2"<i S. V. 118., ArniL 3. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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CO. Cavan, who are said to be descended from the 

 bishop. Enivbi. 



Fivemiletown. 



Hollow Sword Blade Company. — I shall feel 

 obliged for references to the origin and history of 

 the Hollow Sword Blade Company, which pur- 

 chased immense tracts of land in Ireland early in 

 the eighteenth century.* 



An Okiginai. Subscriber. 



Meaning of the word Commonachus. — Does a 

 mediaeval writer, in calling the monks of a given 

 monastery A, " Commonachos A," of necessity 

 imply that at the time of so writing he was himself 

 a monk of the given house? In other words, 

 what is the precise meaning of "commonachus?" 

 Ducange and Charpentier give "monachus ejus- 

 dem monasterii " as the received interpretation ; 

 the meaning of which meaning is equivocal, and 

 depends on the context. For it may either stand 

 for " monks of the house before mentioned," or 

 for " monks of the same house as myself." In 

 short, does the " com " imply association simply, 

 or association with the writer ? X. Y. Z. 



Recumbent Figures. — I wish to know whether, 

 upon finding in a church a recumbent figure of 

 the fourteenth century, occupying the position 

 usually assigned to the founder of the whole or 

 a portion of the building, i. e. under an arch in 

 the wall, it necessarily follows that the person so 

 represented was actually interred there ? If not, 

 I shall be glad to be informed of the existence of 

 any such complimentary effigies of the period 

 above mentioned, i. e. of recumbent figures placed 

 in one building when the person represented is 

 known to have been buried elsewhere. 



T. North. 



Leicester. 



Mediaeval Seals, Miniaturists, Sj-c. — Where can 

 impressions of English mediaeval seals be obtained 

 by purchase or otherwise ? I should be glad also 

 to meet with information as to where I might find 

 biographies of the medijeval miniaturists and illu- 

 minators, from Simone Memmi to Gui. Clovio. 



Jno W. Beadlet. 



Huddersfield College. 



Westminster School Motto. — When was the 

 Westminster motto altered from " Dat Deus in- 

 crementum " to the modern " In Patriam Popu- 

 lumque ?" I find the earlier in a book of school 

 prayers, published in College Street, 1759 ; and 

 there is a letter in Gent. Mag. of April, 1794, 

 remonstrating against the change. C. B. S. 



Bishop burned by Queen Mary. — My grand- 

 mother by my father's side, in a very interesting 

 memoir now before me, says that one of her pro- 



i;* See «N. & Q." 1" S. iv. 176. 213.] 



genitors, a Protestant bishop, was burnt in the 

 persecutions under Queen Mary. I wish to as- 

 certain the name of this bishop. My grand- 

 mother's maiden name was Neviitl. Can any of 

 your readers, who are in the way of tracing gene- 

 alogies, give me the desired information ? 



William C. Wilde. 

 New Orleans, March 4, 1858. 



Quotations Wanted. — 



" I rose in my morning splendor. 



But mortals regarded me not," &c. 



I want to recover the whole of these lines, on 

 the eclipse of May, 1 836 ; also those which ap- 

 peared in The Times just before the outbreak of 

 the cholera at Gateshead, beginning — 

 * " Tiie pestilence is calling." 



Can any correspondent refer me to them ? The 

 latter is so fine as to merit embalming in " N. & 

 Q.," if its length should not preclude It. P. H. F. 



J. M. W. Turner. — Some of the finest of Tur- 

 ner's early drawings were taken for Whitaker's 

 Whalley, and for the Craven, and for Richmond- 

 shire, by the same author. To these the name of 

 the artist appears as " W. Turner." When, and 

 for what cause were the additional Christian 

 names " Joseph Mallord " added ? 



Prestonieksis. 



[Mr. Peter Cunniiigliam, in his Memoir of J. M. W. 

 Turner, has informed us when, but not why. Turner assumed 

 the additional Christian names. He says, " It was now 

 time* [in 1799], he thought, to remove from over his 

 father's shop [No. 26. Maiden Lane, Covent Garden], to 

 No. 75. Norton Street, Portland Road, where he stayed 

 three j-ears, removing to No. 64. Harley Street. But 

 this was not all. In former years he had been content to 

 exhibit as ' VV. Turner ; ' but with his new appendage 

 of letters (A. R. A) after his name, he had recourse to 

 other initials before his name. From and after his ele- 

 vation into the Academj', he is 'J. M. W. Turner,' in 

 Court Guides and Exhibition Catalogues."] 



Cha, Tea. — My edition of Phillips's World of 

 Words is the sixth, 1706, " with the addition of 

 near 20,000 words by J. K(ersey) Philobib." It 

 contains, " Cha. The Leaf of a Tree in China, 

 which being steept in Water, serves for the ordi- 

 nary Drink of the Inhabitants ; " while Tea is 

 described as " a Liquor made of the Leaves of a 

 Shrub of the same Name brought from China 

 and the East Indies, the virtues of which are now 

 sufficiently known." I cannot help thinking that 

 " Cha" was Phillips's description before it had 

 been brought to England, while Kersey added 

 " Tea." Will any possessor of an earlier edition 

 of Phillips tell me if my conjecture be right or 

 wrong? E. G. R. 



|;The word " Tea " is not in the fourth edition, 1678.] 



