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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 145. 



Mr. Hamilton's entertaining narrative of A Visit 

 to the Danish Isles ; while one cannot but recollect 

 the anecdote which attributes to Linnaeus the en- 

 thusiastic act of falling on his face and thanking 

 €rO(l, who had permitted him to see so glorious a 

 sight as a plot of "yellow-blossomed" furze in 

 England. The question is this, Does the Scan- 

 dinavian Flora present such a difference on the 

 soil on either side of the Sound, that the Ulex 

 Europceus abounds in Denmark, while it is un- 

 known in Sweden, the native country of the ce- 

 lebrated botanist above named ? D. 



Duke of Orleans (Vol. vi., p. 57.). — Like King 

 John, the Duke of Orleans appears to have been 

 confined in several places. In addition to those 

 named in Nicolas' Agincourt, Pontefract is named 

 by Henry V. (^History of England and France, 

 "House of Lancaster," 1852.) Nicolas has, "It is 



isaid that Sir R. Waller took him prisoner;" but 

 whence comes the statement in Lower's Curiosities 



of Heraldry, p. 173., of the twenty-nine years' cap- 

 tivity at Groombridge, arms at Speldhurst, &c. ? 



A.C. 



Ferdinando Conde V Adda. — Sen. D'Adda, as 

 he was generally styled, was accredited to the 

 Court of England as Papal Nuncio, and publicly 

 received as such by King James II. at Windsor, 

 July 3, 1687, and had been consecrated Arch- 

 bishop of Amasia, in partibus, in May preceding, 

 in the chapel at St. James's Palace, by Bishop 

 Leyburn, assisted by two Irisli prelates. Query, 

 Who were they ? Count Adda made his escape 

 from England on the breaking out of the revo- 

 lution in December of the following year, in the 

 train of the Duke of Savoy's ambassador, and I 

 possess no further information about him. I wish 

 therefore to ascertain the period and place of his 

 decease, with any particulars of his previous and 

 subsequent history. A. S. A, 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Constables of France. — Who succeeded in this 

 office Annas de Montmorency, killed in the battle 

 of St. Denis, 1567; or was the dignity then abo- 

 lished? I am aware that Henri, Due d'Anjou, 

 was appointed lieutenant-general of the kingdom 

 of France, after Montmorency's death, but I have 

 somewhere met with a Lesdiguieres, Governor of 

 Dauphine, called Constable, temp. Henry IV. 



A.S.A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Lady Mary Grey and Thomas Keyes, 1568 — 

 1571. — Who was the first wife of Thomas Keyes, 

 who by his second marriage became allied to the 

 blood-royal of England ? On his death in Sep- 

 tember 1571, his widow, Mary Keyes, or the Lady 

 Mary Grey, asked for Queen Elizabeth's permis- 

 sion " to keep and bring up his children," of whom 

 it appears that Mr. Keyes had several by his 



former wife. Is it known what became of them 

 afterwards, or of what family Keyes himself was? 

 Burgon's Life and Times of Sir T. Gresham has 

 shown that his name was Thomas, and not Martin, 

 as all previous writers had stated. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, and Adrian Stokes. 

 — Another obscure marriage of a royally de- 

 scended lady requires elucidation. Who was 

 Stokes, when and where did this mesalliance 

 occur, and is the period of his death recorded, or 

 indeed any particulars of him or bis origin, family, 

 &c. ? A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Queen Marie de Conci, Widoiv of Alexander II. 

 King of Scots. — This lady is stated to have mar- 

 ried secondly John of Ac7-e, son of the King of 

 Jerusalem. Is the date of this marriage recorded, 

 or what became subsequently of her and her hus- 

 band, and whether they had any family? Was 

 this John, son of John de Brienne, King of Je- 

 rusalem, 1210, and Emperor of Constantinople, 

 1228, till his death, 1237 ? For if so, why did not 

 he, and not his sister Violante, inherit the claims 

 to the titular dignity of Jerusalem? John of 

 Acre must have been alive long after that crown 

 was assumed by the Emperor Frederic II. in right 

 of his wife Queen Violante. A. S. A. 



Wuzzeerabad. 



Milan. — The German name for this town is 

 " Mailand," which means " Land of May." This 

 is probably a corruption of Mediolanum, the Ro- 

 man name ; or possibly the ancient Germans had 

 given "Mailand" or some name of the sort to this 

 town previously to the possession of it by the Ro- 

 mans, and they, on coming into possession of it, 

 Latinised the native name into Mediolanum in 

 much the same way as the native name of the 

 place now called London, which was Lundyn, was 

 Latinised by Its conquerors into Londinlum. My 

 Query is, What is the derivation of the English 

 and Italian names for the town, viz., Milan and 

 Miiano ? Is it a corruption of the Roman, or the 

 still more ancient name. If any existed ? It does 

 not appear to me to bear much similarity to the 

 name Mediolanum. Arthur C. Wilson. 



Author of the Gradus. — I have very often heard 

 It asked, and wished myself to know, who was the 

 mysterious Jesuit who wrote that well-known school 

 book, the Gradus ad Parnassum. The authorship 

 of this book is, as all know who have availed them- 

 selves of its aid, ascribed on the title-page thus : 

 " Ab uno e Societate Jesu." Perhaps "N. & Q." can 

 throw some light on the subject ; for it is only by 

 reminding ?ome of its learned correspondents of 

 these subjects that we (I mean those who, like 

 myself, do not know how to set about the solution) 

 can hope to be enlightened. Arthur C. Wilson. 



