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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t;2-'d S. No 109., Jan. 30. '58. 



MjpIicS ta Minav ^metie^. 



" Uno eodemque ictu" etc. (2"'' S. v. 70,)— H. B., 

 who inquires for the authority for scanning this 

 line, is referred to Virgil, Eel. viii. 80. : — 



" Limus ut hie durescit, et hjcc ut cera liquescit 

 Uno eodemque igni ; sic nostro Daphnis amore." 



And JEneid, xii. 847. : — 



" Quas, et Tartaream Nox intempesta Megasram 

 Uno eodemque tulit partu." 



Zeus. 



''Nelson Medal" (2"^ S. v. 48.) — The medal 

 alluded to by your correspondent Mercator is 

 stated by Southey, in his Life of Nelson, to liave 

 been struck at the expense of Mr. Alexander Da- 

 vison, to commemorate the battle of the Nile. I 

 have not the work at hand to refer to, and it is 

 many years since I read it, but I think it also 

 states that the medal was struck in silver, in 

 bronze, and in copper. Those in silver were pre- 

 sented to the captains of the ships engaged In that 

 memorable victory ; those in bronze to the petty 

 officers ; and those in copper to the common sailors 

 and marines who were similarly engaged. It goes 

 on to say that this act of patriotic munificence 

 cost Mr. Davison two thousand pounds. Mr. Da- 

 vison had made a large fortune as a Navy contrac- 

 tor, I believe, and was an intimate personal friend 

 of Lord Nelson, to whose memory he erected at 

 his seat, Swarland Hall, Northumberland, an 

 obelisk of white freestone, with an inscription stat- 

 ing that it was erected to commemorate, not pub- 

 lic services (which was the duty of England), but 

 private friendship. The obelisk stands close to 

 the great road between Morpeth and Alnwick, 

 where many of your readers have no doubt seen 

 it. I. F. W. 



Tithe Impropriators and Chancels (2"'^ S. v. 13. 

 54.) — Whoever has the heneficium of the great 

 tithes has appurtenant thereto the onus of main- 

 taining the chancel; and for that reason he is not 

 liable to the repairs of other parts of the church : 

 such is the general custom. If he does not fulfil 

 this condition he may be presented by the church- 

 wardens. But this onvs of maintaining the chan- 

 cel delegates no power to interfere with the 

 ministrations which are to be celebrated in that part 

 of the sacred edifice ; and as to any right to oc- 

 cupy seats in the chancel, or to make graves and 

 take fees, that will depend on particular custom — 

 it may be a very weak one, if sifted, but hardly 

 worth the ill-feeling it would lead to. But as the 

 freehold of the church is In the minister, and even 

 the churchwardens have no right to keep a key, 

 nor to enter the church unless when it is open 

 without his permission — so neither can an impro- 

 priator have access to his chancel without the 

 same permission. This was clearly laid down by 

 Sir John Nichol in 1820, in the case of the Vicar 



of Wellington, Somersetshire (Jarratt v. Steele), 

 but the Judge added, " It is not so clear whether 

 the vicar could refuse him." 



This impropriator, upon being refused admis- 

 sion, had broken into the church by making a hole 

 in the roof, pulled down his seats, and erected new 

 ones ; for which he had to pay pretty dearly, and 

 restore everything. H. T. Ellacombe. 



" He's a Brick " (2"'» S. iv. 247. 376.) — I must 

 agree with your correspondent Vebna in attribut- 

 ing to this phrase a classic origin. Dedicatory 

 columns of various forms have been found bear- 

 ing Greek inscriptions, records of the great and 

 virtuous. Some of these were circula?', and fluted 

 pillars ; but the Athenians are said to have dedi- 

 cated square columns so inscribed, which gave 

 rise to the style reTpdyccvos avyip ; one whose worth 

 entitled him to honorary mention on some monu- 

 mental stone of the form described. The anticipa- 

 tory distinction might, therefore, be easily accorded 

 to one worthy of such posthumous honours. From 

 the meritorious notion of the rectangular stone or 

 pillar we get the living type of genuine or suppo- 

 sititious worth — a " regular brick.'" 



F. Phillott. 



P.S. From the clayey basis of the brick, even In 

 a state of combination with sand and ashes — those 

 types of instability and decay — we naturally ac- 

 quire the notion of solidity, consistency, and 

 strength. We are thus enabled to apply the above 

 phrase to the child of clay, who may chance to re- 

 semble it in its constitution, whose moral mate- 

 rials and parts have been originally so carefully 

 formed, so judiciously tempered and skilfully 

 moulded, that, in spite of a frail and' infirm nature, 

 he has preserved his shape thus early given. The 

 fiery test but determines his solidity ; his sound, 

 stanch, and unshrinking firmness, constitutes him 

 a " regular [brick " or hero, the attributes which 

 especially qualify him for that metaphorical appel- 

 lation. 



Sir Oliver Leder (2nd S. Iv. 410. 440. 479.) — 

 Oliver Leder was not a judge; but in 1553 was 

 M.P., and in 1541 and 1554 High Sheriff for the 

 county of Huntingdon. He was living at his 

 manor of Beachamstead (not Berkhampstead) 

 when Leland commenced his antiquarian tour, 

 about 1538, and died there on Thursday Feb. 18, 



1556. His will surely was not dated, but perhaps 

 proved, in 1558? At his funeral, "Mr. Mylsent, 

 one of the clerks of the ; Chancery," was "chief 

 mourner ; Richard Mylsent, standard bearer, and 

 Edmond Ogle, bearer of the pennon." Frances, 

 his wife, was daughter of Francis Baldwin, P]sq., 

 of the same parish. At her decease, Sept. 24, 



1557, her next heir was her uncle Thomas Bald- 

 win, whose great-grandson, John Baldwin, inhe- 

 rited his estates, and married Anne, daughter of 

 Sir Oliver Cromwell, K.B., and first cousin to the 



