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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. X Sept. 8. '60. 



Calne devolved on her, and is now possessed by 

 Jier grandson, the present Lord Crewe. G. B. 



Quotation Wanted. — Who is the author of 

 tlie oft-quoted phrase — "Union is strength"? 

 The corresponding expression — " L'union fait la 

 force" — is quite as much used by our neighbours 

 on the other side the Channel as the English one 

 is in ours. A friend of mine asserts the author to 

 be a Frenchman, and that we merely adopt the 

 translation. Which of your correspondents can 

 set the question at rest ? H. E. Wu-kinson. 



" CossiMORUS." — What is the cossimonis of 

 resin ? And whence the name ? C. W. Bingham. 



Speaker Lenthall. — In a brief Memoir of 

 Speaker Lenthall, simply signed " T. M.," but 

 which I believe to have been written by the late 

 Mr. Thos. Moule, author of the Bibliotheca Heral- 

 (lica, for the large engraved series of " Ancient 

 Historical Pictures," published by G. P. Harding 

 in 1847, it is said that "the Speaker Lenthall was 

 the first who proposed fortifying the King's pa- 

 laces, and making them garrisoned places against 

 the royal person." As I do not recollect to have 

 seen this fact mentioned elsewhere, I should be 

 very glad to be referred to an authority for the 

 statement, which I presume rests on some foun- 

 dation ; or it would scarcely have found its way 

 into a memoir which (though not marked by much 

 originality) is, apparently, written with some little 

 care, and which at all events exhibits greater fair- 

 ness and impartiality than most of the very scanty 

 biographical notices hitherto bestowed on Len- 

 thall. R. W. 



Uncle Mamouc. — 



" The greatness of Don Quixote precluded rivalry and 

 sanctioned imitators. The flame kindled at the lamp of 

 Cervantes burnt brightly in Friar Gerund, and flickered 

 and expired in Uncle Mamouc." — Remains of the late 

 Jolin Hill, Esq., London, 1794, p. 25. 



What is Uncle Mamouc ? H. A. 



Chiming Queries. — Attending St. Peter's 

 church, in the Isle of Thanet, recently, I was 

 struck by what was to me a novel mode of chim- 

 ing. The ringers went down and up the scale 

 thus : 



12 3 4 5 6 



6 5 "4 3 2 1 



And this was continued till the " tolling in," or 

 " parson's bell." 



On mentioning this to a lady who was with me, 

 she informed me that at Newdigate, in Surrey, at 

 a funeral, when the coffin is carried into the 

 churchyard, " a merry peal" is rung. The present 

 incumbent was at first much surprised at this, but 

 finding that it was a very old custom, he did not 

 interfere. 



Does this custom exist elsewhere, and can any 



reason be given for its origin ? I should like also 

 to intrude the following Queries : 



Is there any rule with regard to chiming ? 



Is the above any novelty ? 



Can any reason be given for the last, or " par- 

 son's bell," as it is sometimes called ? 



And lastly, AVas "ringing changes" practised 

 before the Reformation ? Clarby. 



Isabella, Queen of Edward II., Coin of. — 

 Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, 8vo. edit. 

 (vol. ix. p. 61.), mentions having seen a brass coin 

 of Queen Isabella of the size of a modern shilling, 

 having on one side a shield, "quarterly an an- 

 tique ship in the sea or water," the old arms (as 

 he says) of the borough of Castle Rising. The 

 legend obscure. On the reverse, in a lozenge, 

 four fleurs-de-lis : the legend on this side is also 

 obscure. Blomefield in a note refers to the work 

 Britannia Antigua et Nova, iii. 458. I have no 

 present opportunity of referring to this work ; 

 and as the heraldry of the coin is remarkable, I 

 should be obliged by any information upon the 

 subject.* Alan Henry Swatman. 



Lynn. 



Henry ScoIbell. — Henry Scobell was Clerk t6 

 the Parliament and to the Council during the 

 Commonwealth. Henry Scobell was also a De- 

 puty Registrar of the Court of Chancery much 

 about the same period. I am desirous of ascer- 

 taining whether the Clerk to the Parliament and 

 the Registrar were one and the same person; and, 

 if so, how and when the translation from the one 

 office to the other was effected ? If any of your 

 correspondents can answer this question I shall 

 feel much obliged. C. M. 



Change of Name. — Is there any printed re- 

 gister extant of people who have changed their 

 name by licence ? If not, where can I find a list 

 of such, with their reasons for changing ? 



Sigma Theta. 



Transfer of Land. — What register in Eng- 

 land corresponds to the Register of Sasines in 

 Scotland, in which every transfer of land by sale, 

 and every succession to land, is registered ? Is 

 there such a register for every county in England, 

 and where are the registers preserved ? I mean a 

 register by which, when a man has succeeded to 

 an estate, it can be seen whether he has succeeded 

 as nearest of kin, or by having the estate be- 

 queathed to him. Sigma Theta. 



Blackstonb's Portrait. — Under the portrait 

 of the " Honourable Mr. Justice Blaekstone," en- 

 graved from the well-known portrait by Gains- 



[* It would seem that the reference figure in Blome- 

 field should have been placed at the end of the paragraph, 

 as on referring to Britannia Antiqua et Nova, iii. 458., we 

 find it merelj'^ gives an engraving of the modern arms of 

 Castle Rising, a castle triple-towered. — Ed.] 



