Nov. 16. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



411 



Savoy, married and had Victor Amadeus III., who 

 married jMaria Antoinetta of Spain, and had: — 

 1. Charles Emmanuel IV., wlio died witliout issue, 

 and, 2. Victor Emmanuel V., who married an 

 Austrian Archduchess ; his eldest daughter mar- 

 ried Francis IV. Dulce of Modena. She died be- 

 tween A.D. 1841 — 184G, I believe, and left four 

 childi-en : — 1. Francis V., Duke of Mcdena. 2. The 

 wife of Henri, Comte de Chambord. 3. Ferdinand. 

 4. Marie, wife of Don Juan, brother of the pre- 

 sent de jure King of Spain, Carlos VI. J. K. 



Nicholas Bretons Fantastieks (Vol. ii., p. 375.). 

 — In reply to the second Bibliographical Query of 

 J. Mt., Edinburgh, respecting Nicholas Breton's 

 Fantaslichs, I beg to intbrm him that my copy 

 is perfect, and contains twenty-two leaves. The 

 title is Fantastieks : scnung fur a perpetuall 

 Prognostication, with the subjects of the twenty- 

 four Descants, as they are called, in prose, con- 

 tained in the volume. 4to. bl. Ictt. London : 

 Printed for Francis Williams, 1626. After this is 

 a dedication " To the worshipfuU and worthy 

 knight Sir Markc Ive, of Rivers Hall, in Essex ; " 

 and a short address " To the Header," one leaf. 

 It is an entertaining work, and contains some 

 curious and useful remarks on our ancient man- 

 ners, customs, and liabits. My copy had succes- 

 sively belonged to Garrick, Fillingham, and Heber ; 

 the latter of whom has written in it, " V/ho has 

 ever seen auolher copy ?" 



T. C. 



Strand. 



Gaudentio di Lucca (Vol. ii., pp.247. 298. 327-). 

 — The llev. Simon Bering(on, the author of The 

 Memoirs of Gaudentio di Lucca, " of whom" Mr. 

 CaossLEY (Vol. ii., p. 328.) " regrets that so little 

 is known," was the fourth son of John Berington, 

 of Winesley, co. Hereford, Esquire, by Elizabeth, 

 daugliter of Sir Thomas \Volrich, of Dudmaston, 

 CO. Salop, Bart. He was born 1679. He studied 

 and took holy orders at Douay College. 



W.L. 



Nov. 3. 1850. 



Weights for weighing Coins (Vol. ii., p. 326.). — 

 I am able to supply H. E. witli a reference to this 

 subject of an earlier date than those he quotes. 

 In the IMS. Computus or Accounts of Sibton Abbey, 

 in Suff(dh, in my possession, occurs the following 

 item, under the year 1363-4 : 



" Va (Ic ix d. pro ij paribus I5alaunccs pro aurc pon- 

 derand'." 



The followingc.xtract,aUhoughof later date than 

 H. E. require", may yet be not without its use to 

 him in illustralif)n of the suijject. It occurs in the 

 Compotus of a collegiate establishment at Metting- 

 liam, Suffolk, from an eailier volume of which 

 some extracts were furnished to the Archwologieal 

 Journal (vol. vi. ]). 62.). It is as follows, under 

 the year 1464 : — 



" Item in ponderibus pro novo auro ponderant' s' 

 nobili xs. di. nobyl et quadrant' ejusdem cunagii et pro 

 nobili de vjs. viij d. di. nobil et quadrant' et minoribus 

 pondeiibus iitrlusqiie cunagii cum le Scolys et Copliino 

 pro eisdcm. ijs.jd." 



The "new gold" is of coui-se the reduced 

 coinage of Edward IV. I conclude that the nobles 

 of 6«. 8d. were the same as the angels. C. K. M. 



3Irs. Partington (Vol. ii., p. 377.). — Ignorans 

 no doubt refers to the oft-repeated allusion to 

 "Dame Partington and her mop;" and taking it 

 for granted that he does so, I will enlighten him a 

 little on the subject. The " original Mrs. Par- 

 tington " was a respectable old lady, living at Sid- 

 mouth in Devonshire : her cottage was on the 

 beach, and during an awful storm (that, I think, 

 of Nov. 1824, when some fifty or sixty sliips were 

 wrecked at Plymouth) the sea rose to such a 

 height as every now and then to invade the old 

 lady's place of domicile : in fact, almost every wave 

 dashed in at the door. Mrs. Partington, with such 

 help as she could command, with mops and brooms, 

 as fast as the water entereil the house, mnj)ped it 

 out again ; until at length the waves had the mas- 

 tery, and the dame was compelled to retire to an 

 upper story of the house. I well recollect reading 

 in the Devonshire newspapers of the time an 

 account similar to the above : but the first allusion 

 to the circumstance was, I think, made by Lord 

 Brougham in his celebrated speech in the House 

 of Commons on the Reform Bill, in which he com- 

 pared the Conservative opposition to the bill to be 

 like the opposition of " Dame Partington and her 

 mop, who endeavoured to mop out the waves of 

 the Atlantic." Robert Cole. 



3Irs. Partington. — Mr. Greene, the witty editor 

 of the Boston (NE.) Post, is believed to be the 

 original of Mrs. Partington : at least he fathei's all 

 her sayings. He began to print them about twelve 

 or fifteen years ago. G. M. B. 



[G. M. B. has also kindly forwarded to us some of 

 " Mrs. Pariinijions Queries " from a recent number of 

 the Boston Post, from which we select a couple of 

 specimens, viz... — 



" Wlietlier the Emperor of China is a/(orce?n(« statue 

 or a mere fiction?" 



" Is the Great Seal alive, or only stuffed ? " ] 



The East Anglian Word " Mauthcr " (Vol. ii., 

 pp. 217. 365.). — Skinner's note on this word is 



" Mawther, vox Norfolcicnsi agro jieculiaris: Spcliiinn 

 ipse eodeni agro ortus a Dan. Moer, Virgo, i'uella, 

 deflt'ctif. Possit tamen et declinari a Bel}?. Mnegd, 

 Teut. Mar/d, idem signante, addita term, er vel der, ut 

 in proximo agro Lincolniensi in vocibiis Jliecler ct 

 Sheeder qiuc Marem et Fcminam notant. Author 

 Diet. Angl. scrihit Moildcr, ct cum Killano deducit a 

 Belg. Moddc, Moddcliai, \'\.\\i[\, I'uella, V'irgincula." — 

 Eti/mol. sub voce. 



"Webster nu,'rely gives (with strange neglect, 

 having Skinner before him) : 



