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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 63. 



ignorance whether there is such a book) a " My- 

 tiiolojiy of the Stars." Considering how often 

 persons of sound mind ex.piess an enthusiasm 

 for the celestial bodies, and exclaim, of a clear 

 night, tliat the slars are the poetry of Heaven, it 

 is wonderful how little most of us know about 

 fhem. Nine out of ten educated persons would 

 be quite unable to do more than point out the 

 Great Bear and North Star. 



If there is not, there ought to be, some collec- 

 tion of the nomenclature and mythological history 

 of the heavens, with a familiar treatise on astro- 

 logy ancient and modern. The Chaldeans, Egyp- 

 tians, Grecians, Arabs, Celts, and Norsemen, must 

 have had names and stories, whose relation (both 

 in itself and to one another) would make a very 

 pretty volume either of poetry or prose. Perhaps 

 some of your readers may be able to inform me 

 of such a work, or where <letached masses of the 

 information I want could be found. G. I. C. 



Sword of William the Covfjueror. — Can any 

 one inform me where is the sword of William the 

 Conqueror? It was kept in Battle Abbey till 

 the dissolution, and then taken to Sir John Gage's 

 house at Firle, as it is said. P. 



Neville Family. — Will any of your corres- 

 pondents inform me what family of the Nevilles 

 were ccmnected by marriage with the Fleetwoods 

 or Gromwells ? 



In a collateral note in my family pedigree, I 

 find it stated, that Sarah Neville (who married 

 Thomas Burkitt, in 1683) was cousin to (General 

 Charles Fleetwood, who married Bridget Crom- 

 well, daughter of the Protector ; and, on the cover 

 of a book, I find written — 



"My Cozen Fleetwood he gave me this book 



Sarah Burkitt, 1684." 



I have also traditional testimony in possessing a 

 valtuible cabinet, known as " the Fleetwood ;" 

 and a portrait of the above Bridget Cromwell ; 

 both of which have been preserved in the fiimily 

 for more than a century and a half, and supposed 

 to have passed into their possession by the mar- 

 riage of Sarah Neville. A. H. B. 

 Clapliani, Jan 1. 1851. 



Dijformis, Sigvijication of. — Can any of your 

 classical readers refer me to a competent source of 

 information with regard to the signification of the 

 word diffurinin, which is repeatedly to be met with 

 in the writings of Linnaeus, anil which I cannot 

 find recorfled in Diicange, Fuccioluti, or any of our 

 ordinary Latin dictionaries? Tyro. 



Dublin. 



Lynch Laiv. — What is the origin of this Ameri- 

 can phrase ? J. C K. 



Prior s Potkumovs IForAs. — Among the curiosi- 

 ties collected by the Duchess of Portland, was a 



volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of 

 the poet Prior. Forbes, in his Life of Beattie 

 (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking of this interesting 

 volume, says^ — 



" Her Grace was so good as to let me road them, 

 and I read tliem with great ))leasure. One of them, a 

 dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is an admir- 

 able ))iece of ridicule on the subject of Locke's philo- 

 sophy." 



Have these treatises since been printed ? And 

 where now is Prior's original MS. ? 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Suppressed Chantries. — Does there exist (and 

 if so, where is it to be found) a list of the 2374 

 chantries suppressed by 37 Henry VIII. and 

 1 Edward VI. ? Ignobus. 



SUcjjIioS. 



BIBLIOGRAPHIC AL QUERIES BY R. G. 



(Vol. ii., p. 422.). 



PagjiinHs Bible. — I have before me a 12mo. copy 

 of Liber Pnalmorum Davidis. Trulatio Duplex 

 Vetus et Nova It contains also the Songs of Moses, 

 Deborah, &c., with aimotations. In the title-page, 

 the new translation is said to be that of Pagnini. 

 It was printed by Kobei't Stephens, and is dated 

 on the title-page " 155G," and in the colophon 

 " 1557, cal. Jan." 



In this edition, both the old and new versions 

 have the ve7'ses distinguished by cyphers (numerals). 

 I have not the means of knowing whether, in the 

 earlier editions of Pagnini's Bible, the verses are 

 so distinguished ; but I gather from R. G. that 

 they are. 



'The writer of the article "Bible" in Rees's 

 Cyclopadia, says that I\. Stephens reprinted Pag- 

 nini's Bible in folio, with the Vulgate, in 1557. 

 And it a)>pears, from my copy of the Psalms of 

 David, that he also printed that part of Pagnini's 

 Bible in r2mo. in the same year, 1557 — the colo- 

 phon probably containing the correct date. 



Your pages have reconnuended that communi- 

 cations should be made of MS. notes and remarks 

 found in fly-leaves, margins, &c. of printed books; 

 and the above is written, jiartly in confirmation of 

 Pagnini's title to the liononr of distinguishing the 

 verses of the Bible with cyphers, as suggested by 

 II. G., but chiefly to note that tjiere is written with 

 a pen, in my copy, the word " Vetus " over the 

 column which contains the old, or Vulgate, and 

 the words " Pagnini sive Ariai Montani" over the 

 column containing the new version of the first 

 psalm. 



The writer in Rees's Cyclopadia, above referred 

 to, says, that "in the number of Latin Bibles is 

 also usually ranked the version of tlie same Pag- 

 ninus, corrected, or rather rendered literal by 



