Dec. 1. 1849.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
73 
vol. ili. p.340. Perhaps after all it was only an 
allusion to the white hand of Justice, as seems 
probable from the expression Maden-Assize. 
Yours, &c. M. W. 
Noy. 17. 1849. 
P.S. Perhaps the “ Lady-bird” in Suffolk de- 
rives its episcopal title, alluded to by Lecour, from 
appearing in June, in which months falls the Fes- 
tival of St. Barnabas. 
ADVERSARIA. 
Don Quixote. 
Sir,—Have the following contradictions in Cer- 
vantes’ account of Sancho’s ass “ Dapple” ever 
been noticed or accounted for ? 
In Don Quixote, Part 1. chap. 23., we find 
Dapple’s abduction at night by Gines de Passa- 
monte; only a few lines afterwards lo! Sancho is 
seated on her back, sideways, like a woman, eating 
his breakfast. In spite of which, chap. 25. proves 
that she is still missing. Sancho tacitly admits 
the fact, by invoking “blessings on the head of 
the man who had saved him the trouble of un- 
harnessing her.” Chap. 30. contains her rescue 
from Passamonte. Metanion. 
Doctor Dove, of Doncaster. 
The names of “ Doctor Dove, of Doncaster,” and 
his steed “‘ Nobbs,” must be familiar to all the ad- 
mirers, in another word, to all the readers, of 
Southey’s Doctor. 
Many years ago there was published at Canter- 
bury a periodical work called The Kentish Register. 
In the No. for September, 1793, there is a ludi- 
crous letter, signed “ Agricola,” addressed to Sir 
John Sinclair, then President of the Royal Agri- 
cultural Society; and in that letter there is tre- 
quent mention made of “ Doctor Dobbs, of Don- 
caster, and his horse Nobbs.” This coincidence 
appears to be too remarkable to have been merely 
accidental; and it seems probable that, in the 
course of his multifarious reading, Southey had 
met with the work in question, had been struck 
with the comical absurdity of these names, and 
had unconsciously retained them in his memory. 
Je Ga Ase 
INSCRIPTION ON ANCIENT CHURCH PLATE, 
Mr. Editor, —Herewith I have the pleasure of 
sending you a tracing of the legend round a repre- 
sentation of St. Christopher, in a latten dish be- 
longing to a friend of mine, and apparently very 
similar to the alms-basins described by CLEericus 
in No. 3. 
The upper line—‘“ In Frid gichwart der,” 
written from right to left, is no doubt to be read 
thus; Derin Frid gichwart. 'The lower line con- 
tains the same words transposed, with the variation 
of “gehwart” for “ gichwart.” ‘The words geh- 
wart” and “ gichwart” being no doubt blunders 
of an illiterate artist. 
In modern German the lines would be : — 
Darin Frieden gewarte — Therein peace await, or 
look for. 
Gewarte darin Frieden — Await, or look for, therein 
peace. 
In allusion, perhaps, to the eucharist or alms, to 
hold one or the other of which the dish seems to 
have been intended. p. 
ANECDOTES OF BOOKS. 
MS. of English Gesta Romanorum. 
Your work, which has so promising a commence- 
ment, may be regarded, as in one department, a 
depository of anecdotes of books. Under this head 
I should be disposed to place Notes of former pos- 
sessors of curious or important volumes : and, as 
a contribution of this kind, I transmit a Note on 
the former possessors of the MS. of the Gesta Ro- 
manorum in English, which was presented to the 
British Museum in 1832, by the Rey. W. D. Cony- 
beare, now Dean of Llandaff, and has been printed 
at the expense of a member of the Roxburgh Club. 
It is No. 9066 of the MSS. called Additional. 
Looking at it some years ago, when I had some 
slight intention of attacking the various MSS. of 
the Gesta in the Museum, I observed the names of 
Gervase Lee and Edward Lee, written on a fly- 
leaf, in the way in which persons usually inscribe 
their names in books belonging to them; and it 
immediately occurred to me that these could be no 
other Lees than members of the family of Lee of 
Southwell, in Nottinghamshire, who claimed to 
descend from a kinsman of Edward Lee, who was 
Archbishop of York in the reign of Henry VIIL, 
and who is so unmercifully handled by Erasmus. 
The name of Gervase was much used by this family 
of Lee, and as there was in it an Edward Lee 
who had curious books in the time of Charles II., 
about whose reign the name appears to have been 
written, there can, I think, be little reasonable 
doubt that this most curious MS. formed a part of 
his library, and of his grandfather or father, Ger- 
vase Lee, before him. 
Edward Lee, who seems to have been the last of 
the name who lived in the neighbourhood of South- 
well, died on the 23rd of April, 1712, aged 76. 
That he possessed rare books I collect from this: 
that the author of Grammatica Reformata, 12mo. 
1683, namely John Twells, Master of the Free 
School at Newark, says, in his preface, that he 
owed the opportunity of perusing Matthew of 
Westminster ‘to the kindness of that learned patron 
of learning, Edward Lee, of Norwell, Esquire.” 
And now, having given you a Note, I will add 
