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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2M S. V. 127., JuNB 5. '58. 



add that I have since seen another herald's work- 

 book under date of 1687, wherein is a trick of the 

 arras as before described, with these additions as 

 instructions for funereal insignia, '■'■Madam Gwyn: 

 onalozenge: atchievm^: Majesty : \2silke: 8dos{en] 

 buck [ram'] : 12 shields." In the corner of the coat 

 of arms is the word " Russell," which I presume to 

 be the name of the herald painter. Cl. Hopper. 



Quotation by Sir James OraJiam (2°'' S. v. 437.) 

 — The quotation by Sir James Graham, brought 

 forward by J. E. T., is from Machiavelli : " a son 

 could bear with great complacency the death of 

 his father, while the loss of his inheritance might 

 drive him to despair." Machiavelli says: " gli 

 huomini dimenticano piii tosto la morte del padre, 

 che la perdita del patrimonio" (Del. Prin., c. xvii.). 



Mr. Taylor's exclamation, in his Philip Van 

 Artevelde — 



" . . Lives, lives, my Lord, take freely, 

 But spare the lands," — 



seems but a small echo of Byron's trumpet {Don 

 Juan, X. 79.) : — 



" Take lives, take wives, take aught except men's purses, 

 As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment, 

 Such is the shortest way to general curses. 



Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, 



Bat keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket." 



But is Byron's amplification a true sentimeiit ? 

 Are there not wrongs which are infinitely harder 

 to bear than loss of wealth or patrimony ? What 

 says Shakspeare ? — 



" Who steals my purse, steals trash," &c. 



I heed not complete a quotation which is in the 

 heart of all men. How unaccountable that Shak- 

 speare should put such a true and noble sentiment 

 in the mouth of the villain lago — the type of 

 wretches who murder the soul, whereas Italian 

 assassins (whom we denounce) merely kill the 

 body! Andrew Steinmetz. 



Lines in '' Eikon Basilike" (2°'^ S. v. 393.) — 

 The lines inscribed on the fly-leaf of Mr. Wilson's 

 copy of the work cited are usually found printed 

 in the book, and entitled An Epitaph upon King 

 Charles, signed J. H. I find them in three im- 

 pressions before me, viz. that by R. Royston, 

 24mo., 1649 ; that printed at the Hague, by S. 

 Brown, 24mo., 1649 ; and in an uncommon edi- 

 tion, " Dublin, reprinted for Edw. Lloyd, and are 

 to be sold at the Oxmantown Printing Coffee 

 House in Church Street," 1706. 



While upon the subject I may add, that my 

 Irish book is dedicated to the Duke of Ormond, 

 and apparently piit forth at this particular time, 

 when Jacobite plottings were rife, to beget a sym- 

 pathy for the Stuarts, and support for the High 

 Church, for the maintenance of which the ad- 

 mirers of King Charles affirm he suffered martyr- 



dom. In pursuance of this object, Mr. Lloyd has, 

 in the exterior of his book, imitated the early 

 editions by putting it in deep mourning; the cover 

 being black enamelled, with black edges to cor-* 

 respond. This edition is called the 50th, and has 

 a portrait, and a bold copy of the folding plates. 



Let me record another rare edition of the 

 Eikon Easilike bearing the imprint " at Paris, 

 sold at a Surgeon's shop' in the Rue Bethisq," 

 12mo., 1649. J. O. 



Cardinal York (2°'' S. v. 371.)— There are a 

 few interesting dates and facts in the following 

 cuttings : — 



" On the 15th of July, 1807, the royal family of the 

 Stuarts became extinct at Rome, in the person of Cardinal 

 York. This prince, bom at Rome on the 6th of March, 

 1723, was christened in the following month of May, by 

 Pope Benedict XIII. He was at tirst called Duke of 

 York, and afterwards Cardinal of York, when Pope Bene- 

 dict XIV. conferred on him the Roman purple, in 1747. 

 His father, the Pretender, known under the name of 

 Chevalier de St. George, who married Princess Mary 

 Clementine, the grand-daughter of Sobieski, the saviour 

 of Vienna, bequeathed all his property, papers, and jewels 

 to his eldest son. Prince Charles Edward, the second Pre- 

 tender; and at his death, without issue, in 1788, the 

 Cardinal of York, his only surviving brother, took pos- 

 session of them." 



The second cutting is fi'om an old newspaper, 

 which had, a few days previously, announced the 

 death of Cardinal York : — 



" Among other curious memoranda of the Royal House 

 of Stuart, found in the repositories of the late Cardinal 

 York, was a medal supposed to be unique. On the ob- 

 verse is the head of Charles Edward, with the significant 

 inscription ' Suum cuique.'' On the reverse, the Scots 

 Tliistle, with its appropriate motto — ' Nerm me impune 

 lacessit.' The medal is said to be finely executed by a 

 French artist, and bears the date of the year 1745." 



W. J. Fitz-Patrick. 



Uevohei's (2'"^ S. v. 245. 358.) — There is. Or 

 was till lately, in the Tower of London a speci- 

 men of this description of fire-arm, dating back 

 as far as the reign of Henry VIII. The shape 

 is in many respects similar to that of other 

 fire-arms of the period, with the exception that 

 attached to the (walnut- wood) stock are four short 

 revolving barrels, each having a covered pan for 

 the priming. The single barrel, about thirty 

 inches long, is properly attached at the end of 

 these, and has also a rod fixing it to the stock, 

 passing over the top of the revolving barrels. 

 The trigger acts upon a slow match held in the 

 same manner as the flint in the old musket. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Bullion (2"^ S. v. 378.) — The word bullion is 

 derived from the Low-Latin substantive hdlio, 

 one of whose meanings, according to Ducange in 

 v., is " massa auri aut argenti." Several instances 

 of this use of the word are cited by him from 

 Rymer's Fcedera. The substantive bvllio was 

 formed from the classical verb buUire, which sig- 



