Dec. 1. 1849.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
75 
Form of Petition. 
Sir, —In reply to B. in your third number, who 
requests information as to the meaning of the 
“&e.” at the foot of a petition, I fear I must 
say, that at the present day, it means nothing at 
all. In former times it had a meaning. I send 
you a few instances from the Chancery Records of 
the year 1611. These petitions to Sir E. Phillips 
or Phelips, M. R., end thus : — 
« And he and his wife and six children shall dailie 
praie for your Worship’s health and happines ! 
« And shee shall accordinge to her bounden duetie 
pray for your good Worship in health and happinesse 
longe to continewe ! 
“ And both your said supliants and their children 
shalbe bound dailie to praie for your Worship’s health 
and happines with increase of honour !” 
These instances are taken at random from 
amongst many others. The formula, slightly varied, 
is the same in all. The modern form was, however, 
even at that early date, creeping in, for I see a 
petition to L. C. Ellesmere, of the same year, has 
“ And he shall dailie praie, &c.” 
This will probably suffice to answer B.’s Query. 
Crecit Monro. 
Registrar’s Office, Court of Chancery, 
Novy. 20. 1849. 
Greene of Greensnorton. 
Sir Thomas Greene, of Greensnorton, Co. North- 
ampton, Knt. died 30 Nov. 1506—22 Hen. VII. 
By Jane, daughter of Sir John Fogge, Knt., he left 
issue two daughters and coheirs : 
Ann, the eldest, xt. 17, at her father’s death, was 
wife of Nicholas Vaux, Lord Vaux, of Harrowden, 
who died in 1556, now represented by George 
Mostyn, Baron Vaux, and Robert Henry, Earl of 
Pembroke, and Edward Bourchier Hartopp, Esq. 
Matilda, the youngest, was aged 14 at her father’s 
death, and married Sir Thomas Parr, by whom 
she had William Marquess of Northampton (who 
died s.p. 1571); Anne, wife of William Herbert, 
Earl of Pembroke (now represented by Robert 
Henry, Earl of Pembroke) ; and Catherine, Queen 
Consort of King Henry VIII. The assumption of 
arms, by Richard Green, the Apothecary, in 1770, 
will afford no ground for presuming his descent 
from the Greensnorton family. 
Cottle’s Life of Coleridge, when reviewed in the 
Times. 
The Times review of Joseph Cottle’s Remi- 
niscences of Coleridge and Southey, appeared Nov. 
3. 1847 ; and on the following day, Mr. Thomas 
Holcroft complained by letter of a misrepresenta- 
tion of his father by Mr. Cottle. x 
Times, Herald, Chronicle, §c., when first 
established. 
We are enabled, by the courtesy of several cor- 
respondents, to furnish some reply to the Query 
of D. (No.1. p. 7.) 
The Times first appeared under that title on the 
lst January, 1788, but bore the Number 941, it 
being a continuation, under a new name, of the 
Universal Register, of which 940 numbers had been 
published. — The Morning Chronicle must have 
commenced in 1769, as a correspondent, F. B., 
writes to tell us that he possesses No 242. dated 
Monday, 12th March, 1770. See further Nichol’s 
Literary Anecdotes, i. 303, ; and for Morning Ad- 
vertiser, established in 1794, the same volume, 
.290. Another correspondent writes : — During 
1849 the Morning Chronicle has completed its 
81st year; next in seniority stands the Morning 
Post, at 77; and the Morning Herald, at 65. The 
Times, in the numbering of its days, is in its 64th 
year, but has not really reached its grand climac- 
teric, for its three years of infancy passed under 
the name of The Universal Register, it having 
only received its present appellation in the open- 
ing of 1788. The Morning Advertiser is wearing 
away its 54th year. 
The Public Ledger, commenced in 1759, or 
1760, is, however, the oldest Daily Paper. 
Dorne the Bookseller — Henno Rusticus, etc. 
Sir, — In answer to W. in page 12. of No. 1., I 
beg to suggest that Dormer, written Domr in the 
MS. — a common abbreviation — may be the name 
of the Oxford bookseller, and Henno Rusticus may 
be Homo rusticus, “ the country gentleman.” The 
hand-writing of this MS. is so small and illegible 
in some places, that it requires an Cidipus to de- 
cipher it ; and the public will have much reason 
to thank those lynx-eyed antiquaries who have 
taken great pains to render it intelligible. “The 
Sige of the End,” is of course properly explained 
to be “ the Signe of the End.” J. 1. 
SANUTO’S DOGES OF VENICE. 
Sir, — The high value of your Journal as a 
repertory of interesting literary information, which 
without it might be lost to the world, is becoming 
daily more apparent from the number and charac- 
ter of your correspondents. You have my best 
wishes for its success. 
The communication of Sir Freperick Mappen 
respecting the singular and obvious error in 
Marin Sanuto’s Lives of the Doges of Venice, has 
renewed in me a desire for information which I 
have hitherto been unable to obtain; and I will, 
therefore, with your permission, put it here as a 
Query. 
Who was the foreigner who gave to the world the 
very interesting book respecting Sanuto under the 
following title ?— Ragguagli sulla Vita e sulle Opere 
di Marin Sanuto, §c. Intitolati dal? amicizia di 
