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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 8. 1855. 



place where the unburied were left to the birds 

 and wolves, as in Epod. v. 99., but as being " nii- 

 seia; plebi commune sepulcrum." E. C. H. 



" The Village Maid." — Who is the author of 

 The Village Maid, an opera in three acts, by a 

 Younij Lady, 8vo., 1792 ? I think this work was 

 published by subscription. E,. J- 



" Truth and Filial Love." — Who is the author 

 of Truth and Filial Love., a little drama in three 

 acts ? Lee and Hurst, 8vo.. 1797. R. J. 



" His golden locks" Sfc. — What old poet was 

 the author of these lines, quoted by Thackeray in 

 his Newcomes ? — 



" His golden locks time hath to silver turned : 

 O time too swift ! swiftness never ceasing ! 



His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spumed, 

 But spurned in vain ; youth waneth by increasing. 



Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen ; 



Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green." 



Pelicanus Ambeicancs. 



Cool Tankard. — Wanted a recipe for the pre- 

 paration of a real old English cool tankard. 



S. H. 



Sir Anthony Pearson. — I am desirous of in- 

 formation respecting a Sir Anthony Peai'son, a 

 Lancashire gentleman, who lived in the time of 

 Charles IL or King James. There is a tradition 

 in my family that on the occasion of some Quaker 

 of note (Barclay, I believe) being brought before 

 him ill his magisterial capacity, he was induced to 

 listen to his arguments in favour of his religious 

 opinions, and finally became a convert to them ; 

 his daughter Grace, the family tradition also goes, 

 was the first female Quaker who held forth in 

 public. She, I imagine, was married to a person 

 of the name of ChamV)ers, as she is usually spoken 

 of in the family as Grace Chambers. There was 

 some connexion between her family and that of 

 Locke the philosopher ; my grandmother's maiden 

 name was Grace Locke ; who her father was (his 

 Christian name, I think, was Joseph), or how he 

 was related to the philosopher, I cannot ascertain; 

 she" was born about the year 1750. T. S. 



The New Testament in French and Latin. — 

 Many years ago this beautiful and rare book was 

 brought from the north of Germany, and every 

 research has been unavailing to discover an ac- 

 count of it. The title is, — 



" Testament N'ouveau de nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ, 

 en Latin et en Fran(;o3'S selon la verite Hebraique. 

 A Lyon, par Jean Pidie, m.d. liiii." 



This is followed by — 



" La Table des Evangiles et Epistres," and " Eecueil de 

 anciens mots et maniere de parler, difficiles du Nouveau 

 Testament, avec leur declaration." 



It is handsomely printed, with the division into 

 No. 319,] 



verses. Can any of your readers refer me to any 

 Hebrew New Testament, printed or manuscript, 

 from which this translation was made ? I have 

 the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew by iMunster, 

 Paris, 1531, with a Latin version, 1555, but was 

 not aware of the whole of the New Testament 

 having been published in Hebrew until H fitter's 

 edition in twelve languages, in 4to. and folio, 

 Nuremburg, 1599. It will greatly oblige me if 

 any of your readers can assist me in this interest- 

 ing inquiry. Geobgb Offob. 

 Hackney. 



Knights of St. John. — The Knights of St. 

 John of Jei-usalem, aftertcards of Rhodes, and 

 since of Malta, 1838. As the attention of the 

 readers of " N. & Q " has been much drawn to 

 the subject of this poem, which has a priv.itely- 

 printed look, perhaps some one can afford me the 

 interpretation of the author's initials, J. E.. O. G.? 



J. O. 



"A Descriptive Journey through Germany and 

 France." — A lively trifle under this title, pur- 

 porting to be " by a Young English Peer of the 

 highest rank, but one degree below royalty itself," 

 was published by Kearsley, in 12mo., 1786. The 

 " royal and noble authors " of that period could 

 ill spare an item for their catalogue. Perhaps you 

 can identify a name which has dropped out of it ? 



J. O. 



Prisoners taken by King John at Rochester. — 

 Can any of your readers refer me to a list of the 

 prisoners taken by King John at Rochester in 

 1215? AVas Reginald de Cornehelle, Sheriff of 

 Kent, from the lllh John till the end of that 

 reign, among them? In 18th John he gave the 

 king 3000 marks for his ransom at Corfe (where 

 the Rochester prisoners were sent), and we learn 

 from the Chronicle of William Thorn that he sold 

 to the abbot and convent of St. Augustine, at 

 Canterbury, an inn in Southwark, between the 

 churchyard of St. Olave and the Bridgehouse, for 

 sixteen score marks, to redeem him from the 

 king's prison and satisfy his fine. That house is 

 the same that is mentioned by Stow as pertaining 

 to the Abbot of St. Augustine, and for which suit 

 was due to the court of the Earl Warren, of his 

 Lordship of Southwark, which suit was released 

 by the earl by a deed dated in 1281. The (sity 

 residence of the De Cornehelles was in Coridiill, 

 and, I think, where Pope's Head Alley now is, so 

 called from the Pope's Head Tavern in Lombard 

 Street. Here was fcn^merly an ancient stone- 

 built house, attributed to King John, and a lane 

 called King .John's Lane. There was a shield of 

 arms, with lions or leopards, on the front of the 

 mansion ; Maitland says lions, Stow calls them 

 leopards. Hasted says that Reginald de Corne- 

 helle bore for his arms two lions passant, gardant 



