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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. N<» 44, Nov. 1. '56. 



it possible that some punster may have given this 

 1 lame to the box or ark because Michael is the 

 ^Arch-angel (Ark-angel) ? Henky T. Riley. 



" Matty Murray's Money T — I heard a servant- 

 girl say the other day, speaking of the growth of 

 an infant, " Aye, he's gaining, like Matty Mur- 

 ray's money." Upon my inquiring the source of 

 . this adage, she was unable to give me any further 

 information on the subject, beyond " It's only a 

 saying we have." I am therefore left to the in- 

 ference that Matty Murray was a prudent Scotch- 

 woman, whose thrift passed into a proverb. I 

 should like to know, however, whether the saying 

 is a local one, or has a lodgment in other by-places 

 of the land. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



King of Spain s Sirname, Norway. — Lord 

 Bacon, in his thirty-fifth essay, Of Prophecies, 

 gives the prophecy : 



" There shall be seen upon a day, 

 Between the Baugh and the May, 

 The black fleet of Norway," &c. &c. 



To "which he adds : 



" It was generally conceived to be meant of the Spanish 

 fleet that came in eightj'^-eight : for that the King of 

 Spain's sirname, as they say, is Norway." 



Can any of your readers explain the meaning 

 of this explanation ? which would appear, if we 

 construe strictly the words, " as they say," to have 

 in some degree satisfied Lord Bacon. I confess 

 that I am not so easily satisfied that the king's 

 sirname was^Norway." Is an anagram a key 

 to the difBcu^^P 



Also what pwrts of the land or sea are meant 

 under the names of " Baugh " and " May ? " 



Henry T. Riley. 



Cromvjell in Ireland. — Mr. Wilde, in his Beau- 

 ties of the Boyne and the Blackv)ater, p. 105. says : 



"Our learned friend [the late] Mr. Ilardiman has 

 made a collection of all the documents relating to Crom- 

 well in Ireland, and it is to be hoped that the Irisli 

 Archaeological Society will have funds sufficient to publish 

 them." 



Is this hope, in which I heartily concur, likely 

 to be realised ? Abhba. 



Scipio's Shield, — I have somewhere read that 

 Scipio's shield, made of silvei", was found about 

 two centuries since in the river Rhone. Is this 

 the fact^ and if so, where is it now ? Does any 

 ancient writer mention the loss of this shield ? 



Henry T. Riley. 



Mark Strother of Kirkneioton. — Will any 

 reader of " N. & Q.," (especially Mr. Raine, 

 whom I beg to thank for his courteous notice of 

 the last Query on this family) furnish me with 

 information respecting Mark Strother of Kirk- 

 newtoD, in Northumberland, high sheriff for that 



county 1714 ? Required the name& of father and 

 mother, who did he marry, and had he any issue ? 



Armorial. 



Bonac. — Jean Louis D'Usson, Marquis de 

 Bonac, was sent ambassador to Constantinople by 

 the French Court in 1715. Some account is re- 

 quired of him or his family, or of his embassy. 

 The Armorial General merely mentions his name. 



T. J. 



" The Conftision." — Can you inform we who is 

 the translator of The Confusion., or the Wag, a 

 play from the German of Kotzebue, published at 

 Cambridge, 1842 ? R. J. 



Shaking in a Sheet. — A few days ago two wo- 

 men were charged by another woman before the 

 justices at Driffield, Yorkshire (East Riding), 

 with an assault. It was alleged in defence that it 

 was a custom to shake in a sheet every newly mar- 

 ried woman the first time she went out to glean corn, 

 which was the case with complainant. 



This custom was however held not to be a 

 justification of the assault in point of law, and the 

 defendants were fined 7^. Qd. each. Query, What 

 is the origin of this custom, and does it exist else- 

 where than on the Wolds of Yorkshire, where 

 these parties resided ? Dagmot. 



Motto of Sir William Temple. — I should be 

 glad to know why Sir William Temple's portrait, 

 in an edition of his Works, which I possess, two 

 vols. 1740, is surmounted by the following motto 

 from Lucan's Pharsalia, ii. 381. : 

 " Servare Modum, finemque tueri, naturamque sequi " ? 



R. S. T. 



Races ai Tetbury. — Can any of your readers, 

 learned in old racing calendars, inform me when 

 these races commenced, and if any celebrated 

 horses ever ran at them ? The only years I can 

 find in which they were held are, July 25, 1738 ; 

 July 11, 1771, when H.R.H. Henry Fred. Duke of 

 Cumberland won the plate; and July 24, 1789. 

 They ceased, I believe, on the enclosure of the 

 Warren in 1814. Tetburiensis. 



Argens. — Letters by a Mrs. Argens were pub- 

 lished about 1750. Query the title of the work ? 

 The letters treated of literary subjects. J. Y. 



" Knowledge is Power." — Who was the author, 

 and in what work, of this well-knowu maxim? 

 Lord Bacon, I think, though a leading novelist 

 of the present day entertains the opposite opinion. 



Abhba. 



[ Our correspondent's Query has arrived at a very 

 fortunate moment. The Illustrated News of Saturday last 



