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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°-! S. VIII. Dec. 10. '59. 



against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 

 London, 1733. E. S. J. 



'■'■Dominus regnavit a lignoy — These words occur 

 in some of the Fathers as a quotation from Psalm 

 xcv, 10.*, at which place the Hebrew, the Latin 

 Vulgate, and others only have "Dominus reg- 

 navit," or its equivalents. The passage is usually 

 applied to the Saviour, who is said to have 

 " reigned from the tree," because the crucifixion 

 was regarded as in a manner ushering him into 

 his kingdom and glory. It would be easy to 

 quote passages from ancient and modern writers 

 illustrative of this view, but one or two must suf- 

 fice. Commodian thus speaks : — 



" In Psalmis canitur 'Dominus regnavit a ligno, 

 Exultent lerrre, jocundentur insulie uiultie.' " 



Carm. Apohget. ver. 290. 



The hymn which commences 



" Vexilla Eegis prodeunt, 

 has the following : — 



" Impleta sunt qute concinit 

 David fidelis carmine, 

 Dicens in natiouibus 

 Eegnavit h. ligno Deus." 

 Which some one has rendered : — 



" Now is fulfilled what David once 

 Chanted in high prophetic strains, 

 ' His kingdom from the cross begins 

 And o'er the nations thence he reigns.' " 

 Again, Dr. Watts says of the cross : — 

 "Hence shall his sovereign throne arise, 



His kingdom is begun." 

 " The cross a sure foundation laid 

 For glory and renown." 



As, however, my object is not to give a catena 

 upon the words, but to ask a question, I will do 

 so : — 



1. What account can be given of the intro- 

 duction of the words a ligno into this quotation, 

 as part of the sacred record ? 



2. AVho is the earliest Father by whom the pas- 

 sage is quoted in this form ? I know it is very 

 ancient. 



3. Do any MSS. of the Latin Vulgate contain 

 fhese words as a part of the text ? 



I shall feel obliged to anyone who will give me 

 information on these heads, or refer me to authors 

 by whom the subject has been discussed. 

 ^ B. H. C. 



Rev. Francis Mence. — Can you give me any in- 

 formation respecting the Rev. Francis Mence, the 

 author of a work entitled — 



" Vindicise Fojderis ; or a Vindication of the Interest 

 that the Children of Believers, as such, have in the Cove- 

 nant of Grace, with their Parents under the Gospel-Dis- 

 pensation." By Francis Mence, sometime of Pembroke 

 College, Oxford, now an unworthy Pastor of a Church 

 of Christ, in Wapping, near London." 18mo. 1C94. 



I cannot find any entry of the author's name in 



In English version and Hebrew Ps. xcvi. 10. 



the list of Oxford graduates, or in the register of 

 St. John's Church, Wapping, but that church was 

 only erected in 1694. Rainhill. 



Privy Council. — Can any of your readers refer 

 me to any Lists of Privy Councillors in the reigns 

 of Richard IIL, Henry VIL, and Henry VIH., 

 but particularly in the reign of Henry VII. ? J. 



Essay on Taste ; Faux. — In An Essay on Taste, 

 London, 1784, among censurable instances of 

 ascribing feelings to inanimate things, is the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" He cut the cable : with impatient leap 

 Th' exulting vessel bounded to the deep ; 

 Swift as the pertinacious hunter, wlien 

 He gallops from the lustral savage den 

 On trembling steed ; his chest compressed with fear, 

 And tender tigers on his frightened spear. 

 Their mother's howls th' admiring concave fill. 

 Baited by hounds on Haman's hostile hill." — Faux. 



Other examples of bad taste are given from 

 " Faux." Who is he ? The essay is rather in- 

 genious. It is printed for " J. Johnston, Cheap- 

 side." Is the author known ? P. S. 



Window in the sense of Blank. — Can any of 

 your correspondents furnish me with instances of 

 the word *' window " being used in the sense of 

 a blank left in any document or writing? I have 

 met with it only once, and that in a letter of 

 Archbishop Cranmer's (Worhs, Parker Society 

 edit., vol. ii. p. 249.) : — 



" And where there is a collation of a benefice now in 

 my hands through the death of one Sir Richarde Baj'lis, 

 priest of the college of Mallying, according as you may 

 be further instruct by this letter herein inclosed, the 

 place and room whereof I intend to dispose, 1 will there- 

 fore, that j'ou send unto me a collation thereof; and that 

 your said collation have a window expedient to set what 

 name I will therein." 



William Henky Haet. 



Folkestone House, Eoupell Park, 

 Streatham. 



Biistowe. — Are there any descendants existing 

 of a marriage which occurred in August, 1759, 

 between the Rev. Edward Bristowe, Vicar of 

 Messinghara, Kirton in Lindsey, co. Lincoln, and 

 Mary, only surviving child of the Rev. John 

 Gough, Rector of Nettleton in the same county. 

 Their son John Bristowe was christened at Mes- 

 singham 11th July, 1760 — 1, and their daughter 

 Ann the 8th March, 1762. Asphodel. 



Prtissian L'on Medal. — Will any of your readers 

 give me the description of the iron medal (I don't 

 know whether it was of the cross or circular type) 

 which was given to those Prussian patriots who sent 

 in their jewels and plate for the service of their 

 country during the wars of the 1st Napoleon ? I 

 have heard that the motto upon the decoration ip, 

 " I gave Gold for Iron for my country's good." 



Centurion, 



