July 29. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



95 



" COMPOSITIS VENERAHTUR ARMIs" (not ANNIS) 



1713. " They honour her who has put an end to 

 the war," 



It was struck on the Peace of Utrecht. There 

 were two medals struck, one much smaller than 

 the other. The larger one in gold was presented 

 to each member of the House of Lords, the 

 smaller in gold to each member of the House of 

 Commons. I have seen a medal of the same de- 

 ccription, but of a size between the two, ex. rare. 



W. D. Haggard. 



Bank of England. 



Colonel St. Leger (Vol. ix., p. 76.).— W. P. M. 

 is not sufficiently explicit, as lie does not give the 

 Christian name of the Colonel. St. Leger is the 

 family name of the Lords Doneraile, of Ireland ; 

 and to this he probably belonged. It may, how- 

 ever, not be amiss to inform your querist, that the 

 name appears in the London Gazette for October, 

 1793: 



"Lieut-Col. John St. Leger, of the 1st Foot Guards, 

 appointed Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces on the 

 Continent, under the command of the Duke of York." 



And in the same official document, " John St. 

 Leger, of the 16th Dragoons," is one of the newly 

 made Colonels. The following notice, too, we 

 find in another periodical : 



"Died, at Madras, Major-General St. Leger, Colonel of 

 the 80th Regiment of Foot, and Commander-in-Chief at 

 Trincomalee. He rode out in the morning, and returned 

 in apparent good health, but had scarcely dismounted, 

 when he was seized with a convulsion fit, which carried 

 him off in a few minutes." — Gentleman's Mag. for Feb. 

 1800. 



These extracts, from their dates, seem not only 

 to point to one and the same person, but to show 

 that he was the associate of George IV., who, as 

 Prince of Wales, was then in the prime and pride 

 of life. C. H. (1) 



Knobstick (Vol. ix., p. 373.). — The question of 

 Preston lENSis, on being inserted in the Preston 

 Chronicle, elicited in that journal the following 

 reply, which may be worthy of a place in 

 " N. & Q." in the absence of a better answer : 



" During the occupation of the Catteral Cotton Printing 

 Establishment, near Garstang, Lancashire, by the Field- 

 ings, a difference took place between them and the block 

 cutters, when a strilie ensued, in consequence of which a 

 number of hands were engaged from other places, and 

 some of them none of the best. A meeting then took 

 place among those thrown out of employ, when one old 

 man rose and said emphatically, 'They were no better 

 men than his Knobstick (walking-stick), and he could 

 make as good men as them out o' it.' " 



It is not stated when this took place, but I 

 should say, if it took place at all, it will be from 

 thirty to forty years since. The cant name first 

 used at Catteral afterwards became general. The 

 Query is, is the name with such a meaning above 

 forty years old ? D. W. 



Ominous Storms (Vol. ix., p. 494.). — The po- 

 pular notion respecting ominous storms is very 

 common in Cornwall. If your correspondent had 

 inquired farther, he would probably have had the 

 explanation which was recently given to a ques- 

 tion of mine on the same subject, namely, that 

 the cause of the tempestuous weather, which is 

 held so unfailingly to accompany assize time, is 

 the number of false oaths which are taken on 

 these occasions. T. L. C. 



Polperro, Cornwall. 



Dedications of Svffolk Churches (Vol, x., p. 45.). 

 — The following are the saints after whom the 

 churches mentioned by Mr. Parker are respec- 

 tively named : 



Lowestoft - _ - St. Margaret. 



Wenham, Little - - All Saints. 



Kamsholt - - - All Saints. 



Stowlangtoft - - - St. George. 



Poslingford - - - Virgin Marj-, 



Whixoe - - - - St. Leonard. 



Wratting, Little - - St." Mary. 



Alpheton - - - SS. Peter and Paul. 



Exning - - - - St. Martin. 



Whepstead - - - St. Petronilla. 



Harleston - - - St. Augustine. 



Welnetham, Great - - St. Thomas. 



Hargrave - - - St. Edmund. 



I look forward with pleasure to Mr. Parker's 

 intended publication ; for we have as yet no work 

 on archffiological topography, embracing the whole 

 of the Suffi)lk churches. W. T. T. 



Ipswich. 



Capt. Cook (Vol. ix., p. 423.).— There are col- 

 lateral descendants of the great circumnavigator, 

 Capt. Cook, residing at Eedcar, Sunderland*, and 

 in this town ; and one of them showed me a few 

 weeks since a genealogical list of the family, 

 which perhaps might be too lengthy for the 

 columns of " N. & Q..," but which I could forward 

 to W. G. M'AxusTEB on receipt of a direct ap- 

 plication. Luke Macket. 



South Shields. 



• Moon Superstitions (Vol. viii., pp. 79. 145. 321.; 

 Vol. ix., p. 431.). — I beg to remind your corre- 

 spondents on this subject, that as remarkable 

 changes of weather take place as frequently 

 between the changes of the moon as they accom- 

 pany or follow closely those changes, it cannot be 

 imagined by any person who will take the trouble 

 to observe closely for any length of time, that the 

 changes of the moon at all influence the weather. 

 The subject is ably treated by Dr. Lardner, in an 

 article on " Lunar Influences," in the Museum of 

 Science. Joseph Simpson. 



Islington. 



[*York?] 



