| dini, 1753. 
| serving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. 
| Fes. 2. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Antony Alsop.— Will any of your correspondents 
kindly tell me who Antony Alsop was? A thin 
4to. volume of Latin Odes was published in 1753, 
with the following title: “ Antonii Alsopi Adis 
Christi olim Alumni Odarum Libri Duo,” Lon- 
They are extremely elegant, and de- 
Thave also another volume, “ Latin and English 
Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College, Oxford,” 
4to. London, 1738. In this latter volume, with 
but two or three exceptions, the poems are very 
obscene, yet I find one or two of Alsop’s odes in 
it. Could any of your readers tell me if both vo- 
lumes are by the same author? Was Alsop at 
Trinity College and subsequently a student of 
Christ Church ? 
Derivations of ‘ Calamity,’ and “ Zero;” and 
meaning of “ Prutenice.”’ — Will some of your cor- 
respondents give the derivations of Calamity and 
Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenice, 
used by Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical 
work on the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies ? 
F. S. Marti. 
Jew's- Harp. —What is the origin of the term 
Jew’s-Harp, applied to a well-known musical 
toy ? Me.anton. 
Sir G. Wyattville. —J. P. would be glad to be 
informed in what year Sir G. Wyattville was 
knighted ? 
Sparse. — Aslam “less an antique Roman than 
a Dane,” I wish to know what authority there is 
for the use of this word, which is to be found in a | 
leading article of The Times, January 8th, 1850? 
—‘“ A sparse and hardy race of horsemen.” 
should like to see this among the Queries, but I 
send it as a protest. 
“ Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem.” 
C. Forzgs. 
The word “ Peruse.” —T find the word Peruse 
employed as a substantive, and apparently as 
equivalent to Examination, in the following part of 
a sentence in the martyr Fryth’s works, Russell’s | pi RE jody of dhiatiukle abe 
ed., p. 407.: —‘“* He would have been full sore | eae geen ski ae aa 
ashamed so to have overseen himself at Oxford, at | 
a peruse.” 
Can any of your correspondents cite a corre- 
still retained at Oxford as the name of any aca- 
demic exercise ? H.W. 
French Maxim. — Who is the author of the fol- 
lowing French saying ? — 
“ U’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la 
vertu.” R. V. 
Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi.— Tf “S. W. 
Sixcer” can give information as to what convent, 
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sponding instance of its use, or say whether it is | 
English or foreign, the sisters Ave Trici and 
Gheeze Ysenoudi, mentioned in his note on Otloh, 
state themselves (or are assumed) to have be- 
longed, he will much oblige, by doing so, H. L. B. 
A Latin Verse.— Every body has seen the fol-* 
lowing quotation — 
«“ Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,” 
and every body thinks he knows from whence it 
istaken. Which of your readers can verify it ? 
EV. 
Table-Book. — Can any of your readers refer 
me to a museum containing a specimen of an 
ancient table-book? Douce had one, which was 
in Mr. Rodd’s catalogue, but now sold ; and Hone 
also possessed one. ‘These two, and another in 
the hands of a friend of mine, are the only specimens 
I have heard of ; but they are not quite as old or as 
genuine as one could wish. J. O. HaLriwe.u. 
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Origin of Name “ Polly.” — Will you allow me 
to ask how persons of my name came to be called 
Polly ? Mary. 
Tomlinson, of Southwingfield, Derbyshire. — 
The parochial register of the parish of Southwing- 
field, in the county of Derby, contains, among its 
earliest entries (A. D. 1586), the name of ‘Temlin- 
son, as then resident therein. The family, to the 
present time, continues to reside within the parish, 
as respectable yeomen, and has thence extended 
itself to many of the neighbouring parishes, as 
well as to more distant localities. Blore’s History 
of Southwingfield makes no mention of such a 
family connected with the parish, as tenants or 
otherwise; nor does it appear that there is at 
present any family of Tomlinson bearing arms 
that can have been derived from any of the ancient 
lords of Wingfield. The wills at Lichfield, to 
whose registry Southwingfield belongs, are in a 
very dilapidated and unsatisfactory state, at the 
time immediately preceding the commencement 
of the Southwingfield parochial register. Pro- 
bably some genealogist will be enabled to offer a 
suggestion as to the means which are available for 
to the 
year 1586. Ages 
The Phrase “ To have a Button in the Room,” 
and “ Sally.” —I have again been reading that 
most amusing book, Zhe Lives of the Norths. At 
p- 88. of vol. i. (edit. 1826) there is a passage which 
has always puzzled me. Speaking of some law 
proceedings in which the Lady Dacres was con- 
cerned, Roger North says: — 
“ And herein she served herself another way, for her 
adversary defamed her for swearing and unswearing, 
and it was not amiss to have a button in the room.” 
At p.92. (post) there is another strange ex- 
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