Mar. 19. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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so, is it not a solitary instance of such a construc- 

 tion in our language ? Perhaps some of your cor- 

 respondents can inform me, at what period this use 

 of the word was introduced ; for it is doubtless a 

 modern innovation. Ekica. 



Warwick. 



In Jesum Cruci affixum. — 



" Afiixus llgno, Salvalor, crimina mundi 



Abstersit, patiens jussa cruenta necis; 

 Aspicite ut languoie decus, turpescere membra, 



Intimus ut scse prodat in ore dolor ; 

 Auditus saxis, intellectusque ferarum 



Sensibus, inventos Spiritus seger abit 

 Splendida per tenebras, subito simulacra coruscant, 



Ardentesque micant per freta longa faces ; 

 Pro servis dominus moritur, pro sontibus insons, 



Pro ajgroto raedicus, pro grege pastor obit,. 

 Pro populo nex mactatur, pro milite ductor, 



Proque opera ipse opifex, proque homine ipse 

 Deus : 

 Quid servus, sons, segrotus, quid grex, popuhisque, 



Quid miles, quid opus, quidve homo solvat ? 

 Amet." 



' The present holy season has brought to my re- 

 collection the above beautiful lines, which wei'C 

 shown up some fifty years ago, for long copy, by a 

 schoolfellow at Blun dell's scliool, Tiverton, and 

 copied into my scrap-book. I think they are from 

 the Poemata of Joannes Audoenus, but am not 

 sure of it ; of this, however, I am sure, they can- 

 not be better made known to the world than by 

 your excellent publication. Wiijliam Cou^yns. 

 Harlow. 



^ntxiti. 



COKBET PEERAGE. 



Sarah, widow of Sir Vincent Corbet, Bart., was 

 created (23rd October, 1679) Viscountess Corbet, 

 of Linchlade, co. Bucks, for her natural life ; and 

 in the patent the preamble runs, — that his Ma- 

 jesty Charles II., 



" Having taken into his royal consideration the great 

 worth and merits of the trusty and well-beloved Sarah 

 Lady Corbet, together with the faithful services of the 

 late Sir Vincent Corbet, grants," &c. 



This evidently explains but little of the real reason 

 both of the grant and its limitation. Lady Corbet 

 had, besides four daughters, two sons then living : 

 both in turns succeeded to the baronetcy. If the 

 peerage were a reward for the services of the late 

 Sir Vincent (those services, indeed, consisting in 

 his having been completely routed by Sir Will 

 Brereton at ITantwich, and afterwards with six 

 troops of horse taken by surprise at Drayton, fol- 

 lowed eventually by fine and sequestration), — if, 

 I say, for these services, nineteen years after the 

 Restoration, and certainly three after Sir Vincent's 



own death, the peerage were bestowed on his 

 widow, then why was it limited for her life ? Why 

 was the unusual course taken of actually excluding- 

 the succession of the issue, who naturally should 

 have been the recipients of the honour ? We 

 may conclude, therefore, the motive was personal 

 favour, " the great worth and merits " of Lady- 

 Corbet in fact, as the patent first asserts ; but 

 then the Query arises what these were. Tra- 

 dition says Lady Corbet was a beauty and a fa- 

 vourite (the term may be understood) at a pro- 

 fligate court, and the peerage was . the reward 7 

 but I cannot discover that this is more than tra- 

 dition, and have never found any corroborative 

 authority even among the many scandalous his- 

 tories of the time, and I am most desirous to know 

 if any such evidence can be given. 



It may be as well to add that in 1679 Lady 

 Corbet was sixty-six years of age; but we may 

 presume she still had attractions (unless these were 

 only her rank) from the fact that two months- 

 later she remarried Sir Charles Lee of Billesley. 



MoNSON". 

 Gatton Park. 



THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON A MAUECHAL DE 

 PEANCE. 



The Revue Britannique, in its Number for 

 November, 1852, under the head of '' Nouvelley 

 des Sciences," gives an account of the Duke of 

 Wellington's funeral, and enumerates the titles of 

 the illustrious deceased, as proclaimed on the occa- 

 sion by Garter King-at-Arms. The writer marks 

 in Italics those of Due de Brunoy en France^ Mare- 

 chal de France, and Chevalier du Saint- Esj)rit, and 

 then appends these remarks : 



" Que le titre de Due de Brunoy ai^ ete donne re- 

 ellement par Louis XVIII. a Lord Wellington, c'est 

 croyable. Le roi pouvait creer ce duche en sa faveur, 

 sans blesser aueune susceptibilite militaire. Mais que 

 ce prince politique ait pu nommer Marechal de France 

 un general etranger, auqiiel il preferait donner le cor- 

 don du Saint-Esprit, plutot que la simple croix de la 

 Legion-d'Honneur, qu'on cherche en vain dans la list? 

 des Ordres dont Lord Wellington fut deeore, c'est plus 

 difficile a croire, a moins que cette nomination n'ait eu 

 lieu avec des reserves et des conditions de secret, qui 

 auraient fort peu satisfait celui qu'on supposait, sans 

 doute, ambitieux d'un pareil honneur, puisque on le 

 lui ofTrait. Le nombre des Marechaux fut limite et 

 non augmcnte sous la Restoration. Louis XVIII. 

 crea une Marechale, il est vrai ; — Si Lord Wellington 

 fut nomme Marechal, ce titre, restreint a une qualifi- 

 cation honorifique, comme celle de la veuve de Moreau, 

 ne put jamais lui conferer aucun rang dans I'armee 

 Fran^aise. Je somme ici le roi d'armes Jarretiere de 

 vouloir bien produire le diplome du noble due." 



No man ever stood less in need of foreign order* 

 than the Duke of Wellington ; and no man ever 



