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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2n«» S. VIII. Nov. 19. '59. 



" N nonaginta capit, quas sic caput esse videtur." 



Du Cange. ' 



That is, S = 7, T = 160, R = 80, P = 400, N = 90. 



2S= 7x2= 14 



4 T = 160 X 4 = 640 



4 R = 80 X 4 = 320 



• 2 P = 400 X 2 = 800 



N = 90 X 1 = 90 



Total - - 1864 



Tiiis last total, 1864, is still above the mark ; but stay. 

 POTESNB being excluded as not squaring, and poten' in- 

 troduced instead, we get one E the less. What is the 

 numerical value of E ? 



" E quoque ducentos at quinquaginta tenebit " (250). 



Du Cange (1733). 



From 1864, then, deduct 250 for the E left out, and the 

 remainder is just 1614 — the very date required, as it is 

 seen topping the diagram itself. 



With regard to the two letters which flatik the square, 

 E and R, these might be taken, were the date twelve 

 years earlier, as standing for Her sometime Majesty of 

 glorious memory, Elizabetha Regina. Possibly they are 



the initials of some Rev. E R , then officiating in 



the church of Great Gidding, who little dreamed that, in 

 permitting an ingenious device to be put up against one 

 of the pews, he was bequeathing to posterity a covert 

 memorial of his own bad reading. 



It must be confessed that, with respect to its latinity, 

 the style of this inscription is somewhat constrained — 

 hardly sufficiently fluent. But surely the marvel is, that 

 the composer should have succeeded in connecting any 

 meaning whatever with a verbal complication, of which 

 the mere mechanical construction must have cost him so 

 much time and trouble. I ought to add that a ftftad 

 is disposed to view arepo as a cognomen, and would 

 -ender the passage thus : — 



" The sower Arepo holds the wheels in hia •work." 



To your readers I leave the decision. 



STIPEENATTJEALS AT THE BATTLES Or CLAVIJO 

 AND PEAGUE. 



(2»« S. viii. 171.) 



I do not know which is the best account of St. 

 James's support to the Spaniards at the battle of 

 Clavijo, but presume that none is better than 

 Mariana's. The battle was fought in the year 

 844. At the end of the first day the Spaniards 

 had the worst of it. In the night St. James ap- 

 peared to King Ramirez and promised his support 

 on the morrow. The king told his vision to the 

 troops, and ^ave the signal for fighting. They 

 charged furiously and shook the Moors : — 



" El apostel Santiago fu visto en un cavallo bianco, y 

 con una vandera blanca, y en medio della una Cruz roxa, 

 que capitaneava nuestra gente. Con su vista crecieron a 

 los nuestros las fuerzas; los Barbaros de todo punto des- 

 Jnayados, se pusieron en huida. Executaron los Cris- 

 tianos el alcance ; degollaron sesenta mil moros." 



A vow of King Ramirez is [then stated, and 

 certain charges on land set out, and, — 



" Anadieron otrosi en esto voto quse para siempre, 

 quando los despojos de los enemigos se repartieseu San- 



tiago se contasse por un soldado de a cavallo, y levasse su 

 parte. Pero este con el tiempo se ha desusado." — Mari- 

 ana, Historia de Espana, lib. vii. c. 13. Madrid. 1679. 

 i. 276. 



Mrs. Jameson (Sacred and Legendary Art, p. 

 139.) gives 903 as the date of the battle. I do 

 not know on what authority. 



" Mais de toutes les merveilles arriv^es en ce temps-1^, 

 il n'y en eut point de plus memorable par ses suites, que 

 celle que je vais raconter, et qui pr^ceda immediatement 

 la battaille de Prague. La nuit avant ce fameux combat, 

 quelques soldats her^tiques de garde h, la porte de I'Eglise 

 Metropolitaine, s'etant apper9us qu'il y paroissoit une lu- 

 miere extraordinaire, eurent la curiosite d'examiner par 

 les fentes de la porte ce que s'y passoit. L'Eglise leur 

 parut toute en feu ; et deja ils alloient sonner I'alarme, 

 pour appeller du secours, lorsqu'un nouveau spectacle 

 s'ofFrit k leurs j-eux, et leur fit connoitre, que ce feu qu'ils 

 apper9evoient, n'avoit rien de la nature des feux ordi- 

 nal res. 



"C'etoit trois hommes respectables et tout resplen- 

 dissans de gloire, dont I'un revetu d'un surplis, et d'une 

 robe longue, etoit habille comme le font les chanoines de 

 Prague: ces trois premieres furent joints h, I'heure meme 

 par trois autres personnes e'galement eclatantes de lu- 

 miere. Tous six apres avoir confer^ quelque terns en- 

 semble, se separerent et disparurent aux yeux des sol- 

 dats, qui frapp^s d'un spectacle si marveilleux, et si 

 effrayant tout ensemble, abandonnerent leur poste et 

 allerent r^pandre dans toute la ville la nouvelle de ce 

 qui etoit arrivd Le bruit passa bientot dans I'armee 

 Protestante, campe k un quart de lieu de Prague, et 

 de-1^, par le moyen de quelques deserteurs, dans celle de 

 catholiques, qui n'en etoit pas fort ^loign^e. Tous rai- 

 sonnerent sur le prodige. Les Protestans n'en auguroient 

 rien de favorable pour eux. Les Catholiques, au con- 

 'traire, cruerent y decouvrir une preuve certaine de la 

 protection des bien henreux Patrons de la Boheme, et en 

 particulier du Saint Martyr Jean Nepomucene, que les 

 soldats avoient distingu^ dans I'apparition." — Marne, (p. 

 161.) Vie de S. Jean Nepomucene, Paris, 1741, 12mo. pp. 

 288. 



It is strange that the saint appeared to heretic 

 soldiers, and that they knew him. As his mar- 

 tyrdom took place on the eve of the Ascension, 

 1383, and the battle of Prague on the 8th No- 

 vember, 1620, they could hardly have any personal 

 remembrance of him. Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



The Jews' Spring Gardens (P' S. ii. 463.) — 

 So long ago as 1850 an inquiry was made in your 

 pages for the Jews' Spring Gardens at Mile End. 

 No information on that head has, I believe, yet 

 been given. Having occasion to refer to an old 

 map of the parish of Stebonheath, anno 1702, in 

 my possession, I find " The Spring Garden " 

 marked. Its site was a short distance from the 

 Mile End Road, on the south side, and its east 

 side abutted upon " Broome's Lane," since called 

 Globe Lane. On the opposite side of the road, 

 but a little farther eastward, is " Wright's Lane," 

 identical with the modern White Horse Lane. 



