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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 194. 



the possession of the English, he was governor of 

 it; but I am uncertain. If any correspondent, 

 versed in West Indian affairs, can give me any par- 

 ticulars of the family and antecedents of the above, 

 or any reference to his services (for I suppose him 

 to have been a military man), it will great oblige 



Tee Bee. 



Old Boohs. — I notice some of your correspon- 

 dents, having fancied that they have picked up at 

 some old book-stall an invaluable treasure, are 

 coolly told by others more learned, " It would be 

 a bad exchange for a shilling ;" and, again, "If it 

 cost three shillings and sixpence, the purchaser 

 was most unfortunate." 



May I ask the value of the following ? They 

 came into possession of my family about thirty 

 years ago : 



" Epitome Thesauri antiqultatum hoc est Impp. 

 Rom. orientalium et occidentalium Iconum ex antiquis 

 numismatibus quam fidelissime delineatum. 



" Ex Mus;eo Jacobi de Strada Mantuani Antiquatum. 



" Lugduni, apud Jacobum de Strada et Thomam 

 Guercinum, mdliii. (1553). Cum Privilegio Regio." 



Handsomely got up ; gilt edges, pp. 339. Also, 



" Sommario delle vite de GL'Imperiatore Romani da 

 C. Giolio Cesare sino a Ferdinando II., con le loro 

 effigle Causte dalle Medaglie : In Roma apresso, 

 Lodovico Giignani, mdcxxxvii, pp. 80." 



Bristoliensis. 



The Privileges of the See of Canterbury. — I 

 find preserved by William of Malmsbury, in his 

 Chronicle, book iii., the following letter from Pope 

 Boniface to Justus, Archbisliop of Canterbury, 

 respecting the privileges of his see : 



" Far be it from every Christian, that anything 

 concerning the city of Canterbury be diminished or 

 changed, in present or future times, which was ap- 

 pointed by our predecessor Pope Gregory, however 

 human circumstances may be changed : but more espe- 

 cially by the authority of St. Peter, the cluL'f of the 

 Apostles, we command and ordain, that the city of 

 Canterbury shall ever hereafter be esteemed the Metropo- 

 litan See of all Britain ; and we decree and appoint 

 immutably, that all the provinces of the kingdom of 

 England shall be subject to the Metropolitan Church 

 of the aforesaid See. And if any one attempt to injure 

 this church, which is more especially under the power 

 and protection of the Holy Roman Church, or to 

 lessen the jurisdiction conceded to it, may God ex- 

 punge him from the hook of life ; and let him know 

 that he is bound by the sentence of a curse." 



How can the expressions I have Italicised be 

 reconciled with the creation of the Archiepiscopal 

 See of Westminster ? W. Fkaser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Heraldic Colour pertaining to Ireland. — There 

 occurs in the Dublin University Magazine for 

 October, 1852, an article entitled " A Night in 



the Fine Arts' Court of our National Exhibition," 

 and at the conclusion a " Note," in which I find 

 the following remarks : — 



" This last (the figure of Erin), as described, is 

 purely ideal, but legitimately brought in, as Hogan's 

 figure of ' Hibernia ' occupied a position in the Fine 

 Arts' Court, and suggested it. It may be as well to 

 add that Erin is described as wearing a blue mantle, 

 as blue, not green, is the heraldic colour pertaining to 

 Ireland now." 



May I inquire at what time, and under what 

 circumstances, blue was substituted for the old 

 favourite green ? Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Descendants of Judas Iscariot. — In Southey's 

 Omniana is the following : 



" It was believed in Pier della Valle's time that the 

 descendants of Judas still existed at Corfu, though the 

 persons who suffered this imputation stoutly denied 

 the truth of the genealogy." 



Is anything farther to be met with on this cu- 

 rious subject ? G. Creed. 



Parish Clerks and Politics. — In Twenty-six 

 Psalms of Thanksgiving and Praise, Love and 

 Glory, for the use of a Parish Church (Exon., 

 And. Brice, 1725), the rector (who compiled it), 

 among other reasons for omitting all the impre- 

 catory Psalms, says, — 



" Lest a parish clerk, or any other, should be whetting 

 his spleen, or obliging his spite, when he should be en- 

 tertaining his devotion." 



That such practices were indulged in, we have 

 the farther evidence of Bramston the satirist : 

 " Not long since parish clerks, with saucy airs, 

 Apply 'd King David^s Psalms to state- affairs."* 



Can any readers of " N. & Q." point out ex- 

 amples of such misapplication ? J. O. 



" Virgin Wife and widowed Maid.''' — Whence 

 come the words " Virgin wife and widow'd maid," 

 quoted, apparently, by Liddell and Scott in their 

 Greek Lexicon, s. v. airapQevos, as a rendering or 

 illustration of Hec. 610. ? 



" 'Nvfi(p7]v t' di/vfipov, -irdp&evdy r' dirdpBevov." 



Anon. 



" Cutting off the little heads of light." — Perhaps 

 you or one of your correspondents would help me 

 to the whereabouts of some thoughtful lines which 

 I recently came across, in a volume which I acci- 

 dentally took up, but the name of which has com- 

 pletely slipped my memory. 



* The Art of Politicks, in imitation of Horace, 1129, 

 with a hybrid portrait of Heidegger, the arbit. elegant. 

 of his day. 



