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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 32. 



Christian Captives (Vol. i., p. 441.). — In reply to 

 your correspondent R. W. B., I find in the papers 

 published by the Noi-folk and Norwich Archteolo- 

 glcal Society, vol. i. p. 98., the following entries 

 extracted from the Parish Registers of Great 

 Dunham, Norfolk : — 



" December, 1670. 



£ s. d. 

 Collected for the redemption of y'= English 



Captives out of Turkish l)ond.age •• - 04 05 06 



Feb. 13. p'^ tliesame to INK Snift, Minister 

 of Mileham, by the Blips appointm*. 

 October, 1680. 

 Collected towards the redemption of Eng- 

 lish Captives out of their slavery and 

 bondage in Algiers - - - -3160 



Which sum w.is sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Re- 

 gistrar under Dr. Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, 

 Octr. 2d. 1680." 



Probably similar entries will be found in other 

 registers of the same date, as the collections appear 

 to Iiave been made by special mandate, and paid 

 into the hands of the proper authorities. E. S. T. 



Passage in Gihhtm (Vol. i., p. 348.). — The 

 passage in Gibbon I should have thought was 

 well known to be taken from what Clarendon 

 says of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says 

 in his preface to Hampden's Life had before been 

 said of Cinna. Gibbon must either have meant to 

 put inverted commas, or at least to have intended 

 to take nobody in. C. B. 



Borrowed Thoughts (Vol. i., p. 48-2.).^Za fa- 

 meuse La Galissc is an error. The French plea- 

 santly records the exploits of the celebrated Mon- 

 sieur de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter 

 poems are borrowed from the French. C. 



Sapcote Motto (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.). — 

 Taking for granted that solutions of the " Sapcote 

 Motto" are scarce, I send you what seems to me 

 something nearer the truth tiian the arbitrary and 

 unsatisfactory translation of T. C. (Vol. i., p. 476.). 



The motto stands thus : — 



" SCO toot X vinic [or umic] 

 X pones." 



Adopting T. C.'s suggestion, that the initial 

 and final s are mere flourishes (though that makes 

 little difference), and also his supposition that c 

 may have been used for .«, Jind, as I fancy, not 

 unreasonably conjecturing that the X is intended 

 for dis, which is something like the pronunciation 

 of the numeral X, we may then take the entire 

 motto, without garbling it, and have sounds repre- 

 senting que toute disunis dispeiises ; which, gram- 

 matically and orthographically corrected, would 

 read literally " all disunions cost," or " destroy," 

 the equivalent of our " Union is strength." The 

 motto, with the arms, three dove-cotes, is admir- 

 ably suggestive of family union. W. C. 



Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston (Vol. i., 

 p. 382.). — These lines have also been attributed 

 to Mason. S.S. S. 



Shipster (Vol. i., p. 339.).— That "ster" is a fe- 

 minine termination is the notion of Tyrwhitt in a 

 note upon Hoppesteris in a passage of Chaucer 

 (Knight's Tale, 1.2019.) ; but to ignorant persons 

 it seems not very probable. " Maltster," surely, is 

 not feminine, still less "whipster;" "dempster," 

 Scotch, is a judge. Sempstress has another ter- 

 mination on purpose to make it feminine. 

 • I wish we had a dictionary, like th.at of Hoogeven 

 for Greek, arranging words accordinn; to their ter- 

 muiations, C. B. 



Blue Boar Inn, Holhom. — The reviewer in the 

 last "Quarterly" of Mr. Cunningham's Handbook 

 for London, makes an error in reference to the 

 extract from Morrice's Life of Lord Orrery, given 

 by INIr. Cunningham under the head of " Blue 

 Boar Inn, Holborn," and transcribed by the re- 

 viewer (Q«. Tlev. vol. Ixxxvi , p. 474.). Morrice, 

 Lord Orrery's biogra])her, relates a story which he 

 says Lord Orrery had told him, that he had been 

 told by Cromwell and Ireton of their intercepting 

 a letter from Charles I. to his wife, which was sewn 

 up in the skirt of a saddle. The story may or may 

 not be true : this authority for it is not first-rate. 

 The Quarterly reviewer, in transcribing from Mr. 

 Cunningliam's book the passage in Morrice's Life 

 of Lord Orrery, introduces it by saying, — " Crom- 

 well, in a letter to Lord Broghill, narrates cir- 

 cumstantially how he and Ireton intercept, &c." 

 This is a mistake ; there is no letter from Cromwell 

 to Lord Broghill on the subject. (Lord Broghill 

 was Earl of Orrery after the Restoration.) Such 

 a letter wovdd be excellent authority for the story. 

 The mistake, which is the Quarterly reviewer's, 

 and not Mr. Cunningham's, is of some importance. 



CH. 



Lady Morgan and Curry. — An anecdote in the 

 last number of the Quarterly Review, p. 477., 

 " this is the first set down you have given me to- 

 day," reminds me of an incident in Dublin society 

 some quarter of a century ago or more. The 



good-humoured and accomplished Curry 



(shame to me to have forgotten his christened 

 name for the moment!) had been engaged in a 

 contest of wit with Lady Morgan and another 

 female celebrite, in which Curry had rather the 

 worst of it. It was the fashion then for ladies to 

 wear very short sleeves ; and Lady Morgan, albeit 

 not a young woman, with true provincial exagge- 

 r.ation, wore none, a mere strap over her shoulders. 

 Curry was walking away from her little coterie, 



