July 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Notaries (Vol. x., pp. 87.315.). — French no- 

 taries use seals as well as English notaries. The 

 paraphe or flourish is not peculiar to the notary. 

 . The French notary, it must be remembered, per- 

 forms most of the functions of the English country 

 attorney. Hyde Clarke. 



The "ArcIicBological Epistle" (Vol. xii., p. 4.). 

 — Nichols and Chalmers agree with Douce in as- 

 serting that John Baynes was the writer. Mr. 

 Makkland raises a doubt on the subject. I 

 agree with him, and should be very glad to hear 

 from some of your antiquarian, archEeological, or 

 bibliographical correspondents what are the facts 

 that will help us to conclusions. T. A. E. 



WildDayrell (Vol. xi., p. 483.). — A branch of 

 the Dayrell family has been long settled at Shudy 

 Camps in Cambridgeshire, and is descended from 

 the family of that name at Lillingstone-Dayrell, 

 in Buckinghamshire. Their name is spelled with 

 a y, and pronounced Dorrell. J. D. G. 



Seventy-seven (Vol. xi., p. 61.). — N. L. T. says, 

 " Another century must elapse before this reply 

 can be given, after the year which has just ex- 

 pired." On behalf of strict correctness allow me 

 to remark that this reply, ipsissimis verbis, can 

 never again be given. An analogous reply may 

 be given in the year 1976 : "I was born in the 

 three eights, and confess to the two eights." It 

 is singular that with each figure the lapse is of 

 122 years precisely. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



" Rime of the new-made Baccalere " (Vol. xi., 

 p. 38.). — G. L. S. is unacquainted with the au- 

 thor's name. It was attributed at the time of its 

 publication in Oxford to George John Davie, of 

 Exeter College, who graduated in 1840. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



" Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerint" (Vol. x., 

 p. 464.). — I lately met this quotation in a re- 

 markably quaint and well-written American book, 

 styled The Biglow Papers, wherein it was given 

 as from St. Augustin, or St. Austin, for the author 

 of the Papers characteristically uses the colloquial 

 form. 



The last word was in the potential mood, as 

 under the regimen of the indefinite " qui," and 

 not in the indicative, as H. L. writes it. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



De Burgh's '■'■Hibernia Dominicana " (Vol. xi., 

 p. 504.). — This book, according to Brunet 

 (vol. i. p. 497., Paris, 1842), was printed at Kil- 

 kenny, by Edmund Finn, under the direction of 

 the author himself. 'AXievs. 



Dublin. 



ifo. 298.] 



Book-plates (Vol. xi., p. 471.). — I am very 

 much obliged to your correspondent G. 11. M. for 

 mentioning the book-plate of " Gilbert Nicholson 

 of Balrath, in the county of Meath, Esq., 1669." 

 I certainly have never seen an engraving of arms, 

 clearly ascertained to be an English, Irish, or 

 Scottish book-plate, with a date previous to 1698. 

 This of Gilbert Nicholson's seems to be clearly a 

 book-plate. Would it be too much "trouble to 

 your correspondent to give in " N. & Q." a short 

 description of the book-plate. I should expect to 

 find in it a complete achievement, that is to say, 

 helmet, wreath, crest, and mantle, with flowing 

 lantrequins. If not of this kind, the curiosity of 

 the book-plate will be increased. In any case 

 those who are interested in heraldry will be much 

 indebted to your correspondent if he will favour 

 us with a description of it. 



I should add that I have in my collection foreign 

 book-plates of a much older date. For example, 

 one of gi'eat beauty, of 1606 : " "i" ioannes prae- 

 posiTvs sanctae crvcis avgvstae anno dni 

 MDCVi." This, with many others, I obtained 

 from the library of the Very Reverend Canon 

 Rock, to whom, if greater pursuits did not suffi- 

 ciently occupy him, we might look for everything 

 that could be said on such a subject as this. 



D. P. 



[Our correspondent has apparently overlooked the de- 

 scription of Sir Edward Dering's book-plate of 1630, 

 described in our 4th Volume, p. 94. — Ed. " N. & Q."] 



White Paternoster (Vol. xi., p. 511.). — I beg 

 to assure P. P. P. that I never for a moment sup- 

 posed that the so-called Enchiridion of Pope Leo 

 was considered as a book of genuine devotion by 

 the Church of Rome ; or that the prayers, or 

 rather charms, it contains, were ever looked upon 

 as authentic by her clergy. It is essentially a 

 magical work, though not possessing the infernal 

 character of the Grimoire, which in my copy is 

 printed after the Enchiridion. The Grimoire is 

 a book of black magic, full of diabolical incanta- 

 tions for evil, whilst the charms of the Enchiridion 

 are chiefly intended to avert or heal diseases, &c. 

 Still I cannot but hold my opinion that the 

 nursery hymn in question is derived from the 

 White Paternoster, which, silly but harmless as it 

 is, may well have been handed dov,rn to posterity, 

 and preserved, especially in the rural districts, 

 amongst other scraps of folk lore. 



W. J. Beenhard Smith. 

 Temple. 



Hunting Bishops (Vol. ix., p. 432.). — Spelman, 

 in his Apology for Archbishop Abbot, learnedly 

 defends the practice of bishops hunting, and ob- 

 serves, — 



"By ancient record the Bishop of Rochester, at his 

 death, was to render to the Archbishop of Canterbury hia 

 kemiel of hounds as a mortuary, whereof (as I am credibly 



