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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 293. 



For mjself, I think there is no doubt of the 

 •correctness of the Frenchman ; and yet the name 

 Las evidently been introduced into our navy from 

 the French. 



I have looked in vain for a plea on behalf of 

 Sybille ; and Jack's reputation for classical accu- 

 racy is, I fear, not to be depended on. 



Still, Commodore Elliot assures me that, shortly 

 after his appointment to the frigate, some authority 

 for the British spelling (the source of which he 

 forgets) was, during a discussicm on the subject, 

 produced by no less an authority than Lord John 

 Kussell. 



Under the above circumstances, the aid of 

 " N. & Q." is requested. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong, April 7, 1855. 



^tnor Queries tot'tfi ^ix&atxi. 



James I. : Cccsar Cmsarum. — James I. : 



"Upon his coronation he caused a coin to be struck 

 and distributed, with a surprising inscription. Under 

 his own image in the medal was this motto : C^sar 

 •C^SAKUM (the CfEsar of Ciesars) ; a motto so vain and 

 unnatural, and the cause of such mirth, that he had them 

 called in and melted down. None of the historians men- 

 tion this; probably because the coin was quickly sup- 

 pressed, as well it might, upon the first noise, which was 

 like to be very early. But I have it from good authoritj-, 

 the celebrated Joseph Scaliger, who declares that he then 

 had one of these coins, when he relates the story. I have 

 put his words in the margin."*— Extract from a History 

 of England, by Thos. Gordon, author of The Independent 

 Whiff, part of Cato's Letters, many political tracts, and 

 translator of Tacitus, Sallust, &c. 



In the preface to Sallust, Gordon mentions his 

 intention of writing a History of England, but 

 appears not to have lived to publish it.^ I have 

 his MS. of several reigns, which it is my intention 

 to deposit in the British Museum. 



Can any of your correspondents refer to the 

 coin or medal mentioned by Scaliger, or to any 

 x)ther account of it ? There is not any notice of 

 it in Ruding. W. C. Trkvelyan. 



[A Query respecting this medal was submitted to^our 

 antiquaries seventy years ago ( Gent. Mag., vol. Iv. p. 772.), 

 which was never answered. There is a copy of the medal 

 -in the British Museum. It is of thin silver, about the size 

 of a halfpenny in circumference. They are not scarce. 

 It is supposed to have been struck about the beginning of 

 the reign; probably a coronation medal. There is no 

 inscription under the effigy of the King. The legend runs 

 thus : "JAG : I : BRIT : G^E : AVG : HiE : C^SArvm . 

 c^ . D . D." On the reverse is a lion rampant, crowned, 

 "holding in his dexter paw a beacon, and in his sinister a 

 sheaf of corn. The legend around is " ecce . phaos . 



* " 'Jacques Roy d'Angleterre, lorsqu'il fut couronne, fit 

 tine largesse au peuple, comme on fait k la coronation des 

 lioj's, et lit battre une nouvelle monnoye ; oil il avoit fait 

 mettre Ccesar Casarum; chose absurde et inouye. II 

 tache de les faire toutes refondre : J'en ay une pifece.' — 

 Sccdigerana, torn, ii. p. 385., a Amsterdam, 1740, 8vo." 



poruLiQ . sALvs." The coin or medal is an exceedingly 

 fine one.] 



Edward Chandler, Bishop of Durham. — Ed- 

 ward Chandler, Prebendary of Worcester, Bishop 

 of Lichfield and Coventry in 1717, translated to 

 Durham 1730, died in 1750. His niece, Jane 

 Leslie, widow of James, Bishop of Limerick, and 

 sister and eventual heir of Thomas Lyster of 

 Lysterfield, co. Roscommon, mentions in his will 

 a settlement in her favour, made by her uncle and 

 confirmed by his will. She was the daughter of 

 Anthony Lyster, Esq., by I believe one of the 

 daughters of Simon Digby, Bishop of Elphin 

 (though Lodge does not say so). My inquiry is 

 as to the connexion. How was Bishop Chandler 

 Mrs. Leslie's uncle ? I should also like to know 

 something of his family. Y. S. M. 



[Some particulars relating to the family of Bishop 

 Chandler will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, 

 vol. Ixiii. pt. ii. pp. 974. 1000. 1131. One correspondent 

 states (p. 1131.) that "the bishop had an only sister 

 named Joyce, who married, first, Richard Warren, Esq., 

 by whom she had one daughter named Elizabeth ; and 

 secondly, Thomas Lyster, Esq., by whom she had no 

 issue. Her daughter Elizabeth married Anthony Lyster, 

 Esq., who both died, leaving one son Thomas, and one 

 daughter Joj'ce. Thomas married, and died without 

 issue, leaving a widow. Joyce married the Rev. James 

 Leslie, afterwards Bishop of Limerick." Then follow 

 the names of their eight children.] 



Cardinal Wolsey's Coat of Arms ' (Vol. viii., 

 p. 302.). — Having seen a Query on this subject 

 noticed by you some time since, 1 transmit a copy 

 of verses which I recently found in a drawer the 

 contents of which had lain long undisturbed. Who 

 is their author ? Who are the " Beautiful Swan " 

 and the " White Lyon ? " 



" Wolsey's Arms. 

 Of the proud Gardinall this is the Shelde 



Borne upp between two angels of Sathan : 

 The sixe blouddy axes in a bare felde 



Shewethe the cruelte of the red man. 

 Which hath devoured the Beautiful Swan, 

 Mortall enemy unto the White Lyon. 

 Carter of Yorcke ! the vile butcher's sonne." 



JUVERNA, M.A. 



Pembroke College, Oxon. 



[The author of these lines was William Roy, whom 

 Bale styles " vir aitate suae non ineruditus," and who 

 flourished about 1530. They will be found in liis Satire 

 upon Wolsey and the Romish Clergy, reprinted in the Sup- 

 plement to the Ilarleian Miscel/any, vol. ix. p. 3. The 

 whole passage is quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in a note to 

 the fourth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, who 

 states, " that the crest or bearing of a warrior was often 

 used as a nomme de guerre. Thus in the violent satire on 

 Cardinal Wolsey, ^vritten by Roy, commonly, but errone- 

 ously imputed "to Dr. Bull, the Duke of Buckingham is 

 called the Beautiful Swan, and the Duke of Jsorlblk, or 

 Earl of Surrey, the White Lion."'] 



" Warreniana." — It has been understood in this 

 country that this work was by James and Horace 

 Smith, the authors of the Rejected Addresses : but 



