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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 217. 



Jirst appointment of Mr. Whitelocke to a commission 

 in the army, whicli appears in the London Gazette, 

 No. 11938. of December 26, 1778, and runs thus: 

 ' 14th Foot, John Whitelocke, Gent., to be Ensign 

 vice Day." — I trust some reader of " N. & Q." will 

 furnish us with the dates of the birth and death of 

 Lieut.-General Whitelocke, specifying when they took 

 place, as desired by G. L. S., with an abridgment of 

 deficient particulars in his history. D, N.*'] 



Greek Epigram. — In the Bath Chronicle of 

 the 10th of November last, I find the following 

 advertisement ; 



" The Clergyman of a Town Parish, in which are 

 several crippled persons, at present unable to attend 

 divine worship, will feel very grateful to any gentle- 

 man or lady who will give him an old Bath chair for 

 the use of these poor people ; two blind men having 

 ofFered, in this case, charitably to convey their crippled 

 neighbours regularly to the House of God." 



Surely this arrangement is not a new idea, and 

 there is, if I mistake not, a Greek epigram that 

 records its success in practice several hundred 

 years ago. Can any of your readers, whose Greek 

 is less faded than mine, refer me to the epigram ? 



Geo. E. Feere. 



[Probably the following epigram is the one floating 

 in the faded rnemory of our correspondent : 



" 4>IAmnOT, ol Se ISIA.aPOT. 

 ni7pbr 6 fJiiv yvioii, 6 S' Sp' o/xfiacnw ajj.(p6rfpot 5e 



E<s avTovs rh ti'xtjj ecSees ripdviaay, 

 Tv(p\os yap ALTT6yviov eTrcejxaSiov j3dpos oiCpasv,' 



ToAS Keivov (puivais arpairhv wpQo^arel, 

 Tldfra Se ravr' ^5i5a|e Trirep^ TrdvToAfxos audyKr], 

 'AW^Aois jxtplaai TOvWnrfS e»s eAeov." 



Anthologia, in usnm Scholcs Westmonast. : 

 Oxon. 1724, p. 58,] 



Ti'anslations from JEschylus. — Whose trans- 

 lation of the tragedies of ^Eschylus is that which 

 accompanies Flaxman's compositions from the 

 same ? I ought to state that there is merely a 

 line or two under each plate, to explain the sub- 

 ject of each composition, and that my copy is the 

 unreduced size. H. 



Kingston-on-Thames. 



[The lines are taken from N. Potter's translation of 

 the Tragedies of iEschylus,, 4to., 1777.] 



Priiica MemnovLS Sister. — Who was Prince 

 Memnon's sister, alluded to by Milton in II Pen- 

 seroso f J. W. T. 



Dewsbury, 



[Dunster has the following note on this line: — 

 •' Prince Memnon's sister ; that is, an Ethiopian 

 princess, or sable beauty. Memnon, king of Ethio- 

 pia, being an auxiliary of the Trojans, was slain by 

 Achilles. (See Virg, JEn. i. 489., ' Nii/ri Memnonis 

 arma.') It does not, however, appear that Memnon 

 had any sister, Tithonus, according to Hesiod, had 



by Aurora only two sons, Memnon and Emathion, 

 Theog. 984. Tiiis lady is a creation of the poet."] 



• Who was the author 



" Oh ! for a blast," Sfc. 

 of the couplet — 



" Oh I for a blast of that dread horn, 

 On Fontarabian echoes borne ? ". 



A. J. DUNKIN. 

 [The lines — 



" O for the voice of that wild horn, 

 On Fontarabia's echoes borne. 



The dying hero's call," — 



are by Sir Walter Scott, and form part of those which 

 excited the horror of the father of Frank Osbaldiston, 

 when he examined his waste-book in search of Reports 

 outward and inward — Corn Debentures, &c. See Rob 

 Roy, chap. ii. p. 24. ed. 1829.] 



Robin Hood's Festival. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents refer me to a good account of the 

 festival of Robin Hood, which was so popular with 

 our ancestors, that Bishop Latimer could get no 

 one to come to hear him preach on that day ? 



In the churchwardens' accounts of St. Helens, 

 Abingdon, published in the first volume of the 

 Archceologia, there is an entry in 1566 of the sum 

 of 18d. paid for " setting up Robin Hood's Bower." 



R. W. B. 



[The best account of Robin Hood's festival on the 

 first and succeeding days of May is given in Robin 

 Hood: a Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and 

 Ballads, relative to that celebrated Outlaw ; [by Joseph 

 llitson], among the notes and illustrations in vol. i. 

 pp. xcvii — ex. Consult also A Lytell Geste of Robin 

 Hode, by John Mathew Gutch, vol. i. pp. 60 — 64. ; and 

 George Soane's New Curiosities of Literature, vol. i. 

 pp. 231—236.] 



Church in Suffolk. — In restoring a church in 

 Suffolk, apparently of the date of Henry VII., 

 except two Norman doors, the walls were found 

 full of Norman mouldings of about 1100, or not 

 much after. Will you kindly give me a list of the 

 works where I may be likely to find an account of 

 this original church ? Davy and Jermyn's Suffolk, 

 in the British Museum, says nothing about it. 

 The two Norman doors are universally admired, 

 and the church is now Norman still throughout. 

 In the reconstruction of about 1100, the two doors 

 do not seem to have been in any way restored or 

 meddled with. G. L. 



[Our correspondent may probably find some account 

 of this church either in Suckling's Antiquities of Suffolk, 

 4to., 2 vols.. Gage's History of Suffolk (Thingoe Hun- 

 dred), 4to., or in H. Jermyn's Collections for a General 

 History of Suffolk, in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 

 8168—8196.] 



