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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 71. 



and one of the knights is effaced : the other is ap- 

 parently being unhorsed ; he wears a jupon em- 

 broidered in red, and the camail, &c., of the time 

 of Ricliaf d II. : a small shield is held in his left 

 hand: his horse stoops its head, apparently to 

 water, through which it is slowly pacing. Is this 

 a subject from the legend of some saint, or from 

 one of the popular romances of the middle ages ? 

 Are any other examples known ? C. II. M. 



The Cross-hill. —Is " The Legend of the Cross- 

 bill," translated from Julius Mosen by Longfellow, 

 a genuine early tradition, or only a fiction of the 

 poet ? 



2. Is the Cross-bill considered in any country 

 as a sacred bii'd? and was it ever so used in archi- 

 tectural decoration, illumination, or any other 

 ■works of sacred art ? 



3. What is the earliest record on evidence of 

 the Cross-bill being known in England ? 



H. G. T. 

 Launceston. 



lovanni Volpe. — Can any of your readers sup- 

 ply a notice of Iovanni Volpe, mentioned in a 

 MS. nearly cotemporary to have been 

 " An Italian doctor, famous in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time, who went with Geiirge Earl of Cumberland 

 most of his sea voyages, and was with him at tlie taking 

 of Portorico ?" 



Another MS., apparently of the date of James I., 

 describes him as " physician to Queen Elizabeth." 



He had a daughter, Frances, widow of Richard 

 Evers, Esq. ("of the family of Evers of Coventry"), 

 who married, 2d Xovember, 1601, Richard Hughes, 

 Es([., then a younger son, but eventually repre- 

 sentative, of the ancient house of Gwerclas and 

 Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, in Merionethshire, and 

 died 29th June, 1636. M. N. O. 



Auriga. — How comes the Latin word Aukiga 

 to mean " a charioteer?" Varro. 



To speak in Lutestring. — 1 . Philo- Junius — that 

 is, Junius himself — in the 47th Letter, writes : 



" I was led to trouble you with these observations by 

 a passage whicli, to speak in lutestrinp, I met with this 

 morning, in the course of my reading." 



Had the expression in Italics been used before 

 by any one ? 



2. In the 56th Letter, addressed to the Duke of 

 Grafton, Junius asks : 



" Is the union of Blijil and Black George no longer .i 

 romance?" 



What part of that story is here referred to ? 



Vahko. 



"Lavora, come se tu," S,~c. — In Bohn's edition 

 of Jeremy Taylor's Holi/ Living and Dying, I 

 observe in the notes several Italian sentences, 

 mostly couplets or proverbs. One peculiarly 

 struck me : and I should feel obliged if any of 



your readers could tell me whence it was taken, 

 name of author, &c. The couplet runs thus 

 (Vide p. 182. of the work) : — 



" Lavora, come se tu avessi a campar ogni bora : 

 Adora, come sa tu avessi a morir allora." 



Indeed it would not be amiss, if all the notes 

 were marked with authors' names or other refer- 

 ence, as I find some few of the Latin quotations 

 as well as the Greek, and all the Italian ones, 

 require a godfather. W. H. P. 



Tu7nb of Chaxicer. — Are any of the existing 

 English families descended from the poet Chaucer? 

 If so, might they not fairly be applied to for a 

 contribution to the proposed restoration of his 

 tomb ? His son Thomas Chaucer left an heiress, 

 married to Dela Pole, Duke of Suffolk; but I have 

 not the means of ascertaining whether any of their 

 posterity are extant. C. R. M. 



Family of Clench. — Can any of your readers 

 supply me with the parentage and family oi Bruin 

 Clench of St. Martin's in tiie Fields, citizen of 

 London ? He married Catharine, daughter of Wil- 

 liam Ilippesley, Esq., of Tbrougliley, in Edburton, 

 CO. Sussex ; and was living in 1686. His christian 

 name does not appear in the pedigrees of the 

 Clinche or Clench family of Bealingsand Holbrook, 

 CO. Suffolk, in the Heralds Visitations, in the British 

 IMuseum. His daughter married Roger Donne, 

 Esq., of Ludham, co. Norfolk, and was the mater- 

 nal grandmother of the poet Cowper. 



C. R. M. 



iicpIfcS. 



cranmer's descendants. 



(Vol. iii., p. 8.) 



Yo"ur correspondent may be interested to know, 

 that Sir Anthony Chestei", Bart., of Chichley, co. 

 Bucks, married, May 21, 1657, Mary, dau. of 

 Samuel Cranmer, Esq., alderman of London, and 

 sister to SirCossar Cranmer, Kt., of Ashwell, Bucks. 

 This Samuel Cranmer was traditionally the last male 

 heir of the eldest of Cranmer's sons ; his descent 

 is, I believe, stated in general terms in the epitaphs 

 of Lady Chester, at Chichley, and Sir Ctesar 

 Cranmer, at Ashwell. He was a great London 

 brewer by trade, and married his cousin Mary 

 (sister of Thomas Wood, Bishop of Coventry and 

 Lichfield, and Sir Henry Wood, Bart., of the Board 

 of Green Cloth), dau. of Thomas Wood, Esq., of 



Hackney, by his wife Crann>er. They had 



only two children, and it would appear from 

 Harleian MS. No. 1476. fo. 419., which omits all 

 mention of Sir Ca?sai", that he died in his father's 

 lifetime, and that Lady Chester was sole heiress 

 to this branch of the Cranmers. 



There are two brief pedigrees I have seen of 

 these Cranmers, one in Harl. MS. 1476. above 



