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of a “London magistrate,” and to have “died in 
1738, at 93 or 95, immensely rich.” I should be 
glad of any clue to Pope’s allusion. J. W.C. 
Feb. 12. 1850. 
“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 
The rest is all but leather and prunello.” 
Essay on Man, Epistle 1V. 203. 
Will your correspondent “ P.C.8.S.” (No.13.), 
evidently a critical reader of Pope, and probably 
rich in the possession of various editions of his 
works, kindly inform me whether any com- 
mentator on the poet has traced the well-known 
lines that I have quoted to the “ Corcillum est, 
quod homines facit, cetera quisquilia omnia” of 
Petronius Arbiter, cap. 75.? Pope had certainly 
both read and admired the Satyricon, for he 
says : — 
«“ Fancy and art in gay Petronius please, 
The scholar’s learning with the courtier’s ease,” 
Essay on Criticism, sect. 3. 
I find no note on the lines either in the edition of 
Warton, 9 vols. 8vo., London, 1797, or in Cary’s 
royal 8vo., London, 1839; but the similarity 
strikes me as curious, and deserving further ex- 
amination. C, Forses. 
Temple. 
BELVOIR CASTLE, 
In Nichols’s History and Antiquities of the County 
of Leicester, vol. ii. part i., containing the Fram- 
land Hundred, p. 45. of the folio ed. 1795, occurs 
the following quotation, im reference to the re- 
building of Belvoir Castle by Henry, second Earl 
of Rutland, in 1555 : — 
“ That part of the more ancient building, which was 
left by both unaltered, is included in the following 
concise description by an ingenious writer, who visited 
it in 1722: — 
« ZEdes in culmine montis site ; scilicet, 
aimeia KoAcnY 
Ev wediw damdvevde, Tepidpomos vba Kat eva: 
aditu difficilis cirea montem; cujus latera omnia horti 
50 acrarum circumeunt, nisi versus Aquilonem, quo 
ascenditur ad ostium «dium, ubi etiam antiqua janua 
arcuato lapide. Versus Occidentem 8 fenestra, et 3 
in sacello; et ulterior pars vetusta, Versus Aquilonem 
10 fenestre, Facies Australis et Turris de Staunton, 
in qua archiva familiz reponuntur, extructa ante annos 
circa 400. Pars restat kernellata,” &c. &c. &e. 
The description goes on for a few more lines; 
but it matters not to continue them. I should be 
much obliged by any of your readers giving an 
account of who this “ingenious writer” was, and 
on what authority he founded the foregoing ob- 
servations, as it is a subject of much interest to 
me and others at the preseat time. ALYTHES. 
Jan. 28. 1850. 
MINOR QUERIES. 
MSS. formerly belonging to Dr. Hugh Todd. —1 
shall feel most grateful to any of your correspond- 
ents who can afford me any information, however 
imperfect, respecting the MSS. of Dr. Hugh Todd, 
Vicar of Penrith, and Prebendary of Carlisle, in 
the beginning of the last century. In the Cat. 
MSS. Anglia, &c., 1697, is a catalogue of nine- 
teen MSS. then in his possession, five of which 
are especially the subject of the present inquiry. 
One is a Chartulary of the Abbey of Fountains, 
in 4to.; another is an Act Book of the Consistory 
Court of York, in the fifteenth Century, in folio ; 
the third is the Chapter Book of the Collegiate 
Church of Ripon, from 1452 to 1506; the fourth 
contains Extracts and Manuscripts from Records 
relating to the Church of Ripon; and the last is 
apparently a Book of the Acts of the Benefactors 
to that foundation. In a letter to Humphrey 
Lawley, dated in 1713, Dr. Todd says he was en- 
gaged in a work relating to the province of York, 
and the greater part of the MSS. in the catalogue 
above mentioned appear to have been collected as 
the materials. Joun Rrcwarp WALBRAN. 
Faleroft, Ripon, Jan, 31. 1850. 
French Leave.—1In No. 5. I perceive several 
answers to the query respecting £lemish Account, 
which I presume to be the same as Dutch Account. 
Can you inform me how the very common ex- 
pression French leave originated ? W.G. B. 
Portugal, — Can any of your geographical read- 
ers inform me if a Gazetteer of Portugal has been 
published within these twenty years? If there 
has been one, In what language, and where pub- 
lished? Information of the title of any good 
modern works on Portugal, giving an account of 
the minor places, would be acceptable. 
NorTuMan. 
Tureen. — How or whence is the term “ tureen” 
derived ? — and when was it introduced ? 
« At the top there was tripe in a swinging tureen.” 
Goldsmith’s Haunch of Venison. 
G.W. 
Military Execution.—I am very anxious to be 
referred to the authority for the following anec- 
dote, and remark made on it : — 
« Some officer, or state prisoner, on being led out to 
be shot, refused either to listen to a confessor, or to 
cover his eyes with a handkerchief.” 
The remark was, that “he had refused a bandage 
for cither mind or body.” 
It smacks somewhat of Voltaire. MeEnanion, 
Change of Name. —If, as it appears by a re- 
cent decision, based, perhaps, on a former one by 
Lord Tenterden, that a man may alter his name 
