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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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selves Barhar, " sons of the desert," the origin of 

 iSarbary in Africa, and probably of the Greek 

 term " barbarian." (Comp. John Muller's Univ. 

 Hist. bk. xii. s. 1.) T, J. Bdckton. 



Lichfield. 



Pence a-piece (2"'' S. ii. 219.)— To the instances 

 of this expression, cited in former numbers, may 

 be added the following from Swift's poem of The 

 Legion Club : 



" In the porch Briareus stands, 

 Shows a bribe in all his hands : 

 Briareus the secretary, 

 » But we mortals call him Carey. 



When the rogues their country fleece, 

 They may hope for pence a-piece." 



Li. 



Curious Inn Signs (2°'' S. i. 249.) — Close neigh- 

 bours to each other are two curious inn signs, the 

 memory of which is likely to be lost if your pages 

 do not preserve it. At the Farnboro' Station is 

 an inn now perverted into the " Morant Arms," 

 but which from of old was the " Tumble-down- 

 Dick," in derision that is of Richard Cromwell 

 and his downfal. Near Bagshot you will see now 

 the " Jolly Farmer," which used, and ought, to be 

 the " Golden Farmer," having been kept, so tra- 

 dition says, by a farmer who always paid his rent 

 punctually, and in guineas, which it afterwards 

 appeared he obtained in his unknown vocation of 

 highwayman on Bagshot Heath. Effigies. 



At Swindon (on the Great Western Line) Is a 

 quaint perversion of the Holy Lamb. It is at a 

 modern public house ; and the Iamb is represented 

 In the conventional attitude, but without the nim- 

 bus. Instead of the crossed staff and flag, it bears 

 a spear, from which floats a streamer of the 

 Dutch tricolor, a compliment, I suppose, to " The 

 Red, White, and Blue." 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Human Skin Tanned, Sfc. (2"^ S. ii, 68. 119. 157. 

 250.) — About thirty years ago a man named (I 

 tliink) William Waite was executed at Worcester 

 for the murder of his wife's daughter (by a former 

 husband), a little gIi-1 named Sarah Chance, by 

 throwing her into an exhausted coal-pit. 



At this time dissection was a part of the sen- 

 tence of murderers, and the entire skin of this 

 man was preserved by Mr. Downing, then an 

 eminent surgeon at Stourbridge. It was not 

 tanned, but preserved by a preparation of sumach, 

 as I believe he told me. I was one of the counsel 

 on the trial. F. A. Carrington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Inscriptions on Bells (2"^ S. i. 521.) — Is It a 

 fact that bells are frequently dedicated to St. 

 Augustine? In the church at Wivelsfield in 



Sussex, there is a fine-toned bell bearing this in- 

 scription, which, notwithstanding its false quantity, 

 I lay before your readers : 



" Vox Augustmi sonat in aure Dei." 



R. W. B. 



Inscriptions on Sun-Dials (2"'^ S. i. 230. 323.) 



" You know the motto of my sun-dial, ' Vivite, ait, fu- 

 gio.' I will, as far as I am able, follow its advice, and cut 

 off all unnecessary avocations and amusements." — Bi- 

 shop Atterbury to Pope, Bromley, May 25, 1712: At- 

 terhuri/'s Epistolary Correspondence, vol. i. p. 102. 



" Epigram. 



' Vivite, ait, fugio I ' 



Labentem tacito quisquis pede conspicis umbram, 



Si sapis, h£EC audis : * Vivite, nam fugio.' 

 Utilis est oculis, nee inutilis auribus umbra; 

 Dum tacet, exclamat, * Vivite, nam fugio.' " 



lb. ii. 399. 

 E. H. A. 



St. Peter's Tribe (1" S. x. 207.)— JI. asks of 

 what tribe was St. Peter the Apostle? In the 

 excellent Plain Commentary on the Psalms, which 

 Messrs. Parker, of Oxford, are now publishing, I 

 find the following comment on Ps. Ixviii. verse 27., 

 which seems in some degree to answer H.'s 

 question ; 



" There, too, are seen the sons of Zebedee, and James, 

 and Thaddeus, and Levi, and Simon, counsellors of 

 eternal truth from Judah ; and Andrew, and Peter, and 

 Philip, and the others of the chosen twelve, called to be 

 princes and apostles in the church from that Zabulon and 

 Naphtali which once * walked in darkness,' but which in 

 God's time ' saw the great light ' of Incarnate Love." 



The writer of the Commentary seems to be very 

 intimately acquainted with the works of the 

 Fathers, but he does not give the authorities on 

 which he grounds this passage. Sacerdos. 



Double Christian Names (2"'i S. ii. 197.) — The 

 suggestion here made by E. G. R. is precisely 

 what I made years ago in my English Surnames. 

 I have seven children, all of whom bear their 

 mother's surname prefixed to my own, thus : Nynlan 

 Holman Lower. Let me add, that another thing 

 of equal use to future genealogists would be the 

 retention of the maiden name before that of the 

 husband, as in the case of a popular American 

 authoress, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who is 

 the daughter of Dr. Beecher. 



Let me take the present opportunity of repre- 

 hending the practice of giving to children a bap- 

 tismal name which may hereafter lead to a false 

 presumption as to their descent. Mr. Smith may 

 be a very respectable man, but there are abund- 

 ant means of distinguishing an individual of his 

 numerous ofispring without calling him Sidney ; 

 and Mr. Carey, if not really a member of Lord 

 Falkland's house, should certainly avoid giving 

 his eldest boy the name of Lucius. 



Mark AJitont Lower. 



Lewes. * 



