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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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where some degree of acquaintance exists, but not 

 in addressing an entire stranger. In a correspond- 

 ence now before me, one of the writers, an Italian 

 gentleman, uses it in the subscription to every one 

 of his letters, except the firsts thus: 



"Ho I'honore d' essere col piu profondo rispetto B.L.M. 

 II di Lei Umiliss. Dev. Servo." 



-" Frattanto la prego di volermi credere nella piu ampla 

 esteiitione del termine B. L. M. 



II di Lei Ubb°. ed Obligate Servitore." 



I need not add more examples. There is no- 

 thing in Graglia's Collection of Italian Letters that 

 explains it. J. W. T. 



Dewsbury. 



Member of Parliament electing himself — In the 

 biographical notices of the author of an Inquiry 

 into the Rise and Groivth of the Royal Prerogative 

 in England, 1849, I find the following curious 

 circumstances : 



*' The writ for election (of a member for the county 

 of Bute) was transmitted to the sheriff, Mr. M'Leod 

 Bannatine, afterwards Lord Bannatine. He named 

 the day, and issued his precept for the election. When 

 the day of election arrived, Mr. Bannatine was the only 

 freeholder present. As freeholder he voted himself 

 chairman of the meeting ; as sheriff he produced the 

 writ and receipt for election, read the writ and the 

 oaths against bribery at elections ; as sheriff he ad- 

 ministered the oaths of supremacy, &c., to himself as 

 chairman ; he signed the oaths as chairman and as 

 sheriff; as chairman he named the clerk to the meeting, 

 and called over the roll of freeholders ; he proposed 

 the candidate and declared him elected ; he dictated 

 and signed the minutes of election ; as sheriff he made 

 an indenture of election between himself as sheriff and 

 himself as chairman, and transmitted it to the crown 

 office." 



Can any of your correspondents furnish me 

 with a similar case ? H. M. 



Peckham. 



" Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re." — This rule 

 is strongly recommended by Lord Chesterfield in 

 one of his letters, as " unexceptionably useful and 

 necessary in every part of life." Whence is it 

 taken, and who is its author ? J. W. T. 



Dewsbury. 



Jacobite Garters. — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me of the origin of the "rebel garters," a 

 pair of which I possess, and which have been 

 carefully handed down with other Stuart relics by 

 my Jacobin fathers ? 



They are about 4 feet long, and li inch deep, 

 of silk woven in the loom ; the pattern consists of 

 a stripe of red, yellow, and blue, once repeated, and 

 iarranged so that the two blue lines meet in the 

 centre. At each end, for about six or seven 

 inches, and at spaces set at regular intervals, 



these lines of colour are crossed, so as to form a 

 check or tartan ; the spaces corresponding with 

 the words in the following inscription, and one 

 word being allotted to each space : 



" Come lett us with one heart agree " 

 and it is continued on the other : 



" To pray that God may bless P. C." 



The tartan, however, does not appear to be the 

 " Royal Stuart." 



Probably they were distributed to the friends 

 and adherents of poor Prince Charles Edward, to 

 commemorate some special event in his ill-fated 

 career. But it would be interesting to know if 

 many of them remain, and, if possible, their correct 

 history. E. L. I. 



Daxtghters taking their Mothers'' Names. — Can 

 any of your readers favour me with any instances, 

 about the time of the first, second, and third Ed- 

 wards, of a daughter adding to her own name that 

 of the mother, as Alicia, daughter of Ada, &c. 



BURIENSIS. 



General Fraser. — Have there been any Life 

 or Memoirs ever published of General Fraser, who 

 fell in Burgoyne's most disastrous campaign ? If 

 any such exist I should be glad to know of them. 



W. FrAsbe. 



Tor-Mohun. 



A Punning Divine. — Wanted the whereabouts 

 of the following sentence, which is said to be 

 taken from a volume of sermons published during 

 the reign of James I. : 



" This dial shows that we must die all ; yet notwith- 

 standing, all houses are turned into ale houses; our 

 cares into cates ; our paradise into a pair o' dice ; ma- 

 trimony into a matter of money, and marriage into a 

 merry age ; our divines have become dry vines ; it was 

 not so in the days of Noah, — O no ! " 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Contango. — A technical term in use among the 

 sharebrokers of Liverpool, and I presume else- 

 where, signifying a sum of money paid for accom- 

 modating either a buyer or seller by carrying the 

 engagement to pay money or deliver shares over 

 to the next account-day. Can your correspondents 

 say from whence derived ? Agmond. 



Pedigree to the Time of Alfred. — Wapshott, 

 a blacksmith in Chertsey, holds lands held by his 

 ancestors temp. Alfred' (M'Culloch's Highlands, 

 vol. iv. p. 410.). Can this statement be confirmed 

 in 1853 ? A. C. 



" Service is no inheritance." — Will you or any 

 of your readers have the goodness to inform me 



