July 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



19 



" Peter Henricus Garnettus, Anglus, Londini pro 

 fide Catholica suspensus et necatus, 3 Maii, 1606." 



Henry Garnet, or Garnett, was born circa 

 1556, and was the son of a person of no very 

 high position, that of a country schoolmaster ; and 

 if we may judge from the fact of the higher orders 

 being generally more conspicuous by a string of 

 names than those beneath them, we ought cer- 

 tainly to find earlier and more numerous instances 

 among persons of rank than have yet appeared in 

 the pages of " N. & Q." The second name might, 

 however, have appeared at his confirmation or 

 canonisation. 



Query, What was Garnett's real surname and 

 exact birthplace ? Furvus. 



The instance referred to in the accompanying 

 extract, if correct, is another early example of 

 double christian names : — 



" Referring to Burke's Baronetage, Landed Gentry, 

 Dod's Knightage for 1854, and other cognate authori- 

 ties, we find that Sir W. G. Ouseley is descended from 

 an ancient Shropshire family, who settled in North- 

 amptonshire in 1571, the then head of the family, 

 Richard Ouseley Ouseley, having received from Queen 

 Elizabeth, under whom he was a judge, a grant of the 

 estate of Courteen Hall, in that county." — Hadfield's 

 Brazil, River Plata, and Falkland Islands, p. 226. 



W. Denton. 



Mr. Denton's instances are nothing to the 

 purpose, as all those he gives are obviously double 

 surnames, not double Christian names ; and I had 

 expressly excepted the royal family. The custom 

 was introduced undoubtedly by foreign inter- 

 marriages, whether of kings or subjects, and may 

 be traced much farther back in France, Germany, 

 &c. than in England. J. S. Warden. 



" Qui bo7io" (Vol. ix., p. 76.). — To assist your 

 correspondent T. R. in arriving at a correct inter- 

 pretation of the above phrase, I have the pleasure 

 to send you an extract from a tale, entitled Thou 

 art the Man, by Edgar A, Poe, the American 

 author, which perhaps your correspondent may 

 never have met with. It is as follows : 



" And here, lest I be misunderstood, permit me to 

 digress for one moment merely to observe, that the 

 exceedingly brief and simple Latin phrase, which I 

 have employed, is invariably mistranslated and mis- 

 conceived. ' Cui bono,' in all the crack novels and 

 elsewhere, in those of Mrs. Gore for example (the 

 author of Cecil), a lady who quotes all tongues, from 

 the Chaldaaan to Chickasaw, and is helped to her 

 learning, 'as needed,' upon a systematic plan, by Mr. 

 Beekford — in all the crack novels, I say, from those 

 of Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and 

 Ainsworth, the two little Latin words, cui bono, are 

 rendered ' to what purpose,' or (as if quo bono), ' to 

 what good.' Their true meaning, nevertheless, is ' for 

 whose advantage,' Cui, to whom ; bo7w, is it for a 

 benefit. It is a purely legal phrase, and applicable 



precisely in cases such as we have now under con- 

 sideration ; where the probability of the doer of a 

 deed hinges upon the probability of the benefit (ac- 

 cruing to this individual or to that from the deed's 

 accomplishment." 



S. B. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



An application has lately been addressed by the 

 Society of Antiquaries to the Home Secretary, praying 

 him to adopt measures for securing copies of the sepul- 

 chral inscriptions in the graveyards of the city churches 

 which are about to be removed. The Memorialists 

 state, with great truth, " That they cannot over-rate 

 the importance of these records as evidences of title, 

 and in the tracing of pedigrees ; and it is to be feared 

 that, if they are destroyed, not only a great amount of 

 valuable evidence will be lost, but facilities will be 

 given for manufacturing inscriptions and assumed copies 

 of lost stones, and, as in a recent peerage case, for the 

 actual production of forged stones." Lord Palmerston 

 does not see how he can interfere. The Memorialists 

 had told him through the Registrar- General ; and we 

 yet hope that, either through that officer, or the autho- 

 rities of each parish, some attempt will be made to 

 effect this important object. 



The third volume of Gibbon's History of the Decline 

 and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by Dr. Smith, 

 with Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot, forms this 

 month's issue of Murray's British Classics. 



We have recorded in our columns (Vol. ili., p. 136.) 

 Coleridge's high opinion of Defoe's wit, humour, and 

 vigour of style and thought, and we agree in his esti- 

 mate of them. We are therefore glad to find that The 

 Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe are to 

 form a portion of Bohn's British Classics. The first 

 volume has just been issued, and includes Captain 

 Singleton and Colonel Jack. 



Books Received. — Memoir of the Poet Dr. William 

 Broome, with Selections from his Works, by T. W. Bar- 

 low ; an interesting sketch of one whom, to use John- 

 son's words, "Pope chose for an associate." — India, 

 Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. This new vo- 

 lume of Bohn's Illustrated Library consists in a great 

 measure of a revised and enlarged reprint of Miss 

 Corner's work, with nearly one hundred woodcut 

 illustrations. — A Calendar of the Contents of the Red 

 Book of the Irish Exchequer, by J. F. Ferguson, Esq., 

 reprinted from the Proceedings of the Kilkenny Ar- 

 chcBological Society, is a valuable contribution to the 

 history of the records of Ireland by a valued contri- 

 butor of" N. & Q.," who has done so much for those 

 documents. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WAKTKD TO FURCHASE. 



MacCabe's Catholic History of England. Vol. II. 



Circle of the Seasons. 12mo. 1828. 



Wordsworth's Greece. 1 Vol. 8vo. Illustrated. First Edition. 



