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liOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Ko. 139. 



Radish Feast. — I copied the followin"^ from the 

 north door of St. Ebbe's Church, Oxford. Can 

 any of your correspondents explain the origin and 

 meaning of this feast ? 



" St. Ebbe's Parish. 



" The annual meeting for the election of Church- 



ivardens for this Parish will be held in the vestry of the 



Parish Church on Easter Tuesday, at 4 o'clock in the 



afternoon. 



" Wm, Brunner, 1 ou 1- 1 

 ,,- T- t Churchwardens. 



WM. tlSHER, J 



« Dated 10 April, 1852. 



" The Radish Feast will be at the Bull Inn, New 

 Street, immediately after the Vestry." 



R. R. Rowjs. 

 Cambridge. 



What Kind of Drink is Whit f — In jioing over 

 the famous old mansion Cothele, near Tavistock, the 

 other day, I saw, among other primeval crockery, 

 three pot-bellied jugs, two of which were inscribed 

 "Sack, 1646 ;" and the third, a smaller one, "Whit, 

 1646." What kind of drink is whit ? W. G. C. 



'•'• Felix naiu" SfC. — 



" Felix natu, felicior vit4, felicissimus morte." 

 Of whom was this said, and by whom ? 



Henry H. Bkben. 



St. Lucia. 



" Gutta cavat lapidem." — Can any reader of 

 I' N. & Q." inform me whence the following verse 

 is taken ? 



" Gutta cavat lapldem, non vi sed saepe cadendo." 

 The first half, I know, is the commencement of 

 a line in Oo. ex Ponto, Ep. x. v. 5., which con- 

 cludes with — 



" consumitur annulus usu." 



I have seen it quoted, but no reference given. 



A. W. 

 Kilburn. 



Punch andJudy. — Are any of your readers of 

 " N. & Q." not aware that Punch and Judy is a 

 corruption, both in word and deed, of Pontius cum 

 Judceis, one of the ol<l mysteries, the subject of 

 which was Pontius Pilate with the Jews; and 

 particularly in reference to St. Matt, xxvii. 19. ? 

 I should be glad to hear of some similar instances. 



BtEOTICUS. 



Edgmond, Salop. 



_ Si?' John Darnall (Vol. v., pp. 489. 545.). — Can 

 either of your correspondents, E. N. or G., inform 

 me whether the Sir John Darnall, who is the 

 subject of their communications, is descended from 

 John Darnall, who was a Baron of the Exchequer 

 in 1548, or give me any particulars of the " birth 

 parentage, education, life, character, and be- 

 haviour " of the latter ? Edward Foss. 



The Chevalier St. George. — Can any of the' 

 numerous readers of " N. & Q." inform me where' 

 ample and minute accounts, either in print or MS., 

 of the Life and Court of the Chevalier St. George, 

 particularly from the death of James II. to his 

 own death, can be obtained ; also, of his ministers- 

 of state, j)ersonal attendants, &c. ? I have already 

 examined such of the Stuart Papers ns have beeti' 

 published by Mr. Glover, and by Brown in his 

 History of the Highland Clans. J. W. H. 



Declaration 0/2000 Clergymen. — Several allu- 

 sions have been lately made in Parliament to the 

 2000 clergymen who signed a declaration calling 

 in question the Queen's supremacy. Was a list of 

 these clergymen ever published? If so, in what 

 newspaper or periodical ? What Avere the exact 

 words of the declaration ? Rusticus. 



MS. "De Hamilitater — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents jrive me any information as to the 

 date, authorship, or value of a JVIS. that has lately 

 fallen into my hands ? It is a thin quarto, beauti- 

 fully written upon parchment. The title-j)age Is 

 wanting, and the MS. commences with the index : 

 but the title of the work is De Humilitate. It 

 consists of twenty-four chapters. The heading of 

 the first two is as follows : 



" Incipit prologus in libello qui inscribitur de 

 humilitate, 

 Cap. I. Q.uam perniciosum sit et Deo odibile 

 superbiifi initium, et qualiter ac de quibus 

 gloriandum sit. 

 II. Quod sit superbia fugienda et sectanda 

 humilitas, qua; in sui vera cogiiitione 

 fundata consist! t," &e. 



The top of the first page has a rich Initial letter; 

 and at the bottom a coat of arms : Crest, a leopard 

 rampant ; shield, argent, 3 bars gules, on a chief 

 azure 3 fleur de lys or. The heading of each 

 chapter is written in red ink. CErBEP. 



MS. Work on Seals.— Monle, in his Bihliotheca 

 Heraldica., states that there was at the date of the 

 publication of his work (1822), in the library at 

 Stowe, a MS. work, two volumes, folio, by Anstis, 

 on the Antiquity and Use of Seals. Can any of 

 your readers inform me in whose possession this 

 work now is ? A. O. D. D. 



Sir George Carew. — Sir George Carew, the 

 able commander and crafty statesman of Queen 

 Elizabeth's time, was created Earl of Totness. 

 His grandfather mortgaged his ancestral estate of 

 Carew, in Pembrokeshire, to Sir Rhys ap Thomas, 

 who, with Its subsequent possessors. Sir John 

 Perrot and the Earl of Essex, made great additions 

 to Carew Castle, the magnificent remains of wlilch 

 entitle it to be called the ruined Windsor of Wales. 



The Carews then pushed their fortunes in Ire- 

 land, and endeavoured to recover the " Marquisate 

 of Cork" on an obsolete and false claim. 



