Dec. 18. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



575 



from church, and is y' money so levyed dis- 

 tributed to y*^ poore of the pish, and kept in 

 a book ? " (MS. leaf to face p. 306.) 

 Quakers. 



" Concerning the sect of Quakfs, ther being in 

 gaole above 50 pions, it was Sr. Ed. Hyde's direc- 

 tions at Lent Assizes, 8° Marc. 1660, to bayle the 

 men (firste acknowledging their Allegiance to y^ 

 Kinge) either by recognizanc, or pmise to appeare 

 at the next Assizes, and in y"' mean to be of 

 peacebl demeanor. And accordingly Mr. Georg. 

 Symonds and myself releaed them on promise 

 only." (MS^leaf to face p. 270.) 



" Proclam'n, 29 Jan. 1660, prohibiting all sub- 

 jects of whateuer degree or quality soeuer to eate 

 any manf of fflesh in Lent, or any other dales 

 Tsually obserued as ffish-dales, without lisence 

 -accordg to lawe." (MS. leaf to face p. 160.) 



This is merely a tithe of the interesting matter 

 the volume contains ; the principal portion, how- 

 ever. Is too local to interest general readers. If 

 you think a few other extracts would be accept- 

 able, I should be happy to send them for insertion. 



K. C. Waede. 



Kidderminster. 



3)R. SOUTH VERSUS GOLDSMITH, TAXLEYRAND, AND 

 THE "morning CHRONICLE." 



The Morning Chronicle of Friday, Nov. 19, In 

 -a valuable sketch of "the great duke's" career, has 

 committed an oversight which I take an early op- 

 portunity of correcting. 



These words occur in the third column of the 

 fourth page : 



" Perhaps Wellington was the most perfect living 

 contradiction the world ever saw of Goldsmith's (not 

 Talleyrand's) maxim, that speech was given to man to 

 conceal his thoughts." 



I do not remember to have found the saying In 

 any of Goldsmith's works, except It be In his 

 " Essay on the Policy of concealing our Wants or 

 Poverty ; " and certainly he is there speaking of 

 something very different, and not intending to lay 

 down a profligate and unprincipled maxim. His 

 words are these : 



" It is usually said by grammarians, that the use of 

 language is to express our wants and desires ; but men 

 who know the world hold, and I think with some show 

 of reason, that he who best knows how to keep his 

 necessities private, is the most likely person to have 

 them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not 

 so much to express our wants, as to conceal them." 



A far abler man than either Talleyrand or 

 Goldsmith (viz. Dr. South) was the author of the 

 saying. I quote from his sermon upon 1 Cor. Hi. 19., 

 and heartily wish that said sermon, and another by 

 the same writer, upou " Lying lips au abomination 



to the Lord," were more generally acted upon than 

 they are : 



<' It is looked upon as a great piece of weakness and 

 unfitness for business (forsooth) for a man to be so 

 clear and open, as really to think not only what he 

 says but what he swears : and when he makes any pro- 

 mise, to have the least intent of performing it ; but 

 when his interest serves instead of veracity, and engages 

 him rather to be true to another, than false to himself. 



" He only now speaks like an oracle, who speaks 

 tricks and ambiguities. Nothing is thought beautiful 

 that is not painted : so that, what between French 

 fashions and Italian dissimulations, the old, generous 

 English spirit, which heretofore made this nation so 

 great in the eyes of all the world round about it, seems 

 utterly lost and extinct ; and we are degenerated into a 

 mean, sharking, fallacious, undermining way of converse; 

 there being a snare and a trepan almost in every word 

 we hear, and every action we see. Men speak with 

 designs of mischief, and therefore they speak in the 

 dark. In short, this seems to be the true, inward judg- 

 ment of all our politick sages, that speech was given 

 to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate 

 their mind ; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."— 

 Vol. i. p. 114. : Dublin, 1720, fol. 



Warmington. 



CHRONOGRAM ON THE BEHEADING OF KING 

 CHARLES I. 



The vicar of Brockthrop, Gloucestershire, not 

 having sent, as I know he intended, a Note upon 

 the above, I am tempted to do so, with the hope 

 of thereby eliciting some further light upon it, 

 which, though disinterred by myself from the 

 whitewash some twenty-five years ago, was re- 

 served for my friend's ingenuity suddenly to dis- 

 cover Its hidden meaning. It occurs on the oaken 

 wall-plate of the porch of the said church, the 

 letters being cut, apparently by a pocket-knife, 

 yet boldly, in one continuous line, thus : 



" Ter Deno lani Labens reX soLe CaDenteV ,0,0 



500 + l+l-r50 + 10+50+100+500]='^''^ 



CaroLVs eXVtVs soLIo sCeptroqVe seCVre1_ .„» 



100+50+5+10+5+5+50+1 + 100 + 5 + 100+5 J— ** 



1048." 



Query, May " sole cadente," which is also allu- 

 sive to Charles as England's* sun, be translated, 

 " in the afternoon" ? 



Query, When was the precise moment of his de- 

 capitation ? 



It Is not difficult to see the drift af this, despite 

 its awkward f , cramped construction ; still a satis- 



* There is a medal of Charles I., having in the fore- 

 ground the monarch on horseback, in the distance the 

 city of London ; over all, this legend : " Sol rediens 

 orbem, sic rex illuminat urbem." 



f The poet, in his anxiety to get such words as 

 would count the date a.d. 1648, was thereby limited 

 in his choice. Doubtless similar inscriptions might, if 



