Mar. 13. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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51., and App, 150. ; Fuller, 29. 127. ; and Fox, Mart. ; 

 Burnet, ii. 155.; Burnet, ii. 8. 203.; Benefices con- 

 ferred on Laymen, Walker's Attempt, ii. 68. ; Wood, 

 Athen., i. 111.) Burnet and Fuller's account of his 

 retiring on the King's death do not agree. For his 

 works see Bale, and his Life, by Dr. Gerard Lang- 

 baine, before a work of Clieke's, The True Subject to 

 the Rebel, or the Hurt of Sedition : Oxon, 1641, 4to. 

 Haddon wrote his epitaph. See Ascham's Letters : 

 Oxon, 1703, p. 436., about his recantation. See 

 Leland's Cygnea Cantio, 1558, p. 21.; and Preface to 

 Hickes's Thesaurus, 1. 2." 



J. H. L. 



Richard Earl' of Chepstow (Vol. v., p. 204.). — 

 H. C. K. will find in the Conquest of Ireland, 

 by Giraldus Cambrensis, my authority for styling 

 Richard Strongbow Earl of Chepstow : e. g. Der- 

 mod MacMurrough addresses a letter to him as 

 follows : " Dermon MacMorogh, prince of Lein- 

 ster, to Richard earle of Chepstoue, and son of 

 Gilbert the Earle, greeting," &c. I quote from 

 Hooker's translation, ed. 1587, p. 11. Hooker, in 

 a note, p. 4., says that Chepstow in times past was 

 named Strigulia, " whereof Richard Strangbow 

 being earle, he took his name, being called Comes 

 Strigulensis." 



H. C. K.'s second conjecture, as to the parentage 

 given to Earl Richard in the Ormonde charter, 

 seems to be the correct one. I cannot call to 

 mind an instance of a second Christian name used 

 at so early a date. 



The first coat given to the De Clares, in Berry's 

 JEncT/cL, viz. ar. on a chief az. three crosses pattee 

 fichee of the fields occurs on the shield of the effigy 

 in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, popularly 

 said to be that of Richard Earl of Pembroke. 

 Query, does Berry's statement rest on the autho- 

 rity of that tradition ? if so, it has a very sandy 

 foundation. I have very little doubt that the 

 bearing visible on the shield, as represented on the 

 earl's seal attached to the charter in possession of 

 the Earl of Ormonde, is intended to represent 

 three chevrons. 



H. C. K. has my best thanks for his communi- 

 cation. I shall be still more obliged by an extract 

 from the pedigree in his possession. 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Maps of Africa (Vol. v., p. 236.)- — If your 

 correspondent, who inquires about maps of Africa, 

 ■will consult the twenty-first map in Spruner's 

 Atlas Antiquus, published at Gotha in 1850, I 

 think he will find what he desires. E. C. H. 



Lady Diana Beauclerh. — I have to thank you 

 for inserting my memorandum respecting my 

 miniature of Oliver Cromwell. I must further 

 trespass on your kindness to correct an error (and 

 a very inexcusable one) in ray last statement, to 

 which the kindness of a friend has called my 

 attention. 



Lady Diana Beauclerk was not, as I stated, a 

 daughter of the Duke of St. Alban's, but of the 

 Duke of Marlborough (Charles, second duke), and 

 married the Hon. Topham Beauclerk, who was the 

 friend of Dr. Johnson, and a well-known personage 

 in his day. 



The miniature therefore may have been " long" 

 either in her own family, or in that of her hus- 

 band ; but I presume she meant in her own. The 

 Churchills were as much connected with the 

 " Stuarts " as afterwards with their successors. I 

 regret this inattention on my part. C. Fox. 



" Litera scripta manet" (Vol. v., pp. 200. 237.). 

 — I was intimate some time since with a gentle- 

 man who had been a student in Maynooth College, 

 and who frequently used to quote the words 

 "Litera scripta manet," with the addition, " Ver- 

 bum imbelle perit." This may give a clue to the 

 source of the phrase, which may be found pro- 

 bably in some ecclesiastical or theological work of 

 days gone by. A. L. 



" Qui vidt plene," SfC. (Vol. v., p. 228.). — The 

 first passage respecting which W. Dn. inquires 

 (" Qui vult plene," &c.) will be found in the first 

 chapter of the first book of Thomas a Kempis, De 

 Imitatione Christi. L. M. M. 



Engraved Portraits (Vol. v., p. 176.). — In reply- 

 to S.S., the best Catalogue of Engraved Portraits 

 is one published by the late Mr. Edward Evans, of 

 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, many 

 years since ; and although the last number is 

 11,756, yet, as two and three portraits are men- 

 tioned under the same figures, the total number 

 noticed greatly exceeds the above. 



I believe a new edition is, or shortly will be, in 

 the press. J. B. Whitborne. 



ij^i^cellaitroutf. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



So long as the people of this country are animated 

 by that deep-rooted love of true liberty and national 

 independence, which have proved at so many momen- 

 tous periods of our history to be at once their ruling 

 principle and the country's safeguard, so long will the 

 memory of Gustavus Vasa, the patriotic king of Swe- 

 den, be to all Englishmen an object of the deepest 

 interest. The publication therefore of a History of 

 Gustavus Vasa, with Extracts from his Correspondence,— ~ 

 which, although based upon the narrative of his start- 

 ling adventures, his gallant exploits, and the picture 

 of his manly sincere character, and his quaint but 

 telling eloquence, given by Geijer in his History of 

 Sweden, has been carefully elaborated by references to 

 original authorities, and rendered more picturesque by 

 the introduction of copious extracts from his corre- 

 spondence, — is good service rendered to the cause of 

 historic truth. The writer is obviously an earnest, 

 able, and painstaking man; and we think that his 

 work will be received (as it deserves) with such favour 



