Mae. 31. 1855.] 



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result of sundry meditations during twenty years, 

 that it was originally intended for his own use and 

 the instruction of his family, and only prepared 

 for the press after much pressing solicitation. He 

 was evidently not a Nonjuror, as he frequently 

 Las a fling at the maintainers of hereditary right. 

 He appears to have been in the constant habit of 

 attending the daily service of the Church, and ad- 

 vocates a strict adherence to her rules. He was a 

 believer in the doctrine of the Millennium, and 

 Seems also to have held peculiar views respecting 

 the descent into hell. . The memory of such a, man 

 deserves to be had in honour ; and though his own 

 work is his best monument, one would willingly 

 have some farther memorial of him. E. H. A. 



[A Life of William Wogan, late of Ealing in Middle- 

 sex, by the Eev. James Gatliff, is prefixed to the third 

 edition of An Essay on the Proper Lessnns, 4 vols. 8vo., 

 1818. Wogan was a native of Penally in Pembrokeshire, 

 born in 1678 ; in 1694, admitted a scholar at Westmin- 

 ster, and elected to Christ Church College, Cambridge, in 

 1700. Earlv in the eighteenth century he was tutor to 

 the family of Sir Robert Southwell, and in 1710 became 

 clerk to Sir Robert's son, then secretary to the Duke of 

 Onnond. In 1712 he entered the army as lieutenant in 

 the infantry, and in 1714 was appointed paymaster to the 

 officers' widows on the Irish establishmeat. On Dec. 7, 

 1718, he married Catharine Stanhope, of the family of the 

 Earls of Chesterfield, and subsequently settled at Ealing 

 in Middlesex, where he died, Jan. 24, 1758, aged eighty 

 jears.] 



Earl Harcou7-t, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. — 

 I find in Thom's Dublin Director^/, 1855, in the 

 list of Lord Lieutenants of Ireland, the following 

 entry: "Reign of George III., date Nov. 30, 1772, 

 Simon Harcourt, first Earl Ilarcourt," entered as 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. I am unable to find 

 any mention of this title in Burke's Peerage, either 

 as an existing or as an extinct title. Neither can 

 I find the name of Harcourt in the list of sur- 

 names of peers, or the title among foreign nobles 

 having British titles. Any information on this 

 point will oblige A Subscriber. 



[The statement in Thom is quite correct. See also 

 Haydn's Book of Dignities, where we are told, " On 

 leaving Ireland this nobleman retired to his seat, Nune- 

 ham, Oxfordshire, and was shortly after accidentally 

 drowned in a well in his own park." In Sir H. Nicolas' 

 excellent Synopsis of the Peerage, this nobleman is de- 

 scribed as grandson and heir of Simon, first Viscount 

 Harcourt, being son and heir of Simon Harcourt (ob. 

 V. p.), eldest son of the last viscount. Created Viscount 

 Nuneham of Nuneham Courtney, and Earl Harcourt of 

 Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford, Dec. 1, 1749; ob. 1777.] 



Arminian and, Calvinistic Controversy. — Could 

 any of your readers furnish me with a complete 

 list of works on the Arminian and Calvinistic con- 

 troversy during the seventeenth century ? 



An Oxonian. 



[We are inclined to think our correspondent will find 

 what is required in Nichols's Calvinism and Arminianism 

 compared in their Principles and Tendency, 8vo., 1824, 

 especially in the Introduction. ] 



Colonial Coinage of George TV. — Can any cor- 

 respondent inform me for which of our colonies is 

 designed, and what is the denomination, of the 

 small silver coins bearing the following device ? 



Obv. Royal arms and titles. 



Rev, " XVI." On each side of a crowned an- 

 chor : "COLONIAK. BEITAN, MONETA. 1822." 



E. S. Tatloe. 



[This is the sixteenth of the dollar for the Mauritius. 

 See Ending's Coinage, edit. 1840, vol. ii. pp. 129. 415.] 



"TFAo drives fat oxen" Sfc. — The accompanying 

 advertisement is from the Manchester Weekly 

 Advertiser of March 10, 1855 : 



" ' Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.' Where 

 is this quotation to be found? Address H. 31. at the 

 printers'." 



Perhaps some of the readers of "N. & Q." can 

 reply to it ? G. W. N. 



[Dr. Johnson was present when a tragedy was read, ia 

 which there occurred this line, — 



" Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." 



The company having admired it much, " I cannot agree 

 with you," said Johnson; "it might as well be said, — 



" Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat." 



See Boswell's Johnson, 1784, chap. Ixxx.] 



M. A. C. L. — To many houses in Paris is 

 aflfixed a white board, on which the letters 

 " M. A. C. L." are painted in black paint. I 

 have hitherto been unable to ascertain their 

 meaninc. Do they imply that the houses in 

 question are insured, or are they equivalent to 

 the letters " F. P.," which are to be seen on many 

 houses in London ? They are generally painted 

 on a line with the windows of the drawing-room 

 floor. None of the Parisian guide-books explain 

 the meaning of the letters " M. A. C. L." 



JUVERNA* 



[The letters "M. A. C. L." are contractions for the words 

 "Maison assure'e contre I'incendie," signifying that the 

 house to which they are affixed is insured against lire.] 



Bayeux Tapestry. — Where can I find a good 

 history, with drawings of the Bayeux tapestry? 

 A list of books on the subject will oblige R. A. 



[Our correspondent will find a carefully-compiled ac- 

 count of the Bayeux tapestry in the Penny Cyclopmdkif 

 containing references to most of the works that treat upon 

 that singular monument. The plates of it have been 

 published by the Society of Antiquaries in the Vetusta 

 Monumenta, vol. iv. ; and Dibdin, in his Bibliographical 

 Tour, vol. i. p. 377., has an engraved view of it. Miss 

 Strickland, in her Queens of England, vol. i., has also de- 

 voted several pages to a notice of it ; and it forms the 

 subject of one of the most learned papers by Mk. Boltok 

 CoKNEY in his Curiosities of Literature Illustrated.'] 



