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XOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 39. 



Eilion Basilice. — 



" EIKflN BA2IAIKH, or, The True Pnurtraiture of 

 His Sacred M.ijeshF diaries the If. In Three Books. 

 Beginning from his Birth, 1630, unto this present year, 

 1660: wherein is interwoven a coiiipleat History of 

 the Higli-born Dukes of York and Glocester. By R. F., 

 Esq., an eye-witness. 



" Quo nihil majus meliusve terris 

 Fata donavere, bonique divi 

 Nee dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum 

 Tempera priscum." Hornt. 



""Orav Tiv cKpijs 6ir7ro9oC«'Ta rS>v KaKwv 

 yivoaK€ TovTov r<f Te'Aei rr)povfx^uov." 



G. Xaz Carni. 



" more than conqueror." 



" London, printed for H. Brome and H. March, at 

 the Gun, in Ivy Lane, and at the Princes' Arms, in 

 Chancery Lane, neer Fleet Street, 16G0." 



The cover has " C. R." under a crown. "What 

 is the history of this volume. Is it scarce, or worth 

 nothing ? A. C. 



" Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest." 

 — Whence comes the sentence — 



"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?" 



E. N. W- 



Carpets and Eoom-paper. — Carpets were in 

 Edward III.'s reign used in the pahice. A\'hat 

 is the exact date of their introduction ? When 

 did thev come into general use, and when were 

 rushes, &c., last used ? Room-paper, when was 

 it introduced ? Jarltzbekg. 



Cotton of Finchley. — Can some one of your 

 readers give me any particulars concerning the 

 family of Cotton, which was settled at Finchley, 

 Middlesex, about the middle of the si.xteenth 

 century ? C. F. 



Wood Carving in Snow Hill. — Can any one ex- 

 plain the wood carving over the door of a house 

 at the corner of Snow Hill and Skinner Street. It 

 is worth rescuing from the ruin impending it. A. C. 



Walrond Family. — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me what was the maiden name of Grace, the 

 •wife of Col. Humphry AValrond, of Sea, in the 

 county of Somerset, a distinguished loyalist, some 

 time Lieutenant-Governor of Bridgewater, an(' 

 Governor of the island of Barbadoes in 1660. She 

 was living in 1635 and 1668. Also the names of 

 his ten children, or, at all events, his three youngest. 

 I have reason to believe the seven elder were 

 George, Humphry, Henry, John, Thomas, Bridget, 

 and Grace. W. Downing Bkuce. 



Translations. — What English translations have 

 appeared of the famous JEpistolce Obscuronim 

 Vironim ? 



Has La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signer Borri 

 (by Joseph Francis Borri, the Rosicrucian) ever 



been translated into English ? I make the same 

 Query as to Le Compte de Gabalis, which the 

 Abbe de Eillan Ibunded on Borri's work? 



Jarltzbeeg. 



Bonny Dundee — Graham of Claverhousp. — 

 Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin 

 of the term " Bonny Dundee.''" Does it refer to 

 the fair and flourishing town at the mouth of the 

 Tay, or to the remarkable John Graham of Claver- 

 housa, who was created Viscount of Dundee, after 

 the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, 

 and whose person is admitted to have been emi- 

 nently beautiful, whatever disputes may exist as 

 to his character and conduct ? 



2. Can reference be made to the date of his 

 birth, or, in other words, to his age when he was 

 killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July, 1689. 

 All the biographies which I have seen are silent 

 upon the point. W. L. M. 



Franz von Sickingen. — Perusing a few of your 

 back numbers, in a reply of S. W. S. to R. G. 

 (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read : 



" I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, 

 and at length found a medal represented in th.e Si/lloge 

 Numismatum Elegantiorum of Luckius," &c. 



I now hope that in S. W. S. I have found the 

 man who is to solve an obstinate doubt that has 

 long possessed my mind : Is the figure of the 

 knight in Durer's well-known print of " The 

 Knight, Death, and the Devil," a jiortrait ? If it 

 be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von Sickin- 

 gen, as Kugler supposes ? The print is said to 

 beiu- the date 15 13. I have it, but have failed to 

 discover any date at aU. H. J. H. 



Shefiield. 



Blachguard. — When did this word come into 

 use, and from what ? 



Beaumont and Fletcher, in the Elder Brother, 

 use it thus : — 



" It is a faith 

 That we will die in, since from the blachguard 

 To the grim sir in ofKce, there are kvf 

 Hold other tenets." 



Thomas Hobbes, in his Microcosmus, says, — 

 " Since my lady's decay I am degraded from a cook, 

 and I fear the devil himself will entertain me but for one 

 of his blackguard, and he shall be sure to have his roast 

 burnt." 



Jarltzbekg. 



Meanivg of " Pension." — The following an- 

 nouncement appeared lately in the London news- 

 papers : — 



" Gray's Inn'. — .\t a Pension of the Hon. Society 

 of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Henry Wm. Vincent, 

 E'sq., her Majesty's Remembranter in the Court of 

 Exchequer, was called to the degree of Barrister at 

 Law." 



