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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 50. 



8U0 utilia vel noxia alien! consilia indigerent." 

 Annah vi. 46. Suetonius says: " Valetudine pros- 

 perriina usus est, — quaiuvis a tricesimo ajtatis 

 anno arbitratu earn suo rexerit, sine adjumento 

 consiliove niedicoruin" Z'/ft. c. 68. And Plutarch, 

 in iiis jjrecepts de Valetudine tiiendd, c. 49., says — 

 " 'HKovaa TtSepiiv irore Kalaapa flirfii/, iis ai/rjp vwip 

 tli]K0V7a [sic vulgo, sed bene corrigit Lipsius ad Tac. 

 loc. cit. TpittKoj/ra] yeyovws %rri, KoX -nporiivuv laTp^ 

 X€ipa, KaToyeA.atrTrfs iariv." 



These passages suflSciently indicate the origin 

 of the saying ; but who first gave it the pointed 

 form in which we now have it, by coupling Jbol 

 with physician, I am not able to tell. 



The authority for giving the other saying to 

 Pompey, is Plutarch, who says that when Pompey, 

 after his return from Africa, applied to the senate 

 for the honour of a triumpli, he was opposed by 

 Sylla, to whom he observed, ""On -hv i)\tui' di'a.re\- 

 Xovra Tr\(iov(S ?) Svdufyov TroocrKvvovmv, that more 

 worship the rising than the setting sun — intimat- 

 ing that his own power was iiicrea.«ing, and that of 

 Sylla verijins; to its fall. ( Vit. Pomp. c. 22.) 



Stockwell, Sept. 7. 



Papers of Perjury (Vol. ii., p. 182.). — In 

 the absence of a " graphic account," it may in- 

 terest your correspondent S. R. to be referred 

 to the two following instances of " perjurers wear- 

 ing papers denoting their crime.' In Macht/ns 

 Diari), edited by the accomplished antiquary, John 

 Gough Nichols, Esq., and published by the Cam- 

 den Society, at p. 104. occurs the following : — 



" A.D. 1556, April 28th. . . . The sam day was sett 

 on the pelere in Cliepe iij. [men ; two] was for the 

 prcuerment of wyllfuU perjure, the iij. was for wyllfuU 

 perjure, wilh paper sett over their hedes." 



In the same works at p. 250., we have also this 

 additional illustration : 



«' A. D 1560 — 1. The xij. day of Feybruary xj. 

 men of the North was of a quest ; because they gayfF 

 a wrong evyde [nee, and] thay ware paper a-pon their 

 hedes for perjure." 



J. Goodwin. 



Birmingham. 



Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury. — Being ac- 

 quainted with the road to which your correspon- 

 dent S. H. (Vol. ii., p. 237.) alludes, he will, per- 

 haps, allow me to say, that in the neighbourhood 

 of Kemsing a tradition is current, that a certain 

 line of road, which may be traced from Otford to 

 Wrotham, was the pilgrims' road from Winchester 

 to Canterbury. How far this may be correct I 

 know not. 



I have not been able to discover any road in the 

 neighbourhood of this city which goes by the name 

 of the pilgrims' road. 



If any of your correspondents would furnish any 



particulars respecting this road, I shall feel much 

 obliged. R. V. 



Winchester. 



_ Capture of Henry VI. (Vol. ii., p. 228.). —In 

 his correction of your correspondent, Clericus 

 Cravensis, ilR. XicHOLS States : — 



" Both Sir John Tempest and Sir James Harrington, 

 of Brierley, near Barnesley, were concerned in the 

 king's capture, and each received 100 marks reward ; 

 but the fact of Sir Thomas Talbot being the chief 

 actor, is shown by his having received the larger reward 

 of 100/." 



In this statement appears entirely to have been 

 overlooked the grant of lands made by King 

 Edward IV. to Sir James Harrington — 



" For his services in taking prisoner, and withholding 

 as such in diligence and valour, his enemy Henry, 

 lately called King Heniy VI."' 



This grant, which was confirmed in Parliament, 

 embraced the castle, manor, and domain of Thur- 

 land ; a park, called Fayzet Whayte Park, with 

 lands, &c in six townships in the county of Lan- 

 caster ; lands at Burton in Lonsdale, co. York ; 

 and Holme, in Kendal, co. Westmoreland, the for- 

 feited lands of Sir Iiichard Tunstell, and other 

 "rebels." So considerable a recognition of the 

 services of Sir James Harrington would seem to 

 demand something more than the second-rate posi- 

 tion given to them by your correspondent. The 

 order to give Sir James Harrington possession of 

 the lands under his grant will be found in llymer. 

 The grant itself is printed in the Nugce Antiques., 

 by Henry Harrington, 1775 (vol. ii. p. 121.), and 

 will, I believe, be found in Baines' Lancashire. 

 !Mr. Henry Harrington observes that the lands 

 were afterwards lost to his family by the misfor- 

 tune of Sir James and his brother being on the 

 wrong side at Bosworth Field ; after which they 

 were botli attainted for serving Iiichard III. and 

 Edward IV., " and commanding the party which 

 seized Henry VI. and conducted him to the 

 Tower." H. K. S. C. 



Brixton. 



Andreiv Becket (Vol. ii., p. 266.), about whom 

 A. W. Ham.mond inquires, when I knew him, 

 about twelve years ago, was a strange whimsical old 

 gentleman, full of "odd crotchets," and abounding 

 in theatrical anecdote and the " gossip of the 

 green-room." But as to his ever havint; been "a 

 profound commentator on the dramatic works of 

 Shakspeare," I must beg leave to express my 

 doubts. At one period he filled the post of sub- 

 librarian to the Prince Kegent ; and that he was 

 "ardently devoted to the pursuits of literature" 

 cannot be a question. 



His published works, as far as I can learn, are 

 as follows : — 



