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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 149. 



thore be none, allow me to point out tlie desirable- 

 ness of such a compilation. *. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



[We fully agree with our correspondent as to the 

 value of such a work as he suj^gests, and shall gladly 

 insert any communications which may furnish mate- 

 rials towards it.] 



Punning Mottoes (Vol. vi., p. 155. note.). — Per- 

 mit me to send you a few more punning mottoes 

 in addition to those selected by H. W. S. S. 



Deo paget. — Paget. 



Toy apiareveiv tj/eKa. — Henniker. 



Fo7-te scutwn salus ducum. — Foktescue. 



JIoc in loco dens. — IIockin. 



Fides montium Deo. — Hill. 



Et juste et vrai. — Wrat. 



Farifac. — Fairfax. 



Itecijnunt fceynina sustentacula a nobis. — Patten- 

 makers' COMPAHY. 



God the only Founder. — Founders' Company. 



Omnia suhjecisti sub j^edibus, eves et boves. — 



Bl'TCHERS'. 



Most of these are good specimens of this curious 

 class of motto. W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



*rv 



caufrtfS. 



riRST EDITION OF FOXE S BOOK OF MARTYRS. 



You often assist correspondents, by procuring 

 for them odd volumes., to complete imperfect sets of 

 books. Will you consent to go one step farther 

 in that direction, and make an attemjit to complete 

 copies of rare works, which arc deficient in leaves, 

 plates, or title-pages? You know how common 

 such melancholy cases are. It may often happen 

 that two collectors could materially assist each 

 other, by an interchange of duplicate leaves of 

 some valuable book, wliich both of them possess in 

 an imperfect state, and are anxious to complete. 



Will you, at all events, make one trial of this 

 plan for me? I have a copy of the first edition of 

 Foxe's Acts and Monuments, fol. 1563 : I need not 

 say that it is imperfect. I also have nearly 700 

 leaves of a second copy ; and shall be very glad to 

 interchange leaves with any other person similarly 

 circumstanced. 



Tlie leaves which / want are the following : 

 Title and prefatory 



matter. 

 1. — Fol. 13. 

 1.— Pp.613, 614., Sig- 

 nature K K i. 

 1.— Pp. (879, 

 * K K k ii. 

 2.— Pp. 899—902 

 My second copy has none before folio 17. (sig- 

 nature D iii.), nor any after p. 1488. 



How nmny defective copies are there of rare 



editions of the earlier English Bibles, of Tyndale's 

 New Testament, Sternhold's Psalms, &c., which 

 might be vastly improved by such an interchange ; 

 to say nothing of almost all the books published by 

 Caxton, Machlinia, the St. Albans, Oxford, York, 

 Tavistoclc, and other early provincial presses; and 

 even many of the most interesting of the publica- 

 tions issued by Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. 

 But I need go no fai'ther on that subject: and 

 therefore end by commending my project to your 

 mature consideration. Henry Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland. 



[The object of the present communication is one so 

 completely in accordance with the views and objects for 

 which " N. & Q." was established, that we have to 

 thank our correspondent for taking so excellent a mode 

 of pointing out the utility of this new feature. We in 

 our turn hope he may succeed in his object, and com- 

 plete his book.] 



"histoire du prince titi." 



Much confusion has existed, and indeed still 

 prevails, regarding the authorship of that strange 

 little volume, Histoire du Prince Titi, A. R , a 

 Paris, chez la Veuve Pissot, 1736, 12mo. The 

 first time I saw it mentioned was in Dr. Johnson's 

 Diart/ of his French Tour; in a note to which 

 Mr. Croker states that "it was said to be the 

 autobiography of Frederick Prince of "\'\^ales 

 (father of Geo. III.), but Avas probably written by 

 Ilalph, his secretary." He then refers to Wal- 

 pole's Eoyal and Noble Authors, ed. by Park ; and 

 to Biog. Diet., article Ralph. 



This latter is a garbled account of what ap- 

 peared in the Gent. Mag., vol. Ixx. Part I. p. 422., 

 mentioning the discovery of the original MS. in 

 the handwriting of the Prince himself, who gave it 

 to Jas. Ralph the historian, amongst whose papers 

 it was found, and by the executors given up to 

 Lord Bute. 



In a subsequent ed. of Boswell's Life of John- 

 son, London, 1835 (vol. vi. p. 5.), Mr. Croker says 

 the volume was advertised in the Gent. Mag. for 

 Feb. 1736, as the History of Prince Titi, a Royal 

 Allegory, t?-anslated from, the Original, just pub- 

 lished in Paris, by the Hon. Mrs. Stanly : sold by 

 E. Curl. Tlie fact is, that the two editions, Frencli 

 and English, appeared the same year ; and Mr. 

 Croker might have referred us top. 122. of the 

 same vol. of Gent. Mag. for an amusing article 

 from Fog's Journal, detailing the extraordinary 

 enlarging of the nose of the ambassador men- 

 tioned in the work. 



Curl also announced, Pausanius and Aurora, 

 being the Continuation of P?-ince Titi's History, 

 done from the Italian, 1736, which I have not seen, 



Mr. Croker, in the Prefatory Notice (p. Ixi.) 

 affixed to Lord Hervey's Memoirs of Geo. II., 



