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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2nds. N052., Dec. 27. '56. 



I have heard that Prince Albert was made 

 "royal" by an Act of Parliament, or the Queen in 

 Council." Could the Queen in Council, or an Act 

 of Parliament, make you or me, or one of the 

 ignobile vtdgus, blood royal ? George Lloyb. 



Indian War Medal — I bav« a silver war medal, 

 the ske of half-a-crown, but thicker. The ob- 

 verse : Britannia seated, with emblems of war ; 

 in her left Ivand the hasta, in her right an olive or 

 laurel crown, with the arm extended towards a 

 fortress in tlie distance. The reverse : legend and 

 inscription on field, in -Jndjan characters. The 

 execution is not that of a Wyon. There is a loop, 

 or eye, clumsily attached, #or a cord or ribbon. 

 When was this medal distributed ? and for what 

 action or service ? fi.. H. B. 



Bath. 



-*' Tereniianu$ ClmMianus" -r^ i ^sJiQuld be glad 

 :to have some information respecting the author, 

 and the comparative value and ■eistimation of ;the 

 following work : 



" Terentianus Christianas, eeu -ComoedisB Sacrae -Sex, 

 lerentiano Stj'lo a Cornelio Schonaeo Goudano, con- 

 ^criptse. Colonise, apud Qerardum Greuenbruch. Anno 



M.D.X,CIX. . . ." 



s. s. s. 



Defoe Queries. — In the dedication and preface 

 of Defoe's Jure Divino, I find a difficulty or two, 

 which, perhaps, some one of your correspondents 

 can resolve. 



The satire is dedicated "to the most serene, 

 most invincible, most illustrious Lady, Reason," 

 whom he styles " governess of the fifteeii provinces 

 of speech." What can this mean ? 



Again, in the preface he writes, — 



" What would a king of any policy answer ? I know 

 not, indeed, but if 1 were to make an answer for hiiu, it 

 should be, Salisbury for that, im not venture you." 



Who or what is Salisbury ? Leth^ediensis. 



" Ivar" a Tragedy. — Who is the author of 

 Ivary a tragedy, printed at Exeter in 1785 ? 



R. Inglis. 



Family of Newton., of Cheshire and Sussex, .and 

 ^rneley, of Sussex and WMs. — William Newton 

 of Southover married the daugliter (who ob. 



1590) and coheiress of Erneley of Erneley, 



according to the pedigree in the Visitation of 

 Sussex.* And it appears by the Fine Rolls that 

 Nicholas and George Newton, his grandsons, sold 

 the manor of Erneley to Abraham Edwards in 

 1630. (Mich, f Car. J.) 



* In 1573 there was a fine between Nicholas Newton 

 ^son of William Newton), plaintiff, and Francis Cot- 

 ton and Mary his wife, and Galfrid Poole and Katherijie 

 his wife, deforciants, of ^th part of the manor, with thirty 

 jnessuages, land, &c. in Brigliton, Lewes, and Albertpn. 

 Did these deforciants represent the other coheiresses.? 



I have been unable to discover whose daughter 

 this heiress was. Is there any pedigree of the 

 Erneley family which will supply the information? 



Mem OB. 



Svgar-Loaf Mountains., co. WicMow : " The 

 Golden Spears." — Will any of your antiquarian 

 readers in Ireland state on what authority it has 

 been frequently asserted that the Sugar-loaf Moun- 

 tains, CO. Wicklow, were called in Irish " The 

 Golden Spears," and also give the Irish name 

 itself? In a descriptive article published "a few 

 years ago in the Dublin University Magazine, I 

 recollect having seen this name, but am not now 

 able to find the passage. It would be pleasant to 

 have some authentic foundation for an appellation 

 so fanciful, and, as for as the greater Sugar-loaf 

 Mountain a;t least is concerned, .so well merited. 



Anon. 



The Diamond Rock. — When the French cap- 

 tured this in 1805, there was a court-martial held 

 on the officer in command for the loss of H. M.'s 

 late sloop " Diamond Rock ; " yet I have been led 

 to think that the rock in question was a small 

 island fort. Can any of your correspondents ex- 

 plain this matter? E. H. D. D. 



Irish High Sheriffs. — Can you guide me to any 

 list, printed or in manuscript, of the high sheriffs 

 of counties in Ireland during the seventeenth and 

 eighteenth centuries ? Abhba. 



Madame de Fovievravlt. — In Un Sermon sous 

 Louis XIV., by Bungener, at the close of the 

 eighth chapter, Madame de FontevrauU, a sister 

 of Madame Montespan, is introduced ; and a foot- 

 note, a quotation from Saint Simon, says : 



" Quoiqu'elle edt 6t4 faite religieuse plus que trfes 

 cavaliferement, sa r^gularite etait exacte dans son abbaye." 



What were the circumstances that seem to have 

 forced her to become a nun ? G. R. B. 



Boston, Mass. 



Skating. — 



" Sur un mince chrystal I'hiver conduit leur pas 

 Le precipice est sous la glace: 

 Telle est de nos plaisirs la \4gkve surface! 

 •Glissez mortels ; n'appuyez pas." 



Thus translated (I believe) by Dr. Johnson : 



" O'er the ice the rapid skater flies. 

 With sport above and death below, 

 Where mischief lurks in gay disguise. 

 Thus lightly touch, and quickly go." 



The original lines were, I find, from a Common- 

 place Book, written under an old print; but I 

 have no means of discovering who the author was. 

 Coi4d any of yo^ir coiutributors kindly fell me ? 



,J. B. WjI^NSON. 



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