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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 162. 



few are to be found described. I cannot attempt 

 to explain the legend given ; I incline to think it 

 of Alfonso v., 1438—1481, but cannot be certain. 

 In the Wellenheim Catalogue, Vienna, 1 844, vol. ii. 

 p. 1., is a silver coin of this monarch, but differing 

 in legends. On this coin, as well as on one of 

 John I., described l. c, the name thus, alfo or 

 IHNS, occurs repeated on reverse, and surmounted 

 by a crown. By a note at p. 374. of Barthelemy's 

 recent Manuel de la Numismatique moderne, Paris, 

 1852, I learn that M. Langlois, known by his 

 Essai surles Monnaies Roupieniennes, Numismatique 

 de la Georgie, ^c, is engaged with a work on 

 Portuguese coins. 



I have always understood fert to signify Fo7'- 

 titudo ejus Rhodum tenuit. Whether this be the 

 meaning or not, it is a motto of some antiquity. 

 The earliest coin on which I can find it recorded 

 is one of Amadeus VIII., first Duke of Savoy, 

 1391 — 1 45 1 , described in the Catalogus Wellenheim 

 p. 146. No. 2491. W.H.S! 



Edinburgh. 



Poi-traits of Lady Jane Grey (Vol. vi., p. 341.). 

 — If your correspondent T. R. Potter would give 

 a description of the portrait of Lady Jane Grey, 

 which was exhibited at the Derby Exhibition of 

 1841, it might enable me to determine on the 

 identity of a portrait said to be of that lady, which 

 is in the possession of a friend. It is certainly 

 cotemporary, and represents a lady of her aje. 



T.V.T. 



Jewish Lineaments (Vol. vi., p. 362.). — Mb. 

 Alfred Gatty observes that " the Jewish linea- 

 ments wear out in the face after conversion to 

 Christianity." This circumstance may, I think, in 

 some way be accounted for, by the intermarriage 

 of Jews with Gentiles, by which (as in the case of 

 the African tribes when intermarried with Eu- 

 ropeans) they will gradually lose all the cha- 

 racteristic marks of their race. No Jew, before 

 conversion, will marry into a Gentile family. I 

 have observed tliat the children of converted Jews, 

 who have married Gentiles, soon lose all appear- 

 ance of Jewish extraction. It is a curious fact to 

 observe how frequently a change of names takes 

 place when an Israelite renounces the religion of 

 his fathers. F. M. M. 



Gurnall (Vol. vi., p. 414.). — The Rev. Wm. 

 Burkitt preached a funeral sermon on the occasion 

 of his death, in which (or appended to it) is a 

 sketch of his life. The sermon, I imagine, is 

 scarce, as I have never seen a copy, and know of 

 its existence only from a note by the late Mr. 

 Poynder, in his copy of Gurnalfs Christian in 

 Complete Armour. If my memory is correct, Mr. 

 P. stated that he had found it in the British 

 Museum. F. S. Q. 



" The Good Old Cause'' (Vol.vi., pp.74. 180. 

 319.). — A full account of the circumstances under 

 which this famous cry first arose, will be found in 

 a tract published by Prynne in 1659, entitled 

 The Republicans'' and others' spurious Good Old 

 Cause briefly and truly anatomised, which is a se- 

 quel to a previous tract of his, referred to in my 

 former communication. The author, after de- 

 scribing the cabal of the " all-swaying army- 

 grandees" against the new Protector, Richard 

 Cromwell, by means of which they succeeded, with 

 the assistance of the republican party, in establish- 

 ing a general council of officers with supreme 

 power, says (p. 4.) : 



" To engage all the old and new repnl)lican members, 

 sectaries, soldiers and others, in this their fore-plotted 

 new-confederacy, they did in sundry printed papers, at 

 the beginning of the last convention, since its disso- 

 lution, and in several speeches in the House, extol 

 ' The Good Old Cause ' in which they were engaged," 

 &c. 



Thus it appears that the " Good Old Cause " 

 was first heard of at the beginning of the last 

 convention, i. e. January, 1658 (1659 n. s.), and 

 was a cry raised by the army in order to engage 

 the republican party to join them. E. S. T. T. 



notes on books, etc. 



Mr. John Martin, the librarian at Woburn, an- 

 nounces that the second edition of his Bibliographical 

 Catalogue of Books privately printed is now at press, 

 and invites communications of additional information 

 upon the subject. 



Wc introduced the subject of Photography into the 

 columns of " N. & Q." from a feeling of its importance 

 to our antiquarian readers; and, indeed, to all who 

 might require truthful copies of any existing objects. 

 The discussion at the Microscopic Society, reported 

 ante, p. 541., shows a recognition of its value by that 

 eminently scientific body ; and we learn that The So- 

 ciety of Arts-, apjjreciating the vast importance of this 

 new science, are about to form a collection of specimens 

 of the various processes, by the most able professional 

 and amateur photograpliers, for the purpose of exhi- 

 biting them at their rooms on the 22nd of the present 

 month. 



Books Received. — Literary Essays and Characters; 

 selected front the Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 

 by Henry Hallam, is the new volume of Murray's 

 Raihoay Library. 



Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck, 

 &I-C., edited by Rliss Jane Porter, forms the thirty- 

 fourth and thirty-fifth parts of Longman's Traveller''s 

 Library. 



A Reply to the Strictures of Lord 3Iahon and others, 

 on the mode of editing the Writings of Washington, by 

 Jared Sparks : also A Review of Lord Mahnn's History 

 of the American Revolution ; from the North American 

 Review for July, 1832. 



