Dec. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



543 



the date of A,n. 1002, is In Anglo-Saxon, but com- 

 raences with the Latin, " In nomine Domini,"] 



Georgia Office (Vol. vl,, p. 462.)- — The Georgia 

 Oflace was established about 1732, for the colonis- 

 ation of the province of Georgia in America, which 

 was in that year granted by patent to Mr. (after- 

 wards General) Oglethorpe and a company of 

 trustees. The scheme, however, was not success- 

 ful, and in 1752 the company resigned their patent, 

 and Georgia became a royal province. I dare say 

 the papers, if of any value, were handed over to 

 the Secretary of State. C. 



Philip Thicknesse, in his Memoirs, vol. i. p. 56., 

 says — 



" The colony of Georgia was, at the time I returned 

 to England [when Sir Robert Walpole was minister], 

 still under the management of certain trustees, and as I 

 was the first of the emigrants who had returned from 

 thence, I was sent for to attend some gentlemen at their 

 office in Old Palace Yard," 



D. 



Americanisms (Vol. vl., p. 411.). — Uneda, of 

 Philadelphia, will find the participle o? progress in 

 Milton, in the magnificent conclusion to the " Re- 

 formation in England : " " progressing the dateless 

 and irrevoluble cycle of eternity." And generally 

 I have observed that Americanisms are provin- 

 cialisms of England, or archaisms, or both at once. 

 A singular instance, which illustrates this view all 

 the more, for that it is not quite to the point, is 

 the use of the term platform, to signify the system 

 or principles of a political party in the States ; 

 which unquestionably originated from its employ- 

 ment by the New Englanders of old, in the phrases 

 *' Presbyterian platform," " Independent platform ;" 

 which is not wholly extinct in England, though 

 almost superseded by " church principles." 



B. B. WOODWABD. 

 St. John's Wood. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. vi., p. 412.), — On 

 the entrance to an old hostel in the town of 

 Wymondham, Norfolk, may yet be seen, fairly cut 

 out in the oaken beam, in Roman capitals — 



" SIT MlHI NEC GUS SERVUS, NEC HOSPES HIRUDO." 



I quote from memory, I ought to add ; and the 

 building Is divided into small tenements now. 



B. B. Woodward. 

 St. John's Wood. 



Eagle supporting Lecterns (Vol. vi., p. 415.). — 

 Dr. Wordsworth, canon of Westminster, in his 

 Lectures on the Apocalypse, page 260., says : 



" The eagle is the natural foe of the dragon ; and the 

 church of Israel is said, in Scripture, to be borne from 

 Egypt by God through the wilderness on eagles' wings. 

 (Exod. xix. 4.) Hence the church is here described in 

 the Apocalypse as thus rescued from the dragon. And 



antient expositors, observing that the church flies on 

 the pinions of Holy Scripture through all ages and into 

 all lands, saw that the two wings of the great eagle 

 are the two Testaments of the Incarnate Word, who 

 ascended on the clouds of heaven, and carries His 

 children thither, like the eagle, described in Scripture, 

 spreading abroad his wings, and mounting with his yoiinff 

 vpon them. — Deut. xxxii. 11., Isa. xl. 31." 



And In a note the learned expositor continues : 

 " This symbol has received a beautiful practical ex- 

 position in the usage of the church to place the Bible 

 on the two wings of an eagle, and to read the lesson 

 therefrom." 



Wm. M. W. 

 Netherbury. 



Louis Napoleon (Vol.vi., p. 435.). — Admitting 

 that the dynasty of JSTapoleon has never ceased 

 (for so the ultra-Bonapartists assert), still Louis- 

 Napoleon, or Napoleon III., as he is to be called, 

 is not the third, but the fifth of his race. 



Although Napoleon, by the act of abdication in 



1814, renounced for himself and his heirs all claim 

 to the throne of France, yet by the act of 1815 he 

 abdicated in favour of his son, whom he declared 

 Napoleon II., emperor of the French, and whose 

 claims were, to a certain extent and for the 

 moment, recognised by the French chambers. 



According to the decree of the senate, May 18, 

 1804, confirmed by the vote of the French people 

 Nov. 27 In the same year, the imperial dignity was 

 declared to be vested in Napoleon Bonaparte and 

 his direct male descendants ; and these failing, in 

 his brother Joseph and his male descendants ; and, 

 In defect of these, in his brother Louis and his male 

 descendants. 



Now, on the death of Napoleon's son unmarried 

 in 1832, the crown, according to the Bonapartists, 

 devolved on Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain ; 

 and, upon his death without male issue, on his 

 brother Louis, ex-king of Holland; who, dying 

 shortly after, was succeeded by his only surviving- 

 son, and the only surviving heir to the imperial 

 dignity, Louis Napoleon, the present ruler of 

 France. 



So that the line of succession, say the Bona- 

 partists, stands thus : 

 1804. Napoleon I. - - - abdicated 1815. 



1815. Napoleon II. - - - died 1832. 

 1832. Joseph ... - died 1844. 

 1844. Louis - - - - - died 1846. 

 1846. Napoleon in. 



This statement of facts will be an answer in full 

 to the Query proposed, and, perhaps, at the present 

 moment, not unacceptable or uninteresting gene- 

 rally. J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



Medallic Queries (Vol. vi., p. 314.). — There is 

 as vet no work on Portuguese coins, and but very 



