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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 39. 



James I., whose picture iras at Whitehall ; and a bas- 

 rolief of him, with Jcffiy Hudson the dwarf, was 

 fixed in the front of a house near the end of a bagnio 

 court, Newgate-street, probably as a sign." 



Plot, ill his Natural History of Staffordshire, 

 gives some instances of the great strength of 

 Parsons. 



I shall feel mucli obliged if you or your readers 

 will inform me, 1. Wlietber there is any menti(m 

 of Parsons in contemporary, or oilier works ? 

 2. Whether the portrait is in existence ? if so, 

 where? Has it been engraved ? C. H. JJ. 



Westbromwich. 



Unicorn in the Roi/al Anns. — When and why 

 was the fabulous animal called the unicorn first 

 used as a supj)orter for the royal arms of England? 



E. C. 

 The Frog and the Crow of Ennou\ — I should 

 be glad to get an answer to the following Query 

 from some one of your readers : — I remember 

 some lew odd lines of a song I used to hear sung 

 many years ago, and wish to learn anything as re- 

 gards its date, authorship, — indeed, any particu- 

 lars; and where I shall be likely to find it at 

 length. What I remember is, — 

 " There was a little ftog lived in the river swim-o. 

 And there was an old crow lived in the wood of 



Knnow, 

 Come on sliore, come on sliore, said the crow to the 



fiog again-o ; 

 Thank you, sir, thank you, sir, said the frog to the 

 crow of Jiiinow. 



But there is sweet music under yonder green willow, 

 And there are the dancers, the dancers, in yellow." 



M. 



" 6'/ie ne''er with treacherous Kiss." — Can any of 

 your readers inform me where the following lines 

 are to be found ? 

 " She ne'er with treacherous kiss her Saviour stung. 

 Nor e'er denied Him with unholv tongue ; 

 She, when Ajjostles shrank, could danger brave — 

 Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave !" 



C. A. H. 



^'■Inciditin Scyllam" (Vol. ii., p. 8.5.). — 

 " Incldit in Scyllam, eupiens vitarc Charybdim; 

 Sic morbum fugitns, incidit in medicos." 



Has any of your readers met with, or heard of 

 the second short line, appendant and appurtenant 

 to the first ? I think it was Lord Grenville who 

 quoted them as found somewhere together. 



FORTUNATUS DwARRIS. 



Nicholas Brighains TT o?-As.— ^NicholasBrigham, 

 who erected the costly tomb in Poets' Corner to 

 the memory of Geoffrey Chaucer (which it is now 

 proposed to repair by a subscri])tion of five shillings 

 irom the admirers of the poet), is said to have 

 written, besides certain miscellaneous poems. 

 Memoirs by ivay of Diary, in twelve Books ; and 



a treatise De Venationibus Rerun Memorabilium. 

 Can any of the readers of " Notes and Queries " 

 state whether any of these, the titles of which are 

 certainly calculated to excite our curiosity, are 

 known to be in existence, and, if so, where ? It 

 is presumed that they have never been printed. 



Philo-Chaucer. 



CiriC'Sceat, or Church-scot. — Can any of your 

 readers ex|)lain the following passage from Canute's 

 Letter to the Archbishops, &c. of England, a. d. 

 lO.-n. {Wilkin s Cone. t. i. p. 298.): — 



" Et in feslivitate Sancti Martini primiti^ seminuni 

 ad ecclesiam, sub cnjus jjarochia quisijue degit, quae 

 Anglice Cure seel noniiiiatur." 



J.B. 



[If our correspondent refers to the glossary in the 

 second vol. of Mr. Thorpe's admirable edition of the 

 Anglo- Saxon Laws, which he edited for the Record 

 Commission under the U{\ii oi Ancient Laws and Insti- 

 tutes of Enyland, he will find s.v. '^ Ciric- Sceat — Priini- 

 ticB Semiuum, cimrch-scot or shot, an ecclesiastical due 

 payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting cliiefly of 

 corn ; " a satisfactory answer to his Query, and a refer- 

 ence to this very passage from Canutt. ] 



Welsh Language. — I'erhaps some of jour cor- 

 respondents would favour me with a list of the best 

 books treating on the Welsh literature and lan- 

 guage ; sjiecily ing the best grammar and dictionary. 



Jarltzberg. 



Armenian Language. — This copious and widely- 

 circulated lanifuase is known to but few in this 

 country. If this meets the eye of one who is 

 acquainted with it, will he kindly direct me whither 

 I may find notices of it and its literature ? Father 

 Aucher's Grammar, Armenian and English 

 (Venice, 1819), is rather meagre in its details. 

 I have heanl it stated, I know not on what autho- 

 rity, that Lord Byron composed the English part of 

 this grammar. This grammar contains the two 

 Apocryiihal Eiiistles found in the Armenian Bible, 

 of the Corinthians to St. Paul, and St. Paul to the 

 Corinthians. Like the Greek and German, "the 

 different modes of producing compound epithets 

 and words are the treasure and ornament of the 

 Armenian lan<Tua<re : a thousand varieties of cora- 

 pounded words may be made in this tongue, p. 10. 

 I believe we have no other grammar of this lan- 

 guage in English. Jaki.tzberg. 



A treatise on equivocation. 



]\Iy attention has recently been drawn to the 

 inquiry of J. M. (Vol. i., p. 260.) respecting the 

 work bearing this name. He incjuires, " Was the 

 book ever extant in MS. or print ? What is its 

 size, date, and extent?" These questions may 

 in part be answered by the following extracts fiom 

 Parsons's Treatise tending to Mitigation, 1G07, to 



