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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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your pages. I therefore give it you as discovered 

 by Mr. Cooper, and beg, in the strongest way, to 

 reiterate my thanks to that gentleman. 



2, S, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 

 f, r, k, t, b, h, s, w, c, g, p, d, a, e, i, o, u, 

 20, 22, 27, 28. 

 1, X, m, n. 



The cyphers (if any) for /, q, y, z have not 

 been discovered, and the numbers 1, 19, 21, 23, 

 24, 25, 26 remain unappropriated. John Bruce. 



Emblems hy John Bunyan (Vol. vii., p. 470.). — 

 This work, which Mr. Corser has not met with, 

 is in the folio edition of his works, forming pp. 849. 

 to 868. of vol. ii. (1768). The plates are small 

 woodcuts of very indifferent execution. E. D. 



Mr. CohVs Diary (Vol. vii., p. 477.). — This 

 volume was printed solely for private distribution 

 by the family, who also presented their relatives 

 and friends (amongst whom the writer was 

 reckoned) with another volume compiled on the 

 decease of Francis Cobb, Esq., the husband of 

 Mrs. Cobb, and entitled. Memoir of the late 

 Francis Cobb, Esq., of Margate, compiled from 

 his Journals and Letters : Maidstone, printed by 

 J. V. Hall and Son, Journal Office, 1835. Both 

 of these are at the service for perusal of your in- 

 quiring correspondent, John Martin. E. D. 



"Sat cito si sat bene" (Vol. vii., p. 594.). — I 

 have not Twiss at hand ; but I think F. W. J. is 

 mistaken in calling it a " favourite maxim " of 

 Lord Eldon. I remember to have heard Lord 

 Eldon tell the story, which was, that the New- 

 castle Fly, in which he came up to town, in I forget 

 how many days, had on its panel the motto, " Sat 

 cito si sat bene:" he applied it jocularly in defence 

 of his own habits in Chancery. C. 



Mythe versus Myth (Vol. vii., pp. 326. 575.). — 

 It gives me much pleasure to have afforded Mb. 

 Thiriold an opportunity for displaying so much 

 learning and sagacity; but I hope he does not 

 imagine that he has confuted me. As I only spoke 

 of words which, like fiOdos, had a single consonant 

 between two vowels, such words as plinth, laby- 

 rinth, &c. have nothing to do with the question. 

 If mythe, differing from the other examples which 

 are to be found, happens to have the for its ter- 

 mination, and thus resembles words of Anglo- 

 Saxon origin, I cannot help it, but it was formed 

 secundum artem. As to Mr. Thiriold's myth, un- 

 less so written and printed, it will always be pro- 

 nounced myth, like the French mythe. 



As to the hybrid adjectives, I only wished to 

 avoid increasing the number of them. The French, 

 I believe, have only one, musical; for though, like 

 ourselves, they have made substantives of the 

 Greek nova-iKtj (sc. re'xj'i?), (t>v(riK-fi^ &c., in all other 



cases they retain the Greek form of the adjective, 

 as in physique, substantive and adjective, while we 

 generally have pairs of adjectives, as philosophic, 

 philosophical ; extatic, extatical; &c. Some may 

 think this an advantage ; I do not. 



ThOS. KEIGHTIiBT. 



The Gilbert Fa^nily (Vol. vii., p. 259.).— If your 

 correspondent seeking genealogical information in 

 reference to my ancestors, calls on me, I will show 

 him a presentation copy of A Genealogical Me- 

 moir of the Gilbert Family in Old and New Eng- 

 land, by J.W.Thornton, LL.B., Boston, U. S., 

 1850, 8vo. pp. 24, only fifty printed. 



James Gilbert. 



Alexander Clark (Vol. vii., p. 580.). — I should 

 feel obliged if J. O. could find leisure to commu- 

 nicate to " N. & Q." some particulars relative to 

 Clark. He is supposed to have been the author 

 of a curious poem : The Institution and Progress 

 of the Buttery College of Slains, in the Parish of 

 Cruden, Aberdeenshire; with a Catalogue of the 

 Books and MSS. in the Library of that Uni- 

 versity : Aberdeen, 1700. Mr. Peter Buchan thus 

 mentions him in his Gleanings of Scarce Old 

 Ballads : 



" Clark, a drunken dominie at Slains, author of a 

 poetical dialogue between the gardeners and tailors on 

 the origin of their crafts, and a most curious Latin and 

 English poem called the ' Buttery College of Slains,' 

 which resembled much in language and stj'le Drum- 

 mond of Hawthornden's ' Polemo Middino.' " 



This poem is printed in Watson's Collection of 

 Scottish Poems, Edin. 1711 ; and also noticed in 

 the Edinbu7gh Topographical and Antiquarian 

 Magazine, 1848, last page. I am anxious to ascer- 

 tain if the emblem writer, and the burlesque poet, 

 be one and the same person. The dates, I con- 

 fess, are somewhat against this conclusion ; but 

 there may have been a previous edition of the 

 Emblematical Representation (1779). The Uni- 

 versity Clark is supposed to have been an Aber- 

 deenshire man. Possibly J. O. may be able to 

 throw some light on the subject. Perthensis. 



Christ's Cross (Vol. iii., pp. 330. 465.). —In 

 Morley's Introduction to Practical Music, originally 

 printed in 1597, and which I quote from a reprint 

 by William Randall, in 4to., in 1771, eighteen 

 mortal pages (42 — 59), which, in my musical 

 ignorance, I humbly confess to be wholly out of 

 my line, are occupied with the " Cantus," " Tenor," 

 and " Bassus," to the following words : 



" Christes Crosse be my speed in all vertue to pro- 

 ceede. A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, 1, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, & 

 t, double w, V, x, with y, ezod, & per se, con per se, 

 tittle tittle est Amen, When you haue done begin 

 again, begin again." 



J. F. M. 



