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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 70. 



Docs any library-mark, auction-number, or other 

 identifying signature occur ? 



Is it quite complete at the end, or is anything 

 missing after page 224. ? 

 ; Does the whole consist of figures, or have some 



leaves an introiluction, text, or corrections, ,&o. ? 

 i Vol.11 — Does anything in this volume illus- 

 i trate any of the above questions ? 



A Swedish Bibliognost. 

 Siockholm. 



Prince of Wales' Motto (Vol. iii., p. lOR.).— 

 The Query of Effessa is one of great interest to 

 ,us " Taffies," but I wish to add the following to 

 it. Is there anv foundation for the idea, which 

 we so strenuously maintuin, that " /cA Dien" is a 

 misspelled edition of " Eich Dyti" " Behold the 

 man :" and that the motto was bestowed on 

 Edward of Carnarvon in conse(inence of his royal 

 father having learned these two Welsh words, and 

 made use of them when he piesented his infant to 

 the assembled tribes as a prince who could "speak 

 no word of English ?" Seleucus. 



Sorrow's Danish Ballads. — The singular au- 

 thor of Lnveiigro, Mr. Geo. Borrow, some years 

 ai'O published certain translati(ms of Danish or 

 otlier northern ballads, with which I have never 

 been able to meet. Can you or any of your 

 readers furnish mei.with, the title of the book and 

 publisher's name ? 



My curiosity , respecting it has again been 

 aroused somewhat strongly by the account in 

 Lavenff7'0 of the way in which he begun to study 

 Danish. It might afford a .good lesson to all 

 young " philologers." 



I presume that, at the mature age of " Notes 

 AND Queries," commonplace compliments as to 

 its usefulness and high general value, begin to be 

 very stale ; ' but I cannot close without a hearty 

 " Godispeed" to you in your labours. Bruno. 



Head of the Saviour. — Can any of your readers 

 give me some information about an engraving of 

 our Saviour, which may just now be seen in many 

 of the Lomlcn print-shops? It represents the 

 side-face, and is said to be a foe-simile of a likeness 

 engraved on an emerald by order of some Roman 

 Emperor, and which served as the ransom of some 

 other famous pei'sou (who, I quite forget). Is 

 this really the truth ? P. M. M. 



Lilies on English History. — The Stvord Flam- 

 berg. — I shall be greatly obliged to any of your 

 correspondents who can inform me where I can 

 procure a copy of soqie lines on English history, 

 commencing : 



" William the Norman conquers England's state — 

 In his own forest Kufus meets his fate," &c. 



They are said to be written by a Roman Catholic 

 gentleman nemed Chaloner. 



I also wish to kiiow something about the old 



German sword called the "Flamberg." I have 

 seen it represented as twisted like a column of 

 flame, and should like to know its history, and 

 whether there was any allusion in it to the flaming 

 sword that kept the gate of Paradise. 



Mention is made of it. Uy .Korner in his poem, 

 " Manner und Buben :" 



" Stosst mit an 

 Mann fiir Mann 

 Wer den Flamberg scliwingen kann.'" 

 Can your correspondents tell me, also, whether 

 there is such a phrase, expressive of the place 

 where four roads met, as a " four warnt way," and 

 whence its origin, and how properly spelt ? 



An English Mother. 



Denarius Philosophorum. — Can you inform me 



what the inscription "Denarius Phihjsophorum" 



means, on Bishop Tliornborough's monument in 



Worcester Cathedral ? D. Y. 



" Sees Good in everything" — Where does the 

 line, 



" Sees good in everything, and God in. all." 



come from ? D. Y. 



Christchurch, Oxford. 



Oxford Friar s Voyage to the North Pole. — In a 

 book I have, entitled Prospects of the most famous 

 Parts of the World, date 1646, occurs the follow- 

 ing : 



" Towards the north pole we have gained, more in 

 proportion, as far as Nova Zembla, and the sea is known 

 to be navigal)le to the 81st degree : whether the rest be 

 land or not it never yet appeared to any (as I heare of) 

 but an Oxford Friar by a Magique voyage. He 

 reports of a Black Rock just under the pole, and an Isle 

 of Pygmies; other strange miracles, to which, for my 

 part. I shall give little credit till I have better proof for 

 it than the Devil's word." 



Query, Who was the friar ? and where is the 

 account of his voyage to be found ? J. Y. R. 



Roman Catholic Church. — The Rev. J. M. 

 Neale has just published an appendix to \\\s Intro- 

 duction to the History of the Holy, Eastern Church, 

 containing a list of all the sees in that communion, 

 with the names of the present possessors. Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me where I 

 can meet with a similar notitia of the sees in the 

 Roman Catholic Church ? E. H. A. 



[The Alnumach du Cltrgi de France contains a ca- 

 talogue of Roman Catholic bishops throughout the 

 world, compiled from documents furnished by the 

 Congregation De Propaganda P'ide of Rome.] 



Cor Lingute. — May I ask who is the author of 

 the following epigram, quoted by Coke on the 

 trial of Garnet ? 



" Cor lingua foederat naturae -sanctio, 

 Veluti in quodam certo connubio ; 

 Ergo cum dissonent cor et locutio, 

 Sermo concipitur in adidterla" 



J. Bs. 



