2°'i S. VIII. Deo. 17. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



503 



Westminster Abbey, Feb. 1, 1797. See an ac- 

 count of the event in the Gentleman's Magazine 

 for 1797, p.- 172. J.B.N. 



Portrait of a True Gentleman (2°"* S. viii. 397.) 

 — This is, with certain variations, a paragraph 

 from The Gentile Sinner; or, England's Brave 

 Gentleman, Sfc, by Clem. Ellis, M.A., Fellow of 

 Qu. Coll. Oxon. Oxford, 1664. (Third edition.) 

 The correct reading is (p. 178.) — 



" The true gentleman is one that is God's servant, the 

 world's master, and his own man. His virtue is his 

 business, his study his recreation, contentedness his rest, 

 and happiness his reward. God is his Father, the church 

 is his mother, the saints his brethren, all that need him his 

 friends, and heaven his inheritance. Religion is his mis- 

 tress, loyalty and justice her ladies of honour, devotion is 

 hischaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety his brother, 

 temperance his cook, hospitality his housekeeper, provi- 

 dence his steward, charity his treasurer, piety his mistress 

 of the house, and discretion the porter, to let in and out as 

 is most fit. Thus is his whole family made up of virtues, 

 and he the true master of his family. He is necessitated 

 to take the world in his way to heaven, but he walks 

 through it as fast as he can ; and all his business by the 

 way is to make himself and others happy. Take him all 

 in two words, he is a man and a Christian." 



J. G. Morten. 



Cheam. 



Francis Mence (2°* S. viii. 470.) — A pious 

 Nonconformist, born at Hambleton, near Worces- 

 ter, educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. 

 After the Restoration, became minister of a con- 

 gregation in Wapping, London, Died about 1696, 

 a3t. fifty-seven. (Darling's Encyclop. Bihlio- 

 graph.') 



A government Minute Book in MS.,*containing 

 names, residences, and movements of Nonconfor- 

 mists, written about a.d. 1663-66, being apparently 

 the information of some spy, has the following 

 entry : — 



" MiNZE, a layman and elder to Sam' Bradley's church, 

 who broke from him by reason of Strainge, and meets 

 with Glide at ReadrifFe '[Ratcliffe'] and Horsley Downe." 



Perhaps these two individuals may be identical. 



Cl. Hopper. 



The Electric Telegraph foreshadowed (2°* S. iv. 

 266. 318. 392. 461.; "v. 356.; cf.vi. 265.359.422.) 

 — In support of this opinion, a writer in the Na- 

 vorscher (viii. 156.) cites a Dutch translation of 

 the DelicicR Physico-MathematiccB, {he fifth edition, 

 from the French, in 1672. It is called Mathema- 

 tische Vermaechlycheden,getranslateerd uyt Frangoys 

 in Nederduytsche Tale, en verryht, vermeerderd 

 enz., door Wynant van Westen, Matjiem. der 

 Stadt Nymegen, Arnhem, small 8vo. The extract, 

 copied by Mr. N. S. Hbineken in " N. & Q." 

 (iv. 461.), is to be found in the Vermaecklycheden, 

 vol. i. p. 123. 



It is remarkable that, whilst feeling the impos- 

 sibility of a correspondence by means of uncon- 

 nected dials, provided with magnets, the inventor 



yet cannot forego the pleasure of giving his per- 

 spective view of the nineteenth-century-magnetic- 

 telegraph. 



The Algemeene Konst-en Letterhode for 1859 

 (vol. Ixxi. p. 285.), points to an invention by 

 Johannes Hercules de Sonde, which is found re- 

 corded in a work of Johannes Fredericus Hel- 

 vetius, D.M., bearing the title of Theatridium 

 Hercidis Triumphantis, ofte Klein Schouwtooned 

 van den Triumpherenden Hercxdes, It contains 

 the description of a dial-telegraph, constructed 

 after the principles of electro- statien. 



A somewhat similar plan to the sympathetic 

 needles some years ago went the round of the 

 newspapers in the form o? sympathetic snails — the 

 animal, proverbial for slowness, being thus repre- 

 sented as the means for a correspondence almost 

 as quick as thought. With whom originated this 

 hoax ? or was it really believed to be the truth ? 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Epigram to a Female Cupbearer (2°"^ S. viii. 

 292.) — OxoNiENSis will find this fine Epigram 

 along with some other small poems in a quarto 

 volume of translations from the Arabic published 

 by a learned orientalist, Joseph Dacre Carlyle, of 

 the University of Cambridge. The volume, which 

 I have not seen for many years, was I think en- 

 titled Specimens of Arabic Poetry, and published 

 at Cambridge about 1796. 



Oxoniensis may admire the following poem, 

 imitated from the Arabic by Shelley : — 



" My faint spirit was sitting in the light 



t)f thy looks, my love ; 

 It panted for thee like the hind at noon 



For the brooks, my love. 

 Thy barb whose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight 



Bore thee far from me ; 

 My heart, for my weak feet were weary soon. 



Did compassion thee. 



" Ah ! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed, 



Or the death they bear. 

 The heart which tender thought clothes like a dove 

 . With the wings of care ; 

 In the battle, in the darkness, in the need. 



Shall mine cling to thee. 

 Nor claim one ^mile for all the comfort, love. 



It may bring to thee." 



Sir William Jones translates in French several 

 poems of the Persian Anacreon, Hafiz ; and 

 D'Herbelot's Oriental Dictionary is an inexhaust- 

 ible mine of romance and wildness. 



KiRKW ALLEN SIS. 



These lines I have seen quoted as from Car- 

 lisle's Specimens of Arabian Poetry. W. H. Husk. 



Peel Towers (2°* S. viii. 378.)— The word which 

 E. A. B. writes Peel should be spelt Peal, and 

 you have the meaning at once. In some parts of 

 the Borders, which, in bye-gone days, were liable 

 to hostile incursions from English or Scottish 



