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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 63. 



called " Denarii memorialed," pence paid for 

 masses in memory of the dead: called "pro re- 

 questis," because tliey were obtained by special 

 petition [reqnesta] from th'» curate; and "perqui- 

 siti," " perquisite pence," because tiiey were de- 

 manded [percpiirebantur] from the devotion of 

 the parishioners, over and above the customary 

 offerings. And in this, perhaps, we find the origin 

 of our word ''• perquisite." (Lyndw. Prov. p. 1 1 1 ., 

 notes c, e. and p. -237.) 



In further illustration of this subject, 1 will 

 quote the following note from ]\Ir. Dansey's 

 learned work Horce DecaniciB Ru7-ules, vol. i., 

 p. 4'26., ed. 1844, which refers also to Blometield's 

 No7-folk, vol. iv. p. 63. : 



" A.D. 1686. The dean of tlie deanery of tlie city 

 of Norwich was committed to custody, on one occasion, 

 by the itinerant justices, for exacting liallidays toll by 

 his sub-dean in too high a manner ; but on his proving that 

 he took of every great boat that came Uj) to the city on 

 a holiday Irf. only, and of each small one a halfpenny ; 

 of every cart If/., and of every liorse or man laden an 

 Jialfpcnmj ; and of all bakers, butchers, and iisli- 

 mongers, that sold their commodities on a holiday. Id. 

 cacli ; and that his predecessors always had immemo- 

 rially taken it, he was discharged. — Somelhing of the 

 same kind is related, in T. IMartin's MS. history, re- 

 specting the dues exacted by the rural dean of Thetford. 

 Dr. Sutton's MS. Letter." 



E. A.D. 



MEDAL STRUCK BY CHARLES XII. KUDBECK. S 



ATLANTICA. 



Although no numismatist, yet, being resident at 

 Stockholm, I have taken steps to enable me to 

 reply to L.'s Query (Vol. ii., p. 408. of '^' Notes 

 AND Queries ") respecting Charles XII.'s medal 

 in commemoration of the victory at Holowzin. 



No copy of the medal exists in the cabinet of 

 tlie Royal Museum of Antiquities ; but in that 

 belonging to the National Bank, tiiere is a very 

 fine example of it in copper, and the inscriptions 

 are as follow : 



On the Reverse: — " Sih'ai. Paludes. Arjgeres. Hastes. 

 Ficti." 



In the Exergue: — " Moschi ad Ilnhiczinum victi 

 A. 1708 f, JuV 



And round the margin the verse from Lucan in 

 question : 



" Victrices Copias Alium Lattirus In Orbem :'' 

 with the std)stitution of copias for aquilas, re- 

 corded by Voltaire and criticiseil by L. 



The same inscriptions are given in Berglfs 

 Beskrifning ijfver Scenska mynt och Skudepennin- 

 gar, 4to., Upsala, 1773; only he adds, that the 

 inscription in the margin is only fouiul on some 

 copies. 



I may transcribe Bergh's description in full : 



" Slagetvid Holofsin. 



" 119. Konungens Biid och haranunder Armen nat. 



17. JUN. 1682. SILViE. PALVDES. AGGERES. HOSTES. VICTI. 



En Wahl-platz pii hoilken stiir en llysk Troplie ; och 

 twcnne fiingar derwid bunden. I exerguen : jioschi 



AD HOLOFZINUM VICTI. A. 1703 -j'^ JUL. 



" Pii nagra exemplar ar dcnna randskrift : victrices 



COPIAS AHVM LATVIIVS IN OUBEM." 



Could any of your readers obtain from the 

 British Museum answers to the following Queries 

 respecting liudbeck's Atlantica, for the use of a 

 Swedish friend of mine. 



JSritisth Musemn. — Bihliotheca Grenvilliana — 



Olof liudbeck, Ailand sive Manhebn. 

 Tomus i. S. anno 1675, 167<). 



Has any (me of these three copies a separate 



leaf, entitled Ad Dihliopegos ? 

 If so, which of them ? 

 Has the copy with the date 1679 Testimonia 



at the end ? 

 If so, how many pages do they consist of? 

 Have they a separate title and a separate 



sheet of errata f 

 Is there a duplicate copy of this separate title 



at the end of the Breface ? 

 Tomus ii. 1 689. 



How many pages of Testimonia are there at 



the end of the Preface ? 



Is there, in any one of these volumes, the name 

 of any former owner, any book number, or any 

 other mark by which they can be recognised (for 

 instance, that of the Duke de la Vallicre) ? 



Should there be any other copy of any one of 

 these tomes in the British ]\Iu.seum, these questions 

 will extend to that volume also. 



G. J. R. GOKDON. 



Stockholm, Dec. 17. 1850. 



Fossil Deer (jiot Elk) of Ireland., C. Mrgaceros 

 (Vol. ii., p. 494.). — Your correspondent W.R.C. 

 will find in Mv. Hart's description of a skeleton of 

 this animal (Dublin, 1825), in a pamphlet, pub- 

 lished by W. Richardson (Dublin, 1846, M'Gla- 

 shan), in Professor Owen's British Fossil Mamma- 

 lia, and in the Zoologist (Van Voorst) for 1847 

 and for 1848, \i. 2064., all that is known and much 

 that has been imagined on the subject of his in- 

 quiry. The rib which he mentions is well known, 

 and is in fact ohe of the principal bones of con- 

 tention between the opposing theorists. I never 

 before heard the story of the specimen shot in 

 1533, although several years ago I devoted some 

 time to the subject. I am inclined to suspect that 

 it must have been found in some Irish manuscript 

 which has been discovered, since (in the year 1847) 

 some bones of the fossil deer Avere found in a cer- 



