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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2nd s. No 96., Oct. 31. '57. 



order to elucidate some points in the history of 

 the Winch family, it is desirable to obtain some 

 authentic information as to the members of the 

 same prior to the above-named Sir Humphrey. 

 From the appellation given to or assumed by him 

 of " De La Winch," it would appear that his im- 

 mediate predecessors were foreign — probably 

 French or Norman, and it is conjectured that 

 some information relative to himself in the early 

 part of his life, and those from whom he immedi- 

 ately descended, is attainable ; and finding from 

 the pages of your amusing and instructive journal 

 much information, which it were vain to seek else- 

 where, and knowing the resources of information 

 at your command, I have troubled you with this, 

 and would thank you for any information, or the 

 knowledge of any means of procuring it, relating 

 to the above Judge, or any of his ancestors. 



I should, perhaps, mention that the armS and 

 crest of the Winch family are both composed of 

 an " escallop " shell, the former in a shield, the 

 latter on a scroll, without motto. 



Should it not be in your power to aid me to the 

 desired information, it might probably be in that 

 of some of your numerous correspondents. 



A Subscriber from the first. 



Daniel Maiden, of Queen's College, Cambridge, 

 was B.A. 1640. His note-book, dated 1657, and 

 wherein he is described as Medicinae Candidatus, 

 is in the University library, Cambridge (Dd. vi. 

 82.). It contains receipts arranged alphabetically, 

 a catalogue of his books and notes in Latin, of 

 two treatises "de Medicina" and "de Functioni- 

 bus et Humoribus." There is also a brief Phar- 

 macopeoia, with the English names of some of the 

 herbs added. Any farther information respecting 

 him will be acceptable to 



C. H. & Thompson Coopeb. 

 Cambridge. 



Mathurin Esnault, — In the Appendix to the 

 Kalendars and Inventories of His Majesty's Ex- 

 chequer, vol. iii. p. 445. is the copy of an order 

 which passed the council 23 Jan. 1674, granting 

 permission to Monsieur Esnault, citizen of Paris 

 (who had been sent over from France by the Com- 

 manders and Knights of the Order of St. Lazarus 

 of Jerusalem), — 



" To make search amongst the records in the Tower of 

 London, and at Westminster, and other places of England, 

 to see if he can find any relating to the said Order of St. 

 Lazarus, or other Orders Hospitaller and Military, Secu- 

 lar or Kegular, at any time heretofore established in 

 France, that he may give the said Commanders and 

 Knights an account of the same." 



My Query is, was the result of his investiga- 

 tions ever made public ? R. C. 

 Cork. 



Euripides. — Who is the author of The Cy- 

 clops of Euripides, a satanic drama. By a Mem- 



ber of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Graham, 

 1843?. Iota. 



Translations of the Classics. — In what part of 

 Dr. Parr's works shall I find the following ? 



"If you desire your son, though no great scholar, to 

 read and reflect, it is your duty to place into his hands 

 the best translations of the best classical authors." 



Resupinus. 

 Chronogram at Rome. — I enclose a chrono- 

 gram copied from the floor of the church of S. 

 M. degli Angeli at Rome. The words " rex 



lAOOBVS . Ill . D . G . MAGNAE . BRITANIAE . ET . 



0." are in a circle round the words " felix tem- 

 poRUM REPARATio." The first word " Rex " is on 

 the circlet of the crown, which surmounts the 

 inscription. The length of the marble lozenge 

 on which it is inscribed is sixteen inches, its 

 breadth eleven inches. 



Can any of your correspondents inform me what 

 was the " felix reparatio " that the Jacobites 

 connected with the year 1721 ; also what is the 

 meaning of the last C, which for chronogrammic 

 purposes was obviously needful, but which I can- 

 not complete satisfactorily ? Scoxus. 



Were Stone Arches hnoivn to the Ancients. — 

 Edinburgh Essays, for 1856. — "Progress of 

 Britain in tlie Mechanical Arts," by James Sime, 

 M.A. : 



" Bridges of stone and -wood have been known since the 

 earliest times : the arch is found among monuments of 

 ancient Egypt : suspension bridges have existed for ages 

 in Asia, and were thrown across the ravines of Peru long 

 before the arrival of the Spaniards." — P. 198. 



Was the arch (arcus), consisting of stones sup- 

 porting each other, and bound together by the 

 pressure of the key-stone, really known to the 

 ancient Egyptians ? Oxoniensis. 



Nicol Burne. — Will any gentleman having a 

 copy of The Dispvtation concerning the Contro- 

 versit headdis of Religion halden in the Realme of 

 Scotland, Sfc, 8vo., Paris, 1581, kindly inform me 

 if it contains " Ane Admonition " in verse ? and 

 if so, its exact position in the volume ? for, al- 

 though my own answers precisely to Herbert's 

 description, and there is no perceptible hiatus, it 

 has no such rhyming tirade against the reformers 

 as that reprinted by Sibbald in his Chronicle of 

 Scottish Poetry, professing to be derived therefrom. 



Another authority {Lives of the Scottish Poets, 

 1822,) calls the Disputation a rhyming attack upon 

 the Kirk, which it certainly is not ; for, however 

 severe the pervert Nicol Burne may be upon the 

 ministers of the Deformit Kirk, the book is in 

 prose, and that too of the richest old Scots stamp. 



J.O. 



Snake Charming. — Can any correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." tell me who is the earliest author that 



