April IC 1052.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Some writers assign Scotland, others England, and 

 others France, as his fatherland. He himself in- 

 forms us {Confess, sub init.) that he was born at 

 Bonavem-TabernicB. This locality has been sup- 

 posed by some writers to be Kilpatrich, on the 

 mouth of the Clyde, and by others Boulogne-sur- 

 Mer. Ceykep. 



Motto on Chimney-piece. — There is a carved 

 oak chimney-piece in my possession, of the time of 

 James I., from a mansion at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne occupied as the Turk's Head Inn, and taken 

 down about fifteen years ago. In the central 

 compartment is a shield, but the crest is wanting. 

 The quarterings are three stags' heads, and cheeky ; 

 and as the motto has puzzled wiser heads than 

 mine, I beg leave to produce it. One or two of 

 the letters are doubtful, but there is no omission : 

 " VITATIIANOVULAESTOLIM." 

 _ I should feel much obliged to any one for de- 

 ciphering the motto, and still more for discovering 

 the original possessor of this interesting piece of 

 antiquity. 



Another motto, under a coat of arms on some 

 old china, cannot meet with an interpreter : 

 " VE DAL AM DARO." 



C.T. 



Curious Bequest. — In the parish of Eardisland 

 in Herefordshire, I am informed that some cha- 

 ritable person, whose name I could not ascertain, 

 left to certain poor persons, parishioners, the follow- 

 ing singular bequest, viz., to each poor person — 



13 bushels of wheat 



13 red herrings 



13 tennis balls 



13 pepper corns 



13 pence. 

 This was to be distributed on Maunday Thursday. 

 Can any of your correspondents throw light upon 

 this, or mention similar instances of such singular 

 bequests ? JJ. c. K. 



Wilkiey Blind Fiddler. ~1 should be much 

 obliged if you, or any of your correspondents, 

 could give me some information respecting Sir 

 David VVilkie's picture of " The Blind Fiddler." 

 I believe he painted as many as four, if not more, 

 copies of the original, and that the first picture 

 was finished by him in the year 1807 ; that in the 

 National Gallery is dated, as I am informed, 1808. 

 What I wish to ascertain is, the real number of 

 the pictures of this subject that Wilkie painted, 

 ioith their dates; and if possible, in whose hands 

 they are at present. H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



Lode. — It seems to be a provincial word, ac- 

 cording to Forby, and means "an artificial water- 

 course,' from A.-S. lodian, haurire ; he also ad- 

 duces the instance I have named, and also a water- 



course m Fmcham, called in old writin^rg "the 

 Lode ditch. It would be interesting to know if it 

 IS iised elsewhere than in Norfolk, and it may be 

 Suffolk ; but, at all events, I should much like to 

 come at the re.al meaning. j_ j^f^ q 



_ Ballad quoted by Sir Walter Scott.~Em Deans 

 in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, sings this stanza of 

 a ballad : 



" The elfin knight sate on the brae, 



The broom grows bonnie, the broom grows fair, 

 And by there cam' lilting a lady so gay, 

 And we daurna' gang down to the broom nae main" 

 There is a traditional ballad, very similar, of 

 which the following is the only staaza preserved : 

 " Ae king's dochter said to anither. 



Broom blooms bonnie, an' grows sae fair. 

 We'll gae ride like sister and brither. 



But we'll never gae down to the broom naemair." 



Sir Walter Scott delighted in preserving scraps 

 of old ballads ; and perhaps the two fragments 

 above quoted may be part and parcel of the same 

 original. Some friend in the "north countrie" 

 may perhaps settle this point. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Ann Stewart, Wife of Christopher Hall. — Can 

 any of your readers inform me, by referring to an 

 old work called Stewart's History of the Stewarts^ 

 page 156., whether Ann Stewart therein mentioned, 

 who married Christopher Hall, was a descendant 

 of the daughter of Henry VII. ? 



John of Gaunt. 



Moveable Organs and Pulpits. — In looking 

 over a small pamphlet, entitled The Temple Church, 

 an Account of its Restoration and Repairs, by Wil- 

 liam Burge, Esq. (8vo. 1843, Pickering), I met 

 with the following passage, which serves me for a 

 peg on which to hang a Query : 



" Mr Etty justly observes that ' in St. Peter's at the 

 present day, the organ is a very small one compara- 

 tively to the building, and is wheeled about, like the 

 ancient pulpits, to different parts of the church ! ' " — 

 P. 34. 



Are moveable organs common in Italy or else- 

 where ? With regard to pulpits, the chapel of 

 King's College, Cambridge, has two at the present 

 time, placed in one of the small chapels on the 

 north side. They are moved into the choir when 

 required. Besides these, the neighbouring church 

 at Grantchester has a large pulpit, which, tra- 

 dition says, also once belonged to the same noble 

 edifice. Can any of your correspondents mention 

 other examples of churches or chapels so well 

 supplied ? W. Sparrow Simpson, B. A. 



Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley. — 

 Bishop Berkeley, in his Minute Philosopher (Dia- 

 logue II. vol. i.), makes mention of " an English 

 nobleman who in the prime of life professeth a 



