Jan. 27. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Polraaise, Polonaise. Sir James sat in the Scot- 

 tish Parliament at the head of the Barons as Lord 

 St. John, in virtue of his office of Preceptor of 

 Torphichen ; and after the erection of the posses- 

 sions of the Order into the temporal lordship of 

 Torphichen, was designated " Lord St. John," 

 " Lord Torphichen," and " Lord St. John of Je- 

 rusalem," indiscriminately. He was dead in 1587, 

 being in that year called "deceased;" and from 

 his grandnephew and heir descends the present 

 Lord Torphichen. K. R. 



Charles I. andhis Relics (Vol. vi., pp. 173. 578.; 

 Vol. vii., p. 184. ; Vol. x., pp. 245. 416. 469.). — 

 Your correspondent Mr. Hughes suggests that a 

 list of authentic relics of the royal martyr would 

 be an acceptable oifering to " N. & Q." Allow 

 me to contribute my mite towards such an under- 

 taking, by the following extract from Hillier's 

 Narrative of the attempted Escapes of Charles I., 

 London, 1852: 



" An ancestor of the name of Howe, of Mr. Thomas 

 Cooke, now resident at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, 

 was at this time [Jan., 1648] Master Gunner at the 

 Castle of Carisbrook ; and as a mark of the king's sense 

 of the attention' paid to him by that officer, he on one 

 occasion presented him with the staff he was using. The 

 ivory head of this relic is still in the possession of Mr. 

 Cooke ; it is inlaid with silver, and unscrews, the top 

 forming a scent-box. Mr. Howe had also a son, a little 

 boy who was a great favourite of Charles : one day, seeing 

 him with a child's sword by his side, the king asked him 

 what he intended doing with it ? 'To defend your majesty 

 from your majesty's enemies,' was the reply ; an answer 

 which so pleased the king, that he gave the child the 

 signet ring he was in the habit of wearing upon his finger. 

 The ring has descended to a Mr. Wallace (of Southsea), 

 a kinsman of Mr. Cooke. 



" It is also recorded that Mr. Worseley of Gatcombe, 

 received his Majesty's watch (still preserved in the family) 

 as a gift, the morning he was leaving the island," &c. 



Engravings of the cane-head and ring are given 

 at p. 79. of the work. 



Perhaps the following extract from the Diary of 

 Capt. Richard Symonds may serve to discover the 

 whereabouts of the king's chess-board. 



" (May 1644). Round about the king's chess-board this 

 verse : 



' Subditus et Princeps istis sine sanguine certent.' " 



Z.z. 

 * Epigram in a Bible (Vol. xi., p. 27.). — Perhaps 

 some of your readers, while looking up the author 

 of this epigram, may happen to find out the author 

 of the following translation : 



" One day at least in every week. 

 The sects of every kind, 

 Their doctrines here are sure to seek. 

 And just as sure to find." 



It is rather an illustration of our monosyllabic 

 language, that though the translation has' more 

 niatter than the original, yet, counting every as a 

 dissyllable, it has one syllable less. M. 



Authority of Aristotle (Vol. x., p. 508.). — In 

 his Hist. Aiiim., iii. 5., Aristotle says : 



" To 5e vevpa tois ^loois exet tovtov 70;* rpoirov. ri fi.ev op^rj (tat 

 TOVTOtv iiTTiv eK rrji xapStas." 



Thus translated by Theod. Gaza : 



" Nervorum mox ordinem persequemur. Origo eorum 

 quoque in corde est." 



See also De Spiritu, cc. vi. ix. There can be 

 no doubt, therefore, as to the opinion of Aristotle, 

 that the nerves have their origin in the heart. 

 Dr. Southwood Smith (Phil, of Health, i, 76.) 

 appears to corroborate the Aristotelian view : 



" The organic nerves, distributed to the organic organs, 

 take their origin and have their chief seat in the cavities 

 that contain the main instruments of the organic life, 

 namely, the chest and abdomen. These nerves encom- 

 pass the great trunks of the blood-vessels that convey 

 arterial blood to the organic organs." 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



" Kostliche Beispiele von der unglaublichen Verstockt- 

 heit der scholastiker f iihrt Galilai in seinem Dialogus de 

 Systemate Mundi (Colloq. 2 August. Treboc. 1635) an. 

 Ein beriihmter Arzt zu Venedig demonstrirte ad oculos in 

 einer anatomischen Vorlesung, dass der grosste Nerven- 

 stamm von Him ausgehe und nur ein sehr dunner Faden 

 gleich einem Funiculus zum Herzen dringe, und wandte 

 sich dann mit der Frage an einen anwesenden Peripate- 

 tiker, ob er sich nicht iiberzeugt habe, dass der Ursprung 

 der Nerven das Gehirn und nicht das Herz sei ? Aber 

 der Peripatetiker gah zur Antwort, nachdem er sich eine 

 Zeit lang besonnen hatte : ' Equidem ita aperte rem ocu- 

 lis subjecisti, ut nisi textus Aristotelius aperte nervos ex 

 corde deducens obstaret, in sententiam suam pertractures 

 me fueris.' " — P. 258. (Feuerbach, Pierre Bayle, Leipzig, 

 1848.) 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Farranfs Anthem (Vol. ix., p. 9.). — Farrant, 

 in his anthem, appears to have compiled it from 

 several sources, probably the following : 



"Lord, for Thy tender mercies' sake [St. Luke i. 78., 

 St. James v. 11.], forgive us that which is past ; [forgive 

 us all that is past, — Con/., Holy Communion.'] and give us 

 grace to amend our sinful lives; [That it may please 

 Thee to endue us with the grace of Thy Holy Spirit, to 

 amend our lives, — Litany.] that we may incline to virtue 

 [Lord, incline our hearts to keep this law, — Comm., Holy 

 Communion.'] and decline from vice. [Concede, ut ad nul- 

 lum declinemus peccatum, — Breviar. Sarish., f. 13.]" 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Well Chapel (Vol. x., p. 525.). — Dunheoed 

 writes, " The spring of water flows from under 

 the altar, which is marked with four crosses." 

 After a tolerably extensive search I must admit I 

 have never found an altar or tombstone so marked, 

 the very usual number of crosses on Roman 

 Catholic altars erected during the sixteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries is " five," intended as sym- 

 bols of the five wounds of Christ ; some few are 

 marked with " seven," these are figurative of the 

 seven sorrows of the Virgin ; and to these may be 



