Dec. 8. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Poesies on Weddivg Rings (Vol. xi., p. 277. ; 

 Vol. xii., p. 393.). — The greater part of the fol- 

 lowing poesies were furnished me by a goldsmith, 

 who had had the precaution of copying the in- 

 scriptions into a note-book before destroying the 

 rings on which they were engraved : 



" Ton Oeil est mon Nort {sic) 

 Omnia conjungo -n- Concordia insuperabill." 



" J'aime mon choix." 



"A vous h, jamais." 



" Je suis content. " 



" L'amour nous unit." 



" Je suis content, j'ai mon d^sir." 



" Je vous aime 

 D'un amour extreme." 



"Ce que Dieu conjoint, 

 L'homme ne le separe point." 



"Ma vie et in on amour, 

 Finiront en un jour." 



" Dieu nous unisse 

 Pour son service." 



" Seconde moi pour te rendre heureuse." 



" Nos deux coeurs sont unis." 



"En ma fid^litd je finirai ma vie." 



" Domine dirige nos." 



" Thou hast my heart 

 Till death us part." 



" Let us agree." 



" I have obtained 

 What God ordained." 



" Continue constant." 



" My love is true 

 To none but you." 



" As sure to thee 

 As death to me." 



"Death only parts 

 United hearts." 



"As true to thee 

 As thou to me." 



« The gift is small. 

 But love is all." 



"In God and thee 

 My joy shall be." 



" Let not absence banish love." 



"Love in thee is my desire." 



HONOBE DE MaREVILLB. 



Guernsey. 



Odd Custom (VoI.~x., p. 404.). — Not only in 

 France, but also in neighbouring countries, in 

 ours, for instance, it is the custom on march, at 

 parade, or change of garrison, for the vanguard 

 of cavalry to be armed with cocked pistols instead 

 of sabre or carbine. Anon may witness this any 

 day if he will attend the parade of our dragoons. 

 Just as before Napoleon III. and the King of 

 Portugal at Boulogne, he will here see two soldiers 



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riding in the van with cocked pistols ; with this 

 difference, perhaps, that the contents of these arms 

 will be more harmless than those of the guards of 

 the French autocrat. — From the Navorscher. 



John Scott. 

 Norwich. 



Calmady and Westcombe Families (Vol. xii., 

 p. 285.). — The ancient house of Calmady is now 

 represented by Vincent Calmady, Esq., only son 

 and heir of Charles Biggs Calmady, and Emily, 

 daughter of William Greenwood, of Brookwood, 

 Hants. Tlieir seat is Langdon Hall, near Ply- 

 mouth. There is an elaborate pedigree in the 

 possession of the family, and which might elucidate 

 the Query of Investigator, relative to the Cal- 

 mady and Westcombe families. Anon. 



The only family residing in the neighbourhood 

 of Plymouth, and bearing this name, assumed it, 

 1 believe, a generation or two ago. As far as the 

 west of England is concerned, the male line is 

 extinct, and the female is represented by others 

 than those to whom I have referred. The names 

 of Hamlyn and Hotchkys, both of Devonshire, are 

 the only two that occur to me at present. 



Contributor. 



Can a Clergyman marry himself? (Vol. v., 

 pp. 370. 446.). — This question was ofBcially de- 

 cided in the affirmative in the Court of Queen's 

 Bench, Dublin, on Nov. 16, 1855, in the case of 

 Beamish v. Beamish, when the judgment of the 

 Court on this irregular, but valid marriage, was de- 

 livered by Judge Crampton, with the concurrence 

 of Judge Perrin and Judge Moore. See The Times, 

 Nov. 19, 1855. J. Y. 



St. Luke's little Summer (Vol. xii., p. 366.). — 

 In Norfolk and Suffolk it is not usual to expect 

 St. Luke's little summer, though it may be in 

 Essex, as mention of it occurs in Dr. Forster's 

 Circle of the Seasons, Oct. 19, where he says, — 



" Fair, warm, and dry weather often occurs about this 

 time, and is called St. Luke's little summer. A gentle 

 breeze from the south, the thermometer about 60°, fair 

 sky, and sunderclouds and other mix6d clouds, with the 

 sun slowly breaking out into full radiance, and the ground 

 gradually drying, constitute the weather of this last act 

 of summer, named after St. Luke." 



St. Martin's little summer, known in France as 

 VEte de St. Martin, is much more generally looked 

 for. Thus Shakspeare says : 



" Expect St. Martin's summer, halcyon days." 



Ki7ig Henri/ VL, Act I. Sc. 2. 



But it seems there was a similar expectation of 

 fine weather even at All Saints' tide, for Prince 

 Henry says to Falstaff, — 



" Farewell, All Hallowen summer." 



First part King Henry IV., Act I. Sc. 2. 



F. C. H. 



