June 16. 1855.] 



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Minav ^utvitS, 



Brass of John Fortey. — Will any reader of 

 '* N. & Q." residing in or near Northieach, Oxon, 

 undertake to receive and see replaced a portion of 

 the brass of John Fortey in the church of tliat 

 place ? I boujrht the fragment some years since 

 in a shop in Oxford, and have long wished to 

 restore it to the monument from which it has 

 been stolen. The brass is a remarkable one, from 

 its being one of the very few which are in relief, 

 the ground being chiselled away and the devices 

 projecting. Cheverells. 



Typography of old numeral Symbols. — In wliat 

 works, and in what editions, can be found the best 

 specimens of the old numeral symbols, in which 

 most of the figures had heads or tails, and which 

 PaoFESsoE De Moegan truly states to be many 

 times more legible than those of uniform height, 

 introduced, as he believes, by Dr. Hutton? 



I expected to have found what I wanted in the 

 numbering of the pages of some of Baskerville's 

 printed books, but am disappointed at finding, in 

 all his printing that has come in my way, the type 

 of the figures shows a very inelegant contrast to 

 that of his letters. Kegedonum. 



" Ruptuary." — This word, as a translation of 

 the French roturier, occurs in two places in Che- 

 nevix's Essay upon National Character. In vol. i. 

 p. 262., speaking of the nobles, he says : 



"The entire order, indeed, and the very institution 

 itself, received a further humiliation by the elevation of a 

 ruptuary (roturier), Raoul, a goldsmith, to the honours of 

 nobility." 



And again at p. 306. : 



" The exclusion of the French ruptuaries (roturiers, for 

 history must find a word for this class when it speaks of 

 other nations) from the order of nobility ; their little cer- 

 tainty of protection against superiors ; their holding as an 

 indulgence what in England is a right — gave them ab- 

 ject feelings of their own condition." 



From the latter quotation it is to be inferred 

 that Chenevix was the first to find the expression 

 *' ruptuary." May I inquire if it has been adopted 

 by any other writer of note ? Henrt H. Beeen. 



St. Lucia. 



Candles. — Some of your readers will perhaps 

 kindly enlighten my ignorance on the following 

 point, which has often puzzled me. If you place 

 against a lighted candle a card, an envelope, or 

 piece of paper, If about to flow over from having 

 been snuffed too short, you give so great an ad- 

 ditional draught to the flame that It will consume 

 the extra liquid — but why ? Y. S. M. 



Lines on gigantic Coal. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents quote me the name of the author of 

 the spirited verses on the gigantic specimen of 



coal from Derbyshire, which formed so attractive 

 a feature at the Oreat Exhibition of 1851. The 

 lines commence, — 



" They drew me forth from my darksome den,. 

 Where for ages I dwelt with night; 

 They bore me up, and with shouts of men, 

 They welcomed me into the light." 



L. Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Meaning of the Word " Donny,''' or " Donni.^'' — 

 A fountain of water near Lichfield, granted to the 

 friars of that city in the fourteenth century, was 

 then, and for a long subsequent time, called 

 " Donniwell." What are the derivations of Donni 

 in reference to Donniwell and Donnybrook ? 



J.R. 



Lichfield. 



" Juvenile Essays,^'' — There was a volume pub- 

 lished at Warwick about the year 1805, Juvenile 

 Essays in Verse, Sj'C, 8vo. Can you inform me 

 whether this is the same as a volume publislied 

 in 1805, Juvenile Essays in Verse, 12mo., by F. 

 Dwarrls ? R. J. 



Glasgow. 



Verses on Loss of the Blenheim. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me where to find, or 

 supply me with a copy of, some stanzas on the 

 loss of the Blenheim, Admiral Sir Thomas Trou- 

 bridge, in 1807, beginning, — 



" A vessel sail'd from Albion's shore, 

 To utmost India bound, 

 Her crest a hero's pennon bore, 



With broad sea laurels crown'd. 

 Though foil'd in that disastrous hour, 



When Gallia's host were drown'd, 

 And England o'er her country's foes, 

 Like the destroying angel rose." 



E. D. 



" Aa/iir<£5toi/ Spcf^aros." — Can you help me to the 

 origin of this phrase, which occurs in the Ethiopics 

 of Hellodorus ? The sense is evidently " the grand 

 finale " and " happy consummation " of a matter ; 

 but I want to find whether it is connected with 

 the Greek stage. My books will not help me in 

 the matter. I shall feel obliged if you can. 



A. F. S. 



Arms of Bishopric of Gloucester. — The arms 

 on the tomb of Godfrey Goldsborough, Bishop of 

 Gloucester, are — "Or, three chevronels gules ; on 

 the one in fess a mitre, labelled or. Impaling 

 quarterly first and fourth azure, a cross flory ar- 

 gent, second and third argent, three chevronels 

 sable ; in fess point a mullet charged with a 

 crescent." Are these his family arms impaled by 

 Gloucester bishopric ? The present arms of that 

 see have not a very high antiquity. 



The arms on the tomb of his widow Abigail, in 

 Worcester Cathedral, are, on a lozenge, "Party 

 per pale or and azure, on a chevron between 



