■June 12. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Can. any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me 

 in whose possession the portrait now is, anil whether 

 any engi-uving of Combe's portrait from that or 

 any other picture is now to be obtained ? E. T. 



" Quod nonfeeerunt harbari" Sec. — Who is the 

 author of the epigram — 



" Quod non fecerunt barbari, fecerunt Barbarini," 

 which commemorates the destruction of the Coli- 

 seum at Homo, both by the barbarians who over- 

 ran Italy about the middle of the fifth century, 

 and, at a lat^r period, by certain Popes of the 

 family of the Barberini ? Henry II. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Lines on English History (Vol. iii., p. 168. ; 

 Vol. v., p. 40.').). — I shall be e.\tremely obliged to 

 Mr. Edward Cuarlton to procure me, if he can, 

 a copy of the above lines, and forward them, 

 through Mr. Bell, to An English Mother. 



[We should also be most glad to receive from any 

 correspondent who can supply it, the Metrical and Lo- 

 gical History, asked for by our lamented correspondent 

 M^ERis, which commences — 

 " William and William, and Henry and Stephen, 



And Henry the Second to make the First even." 



Ed.] 



Windows. — It has been said that the dates of 

 many houses may be ascertained by a comparison 

 of the regulations of tlie window-tax with the 

 ■windows. The tax occasioned a marked change 

 of style by diminishing the number of windows. 

 Then ingenuity was exerted to effect evasions by 

 bays, bows, and double or treble windows. These 

 again v,'ere successively met by alterations in the 

 law. Could any one be induced to let in some 

 .light upon the subject by examining the acts of 

 parliament, and illustrating the result by refe- 

 rence to examples in London houses ? C. T. 



Angel-beast ; Cleeh ; Longtriloo. — Can you, or 

 any of your readers, inform me what was the 

 nature of the game at cards called Angel-beast, 

 which was in vogue in the seventeenth century ? 

 Also, the game of Cleek ; can it be a misprint of 

 "Check?" Also, Longtriloo; is this an abbrevi- 

 ation of " Long three card loo ?" li. B. 



Royal Arms in Churches. — What is the origin 

 of the common practice of putting up the royal 

 arms in churches ? E. M. 



Oxford. 



" Cease, rude Boreas^ — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents tell me why the song, "Cease, rude 

 Boreas," has been occasionally attributed to Fal- 

 coner. I remember seeing this song appended to 

 an old edition of the Skipw7-eck, with a prefatory 

 remark stating that G. A. Stevens cotdd not have 

 written it, as the moral of the verses was of too 

 high an order for him. Occasionally the last 

 stan2;a is omitted, on account of the sentiment 



being somewhat questionable ; though it cannot be 

 denied that the feelings there expressed are exactly 

 those of a sailor. In a few copies another stanza 

 of a very different tendency is inserted in its place; 

 and at times I have seen the commencement of the 

 third stanza altered thus : 



"Now all you at home in safety, 

 Shelter'd from the howling storm. 

 Tasting joys by heaven vouchsaf 'd ye, 

 Of our state vain notions form." 



I should wish to obtain some information re- 

 garding the authors of these alterations, and when 

 they first took place. hopeas. 



Pictorial Proverbs. — I have now lying open 

 before me a small 12rao. book (binding modern) 

 containing sixty-seven old prints (averaging in 

 size 5f by 3J inch), but wanting a title-page. 

 The subjects appear to be in the shape of picto- 

 rial proverbs ; they are evidently very old, the 

 distich before each plate is in Latin, which is 

 again written in old German. The views in each 

 background are places generally in Germany, and 

 the names are written on the plate itself. In 

 one only plate I discover the name " M. Merlan, 

 fe" (Qy. Matfs. Pierian, or his daughter, of 

 Frankfort ?) ; and in some fe.v others the tbllowing 

 mark, " % " All the plates seem done by the 

 same person. 



If you can enlighten me as to the authorship of 

 them, I shall feel much obliged. H. S. S. 



Inscription on George Inn, Wansted. — Will you 

 kindly give me information respecting the origin 

 of the following inscription, Avhich is affixed to the 

 side of the George Inn at Wansted ? — 

 " In memory of - cherry pey, ^ 

 As cost half a guiney. 



£ 17 of Julv, 

 y 

 That day we had good cheer, 



1 hope to see it maney a year. 



1752. David Jerskv." 



W.H.B. 



Learned Man referred to by Rogers. — Rogers, in 

 his work on the Thirty-nine Articles, published 

 1607, writes as follows: — 



" A certain learned man (speaking of the religion 

 here then professed, and writing unto the lords of our 

 late queen's council) doth say 'He' (meaning the 

 papist his adversary, who charged our church with 

 discord, and disagreements about matters of religion), 

 ' he ought ' (saitii he) ' if he had been able, to have 

 brought out the public confession and articles of faith, 

 agreed in K. Edward's time ; and have showed any in 

 England, that, professing the gospel, dissenteth Irom 

 the same.' " 



I shall be much obliged to any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." who can inform me who was this "cer- 

 tain learned man." C. C. C. C» 



Corp. Chr. Coll., Carab. ; 



