July 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



SS, 



" Praye?' moves the hand" Sfc. — Where are 

 these lines to be found ? — 



" Prayer moves the hand 

 That moves the universe." 



C. G. L. 



Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. — I have lately seen 

 a fine three-quarter length painting of Oliver 

 Cromwell. It had been neglected for many years, 

 and become covered with dirt and quite obscured \ 

 it was at last cleaned, and found to be a portrait 

 of Oliver. I understand it was formerly in the 

 possession of Lord Torrington, and bought amongst 

 some lumber at a sale of his. 



Can any of your readers give me any information 

 with respect to the painter and history of this 

 portrait; and whether it be true, as I am in- 

 formed, that one portrait of Cromwell is missing ? 



E. S. Jackson. 



Birthplace of Wichliffe. — Whitaker, in ^his 

 History of Richmondshire, quoting Leland's asser- 

 tion that WicklifFe was born at Spreswell, near 

 Richmond, in Yorkshire, supposes the place meant 

 to be Hipswell in that locality, and supports his 

 view by the fact of the existence there of a 

 ".WhitclifF," whilst there never has been known a 

 place called " Spreswell," near Richmond. Query, 

 What authority is there to support the statement 

 in the Biographical Dictionary (Chalmers) that 

 the Reformer was born at WicklifFe, a village near 

 Richmond, in 1324 ? and does the biographer mean 

 the place of that name on the Tees ? The pedi- 

 gree of Wycliffe of WyclifFe is given by Whitaker, 

 but does not mention the Reformer. Whitaker 

 inclines to the WhitclifF on the Swale, but his 

 reasons do not seem to be conclusive. It would 

 be interesting to have this question settled ; and 

 I am sure there cannot be a more effectual way of 

 gaining this end than to have the attention of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." called thereto. Sevabg. 



Kilkenny. 



Reverend applied to the Clergy. — What is the 

 antiquity of and authority for the prefix of Reve- 

 rend to the clergy ? Is it not a mere term of 

 courtesy (as Honourable applied to the children 

 of nobility), being an epithet unconnected with a 

 title ? One singularity is found in the usage that 

 clergymen employ it when speaking of themselves, 

 placing it on their cards ; but is not this a modern 

 practice? After searching many early sermon 

 books and works written by divines, I find 

 Reverend is not usually placed before the name 

 of the author on the title-page. It will be under- 

 stood that there is no doubt as to the propriety of 

 the appellation ; but is it a title conferred by 

 authority, or only what Selden would call an 

 " honorary attribute ? " M— n. 



Foiibert Family. — Evelyn mentions in his 

 Diary, Sept. 17, 1681, that he " went with Mons'. 

 Poubert about takeing y* Countesse of BristoU's 



house for an academic," &c. ; and Dec. 17, 1684, 

 he speaks of " Mons'. Foubert and his sonn, pro- 

 vost masters of y® academic : " this academy was 

 between King Street and Swallow Street, now 

 Regent Street, where "Major Foubert's passage" 

 commemorates it. In 1702 one Henry Foubert 

 was Equerry to Wm, III. ; and Bromley gives 

 account of a portrait of " Henry Foubert, Major 

 and Equerry," and adds that he "died 1743." 

 In 1764 thex*e was one Augustus Faubert, or 

 Foubert, resident in St. James's parish, West- 

 minster ; can any of your readers tell me whether 

 the Henry Foubert, Equerry, 1702, is identical 

 with Henry Foubert, Major and Equerry, who 

 died 1743, and in what relationship (if any) he or 

 they and Augustus Faubert or Foubert stood to 

 Mons. Foubert, and who Augustus married ? 



A.F. 



Cambridge Disputations. — In the public dispu- 

 tations held in the schools at Cambridge by can- 

 didates for degrees (which disputations are now 

 partially abolished), a species of syllogistic form 

 was adopted, of the origin of which no account- 

 was ever given. In the only work I know of, 

 which professes to guide the student, Wesley's - 

 Guide to Syllogism, London, 1832, small 8vo., not 

 a word is said on the meaning and origin of the 

 form, which is as follows : — 



Suppose that the two propositions, "a is b", 

 and "c is »," lead to "e is f," which contradicts 

 what the respondent is maintaining. The oppo- 

 nent then shaped his argument into three con- 

 ditional syllogisms, thus : 



" Si A sit B ; cadit quaestio : r 



Sed A est B ; ergo cadit quaestio. 



" Si c sit D ; valet consequentia : 

 Sed c est D ; ergo valet consequentia. 



"Si igitur e sit f; valeat consequentia et argu- 

 mentum : > 



Sed igitur e ist f ; ergo valent consequentia et atv^ 

 gumeutum." 



What is the meaning of this form ? What dte 

 the meanings of the terms qucestio, consequentia, 

 argumentum? Was this form common to scho- 

 lastic disputations, or was it confined to Cam- 

 bridge? If the former, has it been correctly 

 preserved, or has the disuse of technical logic at 

 Cambridge allowed it to become corrupt ? In 

 what books has it been described ? M. i 



Tenure of Land.— M-onihoXon, in his Memoirs 

 of Napoleon at Elba, records an observation of 

 that great man, that, whenever the question of 

 the Tenure of Land shall be settled in England, r 

 she would become the greatest country in the 

 world. Caii any reader refer to that book, and 

 give the exact words used ? H. 



