Nov. 11. 1854.] 



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appear to 150, on first Inspection, three pork pies, 

 but which, on closer scrutiny, are discovered to be 

 three crowns : the crowns, I- presume, of the three 

 kingdoms. Beneath the tree (and of the proper 

 relative proportions) are two mounted troopers 

 with their swords drawn, and their horses gallop- 

 ing. At the foot of the tree is a scroll, having 

 this motto : 



"ipsa jovi kemus." 



The late Dr. Jones, of Kidderminster, gave 

 these versions of the motto : 



•" Carolus loquitur : — 



This sacred tree of mighty Jove, 

 Has been to me a shady grove. 

 "Or, 



Jove's sacred tree, 

 Hath shaded me. 



" Arbor loquitur : — 



In me behold a mighty grove. 

 The sacred royal tree of Jove. 

 "Or, 



I, sacred to Jove, 

 Myself am a grove." 



CuTHBEET BeBE, B.A. 



Jury. — The legal and original establishment of 

 the jury is generally derived from the twenty- 

 ninth chapter of the Magna Charta, where the 

 words " per legale judicium parium suorum vel 

 per legem terra; " are thought to have reference 

 to the goods and persons of all freemen, who are 

 not to be deprived of either without the judgment 

 of their peers, or the laws of the land. But these 

 words greatly resemble those by which Emperor 

 Conrad II. had, two centuries previously, gua- 

 ranteed to his Italian Inferior vassals the per- 

 manent possession of their fiefs or benefices. The 

 words there used are, "Nemo beneficium suum 

 perdat nisi secundum consuetudinem antecesso- 

 rum nostrorum et per judicium parium suorum" 

 (LL. Longoh., L. iii. Tit. in. 1. 4.). Now, as It Is 

 well known that throughout the whole of that 

 period the vassals were incessantly struggling for 

 mdependence, and that It was the vassals or barons 

 who enforced from King John the Magna Charta, 

 it Is not improbable that the above words in the 

 Magna Charta may have reference to the irrevo- 

 cableness of their granted fiefs rather than any- 

 thing else. Dk. Michelsen. 



Sale of Enemies. — The following extract has 

 been taken from the original enrolment appearing 

 upon the Memoranda Roll of the Irish Exchequer 

 (20 Hen. VI., membrane 9 dorso). 



" Heniy, &c., to all to whom, &c. Know ye that for 

 twenty shillings, which John Fitz Henry, of Dublin, has 

 paid to us at the receipt of our Exchequer of Ireland, we 

 have granted and sold to the same John, Neyll Odurnyn, 

 our Irish enemy, together with the redemption of the 

 aforesaid Neyll, who was taken by Sir John Dartas, 

 Knight, and was put in the custody of our Castle of 



Dublin by the said John, there to remain for his redemp - 

 tion, to be therein made to the said John Dartas, being 

 our debtor, for the which debts all the goods and chattels 

 of the aforesaid John Dartas, for the debts and accounts 

 in which he is bound to us at our Exchequer of Ireland, 

 are taken and seized by the Barons of our Exchequer 

 aforesaid into our hand, &c. ; to have and to hold to the 

 said John Fitz Henry and his assigns the said Neyll as is 

 aforesaid, in exoneration of the debts and accounts of the 

 aforesaid John Dartas, without anything to be rendered 

 or paid to us, &c., beyond the said twenty shillings. 

 Dated 8th May, 20 Henry VI." 



The foregoing grant Is followed by the enrol- 

 ment of a memorandum, that on the same day on 

 which the grant was made the barons of the Ex- 

 chequer directed Hugh Gallyan, the deputy of 

 Giles Thorndon, Esq., the constable of Dublin 

 Castle, to deliver the said Neyll Odurnyn to Mr. 

 Fitz Henry, and that on the said 8th day of May 

 he was delivered to him, in compliance with that 

 direction. 



At this time, when difficulties appear to have 

 arisen as to the proper mode of disposing of the 

 Queen's enemies captured during the present war, 

 the foregoing precedent might be taken Into con- 

 sideration. For my own part, however, I may be 

 permitted to observe, that I trust the British 

 public. In whatever course they may adopt, will 

 continue to bear In mind the divine command to 

 " love your enemies." J. F. F, 



Dublin. 



Signs of Storm. — Among the many true or 

 supposed indications of weather changes, the lunar 

 phenomenon sometimes observed of a double ap- 

 pearance was regarded as a sign of approaching 

 storm. Thus speaks and is answered Sir Patrick 

 Spence, In the old ballad : 



" Mak' haste, mak' haste, my merrie men all, 

 Our gude ship sails the morn ; 

 Oh, say not so, my master dear, 

 For i fear a deadly storm. 

 " Late, late yestreen I saw the new moon 

 With the old moon in her arm. 

 And I fear, I fear, my master dear. 

 That we may come to harm." 



This appearance Is also beautifully described by 



Shelley : 



" Like the young moon, 

 When on the sunlit limits of the night 

 Her white shell trembles amid crimson air. 

 And whilst the sleeping tempest gathers might. 

 Doth, as the herald of its coming, bear 

 The ghost of its dead mother, whose dim form 

 Bends in dark ether from her infant's chair." 



And In a ballad by Longfellow Is the following : 

 ** Then up and spake an old sailor. 

 Had sail'd the Spanish Main, 

 ' I pray thee, put into yonder port, 

 For I fear a hurricane. 

 " ' Last night the moon had a golden ring, 

 And to-night no moon we see ' — 

 The skipper he blew a whifFfrom his pipe, 

 And a scornful laugh laugh'd he." 



