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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ndS. No 37., Sept. 13. '56. 



any information of t-lie following small work, 

 which I am unable myself to trace in any of the 

 best bibliographical works or catalogues. 



" Name (By Mr. William P. of Dysert), Pearle of 

 Prayer, most pretious and powerful, or a Christian Treatise 

 most necessarie for all these that desire to eshew that 

 wrath to come, the Lords curse, and everlasting damna- 

 tion, and who doe long for God's favour. His blessing, and 

 to attaine to endlesse salvation. Edinburgh: 18mo., 

 printed by John Wreittoun, 1630." 



J. B. Rondeau. 



Kent Place, Salford. 



" Rights of Boys and Girls." — The jew d esprit 

 directed (1792) against Paine and Mary Wool- 

 stoncraft under this title is said by Nichols (Anec- 

 dotes, vol. ix. p. 120.) to have been written by a 

 first-rate scholar, whose name he will not bring 

 forward on so trifling an occasion. But the boy 

 orator of this tract talks of " Bellendenus." Was 

 the author Dr. Parr ? M. 



Keay the Timber Measurer. — Who was Keay ? 

 IIoppus, who is a very " Cocker " in his own de- 

 partment, and whose name to this day is a house- 

 hold word in every timber merchant's yard and 

 carpenter's workshop, accuses him of gross 

 mistakes in his calculations : in one instance not 

 less than 12.s. 9|<f. against the purchaser in the 

 pound. It is most important for men in business 

 to use standard works to assist them in their cal- 

 culations, as I observe by the newspapers of last 

 week that a " down easter " has got himself into 

 trouble, in consequence of using Keay in place of 

 Hoppus. Tape Line. 



Enlightenment. — What objection have lexico- 

 graphers to this word ? It is omitted in naost 

 Dictionaries. I do not find it in Webster's, nor 

 in Johnson's (Todd's) Dictionaries. Richardson's 

 I have not consulted, but I have looked through 

 more than a dozen others, and have found it but 

 twice : viz. in Hoget's Thesaurus, 490 (not 498 as 

 in the Index), and in the castrated edition of 

 Flugel's English and German Dictionary. 



Why should not the verb " enlighten " be al- 

 lowed the privilege of becoming substantive as 

 "enlarge" and "ennoble," which precede and 

 follow it ? I believe we have taken the termina- 

 tion " ment " from the French, in which language 

 it is both substantive and adverbial. Its applica- 

 tion to English verbs of a certain class is almost 

 universal. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Record Queries. — 1. The Rotuli Hundredorum, 

 published by the Record Commissioners in 1812, 

 containing the result of the commission issued by 

 Edward I. to inquire into exactions of lords of 

 manors, &c., have no entries relating to the 

 county of Lancaster. Are the returns for this 

 county extant, and where deposited ? 



2. Are therecords of the Duchy Court of Lan- 

 caster accessible under the same regulations as 

 those in the custody of the Master of the Rolls ? 



3. I have seen some MS. notes made in the 

 early part of last century, on documents preserved 

 in the Duchy Office. They refer to numbered 

 volumes of collections by Mr. Ayliff, one of thera 

 said to have been made in 1692, which furnishes a 

 clue to the date. Was Mr. Ayliff an officer of the 

 Duchy Court ? Are his collections preserved in 

 the Office ? Are they in the nature of indices to 

 the records there deposited, or what is their cha- 

 racter ? J. F. M. 



" De Mortuis nil nisi bonum." — To whom do 

 we owe the hackneyed quotation, " De mortuis nil 

 nisi bonum ? " Chapter and verse would be ac- 

 ceptable. F. R. C. P. 



Engraved Foreign Portraits. — Is there any 

 work on engraved portraits of foreigners, similar 

 to our Granger, Bromley, or the very valuable 

 catalogue of Mr. Evans, published in France or 

 elsewhere on the Continent ? M. L. 



Mankind and their Destroyers. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me which French 

 writer it is that has expressed the sentiment that 

 " mankind reserve their greatest honours for their 

 destroyers, and scarce have thanks to bestow on 

 those who seek to save them." I do not profess 

 to give the exact words, as it is many years since 

 I read them, and have not " made a note of" 

 them. I was under the impression that I had 

 met them in one of Madame de Stael's works, to 

 which, however, I have referred in vain. A. P. S. 



Origin of Tennis. — What is the origin of the 

 game of tennis ? not of rackets or fives, about 

 which much has been written, showing how cat- 

 gut was first of all bound round the hand, and 

 afterwards stretched across a half hoop of willow, 

 so as to form a bat — that is the origin of the 

 racket, but not of the game of tennis or jeu de 

 paume, with its penthouses, its dedans, its grille, 

 its tambour, and above all Its chaces. Where did 

 these come from, and when were they invented ? 



W. H. Morley. 



Duchess of Fitz-Jumes. — In one of the windows 

 of the north aisle of the new and costly church of 

 Bosseville Bon-Secours, near Rouen, I lately 

 observed the following inscription : " Donne par 

 An. de Choiseul, gouflSer dvchesse de Fitz-James." 

 It Is accompanied by the arms of the donor, 

 which are : two shields conjoined, , the dexter 

 being a quartered coat, 1 and 4, quarterly, France 

 and England ; 2, Scotland ; 3, Ireland ; a bordure 

 compony France and England. The second 

 shield is Choiseul, viz. : azure, a cross or, eighteen 

 billets ; of the second, five saltierwise in each of 

 the upper quarters, and four (two and two) In 



