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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 288. 



occurred of a simultaneous decay of some one 

 kind of fruit, but such a casualty was never heard 

 of. Again, what kind of death of the original 

 seedling is meant ? Is it by old age, by disease, 

 by accidental injury, by injudicious transplanting, 

 or what else ? These inquiries need not be ex- 

 tended, for they can never be answered. Depend 

 upon it, the Taliacotian doctrine does not apply 

 to grafts and the parent tree : 



" Sic adscititios Nasos de Clune torosi, 

 Vectoris, docta secuit Taliacotius arte 

 Qui potuere parem durando aequare parentem; 

 At postquam fato Clunis cotnputruit, ipsum 

 Una sympathicum ccepit tabescere rostrum." 



I may add, that few things are more easy than 

 to raise first-rate apples and pears from seed. Of 

 many of the new pears now constantly being in- 

 troduced, it is not difficult to trace the parentage ; 

 some indeed have come so true as not to be dis- 

 tinguished from their parents. J. G-. 



Exon. 



The paper on the vine alluded to by E. H. B. 

 speaks only of plants and animals entire. Grafts 

 are beside and beneath the paper. Their life 

 hangs upon their own age and quality, and the 

 age and quality of the stock to which they are 

 grafted. John Monkoe. 



Use of the Mitre (Vol. x., p. 227.). —The dio- 

 ceses of Connecticut and Maryland, in the United 

 States of America, are in possession of the mitre 

 used by their first bishops, Dr. Seabury and Dr. 

 Claggett. 



The mitre of Bishop Seabury is in the library 

 of Trinity College, Hartford. That of Bishop 

 Claggett is understood to be in the possession of 

 his present successor. Dr. Whittingham. I have 

 seen it, and could not but rejoice that the use of 

 an ornament, which added so little to the beauty of 

 holiness, had been discontinued. Bishop Claggett 

 (cons. 1792, ob. 1813) wore it in the performance 

 of episcopal functions agreeably to the prescrip- 

 tions of ritualists. It is of purple velvet (or satin, 

 I am not sure which), adorned with gold em- 

 broidery. W. 



Baltimore. 



Portrait of Lord Lovat (Vol. xi., p. 207.). — 

 Hogarth's portrait of Lord Lovat, seated in a 

 chair, was not taken " the night before his execu- 

 tion," but the night before he took leave of Major 

 Gardner, under whose escort he was travelling 

 to the Tower, and to whom Lord Lovat presented 

 the original sketch. Hogarth made the drawing 

 at St. Albans, Aug. 14, 1746. The execution took 

 place in the following April. 



One who has seen the Drawing. 



St. Simon the Apostle (Vol. xi., p. 283.).— The 

 pair of spectacles given to St. Simon, in the en- 



graving referred to by M. L., is but a fancy of 

 the painter. It is common to see St. Jerome so 

 represented. Thoush it is supposed by some that 

 St. Simon was crucified, it is remarkable that he 

 is never represented with a cross. I have exa- 

 mined many figures of this Apostle still remain- 

 ing on the wood-screen panels in old churches, 

 and have invariably found the instrument of his 

 martyrdom to be a saw. In some instances I have 

 found him represented with a fish, or two fishes, 

 an oar, or a fuller's bat. (See £JmMems of Saints, 

 p. 130.) F. C. H. 



The Deluge (Vol. xi., p. 284.). — I could send 

 you a multitude of traditions on this subject, col- 

 lected from various sources, but such a contribu- 

 tion would be far too voluminous for your pages. 

 Your correspondent W. M. N., and others who 

 feel interested on the subject, may find much in- 

 formation in the following works : 



Bryant's Ancient Mythology. 



Universal Ancient History, vol. i. 



Maurice's Indian Antiquities, passim. 



Harcourt's Doctrine of the Deluge. 



Asiatic Researches, vols. i. and vi. 



Prichard's Egyptian Mythology, p. 274. 



Keith's Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian 

 Religion, p. 119. 



Wiseman's Lectures on Revealed Religion and Science. 



Priestley's Comparison of Mosaic and Hindoo Institu- 

 tions, p. 38. 



G. S. Faber, On the Patriarchal, Levitical, and Christian 

 Dispensations, vol. i. p. 245. 



G. S. Faber, On the Cabiri. 



Davies's Mythology of the British Druids, passim. 



Davies's Celtic Researches, p. 157. 



Shuckford's Connexion of Sacred and Profane History, 

 vol. i. p. 89. 



Prescott's History of Peru, vol. i. p. 82. 



Tod's Rajasthan, vol. i. p. 21. 



Charlevoix's Travels in America, p. 297. 



K. Porter's Travels, vol. i. p. 316. 



ArchiBologia, vol. iv. 



Norman's Yucatan, p. 179. and Appendix. 



Squier's Serpent Symbol in America. 



Eden Warwick. 



Birmingham. 



The Right of devising Land (Vol. xi., p. 145.). 

 — I may refer C. (1) to Lord Bacon's tract on 

 The Use of the Lata, as "a law book not difficult 

 of access, which throws light on this interesting 

 question." It will be found among the collected 

 works of the great philosopher and lawyer. Enu- 

 merating the several modes of conveying land ia 

 his time, he says : 



"The last of the six conveyances is a Avill in writing, 

 which course of conveyance was first ordained by a statute 

 made 32 Hen. VIII., before which statute no man might 

 give land by will, except it were in a borough town, 

 where there was an especial custom that men might give 

 their lands by will, as in London and many other places. 



" The not giving of land by will was thought to be a 

 defect at common law, that men in wars or suddenly 

 falling sick, had no power to dispose of their lands, ex- 



