Fes. 9. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Praise undeserved. — The correct quotation, re- 
ferred to in No. 14. p. 222., is 
« Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.” 
It is by Mr. Br st, author of a copy of verses 
called the British Beauties. 
“hiatus,” which in this case is not “‘maxime de- 
flendus,” because I have now no time to search 
the Museum Catalogue. I apprehend that the 
author belonged to the “mob of gentlemen who 
wrote with ease,” as it is something like Savage’s 
“tenth transmitter” (which, by the bye, your cor- 
respondent, Mr. Gutch, should have said is said 
to be Pope’s) —his only good line. Here is my 
authority : 
EpickaM 
On a certain line of Mr. Br , author of a copy of 
verses called the “ British Beauties.” — From the “ Gar- 
LAND,” a collection of Poems, 1721. 
«“ When one good line did much my wonder raise 
In Br st’s works, I stood resolved to praise; 
And had, but that the modest author cries, 
Praise undeserv’d is sutire in disguise.” 
I would add, that I believe this Epigram to be 
Dr. Kenrick’s, Goldsmith’s old persecutor in later 
years. James H. FRIswE.u. 
French Maxim. —I1 beg to inform your corre- 
spondent “R. V.,” in reply to his query (No. 14. 
p- 215.), that the maxim quoted is the 218th of 
Rochefoucauld: “ L’hypocrisie est un hommage 
que le vice rend 4 la vertu.” J.H.F. 
Singular Motto.— The “singular motto” which 
oceasions “P. H. F.’s” wonder (No.14. p.214.), is, 
without doubt, a cypher, and only to be rendered 
by those who have a Key. Such are not unfrequent 
in German, Austrian, or Bohemian Heraldry. 
J.H.F. 
Discurs. Modest. — At p. 205. No. 13., your 
correspondent N. replies to A. T.’s query, that 
“there can be no reasonable doubt, that the 
original authority for Rem _ transubstantiationis 
i ne attigisse quidem is William Watson in 
is Quodlibet, ii. 4. p. 31.” 
By a note of mine, I find that this secular 
priest, W. Watson, lays the expression in question 
to the charge of the Jesuits as “an heretical and 
most dangerous assertion of theirs.” Admitting, 
therefore, the Discurs. Modest. to have been pub- 
lished after Watson's Decacordon, i.e. later than 
1602 (which can hardly be doubted), still the 
further question remains to be asked: “ In what 
writings of the Jesuits, prior to 1602, had W. 
Watson himself found these words, with which he 
charges them?” Should you think this further 
query of importance enough to find a place in 
your paper, perhaps some one of your readers 
might throw yet another ray of light upon this 
subject. J. 
Oxford. 
_Pallace (No. 13. p. 202.).— Mr. Halliwell, in 
his Dictionary of Archaic, §c. Words, explains this 
ia peaatini caliaroperte | word as used in Devonshire : — 
« Palace, a Storehouse.” — Devon. “ At Dartmouth, 
I am told there are some of these storehouses, called 
palaces, cut out of the rock, still retaining the name.” 
— MS. Devon. Gloss. C. W. G. 
Meaning of “ Pallace.” —The term “ Pallace” 
(No. 13. p. 202.) is applied in Totnes to denote a 
landing-place inclosed by walls, but not roofed in. 
Many of these “ pallaces” have been converted 
into coal-cellars. Perhaps pales may have been 
used originally to form these inclosures in lieu of 
walls; and hence the word “pallace” would 
mean a place paled in. I find repeated mention 
made of ‘“pallaces” in a schedule attached to a 
deed of the Corporation of Totnes, bearing date 
September 18th, 1719, a copy of which is now 
before me, and from it the following extracts are 
taken : — 
“One linney and two pallaces or yards.” 
“* All those houses, rooms, cellars and pallaces.” 
“ All that great cellar lately rebuilt, and the plott of 
ground or pallace thereto belonging lately converted 
into a cellar.” 
“ All that little cellar and palluce lately rebuilt, and 
the kay or landing-place thereto belonging, and 
‘near adjoyning unto and upon the river Dart.” 
“ And the little pallace or landing-place.” 
Apropos of landing-places, it may interest some 
of your readers to learn that the very stone upon 
which Brutus, the nephew of Mneas, landed at 
Totnes, still remains! It is inserted in the foot- 
way nearly opposite the Mayoralty-house in the 
Fore Street. “From Totnes, the neighbouring 
shore was heretofore called Totonese: and the 
British History tells us, that Brutus, the founder 
of the British nation, arrived here; and Havillanus 
[John de Alvilla or Hauteville, according to Mr. 
Wright] as a poet, following the same authority, 
writes thus : — 
“Inde dato cursu, Brutus comitatus Achate 
Gallorum spoliis cumulatis navibus zequor 
Exarat, et superis auraque faventibus usus, 
Littora felices intrat Totonesia portus.” 
“ From hence great Brute with his Achates stcer’d, 
Full fraught with Gallic spoils their ships appear’d; 
The Winds and Gods were all at their command, 
And happy Totnes shew'd them grateful land.” 
Gibson’s Camden. 
Totnes is made mention of in the ZLais de 
Marie : — 
“Tl tient sun chemin tut avant. 
A la mer vient, si est passer, 
En Toteneis est arriver.” — Lui d’Eliduc. 
J. Micner Barry, M.D. 
Totnes, Devon, Jan, 30. 1850, 
