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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 196. 



and hope that, if this should be thought worthy of 

 a place in " N. & Q.," some one will be able and 

 willing to afford some information about them. I 

 would add as a farther Query, the question of the 

 meaning of the battle-axe and pansy, which appear 

 on the "prie-dieu" at Chillon. Is it a known 

 badge of the Savoy family ? R. H. C. 



Reynolds' Nephew. — In the Correspondence of 

 David Garrick, vol. i. pp. 664. 658., 4to., 1831, 

 there are letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds regarding 

 a play written by his nephew. Can you tell me 

 whether this was the Rev. Mr. Palmer, minister 

 of the Temple Church, and who was afterwards 

 Dean of Cashel ; or had Sir Joshua any other 

 nephew ? The letters are dated 1774, and the 

 author appears to have been resident in London 

 about that time. A. Z. 



Sir Isaac Newton. — Which is the passage in 

 Newton's Optics to which Flamsteed refers, in his 

 account of the altercation between them, as having 

 given occasion to some of the enemies of the former 

 to tax him with Atheism ? and is there any evi- 

 dence, besides what this passage may afford, in 

 favour of Dr. Johnson's assertion, that Newton set 

 out as an infidel? (Boswell, July 28, 1763.) The 

 Optics were not published till 1704, but had been 

 composed many years previously. J. S. Wakden. 



Limerick, Dublin, and Cork. — Can any of your 

 Irish or other correspondents inform me to whom 

 we are indebted for the lines — 



" Limerick was, Dublin is, and Cork shall be, 

 ITie finest city of the three" ? 



Also, in what respect Limerick was formerly su- 

 perior to Dublin ? N. 

 Dublin. 



Praying to the West. — A friend of mine told 

 me that a Highland woman in Strathconan, wish- 

 ing to say that her mother-in-law prayed for my 

 friend daily, said : " She holds up her hands to the 

 West for you evei-y day." If to the East it would 

 have been more intelligible ; but why to the West ? 



L. M. M. R. 



Mulciber. — Who was Mulciber, immortalised (!) 

 in Qaivih's Dispensary (ed. 1699, p. 65.) as "the 

 Mayor of Bromlchani?" My copy contains on 

 the fly-leaf a MS. key to all the names save this. 



R. C. Waede. 



Kidderminster. 



Captain Booth of Stockport (Vol. vi., p. 340.). — 

 As yet, no reply to this Query has been elicited ; 

 but as it is a subject of some interest to both 

 Lancashire and Cheshire men, I should like to 



ascertain from Jattee in what collection he met 

 with the MS. copy of Captain Booth's Ordinary 

 of Arms ? Its existence does not appear to have 

 been known to any of our Cheshire or Lancashire 

 historians ; for in none of their works do I find 

 any mention of such an individual as Capt. Booth 

 of Stockport. Sir Peter Leycester, in his Anti- 

 quities of Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire, repeatedly 

 acknowledges the assistance rendered him by John 

 Booth of Twanbow's Book of Pedigrees ; but this 

 gentleman appears merely to have collected for 

 Cheshire, and not for Lancashire. Sir George 

 Booth, afterwards Lord Delamere, is the only 

 Captain Booth I have yet met with in my limited 

 sphere of historical research ; and I am not aware 

 that he ever indulged much in genealogical study. 



T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



" A saint in crapeP — 



" A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn." 

 Whence this line ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



French Abbes. — What was the precise ecclesi- 

 astical and social status of a French Abbe before 

 the Revolution ? W. Fbaseb. 



Tor-Molmn. 



What Day is it at our Antipodes ? — Perhaps you 

 can give me a satisfactory answer to the following 

 question, a reply to which I have not yet been 

 able to procure. 



I write this at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12 ; at 

 our Antipodes it is, of course, 1 1 a.m. : but is it 

 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, or on Wednesday, 

 July 13 ? And whichever it is, what is the reason 

 for its being so ? for it seems to me that the solu- 

 tion of the question must be perfectly arbitrary. 



H. 



" Spendthrift." — In Lord John Russell's Memo- 

 rials of Charles James Fox, vol. i. p. 43., there is 

 a letter addressed to Mr. Richard Fitzpatrick, in 

 which Mr. Fox asks " if he was in England when 

 Lord Carlisle's Spendthrift came out." And at the 

 foot of the same page there is a note in which it is 

 stated that this " was probably some periodical 

 paper of 1767." 



My object in writing the above is for the pur- 

 pose of asking what publication the Spendthrift 

 really was, and where it can be purchased or seen ? 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Second Growth of Grass. — The second growth 

 of grass is known by different names in different 

 localities. In some it is csX\eA fog, in others after- 

 math and after-grass. The former name is com- 

 mon about Uxbridge, and the latter about Stoke 

 Pogis, in Buckinghamshire. In Hertfordshire it is 



