2nd s. No 40., Oct. 4. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



large preponderance in numbers of women over 

 men. 



" Look at the census of Europe," says Mr. Parley P. 

 Pratt, one of the twelve Apostles, " and even of the older 

 states of the Union ; see the hundreds of thousands of 

 females more than of males." — Marriage and Morals in 

 Utah, p. 7. 



What is the fact ? A. A. D, 



Anonymous Works. — Who are the authors of 

 the follovvinjr : An Essay on the Oxford Ti'acts, 

 8vo., 1839; Rufus, or the lied King, a romance, 

 1838; Glsela,\ tragedy, by J. J. H., 1839; 

 Nighfs Adventures, or the Road to Bath, a comedy 

 in three acts, by Philo Aristophanes, 1819; I'he 

 Ingrate's Gift, a dramatic poem, Edinb. 1830 ? 



R.J. 



Armorial, — To what families do the following 

 coats of arms appertain? 1. Gules, a chevron, 

 vair, between three crescents ; tincture of cres- 

 cents uncertain. Crest, a stag's head cabossed. 

 2. Argent, on a chevron, between three trefoils, 

 as many torteauxes. Tincture of trefoils, tor- 

 tcauxes, and chevron, not clearly defined. This 

 coat is impaled with argent, a fess chequy, pre- 

 sumed to be Stuart. T. B. 



;in of 



^^ Quicquid agas,^* ^c. — What is the origin 

 the proverbial Latin verse — 

 " Quicquid agas, prudenter agas ; et respice flnem ? " 



] 



" To cry mapstichs''' — What is the explanation 

 of the phrase " To cry mnpsticks," as used in 

 Swift's Polite Conversation, Dialogue I. ? 



" Neverout. Whj^, Miss, j'ou are in a brown study ; 

 what's the matter? Methinks j^ou look like mumchance, 

 that was hanged for saying nothing. 



" Miss. I'd liave you to know, 1 scorn your words. 



" Neverout. Well, but scornful dogs will eat dirty pud- 

 dings. 



"Miss. My comfort is, your tongue is no slander. 

 What, you would not have one be always on the high 

 grin? 



" Neverout, Cry mapsticks, Madam ; no otfence, I hope." 



The meaning seems to be : " (I) cry mapsticks," 

 I ask pardon, — I apologise for what I have said. 



L. 

 Rustigen on Mill Wheels and Magnetism. — 



" Dr. Wittemback shewed me a book upon Mill- Wheels 

 and Magnetism by one Rist. D. Rustigen, a High Dutch 

 quack, who calls his scheme the noblest discovery of the 

 wliole loorld. He may well do so, if it is true ; as he pro- 

 fesses, among many other wonders to be effected by the 

 combination of these powers, to make a ship without sails 

 go faster against wind and tide than any sailing ship 

 now goes with both in its favour. The plan has found 

 believers, but the ship is not yet built." — Letters from 

 Holland and Lower Germany, b}' John Eyre, M. D., 

 London, 17G9, p. 76. 



The author describes Dr. Wittemback as a 

 physician at Leyden, to whom he had an intro- 



duction. Can any of your readers give me in- 

 formation as to the book or the project ? T. H. 



Tonbridge. 



Diocese or Diocess. — What is the authority for 

 the recent change of orthography in this word, 

 and why should it now be written diocess instead 

 (as formerly) of diocese f The plural is still 

 spelled dioceses and not dioce,sses. fu 



Pedestres. — Who was the author of a whimsical 

 work entitled A Pedestrian Tour of thirteen hun- 

 dred and forty-seven miles thi^ough Wales and Eng- 

 land, hy Pedestres and Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg, 

 Knight of Snowdon, publislicd by Saunders and 

 Otley, 2 vols., Svo., 1836 ? There are several rude 

 engravings, to which the initials P. 0. H. are af- 

 fixed, n. 



Van Dyck, a Swedish Diplomatist, — In Hartes' 

 Life of Gustavus Adolphus (vol. i. p. 24.) is to 

 be found the following paragraph, date of year 

 1614: — 



" The demands of Denmark being thus completelj 

 satisfied, it was thought expedient in the next place to 

 enter into a fifteen years' treaty of commerce and mutual 

 guaranty with the States General ; and to this purpose, 

 Gustavus Adolplms dispatched Van Dyck, a favourite 

 minister Avith his father, in an I'^mbassy to Holland, 

 when the whole affair was concluded both effectually and 

 speedily." 



Can any of your readers inform me what rela- 

 tion, if any, this Van Dyck was to the great 

 painter Sir Anthony ? X. Y. Z. 



The Great Comet of December ] 680. — Wanted, 

 notices of this remarkable comet, as it appeai'ed in 

 Ireland or elsewhere. Also, the time of its reap- 

 pearance. Jambs Graves, Clerkk 

 Kilkenny, 



Music of " Les Carmagnolles" — Can any one 

 of your musical readers assist me in obtaining the 

 melody to this, the most sanguinary of the songs 

 of the first French Revolution ? I have inquired 

 of music-sellers in Paris, and at the foreign music 

 shops here, and have examined the Catalogue of 

 Music in the British Museum, but without success. 



J. H. H. 



[Our correspondent will find a curious Note on Les 

 Carmagnolks in our 1'' S. iv. 489.] 



Descents reckoned by Succession of Christian 

 Names. — I wish to call attention to the Latin 

 epitaph on the monument of Henry, Earl of 

 Surrey, as it is printed in Dugdale's Baronage : 



" Henrico Howardo, Thomre Secundi 

 Ducis Norfolcia? Alio primogenito ; 

 Thomas tertii patri ; Comiti Surrire," &c. 



We know that this Henry, Earl of Surrey, was 

 the eldest son of the third Duke of Norfolk, and 

 was father of the fou7-th Duke of Norfolk; but 



