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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'xi S. No 29., July 19. '56. 



omnium Authorum qui de re heraldica scripserunt, Oxon. 

 16G8. Reprinted, with enlargements, 1674. 



4. Nomenclator Geographicus, etc., Oxon., 1667, 8vo. 



5. Loyalty Displayed, and Falsehood Unmasked ; or a 

 Just Vindication of Thos. Gore, Esq., High Sheriff of 

 Wilts. London: 1681. 4to. 



For the above information, I am principally 

 indebted to Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary ; 

 Wood's Athence Oxon. ; and Nichols's Literary 

 Anecdotes. 'AKievs. 



Dublin. 



TTios. Gore. — He was born at Alder ton, or 

 Aldrington, in Wiltshire ; in 1631, commoner of 

 Magdalen Coll. ; and afterwards a member of the 

 Society of Lincoln's Inn. He died at Alderton 

 in March 1684, and was buried there. 



In 1655, he published A Table shewing how to 

 Blazon a Coat ten several Ways. In 1667 : 



" Series Alphabetica Latino- Anglica.Nominum Gentili- 

 tiorum sive Cognominum plurimarum Familiarum, quae 

 multos per annos in Anglia floruere : e libris qua manu- 

 scriptis qua typis excusis, aliisque antiquioris sevi monu- 

 mentis Latinis coUecta." 



In 1668 : 



" Catalogus in certa Capita, seu Classes, alphabetico 

 ordine concinnatus, plerorumque omnium authorum (tam 

 antiquorum quam recentiorum) qui de re Heraldica, La- 

 tiue, Gallice, etc., scripserunt." 



This work was republished in 1674, with addi- 

 tions. He was also the author o? Nomenclator Geo- 

 graphicus, published 1667 ; also of a MS. written 

 in 1662, entitled " Spicilegia Heraldica," and of 

 Loyalty displayed and Falsehood unmasked, 1681. 

 He was sheriff of Wilts, 1680. 



Joseph Trapp. — Alfred T. Lee will find a 

 full account of Joseph Trapp in Biographia Bri- 

 tannica, N ichols's 5ow?/er, QhdXmex^' & Biographical 

 Dictionary, and Penny Cyclopcedia. 



Philip Bisse. — Philip Bisse was of New Col- 

 lege ; was M.A. Jan. 15, 1693, and B. and D.D. 

 Jan. 29, 1705. He was mad? Bishop of Hereford 

 1712, and died there Sept. 6, 1721. He and his 

 wife Bridget were buried in Hereford Cathedral. 



T. P. 



Clifton. 



Gregory de Karwent. — In the Index of Abp. 

 Peckham's register, a.d. 1279 to 1292, in Harl. 

 MS. 6062-3., by Dr. Ducarel, it is stated at vol. ii. 

 p. 604., that Tetbury Church was vacant in 1279 

 by the death of Gregory de Karwent, and that a 

 successor must wait the approbation of the Pope. 

 Tetbury at this period was in the diocese of 

 AVorcester. ^, 



[In the British Museum, among the Additional Char- 

 ters, Nos. 5274 — 5279., will be found some charters re- 

 lating to Tetbury vicarage, 2 Edw. II. — Ed.] 



EXTEAORDINART FACT. 

 (2"'J S. i. 354.) 



I cannot believe this fact to be correctly stated. 

 A vessel from Tunis is said to have put into a 

 port in the county of Antrim, in the north of Ire- 

 land, through stress of weather, and the sailors 

 walking through the country entered into con- 

 versation with the Irish peasants at work in the 

 fields, speaking the one the language used at 

 Tunis, and the other Irish. What is this but to 

 prove that the Phcenician still spoken at Tunis at 

 the date assigned, the end of last century, and the 

 Irish were the same tongue. The Phoenicians and 

 Celts are now allowed to be different races, speak- 

 ing different languages ; and a corrupt Arabic has 

 been for a long time spoken at Tunis, to the ex- 

 clusion of the languages used before the Arab 

 conquest. A scene in The Pcenulus of the Roman 

 comic writer Plautus, in the Punic tongue, was 

 attempted to be explained by General Vallancey 

 through the Irish, but the attempt has been pro- 

 nounced chimerical. This leads me to another 

 subject, which I have found of great interest. 

 The Carthaginians were a colony of Tyre, a Phoe- 

 nician people, a part of the same people called 

 Canaanites. The names of Canaanite and Phoe- 

 nician are applied to the same race, the one name 

 derived from Chua, or Canaan, a son of Ham, and 

 the other taken from the reddish brown colour of 

 the people, signified by the Greek word ^oiut^, as 

 a darker shade is denoted by Ai9io\p for the Ethio- 

 pian, supposed to belong to a dark people in the 

 south of Phoenicia as well as in Africa. I see it 

 noticed that the Greek Septuagint frequently 

 renders Canaan and Canaanite in the Hebrew by 

 Phoenicia and Phoenician. One of our Saviour's 

 miracles was the casting a devil out of the child 

 of a woman called by St, Matthew, xv. 22., a 

 woman of Canaan, and by St. Mark, vii. 26., a 

 Tyro-Phoenician woman ; and a coin of Laodicea, 

 in Phoenicia, of the age of Antiochus Epiphanes, 

 has the inscription, " Laodicea, mother of Canaan." 

 St. Augustin, an African by birth, the Bishop of 

 Hippo Regius, a little to the west of Carthage, 

 who flourished in the fourth and fifth centuries 

 after Christ, says, Ep. ad Rom. : — 



" Interrogati rustici nostri quid sint Punice respon- 

 dentes Chanani corrupta ? Scilicet voce sicut in talibus 

 solet quod aliud respondent quam Chanansei." — Quoted 

 Kenrick's PAosnicJa, p. 42., and Palestine, VUnivers Fit- 

 toresque, p. 81. 



The Carthaginians were called by Virgil " Tyrios 

 Bilingues," from their being obliged, in addition 

 to the Punic, to make use of another language, 

 supposed by Prichard to be of the African abo- 

 rigines, Berbers, whose tongue, different from the 

 Hebrew, has still relations to it ; and the people 

 themselves belong to the Himyaritic, a more 

 southern Arabian race, along with the Abyssinians, 



