Mar. 24. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The frontispiece of my copy represents his Majesty 

 at the tea-table in Hell, one foot on Mr. Pitt, the 

 other, the cloven one, toying with a huge turtle 

 having the head of an Silderman ; Mr. Beckford, 

 perhaps, though I have heard another name sug- 

 gested, Gully I think. In the background are 

 various characters mentioned in the poem, par- 

 ticipating in the infernal jollities of the place. 



In addition to my question as to the authorship, 

 I should be obliged for information as to whether 

 or not there is a key to it. An American reader 

 cannot fill up all the blanks. Thos. Balch. 



Pliiladelphia. 



Oxford Jeud^ Esprit (Vol. xi., p. 127.). — I have 

 just found a copy of the following, which was cir- 

 » culated in Oxford in 1809 or 1810. Does it not 

 deserve to be recorded in " N. & Q." ? 



GOD SAVE THE KING. 



(^Latine redditum.') 

 1. 

 " O vivat omnibus, 

 Salvns ab hostibus, 

 Georgius Bex ; 

 Tibi victoriam, 

 Deus, et gloriam, 

 Det, et memoriani, 

 Optime Rex ! 



2. 



" Hostis, O Domine ! 



Ut cadat omine 



Horrido, Da; 



Prrebe, ccelipotens, 



Deus omnipotens, 



Solus armipotens, 



Auxilia. 



3. 

 " Fiat clarissimus, 

 Et beatissimus, 



Georgius Rex ! 

 Cujus auspicio, 

 Cujus judicio, ' 



Et beneficio, 



Floreat Lex ! " 



H. T. E. 

 St. Patricias Purgatory (Vol. viii., p. 327.). — 

 Camden has made a slight mistake; his description 

 answers precisely the "Shannon," not the "Liffey." 

 The lake " near unto his spring head " is well 

 known as " Lough Derg," in which the island 

 containing St. Patrick's Purgatory is situated. 



Y. S. M. 



Earthenware Vessels found in the Foundations 

 of Buildings (Vol. xi., p. 152.). — Mr. Norris 

 Deck's suggestion does not seem more satisfac- 

 tory than those of the other contributors who 

 have directed their attention to this subject. It 

 is indeed far more probable that the jars found 

 at Fountains Abbey were used either for sepul- 

 chral purposes or as acoustic instruments, than 

 that they should be mementos of the feast held I 



when the building was begun. It was in the 

 Middle Ages the custom to bless the foundations 

 with solemn prayers, but I do not remember an 

 instance where feasting was a prominent feature 

 in the commencement of a religious building. If 

 the monks had been in the habit of making per- 

 manent record of their potations in the manner 

 supposed, should we not have had some allusion 

 to it by the satirical ballad-writers of the early, <>r 

 the Reformers of a later period ? Would so pal- 

 pable a breach of decorum have escaped the keen 

 sarcasm of Bale, or the nameless poet who wrote 

 thus : — 



" Bonum vinum cum sapore 

 Bibit abbas cum priore ; 

 Sed conventus de pejore 



Semper solet bibere." 



K. P. D. E. 



It is likely enough that we have all failed in our 

 attempts to determine the use of these curious 

 vessels. Yet I fear that the proposed solution of 

 NoRRis Deck is even less obvious than those 

 already suggested. The vessels I have seen are 

 not jugs, but jars, with wide mouths six inches 

 across, and without any handles or lips for pour- 

 ing or drinking. I have one which I carefully 

 preserve, found, as I before described (Vol. x., 

 p. 434.), under the choir-stalls of St. Peter's Man- 

 croft Church in Norwich. It is in fact an urn, and 

 could never have been intended for a drinking- 

 vessel. Besides, these urns were fixed all in the 

 same position, and at intervals nearly uniform in 

 a regular line, which argued design in their col- 

 location, and was wholly different from being 

 " thrown promiscuously into the foundations, or 

 built up in the masonry." I feel moreover 

 certain that not long ago, though I cannot re- 

 member where, some such urns were discovered 

 with some human remains in them. F. C. H. 



Double Christian Names (Vol. x., p. 413.). — 

 The suffragan of Bishop James Goldwell was 

 Thomas Scroop Bolton, alias Bradley, who was 

 confirmed to the see of Dromore, 1449. (Blome- 

 field's Norfolk, iii. 540.) 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



Churches dedicated to St. Barnabas (Vol. x., 

 pp. 289. 435.). — Stokenham (or Stockingham), 

 county of Devon, diocese of Exeter, is also dedi- 

 cated to St. Barnabas. C. G. 

 Paddington. 



Poetical Tavern Signs (Vol. xi., p. 74.).—" The 

 Green Man" is no other than the gamekeeper of 

 the lord of the manor in his verderer's attire, and 

 generally accompanied by his dogs and gun. J. D. 



Menenius (Vol. xi., p. 29.). — My attention has 

 just been directed to a Query, with an editorial 

 answer, which appeared in your Number of 



