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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 15. 
“JT have poached in Suidas for unlicensed Greek” 
— have applied to my various antiquarian friends 
(many of whose names I was delighted to recog- 
nise among the brilliant galaxy that enlightened 
your first number) but hitherto all in vain ; and 
{ am reduced to acknowledge the truth of the old 
proverb, “ A may ask more questions in an 
hour than a wise man can answer im seven 
years :” — 
I. “ For thus will most truly be verified the saying of 
the poet, ‘ A good wife, by obeying her husband, shall 
bear the rule, so that he shall have a delight and a 
gladness the sooner at all times to return home to her.’ 
But, on the contrary part, ‘when the wives be stub- 
born, froward, and malapert, their husbands are com- 
pelled thereby to abhor and flee from their own houses, 
even as they should have battle with their enemies.’”-— 
Homily on Matrimony, p. 450, ed. Oxford, 1840. 
Query — Who is the poet 2 
II. “ Let no good and discreet subjects, therefore, fol - 
low the flag or banner displayed to rebellions, and borne 
by rebels, though it have the image of the plough 
painted therein, with God speed the plough written 
under in great letters, knowing that none hinder the 
plough more than rebels, who will neither go to the 
plough themselves, nor suffer other that would go unto 
it.” —Fourth Part of the Homily against Wilful Re- 
bellion, p. 518. 
In what rebellion was such a banner carried ? 
These questions may appear very trifling; but 
each man has his hobby, and mine is, not to suffer 
a quotation to pass without verification. 
It is fortunate that I am not a despotic monarch, 
as I would certainly make it felony without benefit 
of clergy to quote a passage without giving a plain 
reference. LS. 
MINOR QUERIES. 
Pope's Translations of Horace. — In a pamphlet 
against Pope, entitled, A True Character of Mr. 
Pope and his Writings, by the author of The 
Critical History of England, written in May, 1716, 
and printed in that year, Pope is reproached with 
having just published a “libellous,” “impudent,” 
and “execrable” Imitation of Horace. Twenty 
years later such a reproach would be very intelli- 
gible; but can any one favour me with a reference 
to any Imitation of Horace, published by Pope 
prior to 1716, of which any such complaint could 
be made ? C. 
Etymology of “ Havior.”—Can any of your 
readers inform me what is the etymology of the 
word Havior, by which all park-keepers denote 
an emasculated male deer, affording good venison 
between the buck and doe season ? 
Never having seen the word written or printed, 
I am guided, in attempting to spell it, by the usual 
pronunciation. BRAyYBROOKE, 
Audley End, Feb. 2. 
Arabie Numerals. — In the Archeological Jour- 
nal (vol. vi. p. 291.), it is stated that the earliest 
“example of the use of Arabie numerals in any 
work connected with building” is the date 1445, 
on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex, though 
“they were common in MSS. after 1320, and in 
astronomieal Tracts as early as 1290.” As it is 
probable that not a few instances of the employ- 
ment of the Arabic numeral characters of an ear- 
lier date than that at Heathfield are to be met 
with in different parts of the country, will you 
permit me to make use of your paper to inquire 
whether any such are known to any of your read- 
ers, and if they will be so obliging as to communi- 
cate their knowledge through the medium of your 
columns? As the subject is one of considerable 
interest, it would be desirable that any date be- 
longing to the fifteenth or the early part of the 
sixteenth century should be made known, and 
registered in your valuable publication. 
Permit me also to ask, in connection with this 
subject, for references to any works or treatises 
supplying information on the history of the Arabic 
numerals, their origin, and their mtroduction into 
Europe. I am already acquainted with Astie, On 
Writing, Wallis’s Algebra, Nouveau Traité de Diplo- 
matique, the Huetiana, Pegge’s Life of Grostéte, 
and the Philosophical Transactions; but I wish 
for additional, and, if possible, more recent in- 
formation. 
Does any one of your readers know what became 
of the MSS. formerly im the possession of the 
above-named Thomas Astle, formerly Keeper of 
the Tower Records? In Sir W. Burrell’s Sussex 
collections in the British Museum are copies of 
charters, “ex MSS. penes T. Astle,” with notices 
of curious seals appended, which I should be glad 
to be able to inspect. E. V. 
Stephen Eiton, or Eden's “ Acta Regis Edw. II.” 
— The interesting account of St. Thomas of Lan- 
caster, with the appended queries (No. 12. p.181.), 
reminds me of the work of Stephen Eiton or 
Eden, a canon-regular of Warter, in Yorkshire, 
entitled “ Acta Regis Edwardi ii®,” which is said 
still to remain in manuscript. Where is it de- 
posited ? T. J. 
Dog Latin. — Permit me also to ask, what is the 
origin of the expression “ Dog Latin” ? T. J. 
The Cuckoo— the Welch Ambassador.—In Mid- 
dleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One, Act iv. 
sc. 5, Dampet says: — 
“ Why, thou rogue of universality, do I not know 
thee? Thy sound is like the cuckoo, the Welch Em- 
bassador.” 
And the editor of the continuation of Dodsley’s 
Collection remarks on the passage, 
““ Why the cuckoo is called the Welch Embassador, 
I know not.” 
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