Sept. 23. 1854.] 



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Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. ix., p. 89,). — 

 Whitelry is the last house ia England on the 

 road through Kedesdale. On the stone lintel 

 over the front door is this inscription : Pacem 

 intrantibus opto — a welcome and benediction 

 for travellers from the north admirable in its 

 spirit, and aptly placed. (Hodgson's Northumber- 

 lajid, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 136.) 



In the introduction prefixed to her last edition 

 of the Pastor s Fireside, Miss Porter mentions the 

 venerable and ever-admired parsonage of Binstead, 

 in the Isle of Wight, with this motto over its 

 lowly door, Contentment is wealth. A friend has 

 just told me of a very appropriate inscription over 

 the door of the parsonage recently erected at 

 Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham, " Ce 

 que Dieu garde, est bien garde." E. H. A. 



/m and Lily (Vol. x., p. 153.). — Allow an 

 original subscriber to correct a glaring error of 

 Mk. Walcott's : be states " the fleur-de-lys in its 

 heraldic form triple leaved — being essentially 

 distinct from the garden flower, which has five 

 petals." The whole tribe of bulbous plants to 

 which the iris, lily, tulip, hyacinth, snowdrop, &c., 

 belong, have all either three or twice three petals ; 

 there are none with^w. All endogenous plants, 

 to which the above flowers belong, have a ternate 

 arrangement of their flowers and seed-vessels, the 

 iris particularly so, having three reflexed petals, 

 three stamens, three stigmas, capsule with three 

 cells, and three valves. Exogenous plants have 

 their floral envelopes in a quinate arrangement. 



James Buidon. 



Pont-y-PooL 



^'■Manual of Devout Prayers^'' (Vol. x., p. 146.). 

 —-It is probable that this was the same prayer-book 

 with the one first published in London in 1766, 

 and again for Ireland; professing to have been 

 printed at Antwerp in 1767, but no doubt really 

 printed at Dublin, entitled, The Catholick Chris- 

 tians New Universal Manual. I have a copy of 

 this curious and rare book. It contains at the 

 end the famous " Roman Catholick Principles in 

 reference to God and the King," so very often 

 printed in other works, and especially with Go- 

 ther's Papist Misrepresented and Represented. 

 This tract was composed, not by Mr. Gother, but 

 by a Benedictine monk. Rev. James Corker, and 

 first published in 1680. It was frequently ap- 

 pended to Catholic manuals or prayer-books; 

 but I do not believe that any of these contained 

 any prayers of a seditious character. Enivri 

 asserts that such prayers were found in the 

 Manual for which the two booksellers were con- 

 victed in Dublin in 1709. But he should recol- 

 lect that the very publication or sale of Catholic 

 books was sufficient in those days to subject a 

 publisher to prosecutioa ; and hence so many 



Catholic works of the last century profess to havfe 

 been printed at Antwerp, Brussels, and other 

 towns on the Continent. It is moreover probable 

 enough, that the "Roman Catholick Principles" 

 were appended to the Manual in question; and 

 that tract, though intended to conciliate, mar 

 have provoked prosecution. F. C. li. 



Forensic Jocularities (Vol. x., p. 71.). — T1»e 

 following, which I took from a legal publication, 

 seems of the class of notable things you designate 

 " Forensic Jocularities ; " if you think so, pray 

 give it a place in " IST. & Q. : " 



" Sir J. Leach. While Lord Eldon was obtaining for 

 his court the character of a court of oyer sans terminer, the 

 conduct of the Master of the Rolls in his court of termintr 

 sans oyer was thus celebrated by one as causeless as the 

 cause L Query who .' — J. B. ] : 



* A judge sat on the judgment bench, 



A jolly judge was he; 

 He said unto the Registrar, 

 " Now call a cause to me." 



* * l^ere is no cause," said Registrar, 



And laugh'd aloud with glee, 

 " A cunning Leach hath despatch'd them all, 

 I can 0^1 no cause to thee ! " ' " 



J. Bbll. 

 Cranbrook. 



The "old law book," in which the lines beginning 

 "A woman having a settlement" first appeared, is 

 Burrow's Settlement Cases, and the case is Shad- 

 well V. St. John's, Wapping, p. 124. Sir James 

 Burrow says it had been turned into a catch, in 

 which form alone he had been able to meet with 

 it (See Burtis Justice, vol. iv. p. 456,, ed. 1845.) 

 I send this reference, thinking that whatever is 

 worth printing is worth citing, so that it may 

 most easily be found. If all correspondents 

 would give the title, volume, and page of the 

 lK)ok which they quote, or when it is not at hand, 

 and they have forgotten, say so, the value of 

 " N. & Q." would be increased. H. B. G. 



U. U. Club. 



Lely's Portraits (Vol. x., p. 66.). — I have two 

 oval miniatures by Lely, 3|in. by 2|in., portraits 

 of Sir William Blackett of Newcastle, and his 

 wife, which have on them the painter's monogram. 



W. C. Trevbltaw. 



WalUngton. 



Norfolk Superstition (Vol x., p. 88.).— ^ I beg to 

 inform Mr. Sxjtton that I have known instances 

 of belief in the same opinion to which he alludes 

 in the county of Durham. E. H. A. 



That a corpse not becoming rigid foretells 

 another death, is a common notion among the 

 vulgar in other parts as well as Norfolk. Amok. 



Stars and Flowers (Vol. iv., p. 22. ; Vol. vii. 

 passim). — Th&t the passage in Chrysostom, ad- 



