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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. VIII. Dec. 10. '5?. 



des Sciences Math^matiques en Italic, depnis la renais- 

 sance des lettres jusqu'a la fin du dix-septieme siecle.' 

 Four volumes Octavo. We learn from the ' postscriptum ' 

 at p. (xxvii) of vol. i that that volume is in fact a second 

 edition, nearly the whole of the first having been destroyed 

 by fire in 1835. 



Professor De Morgan's References &c., were, I 

 tliink, published in the ' Companion to the Al- 

 manac' for 1843. 



Xo?!io«, eighteen-fortyfive. Peacociv, George. 'Arith- 

 metic ' published in the ' Encyclopsedia Metropolitana.' 

 The introduction is on the 'History of Arithmetic' and 

 will be found at pp. 367—482 of the ' Pure Science.' This 

 'Arithmetic' was separately published, in the parts, in 

 1825 or 182(5 (De Morgan, Arith. Bks., p. 91). 



London, eighteen-fortyseven. De Morgan, Augustus. 

 'Arithmetical Books from the invention of printing to 

 the present time being brief notices of a large number of 

 works drawn up from actual inspection.' Octavo. 



This work as well as the Iteferences so often al- 

 luded to contain valuable (or rather invaluable) 

 Introductory portions which should be read in 

 connection with Professor De Morgan's paper ' On 

 the Difficulty of correct Description of Books ' in 

 the 'Companion to the Almanac' for 1853. 



James Cockle, M.A., F.R.A.S., &c. 



4. Pump Court, Temple. 



iHtiinr ^atti. 



The late Duke of Wellington. — Such anxiety 

 has been latterly evinced to collect and place on 

 record every waif and stray appertaining^ to the 

 great Duke of Wellington, that I am induced to 

 believe the following cutting from an Irish news- 

 paper of the year 1807 may not prove unwelcome. 

 W. J. Fitz-Patrick. 



" To the RiffJd Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B. 

 " The iinanimous Address of the High Sheriff and Grand 



Jurj- of the County of Dublin, at Michaelmas Term, 



180"7. 



" AVe the Sheriff and Grand .Jury of the County of Dub- 

 lin assembled at Michaelmas Terra, 1807, feel the utmost 

 satisfaction in his Majesty's choice of you, as the associate 

 in the labour of our most excellent Ciiief Governor. 



" Accept, Sir, our warmest approbation and applause 

 for your able and distinguished exertions in the public 

 cause, and allow us to felicitate ourselves, that after hav- 

 ing withstood the honourable dangers of war, in which 

 you have rendered such essential service to the Empire 

 and this your native country, you are given back to us 

 to resume the duties of your important oilice, and to lend 

 the aid of your valuable talents in carrying into effect 

 the measure of a Chief Governor, to whom we already 

 look up with confidence and with hope. 



"John Hamilton, Sheriff. 

 " Hans Hamilton, Foreman. 

 " For Self and Fellow Jurors." 



" To which Address the following Answer was returned : 

 " Gentlemen, 



" I return you my thanks for the expression of your 

 satisfaction upon my appointment to the situation which 

 I have the honour to fill in this country. 



" I hope by every principle of duty, and by every sen- 



timent of respect and affection, to assist as far as maj' be 

 in my power the Noble Person at the head of thi'S Go- 

 ' vernment. I shall be happy if in carrying into execution 

 ' his orders and arrangements, and in forwarding his views 

 I for the happiness and prosperity of this countrj', I shall 

 j continue to conciliate the good opinion and esteem of 

 I the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the County of Dub- 

 lin." 



Mottoes on Rings. — On looking over Smith's 

 Obituarj/, one of the publications of the Camden 

 Society, I find that it was the custom to have 

 posies on mourning rings as well as on wedding 

 rings. "Ever last," was the posy on the rings 

 given at the funeral of John Smith, Alderman of 

 London, who " made a great gaine by musk catts 

 which he kept." On those given at the funeral of 

 Samuel Crurableholme, Master of St. Paul's, the 

 posy was " Redime tempus." * I take this oppor- 

 tunity of adding another to the list which has 

 already appeared of posies on wedding rings : 

 " This, and the giver. 

 Are thine for ever." 



E. H. A. 



" Camden Miscellany,'" Vol. IV. — Memoranda 

 upon words in the volume of the Expenses of the 

 Judges, 1596-1601. Houses where the judges 

 were accustomed to rest on the Western circuit, 

 &c.: — 



" IMr. Crewkerne sent presents from Chili House, near 

 Crewkerne. His son or one of the family was Town 

 Olerk of Lyme-Regis, afterwards influential at Exeter. 



"Mr. Speke lived at White Lackington House near 

 11 minster. 



" Mr. EUesdon lived in Lyme-Regis. He was one of a 

 series of rich merchants there. Cliarles II. after tlie bat- 

 tle of Worcester applied to one of this family to aid in his 

 escape from Charmouth adjoining Lyme. 



" The potato-pie was made from the Convolvulus Ba- 

 tatas, commonly called the Potate. Jlerchants at Lyme 

 frequently made presents of this preserve to great men. 

 The root gave its name to our present diseased, but we 

 trust recovering esculent, the Potato. 



" Kirton, a provincial manner of pronouncing and spell- 

 ing Crediton, the centre town of Devonshire. • 



" \Vood and Coles. This latter means charcoal or char- 

 coals for cooking some dishes. Sea borne coal, pit coal, 

 or mineral coal was not in use for cooking or in families, 

 generalh'." 



G. R. L. 



Dover. 



Origin of the Title of Vilain Qnatorze. — The 

 first peer, when asked by Louis XIV. if he wished 

 to change his name upon his elevation, merely 

 requested the numeral addition that his family 

 might never forget to whom they owed their title. 

 (Vid. Raikes's Diari/, i. 179.) E. H. A. 



Unpublished Letters. — A friend has obligingly 

 forwarded to me The Marlborough Magazine for 

 Sept. 1848, which professes to contain four un- 

 published letters by Pope. These letters were, 

 it appears, sent to the editor by the Rev. Charles 



• Vide stipra, p. 393. for the inscription on the ring* 

 distributed after the execution of Dr. John Hewett. 



