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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 222. 



" every fee simple or fee taile that a man hath by 

 his purchase." (See The Interpreter, 1637.) 



J. O. HaLLIWEJOL. 



filter duerfrrf* 



*' To try and gel" — The word and is often used 

 instead of to after the verb to try : thus, in Moore's 

 Journal (June 7, 1819), "Went to the theatre to 

 try and get a dress." What is the origin of this 

 erroneous mode of expression ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Fleet Prison. — Where can a list of the officers 

 of the Fleet Prison, especially the under officers, 

 and more especially the tipstaffs, a.d. 1696, and 

 shortly previously and subsequently, be seen ? 



J.K. 



Colonel St. Leger. — Where can I find an ac- 

 count of the celebrated Colonel St. Leger, the 

 friend and associate of George IV. when Prince of 

 Wales? In what year did he die? What age 

 was he when his picture, now in Hampton Court, 

 was painted by Gainsborough ? W. P. M. 



Dublin. 



Lords Descents. — Is a MS. collection of Lords' 

 Descents, by Thomas Maisterson, Esq., made about 

 the year 1705, now extant ? T. P. L. 



Reverend Robert Hall. — Who was Robert 

 Hall, a preacher of some celebrity in the time of 

 James II. ? P. P. P. 



"Lydia, or Conversion" — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me who is the author of the follow- 

 ing excellent drama, published nearly twenty years 

 since : — Lydia, or Conversion ; a Sacred Drama, 

 inscribed to the Jews by a Clergyman of the Church 

 of England: London, 8vo., 1835, published by 

 Rivingtons, and Hatchard & Son ? A. Z. 



Personal Descriptions. — Is Sir Walter Scott's 

 description of Saladin taken from any ancient 

 writer, or is it a fancy sketch ? If the latter, I 

 think he has fallen into error by describing in 

 Saladin the features of a civilised Arab, rather 

 than the very peculiar and unmistakeable charac- 

 teristics of the Koordish race. 



In a novel now publishing in Ainsivorth 's Maga- 

 zine, styled the " Days of Margaret of Parma," 

 the celebrated Duke of Alva is described as a 

 very tall man. I have never seen a portrait or 

 read a description of his person, but had formed 

 a very different idea of it from the circumstance 

 that Count Tilly, who was certainly a short man, 

 was said to be a striking counterpart of him in 

 face, figure, and dress, a resemblance which added 

 not a little to the terror and aversion with which 



Tilly was regarded by the Protestants of Ger- 

 many. Can any of your correspondents refer me 

 to a description of Alva? J. S. Warden. 



" One while I think " 8fc. — Whence are the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



" One while I think, and then I am in pain, 

 To think, how to unthink that thought again." 



W. M. M. 



Lord Bacon. — Has the very discreditable at- 

 tack made on the moral character of the great 

 Lord Chancellor Bacon, by his cotemporary Sir 

 Simon D'Ewes, and related by Hearne the his- 

 torian at the end of his Life and Reign of King- 

 Richard II., been investigated, and either esta- 

 blished or disproved by later historians ? 



Cestriensis, 



Society for burning the Dead. — Wanted in- 

 formation as to the " Society for burning the. 

 Dead," which existed a few years ago in London- 

 A reference to any reports or papers of them 

 would oblige D. L. 



Cui Bono. — What is the true rendering of the 

 Latin phrase Cui Bono f Most text-books say it 

 means " For what good ? " or, " What use was 

 it ? " But Francis Newman, in p. 316. of Hebreio 

 Monarchy, says it means " who gained by (the 

 crime)," and quotes Cicero pro Mdone, xii. § 32.,. 

 in favour of his meaning. T. R„ 



Dublin. 



The Slock Horn. — Can any of your readers or 

 friends tell me where I can see a specimen of the 

 musical instrument called the "Stock Horn?"' 

 Or any musical instrument of primitive form, 

 similar to that which Wilkie has represented in a 

 subject from the " Gentle Shepherd," entitled 

 " Roger and Jenny." It seems to be a kind of 

 hautboy, or oboe, and often appears in musical 

 devices of the last century, especially by Scotch 

 printers. J. Gordon Smith: 



Lady Harington. — Can any of your readers- 

 give the pedigree of the late Lady Harington, 

 mother of the lamented Principal of Brasenose 

 Coll. Oxford ? The writer of this, who was dis- 

 tantly related to her, recollects, though very 

 young, being struck with her beauty when he saw 

 her in 1787. One of her brothers died in India; 

 and another was curate of the lower church in 

 Guildford in 1806; he was probably Thomas 

 Philpot, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, M.A. in 1798. 

 Her mother was daughter or granddaughter of 

 the celebrated mathematician Abraham de Moivre, 

 and had a sister, or aunt, housekeeper of Windsor 

 Castle. Her mother, the writer believes, was re- 

 lated to the Gomms, a branch of the family de- 

 scended from Eustache de St. Pierre. Anat. 



