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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" Suidas dit [where?] de quelques peuples d'Orient 

 qu'ils ne boivent que hors du manger." {lb. cap. 30.) 



" Telle etoit la science de celui qui s'amusa ii compter 

 oil combien do sortes se pouvoient^. ranger les lettres de 

 I'alpliabet, et y a trouva ce nomlire incroyable qui se voit 

 dans I'lutarque." [In what passage of Plutarch?] (it. 

 cap. 55.) 



" Aucune cachette ne sert aux m&hants, disoit Epi- 

 curus [where?], parcequ'ils ne se peuvcnt assurer d'etre 

 caches." (B. ii. cap. 5.) ' 



" Et tient Aristote [where?] qu'un liomme prudent et 

 juste peut etre et temperant et incontinent." {lb. 

 cap. 11.) 



" Platon dit [where?] les melancoliques plus disciplin- 

 ablcs et excellents." {lb., cap. 12.) 



" Je crois Platon de bon coeur qui dit [where?] les 

 humeurs faciles ou difficiles etre un grand prejudice h, la 

 bonte ou mauvaiset(? de I'ame." (B. iii. cap. 6.) 



I shall be very thankful if answers to the above 

 are directed hy letter to me, as the publication of 

 them would obviously furnish others with the 

 advantages I am anxious to secure on behalf of 

 Dr. Payen. Information of any kind respecting 

 Montaigne's Essays will be most acceptable. 



GUSTAVE MasSON. 

 Harrow-on-the-Hi!l, Dec. 25. « 



BIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. 



Francis Lascelles, Clerk, son of Thomas Las- 

 celles, Esq., of Sowerby, co. York, married 

 Hannah, daughter of Francis Drake, Clerk, of 

 Pontefract. What living did he hold? The 

 names of his children ? One of his sons, I ima- 

 gine, married a Miss Sturdy of Pontefract, who 

 had a son named Lascelles Sturdy Lascelles, who 

 by letters patent dropped the name of Sturdy ; he 

 died in 1792, aged thirty-five, described as clerk 

 of the order of deacon. I should" feel obliged by 

 any correspondents furnishing me with what in- 

 formation they can respecting them. 



Thomas Balguy, D.D., archdeacon of Winches- 

 ter, born Sept. 27, 1716 ; where? Was he edu- 

 cated at Northallerton Grammar School? His 

 father was vicar of this town, 1729 — 1748. 



William Palliser, who entered Trinity College, 

 Dublin, July 1, 1708, son of Dr. William Palliser, 

 Archbishop of Casffel. The maiden name of his 

 mother ? Any particulars respecting him would 

 be acceptable to C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Northallerton. 



" Cy-Pres,^' Doctrine of the Roman Church, — 

 I think I know the meaning and use of this doc- 

 trine or usage ; namely, that by which the Church 

 of Home transfers funds or endowments left for 

 one purpose to another ; but I should be glad to 

 know the derivation and meaning of the name as 

 above ? A. B. K. 



" Auncient.'' — In an old letter of the sixteenth 

 century I find the following sentence from a 

 young man to his patron : — 



^ " Having no otTering of my love to you, but the saga- 

 cious Auncient which the bearer shall present, I rest your 

 Honour's," &c. 



I cannot understand what is here meant by a 

 "sagacious Auncient sent by bearer." Had the 

 writer commended the bearer himself to be "His 

 lordship's ancient" we would inteipret the mean- 

 ing by Shakspeare's lago ; but in the present case 

 I should suppose the Auncient to be some animal 

 of chase, or " venerie," and should be glad to know 

 more particularly lohat the name designates ? 



A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



Poems. — Who is the author of a volume en- 

 titled Poems hy a Father and Daughter ? 1845. 

 What are the initials of the author's name at the 

 end of the preface ? Iota. 



Theodor Korner. — Who is the translator of 

 A Selection from the Poems and Dramatic Works 

 of Theodor Korner ; by the translator of the 

 Nibelungen Treasure ? Williams & Norgate. 1850. 



Iota. 



Noah, Neptune, and Nick. — Lacour, in his Essai 

 sur les Hieroglyphes E'gyptieiis, says — 



" Moise donne k No^ dont le nom s'ecrit Nych, le tytre 

 de Tim, c'est h. dire, de parfait. Les Grecs ne font qu'un 

 mot de ces deux, et nous apprennent qu'un deluge eut 

 lieu de temps de Nychtim." 



Jamieson {Hermes Scythicus) says, that Nick 

 was the Scandinavian Neptune, and Iludbeck 

 writes this name Niphtunir. The f and Xj or the 

 ph and ch being convertible, I ask, can it be 

 possible that dark and visionary mythologies have 

 so far corrupted history as to teach that Noah, 

 Neptune, and Nick, were the same person ? J. P. 



Dominica. 



Baron Hathwire. — Can any of your readers 

 oblige me with a short account of William Daniel, 

 Baron of Rathwire in Ireland, mentioned in the 

 Norfolk peerage, and at the same time give me 

 the number of his children and their names ? 



s. w. 



The Shand Family. — In an interesting com- 

 munication from your correspondent G. N. (P' S. 

 389.) regarding one of the French refugees, who 

 established himself in the west of Scotland soon 

 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 

 1685, it is said that the common surname Shand 

 is originally the French De Champ. This I think 

 is a very probable derivation ; but it would be 

 very obliging if G. N., or any of your correspon- 

 dents, would state any evidence of which they 

 may be in possession supporting this origin of the 

 name. The name Shand is very common in some 



