June 11. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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seaven yeares labour, beside great charges and expense, 

 his highnesse hath made very gracious acceptance of, 

 and to witnesse the same, in court it hangeth in an 

 espt'ciall place of eminence. Pitty it is, that this 

 pha-nix (as yet) aftbrdeth not a fellowe, or that from 

 privacie it might not bee made more general! ; but, as 

 his Majestie has granted him priviledge, so, that the 

 world might be woorthieto enjoy it, whereto, if friend- 

 ship may prevaile, as he hath been already, so shall he 

 be still as earnestly soUicited." 



These two works appear to liave been written 

 towards the close of the sixteenth century. Is any- 

 thing more known of them, and their respective 

 authors ? Teaja-Nova. 



Miliar ^uerte^. 



Thirteen an unlucky Nambei\ — Is there not at 

 Dantzic a clock, which at 12 admits, through a 

 door, Christ and the Eleven, shutting out Judas, 

 who is admitted at 1 ? A. C. 



Quotations. — 



" I saw a man, who saw a man, who said he saw the 

 king." 



Whence ? 



" Look not mournfully into the past ; it comes not 

 back again," &c. — Motto of Hyperion. 



Whence ? A. A. D. 



" Other-some " and " Unneath." — I do not re- 

 collect having ever seen these expressions, until 

 reading Parnell's Fairy Tale. They occur in the 

 following stanzas : 



" But now, to please the fairy king. 

 Full every deal they laugh and sing. 



And antic feats devise ; 

 Some wind and tumble like an ape, 

 And other-some transmute their shape 



In Edwin's wondering eyes. 



■" Till one at last, that Robin hight, 

 Renown'd for pinching maids by night, 



Has bent him up aloof; 

 And full against the beam he flung, 

 Where by the back the youth he hung 



To sprawl unneath the roof." 



As the author professes the poem to be " in the 

 ancient English style," are these words veritable 

 ancient English ? If so, some correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." may perhaps be able to give instances 

 of their recurrence. Egbert Wright. 



Newx, 8fc. — Can any of your readers give me the 

 unde derivatur of the word newx, or noux, or hnoux? 

 It is a very old word, used for the last hundred 

 years, as fag is at our public schools, for a young 

 cadet at the Royal Militai-y Academy, Woolwich. 

 When I was there, some twenty-five or twenty- 

 seven years ago, the noux was the youngest cadet 



of the four who slept in one room : and a precious 

 life of it he led. But this, I hope, is altered now. 

 I have often wanted to find out from whence this 

 term is derived, and I suppose that your paper will 

 find some among your numerous correspondents 

 who will be able to enlighten me. T. W. N. 



Malta. 



'■'■A Joabi Alloquio." — Who can explain the fol- 

 lowing, and point out its source ? I copy from 

 the work of a Lutheran divine, Conrad Dieteric, 

 Analysis Evangeliorum, 1631, p. 188.: 



" A Joabi Alloquio, 

 A Thyestis Convivio, 

 Ab Iscariotis ' Ave,' 

 A Diasii ' Salve ' 

 Ab Herodis ' Redite ' 

 A Gallorum ' Venite.' 



Libera nos Domine." 



The fourth and sixth lines I do not understand. 



B. II. C. 



Illuminations. — When were Illuminations in cities 

 first introduced ? Is there any allusion to them in 

 classic authors ? - Cape. 



Heraldic Queries. — Will some correspondent 

 versed in heraldry answer me the following ques- 

 tions? 



L What is the origin and meaning of women of 

 all ranks, except the sovereign, being now de- 

 barred from bearing their arms In shields, and 

 having to bear them in lozenges ? Formerly, all 

 ladies of rank bore shields upon their seals, e.g. 

 the seal of Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, who 

 deceased a.d. 1399 ; and of Margaret, Countess of 

 Hichmond, and mother of Henry VIII., who de- 

 ceased A.B. 1509. These shields are figured in 

 the Glossary of Heraldry, pp. 285, 286. 



2. Is it, heraldlcally speaking, wrong to Inscribe 

 the motto upon a circle (not a garter) or ribbon 

 round tl)e shield ? So says the Glossary, p. 227. 

 If wrong, on what principle ? 



3. Was it ever the custom in this country, as on 

 the Continent to this day, for ecclesiastics to bear 

 their arms in a circular or oval panel ? — the 

 martial form of the shield being considered incon- 

 sistent with their spiritual character. If so, when 

 did the custom conimence, and where may in- 

 stances be seen either on monuments or in illus- 

 trated works ? Ceyeep. 



JohCs Spoils from Peterborough and Crowland. 

 — Clement Spelman, in his Preface to the reader, 

 with which he introduces his father's treatise De 

 non temerandis Ecclesiis, says (edit. Oxford, 1841, 

 p. 45.) : 



" I cannot omit the sacrilege and punishment of 

 King John, who in the seventeenth year of his reign, 

 among other churches, rifled the abbeys of Peter- 



