Sept. 10. 1853.] 



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City of London, for loans to poor tradesmen. I 

 wish to ask, — 



1. What is known of his origin, family, personal 

 history, &c. ? 



2. \Vliat was his precise degree of relationship 

 to the Halseys, whom he calls " cousins " in his 

 will ? Were they related to the family of that 

 name at Great Gaddesdeii, Herts ? 



3. Did he publish any, and what, letters or 

 books ? for he leaves his MSS. of every kind to 

 his friend Richard Glover, Esq. (the poet I pre- 

 sume), with full power to collect any letters or 

 papers he may have already published, and also 

 to arrange and publish any more which he may 

 think intended or suitable for publication. 



4. Is there any published sketch of his life ? 

 The only notice I have seen is the one of a few 

 lines in the Gentleman's Magazine, just after his 

 death. 



In compliance with your excellent suggestion 

 (Vol. vii., p. 2.), I send my address in a stamped 

 envelope lor any private communication which 

 may not interest the general reader. E. A. D. 



The Rothwell Family. — When William Flower, 

 Esq., Norroy, confirmed the ancient ai'ms of this 

 family to Stephen Rothwell, gent., of Ewerby, 

 county of Lincoln, on the 1st April, 1585, and 

 granted a crest (no such being found to his ancient 

 arms), the said Stephen Rothwell was stated to be 

 " ex sui cognominis familia antiqua in comitatu 

 Lancastrise oriundus." Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." give any information respecting the 

 family from which he is stated to be descended ? 



Glaius. 



Definition of a Proverb. — Where can I find 

 the source whence I. D'Israeli took his definition 

 of a proverb, viz. " The wisdom of many and the 

 wit of one ?" C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



Latin Riddle. — Aulus Gellius {Nodes Atticce, 

 lib. xir. cap. vi.) proposes the following enigma, 

 which he terms " Per hercle antiquum, perque le- 

 pidum : " 



" Semel mlnusne, an bis minus, non sat scio, 

 An utrumque eorum, ut quondam audivi dicier, 

 Jovi ipsi regi noluit coneedere." 



The answer he withholds for the usual reason, 

 " Ut legentium conjecturas in requirendo acuere- 

 mus." 



Is there among the readers of " N. & Q." an 

 CEdipus who will furnish a solution ? R. Price. 



St. Ives. 



D. Ferrand— French Patois. — llaWnvm, in the 

 7th chapter of his Poesie und Beredsamkeit der 



Franzosen, gives several specimens of the French 

 provincial poets of the sixteenth century, and 

 among these the following from a poem on the dis- 

 persing of a meeting of Huguenots by the soldiers : 



" Quand des guerrievs fut la troupe entinchee 

 Non n'aleguet le dire du Prescheux, 

 Que pour souffrir I'ame est de Dieu tomb^e, 

 Femme et Mary, comme le fianchee, 

 Pour se sauver quitest leu zamoreux 

 En s'enfiant ocun n'avet envie, 

 De discourir de TEternelle vie, 

 Sainct Pol estet en alieur guissement 

 No ne palet do Bible en Apostille 

 Qui en eut pale quand fut en un moment 

 Les pretendus grippez par la Soudrille. 



" Le millenr fut quand la troupe enrang^e 

 Fut aux Fauxbourgs, hors de lieu perilieux, 

 Car tie! n'estet o combat qu'un Pygmee, 

 Qui se diset o milieu de stermee 

 S'estre monstre un geant orgueilleux 

 Les femmes ossi disest ma sceur, m'amie, 

 De tout su brit ie sis toute cspamie, 

 Petit troupeau que tu as de tourment. 

 Pour supporter le faix de I'Evangile 

 SoufFrira-t-on qu'on vaye impudement 

 Les pretendus grippez par la Soudrille." 



D. Ferrand, Inv. Gen,, p. 304. 



Hallman gives no farther information. I shall 

 be glad if any of your readers can tell me who 

 D. Ferrand was, what he wrote, and of what pro- 

 vince the above is the j^atoe*. B. Snow. 



Birmingham. 



" Fac precor, Jesu henigne" 8fc. — In the Sacra 

 Privata, new edition, Bishop Wilson quotes the 

 following lines : 



" Fac precor, 

 Jesu benigne, cogitem 

 Hsec semper, ut semper tibi 

 Summoque Patri, gratias 

 Agam, piecjue vos colam, 

 Totaque mente diligam." 



Can any of your readers inform me where they 

 come from ? William Denton. 



The Arms of De Sissonne. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me where I could find a 

 copy of Histoire Genealogique de la Maison Royale 

 de France, or any other work in which are bla- 

 zoned the arms of "De Sissonne" of Normandy, 

 connected with that regal house ? J. L. S. 



Sir George Brown. — Sir George Brown, of West 

 Stafford, Berks, and of Wickham Breaux, Kent, 

 married Eleanor, daughter of Sir R. Blount, of 

 Maple Durham, Oxon ; and by her had issue several 

 children, and amongst them one son Richard, who 

 was a child under five years of age in 1623. I 

 shall feel obliged if any of your correspondents 

 can tell ine where I can find a pedigree of this 

 Richard, and in particular Avhether he married, 



