S-d S. X. Oct, 20. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



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que le peuple (lit un homme estre bon, ricTie, ou 

 vertueux par dessus Vespaule, lors quil se mocque^ 

 The word shoulder^ understood in our idiom, is 

 here supplied, and the word left omitted, but the 

 custom is evidently the same. The explanation is 

 as follows : — 



" Car corame ainsi fust qu'en ce jeu I'AS soit la princi- 

 pale carte (qui est celle en laquelle il y a una unite au 

 milieu) il advint qu'un quidam en se riant, dist qu'il 

 avoit deux AS en son jeu, et les exhibans sur la table 

 fut trouv^ que c'estoient deux Varlets, chacun desquels 

 comine Ton S9ait porte une unite sur I'espaule. A quoy 

 ayant apprestd par son mensonge h rire k la compagnie, 

 il respondit que v^ritablement il avoit deus AS, mais que 

 c'estoit par dessus I'espaule .... Car comme je disois main- 

 tenant, chaque teste, soit de Coeurs, Careaux, Trefie, et 

 Picque, a un AS dessus I'espaule et toutes fois ceste unit^ 

 ne repr^sente pas un As." &c.* X. 



Similarity of Sektiment between James I. 

 AND Robert Burns. — 



" In the reign of King James the First it is said that 

 titles were not always well placed ; which made an ex- 

 travagant young fellow very smart upon a courtier whom 

 he desired to move the king to make him a lord. . . . 

 The king demanded what reasons there were against the 

 man's being made a lord : the courtiers insisted that 

 'he was a mean obscure person, and not so" much as a 

 gentleman.' ' Oh ! it is no matter for that,' replies the 

 monarch, merrily, ' T can make a lord, though I cannot 

 make a gentleman.' " — Scottish Jests and Anecdotes, 

 Edinb. 1834, p. 284.* 



So of Burns : — 



" A prince can mak a belted knight, 

 A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 

 But an honest man's aboon his might, 



Guid faith he mauna fa' that ; 

 For a' that, and a' that, 



Their dignities, and a' that. 

 The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth. 

 Are higher ranks than a' that." 



(Song — " For a' that, and a' that," 

 Works, Currie's edit., London, 

 1825, p. 100.) G. N. 



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Cooper of Surrey : Cromwell's Officers. — 

 I find in Burke's General Armory the arms of 

 Cooper of Surrey to be as follows : " Sa. a chev. 

 wav. erm. between three lions rampant or," but 

 there is no mention of what the crest or motto is. 

 Can you or any of your readers kindly inform me 

 what they are, or where to be found ? Also, who 

 is now the representative of the above-named 

 family ? Moreover, can you or any of your 

 readers inform me where a list of the officers in 

 Cromwell's army is to be found ? A. D. C. 



GoULDSMYTH OR GouLDSMiTH. — Any informa- 

 tion respecting one "Jonathan Gouldsmyth (or 

 Gouldsmith), Doctor in Physick," would be very 

 acceptable. He died probably before 1760, and 

 certainly before 1767. T. E. S. 



[* See also " N. & Q.» l»t S. vii. 525. ; x. 236.— Ed.] 



Old London Taverns : the "Hoop and Tjiree 

 Tuns" and "Hoop and Pie." — Is anything known 

 of the " Hoope and Three Tuns " and the "Hoope 

 and Pie " taverns in old Leadenhall Street ? They 

 are mentioned in the account-book of an executor 

 in 1664 and 1665, but there are no entries relating 

 to them later than September, 1666, the date of 

 the Great Fire. The tenant of the " Hoope and 

 Pie " was one Mr. Phillip Stubs, or Stubbs, who 

 appears to have had a separate dwelling-house, and 

 probably under-let the tavern ; and the rent seems 

 to have been paid and received in the " Hoope and 

 Three Tuns." What is the origin and meaning of 

 these signs ? T. E. S. 



The Right Hon. Henry Flood's " Literary 

 Remains." — The author of Memoirs of the Life 

 and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry 

 Flood, M.P. (Dublin, 1838), has observed (In- 

 troduction, p. xii.) : — 



"That IVIr. Flood [who died in 1791] made a trans- 

 lation of the famous oration of Demosthenes is well 

 known to several now living ; his imitations of Pindar 

 were extolled as worthy of a mind highly favored for 

 the sublime of lyric composition. It is with great regret 

 that I have not been enabled to give a more satisfactory 

 account of his ' literary remains.' The censure justly falls 

 on his tUstimental executors, who should have been more 

 solicitous about the papers of so remarkable a man, whe- 

 ther viewed as a statesman, or as a man of letters." 



Can anyone, through the medium of " N. & Q.," 

 throw light on these " literary remains " of " the 

 Irish Demosthenes?" Are they extant ? and, if 

 so, where? Abhba. 



The Quaker's Disbase. — Allow me to request 

 information as to the truth of the following. Is 

 the said " Quaker's disease " now known ? 



"Did you ever hear," writes Lord Jeffrey to Lord 

 Murray, "that most of the Quakers die of stupidity, 

 actually and literally ? I was assured of the fact by a 

 very intelligent physician, who practised among them 

 twenty years, and informs me that few of the richer sort 

 live to be fifty, but die of a sort of atrophy, their cold 

 blood just stagnating by degrees among their flabby fat. 

 They eat too much, take little exercise, and, above all, 

 have no nervous excitement. The affection is known 

 about Liverpool as the Quaker's disease." — Life of Lord 

 Jeffrey. 



The Author of 

 " Twenty Years in the Church." 



Mottoes of the London Medical Corpora- 

 tions. — Taking up Ovid the other day, I recog- 

 nised the motto to the arms of the corporation of 

 the Apothecaries of London — " Ojnferque"et ccet,, 

 and going two lines farther, I lighted upon that 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons of London — 

 " QucB prosunt" et cat, both of which I annex in 

 Italics as they stand textually in the original. To 

 complete the trio, I would fain add the motto of 

 the other branch of the faculty, the College of 

 Physicians of London ; but I am wholly unac- 

 quainted with it, and I have no other alternative 



