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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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session one of those given by Sir John Fineux on 

 his assumption of the coif. The motto is, " Suae 

 quisque fortunae faber." P. C. S. S. 



" Then comes the reckoning" Sf-c. (Vol. v., p. 585.). 

 — These two lines are to be found in Act II. Sc. 9. 

 of the tragi-comi-pastoral, The What D'ye Call It, 

 by John Gay, author of the Beggar's Opera, 

 Fables, &c. The correct quotation is : 



" So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er. 

 The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more." 



S. Wmson. 



Sir J. Covert, not Govett (Vol. vii., p. 85.). — 

 Qu^Ro may be perfectly assured that there never 

 was a baronet of the name of Govett, nor a member 

 of parliament so called. P. C. S. S. is confident 

 that the individual to whom Qu^RO refers, as 

 having sat in the second parliament of Charles II., 

 must have been Sir John Covert, Baronet, who 

 was member for Horsham. The misnomer would 

 not be surprising in a list which contains such 

 names as Nosrooth for Noseworthy, Cowsiiop for 

 Courthope, Meestry for Masters, and Grubba- 

 minton and Zerve for Heaven knows what ! 



P. C. s. s. 



Chatterton (Vol. vii., pp. 14. 138.). — I feel very 

 much obliged to J. M. G. for his answer to my 

 question. May I ask if he has any other docu- 

 ments or information which would throw light on 

 the origin and history of the Rowley poems ? The 

 inquiry has interested me for more than forty 

 years, and I have long been about as fully con- 

 vinced that Chatterton did not write the poems, 

 as that I did not write them myself. For any 

 help towards finding out who did write them, I 

 should be very thankful. N. B. 



Tennyson (Vol. vii., p. 84.). — The following 

 brief N ote from Democritus in London ; with the 

 Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and 

 Robin Good-Felloiv, is a reply to the first Query 

 of H.J. J.: 



" Ye may no see, for peeping flowers, the grasse." 



George Peek. 



" You scarce could see the grass for flowers." 



Alfred Tennyson. 

 A Subscriber. 



Query 2. Is not the Latin song Catullus XLV. 

 (edit. Doering), where we find (v. 8.) : 

 " Amor, sinistram ut ante, 

 Dextram sternuit approbationem 9 '* 



P. J. F. Gajjtillon, B.A. 



Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head (Vol. v., 

 pp. 175. 235. 305.). — I am surprised that the twice- 

 repeated Query of your correspondent L. G. T. of 

 Lichfield yet remains unanswered. " The cavern " 



he refers to is that called Llech, and concerning 

 which he has fallen into several errors. The 

 cavern, so far from having been lately discovered, 

 has been known for generations past, and is yearly 

 visited by hundreds of strangers. If the entrance 

 has been made as private and inaccessible as pos- 

 sible, there is nobody to blame but nature and 

 time ; for the ancient approach was from the sum- 

 mit of the cliflF by means of a flight of stone and 

 grass steps, of which traces still remain connected 

 with an old stone wall. The cave is easily descried 

 from the sea-shore below, whence it can be reached 

 by the aid of a common ladder. The shape is not 

 heptagonal, as stated by L. G. T. ; but is semi- 

 octagonal, terminated in front by two square 

 columns of freestone. The front and seats are in 

 perfect preservation ; but of the stone table, which 

 many years ago occupied the centre, the pedestal 

 only remains. The font, or rather stone basin, 

 is supplied by a spring of most delicious water, 

 which, at certain seasons, flows in copious quan- 

 tities into an artificial bath excavated in the rock 

 below. It is said that the cave was fitted up as 

 a grotto, or pleasure-house, by some ancestors of 

 the Mostyn family ; and this is all that is known 

 about it. I have measured the principal dimen- 

 sions, and find the quantities given by L. G. T. 

 sufficiently accurate. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. . 



Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (Vol. vii., p. 14.). — 

 No pedigree of this prelate's family is known to 

 have been referred to by any of the Devonshire 

 historians. The arms used by the bishop, and still 

 remaining in several churches of the diocese, were : 

 Sable, a chevron or« between three owls proper ; 

 on a chief of the second as many roses gules. 



Burke, in the Encyclopedia of Heraldry, gives a 

 different coat as borne by Oldham of Hatherleigh 

 in the co. of Devon. J. D. 



Arms at Bristol (Vol. vii., p. 67.). — It may 

 afford a clue to E. D. to be informed that coats of 

 arms bearing a chevron charged with three bucks' 

 heads caboshed were used by the families of Cer- 

 vington or Servington, and Parry. J. D. 



The Cross and the Crucifix (Vol. v., pp. 39. 85.). 

 — Under this title I find two articles ; and, as it 

 is an interesting subject, I should like to send a 

 quotation which I copied some time since from 

 the Octaviv3 of Minucius Felix, a.d. 210 (Adam. 

 Clarke) : 



" Cruces etiam nee colimus nee optamus. Vos plane 

 qui ligneos decs consecratis, cruces ligneas, ut deorum 

 vestrorum partes, forsitan adoratis. Nam et signa ipsa, 

 et cantabra, et vexilla castrorum, quid aliud quara inau- 

 rata? cruces sunt et ornat® ? Tropfea vestra victricia non 

 tantum simplicis crucis faciem, verum et affixi hominis 

 imitantur. Signum sane crucis naturaliter visimus in 



