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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2naS. N033., Aug. 16. '56. 



the plot. There are some prefatory lines, dated 

 Hampstead, Aug. 1834, by J. B. (Joanna BailHe). 



R. J. 



Colonel Forrester. — Speaking of Jack Ellis 

 and his extraordinary social qualities, which made 

 hira familiar at once with the great and lowly, 

 Boswell says ; 



"The brilliant Colonel Forrester, the author of the 

 Folite Philosopher (first published at Edinburgh, 1734) 

 was amongst the former." 



Where can any particulars be obtained regard- 

 ing this Scottish Chesterfield ? 3. O. 



Quotation wanted : " Where is thy land." — Will 

 any of your readers oblige me by saying where 

 are to be found the lines — 



" Where is thy land ? 'tis where the woods are waving 

 In their dark richness to the summer air; 

 Where the blue streams a thousand flower-banks laving, 

 Lead down the hills in veins of light — 'tis there." 



The style and phraseology point to Mrs. He- 

 raans, but I have not been able to find the lines 

 in her works. T. J. E. 



Device and Motto. — I shall feel obliged if any 

 of the correspondents of " N. & Q." can tell me 

 the meaning of the following device and motto 

 engraved on an old seal. The device consists of 

 a bird with a branch in Its mouth seated on a 

 sheaf of corn ; on one side of which is a lion, and 

 on the other a serpent, with the motto " in cute." 

 The device is not difficult to understand ; but I 

 can make nothing at all of the motto. J. J. 



" Carmina Quadragesimalia." — Is any record 

 kept at Christ Church of the authors of the beau- 

 tiful Latin poems called Carmina Quadragesi- 

 malia? As far as regards elegant and correct 

 Latinity, they are worthy to be ranked with the 

 poetry of the Augustan age. Can any of your 

 classical readers inform me whether any more 

 than two volumes have been printed ? They bear 

 date 1723 and 1748 respectively, and are both 

 dedicated to students of Christ Church, the former 

 volume by Charles Este, the latter by Antony 

 Parsons. Oxoniensis. 



Aspasia's Wart. — A reviewer In a recent number 

 of The AthencBum tells how Aspasia was advised in a 

 dream to apply rose leaves to an ugly wart on her 

 face. What is his authority ? R. T. Scott. 



Pictures iy Uaffaelle in England, and in what 

 Collections ? — I should feel thankful for an ac- 

 curate list of the finished original pictures now in 

 this country by Raffaelle : stating in what collec- 

 tions they are, and, if possible, when they were 

 first brought here. Such list, of course, only to 

 comprehend well-known and undoubted works ; 

 of which, it is to be feared, there are not half-a- 

 dozcn to be met with in England, besides the 



cartoons at Hampton Court, and the four in our 

 National Gallery. John J. Penstonh. 



Stanford- in- the- Vale, Berks. 



Bibliographical Queries. — 



1 . Can any of your readers give me some ac- 

 count of the suhject of an old work, entitled Dae- 

 tyliotheca Smythiana, which was published at Venice 

 In the seventeenth century ? 



2. Has there ever been any cheap reprint of 

 the Bohe of St. Alhan's ? 



3. Is the True Spirit and Pi'actice of Chivalry, 

 by Qigby, considered a standard work ? and has it 

 been favourably received by critics ? 



Sigma. Theta. 



" Judith Culpeper." — I have a curious old 

 letter with the above signature, of which the fol- 

 lowing is a copy : 



« March the 22°*, 1675. 

 " May itt please y'' Grace, 



" Upon the receipt of a letter from my Lord privy Seal 

 importinge that the draught of a conveyance. . . sealed to 

 mee by mj' Brother was the full effect of y Lopps mediation 

 for mee I have accordingly sealed itt. And though I 

 must needs say I hoped for somewhat better conditions, 

 yet y Lopps pleasure commanded my sorrowful sub- 

 scription, Especially for the purchasinge of property ( ?) 

 between soe neere relations. M3' Brother hath given mee 

 many and great assurances of his future Justice to mee in 

 performing this Agreem'. Butt as my confidence in y' 

 Lopps wisedome was the principall motive of my compli- 

 ance, soe the continuance of y'' favour to me is still my 

 best security. . . I therefore humbly implore y"" grace 

 in compassion of my weaknesse to afford mee . ye com- 

 pleatinge y mediation. Nott doubtinge butt God will 

 abundantly requite y"' Goodnesse to mee. 

 " My Lord, 



" Y'' Graces most obliged serv*, 



"Judith Cclpeper." 



Can any of your sagacious readers inform me 

 who was this "Judith Culpeper" and her bro- 

 ther ? As the letter came from a Kent collection. 

 It was probably written by a relation of Sir 

 Thomas Culpeper (or Colepeper, or Culpepper) of 

 Holliiigbourne, who died about the close of the 

 seventeenth century. Many monuments of the 

 family are erected in Hollingbourne church, and 

 doubtless a good county history contains a list of 

 them. Can any conjecture be made as to the 

 personage to whom the letter was addressed ? 

 Was it not probably to Sheldon, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, to which see the manor of HoUing- 

 borne belongs ? The letter is endorsed on the 

 back " Anthony Horsmonden." Vox. 



Was Henry IV. nursed by an Irishwoman f — 

 In the Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of 

 the Irish Chancery, vol. I. (all published) p. 179., 

 the Calendar of the Roll. Pat. 6 Henry IV., 

 1" Pars commences : at article 2, a number of 

 letters of protection are given ; and amongst them 

 we find the remarkable entry, "Et Marg' Taaf, 

 nutrix Regis, Dublin, 18 Mali." This would seem 



