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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 241. 



The use of laurel, in the construction of the 

 table, seems to connect the occurrences with the 

 worship of Apollo. Those who would investigate 

 the subject fully must consult such passages in the 

 classics as this from Lucan [Lucretius ?], lib. i. 

 739-40. : 



" Sanctius et multo certa ratione magis, quam 

 Pythia, qua? tripode ex Phoebi /auroque profatur." 



I have a reference to Le Nourry, p. 1345., who, 

 I see, has some remarks upon the passage already 

 given from Tertullian ; he, however, throws little 

 light upon the subject. 



Henry H. Beeen (Vol. viii., p. 330.) says, * It 

 is not unreasonable to suppose that table-turning 



was practised in former ages : " to this I 



think we may now subscribe. B. H. C. 



Poplar. 



Pedigree to the Time of Alfred (Vol. viii., p. 586. ; 

 Vol. ix., p. 233.). — The person S. D. met at the 

 " King's Head," Egham, was doubtless Mr. John 

 Wapshott of Chertsey, Surrey (late of Almoner's 

 Barn Farm in that neighbourhood), an intelligent, 

 respectable yeoman, who would feel much pleasure 

 in giving S. D. any information he may require. 



B. S. Elcock. 



Bath. 



Quotation wanted (Vol. ix., p. 421.). — " Ex- 

 tinctus amabitur idem," is from Horace, Epist. n. 

 i. 14. (See Vol. vii., p. 81.) P. J. F. Gantillon. 



" Hie locus odit, amat." — In Vol. v. of " N. & Q," 

 at p. 8., " Procurator" gives the two quaintly 

 linked lines — 



" Hie locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat 

 Nequitiam, leges, crimina, jura probos." 



as "carved in a beam over the Town Hall of 

 Much Wenlock, in Shropshire." They are to be 

 found also in the ancient hall of judicature of the 

 "Palazzo del Podesta," at Pistoja, in Tuscany. 

 The ancient stone seats, with their stone table in 

 front of them, where the magistrates of the republic 

 administered justice in the days of the city's inde- 

 pendence, are still remaining, and these lines are 

 cut in the stone just over the benches. This 

 simple and primitive tribunal was built as it now 

 stands in 1307, and there can be no doubt that the 

 verses in question existed there before they found 

 their way to Much Wenlock. But as it is hardly 

 likely that they travelled direct from Tuscany into 

 Shropshire, the probability is that they may be 

 found in some other, or perhaps in many other 

 places. I have not been able to light on any clue 

 to the authorship or history of the lines. Perhaps 

 some of your correspondents, who have the means 

 of wider researches than this city commands, might 

 be more fortunate. T. A. T. 



Florence, March, 1854. 



Writings of the Martyr Bradford (Vol. ix., 

 p. 450.). — In reply to Mr. Townsend's inquiry 

 respecting early editions of Bradford's writings, I 

 can add to the information furnished by the Editor 

 that the copy of his Hurt of Hearyng Masse, sold 

 at Mr. Jolley's sale, was purchased subsequently of 

 Mr. Thorpe, and deposited in the Chetham Li- 

 brary. This edition is not noticed by Watt. 



In Stevens's Memoirs of the Life and Martyr- 

 dom of John Bradford, with his Examinations, 

 Letters, 8fc, there is no mention of the letter ad 

 calcem of" — 



" An Account of a Disputation at Oxford, Anno 

 Domini 1554. With a Treatise of the Blessed Sacra- 

 ment ; both written by Bishop Ridley, Martyr. To 

 which is added a Letter written by Mr. John Brad- 

 ford, never before printed. All taken out of an 

 original manuscript [and published by Gilbert Iron- 

 side], Oxford, 1688, 4to." 



Bibliothecar. Chetham. 



Latin Inscription on Lindsey Court-house (Vol. 

 ix., p. 492.). — Your correspondent L. L. L. gives 

 this inscription as follows : 



" Fiat Justitia, 



1619. 



Haec domus 



Dit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, 



Equitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos." 



This couplet, in its correct form, evidently stood 

 thus : 



" Haec custodit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, 

 iEquitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos." 



That is to say, 



" Custodit sequitiam, amat pacem, punit crimina, 

 conservat jura, honorat bonos." 



The substantive of aquus is mquitas, not aquitia. 

 If these verses were composed in good Latinity, 

 the first word of the pentameter probably was 

 justitiam. ■"• 



Blanco White's Sonnet (Vol. vii., pp. 404. 486. ; 

 Vol. ix., p. 469.). — This sonnet is so beautiful, 

 that I hope it will suffer no disparagement in the 

 eyes of any of your admiring readers, if I remind 

 them of a passage in Sir Thomas Browne's Quin- 

 cunx, which I conceive may have inspired the 

 brilliant genius of Blanco White on this occasion. 

 I regret that I have not the precise reference to 

 the passage : 



"Light" (says Browne) " that makes things seen, makes 

 some things invisible. Were it not for darkness, and 

 the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of creation had 

 remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as 

 on the fourth day, when they were created above the 

 horizon with the sun, or there was not an eye to behold 

 them. The greatest mystery of religion is expressed 

 by adumbration ; and, in the noblest part of the Jewish 

 types, we find the cherubim shadowing the mercy- 



