June 10. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



541 



perly omitted. It would be curious to ascertain 

 whether any other copies of this folio readme. 



J. O. Halliwell. 



fflinav caum'ea. 



" Original Poems." — There is a volume of 

 poetry by a lady, published under the following 

 title, Original Poems, on several occasions, by 

 C. R., 4to., 1769. Can you inform me whether 

 these poems are likely to have been written by 

 Miss Clara Reeve, authoress of The Old English 

 Baron, and other novels ? I have seen at least 

 one specimen of this lady's poetry in one of the 

 volumes of Mr. Pratt's Gleaner. Sigma. 



A Bristol Compliment. — A present made of an 

 article that you do not care about keeping your- 

 self is called " A Bristol Compliment." What is 

 the origin of the phrase ? 



Hatjghmomd St. Clair. 



French or Flemish Arms. — What family (pro- 

 bably French or Flemish) bears Azure, in chief 

 three mullets argent; in point a ducal coronet 

 or ; in base a sheep proper crowned with a ducal 

 coronet or. Penn. 



Precedence. — Will any of your correspondents 

 assign the order of precedence of officers in army 

 or navy (having no decoration, knighthood, or 

 companionship of any order of knighthood), not 

 as respects each other, but as respects civilians ? 

 I apprehend that every commission is addressed 

 to the bearer, embodying a civil title, as e.g., "John 

 Smith, Esquire," or as we see ensigns gazetted, 

 " A. B., Gent." My impression therefore is, that 

 in a mixed company of civilians, &c, no officer is 

 entitled to take rank higher than the civil title in- 

 corporated in his commission would imply, apart 

 from his grade in the service to which he belongs. 

 On this point I should be obliged by any notices 

 which your correspondents may supply ; as also 

 by a classification in order of precedence of the 

 ranks which I here set down alphabetically : 

 barristers, doctors (in divinity, law, medicine), 

 esquires, queen's counsel, serjeants-at-law. 



It may be objected that esquire, ecuyer, ar- 

 miger, is originally a military title, but by usage 

 it has been appropriated to civilians. 



Suum Ctjiqtje. 



"2#i5tj." — The meaning of this word is wanted. 

 It is not in Stephens' Thesaurus. It occurs in 

 Eichhoflf's Vergleichung der Sprachen Europa und 

 Indien, p. 234. : 



" Sanscrit bhid, schneiden, brechen ; Gr. <pd£co ; Lat. 

 fido, findo, fodio; Fr. fends ; Lithuan., fouis; Deut. 

 beisse ; Eng. bite" [to which Kaltschmidt adds, beissen, 

 speisen, fasten, Futter, Butter, Mund, bitter, masten, 

 feist, Weide, Wiese, Matte] ; " Sans, bhida, bhid, Spal- 



tung, Faser; Gr. ffQiS-fi, Lat. fidis; Sans, bhittis, 

 graben ; Lat. fossa ; Sans, bhaittar, zerschneider ; Lat. 

 fossor." 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Print of the Dublin Volunteers. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me when, and where, 

 and by whom, the well-known print of " The 

 Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin, as 

 they met on College Green, the 4th day of Nov., 

 1779," was republished? An original copy is not 

 easily procured. Abhba. 



John Ogden. — Can any reader of " ST. & Q." 

 furnish an account of the services rendered by 

 John Ogden, Esq., to King Charles I. of England ? 

 The following is in the possession of the inquirer : 



" Ogden's Arms, granted to John Ogden, Esq., by- 

 King Charles II., for his faithful services to his un- 

 fortunate father, Charles I. 



" Shield, Girony of eight pieces, argent and gules; in 

 dexter chief an oak branch, fructed ppr. 



" Crest, Oak tree ppr. Lion rampant against the 

 tree. 



" Motto, Et si ostendo, non jacto." 



Oakden. 



Columbarium in a Church Tower. — At Colling- 

 bourne Ducis, near Marlborough, I have been 

 told that the interior of the church tower was con- 

 structed originally to serve as a columbarium. 

 Can this really be the object of the peculiar ma- 

 sonry, what is the date of the tower, and can a 

 similar instance be adduced ? It is said that the 

 niches are not formed merely by the omission of 

 stones, but that they have been carefully widened 

 from the opening. Are there any ledges for birds 

 to alight on, or any peculiar openings by which 

 they might enter the tower ? J. W. Hewett. 



George Herbert. — Will any one of your corre- 

 spondents, skilled in solving enigmas, kindly give 

 me an exposition of this short poem of George 

 Herbert's ? It is entitled — 



" Hope. 



" I gave to Hope a watch of mine ; but he 



An anchor gave to me. 

 Then an old prayer-book I did present, 



And he an optic sent. 

 With that, I gave a phial full of tears ; 



But he a few green ears. 

 Ah, loiterer ! I'll no more, no more I'll bring ; 



I did expect a ring." 



G. D. 



Apparition which preceded the Fire of London. — 

 An account of the apparition which predicted the 

 Great Fire of London two months before it took 

 place, or a reference to the book in which it may 

 be found, will oblige Ignipettjs. 



