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ins words painted on the gable-end of a corner 

 Louse on the quai : 



" 191 se vend Stoughthonlondon 

 par Tripotet Constant." 



At Versailles the following specimen was lately 

 to be found : 



" Au Rendez vous du Musee 



Place d'Armes, 9. 



Lapreste, Restaurateur, 



A I'honneur de prevenir MM. les voyageurs qu'on est 



servJ, chez lui, h la carle ou par tete, au choix. 



A Versailles." 



" To Rendez-vous of Museum. 



Arms-place, 9. 



Laprest^ Restorer, 



Has the honour of preventing the travellers that they will 



be helpt at his house, or a head, or at choice. 



At Versailles." 



JUVERNA. 



" TaJie a hair of the dog that bit you" (P* S. vi. 

 316. 565.) — This advice, which is now only given 

 in a figurative sense, by " Take a cool draught of 

 ale in the morning after an excess over night," 

 was given and taken seriously and practically by 

 our forefathers. In an old recipe book dated 

 ] 670, I find it written, " Take a hair from the dog 

 that bit you, dry it, put it into the wound, and it 

 will heal it, be it never so sore." R. W. B. 



^^Par ternis suppar" (2"'' S. ii. 189.) — There 

 are two senses, I conceive, in which these words 

 may be taken : first, that a pair (alike and acting 

 together) are nearly equal to three (who are not 

 paired nor acting together) ; and, second, that a 

 peer of the realm is nearly equal to three other 

 persons, being by birth (1) a member of parlia- 

 ment, (2) an adviser of the Crown, and (3) having 

 as a peer the benefit of clergy, although unable to 

 read. (Blackstone, in. ch. 12. p. 401., iv, ch. 28. 

 p. 367.) T. J. BucKTON. 



Lichfield. 



What is Lord North wick's coat of arms ? His 

 motto admits of being rendered thus, " A pair 

 equal almost to three pairs ; " or more freely, " A 

 pair who may be said to be equal to any three 

 such." In this motto par is a noun ; and since it 

 has not tribus, but the distributive ternis, it is 

 plain that the sense intended was to assert this 

 noble pair to be equal to any three pairs who 

 might be brought to confront them, at one and 

 the same time. A. N. D. 



Scotland. 



" The Bard O' Kelly" (2°'> S. ii. 107.) — 



" In a recent number of The Star you copied from ' N. 

 & Q.' an account of the presentation of the soi-disaiit Irish 

 bard O'Kelly to George IV., when that royal personage 

 visited Ireland. The account in ' N. & Q.' is imperfect, 

 and I shall supply the omission. His Majesty was greatly 

 amused at the cool impudence with which O'Kelly as- 



sumed the position of national poet of Ireland, and placed 

 himself on an equality with Byron and Scott, ignoring 

 altogether the claims of Tom Moore. After gravely 

 listening to O'Kelly's description of himself, his Majesty 

 asked for a specimen of his poetical powers, and the royal 

 request produced the following modest effusion from the 

 ' Irish bard : ' 



' Three poets in three countries born — 

 One for the rose, another for the thorn, 

 One for the shamrock, that never will decay. 

 While rose and thistle yearly pass awa}'. 

 'Twould take a Byron and a Scott, I tefl ye, 

 Packed up in one, to make the bard O'Kelly? " 



From the Morning Star, Sept. 3, 1856. 



Anon. 



Were Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell distant 

 Cousins? (2°'' S. ii. 111.) — Noble, in his Me- 

 moirs of the Protectoral House of ^omwell, vol. ii. 

 p. 204 , gives the following pedigree to prove the 

 relationship of Oliver Cromwell with Charles I. 

 through his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- 

 liam Steward, Esq., and widow of William Lynne, 

 Gent. 



Alexander, Lord High Steward of Scotland. 



James, Lord High Steward of Scotland. 



Walter, Lord=Mare., sister and heiress 

 High steward I of David II. K. of Scot- 

 of Scotland. ' land. 



Robert Stuart, K. of Scotland. 



I 

 K. Robert III. 



I 

 K. James I. 



K. James HI. 

 K. James IV. 

 K. James V. 

 Q. Mary. 



Andrew Steward, Esq. 



I 

 Alexander Steward, Esq. 



I 

 Sir John Steward, Knt. 



Sir John Steward, Knt. 



Thomas Steward, Esq. 



I 

 Richard Steward, Esq. 



Nich. Steward, Esq. 



I 

 Nich. Steward, Esq. 



I 

 William Steward, Esq. 



K. James VI. of Scotland 

 and I. of England. 



K. Charles I. 



Elizabeth Steward=R6bert Cromwell, 

 I Esq. 



Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector. 



Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector. 



K. Charles II. 

 "By this table of descents it appears that K. Charles I. 

 and Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Robert Cromwell, the mother 

 of the Protector Oliver, were eighth cousins ; K. James I. 

 and that Protector were ninth cousins ; and K, Charles I. 

 and Oliver were ninth cousins one remove ; and conse- 

 quently K. Charles I. and the Protector Richard were 

 tenth cousins. It may be observed that the royal line, as 

 constantly marrying at an early age, had got one descent 

 of the younger branch." 



Noble gives all the authorities from which he 

 derives the descent, and an account of the different 

 individuals. Edward Foss. 



Germination of Seeds (2°'^ S. ii. 117. 198.) — 

 Lime will produce white clover in some soils, and 

 so will sand in others. This may be seen on the 

 sides of roads ; where the soil has been removed 

 and the road sand is washed down, there will fre- 

 quently s[)ring up a thick mat of white clover. 

 Some seeds will not vegetate at all without being 



