Jan. 15. 1853.] 



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qu'il partit de Chambord pour I'ltalie, le Comte de Koe- 

 nigsmark se trouva dans une auberge, et en sortit le 

 matin pour f'aire un tour de promenade. L'hotesse de 

 cette maison courut apres lui et lui cria : ' Montez vite 

 la-haut, Monsieur, votre page accouche !' Le page ac- 

 coucha en efFet d'une fille : on mit la mere et I'enfant 

 dans un couvent a Paris." 



He afterwards went to England, where — 



" Les freres, cousins, et petits cousins de lady South- 

 ampton I'attendaient, et les duels se mirent a lui pleu- 

 voir dessus. Comme son epee aimait assez a luire au 

 soleil, il la tira volontiers, et avec une chance telle que 

 ses ennemis, ne pouvant le vaincre par le fer, jugerent 

 a propos d'essayer du poison, Degoute de perdre 

 son temps a de pareilles miseres, &c. &c. Tant que le 

 comte a vecu il en a eu grand soln ; mais il mourut en 

 Moree, et le page fidele ne lui survecut pas long»temps. 

 Elle est morte comme une sainte." 



Can you, or any of your correspondents, say 

 who this interesting Countess of Southampton was ? 

 She lived at the end of the seventeenth century. 

 In addition to these particulars, which are so 

 nicely told that I would not venture to alter 

 them, as Orsino asks Viola, " What was her his- 

 tory?" W. R. 



Minor Cutties. 



Hardening Steel Bars. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me how thin, flat, steel bars (say 

 three feet long) can be prevented from " running " 

 crooked when hardened in water ? J. H. A. 



Pierrepont. — Who was John Pierrepont of 

 Wadworth, near Doncaster, who died July, 1653, 

 aged 75. A, F. B. 



Diss. 



Ceylon. — I should be much obliged to Sik 

 James Tbnnent, if he would kindly inform me 

 where the best map of Ceylon Is to be got ? such 

 as are to be found in the atlases within my reach 

 are only good enough to try a man's temper, and 

 no more. 



May I also take the liberty of asking how soon 

 we may expect the appearance of Sir James Ten- 

 nent's book on the history, &c. of Ceylon ? a work 

 which will be a great work indeed, If we have at 

 all a fair specimen of Its author's learning and 

 powers in the Christianity in Ceylon. Ajax. 



Flemish and Butch Schools of Painting. — Would 

 any of your correspondents direct me to some work 

 giving me some information about the painters of 

 the Dutch and Flemish schools, their biographers, 

 their peculiarities, chefs-d'oeuvre, &c. ? Ajax. 



" To talk like a Dutch Uncle." — In some parts 

 of America, when a person has determined to give 

 another a regular lecture, he will often be heard 



to say, " I will talk to him like a Dutch uncle ;" 

 that is, he shall not escape this time. 



As the emigrants to America from different 

 countries have brought their national sayings with 

 them, and as the one I am now writing about was 

 doubtless introduced by the Knickerbockers, may 

 I ask If a similar expression is now known or used 

 in Holland ? W. W. 



Malta. 



Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium. — I want 

 some work on this subject : can any one tell me of 

 one? 



K.B. — A big book does not frighten me. 



Ajax. 



Charter of Waterford. — I have a copy of the 

 English translation of this charter, published in 

 Kilkenny, with the following note, written in an 

 old hand, on the title-page : 



" This was first translated by William Cunningham 

 Cunningham (sic), a native of Carrick-on-Suir, born 

 on Ballyrichard Road: his father and brother were 

 blacksmiths ; his grand-nephew Cunningham lives 

 now a cowper (^sic) in New Street in do. town." 



I wish to know if this note is worth anything, 

 and if the statement contained in it is true ? 



R. H. 



Inscription on Penny of George III. — On an 

 old 'penny of George III., on the reverse, I find 

 the following inscription : 



" STABIT QVOCVNCiVE lECERIS." 



What does this precisely mean ; or why and when 

 was it adopted ? J. M. A. 



" Shoh" or " Shub," a Kentish Word. — Your 

 correspondent on the Kentish word sheets (Vol. vi., 

 p. 338.) may possibly be able to give some 

 account of another Kentish word, which I have 

 met with In the country about Horton-KIrby, 

 Dartford, Crayford, &c., and the which I cannot 

 find in Halllwell, or any other dictionary in my 

 possession, — viz. to shob or shub. It Is applied to 

 the trimming up elm-trees in the hedge-rows, by 

 cutting away all the branches except at the head : 

 "to shob the trees" is the expression. Now, in 

 German we have schaben, v. r. to shave ; but in 

 the Anglo-Saxon I find nothing nearer than scaf 

 part, scof, to shave. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Bishop Pursglove (Suffragan) of Hull. — This 

 prelate is buried in Tideswell Church, Devon- 

 shire, and a copy of his monumental brass is given 

 in Illustrations of Monumental Brasses, published 

 in 1842 by the Cambridge Camden Society. Per- 

 haps some reader of " N. & Q." who has access 

 to that work will send the inscription for in- 

 sertion in your columns. Any information also as 



