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NOTES AND QUERIES. C2n'> S. v. 121., April 24 '58. 



also to repeat the Query (2"** S. v. 191.), referring 

 to Navy Lists. 



The earliest printed list of the English arniy 

 that I have seen is — 



" The List of the Army Raised under the coipmand of 

 his Excellency Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe, Viscount 

 Hereford, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchrir and Lo- 



vaine, &c with the Names of the severall OfBcers 



belonging to the Army. London. Printed for John Par- 

 tredge, 1642." 



There are two copies in the British Museum ; 

 I have never heard of any elsewhere, Any notes 

 tending to identify the persons therein mentioned 

 will be valuable to me. Edward Pbacock. 



The Manor, Bottesford, Brigg. 



Epigram Wanted [sic in " N. & Q." 2°"* S. iii. 

 368.] — The following is the original : — 



" Sais-tu pourquoi, cher camarade, 

 Le beau-sexe n'est point barbu? 

 Babillard comme il est, on n'aurait jamais pu 

 Le raser sans estafllade." 



Its author was Gilles Menage, " savant, bel- 

 esprlt, appele par Bayle le Varron du xvii"'"'^ 

 si^cle." Eric. 



Ville-Marie, Canada. 



law of Change of Name (2°'> S. v. 215.) — I, 

 There need not be a will or bequest. 



2. The College of Arms will aflFord the needful 

 information. P. P. 



Pearls found in Britain (2"'^ S. v. 258.) — The 

 pearls still found in England, Wales, and Scotland, 

 are not generally found in oysters, but I'n muscles. 

 I suppose many people have in their possession, as 

 friends of my own have, small dark-coloured 

 pearls which they have found in muscles. I have 

 known them set in rings, &c. They are not of 

 much value for the most part,* so as to be watched 

 for, £^nd doubtless more would be found and 

 talked about if muscles were more popular than 

 they are as an article of food. 



William Fbasbr, B.C.L. 



Altqn Vicarage, Staffordshire. 



Lily's Grammar (2"<* S, v. 256.) — Among the 

 contributors to the Latin Grammar was Thomas 

 Robertson, one of the compilers of the English 

 Liturgy, who in 1532 printed a Comment on Lilys 

 Grammar, and added the part beginning " Quse 

 genus " and the Prosodia, dedicating it to Bishop 

 Longland for the use of Henley school. (See 

 Rawlinson's MSS., Oxford.) 



It is singular that when James I. iq 1604 

 granted the Letters Patent for the Henley Gram- 

 mar School, no notice was taken of the then exist- 

 ing Grammar School, although the Corporation 

 ^cords mention a schoolmaster as early as 1420. 



„ John S. Burn. 



Grove House, Henley. 



Epitaph commencing ^' Bold Infidelity ! " (1" S. 

 xi. 190. 295.; xii. 190.) — I have a copy of this 

 epitaph, made in 1817, on which it is stated to be 

 in Hauxton churchyard, near Cambridge, and to 

 have been written by Mr. Robinson. As it differs 

 from either of the above, I subjoin a transcript of 

 it:— . 



" Bold Infidelity ! turn pale and die ! 

 Beneath this stone four infants' ashes lie — 



Say, are thej' lost or saved ? 

 If death's by sin, they've sinned, because they're here ; 

 If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear. 



Reason ! oh how depraved ! 

 Revere the Bible's sacred page, the knot's untied. 

 They died — for Adam sinned ; they live, for Jesus died !" 



W. C. Trevelyan. 



Petrarch (2"^ S.v.225.)— If Mr. Bohn wishes for 

 information about the prose as well as the poetical 

 works of Petrarch, he may like to know of an old 

 English edition of his book De Remediis utrius- 

 que Fortnn(B ; it is entitled Physicke for Fortune, 

 imprinted at London in Panic's Churchyarde, by 

 Richard Watkins, 1579. J. C. J. 



Hackney. 



Besides the translations of Petrarch enumerated 

 by CuTHBERT Bede and F. S. A., I have the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" One Hundred Sonnets translated after the Italian of 

 Petrarca, with Notes and a Life of Petrarch, by Susan 

 Woolaston ; second Edition, London, Saunders and Ott- 

 ley. Conduit Street, 1855." 



J. Clarke. 



Freezing of Rivers in Italy (2"'^ S. v. 186.)- — 

 As this Query is not yet answered, I venture to 

 offer a note made long ago, before I had learned 

 the value of exact references. It is, — 



" Juvenal says it was necessary to break the ice of the 

 Tyber to get water. That the Loire and Rhone were re- 

 gularly frozen every year, and that armies could pass 

 over. Ovid says that the Black Sea was frozen annually, 

 and that there were white bears in Thrace." 



F. C. B. 



Pointer Dogs (2"^ S. v. 234. 305.) —Mr, White 

 states "the art of shooting flying " to have been 

 introduced about one hundred and fifty years ago, 

 and I think it is mentioned either in The Specta- 

 tor or The Guardian, but it seems to have been 

 a rare accomplishment even in the time of Field- 

 ing. The Man of the Hill, in his story, says : — 



« My brother now, at the age of fifteen, bid adieu to all 

 learning, and to everything else except his dog and 

 gun, with which latter he became so expert, that, though 

 perhaps you may think it incredible, he could not only 

 hit a standing mark with great certainty, but hath ac- 

 tually shot a crow as it was flying in the air." — Tom 

 Jones, book viii. c. ii. 



Anon. 



Trine of Qod save the Queen in Germany (2"'' S. 

 v. 294.) — This air was adopted by the present 

 King of Prussia as the National Anthem of Prus- 



