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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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George Aungier's property, most of which appears 

 to have been in the county of Surrey. I am 

 anxious to obtain all the particuLars I can respect- 

 ing this gentleman, and shall be much obliged to 

 those of your correspondents who can assist me. 



William Henry Hart. 

 Folkestone House, 



Roupell Park, Streatham. 



German Heroine. — In an old book of prints 

 of German worthies, emperors, dukes, and war- 

 riors, there is one representing a heroine upon the 

 battlement of a fortress, with cannon and many 

 other weapons of war below and around her, waving 

 her helmet in the air, apparently cheering her fel- 

 low-soldiers — a German Maid of Orleans. There 

 is no date on the engraving, but below there is the 

 following inscription : — 



" Ces H E Pleiburgias 

 Suas iEtatis 34. 

 Corpora sura Virgo fateor, sed pectoreVir sum. 

 Pie videre virum, quos need, ipsa Viri. 

 Eruiiswigum Vitam dedit sanctam mihi Patria, Vitanx 

 Pro Patria multis eripui ipsa viris. 

 Vita evanescit, mea Paifia, heroica Fama 

 Quam mihi Pleis peperit, non ruitura manet." 



If any one can throw any light on this heroine's 

 history, it will much oblige R. W. B. 



Earl of Fife. — Mordake Earl of Fife is men- 

 tioned in the first scene of Shakspeare's Henry 

 IV. What has become of the title, and whence 

 did it originate ? ' L- M. 



Charter of Charles II. — Where can I find 

 a printed copy of the charter by Charles II. of the 

 first West India or Plantation Company ? R. L. 



Bibliographical Queri'. — Appended to a 

 copy of the Constitutiones Provinciales el Synodales 

 Ecclcesice Metropolitance et Primitialis Duhliniensis, 

 Anno 1770, now before me, there is fragment of a 

 Latin tract which has greatly excited my curio- 

 sity, but which has as yet eluded all my inquiries. 

 The title-page is wanting ; folio 1., however, sup- 

 plies the following description : — 



" Relatio veridica et sincera statvs Provinciae Hibernia; 

 Ordinis Minorvm Kegularis Observantiae svb regimine F. 

 Petri Marchant, Commissarii Generalis Nationalis super 

 Provincias Germanise Superioris, Belgii et Brittannicas : 

 ad Reverendissimvm Patrem totivs Ordinis Miuistrvm 

 Generalem necnon Rev"""' ac plurimum Reverendos Pa- 

 tres in Capitvio Generali Romae congregates hoc Anno 

 1G51 in Festo Pentecostes." 



The copy from which ■ the above is extracted 

 <;loses with p. 74. 



I will feel much indebted to any reader of " N. 

 & Q." who can direct me to any sources of infor- 

 mation respecting this tract, or furnish me with 

 a copy of the title-page, &c., wanting in the copy 

 I refer to. It is possible that it may be a portion 

 -of a larger work, though I think not. 



Aiken Irvine. 



Fivemiletowu. 



Round Robin,* — If not already done, perhaps 

 you will cause to be solved the question which 

 was lately asked in conversation : Whence arose 

 the designation, "Round Robin"? John James. 



Avington. 



Paraphernalia. — The meaning attached to 

 this word in most of the dictionaries is, generally, 

 " the goods in a wife's disposal," which I think is 

 not the usual sense of the word as now used. 

 Perhaps some of your correspondents will oblige 

 me by stating when and how the more general 

 and extended modern meaning of this word was 

 adopted ; and if it is the legal one only which is 

 applied to it as found in the dictionaries, Black- 

 stonej &c. T. S. L. 



Meaning of " Lun." — In reading Churchill's 

 Rosciad, a few days since, I was puzzled to know 

 the meaning of Lun in the following couplet : — 



" On one side Folly sits, by some called Fun, 

 And on the other his archpatron Lun ;" 



and I was still more puzzled by Parks' tfote upon 

 this word : — 



" Mr. John Rich, the manager of Covent Garden, ac- 

 quired the name of Lun by his excellent performance of 

 Harlequin, in which he remained unrivalled during half a 

 centurj'." 



Will some reader of " N. & Q." tell me why a 

 man should be called Lun for his excellent per- 

 formance of Harlequin ? M. L. 



John Atlmer, ^lmer, or Elmer, Bishop of 

 London. — What was the parentage of this pre- 

 late ? It is said in the 13iographia Britannica 

 (Kippis), that he was born at Aylmer Hall in 

 Norfolk ; but the names of his parents are not 

 given. And where was Aylmer Hall ? There is 

 no place of that name in Norfolk. 



Robert Aylmer, citizen and alderman of Nor- 

 wich, who died in 1493, by his will devised con- 

 siderable lands and tenements in Norwich and 

 Norfolk, besides personal estate. He names his 

 wife Elizabeth, his sons Richard and Thomas, and 

 his daughter Cicely. 



Sir Laurence Aylmer, citizen and draper, and 

 alderman of Walbrook Ward, London, sheriff 

 1501, and lord mayor 1507, is said by John Stow 

 to have been son of Thomas Aylmer of Elsenham, 

 Essex. He was living in 1522. When did he 

 die ? And what family did he leave ? 



Anthony iElmer, clerk, rector of Sedgefield, 

 Durham, and vicar of Harlow, Essex, died in 

 1518; and by his will, dated 11th July in that 

 year, desired to be buried in his church of Har- 

 low ; and he constituted his father. Sir Laurence 

 Aylmer, Knt., and his uncle, Thomas Aylmei', 

 gentleman, executors of his will. 



\_* This Query has already appeared in our First Series, 

 but without eliciting any satisfactory explanation.] 



