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NOTES AND. QUERIES. 



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lowing arms : Quarterly 1 and 4, a bend between 

 a mullet in chief, and an annulet in base (no tinc- 

 tures), 3 and 4, on a bend engrailed 3 mullets. 

 Impaling on the sinister side the arms of Arch- 

 bishop juxon, and thus indicating that a lady of 

 the name of Juxon married the owner of the arms 

 above described. Qy. whose are the quartered 

 arms P 



On the other cup is the inscription : — 



" The gift of j'e Most Reverend William Juxon, D.D. 

 Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and Lord Treasurer of 

 England, dyed in ye year 1663." 



The stamps on the second cup are, 1, a lion pas- 

 sant; 2, a lion's head affrontee, ducally crowned; 

 3, the capital letter B ; and 4, the letter (E ?) 



The same gentleman also possesses a magnificent 

 diamond ring said to have descended from the 

 same ancestor. B. 



Order tor the Burial of the Dead. — The 

 second rubric to this service in our Prayer-book 

 directs that " The priests and clerks " " shall say 

 or SING " the sentences which immediately follow 

 the rubric, viz. " I am the Resurrection and the 

 Life," &c. " I kngw that my Redeemer liveth," 

 &c. and " We brought nothing into this World," 

 &c. 



I have hitherto been unable to find plain simple 

 music (such as a country congregation could sing) 

 adapted to these words. Can any of your cor- 

 respondents help me by reference to any work or 

 works in which the notes may be found ? 



Regedokum. 



The Bridge at Montreal. — In the account 

 of this great work, I see mention of large boulders 

 lying on the limestone rock which forms the bed 

 of the St. Lawrence. Were these boulders of 

 limestone rock also ? Were they of the same for- 

 mation as the clifis on which the bridge is built ? 

 Or were they travelled boulders ? I ask with re- 

 ference to the evidences of glacier action in N. 

 America. F. C. B. 



Norwich. 



" Dear is that valley," etc. — In Poems by 

 Samuel Rogers the following are given, under the 

 head of " Fragments from Euripides " : — 

 " Dear is that valley to the murmuring bees : 

 The small birds build there ; and at summer noon 

 Oft have I heard a child gay among flowers, 

 As in the shining grass she sat concealed, 

 Sing to herself." 

 " There is a streamlet issuing from a rock, 

 The village girls, singing wild madrigals, 

 Dip their white vestments in its waters clear. 

 And hang them to the sun. There first I saw her : 

 Her dark and eloquent eyes, wild, full of fire, 

 'Twas heaven to look upon, and her sweet voice 

 As tuneable as harp of many strings, 

 At once spake joy and sadness to my soul." 

 I cannot find the original of these among the 

 collected fragments of Euripides. Can any of 



your readers tell me whence they come, or whe- 

 ther Rogers intended them for an imitation of 

 Euripides (they are more like Sophocles) ? 



C. G. P. 

 Temple. 



Napoli. — I shall be much obliged by being 

 shown the relationship between these places as to 

 their name. Nablous, in Syria ; Napoli, in Greece 

 (formerly Nauplia, perhaps), Naples ; and La 

 Napoule, France, dep. Var, immortalised by 

 Zschokke's Broken Mug. I am not satisfied with 

 Strabo's derivation of Nauplia, " a place for ships," 

 and I cannot find any theory of race to help me. 

 I shall be extremely thankful for merely a hint. 



F. C. B. 



Norwich. 



Merchant Adventurers. — There is much 

 confusion in historical works on this subject, owing 

 probably to the twofold application of the term 

 to a particular association, and to enterprising 

 traders in general. The accounts given by Stow, 

 Anderson, and Macpherson, are by no means clear. 

 Can any of your obliging correspondents inform 

 me when the Company of Merchant Adventurers 

 was first established, and at what period intro- 

 duced into this country ? Also the date of the 

 first charter, or a trustworthy source where the in- 

 formation may be obtained ? Delta. 



Manuscript or Archbishop Ussher. — Mr. 

 Downame published a MS. of Archbishop Ussher, 

 which his grace had lost, and disclaimed as his 

 own composition. But a sixth edition pub- 

 lished in 1670, is said to have been "corrected 

 and much enlarged by the author." Can any one 

 inform me whether there was any authority for 

 saying that Ussher really completed and gave his 

 Imprimatur to "The Body of Divinity, or the Sum 

 and Substance of the Christian Religion " ? 



J. D. SiRR. 



" A Shoful." — Whence derived? The other 

 day a witness giving evidence at a police office, 

 was asked what his occupation might be ? He 

 answered that he " drove a shoful," which he 

 afterwards explained to be a Hansom cab. Surely 

 this word must have got into use so lately that 

 its origin can be traced. If so, it may throw some 

 light on the source and development of slang 

 terms ; and, what is much more important to the 

 philologist, whether they are revived archaisms 

 like the word " shunt," or merely modern vul- 

 garisms? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



" Julian the Apostate." — Who is the author 

 of an old play entitled Julian the Apostate, said to 

 have been acted at " The Quarry," Shrewsbury ? 

 It was performed in or about the seventeenth 

 century, probably by the scholars of the grammar 

 school. The amphitheatre, in which the piece re- 



