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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 77. 



Vendace Club, which meets at Lochmaben an- 

 nually on the 25th and 26th of July, when they 

 dine off the fish. I asked one of the members 

 how long it had been in existence, and he said 

 about thirty years. Jakltzbjseg. 



Ex Pede Herculem. — I shall feel much obliged 

 if any of your correspondents or readers can 

 inform me of the origin of the proverb " Ex 

 pede Herculem." In what classical author is it 

 to be found ? I have looked in vaiu through 

 Erasmi Adagia for it. H. H. 



" To-day we purpose." ^- "Will any one be good 

 enough to say where these lines (quoteil by Mr. 

 Euskin, Modern Painters, vol. ii. p. 188.) are to 

 be found : — 



" To-day we purpose, ay, this hour we moun,t 

 To spur three leagues towards the Apeonine; 

 Came doivn, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count 

 His dewv rosary on the eglantine." 



G. N. 



" God takes those soonest whom He loves the best." 

 — AVhere shall we find the origin of this expres- 

 sion, so frequently occurring on tombstones in 

 almost all parts of the countr}'? Or how far 

 back can it be traced? The following, in Rain- 

 ham church, Kent, is of the year 1626: 



" Here slepes my babe in sUance, lieauen's his rest. 

 For God takes soonest those be loueth best." 



T. H. K. 



Malew, Man. 



Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope 

 period, and in what author besides 

 Tour in the Low Countries, is the story of two 

 Quakers being imprisoned in the Lazzaretto in 

 Rome, for attempting to convert the Pope, to be 

 found? Were they persons of any standing in 

 the Society? B. S. S. 



Wliychcote of St. Johns. — In one of the volumes 

 published under the foregoing title, in 1833, there 

 is a striking story, evidently fictitious in the main, 

 but assuming, as an element of fact, the remem- 

 bered existence of a head-stone over a grave in 

 the little burial-ground, under the shadow of the 

 venerable ruins of Tynemouth Priory in iNor- 

 thumberland, containing the single word "Fanny." 

 Does any one of the Tyneside readers of the 

 " Notes and Queries " personally recollect the 

 actual existence of such a memorial? Is the real 

 name of the author of the entertaining work dis- 

 closed in any subsequent publication, or is it 

 generally known ? J. D. 



Meaning of Rechibus, SfX. — Among the rights 

 claimed by the E.sturmys in Savernak forest, 

 8 Edw. III., occurs — 



—At what 

 Veryard's 



" Et omnia placita de leporibus, rechibus, heynsectis, 

 tessonibus, vulpibus, raurilegis, et perdricibus :" 



which I translate — 



" And all pleas coneermng bares, traps, hedgehogs, 

 badgers, foxes, wild-cats, and partridges :" 



but I confess I have no confidence in some of 

 these words, as the glossaries in the British Mu- 

 seum Library fail to explain them. I therefore 

 solicit your courteous assistance. 



James Watlen. 



Family of Queen Katherine Parr. — The pedigree 

 of the once eminent family of Parr, as recorded in 

 various printed works — Dugdale, Nicholls, Burke, 

 &c., is far from being complete or satisfactory. 

 Could any one versed in the genealogy of the 

 northern counties supply any information ou the 

 following points? — 



I. The early descent. — Dugdale, in his Baronage, 

 commences with Sir William Parr, who married 

 Elizabeth De Ros, 1383 ; but he states the family 

 to have been previously " of knightly degree." 

 A MS. pedigree in the Herahl's College also men- 

 tions Sir Williii'.u as " descended from a race of 

 knights." Where is an account of this race to be 

 found ? 



II. The separ.ation between the two lines of 

 Parr and Kendal. — Sir Thomas Parr, father of 

 Queen Katherine, died 1518; and \n?> Inq. p. m. 

 states him to have held manors, messuages, lands, 

 woods, and rents, in Parr, Wigan, and Sutton. 

 Ten years afterwards, 1528, Bryan P:ut wa3 ibund 

 by Inq. p. m. to have held the manor, messuages^ 

 woods, lands, &c. of Parr. How was Bryan related 

 to Sir Thomas ? 



III. The descendant in the fourth degree of 

 Bryan was Henry Parr, of Parr, who was, ac- 

 cording to a MS. in the college, aged twenty in 

 1621. Had he any descendants? 



If no positive information can be aflTorded, yet 

 a clue to where it might be sought for would 

 oblige Genealogicds Lancastriensis. 



Short.— 



" Or wily Cyppus that can wink and snort, 

 While his wife dallies on MiEcenas' skort." 



Hall, Satires, Book iv. Sat. I. (Whittingham's 

 edition, 1824.) 



Of course the general meaning of these two 

 verses is obvious enough. But how is the latter to 

 be read ? Are we to read " dallies on," as one 

 word, i. e. keeps dallying, and "skort" (as a mere 

 abbreviation of the Latin "scortum") as a nomi- 

 native in apposition with "wife?" If so, the verse 

 is intelligible, though harsh enough even for Hall. 



If not, the word "skort" must have some other 

 meaning which I am unacquainted with. I can- 

 not find it at all in Halliwell, the only authority I 

 have at hand to refer to. K. I. P. B. T. 



