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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 231. 



Wished (so much to their shame) by the Italian 

 governments ; and a page of explanation of that 

 system would be needful, to make any literal 

 translation of it intelligible to an English reader. 



In conclusion I may say, in reply to the Query 

 of Henry H. Breen, that the Popes alluded to in 

 the epigram cited by him as above referred to 

 (Vol. vi., p. 603.), seem evidently to have been 

 Julius II. (Rovere), Leo X. (Medici), Cle- 

 ment VII. (Medici), and Paul III. (Farnese). 

 And the epigram in question says no more than 

 the truth, in asserting that they all four occasioned 

 infinite mischief to France. T. A. T. 



Florence. 



fAinat ®otts>. 



Perspective. — There is a very common error in 

 drawing walls, the plane of which is parallel to the 

 plane of the picture. An instance of it occurs in 

 the facade of Sennacherib's Palace, Layard's 2nd 

 book on Nineveh, frontispiece. All the horizontal 

 lines in the plane of the picture are drawn paral- 

 lel. The fact is, that every line above or below 

 the line of the horizon, though really parallel to it, 

 apparently approaches it, as it is produced to the 

 right or left. The reason is obvious. One point 

 in the wall, viz. that on which you let fall a perpen- 

 dicular from your eye, is nearest to your eye. The 

 perpendicular height of the wall, as drawn through 

 this point, must therefore appear greater than as 

 drawn through any other point more to the right 

 or left. The lines which are really parallel do 

 therefore apparently converge on some point more 

 or less distant, according to the distance of the 

 wall from your eye. Every drawing in which 

 this principle is not considered must, I think, 

 appear out of perspective. G. T. Hoare. 



Tandridge. 



" That" — I lately met with the following gram- 

 matical puzzle among some old papers. I forget 

 from what book I copied it many years ago. 

 Perhaps it may be new to some of your readers. 



" I'll prove the word that I have made my theme. 

 Is that that may he doubled without blame, 

 And that that that thus trebled I may use, 

 And that that that that critics may abuse, 

 May be correct. — Farther, the Dons to bother, 

 Five thats may closely follow one another — 

 For, be it known that we may safely write 

 Or say that that that that that man writ was right ; 

 Nay, e'en that that that that that that has followed 

 Through six repeats, the grammar's rule has hallowed, 

 And that that that (that that that that began), 

 Repeated seven times is right ! Deny't who can." 



McC. 



Corporation Enactments. — In the town books 

 of the Corporation of Youghal, co. Cork, among 



other singular enactments of that body are two 

 which will now be regarded as curiosities. In the 

 years 1680 and 1703, a cook and a barber re- 

 ceived their freedom, on condition that they 

 would respectively dress the mayor's feasts, and 

 shave the Corporation, gratis ! Abhba. 



Jacobite Club. — The adherents of the Stuarts 

 are now nearly extinct ; but I recollect a few 

 years ago an old gentleman, in London, who was 

 then upwards of eighty years of age, and who was 

 a stanch Jacobite. I have heard him say that, 

 "when he was a young man, his father belonged to 

 a society in Aldersgate Street, called the 'Mourning 

 Bush ;' and this Bush was to be always in mourn- 

 ing until the Stuarts were restored." A member 

 of this Society having been met in mourning 

 when one of the reigning family had died, was 

 asked by one of the members how it so happened ? 

 His reply was, that he was " not mourning for the 

 dead, but for the living." The old gentleman 

 was father of the Mercers' Company, and his 

 brother of the Stationers' Company : they were 

 bachelors, and citizens of the old school, hos- 

 pitable, liberal, and charitable. An instance 

 occurred, that the latter had a presentation to 

 Christ's Hospital : he was applied to on behalf of 

 a person who had a large family ; but the father 

 not being a freeman, he could not present it to- 

 the son. He immediately bought the freedom for 

 the father, and gave the son the presentation L 

 This is a rare act. 



The brothers have long gone to receive the 

 reward of their goodness, and lie buried in the 

 cemetery attached to Mercers' Hall, Cheapside. 



James Reed. 



Sunderland. 



Dean NowelVs first Wife. — Churton, in his 

 Life of Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Paul's, 

 p. 368., is at a loss to know the name of the dean's 

 first wife. He says : 



" Of his first wife nothing farther is known but that 

 he was married, either to her or to his second wife, in 

 or before the year 1561. His surviving wife, Eliz. 

 Nowell, had been twice married before, and had chil- 

 dren by both her former husbands. Laurence Ball 

 appears to have been her first husband, and Thomas. 

 Blount her second." 



The pedigree of Bowyer, in the Visitation of 

 Sussex, in 1633-4, gives the name of the dean's- 

 first wife : 

 " Thomas = Jane, da. and heir of = Alexander Nowell, 



Bowyer Robert Merry, son dean of St. Paul's. 



of Lon- of Thomas Merry 2nd husband." 



don. of Hatfield. 



Y. S. 



" Oxoniana." — To your list of desirable re- 

 prints, I beg to add the very amusing work under 

 this title, and originally published in four small 



