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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 287. 



by the breaking up of the French regiments of 

 King William III., when many officers and pri- 

 vates settled here. The church was endowed 

 with 40^. Irish, subsequently increased to 801. In 

 1713, the queen of George II., whilst Princess of 

 Wales, presented the church with a bell and the 

 Communion Service. The ministers have been — 

 Rev. J. Gillet, 1695 ; Daillon ; A. L. de Bonneval ; 

 Theodore des Vories, 1729 ; Gaspar Caillard, 1739 ; 

 A. V. Des Voeux, 1767; Jean VignoUes, 1793; 

 C. Vignolles, 1817; J. W. Benn, 1844. 



The names of some of the descendants of the 

 original settlers are now : Des Vouex, Vignolls, 

 Le Grand, De la Val Willy, Foubert, Micheau, 

 Champ, La Combe, Blanc, Le Bas, Joly, Melton, 

 and Grange. J. S. Burn. 



The Episcopal Mitre (Vol. lii., p. 144.). — Your 

 correspondent A. Rich has traced the mitre to 

 the Asiatic or Phrygian cap ; and I think he is 

 fully borne out in his assertion. I am strengthened 

 in my opinion by a passage in Baptista Mantuanus 

 (lib. iii.), when speaking of Pope Joan : 



" Hie pendebat adhuc sexum mentita virilera, 

 Fceminae, cui triplici Phrygiam diademate mitram, 

 Extollebat apex et pontiflcalis adulter." 



Cleric us (D). 



Man in the Moon (Vol. xi., p. 82.). — Allow 

 me to call the attention of the readers of " N. 

 & Q." to another remarkable allusion in Dante to 

 the popular idea, evidently prevalent in his time, 

 of Cain and his thornbush being located in the 

 moon, — a passage not mentioned by your corre- 

 spondent H. S. Dante takes occasion, on his visit 

 to that orb, to apply to Beatrice for information 

 respecting the dark spots on its surface, and asks 

 (ParadisOy Canto ii.) : 



" Che son gli segni bui, 

 Di questo corpo, che laggiuso in terra 

 Fan di Cain favoleggiare altrui ? " 



To this Costa appends a note : 



" Cio^, danno occasione al volgo di favoleggiare che 

 nella luna sia Caino con una forcate di spine." 



That the lady grinned ("sorrise alquanto") at 

 this terrestrial inquiry, does not surprise us ; but 

 her reputation of the fallacious tradition is not 

 sufficiently interesting to reproduce in your 

 columns. R. A. W. 



Dedication of Heworth Church (Vol. xi., pp. 186. 

 275.). — This question has also been asked in The 

 Ecclesiologist ; and as no answer has been elicited, 

 I fear there is no direct evidence to prove to whom 

 the church was dedicated. Indirect evidence may 

 perhaps be derived from one or both of the fol- 

 lowing sources : 



1. It was usual to have the name of the saint, to 

 ■whom the bell was dedicated, on one of the bells. 

 Is there at Heworth any bell of this kind ? 



2. Most, if not all of the north country villages, 

 have their " feast day," which is still kept up. 

 This day was the feast of the saint to whom the 

 church was dedicated. " Heworth feast," if there 

 be one, will be on the day of the saint required. 

 Sometimes the feast is kept on the Sunday within 

 the octave of the saint to whom the church is 

 dedicated. If " Heworth feast" be on a Sunday, 

 there will be a little more difficulty in settling the 

 dedication. Cbyeep. 



Motto (Vol. xi., p. 225.). — The motto is incor- 

 rectly copied. If J. W. D. H. will send a correct 

 one, it shall be translated. The first, third, and 

 fourth words are wrong. It is in the Irish lan- 

 guage ; and the meaning, as far as it can at pre- 

 sent be read, is " Success to the Gaelic." 



Z.z. 



" To te-he"' (Vol. xi., p. 148.), — This, as an in- 

 terjection, is as old as Chaucer : 



" Te he, quod she, and clapt the window to." 



The Milleres Tale. 



F. 



HandeVs ''II Moderato" (Vol. xi., p. 228.).— 

 There is reason for believing that the words of 

 II Moderato were written by Charles Jennens, the 

 compiler of the oratorio Messiah. See a letter 

 from Handel to Jennens, in Mr. Townsend's Ac- 

 count of the Visit of Handel to Dublin, Dublin, 

 1852. The duet "As steals the Morn " appears to 

 be taken from Shakspeare's Tempest, Act V. Sc. 1. 



W. H. H. 



Jupiter and Diogenes (Vol. xi., p. 283.). — 

 Jupiter. — The letter of Matthew Bramble, 

 dated Scarborough, is chiefly devoted to anecdotes 



of a Mr. H 1. Among them is : 



" Some years ago, being in the Campidoglio at Rome, 

 he made up to the bust of Jupiter ; and bowing very low, 

 exclaimed in the Italian language : ' I hope, Sir, if you 

 ever get your head above water again, you will remember 

 that I paid my respects to you in your adversity.' This 

 sail}' was reported to the Cardinal Camerlegus, and by 

 him laid before the Pope Benedict XIV. ; who could not 

 lielp laughing at the extravagance of the address, and 

 said to the Cardinal, ' Those English heretics think thej' 

 have a right to go to the devil in their own way.' " — 

 Humphrey Clinker, vol. ii. p. G., edit. 1779. 



Diogenes. — Did Diogenes wear a coat ? 



H. B. C. 

 U. U, Club. 



I have heard the anecdote related of Voltaire, 

 that he took off his hat to a statue of Jupiter; 

 and being asked his reason, replied : " II est bon 

 d'avoir des amis partout ;" adding, that Jupiter's 

 turn might soon come again. But whether in tin's 

 he was merely imitating some ancient example, 

 I have no knowledge. F. C. H. 



Norfolk Candlemas Weather Proverbs (Vol. xi., 

 p. 238.). — I believe these prevail with little 



