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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 185. 



letter books to the college. Perhaps Beware the 

 Cat may be among them. Z. E. R. 



" Bis dat qui cito dat" (Vol. vi., p. 376.). — The 

 following Greek is either in the Anthologia, or in 

 Joshua Barnes : 



" uKfiM x'^pfW yKvKfpdiTepai, ^v Se $pa^uvfj 

 Ttaaa X°-P^ (pdivvdet, fjitiSe \4yoiTO x«P'S." 

 " Gratia ab officio quod mora tardat, abest." 



Z. E. R. 



High Spirits a Presage of Evil — The Note of 

 your correspondent Cuthbeet Bede (Vol. vii., 

 p. 339.) upon this very interesting point recalls 

 to my recollection a line or two in GilfiUan's First 

 Gallery of Literary Portraits, p. 71., which bears 

 directly upon it. Speaking of the death of Percy 

 Bysshe Shelley, the author says, "During all the 

 time he spent in Leghorn, he was in brilliant 

 spirits, to him a sure prognostic of coming eviU^ I 

 may add, that I have been on terms of intimacy 

 with various persons who entertained a dread of 

 finding themselves in good spirits, from a strong 

 conviction that some calamity would be sure to 

 befall them. This is a curious psychological ques- 

 tion, worthy of attention. W. Sawter. 



Brighton. 



Colonel Thomas Walcot (Vol. vii., p. 382.) mar- 

 ried Jane, the second daughter of James Pur- 

 cel of Craugh, co. Limerick, and had by her six 

 sons and two daughters : John, the eldest, who 

 married Sarah Wright of Holt, in Denbighshire ; 

 Thomas, Ludlow, and Joseph, which last three 

 died unmarried ; Edward (who died an infant) ; 

 William (of whom I have no present trace) ; Ca- 

 therine and Bridget. The latter married, first, 

 Mr. Cox of Waterford, and second, Robert Allen 

 of Garranmore, co. Tipperary. John, the eldest 

 son, administered to his father, and possessed him- 

 self of his estates and effects. I think his son was 

 a John Minchin Walcot, who represented Ask- 

 eaton in Parliament in 1751, died in London in 

 1753, and was buried in St. Margaret's church- 

 yard. Two years after his death his eldest daugh- 

 ter married William Cecil Pery, of the line of 

 Viscount Pery, and had by him Edmund Henry 

 Pery, member of parliament for Limerick in 1786. 

 A William Walcot was on the Irish establishment 

 appointed a major in the 5th Regiment of Foot in 

 1769, but I cannot just now say whether, or how, 

 he was related to Colonel Thomas Walcot. 



John D'Alton. 



Dublin. 



Wood of the Cross : Mistletoe (Vol. vii., p. 437.). 

 — Was S. S. S.'s farmer a native of an eastern 

 county ? If he came from any part where Scan- 

 dinavian traditions may be supposed to have pre- 

 vailed, there may be some connexion between the 



myth, that the mistletoe furnished the wood for 

 the cross, and that which represents it as forming 

 the arrow with which Hiidur, at the instigation of 

 Lok, the spirit of evil, killed Baldyr. I have met 

 with a tradition in German, that the aspen tree 

 supplied the wood for the cross, and hence shud- 

 dered ever after at the recollection of its guilt. 



T. H. L. 



The tradition to which I have been always ac- 

 customed is, that the aspen was the tree of which 

 the cross was formed, and that its tremulous and 

 quivering motion proceeded from its consciousness 

 of the awful use to which it had once been put. 



W. Fkasee. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Irish Office for Prisoners (Vol. vii., p. 410.). — 

 The best reference for English readers is to Bishop 

 Mant's edition of the Prayer-Book, in which this 

 office is included. J. C. R. 



Andries de Graff: Portraits at Brickwall House 

 (Vol. vii., p. 406.). — " Andries de Grseff. Obiit 

 Ixxiii., MDCLXxiv." Was this gentleman related 

 to, or the father of, Regulus de Graef, a celebrated 

 physician and anatomist, born in July, 1641, at 

 Scomharen, a town in Holland, where his father 

 was the first architect ? Regulus de Grsef married 

 in 1672, and died in 1673, at the early age of thirty- 

 two. He published several works, chiefly De 

 Organis Generationis, &c. (See Hutchinson's Bio- 

 graphia Medica; and, for a complete list of his 

 works, Lindonius Renovatus, p. 933. : Nuremberg, 

 1686, 4to.) S. S. S. 



Bath. 



" Qui facit per alium, facit per se " (Vol. vii., 

 p. 382.). — This is one of the most ordinary 

 maxims or " brocards " of the common law of 

 Scotland, and implies that the employer is re- 

 sponsible for the acts of his servant or agent, done 

 on his employment. Beyond doubt it is borrowed 

 from the civil law, and though I cannot find it in 

 the title of the digest, De Diversis Regulis Juris 

 Antiqui (lib. 1. tit. 17.), I am sure it will be traced 

 either to the " Corpus Juris," or to one of the 

 commentators thereupon. W. H. M. 



' Christian Names (Vol. vii., p. 406.). — When 

 Lord Coke says " a man cannot have two names 

 of baptism, as he may have divers surnames," he 

 does not mean that a man may not have two or 

 more Christian names given to him at the font, but 

 that, while he may have " divers surnames at divers 

 times," he may not have divers Christian names at 

 divers times. 



When a man changes his Christian name, he 

 alters his legal identity. The surname, however, 

 is assumable at pleasure. The use of surnames 

 came into England, according to Camden, about 



