Nov. 11. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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probably about the middle of the year ; as the 

 letter of Claudio Tolomeo, urging him to return, 

 is dated Oct. 20, 1542 ; and his own reply was 

 indited during the same year (or, according to 

 another account, in April, 1543). See Schelhorn, 

 Amoen. Hist. Eccl., vol. i. p. 444. Now Paleario 

 says : 



" Ex cujus (Christi) morte quanta commoda alleta sint 

 humano generi cum hoc anno Thusc^ scripsissem, objec- 

 tum fuit in accusatione." 

 I And proceeds to add a syllabus of the con- 

 I tents of the book, which accords perfectly with 

 the Italian treatise. If, then, as seems to me 

 ; most probable, the Oration and the tract belong to 

 *, 1543, it is almost certain that Paleario wrote the 

 latter; or, if they both belong to 1542, as may 

 possibly be the case, the same conclusion will hold 

 good : but a discrepancy of only one year will be 

 enough to prevent us from assigning the tract to 

 Paleario. I will add, that the Oration is scatent 

 with historical allusions ; so that a person very 

 familiar with the history of those times may pro- 

 bably determine the date with absolute certainty. 

 Mac Crie (Hist, of the Ref. in Italy') says that he 

 quitted the Siennese " about the year 1543." These 

 "abouts" ruin everything, and are most severely 

 to be deprecated whenever they occur in a his- 

 torian, if the actual date can be discovered. 

 Hallbauer's Life of Paleario may very possibly 

 throw some light on the subject. It is prefixed to 

 his edition of his Works, 1728 ; but unfortunately 

 I have it not at hand to consult. Many of your 

 readers are, I doubt not, more favourably circum- 

 stanced. Churchill Babington. 

 St. John's Coll., Camb. 



Temptation and Selfishness. — 



"Xever comes temptation in so plausible a form as 

 when the resistance to it may be attributed to selfish- 

 ness." 



Query, Who is the author of this, and what does 

 it mean ? F. S. R. 



Eichmond. 



_ Storbating, or Storbanting. — "What is the de- 

 rivation of this word, applied by the fishermen on 

 the southern bank of the Orwell in Suffolk to 

 fishing for sprats ? F. C. B. 



Diss. 



Battlcdoor. — What is the meaning of this 

 word in an account of disbursements by reason of 

 the plague, from Cambridge town-book? See 

 Annals of Cambridge, by G. H. Cooper, vol. iii. 

 P- 415. F. C. B. 



Diss. 



Bryant Fatnily. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents direct me where to find any account of the 



Bryant family ? Is there any work of Com- 

 moners besides Burke's ? What are the arms of 

 Bryant (I believe) of Tiverton? — also crest? 

 Burke gives the arms in his Heraldic Dictionary, 

 but does not state from whence.* Any informa- 

 tion about the family will be thankfully received. 

 A Fkiemd of the Family. 



Bread converted into Stone : an enduring Mi- 

 racle. — There was to be found at Leyden two 

 centuries ago bread converted into stone by 

 " Divine permission," as a chastisement for the 

 brutality of a woman who refused to give a loaf to 

 her starving sister. (See Les Delices de la Hol- 

 lande, p. 68.) Can any of your readers inform me 

 whether this remarkable evidence of a miracle is 

 still preserved at Leyden, or give any farther 

 particulars of the circumstance that occasioned it ? 

 Our author, it would be as well to remark, was a 

 devout believer in everything promulgated by the 

 Fathers of the Church of Rome, or sanctioned by 

 the Pope. TiMON. 



Irish Family Names. — Is there any work of 

 authority on " the origin and meanings of Irish 

 family names ? " I am well aware that some in- 

 teresting articles, under the title I have quoted, 

 and from the pen of Mr. O'Donovan, appeared in 

 the Ii-ish Penny Journal (Dublin, 1841) ; but the 

 subject deserves, I think, a fuller consideration. At 

 any rate, the articles might with advantage be 

 reprinted — revised (if need be) by the author. 



Abhba. 



King James Brass Money. — In Simon's Essay 

 on Irish Coins (Lond. 1749, and Dublin, 1810, 

 with supplement) there is perhaps the best ac- 

 count of this extraordinary coinage, so well known 

 as associated with "wooden shoes," &c. Yet a 

 strange discrepancy on one point exists between 

 the text and the plates at the end of the volume,, 

 and which, so far as the text goes, is followed by 

 the Rev. Rogers Ruding, in his Annals of the 

 Coinage, Lond. 1819. Simon says that "some of 

 these coins, for every month from June 1689 to 

 April 1690 inclusive, are in the hands of the 

 curious." Yet in the engravings there appear a 

 shilling and half-crown, both for May, 1 690, which 

 latter agrees exactly with one of his smaller half- 

 crowns in a set which I have. I would be glad to 

 know how this contradiction is accounted for, and 

 if the fact of the monthly coinage extending to 

 May can be confirmed. J. R. G. 



Dublin. 



Customs of the County Clare. — Will Mr. Davies, 

 or any other correspondent acquainted with the 

 local customs of the county Clare, kindly inform 



[* Burke's Armory contains the following notice : 

 " Bryant. Az. on a cross or, a cinquefoil between four 

 lozenges gu. Crest, a flag ^z. charged wit,h saltire ar."] 



