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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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as it were, surviving in Northumberland onely ; which, 
when that state of kingdome stood, was known to be a 
part of the Kingdome of Bernicia, which had peculiar 
petty kings, and reached from the River Tees to Eden- 
boreugh Frith.” 
At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of 
Berwick from Bernicia. P.C.8.S. 
Cesar’s Wife.—If the object of “Naso’s” 
Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be merely to ascertain 
the origin of the proverb, “ Czsar’s wife must_be 
above suspicion,” he will find in Suetonius (Jul. 
Cs. 74.) to the following effect : — 
“The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Cesar, 
having been mixed up with an accusation against 
P. Clodius, her husband divorced her; not, as he said, 
because he believed the charge against her, but because 
he would have those belonging to him as free from 
suspicion as from crime.” 
J. E. 
[ We have received a similar reply, with the addition 
of a reference to Plutarch (Julius Cesar, cap. 10.), 
from several other kind correspondents. ] 
Nomade (No. 21. p. 342.).— There can be no 
doubt at all that the word “nomades” is Greek, 
and means pastoral nations. It is so used in 
Herodotus more than once, derived from véyos, 
pasture: véyw, to graze, is generally supposed to 
be the derivation of the name of Numidians. 
Gray's Elegy.—In reply to the Query of your 
correspondent “J. F, M.” (No.7. p. 101.), as well 
as in allusion to remarks made by others among 
your readers in the following numbers on the sub- 
ject of Gray’s Elegy, I beg to state that, in addi- 
tion to the versions in foreign languages of this 
fine composition therein enumerated, there is one 
rinted among the poems, original and translated, 
by C. A. Wheelwright, B. A. of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, published by Longman & Co. 1811. 
(2d edition, 1812.) If I mistake not, the three 
beautiful stanzas, given by Mason in his notes to 
Gray, viz. those beginning, — 
“ The thoughtless world to majesty may bow,” 
“ Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around,” 
« Him have we seen,” &c. 
(the last of which is so remarkable for its Doric 
simplicity, as well as being essential to mark the 
eoncluding period of the contemplative man’s day) 
have not been admitted into any edition of the 
Elegy. ; 
With regard to the last stanza of the epitaph, 
its meaning is certainly involved in some degree 
of obscurity, though it is, I think, hardly to be 
charged with irreverence, according to the opinion 
of your correspondent “S. W.” (No. 10. p. 150.). 
By the words trembling hope, there can be no 
doubt, that Petrarch’s similar expression, paven- 
tosa speme, quoted in Mason's note, was embodied 
by the English poet. In the omitted version, 
mentioned in the beginning of this notice, the epi- 
taph is rendered into Alcaics. The concluding 
stanza is as follows : — 
“ Utra sepulti ne meritis fane, 
Et parce culpas, invide, proloqui, 
Spe nunc et incerto timore 
Numinis in gremio quiescunt.” 
ARCHEUS. 
Wiesbaden, Feb, 16. 1850. 
Cromwell's Estates (No.18 p.277., and No. 21. 
p- 339.) —I am much obliged to “SrLeucus” for 
his answer to this inquiry, as far as regards the 
seignory of Gower. It also throws a strong light 
on the remaining names; by the aid of which, 
looking in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, 
I have identified Margore with the parish of 
Magor (St. Mary’s), hundred of Caldecott, co. 
Monmouth: and guess, that for Chepstall we 
must read Chepstow, which is in the same hundred, 
and the population of which we know was stout in 
the royal cause, as tenants of the Marquis of Wor- 
cester would be. 
Then I guess Woolaston may be Woolston (hun- 
dred of Dewhurst), co. Gloucester ; and Chaulton, 
one of the Charltons in the same county, perhaps 
Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham; where again 
we read, that many of the residents were slain in 
the civil war, fighting on the hing’s side. 
This leaves only Sydenham without something 
like a probable conjecture, at least: unless here, 
too, we may guess it was miswritten for Siddington, 
near Cirencester. The names, it is to be observed, 
are only recorded by Noble; whose inaccuracy as 
a transcriber has been shown abundantly by Car- 
lyle. The record to which he refers as extant in 
the House of Commons papers, is not to be found, 
I am told. 
Now, if it could be ascertained, either that the 
name in question had been Cromwell’s, or even 
that they were a part of the Worcester estates, 
before the civil war, we should have the whole list 
cleared,—thanks to the aid so effectually given by 
‘‘ SeLeucus’s” apposite explanations of one of its 
items, 
Will your correspondents complete the illustra- 
tions thus well begun ? 
Belgravia, March 26. 
MISCELLANIES, 
Franz von Sickingen.— Your correspondent 
“S.W.S.” (No. 21. p. 336.) speaks of his having had 
some difficulty in finding a portrait of Franz Von 
Sickingen ; it may not, therefore, be uninteresting 
to him to know (if not already aware of it) that 
upon the north side of the nave of the cathedral of 
Treves, is 2 monument of Richard Von Greifen- 
