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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 132. 



Miglit not the chimney-piece have adorned a 

 mansion of the Cavendish family, who probably 

 resided in Newcastle during the period above 

 alluded to ? 



The motto underneath (which is not the family 

 motto of Cavendish) certainly at first sight looks 

 puzzling enough ; will the following solution suf- 

 fice, which I merely throw out as a first thought 

 that may lead to a better elucidation ? 



" Vita : tran : ovula : est : olim." 

 Presuming "ovula" to be the diminutive of ovum 

 (I am not sure if I am correct), and "tran" (if 

 correctly transcribed) to be a component part of 

 one of the numerous compounds of trans (say 

 transitorius), may not the passage be freely trans- 

 lated : " (Our) transitory life (was) once (as 

 mysterious, or hidden, or minute as) is (the germ 

 of vitality) in an egg?" 



If C. T. could give a description of the second 

 coat, some connecting link may possibly be sup- 

 plied toward unravelling the motto. 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Southampton. 



" Ve dal am daro" (Vol. v., p. 325.). — One of 

 the mottoes which puzzle your correspondent 

 C. T. is Welsh, and means that retribution will 

 follow violence: " he will pay (i. e. suffer) for strik- 

 ing-" 2. 



White-livered (Vol. v., pp. 127. 403.).— Bishop 

 Ridley, in his conference with Bishop Latimer, 

 whilst they were confined in the Tower, makes 

 use of the expression : " For surely, except the 

 Lord assist me with Plis gracious aid in the time of 

 His service, I know I shall play but the part of a 

 white-livered knight." Carl, 



Enigmatical Epitaphs (Vol. v., p. 179.). — The 

 brasses of John Killyngworth, 1412, formerly in 

 Eddlesborough Church, now in Pitson Church, 

 Bucks; and of a priest at St. Peters, near St. 

 Alban's, have this inscription upon them : 



" Ecce quod «xpendl habui, quod donavi habeo, 

 quod negavi punior, quod servavi perdidi." 



That at St. Alban's has an English translation: 

 " Lo, all that ever I spent, that sometime had I ; 



All that I gave in good intent, that now have I; 



That I never gave, nor lent, that now aby* I; 



That I kept till I went, that lost I." 



The same inscription is on a brass as late as 

 1584, at St. Olave's, Hart Street, London. (See 

 Oxford Architectural Society's Manual of Monu- 

 mental Brasses.) Unicorn. 



Pelican in her Piety (Vol. v., p. 59.). — In 

 Warner's Glastonbury, plate 18, fig. E., Is a very 

 early representation of the pelican feeding her 

 young with her own blood : an emblem of Christ's 



* So in my authority. 



love for His chui-ch. The stone was dug out of 

 the ruins of the Abbey. 



In Parker's Glossary the symbol is explained by 

 a quotation from Ortus Vocabulorum : 



" Fertur, si verum est, earn occidere natos suos, eosque 

 per triduum lugere, deinde seipsum vulnerare, et asper- 

 cione sui sanguinis vivos facere filios suos." 



H. P. E. 



Names of Places, Provincial Dialect (Vol. v., 

 pp. 250. 375.). — In accordance with the suggestion 

 of E. P. M., I forward you a few Instances of a 

 change between the spelling and pronunciation : 



Spelling. 

 Chadwell - 

 Wymondham (Norf.) - 



(Leicestersh.) 



Swavesey 



Lolworth 



Whitwick - 



Scarford 



Cioxton Kerrial - 



Pronunciation. 



- Caudle. 



- Wyndham. 



- Wumundham. 



- Swavsey. 



- Lolo'. 



- Whittiek. 



- Scawford. 



- Cr5son, the o long, 

 and Kerrial entirely 

 dropped. 



E. J. S. 



Examples of these are more numerous to the 

 north of the Tweed than C. appears to imagine. 

 The following list, which includes a few surnames, 

 Is the result of rather a hurried search : 



Spelling. Pronunciation. 



Anstruther - - - - Anster. 



Athelstaneford . . - Elstanfurd. 



Bethune - - - . Beaton. 

 Cassilis ----- Cassils. 



Charteris - - - - Charters. 



Cockburn - . . - Coburn. 



Cockburnspath - - - Coppersmith. 



Colquhouu . - - - Cohoon. 



Crichton . - - - Cryton. 



Dalziel or Dalyell - - - Dee-ell. 



Farquhar - - - - Farkar. 



Halket - - - - - Hacket. 

 Inglis ----- Ingils. 



Kemback - - - - Kemmick. 



Kilconquhar - - - - Kinnenchar. 



Macleod . - - - Macloud. 



Marjoribanks _ - - Marchbanks. 



Menzies ... - Meengis. 



Methven - - - - Metfen. 



Monzie - - - - Monee. 



Restalrig . - - - Lastalrik. 



Rutherglen - - - - Ruglen. 



Ruthven - - - - Rivven. 



Sciennes - - - - Sheens. 



Sanquhar . - - - Sankar. 



Urquhart . - . . Urcart. 



Werayss - - - . Weems. 



Arbroath Is a corruption of Aberbrothok, Gretna 

 of Gretenhow, and Meiklam of M'llquham : but 

 probably one of the most remarkable transform- 

 ations in Scotland is to be found in the name of a 

 small village', a few miles to the south of Edin- 



