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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 190. 



They are in the custody of the incumbent for the 

 time being. Lastly, there is a very valuable library 

 at Bamburgh Castle, the bequest of Dr. Sharp : 

 the books are allowed to circulate gratuitously 

 amongst the clergy and respectable inhabitants of 

 the adjoining neighbourhood. E. H. A. 



The Honourable Mrs. Dudleya North died in 

 1712. Her choice collection of books in oriental 

 learning were " by her only surviving brother, the 

 then Lord North and Grey, given to the parochial 

 library at Rougham, in Norfolk, founded by the 

 Hon. Roger North, Esq., for the use of the minis- 

 ter of that parish, and, under certain regulations 

 and restrictions, of the neighbouring clergy also, 

 for ever. Amongst these there is, in particular, 

 one very neat pocket Hebrew Bible in 12mo., 

 without points, with silver clasps to it, and bound 

 in blue Turkey leather, in a case .of the same 

 materials, which she constantly carried to church 

 with her. . . . In the first leaf of all the books 

 that had been hers, when they were deposited in 

 that library," was a Latin inscription, setting forth 

 the names of the late owner, and of the donor of 

 these books. (Ballard's Memoirs of British Ladies. 

 8vo. 1775, p. 286.) Anon. 



Pierrepont (Vol. vii., p. 65.). — John Pierrepont, 

 of Wadworth, near Doncaster, who died 1st July, | 

 1653, is described on a brass plate to his memory, 

 in the church at Wadworth, as " generosus." He 

 was owner of the rectory and other property there. 

 It appears from the register that he married, 18th 

 April, 1609, Margaret, daughter and coheir of 

 Michael Cocksonn, Gent., of Wadworth and Crook- 

 hill, and by her (who was buried 22nd July, 1620) 

 he had 



Mart (ultimately only daughter and heir), 

 baptized at Wadworth, 27th July, 1612; married 

 John Battie, of Wadworth, Gent., and had issue, 

 Francis Battie, of Wadworth, Gent., who 

 died without issue, 1682 ; having married 

 Martha, daughter of Michael Fawkes, 

 Esq., of Farnley. 

 Elizabeth, wife of John Cogan, of Hull. 

 Margaret, wife of William Stephens, Rector 

 of Sutton, Bedfordshire. 

 Frances, bap. 1st July, and bur. Aug. 12, 

 1616. 



John, bap. 19th Aug., 1617; bur. Feb. 10, 

 1629-30. 



George, bur. 26th Jan., 1631-2. 

 The arms on the memorial to John Pierrepont 

 are — A lion rampant within eight roses in orle. 



N.B. — By the second wife of the above John 

 Battie there was issue, now represented by William 

 Battie Wrightson, Esq., M.P. of Cus worth. 



C J. 



Passage in Orosius (Vol. vii., pp. 399. 536.). — 

 I. cannot exactly subscribe to the three proposi- 



tions of Mr. E. Thomson, which he deduces from 

 his observations on "twam tyncenum" in Alfred's 

 Orosius. In the first place, the sentence in which 

 the word tyncenum occurs is perfectly gratuitous 

 on the part of Alfred, or whoever paraphrased 

 Orosius in Anglo-Saxon. No such assertion ap- 

 pears in Orosius, so that we have no means of 

 comparing it with the original. 



The occurrence, as recounted by both Orosius 

 and Herodotus, is attributed to a horse (a sacred 

 horse, Herod.), not to a horseman, knight, or thane. 

 What is meant by the Anglo-Saxon text is, cer- 

 tainly, anything but clear, as it stands in Barring- 

 ton's edition ; and he himself confesses this, and 

 does not admit it into his English translation. 



Dr. Bosworth seems to have wisely omitted the 

 word in the second edition of his dictionary ; and 

 Thorpe confesses he can make nothing of it, in his 

 Analecta. We find no such word in Ca3dmon, Beo- 

 wulf, or the Saxon Chronicle ; and the only refer- 

 ence made by Dr. Bosworth, in his first edition, is 

 to this very place in Alfred's Orosius, in which he 

 seems to have followed Lye. 



May it not have been an error in the earlier 

 transcribers of the MS., and the real word have 

 been twentigum, i.e. he ordered his thane to pass 

 over the river with twenty men, since the thane, by 

 himself, could have been but of little use on the 

 other side the river ? However this may be, the 

 fact is not historical at all, and therefore, as re- 

 spects history, is of little consequence. 



John Orman, M.A. 



Cambridge. 



Pugna Porcorum (Vol. vii., p. 528.). — The au- 

 thor of this poem, as is generally believed (though 

 its production has also been assigned to Gilbertus 

 Cognatus or Cousin), was Joannes Leo Placentius^ 

 or Placentinus, of whom the following account is 

 given in the Biographie Universelle : 



"Jean-Leo Placentius ou Le Plaisant, n'est connii 

 que comme I'auteur d'un petit poeme tautogrammer 

 genre de composition qui ne peut offrir que le frivole 

 merite de la difficulte vaincue. Ne a Saint Trond, au 

 pays de Liege, il fit ses etudes a Bois-le-Duc, dans 

 I'ecole des Hieronomytes ; embrassa la vie religieuse, 

 au commencement du seizieme siecle, dans I'ordre des 

 Dominicains, et fut envoyc a Louvain pour y faire son 

 cours de theologie. Les autres circonstances de sa vie 

 sont ignorees ; et ce n'est que par conjecture qu'on 

 place sa mort a I'annee 1 548. On peut consulter sur 

 cet ecrivain, la Bihl. Belgica de Foppens, et les Scrip- 

 tores ordin. Prcedicator. des PP. Quetif etEchard." 



Dublin, 



This production appears to have been merely 

 designed as a display of the writer's skill. Dr. 

 Brown notices it in his Philosophy of the Mind^ 

 lect, 36; andEbert: '■'■ VoYiCWS, Pugna Porcorum^ 

 per P. Porcium, Poetam (J. Leonem), without 



