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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 294. 



terns qiCen secret je vous aime" and " A I'honneur 

 de S. Joseph, sur Fair ; Amarillis, vous etes blanche 

 et blonde ;" but I have no doubt the words were 

 written and sung with perfect seriousness. The 

 two Saints mentioned in the Query are among a 

 series whose praises are to be sung to the air, 

 " Allez, Berger, dessus I'Herbette :" 



" St. Pior, Anachorete. 



" Pior tenant en homme sage, 



Les yeux baiss^s devant sa soeur, 

 Craint que les traits de son -sisage, 



Ne restent empreints sur son coeur, 

 Ferme avec soin toute avenue 



Par oil peut entrer I'ennemi ; 

 Mortifie en tout terns ta vue, 



Et ne regards qa'h, demi." ^— P. 134. 



" Sainte DarotMe. 



" Cette reclus qui ne voit personne, 



Ne veut point etre visite', 

 Afin d'augmenter sa couronne, 



Fuyant toute inutilite. 

 Retranclie, ou regie tes visites, 



N'en faisant que peu d^sormais, 

 C'est Ih, qu'au lieu que tu profites, 



Tu perds, et ton tems et ta paix." — P. 133. 



H. B. C. 



U, U. Club. 



New Silkworm (Vol. xi., pp. 264. 345.).— F. B. 

 has seen the strictures of W. Pinkerton, and begs 

 the Editor of " N. & Q." will insert in the errata, 

 for leaves read beans ; the mistake having origin- 

 ated with the printers. 



Howard's Monument (Vol. xi., p. 408.). — There 

 is an account, and, I believe, a view of Howard's 

 monument near Kherson, in Henderson's Biblical 

 Researches in Russia. It has a short Russian in- 

 scription. H. f G. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Pontypool Waiter (Vol. xi., pp. 114. 416.). — 

 " As round as a Pontypool waiter." Pontypool, 

 in Monmouthshire, was the original site of the 

 manufacture of japanned tin ware, which, within 

 my memory, was popularly called " Pontypool 

 Ware." Round waiter-trays of this ware must 

 have been common enough in former days to give 

 rise to the proverb. Geo. E. Fbeee. 



Koydon Hall, Diss. 



Author of the '■^Invisible Hand" (Vol. xi., 

 p. 384.). — The author of the Invisible Hand was 

 the late Rev. William Clayton, a most amjable, 

 accomplished, and pious man. He was for many 

 years minister of an Independent congregation at 

 Saffron Walden, Essex ; and afterwards chaplain 

 of the Protestant Dissenters' Grammar School, 

 Mill Hill, Middlesex. He died suddenly in March, 

 1838, aged fifty-three, and lies interred in Bunhill 

 Fields. He was a son of the late Rev. John 

 Clayton, the Nestor of metropolitan Noncon- 



formists ; and a younger brother of the Rev, John 

 Clayton Jun., and of the Rev. George Clayton, 

 eminent ministers of the Congregational body. 



S. H. Griitith. 

 Charterhouse Square. 



Two Brothers of the same Christian Name 

 (Vol. viii., p. 338.). — Another instance of this 

 occurs in the Brown family, descendants of the 

 Viscount Montague. George Brown married the 

 daughter of Sir Richard Blount of Maple Durham, 

 Oxon, and by her had a large family. Two of 

 these children were named George, and they were 

 both living at one and the same time. The first 

 of these two Georges was created a baronet at the 

 coronation of King Charles II. ; the other, who 

 was a younger child, I cannot trace. Possibly 

 some of your genealogists can tell me what became 

 of him, and whether or not he married and had 

 children. C. B. ' 



Lord Byron and Ariosto (Vol. xi., p. 423.). — 

 The plagiarism of Byron from Ariosto was, I 

 remember, pointed out some thirty or more years 

 ago by Alaric Watts, in a series of papers on the 

 Byronic sins of this kind, which appeared in the 

 Literary Gazette, from his pen ; but I have some 

 notion that the 



" Natura il fece, e poi ruppe la stampa," 



is itself a plagiarism from some Latin poet ; and 

 many of your readers, more recoUective than my- 

 self, can no doubt indicate the whereabout. 



A Desultory Reader. 

 Jersey. 



The *' Old Week's Preparation" (Vol. x., pp. 46. 

 234.). — My Query on the author of this work 

 still remains unanswered. I have been compelled 

 to publish my reprint of It, without being able to 

 throw any light upon the question of who wrote 

 it. An edition that I have, bears on the title- 

 page, and at the end of the preface, G. S. D. D., 

 but this I imagine to i be a bookseller's trick. 

 Dean Stanhope having adapted several devotional 

 works for general use, it was perhaps considered, 

 that his initials might prove attractive on a re- , 

 vised edition of this then popular work. I stilJ 

 hope, through the medium of " N. & Q.," to receive 

 some replies to my inquiry, which may be made 

 useful in a future edition of the Old Week's Pre- 

 paration, if one is required. 



William Eraser, B.C.L. 

 Alton, Staflfordshire. 



Prolocutor of Convocation in 1717 (Vol. ii., 

 p. 21.). — W. D. M. inquires who was Prolocutor 

 of the Lower House of Convocation in 1717 ? The 

 Prolocutor then was, I believe, Dr. G. Stanhope, 

 Dean of Canterbury. William Fraser, B.C.L. 

 Alton, Staffordshire. 



