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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 28., July 12. '56. 



lating ' latfe porrectus,' by ' stretched out at length.' But 

 Mr. Msevius vindicated it by saying, that one of the 

 agents had assured him that the patient was stretched 

 out at length, as well as in breadth ; and therefore the 

 translator, as well as the author, might chuse which he 

 pleased." 



Let me add a Query : Where did Curll 

 " . . . th' oration print 

 Imperfect with false Latin in't?" 



— the offence for which it is stated he was subjected 

 to such dishonourable treatment. M. N. S. 



Warburton. — Among the books formerly be- 

 longing to Samuel Rogers, and now on sale by 

 AVillis and Sotheran, is a copy of Dr. Johnson's 

 Tuhle Talk, 1785, " ivith the following severe verae 

 on Warburton written by Mr. Rogers on the fiy- 

 leuf: " 



" He is so proud that should he meet 

 'the twelve Apostles in the street. 

 He'd turn his nose up at them all. 

 And thrust our Saviour from the wall." 



Are these verses by Rogers, or merely copied 

 by him from some contemporary satire ? S. W. 



DOUCE S MS. NOTES. 



The following notes by this learned antiquary 

 iire in a copy of R. Gaguin's Grandes Croniques, 

 fol., Par. 1514, which formerly belonged to him, 

 and is now in the Douce Collection in the Bod- 

 leian Library, Oxford. 



" Gaguin's Gestes Romaines, printed by Verara, with- 

 out date, in folio. This is not the Gesta Romanorum, as 

 somewhere stated, but a compilation of the Koman history 

 down to the time of . At the end of his pro- 



logue he speaks of the tournaments and 'joustes h, ou- 

 trance ' that he had seen in England and in the court of 

 Burgundy. The work begins with Hasanibal's being 

 made emperor of the Carthaginians, and ends with Scipio's 

 triumph at Rome. Then follow various matters on he- 

 raldry, as the origin of Montjoye king-at-arms, manner 

 of electing an emperor, duke, viscount, &c., observations 

 on war, &c. ; account of justs in England and Burgundy, 

 &c." 



"At the end of the Roman history is a large cut, 

 copied, I think, from some fine illumination of which I 

 have a drawing (from Rive's work, in outline). On the 

 left a Gothic chapel, on the outside arms of France on a 

 shield, inside a bishop anointing a kneeling and naked 

 person. This in front. Behind, a bishop baptizing a 

 child. On the right hand of the print, King Clovis put- 

 ting a Roman army to flight, clovis koy on his horse- 

 trappings. Behind, a hermit bringing a new shield with 

 three fleurs-de-lis, instead of the old arms on the king's 

 breast, viz. three * * * (?) On a hill the hermit 

 receives this shield fi-om an angel, a bird attending with 

 the ampoulle in his mouth. In the back-ground pillars 

 with images on them (as in a large painting at Somerset 

 House of H. P. and Sowers) (?), and a king and queen 

 standing near them." 



" On Knight Bannerets. 



" Where a tenant has served long in war, and has land 

 enough to maintain fifty gentlemen, he may lawfully 



raise his banner, and on the first battle he may bring a 

 pennon of his arms, and require of the constable or mar- 

 shal to be made banneret, which if granted, the trumpets 

 are to announce it, and then the tails of the pennon are to 

 be cut, in order to be carried with those of others either 

 above or below barons." 



" Mode of ordering a Battle 'par eschelles,' i. e. squadrons. 



" The ceremony at the combat at lists is very curious. 

 The regulations themselves, made by Thomas, Duke of 

 Gloucester, High Constable for Rich. 11., are given: — 

 'Et si la dicte bataille est cause de traison, celluy qui est 

 vaincu et descomfit sera desarmfe dedans les lices, et par 

 le comandement du conestable sera mis en un comet, et 

 en reprehencion de luy sera traisne hors avec chevaulx 

 du lieu mesme ou il est ainsi desarmi parmy les lices 

 jusques au lieu de justice ou sera decole ou pendu selon 

 lusaige des paj's, la quelle chose appartient au mareschal 

 voir par fournir par son office et le mettre a execution.' 



" N.B. — The hanging and beheading was confined to 

 cases of treason ; in a simple affair of arms the disabled 

 party was only disarmed and led out of lists. 



" 'Ci finist ies gestes romaines et les statuts et ordon- 

 nances des heraulx darmes, translate de latin en francois 

 par maistre Robert Guaguin general de lordre des Ma- 

 turins.' — No date, but pr. bv Ant. Verard in folio, Brit. 

 Mus." 



" Gaguin died at Paris in 1601. His history extends 

 to 1499. 



" Gaguin entreprit un ouvrage qui dans onze livres 

 comprend I'histoire de douze siecles. Rien ne manqua h 

 Gaguin que le genie pour etre un bon historien ; car ses 

 frequentes ambassades et les livres de la biblioth^que de 

 Louis XII lui procuroient tous les secours qui pouvoient 

 lui etre necessaires." — Carlencas, Hist, des Belles Lettres, 

 p. 326." 



" See an excellent character of Gaguin in the Recreations 

 Historiques, tome ii. p. 1 84." 



" See in Chevillier, Origine de I'imprimerie de Paris, 

 p. 157., an account of the dissatisfaction expressed by 

 Gaguin at the inaccuracy of the first edition of his work." 



" See Meusel, Bibl. Hist, tom. vii. p. 9." 



" Gaguin was librarian to Louis XL, Charles VIIL, 

 and Louis XII." 



W. D. M. 



GENERAL UTEEARY INDEX: — ALLEGIANCE, ETC. 



{Continued from 2"'* S. i.487.) 



" The Controversial Letters, or the Grand Controversie 

 concerning the Pope's Temporal Authority between two 

 English Gentlemen ; the one of the Church of England, 

 the other of Rome. 4to. London. 1673-75." 



" History and Vindication of the Irish Remonstrance, 

 &c. 1661. Reprinted, fol. Lond., 1674. 



" A Letter to the Catholics of England, &c. &c, &c. 

 By Father Peter Walsh. 8vo. Lond., 1674." 



'" England's Independency upon the Papal Power his- 

 torically and judiciallv stated, out of the Reports of Sir 

 John Davis and Sir Edw. Coke. By Sir John Pettus. 

 4to. Lond., 1674." 



" Some Considerations of Present Concernment ; how 

 far Romanists may be trusted by Princes of another Per- 

 suasion. By Henry Dodwell. 8vo. 1675." 



" A Seasonable Question, and an Useful Answer ; con- 

 tained in an Exchange of a Letter between a Parliament 

 Man in Cornwall and a Bencher of the Temple, London. 

 Lond., 1676." 



" The Jesuits' Loyalty, in Three Tracts, written by 



