Oct. 5. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to a private marriage with the Earl of Leicester, 

 but that she had been prevailed on, by threats and 

 pecuniary largesses, to deny the niarriiige, as Queen 

 Elizabeth was desirous that Lord Leicester should 

 marry the widow of the Earl of Essex. 



One curious circumstance arises out of the re- 

 vival of these dark doings. Are the particular 

 drugs employed by Leicester's Italian physician 

 " in removing obstacles" now known and in opera- 

 tion? By a remarkable coincidence, in a case of 

 supposed poisoning at Cheltenham, some time 

 since, the intended victim escaped with the loss of 

 his hair and his nails. H. K. S. C. 



What is the correct Prefix of Mayors f (Vol. i., 

 p. 380.) — In Leicester the usage has always been 

 to designate the chief magistrate " The worshiptul 

 the ilaj'or," which, I believe, is the style used in 

 boroughs. In cities., and places specialh/ privileged, 

 "Kight worshipful" are the terms employed. 



Jattee. 



Marks of Cadencij (Vol. ii., p. 248.). — The 

 label of the Prince of AVales has, from the time of 

 Edward III. up to the present time, been of three 

 points argent, and not charged. F. E. 



iHtjJrcnanr0tt5. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATAJ.OGUES, ETC. 



Although we do not usually record in our columns 

 the losses which literature sustains from time to time, 

 we cannot permit tlie death of Tiiomas Amyot, the 

 learned Director of the Camden Society, and for so many 

 years the 'i'reasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, to 

 pass without rendering our grateful tribute to the 

 memory of one of the most intelligent and kindest- 

 hearted men that ever breathed ; from whom we, in 

 common with so many otliers, when entering on our 

 literary career, received the most friendly assistance, 

 and the most encouraging sympathy. 



Every fifty years commences a discussion of the 

 great question when the cnrront century, or half cen- 

 tury, ])roperly begins. We have just seen this in the 

 numerous Queries, Answers, Replies, and Rejoinders 

 upon the subject which have appeared in the columns 

 of tlie daily and weekly i)ress; the only regular trea- 

 tise being the essay upon Ancient and Moikrii Usnye. in 

 lieckiininy, by Professor De Morgan, in the Companion 

 to the Ainiitnack for the present year. This Essay is 

 opposed to the idea of a " zero year," and one of the 

 advocates of that system of coni]nitatit)n has, therefore, 

 undertaken a defence of the zero i)rincii)le, which he 

 pronounces, "when ))roperly understood, is undoubtedly 

 the most correct b isis of reckoning," in a sm;dl volume 

 entitled, An K cami nation of the Century Question, and 

 in whicli he maintains the |ioint for which he is con- 

 tending witli considerable learning and Ingenuity. All 

 wlio are interested in the question at issue, will be at 

 once ainutied and instructed by it. 



Mr. Charles Knight announces a new edition of his 

 Pictorial Skakspeare under the title of the National 

 Edition ; to contain the whole of the Notes, Illustra- 

 tions, &c., thoroughly revised ; and which, while it 

 will be printed in a clear and beautiful type across the 

 page, and not in double columns, will have the ad- 

 vantage of being much cheaper than the edition which 

 he originally put forth. 



The Declaration of the Fathers of the Councell of Trent 

 concerning the yoiny into Churches at such Times as He- 

 reticall Service is said or Heresy preached, §-c., is a re- 

 print of a very rare tract, which possesses .some present 

 interest, as it bears upon the statement which has been 

 of late years much insisted on by Mr. Perceval and 

 other Anglican controversialists, that for the first 

 twelve years of Elizabeth's reign, and until Pius V.'s 

 celebrated Bull, Reynans in Excelsis, the Roman Ca- 

 tholics of England were in the habit of frequenting the 

 Reformed worship. 



We have received the following Catalogues : — 

 W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster 

 Road) Sixty-first Catalogue of English and Foreign 

 Second-hand Books; W. D. Reeve's (98. Chancery 

 Lane) Catalogue No. 13. of Cheap Books, many Rare 

 and Curious: R. Kimpton's (3 1. Wardour Street, Soho) 

 Catalogue No. 29. of Second-hand Books in good Con- 

 dition at very reduced Prices. 



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Cambiudge University Poll-books for 1780, 1784, 1790, and 



18-iy. 



Oxford University Poll-books for 1750, 1768, 1SC6. 

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 to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of " NOTKS AND 

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^ati(tS ta Canc^jp0ixtrcjit-?. 



VoLUJiE THE First of Notes and Queries, with 

 Tiile-paye and very copious Index, is now ready, price 

 9s. 6d., hound in cloth, and may he had, hy order, of all 

 JBoohsellers and Newsmen. 



We are unavoidahly compelled to postpone numerous 

 Notes, Queries, and Replies: indeed we see no way 

 of clearing off our accunudation of Replies without the 

 pnhUcution of an extra Number, to he denoted exclusively 

 to the 7iumerous Answers which we now have waiting for 

 insertion. 



Gutch's Literary and Scientific Register and Al- 

 manack, advertised in our last'No., is for 1 S51 7iot 1850. 



INIr. G. B. Richardson would ohlige us by forwarding 

 the addiliitnal verses of " Long Lonkin " for our cor- 

 resjiondent Sei.eucus. 



A Constant Subscriber will fnd the line, 



'• Music hatli charms to soothe the savage breast," 

 in Congreve's Mourning Bride. 



.Tanus Dousa. In our next No. 



Medic us, who inijuires resptcting the origin of the 

 proverhiid saying, " Quern Dens vnlt perdere," is referred 

 to our First Volume, jip. 347. 351. 4'21. and 476. The 

 original line reads •' Quern Jupiter vult," and is Barnes' 

 translation of a fragment <;_/' Euripides. 



