Aug. 13. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



159 



John More, Esq., London, 1635, which lately came 

 into my hands : — La novel Nattira Breviiim duJuge 

 Tres7-everend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert ; with 

 a new table by William Rastall. The preface is 

 headed as follows : — " La Preface sur cest lieuz 

 compose per le Reverend Justice Anthony Fitz- 

 herbert." 



. Anthony Fitzherbert was appointed Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Common Pleas in 1523, and died in 

 30 Hen. VIIL William Rastall was appointed 

 Serjeant-at-law in 1554, and one of the Justices 

 of the Common Pleas in 1558 : it would seem, 

 therefore, that as Rastall is not styled " Serjeant- 

 at-law " in the title-page of the book when he 

 made a new table to its contents, that the com- 

 plimentary style of Reverend, as applicable to the 

 judges, was used at least as late as the middle of 

 the sixteenth century. 



Thomas W. King, York HEBAiiD. 



College of Arms. 



Jacoh Bohart (Vol. viii., p. 37.). — I beg to 

 supply the following additional particulars relating 

 to the Bobart family. In the Correspondence of 

 Dr. Richardson, edited by Mr. Dawson Turner, 

 will be found a letter from Bobart junior to the 

 Doctor, with a reference to two other letters. In 

 pages 9, 10, and 11, a copious note respecting the 

 Bobatt f.miily, by the editor, is given. A short 

 notice of Bobart jun. also appears in the Me- 

 moirs of John Martyn, Professor of Botany at 

 Cambridge. The following epitaph on Bobart 

 jun. is in Amherst's Terrce Filius, 1726 : 

 " Here lies Jacob Bobart, 

 NaiI'd up in a cupboard." 



In the preface to Mr. Nichols' work on Autographs, 

 among other albums noticed by him as being in 

 the British Museum, is that of David Krieg, with 

 Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following 

 verses : 



" VIRTUS SUA GLORIA. 



Think that day lost whose descending sun, 

 Views from thy hand no noble action done. 

 Your success and happyness 

 Is sincerely wished by 



Ja. Bobart, Oxford." 



Mr. Richardson's engraved portrait of Bobart 

 the Elder is only a copy of Burghers' engraving, 

 so highly spoken of by Granger, and cannol, 

 therefore, be nearly so valuable as the latter. 



Garlichithe. 



" Putting your foot into it" (Vol. viii., p. 77.). — 

 W. W. is certainly " Will o' the Wisp" himself. 

 We must not allow him to lead us into Asia, hunt- 

 ing for the origin of a saying which is nothing 

 more than a coarse allusion to an accident that 

 happens day after day to every heedless or be- 

 nighted pedestrian in England ; but if a foreign 

 origin must be found for this saying, let us travel 



to Greece rather than to Hindostan, and we shall 

 see in the writings of iEschylus : 



" 'EXacpphv, 5ams mifidrwu e^co ir6Sa 

 'Ex*') irapaiveiv vovQeTitv re rhv kukw? 

 TlpicraovT' ." k.t.A. — Prom, Vi7ic.27\. 



C. Forbes. 

 Temple. 



Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 207. 280. 368. 566. ; Vol. yii., 

 p. 508.). — We have all overlooked the following 

 use of this simile in Thomas Hood's poem, ad- 

 dressed to Rae Wilson : 



" Spontaneously to God should tend the soul, 

 Like the magnetic needle to the Pole ; 

 But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, 

 Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge. 



Fresh from St. Andrew's College, 

 Should nail the conscious needle to the north?" 



C. Mansfield Ingeebt. 



Birmingham. 



The Tragedy of Polidus (Vol. vii., p. 499.). — 

 This tragedy, printed at London 1723, 12mo., has 

 a farce appended to it called All BedeviCd, or the 

 House in a Hurry. Browne was patronised by 

 Hervey, the author of the Meditations. The scene 

 of the drama is in Cyprus. The lover of Polidus, 

 " the banished general," and Rosetta, daughter to 

 Orlont, chief favourite to the king, form the 

 groundwork of the plot. My copy was formerly 

 in the collection of plays which belonged to Stephen 

 Jones, author of the Biographia Dramatica. 



J. Mt. 



Robert Fairlie (Vol. vii., p. 581.). — In answer 

 to the Query as to Robert Fairley, or more pro- 

 perly Fairlie, I may mention that there is in my 

 possession a presentation by the Faculty of Advo- 

 cates, dated July 27, 1622, to "Robert Fairlie, 

 son lawfull to Umquhill Robert Faiilie, goldsmith, 

 Burgh of Edinburgh, to the said bursar place and 

 haill immunities quhill he pass his course of Phi- 

 losophic," in the College of Edinburgh. This un- 

 doubtedly was the author of the two very rare little 

 poetical volumes referred to ; and it proves, from 

 the use of the word " Umquhill," that his father 

 was then dead. 



There is an error in stating that the Kalendarium 

 is dedicated to the Earl of Ancrum. In the copy 

 before me it is inscribed " lUustrissimo et Nobilis- 

 simo Domino, Domino Roberto Karo Comiti a Sum- 

 merset," &c. The other work is the one dedicated 

 to Lord Ancrum. I have both works, and they cer- 

 tainly were costly, as I gave five guineas for them. 

 They had originally been priced at ten guineas. 



A Bursary, according to Jamieson, is " the en- 

 dowment given to a student in a university, an 

 exhibition." It is believed that Fairlie was of the 

 Ayrshire family of that name. J. Mt 



