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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 66. 



Can any of your readers inform us wliat befel 

 the families and descendants of William Malbanc, 

 and Bigod de Loges ? The descendants of the 

 rest are too well authenticated to need inquiry. P. 



Can the Queen make a Gentleman ? — The fol- 

 lowing isfromtlie Patent Rolls (13 Eic. II. pars. 1. 

 m. 377 Prynne's Fourth Institutes, p. 68.) : — 



" Le Roy a tous ceux as queux ccstes Letties vien- 

 diouiit. Sachez qe come un Cliivalier Fraunceys, a 

 ceo qe nous Soums enformez, ad chalenge un nostre 

 Luge, Johan de Kyngeston, a faire ceiteinez faitz et 

 poiiitz darmes oveske le dit Cliivalier. Nous a fyn 

 qe le dit nostre liege soit le multz honerablenient 

 resceuz a faive puisse et perfoiirmir les dltz faitz et 

 poiiitz d'arnies luij avoiis resc<;n.v en leatat de Gentile 

 hnuime, et Imj fait Esqiiier. Et voloiis, qil soit coiiuz 

 par amies, et porte desore enavant, Cestassavoir d'ar- 

 gent ove une, cliapewe Dazure ovesque une plume 

 Dostricli tie goules. Et ceo a tous ycaux as queux y 

 appeilieiit nous ntitifioMS pu ycelles. En tesmoignance 

 de quelle chose nous avons fait faire cestes noz lettres 

 patentes. Done souz nostre grant Seal a nostre Paleys 

 de Westni. le primer jour de Juyll. 



" Par brief de Prive Seal." 



H. WiTHAM. 



Plafej-y. — In Carew's masque of Coelum Bri- 

 tannicum, acted before the court at Whitehall, the 

 18tli of February, 1633; Monius, arriving from 

 Olympus immediately after Mercury, says to him — 



" Tlie hosts upon the highway cry out with open 

 moutli upon you, tor supporting plafenj in your train ; 

 which, though, as you are the god of petty larceny, you 

 might protect, yet you know it is directly against the 

 new orders, and oppose the reformation in diameter." 



What is plafery ? It is evident that the joking 

 allusion to it was rather bold, for Mercury ex- 

 claims, — 



" Peace, railer, bridle your licentious tongue, 

 And let this presence teach you modesty." 



B. R. I. 



St. John's Bridge Fair. — In what county in 

 England was St. John's Bridge Fair held in the 

 year 1614, and in what town in the county? 



JOSEPHUS. 



Queries on Costume. — In Wilson's Life of De 

 Foe there is an anecdote of Charles II. concealing 

 himselti when a fugitive from Worcester, beneath 

 a lady's hoop, while his pursuers searched the 

 house in which he had taken refuge. Were hoops 

 worn so early as the year 1651 ? In the Book of 

 Costume I find no mention of them before the be- 

 ginning of the eighteenth century; but I do not 

 think tiiis circumstance conclusive, as the " Lady 

 of Rank " is not always very accurate. 



AV riting of the reign of Anne, she says, " Fans 



were now very much used," but omits to mention 



tliat they were in i'ashion long before, having been 



indispensable to Catherine of Braganza and her 



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ladies at home and abroad, in the church and the 

 theatre. 



" Long gloves," says the Lady of Rank, " began 

 to be worn by the ladies in this reign " (Queen 

 Anne's). 



" Twelve dozen Martial,* whole and half," says 

 Evelyn : — were not whole Martial gloves, long ? 



Wedsecnarf.- 

 Cum Grano Salis. — Sometime ago I asked from 

 what figure is borrowed tiie expression of " Cum 

 grano salis," and have had no reply. I can't find 

 it in Erasmus. Once a very clever Cambridge 

 man said that it meant " the thing must be 

 swallowed with a little Attic salt to make it go 

 down pleasantly." I don't think that he was right. 



E.H. 

 Earl of Clarendon's Daughter, Luci-etia. — I 

 should be very glad to learn whether the great 

 Earl of Clarendon had a daughter named Lucre- 

 tia. A friend of mine is descended from Dr. 

 Marsh, archbisliop of Armagh, who (it is said) 

 married Lucretia, datighter of the Earl of Claren- 

 don, and was the father of Liicretin, wife of Dr. 

 McNeil, Dean of Down and Connor. 



AVedsecnarf. 

 Vandyke's Portrait of Lord Auhigny. — Can any 

 of your correspondents give any information 

 respecting a portrait, by Vandyke, of George 

 Lord Aubigny, brother to the Duke of Rich- 

 mond and Lennox ? There is no doubt that such 

 a picture once existed. L. 



Foundation Stone of St. Mark's, Venice. — In 

 vol. xxvi. of tiie ArchcEologia is a paper by the 

 late Ml'. Douce, " On the foundation stone of the 

 original church of St. Mark, at Venice," <Src., ac- 

 companied bv an engraving of the mutilated ob- 

 ject itself, which also apjiears to have been sub- 

 mitted to the insjiection of the Society of Anti- 

 cpiaries at the time the paper was read. The essay 

 contains, in reality, very little information relating 

 to the stone, and that little is of no very satisfactory 

 kind ; and I have never been able to divest myself 

 of the idea that it bears somewhat tlie semblance of 

 a hoax. Were I inclined to discuss the points which 

 have suggested this notion, the necessity there is 

 for brevity in corresponding with the Editor of 

 " Notes and Queries " would preclude my doing 

 it ; but I must quote the following passage, which 

 comes immediately after the statement that the 

 original church, in the foundation of which this 

 stone was deposited, was destroyed in 976. 



" It is very possible that, in clearing away the rub- 

 bish of the old church, the original foundation stone 

 was discovered, and, in some way or other, at present 

 not traceable, preserved." 



* [" Martial. — The name of a famous French per- 

 fumer, emulating the Frangipani of Rome." — Mis- 

 cellaneons Writings of John Evelyn, pp. 705. 711. 4to. 

 edit. 1825.] 



