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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ud s. No 112., Feb. 20. '58. 



difference. Whose are these? The arms alone 

 are those of Vane, Lord Bernard ; but I cannot 

 reconcile the coronet. J. B. S. 



Madame St. Anne Holmes. — In the Life of 

 Southey (vol. v. p. 59.) there is mention made of 

 a French translation of Roderick by M. Chevalier 

 de Sagriel. The work was dedicated to Madame 

 St. Anne Holmes, at whose suggestion the trans- 

 lation had been made. Can you give me any in- 

 formation regarding this lady ? Mr. Southey, in 

 his letter dated January 26, 1821, says : — 



" She is rich, and has lived in high life, and writes a 

 great deal about Sheridan, as having been intimate with 

 him in his latter years." 



X. 



Corrupt Reading' in Cicero, de Officiis, iii. 15. 

 — 'Dean Alford, in a note on Rom. v. 7., writes : 



" The distinction here made between SUaioi and a.ya66i 

 is also found in Cicero, de Off. iii. 15., ' Si vir bonus is 

 est qui prodest quibus potest, nocet nemini, recte justum 

 virum, bonum non facile reperiemus.' (But some edd. 

 read ' istum virum bonum.')" 



Now, the reading given in two editions I possess 

 (the one vol. ed. of Noble, 1850, being one), 

 both considered good, is " sive vir bonus is est, 

 qui prodest, quibus potest, nocet nemini, certe 

 istum virum bonum non facile reperiemus." I 

 confess myself totally incapable of understanding 

 the Dean's reading, or of making sense out of it 

 when taken in conjunction with the context. Can 

 any reader of " N. & Q." help me out of my dif- 

 ficulty ? F. J. Leachman, M. a. 



Largest Parish in England. — What is the 

 largest parish in England in point of acreage ? 

 I have heard that Kendal in Westmoreland is, 

 the extent of which is 36,000 acres.* Oxoniensis. 



J. Toldervy. — In Mr. C. J. Stewart's Catalogue 

 of Books, distributed with No. 109. 2»'» S. of " N. 

 & Q.," is " A Collection of upwards of 40 Pieces 

 against the Principles and Practices of the Quakers, 

 by G. Keith, J. Toldervy, &c., 1654, 1700." Can 

 any reader give me information respecting Tol- 

 dervy, his family, birth-place, profession, &c. ? 



J. K. 



Medal of Prince Charles Edward. — A relative 

 of mine is in possession of a silver medal which he 

 believes to be extremely scarce. It is one of the 

 young Pretender. On the obverse appears his 

 profile, with the legend and date: "Carolus Wallise 

 Princeps, 1745." The reverse exhibits Britannia 



r* According to the Parliamentary Gazetteer, the extent 

 of Kendal parish is 68,3G0 acres. Anciently the parishes 

 of Winandermere and Grasraere were parts of Kirkby-in- 

 Kendal parish. This district was once famed for the 

 bravery of its bowmen : 



" There are the bows of Kentdale bold, 

 Who fierce will fight and never flee." 



Battle ofFloddcn, i. 17.] 



resting on a shield, with the crosses of St. George 

 and St. Andrew, waiting the approach of a ship. 

 Legend, " Amor et Spes," and " IBritannia." The 

 present owner of this medal, who has had it for 

 many years, received it from a gentleman who told 

 him he got it from the great-grandson of Charles 

 Edward's secretary, whose name he thinks was 

 Dillon. And the story of the medal was this : — 

 The Prince, on his way to Scotland, was closely 

 pursued by an English man-of-war ; and, fearing 

 to be captui'ed, all the medals on board except 

 three, which the secretary preserved, were thrown 

 overboard. Y. S. M. 



Poem Wanted. — When I was a child, "long 

 long ago," I recollect reading in a newspaper 

 what, as I recollect, was an unfinished poem, and 

 was stated to be Campbell's. I cannot find it in 

 what professes to be a collective edition of his 

 poems, long since published. It began thus : — 



" Oh Judith, had our lot been cast 

 In that remote and happy time, 

 When shepherd swains, thy fathers pass'd 

 From dreary wilds and deserts vast, 

 To Judah's happy clime, 



" My song, amidst the mountain rocks, 

 Had echoed oft thy rural charms, 



And I had fed thy father's flocks, 



Oh Judith of the raven locks, 

 To win thee to my arms." 



Where is it to be found, and who was the 

 author ? It certainly sounds like Campbell's. 



Senex. 



Plato on Spii'its. — In a pamphlet on spirit-rap- 

 ping, entitled An Enquiry into Spiritual Agencies, 

 published at New York in 1851, is the following : 



" The ancients, from Pythagoras downward, held that 

 though the Supreme Deity was exempt from passions, 

 the air was full of minor demons who had souls like ours, 

 and incorruptible and immortal bodies, but who were, 

 like us, soothed by gifts and flattery, and irritated by 

 neglect. So taught Xenocrates and Chrysippus, accord- 

 ing to Plato." 



Does Plato state this, or did the writer guess f 

 From the style of his book, and some other bits of 

 learning, I do not think he read it in Plato. A. P. 



PetrarcKs Translators. — Doubtless among your 

 numerous readers will be found some admirers of 

 the poet Petrarch. Such of them as may be oblig- 

 ing enough to communicate any sources of trans- 

 lations, beyond those mentioned below, will confer 

 a service : 



Anonymous, 1777. 

 Ditto, Ox., 1795. 

 Charlemont. 

 Chaucer. 

 Dacre (Lady). 

 Harrington's Nugas. 

 Hunt (Leigh). 

 Jones (Sir W.). 

 Lofi't's (Capel) Laura. 



Macgregor (Capt.). 



Merivale. 



Morehead. 



Nott. 



Petrarca, 1803. 



Wallaston. 



Woodhouselee. 



Wrangham. 



W. (1.) 



