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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 13. 1855. 



ried. He was Consul at Cadiz in the middle or 

 latter end of the seventeenth century ; and his 

 son, Sir Anthony Wescombe, married the daughter 



and heiress of Calmady, Esq., and died at 



his house in Holies Street in 1752. Is there not 

 a family of Calmady now residing near Plymouth, 

 who are descendants of this ancient house ? Sir 

 Martin Wescombe was the first baronet of that 

 name, and it is very singular that Burke, in his 

 Extinct Baronetcies, does not mention who he 

 married, or where he resided in England. It is 

 recorded in some MSS. that a " "Waldo Calmady 

 makes Robert Wescombe, Gent., gamekeeper of 

 the manor of North Curry Chantry, by deputy, 

 dated 8th of June, 1731." 



Is there not a place called Peerer in Surrey, 

 where this Wescombe family once resided ? and is 

 there any trace of them in that locality now ? 



Investigator. 



Bank. — What is the origin of this word as ap- 

 plied to a place where money is kept, and how 

 long has it been in such use ? 



The earliest instance I know is to be found in 

 our translation of Luke xix. 23. : 



" Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Gorleston, Svffolk. — In the early part of the 

 sixteenth century, a monk of the Augustine 

 Priory at Gorleston, wrote an account of that 

 place. A MS. copy of this work was in the pos- 

 session of Sir John Castleton, Bart., who died at 

 Gorleston in 1777, after having resided there for 

 fifty-five years as vicar. He is said to have made 

 a collection of Roman and Saxon antiquities 

 found in that locality. 



Several histories at Gorleston (one in black 

 letter), and other accounts of the antiquities found 

 there, have, it is believed, been published. I 

 shall be much obliged for any information as to 

 where any such work, or any drawings of the 

 former antiquities of this place, can now be seen. 

 Charles John Palmer. 



Great Yarmouth. 



Mortars and Howitzers. — Can you give me the 

 derivation of " mortar," as applied to the weapon 

 used for shell practice, the material commonly 

 employed for building purposes, and the " pestle 

 and mortar" (what is a pestle ?) ? Unde derivatur 

 howitzer ? Centurion. 



AthenaBum Club. 



Marie de Medicis. — Enclosed I forward you a 

 stanza of four lines which are under a half-length 

 bust of a lady crowned with the rufi", temp. Eliz. 

 The lady appears to be Marie de Medicis, wife of 

 Henry IV. of France, and the portrait is painted 

 on panel, and has the corners cut off, so as to 



No. 311.] 



make it appear octagonal. I shall be glad to 

 know if any correspondent can give me any ac- 

 count of the portrait and lines enclosed : 



" L'art a fait voir en ce tableau 

 Jusau ou [ Jusqu'ou] peut la nature atteindre ; i 

 Mais combien seroit le [il] plus beau 

 Si la vertu se pouvoit peindre ! " 



John Nurse Chadwick. 



Inscription to the Samian Sybil. — In a copy I 

 possess of the celebrated picture of the Samian 

 Sybil, on the book which she holds in her hand is 

 the following line, — 



" Salve casta suon per multaque passa puella." 

 I am told that another copy has the word as 

 syon. Can any of your correspondents say what 

 it is in the original, and for what the word 

 stands, or from whence the line comes ? 



PiNACOPHILUS. 



lost MS. of a Monk of Roche. — Mr. Hunter, 

 in his Deanery of Doncaster, states that about a 

 hundred years ago there existed in the possession 

 of Mr. Canby of Thorne (Yorkshire), a MS. 

 written by a monk of Roche Abbey, and bearing 

 on Yorkshire parochial history, of which De la 

 Pryme makes considerable use in his History of 

 Hat/ield. Can any of the learned readers of 

 " l^L & Q." afford any information respecting this 

 valuable document ? J. H. Aveling. 



Chapeltown, near Sheffield. 



The double-queued Lion of the Heralds. — 

 Reading lately some recent antiquarian publica- 

 tion, I found an interesting notice of this rather 

 uncommon bearing, accompanied by some ancient 

 verses, descriptive of its symbolical meaning, &c. 

 Unfortunately I neglected to "make a note "of 

 it. Having paid the penalty by an unavailing 

 search through several hours, I now apply to 

 your numerous readers interested in heraldry, re- 

 questing them to place the notice " when found " 

 in your pages, for its better preservation and more 

 easy reference. E. D. 



Wotton Queries. — Perhaps some of your corres- 

 pondents could inform me if the undermentioned 

 were connected with the family of Lord Wotton 

 of Boughton Malherbe, in Kent. As they were 

 about the person of the sovereign at the same 

 time, I fancy they must be of the same stock, al- 

 though I cannot trace the relationship : — 



Thomas Wotton, servant to the queen of Henry 

 VII. : arms, barry of six, argent and gules, three 

 crescents ermine (vide Harl. MSS., Nos. 6065, 

 and 1541.). 



Edward Wotton, doctor of physic to Henry 

 VIII. : arms unknown. 



I am also anxious to ascertain how the branches 

 of the Wotton family, in Kent and Devon, are 

 connected. The arms are the same : argent, a 



