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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 128. 



THOMAS CBAWFUKD. 



Can any of your readers inform me when Mr. 

 Thomas Crawfurd was the Professor of Philosophy 

 in the University of Edinburgh? In a Scotch 

 Peerage, by Mr. George Crawfurd, published in 

 1716, there is a Latin epigram by him on the 

 armorial bearings of the Crawfurds of Kilbirny 

 in Ayrshire, one of whom was created Viscount 

 Garnock by Queen Anne, in the second year of 

 her reign. The description of the armorial bear- 

 ings is as follows in the same peerage, under the 

 head Crawfurd, Viscount of Garnock — 



" Quarterly 1st and 4th gules, a fess ermine. 2nd 

 and 3rd azure, a Cheveron betwixt three Cross Patees 

 Or, supported by two Grayhounds. Crest, an ermine 

 Argent. Motto, ' Sine labe nota,'" 

 The author then adds, — 



" A learned gentleman of this name * paraphrased 

 this coat of arms in these fine elegiacs — 



" Sanguineum scutum prsecingit balteus albens, 

 Quern variant nigras sed sine labe nota^. 

 Sic labem ut vitet, mustela Armenica strictum 



In ferrum et structos non timet ire rogos. 

 Martia vis animi, vacuum formidine pectus, 



Cana fides, nulla labe notatus honos. 



Haec Crafurdiac£B gentilia symbola stirpis, 



Artibus his veteres emicuere patres."' 



I subjoin the following translation : 



" A blood-red scutcheon with a white belt bound, 

 Which black spots chequer, though no stain is found : 

 Thus will the ermine strive a soil to shun, 

 On steel unsheath'd, and 'mid the flames will run : 

 Great strength of mind, a breast that knows not fear. 

 Fair Faith, and honour from all blemish clear : 

 These kindred qualities the Crawfurds own, — 

 In arts like these of yore their sires have shone." 



C. S. T. P. 

 Oxford. 



Minax caucitCiS. 



The Chronologic Institute. — Should not this 

 society, as a preliminary, protest against the archi- 

 tectural anachronisms of these days — the build- 

 ing churches, for instance, in every, any, or no 

 style of architecture ? In one parish the priest 

 erects an Early English church, copied from the 

 Oxford Glossary ; in the next, something very like 

 a conventicle, with no chancel and no chimes, is 

 built by siibscrlption ; in another, the architect Is 

 a disciple of Ruskin, and tries the Byzantine style, 

 with a tower like St. Mark's of Venice ; — a nice 

 Gordian knot for coming chronologists ! 



Mortimer Collins. 



Mother Carey's Chichens. — In Hawkesworth's 

 Voyages there occurs the following passage : " The 



* Mr. Thomas Crawfurd, Professor of Philosophy 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



petrels, to which sailors have given the name of 

 Mother Carey's chickens." Who was " Mother 

 Carej';" why was her name given to the petrel; 

 and why have sailors so great an objection to their 

 being killed ? W. B. M. 



Dee Side. 



Suwich Priory. — What is known of the Priory 

 of Suwich in Hampshire, of which a handsome seal 

 records the former prosperity ? E. A. S. 



Anthony Bdbington. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me whether William Kempe's 

 Dutifvl Invective against the moste Haynous Trea- 

 sons of Ballard and Babington, &c. &c., has been 

 reprinted In any collection of rare tracts, or other- 

 wise ? and also whether his Censure of a loyall 

 Suhiect upon certaine noted Speeches and Behaviour 

 of those 14 notable Traitors (Ballard, Babington, 

 &c.), has also been reprinted? 



I should also be glad of references to any other 

 tracts or ballads referring to Babington and his 

 conspiracy. L. J. 



Sir Isaac Newton., Cicero, and Gravitation. — 

 Plow Is it that Sir Isaac Newton has obtained so 

 world-wide a renown for his discovery of the law 

 of gravitation, when the following passage In the 

 Tusculan Dispiitations proves It to have been well 

 known to Cicero ? 



" Qua omnia dclata gravitate medium mundi locum 

 semper expetant." — See lib. v. cap. 24. 



S.E.B. 



Trinity College, Oxford. 



Diotrophes. — Can any of your readers say, on 

 what authority the Abbe Masscot calls Diotrophes, 

 mentioned in 3 St. John, ver. 9., Bishop of Corinth. 

 The Abbe has left the Roman Church, and joined 

 the branch of Mr. Henry Drummond's Church in 

 France, and is the editor of Le Recucil Catho- 

 lique, to advocate the cause of the new church. 

 The passage to which I refer is In the October 

 Number, p. 208., and is given as a proof of his 

 theory : " L'Apostolat supplantu, absorbc par 

 I'EpIscopat;" this first order of ministry in the 

 Christian Church having been in abeyance, till It 

 was revived In the person of Mr. Drummond and 

 the other eleven apostles of that Church ! In 

 Mant and D'Ojley's Bible it Is said that Diotro- 

 phes is unknown ; and Grotlus and Doddridge 

 entertain difierent opinions about him, but neither 

 speak of him as being a bishop. Er. 



Grisly. — Can any of your readers inform me 

 why a person la a fretful state is said to he grisly? 

 the far-famed Guzzle being a pattern of meekness 

 and patience. I am aware that Johnson gives the 

 meaning — fecnfully, horribly; but this does not 

 seem satisfactory. Infants are often said by their 

 nurses to be " very grisly.'' Ruby. 



Birthplace of St. Patrich. — Can the disputed 

 question of the birthplace of St. Patrick be settled? 



