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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 31. 



" Ne tattien ignores variorum jura dierutn 



Non habet officii Lucifer omnis idem. 

 Ille Nefastus erit per quem tria verba silentur : 



Fastus, erit per quem lege liceljit agi. 

 Neu toto pcrstare die sua jura putaris; 



Qui jam Fastus erit, mane Nefastus erat. 

 Nam simul exta Deo data sunt, licet omnia fari ; 



Verbaque Honoratus libera Pra?tor liabet." 



The die^festiis was not only not dies fastus, but 

 dies nefastus. 



Witliout going beyonil feast and fast, I see 

 nothing in C. B.'s suggestion better than the old 

 derivations of the words feast from festus -um, 

 and fast from the Anglo-Saxon ; nor indeed any- 

 thing half so good. Feast nwAfast are opposed in 

 meaning : our word fast has a meaning wliieh 

 r\e\\\iQv fas, fari, nor fastus, nor all three togetlier, 

 will explain. CH. 



3Sc]pItc^ ta JHtnnr caucriciS. 



The Badger's Legs ("Vol. i., p. 381.).— In an- 

 swer to one of your correspondents, who inquires 

 whether there is any allusion to the inequalities of 

 the badger's legs previous to that made by Sir T. 

 Browne : — 



" And as tbat beast hath legs (which shepherds fear, 

 'Yclept a badger, which our lambs doth tear). 

 One long, the other short, that when he runs 

 Upon the plain, he halts, but when he runs 

 On craggy rocks, or steepy hills, we see 

 None runs more swift or easier than he." 



Brosvne's Britannia's Pastorals, B. I. 



Song 5. A.D. 1613. 



J. F. BoYES. 



Twm Sion' Catti (Vol. i., p. 456.). — Seleucus 

 observes that Twm Catti flourished between the 

 years 1590 and 1630. 



I have seen the original jiardon, under the great 

 seal, countersigned Vaughan, and bearing date 

 15th Jan., 1st of Elizabeth (1559). 



The pardon extends to — 



" Tliome Johns, alias Cattye, nuper de Tregaei), 

 in Com. Cardigan, Geii°., alias diet. Thome Johns, alias 

 Catty ae Treaaem, in Coin. Cardig.m, Generoso, alias 

 diet. Thome Jones, alias Catty, Gent., sen quocunque 

 alio nomine vel cognomine seu additione hominis eog- 

 nitionis dignitatis, officii seu losi idem Thomas cog- 

 natur, vocetur seu nuncupetur," &c. &c. ; and inchides 

 "omnia escapia et cautiones." 



I h.ave written the extract without all the con- 

 tractions in the original. J. M. T. 

 May 21. 1850. 



Christian Captives {Yo\.\., p.441.).— R. W. B. 

 may probably obtain valuable information from 

 the trustees of I>ady Mico's Charity. See Attor- 

 ney-General V. Gibson, 2 Beavan, 317. (n.) 



A note on that case may not be uninteresting, 



as showing the vast increase of a fund originally 

 small. 



Lady Mco, in 1670, gave 1000/. to redeem poor 

 slaves. In 1686 this fund was laid out in the pur- 

 chase of land. 



In 1827 an information was filed against Mr. 

 Gibson and others ; and at that time the rental of 

 the purchased land amounted to something like 

 3000Z. a year, and the trustees bad accumulated 

 upwards of 115,O0OZ. Consols. 



Trustees were appointed in 1834, and their 

 office is No. 20. Buckingham Street, Strand. The 

 funds are applied towards the education of our 

 emancipated slaves. Q, D. 



Cannibals. — Your correspondent W. (Vol. i., 

 p. 186.) will find the origin of this word in 

 Stillingfleet's Origines Sacra, Part II. Book i. c i., 

 where there are traced the gradations observed by 

 travellers in the savagery of the several natives of 

 America. Has it been recorded of any people in 

 Europe, Asia, or Africa, that they were addicted 

 to the practice of scalping ? T. J. 



Symbols of the four Evangelists. — The misap- 

 propriation of the four faces of the cherubim, 

 originally designed to shadow forth the incarnate 

 Deity, to the four evangelists, with whom these 

 emblematic representations are still, as anciently, 

 associated in architectur.al decorations and heraldic 

 bearings, appear to have originated, among the 

 early Christians, in the reverence with which they 

 regarded the four gospels. Jarlzberg (Vol. i., 

 p. 385.) explains why the lion is assigned to St. 

 Mark, and desires to know the reasons assigned 

 for the three other Evangelists' emblems. 



" Aquila," says Ariiighi, " dignissimum ilium ac 

 lynceum in arcanarum rerum ac mysteriorum sublimi- 

 tate speculatorem, Joannem Evangelistam sublimi ve- 

 locium pennaruni symbolo portendit." 



The ox, according to the same author, has been 

 assigned as well to St. Matthew as to St. Luke, as 

 all laborious ministers of the gospel are aptly 

 represented by the "animal natiim tolerare la- 

 bores." T. J. 



Turkish Spy (Vol. i., p. 334.). — In the Gent, 

 Mag. for JIarch last, it is well observed that " It 

 is a great fault in an historical writer not to be 

 well read in Syivanus Urban." The remark will 

 apply to your inquirer concerning these celebrated 

 letters, and indeed, to many others who devote 

 much labour in exploring the contents of MSS., 

 without being aware of what lies on the surface of 

 literature. The late DTsraeli is a striking instance 

 of this art of discovering in an old MS. what had 

 been long known in print. 



In consequence of what Mr. Hallam stated con- 

 cerning these Letters of a Tuj-hish Spy, I sent a 

 communication to the Gent. Mag., v.'hieh appeared 



