Dec. 10. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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it had been embalmed, and was found in a mummy 

 state, of a dark brown colour. I have not met 

 with any mention of these oircuinstances else- 

 where. Laura is stated to have died of the plague 

 (whicli seems to render it unlikely that her body 

 was embalmed) ; and, according to Petrarch's 

 famous note on his MS. of Virgil, she was buried 

 the same day, after vespers, in the church of the 

 Cordeliers. The date was April i, 1348. That 

 church was long celebrated for lier tomb, which 

 contained also the body of Hugues de Sade, her 

 husband. The edifice is stated to be ruined, its 

 very site being converted into a fruit-garden; 

 but the tomb is said to be still entire under the 

 ground ; and more than twenty years after the 

 French Revolution, a small cypress was pointed 

 out as marking the spot where Laura was interred. 

 Is the circumstance of the desecralicm of her 

 tomb mentioned by any other writer ? If it really 

 took place, are we to conclude that the tree — if it 

 still exists — marks only the place where she had 

 been interred : for, that the body was rescued and 

 recommitted to the tomb, can hardly be supposed? 

 Wm. Sidney Gibson. 



^^ EpitapMum Lucretim.'''' — The following lines 



are offered for insertion, not because I doubt their 



being known to many of your readers, but with a 



view to ask the name of the author : 



" Epitaph'nim Lucretice. 



Dum foderet ferro teneium Lucretia pectus 



Sano^utnis et torrens egrederetur : ait, 

 ' Accedant testes me non cessisse tyianiio 

 ' Ante virum sanguis, spiritus ante Deos.' " 



Balliolensis. 



M^Dowall Family. — More than a century ago 

 thei'e was a family (since extinct) of the name of 

 M'Dowall, in the county Cavan, Ireland, belong- 

 ing to some branch of the ancient and noble Scot- 

 tish family of that name, who had mijrrated to 

 these shores. Perhaps some of your readers could 

 inform me as to what branch they belonged, and 

 when they settled in Ireland, as also if there be 

 any pedigree of them extant, as I am very anxious 

 to learn something of them at all events ? 



GULIBLMUS. 



Dublin. 



Arms of Geneva. — Will any of your corre- 

 spondents oblige me with a technical blazon of the 

 arms of the town of Geneva ? F. F. B. 



Bury St. Edmunds. 



Webb of Monckton Farleigh. — Perhaps some 

 reader of " N. & Q." would be so good as to in- 

 form me what -were the arms, crest, and motto 

 of the Webbs of Monckton Farleigh, co. Wilts ; 

 also, if there be any pedigree of them extant, and 

 •where it is to be found; or otherwise would direct 

 me what would be my best means to ascertain 



some account of that family, who are now repre- 

 sented by the Duke of Somerset? HsNai. 

 Dublin. 



Translation Wanted. — Can any of your corre- 

 spon<lents inform me where I may meet with a 

 translation by the Rev. F. Hodgson, late Provost 

 of Eton, &c., of the Atys of Catullus? 



P. J. F. Ganxillon, B. a. 



Latin Translation from Sheridan, Sec. — My 

 treacherous memory retains one line only of each 

 of two translations into Latin verse, admirably 

 done, of two well-known pieces of English poetry. 

 The first from a song by Sheridan, of the lines : 



" Nor can I l>elieve it then, 

 Till it gently press again." 

 " Conscia ni dextram dextera pressa premat." 

 The second : 



" Man wants but little here below, 

 Nor wants that little long." 



is thus rendered : 



" Poscimus in terris pauca, nee ilia diil.' 



If in the circle of your correspondents the com- 

 plete translations can be furnished, you will, by 

 their insertion, gratify other lovers of modern 

 Latin poetry besides Balliolensis. 



Gale of Rent. — I can imagine what is meant by 

 a gale of rent, and be thankful I have not to pay 

 one. But what is the origin of the term gale as 

 thus applied ? Y. B. N. J. 



Arms of Sir Richard de Loges. — What were 

 the arms borne by Sir Richard de Loges, or 

 Lodge, of Chesterton, in the county of Warwick, 

 temp. Henry IV. ? Ln. 



Gentile Names of the Jews. — Are the Jews 

 known to each other by their Gentile names of 

 Rothschild, Montefiore, Davis, &c. ? or are these 

 oidy their nommes de guerre, assumed and aban- 

 doned at will on change of country ? 



G. E. T. S. R. N. 



Henry, EarlofWotton (Vol. viii., pp. 173.281,). 

 — The editors of the Navorscher express their 

 thanks to Broctuna for his reply to their Query, 

 but hope he will kindly increase their debt of 

 gratitude by elucidating three points which seem 

 to them obscure : 



1 . Which Lord Stanhope died childless ? Not 

 Henry, Lord Stanhope, for he (see p 281.) left a 

 son and two daughters ; nor yet Philip, for his 

 widow had borne him daughters. Or have we 

 wrongly understood the letters s.p. to signify sine 

 prole ? 



2. Was it the Earl of Chesterfield, half-brother 

 of Charles Henry van den Kerckhove, or Charles 



