2n<i S. VIII. Sept. 17. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of this and the other IMan's Undertaking and Performing, 

 Penning and Publishing his several Historical Labours: 

 And possibly a nice Critick in the Finery and Cadence of 

 the English Tongue would expect that I should have 

 Collected a good Number of Synonymous Sentences for 

 this Purpose. I can only saj-, I never intended my 

 Papers for the View of such Delicate and Curious Judges 

 of Language and Oratory. If I had but a Word in readi- 

 ness that would serve my Turn, I never vex'd my Brains 

 in Pumping for another that could only do as well : And, 

 being to cloath so many People of the very same Size 

 . and Shapes, it were too severe (I think) to force me to 

 provide each of 'em with a different Habit and Fashion." 



This archdeacon deserved to be a bishop. 



A. De Morgan. 



" Masterly Inactivity" — This expression w.as 

 used by the Lite John C. Calhoun, in a debate in 

 the senate of the United States upon the acquisi- 

 tion of Cuba, in which he alleged that when the 

 proper time came Cuba would gravitate towards 

 the United States, and that in the mean while the 



olicy of the United States was a masterly inactivity. 



have lately heard that the phrase was used in the 

 British House of Commons during the first French 

 revolution. The idea seems to be found in a sen- 

 tence in one of the Hebrew prophets : " His 

 strength is to sit still." Uneda. 



Suffragan Bishop. — As an addition to the list of 

 Suffragan Bishops in Appendix V. of Stubbs's 

 Re^istrum Sacrum Anglicanum^ will you note the 

 following from Tanner's MS. Index to the Nor- 

 wich Episcopal Register, s. v. Mettingham : " xi. 

 Nov. 1539, Thomas Manning, Suff. Eps. Gype- 

 wici."* B.B.Woodward. 



I 



THE GREAT ST. LEGER I UNDE VOCATUR ? 



The name of this famous race at Doncaster is 

 "familiar in our mouths," and especially so at 

 this time of year, yet I have never been able to 

 ascertain with accuracy its origin. 



Certain it is that it was derived from the cele- 

 brated Colonel St. Leger (concerning whom in- 

 formation was requested by a querist in your 1** 

 S. ix. 76., who elicited replies in the following 

 volume, pp. 94. 175. 376.), but whether he founded 

 the Sweepstakes, or it was only called after him 

 in compliment to such a celebrity on the turf, I 

 cannot discover. Will your correspondents aid 

 me ? I should be much obliged for a reference 

 to any memoir or notices of him. 



I have been told that a biographical sketch of 

 him appeared in one of the Magazines about the 

 time of his death (1800) ; but I have searched in 

 vain for it, finding only some incidental notices of 

 him. Whom did he marry ? 



[* Wharton's List of the Suffragans states, "Thomas 

 Mannyng, Epus Ipswicensis, consecratus 1536," not 

 1539.— Ed.] 



In the Corrigenda appended to Burke's Landed 

 Gentry (1st edit.), p. 379., I find the following : — 



" [Major-] General John St. Leger, commonly called 

 ' Handsome Jack St. Leger,' was appointed Lieut.-Col. 

 in the 1st regt. of Guards, 5 Sept. 1787 ; he was the in- 

 timate friend of his late Majesty King George IV. [when 

 Prince of Wales], and His Royal Highness the Duke of 

 York. And was subsequently Commander of the Forces 

 in India [Ceylon?], where he died on service. 



" The portrait of this celebrated roue is in the Queen's 

 Guard Chamber, Hampton Court ; in the Corridor, Wind- 

 sor Castle ; and at the residence of Anthony B. St. Leger, 

 Esq., Berkeley Square, London." 



The first of these pictures, which is a full-length 

 by Gainsborough, and one of his best perform- 

 ances (see Fulcher's Life of Gainsborough), was 

 engraved by G. Dupont in 1783, and has been 

 lately lithographed from a copy taken by Mr. 

 Wales from the original at Hampton Court. 



As I am told, the Prince and the Colonel both 

 had their pictures painted, in the same uniform 

 and attitude, by Gainsborough, and exchanged 

 them with each other, — that of the Colonel being 

 now at Hampton Court — where, by the way, it is 

 placed in a most unfavourable light ; that of the 

 Prince being in the possession of A. B. St. Leger, 

 Esq., of Berkeley Square, who courteously per- 

 mitted me to see it. Had this picture been placed 

 among the Gainsboroughs at the late exhibition 

 at the British Institution it would doubtless have 

 added to the painter's reputation. 



LUCUS A NON LUCENDO. 



" SYR TRYAMOURE. 



Explanations of the following passages desired 

 (Percy Society's edition) : — 



1. " Ymay evyr after thys 



That thou woldyst tyse me to do amys, 

 No game schulde the glewel " — P. 4. 1. 106. 



2. " The fyrste that rode noghtfor thy 



Was the kyng of Lumbardy." — P. 25. 1. 736. 



3. «* And yf hyt so betyde. 



That the knyght of owre syde 

 May sle yowrj's be wyth chawnce." 



P. 35. 1. 1014. 

 . 4. " For he had a champyone, 



In ev^ery o/'londe of moste renowne." 



P. 35. 1. 1022. 

 Is any other instance known of the use of of 

 after every f 



5. " And sche answeryd them there on hye." 



P. 22, 1. G42. 

 Does on hye = in haste f 



6. " Syr Asseryn, the kynges sone of Naveine, 



Wolde nevyr man hys body warne." 



P. 27. 1. 785. 



7. " Then swere the fosters alle twelve. 



They wolde no weed but hymselfe, 



Othur we be hyt noght." — P. 36. 1. 1065. 



8. " Tryamowre gaf hym with hert free, 



The palmer for hym can arete." 



P. 44. 1. 1308. 



