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NOTES AND QUElilES. 



[No. 60. 



content myself with tlie supposition tliat it is a 

 coiTuption, as it may easily be, of the coat of 

 Keynes, viz. " vair, three bars gules," the name 

 of the wife of John Speke, the great-great-jirand- 

 fatherof Sir John Speice, the founder of the chapel; 

 and this is the more probable as the arms of So- 

 master, the name of his grandfather's wife, appear 

 also in the roof of tlie same chapel. J. L). S. 



[J. D. S. is rii;ht in his blazon ; and we had been 

 requested by J. W. II. to aiiiend his Query respecting 

 this coat. — Ed.] 



" Fiat Jusiitia." — Who is the author of the 

 apophthegm — 



" Fiat justitia, mat cochnn ? " 



J. E. B. Matob. 



Painting hy C. Sega. — 

 " Wy singen vast wat nieiis, en hebben noch ecu buy t, 



Een kiaekling is ons winst, niaet tlicdlkenmoet 

 eerst wt." 



I have a small oil painting on oak panel which 

 bears the above inscription. The subject of the 

 jiainting is a boy, who holiis in liis hands a song, 

 wbicli he appears to be comnutting to memory, 

 whilst another boy is looking at the song over his 

 shoulder. " C. Bega" is written on the back of 

 the picture-frame, that evidently being the artist's 

 name. I shall feel obliged by your translating the 

 above two lines for me, and also for information as 

 to " C. Bega." W. E. Howlett. 



Kirton. 



Dai-cy Lever Church. — On the line of railway 

 from Normanton to Bolton there is a small station 

 called Darcy Lever. 



The church there struck me, on a casual view, 

 as one of the most beautiful examples of eccle- 

 siastical architecture which I have ever seen, and 

 I should therefore like very much to know the 

 date of the structure, and, if possible, the architect. 



The singularity which attracts attention is the 

 delicate tracery of the spire, which I should wish 

 to see largely imitated. E. 



li. Ferrer. — I have a drawing, supposed to be of 

 Sir W. Raleigh by liimsclf when in the Tower : 

 it came from Daniel's Histori; of Henry VIL, and 

 below it was written, 



" II. Ferrer, 



Nee Prece nee Prctio " 



Could the " Notes and Queries" ask if anvthing 

 is known of this H. F. ? II. W. D. 



Writers on the Inquisition. — In the English 

 edition of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary., 

 article " Inquisition," I find, among other authors 

 on that subject who are cpioted, llicscas, Salazar, 

 Mendo^a (sic : Query, Salasar y Mendo(;a ?), Fer- 

 nandez, Placentinus, Marsilius, Grillandus, and 

 Locatus. Can any of your bibliographical friends 

 give me any information as to these authors or 

 their works ? Let me at the same time ask in- 



formation respecting Bordoni, the author of Sa- 

 crum Tribunal Tndicum in causis sanctcB fidei con- 

 tra Hereticos, Sj'c, Rome, 1648. Iota. 



Buchden (Vol.ii., p. 446.). — Will M. C. R. ex- 

 plain his allusion to " tlie abbot's house" at 

 Buckden. I am not aware of Buckden having 

 been the seat of a monastic establishment. Perhaps 

 what he calls " the abbot's house " is part of the 

 palace of the bishops of Lincoln. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, December 2. 1 850. 



True Blue. — Query the origin of the term 

 "True Blue." After the la])se of a few years it 

 seems to have been applied inditl'erently to Pres- 

 byterians and Cavaliers. An amusing series of 

 passages might be perhaps gathered exemplifying 

 its use even to the [(resent time. The colour and 

 "cry" True Blue are now almost monopolised by 

 the Tory jjarty, although there are exceptions — 

 Westmoreland and Yorkshire, for instance. 



Viator. 



Pas.inge in Hamlet. — In Mr. C. Knight's 

 " Library," "Pictorial," and "Cabinet" editions of 

 Sbaks])eare, the following novel reading is given 

 without note or conunent to say why the univer- 

 sally received text has been altered. It occurs in 

 Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 7. 



Ham. " Staid it long? 



lior. " While one with rr.cdern haste might tell a 

 liundred." 



As Mr. Knight is now publishing a "National" 

 edition of Shakspeare, jierhaps you will allow me 

 tlirough your pages to ask for his authority for 

 this change of" moderate" to "modern," in order 

 that his new reading may either be justified or 

 abandoned. J. J. M. 



Inventor of a secret Cypher. ^1 think that there 

 was in the fifteenth century a Frenchman so pro- 

 found a calculator that he discovered lor the King 

 of France a secret cypher, used by tiie court of 

 Spain. I saw a notice of him in Collier's great 

 Dictionary, but have forgotten him, and should 

 like to renew my acquaintance. 



TYKO-ETyMOIiOGICUS. 



Fossil Elk of Ireland. —Can any of your learned 

 readers give me information on the fossil elk of 

 Ireland — Cervus Megaceros, Cervus Giganteus of 

 Goldsmith? It is stated to be found in various 

 countries, as France, Germany, and Italy, besides 

 England and Ireland. In the Royal Dublin Society 

 museum there is, I am told, a rib of this animal 

 which has the ajijiearance of having been wounded 

 by some sharp instrument, which remained long 

 fixed in the bone, but not so deeply as to affect 

 the creature's life. It seemed to be such a wound 

 as the head of an arrow would produce. 



It has been by some thought to be the " Sech" 

 of Celtic tradition. I have learned that the last 

 specimen was shot so lately as 1533, and that a 



