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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 163. 



The turn of the same play also arrived, and its 

 representation was postponed in consequence, in 

 the year 1817, when this country had to deplore 

 the death of the Princess Charlotte, wife of Prince 

 Leopold : and now again its turn falls out just 

 after the death of the late commander-in-chief, 

 Wellinjiton. 



Mr. Colman, in the second volume, page 7., of 

 his translation of Terence, quotes twenty-four of 

 Mr. Lloyd's Latin lines. Robekt Snow. 



6. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair. 



Talleyrand. — I find the following in Mr. Jordan's 

 Autobiography, iii. 263. : 



" A council of the ministry having sat three hours 

 upon some important question, an eminent nobleman 

 met Talleyrand as he came from the meeting, and 

 asked, ' Que s'est-il passe dans ce conseil ? ' to which 

 the witty diplomatist drily answered, ' Trois heures.' " 



"Was "the witty diplomatist" acquainted with 

 Lord Bacon's apothegms, the 59th of which I 

 subjoin? 



" Mr. Popham, when he was Speaker, and the lower 

 house had sat long, and done in effect nothing ; coming 

 one day to Queen Elizabeth, she said to him, * Now, 

 Mr. Speaker, what has passed in the lower house ? ' 

 he answered, ' If it please your majesty, seven weeks.' " 



C. H. Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Old Title Deeds. — I wish it were possible to im- 

 press upon the cultivators of antiquarian lore, in 

 the various counties of England, that a mine of 

 authentic information of the most curious and 

 valuable kind lies hidden in old title deeds. I have 

 myself detected either a distinct Peddars Way, or 

 a branch of the main one, far away from it, in 

 Norfolk; and Mr. Harrod, the secretary to the 

 Norfolk Archaeological, has thrown some singular 

 light upon the question of the triple moat round 

 the castle at Norwich by this means. If such 

 sources were examined, and any facts disclosed in 

 them noted, and either by your literary telegraph, 

 or by the more slow and dignified vehicle of 

 *' Transactions," communicated to the antiquarian 

 world, better service would be done than many 

 an elaborate disquisition on " Aiken Drum's Lang 

 Ladle " has been. B. B. Woodwakd. 



St. John's Wood. 



Quakers' Meeting-house at Whittlebury. — In no 

 history of Northamptonshire do I find any notice 

 of this place of worship, which existed till about 

 the year 1804; when the building, falling into 

 decay, was pulled down, and the premises appro- 

 priated to other purposes. The registers furnish 

 several entries relating to it ; among others, the 

 following, which is one of the earliest : 



" 1680. A certificate brought me g*" the 22nd 

 dated S*"- the 20th for one John Gibbins of Pawles- 



pury, buried att the Quakers' meeting-house in Whit- 

 tlebury." 



H. T. Wake. 



Inscriptions on Bells. — On looking over some 

 old family papers (a short time since) at Colne 

 Priory, Essex, I found the following memorandum, 

 dated 1695 : 



" Motto upon y'' 3"^ Bell in Earls Colne Steeple : 



• In multis annis resouet campana Johannis.' 

 •' On y« 4»i' Bell : 



' Sum Rosa pulsata munda Maria vocata.'" 

 A translation of the latter inscription is prayed. 



C. K. P. 



Newport, Essex. 



Beautiful Epitaph. — The following very beau- 

 tiful epitaph is inscribed on a tablet in the parish 

 church of Bardsey, near Leeds : 

 " Hie Jacet 

 Carol us Lister in utraque 

 Acad : Med : Stud ; Qui ipse, paulo 

 Ante mortem, suam cecinit 

 Cygnaeam cantionem. 



1 Cor. XV. 55. 

 Ubi mors aculeus tuus, 

 &c. 

 Grata venis, mors. 

 Grata venis, nee 

 Me tua terrent 

 Spicula qua; nunc 

 Sentio in a?gro 

 Corpore fixa. 

 Mors etenim agni 

 In cruce cxs\. 

 ( O amor ingens !) 

 Undiijue mentera 

 Munit, et illam 

 Servat ab omni 

 Vulnere tu4am. 



Oblit die 5 Aug. 



Phil. i. 23. 

 Cupio dissolvi, 

 &c. 

 Mens mea mundum^ 

 Vanaque vitae 

 Somnia et umbras 

 LiBta relinquit, 

 Et cupit alls 

 Nixa duabus 

 Speque, fi deque, 

 Scandere summas 

 .3?^theris oras, 

 Merset ubi se 

 Flumine puri 

 Gaudii, Jesu, 

 Teque fruatur 

 Omnia in aeva. 

 ^t. 23, Sal. 1684." 



C. H. 



Americanisms (so-called). — The word bottom, as 

 meaning a piece of low ground upon a stream of 

 water, is called an Americanism by some English 

 writers. But the word was used in this sense by 

 the translators of the Bible, in the reign of 

 James I. Turn to Zechariah i. 8. : 



" I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a 

 red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that 

 were in the bottom ; and behind him were there red 

 horses, speckled, and white." 



Sparse and sparsely are Americanisms, and 

 express ideas that would otherwise require cir- 

 cumlocution. A new country might be expected 

 to produce such words. As dense comes from 

 densus, so sparse, which expresses the reverse of 

 dense, comes from sparsus, Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



