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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. V. 119., April 10. '58. 



'■'■Milk of hirnan kindness." — Who originated 

 this expression ? I thought it was comparatively 

 modern, and I have seen it fathered on Charles 

 Lamb ; but in the Gentleman^ s Magazine for 1753 

 (vol. xxiii. p. 134.), I find it used in its natural 

 sense. J. B. S. 



Woodhayne. 



Milbournes of Co. Derby. — The ancient family 

 of the Milbournes of Melbourne, co. Derby 

 (about 1400), are said to be the ancestors of the 

 Hardinge family of King's Newton in same county. 

 Can any one inform me if this is correct ? And 

 also, if Ralph Milbourne of Coherty (probably 

 born about 1500, and whose son John settled at 

 Markes in Dunmow, co. Essex), was a descendant 

 of the Milbournes of Melbourne ? T. M. 



2\ine of God Save the Queen in Germany. — 

 How long have the Germans adopted this as one 

 of their national airs ? The words I believe begin 

 " Heil dir in Siege's Kranz ! " 



I beard it played at Innsbruck before the Arch- 

 duke Carl Ludwig and the King of Saxony, &c., 

 and, as with us, it closed the performance. Do 

 the Germans lay claim to the tune ? 



J. C. Babnham. 



Norwich. 



The Jexa of Paris and the Miraculous Host. —- 

 In L'Histoire du Sacrilege, par L. F. Du Loiret, 

 Paris, 1825, the story of this "Jew of Paris and 

 the Miraculous Host" is told In the usual way. 

 After which the author says : — 



" M. Balance remarqne qu'en 1396 une profanation 

 pareille fut, dit-on, commise a Bruxelles, par un Juif aussi 

 nommd Jonathas, que ce Juif fiit puni de meme, et 

 que I'liostie qu'il avait perc^e fiit religieusement con- 

 servee dans I'eglise de Sainte Gudule de cette ville." — 

 P. 64. 



Where can I find an account of this, and of a 

 similar miracle which is said to have been wrought 

 at Prague ? H. A. 



Malaga Wine from the Fire of London. — In 

 Dickens's Household Words, it is stated that some 

 Malaga wine was disinterred about twenty years 

 ago, that had been buried in the fire of London, 

 anno 1666 ; that it was still very good. Can you 

 tell me where it was found, who has tasted it, and 

 whether any remains ? Vinicola. 



Statue of the Vi7gin in Westminster Abbey. — 



" London, June 25. Yesterday the Rt. H. Ld. H. made 

 a present of a pair of diamond pedants of 500Z. value to 

 the Blessed Virgin lately erected in Westminster Abbej"-. 

 The same daj' the Rt. Hon. my Lady V., being perfectly 

 cured of a long illness by applying to the relics of St. 

 Dominick, made a present of a gold rose to be hung up in 

 Westminster Abbey." — Gent. Mag., vol. xxvii. p. 469. 



How lately has the statue above-mentioned been 

 heard of? Lady V.'s present would seem to be a 

 relic of a Roman custom alluded to by Horace 



(Com. lib. i. 5. ad finem), which is still, I have 

 heard, in existence on the Continent. J. B. S. 

 VVoodhayne. 



Overburys Wife. — In an address ad Comitis- 

 sam RuUandicB, contained in this volume, are the 

 lines — 



" That little Ta.vlor, who till death 

 Was hot in love with Queen Elizabeth." 



Who and what is referred to ? 



Lethbediensis. 



Lord Eldon of Scotch Origin. — About twenty- 

 five years ago it was stated to me by a Roxburgh- 

 shire farmer who is still living, that the ancestors 

 of the Eldon family at one time rented a small 

 farm called Dodlin, in the Barony of Cavers, 

 belonging to James Douglas, Esq., ^l^'Oxburgh- 

 shire. The first Lord Eldon certainly did main- 

 tain that his origin was Scotch. Can any of your 

 readers tell me what truth there is in the above 

 statement ? H. T. 



Lady Jane Grey. — The accounts of the execu- 

 tion of this excellent lady mention that she was 

 attended by a female on the scaffold ; some say 

 two, and name these Mistris Tilney, and (or) 

 Mystresse Eleyn. (See Queen Jane and Queen 

 Mary, Camden Society ; Howard's Lady J. Grey 

 and her Times.) Can any correspondent of " N. 

 & Q." supply information respecting these in- 

 dividuals? S. M. S. 



Judas Iscariot. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me to what writer De Quincey par- 

 ticularly refers, in his very curious and interesting 

 essay on Judas Iscariot, p. 9. of the volume of his 

 " Selections," just published, entitled Studies of 

 Secret Records. The passage runs thus : — 



" Else what I have hitherto been attempting to ex- 

 plain (excepting, however, the part relating to the hakim, 

 which is entirely my own suggestion,) belongs in part to 

 German writers. The whole construction of the Iscariot's 

 conduct as arising not out of perfidy, but out of his sin- 

 cere belief that some quickening impulse was called for, 

 by a morbid feature in Christ's temperament; all this, I 

 believe, was originally due to the Germans, and it is an 

 important correction." 



E. C. 



J. De Marne. — Can any of your correspondents 

 favour me with particulars relating to the life and 

 works of the French artist J. De Marne ? The 

 following notice in the Brighton Herald of two 

 pictures by this painter, and the praise bestowed 

 on them, I trust will excuse the trouble given by 

 the inquiry ; — 



" There is an artist of rare power, of whom one bears 

 little ; in fact his works are not to be found in any quan- 

 tity, either here or in France; I allude to De Marne, of 

 whom two specimens (views near Paris) were on view. 

 They are perfect gems, so full of light and exquisitely 

 painted. Mr. Haggard is the fortunate possessor." 



W. D. H. 



