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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. X. Aua. 4. '60. 



use of the word chartered; nor, this being the 

 case, need any objection be raised that there is no 

 other word in which this syllable appears as re- 

 presenting a separate idea, or, in other words, no 

 other word in which it appears in composition : 

 for that objection would apply whatever might be 

 its derivation ; besides, it must be granted that if 

 this suggested derivation be correct, then, al- 

 though it would have a sensible signification in 

 composition with many other words, it is no ob- 

 jection that our language has only preserved us 

 one example of its use, or even that it never has 

 furnished but one. Philologus. 



Epitaph on Rosamund. — 



" Hie jacet in tumba Rosa mundi, non Rosa mtmda ; 

 Non redolet, sed olet, quse redolere solet." 



This is usually quoted as an epitaph on our fair 

 Rosamond ; but in Corio's History of Milan (vol. i. 

 p. 47.) it is stated to have been first placed on the 

 tomb of Rosmunda, queen of the Lombards, who 

 died by poison in the sixth century (Storia di 

 Milano, 8vo., 1855). There are several older 

 editions. Either in one of them, or in some other 

 Italian history, I have seen a facsimile of the 

 tomb and inscription, evidently very ancient. 



It always struck me as extraordinary that so 

 insulting an epitaph should have been composed 

 for Lord Clifford's daughter, an interesting per- 

 son (if she ever existed), and probably more 

 sinned against than sinning. It was much more 

 appropriate to Rosmunda, an adultress who mur- 

 dered her husband ; it must be admitted under 

 circumstances of great provocation. 



The inscription at Godstow nunnery, if still 

 there, being a copy of the same distich, is evi- 

 dently modern, and unworthy of the slightest 

 notice. W. D. 



P.S. — To those who look on the story of fair 

 Rosamond as a fable, it will seem not improbable 

 that the mode and some of the circumstances of 

 her death were derived from that of the Lombard 

 queen, 



Oliver Cromwell a Wool-grower. — In a 

 long letter in The Peterborough Advertiser for 

 July 1 4, occurs the following passage : — 



" Captain Cromwell was not only a Huntingdonshire 

 man, but a grower of wool. His signature may be found 

 in the parish books at St. Ives, where he seems to have 

 attended the Vestry-meetings with his neighbours ; and 

 there is, or was at no distant date, in St. Ives, the old in- 

 strument with which he branded his sheep with the 

 initials 0. C." 



CCTHBERT BeDE. 



Stars compared to Sentries. — In Macaulay's 

 review of Robert Montgomery's Omnipresence of 

 the Deity, it is alleged that in the line, 



" Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night," 

 the metaphor is stolen from Campbell's Soldier's 

 Dream. While admitting that nothing can be 



more inappropriate, or unpoetical, than the meta- 

 phor in R. Montgomery's hands, I cannot believe 

 he was indebted to Campbell for it. Such a me- 

 taphor I hold to be common property. It has 

 been used by scores of poets, and may be used by 

 anyone without plagiarism. The earliest examples 

 of the metaphor I know of are these : — 



" The stars, heav'n's centry, wink and seem to die." 



Lee's Theodosivs, 

 " . . . . You horrid scouts 

 That ceotinel swart night." 



Marstou's Antonio's Revenge. 



Clammild. 

 Athenseum Club. 



Arms or the Citt of London. — A we6k or 

 two ago, while inspecting some of the Harleian 

 MSS. in the British Museum, I came upon one 

 in which was a curious and, to me, novel reasoji 

 given for the presence of the dagger in the first 

 quarter of the city arms. The MS. to which I al- 

 lude is No. 1464., being a Visitation of London 

 made in the year 1634, and commences with a 

 description of the city arms, to which the follow- 

 ing note is prefixed : — 



" The auncient Armes of the Citie of London as they 

 Stand in our Lady Church at Anctwerp, in which Church 

 Windowes stand the ensignes of King Edward the therd 

 and all his Children, With most of the Armes of the Cor- 

 porate Townes of England at that tyme. And this 

 Standeth first and hath an ould Roman L in the first 

 quarter, Which John Stowe took in an ould Scale which 

 he had sene for a Sword, affirminge therbj' that it was the 

 Sworde of St. Paule, patron of the said Cittie. Which he 

 constantly affirmed that they aunciently had soe borne it, 

 and that it was no reward given iby Kinge Richard the 

 Second, as our Cronicles report, for the Seruice done in 

 Smythfieeld against Watt Tyller y® Rebell by William 

 Wallworth, Maior of London, Whoe slewe the sayd Tyler 

 with his Dagger, in Memory whereof, say they, the 

 Dagger was added to the Cittie's Armes as here under is 

 Sett." 



Then follow two sketches of the city arms, one 

 with the L and the other with the dagger. Be- 

 fore discussing the subject of the arms, I should 

 be glad to know whether the arms alluded to 

 above still exist in the, church of Our Lady at 

 Antwerp ? and whether it is a fact that a Roman 

 L, and not a dagger, occupies the first quarter of 

 the arms of London ? J. A. Pn. 



&\ttviti* 



BoYLAND, Sir Richard, Justice Itinerant 

 OF the King. — Blomefield, in his 8th volume of 

 the octavo edition of his History of Norfolk, at 

 p. 491., states that John, son of Stephen de Wyr- 

 ham, held in part (by inheritance) with the Lady 

 Alice Boyland a hall called Boyland Hall in the 

 north part of the town of Lynn, with kitchen, cel- 

 lar, chamber, and a great stone front, situated be- 

 tween the tenement of Warine de Mundeford and 



