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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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eye of the observer, and arcs of great circles in- 

 tersecting the sun's disc. 



From the absence (so far as I am aware) of all 

 mention of this remarkable fact in works on the 

 subject, I am led to conclude that it is something 

 new ; should this, however, turn out otherwise, I 

 shall be obliged by a reference to any author who 

 explains the phenomenon. The greater intensity 

 towards the horizon would point to successive 

 refractions as the most probable theory. H. C. K. 



Minat dkiittiei, 



" Salus Populi" Sfc. — What is the origin of 

 the saying, " Salus populi suprema lex ? " E. M. 



Dramatic Representations by the Hour-glass. — 

 I have seen it stated (but am now unable to trace 

 the reference) that, in the infancy of the drama, 

 its representations were sometimes regulated by 

 the hour-glass. Does the history of the art, either 

 among the Greeks or the Romans, furnish any 

 well-authenticated instance of this practice ? 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



John Campbell of Jamaica. — I shall be very 

 much obliged if any of your readers can give me 

 any information respecting John Campbell, Esq., 

 of Gibraltar, Trelawny, Jamaica, who died in 

 January, 1817, at Clifton (I believe), but to whose 

 memory a monument was erected in Bristol Ca- 

 thedral by his widow. I should be glad to know 

 her maiden name, and whether he left any sur- 

 viving family ? Also how he was related to a 

 family going by the name of Hanam or Hannam, 

 who lived at Arkindale, Yorkshire, about one 

 hundred years before the date of his decease ; he 

 appears, too, to have had some connexion with a 

 person named Isaac Madley, or Bradley, and 

 through his mother with the Turners of Kirk- 

 leatham. This inquiry is made in the hope of 

 unravelling a genealogical difficulty which has 

 hitherto baffled all endeavour to solve it. 



D. E. B. 



Lreamington. 



HodgMnss Tree, Warwick. — In the plan of 

 "Warwick, drawn on Speed's Map of that county, 

 is a tree at the end of West Street, called on the 

 plan " Hodgkins's Tree :" against this tree is re- 

 presented a gun, pointed to the left towards the 

 fields. — Can any of your readers furnish the tra- 

 dition to this tree pertaining ? O. L. E. G. 



The Doctor, ^c, p. 5., one volume edition. — The 

 sentence in the Garamna tongue, if anagramma- 

 tised into "You who have written Madoc and 

 Thalaba and Kehama," would require a A to 

 be substituted for an h in Whehaha. Query, Is 



this the proper mode of interpretation, or is there 

 a misprint ? 



Saheco, p. 248. — What name are these com- 

 posite initials meant to represent ? The others 

 are easily deciphered. Should we read Saneco= 

 Sarah Nelson Coleridge ? J. M. B. 



English Cle7-gyman in Spain. — I am anxious to 

 discover the capacity in which a certain clergyman 

 was present with the English army in Spain 

 early in the eighteenth century (probably with 

 Lord Peterborough's expedition). Can any readers 

 of " N. & Q." refer me to any book or record from 

 which I can obtain this information ? D. Y. 



Caldecotts Translation of the New Testament. 

 — I have a translation of the Kew Testament 

 by a Mr. John Caldecott, printed and sold by 

 J. Parry and Son, Chester, dated 1834. It is en- 

 titled Holy Writings of the First Christians, called 

 the New Testament (the text written from the 

 common version, but altered by comparing with 

 the Greek), with notes. I shall be glad to know 

 who Mr. Caldecott was or is ? and whether the 

 edition appeared under the auspices of any society 

 or sect of Christians ? S. A. S. 



Bridgewater. 



Westhumble Chapel. — There is a ruin of a 

 chapel in the hamlet of Westhumble, in Mickle- 

 ham, Surrey. At what time was it built? To 

 what saint consecrated ? and from what cause 

 was it allowed to fall into its present ruinous and 

 desecrated condition ? J. P. S. 



Perfect Tense. — In Albites' "Companion" to 

 How to speak French, one of the first exercises is to 

 turn into French the following phrase, " I have 

 seen him yesterday." I should be much obliged 

 to Mr. J. S. Warden (to w'honi all readers of 

 " N. & Q." stand so greatly indebted for his ex- 

 cellent article on " Will and Shall "), if he would 

 state the rule for the use of the perfect tense in En- 

 glish in respect to specified time, and the rationale 

 involved in such rule. C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



La Fleur des Saints. — In Moliere's Le Tartufe 

 (Act I. Sc. 2.) occur the following lines : 



" Le traitre, I'autre jour, nous rompit de ses mains 

 Un mouchoir qu'il trouva dans une Fleur des Saints, 

 Disant que nous melions, par un crime efFroyable, 

 Avec la saintete les parures du diable." 



Can any of your readers inform me what Fleur 

 des Saints was ? Was it a book ? If so, what 

 were its contents ? C. P. G. 



Oasis. — Can any correspondent inform me of 

 the correct quantity of the second syllable of this 

 word ? In Smith's Geographical Dictionary it is 

 mai'ked long, while Andrews' Lexicon gives it 



