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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 234. 



his predecessor in the secretary's office, and Sir Thomas 

 Lunsford, Knt., in memory of whom this marble is 

 here placed by Philip Ludwell, Esq., son of the said 

 Thomas Ludwell, Esq., in the year 1727." 



Information is respectfully asked as to the 

 persons and families mentioned in the foregoing 

 inscription. Sir Thomas Lunsford is said to have 

 come from Surrey, and to have served during the 

 civil wars. Thomas Balch. 



Philadelphia. 



Linncean Medal. — Has any reader of " N. & 

 Q." in his possession a Linnsean medal ? I mean 

 the one by the celebrated Liungberger, ordered 

 by Gustavus III. in 1778. It is of great beauty, 

 and now very scarce : the following is a brief de- 

 scription. 



It is of silver, two inches diameter. Obverse, a 

 portrait of the naturalist, very faithful and boldly 

 executed, yet with the utmost delicacy of finish. 

 The face is full of thought and feeling, and the 

 whole expression so spiritual, that this medallion 

 has a strange charm ; you keep looking at it again 

 and again. The inscription is, 



" Car. Linnaeus, Arch. Reg. Equ. Auratus." 

 On the reverse is Cybele, surrounded by animals 

 and plants, holding a key and weeping. In- 

 scription, — 



" Deam luctus angit amissi." 



" Post Obitum Upsalias, D. X. Jan. mdcclxxviii. 

 Rege Jubente." 



In the background is a bear, on whose back an 

 ape has jumped ; but the bear lies quietly, as if he 

 disdained the annoyance. 



This was probably in reference to what he said 

 in the preface to his Sy sterna Natures : " I have 

 borne the derision of apes in silence," &c. Ad- 

 joining this are plants, and we recognise his own 

 favourite flower, the Lirmea borealis. 



E. F. Woodman. 



Lowth of Saivtrey : Robert Eden. — In the To- 

 pographer and Oenealogist, vol. ii. p. 495., I find 

 mention made of a monument at Cretingham in 

 Suffolk, to Margaret, wife of Richard Cornwallis, 

 and daughter of Lowth of Sawtrey, co. Hunts, who 

 died in 1603. The arms are stated to be — " Corn- 

 wallis and quarterings impaling Lowth and quar- 

 terings, Stearing, Dade, Bacon, Butter," &c. 

 Will some of your correspondents give me a fuller 

 account of these quarterings, and of the pedigree 

 of Lowth of Sawtrey, or especially of that branch 

 of it from which descended Robert Lowth, Bishop 

 successively of St. David's, Oxford, and London, 

 who was born in 1710, and died in 1787 ? 



I should also be much obliged if any of your 

 readers would give me any information as to who 

 were the parents, and what the pedigree, of the 

 Rev. Robert Eden, Prebendary of Winchester, who 



married Mary, sister of Bishop Lowth : was he 

 connected with the Auckland family, or with the 

 Suffolk family of Eden, lately mentioned in 

 " N. & Q. ? " The arms he bore were the same as 

 those of the former family — Gules, on a chevron 

 between three garbs or, banded vert, as many 

 escallops sable. R. E. C. 



Gentile Names of the Jews. — The Query in 

 Vol. viii., p. 563., as to the Gentile names of the 

 Jews, leads me to inquire why it is that the Jews 

 are so fond of names derived from the animal 

 creation. Lyon or Lyons has probably some al- 

 lusion to the lion of the tribe of Judah, Hart to 

 the hind of Naphtali, and Wolf to Benjamin ; but 

 the German Jewish names of Adler, an eagle, and 

 Finke, a finch, cannot be so accounted for. The 

 German Hirsch is evidently the same name as the 

 English Hart, and the Portuguese names Lopez 

 and Aguilar are Lupus and Aquila, slightly dis- 

 guised. Is the origin of Mark, a very common 

 Jewish name, to be sought in the Celtic merch, a 

 horse ? Honore de Mareville. 



Guernsey. 



The Black Prince. — In Sir S. R. Meyrick's 

 Inquiry into Ancient Armour, vol. ii. p. 18., he 

 quotes Froissart as observing, after his account of 

 the battle of Poictiers, "Thus did Edward the 

 Black Prince, now doubly dyed black by the 

 terror of his arms." I have sought in vain for 

 this passage, or anything resembling it, in Johnes's 

 translation, nor can I find anywhere this appel- 

 lation as applied by Froissart to his favourite 

 hero. Can the passage be an interpolation of 

 Lord Berners ? J. S. Warden. 



Maid of Orleans. — Can any one of your cor- 

 respondents tell who was DTsraeli's authority for 

 the following ? — 



" Of the Maid of Orleans I have somewhere read, 

 that a bundle of faggots was substituted for her, when 

 she was supposed to have been burnt by the Duke of 

 Bedford." — Curiosities of Literature, vol. i. p. 312. 



J. R. R. 



Fawell Arms and Crest. — Could any .corre- 

 spondent tell me the correct arms and crest of 

 Fawell ? In Burke's General Armory they are 

 given : " Or, a cross moline gu., a chief dig." And 

 in Berry's Encyclopedia Heraldica : " Sa., a che- 

 veron between three escallop shells argent." In 

 neither work is a crest registered, and yet I be- 

 lieve there is one belonging to the family. Cid. 



" Had I met thee in thy beauty." — Can you or 

 any of your correspondents inform me who is the 

 author of the poem commencing with the above 

 line, and where it may be found ? It is generally 

 supposed to be Lord Byron's, but cannot be 

 found in any of his published works. E. H. 



