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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 162. 



bom at Slapton, Northamptonshire ; and in the 

 oldest register of that parish there is the follow- 

 ing notice of him : 



"Frances, the sonn of henery gastrin and Eliezabth 

 his wife, was borne the 10th of may, 1662." 



Ekawth. 



Coin of Claudius current. — Among some pence 

 which I received at a neighbouring village, my son 

 found recently a copper coin of Claudius in good 

 preservation, which had passed for a penny. It 

 bears, obverse, bust to the right claudius c^sar 

 AUG. p. M. : reverse, Fortune holding a patera (?) 

 in one hand, and a branch (?) in the other. The 

 letters s c on each side, and adgusta. S. E,. P. 



" No nice extreme a true Italian knows," Sfc. — 

 Origin of the Couplet. — Permit me to make a 

 Note of the history of a couplet used by Phillips, 

 the Irish orator, in his letter to the King in re- 

 ference to the trial of Queen Caroline. The 

 matter was lately published in a local paper of this 

 city, but is worthy of a transfer to " N. & Q." 

 Speaking of the Italian witnesses upon that trial, 

 Mr. Phillips applied these lines : 



" No nice extreme a true Italian knows ; 

 But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes." 



The history of these lines forms quite an in- 

 teresting fact among the curiosities of literature. 

 They are paraphrased from the third satire of 

 Juvenal, " Urbis incommoda," in which he com- 

 plains of the encroachments of the Greeks, who 

 had in Rome nearly monopolised many callings. 

 The original passage is — 

 " Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, sermo 

 Promtus, et Is«o torrentior. Ede, quid ilium 

 Esse putes? quem vishominem, secum attulit ad nos : 

 Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes. 

 Augur, schoenobates, medicos, magus : omnia novit. 

 Grajculus esuriens in ccelum, jusseris, ibit." 

 These are rendered by Gilford : 

 " A protean tribe, one knows not how to call. 

 That shifts to every form, and shines in all: 

 Grammarian, painter, augur, rhetorician, 

 Geometer, cook, conjurer, and physician ; 

 All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts ; 

 And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts." 



Dr. Johnson, in his poem entitled London, which 

 is a paraphrase of Juvenal's satire, applies the 

 phrase to the Freoch who thronged the great me- 

 tropolis, with a difference, thus : 



All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows; 

 And bid him go to hell — to hell he goes." 



Mr. Phillips, in his letter to the King, paraphrased 

 and altered the line to suit the Italians ; and as it 

 has done such good service, it may, perhaps, at 

 some day be altered again to hit some other na- 

 tional weakness. SSI, 

 Philadelphia. 



The Stipends of Scotch Clergy in 1750, from 



the printed acts of the General Assembly of that 



year : it may amuse your readers to see it. 



" Number of benefices, 833. 



Stipend under 251. - - - 1 



Above 251. and not higher than 30/. - 3 



IS 



- 25 



- 106 



- 126 

 84 



- 119 



- 94 



- 119 



- 38 

 22 



- 27 

 7 

 7 



19 

 2 

 3 

 2 



16 



The total of these stipends was said to be 50,266/.. 

 15s. 5d. 10-12ths." 



Abekdoniensis, 



Too many Attorneys. — The act of 33 Henry VI. 

 c. 7. says, that not long since, in the city of Nor- 

 wich, and in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 there were only six or eight attorneys at most, 

 coming to the king's courts, in which time great 

 tranquillity reigned in those places, and little 

 vexation was occasioned by untrue and foreign 

 suits. But now, says the act, there are in these 

 places four score attorneys or more, the generality 

 of whom have nothing to live upon but their prac- 

 tice, and besides are very ignorant. It complains 

 that they came to markets and fairs, and other 

 places where there were assemblies of people, ex- 

 horting, procuring, and moving persons to attempt 

 untrue and foreign suits for small trespasses, little 

 offences, and small sums of money, which might be 

 determined in courts baron ; so that more suits 

 were now raised for malice than for the ends of 

 justice, and courts baron became less frequented^ 

 These are the motives which the act states for 

 making a reformation ; which was, that in future 

 there should be but six common attorneys in the 

 county of Norfolk, the same in the county of Suf- 

 folk, and in the city of Norwich tivo. These were 

 to be admitted by the two chief justices, of the 

 most sufficient and best instructed; and persons 

 acting as attorneys in those parts without such 

 admission were subjected to heavy penalties, 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia, 



Wives of Ecclesiastics (Vol. iy.,passini). — Louis 

 de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, Archbishop of 



