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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 161. 



cording to my recollection, the preface indicates 

 the authorship as of the Bishop of London, and is 

 corroborated by the words " By Bishop Juxon," 

 ■written (I think on the fly-leaf) in a hand that I 

 have recognised in such notices upon various old 

 volumes. 



There is, prefixed to the catalogue, an introduc- 

 tory dissertation upon books and learning, of some 

 length and of considerable interest and merit. 



F. A. S., L. & E. 



Wellington : why chosen as the Duke's Title 

 (Vol. vi., p. 462.).— E. H. A. asks why the Duke 

 of "Wellington chose that title when he was raised 

 to the peerage. 



He selected the title of Wellington because that 

 town is near the little village of Wensley, which 

 bears a close resemblance in its name to that of 

 Wesley, the old family name, since altered to 

 Wellesley. 



Efforts were made to purchase an estate in the 

 neighbourhood of Wellington, but without success. 



A Cantab. 



Charles Inglis, first Bishop of Nova Scotia 

 (Vol. vi., p. 151.). — In addition to the inform- 

 ation afforded by the editor of " N. & Q.," permit 

 me to add, that Dr. Inglis was pastor of Trinity 

 Church, New York, from 1777 to 1783. In 1809 

 he became a member of the Nova Scotia Council. 

 He was the first Protestant Bishop of any British 

 colonial possession in either hemisphere. His son, 

 John Inglis, was consecrated Bishop of Nova 

 Scotia in 1825. Sabine, in his American Loyalists, 

 says that Charles Inglis died in 1816, in the eighty- 

 second year of his age, which would make the year 

 of his birth 1744.* How does this agree with the 

 statement (p. 151. " N. & Q"), that he taught a 

 free school at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1755 

 to 1758 (he must have been a young preceptor) ; 

 and of his admission to Holy Orders in 1759, when 

 he could have been but fifteen years old according 

 to the statement of Mr. Sabine. Wi. 



Philadelphia. 



Alioquin (Vol. vi., p. 389.).— M. A. asks "by 

 •what ellipse the word alioquin reached the sense of 

 otherwise ? " Allow me to suggest the word modo 

 in the ablative case, which is often used in com- 

 pound words of this class, solumniodo, tantummodo, 

 &c. Perhaps, however, there is no ellipse in the 

 case. The word is written alioqui as well as 

 alioquin ; and qui is the ablative of the pronoun 

 quis, as may be seen in quicum, which is common 

 in Terence, &c. If we adopt the first explanation, 

 the word alioquin is similar to our otherwise; 

 except that the syllable qui or quin is unmanage- 



[* Our correspondent's arithmetic is faulty. It would 

 make the year of his birth 1734, not 1744. — Ed.J 



able, or nearly so. If we adopt the latter, qui= 

 how, as we say " anyhow." The Latins said 

 " otherhow," we say " otherwise." B. H. Cowper. 



Pepys charged with Treason (Vol. vi., p. 41 1.). — 

 Lord Braybrooke is unable to supply any in- 

 formation on the subject of the two extracts from 

 The Domestic Intelligence, printed in " N. & Q..," 

 Vol. vi., p. 411. They were brought under his 

 notice when the Diary was in the press, in 1825 ; 

 but as the whole story was evidently a fabrication, 

 and one of the paragraphs completely falsified 

 the other, the circumstances were not detailed 

 in the brief memoir of the secretary, prefixed to 

 the journal. It seemed indeed preposterous to 

 imagine that any one conversant with court eti- 

 quette, who had only been just liberated on bail, 

 and whose trial for treason was still pending, could 

 have ventured to intrude himself into the royal 

 presence, or have expected to be suffered to kiss 

 the king's hand. 



It may be as well to add that some particulars 

 of the charges made against Pepys will be found in 

 the Commons' Journals of the day, though the 

 trial never came on. Braybrooke. 



Audley End. 



Passage in the " Two Gentlemen of Verona '* 

 (Vol. vi., p. 469.). — The excellent correction, by 

 Sir F. Madden, of " face" for " case," in Twelfth 

 Night, Act V. Sc. 1 ., induces me to call the atten- 

 tion of the readers of " N. & Q." to another pas- 

 sage, which has been corrupted just in the same 

 manner, namely, by the confusion of " f" and " f," 

 combined with a transposition of letters. In the 

 Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 7., we read, 

 according to the first folio and Mr. Knight : 



" A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears, 

 And instances of infinite of love, 

 "Warrant me welcome to my Proteus." 



Mr. Coloer follows the second folio, which 

 reads "as infinite;" but, as Malone justly observes, 

 "of" and "as" are not likely to have been con- 

 founded. It was this observation of Malone's that 

 led me to what I believe to be the true reading, 

 namely, 



" And instances so Infinite of love." 



"So" is to be understood here in an intensitive 

 sense ; as we say, even now, " I am so glad," " I 

 am so s^'ry," and as Shakspeare says in Cymbeline, 

 Act L Sc. 2. : 



" As I my poor self did exchange for you, 

 To your so infinite loss." 



I take this opportunity of correcting an error of 

 the press, or of my own pen, in a communication 

 of mine, which is to be also found in the above page 

 of " N. &■ Q.," though on a quite different subject : 

 for Daridianus read Daridinianus. L. 



