Jan. 28. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



89 



I learn from my correspondent, that the pas- 

 sage in Ammianus Marcellinus, though brought 

 into notice by Professor Ranke, was discovered by 

 Professor August at this place (Cheltenham). I 

 am unable to verify the following reference : see 

 Ammianus Marcellinus, Tterum Gestarum, lib.xxix. 

 (p. 177., Bipont. edit.), and lb. lib. xxxi. (p. 285.) 



John T. Graves. 



Cheltenham. 



The Bell Savage (Vol. vii., p. 523.). — Mb. 

 James Edmeston is correct in rejecting the 

 modern acceptation of the sign of the well-known 

 inn on Ludgate Hill, as being La Belle Sauvage. 

 Its proper name is " The Bell Savage," the bell 

 being its sign, and Savage the name of its pro- 

 prietor. But he is wrong in supposing that 

 " Bell " in this case was the abbreviation of the 

 name Isabella, and that the inn " was originally 

 kept by one Isabella Savage." In a deed enrolled 

 on the Close Roll of 1453, it is described as 

 " Savage's Ynne, alias Le Belle on the Hope." 

 The bell, as in many other ancient signs, was 

 placed within a hoop. (See the Gentleman 's Ma- 

 gazine for November last, p. 487.) N. 



Boor-head Inscriptions (Vol. viii., p. 652.). — 

 About the year 1825, I remember an old house 

 known by the whimsical name of " Wise-in-Time," 

 at Stoke-Bishop, near Bristol ; over the front door 

 of which there was the following inscription, 

 carved on a stone tablet : 



" Ut corpus animo, 

 Sic Domus corpori." 



The house had the reputation of being haunted. 

 I cannot say whether it is still in existence. 



M. H. R. 



Over the door of a house in Alnwick, in the 

 street called Bondgate : 



" That which your father 



of old hath purchased and left 



you to possess, do you dearly 



hold to show his worthiness. 



M. W. 1714." 



Ceyrep. 

 Funeral Customs in the Middle Ages (Vol. vi., 

 p. 433.). — In answer to your correspondent Mr. 

 Peacock, as to whether a monument was usually 

 erected over the burial-place of the heart, &c. ? it 

 is mentioned in Miss Strickland's Life of Queen 

 Mary Stuart, that — 



" An elegant marble pillar was erected by Mary as 

 a tribute of her affection, to mark the spot where the 

 heart of Francis II. was deposited in Orleans Cathe- 

 dral." 



L. B. M. 



Greek Epigram (Vol. viii., p. 622.). — The epi- 

 gram, or rather epigrams, desired by your corre- 

 spondent G. E. Fbere are most probably those 



which stand as the twelfth and thirteenth in the 

 ninth division of the Anthologia Palatina (vol. ii. 

 p. 61., ed. Tauchnitz). Their subjects are iden- 

 tical with that quoted by you, which stands as the 

 eleventh in the same collection. The two best 

 lines of Epigram XIII. are — 



" 'Avtpa t/9 XnrSyvwv inrep vdroto \tirauyijs 

 ~*Hye, irbSas %pi)(ras, ufi/xaTa, xpyvdy-evos." 



P. J. F. Gantillon 



Machey's "Theory of the Earth' 1 '' (Vol. viii 

 pp. 468. 565.).— 



" Died, on Saturday se'night, at Doughty's Hospi- 

 tal in this city, Samson Arnold Mackey, aged seventy- 

 eight years. The deceased was born at Haddiscoe, 

 and was a natural son of Captain Samson Arnold of 

 Lowestoft. He has been long known to many of the 

 scientific persons of Norwich, and was remarkable for 

 the originality of his views upon the very abstruse sub- 

 ject of mythological astronomy, in which he exhibited 

 great sagacity, and maintained his opinions with extra- 

 ordinary pertinacity. He received but a moderate 

 education ; was put apprentice to a shoemaker at the 

 age of eleven, served his time, and for many years after- 

 wards was in the militia. He did not again settle in 

 Norwich until 1811, when he hired the attic storey ot 

 a small house in St. Paul's, where he followed his 

 business and pursued his favourite studies. About 

 1822 he published his first part of Mythological Astro- 

 nomy, and gave lectures to a select few upon the science 

 in general. In 1825 he published his Theory of the 

 Earth, and several pamphlets upon the antiquity of the 

 Hindoos. His room, in which he worked, took his 

 meals, slept, and gave his lectures, was a strange 

 exhibition of leather, shoes, wax, victuals, sketches of 

 sphinxes, zodiacs, planispheres ; together with orreries 

 of his own making, geological maps and drawings, illus- 

 trative of the Egyptian and Hindoo Mythologies. 

 He traced all the geological changes to the different 

 inclinations of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit, 

 and was fully persuaded that about 420,000 years 

 ago, according to his theory, when the poles of the 

 earth were last in that position, the geological pheno- 

 mena now witnessed were produced. From his sin- 

 gular habits, he was of course looked upon with wonder 

 by his poor neighbours, and those better informed were 

 inclined to annoy him as to his religious opinions. He 

 had a hard struggle of late years to obtain subsistence, 

 and his kind friend and patron the late Mr. Money - 

 ment procured for him the asylum in which he died. 

 He held opinions widely different to most men ; but it 

 must not be forgotten that, humble as he was, his 

 scientific acquirements gained him private interviews 

 with the late Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Somerset, 

 and many learned men in the metropolis." 



The above is taken from the Norwich Mercury 

 of August 12, 1843. Trivet Aelcock. 



Norwich. 



"Homo Vnius Libri" (Vol. viii., p. 569.). — DTs- 

 raeli devotes a chapter, in the second series of his 



