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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 143. 



The Furneanx Family. — I sliall be tliankful to 

 any of your readers who will enable me to trace 

 the pedigree of the Furneanx family, either up- 

 ward or downward, during the fourteenth and 

 fifteenth centuries. I have hitherto succeeded in 

 tracing the line from Forneus, or Furnieueus, of 

 the Battle Abbey Roll, through Sir Alan de Fur- 

 iieaux, to whom the manor of Fen-Ottery, Devon, 

 was granted by Henry I. circa 1 100, down through 

 six generations, to Sir John de Furneaux, who in 

 1343 alienated the above manor to his brother 

 Eichard, who was dead in 1344. The intermediate 

 links are Sir Galfrede, the son of Sir Alan ; then 

 another Sir Alan, then Sir John, Sir Philip, a 

 second Sir John, a thii-d Sir John, who alienated 

 the manor. The last account I can get of the 

 Furneaux, in connexion with Fen-Ottery, is of a 

 Sir John de F., dead in 1413. 



The Furneaux now resident in Devon I can 

 trace no further back than to Henry, the son of 

 Matthew Furneaux, baptized at Paignton Church 

 in 1560. Still the frequent allusions and refer- 

 ences made to them, argue them to be of the same 

 stock. Any information, therefore, connecting the 

 links broken at 1344 and 1560, will oblige 



AA M. Duck. 



Personators of Fdward VI. — Harvey, in his 

 Discoursive Probleme concerning Prophecies, Lond. 

 1588, writes: 



" Alas ! what fond and value expectation hath a long 

 time rested in the minds, not of one, or two, or a few ; 

 but of great multitudes of the simpler sort in England 

 about K, Edward Sixt, as though they were sure 

 either of his arising from death, or his returne from I 

 know not what, Jerusalem or other strange land." 



He then goes on to speak of " suborned mar- 

 chants of base parentage" who have " sithence 

 ranged abroade in the countrie, presuming to 

 terme themselves by the roiale name of K. Ed- 

 ward." Where can I find an account of these 

 impostors ? T. Sternberg. 



Barlaanis Commentary on Euclid. — The article 

 in the Penny Cyclopaedia, under the word " Bar- 

 rAAM," refers to a work of his in the catalogue of 

 De Thou's library, under the title ArUhmetica 

 Demonstratio eorum quce Euclides Lihro II. in 

 lineis demonstravit (no date or place). This work 

 was, however, printed by Christian Mylius at 

 Strasburgh in 1564, 16mo., as an appendix to the 

 second book of Euclid's Elements, with a Latin 

 translation by Conrad Dasypodius (=Rauchfuss), 

 with the usual title of Euclid prefixed : 



" 'Ek TaJr Tov ©tSivos ffiivovaiaii'. Kal BapXaa/x ixovaxov 

 apiSfiririKij aTro'Sei^is t(Sv ypajii/xiKccs iv t&5 SevTep(f tSiv 

 croLXfiuv a.TroSeixOiVTcoi'." 



This is an algebraical* rather than arithmetical 

 * AoyiariKTi, 



application or proof of the first ten propositions of 

 Euclid's second book ; for no numerals are used, 

 but lines and parts of lines having certain ratios 

 and resulting equations : each irporaais, proposi- 

 tion, being divided into iKdeins, explanation given ; 

 Siopifffxhs, explanation sought; KarcxxrKevi], delineation or 

 constfiiction ; anSSei^is, demonstration ; and avixiripaff^a^ 

 conclusion, in the strict form of Euclid. Barlaani 

 lived in the first half of the fourteenth century, 

 before the introduction of the Arabic numerals 

 into Europe. His name was Bernard before he 

 changed it to Barlaam (son of the people) OU' 

 taking the vows of St. Basil in the Greek church, 

 which he deserted for the Latin. He was well 

 known to Boccacio and Petrarch. T. J. Bucktox 

 Bristol Road, Birmingham. 



Venice Glasses. — Could you kindly give me 

 some information on the subject of Venice glasses ? 

 They appear to have possessed the valuable pro- 

 perty of splitting in pieces as soon as poison was- 

 put into them, and to have been used as a safe- 

 guard almost in modern times ? Who invented 

 them ? And how did they differ in composition 

 from ordinary glasses ? Rt. 



Warmington. 



Styles of Dukes and Marquises. — Have not these 

 peers different styles — Most Noble and Most Ho- 

 norable ? How is it that the style Most Noble is 

 applied to marquises, and even the sons of mar- 

 quises, in official notices ? For instance, in the 

 Gazette on the 18th of June, the Duke of Beau- 

 fort's son is announced as the Most Noble Henry 

 Charles Fitzroy Somerset, commonly called Mar- 

 quis of Worcester, which is only a courtesy title ! 



L. T. 



2. New Square, Line. Inn. 



Who was Colonel Bodens ? — A late Quarterly 

 asks this question. A brief account of the habits, 

 associates, and career of this once well-knowtt 

 character would oe acceptable to more than one 

 of your readers. S. S. 



" What sent the Messengers ?" — 



" What sent the messengers to hell, 

 But asking what they knew full well?" 



Where the above lines are quoted is forgotten, 

 (Query, Redgauntlet?) But that is not the pur- 

 port of the Query, which is. To what event do 

 they refer ? AVho were the messengers ? J. E. 



St. Margaret and the Dragon. — One of the old 

 churches in Canterbui-y is dedicated to St. Mar- 

 garet, and the parishioners have a confused notion 

 that some legend is attached thereto. They talk 

 of " St. Margaret and the Dragon." Can you 



