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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 35. 



vern. The tutor set him an imposition, which he 

 made to consist in a door-Greek poem, giving an 

 account of the affair. These were the three first 

 lines, — 



" TuTop ffiol fxkv novvSov iKfvSero' a>s /ioAa (Tif/.ir\os 

 Thv lJ.fV iya uiriviov Kma. Sufiara peSAiOfOio, 

 AptyKO/Jid'os Kol pwpoixevos 5io vukto, fiePalus." 



Then part of another, — 



•' ainap iyi} neyaKois KXvfi^difftv (fiayx^V"" 



I cannot but think that some Cambridge men 

 know the whole, which would be invaluable to 

 retrieve. There is nothing about it in Kidd. 



C Jl>. 



Alice Rolle. — Can any of your readers conversant 

 with Irish pedigrees, if they remember to have met 

 with this lady's name, kindly inform me where it 

 may be found ? S. S. S. 



The Meaning of " Race" in Ship -building. — In 

 Hawkins Voyages (" Hakluyt Society, 1847"), 

 p. 199., he says, " Here is offerred to speak of a 

 point much canvassed amongst carpenters and sea- 

 captains, diversely maintained but yet undeter- 

 mined, that is, whether the race, or loftie built 

 shippe, bee best for the merchant;" and again, 

 p. 2 1 9. : "A third and last cause of the losse of 

 sundry of our men, most worthy of note for all 

 captains, owners, and carpenters, was the race 

 building of our ship, the oneiy fault she had," &c. 

 Can any of your correspondents explain what is 

 meant by "race"; the editor of the Fr^y^g-es, Cap- 

 tain C. R. D. Bethune, R. N., confesses himself 

 unable to explain it. E. N. W. 



Southwark, May 27. 1850. 



The Battle of Death. — I possess a curious old 

 print entitled " The Battle of Death against all 

 Creatures, and the Desolation wrought by Time." 

 It bears the engraver's name, " Robert Smith," 

 but no date. The figures, however, which are nu- 

 merous, and comprise all ranks, seem to present 

 the costume of the latter end of the 16th century. 

 There is a long inscription in verse, and another 

 in prose : query, who was the author of the verses, 

 and what is the date of the engraving ? As I am 

 on the subject of prints, perhaps some person 

 learned in such matters will also be kind enough 

 to inform me what number constitutes a complete 

 series of the engravings after Claude by Francis 

 Vivares ; and who was " Jean Rocque, Chiro- 

 graphaire du Roi," who executed several maps of 

 portions of London, also a miip of Kilkenny ? 



X.Y.A. 



Kilkenny, June 8. 1850. 



Execution of Charles I.— Is the name of the 

 executioner known who beheaded King Charles I. ? 

 Is there any truth in the report that it was an 

 Earl Stair? P. S. W. E. 



Morganitic Marriage. — In Ducange, &c., the 

 adjective morganitic is connected with the mor- 

 gangah (morning gift), which wiis usual from a 

 husband to his wife the day after their marriage. 

 How comes this adjective to be applied to mar- 

 riages in which the wife does not take her hus- 

 band's rank ? M. 



Lord Bacon's Palace and Gardens. — Will any of 

 your architectural or landscape gardening readers 

 inform me whether any attempts were ever made 

 by any of our English sovereigns or nobility, or 

 by any of our rich men of science and taste, to 

 carry out, in practice. Lord Bacon's plans of a 

 princely palace, or a prince-like garden, as so gra- 

 phically and so beautifully described in his Essays, 

 xlv. and xlvi., "Of Building" and "Of Gardens" ? 



I cannot but think that if such an attempt was 

 never made, the failure is discreditable to us as a 

 nation ; and that this work ought yet to be exe- 

 cuted, as well for its own intrinsic beauty and 

 excellence, as in honour of the name and fame of 

 its great proposer. Effabess. 



June 24. 1850. 



" Dies Irm, Dies Ula." — Will any of your cor- 

 respondents oblige me by answering the following 

 Queries. Who was the author of the extremely 

 beautiful hymn, commencing — 

 " Dies irje, dies ilia, 



Solvet sCEclum in favilla 

 Teste David cum Sibylla." 



And in what book was it first printed ? 



A copy of it is contained in a small tract in our 

 library, entitled Lyrica Sacra, excerpta ex Hym- 

 nis Ecclesice Antiquis. Privatim excusa Romce, 

 1818. At the end of the preface is subscribed 

 " T. M. Anglus." And on the title page in MS., 

 " For the Rev. Dr. Milner, Dean of Carlisle, Mas- 

 ter of Queen's College, in the University of Cam- 

 bridge, from T.J. Alathia — " the rest of the name 

 h.-is been cut off in binding ; it was probably Ma- 

 thias. As here given, it has only twenty-seven 

 lines. The original hymn is, I believe, much 

 longer. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



Queen's College, Cambridge. 



Auh-cy Family. — In Burke's Peerage and Ba- 

 ronetage, under the head " Aubrey," I find the 

 following passage : — 



" Vincent, Windsor Herald in the time of Elizabeth, 

 compiled a pedigree of tlie family of Aubrey, which he 

 commences thus : — ' Saint Aubrey, of the blood royal 

 of France, came into England with William the Con- 

 queror, anno 1066, as the Chronicles of All Souls 

 College testify, which are there to be seen tied to a 

 chain of iron.' " 



Can any of your readers give me any information 

 respecting this ''Saint Aubrey," whose name I 

 have not been able to find in the Roll of Battle 



