Jak 22. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



TS5 



courses at length, in the eleventh chapter of his 

 IVeatise on Astronomy, would seem to demonstrate 

 that they would interfere with the equilibrium of 

 the solar system. 



Would some of your scientific contributors con- 

 descend to explain this matter, so as to remove the 

 ijrnorance under which I labour in common with, 

 I believe, many others ? Leonora. 



Liverpool. 



Chaplains to Noblemen. — Under what statute, 

 if any, do noblemen appoint their chaplains ? and 

 is there any registry of such appointments in any 

 archiepiscopal or episcopal registry ? X. 



'■'■ More'''' Queries. — 

 " When More some years had Chancellor been, 

 No more suits did remain ; 

 The same shall never more be seen, 

 Till More be there again." 



I infer from the first lines of this epigram that 

 Sir Thomas More, by his unremitting attention to 

 the business oftheCourt of Chancery, had brought 

 to a close, in his day, the litigation in that depart- 

 ment. Is there any authentic record of this cir- 

 cumstance? 



Are there, at the present day, any male descen- 

 dants of Sir Thomas More, so as to render possible 

 tlie fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the 

 last two lines ? Heney H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



TTeraldic Query. — To what families do the fol- 

 lowing bearings belong ? L Two lions passant, on 

 a chief three spheres (I think) mounted on pedes- 

 tals ; a mullet for difference. The crest is very 

 like a lily reversed. 2. Ermine, a bull passant ; 

 crest, a bull passant : initials " C. G." U. J. S. 



Sheffield. 



" By Prudence guided,'" ^c. — Can any of the 

 readers of " N. & Q." supply me with the words 

 deficient in the following lines, and inform me from 

 what author they are quoted ? I met with them 

 on an old decaying tomb in one of the churchyards 

 in Sheffield : 



" By prudence guided, undeiiled in mind, 

 Of pride unconscious, and of soul refined, 



. . . . conquest subdue 



With in view 



Here the heaven-!)orn flame 



Which from whence it came." 



W. S. (Sheffield.) 



Laivyers' Bags. — I find it stated by Colonel 

 Landman, in his Memoirs, that prior to the trial 

 of Queen Caroline, the colour of the bags carried 

 by barristers was green ; and that the change to 

 red took place at, or immediately after, the event 

 in question. I shall be glad of any information 

 both as to the fact of such change having taken 



place, and the circumstances by which it was 

 brought about and accompanied. J. St. J. Y. 



Wellbank. 



Master Family. — Can you refer me to any one 

 who may be able to give me information respect- 

 ing the earlier history of the family of Master or 

 Maistre, of Kent, prior to 1530 : and any sugges- 

 tions as to its connexion with the French or Nor- 

 man family of Maistre or De Maistre ? This being 

 a Query of no public interest, I inclose a stamped 

 envelope, according to the wish expressed by you 

 in a recent Number. George S. Master. 



Welsh-Hampton, Salop. 



Passage in Wordsworth. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents find an older original for Wordsworth's 

 graceful conceit, in his sonnet on Walton's lines — 



" There are no colours in the fairest sky 

 As fair as these : the feather whence the pen 

 Was shaped, that traced the lives of these good men, 

 Dr opt from an angeVs winy " — 



than the following : 



" whose noble praise 

 Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing." 



Dorothy Berry, in a Sonnet prefixed to Diana 

 Primrose's Chain of Pearl, a Memorial of the 

 peerless Graces, Sfc. of Queen Elizabeth: pub- 

 lished London, 1639, — a tract of twelve pages. 



M— A L. 



Edinburgh. 



C Govett Family. — Can you inform me for what i&v 



to\vn or county Sir Govett, Bart., was mem- '"'■ 



ber of parliament in the year 1669, and what were 

 his armorial bearings ? His name appears in the 

 list of members given in page 496. of the Grand 

 Duke Cosmo's Travels through England, published 

 in 1821. Is the baronetcy extinct ? If so, who 

 was the last baronet, and in what year ? Where 

 he lived, or any other particulars, will much oblige. 



Qu^BO. 



Sir Kenelm Digby. — Why is Sir Kenelm Digby ■ 

 represented, I believe always, with a sun-flower 

 by his side ? Vandyke. 



Riddles. — It would take up too much of your 

 valuable time and space to insert all the riddles 

 for which correspondents cannot find answers ; 

 but will you find means to ask, through your pages, 

 if any clever CEdipus would allow me to commu- 

 nicate to him certain enigmas which puzzle me 

 greatly, and which I should very much like to have 

 solved. KtiBi. 



Straw Bail. — Fielding, in his Life of Jonathan 

 Wild, book i. chap, ii., relates that Jonathan's 

 aunt 



" Charity took to husband an eminent gentleman, 

 whose name I cannot learn ; but who was famous for 



