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[No. 29. 
the dialogues commonly attributed to him. (Lib. iv. 
cap. xvi.) Your correspondent may consult Beda, 
Hist. Eccl. Gen. Anglor., lib.ii. cap.1., with the 
note by Mr. Stevenson, who supposes that Pope 
Felix JJJ. was alluded to by his “ venerable” 
author. This is the opinion of Bollandus (ad 
25 Feb.), as well as of Cardinal Baronius ; (Annall. 
ad an. 581; et Martyrol. Rom. die Feb. 25. Conf. 
De Aste, in Martyrolog. Disceptat., p. 96.; Bene- 
venti, 1716); but Joannes Diaconus (S. Greg. 
Vit. lib. i. cap.i.) employs these decisive terms, 
“ guartus Felix, sedis Apostolicee Pontifex.” It is 
of course possible to translate “ atavus meus” 
merely “my ancestor ;;’ and this will leave the 
relationship sufficiently undefined. Rh. G. 
Love's last Shift (No. 24. p. 383.). — “The 
Duchess of Bolton (natural daughter of the Duke 
of Monmouth) used to divert George I. by affect- 
ing to make blunders. Once when she had been 
at the play of Love's last Shift, she called it ‘ La 
derniére chemise de amour.’ ” — Walpoliana, xxx. 
Quem Deus vult perdere (No. 22. p.351., and 
No. 26. p.421.).—‘C. J. R.” having pointed out 
a presumed imitation of this thought, it may not 
be impertinent to observe, that Dryden also has 
adopted the sentiment in the following lines : — 
« For those whom God to ruin has designed, 
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.” 
Hind and Panther, part 3. 
G. S. Faser. 
Dayrolles (No. 23. p. 373.).— The following 
information is appended to a description of the 
Dayrolles Correspondence, in 21 folio vols. in the 
Catalogue of Mr. Upcott’s Collection, sold by 
Messrs. Evans a few years ago :— 
Note copied from the Catalogue of Manuscripts, §c., 
belonging to the late Mr. Upcott. 
« James Dayrolles was resident at the Hague from 
1717 to his death, 2nd January, 1739. 
« Solomon Dayrolles, his nephew, commenced his 
diplomatic career under James, first Earl of Walde- 
grave, when that nobleman was ambassador at Vienna. 
He was godson of Philip, the distingaished Earl of 
Chesterfield, and was sworn a Gentleman of the Privy 
Chamber to George IL, 27th Feb. 1740, in the room 
of Sir Philip Parker, long deceased, and on the ac- 
cession of George III. was again appointed, 5th Feb- 
ruary, 1761. 
“In 1745, being at that time secretary to Lord 
Chesterfield, in Holland, Mr. Dayrolles was nominated 
to be secretary to his lordship as Lord Lieutenant of 
Treland. \ 
«“ In May, 1747, he was promoted te be President 
in the United Provinces; and in November, 1751, Re- 
sident at Brussels, where he continued till August, 
1757. He died in March, 1786.” 
J. La. 
Solomon Dayrolles.— 
“24th Dec. 1786. Married Baron de Reidezel, aid- 
de-camp to the Duke of Wirtemberg, to Miss Dayrolles, 
2d dau. of the late Solomon Dayrolles of Hanover Square.” 
— Gent. Mag. v. 56. p. 1146. 
Probably Mr. Dayrolles’ death may be recorded 
in the register of St. George’s. B. 
Eimerods (No. 18. p. 282.) pro hemorrhoids. 
“Golden emerods” would be an absurdity if 
" “ 99) 5 G6 jlisti 
emerod meant “emerald. The Philistines made 
golden emerods,” i.e. golden images of hemor- 
rhoids (diseased veins), in commemoration of 
being delivered from plagues, of which such states 
of disease were concomitant signs. TREBOR. 
Military Execution (No. 16. p. 246.).— Your 
correspondent ‘ Mrrnanion” is informed that the 
anecdote refers to Murat, and the author of the 
sentiment is Lord Byron. See Byron’s Poems, 
Murray’s edit. 1 vol. 8vo. p. 561., note 4. C. 
“ M. or N.” (No. 26. p-415.)—TI do not think 
that ‘“ M. or N.” are used as the initials of any par- 
ticular words; they are the middle letters of the 
alphabet, and, at the time the Prayer Book was 
compiled, it seems to have been the fashion to 
employ them in the way in which we now use the 
first two. There are only two offices, the Cate- 
chism and the Solemnisation of Matrimony, in 
which more than one letter is used. In the former, 
the answer to the first question has always stood 
“N. or M.” In the office of Matrimony, however, 
in Edward the Sixth’s Prayer Books, both the 
man and woman are designated by the letter N — 
“JT, N., take thee, N., to my wedded wife;” whilst 
in our present book M. is applied to the man and 
N. tothe woman. The adoption of one letter, and 
the subsequent substitution of another, in this ser- 
vice, evidently for the sake of a more clear dis- 
tinction only, sufficiently shows that no particular 
name or word was intended by either. Possibly 
some future “J.C.” may inquire of what words the 
letters “A. B.,” which our legislators are so fond of 
using in their Acts of Parliament, are the initials. 
ARUN. 
“ M. or N.” (No. 26. p. 415.).—“ M.” and “N.,” 
and particularly “ N.,” are still in frequent use in 
France for guidam or quedam; so also is X. We 
read every day of Monsieur N. or Madame X., 
where they wish to suppress the name. C. 
Sapcote Motto (No. 23. p. 366.).—This motto 
is known to be French, and as far as it can be de- 
cyphered is— 
“sco toot X vinic [or umic] 
X pones,” 
the first and last letters s being possibly flourishes. 
This certainly seems unpromising enough. The 
name being Sapcote, guasi Sub-cote, and the arms 
