Sept. 24. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



303 



He gives no authority for the statement, but 

 the note appears contradictory, and implies two 

 changes in the first to the cross-keys and tiara, 

 ■which may corroborate the notion of its having 

 been adopted by Cardinal Wolsey ; secondly, the 

 substitution of tie crown for the tiara. Can this 

 be proved ? F. H. 



Roger Wilbraham, Esq.^s, Cheshire Collection 

 (Vol. viii., p. 270.). — It is probable these MSS. 

 are still at the family seat of the Wilbrahams, 

 Delamere Lod^i'e, Northwitch. When Ovmerod 

 published his History of Cheshire, in 1819, they 

 were in the custody of the family. He says 

 (vol. iii. p. 232.) : 



" In the possession of the family is a curious series of 

 journals commenced by Richard Wilbraham of Nant- 

 wich, who died in 1G12, and continued regularly to the 

 time of his great-great-grandson, who died in 1732. 

 As a genealogical document, such a memorial is in- 

 valuable ; and it contains many curious incidental no- 

 tices of passing events, and of minute particulars relat- 

 ing to the town of Nantwich, of whose rights the 

 Wilbrahams of Townsend were the never-failing and 

 active guardians." 



J. Yeowexjl. 



Pierrepont (Vol. vii., p. 606.). — A descendant 

 thanks C. J. The information wanted is parent- 

 age and descent of John Pierrepont of Wad- 

 worth, who in a family mem. by his great-great- 

 granddaughter is called " Uncle to Evelyn, Earl 

 of P." Any information respecting John Pierre- 

 pont or his descendants through Margaret Stevens 

 ■will much oblige A. F. B. 



Diss. 



Passage in Bacon (Vol. viii., p. 141.). — In the 

 Notes on Bacon's Essay II. " On Death," there 

 appears the following : 



" In the passage of Juvenal, the words are ' Qui 

 spatium vitJB,' and not ' Qui finem vit»,' as quoted by 

 Lord Bacon. Length of days is meant." 

 His lordship's memory and ear too certainly misled 

 him with i-espect to the wording, but he has cor- 

 rectly given us the sense. Juvenal has been 

 arguing (1. iv. Sat. x.) on the vanity of earthly 

 blessings, so called, in quite a philosophic way ; 

 it is hardly possible to suppose him closing his 

 sermon with — 



" Fortem posce animum, mortis terrore carentem, 

 Qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat 

 Naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, 

 Nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil, et potiores 

 Herculis serumnas credat, sffivosque labores, 

 Et Venere, et ccenis, et pluma Sardanapali." 

 if by spatium he meant " length ; " but how apt 

 and beautiful in Lord Bacon's sense ! A note on 

 the passage in the Var. Ed. of 1684 has " Qui 

 sciat mortem munus aliquod naturae esse." 



Emmanuel Cantab. 



Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathc' 

 dral (Vol. viii., p. 215.). — In consequence of the 

 very curious Notes communicated by H. Thos. 

 Wake, I would beg to draw that gentleman's 

 attention to the very important MS. collections of 

 Bp, White Kennet on the subject of this cathedral 

 in the Lansd. MSS., British Museum, to which I 

 shall be happy to give him the references in a 

 private letter, if he will favour me with his address. 



E. G. Ballaed. 



Lord North (Vol. vii., p. 207.). — I feel much 

 obliged to your correspondent C. for his courtesy 

 in replying to my inquiry concerning this noble- 

 man. His remembrance of the personal appear- 

 ance of George III., and his remai-ks on the 

 subject, are in my opinion conclusive ; but the 

 appearance of the statement in the Life of Gold- 

 smith was such as to provoke inquiry. May I 

 ask your correspondent C. (who appears to be ac- 

 quainted with the North genealogy) whether a 

 sister of the premier North, by the same mother, 

 was not alive some years after the year 1734? 

 Collins records the birth of an infant daughter, 

 but the fact is overlooked in modern peerages. 



Observer. 



Landof Green Ging-er(Vol.viii.,pp.34. 160.227.). 

 — Mr. Frost, in his History, p. 71., &c., has shown 

 many instances of alteration in the names of streets 

 in Hull from the names of persons, as from Aide- 

 gate to Scale Lane, from Schayl, a Dutchman; 

 and Mk. Richardson has made it most probable 

 that the designation " Land of Green Ginger" 

 took place betwixt 1640 and 1735. It has oc- 

 curred to me, that a family of the Dutch name of 

 Lindegreen (green lime-trees) resided at Hull 

 within the last fifty years or more. Now the 

 "junior" of this name would be called in Dutch 

 " Lindegroen jonger," which may have originated 

 the corruption "Land o' green ginger." This 

 conjecture would amount to a solution of the 

 question, if the Lindegreens had about 150 years 

 ago any property or occupation in this lane. The 

 Dutch had necessarily much intercourse with 

 Hull : one of their imports was the lamprey, 

 chiefly as bait for turbot, cod, &c., obtained in the 

 Ouse near the mouth of the Derwent ; which fish 

 was conveyed in boats in Ouse Water, and was 

 kept alive and lively by means of poles made to 

 revolve in these floating fish-ponds, as I was in- 

 formed by an alderman prior to the reform of that 

 ancient borough. But lamprey has now either 

 migrated, or been exterminated by clearing the 

 Ouse of stones*, or by the excessive cupidity of 

 the fisherman or gastronomer. T. J. Bcckton. 



Birmingham, 



* The Petromyzon by attaching itself to a stone 

 forms a drill, by which it furrows the shoal for the 

 deposit of its spawn. 



