Mar. 19. 1853.] 



NOTES AKD QUERIES. 



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Curious Fact in Natural Philosophy (Vol. vii., 

 p, 206.). — In Young's Natural Philosophj it is 

 said, that if the cup of a barometer is phxced in a 

 vessel somewhat larger than the cup, so contrived 

 that the tube of the barometer may fit air-tight in 

 the top of the vessel, and if two holes are made in 

 the vessel on opposite sides, a current of air driven 

 in at one hole will cause the mercury to fall. Is 

 not the case of the cards analogous to this ? and 

 might not the cause be, that the current of air 

 carries away with it some of that contained be- 

 tween the cards, and so that the air is sufficiently 

 rarefied to cause a pressure upwards greater than 

 that caused by the cuiTent downwards, and the 

 effect of gravity ? Might not the sudden fall of the 

 barometer before storms be from a cause similar in 

 some degree to this ? A. B. Cr 



Oxford. 



" Hand cum Jesu itis, qui itis cum Jesuitis." — In 

 "K & Q." for Feb. 7, 1852, a correspondent, 

 L. H. J. T., asks for some clue to the above. 

 Last March a friend of mine purchased in Paris, 

 at a book-stall on the Quai d'Orsay, a manuscript 

 book, very beautifully written, and in the old 

 binding of the time, -which appears to be the tran- 

 script of a printed volume. Its title is Le Jesuit 

 secularise. A Cologne : chez Jacques Milebram. 

 1683. 



It is a dialogue between " Dorval, abbe et doc- 

 teur en th% et Maimbourg, Jesuit secularise;" 

 and at the end (p. 197.) is a long Latin ballad, 

 entitled "Canticum Jesuiticum," filling eight small 

 8vo. pages, the opening stanza of which is 



" Opulentas civitates 

 Ubi sunt commoditates 

 Semper quserunt isti patres." 



And the conclusion of the whole is, in effect, tbe 

 line of which your correspondent speaks : 



" Vita namqiie Christiana 

 Abhorret ab hac doctrina 

 Tanquam ficta ct insana. 



Erffo 

 Vos qui cum Jesu itis, 

 Non ite cum Jesuitis." 



I should be glad to be certified by any of your 

 correspondents of the actual existence of the 

 printed volume, which probably was sought for 

 and destroyed by the authorities on account of its 

 pestilent contents. C. H. H. 



Westdean, Sussex. 



Tradescant Famihj (Vol. iii., p. 393.). — In 

 further illustration of this subject, and for the in- 

 formation of your correspondents who have taken 

 an interest in the restoration of the tomb in Lam- 

 beth churchyard, I beg through you to say that I 

 have found the will of the grandsire, " John Tra- 

 descant, of South Lambeth, co. Surrey, Gardener : " 



it is dated January 8, 1637, and proved May 2, 

 1638, so that the period of his death may be fairly 

 placed in that year, as suggested by Mr. Pinr- 

 kerton's extracts from the churchwardens' ac- 

 counts (Vol. iii., p. 394.) ; and the defect in the 

 parish register for some months folio-wing July, 

 1637, will account for no entiy being found of his 

 actual burial. The younger Tradescant was his 

 only child, and at the date of tbe will he had two 

 grandchildren, John and Frances Tradescant. 

 His son was the residuary legatee, with a proviso, 

 that if he should desire to part with or sell his- 

 cabinet, he should first ofier the same to the 

 Prince. His brother-in-law, Alexander Norman, 

 and Mr. William Ward, were the executors, and 

 proved the will. As Mr. Pinkerton stated that 

 he was on the trace of new and curious matter 

 respecting the Tradescants, he may find it tiseful 

 to know that John Tradescant the elder held the 

 lease of some property at Woodham Water ia 

 Essex, and two houses in Long Acre and Covent 

 Garden. G. 



Arms of Joan d'Arc (Vol. vii., p. 210.). — I 

 believe I can answer the inquiry of Bend. The 

 family of Joan d'Arc was ennobled by Charles VIL 

 in December, 1429, with a grant of the following 

 magnificent armorial coat, viz. Azure, between 

 two fleurs-de-lys, or, a sword in pale, point up- 

 wards (the hilt or the blade argent), in chief, on 

 the sword's point, an open crovrn, Jleur-de-lyse, or. 



In consequence of the proud distinction thu» 

 granted, of bearing for their arms the fleur-de-lys 

 of France, the family assumed the name of JDu 

 Lys d'Arc, which their descendants continued to 

 bear, until (as was supposed) the line became ex- 

 tinct in the last century, in the person of CoU" 

 lombe du Lys, Prior of Coutras, who died in 1 760 ; 

 but the fact is, that the family still exists in this 

 country in the descendants of a Count Du Lys, 

 who settled in Hampshire as a refugee at the re- 

 vocation of the Edict of Nantes (he having em- 

 braced the Protestant religion). His eldest male 

 descendant, and (as I believe) the representative 

 of the ancient and noble family of Du Lys d'Arc, 

 derived from a brother of the Maid of Orleans, is 

 a most worthy friend and neighbour of mine, tbe 

 Rev. J. T. Lys, Fellow of Exeter College, Avhose 

 ancestors, since the period of their settlement in 

 England, thought proper to drop the foreign title, 

 and to curtailtheir name to its present form. 



W. Snktd. 



Denton. 



Judmis Odor (Vol. vii., p. 207.). — The lines 

 are to be found in the London Magazine, !May, 

 1820, p. 504.: 



" Even tbe notion, which is not j'et entirely extinct 

 among the vulgar (though Sir T. Browne satisfactorily- 

 refuted it by abundant arguments deduced from reason 



