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nearly effaced, and the respect originally given to 

 the whole picture have been continued to be paid 

 to the meniscus — a prominent object which could 

 not escape attention ? J. P. 



Thomas Anglicus. — Is anything certainly 

 known about the date and birth-place of Thomas 

 Anglicus, whose commentaries have been, so fre- 

 quently attributed to the Angelical Doctor, Aqui- 

 nas ? The account given of him by Possevinus is 

 to the following effect : 



"Thomas Anglicus, quein patria Galensem Sixtus 



Senensis, Gualensem Eisingrenius, &c Hujus 



auctoris esse creduntur commentaria in Genesim, Esaiam, 

 Jeremiam, Epistolas canonicas, Apocalj'psim, et in Boe- 

 thium de Philosophica Consolatione, adscripta D. Thomse 

 Aquinati ; cui cum honoris causa tributum esset ' Ange- 

 lici ' cognomen, pauUatim est factum ut Thomas Anglici 

 scripta Thoma3 Angelici titulo notarentur. Ita quidem 

 Sixtus Senensis : at Antonius de Conceptione ejusdem 

 Ord. in sua Bibl. Fratrum Ord. Prfedicatorum reclamat, 

 negans istius esse opera, sed D. Thomae Aquinatis ; falli 

 item Sixtum inquit in eo quod ilium ann. 1400 claruisse 

 scribat, quem claruisse inquiant PP. Mon. Ord. ann. 

 1305; &c." — Vid. Possevini, Apparat. Sacr., torn. iii. 

 p. 294 ; et conf. Sixt. Senens., Bibl. lib. iv. tom. i. p. 328. 



Was " Anglicus " merely a descriptive name, 

 signifying that Thomas was an Englishman by 

 birth and education, — or was it a Latinized form 

 of the surname English ? This name frequently 

 occurs in the Testa de Nevill, in the forms Engleis, 

 Engleys, and Anglicus ; and a Thomas Anglicus is 

 there mentioned, at pp. 302. 322., as holding land 

 at Hecliington, co. Line, of the fee of Gilbert de 

 Gaunt. John Sansom. 



Silver Tankard. — I have come into possession 

 of an ancient silver-gilt tankard, of which I am 

 anxious to discover the date and history. I have 

 consulted Mr. Fairholt's paper in the Art Journal 

 for 1855, p. 270., but liave obtained no help from 

 him, as he does not give a perfect list of the let- 

 tei's which stand for the tarious years. Some of 

 your readers can, no doubt, help me. The marks 

 are : the lion, passant guardant ; the leopard's 

 head crowned ; the date-letter, a Roman large P ; 

 and the maker's mark, A. T., in Italic letters. 

 The leopard's head and the letter P are upon 

 shields of a singular shape, such as I do not re- 

 member to have met with in English work. On 

 the top of the lid is a shield enamelled on a white 

 ground, gules on a bend cotised argent, three 

 escallop shells ; and on the thumb-rest is an en- 

 amelled crest, a unicorn's head. The body of the 

 tankard is of glass, thin and clear, but wavy, con- 

 taining little specks. Lucy. 



Two Children of the same Christian Name in a 

 Family. — In former times it was not unusual for 

 parents to give a favourite name to more of their 

 children than one, living at the same time. When 

 did this custom first arise, and how long did it 

 continue ? Of course it is remarkable only when 



each child has but one Christian name. Are any 

 celebrated instances known of it? The most 

 remarkable that occurs to me is that of the sons 

 of Sir John Chichester, who was high sheriff of 

 Devon in 1552, and again in 1578. He had five 

 sons : John, Arthur, Edward, John, and Robert. 

 All were celebrated men, and all received the 

 honour of knighthood. Two, Arthur and Ed- 

 ward, became peers. The two Johns were dis- 

 tinguished from each other by the youngest being 

 called Sir John Chichester the Younger. This 

 subject is worthy of full investigation, as it might 

 serve to clear up many points now obscure in 

 family pedigrees. And I shall be glad if any of 

 your correspondents can give information respect- 

 ing it. Alfred T. Lee. 



First Printing Press. — 



" Some fragments of Gutenberg's printing press are now 

 being exhibited in the Odeon in Munich, and are exciting 

 considerable interest. They were discovered last year in 

 the cellar of a wine merchant's house in Mayence, which 

 had originally belonged to the inventor of printing." 



I have just cut the above paragraph out of the 

 London Journal for 21st March, 1857, a penny 

 periodical, and should much like to have the ori- 

 ginal authority. Perhaps some of your corre- 

 spondents can assist me. Em Quad. 



" Unwisdom.^' — 



" Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies 

 which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom 

 which could expect to regulate private habits and 

 manners by statute." — Froude's Hist. England, vol. i. 

 p. 16. 



Can any of your correspondents favour me with 

 a precedent for Mr. Froude's use of this word ? 



Mebcatok, A.B. 



" Quce Cicero haud novit," Sec. — On the title- 

 page of a copy of the folio edition of the Latin 

 translation of the Bible by Castalio, printed in 

 1556, the following lines have been inscribed in a 

 handwriting peculiarly elegant, and unquestion- 

 ably contemporary : 



" Qua; Cicero haud novit, qui dixerit ? ecquid ab illo 

 Dicas, ille tibi nescit, si dicere? quorsum 

 Ignea pavonis caudam, Jovis ales habebit? 

 Pulchra ilia est fateor, Pavoni pulchra, sed isti 

 Ut volet in ccelum, sit sarcina prorsus inepta." 



Can any of the readers of "N. &. Q." name 

 the writer of these lines ? They have become 

 " dim with years," and may possibly be inac- 

 curately transcribed. M. N. O. 



" Seven rival cities," Sfc. — Can you help me to 

 the authorship of the fine epigrammatic couplet, — 

 " Seven rival cities claim great Homer dead, 

 Through which the living Homer begged his bread "? 



LiMUS LUTUM. 



Fore-elders. — This word, in the sense of fore- 

 fathers, is not in Ogilvie. It is very common 



