May 19. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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an anf^ry humour, never considering how dear we must 

 pay for 'it; lilce the silly bee, that in anger leaves at 

 once her sting and her life behind her. The sting may 

 perhaps give some short pain to the flesh it sticks in, but 

 yet there is none but discerns the bee has the worst of it, 

 that pays her life for so poor a revenge." — P. 288. 

 (Pickering's edition). 



Is there any foundation for this supposed fact 

 in natural history, that the sting of the bee is fatal 

 to itself? F. 



" Tryals per Pais.'' — I am in search of a work 

 entitled Tryals per Pais (published before 1666), 

 by S. E. of the Inner Temple, Esq. I have edi- 

 tions by another hand, which appeared in the years 

 1682, 1685, 1695, 1702, 1717, 1725, 1739, and 

 1766 ; but I wish to see a copy of the original 

 work ; in fact and in short, the author's, not an 

 editor's work. There is no copy in the Bodleian,* 

 or the British Museum. I have law -booksellers' 

 catalogues down to 1720, but none of them con- 

 tain the original work, nor is it mentioned by any 

 of the legal bibliographers. Perhaps the librarians 

 of the inns of court, some of them, may direct me 

 to a copy. Legalis. 



Shew Family. — In the village of Finglas, a few 

 miles from the city of Dublin, there has been 

 resident, from about the period of William III., a 

 family named Shew, who have successively been 

 the principal landlords in this locality. The name 

 is not generally heard of, except here, and evi- 

 dently is not of Irish extraction. Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me what place this 

 family came from, or the origin of the name ? S. 



Incident related by Bishop Patrick. — Bishop 

 Patrick, in his Mensa Mystica, or Christian Sacri- 

 Jice, makes use of the following Illustration : 



" The world cannot but shrink at the thoughts of that 

 fearful act of one of the Popes, who, making a league with 

 Caesar and the French king, divided the bread of the 

 Sacrament into three parts, with this saying (scarce toler- 

 able), ' As the Holy Trinity is but one God, so let the 

 union endure between us three confederates ; ' and yet he 

 was the first that broke it, and started from the agree- 

 ment." — P. 64. 



Is this historical, and who was the Pope of whom 

 the incident is related ? A. Tatloe. 



Paget Arms. — When were the arms of the 

 Paget family granted, and who was the first 

 grantee ? The name seems to have been French, 

 and probably the grant may have been made 

 originally by the French heralds. The coat is. 

 Sable, a cross engrailed argent. In the dexter 

 chief an escallop of the second. Jattee. 



[* An edition of 1665 is in the Bodleian : entered in 

 the Catalogue, vol. i., under Evke, Sampson. — Ed.] 



:^m0r ^uttiti ioitf) anStocrS. 



" Happy Future State of England." — Looking 

 over An Account of several new Inventions and Im- 

 provements now necessary for England, in a Dis- 

 course by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlborough, 

 1691, I find the author, in a very interesting and 

 discursive epistle touching ships, timber, faxes, 

 conservancy, and his own invention of milled lead, 

 takes occasion to praise a book entitled The Happy 

 Future State of England. 



" I shall," savs T. H. (probably Thomas Hales), " com- 

 mend to your lordship a frequent conversation with this 

 book, as "containing in it more variety of political calcu- 

 lations than 3'ou will iind in all printed books in all lan- 

 guages : and it is the rather worthy j-our serious perusal 

 in tins warlike conjuncture, because the author hath in so 

 nervous a manner given our English world so many new 

 directions about the modus of our being furnished with the 

 sinews of war, and in apportioning great taxes with great 

 equality, the want whereof is in effect the only grievance 

 in public supplies." 



A more particular reference to this Happy Future 

 State, Sec, with the author's name, is desired. 



J. O. 



[This work is by Sir Peter Pett, and is entitled " The 

 Happy Future State of England ; or, a Discourse by way 

 of Letter to the late Earl of Anglesey, vindicating him 

 from the Reflections of an Affidavit published by the 

 House of Commons, A» 1680, by occasion whereof ob- 

 servations are made concerning Infamous Witnesses. 

 The said Discourse likewise contains various political 

 remarks and calculations referring to many parts of 

 Christendom ; with observations of the Number of the 

 People of England, and of its growth in populousnesa 

 and trade. The vanity of the late fears and jealousies 

 being shown, the Author doth on grounds of Nature pre- 

 dict the Happy Future State of the Realm. At the end 

 of the Discourse there is a casuistical discussion of the 

 obligation to the King, his heirs and successors, wherein 

 many of the Moral Offices of Absolute and Unconditional 

 Loyalty are asserted. Before the Discourse is a large 

 Preface, giving an account of the whole work, with an. 

 Index of the principal matters. Also, the Obligation re- 

 sulting from the Oath of Supremacy to assist and defend 

 the Pre-eminence or Prerogative of the Dispensative 

 Power belonging to the King, his heirs and successors: 

 in the asserting of that power various historical passages 

 occurring in the Usurpation after the year 1641 are 

 mentioned, and an account is given of the progress of the 

 Power of Dispensing, as to Acts of Parliament about re- 

 ligion since the Reformation, and of diverse judgments of 

 Parliament, declaring their approbation of the exercise of 

 such power, and particularly in what concerns punish- 

 ment by disability or incapacity. London, printed 1688,'* 

 folio.J 



" England's Glory by a Royal Bank." — Wanted 

 the title to this book, date about 1694, 12mo., 

 dedication to Sir W. Ashurst, signed H. M. 



J.O. 



["England's Glory; or, the Great Improvement of 

 Trade in General, by "a Royal Bank or Office of Credit, to 

 be erected in London, wherein many great advantages 

 that will hereby accrue to the Nation, to the Crown, wnd 

 to the People, are mentioned ; with Answers to the Ob- 

 jections that may be made against this Bank. Luke xix. 



