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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 201. 



Can the descendants of C. resume the arms of A. ? 

 If so, must they substitute them for the arms of 

 C, or bear them quarterly, and in which quarters ? 



Francis P. 



Ijord Chancellor Steele. — Is any pedigree of 

 William Steele, Esq , Lord Chancellor of Ireland 

 temp. Commonwealth, extant ; and do any of his 

 descendants exist ? 



It is believed he was nearly related to Captain 

 Steel, governor of Beeston Castle, who suffered 

 death by military execution in 1643 on a charge 

 of cowardice. Statfou). 



'■'A Tub to the TF/iiaZe." — What is the origin of 

 this phrase ? Pimlico. 



Legitimation (^Scotland). — Perhaps some of 

 your Scotch readers " learned in the law " would 

 obligingly answer the subjoined Queries, referring 

 to some decisions. 



1. Will entail property go to a bastard, legiti- 

 mated before the Union under the great seal (by 

 the law of Scotland) ? 



2. Will titles and dignities descend ? 



3. Will armorial bearings ? M. M. 

 Inner Temple. 



•' Vaid mieux" 8fc. — The proverb " Vaut mieux 

 avoir affaire a Dieu qu'a ses saints " has a Latin 

 origin. What is it ? M. 



Shakspeare Fii'st Folio. — Is there any obtain- 

 able edition of Shakspeare which follows, or fully 

 contains, the first folio ? M. 



The Staffordshire Knot. — Can any of your 

 readers give the history of the Staffordshire knot, 

 traced on the carriages and trucks of the North 

 Staffordshire Railway Company ? T. P. 



Sir Thomas Elyot. — I shall be extremely 

 obliged by a reference to any sources of inform- 

 ation respecting Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, living 

 in the time of Henry VIIL, son of Sir Richard 

 Elyot, Knight, of Suffolk. 



I shall be glad also to know whether a short 

 work (among others of his in my possession) en- 

 titled The Defence of good Women, printed in 

 London by Thomas Berthelet, 1545, is at all a 

 rare book? H.C.K. 



" Celsior exsurgens pluviis," ^~c. — 



" Celsior exsurgens pluviis, nimbosque cadentes, 

 Sub pedibus cernens, et caeca tonitiua calcans." 



Can you oblige me by stating where the above 

 lines are to be found ? They appear to me to 

 form an appropriate motto for a balloon. J. P. A. 



The Bargain Cup. — Can the old English cus- 

 tom of drinking together upon the completion of 

 a bargain, be traced back farther than the Nor- 



man era ? Did a similar custom exist in the 

 earlier ages ? Danl. Dyke, in his Mysteries (Lon- 

 don, 1634), says : 



" The Jews being forbidden to make couenants with 

 the Gentiles, they also abstained from drinking with 

 them ; because that was a ceremonie vsed in striking' 

 of couenants." 



This is the only notice I can find among old 

 writers touching this custom, which is certainly 

 one of considerable antiquity : though I should 

 like confirmation of Dyke's words, before I can 

 recognise an ancestry so remote. R. C. Wabde. 



Kidderminster. 



School- Libraries. — I am desirous of ascertaining 

 whether any of our public schools possess any 

 libraries for the general reading of the scholars, in: 

 which I do not include mere school-books of Latin, 

 Greek, &c., which, I presume, they all possess, but 

 such as travels, biographies, &c. 



Roys fresh from these schools appear generally 

 to know nothing of general reading, and from the 

 slight information I have, I fear there is nothing 

 in the way of a library in any of them. If not, 

 it is, I should think, a very melancholy fact, and 

 one that deserves a little attention : but if any of 

 your obliging correspondents can tell me what 

 public school possesses such a thing, and the facili- 

 ties allowed for reading in the school, I shall take 

 it as a favour. Weld Taylor. 



Bayswater. 



Queen Elizabeth and her " true " Looking-glass. 

 — An anecdote is current of Queen Elizabeth 

 having in her later days, if not during her lasfe 

 illness, called for a true looking-glass, having for a 

 long time previously made use of one that was in 

 some manner purposely falsified. 



What is the original source of the story ? or at 

 least what is the authority to which its circulation 

 is mainly due ? An answer from some of youu 

 correspondents to one or other of these questions 

 would greatly oblige Veronica. 



Bishop Thomas Wilson. — In Thoresby's Diary y 

 a. ». 1720, April 17 (vol. ii. p. 289,), is the fol- 

 lowing entry : 



« Easter Sunday . . . after evening prayers 

 supped at cousin Wilson's with the Bishop of Man's 

 son." 



Was there any relationship, and what, between 

 this " cousin Wilson," and the bishop's son. Dr. 

 Thomas Wilson? I should be glad of any in- 

 formation bearing on any or on all these subjects. 



William Denton. 



Bishop Wilson's Works. — The Rev. John 

 Keble, Ilursley, near Winchester, being engaged 

 in writing the life and editing the works of Bishop 

 Wilson (Sodor and Man), would feel obliged by 



