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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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be tam'd: but with an Iron rynge put thorough hys 

 nosethrille, by the which ryng he is ladde about, and 

 therewith compelled to take gladly the yoke upon him. 

 His colour is black or reade, and having homes, yet he is 

 but thinne beared : & his fleshe is good, not only to meat, 

 but also to medesine." 



This is exactly the description of the animals 

 once said to abound in the Isle of Wight. Is 

 there any mention of them in any other part of 

 England? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



The Prefix " Honorable." — What is the 

 earliest instance of the prefix of " Honorable " 

 having been adopted by sons of peers, and what 

 authority was there for that assumption ? C. 



Epitaph. — The following epitaph in Crowland 

 Abbey church is said to have been in existence 

 about a century ago. Is it still preserved ? Upon 

 whose monument is it found ? — 



" Man's life is like unto a winter's day ; 

 Some break their fast, and then depart away ; 

 Others stay dinner, then depart full fed ; 

 The longest age but supS, and goes to bed." 



T. W. 



Baptismal Names. — I recently met with in 

 some MS. pedigrees two remarkably uncommon 

 Christian names for females, Protheza and Dol- 

 zabatt. Can you give me any idea of the source 

 from whence they are taken ? I would suggest 

 that probably the last is a misreading of Dolza- 

 ball, i. e. Dnlcibella. Abracadabra. 



"The Monstrous Magazine." — I have a copy 

 of the Monstrous Magazine for May, 1770 (No. 1. 

 vol. i.), published by Ewing of Dublin, and form- 

 ing an 8vo. pamphlet of fifty pages. Can you tell 

 me whether any more numbers appeared ? 



Abhba. 



The Unities. — I find the lines below, in a 

 hand of the last century, written opposite to the 

 following passage in Voltaire's Discours sur la 

 Tragedie, dedicated to Bolingbroke. The mar- 

 ginal note is " Bienseances et Unitez" : — 



" S'il prend deux jours et deux villes pour son action, 

 croj-ez que c'est parcequ'il n'auroit pas eu I'addresse de 

 le resserrer dans I'espace de trois heures, et dans I'enceinte 

 d'un palais, comme exige la vraisemblance." 



" A tragedy, in which the unities of time and place are 

 strictly preserved, and the chorus : — 



'f A 'squire won over the castle-wall, 



With a hey down derry ; 

 Quoth the warden, ' Thou art lithe and tall ! 

 Is thy jerkin proof to a good cloth-j'ard ? ' 

 So he stretch'd his bow, and he drew it hard : 

 — Now the 'squire is stark, ' go fetch a pall,' 

 With a hey down derry." 



Does any contributor to " N. & Q." know the 

 author ? Selwquk. 



ScAGLiOLA. — According to a notq subjoined to 

 a letter of Lord Orford to Sir Horace Mann, 



Sept. 1st, 1747, "scagliola" was a composition 

 made only at Florence by Father Hayford, an 

 Irish friar. Lord Orford wrote for some. Can 

 any of your readers give farther information, such 

 as may be explanatory in regard to the history 

 and success of this manufacture ? H. E. 



Quotation Wanted. — In La Logique et la 

 Rhetorigue, Cambrai, 1759, is the following quo- 

 tation": — 



" Un chef, autorise d'une juste puissance, 

 Sonmet tout d'un coup d'oeil k son obeissance : 

 Mais, dfes qu'il est arme pour soulever I'etat, 

 II trouve un compagnon dans le moindre soldat." 



Voltaire, La Henriade. 

 The lines are not in La Henriade. I shall be 

 obliged being told whence they are taken. 



W. L. L. 

 Portrait of Thomas Lord Wentworth. — Is 

 there any portrait known to exist of Thomas Lord 

 Wentworth, a staunch Royalist, who received a 

 commission from Charles II., when in exile, to 

 form a regiment of the Royalists in Flanders in 

 1656, and who commanded it in the campaign of 

 1657 and 1658 ; who, after the Restoration, re- 

 ceived another commission on the 26 August, 

 1660, as colonel of the King's own Regiment of 

 Guards ? He is supposed to have died in Fe- 

 bruary, 1665. ; S. A. S. 



Portrait of Edward Earl of Lichfield. — 

 Is there any portrait in existence of Edward Lee, 

 Earl of Litchfield (1st Earl), who married Lady 

 Charlotte FitzRoy, daughter of King Charles II. ? 

 He was colonel of the First Regiment of Guards 

 from 13 Nov. 1688 to 31 Dec. 1688. He refused 

 to swear allegiance to the new government of 

 King William IIL He died in 1716. S. A. S. 



Portrait of Charles Duke of Schomberg. 

 — Is there any portrait in existence of Charles 

 Duke of Schomberg (2nd Duke), who was colo- 

 nel of (he First Regiment of Guards from 27 Dec. 

 1691 to 26 Nbv. 1693, in which year he died of a 

 wound received in the battle of Marsaglia in Pied- 

 mont ? S. A. S. 



Portrait of Lieut. -Gen. Sir C. Wells. — Is 

 there any portrait known to exist of Lieut.- Gene- 

 ral Sir Charles Wells, C.B., who was colonel of 

 the First Regiment of Guards from 6 Aug. 1726 

 to 18 Feb. 1742, and who died early in 1742, who 

 left a large fortune to Sir Robert Rich ? S. A. S. 



Portrait of John Earl of Ligonier. — Is 

 there a portrait of John Earl of Ligonier, C.B., 

 who was a distinguished soldier under the Duke 

 of Marlborough and George II. at Dettingen ? 

 Was captain-general of the English army. He 

 was colonel of the First Regiment of Guards from 

 30 Nov. 1757 to 30 April, 1770. S. A. S. 



Moorfields in Cromwell's Time. — Could 

 some one " well up " in London history inform 



