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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 48. 



Miss Costello, and other biographers of the 

 Countess of Shrewsbury, have quite overlooked 

 all the descendants of her sisters. Possibly, should 

 tliese lines meet the eye of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire, who possesses the estates and papers of the 

 Hardwicks, it may lead to more particulars con- 

 cerning the family being made public. Ermine. 



Torquay. 



Quotations in Bishop Andrewes (Vol. ii.,p. 245.). — 

 " Minutuli et patellares Dei." 



is from Plautus : 



" Di me omnes magui minutique et patcllarii." 



Cistcll II. I. 46. 



and 



" Sed qua; de septem totura circumspicit orbem 

 CoUibus, imperii Roma Dcunique locus." 



is from Ovid {Trist. I. 5. 69.). 

 Marlborough College. 



J.E.B Mayor. 



The Sun Feminine in English (Vol. ii., p 21.). — 

 Mr. Cox may ])erhaps be pleased to loain ichy the 

 northern nations made the sun feminine. The 

 ancient Germans and Saxons — 



" When they discovered how the sun l)y his heat 

 and influence excited venereal love in creatures sub- 

 servient to his dominion, they then varied his sex, and 

 painted him like a woman, because in them that pas- 

 sion is most impotent, and yet impetuous; on her head 

 they placed a myrtle crown or garland to denote her 

 dominion, and that iove should be alwaies verdant as 

 the myrtle ; in one hand she supported the world, and m 

 the other three golden apples, to represent that the world 

 and its wealth are both sustained by love. The three 

 golden apples signitied the threefold beauty of the sun, 

 exemplified in the morning, meridian, and evening ; on 

 lier breast was lodged a burning loicli, to insinuate to 

 us the violence of the flame of love which scorches 

 humane hearts." — P/iilijwt's Brief and Historical Dis- 

 cimri-e of the Oriyinuland Growth of Utraldry, pp. 12, 13. 

 London, 1672. 



T. H. Keksley. 



King William's College, Isle of Man. 



Car-patio (Vol. ii., p. 247.). — Your Querist must 

 be little versed in early Italian art, n<it to know 

 that Vittore Carpaccio (such is the correct spelling) 

 was one of the morning stars of the Venetian 

 school ; and his search must have been somewhat 

 careless, as Carpaccio and his Avorks are fully de- 

 scribed in Kugler's Handbooh, p. 149., and in 

 Lauzi. Some exquisite figures of his, of which 

 Mrs. Jameson has given a St. Stephen in her 

 Legendary Art, exist in the Ilrera at Milan. lie 

 is a painter not sufficiently known in England, but 

 one wiiom it may be hoped the Arundel Society 

 will introduce by llieir engravings. I cannot assist 

 J. G. N. in exjilaining the subject of his engraving. 

 May Cormihite be by error for C'ordnhice ? 



Clericus. 



The Character " ^." — This character your cor- 

 respondent will at once see is only the Latin word 

 " et," written in a flourishing form ; as we find it 

 repeated in the abbieviation " &c ," for " et 

 cetera." Its adoption as a contraction for the 

 English word " and," arose, no doubt, from the 

 facility of its formation ; and the name it acquired 

 was " and-per se-and," " and by itself and," which 

 is easily susceptible of the corruptions noticed by 

 Mr. Lower. *. 



Wnlrond Family (Vol. ii., p. 206.). — Burke, in 

 his History of the Commoners, only gives the name 

 of George, one of the sons of Colonel Humphry 

 Walrond. He also states that the colonel married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Napier, Esq., of 

 More Critehel. Now Colonel Walrond appears 

 fi'om his ])etition (Royalist Conip. Papers, State 

 PaperOffice) dated 12ili February, 1648, addressed 

 to the Commissioneis for Compounding with De- 

 linqiients, to have had nine other children then 

 living. He states: "Thus his eldest sonne George 

 AValrond did absente himselfe for a short time 

 from his father's house, and went into the king's 

 army, where he unfortunately lost his right arme. 

 That he having no estate at present, and but little 

 in expectancy after his father's death, he having 

 ten children, and all nine to be provided for out 

 of y^ petitioner's small estate." In a similar {)eti- 

 tion, dated about two years later, fiom " Gi'ace, 

 the wife of Humphry Walrond, of Sea, in the 

 county of Somerset, Esquire," she states " herself 

 to be weake woman, and having ten children 

 (whereof many are infants) to maintain." That 

 he was married to this Grace, and not to Elizabeth 

 (as stated by Burke), as early as 1634, is clear from 

 a licence to alienate certain lands at Ilminster, 

 10 Ch. I. {Pat. Rolls.) 



That they were both living in 16G8 is proved by 

 a petition in the State Paper Office (Read in 

 Council, Ap. 8, 1688. Trade Papers, Verginia, 

 No. I. A.) :— "To the King's most excellent Ma*''= 

 and the rt. hon^'''' the Lords of his Maj. most 

 lion'''" Privy Councel," from " Grace, the wife of 

 Ilnmpln-y Walrond, Esq." In this petition she 

 states (hat her husband had been very severely 

 prosecuted by Lord Willoughby, whose sub- 

 governor he had been in Barbadoes. " He had 

 contracted many debts by reason of bis loyalty 

 ami suffering in the late troubles, to the loss of 

 at least thirty thousand pounds." " That his loy- 

 alty and sufferings are notoriously known, both 

 in this kingdom and the Barbadoes, where he 

 was banished lor proclaiming your Ma*'"^ after the 

 murder of your roynl fatLer." Colonel AValrond is 

 mentioned by Clarendon, Rushworth, Whitelock, 

 &c. ; but of the dale of his death, the maiden name 

 of his wife, imd the Christian names of all his ten 

 children, I can find no account. 



The arms S. S. S. inquires about on the nionu- 



