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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 14. 1855, 



one of the many factions into which the island 

 was then divided, I find the following passage : 



"And the said Peter de Beauvoir makes use of Mr. 

 Thomas Symons, a graver living in the Strand, which 

 Symons having skill in graving and making medalls, 

 hath accesse unto his Highnes and many members of the 

 Council, speakes rashly of the isle and of the inhabitants 

 thereof, and mainteynes and recomends the said de Beau- 

 voir, who is his cosen german and his helpe and council 

 in a suite in law about inheritance in the island of Guern- 

 zey, wherein the said de Beauvoir is very officious to 

 oblige to himself the said Symons," &c. 



In 1643 Simon was ordered by the House of 

 Commons " to make a new Great Seal of Eng- 

 land," * Lord Keeper Littleton having in the pre- 

 vious year fled to York, where the King then was, 

 taking the Great Seal with him. Is there any 

 engraving of this new Great Seal, and where is it 

 to be found ? 



From the second edition of Vertue's Medals 

 and other Works of Thomas Simon, published in 

 1780, I glean the following particulars, which will 

 form the subject of one or two more Queries : 



The only surviving child of Thomas Simon was 

 the wife of Mr. Hibberd of London, by whom she 

 had one daughter, married to Samuel Barker of 

 Fairford, Gloucestershire, high sheriff of the 

 county in 1691. Mrs. Barker had two daugh- 

 ters ; one died in her infancy, the other (Esther) 

 was married to James Lamb, of Hackney, Esq., 

 who died in 1761. In 1780 his widow was lady 

 of the manor of Fairford. She had inherited 

 several warrants and papers that had belonged to 

 Thomas Simon. Can any one inform me whether 

 she left any descendants, and whether these docu- 

 ments are still in existence ? 



The following passage also occurs in Vertue's 

 work : 



" Mr. Raymond also favoured me with the sight of a 

 book on vellum, signed ' Thomas Simon ' in the first 

 leaf, containing twenty-five heads in pencil and ink, 

 beautifully drawn, and probably from the life, for 

 medals." 



This Mr. Raymond was no doubt John Ray- 

 mond, Esq., of Fairford in Gloucestershire. Was 

 he in any way related to Mrs. Lamb ? 



Is it known what has become of the book on 

 vellum ? 



Vertue mentions that Abraham Simon was in 

 the suite of Queen Christina of Sweden. Are any 

 farther particulars known of him ? 



[* In the British Museum (Addit. MS. 5478.) is an 

 order for payment to Abraham Symons for the great seal 

 made by his brother Thomas Symons, dated October 4, 

 1643. And in Addit. MS. 6497., f. 71., is Abraham Sy- 

 mons's receipt for his brother Thomas in behalf of T. 

 Blakestone, dated October 6, 1643. It is generally sup- 

 posed that Thomas Symons died in 1665, but according 

 to a letter of Samuel Pegge {Gent. 3Iag., Maj', 1788, 

 p. 379.), it seems that he lived many years after that 

 date.] 



No. 298.] 



Finally, is there any memoir of either of the 

 brothers ? Edgar MacColloch. 



Guernsey. 



Lord Byron and the Hippopotamus. — In one of 

 Lord Byron's Journals, he mentions having visited 

 Exeter Change in 1813 ; and having seen, amongst 

 other animals, a " hippopotamus, very like Lord 

 Liverpool in the face." Never having seen either 

 premier or quadruped, I can only judge from their 

 respective portraits, which certainly display very 

 different physiognomies : but the question is, what 

 animal he can have mistaken for hippo, as there 

 can be no doubt whatever that the stout gentleman 

 in the Regent's Park is the first of his kind that 

 appeared in Europe since the days of the Romans. 

 I should suspect the tapir; which is an animal of 

 somewhat similar habits, and the outline of whose 

 countenance is not so utterly different from that 

 to which it is compared, J. S. Warden. 



Calipash and Calipee. — Whence are derived 

 these turtle terms ? Have they reference to the 

 Greek language and human digestion, xaKeiros and 

 xaXeirr] ? I propound this for the consideration of 

 your West Indian friends. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Scottish Nursery Song. — An old lady of my 

 acquaintance repeated to me the following lines of 

 an old Scotch nursing song, which her mother 

 used to sing to her. There were several verses, 

 but her memory has lost all but one : 



" Ken ye Mysie Barley hinnie. 

 The lass that sell't the barley hinnie, 

 She's lost her pouch an' a' her siller, 

 Ne'er a laud will ere come till her. 

 Wae's me ! for Mysie Barley hinnie." 



The remaining verses of this lyric are a desidera- 

 tum to C. D. L. 

 Greenock. 



" Christ Church Bells." — Can any of your 

 numerous readers Inform me where I can find the 

 above glee in Greek 9 I heard it sung many years 

 ago, and remember the conclusion : 



" OuSets a.v 

 Aeii/zet TO Kav 

 IIpii/ aKoveif iJ,eyav Tofi-" 



J. T. C. 



Sidmouth. 



" Original Poems, by a Lady." — I have a small 

 volume of verse In my possession, bearing the fol- 

 lowing title : 



" Original Poems, on various Occasions. By a Lady. 

 Revised by William Cowper, Esq., of the Inner Temple : 

 London, printed for J. Deighton, Holborn ; J. Mathews, 

 Strand ; and R. Faulder, Bond Street. 1792." 



