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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 126. 



It seems there was some romance in the case, 

 as, according to memorandum (Lib. Coll. Arm., 

 c. 19. p. 48., and Harl. MS. 1101. p. 29. [1582]), 

 the arms granted by the duke to his son-in-law 

 were — " azure, per pole, a rose and thistle, pper ;" 

 crest, " a horn, or." This union of what I appre- 

 hend to be the royal and plebeian flowers, would 

 seem to indicate that the husband was merely a 

 "roturier;" and, indeed, the "horn" itself may 

 point to his occupation, as it is the simple hunting 

 instrument of the time. 



Arnold Bilson after his marriage left Germany, 

 and settled in England. T. C. 



Exeter Controversy. — "W. GifFord, in his Auto- 

 liography, says, that the shoemaker to whom he 

 was bound apprentice " was a Presbyterian, whose 

 reading was entirely confined to the small tracts 

 published on the Exeter Controversy." — Transl. of 

 Juvenal, ed. 2. p. x. What controversy, and whose, 

 was that ? A. N. 



Education in the Time of Elizabeth. — What 

 means were employed in the time of Queen Eliza- 

 beth for the education of the people ? Were there 

 any schools at that time, such as we have now, for 

 the education of the lower classes ? Or was it 

 confined chiefly to the higher orders of society ? 



James Coe. 



Manchester. 



Sword Sivallowing. — If some one of your 

 learned correspondents could point out any other 

 references to the useful accomplishment of sword 

 swallowing, the information would confer a favour 

 on me. The reference to which I allude is about 

 the date of b.c. 326, and is, unless my memo- 

 randum be inaccurate, Plu. Lycur. c. 19, and runs 

 thus: 



" ''A71S (ilv ol)V b PacnXehs, ffKooicrovTos 'Attikov rivhs, 

 Tos AaKoiviKas fiaxaipas els tV fiiKp6TT)Ta Kal \4yovTos, 

 Sri paSlaii ai/ras ol ^avfuaToiroioi KaTairivovcnv iv rols 

 dedrpois, Kal /jltjv (jLaKicrra, iliriv, Tjixeis ecpiKVOviJ.eQa to7s 

 iyX^tpiBiois rwv iroKefiioii'." 



JEgkotds. 



Livy quoted by Grofius. — Grotius, in his Com- 

 mentary on Matt. V. 13., gives as a parallel passage 

 to " rh dkis rrjs yvs" the following quotation from 

 Livy : " GrEecia sal gentium." Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me where in Livy this 

 passage occurs ? T. K. R. 



Eleanor, Lady of the Ring. — In a family pedi- 

 gree I find — 



" Eleanor, lady of the ringe, daughter and heir of 

 Thomas Ddu, married John, first cousin of William 

 Herbert, first earl of Pembroke." 

 What is the meaning of the sobriquet " Lady of 

 the ringe?" W.R.D.S. 



Catalogue of Pictures. — Some information is 

 requested of an octavo volume of 252 pages, being 

 a catalogue of a collection of pictures consigned 



to Mr. Samuel Pawson, wine merchant in Cecil 

 Street, Strand, without date or name, or residence 

 of printer; it contains succinct annotations "of the 

 several masters whose performances are herewith 

 exhibited." These are very curious, and the 

 prices afii.xed to each picture (800 in number), as 

 added together by some possessor of the volume, 

 amount to 55,379^. It appears to have been 

 highly esteemed ; and, amongst other autographs, 

 has "J. P. Eoberts, Kingsgate ;" "J. P. Powell, 

 Quex park." E. D. 



" Well bobbit, Blanch of Middlehy." — Can any 

 one tell me where I can hear of an old tune which 

 was well known in my father's early days, called 

 " Well bobbit, Blanch of Middleby ? " I can now 

 find no trace of it. L. M. M. R. 



Letter to a Brigadier- General. — If Thomas Lord 

 Lyttelton wrote the Letters of Junius, who was 

 the author of the Letter to a Brigadier- General, 

 published in 1760 ? This letter is now very gene- 

 rally believed to have been written by Junius, 

 when Thomas Lyttelton was about fourteen years 

 old ! W. C. 



Dr. Fell. — Can any one inform me who the au- 

 thor of the following lines is, and their original 

 application: — 



" I do not like thee. Dr. Fell, 

 The reason why I cannot tell ; 

 But this I know full rarely well, 

 I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." * 



J. N. C. 



Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln. — Dibdin, in his 

 Northern Tour, vol. i. p. 97., says of this distin- 

 guished prelate : 



" We may anticipate the portrait of this truly great 

 man drawn to the life in the intended biography of my 

 friend Mr. Willson." 



Dibdin published this in 1838. Has the memoir 

 of Grostete ever appeared ? 



I may add, as a pendant to this Query, that two 

 years back I saw a beautiful English MS. of Gros- 

 tete's on vellum, at the library of the English 

 College at Douay, out of which some British tra- 

 veller, to whom it had been obligingly lent, had cut 

 every one of the illuminations. O. T. D. 



Almas- cliffe. — During a brief sojourn at Harro- 

 gate, Yorkshire, I have visited two remarkable 

 groups of rock, locally known as Great Almas-cliffe 

 and Little Almas-cliffe: the former crowning a 

 lofty ridge about five miles south-west of this 

 place ; and the latter standing upon a wild, 

 heathery moorland, about three miles north of the 

 other. Both command most extensive views; 

 and, on the table-rock of each, I noticed circular 

 basins, with channels by which superfluous fluid 

 may be carried off". Tradition says, that in re- 

 mote ages they were used as druidical altars ; and, 

 that in later days, after the introduction of Chris- 



