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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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sion I asked him to repeat it ; this he goodnatur- 

 edly did, and to my remark that I had never 

 heard it before, he replied that it was the com- 

 mon one in those parts. J. K. Highcjlere. 



Medal, on the Duke of Monmouth's Execu- 

 tion. — The St. James's Chronicle, Jan. 19 to 21, 

 1796, gives an Explanation of the Inscription on 

 the reverse of the Medal on the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth's Execution (Snelling, pi. xxiv, fig. 9., or 

 Medallic Hist, of England, 1790, pi. xxxviii. fig. 

 9.) : his head spouting blood in three streams. 

 Inscription : — 



" HUNC SANGUINEM LIBO DEO LIBERATORI," 



and on the exergue, 



" C^SA CERVIX, LON. JUL. ^3, 1688." 



" The Inscription is an obvious allusion to the words of 

 Thrasea when his veins were opened bj* order of Nero. 

 He sprinkled the blood on the floor, and calling to him 

 the Officer who attended the Execution of the Emperor's 

 order, said to him — ' Libamvs Jovi LiberaiorU' See 

 Tacitus, Annul, xvi. c. 35." 



H. E. 



GoNGE. — Halliwell, s. v., gives as the meanings 



of this word — 



" (1.) to go. 

 (2.) iemphim* CloacincB." 



At Yarmouth, Norfolk, near the Eastern Coun- 

 ties Railway Station, you may see on the wall, 

 " Govge leading to the Terminus," where the 

 word is evidently used as a substantive, equiva- 

 lent to means of going. P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Clevek. — Amongst the many words which are 

 used in the United States in a colloquial sense 

 different from what they are in the parent country, 

 none amuses the travelling Englishman more than 

 the word clever. In this country, from the days 

 of Addison until now, the term has signified dex- 

 terous, skilful ; but in America it is universally 

 used in the sense of good-natured, jovial, good- 

 tempered, amiable, — in fact, after I had become 

 used to the Americanism, any person being spoken 

 of as clever, the idea conveyed to my mind was 

 that he was both fat and dull. 



Kecollecting how many old English terms 

 crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrim Fathers, and 

 have remained in full use in the States to the 

 present day, although quite obsolete here, I should 

 be glad to know if, in the time of the Stuarts, the 

 word clever was ever used in English printed 

 literature in the American sense? 



We pronounce the last letter of our alphabet 

 zed; in America it is universally termed ze ; and, 

 as an intelligent pupil belonging to my school at 

 Galena, on the Mississippi, reminded me, zed 

 forms the first syllable of no word used in the 

 English language, whereas ze is perhaps the most 

 frequent commencement of those imported words 

 having z for an initial. 



* XJnde " Son of a ^un " == yoOo^, 



In Johnson's time, izzard (or " s-hard" — a 

 great mistake) was the term. Fifty years later, 

 zed (borrowed from the French) was the fashion- 

 able name. A million spelling-books in America 

 has it ze, whilst perhaps another million here has 

 it zed. Which should be imiversal ? 



John Camden Hotten. 



Piccadillj'. 



John Bowring. — In the Tanner MSS. of the 

 Bodleian Library (vol. xxx. p. 24.), the name of 

 John Bowring figures in a Humble Petition, ad- 

 dressed by christian subjects in Exon (Exeter) to 

 James II., imploring his " princely wisdom to re- 

 lieve them in time to come" from the many diflii- 

 culties to which they had been subjected, " for 

 endeavouring to praise God in matters of his wor- 

 ship according to the best of their understanding." 

 They express grntitude for his " Majesty's late 

 gracious pardon;" and being "suitors from the 

 Lord and the King, hate all rebellion upon any 

 pretence whatsoever." 



The Bishop of Exeter writes to Archbishop 

 Shelden, that this petition was clandestinely signed 

 and delivered to Sir Robert Wright, one of the 

 chief justices. He calls the petitioners " notorious- 

 Dissenters," " who will not take the oaths re- 

 quired." The bishop desires to know whether, as 

 they could not obtain .personal access to the Chief 

 Justice, he had presented their petition to the 

 king, and how it was received : " for," says he, " if 

 they be encouraged, not only all ecclesiastical cen- 

 sure will be insignificant, but they will herd to-* 

 gether and fit themselves for another rebellion." 

 This charitable bishop, Thomas Lamplugh, was a 

 time-serving prelate, who lent himself with equal 

 zeal to " the League and Covenant," to Charles II. 

 and James II., and afterwards to William III. 

 (see Wood's Ath. Ox., vol. iv.). The John Bow- 

 ring referred to was the gon of the issuer of the 

 Chulmleigh* halfpenny described in your last 

 volume, p. 365. Exoniensis. 



Athenseura Club. 



VENUS FOUND. 



To Miss K. L . 



' The very first day that to Margate 1 came, 

 I saw with delight the fair Cyprian dame ; 

 It was Yenus I'm sure, for I well know her face, 

 I remember the day, and can point out the place. 

 It was August the 12th, in the morning at eight, 

 On a Friday — j^ou see I'm exact in the date : 

 The place, Surflen's room, and in Surflen's machine. 

 For Venus at Surflen's has always been seen ; 

 The beauties of Margate have ever bathed there, 

 There is Douglas the mild, there was Ecklin the fair. 

 Next morning I sought her, but sought her in vain; 

 The next, too, I came— disappointed again ! 

 The bath-rooms and ball-rooms I daily went round, 

 Nor at bath nor at ball could my Veniis be found. 



