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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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will tell me in what book I can see a copy of 

 tbem. 



I shall be glad also of any particulars about 

 Baron Palavacini and his descendants. .No me- 

 morial of them remains at Babraham, near Cam- 

 bridge, where he once lived, nor is there any 

 monument to the family in the church. 



Henry Kensington. 



[Sir Horatio Palavacini, a Genoese, was one of the col- 

 lectors of the Pope's dues in the reign of Queen Mary, 

 which, having sacrilegiously pocketed in the time of Queen 

 Elizabeth, enabled him to purchase two estates, one at 

 IJabrahani (formerly spelt Baberham), and the other at 

 Shelford, which came to his two sons, who were knighted 

 by Islizabeth and James I. (Morant's Essex, i. 8. 26.) 

 Sir Horatio was naturalised by patent in 1586, and is 

 mentioned in the tirst edition of Walpole's Anecdotes of 

 Painting, vol. i. p. IGO., as an "arras-painter;" in the 

 second edition of tiiat work is the following epitaph, 

 quoted from a MS. of Sir John Crew of Utliington : 



" Here lies Horatio Palavazene, 



Who robb'd the Pope to lend the Queene. 



He was a thief. A thief ! Thou lyest ; 



For wide? he robb'd but Antichrist. 



Him Death wyth besorae swept from Babram, 



Into the bosom of oulde Abraham. 



But then came Hercules with his elub. 



And struck him down to Beelzebub." 

 Sir Horatio died July G, IGOO, and on July 7, 1601, his 

 widow married Sir Oliver Cromwell, the Protector's uncle. 

 (See Noble's 3femoirs of the Cromwells, vol. ii. p. 178., and 

 Burke's Landed Gentry, art. Cromwell.) Palavacini was 

 one of the commanders against the Spanish Armada in 

 1588, and his portrait is preserved amongst those heroes 

 in the borders of the tapestry in the House of Lords, en- 

 graved by Pine. He was also employed by Queen Eliza- 

 beth in his negotiations with the German princes. Consult 

 Jyvsons's Cambridgeshire, vol. ii. p. 82., and Gough's Cam- 

 den, yo\. ii. p. 139.] 



" Tantnm Ergo." — During the present month 

 (June, 1856) at a dedication of a Roman Catholic 

 chapel in Rathmines, near Dublin, the following 

 psalms were chaunted by the choir ; " Miserere " ' 

 (51st, 56th, or 57th), "Fundamentaejus " (87th), 

 " Levavi oculos " (120th), "Lsetatus sum" 

 (122nd), and " Tantum ergo." Is " Tantum ergo," 

 a psalm, and if not, where shall I find these words 

 in the Latin version of the sacred Scriptures ? 



EiN Fbagek. 



[We take this to be the hymn sung at the celebration 

 of the Sacrament : 



" Tantum ergo Sacramentum 

 Veneremur cernui," &c. 

 See The Ordinary of the Holy Mass.'} 



Harp in the Arms of Ireland (2"^ S. i. 480.) — 

 Will your correspondent say where the observa- 

 tions of the Rev. Richard Butler of Trim are to 

 be found ? (See Ansiver to this Query ^ P' S. xii. 

 29.) G. 



[The Kev. R. Butler's observations will be found in the 

 Numismatic Journal, vol. ii. p. 70. See also Dr. Aquilla 

 Smith's paper, " On the Irish Coins of Edward the 

 Fourth," in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 Yol. xix„ Dublin, 1843.] . 



THE ABM8 OP GLASGOW. 



(2"* S. i. 468.) 



The salmon holding a gold ring in its mouth, 

 which forms a conspicuous figure in the armorial 

 bearings of the Church of Glasgow, is a comme- 

 moration of an incident related in Jocelin's Life 

 of St. Kentigern, cap. xxxvi. p. 273., ap. Vitas 

 antiquas SS. Scoto-Britannice, Lond. 1789, pub- 

 lished by Pinkerton. This saint is commonly 

 called St. Mungo. 



The recovery of a lost ring, or other small ob- 

 ject, in this manner is attested by many ancient, 

 and even modern storie# — by history, by legends, 

 by observation, and perhaps I might add without 

 any irreverence, by the account of the miiacu- 

 lously found tribute money recorded by St. Mat- 

 thew and by St. Mark. The classical reader will 

 at once remember what Herodotus has related of 

 the ring of Polycrates. The ancient Indian drama 

 of Sacontala has a similar incident. 



In the Life of St. Kenny, Abbot of Aghaboe, 

 who lived in the same age with Sr. Kentigern, 

 there is a similar narrative. St. Kenny is related 

 to have fettered the feet of one of his disciples 

 (" alligavit pedes ejus compede ne vagus esset, et 

 clavem compedis ejus, S. Cainnicus projecit in 

 mare "), and then to have thrown the key of the 

 fetter into the sea, between Ireland and Britain. 

 The legend then proceeds to tell how the disciple 

 remained thus fettered for seven years, and that 

 then St. Kenny, knowing what was to happen, 

 ordered him to depart from Wales, and to return 

 to Ireland, and there to make his abode in what- 

 ever place he should find the key of his fetter. 

 He accordingly went his way, and having arrived 

 in Leinster, and having met some fishermen on 

 the banks of the LifFey, he obtained from them a 

 large fish, within which he found the key of his 

 fetter. This I quote from the privately printed 

 Vita S. Cainnici, Dublin, 1851, cap. xv. The 

 editor in a note has adduced various incidents of 

 the same kind from several sources. Among them 

 are those of the ring of Polycrates ; the miracle of 

 the tribute money ; Sacontala's ring ; the legend 

 of St. Kentigern ; the legend of St. Nennidh, re- 

 lated by Animchadh, one of the biographers of 

 St. Bridget (Colg. Tricis,p. 559.) ; and the similar 

 story of St. Maughold, Bishop of Man, which is 

 told by Jocelin in the Life of St. Patrick, cap. 

 clii. (Colg. Tr., p. 98.) But perhaps more in- 

 teresting are the facts which are enumerated from 

 modern history, such as the loss and recovery of 

 Sir Francis Anderson's ring, related by Brand in 

 his History of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a valuable 

 topographical work, which the editor of the Life 

 of St. Kenny complains that he could not find in 

 any of the libraries of Dublin. He adds severAl 



