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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I read them, I shall be much obliged by distinct 

 reference to them. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Quotation Wanted: " A7'ise ! my love." — I want 

 to recover some verses, beginning "Arise! my 

 love;" and which were published, I believe, in 

 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



Justinian's Claim to the Idea of Santa Sophia. — 

 A French author has lately stated, on some autho- 

 rity which he does not give, but which is supposed 

 to be one of the Byzantine writers, the fact, that 

 the design of the great church at Constantinople 

 was not that of either Justinian nor his architects, 

 but it was a copy of the palace of Chosroes (Nu- 

 shirwan), the great King of Persia. Can any of 

 the readers of " N. & Q." help me to the refer- 

 ence ? F. R. I. B. A. 



The Proposal. — In the Manchester Exhibition 

 was a painting by Harlowe Salvoz, D., No. 166., 

 with the above title, of which an engraving hung 

 in the windows of the Cambridge print shops, was 

 the delight of myself and friends in my freshman's 

 year, nearly forty years since. I recollect hearing 

 at the time that the three lovely faces were por- 

 traits of three sisters, and some years afterwards I 

 heard that one married a bishop and another a 

 peer. No doubt some of your numerous readers 

 can state whether these are facts, and can also 

 mention the maiden name of the ladies. 



A Quondam Fellow. 



Segars or Cigars. — In the Distresses and Ad- 

 ventures of John Cockburn, p. 139., London, 1740, 

 who was put on a desert island by pirates near the 

 Bay of Honduras, swam on shore, and travelled 

 thence, 2600 miles, to Porto Bello on foot, there is 

 this passage : , 



" These Gentlemen (three Friars) gave us some Seegars 

 (sic) to smokCj which they supposed would be very ac- 

 ceptable. Tliese are leaves of Tobacco rolled up in such 

 a manner that they serve both for a Pipe and Tobacco 

 itself. Then the Ladies, as well as Gentlemen, are very 

 fond of smoking ; but, indeed, they know no other way 

 here, for there is no such thing as[a Tobacco Pipe through- 

 out New Spain, but poor awkward Tools used by the 

 Negroes and Indians." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." inform me if there 

 is any earlier notice of the word segar than this, 

 and what is its etymology ? A. A. 



Kimmeridge Coal Money. — Some years ago a 

 paper was read, the resume of which is printed 

 in the Journal of the British Archceological AssO'^ 

 ciation,\o\. i., endeavouring to prove that these cir- 

 cular pieces of jet or caiinel coal are simply waste 

 bits from the turner's lathe, and not monetary 

 pieces. But, on mentioning thia to the late Dean 



of Westminster at the time, he assured me they 

 were disks of cannel coal turned for the purpose 

 of forming the hollow side of the foot or bottom of 

 earthenware basins, pots, &c.f and that he could 

 prove it by having found these (so to speak) ma- 

 trices, or cores, among the remains or fragments 

 of old long-disused potteries, sticking in the bot^ 

 toms of imperfectly burned basins. Can any 

 reader of " N. & Q." inform rae whether the late 

 lamented Dean ever wrote or published anything 

 on this subject, and if so, when and where? A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Heralds Visitation, co. Gloucester, 1682-S. — 

 Bigland, in his History of the County of Gloucester^ 

 mentions a visitation in 1682-3.* Can any one 

 inform me where it is deposited at the present 

 time ? T. M. 



" Gratia Theatrales.^' — Can you give me any 

 information regarding the author of " Gratia 

 Theatrales, or, a Choice Ternary of English Plays, 

 composed upon especial occasions by several in- 

 genious persons," 12mo. 1662 ? The names of the 

 plays are, 1st. " Grim the Collier of Croydon ; 

 or, The Devil and his Dame, with the Devil and 

 St. Dunstan," a Comedy by J. S. ; 2nd. " 'Phe 

 Marriage Broker ; or. The Pander," a Comedy, by 

 M. W. ; 3rd. " Thorney Abbey, or, The London 

 Maid," a Tragedy, by T. W. R. Inqlis. 



Cleveley, the Water- Colour Aj'tist. — Who was 

 Robert Cleveley, water-colour painter, circa 1790? 



What was the "Flag Ship" at Portsmouth in 

 that year ? 



Did George III. make a state visit to her at 

 that time ? W. P. L. 



Greenwich. 



Bishop Percy's polio. — Can any of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." inform me whether this celebrated 

 folio ever had an existence more real and palpable 

 than that of the history by Cid Hamete Benev- 

 gell ? If it ever was a reality, what has become 

 of it ? Through whose hands has it passed since 

 the death of the excellent bishop, and is it now 

 in being ? If so, who is the happy possessor ? 



C. (1.) 



Admi}'al Sir Piercy Brett. — Information is re- 

 quested regarding the pedigree of Admiral of the 

 White Sir Piercy Brett, Knt. He was the right- 

 hand man of Lord Anson, and, as Lieutenant of 

 the "Centurion," he served under that commander 

 during his voyage round the world. He was a 

 friend of Lord Chatham, and supported him in 

 the House of Commons, and was with him when 

 he died. He held several important commands- 

 in-chief. 



[* There seems to be some misprint in the date. Our 

 correspondent should have stated the volume and page 

 where the passage occurs in Bigland. — Ed.] 



