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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. Vlll. Dkc. 3. XA, 



application for the amount thus due, and might 

 possibly be in possession of farther particulars. 



EvERABs Home Coleman. 

 79. Wood Street, Cheapside. 



" The Bill of Michael Angelo " (2"'> S. viii. 

 398.) — Mb. Cuthbebt Bede gravely seems to 

 think that the witty Henry Luttrell, in his Advice 

 to Julia, alludes to the great Michael Angelo, 

 painter, architect, sculptor, and engineer, in his 

 two lines — 



" And see, to aid thee in the blow, 

 The bill of Michael Angelo." 



Mb. C. Bede appears not to have heard of Mr. 

 Michael Angelo Taylor being a Member of Par- 

 liament, and who, though in stature a very small 

 man, thought himself a very great man, and quite as 

 great as his namesake, though he certainly was 

 not so. He was, however, a very honourable 

 good fellow, and a very active busy member of 

 the House of Commons. He introduced many 

 bills into the House, some of which became Acts, 

 and were useful; amongst others, one relating 

 to '■'■ gas lighting," and to this my old friend 

 Luttrell alludes in the above lines. 



An Old Fbibnd of the late H. Luttrell. 



Cotton's " Typographical Gazetteer " (2°'^ S. viii. 

 395.) — I am glad to see Corrections and Addi- 

 tions to my l^ypographical Gazetteer, compiled by 

 literary men like my late friend Dr. Bliss, and 

 hope that more such will be given to the public. 



Although I am now far removed from the best 

 sources of information of that kind, I have not 

 failed to mark down such fresh notices as have 

 fallen in my way ; and at present could add to the 

 printed book about three hundred new places, in 

 which printing has been carried on abroad, besides 

 upwards of four hundred in England, Wales, &c. 



I have also carried back the dates of its intro- 

 duction into about one hundred and seventy 

 places, including several of those mentioned in the 

 last number of'' N. & Q." Of course but few of 

 these relate to books of the fifteenth century. 



Henry Cotton. 



Thurles. 



The Princess Borghese (2'"' S. viii. 417.)— The 

 following information may be useful to W. S , who 

 inquires for some particulars of the death of the 

 above lamented princess. She died at Rome, 

 October 27, 1840, being carried off rapidly by 

 quinsey. Besides the Sermon at her funeral by 

 the Rev. Dr. Baggs, and the French pamphlet on 

 her death by Pere de Geramb, a long and beauti- 

 ful account of her life and virtues, death and 

 funeral, appeared in The Tablet of November 28, 

 1840, from the able pen of Bishop Baines, signed 

 P. A. B. In the same paper for December 5, 

 will be found another letter, containing many 

 other particulars, written with great feeling and 



eloquence, and apparently by Dr. Weedall, though 

 it has no signature. A long and beautifully writ- 

 ten letter by the afflicted father of the princess, 

 the Earl of Shrewsbury, was privately sent round 

 soon after her death by his lordship to his friends, 

 containing all particulars of her last illness and 

 death. The writer of these lines had the happi- 

 ness of receiving it, in his turn, by direction of 

 his lordship, but could not take a copy. It passed 

 on to various select friends, and if it could be 

 procured it would materially aid the researches of 

 your correspondent. But I have no idea where 

 it is now to be found. F. C. H. 



^'■An Austrian Army Awfully Arrayed" (2°'' S. viii. 

 412.) — I believe these alliterative lines appeared 

 in a Westminster periodical, the rival of the 

 Microcosm; consequently of the date of Canning's 

 Etonian career. J. H. L. 



I fancy my memory does not play me false 

 when it leads me to attribute this clever jeu 

 d'esprit, which certainly loses nothing by compa- 

 rison with its imitations, to the late Mr. Poulter, 

 Prebendary of Winchester, &c. C. W. Bingham. 



Prince Charles' Journey to Wales (2"* S. viii. 

 323.) — With reference to Me. Trench's Note 

 on former Pi-inces of Wales, and his notice of the 

 arms and motto of the Prince of Wales being in- 

 scribed on one of the bells in Islip church, which 

 he with good reason connects with the journey of 

 Charles I. when Prince of Wales to Spain, I 

 would mention another very decided case in proof 

 of the great interest felt for his safety on that oc- 

 casion. 



At Groombridge, near Tunbridge Wells, there 

 is a chapel, which was built by one of the old 

 family of Parker in commemoration of his happy 

 return. The inscription over the porch of the 

 chapel is as follows : — 



"DO M. 



S. 



Ob fselicissimum Caroli 



Principis, Ex 



Hispaniis Reditum 



Sacellum Hoc 



DD. 



16 J p 25." 



R. W. B. 



Arithmetical Notation (2'"i S. viii. 411.) — No- 

 thing is more common than the distinction of 

 number into digitus, articulus, and composittis, for 

 which compotus is a MS. contraction. Probably 

 the first word of the extract, computa, is con- 

 tracted from computata. Old Sacrobosco lays it 

 down that digitus is 1,2, 3, &c. ; articulus is 10, 

 20, 30, &c. ; and compositus is 11, or 23, or 36, &c. 

 Lucas Pacioli will not follow him entirely, but 

 defines composite to be made by multiplying fac- 

 tors, as 24 (6x4), &c. And this sense has pre- 

 vailed. Computus and compotus meant usually 



