Mar. 8. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



193 



" Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, 

 Master of Arts, of Sidney College in Ciimbritige, and 

 Chaplain-in Ordinary to his Majesty King Cliarles I., 

 who for liis loyalty to tlie King and siedfastness in 

 the established religion, suffered fourteen years' seques- 

 tration. He returned to his place in Biistol at the 

 restoration of King Charles II., was then made pre- 

 bendary of the cathedial church of Bristol, and for 

 twenty years and better (notwithstanding his blindness) 

 performed the offices of the church exactly, and dis- 

 charged the duties of an able, diligent, and orthodox 

 preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church upwards 

 of fifty-one years, and died August 24, in the seventy- 

 eighth year of his age, and in the year of Our Lord 

 1681. 



He shall live again." 



The following additional line.'*, composed by 

 himself, were taken down from his own mouth 

 two days before his death ; and are, according to 

 his own desire, inscribed on his tomb : — 



" Jacob was at Bethel found, 

 And so may we, though under ground. 

 With Jacob there God did intend. 

 To be with him where'ver he went, 

 And to bring him back again, 

 Nor was that promise made in vain. 

 Upon which words we rest in conKdence 

 That he which found him there will fetch us hence. 

 Nor without cause are we persuaded thus, 

 For where God spake with him, he spake with us." 



Besides the work your correspondent mentions, 

 he wrote a book, entitled a Caveat against Se- 

 ducers. J. K. R. \f. 



Feb. S2. 1851. 



"Jurat, crede minus" (Vol. iii., p. 143.). — This 

 epigram was quoted by Sir Ed. Coke on liie trial 

 of Ilenry Garnet. The author I cannot tell, but 

 F. R. R. may be glad to truce it up thus far. 



J. Bs. 



Rah Surdum (Vol. ii., p. 493. ; Vol. iii., p. 42.).— 

 May not " Rab Surdam" be the ignorant stone- 

 cutter's version of " resurgam ?" ]\I. A. H. 



The Scaligers (Vol. iii., p. 133.). — Everything 

 relating to this family is interesting, and I have 

 read with ])leasure your correspondent's commu- 

 nication on the origin of their armorial bearings. 

 I am, however, rather surjiriscd to observe, that 

 he seems to take for granted the relationship 

 of Julius Ca'sar Scaliger and his son Joseph to 

 tlie Lords of Verona, which has been so con- 

 vincingly disproved by several writers. The 

 world has been for some time pretty well satisfied 

 that these two illustrious scholars were mere im- 

 postors in the claim they made, that Joseph 

 Scaliger's letter to Janus Dousa was a very im- 

 pudent affair. If your ct)rresj)ondent lias met 

 with any new evidence in support of ihcir claim, 

 it would gratify me much if he would make it 

 known. Who would not derive pleasure from 



seeing the magnificent boast of Joseph proved at 

 last to have been founded in fact : 



" Ego sum Septimus ab Imperatore Ludovico et 

 lUustrissima Hollaudiae coniite Margareta : Septimus 

 item a Mastino tertio, ut et magnus Rex Franciscus, 

 literarum parcus." 



and Scioppius's parting recommendation — 



" Quid jam reliquum est tibi, nisi ut nomen com- 

 mutes et ex Scalifero fias Furcifer ? ' — Scaliger Hypo- 

 bo/imaeus. Mogunt., 1607, 4to., p. 74. b. 

 deprived of its force and stringency ? I fear, 

 however, that this is not to be expected. 



It is impossible to read Joseph Scaliger's de- 

 fence of his own case in the rejoinder to Scioppius, 

 Confututio fahidcB Burdonum, without observing 

 that the author utterly fails in connecting Niccolo, 

 the great-grandfather of Josej)h, with Guglielmo 

 della Scahi, the son of Can Grande Secundo. 

 And yet such is the charm of genius, that the 

 Conftddtio, altogether defective in the main point 

 as a reply, will ever be rea<l with delight by suc- 

 ceeding generations of scholars. 



James Ceossley. 

 Manchester, Feb. '22. 1851. 



Lincoln Missal (Vol. iii., p. 119.). — It is clear 

 that one of the most learned ritualists, Mr. ]\Ias- 

 kell, did not know of a manuscript of the Lincoln 

 Use, else he would have noted it in his work, 

 The Ancient Liturgy of the British Church, where 

 the other Uses of Salisbury, York, Bangor, and 

 Hereford, are compared together. In his preface 

 to this work (p. ix.) he states — 



" It has been doubted whether there ever was a Lin- 

 coln Use in any other sense than a different mode and 

 practice of chanting." 



Mr. Peacock would ]irobably find more inform- 

 ation in the Movumeida Rituaiia, to which Mr. 

 Maskell refers in his preface. 



N. E. R. (A Subscriber.) 



Bij and bye (Yo\. iii., p. 73.). — Your correspon- 

 dent S. S., in support of his opinion that by the bye 

 means " by the way," suggests that good bye may 

 mean " bon voyage." 1 must say the commonly 

 received notion, that it is a contraction of " God 

 be wi' ye," appears to me in every way preferable. 

 I think that in the writers of the Elizabethan age, 

 every intermediate variety of form (such as "(jod 

 b'w'ye," &c.) nuiy be Ibund ; but 1 cannot at this 

 moment lay my hand on any instance. 



In an injjenious and amusing article in a late 

 Number of the Quarte7iy, the character of different 

 nations is shown to be indicated by their different 

 forms of greeting, and surely the same may be said 

 of their forms of taking leave. The Engli.sli pride 

 thfinselves, and with justice, on being a peculiarly 

 religious ])co])le : now, a]iplying the above test, — 

 as the Erciuhnian has his at/iru, tiie Italian his 

 atldio, the Portuguese his inhlios, and the Spaniard 

 his " vaya usted con Dios," — it is to be presumed 



