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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



139 



Latin, Greek, and German Metres (2°^ S. 

 ix. 501.) — Your correspondent C. E. asks, "Is 

 there in any foreign language a metre similar to 

 that of Tennyson's Lochslcy Hall ? " 



Yes : it is a rather favourite metre with the 

 Persian Hafiz ; only alternating trochee and 

 «pondee thus : 



_v/ — — I — \J — — \ — \J — —\ — ^— I 



This metre is but an addition of four syllables to 

 that in which some of the chief Persian poems are 

 written by Janii, Attar, and, especially, the Mes- 

 navi of Jelaluddyn. 



_v l-w l-u-l. 



Parathina. 



Novel Weather Indicator (2"'' S. ix. 500. ; 

 X. 96.) — In the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Class 

 X. 151.) was a "Tempest prognosticator, or at- 

 mospheric electro-magnetic telegraph, conducted 

 by animal instinct;" designed and invented by 

 Dr. George Merry weather, who also published an 

 Essay (Churchill, London, 8vo. 1851, pp. 64.), 

 explanatory of the contrivance by which leeches 

 were induced to ring a bell as a signal of an ap- 

 proaching storm. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



Armorial Queries (2'"^ S. ix. 484.; x. 8. 

 38.) — Of the arms mentioned by C. J. (p. 484.), 

 the bearings of Cooke and Russell more nearly 

 resemble the first than those furnished in reply 

 by R. J. F. (vol. x. p. 38.), the former on the 

 authority of Burke's Armoury (of Darfield), bear- 

 ing arg. a chevron engr. betw. 3 crosses croslet 

 fitchee sa., and Russell (of Strensham) on the same 

 authority, bearing the chevron plain. The second 

 coat sable a cross flory argent is the arms of Man- 

 nock, of Gifford's Hall, Suff. The third I am 

 unable to trace. The first coat mentioned by A. 

 (p. 484.) is doubtless that of Heneage, and should 

 be blazoned, " Or, a greyhound courant sa. be- 

 tween 3 leopards' faces, az. within a bordure en- 

 grailed gules." The second " or 3 garbs gules," 

 is assigned by Guillim to " Berkly of Yorkshire." 

 The armorial bearings on the first painting at 

 Groombridge, as stated by Armlger (p. 8. ut 

 siipra), may be Conyers impaling Lambton ; and 

 on reference to Burke's Extinct JBaronetcies, 1838, 

 p. 129. under " Conyers of Horden," will be found 

 the following : — 



" IX. Sir Thomas Conyers, bapt. 12 Sept. 1731 . . . m. 

 Isabel daughter of James Lambton, Esq. of Whitehall, co. 

 Durham, and had issue, 



" Jane, m. to William Hardy, of Chester Le Street. 



" Elizabeth, m. to Joseph Hutchinson (of same place). 



" Dorothy, m. to Joseph Barker of Sedgefield. 



" Sir Thomas, d. at Chester le Street 15th April, 1810, 

 when the baronetcy became extinct." 



(Arms (of Conyers), azure, a maunch or ; (of 

 Lambton), sa. a fess betw. 3 lambs passant arg.) 

 If a family picture, as surmised, the above par- 

 ticulars may assist Armiger in tracing its dis- 



posal The second I am able only to hazard 

 conjectures on, too unsatisfactory to mention. 



Henry W. S. Tayboe. 



Single Supporter (2°'' S. ix. 463.) — Mr. 

 Cole of Twickenham is the present lord of the 

 manor of Stoke Lyne (Oxon), who Is entitled to 

 bear a hawk behind his arms. This right was ori- 

 ginally conceded to (I presume) an Ibbetson, from 

 which family this property descended to the Coles. 



The Lyttelton family bore anciently a single 

 merman as a supporter to their arms. Since their 

 elevation to the peerage, however, they have borne 

 two (see engraving in Plot's Map of Staffordshire, 

 monument in Worcester cathedral, seals of the 

 family, &c.). H. S. G. 



Parallel Passages : Stars and Flowers (1" 

 S. vii. 151.) — Many passages have been pointed 

 out, but none of your correspondents, as far as I 

 am aware, have directed attention to the following 

 lines, which are to be found in Cowley's Fourth 

 Book of Plants, translated by N. Tate. The 

 Amaranth is made to speak as follows : — 



" What can the puling Rose or Violet say, 

 Whose beauty flies so fast away ? 

 Fit only such weak infants to adorn, 

 Who die as soon as they are born. 

 Immortal gods wear garlands of my Flow'rs, 

 Garlands eternal as their pow'rs ; 

 Nor time, that does all earthly things invade, 

 Can make a hair fall from m}' head. 

 Look up, the gardens of the sky survey, 

 And stars that there appear so gay, 

 If credit may to certain truth be given, 

 They are but th' Amaranths of heav'n." 



Edwin Armistead. 



Leeds. 



The Tragic Poet (2"'' S. ix. 281.) — I beg to 

 suggest that "the Tragic Poet" is Crebillon, and 

 that the passage referred to is a distorted version 

 of his most celebrated line : — 



Atree, " Me connais-tu ce sang ? 

 Thyeste. " Je reconnais mon frfere." 



Atrie et Thyeste, Act Y. Sc. 8. 



F. 



Longevity (2"* S. ix. 104. 262.401. 500.) — 

 — A day or two ago there appeared In the Lancet 

 a notice of the death of a man in his 106th year, 

 which notice was copied into the Times of Tuesday, 

 the 31st July last. From the paragraph in ques- 

 tion It appears that on the 28th May, 1802, a 

 lunatic named James Coyle, forty-seven years of 

 age, was admitted as a patient into S. Patrick's 

 (Swift's) Hospital, Dublin. For upwards of fifty- 

 eight years Coyle continued an inmate of the hos- 

 pital, and eventually died on the 17th of last month, 

 at the age of 105. I should imagine this to be a 

 case In which there could be no mistake as to the 

 person's age. 



I may here mention that there Is now living a 

 lady, in full possession of her faculties, who has 



