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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2nd s. v. 120., April 17.- '58. 



tion on his slaying of Goliah. This omits certain 

 verses in the 14th Psalm found in the English 

 Prayer-Book, but not in our Bibles. The reason 

 for which is, that our Psalter is that from the 

 Great Bible in the reign of Henry VIII., which 

 was introduced into the first English Liturgy, and 

 has never been altered. Such a love of antiquity 

 may have induced the Romish Church to con- 

 tinue the old Italic version in the public service, 

 rather than to excite enquiry by introducing Je- 

 rome's translation, which it stamps as the only 

 standard of faith. A singular expression in the 

 prayer for Passion Sunday (vol. i. p. xvii., The 

 Order of the Blass) requires explanation : — 



" Who hast appointed the salvation of mankind upon 

 the wood of the cross ; that from whence death sprung, 

 life should arise : and he that conquer'd by the tree, 

 should also be conquered by the tree." 



Does this mean that Satan conquered by the 

 fruit of a tree? Or that he hung on a branch 

 while he tempted Eve, as represented in many 

 prints ? Or is it to keep alive the old legend that 

 the cross on which Christ was crucified was made 

 of the veritable tree on which the apple grew that 

 tempted Eve ! 



If W. C, F. C. H., Enivri, or any of your 

 readers can throw light upon these subjects, I 

 shall feel greatly obliged. Gbobge Offob. 



LehmanowsM {Col.) (P' S. x. 120. 515.; xi. 

 108. ; xii. 77.) — 



" A few days ago Col. Lemanhosky, the illustrious Pole, 

 who served under Napoleon during the times of the re- 

 public and the empire, died near Hamburg, Clark county, 

 Indiana, aged 88 years. He was among the first to rally 

 to the standard of the Little Corporal, and never betrayed 

 his trust or his master from the siege of Toulon to the 

 final overthrow and exile. Many ©f us have listened to 

 his lectures, and remember the thrilling incidents related 

 by the old man. He was in Italy and in Egypt, and be- 

 held the sanguinary conflicts that took place beneath the 

 shadows of the Pyramids, cruised the Red Sea, and among 

 the arid wastes of the desert beheld the ravages of the 

 plague cut down the flower of the army ; yet did he cling 

 to the fortunes of the great captain with that peculiar 

 tenacity that marked the followers of the greatest general 

 that ever trod the earth. For his devotedness he suffered 

 imprisonment in the loathsome dungeons of Paris, and, 

 at last, exile from the land of his first adoption to the 

 home of the free. 



" Here he lived an exemplary Christian, and when he 

 was called to fight the last battle, he girded on the armour 

 of faith, and fell beneath the scythe of death, to be wel- 

 comed victorious in eternity. 



" He was buried with Masonic honours, and while he 

 lived could boast of being one of the officers that initiated 

 the great Napoleon into the mysteries of that ancient and 

 honourable order." — New Albany {Ind.) Ledger. 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Sir TVilUam Button Colt (2"^ S. ili. 101.) — Mr. 

 Habt, in his interesting paper on the subject of 

 the expenses of Sir William Dutton Colt as am- 



bassador to the Dukes of Brunswick and Lunen- 

 burgh, states, on the authority of Hume, that Sir 

 William was fined in 1683 for calling the Duke of 

 York a Popish traitor. This appears to be a mis- 

 take. It was his brother, John Dutton Colt, of 

 Leominster (the eldest of a family of nine children, 

 of whom Sir William Colt was the youngest but 

 one), who suffered so severely for his plain speak- 

 ing. Three of the brothers distinguished them- 

 selves. The eldest by his love of truth, of which 

 he paid the penalty ; William Dutton Colt by his 

 diplomacy, and the share which he had in the dis- 

 covery of Grandval's plot to assassinate William 

 III. ; and Harry Dutton Colt, who was Member 

 for Westminster ; and who, for services rendered 

 to the king, was by him created a baronet, March 

 6, 1692. Sir Harry Colt died without issue, and 

 the baronetcy passed, according to the limitations 

 of the patent, to the descendants of John Dutton 

 Colt, the eldest brother. I make the foregoing 

 statement upon the authority of the present head 

 of the family, the Rev. Sir Edward Harry Vaughan 

 Colt, Bart. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



University Hoods (2°* S. v. 234.) — As some 

 help towards the completion of the useful table 

 contributed by Oxfoed Undergraduate, I may 

 note that the hoods of each degree in the several 

 schools of the University of Dublin are: — 1. 

 Divinity — D.D., red cloth, lined with black silk; 

 B.D., all black silk. 2. Law — LL.D., red cloth, 

 lined with pink silk ; LL.B., black silk, lined with 

 white. 3. Physic — M.D., red cloth, lined with rose- 

 coloured silk ; M.B., black silk, lined with rose- 

 coloured silk. 4. Music — Mus. D., white figured 

 satin, lined with rose-coloured silk; Mus. B., black 

 silk, lined with light blue. 5. Arts — M.A., black 

 silk, lined with dark blue ; B.A., black silk, lined 

 with white fur. What hoods are used by the 

 Queen's University ? John Ribton Garstin. 



Trin. Col. Dublin. 



* Return of Sight, or Second Sight (2°* S. iv. 

 225.) — It would be agreeable to be favoured with 

 a few examples from any correspondent confirm- 

 atory of the fact of the restoration of eyesight in 

 old age, similar to the case given above in " N. & 

 Q." In the course of reading I have only been 

 able to fall upon one such, as follows : — 



" Mr. Patrick Wian, Minister of Lesbury, Read the 

 Divine Service, David's tsalms, one Chapter out of the 

 Old Testament, and one out of the New, without the use 

 of Spectacles ; he had two New Teeth ; his sight much 

 decayed was restored tfnto him about the 110th year of 

 his age; Hair was restored to his bald Scull, and he 

 could preach a Sermon without the help of Notes ; he 

 gave this Account of himself October 19. 1657." — The 

 Wonders of Nature, Part II. By William Turner, M. A. 

 London, printed for John Dunton, MDCXCVIL Fol., 

 p. 32. 



G.N. 



