2nd s. N" 32., Aug. 9. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



115 



Here is the tomb of Saladin (Nugent, ii. 197.). 

 It is mentioned by Pliny QNat. Hist., v. 20.), by 

 Ptolemy {Geog., pp. 106. 139.), and in the Itine- 

 rary of Antoninus, as Diospolis and Heliopolis. 

 Notices are to be found also in Pococke's Travels 

 in Syria, Maundrell's Journey, De la Roque's 

 Travels, Rennell's Oe»g. W. Asia, Wood and 

 Dawkins' Ruins of Balbec, Wilson's Lands of 

 the Bible, and Herbelot's Bibliotheque Orientale. 

 From the last it appears that the evidence of 

 coins is in favour of the constitution of Heliopolis 

 into a colony by Julius Ctesar. 



The name of the place, Baalbec, means " the 

 Lord's, or Governor's, city." The worship of Baal 

 is repeatedly referred to in Scripture. Baal forms 

 a constituent of the words Ithobal, Jerubaal, Han- 

 nibal, Hasdrubal, Baal-berith, Beelzebub, Baal- 

 Peor, Beelsamen, &c. Freytag's explanation of 

 the word " Baal " is — 



" Maritus et Uxor. Omne id quod datur propter pal- 

 marum rigationem ; Palma mas ; Onus, res gravis ; Terra 

 elatior a pluvia semel anni spatio irrigata, opposita iis 

 regionibus quae arte tantuin irrigantur. Nomea idoli. 

 Item dialect. Arabics felicis Dominus, herus, possessor." 



This etymology brings Baalbec into connection 

 with Tadmor or Palmyra in reference to the 

 palm tree, from which Phoenicia and the fabulous 

 Phoenix also derived their names. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



THOMAS SIMON, THE MEDALLIST. 

 (2°'J S. i. 477.) 



I feel much obliged to Jos. G. of the Inner 

 Temple for pointing out to my attention the three 

 articles in the Numismatic Chronicle on this sub- 

 ject ; and I also take this opportunity of thanking 

 an anonymous correspondent, who communicated 

 the same information to me by letter, shortly 

 after my first inquiry in " N. & Q." 



If Jos. G. will refer to that article, he will find 

 that the complaint against Peter de Beau voir, 

 bailiff" of Guernsey, is supposed by me to have 

 been written about the year 1655, not " 1665," 

 as quoted by Jos. G. The exact date I am at 

 present unable to give, as the original document 

 bears none; but on reference to the records of 

 the Royal Court of this island, I find that Thomas 

 Simon had a lawsuit in that year (1655) with 

 John Fautrart, Jun., his wife's uncle, arising out 

 of a claim which she made to a share of the per- 

 sonal estate of her grandfather, John Fautrart, 

 Sen. In January and February, 1653-4, Thomas 

 Simon, in the right of his wife, was party con- 

 jointly with the other co-heirs in actions against 

 John Fautrart, Jun., concerning the division of the 

 real property of John Fautrart, Sen., deceased, in 

 the islands of Guernsey and Serk. The parties 



are thus described in the preamble to the sen- 

 tences rendered by the Court : — 



" Monsieur Jaa Fautrart, aisn^ de feu Monsieur Jan 

 Fautrart, son p^re, amercy vers Monsieur Pierre Careye, 

 procureur du Sieur Tliomas Simon, h, cause de sa femrae, 

 fille et seule heritifere de feu le Sieur Cardin Fautrart, et 

 les Sieurs Thomas de Sausmarez, principal b^ritier de 

 feue Dame Bertraune Fautrart, sa mfere, et Jan Renouf, 

 procureur d'Isaac Gibault, Jun'', aisne de feue Dame Jane 

 Fautrart, sa mfere, les dits Cardin, Bertranne et Jane 

 Fautrart, enfants du dit feu Sieur Fautrart, leur pfere." 



It is rather singular that none of these docu- 

 ments gives us the Christian name of Thomas 

 Simon's wife ; but this is supplied by a contract 

 registered in the Greffe or Record Office of the 

 island, on Feb. 10, 1635-6, by which John Fau- 

 trart, Jun., as guardian of his niece Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Cardin Fautrart, buys in her name a 

 field and certain wheat-rents. 



Since my first communication to " N. & Q.," a 

 careful search among the records of the Royal 

 Court of Guernsey has put it into my power to 

 explain how Thomas Simon and Peter de Beauvoir 

 stood to each other in the relationship of cousins- 

 german, and has also revealed the facts that 

 Simon's mother was a Guernsey woman, and his 

 father a native of London. 



On October 5, 1613, " Monsieur Pierre Simon, 

 fils Pierre, natif de la cite de Londres, au droit de 

 sa femme, fille de feu Gilles Germain" sells certain 

 wheat-rents. Another contract of the same date 

 gives the Christian name of his wife, which was 

 Anne ; and we also gather from it that Gilles 

 Germain had five other daughters. One of these 

 was Judith, wife of James de Beauvoir ; another 

 was Marie, wife of Peter Careye ; and another 

 Marguerite, who died unmarried. The names of 

 the other two are as yet unknown to me. The 

 following pedigree will make the relationship be- 

 tween Thomas Simon and Peter de Beauvoir 

 clear : — 



Gilles Germain. 

 I 



Judith, 

 wife of James de Beauvoir. 



Anne, 

 wife of Peter Simon. 



Peter de Beauvoir. Thomas Simon. 



Whether Peter Simon belonged to any branch 

 of the Guernsey family of that name may be still 

 considered doubtful. He may have been de- 

 scended from some French refugee ; but I think 

 that the fact of his being styled in the contract 

 above referred to, " son of Peter," in addition to 

 " native of the city of London," affords a strong 

 presumption that his father was known in Guern- 

 sey, and very probably belonged to the island. 

 In legal documents of that date strangers are 

 usually described in general terms as " natif des 

 parties d'Angleterre," or " de Normaadie," as the 

 case may be. 



