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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 212. 



the burial of Sir "Walter Scott, 26th September, 

 1832. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Motto on Wylcotes' Brass. — In the brass of Sir 

 John Wylcotes, Great TeAV Church, Oxfordshire, 

 the following motto occurs : 



"IN . ON . IS . AL." 



I shall feel obliged if any one of your numerous 



correspondents will enlighten my ignorance by 



explaining it to me. W. B. D. 

 Lynn. 



" Trail through the leaden sky" SfC. — 

 " Trail through the leaden sky their bannerets of fire." 



Where is this line to be found, as applied to the 

 spirits of the storm ? K. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



Lord Audley's Attendants at Poictiers. — Accord- 

 ing to the French historian Froissart, four knights 

 or esquires, whose names he does not supply, 

 attended the brave Lord Audley at the memorable 

 battle of Poictiers, who, some English historians 

 say, were Sir John Delves of Doddington, Sir 

 Thomas Button of Dutton, Sir Robert Fowlehurst 

 of Crewe (all these places being in Cheshire), and 

 Sir John Hawkstone of Wrinehill in Staffordshire ; 

 whilst others name Sir James de Mackworth of 

 Mackworth in Derbyshire, and Sir Richard de 

 Tunstall alias Sneyde of Tunstall in Staffordshire, 

 as two of such knights or esquires. The accuracy 

 of Froissart as an historian has never been ques- 

 tioned ; and as he expressly names only four 

 attendants on Lord Audley at the battle of Poic- 

 tiers, it is extremely desirable it should be ascer- 

 tained if possible which of the six above-named 

 knights really were the companions of Lord Aud- 

 ley Froissart alludes to ; and probably some of your 

 learned correspondents may be able to clear up 

 the doubts on the point raised by our historians. 



T.J. 



Worcester. 



Roman Catholic Bible Society. — About the 

 year 1812, or 1813, a Roman Catholic Bible So- 

 ciety was established in London, in which Mr. 

 Charles Butler, and many other leading gentle- 

 men, took a warm part. How long did it con- 

 tinue ? Why was it dissolved ? Did it publish 

 any annual reports, or issue any book or tract, 

 besides an edition of the New Testament in 1815 ? 

 Where can the fullest account of it be found ? 



Will any gentleman be kind enough to sell, or 

 even to lend, me Blair's Correspondence on the 

 Roman Catholic Bible Society, a pamphlet pub- 

 lished in 1813, which I have not been able to meet 

 with at a bookseller's shop, and am very desirous 

 to see. Henry Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland. 



" Vox Populi Vox Dei." — Lieber, in the last 

 chapter of his Civil Liberty, treating of this 

 dictum, ascribes its origin to the Middle Ages, 

 acknowledging, however, that he is unable to give 

 anything very definite. Sir William Hamilton, in 

 his edition of the Works of Thomas Reid, gives 

 the concluding words of Hesiod's Wo7'ks and Days 

 thus : 



" The word proclaimed by the concordant voice of 

 mankind fails not; for in man speaks God." 



And to this the great philosopher adds : 



" Hence the adage (?), ' Vox Populi vox Dei.' " 

 The sign of interrogation is Sir William Hamil- 

 ton's, and he was right to put it ; for whatever the 

 psychological connexion between Hesiod's dictum 

 and V. P. V. D. may be, there is surely no his- 

 torical. "Vox Populi vox Dei" is a different 

 concept, breathing the spirit of a different age. 



How far back, then, can the dictum in these 

 very words be traced ? 



Does it, as Lieber says, originally belong to the 

 election of bishops by the people ? 



Or was it of Crusade origin ? 



America begs Europe to give her facts, not 

 speculation, and hopes that Europe will be good 

 enough to comply with her request. Europe has 

 given the serious " V. P. V. D." to America, so 

 she may as well give its history to America too. 



Americus. 



[As this Query of Americus contains some new il- 

 lustration of the history of this phrase, we have given 

 it insertion, although the subject has already been dis- 

 cussed in our columns. The writer will, however, find 

 that the earliest known instances of the use of the 

 saying are, by William of Malmesbury, who, speaking 

 of Odo yielding his consent to be Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, A. B. 920, says : " Recogitans illud Proverbium, 

 Vox Populi Vox Dei; " and by Walter Reynolds, Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, who, as we learn from Walsing- 

 ham, took it as his text for the sermon which he 

 preached when Edward III. was called to the throne, 

 from which the people had pulled down Edward II. 

 Americus is farther referred to Mr. G. Cornewall 

 Lewis' Essni/ on the Influence of Authority in Matters of 

 Opinion (pp. 172, 173., and the accompanying notes) 

 for some interesting remarks upon it. See farther, 

 «N. & Q..." Vol. i., pp. 370. 419. 492.; Vol. iii., 

 pp. 288. 381.] 



" Lanquettes Cronicles." — Of what date is the 

 earliest printed copy of these Chronicles? The 

 oldest I am acquainted with is 1560, in quarto 

 (continued up to 1540 by Bishop Cooper). Is 

 this edition rare ? R- C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



[The earliest edition is that printed by T. Berthe- 

 let, 4to., 1549. The first two parts of this Chronicle, 



