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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 250. 



witnessed during the celebration of high mass at 

 St. Gudule in Brussels, and the Madeleine and 

 St. Roch in Paris. It struck me at the time that 

 it might be a somewhat similar ceremony to the 

 ancient agapce, but on inquiry I found it was not, 

 though my informant failed to satisfy me what it 

 really was. At St. Boch I particularly noticed 

 children of six or seven years of age were reci- 

 pients : it looked to me more like English sponge- 

 cake than bread. Perhaps Dr. Bock or Dr. 

 Husenbeth would kindly inform us what is the 

 custom referred to above, and whence its origin ? 



Thomas Coxlis. 

 Boston. 



Saying of Voltaire (Vol. x., p. 88.). — 



" Mes R^v^renda Peres, mes Lettres n'avoient pas ac- 

 coutum^ de se suivre de si prfes, ni d'etre si ^tendues. Le 

 peu de temps que j'ai eu, a 6te cause de I'un et de I'autre. 

 Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue, que parce que je n'ai pas 

 eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. La raisou qui m'a 

 oblige de me hater, vous est mieux connue qu'4 moi," &c. 

 — Pascal, Lettres Provinciates, Lettre XVI., du 4 De- 

 cembre, 1656. 



C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



''Time and /" (Vol. vii., p. 585.).— It is to 

 Philip II. of Spain and England that Mr. Stir- 

 ling assigns this adage, and not to the Emperor 

 Charles V. Chevebells. 



Pictures at Hampton Court Palace (Vol. viii., 

 p. 538. ; Vol. ix., pp. 19. 85.). — I take the fol- 

 lowing extract from a biographical sketch of Sir 

 William Beechy, R.A., which appeared in the 

 London Monthly Mirror for July, 1798 : 



" It is hardly necessary to particularise occurrences of 

 BO recent a date, except as they show the high esteem in 

 which the subject of this memoir is held by the sovereign. 

 Nothing can afford a clearer proof of this than his majesty's 

 entrusting him with a subject of so much difficulty and 

 extent as the grand picture representing the king at a 

 review, attended by the Prince, Duke of York, &c., a 

 work which, independent of the illustrious portraits it 

 contains, requires an historical mode of treatment, and a 

 judgment in the disposal of the figures, that none but a 

 master could effectually administer. As a reward for the 

 skilful execution of this arduous task, and to show his 

 exalted regard for the arts in general, the king has lately 

 conferred on the painter the honour of knighthood." 



From what is written above, it is evident that 

 the Query of your correspondent *. is not yet 

 answered, and that the review which the picture 

 represents must have taken place before July 

 1798, and not in 1799, as M.A. and Nabro have 

 supposed. W. W. 



Malta. 



PalcBologus (Vol. ix., pp. 312. 572.). — In 

 Schomburgk's History of Barbadoes, 1848, is an 

 account of Fernando, or Ferdinando, Paleologus, 

 who appears to have settled in that island soon 

 after the death of his father Theodore, in 1636 



(of whose monumental tablet in Llandulph Church, 

 Cornwall, there is an account in Archceologia). 

 It seems that the family of his mother, Balls, had 

 property in Barbadoes. His name occurs in re- 

 cords there as having held various parochial and 

 municipal offices from the year 1649 till 1669. 

 He was buried October 3, 1 678, under the title of 

 Lieut. Ferdinando Paleologus ; and his will, dated 

 26 th September, 1670, was proved 4th January, 

 1680. In it he mentions his wife Rebecca, and 

 his son Theodorius, who was then young, and 

 who died apparently soon after ; his widow then 

 succeeding to all his property. He probably had 

 no other children. His sisters Mary and Dorothy 

 Arundell have also small legacies left to them. 



W. C. Tbevelyak. 



Rev. Dr. Scott (Vol. ix., p. 35.). — Your cor- 

 respondent C. H. D. applies for a biography of the 

 reverend gentleman, and mentions him as author 

 of the Characters of the Commons of Ireland, at 

 the time of the defunction of that assembly at the 

 termination of the year 1800. 



Although I cannot entirely solve the Query of 

 C. H. D., yet I think the following statement will 

 throw so much light upon it, that some corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." in Ireland will be enabled 

 to do so. In the summer of 1811 1 was encamped 

 with a regiment upon Bagshot Heath, and upon 

 taking the ground we made inquiry for a clergy- 

 man to officiate to the soldiers on Sundays. The 

 neighbouring clergy were fully employed, and we 

 were obliged to send to Farnham in Surrey, a 

 distance of ten or twelve miles, where we pro- 

 cured the assistance of this reverend gentleman. 

 He was, I should suppose, about fifty-five, had a 

 powerful voice, though his articulation was not 

 very distinct. He gave us three sermons extem- 

 porally, on three successive Sundays, on one 

 text. Acts xxvi. 28., " Then Agrippa said unto 

 Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian." 

 I can well recollect the efiect his discourses had 

 upon his auditors, and I never knew greater at- 

 tention paid to any one's preaching, so admirable 

 were his sermons. The late Lord de Clifford, as 

 lieut.-colonel, commanded the regiment, and Dr. 

 Scott gave him a copy of his work above men- 

 tioned. I read it, and was much gratified with 

 the perusal ; and there was one thing which par- 

 ticularly struck me, that among such a host of 

 memoirs. Dr. Scott never in his descriptions intro- 

 duced two characters in a similar way, and I never 

 saw so much variety of style in any work of the 

 kind. The reverend gentleman was then (in 

 1811) tutor to the sons of Sir Nelson Rycroft, 

 Bart., at Farnham. I should be glad to know the 

 exact title of Dr. Scott's book. A. 



Ranvlph Crewe's Geographical Drawings 

 (Vol. X., p. 65.). — If Cestbiensis will refer to 

 Fuller's Worthies (vol. i. p. 193., Nichols's edit.), 



