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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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si'^nally distinguished himself, until his services 

 were ti"ain caUed for in the Wars of the Roses. 



J. H. M. 



" Pretended " Reprint of Ancient Poetry, in J. 

 Taylor's Catalogue of 1824 (Vol. ii., p. 463.), re- 

 plied to by Cato (Vol. ii., p. 500.).— My attention 

 has been drawn to the above, wherein doubts have 

 been raised as to the existence of a volume sup- 

 posed to be UNIQUE ; and criticisms follow on my 

 note, which records the fact, that "only two 

 COPIES were reprinted." Cato has already stated 

 that the reprinting the two copies was at the 

 expense of the late Rev. Peter Hall; and one 

 COPY produced at his sale twenty shillings: the 

 other copy bore the impress of Mr. Davidson, a 

 highly respectable printer; and that only two copies 

 were reprinted, one of which came direct to me 

 from the Rev. Peter Hall. This copy was pur- 

 chased from me by an eminent statesman, who has 

 formed one of the finest libraries in the kingdom. 



James Taylor, 

 Formerly of Blackfriars Road. 



Newick, Jan. 27. 1851. 



Lights on the Altar. — I would refer your cor- 

 respondent D. Sholbus (Vol. ii., p. 495.) to one 

 of the Canons publi^^hed under King Edgar, about 

 the year 968. Lambard's Latin version of the or- 

 dinance is as follows: — 



" Semper in ecclesia lumen ardeat dum Missa de- 

 caiitetur." 



('ApX^iiovoixia, ed.Wheloc. p. 70. Cantab. 1644. 

 Compare Cressy's Church History of Brittany, 

 p. 870. a.d. 1668.) R- ^■ 



Cognation of the Jews and Lacedemonians (Vol. 

 ii., p. 377.). — I should occupy too much space hi 

 your interesting publication were I to give a list 

 of the critics or ethnographers who have com- 

 mented on this passage, and shall therefore be 

 content to mention some of the most important 

 works which may afford sufficient information, or 

 at least enable your coirespoiideut to pursue the 

 inquiry farther. 



Calinet's Dissertation sur la Parente des Juifs et 

 des Laced emoniens, which is included in his Disser- 

 tations, Paris, 1720, in 3 vols. 4to, and also in 

 his ComweHtajre,?. — Stillingfleet's Origines Sacrce, 

 book iii., c. 4., who admits the probability that the 

 Spartans had relation to Abraham, as deriving 

 from Phaleg, from whom Aliraham came. This 

 appears to have been intended by the expiessions 

 of Josephus, €^ €vbs yevovs Kal €/c rrjs irphs ' APfiaiiov 

 olK€i6T-nTOi (book xii. e. iv.) ; but the Versions, and 

 most critics, interpret the words in the 12th chap, 

 of I Maccabees, he y^vovs "APpaa/x, as implying that 

 they came from Abraham : see Selden, de Syne- 

 driis, 1. ii. c. iii. s. v.— The Rev. Charles Forster's 

 Historical Geography of Arabia, part i. sect, yi., 

 in which he discusses "the vestiges of Arab colonies, 



and maintains the Arabo-Abrahamic origin of the 

 Greeks." — Stephanus Morinus, in Diss, de Cog- 

 natione Lacedeemnniorum et Hehrceorum (inter dis- 

 sertationes viii. Dordraci, 1700, 8vo.) 



Your correspondent, who, in Vol. ii., p. 230., re- 

 quests to be supplied with "a list of all the theories 

 and jmblications respecting the ten tribes com- 

 monly called the Lost Tribes," will probably be 

 satisfied with that furnished by Basnage's History 

 of the Jews, in which, however, he overlooks the 

 theory of Olaus Rudbeckius, Filius, that they are 

 to be found neither in Asia, nor Africa, nor Ame- 

 rica, but in Lapland ! The same author, in a 

 treatise de Ave Selau, cujiis mentio fit Numer. xi. 

 31., endeavours to establish an analogy between 

 the Hebrew and Gothic languages. 



T.J. 



Queen Mary^s Lament (Vol. iii., p. 89.). — The 

 following copy of verses, written by this beautiful 

 and unfortunate princess, during her confinement 

 in Fotheringay Castle, was presented to the public 

 by the kindness of a very eminent and liberal 

 collector : — 



" Que suis-je helas ? et de quoi sert la vie ? 

 J'en suis fors qu'un corps prive de cueur ; 

 Un ombre vayn, uii objet de malheur. 

 Qui n'a plus rien que de mourir en vie. 

 Plus lie me portez, O eiiemys, d'envie, 

 Qui n'ii plus I'esprit a la grandeur, 

 J'ai coiisomiiie d'excessive douleur, 

 Voltre ire en bref de voir assouvie. 

 Et vous amys qui m'avez tenu chere, 

 Souvenez-vous que sans cueur, et sans santey, 

 Je ne scaurois auqun bon oeiivre faire. 

 Souliaitez done fin de calaiiiitey, 

 Et que 6US has etnnt assez punie, 

 J'aie ma part en la joie infiuie." 



The verses are written on a sheet of paper, by 

 Mary herself, in a large rambling hand. The fol- 

 lowing literal translation of them was made by a 

 countrywoman of Mary's, a lady in beauty of per- 

 son and elegance of mind by no means inferior to 

 that accomplished and unfortunate princess : 



" Alas, what am I ? and in what estate? 



A wretched corse bereaved of its heart, 

 An empty shadow, lost, unfortunate : 



To die is now in life my only part. 

 Foes to my greatness, let your envy rest, 



In me no taste for grandeur now is found ; 

 Consum'd by grief, with heavy ills oppress'd, 



Your wishes and desires will soon be crown'd. 

 And you, my friends, who still have held me dear, 



IJetl'.ink you, that when health and heart are fled, 



And ev'ry hope of future good is dead, 

 'Tis time to wish our sorrows ended here ; 

 And that this punishment on earth is given, 

 That my pure soul may rise to endless bliss in heaven." 



Immediately before her execution she repeated 

 the following Latin prayer, composed by herself, 



