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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 58. 



jects ? In Withering's Arrangement of British 

 Plants, 7th edit., vol. ili., p. 734., 1830, the Welsh 

 name of Antirrhinum Sinaria, or common yellow 

 toad-flax, is stated to be Gingroen fechan. 



I must still invite further explanation. A. T. 



Michael Scott (Vol. ii., p. 120.). — A correspond- 

 ent wishes to know what works of Michael Scott's 

 have ever bein printed. In John Chapman's 

 Catalogue for June, 1850, I see advertised 

 " Michael Scott's Physionomia, Venet. 1532. 



Chyromantia del Tricasso da Ceresari, 



2 vols, in 1, 15.'32." 



H. A.B. 



The Widow of the Wood (Vol. ii., p. 406.). — 

 Your correspondent is referred to Lowndes's 

 Bibliographical Manual, vol. iii. p. 18C8, for some 

 mention of this work. It is there stated that the 

 late eminent conveyancer, Francis Hargreave, the 

 step-son of the lady, " bought up and destroyed 

 every copy of this work that he could procure." 



J. H. M. 



Bath. 



The Widoic of the Wood, 1775, 12mo., pp. vi. 

 and 208. (Inquired after at Vol. ii., p. 406.) — 

 I have this book. It appears to be a Narrative of 

 Complaint of the widow of "John ^^'h — y, Esq.," 

 of " Great H-y-w — d" (Great Heywood, near 

 Stafford), against Sir W — m W — y in the same 

 neighbourhood. Thomas Keeslake. 



Bristol. 



Modum Promissionis (Vol. ii., pp 279. 347.). — 

 Your correspondent C. II. has not solved my dif- 

 ficulty as to modum promissionis. In the hope that 

 he, or others, will still kindly endeavour to do so, 

 I subjoin the context in which it stands : — 



" Noluit Jetliro legem posteris figere : sed, quoad 

 quietam stationeni adeptus essct populus, remedium 

 prfeseiitihus incommodis, atquo (ut vulgo loquitur) 

 modum promissionis ostendit." 



An old French translation renders it : — 



" II n'a point done voulu mcttrc loy pour la posterite : 

 mais seuleraent remedier aux iiiconimoditez presentes 

 par maniere de provision (comme on dit)," &c. 



The general import of the passage is, that 

 Jethro's counsel to Moses, as to the appointment 

 of rulers over the people, was not intended to 

 apply to Canaan, but only to their sojourn in the 

 wilderness. 



I do not see how the " formula professionis mo- 

 nasticse" helps us; unless, indeed, " modus pro- 

 missionis" were a kind of temporary and condi- 

 tional vow, which does not appear in Ducancje. 



C. W. B. 



End of Easter (A'^ol. ii., p. 9.). — Sliould not 

 the end of Easter be considered its octave — Low 

 Sunday ? J. W. H. 



First Earl of Roscotnmnn (Vol. ii., p. 325.). — 

 There was, in the burying-ground of Kilkenny- 



West, some thirty-five years or more ago, an old 

 tombstone belonging to the Dillon family, on 

 which was traced the genealogy of the Roscommon 

 branch from one of the sons of the first earl (if I 

 remember right, the thiid or fourth), down to a 

 Thomas, who had, I have heard my father say, a 

 son called Garrett, who had issue two sons, Patrick 

 and Thomas. Patrick was always, in that part of 

 the country, cmisidered the heir to this title. 

 Patrick and Thomas had issue, (living or dead I 

 know not), but should imagine dead; as, had they 

 been living, they would no doubt have come for- 

 ward when the late earl claimed the title, as he 

 claimed it as being descended from the youngest 

 son of the first earl, whereas Patrick and Thomas 

 were certainly the descendants of one of the elder 

 sons of the first earl; and therefore, had the sons 

 of either Patrick or Thomas come forward, it 

 would no doubt have been decided in their favour. 

 On this account, it was several years before the 

 late earl's claim was fully confirmed, as it was 

 thought that some of the descendants of the elder 

 branches might come forward. This would have 

 attracted my attention earlier had I not been abroad. 



An HlBEKNlAN. 



Mivart's Hotel, London. 



Drydens " Ahsolom and AchitopheV (Vol. ii. 

 p. 423.). — The passage in Absalom and Achitophel 

 is taken from Fuller's Profane State, speaking of 

 Alva : 



" He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his 

 eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, de- 

 sired to fret a passage through it ;" 



and from Carew, p. 71., 



" The purest soul that ere was sent 

 Into a clayey tenement." 



C. B. 



Cabalistic Author (Vol. ii., p. 424.).— "W. C. 

 or twice five hundred." The meaning is very 

 evident. V. signifies five, and C. one hundred. 

 AV. is two Vs, therefore W. C. twice five hundred. 



Terra Martis. 



[Another correspondent points out that W. C, the 

 author, may probably be IVilliam Cooper the printer.] 



Twichenham — Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there* 

 (Vol. ii., p.408.).— 



" At Twickenham Park, either in this [1592] or 

 the following year, through the immediate interest of 

 his steady patron, the Earl of Essex, Mr. Francis 

 Bacon had the honour of entertaining Queen Elizabeth, 

 where he presented her with the sonnet in honour of 

 that generous nobleman." — Nichols's Progresses of 

 Queeti Eliz., 2d ed. iii. p. 190. 



J. L D. 



Legend of a Saint and Crazier (Vol. ii., p. 267.) 

 — The incident is related of St. Patrick and one of 

 the kings of Cashel, and formed the subject of the 

 first picture exhibited by James Barry. In the 



