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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ S. V. 122., Mat 1. '58. 



and others. John Rowle, prior of Pittenweem, was one of 

 the Lords of Session : his name first appears in the Sede- 

 runt Book, Nov. 5, 1544. In March, 1542, he had been 

 one of the Lords for discussing of domes, and in March, 

 1544, he appears as one of the Lords of the Articles. In 

 1550 he accompanied the Regent Murray to France, and 

 died in 1553. In 1583 William Stewart, a captain in the 

 King's Guard, descended from Alan Stewart of Darnley, 

 obtained a charter of the priory and lands of Pittenweem, 

 and was afterwards styled Commendator of the same. In 

 1606 the lands and baronies belonging to the priory were 

 erected into a temporal lordship in favour of Frederick 

 Stewart, his son, who had farther charters in 1609 and 

 1618. He died, as is supposed, without issue, and the 

 title has never since been claimed. Previous to his death 

 he disponed the lordship to Thomas Earl of Kellie, who, 

 with the consent of his son, Alexander Lord Fenton, sur- 

 rendered the superiority of the same into the hands of the 

 King. The prior's house was the propertj' and residence 

 of Dr. David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyle. See The 

 New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. ix. p. 985. In 

 the Advocates' Library is a MS. Liber Sancti Andres et 

 Pittenweem, on paper, large folio, 401 leaves,] 



Old Proverb. — In turning oter the leaves of 

 the marvellous Ingoldsby Legends, which are ever 

 new, and can never fail iii exciting mirth at any 

 time, I find the following recorded in Mrs. 

 Bother by 's story, "The Leech of Folkstone :" — 



" There, at the head of his well-furnished board, sat 

 Master Thomas Marsh of Marston Hall, a yeoman well 

 respected in his degree ; one of that sturdy and sterling 

 class which, taking rank imniediately below the Esquire 

 (a title in its origin purely military), occupied in the 

 wealthier counties the position in society now filled by 

 the countrj' gentleman. He was one of those of whom 

 the proverb ran : 



♦ A Knight of Cales, 

 A Gentleman of Wales, 



And a Laird of the North Countree : 

 A Yeoman of Kent, 

 With his j'early rent, 



Will buy them out all three ! ' " 



Were the yeomen of Kent so wealthy as repre- 

 sented in the proverb ? and where is " Cales," 

 mentioned in its first line ? Oxoniensis. 



[From the extreme fertility of the land, and its con- 

 sequent value, Kent is usually denominated the Garden 

 of England, and its proprietors, or yeomen, the most 

 affluent of their class. The Knights of Cales (Cadiz) 

 were originally created by Queen Elizabeth, and the 

 Order was continued by James I., whose knights, how- 

 ever, were more remarkable for their poverty than their 

 chivalry ; they were a class as poor as the " lairds of the 

 North Countree," who followed the British Solomon to the 

 South.] 



" Sabbatical Years." — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents assist me in discovering, in the his- 

 tory of the children of Israel, which were the 

 Sabbatical years ? Why should not the Sabbatical 

 years be as well known as the Olympiads ? I 

 conceive they would not be without their im- 

 portance in fixing the date of historical events. 



Mbletes. 



[The commeneemtot Hi the first Sdbbatical yeat hftiS 

 be«4 touch aiJfutea, aitd vdriotts yents hftte been as- 



signed by Scaliger, Ussher, Jackson, &c. According trt 

 Josephus it was instituted b. c. 1444. Dr. Hales, how- 

 ever, in his Analysis of Chronology, §"c., vol. ii. p. 253. 

 (edit. 1830), says, that " The first division of the con- 

 quered lands in Canaan took place in the sixth year of 

 the war, b. c. 1602 ; the second division, probably six 

 years after, b. c. 1596 ; the seventh year after that, b. c. 

 1589, was therefore, probably, the first general Sabbatical 

 year." In alluding to the year of Jubilee, Hales thinks 

 that our Saviour commenced his public ministry at such 

 a season, and in support of this opinion adduces the fol- 

 lowing chronological argument : — "To the first general 

 Sabbatical year, B.C. 1589, add the j'ear of our Lord's 

 public ministry, a.d. 28 ; and divide the sum, 1617 years, 

 by the Jubilee period, 49 years, it leaves no remainden 

 Therefore, A. d. 28, was the last year of the period, or a 

 Jubilee itself.'* We recommend our correspondent to 

 consult also a very remarkable sermon. On the Duty of 

 Observing the Christian Sabbath, published by the late 

 Professor Lee of Cambridge, 1834, and more particularly 

 the second edition, " with many additional notes."] 



Inscription on a House. — On the front of A 

 house standing by the road from Cheltenham te 

 Gloucester is- this inscription : — 

 " Iniets Zondar Arby." 



What language is it, and What the translation ? 



VlATOB. 



[Have we not here the old Latin adage. Nil sine labore? 

 This in Dutch would be "Niets zonder arbeid" (Nothing 

 without labour). The y of Arby is probably the ej (ei) 

 of Arbeid. If the inscription is circular, the superfluous 

 / of Iniets may be the d of Arbeid, partly obliterated.] 



Nursery Rhymes. — Among o«r nursery rhymes 

 one sometimes finds old political satires. There 

 is one consisting of a number of verses, each con- 

 taining a truism of this sort : -=- 



" There was an old wife sat eating an apple. 

 When she had eat two, she had eat a couple." 



But the last verse Is thus : — 



" There was a navy went into Spain, 

 And when it returned it came back again." 



Does this allude to anything, and if so, what ? 



G.D. 



[These lines occur in a letter from the ReT. Joseph 

 Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville, dated July 1, 1626j printed 

 in Tfte Court and Times of Charles the First, i. 118., and 

 entitled : — 



"verses on the expedition to CADIZ. 



" There was a crow, sat on a stone, 

 IJe flew away, and there was none : 

 There was a man, that ran a race. 

 When he ran fast, he ran apace : 

 There was a maid, that eat an apple, 

 When she eat two, she eat a couple : 

 There was an ape, sat on a tree. 

 When he fell down, down fell he : 

 There was a fleet, that went to Spaidj 

 When it returned, it came again." 



Of course they refer to the failure of the expedition to 

 Cadia under Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, in 

 1625.] 



Lessing's Dialogues. — In the Appendix to De 

 QuiHt;€iy's Historicb-CHtiml Inquiry into the Origin 



