Apri 6. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Passage in Frith’s Works (No. 20. p.319.).— 
This passage should be read, as I suppose, ‘“‘ Ab 
inferiori ad suum superius confuse distribut.” 
It means that there would be confusion, if what 
is said distributively or universally of the lower, 
should be applied distributively or universally to 
the higher; or, in other words, if what is said 
universally of a species, should be applied univer- 
sally to the genus that contains that and other 
species: e. g., properties that are universally found 
in the human species will not be found universally 
in the genus Mammalia, and universal properties 
of Mammalia will not be universal over the animal 
kingdom. T. J. 
Martins, the Louvain Printer.— Your corre- 
spondent “ W.” (No. 12. p. 185.) is informed, that 
in Falkenstein’s Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst 
(Leipzig, 1840, p. 257.), Theodorich Martens, 
printer in Louvain and Antwerp, is twice men- 
tioned. I have no doubt but this is the correct 
German form of the name. Mertens, by which he 
was also known, may very possibly be the Flemish 
form. His Christian name was also written Die- 
rik, a short form of Dietrich, which, in its turn, is 
the same as Theodorich. NorruMan. 
Master of the Revels. —“* Dr. Rimpaurt” states 
(No. 14. p. 219.), that Solomon Dayrolle was ap- 
pointed Master of the Revels in 1744, but does 
not know the date of his decease. It may be 
unknown to Dr. Rimbault, that Solomon Day- 
rolles was an intimate friend and correspondent of 
the great Lord Chesterfield: the correspondence 
continues from 1748 to 1755 in the selection of 
Chesterfield’s letters to which I am referring. 
Dayrolles, during all that period, held a diplo- 
matic appointment from this country at the Hague. 
See Lord Chesterfield’s letter to him of the 22d 
Feb. 1748, where Lord C. suggests that by being 
cautious he (Dayrolles) may be put en train d étre 
Monsieur 0 Envoye. 
In several of the letters Chesterfield warmly 
and familiarly commends his hopeful son, Mr. 
Stanhope, to the care and attention of Dayrolles. 
Lhave not been able to ascertain when Dayrolles 
died, but the above may lead to the discovery. 
W. H. Lami. 
French Maxim. —The French saying quoted by 
“R.V.” is the 223rd of Les Réflexions morales du 
Due de la Rochefoucauld (Pougin, Paris, 1839). 
I feel great pleasure in being able to answer your 
correspondent’s query, as I hope that my reply may 
be the means of introducing to his notice one of the 
most delightful authors that has ever yet written ; 
one who deserves far more attention than he appears 
to receive from general readers in this degenerate 
age, and from whom many of his literary succes- 
sors have borrowed some of their brightest 
thoughts. I need not go far for an illustration : 
“ Praise undeserved, is scandal in disguise,” 
is merely a condensation of, 
“ Louer les princes des vertus qu’ils n’ont pas, e’est 
leur dire impunément des injures.” 
La Rochefoucauld, Max. 327. 
I believe that Pope marks it as a translation—a 
borrowed thought—not as a quotation. He has just 
before used the words “your Majesty;” and I 
think the word “ scandal” is employed “ consulto,” 
and alludes to the offence known in English law as 
“ scandalum magnatum.” Your correspondent 
will, of course, read the work in the original ; in 
fact, he must do so per force. A good translation 
of Les Maximes is still a desideratum in English 
literature. I have not yet seen one that could lay 
claim even to the meagre title of mediocrity; al- 
though I have spared neither time nor pains in the 
search. Should any of your readers have been 
more fortunate, [ shall feel obliged by their refer- 
ring me to it. Meranion. 
Endeavour.—I have just found the following 
instance of “endeavour” used as an active verb, 
in Dryden’s translation of Maimboure’s History of 
the League, 1684. 
« On the one side the majestique House of Bourbon, 
. and on the other side, that of two eminent fami- 
lies which endeavour’d their own advancement by its 
destruction ; the one is already debas’d to the lowest 
degree, and the other almost redue’d to nothing.”—p., 3. 
C. Forzzs. 
Temple. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Epigram by La Monnoye.—It has been inge- 
niously said, that “ Life is an epigram, of which 
death is the point.” Alas for human nature! good 
points are rare; and no wonder, according to this 
wicked, but witty, 
EPIGRAM BY LA MONNOYE. 
The world of fools has such a store, 
That he who would not see an ass, 
Must bide at home, and bolt his door, 
And break his looking: glass. S. W. Ss. 
Mickleham, Dee 10. 1849. 
Spur Money. —'Two or three years since, a 
party of sappers and miners was stationed at 
Peterborough, engaged in the trigonometrical 
survey, when the officer entered the cathedral 
with his spurs on, and was immediately beset by 
the choristers, who demanded money of him for 
treading the sacred floor with armed heels. Does 
any one know the origin of this singular custom ? 
I inquired of some of the dignitaries of the Ca- 
thedral, but they were not aware even of its exist- 
ence. The boys, however, haye more tenacious 
memories, at least where their interest is concerned; 
but we must not look to them for the origin of a 
