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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 37. 



expression is classical, but is not derived from 



Tacitus. The allusion is to the verse of Virgil: — 



" Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem." 



JEn. ii. 354. 



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-In Cc 



Hogs not Pigs. — m Uowpcrs ijumorous verses, 

 " The yearly Distress, or Tithing-time at Stoke in 

 Essex," one of the grumblers talks 



" of pigs that he has lost 

 By maggots at the tail." 



Upon this I have to remark that an intelligent 

 grazier assures me that pigs are never subject to 

 the evil here complained of, but that lambs of a 

 year old, otherwise called " hogs " or " hoggets," are 

 often infested by it. It would appear, therefore, 

 that the poet, misled by the ambiguous name, and 

 himself knowing nothing of the matter but by 

 report, attributed to pigs that which happens to 

 the other kind of animal, viz. lambs a year old, 

 which have not yet been shorn. J. My. 



caucn'c^. 



A QUERY AND REPLIES. 



Plaister or Paster — Christian Captives — Sfem- 

 hers for Calais, ^-c. — lu editing Tyndale's Path- 

 wai/ {Woi-hs, -vol. i. p. 22.), I allowed preceding 

 editors to indtice !ne to print pastor, where the 

 oldest authority had paster. As the following part 

 of the sentence speaks of " suppling and suaging 

 ■wounds," I am inclined to suspect that "paster" 

 might be an old way of spelling "plaster." Can 

 any of your correspondents supply me with any 

 instance in which "plaster" or "plaister" is spelt 

 "paster" by any old English writer? 



In return for troubling j'ou with this question, 

 you maj' inform ]\Ir. Sansom, in answer to Query, 

 Vol. ii., p. 41., that Hallam says, "Not less than 

 fifty gentlemen were sold for slaves at Barbadoes, 

 under Cromwell's government." (^Constit. Hist., 

 ch. X. note to p. 128., 4to. edit.) And though 

 Walker exaggerated matters when he spoke " a 

 project to sell some of the most eminent masters of 

 colleges, &c., to the Turks i'or slaves," AVhiiclock's 

 Memorials will inform him, under date of Sept. 21, 

 1C48, that the Englith Parliament directed one of 

 its committees " to take care for transporting the 

 Scotch prisoners, in the first place to supply the 

 plantations, and to send the rest to Venice." 



To another, O. P. Q. (Vol. ii., p. 9.), you may 

 state that the members for Calais in the time of 

 Edw. VI., and in the first lour parliaments of 

 Mary, may be seen in "V^'illis' Notilia Purliamen- 

 taria, where their names are placed next to the 

 members for the Cinque Ports. M'illis slates that 

 the return for Calais for the last parliament of 

 Henry VIII. is lost. Iheir names indicate that 



they were English, — such as Fowler, Massing- 

 berd, &c. 



As to umbrellas, there are Oriental scholars who 

 can inform your inquirers that the word "satrap" 

 is traceable to words whose purport is, the bearer 

 of an umbrella. 



Another of your latest Querists may find the 

 epigrams on George II.'s (not, as he imagines, 

 Charles I.'s) different treatment of the two I'^nglish 

 universities in Knox's Elegant Extracts. The lines 

 he has cited are both from the same epigram, and, 

 I think, from the first of the two. They were 

 occasioned by George II.'s purchasing the library 

 of Dr. Moore, Bishop of Ely, and giving it to the 

 university of Cambridge. 



The admirer of another epigram has not given it 

 exactly as I can remember reading it in a little 

 book of emblems more than fifty years ago : — 



" 'Tis an excellent world that we live in, 

 To lend, to spend, or to give in ; 

 But to borrow or beg, or get a man's own, 

 'Tis just the worst world that ever was known." 



H. Walter. 



LETTERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PHILIP II. OF 

 SPAIN. 



Perhaps some of your readers may be 

 able to inform me whether any of the following 

 letters between Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of 

 Spain, extracted from the archives of Simancas, 

 have yet appeared in print : — 



1 . Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 9, 

 1562-3. 



2. Answer, April 2, 1563. 



3. Philip II.'s reply to the English ambassador 

 in the case of Bishop Cuadra, April, 1563. 



4. Charges made in England against the Bishop 

 of Acjuila, I'hilip's ambassador, and the answers. 



5. Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 18, 

 1569. 



6. Philip to Elizabeth, May 9, 1569. 



7. Elizabeth to Philip, March 20, 1571. 



8. Answer, June 4, 1571. 



9. Declaration of the Council to the Spanish 

 andjassador Don Gueran de Espes, Dec. 14, 1571. 



10. The andiassador's answer. 



11. Elizabeth to Philip, Dec. 16, 1571. 



12. Bermandino de Mendoza to Philip II., in 

 cypher, London, January 26, 1584. 



13. Philip to Elizabeth, July 16, 1568. 



14. Duke of Alva to Philip II., January 14, 

 1572. 



15. Minutes of a letter from Philip II. to Don 

 Gueran de Espes, February 24, 1572., 



A. U. 



