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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 189. 



borough and Croyland, and after attempts to carry liis 

 sacrilegious wealth from Lynn to Lincoln ; but, pass- 

 ing the Washes, the earth in the midst of the waters 

 opens her mouth (as for Korah and his company), and 

 at once swallows up both carts, carriage, and horses, 

 all his treasure, all his regalities, all his church spoil, 

 and all the church spoilers; not one escapes to bring 

 the king word," &e. 



Is the precise spot known wliere this catastrophe 

 occurred, or have any relics been since recovered 

 to give evidence of the fact ? J. Sansom. 



^ Elementa sex" Sfc. — Perhaps one of your 

 readers, given to such trifles, will hazard a guess 

 at the solution, if not at the author, of the sub- 

 joined : 



" Elementa sex me proferent totam tibi ; 

 Totam banc, lucernis si tepent fungi, vides, 

 Accisa senibus suppetit saltantil)us,j 

 Levetiir, armis adfremunt Horatii ; 

 Facienda res est omnibus, si fit minor, 

 Es, quod relinquis deinde, si subtraxeris ; 

 Si rite tandem qua2ritas originem, 

 Ad sibilum, vix ad sonum, reverteris." 



Effigy. 



Jack and Gill — Sir Hubhard de Hoy. — Having 

 recently amused myself by a dive into oldTusser's 

 Husbandries the following passages suggested 

 themselves as fitting Queries for your pages : 



tTack and Gill. — 



" Let Jack nov Gill 

 Fetch corn at will." 



Can the "Jack and Gill" of our nursery tales 

 be traced to an earlier date than Tusser's time ? 



Hobble de Hoy. — Speaking of the periods of a 

 man's life, Tusser's advice, from the age of four- 

 teen years to twenty-one, is to " Keep under Sir 

 Hubbard de Hoy." Is it known whether there 

 ever existed a personage so named, either as a 

 legend or a myth ? And if not, what is the origin 

 of the modern term " Hobble de Hoy" as a desig- 

 nation for a stripling? Bailey omits it in his 

 Dictionary. L. A. M. 



Humphrey Hawarden. — Information is solicited 

 respecting this individual, who was a Doctor of 

 Laws, and living in 1494. Also, of a Justice Port, 

 living about the same period. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



'■'■Populus vult decipi." — 



TIT 1 I ii. J • • I et decipiatur, 

 Mundus J- vult decipi ■{ . • • \ ,, 



Vulgus J 1 ^^«=»P»«tur ergo. 



Who was the author of the maxim? Avhlch is its 

 correct form ? and where is it to be found ? It 

 seems to present another curious instance of our 

 ignorance of things with which we are familiar. I 

 have put the question to a dozen scholars, fellows 



of colleges, barristers, &c. &c., and none has been 

 able to give me an answer. One only thinks it 

 was a dictum of some Pope. 



Hakry Leroy Temple. 



Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire-., 

 — Where can any list of the sheriffs for these- 

 counties be ibund, previous to the list given by 

 Fuller from the time of Henry VIII. ? D. 



Harris. — The Rev. William Harris, B.A., was 

 presented, by Thomas Pindar, Esq., to the vicarage 

 of Luddington, Lincolnshire, on the 7th August, 

 1722. Mn Harris died here in June, 1748, aged 

 eighty-two. On his tomb is inscribed, — 



" Illi satis licuit 

 Nunc veterum libris, nunc 

 Somno, et inertibus horis 

 Ducere solieita? jucunda oblivio vitaj." 



A tradition of his being a wizard still lingers in 

 the village, and I should be very glad to receive 

 any particulars respecting him. From an inspec- 

 tion of his will at Lincoln, it appears that he used 

 the coat of the ancient family of Harris of Rad- 

 ford, Devon, and that his wife's name was Ilonoray. 

 a Christian name not infrequent about that period 

 in families of the West of England also, as, for in- 

 stance, Honora, daughter of Sir Richard Rogers- 

 of Bryanstone, who married Edward Lord Beau- 

 champ, and had a daughter Honora, who married 

 Sir Ferdinand Sutton ; Honora, the wife of Harry 

 Conway, Esq., of Bodrhyddan, Flint ; Honora, 

 daughter of Edward Fortescue of Fallapit; besides 

 others. W. H. LammiNv 



Fulham, 



BISHOP Burr.ER. 

 (Vol. vii., p. 528.) 



" Charity thlnketh no evil;" but we must feel 

 both surprise and regret that any one should, in 

 1853, consider it a doubtful question whether 

 Bishop Butler died in the connnunlon of the 

 Church of England. The bishop has now been 

 in his grave more than a hundred years; but War- 

 burton says truly, " How light a matter very often 

 subjects tlie best-established characters to the sus- 

 picions of posterity — how ready is a remote age to 

 catch at a low revived slander, which the times 

 that brought it forth sav/ despised and forgotten 

 almost in its birth." 



X. Y. Z. says he would be glad to have this 

 charge (originally brought forward in 1767) sifted. 

 He will find that it has been sifted, and in the 

 most full and satisfactory manner, by persons of 

 no less distinction than Archbishop Seeker and 

 Bishop Halifax. The strong language employed 

 by the archbishop, when refuting what he terms 



