Jan. 28. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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In answer to the above question I would beg to 

 l'emark, that in September, 1536, John d'Omecles 

 ascended the Maltese throne on the decease of 

 Didier de Saint Jaille ; and his reign continued 

 seventeen years, i.e. to 155.3. In looking through 

 several histories of the order, I am unable to 

 find any mention made of a Turkish descent on 

 the island in 1546. Had such an occurrence taken 

 place, it doubtless would have been recorded ; but 

 as it is not, it would have been impossible for the 

 Commander Upton to have distinguished himself 

 in any such conflict as your correspondent sup- 

 poses. 



R. L. P. then asks, " What members of it were 

 present (that is, the British language) when the 

 Chevalier Repton, Grand Prior of England in 

 1551, was killed, after signally defeating the Turks 

 in another attack on the island ?" 



With all due deference I would beg to state, 

 that there was not in July, 1551, when Dragut 

 made an attack on Malta, any English knight of 

 the name of Repton ; and it can be satisfactorily 

 shown by the following extract, that at the period 

 referred to by R. L. P., Nicholas Upton was Grand 

 Prior of England, and was not "killed" after sig- 

 nally defeating the Turks, but died from the effects 

 of a coup de soleil : 



" L'isola del Gozzo fu presa da Sinam Bassa, a psr- 

 suas'ione di Dragutte, il 1551, essendosi renduto a 

 discrezione F. Galaziano de Sesse Aragonese, Governa- 

 tore, che vi rimase scliiavo. Ma poco dopo il Cavaliere 

 F. Pietro d'Olivares, la ristauro da damn patiti e vi 

 ricliiamo nuove famiglie a ripopolarla. Sinam, prima 

 di andare al Gozzo, fece una discesa in Malta, ma fu 

 rispinto da Cavaliere : nella quale azione pel molto caldo 

 snfferto, mori Nicolas Vpton, Gran Priore a" ' Inghilterra." 

 — Vide Codice Dip., vol. ii. p. 573. ; as also Vertot's 

 History of the Order, vol. iv. p. 144., date July, 1551. 



That Sir Nicholas Upton was Grand Prior of 

 England in 1551, is sufficiently shown in the above 

 extract ; and that he was Commander of Repton, 

 or Ripston, will be as readily seen by the follow- 

 ing lines translated from the Latin, and to be 

 found in a book of manuscripts of the years 1547, 

 1548, 1549, now in the Record Office. (Vide Lib. 

 Bull. M. M. E. J. Homedes.) 



" On the 15th November, 1547, Nicholas Upton was 

 appointed by the Grand Master Omedes Commander 

 of Ripston in the language of England. And on the 

 5th of November, 1548, he was exalted to the dignity 

 of Turcopolier, in place of the knigbt Russell de- 

 ceased." 



I am unable to inform R. L. P. what English 

 knights were present in Malta in 1551 ; but enough 

 has already appeared in " N. & Q." to show that 

 they were few in number, and poor as regards 

 their worldly effects. The Reformation had de- 

 stroyed the British language, and caused the ruin 

 of its members. The first severe blow against the 



Order of St. John of Jerusalem was given by 

 Henry VIII., and the last by Queen Elizabeth in 

 the first year of her reign. (Vide " N. & Q.," 

 Vol. viii., pp. 189. 193.) William Winthrop. 

 La Valetta, Malta. 



GRAMMARS, ETC., FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



(Vol. ix., p. 8.) 



St. Mary's College, Winchester (publisher, 

 D. Nutt). — Novum Florilegium Poeticum ; Car- 

 mina quondam elegantissima ; De Diis et Heroibus 

 poeticis Melius ; Homeri Ilias (Heyne) et 

 Odyssca; ; Interpretatio Poikiles Istorias ; Ovidii 

 Fasti, libri vi. ; HoiKi\y larropia; Selector Historic 

 ex Ccesare, Justino et Floro ; Notes on the Diates- 

 saron, by the Rev. Frederic Wickham, now Second 

 Master ; Grceca: Grammatices Rudimenta, by Bi- 

 shop Wordsworth, late Second Master ; Greek 

 and Latin Delectus, by the Rev. H. C. Adams, late 

 Commoner Tutor. 



Of Eton books there were in use the Latin and 

 Greek Grammars ; Pindar's Olympian and Pythian 

 Odes ; Scriptorcs Greed et Romani. A complete 

 list of Eton and Westminster school-books will be 

 found in the London Catalogue, which enrols Vidce 

 de Arte Poeticd ; Trapp's Pralectiones Poetica, 

 and the Rise, Src. of Poetry and Fine Arts in An- 

 cient Rome, as Winchester school-books. 



In 1512, Winchester and Eton had a common 

 grammar. Hugh Lloyd, D.C.L., Head Master, 

 a.d. 1580 — 1602, wrote Dictata and Phrases Ele- 

 gantiores for the use of the school. William 

 Horman, M.A., Head Master of Winchester, 

 1495—1502, and Eton, 1489—1495, wrote Vul- 

 garia pnerorum. 



Hugh Robinson, D.D., Head Master, wrote 

 Prayers and Latin Phrases for the school. It is 

 almost superfluous to name Bishop Ken's Manual 

 for Winchester Scholars, edited by Dr. Moberly, 

 the present excellent Head Master, some years 

 since. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



In pursuance of the hint of Mr. P. H. Fisher, 

 I will describe an old school-book in my possession, 

 which is bound up with Godwyn's Romana His- 

 torian Anthologia. It contains, l.Preces ; 2. Gram ; 

 maticalia quondam ; 3. Rhetorica brevis, and was 

 printed at Oxford in 1616 by Joseph Barnes. 

 Though there is nothing in the title-page to in- 

 dicate that it was for the use of Winchester Col- 

 lege, this sufficiently appears from the " Thanks- 

 giving for William of Wiccham " in the grace after 

 dinner, and also from the insertion of William of 

 Wykeham's arms before the Rhetorica brevis. It 

 bears abundant marks of having been used in the 

 school, and contains, on the blank pages with 

 which it was furnished, several MS. Wykehamical 

 memoranda, some of them well known, and others, 



