June 18. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sleswick, Holstein, 

 Hamburgh, Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, and Pome- 

 rania, but is at present rapidly disappearing. 

 Yet, in Holstein they still mark the cattle grazing 

 on the common with the signs of their respective 

 proprietors ; they do the same with the haystacks 

 in Mecklenburgh, and the fishing-tackle on the 

 small islands of the Baltic. In the city of Dantzic 

 these marks still occur in the prayer-books which 

 are left in the churches. 



There are scarcely any traces of this custom in 

 the south of Germany, except that the various 

 towers of the city-wall of Nurnberg are said to 

 bear their separate marks ; and that an apothecary 

 of Strasburg, Merkwiller, signs a document, dated 

 1521, with his name, his coat of arms, and a simple 

 mark. 



Professor Homeyer has lately read, before the 

 Royal Academy of Berlin, a very learned paper 

 on the subject, and has explained this ancient cus- 

 tom as significant of popular law, possibly intimat- 

 ing the close connexion between the property and 

 its owner. I am sorry not to be able to copy out 

 the Professor's collection of runic marks ; but I 

 trust that the preceding lines will be sufficient in 

 order to elicit the various traces of a similar cus- 

 tom still prevalent, or remembered, in the British 

 isles ; an account of which will be thankfully re- 

 ceived at Berlin, where they have lately been in- 

 formed, that even the eyder-geese on the Shetlands 

 are distinguished by the marks of their owners. 



Minav €i\xznti. 



" Seductor Sncco." — Will any of your readers 

 oblige me by giving me either a literal or poetical 

 translation of the following lines, taken from Foulis, 

 Bom. Treasons, Preface, p. 28., 1681 ? 



" Seductor Succo ; Gallo Sicarius ; Anglo 

 Proditor ; Imperio Explorator ; Davus Ibero ; 

 Italo Adulator ; dixi teres ore, — Suitam." 



CtERICUS (D). 



Anna Lightfoot. — T. H. H. would be obliged by 

 any particulars relating to Anna Lightfoot, the 

 left-handed wife of George III. It has been stated 

 that she had but one son, who died at an early age; 

 but a report circulates in some channels, that she 

 had also a daughter, married to a wealthy manu- 

 facturer in a midland town. It is particularly de- 

 sired to know in what year, and under what cir- 

 cumstances, Anna Lightfoot died. 



Queries from the '■'■ Navorscher." — Did Addison, 

 Steele, or Swift write the " Choice of Hercules " 

 in the Tatlerf 



Was Dr. Hawkesworth, or, if not, who was, the 

 author of "Religion the Foundation of Content," 

 an allegory in the Adventurer ? 



In what years were born C. C. Colton, Pinnock, 

 Washington Irving, George Long, F. B. Head ; 

 and when died those of them who are no longer 

 among us ? 



Who wrote " Journal of a poor Vicar," " Story 

 of Catherine of Russia," " Vol ney Becker," and the 

 " Soldier's Wife," in Chambers's Miscellany ? 



Did Luther write drinking-songs ? If so, where 

 are they to be met with ? 



" Amentium Jiaud Amantium." — I should be glad 

 to ascertain, and perhaps it may be interesting to 

 classical scholars generally to know, if any of your 

 correspondents or readers can suggest an English 

 translation for the phrase " amentium haud aman- 

 tium" (in the first act of the Andria of Terence), 

 which shall represent the alliteration of the original. 

 The publication of this Query may probably elicit 

 the desired information. Fidus Interpre8. 



Dublin. 



'^'' Hurrah l" and other War-cries. — When was 

 the exclamation " Hurrah ! " first used by English.. 

 men, and what was the war-cry before its intro- 

 duction ? Was it ever used separately from, or 

 always in conjunction with " H. E. P.! H. E. P. ?" 

 Was " Huzza !" coteraporaneous ? What are the 

 known war-shouts of other European or Eastern 

 nations, ancient or modern ? Cape. 



Kissing Hands at Court. — When was tlie kissing 

 of hands at court first observed ? Cape. 



Uniforms of the three Regiments of Foot Guards^ 

 temp. Charles II. — Being very desirous to know 

 where well authenticated pictures of officers in the 

 regimentals of the Foot Guards during the reign 

 of Charles II. may be seen, or are, I shall be greatly 

 obliged to any reader of " N. & Q." who will supply 

 the information. I make no doubt there are, in 

 many of the private collections of this country, 

 several portraits of officers so dressed, which have 

 descended as heir-looms in families. I subjoin the 

 colonels' names, and dates of the regiments : 



1st Foot Guards, 1660: Colonel Russell, Henry 



Duke of Grafton. 

 Coldstream Guards, 1650 : General Monk. 

 3rd Guards, 1660: Earl of Linlithgow. 1670: 



Earl of Craven. D. N. 



Raffaelle's Sposalizio. — Will Digitalis, or any 

 of your numerous correspondents or readers, do 

 me the favour to say why, in Raffaelle's celebrated 

 painting " Lo Sposalizio," in the gallery of the 

 Brera at Milan, Joseph is represented as placing 

 the ring on the third finger of the right hand of 

 the Virgin ? 



I noticed the same peculiarity in Gbirlandals'a 

 fresco of the "Espousals" in the church of the 

 Santa Croce at Florence. This I remarked to 

 the custode, an intelligent old man, who informed 



