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NOTES AND QDP^RIES. 



[2-a S. X Oct. 20. '6('. 



than to request the information of some reader of 

 "N. &Q." 



" Inventa medicina meum est ; opiferque per orbein 

 Dicor : et herbarum subjecta potentia nobis. 

 Hei mihi, quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis, 

 Nee prosunt domino, qua prosunt omnibus artes." 



Ovid. Met., lib. i. 521-4. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



Colin Mac Lahhik. — In a biographical notice 

 of Mac Laurin, prefixed to his Account of Sir 

 Isaac Newton's Discoveries, by (it is presumed) 

 the editor, Dr. Patrick Murdoch, Rector of Stra- 

 dishali, Suffolk, it is stated that most of his in- 

 formation regarding the mathematician was derived 

 from an Oration or Address delivered, after Mac 

 Laurin's death, by Dr. Monro of the University 

 of Edinburgh. Can any member of that learned 

 body inform me whether that oration now exists, 

 either in manuscript or in print ? M. (1.) 



Rev. Peter Debary. — I have lately met with 

 a mezzotint subinscribed : — 



"A Game at Chess. Painted by Thos. Phillips, A. 

 Engraved by S. W. Reynolds, Published by T. Phillips, 

 George Street, Hanover Square, 1 March, 1808, sold by 

 A. Molteno, Pall Mall." • 



I believe the lady and gentleman engaged in 

 the. game represent the Rev. Peter Debary and 

 his lady. Can any correspondent of " N. & Q." 

 inform me whether the original picture is in exist- 

 ence ; and, if so, in whose possession it now is ? 



Patonce. 



"Birth and Worth," etc. — Birth and Worth, 

 or the Practical Uses of a Pedigree. Will some 

 one give the name of the author of this work ? 



G. W. M. 



John Milton. — Oldys had at one time in his 

 possession a note-book in the hand of Henry Earl 

 of Clarendon, in which was inserted an entry that 

 the following production was from the hand of 

 Milton : — 



"A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Army di- 

 rected to His Highness the Lord Protector, concerning 

 the changing of the Gov* from Waterford, 20 of June. 

 1654, in 40." 



Is there any other corroborative proof of this ? 

 and in whose possession is now the said note-book 

 of Lord Clarendon ? Ithuriel. 



Pendrell Family. — Wanted references to 

 authorities giving any account of the Pendrells 

 (the preservers of Charles II.) after the Restora- 

 tion. I have seen grants for various sums of money 

 to be paid to them by way of annuities, but the 

 king and his court were so absorbed in the frivo- 

 lities of that loose and licentious asra, that the 

 recipients of the royal bounty Avere compelled 

 oftentimes to petition more than once for the ful- 

 filment of neglected promises and tardy pay- 

 ments. I liave some indistinct remembrance that 



the Pendrells were similarly situated, although I 

 cannot place my hand upon the petition. Some 

 of your readers may probably assist me. The pen- 

 sions allotted them were as follows : — 



Wm. Pendrell and Joane his wife, on their joint 



lives - - - - ■ - £100 



Rich"! Pendrell 4ind Mary his wife, on their 



joint lives - - - . . 100 



John Pendrell - - - 100 marks 



Humphrej' Pendrell. - - - 100 „ 



George Pendrell - - - 100 „ 



Abracadaijra. 

 Duchess of Marlborough's Birth-place. — 

 There is a tradition in Sussex that Sarah Duchess 

 of Marlborough was born in the Old Gate House 

 at Ratton, near Eastbourne, and many are the 

 inquiries made as to which was the room in which 

 she first saw the light. If any of your correspon- 

 dents could inform us Sussex people upon this 

 point, and tell us where she was born, we should 

 feel much obliged to them.* R. W. B. 



Captain Rich. — Captain Cinel Rich alias Rich 

 Cinel, of Mulbarton in Norfolk, mai-ried, about 

 the year 1686, a lady whose Christian name was 

 Grace. I should like to know to what regiment 

 he belonged, and also to have some information 

 about the lineage of his wife. It is probable that 

 she was from the West of En'gland, that her 

 father's name was Aaron or William, and that 

 some of her connexions were named Orby. T. A. 



Izaak Walton's Angler. — Francis Grose in 

 The Olio, p. 139., states that "among the works 

 of William Oldys is a Preface to Izaak Walton's 

 Angling." What is the date of tlie edition con- 

 taining it ? J. Y. 



Early Italian Vebsions of the Bible. — Car- 

 dinal Wiseman mentions, in his Lectui-es on the 

 Catholic Church (vol. i. p. 53., Dolman's ed. 1844), 

 a translation of the Bible into Italian by Malermi 

 at Venice, in 1471, and republished seventeen 

 times before the close of the centu»y. Where can 

 I get ••afull description of this version ? which, to 

 judge from the language used by the Cardinal, 

 must have appended to it the approbation of the 

 ordinary authorities as well as that of the Inquisi- 

 tion, particulars of which I am anxious to possess, 

 for a special purpose. Aiken Irvine. 



Five-mile Town. 



1^* The birth-place of this remarkable woman is the 

 subject of a Query in " N. & Q." 2"'' S. viii. 330., from 

 which it appears that Weir, in his Account of Lincoln- 

 shire, i. 271., states that she w^as born at Burwell, near 

 Louth, in that county ; while Miss Strickland states that 

 " Sarah Jennings was born at a small house at Hol^-weU, 

 near St. Albans, on the very day of Charles'.s restoration 

 in 1600. A third claim is that now put forward for 

 Ratton. Perhaps some of our correspondents re.si- 

 dent in these several neighbourhoods could solve the 

 doubt by a reference to the registry of Sarah Jennings's 

 baptism.] 



