April 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" We know from old chronicles that most of the 

 wine drank by Englishmen, under the Plantagenets, 

 was of home production." 



Can any, and if so what, authority be shown for 

 this statement ? J. Sn. 



Inscription on a Clock. — Under ths curious 

 clock in Exeter Cathedral are inscribed these 

 words : 



" PEREUNT ET IMPUTANTUR, SC. hora;." 



I have been told that they are the concluding 

 words of a longer inscription on some foreign 

 clock. Can any of your readers tell me if they 

 be so ? J. W. Hewett. 



Inscription on the Tomh of Peter the Hermit. — 

 At Huy, on the Meuse, is shown tlie tomb where 

 Peter the Hermit was buried : it is in the shape 

 of an obelisk, and has an inscription on each of 

 the four sides. Of this inscription, which is cu- 

 rious, and which I copied when I was there, I 

 have lost the greater part : can one of your cor- 

 respondents supply it for me, or tell where the 

 lines are originally to be found, as I fancy tliey 

 are adapted to, and not made for, the monument. 



The part of the inscription which I have runs 

 as follows : 



(inscription.) 



" Soldat du Pape Urbain, aux cris de ' Dieu le veut,' 

 II a precipite I'Europe sur I'Asie; 

 Le peril arrive, sa sainte frenesie 

 N'a plus trouve qu'un cri arrive ' Sauve qui pent.' 



Dieu, 

 L'intolerant I'outrage, insulte a sa grandeur, 

 Tel masque qu'il aff'ecte, il n'est qu'une imposteur." 



Another two-lined motto is headed " Les Illu- 

 sions;" and a third, '• La Liberie ;" but neither 

 these, nor a longer one (which I fancy introduces 

 the names of Sloliere, llousseau, and Tenelon), 

 am I able to quote. IL A. B. 



Wife of James Torre. — James Torre, the 

 Yorkshire antiquary, married for his first wife 

 Elizabeth Lincolne (see Ducalus Leod., p. 119. 

 Wliitaker's ed.) : can any one inform me wjio was 

 that lady's fiitJier, and if there is any pedigree 

 known of the family ? 



1 have little doubt that the Rev. William Lin- 

 colne, rector of Ilalton, Liiicolnsliire, mentioned 

 by Walker, in his Siifferijigs of the Clergtj, b. ii. 

 p. 295., was of the same family. 



Edwaed Peacock, Jun. 



Bottesford iVIoors. 



" The Bears Bible." — In the library of Queen's 

 College, O.Kon, is a copy of the Spanisli version of 

 the Bible, by Cassiod. lleyna (15G9), witli the 

 following in.scription : — 



" Ampliss. Antistiti. ac Dno R'"» D. Ednuindo 

 Grindalo, archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, et totius Anglia; 

 pritnati digniss. Ob ere.pta hujus Ilitpanica: versionis 



sacrorum librorum Scripla ex hostium manihus Cassio- 

 dorus Ueinius ejiisdem versionis author gratitudinis 

 ergo et in perpetua:; observantia? pignus D. D.D." 



What are the circumstances here alluded to ? 



H. H. W. 



Harris, Painter in Water - Colours. — Some 

 friends of mine have a large paper copy of the 

 edition of the Bible, published in 1802, by Messrs. 

 Nicoll, of Pall-Mali, and known as " Kceves' 

 Bible," which is adorned with a large number 

 of small original drawings in water-colour by 

 " J. Harris, of W^alworth, Surrey." I should be 

 obliged if any of your correspondents can give 

 me any information respecting Mr. Harris, and 

 can tell me whether he is still living. The 

 drawings were made before the year 1819. 



T. C. W. 



University Hoods. — The Scotch universities of 

 Aberdeen, St. Andrew's, and Glasgow had, before 

 the Reformation, or before the Revolution rather, 

 hoods for the several degrees of M.A., D.D., 

 LL.D., and D.C L. AVhat these were, is a ques- 

 tion which it is now very diflicult to determine; 

 but this much is known, that the hoods of Aber- 

 deen were identical with those of Paris, those of 

 St. Andrew's with those of Louvain, and those of 

 Glasgow with those of Bologna. The Revolution, 

 however, has done much to obliterate the traces 

 of even the Parisian hoods ; and the M.A. hood of 

 Paris is all that has hitherto rewarded the re- 

 searches of the university antiquarj'. Can any 

 of your readers assist in the somewhat interesting 

 investigation by endeavouring to discover, or in- 

 forming us if the}' already know, what were tlie 

 hoods of the universities of Paris, Louvain, and 

 Bologna, for the several degrees I have enume- 

 rated. G. A. J. 



" Ntdlis Fraus tuta latehris." — Can any of your 

 correspondents favour me with a reference to the 

 above motto? S. S. 



Voltaire, v;liere situated? — The '■^ terre," hamlet, 

 or other j^roperty of Voltaire, from which the 

 French poet took the addition to his paternal 

 name of Arouet, — where situated ? That there is, 

 or at least was, in Voltaire's time, such an estate, 

 Condorcct's statement {vide Voltaire) makes ap- 

 parent. But the locality is not pointed out. Can 

 any of your correspondents hel^) me to it ? V. 



Talle of Prohibited Degrees, 1563. —By tlie 

 99th cnnon of the Church of England the " table 

 of prohibited degrees" set forth by authority in 

 15G3 is ordered to " be in every church puldicly 

 set up and fixed at the charge of the parish." Is 

 this usually done now? and if not, why is it omitted 

 to be done ? 



What is the authority fiir the insertion of the 

 Canons, or the Articles, or the table of the pro- 



