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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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To grace Kim iii time of her lying in, xiid. 



To lit hym for work at brig, viiid. 



To a pore soulder which was in distres, iiiid." 



F. S. Growse. 

 Bildestone. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 



The Rev. Mackenzie Walcott has forgotten 

 the pith of the inscription affixed to the gates of 

 Bandon (" N. & Q." 2"'» S. iv. 126.) : it should read 

 thus : — 



" Jew, Turk, or Atheist, 

 May enter here, but not a Papist." 



To which another Land added : — 



" He who wrote it, wrote it well. 

 The same was written on the gates of hell." 



M. C. 



The following has not yet appeared in " N. & 

 Q.," where it seems to deserve insertion. 



Inscription over the door of the conservatory 

 at Llanbeder Hall, near Ruthin, N. Wales : — 



" Hominum satis superque 

 Mulli videruut, naturae nemo ; 



Hospes! introgreditor, 

 Et in parvis earn ut in maximis 

 Mirabilem pio anirao hie 

 Et ubique contemplator." 



N. L. T. 



In golden letters over the door of the Council 

 Chamber of Ratisbon appeared the following : 



" Quisquis Senator officii causa Curiam intraveris, 

 Extra banc portam privatos affectus omnes abjicito, 

 Dolum, vim, odium, iracundiam, adulationem : 

 Publicae rei personam, et curam suscipito. 

 Nam, ut tu aliis judex aut sequus aut iniquus fueris, 

 Ita te Deus vel absolvet vel judicabit." 



Dr. G. Weber takes this as the motto of his his- 

 tory, as illustrating the duty and responsibility of 

 an historian. Y. B. N. J. 



Over the doorway of the ferry-house at Por- 

 thaethwy (one of the most beautiful spots on the 

 very beautiful road leading from Beaumaris to 

 the Menai Bridge,) is this inscription : " Siste 

 viator, et circumspice." Mercator, A.B, 



Over a century ago Sir Richard Cox established 

 a linen manufactory at D unman way, the seat of 

 his residence, which flourished for many years 

 after. As an encouragement Sir Richard gave a 

 good house rent-free to whomsoever, for that year, 

 made up the greatest and liest quantity of linen, 

 and the following inscription in gold letters was 

 placed over his door : 



" Datur Digniori. 

 " This house is rent free for the 

 Superior industry of the possessor." 



This board was annually removed with great 

 pomp and solemnity, and was called the table of 

 honour. R. C. 



Cork. 



Over the gateway of the Chateau de Lusignan : 



" Lons Lusignan sonn tan audessus des autres gens, 

 Que Tore est audessus de I'argent." 



On the Pantheon, Paris : 



" Aux grands hommes la Patrie reconnaissante." 



On the temple at Ferney : 



" Deo erexit Voltaire." 



On the Hopital des enfans trouves : 



" Mon pfere et ma m^re m'ont abandonne, mais le Seig- 

 neur a eu pitie' de moi." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Over doors of many unpretending houses in 

 Italy is inscribed^ — 



" Parva Domus, — Magna Quies." 



Amicus. 



" Inveni portum,'' 8fc. (P* S. vl. 417., &c.) — It 

 would seem from the following passage that the 

 above (or rather its Greek equivalent) was a 

 door-head inscription many ages before the time 

 of Burton or Le Sage : the passage occurs in a 

 book purporting to be written by one Th. Nashe 

 of the Inner Temple, a.d. 1632 : 



" Where was it that Pericles wrot this inscription vpon 

 the porch of his dore ; Inveni porluin, spes et fortuna 

 valete ; I have found that whicli I lookt for, my hopes are 

 at an end; was it in Athens? No; after he had governed 

 there full forty yeares, in the Sixtith yeare of his Age he 

 left it, and betooke himselfe to a Country life, and vpon 

 his dore-porch in his Country house there it was found." 

 — Quaternio, p. 18. 



Query, Nashe's authority for this ? He gives 

 no reference. J. Eastwood. 



The following I copied many years ago from a 

 pane of glass in a window at the Eagle and Child 

 Inn, at Holyhead : 



" In questa Casa troverete, 

 Tout de bon on pent souhaiter, 

 Vinum bonum, Pisces, Carnes, 

 Coaches, Chaises, Horses, Harness." 



Amicus. 



Seal Insanption. — The common seal of the 

 corporation ot Louth bore until recently, and pro- 

 bably does still bear, the following motto : 



"qui parcit vikge odit filiv." 

 Beneath it is the date " 1552," and round the 

 verge : 



"SIGIL. C03I. LIBERE SCOLE GRAMMATIC. REG. ED- 

 WARDI 6° IN VILLA DE LOWTH." 



It exhibits a schoolmaster using the birch on 



