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Quintus Curtius, inwhich, as it would appear, 
she criticises very freely the conduct of Alex- 
ander. ‘He reasons falsely in this case,” 
she writes on one page; and elsewhere, “J 
should have acted diametrically opposite ; I 
should have pardoned;” and again, further 
on, “J should have exercised clemency;” an 
assertion, however, we may be permitted to 
doubt, when we consider what sort of cle- 
mency was exercised towards Monaldeschi. — 
Upon the fly-leaf of a Seneca (Elzevir), she | 
“ Adversus virtutem possunt | 
has written, 
calamitates damna et ingurie quod adversus 
solem nebule possunt.” ‘The library of the 
Convent of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem at 
Rome, possesses a copy of the Bibliotheca 
Hispana, in the first volume of which the 
same princess has written on the subject of a 
book relating to her conversion *: “ Chi Tha 
scritta, non lo sa; chi lo sa, non [Tha mai 
seritta.” 
Lemontey has published some very curious 
Memoirs, which had been entirely written on 
the fly-leaves and margins of a missal by 
J. de Coligny, who died in 1686. 
Racine, the French tragic poet, was also a 
great annotator of his books ; the Bibliothéque 
National at Paris possesses a Euripides and 
Aristophanes from his library, the margins of 
which are covered with notes in Greek, Latin, 
and French. 
The books which formerly belonged to La 
Monnoie are now recognizable by the ana- 
gram of his name. A Delio nomen, and also 
by some very curious notes on the fly-leaves 
and margins written in microscopic cha- 
racters, G. J. K. 
ORIGIN OF WORD “GROG.” 
Mr. Vaux writes as follows: — Admiral 
Vernon was the first to require his men to 
drink their spirits mixed with water. In bad 
weather he was in the habit of walking the 
deck in a rough grogram cloak, and thence 
had obtained the nickname of Old Grog in the 
Service. This is, I believe, the origin of the 
name grog, applied originally to rum and 
water. I find the same story repeated in a 
quaint little book, called Pulleyn’s Etymo- 
logical Compendium. 
[A. S. has communicated a similar explanation ; 
* Conversion de la Reina de Suecia in Roma (1656). 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
TNo. 4. | 
and we are obliged to “ An ‘old Lapy who reads 
for ‘Pastime ” for kindly furnishing us with a refer- 
ence to a newly published American work, Lifts 
Sor the Lazy, where the origin of “Grog” is ex- 
plained in the same manner. 
The foregoing was already in type when we 
received the following agreeable version of the 
same story.], 
“ GROG ”— ANCIENT ALMS- 
BASINS. 
ORIGIN OF WORD 
Mr. Editor,— As a sailor's son I beg to 
answer your correspondent LrGour’s query 
concerning the origin of the word “ grog,” so 
famous in the lips of our gallant tars. Jack 
loves to give a pet nickname to his favourite 
officers. The gallant Edward Vernon (a West- 
minster man by birth) was not exempted from 
the general rule. His gallantry and ardent 
devotion to his profession endeared him to the 
service, and some merry wags of the crew, in 
an idle humour, dubbed him “ Old Grogram.” 
Whilst in command of the West Indian sta- 
tion, and at the height of his popularity on 
account of his reduction of Porto Bello with 
six men-of-war only, he introduced the use of 
rum and water by the ship’s company. When 
served out, the new beverage proved most 
palatable, and speedily grew into such favour, 
that it became as popular as the brave admiral 
himself, and in honour of him was surnamed 
by acclamation “ Grog.” 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
P.S.— There are two other alms-basins 
in §t. Margaret’s worthy of note, besides those 
I mentioned in your last number. One has 
the inscription, “Live well, die never; die 
well and live ever. a. p. 1644.W.G.” The 
other has the appropriate legend, “ Hee that 
gives too the poore lends unto thee LORD.” 
A third bears the Tudor rose in the centre. 
In an Inventory made about the early part of 
the 17th century, are mentioned “ one Bason 
given by Mr. Bridges, of brasse.” (‘The donor 
was a butcher in the parish.) “Item, one 
bason, given by Mr. Brugg, of brasse.” On 
the second basin are the arms and crest of the 
Brewers’ Company. Perhaps Mr. Brugg was 
amember of it. One Richard Bridges was a 
churchwarden, A. D. 1630— 32. MW, 
7. College Street. Nov. 17. 
