2°'»S. VIII. Nov.5. '69.] 



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Wymondham Bell Inscription (2°"^ S. vii. 451.) — 

 Some months since I examined this peal, and the 

 Toscription on the tenor is, " tvba ad ivditiam 



CAMPANA AD ECLE8IVM 1653 TC . ES . EP . 18 . 



CHVRCHWARDENS," OH shoiilder of bell i b. Each 

 letter is on a diapered cartouche. I have not had 

 an opportunity to refer to the churchwardens' ac- 

 counts for 1653, where I should probably have 

 ascertained to whom the initials 1. B. belonged. 

 Most likely they are John Brend's, a Norwich 

 bellfounder from 1634 to 1658. The inscriptions 

 on the other bells are of little or no interest, but 

 perhaps you will print them, as they are not ac- 

 curately given in the local guide book. 



" 1. Thomas Newman of Norwich made me, 

 1739. 



2. Anno Domini, 1606, fflSS. 



3. John Brend made me, 1638. 



4. T. Newman made me. T. Randall. S. 

 Proctor. R. Gibbs. R. Sewell. C. W. 1739." 



There is a clock bell outside by the Messrs. 

 Warner, dated 1856. 



The tenor weighs (judging from size and tone) 

 about 24 cwt., and is the largest and finest bell 

 of John Brend's that has come under my notice. 



J. L'ESTKANGE. 



stamp Office, Norwich. 



Epigram (2"^ S. viii. 290.) — The epigram in- 

 quired for by Belater-Adime is by Milton, and 

 will be found in the original Latin in the " Epi- 

 grammatum Liber," No. xiii.: — 



" Ad Christinam Suecorum Reginam, Nomine 

 Cromwelli. 

 "Bellipotens virgo, septem Regina Trionum, 

 Christina, Arctoi lucida stella poli! 

 Cernis quas merui dura sub Casside rugas, 



Utque senex, armis impiger, ora tero : 

 Invia fatorum dum per vestigia nitor, 



Exequor et populi fortia jussa manu. 

 Ast tibi submittit frontem reverentior umbra; 

 Nee sunt hi vultus regibus usque truces." 

 The English version, according to Todd, ap- 

 peared in Toland's life of the poet, fol. 1698, p. 

 39. :— 



" Bright martial maid, qu4een of the frozen zone ! 

 The northern pole supports thy shining throne : 

 Behold what furrows age and steel can plow ; 

 The helmet's weight oppress'd this wrinkled brow. 

 Through Fate's untrodden paths I move ; my hands 

 Still act my free-born people's bold commands : 

 Yet this stern shade to you submits his frowns, 

 Nor are these looks always severe to crowns ! " 



Query. Who was the author of the translation ? * 



Libya. 



Poole Family (2°* S. viii. 250.)— In all proba- 

 bility the Rev. Matthew Wood, whose daughter 

 Cecily was married to Reginald Poole, was Vicar, 

 not of Wehhenhury, but of Wybunhury, a parish 



[* Most probably by Tolai'.d himself, who states that 

 this epigram has also been attributed to Andrew Marvel. 

 — Ed.J 



in Cheshire, not far from Nantwich. A. M, will 

 very likely find a list of the vicars of Wybun- 

 bury in Ormerod's History of Cheshire. 



Oxoniensis. 

 [The following entry occurs in Ormerod's Cheshire, iii. 

 255. : " Matthew Wood, presented to the Rectory of 

 Wybunbury, 22 June, 1570.— Ed.] 



Motto (2'"» S. viii. 156.) — The motto, "His 

 Calcabo gartos," as explained by H. C. C., may 

 find its origin and application in the following 

 circumstances : — 



After the voluntary exile, in 1607, of Hugh 

 O'Neil, Earl of Tyrone, the government of James 

 1. formed the design of extirpating the adherents 

 of that chief, and of planting an English colony in 

 their stead. For this pilrpose seven of the native 

 septs were dispossessed of their lands, and ban- 

 ished to the county of Kerry, as the remotest 

 place from that of their birth. (See Moore's HiS' 

 tory of Ireland.) One of the septs thus despoiled, 

 wishing to escape from the persecution to which 

 the bearers of the name of O'Neil were subjected, 

 both as " rebels and Papists," assumed that of 

 " Breen " from Braon O'Neil, the head of the 

 sept ; and under that name they have continued 

 since that period in different parts of Kerry. The 

 present representative of the family is your quon- 

 dam correspondent, Mr. Henry Hegart Breen, 

 Lieut.-Governor of St. Lucia. His motto is "Com- 

 rac sun ceart," " Fight for the right ; " and the 

 motto of the family that obtained possession of his 

 ancestors' estates in Ulster would be " His Calcabo 

 gartos," as explained at p. 156. W. C. 



John Exton (2"^ S. viii. 310.) — Was of Trinity 

 Hall, Cambridge; B.A. 1619-20; M.A. 1623; 

 LL.D. 1634. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Portraits of Archbishop Laud (2"^ S. viii. 309.) 

 will be found at Reading, Berks, in the Council 

 Chamber. Oxford, St. John's College and Pic- 

 ture Gallery. Lambeth House. Fulham House, 

 CO. Middlesex. Cambridge, Trinity Hall and 

 Trinity College. Windsor, Guildhall. Ames- 

 bury. Ampthill. Easton Lodge. Walbeck. 

 Charlecot House, co. Warwick. Oulton House, 

 Cheshire. Wentworth House, Yorkshire. One 

 by Van Dyck in the Houghton Collection. (Vide 

 Walpole's Painters, ii. 101.) Wolterton House, 

 CO. Norfolk. Cl. Hopper. 



Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh (2""* S. viii. 

 12.) — I regret not having received any replies to 

 these queries, and I now repeat them, as I have 

 learned there are pedigrees of the Cromer family 

 given in Berry's Covnty Genealogies (Sussex), 

 p. 318. ; BiUiotheca Topogr. Britt. vol. i. ; Play- 

 fair's British Family Antiquity, vol. iv. pp. 14, 15. ; 

 also in Manning's Surrey, vol. iii. As I have none 

 of these works at hand, I would feel obliged by 



