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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



146 



the following anecdotes of this celebrated indi- 

 vidual, which may not be considered uninter- 

 esting to your readers; upon which, too, I append 

 a Query. 



Peter de Trazaylle was a French officer, and 

 one day, whilst in pursuit of the Duke of York, 

 during the campaigns in Holland, overtook his 

 Royal Highness on the banks of a river his horse 

 refused to swim across: instead of taking the 

 Duke a prisoner, he, traitorously to his own 

 country, exchanged animals, and then followed 

 tlie Duke to the British lines. For this service 

 he received from the government a pension of 

 800/., which he enjoyed to his death. 



Query, What river, and which of the Holland 

 campaigns ? 



As far as I could learn, upon his reaching Eng- 

 land, he settled at Salehurst, cultivating a small 

 farm in a very eccentric manner. Dreading 

 danger from the revolutionary leaders in Paris, 

 he fitted up his residence in a peculiar method 

 with tubes, so that the smallest noise, the pat-fall 

 of a cat in any of the rooms, could be conveyed to 

 his own bed-chamber ; in which too, close by his 

 pillow, he had a contrivance so adapted as to throw 

 an instantaneous light over every object therein. 



The effects sold were extraordinarily hetero- 

 geneous ; amongst which may be enumerated a 

 curricle, with pole and leather hood, of the fashion 

 of the commencement of the present century ; 

 old iron hoops, at least, it was said, three tons; hops 

 of the growths of 1846, 7, 8, for which he had 

 never been able to obtain the prices he wanted. 

 Amongst his eccentricities may be mentioned 

 that he locked up for twenty-two years a pony, 

 because one night it broke the bounds he assigned 

 it ; and another horse which jibbed one day with 

 him, he served similarly, sentencing him in the 

 following words : " Ah, ah ! my good fellow, if 

 you will not go now, you never shall go again." 

 This animal, and his fellow sufferer, which never 

 had done a day's work, were both broken-winded 

 through eating only dry food. 



Alfred John Dunkin. 



Noviomagus. 



FLY-LEAF SCRIBBLINGS. 



1. From York Breviary in Sion College, fif- 

 teenth century : 



" Ihu for thy passion 

 Grante us for syn contrition, 

 Shrift and Satisfaction, 

 And of all Synnis remission, 



Or that we hem wrynde,* (mynde?) 

 And in all vices and tribulation 

 Be our Sucour and Salvation ; 

 And grante us all thy benedictions 

 And blisse withouten ende. 



" Robertus Gilbariu, Rector Ecde." 



The first two letters of this word may be wrong. 



2. Cure for fever, &c : 



" Scribe in tribus oblatis : in prime Pater est alpha et 

 00, in secundo Filius est Veritas, in tertio Spiritus Sanc- 

 tus est remedium, et da febritanti per tres dies ante acces- 

 sionem, ordine quo scribuntur, et si adhuc non proderit, 

 repete iterura atque iterum, et tunc Sanus fiet aut nun- 

 quam." 



" Item contra febres : 



" Divide pomum in tres partes ; in prima scribe + on 

 Ihu + on leo + on filius. In secunda + on ovis + on Aries + 

 on agnus. In tertia + on Pater + on Gloria + on Veritas, et 

 postea da febritanti ad comedendura." 



These I take to be of the beginning of the four- 

 teenth century. They and the following are from 

 an early English written book of the Proverbs of 

 Solomon. 



« Kari (?) asserunt quod si mulier radicern filicis cum 

 vino bibat, earn concipere non permittit. Filix est Gallice 

 Feuger de chene et Anglice Everfern." 



3. From English MS., fourteenth century : 



rfacere ") rpotes 



-..^ ,. J Credere f • ; audis 



Noli^Se j-^'^^^qHscis 



(.concupiscerej (.Tides." 



4. From a copy of Kettlewell's Practical Be- 



liever, which I have : 



" Ex dono Rev. Johi Kettlewell (to present owner) 



«J. W." 



At the end is " Ralph Hopton's booke ; 1693," to 

 which some friend has added, 



« This is not R. H. as above his booke, Butt James 

 Wass of Romonby," 



showing that borrowers then, as now, did not al- 

 ways remember to return one's books. J. C. J. 



SelderCs Tdble-Talk. — li the following be not 

 elsewhere recorded, it seems worthy of preser- 

 vation in " N. & Q." : 



"The House of Parlament once making a question, 

 whether they had best admit Bp. Usher to the assembly 

 of divines, Mr. Selden said, they had as good inquire, 

 whether they had best admit Inigo Jones, the King's 

 Architect, to the Company of Mous-trapmakers," &c. — 

 From Antony Wood, Hearne's Lib. Nig. Scaccarii, App. 

 xi. „ ^ . 



F. S. A. 



Statue of William 111. —In Windele's very in- 

 teresting Notices of the City of Cork, Gougaun 

 Barra, Glengariff, and Killarney (of which a new- 

 edition, I believe, is soon to appear, and which is 

 well worthy of being reprinted), I have met with 

 the following particulars : 



"In the County Grand Jury Room [in Cork] is a 

 wooden statue of William III., the history of which is not 

 a little curious. It originally represented his father-in- 

 law, James; but on his downfall the statue was dis- 

 honourably flung aside, having however been first, for 

 the sins of the original, decapitated. For several years it 



